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South Grange Medical Group Practice
South Grange Medical Group Practice, Trunk Road, Eston, Middlesbrough
Lagan Surgery, 20 Kirkleatham Street, Redcar
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Macmillan Cancer
One in three of us will get cancer and it’s the toughest thing most of us will ever face. If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, or a loved one has, you’ll want a team of people in your corner supporting you every step of the way. Macmillan provide practical, medical and financial support and push for better cancer care.
Marie Curie Cancer Care is a UK charity dedicated to the care of people with terminal cancer and other illnesses. Over the financial year 2010/11, we reached a total of 31,799 patients
Youth Health Talk
Youthhealthtalk enables young people, their family and friends, and professionals such as doctors and teachers to understand young people's experiences of health, illness and life in general. The website feature real-life accounts of issues such as effect on work and education, social life and relationships, consulting health professionals and treatment.
Dr S Hameed (m)
MBBS MRCGP
Dr Hameed completed his medical training in Bangalore University in India in 2000. He came to the UK in 2004 and completed his GP training in Scotland and with the Cleveland GP Scheme. He was accredited in 2010.
Dr Hameed joined our Practice in February 2011 and works full time. Dr Hameed is our Senior Partner following Dr Acquilla's retirement in March 2013.
Dr Hameed's special interest is in minor surgery and joint injections. Dr Hameed is also a member of the Local Medical Committee (LMC).
Dr S Veeraswamy (m)
MBBS 1995 MD (Anaesthesia) 1999 (India)
Dr S. Veeraswamy, known as Dr Sree joined our Practice as a full time Partner in April 2014.
Dr Sree has worked in the Eston area for many years and knows our local population well. He has a special interest in respiratory and renal medicine.
Dr Anu Gongloor (f)
MBBS 1986 DGO 1988 (Osmania, India)
Diploma in Family Planning 2001 – recertified in 2006
Diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology (Hyderabad, India)
Dr Anu qualified as a Doctor in in January 2001. She joined Albert House Clinic in July 2008 as GP Partner and has worked there until merging with South Grange Medical Centre in January 2017.
Dr Anu has a special interest in musculoskeletal medicine, family planning and sexual health. In addition to her General Practice sessions, Dr Anu holds MSK clinics at both Guisborough and One life.
Dr Anu mainly works in Surgery Monday – Wednesday.
Dr M Riaz (f)
MBBS – Newcastle University
MRCGP – Northern Deanery
Dr Riaz joined our practice team in 2015. She was born and brought up in Middlesbrough and trained locally through the Durham Tees Valley Training Scheme.
Dr Riaz has completed many charitable trips for reconstructive surgery camps for over 14 years. She has a special clinical interest in women's health and also is responsible for our medical student training.
Dr Riaz is recently married and has a great passion for cricket!
Dr O Adedapo (f)
MBBS, MRCGP
Dr Adedapo joined our Team as a part-time GP in July 2017. She is a very experienced GP and knows our local area well, after previously being a GP at Normanby Medical Centre for a number of years. More recently, Dr Adedapo has been working at a North Ormesby practice.
Dr Khwaja Moienuddin (m)
Dr Khwaja joined our team in August 2017 after qualifying his GP training from Scotland and works here full time.
His hobbies include cricket.
Dr Vanitha Srinath (f)
Dr Vanitha Srinath is a very experienced, well liked GP. Dr Vanitha has worked closely with our Practice for a number of years and joined as Partner from January 2017.
Dr Vanitha works mainly at our Branch site, Lagan Surgery in Redcar.
Lisa Weatherill (f)
Lisa joined our Team in October 2016. Lisa is an experienced Nurse Practitioner and Independent Prescriber and her background is as a Specialist Respiratory Nurse.
For more information on Nurse Practitioners and on the conditions they can treat, please refer to Clinics and Services.
Allison Lancashire
Allison is a very experienced Nurse Practitioner and Independent Prescriber. She joined our Practice Team from April 2018, after previously working for over 12 years at Haven Medical Practice which specialised in asylum seekers and refugees.
Lauren Robbins
Lauren joined the Practice Team in January 2018 as Nurse Practitioner.
Lauren previously worked as a Practice Nurse and a Specialist Nurse in Cardiology for many years. She spent 10 years working in a care home for multiple sclerosis as a care assistant and Duty Officer and has worked as a medic for events cover such as marathons.
Sadah Laheji
Sadah joined the Team in June 2016. She is an experienced Nurse Practitioner and Prescriber and previously worked at Eston Grange walk-in centre. Sadah's background was as a Senior A&E Nurse before moving into General Practice.
Sister Delia Geldart (f)
Delia joined our practice team in April 2009. Delia is an experienced Practice Nurse and her duties include phlebotomy, dressings, suture removal, smear tests, travel vaccinations, baby immunisations, health checks and diabetes management.
Sister Elizabeth Wilson
Elizabeth joined the Team in April 2017 as Practice Nurse. Elizabeth previously worked as a District Nurse. Her skills include wound care, prescribing, phlebotomy, smear tests, smoking cessation, spirometry, diabetes management, health checks, BP & ECG.
Sister Michelle Beaumont
Michelle joined the Team in April 2017 as Practice Nurse. Michelle previously worked as a District Nurse. Her skills include wound care, phlebotomy, vaccinations, cervical smears, health checks, BP, ECG, smoking cessation, spirometry and Asthma & COPD management.
Sister Claire Smith
Claire joined the Team in August 2017 as Practice Nurse. Claire has worked at both sites, but is mainly based at Lagan Surgery, Redcar. Claire's previous job role was District Nurse. Her skills include wound care, phlebotomy, vaccinations, health checks, cervical smears, BP, ECG and diabetes management.
Sister Rose Sutcliffe (f)
Rose will join our team in September 2019.
Debra McIntyre
Debra joined Albert House Clinic in 2008 and joined South Grange Medical Centre in January 2017 following the merge of both practices.
Debra works full time as a Health Care Assistant. Debra’s role includes blood taking, BP, ECG, new patient medicals, smoking cessation and spirometry. Debra has NVQ 2 & 3 in Health and Social Care and she is also qualified to administer flu, pneumococcal, shingles and B12 vaccines.
Justine Magor
Justine worked for 20 years at James Cook University Hospital as an anaesthetic, registered nurse. She retired from nursing and joined Lagan Surgery in September 2014 as a Health Care Assistant.
Justine’s duties include blood taking, BP, ECG, new patient medicals, ear irrigation, dressings, health heart checks, hypertension screening as well as administering flu, shingles and B12 vaccines.
Pamela Saunders
Pam – Administrator/Health Care Assistant.
Pam joined Albert House Clinic in 2005. Pam split her time working both as a healthcare assistant and a practice administration manager while working at Albert House Clinic. Pam is qualified to NVQ 3 in Health & Social care.
Pam is competent in all aspects of the Health care assistant role and is also qualified to administer flu, pneumococcal, shingles and B12 vaccines.
At South Grange Medical Centre Pam has taken on an administration role but still attends regular updates and keeps her skills updated by occasionally covering the health care role when the need arises.
Phlebotomists
Tracy (f)
Tracy has worked at South Grange since early 2017 following the closure of Eston Grange walk in centre. She is a very experienced member of the admin team and recently qualified as Phlebotomist. Tracy is competent in blood taking, blood pressures and health checks.
Lisa has worked at Lagan Surgery since October 2017, having previously worked in a Pharmacy. She is an experienced member of the admin team and recently qualified as Phlebotomist. Lisa is competent in blood taking, blood pressures and health checks.
Mrs Karen Brain (f)
Karen joined the practice team in 1999. Karen is responsible for the management of staff, administration of practice finance, practice organisation, health and safety, management of premises, non-clinical patient welfare and complaints liaison manager.
Sheila (f)
Sheila joined the practice team in 2002. She is a Receptionist & Prescribing Clerk, also oversees Child Protection notes, read-coding and general reception duties.
Tricia (f)
Tricia joined our team over 26 years ago is our Senior Receptionist and Line Manager to all reception staff, as well as Prescribing Clerk.
Hayley is a Prescribing Clerk. She joined Albert House Clinic in 2007 and transferred to South Grange Medical Centre following the merger in January 2017.
Janet (f)
Janet joined the practice in 2003. She is a Receptionist/Administrator.
Deborah is a Receptionist with an additional responsibility of Insurance Form Clerk. She joined Albert House Clinic in 2008 and SGMC in January 2017.
Margaret L
Margaret joined our Team in April 2017, she is a very experienced Medical Receptionist and previously worked at Eston Grange Walk In Centre.
Courtney joined our Team in March 2017, she is an experienced Medical Receptionist and will work on the front desk in Reception.
Tracy joined our Team in April 2017, she is an experienced Medical Receptionist and previously worked at Eston Grange Walk In Centre.
Sonja joined our Team from December 2017. She previously worked in Kings Medical Centre for 15 years and moved with Dr Sykes to Haven Medical Centre for the last 13 years.
Sonja is a very experienced Medical Administrator who will work as Scanning Clerk alongside general admin and reception duties.
Annette joined our Team in January 2018. She is a very experienced member of the team and has worked in general practice for many years.
Margaret S
Margaret joined our Reception and Admin team in November 2018. She has recently moved to our Area from Essex where she has worked as a very experienced medical receptionist.
Suzanne is a very experienced member of our Reception team. She works at our branch site, Lagan Surgery and has been part of the team since 2005.
Debra is an experienced Receptionist who joined our team in May 2019. Debra mainly works on the front desk and is full time
Katie is our new Apprentice Receptionist. She started her apprenticeship with us in May 2019.
Leanne is our Practice Administrator. Leanne joined the team many years ago and is very experienced with general practice. She is responsible for appointing our Minor Surgery, Implant and Coil Clinics, as well Childhood Immunisations and insurance/solicitor reports, along with general secretarial support to Hannah and Catherine and supports the Practice Manager with administration tasks.
Hannah joined Albert House Clinic in 2007 and South Grange Medical in January 2017. Hannah is responsible for transcribing and sending referral letters, Choose & Book, appointing for Minor Surgery clinics as well as other general administrative duties.
Catherine joined our Practice in November 2015. She has previously worked in another GP Practice and is highly skilled in reception duties. Catherine has been promoted to Secretary full time from beginning of 2018, working alongside Hannah and Leanne.
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Scarlet Spider (Vol. 2) #2
Posted: Feb 2012
Staff: Michael Miller (E-Mail)
In: Comics
Title: Scarlet Spider (Vol. 2)
Way back in the ‘90s, Marvel produced a Spider-Man story so controversial, it is still cited as one of the biggest mishaps in comics. This story involved Spider-Man, a bunch of clones, and some pretty serious retconning. One of the characters that was introduced at this time was Kaine, a failed clone of Peter Parker. During the “Clone Saga”, Kaine was a villain who hunted Peter and Ben Reilly. During the “Brand New Day” era of Spider-Man, Kaine re-appeared and was killed during the “Grim Hunt”. Kaine was “re-born” for the events of “Spider Island”. At the end of that arc, Kaine was “cured” of his transformation, as well as his cellular degeneration apparently. While he was making his way to Mexico, Kaine made a “temporary” stop in Houston to enjoy a few moments of quiet. Instead, he ends up stopping a human trafficking ring. He brings the sole survivor, a girl named Aracely, to a nearby hospital. While Kaine struggles with his darker impulses, his inexperience with heroic deeds, and his desire to leave everything behind, the hospital is attacked by a stranger wielding power over fire. His target: Aracely.
Story 'After Life'
SM Core Title
Summary: Scarlet Spider (Kaine) appears
Executive Producer: Alan Fine
Chief Creative Officer: Joe Quesada
Editor In Chief: Axel Alonso
Editor: Stephen Wacker
Associate Editor: Tom Brennan
Writer: Christopher Yost
Artist: Ryan Stegman
Inker: Michael Babinski
Lettering: Joe Caramagna
Colorist: Marte Gracia
The issue starts with Kaine providing another quick summary of his origin: He’s a failed clone that his creator, Mile Warren a.k.a. the Jackal, was only too ready to dispose of. Even though he was a failure, something in him fought for survival.
Kaine is taking a taxi out of Houston, his bag of cash and costume beside him. All he cares about is living and now that he has a chance, he doesn’t plan on sticking around and wasting it. Of course, it’s at this moment that an explosion occurs at the hospital. Kaine immediately realizes that this is an attack to get to Aracely. Remembering her plea for help, he makes his decision to return and save her. However, being Kaine, he handles this in a less than graceful manner: He throws the cab driver out of the car after he refuses to get out. Kaine hijacks the vehicle, while he questions his reasons for going back. He promises himself that he’ll only take 5 minutes to handle this and then continue on with his plan.
At the hospital, the mysterious villain from the end of last issue (according to the summary page, I will assume we can call him Salamander?) is gloating about “the kiss of Xiucoatl” (the fire serpent, according to him) and the fiery destruction around him. He questions a doctor (the one from last issue talking to Officer Layton) as to where Aracely is. The doc tries to lie and claim he does not know where she is, but Salamander sees through this and is about to cook him alive when the girl runs past. While he knows who she is, Aracely has no idea who Salamander is or why he’s after her. He takes a moment to muse on this, but is quickly interrupted when Kaine arrives, clad in his new Scarlet Spider costume.
Kaine feels a certain level of sympathy for Aracely: He recognizes the similarity in their situation in that they are both being given a second chance at life, and how Salamander is trying to take that from her. He notices the doc and how he is only trying to save the patients (for a clone with a good deal of Spider-Man’s memories, you would think he would be a bit more familiar with heroics). Kaine begins with a vicious swipe to Salamander’s face, drawing blood. He returns with a blast of fire, momentarily putting Kaine in a panic. Aracely takes this chance to run, but by now Kaine has already recovered, and brusquely pushes her aside. Instead of making quips and trying to find out why the fiery villain is after Aracely, Kaine is only interested in killing him. He knocks Salamander out the window and jumps on his back, attempting to use his webbing to strangle him. Salamander incorrectly assumes he his fighting Spidey and knocks Scarlet Spider aside.
At this time, a cop arrives and S.S. quickly knocks him aside, again demonstrating a lack of super hero graces. He quickly grabs the cop’s gun and fires off three rounds qt Salamander, who is able to melt two of the bullets in mid air. More enraged than ever (and dropping some names for Spider-Man, Blood Spider, and Scarlet Spider in Spanish, which is a moment I particularly enjoyed), he unleashes an enormous blast of fire. He takes a moment to congratulate himself on his victory over Spider-Man when he notices a web cocoon. Kaine bursts out, savagely attacking and claiming that he is not Spider-Man (a comment to both himself and Salamander). While he was attacking, Kaine managed to trap Salamander in another web cocoon and ends with a vicious kick to the face.
Kaine is about to kill him when he is stopped by a “whisper”, which I can only assume is supposed to be his conscious, the part of him that is still Peter Parker. He opens the cocoon, to allow Salamander to breathe. Behind him a crowd has gathered and applauds his work, giving him a taste of being a hero.
Later that night, Kaine returns in his Scarlet Spider garb to visit Aracely and check on her. He seems moved when she tells him (in Spanish) that her saved her. At this point, the doctor and Officer Layton show up. Unlike a typical run in with the public for Spidey, these two want Kaine to stick around. They claim they could use the help and Mayor Parker would probably love it as well (even Kaine chuckles at the surname Parker). While Kaine tries to convince the two that he’s only there to check on Aracely, they remind him that she’ll just be deported and only someone outside the law would be able to help. Kaine exits before they can continue to question him.
As the issue draws to a close, Kaine stares at a fence separating Texas from Mexico. Again, he realizes that while he was dying, he did “terrible” things, but now’s his chance to set things right. When the doctor goes to check on Aracely, she’s gone, with Kaine having moved to her, to what I can only assume is the Four Season’s Hotel (and another nod to famous Spidey artist Jon Romita on a water bottle). Kaine decides that he’s not a hero, but he doesn’t have to be a “monster” either. He ends with saying that this could be his chance to turn things around and have a life. And if that fails, he can still head off to Mexico.
Ok, so two issues in and so far, I like it. Someone in the comic store I shop from commented on how the ‘90s were back in full force, with Cable, Carnage, and Spidey clones all in the spotlight, but in this case, I’m not sure it’s such a bad thing.
So far, Scarlet Spider feels like a different enough character that he is neither too close to Spider-Man or Venom. These first two issues were about finding his place now that he has been given a fair chance at life, and it seems like he’s found it. He’s going not going to be the typical anti-hero we’ve seen before with Punisher or Venom, but he’s not going to be a full blown hero either.
This issue had a number of small touches that I enjoyed. As a Spider-Man fan, I did feel like Yost was still trying pretty hard to make Kaine seem so rough and edgy, but at the same time, I liked it. The way he tosses Aracely aside and yells at the people he protects to me really shows how closely he walks the line of hero. I also feel it adds a bit of realism to the character- as much as we’d all like to imagine we’d be the noble hero, I think most people would probably lack the grace and poise that the popular heroes posses. I also sort of enjoyed the scene where Kaine quickly grabbed the gun and fired at his opponent. He’s not out and out evil, but he’s not going to pull any punches when trouble arises. He also is much more willing to be seen without his mask, swinging around town last issue without his face obscured and unmasking this issue with Aracely, Layton, and the doctor all seeing his face.
Another scene I enjoyed was at the beginning where Kaine makes a reluctant and desperate promise that he’ll only take five minutes to handle this problem before getting back to his life. It was a nice twist on a classic Spidey moment: Peter needs to be somewhere in his civilian life, but something draws him away and his sense of responsibility forces him to be Spider-Man. He may be saying he just needs five minutes as Spidey and ends up missing whatever it was he needed to do or he may already be in costume and is desperate for five minutes as Peter Parker, but it comes down to him being too responsible to stop being Spider-Man for his own needs. Kaine, on the other hand, only wants to take those five minutes so he can run away guilt free. He’s not trying to meet some other duty or anything, he just wants to keep running.
It seems my prediction from last issue has come true thus far, but whether it is a conscious decision or not, I cannot say: Kaine, for all his violent tendencies and poor super hero bedside manners, is welcome in Houston. The public so far seems to appreciate his efforts, and the cops are willing to look the other way.
I think my greatest difficulty in writing this was what to call Kaine: He has no civilian name yet to refer to him by and in the entire time he’s been present he’s really only been known as Kaine. Calling him Scarlet Spider doesn’t flow as easy as Spider-Man or Spidey. Maybe once his identity as Scarlet Spider is better established and he moves away from Kaine, his new name will seem like the more natural of the two. I still want to see how he’s going to create a new identity for himself now that he’s going to be sticking around Houston as hero. The civilian part of his life should still factor into things, or this book could get very boring, very quick.
I forgot to touch on this last issue, but I also have enjoyed the art so far in this book. Stegman’s art is clear and the action scenes are easy to follow. Perhaps because I enjoy the book itself, I forgot to mention the art as well. Together, both elements come together to make something I did quite enjoy. I wouldn’t mind seeing Stegman pencil a few issues of Amazing if the opportunity ever came up!
I would say it’s a 4, but I think that needs to be reserved for something truly awesome. But from what I have seen, I am definitely willing to stick around and keep reading. This issue was a nice balance to the first: In issue 1, we got some back story and reasoning behind Kaine’s actions. In this issue, we got to see him in action against a real threat. As long as the book continues to entertain and show this different side to the hero community, I will be happy to continue reading this series.
Issue: Scarlet Spider (Vol. 2) #1
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Review: Scarlet Spider (Vol. 2) #2
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Women's Study Centre
Women’s Studies Centre
P. G. Department of Home Science, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar.
Establishment:
Dr. Rema Subhash, Professor, Home Science Department, prepared the proposal for a Women’s Studies Centre and presented the same in September 2004. the sanction of Rs. 50 lakhs for the centre came in February 2005. Women Studies Centre at Sardar Patel University was thus established in March 2005 and started functioning fully since August-September 2005.
Staff Composition:
The centre comprises of:
Project Officer: 1 Research Assistant: 2
Documentation Officer cum Librarian: 1 Computer Operator Cum Clerk: 1
Class IV staff: 1
Aims & objectives of the centre:
The identification of priorities for Women’s Studies Centre at Sardar Patel University is based on the fact that the university is a rural-based one established with the aim of uplifting the educational level of the local population, neighbouring towns and interior villages. Proximity to urban settings such as Baroda and Ahmedabad has led to greater exposure in a section of the local female population here while the other half remains largely backward in all respects. In this background, the major aim and objective of the centre is capacity building in women.
Two categories have been identified namely the educated and employed women and the second group comprising of unemployed women, college goers, teens etc. ranging from the literate to the illiterate. The centre aims at capacity building in the educated, employed woman with regard to managerial abilities such as communication skills, administrative skills, confidence building etc. and along with this facilitating support systems such as research, day-care-centres, old age homes etc. on one hand and on the other, the centre will focus upon entrepreneurship skill building in unemployed women from a slighter wider age group such as adolescents, college girls, housewives and others from different SES. This broadly includes areas such as fabric embellishment including tailoring, popularization of khadi garments, as well as exploring entrepreneurship opportunities through home catering and services etc. Computer literacy has also been identified as an essential skill, which needs to be imparted to women.
List of activities carried out in the year 2004-2005
Date & Year
Computer Literary programme for house wives
1 hour per day for 8 days
Early childhood education related activities in play school/balwadi
Group discussion on “the role of women in society” Working aged 30 to 35 yrs. Mainly teachers and non-teaching staff from university departments, & Banks participated.
Similar Discussion college student & housewives aged 22 to 26 yrs participated.
Workshop on “Leadership training for College & University (girl) students.”
27th & 28th January 2005
Training programme on “Computer awareness for NGO staff .”
15th January 2006 to 15th February 2006
5 days/ week for
Lecture on “Women & Vulnerability” on Women’s Day by Mr. Sajid Menon, Regional sub Co-ordinator, UNICEF, Bihar
Setting up of Women’s Studies Centre library & compilation of news paper & magazine cuttings on Women’s Issues.
2005 on wards
3 day Hobby camp for children aged 7 to 14 yrs.
17th to 19th Nov.2005
List of activities carried out in the year 2006-2007 (Completed)
Workshop on “Embroidery & fabric embellishment” for unemployed women/girl.
20 August to 31st August 2006
3 hours/day for 10 days
Workshop on “Managerial skill building in women teachers”
7th & 8th September 2006
Logo competition on “Women Empowerment”
Seminar on “Women Freedom Fighters, Grassroot Workers & Institutions of Gujarat during 20th Century” in association with the P. G. Dept. of History, S. P. University.
18th & 19th November 2006.
Elocution competition on “Women freedom fighters of India” in association with P. G. Dept. of History, S. P. University.
Lecture series on “Interdisciplinary courses in Women’s Studies.”
August 2006 to November 2006.
Workshop on “Surface Ornamentation on Fabric”
19th, 20th & 21st December 2006
Gyanghoshti (Symposium) on “Women in Modern Indian History” conducted at S.P.T. Arts and Science College, Godhra in association with P. G. Dept. of History, S. P. University.
23rd December 2006
List of activities carried out in the year 2006-2007 (Ongoing)
Research & other activities:
Baseline information on existing services of old age homes in V. V. Nagar & Anand.
A study on personal and professional life balancing by women in the nursing profession.
Academic achievements of school going adolescents- A comparison of girls and boys in the local schools of Anand & V. V. Nagar.
A study on older persons in residential institutions - A gender perspective.
A study on gender differences in co-curricular activities assigned to school going children.
A study on the representation of men & women in Gujarati folk literature.
Women freedom fighters and grassroot workers of Surat District during Gandhidham era (in association with the P. G. Department of History Sardar Patel University.
A profile of the most powerful women of the world from a national and international perspective.
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July 22, 2012 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order by President, Jim Samsel at 7:00 PM. Officers present were Jim Samsel, Joe Podesta, Roger Ward, George Laverick, and Kevin Lilly. Several members and guests were also present.
Minutes of the June 24, 2012 meeting were read by George Laverick, and were accepted as read.
The Treasurer's report was given by Roger Ward. The club is in good financial shape. Members wishing detailed information should contact the Treasurer directly. There are currently 206 active members.
Kevin Lilly reported that one M1 has been returned. Joe Podesta said he has one to turn in now. Joe also presented the club with some ammunition clips for the M1s. Kevin will contact the remaining members who have M1s checked out and get those returned.
No range report was given since the Executive Officer was not present. John Heffentreyer stated that he was as the range on Friday; there were threee bags of trash sitting on the left pistol range and all of the trash bins were full. George Laverick will visit the range on Tuesday, July 24, to check its condition and remove the trash.
Secretary's Note: I visited the range as planned. I removed 10 large bags (55 gallon) of trash and took them to the recycling center. The grass needs mowed on the rifle range.
The club is still in need of an Executive Officer and a Chairman for the Rifle Range Extension Committee. Joe Podesta agreed to head up the Rifle Range Expansion Committee.
Until someone steps forward and agrees to become the Executive Officer, members are going to have to do much more to keep the range in good condition. Members are asked to not leave their trash at the range but take it home with them. Also, if the trash bins are full, please empty them, and take the trash to a recycling center (the one on Old Chalk Bed Rd. is open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday). Two spare bags have been left in each trash container draped over the sides of the inner sleeve; if they have already been used, please contact the club Secretary and we will get them replaced..
If the members do not step up and keep the range clean and in usable condition, we will have no choice but to close the range until a new Executive Officer can be found.
For those of you who might consider becoming the Executive Officer, but hesitate for fear of the amount of work: It is not necessary to do all of the work yourself. The Executive Committee is perfectly willing to hire people to do the actual work. What we need is someone to MANAGE the work.
The Executive Committee voted to authorize the President to hire someone to work three hours twice per month at $20 per hour to do maintenance tasks such as mowing, etc., until a new Executive Officer is appointed.
The updated liability policy has been received from the NRA's insurer, and the Treasurer has written a check to the City of Aiken for the $100 annual usage fee. Henry Krippner will deliver the check and insurance policy to ADPS on Monday, July 23. ADPS will then schedule a Range Officer briefing before we can restart using the indoor range. We currently have three members identified who meet the City's requirements for a Range Officer (NRA certified or Active/Retired Law Enforcement). More qualified Range Officers are needed. The Range Officers will maintain a listing of members who sign the City's Release Form and will carry it with them when they open the range.
George Laverick presented proposed changes to the Membership Renewal Form (for 2013 which will be sent out at the end of November) and the New Member Application. The primary change is to add a line indicating if the member/applicant is entitled to the law enforcement discount and the name of the applicable agency. A motion was passed to accept the changes.
Two applicants for membership were present at the meeting. Both applications were accepted.
A discussion was held about how to administer the 250 member cap when we reach that point. No action was taken.
The meeting was adjourned on a motion by Joe Podesta.
The next meeting is scheduled for 7:00 PM, August 26, 2012 at Harbor Chase.
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Goin' Down the Road (1970)
A few weeks ago, a forum was held in Nova Scotia that revealed a province on the cusp of a severe labor shortage after decades in which the population aged, the birth rate declined, and generations of young workers moved west to pursue better and (perplexingly, given the current situation) more abundant jobs. For a province that has been steeped in persistent unemployment problems for decades, this is a bewildering problem to wrap our minds around, but it may have severe consequences for the funding of social services as the number of paychecks contributing tax dollars to these programs declines rapidly.
It is against the background of this apocalyptic labor reversal that I watched the first film in my informal effort to watch more Canadian, and specifically Maritime, cinema: Goin' Down the Road . This was, by all accounts, a landmark film for Canadian cinema, a work of neo-realism that treated the archetypal Atlantic Canadian story with greater truth than (according to Pauline Kael, so the story goes) John Cassavetes's films could lay claim to. Two unemployed (and, such is the depressed state of the Maritime provinces, unemployable) young men leave their native Nova Scotia for the brighter prospects of Toronto. Once there they discover that the Toronto relatives whose support they had counted on are too ashamed of their provincial broadness to answer the door (the finks are actually depicted hiding behind the curtains of their house while snarking about our heroes' behavior). They had dreams of white collar success (symbolized by an attempt to acquire a career in advertising), but they can't get any but the most transient jobs without a university education that would have been largely useless to them in Nova Scotia. Between them, they get and lose minimum wage jobs, frolic in the parks of Toronto, knock up and marry a girlfriend, buy three rooms of furniture out of the back of a magazine (including a color tv - "If they could see this at home!") and then lose the ability to pay for a three-room apartment. Eventually they are crammed into a tiny tenement flat - husband, pregnant wife, and their friend (who is the only one bringing in a paycheck) - and they begin to wonder how they are going to be able to afford to eat their next meal.
So it is a jolly sort of film.
For me, the interest of this movie was largely historical and geographical. It has all the possible faults of neo-realism - hamhanded acting from inexperienced performers, sentimentality, and shaky production values. But it is an exquisitely typical representation of a particular cultural moment of almost Dreiserish economic deterioration and despair. And I should note that the film's ending, although necessarily grim*, is oddly hopeful as well. This is a film of the road, like so many films about economic depression, and the road is equally a symbol of the endlessness and the falsehood of hope and progress.
But the most appealing moments of this film, for me, were the Nova Scotian ones, the ones that are a portrait, both alien and quintessential, of my new home. Thus the opening of the film is a grittily lovely montage of Nova Scotian still lives: a field of abandoned, rusting cars; mist rising over a lake; a fishing boat tilted and half-submerged in still, dark water. Stunning. It makes me reflect (both affectionately and scathingly) that this might have been a more successful film if no one ever spoke in it.
A worthy watch, but not necessarily an enjoyable one.
Goin' Down the Road
dir. Donald Shebib (Canada, 1970)
*It involves (SPOILER) assault, police pursuit, and spousal abandonment.
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Yuvraj Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja rested for limited overs Sri Lanka games
Mumbai batsman Rohit Sharma has been surprisingly named the vice-captain, while opening batsman Lokesh Rahul returned after an injury lay-off.
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Veteran batsman Yuvraj Singh was on Sunday excluded from the Indian squad that will face Sri Lanka in a five-match ODI series and a lone T20I.
Yuvraj was below-par in the last couple of tournaments, scoring 105 runs in the ICC Champions Trophy and 57 runs during the West Indies tour.
Breaking news: Yuvraj Singh dropped from ODI squad. Manish Pandey replaces him
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Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal are captain Virat Kohli's options among slow bowlers.
Mumbai paceman Shardul Thakur made a comeback into the squad along with Karnataka batsman Manish Pandey.
So players rested or dropped? Can see a batting core forming but are the bowlers picked on trial or is this the way ahead?
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Mumbai batsman Rohit Sharma has been surprisingly named the vice-captain, while opening batsman Lokesh Rahul returned after an injury lay-off. The Karnataka right-hander has been in good form in the ongoing three-match Test series against the Islanders.
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Talking from experience EDITORIAL 05/22/2010
Talking from experience
The Palace has raised the possibility of a political firestorm similar to the one that formed in the aftermath of the “Hello Garci” scandal as allegations of cheating in the country’s first automated polls continue to build up.
In the 2005 controversy, the allegations of fraud became too evident that Gloria appeared on nationwide television to say her infamous “I am sorry” and the protests that accompanied it resulted in calls for her to step down and triggered a coup in 2006 that was averted only after Gloria allegedly bought off the allegiance of military brass.
Despite fending off an ouster, Gloria plodded through the six years of her extended presidency by keeping herself on the saddle.
Noynoy Aquino, if he is proclaimed president-elect by Congress as a National Canvass Board, may face the same curse of public distrust if he assumes the presidency and consigns the fraud allegations as part of gripes among the losers in the just concluded elections.
The outrage shown by Makati Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin on automated poll supplier Smartmatic’s nonchalant admission of errors in the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines as readouts, passed off as “unforeseen” would likely be a precursor to a similar level of public outrage as more defects, intentional or not, of the expensive poll system come out in the open.... MORE
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It seems pretty clear that the electronic fraud was probably massive, given the evidence being presented in the congressional hearing and the evident evasive and unsatisfactory answers given by Smartmatic tend to show that the poll officials as well as its partner in automation knew just how massive this fraud is.
But even as clearly the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines failed in ensuring fraud-free polls, there went the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners, still claiming that the fraud couldn’t have been massive, and even as the evidence was being presented before the body, and saying that such would not alter the results of the polls.
In other words, Comelec officials were there, still defending the failed automated polls and naturally, their partner, Smartmatic, even taking the same line of the partner that the time logs in the transmission of the election returns are of no importance.
There was absolutely no anti-fraud security system in this first ever automated election which is now being discovered to be a big flop, as well as perhaps being the dirtiest automated polls ever.
So who should be held responsible and accountable? Smartmatic, for certain. But the Comelec officials, they too, very definitely should be held accountable, as it was they who had approved the removal of all the security features, giving the Comelec cheating syndicate, led by the Big Four, all the opportunity to manipulate the results of the polls.
While it was fairly clear, from the start, that these Comelec commissioners were pretty clueless, or at least playing cluelessness, about automation and relied heavily on whatever Smartmatic did, as did the PPCRV, that always looked the other way, the fact is that it is just common sense for a poll body, given its history of having been marked with fraudulent practices, to ensure that all the security features were retained.... MORE
Thai government must engage Thaksin to heal divides ANALYSIS 05/22/2010
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government must engage former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra in reconciliation efforts after a bloody crackdown on his “Red Shirts” supporters, or risk inflaming the nation’s crisis, analysts said.
The government has accused Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon ousted in a 2006 coup, of bankrolling and masterminding Thailand’s worst political violence in decades which has left 83 dead since Reds rallies erupted in March.
Thaksin lives in exile to avoid a jail sentence for corruption, but the government has exerted pressure on countries he has visited, moved to freeze his finances and sought a warrant for his arrest on terrorism charges.
But political observers said the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, appointed with the army’s backing after Thaksin’s allies were ejected by a 2008 court ruling, must now change tack.
“This government keeps making wrong decisions, including the crackdown. Squeezing Thaksin is another wrong decision,” said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, from the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, in Singapore.
“Thaksin is not the only problem here. For the government to squeeze him, to punish him, it won’t solve the current crisis.”... MORE
Temperature Range: vs Comelec, Smartmatic By Gerry Baldo 05/22/2010
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Legislators zeroed in on more anomalies in the recent automated polls ranging from empty “back up memory cards,” election returns found in junk yard to questionable technology subcontractors at the resumption yesterday of the hearing conducted by the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms on allegations of massive electronic poll fraud.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and automated poll supplier Smartmatic Corp. continued to get the blame for the flawed automated elections even as lawmakers raised more questions about alleged anomalies in the conduct of the recent polls.
Abakada Guro Rep. Jonathan de la Cruz said the Comelec and Smartmatic should come out with a list of all its subcontractors for information technology because some of them could be questionable.
He added he received information that one of those who subcontracted the IT system was a company owned by Atong Ang and this was deployed in Rizal province and Region IV.
“Is it true that Atong Ang was among the subcontractors in Rizal and in Region IV?” De la Cruz asked Comelec officials.
He said that Ang’s involvement in the elections could have resulted in former President Estrada’s loss in Laguna, Rizal and Region IV.
“Who is Atong Ang? Is he now involved in information technology? Who were his technicians in Rizal and Region 4?” De La Cruz asked.... MORE
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By Marie Surbano and Aytch S. de la Cruz
The hunt for the identity of the koala, or the poll fraud whistleblower sporting a mask similar to the Australian marsupial, is on with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), saying yesterday it already had clues on who unleashed him while Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr. claimed at a House hearing yesterday that the supposed witness is a creature of the Palace.
“I know who you are. Do not provoke me to name you,” Locsin said, referring to personalities in Malacañang. The Palace quickly denied Locsin’s allegations.
The whistleblower who hid behind the name Robin recounted a supposed elaborate and systematic operations of electronic vote shaving in the May 10 elections which Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino leads in the Comelec tally.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said the person behind the whistleblower is “a losing candidate” without specifically identifying anybody.
Jimenez refused to divulge details on its supposed findings saying initial reports that they received from several government agencies point to a “losing presidential candidate” as the mastermind behind the masked man nicknamed by Congressman Teddy Boy Locsin as a koala bear.
“The information is still very very difficult to substantiate but we trust our sources,” said Jimenez. The Comelec, according to Jimenez, is still verifying the identity of the whistleblower.
Asked what they will do if they find out who engineered the masked man’s revelation, Jimenez said, the mastermind face sanctions for undermining the credibility of the elections.... MORE
House forms panel to canvass votes 05/22/2010
The House of Representatives has formed a nine-member group that would work hand-in-hand with the Senate in canvassing the votes for president and vice president beginning Tuesday.
Speaker Prospero Nograles, in a text message, yesterday said the group will be composed of himself as chairman, Majority Leader Arthur Defensor, Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Senior Deputy Minority Leader Roilo Golez, Representatives Crispin Remulla( Cavite), Didagen Dilangalen (Shariff Kabunsuan with Cotabato City), Matias Defensor (Quezon City) and Michael John Duavit (Rizal).
In case of absences, alternate members include Representatives Teodoro Locsin Jr. (Makati), Rufus Rodriguez (Cagayan de Oro), Lorenzo Tañada III (Quezon), Liwayway Vinzons-Chato (Camarines Norte), Simeon Datumanong (Maguindanao), Giorgidi Aggabao (Isabela), Pedro Romualdo (Camiguin), Joseph Emilio Abaya (Cavite) and Eduardo Zialcita (Parañaque).
Nograles said both the House and the Senate, convening separately, are set to approve the draft rules of canvassing on Monday, hence, he expects the National Board of Canvassers to start official canvassing the day after or on Tuesday.
Nograles and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile will serve as co-chairman of the special canvassing committee.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, meanwhile, is seeking to inhibit herself from the Senate panel of the joint congressional committee to canvass the votes cast for presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 10 May 2010 elections.
The reelected senator sent a letter on Friday to Enrile requesting for her exclusion from the Senate contingent, citing her being a guest candidate of four political parties.... MORE
DPWH urged to build wrecked Cainta ripraps 05/22/2010
DPWH urged to build wrecked Cainta ripraps
Cainta homeowners are calling on the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in this province to act swiftly to construct the ripraps of their village which were washed out by typhoon “Ondoy” last year.
Daniel Rafael Prats, president of the Village East Homeowners Association Inc. (Vehai), said the DPWH could have done the construction of the ripraps immediately after its destruction to prevent a repeat of the nightmarish flooding that happened last year.
“More than 2,000 homeowners of the village conveyed their apprehension to DPWH and even to Rizal leaders and officials that if possible they should build the destroyed ripraps during summer or before rainy season comes but they did nothing about it,” Prats said.
He cited the construction of the ripraps at the adjacent village by the DPWH though the site was an open corn field and far away from the residents.
“If the DPWH did the construction why not in our village when its destroyed ripraps are within the perimeter where the houses of the homeowners are located?” he said.
The village homeowners are now in great fear as the rainy season is coming and the destroyed ripraps still lay in waste and any time the village will be flooded by a heavy down pour.... MORE
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Congress poll fraud probe won’t affect transition of gov’t 05/22/2010
Preparations for the smooth transition of power to the next administration will not be affected by reported moves in Congress to reschedule the proclamation of the next President and Vice President in deference to the committee investigation into reports of alleged electronic fraud in the May 10 polls.
Deputy presidential spokesman Charito Planas said Malacañang is “ready and just waiting” for the next administration even as it recognizes the fact that only Congress has the power to proclaim the incoming President and Vice President.
“The Arroyo administration is ready and prepared to receive, and so it is up to the incoming President and Vice President to name their counterparts who will sit down with us for the transition,” Planas said.
The Senate and the House of Representatives have reportedly agreed to move the proclamation of winning candidates for President and Vice President from the earlier reported date of June 4, possibly to June 30, in deference to the ongoing committee inquiry into allegations of electronic fraud.
Under the Constitution, President Arroyo’s successor has to take the oath of office at noon of June 30.
Planas said the Palace respects the decision of Congress, being an independent and co-equal power of the Executive branch of the government.... MORE
Binay’s camp chides Roxas for ‘copycat ad’ 05/22/2010
The camp of leading Vice Presidential candidate Jejomar Binay has described the “copycat” print advertisement of Sen. Manuel Roxas as “less than truthful” since it failed to say that Binay won in 66 of the country’s 81 provinces during the May 10 elections.
“We don’t really mind if they copied the ad, but they should have been more truthful in presenting the provincial results,” Binay’s spokesman Lito Anzures said.
The ad, which appeared in several newspapers Friday, copied the format of the Binay ad, which showed the United Opposition bet winning in 14 out of 17 regions.
He also noted that the ad included Roxas votes from cities, thus “bloating” the figures.
“I though the Roxas camp had said we should all wait for the results of the canvass. But here they are again, misleading the public,” he said.
Anzures said the Roxas camp has earlier failed to say that the votes from their bailiwick, which they claim would swing the tide in their favor, account for only less than 20 per cent of the total number of votes cast.... MORE
Army to make changes in training after cadet dies of heat stroke 05/22/2010
The Army leadership will be making adjustments in training activities for soldier-applicants following the death by heat stroke of one trainee in Isabela province on Wednesday, a military spokesman said yesterday.
“We have to study (what changes should we make in the training procedures) because of climate change and intense temperature nowadays. We have to make adjustments in schedule of training if trainees are undergoing strenuous activities,” Armed Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr. said.
On Wednesday, prospective Army recruit Ericson Pascua, of Cordon town, Isabela, died of heat stroke after almost completing initial exercises during reception day training at the Army’s 5th Infantry Division (ID) headquarters in Camp Melchor dela Cruz in Gamu town, Isabela.
Pascua passed out in the last stages of the reception exercises while 16 other fellow trainees of his suffered heat exhaustion and dehydration. He later on died despite hours of attempts to revive him in a private hospital in Isabela.
The 16 other trainees were declared out of danger and were back training.
A total of 350 prospective recruits are undergoing training under the 5th ID.
On Wednesday morning, the temperature in Tuguegarao City, which was 100 kilometers away from the training facility, was registered at 39.7 degree Celsius.
Burgos said Army chief Lt. Gen. Reynaldo Mapagu has already issued a guidance not to conduct strenuous activities during the intense heat.... MORE
Transmission error causes proclamation of wrong winner 05/22/2010
An administration mayoralty aspirant in Maasim town in Sarangani province has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to immediately nullify the earlier proclamation of the town’s winning mayor due to noted discrepancies in the town’s total vote count that were supposedly caused by the erroneous transmission of election returns from one of the polling precincts in the area.
Maasim mayoralty candidate Arturo Lawa yesterday said he filed a petition before the Comelec en banc in Manila for the rectification of alleged errors in the town’s voting results after the Municipal Board of Canvassers (MBoC) supposedly failed to properly count the votes cast from clustered precinct number 21 of Barangay Kablakan in Maasim.
He claimed the MBoC erroneously counted the votes cast during the mock elections or the testing and sealing of the deployed precinct count optical scan or PCOS machine in the polling precinct and not the actual votes cast during the May 10 automated elections.
Based on the MBoC’s official count, Lawa, who ran under administration coalition Sarangani Reconciliation and Reformation Organization-Lakas-Kampi-CMD (Sarro-Lakas), trailed the proclaimed winning mayor Jose Zamorro by only 15 votes.
Zamorro, who ran as an independent, received 5,321 votes while Lawa only got 5,306 votes.
But Lawa, who is an outgoing provincial board member, said it turned out that the MBOC only counted the nine votes cast during the mock polls at precinct number 21 as shown in the statement of votes that it earlier released.
He said the questioned clustered precinct, which covered four established precincts in Barangay Kablakan, had 800 registered voters, wherein 616 of them actually voted in the May 10 elections based on the copies of election returns printed from the PCOS machine.... MORE
‘Clearing, of landmines in Mindanao a herculean job’ 05/22/2010
‘Clearing, of landmines in Mindanao a herculean job’
The head of the government Ad Hoc Joint Action Group (AHJAG) yesterday described as a “herculean job” its and the Moro Islamic Liberation’s (MILF) task of locating and ensuring the safe disposal of landmines and unexploded ordnance scattered in various areas in Central Mindanao at the height of the fighting in the region.
Brig. Gen. Jose Vizcarra, AHJAG chairman representing the Philippine government and concurrent deputy commander of the peace process of the Western Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces, said many of these deadly devices could be found in the vast Linguasan marshland and jungles in the region.
Vizcarra welcomed the move to ban the use and the clearing of landmines and unexploded ordnance in conflict-affected areas in Mindanao, which, he said, will strengthen the peace process between the government and the MILF.
A group called Philippine Campaign to Ban Landmines (PCBL) and the Foundation Suisse de Deminage (FSD), or the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action, are supporting this noble project.
The implementing guidelines for the PCBL-FSD project, signed last May 5 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was pursuant to the joint statement of both panels in November 2007 relative to the clearing of landmines and unexploded ordnance (unexploded ordnance).
Vizcarra said the government and MILF teams will jointly conduct tracking and defusing of landmines and unexploded devices to ensure that people in Central Mindanao and other areas will not be hurt by them.
He said many live mortar and cannon shells were dropped in the Linguasan marshland during the fighting but did not explode and they will try to recover and defuse them.
Vizcarra also appealed to the MILF to report to the AHJAG any landmine and unexploded ordnance they find in their areas so that these explosives can be defused properly.
Another task the AHJAG will have to contend with is to find unexploded bombs dropped in Mindanao during World War II.
“These explosives must be located and defused,” Vizcarra said.... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100522nat10.html
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Prior to Social Media one of the earliest types of advertising was through word of mouth followed by engraving or drawing images on a cave wall, those images told a story, and promoted ideas. Early printing in the 15th (1401 to 1500) and 16th (1501 to 1600) centuries created a mark in advertising and companies were able to reach a wider audience. In the 18th (1701 to 1800) and 19th (1801 to 1900) centuries advertising was expanded to newspapers. One of the first advertising agencies was set-up in Philadelphia in 1842 by Volney Palmer, the agency acted as a broker for newspaper space and later on they became a full service by offering ad-placement services and a full production that organized advertising by a target market and population. In the 20th (1901 to 2000) century the radio was born and was part of a new era on advertising it offered a complete new way of reaching potential audiences. Followed by television which introduced a new type of advertising that was more visual than the previous advertising methods, by the end of the 20th century the internet was introduced to the masses and it became a valuable communication tool for businesses to advertise in a complete different way. According to Visually technology and the use of Social Media and Internet has accelerated the pace in which people are able to connect, be engaged and be informed. Below is a list of the time frame it took for various modes of communication to reach 50 million users. Telephone: 75 years Radio: 38 years Television : 13 years Internet: 4 years Facebook: 3.5 years IPOD: 3 years Angry Birds Space app: 35 days Many organizations still depend on word of mouth as the main form of communication mostly used in marketing and advertising initiatives. These companies are considered to be in the stone ages as compared to organizations that are using Social Media in a big way. A good example of a company that is using Social Media very well is FIFA. FIFA was taken by surprise in the last World Cup in Brazil when 1 billion people attended FIFA’s Global Stadium, according to the current Deputy Head of FIFA Digital. Senior Manager – Social Media & Video, Alex Stone they began evaluating the data collected from the 2014 World Cup in 2015. Based on the 2014… Read more »
IF YOUR BRAND IS NOT ON INSTAGRAM , IT SHOULD BE
Hersh Fadi June 26, 2017
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If your brand is not on Instagram, it should be. Instagram is beautifully simplistic and the most personal of the mobile platforms. It’s full of potential with people eager to connect with a brand on a more intimate and tangible level. Creating content for Instagram can be a challenge, it’s true. The importance of visual imagery is key to tell a brand’s story, any brand. Regardless of the industry, any company can create campaigns to utilize this platform to reach their targeted audience, sharing alluring imagery and creative captions. There are many companies getting it right, using this platform to share their story, their background, and their vision.
Can @Spectacles help us see the future?
MichelleBrady November 14, 2016
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While no one can actually predict the future, we can use past knowledge and current trends to guess what might happen. Social Media is no different. In a podcast with the Social Media Examiner, Rohit Bhargava discusses his book, Non Obvious. He considers “a trend to be an observation about the accelerating present. That means there are signs of something already happening that will become more important”.1 A great example to review is Spectacles by Snap Inc. This new gadget considers past, current and futuristic trends. Snap uses a medium that all people are familiar with wearing (sunglasses) to capture quick videos for social sharing. Snapchat (its former name) already recognized that capturing video upright is more intuitive because people hold mobile phones that way. Snapchat was a trendsetter when it made upright videos acceptable.2 Spectacles operate via Bluetooth and load video content to your mobile device. Their creation of circular video (which captures both vertical and horizontal orientations simultaneously) is very innovative. When the viewer plays the video on a mobile device they can rotate it in any direction and it will display accordingly. Videos for entertainment and information are here to stay and they will inevitably carry us forward. Whether we’re watching live camera feeds around the world, funny YouTube videos or Tasty how-to food clips, we’re validating this trend for the future.
Aldo Consumer Connection
stephanie November 21, 2015
Company name: Aldo Industry: Retail Web References: Nation Retail Federation, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Companies are seeking out the expertise of third party social media specialists to help them cultivate a fruitful relationship between their consumers and their brand. Salesforce has been a leader in connecting companies and the customer. An partnership partnership between Aldo and Salesforce.com, was key in facilitating co-creation and dialogue between… Read more »
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Video Killed the Radio Star and took over the Web
Siddiqi November 18, 2015
Title: Video Killed the Radio Star and took over the Web Web References: New Wave; The Buggles; Video Killed the Radio Star; MTV; VJs; DJ; Cultural Impact of MTV; Prezi; Internet History; URL; Youtube; Youtube Wiki; Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; Kunle Bristow; Bruce Lin; Catalytic Engineering
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Share the Experience..with Christie
kcress November 16, 2015
Organization Name: Christie Industry: AudioVisual, Manufacturing Contact: Kathryn Cress, Vice President, Global & Corporate Marketing Web References: Christie,B2B Social Media, Social Media for Business Performance; Social Marketing About Christie “Share the Experience” is Christie’s tag line, used extensively to promote the primary benefit of Christie’s products and solutions. The company provides visual display solutions, including content and services, that allow people to view visuals in a… Read more »
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There’s No Turning Back – The Future of Social Media
CBrookbanks July 16, 2015
Web References: CNBC, Statista – Facebook, Statista – Twitter, Internet Live Stats, Business Insider, YouTube – The History of social media, INC, Statista – Network, Imedia Connection, Fast Company, Big Fish, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Ad Age, Atlas, Soundcloud, Back in my day, the internet was dial up, you saved a single document to a floppy disk, and social media… Read more »
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The Future of Social Media – a Short List to Think About
socialmed_ia March 11, 2015
Organizations name: Various Industry: Various Website: Please follow the links within the article Source: Examiner.com The future of social media depends on other aspects and trends, and surely stems from the parent trend – technology. Since I have to write in short, I will not make a deep analysis of futures trends in social media, and instead collected some sub-technology… Read more »
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What’s as addictive as social media?
Amanda November 21, 2014
Organization: Addictive Mobility Industry: Mobile Advertising Contact Name: Cyrus Bakhtiyari, Infrastructure Engineer Web References: Addictive Mobility Description of how social media is used for business performance The value of social media is evident in it’s ability to reach audiences and engage them. Businesses are able to make meaningful connections with their customers from around the world. It’s a way for… Read more »
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Driftmob: #bmwstories of social media transformation
Organization Name: BMW Industry: Automotive Contact name: Steven Althaus, BMW’s Global Director of Brand Management Web References: 2011 Social Media Marketing Industry Report Description of how social media is used for business performance What is the impact social media is having on marketing? Social media has transformed the way marketer’s market things to us. It’s as simple as remembering the… Read more »
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Lucas Cochran: Social Media and Future Tech
Constance Adams July 16, 2014
Organization Name: Discovery Channel/Daily Planet Industry: Television/Program Name of contact if available: Lucas Cochran Description of How Social Media is used for Business Performance People think the key to expanding a social media presence comes down to content, audience, and a little bit of luck. No one knows for sure what is going to make a lasting impression or impact…. Read more »
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The Future of Social Media is Guaranteed?
Carrie July 9, 2013
With the amalgamation of Social Media into general marketing strategies, ‘Being Social’ is no longer seen as an option but rather a requirement in the business world. The most trusted form of marketing has for decades been word of mouth and social media offers this on a number of platforms for businesses to readily engage. A study performed by McKinsey… Read more »
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Learn Through Videos and What Jack Dorsey Really Have to Say About Square.
avazhang March 21, 2013
Recently, I watched a video on the OpenCourse website in China on my tablet about a presentation called “The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration” for Stanford University by the founder of Twitter. His name is Jack Dorsey, and he worked in a company as a programmer before working for his own company. In the presentation, he introduced a new product… Read more »
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Superman: Kryptonite
In assessing what story he wanted to tell about Superman, Darwyn Cooke came across the introduction of kryptonite to Superman comics, and loved it. He took the bones of Bill Finger’s plot, and expanded it into something that retains the aura of the 1940s without the vacant simplicity of that era’s comics.
It’s rarely been the case that Cooke has written material for another artist, and Kryptonite is certainly the longest example. Tim Sale’s retro style is heavily influenced by the comics of the 1940s, and so he’d seem ideally matched with the story being told.
For all that, this isn’t Cooke or Sale’s finest work. That neither is a run of the mill toiler, and each has a unique style means Kryptonite stands out, but it would benefit from being more compact, and much pontification and little splicing with action makes for a sometimes dull read.
The plot is set in motion by the arrival in Metropolis of one Tony Gallo, presumed gangster about to open a casino in the city. This alone has taken considerable guile given previous attitudes among regulatory bodies, and newspaper editor Perry White considers something is fishy. It turns out White is correct, just not in the way he imagines.
As Lois Lane inveigles herself into Gallo’s company Superman is learning the meaning of fear for the first time, having been trapped directionless in an erupting volcano. The reader gradually becomes privy to information not yet known to the reporters as each chapter opens with a few narrative pages picturing a great green chunk of glowing crystal.
Where Kryptonite works is the fine interaction between Clark Kent and his parents, the flashbacks opening each story defining Gallo, Sale’s humane depiction of the cast, and Dave Stewart’s excellent mood-defining colours. Where it doesn’t is with the payoff tying into themes of the original story that inspired Cooke, the secret of the kryptonite and the largely superfluous presence of Lex Luthor. Some events spin around him, but his part in the overall plot is largely a forced distraction.
This is a better than average Superman story, but far from the best Cooke in particular has to offer.
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Teen Hacking Group Trace ISIS Twitter Accounts To British Government Department
A group of hackers claim they have discovered a connection between UK government IP addresses and Twitter accounts linked to ISIS. The teens, who go by the name of VandaSec, claim they can show a link between the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions and at least three Twitter accounts currently used by ISIS – the evil death cult currently holding huge swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory.
VandaSec says they have delved deeply into the accounts and have discovered they originally originate from the DWP. The accounts have been used by ISIS to recruit people to their cause, and to spread propaganda via the social networking site.
A British newspaper – the Daily Mirror – dug a little deeper into the claims and discovered that the British government recently sold a huge quantity of redundant IP addresses to companies in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who in turn sold them on to a third party who then sold them to ISIS. At first the British government denied this, but when presented with evidence obtained by the Mirror, they begrudgingly admitted that the sale had gone ahead.
They later explained that the IP addresses had been sold to two Saudi companies – Saudi Telecom and Mobile Telecommunications Company. The government explained that there was nothing unusual in the practice, and that it has no control over the addresses once they are sold. They later issued the following statement:
“The government owns millions of unused IP addresses which we are selling to get a good return for hardworking taxpayers. We have sold a number of these addresses to telecoms companies both in the UK and internationally to allow their customers to connect to the internet. We think carefully about which companies we sell addresses to, but how their customers use this internet connection is beyond our control.”
Looks like the British need to think more carefully about who they’re selling their addresses to in future. This is a lesson to all western governments.
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Connect with other Eritrean and Somali refugees and asylum seekers who have made the perilous journey to Europe. Share your story with a community of fellow survivors.
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It’s a hot afternoon in the Italian city of Milan. 20 year old Merhawit looks haggard yet restless. Her voice is hoarse, and she looks like she hasn’t had a proper meal in weeks, which is probably the case. She has only been in Italy for six days, after being rescued at sea by the Italian coast guards. In about two hours she plans to be on a train bound for Switzerland, where she will be reunited with her brother. It will possibly be the last leg of a harrowing, regret-filled journey, which she thought she would never survive.
Merhawit left Eritrea by crossing the Ethiopian border and was registered at one of the UNHCR refugee camps. Like many others hoping to reach Europe, she departed within a week and headed for Sudan. Unfortunately after crossing the Sudanese border, she was arrested and taken to Shagarab refugee camp. After four days in the camp, she departed with 60 other refugees with the aim of getting to Khartoum.
The journey to Khartoum saw Merhawit narrowly escape a kidnapping attempt by members of the Bedouin Rashaida tribe, who she later learned had kidnapped and extorted about 30 of the refugees she had been traveling with.
Listen to Merhawit’s account of her journey through Ethiopia and Sudan.
After a month in Khartoum, Merhawit, together with friends, got in touch with smugglers.
“I met the smugglers in Sudan. There are many of them in Khartoum and my friends have contact with them,” she says. “If a person gathers up to 10 individuals and contacts the smuggler, then one person can travel free of charge.”
Despite several warnings about the dangers of the journey, Merhawit decided to take her chances, hoping she would be as successful as her friends who had made it to Europe.
“I heard a lot of stories about this trip from my friends in Europe,” she says. “When we heard that our friends had made it, we got encouraged.”
“I was informed of the precautions we should take as a women, like getting an injection to prevent pregnancy,” she adds.
Once in Libya, together with other refugees and migrants, she was held captive for three months by traffickers who extorted and beat them. During the last month, her abdomen began to swell, leaving her writhing in pain. She only obtained medical assistance once she was rescued at sea.
“I was sleeping in a mattress full of lice and dirt,” she says. “I was infected from the harsh travel conditions and my stomach was swollen. I thought I would die.”
Listen to Merhawit recount her journey through Libya, and her final rescue at sea.
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For weeks, House Republican leaders have been working behind closed doors to thread the needle on an immigration bill that could secure the support of the bulk on their conference.
On Friday morning, President Donald Trump ended all that with a tweet.
“Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November,” Trump tweeted. “Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!”
And, boom goes the dynamite.
Now. The so-called “compromise” legislation — constructed by House Speaker Paul Ryan to make moderates and conservative happy — was already on life support before Trump came in and pulled the plug. A vote on the measure was originally scheduled for Thursday. It was then set for Friday. Then late Thursday, it was postponed until next week as GOP leaders insisted they saw a glimmer of hope to write a bill that might actually pass the House.
That hope is dead now. Imagine you are a conservative Republican resistant to the “compromise” bill because it provides a path to citizenship for DACA recipients. You now have every reason in the world not to come to the table and take a tough vote. The President literally said there was no point!
The question before Ryan and the rest of his leadership team is whether there’s even any merit in trying to push for a vote on the compromise bill next week — or even if it’s worth making some of the changes on things like E-verify that their members expressed a desire for over the past 48 hours.
The problem with pushing for a vote on a bill that’s doomed is you put your members in a very difficult place. Please vote for this legislation — that includes $25 billion to fund Trump’s border wall — even though it has zero chance of passing in the Senate and the President is on record as saying the fight is pointless.
On the other hand, moderates — and many members in swing districts — within the conference want to be able to vote on something regarding DACA before November so that they can go back to their constituents and say they are working hard to address the immigration problem.
The immigration discharge petition — a legislative end-around organized by moderates and members with seats with high Hispanic populations — was the vehicle for that vote, but Ryan, fearing an open debate and votes on immigration that favored a bipartisan bill, sought to cut it off at the pass with his compromise bill. And now that the legislation that the discharge petition was attached to — a more conservative immigration bill that failed the House on Thursday — is dead, a new discharge petition would have to be started and all the signatures would have to be gathered again. And Democrats would make Republicans prove they can put up enough signatures this time before they sign on.
All of which means that what Trump did Friday morning effectively ends the immigration debate in Congress until the fall. And raises the stakes on the already hugely important showdown over the budget — and whether Trump will get the full funding he wants for the border wall. “We come up again on September 28, and if we don’t get border security, we’ll have no choice,” Trump said in April of the coming fall fight. “We’ll close down the country because we need border security.”
A government shutdown over wall funding would be a disaster for Republicans in marginal congressional districts.
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Remembering Angie Morris
Photo courtesy of Kimberly Kiraly
ANGIE THROUGH THE AGES: Posing for a photo at GBS, rising senior Angie Morris shows her signature smile, one that many at school were accustomed to seeing, according to Ken Smith, Special Education teacher. According to Katie Mason, Morris’s sister, she was the youngest of six children in their family.
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Rising senior Angie Morris was a teaching intern in the Child Development program. She worked with children in Titan Tots and Alphabet Acres, according to Kimberly Kiraly, Child Development coordinator. She was scheduled to graduate in January. Morris then planned to take courses at Oakton Community College and become an early childhood educator. Morris passed away on July 8 after being shot in the head the previous night in Des Plaines.
“She made the sad moments good.”
Those closest to Morris say her positive personality and perseverance helped them see the brighter sides of situations. Ray Hurssey, South alumnus of 2017, met Morris his sophomore year and remained close with her throughout high school. Hurssey says through her friendship, she uplifted him and others during their struggles.
“She was just a bright little spirit,” Hurssey said. “If you were having a hard time in school, she could cheer you up in a second. She was that type of person to make you smile.”
After a homecoming football game loss freshman year, senior Jay Covington says he felt Morris’s kindness and uplifting attitude when she made the situation lighter despite his own disappointments with the game.
“[Angie] just instantly made me smile after the game and made me laugh and just feel a lot better,” Covington said. “She told me all the positive aspects she saw in the game and that just helped me a lot.”
For Jodie Kelly, current Oakton Community College freshman, Morris was a longtime best friend and a trusted confidant. After moving to Indiana, Kelly stayed in touch with one person from Glenview: Morris. They remained friends long-distance until Kelly moved back to Illinois. From going to the movies and mall together to spending summers at her house, they talked for hours.
“She liked Cher a lot,” Kelly said. “If you were hanging around with her, she would just dance and sing all the time. She made the sad moments good.”
Morris’s positive attitude towards life also radiated towards her family. According to Morris’s aunt Sheila Blaje, her family tries to maintain the same point of view Morris had.
“[Angie’s] sister told me she’s trying to look at life the way Angie did, which was carefree,” Blaje said. “Forget about all the drama, forget about all the stupidity, you just want to enjoy life, and that is my whole outlook [too].”
As Katie Mason, Morris’ sister, and her family bear the loss of Morris, she hopes those Morris touched will remember her life, and try to live in a way she did.
“I hope people remember [Angie] as outgoing, joyful and happy because she was always happy even though she was stubborn at times,” Mason said. “[I hope that people] always remember that she wants all of us to smile and live for her.”
“She was very loving.”
On her bedroom wall, Morris had photos from her phone she printed out and taped up, including one of her and her nephew. Yaya Martinez, a friend of Morris’s who now has a son with Morris’ brother, says Morris would pull out her phone to take photos and videos of her nephew.
As an aunt, Martinez says Morris was “very loving” and patient. She played with her nephew, and when he cried, she wouldn’t get frustrated.
“The last time I saw her, I was in her room and she came, grabbed my son right away and started playing with him,” Martinez said. “She said, ‘I love you. You’re gonna love me when you grow up.’ She was just making plans with him. I cannot believe my son’s not gonna get to know her.”
Outside of her family, Morris had the opportunity to go to NSAE, an elementary school for children with emotional and behavioral disorders, with Lindsay Smigiel’s Consumer Education’s class. Every other day, the students would partner with children from NSAE and spend time with them.
Mason said, “She said that she loved [the students], that she could connect with them and she was always happy when she was able to make them happy even though they had difficulties. She wanted them to feel like they’re just like a normal human being and she was glad to make them feel that way.”
Working within South’s Child Development program, Morris found her passion working with young children. As a teaching intern, she worked with elementary-aged children, reading stories and leading them through activities.
“She was idolized by our 4 and 5-year-olds,” Kiraly said. “She was able to see them light up and see the light bulbs go up in their heads. They loved it.”
Although not blood-related, Martinez says Morris made her feel like a part of the family and even called her “sister.” When Morris’s family invited Martinez to a Thanksgiving meal, Martinez hesitated. Morris reached out to her through text and said that she wanted her at the meal with her.
“She would message me on Facebook and say, ‘Oh hey sister, do you wanna hang out today?’ or ‘Oh hey sister could you give me a ride to school today?’” Martinez said. “She made me feel accepted when we were among her family.”
“She just lit everybody up.”
Looking back on his time with Morris, Hurssey says he clearly remembers and still admires her confidence. Morris’s persistent individuality in the face of people who criticized her became an example for Hurssey, who says he wants others to remember the way she carried herself.
“She still took [her style] and flew with it,” Hurssey said. “We were people who were bullied by others, and she took that experience and turned it into a positive. She taught me to accept myself, so I got stronger.”
Kiraly says her favorite thing about Morris was the energy she brought into the classroom. At times, Kiraly said her and other students would be relaxed and quiet; then, Morris came and added an upbeat and bubbly personality to the classroom.
“Angie always walked into the room and you knew she was in the room,” Kirlay said. “Angie would enter in a very boisterous kind of way, but we loved that about her.”
In Morris’s absence, Ken Smith, Special Education teacher, says he can notice a lack of energy within the building, which she brought to their program and the people within it. As well as being a friend to her peers, she was also a friend to adults at South, Smith says.
“There are lots of parts of this building that don’t feel the same to me as they did last year,” Smith said. “When she laughed and smiled it just lit up everybody.”
Morris also spoke her mind with confidence. Smigiel says everybody knew Angie because of her honesty and that people could tell if she liked or disliked them. Hurssey agrees, saying that she always spoke her mind, no matter the consequences.
Smigiel said, “She was probably the realest person I’ve ever met.”
Smith says he met Morris when she was an eighth-grader touring GBS. His first impression was indicative of the person Morris was in the classroom, he says.
“From the very first moment, I could tell that she was energetic, outgoing and had a positive impact on everybody she met,” Smith said.
“She poured every ounce of herself into it.”
One year, when Morris tried out for the cheer team and didn’t make it, Martinez said that she was upset at first. After, however, Morris began practicing with Martinez.
“I talked to her and said, ‘We can work on it so next year you can try out,” Martinez said. “She didn’t give up.”
When faced with a set of skills and tasks, Smith says Morris knew she wasn’t going to excel at everything she tried. But when she did find something she loved, it consumed her in the best way.
“She poured her whole heart and soul into [her passions],” Smith said. “When she was working on a project for the Titan Tots center, she poured every ounce of herself into it.”
Morris’s goal-oriented and hard-working attitude is something for people to remember and try to emulate, Kiraly says. In spite of her personal obstacles, Morris followed her dreams and had a plan to make them into a reality.
“Sometimes, we all set goals and dreams [and] they’re just goals and dreams; we never really put steps in place to make them become true, [but Angie] did,” Kiraly said.
“That’s a lesson people can learn from her and take with them: always set goals for yourself and, despite any roadblock that you run into, keep going after it,” Kiraly added. “When people are wanting to give up, they need to remember not to, because Angie wouldn’t have.”
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Governor signs bill to postpone fee increase and aid student veterans
Michaia Hernandez
Jerry Brown on Wednesday, Sept. 21, signed into law a pair of bills that will prove beneficial to students of public colleges and universities across California.
The first bill passed by Gov. Brown, Assembly Bill (AB)X1 32, authored by Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, delays implementation of a $10 mid-year student fee increase from the winter intercession of the 2011-12 academic school year to the summer term of the same 2012 calendar year.
The increase, which would take the tuition from $36 to $46 per unit, takes effect if state revenues of the 2011-12 fiscal year, “fall more than $1 billion below projections and trigger cuts are executed,” according to a press release sent out Wednesday by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO).
The aforementioned cut is only one of two “trigger” reductions that are expected to hit California community colleges if the state revenue numbers are not up to par with the projections. The reductions are expected to amount to a total of $102 million.
The first cut – a $30 million reduction – will be treated as a one-time reduction, said Director of Fiscal Services for CCCCO Chris Yatooma in an e-mail sent out to colleagues.
“[The reduction] is a general deficit to the apportionment,” he said.
Meanwhile, the second cut, which amounts to $72 million, will be treated as an additional workload reduction, according to Yatooma.
“Gov. Brown is to be commended for signing [ABX1 32],” said California Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott in the press release. “Without this legislation, colleges would have been forced to raise fees on very short notice and collect increased fees from students who had already registered for spring classes.”
While the bill is beneficial to students in general, not everyone is content with its provisions.
“[The bill] definitely helps if you’re almost done with Pierce,” said Stephanie Sanchez, a 26-year-old child development major. “Otherwise, it doesn’t really help that much.”
The second bill, AB 636, authored by Assemblyman Steve Knight, will allow members of the National Guard to get a full refund of their tuition should they be called to active duty, regardless of their withdrawal date from classes.
Before, service members could only get full refunds if they dropped out of school prior to the withdrawal deadline set by their individual public colleges.
AB 636 also, at the request of the student, requires schools to assist the student with completing all coursework requirements that he or she may have missed at the time of deployment.
In addition, schools will restore the educational status earned by the student prior to deployment without loss of academic units completed and scholarships and grants awarded.
The bill will go into effect Jan. 1.
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Harvey S. Katz, CFA and Adam Rosner | July 03, 2019
After The Close - The stock market got off to good start this morning, and extended these gains through the early afternoon. (Investors should note that the market closed early today in advance of the Fourth of July holiday.) Some of the strength today likely reflected hopes that trade relations between the U.S. and China will improve from here. While no deal was made at the recent G20 summit, the fact that further tariffs will not be implemented comes as a major relief to Wall Street. By the end of today’s session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 179 points (to a record high); the S&P 500 Index was up 23 points; and the NASDAQ was higher by 61 points. Market breadth was quite supportive, with winners well ahead of losers on the NYSE. From a sector perspective, the consumer and healthcare stocks made progress, while the basic materials names were somewhat sluggish.
Meanwhile, traders received a full batch of economic reports this morning. Of note, the employment situation has returned to the spotlight. According to Automatic Data Processing (ADP), there were 102,000 jobs added to the private sector in the month of June. However, analysts had been looking for a higher figure. On a related note, initial jobless claims for the week of June, 29th, came in at 221,000, which was in line with expectations. Looking ahead, at the end of this week, the government will release the June employment report, and that issuance, due to its importance, will be looked at closely.
In the corporate sector, there were few widely-watched profit releases issued today. However, as the second quarter has just concluded, the pace of reports will pick up considerably. In the M&A space, shares of Symantec (SYMC) surged in price, on reports that the security software company may well be acquired by industry giant Broadcom (BRCM).
Technically, the stock market has been holding up well lately, with the major averages at new high ground. However, investors will likely want to see a trade deal reached between the U.S. and China in the near future. Further, some upbeat corporate reports and a solid outlook will likely be needed to drive stocks materially higher from these levels. - Adam Rosner
At the time of this article’s writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.
Before The Bell - The stock market, which started the new week, month, and half with an initial buying flurry Monday morning, took a breather at yesterday's open, as lingering trade concerns with both China and Europe dented some of the earlier optimism on the international front. As to specifics, the stock market opened lower yesterday morning, with each of the averages moving downward through the first hour of trading. However, after that, there was a buying flurry that helped to briefly lift the Dow Jones Industrial Average into the green by some 50 points, before a second, but milder run of profit taking ensued.
All told, as the noon hour arrived on the East Coast, the major large-cap indexes were all lower, but just grudgingly so after the United States threatened to impose a new wave of tariffs on goods produced in Europe. That countered the earlier run of optimism following apparent progress in the negotiations on trade with China. The good news on that front, as noted, had lifted stocks early on Monday morning, before some second thoughts entered the picture to bring about a subsequent partial retracement. The good start to the week followed the best June since 1938 for Wall Street.
Meanwhile, the stock market's ho-hum performance continued as the afternoon got under way, with most stocks holding in narrow ranges. One move that was under way was in the Treasury arena, where the yield on the 10-year vehicle dipped just below 1.99%. That said, the Russell 2000 was more deeply in the red, as selling in the small-cap arena increased. There also was weakness in some of the larger industrial equities, such as in blue-chip component, Dow Inc. (DOW - Free Dow Stock Report). The selloff then continued for a brief span before the next round of limited buying ensued.
In the meantime, there was little of note to report elsewhere, as earnings season is still a week or more away and the economic calendar was comparatively light. That will change somewhat today as the Institute for Supply Management is set to release its latest survey on non-manufacturing activity. In May, that sector posted a reading of 56.9, which was comfortably above a neutral result of 50.0. Expectations are that the June tally will come in at 55.8. That report will follow, by two days, the latest survey on manufacturing, which was in positive territory for June, but very modestly so.
The buying would then pick up as the afternoon progressed, so that by 2:30, the Dow and the S&P 500 were back in the green, which the loss in the NASDSQ, never very large to begin with, had narrowed appreciably. It was to that point a day of catching the market's breath after a nice bullish run to end the first half. The market then would edge a bit further into the profit column as the afternoon wound down, so that at the close, the Dow, with some last-minute buying, would be up 69 points; the S&P 500 Index would be ahead by nine points; and the NASDAQ would be better by 18 points, as the 10-year Treasury note would fall further.
Looking ahead to a new day now, we see that the major indexes were lower in Asia overnight, while in Europe the leading bourses are pressing higher at this hour. Also, oil prices are climbing on lower U.S. stockpiles and Treasury note yields are down. All of this is pointing to a higher start in the U.S. markets when trading begins shortly. As noted, the major economic news story on the day will be out some 30 minutes into trading when the ISM reports on non-manufacturing. Finally, please note that the U.S. stock market will close at 1:00 PM (EDT) and the bond market an hour later in observance of Independence Day tomorrow. - Harvey S. Katz, CFA
The stock market, following back-to-back unprepossessing performances to start the new week on Monday and Tuesday, began the middle session of this five-day stretch in similarly underwhelming fashion with modest losses after the opening bell. These early losses, which, as noted, were modest evolved as the Street examined the early second-quarter earnings reports.
The equity market opened lower this morning, and was unable to recover any ground in the afternoon. In fact, some late-day selling made matters quite a bit worse. Traders were likely concerned that the second-quarter earnings season may show some signs of weakness forming in the corporate sector.
The markets started out choppily today, despite the release of solid economic news and generally better quarterly earnings reports. Retail sales were higher than expected, while earnings at a few banks showed solid year-over-year gains. All told, the Dow closed down 24 points, the S&P 500 was lower by 10 points, and the NASDAQ decreased 35 points.
The stock market started a new week on Wall Street with a somewhat muted performance. Today, investors seemed a bit more concerned about the corporate profit outlook, now that the second-quarter earnings season has begun. Further, these worries seemed to offset some of the optimism about a more dovish Federal Reserve. At the close of trading today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 27 points; the S&P 500 Index was up nominally; and the NASDAQ was higher by 14 points.
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The Truth About Being A Dad, According To 14 Really Funny Famous Guys
March 28, 2015 3:34 pm 0 comments Views:
Comedians are known to tell it like it is, and their jokes on the topic of fatherhood are no exception. Leave it to these guys to hit the nail on the head when addressing life as a dad. (Oh and Happy Father’s Day!)
