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Hopefully Franks kills Daredevil and the show turns into "Punisher".
Lisbeth's lover? Nice.
34 years old. Good choice
http://marvel.com/news/tv/24840/elod...vels_daredevil
Elodie Yung (“G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” “District 13: Ultimatum”) joins the next season of “Marvel’s Daredevil,” streaming only on Netflix in 2016!
Yung will play Elektra, a mysterious woman from Matt Murdock’s past whose dangerous and exotic ways may be more than he can handle. The first season of “Marvel’s Daredevil” made reference to Elektra, but now Yung will portray one of Daredevil's fan-favorite characters. Elektra marks the most recent major addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as she will join Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle in the upcoming season of the Netflix Original Series “Marvel’s Daredevil.”
“After a worldwide search, we found in Elodie the perfect actress to embody both Elektra’s impressive and deadly physicality, as well as her psychological complexity,” said Executive Producer and Head of Marvel Television, Jeph Loeb. “Paired with Charlie as Matt Murdock, the two will bring one of the most beloved and tumultuous comic book relationships to life with all the accompanying sparks and spectacular action sequences the show is known for.”
“Marvel's Daredevil” is Executive Produced by Doug Petrie (“American Horror Story,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), Marco Ramirez (“Marvel’s Daredevil,” “DaVinci’s Demons”) and Drew Goddard ("Cabin in the Woods," "Lost"), along with Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb ("Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Marvel’s Jessica Jones.”)
"Marvel's Daredevil" is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios. Season one of “Marvel’s Daredevil” is now streaming on Netflix.
Blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) fights against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the Super Hero “Daredevil” in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City. "Marvel's Daredevil" stars Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Jon Bernthal, and Rosario Dawson.
Small teaser for Season 2:
listopencil 12:46 AM 12-30-2015
I really like the preacher character in the series. He offers a great sounding board for scenes that replace internal dialogue.
Buehler445 07:22 PM 01-07-2016
I'm ready. Let's fucking go.
March 18th.
Pitt Gorilla 08:38 PM 01-07-2016
In case anyone needs to be reminded how perfect the Punisher's casting was.
Also, Fury.
Mr. Plow 08:45 AM 01-12-2016
Without reading this thread; just started watching this. I've made it through I think the first 10 episodes so I've got another 3-4 left in season 1. Great series. I'm thoroughly enjoying every episode & looking forward to season 2.
Buehler445 09:43 AM 01-12-2016
Originally Posted by Mr. Plow:
They get better.
I've been looking for a vid on who all the people are in the mural but haven't found one yet.
I'm not that familiar with the DD universe so I'm not even going to try...
unlurking 11:34 AM 01-12-2016
Poster of the mural. Go Punisher! :-)
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In my very own opinion, the X-Men cartoon series was arguably the closest remake of the X-men that fans could get and much more faithful to the comic books themselves than what the live action movies will ever be. The costumes were identical as the comics, the superheroes were as realistic as they were and the story lines were much more varied, exciting and believable. Wolverine, Storm, Gambit, Rogue, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Professor Xavier and Jubilee were as they were. The artwork was also excellent, but just what you'd expected from Marvel.
Whilst the films were in all a shambles in terms of the design and look of the characters, the cartoon series and Marvel have thankfully retained the originality, appeal and quality of the comics, and the appearances of which made the X-men one of the most successful comic book hero franchises in history. Another difference between the cartoon series and the films was the fact the creators of the show put a lot of emphasis on character development and the emotional plight of the mutants's own expectations of wanting to belong to the world and to feel accepted, which this has been addressed much better in the series than the film trilogy ever did. Therefore, the human interest aspect- no make that mutant interest aspect and the triumph over adversity tales of each and everyone of the X-Men members had more of a feel and resonance to it, of which we could empathise the characters with, and of which the films themselves fail to do because it just didn't translate well on the big screen.
Unlike the movies, the animated show had a raw ness and bite to each and every one of those characters that was totally devoid in the live action versions and it never managed to pussyfoot around the issues, as well as the story lines, of which again were far more realistic and believable.
This is what the movies themselves ought to have been like, but rather than leave things as they were, the directors Brett Ratner and Brian Singer decided to change a couple things round, without realising how much this would put die-hard and ardent X-men fans off. Why tamper with a classic formula? Besides, the film's disappointment shouldn't take away from the fact that the cartoon series is the best on- screen version of the X-Men.
Forget the films, either stick with the comics or go for this, the animated version instead.
Superman: The Animated Series
The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Fox initially had a lot of resistance to the cartoon series before it became a success. They felt that the target audiences, kids under 10, wouldn't be interested in a romantic love triangle between Cyclops, Jean, and Wolverine. They also thought kids wouldn't keep up with a show that was serialized.
Beast: Ahem, the guard's keys.
Wolverine: So I'll buy 'em a new door!
In the episode "Nightcrawler" Rogue goes from wearing her tattered costume to monk's robes and back between shots.
In the opening credits, a roll call of the X-Men occurs, with each member showing off their particular ability.
The first season of X-Men, when aired on FoxKids, featured CGI character profile models during the end credits. Later airings replaced these credits with those similar to season 2. When the fourth year episodes began, short clips from past episodes were filtered into the credits for the original airings. When the final year's worth of episodes aired, the series recieved slightly altered intro animation and music. When reruns of the series moved over to UPN for a short while, all of the aired episode intros and credits were replaced with brand animation, featuring Cable among the regular X-Men.
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My earliest remembrances of magicians was when I was 4 years old; every week I'd excitedly look forward to matching "The Magic Land of Alakazam" featuring Mark Wilson, and his lovely wife/assistant, Nani Darnell. My gaze fixated in front of our television in the apartment which was our home in the Cote-des-Neiges area of Montreal, Canada, I'd marvel at the wonders before my eyes: a rabbit appearing out of nowhere; a magic wand seeming to contain the arcane "power" to make people appear and disappear; jumbo, glittery props being wheeled on and off, but most importantly, the welcoming, reassuring, and comforting voice of this "miracle-maker", this handsomely-dressed gentleman in a tux and cape, who led us weekly on journeys of wonder and excitement. Playing cards were expertly, smoothly and artistically manipulated, as well, by Mark Wilson. Oh, how I longed to be this nice, amazing person!
A few years later, imagine my anticipation and delight: yet another magician was soon to appear regularly on our television, through the brand-new Montreal channel, "CFCF": Magic Tom Auburn and his "Surprise Party" show! Magic Tom's show ran for more than twenty years on our local channels, both in English and in French; I recall he had a second TV-show, a variety-showcase for younger talent, on Saturdays as well! It was from Tom Auburn that I, as well as many other aspiring young Montreal magicians began to call themselves "Magic Mark", or "Magic Richard"; I, of course, eventually called myself "Magic Mike" many years later after relocating to central Canada.
It seems that my formative years were always filled with the wonder of magicians on television: Paul Daniels from England, "The Amazing Kreskin", "Fantasio" and his candelabras and candles, Richard Ross and his mystifying linking and un-linking jumbo silver hoops, only a few of many magicians who appeared (and disappeared?) on Ed Sullivan'sSunday evening variety TV-show, Johnny Carson (himself an amateur magician) who had many magicians on his show, Dick Van Dyke, was yet another television/movie entertainer who started his professional career doing magic! Of course, later on in the '80's and '90's, there was Doug Henning, a Winnipeg-born magician with his television specials and Broadway extravaganzas, as well as David Copperfield's regular magic-themed TV specials. Even magician Harry Anderson had a successful TV foray called "Night Court", a showcase for Anderson's tricks and gags! The 1980's and '90's were ripe with magic-themed specials on TV, including "The World's Greatest Magic". But I digressed slightly from my childhood. There were the TV-commercials for "Pinky Stamps" (a Montreal anomaly in the '50's and '60's) featuring local magician Henry Gordon, who also had a counter in his novelty-store devoted to magic; it was from Mr. Gordon that my dad bought me, at age 14, my very first magic-tricks. I remember Henry Gordon saying to my dad, "He'll be in magic for the rest of his life!" Little did I realize how true that statement would turn out to be. Of course, Montreal was a hot-bed of novelty/magic-stores in the 60's, '70's, and '80's, including the world-renowned "Perfect Magic", owned by Phil and Evelyn Matlin, and Herb Morissey's "Morissey Magic", which along with "Henry Gordon's Party Centre", are both now defunct. The shops themselves will be the subject of a future article, let alone the world-famous professional magicians that were spawned from them.
Indeed, growing up in Montreal contributed to my experiencing a most wonderful, inspiring, and magical childhood.
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Category Archives: Staffordshire County Senior League Clubs
Manchopper in….Stafford (Stafford Town FC)
Posted by Manchopper on 04/01/2019
Result: Stafford Town 1-2 Redgate Clayton (Staffordshire County Senior League Premier Division)
Venue: Evans Park (Saturday 29th December 2018, 2pm)
Att: (no idea) 60 ish?
As my original planned game at St. Helens fell by the wayside due to travel issues, I was left with a free weekend for the first time in as long as I remember. With that being the case, I reckoned it best to head into Manchester and see what was on the go, but first I had to have some sort of an idea of where to go and when I had to get there. My perusing of the fixture lists of numerous leagues saw me eventually come across Stafford Town and Brocton, both of which were located in Stafford and so I would even have an option upon my arrival in the county town. It looked as though my likeliest destination had been sorted. But to which ground would I be headed?
I arrived into Manchester with still no plan set in stone, but a quick look at the screens showed the train down to Stafford was leaving in just ten minutes and it looked like it was meant to be. After buying my ticket and grabbing one of a number of, for once, available seats on a Crosscountry train, I was soon rocking and rolling down through Cheshire before getting to Stafford at just after 11.30am and having had a tour of the pretty Victoria Park opposite, I set my sights on the more important things as I headed through the strange mix of old and new in the centre (especially the shopping bit):- pubs and stadia.
Lamb Inn
Old Rose Crown
Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire and derives its name from ‘ford’ by a ‘staithe’ (landing-place) and the original settlement was on a dry sand and gravelly peninsula that provided a strategic crossing of the River Sow and a large area of the marshland that surrounded the area then still remains. It’s thought that Stafford in its current form was founded around the year 700 AD by a Mercian prince by the name of Bertelin who, according to legend, founded a hermitage on the peninsula, seemingly named after himself:- Betheney. It had been thought that an old wooden cross from the same era had been found under the remains of the church which bears his saintly name, but it was later found to have been nothing more than an old coffin, dating from the founding of the “burh” by Ethelflæd, Lady of Mercia, in 913AD and may have been an offering of sorts to St. Bertelin. This “burh” was fortified and industrialised to produce Roman-style pottery known as “Stafford Ware”.
Already a centre for deliveries of grain during the Middle Ages, the town grew under the Lady of Mercia (who herself was a formidable military leader and tactician) and she was making attempts to, along with brother Edward the Elder of Wessex, unify England into a single kingdom under their father King Alfred the Great. She also founded the “burh” at Runcorn and Tamworth amongst others. Stafford became a major military base and began to produce meat, baking coinage and weaponry and the Lady ruled over Mercia in 918 AD until her demise in Tamworth. Around this time, the county of Stafford was formed within the Pirehill hundred and in 1069, Stafford was the site of the Battle bearing the town’s name between Eadric the Wild (rebelling against the Norman conquest) and Edwin, Earl of Mercia, would follow his lead two years later but would be killed leading to William the Conquerer dividing his lands between his nobility. A castle was added in 1090, the ruins that remain today date from the later 19th century iteration, though uses much of the original stone.
Ancient High House
Redevelopment in the 12th century saw a motte created overlooking to ford, and trades and crafts flourished in trade until the 14th century (likely due to the Black Death) and upturned in fortunes again during the mid-16th century. In 1206, Stafford received its royal charter from King John which created the borough of Stafford and it became a market town dealing in cloth and wool. King Richard II was paraded through the town as prisoner of the future Henry IV in 1399 and Charles I stayed in the town’s Ancient High House after the outbreak of the English Civil War. The 1st Viscount of Stafford, William Howard, would be executed for involvement in the Popish plot (before being later exonerated and beatified as a Catholic martyr). The railways arrived in the town in 1837 (from Warrington to Birmingham) and later became an important junction, thus attracting many industries and Stafford is home to the Stafford(shire) knot, a distinctive three-looped knot that is the traditional symbol of the county.
I first went off in slightly the wrong direction but did end up coming around to finding the Lamb Inn, a pub dating from the 19th century. Sadly, as I did receive a warm welcome, it was empty upon my arrival (though this was at opening time) and this didn’t change throughout my short stay as I supped at a pint of Stella (£3.70) as the twitterverse decided on my venue. By the time I arrived at my second stop, the Joules outlet by the name of the Rose & Crown, my destination was certain – I was off to Evans Park, home of Stafford Town – and my pint of Pale Ale (£3.35) was all the better for knowing.
Market Vaults
Shrewsbury Arms
A swift one in the pub the other side of the large gallery in the town square, by the name of the Market Vaults saw me begin my switch onto cider with an Old Rosie (£4.05) and from there then I continued to the nearby The Bear pub right in front of the impressive Tudor-era Ancient High House. A quick Dark Fruits (£3.45) in here also saw me kindly be allowed to reserve a programme for my arrival via Stafford’s twitter, which allowed me a stop off at my final pre-match hostelry, the Shrewsbury Arms, where my strange concoctions of real cider tasting began with an Apple & Pear offering, which came in at £3.80. Finishing up, it was off to the ground via getting stuck in an ASDA car park. (NB: I was on foot, don’t worry, I don’t drive….yet!).
A ten minute or so walk later, I arrived at the gates of Evans Park and after navigating the car-park I got to the gate, paid my £3 entry and was pointed in the direction of my programme – the food bar. Handing over my £1 fee for the bible, kick-off had just occurred and the game was going through its early stages. Evans Park is a tidy ground with a new-ish 3G (or something like it, it’s all 3G to me) surface providing a good quality of play. A large stand dominates the otherwise featureless ground, with seating located more-or-less centralised over the “tunnel” and the sides empty, giving it a rather strange look. The remainder of the ground is open, hard standing with the dressing rooms located below the stand, the food bar between it and the turnstiles down in the near corner. That’s the ground and this is the story of Stafford Town….
History Lesson:
Stafford Town Football Club was founded in 1976 as Stafford F.C. and joined the Midland Combination Division 2 for the 1977-’78 season, winning the division at the second attempt. They changed their name to Stafford Town in 1981 though left the Combination the next year and joined the ranks of the newly founded Staffordshire County Senior League in 1984. Finishing a best of runners-up in 1992, they would remain until the end of the following campaign (spending two seasons there as Stafford MSHD after a merger with a Sunday League team of the suffix’s name) when the club joined the West Midlands Regional League and won the Division One at their first attempt, earning promotion to the Premier Division.
Arriving at the ground
They would win the Premier Division of the WMRL in the millennium season of 1999-2000 and were promoted to the Midland Football Alliance. However, they would finish bottom in 2004 and were relegated back to the WMRL Division One. The club wouldn’t return until 2010 when they finished as runners-up to secure promotion back to the Midland Alliance – missing out on the title on goal difference alone – and transferred to the Midland Combination Premier Division in 2013 remaining there through the league’s merger with the Midland Alliance the next year and winning the Les James Challenge Cup before being relegated last season after finishing 20th out of 22 and returned to the Staffordshire County Senior League after a 25-year absence.
The game began with Stafford on the front-foot, putting in a number of early shots on the Redgate Clayton goal, the first of which clipped the crossbar and another few were either saved easily or ended up off-target. Stafford’s domination of the first-half was quite surprising given the relative position of the two teams in the table being so close, but it was the hosts who would continue to threaten to grab the opener, with Clayton hardly creating a chance or a real stop out of the Stafford ‘keeper.
Match Action
As it was, Town continued on but found the Clayton ‘keeper in good form. First, he found himself in a one-on-one situation against Stafford’s #8 but saved well, and then denied Tom Duffy’s effort from inside the area in more routine fashion. However, he would eventually be beaten just a few minutes before the break – and just after I’d finished up my meat and potato pasty – when, after Duffy went close on a further couple of occasions, firing wide and forcing a further stop just a few moments earlier, he would be third-time lucky, finding the top corner from the edge of the area and giving the ‘keeper no chance. Half-Time arrived soon afterwards, the hosts deservedly leading but only by the slenderest of margins.
After a rather uneventful break, I soon got talking to a trio of Town supporters ahead of me whom I believe were named Ted, Emily and a young lad whose name escapes me (though it is definitely possible I may have fabricated the other two as well as I did forget to make a note) and the conversation spanned the vast majority of the second-half before I headed for a whistle-stop second-half lap of the ground with around ten/fifteen minutes or so left. It was good speaking and meeting you, so please accept my name-related ignorance! Meanwhile, back on the pitch, it began to appear as though Stafford (who I’d decided at this point must be miles ahead of Redgate by this performance) would continue their dominant display as a good move ended with #2 hitting just over. How wrong this view would be.
View from the stand
From then on it was pretty much all Redgate. First, one of the midfield headed off target from around eight-yards when he really ought to have at least hit the target but the visitors would be level shortly afterwards when Ben Mathews netted direct from a corner, meaning I’d now seen two in the space of three weeks having (I think) never seen one live in person before. Crazy. Anyway, Stafford responded to the set-back when #10 gambled well but upon being presented with a chance to shoot, hesitated, and ended up giving the Clayton ‘keeper an easier save than he might have had otherwise.
Stafford’s #1 then showed his best by pulling off a pair of quick-fire saves to deny #9 one-on-one, then palming away a drive from long-range, but he would be eventually beaten by Mathews’ second of the game as a free-kick ended as something of a cross-cum-shot and ended up drifting over everyone and into the far corner of the net to give Clayton a lead they would hold onto fairly comfortably until the end, only having to survive a spell of in-box pinball and a late effort from #3 to secure the points. Full-time: 1-2.
Sun Inn
Floodgate Ale House
Picture House
After the game, the short walk back around the cricket club and to the town-centre was undertaken and I was soon within the Sun Inn where I had a quick post-match surmise with Ted before finishing up my pint of Stowford (£3.75) and heading to the Floodgate Ale House, where I opted to try out a pint of the Rhubarb cider which was lovely at £3.50. From there, it was a back-track around the corner to the Wetherspoon’s on this side of the town, the rather grand and interesting Picture House, still with the screen and projector in situ behind the bar area. I settled in for a while over a bottle of Balitka, before realising the train back was a little too tight to bother with and instead opted to go for a final one at the Bird In’ Hand, located a couple of minutes away from the station.
This rounded off the day before grabbing the train back at a little after 7pm, and I arrived back in Manchester around a half-hour later, before making my way over to Piccadilly Gardens for the bus back home, though I did discover that tripping over a tram-line isn’t a great thing to do….! Either way, that was the only blot on a day which had proved a pretty fun one. Having made a choice all but on the fly, it was good to truly see Stafford, my prior visit to Rangers a number of years back having been far too short for my liking. The game was decent enough and the ground smart too and it always gives nice memories and opinions when you meet fans as open and friendly as I came across here. Cheers, Stafford, for a good one and I look forward to being back soon. That’s a year with no nil-nil. Could January 1st see a change….? (SPOILERS AOTS!).
Game: 7
Ground: 6
Food: 6
Programme: 6
Value For Money: 7
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Manchopper in….Ball Haye Green
Result: Ball Haye Green 1-2 Redgate Clayton (Staffordshire County Senior League Premier Division)
Venue: Ball Haye Green Sports Club (Saturday 24th February 2018, 2.30pm)
Att: 25 (approx.)
Just about beating the “Beast from the East” to the punch, the final weekend of February saw me heading down into the Staffordshire market town of Leek – but not for the club carrying the town’s name. Having already visited Leek Town the season before (during their FA Cup tie with Kettering Town), I was instead looking towards the far side and the Ball Haye area of Leek for Staffordshire League outfit Ball Haye Green. The main reason for this was the fact that this, somewhat uniquely back-dropped, ground is soon to be consigned to the history books, with the club to be turfed out at the end of the season at the request of the landowner. So, having wanted to visit since I found out about Ball Haye’s home a couple of years back, I decided that this was the perfect time to visit.
Heading off on a cold, crisp morning, I caught the train from Manchester for the short hop down to Macclesfield, where I’d then get the bus to Leek, the trip covered by the Greater Manchester Wayfarer ticket. The trip to Macclesfield was completed easily enough (with a Gillingham team sighting included) before a 20 minute wait had to be endured in Macc’s less than beautiful bus station, which also saw me helping to keep an automatic door from crushing pensioners. Great scenes occurring.
First stop, the Quietwoman
Eventually the bus arrived and I was soon heading down and through the picturesque hills of South Cheshire and Staffordshire. Arriving into Leek along with a few more of the older statespersons of the area at just before 1pm, I planned on heading to the pub near the bus stop by the name of the Britannia and planning out the rest of my route towards the ground from there. Unfortunately, this was soon by the wayside as the place was firmly shut up and so I instead continued on and towards the main area of the town, eventually spotting two pubs, the Wilkes Head back up the hill and the Quietwoman down it. I didn’t much fancy heading back up the fairly steep incline once more and so headed straight into the latter where I was soon supping a pint of Wrexham Brewery’s Lager for £3 in what is quite a decent place. Of course, still being at the far side of town to the ground, I had little in the way of time in here before heading onwards into the centre.
Having already tested out the Red Lion on my previous visit to Leek, I decided to forego another visit here and still had a choice of a number of others which, sadly, didn’t include Den Engel at this time as this was apparently shut until later in the day. So I was left with the Valiant, the Cock and the Roebuck. After a look at each, I decided on the latter and headed inside to find a good range of Titanic ales on. With me not being a huge ale drinker on the whole, I plumped for the session ale, which proved a decent enough pint to accompany me through the next twenty or so minutes before heading over to Ball Haye itself.
Leek Town Centre
Soon finding myself traipsing uphill once more, I at least consoled myself that I was on Ball Haye Road and, therefore, not too far from the Sports Club that Ball Haye Green have called home for the last 80-plus years. I arrived at the gates of the ground to find a few people heading in already, whereas I figured that, with 15 minutes to kick-off, it was a little early to pop inside yet and decided to visit the nearby Ball Haye Tavern, located just a few doors further on down, first. This would prove a good call with regards to the events around an hour later!
Squeezed into a row of terraced houses, the faux Tudor façade of the pub helps it be pretty unmissable. I was soon inside and watching the final throes of Stoke City’s game at Leicester, with the locals gathered around the TV and most definitely feeling the nerves as the Stokies held on for a point despite a late scare. Upon the end of the game, I finished up my pint of Carlsberg and back-tracked to the Ball Haye Sports Club where I handed over my £2 for entry to the tidy little ground and, in addition, was handed a raffle ticket to go along with entry. Not bad really is it?!