1. On how kids’ songs should really go:
“There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep.’” -– Jim Gaffigan
2. On how simple dad-hood should be:
“Be a dad. Don’t be ‘Mom’s assistant.’ That’s depressing, just waiting for her to write you a list, walk around a store staring at it, calling her from the cereal aisle to make sure you got the right thing. Be a man. Make your own list. Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can’t dress and feed a 4-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won’t take away your manhood; it will give it to you. I did that. I spent more time with my kids. And I found out that I’m a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don’t know what I’m doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.” –Louis C.K.
3. On bedtime:
“The bedtime routine for my kids is like this Royal Coronation Jubilee Centennial of rinsing and plaque and dental appliances and the stuffed animal semi-circle of emotional support. And I’ve gotta read eight different moron books. You know what my bedtime story was when I was a kid? Darkness!” — Jerry Seinfeld
4. On potty time:
“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company.” — Bill Cosby
5. The truth:
“When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they’re crazy, because ‘sacrifice’ infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.” — Chris Rock
6. The truth truth…
“Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.” — Ray Romano
7. On why it’s really beneficial to have kids:
“I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps.” — Jimmy Kimmel
8. On what you’re really doing everyday:
“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.” –- Jon Stewart
9. On yelling:
“My daughter said, ‘Why are you yelling at us?’ and I said, ‘I’m trying to discipline you!’ And then she looked up at me with her tear-stained eyes and said, ‘This is how you teach children, by making them cry.’ And it was such a clenching reminder — she won not only the argument, but she won life with that statement. I just burst out laughing, and I think they were so surprised that I burst out laughing, that they did too.” — Stephen Colbert
10. On love, kind of:
“I really love my kids for about six minutes a day.” –Michael Ian Black
11. On how to make kids laugh… if you’re Paul Rudd:
“If I can walk around in my underwear and pull it up super high so it’s just gross looking and then try and be very serious with them. I like to do that … pretend to be very mad and have my underwear hiked up … really high.” — Paul Rudd
12. On your new-found neuroses:
“I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.” — Will Arnett
13. The bottom line:
“[Kids] are just like annoying short people.” — Hank Azaria
14. On the only thing you need to know:
“Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you’re 12, but every day.” –Mike Myers
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Grand Central-42nd Street
Jackie Ferrara
Grand Central: Arches, Towers, Pyramids, 2000
Ceramic mosaic band on walls of S platform, passageway to 7 platform, and upper passageway to S, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Grand Central Terminal
The passageways and waiting areas of Grand Central's subway stations are like a bustling city, an underground community - but without a skyline. This mosaic artwork brings architectural views down below.
Ferrara has long been interested in the simple and repetitive forms of building, and she uses forms that are simple and schematic, almost primitive-looking structures. Taken together, they lend a unity and meditative character to the space; as people move through the platforms and passageways, the images seem to shift, and no two vistas are the same. Ferrara thinks of these as pieces of a mathematical puzzle. The spare simplicity and economy of design attracts viewers. Nothing is casual or unintentional in the artist's design, which she describes: "This sequence of stripe/image is calculated. It can be seen as images on a strip of film, or a line of faces framed in the windows of a passing train."
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Author: Lawrence Rosner
Bio: Lawrence Rosner
Date: February 18, 2018 Print article -
Topic category: Liberal/Progressive/Left
Controlling Shooting
A lovely girl from my own neighborhood was murdered in Florida. We are all saddened and shocked. To add insult to injury the Democrat, Leftist Media uses this tragedy as an excuse to continue their attempted murder of President Trump's reputation with innuendo, half truths, gossip and outright lies.
How many stories did the National Enquirer purchase and not run? How many did the leftist Washington Post not run? Monica Lewinsky anyone?
The enquirer did not get paid off by the President. Did the owner kill the story because they were a friend of Donald Trump's? Or did they not want to risk a slander and or libel lawsuit?
The media makes a big deal of questioning why the white house did not curtail the person who allegedly committed sexual harassment. Did they question the media how they could allow Matt Lauer to go on for years with his proven sexual harassment?
President Washington was right that Political parties would just be at each other's throats ignoring the business of the people while the Parties fight for power. Without the morality of Religion to curtail the party Media from bearing false witness, a climate of evil further erodes the United State's Republic.
No one even refers to the Country as a Republic anymore. The US is not supposed to be a Democracy where the majority rules and steals from the minority. Truly we are not even a Democracy. We have become a Monarchy ruled by a quarreling Royal Couple - King Democrat party and Queen Republican Party.
Term limits of individual legislators mean nothing when the Party is never limited. Separation of Powers are meaningless when the branches of government are controlled by one political party. Justice is peeking out of the blindfold to favor their party. Propaganda plants hate and lies in minds and recruits more and more of the vulnerable and innocent into the hell of false service to false gods of Government Elites and Political Party. This is no different when the masses were brainwashed into believing their kings and Emperors were gods to be obeyed and believed.
Russia meddling in favor of Trump? How about they have been sabotaging our society for the last century. Where do you think the communist/leftist beliefs in our Society came from? Who do you think funds the propaganda, demonstrations, marches and rallies of the '60s and on?
Who do you think infiltrated unions and affected our Politics and elections over the last 50 years? Who influenced The SLA and Patty Hearst? What philosophy Fomented the hatred of the Unabomber,the bombing of the Federal Building and other bombings supposedly against the government?
Cyber break ins? That started the day computers were invented. How about the Russian sleeper cells and the spies living here who have been sabotaging and stealing our secrets. How about the Leftist US Presidents who allowed all our secrets to flow to China and Islamic radicals to obtain nuclear weapons? Even wonder where all the gender and race divisions in our society are fanned into reality? None of it came from our former US Judeo-Christian Society's morals and religion.
Hold on to the one true power and do not stray after the false gods. Do not murder people with physical force nor murder them by indirect reputation destruction.
The only cure is to take back our values and end the Communist influence. We need to Teach our Children well. see: http://02f8c87.netsolhost.com/WordPress/archives/28
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Lawrence spent his career solving the problems of major businesses. He created software, business processes and systems that save millions of dollars a year and make people’s work life easier and more productive. He was a founding partner in a company which is instrumental in streamlining the practice of medicine and helping both patients and Doctors cope with the problems created by government health care.
During an assignment on the 98th floor of the WTC in 1993, he experienced first hand Islamic Terrorists' nearly successful attempt to take down the WTC. He and tens of thousands of others were trapped in the building in darkness and choking smoke.
After the government’s whitewashing denial of the root cause of the bombing - the evil built into Islam, the deepening confusion of American values, the negative end results of unnecessary and even immoral government intervention, the deterioration of the US economy and widespread systemic government corruption and unchecked power, he founded The Society Project to provide a blueprint for restoring our unique government Of the People, not Above the people, as it has become.
The Society project is dedicated to restoring the Constitutional Republic of the United States by educating, motivating and facilitating people to act to repair our society, through the Amendment process, before our society becomes another of the world’s failures.
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Stornoway Town Hall - Stornoway
Open throughout June, July and August on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 11am – 5pm.
The Stornoway Historical Society’s Iolaire exhibition is now on display in the Stornoway Historical Society offices, at Stornoway Town Hall.
The exhibition, which was previously on display at Sandwick Community Centre, was put together by the Stornoway Historical Society, in Collaboration with Point and Sandwick community councils.
The exhibition details the impact of the tragedy on the areas of Point, Sandwick and Stornoway and plays an important role in the Iolaire centenary commemorations.
The hugely interesting display illustrates the voyage from Kyle, reactions to the news, instances of searing loss and outstanding courage, stories of the survivors, as well as looking at the inquiry that followed and the Disaster Fund that drew contributions from throughout the world.
It’s mix of photographs, personal stories, artefacts and film was met with a universally positive response from those who saw it in Sandwick, and Stornoway Historical Society has had many appeals from Lewis people living off the island who were unable to visit at the time.
The exhibition is accompanied by a film, entitled So close to home, produced by Alyth McCormack whose mother Mary, chair of Sandwick Community Council, initially suggested the idea of the Iolaire exhibition.
Alyth tells the story from her perspective as a child of Sandwick – her grandfather had witnessed the tragedy first-hand from the headland as a teenager from Holm; her song about the disaster, also called So close to home, plays at the closing credits.
Prints of the powerful Iolaire 100, portraits of sailors lost and saved, by artist Margaret Ferguson, will also be available to view.
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The Walking Dead Season 9, Episode 10 'Omega' Review
The Walking Dead Season 9, Episode 10 ‘Omega’ Review
This one was some of the most engrossing and entertaining material put on the screen in a long time.
Get it? The episode is called ‘Omega’ because we’re going to learn about Alpha, the leader of the Whisperers. IT’S CLEVER.
Eventually, Henry and Daryl hatch a plan…at least, I think they did. It might have been Henry being incredibly stupid and Daryl using that to his advantage. Either way, Henry takes his game to the next level and lets Lydia out of her cell to go on a date, where she gets him to eat a worm and considers bludgeoning him to death with a hammer (I really can’t say much since I’ve been on much worse dates myself). When she hears a baby cry, however, her firm stance that places like Hilltop “can’t be real” is shattered when she hears a baby crying. This causes Lydia to snap, flooding her with memories of what really happened back in that survivor camp with her parents and begging Henry to take her back to her cell.
The next day, she tells Daryl what really happened. It was her mom who was awful to her–and who killed her father when he refused to ride the crazy train with her (and let her take Lydia) out of the survivor camp. She then brainwashed her daughter into believing a totally different version of events. As someone who also had an abusive parent, Daryl sympathizes with her. He also suggest to Henry that she might be able to stay at Hilltop as a resident instead of a prisoner.
Way to go, morons
You know that new group of people whose names you can never remember? Well, they’re all mad because they can’t find Luke (and Alden). When they find evidence of more Whisperers out in the wild, Tara suggests everyone goes back to Hilltop to regroup and come up with a plan.
For once, I actually agree with Tara. Unfortunately, New Group thinks their best course of action is to sneak out in the middle of the night to continue the search and potentially leave Hilltop to go back to surviving out in the wilderness. Their plan is shot to hell when a ninja zombie attacks them and they are almost surrounded by other walkers who actually make noise.
They decide living at Hilltop isn’t so bad and head back, leading the Whisperers right to the front gate. To everyone’s surprise, Alpha steps forward and asks for her daughter back.
Gotta admit, I loved getting to see a bit of the chaos that happened when the dead first began to rise. It’s been a long time since a reanimated corpse seemed scary on this show. Add in the brilliant way Lydia’s brainwashed memories were filmed/portrayed, and this might be the best episode we’ve seen in a long time. Not only was it marvelously entertaining, but it also introduces Alpha in a way that’s much more distinct and chilling from the Really Bad Person Who is Mentally Unhinged progression we’ve gotten used to.
But then you have the subplot, which ended up being completely pointless except to lead The Whisperers back to Hilltop. Ninja zombie ridiculousness aside, we all knew they weren’t going to leave–or find Luke. Every time the show cut to them, I just wanted it to go back to Lydia going nose-to-nose with Daryl and weirding him out.
Let’s hope that Alpha showing up at the Hilltop gates will make next week’s episode as good as most of this one was.
A brilliant introduction to this season's main villain is undercut slightly by a ridiculously stupid subplot.
Alpha's origin is wonderfully executed, both in the unreliable flashbacks and via Lydia's recounting
Lydia vs. Daryl turns out to be a surprisingly good battle of wits.
The episode's ending promises an explosive confrontation next week.
Unfortunately, the path to get to that ending involved the New People completely ignoring some good advice and going on a pointless mission.
Crashing S3 E5: “Mom and Kat” recap and review
‘A User’s Guide to Cheating Death: The Natural Way’ — Is Big Pharma really the enemy?
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Category: ultra
September 28, 2018 September 28, 2018 Mary3 Comments
I ran 100 miles! (Part 3)
(You can find the first two parts of my Robin Hood 100 mile recap here… Part one * Part two)
Knowing that I had arrived at mile 84.28 (every point 2-8 counted after 24 hours of running!) was a nice boost.
Seeing Dan and Oscar and knowing that they would be following me round the course until the end now was nice to know, and by now I had heard word that Kev and Amanda who had run 50 miles at the Centurion Chiltern Wonderland race (160 miles South!) on Saturday were at the finish line, grabbing a quick sleep before coming out on the course to see me finish.
Hitting the canal path on the return leg of the route was hard going. I’d forgotten how rough the terrain had been. Tufts of grass sticking up everywhere and really uneven ground underneath on such a narrow path at times. I was glad that I wasn’t one of the faster runners who would have had to complete this section at nighttime in the dark. Although it was bad enough running it after 12 minutes sleep in the past 26 hours or so. I felt rather bad for Guy here as so much of this section I had to walk. My feet were in tatters by now. The small stones I had accumulated in my trainers earlier on had rubbed slightly and the bottoms of my feet were very tender. Every footfall that wasn’t on flat ground was agony and at times I couldn’t stop a whimper from sneaking out of my mouth.
We had a brief panic as we headed up over a bridge that crossed the road and could no longer see reflective tape marking the way back down and along the canal the other side. I knew that I had come following the canal, and was sure that the route followed the path in reverse until we nearly reached the finish, but I doubted myself on such little sleep. Guy jogged up the road to see if he could see any tape in either direction but there was none, so nervously we agreed to follow the canal path in reverse of the way I had run out. I texted Gary to see if he could check on the tracker that we were still on course and after a few minutes, he confirmed that we were. A kilometre or so up the track we came across some reflective tape and I could relax again!
When I had last seen Gary and Dan they had both told me that they would be at the next checkpoint. They both misspoke. For a good two miles before the aid station I was eagerly coming round every turn expecting to see Gary with pasta pot in hand and Oscar running up to me. What felt like hours later Guy and I turned the corner to come across the checkpoint, only for nobody to be there waiting for us. I slumped down into a deckchair shouting really dejectedly “Gary! Gary! Where are you?!” Apparently one of the marshals at the checkpoint was called Gary, but he wasn’t the Gary I was after! Another volunteer told me that he hadn’t seen my toddler at this checkpoint…my crew weren’t here. I spent a good minute or so feeling sorry for myself before shovelling in some ready salted crisps and announcing to Guy that we had to get going again. I needed to find where Gary and my pasta were…I wasn’t stopping! Afterwards we worked out my crew had meant to say that they would be at the next CREW station, not checkpoint. This checkpoint was one of two where crews could not attend due to the lack of parking in the surrounding area.
We traipsed on and a brief glimmer of hope began to grow as I remembered that I had seen Helen, Grant and Val somewhere near to this point on the way out at the start of the race. Perhaps everybody would be at this point on the return instead? The race course is twenty miles out, two thirty mile loops and then twenty miles back again to the start/finish, so each section of the course is run twice which is reassuring as you cover the same paths twice. Although, on that towpath I swear every turn looked the same!
Eventually, at 93 miles I heard shouts of my name and I looked to see Kev and Dan with Oscar all shouting at me in the distance. That got me to pick up my pace and as I got closer I also spotted Amanda. Kev hurriedly rushed off to heat up a Pot Noodle for me, which I demolished, absolutely starving by now! Gary had set off for home, as his son had a football match later that afternoon, but he had passed over my bag to Kev and Amanda who were going to crew me for the final ten miles of the race.
The Pot Noodle went down easily, although I decided I needed to get moving again so took the remainder with me as I headed off in the direction of the finish along the towpath. Seeing everybody here had given me the big boost I needed to get going and after dropping my empty Pot Noodle cup in a nearby bin and passing my fork to Guy I managed to get some more running in again in short bursts.
The last aid station and crew point was at 97 miles and those four miles went on for what felt like forever. The sun had really picked up by now and I was regretting not packing my running cap – feeling the sun burning down on the top of my head. With nearly a mile still to go to the aid station, Amanda came walking along back along the path declaring that there were only three bridges left for me to walk under before coming across the checkpoint. I really needed to get another sleep by now. All I could think about was sleeping. Although Amanda was carrying a plastic pint cup and when she mentioned that her and Kev had been waiting in the pub for me to arrive, my thoughts changed to what lovely beer garden weather it was that day and how much I would like a nice cool cider…why hadn’t they brought me a cider?!
Turns out Amanda lied (although she swears she just miscounted!) but there were actually four bridges. I may have had a minor melt down when I realised that the third bridge I counted wasn’t in fact where the aid station was! Finally though we did arrive and I ran over to Kev to say I really needed to sleep in his van for just 10 minutes. Kev took me by the shoulders and very matter-of-fact told me that I could sleep for five minutes – no longer – on the floor of the aid station. Then they would be moving me on. I agreed and quickly clambered down onto the floor for a brief sleep. The last thing I remember was the heat of the sun on my bare legs sticking out from under the aid tent and worrying that I had no suncream on them!
I don’t remember anybody waking me, but I do remember leaving the checkpoint and checking repeatedly with the marshal that it was no more than three miles now until the finish. (Another lie which I was told!)
We had a steepish climb up from this checkpoint but I knew the finish would soon be in sight now. With just over an hour to go I knew all I had to do was to keep moving until the end and I would finish it. In the bag!
My watch battery had grown low around mile 60 the night before. Following the battery death of my watch at the South Downs Way in June I had been told that I could continue to run whilst charging my watch from a battery pack, so had come prepared this time. On leaving the aid station at mile 62 I had attached the battery pack to my watch and hooked this into my bag. I realised after about a mile that the display on my watch was now blank though. Had the battery died completely? James had suggested turning it on again and my watch flashed something on the display and beeped. I realised later though, that by pressing the on/off button I had actually been turning my watch OFF and stopping the recording annoyingly! I removed the battery pack at mile 77 and turned the now fully-charged watch back on to record the final section of my race, but have no watch data from those middle miles unfortunately.
As my watch now showed mileage that was really out with how many miles I had actually run I made a mental note of the mileage it showed as I left the final checkpoint the moment the marshal confirmed with me for the second time that it was no further than three miles until the end. Perfect. Three miles. I can cover three miles in that time. Easy!
Guy and I passed two runners sat on the floor at mile 98. Guy had a few words and reported back to me that they had decided to pull at mile 98 of the race. How gutted would you be?! Things must be bad though if there isn’t enough in you to walk the final two miles of a 100 mile race.
We crossed back over the horrible, horrible ploughed field. It thought it was bad at mile 5…it was a million times worse at mile 98. I couldn’t stop the whimpers of pain escaping with almost every footfall now. My feet were so sore and every time they fell on the really uneven ground I was in agony!
Finally we made it out on the other side though and it wasn’t long before in the far, far distance I could see the building which I was sure we had come from! The end was in sight! Only, my watch said that there was only a mile to go. That building was still much further than a mile away. I suddenly began to panic. Time was ticking down to the finish and I realised that the ‘three miles to the finish’ had been incorrect. It was clearly further. I started to pick the pace up again, panic creeping into my voice as I told Guy ‘We have to make it to the finish. I can’t finish in over 30 hours. I can’t run the distance and not be given a time because I didn’t make cut-off!’ I began to jog. I could see Kev and Amanda again. They had run back along the course to meet me. Were they running to me because I was going to miss the cut-off? My jog turned into a run, momentarily forgetting about the pain in my feet and allowing me to pass a number of other runners who had all been reduced to a walk for the final few miles. Kev told me that I needed to run. Not to panic, but to carry on running. They wouldn’t let me miss the cut-off. I would get there in time. It was so hard not to look at my watch, although I knew it wouldn’t do any good. The numbers made no sense anymore anyway. I had no idea how many miles I’d run now or how far there was to go. Kev’s declaration that it wasn’t far meant nothing and to tell the truth I didn’t trust anyone by this point now anyway!
I ran and ran and ran. A few cries came from my mouth when I hit particularly hard stones with my now very-blistered feet but I was getting to that finish! As I ran down into the village hall car park I couldn’t spot a finisher gantry and realised that I had no idea where I needed to go! I shouted to Kev who told me that I needed to run inside the building. I threw a wave to Dan who was getting Oscar out of the car, and to John and Lynn who stood near the entrance to the building and pushed on through the doorway. Now where?! It wasn’t obvious! Somebody shouted that I needed to run through the door to the right and so I continued, bursting into a small room to instant applause. I could see rows of chairs around the room where those who had finished before me now sat, drinking hot drinks and relaxing with family. Somebody appeared from nowhere to hand me my finisher t-shirt, engraved medal (such a nice touch!) and to pass Dan a bottle of beer.
They asked if I would like a hot drink and I started to make my way to a seat, although for some reason I no longer had the urge to sit down. More runners burst into the room and I joined everyone in clapping. It was several minutes later before a woman came up and asked if I had handed in my timing chip and given my name to a guy with a board. I hadn’t and hadn’t realised I needed to do so, so I think my official time is probably a few minutes out. The provisional results show that I finished at the same time as two other runners (which I didn’t) in 77th place with 29:48:11 for my time. I would imagine that my time was actually closer to 29:45, but what is three minutes when I know that I made it before cut-off?! And besides, it will just make it easier to beat my time when it comes to running my next 100 mile race, right?! 😉
113 runners started the race, and 79 runners made the finish within cut-off, with a further two runners completing the distance 52 minutes past the 30 allowed hours.
My race absolutely wouldn’t have been the success that it was if it wasn’t for the following people though…
* John and Lynn for agreeing to house Oscar and Dan for the weekend and for filling my belly with pizza the night before the race and cider at the end!
* James for coming out on early morning training runs with me during the few months leading up to the race and then running the dark scary miles from 52-82 with me during the race. For putting up with my panicking when I totally miscalculated the amount of time I had left at 1am on Sunday morning and for letting me have a little kip on his space blanket when I got tired.
* Guy for crewing me up to mile 82 where he took over from James as pacer and put up with all my shrieks as the stones destroyed the blisters on my feet!
* Helen for organising a superb team of support and for popping up at several of the crew points along the way.
* Grant for his support out on the course.
* Gary for crewing the majority of my race, taking my sock and shoe off to shake the stones out and heading out to buy a much needed Pot Noodle for me mid race. Hopefully I didn’t make too much of a mess in his car!
* Laura for helping crew a large section of the race and for sharing the buggy pushing with Dan at Clumber Park parkrun!
* Kevin and Amanda for running me into the finish despite having run their own 50 mile race on the Saturday, then driving 160 miles up to Nottingham on Saturday night to see me run mine! For putting up with me when I sobbed that I just wanted to nap and when I had a melt down because Amanda had miscounted the number of bridges to the next checkpoint!
* Dan for putting up with months and months of 5am alarms and numerous evenings when I was out running instead of staying home. Also for chasing me round the course with Oscar over the weekend.
* Everybody that wished me good luck or gave me advice in the build up to race day. I felt so supported and honoured to have such lovely friends and family who were willing to do so much to help me achieve my goal. I still cannot get over the fact that so many people went out of their way on so many levels to help ensure I completed my 100 miles. I am so grateful to all of my friends for their support.
I took nine days off completely after the Robin Hood 100, and did feel a little lost with what to aim for next, although I have started to construct a plan for 2019 this week. More to follow soon…!
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(You can find part one of my Robin Hood 100 mile recap here.)
As I left the aid station at mile 30 Dan told me that he planned on heading back to John and Lynn’s house and would be back out in the morning with Oscar to find me on the course. The trackers during the event were superb I’m told. All the runners had been given small pager-sized devices on a strong velcro strap and told to attach them to our bags in a place that we could easily reach. On the front of the device was a small button which, when held for several seconds would alert the Race Director that I was in danger. Vital I imagine for those runners running on their own, especially those that made it to the canal path whilst it was still dark. The tracking was real time, and friends and family (as well as those involved in the race organisation) could check that you were still following the correct path or that your tracking dot hadn’t remained still for too long, signalling that perhaps you had had an accident somewhere. I was told that if either of those cases were to happen I would receive a phone call to check that I was in fact still alright, which was rather reassuring. The tracker must have been fairly straight forward to use, as even my Dad followed my progress during the race. Afterwards he told me how he had been concerned that my dot had stopped for too long at the final checkpoint and that I might not make it in time!
At mile 32 I arrived to a crew of Gary and Guy along with Laura. I stopped for a few minutes here to take some food on and it was nice to have a chat with everyone. One of the guys noticed that my shoulder looked a little sore from where my bag had been rubbing so pulled out some Glide to rub on. It didn’t feel sore, but I did still have another 68 miles to go, so best be on the safe side!
The guys told me that Mike (the other runner from our club) was having a great race and currently sitting in 6th position which was lovely news to hear.
The next section was a bit of a low point for me. It was 7 miles between the crew station at mile 32 and the next one at mile 39, with no aid stations in between. I didn’t really see many runners during this section for several miles as everyone had started to spread themselves out a bit by this point. I needed the toilet just as I came across a sign for public toilets and so ducked off the road to find them, although then had to queue along with the public. One of the few negatives about this event was that these were the only actual toilets on route and the second time I passed them they had been locked up, so all other wees were wild ones – which always becomes progressively more of a challenge as the race goes on!
Gary, Guy and Laura had walked the half mile through the woodland to meet me at mile 39 where I sat with them on the floor for a few minutes and knocked back a chocolate milk. I really fancied a little sit down when I met them, but I did feel a little stiff as I got going again.
All through the race I never thought of it being 100 miles. The first big milestone for me to reach was mile 52, when I knew that James would be joining me on my run to pace me for 30 miles to mile 82.
I got a little confused as I left the aid station at mile 41. This was an aid station at four points on the course due to the way the course was laid out. (Miles 31, 41, 60 and 70.) So there were people coming in and leaving in all directions and I started to follow somebody heading out on the loop I had already completed! Luckily the marshals were on the ball and quickly called me back, sending me off in the correct direction. That could have been a painful mistake to make!
I came across a horse and rider heading in my direction along the next tarmacked section. They approached rather quickly but were walking as I passed. The rider smiled at me and then without any sudden movements, the horse bolted off towards the next runner a way back behind me along the road.
Mile 47 was the next aid station and crew spot. There was a steep descent on the way into the checkpoint which included climbing over a stile on a rocky step. When I arrived at Gary’s car I asked if I could have one of the pasta pots I had brought along made up ready for me to have when I reached the next crew stop a little later on. They told me that James had arrived at the crew point where he would be pacing me from and was just going to grab a quick nap before I arrived. It was almost dusk as I went to leave the aid station and so I pulled out my headtorch ready for the next section. It was less than a mile before I needed to turn the light on. It seemed to turn from day to night really quickly and once again I found myself running on my own with nobody else around. This section was a really eerie one. I found myself running alone through thick woodland in the dark, guided only by flashes of reflective tape blowing in the wind as my headtorch caught the edges with it’s beam. There were a lot of noises in the woods. I could hear owls and rustling and I did feel rather vulnerable – very grateful of the fact that James would soon be running alongside me from the next aid station. I had really freaked myself out by mile 50 and the last two miles before the aid station were run at pace just to shorten the time I would be spending running alone! My Garmin tells me that I was running at 8:40mm pace for a little while there!
I had estimated that it would take me somewhere around 12 hours – 12 hours 30 mins to reach mile 50 and I glanced at my watch to see that it had taken about 12 hours and 15 minutes, although somehow it felt like I had only been out running for a couple of hours.
I sped into the aid station at mile 52 to see Laura and James waiting for me to arrive. A volunteer told me that chips had just arrived at the aid station and so I sent Laura to grab me a handful. Up until this point I had just been knocking back picnic type foods, so I was very grateful for the piping hot chips and was glad that I had requested my pasta pot to be ready by the time I reached the next crew station so that I could have a real meal.
I said goodbye to Laura who was returning home from here to continue tracking me on the website. I grabbed a cup of sugary tea here too and I definitely noticed the boost it gave me. I left still carrying my tea and James and I walked half a mile or so whilst I finished my drink. I explained to James that I was still running large sections but that I was also now speed walking parts of every mile, – taking each section as it came. The only real pressure in the back of my mind being that I needed to cover the ground at 18 minute mile pace on average (including all stops). Up until this point I had only had one mile which had come over this pace, which had included a stop to see my crew at mile 41. My walking pace is naturally fairly fast at 15-16 minute miles so it would be the need to stop at aid stations and lack of sleep which would let me down if anything. I wasn’t too concerned with timings at this point. I had been a long way off from cut-offs at the South Downs Way 100 in June, and although I had purposefully slowed myself down significantly at this race I still felt in control and like I would be able to speed up if needed.
Running with James was great. It was lovely to have company after the last 52 miles of solo running. James had taken part in running an 11 mile leg at the Round Norfolk Relay race for our club team in Norfolk that morning and then driven over to Clumber Park to pace me round 30 miles in the dark. He filled me in on how our club team had been getting on before he left and we discussed different races we’d run or wanted to run later in the year.
Before running SDW in June I really underestimated just how much help a pacer could be in an event like this. In future any other races over 50 miles in distance I will absolutely be planning to incorporate pacers and a crew as the people filling these two key roles made such a massive difference to my spirits and desire to achieve at the Robin Hood 100 last weekend.
I felt a little weak by the time we arrived at mile 62 so had a little lay down in the back of Gary’s car whilst Gary and Guy got my pasta pot ready. Initially I felt like I would struggle to get the pasta down, although knew I would have to force it if that was the case. I got no more than 7-8 pasta shells down me at mile 54 of SDW and I suffered because of it. After a few minutes of laying in the back of the car and after eating a couple of shells I started to feel a bit better though and surprised myself by managing to finish the whole pot. I reminded myself of a character on an old-style video game where they would eat and their health would instantly increase. When I had arrived at the crew station I was worn down and not very perky but by the time I left I was buzzing again and back into a jog as soon as we got round the corner. I made sure to put in an order for the second pasta pot later on that morning.
I had a dark patch at 1am on Sunday morning. All night I tried to calculate times in my head as I ran. For some reason I counted 1am – 2pm as 11 hours remaining instead of the 13 hours that it actually was. I can’t remember how many miles I had left by this point, but by selling myself two hours short I knew that I would be fighting the clock the whole way. I was so confused as I knew I had been so far ahead of the cut-offs for the first half of the race. I didn’t understand how I could now be cutting it so fine that I might not make it. I voiced my concerns to James (who didn’t spot my mistake either) and then grew quiet, filled with worry that something which I had not originally been concerned with at all may now pose a threat to the success of my race. I can’t have been much fun to run with along this section! It must have been 20-30 minutes before I finally worked out my mistake and felt instantly relieved. Two hours is a lot of time to lose!
When James and I arrived at the aid station at mile 69 one of the marshals overheard me talking about my mix-up in sums. He reassured me that the unofficial cut-off time at that aid station was 5:30am, and it wasn’t quite 3:10am when we arrived. We still had plenty of time!
I stopped for quite a while at mile 76 with my crew, sat in the back of Gary’s car. I had had what felt like a small stone rubbing in the bottom of my right trainer for the last 8-9 miles, but on removal of my sock and shoe Gary confirmed that this was now where the ridge of my sock was rubbing on the base of my foot. It didn’t hurt, it was just irritating at this point so I got him to put my trainer back on and decided to deal with the repercussions after the race. I enjoyed my second pasta pot – I had needed it perhaps two miles sooner than we had arrived annoyingly so once again I felt rather weak on arrival but perked up as more of the pasta disappeared.
It wasn’t long after leaving this checkpoint that my words began to slur into each other as I spoke. I felt completely drained and knew that a five minute nap would pick me back up again. I begged James to let me lie down on the floor and take a quick nap but instead he tried to convince me to make it to the next aid station where I would be able to sleep in the back of a car rather than the cold, hard floor. I knew that with nearly five miles still to go before we hit the next aid station I would never make it though and eventually, as my speech got more and more indistinguishable he decided to pull out his space blanket for me to curl up on for a five minute nap. I tried to wait patiently by the side of the path as he pulled his blanket out but he seemed to take forever and the blanket kept sticking back on itself, getting more and more tangled up. Finally it was on the floor and then I didn’t waste any time in laying down on it for a sleep. I can remember being amazed that I didn’t feel stiff at all getting down to the floor. My muscles were doing really well! I must have fallen asleep instantly and awoke what I was told was 12 minutes later to James clapping loudly next to my head to wake me up. Dawn was starting to break by the time I woke and it was nice to be able to tuck my headtorch back away into my bag.
I was buzzing after that nap and could run long sections of the next track again. Initially I had been concerned for taking so long out of the race to sleep, but the pay off was definitely worth those few minutes of no movement along the course.
On the approach of the next crew point I snuck off for a wild wee and James jogged ahead to meet up with Gary, Guy and also Helen who had now joined my crew again for this checkpoint following crewing Mike. I was eager to find out how Mike was doing and was instantly concerned when the guys reluctantly told me that he was still out on the course, – that he hadn’t finished the race yet. For someone who had planned on running 11 minute miling for the race and who had been holding 6th place when I checked at the halfway point I really hoped that something hadn’t happened to him, but I couldn’t get any more information out of my crew, who stuck to their story that he ‘hadn’t had a good time of it’.
This was the checkpoint where James left and Guy joined me for the remaining twenty miles. I thanked James, (who was then driving back to Northamptonshire to run a half marathon later that morning!) and then filled Guy in on how my running had gone since I had seen him last.
It was only a couple of miles until the next aid station and as I ran down the hill I could see Oscar and Dan waiting for us at the bottom!
(Picture shared on the Hobo Facebook page)
Oscar was really excited to see me and chatted away to me about his morning.
I sat for a few minutes in a chair at the aid station with Dan and Oscar. The marshals were great with Oscar and he was offered all the watermelon and sweets he could ever eat whilst I spent a few minutes getting myself together ready for the last sixteen miles.
I thought I might get all of my recap written in two posts this time, but it’s late now and I still have so much to write. Part three to follow over the next couple of days…
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If you don’t follow me on Strava, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, then you might not yet know that I completed my big A goal for the year…I completed the Robin Hood 100 mile race last weekend.
I wasn’t as confident going into this event as I was at my first attempt of 100 miles back in June. My training hadn’t been as regular or of as high quality as at the start of the year, I hadn’t completed as many long runs in the build up to race day and I was still struggling to stay on top of everything at home. (Nothing new!)
But I wanted it. I really wanted to complete it. By the time race week rolled around I was just itching for it to be race day so that I could just get started and have an idea of how the race was going to go. So much can happen on race day but I had a lot of people going out of their way to help and support me at this event. I had no intentions on letting anybody down if I could help it.
Two weeks before race day I had signed up for a last minute place at Dunstable marathon so that I may run my final long run before race day with company, receive a medal at the end of the day and tick off another marathon towards my 100. Only, the day before the marathon I didn’t feel 100%, and by mile two of the marathon I had grown a really bad stitch and was having to walk flat sections of the course. I knew I wasn’t 100% and so ended up pulling after 12 miles of the marathon, initially rather disappointed in myself. But when I struggled to drive home after my race attempt without falling asleep and then didn’t even have the energy to get up from the sofa for a glass of drink later that afternoon I absolutely knew that I’d made the right decision in choosing to withdraw from the race.
Following my failed marathon attempt I tapered sharply until the 100. I didn’t run at all the week of the 100 in fact, which is very unlike me. I usually like to get a couple of leg stretcher miles in a few days before a big event, but this time it felt right resting up completely in the days before. My brother had his first baby on the Tuesday morning and so I spent a few days in Norfolk with my family and it was quite relaxing not struggling to fit running in around Oscar and traveling for a change.
Robin Hood 100 was the event I had chosen for my second attempt at 100 miles. When I found myself pulling after 78 miles at the South Downs Way back in June I already knew that I would be continuing my training and looking for another suitable 100 mile race that I could work towards sooner rather than later in order to capitalise on all of the training I had completed that year. Somebody who had helped to crew me at SDW dropped me a message the day after suggesting that Robin Hood would be a good race to have a second shot at the distance. After chatting to several people, checking my calendar and weighing a few things up, it wasn’t long before I found myself filling in the registration form. Before I even realised what was happening my one week of recovery was up and I was 13 weeks away from giving 100 miles another go!
In the build up to South Downs I had completed a marathon, a 35 mile race and a 50 mile race as well as a large number of long training runs. In the build up to Robin Hood I had lost my drive to run long. I’d had enough of training by then. I was happy heading out for 6 runs a week, but apart from the runs where James (who had agreed to pace a section of the RH100 with me) came out on an early morning run with me, I didn’t get a huge amount of longer runs in. Perhaps I lost my drive because so much of my time is already spent on my own during the week. I’m with Oscar, but otherwise alone and when Dan comes home to take over in the evening I am either training (also usually alone) or tidying away in the areas Oscar last was! Then when I’m working at the weekend it’s also on my own, accompanied by a podcast (definitely in need of some new material at the moment. I’ve back-listened to all of the series I listen to and have a minimum of a nine hour shift to fill with podcasts each week!)
Having less long runs under my belt meant that I was less confident going in to the race, although I know that when it comes to ultras, often having previous experience and a strong head accounts for a lot and I very much have a strong head during long distance events.
Dan, Oscar and I had arranged to stay at a friends’ house for the weekend. John and Lynn are two of Oscar’s Godparents and all week he had eagerly been telling everybody how he was going to stay with Mabel and Martha (Lynn’s rabbits) for the weekend! Dan arranged to work from home on the Friday the day before the race and as Oscar is in nursery all day on a Friday I was able to pack up a suitcase for the three of us for the weekend and then also load up my kit and crew bags for the race. Once I had collected Oscar from nursery and Dan had finished work at 5:30pm we made the drive over to Nottingham where John and Lynn had put on a ginormous spread of pizza and garlic bread for us to tuck into. Oscar had already eaten at nursery but he also enjoyed a second tea for the evening!
The aim was to be in bed asleep by 9pm but that didn’t happen as we got chatting and instead I headed up to bed with Oscar about 9:30ish who luckily fell asleep fairly quickly in my arms. Dan and I were sharing a bed with Oscar for the night but he wasn’t too wriggly, so it worked out alright! He woke once, – around 4am when he announced he was going for a walk, scrambled down to the bottom of the bed onto the floor, then clambered back up and promptly fell asleep on the pillow again. It wasn’t too disruptive!
My alarm went at 5:30am, as we aimed to be out of the house and on the road by 6am for the hour long journey to registration. The race started at 8.
I nibbled on a bagel dipped in peanut butter during the journey and when we arrived I hopped out and headed straight over to registration whilst Dan fed Oscar his breakfast. We had parked just in front of the hall where registration took place which was handy as I still had to tweak the contents of my kit and crew bags. Registration didn’t take long at all and I was surprised not to have to participate in a kit check. Although I guess the course isn’t one of the tougher ones and you are never that far from an aid or crew station.
Another runner from my club, Mike, had already registered by the time I arrived. He had also been at the South Downs in June but had taken a bad fall out on the course and damaged his ribs. He was back to give the distance a second shot, like me. Laura arrived not long before the briefing started, having driven over to help crew for the day.
I hate wearing glasses to run in but knowing that the race would take me somewhere in the region of 28+ hours contact lenses wouldn’t be an option for the day.
Dan was under instruction to transfer my crew bag and a large box of cakes I’d had made for my crew into the back of another crew member’s car once the race began, and then together we all made our way along a short walk down the road to the start line for the race.
The start of the race was like any other and after waving at Dan, Laura and Oscar on my way past I found myself following everyone else along the road, up a short hill and into the fields in the direction of Nottingham. Knowing that the elevation was going to be fairly flat I walked all of the hills on the course, no matter how small and even ended up overtaking some people jogging in some sections!
The plan was to slow things down from the very beginning and to make sure that I forced myself to eat much more than I ever had done in a race before. I know how hard it can be in the later stages of a race to get food down, especially when working with a body that hasn’t taken enough on board along the way. I was not about to lose my hearing, feel weak and dizzy or be able to resort only to chocolate milk for nutrition by halfway.
There were a couple of small bottlenecks early on as we had a couple of stiles to cross and kissing gates to manoeuvre, but on the whole the start was fairly seamless. I had forgotten my cap, but luckily the sun didn’t really appear on the Saturday and I knew things would be fairly sheltered once we reached Clumber Park anyway later on in the day. There was a horrible ploughed field at mile 5 that I chose to walk across. The ground wasn’t hard enough to be rutted, but it made for uneven going and I didn’t want to risk going down on my ankle so early into the race. Everybody running around me made the same decision it seemed, but it was nice to be back out onto the harder off-road track again after that field. There was a bit of a hill after this and we saw a marshal at the top who told us we weren’t far from the first aid station. It was all downhill to the aid station which was quite nice, although I ended up working up a bit of a sweat by the time I got there.
I’d already eaten a nakd bar whilst crossing the ploughed field and grabbed a couple of sandwich bits and biscuits at this first aid station before heading off along the section of towpath out from the aid station.
The first part of the towpath wasn’t too bad, but it did get rather monotonous after a while. Around mile 7 or 8 a woman sacrificed her Hobnob biscuits so that a small group of us could get past a hissing swan stood near to her grown up cygnets on the narrow track. I’m not sure how we would have gotten past otherwise…she was pretty angry! Perhaps the Race Director needs to add ‘Swan bribes’ to the essential kit list for 2019?!
Mile 10 was the first time I saw some of the WDAC crew out on the course. Mike’s partner Val, Helen (who had paced some of SDW with me earlier in the year) and Grant (who was pacing another runner) all cheered as they saw me approaching and it was lovely to have a burst as I ran past, not needing anything at this crew section.
Not only did the towpath get rather monotonous after a while, but it also became narrow and ‘tufty’ with clumps of uneven grass sticking up on the sections without tarmac. I ran where I could but remained sensible, knowing that I still had plenty of time to get round the course as long as I didn’t break anything!
It was a relief to finally come off the towpath just before 19 miles and along a short section of road to reach the third aid station and to see the WDAC crew for the second time. I stopped for less than a minute here to pick up some chocolate milk, add a nuun tab to my water and grab a bag of salt and vinegar crisps.
There was a slight climb after this aid station so I used it to drink my milk and munch on my crisps. I knew that Dan would be making his way to the next aid station/crew point at mile 22. He was hoping to meet me here along with Oscar, John, Lynn and Laura, who had all run the Clumber Park parkrun that morning. I stopped for a few minutes to chat, but was soon eager to get moving again so chivied the gang along in the direction I needed to go, walking several hundred metres with them before jogging off into the distance once more.
I took a picture at 25 miles, and it was satisfying knowing that I had completed a quarter of the race already. I never really pictured the event as a full 100 miles on the day though, as I was only ever a few miles away from either an aid station or crew point and this really helped to mentally break the miles up as I went along.
There were a couple of fields where we needed to push our way through past massive sunflowers.
I never grew sunflowers as a child and so had no idea of the real enormity of the flowers and just how heavy their fully grown heads were. On the sections that I ran of the sunflower-edged fields I still have bruises on my legs from where the sunflower heads bashed into the tops of my legs!
Just Laura saw me at the next crew point at 27 miles. Despite several people having tried to wake him when I had run in to mile 22, Oscar had slept through my arrival and Dan had been struggling with a grumpy toddler ever since. Oscar had refused to get in the car, had a melt down over a teacake which had been cut into two and was just generally being hard work, so Dan made the decision to skip out this aid station in favour of the next instead. There were quite a few aid/crew stations within quick succession and at the next point when I did see Dan and Oscar (somewhere around 30ish miles, it was just me and them with no-one else from my crew party.
Oscar had apparently been cheering everyone through the aid station for a while. He kept peering down the path and going “AND another runner!” every time he saw someone come running along. He accompanied this with lots of clapping of course!
Once at the aid station I took a few minutes to sit down and chat with Dan and Oscar (who really only wanted to play with my water bottles!) From this station onwards I made a point of sitting for a few minutes to refuel and rest my legs before getting up and moving on again. It seemed to work well and I could trick my legs into getting going again fairly easily.
Part two of my recap to follow over the weekend…
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Changing tactics for attempt number 2
I recapped my South Downs Way 100 mile attempt in my last post. Frustratingly I didn’t complete the distance but I have already entered another 100 mile race in order to have another shot at it. I will complete 100 miles!
Interestingly I posted a poll on Twitter at the end of last week. Results below:
How many attempts did it take for you to complete your first 100m?
— Mary P (@ahealthiermoo) July 6, 2018
So I’m not alone in not completing 100 miles the first time round.
I recently read a quote from Cat Simpson on the Centurion Running website where she spoke about having the confidence to run the Grand Union Canal Race after knowing her body could continue moving past the length of a day, having completed her first 100 mile event in 25 hours. (She has since gone on to complete 100 milers in a mere 17 hours. Insane!)
A couple of points:
1 – I can only ever dream of running that fast
2 – I never want to run the GUCR!
3 – Whilst on the Centurion website just now I spotted Robbie Britton’s 100 mile winning time of 15h 47m at the SDW in 2013. The pro ultra runners don’t have to deal with sleep deprivation at all!
I have bit the bullet and entered the Robin Hood 100 mile race in September. (64 days away.) It has very similar rules to SDW in terms of pacing/crew, the same time limit (30 hours) and is a much flatter course on more runnable terrain. Dan and I have friends living nearby who have agreed to put Dan and Oscar up for the weekend so that they can come out to support me. (Although I do fear for their two rabbits who Oscar is currently obsessed with. Not sure the pair of them could put up with a very excitable toddler in love with ‘hop hop bunnies’ for a whole weekend!)
There will be live tracking at the event and I’ll share the link closer to race day.
I also have an amazing team of friends who have offered their services to pace and crew for the day. I really would not be able to even think about completing this kind of distance without the help I have been offered and it really means so much to me that friends have such high faith in my abilities. I promise to do my best not to let anyone down.
It would be silly for me to have run 78 miles of the South Downs Way, decide to pull from the event and then rock up to the next one having not taken anything away from the day, so below I’ve tried to pull everything I could from my first experience and commented realistically as to if it worked or if I could have improved things in that area.
Sleep:
This has to come first on my list because I feel like it was my biggest downfall in the build up to the race. So often sleep or diet are the forgotten ingredients when training and this has very much been the case with me this year. My sleep has been shocking and I genuinely do not know how I have existed most weeks. In the build up to race day I was working three night shifts a week – 10pm-7am, followed by one hour of sleep before acting as sole parent in charge of an active and needy toddler the following day. The only exception to this has been on Sundays when I would usually manage three hours of sleep followed by shared parental responsibility for the day. Some evenings I would also manage to cram an extra hour of sleep in before my night shift began and towards the end I discovered that I could also fit in a 35 minute nap in the back of my car during my 1am ‘lunchbreak’ on a shift. But it’s been far from ideal.
Going forward I have since handed my notice in at my night shift job (although have also now retracted it to work just one night a week when Dan and I weighed up the benefits. One night a week should hopefully be sustainable going forward whilst also providing us some extra money to add to our savings pot.
The night before my first attempt at the distance I had planned on getting a solid 7-8 hours of sleep, but a late meal out and early bird call resulted in not getting to bed until 11am and waking by 4am the day of the race. Again, far from ideal.
I didn’t take enough food with me in my bag for the start of the race so, other than a nakd bar after a couple of miles, and a couple of grabbed sandwiches at the 10 mile checkpoint I had no other food with me until I met with my crew at mile 22. I need to sit down and properly study the crewpoints for the next race and work out how much food I need to be taking on board between each checkpoint and ensure my bag always remains topped up.
When I first started working nightshifts I struggled with my appetite and eating. Most of the other people I work with have a cooked meal during our lunchbreak (1am). I decided against this as I love breakfast too much, and I like Oscar to have somebody to eat his lunch and dinner with each day, rather than have him eat on his own when he is still so young. However, it would often result in me grabbing a large bar of chocolate/slice of cake midshift to perk me up and get me through when I was feeling exhausted. I realised that I wasn’t doing myself any favours and having toyed with the idea for a while I switched to a more vegetarian/vegan lifestyle which is suiting me much better. I’ll write more about my choices and decisions in another post at some point, but basically I’m not strictly vegan, I never choose meat dishes and have substituted a lot of dairy products with alternatives in recent months. I don’t like the idea of consuming so much processed food. If I wouldn’t be happy with Oscar consuming it, then I shouldn’t be either. I’m much happier with my results since the change and have discovered so many great alternative meals as a result.
However, on race day, I knew that chocolate milk works for me and so kept this in as part of my plan.
Pacing:
I actually think that I paced SDW fairly well. The going was much easier in the first half than I knew it would be in the second half, and in terms of when to run/walk, this is very much dictated for you with the hills and rough terrain. I think I will have more problems when it comes to pacing when it comes to the Robin Hood event as it is a much, much flatter course. I think I may need to stick to some kind of regular run/walk method in order to prevent running too hard too early on in the race. When I ran the Grim 70m a few years ago I tried to stick to running no faster than 12 minute miles and no walking slower than 15 minute miles and that worked well for me, but it was a very different event – 10 mile loops. The Robin Hood is three loops. Two of 30 miles and one of 40 miles.
Darkness:
I have no concerns about running in the dark as I’ve always run trail through the night during the Winter months and so this wasn’t an issue on the SDW. However, there were only 7 hours and 31 minutes of darkness in June compared to the 11 hours and 11 minutes I will have in September. Although again, this could help prevent me from travelling too fast during the later miles and burning out before the end.
I worked religiously on my core at the start of the year but as life took over it was something that I neglected. However, my core was still fairly strong due to the manual nature of my part time job. Lugging full supermarket cages around a massive store is not for the faint-hearted and for several weeks I was placed on the juice aisle – one of the heaviest sets of cages of all and often working 8-10 cages in a night. I ensure I walk a minimum of 10,000 steps each day, including a daily walk with Oscar, who I carry when he gets too tired. We weighed him the other week and he’s two stone now! I vividly remember my arms aching from carrying him at just a few weeks old when he was less than 7lbs!
(When Dan carries him, he takes the easy option of carrying him on his shoulders!)
I ran around 50ish miles a week in the months leading up to SDW100, although often didn’t record all of my treadmill runs on Strava. I’m planning to run all of my runs outside in the build up to Robin Hood so as to remain accountable and analyse my pace/training a little better. I took a full week off from training after SDW, and had a couple of easy training weeks before jumping back in with training again but I’m hoping to get back on it again now. I’ve been out running with others a fair bit over the last couple of weeks and that always makes me feel more enthusiastic about getting out there for extra miles.
I have to be very organised with when I’m planning on running as I have Oscar at home all week. I have to get up at 5:15am or run late at night around bedtime/Dan’s work or other activities. I’ll be honest, on the days when I was super exhausted and struggled to get out of bed in the morning I did roll over and go back to sleep. It’s something I rarely do as I’m such a morning person, but with so little opportunity to sleep this year I’ve really had to grab any chance I could get. I need to ensure I slot any missed miles back in later in the day/week though as I want to ensure I give myself the absolute best chance of making it round on race day.
I didn’t complete as many speedwork sessions as I would have liked this year, and feel that I could increase my speed further, therefore completing the race sooner and helping to prevent tiredness setting in too early into the race.
My weakness will definitely be my tiredness on race day. I thought that I would sail through on no sleep with all the experience I have of sleepless nights, but even though my work is very manual it is NOT the same as covering 100 miles on no sleep at all.
What are your stumbling blocks when it comes to training?
Do you analyse events after you have run them?
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Carola Dunn is the author of twenty Daisy Dalrymple mysteries, set in England in the 1920s, four Cornish mysteries, and over 30 Regencies.
Her latest novel is Buried in the Country, the fourth Cornish mystery.
Recently I asked Dunn about what he was reading. Her reply:
I recently finished League of Dragons, the last of a fantasy/alternate history series by Naomi Novik. It's set in the Napoleonic Wars in a world where humans have tamed dragons.
The two main characters are Temeraire, a Chinese Imperial dragon, and his captain, Jack Lambert, a British sailor who by chance was present at his hatching and thus became his partner. They are part of the forces fighting to stop Napoleon's invasion of Britain and his attempts to take over Europe and indeed the world.
With dragons fighting alongside the men of each nation, the course of the war is changed from history as we know it. However, Novik stays true to the period in other ways. For one reason or another, Temeraire and Jack visit every continent, discovering the varying status of dragons and the ways in which they have affected the societies of which they are—in one way or another—a part.
Jack and Temeraire are very sympathetic characters, their relationship develops in interesting ways, and their adventures are thrilling and cleverly plotted. The books are well-written. I don't read much SF/fantasy these days but I thoroughly enjoyed this series.
I've also been reading a lot of mysteries from the early years of the last century. Several small publishing houses are reprinting long unavailable titles by such authors as J.S. Fletcher, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Louis Joseph Vance, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, and the inimitable R. Austin Freeman, creator of Dr. Thorndike, always my favourite.
On the non-fiction side, I've just read The Map that Changed the World, an interesting biography of William Smith, who would be better known if he hadn't such a commonplace name. He was the first person to investigate strata in depth and produce a detailed—and beautiful—map of geology over a large area, ie the whole of England. With very little formal education and the ensuing prejudice, he nonetheless became a major figure in scientific circles.
Learn more about the book and author at Carola Dunn's website and blog.
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Book Review: The Indivisible and the Void
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 6:10PM
The Indivisible and the Void. D. M. Wozniak. Chicago, IL: D. M. Wozniak, February 15, 2019, Trade Paperback and E-book, 579 pages.
Reviewed by T. L. Needham.
“The fundamental notion which any voider’s power relies upon is this: Everything in our creation is built out of infinitesimal building blocks, called the indivisible. There is nothing else, besides the indivisible and the void.” Master Voider Democryos
Dem leads the college that trains voiders to manage, and use wisely, their power of voidstones. Lady Marine, his beautiful former student and wife, is hopelessly drawn to power and leaves him for mysterious voider. Outraged over his loss, Dem resolves to pursue and confront her and the traitor. Along the way, he meets an effulgent, Blythe, who leads worshipers of the “Unnamed.” Blythe insists on joining the quest to find Dem’s wife and kill the traitor who seduced her. There is no trust between Dem, who has faith in reason, and Blythe, who follows a guilty, blind faith.
Dem obsesses over his missing wife. Chimeline, a member of the King’s harem who is assigned by the King to please and comfort Dem, joins the quest. Colu, a super strong and loyal wounded warrior with a patch over one eye, also joins the troop on their quest.
They come upon a student voider who has gone mad and dies from a drug overdose. Dem buries him with help from his rival, the effulgent. Dem’s thoughts reveal the struggle within his heart: “I hope that this dirt covers our fears and prejudices, too. As if every shovel full marks a small step towards reconciliation, a common ground between faith and reason.”
The troop’s adventures within each chapter will amaze readers. The author has the gift and ability to pull the reader into the story with unexpected and unpredictable twists and turns. Logic prevails and the pages turn at a steady pace.
Dem, coached by Blythe, gradually learns a greater truth behind the power of The Void. He hears voices of souls trapped in void stones. Is he hearing voices or the delusional drivel of the effulgent? As Dem works in concert with Blythe, he learns the true power that the Master Voider holds. He learns “the empowered” can harness the power of axion—the material from which voidstones originated. The empowered, like voiders, are rare, with only a few born in each generation. Their power is based on the axiondrive, which powered a space ship larger than one can comprehend, a citadel flying among the stars.
Mander, a master voider, is empowered by axion, the most formidable force known. He is the traitor who seduced and enticed Lady Marine—who is drawn to this greatest power known at the time—to leave her husband, Dem.
The author effectively develops each character and tells a masterful story with revelations on many levels. While this is a love story wrapped within an enigma, the plot unravels an epic struggle between blind faith and reason, and shows how two individuals can unite to become a greater power. The contradiction between revenge and justice, and the resulting conflict, drives this compelling tale forward.
While each character has a unique story, all the characters struggle to define who they are, what they believe, and why they are on this quest. The characters are so well crafted that the reader feels empathy for each of them, perhaps even the villain. As the reader approaches the conclusion, the author reveals an amazing new reality and does a brilliant job of setting up the sequel, with just two words: “They’re coming.”
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7th Pay Commission: Time limit to dispose of pay-related anomalies extended to 15th November
7th Pay Commission: Time limit to dispose of pay-related anomalies extended to November 15th
The DoPT had last year asked all central government departments to set up committees to look into various pay related anomalies.
The Centre has extended the time limit to receive and dispose of pay related anomalies for central government employees by three months. November 15th will be the deadline to resolve any discrepancy arising out of the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission. The earlier date was August 15.
The centre has accepted most of the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission which will be implemented from January 1 2016.
The time limit for receipt of anomalies is extended by three months from the date of expiry of receiving anomalies i.e. from February 15, 2017 to May 15, 2017," the DoPT order said. The DoPT had last year asked all central government departments to set up committees to look into various pay related anomalies. The anomaly committees were to be formed at two levels- national and departmental-consisting of representatives of the official side and the staff side of the national council and the departmental council respectively.
The DoPT had said that the Department Anomaly Committee will deal with anomalies pertaining exclusively to the department concerned and having no repercussions on the employees of another ministry or department. Cases where there is a dispute about the definition of anomaly and those where there is a disagreement between the staff side and the official side on the anomaly will be dealt by an "arbitrator", to be appointed out of a panel of names proposed by the two sides, it had said. Now the deadline of November 15th has been fixed as the date to resolve any discrepancy arising out of the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission.
Source: oneindia
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Another gimmick by the Modi Government: Cabinet decision on 3rd May 2017 related 7th CPC - Reg
Cabinet decision on 3rd May 2017 related 7th CPC - Reg. Another gimmick by the Modi Government
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NFAEE Office, Opp. NIYAMAK BHAVAN, Anusaktinagar, Mumbai 400 094
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Sub: Cabinet decision on 3rd May 2017 related 7th CPC - Reg. Another gimmick by the Modi Government
A press communique was issued by Ministry of Finance on 3rd May 2017 with a caption "Cabinet approves modification in the 7th CPC recommendations on pay and pensionary benefits." Copy of the said communique is attached.
But in the said communique nowhere it was mentioned about any modifications in the recommendations on pay. It contains only two subjects, Revision of pensioners of pre - 2016 pensioners and family pensioners and Disability Pension for Defence Pensioners. The communique is left with half information with regards to pre 2016 pensioners as it was not clarified how the pension is going to regulate.
The attempt of the Government is to create confusion among the Central Government Employees in general and the Public at large, as the Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers has been announced its next course of action to hold dharna in front of the house of Finance Minister Arun Jaitely's New Delhi on 23rd May 2017.
We can also expect statements from the so called NJCA leadership to congratulate the Government and may even claim because of their effort only the Cabinet too decision on pre - 2016 pensioners (or inaction?).
Beware of such leaders and the Government's attitude and ensure grand success of the Dharna on 23rd May 2017 at Delhi and in all units as per the call from Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers. Be ready for Dharna
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Comradely yours
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Implementation of Government's decision on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission - Revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners, etc
7th CPC Revision of Pension of Pre-2016 Pensioners: Order issued on Committee's report
No.38/37/2016-P&PW(A)
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions
Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan
Khan Market, New Delhi
Dated, the 12th May, 2017
Sub:- Implementation of Government's decision on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission - Revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners, etc.
The undersigned is directed to say that the 7th Central Pay Commission (7th CPC). in its Report, recommended two formulations for revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners. A Resolution No. 38/37/2016-P&PW (A) dated 04.08.2016 was issued by this Department indicating the decisions taken by the Government on the various recommendations of the 7th CPC on pensionary matters.
2. Based on the decisions taken by the Government on the recommendations of the 7th CPC, orders for revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners in accordance with second Formulation were issued vide this Department's OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW (A) (ii) dated 04.08.2016. It was provided in this OM. that the revised pension/famiiy pension wet. 112016 of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners shall be determined by multiplying the pension/family pension as had been fixed at the time of implementation of the recommendations of the 6th CPC, by 2.57.
3. In accordance with the decision mentioned in this Department's Resolution No. 38/37/2016-P&PW (A) dated 04.08.2016 and OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A) (ii) dated 04.08.2016, the feasibility of the first option recommended by 7th CPC has been examined by a Committee headed by Secretary, Department of Pension Pensioners’ Welfare.
4. The aforesaid Committee has submitted its Report and the recommendations made by the Committee have been considered by the Government. Accordingly, it has been decided that the revised pension/family pension w.e.f 01.01.2016 in respect of all Central civil pensioners/family pensioners, including CAPF's, who retired/died prior to 01.01.2016, may be revised by notionally fixing their pay in the pay matrix recommended by the 7th CPC in the level corresponding to the pay in the pay scale/pay band and grade pay at which they retired/died. This will be done by notional pay fixation under each intervening Pay Commission based on the Formula for revision of pay. White fixing pay on notional basis, the pay fixation formulae approved by the Government and other relevant instructions on the subject in force at the relevant time shall be strictly followed. 50% of the notional pay as on 01.01.2016 shall be the revised pension and 30% of this notional pay shall be the revised family pension wet. 1.1.2016 as per the first Permutation. In the case of family pensioners who were entitled to family pension at enhanced rate, the revised family pension shall be 50% of the notional pay as on 01.01.2016 and shall be payable till the period up to which family pension at enhanced rate is admissible as per rules. The amount of revised pension/family pension so arrived at shall be rounded off to next higher rupee.
5. It has also been decided that higher of the two Formulations is the pension/family pension already revised in accordance with this Department's OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A) (ii) dated 04.08.2016 or the revised pension/family pension as worked out in accordance with para 4 above, shall be granted to pre-2016 central
civil pensioners as revised pension/family pension w.e.f. 01.01.2016. In cases where pension/family pension being paid w.e.f. 1.1.2016 in accordance with this Department’s OM No. 38/37/2016~P&PW(A) (ii) dated 04.08.2016 happens to be more than pension/family pension as worked out in accordance with para 4 above, the pension/family pension already being paid shall be treated as revised pension/family pension w.e.f. 1.1.2016.
6. Instructions were issued vide this Department's OM No. 45/86/97-P&PW(A) (iii) dated 10.02.1998 for revision of pension! family pension in respect of Government servants who retired or died before 01.01.1986, by notional fixation of their pay in the scale of pay introduced with effect from 01.01.1986. The notional pay so worked out as on 01.01.1986 was treated as average emoluments/last pay for the purpose of calculation of notional pension/family pension as on 01.01.1986. The notional pension/family pension so arrived at was further revised with effect from 01.01.1996 and was paid in accordance with the instructions issued for revision of pension/family pension of pre-1996 pensioners/family pensioners in implementation of the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission.
7. Accordingly, for the purpose of calculation of notional pay w.e.f. 1.1.2016 of those Government servants who retired or died before 01.01.1986, the pay scale and the notional pay as on 1.1.1986, as arrived at in terms of the instructions issued vide this Department’s OM 45/86/97-P&PW(A) dated 10.02.1998, will be treated as the pay scale and the pay of the concerned Government servant as on 1.1.1986. in the case of those Government servants who retired or died on or after 01.01.1986 but before 112016 the actual pay and the pay scale from which they retired or died would be taken into consideration for the purpose of calculation of the notional pay as on 1.1.2016 in accordance with para 4 above.
8. The minimum pension with effect from 01.01.2016 will be Rs. 9000/- per month (excluding the element of additional pension to old pensioners). The upper ceiling on pension/family pension will be 50% and 30:16 respectively of the highest pay in the Government (The highest pay in the Government is Rs. 250,000 with
effect from 01.01.2016).
9. The pension/family pension as worked out in accordance with provisions of Para 4 and 5 above shall be treated as 'Basic Pension' with effect from 01.01.2016. The revised pension/family pension includes dearness relief sanctioned from 1.1.2016 and shall qualify for grant of Dearness Relief sanctioned thereafter.
10. The existing instructions regarding regulation of dearness relief to employed/re-employed pensioners/family pensioners, as contained in Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare OM. No. 45/73/97-P&PW(G) dated 02.07.1999, as amended from time to time, shall continue to apply.
11. These orders would not be applicable for the purpose of revision of pension of those pensioners who were drawing compulsory retirement pension under Rule 40 of the CCS (Pension) Rules or compassionate allowance under Rule 41 of the CCS (Pension) Rules. The pensioners in these categories would continue to be entitled to revised pension in accordance with the instructions contained in this Department's OM. No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A)(ii) dated 4.8.2016.
12. The pension of the pensioners who are drawing monthly pension from the Government on permanent absorption in public sector undertakings/autonomous bodies will also be revised in accordance with these orders. However, separate orders will be issued for revision of pension of those pensioners who had earlier
drawn one time lump sum terminal benefits on absorption in public sector undertakings, etc. and are drawing one-third restored pension as per the instructions issued by this Department from time to time.
13. in cases where, on permanent absorption in public sector undertakings/autonomous bodies, the terms of absorption and/or the rules permit grant of family pension under the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 or the corresponding rules applicable to Railway employees/members of All India Services, the family pension being drawn by family pensioners will be updated in accordance with these orders.
14. Since the consolidated pension will be inclusive of commuted portion of pension, if any, the commuted portion will be deducted from the said amount while making monthly disbursements.
15. The quantum of age-related pension/family pension available to the old pensioners/ family pensioners shall continue to be as follows:
Age of pensioner/family pensioner Quantum of pension
From 80 years to less than 85 years 20% of revised basic pension/ family pension
From 95 years to less than 100 years 50% of revised basic pension/ family pension
100 years or more 100% of revised basic pension/ family pension
The amount of additional pension will be shown distinctly in the pension payment order. For example, in case where a pensioner is more than 80 years of age and his/her revised pension is Rs.10,000 pm, the pension will be shown as (i) Basic pension = Rs.10,000 and (ii) Additional pension = Rs.2,000 pm. The pension on his/her attaining the age of 85 years will be shown as (i).Basic Pension = Rs.10,000 and (ii) additional pension = Rs.3,000 pm. Dearness relief will be admissible on the additional pension available to the old pensioners also.
16. A few examples of calculation of pension/family pension in the manner prescribed above are given in Annexure-I to this OM.
17. No arrears on account of revision of Pension/Family pension on notional fixation of pay will be admissible for the period prior to 1.1.2016. The arrears on account of revision of pension/family pension in terms of these orders would be admissible with effect from 01.01.2016. For calculation of arrears becoming due on the revision of pension/ family pension on the basis of this O.M., the arrears of pension and the revised pension/family pension already paid on revision of pension/family pension in accordance with the instructions contained in this Department's OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A) (ii) dated 04.08.2016 shall be adjusted.
18. it shall be the responsibility of the Head of Department and Pay and Accounts Office attached to that office from which the Government servant had retired or was working last before his death to revise the pension! family pension of Pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners with effect from 01.01.2016 in accordance with these orders and to issue a revised pension payment authority. The Pension Sanctioning Authority would impress upon the concerned Head of Office for fixation of pay on notional basis at the earliest and issue revised authority at the earliest. The revised authority will be issued under the existing PPO number and would travel to the Pension Disbursing Authority through the same channel through which the original PPO had travelled.
19. These orders shall apply to all pensioners/family pensioners who were drawing pension/family pension before 1.1.2016 under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, and the corresponding rules applicable to Railway pensioners and pensioners of All India Services, including officers of the Indian Civil
Service retired from service on or after 111973. A pensioner/family pensioner who became entitled to pension/family pension with effect from 01.01.2016 consequent on retirement/death of Government servant on 31.12.2015, would also be covered by these orders. Separate orders will be issued by the Ministry of Defence in regard to Armed Forces pensioners/family pensioners.
20 These orders do not apply to retired High Court and Supreme Court Judges and other Constitutional/Statutory Authorities whose pension etc. is governed by separate rules/orders.
21 These orders issue with the concurrence of Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure) vide their ID. No. 30-1l33(c)/2016-IC dated 11.05.2017 and ID. No.30-1133(c)/2016-IC dated 12.05.2017.
22. In their application to the persons belonging to the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, these orders issue in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
23. Ministry of Agriculture etc. are requested to bring the contents of these orders to the notice of Heads of Department/Controller of Accounts. Pay and Accounts Officers, and Attached and Subordinate Offices under them on top priority basis. All Ministries/Departments are requested to accord top priority to the work of revision of pension of ore-2016 pensioners/family pensioners and issue the revised Pension Payment Authority in respect of all ore-2016 pensioners,
24. Hindi version will follow.
(Harjit Singh)
Source: Pensioners Portal
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[b]Islamabad, 23 March, (Asiantribune.com):[/b] Pakistan has confirmed first cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu or Avian Influenza that has already hit neighboring India and Afghanistan.
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AVFC | Aston Villa Life - An Aston Villa Blog and Mobile Site for iOS and Android > Aston Villa Blog > Columns > Clark's Call > What’s Wrong With Villa’s Academy?
As far as academies go, one would initially have to say of Villa’s, “Not much wrong there”. Villa’s kids have acquitted themselves well in the Reserves League and now the NextGen. Things would seem to be rosy. They’re winners. We’ve got a pipeline.
Yet we keep hearing fans wanting to see our home-grown youth given more of a chance in the first team. And we’ve seen a succession of managers seemingly put little stock in Villa’s Academy products. When the so-called youngsters have played, it’s more often been the result of an injury crisis in a thin squad rather than a dedicated effort to bring them along.
With Paul Lambert looking for young, cheap, and hungry talent, you’d think the first place he’d be looking is in his own back yard.
But when he set about rebuilding Villa on the cheap, Lambert went looking primarily in the lower divisions and overseas. As a result, lately we’ve been hearing that a number of Villa’s own are looking to move elsewhere to ply their trade.
So what gives?
As you’ve no doubt heard me say more than once, managers will generally do what (they think) will make them look good. Or at least not bad. Motivated self interest it’s called. But if you’re working on a budget, and you’ve got a solid PL player or two in the making on hand, why would you look elsewhere?
Some possible reasons: Stubbornness, arrogance, short-term thinking, or ass-covering. (Feel free to add to the list.)
Or maybe they’re just not good enough.
More than any other recent manager, Lambert has given the Academy players long looks—for whatever reason. Barry Bannan, Ciaran Clark, Nathan Baker, and Andreas Weimann all featured regularly last season. One imagines Gary Gardner would’ve seen his fair share of time had he been healthy. Chris Herd? Chris Herd has had his shot. Nathan Delfouneso has had some limited opportunities and never seemed able to seize them. Marc Albrighton thrilled then fizzled. And then there’s Gabby.
That’s not a huge number, is it? Five (sometime) starters? Six, counting Albrighton’s stint. Or is it?
We might have to wrap our heads round the fact that the odds simply aren’t in the Academy’s favor. Of any given 11 or 25 or 37, there might only be one or two who will actually make it—and that would, in reality, be a good return.
So. Have all our recent managers been idiots (easy now)? Do they all have something against youth?
They might. They might prefer players they’ve identified rather than players someone else picked for them. They might prefer experience because it gives them more cover if things go wrong. As incoming FA Chairman Greg Dykes said to the BBC:
What I recognise is that we have a league system, particularly at Premier League level, where the insecurity of managers is such that: why take the chance on a kid where you can bring someone else in from Croatia, an experienced player who you know won’t make the same mistakes that kids inevitably make? That seems to me a great challenge.”
As we know all too well, it’s not just managerial insecurity but the threat of relegation that plays a factor. Besides, the Croatian might just be a better player.
Let’s look at some back-of-the-envelope numbers. Literally.
There are 20 Premier League teams, each with a 25-man roster. That equals 500 PL players. Let’s say the UK’s population is 60 million, so 30 million men and boys, and perhaps 15 million of them with no interest in, or aptitude for, sport. With 15 million men as the largest eligible pool, that means a UK-born male has a 0.003% (500-in-15,000,000, or 1-in-30,000) chance of being a top-tier footballer.
Getting a bit more precise, there are roughly 19,470,000 in the UK who are 24 and younger, meaning roughly 9,735,000 males. This gives us a 500-in-9,735,00 chance of a boy growing up to be a PL footballer. Or 0.005%. Let’s cut that in half, giving us 4,867,500 to choose from. Things are looking up: We get 0.01%
Currently, Villa have 37 players listed on the U21 and Academy squads. If we applied those odds to them, we’d either get 0.185 PL footballers (I know some of you wags are thinking that we got 1/10th of a footballer and his name is Barry Bannan, for whom we won’t round up for obvious reasons), or, at a 0.01% chance, we’d get 0.37 footballers. If you’re thinking Joe Bennett, remember, we didn’t raise him up.
Of course, my numbers are a bit silly. There are all sorts of things we’d need to account for to come up with the true odds. I’m assigning all 500 roster spots to the UK, whereas Dyke says only 36% in the top flight are English (180 players, bringing it back down to a 0.003% chance). And of course, we’d have to look at global populations and leagues, certainly Europe’s, South America’s, and some of Africa’s, to get at the odds.
Long story short, the odds aren’t good however you break things down. If Baker, Weimann, and Clark were to stick (plus Gabby), the Academy will certainly have done its job, and bucked the odds. Anyone else breaking through would be a bonus. Just Baker, Weimann, and Gabby would be a good return. Even going by the contribution the five made last season. And let’s throw in Gary Cahill. And Craig Gardner. Not bad, eh?
Lambert went out and signed Lowton, Vlaar, Westwood, and Benteke in one summer. Truth be told, we didn’t have anyone better on hand.
Villa could scour the UK top-to-bottom for promising kids. But that’s more expensive than just buying players from the lower leagues or abroad. We could implement a scientific program for training and evaluating players and bring in hundreds from around the country and overseas. Even more expensive, unless ST75 renovates his kitchen and feeds them all rice and peas.
We could send more kids out on loan. But if, as we’ve seen, they’re competent and not setting the lower leagues on fire, why castigate other players culled from those same divisions who impress the manager more? Is it because they started out somewhere more humble?
Given all that, it seems to me there’s nothing much wrong with the Academy. Or the managers who keep “ignoring” those players. We’ve done alright.
It’s our expectations of the Academy that might be off. After all, all of Europe, and increasingly all of the world, is one big Academy. There are feeder clubs everywhere, and Villa actually sit relatively close to the top of the food chain. Strange as that may seem.
We all like the idea of local lads making it to the big time. But really, what are the odds?
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The Fuck Chairs – The Return To The Return To Castle Wolfenstein (3/11/2016 – 3/12/2016)
This November we welcome the artistic duo The Fuck Chairs (a.k.a. Morgan Oliver and Michael Morley) into the AF Gallery!
For this exhibition, The Fuck Chairs have developed a multi-media installation and performance composed of scent, sound, video, lighting and atmospheric effects. Volume activated L.E.D. lighting racks and two laser lights project colour in response to wind-chimes, activated by a fan; a continuous sound composition unfolds, as an unnatural and scented fog fills the void.
Images of a distant electronic past, filtered by experience, history, gaming, and simulation probe an alternative fictional narrative of rave culture and hallucination performed by robots, avatars, monsters and ghosts.
Morley and Oliver will be performing on the opening night, which coincides with the opening of the 2016 Nowhere! Festival – more info here: www.audiofoundation.org.nz/festival/nowhere-festival
Michael Morley is well known internationally for his musical work with experimental free-rockers The Dead C, and for his enigmatic and ever-varied solo project, Gate. Perhaps less well know is his visual practice, in which he responds primarily to the tradition of painting, creating pieces which humorously attempt to recreate abstract utopian ideas as graphic symbols. These works inevitably operate as failures in an acknowledgement of the elusive nature of utopia and the futility of conclusive or authoritative attempts at its recreation.
Morgan Oliver is an interactive artist and designer whose works employ a playful and experimental approach, building on his expertise in the fields of interactive screen and game design.
The Fuck Chairs’ The Return To The Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Opens Thursday 3 November, 5.30pm, with refreshments provided by Liberty Brewing!