All roads lead to Ball Haye
Ball Haye Tavern
Ball Haye Sports ground is a nice enough place, situated between a number of factories/warehouses with a particularly large one, immediately behind the small covered area, towering over the ground. This gives the ground a feeling of something a bit different and definitely offers quite the sight as it dominates the ground. The covered standing area runs the majority of the far side of the pitch with a small area at both ends of it being uncovered, hard standing. The remainder of the ground also plays host to further open, hard standing but, whereas the stand side is a two-stepped “terrace”, the remainder of the standing is a flat affair. Behind the goal from which you enter stands the seemingly defunct social club, hospitality building and the dressing rooms and tea bar building, which also can double as a little extra covered standing if required, I’d guess. As I say, a good venue for the level and one that, in my opinion, will be missed. Anyway, here’s the rest of the story of Ball Haye Green FC….
Despite dating from 1880, information on Ball Haye Green is remarkably hard to come across. I know from Dave (read more to find out who he is) that they definitely were playing prior to the earliest record I can find (apparently the Wycombe Wanderer, Russ, had this issue too) other than their date of formation is when the club became a founder member of the Staffordshire Senior League in 1984.
They have remained here through to this day and after being a largely mid-table side early on in their tenure here, prior to a couple of years of struggle, Green finished runners-up in 1994 & went on to win the league title the next season, 1994-’95, which was also the first year the league was known under the Midland League name. After a couple of upper mid-table finishes after the earlier successes, the club again dropped away to the lower end of the table. 2005 saw a return to some sort of form, the club finishing as runners-up in rounding off the Midland League’s tenure.
After a ten-year stint known as the Midland League, the league’s name changed to the Staffordshire County Senior League upon its merger with the Staffordshire County League. The following season saw Green again finish as runners-up, missing out on a second title at this level on goal-difference only. However, 2011 saw the club achieve their second league title and their last one to date.
Arriving back at the ground
Teams enter the pitch
The game got underway with Redgate striking the first blow pretty early on, the #10 Matt Hope, who’d go on to be their most potent threat throughout the game, capitalising on a mistake by the Ball Haye ‘keeper to fire into the rather unguarded net. He almost had a chance to double up soon after too but, after getting clear, wastefully clipped the ball into the ‘keeper’s grateful arms.
This miss looked an even worse one a few minutes later as the hosts grabbed the equaliser, a pretty speculative effort by their #9, Mike Keates, seemingly bouncing awkwardly in front of the diving Redgate Clayton custodian, the prone ‘keeper seeing the ball then bounce over his arms and nestle into the back of the net. One apiece and an all action start to the game gave more hope to one of those entertaining goal-gluts.
I continued on towards the far end of the ground where I met Ball Haye fan, groundstaff member and general volunteer, Dave. A veteran follower of the club, Dave gave me a good run-down of the issues facing the club and the hopes for some sort of resolution going forward, as well as a couple of other tales and what have you. It’s always cool to meet these guys and girls out and about! Alas, I would leave Dave (who’d returned to Leek from the similar surroundings of India a few years earlier) in something of a disappointment when, after both sides had wasted good chances to go ahead – Clayton’s Hope again going close, firing wide when he ought to have netted and a scramble seeing Green just unable to force the ball home, the ever-present danger of Hope again came to the fore as he nicely lifted the ball over the ‘keeper for 1-2.
Half-Time would arrive soon after with little in the way of action following the second Clayton goal and I headed for the tea bar for a mug of soup and, yes, it was served in a proper mug. Extra props for that! Anyway it was whilst queuing up that the events I referred to earlier occurred. As the PA system guy announced the raffle winning number to the twenty-plus crowd, I reckoned that the number sounded somewhat familiar, but then I’ve done that before and been mistaken. By some way. Then the guy behind me in the queue exclaimed “It must have been whoever was after me!” and the thought grew ever more prevalent in my mind. I bought the soup (70p) and headed to the nearby wall and, after a bit of scrambling around to find the strip of paper that may or may not have held the key to the treasure.
I eventually came across it just as the announcement again rang out and, lo and behold, I had indeed won a raffle! For the first time (off the top of my head) whilst doing this silly traversing of the country, I had won a raffle. Unbelievable scenes were occurring in this sleepy corner of Leek and I was soon in possession of a nice bottle of Chardonnay. Thanks for the late birthday present!
After all that excitement and with my soup and new gift in tow, I turned my attention back towards the pitch for the second half. The visitors again stated the stronger but this time it was the #7 who was the man causing issues for the Ball Haye Green stopper. First he saw a shot from range saved fairly comfortably before a foul a good thirty yards saw the same player’s free-kick also kept out. A poor kick by the ‘keeper then gave that man Hope a great chance to put some real distance between the sides, but he again had set his sights wayward and fired wastefully wide from inside the area.
The home side looked to be on the wane as the game continued (apparently they were lacking a lot of players) and Redgate continued to look as though they’d get a probable third and seal the points. But the chances continued to be wasted, #11 being denied by the increasingly busy Ball Haye gloveman, Hope again spurning a pair of good chances, scuffing an effort when well placed before firing an effort comfortably over before #7 looked to have found the top corner with a curling set-piece, only for the Green ‘keeper to pull off a great save to deny him.
This save almost proved to be a turning point as the final ten minutes or so saw Ball Haye begin to get something of a second wind and they fashioned two fantastic late chances which would have secured them a good point. Both these chances fell to Keates who, between all the earlier Redgate efforts, had forced a rare second-half save out of the visiting #1. He firstly found himself in behind the defence but fired over before a more difficult chance just before the end saw his strong effort beaten away by the ‘keeper to ensure the visitors would be heading back to the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent with the points.
BHG’s ‘keeper about to deny Gate’s #7
I made a hasty exit from the increasingly nippy ground and made my way back towards the town via a different route. This one would take me to the Cattle Market and, no, that’s not a name I’m giving something in a distinctly unimpressed fashion, but a pub just around the corner from the town’s bus station. Unfortunately, the handily placed pub looked shut from side on, but luckily I’d just passed the unspectacular-looking Fountain and so I reckoned I’d try my luck in here. I struck lucky too, as the place was a brilliant little pub and well worth the visit for a pint of cider at just a tick over £3. I settled in the empty back part of the pub to watch Final Score away from the noisier front area, only for the place to be swamped about ten minutes after I arrived and the TV ended up timing out or something anyway. Not to worry, it was onwards again.
As I passed the Cattle Market once more, I this time spied people at the table by the window, therefore confirming the place was open….or there were squatters in there. Either way, I went round for a look and was soon at the bar and drinking another Carlsberg, this one coming in at under the magic £3 mark. After watching some of England’s 6Nations clash with Scotland up at Murrayfield (which, incidentally, I watched Hearts play St. Johnstone at earlier this season), I headed back into the ever colder Leek evening and to the final stop of the day, Beyond the Pale which, I figured, sounding like a modern-style ale house/tap. It sort of was too, though I settled on a pint of the Dark Fruits-style cider they had on here before popping round the corner and to the neighbouring bus station where the bus was waiting to whisk me back into Macc. This went pretty quickly too, as I nodded off on a few occasions!
Cattle Market & Memorial
Beyond the Pale
Soon enough I was safely on the train and dozing once more before being awakened at Piccadilly by someone who thankfully did “pity the fool”. All other connections were easy and no further issues saw a fine day come to a close and it had been another decent trip. As I said earlier, the ground is one I’ve had on my wish-list for a while and the game was pretty good too. Leek is a great town and getting there for £13 isn’t too bad either, considering the extortionate prices we pay to get anywhere in this country at the moment. Meeting Dave was cool and the cherry on top came with the raffle triumph. Get in there! Now, time to survive the “Beast from the East” and “Storm Emma” (which is a great wrestling name if reversed, btw) and hopefully reach the next weekend and visit a certain Park featuring the name of a large house seen often in the Roman-era….
Food: 5 (soup)
Programme: N/A
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Liriope muscari ‘Evergreen Giant’
Evergreen Giant Liriope, Evergreen Giant Lilyturf
Liriope (leer-EYE-o-pee) - named for the Greek woodland nymph, Liriope, the mother of Narcissus
muscari (mus-CARE-ee) - referring to musky odor; also said to be in reference to its resemblance to Grape Hyacinth (Muscari)
‘Evergreen Giant’ – cultivar name
Some taxonomists put in Liliaceae; others put in Ruscaceae; still others put in Asparagaceae
species - China, Japan, Taiwan; cultivar – Australia
Evergreen Giant Liriope is an evergreen herbaceous perennial that averages 18 to 24 inches in height with a comparable spread. It is a grass-like clump grower, spreading by rhizomes and suckers. It has a moderate growth rate. It is a taller-growing cultivar of Liriope.
Leaves are evergreen, linear-shaped, simple, 18 to 24 inches long and ½ inch wide with entire margins, and dark green in color. It has parallel veins and the leaves arise directly from the ground.
The light purple/blue flowers are about 1/4 inch across and are borne in spikes. It blooms primarily from spring to fall.
Fruit are 1/3 inch diameter black to dark blue, shiny, round berries.
It is hardy in USDA zones 6 to 11, down to about 0 degrees F.
It prefers partial shade, but it will tolerate full sun. Evergreen Giant seems to take a little more sun than some other cultivars, but too much sun in the hotter regions can cause tip burn.
Good Salt Spray Tolerance – it will grow near the shore but will benefit from a little protection such as behind the first row of plantings or behind the first dunes.
It prefers a slightly acid soil, but it will grow on a wide variety of well-drained soils in a pH range of 5.5 to 7.5.
It has good drought tolerance once established, so minimal watering is needed for survival in dry spells. As with most plants, though, ample irrigation in droughts keeps it healthier and looking better.
PROPAGATION
Division of clumps; seed – but it may not come true to cultivar
PRUNING
Little pruning is required other than clipping off dead leaves to keep it tidy.
It has no special fertilizer needs. Unless a soil test suggests otherwise, a slow-release balanced analysis fertilizer applied per the product label will work.
PESTS
Slugs - University of Florida
Snails - University of California
Spider Mites - University of California
Crown rot - University of Florida It has been a severe problem in some areas for this cultivar.
Southern Blight - Alabama Cooperative Extension
Anthracnose - University of California
It is sometimes difficult to differentiate between the various Liriope cultivars, though Evergreen Giant is a little easier to identify because of its size.
Groundcover, containers, borders, companion plant, shady areas
California Poison Control lists Liriope muscari as non-toxic.
ASPCA lists Lilyturf as non-toxic to dogs and cats.
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My Superhero 2044 Campaign
This might be too much information!
All 5 volumes capturing a significant part of my childhood and formative years as a role-playing game designer in the genre of superheroes.
My Superhero 2044 campaign lasted about 10 years, maybe a little bit longer; I'm not sure. There was a gap of 3 or so years between my high-school days and my time in the USMC. I may have played a bit during the time on base. I looked through my notes and it seems that I created a revised role-playing game system that I named FYBS (F** You Bob System). With that I perhaps played another 3 years?
Anyhow, I decided to start connecting the pieces together again with the origins of the MEST Tactics skirmish wargame in its roots with my Superhero 2044 campaign. My opinion of that original game can be found on an earlier post here. Essentially the game evolved as I (the Referee) played across a decade I was able with the help of my friends who where the players.
Through that time the characters acquired more power and began to become involved with politics and world-building. The original Superhero 2044 rules really didn't allow for such things and so I started pulling in concepts from other places; GDW Traveller, Time-line Limited's The Morrow Project, Hero Games Champions, SJG GURPs, SPI Starsoldier, and then also a variety of science-fiction and fantasy novels including Michael Moorcock's The Eternal Champion and Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers Series. I think those last two were students of Joseph Campbells The Hero With a Thousand Faces, which certainly influenced me as well. There may actually be several dozen more sources of inspiration which came to me after high-school; one of the later ones is Stephen R. Donaldson's The White Gold Wielder and the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
What follows below are photos of my collection of writings associated with that campaign. I'm hoping that by providing this information it will help substantiate some of my decision making for world-building and rules-building.
The Five Volumes
There are five compendiums of information.
Volume I - Character Generation
Volume II - Gaming Rules
Volume III - Charts
Volume IV - Complexes Design
Volume V - Source
This is where is starts; each player in the game lovingly crafts a superhero or supervillain character. The contents of this section were my early attempts to make sense out of the potentials provided by Donald Saxman. I did my best based upon input from other games which I played. What evidence I show here is likely a post-influence set of writings.
This is the first volume. Lots of stuff to help keep character design consistent. It is house-rule after house-rule before I even knew that people did such things.
I started in 1977 at 13 years-old. My first serious attempt to capture everything and make it consistent is in 1978. I revisited this after my time in the USMC around 1988.
The campaign moved on, but the technology for drawing character sheets (at least for me) did not.
I was very much influenced by Alfred Bester's "The Star's My Destination" and the idea of jaunting not only across points in space but also across time.
A list of characters, and their origins, gene-bases, and McWhelan strata.
More characters. I think there's six pages.
The list of organizations in my campaign.
All characters are rated in "McWhelan Stratification Points" [MwPts] using my terminology as described on my other blog which deals with the Ovodium Cosmogos directly. Anyhow, an average character is about 400 MwPts to divide into its Prime Requisites (VIG, STA, END, MNT, CHA, EGO, DEX) and into its Skills, Powers, and Wealth.
Because I was eventually influenced by Champions (this is when I was 13 and in 7th Grade for school), I tried to establish a methodology for consistently crafting Powers. As a result the rules became a bit ornate with how it would allow a power to be improved or limited using that system's weighted advantage system. This should look familiar:
Actual Cost = (1 + advantages)/(1 + disadvatanges)
You can imagine the trickery involved with that sort of equation, and so the rules expanded (just like in the Hero System) to manage the edge cases which could arise. However, one thing I didn't like about Champions was that everything was effects based and there wasn't (at the time of the first edition rules) any standard more modeling physical effects like fire, radiation, etc. I chose to pursue that path (see Volume II - Gaming Rules).
MwPts measure the relative importance the character is within the universe, at the given frame-parallel that is the reality in which the characters play. Other parallel universes (hence frame-parallels) could have the same character but at different MwPts rating. The Prime Frame would be where that character has already achieved its ultimate form, and those individuals are often corrupt with power.
This is the biggest volume in terms of written material. It is in places too technical and impractical to use in casual gaming.
Luck is a property of physics (in the game) which ensures that a character will always eventually settle at the strata in which it should rest unless it should have earned a new strata through the accumulation of Experience Points [XP]. In terms of the world-building mythology I set up, as soon as a character acquired Experience Points to increase its MwPts value it would shift its frame-of-reference and become the individual at the next immediate parallel dimension. Hence "frame-parallel". Here, I was influenced by the writings of physicist Roger Penrose who suggested that reality is a fractal crystal with all events being permutations along each length of the crystal. The human mind is similar to an electric charge and where it is in that set of permutations is the reality it is currently experiencing. Of course, I had to fold this into Hugh Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation in order to make sense of how a game could play out.
Therefore there is no time. There are just reference points in which the individual soul (my terminology) at any given position remembers things in "the past", and may remember things "in the future". So, the MwPts is like an index to the soul; as the index value changed the soul would pivot into another reality, another dimension, very subtly.
I created other sections in the Gaming Rules as well.
The political organizations within the Galadac Empire. The Galadacs present themselves as a mercantile society. In Barbarian Suns, mercantilism becomes one of the four meme-cultures which drive the forces at work to alter the destiny of the galaxy.
The New Orthodox Republic was what the Catholic Church eventually became as soon as they discovered the ease with which they could enter into interstellar society. They soon created three worlds; Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. On our Earth, the remaining chapters of the NOR established the Guardian Angels Corps enforced by fanatic soldiers and gigantic Guardian space-fighter robots.
Types of NRG; "Neuro-Reimann Generators".
Luck as a balancing force in the universe.
Old School. I need to "correctly" identify how Vigor, Stamina, and Endurance were differentiated.
Since magic (symbolic energy) and emotion-control (via ECW or emotion-control waves) played a huge role in our gaming, I had to make sure that the Ego Prime Requisite was clearly defined.
The essential McWhelan Points definition.
An expansion of the implied privileges offered to vigilantes in the future. Each of these were licensed and as a result could be revoked.
The start of a very large, detailed, over-wrought section on magic. Magic is driven by manipulation of symbolic energy which is tied into emotion. It allows the creation of pocket-universes where the forces of the meta-universe can't cause a re-balancing of McWhelan strata. Often, misuse of magic will lead its practitioners to be stuck in those pocket-universes until the machinations of luck balance out.
More about magic.
Magic can be placed into devices using a complicated ritual involving chanting wherein the spellbinder imbues a configuration of symbolic energy into it and locks it into place. It involves emotion as well. I think maybe even some orgone.
I tried to list out my principal organizations and their goals.
More organizations.
More organizations. I probably had 30 or so, plus the original settings count; maybe 45 total?
My first illustration identify the MEST. Matter. Energy. Space. Time.
The arrangement of frame-parallels within the MEST.
A list of visited frame-parallels which are key harmonics. A key harmonic is a set of smaller parallel dimensions which are unique enough to be interesting to visit during game-play. I think I used just 2 or 3 within my Superhero 2044 campaign. However, I built out each as a campaign setting for my FYBS design; one for each genre. I'll cover that at some later time!
With the destruction of Starbase One during the Martian Campaign, one of the last sets of matter-converters in the known galaxy was destroyed. These Clarke-scale matter-from-energy fabrication and defabrication devices where destroyed through-out galaxy through sabotage; both from religious fanatics (another meme-culture) and through espionage (another meme-culture). IIRC the Talimoran Guards were created to protect the the remaining matter-converters. Talimora is the origin star-system for the original designs.
Many of the alien species encountered (such as the orange-skinned Hjoyans) were very tall and so I established a new building standard for hallways, ceilings, and doors. This allowed, thematically, to ensure all Dungeons-and-Dragons style hallways and doors (5-foot wide corriders, 1.5-foot wide doors) couldn't possibly exists anymore in the setting.
There also was a large section I created for identifying star systems. I created a graphical syntax for capturing my star system designs. With this syntax came my variation of GDW's Traveller star-system generation rules.
I desperately wanted this to be different from what Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and other bodies of work proposed. In those writings their authors would acknowledge literary tropes which include fictional characters as being real in some portion of their corpus. Therefore Sherlock Holmes existed. And so did the god Ra or Hercules. And at the top tier of reality are abstract beings such as "Eternity" or "Chaos". And above them are the panel artists and script writers who are the paid staff of those comic-book franchises. Or, somehow; the universe is tremendously huge but it contains just 10 or so planets of strategic importance across 3 galaxies (Earth, Rann, Oa, etc). I thought those were ridiculous ideas (though interesting) limited in scope in terms of hard sci-fi. I didn't want either an Apokolips World nor an Valhalla. I wanted mind-bending scope, the same as I read in my favorite books. (The codex for that I eventually summarized in my Ovodium Cosmogos)
I wanted to try out the idea that the actual underlying reality is mathematically driven in some insane but predictable way. The Grand Unified Theory of Everything (GUTE) is realized within my campaign. Matter, Energy, Space, and Time (MEST) are inter-related at all lives. This requires new math. Make believe math, fake math, but new.
I created the concept of "Neurological Riemann Generators" [NRG, pronounced "energy"] which forms the basic of interaction within reality. Each character, a "pivoton", is an NRG emitter; able to pass magical energies through itself or because of itself. Pivotons are codified by the types of energies which they project; N+ positive energy, N- negative energy. At some point it becomes Pokemon with its use of discrete energy sources, but that was the reality of the new math.
Along the electro-magnetic spectrum (EMS, which now includes gravity and emotion), there is a correlation between energy effects and radiation frequency. On the low-end, about 7-21 hertz is lightning and other electrical phenomena such as psionics with its field energies allowing telepathy and mental attacks. On the high-end for microwaves is the ability to generate radiation and cellular damage. On the very high-end is the realm of symbolic energy; cosmic radiation damages cellular structures but also alters reality. All of this is tied to emotional state. Information is a state the universe recognizes; it has mass and it can be altered by symbolic energy. So, that's where I put magic; it is the manipulation of symbols - the information keeping state organized. Then of course, the middle spectrum of frequency dealt with heat generation, plasma, etc.
Here's where I kept all of my notes. I had an IBM Selectric and also a Smith-Corona typewriter. I also had lots of white correction fluid to cover for my mistakes. I actually found it much easier to write stuff down instead of typing. As a result I accumulated lots of hand-written charts and tables.
A compendium of tables, charts, lists, and matrices.
What you'll see in the photos below are charts for everything! My armors, weapons, equipment, and vehicles charts were a little crazy. I think we used just 1/10 of the items, but I tried to be complete. For example, a player may want to get a plasma-gun. I would provide that and three other variations. I was wise enough, though, to make the entries generic. So; plasma-gun light, plasma-gun medium, plasma-gun heavy.
My first personality ("demeanor") selector!
One of many star maps. This one is for the Solani Sphere; that 100 light-year diameter sphere of control under stewardship by Earth through fiat established by the Galadac Empire.
A list of vehicles. This is one of the shorter lists.
Skeleton rules for exploiting natural resources on land or planets acquired.
List of metals, alloys, and super-alloys used within the game. There's some comic-book stuff, and there's entries invented by characters during the course of the game. Everything is based upon the idea that every +20 points in value is double armor strength.
There were many standard force-fields, force-shields, magic-shields, etc. Most of them have no visible-light spectrum representation and requires augmented-reality to see them. This is before the term "augmented reality" became a term; essentially it could't be seen without the help of computer-augmented vision. The Negation Web is my favorite; looks like a dynamically shifting ball of electrical webbing.
I don't know why I have "Paint Gun" listed. I vaguely remembering that one of player's characters had to assign his war robots to repaint the exterior of his stealth ship to comply with some sort of regulation. I just think it was a joke; it was for that comical situation.
Really just fluff; a list of mercantile transport and travel lines for me to use during space-borne adventures.
My take on the grade of technology levels. I tried to be compliant with the Kardeshev Scale as well because TL 7 is Kardeshev 0.7. My scale ends here at 30-something to match with Type III civilizations.
List of tool-kits. The most popular one used is the CFAK or "Combat First Aid Kit" which is worn as an armband. Characters would normally have one, but one particular character wore it upon every limb and was a risk-taker.
A Galtec neuro-gun. One of the first emotion-control wave weapons introduced into the game.
Eventually some of the players began to take over the campaign because they were more available with my gaming schedule. As their characters grew in power I began to build out rules for the acquisition of land, bases, battleships, and bases. This was a slow and painful growth in the game-rules and I looked into GDW's Striker and High Guard for influence. I crafted my own variation of that which I think was a little too much for me because I didn't realize at the time that the fun of these sub-systems for building vehicles is not in playing the game with the design but in building vehicles. It allowed too much tinkering, and too much specificity with hard-to-translate properties into a role-playing game.
Volume 4 spine.
Cover of Volume 4. Here you get a treat of one of my illustrations. There's more to follow.
Over time, I began to expand the campaign into a war in order to make use of the rules which I had established. This would be a variation of High Guard and allow me to send hundreds and thousands of warships into battle. Leading up to this culminating event, I crafted a background which allowed for the Earth to be a member the galaxy, which I named "The Avausim" or "Spirit of the Galaxy". The thinking was that there are huge intra-galactic cultures which have been at war for thousands upon thousands of years, going back to the time when our galaxy was cut-off from the remainder of the time-line in order to protect the universe from the inevitable; the ascension of human-kind and human-thought into god-hood. This eventually became expressed as my board-game "Barbarian Suns".