Gallery open 12 – 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday.
Closes Saturday 3 December 4.00pm.
The Fuck Chairs performance
Thursday 3 November, 7.30pm @ Audio Foundation
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Locarno 2019: SPACE DOGS in Cineasti del Presente
In their directorial debut Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter joined up with a pack of stray dogs in Moscow in order to discover the city through their eyes. In remembrance of the famous dog astronaut Laika, they interweave the wild lives of their animal protagonists with impressive archive footage from the space race in the 1960s. Patrick Vollrath's 7500, a German-Austrian co-production, will screen on the Piazza Grande.
Sheffield International Award to Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s EARTH
«In a remarkable way, the sheer scale and ambition of this project is matched by its humility towards its subject and subjects“, stated the jury of the newly created International Award intended to honor a new international non-fiction film challenging global perspectives. EARTH by Nikolaus Geyrhalter is the first winner of the Sheffield International Award.»
Austrian films at international festivals
Participations May - July 2019
Austrian films on international screens
October 2016 – July 2019
Cannes 2019: Best Actress Award to Emily Beecham
A red flower that makes people feel happy, a palm that makes us even more than happy!
Emily Beecham who plays the lead character in Jessica Hausner’s LITTLE JOE wins the Best Actress award at the 72nd Cannes festival for her subtle and nuanced interpretation of Alice, a high-talented genetic engineer and loving single-mum of a 12-year-old boy.
Best Feature Awards to L’ANIMALE and NEVRLAND
Two Best Feature-Awards to Austrian movies on one weekend: The Mostra FIRE Barcelona has honored L'ANIMALE, by Katharina Mückstein with the FIRE!! Team Award for Best Feature Film. The TEL AVIV International LGBT Festival has picked NEVRLAND by Gregor Schmidinger as Best Narrative Feature.
NYT on LITTLE JOE: «a mordant, amusing movie»
Thomas Sotinel of Le Monde wrote on LITTLE JOE: ... This does not prevent this virtuoso film from being irrefutably modern, from putting the sacrilegious audacity of science at the service of the most corrosive satire and the most vertiginous existential questions. More reviews
LILLIAN: «A fascinating walk through a mysterious land.»
The Austrian photographer and director combines his knowledge of the American Midwest and the Yukon in an enigmatic road movie — never was a term more descriptive — that is at once a portrait of female spirit and determination and a reflection on the loneliness at the heart of America today, wrote Deborah Young of THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. more reviews
KAVIAR at Sydney's Europe! Voices of Women in Film
Launched by the European Film Promotion in 2016 EUROPE! VOICES OF WOMEN IN FILM showcases ten European films by female directors at Australia’s premier international film festival. KAVIAR by Elena Tikhonova is part of this selection.
JOY on Netflix
JOY worldwide: As of May 24, 2019 Sudabeh Mortezai’s acclaimed second feature film JOY is available for the international audience all around the globe on Netflix . The only territories excepted are Austria and South Tyrol.
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«Sparkling and strange...»
Alice’s son Joe satisfies her maternal needs, and in her career she has also achieved tangible success: the flower she has genetically engineered, Little Joe, is a beautiful sight which promises to bring happiness to everyone around it. But suddenly things seem to turn against Alice in almost indefinable ways. In her fifth feature film, LITTLE JOE, Jessica Hausner unleashes the forces of cinema only to have them combine in virtuoso fashion, creating on film a homage to doubt.
«A de-accelerated road movie»
Andreas Horvath
When her attempt to establish herself in New York fails, Lillian resolves to head back home to Russia. She sets off west on foot, crossing the American mainland to the Bering Strait, where Russia and the USA almost physically touch and where the dividing line between two days is drawn. Andreas Horvath’s LILLIAN traverses the layers of the continent as it follows the trail of a lonely wanderer in a road movie which appears to transcend forwards and backwards motion.
Red carpet for a red lily: World premiere of LITTLE JOE in Cannes
Jessica Hausner, a Cannes invitee since 1999, tops her performance at the Croisette with her first entry to the Palme d’or-competition and her first English-language film LITTLE JOE. Alice, a high-talented genetic engineer, has created a crimson flower of stunning beauty, but also inexplicable powers. A coop99 production with The Bureau (UK) and Essential Films (D) starring Emily Beecham, Ben Wishaw, Kerry Fox.
«Jumping straight into the non-mundane.»
Martin Monk
Martin Monk wondered how far he could go with a road movie in short film format – and resolved to confront the clear formal challenge. In FAVOURITES he tells the story of an accidental encounter between a 17-year-old girl hitchhiker and a car driver who could be her father, a brief interaction between two generations and their unanswered questions about life. In fact the project has taken the student of directing at the Vienna Film Academy a long way: he has been awarded a place in the Cinéfondation series, the section for young talent at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes 2019: Quinzaine des réalisateurs with LILLIAN by Andreas Horvath
The 51st edition of the Cannes parallel section will host the world premiere of Andreas Horvath's LILLIAN, a road movie that goes straigth across the USA into the cold of Alaska.
Cinema Planeta awards WELCOME TO SODOM
WELCOME TO SODOM by Florian Weigensamer and Christian Krönes is the winner of the Youth Award at the Cinema Planeta festival in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca.
Cinéma Positif Award
The Festival du Cinéma Positif, taking place during the Cannes festival for the 4th time, has selected FREE LUNCH SOCIETY by Christian Tod among the ten documentaries vying for the Cinéma Positif Award. The 2019 selection focusses on the theme of social justice, prizes will be awarded in three categories: fiction, documentary and first feature film on May 23rd.
THE BORDER FENCE awarded in Munich and Trento
Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s clairvoyant essay about borders, portraying residents living close to the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy has garnered the Jury Prize at the Trento Festival and the VIKTOR DOK.deutsch Award at the DOK.fest München.
Filmkunstfest SCHWERIN awards THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET
Marie Kreutzer’s Berlinale competition entry is heading on solid grounds. THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET garnered two awards at the 29th Filmkunstfest Schwerin: the NDR Regiepreis and the Prize for Best Young Actress to Valerie Pachner.
Grand Prix Cinéma du réel to MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN
Sebastian Brameshuber's new essay is the portrait of a man and a place, observing a determined loner as he goes about his work inside and outside time. The Grand Prix of Cinéma du Réel has been unanimously attributed to MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN, "...Thanks to the elegance of his mise en scène and inventive use of the off-screen dimension...
DEMOCRACY LTD by Robert Schabus at CPH DOX
Robert Schabus examines the question why populist politicians meet with such strong resonance in European democracies. His new film DEMOCRACY LTD celebrates its world premiere as a contender in the F:ACT Award competition and as opening film of the focus on Europe. Also screening in Copenhagen: THE BORDER FENCE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, SEA OF SHADOWS by Richard Ladkani.
«Democracy means creating an open area for debate.»
Robert Schabus
Is his documentary film DEMOCRACY LTD Robert Schabus investigates the crisis in European democracy, focussing especially on the failure of the political elite to listen to the needs of the people. The filmmaker explored the situation in the run-up to the 2017 elections in France and Germany, analysed the aftermath of the referendums in Great Britain and Greece and looked closely at Austria, now with a right wing government, in an attempt to understand why populism has met with such powerful resonance in these democracies.
«The first issue that struck me was that of invisibility.»
Nathalie Borgers
For her documentary film THE REMAINS – AFTER THE ODYSSEY, Nathalie Borgers proceeds from the statistics on refugees attempting to reach Europe and adds an individual, human dimension to the sober facts and figures. In her film, shot on Lesbos and in Vienna, she investigates the visible and invisible traces left by attempts to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing – on the coastlines, in the survivors and in those who provide what humanitarian help they can in exceptional circumstances.
«Create a space where the present and the past overlap.»
Sebastian Brameshuber
Cliff’s garage, where he prepares used cars and second-hand parts for sale and export, is a very special place. And the Nigerian metal dealer, who has built up a business in Austria over the years all by himself, is an extremely distinctive character. In his essay MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN Sebastian Brameshuber creates a portrait of a man and a place, observing a determined loner as he goes about his work inside and outside time, thus bringing history and the present to life in the setting of the Erzberg iron ore mining region in Styria.
Retrospectives RUTH BECKERMANN in Paris, Sarajevo, Bukarest ...
The Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme in Paris is hosting a Ruth Beckermann Retrospektive from April 4 to 7, opening with the most successful Austrian film at international festivals in 2018 THE WALDHEIM WALTZ. Just recently, Ruth Beckermann was also the focus of retrospectives at the Sarajevo Winter Festival and the One World Romania festival in Bukarest.
A GERMAN LIFE on stage in London
A GERMAN LIFE, Brunhilde Pomsel’s compelling testimony about her youth and time as Joseph Goebbels’ secretary in the core of the Nazi power apparatus has been adapted for the stage by Christopher Hampton. The LONDON Bridge Theatre will be presenting the piece starring MAGGIE SMITH from April 6 to May 11, 2019.
WELCOME TO SODOM wins Objectif d’or
The documentary by Florian Weigensamer and Christian Krönes awarded Best documentary with the Objectif d'or at the Millennium Festival in BRUSSELS: "For us the most complete film, that is nearly telling the idealistic story about life and death, survival, about ethic … dramatic circumstances happening in one amazing and extraordinary microcosm."
Guadalajara: Premio Maguey to Valerie Pachner
The Guadalajara Festival Internacional de Cine has awarded Valerie Pachner for her mesmerizing performance in THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET with the Premio Maguey: "Pachner's performance startled and seared like no other in the Premio Maguey this year.", stated the jury.
«A gripping, intelligent psychodrama»
Marie Kreutzer’s Golden Bear competition entry THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET seen by the press:
Variety highlights „a gripping, intelligent psychodrama“, The Hollywood Reporter points out the „depth of insight that is rare in the cinematic treatment of this most misunderstood of diseases“. read more
Berlinale 2019: Prize of the ecumenical jury to EARTH ...
... by Nikolaus Geyrhalter and two more distinctions to German-Austrian co-productions: BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree wins the Compass Perspective Prize, Thomas Heise’s Forum entry HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME the Caligari Prize. The jury statements ...
THE WALDHEIM WALTZ awarded in Atlanta
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival awards Ruth Beckermann’s THE WALDHEIM WALTZ with the
Documentary Jury Prize. The Building Bridges Jury Prize went to Austrian-Czech-Slovak co-production THE INTERPRETER by Martin Šulik.
Berlinale 2019: DIE KINDER DER TOTEN wins FIPRESCI prize
Performance artists Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska (The Nature Theater of Oklahoma) impressed the Berlinale film critics who awared the FIPRESCI Prize to their first cinematic work DIE KINDER DER TOTEN, a silent and gruesome march of the undead, inspired by the overwhelming novel of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek.
«We all function in a performance-oriented society.»
Marie Kreutzer
Lola does everything she can to disown her sister, while Conny does everything she can to compel attention from her sister. Marie Kreutzer’s THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET follows two women, at first sight such complete opposites, as they struggle with family links and the merciless professional world in their attempt to save themselves.
The Guardian: «Geyrhalter proves again that he is a unique figure in world cinema.»
„You’ve heard of climate change but this latest documentary-spectacle from Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter is about landscape change. Read more of the GUARDIAN-review on EARTH by Peter Bradshaw.
3 nominees for the Glashütte Original-Documentary Award
The Berlinale has announced the entries for the Glashütte Original-Documentary Award 2019.
EARTH by Nikolaus Geyrhalter as well as the German-Austrian co-productions BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree and HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME by Thomas Heise are among the 17 contenders for the Berlinale Best Documentary Award. Last year this distinction endowed with € 50, 000 went to Ruth Beckermann’s THE WALDHEIM WALTZ.
«The Earth's crust – its skin – is its most delicate organ.»
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
The concept of the Anthropocene Age, suggesting that humankind has become a greater influence on the planet than nature, is what prompted Nikolaus Geyrhalter to take a closer look in EARTH at the Earth's crust and the internal and external wounds which our drive for progress relentlessly requires.
«Film is a medium of transmission – not only of story, but of spirit. »
Kelly Copper, Pavol Liška – Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Elfriede Jelinek’s powerfully eloquent novel provided the literary basis for the film project DIE KINDER DER TOTEN , where the American performance artists Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska stage a gruesomely eccentric march of the undead in silent film format.
«Es wurde für uns zur Prämisse, dass dieser Film unser Leben retten muss.»
Für ihr Vorhaben, in der Obersteiermark gemeinsam mit der lokalen Bevölkerung im Genre des Heimatfilms zu experimentieren, wagten sich Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska an Elfriede Jelineks Textmassiv Die Kinder der Toten, ohne die deutschen Sprache zu beherrschen. Claus Philipp, künstlerischer Mitarbeiter und Dramaturg, legte durch seine vermittelnde Lektüre den Zugang ins sprachliche Dickicht des 666 Seiten umfassenden Opus magnum und war von Anfang an in der Aufbereitung des Terrains für ein einzigartiges Film-, Performance- und Publikumsprojekt eingebunden.
«I like the genre of comedy because essentially it depicts sad things.»
A Russian businessman plans to construct a villa on a bridge in the center of Vienna, and a number of Viennese people with connections in high places are eager to help him out. Filmmaker Elena Tikhonova, who is from Russia herself but has been living in Austria for years, investigates a clash of mentalities in her first comedy, Caviar, demonstrating that you can have plenty of fun with Russian oligarchs and Viennese deal-makers – provided you know their weaknesses.
Berlinale 2019: Austrian films in Competition and Forum
On top of Marie Kreutzer's Golden Bear contender THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET the Berlinale Forum hosts the world premiere of Nikolaus Geyrhalter's new film EARTH as well as the first feature film of performance artists Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska with their haunting and witty Super-8-approach to Elfriede Jelinek's major novel DIE KINDER DER TOTEN.
«Online encounters have a lot to do with the person's own projections.»
In Gregor Schmidinger’s debut feature film NEVRLAND two young men become lost in a labyrinth between childhood and growing up, between the virtual world and reality, until he sends his protagonists Jakob and Kristjan, both members of Generation Y, plunging into the terrifying depths of their own psyche.
Young Austrian cinema sweeps 7 awards at MOP Saarbrücken
Each of the three Austrian contenders in the main Max Ophüls Prize competition took at least one major award: JOY by Sudabeh Mortezai the MOPs for the socially relevant film and best young actress Joy Alphonsus, NEVRLAND by Gregor Schmidinger the MOPs of the Youth Jury and for best young actor Simon Frühwirth, KAVIAR by Elena Tikhonova the MOP Audience Award.
Ludwig Wüst in focus at Arsenal
One year after the world premiere of Ludwig Wüst’s latest film Departure at the Berlinale Forum 2018, the Berlin based ARSENAL Kino dedicates a retrospective to the film- and theater director LUDWIG WÜST and his intense and idiosyncratic cinematic language from Feb 1 to 3, 2019.
KAVIAR and NEVRLAND vying for Max Ophüls Prize
Young Austrian cinema is represented with two world premieres of two feature debuts in the main Max Ophüls Prize Competition: the culture clash comedy KAVIAR by Elena Tikhonova and NEVRLAND by Gregor Schmidinger, a terrifying coming-of-age journey of a young man into his own self.
Berlinale 2019: Marie Kreutzer’s new film in Golden Bear competition
THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET, Marie Kreutzer’s fourth feature film about two unequal sisters, starring Valerie Pachner, Pia Hierzegger and Mavie Hörbiger has been unveiled as one of the contenders of the 69th Berlinale competition.
«What does being grown-up really mean?»
For his debut feature film Gregor Schmidinger has created a Nevrland between being a child and being grown-up, between reality and fantasy, between the genuine and the staged self. He sends his protagonists Jakob and Kristjan, offspring of Generation Y, into this world on a terrifying journey from the surface to their individual depths. A conversation with Gregor Schmidinger (director) and Ulrich Gehmacher (producer).
JOY reaches for Golden Star at Marrakech
After Venice, London and Chicago Sudabeh Mortezai’s JOY takes again a major award: The 17th Marrakech film festival honors her second feature film with its main prize, the Etoile d’or.
Sundance with thrilling voices from Austria
The 35th SUNDANCE Festival (January 24 to February 3) has reveiled its program with 112 long feature films including thrilling voices from Austria: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala present their first English language movie THE LODGE in the Midnight programm. Richard Ladkani’s SEA OF SHADOWS is part of the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
New Yorker puts THE WALDHEIM WALTZ on its Best Movies 2018-list
The New Yorker magazine has selected THE WALDHEIM WALTZ by Ruth Beckermann, Austria’s entry to compete for the Foreign Language Award, among the 40 best movies of the year.
Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s THE BORDER FENCE competes at IDFA
The Austrian film year ends with a film about frontiers – on the political agenda, in everyday life, in our minds ... Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s accurate observation THE BORDER FENCE is part of the 31st IDFA main competition. Also screening in Amsterdam: THE WALDHEIM WALTZ by Ruth Beckermann in the Masters selection and Amsterdam Human Rights Award Nominee CHAOS by Sara Fattahi in Best of Fests and Main Focus Program.
«At the moment we are working in both worlds.»
Following the resounding success of their debut feature film Goodnight Mommy, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala headed off across the Atlantic. Now, after the episode The Trud for The Field Guide to Evil (world premiere at the 2018 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas) they are back with another full-length feature that aims to scare us out of our wits. THE LODGE was made in association with the British genre institution Hammer Films and will be shown in the Midnight section of the Sundance Festival. A conversation about projects here and there, and the forthcoming remake of Goodnight Mommy.
«In a global context, fences don't solve anything.»
The Austrian government's announcement that it would set up a fence at the Brenner border crossing to ensure refugees didn't stream into the country through Italy prompted Nikolaus Geyrhalter to set off for Tyrol, to capture the creation of this defensive edifice in THE BORDER FENCE.
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Home Films Regions Rest of World The Bank
Director: Robert Connolly
On Demand: Alert Me
When a brilliant young mathematician, on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market, is hired by a corrupt bank CEO, the two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the biggest banking scandals in history.
Set in the fast-paced, ruthless world of high finance, THE BANK, starring Anthony LaPaglia (Lantana, Analyze That, and the CBS hit, Without a Trace) and David Wenham (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King) delivers edge-of-your-seat suspense, and takes a hard look at morality in the corporate world as it hurdles towards its unforgettable and shocking conclusion.
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, David Wenham, Sibylla Budd
Writer(s): Robert Connolly
Producers: John Maynard
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Charlie 'C-bomb' runs half marathon in the capital for Bpositive
Here's Bpositive supporter Charlie 'C-bomb- Vowden after running the Hackney Half in London this morning.
Charlie with her medal after completing the Hackney Half for Bpositive
How 60 seconds of travel can broaden the mind, excite the soul and inspire the explorer in all of us...
Very few things in life excite me more than grabbing my bag, suitcase, rucksack or back pack and heading off to find a new destination to make some memories. I firmly believe that not only does travel broaden the mind (as the adage goes) but it also provides great scope and opportunity in reviewing the life you have left behind, and allows one to think about new opportunities that may lie ahead. Quite simply travelling inspires me and so too did this video about a young man called Andy who walked through 10 countries in 44 days capturing each country with only one second of video footage.
The video aptly entitled MOVE is a complete breath of fresh air for documenting exploration - and makes me wish that instead of capturing over 3000+ photos which are currently sat on my hard drive at home, that I had instead had the foresight to do something similar a few years ago when I took myself around the world on my own personal voyage through SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand andFiji.
The concept initiated (and more than likely funded) by STA Travel and Emirates successfully captures the inspirational qualities and attributes of how taking a chance and seizing an opportunity by making this year your own to travel the world can (and will) ultimately change your life. MOVE certainly inspires. Andy, it is clear, is loving every second (literally) in every destination he reaches and I found myself smiling from ear to ear throughout as we witness Andy skip seamlessly through destinations such as New Zealand, France, Bangkok, Italy, Peru and Australia to name but a few. By the close of the video I couldn't help but think back to my own memories and subsequently, due in part to the infectiousness of the film, felt galvanised to get planning more experiences of my own.
This video is a must for all who share a passion for finding and exploring new ventures on new horizons.
Success at the summit | Charlie's diary for her Three peaks Challenge
The Bpositive team are victorious!
Yorkshire's three highest peaks have been conquered in less than 12 hours by myself and the Bpos crew in the organisation's first ever challenge. And you know what? It feels pretty good.
It all kicked off at 6.54am yesterday in Horton-In-Ribblesdale. Conditions were dry but chilly and visibility worsened as we made our ascent to Pen-Y-Ghent. The top was windy and cloud-covered. The climb itself was fairly easy-going and swift, so despite the poor weather we all felt pretty chipper at trig point number 1. The descent took us along a chunk of the Pennine Way before we went off-piste over Horton Moor. It was here that I walked enthusiastically into a peat bog almost up to my knees. Thankfully I avoided nose diving so didn't have to reapply my mascara! The comical moment broke up the drudge of crossing wet and muddy terrain which we all came out of with soggy boots!
We lost a bit of time crossing the soggy land so really pushed ahead to Ribblehead, picking up the more established path of the Pennine Way. A tea break and some of Katie's fudge flapjacks gave us all a boost. Over four hours in and the initial adrenalin had worn off. The sun decided to make an appearance at this point which was another boost and the scenery, including the impressive viaduct near Bleamoor Sidings, was becoming more and more stunning. Giggles were had when a jet passed overhead rocking side to side in a waving motion. It felt like a good luck salute!
The climb to Whernside was tough on all of us. By now the heat was intense and our muscles were becoming tighter but once we reached the ridge towards the second trig point the views felt like a worthy reward for our hard work. It was at this moment I realised how far we had come as Pen-Y-Ghent loomed across the valley. It also hit home how far we still had to go! Panic was not far away as the clock ticked. The trig point was fairly quiet so we took a few photos then took a snack break. More of Katie's baked goods and some chocolate were consumed before pushing on.
Our descent was steady, by this point both Jan and Katie were finding the uneven ground a little harder to traverse but both had the grin and bear it mentality so carried on! The team was extremely strong-willed when we passed a pub at the foot of the final mountain Ingleborough. Kevin and myself were tempted to pop in for ice cold refreshments but the sight of the tough climb ahead made us stay on the path!
The climb was steep, hot and by far the toughest of the day as we battled tiredness. The team pulled it together and when we reached the summit I felt so proud at how far we had come. True grit had been shown by all - but the day was not over.
When we reached the trig point I couldn't help but let out a 'woo hoo!' and we had it all to ourselves. After a few minutes of bathing in the glory of our achievement I hugged my mum and then started the descent. At this point the team split. Myself and my mum advancing and Kevin and Katie taking a steadier pace behind but after an old lady overtook Katie she decided she wouldn't be beaten and took it up a gear.
The final stretch pushed everyone to their limits. Jan, by this point, was in terrible pain but held back the tears and I swelled with pride as she put one foot in front of the other to ensure that she reached the finish point in 12 hours. Katie showed absolute determination to overcome the discomfort of testing ground and Kevin as ever provided the support that everyone needed. We would not have been able to achieve any of this without him.
What was most important is that we crossed the finish line together. When my mum Jan and I heard Katie and Kevin running to catch us up we were elated. I sang 'We are the Champions' at the top of my voice. We made it!
Click here to see Charlie talking to us about the triumph at completing the challenge.
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Bpositive Three Peaks Challenge triumph!
Congratulations to all the Bpositive trekkers on completing the first ever Bpositive event.
Charlie and her team conquered their challenge of hiking up to three of the highest peaks in Yorkshire in twelve hours. The 'BpositiveTrekkers' Charlie, Katie, Jan and Kevin were aiming to raise awareness for Bpositive and were fully representing the charity's brand with their bpositive T-shirts. Throughout the challenge, the team withstood some very hot conditions during their trek and as you can see from a somewhat pink Charlie in the video (right) sunburn played a factor too.
Stay tuned for Charlie's impending blog and photos of the experiences of charlie and the team on the three peaks challenge.
World's 3rd highest Bungy Jump, NZ
Not your average Sunday afternoon I can promise.
A 'bungy jump' was always on my 'things to do before you die' list - but as I was making my way to the suspended platform in Queenstown, where I would voluntarily plunge the 134 metres with my only hope of survival resting in the elasticated rubber cord, this dream was very much a reality.
After watching my peers jump before me, it wasn't long at all before it was my turn next. As the video (right) shows, all you receive prior to the jump is a short briefing from the instructors (along with some cheers from your group pals) before all that is left is me, my sanity and my courage. I had, naturally, written 'Bpositive' on my forearm and showed it to the camera seconds before my jump.
My Nevis bungy jump was without doubt the most exhilarating experience of my life, the 8 second free-fall was unbelievable and the sense of pride, once I realised I had survived the jump, would stay with me for the remainder of my trip and beyond.
Jonjo Rooney at the 134m Nevis Bungy Jump in Queenstown, New Zealand
Bpositive Challenges blog
A mixture of insightful comments, posts and general 'blogging' from various Bpositive contributors.
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Magpies unlucky against Black and Ambers
James Hemingray
TUMBLE made the short trip to old rivals Pontarddulais on Saturday afternoon (Feb 2) looking for their first win of 2019 and despite a spirited performance still drew a blank by unluckily losing 19-7.
The first half saw the Magpies on top but despite a number of clear scoring opportunities were unable to capitalise, going into the break 9-7 down.
Tumble’s points came from a try by Number 8 Nathan Willard which was converted by centre Steffan Price. Bont hit back with three penalties to take a narrow 2-point lead at the interval.
The second half saw the Magpies again putting pressure on their hosts but unable to get over the whitewash despite the best efforts of Willard who again went close.
Unfortunately, the Black and Ambers started to even up the territory as the half wore on and after a prolonged forward drive went over for their first try after 57 minutes. The conversion was missed making the score 14-7.
Photo by Darren Harries
Again, the game ebbed and flowed with both sides having opportunities to score. As the game wore on the Magpies again put pressure on the Bont try line but just couldn’t get the score that their good work deserved.
With 79 minutes on the clock Tumble were in the Pontarddulais 22 and trying to build another attack when a loose ball at a ruck saw the ball squirt out for the Black and Ambers number 8 to gather and sprint 80 metres to score wide out on the left.
The conversion was missed but the margin was enough to deny Tumble both the victory and the losing bonus point.
Again, this was a spirited performance but not helped by withdrawals and personnel changes late in the week which disrupted the cohesion of the side.
There is plenty of ability in this side they just need to get a wining break from somewhere which will up the confidence and belief.
There is no game next Saturday due to the Italy v Wales international so the boys are next in action in a fortnight when they welcome Mumbles to Parc y Mynydd Mawr, kick-off 2.30pm.
Related Topics:Black and AmbersLeague 2 WestMagpiesPontarddulaisRugbyTumble
Medals all round for Harriers
Strong squad for France opener
Ammanford back on track
Llanelli secure Premiership status
Athletic win with a bonus point again
Felinfoel celebrate second successive title
Rugby team win Rosslyn Sevens Plate
Blacks move up to fourth
More signings as Cwm build squad
FOLLOWING on from announcing their three new signings last week Cwmamman United have announced a further six this week.
Nathan Davies, who has captained the Carmarthenshire League Select side, joins from Bwlch Rangers while Rob Morgans joins having played with Haverfordwest County and Goodwick United previously.
They also announced the signing of four tremendously talented young players in Oliver Diamond, Korey Palmer, Stevie Evans and Joe Lewis.
“We are really pleased to have these boys on board as we are not only strengthening our first team squad with some really talented players ” said Ryan Stephens, First Team Manager, “but we are also building for the future.”
AMMANFORD romped away in a goal fest in this pre season friendly beating their plucky opponents Pontarddulais by ten goals to nil on Friday (Jul 12).
Ammanford Manager Gruffydd Harrison will be pleased with his teams workout and even more excited with his forward line finishing prowess.
There were hat tricks for Gavin Jones who showed excellent pace and new signing Tristan Jenkins along with goals from Lee Trundle, Bruno Forkouh, Mathew Fisher and Craig Frater.
Ammanford have another friendly this Friday (Jul 19) when they take on Ynysygerwn.
After that they travel to Pontardawe Town on Tuesday (Jul 23) before a trip to Welsh Premier League neighbours Carmarthen Town on Saturday (Jul 27).
Carmarthenshire cyclist heading to Mont Blanc
WITH THE TOUR DE FRANCE in full swing and the World’s best doing battle against each other, there is another big cycling event taking place within the French Alps.
The Tour du Mont Blanc claims to be the Worlds toughest road cycling event and Llangadog based cyclist, Matthew Page will be lining up and attempting to complete the arduous route.
The event is a non-stop, circumnavigation around the alpine peak of Mont Blanc, starting in France alpine resort of Les Saisies and heads through Switzerland and Italy before returning to finish back in Les Saisies.
Covering a total of 330km (205 miles) with 8300 vertical metres (27,300 feet) of climbing it is roughly the equivalent to tackling two of the toughest Tour de France stages, back to back without stopping and takes in well known alpine passes including the Grand Saint Bernard, Petit Saint Bernard, Cormet de Roseland and Col de la Forclaz.
Matthew is a former professional Mountain Biker, who competed internationally and specialised in 24hr solo competitions and also Carmarthenshire Sports Personality winner. Now a cycle event organiser and cycling media journalist he organises major off-road events within the county including Battle on the Beach, Gritfest and in November 2019 will be organising a round of the British Cycling cyclocross national series within Pembrey Country Park.
With less than 50% of starters likely to finish, Matthew is understandably apprehensive about the challenge: “This will undoubtedly be one of the hardest days I will ever encounter on the bike and despite having done 24hr events previously, the extra challenges the Tour du Mont Blanc brings, including lack of a support crew, route navigation, logistics and uncertain weather especially at higher altitudes. The event has been a major focus for me this year and I am looking forward to the challenge”.
The event takes place on Saturday July 20, with the fastest riders expected to finish in under 12 hours.
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Cheddar To The Rescue? UK Company Uses Cheese To Power 4,000 Homes
A UK dairy in Yorkshire has signed an agreement with a local biogas plant to supply it with a by-product of cheese-making that would be turned into thermal power to heat homes in the area.
The Wensleydale Creamery, which produces the Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, makes 4,000 tons of cheese every year at its dairy in Hawes in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
The company has struck a deal with specialist environment fund manager Iona Capital, under which an Iona biogas plant will produce more than 10,000 MWh of energy per year from whey—a by-product of cheese making, Wensleydale Creamery said on Monday.
Under the deal, Wensleydale Creamery will provide Iona Capital’s Leeming Biogas plant in North Yorkshire with leftover whey from the process of cheese making. The plant will process and turn the whey into “green gas” via anaerobic digestion that will produce thermal power sufficient to heat 800 homes a year.
Iona Capital already has nine such renewable energy plants in Yorkshire, which save the equivalent of 37,300 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year.
“Once we have converted the cheese by-product supplied by Wensleydale into sustainable green gas, we can feed what’s left at the end of the process onto neighbouring farmland to improve local topsoil quality. This shows the real impact of the circular economy and the part intelligent investment can play in reducing our CO2 emissions,” Mike Dunn, co-founder of Iona, said in a statement.
“The whole process of converting local milk to premium cheese and then deriving environmental and economic benefit from the natural by-products is an essential part of our business plan as a proud rural business. It is only possible as a result of significant and continued investments in our Wensleydale Creamery at Hawes and to sign this agreement and have the opportunity to convert a valuable by-product of cheese making into energy that will power hundreds of homes across the region will be fantastic for everyone involved,” Wensleydale Creamery’s managing director, David Hartley, said.
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Australian Colonial Dance
The History of Music and Dance in Australia 1788-1840. © Heather Clarke
Statement of Significance
What’s in a dance?
Braes of Breadalbane
Captain Cook’s early life – Boscawen’s Frolick
Cheshire Rounds
Dance in the Forty Thieves
Mrs Macquarie’s Cello & The Flowers of Edinburgh
Lady Ann Stewart’s Strathspey
Lady Mary Douglas’ Reel
Lady Sydney’s Fancy
Lasses of Portsmouth
Lord Castlereagh’s Waltz
Lord Howe’s Jig
Lord Sydney’s Fancy
Mundy’s Quadrilles
Nancy Dawson
Port Jackson, a dance from 1796.
The Quadrille Arrives.
The Recruiting Officer
Salamanca Castanets
The Silly Old Man
Swab The Decks
Colonial dance collections
Governor Phillip meets Jane Austen
Boscawen’s Frolick
Sailor’s Hornpipe
Matthew Flinders and the Glorious First of June
Arthur Phillip
William Bligh
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Posted on 12/05/2014 by Heather
Listen to Boscawen’s Frolic as a midi or mp3 Arranged by Roland Clarke 2014
Country dance: triple minor longways.*
A1 1-8 1st couple cast off down the outside and back.
A2 1-4 1st couple lead down below 3rd couple (2nd couple moving up), cast up to 2nd place.
5-8 1st couple lead up and cast into 2nd place, to face first corners.
B1 1-4 Frolick (set or foot) to 1st corners.
B1 5-8 Frolick (set or foot) to 2nd corners.
B2 1-8 Lead out men’s side, cast back into centre. Lead out ladies’ side, cast back into centre, turn two hands.
Cook’s Cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook. It was acquired in 1933 and relocated to Melbourne where it is carefully preserved. It immediately became a popular tourist attraction. The cottage was removed to its present site as a centenary gift to the people of Victoria by Mr Russell Grimwade of Melbourne, in 1934.
James Cook was born on 27 October 1728 at Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, the son of a Scottish farm labourer.
After learning to read at the village school, James’ education continued at the day-school in Ayton, where the Lord of the Manor, Mr. Skottow, recognised his ability and paid for him to be instructed in writing and basic arithmetic. He then assisted James in obtaining employment with a grocer in the fishing village of Staithes. This employment, however, was very unsuitable to young Cook’s disposition.2 The lure of the sea attracted him and after only eight months he moved to nearby Whitby to work on colliers plying the east coast of England. Later he was employed on larger vessels shipping timber from the Baltic, and troops to Ireland.
With this experience he joined the Royal Navy in June 1755 as an able seaman at the relatively advanced age of twenty-six, being promoted to master’s mate following two years in the Channel service. In 1758 Cook joined Admiral Boscawen’s Fleet as master of the Pembroke3 in the campaign for the conquest of Canada from the French. He was involved in a major assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg, in charting the St Lawrence river prior to the siege of Quebec City, and the subsequent Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Another man who was to become a noted explorer in the Pacific, Louis de Bougainville, was also involved in these encounters, serving with the French forces.
Dancing in the Royal Navy
Dancing was a regular activity on board the ships of the Royal Navy. Reports include dancing jigs and reels all night in celebration of successful voyage completed4, a crew dancing on the hatch cover on a sunny summer’s day5, Sir Edward Pellew kidnapping a negro violinist “to furnish music for the sailors’ dancing in their evening leisure, a recreation highly favourable to the preservation of their good spirits and contentment.”6
In Boscawen’s flagship as they sailed westward across the Atlantic in the mild spring of 1755 the men danced nightly to fiddle, fife and drum. It reminded the admiral as he wrote home to his wife of country dances with her in former years.7
The Hon. Edward Boscawen (1711-1761).8
Famed for the statement, “Never fire, my lads, till you see the whites of the Frenchmen’s eyes.”9
Courtesy Darlington Digital Library
Once Cook had his own command, he encouraged his crew to dance, contributing significantly to their health and good cheer whilst circumnavigating the globe. They also danced to entertain the native people they met on their travels.10
The dance Boscawen’s Frolick was published in Thompson’s Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1761 and again in Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Fashionable Country Dances, 1765.11 Admiral Boscawen — Old Dreadnought — to give him the nickname his sailors dearly loved to call him, was a man of action.12 Under the necessity of going into a boat to shift his flag from his own ship to another …a shot went through the boat’s side, whereupon the admiral, taking off his wig, stopped the leak with it, and by this means saved the boat from sinking.13
After a long and distinguished career, Admiral Edward Boscawen died in early 1761. This dance was probably written to celebrate his last victory, the Battle of Lagos in 1759.14
Boscawen’s Frolick from Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Fashionable Country Dances,176515
*Notes on the dance.
The first four sections of the dance have been modified to correspond to 16 bars of music (AA).
While this is a triple minor dance, for modern taste it is recommended that it be danced in a four couple set.
Footing is danced as a backstep: a backwards skip danced on the spot.
Thank you to Anne Daye for dicussions on the interpretation of the dance.
1Cooks’Cottage (also known as Captain Cook’s Cottage) is now located in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. The cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook. It is a point of conjecture among historians whether James Cook, the famous navigator, ever lived in the house, but almost certainly he visited his parents at the house. www.cookscottage.com.au
Photograph of cottage from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Melbourne_Capt_Cooks_Cottage_-_outer00.jpg
2Kippis, Andrew. (1725-1795) A narrative of the voyages round the world performed by Captain James Cook : with an account of his life during the previous and intervening periods. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24366921M/Vie_du_capitaine_Cook
3Robson, John. Captain Cook’s World. Maps of the Life and Voyages of James Cook R.N. Random House, Australia. 2000. p.17. http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/9727313
4Gardner, J.A. Above and Under Hatches, C.C. Lloyd (London, 1955) p. 24 .” When the Panther paid off in 1782 the ship’s company gave a grand supper, with the lower deck illuminated and jigs and reels all night.” As quoted in The Wooden World. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6172135
5Public Record Office, Admiralty Correspondence: ADM 1/920, enc. To E. Hawke, 3 Jun 1755. “Even in the rather unlikely situation of a press tender we hear of a mixed set of pressed men, volunteers, press gang and tender’s crew dancing on the hatch cover on a sunny summer’s day.” As quoted in The Wooden World. .ibid.
6The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954) 27 Aug 1855: 8. Web. 7 May 2014 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12973404>.
7Rodger, N.A.M. The Wooden World. An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. Collins, London. 1986. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6172135
8Edward Boscawen (1711-1761). Engraving. One of the Lords comissioners of the Admiralty and rear admiral of the White Squadron of his Majestey’s fleet. Printed London for John Ryall at Hogarths Head in Fleet Street. Courtesy Darlington Digital Library, Special Collections, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh via National Library of Australia. http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/9347848.
9Viator (pseudn.), “Cornish Topography. To the Editors of the European Magazine.” The European Magazine, and London Review. March 1819 (Volume 75), p. 226 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xxoYAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA226&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
10Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, Vol. I, Streight of Magellan into the South Seas, page 117. http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/hv01/117.html
11Robert M. Keller, compiler. Dance Figures Index: English Country Dances, 1650-1833
on line at www.danceandmusicindexes.org
12Drake and the Dons. (1916, July 27). The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate (NSW : 1898 – 1928), p. 3. Retrieved May 14, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122196228
13ADMIRAL BOSCAWEN’S WIG. (1886, May 22). The Herald (Fremantle, WA : 1867 – 1886), p. 8 Supplement: SUPPLEMENT TO THE HERALD.. Retrieved May 14, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110070392
14Wikipedia entry for Edward Boscawen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Boscawen
15Thompson’s compleat collection of 200 favourite country dances: perform’d at Court Bath, Tunbridge & all publick assemblies with proper figures or directions, to each tune: set for the violin German flute & hautboy. Price 3/6, Vol. 2. [1765].
Eighteenth century collections online [electronic resource] via State Library of New South Wales. http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2169903~S2
The information on this website www.colonialdance.com.au may be copied for personal use only, and must be acknowledged as from this website. It may not be reproduced for publication without prior permission from Heather Clarke.
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Alex Harvey says:
I’d love to visit Cook’s cottage! A true Yorkshire Icon!
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Top Ten Most Expensive Global Office Rents Include Hong Kong, Beijing
Hong Kong's Central Business District ranks second to London's West End as the world's most expensive office market.
According to research published by real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, the top ten most expensive office rental cities ordered from highest to lowest are London, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, New Delhi, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, New York, Sydney, and Paris.
Globally, the office market witnessed prime rents rise by 3% in 2012, but this was largely driven by the impressive levels of growth in South America, particularly Brazil and Colombia. However, although prime rents expanded on a global basis, many markets suffered under continuing economic uncertainty and this led to increased occupier caution.
Cushman & Wakefield expects the trend of companies proactively trying to reduce office occupancy costs to continue as the overall global economic outlook remains unsure.
Beijing, which has experienced previously two years of massive prime rental growth, drops one place to seventh from previous surveys in the global ranking as rents remained unchanged over the last 12 months. Surplus space has provided a number of alternatives in an increasingly tenant-led market in the city.
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SOTU: Obama Tries to Reassure Anxious Public
Posted Jan 12, 2016 2:54 PM
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Obama works at his desk in the Oval Office on Tuesday as he prepares to give his 7th and the final State of the Union address. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
President Barack Obama will take an optimistic message about the future of America to Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening, using his final State of the Union to reassure a distressed public and challenge a restive Congress.
Obama hopes to use his final address to lawmakers to strike a stark contrast with what the White House has described as “gloom and doom” talk from the Republican presidential candidates about the trajectory of the country. He and his top aides are previewing the prime time speech as a break from tradition, saying Obama will speak in broad terms rather than lay out a sweeping legislative agenda.
To address the challenges he will discuss, Obama will say Americans must "fix our politics," according to excerpts released by the White House Tuesday evening.
"A better politics doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything. This is a big country, with different regions and attitudes and interests," Obama will say. But democracy does require basic bonds of trust between its citizens.”
Earlier Tuesday, Obama told NBC News that “There's no doubt that politics in Washington are so much more divided than the American people are. And part of what I want to do in this last address is to remind people: You know what? We've got a lot of good things going for us, and if we can get our politics right, it turns out that we're not as divided on the ideological spectrum as people make us out to be.”
SOTU to Focus on ‘Future Generations’
White House aides also were deployed for a slew of television interviews, describing Obama as more optimistic than ever that the American people are up to the challenges facing the country.
In the address, Obama will call this "a time of extraordinary change – change that’s reshaping the way we live, the way we work, our planet and our place in the world," according to the excerpts.
He will acknowledge that such change will cause "economic disruptions that strain working families," according to excerpts released by the White House. But, in keeping with his upbeat tone, will say the change will bring medical breakthroughs and spread education to "remote villages."
"And whether we like it or not, the pace of this change will only accelerate," Obama will say, noting the country has faced eras of change before.
"Each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future; who claimed we could slam the brakes on change, promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control," Obama will say. "And each time, we overcame those fears. We did not, in the words of Lincoln, adhere to the “dogmas of the quiet past.”
In an apparent swipe at the GOP presidential candidates, the president will say "we saw opportunity where others saw only peril — we emerged stronger and better than before.”
Obama’s upbeat message faces a skeptical audience. After all, a senior House GOP leadership aide circulated a new CBS/New York Times poll that found only 27 percent of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the right direction, while two-thirds think it is on the wrong path. The latest Economist/YouGov survey found similar results with 63 percent of respondents saying the country is “off on the wrong track” and only 26 percent say it is “generally headed in the right direction.”
The president will try and convince them otherwise, and Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the big speech will start with Obama addressing his stewardship of the economy.
Since Obama took office in January 2009, technological advances have translated into Americans losing “all kinds of jobs in a variety of sectors,” Earnest said.
“So the challenge for this country and for the government of the American people is how are we going to support our workforce as we're going through these changes and what can we do to help our workforce capitalize on those kinds of changes,” Earnest told MSNBC, previewing Obama’s expected message.
William Galston of the Brookings Institution said the president “needs to talk about the progress his administration has made on the economy without expressing complacency.”
“The American people think it’s in bad shape,” said Galston, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, citing sluggish annual economic growth and stagnant wages.
“People are relieved we’re not in a recession but that’s not their benchmark,” he added. “It used to be if you worked hard, you’d be better off and your children would be even more better off. People just aren’t sure that’s the case anymore.”
Obama’s top aides are making clear their boss will — though subtly — try to convince Americans they are better off under a Democratic administration. And while the White House says the address is not being written as a political campaign speech, expect it to sound a lot like one.
“I know that there are some candidates, particularly on the Republican side, who have concluded that it's in their interest to try to exploit people's fears and insecurities about those changes,” Earnest said. “The fact is the president's never been more optimistic about the ability of our country and the capacity of our people to meet those challenges.”
Where Obama sees reasons for optimism, the Republican candidates running to replace him, and the party’s congressional leaders, see signs for alarm on issues that range from the health of the economy to immigration, from access to guns to national security.
The GOP front-runner, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that “our economy’s doing horribly.”
“Right now,” Trump said in his signature dramatic style, “the state of our union is a mess.”
House GOP leaders made it clear Tuesday that they’ll judge Obama’s speech by what he says on national security.
“While we’re not certainly expecting much new, there is one thing that we hope to hear from the president — and that is a comprehensive plan to defeat ISIS,” Speaker Paul D. Ryan said at a news conference, referring to the Islamic State. “Americans are so anxious right now about their security, about what’s going on in the world. Just look at what happened today in Istanbul, in a tourist district where at least 10 people were killed.”
For its part, the White House says it ranks violent Islamic extremist organizations, like ISIS and al Qaeda, as America’s top threat.
Obama will try to “reassure the American people … that just as we were relentless in going after al Qaeda and taking out their leadership, disrupting their plots and dismantling that network, we are doing the same thing with [ISIS] today,” Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said Tuesday.
Another national security issue central to Obama’s final-year agenda is his desire to fulfill his campaign promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has held suspected terrorists since 2002. His administration has been transferring cleared inmates out of the facility, paring its population to 104.
Republican Sens. Pat Roberts of Kansas, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Tim Scott of South Carolina plan to wage a silent protest. The trio plans to sit together during the State of the Union in a show of opposition to interest the Obama administration has shown to moving some Guantanamo detainees to prison facilities in their states, a Roberts aide said.
Meantime, House Republican leaders also discussed their low expectations for Obama’s speech during the news conference.
“If the president’s last State of the Union is anything like the rest of his presidency, we know what to expect: status quo, ideas from on high, empty words,” House Conference Chairman Cathy McMorris Rogers said.
House Republicans plan to spend the year crafting an agenda that will contrast the GOP with Obama and the Democratic presidential candidates, aiming to convince voters to elect a leader who shares their ideals.
“Next year, when it’s a Republican president coming to address Congress,” Ryan said, “we will have a mandate to do the big things to get the country back on track.”
Republican leaders appear eager to appeal to younger voters. On Monday, House Republicans released a video ad featuring several young speakers, one calling for a long-term plan to create a “confident America.” Another speaker says “the American people have a choice to make: Do we want a future of business as usual, or a future driven by bold ideas that empower people?”
https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/686561631866781696
“In 2016, Americans have a choice between two different futures,” House Republicans said in a tweet accompanying the spot.
The ad shows Obama at the start of his previous seven addresses to a joint session of Congress, detailing how many words Obama uttered during each speech.
The president used the most words (7,263) in 2010 and the fewest in 2009 (5,902). Last year, Obama needed 6,718 words.
“Mr. President,” says a graphic in the ad, “empty words aren’t going to cut it in 2016.”
Lindsey McPherson and Niels Lesniewski contributed. Contact Bennett at johnbennett@cqrollcall.com and follow him on Twitter at @BennettJohnT.
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The Disney Frozen Review
Disney’s Frozen, like most Disney films¸ originates loosely based on an old tale known as The Snow Queen, there is however a major difference between the main character of The Snow Queen and Frozen. Elsa, the princess turned queen of Frozen, cannot control her powers. This is shown early in the film when young Elsa (Eva Bella) almost loses control and kills her younger sister, Anna (Livvy Stubenrauch). Their parents, desperate to save their daughter, take her to the trolls where it is reviled that Elsa learns that she is extremely dangerous and can hurt others. Elsa and her parents seem to agree to lock her away until she can control her ice powers, and things get worse when Elsa’s parents die in ship wreck at sea.
The audience is then brought into the present on an important day, Elsa’s coronation day as queen. Anna (Kristen Bell) is excited for two reasons: to see her sister in the first time in forever and also because the castle is reopened to the public. We see Anna run through the town of Arendelle where she runs into Prince Hans from the Southern Isles and, like most Disney films, they fall in love and get engaged. After Elsa’s coronation, Anna introduces Elsa (Idina Menzel) to Hans (Santino Fontana) and asks for her sister’s blessing. Elsa, however, denies the couple her blessing which spurs into a fight between the siblings where Elsa loses control of her powers and reveals them to the whole down. Elsa flees the town of Arendelle incase in an eternal winter.
Frozen works in a world of grey, instead of black and white. Unlike where most villains are easily identified, that is not the case with this film. People hide their true intentions or mistakes happen, as in the case of Elsa, and they are perceived as villains.
The soundtrack and script of the film work together in a natural pace and never get tiring. These two aspects work beautifully to create both emotional and hilarious scenes on screen, such as Olaf’s (voiced by Josh Gad) song, “In Summer”, where Olaf speculates what summer must feel life and how he wishes it be summer.
The animation of the film is superb in its continuation of the idea of the fairy tale, from beautiful icy castles to where snowmen dream of summer. This is one of Disney’s greatest movies in all time.
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Frozen Heats Up
If you haven’t heard of Frozen, you have probably not been outside lately. Frozen is the biggest block buster since… Well, it’s huge. You’re probably singing “Let It Go” because the song is everywhere.
Disney’s Frozen underwent several story treatments for years, before being commissioned in 2011. The screenplay was written by Jennifer Lee, and both Chris Buck and Lee serving as directors. Frozen features the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, and Santino Fontana. Christophe Beck was hired to compose the film’s orchestral score, while husband-and-wife songwriting team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez penned the songs.
Once again, this is one of my favorite movies. Did you notice the girl from Tangled? Disney places characters from other films into new films. You need to pay attention, but you’ll be able to find them yourself.
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From Barney to Disney Channel Demi Lovato
If you have been keeping track of Disney, you would have noticed that Disney is everywhere. Disney has become a large corporation. They are no longer just a children dreams company, but a company that has fingers everywhere. This is great for some, but brings the Disney image into question.
Growing up, Disney was synonymous with family values. If you heard Disney made it, you would know it’s safe for young children. However, as Disney grew, so did its audience. It was no longer family. It became adults, teenagers, etc.
Disney made some mistakes growing up. Like any child becoming an adult, they took risks. Some of these risk backfired. Some did not. Looking at it with the knowledge of where Disney is now, it looks like it all worked out.
Disney has found a balance. They are still able to make family friendly movies. Yet, they can still make adult films. I have to hand it to Disney for making it work and keeping the tradition alive.
Thank you Disney
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was unsteady. With little warning, a wall of snow crashed down on the group and buried many of them, according to Tashi's sister in law, Dawa Yanju. Doctors said Tashi, who was partially buried in the avalanche, suffered several broken ribs.The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks.More than 4,000 climbers have summited Everest since 1953, when it was first conquered by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. Hundreds have died trying.The worst recorded disaster on Everest had been a fierce blizzard on May 11, 1996, that caused the deaths of eight climbers, including famed mountaineer Rob Hall, and was later memorialized in a book, "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer. Six Nepalese guides were killed in an avalanche in 1970.Earlier this year, Nepal announced several steps Omega Seamaster Ny
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You are hereHome News Nation and WorldCrews pull 13th body from snow in Everest avalancheMother of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, cries while she waits for his body at Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)Crews pull 13th body from snow in Everest avalancheDaughter of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, cries as her father's body is brought to the Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)Crews pull 13th body from snow in Everest avalancheFather and sons of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, wait for his body to arrive at Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)Crews pull 13th body from snow in Everest avalancheThe body of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, is carried to the Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)Crews pull 13th body from snow in Everest avalancheFamily members of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, cry as his body is brought to the Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)KATMANDU, Nepal Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.Another three guides remained missing, and searchers were working quickly to find them in case weather conditions deteriorated, said Maddhu Sunan Burlakoti, head of the Nepalese government's mountaineering department. But the painstaking effort involved testing the strength of Nike Air Vapormax Plus Black/Orange newly fallen snow and using extra clamps, ropes and aluminum ladders to navigate the treacherous Khumbu icefall, a maze of immense ice chunks and crevasses. Friday near the "popcorn field," a section of the Khumbu known for its bulging chunks of ice. The group of about 25 Sherpa guides were among the first people making their way up the mountain this climbing season. They were hauling gear to the higher camps that their foreign clients would use in attempting to reach the summit next month.One of the survivors told his relatives that the path had been unstable just before the snow slide hit at an elevation near 5,800 meters (19,000 feet). The area is considered particularly dangerous due to its steep slope and deep crevasses that cut through the snow and ice covering the pass year round.As soon as the avalanche occurred, rescuers, guides and climbers rushed to help, and all other climbing was suspended.Seven of the 12 bodies pulled out and brought down Friday were handed over to their families in the Everest region, while the other five were taken to Katmandu, Nepal's capital.Four survivors were conscious and being treated in the intensive care units of several Katmandu hospitals for broken ribs, fractured limbs, punctured lungs and skin abrasions, according to Dr. Pandey from Grande Hospital. Others were treated for less serious injuries at the Everest base camp.Jon Reiter from Kenwood, California, said he was climbing with an Australian partner when his Sherpa guide pushed him behind ice blocks and out of harm's way when the avalanche struck."We were moving up to Camp 1 just after dawn when we heard that 'crack,' " said Reiter, 49. "My first thought was to film it, and I reached for my camera. But the Sherpa yelled to get down. Things started happening in slow motion.It's not clear how close Reiter was to the avalanche when it killed the Sherpa guides. But in response to questions, Reiter wrote on his blog Saturday: "There were very few western climbers in the area and all of us had our climbing Sherpa by our sides and they all survived."Hundreds of climbers, guides and support crews had been at Everest's base camp preparing to climb the 8,850 meter (29,035 foot) peak when weather conditions are most favorable next month. As with each year, the Sherpa guides from each of the expedition teams had been working together to prepare the path by carving routes through the ice, fixing ropes on the slopes and setting up camps at higher altitudes.One of the injured guides, Dawa Tashi, said the Sherpas were delayed on their way up the slope because the path Rolex Daytona Zenith
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Air Canada’s dream machine
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner
by CAMILLE CHIN June 2014
Air Canada’s first Boeing 787 Dreamliner just landed. The airline will have 37 by the end of 2019. Fifty percent of the 787 is made of composite materials and just 20 percent aluminum. The 787 is 20 percent more fuel efficient than the 767 it’ll replace. That means less risk of metal fatigue thus a higher cabin pressure and humidity level are possible, which’ll be comfier for flyers. Its International Business Class features 20 lie-flat Executive Pods and 18-inch personal entertainment screens. Its Premium Economy Cabin has 21, 19.5-inch seats with 38 inches of legroom. Economy has 210 seats — and not much else. The aircraft’s dimmer-switch-controlled windows are larger than average, and each seat has a universal power and USB outlet. The 787 will be previewed on some domestic and transatlantic flights. AC’s first new route with 787 service will be Toronto-Tokyo/Haneda in July. Its Toronto-Tel Aviv route will convert to 787 service this summer; its Vancouver routes to Tokyo and Shanghai over the 2014-2015 winter. 787.aircanada.com.
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The Dominic Rodgers Trust
Promoting carbon monoxide awareness, saving lives
Stacey’s story
Author: Dominic Rodgers Trust
Dominic’s Day
Dominic Rodgers died in 2004 as a result of Carbon Monoxide poisoning that came from a neighbour’s faulty boiler. The carbon monoxide seeped through brickwork and killed him as he slept.
He would have turned 24 this year and 12th February 2018, will be the 14th anniversary of his death
This Saturday (3rd February) his two beloved football teams Huddersfield Town and Manchester United go head to head to play at Old Trafford.
Stacey Rodgers, Dominic’s mum says “Every year we look at different ways to get awareness out to people and we thought it would be fitting tribute to Dom to do something when Huddersfield play Manchester United”.
The Trust will be sending out messages which will appear on fans smartphones in and around Old Trafford stadium delivering CO safety messages and directing them to the Dominic Rodgers Trust website with a fitting message to all the fans.
Dwayne Wilkinson, aged 25 and a friend of Dominic says “Me and Dom was best friends growing up as we went to the same school and lived in the same area. One memory that always sticks with me is when on one winter day there was a knock on the door when my mum opened it there was Dom stood soaking wet in his full Man United goalkeeper kit and football in his hand asking if I was going round to the park to play football, we never went we ended up playing on the PlayStation all day and he stayed for dinner and tea.
The love he had for football was something special we shared together and had great times playing and watching football, He loved Man United and Huddersfield Town”.
The campaign has been supported by the Gas Distribution Networks (GDN’S).
Tom Bell, Head of Social Strategy at Northern Gas Networks and Chair of the Gas Distribution Networks CO Collaboration Forum, said:
“The gas distribution networks were delighted to support The Dominic Rodgers Trust when they approached us to support them with targeting football supporters with carbon monoxide (CO) messaging.
CO is often referred to as the silent killer as it’s colourless and odourless, and can kill in three-minutes. Annual boiler servicing and installing an audible alarm provides the best protection.
“We are keen to use as many methods as possible to cascade this essential information and will be working closely with Stacey Rodgers to see the benefits of texting safety messages to targeted audiences.”
Stacey said “we would like to thank the GDN’S for making this campaign happen as a tribute to Dominic, and will hopefully be targeting different audiences across the UK in the future”.
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Music for a while shall all your cares beguile
National Care Home Days
Amateur, Care Homes, Intergenerational Music, Young Musicians
Coloma Court Care Home welcomed us back for a second year in a concert celebration of National Care Homes Day. Young musicians from Hayes School, Bromley took part alongside Margaret Archibald clarinet and Ian Fasham trombone from Everyone Matters. All morning was spent in school rehearsing a varied selection of repertoire that included arrangements for full wind ensemble of Washington Post, Dambusters and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, brass consort pieces from the 16th century contrasted with Razzamajazz, a movement of a Trio Sonata for flutes by the Baroque composer Johann Ludwig Krebs and an arrangement for clarinets and saxophone of a Purcell Air, and a spectacular version of Tico Tico for euphonium solo. Our two Mozart Divertimento movements saw the ensemble with the widest age range, led by amateur clarinet player Rosemary whose 80th birthday is in September, with 13 year old Aisling from Langley Park School for Girls on second clarinet.
A retired priest who is now resident at Coloma Court told us of his first encounter with Washington Post when, aged just four, he followed the band for such a distance that his mother had to alert the local constabulary to find him! Another lady, resident in the UK for many years but originally from Germany, became very emotional on hearing the Dambusters March. As the concert came to an end Maria, Manager of the Home, thanked all the performers for their hard work and presented Margaret with a gorgeous bouquet.
A summer bouquet for a summer event
Joy Corbett, Coloma’s super-energetic Activities Organiser, had ensured a generous supply of cream scones for sharing by performers and audience after the concert, and there was much lively conversation between the generations as fingers became sticky with jam.
This event was supported by Waitrose Bromley South through the Community Matters “green tiddlywinks” scheme, and by Coloma Court and the Friends of Everyone Matters.
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Music Matters Autumn 2014
Amateur, Events, Everyone Matters, Lecture-Recitals, Music Matters
The new series of Music Matters lecture-recitals starts on Tuesday 9 September at 7.30p.m. The beautiful setting of the Chapel at Whitgift House is once again the venue for our fortnightly Tuesdays.
A subscription of £71 for the full autumn season represents a saving of pretty much 21%. If your Tuesdays are often busy then please do come along whenever you can and simply pay on the door, £10 per lecture-recital and £20 for our special Gala Night.
MUSIC MATTERS 7.30 – 9.30p.m. (doors open 7p.m.)
– a series of Lecture-Recitals in the Chapel at Whitgift House, 76, Brighton Road, South Croydon, CR2 6AB
AUTUMN SEASON 2014
Tuesday 9 September: Margaret Archibald
Carl Orff – creator of Carmina Burana and Schulwerk
Margaret is Artistic Director of Everyone Matters and has played Carmina Burana many times in her capacity as an orchestral clarinet player
Tuesday 23 September: Alan Shellard
The Band of the Grenadier Guards – 330 years of Music
Alan is Principal Clarinet of the Band of the Grenadier Guards and has made a special study of the archive at Wellington Barracks
Tuesday 7 October: Danielle Perrett
Music for 47 Strings
Danielle tours internationally with her harps, performing on both modern and period instruments
Tuesday 21 October: David Angel
Their sounds in my ears – the violinists I grew up with!
David is a member of the Maggini Quartet and a favourite lecturer at Music Matters
Tuesday 4 November: Charlotte Bartley with fellow students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Music for recorder consort
Tuesday 18 November: Gala Night – Chamber Music Special
Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Margaret Archibald joins four members of the London Mozart Players, Nicoline Kraamwinkel, Martin Smith, Mickey Posner and Julia Desbruslais, to explore and perform Mozart’s late masterpiece
Tuesday 2 December: David Juritz
Chaconnes and Caprices
David, violinist extraordinaire of World Busk fame, now crams his days as soloist, as leader of numerous orchestras and of the London Tango Quintet, and as Founder of the charity Musequality.
Tuesday 16 December: Maya Magub + 1
A duo partnership
Violinist Maya is re-establishing a busy freelance career in London after returning from several years living in Los Angeles and working in the film industry there. She has made several historically informed solo and duo recordings and will soon reveal who her duo partner will be this December!
£10 per lecture-recital (not 18 November)
£20 for the Chamber Music Special on 18 November
Advance subscription: £71 for all eight lecture-recitals
Cash, or cheque payable to “Everyone Matters”, in advance or on the door. Bank transfer in advance to Everyone Matters Reg.Charity No.1143445, sort code 30-84-51, account number 34739560
If you would like interval refreshment you are welcome to bring your own tea or coffee; the pews may seem hard after a while so feel free to bring your own cushion!
Finding Whitgift House Chapel
Whitgift House stands in the grounds of Whitgift School, but with its own gate on Brighton Road. Do not go up the hill to the school.
The gate is just north of a bus stop, opposite Choices estate agents with its bright red and yellow sign. The bus stop is more visible than the entrance!
If you are standing on the drive facing the house, you will see to the left of the house a large wrought iron gate leading through into part of the garden. The chapel is accessed by going into the garden through this gate, and then going through the very first door on your left. The Chapel does have toilet facilities.
Free on-site car park facilities are available to our group members as space allows. Buses stopping outside Whitgift House are: 407, 312, 60, 166, 466. Also buses: 119, 468, 405, 403 stop nearby at the Swan and Sugarloaf. The nearest station is South Croydon, and East Croydon station is a brisk walk away.
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For the first time available on DVD!! The complete set includes all 12 episodes on 12 DVDs with Teacher Guide.
Grade level: 6-9
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A "field trip" like no other, Interactions takes middle and high school students on-site to meet professionals in fields ranging from sports to space exploration, to discover the role that middle school math concepts play in solving real-life problems.
Judo and percentages. Designing sunglasses and statistics. Recycling and fractions. These connections, and more, become apparent as engineers, designers, musicians, athletes and others explain how they meet the day-to-day challenges of their professions.
Teacher and student materials accompanying the series enable students to become "colleagues" of the professionals they meet and use their math skills to plan their own recycling programs, to monitor the recovery of endangered animals, to design vehicles to explore other planets, to calculate the power generated by solar cells, and so on.
Interactions Episodes:
Solar Energy: Can people in remote rural areas who are far from electric generating plants get power for their lights and appliances? Solar cells make it possible. Mechanical and electrical engineers at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories take viewers through the process of designing and installing solar cell panels in remote locations. Geometry, Percents
Water Resources: What does it take to estimate how much water a large city will need 25 years into the future? The chief of urban water conservation for the State of California explains the challenges of supplying water to a growing population of millions, much of which lives in the desert. Patterns/Functions, Measurement
Endangered Species: Can we bring back species that are on the brink of extinction? A Native American wildlife biologist, Robert Mesta, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, combines scientific training and traditional Indian values to help bring the Arizona bald eagle off the "endangered species" list. Ratios, Patterns
Recycling: A few years ago, Seattle, Washington faced an overwhelming garbage crisis. City planners and engineers describe how they created a recycling program that has become a model for the nation. Viewers will see, from beginning to end, how the recycling process gets done. Percents, Fractions
Digital Communication: What is the information "Superhighway" really all about? Communications engineers at GTE, and US WEST provide a remarkably clear introduction to the basic concepts of the digital communications revolution. Viewers will see how 1's and 0's represent graphics, video, and even sounds. Exponents, Patterns/Functions, Powers of 10
Making Music: Do musicians really use much math? A composer takes students behind the scenes as she creates music for HBO's "Comic Relief," and a renowned percussionist demonstrates the rhythmic patterns used in jazz, rock, hip-hop and other popular music styles. Ratios, Proportions, Fractions
The Fashion Business: In a rare visit to the design studios and factory at Levi Strauss & Company. design, marketing and sales professionals reveal how they meet the demand for America's favorite clothing. Viewers may never look at jeans the same way again. Decimals, Percents, Statistics
Coaching an Athlete: What young athlete doesn't dream of being in the Olympics? From a five mile run at dawn, to workouts on the mats, the head judo coach for the U.S. Olympic Training Team uses math to create training programs that put athletes at the peak of physical ability. Percents, Statistics
Designing a Product: How is a pair of sunglasses like a coffee maker? Both are the end result of problem-solving. A senior product designer at Bausch and Lomb, takes viewers into the design studios and factory to see how a new style of Ray Bans(r) are created and manufactured. Statistics, Percents, Geometry
Building a Rover: To traverse the surface of the Moon or Mars, a vehicle must be able to think for itself. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's testing ground, a team of scientists demonstrates the rover that will soon wander over the Martian landscape. Geometry, Patterns/Functions
Voyage to Mars: How do you plot a course to Mars, from one moving planet to another? What are the impacts of space travel on the body and can human beings survive the trip? Viewers will take a look at the plans for a flight to the Red Planet. Geometry, Decimals
Deep Sea Missions: It's cold; it's dark. The pressure is immense. A. pilot and scientist from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute navigate a remotely operated deep-sea vehicle through underwater canyons, filming the ocean floor and collecting samples. Geometry, Ratios, Patterns/Functions
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
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Interactions: Real Math-Real Careers COACHING AN ATHLETE
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Q&A: Kim Currie talks local produce and simplicity
The chef/owner of The Zin House in the Mudgee Region is passionate about locally sourced ingredients and minimal intervention.
Where did the passion for celebrating regional food come from?
The realisation, when running my first restaurant 30 years ago, that you cannot separate being part of a community from what is produced in that community. And it's in my genes, as my grandparents were market gardeners and my mother a fabulous cook.
Why is it important to celebrate regional food?
You not only end up with great food but you get to be part of a connected chain of production. These days, the regional food movement is also playing an important role in educating kids and communities about healthy, sustainable eating and farming.
Do you think the industry as a whole is good at supporting local and regional produce?
It's so much better than years ago but there’s still a lot of lip service in an industry and public much obsessed with what food looks like rather than what goes into a dish.
You worked in catering and organising major events before opening your own venue – do you prefer cooking en masse or the intimacy of the restaurant?
There’s a certain buzz and challenge associated with good catering and satisfaction in delivering catered food that has flavour, not just ‘function’ food, but my heart is definitely in the restaurant kitchen these days and the flexibility of following my garden that smaller numbers allows. I also don’t miss the stress and constant packing and unpacking.
The food at The Zin House is from as close as possible with as little intervention as possible. Why do you think simplicity is important?
David Lowe says that making organic wines means you have less weapons – perhaps similarly simple food gives you less places to hide. Simplicity is one half of the partnership with cooking from scratch, so it doesn’t mean we don’t do anything, just that everything is considered and not unnecessarily complicated. It’s about choosing not to stack, squeeze and smear on plates or smothering everything with micro herbs. It’s about seeing beauty in simple things and combinations, and appreciating what nature does without always feeling compelled to improve on that. It’s the little black dress of the food world.
What do you think about the complexity within the industry in terms of techniques, presentation, ingredients and flavours?
It’s fine for those people who choose to use all the gadgetry but no one should believe it’s necessary to being a good cook. For me, I think about the favourite meals I’ve ever enjoyed and it’s as often about the people and surroundings, closely followed by good home cooking or pared back professional cooking. A chef can own the most expensive collection of Japanese knives on the planet and it won’t improve my meal one bit.
What are your future plans and aspirations?
We’ve just booked Leo Sayer for a concert on The Zin House lawn in February next year. I’m looking forward to having some fun combining my skills in event management with that as a restaurateur to create personal, high quality concerts.
We’re also looking at an eco-lodge – just to keep busy.
What are your hopes for the future of the foodservice industry in terms of regional/local produce?
That it’s just expected, not an add on. That farmers are paid well as an encouragement and a reward for hard work and custodianship. That customers demand authenticity and quality, and value that as much as technique riddled food.
What are you most excited about in your garden/on your menu at the moment?
Winter is the time you really appreciate tough performers – spinach of all sorts particularly, sorrel and herbs are always favourites. My grove of blood oranges has survived another winter and given up a small crop, so spinach salad with blood oranges, and parsley and kales through lots of savoury dishes.
I always love having access to raw honey from our own hives and our honey ice-cream has become a signature part of a Zin House dessert.
Mostly I’m excited to know that the garden has been well tended and ready to spring into action as it warms up.
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Lobby March
by Claire La Combe
This past month of March was kind of a renaissance of lobbying within the European film industry. Stakeholder organisations might not have been taking that many actions toward the European Commission since Cannes 2013 – when the TTIP[1] negotiations were to include cultural works – and maybe toward the European Parliament since 2010 with the ACTA treaty[2].
At stake (again)? The preservation of diversity in films, via the threat on the financing mechanisms of the industry. And behind this: the European Commission plan to harmonise the copyright law and licensing in the 28 member states in the frame of building a Digital Single Market (DSM) and the initiative report led by the pirate deputy (MEP) Ms Julia Reda, which echoes to it in the European Parliament.
(Re)assuming the role of stakeholder organisations in Europe
Since January, the new Commission, presided by Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, has been presenting here and there its concept of DSM, together with modernisation of copyright, as one of its priority. Finding an assumed road map in the draft initiative report on the harmonisation of copyright (MEP Julia Reda), Commissioners GüntherOettinger and Andrus Ansip (DG CONNECT) are multiplying calls against geoblocking and territorial licences and keep pointing at national rights as barriers for creative business in Europe. Yet, the answer from various film professionals came out rapidly: authors’ rights are the core of the European film financing system, and altering it will undermine European creation and diversity. And against the Commission repeated motto “we want to get rid of the fragmented market”, stakeholders had to organise and to reunite strongly to be heard.
From early March, joint letters have been addressed to Commissioner Oettinger, from the producer associations to authors’ collective organisations, including distributors and exhibitors’ associations or Television alliances from all over Europe. And the issue is the same for all: in altering the existent legal framework, there is a danger to reduce the diversity of European film making. For authors and film-makers, copyright is the essence of remuneration of their work; for producers, national rights are the core of film financing with pre-sales; for distributors, territorial licences are basis for their business; for exhibitors, existing European screening rules stay the backbone of their economy. And they all agree – and wrote about it – that in the end, they were all fighting for the same thing: they want films to be created and to be seen as much as possible. It might seem rhetorical but this had to be stated: film professionals are first to want the industry to be competitive and innovative. As an “opening” conclusion, all letters requested an assessment of the existing copyright system to the Commission before it makes any reform.
In parallel, coalition of national bodies took actions. As a symbol, former Labour MEP Carole Tongue launched the Association of European Coalitions for Cultural Diversity (CEDC) which gathers members in 13 European countries including France, Germany, the UK and Spain. “We are also responding to an urgent situation, as the Commission is about to make proposals for copyright reform in the EU”, she explained on March 4th. Born with the UNESCO Convention of 2005 on protection and promotion of cultural diversity in Europe, the national coalitions decided to form this new group in Brussels, to be more efficient in lobbying for a modernised creative financing and tax system. Also, on March 17th, the Association of the European Film Agency Directors (EFAD) – recently established in Brussels – published its joined resolution on the copyright reform claiming that modernisation of film industry in the digital era would require reinforced rights. “The EFADs do not see a need to change the current EU copyright framework but are ready to explore any measures that could further improve access to the promotion of European works for audiences (through improved portability of content for example) without hindering the financing or exploitation of works”.
Definitely, European stakeholder organisations have revitalised themselves through the copyright issue. It is first a matter of renewal of the European political class, which “forces us to once again explain who audiovisual authors are, how audiovisual works are created, financed, distributed, how the sector is structured” wrote Cecile Despringre (Authors’ society SAA) at the occasion of the publication of their 2nd “White Paper on Audiovisual Authors Rights and Remuneration in Europe”. But it is also a question of urgent topic as copyright is a priority action for the Commission.
(Re)petitions to protect authors’ rights in France
As a solid supporter of the 2005 UNESCO convention and European white knight of authors’ rights, France has been playing its role to march against the Commission DSM strategy project and to organise the opposition to Julia Reda’s initiative report.
The French Secretary for European Affairs (SGAE) was the first to “shoot” the German MEP report. In a letter sent to French MEPs in February, the SGAE highly criticized the report for being partial: “too much focused on users’ rights”; even not mentioning the issue of host providers’ status or any ruling alternatives to actual commercial practices which are depriving authors from fair remuneration. In the French government, it seems that nobody trusts the only Pirate Party deputy in the Parliament to deal properly with authors’ rights. And this view is generally shared among French stakeholders: “this is as if we asked the fox to establish rules in the henhouse” ghastly smiled CEO Arnaud Nourry of Hachette publishing group at the Authors & Co conference organised in Paris on March 12th by the SACD (Authors society).
After the SGAE position and some expected reactions in the European Parliament, French Minister for Culture and Communication, Fleur Pellerin took the lead of the opposition to Reda’s report and to the Commission’s DSM. On March 4th the minister, with her counterpart from Germany, Minister Monica Gütters, took part in the launching of a parliamentary intergroup on creatives and cultural industries. The latter, was precisely an initiative of the French socialist MEP PervencheBerès and was the occasion to present the GESAC (Authors collective right societies) and Ernst&Young study on Creative growth. With arguments based on this study, the French minister and a growing handful of MEPs from all over Europe, argue that the first thing to be harmonised is the tax system. And here is one conclusion to a deeply controversial European topic: authors’ rights are not barriers but their denial by the GAFAs (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) are. Playing with tax rules differences in Europe, and benefiting from free creative content with no accountability in return (no fee, no profit sharing, no private responsibility), digital intermediaries, together with pirates, are cheating creators – and the whole producing and right holder chain – from their rightful incomes (ie. from their substantial means to keep creating).
In addition in France, another report on the revision of Directive 2001/29/ECon Copyright[3] is talked about. Established by Mr. Pierre Sirinelli from the High Council For Literary and Artistic Property (CSPLA) and published last December, the report underlines in substance that the revision of the Copyright directive is not urgent: practices have to be modernised but existing texts are flexible and good enough to enable this shift. According to Mr. Sirinelli, received by the French Senate on March 10th“the emergency of a revision only concerns the 2000 E-Commerce Directive”. Again, the vision is that the existing rights in Europe are not barriers to circulation of creative works in Europe, limits are made by commercial practices themselves. “The role of intermediaries has to be discussed and negotiated with right holders” concluded Pierre Sirinelli. On March 25th, it was up to collective right management organisations to be received by the Senate. Among them, Mr. HervéRony – recent chairman of the quoted Authors & Co conference – insisted: “we have been pledging for a long time for the revision of the E-Commerce Directive”. In the end, the Commission, politicians and stakeholders agree on one thing: creative contents have to be spread to the widest audience possible; the concept of portability “is not anecdotic” but “this issue is not related to authors’ right“.
One can wonder why…on March 21st at the Book Fair in Paris, French Commissioner Pierre Moscovici (Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs) timidly sat on the fence: “We will have to consider the role played by territorial licences in cultural financing, while pushing professionals to innovate and to take into account users’ needs”. To be mentioned, as a final reminder he said: “the Commission is not, can’t be, mustn’t be, will not be an enemy”.
(Re)percussions in Brussels and beyond
At the end of March finally, in Brussels, texts and statements sounded slightly different from their early 2015 versions. In the Parliament, the two majors texts to be voted in Committees CULT (Culture & Education) and JURI (Legal affairs) – respectively Wenta’s initiative report on European film in the digital era and Reda’s initiative report on harmonisation of copyright – shifted toward the authors’ side. In the Commission, people from the DG Connect seem to call for a status quo regarding the Film industry.
Lot of noise was made around Wenta and Reda reports. If we had to make a caricature, the first (from CULT) was reputed “pro film industry”, defending the enforcement of authors rights, multi-territorial licences and national film support schemes; when the second (from JURI) was reputed “pro users”, defending exceptions to authors’ rights, unique licence and pan-European access to content. Both initiative reports received lots of amendments to rebalance in a way or another the trend for users or creators. On March 24th, the CULT Committee voted on Wenta‘s report with not much trouble and with little “pro users” amendments to pass. On March 24th, the vibe was quite different in the JURI Committee: 556 amendments were submitted to the rapporteur. This resulted in the cancellation of the discussion on that day because Julia Reda and her team couldn’t treat compromised amendments in due time. A lobby trick?
Sort of. Among the 556 amendments, more than 50% came from French MEPs. Jean-Marie Cavada, vice-president of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), and shadow rapporteur on the initiative, was one of the most virulent on the topic. In March, the fight between him and Julia Reda became quite personal. Via personal letters, emails, tweets or individual interviews, one could follow a sort of fight between “the old grumpy” versus “the young inexperienced“. Each of them used tricks: spams for the Pirate party, traditional lobby manoeuvres for the former Radio France executive. Recently addressed by 24 associations and copyright civil groups in a letter denouncing the lack of representativeness in the Copyright Working Group he is chairing, Jean-Marie Cavada simply answered “I was really astonished by this letter blaming him for being too close from cultural industries“. But in fact, the huge number of amendments was the consequence of more than this trivial trick. “It’s been a long time I’ve seen that amount of lobbying” said MEP Mary Honeyball, also shadow rapporteur of the report.Amendments came from MEPs from all wings and countries, and “most of the amendments represent the same position” underlined MEP ThérèseComodini. This means that the concerns were real and that stakeholders’ reaction was massive everywhere. This also means that an agreement is possible, even if, Comodini added, “in the end real difficulties will be left“. When Julia Reda took the floor on that day, she finally adopted a very reassuring purpose: “geoblocking would not destroy the territorial rights (…) what counts is that people can access legally to whatever the content they paid for”. And everyone could agree on her last statement: “nothing will be decided before an impact assessment on national copyright system is carried”, she said. The Committee’s vote on the initiative has been postponed to May 6th.
Coincidence: May 6th is also the date picked up by the European Commission to present its DSM strategy. This was announced last Wednesday, on March 25th by Commissioners Ansip and Oettinger, while giving to the press the Commission broad lines on the Digital Agenda. After two months of intense campaign against national barriers at national levels, something sounded different in the Commissioners’ comments. Catchphrases remained: “Let us do away with all those fences and walls that block us online” said Andrus Ansip, but in the core of the orientations, some statements came out for the first time. Territorial licences vs unique licence were not debated. The focus was made on portability of “legally acquired contents” and on transnational services. Again this echoed with the Parliamentary clarification made by Julia Reda a day before…But “negotiations will be difficult due to national and economic concerns”, the Commissioner admitted. Instead of a summer legislative proposal, Andrus Ansip confirmed that nothing would be decided before this autumn.
What if…“I believe some exemptions would be needed for Culture for the Digital Single Market, but it is certainly too late” (HervéRony, Scam – French Senate Audience). What if it was not too late? At the end of March, European institution bodies appeared a bit more reasonable. As if an open door for creative works, in opposition to audiovisual flow, was let. As if Culture could still be an “exception”, and that the discussions could be refocused on commercial and technical issues. At the end of this past month “march”, French senator Catherine Morin Desailly (Culture Committee) invited Julia Reda for a speech on April 2nd. The senator noted: “I came to the conclusion that deputies from the Pirate Party were far more aware of technological and digital issue. We (senators), have a lot of work to do on this topic”. Let’s the lobby be on ?
And yet some upcoming talks to come:
2nd April – French Senate Culture Committee: hearing on harmonisation of copyright and related rights.
From 2pm, in Paris, hearing with MEP Julia Reda organised by Senator Catherine MorinDesailly.
10th April – Forum d’Avignon: Droit d’auteur ‘Made in Europe’rights
8:45 to 10:30am in Paris, Theatre de l’Odeon, in partnership with Ernest & Young
14th April Next meeting with shadow rapporteurs on Julia Reda’s report on the harmonisation of copyright: MEP Therese COMODINI CACHIA; MEP Mary HONEYBALL; MEP Angel DZHAMBAZKI; MEP JeanMarieCAVADA; MEP Kostas CHRYSOGONOS and MEP Laura FERRARA. For procedure file, click here.
16th April – European Parliament Committee Meetings
In Brussels. CULT & JURI Committee.
JURI: discussion on Pavel Svoboda’s report (Intellectual Property rights) & TTIP negotiations /draft agenda available here
CULT: discussion on Julia Reda’s report & TTIP negotiations / draft agenda available here.
27th April – Plenary session in Strasbourg
European Parliament debate on Wenta report (procedure available here).
[1]TTIP: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. In 2013, a petition for preserving cultural exception in the negotiations was signed by more than 5000 film professionals (see archive here). For more on TTIP and Culture, click here.
[2] ACTA: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. For more, you can refer to the 2011 European Audiovisual Observatory IRIS article: here.
[3]“on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society”
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Highlight of his career was lifting the Claret Jug in 2010, cruising to a seven-stroke victory at St Andrews in just his ninth Major appearance. Completed a ‘Career Slam’ of runner-up finishes in Major Championships when he came joint second in the 2017 US PGA Championship. Many of those near misses remain highly memorable, from his play-off defeat to Zach Johnson in the 2015 Open Championship to his final round albatross at the 2012 Masters Tournament, which ultimately ended in a losing play-off to Bubba Watson. Claimed an emotional victory in 2019, which broke a near three year winless drought, when he won the South African Open hosted by the City of Johannesburg for his ninth European Tour title. A stellar amateur career included a partnership with fellow future Major winner Charl Schwartzel as part of the winning South African team at the 2001 World Junior Team Championships – the pair teamed back up in the 2011 World Cup of Golf.
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Ron Quesada is a musician on a mission to make the “kulintang” a household name. By fusing this ancient Filipino gong instrument with modern electronic dance music, Ron has created a sound all his own that he calls “Kulintronica”. With the release of the single(s) “Calling My Name,”and “River Clouds,” now on iTunes he is preparing to tour and release his debut album in 2014.
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Tennis Briefs: ATP Delray Member Appreciation; UF Tops Florida
ATP Delray USTA Member Appreciation Reception, Discount Tickets Announced
USTA Florida members can mark their calendar's for next month's Delray Beach Open by The Venetian Las Vegas, the world's only 10-day ATP Champions Tour and ATP World Tour combined event.
The annual USTA Member Appreciation Reception, featuring lunch, gifts and appearances by ATP pros, will be held on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015 from 1-2:30 p.m.
"Present your membership card to enjoy a complimentary lunch, drinks and gifts while hanging out alongside ATP pros," say tournament officials. "A valid ticket for that session is necessary to enter the tournament grounds."
That Monday will also feature the kick-off of singles and doubles first-round play, along with USTA Kidz Day.
A USTA Member Discount will be in effect from Feb. 13-20, where USTA members receive specially-priced (20% off) discounted tickets for sessions 1-14 (day and evening). A limited number of discounted tickets are available and must be purchased by Jan. 31, 2015.
Among the players confirmed in the 2015 ATP World Tour field are John Isner, Juan Martin del Potro, 2014 US Open champ Marin Cilic, and the Bryan brothers. Among the ATP Champions field will be James Blake, Michael Chang and Goran Ivanisevic.
For more info go to www.yellowtennisball.com/usta.
University of Florida Men, Women Primed for Spring College Tennis Season
Josie Kuhlman (photo: UF/Tim Casey)
The University of Florida, the only Florida school and one of only 16 schools with both the men's and women's teamed ranked in the Top 25, will embark on the spring season with the women at the No. 3 spot and the men at No. 13 on the ITA Division I College Tennis Rankings.
Florida's Brooke Austin is the highest-ranked freshman after semifinal finishes at both fall national tournaments, rising to the No. 6 overall ranking. Austin was the No. 1-ranked player in the 2014-15 Division I Preseason Women's Newcomer/Freshman Rankings.
Austin's UF teammate Josie Kuhlman of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., also cracked the Top 10 after posting an 18-4 fall record. Kuhlman is ranked No. 9. Junior Brianna Morgan opens the 2015 season ranked No. 11. Sophomore Kourtney Keegan joins her in the Top 30 at No. 26, while freshman Peggy Porter debuts at No. 40, and sophomore Belinda Woolcock rounds out the Gator rankings at No. 43.
On the men's side, Sophomore Maxx Lipman, a captain of this year's Gator squad, leads the Florida singles rankings at No. 34. Junior Diego Hidalgo earned the No. 60 ranking, while sophomore Elliott Orkin is at No. 81.
The SEC Conference has the most teams in the Top 25 in both the men's and women's rankings.
The next ITA Team Rankings will be published weekly beginning Jan. 20 through the end of the season, excluding the weeks during the ITA Division I National Team Indoor Championships in February. Individual singles and doubles rankings are published every other week beginning on Feb. 10.
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The Friends Behind the Love...
Friends We Love Founders: Mike & Moni Vargas
Friends We Love (FWL) consists of various initiatives including short-documentary series, educational programs and experiential events, including art installations, festivals and film screenings. Founded by husband and wife team Mike and Moni Vargas of Nuyorktricity, FWL's mission is to CREATE, EDUCATE & ELEVATE through the arts. Our programming seeks to inspire dialogue and self-expression with an emphasis on cultural exchange, community building and collaborations between our online and offline communities.
Since its inception in 2008, FWL has independently produced over 100 mini-docs which have been seen in over 135 countries, implemented educational initiatives with local high schools and universities and organized arts & music festivals with some of New York's best known street artists and bands. FWL prides itself in high quality, socially conscious content that ultimately benefits the greater good.
MEET THE FRIENDS BEHIND THE LOVE
Moni Vargas is a Colombian-born multimedia artist whose work spans through music, theater, photography, writing and video production. Her music career began as a DJ on college radio while earning an International Relations degree from American University in Washington, DC. Since then, she has shared billing with artists such as Paul McCartney, Amy Winehouse, Mos Def and performed in England, France, Japan, Colombia, Indonesia, Canada and the Philippines. Moni’s profound love of music led her to work in theater as a music director, scoring various plays including original music and remixing for Blue Man Group. As an on-stage DJ, she earned a Helen Hayes Theater Award nomination for the production, Flow. As a video and stills photographer, she has worked for clients like Sony Music, Adidas, Verve Records and Giant Step with photos published in numerous magazines including Rolling Stone, Spin, The Fader, Luire Japan and Time Out NY. In 1999, she began her work as an Associate Producer for documentaries broadcast on Discovery’s Travel Channel, Court TV and Channel Four in the UK. In her spare time she photographs and DJs around the globe. Currently, she produces, directs, shoots & edits at Nuyorktricity, with her husband and partner, Mike Vargas.
Mike Vargas is the founder and head hancho of Nuyorktricity, a multi-media familia comprised of motion pictures, music production and photography. As a New York native and Film BFA graduate from SUNY Purchase, Mike brings a fierce artistic passion to his independent filmmaking, writing, and photography. His cinematography credits include Estilo Hip-Hop, a theatrically released feature length documentary that chronicles the rise of hip-hop activism throughout Latin America (estilohiphop.com). It premiered at the HBO Latino Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS in 2009. In addition, Mike has shot and edited innumerable live events, music videos and promotional packages. His recent clients include Will Smith / Overbrook Entertainment, Nike, Pepsi, Absolut, Philips, Diesel and G-Unit / Interscope Records. Mike recently self-published his first book of street life photographs, which were exhibited at The Brecht Forum in downtown New York. He has also begun production on his next comedic film project entitled, "Disguise The Limit." Along with client-based productions, Mike and his wife, Moni, produce Friends We Love - a short documentary series exploring the creative process of artists and creators.
- Independently produced 90 short films for the 3 web series featured on the FWL site since 2008 - Produced videos for clients including Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, NIKE, NIKEiD, Diesel, Pepsi, Reebok, Absolut, Philips, Interscope Records, Sport in Society - Babelgum.com FWL Branded Channel and commissioned 10 part original series - Japanese commercially released the Friends We Love CD mixed by Moni through label Toy’s Factory & Luire Magazine, January 2009
Exhibits / Screenings Brooklyn Museum of Art, First Saturday, October 2010 Bronx Museum, First Friday, October 2009 Brecht Forum, Photo Exhibit & Screening, July 2008
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Film Festivals Bicycle Film Festival: London, UK / Tokyo, Japan / Zurich, Switzerland / Sydney & Melbourne, Australia / Milan, Italy / Toronto, Canada / New York, Salt Lake City, Orlando, Portland, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, USA, Summer 2009 Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival, New York, August 2008
Music Festivals Java SoulNation Music Festival, Java Indonesia, October 2009
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Friday 4/19/2019 & the Weekend: Full Moon in Libra; Notre Dame de Paris
Before we get to the forecast, please note that my website will be updated before the end of the month. Pretty much the same design, but the font will be different and it will be easier to read on a smartphone. Hopefully you will like it. Huzzah!
Also, I will be in Denver next week — still have a few appointments available for in-person consultations — here’s how to contact me. Otherwise I’ll be working with my esteemed colleagues at ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research) to plan our next super-fabulous conference — be there or be square — in Denver, September 10-14 2020.
Meanwhile….
The Moon waxed to fullness at 7:12 AM ET — at the verrrrrry end of Libra — all that is fair, courteous and aiming to please. Enjoy it while it lasts. Opposing the Aries Sun, the challenge of the Libra Moon is balance all that is “we” with all that is “me-me-me.” Yes — and good luck with that challenge — as this Full Moon is buzzing with the energy for revelation and disruption, suggested by the close connection of rebel Uranus with this Sun-Moon opposition. You may have experienced the first jolt around 12:25 PM ET, when the Moon (now in the moody bastard depths of Scorpio, where it seeks depth and substance for the sake of power and control) and Uranus are exactly opposed. The other shoe drops on Monday around 7:05 PM ET, when Uranus meets up with the Sun.
The chart for the Full Moon set in Washington DC has — OMG — the same Midheaven and same Ascendant as the chart for the 2017 inauguration: ASC 14 Taurus and MC 26 Capricorn. Most all of the planets in the Full Moon chart are hidden from obvious view, suggesting a lot of action going on behind the scenes. What is front and center is Mars, planet of action, in blah-blah-blah Gemini. Two-faced? Double-talk? Sure — in an effort to prove oneself the cleverest, most entertaining self in the room. Actions taken over the next week may have a zealous, faith-based or deceptive spin, courtesy of Neptune. The planet referring to fantasy and drugs will square Mars on April 27th.
The Sabian Symbols for this lunation are “three mounds of knowledge on a philosopher’s head” (for the Libra Moon) and “a duck pond and its brood” (for the Aries Sun. Sabian Symbol guru Blain Bovee suggests we apply these images with a mind to “the genius of being at home with all elements of wisdom and understanding…the genius of tending to domestic matters as if they were sacred…brooding over weighty matters…putting one’s ducks in a row” — to name a few. In the news, we’re sure to see plenty of brooding over knowledge that was released this week…
On SATURDAY at 4:55 AM ET, the Sun leaves Aries and enters Taurus. Happy birthday to the cows and the bulls! The Taurus mantra is I HAVE and it is here to give form and function to all of the seeds planted by Aries inspiration. Stop and smell those roses, will you? Meanwhile, at 12:11 PM ET, Venus leaves Pisces for me-me-me Aries, replacing any Pisces need for accommodation with forthright demand. You got a problem with that? Let’s not waste any more time! In other news, the Scorpio Moon continues on its quest for depth and control until 11:59 PM ET; it goes void until SUNDAY at 11:59 AM ET.
With the Moon now in Sagittarius (from noon ET onward), SUNDAY is apt for pushing boundaries, righteous opinions and exuberance. The Moon’s harmony with Venus and Mercury that afternoon and evening makes for good times.
No sleeping in on MONDAY. The Sag Moon won’t be void and the Sun’s meet-up with Uranus at 7:05 PM ET charges the air.
Recalling Monday’s post for this week:
Between TUESDAY and next MONDAY there are no exact aspects among the planets, except to the Moon — but this does not mean it’s likely to be an uneventful week. Quite the contrary, experience has shown. These apparent lulls are often deceptive. It’s like looking at a giant ice shelf on the most sparkling sunny day ever…and then, for no apparent reason, half the shelf crumbles into the ocean. So if an “other shoe” drops in the headlines, I will not be surprised, and neither should you.
I’d put the fire at Notre Dame in this category of events. Now you see it; now you don’t. A huge exhale after last week’s super-stressed patterns involving the fiery Aries Sun and harsh Saturn, South Node, Pluto — and that “hell hath no fury” of an asteroid called Eris. Did you know that Notre Dame was built on the site of a temple honoring Jupiter? So interesting, given that Jupiter turned retrograde on April 10th. And why was I so drawn to include “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright” in the title for Monday’s forecast?
The chart for the reported start of the fire (it’s now believed to have been caused by an electrical short) does not look so catastrophic. It’s interesting to see the Saturn/Pluto midpoint in touch with the North and South Nodes, suggesting mourning. It’s interesting to see the Midheaven of that chart (4/15/2019 6:50 PM Paris, FR) conjunct the Jupiter/Pluto midpoint, suggesting massive power and resources (billionaires are pledging millions of euros to rebuild). This echoes the square between Venus and Jupiter (a double dose of protection generosity and compassion), exact that day at 7:15 PM ET.
Did you know that Venus refers to bees and copper? Did you know that sixteen copper statues were removed from Notre Dame’s spire on April 11th? And that the 180,000 bees living on the roof survived? So did many relics, the rose windows and the organ. And no one died in the fire. And the two bell towers survived, too! What was destroyed? The spire — and you can ponder what that spire might symbolize, in the wake of two hard aspects to the Aries Sun and patriarchal Saturn and rot-exposing Pluto. Many churches — not just the Catholic Church — are having to face the reality of rot and corruption among their Powers That Be. And did you know that at the same time of the Notre Dame fire, there was a fire in the mosque at Jerusalem’s Temple on the Mount? And that here in New York, a philosophy professor was arrested in St. Patrick’s Cathedral with the obvious intent of burning it down? And that his next stop was Rome?
I have precious memories of Notre Dame — Our Lady of Paris. I lived in Paris after graduating college. I spent many an afternoon gazing at the flying buttresses from a bridge over the Seine. It is a truly magical and inspiring scene. It was horrifying to see it in flames. But…they will rebuild, rebuild! Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, as the aforementioned millions of euros are pouring in — just like that! Which leaves me pondering, “What would [insert name of preferred deity/savior/prophet] do?” Rebuild the structure — or find another purpose for such largesse — one that might directly impact the health and well-being of humans and other living creatures on Planet Earth? It’s a rhetorical question; I don’t expect an answer.
With Mercury and Venus at the end of Pisces — the end of the entire zodiac — it can feel like the end of the world, and certainly a world. Did you see the videos of Parisiens who gathered to mourn the damage to their cherished Lady? They sang hymns — I dare you to watch and not weep — here and here. The potential for loss and catharsis is clearly seen in France’s horoscope. As I wrote back in December:
Countries have horoscopes. Exhibit A: France, which has experienced three weeks of violent protest over a fuel tax that is supposed to combat climate change (the tax has apparently been withdrawn). We can appreciate why the French are on emotional overkill. In modern France’s horoscope, transiting Pluto is squaring its me-me-me Aries Ascendant and opposing its emotional-security seeking Cancer Moon. Next month it will need to face a sobering reality check when transiting Saturn squares its Libra Sun and Mercury. Right now, Saturn is atop France’s Capricorn Midheaven, suggesting it may be seen as being at the top of its game. It does seem that France’s authoritative stature has increased on the world stage. At the G-20 summit in Argentina, it was Emmanuel Macron who was overheard allegedly “warning” the Saudi Crown Prince M.B.S.
Now transiting Saturn has moved past its squeeze on France’s Libra Sun-Mercury and is now applying pressure for a potential cut on France’s Aries Ascendant. Despite the potential purge/catharsis, patterns in France’s horoscope do suggest continued growth and empowerment on the world stage over the next year or so. Cue La Marseillaise now, please. And note that Pluto and Saturn were highly active in the horoscope of the U.S. on 9/11. Coincidence or conspiracy?
In other news….
The redacted Mueller Report was released yesterday, right on schedule — as anticipated in prior posts. Mercury (how we need to think) was out of Pisces — in Aries, demanding prominence at the Aries Point — and absolutely, positively not messing around — none of this “if I believe it, it must be so” Pisces prattle. The challenge for Mercury in Aries is that it is usually wayyyyyyyyy ahead of everyone else (I speak from personal experience) — and it’s gonna take a while for the masses to catch up. As predicted back in March, P45’s Attorney General William Barr did in fact misrepresent Mueller’s findings — and here’s Stephen Colbert to spell it out for you here and here. You can read the whole report (redacted) here — and that’s what I’ll be doing on my upcoming flight to Denver.
UPDATE: George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway and declared windmill cancer survivor (per his Twitter profile) penned an op-ed calling for P45’s impeachment yesterday: “Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him.” With transiting Mars (assertion; action) exactly square his Pluto (power) of course he did. I will be interested to see what Mr. Conway is up to next February. Whatever it is, it should be quite persuasive.
And….that’s a wrap. With Monday’s meet-up between the Sun and daredevil Uranus is in effect now and through the weekend, just remember that if at first you don’t succeed, skydiving’s not for you.
I wish I could take credit for that pithy remark. Saw it somewhere on Facebook in 2016.
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Guerbet to take part in the 65th edition of the Journées Francophones de Radiologie Diagnostique et Interventionnelle (JFR)
> Organization of two symposiums on October 13 and 14
> Presentation of Vectorio®, an innovative medical device, at the “Interventional Radiology Village”
Villepinte (France), October 9, 2017 (8:30 CEST) – Guerbet (FR0000032526 GBT), the global specialist in contrast products and solutions for medical imaging, today announced it will be taking part in the 65th edition of the Journées Francophones de Radiologie (JFR) that will be held in Paris from October 13 to 16, 20171.
The JFR, a major international gathering for medical imaging players, annually brings together more than 17,000 diagnostic and interventional radiology experts from France and abroad. This year, the JFR, a place for discussion and debate focusing on innovation, research and development, will place emphasis on the theme “Patients and their Radiologists”.
Guerbet will present its integrated MRI and scanner offers as well as its digital solutions. For the 6th consecutive year, Guerbet will also be an exhibitor and partner of the “Interventional Radiology Village” where, for the first time, it will present Vectorio®, its innovative medical device that obtained the CE mark in September 20172.
Designed in collaboration with interventional radiologists worldwide, Vectorio® is a unique set of medical devices that are resistant to Lipiodol® Ultra Fluide, used for conventional Trans-Arterial Chemo-Embolization (cTACE)
Guerbet will also organize two symposiums during the JFR:
“Gadolinium deposits in the brain: what is the current situation?”, on Friday, October 13 from 12h30 to 13h30 – Prof. Fabrice BONNEVILLE (Toulouse University Hospital) will be the moderator and findings will be presented by Prof. Douraied Ben Salem (Brest University Hospital), Dr Nicolas Menjot De Champfleur (Montpellier University Hospital), Prof. François Cotton (Lyon Public Hospital) and Prof. Isabelle Thomassin (Tenon Public Hospital, Paris).
“Guerbet, the present and future in interventional radiology”, on Saturday, October 14 from 12h30 to 13h30 – Prof. Afshin Gangi (Strasbourg University Hospital) will be the moderator and Prof. Jean-Pierre Pelage (Caen University Hospital), Prof. Patrick Chevallier (Nice University Hospital) and Prof. Romaric Loffroy (Dijon University hospital) will all present their work.
The Guerbet team will be present at stand No. 101 in the Passy Hall and at stand J in the Interventional Radiology Village.
1 To find out more: http://jfr.radiologie.fr/
2 See the press release of September 14, 2017: http://www.guerbet.com/fileadmin/user_upload/home/news/2017/Communique_de_presse_Guerbet_-_14_septembre-2017.pdf
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"Keep God First": Rocky Meadows Is Fighting Huntington's Drug Epidemic
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 20:54 Updated 3 years ago Special to HuntingtonNews.Net
by David Williamson
Rocky Meadows sat across from me and I watched him actively listen to two addicts that I asked him to counsel. "The direction you follow today will determine the future you create," he told the mother and daughter who shoots up heroin together after he listened to their stories.
"If you are ready to get help you will be able to do it. You have to take care of yourselves first. Get yourselves clean first before you worry about each other. If you want it bad enough you will find sobriety." Rocky was patient when he needed to be and firm when he went to make his points. This is a man who clearly understands people and addiction.
The best drug counselors and advisors are former addicts. They have actually been there and have literally experienced everything that an addict goes through. They know all of the lies, all of the temptations and all of the excuses because they have lived through them themselves. They have been successful in finding a way past all of the traps and relapses and they can effectively coach someone to victory over addiction.
Rocky Meadows started living an addict's life at age 10. It started with a 7-11 Big Gulp cup of beer. He was addicted to cocaine at 14. He was a young boy roaming the streets of Baltimore looking for alcohol or drugs or anything he could find.
His father died and he moved to Huntington at age 18 with his mother. His parents were from Beckley and he thought moving to West Virginia would get him away from drugs.
However, life in Huntington just led him deeper and deeper into drugs. "Huntington was really a lot worse in those days than it is now. The drugs were more wide open back then."
Rocky had never met Jesus before 2002. He met Jesus and became saved. The strange thing was even although it was a powerful experience meeting and accepting Jesus as his savior, his life got worse after he met Jesus.
In January of 2008, Rocky was sitting in a car while two accomplices were robbing a man at the Huntington Inn when one of his accomplices was shot and killed by the person they tried to rob. Rocky pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and was sentenced to one to ten years in prison.
On November 7,2008, the police kicked his door down and hauled him off to jail. After 37 arrests and multiple stays in prison that totaled nearly ten years, Rocky knew it was time to let God into his life and to, as Rocky fondly says, "Keep God first."
Rocky opened his first Life House in 2011. He has been impacting lives and saving addicts ever since. "This isn't Moneyton any more," Rocky says. "Things have changed. It may be hard for some people to believe but it is getting better."
Rocky credits the change on The HPD's effort starting with the direction of Skip Holbrook and continuing with Jim Johnson and and current Police Chief Joe Ciccarelli . "There's still the pipeline from Detroit but the dealers are scared. They know if they stay too long they will end up in prison."
The heroin epidemic has raged across the country and the world. It has impacted Huntington hard but Huntington is fighting back.
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Rocky has been doing God's work in Huntington. The stories are all over the media about the lives that heroin has taken in our city, but if you go to his page The Lifehouse , you can see the lives that Rocky snatched out of heroin's clutches.
After battling his own drug addictions for 24 years, Rocky is now in other addict's corners battling addiction. He is right behind the addict as they fight and eventually defeat the same demons that he fought in his battle.
Rocky Meadows is not just fighting for his own life now, he is fighting to save a city. With God leading the way, Rocky will help win many more battles over addiction. After meeting and seeing the man in action, I suddenly feel that Huntington has a fighting chance against the drug epidemic
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Diet of schoolchildren as a risk factor of nutritional disorders
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Keywords: health, rational and balanced diet, nutritional disorders, children and adolescents, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, energy consumption, minerals
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Address for Correspondence: Feruza Kochkorova,
Department of Hygiene Disciplines, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy IK Akhunbaev, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
E-mail: feruza.k71@mail.ru
Feruza A. Kochkorova, Marina K. Esenamanova, Tatyana Tsivinskaya
Department of Hygiene Disciplines, Faculty of Medicine and Prevention, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
In this paper, we present the literature review on nutrition disorders in schoolchildren. as well as the data about the role of rational and balanced nutrition in strengthening of child and adolescent health. We provided the review of literature on the approaches in education facilities on healthy diet education and school meals.
The problem of an individual’s health within the context of human rights is gaining more and more importance. The problems regarding the health of children should not depend on the political situation within a country, and without its resolution the country has no future (1).
The European strategy “The health of children and adolescents” sees the duty of preserving the health of the growing generation as an investment to the main resource of public development (2).
The school age remains to be the key period in human body development. The real responsibilities of a school are; intellectual development, formation of moral feelings, as well as the care for children’s’ health. All of these are possible if; there is a healthy environment within the teaching institution, psychological comfort of the educator and the student, systematically organized educational work regarding the formation of healthy lifestyle, rational and balanced diet (3).
The nutrition of these age groups (child and adolescents) is based on sustaining the harmonic growth and development of the organism, optimal work capacity, adaptation to the effects of adverse environmental factors, normalization of metabolic processes, because at this age the child's organism undergoes drastic changes. At school age, the formation of the skeleton is completed and there are changes in the body mass, and neuro-psychology (4).
Therefore, of particular interest is the study of nutrition of school-age children. In addition, in modern conditions, the health of young people as a whole continues to deteriorate (5-19).
Nutrition is one of the main factors that affect the child's health (3). Sufficiency of nutrition is the most important factor in the formation of physical development, nutritive status and health of the child, rational nutrition ensures normal growth and development of the organism, promotes the prevention of various diseases (5-7). The quality of life of the child depends on the nutritional value of consumed food by children as well as their ability to tolerate critical situations (diseases, injuries, surgeries, stress, war and disasters) (8-11). Irrational unbalanced diet in children can cause malnutrition, stunting and overweight, obesity associated with increased morbidity and even mortality (7-11).
Several survey studies have demonstrated high rate of malnutrition among children in developing countries with reported rates in Africa for stunting was 57.7% and underweight - 28.8% (11). Malnutrition of children contributes to the mortality causes in 57% of children deaths (12, 13). In study of Bain et al. (12), protein energy deficiency and micronutrient deficiencies were shown to play major role in the morbidity among children; the main aggravating factors were poverty, poor social factors, low education level, and food insecurities. On the other hand, the children from wealthy social-economic status families turned to have higher obesity and overweight rates, and stunting was characteristic for poorest households (14). A significant part of children population worldwide suffers from malnutrition and 49% of 10, 000 000 deaths among children younger 5 years of age in developing countries were attributed to malnutrition (15). In developed countries, overweight and obesity among children is reported to be as high as 17% (16). The arterial hypertension and emotional mental health disorders are associated with unhealthy diet (17, 18).
The malnutrition is more often observed in girls than in boys, malnourished children of female gender are shown to be more prone to food insecurities, weaker learning performance at school and higher morbidity and mortality (19-21). Poverty has been associated with poor food securities causing infectious parasitic diseases and aggravating malnutrition of children (22, 23).
Adequate and rational nutrition is one of the factors playing a key role in maintaining resistance to infections and other unfavorable factors (4, 24).
The nutrition of the child should be balanced depending on the age, sex, climate, geographical area of residence and the level of physical activity. In the organization of nutrition, the nutrition regime, the correct distribution of the diet according to meals, is of great importance (25-28).
The metabolism, determines the multifaceted effect of nutritional factors on the health and ability to work of a person. According to the "concept of balanced nutrition" (27), for normal function of organism, not only nutrition is necessary, providing sufficient energy in quantitative terms, but also complex relationships between numerous irreplaceable nutritional factors must be present, each of which has a specific role in metabolism. Nutrition is a factor contributing to the formation of optimal nutritional status and health of the population not only in present time but also in the future, providing optimal physical and neurological development of the adolescent and sufficient immunological resistance (28, 29). The quality of nutrition depends not only on the composition and quantity of consumed products, but also on the characteristics of the ecological niche and the anthropological data of the individual; impairments in the structure and quality of nutrition can potentiate negative impact of environmental factors, including factors of social significance (27, 30, 31).
Specific features of the dietary habits of the population of our republic include the deficiency of animal proteins, vitamins, microelements, dietary fiber, polyunsaturated fatty acids, an excess of simple carbohydrates and animal fat (32).
Inadequate supply of macro- and micronutrients leads to enzymatic and hormonal deficiency, a decrease in immunity and adaptive reserves of the body, which is manifested by an increase in the incidence of respiratory diseases, including pneumonia (33-36) and the gastrointestinal tract (37-39). Due to the nutrition pattern, insufficient and inadequate to age and health condition, adolescents are more likely to develop cold and nutritional diseases and have a higher risk for relapse and chronic course of the disease (40, 41). This is because the organism of children and adolescents responds quite sharply to any deficiency and / or imbalance of essential nutrients. In cases of untimely correction of eating disorders, the probability of delay in physical and mental development, weakening of immunity, and disorders in the activity of organs that provide homeostasis in the organism increases (42).
Increased basal metabolism and energy consumption in children and adolescents dictate the need for a special approach to the planning of their nutrition. Consumption of products that provide the organism with energy below a certain limit should not be allowed, which provides a basic energy exchange, energy consumption for digesting food, physical and mental activity. The energy expended by the body of an adolescent should be constantly compensated with food; otherwise, organism is forced to replenish the energy expended at the expense of its internal reserves (43). Therefore, it is undeniable that insufficient or excessive caloric intake of the diet has an extremely negative impact on the health of adolescents.
Proteins are particular important compound of nutrition of a growing organism. In an adolescent, the need for proteins in addition to age and sex is determined by increased amount of educational and physical stress, and the effect of unfavorable environmental factors. It should be emphasized that for children and adolescents, not only the amount of protein consumed with food, but also its quality, or its biological value, which is determined largely by the aminoacid composition of food proteins is important (43-45).
Inadequate intake of protein disrupts the processes of protein synthesis and decomposition, shifting it toward increased disintegration of the organism`s own proteins, including enzymes. At the same time, organs and tissues, characterized by a high rate of protein renewal, in particular the intestine and the hematopoietic organs, primarily suffer. The damage of the intestinal mucosa leads to a deterioration in the absorption of food proteins in the intestine, thereby increasing the degree of protein deficiency. Impairment of protein synthesis in the bone marrow, a decrease in absorption of iron and a number of vitamins in the intestine cause oppression of hematopoiesis and the development of anemia (43). It was also found that the lack of proteins, iodine, vitamin A, folic acid, calcium, iron deficiency in the diet leads to a delay in development, an increased risk of infections and a violation of bone mineralization (28).
Reduction in the intensity of the formation of antibodies to various bacteria and viruses leads to a weakening of the body's resistance to infections. Along with this, there are significant disorders of the skin, hair, nails, and the intensity of the production of hormones decreases. Deficiency of protein at the level of the whole organism leads to a disruption in growth, physical and neuropsychological development (44, 45). Nutritional proteins also perform a protective function, increasing the body's resistance to the action of various infectious and toxic agents, neuropsychotic strain and stressful situations.
Fats are necessary in nutrition as energy and structural material. None of the fats, taken separately, can fully meet the needs of the body of children and adolescents in fatty substances. Animal fats, including milk, contain significant amounts of saturated fatty acids, one of the risk factors for development of non-infectious diseases. Vegetable fats contain many polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and tocopherols but do not contain vitamins A and D. It has also been established that for normal growth and development and an adequate immune response, not only a sufficient amount of PUFA in food is needed but also a correct ratio between ω-6 and ω-3 - PUFA, which is 10: 1 - 8: 1.
Over the past three decades, animal fat consumption per capita has increased in developing and developed countries and the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases has increased accordingly (41). Insufficient intake of vegetables, fruits, and excess fat in food contribute to the development of overweight, dyslipidemia, arterial hypertension, anemia, cardiovascular and oncological diseases (27, 29, 31).
Carbohydrates are the main sources of energy (15). Excess carbohydrate intake, which is more common than their deficiency, has an adverse effect on the organism, being one of the risk factors for developing excess body weight and obesity, and also having an inflammatory and allergic effects. Excess sugar and sweets in the diet, especially when consumed, not at the end of the main meals, but between them, is one of the most important causes of caries development, a decrease in appetite and prevents the consumption of foods with higher nutritional value, such as meat, milk, fish and others (42, 43). Excess intake of free sugars with low intake of complex carbohydrates, namely fruits and vegetables, can also contribute to the development of obesity, and diabetes mellitus (29, 30, 46, 47).
To confirm and develop the concept of balanced nutrition, the principle of "multicomponent nutrition balance" was proposed (28), i.e. the attitude to the diet should not only be like "calories and the ratio of proteins: fat: carbohydrates", but also should take into account the necessary one-stage use of a wide range of basic components. "Without including in the control of the diet calculations for the provision of iodine or iron, we do not consider it important to care about the development of intelligence and memory. Neglecting the analysis of the provision of zinc to boys, we doom them to problems of growth, puberty and fertility. Without calculating the calcium "rations", we form juvenile osteochondropathies and osteochondrosis of the adult period of life "(28).
The deterioration of the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of nutrition largely determines not only the emergence of the most common chronic non-infectious diseases, but also the high mortality from cardiovascular diseases associated with excessive consumption of animal fats and the prevalence of this obesity. Low level of consumption of vegetables and fruits leads to a decrease in resistance to acute diseases, including colds (48-51).
Vitamins and microelements
It is now recognized that inadequate intake of micronutrients in children (vitamins, minerals) is the leading nutritional factor contributing to the aggravation of infectious pathology and the growth of noncommunicable diseases prevalence (46, 47). Even very small amounts of these nutrients are essential to ensure the normal growth and development of children, maintaining health. According to WHO and other reports, one third of humanity is at risk of developing various conditions associated with this deficiency (50-52).
Deficiency of iron, iodine, zinc, and vitamin A are the most common micronutrient deficiencies described in children being contributing factors to increased mortality and morbidity in developing countries (53, 54).
Vitamins and microelements are among those indispensable biologically active substances, the deficiency of which in the body can be accompanied by dysfunction of many physiological systems (51, 52). Insufficient intake of vitamins adversely affects the indicators of physical and neuropsychological development of adolescents, their morbidity, academic performance, contributes to the gradual development of metabolic disorders and chronic diseases (25, 55).
It is possible to single out a number of anatomical and physiological features of children of school age, which determine the increased needs of children of this age group in vitamins and minerals (56):
-Continued growth and increase in body weight with a sharp acceleration of height in the puberty period (absolute increase in height is 20% of the height of an adult, an increase in body weight - about 50% of the body weight of an adult);
-Increase in muscle mass, increase in bone density (accumulation of 80-90% of genetically determined bone mass responsible for the strength of the skeleton, occurs in childhood, affecting the time of appearance of signs of osteoporosis in older age);
-The processes of differentiation of organs and tissues continue; in the pubertal period there is an intensive functional reorganization of the body, which is based on a sharp change in the functioning of the endocrine system, associated with puberty;
-There is improvement of functional interrelations and processes of regulation of the activity of organs and systems with the maximum tension of the body's regulatory systems in the adolescent period;
-Formation of higher cerebral functions determining the ability to learn is observed; changes in the psychological sphere of adolescents in the form of imbalance, increased emotional excitability and improvement in cognitive functions (abstract thinking, self-control, criticism), emotional and psychological aspects of interpersonal interactions are formed;
-The detoxifying systems of the organism mature;
-Food preferences and eating habits are being formed.
Deficiency of vitamins in the organism develops with the complex influence of unfavorable factors and occurs in 10-45% of the inhabitants of Russia. The situation is aggravated by irrational nutrition, acute or chronic diseases, especially the gastrointestinal tract, environmental problems in the area of residence (57, 58).
Mineral substances (macro- and microelements) that are important for the harmonious growth and development of children and adolescents include calcium, iron, iodine, zinc, sodium and fluorine. However, depending on geographical location, environmental factors and national characteristics, copper, selenium, and possibly other substances can be added to them. The problem of the supply of vitamins and minerals in children and adolescents is becoming increasingly important, since the growing organism is particularly sensitive to the imbalance of micronutrients. Vitamins and minerals must be delivered regularly, in full and in accordance with age-related physiological needs (59).
According to many epidemiological studies, it is in adolescent age there might be development not just temporary changes, but persistent disturbances related to the irrational structure of nutrition: micronutrient deficiency, insufficient protein content or excessive caloric intake (24-39). Food can be the source and carrier of potentially hazardous chemicals (22-23). They enter food insecurities along biological chains, in the process of agricultural production, storage, and packaging.
Scientists have scientifically proved that rational nutrition, vitamin and micro-nutrient prophylaxis in the family and in educational institutions, development and implementation of preventive programs aimed at optimizing the nutrition of children, can improve the health status of 10-15% of students with chronic diseases of the digestive system and in 75-80% of cases stabilize pathological processes (25).
Recent studies on food consumption patterns in schools demonstrated that schoolchildren consume less than 60% of recommended calories (60) and the packed home lunches children bring to school had higher energy value, high carbohydrates level, sugar 14 times higher (95%CI 10.2 -17.7) and saturated fat 4.7 (95%CI 2.4-7.1) times higher than school offered lunch (61). A survey study on sex differences in food consumption and physical activity in children and adolescents demonstrated the higher prevalence of obesity and overweight in children of 5-9 years old (OR-1.22); female adolescents were likely to consume more often fruits and vegetables in compliance with Australian dietary guidelines (OR-1.84, 95%CI 1.16-2.93, p= 0.01), than male, while male adolescents significantly more often used to drink sugar-contained beverages (62).
The solutions might include intervention in schools providing children with balanced nutrition and education of healthy food consumption (63-65). A randomized controlled study from Chile demonstrated that nutrition education and physical activity education
provided in schools are helpful in controlling obesity and overweight (63).
Several studies have demonstrated on successful application of school food programs (64, 65): in Japan School Lunch program, the reference values for food served in schools includes consumption of ingredients for ages between 6-7 to 14 years: energy value between 560-850 kcal, protein 16-28 g, fat about 20-30% of total energy of school lunch, dietary fiber – 5.5=7.5. g, as microelements – sodium <2-3 g, Ca 300-470 mg, iron -3-4 mg, vitamin A -130-210 μgRE, vitamin B-1 – 0.4-0.6 m, B-2- 0.4-0.6 mg, C- 20-33 mg. The program includes also collaboration of families, teachers, school physicians and dieticians aiming at healthy balanced diet, education on healthy food choices and food cultures (64). The American school lunch and breakfast programs are aligned with meals meeting following guidelines: 1/3 of recommended dietary allowance of calories and nutrients – protein, vitamin A and C, calcium and iron, ≤30% of calories from fat, ≤10% of calories from saturated fat, reduced sodium and cholesterol containing foods, increase in dietary fiber and inclusion of fluid milk (65). The review of the studies on implementation of these programs demonstrated that food insecure girls after involvement in programs become less overweight, and children participating in school meal program take higher calories than non-participants do, and there was an inverse relation between school meals intake and obesity (65).
Thus, providing children and adolescents with a balanced nutrition that fully satisfies the increased energy needs is one of the leading conditions for the formation of a healthy body and reduction of the risk of morbidity. In this regard, the study of the state of the actual nutrition makes it possible to carry out its timely correction and influence the formation of human health, especially in organized children's and teenage groups. The implementation of school lunch programs and education of parents and children on healthy diet is a solution to reduce effects of unbalanced nutrition on morbidity of children, though more studies are needed to estimate effects of different interventions in reduction of effects of unbalanced nutrition: malnutrition or overweight and obesity.
Authorship: F.K., M.E. and T.T. contributed equally to the preparation of manuscript
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In the Present Economy, can we afford Space?
Space is not a government program; it’s the rest of the Universe. Private space business is now a major factor, bent on finding investors interested in generating profits by making space more accessible to more people. Space business pays taxes to governments; it does not consume tax revenues. Further, space business can offer launch services to government agencies at highly competitive rates, thus saving taxpayer dollars. How can they do this, competing with government-funded boosters with a 50-year track record? Simple: governments have no incentive to cut costs. Traditional aerospace industry giants have a huge vested interest in boosters that were developed to military and NASA standards, among which economy was not even an issue. But innovative, competitive companies such as XCOR Aerospace and Mojave Aerospace, without such baggage (and overhead) can drive costs down dramatically. This is a proven principle: notice that we are no longer buying IBM PCs with 64 k of RAM for $5000 a unit.
Even more important in the long view, space is a literally astronomical reservoir of material and energy resources. The profit potential of even a single such resource, such as solar power collectors in space beaming microwave power to Earth, is in the trillions of dollars. What would it be worth to the world to reduce fossil fuel consumption by a factor of 20 or 100 while lowering energy costs? Can we afford to continue pretending that Earth is a closed system, doomed to eke out finite resources into a cold, dark future?
Can we afford space? Wrong question. Can businesses afford space? Yes. We get to reap the benefits of their innovative ideas and free competition without footing the bill.
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A few months ago Apple released the iPhone 6S and if you’re not familiar with the Apple practice you may be confused about this new iPhone as it looks identical to the iPhone 6 but fear not they are not the same. On the inside at least.
There is better hardware, improved camera, stronger case, the new 3D Touch and (at last) 2GB of RAM. Over the years the ‘S’ always brought something new to the plate, the iPhone 4S added Siri and the iPhone 5S had the Touch ID fingerprint sensor.
The main addition to the iPhone 6s is definitely the new pressure-sensitive touchscreen technology named the 3D Touch that although right now is quite awesome and will definitely become more interesting when more apps are released for it.
Overall, what Apple has to do is to convince people that the S variant of iPhone 6 is worth the upgrade, even if there are a lot of other smartphones to choose from and unfortunately the iPhone 6S doesn’t seem like a game changer, it only has some subtle upgrades that do have a lot of potential with future updates or installments.
At first glance, the iPhone 6S seems identical to the iPhone 6, it has the same rounded corners and edges, but there are some subtle design changes.
The front of the phone is now stronger, the glass being less likely to shatter if the phone is dropped and lastly, the iPhone 6S is now made of the 7000 series aluminum.
As said before, these changes are subtle and will most likely go unnoticed by most. The volume buttons, the silencer switch and the power key are in the same place as last year and this isn’t a bad thing because the phone is easy to operate with one hand and the buttons are exactly where they should be.
As a side note, the iPhone 6S is compatible with iPhone 6 cases.
The iPhone 6S seems to have the same display as the iPhone 6, featuring a 4.7-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1334x750p, 16 million colours and a pixel density of 326ppi.
Although there are far cheaper phones that offer 1080p resolution or even 4K display(which is a serious overkill!), the iPhone 6S still offers a great display experience, being crisp and clear, with deep blacks, bright whites and very accurate colours.
While the resolution stays the same there is one major addition from the last year’s flagship. You are now presented with the 3D Touch which offers a completely new way to interact with the iPhone.
This opens up whole new possibilities. If right now you can only open pop-up windows, trigger quick actions or expand, preview links and messages and there is a lot that can be done in the future.
The iPhone 6S features better hardware than the iPhone 6, with an Apple A9 Chipset, 1.84GHz dual-core Typhoon CPU, six-core PowerVR GT7600 GPU, 2GB RAM and, still, no card slot.
This translates into smoother multitasking, better handling of graphically-demanding tasks (like playing games), there was no stuttering, no dropped frames and the phone never lagged while we used it.
But there are some shortcomings. Apple decided to keep 16GB as base memory for iPhone 6S and because there isn’t a microSD slot, filling up those 16GB will happen in no time.
The iOS has always been the backbone of the iPhones and the new installment, the iOS 9 offers the same stability and user-friendliness we were accustomed to and thanks to its subtle tweaks over the years and the new added 3D touch, the iOS 9 is the best iPhone software to date.
As always, the iOS is quick and responsive, the App Store is still vibrant (and of higher quality than Google Play Store) and the apps have suffered some transformations and upgrades.
The Apple Maps, now, has transit directions, there is a News app, that is quite basic, pulling topics from different sources in a magazine-style interface. Notifications are now filtered by time, not by app and thanks to the M9 coprocessor, Siri is always on standby you can now you can wake it by yelling Hey Siri instead of pressing a button. Siri, also, can respond to a lot more commands.
The 3D Touch is its main feature and although in its infancy, is implemented the best with Apple’s Mail. You can preview messages, archive them or mark them as unread.
The iPhone 6S features a non-removable 1715 mAh battery. Yes, you heard that right, the battery is actually smaller, a downgrade from the iPhone 6’s 1810mAh.
There have been complaints about the battery from the iPhone 6 and yeah, Apple didn’t quite addressed this issue. Anyway, the battery life averaged at 15 to 16 hours a day and there are a lot of people who need to recharge their iPhone 6S during the mid-afternoon.
It’s not like it isn’t understandable, the reason being the implementation of 3D Touch. The battery didn’t have enough space and they wanted to keep the same design as iPhone 6. Still, there are lots of smartphones that feature 4000mAh and battery life is usually a deciding factor for buyers.
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Arthur was silent again for a little while, and then said, with some agitation in his voice, "I wouldn't act so towards you, I know. If you were in my place and I in yours, I should try to help you to do the best."
Adam made a hasty movement on his chair and looked on the ground. Arthur went on, "Perhaps you've never done anything you've had bitterly to repent of in your life, Adam; if you had, you would be more generous. You would know then that it's worse for me than for you."
Arthur rose from his seat with the last words, and went to one of the windows, looking out and turning his back on Adam, as he continued, passionately, "Haven't I loved her too? Didn't I see her yesterday? Shan't I carry the thought of her about with me as much as you will? And don't you think you would suffer more if you'd been in fault?"
There was silence for several minutes, for the struggle in Adam's mind was not easily decided. Facile natures, whose emotions have little permanence, can hardly understand how much inward resistance he overcame before he rose from his seat and turned towards Arthur. Arthur heard the movement, and turning round, met the sad but softened look with which Adam said, "It's true what you say, sir. I'm hard—it's in my nature. I was too hard with my father, for doing wrong. I've been a bit hard t' everybody but her. I felt as if nobody pitied her enough—her suffering cut into me so; and when I thought the folks at the farm were too hard with her, I said I'd never be hard to anybody myself again. But feeling overmuch about her has perhaps made me unfair to you. I've known what it is in my life to repent and feel it's too late. I felt I'd been too harsh to my father when he was gone from me—I feel it now, when I think of him. I've no right to be hard towards them as have done wrong and repent."
Adam spoke these words with the firm distinctness of a man who is resolved to leave nothing unsaid that he is bound to say; but he went on with more hesitation.
"I wouldn't shake hands with you once, sir, when you asked me—but if you're willing to do it now, for all I refused then..."
Arthur's white hand was in Adam's large grasp in an instant, and with that action there was a strong rush, on both sides, of the old, boyish affection.
"Adam," Arthur said, impelled to full confession now, "it would never have happened if I'd known you loved her. That would have helped to save me from it. And I did struggle. I never meant to injure her. I deceived you afterwards—and that led on to worse; but I thought it was forced upon me, I thought it was the best thing I could do. And in that letter I told her to let me know if she were in any trouble: don't think I would not have done everything I could. But I was all wrong from the very first, and horrible wrong has come of it. God knows, I'd give my life if I could undo it."
They sat down again opposite each other, and Adam said, tremulously, "How did she seem when you left her, sir?"
"Don't ask me, Adam," Arthur said; "I feel sometimes as if I should go mad with thinking of her looks and what she said to me, and then, that I couldn't get a full pardon—that I couldn't save her from that wretched fate of being transported—that I can do nothing for her all those years; and she may die under it, and never know comfort any more."
"Ah, sir," said Adam, for the first time feeling his own pain merged in sympathy for Arthur, "you and me'll often be thinking o' the same thing, when we're a long way off one another. I'll pray God to help you, as I pray him to help me."
"But there's that sweet woman—that Dinah Morris," Arthur said, pursuing his own thoughts and not knowing what had been the sense of Adam's words, "she says she shall stay with her to the very last moment—till she goes; and the poor thing clings to her as if she found some comfort in her. I could worship that woman; I don't know what I should do if she were not there. Adam, you will see her when she comes back. I could say nothing to her yesterday—nothing of what I felt towards her. Tell her," Arthur went on hurriedly, as if he wanted to hide the emotion with which he spoke, while he took off his chain and watch, "tell her I asked you to give her this in remembrance of me—of the man to whom she is the one source of comfort, when he thinks of...I know she doesn't care about such things—or anything else I can give her for its own sake. But she will use the watch—I shall like to think of her using it."
"I'll give it to her, sir," Adam said, "and tell her your words. She told me she should come back to the people at the Hall Farm."
"And you will persuade the Poysers to stay, Adam?" said Arthur, reminded of the subject which both of them had forgotten in the first interchange of revived friendship. "You will stay yourself, and help Mr. Irwine to carry out the repairs and improvements on the estate?"
"There's one thing, sir, that perhaps you don't take account of," said Adam, with hesitating gentleness, "and that was what made me hang back longer. You see, it's the same with both me and the Poysers: if we stay, it's for our own worldly interest, and it looks as if we'd put up with anything for the sake o' that. I know that's what they'll feel, and I can't help feeling a little of it myself. When folks have got an honourable independent spirit, they don't like to do anything that might make 'em seem base-minded."
"But no one who knows you will think that, Adam. That is not a reason strong enough against a course that is really more generous, more unselfish than the other. And it will be known—it shall be made known, that both you and the Poysers stayed at my entreaty. Adam, don't try to make things worse for me; I'm punished enough without that."
"No, sir, no," Adam said, looking at Arthur with mournful affection. "God forbid I should make things worse for you. I used to wish I could do it, in my passion—but that was when I thought you didn't feel enough. I'll stay, sir, I'll do the best I can. It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it."
"Then we'll part now, Adam. You will see Mr. Irwine to-morrow, and consult with him about everything."
"Are you going soon, sir?" said Adam.
"As soon as possible—after I've made the necessary arrangements. Good-bye, Adam. I shall think of you going about the old place."
"Good-bye, sir. God bless you."
The hands were clasped once more, and Adam left the Hermitage, feeling that sorrow was more bearable now hatred was gone.
As soon as the door was closed behind him, Arthur went to the waste-paper basket and took out the little pink silk handkerchief.
Chapter XLIX
At the Hall Farm
THE first autumnal afternoon sunshine of 1801—more than eighteen months after that parting of Adam and Arthur in the Hermitage—was on the yard at the Hall Farm; and the bull-dog was in one of his most excited moments, for it was that hour of the day when the cows were being driven into the yard for their afternoon milking. No wonder the patient beasts ran confusedly into the wrong places, for the alarming din of the bull-dog was mingled with more distant sounds which the timid feminine creatures, with pardonable superstition, imagined also to have some relation to their own movements—with the tremendous crack of the waggoner's whip, the roar of his voice, and the booming thunder of the waggon, as it left the rick-yard empty of its golden load.
The milking of the cows was a sight Mrs. Poyser loved, and at this hour on mild days she was usually standing at the house door, with her knitting in her hands, in quiet contemplation, only heightened to a keener interest when the vicious yellow cow, who had once kicked over a pailful of precious milk, was about to undergo the preventive punishment of having her hinder-legs strapped.
To-day, however, Mrs. Poyser gave but a divided attention to the arrival of the cows, for she was in eager discussion with Dinah, who was stitching Mr. Poyser's shirt-collars, and had borne patiently to have her thread broken three times by Totty pulling at her arm with a sudden insistence that she should look at "Baby," that is, at a large wooden doll with no legs and a long skirt, whose bald head Totty, seated in her small chair at Dinah's side, was caressing and pressing to her fat cheek with much fervour. Totty is larger by more than two years' growth than when you first saw her, and she has on a black frock under her pinafore. Mrs. Poyser too has on a black gown, which seems to heighten the family likeness between her and Dinah. In other respects there is little outward change now discernible in our old friends, or in the pleasant house-place, bright with polished oak and pewter.
"I never saw the like to you, Dinah," Mrs. Poyser was saying, "when you've once took anything into your head: there's no more moving you than the rooted tree. You may say what you like, but I don't believe that's religion; for what's the Sermon on the Mount about, as you're so fond o' reading to the boys, but doing what other folks 'ud have you do? But if it was anything unreasonable they wanted you to do, like taking your cloak off and giving it to 'em, or letting 'em slap you i' the face, I daresay you'd be ready enough. It's only when one 'ud have you do what's plain common sense and good for yourself, as you're obstinate th' other way."
"Nay, dear Aunt," said Dinah, smiling slightly as she went on with her work, "I'm sure your wish 'ud be a reason for me to do anything that I didn't feel it was wrong to do."
"Wrong! You drive me past bearing. What is there wrong, I should like to know, i' staying along wi' your own friends, as are th' happier for having you with 'em an' are willing to provide for you, even if your work didn't more nor pay 'em for the bit o' sparrow's victual y' eat and the bit o' rag you put on? An' who is it, I should like to know, as you're bound t' help and comfort i' the world more nor your own flesh and blood—an' me th' only aunt you've got above-ground, an' am brought to the brink o' the grave welly every winter as comes, an' there's the child as sits beside you 'ull break her little heart when you go, an' the grandfather not been dead a twelvemonth, an' your uncle 'ull miss you so as never was—a-lighting his pipe an' waiting on him, an' now I can trust you wi' the butter, an' have had all the trouble o' teaching you, and there's all the sewing to be done, an' I must have a strange gell out o' Treddles'on to do it—an' all because you must go back to that bare heap o' stones as the very crows fly over an' won't stop at."
"Dear Aunt Rachel," said Dinah, looking up in Mrs. Poyser's face, "it's your kindness makes you say I'm useful to you. You don't really want me now, for Nancy and Molly are clever at their work, and you're in good health now, by the blessing of God, and my uncle is of a cheerful countenance again, and you have neighbours and friends not a few—some of them come to sit with my uncle almost daily. Indeed, you will not miss me; and at Snowfield there are brethren and sisters in great need, who have none of those comforts you have around you. I feel that I am called back to those amongst whom my lot was first cast. I feel drawn again towards the hills where I used to be blessed in carrying the word of life to the sinful and desolate."
"You feel! Yes," said Mrs. Poyser, returning from a parenthetic glance at the cows, "that's allays the reason I'm to sit down wi', when you've a mind to do anything contrairy. What do you want to be preaching for more than you're preaching now? Don't you go off, the Lord knows where, every Sunday a-preaching and praying? An' haven't you got Methodists enow at Treddles'on to go and look at, if church-folks's faces are too handsome to please you? An' isn't there them i' this parish as you've got under hand, and they're like enough to make friends wi' Old Harry again as soon as your back's turned? There's that Bessy Cranage—she'll be flaunting i' new finery three weeks after you're gone, I'll be bound. She'll no more go on in her new ways without you than a dog 'ull stand on its hind-legs when there's nobody looking. But I suppose it doesna matter so much about folks's souls i' this country, else you'd be for staying with your own aunt, for she's none so good but what you might help her to be better."
There was a certain something in Mrs. Poyser's voice just then, which she did not wish to be noticed, so she turned round hastily to look at the clock, and said: "See there! It's tea-time; an' if Martin's i' the rick-yard, he'll like a cup. Here, Totty, my chicken, let mother put your bonnet on, and then you go out into the rick-yard and see if Father's there, and tell him he mustn't go away again without coming t' have a cup o' tea; and tell your brothers to come in too."
Totty trotted off in her flapping bonnet, while Mrs. Poyser set out the bright oak table and reached down the tea-cups.
"You talk o' them gells Nancy and Molly being clever i' their work," she began again; "it's fine talking. They're all the same, clever or stupid—one can't trust 'em out o' one's sight a minute. They want somebody's eye on 'em constant if they're to be kept to their work. An' suppose I'm ill again this winter, as I was the winter before last? Who's to look after 'em then, if you're gone? An' there's that blessed child—something's sure t' happen to her—they'll let her tumble into the fire, or get at the kettle wi' the boiling lard in't, or some mischief as 'ull lame her for life; an' it'll be all your fault, Dinah."
"Aunt," said Dinah, "I promise to come back to you in the winter if you're ill. Don't think I will ever stay away from you if you're in real want of me. But, indeed, it is needful for my own soul that I should go away from this life of ease and luxury in which I have all things too richly to enjoy—at least that I should go away for a short space. No one can know but myself what are my inward needs, and the besetments I am most in danger from. Your wish for me to stay is not a call of duty which I refuse to hearken to because it is against my own desires; it is a temptation that I must resist, lest the love of the creature should become like a mist in my soul shutting out the heavenly light."
"It passes my cunning to know what you mean by ease and luxury," said Mrs. Poyser, as she cut the bread and butter. "It's true there's good victual enough about you, as nobody shall ever say I don't provide enough and to spare, but if there's ever a bit o' odds an' ends as nobody else 'ud eat, you're sure to pick it out...but look there! There's Adam Bede a-carrying the little un in. I wonder how it is he's come so early."
Mrs. Poyser hastened to the door for the pleasure of looking at her darling in a new position, with love in her eyes but reproof on her tongue.
"Oh for shame, Totty! Little gells o' five year old should be ashamed to be carried. Why, Adam, she'll break your arm, such a big gell as that; set her down—for shame!"
"Nay, nay," said Adam, "I can lift her with my hand—I've no need to take my arm to it."
Totty, looking as serenely unconscious of remark as a fat white puppy, was set down at the door-place, and the mother enforced her reproof with a shower of kisses.
"You're surprised to see me at this hour o' the day," said Adam.
"Yes, but come in," said Mrs. Poyser, making way for him; "there's no bad news, I hope?"
"No, nothing bad," Adam answered, as he went up to Dinah and put out his hand to her. She had laid down her work and stood up, instinctively, as he approached her. A faint blush died away from her pale cheek as she put her hand in his and looked up at him timidly.
"It's an errand to you brought me, Dinah," said Adam, apparently unconscious that he was holding her hand all the while; "mother's a bit ailing, and she's set her heart on your coming to stay the night with her, if you'll be so kind. I told her I'd call and ask you as I came from the village. She overworks herself, and I can't persuade her to have a little girl t' help her. I don't know what's to be done."
Adam released Dinah's hand as he ceased speaking, and was expecting an answer, but before she had opened her lips Mrs. Poyser said, "Look there now! I told you there was folks enow t' help i' this parish, wi'out going further off. There's Mrs. Bede getting as old and cas'alty as can be, and she won't let anybody but you go a-nigh her hardly. The folks at Snowfield have learnt by this time to do better wi'out you nor she can."
"I'll put my bonnet on and set off directly, if you don't want anything done first, Aunt," said Dinah, folding up her work.
"Yes, I do want something done. I want you t' have your tea, child; it's all ready—and you'll have a cup, Adam, if y' arena in too big a hurry."
"Yes, I'll have a cup, please; and then I'll walk with Dinah. I'm going straight home, for I've got a lot o' timber valuations to write out."
"Why, Adam, lad, are you here?" said Mr. Poyser, entering warm and coatless, with the two black-eyed boys behind him, still looking as much like him as two small elephants are like a large one. "How is it we've got sight o' you so long before foddering-time?"
"I came on an errand for Mother," said Adam. "She's got a touch of her old complaint, and she wants Dinah to go and stay with her a bit."
"Well, we'll spare her for your mother a little while," said Mr. Poyser. "But we wonna spare her for anybody else, on'y her husband."
"Husband!" said Marty, who was at the most prosaic and literal period of the boyish mind. "Why, Dinah hasn't got a husband."
"Spare her?" said Mrs. Poyser, placing a seed-cake on the table and then seating herself to pour out the tea. "But we must spare her, it seems, and not for a husband neither, but for her own megrims. Tommy, what are you doing to your little sister's doll? Making the child naughty, when she'd be good if you'd let her. You shanna have a morsel o' cake if you behave so."
Tommy, with true brotherly sympathy, was amusing himself by turning Dolly's skirt over her bald head and exhibiting her truncated body to the general scorn—an indignity which cut Totty to the heart.
"What do you think Dinah's been a-telling me since dinner-time?" Mrs. Poyser continued, looking at her husband.
"Eh! I'm a poor un at guessing," said Mr. Poyser.
"Why, she means to go back to Snowfield again, and work i' the mill, and starve herself, as she used to do, like a creatur as has got no friends."
Mr. Poyser did not readily find words to express his unpleasant astonishment; he only looked from his wife to Dinah, who had now seated herself beside Totty, as a bulwark against brotherly playfulness, and was busying herself with the children's tea. If he had been given to making general reflections, it would have occurred to him that there was certainly a change come over Dinah, for she never used to change colour; but, as it was, he merely observed that her face was flushed at that moment. Mr. Poyser thought she looked the prettier for it: it was a flush no deeper than the petal of a monthly rose. Perhaps it came because her uncle was looking at her so fixedly; but there is no knowing, for just then Adam was saying, with quiet surprise, "Why, I hoped Dinah was settled among us for life. I thought she'd given up the notion o' going back to her old country."
"Thought! Yes," said Mrs. Poyser, "and so would anybody else ha' thought, as had got their right end up'ards. But I suppose you must be a Methodist to know what a Methodist 'ull do. It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after."
"Why, what have we done to you. Dinah, as you must go away from us?" said Mr. Poyser, still pausing over his tea-cup. "It's like breaking your word, welly, for your aunt never had no thought but you'd make this your home."
"Nay, Uncle," said Dinah, trying to be quite calm. "When I first came, I said it was only for a time, as long as I could be of any comfort to my aunt."
"Well, an' who said you'd ever left off being a comfort to me?" said Mrs. Poyser. "If you didna mean to stay wi' me, you'd better never ha' come. Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it."
"Nay, nay," said Mr. Poyser, who objected to exaggerated views. "Thee mustna say so; we should ha' been ill off wi'out her, Lady day was a twelvemont'. We mun be thankful for that, whether she stays or no. But I canna think what she mun leave a good home for, to go back int' a country where the land, most on't, isna worth ten shillings an acre, rent and profits."
"Why, that's just the reason she wants to go, as fur as she can give a reason," said Mrs. Poyser. "She says this country's too comfortable, an' there's too much t' eat, an' folks arena miserable enough. And she's going next week. I canna turn her, say what I will. It's allays the way wi' them meek-faced people; you may's well pelt a bag o' feathers as talk to 'em. But I say it isna religion, to be so obstinate—is it now, Adam?"
Adam saw that Dinah was more disturbed than he had ever seen her by any matter relating to herself, and, anxious to relieve her, if possible, he said, looking at her affectionately, "Nay, I can't find fault with anything Dinah does. I believe her thoughts are better than our guesses, let 'em be what they may. I should ha' been thankful for her to stay among us, but if she thinks well to go, I wouldn't cross her, or make it hard to her by objecting. We owe her something different to that."
As it often happens, the words intended to relieve her were just too much for Dinah's susceptible feelings at this moment. The tears came into the grey eyes too fast to be hidden and she got up hurriedly, meaning it to be understood that she was going to put on her bonnet.
"Mother, what's Dinah crying for?" said Totty. "She isn't a naughty dell."
"Thee'st gone a bit too fur," said Mr. Poyser. "We've no right t' interfere with her doing as she likes. An' thee'dst be as angry as could be wi' me, if I said a word against anything she did."
"Because you'd very like be finding fault wi'out reason," said Mrs. Poyser. "But there's reason i' what I say, else I shouldna say it. It's easy talking for them as can't love her so well as her own aunt does. An' me got so used to her! I shall feel as uneasy as a new sheared sheep when she's gone from me. An' to think of her leaving a parish where she's so looked on. There's Mr. Irwine makes as much of her as if she was a lady, for all her being a Methodist, an' wi' that maggot o' preaching in her head—God forgi'e me if I'm i' the wrong to call it so."
"Aye," said Mr. Poyser, looking jocose; "but thee dostna tell Adam what he said to thee about it one day. The missis was saying, Adam, as the preaching was the only fault to be found wi' Dinah, and Mr. Irwine says, 'But you mustn't find fault with her for that, Mrs. Poyser; you forget she's got no husband to preach to. I'll answer for it, you give Poyser many a good sermon.' The parson had thee there," Mr. Poyser added, laughing unctuously. "I told Bartle Massey on it, an' he laughed too."
"Yes, it's a small joke sets men laughing when they sit a-staring at one another with a pipe i' their mouths," said Mrs. Poyser. "Give Bartle Massey his way and he'd have all the sharpness to himself. If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we should all be straw, I reckon. Totty, my chicken, go upstairs to cousin Dinah, and see what she's doing, and give her a pretty kiss."
This errand was devised for Totty as a means of checking certain threatening symptoms about the corners of the mouth; for Tommy, no longer expectant of cake, was lifting up his eyelids with his forefingers and turning his eyeballs towards Totty in a way that she felt to be disagreeably personal.
"You're rare and busy now—eh, Adam?" said Mr. Poyser. "Burge's getting so bad wi' his asthmy, it's well if he'll ever do much riding about again."
"Yes, we've got a pretty bit o' building on hand now," said Adam, "what with the repairs on th' estate, and the new houses at Treddles'on."
"I'll bet a penny that new house Burge is building on his own bit o' land is for him and Mary to go to," said Mr. Poyser. "He'll be for laying by business soon, I'll warrant, and be wanting you to take to it all and pay him so much by th' 'ear. We shall see you living on th' hill before another twelvemont's over."
"Well," said Adam, "I should like t' have the business in my own hands. It isn't as I mind much about getting any more money. We've enough and to spare now, with only our two selves and mother; but I should like t' have my own way about things—I could try plans then, as I can't do now."
"You get on pretty well wi' the new steward, I reckon?" said Mr. Poyser.
"Yes, yes; he's a sensible man enough; understands farming—he's carrying on the draining, and all that, capital. You must go some day towards the Stonyshire side and see what alterations they're making. But he's got no notion about buildings. You can so seldom get hold of a man as can turn his brains to more nor one thing; it's just as if they wore blinkers like th' horses and could see nothing o' one side of 'em. Now, there's Mr. Irwine has got notions o' building more nor most architects; for as for th' architects, they set up to be fine fellows, but the most of 'em don't know where to set a chimney so as it shan't be quarrelling with a door. My notion is, a practical builder that's got a bit o' taste makes the best architect for common things; and I've ten times the pleasure i' seeing after the work when I've made the plan myself."
Mr. Poyser listened with an admiring interest to Adam's discourse on building, but perhaps it suggested to him that the building of his corn-rick had been proceeding a little too long without the control of the master's eye, for when Adam had done speaking, he got up and said, "Well, lad, I'll bid you good-bye now, for I'm off to the rick-yard again."
Adam rose too, for he saw Dinah entering, with her bonnet on and a little basket in her hand, preceded by Totty.
"You're ready, I see, Dinah," Adam said; "so we'll set off, for the sooner I'm at home the better."
"Mother," said Totty, with her treble pipe, "Dinah was saying her prayers and crying ever so."
"Hush, hush," said the mother, "little gells mustn't chatter."
Whereupon the father, shaking with silent laughter, set Totty on the white deal table and desired her to kiss him. Mr. and Mrs. Poyser, you perceive, had no correct principles of education.
"Come back to-morrow if Mrs. Bede doesn't want you, Dinah," said Mrs. Poyser: "but you can stay, you know, if she's ill."
So, when the good-byes had been said, Dinah and Adam left the Hall Farm together.
Chapter L
In the Cottage
ADAM did not ask Dinah to take his arm when they got out into the lane. He had never yet done so, often as they had walked together, for he had observed that she never walked arm-in-arm with Seth, and he thought, perhaps, that kind of support was not agreeable to her. So they walked apart, though side by side, and the close poke of her little black bonnet hid her face from him.
"You can't be happy, then, to make the Hall Farm your home, Dinah?" Adam said, with the quiet interest of a brother, who has no anxiety for himself in the matter. "It's a pity, seeing they're so fond of you."
"You know, Adam, my heart is as their heart, so far as love for them and care for their welfare goes, but they are in no present need. Their sorrows are healed, and I feel that I am called back to my old work, in which I found a blessing that I have missed of late in the midst of too abundant worldly good. I know it is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing to our own souls, as if we could choose for ourselves where we shall find the fulness of the Divine Presence, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found, in loving obedience. But now, I believe, I have a clear showing that my work lies elsewhere—at least for a time. In the years to come, if my aunt's health should fail, or she should otherwise need me, I shall return."
"You know best, Dinah," said Adam. "I don't believe you'd go against the wishes of them that love you, and are akin to you, without a good and sufficient reason in your own conscience. I've no right to say anything about my being sorry: you know well enough what cause I have to put you above every other friend I've got; and if it had been ordered so that you could ha' been my sister, and lived with us all our lives, I should ha' counted it the greatest blessing as could happen to us now. But Seth tells me there's no hope o' that: your feelings are different, and perhaps I'm taking too much upon me to speak about it."
Dinah made no answer, and they walked on in silence for some yards, till they came to the stone stile, where, as Adam had passed through first and turned round to give her his hand while she mounted the unusually high step, she could not prevent him from seeing her face. It struck him with surprise, for the grey eyes, usually so mild and grave, had the bright uneasy glance which accompanies suppressed agitation, and the slight flush in her cheeks, with which she had come downstairs, was heightened to a deep rose-colour. She looked as if she were only sister to Dinah. Adam was silent with surprise and conjecture for some moments, and then he said, "I hope I've not hurt or displeased you by what I've said, Dinah. Perhaps I was making too free. I've no wish different from what you see to be best, and I'm satisfied for you to live thirty mile off, if you think it right. I shall think of you just as much as I do now, for you're bound up with what I can no more help remembering than I can help my heart beating."
Poor Adam! Thus do men blunder. Dinah made no answer, but she presently said, "Have you heard any news from that poor young man, since we last spoke of him?"
Dinah always called Arthur so; she had never lost the image of him as she had seen him in the prison.
"Yes," said Adam. "Mr. Irwine read me part of a letter from him yesterday. It's pretty certain, they say, that there'll be a peace soon, though nobody believes it'll last long; but he says he doesn't mean to come home. He's no heart for it yet, and it's better for others that he should keep away. Mr. Irwine thinks he's in the right not to come. It's a sorrowful letter. He asks about you and the Poysers, as he always does. There's one thing in the letter cut me a good deal: 'You can't think what an old fellow I feel,' he says; 'I make no schemes now. I'm the best when I've a good day's march or fighting before me.'"
"He's of a rash, warm-hearted nature, like Esau, for whom I have always felt great pity," said Dinah. "That meeting between the brothers, where Esau is so loving and generous, and Jacob so timid and distrustful, notwithstanding his sense of the Divine favour, has always touched me greatly. Truly, I have been tempted sometimes to say that Jacob was of a mean spirit. But that is our trial: we must learn to see the good in the midst of much that is unlovely."
"Ah," said Adam, "I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits. A man must have courage to look at his life so, and think what'll come of it after he's dead and gone. A good solid bit o' work lasts: if it's only laying a floor down, somebody's the better for it being done well, besides the man as does it."