Influenced by High Guard.
The DcU scale is used for small-fleet actions. I designed two board-games at this scale which I'll cover at some later time.
The standard hit-locations for space craft. These are tailored towards my vehicle design system. For example, "MCavern" is a huge missile cavern which is a deep missile bay with tiers of missiles.
Some of the terminology used for the DcU game. The idea was to allow use of the carefully crafted space-faring battleships in a combat situation.
Anyhow, I created another board-game which would play using graph-paper called "In Defense of Our Mother"; the defense of Earth from conquest by the Huaggik Empire. Though in my original writings they are strongly influenced by the Gamilons from Star-blazer anime. The game scale was in 3 hours for each Turn, and the board was measured in 1-cm equal to 1 AU or astronomical unit; 150 million kilometers.
The invading hordes with their bio-organic ships and bio-organic stargates would bring in millions of horsecrab fighter ships and be repelled by the players's stellar alliance fleet. I had been prepping the war since the inception of the campaign ten-years earlier; some of the characters where already veterans of the Martian Campaign which involved expeditionary forces that repelled a Huaggik scout fleet with the help of the Galadac Empire, a mercantile society that seemed to know more than what it reveals. With that Martian Campaign, their outpost "Starbase One" was knocked out of position near our asteroid belt by the scout forces into Mars itself, killing millions as it crashed into Mons Olympus City.
The standard configuration for a planetary-defense system with distances between bases, orbital satellites, and other weapon systems near a planet.
The earliest map of the Milky Way Galaxy, or "Avausim" because what is shown are meme-cultures.
Naming conventions for ancient cultures within the Avausim.
Terms used to identify battlecraft.
More terms. I like SUDN for "Super Ultra-dreadnought" or "suddens!"
Definition of each class of battlecraft.
Some craziness. I used these power curves to build out my weapon profiles used in the game.
Some notes on how to calculate volume.
Tunnel Drive! A game-breaking technology used to get past enemy battle-planes. This was how the Talimoran system was attacked, leading to the destruction of Talimora and the strictly regulated matter-converters.
Black-hole Drive. A very dangerous technology which took tunnel drives in a complete different direction. Influenced by both Gatchaman and also Hawking Drives.
Holofield Generators covered the entire EMS including gravity and symbolic energy since in-universe the Grand Unified Theory of Everything has been codified.
I was a teenage computer programmer (two books co-authored by 17). Therefore I had to have something in place for computers in my rules.
In this binder I kept all of our illustrations and record-keeping papers which included all of the characters and vehicles. Some robots, and tons of notes.
The final volume.
Preface. This is a collection of characters and vehicles we designed for our game.
One of the first variations against the canonical Superhero 2044 Weekly Planning sheet. This one is for the Regulator; an armored scientist. I can't find his cartoon image in my archives ... too bad. I liked it. I must have given it away.
Black Nova. A thorn in many bad-guy's behinds. Well connected through his father David Horatio Hornblower.
Void. Power vampirism. Too much overkill.
Frenzy. ECW for berserker mentality. For himself and others.
Ogar. Renegade deranged Galadac Star Ranger recruited from Earth as a young child into Starbase One. He invented memetic regeneration which was imperfect and failed to correctly store-and-retrieve his mind between regenerations after catastrophic destruction of his armored form. Slowly went insane.
Siren. Surge projector for sonic attacks.
The Hornet. Joc Handoval. Deciphered the AI for a stolen matter-converter and began crafting genetically tailored space-hornets with a hive mind, all of which are under his control.
Part of the Hornet's character design log.
Naaru Ratonga. A Hyjoyan crime boss.
Naaru Ratonga's design log.
One interesting bit for people interested in Superhero 2044 specifically; the first edition (and second edition) rules made Inguria be a South Pacific island nation in a post-apocalyptic world where billions died after the Six Day War. I initially had this as well, but I began to become influenced by the stories of Judge Dredd and how those Judges were more akin to the Science Police in the Ingurian setting.
Therefore I began to build out the rest of the world and established large mega-cities; none post-apocalyptic but all of them due to tremendously population growth multiplied by access to nano-technology and automated construction. There were 12 mega-cities, and Inguria was the 13th. Los Angles became a drowned region because of a tremendous earthquake which flooded San Joaquin Valley and parts of San Bernadino. The megacities were given project names such as Dojomaica for Sydney Australia, or Enoask for Hawaii. Enoask was the first megacity project and was given Enoask as a name from the Hjoyan peoples (orange-skinned giant alien people ... from outer-space) because it was the first one to use the combined science-and-engineering technologies for urban transformation.
Inguria. Megacity 13 (honorary). Apparently it is in the outskirts of Los Angeles, USA instead of the middle of the South Pacific. I probably moved it after the high-school.
Tokyo. Megacity 10.
Calcutta. Megacity 6.
Sydney. Megacity 4.
Sao Paolo. Megacity 2.
Hawaii. Megacity 1.
Now that I think of it, I also remember that there are several huge cybernetic tanks designed to look like MUTOs. One is named Alice and she is an artificial intelligence placed into the body of a Godzilla espy. Her current job is to go from mega-city to mega-city causing a wide swath of destruction in order to dramatically wreak havoc on old buildings and districts. She has a huge fan-base across the entire world and is remembered for those activities as well as her time in service as a warrior when piloting her Troll Unit during the Martian Campaign. The Troll units house these AIs and are meant to be troop transports. Mark II's are land-based carriers about 200 meters in length. Mark I are sea-based flyers which are also carriers but they are designed to lift the Mark II's into battle.
An example of a designed vehicle, the Necromancer. It is influenced by the move Alien.
Interior of the Necromancer with hallways and state-rooms. Useful for role-playing.
Vehicle size chart. Each one of those has a design entry similar to the Necromancer.
One of the players was very influenced by Franz Joseph who illustrated the 1975 book "The Star Trek Technical Manual."
A Twerp Mobile. Designed by the Jester for use by his genetically engineered Twerps; explosive humanoids.
A Guardian space-fighter robot from the New Orthodox Republic, and a Troll Mark II. That little pimple at the bottom left is a human silhouette.
The standard Alakassi starbases, such as the one which had been quietly monitoring the Earth in 2036 outside of the orbit of Mars.
One of many Scientec designs used by the SciPol. These orbital fortresses hold geo-stationary orbits about Earth and Mars.
The base-line Scientec enforcement vehicle for LAWS; Land-Air-Water-Space.
Another Scientec design.
Hmm, there's still a lot in my head that is coming back to me. I will write these out in another post. I also have hundreds of pages of notes in probably a dozen MS-Word files that I'll need to digest again. Eventually it will make to the Internet, and hopefully in the form of its original intent; a background setting for a role-playing game. Hopefully one of my designs (revised) or for some other publisher.
Here's the remainder of the illustrations. Lots of character illustrations as well.
The Big Bad Evil Guy. This BBEG was run by one of the players and was influential in driving the story to what it became. His origin is gaseous form, an intelligent crystalline cloud. The armor is just a means to interact with the environment.
Nubjan. Spell-binder.
Death Angel. Armored radio-active plasma-blaster.
Tai-tai. Tank and razor-girl.
Joker. Armored acrobat.
Dejavu. Minor ECW.
Controller. Teleporter and ECW.
Ninja. Teleporting acrobatic assassin.
Brythunia. Minor character.
Iron Woman? Armored blast projector.
The dissection of Damian Savage.
Cleric with cherub. New Orthodox Republic.
I'm not sure. I drew this in my biology class in high-school.
Hell. A very angry supervillain.
Frenzy. ECW generator being hunted by the Guardian robots.
Riot Armor battle-suit.
Jester. A non-funny supervillain.
Crystal Knacht leader, Surge.
A New Orthodox Republic Guardian Angel. with holographic field projection for wings and mandala.
Cohort soldiers known as "angels" have their feet surgically removed so that they can fit into these "fabulous" battle-armors. They are the main-line warriors for the New Orthodox Republic.
A Twerp; a genetically engineered exploding humanoid.
Futility. ECW for giving up on life. Very effective.
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AskMen MiddleEast > Cars > Car Reviews > 2019 Jeep Wrangler Sahara Unlimited
Dating as far back as WWII, the Jeep Wrangler can be recognized as a household name by anyone around the world. Jeep have only released four generations over the past 30 years, which is a true testament to its success. The latest generation unveiled at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show and released in 2018, received the biggest overhaul with an all-new design. The JL series offers much more of the features modern day customers are looking for while embodying the character of previous models. While adverse weather conditions made it difficult to follow through with our original driving plans, we were still able to do over 700 km in one day during our test of the the Wrangler Sahara Unlimited.
There’s no mistaking the Wrangler for any other vehicle on the road, even at first glance. From the front there’s the infamous front grill now with DRL’s and turn signals mounted on the fenders, with LED headlamps that are standard options on the Sahara and Rubicon. The bumper is probably one of the most off-road ready with integrated tow hooks that come as factory standard. Walking around to the side the boxy design is accentuated further on the Unlimited model (that’s Jeep talk for 4-door). All of it of course sits on 18-inch, 5-spoke polished rims and color-coded fenders exclusive to the Sahara trim. Around the back the LED tail lights now come with a unique illumination around the edge, which is most distinguishable from the previous generation.
Stepping into the cabin is a drastic improvement over previous generations with a fresh, modern style with soft touch materials and a tactile layout. You have actually buttons - a delight in this day and age when manufactures and going for full-on touch screen. Standard on the Sahara trim is the Uconnect 8.4 inch Touchscreen with Android Auto as well as CarPlay, dual USB ports and even USB Type-C. We were especially impressed with the responsiveness of the screen with pinch-to-zoom functionality along with all the bells and whistle you would expect. The instrument cluster has a simple and easy to read layout with center display that you can configure to display a host of information. We only found one odd aspect which was with the windows. While the front windows had the auto roll down option, you manually had to hold the switch to roll up. Throughout the cabin you have an overall sense of a premium feel through elements such as the leather-wrapped steering wheel and seats. We also really like the subtle accents like the Willys Jeep silhouette on the bottom right side of the windshield and the shift knob.
The biggest aspect that impressed us while driving the Wrangler was the fuel economy. Keep in mind this is a body on frame 4x4 with not the best level of aerodynamics, but even then we achieved 11.4L/100km while mostly highway driving and some brief off-road action. Handling-wise the Wrangler has light steering feel but provides sufficient feel to place it on the road. We noticed while driving spirited through a corner you would initially feel some understeer which is normal, and mid-corner a sense of oversteer which I presume is down to the solid front and rear axles. This provides strength which is a serious benefit when off-roading over some of the wilder terrain. Powered by a 3.6 Liter V6 engine matted to a 8 speed automatic transmission, the engine practically idles at 1,500 rpm driving 120km/h. You can clock 0-100kmph in 7.4 seconds which feels acceptable, though it does tend to feel quicker if you accelerate while already moving.
The Wrangler offers a unique and iconic style like no other 4x4 on the market today. No longer sacrificing modern conveniences and technology from previous generations. If you in the market for a 4x4 you should definitely check it out.
Pricing from AED 168,000 for the Sahara trim level.
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Sea.Fire.Salt. Review
AskMen MiddleEast > Fine Living > Food & Drink > Sea.Fire.Salt. Review
The abundance of the ocean delivered straight to your plate.
Nick Rego
Seafood can be a bit tricky to truly enjoy, simply because it’s either not fresh enough or it’s been cooked for so long that it’s no longer appetizing. Thankfully that’s not the case at Sea.Fire.Salt, where the food is not only incredibly fresh, but is bursting with so much flavor that you can’t help ordering more.
What’s truly unique about Sea.Fire.Salt is how it takes the most common ingredient in the world – salt – and transforms it into something more than just a kitchen staple. Here, salt is a key ingredient in many of the restaurant’s dishes, and the staff are happy to present you with various kinds of salt from around the world, each with different properties that can dramatically enhance a dish’s flavors. The crowning achievement of course are the massive sea salt bricks, which are heated to 200 degrees centigrade before meats and seafood are placed directly on it and cooked. This imparts a wonderful charred taste to the food, and the natural minerals and flavors of the sea salt also help to add a new level of depth to the food.
We started off with a simple tiger prawn cocktail, which is usually swimming in mayonnaise and not quite appetizing. At Sea.Fire.Salt it’s instead served as a sort of deconstructed salad, with plum prawns sitting atop baby gem lettuce, alongside cherry tomatoes, orange segments, and avocado puree. It’s much more palatable version, and the sharpness of the orange compliments the sweet, plump prawns. A refreshing selection of salads and sharing seafood is also available, but we dive straight for the main courses instead.
First to arrive is the twice-cooked duck breast, served with roasted tomato, duck croquette, Brussels sprouts, baby carrots, and finished with a light drizzle of duck juices. The meat is cooked perfectly, with a firm and crispy skin giving way to succulent pink flesh. The waiter recommends a pairing of red wine sea salt with the meat, and we oblige. It brings a deliciously earthy flavor to the dish, and sharpens the flavors of the roasted vegetables as well.
The chef next sends out one of his specialties for the week – a generous portion of salmon baked in filo pastry. It’s served with mushrooms, carrot, and a foam that we can’t quite discern the flavor of. The fish is well-cooked yet flaky, but there’s nothing here to really grab our attention – it’s just a nice piece of fish, that’s all.
Thankfully the crowning achievement would be the Phuket Lobster, which was certainly the star of the evening. This massive creation is served on a raised wooden plank, complete with some shredded carrot, a light yogurt-based dipping sauce, and small serving of leafy greens. This gigantic lobster is no easy feat, and will certainly fill you up after the first few bites. The lobster was sweet and incredibly juicy, and the recommended sprinkling of mushroom salt made it seem like we were tasting an entirely different dish. The subtle smoky flavors of mushroom made the lobster taste like we were eating meat instead of seafood, and it was definitely a highlight for us.
You’re spoilt for choice at Sea.Fire.Salt, but whatever you decide to order, ensure you make room for the Phuket Lobster. Whether you’re cooking your food on heated salt bricks or flavoring it with salt from the other side of the world, there’s a lot to be enjoyed here, especially when it’s within earshot of the crashing ocean.
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Nike says Just Do It.
Maria Sharapova had erred in ignorance taking a banned drug Meldonium in a Latvian medicine brand for her long-standing health condition, and as soon as she realized it, Maria Sharapova went out and just straight-away did what any upstanding individual should have done: Own up. Share all details. Hold nothing back. Express regret. Share the whole picture. And imply that an error of innocence didn’t deserve permanent exile from the game that’s been her life since age 4, and that she deserves to keep playing — after whatever time the sports medicine experts believe it would take for the innocent but unfair advantage of the performance enhancer to disappear from her body. But three of Maria Sharapova’s biggest sponsor brands — Nike, Tag Heuer and Porsche — behaved like pussy-cats (that suffix to keep it decent).
Nike says Just Do It. Sharapova did. She raced off the blocks to own up, some five days after she learnt she’d failed the drug test. On the personal and professional front, as an individual and from a public relations perspective, what Sharapova did was picture-perfect: she received negative news about having failed the drug test at the Australian Open, she made sure she herself was the original source of that news for the media and through it, her fans. She live-streamed the video on her official website.
She spoke virtually extempore, taking maybe three occasional peeps into a small piece of paper, and because she wasn’t reading, she sounded genuine and admission heartfelt. And then, against what most crisis management public relations experts would be wont to advise, she went ahead and took questions from the media which, understandably, had been taken off guard and, of course, aback. That conveyed her openness — that she didn’t have anything to fear because she obviously believed she had not knowingly done anything wrong. In fact, she even joked about the possibility that the media awaiting her might have thought she wanted to announce her retirement. That showed her confidence.
It was the right thing to do, and she decided to just do it. Like her USD12.5m sponsor Nike preaches.
Nike didn’t practice what it preaches
What do you make of these images from the Nike campaign? Fierce concentration writ large on tense faces, eyes blazing determination, gleaming sweat bespeaking tortuous effort? That these are women and men who believe in their dreams, work bloody hard for them, and will do what they have to to achieve them. The way Nike styles its ads and from it extremely inspirational tag line that will remain relevant forever, one associates all positives with the company and its products. That these athletes and ordinary men and women who train with Nike essentials will only do the right thing. When there is a choice to be made between black and white, they will leap all the way across even the faintest of greys to the white. They will just do it. No compromise. That’s been the perception the brilliant Nike advertising has crafted in my mind. Values-, integrity- and effort-based excellence. Always.
Sharapova did just that. She owned up.
And what did Nike Marketing do? Well, it took the safe damned way out, doing a panicked quick-backstep-double-take, retreating like a pussilanimous brand, belying all the inspirational messaging and designs of its creative over the years.
What did Nike Marketing do? Well, it took the safe damned way out, doing a panicked quick-backstep-double-take, retreating like a pussilanimous brand, belying all the inspirational messaging and designs of its creative over the years
Instead of supporting Sharapova for having come so completely clean in a flash and owning up to taking banned drugs due to her ignorance and innocence, and for having been bold to just go ahead and do the right thing, Nike withdrew from its endorsement contract with Sharapova.
Tag Heuer, which, in spite of having had talks to renew their contract with her, refused to do so. Porsche did likewise, communicating its decision with restraint, saying, “We are saddened by the recent news announced by Maria Sharapova. Until further details are released and we can analyse the situation, we have chosen to postpone planned activities.”
Fair enough. But till the verdict on Sharapova’s situation was out, her sponsors should have stood by her, considering the drug appeared on WADA’s banned list only in Jan this year, and considering that she came clean, owning complete responsibility, and can likely prove she had been taking it over the counter and legally because it was a legitimate medicine and not banned by WADA. If anyone, it’s her support team that should have been keeping a close watch on the medicines she had been taking regularly, and should have been monitoring all WADA updates on new drugs added on the banned list. But that’s water under the bridge now, and that Sharapova didn’t allude to it was great. She made no excuses; took full responsibility.
Serena Williams came out in support of Sharapova. “As Maria said, she’s ready to take full responsibility and I think that showed a lot of courage and a lot of heart,” she told reporters recently.
No courage, no heart
So should Nike have shown similar courage and heart and taken the bold step of believing in Sharpova and standing by her? Should Nike have taken her across the world Tennis hotspots, addressing fans, telling them in person the credible things she’s been sharing through her Facebook page? Should it have convinced itself that Sharapova was on the level about having needed Meldonium? Did it not consider that the drug first appeared on the WADA banned list only on 1 January 2016? And that as soon as she learnt about her innocent transgression, she came clean, owning full responsibility?
Should Nike have considered what the Latvian company that manufactures the drug has said, as reported in The Telegraph, from where I’m reproducing this extract: The Latvian company that manufactures meldonium says the normal course of treatment for the drug is four to six weeks – not the 10 years that Sharapova says she used the substance.
“Depending on the patient’s health condition, treatment course of meldonium preparations may vary from four to six weeks. Treatment course can be repeated twice or thrice a year,” the company said. “Only physicians can follow and evaluate patient’s health condition and state whether the patient should use meldonium for a longer period of time.”
While Grindeks has previously stated that the drug can provide an “improvement of work capacity of healthy people at physical and mental overloads and during rehabilitation period,” the company said that it believed the substance would not enhance athletes’ performance in competition and might even do the opposite.
“It would be reasonable to recommend them to use meldonium as a cell protector to avoid heart failure or muscle damage in case of unwanted overload,” the company said. Grindeks said that, in sports activity, the drug slows down how the body breaks down fatty acids to produce energy.
Grindeks did not comment when asked whether someone with the symptoms Sharapova described would be a suitable patient for meldonium. The company said it was designed for patients with chronic heart and circulation conditions, those recovering from illness or injury and people suffering with “reduced working capacity, physical and psycho-emotional overload.” (extract from The Telegraph ends)
Nike has a huge connect with forward thinking and, well, physically moving, people across the age groups, especially millennials. Nike’s ‘physical effort’ ads inspire people to push the envelope. It would have been a great opportunity for Nike to stand up and demonstrate that it does indeed practice what it preaches through every ad and shoe box-and-other-accessories packaging. But alas, it did not Just Do It… it didn’t dump cliched comms thinking. It dumped Sharapova.
There was an opportunity for Nike and the other brands to say, up front, that we do not shortcuts or cheating, but we believe Maria Sharapova when she says he wasn’t aware Meldonium had entered WADA’s banned PEDs list only very recently, and she erred innocently. We respect the need and efforts to cleanse sports of banned PED usage, etc, but we will stand by Maria, who has been the epitome of fine effort and great mettle, until the investigation reaches its conclusion, which we shall respect. And they should have taken her to the tennis capitals across the continents, communicating her message of having erred innocently, but now being on a mission to atone for it by spreading the message against PED usage, and to stress upon the need to be extremely vigilant about relevant knowledge in the space. Supported by Nike. I’d’ve done that.
Porsche too ducked and backed off. Claims to separate Le Mans from Le Boys, according to an ad. Oh, and another Porsche ad I saw somewhere on the profile of a creative director who claims he’d done the creative for them, is a brilliant, edgy thing that says (probably for a Porsche dealership), “Small Penis? Have I Got A Car For You?” Tut Tut. Porsche. Le Boys. Failed the d**k-measuring test.
Like the other brands.
Nike didn’t just do the right thing. Tag Heuer… well… cracked under pressure. And Porsche should have known There is No Substitute for being bold.
Pussycat brands. All three turned their tails between their legs.
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DI Summit Talk summaries
DiSummit 2019
Cleaner air for Brussels (Jose Gonzalez)
Jose Gonzalez works on a community driven project around air pollution data gathered by “Les chercheurs d’air”. After filtering and cleaning days they found a big difference in air pollution based on location and time of day. The next step is to use machine learning to couple it with extra info like traffic data and find an explanation why it varies (and how it can be improved).
Put Trusted AI to Work for business (Ann-Elise Delbecq)
Ann-Elise Delbecq is putting AI to work for business. In a use case around an application to approve loans, she explained how machine learning can improve speed, convenience, and thus customer satisfaction. It’s still important to think of the four pillars of Trusted AI: Fairness, Explainability, Robustness, and Lineage.
Some human intelligence on ethics and AI (Wannes Rossiers)
Wannes Rossiers explained how we shouldn’t do AI for AI, but instead to use it wisely. We should be ethical and convince the customer this adds value. And the human should always be at the center.
Liability and Risk: Why Explanability & Ethical AI Should Matter to Industry (Rachel Alexander)
Rachel Alexander told us about Ethical AI at Omina. They focus on explainability and accountability, so no blackbox AI. It’s important to ensure privacy and ethical treatment of data. To do this, you need to think of an audit system from the get go.
Human & AI: Collective decision making (Liliana Carillo)
Liliana Carrillo started off with a small biology lesson about swarm intelligence, where collective behaviour from individual abilities works towards a collective goal. This can be applied in a variety of cases, such as an optimisation algorithm for routing based on ants. People can swarm as well, this can be used to create an artificial export on top of individual knowledge and get joint intelligence from the whole team.
How to control your digital twin? (Christophe Cop)
Christophe Cop talked about the massive amount of data that is available for each person. This is currently owned by monopolies or governments. He proposed a system where you as a person take control of your data and are able to monetize it for yourself, with a sort of data bank as a broker in between. All this means your virtual twin has yourself as interest, not a government or company.