They were both glad to talk of subjects that were not personal, and in this way they went on till they passed the bridge across the Willow Brook, when Adam turned round and said, "Ah, here's Seth. I thought he'd be home soon. Does he know of you're going, Dinah?"
"Yes, I told him last Sabbath."
Adam remembered now that Seth had come home much depressed on Sunday evening, a circumstance which had been very unusual with him of late, for the happiness he had in seeing Dinah every week seemed long to have outweighed the pain of knowing she would never marry him. This evening he had his habitual air of dreamy benignant contentment, until he came quite close to Dinah and saw the traces of tears on her delicate eyelids and eyelashes. He gave one rapid glance at his brother, but Adam was evidently quite outside the current of emotion that had shaken Dinah: he wore his everyday look of unexpectant calm. Seth tried not to let Dinah see that he had noticed her face, and only said, "I'm thankful you're come, Dinah, for Mother's been hungering after the sight of you all day. She began to talk of you the first thing in the morning."
When they entered the cottage, Lisbeth was seated in her arm-chair, too tired with setting out the evening meal, a task she always performed a long time beforehand, to go and meet them at the door as usual, when she heard the approaching footsteps.
"Coom, child, thee't coom at last," she said, when Dinah went towards her. "What dost mane by lavin' me a week an' ne'er coomin' a-nigh me?"
"Dear friend," said Dinah, taking her hand, "you're not well. If I'd known it sooner, I'd have come."
"An' how's thee t' know if thee dostna coom? Th' lads on'y know what I tell 'em. As long as ye can stir hand and foot the men think ye're hearty. But I'm none so bad, on'y a bit of a cold sets me achin'. An' th' lads tease me so t' ha' somebody wi' me t' do the work—they make me ache worse wi' talkin'. If thee'dst come and stay wi' me, they'd let me alone. The Poysers canna want thee so bad as I do. But take thy bonnet off, an' let me look at thee."
Dinah was moving away, but Lisbeth held her fast, while she was taking off her bonnet, and looked at her face as one looks into a newly gathered snowdrop, to renew the old impressions of purity and gentleness.
"What's the matter wi' thee?" said Lisbeth, in astonishment; "thee'st been a-cryin'."
"It's only a grief that'll pass away," said Dinah, who did not wish just now to call forth Lisbeth's remonstrances by disclosing her intention to leave Hayslope. "You shall know about it shortly—we'll talk of it to-night. I shall stay with you to-night."
Lisbeth was pacified by this prospect. And she had the whole evening to talk with Dinah alone; for there was a new room in the cottage, you remember, built nearly two years ago, in the expectation of a new inmate; and here Adam always sat when he had writing to do or plans to make. Seth sat there too this evening, for he knew his mother would like to have Dinah all to herself.
There were two pretty pictures on the two sides of the wall in the cottage. On one side there was the broad-shouldered, large-featured, hardy old woman, in her blue jacket and buff kerchief, with her dim-eyed anxious looks turned continually on the lily face and the slight form in the black dress that were either moving lightly about in helpful activity, or seated close by the old woman's arm-chair, holding her withered hand, with eyes lifted up towards her to speak a language which Lisbeth understood far better than the Bible or the hymn-book. She would scarcely listen to reading at all to-night. "Nay, nay, shut the book," she said. "We mun talk. I want t' know what thee was cryin' about. Hast got troubles o' thy own, like other folks?"
On the other side of the wall there were the two brothers so like each other in the midst of their unlikeness: Adam with knit brows, shaggy hair, and dark vigorous colour, absorbed in his "figuring"; Seth, with large rugged features, the close copy of his brother's, but with thin, wavy, brown hair and blue dreamy eyes, as often as not looking vaguely out of the window instead of at his book, although it was a newly bought book—Wesley's abridgment of Madame Guyon's life, which was full of wonder and interest for him. Seth had said to Adam, "Can I help thee with anything in here to-night? I don't want to make a noise in the shop."
"No, lad," Adam answered, "there's nothing but what I must do myself. Thee'st got thy new book to read."
And often, when Seth was quite unconscious, Adam, as he paused after drawing a line with his ruler, looked at his brother with a kind smile dawning in his eyes. He knew "th' lad liked to sit full o' thoughts he could give no account of; they'd never come t' anything, but they made him happy," and in the last year or so, Adam had been getting more and more indulgent to Seth. It was part of that growing tenderness which came from the sorrow at work within him.
For Adam, though you see him quite master of himself, working hard and delighting in his work after his inborn inalienable nature, had not outlived his sorrow—had not felt it slip from him as a temporary burden, and leave him the same man again. Do any of us? God forbid. It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it—if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of that Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness. Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructible force, only changing its form, as forces do, and passing from pain into sympathy—the one poor word which includes all our best insight and our best love. Not that this transformation of pain into sympathy had completely taken place in Adam yet. There was still a great remnant of pain, and this he felt would subsist as long as her pain was not a memory, but an existing thing, which he must think of as renewed with the light of every new morning. But we get accustomed to mental as well as bodily pain, without, for all that, losing our sensibility to it. It becomes a habit of our lives, and we cease to imagine a condition of perfect ease as possible for us. Desire is chastened into submission, and we are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence and act as if we were not suffering. For it is at such periods that the sense of our lives having visible and invisible relations, beyond any of which either our present or prospective self is the centre, grows like a muscle that we are obliged to lean on and exert.
That was Adam's state of mind in this second autumn of his sorrow. His work, as you know, had always been part of his religion, and from very early days he saw clearly that good carpentry was God's will—was that form of God's will that most immediately concerned him. But now there was no margin of dreams for him beyond this daylight reality, no holiday-time in the working-day world, no moment in the distance when duty would take off her iron glove and breast-plate and clasp him gently into rest. He conceived no picture of the future but one made up of hard-working days such as he lived through, with growing contentment and intensity of interest, every fresh week. Love, he thought, could never be anything to him but a living memory—a limb lopped off, but not gone from consciousness. He did not know that the power of loving was all the while gaining new force within him; that the new sensibilities bought by a deep experience were so many new fibres by which it was possible, nay, necessary to him, that his nature should intertwine with another. Yet he was aware that common affection and friendship were more precious to him than they used to be—that he clung more to his mother and Seth, and had an unspeakable satisfaction in the sight or imagination of any small addition to their happiness. The Poysers, too—hardly three or four days passed but he felt the need of seeing them and interchanging words and looks of friendliness with them. He would have felt this, probably, even if Dinah had not been with them, but he had only said the simplest truth in telling Dinah that he put her above all other friends in the world. Could anything be more natural? For in the darkest moments of memory the thought of her always came as the first ray of returning comfort. The early days of gloom at the Hall Farm had been gradually turned into soft moonlight by her presence; and in the cottage, too, for she had come at every spare moment to soothe and cheer poor Lisbeth, who had been stricken with a fear that subdued even her querulousness at the sight of her darling Adam's grief-worn face. He had become used to watching her light quiet movements, her pretty loving ways to the children, when he went to the Hall Farm; to listen for her voice as for a recurrent music; to think everything she said and did was just right, and could not have been better. In spite of his wisdom, he could not find fault with her for her overindulgence of the children, who had managed to convert Dinah the preacher, before whom a circle of rough men had often trembled a little, into a convenient household slave—though Dinah herself was rather ashamed of this weakness, and had some inward conflict as to her departure from the precepts of Solomon. Yes, there was one thing that might have been better; she might have loved Seth and consented to marry him. He felt a little vexed, for his brother's sake, and he could not help thinking regretfully how Dinah, as Seth's wife, would have made their home as happy as it could be for them all—how she was the one being that would have soothed their mother's last days into peacefulness and rest.
"It's wonderful she doesn't love th' lad," Adam had said sometimes to himself, "for anybody 'ud think he was just cut out for her. But her heart's so taken up with other things. She's one o' those women that feel no drawing towards having a husband and children o' their own. She thinks she should be filled up with her own life then, and she's been used so to living in other folks's cares, she can't bear the thought of her heart being shut up from 'em. I see how it is, well enough. She's cut out o' different stuff from most women: I saw that long ago. She's never easy but when she's helping somebody, and marriage 'ud interfere with her ways—that's true. I've no right to be contriving and thinking it 'ud be better if she'd have Seth, as if I was wiser than she is—or than God either, for He made her what she is, and that's one o' the greatest blessings I've ever had from His hands, and others besides me."
This self-reproof had recurred strongly to Adam's mind when he gathered from Dinah's face that he had wounded her by referring to his wish that she had accepted Seth, and so he had endeavoured to put into the strongest words his confidence in her decision as right—his resignation even to her going away from them and ceasing to make part of their life otherwise than by living in their thoughts, if that separation were chosen by herself. He felt sure she knew quite well enough how much he cared to see her continually—to talk to her with the silent consciousness of a mutual great remembrance. It was not possible she should hear anything but self-renouncing affection and respect in his assurance that he was contented for her to go away; and yet there remained an uneasy feeling in his mind that he had not said quite the right thing—that, somehow, Dinah had not understood him.
Dinah must have risen a little before the sun the next morning, for she was downstairs about five o'clock. So was Seth, for, through Lisbeth's obstinate refusal to have any woman-helper in the house, he had learned to make himself, as Adam said, "very handy in the housework," that he might save his mother from too great weariness; on which ground I hope you will not think him unmanly, any more than you can have thought the gallant Colonel Bath unmanly when he made the gruel for his invalid sister. Adam, who had sat up late at his writing, was still asleep, and was not likely, Seth said, to be down till breakfast-time. Often as Dinah had visited Lisbeth during the last eighteen months, she had never slept in the cottage since that night after Thias's death, when, you remember, Lisbeth praised her deft movements and even gave a modified approval to her porridge. But in that long interval Dinah had made great advances in household cleverness, and this morning, since Seth was there to help, she was bent on bringing everything to a pitch of cleanliness and order that would have satisfied her Aunt Poyser. The cottage was far from that standard at present, for Lisbeth's rheumatism had forced her to give up her old habits of dilettante scouring and polishing. When the kitchen was to her mind, Dinah went into the new room, where Adam had been writing the night before, to see what sweeping and dusting were needed there. She opened the window and let in the fresh morning air, and the smell of the sweet-brier, and the bright low-slanting rays of the early sun, which made a glory about her pale face and pale auburn hair as she held the long brush, and swept, singing to herself in a very low tone—like a sweet summer murmur that you have to listen for very closely—one of Charles Wesley's hymns:
Eternal Beam of Light Divine, Fountain of unexhausted love, In whom the Father's glories shine, Through earth beneath and heaven above;
Jesus! the weary wanderer's rest, Give me thy easy yoke to bear; With steadfast patience arm my breast, With spotless love and holy fear.
Speak to my warring passions, "Peace!" Say to my trembling heart, "Be still!" Thy power my strength and fortress is, For all things serve thy sovereign will.
She laid by the brush and took up the duster; and if you had ever lived in Mrs. Poyser's household, you would know how the duster behaved in Dinah's hand—how it went into every small corner, and on every ledge in and out of sight—how it went again and again round every bar of the chairs, and every leg, and under and over everything that lay on the table, till it came to Adam's papers and rulers and the open desk near them. Dinah dusted up to the very edge of these and then hesitated, looking at them with a longing but timid eye. It was painful to see how much dust there was among them. As she was looking in this way, she heard Seth's step just outside the open door, towards which her back was turned, and said, raising her clear treble, "Seth, is your brother wrathful when his papers are stirred?"
"Yes, very, when they are not put back in the right places," said a deep strong voice, not Seth's.
It was as if Dinah had put her hands unawares on a vibrating chord. She was shaken with an intense thrill, and for the instant felt nothing else; then she knew her cheeks were glowing, and dared not look round, but stood still, distressed because she could not say good-morning in a friendly way. Adam, finding that she did not look round so as to see the smile on his face, was afraid she had thought him serious about his wrathfulness, and went up to her, so that she was obliged to look at him.
"What! You think I'm a cross fellow at home, Dinah?" he said, smilingly.
"Nay," said Dinah, looking up with timid eyes, "not so. But you might be put about by finding things meddled with; and even the man Moses, the meekest of men, was wrathful sometimes."
"Come, then," said Adam, looking at her affectionately, "I'll help you move the things, and put 'em back again, and then they can't get wrong. You're getting to be your aunt's own niece, I see, for particularness."
They began their little task together, but Dinah had not recovered herself sufficiently to think of any remark, and Adam looked at her uneasily. Dinah, he thought, had seemed to disapprove him somehow lately; she had not been so kind and open to him as she used to be. He wanted her to look at him, and be as pleased as he was himself with doing this bit of playful work. But Dinah did not look at him—it was easy for her to avoid looking at the tall man—and when at last there was no more dusting to be done and no further excuse for him to linger near her, he could bear it no longer, and said, in rather a pleading tone, "Dinah, you're not displeased with me for anything, are you? I've not said or done anything to make you think ill of me?"
The question surprised her, and relieved her by giving a new course to her feeling. She looked up at him now, quite earnestly, almost with the tears coming, and said, "Oh, no, Adam! how could you think so?"
"I couldn't bear you not to feel as much a friend to me as I do to you," said Adam. "And you don't know the value I set on the very thought of you, Dinah. That was what I meant yesterday, when I said I'd be content for you to go, if you thought right. I meant, the thought of you was worth so much to me, I should feel I ought to be thankful, and not grumble, if you see right to go away. You know I do mind parting with you, Dinah?"
"Yes, dear friend," said Dinah, trembling, but trying to speak calmly, "I know you have a brother's heart towards me, and we shall often be with one another in spirit; but at this season I am in heaviness through manifold temptations. You must not mark me. I feel called to leave my kindred for a while; but it is a trial—the flesh is weak."
Adam saw that it pained her to be obliged to answer.
"I hurt you by talking about it, Dinah," he said. "I'll say no more. Let's see if Seth's ready with breakfast now."
That is a simple scene, reader. But it is almost certain that you, too, have been in love—perhaps, even, more than once, though you may not choose to say so to all your feminine friends. If so, you will no more think the slight words, the timid looks, the tremulous touches, by which two human souls approach each other gradually, like two little quivering rain-streams, before they mingle into one—you will no more think these things trivial than you will think the first-detected signs of coming spring trivial, though they be but a faint indescribable something in the air and in the song of the birds, and the tiniest perceptible budding on the hedge-row branches. Those slight words and looks and touches are part of the soul's language; and the finest language, I believe, is chiefly made up of unimposing words, such as "light," "sound," "stars," "music"—words really not worth looking at, or hearing, in themselves, any more than "chips" or "sawdust." It is only that they happen to be the signs of something unspeakably great and beautiful. I am of opinion that love is a great and beautiful thing too, and if you agree with me, the smallest signs of it will not be chips and sawdust to you: they will rather be like those little words, "light" and "music," stirring the long-winding fibres of your memory and enriching your present with your most precious past.
Chapter LI
LISBETH'S touch of rheumatism could not be made to appear serious enough to detain Dinah another night from the Hall Farm, now she had made up her mind to leave her aunt so soon, and at evening the friends must part. "For a long while," Dinah had said, for she had told Lisbeth of her resolve.
"Then it'll be for all my life, an' I shall ne'er see thee again," said Lisbeth. "Long while! I'n got no long while t' live. An' I shall be took bad an' die, an' thee canst ne'er come a-nigh me, an' I shall die a-longing for thee."
That had been the key-note of her wailing talk all day; for Adam was not in the house, and so she put no restraint on her complaining. She had tried poor Dinah by returning again and again to the question, why she must go away; and refusing to accept reasons, which seemed to her nothing but whim and "contrairiness"; and still more, by regretting that she "couldna' ha' one o' the lads" and be her daughter.
"Thee couldstna put up wi' Seth," she said. "He isna cliver enough for thee, happen, but he'd ha' been very good t' thee—he's as handy as can be at doin' things for me when I'm bad, an' he's as fond o' the Bible an' chappellin' as thee art thysen. But happen, thee'dst like a husband better as isna just the cut o' thysen: the runnin' brook isna athirst for th' rain. Adam 'ud ha' done for thee—I know he would—an' he might come t' like thee well enough, if thee'dst stop. But he's as stubborn as th' iron bar—there's no bending him no way but's own. But he'd be a fine husband for anybody, be they who they will, so looked-on an' so cliver as he is. And he'd be rare an' lovin': it does me good on'y a look o' the lad's eye when he means kind tow'rt me."
Dinah tried to escape from Lisbeth's closest looks and questions by finding little tasks of housework that kept her moving about, and as soon as Seth came home in the evening she put on her bonnet to go. It touched Dinah keenly to say the last good-bye, and still more to look round on her way across the fields and see the old woman still standing at the door, gazing after her till she must have been the faintest speck in the dim aged eyes. "The God of love and peace be with them," Dinah prayed, as she looked back from the last stile. "Make them glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted them, and the years wherein they have seen evil. It is thy will that I should part from them; let me have no will but thine."
Lisbeth turned into the house at last and sat down in the workshop near Seth, who was busying himself there with fitting some bits of turned wood he had brought from the village into a small work-box, which he meant to give to Dinah before she went away.
"Thee't see her again o' Sunday afore she goes," were her first words. "If thee wast good for anything, thee'dst make her come in again o' Sunday night wi' thee, and see me once more."
"Nay, Mother," said Seth. "Dinah 'ud be sure to come again if she saw right to come. I should have no need to persuade her. She only thinks it 'ud be troubling thee for nought, just to come in to say good-bye over again."
"She'd ne'er go away, I know, if Adam 'ud be fond on her an' marry her, but everything's so contrairy," said Lisbeth, with a burst of vexation.
Seth paused a moment and looked up, with a slight blush, at his mother's face. "What! Has she said anything o' that sort to thee, Mother?" he said, in a lower tone.
"Said? Nay, she'll say nothin'. It's on'y the men as have to wait till folks say things afore they find 'em out."
"Well, but what makes thee think so, Mother? What's put it into thy head?"
"It's no matter what's put it into my head. My head's none so hollow as it must get in, an' nought to put it there. I know she's fond on him, as I know th' wind's comin' in at the door, an' that's anoof. An' he might be willin' to marry her if he know'd she's fond on him, but he'll ne'er think on't if somebody doesna put it into's head."
His mother's suggestion about Dinah's feeling towards Adam was not quite a new thought to Seth, but her last words alarmed him, lest she should herself undertake to open Adam's eyes. He was not sure about Dinah's feeling, and he thought he was sure about Adam's.
"Nay, Mother, nay," he said, earnestly, "thee mustna think o' speaking o' such things to Adam. Thee'st no right to say what Dinah's feelings are if she hasna told thee, and it 'ud do nothing but mischief to say such things to Adam. He feels very grateful and affectionate toward Dinah, but he's no thoughts towards her that 'ud incline him to make her his wife, and I don't believe Dinah 'ud marry him either. I don't think she'll marry at all."
"Eh," said Lisbeth, impatiently. "Thee think'st so 'cause she wouldna ha' thee. She'll ne'er marry thee; thee mightst as well like her t' ha' thy brother."
Seth was hurt. "Mother," he said, in a remonstrating tone, "don't think that of me. I should be as thankful t' have her for a sister as thee wouldst t' have her for a daughter. I've no more thoughts about myself in that thing, and I shall take it hard if ever thee say'st it again."
"Well, well, then thee shouldstna cross me wi' sayin' things arena as I say they are."
"But, Mother," said Seth, "thee'dst be doing Dinah a wrong by telling Adam what thee think'st about her. It 'ud do nothing but mischief, for it 'ud make Adam uneasy if he doesna feel the same to her. And I'm pretty sure he feels nothing o' the sort."
"Eh, donna tell me what thee't sure on; thee know'st nought about it. What's he allays goin' to the Poysers' for, if he didna want t' see her? He goes twice where he used t' go once. Happen he knowsna as he wants t' see her; he knowsna as I put salt in's broth, but he'd miss it pretty quick if it warna there. He'll ne'er think o' marrying if it isna put into's head, an' if thee'dst any love for thy mother, thee'dst put him up to't an' not let her go away out o' my sight, when I might ha' her to make a bit o' comfort for me afore I go to bed to my old man under the white thorn."
"Nay, Mother," said Seth, "thee mustna think me unkind, but I should be going against my conscience if I took upon me to say what Dinah's feelings are. And besides that, I think I should give offence to Adam by speaking to him at all about marrying; and I counsel thee not to do't. Thee may'st be quite deceived about Dinah. Nay, I'm pretty sure, by words she said to me last Sabbath, as she's no mind to marry."
"Eh, thee't as contrairy as the rest on 'em. If it war summat I didna want, it 'ud be done fast enough."
Lisbeth rose from the bench at this, and went out of the workshop, leaving Seth in much anxiety lest she should disturb Adam's mind about Dinah. He consoled himself after a time with reflecting that, since Adam's trouble, Lisbeth had been very timid about speaking to him on matters of feeling, and that she would hardly dare to approach this tenderest of all subjects. Even if she did, he hoped Adam would not take much notice of what she said.
Seth was right in believing that Lisbeth would be held in restraint by timidity, and during the next three days, the intervals in which she had an opportunity of speaking to Adam were too rare and short to cause her any strong temptation. But in her long solitary hours she brooded over her regretful thoughts about Dinah, till they had grown very near that point of unmanageable strength when thoughts are apt to take wing out of their secret nest in a startling manner. And on Sunday morning, when Seth went away to chapel at Treddleston, the dangerous opportunity came.
Sunday morning was the happiest time in all the week to Lisbeth, for as there was no service at Hayslope church till the afternoon, Adam was always at home, doing nothing but reading, an occupation in which she could venture to interrupt him. Moreover, she had always a better dinner than usual to prepare for her sons—very frequently for Adam and herself alone, Seth being often away the entire day—and the smell of the roast meat before the clear fire in the clean kitchen, the clock ticking in a peaceful Sunday manner, her darling Adam seated near her in his best clothes, doing nothing very important, so that she could go and stroke her hand across his hair if she liked, and see him look up at her and smile, while Gyp, rather jealous, poked his muzzle up between them—all these things made poor Lisbeth's earthly paradise.
The book Adam most often read on a Sunday morning was his large pictured Bible, and this morning it lay open before him on the round white deal table in the kitchen; for he sat there in spite of the fire, because he knew his mother liked to have him with her, and it was the only day in the week when he could indulge her in that way. You would have liked to see Adam reading his Bible. He never opened it on a weekday, and so he came to it as a holiday book, serving him for history, biography, and poetry. He held one hand thrust between his waistcoat buttons, and the other ready to turn the pages, and in the course of the morning you would have seen many changes in his face. Sometimes his lips moved in semi-articulation—it was when he came to a speech that he could fancy himself uttering, such as Samuel's dying speech to the people; then his eyebrows would be raised, and the corners of his mouth would quiver a little with sad sympathy—something, perhaps old Isaac's meeting with his son, touched him closely; at other times, over the New Testament, a very solemn look would come upon his face, and he would every now and then shake his head in serious assent, or just lift up his hand and let it fall again. And on some mornings, when he read in the Apocrypha, of which he was very fond, the son of Sirach's keen-edged words would bring a delighted smile, though he also enjoyed the freedom of occasionally differing from an Apocryphal writer. For Adam knew the Articles quite well, as became a good churchman.
Lisbeth, in the pauses of attending to her dinner, always sat opposite to him and watched him, till she could rest no longer without going up to him and giving him a caress, to call his attention to her. This morning he was reading the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and Lisbeth had been standing close by him for some minutes, stroking his hair, which was smoother than usual this morning, and looking down at the large page with silent wonderment at the mystery of letters. She was encouraged to continue this caress, because when she first went up to him, he had thrown himself back in his chair to look at her affectionately and say, "Why, Mother, thee look'st rare and hearty this morning. Eh, Gyp wants me t' look at him. He can't abide to think I love thee the best." Lisbeth said nothing, because she wanted to say so many things. And now there was a new leaf to be turned over, and it was a picture—that of the angel seated on the great stone that has been rolled away from the sepulchre. This picture had one strong association in Lisbeth's memory, for she had been reminded of it when she first saw Dinah, and Adam had no sooner turned the page, and lifted the book sideways that they might look at the angel, than she said, "That's her—that's Dinah."
Adam smiled, and, looking more intently at the angel's face, said, "It is a bit like her; but Dinah's prettier, I think."
"Well, then, if thee think'st her so pretty, why arn't fond on her?"
Adam looked up in surprise. "Why, Mother, dost think I don't set store by Dinah?"
"Nay," said Lisbeth, frightened at her own courage, yet feeling that she had broken the ice, and the waters must flow, whatever mischief they might do. "What's th' use o' settin' store by things as are thirty mile off? If thee wast fond enough on her, thee wouldstna let her go away."
"But I've no right t' hinder her, if she thinks well," said Adam, looking at his book as if he wanted to go on reading. He foresaw a series of complaints tending to nothing. Lisbeth sat down again in the chair opposite to him, as she said:
"But she wouldna think well if thee wastna so contrairy." Lisbeth dared not venture beyond a vague phrase yet.
"Contrairy, mother?" Adam said, looking up again in some anxiety. "What have I done? What dost mean?"
"Why, thee't never look at nothin', nor think o' nothin', but thy figurin, an' thy work," said Lisbeth, half-crying. "An' dost think thee canst go on so all thy life, as if thee wast a man cut out o' timber? An' what wut do when thy mother's gone, an' nobody to take care on thee as thee gett'st a bit o' victual comfortable i' the mornin'?"
"What hast got i' thy mind, Mother?" said Adam, vexed at this whimpering. "I canna see what thee't driving at. Is there anything I could do for thee as I don't do?"
"Aye, an' that there is. Thee might'st do as I should ha' somebody wi' me to comfort me a bit, an' wait on me when I'm bad, an' be good to me."
"Well, Mother, whose fault is it there isna some tidy body i' th' house t' help thee? It isna by my wish as thee hast a stroke o' work to do. We can afford it—I've told thee often enough. It 'ud be a deal better for us."
"Eh, what's the use o' talking o' tidy bodies, when thee mean'st one o' th' wenches out o' th' village, or somebody from Treddles'on as I ne'er set eyes on i' my life? I'd sooner make a shift an' get into my own coffin afore I die, nor ha' them folks to put me in."
Adam was silent, and tried to go on reading. That was the utmost severity he could show towards his mother on a Sunday morning. But Lisbeth had gone too far now to check herself, and after scarcely a minute's quietness she began again.
"Thee mightst know well enough who 'tis I'd like t' ha' wi' me. It isna many folks I send for t' come an' see me. I reckon. An' thee'st had the fetchin' on her times enow."
"Thee mean'st Dinah, Mother, I know," said Adam. "But it's no use setting thy mind on what can't be. If Dinah 'ud be willing to stay at Hayslope, it isn't likely she can come away from her aunt's house, where they hold her like a daughter, and where she's more bound than she is to us. If it had been so that she could ha' married Seth, that 'ud ha' been a great blessing to us, but we can't have things just as we like in this life. Thee must try and make up thy mind to do without her."
"Nay, but I canna ma' up my mind, when she's just cut out for thee; an' nought shall ma' me believe as God didna make her an' send her there o' purpose for thee. What's it sinnify about her bein' a Methody! It 'ud happen wear out on her wi' marryin'."
Adam threw himself back in his chair and looked at his mother. He understood now what she had been aiming at from the beginning of the conversation. It was as unreasonable, impracticable a wish as she had ever urged, but he could not help being moved by so entirely new an idea. The chief point, however, was to chase away the notion from his mother's mind as quickly as possible.
"Mother," he said, gravely, "thee't talking wild. Don't let me hear thee say such things again. It's no good talking o' what can never be. Dinah's not for marrying; she's fixed her heart on a different sort o' life."
"Very like," said Lisbeth, impatiently, "very like she's none for marr'ing, when them as she'd be willin' t' marry wonna ax her. I shouldna ha' been for marr'ing thy feyther if he'd ne'er axed me; an' she's as fond o' thee as e'er I war o' Thias, poor fellow."
The blood rushed to Adam's face, and for a few moments he was not quite conscious where he was. His mother and the kitchen had vanished for him, and he saw nothing but Dinah's face turned up towards his. It seemed as if there were a resurrection of his dead joy. But he woke up very speedily from that dream (the waking was chill and sad), for it would have been very foolish in him to believe his mother's words—she could have no ground for them. He was prompted to express his disbelief very strongly—perhaps that he might call forth the proofs, if there were any to be offered.
"What dost say such things for, Mother, when thee'st got no foundation for 'em? Thee know'st nothing as gives thee a right to say that."
"Then I knowna nought as gi'es me a right to say as the year's turned, for all I feel it fust thing when I get up i' th' morning. She isna fond o' Seth, I reckon, is she? She doesna want to marry HIM? But I can see as she doesna behave tow'rt thee as she daes tow'rt Seth. She makes no more o' Seth's coming a-nigh her nor if he war Gyp, but she's all of a tremble when thee't a-sittin' down by her at breakfast an' a-looking at her. Thee think'st thy mother knows nought, but she war alive afore thee wast born."
"But thee canstna be sure as the trembling means love?" said Adam anxiously.
"Eh, what else should it mane? It isna hate, I reckon. An' what should she do but love thee? Thee't made to be loved—for where's there a straighter cliverer man? An' what's it sinnify her bein' a Methody? It's on'y the marigold i' th' parridge."
Adam had thrust his hands in his pockets, and was looking down at the book on the table, without seeing any of the letters. He was trembling like a gold-seeker who sees the strong promise of gold but sees in the same moment a sickening vision of disappointment. He could not trust his mother's insight; she had seen what she wished to see. And yet—and yet, now the suggestion had been made to him, he remembered so many things, very slight things, like the stirring of the water by an imperceptible breeze, which seemed to him some confirmation of his mother's words.
Lisbeth noticed that he was moved. She went on, "An' thee't find out as thee't poorly aff when she's gone. Thee't fonder on her nor thee know'st. Thy eyes follow her about, welly as Gyp's follow thee."
Adam could sit still no longer. He rose, took down his hat, and went out into the fields.
The sunshine was on them: that early autumn sunshine which we should know was not summer's, even if there were not the touches of yellow on the lime and chestnut; the Sunday sunshine too, which has more than autumnal calmness for the working man; the morning sunshine, which still leaves the dew-crystals on the fine gossamer webs in the shadow of the bushy hedgerows.
Adam needed the calm influence; he was amazed at the way in which this new thought of Dinah's love had taken possession of him, with an overmastering power that made all other feelings give way before the impetuous desire to know that the thought was true. Strange, that till that moment the possibility of their ever being lovers had never crossed his mind, and yet now, all his longing suddenly went out towards that possibility. He had no more doubt or hesitation as to his own wishes than the bird that flies towards the opening through which the daylight gleams and the breath of heaven enters.
The autumnal Sunday sunshine soothed him, but not by preparing him with resignation to the disappointment if his mother—if he himself—proved to be mistaken about Dinah. It soothed him by gentle encouragement of his hopes. Her love was so like that calm sunshine that they seemed to make one presence to him, and he believed in them both alike. And Dinah was so bound up with the sad memories of his first passion that he was not forsaking them, but rather giving them a new sacredness by loving her. Nay, his love for her had grown out of that past: it was the noon of that morning.
But Seth? Would the lad be hurt? Hardly; for he had seemed quite contented of late, and there was no selfish jealousy in him; he had never been jealous of his mother's fondness for Adam. But had he seen anything of what their mother talked about? Adam longed to know this, for he thought he could trust Seth's observation better than his mother's. He must talk to Seth before he went to see Dinah, and, with this intention in his mind, he walked back to the cottage and said to his mother, "Did Seth say anything to thee about when he was coming home? Will he be back to dinner?"
"Aye, lad, he'll be back for a wonder. He isna gone to Treddles'on. He's gone somewhere else a-preachin' and a-prayin'."
"Hast any notion which way he's gone?" said Adam.
"Nay, but he aften goes to th' Common. Thee know'st more o's goings nor I do."
Adam wanted to go and meet Seth, but he must content himself with walking about the near fields and getting sight of him as soon as possible. That would not be for more than an hour to come, for Seth would scarcely be at home much before their dinner-time, which was twelve o'clock. But Adam could not sit down to his reading again, and he sauntered along by the brook and stood leaning against the stiles, with eager intense eyes, which looked as if they saw something very vividly; but it was not the brook or the willows, not the fields or the sky. Again and again his vision was interrupted by wonder at the strength of his own feeling, at the strength and sweetness of this new love—almost like the wonder a man feels at the added power he finds in himself for an art which he had laid aside for a space. How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flutelike voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer deeper music.
At last, there was Seth, visible at the farthest stile, and Adam hastened to meet him. Seth was surprised, and thought something unusual must have happened, but when Adam came up, his face said plainly enough that it was nothing alarming.
"Where hast been?" said Adam, when they were side by side.
"I've been to the Common," said Seth. "Dinah's been speaking the Word to a little company of hearers at Brimstone's, as they call him. They're folks as never go to church hardly—them on the Common—but they'll go and hear Dinah a bit. She's been speaking with power this forenoon from the words, 'I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.' And there was a little thing happened as was pretty to see. The women mostly bring their children with 'em, but to-day there was one stout curly headed fellow about three or four year old, that I never saw there before. He was as naughty as could be at the beginning while I was praying, and while we was singing, but when we all sat down and Dinah began to speak, th' young un stood stock still all at once, and began to look at her with's mouth open, and presently he ran away from's mother and went to Dinah, and pulled at her, like a little dog, for her to take notice of him. So Dinah lifted him up and held th' lad on her lap, while she went on speaking; and he was as good as could be till he went to sleep—and the mother cried to see him."
"It's a pity she shouldna be a mother herself," said Adam, "so fond as the children are of her. Dost think she's quite fixed against marrying, Seth? Dost think nothing 'ud turn her?"
There was something peculiar in his brother's tone, which made Seth steal a glance at his face before he answered.
"It 'ud be wrong of me to say nothing 'ud turn her," he answered. "But if thee mean'st it about myself, I've given up all thoughts as she can ever be my wife. She calls me her brother, and that's enough."
"But dost think she might ever get fond enough of anybody else to be willing to marry 'em?" said Adam rather shyly.
"Well," said Seth, after some hesitation, "it's crossed my mind sometimes o' late as she might; but Dinah 'ud let no fondness for the creature draw her out o' the path as she believed God had marked out for her. If she thought the leading was not from Him, she's not one to be brought under the power of it. And she's allays seemed clear about that—as her work was to minister t' others, and make no home for herself i' this world."
"But suppose," said Adam, earnestly, "suppose there was a man as 'ud let her do just the same and not interfere with her—she might do a good deal o' what she does now, just as well when she was married as when she was single. Other women of her sort have married—that's to say, not just like her, but women as preached and attended on the sick and needy. There's Mrs. Fletcher as she talks of."
A new light had broken in on Seth. He turned round, and laying his hand on Adam's shoulder, said, "Why, wouldst like her to marry THEE, Brother?"
Adam looked doubtfully at Seth's inquiring eyes and said, "Wouldst be hurt if she was to be fonder o' me than o' thee?"
"Nay," said Seth warmly, "how canst think it? Have I felt thy trouble so little that I shouldna feel thy joy?"
There was silence a few moments as they walked on, and then Seth said, "I'd no notion as thee'dst ever think of her for a wife."
"But is it o' any use to think of her?" said Adam. "What dost say? Mother's made me as I hardly know where I am, with what she's been saying to me this forenoon. She says she's sure Dinah feels for me more than common, and 'ud be willing t' have me. But I'm afraid she speaks without book. I want to know if thee'st seen anything."
"It's a nice point to speak about," said Seth, "and I'm afraid o' being wrong; besides, we've no right t' intermeddle with people's feelings when they wouldn't tell 'em themselves."
Seth paused.
"But thee mightst ask her," he said presently. "She took no offence at me for asking, and thee'st more right than I had, only thee't not in the Society. But Dinah doesn't hold wi' them as are for keeping the Society so strict to themselves. She doesn't mind about making folks enter the Society, so as they're fit t' enter the kingdom o' God. Some o' the brethren at Treddles'on are displeased with her for that."
"Where will she be the rest o' the day?" said Adam.
"She said she shouldn't leave the farm again to-day," said Seth, "because it's her last Sabbath there, and she's going t' read out o' the big Bible wi' the children."
Adam thought—but did not say—"Then I'll go this afternoon; for if I go to church, my thoughts 'ull be with her all the while. They must sing th' anthem without me to-day."
Chapter LII
Adam and Dinah
IT was about three o'clock when Adam entered the farmyard and roused Alick and the dogs from their Sunday dozing. Alick said everybody was gone to church "but th' young missis"—so he called Dinah—but this did not disappoint Adam, although the "everybody" was so liberal as to include Nancy the dairymaid, whose works of necessity were not unfrequently incompatible with church-going.
There was perfect stillness about the house. The doors were all closed, and the very stones and tubs seemed quieter than usual. Adam heard the water gently dripping from the pump—that was the only sound—and he knocked at the house door rather softly, as was suitable in that stillness.
The door opened, and Dinah stood before him, colouring deeply with the great surprise of seeing Adam at this hour, when she knew it was his regular practice to be at church. Yesterday he would have said to her without any difficulty, "I came to see you, Dinah: I knew the rest were not at home." But to-day something prevented him from saying that, and he put out his hand to her in silence. Neither of them spoke, and yet both wished they could speak, as Adam entered, and they sat down. Dinah took the chair she had just left; it was at the corner of the table near the window, and there was a book lying on the table, but it was not open. She had been sitting perfectly still, looking at the small bit of clear fire in the bright grate. Adam sat down opposite her, in Mr. Poyser's three-cornered chair.
"Your mother is not ill again, I hope, Adam?" Dinah said, recovering herself. "Seth said she was well this morning."
"No, she's very hearty to-day," said Adam, happy in the signs of Dinah's feeling at the sight of him, but shy.
"There's nobody at home, you see," Dinah said; "but you'll wait. You've been hindered from going to church to-day, doubtless."
"Yes," Adam said, and then paused, before he added, "I was thinking about you: that was the reason."
This confession was very awkward and sudden, Adam felt, for he thought Dinah must understand all he meant. But the frankness of the words caused her immediately to interpret them into a renewal of his brotherly regrets that she was going away, and she answered calmly, "Do not be careful and troubled for me, Adam. I have all things and abound at Snowfield. And my mind is at rest, for I am not seeking my own will in going."
"But if things were different, Dinah," said Adam, hesitatingly. "If you knew things that perhaps you don't know now...."
Dinah looked at him inquiringly, but instead of going on, he reached a chair and brought it near the corner of the table where she was sitting. She wondered, and was afraid—and the next moment her thoughts flew to the past: was it something about those distant unhappy ones that she didn't know?
Adam looked at her. It was so sweet to look at her eyes, which had now a self-forgetful questioning in them—for a moment he forgot that he wanted to say anything, or that it was necessary to tell her what he meant.
"Dinah," he said suddenly, taking both her hands between his, "I love you with my whole heart and soul. I love you next to God who made me."
Dinah's lips became pale, like her cheeks, and she trembled violently under the shock of painful joy. Her hands were cold as death between Adam's. She could not draw them away, because he held them fast.
"Don't tell me you can't love me, Dinah. Don't tell me we must part and pass our lives away from one another."
The tears were trembling in Dinah's eyes, and they fell before she could answer. But she spoke in a quiet low voice.
"Yes, dear Adam, we must submit to another Will. We must part."
"Not if you love me, Dinah—not if you love me," Adam said passionately. "Tell me—tell me if you can love me better than a brother?"
Dinah was too entirely reliant on the Supreme guidance to attempt to achieve any end by a deceptive concealment. She was recovering now from the first shock of emotion, and she looked at Adam with simple sincere eyes as she said, "Yes, Adam, my heart is drawn strongly towards you; and of my own will, if I had no clear showing to the contrary, I could find my happiness in being near you and ministering to you continually. I fear I should forget to rejoice and weep with others; nay, I fear I should forget the Divine presence, and seek no love but yours."
Adam did not speak immediately. They sat looking at each other in delicious silence—for the first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
"Then, Dinah," Adam said at last, "how can there be anything contrary to what's right in our belonging to one another and spending our lives together? Who put this great love into our hearts? Can anything be holier than that? For we can help one another in everything as is good. I'd never think o' putting myself between you and God, and saying you oughtn't to do this and you oughtn't to do that. You'd follow your conscience as much as you do now."
"Yes, Adam," Dinah said, "I know marriage is a holy state for those who are truly called to it, and have no other drawing; but from my childhood upwards I have been led towards another path; all my peace and my joy have come from having no life of my own, no wants, no wishes for myself, and living only in God and those of his creatures whose sorrows and joys he has given me to know. Those have been very blessed years to me, and I feel that if I was to listen to any voice that would draw me aside from that path, I should be turning my back on the light that has shone upon me, and darkness and doubt would take hold of me. We could not bless each other, Adam, if there were doubts in my soul, and if I yearned, when it was too late, after that better part which had once been given me and I had put away from me."
"But if a new feeling has come into your mind, Dinah, and if you love me so as to be willing to be nearer to me than to other people, isn't that a sign that it's right for you to change your life? Doesn't the love make it right when nothing else would?"
"Adam, my mind is full of questionings about that; for now, since you tell me of your strong love towards me, what was clear to me has become dark again. I felt before that my heart was too strongly drawn towards you, and that your heart was not as mine; and the thought of you had taken hold of me, so that my soul had lost its freedom, and was becoming enslaved to an earthly affection, which made me anxious and careful about what should befall myself. For in all other affection I had been content with any small return, or with none; but my heart was beginning to hunger after an equal love from you. And I had no doubt that I must wrestle against that as a great temptation, and the command was clear that I must go away."
"But now, dear, dear Dinah, now you know I love you better than you love me...it's all different now. You won't think o' going. You'll stay, and be my dear wife, and I shall thank God for giving me my life as I never thanked him before."
"Adam, it's hard to me to turn a deaf ear...you know it's hard; but a great fear is upon me. It seems to me as if you were stretching out your arms to me, and beckoning me to come and take my ease and live for my own delight, and Jesus, the Man of Sorrows, was standing looking towards me, and pointing to the sinful, and suffering, and afflicted. I have seen that again and again when I have been sitting in stillness and darkness, and a great terror has come upon me lest I should become hard, and a lover of self, and no more bear willingly the Redeemer's cross."
Dinah had closed her eyes, and a faint shudder went through her. "Adam," she went on, "you wouldn't desire that we should seek a good through any unfaithfulness to the light that is in us; you wouldn't believe that could be a good. We are of one mind in that."
"Yes, Dinah," said Adam sadly, "I'll never be the man t' urge you against your conscience. But I can't give up the hope that you may come to see different. I don't believe your loving me could shut up your heart—it's only adding to what you've been before, not taking away from it. For it seems to me it's the same with love and happiness as with sorrow—the more we know of it the better we can feel what other people's lives are or might be, and so we shall only be more tender to 'em, and wishful to help 'em. The more knowledge a man has, the better he'll do's work; and feeling's a sort o' knowledge."
Dinah was silent; her eyes were fixed in contemplation of something visible only to herself. Adam went on presently with his pleading, "And you can do almost as much as you do now. I won't ask you to go to church with me of a Sunday. You shall go where you like among the people, and teach 'em; for though I like church best, I don't put my soul above yours, as if my words was better for you to follow than your own conscience. And you can help the sick just as much, and you'll have more means o' making 'em a bit comfortable; and you'll be among all your own friends as love you, and can help 'em and be a blessing to 'em till their dying day. Surely, Dinah, you'd be as near to God as if you was living lonely and away from me."
Dinah made no answer for some time. Adam was still holding her hands and looking at her with almost trembling anxiety, when she turned her grave loving eyes on his and said, in rather a sad voice, "Adam there is truth in what you say, and there's many of the brethren and sisters who have greater strength than I have, and find their hearts enlarged by the cares of husband and kindred. But I have not faith that it would be so with me, for since my affections have been set above measure on you, I have had less peace and joy in God. I have felt as it were a division in my heart. And think how it is with me, Adam. That life I have led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I long for a moment to follow the voice which calls me to another land that I know not, I cannot but fear that my soul might hereafter yearn for that early blessedness which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters there is not perfect love. I must wait for clearer guidance. I must go from you, and we must submit ourselves entirely to the Divine Will. We are sometimes required to lay our natural lawful affections on the altar."
Adam dared not plead again, for Dinah's was not the voice of caprice or insincerity. But it was very hard for him; his eyes got dim as he looked at her.
"But you may come to feel satisfied...to feel that you may come to me again, and we may never part, Dinah?"
"We must submit ourselves, Adam. With time, our duty will be made clear. It may be when I have entered on my former life, I shall find all these new thoughts and wishes vanish, and become as things that were not. Then I shall know that my calling is not towards marriage. But we must wait."
"Dinah," said Adam mournfully, "you can't love me so well as I love you, else you'd have no doubts. But it's natural you shouldn't, for I'm not so good as you. I can't doubt it's right for me to love the best thing God's ever given me to know."
"Nay, Adam. It seems to me that my love for you is not weak, for my heart waits on your words and looks, almost as a little child waits on the help and tenderness of the strong on whom it depends. If the thought of you took slight hold of me, I should not fear that it would be an idol in the temple. But you will strengthen me—you will not hinder me in seeking to obey to the uttermost."
"Let us go out into the sunshine, Dinah, and walk together. I'll speak no word to disturb you."
They went out and walked towards the fields, where they would meet the family coming from church. Adam said, "Take my arm, Dinah," and she took it. That was the only change in their manner to each other since they were last walking together. But no sadness in the prospect of her going away—in the uncertainty of the issue—could rob the sweetness from Adam's sense that Dinah loved him. He thought he would stay at the Hall Farm all that evening. He would be near her as long as he could.
"Hey-day! There's Adam along wi' Dinah," said Mr. Poyser, as he opened the far gate into the Home Close. "I couldna think how he happened away from church. Why," added good Martin, after a moment's pause, "what dost think has just jumped into my head?"
"Summat as hadna far to jump, for it's just under our nose. You mean as Adam's fond o' Dinah."
"Aye! hast ever had any notion of it before?"
"To be sure I have," said Mrs. Poyser, who always declined, if possible, to be taken by surprise. "I'm not one o' those as can see the cat i' the dairy an' wonder what she's come after."
"Thee never saidst a word to me about it."
"Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking."
"But Dinah 'll ha' none o' him. Dost think she will?"
"Nay," said Mrs. Poyser, not sufficiently on her guard against a possible surprise, "she'll never marry anybody, if he isn't a Methodist and a cripple."
"It 'ud ha' been a pretty thing though for 'em t' marry," said Martin, turning his head on one side, as if in pleased contemplation of his new idea. "Thee'dst ha' liked it too, wouldstna?"
"Ah! I should. I should ha' been sure of her then, as she wouldn't go away from me to Snowfield, welly thirty mile off, and me not got a creatur to look to, only neighbours, as are no kin to me, an' most of 'em women as I'd be ashamed to show my face, if my dairy things war like their'n. There may well be streaky butter i' the market. An' I should be glad to see the poor thing settled like a Christian woman, with a house of her own over her head; and we'd stock her well wi' linen and feathers, for I love her next to my own children. An' she makes one feel safer when she's i' the house, for she's like the driven snow: anybody might sin for two as had her at their elbow."
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Purdue plans to give Pete a new 21st century look
By Amy Patterson Neubert, Purdue University News Service
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Styles from the mid-80s have not only gone out, but come back and gone out again, so Purdue University thinks it might be time to assess how sports mascot Purdue Pete could be made-over and updated for the 21st century.
Although Pete is scheduled for an extreme makeover, traditionalists need not fret. Purdue has no plans to modify or change the Boilermaker Special.
“Purdue Pete has undergone numerous changes in his history, and it’s been at least 25 years since Pete has been updated, so we are exploring how we can improve the mascot’s look,” said Morgan Burke, director of Intercollegiate Athletics. “We are studying the matter, and a new design has not been selected yet.”
Retired versions of Purdue Pete, as well as other Purdue images such as the Boilermaker Special, are preserved through a university program that stores and licenses vintage university logos. The program, called The Vault, is operated through Collegiate Licensing Co. and works with 180 universities.
“The Vault program is very popular, especially now because there is a rebirth in vintage and antique designs,” Burke said. “If there is a lot of alumni interest in an older image, then a retailer can work through Collegiate Licensing Co. on our behalf and other manufacturers to produce appealing merchandise. The current version of Purdue Pete will continue to be available on select merchandise.”
Purdue plans to redesign the mascot with student input and unveil the new look later this year. This will be the mascot’s sixth makeover. Funds for the redesign will come from the operations budget of the Office of Trademarks and Licensing. These funds are self-sustaining and involve no state tax dollars or student fees.
No redesigns are planned for Purdue’s official mascot, which is the Boilermaker Special, a replica of a Victorian-era locomotive.
Pete got his start in 1940 as an advertising icon for the University Bookstore, and he continues in that role. He then appeared in other places in 1944, when editors of the Debris yearbook put an adapted Pete on each page. Purdue Pete debuted on the football field in 1956 with a papier-mâché head and a bit of padding. Today, Pete’s head is crafted from composite materials such as glass fibers and resin in an aviation technology lab. In addition to the head, the four students who portray Pete wear shoulder pads and carry a hammer.
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Purdue brings previous Pete back out of retirement
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Marapana sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs
August 15, 2017 by NHL Werasinghe Leave a Comment
Mr Tilak Marapana was sworn in by President MaitMrpala Sirisena as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Presidential Secretariat today (15th).
The vacancy for the portfolio was created when Mr Ravi Karunanayaka had to resign due to public outcry as his dealings with perpetual treasuries owner Arjun Aloysius was revealed at the Presidential Commission probing the bond scam.
Minister Tilak Marapana had been accused regarding Avant Garde incident and the statement he made in Parliament in response to the special revelation made by JVP Leader Anura Dissanayaka created an internal crisis in the ‘yahapalana’ cabinet of Maithri – Ranil government. The event made Mr Marapana to resign from the ministerial portfolio.
However, after some time he was again made a cabinet minister and today he was sworn in as the Minister of foreign affairs.
Shiranthi comes to CID
August 15, 2017 by NHL Werasinghe 2 Comments
It is reported that Ms Shiranthi Rajapaksa, wife of retired president Mahinda Rajapaksa, arrived at the CID a short time ago to make a statement. It is in relation to the investigations being carried out regarding the murder of popular rugby player Wasim Thajudeen.
It has been revealed that a defender vehicle belonging to ‘Siriliya Saviya’ organization had been used for the murder of Thajudeen and Ms Shiranthi Rajapaksa is to be questioned on information the CID has gathered regarding the murder.
A large number of people including Parliamentarians of the joint opposition have gathered at the scene and police have deployed riot squads and the water cannon in the area.
Meanwhile, retired president’s son Yoshitha Rajapaksa has been summoned to the CID tomorrow (16th) says police spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera. Mr Yoshitha Rajapaksa has been summoned to the CID to question him in connection with the murder of Wasim Thajudeen say reports.
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Swimming With Elephants
A Piece Us Back Together story
After suffering a torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder, Garrett believes his life is over. Depressed, bereft, in pain, and unable to return to the career he loves as an arborist, he sees no hope or future for himself. But a trip to Havelock Island in India turns his world upside down. He meets Jai, an Indian nurse, and becomes smitten with him. Near the end of his trip, while swimming with an elephant, he tells Jai how he feels.
After Garrett returns to Australia, he wonders if he can ever be healed of all his pain—physical, emotional, and mental—and fears that love and romance will never be his again. But then Jai turns up in Perth and brings with him astonishing news.
To Tempt the Wolf
Wildlife photographer, Tessa Anderson has to prove her brother is innocent of the murder charges against him. But when she discovers a half-dead, naked man on her beach who looks like a mythical Greek god, shes got a whole world of new troubles to de...
Body Rush
Three restless women…one naughty idea… Legal Briefs Taking orders from egotistical hot shots in suits is no turn-on for legal secretary Lydia Burke, but she knows where to find what she’s looking for–at a local ...
Mating Games
Dana Marie Bell
Claiming your mate? Best. Game. Ever. A Halle Puma anthology! The Wallflower Emma’s loved Max for years, but to him she was invisible. Now she’s in business—and out of her shell. Max returns home to become the Halle Pride&rsq...
The Halle Shifters Alexander “Bunny” Bunsun is a Bear on a mission. He arrives in Halle, PA for the sole purpose of checking up on his cousin Chloe. Something is not right, and the family has sent Alex, along with Chloe’s brother...
Haunting Warrior (Mists of Ireland, Book 2)
Erin Quinn
“A highly recommended must-read!” —USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Ashley A past he couldn’t forget. Rory McGrath’s life changed the night his father mysteriously vanished, having uncovere...
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Inclusive behaviour may prevent bullying claims
There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.
-Pablo Picasso
In my work, I am often appointed as an independent investigator in relation to complaints of workplace behaviour – most often these are bullying complaints and occasionally sexual harassment. Complaints of sexual harassment are often difficult because without witnesses it is usually a case of ‘he said, she said’. Occasionally there will be a ‘smoking gun’.
In relation to bullying, these cases are difficult for entirely different reasons. I often say that ‘bullying is in the eye of the beholder’. What might be perceived as bullying by one person would not bother another. Regardless of the sensitivities of the complainant, bullying claims all have to be investigated in light of the relevant legislative definitions, which involve what is meant to be an objective test but is in fact the very subjective test of reasonableness.
A few things have been made clear over the course of my work in this area, combined with the work I have done with Diversity Partners recently in relation to inclusive leadership. Inclusion is about how people feel at work, and it is possible to bully by exclusion. So the very behaviours that go with being an inclusive leader can also help prevent a bullying claim.
We often attribute certain behaviours to a person rather than a situation they are in. I can recall starting a new school in year 6 – it was a small school and I started in the middle of a term. There were 16 eleven year olds in the class before I joined. Binna Kandola talks about the effects of ‘In Groups’ and ‘Out Groups’ in his book ‘The Value of Difference: Eliminating Bias in Organisations' and I was very much a one girl member of the out group that year. That group of students made me feel isolated, strange, different and unwelcome. I can recall walking into the classroom and they were looking at my report card from my previous school which had been on the teacher’s desk, and one of them said ‘you must think you’re really smart’. I said nothing. I was very quiet and tried to physically shrink in the classroom. After a while I became angry and my natural extraversion kicked in and I started fighting back verbally. This made it worse of course.
I was then labelled arrogant, rude, and bitchy.
Did I feel bullied? Absolutely. Did they intend to make me feel like that? Probably not.
Children of course don’t think as adults – but imagine the above scenario in a work situation. A new team member starts, and feels excluded, different. She sees the team members looking at her CV or performance review documents and making snarky comments. She goes quiet then gets angry. Does she feel bullied? Absolutely. Did they intend to make her feel like that? Probably not. But the potential for a bullying claim is there.
Had this behaviour been properly attributed to the situation and NOT the person, the result would have been entirely different. Had those school children or the team members chosen to think and act inclusively, the situation would never have deteriorated. So think about your behaviour – are you acting inclusively? Are you inviting this person to be involved, getting to know them, asking how they are getting on, offering to help with the new environment and introducing them to the people they need to know?
Inclusive behaviour, along with reflection on your communication style, will go a long way to preventing a bullying claim
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First Look – Single cover for Her Diamonds from the new album Cradlesong by Rob Thomas!
This article was written by Ben on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | Ben has written 202 articles
Hi Matchboxers! So this is it, the album cover to Cradlesong by rob thomas! The full song is also previewing at http://www.robthomasmusic.com/ ! USA Fans can view a video of the shoot for Her Diamonds by Rob Thomas, unfortunately it’s not available to UK Dwellers right now… come on Atlantic… The UK Wants rob love too!!!!
Cradlesong by Rob Thomas
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Co'Coon Body Holiday Bazaar Extravaganza is coming to Blue Martini in Mary Brickell Village
I'm officially announcing that I will be hosting Co'Coon Body Holiday Bazaar Extravaganza at Blue Martini in Mary Brickell Village (900 South Miami Ave). The event will take place on Wednesday, December 8th, from 7 to 9 p.m. Guests will enjoy discounts on the hottest holiday items from a variety of vendors like Co'Coon Body; Elite Fitness Connection; Robbie Lip Gloss; Cocoa Couture Miami; TAudrey; and Mizmi Label by Danittza Zimic [to name a few]. Meet the beautiful ladies that will be hosting the event as well: Annie Vazquez, NBCMiami.com's Fashion & Shopping Writer; Jeile Marie of goLIVEmiami.com; Rebecca Salgado, Fashion & Style Writer for Gables Home Page and Miami New Times' Cultist Blog and Nikki Novo, Daily Candy Miami Editor. I'm really looking forward to hosting this amazing holiday extravaganza with my friends and fellow bloggers! Best of all: a portion from the proceeds will benefit Strong Women Strong Girls of Miami. This nationally recogni…
Michael Yo hosts Original Penguin's 5th Anniversary Party during Art Basel in Miami
Micheal Yo is coming to Miami!!! Sazoneros, mark your calendars for one of the hottest events taking place in December during Art Basel: Original Penguin's 5th Year Anniversary Party on Thursday, December 2nd, at their Lincoln Road store (925 Lincoln Road). Michael Yo is everywhere: E! News, Daily 10, Y-100 Radio Show, Chelsea Lately and Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami. He's finally making a stop in our magic city so get excited!!! To attend this special celebration for Original Penguin, make sure you RSVP early by emailing OPGMiami@TaraInk.com (RSVP is mandatory). During the event, holiday shoppers will enjoy a 30% discount and a gift with any purchase of $100 or more. There will be light bites provided by Pirates Booty and Sweet Street Desserts along with cocktails by Chamboard and 42 Below Vodka. Spread the word and get into the holiday spirit! The event begins at 6 p.m. and will run till 9 p.m. Must be 21 years or older to attend. To preview Original Penguin's holiday …
Nightlife in Miami: DJ Chris Lake at Cameo
Sazoneros!!! I'm back. It's been way too long since I've written a blog post so I thought I'd share what I've been up to lately: celebrating my birthday...Miami style! Here's a video I recorded while listening to DJ Chris Lake at Cameo this weekend. It's a fun glimpse into Miami's fabulous nightlife so soak it all in and get ready for my exciting line up of upcoming blog posts. Love you all and thank you for always checking in to read MBS! xoxo
Miami Singer RIA hosts her Debut Album Release Party at The Florida Room in Miami Beach
This has been a really fun weekend in Miami! On Friday, November 12th, I attended RIA's Debut Album Release Party at The Florida Room (inside of The Delano Hotel on South Beach) and it was truly A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!! RIA (pictured on the left) is a Colombian born singer who is bringing her sazon to our magic city with the release of her self-titled independent solo album. During the celebration, RIA and her band rocked out to her favorite beats while guests sipped on complimentary cocktails by Hypnotic. The album resonates an eclectic mix of soulful R&B and Pop [all of the songs in the album were written by RIA]. Oh and let's not forget, the album has an edgy latin rhythm that kept fans on their feet all night! As a graduate from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, RIA has performed for artists like Melissa Etheridge and she even opened a side stage for John Mayer during the last stop of his Battle Studies Summer Tour 2010. If you were unable to attend this HOT party, get…
Donald and Lisa Pliner debut their Fall Collection to benefit the Children's Home Society of Florida
It's getting closer and closer to my favorite holidays- Thanksgiving and Christmas! That means there will be plenty of shopping events in the next couple of weeks. This past Saturday, renowned designers and leaders in the footwear and accessories industry, Donald J Pliner and wife Lisa Pliner showcased their Fall Footwear Collection at Village of Merrick Park to benefit the Children’s Home Society of Florida. Continuing to impress men and women with their innovative designs, high style and unprecedented comfort, Donald and Lisa provided shoppers with the latest trends while giving back to the Florida community. During the event, guests enjoyed Hor D'hoeuvres from Prime Italian. Best of all: 10% of the proceeds benefited the Children's Home Society of Florida, a charity that empowers families to safely care for children and provide for youth throughout the state. To check out the collection, visit Donald Pliner's website and start your Christmas wish list for Santa! xox…
Singer & Songwriter, RIA, set to Launch her Debut Album at The Florida Room in Miami!
RIA, a Colombian born singer raised in Miami, is gearing up to release her first solo album as an independent artist this upcoming week. On Friday, November 12th, Miami movers and shakers are invited to attend RIA's Debut Album Release Party at The Florida Room (inside The Delano Hotel) from 10:30 pm till 4:00 am. As a graduate from the prestigious Berklee College of Music, RIA has performed for renowned artists like Melissa Etheridge during a graduation ceremony at Matthews Arena in Boston. Melissa was receiving her doctorate degree that day and RIA performed one of Etheridge’s classic songs in her honor. After the show, Melissa found RIA backstage and exclaimed “You rocked my world!” Talk about a compliment! Etheridge isn't the only Grammy winning artist to find herself captivated by RIA's powerhouse voice and charm! While studying at Berklee, RIA opened a show for jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and sang lead vocals for salsa great Ruben Blades.
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League of Historical and Accessible Cities
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THE CITY FOR ALL: LEAVE, LEARN AND ACCESSIBLE TO MOVE
Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca and Promo PA, in the framework of LuBeC 2013 organized on the 18th October 2013 the workshop "The city for all: leave, learn and accessible to move".
LuBeC is a yearly event organized by Promo PA, an Italian research foundation operating in education and Cultural Heritage. It is an exhibition of tech solutions made available in the Cultural Heritage area, aiming at increasing its value and the local territory promotion through discussions on brand new topics and projects every year.
On that occasion the LHAC best practice guide was presented for the first time - by Alicia Barragan Iturriaga from Via Libre, as a tool for actors and stakeholders in other historical cities – including foundations, public authorities, chambers of commerce, tourist destination managers, heritage associations, disability organisations and others – who are interested in exploring and examining the possibility of establishing similar accessible routes.
The League of Historical Accessible Cities LHAC and the European Consortium of Foundations on Human Rights and Disability discussed the state of the art of projects, processes already initiated and future actions to be taken together with politicians, local authorities, associations, persons with disabilities and other stakeholders.
After the welcoming words of Alberto Del Carlo, Chairman of Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca and Giovanna Cagliosto, Prefect of Lucca, Miguel Angel Cabra de Luna (European Consortium of Foundations on Human Rights and Disability co-chai) presented the study "Assessing the Impact of European Governments’ Austerity Plans on the Rights of People with Disabilities". The study focuses in particular on the negative impacts that recent cuts made by a number of European governments have on people with disabilities and their families. Subsequently, Donata Vivanti, European Disability Forum of the Italian Federation for Overcoming Disability (CFISH) Vice‐President gave an overwiew on the impact of those austerity measures in the Italian situation. Furthermore some comments were added by Giuseppe Terranova, National Vice President of the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired People. After that, Alessandro Biancalana, President of the Opera Walls of Lucca and Giuseppe Stolfi, Superintendent of fine arts for the provinces of Lucca and Massa Carrara presented Lucca as a good example of Governance in terms of accessibility. In the final part of the conference the concrete cases of Lucca and the League of accessible and Historical ciites were presented respectively by Elizabeth Franchini (Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca) and Alicia Barragan Iturriaga (Via Libre).
Click here for the press release (only in Italian)
Please click on the links below to see the presentation of the speakers:
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- The League of Historical and Accessible Cities Best Practice Guide by Alicia Barragan
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LIZ MAESTRI, M.F.A. PLAYWRIGHT/SCREENWRITER
Sinner-Man
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Full-length dark comedy
3 W, 3 M
Dorian Gray is rich, beautiful, and worshiped by all who meet him, especially other rich, beautiful people. Ensconced in a gilded world of lavish parties, gardens, narcotics, and the fine arts, Dorian goes to extremes to preserve his glorious youth and privilege. But nothing really lasts forever--not even metaphysical pacts with the devil--and Dorian and his entourage must contend with the rapidly changing world knocking on their doorstep. An impertinent deconstruction of Oscar Wilde's novel, Sinner-Man searches for the absurd humor in the world's absurd imbalance.
SINNER-MAN was commissioned by Theater Alliance for their Hothouse series. The play received workshops and readings at Anacostia Arts Center and Cultural DC's Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab, E.M.P. Collective's ParityFest, and at Access Theatre (dir: Elissa Goetschius). SINNER-MAN was a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award, and a finalist for the Salt Lake Acting Company/Davey Foundation Grant, Boomerang Theatre's First Flight reading series, and the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Unpublished. Please go to the New Play Exchange for full script.
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June 11, 2016 Bikes and thatmintimperial
I flatter myself that I am a resilient mountain biker. I am fine carrying my bike up snow-covered hills in the dark, or slogging my way over every last sodden lump in central Wales through incessant rain, or grinding out the miles through the dark, long winter nights. Waterproofs and mudguards and decent lights can ameliorate most problems, and I enjoy a challenge, so I am pretty well adapted to British off-road riding at its worst. I take a certain satisfaction from battering through the grimmest, wettest, most mud-caked rides, in the same way that roadies enjoy turning themselves inside out up massive hills, or climbers enjoy having their fingerprints erased by gritstone, or runners enjoy, well, running. This is not to say, however, that I prefer riding in our customarily horrible British weather; I do not.
To use a hypothetical, average any-given-bike-ride as an analogy, the best bit is never going to be the climb to the top of the hill; however satisfying it may be to haul yourself upwards, maybe even beating a personal best on the way, or cleaning that nadgery bit that always defeats you, all things being equal it’s always going to be more fun coming back down. The best descent in the world kicks the crap out of the best climb, and if you disagree with that you’re some sort of perverted freak, and I suggest you take up cyclocross or time-trialling.
In the same way, whilst bad-weather rides are good, and even fun sometimes, good weather rides are better. If it was all bad weather rides, all the time, I’d just give up and find a new hobby. In the middle of winter (and sometimes in the middle of our so-called summer too) I wonder if I can face another N hours of grinding, sodden slog through headwinds and rain and slimy ruts. I sink into the sofa, guiltily poring over maps of places I’d like to ride in better conditions. I dream idly of dusty, sinuous trails under blue skies, perhaps with a gentle breeze softening the heat. The thought of some idealised summer ride, out on big hills in perfect weather is often the only thing that gets me out of the door to squelch my way around yet another dark, drizzle-soaked, bog-dodging Pennine tour-de-grim.
On Monday, almost unexpectedly, I managed to go on one of those idealised summer rides, in Torridon, on the last day of our Scotland 2016 bike trip. Having monitored the precipitation in the far north-west for the weeks leading up to our Fort William visit, and having noted that things were somewhat drier than in 2015, we decided to add on a second attempt at the well-known “Lollipop” route, which I had screwed up last year by taking a wrong turn on the first hill. From the outset things went swimmingly, the day dawned still and warm, with barely a cloud in the sky. The climb from Annat was dry and grippy, and the views spectacular, and as we had set off relatively early things weren’t too hot. We were soon off and pushing in places, but made good progress up towards the stepping stones at Lochan Domhain. The bulk of Liathach which had loomed above our camp as we set out sank back and expanded into a vast panorama behind us as we climbed, with Ben Alligin and Ben Eighe flanking the huge ridge on either side. The sandstone that makes the bones of these giants, and also the hills we were crossing, is wonderful stuff; the aeons-worth of pulverised igneous rock, compressed into dense sedimentary strata, create surfaces of pure traction even in the wet, and after several weeks of next-to-no rain the rocks and slabs comprising these paths flatter even the most inept mountain biker (you can take my personal assurance on that).
Contouring round Loch an Eion and over Bealach na Lice we reached the point where I had misdirected us the previous year, perhaps the only point where it’s possible to go significantly wrong on the entire route. The descent to Coulags is not bad at all, but it loses height fast and the remaining drop down the valley is littered with square-edged water bars, so it works better as a climb. Taking the left fork this time, and traversing the head of the valley over Bealach Bàn into Coire Grannda meant another few hundred meters of ascent, but it took us (via yet more stunning views of the Torridon mountains) to the top of one of the most incredible trails I have ever had the pleasure of riding. After skirting a nameless lochan we dropped down a series of lose, fast chutes of white limestone pebbles, drifting on the edge of control between the two imposing Munros of Sgorr Ruadh and Beinn Liath Mhòr. Exiting Coire Làir the gradient eased and short sections of uphill had us pedalling to maintain momentum, but the winding track lost none of its charm. We met a couple of walkers at this point, our first sighting of humanity for over two hours, and politely acknowledged the usual incomprehension at our mode of transport. “Is it not too rocky?” they asked. “No, we love the rocks, they’re the best bit!” The trail steepened again towards the woods, and a series of switchbacks and rockeries strung together into a crescendo of technical fun, just on the edge of my capabilities, a brilliant closing movement to a sublime singletrack symphony. The last kilometre or so through the woods, muddy, vague and overgrown, ending in a detour along the railway track, couldn’t take the shine off riding down what is undoubtedly one of the the finest trails I have ever encountered, in some of the best conditions I’ve ever experienced. After a flat, tarmac interlude down Glen Carron to Coulags, and a brief chat with a little old lady, of whom I begged a refill of water, we paused for a bite to eat in the shade beside a stream. It was about noon and the thermometer on my Garmin was reading an alarming 35°C; certainly this was an exaggeration due to the black-plastic gadget being in direct sunlight, but still an indication of just how hot it was – I shared the detail with a pair of ramblers, who appeared to be almost melting in the blazing sunshine. A surprising amount of the valley was rideable, certainly compared to the swampy paths we had encountered here last year, and with a few clouds building up above the peaks the temperature began to drop a little. It was refreshing to leave the path and splash along the shoreline of Loch Coire Fionnaraich for a while before starting the final push back up to Bealach na Lice.
Retracing our tracks back down to Annat from the top took us around half an hour, including stops for photos and view-admiring (and resting our by-now fatigued limbs). The Annat descent is not quite as intense as the Achnashellach trail, but it still comprises some of the best mountain biking in the UK: rocky, fast, swooping singletrack of the highest order. We clattered our way down towards the sea, encountering at the last moment a couple more walkers, only the third pair of people we had seen out on the hills in six hours of riding. I was silent on the spin back to the campsite, looking around at the mountains for one last time. Lost for words, I was rerunning the ride over and over in my mind to fix it in memory: a bright, shining day when I was happy, like a piece of armour for the soul, ready for the return of those dark, cold winter rides, and for all the other things in this life that demand a reason why.
June 9, 2016 Bikes and thatmintimperial
Following the incredibly damp but rather enjoyable experience of Fort William and the Highlands last summer, Rik and I decided to have another shot at watching the Downhill World Cup, possibly even in less horrific weather, hope springs eternal and all that. We took the precaution this time of booking a B&B, however, and our cunning meteorological reverse-psychology paid off, insofar as the universe arranged itself to deal a fortnight of blazing heatwave out to the northern reaches of Great Britain at the end of May and start of June. In the days leading up to last weekend it became clear that the conditions in the mountains of Scotland were about as good as they are ever likely to get, so we rearranged a few things to facilitate some riding of our own on the days around the pre-booked main event.
We loaded the van on Friday morning and set off with a couple of possibilities for a ride on the way up in mind. The further north we went the better the weather got, and just before Glasgow we elected to detour via the high road; specifically the summit of Ben Lomond. From the start at Rowardennan it took us a couple of hours, mostly pushing, to climb the 950 or so meters to the top, through improbably glorious sunshine, with only a slight breeze to moderate the 30°C heat. The views all the way up were beautiful and the panorama from the top was spectacular, stretching all the way from the edges of the Southern Uplands right up to the distant outline of Ben Nevis on the horizon, almost fifty miles away. The rocky, technical descent started pretty well, until Rik clipped his rear tyre on a pointy rock, losing pressure, which led to him subsequently picking up three successive punctures, after which he gave up putting tubes in the now terminally damaged wheel and rolled down on the grass as best he was able. I picked my own way down the entertainingly rough trail, not much more quickly, reaching the van only five minutes sooner. The descent took around an hour, but half of that was spent dealing with mechanicals. I was glad to tick off my first proper Scottish Munro, and on a bicycle too, although it was a shame that Rik had his ride ruined by bad luck. We rolled in to Fort William much later than anticipated, but still managed to track down beer, burgers and chips in a chain pub before turning in, worn out and slightly sunburnt. The first job after breakfast on Saturday was obtaining a new wheel, and Nevis Cycles in Inverlochy sorted us out at a fair price. Patched up and rolling again we set out to explore the trail up to the CIC Hut below the imposing northern crags of Ben Nevis itself. On the way in we encountered a couple of (strangely familiar) riders, who shared some useful local knowledge on the best route back down the hill, before we started the slog up the valley beside the Allt a’Mhuilinn. The weather was less scorching than the previous day but still beautifully sunny; the mountainous scenery was doing a very passable imitation of a corner of the Alps, with snow lurking in the gullies and huge precipices all around. I didn’t enjoy the descent as much as I had hoped I might, chiefly due to the numerous wheel-sized culverts in the trail, which were so frequent, square and large as to prevent any sustained fun. By the time we reached the deer-fence gate I was thoroughly tired of hopping the bike to negotiate these obstacles, or dismounting for the really big ones. I had clattered into several of them with sufficient speed to thoroughly unnerve me to the point where I made a total mess of the informal downhill line we chose through the woods. I even ended up carrying my bike down to the track at the bottom after a painful top-tube interaction, and was quite glad to head for base along a tame access road.
After quick showers at the B & B we jumped on the free bus to the Nevis Range to explore the World Cup event village and watch the 4X racing. We bumped into a few friends, ogled lots of very expensive equipment, spotted numerous mountain bike celebrities, and generally enjoyed ourselves until things ran down and we made our way back to town for a couple more beers before bedtime. Race day dawned even warmer, without a cloud in the sky. We packed up the van and abandoned it in Sheil Bridge in order to make a speedier getaway that evening, catching a very busy shuttle bus into what was already a rather livelier event than last year’s. We explored the pits more closely, whilst dodging riders returning from early morning practice. At around half eleven, after rider introductions, we were privileged to see Martyn Ashton ride down the final section of the main downhill course on his modified Nicolai, an incredible achievement, and I hope we get to view a bit more footage of his run before too long. As the racing started we began to make our way up the course, watching first the under-23s and then the women racing their way over dry, dusty jumps and through the tricky new sections in the woods, before the elite men started coming down the hill as we climbed closer to the top gondola station. We saw Steve Peat take off on his last ever Fort William World Cup run, distinctive on his lairy custom-painted tartan V10, and then zoomed down in the gondola to watch the final twenty or so riders on the big screen. Greg Minaar made what turned out to be the winning run just after we arrived in the arena. The remaining riders threw everything they had at the dusty, blown-out track but Minaar’s run stood the test and a minute or so into Gee Atherton’s last-man run a front-wheel washout for the Brit effectively confirmed the South African’s sixth Fort William victory.
The most remarkable moment of the day came not at the end of the racing, but at the point when Stevie Smith would have made his run down the course. Following his tragic death less than a month ago, the mountain bike community understandably wanted to mark his passing, and the weekend was full of little touches dedicated to the Canadian: from stickers and t-shirts declaring ‘Long Live Chainsaw’ to rider jump trains and banners and, naturally, chainsaws all over the place. But the crowning moment of the weekend’s remembrance took the form of a specially sanctioned ‘ghost run’ during the elite men’s World Cup race itself. The usually raucous crowds watched in silence as the big screen panned down the empty course, showing the space where the talented 26 year old should have been; the shot swept through the trees and down the motorway jumps, from camera to camera, approaching the finish line in sombre stillness, until the arena commentator called home the missing rider and the spectators erupted in celebration of a life cut short, but well lived. It was a moving experience just to be part of that crowd.
As the racing finished we grabbed some food, and took our place in the queue for the bus to Sheil Bridge. A three hour drive later we rolled into the campsite at Torridon, and hastily put up our tent under the fierce attacks of clouds of midges, before retreating inside for a couple of beers in preparation for the final day of our break, which I’ll write up separately in the next few days…
Billions of bloodthirsty midgies not pictured
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Neel Mukherjee
A first novel that is being described as ‘a scorcher’, ‘searing’, ‘savage’, ‘gut-wrenching’, ‘vertiginous’, ‘brilliant and disturbing’, ‘a powerful work of art’ …
The past is a cruel country; it never renounces its claim on you. Ritwik Ghosh, twenty-two and recently orphaned, finds a chance to start his life all over again when he arrives in England to study. But to do that, he must not only relive his entire past but also try and understand it, naming things, making connections, unravelling the thread of a narrative he can only now bring himself to read. Above all, he must make sense of his relationship with his mother – scarred, abusive and all-consuming.
But Oxford holds little of the salvation Ritwik is looking for and as he loses himself in London and takes up residence with the old Anne Cameron he drops out of official existence into a shadowy hinterland of aliens. Meanwhile, the story that Ritwik writes to stave off his utter and complete loneliness – a Miss Gilby who teaches English, music and Western manners to Bimala, wife of educated zamindar, Nikhilesh – begins to find ghostly echoes in his life with Anne Cameron.
Subtly, almost imperceptibly, the two stories across time, the stories of Miss Gilby in Raj India at a critical time in its domestic politics, and of Anne Cameron, whose South London garden starts being visited inexplicably by rare tropical birds, start converging. Which one is Ritwik making up?
And then, one night, in the badlands of King’s Cross, Ritwik runs into Zafar bin Hashm, suave, impossibly rich, unfathomable, possible arms dealer. What does the drive to redemption hold for lost Ritwik?
Set in 1970s and 80s India, 90s England and in the first decade of twentieth-century Bengal, on the eve of Lord Curzon’s infamous Bengal Partition of 1905, Past Continuous is a scalding book about dislocations and alienations, about outsiders and losers, about the tenuous and unconscious intersections of lives and histories and about the consolations of storytelling. It is also a book about the impossibilities of love.
‘The greatest strength of Mukherjee’s searing first novel is its astonishing ability to produce the literary equivalent of cinéma vérité, because he can uncannily capture a street, a smell, a snatch of song with wordplay that can sting your memories into a renaissance. But this is not to say that the novel is geo-culturally delimited; Mukherjee debuts impressively with a blistering pen that lacerates afresh every wounded recollection that it uncovers. … A scorcher.’ —India Today
‘ … well written … excellent … an engaging novel. Mukherjee’s achievement is to have written an eminently readable immigrant novel. In the process, he is able to bring to light the fickleness and flimsiness of the idea of love and happiness in terms of a young man’s search for home. … A naturally good writer.’ —Tehelka
‘A writer of skill, imagination and ambition. Like a master weaver, Neel Mukherjee spins a tale of interweaving warp and weft, moving backward and forward in time and place, … easily shifting narrative as it ties up the threads of different tales, tossing in history, myth and collective memory … and drawing parallels within each narrative.’ —Mint
‘There is a bitterness — almost savage in its quality — about Neel Mukherjee’s debut novel that wrenches the reader out of his comfort zone. The only way to engage with this book would have to be from the gut-level.’ —The Telegraph
‘Brilliant and disturbing … Instead of the cloying nostalgia that fills so much diasporic fiction, we have a hard, painful hatred, a desire to burn the past into the bitter ashes of the cremation-ground. … Intensely imagined, densely populated … the narrative is taut with possibility. … Past Continuous makes us uncomfortable, unsettles our confidence in persons and places, but it also excites us with the tension and hope of literary as well as existential risk-taking.’ —Biblio (Read this exceptional essay by Supriya Chaudhuri.)
‘Not very often do we come across a novel so intense, thoughtful and one that runs on so many levels simultaneously. … Past Continuous is an engaging and powerful work of art.’ —The Tribune
‘Cleverly crafted and impeccably written, the book refuses to be put down till the end.’ —Marie Claire
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Negative World Podcast Episode 1 - And so it begins...
Podcast presented by
January 31, 2011, 19:43:01
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A brave crew of experienced message board posters on an incredible journey go beyond the keyboard and dare discuss face to face (not literally).
Listen with amazement as GelatinousEncore, CPA Wei, DrFinkelstein and Pandareus explore topics in a much more superficial way than they would have been in a regular forum thread. But it is being delivered in a newish format that allows you to get your dose of Negative World on the go, therefore is is better. Don't try to stop progress, you won't be able to!
After a musical intro composed by NegativeWorld's lord and master Zero, smile at the ineptitude of Pandareus who foolishly believed that listening to hundreds of podcasts somehow qualified him to host one! Seeing as he basically lives on the boards, you would expect him to be able to describe Negative World better. It's okay, however, as there is no way anyone not already familiar with the board will even hear him. Listen to him clumsily presenting his topic, Wiiware, first claiming that the games are fantastic only to go on about the ways the service is not.
Your eyes will be wide with amazement as you discover the true extent of DrFinkelstein's love for Animal Crossing! Nintendo has broken his heart by releasing a Wii version that lived up to the series' enormous potential, but that hasn't stopped him from coming up with ways to reignite the old flame. Hear him passionately describe them to three other dudes who only bought the GameCube version of the game for the NES classics it contained, or never touched the series at all.
Things get more grave and serious as CPA Wei presents his topic, the end of the Wii's and the DS's livespan. Our crew attempts to answer the question: Is Kirby truly a harbinger of death for a Nintendo home console? Pandareus comes prepared with a list of coming-late-in-the-gen games on past Nintendo consoles, but then forgets to make the point he was getting at. Thankfully the rest of the crew picks up the slack with their insights.
Finally, we prepare to close the podcast the same way Nintendo prepares to put their handhelds to sleep when they've run their course: Pokémon. GelatinousEncore regales us with his tales of playing his imported copy of Pokémon White, and comes up with 5 ways to improve the franchise. The whole crew then comes to the conclusion that there are way more than just five ways to end the stagnation, and seem to agree that they wouldn't be all that hard to implement. Nintendo is being lazy, and we care!
The show ends about as gracefully as it started. Breathe a sigh of relief as Zero's beats signal that the torture is over, but stay tuned for a smerdprise.
edit - We are on iTunes! Look for Negative World Podcast, and rate us!
Full list of episodes
Negative World now viewable in glasses-free 3D!
Negative World Podcast 028 - Two and a Half Canadians
Negative World Podcast 020 - Punching keeses in the face
Negative World Podcast 038 - Don't Boil Your Games
Negative World Podcast 011 - E3!
WHAT THE SMERD!!!! MIND BLOWN!!!
I feel like a FUCKSTICK! Why did I not realize it's pronounced PanderEEus?! I always thought it was PanderUS!! OMG! I feel soooo stupid!!
This is so cool, we have a podcast now! Haha!! Awesome!! Will so listen to this!
Once your voices have been heard, they cannot be unheard.
Cool music btw Zero, I like it. Reminds me of Cave Story's sound a bit.
Edit: This podcast will go up 10,000 cool points if I'm ever on it
carlosrox
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Oh yeah that's right, I did the music. In the past, I didn't make it specifically for the podcast or anything, just lent it. Although I'm going to have to ramp up music production if they expect new Zero themes for every episode, I only have so many songs finished!
I definitely think we should have an MP3 version with every episode, it sort of makes sense to cover that base since everyone definitely can play MP3s, and then have the better format as well.
@Zero
Wouldn't that be like a dedicated theme? Or if it's not original wouldn't you wanna make one theme rather than a different one for every episode?
LOL @ the end bonus thingy post credits, you guys should do that every time.
I think we should just have one theme for the podcast instead of a new song all the time. We should have a theme that identifies with Negative World so whenever anyone hears it, they know where it's from.
I need Simba to confirm if the mp3 version uploaded but it's ready and waiting.
@carlosrox
We do it over at the PK Gaming Podcast too and I know Radio Free Nintendo does it as well. It's just a nice added bonus eh?
@DrFinkelstein
I'm listening to your part of the podcast now. :P
I got hooked on Animal Crossing similarly... I didn't study Japanese or anything, but I saw the commercials for it... and I have no idea why I wanted it, but I had to have it.
Paleo_Orca
Woah...a gaming podcast that didn't have one guy struggling to remind the other 2-3 guys nintendo still exists is pretty eerie.
Renjaku
Yeah I guess one musical theme makes sense. Being a music person though I like the idea of new music as part of a podcast in some form. I had this idea before, for instance, of a video game podcast that had new metal every episode... not really sure if the crossover market is there though.
The Weekend Confirmed podcast features a different song each week. I kind of like the idea.
canonj
Nice podcast, guys! Some good points all-around; it kept me entertained while I drew tonight's comic.
A few suggestions:
-I don't know if many of you remember the webcomic 2P START, but they had/have a really nice podcast that discusses mostly-Nintendo stuff as well. One of the nifty things they do is have a fairly liberal use of background music throughout. It'd be appropriate and non-intrusive (for instance, for the AC talk, you could simply have some AC music going on in the background, or like when you talk about the island, have Kappa's theme playing. Same with Pokemon, etc). Everyone likes Nintendo music!
-I think most of the voices were slightly fuzzy in terms of additional background noise. There's probably a simple way to clear that up, although it may require getting slightly better mics.
-I always thought it was "Pand - ARR - ee -us."
I'd like to try my hand at recording for one of these if there's another!
TriforceBun
GelatinousEncore, CPA Wei, DrFinkelstein and Pandareus
What the Smerd??!
You guys are the best! Great podcast guys. It went really well and I look forward to the next one in the near future. Zero's music was a nice touch.
Thank you so much for the little smerdprise. A great gift! I Couldn't ask for more..
Smerd
I just converted it to MP3 and I'm about to put it in my iPhone. I'll give it a listen later tonight. By the way, I don't know if it has a logo yet but I'll be using this as a logo in the mean time:
sirmastersephiroth
I love this idea about side quests in the pokemon games, like incorporating the stories from the show into it. Very cool idea.
Almost done listening, got about 20 more minutes.
EDIT: OH! And I also love the Gym idea. I would suggest that even if you're not there, people can challenge your gym by going against an A.I. character representation of you.
@sirmastersephiroth
Good call on the icon idea. I've changed it personally and in future episodes I touch I'll put it as that.
@TriforceBun
Interesting idea,... if I ever get time I'll play around with that. It would require more editing time which I don't necessarily always have but it's a neat idea nonetheless.
Why did you convert it to MP3? It was done in Apple's own format, your phone should totally play it!
@Smerd
Haha, no problem! Thank DrFink, it was his idea!
To be honest, I had no idea how it was pronounced until I said it.
The fuzzy voices could be the mics, but it could also be the low bitrate of the file. And any of the software used (Skype, the recording software, the editing software) could be at fault. But I'll definitely invest in a new headset.
@canonj
Where is that music from, though? From the fans? Public domain? Copyrighted stuff? I would think we should shy away from copyrighted material. I don't know what DrFink thinks of this, but personally I thought that since this is a community podcast, we would use whatever the musically-talented people on NW send us. If Casper, Autokymatic, Heliumsky, etc. sent us something they made, it would certainly be put into rotation.
@Paleo_Orca
It's alright, I skip your part of the PK Gaming podcast too.
Thanks for the kind words and the constructive criticism, guys.
I've been listening to the whole thing. :P
It's too bad you didn't get to talk about DSiware, I would've also love to hear what you guys would have to say about future 3DSware.
@Simbabbad Awesome. Going to be using the big one now.
Pandareus said:
Mental lapse on my part. Oh well.
Edit: I substituted the MP3 for the original version and I like the logo provided better. The one from Super Smash Bros. theme.
I believe the music on the Weekend Confirmed podcast is all user submitted, which is really the best idea and is what you guys should implement.
Also, to improve the sound quality you should make the podcast mono, but keep the bitrate at 64 kbps. By switching to mono, you'll double the quality of the file without increasing the size.
All of you sound completely different than I expected you to, lol!
casper884
Wow guys! Just finished listening and you were all great! Hopefully this is the first of many and I look forward to the next one.
BTW, awesome music Zero.
@Simbabbad
Yeah, Iwata kind of addressed that in the last Investor's Meeting. He said that in terms of digital content, the interface and environment has to be one where people will be comfortable just window shopping. That's something they aim to do with eShop. It also seems like eShop won't be browser based anymore, to allow for a more fast and fluid experience.
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Weirdness: Dan Adelman's Made a Game, Albeit a "Turd That Looks Like Woah Dave"
10/10 for effort
by Thomas Whitehead Mon 10th Nov 2014
We're fans of Woah Dave! here at Nintendo Life; it's not easy to release a chaotic retro-style arcade cabinet experience for $5 while delivering fun and value, but developer MiniVisions seems to have pulled it off. Available now on the 3DS eShop in North America, it's published by Choice Provisions — formerly Gaijin Games — and a fun diversion on the portable though, it seems, is unlikely to make the move to Wii U.
Perhaps that's understandable considering the type of game it is, but Dan Adelman — formerly the head honcho for the download game scene at Nintendo of America and now running his own business — has shared the revelation that he asked to studio about a Wii U version; he was told it was unlikely as it would require re-development in a whole new engine, such as Unity or C++. That was that.
Adelman took the opportunity, however, to brush up on his programming and re-create the game in Unity himself. He used version 4.2 to match Wii U support — though Nintendo's system does now support the improved 4.3 — and got cracking; 4.2 did cause issues with the concept of jumping through a platform and landing on it, due to limited options with collision detection, a problem solved in 4.3. Below is a segment of this blog entry and a screen of the end result.
So essentially I made a 3D game with an orthographic camera. For the different objects in the game, I just used the default shapes in Unity – cubes, spheres, etc. I planned on swapping them out with the real art assets later, so there was no point in my trying to recreate those by hand. This is what the final version wound up looking like.
Unfortunately Jason Cirillo, designer of Woah Dave!, didn't get around to sending on actual assets, making this the final version of Adelman's project. In a charming end to the development, however, Adelman's two daughters helped him finish it off with sound effects.
We recommend reading the whole blog entry for some interesting insight into the process, even if the end result is, in Adelman's own words, "a turd that looks like Woah Dave!". You can download it and try it yourself on PC, however, by downloading it here.
[via dan-adelman.com]
Woah Dave! (3DS eShop)
bubble_bear
Mon 10th Nov 2014
i have no idea what this story is about.
TeeJay
@gage_wolf Omg you read my mind
I read this 3 times and it still makes no sense
ECMIM
I have no idea why people have no idea what this story is about.
I understand the article.
RaymanFan2
Heh. This is cute.
Shadowflash
Tue 11th Nov 2014
I don't get what people don't understand about the article. I understood that perfectly.
SMEXIZELDAMAN
@gage_wolf can I join your club? I must've reread the second paragraph like five times and this whole article just made my head asplode. Glad it's not just me. But seriously what is this about? D:
Marioman64
Ah unity, so easy to make games, so hard to make pretty
Prof_Clayton
This needs better editing or orginization or something. All I got was a game couldn't be ported so Dan Adleman made a bad version to prove it could be but it couldn't because there was no art which there actually was but wasn't sent but no sound was sent either and the game for Wii U is for download on PC and its an official game and Nintendo Life enjoyed Woah Dave but its not coming to Wii U?
WreckitRyan
I feel like I entered the Twilight Zone.
I'm not familiar with Woah Dave but that was not necessary to understand this cool article
BornInNorway81
I agree this article is weird, but I actually think I did understand it.
@Prof_Clayton
"This needs better editing or orginization or something. All I got was a game couldn't be ported so Dan Adleman made a bad version to prove it could be but it couldn't because there was no art which there actually was but wasn't sent but no sound was sent either and the game for Wii U is for download on PC and its an official game and Nintendo Life enjoyed Woah Dave but its not coming to Wii U?"
Hahahaa! Fantastic summary!!!
StuOhQ
I was able to decode the article easily enough. The real question is, why was I doing double-takes on sentences to establish what the hell the author meant? I felt like I was proof-reading an essay.
....so either people can't read here at NL, or I have the same brainwaves of the writer. This article made perfect sense.
Ambermoon
Maybe people do not understand the article because it's just a small anecdote rather than a news article with some woah effect.
Darknyht
One line summary of story: Former Nintendo employee creates proof of concept port of 3DS eShop game for Wii U.
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All Imperfect Things (from The Piano) (1993) - 4 Minutes
Alternate Orchestration: version available for the Michael Nyman Band
The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle (from The Piano) (1993)
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Candlefire (1995)
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Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (from The Draughtsman's Contract) (1982) - 5 Minutes
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Chatterbox Waltz (1995)
The Convertibility of Lute Strings (1992) - 17 Minutes
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Digital Tragedy (from Enemy Zero) (1997) - 3 Minutes
Elisabeth Gets Her Way (1996)
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Fourths, Mostly (2001) - 10 Minutes
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Franklyn (1999)
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Goodbye Moortie (1995)
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Teen girl killed in head-on crash in the Gold Coast Hinterland
November 27, 2018 6:20 am in Gold Coast, The Loop Lead by Matt McDonald
UPDATE @ November 27: A teenage girl has died and three other people have been injured in a horror head-on crash in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
The fatal accident happened on Beaudesert-Nerang Road just before 4.00pm on Monday.
Police say preliminary information suggests a hatchback was travelling northbound when it collided with a ute heading in the opposite direction.
A station wagon that was also travelling northbound then collided with the hatchback.
The driver of the hatchback, an 18-year-old Beaudesert woman, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The driver of the ute, a 49-year-old man and his 15-year-old female passenger managed to escape with minor injuries, while the 30-year-old female driver of the station wagon also sustained minor injuries.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating.
EARLIER @ November 26: Police are urging motorists to avoid Beaudesert Nerang Rd after a serious crash in the Gold Coast Hinterland.
Emergency services were called to Canungra just before 4pm after reports that three cars had collided near Canungra Creek.
Police were initially told that a number of people were still trapped inside the vehicles however all had been freed by the time fire crews arrived.
Paramedics assessed four patients, one of those critical, two in a serious condition and one stable.
No one has yet been transported to hospital.
Beaudesert Nerang Rd is closed in both directions and is expected to remain shut for some time.
TRAFFIC INCIDENT: Motorist are requested to avoid Beaudesert Nerang Road at Canungra due to a serious traffic crash. #bnetraffic pic.twitter.com/MYaTPn7skM
— Queensland Police (@QldPolice) November 26, 2018
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Stellar hard anodised roasting tins set giveaway
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569 Responses to Stellar hard anodised roasting tins set giveaway
iain maciver 21/12/2015 at 10:23 pm
Kelly West 21/12/2015 at 10:27 pm
a roast dinner 🙂
Susan Lloyd 21/12/2015 at 10:40 pm
Roast vegetables x
Vic R 21/12/2015 at 10:42 pm
Loving this giveaway 🙂
Fiona Timms 21/12/2015 at 10:53 pm
great big roasts
Brad Start 21/12/2015 at 11:27 pm
The Christmas joint
Dee Dmonte 21/12/2015 at 11:50 pm
I would cook my Christmas veg and roasts spuds 🙂
lika 22/12/2015 at 12:56 am
the crispiest roast potatoes ever!
ruth robinson 22/12/2015 at 1:01 am
the roast turkey
Samantha loughlin 22/12/2015 at 4:21 am
Roast lamb
Tracy K Nixon 22/12/2015 at 5:00 am
roasted vegetables!
Michaela Hannah 22/12/2015 at 5:36 am
Slow roasted lamb shoulder with winter veg
ROBERT MCINTOSH 22/12/2015 at 5:37 am
a nice haunch of venison
Tracy Newton 22/12/2015 at 5:57 am
Roasted peppers, courgettes, onions, mushrooms and chicken. Something lighter after all the indulgence of Christmas
Ceejay Suto 22/12/2015 at 7:20 am
Definitely Roast Vegetables – love them
Harry Sutton 22/12/2015 at 7:34 am
Italian style roasted vegetables.
Ruth Harwood 22/12/2015 at 7:38 am
A roast with potatoes and Parsnips and Beef 🙂
kim neville 22/12/2015 at 7:40 am
A nice roast chicken
Jennifer Haden 22/12/2015 at 8:24 am
Roast chicken x
Tal Haimoff 22/12/2015 at 8:27 am
Antipasti offcourse
Paula Readings 22/12/2015 at 8:29 am
Lasagne, yum.
MANDY DOHERTY 22/12/2015 at 9:16 am
A beef roast x
Ray Dodds 22/12/2015 at 9:35 am
Roast beef with crispy roast potatoes
Liam Bishop 22/12/2015 at 9:51 am
Kleftiko – yum!
MARK THOMAS 22/12/2015 at 10:03 am
Elaine Savage 22/12/2015 at 10:04 am
A delicious roast gammon
Annette Oliver 22/12/2015 at 10:05 am
Hassina Begum 22/12/2015 at 10:29 am
Chicken my favourite.
Keith Hunt 22/12/2015 at 10:29 am
beef wellington
Jeff Armstrong 22/12/2015 at 11:11 am
SLow roast pork with crackling and goose fat roast potatoes with garlic and herbs
Sheila Evans 22/12/2015 at 11:11 am
Different meats, preferably chicken or turkey, always with roast potatoes and fresh veg.
Carolynn Woodland 22/12/2015 at 11:15 am
The first meal would be a Sunday roast dinner.
Kevin Honey 22/12/2015 at 11:28 am
Roast pork with crackling!
laura stewart 22/12/2015 at 11:46 am
has to be a chicken dinner 🙂
William Critchlow 22/12/2015 at 12:09 pm
Carol Emmett 22/12/2015 at 12:14 pm
Roast potatoes
Andrew reed 22/12/2015 at 12:32 pm
aaron broad 22/12/2015 at 12:37 pm
Beverley Cousins 22/12/2015 at 2:33 pm
Roast chicken with all the veg..
suzanne Drummond 22/12/2015 at 2:41 pm
clair downham 22/12/2015 at 3:12 pm
roast beef thankyou
Julie D 22/12/2015 at 3:58 pm
a good old fashioned Roast Dinner
Susan Smith 22/12/2015 at 4:30 pm
karen cowley 22/12/2015 at 5:29 pm
Sunday Roasts , should do these more often x
Jessica Powell 22/12/2015 at 5:35 pm
roast potatoes – yum! 🙂
Katie Skeoch 22/12/2015 at 5:36 pm
A roast silverside for the family
ELAINE DALE 22/12/2015 at 5:46 pm
roast beef with roasties
Irene Wright 22/12/2015 at 5:48 pm
KATHY D 22/12/2015 at 6:09 pm
Roast Beef joint with roast parsnips and potatoes round the bottom
GEOFF WICKENS 22/12/2015 at 6:10 pm
A LOVELY LEG OF LAMB
Julie Tift 22/12/2015 at 6:24 pm
Chicken with peppers and onions in fajita sauce
mama syder 22/12/2015 at 6:42 pm
Roast potatoes and veggies
Sue C 22/12/2015 at 7:00 pm
I quite often roast butternut squash…both in halves and cut up into little pieces, so there’s look ideal for that.
Claire D 22/12/2015 at 7:06 pm
Lovely Sunday roasts for the family
laura banks 22/12/2015 at 7:43 pm
Rhonda 22/12/2015 at 8:28 pm
Honey Roast Salmon
Andrea Fletcher 22/12/2015 at 8:42 pm
A roast beef dinner.
Karen Richards 22/12/2015 at 8:53 pm
Lamb leg, roast potatoes and roast parsnip.
Amanda tanner 22/12/2015 at 9:51 pm
Roast beef joint and potatoes
Amanda Richardson 22/12/2015 at 9:51 pm
Roast Silverside of Beef
Judith Allen 22/12/2015 at 11:10 pm
Mediterranean roast veg. Love roast aubergine.
Gwyn Sharps 23/12/2015 at 12:00 am
I’d ccok the Christmas turkey
Lisa Pond 23/12/2015 at 1:30 am
A gammon joint! 🙂
Brenda Haines 23/12/2015 at 3:54 am
Roasted cabbage steaks to start. Thanks for the chance!
ashleigh allan 23/12/2015 at 7:44 am
roast chicken!
Steven Appleton 23/12/2015 at 7:55 am
I’m a big fan of roast vegetables
Kasia 23/12/2015 at 8:44 am
Pheasants with root vegetables
William Gould 23/12/2015 at 10:35 am
We get through a fair amount of roasting tins having a proper Sunday roast dinner every week!
Christopher Williamson 23/12/2015 at 11:42 am
Perfect for a Christmas roast. Beef this year. Then every week – ideal for roast chicken with vegetables all around it
Emily Clark 23/12/2015 at 3:28 pm
Roasted aubergine and medittranean vegetables!
debbie smith 23/12/2015 at 5:04 pm
a lovely peice of beef with all the trimmings xx
Andy Baggott 23/12/2015 at 5:38 pm
jayne hall 23/12/2015 at 7:40 pm
roast potattoes
Tracey Parker 23/12/2015 at 8:24 pm
Roast Mediterranean vegetables
Tania Atfield 23/12/2015 at 8:50 pm
Rosemary roast potatoes
Clare Duiker 23/12/2015 at 9:15 pm
Tracy Gladman 23/12/2015 at 9:37 pm
A roast chicken
Chantelle Binge 23/12/2015 at 10:47 pm
Roast tatties, family favourite on a sunday x
rebecca nisbet 23/12/2015 at 11:53 pm
i would use it for a nice scrummy roast!
H is for Home, Adelle 24/12/2015 at 12:39 am
Slow roasted vegetables with honey & balsamic vinegar
Tiff Jordan 24/12/2015 at 2:43 am
joanna butler-savage 24/12/2015 at 1:58 pm
beef roast dinner
Angela Treadway 24/12/2015 at 7:08 pm
Shepards pie or a fish pie x
Sobia 24/12/2015 at 9:26 pm
Laura Walker 24/12/2015 at 9:59 pm
Lamb Shanks
Iona Cornish 24/12/2015 at 10:30 pm
Roast Beef and all the trimmings
Tracey Peach 25/12/2015 at 9:40 pm
Roast Chicken 🙂
Sarah S 25/12/2015 at 10:29 pm
Roast chicken and potatoes in the tin 🙂
Kiley rose 26/12/2015 at 12:21 am
Roast vegetables ♡
Heather Haigh 26/12/2015 at 4:46 am
Roast beef dinner
Lynsey Buchanan 26/12/2015 at 5:54 am
Alix Smith 26/12/2015 at 9:06 am
I would try Jamie Oliver’s recipe for coronation roast chicken – Nom!
Helen Metcalfe 26/12/2015 at 4:51 pm
Roast veg & chicken traybake
Rachel 26/12/2015 at 5:13 pm
Meat – as much as possible
sharon mead 26/12/2015 at 5:13 pm
perfect fro tray bake cakes
Tam B 26/12/2015 at 5:15 pm
Roast Pork with potatoes
Lisa Buckley 26/12/2015 at 5:16 pm
A lovely roast beef dinner!
Louise Smith 26/12/2015 at 5:20 pm
Roast Beef and yorkshire pudding with all the trimmings
John Tingay 26/12/2015 at 5:22 pm
A Sunday joint with roast parsnips and sweet potatoes.
nicky b 26/12/2015 at 5:25 pm
absolutely everything if given a chance!
S Bufton 26/12/2015 at 5:32 pm
A roast leg of lamb and roast potatoes
Rebecca williams 26/12/2015 at 5:39 pm
Steve 26/12/2015 at 6:18 pm
Pork done slowly at low temperature overnight.
Tasha 26/12/2015 at 6:19 pm
Mary Heald 26/12/2015 at 6:24 pm
Sunday joint
Susan Crosswaite 26/12/2015 at 6:26 pm
Roast vegetables
Sarah Mackay 26/12/2015 at 6:26 pm
Roasted veg on ciabbata
Sarah Brokenshire 26/12/2015 at 6:27 pm
Roasted peppers stuffed with cous cous and feta cheese
Suzanne 26/12/2015 at 6:28 pm
A full roast dinner
Christine Dodd 26/12/2015 at 6:42 pm
Roast root veg
Stacey Carnell 26/12/2015 at 6:47 pm
Beef wellington Mmmmmmmm 🙂
Edward Guerreiro 26/12/2015 at 7:07 pm
Some lovely slow cooked ribs.
Hannonle 26/12/2015 at 7:23 pm
I think I would do some roast potatoes and a chicken. Yum!
Barbara Daniels 26/12/2015 at 7:28 pm
Jo Jones 26/12/2015 at 7:51 pm
A roast beef dinner I would cook
Victoria N 26/12/2015 at 7:57 pm
Roasted veg – peppers, onions, courgettes, tomatoes
Amanda Hart 26/12/2015 at 8:26 pm
I would roast a chicken
Lorna J Kennedy 26/12/2015 at 8:29 pm
Fantastic for the Sunday lunch, nice joint of beef or pork, with roasties all the way round 🙂
dorothy merrett 26/12/2015 at 8:41 pm
Lillian Fisher 26/12/2015 at 8:52 pm
Lucy Weatherley 26/12/2015 at 9:17 pm
Roasted stuffed peppers
Roast veggies : )
Louise Hayward 26/12/2015 at 9:39 pm
Roast lamb … nom nom nom
Lorraine Tinsley 26/12/2015 at 9:49 pm
A nice lamb joint with roast potatoes
emma walters 26/12/2015 at 10:33 pm
chicken traybake
Helen Thurston 26/12/2015 at 11:19 pm
Roasted Mediterranean vegetables with garlic and balsamic vinegar.
fozia Akhtar 26/12/2015 at 11:36 pm
pete c 27/12/2015 at 12:05 am
as side dishes I would use it to cook roast potatoes and parsnips
Angela Fitzjohn 27/12/2015 at 7:37 am
The first meal I would cook is roast lamb, as it is a firm family favourite.
Emma Ellams 27/12/2015 at 7:59 am
Roast lamb 🙂
Jenifer Lack 27/12/2015 at 8:04 am
My height in roast potatoes! 🙂
Frances Heaton 27/12/2015 at 10:01 am
Roast Pork, with delicious crackling
Davina Mellon 27/12/2015 at 10:31 am
Some garlic and rosemary sauteed potatoes!
Cheryl Pearson 27/12/2015 at 10:46 am
A ROAST DINNER
Jackie Stevens 27/12/2015 at 11:18 am
I would cook a roast chicken!
Sally Collingwood 27/12/2015 at 11:22 am
Laura Costello 27/12/2015 at 12:03 pm
A nice joint of lamb
Justine Meyer 27/12/2015 at 12:07 pm
Roasted minted lamb x
Hannah 27/12/2015 at 1:50 pm
I love roast veg with many meals 🙂
Danika Lloyd 27/12/2015 at 2:10 pm
roasted and spiced mixed root veggies
Laura Broadley 27/12/2015 at 2:37 pm
Some lovely Slimming World roast potatoes 🙂
Sarah Hodge 27/12/2015 at 2:38 pm
I’d bake brownies 🙂
Jake White 27/12/2015 at 2:48 pm
Id do a really fancy roast dinner. With my own take on pigs in blankets, but chunks of butternut squash instead of bangers!!
Emma Nixon 27/12/2015 at 4:18 pm
Roasted chicken and veg tray bake
Kayleigh Butler 27/12/2015 at 4:27 pm
Roasted vegetables.
Kim M 27/12/2015 at 4:34 pm
Helen Adams 27/12/2015 at 4:38 pm
Slow roast pork with crackling x
Rebecca Hobbs 27/12/2015 at 4:53 pm
roast parsnips – addicted to them!
Kim Harding 27/12/2015 at 5:02 pm
Many things but especially my families favourite roast vegetable mix of strips of carrots & parsnip, shallots and baby potatoes all coated in olive oil.
Victoria Thurgood 27/12/2015 at 5:20 pm
Paul T 27/12/2015 at 5:46 pm
Lisa Parker 27/12/2015 at 7:25 pm
Some lovely roasted vegetables
Anne Bostwick 27/12/2015 at 7:58 pm
Sunday roast with all the trimmings
LIZZIE E 27/12/2015 at 8:53 pm
Beautiful roast chicken with all the trimmings! 🙂
Sarah Davison 27/12/2015 at 9:35 pm
I’d start by cooking a lamb shank I think.
darren hay 27/12/2015 at 9:55 pm
honey glazed ham
Penny H 27/12/2015 at 10:15 pm
I would make a roast chicken with garlic and roasted vegetables.
helen tovell 27/12/2015 at 10:17 pm
a lovely roast chicken
gillian burden 27/12/2015 at 10:25 pm
Roast Spatchcocked Lemon Chicken
james harland 27/12/2015 at 10:48 pm
beef joint slowly cooked mmmmm
Sue Harrison 27/12/2015 at 10:56 pm
Everything from a roast to sausage rolls
Sue Wickins 28/12/2015 at 5:59 am
a leg of lamb for New years day
Phil Darling 28/12/2015 at 6:47 am
Roast duck with all the trimmings
Joanne Greer 28/12/2015 at 8:38 am
Lovely roasted vegetables.
Rebecca Smith 28/12/2015 at 9:26 am
Roast leg of lamb
James Mullen 28/12/2015 at 9:41 am
I would cook roast potatoes in it.
Jess Mary 28/12/2015 at 9:43 am
Roast chicken with veggies!
Paula Smith 28/12/2015 at 9:45 am
Roast dinners
Paula Nixon 28/12/2015 at 11:56 am
Always a roast chicken 🙂
Karen Laing 28/12/2015 at 2:16 pm
Roast vegetables would be lovely,my roasting tins would appear to have lost their non-stick and I end up with veg stuck at the bottom.It does nothing for my cooking !
Kelly Roxanne smith 28/12/2015 at 2:44 pm
a roast chicken 🙂
Lynn Ward 28/12/2015 at 2:46 pm
chicken dinner yum thanks
Jenny Shaw 28/12/2015 at 3:11 pm
Alica 28/12/2015 at 3:19 pm
A lovely roast dinner with roasted veg!
Lydia Frew 28/12/2015 at 3:33 pm
Fill it with roast winter squash, onions, peppers, garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and a handful of cherry tomatoes.
nina kennedy 28/12/2015 at 4:18 pm
Tom Buchanan 28/12/2015 at 4:33 pm
MEAT. any meat!
Caroline Henaghan 28/12/2015 at 5:06 pm
Kleftiko – for my Greek hubby!!
Kim Styles 28/12/2015 at 5:09 pm
My sunday roast -usually Lamb with garlic and rosemary!!
Sandra Bald 28/12/2015 at 6:18 pm
Sam Goodwin 28/12/2015 at 7:18 pm
Absolutely everything! I’d cook some lovely roasted vegetables 🙂
aj 28/12/2015 at 7:50 pm
Beef joint
Monica Gilbert 28/12/2015 at 9:26 pm
I’d like to roast some vegetables.
Lynne Durkin 28/12/2015 at 11:08 pm
Roast potatoes x
Maxine G 29/12/2015 at 9:49 am
Roasted veggies with balsamic vinegar
Hassni 29/12/2015 at 10:20 am
Roasted winter vegetables.
Ray Becker 29/12/2015 at 1:18 pm
Beef Wellington with the trimmings
ADEINNE TONNER 29/12/2015 at 2:13 pm
A lovely roast dinner for my family
Louise Fairweather 29/12/2015 at 6:40 pm
A lovely Sunday roast
Rachael Lines 29/12/2015 at 6:54 pm
Slow roasted Lamb
Michaela Jennings 29/12/2015 at 6:55 pm
PAUL STANLEY 29/12/2015 at 7:43 pm
Karen Knox 29/12/2015 at 9:00 pm
Roast chicken Sunday lunch 🙂
Anni Large 29/12/2015 at 9:30 pm
Some lovely roast potatoes.
Jayne Sullivan 29/12/2015 at 9:50 pm
Jo Hutchinson 30/12/2015 at 12:14 am
Winter roasted vegetables.
Louise A 30/12/2015 at 12:30 am
either a nice chicken roast or maybe a traybake
Leanne Abel 30/12/2015 at 12:54 am
Roast Beef Joint
Christine Constable 30/12/2015 at 12:00 pm
Roast chicken, crispy roast potatoes & roasted vegetables with garlic & red pesto
Holly Gibson 30/12/2015 at 12:03 pm
Honey roasted carrots and parsnips
jennifer thorpe 30/12/2015 at 1:02 pm
Andrea Smith 30/12/2015 at 4:29 pm
lyn geddes 30/12/2015 at 5:30 pm
Homemade nut roast from Cranks’ recipe
claire woods 30/12/2015 at 7:08 pm
quorn roast
michelle o'neill 30/12/2015 at 7:10 pm
roast pork x
chris bull 30/12/2015 at 8:26 pm
Graham Antony Wright 30/12/2015 at 10:54 pm
Rachel Butterworth 31/12/2015 at 12:26 am
Rich Tyler 31/12/2015 at 2:26 am
Jade 31/12/2015 at 2:46 am
Steve Dickinson 31/12/2015 at 4:32 am
Duck confit
Stevie 31/12/2015 at 8:45 am
Schnitzels I think.
jane Evans 31/12/2015 at 10:03 am
A roast lamb Sunday lunch 🙂
Liz 31/12/2015 at 11:08 am
Chocolate date cake
Chris Andrews 31/12/2015 at 12:15 pm
a roast beef dinner
Kiran Parry 31/12/2015 at 2:13 pm
Danielle Cresswell 31/12/2015 at 5:23 pm
A one pan oven baked fry up x
Emily Knight 31/12/2015 at 6:02 pm
I’d cook chicken stuffed with taleggio!
Justine 31/12/2015 at 10:56 pm
I think i’d have to do my mid week favourite of lemon and herb Chicken with fluffy and crispy oven baked potatoes
Corinne Peat 31/12/2015 at 11:01 pm
Roast beef and all the trimmings!
emma hunt 01/01/2016 at 11:54 am
Roast potatoes yummyyy 🙂
Phyllis Ellett 01/01/2016 at 12:20 pm
I won’t cook anything, because my husband does all the cooking, I am not even allowed to toast a piece of bread. He says he would roast a belly of pork that has been dry rubbed with Chinese spices.
Julie 01/01/2016 at 3:35 pm
I’d cook Roast herb-chicken dinner with roasted vegetables and potatoes! Yummy 🙂
Michaela Smith 01/01/2016 at 4:19 pm
Quorn Roast 🙂
Allan Wilson 01/01/2016 at 5:00 pm
The Sunday Roast
charlotte wilde 01/01/2016 at 5:14 pm
roast pork with crackling!!!!!
lisa tebbutt 01/01/2016 at 5:35 pm
chicken or lamb dinner
Jenny 01/01/2016 at 5:51 pm
Antonia Boulting 01/01/2016 at 7:01 pm
Roast chicken and root veggies
Hayley Lynch 01/01/2016 at 8:52 pm
Michelle Ferguson 01/01/2016 at 8:56 pm
A lovely roast beef dinner
Laura Caraher 01/01/2016 at 9:14 pm
Roast butternut squash
Emma Jones 01/01/2016 at 10:00 pm
Leg of lamb stuffed with sage butter and sprinkled with rosemary and olive oil.
Lisa Mauchline 01/01/2016 at 11:53 pm
Roast beef with veg and roast potatoes
Tom D 02/01/2016 at 10:06 am
Sophie Lester 02/01/2016 at 10:24 am
I would cook chicken and chorizo bake
JULIE WARD 02/01/2016 at 1:31 pm
Lamb with roasties
Jane H Shaw 02/01/2016 at 1:38 pm
I would use it to roast lamb thanks
Elizabeth Hinds 02/01/2016 at 2:04 pm
A lovely roast dinner – my absolute fave 🙂
Emma Walton 02/01/2016 at 3:04 pm
I would do a roast and also some roasted vegetables. This is a great giveaway, thank you.
GLENDA HANKS 02/01/2016 at 4:25 pm
A beef joint with roast potatoes
Miss Tracy Hanson 02/01/2016 at 5:35 pm
Charlotte Moore 02/01/2016 at 6:20 pm
Traditional roast
Jane Wilson 02/01/2016 at 6:22 pm
linda rees 02/01/2016 at 6:23 pm
Sundays Roast beef
katrina adams 02/01/2016 at 6:44 pm
Juicy roast chicken on a trivet of roasted vegetables.
Hayley Mulgrove 02/01/2016 at 7:16 pm
Oh i would roast everything, Mixed peppers. Garlic, Parsnips, Onions, Potato’s
Colin Gault 03/01/2016 at 1:26 am
Adeline 03/01/2016 at 8:48 am
Roast veggies. Roast carrots are my favourite!
Ella L 03/01/2016 at 10:05 am
Roast beef and roast spuds
Lisa Everaert 03/01/2016 at 10:49 am
Roast Lamb with vegetables for sunday roast x
Claire Ward 03/01/2016 at 11:03 am
Terri Collins 03/01/2016 at 12:29 pm
Yummy roasted veggies 🙂
Stephanie Whitehouse 03/01/2016 at 12:51 pm
Some roast mixed veg chips and smoked haddock
Juli Savage 03/01/2016 at 2:23 pm
Roast some gorgeous tasty vegetables
Lindy 03/01/2016 at 3:46 pm
A delicious roast chicken! 🙂
Sarah Heath 03/01/2016 at 4:14 pm
Jackie ONeill 03/01/2016 at 4:18 pm
Slow cooked lamb
Kristina Bates 03/01/2016 at 4:40 pm
Lyla 03/01/2016 at 6:43 pm
lyn 03/01/2016 at 9:46 pm
Lemon chicken with Garlic and Roast Veg
Eliz M 03/01/2016 at 11:34 pm
don erwood 04/01/2016 at 1:18 am
Pork loin steaks over sweet potato and rosemary
Solange 04/01/2016 at 4:41 am
Ruth Wollerton 04/01/2016 at 4:46 am
Roasted vegetable bake with Parmesan
Heather Wilson 04/01/2016 at 10:31 am
maggie ali 04/01/2016 at 2:53 pm
lots of delicious roasted veggies 🙂
georgina prince (was Davies) 04/01/2016 at 5:23 pm
a big honey roast ham yum! x
Natalie Charman 04/01/2016 at 6:56 pm
Roast duck. Yum!
ROSEMARY SHEEHAN 04/01/2016 at 7:31 pm
Jayne T 04/01/2016 at 9:37 pm
I’d use them for cooking a roast dinner, thanks for the lovely giveaway.
leanne perrett 04/01/2016 at 9:51 pm
a nice big piece of gammon shank 🙂 yumm yumm
BECCA STAPLES 05/01/2016 at 10:44 am
A nice roast chicken x
Michelle Carlin 05/01/2016 at 12:22 pm
Quorn roast, with lots of roast veggies – yummy!
Mickie Bull 05/01/2016 at 5:42 pm
All in one tray chicken dinner!
Grace Keegan 05/01/2016 at 9:42 pm
Roast chicken.
kate m jones 05/01/2016 at 10:03 pm
It would have to be a beautiful beef wellington, they are perfect when cooked in tins like these 🙂
Kristy Brown 06/01/2016 at 8:38 am
A juicy leg of lamb with rosemary and garlic
JODIE BEAUMONT 06/01/2016 at 3:07 pm
Hazel Murphy 06/01/2016 at 7:45 pm
Katie Harmer 06/01/2016 at 8:45 pm
Roast beef, I’m salivating just thinking about it!
Grant R 06/01/2016 at 9:29 pm
Roasted Monkfish!
Jaelin Farrow 06/01/2016 at 9:32 pm
It’s got to be a roast 🙂
Cheryl G 06/01/2016 at 10:53 pm
Toad in the hole…yum!!
James 07/01/2016 at 10:04 am
Sunday roast, of course!
Jo Carroll 07/01/2016 at 1:15 pm
Roast lamb and Yorkshire puds…my fave! x
Sheila Reeves 07/01/2016 at 3:44 pm
a Roast chicken with all the trimmings!
Pam Smith 07/01/2016 at 5:39 pm
Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables
Catriona Hutchinson 07/01/2016 at 9:45 pm
A lovely plump goose!
Kallie Maile 07/01/2016 at 9:56 pm
Angie Hoggett 07/01/2016 at 10:47 pm
pork roast and all the trimmings
Sheena Widdowfield 08/01/2016 at 12:04 am
Crunchy roast potatoes
Sarah Benn 08/01/2016 at 8:43 pm
Roast chicken with roast vegetables.
Laura Asplin 08/01/2016 at 9:41 pm
Nicola Glover 08/01/2016 at 10:03 pm
Traditional Sunday Roast
Angela Muir 08/01/2016 at 10:22 pm
Lisa 08/01/2016 at 10:35 pm
Gammon joint
Victoria R Morrison 08/01/2016 at 10:57 pm
Slow cooked Moroccan Lamb
Amber B 08/01/2016 at 11:38 pm
The first roast dinner in my new house!
kaye talvilahti 09/01/2016 at 12:54 am
roast chicken xx
Andrea Stordy 09/01/2016 at 6:38 am
Roast Chicken with all the trimmings
Angela 09/01/2016 at 10:31 am
Karen Barrett 09/01/2016 at 11:27 am
holly harmsworth 09/01/2016 at 4:10 pm
lamb 🙂 yummy
Layla Thomas 09/01/2016 at 4:30 pm
kimberley ryan 09/01/2016 at 4:42 pm
Roast lamb with rosemary and garlic
Leanne Newsome 09/01/2016 at 8:31 pm
Joanne Benham 09/01/2016 at 9:09 pm
Roast Chicken with all the trimmings x
carole n 09/01/2016 at 9:47 pm
Michelle Sykes 09/01/2016 at 10:20 pm
Roast chicken and roast potatoes
Sarah Walford 09/01/2016 at 10:58 pm
Mediterranean Roast Vegetables
Susan B 10/01/2016 at 4:15 am
I love mixed root vegetable bake with either melted mozzarella or crispy crumb topping – or both.
Lynn Woodcock 10/01/2016 at 6:05 am
Linda Thorn 10/01/2016 at 10:43 am
nut loaf as it is a way of art
with many toppings on it
but the best for me
its got to be
adding pineapple on top of it
Claire Toplis 10/01/2016 at 11:29 am
rack of lamb
Carole Paton 10/01/2016 at 4:14 pm
Delicious roast beef
Laura Nice 10/01/2016 at 4:54 pm
Louise Lumsden 10/01/2016 at 5:48 pm
I do a huge tray bake of lamb chops on a bed of spiced roast root vegetables
Jennifer Bradshaw 10/01/2016 at 7:27 pm
Crispy baked sweet potato fries
ESME MCCRUBB 10/01/2016 at 9:33 pm
Laura Linsey 10/01/2016 at 9:34 pm
Roast potatoes, my favourite!
alison clark 10/01/2016 at 10:00 pm
Toad in the hole.
Melanie Gardiner 10/01/2016 at 11:01 pm
A tasty leg of lamb
Pam Lawrence 10/01/2016 at 11:13 pm
I would cook a whole shoulder of lamb studded with fresh rosemary and garlic in one tin, and some Mediterranean roasted root veggies flavoured with oregano, chilli and olive oil in the other!
HELEN GOSSAGE 10/01/2016 at 11:40 pm
Victoria Prince 11/01/2016 at 8:33 am
Ooh the first thing I would do would be to roast a selection of vegetables 🙂 Yum!
Eileen Sumner 11/01/2016 at 4:40 pm
Claire Elizabeth Noke 11/01/2016 at 7:24 pm
Honey glazed vegetables
Emma Farrell 11/01/2016 at 7:53 pm
Definitely a roast
Naomi M 11/01/2016 at 8:10 pm
Roast leg of lamb, yum!
Caroline Blaza 11/01/2016 at 10:49 pm
Would have to be my family favourite………Roast chicken x
Lucy Bishop 12/01/2016 at 12:15 pm
I’d make my famous Lamb Kleftiko!
shell 12/01/2016 at 1:46 pm
A whole chicken
Kathleen Bywaters 12/01/2016 at 2:13 pm
Some sweet paparika roast chicken legs!
kayleigh dudley 12/01/2016 at 2:29 pm
ema j lowe 12/01/2016 at 8:15 pm
a lovely homemade pizza
Becky John 12/01/2016 at 8:57 pm
Roast duck and roasted root vegetables
Alison 12/01/2016 at 9:38 pm
Honey mustard roast gammon
Joanne 12/01/2016 at 10:07 pm
Roasted green beans and Brussels sprouts
Lisa Wilkinson 12/01/2016 at 10:10 pm
Some roast potatoes for a Sunday roast.
Suzanne Roberts 12/01/2016 at 11:17 pm
Roast Mediterranean veg – yummy
natalie wallace 13/01/2016 at 12:07 am
Sue Bowden 13/01/2016 at 8:17 am
Roast leg of Lamb with roasted veg, beetroot, parsnips and carrots and of course the roast potato all fluffy and crispy x
Margaret Clarkson 13/01/2016 at 11:15 am
Alison Macdonald 13/01/2016 at 11:21 am
A nice rib of beef for a family Sunday lunch – Mmmmmmmm x
Freya 13/01/2016 at 3:01 pm
A mini roast dinner of pheasant, roasted new potatoes, carrots and sweet potato
sarah mcvicar 13/01/2016 at 5:09 pm
I’d cook a lovely roast dinner with all the trimmings xx
Diane Carey 13/01/2016 at 7:18 pm
A roast lamb joint with roast potatoes
Mary Chez 13/01/2016 at 7:23 pm
julie eley 13/01/2016 at 9:09 pm
I would do a nice Beef roasting joint 🙂
Caroline Scott 13/01/2016 at 9:42 pm
Helen Thorsby 13/01/2016 at 10:08 pm
Duck in plum sauce mmmm x
Robyn Logan Clarke 14/01/2016 at 1:03 am
Roast butternut, red onions, cherry tomatoes and courgette
Antonio S 14/01/2016 at 5:08 am
Gabrielle Powell 14/01/2016 at 11:03 am
Jo Godfray 14/01/2016 at 11:34 am
A Super Roast
Michelle 14/01/2016 at 4:09 pm
A lovely roast 🙂
Cheryl Price 14/01/2016 at 4:40 pm
I have a lovely leg of lamb in my freezer that needs a nice roasting pan to go in 🙂
Eliza Massey 14/01/2016 at 6:49 pm
Roast duck! I would serve it oriental style with pancakes and hosin sauce!
Sam McKean 14/01/2016 at 6:49 pm
A lovely big leg of lamb with all the trimmings!
Jane Middleton 14/01/2016 at 8:49 pm
z webb 14/01/2016 at 10:05 pm
L Alexander 14/01/2016 at 11:20 pm
Roasted vegetables cooked with harissa paste and olive oil, topped with goat’s cheese.
Rebecca Townsend 15/01/2016 at 6:35 am
A lovely nut roast
EJ Dunn 15/01/2016 at 9:01 am
A lamb roast!
michelle pierce 15/01/2016 at 10:03 am
roast beef and roasted veg
Rebecca Howells (@PeanutHog) 15/01/2016 at 3:12 pm
A big roast dinner with lots of different roasted veg.
Di Coke 15/01/2016 at 5:27 pm
Salmon en croute!
michelle moore 15/01/2016 at 6:23 pm
Roast lamb stuffed with garlic, rosemary and anchovy fillets and some fantastic home grown herby roast potatoes
lynn neal 15/01/2016 at 10:05 pm
roasted root veg
Diana 15/01/2016 at 10:36 pm
Roast lamb! Our favourite 🙂
Vicky Varley 15/01/2016 at 10:45 pm
Natasha R-M 16/01/2016 at 6:19 am
Vegetable lasagne – thank you.
Ann Williams 16/01/2016 at 11:46 am
I would roast a leg of lamb, seasoned with fresh rosemary from the garden and resting on a bed of roasted root vegetables with garlic. The aroma of it cooking would be torture but the results succulent and tasty.
Lauren Old 16/01/2016 at 12:46 pm
Jacket potatoes
Robert Price 16/01/2016 at 1:15 pm
A leg of lamb
Mary Baldwin 16/01/2016 at 3:34 pm
Beef Wellington – yummy!
Kate Knight 16/01/2016 at 4:28 pm
Barbara Jane Shaw 16/01/2016 at 4:29 pm
Chrissie Curtis 16/01/2016 at 4:33 pm
Lots of Roasted Veggies!
Judi Watson-Jones 16/01/2016 at 5:45 pm
Roast Welsh Lamb
Jodie W 16/01/2016 at 6:06 pm
a roast dinner with roasted veggies
Barbara Handley 16/01/2016 at 7:46 pm
I would make a traditional Sunday roast dinner.
Jason Tolliss 16/01/2016 at 7:48 pm
Roast lamb with Mediterranean roasted veg
Samantha Atherton 16/01/2016 at 7:51 pm
Firstly I’d make some cookies.
Tamsin Dean 16/01/2016 at 9:29 pm
Sarah P 16/01/2016 at 10:36 pm
Debbie Preston 16/01/2016 at 10:47 pm
Jo Glasspool 16/01/2016 at 11:01 pm
Roast lamb.
sarah fielding 16/01/2016 at 11:11 pm
roast vegetables!
Michelle Cheeseman 16/01/2016 at 11:40 pm
Roast lamb with all the trimmings : )
sherri mse Fordham 17/01/2016 at 1:03 am
a HUGE yorkshire pudding
zoe g 17/01/2016 at 9:52 am
a sunday roast
Caroline Cordery 17/01/2016 at 11:22 am
I’d make flapjack and roasted veg
sharon martin 17/01/2016 at 12:01 pm
a leg of lamb & roast potatoes
Angela McDonald 17/01/2016 at 1:09 pm
Silverside Beef Joint
Sarah S 17/01/2016 at 3:32 pm
The roasting tins look perfect for making roast potatoes, so that’s what I’d start with.
Bridgette West 17/01/2016 at 4:08 pm
As a vegetarian, getting perfect roast vegetables needs a decent tin!
Katherine Coldicott 17/01/2016 at 4:16 pm
I’d cook a slow roast beef brisket.
Kirsten Barthy 17/01/2016 at 5:33 pm
Joanna Orr 17/01/2016 at 6:01 pm
I’d cook pork strips in a BBQ sauce – I’m making that tonight!
Georgina Jacobs 17/01/2016 at 6:41 pm
Roast Chicken with roasted vegetables – home cooked goodness thanks
tina edwards 17/01/2016 at 6:46 pm
roast beef and roast potatoes
Kirsty Woods 17/01/2016 at 6:58 pm
Roast chicken with roast potatoes
Suzie W 17/01/2016 at 6:59 pm
claire little 17/01/2016 at 7:00 pm
silverside
tracey ryder 17/01/2016 at 7:13 pm
roast pork and roasties
Julie Booth 17/01/2016 at 8:44 pm
a roast beef joint
Lorraine Bell 17/01/2016 at 8:56 pm
Chicken and roast vegetables
Vickie Jackson 17/01/2016 at 9:39 pm
A roast chicken (with sausages wrapped in bacon)
Jacqueline Chapman 17/01/2016 at 9:43 pm
Ellen Stafford 17/01/2016 at 9:44 pm
Kat Allinson 17/01/2016 at 10:29 pm
Roast chicken dinner
Lexy Law 17/01/2016 at 10:51 pm
Gemma Mills 17/01/2016 at 10:57 pm
Pulled pork and tatties in goose fat
Samantha Rummens 17/01/2016 at 11:16 pm
Ashley Phillips 18/01/2016 at 1:56 am
Honey and Mustard Gammon with Roast potatoes
Rebecca Alderson 18/01/2016 at 2:28 am
Some slow cooked pork
Katharine Phillips 18/01/2016 at 6:26 am
A mix of roasted veggies.
Chris S 18/01/2016 at 7:09 am
If I won one of these roasting tins the first thing I would cook would be a slow roasted shoulder of lamb with garlic and rosemary with a red currant glaze.
Susan Sargent 18/01/2016 at 7:35 am
jo liddement 18/01/2016 at 8:14 am
I would use the roasting tins to make a medley of honey roast vegetables
Rebecca Powell 18/01/2016 at 9:53 am
Nat Jones 18/01/2016 at 9:58 am
Debbie Nichols 18/01/2016 at 10:51 am
Rather fancy roast duck
Roast chicken with mediterranean veggies 🙂
matthew colburn 18/01/2016 at 11:20 am
a nice leg of lamb 🙂
Charlotte Cottam 18/01/2016 at 11:26 am
A delicious roast chicken 🙂
Jade Hewlett 18/01/2016 at 11:47 am
christy spencer 18/01/2016 at 12:12 pm
These would be fantastic for all sorts of meals but I would love to make my Sunday roast with roast potatoes and roast parsnips on them x
elaine stokes 18/01/2016 at 12:42 pm
Chinese spiced pulled pork
Kristin Burdsall 18/01/2016 at 1:46 pm
Lemon, Rosemary and garlic baked chicken
melanie horbury 18/01/2016 at 2:22 pm
Sarah Parker 18/01/2016 at 2:52 pm
a roast 🙂
olivia Kirby 18/01/2016 at 2:52 pm
A lovely juicy chicken!
a roast
simon hardy 18/01/2016 at 3:25 pm
would have to be a chicken!
Susan Jackson 18/01/2016 at 3:27 pm
A big Dish of Roasted vegetables
Michelle Wild 18/01/2016 at 3:41 pm
The ham and cheese puff pastry rolled tart looks fab, I’d start with that.
Linda Streater 18/01/2016 at 4:15 pm
I would cook a family size Toad in the Hole
kelly mobbs 18/01/2016 at 4:39 pm
Lora 18/01/2016 at 4:56 pm
an all in one dish of roast chicken thighs and mediterranean veg
Deborah J 18/01/2016 at 5:19 pm
Full Sunday Roast – any day of the week!
Spencer Broadley 18/01/2016 at 5:42 pm
I love Meditterranean Herb Roast Vegetables
Rob Griffiths 18/01/2016 at 5:50 pm
A nice leg of lamb
Roast chicken and roast root veg
Serena La Pietra 18/01/2016 at 6:09 pm
Parsnips with honey
Andrea A 18/01/2016 at 6:19 pm
Dorothy K 18/01/2016 at 6:31 pm
lemon and rosemary roast chicken- my husband’s favourite….
Pauline Wilson 18/01/2016 at 6:34 pm
Chicken with stuffing and roast potatoes
Anita hargreaves 18/01/2016 at 6:35 pm
charlotte angel 18/01/2016 at 6:56 pm
Andy Bridges 18/01/2016 at 7:19 pm
Haggis and Neeps
Karen B 18/01/2016 at 7:20 pm
Caroline Buckley 18/01/2016 at 7:34 pm
Stephen Shepherd 18/01/2016 at 7:59 pm
Roast beef with roast potatoes
Laura Whittle 18/01/2016 at 8:21 pm
Crispy roast potatoes
Patricia Avery 18/01/2016 at 8:24 pm
Roast pork with a medley of roasted veg and apple 🙂
adrian price 18/01/2016 at 8:32 pm
jessica cook 18/01/2016 at 8:35 pm
roasted mediteranean vegetables
Lila B Taylor 18/01/2016 at 8:47 pm
A big sunday roast with all the trimmings
Laura Barratt 18/01/2016 at 8:53 pm
I would make toad in the hole!
ramsy 18/01/2016 at 9:01 pm
roasted root and mediteranean veg
Elisabeth Ries 18/01/2016 at 9:13 pm
Stuffed mushrooms, with bacon leek and a pastry top.
Sheri Darby 18/01/2016 at 9:20 pm
Ali Thorpe 18/01/2016 at 9:20 pm
I’m tempted to try roasting a whole salmon but more likely it would be veggies.
Anneka Hulse 18/01/2016 at 9:40 pm
Kim W 18/01/2016 at 9:42 pm
A lovely roast dinner with crispy roast potatoes
ellie spider 18/01/2016 at 9:56 pm
I’d do baked chilli enchiladas 🙂 smothered in sour cream,guacamole and salsa
Champaklal Lad 18/01/2016 at 9:59 pm
Indian spicy chicken
Cerys John 18/01/2016 at 10:10 pm
Roast Dinner 🙂
Elaine Betteridge 18/01/2016 at 10:12 pm
sweet potato wedges!
Emma Ridgway 18/01/2016 at 10:16 pm
Emma Davies 18/01/2016 at 10:29 pm
Roasted veg and lamb steaks with feta and mint
Aimee Wright 18/01/2016 at 10:31 pm
Roast potatoes 🙂
donna l jones 18/01/2016 at 10:34 pm
Karen Howden 18/01/2016 at 10:40 pm
a nice piece of beef
Margery L 18/01/2016 at 10:47 pm
a rib of beef, or a lamb shoulder, or a pork belly roast with stuffing and roast potatoes in the juices
Jayne K 18/01/2016 at 10:50 pm
Tina L-D 18/01/2016 at 11:30 pm
honey roasted root veg
yvonne clark 19/01/2016 at 12:04 am
a family size lasagne
SUSAN L HALL 19/01/2016 at 12:13 am
Toad in the hole would be my first choice mm not had it for ages
Lyndsey Beckford 19/01/2016 at 12:40 am
Teresa Sheldon 19/01/2016 at 12:42 am
A good old roast lamb and roast potatoes and honey parsnips.
kim 19/01/2016 at 2:10 am
Orange and chorizo roasted potatoes
Karen Painter 19/01/2016 at 5:10 am
Chicken and Roasties
Louise_tweets_ 19/01/2016 at 5:59 am
Beef joint and roasties!
Martina Alban 19/01/2016 at 6:40 am
nice leg of lamb with rosemary
zoe somerfield 19/01/2016 at 8:04 am
A good old roast chicken
Sarah Lewis 19/01/2016 at 8:18 am
A roast chicken with all the trimmings
tracey nock 19/01/2016 at 8:19 am
Sunday roast xxx
Wendy Guy 19/01/2016 at 8:28 am
I would cook a traditional roast dinner.
Chris Fletcher 19/01/2016 at 9:17 am
They would probably get used for a Sunday roast!
Michelle orchard 19/01/2016 at 9:24 am
Gorgeous duck fat roast potatoes and honey roasted parsnips
Pat Stubbs 19/01/2016 at 9:32 am
A lovely courgette, onion and rice dish a la Jamie
Jules Naybur 19/01/2016 at 9:41 am
Victoria Dixon 19/01/2016 at 9:49 am
I would cook a yummy lasagne with some herby diced potatoes!
Emilia nastaly-howard 19/01/2016 at 9:52 am
suzanne maher 19/01/2016 at 10:18 am
Got to be a Sunday dinner – either beef or chicken 🙂
helen jones 19/01/2016 at 10:55 am
Roasted vegetables with garlic
Natalie Baugh 19/01/2016 at 10:57 am
Minted Lamb Shanks yum
HazelY 19/01/2016 at 11:01 am
Roast lemony chicken with garlic. Yum!
Pauline Dring 19/01/2016 at 11:25 am
Roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings
Christine Lockley 19/01/2016 at 12:02 pm
I’d cook out favourite Roast Chicken dinner with all the trimmings
Daphne Mueller 19/01/2016 at 12:35 pm
Roasted veg, then I use them in speghetti sauce, lovely taste
Christine Hobbs 19/01/2016 at 12:44 pm
Sweet potato wedges drizzled in oil chilli flakes and garlic. We have them dipped in sour cream in front of a movie x
Juris Lusis 19/01/2016 at 12:50 pm
Jacqueline Roberts 19/01/2016 at 1:27 pm
Rost rack of lamb
Rachel Bonness 19/01/2016 at 1:43 pm
I’d cook Sweet potato fries which are my new favourite thing!
Hannah Igoe 19/01/2016 at 1:57 pm
Roasted vegtables would be lovely
Ella Swinbank 19/01/2016 at 2:03 pm
Kathryn Casbolt 19/01/2016 at 2:04 pm
A lovely roast dinner x
Sarah Saunders 19/01/2016 at 2:11 pm
Roast dinner xx
Su Brett 19/01/2016 at 2:42 pm
Lots of things but especially Roasted Veg
fiona butler 19/01/2016 at 2:48 pm
I would roast vegetables
Rebecca Taylor 19/01/2016 at 2:50 pm
Jamie Edwards 19/01/2016 at 2:56 pm
Roast gammon for sunday roast! Mmmmm
Susan Carruthers 19/01/2016 at 2:56 pm
I’d roast some pork chops, lovely roast veg and roast potatoes to go with them.
matt allison 19/01/2016 at 3:08 pm
Roast Potatoes, garlic, carrots and parsnips
Rachel James 19/01/2016 at 3:49 pm
My roast potatoes are always a soggy disaster, so hopefully this would help get some crispiness into my life!
Lana George 19/01/2016 at 4:32 pm
Roast beef, roast potatoes, maple coated parsnips
Lola Balntas 19/01/2016 at 4:46 pm
My Greek auntie’s stuffed peppers (red peppers stuffed with minced lamb, rice, pine nuts and tomato sauce) – super yum 🙂 x
LORNA WIL 19/01/2016 at 4:55 pm
ROAST LAMB & ROAST POTATOES & MAPLE SYUP CARROTS, BUTTERNUT SQUASH, PARNIPS
Neha Parmar 19/01/2016 at 5:03 pm
Paneer and Mediterranean vegetables with fresh herbs and garlic
Sue Moore 19/01/2016 at 5:17 pm
Roast Lamb and vegetables
emma brooksbank 19/01/2016 at 5:35 pm
CYPRIOT STYLE ROAST CHICKEN WITH CUMIN ROAST POTATOES COOKS ALTOGETHER IN SAME DISH IT IS GORGEOUS!!
Eva Appleby 19/01/2016 at 5:51 pm
Fiona JK42 19/01/2016 at 6:06 pm
Audrey Odriscoll 19/01/2016 at 6:13 pm
I’d love to cook a lovely roast lamb dinner with all the trimmings for my family with these great baking tins
I’d love to cook a lovely roast lamb dinner for my family with these great baking tins
Jo Meichtry 19/01/2016 at 6:18 pm
Chicken and mediterranean vegetables
Pauline Black 19/01/2016 at 6:20 pm
Roast chicken ! Yum!
Trevor Linvell 19/01/2016 at 6:26 pm
Quorn fillets
Rachel O'Leary 19/01/2016 at 6:38 pm
Roast potatoes!
Tracey baker 19/01/2016 at 7:35 pm
A sunday roast – Beef x
Erica Price 19/01/2016 at 7:43 pm
Rich Hill 19/01/2016 at 7:49 pm
I’d cook lots of lovely roast veg.
Suzanne Brown 19/01/2016 at 7:56 pm
Roast chicken – a little boring, but my husbands favourite!
Ioana Popescu 19/01/2016 at 8:07 pm
MICHELLE KEMP 19/01/2016 at 8:14 pm
Claire Nelson 19/01/2016 at 8:22 pm
Elizabeth Gurney 19/01/2016 at 8:31 pm
Roast potatoes !!
Joanna Sawka 19/01/2016 at 8:37 pm
Rachel B 19/01/2016 at 8:38 pm
I’d make chicken cacciatore
LEE HARDY 19/01/2016 at 8:48 pm
A tasty Roast Chicken
Matt Brasier 19/01/2016 at 8:49 pm
Toad in the hole. Yum!
Kelly L 19/01/2016 at 8:50 pm
Em S 19/01/2016 at 9:15 pm
Roast leg of pork
Tracy 19/01/2016 at 9:15 pm
I’d use it to make one tin salmon and veggies
Caroline Signey 19/01/2016 at 9:19 pm
Katie Hodges 19/01/2016 at 9:20 pm
Roast veggies 🙂
Sunday roast 🙂
David Price 19/01/2016 at 9:25 pm
Rachel Wise 19/01/2016 at 9:27 pm
Roasted potatoes and veg
MichelleD 19/01/2016 at 9:41 pm
Roast potatoes with lamb!
Lynsie Lynn 19/01/2016 at 9:57 pm
I love these roasting tins – And I would cook A huge toad in the hole for the
family! They love it!! Or roast beef and roast potatoes, I do love a good
traditional roast! 🙂 Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Jacqueline Knights 19/01/2016 at 10:11 pm
My boys love a roast, I would do some nice veggie food or fish. (Last night cod with home made pesto and tomatoes, yum!)
Georgina sudron 19/01/2016 at 10:11 pm
My pork steaks as I love to have these once a week ooh I could do with a new roasting tin
Judith H 19/01/2016 at 10:21 pm
Roast Chicken with all the veg in together!
Nicole S 19/01/2016 at 10:24 pm
Emma rawlinson 19/01/2016 at 10:43 pm
A veggie casserole 🙂
Natalie Crossan 19/01/2016 at 10:44 pm
Sarah B 19/01/2016 at 10:52 pm
I’d do a piece of roast belly pork.
Susan naylor 19/01/2016 at 10:52 pm
Roast beef and roast potatoes.
Amy Jo McLellan 19/01/2016 at 11:12 pm
Anything and everything but first, some chicken!
denise s 19/01/2016 at 11:18 pm
chicken and chorizo tray bake
Herbert Appleby 19/01/2016 at 11:20 pm
every thing from roast spuds to chicken to veges
Natalie Gillham 19/01/2016 at 11:43 pm
I would cook a one pot chicken roast 🙂
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Posted by Iannucci | 7/31/2008 | 3 comments »
You can't help but feel for Justin Wilson. As pleasant as he is talented, Wilson scores the Champ Car lottery ticket by securing the ride of the departing four-time champion, only to find out he's now a newly unified mid-pack entry on most weekends.
Well at least he can bask in a few weeks of glory after scoring his first IndyCar podium at Edmonton right?
Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing driver Justin Wilson was uninjured in a crash this afternoon while participating in a one-day test at the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway. It was the first test on an oval for the team since the pre-season test at Homestead-Miami Speedway March 24-25.
After completing an installation run and a subsequent pit stop to analyze the racecar, Wilson returned to the track and was near the end of his first run when he lost control between Turns 1 and 2 and made contact with the Turn 2 wall. The car, a new chassis which made its racing debut in Watkins Glen where he started second, sustained extensive damage and is unlikely to be repaired in time for the IndyCar Series Meier Indy 300 race here on August 9. Wilson’s other McDonald’s race car is being driven by teammate Graham Rahal at this test while his No. 06 Hole in the Wall Camps race car is being repaired after being hit twoseparate times in Edmonton.
(MORE from SPEEDtv.com)
At some point during this coming winter the folks at N/H/L are going to look back at their season, where they've had an owner with serious medical issues, a longtime crew member senselessly killed, any number of extended days due to repairs, and they're going to just vomit. But for now, it's back to work!
UPDATE: According to the Braintrust at TrackSide Online, Rafael Matos, also in Kan-Tuck-Kee for testing, showed why he’s in the Indy Lights series by promptly taking Tony Kanaan’s #11 for a joyride into the wall. In case you see Nariz wielding a large piece of carbon fiber and babbling incoherently in Portugese, you know why.
Here’s a note to “Self” and others who have graciously taken the time to comment on the “Descending into scheduling madness” post - and that includes the entire Anonymous family.
Although sometimes it doesn’t seem like it, I try to stay on focused whenever I’m posting on a subject such as the above. In that instance my point was that this is a nation more impressed with oval racing, and as such adding non-ovals to the schedule - particularly street courses - seems to be counterintuitive to the growth of the league. That was what I was trying to say, using what ratings information I could find to corroborate that.
But I’m not blind, and as much as races like Watkins Glen and Mid Ohio appear to me to have huge helpings of dullness, I recognize that they are in fact popular with many other racing fans. In my best Richard M Nixon voice, “let me make this perfectly clear…”
At no time have I EVER said the schedule should be ALL ovals.
I just wanted to get that out there, so please reference that whenever necessary. I want the Indy Racing League to grow because I think it’s the best racing on earth, and I recognize that holding races at different types of circuits can be used to draw quality owners, drivers, team members and most importantly fans to the sport. I get that.
But (big but here) I am in NO WAY a proponent of adding races for any reason other than helping to grow the series. I’m not a fan of the “50-50” racing league officials spoke of because it sounds to me that the league is on some Quixotic quest in search of the perfect track formula. We’re talking about a racing schedule, not some sort of Sudoku box that has to perfectly balance.
The realities of scheduling are that some tracks have good promoters and some have bad ones. Some tracks are in areas that can draw lots of race fans and some aren’t. Some are in places with accommodating weather and some events just get rained on every year. Some have one racing groove, others more.
This is why I have never written down my dream schedule, because it would be forever incomplete. I guess my “dream list” would include Indy, Phoenix, Michigan, Texas, Chicagoland, Milwaukee and based on this year Iowa, but beyond that the rest could be filled with any other number of tracks so long as they contributed to helping grow the popularity of the sport so that it kept those first events in existence. I’m all about viability, which seems to be related more towards ovals.
And speaking of dream schedules, let’s try not to get too carried away with making it 1995 again. Yes, the PPG CART IndyCar Series was quite popular, drawing drivers from other series around the world while hosting a roster of impressive names. It was a wonderful time, the sky was always blue and the birds sang sweet songs and never pooped on your windshield.
You know what? It’s never going to be 1995 again. Or 1953. Or whenever you harken back to as your favorite era of racing. We are never going to have another Mario Andretti who competes successfully in nearly every racing series on four wheels. We are never going to have another AJ Foyt who races competitively for 35 years. We aren’t going to have another Unser family who collectively win 9 Indy 500s. Heck, we aren’t even going to have record crowds at Carb Day since they’ve wisely capped the speeds there.
On the other hand we do have a few things going for us in the here and now. We have the opportunity to showcase great drivers of both genders. We have incredible tools like High Definition broadcasts and live telemetry to bring each of us closer to the visceral thrill of racing. We’ve got drivers bearing the names of Andretti and Foyt and Rahal who connect us with those previous generations. We’ve got an incredible number of options for future engine development. And amazingly, we have a unified series built around the one race everyone would agree to have on his or her own dream schedule.
I just wanted to these things out there before I get accused of holding any more positions that I don’t have. As much as I don’t care for street races I could handle half a schedule full of them if they somehow gave me all of the few races on my “dream list” above. But it's not for you and me to decide - it's up to Mr Market - so hopefully the powers that be can secure enough viable events wherever to help grow the IndyCar series and showcase a superior form of entertainment for 2009 and beyond.
Thanks for hearing me out, and thanks for hanging around. You may now safely return to throwing bricks at me or any other commenters.
Descending into scheduling madness
At first glance there wasn’t too much that was shocking about yesterday’s release of the 2009 schedule, which of course is entirely the problem. After hearing several months about a “cleaner sheet of paper” what we got was more of the same, except the removal of one oval (Nashville) and addition of two street courses (Long Beach and Toronto). Or if you so choose, the cleaner sheet is in fact toilet paper.
”It’s a good schedule ... FOR ME TO POOP ON.” - is it May yet?