Introducing Hermes! Predicting which type of business will succeed where (Jan Van Looy)
Jan Van Looy introduced us to Hermes, an application that aims to predict which business will succeed based on location and building size. This way they can suggest the types of business that should occupy a vacant lot.
Programming cochlear implant with Artificial Intelligence (Justine Wahtour)
Justine Wahtour explained how cochlear implants can help with hearing loss, but it takes a lot of time to fit it just right. The Fitting to Outcome eXpert (FOX) aims to improve this, by providing intelligent assistance in CI fitting.
Katya Vladislavleva
Katya Vladislavleva explained how they use augmented intelligence: a marriage of BI and AI. Collaboration between the two is key, and they provide a platform that allows them to work together, resulting in quick returns on investment and substantial cost improvements.
Responsible AI in the era of Human+Machine society (David Bruyneel)
David Bruyneel explained that while 60% of executives believe that adoption of AI is necessary, 45% are hesitant to apply it to scale. This is why we should be able to TRUST a machine:
Understandable
While they use an algorithmic assessment tool to measure this, a human centric mindset should still be added by the people developing it.
Why do AI and big data need social sciences? (Tuba Bircan)
Tuba Bircan explains how film and TV shows us how AI will change society, but can social sciences impact AI in turn? It’s difficult to translate human constructs to data rules, but it’s important to create AI with human values:
We need to think about the people who will be affected by our code.
What to teach our kids at the age of AI? (Maryse Colson)
Maryse Colson painted a picture of parenting in the age of AI: Netflix as the babysitter, getting recommendations from Amazon, and birthday reminders from Facebook. She explained that while AI is convenient, it can’t do everything. We still need to teach kids about important things. That’s why we need to understand AI to master its power, and be aware of the risk.
5 reasons why AI is overrated (Jennifer Roelens)
Jennifer Roelens believes in AI in the long run, but the are inflated expectations from customers. She proposed reasons that contribute to this and why AI is overrated: companies and developers being into the hype themselves, the paradox of speed, blindly trusting algorithms without interpretability and a knowledge gap between managers and data scientists.
Applied behavioural science and machine learning (Bertrand fontaine)
Bertrand Fontaine explained how we can mix behavioural science and machine learning in an ethical way. They transform data from low-level sensors (like wearables or smart devices) into actionable insights, then use engagement gamification to try to change the behaviour, then measure that change through the same sensors. Since the technology can be used for the wrong goals, and since AI should make life better, they try to filter companies so they only work on applications that will contribute to this. Ethical AI is based on the following:
Explainable
AI can suggest jobs. Humans want to know why. (Enias Cailliau)
Enias Cailliau showed an application that uses deep learning to parse a CV and find the best matching jobs based on skill. But we need to explain why we’re matching with these jobs, and we can find skills that we need to work on for a certain job.
From paper to digital : the power of AI to extract data from financial documents (Segolene Martin)
Segolene Martin talked about the way humans learned to read: we learn to recognise letters, words, and the meaning behind them. Since it takes a lot of time to read an invoice and pay it, attempts have been made to automate this. Current technologies need a template before they can identify information, but their product fyn.ai improves on this.
Making Machine Learning more Human? (Patrice Latinne)
Patrice Latinne is looking for ways to include the human element in AI, as it matters a lot. Through two use cases (an autonomous bus and an application that approves loan) he provided we got different reasons why we need the human element, such as making the users trust it or the importance of explaining the prediction.
Embedding AI in operational teams’ day-to-day workflow (Tem Bertels)
Tem Bertels showed some examples of how to embed AI in operational teams’ day to day workflow. In their work for a telecommunications company they used the wealth of data available to translate it into something useful for the employees of the company. It’s still important not to do AI for AI’s sake, but to start with a business problem. By analysing data they were able to find actionable points to improve the company and its employee’s experience. This means the users need to benefit from the intelligence you’ve introduced.
A recipe to embark the AI train rapidly, safely and sustainably before talking about AI strategy. (Kevin Françoisse)
Kevin Françoisse explained that when it comes to making the step towards AI there are good resources for developers, but there are less for managers. Based on Andrew Ng’s AI Transformation Playbook he went over some steps a company can do to build AI capabilities for your company.
How data science can stop energy wastage (Nele Verbiest)
Nele Verbiest talked about the way Niko offers control of your home through smart phones or touch screens. The next step is to develop this further into smart homes, which analyse the data and help their customers.
Data Democracy — A path to build sustainable AI Ethics (Astrid Van Lierde)
Astrid Van Lierde explained that AI is made up of three parts:
Data is collected
The data is used to develop technology
The technology is used in a certain context
People don’t know the value of their data and assume a small portion of people, experts, know what to do with it. But can these experts make the correct decisions? It’s important for them to spend time with the people they’re developing the solution for, and keep the individual at the centre of the decisions.
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Video: Palestinians explain why they are risking their lives by joining Gaza protests
Yumna Patel, Akram Al-Wa'ra and Nidal Wuheid on April 9, 2018 1 Comments
On March 30th, thousands of Palestinians from across the besieged Gaza Strip launched “The Great March of Return,” to demand their right to return to their pre-1948 homelands in historic Palestine.
Since then, at least 29 Palestinian protesters have been killed, including a journalist and at least two minors.
Despite widespread outcry and international calls for investigations into the killings, the Israeli army has maintained its open fire policy, and has commended its soldiers for their actions on the border.
Israel has been repeatedly criticized for its excessive use of force against Palestinian civilian protesters, with groups saying the army’s actions are criminal and illegal.
In this video, Palestinians who are putting their lives on the line to join the protests in Gaza explain why they are taking such a risk.
Yumna Patel
Yumna Patel is the Palestine correspondent for Mondoweiss. Follow her on Twitter at @yumna_patel
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Akram Al-Wa'ra
Akram Al-Wa'ra is a freelance Palestinian filmmaker based in Bethlehem, Palestine.
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Nidal Wuheid
Nidal Wuheid is a Gaza-based videographer.
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michelle on April 9, 2018, 2:46 pm
would that the rest of the world explain why they’re not joining the protest
G-d Bless
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Home > Uncategorized > Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: Did President Obama Just Endorse Spotify During an FTC Investigation of Apple Music?
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: Did President Obama Just Endorse Spotify During an FTC Investigation of Apple Music?
August 15, 2015 Chris Castle
The White House now has a Spotify account. You would know this if you happened to run across the 500 or so stories about President Obama’s Spotify playlist in the news. Is this a particularly remarkable occurrence? Not really–except for one thing. Something you won’t find in any of the earned media.
Spotify is behind an antitrust investigation into Apple Music by the Federal Trade Commission. That would be the Federal Trade Commission that reports to…President Obama. In the middle of a serious investigation into Apple, the White House–that is the “people’s house”–endorses Spotify.
So how might this have come to pass–now. Curious timing, wouldn’t you say? Maybe not. Aside from the fact that Kara Swisher of Re/Code reported that Google’s head business executive Omid Kordestani is on the Spotify board and ex-Google employees are in leadership roles at the White House (starting with Megan Smith, the Chief Technology Officer of the United States and former vice president of business development at Google), Spotify hired Jonathan M. Prince, the Obama Administration revolving doorman and Clintonista.
Jonathan Prince Employment Timeline–Open Secrets
One of Mr. Prince’s duties appears to be running Spotify’s brand new in-house shillery as reported by Tech Times:
Spotify recently hired four outside lobbying groups who have been privately questioning Apple’s practices in meetings with politicians. Specifically, Spotify has been alleging that Apple took advantage of its size and power in creating unfair deals with various record labels. Spotify is also raising the issue of Apple’s standard 30% fee on all subscriptions purchased through its App Store, the fee which Spotify recently notified its users they could cut by cancelling and resubscribing.
Spotify’s global head of communications and public policy, Jonathan Prince, described the company’s political intentions as a more general effort to keep lawmakers up to date on the latest developments in the area.
Right…just keeping “lawmakers up to date”.
Given Mr. Prince’s easy access to the White House, you have to wonder if keeping “lawmakers up to date” included coordinating an announcement and press event around the White House adopting Spotify, starting with President Obama’s playlist.
And it won’t just be President Obama–according to the official U.S. Government blog on whitehouse.gov, there’s going to be more to come. As the White House tells us–subscribe! Of course, you can only “subscribe” if you already have a Spotify account. So what the White House is actually saying is “get a Spotify account!”
How many press releases do you think Spotify is going to milk out of this one?
Not to mention fawning coverage like this from the L.A. Times:
The world’s most popular streaming service revealed on Friday that the world’s most powerful man, President Obama, and his administration have launched an official channel on Spotify, and will be contributing playlists to the service.
Maybe this was some kind of coded message to the FTC? Is that phrase “the world’s most popular streaming service” a dog whistle for “slam these monopolists”?
Or do you think that this smacks of..whatchamacallit…crony capitalism?
According to the Spotify press release:
Over the years, the White House has continued to grow its social media presences and find new ways to connect with people all over the country through a range of platforms. On Spotify, you can expect to see the White House share playlists created by administration officials, as well as playlists curated around events and issues to engage the public and acquaint them with the people working in the administration.
Maybe we’ll see a playlists created by FTC commissioners?
No? Oh, why ever not?
Do you think that the White House is participating in Spotify’s chest beating about being better than Apple Music? That would be the Apple Music that scored 11 million subscribers in less than 2 months, nearly half of what it has taken Spotify 6 years to convert?
Don’t get sidetracked on this–this is not a political issue. It’s also not a matter of whether President Obama or other White House folk use Spotify. We all use a host of products. Not all of us have a platform like the White House from which to endorse a product.
The point is that it appears that Spotify is using its lobbying muscle to (A) go after Apple Music at the FTC rather than just meeting Apple in the channel with their big boy pants, and (B) get the boss of the FTC to pick a winner.
Spotify definitely ain’t too proud to beg. It smacks of real desperation, and however much artists may be flattered to be on the President’s playlist, I doubt they’ll be that flattered when they realize their music is being leveraged in the name of crony capitalism.
Foreign-owned, anti-artist, pays nearly zilch. Why is @POTUS on SPOTIFY? #IRespectMusic @TIDALHiFi @AppleMusic https://t.co/bSuKIhnQ0n
— David Poe (@poedavid) August 14, 2015
Hey @BarackObama – #IRESPECTMUSIC – do you? Apparently not. #Spotify
— Marc Francis (@MarcFrancis666) August 16, 2015
It stinks. If they’re going to get the President of the United States to endorse their product, they could at least have the White House encourage subscriptions.
But then–he is the leader of the free world.
Tags: #irespectmusic, Apple FTC Investigation, David Poe, Spotify, White House
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Posted on March 6, 2013 by 3G Doctor
Ben Goldacre has written an incredibly important book that I have no doubt will go down in history as a classic case of how digitally connected communities are counterbalancing the power of the big healthcare brands and advertisers (a phenomenon that was outlined so well in Communities Dominate Brands – one of my all time favorite reads).
Please consider buying the book, signing the AllTrials pledge, watching his TedTalk and at the very least follow this great communicator on Twitter.
I just had a long trip home in which I really enjoyed listening to this 80 minute podcast discussion with Ben and James McCormack, Pharmacist, Professor, Medication Mythbuster, and Healthy Skeptic at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC.
One small part of the discussion really jumped out at me:
“we used to play this drunk game, an epic sort of 6 hour – 11pm until 5am argument once about what aspects of current medical practice that we think is completely normal will future generations look back on with shock and amazement in the same way that we look back on like medieval Doctors blood letting or putting people with schizophrenia in big swings you know all that kind of ridiculous stuff. What is the current aspect of medical practice that people will look back on in shock and amazement and some of my friends suggestions would obviously be facetious like Nurse led CBT but actually I think it’s missing trial data. I think people will look back and they will say ‘you spent ten’s of millions of dollars sometimes hundred’s of millions of dollars on each trial trying to make sure that it’s free from bias, trying to detect very modest changes in risks and benefits and then after going to all of that effort you let half of them get deleted from the record and you let all of those biases to rush back in and it just makes no sense at all and I think people will look back even in just 20 years and they’ll look back in amazement” (from 1:12:50)
I’ve also played this very same drunken game (perhaps it was a thing everyone was doing at UCL Medical School back in the 90’s?) and while there is no doubt that we will be looking back at the problem of missing trial data in twenty years I think we will be looking back in even less time (perhaps just ten years) with an even greater amazement at the way we were largely ignoring the potential of Mobile (the newest mass media) and were categorically failing to properly document Doctor-Patient consultations.
In less than 10 years I think people will look back and say ‘you spent billions of dollars providing millions of hours talking to patients and they left your offices without even an URL or YouTube link and no actual written record of the consultation?‘
I think they will say ‘in your lack of interest in providing adequate information to patients you tolerated a situation where patients had to decipher overt pharmaceutical marketing materials or ad funded content produced by the no-claim-no-fee brigade?”
I think they will say ‘you wasted billions having your professionals enter information into computers when all along it was obvious your patients were happy to do this for themselves? (and as it turned out they were much more interested and better at doing it than you!)”
I think they will say ‘you spent billions seeing patients in your offices when for most you could’ve safely served their needs much quicker and without the need for them to travel to your office?”
I think they will say ‘you spent billions of dollars creating Electronic Medical Records but you did it with a mindset that these records didn’t belong to the patients and in some cases you didn’t even give them access because you thought that was too difficult or something that you wanted to be paid extra to do?‘.
I think they will say ‘you spent billions of dollars creating Electronic Medical Records and you didn’t automatically give patients access and never asked the patients if the details in them were correct?‘
I think they will say ‘you spent billions of dollars creating Electronic Medical Records that you would frequently misplace after posting them on a CD – and even though nearly every single one of your patients had SMS you didn’t make it routine to text them to tell them someone was accessing their personal information?‘
I think they will say ‘you spent billions of dollars creating Electronic Medical Records but you never made any provision for Patients to submit information – even though it was obvious that advertising companies (like Facebook, Google, etc) and retailers (like Tesco, Target, etc) were using data to get greater insights into what was going on in their customers lives than their Doctors and they were using every interaction to draw insights and develop the experience for future interactions’
I think they will say ‘you spent millions dictating, typing and posting letters when you could’ve just recorded and uploaded a video into the patients record?‘
I think they will say ‘you spent years and billions of dollars training Doctors and reviewing their skills on Clinical Skills Assessments and CPD credited events that were largely ‘sponsored’ by pharma companies but you never actually had them document their consultations for patients or make it possible for their patients to provide feedback?‘
I think they will say ‘you could see that there wouldn’t be a working day in the lives of the Doctors you trained that they would be without a smartphone loaded with rich medical content in their pocket but you thought it still would be okay to teach them in classrooms using printed textbooks and pieces of paper?‘
I think they will say ‘you spent billions on expensive drugs and treatments but you never really took the time to ask patients and let them tell you what they actually wanted?‘
I think they will say ‘you spent billions on expensive drugs and treatments but you never really took the time to measure the outcomes or to document what the patients who received them felt about them? Had no one ever told you about the “If it isn’t written it never happened”/”what doesn’t get measured doesn’t get done” approach?‘
I think they will say ‘you spent hundreds of millions of taxpayers money providing undocumented advice to patients that you didn’t know and had never properly listened to?‘
I think they will say ‘it was inhumane to put signs in your hospitals to prohibit the use of mobile phones so that relatives had to ring them up on the premium rate bedside phone lines that the hospital was making commissions from?”
I think they will say ‘you spent billions on treatments in your Hospitals but when patients left these facilities they weren’t being given discharge videos?’
I think they will say ‘you spent millions and lost billions as a result of public health exercises that failed because you thought access to care meant Mon-Fri 9-5 (closed for lunch)?‘
UPDATE 8/9/13: I think they will say ‘it was widely accepted by Doctors that they might wing it, pretend they have a knowledge or skill that they don’t but no one imagined that documentation could enable Patients to keep a check on this behaviour‘
UPDATE 11/9/13: I think they will say ‘it was widely accepted that Patients with chronic pain found it exhausting trying to explaining themselves and making excuses but no one imagined that providing them with documentation could help provide witness for their suffering‘
UPDATE 23/10/13: I think they will say ‘it was widely accepted that as Patients we show bias when it comes to what information we take in and will typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want‘
UPDATE 25/10/13: I think they will say ‘you used to talk about empowered, activated or engaged Patients but you were totally ignoring the fact that Patients had no idea if or when they should be opening their mouth and were frightened that they would be ignored or be wasting their Doctor’s time‘
UPDATE 29/10/13: I think they will say ‘despite the massive shortage of GPs and the safety risks this presented for Patients you used to think it was sensible to pay actors or role players to pretend they were genuine Patients in mock surgery settings so that you could assess the clinical skills of qualified Doctors as they attempted to pass their completely unrecorded GP examinations when you could’ve just required those being assessed to provide their Patients with documented consultations that you could’ve then simply reviewed (which would’ve also avoided most of the problems associated with unconscious bias, saved the huge costs associated with these exams, enabled you to add genuine Patient feedback to the test, etc, etc)‘
UPDATE 19/11/13: I think they will say ‘Doctors used to be surprised that Patients might be just as happy to see a “nurse practitioner trying to practice next to a display of Tide, Bounty and Mallomars” at Walmart but wasn’t it obvious that they’d just ignored for too long that the care they provided had begun feeling “perfunctory, impersonal” and that their office had become seen to be somewhere where no one knows your name so why not just swap it for a cheaper place where no one knows your name?‘
UPDATE 25/11/13: I think they will say it was obvious that Patients with symptoms were having to wait years before finally getting a diagnosis because ‘if it’s not documented, it’s as if it never happened‘.
UPDATE 3/12/13: I think they will say it was obvious that inspection was just ‘a breeding ground for lawyers and that after it took 14 years of inspecting the NHS to confirm that a quarter of all Trusts are too risky for patients the last thing on anyones mind should’ve been giving the CQC more money to do more of it‘
UPDATE 3/12/13: I think they will say top Universities could get column inches for research that looked at the contrast between the openness with which hospitals shared car parking charges and the lengths they went to avoid pricing transparency yet no one was prepared to talk about the insignificance of price transparency when we have no accurate or fair way of comparing the quality of care being provided.
UPDATE 4/12/13: I think they will say we debated whether the term “Patient” and “Doctor” were redundant and/or interchangeable with “Customer” and “Provider” but we didn’t realise that those feelings of “subordination” and “lack of empowerment” were originating from the fact that the Doctor was the only Professional we interacted with who didn’t provide sufficient documentation of interactions.
UPDATE 18/12/13: I think they will say that instead of looking to the opportunity to avoid the need for 40% of in-office consultations in the first place we poured resources into over analysing the time lapse between when a Patient checked into a Doctor’s office and the time they entered the exam room as though a small average delay meant we were providing better care (that’s often not the case because in most cases the best Doctor is one who can spend more time with you if/when required even if it adds a little delay to the next Patient).
UPDATE 20/12/13: I think they will say that you talked about the scope of “Big Data” but all your data originated from consultations that were poorly documented and where the vast majority of Patient narrative and symptom information was being lost because it was expected to be able to pass through the filter of the most overworked individual in the entire system (the consulting Healthcare Professional).
UPDATE 15/01/14: I think they will say that you all realised there was this extraordinary phenomenon where we knew Patients were with holding invaluable information because they were concerned about “saving face in the doctor’s office“ but – despite the fact that more than 5.2 Billion of us were permanently carrying mobile devices that could be used to make a call and send a text message – you still remained fixated with the idea that all communication had to take place in-person within the confines of the office visit.
UPDATE 21/01/14: I think they will say you had Doctors claiming that they were “no longer in a position to control their own image” as documents with their name on them found their ways into Patient’s hands even though they didn’t even originate from their office but although they realised their image was only getting “increasingly undifferentiated, bland, and unremarkable” they did nothing to document their 10 minute consultations with Patients even though they were aware that outside these Patients were spending “hours interacting with… …pharmaceutical industry and malpractice attorney television commercials, arguing with their health insurance companies, waiting in line at the pharmacy, surfing medical websites of varying credibility, listening to the advice of celebrity physicians, formulating an opinion on the Affordable Care Act based on the musings of cable television pundits… …offering the illusion of legitimacy“.
UPDATE 22/01/14: I think they will say that you had research showing that 1 in 6 women who sought abortions were victims of physical or emotional abuse at the hands of partners and the London-based Abortion Support Network was only discovering through their “financial assessment” process that they were trying to support the needs of women who were in or escaping abusive relationships but you still remained fixated with the concept of having such sensitive communication taking place in-person within the confines of the office visit.
UPDATE 23/01/14: I think they will say that you appreciated that there was normalcy bias – a maddeningly typical tendency amongst women that led to them trying to minimize or dismiss symptoms, apologizing for making a fuss or troubling healthcare professionals, ignoring symptoms in the forlorn hope that they’d go away, etc – but we did nothing to help make taking the first steps to getting care any easier.
UPDATE 26/01/14: I think they will say that you would require Doctors fulfil their CPD (professional development) requirements by sitting for upwards of 20 hours a year in meetings as though that was some valid measure of them being up to date with their research and clinical skills when you could’ve just required them to conduct 20 documented consultations (that could be reviewed/scored/compared/analysed until eternity) with Patients who have complex health needs?
UPDATE 4/02/14: I think they will say that the records of the NHS watchdog revealed that less than 3% of complaints which came to them were being “fully investigated” but in all the finger pointing and passing of blame no one considered that the resources of the NHS would be better spent providing documented care in the first place rather than having to continually waste resources investigating poorly documented interactions. Obviously this different process would also enable Hospitals to learn from their mistakes and build systems to prevent them happening again while also enabling Patient access to documentation to be a basic requisite of the care contract (which would automatically drive accountability, prevent cover-ups and avoid the costs associated with ineffective watchdogs).
UPDATE 5/02/14: I think they will say we drew up “Open Disclosure Frameworks” to enable health service organisations and clinicians to communicate openly with patients when health care does not go to plan but while we talked about this being “a patient and consumer right” we didn’t once think that we should be designing interactions so that patients who aren’t encountering ‘adverse events’ are also treated respectfully.
UPDATE 18/06/14: I think they will say GPs campaigned to draw attention to the fact that nearly half of all adults in England find health advice given to them by doctors and health professionals too complicated, that Patients can often feel too embarrassed to ask their doctor questions when they don’t understand something and that Patients can fail to receive the right care at the right time because healthcare environments haven’t recognised their needs but we didn’t once think that we should be designing interactions so that the literacy of our Patients is automatically assessed before we meet and so that we can ensure Patients are being given a written copy of the information that was shared in consultations.
UPDATE 30/06/14: I think they will say Politicians hyped half baked ideas about retrospectively using data to name and shame Doctors with ‘red flags’ on the NHS website whenever it appears that they’ve missed symptom information despite the evidence that Patients aren’t even avoiding hospitals that are involved in high profile scandals involving the deaths of Patients and the same data (and even more if we’re prepared to let Patients help) could be used in real time to help clinicians in decision making process.
UPDATE 08/07/14: I think they will say Reproduction Health Foundations launched ‘The One Key Question® Initiative (OKQ)’ in an attempt to encourage Primary Care Doctors to ask women “Would you like to become pregnant in the next year?” despite the clear evidence that showed Patients would be more honest answering questions presented to them by a computer, the widely recognised annoyance of being interrupted by time pressured Doctors before you get the chance to explain your symptoms (imagine being cut short while explaining your migraine symptoms by a Doctor who wanted to know about your reproductive plans?) and the opportunity there is to have this question feature within more comprehensive Patient History taking tools that you could use in your own time eg. in the waiting room or as part of an annual online check up?
UPDATE 27/10/16: I think they will say how did you justify prescribing expensive drugs to Patients whose sleep we didn’t monitor?
What do you think is the current aspect of medical practice that people will look back on with the most shock and amazement?
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Located in Apodaca, Hampton by Hilton and Homewood Suites by Hilton Introduce 165 Rooms to Major Business Hub
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The dual-brand concept offers spacious and upgraded communal areas and amenities benefiting both business and leisure travelers. Credit: Hampton by Hilton
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MONTERREY, Mexico and MCLEAN, Va. - Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced the opening of its newest hotel, the dual-branded Hampton by Hilton Monterrey Apodaca and Homewood Suites by Hilton Monterrey Apodaca. This opening represents Hilton’s second dual-brand hotel in Mexico.
“While expanding our presence in Latin America, we have focused on growing the dual-brand segment of Hilton’s portfolio, as well as the Homewood Suites by Hilton brand set to open eight properties across Latin America, including four in Mexico,” said Juan Corvinos, vice president, development, Latin America and the Caribbean, Hilton. “We recognize the importance of blending category-leading brands to meet a wide variety of travel needs in one of the region’s top business hubs.”
With more than 130 hotels and resorts currently open and welcoming travelers in the Caribbean and Latin America, Hilton has continued to focus on expanding its portfolio in Mexico, a top tourist destination in the region. The global hospitality company boasts nearly 60 properties from several Hilton brands across the country and a robust development pipeline of nearly 30 hotels; including plans for a third dual-brand property with Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites Saltillo set to open in 2020.
“Following the success of our prototype in the region – Homewood Suites by Hilton Silao Airport – we have strategically focused on expanding the brand’s presence in Mexico,” said Adrian Kurre, global head, Homewood Suites by Hilton. “As an important industrial center, we look forward to introducing Apodaca travelers to the brand’s spacious accommodations and convenient amenities for extended stays.”
The dual-brand concept offers spacious and upgraded communal areas and amenities benefiting both business and leisure travelers. Each hotel has its own lobby and dining area – each catering to the needs of their respective guests – as well as a 24-hour fitness center, outdoor pool and basketball court. The hotels also offer flexible meeting space accommodating up to 100 guests.
Developed and owned by Inversión y Desarrollo de Hoteles en México, the 96-room Hampton by Hilton Monterrey Apodaca and the 69-room Homewood Suites by Hilton Monterrey Apodaca are located at Av. del Telefono, No. 4498 Col Apodaca Centro in one of the fastest growing cities in Nuevo León. Situated near Plaza Comercial Sendero La Fe, Hampton by Hilton and Homewood Suites by Hilton Monterrey Apodaca offers convenient access to major industrial parks and Monterrey’s downtown shopping district. The hotel is located nine miles from Aeropuerto General Mariano Escobedo (MTY).
“Hampton by Hilton and Homewood Suites by Hilton answer the rising demand for high-quality accommodation in this key manufacturing hub,” added Juan Carlos Saade, CEO of Inversión y Desarrollo de Hoteles en México. “Merging these two distinct brands affords us the opportunity to redefine the guest experience and to expand our offers in the country, including our upcoming opening of the dual-brand property in Saltillo.”
Hampton by Hilton has long been known for its unmatched approach to hospitality. Team members proudly exhibit a unique culture described as Hamptonality. This term is defined by each hotel’s approach to anticipating guests’ needs, friendly customer service and establishing an authentic, caring culture. Hampton by Hilton offers guests value-added amenities such as the brand’s signature free, hot breakfast featuring delicious waffles and seasonal offerings, or for the on-the-go traveler, On the Run Breakfast Bags. Guests also have access to complimentary Wi-Fi and a 24-hour business center.
Homewood Suites by Hilton offers a combination of studio and one-bedroom accommodations, featuring fully-equipped kitchens, and separate living and sleeping areas. Guests are provided with all the essentials needed for a comfortable and convenient stay – complimentary daily hot breakfast, evening social Monday-Thursday, Wi-Fi, 24-hour business center, on-site convenience store and grocery shopping service*.
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The Fabulous 00s: Crazy Slav Theory
Who said the Slav is boring? Here is a crazy sac line. Well, the *main* game is a short draw. But there are lots of insane variations nestled inside, like a Russian doll-within-a-doll Matrioshka!
Let’s see it.
IM Mark Ginsburg – NM David Filipovich (CAN) Chicago Midwest Masters 5/04
I first met my opponent in Quebec 1980, an infamous tournament where Sammy Reshevsky, in a bad position and in time trouble, riddled me with 5 consecutive draw offers – I got so annoyed I blundered and wanted to shake the little man very vigorously.
1. c4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qc2 White is trying to avoid mainline Slav lines. Black can simply play 4….dxc4!? here with good chances of equality, or go for the Gruenfeld structure with 4…g6. In that case, the most testing move is 5. Bf4 and now black has the chance to play a very interesting move, 5…Na6!? A very interesting sideline. Let’s look at it in some detail.
Position after our Slav “Sideline” 5…Na6!? – What’s going on?
The “solid” but rather uninspiring 5… Bg7 can be met by the “also solid” 6. e3 O-O 7. Nc3 Na6 8. cxd5 Nb4 9. Qd2 Nbxd5 10. Be5! Bh6 11. h3 Be6 12. Be2 Qa5 13. O-O Nxc3 14. Qxc3 Qb6 15. Bc4 and white nursed a small edge to victory, 1-0 Tukmakov,V (2570)-Mariotti,S (2475)/Las Palmas 1978.
6. cxd5? A totally lame move. Also really lame was 6. Nbd2? as played in Ginsburg-Lower, Az. St. Ch. 2004 a few weeks before this game. I won that game, but it had nothing to do with the opening. I really hadn’t studied it!
Correct is 6. e3 Bf5 7. Qb3 and now we get to a key position.
Black can choose from
1. the “gambit” 7…Nb4?,
2. the “speculative” 7…Bxb1?!,
3. or the sensible and apparently new 7….Qb6! – is this really a novelty? No, it’s no novelty; as David Filipovich points out in his comments, 7…Qb6 didn’t do well in games he has seen.
We need to dismiss the first two.
The first thing we have to know here is that 7….Nb4? is totally unsound. The second thing is we have to know why!
Position after 7…Nb4? (Analysis). We have to deal with this tricky bad move.
7… Nb4? 8. Qxb4! The only way to refute something is to take what the opponent gives you.
8…e5 9. Qxb7
Now black has two tries, both of which are quite insufficient.
Position after 9. Qxb7. White is just winning.
Variation A. 9…. exf4? (loses more simply than the alternative)
Variation B. 9….Rb8
Variation A.
The rather primitive try 9…exf4? 10. Ne5! wins for white (remember this!) ,e.g. 10… Bd7 11. Nxd7 Nxd7 12. Qxc6 fxe3 13. Nc3! This is the most accurate. (Humans are tempted by 13. fxe3?! which is OK but less accurate; 13…Rb8 14. Qxd5 Rxb2 15. Bd3! with a white edge – but not 15. Be2? Bb4+ 16. Kd1? (16. Kf2! and white king is out of the danger zone; white is still better) 16…O-O with a huge black initiative, IM Richard Delaune-NM Alexopoulous Philadelphia 1994 and shortly white’s king expired …. 0-1. Black winning the cited game in an upset is an example of the shock and surprise value of placing the horse en prise on move 7.
But again, remember 13. Nc3! is strongest. Don’t be scared of the various hanging pawns. It’s more important to get the guys out of the felt box.
Position after 13. Nc3! Analysis. Remember, don’t worry about the f2-pawn!
Continuing,
13. Nc3! exf2+ (No better is 13… Rb8 14. c5 exf2+ 15. Kxf2 Rxb2+ 16. Kf3 Qf6+ 17. Qxf6 Nxf6 18. Bd3 Be7 19. Rhb1 Rxb1 20. Rxb1 O-O 21. Rb7 Bd8 22. Rxa7 and wins easily) 14. Kxf2 Qh4+ 15. Kf3 Qf6+ 16. Qxf6 Nxf6 17. c5 and black has a terrible game. 13… Rb8 14. Qxd5 (14. Nc3 Rxb2 15. c5 Rc2 16. Ne4 Qh4+ 17. Ng3 Qf6 18. Qxf6 Nxf6 19. Bd3 Rxg2 20. Be2 and the black rook is trapped! White wins.)
Variation B.
Let’s go back to 9….Rb8. 10. Qxa7! This is the right choice. 10. Qa6? is simply bad and 10. Qxc6+!? leads to crazy and unnecessary complications after the queen sac line 10… Bd7 11. Qxf6!? Qxf6 12. Bxe5 Qb6 13. b3 Bb4+ 14. Nbd2 (14. Kd1 is maybe best; 14… O-O 15. Bxb8 Rxb8 16. cxd5 and the computer likes white, but it looks scary to play!) and eventually black won in Alburt-Shabalov, Parsippany 1996.
So after 9….Rb8 remember that 10. Qxa7! is the best move. Now, the try 10… exf4 is refuted by our familiar 11. Ne5! and white wins easily. This may explain why this line is not seen nowadays. For example, 11…Bd7 12. cxd5! (white actually lost after 12. Bd3 fxe3 13. O-O Rxb2 14. fxe3 Bh6 15. Rxf6? A bad misstep by the Swedish GM Akesson in a game vs. GM Hector, Sweden 2004. The brutal 15. Nc3 is correct!
White is going to win after the cold shower variation 15…Bxe3+? 16. Kh1 O-O 17. Nd1!! and wins. It’s worth remembering that if white gets his king to safety, it is likely he’ll win in this set of variations – he can afford pitching pawns left and right because black’s structure is so compromised.
If black does not grab on e3, it transpires that his errant rook on b2 gets in trouble:
15… O-O 16. Rae1 Rd2 (what else?) 17. cxd5 cxd5 18. Qa3! Ng4 19. Qc1 Rxd3 20. Nxd3 Qh4 21. h3 Nxe3 22. Rxe3 Qxd4 23. Rff3, featuring a weird piece line-up, White wins.
Going back to the game, after 15. Rxf6? Qxf6 and poor Akesson was worse now; …. 0-1, Akesson-Hector Sweden 2004. Typical Hector to swindle/win with a very dreadful opening choice.
12… cxd5 13. Nc3! Another familiar motif. White gives up the b2 pawn to speed his agenda. 13…Rxb2 (13… fxe3 14. Nxd7 exf2+ 15. Kxf2 Rxb2+ (15… Nxd7 16. Re1+ Be7 17. Nxd5 wins) 16. Kg1 Nxd7 17. Re1+ Be7 18. Nxd5 O-O 19. Nxe7+ Kg7 and white will be able to convert the material edge into victory.
If the greedy pawn grab 13… Rxb2 14. Nxd7 Nxd7 15. Bb5 Bb4 16. O-O! This is a very important tactic to remember!
Position after 16. O-O! One of the winning tactics in white’s arsenal in this line!
16…Bxc3 (what else?) 17. Bxd7+ Qxd7 18. Qa8+ Qd8 19. Qc6+ Ke7 20. Qxc3! and with a nice bit of tactics, white wins this middlegame.
It is time to draw a conclusion: ater 6. e3 Bf5 7. Qb3, 7…Nb4? is totally unsound.
Let’s go back to 6. e3 Bf5 7. Qb3. We’ve seen 7….Nb4? is actually rather ridiculous and loses. Now let’s see 7…Bxb1?!, tested by Shabalov unsuccessfully: 8. Qxb7 Qa5+ 9. Nd2 Rd8 10. Qxc6+ Nd7 11. Qb5 (11. Rxb1! Nb4 12. Qb5! White wins easily!) and Epishin went on to win, but it took some time. … 1-0 Epishin,V (2465)-Shabalov,A (2425)/Tbilisi 1989.
Black of course can try the simple 7…Qb6!? here. However, David Filipovich sent me some games where white did well: 8. Nc3 Nh5 9. Be5 f6 10. Bg3 Nxg3 11. hxg3 += and 1-0, 47, Spraggett, K. – Zysk, R. Dortmund 1984. Or, 8. Nc3 Nb4?! 9. c5! Nd3 (9…Nc2+?? 10. Qxc2 wins) 10. Bxd3 Qxb3 11. axb3 Bxd3 12. Ne5 += and 1-0, 23, Skembris-Titov, EU-ch, 1992.
In my game, after the lame (but not new)
6. cxd5?, 6… Nb4 7. Qb3 Nbxd5 8. Be5 Qb6 9. Nbd2 was totally equal. White also tried 9. Qxb6 axb6 10. Nc3 Nxc3 11. bxc3 and got nothing after the game 11… Be6 (11… Bg7 12. e3 Bf5 or even 11…Ra3 are both very good for black as well). White actually won later but it had nothing to do with this position, 1-0 Kosic,D (2415)-Lazic,M (2495)/San Benedetto 1990.
9… Bg7 10. e4 Qxb3 11. Nxb3 Nb4 12. Bxf6 exf6 13. Kd2
Position after 13. Kd2. White has nothing.
I have zero here; even worse, the most obvious move 13…f5 is very scary looking. Strangely, white can hold the balance here in what appears to be a bad position: 14. e5 Be6 15. a3! Bh6+ (15…Nd5 16. Nc5 =; 15…Bxb3 16. axb4 =) 16. Kc3 Nd5+ (16…Bxb3 17. axb4 =) 17. Kc2 b6 (to keep a knight out of c5) 18. h4! and white is all right. Over the board it just looks scary and bad after 13…f5 but with accurate play white can neutralize the two bishops.
What conclusion? 5….Na6 is indeed somewhat dubious. After 6. e3 Bf5 7. Qb3, black’s relative best is 7…Qb6 and not one of the crazy gambit ideas. Even so, he is not quite equal. In my game, 6. cxd5 promised zero.
Tags: Alexander Shabalov, David Filipovich, Johnny Hector, Matrioshka, Ralf Akesson, Richard Delaune, Sammy Reshevsky, Slav, The Felt Box, Vladimir Epishin
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David Filipovich Says:
A really entertaining/interesting article. I found a couple of games fairly heavily annotated by Huebner in TWIC databases that didn’t even mention 10) Q:a7.
I played 7) … Nb4 against Wojo at the World Open 2001. Afterwards he said he had never seen it! He played his first 13 moves in 13 minutes. I mis-stepped at move 16 and consequently lost. Formanek was also completely surprised by 7) … Nb4 against me at the 2005 Chicago Open. There, unfortunately, 3 pawns down I took a positional perpetual, not seeing that I could have sac’d a 4th pawn to continue a nice attack.
The game Hutters – Lapshun Guelph, Canada 2004 with 10) Q:c6+ had a nice TN at move 16 that also causes Black a lot of trouble.
Black isn’t doing very well in my (pre 2007) database search with 7) … Qb6 though, so maybe Black should just play 4) … d:c and go into a reasonably good line of the QGA.
Certainly I should have played on in our game, because after 13) … f5 (xd5, 2 B’s) I think White has a lot less than zero. I remember feeling in a slow thinking / groggy state that game.
regards, David
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Supply Office a charitable institution; works in the interest of Nevisians – Trade and Industry Minister says
Junior Minister of Trade and Industry, Import and Export and Consumer Affairs in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Dwight Cozier, appealed to members of the public to treat the Supply Office in the Department of Trade on Nevis as a charitable institution and one which worked in the interest of the people of Nevis.
NASPA Chairman says more high tech mechanics needed on Nevis
Chairman of the Nevis Air and Sea Ports Authority (NASPA) Board Mr. Laurie Lawrence, told a gathering of officials from the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), NASPA staff and members of the public, that the breakdown of the only fire tender at the airport on Nevis in January highlighted a major weakness at the airport and by extension the island.
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Minister in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) and Area Representative for the St. Pauls constituency Hon. Robelto Hector, described the drag racing track under construction at New River, as one that would meet international standards and be ranked among the best in the Caribbean. The track is earmarked for completion by the end of August.
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Premier of Nevis and Minister of Finance in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Joseph Parry, received the keys and cut the ribbon to commission a top of the line US$575,000, 2008 E 1 Titan 6×6 Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting appliance on August 14, 2008 at the Airport at Newcastle.
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Prado / Paul Revere Mall Restoration Moves Forward With $2 Million Budget
Matt Conti
Tue, Oct. 24, 2017
Landscape architect Kyle Zick shows an option for the Freedom Trail path through the Prado, leading visitors to the wall plaques
With a larger $2 million budget, the Boston Parks & Recreation Department held a second and final community meeting to discuss restoration of the Prado / Paul Revere Mall on October 19, 2017. As the iconic North End open space on the Freedom Trail, the Prado is getting a complete overhaul with nearly every inch being replaced. However, the original “Arthur Shurcliff” design and features will remain the same, using new red bricks and bluestone materials.
After feedback from the first meeting in Spring 2017, Project Manager Allison Perlman explained they boosted the original $1.3 million budget to $2.0 million through a $700,000 White Fund contribution to support the City funding. Bids for constriction will go out this winter in anticipation for a Spring / Summer 2018 start date.
“We intend to repair everything in the Prado,” said landscape architect Kyle Zick who also designed the recently completed Rachel Revere Square Park. Key priorities include drainage improvements along with accessibility. The fountain plumbing will be repaired and the trees will receive a pruning along with a better way to gain nutrients. Lighting the dark areas is also identified as necessity.
Accessibility will be improved through new ramps at entrance and exit points.
Park access will be improved through handicap ramps and removing tripping hazards. The bricks will be replaced with a similar, but smoother wirecut red brick. The stone patterns will remain and incorporate a more durable bluestone variety originally intended by Shurcliff. The NEMPAC building will also be made accessible.
The 44 Linden trees will remain in place and each received an individual assessment by the city horticulturist. There is only one dead tree and one missing, but they all need pruning. Interestingly, a high salt content was measured. The dead/missing trees will be replaced and all will be pruned to be kept tall and skinny.
The Freedom Trail path was presented with options to have the line stay near the center or to shift it toward the side so visitors see the historic copper plaques on the South walls. Residents in attendance liked moving it to the side, closer to the plaques.
Park visibility will be dramatically improved through new lighting especially around the fountain and periphery areas. The new lights will be lower than the tree canopy. Also, accent lighting was presented for the Paul Revere statue with additional repairs to the existing fountain lights.
New electrical infrastructure will be set underground near the fountain area for NEMPAC concerts. Old North Church also requested an outlet near Unity Street.
Potential new entry from Hanover Street without steps
The pros and cons of vendors on the Prado were discussed. No permits were given out this year by the City. Meeting attendees thought one t-shirt vendor was fine as long as it stayed on the side.
An extended discussion was held regarding buskers and entertainers in the Prado. Some thought the opera guy was too loud, but supported other entertainers without amplification. One performer attended the meeting, Nico (classical/jazz violin) and spoke about the positive response he receives to music that fits the historic venue. City park designers are not in direct control of the buskers. Buskers have 1st amendment rights to freedom of expression and the city has limited recourse (no permits are required).
Men sitting in Prado (City of Boston Archives, date unknown)
Additional table seating was seen as unnecessary, per those attending the meeting. The existing benches will be repaired but the plan is to keep the center of the Prado open walking space. Feedback was also to keep the Christmas tree in its current location in front of the statue on Hanover Street.
Other issues mentioned included dog waste bags (favored), trash barrels/recycling (favored) and bike racks (not favored). Rat control will be in place during the reconstruction.
New Drainage System
An underground drainage system was shown including several new area drains that will treat the first inch of water. Under the Prado, designers found 4 feet of stone dust and concrete under that.
All the historic features will be repaired including the bollards, chains, benches and urns. In answer to a question, Parks Dept. will inquire about the “lost” wall plaques now on display at English High School.
The Prado will remain open during construction. No additional meetings will be held on the reconstruction. Residents can contact the Project Manager at allison.perlman@boston.gov with comments.
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Peter Mon, Oct. 23, 2017 at 10:11 pm
Are the referenced “lost” wall plaques on display at English High School the ones that were in the far back corner on the Eliot School side? Those beautiful relief plaques depicting the “freedoms” went missing in the 1970s. If so, bring them back!
Lynn Tue, Oct. 24, 2017 at 1:02 pm
Hopefully with these new renovations parents will finally have enough respect for the area and not let their kids run in the empty fountain. What a disgrace.
Adam Balsam Tue, Oct. 24, 2017 at 2:15 pm
Ok, I’ll bite. How is letting a kid run in the empty fountain disrespectful, Lynn?
Frank Firicano Tue, Oct. 24, 2017 at 4:43 pm
With 2 million they can unfreeze Paul Revere from his cryogenic sleep!
Steve Wed, Oct. 25, 2017 at 10:00 am
Why on Earth would bike racks not be favored? The bikes will now end up tied up to trees, benches, sign posts, etc. It’s inevitable. Install a few thoughtfully placed bike racks to address the issue before it becomes a problem.
Dan Wed, Oct. 25, 2017 at 2:15 pm
Because cyclists are not welcome at a pedestrian mall. The City should install bike racks at appropriate palces along Hanover Street to address the problems you cited.
AJ Wed, Oct. 25, 2017 at 2:21 pm
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U.S. weekly jobless claims fall less than expected
FILE PHOTO: People wait in line to attend TechFair LA, a technology job fair, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits fell less than expected last week, which could raise concerns that the robust labor market was losing some momentum.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits decreased 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 228,000 for the week ended May 4, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Data for the prior week was unrevised.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims falling to 220,000 in the latest week. The Labor Department said claims for Indiana were estimated last week. Claims have been volatile in recent weeks because of the different timings of the Easter and Passover holidays as well as school spring breaks.
Still, last week’s smaller-than-expected drop could be pointing to some slowdown in the labor market. The four-week moving average of initial claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, increased 7,750 to 220,250 last week.
The economy created 263,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate dropped to a near 49-1/2-year low of 3.6 percent, the government reported last week.
Thursday’s claims report showed the number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid increased 13,000 to 1.68 million for the week ended April 27. The four-week moving average of the so-called continuing claims fell 8,000 to 1.67 million.
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Esperion to Host Analyst and Investor Day Event on May 30
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Esperion (NASDAQ:ESPR) today announced that the company will host an analyst and investor day on Thursday, May 30, 2019, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The event will feature presentations from members of the Esperion Lipid Management Team as well as physician panels.
The live event will be videocast simultaneously and accessible through the Events & Presentations page of the Esperion website at investor.esperion.com. Access to the event replay will be available approximately two hours after completion and will be archived on the company's website for approximately 90 days.