The reason for all of the shock and horror (check out your favorite message board) was in what wasn’t added. Artists formerly known as Champ Car fans were disgusted that Cleveland and Portland were excluded, longtime IRL fans were upset that possible ovals in New Hampshire or Las Vegas (or anywhere, for crying out loud) were passed over, and nearly everyone is still upset that the IRL and International Speedway can’t figure out a way to get Michigan and Phoenix back on the docket.
Add to that the horror of having the season possibly clinched in Japan and then waiting three weeks to have a “finale” in Miami on the same night the Hurricaines are hosting a football game. Splendid. Oh wait, if the stars align that could be Australia and a two week layoff, which is soooo much better.
It’s one thing to undergo an evolution. It’s another to go about it in a bad fashion. And I think the IRL is definitely going about their evolution in a bad fashion.” – Indy Racing Revolution
Half road/street, half oval, no sense. Total Monkey Pig of a schedule which once again nonsensically evolves towards MORE road and street racing. Pardon me for repeating myself, but here is what I said in June when comparing the words of TMS promoter Eddie Gossage to Speed’s Robin Miller.
What a businessman like Eddie understands and a guy like Robin does not is that we can all have our personal preferences in our favorite types of tracks, but America as a nation has shown time and again to have very little interest in watching road and street racing. Why? My guess is it's because on ovals the excitement is right in front of the viewer. "Here we are now, entertain us." There go the cars, loud, fast, and passing each other constantly. The drama is evident no matter what you know about the drivers or the cars, and it’s so thrilling even your grandmother can enjoy it.
The point being that although many of you – many of us – can find lots of entertaining things about road and street courses, the average consumer here in America isn’t going to give more than about 5 minutes of attention to this kind of racing. It’s a proven fact, people. Champ Car is no more because they couldn’t connect with the wallets of enough fans to sustain the series. That didn’t make them bad or evil or wrong, it just meant they had a broken business model.
Now it’s one thing for me to say that the highest level of American open-wheel racing should be decidedly slanted towards oval tracks, but simply saying it doesn’t make it more than an opinion. How about we look at some numbers, which in this case would be the ratings for the 2008 season.
Homestead: .8
St Pete: .42
Motegi: .27 (rainout), .19 (live), .33 (re-air)
Long Beach: .51
Kansas: .74
Indy: 4.5
Milwaukee: .8
Texas: 1.0
Iowa: 1.1
Richmond: .9
Watkins: Glen 1.1
Nashville: .5
Mid Ohio: 1.5
(Source: Wikipedia, unless someone has a ratings book to lend me)
Now the first thing you’re going to say is “Look you stupid Gomer – the road courses get better ratings!” You’re going to say that because after diligently reading everything I’ve written you want me to be wrong. It’s alright, I feel the vulnerability of the fan who likes to say “chicane”. I’m sensitive to the fact that you have watched CART and Champ Car both go the way of the dodo. It’s OK. “It’s not your fault.”
The thing about ratings is they don’t occur in the proverbial vacuum. It’s not like these races were the only things on the television in the way of motorsports, so let’s compare most of these dates with any coinciding N-Word events (excluding Indy because it’s Indy and Motegi because it was hosed). Hey, let’s even throw in the ’07 ratings for these races as well.
Here are the Sunday races this year that had no competing stock car Cup event.
Mid Ohio* 1.7 in 2007, 1.5 in 2008, (-.2)
Watkins Glen 1.0 in 2007, 1.1 in 2008 (+.1)
Long Beach .65 in 2007, .51 in 2008 (-.14)
*also had the Danica-Milka towel party as a factor
Mid Ohio and Long Beach both happened on weekends where there wasn’t a Cup race and on the Watkins Glen weekend the Cup race was the day before. The first thing that jumps out at me here is the fact that on weekends where there is no N-Word the IRL has chosen to schedule non-oval races. Why the league wouldn’t at least once feature cars going at full speed is beyond me. The second thing however is the abhorrent performance of the Long Beach race, which is supposed to be the crown jewel of the Champ CART remains. Remember that .51 came the day everyone woke up and got “Danica Wins” jammed down their throats, so it’s not like there wasn’t an open-wheel awareness going on that weekend.
Moving on, here are the Saturday Night races so far this year, all of which had Cup races on Sunday.
Texas .7 / 1.0 (+.3)
Homestead .7 / .8 (+.1)
Richmond .6 / .9 (+.3)
All consistently rated and more importantly all improved to some degree. Now, here’s the part that matters most, because these are races that were scheduled for the same time as Cup events, give or take a few hours.
Iowa 1.2 in 2007, 1.1 in 2008 (-.1) (N-Word at Infineon)
Milwaukee 1.0 in 2007, .8 in 2008 (-.2) (N-Word as Dover)
Kansas .6 in 2007, .74 in 2008 (+.14) (N-Word as Talladega)
Nashville* .7 in 2007, .5 in 2008 (-.2) (N-Word Chicagoland)
St Pete .6 in 2007, .42 in 2008 (-.18) (N-Word at Texas)
*races on a Saturday night
Clearly all ovals are not created equal, but when placed head-to-head with a stock car race it looks like an oval IndyCar race can at least hold it’s own rating. With nearly 40 race weekends this is going to happen more and more with an expanded IRL schedule, so take a good hard look at the fact that the Iowa race going up against the Cup gets the same rating as Watkins Glen going against, well, golf.
And more importantly – no MOST IMPORTANTLY – is the obvious lack of appeal of street races. Not only are St Pete and Long Beach poorly rated but they are both DECLINING in a year in which the overall ratings are improving. That’s completely unacceptable if we’re going to grow this series.
Which is exactly why we’re adding a street race in Toronto. *slamming head into keyboard*
Seriously friends, this is absolute madness. Why in the world does the IndyCar series keep adding street races? They may be exciting on a local level and draw large crowds for “the event” but when it’s all said and done the races are losers. The events lose money. The fans who showed up don’t become racing fans since they’re just there for the local party. The ratings are horrible so national sponsors don’t feel like paying for advertising.
“The Indy Racing League Wednesday vowed to continue the Champ Car World Series' innovative strategy to drive TV ratings down as low as possible heading into negotiations for a 2010 TV package.” - pressdog
No wonder ESPN is ready to walk away from the IRL.
Contrary to what I or anyone else may think or feel, the data is obvious: Street races are bad for the IRL. Period. In case anyone at 16th and Georgetown (not the blog) is reading this: If it's absolutely necessary then go ahead and throw Michael Andretti or Roger Penske a street party here and there and spin it as “variety”, but please have the common sense to understand these events do little to expand the fiscal viability of the product. Street races have already killed two series – don’t let them kill a third.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
In the year 2009
The Indy Racing League has scheduled a press conference or teleconference or some such exposition for tomorrow where they are expected to reveal the 2009 schedule, although not in same the way Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson did ther own "reveal" a few years ago.
At least...nevermind.
But why wait for Christmas when you can open some presents on Christmas Eve, right? First up with some goodies is the intrepid Curt Cavin, reports that we will see an "18-track lineup".
The season will begin April 5 with the street course race in St. Petersburg, Fla., and end Oct. 11 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The Indianapolis 500 will be May 24.
Not to be outdone, Chris Estrada at Indy Racing Revolution has done his own reporting (probably using a serach engine, a tool many "journalists" still eschew) and discovered that Richmond has been confirmed for June 27th.
So as of right now we have:
April 5th, St Petersburg
May 24th, Indianapolis
June 27th Richmond
October 11th, Homestead
This list will be updated as Breaking News occurs, although my first impression is that it's difficul to be ecstatic about ending the season at Homestead, where the fans often disguise themselves as empty seats. Whither Chicagoland?
UPDATE: Estrada also kindly forwarded this from ESPN.com to the Inbox.
"We are pleased the IRL selected three SMI facilities," (SMI's Eddie) Gossage said. "But we're very disappointed they didn't want the benefits they could have received from New Hampshire and Las Vegas.
"This had nothing to do with sanctioning fees. They were not interested in New Hampshire and only wanted to run the club-racing road course at Las Vegas instead of one of the most outstanding oval tracks in the country. We're weren't prepared to accept that," Gossage said.
Ack! Could someone please get Mr George a tall glass of Ovaltine? Please?
UPDATE 2: TrackSide Online (sign up today!) says:
2009 IRL INDYCAR SCHEDULE
Date Track
April 5 Streets of St. Petersburg, Fla.
April 19 Streets of Long Beach
April 26 Kansas Speedway
May 24 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
May 31 The Milwaukee Mile
June 6 Texas Motor Speedway*
June 21 Iowa Speedway
June 27 Richmond International Raceway*
July 5 Watkins Glen International
July 12 Streets of Toronto
July 26 Edmonton City Centre Airport
Aug. 1 Kentucky Speedway*
Aug. 9 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Aug. 23 Infineon Raceway
Aug. 29 Chicagoland Speedway*
Sept. 6 The Raceway at Belle Isle Park
Sept. 19 Twin Ring Motegi, Japan
Oct. 11 Homestead-Miami Speedway
*Saturday night
Well, what do ya think?
UPDATE 3: Meanwhile, here in 2008...Crikey!
The IndyCar Series will travel to Australia for the Gold Coast Indy 300 on Oct. 23-26 -- the first IndyCar Series event in the country. Following the event at Surfers Paradise, the IndyCar Series will continue its postseason celebration with a championship banquet in Las Vegas.
"We are pleased to announce that the IndyCar Series will hold its first event in Australia this October to celebrate the completion of a successful first season of unified open-wheel racing," said Terry Angstadt, president of the commercial division for the Indy Racing League, the sanctioning body for the IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights.
(MORE from IndyCar.com)
If a picture says a thousand words
What does this one say?
(Photo: TrackSide Online)
Recall these words your humble host wrote just a few days ago.
...the league’s bipolar relationship with the network swings wildly from the Danica Patrick love-ins on the race broadcasts to the occasionally abusive coverage at ESPN.com. As a consequence there has been a growing movement from fans asking that the IRL consider a different broadcast partner for next year, a proposal that despite the flawed relationship I’m not going to echo. I mean, I’ve seen what happened to the National Hockey League, and I don’t want to go looking for races on Versus.
Now it appears this off-the-cuff "doomsday scenario" of a broadcast partner has an actual chance of occurring.
Conventional wisdom was that a unified open-wheel racing series would result in a more valuable media property. But five months after the IRL and Champ Car joined together, the series is seeing what has been its biggest asset — media rights — struggling to maintain value.
Both incumbent partner ABC/ESPN and suitor Fox Sports have told the circuit that they are interested in broadcasting only the Indianapolis 500. But the IRL is trying to sell a package that includes at least four other races for broadcast as well.
ESPN has been pitching the IRL on a different model, possibly based on revenue sharing. So far, the IRL is not interested in such an arrangement.
While Fox has had some discussions with the series, Versus has shown the most interest in obtaining a package, which would not include the marquee races, according to several sources.
(MORE from Sports Business Journal)
Versus? Are you kidding me? Pardon me, but I have to find a Zippo and some lighter fluid. Just in case.
(Thanks to Will at is it May yet? for sending me into cardiac arrest bringing this to our attention.)
No more guitar heroes
It's official: we have seen the last of the single-grooved oval.
After eight years, the Indy Racing League will no longer be competing at Nashville Superspeedway.
"We’re disappointed for all of the fans and sponsors of open wheel racing in middle Tennessee,” said Cliff Hawks, Vice President and General Manager of Nashville Superspeedway.
“Regrettably, the IRL has chosen to structure their sanction fees at such a level that we had no choice but to re-evaluate whether they fit into our plan. Regardless, we believe the IRL had no further interest in the middle Tennessee market. We are very grateful to Firestone and their support of the Firestone Indy 200 for the past seven years."
(MORE from Tennessean.com)
Please sign your condolences (good, bad, or otherwise) in the comments section.
(Thanks to Jennifer for the alert,)
That’s why they call it NAPCAR
In an attempt to remain focused it has been the goal of your humble host to limit the coverage of other forms of racing since the start of the IndyCar series racing season. Today, for just a moment, we will diverge from that goal.
Many of you were probably watching in shock and horror yesterday as the N-Word took its act to The Brickyard for a 400-mile race. Despite several sessions of testing the “Car of Right Now” (CORN) was shown to be quite incompatible with the compound provided by Goodyear, resulting in exploding right-rear tires after 10 or so laps of racing. That’s right, 25 miles and the tire is ground down to nothing but dust in the wind. Stupendous.
Of course, the N-Word solution to this problem was to throw NINE “competition yellows”, meaning every 10-12 laps of green flag racing would be met with a yellow flag to slow everyone down so they could change tires again. No matter how bad any IndyCar race has looked this season due to crashes, parades or inclement weather, none of them were as painful to watch as this debacle. It got so bad that the competitors simply slowed down, running laps in the 150s, which compared to the 220s that IndyCars run at IMS is, shall we say, unexciting.
When you find yourself watching an auto race and the most thrilling aspect is trying to determine who’s going to get their right-rear quarter panel blown to smithereens, you can’t help but wonder if the racing product has is instead been replaced by some form of terrorist drinking game. I’m sure Goodyear dealers throughout the country are utterly thrilled about their stock car affiliations today.
And as bad as was for those of us watching (and doing laundry or mowing the yard or simply napping) at home, it was especially brutal for the folks at the track. This site is fortunate enough to have many readers in the Indianapolis area, one of who was kind enough to provide a brief summary of his day at the rack. Here’s frequent commenter “J E Clerk” with the awful truth.
“Utter disgust” are two words that come to mind. My seat was surrounded by mullet heads with drinking problems, and the woman in front of me kept throwing up. Oh yes, it was a real class act. I hardly had time to notice all the green flag laps.
This morning I was watching a replay of the post-race show on Speed, and they were trying hard NOT to blame Goodyear or Nascrap, but instead they were steering the blame towards the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I can see right now they’re going to spin this so it’s nobody’s fault except the track’s, and that’s what angers me. Goodyear should have had its ducks in a row, but didn’t. Everyone was angry. I’d love to know what the drivers were saying OFF camera. If I was a driver I’m sure I would have been fined for dropping F-bombs ON camera. HAH!
I haven’t seen a Goodyear screw up that bad since Scott Goodyear passed the pace car in ’95.
mmack's nnotes: Edmonton 2008
He's upstairs, he's downstairs, and somewhere in between he's jotting down his thoughts during the race. Multi-tasking. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a man who would never EVER break The Prime Directive by punting Danica!, the one, the only, the "mmack".
Here are my notes from Upstairs, Downstairs on the Edmonton Rexall Grand Prix on ESPN. The notes aren't from the big comfy couch or chair because I had too many chores to do. I was running upstairs and downstairs in our house as I mopped, vacuumed, and washed clothes. We'll be out at a family party Sunday, so that's why I'm not sitting on my duff drinking beer and watching racing. Maria is not with me as she is out at the mall shopping with her best friend. I decided to skip shoe shopping to give you my recap:
Nice to see the start wasn't delayed for the World Series of Poker.
Gene Simmons?!?
Graham Rahal is off-roading and immediately I'm thinking Paul Tracy has claimed his first victim. I apologize Paul, it's just a force of habit after all those years watching CART.
Full course yellow for Vitor. Immediate response: "Why?"
IIRC, at a point before Mutoh's yellow they mention that they're monitoring the radio between 3.0 and Kanaan. They want Marco to let Tony past. Marco says something to the effect of "They tell me to move over one more time and there'll be trouble." Three thoughts spring into my mind:
1) When did this become F1, and when did AGR take notes from Scuderia Ferrari?
2) 3.0's act is getting insufferable.
3) Those assurances Kanaan wants in his contract? A Vulcan (Gatling Gun style) cannon installed in the nose of #11, to be used when Marco is ahead of him. Either that or a remote kill switch tuned to Danica and Marco's on board computers.
Godzilla got stomped. Of note: Jenkins says in his understated way "But the tire barriers failed to stop the damage to that car as it is heavily damaged and Mutoh's day is done." Hate to be snide, but gee, ya think Bob? Two of the four tires are off the ground at weird angles. This is way past the point of duct tape helping anything.
Hinton the Wonder Troll is wrong, as usual: NASCAR at Indianapolis is not a sign of Armageddon, AJ Foyt IV LEADING a road course race is a sign of Armageddon. Go Quattro! Nice little loop by Kanaan to give him the lead. Could AJ have pressured Kanaan into a mistake? If so, will wonders never cease.
So much for that: Moraes has to ruin the show by passing AJ and slowing him down enough so Kanaan gets past.
Well it's nice to see EJ Viso is completely recovered from the mumps. Now he's healthy enough to resume the kamikaze moves he's become famous for.
Iceman takes the lead, and I hear The American Mutt's howls of protest over the vacuum cleaner noise.
Agree with Son of 'Stache on Viso and Moraes, the latter after his move on IV. While it's nice to see The Iron Hand of Justice (TM, All Rights Reserved) do a stop and park on EJ, I can't help but wonder if a Big Three driver would get the same if he (or she) did the same thing.
Bernoldi spins. Huh, that never happens.
Like Father, Like Son: Marco pulls the "Stab the rear tire of the car ahead of me with my front wing endplate" trick out of the Andretti family playbook. Sadly for him, he breaks The Danica Directive and punts The Princess into the tires. FINALLY, some excitement! Will Mrs. Romper Stomper stomp her way into Marco's pit? And who will Michael side with, his son, or the most visible driver on the series? Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the AGR team meeting tonight.
Timed Race. Thank you ESPN, because as a Bears fan, I REALLY want to see what Brett Favre will be doing this season, so let's hurry up and get SportsCenter on.
Iceman takes it. Maria calls me about five minutes after the race is over from a restaurant where she and her friend are having a drink and appetizer. She tells me she saw some of the race on TV in the bar. Gist of the conversation:
"So is the race over?"
"Yes it is."
"Did Dixon win?"
"Yes he did."
"Damn it."
She's good at boiling things down to their essence. Now I have to take a load of laundry from the dryer. So long until Kentucky in two weeks.
Wait, that damn Pizza Hut commercial is on again!
LiveBlog: Edmonton 2008
Welcome to Canada, eh?
Here at My Name Is IRL World Headquarters we will be eagerly awaiting the start of the Rexall Edmonton Indy since this is a street course featuring a dreaded First Turn of Infinite Doom. Heightening the tension is the fact that not only is the Chrome Horn (seriously, his web site even claims the name) back in action, but he's starting next to The Princess herself.
Remember, the sponsor's name sounds like "Wrecks All". Just saying.
0: Gene Simmons will give the command. Loudly. Meanwhile P2 just asked "Who's Gene Simmons?" Why, Jeff Simmons's dad, of course.
0: There's no Race Control feature this weekend. Bummer. I was looking forward to hearing Danica's first ever Paul Tracy commentary.
1: And we are green...and Graham Rahal is in the grass. Not good for the car carrying the same sponsorship as the race. Looks like the suspension is toast after getting together with some unknown red and white car.
2: Same top 5 as when we started. Briscoe, Helio, Servia, Dixon, Power. Highest AGR car is Marco in 12th.
4: Briscoe makes a mistake and gets passed by Helio, who hasn't won in like 16 months. Let's all beat that horse to death.
5: Paul Tracy is up to 11th after starting 16th. Somewhere at the track Meesh is smiling proudly.
7: Will Power had dropped back to 13th and now he's pitting. I apologize for jinxing him with the "favorite" tag.
8: And Power is back in the pits. Turns out he's got a bent wishbone on his Dallara. Eight laps in and this race for him has indeed been "the pits".
11: This race is 95 laps. How odd. I guess we lost 5 laps in the Canadian exchange.
13: Lots of coverage of Paul Tracy, now in 10th. Interview package. More coverage. He's the new Danica.
14: Speaking of Danica, she's up to 12th. I know this because I'm following with the IndyCar.com Timing & Scoring, not because ESPN has mentioned it. Yes, things are definitely done differently up North.
18: Townsend Bell hits a bump and slides but somehow keeps the car from stalling. Nice work there!
19: Full course yellow (ugh!) as Vitor has introduced the front of his car to a tire barrier. Speaking of the front of the car, those vertical flaps on the front wings do indeed look like cattle guards on a train. Those need to go along with the fuel setting knob. Please.
20: Helio, Briscoe, Servia, Dixon, Wilson. Of note, Tony Kanaan is up to 17th after starting at the back due to an engine replacement.
21: Free Canadian Bacon in the pits, so there go most of the competitors. Looks like Helio, Briscoe, Dixon, Servia and Wilson lead the way out. Camara seems to have lost a tire on exit. Tony Kanaan tried that move at Homestead, and he is Camara's mentor.
22: "Link" says Paul Tracy's car looks like his sponsor should be John Deere. Interesting observations.
23: Marco, Kanaan and Rice are leading since they didn't pit. We'll see how that strategy works out.
24: We're still yellow. Stop the insanity!
25: Finally back to green. Mercifully. Helio quickly goes around Buddy for third. Apparently Helio is the only driver capable of passing others while on camera.
28: Eminem has some bent suspension, or as Scott Goodyear says "That's what we call Canadian discombobulation". Check out Scotty getting witty!
29: Full course yellow again as Hideki Mutoh spins and seriously damages his car on impact with a tire barrier. Yes, his car is damaged (damaged) damaged (damaged) ... So how they gonna fix it, fix it, fix it?
30: Kanaan and Buddy pit but Marco does not. He's using the force.
34: We go green and Helio busts out his own Jedi in passing Marco to reclaim first place in the first turn.
38: And now Briscoe goes around Marco, who still has not made a pit stop. He may be trying to make this race on one pit stop, so we'll see what happens.
40: Nevermind. Marco finally pits, moving Dixon to third. Helio, Briscoe Inferno, Dixon, Servia, Wilson. Wheldon sneaks up to 6th.
41: P1 asks "Does Dixon have a blue car today? Why are they showing his '9' with blue?" Nothing gets past her. She's ready to call production for ESPN.
43: Bernoldi is in 7th, Paul Tracy has climbed to 8th. Meesh is probably getting silly.
44: Brienne Pedigo tells us Danica's pit crew is "yelling at her to let Tony Kanaan by." Danicker is having none of that. Feeling the AGR love.
49: Another full course yellow as Townsend Bell goes wide and finds himself a tire barrier. The Delphi Safety team is there to help, and might I point out those orange uniforms complement the William Rast car quite nicely.
51: Who's thirsty for Ethanol? The leaders all pit but several others stay out.
51: Mario Dominguez, you have a tire in Turn Two. Three-wheeled driving is not allowed, senor.
52: This just in: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is not interested in owning an IndyCar team.
55: We finally restart and Kanaan leads with AJ Foyt IV in second. Quattro in second on a street course. Believe it.
56: "We hear that Ryan Briscoe apparently spun and dropped back". Replay shows Wheldon dive-bombs Ed Carpenter, who nudged over into Briscoe. The Inferno is now in 17th but still running.
57: Meanwhile, Kanaan also spins and loses position so that means Quattro is leading. A street race. There's nothing real in the world anymore. Does it even matter who is behind him? It's Kanaan, Dixon, Rice, Helio trailing Foyt.
58: We go to commercial, but when we come back Foyt is now in third. Order is restored to the universe.
60: Full course yellow for Rahal, sponsored by "Wrecks All". Replay shows Viso brutally sideswiped him into a tire barrier. EJ continues to win friends and influence people.
62: Kanaan and Foyt pit, probably for the last time today. Now it's Iceman, Helio, Nariz, Well Done, and (drumroll) the Chrome Horn. Meesh is gasping for air.
64: Son of 'Stache is saying "Viso and Moraes don't even belong here. They're out of control." Vitor Meira would buy Rahal a beer, but he's not old enough to consume alcoholic beverages. Jenkins follows up the interview by telling us Viso will re-acquire the mumps be held in the pits for 15 seconds by the IHJ.
65: Back to green and Bernoldi spins. Excellent choice of drinking term if I do say so myself. Up at the front Tracy moves into 4th.
78: Not much happening...until Marco drives into the rear tire of Mrs Hospenthal, sending her spinning and damaging his front wing. What!?! So much for teamwork. Marco pits and Danica gets refired. Indeed.
80: Meanwhile, Helio continues to trail Dixon by less than a second. Can't pass him though, and whoever is in third (Wheldon?) is way way back.
81: Looks like Wheldon had to brake to not hit Marco, and Servia ran right into the back of him damaging his wing. What looked to be a good day for KV will be anything but.
82: We are timed, with 8 mintues to go, so why show racing when you can go to commercial. Ack! Is it me or does that guy stalking the woman in the Edmonton commercial look like that creepy Brad Dourif dude?
84: No offense to Dixon, but is there anyone NOT hoping Helio can pass him in the remaining 6 minutes?
85: Well if there is you'll be pleased to know Helio just had to brake hard after losing it going into Turn One. He's still racing in 2nd but he drops way back behind Dixon.
87: Dixon, Helio, Wilson, Servia (still out there with the damaged wing), Tracy. Probably not going to be much of a change there in the next 3 minutes.
89: Oh, Canada! With 15 seconds left Marty Roth spins out and stalls in his homeland. He was thisclose to finishing a road/street race.
91: Dixon takes the checkered flag, and everyone here at the World Headquarters comments using the word "boring" towards another win. No love for the Iceman here today. P1 even asks "Is Dixon cheating?" Hush, child.
Congratulations to Dixon for his 216th win of the year. Helio finishes second again. Wilson will join them for his first podium. And lo and behold Tracy gets around Servia late for fourth. Meesh is unconscious.
Servia finishes 5th and moves ahead of Marco for 8th in the points. Highest position of any non-"Big Three" driver. Also Darren Manning is 10th, so that's four straight Top 10s for Danger Mouse.
Danica finishes in 18th, one spot behind Marco. If she wants to have a talk with him after the race she doesn't have far to stomp.
Thanks again to Bob Jenkins for showing us how it's done. He even did the impossible today by getting Scott Goodyear to lighten up a bit. In fact, I didn't hear a single "enough downforce to fly upside down" or "one thing to catch but another to pass" or "just a passenger" today. Hooray!
That's it from here, so have a nice weekend. Thank you very much, and good night.
Cheat Sheet: Edmonton 2008
Get your visas and your “Bob and Doug McKenzie” references ready, because this week the IndyCar series makes it’s first ever trip to the Great White North. Check out this very important video to help get you in the proper Canadian mood for this festive occasion.
This is the week the “transition drivers” (a.k.a. “refugees”) get their best chance to stick it to the ones who’ve been handing out the regular beatings show their skills on an equal playing field because they are the only drivers who have raced on this Edmonton airport circuit. There’s no substitute for experience, and no one in the Top 8 in the points has any at this track.
And really, after the road course naps and short-oval demolition derbies we’ve had this month we could use some fresh and new right about now, even if it means a dreaded street race. It might be a parade, but at least it will feature some new faces up front. (Not to mention Bob Jenkins and Jon Beekuis).
Speaking of faces, Milka Duno has been replaced by Townsend Bell and his super cool Flourescent Assault Vehicle. Sadly, Milka won’t be able to ride the wave of publicity generated by her post-practice towel throwing exercise, so she won't be able to answer questions from Jack Arute (also missing this weekend) after he went off the deep end and compared her to a chihuahua.
"Milka, yip yip yip?"
"Jack, we talkin’ about PRACTICE.”
Ah, what could have been. Oh, well.
Favorite: Will Power. Ricky Bobby three wins in his brief Champ Car career all came on street courses, so he maybe we should call him a "street course specialist". Yeah, that sounds catchy.
Contender: Justin Wilson. The Cajun Sheff has never finished worse than 4th in three career starts at Edmonton. He won this event in 2006 and finished second to the SeaBass last year. He's ready to flash some Big Mac action all over Edmonton.
Longshot: Mario Moraes. Earlier in the season he was a punchline, but lately Eminenm has looked like a contender. He was 7th at The Glen, 10th at Nashville, and even led a lap at Mid Ohio. We may have to start paying attention to this kid.
Driver To Watch: Paul Tracy. Whether you want to or not. Especially going into the first turn, next to Danica!.
Danica Threat Level: DanCon Five. Lowest level, which might be a good thing since a lot of frothy viewers will only be tuning in to watch her get angry at somebody. The likelihood for a win is low, but the increased potential for incidents have the Manica Hand Puppets on high alert.
Drinking Term: "Spin". If you've seen footage from practice this weekend then you know what this is all about.
Stat of the Race: Darren Manning has finished in the Top 10 in each of the last three races. Think about that for a moment.
pressdog says: "I'd love to have Paul "Chrome Horn" Tracy win entirely because it would touch off such a grand mal froth in and around the league. But you can't just put him in a crapwagon for the first time and expect he won't be, ah, crappy. So I'm calling it for Will Power to win, challenged by Justin Wilson. Dark horse is Jeff's beloved Son of 'Stache to place."
"...Jeff's beloved...?" What? 'Dog must be hitting the Labatt's early to have me confused with that other blogger. At any rate, enjoy the show!
"It was pretty easy to decide on the number that my all-time hero had ... A.J. and I, we always like to stir everybody up. We like to do things the people say can't be done and we're definitely not going to be spokesman for Jenny Craig anytime soon." - Tony Stewart, revealing his affections for Super Tex, the number “14”, and Fresh Fit sub sandwiches.
Four-letter word
If I had a dollar for every time someone has ranted against ESPN or one of their employees in the glorious comments section here at My Name Is IRL I’d probably have enough to pay for my annual trip to Indy. The World Wide Leader has steadfastly stood by and paid the series to televise their races, but at the same time they have infuriatingly pre-empted races, abruptly ended broadcasts, and even subjected us to the horror that is Todd Harris.
You don’t need me to tell you this because the league’s bipolar relationship with the network swings wildly from the Danica Patrick love-ins on the race broadcasts to the occasionally abusive coverage at ESPN.com. As a consequence there has been a growing movement from fans asking that the IRL consider a different broadcast partner for next year, a proposal that despite the flawed relationship I’m not going to echo. I mean, I’ve seen what happened to the National Hockey League, and I don’t want to go looking for races on Versus.
Which brings us to, well, let’s first set the WABAC machine to 1999, after an errant tire from a crash at IRL race in Charlotte left three fans dead.
When the most influential sporting publication in America, the weekly Sports Illustrated ran a story and graphic photographs of a fatal accident of an IRL race on May 1 in Charlotte, the president of Indianapolis Motor Speedway banned the writer, Ed Hinton, from covering the 500.
His story, headlined "Fatal Attractions", was accompanied by a gory, colour photo from Associated Press showing one victim with a leg protruding from under a sheet lying on blood-covered grandstand steps. In the picture was another sheet-covered body. Since this was the magazine's auto racing section, there was a linked full-page advertisement facing the story. Unfortunately, the ad, for Valvoline oil, showed a group of young men hovering over an engine under an open bonnet, with the words, "You're born. You die. In between you work on cars. We should all be so lucky."
Both Valvoline and Sports Illustrated apologised for the ad's placement. "But they never apologised to the family or their readership," said Indy Speedway spokesman Fred Nation. He added an SI apology "would be a good place to get back in the track's good graces". An SI editor, Jose Assad, responded: "By no means are we going to allow them to dictate how we cover events." Hinton, a respected journalist, of course had nothing to do with the photo or headline, but he took complete responsibility for the text.
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Ahem. Long story short, Hinton, who was Senior Writer at SI, eventually got his credential back after other writers threatened to not cover the race, and everyone went back about their business. Since then Hinton has worked all over the place, including SPEED where his bio brazenly states “He also wrote that IRL and CART should stop racing on high-speed oval tracks” as well as asks the open-ended question “Does Hinton deserve some credit for wheel tethers and taller and more sturdy catch fencing?”
Yes, even bios have become editorials. But I digress.
Fast forward to earlier this month, when ESPN.com gleefully announced the hiring of yet another racing journalist who isn’t on Tony George’s Christmas Card list. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because after years of browbeating us with their tales of woe about how Tony George has torn asunder the heart of open-wheel racing, it appears this whole unification has finally turned the hearts of these scribes away from vitriol and back towards covering racing.
So we’re all singing “Kumbaya” now, right? Wrong.
Evidently there are no worthwhile stories going on in stock car racing, because in his very first article for ESPN.com Hinton has decided the best way to cover the annual N-Word race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is by writing disparagingly of Mr George and his racing series.
What was Tony George thinking, allowing stock cars onto his family's storied racetrack? What would his grandfather, the late beloved Anton Hulman, have thought?
This was Anton Hulman George at 32, in just the second year of his reign over Indy. Upon his ascension to the throne in 1990 at age 30, he'd told Indy's inner circle, according to insiders of the time, "For 80 years this place has run on tradition. From today forward it will run as a business."
I know purists were upset at the time, but is there still anyone out there that recoils in horror at the though of The Brickyard 400? I mean, the cars are slower, the race is shorter, the event is only a week and the crowds are smaller, so for many, many reasons it’s inherently inferior as an event to the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, right? Wrong again, according to Hinton.
But the success of this marriage has aided and abetted the devastation of the lovely old American institution called the Indianapolis 500. Emboldened by the enormous revenues from his NASCAR race, George could afford to found the Indy Racing League and go to war with CART, to return control of Indy car racing to Indy.
A few years ago, as CART teams began defecting to the IRL, George indicated to me that he'd poured about $250 million of the Hulman-George family fortune into subsidizing the IRL, and that without question, the huge profits of bringing NASCAR to Indy had enabled him to fight.
Then just this spring, after George had won his war and surveyed the barren outcome, IndyCar racing was reunified. No telling when, if ever, the 500's original prestige might be restored.
So the advent of NASCAR to Indy was surely the event that shook the roots of American motor racing. And now, 15 years on, "it is what it is" in NASCAR jargon: Enormous, by popular demand.
Stock car racing at Indy is what “shook the roots of American motor racing”? “Barren outcome”? “Devastation of the lovely old American institution”? You’ve GOT to be kidding me.
The point here isn’t so much that this piece (of whatever) is insanely inaccurate, but that it is being published by the IRL’s broadcast partner. I’m not saying that ESPN reporters shouldn’t be critical (feel free to write about the overuse of the yellow flag and the under use of the black one) but when a featured writer dedicates his first article to talking down the product you’ve got to ask “what’s up”?
Now, I’m not suggestion censorship or firing Hinton or whatever because as I’ve said before I’m not a torch-and-pitchfork kind of guy. I’m not saying they should do something counterproductive like revoke his press credential again. I’m not even suggesting you my dear and cherished fellow fan should send nasty emails to Hinton’s Inbox as edward.t.hinton@espn3.com.
I’m just saying that when a more vociferous guy like Defender of the IRL says that ESPN is trying to “kill the (IRL) brand” that the evidence here serves to support this theory.
Oh doctor
The cars are on the track for practice in Edmonton, but so far no one has either done or said anything noteworthy. Pity.
While we wait, here’s a little bit of weirdness I keep meaning to pass along. This is from an issue of ESPN the Mag a few weeks ago.
How’s this for coincidence? IRL driver Justin Wilson and his wife, Julia, welcomed daughter Jane Louise on April 12 in Lafayette Colorado.
One of Julia’s doctors, Peter Kim, made the connection that his dad, Moon Kim, was the physician for Bobby Rahal in Columbus, Ohio.
Turns out that 19 years ago, the elder Dr Kim delivered Graham Rahal, Wilson’s teammate at Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing.
For get the coincidence - how about the fact that Dr Moon Kim is an Obstetrician? I mean, if Bobby has his own OB/GYN then, well, we can only conclude that The ‘Stache gave birth to his son. Who knew?
“Legend tells of a legendary driver whose racing skills were the stuff of legend… “
If someone were to as you to name some Indy racing (or open-wheel racing, if you prefer) legends, which ones come to mind? Names like Andretti and Foyt (or Foyt and Andretti, if you prefer) are going to be there as will Unser and Mears. There will be other ones that arise depending on your age and favorite type of races, like Vukovich or Fittipaldi or Luyendyk or Parnelli Jones or whoever else you care to add.
But would you have “Castroneves” on your list?
Sports luminaries and philanthropy icons will be recognized when they gather at the 23rd Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner on Monday, September 22, at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
The 2008 Great Sports Legends are:
• Andre Agassi
• Jerry Rice
• Scottie Pippen
• Joe Gibbs
• Helio Castroneves
• Richard "Goose" Gossage
• Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
• Angelo Dundee
• Gabrielle Reece
“Legend” is a big word for anyone to carry around, much less someone who is still competing, but at the risk of inflating egos further let’s compare Castroneves to his peers to see if he’s at least statistically legendary.
Combining his CART and IndyCar records, Helio has won 18 of 188 (9.6%) races, which is good, but legendary? His contemporaries Scott Dixon (15 of 130, 11.5%) and Tony Kanaan (14 of 186, 7.5%) are in the same ballpark, as are Paul Tracy (31 of 261, 11.9%) and Dan Wheldon (15 of 92, 16.3%) who have excelled in one series or the other, so this isn't exactly rare air he's breathing.
However, Helio has two wins at Indianapolis – as many as thos other four drivers combined – which may be the penultimate measure of a “legend” in this form of motorsports. In fact, he’s got a 2nd, a 3rd, and a 4th there as well, making 5 Top 5s in just 8 attemtps at the Greatest Spectacle in Racing. Being your best on the biggest stage is definitely a trait of legends.
Then again, all of those drivers above not named “Helio” has won a series title, which should be a minimum requirement for any legend. And no, Dancing titles do not count in this discussion. At least I hope they don’t.
So the question to the peanut gallery is two-fold: would you consider everyone’s favorite fence-climber a “legend”, and if he’s not then does anyone else currently racing in the IndyCar series qualify for that title?
(Photo courtesy of TrackSide Online, and thanks to the Diecast Dude from bringing this to our attention)
Arute speaks his mind
At the risk of beating this further into the ground, here is Jack Arute's rather unique view of the whole Danica/Milka kerfuffle.
All that Danica did was what hundreds of drivers before have done -- asked a fellow driver what they were thinking or doing out on the track. There was no confrontation ... initially. Danica was asking Milka if she saw DP.
But, out of the blue, Milka went "Charo" and started yipping like a Chihuahua. Go ahead. Go to YouTube and listen carefully.
D.P. - "Did you see me out there?"
M.D. - Yip, Yip Yip ...
D.P. - Did you see me?
M.D. - Yip, Yip
Jack is totally wrong. Everyone knows it's Shih Tzus that go "yip yip yip". Chihuahuas ennunciate clearly and say things like "Yo quiero Taco Bell".
More fun with press releases
From the PCM announcement entitled “Dominguez Stays in the Race Despite a Wild Day at Mid-Ohio”:
Mario's Travel Tip for the Day: "Next time you visit Mexico City, you must check out the gardens and canals of Xochimilco. I recommend packing a picnic and floating the canals. If you are lucky, the floating Mariachi’s will pass you. It is a lot of fun."
Personally I try to avoid “floating the canals”, since that usually means I’m face down and unconscious. But to each his own, right?
Anyhow, here’s a “tip” to all of you PR gurus out there: take this ball and run with it, and show your creativity by spicing up those otherwise droll releases with “tips” from your drivers in their areas of expertise.
• Helio Castroneves, on dancing
• Milka Duno, on makeup
• Tony Kanaan, on practical jokes
• Darren manning, on beer
• Hideki Mutoh, on sushi
• Danica Patrick, on anger management
• Will Power, on wine
• Graham Rahal, on golf
• EJ Viso, on making friends
• Dan Wheldon, on dental hygiene
The possibilities for unintentional humor are endless.
What about Bob
Next up on the schedule for the IndyCar series is one of the few bimergified events, the Rexall Edmonton Indy taking place over yonder in the Great White North. And in the spirit of the unification (or more likely due to the late scheduling of the event) the broadcast team for ESPN will feature a distinctly different lineup.
Out for this weekend is Marty Reid, who along with Jack Arute and Vince Welch will all be covering N-Word related festivities. In Marty’s place will be Bob Jenkins, who has been patiently toiling away in the Indy Lights series, trying desperately to remember the names of the weekly ride buyers.
However, as exciting as it will be hearing the unflappable Jenkins again call IndyCar races, he will still be paired with Proud Canadian Scott Goodyear in the booth. As I mentioned a month ago at this prospect:
Jenkins is the consummate professional who probably should be calling the IndyCar series races anyways, although having him call a race with the Canadian Dry that is Scott Goodyear could turn out to be sleep inducing.
Let’s hope I’m wrong. If you have read the Cheat Sheets then you know it happens a lot, so the odds are good.
Also, former Champ Car newly unified fans should be excited to learn that joining Briene Pedigo in the pits will be none other than Jon Beekhuis. I can’t account for the whereabouts of Rick Benjamin or Michelle Beisner (she might be on the NFL Network), but I can assure you that Rick DeBruhl is safe and sound here in Arizona doing consumer advocacy reports for the local NBC affiliate. No joke.
Life of Bryan
While it solicited a few chuckles, the photo used last week in a My Name Is IRL post about Bryan Herta was obviously less than flattering. He may be a geek who studied Economics at UC Irvine and Ohio State, but he’s not THAT geek.
So in the interest of fairness to the Invisible Man of motorsports let’s all enjoy a very different photo of Bryan, shown here performing at Carb Day a few years back with Kenny Brack’s band. I believe Herta is belting out the lyrics to a little ditty called “Anarchy in the U.K.”
(Photo courtesy of IndyCar.com/Ron McQueeney, with a tip of the hat to reader Dan Layton.)
Well, here it is in all of it’s glory so you can watch it over and over. And personally I have, because no matter what you think of anyone in the video the fact is this is quite the display of personality by everyone involve (including the stoic members of the Dreyer & Reinbold crew). Sportsmanship? No. Tact? Absolutely not. Entertainment? You betcha, and don’t ever forget that auto racing is an entertainment product no matter how deeply attached we are to those involved.
On the broadcast yesterday Scott Goodyear said Danica Patrick had every right to be upset at Milka Duno but that Danicker shouldn’t have approached Milkalicious publicly. Color me contrarian but I couldn’t disagree more with him. Patrick had really no reason to be so upset at Duno because practice issues happen all the time, and considering no one broke any equipment it should have been one of those moments where the drivers just let it go.
But, since Danica was so infuriated at this minor transgression, taking it up publicly was a brilliant idea, especially since there was a video camera rolling nearby. Danica is in the business of Danica, and the Danica brand is, according to her GoDaddy sponsor, “edgy, innovative and fun!” And what could be more fun that two women conversing about the benefits of gender equality in motorsports?
Come on, this is a race track, not a chapel. Cheer her for being feisty or mock her for being petulant, but don’t get too bothered by Danica either way. Not when this story is making the headlines at major news sites and getting played every hour on SportsCenter. If it was up to me the next race broadcast needs to start with Danica bellowing out “Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Is this not why you are here?” This needs to happen, just for the sake of clarity.
So high points to Danica for remaining calm throughout the towel throwing exercise. She has inadvertently answered the question about what would have happened had she reached Ryan Briscoe at Indy, and we now know it would not have involved punches. It would however have included many F-bombs. Also, kudos for her exasperated declaration of “It’s not my fault that you’re slow”, which would have been an infinitely better exit line than spouting something about complaining to Daddy, err, Brian Barnhart.
Unfortunately, Danica gets points deducted for not only for unnecessarily flipping off one of the D&R crew members – that’s weak – but also for saying afterwards she just wanted to have a “conversation” with Milka. Danica, who’s less than chipper demeanor is more and more resembling Wednesday Addams, entered the #23 pit saying “you have no f***ing idea what you’re doing out there”. Miss Manners strongly disapproves of that introduction.
And don’t worry Milka fans, because your driver did you proud. Throwing a towel in the face of (Romper Stomper? Grumbelina? Little Miss Sunshine?) was a savvy career move, as now Duno is officially known worldwide as “the other female driver”. Unfortunately no one could understand her through the thick accent, so in the future Milka should consider turning this to her advantage by simply reciting relevant quotes from “Scarface”.
• “Hey baby what is your problem? Huh, you got a problem? You're good looking, you got a beautiful body, beautiful legs, beautiful face, all these guys in love with you. Only you got a look in your eye like you haven't been f***** in a year! “
• “You think you can take me? You need a f****** army if you gonna take me! “
• “Why don't you try sticking your head up your ass? See if it fits.”
But that’s just my view. Here are some others to enjoy.
Let's be clear here — we'd call it a "cat fight" even if the two drivers screaming at each other were men rather than the twin female towers o' power of IndyCar. - Jalopnik
While the fact that she merely threw a towel at her only further serves to prove just how classy Milka is (I will be sure to go out of my way to tell her so next weekend) part of me wishes she had thrown a punch and knocked that petulant little bitch on her ass on behalf of all the guys she has confronted, as she is the only one who would actually be able to get away with it without legal/social ramifications. - meesh
Later Milka told The Media basically that if Danica wants to GO she knows where to find her and that she won't have to restrain herself like a man would when confronted by the Spark Plug. Dude, Danica-Milka cage match undercard would guarantee a sell-out at Texas Motor Speedway. After the race they could just go at it. Track dude Eddie Gossage is working on a plan right now. - pressdog
I hate the modern world of keeping people calm and respectful. I want an on-track incident tomorrow and a full blown cat fight in front of national television … I don’t particularly care who wins, but as the old saying goes, "any publicity is good publicity". People may hate Danica’s attitude and confrontations, but they draw attention. - Is It May Yet?
ADDENDUM: Upon further review, it appears Mrs Hospenthal can be absolved of throwing the bird. Though the angle makes it appear improper, her simultaneous words "happened three times this weekend" indicate she's probably holding up three fingers. You just can't see the other two.
mmack's nnotes: Mid Ohio 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the man responsible for teaching Milka Duno how to properly use a towel, the one, the only, the "mmack".
Here are my notes from the big comfy chair on Mid-Ohio. I'm in the big comfy chair as Maria is ill and resting on the big comfy couch as we watch.
I'd like to start out by saying I enjoyed seeing some world class road course racing with excellent camera work, good coverage of close battles throughout the field, and top notch announcing. It was very exciting and completely kept my interest.
Except it was on Fox, it was from Germany, and it was the Formula One race. Apparently ABC decided a 12:30 CST start for the Mid Ohio coverage had to wait for coverage of the British Open.
Note to ABC Sports, and feel free to cut this out and paste it everywhere in plain sight: Golf without Tiger Woods = Dull.
So we missed the start (because really, who needs to see a field line up or the actual start) to see someone at ABC try to make golf's version of a Firestone ad using the British Open. It worked about as well. I'm starting to agree with one thing the author of the Defender of the IRL blog keeps posting: It may be time to look at other broadcast partners.
Miera up to the lead early: Well, I know how this is going to end. And I don't think it's going to be Vitor doing the "hat dance" in Victory Lane.
Nice "Pas De Deux" with Rico Suave and O-Ryan the Hunter. Thanks for not breaking in to show us what happened ABC.
Ah, after a year + of teasing Mrs. Duno ("I thin, but Milka Dunno . . . . . . "), I must issue an apology. After giving Princess Romper Stomper the Latin version of "talk to the hand, girlfriend 'cause the face don't wanna hear it!", she gets Danica! to basically say "I'm telling Brian Barnhardt on you!" Of course, a lot of Danica's dialog was bleeped out, so I'm kinda guessing here. I do agree with Scott Goodyear (GULP!) that Milka should have moved it on over, but Danica! did herself no favors by being Danica! It was fun to see Milka not back down. What's the Spanish equivalent of "Oh, PUH-LEASE!" ?
AJ Foyt IV had a problem in the pits? Huh, that never happens.
Justin, Mario, Mario, Justin. Dan, Justin, Justin, Dan. Dan, Marco, Marco, Dan. AJ? How'd AJ get in here? I guess they ARE right, yellows breed yellows.
Given that just about everyone they mention goes off track (Hunter Reay, Wilson, Andretti, Rahal, Moreas), I'm thinking either Marty or Scott is the equivalent of the Sports Illustrated cover curse.
In honor of pressdog: Briscoe folded the wings back and went full afterburner. I guess I didn't miss that F1 race after all.
Maria recovered enough by the end of the race to give her congratulations to Briscoe Inferno, and wish that "some of the other cars could have gotten in front of Dixon so Helio could get closer in the points."
Wait, I think Dominguez is spinning again!
LiveBlog: Mid Ohio 2008
Right now you're tuning in to watch an IndyCar race, hoping for a fun show of speed and racing. After an exciting opening act featuring wins by Danica Patrick and Graham Rahal, you've probably felt a bit down at the last few races because things like crashes, yellow flags, and crashes during yellow flags have meant the last few events have left you with a below-average in entertainment value.
Well, today might be the equivalent of "you ain't seen nothing yet".
While a parade was initially aniticpated at Mid Ohio today, we may in fact be wtinessing something different. The Indy Lights race this morning had a forceful but brief shower before the start, and the result was the most ridulous race your humble host has ever witnessed. There may not have been an entire lap completed without a local yellow due to spinning, as every driver had at least one incedent going off the track. Spin spin sugar.
And topping it off, the last lap was under a full course yellow and the winner inexplicably brain locked and drove into the pits before taking the checkered flag. But you can read about that elsewhere.
The point being, a similar burst of showers that let loose before the start of the IndyCar series event today could prove to be a great equalizer. With the possiblity of sliding all over the place existing at every turn, this may be another day that we see another first time winner.
So break out your rain slicks and water repellent, because it's time to start.
0: But first, we have to crown a champion for the British Open golf tournament. Savvy move by the IRL to boost ratings, because everyone knows a certain percentage of viewers doze off during these whisper-fests. Sleep well and leave those TVs on, golf fans.
0: Per suggestion, today's Drinking Term has been changed to "Local Yellow". Please drink responsibly.
0: And we're still waiting, as Padraig Harrington personally thanks everyone in England in his acceptance speech. Try to stay awake, friends.
0: Gonna be a quick start because Race Control is already showing drivers on warm up laps. We've got Dixon, Rahal, Helio and "Babe" today.
1: Well, we're green on Race Control but there's still commercials on ABC. Ugh!.
2: ABC has finally gone live as Justin Wilson has worked his way up to second. Helio is still leading but Will Power has already pitted to change tires.
3: Marco is up to 4th as Briscoe drops back into fifth. Still green though so everyone is behaving.
4: Lots of pitting for tire switching, but on the track Justin Wilson has taken the lead.
5: And Mario Moraes gives us our first spin for a local yellow. Yay for local yellows!
6: Justin Wilson just pitted for slicks and promptly goes off the track. No spinning though as he ponly looses position. The leaders are now Briscoe, Meira, Manning, Power, Helio.
7: Penske cars pit and now it's Meira, Manning and Power. You probably didn't pick that as your podium.
7: And Mario Dominguez is into the kitty litter. That's really a nasty term if you think about it.
8: Babe just dive bombed Bernoldi, and around they both go off the track. What in the world was Hunter-Reay thinking there? This one requires a full course yellow.
9: Excellent view of the truck hauling away Hunter's car on Race Control. Now we see the Delphi Safety team inspecting his car. And firing him up.
10: Footage of the Great Danica and Milka Debate! That's ratings gold, friends. It will be all over SportsCenter tonight. Danicker looks rather calm despite having the towel thrown in her face TWICE, and Milka doesn't want "the show". Oh, you're getting the show, Milka.
13: Bernoldi is "retired", possibly in more ways than one. Next out poll: P1 says Rahal, P2 takes Roth, Humble Host is going with Moraes. Feel free to play along with us.
14: Back to green and it's Meira, Manning, Power, Marco, Helio. Briscoe is all the way back in 16th.
20: No changes up front. Assuming parade formation behind Mr 0 for 87.
24: And if you picked Mario Dominguez in the "next out" pool then you were correct. Dominguez had a rear wing failure in a straight away and then was no longer on the straight away. Didn't touch anything other than dirt but he is stalled. Replay shows the wing was probably damaged when Dominguez took his first excursion off the track. The net result is another full course yellow.
26: Free slurpees in the pits so here come most drivers. Looks like Power edges Helio by inches off the line, followed by Dixon, Meira, Manning. Meanwhile Quattro is stalled with a hose hanging from his car. DOH!
27: Some folks did not pit so the new leader is the Cajun Sheff. I guar-on-tee! Then Wheldon, Camara(!), Briscoe, Carpenter. It's like every few laps they're drawing numbers out of a hat to determine position.
30: Dominguez has already reached his pit to have his wing fixed, so why are we still under yellow?
31: Back to green as Wilson shows us how it's done. No foot dragging here as he launches immediately to a significant lead.
32: Marco is off the track in the carousel (love the turn names on road courses), but since he didn't stall it he pulls back behind everyone else and continues in 20 something-th but still on the lead lap.
35: While Wilson does his best SeaBass impersonation by pulling ahead by 5 seconds, let's take a moment to note that Danica is 18th and Milka is 23rd. Safely separated.
36: It's Wilson, Wheldon, Briscoe (8 seconds back), Moraes (12 seconds), Camara (18 seconds). WOW!
38: And Milka spins and stalls on the track, bringing out a full course yellow. So much for that huge lead by Wilson. Wheldon has to get a "safety splash" so he doesn't run out of Ethanol and consequently drops a few positions.
40: Wilson pits and falls all the way back to 16th. New leaders are Briscoe, Moraes, Power, Helio, Dixon. Over/under on turns it takes Power to pass (get it?) Moraes is TWO.
42: Again, Milka was refired long ago but we're still under yellow. Maybe it's time to yellow flag the folks in race control.
43: Back to green and BAM! A huge wreck involving Wilson, Wheldon, Marco and Foyt IV. Oh, the humanity! Replay shows Wilson clipped Dominguez trying to go around Mario. Lots of airtime for "Visit Mexico City" today.
45: Marco is done but the others are refired. Reports are that Dominguez was supposed to let Wilson by on the restart and Dominguez has apologized.
47: Back to green so suddenly? OK then. Briscoe leads Moraes, Power, Helio and Dixon. Mirror Man and Danger Mouse are right behind them.
50: Parade formation, but Graham Rahal has a really cool helmet featuring movie posters from Paul Newman's career. It will be auctioned off after the race since Graham's kinda using it right now.
52: Rahal spins and lightly touches the wall. Local yellow only. Puppuet show by Graham. P1 may or may not have won the "first out" contest here. Meanwhile my pick (Eminem) continues in 2nd.
53: Scott Goodyear, speaking of Ryan Briscoe, just uttered something about "... get himself serviced." Nothing about boyfriends though.
54: Briscoe pits to "get himself serviced". Ahem. Say it with me friends, "Mario Moraes is your race leader."
56: Jack Arute is on the cutawy car and Mario Moraes is into the pits. Your latest random leader is Ricky Bobby himself, Mr Will Power. Shake and bake!
57: It took a while but Marty Roth has finally spun. Local yellow.
58: Dixon gives Vitor a nudge and a wave for fourth place. It's an actual on-track pass, sorta, but expect the Panther post race release to say something about it.
59: Power pits so Briscoe leads again. Behind him is Junqueira, 5 seconds back.
61: And now Moraes has spun and stalled in the sand, bringing out a full course yellow. Replay shows he just lost it. With 23 laps remaining that probably guarantees a timed finish.
63: Briscoe, Junky, Helio, Dixon, Power.
64: Marty says that EJ Viso is out with a gearbox issue. Except for the fact that he's on the track right now. Oops. Quick, go to an entertaining package with Helio!
65: Back to green and Briscoe launches away from the field.
70: Briscoe up by 7 seconds. Not much else happening.
73: 12 laps to go, 9 minutes of air time left, and we still don't know if this is timed? Laps take 70 seconds so you do the math.
75: I guess ABC has been cleared to go long because they said we're going the distance. This means that Junky will be short on fuel and not finish in second. Pity.
77: Bruno pits and falls back to 11th. Bummer for him. At least his sponsor got lots of air today. Meanwhile Team Penske has reclaimed the two positions at the front where they started today.
80: If you were Penske, would you consider having Briscoe slow down to let Helio win this race so he could make up more ground in the points standings? Just asking. Because I'm bored.
84: Briscoe takes the white flag and is ahead by nine seconds. I'm so glad we went long to see this single-file excitement.
85: Ryan avoids a Jonny Reid mistake and claims his second win of th year. Helio, Dixon, and the KV duo of Power and Servia round out the Top 5. If you're still awake to see this then you've got some mighty fine coffee.
One positive of this race is we didn't have the carnage that has afflicted the last few races, but beyond that we didn't have much else for people who aren't Penske fans. Congrats to the Inferno who ran as strong as anyone. Thank you very much, and good night.
Cheat Sheet: Mid Ohio 2008
I love a parade,the tramping of feet,
I love every beat I hear of a drum.
I love a parade, when I hear a band
I just want to stand and cheer as they come.
That rat-a tat-tat, the blare of a horn.
That rat-a tat-tat, a bright uniform;
The sight of a drill will give me a thrill,
I thrill at the skill of everything military.
I love a parade, a handful of vets,
A line of cadets or any brigade,
For I love a parade
And with that, we welcome you to Mid Ohio. No, it's not that it isn't a beautiful course or a well supported event - it is, and it is. The problem is that as road courses go the Mid Ohio Sports Car Course (MOSCC - go ahead, say "Mosque") seems to be much narrower than the other scheduled road courses, which means that passing among the leaders will only occur in the pits.
I realize being an uneducated neanderthal of an oval fan I say this at nearly every road course, but this time I really mean it.
Favorite: Dixon, blah blah, winner last year, blah blah, incredible road course record, blah blah blah.
Contender: Team Penske. Finding the speed to take the top two starting positions bodes very well for Castroneves and Briscoe. Especially on a course where there's hardly any passing on the track.
Longshot: Justin Wilson. He's the longest driver there is. *rimshot* Seriously folks, he's got to break through at some point - he's just too good not to finish well at one of these road course dealies.
Driver to watch: Graham Rahal. For all intents an purposes this is his home course. He's been at this track more than a few times, so he's well versed with all two or three places that passing can occur. Plus, expect ESPN to break out cute pictures of baby Graham at the track.
And no, N/H/L hasn't put me on the payroll this week.
Danica Threat Level: DanCon Four. Despite a gaffe at the start by a few closely packed AGR cars that sent her backwards (as well as flipping Marco on his lid), Danica! actually marched back through the field here last year. Unforutnately she's starting 20th this year and she doesn't get Power To Pass back there.
Stat of the race: Helio Castroneves is the only driver running at the finish of every race in 2008, and yet he still hasn't won a race. Let me know when this horse is beaten to death.
Drinking term: "Pit stops". Get ready for excitment in 7-second increments, followed by much lock steppage. Marty will by dying if he can't drop a lock step Sunday.
pressdog says: "Call me a freak, but I'm going to triple dip this week -- first, Dixon will probably win. That's the standard disclaimer although he's looked human recently. But I'm going to instead call it for The Tall Polite one, Justin Wilson. Finally, rounding out my podium of picks, is dark-horse Marco Polo. If he's not on his lid by Lap 4, he may win it."
The entire My Name Is IRL family will be live in the living room on Sunday, trying to come up with games to make the race more interesting so we can all make it through this together. Join us, and enjoy the show.
Next on Danica's enemy list is...
“She came to my team and our pit box in a very bad way with bad words,” Duno said. “If you come in a nice way, perfect, we can talk. If you come in a bad way, you are going to find my bad side.
“I don’t like drama, and I told her ‘go away, you are not welcome.’.”
Those would be the words of Milka Duno, everyone's favorite fan friendly actress and author who happens to drive around during IndyCar races. She was less than pleased at being visited by the world's fastest Motorola representative after an on-track incident in practice on Saturday.
Yes, the Danica Pit Invasion tour continues, although this week she reportedly stayed on the proper side of the pit wall this time. According to the intrepid Curt Cavin, who is certain to be nominated for a Pulitzer for this work, Milka did not hide in her car or try ot walk away. No, she not only remained in her pit box during the invasion, she reportedly threw a towel in the face of Danicker during the latest outbreak of anger management.
Mee. Oww.
And why would Milkalicious dare to throw a towel, and probably a sweaty one at that, in the face of the open-wheel's beloved swimsuit exhibitionist? Let's go to Mrs Hospenthal.
“I wanted to know if she saw me (on the track) ..... it’s hard to locate people once they get away from their car,” she said. “I stayed behind the wall. I just wanted to ask what happened.
“Unfortunately, things involving me tend to evolve. I’m on the hot seat when I do something and when others do something (connected to me). It’s kind of the line that I walk because I’m popular.”
Umm, no. It ain't misfortune, ma'am. Those are your two feet and that's your mouth, and ain't nothing going on with none of them that you can't stop or start. It's OK if you want to go argue something with some other driver - in fact, it's kinda fun to watch - but don't make it sound as if your public discussions are a byproduct of popularity. Please. Own your feelings and the expression thereof.
And now we're at the part where your humble host has to pull this set of quotes out again from the one-time kinder, gentler Danica.
"I realize, over time now, how unproductive being angry all the time is and how it doesn't really do any good for my driving ... I think that being positive does."
"But I'm trying to grow up. I'm trying to be better all-around for all kinds of reasons: for myself, for the people around me and for the people I don't know who are around me."
Uh huh. Keep trying there. At any rate we shall see on Sunday if this "evolves" into a high-speed version of roller derby.
In case you see the Invisible Man
Oreo briefly mentioned this in his loving article about Ed Carpenter (for real!) earlier this week, but the Vision Racing preview for Mid Ohio makes it official.
The team is pleased to welcome IndyCar Series winner and auto racing veteran, Bryan Herta as a road course consultant for the remainder of the 2008 season. Herta's expertise and vast experience will be put through the paces beginning this weekend at Mid-Ohio as he will offer advice to Carpenter, Foyt and the engineering staff. Herta, who most recently drove this year for Andretti Green Racing in the American LeMans Series, has two career IndyCar Series victories and is one of only three drivers in history to win a race in the IndyCar Series, the ALMS and CART.
BRYAN HERTA -- Team Road Course Consultant: "When Tony called me I was really impressed by his dedication to taking the steps to build a top level team. I was flattered that he considered my road course experience an asset to his team and I certainly look forward to sharing it with Ed (Carpenter) and A.J. (Foyt IV) in the coming weeks starting in Mid-Ohio and hope to help the team move forward in their objectives for the season."
Not a bad move by Vison since Carpenter and Foyt are still trying desperately to compete on the twisties against a field full of road course specialists, although if Herta had a bigtime sponsor he might actually be racing one of those cars. Usually the phrase “impressed by his dedication” translates to “amenable to the compensation offered”, so after he was recently given the boot from his ALMS ride Bryan is probably fine with whatever racing-related work he can find.
That other guy Vision hired this week – Paul something-or-other – might also be able to offer some expertise on driving those courses as well. Advice like, if you’re getting into a fight after crashing into a competitor, be sure to remove your helmet first so you’re more recognizable when they show the fight on SportsCenter.
(Ridiculously nerdy photo of Herta courtesy of BBC.com)
Viso healed
In case you haven’t noticed the entry list for the Mid Ohio race this weekend, the name “EJ Viso” is included.
Of his former affliction, the Center for Disease Control says:
The mumps virus replicates in the upper respiratory tract and is spread through direct contact with respiratory secretions or saliva or through fomites.
The infectious period or time that an infected person can transmit mumps to a non-infected person is from 3 days before symptoms appear to about 9 days after the symptoms appear.
The incubation time, which is the period from when a person is exposed to virus to the onset of any symptoms, can vary from 16 to 18 days (range 12-25 days).
Which means that after having two weeks off the Indy Racing League’s newest driver to lay claim to the moniker of “Mr Excitement” is no longer under quarantine and is clear to race.
As a public service message for those who may find themselves working with or around Viso this weekend, please be careful since the CDC also notes that mumps can cause “inflammation of the testicles” or “deafness” – symptoms that the Panther Racing team would say Viso has already exhibited with his driving this year.
ESPN may have devoted too much time to televising the leaders blocking each other at Nashville last weekend, but darned if the WorldWide Leader didn’t try to make the event entertaining in other ways. Not did we “go down to Jack Arute” about fifty times (half of which were breathless weather reports), and not only did Scott Goodyear drop the now infamous “boyfriend” remark, but as pressdog captured in his Nashville Notes they also snuck in an amusing radio transmission from the RLR channel.
Lap 37: ... Replay of Bobby Rahal on the radio pre-race. "Babe, be smart and strong and go have a good race, babe."
That’s right, Rahal called Ryan Hunter-Reay “Babe”. Twice! And that’s just from five seconds of conversation, so who knows how many other times he dropped a “Babe” on Ryan.
This smells like a nickname adjustment for The Hunter. Recall that the movie “Babe” is the story of a pig that overachieves by avoiding the slaughterhouse and training to become more than just a plateful of bacon. The flick culminates with a victory in a contest in the closing scenes, so considering what pigs the RLR cars had been considered to be until Hunter-Reay put one in Victory Lane at The Glen earlier this month there may be good reason for the ‘Stache to call him “Babe”.
Let’s all sing along with pressdog’s lyrics.
I know it's true we ain't got it all
Look out baby, I'm in the wall.
When we last left Sarah Fisher she was exiting the infield medical center at IMS in dismay, fearful that a crash in the Indianapolis 500 had ruined her family investment in the fledging Sarah Fisher Racing entity. Sarah openly wept, as did many FishHeads.
Well turn that frown upside down because Sarah’s got some new sponsors – including an unbelievable deal with Dollar General – and is ready to get back on track.
Though Fisher wouldn’t comment on the value of the deal, sports marketers said it is likely a low to mid six-figure deal. Fisher said it is a deal for a “primary sponsorship” that will allow her to race aggressively and not worry about crashing the only car she has.
“We’re not going out there to just run around in circles,” Fisher said. “We have to have a good result. And we have to make sure Dollar General has a good experience.”
Fisher said money is built into the deal that will allow any fixes necessary, and since there’s a month between her two races, that allows plenty of time for repairs.
The deal is structures somewhat like Chip Ganassi’s deal with Target, Fisher said, with product makers landing shelf space at Dollar General co-sponsoring the effort. Fisher’s car is co-sponsored by Dollar General’s vendor partners, Arm & Hammer, Band-Aid, Clorox, Colgate, Kraft, Lysol, Reese’s and Slim Jim.
(MORE from Indianapolis Business Journal)
It would seem that losing that beverage company deal wasn’t the worst thing in the world for SFR, because, well, check out the size of those sponsors! Ahem.
Oh, and for those of you that wrote checks or simply handed cash directly to Sarah back in May when she was experiencing a more dire financial situation, rest assured she has not forgotten you.
Fisher has sent more than 100 notes of gratitude and included a piece of carbon fiber from her Indy 500 car, damaged in a crash.
"It's like a wedding," says Fisher, who was voted the Indy Racing League's most popular driver for three consecutive years. "You get all these people sending money, and I had to send thank-yous. It's only appropriate. One fan even said they would frame (the piece) as a souvenir."
(MORE from USAToday)
If you ever wonder why Sarah’s maintains her popularity despite her recent struggles on the track, then observe how sending “thank you” notes and a piece of the car works towards energizing the fan base. Sarah Fisher the driver may be scoffed at by others, but Sarah Fisher the brand is unmistakably formidable. With a deal like this one involving so many sponsors it's possible that a comparison to Ganassi – who as a driver had a less spectacular record than Sarah’s – will one day prove to be prophetic.
Less fanfare, more surprise
Way back when your humble host was merely an undergraduate word butcher at Arizona State’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, there was a big event announcing Bill Frieder as the new basketball coach for the Sun Devils. The hiring was problematic inasmuch as Frieder was still contractually the coach of the highly-ranked University of Michigan squad who was expected to participate in the upcoming NCAA tournament. Long story short, Michigan didn’t want a lame-duck coach so they axed Frieder before the tournament, the Wolverines went on to win the championship with an interim coach, and ASU never really did much in the Frieder era. Karma.
Why is this relevant? Because the press conference introducing Frieder at ASU began with the school’s Athletic Director plainly stating “I’d like to say a word about timing ...” And so with that quote in mind we come this Forsythe Racing press release on “Paul Tracy Special Announcement Day”.
The 2009 Firestone Indy Lights Series will see the return of Forsythe Racing Inc. to the grid as the championship winning outfit announced today its intention to compete in the official feeder series to the Indy Racing League from next season onwards.
“The opportunity to return to Indy Lights is obviously one that we’re relishing,” said Neil Micklewright, Vice President of Operations at Forsythe Racing Inc. “This is an extremely exciting time for Forsythe Racing as we’re once again in the thick of a title battle in the Atlantic Championship while we’re also looking to further bolster our race programs, starting with our Indy Lights announcement.
(MORE from Forsythe Racing)
Yes, very curious timing indeed given the shotgun marriage of bimergification left Mr Tracy with a long-term contract to a no longer existent Forsythe Racing team. I’m sure Tracy is absolutely thrilled that on the day he finalizes months of work for a one-race ride his old employer decides now would be the PERFECT time to reveal their intention to finally do something involving the Indy Racing League. Yes, Paul and Gerry are most certainly meeting at St Elmo Steak House for shrimp cocktail right now.
Then again this could just be posturing because it doesn’t take a great deal of resources to simply say an organization is intending to start an Indy Lights team next year. To the point, allow me to also take the opportunity to announce that My Name Is IRL has a similar “intention to compete” in the 2009 Indy Lights program – just don’t hold your breath on seeing us at too many events.
But if Forsythe’s intentions are genuine, Indy Racing Revolution notes this jump into the IRL pool would lend credence to the theory that Gerry and Kevin Kalkhoven are looking to sell the Atlantic series. It remains to be seen if anyone out there is in the market to buy a feeder series that feeds into nothing, but maybe that guy that bought all of those DP01s is interested in making another deal.
Should such a transaction occur, we can look forward to some interesting timing on that announcement as well.
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Pure Puppy's Heather and Eric Hillman, a former Major League Baseball player, discuss how their company stands out from the competition by offering grooming products that are truly natural and safe for pets and the planet.
Pet Business: What was your inspiration for starting Pure Puppy?
Heather Hillman: We felt that there was a void in the industry for a truly natural, nontoxic, honest product line for pets. Our Newfie puppy Olaf, when he was four months old, had his first bath with us, and what we used on him was a product that was labeled as natural. Within hours, he was itching and scratching and had a raised rash. The next morning, he was bleeding under his neck and was physically ill. We rushed him to the vet and found that he had a systemic staph infection. He was so sick that he could have died if we had not gotten him to the vet.
After that scare, I started researching pet shampoos. All I wanted was to find a product that I could trust to wash Olaf with—something safe and nontoxic— and I could not find one. My background being in skincare and product development, I know ingredients and I could not get over products that were so far from being natural, but labeled that way.
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Whilst rummaging around my photo collection, looking for the perfect "seasonal" shot, I came across this photo, shot from the cab of CNR 4255, stopped at Amsbury Station.
Our family moved from Seattle to Prince Rupert in September, 1957. My Dad was Chief Engineer on A.B.C. Towing "Comet" from 1956 to 1959. It was here in "Rupert," at the age of 14, my rail journey began.
My first "cab ride" occurred when I rode the Comet down to the rail bridge at Pillsbury Point. This was only a mile or so from where we lived.
Lots going on in this photo:
1. Comet nudging barge into rail bridge.
2. ABC 24 with box cars full of raw pulp bales, en-route from Ward Cove Mill to Rome, Georgia for final processing.
3. Bill Trimmer, first mate, ready to exchange customs documents with agent.
4. CNR 7242 ready to begin car transfer.
5. Loads of materials for Ward Cove paper mill (near Ketchikan.)
6. Pile driver performing maintenance.
7. Fairview Cannery, destined to be site of a world class container facility.
So I climbed onto the barge and made my way deftly through a dizzying maze of track work onto the beach.
Here I took photos of the Canadian National Railways switch engine marshaling cars onto the barge. A guy learns out a cab window and asked me a question the answer to which became the beginning of an epic adventure over the next three years: "Would you like to ride with us?"
My routine was to ride with Dad on the Comet down to the rail bridge, and ride with the switch crew back to town.
Over time, my knowledge of railroading expanded — exponentially!
My First Road Trip
My first over-the-road trip was with a gregarious engineer, Bill Geddes.
Over the next two years — 1958, 1959 — I made many trips to Terrace with Bill and fireman, Hugh McIntosh.
Conductor Stan Wozney and head end and rear end brakemen rounded out the crew.
The first time I met Mr. Geddes in the cab of GP-9 CNR 4409, he explained to me that once in a while, not often, these locomotives could explode! Followed by a loud pop in the cab, which yielded my startled gasp, and the roar of laughter from the crew.
The pop was created by jamming a wad of flimsy (train order) into the exhaust port on the brake stand. At the appropriate point of his story, he hit the release lever, causing the flimsy to be expelled like a bullet!
Thus my initiation to the crew.
My Last Road Trip
It was a sad day when my Dad announced in late 1959, we would be moving back to Seattle. It quickly sank in that my days of riding freight and passenger trains was coming to a screeching halt.
My last ride was on November 18, 1959, on east bound passenger train 196. Power pack included two GP-9's, 4255 + 4206 + Steam Generator Car. (A handful of Geep's in the 4200 class were retrofitted with controls necessary to operate the Vapor-Clarkson Steam Generator.)
Here we are stopped at Amsbury, MP 9.6 Skeena Subdivision. (Westward Train was 195.)
Amsbury was a classic Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Station Plan 100-152 design, sometimes erroneously referred to as "Type E." Amsbury was one of the last fourteen stations on the Western Extension of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Apparently the name "Amsbury" is attributed to Capt S.J.R. Amsbury, a pioneer settler.
GTP constructed more than 200 of these structures between 1910 and 1916. Amsbury was constructed in 1911, at a cost of $2,403. Today, it would cost more than $61,000 for the structure, not including the cost of transporting everything from lumber through the office and living quarters furnishings from Prince Rupert. The station was upgraded with insulation and a coat of stucco.
Mile Post for Amsbury changed from 34.4 to 9.6 when the division point was moved west 24.8 miles from Pacific to Terrace. Skeena Sub lost four stations, Pacific, Pitman, Usk and Kitselas, to the Bulkley Sub.
The change took place with the issuance of Time Table 1. Mile Posts — and my negative collection—had to be updated.
The June 1920 edition of American Lumberman announced a handful of new sawmills in operation or coming on line. The mill at Amsbury, operated by C. Lindbloom, opened in 1917 to process Sitka Spruce, valued for its light weight and straight grain, ideal for aircraft construction. The mill closed in 1928.
During construction of the Westward Extension, Grand Trunk applied to BC Government for water rights for their steam engines. Amsbury was identified on Water Rights file 0127384, 13 May 1937; name confirmed 4 October 1951. The Grand Trunk Pacific, later CNR, obtained their water from Amsbury Creek.
The water tank had been removed by the time I began my road trips.
With the installation of Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) in the 1970's requiring fewer operators, many were dismantled, or worse, burned to the ground. Amsbury was demolished in 1966.
The plan was to ride in the cab of 196 to Terrace. Hang out around Terrace with my buddy Ron and his friend Ken, and then grab 195 for the evening run back to Prince Rupert.
There was no radio communication, trains ran under strict instructions delivered by train orders, referred to as flimsies due to the thinness of the paper. Operators took their instructions from Division, either by phone or telegraphic code, wresting in thick manifolds of forms separated by carbon paper to type instructions for the train crews.
Digging through my collection of train orders I found both sets of orders for my last train ride.
Later that evening, said my good byes to Ron and Ken at the station, whilst waiting for 195.
Presenting my "pass" to the conductor on 196, who kindly gave me the train order set when we got back to town.
Power pack for 195 was CNR 4223+Steam Generator Car. Here I am riding CNR 4223 earlier in the year, on a special train up to Terrace to see Queen Elizabeth.