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The effect of bempedoic acid on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has not yet been determined. Esperion initiated a global cardiovascular outcomes trial (CVOT) to assess the effects of bempedoic acid on the occurrence of major cardiovascular events in patients with, or at high risk for, cardiovascular disease (CVD) who are only able to tolerate less than the lowest approved daily starting dose of a statin and considered "statin averse." The CVOT — known as CLEAR Outcomes — is an event-driven, global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study expected to enroll approximately 12,600 patients with hypercholesterolemia and high CVD risk at over 1,000 sites in approximately 30 countries.
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High levels of LDL-C can lead to a build-up of fat and cholesterol in and on artery walls (known as atherosclerosis), potentially leading to cardiovascular events, including heart attack or stroke. In the U.S., 96 million people, or more than 37 percent of the adult population, have elevated LDL-C. There are approximately 18 million people in the U.S. with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) who live with elevated levels of LDL-C despite taking maximally tolerated lipid-modifying therapy — including individuals considered statin averse — leaving them at high risk for cardiovascular events. More than 50 percent of ASCVD patients who are not able to reach their LDL-C goals with statins alone need less than a 40 percent reduction to reach their LDL-C threshold.
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Big hole appears on Ham Luong Bridge surface
In Uncategorized on October 13, 2010 at 7:48 am
A big hole with 1.5 meters diameter and 4 meters deep on October 2 suddenly appeared on the surface of the Ham Luong Bridge, which connects three islands of the southern province of Ben Tre.
The breakdown fortunately did not cause any accident for people and transport. The province transport department blocked the scene and alerted to people.
It also is investigating the cause of the breakdown.
Ham Luong Bridge was opened to traffic on April 24 this year. The 8,216-m bridge, which links Ben Tre City and Mo Cay Bac District, has a span of 150m, the longest span in Viet Nam, and four lanes in a width of 16m.
The bridge, costed at VND787 billion (US$39 million) in total was built by Vietnamese engineers.
Source: SGGP
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Family artist members shine in special cai luong show
In Uncategorized on July 22, 2010 at 11:19 am
Cai luong’s lovers will have chance to enjoy a special program of the Southern traditional music performed by five generations of famous actors and actresses of the Minh To troupe.
Cai luong veteran actress Bach Le (L) and People’s Artist Thanh Tong. (Photo: Sggp)
The program titled, “Gin vang giu ngoc” (Keeping valuable treasure of traditional music), introduces two well-known cai luong classical plays to audiences: Cau tho yen ngua and Dieu Tam Xuan bao phu cuu (Dieu Tam Xuan takes a revenge of her husband) or Tram Trinh An (Beheading military general Trinh An).
Onstage, veteran couples Thanh Bach and Bach Le, Dien Thanh and Bach Luu, People’s Artist Thanh Tong, Truong Son, Thanh Loan, Bach Long, dramatic actor Thanh Loc and young actresses Tu Suong, Trinh Trinh and Que Tran will perform.
The Minh To troupe is regarded as a cai luong family with many talents, who always have done their best to restore and preserve the family tradition.
Director Vu Minh, who has a great love for cai luong, persuaded the Minh To Troupe to organize a special program to commemorate the traditional career of their family. Thanh Bach and Bach Le from France and Dien Thanh and Bach Luu from Australia were planning to visit their mother, the artist Huynh Mai, in Ho Chi Minh City, making the show possible.
It is also a chance for family members to gather onstage.
The cai luong show will take place at Ben Thanh Theater in Ho Chi Minh City from July 23 to 25 and 30 to 31.
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Father of modern cai luong finds rest place in homeland
In Vietnam Culture on October 1, 2009 at 10:01 am
The very first historical and cultural memorial erected to late musician Cao Van Lau has been opened for public view in the Mekong province of Bac Lieu on September 30.
Ribbon cutting to inaugurate the memorial on September 30 (Photo: Lao Dong Newspaper)
The moemorial, located on three hectares of Ward 2 of Bac Lieu town cost approximately VND6.3 billion (US$350,000).
The monument includes the tomb of the late artiste and a house featuring his discography, personal items and details about the birth of the immortal song “Da co hoai lang”. The song is about a wife, who hears a far-off battle drum late at night and becomes tormented with missing her husband, who is away at war.
The song is widely accepted as the most important development of modern vong co and cai luong (Southern traditional music)
On the occasion of the inauguration, the Cao Van Lau cai luong troupe paid a visit to the monument and hosted an anniversary of the late artiste with plenty of activities, such as a drum performance, carrying a thurible, offering tea and rice wine to the artiste and some musical performances.
The province also presented the Cao Van Lau Awards to ten musicians and composers who have made great contributions to the development of Southern cai luong.
Cao Van Lau, 1892-1976, is considered the father of modern vong co and cai luong and one of Vietnam’s best musicians. He started composing at the age of 20 after four years tutelage by the popular local musician Le Tai Khi.
After three years of marriage to his wife, there was still no child, Lau was forced to send his wife back to her family in accordance with local customs at the time. This hurt came to inspire Lau to compose his best-known love-song, “Da co hoai lang,” which later had great influence on cai luong and vong co music.
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Festival commemorates cai luong composer
In Vietnam Culture on September 30, 2009 at 4:25 pm
More than 3,000 people, together with cai luong singers and playwrights from Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Delta provinces, took part in the opening ceremony of a cai luong festival at Bac Lieu Province Convention Center September 29.
Artists receive flowers and certificates of merit from the organization board in the opening ceremony of the cai luong festival on September 29. (Photo:TTO)
The event features many cultural activities, such as a special performance celebrating the anniversary of the ancestor of cai luong by Cao Van Lau cai luong troupe; national professional cai luong theater festival with attendance of 19 cai luong troupes; releasing lanterns in Bac Lieu River, visiting the grave of the late cai luong composer Cao Van Lau; and presenting the Cao Van Lau Award for contributions to art and literature.
There are also seminars and an exhibition of the life and career of Cao Van Lau, as well as a trade and tourism fair.
The festival aims to praise the beauty of Bac Lieu, honor the late cai luong composer Cao Van Lau and describe his life and career, as well as commemorate the 90-year-old cai luong song “Da co hoai lang” (Missing husband whilst hearing drumbeat at midnight).
The cai luong composer Cao Van Lau was born in December 22, 1892 in Long An Province and moved to Bac Lieu at the age of four, and died in 1976.
He wrote the immortal cai luong piece “Da co hoai lang” in 1919, which tells the story of a wife who waits for her husband to return from the battlefield.
The song is the most popular of cai luong works and is regarded as an invaluable spiritual property of the nation’s musical history and Southern people.
The festival will run until October 3.
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City marks cai luong traditional day
A special performance to commemorate anniversary of the ancestor of cai luong will be held at the Hung Dao Theater in Ho Chi Minh City on September 29.
Cai luong actress Bach Tuyet and actor Minh Vuong perform in a scene of the play titled Doi co Luu (Mrs.Luu’s life) (Photo: Vnexpress)
More than 100 stalwarts and young actors and dancers like People’s Artist Thanh Tong, Meritorious Artist Bach Tuyet, Thoai Mieu, Minh Vuong, Vu Linh, Thanh Kim Hue, Phuong Loan, Kim Tu Long, Thoai My, Chau Thanh, Vu Luan, Tu Suong, Trinh Trinh, Khanh Tuan, and others will take part.
The traditional day was previously organized in the traditional theater house at 133 Co Bac Street in District 1 by the artists’ mutual assistance board under the HCMC Stage Association’s in the morning of September 29.
Another performance of cai luong and music will be also held in Dam Sen Park by Nu Cuoi Moi (New Smile) Theater and comedian Hoai Linh in the evening of September 29.
A celebration featuring traditional rites will be organized by the HCM City Hat Boi (classical opera) Art Theater on September 30.
In addition, a cai luong festival Da co hoai lang (Missing husband whilst hearing drumbeat) will be held from September 29 to October 3 in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu. The festival is named after the old song written by Cao Van Lau and improved into vong co– a major structure of traditional music in cai luong.
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Cai luong stalwart passes away
Veteran cai luong actress Thanh Thanh Hoa died in Ho Chi Minh City on September 20 at the age of 67.
Veteran cai luong actress Thanh Thanh Hoa
Ms. Hoa, real name Nguyen Thi Anh, was born in 1943 in Sai Gon, as HCMC was then known. She was introduced to cai luong at age of 12.
She was well-known for her roles in plays like Cat Dung Phuong Tu, Cay quat lua hong (Pink silk fan), Tieng trong sang canh (Announced drumbeat of time), and won cai luong‘s most prestigious honor, the Thanh Tam golden medal, in 1961.
She spent the last years of her life in peace and quiet, taking care of her grandchildren and ornamental plants, said her daughter and meritorious cai luong actress, Thanh Thanh Tam.
Her body is being kept at Truong Thanh Pagoda in HCMC’s District 1 and a burial ceremony will be held at the Artists’ Pagoda in Go Vap District on September 22.
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Formula E driver calls for ‘radio silence’ between drivers, pit road
By Jerry BonkowskiNov 5, 2018, 6:54 PM EDT
Radio communication between race car drivers and pit road has been a staple in motorsports for several decades.
But now there’s a call by one driver to have “radio silence” during races.
According to e-racing365.com, 2016-17 Formula E champion Lucas di Grassi wants a ban on race communications between drivers and teams, except when there is a safety issue at hand.
Formula E and FIA are in the process of discussing the use of so-called “mission control” radio conversations that include racetrack and manufacturer input on teams’ radio channels.
Di Grassi says the less chatter the better, plus it would help enhance the challenge for drivers if they’re more on their own, rather than having to deal with radio talk that can at times break a driver’s concentration.
“Why not just cut the radio communication to the driver and then it doesn’t matter how many strategists you have or how big a mission control you have, as you cannot tell the driver what to do then,” Di Grassi told e-racing365.
“I think that’s the way forward, its more driver dependent, you have to decide your own strategy you need to know what is going on and you need to figure it out for yourself.
“There would also be no team orders, no (b.s.) like this, you will go racing and that’s it, it is your problem to solve and I am totally in favor of this.”
Di Grassi isn’t just sharing his thoughts with the media. He recently spoke with Formula E founder and CEO Alejandro Agag about the subject, as well, according to e-racing365.
As far as Di Grassi is concerned, there is really only one reason to still maintain radio communications in a race car.
“We need to have a radio because it is important for safety reasons, of course,” he told e-racing365. “We need to know about full course yellows, accidents, etc. But I’d like to have only comms from the race director to us and us to the radio director so I can tell them if I had a crash or something has gone wrong on track.
“I am against team radio, I am against any type of driver aid. I see the continual dialogue in a race as a driver aid and Formula E should look at eradicating it.”
Click here for the full e-racing365.com story.
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"Firstpost writers" Newsletter Archive
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Sun, May 19 2019
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Sprinter Dutee Chand says she's in same-sex relationship with soulmate
The Indian Express – Nihal Koshie – May 18, 4:07 PM
India's fastest woman has said she has found a soulmate, a girl from her hometown whom she has known for a few years. Dutee Chand, the 100 m record holder and winner of two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games, is the first Indian sports star to…
Butler, Electricity, 3 Meals a Day: Perks of Modi's Kedarnath Cave
The Quint – May 19, 4:13 AM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Sunday morning, 19 May trip to Kedarnath in Uttarakhand has sparked a social media storm, with many making the cave pictures a subject of memes and mockery. Modi entered the cave on Saturday, and was reported to have…
Dutee Chand says she's in same-sex relationship with 'soulmate'
The Indian Express – Nihal Koshie – May 19, 12:25 AM
Opinion | How My Hometown Became the Epicenter of India's Religious Politics
The New York Times – Pragya Tiwari – May 18, 4:34 PM
NEW DELHI — Ayodhya is a small, placid temple town in northern India, considered holy by Buddhists, Jains and Muslims, and believed by most Hindus to be the birthplace of Ram, one of Hinduism's most revered deities and the protagonist of the…
If meditation becomes a performance, it is a serious issue, says practitioner of 25 years
Telegraph India – By Deepam Chatterjee – May 18, 6:36 PM
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Stadium holds Giant memories
September 14, 2009 | 4:00am
Harry Rosenstein saw the Dallas Texans play the New York Giants in 1951 which tells you how long he has been around. He also has seen the Giants play in every home building whether it was the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, the Yale Bowl or Shea.
Giants Stadium has been his team’s home since 1976 and the impending change to a new stadium next door isn’t exactly a welcomed event.
“There are a lot of memories in this place,” said Rosenstein, while tailgating in the Giants Stadium parking lot about two hours before Sunday’s game. He was wearing a vintage — crinkled — Giants cap that he probably wore to see Charlie Connerly play.
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The final season at Giants Stadium hasn’t created the same romance that was felt for the final days of Yankee Stadium. And fans certainly don’t hold disdain for the place the way Mets fans did in saying “good riddance” to Shea. Truth is, talk to most Giants fans and they never asked for a new building or the PSLs or the inconveniences caused by construction.
To people like Rosenstein, Giants Stadium looks just fine; feels just fine; and most importantly holds a tradition that was ever present during the Giants 23-17 win over the Redskins.
A sun-splashed season opener is always special. But Giants Stadium deserves a special sendoff in its final season, something that looks quite probable from the balanced effort authored by Big Blue on Sunday. It wasn’t spectacular; just efficient, a style that has become the Giants trademark along with tough defense, just enough offense and a crowd that knows its football.
“It wasn’t hard to come out intense with the way our crowd was,” linebacker Antonio Pierce said of an early 17-0 lead the Giants would never relinquish. “It was very electric out there. The crowd was behind us the whole way, all the way into the fourth quarter. Once we got the lead, we maintained it by feeding off the crowd.”
The new building next door will debut this time next year. Right now it has no “Wow!” factor from the outside. The more common term heard is “Eww!” The color-scheme of eye-sore gray isn’t exactly enchanting.
“I don’t know why they needed that building,” Rosenstein grumbled.
Before there can be any excitement about the new home, there must be closure for the old Stadium; and what better ending could there be than another Super Bowl memory.
“We want to make every year special,” Pierce said. “But it’s the last year at Giants Stadium. It’s had great history; it’s 30-plus years of the organization playing here, playing great ball with three world championship teams; now looking to make a fourth.”
The Giants showed enough potential on Sunday to suggest greatness is possible. Except for a deflected pass that turned into an interception, quarterback Eli Manning spread the ball to seven different receivers in turning a suspect passing game into a productive attack; while defensive end Osi Umenyiora announced his return with a sack, a fumble recovery and a 37-yard touchdown return all on the same play.
There also were enough first-game flaws — a failure on fourth-and-1, getting fooled on a fake field goal and allowing a late scoring drive — to keep from thinking more of themselves than they should. “There’s a lot to learn from this game and I look forward to that,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said.
Maybe by the time the final home regular-season game against Carolina arrives two days after Christmas there might be more nostalgia about the closing of Giants Stadium. On Sunday, it was about beating the Redskins and being 1-0. The focus for now is on the beginning and not the end.
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Oak Brook Library Staff Picks
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December!
The holidays are here and something something something cheer! I don’t know, I’m no Yuletide poet but I am proud to present these gifts of recommendations from the Oak Brook Library staff. Happy Holidays!
Mary – Reference
“Talking to the Dead” – by: Harry Bingham – NEW FICTION: BINGHAM
Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths is strange. Not in the regular sense, like everyone is a bit odd. But rather, Fiona finds solace amongst the dead. She does not pick up on social clues.Yet, when it comes to crime, she is intuitive and resourceful, a crack investigator.
This mystery begins with the discovery of two bodies, a mother and her 6-year old child. D.C. Griffiths believes the young girl is trying to tell her something which leads her on a complex journey to solve her murder.
A good storyline with an intriguing character study makes this mystery work.
Michelle – Administration
“People Like Us” – Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael D’Addario, Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde – NEW DVDs: PEOPLE LIKE US
This is the story of a man discovering that his recently deceased father had an extended affair that resulted in a daughter. In his quest to learn about his sister, he reevaluates his own life. This movie is a great drama that examines the meaning of family.
“Supernatural: Season 7” – Starring: Nicholas Knight, Eric Kripke – NEW DVDs: SUPERNATURAL
I am more than a little biased since Supernatural is one of my favorite shows, but I think it is a must-see. The show has everything: action, adventure, laughs, mild-horror and is, at its heart, the story of two brothers trying to survive. Like all previous seasons, this DVD set has outtakes that are hilarious.
Julia – Circulation
“The Fault In Our Stars”– by John Green – YA: GREEN
Popular YA author, John Green, tells the heart-wrenching, love story of teenagers Hazel and Augustus, who meet for the first time at a cancer support group. Hazel, who is terminally ill, and Augustus, whose cancer is in remission, bond and learn how to live their lives when so much is uncertain.
This book portrays teens with cancer and their families in an honest way — showing their bravery, fear and anger — along with their happier moments.
Although this book is intended for teens, I would also recommend it to adults.
“Red” – by Taylor Swift – AUDIO CD: 781.64 SWIFTIn Taylor Swift’s fourth studio album, Red, she leaves her country roots behind for a more “pop” feel with songs like, “22,” “Holy Ground,” and her first single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Swift even experiments with dubstep on the track “I Knew You Were Trouble.” Following the same path as her previous albums, Swift’s songs mirror her personal life, as well as her many public romances.
This is definitely one of Swift’s best albums to date.
Matt – Circulation
“Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Arte” – By: Christopher Moore – NEW FICTION: MOORE
For those who have not been introduced to Christopher Moore, his 13th book isn’t a bad place to start. Moore’s style of comedy is raunchy, absurd, cheeky, witty and intelligent all at the same time while pushing compelling plots and fleshing out lovable characters. This book is perfect for any lover of 19th Century art as Moore uses famous artists such as Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissaro, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Georges Seurat, James Whistler, Vincent Van Gogh and other Impressionists hanging around 19th Century France as characters. The story revolves around the mysterious death of Van Gogh and its impact on his friends Lucien Lessard, a baker turned artist and his debaucherous companion Henri Toulouse-Letrec as they try to figure out the reasons behind Van Gogh’s mysterious suicide and why the color sacré bleu seems to turn artists insane. An immensely entertaining read and one that includes color photos of many of the pieces of the mentioned artists.
“The Onion Book of Known Knowledge” – By: The Onion Writing Staff – NEW NONFICTION: 818.607 ONION
This truly is the greatest parody of encyclopedias ever assembled. “The Onion” as a publication has been a staple of Chicago media and a source of solid satire for 24 years. From start to finish this book is incredibly funny provoking all manner of guffaws, giggles, belly laughs, howls, roars, cackling and the occasional snort.
Thanks for reading and come back next month for more picks!
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TOSHA Issued $90K in Recordkeeping Penalties This Year
In its latest newsletter, the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development said it had issued more than $90,000 in penalties in 63 inspections since Oct. 1, 2009, with 20 of those inspections in public-sector workplaces where no civil penalties are assessed.
Penalties for recordkeeping violations can add up fast, and that's happened several times this year to Tennessee employers. In its latest newsletter, TOSHA (the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development) announced it had issued more than $90,000 in penalties in 63 recordkeeping inspections since Oct. 1, 2009, with 20 of those inspections done in public-sector workplaces where no civil penalties are assessed.
Some companies were handed more than $20,000 in fines for alleged OSHA 300 log violations that include not recording workers' standard threshold shifts in hearing as required; failing to complete the log; failing to create, certify, or post OSHA form 300A; and failing to report a fatality or catastrophe to TOSHA within eight hours of the occurrence as required.
The same newsletter alerts stakeholders both that TOSHA will adopt any final combustible dust rule that OSHA issues and that employers should start developing a safety and health management program now because OSHA is working on a rule that will require them.
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Amputation at Beef Manufacturing Facility Carries $45,500 in Penalties
Serious and repeat citations were issued for failing to ensure that lockout/tagout devices were used by authorized employees to de-energize a machine.
OSHA has cited manufacturer Fremont Beef Co. in Fremont, Neb., following a safety inspection at the facility, which was initiated in February in response to a report of an amputation. Citations cover one serious, one repeat and one other-than-serious violation. Proposed penalties total $45,500.
"It is the responsibility of every employer to provide a safe and healthful workplace for employees," said Charles E. Adkins, OSHA's regional administrator in Kansas City, Mo. "Employers must make safety priority number one and take all necessary steps to eliminate hazards from the workplace."
The serious citation is for failing to ensure that lockout/tagout devices were used by authorized employees to de-energize a machine. A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.
The repeat citation is similar to a citation issued in June 2009 for this company's failure to ensure affected employees were instructed on lockout/tagout energy control procedures. A repeat violation exists when an employer previously has been cited for the same or a similar violation of a standard, regulation, rule or order at any other facility in federal enforcement states within the last five years.
The other-than-serious citation is for failing to properly record injuries and illnesses. An other-than-serious violation is one that has a direct relationship to job safety and health, but probably would not cause death or serious physical harm.
Autonomous Mining, Construction Vehicles Aid in Worker Safety
NRC Approves Renewed Fuel Loading at San Onofre
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Jan Fyt
(d. 1611)
Frans Snyders (d. 1579)
Artus I Quellin (d. 1609)
Ambrosius Bosschaert (1573—1621)
Jacob Jordaens (1593—1678) Flemish painter
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Fyt, Jan (1611–61)
Fyt, Jan (15 June 1611)
(bapt. Antwerp, 15 June 1611; d Antwerp, 11 Sept. 1661).
Flemish painter and etcher, primarily of still life and hunting pieces. He worked mainly in Antwerp, where he was a pupil of Snyders, but he also visited Paris, Italy, and possibly the Netherlands. He had a successful and prolific career and often collaborated with other artists. Fyt's most characteristic paintings are in the Snyders tradition, depicting trophies of the hunt, dead stags, hares, and birds, all treated with a vigorous feeling for texture. His rare flower paintings are exceptionally fine and perhaps more attuned to modern taste.
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› Entertainment › General › UNRWA appeals for $1.2 billion to fund vital services for Palestine refugees
UNRWA appeals for $1.2 billion to fund vital services for Palestine refugees
Web Desk January 30, 2019 Comment Closed Entertainment, General
Geneva The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA) has launched an appeal for $1.2 billion to fund vital services and life-saving aid for 5.4 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, West Bank and across the Middle East.
Speaking in Geneva on Tuesday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre KrA�henbuhl explained that people's basic needs had worsened considerably since the turn of the century.
We provide food assistance to a million people in Gaza, which is half of the Gaza population. UNRWA provides that food assistance every three months, KrA�henbuhl explained.
That is a figure the world should be shocked about, because in the year 2000, we used to provide food assistance to 80,000. So, we've moved from 80,000 people on our food assistance list to one million. Why? Because the whole dynamic of the conflict and the blockade has wiped out entire sectors of the Gaza economy, he added.
The UNRWA chief warned that alarming and expanding problems affecting Palestine refugees in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, risk further destabilizing the Middle East. He praised the generosity of member states in supporting the agency's work, following the withdrawal of funding by the United States, historically its biggest donor by far for decades.
Source: International Islamic News Agency
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November 22nd
Debates of Nov. 22nd, 2018
House of Commons Hansard #356 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was post.
Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act
Nickel Belt Seniors Centres
Food Security Institute
Umberto Bruni
Banff—Airdrie
New Opportunities for Vanni Aid
Guelph Humane Society
Retirement Congratulations
Lebanese Independence
National Housing Day
Darrell James Morrison
Viola Desmond
News and Media Industry
Democratic Reform
National Defence
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development
Accessible Canada Act
Precarious Employment
InfrastructureOral Questions
Ottawa Centre Ontario
Catherine McKenna LiberalMinister of Environment and Climate Change
Mr. Speaker, I am very proud that our government realizes that we need to take action on climate change. We have a plan, and it is working. We are reducing our greenhouse gas emissions while also growing our economy.
I am also very proud of Steven Guilbeault, an environmentalist from Quebec who is supported by the Quebec parties. He is going to help us do more. We need to address climate change. However, for over 200 days now, I have been wondering what the Conservative Party plans to do about climate change.
Alupa Clarke Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Mr. Speaker, for the past year, the members for Québec and Louis-Hébert have been parading around Quebec City talking about how they are going to help create a third link.
Yesterday, the Liberals hired an adviser, Steven Guilbeault, who has said he is officially against the third link. A third link is important to Beauport—Limoilou, Quebec City, and the economic development of the whole region.
Are the Liberals for or against a third link in Quebec City?
Mr. Speaker, what Canadians would like to know is whether the Conservatives are for or against fighting climate change. For over 200 days now, there has been no sign of their climate change plan.
I am very proud that we are going to have a council that will include Steven Guilbeault from Quebec and Tamara Vrooman from British Columbia. We have a plan to tackle climate change.
What is the Conservative Party's plan?
Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île dOrléans—Charlevoix, QC
Mr. Speaker, let us talk about Mr. Guilbeault. Everyone in the Quebec City area, including the premier, is in favour of the third link.
Is the party opposite afraid to stand up and tell the Premier of Quebec that it is against the third link?
Mr. Speaker, I am always happy to stand up and talk about our climate change plan. We have a plan that is working.
We are eliminating coal, putting a price on carbon, making unprecedented investments in public transit, hiring environmentalists and getting advice from businesses, mayors and the provinces on how to tackle climate change.
The Conservatives, in contrast, have no plan to tackle climate change and no plan to grow our economy.
Oh, oh!
The Speaker Liberal Geoff Regan
Order. I would appreciate it if the hon. member for Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix would stop heckling.
The hon. member for Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley.
Indigenous AffairsOral Questions
Doug Eyolfson Liberal Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, MB
Mr. Speaker, we can all agree that every first nation child deserves the best start in life. We know that decades of neglect have led to immense gaps in education on reserve. We can and must do better. As the Minister of Indigenous Services has said previously, the path forward includes first nations control of first nations education.
Can the hon. minister please update this House on the ongoing work in my home province of Manitoba to ensure that first nations children have welcoming and culturally relevant educational space in their communities?
Markham—Stouffville Ontario
Jane Philpott LiberalMinister of Indigenous Services
Mr. Speaker, last Friday in Winnipeg, I was thrilled to announce, along with four Manitoba first nations, that we are investing nearly $250 million to build schools in those four communities. This investment means that those students will not have to leave home and can finish high school right in their communities. We are working with first nations partners. We are ensuring that all first nation students receive high-quality education.
HealthOral Questions
Marilyn Gladu Conservative Sarnia—Lambton, ON
Mr. Speaker, first it was the EpiPen injector shortage that threatened the lives of our children in August. Now there is a shortage of the antidepressant drug Wellbutrin that patients, many of whom are suicidal, desperately need. The Canadian Pharmacists Association says it is concerned about the growing number of drug shortages in Canada. Continued drug shortages are unacceptable, and the minister has failed to act.
Why have the Liberals failed to secure these vital medications for Canadians?
Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe New Brunswick
Ginette Petitpas Taylor LiberalMinister of Health
Mr. Speaker, protecting the health and safety of Canadians is my top priority. One of my most important responsibilities as health minister is ensuring that Canadians are well informed about medicines they rely on. We are taking important steps to address the complex issue of drug shortages. As part of our mandatory drug shortage reporting regulations, we launched a third-party website, and that is drugshortagescanada.ca. Drug shortages are a complex global problem, and we are working with partners on the ground to find a solution.
Official LanguagesOral Questions
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has a duty to defend francophone language rights across Canada. However, for the past week, he has refused to call Doug Ford directly to discuss the attack on the Franco-Ontarian community. Why?
This reluctance sends Doug Ford a clear message that this attack is acceptable.
It is the role of the Prime Minister to stand up for Canada's francophones. Why is the Prime Minister refusing to fight for Franco-Ontarians?
Mélanie Joly Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, Lib.
Mr. Speaker, our Prime Minister, our entire government and I are proud to stand with Franco-Ontarians, whose right to live in French in Ontario is currently under attack.
The Prime Minister has been clear in denouncing the cuts. In fact, we call on the leader of the Conservative Party to denounce these cuts. Beyond that, we stand in solidarity with Franco-Ontarians. Today, I had the opportunity to meet with them, and we are—
Order. The hon. member for New Brunswick Southwest.
Small BusinessOral Questions
Karen Ludwig Liberal New Brunswick Southwest, NB
Mr. Speaker, in New Brunswick Southwest, there are incredible entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who want to start up and scale up their companies, but often, due to a lack of access to valuable capital, are unable to. Could the Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion update the House on what the government is doing to support the scale-up of Canadian companies?
Mary Ng Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion, Lib.
Mr. Speaker, our government is working hard to help Canadian small and medium-sized companies start up, scale up and access new markets. A strong venture capital ecosystem that invests in innovative Canadians and young companies is essential to achieving this goal. That is why yesterday, our government announced an additional $50 million to increase venture capital available to Canadian clean-tech companies. These investments will help support Canadian SMEs and entrepreneurs to scale up and create great new Canadian jobs.
FinanceOral Questions
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General said regular Canadians will automatically lose their credits or benefits if they cannot give the Canada Revenue Agency a document within 90 days, but for offshore tax dodgers, the agency will give them months or maybe even years to comply, or they will simply close the file without collecting any taxes.
The minister promised a client-focused CRA and action on offshore evasion, so why is she protecting offshore tax dodgers and failing to provide basic service to regular Canadians?
Gaspésie—Les-Îles-de-la-Madeleine Québec
Diane Lebouthillier LiberalMinister of National Revenue
Mr. Speaker, our government has chosen to invest in a fair and equitable tax system that meets the needs of all Canadians. I have no lessons to learn from the Conservatives. The Harper government cut jobs and training and never invested in services. We have appointed a chief service officer in order to provide the best service to the public. She will use a client-centred approach.
Gabriel Ste-Marie Bloc Joliette, QC
Mr. Speaker, I see why the Liberals are known as “red” party. It does not get much redder than this economic update. We will be in the red for years, a lovely Liberal shade of red. Nobody can blame Quebec for any of this. There is nothing for us in the update, nothing for Davie, nothing for our farmers, nothing for health and nothing for education.
When will the Minister of Finance start showing Quebeckers some respect and pay attention to their priorities, such as health?
Toronto Centre Ontario
Bill Morneau LiberalMinister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, our fall economic update is clearly meant for the whole country. We decided to advance Canadians' interests through investment opportunities that will have an impact on job creation across Canada, including in Quebec.
Our measures are benefiting every sector and every part of the country. This is very important for our future.
Mr. Speaker, I have a good tip. If anyone feels the need to waste four hours of their life, they should read the summary of the in camera meeting and try to find anything good for Quebeckers in yesterday's economic update. That is what I call a real waste of time.
The government found a way to increase its outrageous deficit without investing a penny more in health care. Imagine that!
Why did the government choose to refuse to respond to the real needs of Quebeckers and restore health transfer increases?
Mr. Speaker, what our country needs is economic growth, enough jobs across the country and higher wages. That is always important in Canada and Quebec. Our investments are important for Canada and Quebec. This approach will work for the future.
The EnvironmentOral Questions
Mr. Speaker, as all members in this place know, the IPCC report was a very stern warning that the planet is on a course to disaster.
However, a more recent report published in Nature Communications says that Canada's status is about the worst in the world. We rank with China and Russia, and if all countries followed our lead, we would go to a 5.1 degrees Celsius global average temperature increase.
When will the government commit to a path that leads to 1.5 degrees, the Paris target?
November 22nd, 2018 / 3:05 p.m.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member opposite for her advocacy on the environment and climate change. I look forward to heading to COP24 with her in Poland this year to ensure that we get a robust rule book and action on climate change.
We have a serious plan to tackle climate change after a decade of inaction under the previous government, which did nothing to tackle it. I am also proud that yesterday we added to our plan through the fall economic statement. We introduced incentives for solar and wind power. We also announced a new climate action advisory committee, co-chaired by Steven Guilbeault and Tamara Vrooman, which is going to help us advance ambition into action.
The hon. member for Beauport—Limoilou on a point of order.
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Peru’s state oil firm looks to grow amid industry chaos
Article Updated: February 7, 2017
Photo credit: Andina
Petroperu may issue bonds to finance the $3.5 billion Talara refinery upgrade as the state oil firm looks to expand operations after key structural changes.
Reuters reports that Peru’s finance minister Gonzalo Tamayo said that Petroperu might sell bonds to continue work on the $3.5 billion upgrade of the Talara refinery in Piura. The state will also inject $320 million in cash from public coffers into the company in exchange for shares which represent a 43% increase in capital stock.
The government has also floated the idea of selling the Petroperu headquarters, a 22-story building in the heart of Lima’s financial district, for $160 million. While it is doubtful any company will pay that in Lima’s over-supplied real-estate market, the moves illustrate a state oil firm gearing up to expand operations while also modernizing outdated infrastructure.
In December President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski issued a decree allowing Petroperu to raise money while transferring control to Fonafe, the state agency which oversees government-owned companies such as electric and water utilities, after two years. The company’s board is currently independent of government control but legally barred from taking on new debt until completing the Talara refinery.
Petroperu is emerging from a chaotic year in 2016 which saw interest from foreign investors dried up amid falling energy prices as the public demanded Petroperu increase investment to produce at Peru’s largest fields. Soon after Congress passed a bill to force the firm to enter a production deal, the Northern Peruvian Pipeline suffered two breaches which contaminated Amazon River tributaries with oil.
The pipeline was shut down in June following a third spill, which paralyzed production at some of Peru’s largest fields. The closure reduced Petroperu’s revenue just as the firm needed extra capital in order to continue the Talara project, repair the 40-year-old pipeline and plan a strategy to enter upstream production for the first time in 20 years.
The decree enacted in December states that the company can enter production and exploration activities only in partnerships with private companies which put up the financial investment. It also authorizes up to up to $400 million in public funding to continue the Talara refinery modernization and repair the oil pipeline.
El Comercio reports that Petroperu hopes to reopen the pipeline which brings oil from the Amazon jungle to refineries on the northern coast in May. Some companies had been sending oil by truck during the closure.
Labor unions and some politicians opposed transferring Petroperu to Fonafe, which falls under Peru’s finance ministry. They call it “privatization in disguise,” or the first step in privatizing the company. Peru’s largest labor union, CGTP, told La Republica the decree will convert Petroperu into a holding company of autonomous business units beholden to private companies they work in partnerships with.
Oil production throughout Peru fell 20% from an average of 44,000 barrels per day in 2015 to 35,000 barrels per day in 2016.
Petroperu made $153 million in earnings on $3.6 billion in sales in 2015. Sales in the first three quarters of 2016 fell 8% while income remained unchanged.
Crude oil prices have risen slightly since OPEC and Russia reached a deal to cut production in 2017. However sustained price increases depend on compliance by member states and can be offset by shale producers in the United States.
Petroperú: Aprueban que su capital social suba a S/3.521 mlls. (El Comercio)
Petroperú es autorizada a invertir en el Oleoducto Norperuano (El Comercio)
Petro-Perú prevé relanzar el oleoducto en mayo (El Comercio)
Dos centrales sindicales demandan que Petroperú no retorne a Fonafe (La Republica)
Decretan el retorno de Petroperú a extracción de crudo y su paso al Fonafe (La Republica)
“Hay privatización encubierta de Petroperú”, dicen economistas (La Republica)
Edificio de Petroperú costaría al menos US$160 millones (RPP)
UPDATE 2-Peru says Petroperu may sell bonds this year for refinery work (Reuters)
MEM plantea la venta de sede central de Petroperú (Gestion)
Producción petrolera sólo alcanza un tercio de la meta planteada en Plan Energético Nacional (Gestion)
Peru to arrest former President Alejandro Toledo for corruption
The long decline of Peru’s fugitive ex-President Alejandro Toledo
Northern Peruvian Pipeline
Petroperu
privatizations
Philip Brown says:
Colin, very well researched article; accurately & factually explains this complicated business venture. Keep up the superior reporting!
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Posted on February 14, 2014 February 21, 2014 by Pheladi Sethusa
Artists collabo for LGBTI awareness
CRAFTY SYMBOLISM: Onlookers were drawn to the Faces and Faces wall, full of black and white photographs taken by visual artist Zanele Muholi. Photo: Pheladi Sethusa
Walking onto the eerily silent ramp that leads to the new exhibition at the Wits Art Museum, one is met by death. Small mounds of sand stand,holding up colourful wooden crosses that have dates of birth and death written on them.These graves that lie in glass containers are in the Zanele Muholi’s Mo(u)rning section of the exhibition.
The next piece of the collection, Faces and Faces catches the eye immediately as a wall of black and white portraits look one in the eye. There are some gaps between some of the photographs by Muholi which speak to the nameless but dated graves.
“The spaces were left there to show that they could have been a part of this section of the exhibition if they weren’t killed for being gay and lesbian,” explained facilitator Ace Kekana, whose face appears in one of Muholi’s portraits. Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change is a collaborative exhibition by visual artists, Muholi and Gabrielle le Roux.
“…men who gang rape women, who murder lesbians, who beat their wives – they walk the streets as free men.”
Muholi’s work is on the ground floor of the museum with a focus on the LGBTI community in South Africa – their beauty, their struggle, their murders and more. Muholi is not only a photographer, so her work varies and in this exhibit includes some of her bead work and a documentary film.
The most elaborate display in Muholi’s section are rosaries that hang from the ceiling. The beads in the rosaries are tennis balls and kitchen utensils. The vertical end of the cross at the end of the rosary is made from a knife which represents the violent killings of members of the LGBTI community experience, and the horizontal end from braai forks to represent the supposed hell killers think they’ve sent their victims to, or perhaps the lived hell victims endure.
“When people kill based on gender they like to say it’s for religious reasons, these crosses represent how dangerous that kind of thinking can be,” said Kekana.
The most moving part of Muholi’s exhibited work is a wall with a number of written messages from victims and their family members about their experiences. One of the messages read: “Here in South Africa you have judges sending women to jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed her baby, but men who gang rape women, who murder lesbians, who beat their wives – they walk the streets as free men.”
This is one of the rosaries that hang from the ceiling. Photo: Pheladi Sethusa
In contrast to the quiet reception on entering Muholi’s floor of the exhibition, walking down the ramp into the basement area, sounds from the television screens set up with short documentaries by Le Roux lure attendees with their mixed up buzz.
Le Roux’s collection, Proudly African & Transgender and Proudly Trans in Turkey looks at the experiences “trans and intersex people in Turkey and Africa,” said Kekana. Another facilitator, Thekwane Mpisholo is in one of the portraits put on display by Le Roux.
The painted portraits are inclusive of their “subjects” and this can be seen in the quotes the artist let them scribble on their actual portraits.
The newly launched Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, helped to find the funding for this project. “They’re the ones who helped us with the planning and funding because they (Diversity Studies) study things that aren’t ordinarily studied by other faculties – that’s how they came on board,” said Mpisholo.
There is a lot to read, watch and see at this exhibition and people can do so until March 30 2014 at the Wits Art Museum.
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What kind of definition is a definition based on a Turing-test?
Given that an extensional definition is one that defines the definienda by enumerating (partially or exhaustively) examples that belong to it (i.e. the list defines the concept), and intensional is a definition if it focuses on the principles behind the definienda, i.e. necessary and sufficient conditions, and therefire lists things that comply to these conditions as belonging to the given definition (i.e. rules define the concept), then which of these a Turing-test-like definition belongs to?
For those who are not familiar with the Turing test: it is a phenomenological test to overcome an indistinguishability-problem, by passing the decision to an objective judge. In this way it selects those entities that comply to a certain concept (the definition) in an indirect way. To put it simply, if a human judge cannot distinguish a computer from another human by interacting with them then we can take both the computer and the human as "intelligent" entities. Similarly, if a biological cellullar organism does not distinguish between a natural and an artificial cell (e.g. binds to both), than we might want to call both natural and artificial cells "living" (or not, but this is not the point here).
Irrespective of the fact whether such a definition is useful or not, I want to know what kind of definition is a Turing definition. It seems extensional, as on the one hand it practically distinguishes between entities whether they belong or not to the same set. Though on the other hand it relies on implicit (and unknown) principles, conditions, that control whether an entity belongs to the set or not, which might render it intensional. Furthermore, it is not enumerative in any sense, as it does not define the definienda by listing examples.
One might even think it is a third type of definition.
logic philosophy-of-science terminology
István ZacharIstván Zachar
It's closest to an operational definition. The idea of such definitions is to identify empirical criteria that would provide every reason to believe that we are before an instance of F, and propose such criteria as the definition of F. Other operational definitions are the phenetic concept of biological species, or verificationism about meaning.
In general, operational definitions are discredited in philosophy: they stem from very extremely empiricist positions in epistemology that are nowadays generally considered as misguided. Operational definitions hope to find an empirically salient symptom of the definiendum whose presence coincide perfectly with it. But symptoms are hardly ever necessary, or sufficient. In the case that interests you, it appears both that a judge could mistake a cleverly built (but dumb) automaton for an intelligent agent, and an intelligent (but, say, shy) agent for a dumb automaton.
That doesn't mean they are useless, though: operational definitions might not be great qua definitions, but they provide a good empirical foothold for the investigation of the putative definiendum.
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Thank you, this seems to overlap with my intuitive understanding! Complex-but-dumb and intelligent-but-hidden were my two main concerns too so far. – István Zachar Jun 19 '12 at 7:38
One could argue that an operational definition is a case of a definition by extension: those objects which are classified in one way by the operation share some property. But that property is not necessarily intelligence, in the case of the Turing Test. (If there is no way of reliably reproducing the outcome of the test, this just shows that the test itself is unreliable for measuring what it is imagined to measure, or just that the property which it does measure is extremely changeable with time, further suggesting that what people imagine the test measures is in fact something of a chimera.) – Niel de Beaudrap Jun 19 '12 at 12:48
@NieldeBeaudrap Well, it would not be very informative to define intelligence as "the property that intelligent entities have". In general, you want the definiens to appeal to properties other than the one to be defined. – Schiphol Jun 19 '12 at 15:01
@IstvánZachar Yes, this is a problem of operational definitions in general. I have elaborated about it a bit in the answer now. – Schiphol Jun 19 '12 at 15:04
@NieldeBeaudrap, I think you mean "intensional": the objects that satisfy the definition are picked up by one of their properties: passing the Turing test. But otherwise I see what you mean now. Thanks for clarifying. – Schiphol Jun 19 '12 at 15:38
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What is the difference between a neutrino and an electron neutrino?
So, what is the difference between a neutrino and an electron neutrino? Like how does the term 'electron' made a difference? Also, what is the difference between an antineutrino and an electron antineutrino? I am fine with just answering my main question, but it would be great if you can too answer the next one.
Please keep it simple so that a grade 11 kid, new to nuclear physics would understand. Thank you.
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Fred WeasleyFred Weasley
Please keep it simple so that a grade 11 kid, new to nuclear physics would understand.
We all were once new to nuclear physics and then to particle physics that evolved from nuclear physics.
Basic rules in physics are classified into conservation laws . Energy is conserved , the sum of all energies is conserved in an isolated system, as well as momentum. It was thought in classical physics that mass was also conserved, but this proved to be wrong at the level of studying the interactions of nuclei , of which all macroscopic masses are composed. This led to the mathematics of special relativity , where particles can decay to lower mass particles.
Conservation of energy and momentum still holds in special relativity, and the decays of particles seen in cosmic and laboratory experiment led to the necessity of defining an electron neutrino, as well as two other neutrinos. Here is how it was proposed and then discovered: energy and momentum would not be conserved in the decay of the neutron to a proton and an electron, it seemed that a neutral particle was taking away energy and momentum. So they defined it as an electron neutrino.
Then other particles were discovered later , like the muon and the tau leptons , also necessitated the existence of a muon neutrino and a tau neutrino. They could not be the same because to explain the the decay of the muon to an electron, one needed two neutral particles, an electron antineutrino and a muon neutrino. Thus rose the concept of lepton number conservation, : an electron cannot just disappear or appear (as is the case in muon decay, which leads to the world of antiparticles:
For every particle in the particle table, there exists an antiparticle, which has the opposite quantum numbers, for the electron it is the positron.( for the proton ,which is composed out of quarks, the antiproton). The positron has a negative electron number, and when they meet they disappear into two photons. That is the way for lepton numbers to disappear. The anti electron neutrino carries a negative electron lepton number . The antiparticle mathematical world is the same as the particle world with characteristic quantum numbers in the negative, so when particle meets antiparticle they can disappear.
Otherwise and electron cannot disappear, and when created, as in the muon decay, an antielectron neutrino has to appear.
All this is the result of a huge number of experiments which led to the standard model of particle physics, which you may study if you continue into physics in college.
As commented by Knzhou, neutrinos come in three different types: electron-, muon-, and tau- neutrinos. Each is paired with the particle it is named for in the sense that it is involved in particle reactions involving only that type of neutrino.
The most common type of neutrino is the electron neutrino, which is often just called a neutrino even though it is technically an electron neutrino.
Each of these different types of neutrino, in turn, has its own antineutrino.
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$\begingroup$ Maybe a brief mention of neutrino oscillation? OTOH, I guess that's a bit complicated... $\endgroup$ – PM 2Ring Jan 24 at 4:33
$\begingroup$ Yeah, user fred weasley is a beginner, so in my correspondence with him thus far i've been trying to stick to the basics. $\endgroup$ – niels nielsen Jan 24 at 4:52
$\begingroup$ Like other quantum systems neutrino have a well established number of states (3 active states with masses below about half the $Z$ mass) but there are multiple physically meaningful ways to select a basis for those states. $\endgroup$ – dmckee♦ Jan 24 at 5:29
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By Stephen Green 2017-02-28T20:43:02
This is it. The bigly.
Trump's done the primaries. He's done the election. He's done the swearing in. He's gotten, at long last, most of his cabinet. He's signed executive orders. He's held rallies. He has, in other words, been there and done that.
Except for one thing. The most important thing.
He hasn't yet had to push an agenda through Congress. That's the place where 535 Congresscritters and Senatecritters, each with an agenda of their own, stand in his way.
Can he herd cats? Can he crack the whip?
Is he LBJ and the Great Society? Or is he Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations?
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I forgot to mention this, so I'm glad Ben did.
Let's play a little post-speech game.
Leave aside Trump's delivery, which I thought surpassed his best-yet election night speech.
Strip away -- and this might be difficult, but please play along -- your personal feelings about Trump. Love him? Forget that for now. Hate him? Let it slide for a minute or two.
Forget who you supported in the primary. Try not to remember past slights, gaffes, exaggerations, or prevarications.