Since it was dark with no opportunity for photos, I road in a passenger car on the way home, plus that, I was becoming rather maudlin about this all coming to an end.
Six days later, we were driving on Highway 16, heading back to Seattle.
Index: 196, Amsbury, CNR4409, Prince Rupert 195, Ron Dolphin, Terrace, Wozney
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Wenger: This player has “surprised” me
Randy O. | April 4, 2016 | Arsenal | No Comments
Arsene Wenge insists he was not expecting Theo Walcott and Joel Campbell to be kept on the bench by Alex Iwobi over the past few weeks.
The Nigerian ace is enjoying a sublime breakthrough campaign after being drafted into the Gunners’ first team squad following impressive cameos during pre-season.
On the back of first ever start in the Champions League against Barcelona, the youngster has scored in consecutive games against Everton and Watford in the Premier League.
“It’s surprising how quickly he’s integrated into our game. He’s worked with us since the start of the season and he has grown, gained confidence and when he came in he had an impact straight away.” the Arsenal boss said
“That’s benefited from the fact that he knows everybody and they trust him as well. I didn’t expect that level of efficiency or impact on the scoresheet.
According to Wenger, Saturday’s 4-0 victory over Watford could spear-head his side to a strong finish.
“Our game had a quick flow with technical quality,” he added.
“We created chances, played well together and overall we dominated all departments of the game. We scored four, didn’t concede, so it’s positive.
“Now we have to find the right mixture between belief and being realistic, focusing on the next game, focusing on the process, and adding that belief. We can still challenge for the title.”
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*New* Robert Pattinson Interview in Bravo (Germany)
Bravo: Tell me Rob: How do you become a Hero?
Rob(laughing out loud): Am I a Hero?
B: For the fans you are. You play the outsider, who everyone loves…
R: It’s great to be an outsider
B: Are you talking from experience?
R: I was a loner in school. But you know what? It’s a compliment and the best thing that could have happened to me. When you are different from everybody else, it helps to be creative.(thinking) Maybe my point of view is a bit too romantic.
B: It’s ok to be romantic…
R: (grabs his hair and looks to the ground): I love being different. I don’t want to listen to other people or adjust myself, to fulfill expectations. As an outsider I became what I am.
B: Are you the same in relationships?
R: In relationships and friendships you have to adjust, so that it works together. Isn’t it the best proof of love to work on yourself, because you love the other person so much. But you shouldn’t fake it just to be liked.
Taylor: At school I didn’t have many friends either. Most of the time I was alone.
Kristen: We all feel like outsiders from time to time. Like today I felt like an outsider and I’m sure that the most popular girl felt lonely and misunderstood. I know how it feels to be unpopular. It shouldn’t bother me what people say about me but sometimes it’s hard, even for me.
B: In the movie you are perfect heroes. What about in your private life? Would you change something there?
T: I want to be so wild and strong like the werewolf-boys. I’m often shy and silent. Sometimes I want to be more extroverted.
R: I want to be a bit shorter.
K: (rolls her eyes): You are such an idiot, Rob! I don’t understand why you say such stupid things (Rob smiles embarrassed. Kristen shakes her head) What is going on with you? Did you drink to much coke? (Gozde: I love this :))
UPDATE: pbirdie told us that the translation is missing Robs reaction to Kris comment mentioned by the interviewer:
Rob lacht noch Lauter. Er scheint es zu moegen, when Kristen in so Neckt...
Rob laughs even louder. Looks like he likes it when Kristen teases him...
R: I have really long arms and legs and I’m a total klutz. It isn’t very elegant. If I ever had to dance on a stage I would die of shame. I’m not afraid of normal appearance anymore. I hope I can remember this moment 20 years from now.
B: Rob, you’ve accomplished a lot? Is it easy for you?
R: Sometimes I have to be motivated, to move my ass. I have the bad habit of hanging around. I have two options: either I want to do everything at once or I don’t want do anything.
B: And if you’re heartbroken, do you lock yourself up?
R: Oh no! You should never drown in sadness
B: …like Bella after the breakup?
K: I think it is important to go through a break up. Look at Bella: In the end she is stronger than before, because she found herself. Girls always want somebody who watches over them. But first you have to be strong. Then u can have a happy relationship.
T: I think the love triangle is really hard, in the movie. I feel sorry for Jacob, because Bella doesn’t love him back. When I read the book, I was like I don’t wanna experience that!
R: Being heartbroken always feels terrible. You have to go outside, meet some friends. But you shouldn’t ignore the pain, because someday it’s going to come back. But when you are young it doesn’t matter – after 5 days you fall in love again with someone else.
sources: Translation by Tina1287, scans, thanks to Thinking of Rob
Posted by Gozde at 11/26/2009 05:09:00 AM
Labels: Bravo, German Magazines, International Magazine Scans, Robert Pattinson
He's so Un-Hollywood I love it !! I think that's probably why he and Kristen get on so well because she's quite similar in that regard and neither fake all the crap that comes with having to portray a certain kind of person just to be liked or to get on in the business. He's so funny, he just cracks me up.
Forgot to say, LMAO at the look on his face in that first picture !!
Maryann said...
Cute interview! I like the interaction between them lol. Very cute.
I hope he NEVER turns Hollywood on us. I hope he always stays grounded and stays true to himself. I think he will.
dabby said...
oh rob!why are you so self deprecating?you're perfect,don't you know that?see,kristen also dis- agrees on what you say about yourself.i love you rob!
sinem said...
i've experienced your stupid words,too kristen..so whatever rob says it's cute..if he wants to be shorter,then that's a wish and that doesn't make him an idiot..we love him so don't get rude cause i love you so much,too..just live your lives,take care of each other,we will be loving you unconditionally..just relax baby..:)
but i am happy to hear your warns. That shows,you really consider his words' clearness..
I think robert and kristen were just bantering--he mocks her often when she says dumb things too. lol
The picture is reallly cute where the girls are fake kissing him, his face!lol
You can see a fear in his eyes.
I wonder if those girls, while being so close to him ended up kissing him or not. I would. I mean, being so close to him and not to try kiss him???
I always doubt if those interviews are real or not. There are often some things written which I don't think they would have said.
But anyway, I liked this interview and I would happily learn Robert to dance without feeling stupid or embarrassed:)
Rosa, but he would never do something like this. He never called her idiot in a interview. It was very rude! I don't like her... She's so arrogant!
What is LMAO?
Gozde said...
LMAO is laughing my ass off and come on, Kristen was so obviously kidding. I thought it was very cute :)
PartyG said...
I know women love the Rob unconditionally that they don't see even when he is being rude - he has just jabbed at Taylor - how can he say something so insensitive when there is a boy next to him struggling with his height?
The other time he said to Access that wolf park only show their abbs cause they are insecure about something - he is right to some extent in that men who show off their bodies are indeed insecure same to women
And only he can accept to doing something as evil as living his urine in a cup!!! for the hotel maids to clean up - imagine how evil that is - imagine you are the maid cleaning Rob's room and having to handle someone's urine. I know I know his sparkles and is tinted with gold and silver.. Funnily no one comes up to say that its a terrible thing to do - Kristen and Taylor are teenagers and you'd expect them to do all that rubbish but no its Our own Mr Sparklepeen so every girl goes yay! he is soo un-hollywood - he is sooo hot for being mr filthy. Sorry guys but when he takes jabs at either Kristen or Taylor I feel angry because am sure ther are so much they can say about him but they don't.
Am very sorry guys am not Rob hater I just don't like people making fun of others when clearly its not being reciprocated. I love him too but I don't applaud everything he says - I do that to Kristen too.
The translation is missing Robs reaction to Kris comment mentioned by the interviewer:
Cute :)
kespax said...
so cute, & hilarious, k's like his mum - the too much coke stuff.
he's probably tired of stooping with all the shorties - he needs to hang with Jackman who can teach him tall guys look yummy dancing.
Wow, PartyG, you are not in a party mood are you? :) I don't think he was taking a jab at Taylor...at all! Who says Taylor is struggling with his height? Have you ever hear him say that?
Plus he is not making fun of anyone's height but HIS OWN. He says his height make him clumsy.
And the peeing in a cup was a JOKE.
Kristen calling Rob an idiot was also a JOKE.
Try to lighten up :)
Bravo is an magazin her in Germany for teenager.
You have to be careful with the articel in it. Most of it is written for the teenage girls. They call Kristen his girlfriend. Is she his girlfriend? Nobody knows that. But Bravo knows ???
But the interview sounds very relaxed.
An Kristen likes to tease him ... i think it isn`t rude when she calls him an idiot. They make fun with each other. And thats it. My opinion.
Erm........ who's taking shots at Taylor ? I think perhaps people are more sensitive about Taylor's height issue than Taylor himself. I actually think Rob talks about being shorter because of the issue he has with his legs and running.
I think the poster that was ranting speaks volumes about how much they actually dislike Rob with lines like "because am sure ther are so much they can say about him but they don't." Rob is his own worst critic so that's just crap !!
Mrs. Smith! said...
I agree with Goz! It is obvious that Kristen was joking and it's not like we haven't seen this kind of banter before with them! They joke with each other like that all the time in interviews. I think the interview was cute! I also don't believe Taylor would take the height comment as an insult.. I think he has grown into his own and has enough confidence to not cry about that type of comment!
Your right Goz.. People need to LIGHTEN UP!
I think it is a little presumptuous to assume Taylor has an issue with his height. And while it seems ridiculous for a man to want to be shorter, that is such a Rob comment, I can totally believe it. And Kristen simply called him on his being so ridiculous. It was clearly a lighthearted exchange to me. Something you would do with a close friend/boyfriend. I realize they were in an interview, but when you are as comfortable as they clearly are together, sometimes you just let those things slip. I have been other places this morning where Kristen is being destroyed for that comment.
I have to agree that I think Rob and Kris have that kind of friendship/relationship that they speak jokingly to/about each other a lot !! Rob's sensitive but he does have a sense of humour and knowledge in the fact that Kristen is just that way naturally and not to take it personally !
Of course Kristen is just teasing him, I would actually get seek of listening to person I care about always talking shit about himself. It's cute and adorable to a point. On Jimmy Kimmel Kristen rolled her eyes when he said that his body looks like prepubescent girls body. I would roll my eyes as well.
marcoski said...
I love the fun of Robert...kristen and taylor I am not convinced...
i love you for ever ROBERT PATTINSON
Purple83 said...
just wanted to point out something...they kinda skipped over some parts when translating this...like for instance...after Kris asks if he drank too much Coke (which they conveniently adapted in German as Cola, because germans have no idea what Coke is other than the drug...we use Cola in Europe...)...so after that part...the interviewer notes: Rob laughs even more. He seems to like it when Kristen's teasing him now if this is not indicative of the fact they were JOKING i don't know what is...besides...I don't really get what the big deal is? :/ it was a funny interview...I really think that when somebody makes the effort of translating these things they should translate EVERYTHING so their personal adaptation doesn't take even more from the original statement than the translation from english to whatever language already had...
also I'd like to point out that German doesn't have a lot of words for the goofy hip English expressions so never assume the actual word they use in German is the exact same thing the person said in English..it's an ADAPTATION to their language and their expressions...and then taking that German article and re-translating it in English many things get AGAIN lost in translation...
relax people...I'm sure Rob, Kris and Taylor have a lot of fun on these 3-way interviews... :D
and yeah the pics with the 2 German interviewers were fun to see :D Rob has a cute
Louisa said...
@ Party G,
Puritanical codswallop!
Maybe some things get lost in translation for you. Godze it right, most of what was said was a JOKE. Truly you need to lighten up!
What a funny, sweet interview, obviously they really dig (get, understand)each other.
I have just read the German version of the Bravo Mag, its one of the best interviews I have read, they ask logical questions and got very detailed interesting response from Rob, Taylor and Kristen. I just don't have the time but I wish someone could translate it all in English for fans - its interesting.
SarahBella said...
I personally don't think her comments are that cute. She may be joking, but it's in a condescending tone that's seemingly characteristic of her. Rob teases her all the time but he never calls her an idiot or tries to make her look stupid in interviews. Kristen, on the other hand, always seems to make little comments to berate him. It's good that she doesn't like it when he degrades himself. But responding to him with a degrading comment seems a little counter-productive. I can't help but think back to the Jimmy Kimmel Live interview when he asked someone to introduce the New Moon clip and Kristen and Rob were trying to figure out who should do it. And when he said he wasn't sure which clip it was, she was like "Come on! We've all been prepped for this. Let's get it together...::eye roll::". Like I said...unnecessarily condescending. Why try to embarrass him and make him look lazy or unprepared on national television?
Sorry. I can't be all happy and pro-Robsten until I see some indication that she's nice to him and doesn't make him any more self-concious than he already is. Just my opinion.
Hey chilax its just my opinion - Rob is Gold he can do no wrong even I understand that. Its cause his answer is just after Taylor and then Kristen says that he is an idiot well Mmmm don't cut me in half if its a joke then am also just joking
Kemberly said...
hahahaha after five days u fall in love again with someone else??? that is hilarious LMAO
pauleta said...
I don't understand why people are crying over what kristen did here. They were playing around what is the provlem with rob's fans?
Common, rob do the same all the time and i don't see people finding that offencive. he make fun of her about kissing her infront of a nation in french tv and saying playfulelly that what she doesn't like about her was her personnality to what she andswer she couldn't stand his smell.
This is all jocking around with people you Know really well.
Is all the same with nikki reed, when she complimented him no one say that was nice but if she says something that people don't like they spend hour hating on the girl.
I just wish people will stop picking every word out of a context to bash people.
And if rob laugh at what she says that means for me it wasn't rude or offensive.
I think every relationship (friends or else) is different, people are different, for someone it might be offensive, but R&K always do that, that's their thing they tease each other.
I think Rob gets more offended when people praise him, rather than tease him. (heavy sarcasm, hope it translates)
Anyway I love their interviews together, it's fascinating to watch them interact.
@ Pauleta,
"I just wish people will stop picking every word out of a context"
Sarahbella,
Have you ever have a boyfriend or even a guy boyfriend?
Because if you haven't had one, let me tell you this is how people behave when they're close and one of them make a stupid comment, the other just tease him or her.
I don't see why on evry site people are jumping on the girl. I mean Rob makes fun of her in interviews everytime. Saying he don't understand what sh's saying when he obviously does. They play around that is what young people do. Is calling living their life.
Oh god, forgive kristen or whoever joke around about or with rob. I know is a capital crime in rob community but may you forgive the person?
Pauleta,
Don't get your panties in a bunch. I don't recall whining or crying about anything. I'm stating my opinion and it's not a favorable one about Kristen. It's based not on "one word" that I took out of context, but on every recent interview and interaction I've seen between the two of them. Based on those, I formed my own assumptions and interpretations. No one really knows what goes on between the two of them other than the two of them. But last time I checked, this was Robsessed. Not Robstensessed. I don't HAVE to like her or think that everthing she does is awesome and badass. So let's ease up on the full out attack mode everytime someone expresses an opinion that may differ from yours.
Have I ever had a boyfriend or a guy boyfriend (I'm not even sure what that is)? Seriously...I'm not even going to dignify that one with a response. Thanks though ;)
@ Sarahbella & Party G,
Don't forget that this is an International site. We all have different filters, different interpretations of nuances.
I for one live in Australia, where everyone teases, and insults (with their tongues firmly in their cheeks) it's considered a term of affection. I call my best friend "Dreadful" It's my nickname for him. Bearing this in mind, read the interview again...
These two really like each other.
To be accused of being a robsten whatever is more than an insult for me.
If you read all the things i have posted here you will see, that i really don't care who they date, in fact i will rather they don't date each other.
I don't find it a little to much that rob can joke around about kristen and other people and things and noone find it rude but his costar can't say anything whitout creating a war on internet. Just double standard and hypocrisy.
You have to take a lot of things reported w/a grain of salt. So many variables-interpreted out of context, etc. On another note, Happy Thanksgiving to RobsessedBlog. I am so thankful for you. A big shoutout to the Pattinson family tree..Hot damn, little did you know what you started!!!!
@Louisa...I agree. That's why it's nice to come on here and discuss things and be open to each other's opinions, interpretations, and experiences.
I think they really like each other too. Maybe even love each other. But as a Robsessed fan, I can't help but be a little overprotective of him. I just want him to be happy and to be with someone who appreciates and makes him feel like the special guy that he is. I've had plenty of guy friends, boyfriends, and grew up in a house full of brothers who teased me constantly (although none of them would dare call me an idiot without getting smacked upside the head). I can recognize that are different kinds of teasing. I have also seen plenty of times when a girl has the upper hand over a guy who is crazy about her, and she talks to him any kind of way because she knows that she can...and the guy is so anxious for her approval that he takes any jabs from her even if they may hurt his feelings from time to time. So many possibilities. Let's hope it's the friendly bantering you ladies think it is :p That would be ideal. I think we all want Rob to be happy.
Pauleta, my comments were more general about intolerance for other people's opinions. I'm not aware of any internet uproar about her comment. I was just stating my personal opinion. And I respect yours too. It's all love here.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone, I'm going to study for my law classes.
Just hope the twicast have a nice thanksgiving.
shirleegirl said...
PartyG - I didn't feel that Rob was making fun of Taylor when he was talking about wanting to be short ... and how do you know that Taylor is struggling with his height? Maybe he is perfectly happy just the was he is, he is probably better than average height and is 17 so he is still growing. As for the peeing in cups thing - I take most stuff like that that Rob says with a grain of salt - lots of times he says he was just kidding about stuff he says
LK said...
Whoa!Sometimes i feel sorry for Kristen!She has said that she has no sense of humor and when she tries to be funny she ends up offending people.In this article,instead of offend Rob she offended Rob's fans.At least that seems she did.Rob is hunging out with her STILL and that seems that he doesn't care what she says about him.His fans from the other have a totally different reaction.They have gone mad with what Kristen said.Especially the girls on IMDb are bashing Kristen as rude,arrogant,stuck up and other names.Here some people are angry with Kristen,too.Why?Rob doesn't seem angry with her at all and he's the only person who should be mad and offended.But he's not!Maybe he knows that she was just teasing him.Personally,i found it funny!Rob says some very immature things from time to time(i haven't wash my hair for 4 years,i don't bath etc)just for fun,but all this come and bite his ass later.Maybe she was trying to protect him with her way,which is not acceptable by his fans.Just saying,because i don't know the way she thinks.But i can't understand why some of you here feel offended,the same time that Rob feels fine?Otherwise,is he an idiot hunging out with her all the time?
Wow! such strong reaction to what is such a typical R/K moment. It has virtually always been that way with them, right from when "Twilight" first came out. It's obviously like a "game" (for lack of a better word) to them. You tease me, I tease you back. Id even be tempted to use the expression "friendly foreplay" LOL I just hope that comment doesnt earn me a pro/con "Robsten" attack lol
I love the first part of the interview when he was all shy and talking about how he likes being different and an outsider. One of his many swoon-worthy moments...::sigh::
skorpia said...
Can someone ask how "young" you have to be to qualify for the 5 day grieving period?? Does this mean himself included?? *gasp*
BTW- I LOVE ROBS QUIRKY COMMENTS!!! step off KS! Dont start messin with his head about what he says. The reason we love him is that he sticks his foot in his mouth. WIch is adorkable. ROB- I LOVVVE YOUR HEIGHT!!! I feel like chewbacca myself.
"Rob doesn't seem angry with her at all and he's the only person who should be mad and offended."
I read the article once more and i definitely agree with Gozde..i've heard that "peeing in a cup" thing and yes it was really a joke..How can you expect that kind of inconsiderate behaviour from Rob??and i see that kristen's words are jokes here..first i didn't get it but when i read again i understood that she wasn't any rude..don't be so judgemental ladies..
"Friendly foreplay". I like that. And teasing can be foreplay ;) That MTV interview the two of them did during Twilight...that was really cute. That Japanese game show with the buzzer....also cute. I've just noticed there's a little more bite to her teasing lately. Someone please help me justify the Jimmy Kimmel comment she made when she told him to get it together and that they had all been prepped for the clip. That just rubbed me the wrong way. Seriously, I'd love to get another POV on that one. Because that wasn't a flirting moment. He wasn't laughing and she looked genuinely irritated and he looked uncomfortable and was trying to say something to lighten the mood. I'm just saying!
saraB- I agree with ya girl. KS is notorious for having attitude and cutting people off. Rob NEVER is rude. He'll make a face and laugh. Thats the extent of it. I did my homework. Just dont dig her. anywho-Im digging ROb fierce!!!*sings* we're still havin fun and you're still the one!!
Just got to add this in- please dont hate those with an opinion. If some dont like someone BIG DEAL! Its who we love that we have in common. All for ROb! someone please pass the gravey..
Kelly Louise. said...
"I have two options: either I want to do ever ything at once or I don’t want do anything." Wow, I can so relate to that..
As has been said, Kristen often takes Rob on when he puts himself down. There are lots of reasons for that, but all are a measure of her affection, not the reverse.
Part of Taylor’s controlled demeanour comes from years of martial arts training. He’s very capable of defending himself, and wouldn’t respond to ‘height’ issues anyway. It’s an advantage. lol
I just want to know why he holds the mic like that...seriously messes with my head in a blissfully perverted way:0
OK people, move on out... Nothing to see here. Please never doubt that Rob and Kristen are all about the inside jokes. Arangano is shorter... You can bet this entered the conversation at some point while she was switching boyfriends. It's not about Taylor... He is 5'11" and could have broken Rob in half when he was 12. Rob has admidtted numerous times to feeling physically inadequate around Taylor. So rest assure this is not about Taylor *waves and mouthsto waves to Taylor Lautern* I think I can help you become more extraverted
As for Robsten (and if you still think they are not together, you are delusional), the only way they can deal in public without being affectionate is to do the opposite. As was the case in grade school is always more appropriate to let the girl hit harder... Except in this case everybody loves Rob and so Kstew looks like a batterer when she does.
Good times! By the way, you can set a clock to the reports of impending real life love triangle that are coming about Taylor, Kristen and Rob... It's going to be awesome!
@Sarahbella:
""Friendly foreplay". I like that. And teasing can be foreplay ;) That MTV interview the two of them did during Twilight...that was really cute. That Japanese game show with the buzzer....also cute. I've just noticed there's a little more bite to her teasing lately. Someone please help me justify the Jimmy Kimmel comment she made when she told him to get it together and that they had all been prepped for the clip. That just rubbed me the wrong way. Seriously, I'd love to get another POV on that one. Because that wasn't a flirting moment. He wasn't laughing and she looked genuinely irritated and he looked uncomfortable and was trying to say something to lighten the mood. I'm just saying!"
Maybe she wasn't flirting, maybe is was sarcasm. Maybe she was irritated with him. Maybe Rob cussed her out afterward backstage. I've certainly seen him "put her in her place" before. Or maybe it was nothing. Rob can handle himself. I'd say just let it go.
You are so right about Taylor's control. It's kind of odd that he, a 17 year old boy, would be more in contol than his 24 year old counterpart. Equally interesting to me that the roles they play as werewolf and vampire are so reversed.
rpattzgirl said...
This is an adorable funny interview, and very typical rob, Kristen banter.. Remember comic con?
Sense of humor folks, everyone should get one.
jonesy said...
Kristen is a no nonsense girl and on Jimmy Kimmel I saw nothing wrong with her comments to Rob. She wanted him to do the job they went there to do. I love when she calls him out on his sh** and is not a dumb Stepford Wife fanning over her man. Yes her man. He obviously loves it so don't hate on her! He is not angel either, the look he gave her and Taylor when Taylor's head was snuggled on her shoulder was priceless. Some of his fans see him as some helpless demigod, so it is probably very refreshing to have some one like Kristen who just sees him as himself and does not place him on a pedistal. I like him a lot but the way some of his devoted/delusional fans react to Kristen's every word and action is crazy. That is probably why she wants to keep the relationship private because of psycho overprotective Robnuts who look for any excuse to bash her.
OhMyEdward said...
JONESY - so you caught that look too huh? The look that Rob gave K & T after T was embarrassed with the clip that was shown. I thought it was just me - being delusional. Thinking in my own little quiet world that I detected a hint of "what the heck was that?" type of thing. Rob's reaction (to me) is similar to his comic-con reaction when T mentioned about the "sleeping bag" scene. Just sayin' . . .
annaz said...
M said
"You are so right about Taylor's control. It's kind of odd that he, a 17 year old boy, would be more in contol than his 24 year old counterpart. Equally interesting to me that the roles they play as werewolf and vampire are so reversed."
Yes Taylor has 'control' that he uses to control 'nothing' most of the time because he has nothing to say most of the time.
*sign* i am sorry, i am a lurker and love it that way, but and i surly don't want to bash Taylor but but i sense hidden comparisons about how "Taylor could cut rob in half" and it irked me.
About robs jokes, i find them most of the time non-rude teasing or self deprecating, but sometimes they are his amazingly sharp witted reaction to a falseness, or banality, or lameness going on around him. In that 'doing it in a cup' and such other comments, what was going on was that the interviewer was seizing him up, and robs intelligence immediately grasped it and responded accordingly. This is what men do, size-up each other by doing this- 'who can talk dirtiest' routine.*shakes head* I don't know their exact psychology behind it but this is what they do*shrugs*.
jmm4832 said...
C'mon, guys. Rob wasn't serious when he said he wanted to be shorter. Yes, Kristen knows him well enough to know that what he said was full of s***. And I've seen Rob joke around with K before, like when asked about their on-set kissing he said that "Kristen has no idea what she's doing." No wonder these guys don't come out. Every word said is picked apart and scrutinized. Seriously, if I were them I wouldn't give a single interview together.
roren said...
i don't know about the future , what happen with robert and kristen relationship in the future...., but today i saw and read this articel,,,, both robert and kristen are a good couple i thought ( bad english)
lulu--when you are close enough to someone, you tease them. You make fun of them. Kristen doesn't do that to Taylor, cause he's younger. Robert is the most wanted man on the earth, she's close to him, they mock eachother in interviews back and forth, and then they LAUGH afterwards. lol
That's the type of rapport they have, it's a sort of banter, they both strike me as smart asses who are comfortable and close enough to mock eachother publicly.
Robert told her to shut up in the ET interview, that could be considered rude. But I thought that was funny too, especially when he said it's animosity not chemistry they have.
re: Kristen cutting robert off-I don't think she realizes how much she doe it, and she should be more aware when she does. But almost everytime she cuts him off, it's because the dude is rambling on or on the verge of saying something that will be quoted out of context for the next six months.
Say what you will about kristen, but she is a protective friend to him and tends to cut him off because he's about to say something he'll regret. He OVERSHARES, and that has come back to bite him in the ass in the press.
She reminds me of some old married lady who is like "harold, not that story again!" when Robert starts spouting off....lol
You can't really take Rob seriously most of the time, like when said the most romantic thing he ever did was put a flower on some girl's locker. He was so obviously FOS. Don't hate me for saying this please!
Karina said...
People need to put these interviews into context.
These two have to answer the same questions over and over again, right after the other. They get bored.
When you get bored, you try to entertain yourselves by messing around and messing with your answers and other peoples' answers.
That's what happened with that EW interview where he told her to shut up-they were bored. They were messing with Robert.
That's what happened in this interview. Robert's bored, he starts bullshiting, and Kristen laughs and calls him on it.
Nothing more than two people trying to entertain themselves.
riley said...
wow, some of you guys are taking this too seriously. who honestly thinks Robert wants to be shorter? What man EVER wants to be shorter? LOL
him saying he wishes he were shorter is like a girl equivalent of saying, "I wish I wasn't so beautiful." It's ridiculous, especially in HOllywood where tall guys are in short supply!
So Kristen teases him about it. She obviously doeesn't think he's an idiot, she always talks about how smart and intelligent and creative he is. She's just making fun of him for saying something dumb, and he knows it's dumb. He laughs back.
sarahbella-I thought her point was benign when she mentioned they'd been prepped beforehand. She was saying that to Taylor and Robert actually, as if to say, come on, we have a job to do, we've been prepped on the clip.
Rob does tease her too in ways that aren't just sweet. There was that very funny moment where she said she couldn't live without her cat, and he just prodded her, saying did she know cats die fast, and that her cat will die soon, and went on and on.And she's taken aback at first, and he keeps this wicked straight face throughout, until she finally laughs.
Robert has been characterized as being sly, saying things straight faced, and people only realizing he was mocking them after they've walked away. Peter F. and Rachelle Lafevre have mentioned this.
Kristen, never open your mouth or if you do just say how dreamy, charming,intelligent, gentle, delicate,funny...rob is. Otherwise shut up so fans can be happy. Don't try to befunny with him, don't be playfull with him, no, noway. You aren't allowed to. But don't be offended if rob makes fun of you he has the right to be playfull . You know that he is witty, funny and all. But you don't even it.
This is just the most ridiculous argument about what this guys has ever said. Even more ridiculous than nikki reed rob is complex coment.
Enough with the fighting already... can someone please post a complete translation of this interview?
Bemused said...
This is all just a storm in a teacup, a lot of the confusion comes down to the British sense of humour which is a bit difficult to get your head around unless you have been brought up here.
We use a lot of irony, saying the opposite of what we actually mean just get a laugh or to lighten the mood. Kristen often says things in a more literal or direct way that can sound a bit rude to my ears, but that's just how she is and it makes Robert laugh. I remember her once replying to a question on stage in Germany, and her answer came across as a bit rude and he just cracked up, he's used to her way.
Things get lost in translation in print and we don't know how this was said so should take with huge grain of salt. The way our sense of humour is can sometimes come across as sly digs but really we just do it for the laughs so don't get offended.
dina said...
I've always had the feeling that Kristen keeps an eye on him,like babysitting him in a good way. I also think that he needs it sometimes because he is so all over the place.
OMG this thread makes me laugh so much I think I might throw up.
Warning - people who don't think this whole interview is funny, don't come to Australia you would never survive our teasing silly ways.
Rob's a silly boy he's used to people reacting to his silly ways, don't you love him for it!
Have a theory his secret mentor is Michael Gambon - or at least they are similar, aka dumbledore, a man renkowned for making up silly stuff -
Interesting article about him -
Here's the Gambon article -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/feb/29/theatre
Michael Gambon once claimed that he used to be gay. He had to give it up, he said, because it made his eyes water. He told another interviewer he'd started his career as a dancer in the Royal Ballet. He had to give that up as well, after he fell off the stage.
'It's in one of those handbooks,' he tells me. '"Used to be a dancer." The reporter said to me, "Ooh, was it painful?" So I said, "Yes, I fell through the timpani."'
You will gather that Sir Michael Gambon is not invariably and entirely truthful. Making Sleepy Hollow with Christina Ricci, he used to tell her elaborate stories about the clubs he'd been to the night before and the drugs he'd taken. 'Oh, yes,' he says fondly. 'I used to tell her terrible fibs.' Ricci thought it was a hoot. But it can also be a bit embarrassing if you're the hapless reporter who notes down 'fell through timpani'. So when his first words to me are, 'I had a car crash last night,' I am inclined to ignore him. I ask him instead about the play he is currently rehearsing, and only after about 10 minutes realise he really did have a car crash last night.
I am actually less worried that Gambon will tell me lies than that he won't tell me anything at all. He is notoriously publicity-shy, rarely gives interviews and, when he does, works hard not to give anything away. He is sometimes described as having a wife, or an ex-wife (Ann, or Anne, Miller), occasionally a girlfriend. At some point he seems to have lived in Kent, but probably doesn't now.
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What is your definition of evil?
Discussion in 'Ethics, Morality, & Justice' started by akoreamerican, Aug 26, 2018.
DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member
Musika said: ↑
So what are your thoughts on the notion of "necessary evils" or the "lesser of evils"?
A separate subject.
(As for poop, it sustains one sort of life while inhibiting another ...
So what? Is that a rationalization to make it OK?
Because, if rationalizations are OK, then this whole problem of evil goes away.
In a certain light, you can even relegate pain to a mere stimulli response, so one can dissolve the whole problem within a cloud of semantics. At the very least, ideas on "what experiences pain" has enjoyed quite a few fluid definitions over the past two centuries.
Most life consumes bacteria, microbes and plants. Only a tiny few consume other pain-feeling animals.
To suggest there is merely a semantic definition between what a gazelle experiences and what a petunia experiences is to jump down the rabbit hole into existential paralysis.
Then that leaves one to ponder whether or not humans, and their notions of evil, exist as anomolies within the world.
No pondering. They have certainly achieved a qualitative level beyond animals, yes. The invention of Right and Wrong, among other things.
DaveC426913, Aug 27, 2018
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Bowser said: ↑
We have a concept of Evil. Who's to say it isn't part of the universal process/harmony? I'm not drawing a distinction between right and wrong, only making an observation that "Evil" has always been with us. People have been trying to get an upper hand over it for thousands of years.
"Concept".
"us".
"people".
These are all things endemic to humans, and humans alone. Humans invented evil.
So, I - for one - am to say it's not "part of a universal process/harmony". It's only been around as long as modern humans.
Heck, even Genesis of the Bible concurs with that.
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Jeeves Valued Senior Member
I thought the summation of right and wrong is morality.
Of course it is. That's how humans codify the concepts of good and evil.
Animals can be trained.
Certainly. They can be shown what humans reward and punish. They may even (dogs, anyway) be convinced that human law is right, and feel genuinely ashamed of their canine urges.
But we can't communicate or transmit the concept. No other species has the same internal values as any other, and no other that I know of has a native concept of evil. They don't need it, because they don't have our capacity for evil.
But we don't always agree.
We hardly ever agree. That goes with having big brains, different languages and various approaches to social organization. But no organized human society has ever, afaik, functioned without a moral code.
Wars between nations have been fought on the premise of right and wrong, at the cost of thousands of lives, I might add.
I don't think so. I think morality (more accurately, the immorality of the adversary) has been bruited as the justification, but the real reasons for making war are more practical.
A guy in town was clubbed over the head for holding an American flag. Clearly a clash between two concepts of right and wrong.
I very much doubt that, too. A clash between camps. There are all kinds of loyalties, interests and ideologies in play which have little to do with a concept of evil. Even the markers of partisanship that are characterized by the other camp as symbols of "pure evil", in fact stand for something else entirely - often as not, something that the nether camp also espouses in principle.
People have ulterior motives for labelling. If a can bears the label "creamed corn" and the content is dark brown, be skeptical; don't eat it.
It would seem to have many definitions.
It would. But you still need your own.
And perhaps we will all be Christians some day, or Muslims, or whatever
As long as it's either of those, we have trouble. Religious politics are never about right and wrong; they're about hegemony.
Jeeves, Aug 27, 2018
Jeeves said: ↑
... bruited ...
Encountering a word I've never seen before (esp. one less than a dozen letters) is about as common as hen's teeth these days. Thanks for the breath of fresh air!
Cheers, mate!
iceaura Valued Senior Member
Not all justifications are created equal.
Sometimes people are in the right, and faced with a genuinely wrong adversary - wrong by both sides's claimed moral code.
But the connection between "wrong" and "evil" is complicated - evil is not simply a mistake, or a misjudgment. Most wrongdoing is not evil - even very bad wrongdoing.
Also: in a sense, evil is not done by mere accident. It seems to involve betrayal, universally, and seems to be surrounded by cowardice among the complicit, always - so it involves strategy at least, even character.
iceaura, Aug 28, 2018
iceaura said: ↑
Maybe so, and maybe that's the reason for many of the foot-soldiers to join up, but that's not why nations go to war.
Obviously: hence "the intent to do harm" - not to get something you need, not to strike back at someone who's hurt you, not an act carried out under the influence of mind-warping chemicals, not revenge, not rage: harm done soberly, sanely, deliberately. That's why 'malice aforethought' turns a homicide into first degree murder.
Also: in a sense, evil is not done by mere accident.
In every sense! Accident can't be evil. If you hit and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk, it's not evil. You knew you shouldn't drink so much - that was irresponsible. You knew you shouldn't drive in that condition - that was reckless. But you did not get into the car resolved to find someone to run over. Bad, but not evil.
The guy who waited until lunch-hour on a pleasant summer day to drive his van down the sidewalk on Yonge street to kill as many young women as possible - that's evil. Unless, of course his brain was controlled by a spirochete or something.
It seems to involve betrayal, universally, and seems to be surrounded by cowardice among the complicit, always - so it involves strategy at least, even character.
Cowardice is a weakness - not evil. (And it's easy to call other people cowards when we don't know how well we ourselves would do in their situation.)
Complicity for personal gain is quite another matter. Evil in the big leagues (gangland, political faction, business, religious hierarchy, dictatorship) usually relies for its success on many like-minded supporters.
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pluto2 Registered Senior Member
This forum is evil.
Seriously sci forums is full of Internet trolls.
I think that sci forums should be shut down for good.
pluto2, Aug 29, 2018
Beer w/Straw Transcendental Ignorance! Valued Senior Member
pluto2 said: ↑
Seriously, dude, see a doctor and get some anti depressents.
Beer w/Straw, Aug 29, 2018
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Nations, like bulldozers, don't exactly have motives. Nations, as such, seem to go to war by accident almost.
If breaking down motivation by person, the individual soldier's motives count.
In every sense! Accident can't be evil.
"Collateral damage". There's even a term of law: "Depraved indifference".
Complicity to avoid personal loss is as much a factor.
One common pattern: an initial draw of minor and easily rationalized wrong for worthwhile gain, getting one sucked into a situation of major wrong to avoid heavy loss as much as acquire major gain. Joining a gang as a teenager.
The question then becomes the severity of threatened loss or promised gain that will bring a given person to do a given wrong. The odds. How big a risk or inconvenience will one absorb to save a baby.
Cowardice is a weakness - not evil.
Of course. ?
(And it's easy to call other people cowards when we don't know how well we ourselves would do in their situation.)
One can identify cowardice without projecting heroism by oneself. The point is not namecalling. Hiroshima, say: there are times when avoiding evil takes unusual courage.
Obviously: hence "the intent to do harm" - not to get something you need, not to strike back at someone who's hurt you, not an act carried out under the influence of mind-warping chemicals, not revenge, not rage: harm done soberly, sanely, deliberately.
That would exclude, from the evildoers, those who harm as a regrettable necessity of getting what they want - as a means to an end, that they would rather not bother about if they didn't have to. I would not want to exclude all of them from the orchestra of evil - some of them earn first chair status.
It also excludes the My Lai's, the pogroms, much terrorism - not coldblooded, not sane, not sober, and clearly (?) evil.
That's one solution. Another is just not to log in.
spidergoat Venued Serial Memberlist Valued Senior Member
...But enough about Jan...
spidergoat, Aug 29, 2018
Nations, like bulldozers, don't exactly have motives.
That's a complicated statement. I can't go along with a nation as mere tool: the operator literally cannot steer it against its will. But popular opinion can be manipulated; opposition can be eliminated; dissent can be intimidated into silence. The leadership always has motives, and they are rarely moral.
Nations, as such, seem to go to war by accident almost.
That just means you can't always tell what's really going on.
Only to the extent that they feel strongly enough opposed to face a firing-squad. The only way soldiers can actually affect a war is by mass desertion. Other than that, they're not judged on the war itself, but on their particular part in it: what they each do.
The point being that the reasons for war - however cumulative and obscure in their origins - are not moral reasons. For both the population and the leadership, there is always something to fear, or something to gain, or both. They don't mobilize exclusively to stop another nation doing wrong.
[accidents can't be evil]
There may be evil somewhere, in someone, at work in the making of an accident. But that evil isn't at work on causing an accident; the accident is a byproduct of attitudes and actions that may contain evil. If so, the evil won't stop with one accident: it will go on to cause intentional damage, at which time it will be manifest, rather than merely suspected.
One common pattern: an initial draw of minor and easily rationalized wrong for worthwhile gain, getting one sucked into a situation of major wrong to avoid heavy loss as much as acquire major gain. Joining a gang as a teenager. The question then becomes the severity of threatened loss or promised gain that will bring a given person to do a given wrong. The odds. How big a risk or inconvenience will one absorb to save a baby.
I don't see a definition of evil in there. Yes, wrong is often cumulative. People are fallible, gullible, suggestible, corruptible.
That's the reason we've devised scales of wrongness to inform our legal systems, as well as having a personal set of principles.
One can identify cowardice without projecting heroism by oneself.
I think one is often tempted to do so on insufficient information, or according to an unexamined definition of cowardice. I merely warn against being too facile in judgment.
Hiroshima, say: there are times when avoiding evil takes unusual courage.
I don't understand the reference. Who avoided evil in that situation? Certainly, the top decision-makers did not: they knew; they planned; they gave the order. The pilots, I don't know about. The common people were never consulted, but going by the retrospective apologists, there would have been no great outcry against.
I don't think it does exclude material gain, or the quest for power and status. I would, however, put them on a comparative scale.
I would have to know the circumstances of each incident; can't form a blanket judgment.
akoreamerican said: ↑
I believe it's evil if some act was done with an intent to cause pain to another, whether it is physical or emotional it does not matter.
I don't have a definition of evil. It's just what I call extreme immorality. But it depends on context. I don't think it's easily defined, even though I certainly recognize a few red lines.
The more one finds out about what's going on, the more accidental most wars appear to be. Observation. Even the ones launched on purpose with long planning by one side quickly lose that original direction even on that side, as a rule.
Only to the extent that they feel strongly enough opposed to face a firing-squad. The only way soldiers can actually affect a war is by mass desertion.
Or mass failure to cooperate, starting from before they were soldiers.
The point being that the reasons for war - however cumulative and obscure in their origins - are not moral reasons.
The reasons that people fight in them are. That's how the North beat the South in Vietnam - moral superiority. That's a big reason the North won the American Civil War, and the Soviets beat the Germans in WWII.
I can't go along with a nation as mere tool: the operator literally cannot steer it against its will.
The operator(s) create its will, build it in. Often unwittingly.
Likewise with bulldozers - one can only steer them within their design limits and capabilities. They have a "will" of their own.
The more one finds out about what's going on, the more accidental most wars appear to be. They never go according to plan, even approximately.
There may be evil somewhere, in someone, at work in the making of an accident. But that evil isn't at work on causing an accident; the accident is a byproduct of attitudes and actions that may contain evil.
There is a level of indifference to suffering and harm that is - legally - "depraved". Someone who acts repeatedly with depraved indifference is doing evil, imho. Example, famous: the Holocaust. Example, less famous: US occupation tactics in Iraq.
I don't see a definition of evil in there.
Not a definition, context.
I don't understand the reference. Who avoided evil in that situation?
Nobody. Hence the point.
A particular judgment of any given one makes the point.
Even the ones launched on purpose with long planning by one side quickly lose that original direction even on that side, as a rule.
The comment I originally made was on motive: wars are not initiated for moral reasons.
It wasn't a treatise on Clausewitz.
The reasons that people fight in them are. [moral]
Yes, sometimes - or they believe so. I covered that first go-around.
That's how the North beat the South in Vietnam - moral superiority.
That's an opinion. I don't consider strength/depth of conviction proof of moral superiority, but it does bolster morale.
I'm not qualified or inclined to engage in a discussion of military conflicts through history.
I merely cast doubt on the moral motivation of declaring wars.
That's what I said.
If you classify those as accidents, I can't address your vocabulary.
Which is one reason the initiator so often loses them. Because they are often fought for moral reasons.
Yes, sometimes - or they believe so
People have reasons they do not even know or care about?
I classify them as evil, regardless of intention.
The evil of war is not limited to the declaration of it.
They are never fought for moral reasons. War is bad. All of its effects are bad. Somewhere in the complicated and confused labyrinth of its antecedents, every war carries at least a germ of evil. Usually several, usually half-grown monsters.
Do care about. Don't understand. Don't know how they've been persuaded to do something so horrible.
That's why so many veterans don't talk about it afterward.
I classify them [your examples? Holocaust, Hiroshima etc.] as evil, regardless of intention.
So do I classify them as evil. I do not disregard intentions and I do not classify them as accidents.
Of course not. Plenty of nefarious activities take place before, during, after and behind the scenes.
And plenty of heroic, decent, honest and compassionate ones, too, but they're on a smaller scale than the bad stuff.
Because they were betrayed. They were fighting for moral reasons, and what they did - under coercion - did not align with those reasons.
They are never fought for moral reasons.
Of course they are. Defense of home, family, etc, against armed and aggressive evil is common.
I do not disregard intentions and I do not classify them as accidents.
Collateral damage. Depraved indifference. Neither intended or - properly speaking - accidental.
But they are not necessarily intended by the initiators of the war, or anyone fighting the war - especially on a side that did not initiate the war.
This business of reasons and intentions is vanishing into ether.
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"Evil" as opposed to "bad"?
What about taking pleasure in actions the doer realizes are otherwise considered bad by the common consensus?
So ,yes a differentiated relative morality with different levels of "evilness"
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Early Biomarker Found for Degenerative Neurologic Disease
PET Imaging Effective in Detecting Tau Deposits in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
ANAHEIM, CA – Researchers have discovered a novel radioligand that can effectively differentiate progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) from similar brain disorders, allowing for earlier and more reliable diagnosis of the disease. Presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2019 Annual Meeting, these findings bring physicians a step closer to being able to definitively diagnose PSP with imaging rather than waiting for confirmation upon autopsy.
PSP is a rare brain disorder characterized by loss of balance, blurred vision and uncontrolled eye movement, slurred speech, cognitive decline and mood changes. The disease worsens over time, and there is no cure. Often, PSP symptoms are similar to Parkinson’s disease and dementia, making it hard to diagnose.
“Currently, PSP can only be definitively diagnosed post-mortem by examining region-specific tau deposits in the brain,” said Matthias Brendel, MD, MHBA, at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in Germany. “Future interventional trials targeting tau in PSP would strongly benefit from biomarkers to validate the specific presence of the tau deposits and to monitor treatment response during therapy.”
In the study, researchers utilized a novel second-generation radioligand, 18F-PI-2620, to evaluate patients with suspected tau pathology in clinically diagnosed PSP. Seventeen patients with probable or possible PSP underwent 18F-PI-2620 positron emission tomography (PET) imaging at four different health care centers, along with 10 healthy control patients and seven disease control patients who had multi-system atrophy, Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease. Standardized uptake value (SUV) ratios of 18F-PI-2620 in predetermined brain areas were obtained and compared between the PSP, healthy control and disease control patients. In addition, disease severity, measured by the PSP rating scale, was correlated with PET findings.
A significantly elevated mean 18F-PI-2620 SUV ratio was found in the globus pallidus and the substantia nigra areas of the brain in the PSP patients as compared to the healthy control group. In contrast, the disease control group showed similar or only slightly elevated SUV ratios when compared to the healthy control group. Furthermore, results showed that even patients with low disease severity already had significantly elevated 18F-PI-2620 uptake in the globus pallidus when compared to the healthy control group.
“My colleagues and I were able to detect an elevated signal in the majority of evaluated PSP patients and could clearly discriminate the PSP group from healthy controls and disease controls,” noted Brendel. “Importantly, PSP patients at early disease stages also revealed an elevated PI-2620 signal, which points at the suitability of this ligand as an early PSP biomarker. Detection of tau in PSP patients by PI-2620 could play a role in future anti-tau trials for this disease, and molecular imaging could serve to select the right patients for targeted therapies.”
FIGURE. PI-2620 binding expressed as distribution volume ratios from multilinear reference tissue modeling 2. Axial and sagittal slices from averaged groups of PSP-RS (upper row) and healthy controls (lower row) are depicted upon an MRI template. Credit: Brendel M, Barthel H, Van Eimeren T, et al.
Abstract 54. “18F-PI-2620 Tau-PET in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy – A Multi-Center Evaluation,” Matthias Brendel, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Henryk Barthel, MD, PhD, and Michael Rullmann, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Thilo Van Eimeren, MD, Uniklinik Köln, Cologne, Germany; Kenneth Marek, MD, David S. Russell, MD, PhD, and John P. Seibyl, MD, Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Leonie Beyer, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Munich, Germany; Mengmeng Song, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Carla Palleis, Neurology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Jochen Hammes, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne Germany; Dorothee Saur and Jost-Julian Rumpf, Neurology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Matthias Schroeter, MPI Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Andreas Schildan, PhD, and Osama Sabri, MD, PhD, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Marianne Patt, PhD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Leipzig, Germany; Jennifer Madonia, Invicro, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Andrew Stephens, Life Molecular Imaging GmbH, Berlin, Germany; Sigrun Roeber, Neuropathology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Johannes Levin, MD, Neurology Department Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; Joseph Classen, Neurology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Guenter Hoeglinger, Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Peter A. Bartenstein, MD, Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Munich, Germany; and Alexander E. Drzezga, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. SNMMI’s 66TH Annual Meeting, June 22-25, 2019, Anaheim, CA.
To schedule an interview with the researchers, please contact David Harrison at (410) 804-1728 or david@harrisoncommunications.net. All 2019 SNMMI Annual Meeting abstracts can be found online at http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/60/supplement_1.
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LawCite Hospital Association of South Africa NPC v MEC for Health for the Free State Province (A45/2015)
[2016] ZAFSHC 223
High Court of South Africa - Free State Division
22nd December, 2016
Case Name Citation(s) Court Jurisdiction Date † Full Text Citation Index
My Vote Counts NPC v Speaker of the National Assembly & others [2015] ZACC 31; 2016 1 SA 132 Constitutional Court of South Africa South Africa 30 Sep 2015 SAFLII 27
Genesis Medical Scheme v Minister of Health; In Re: Medi-Clinic Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd v Treatment Action Campaign NPC (15268/14) [2015] ZAWCHC 124; [2015] 4 All SA 302 High Court of South Africa - Western Cape Division South Africa 29 Jul 2015 SAFLII 1
2015 4 BCLR 388 2015 4 BCLR 388 Canada - British Columbia circa 2015 12
Minister of Education for the Western Cape v Beauvallon Secondary School (865/13) [2014] ZASCA 218; 2015 2 SA 154; [2015] 1 All SA 542 Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa South Africa 9 Dec 2014 SAFLII 7
Kalil NO v Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality (210/2014) [2014] ZASCA 90; 2014 5 SA 123; [2014] 3 All SA 291 Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa South Africa 4 Jun 2014 SAFLII 12
Natal Joint Municipal Pension Fund v Endumeni Municipality [2012] ZASCA 13; 2012 4 SA 593; [2012] 2 All SA 262; [2012] JOL 28621 Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa South Africa 16 Mar 2012 SAFLII 716
Kruger v President of the Republic of South Africa (CCT 57/07) [2008] ZACC 17; 2009 1 SA 417 Constitutional Court of South Africa South Africa 2 Oct 2008 SAFLII 29
AAA Investments (Pty) Ltd v Micro Finance Regulatory Council [2006] ZACC 9; 2007 1 SA 343 Constitutional Court of South Africa South Africa 28 Jul 2006 SAFLII 47
2006 2 SA 311 2006 2 SA 311 South Africa circa 2006 LexisNexis 230
Affordable Medicines Trust v Minister of Health [2005] ZACC 3; 2006 3 SA 247 Constitutional Court of South Africa South Africa 11 Mar 2005 SAFLII 249
Bato Star Fishing (Pty) Ltd v Minister of Environmental Affairs [2004] ZACC 15; 2004 4 SA 490 Constitutional Court of South Africa South Africa 12 Mar 2004 SAFLII 522
Dawood v Minister of Home Affairs [2000] ZACC 8; 2000 3 SA 936 Constitutional Court of South Africa South Africa 7 Jun 2000 SAFLII 152
Ferreira v Levin [1995] ZACC 13; 1996 1 SA 984; [1996] 3 CHRLD 389 Constitutional Court of South Africa South Africa circa 1995 SAFLII 259
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3 Sue LAPD Over Rampart Scandal
Two sergeants and an ex-officer whose convictions were overturned each seek $10million, saying they became ‘scapegoats.’
By David Rosenzweig
Sgt Brian Liddy appears May 15 in a Los Angeles Superior Court.
Two Los Angeles police sergeants and a former officer who were tried for allegedly conspiring to frame gang members are each suing the department for $10 million, contending they were used as “scapegoats” in the Rampart scandal.
Sgts. Brian Liddy and Edward Ortiz and former Officer Michael Buchanan were convicted of the charge, but the convictions were overturned by the trial judge.
In separate federal civil rights lawsuits filed Thursday, the three men accused former Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks of using them as “scapegoats” to placate the media during the scandal involving the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit.
More than 100 criminal cases were overturned after former Rampart Officer Rafael Perez contended that he and other officers had routinely framed gang members for crimes they did not commit.
Perez made his explosive allegations in exchange for leniency after he was caught stealing cocaine from a police evidence locker.
In his lawsuit, Liddy alleged that a disciplinary board criticized internal affairs investigators for “spoon-feeding salient fact points” to witnesses with criminal backgrounds who testified against the officers.
The Board of Rights said the witnesses’ recollections were “potentially tainted by the interview process and raised serious questions regarding their credibility,” according to the lawsuit. The board unanimously overruled discipline for Liddy, his lawsuit states. Disciplinary proceedings against Ortiz were pending.
The three plaintiffs also accused the department of concealing from the district attorney’s office the names of witnesses who could have corroborated defense claims that Perez lied in his testimony about the officers.
The LAPD had no comment on the lawsuit or on Liddy’s claims about the Board of Rights’ findings. But a spokesperson said Friday that Liddy and Ortiz, who were suspended in 1999, have been returned to duty.
Liddy’s attorney, Joseph Avrahamy, and Etan Lorant, the lawyer for Ortiz and Buchanan, could not be reached for comment.
The criminal case against the Rampart officers revolved around a 1996 incident in which two reputed gang members were convicted of hitting Buchanan and Liddy with a pickup truck in an alley. Perez told authorities three years later that the officers made up the story to frame the pair.
In a highly publicized trial in 2000, a Superior Court jury convicted the three officers of conspiring to obstruct justice. Afterward, however, Judge Jacqueline Connor vacated the verdicts, saying she had made a “fatal error” in not recognizing that jurors might have misread some jargon in the police report that unintentionally lent support to the claim that the officers had lied.
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30th August - 8:00 pm
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“One of the most charismatic and electrifying performers in Britain today” Tom Robinson
Martyn Joseph is a unique and mind blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters….and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night.
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He is gifted with the rare ability to speak to the soul with his expressive and poignant lyrics and has a career spanning 30 years, 32 albums, over a half a million record sales and thousands of live performances. And has toured with Art Garfunkel, Jools Holland, Joan Armatrading, Celine Dion, Shirley Bassey amongst many others.
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1 - BERRY, CHUCK - AFTER SCHOOL SESSION - (L+C)
The name Chuck Berry and rock & roll are synonyms. Without Chuck Berry, there would be no rock & roll. So to call Chuck Berrys debut LP "seminal" is a bit of an understatement. This album, originally released on the fledgling Chess Records in 1957, was Chuck Berrys first long playing album (after a slew of hit singles), and only the second ever for the label. Chuck Berry got Chess to sign him by playing a demo of, none other than "Maybellene".and the book of Genesis in the Bible of rock & roll was written. 180 gram LP + bonus CD of the album.
TRACKLISTING: 01. Schoolday 02. Deep Feeling 03. Too Much Monkey Business 04. Wee Wee Hours 05. Roly Poly 06. No Money Down 07. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 08. Berry Pickin' 09. Together We Will Always 10. Havana Moon 11. Down Bound Train 12. Drifting Heart
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2 - BERRY, CHUCK - AFTER SCHOOL SESSION - (LP)
After School Session is the debut LP from the late, great Chuck Berry, and one of the finest early American rock and roll albums. Featuring such classics as "Brown Eyed Handsome Man", "Havana Moon", "Too Much Monkey Business", "School Days", and more, this is truly one of the greatest first effort in rock and roll history. Recorded in Chicago between 1955 and 1957, this album was almost certainly worn out by fans across the pond with names like Lennon, McCartney, Jagger, Richards, Townshend, and more. Essential listening for any fan of real deal rock and roll.
TRACKLISTING: 01. School Day (ring Ring Goes The Bell) 02. Deep Feeling 03. Too Much Monkey Business 04. Wee Wee Hours 05. Roly Poly 06. No Money Down 07. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 08. Berry Pickin' 09. Together (we Will Always Be) 10. Havana Moon 11. Down Bound Train 12. Drifting Heart
3 - BERRY, CHUCK - FROM THE CHESS VAULTS - (7")
What can be said about Chuck Berry that hasnt been said before? The greatest rocknroll poet has been celebrated tons of times, in books, records, essays; his music has influenced several artists generations, his guitar style mimicked thousands of times. rocknroll cannot be conceived without Chuck Berry, being him the artist that probably better represents the genres holy trinity: musician, singer and composer, all in one and at the same level of proficiency.Far away from pretending to compile the greatest hits of Chuck Berry, the box that you are holding in your hands tries to give you a new perspective of what Chuck Berrys music meant during his beginnings at Chess Records. In the 6 EPs included in this collection you will find alternative takes of some of his greatest hits together with some of his less known songs, some of which were part of his LPs and some others that have remained unpublished in vinyl until today. To finish off we have included the two songs that integrated The Ecuadors single; the vocal band that accompanied Berry in several of his hits and for whom Chuck contributed as guitarist for their only single for Argo, Chess subsidiary.Unusual Chuck Berry, play it and enjoy!
TRACKLISTING: 01. Rock And Roll Music - 56' Demo 02. Driftin' Heart - Master 03. 13 Question Method - 1st Version 04. Reelin' And Rockin' - Take 1 DISC #2: 01. Sweet Little Sixteen - Take 11 02. Johnny B. Goode - Take 3 03. Beautiful Delilah - Take 16 04. Twenty One Blues - Master DISC #3: 01. House Of Blue Lights - Master 02. Oh, Yeah! - Master 03. Sweet Little Rock'n'roller - Take 5 04. Little Queenie - Take 8 DISC #4: 01. Betty Jean - Take 17 02. County Line - Master 03. Broken Arrow - Take 21 04. Childhood Sweetheart - Alt. Take DISC #5: 01. I Just Want To Make Love To You - Take 3 02. Too Pooped To Pop - Take A4 03. Let It Rock - Alt. Mix 04. I Still Got The Blues - Undubbed Take DISC #6: 01. Brow Eyed Handsome Man - Undubbed Take 02. The Man And The Donkey - Undubbed Take 03. Let Me Sleep Woman - The Ecuadors 04. Say You'll Be Mine - The Ecuadors
4 - BERRY, CHUCK - HAIL HAIL ROCK 'N' ROLL - (CD)
MUSIC ON CD
TRACKLISTING: 01. Maybellene 02. Around And Around 03. Sweet Little Sixteen 04. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 05. Memphis,tennessee 06. Too Much Monkey Business 07. Back In The U S A 08. Wee Wee Hours 09. Johnny B.goode 10. Little Queenie 11. Rock And Roll Music 12. Roll Over Beethoven 13. I'm Through With Love (hail! Hail! Rock 'n' R
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5 - BERRY, CHUCK - IS ON TOP - (L+C)
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Remastered, Limited edition coloured vinyl with free CD ** With Liner notes by renowned author and music journalist Max Decharne ** design by Sophie Lo In July 1956, Chess Records issued what was arguably the hardest-hitting Chuck Berry LP of them all, Chuck Berry Is On Top. Chuck Berry - guitar, lead vocals,Fred Below - drums,Bo Diddley - guitar,Willie Dixon - bass,Jerome Green - maracas,Ebbie Hardy - drums Johnnie Johnson - piano,Lafayette Leake - piano,The Moonglows - backing vocals,George Smith - bass,Jaspar Thomas - drums.
TRACKLISTING: 01. Almost Grown 02. Carol 03. Maybellene 04. Sweet Little Rock & Roller 05. Anthony Boy 06. Johnny B. Goode 07. Little Queenie 08. Jo Jo Gunne 09. Rollover Beethoven 10. Around & Around 11. Hey Pedro 12. Blues For Hawaiians
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6 - BERRY, CHUCK - NEW JUKE BOX HITS - (L+C)
Red Vinyl + Silver CD! Last In the series of reissues of the first 5 Chuck Berry albums. Fully remastered with stunning design from Sophie LO using original artwork with liner notes by Max DeCharne. Originally released in March 1961 on Chess Records. The one single on the album was "I'm Talking About You" .
TRACKLISTING: 01. I'm Talking About You 02. Diploma For Two 03. Thirteen Question Method 04. Away From You 05. Don't You Lie To Me 06. The Way It Was Before 07. Little Star 08. Route 66 09. Sweet Sixteen 10. Run Around 11. Stop And Listen 12. Rip It Up
7 - BERRY, CHUCK - ONE DOZEN BERRYS - (CD)
Chuck Berrys second solo album, following 1957s After School Session, One Dozen Berrys, was generally considered to be a much more sophisticated outing than its predecessor. There were four instrumentals among the twelve tracks on display, along with a couple of ballads and songs that owed inspiration from styles and genres ranging from the blues to country. All of which proved it was dangerous to put Chuck Berry into any one category; his success would transcend most styles of the time.
TRACKLISTING: 01. Sweet Little Sixteen 02. Blue Feeling 03. Lajuada 04. Rocking At The Philharmonic 05. Oh Baby Doll 06. Guitar Boogie 07. Reelin And Rockin 08. Ingo 09. Rock & Roll Music 10. How Youve Changed 11. Low Feeling 12. It Dont Take But A Few Minutes
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8 - BERRY, CHUCK - ONE DOZEN BERRYS - (LP)
The original rocker himself, the late Mr. Chuck Berry, back with One Dozen Berrys, his second long player, originally released in 1958. Without this record and this great artist, there are no Beatles, no Rolling Stones, no Who, no Zombies, no Sex Pistols, no Sonics, no rock and roll at all, in fact. What a singer, what a songwriter, what a guitarist, Chuck Berry was the full package and this classic LP features such all-timers as "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Reelin And Rockin", "Rock And Roll Music", and a whole lot more. Chuck Berry is a true originator and this is one of the finest LPs of his storied career.
TRACKLISTING: 01. Sweet Little Sixteen 02. Blue Feeling 03. La Jaunda (espanola) 04. Rockin' At The Philharmonic 05. Oh Baby Doll 06. Guitar Boogie 07. Reelin' And Rockin' 08. Ingo 09. Rock And Roll Music 10. How You've Changed 11. Low Feeling 12. It Don't Take But A Few Minutes
9 - BERRY, CHUCK - ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC - (7")
Official reissue of this first and very rare EP, originally released in France in 1958. Presented in a laminated thick cardboard sleeve, limited to 500 copies.
TRACKLISTING: 01. Rock And Roll Music 02. Roll Over Beethoven 03. Blue Feeling 04. Drifting Heart
10 - BERRY, CHUCK - ROCK'N'ROLL MASTERWORK - (L+C)
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11 - BERRY, CHUCK - ROCKIN' AT THE HOPS - (CD)
It seems strange that whilst Chuck Berry is rightly regarded as one of the powerhouses and innovators in rockand roll, not one of his key albums charted, at least in his homeland America. The very first album to make anykind of significant impact was The London Chuck Berry Sessions in 1972, by which time his influence was alreadyon the wane.Fortunately for Chuck, Britain had long recognised his significance, and five of his albums reached the charts between1963 and 1964. Despite this we go back to 1960 for the release of Rockin At The Hops, one of the strongestalbums of his career and an album that features an abundance of hit material.
TRACKLISTING: 01. Bye Bye Johnny 02. Worried Life Blues 03. Down The Road A Piece 04. Confessin The Blues 05. Too Pooped To Pop 06. Mad Lad 07. I Got To Find My Baby 08. Betrty Jean 09. Childhood Sweetheart 10. Broken Arrow 11. Driftin Blues 12. Let It Rock
12 - BERRY, CHUCK - THE CLASSIC YEARS - (CD)
Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. Quite simply, without him there would be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, nor a myriad others. This is a classic collection of 23 of his most popular and recognizable hits
TRACKLISTING: 01. Rock And Roll Music 02. Havana Moon 03. Johnny B. Goode 04. Sweet Little Sixteen 05. You Can't Catch Me 06. Maybellene 07. Oh Baby Doll 08. Carol 09. Roll Over Beethoven 10. Thirty Days 11. Sweet Little Rock And Roller 12. House Of Blue Lighs 13. Wee Wee Hours 14. Jo Jo Gunne 15. Around And Around 16. No Money Down 17. Reelin' And Rockin' 18. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 19. Downbound Train 20. Too Much Monkey Business 21. School Day 22. Beautiful Delilah 23. Memphis Tennessee
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How many cherries in frozen pie? FDA may soon drop rules
By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump may soon be able to claim a sweet victory for his deregulation push, with officials preparing to get rid of the decades-old rules for frozen cherry pies.
Emails show the Food and Drug Administration planned to start the process for revoking the standard for frozen cherry pies this week, followed by a similar revocation of the standard for French dressing. Plans to get rid of the obscure rules had been tucked into the Trump administration's deregulation agenda .
Standards for an array of foods including cottage cheese and canned peas were put in place decades ago partly to ensure a level of quality. They spell out how products with specific names can be made, including ingredients that are required or not allowed. The rules for frozen cherry pies say they must be 25% cherries by weight with no more than 15% of the cherries being blemished.
It's not always clear why some food terms have standards and others don't. The rules are seen as arcane by many and are a sore spot in the food industry, with companies saying they prevent innovation or prompt lawsuits. The FDA under Trump has said it plans to update the standards.
Lee Sanders of the American Bakers Association said she's hopeful the cherry pie standard will finally be revoked, but that it would not make a big difference for the industry.
"I feel confident our members are producing cherry pies with more than enough cherries," she said.
The FDA also plans to take another look at milk, which federal regulations define as coming from a cow. The dairy industry has called for a crackdown on soy, rice and almond drinks makers that use the term.
While any changes to the milk rule are likely to be contested, getting rid of the standard for frozen cherry pie is unlikely to be controversial.
The frozen cherry pie standard is an outlier because other fruit pies don't have similar rules. The same is true for French dressing: The Association for Dressings and Sauces, which once went after a vegan spread for violating the mayonnaise standard, notes other dressings are not subject to such standards.
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who stepped down this month, said in an October tweet that it was among the FDA's priorities to "de-regulate frozen cherry pie." He apparently wasn't entirely joking.
In a June email , the FDA noted plans to post a proposal to revoke the frozen cherry pie standard on April 18. It said the proposal to revoke the French dressing standard would be posted May 3.
In a statement this week, the FDA said the dates were for "long range internal planning purposes" and that the timing could shift. Updates to the standards will be publicly noted, the agency said.
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Redshirt freshman Katie Jekot led the Saint Joseph's women's basketball team in scoring for the second straight game, but it wasn't enough as the Hawks fell to VCU, 65-47, on Sunday at Hagan Arena.
Coming off a career-best 24 points at Dayton last Sunday, Jekot paced SJU with 15 points and added four rebounds and a pair of steals, while senior Alyssa Monaghan returned to the lineup to add 11 points and four assists as the Hawks moved to 6-15 on the year and 2-6 in Atlantic 10 play.
After a slow start to the game that saw the Hawks hold a 5-3 edge, VCU closed out the period on a 10-2 run to open a 13-6 edge.
Behind a 6-0 run early in the second quarter, Saint Joseph's cut the Rams' lead to 17-16 on a jumper by Lula Roig at 4:56, but VCU pushed its lead back to five.
Ahead 28-23 to start the third quarter, VCU scored the first six points of the period to up its lead to 35-23 on a basket by Tera Reed with 8:36 left in the quarter.
A pair of Monaghan free throws capped a 6-0 run for the Hawks to make it 35-29, but that is as close as they'd get as the Rams' held Saint Joseph's to just 7-24 shooting (29.2 percent) in the second half as they pulled away for the win.
For the game, SJU shot 35.4 percent from the floor (17-48), 31.3 percent from three-point range (5-16) and hit 8-12 from the foul line. Roig finished with eight points and four assists in a reserve role.
Reed led VCU (16-6, 8-1 A-10) with a game-high 18 points as the Rams finished the game shooting 41.5 percent (22-53) overall, knocked down 5-15 from behind the arc and 16-24 from the foul line.
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3,500,000 Guineas Dubawi Colt is World's Highest Priced Yearling in 2018
Lot 325: Dubawi (IRE) / Dar Re Mi (GB)
World's Highest Yearling Price in 2018 on Opening Day of Tattersalls October Book 1
The brother to TOO DARN HOT and LAH TI DAR lit up the Tattersalls sales ring when knocked down to David Redvers for 3.5 million guineas on a day of sensational trade. Twenty-seven yearlings sold for 500,000 guineas or more with seven topping the million-guinea mark and turnover topping 40 million guineas. The clearance rate for the day was also a remarkable 91%.
Brother to Too Darn Hot Sells For 3,500,000 Guineas
The Tattersalls sales ring swelled to bursting point in anticipation of the arrival of the DUBAWI colt out of Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber’s wonderful broodmare DAR RE MI. Already a brother to the Group 3 Tattersalls Musidora Stakes winner SO MI DAR and the Listed-winning filly LAH TI DAR when the catalogued was published, the colt subsequently received substantial catalogue updates. One was via LAH TI DAR who finished second in the Group 1 St Leger and the other was from his year older brother TOO DARN HOT who won the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and is the current anti-post favourite for next year’s 2,000 Guineas.
Sheikh Abdullah Almalek Alsabah made much of the early running along with Jamie McCalmont before Japanese trainer Mitsu Nakauchida and Shadwell Estates’ Angus Gold took up the running. Finally David Redvers joined in to secure the colt for 3,500,000 guineas, the highest price for a yearling anywhere in the world this year and the second highest price for a yearling colt sold in Europe.
Following his purchase, David Redvers commented:
"This is the sort of horse that Sheikh Fahad and his brothers want to own - they want to participate at the highest level and have had a taste of it this year with Roaring Lion. He is out of an exceptional mare and by an exception stallion. It is very hard to put a value on a horse such as this – you can see lovely horses selling for good sums and they still are not the best.
"We are looking to make commercial stallions - let's hope that he goes out and lives up to all the potential that he has."
He was bred and sold by Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber's Watership Down Stud, and Lady Lloyd Webber was in the sale ring to witness the sale.
"We are very lucky to have Dar Re Mi who is breeding horses who are out together with such perfection. This horse is very similar to Too Darn Hot, a little more mature if anything.
"The farm's policy is to sell the colts and keep the fillies - we were unable to sell Too Darn Hot last year, thank god in the end - so we kept to the plan. It has been a nerve-wracking six months, but Terry [Doherty, stud manager] has produced him brilliantly, he looked amazing.”
Brother to Oaks Winner Was Sells For 1.3 Million Guineas
As purchases go, there can have been few better than that of PARK EXPRESS who was purchased by the Burns Family’s Lodge Park Stud in 1984. Subsequently Champion two and three-year-old filly in Ireland, the daughter of AHOONOORA went on to produce the Derby winner NEW APPROACH and the Champion European filly DAZZLING PARK. Another daughter, called ALLURING PARK, failed to reach those heights on the racecourse, but has more than made up for it in the sale ring. Amongst the seven winners the daughter of GALILEO has produced is the Oaks winner WAS as well as the Group-placed AL NAMAAH who was sold at this sale in 2013 for a European auction yearling record at 5,000,000 guineas. It was therefore no surprise that the own-brother to the Classic winner should be in such great demand with MV Magnier signing the docket at 1,300,000 guineas.
"I have to thank everyone at home," said Damien Burns of Lodge Park. "There is a lot of work involved and there are many don't come to the sales. This colt was prepped by my brother Jamie."
"The mare did not have a foal this year," reported Burns. "She is in-foal to Dark Angel, which is a slightly differing approach but if you strip the pedigree back Alluring Park is a daughter of Green Desert and is out of Park Express - a champion two-year-old and by Ahonoora."
Cheveley Park Stud buy Galileo Filly for 1.2m Guineas
The first of the lots to hit seven figures on the second day was the GALILEO filly out of the Group 3 DUKE OF MARMALADE mare WANNABE BETTER who was knocked down to Cheveley Park Stud’s Chris Richardson for 1,200,000 guineas.
Consigned from Tom & Michael Gaffney’s Churchtown House Stud, the filly attracted interest from throughout the ring, with agent Tom Goff prominent early along with Kerri Radcliffe, stood alongside American owner Sheila Rosenblum and Hubie de Burgh, stood alongside Australian John Camilleri, breeder of Winx. Trainer Simon Crisford also made his presence felt, but it was Richardson who finally secured the filly whose dam is a half-sister to the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner WANNABE GRAND.
"I have to be daring once in my life" smiled Patricia Thompson of Cheveley Park Stud after the purchase. "We just loved everything about her."
Chris Richardson, the stud's manager, added: "There are not many opportunities to buy Galileo fillies and he is such a phenomenal sire. This is such a strong pedigree, we are delighted to have bought her."
Dubawi Half-Brother to Legatissimo Sells for 1.2 million Guineas
The DUBAWI colt out of the MONTJEU mare YUMMY MUMMY continued the great sale for Newsells Park Stud when selling to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 1,200,000 Guineas. The colt is a half-brother to the triple Group 1 winner LEGATISSIMO, the DANEHILL DANCER filly whose successes included the 1,000 Guineas, the Nassau Stakes and the Matron Stakes.
YUMMY MUMMY was purchased at the 2009 Tattersalls December Mare Sale by John Warren Bloodstock on behalf of Newsells Park for 460,000 guineas. The sister to the multiple Group 1 winner FAME AND GLORY has been a great producer with her five foals of racing age all winning and realising a total of 3,805,000 guineas since 2011 at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.
Sister to Leger Winner Kew Gardens Sells for 1.2 Million Guineas
The full-sister to the Group 1 St Leger winner KEW GARDENS was knocked down to Coolmore Stud’s MV Magnier for 1,200,000 guineas. Consigned by David and Diane Nagle’s Barronstown Stud, the filly is by GALILEO out of the Group 1 winning DESERT KING mare CHELSEA ROSE. KEW GARDENS finished seventh in the Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at the weekend and has an entry in the Group 2 Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup.
Horse France Strikes For Galileo Filly at 1 million guineas
GALILEO fillies continued to dominate at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale with Horse France’s Robert Nataf securing the daughter of BROOKLYN’S STORM for 1,000,000 guineas. The STORM CAT mare is the dam of the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner POLLARA and the Listed winner STORMINA, herself the dam of the dual Group 1 winner and champion two-year-old, SILASOL. "She will be trained in France," said Nataf. "My client was wanting a racing and then a broodmare prospect - this is a huge pedigree and this filly has a lot of residual value." BROOKLYN’S STORM is a half-sister to Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner SOLEMIA, as well as Group winners PROSPECT WELLS and PROSPECT PARK with her pedigree also including the Group 1 Sussex Stakes winner THE GURKHA.
Pinhook Success for Longview Stud with 1,000,000 Guineas Sea The Stars Colt
The team from Longview Stud were celebrating following a stunning pinhook success with the sale of their SEA THE STARS colt out of CHICAGO DANCER who was purchased by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 1,000,000 guineas. The colt was purchased by Gerry Dilger’s Dromoland Farm on behalf of his owners for 330,000 Euros as a foal. Diego Romeo, the manager of Longview Stud, said: "It was a pricey pinhook, but he is a gorgeous colt and we've loved him from the beginning. "Everything has gone to plan with him and he is very straightforward. Sea The Stars is a fantastic sire - we are very happy."
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