If you have some kind of financial stake in the pre-Trump GOP -- a consulting gig, an advisor spot, whatever -- set aside for now your pocketbook.
Let's even strip away Trump's weird hair and orange skin -- but not in a Jame Gumb way, because that would be gross and wrong.
Let us leave our baggage on the carousel, and listen to the speech as liberty-lovers first, last, and always.
You might have heard some proposals you disagree with, maybe even vehemently. I know I did. You probably wished for some hard spending/cutting/taxing numbers, like the news stories promised us over the last 48 hours. I did, too.
But you had much bigger differences with Barack Obama. You probably had serious differences with George W. Bush. And his father, for that matter. And if you think back, you can remember a time when it didn't matter whether you agreed or disagreed with anything Bill Clinton might have said (in his overly lawyerly way) because you couldn't trust in a single damn thing that smooth-talking, lying S.O.B. ever said.
But if you listen without prejudice (hat tip to the late, great George Michael for that phrase), then you just heard the most Reaganesque speech since The Gipper himself.
And sitting there in front of the man giving it was the most conservative cabinet assembled since... since I don't know when. Maybe in my lifetime. Maybe longer than that.
It was a good speech, and as Reagan Himself said, "My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy." In this day and age, liberty lovers might have to comfort ourselves with 70% friends, or 60% friends, or even 50.1% friends.
So get used to the high-wire act, the occasional crudity, shady dealings, and all the rest -- those are all part of Trump's hugely, luxuriously successful schtick. And get ready for some bigly disappointments -- he is, after all, a politician. But look at his better appointments and appreciate the good in tonight's speech, and realize we have an at-least 50.1% friend in the White House.
It's been a long time, hasn't it?
I'm going to drink to that. I hope you'll join me.
Before I wrap, enjoy this telling juxtaposition, served up to me by Twitter.
Trump came in significantly under the announced 90 minute running time. In business, that's called "under-promised and over-deliver," and my liver certainly appreciates that.
I'll have a wrap for you shortly.
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Good rhetoric, about to smash against the rocks of Capitol Hill. But do please appreciate the rhetoric.
Al Franken looks like... well, he looks like a guy who remembers that he used to be a guy who was funny and liked.
The short version of that is: Bitter.
"My job isn't to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America."
Great line, followed by a practical appeal to the kind of foreign policy which has often, but not always, define American greatness overseas since 1942.
If you were like me and have long hoped that Trump would turn his back on his silly electioneering appeals to isolationism -- here it is.
Thank goodness.
Never heard applause like Ryan Owens is getting, now for a second time.
Again, tears.
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On the Campus Grade deflation milestone: A's dip below 40 percent
Published in the October 21, 2009 Issue
In undergraduate courses, A’s made up 39.7 percent of all grades given in 2008–09, the lowest percentage in the five years since Princeton’s faculty adopted a policy aimed at curbing grade inflation.
Engineering and the humanities each had two-point decreases in the percentage of A’s awarded, dropping to 40.6 percent and 42.5 percent, respectively. Departments in the natural sciences and social sciences remained the toughest graders.
The Faculty Committee on Grading said that faculty “reached a major milestone” by lowering A grades below the 40-percent mark. But the Undergraduate Student Government questioned the way that some professors have interpreted Princeton’s grading guidelines.
In a letter to faculty, USG officers noted that while the policy sets a goal of having A’s make up 35 percent of the grades in each department over time, some professors announced a 35-percent limit on A’s on the first day of class.
“No good can come of making grading a zero-sum game in which students hesitate to clarify a concept for a fellow student because it might cost them a good grade,” the USG letter said.
At a Sept. 21 faculty meeting, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel confirmed that the policy does not impose quotas or limits for grades in individual courses. The “operating assumption,” she said, is that rigorous judgments by individual professors will lead departments toward the 35-percent goal, which would bring today’s grades roughly in line with the ones that Princeton students received in the early 1990s.
Malkiel’s office has updated its brochure of frequently asked questions about the grading policy and planned to send it to all faculty, undergraduates, and undergraduate parents in late September.
Benjamin Lund ’10, the USG academics chairman, said that among students, concern about the grading policy intensified when the economy soured and job opportunities became more scarce. Lund added that administrators and faculty have thanked the USG for its efforts to clear up misconceptions about the grading policy.
The grading policy, adopted in April 2004, led to a significant drop in A grades during its first year, 2004–05, when A’s accounted for 40.9 percent of undergraduate course grades, down from 46.0 percent in 2003–04. Since then, changes have moved more slowly, with some departments “backsliding” by awarding more A’s, according to the 2007–08 grading report.
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At long, long last, I'm finally getting started on learning Japanese. ^_^ I'd had the trial version of (rather inappropriately, but still) Human Japanese on the iPad around for a while, and it quite impressed me - animations of stroke order on hiragana, pronunciations of all Japanese words by native speakers, hints on just what to look out for when writing Japanese, and other miscellaneous insights - it's a genuinely insightful course. It's available for various platforms - in my case, iPad, for which you can buy both the beginner and intermediate apps as a twin bundle for £16 (or £10 each), which seemed entirely fair. I'm still very early in, trying to pound hiragana into my tiny brain, with some success.
I know I can't really afford it, but good gods, that 36 month Iberico ham from Waitrose (in the chilled section, not the deli, and only some larger branches) is absolutely phenomenal. It's what you'd expect of that kind of ham, just even more so, with a deliciously intense flavor, and still meltingly soft on the tongue. If you've been very good, consider treating yourself to a packet thereof. ^_^ Of course, working out just what cheeses pair best with it requires research. Extensive, delectable research.
The story of Laura Meyer, head chef at Tony's (an excellent pizzeria in North Beach) and first American and first woman to win the World Pizza Championship, in Parma, back in 2013. (Her winning creation: "La Regina", "a play on a classic diavola pizza with tomato sauce, soppressata picante, prosciutto di Parma, arugula, and Piave, Parmesan, and provolone cheeses")
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I know it's BuzzFeed, but still, these photos of huskies training in Scotland for the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally are quite superb. ^_^
Who knows? I might finally be able to get around to seeing two films I've had my eye on: Star Wars, and The Danish Girl. (In SW, does the 3D add much? I'm tempted to see it thusly, as it was genuinely filmed in 3D, rather than having that added in post)
There's an unusual planetary alignment occurring, with five planets side by side in the morning twilight sky.
Pornhub's worldwide survey of preferences makes for some amusing reading. ^_^ "The Italians are the only consumers for whom footjob and feet make it into the most-searched. In Brazil, some of the fastest-gaining search terms include Pokemon and Scooby Doo. In Russia, my little pony was the 7th most searched term last year." Meanwhile, in the UK, british chav made its debut as one of the top search terms. O.o; (h/t supergee)
Here, have a small leap. ^_^
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Thank you! I'm thinking I might get some once it's tomato season again, and have it with tomatoes on toast made with the Pane Pugliese you recommended on huskyteer's journal (which I bought and liked — thanks again for that).
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Understand How to Take Responsibility for Your Career with Julie Lerman
By Phil Burgess. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers.
GUEST BIO:
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft Regional director, Docker Captain and a long-time Microsoft MVP who now counts her years as a coder in decades. She makes her living as a coach and consultant to software teams around the world.
You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework, Domain Driven Design and other topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com is the author of the highly acclaimed “Programming Entity Framework” books, the MSDN Magazine Data Points column and popular videos on Pluralsight.com.
Phil’s guest on today’s show is Julie Lerman. She has had a long IT career, of more than 30 years, during which she has worked as a coder and coach. Since 1989, she has worked as an independent consultant.
Over the years, she has led software teams in many different countries. She specializes in guiding teams towards re-thinking their software architecture and adapting it to fit in with modern practices.
Julie has worked hard to share her knowledge with a wider audience. She has created in-depth training in the Pluralsight library and has written 4 highly acclaimed books about Entity Framework. Her blog, thedatafarm is also a great source of information for developers.
(00.58) – So Julie, can you expand on that brief introduction and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Julie explains that she spent the first 4 or 5 years of her career working mainly as a programmer for employers. But, about 30 years ago, she decided to go it alone.
These days, she focuses mainly on coaching, consulting and mentoring. She uses her decades of IT experience to help all kinds of IT teams to progress.
(2.26) – How did you get into coaching, Julie? It is something that just evolved. For many years, she had been teaching people through her sites, books and conference speeches.
After a while, people asked her to provide training for their teams. She really enjoyed the process of sitting down with companies and going through their issues and working out how to address them. It is much more effective than public training. However, she does encourage the companies to go through her PluralSight videos, first. If, after doing that, they still have problems or concerns she sits down and helps them to solve their more complex issues.
(3.43) – Can you please share a unique career tip with the I.T. career audience? Julie’s most important piece of advice is to take responsibility for your career and further learning.
Too many people get stuck in a rut. They just carry on doing the work they are familiar with. Over time, they end up being unaware of what is going on in the wider world. They have very little understanding of the new technologies and how they are being applied. You have to keep up with new developments to be able to make the most of your career.
Phil reminds the audience that the company you are working for will only assist you in learning new skills, up to a point. Typically, they will only help you to take your career in a direction that suits the needs of the business.
(5.14) – Can you tell us about your worst career moment? For Julie her two worst career moments came when it was time for her to move on to bigger and better things. In both cases, her employers got very angry with her.
They both tried to persuade her to stay by offering her a little extra money or the promotion she should have already earned, but not been given. In both cases, she felt that what they were offering was ‘too little, too late’. So, she said thank you, but no. That is when they got really angry and aggressive. In both cases, she had to deal with the men who had been almost father figures to her losing their tempers and berating her just for leaving. For someone in their 20s this was an extremely unpleasant situation.
(7.21) – Did you take anything away from that experience, in particular? Julie says that it taught her to trust her instincts. These experiences also made her realize that she had more gumption than she thought. She just stood there and sucked it up, did not argue back and moved peacefully on into a better role.
(8.28) – Phil asks Julie about her best career moment, her greatest success. The moment Julie’s first book was delivered to her home and she held it in her hands was a highlight. She felt so proud of what she had achieved.
But, Julie is lucky enough to regularly experience smaller moments that also make her feel proud. For example, when she is able to help a developer to understand something they have struggled with. Another example is when she suggests a little tweak that ends up making a tremendous difference and benefiting lots of people.
(9.58) – Can you tell us what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers? The fact that things are so open-ended right now is something that excites Julie about the IT industry.
Things are opening up in new directions all of the time. Thanks to IoT, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data. The easy availability and effectiveness of this tech are freeing people up to use their talents in new and exciting ways.
You no longer have to worry about a long list of little details, when developing. Now, you can focus on the code knowing that the deployment and infrastructure is not an issue. Cloud computing has made things so much easier. It is just one example of how new technology is freeing up developers to achieve more.
(12.24) – What drew you to a career in IT? Julie fell into her IT career by accident. When she started college, her plan was to become a chemical engineer. While there she took a programming class. She realized she was something of a natural, so got involved in IT instead of chemistry.
(12.59) – What is the best career advice you have ever received? Someone once told her to “praise publically, criticize privately”, which is advice that Julie is careful to follow.
(13.23) – If you were to begin your IT career again, right now, what would you do? That is something that Julie has never really thought about before. It is not really in her nature to plan like that. But, she does wish that she had more time to get more deeply involved in machine learning. She also knows that she would still want to be involved in the back end.
(14.17) – What are you currently focusing on in your career? Right now, Julie is focused on continuing to learn, to make sure that she stays relevant. She is working to make sure that she pushes herself out of her comfort zone without constantly jumping from one thing to another. Looking for opportunities to share what she learns is helping to do this and cement her knowledge.
(15.42) – What is the number one non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Julie says that her liberal arts degree has proved to be surprisingly helpful. Taking the course, gave her a head for broad thinking and thinking outside the box. It helped her to develop her creative thinking. These are skills that she has found invaluable during her IT career.
(16.19) – Phil asks Julie to share a final piece of career advice with the audience. If you find yourself stuck on a problem, walk away from your computer. Take the dog for a walk or something similar to break the negative cycle. When you do that you can be lucky and find that the solution has been there all the time floating around your head.
You mentally go through everything again. Usually, that is when you work out what it is you have missed or a few other things you can do to fix the problem. All you need to do is to give your brain a chance to relax to get a fresh perspective.
BEST MOMENTS:
(4.14) JULIE – "Take responsibility for your own career and further learning.”
(10.16) JULIE – "Things are really opening up in new directions, with IoT, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data."
(11.49) JULIE – "Cloud platforms are enabling developers to do that much more and explore that much further."
(14.43) JULIE – "It’s really important for me to stay relevant. In order to do that, I need to keep learning"
(16.41) JULIE – "When I am really stuck on a problem, I find walking away from the computer helps so much."
CONTACT JULIE:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/julielerman
Website: https://thedatafarm.com
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Quick Slants - A New England Patriots Podcast
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Exclusive 1-on-1 with Robert and Jonathan Kraft
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Patriots owners Robert and Jonathan Kraft sit down with Tom E. Curran to discuss a variety of Patriots topics heading into Super Bowl LLIII.
(2:00) Robert and Jonathan talk about how it feels to go from underdogs 17 years ago, to being the most hated team in the NFL (4:30) The conversation transitions to the relationship between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. The two talk about the future of the team’s ownership, head coaching and quarterback. (11:55) The Krafts address the media coverage of the Patriots this season and how the team used that negatively to fuel their success (14:15) Robert Kraft shares how he met Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill while in prison. The visit had Robert up all night which eventually led to their involvement in prison reform. (20:15) Josh Gordon and the topic of addiction comes up and the Kraft’s share their perspective on Gordon’s leave of absence from the team (23:30) the Krafts discuss the rumors of Rob Gronkowski and Devin McCourty possibly retiring
Tom E. Curran politely questions Chris Simms on his ABSURD ranking of Tom Brady21:20
(3:00) Chris Simms breaks down why he ranked Tom Brady as the 9th best QB in the NFL right now. (4:00) Why is Patrick Mahomes ranked higher than Tom Brady? (8:30) Tom and Chris debate whether it is Bill Belichick that makes the Patriots successful, or Tom Brady. (10:00) How is Matt Ryan ahead of Brady in Simms’ list?…
Going deep on the Patriots-Texans tampering dust-up34:37
(1:00) Tom E. Curran breaks down the events that led to the Patriots filing tampering charges against the Texans. (5:00) Going over the history the Patriots have had with tampering charges since the start of their franchise. (9:00) Why would Nick Caserio want to leave his position with the Patriots? (11:00) If Nick Caserio gets blocked from goi ...…
Tom Brady doesn’t want to be ‘Terrific’/ Minicamp observations33:51
(3:00) Tom Brady explain his reason for wanting ‘Tom Terrific’ trademark (5:00) Tom E. Curran attempts to get Tom Brady to talk about his contract (7:00) Phil and Tom break down how Tom Brady looked during minicamp(10:00) minicamp observations of N’Keal Harry (13:00) How much will the leadership in the Patriots locker room be able to benefit N’ ...…
Rodney Harrison on Belichick, Brady and more; Edelman extends with Pats through 2021 season20:10
1:42 - Tom Curran is joined by 2019 Patriots Hall of Fame Inductee Rodney Harrison to talk about his time with the Patriots 3:12 - Rodney recalls his first meeting with Bill Belichick, immediately understanding the football culture in New England and how the Patriots head coach let him be himself on the field. 5:29 - After being released by the ...…
Introducing the Quick Slants Hotline; The return of News, Go!30:49
1:14 - With the launching of the Quick Slants Hotline, Tom Curran and Phil Perry respond to their first voicemail, with the caller asking about the status of Josh Gordon and if/how he could be used by the Patriots this coming season. 5:30 - Tom is excited to bring back the News, Go! segment, where him and Phil give their takes on bits of news a ...…
Breaking down the Patriots draft picks with NFL Draft Analyst Dane Brugler24:55
2:05 - Tom E. Curran welcomes on NFL Draft Analyst for The Athletic Dane Brugler, who begins by discussing his own post-draft process and self-evaluation after months and months of speculation. 4:10 - Brugler breaks down each of the Patriots 10 draft picks, starting with wide receiver N'Keal Harry. Joejuan Williams (6:35) Yodny Cajuste (7:54) D ...…
The Importance of the 2019 NFL Draft for the Patriots29:32
Tom E. Curran is joined by Phil Perry for the final episode of Quick Slants The Podcast before Thursday's NFL Draft begins, and we debate how important it is for New England to come away with players that will make an impact in the coming years among the 12 picks the teams starts out with. The discussion shifts from the importance of the Draft ...…
Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff lauds Bill Belichick; A deep dive into the newly-released 2019 Patriots schedule28:27
1:24 - Tom E. Curran is joined by General Manager of the Atlanta Falcons Thomas Dimitroff, who talks about his impressions of Bill Belichick following the NFL meetings in March. 9:55 - Before letting him go, Tom gets Dimitroff's thoughts on the batch of receivers in the upcoming draft. 13:58 - Tom breaks down each and every matchup of the Patri ...…
Patriots sign Demaryius Thomas/ Josh Norris of NBC Sports breaks down what players make sense for the Patriots in the draft21:49
(1:00) Tom E. Curran reacts to the Patriots signing Demaryius Thomas, will he actually be able to help the Patriots? Or will the help need to come from the draft? (3:00) Josh Norris breaks down whether the Patriots can find a Rob Gronkowski replacement at pick #32 in the draft. (9:00) What are the best WR options in the draft that fits the Patr ...…
Is the next Julian Edelman out there somewhere?27:33
1:27 - Bruce Feldman from The Athletic joins Tom Curran to take a deep dive into one of his most recent columns on the rise in importance of slot receivers in the NFL. 5:32 - What it is that makes a player a good slot receiver? 8:13 - In his column, Bruce describes Julian Edelman as 'sudden.' How does that trait make him so great and what else ...…
Generation Gap: Why Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials respond differently to the Robert Kraft case21:04
Anna Liotta of Resultance Inc. talks with Tom Curran about the perception differences among the various generations responding to the Robert Kraft case. (2:00) Anna Liotta joins Tom E. Curran to discuss how different generations perspectives of the world, and how that relates to the Robert Kraft case. (9:00) Is the best way to remove drama for ...…
Was Rob Gronkowski given a ‘free pass’ from fans and media? Breaking down best options to replace Gronk35:04
Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry discuss Sports Illustrated column by Andrew Brandt, and debate whether Rob Gronkowski was given any ‘free pass’ from fans and media. Phil Perry also breaks down his best options for replacing Rob Gronkowski, whether through the draft or free agency. (1:00) Tom E. Curran discusses his run in with Rob Gronkowski on th ...…
Saying goodbye to Jerod Mayo and checking in from NFL's annual league meetings38:30
1:09 - Tom Curran and Phil Perry reminisce about their time with Jerod Mayo on the podcast after it was announced that the former Patriots linebacker will join the team this season as the linebackers coach. 10:37 - With Robert Kraft opting for a jury trial in the Florida prostitution case against him, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said tha ...…
Rob Gronkowski announces his retirement, what does this mean for the Patriots? Any chance he returns?13:10
Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry react to the news that Rob Gronkowski has decided to retire. What was the biggest factor in Rob Gronkowski deciding to retire? How will the Patriots fill the void that Gronk leaves? Is there any chance that Rob Gronkowski returns mid-season?
Will Robert Kraft take the plea deal? What’s the best way to get Tom Brady some help at WR?37:11
Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry discuss the latest with the Patriots. Including whether they expect Robert Kraft to take the plea deal, and what WR options they like for the Patriots. (1:00) Will Robert Kraft take the plea deal that he was offered? (8:00) Biggest reasons Robert Kraft would NOT take the plea deal. (10:00) How would taking the plea ...…
Browns load up; Patriots still observers - Around the AFC with Kevin Clark, Scott Bair and Mary Kay Cabot33:39
Tom E. Curran checks in around the NFL after the first few days of free-agency, with a ton of players changing teams. (4:00) The Ringer's Kevin Clark talks about the Patriots being relatively quiet to start free-agency, and what types of players they're looking to add. Plus, what would the Patriots equivalent of an Odell Beckham, Jr. trade prop ...…
Reaction to Patriots losing Trey Flowers and Trent Brown in free agency. Will Michael Bennett be enough to replace Trey Flowers?31:09
(1:00) Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry discuss the Patriots losing Trey Flowers and Trent Brown. (3:00) Trey Flowers was pretty much ‘the perfect Patriot’ why would the Patriots not do more to keep him? (7:00) What’s the plan to replace Trey Flowers? (9:30) How do we feel about Michael Bennett adapting to the Patriots way? (15:00) Who can the Patr ...…
No franchise tags for the Pats; Breaking down salary cap with Miguel Benzan31:57
1:18 - Tom Curran and Phil Perry discuss the Patriots not giving out any franchise tags before Tuesday afternoon's deadline and wonder if the move makes sense for New England. 2:59 - Now that he's a free agent, what will the market for Trey Flowers look like and what does his future hold? 7:23 - Left tackle Trent Brown is another player who wil ...…
McCourty twins on deciding to not retire, dealing with distractions, experiences with Greg Schiano at Rutgers24:14
1:50 - Devin McCourty on why he decided to not retire. He says he still likes playing and enjoys mentoring the young players in the locker room. 3:53 - Jason McCourty is a free agent. He says he would love to be back in New England but he realizes the NFL is a business. 4:47 - Jason McCourty doesn't have any expectations for free agency but wou ...…
What's the deal with the coaching situation; Jerod Mayo gives his SBLIII breakdown26:51
1:49 - Who's staying and who's leaving? With the offseason underway, Tom Curran breaks down the Patriots' current coaching situation and talks about why a coach might want to leave New England. 4:26 - Tom wonders how the defense under the new defensive coordinator Greg Schiano will affect the way the offense operates. 6:29 - "So much of what ha ...…
Was 2018 Bill Belichick’s best coaching season of his career? how will coaching departures impact the 2019 Patriots?36:41
Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry discuss the latest on the 6X SUPER BOWL CHAMPION NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (2:00) Just how epic is the Patriots Super Bowl run been? (3:00) Was 2018 Bill Belichick’s most impressive coaching job in his career? (6:00) How was the coaching staff able to get over the Malcolm Butler drama from last Super Bowl? (9:30) Did Sea ...…
Tom Brady: American Icon22:29
In this special episode of Quick Slants The Podcast, Tom E. Curran talks with three members of the national media - The Ringers Kevin Clark, Mike Florio and Jim Rome, plus Patriots Hall of Famer Tedy bruschi about the legacy of Tom Brady as an American Icon in the world of sports and society. He's gone from unheralded Cinderella to being labele ...…
Exclusive Tom Brady Interview13:43
Tom Brady talks exclusively with Tom E. Curran for this episode of Quick Slants The Podcast. Jerod Mayo breaks down the match-ups going into the Rams game, including how to defend Brandin Cooks, and is he comparable to Tyreek Hill. Plus, how impactful will Jared Goof be in his first Super Bowl. (4:10) Bill Belichick has appeared to be relaxed t ...…
Exclusive 1-on-1 with Robert and Jonathan Kraft25:11
Patriots owners Robert and Jonathan Kraft sit down with Tom E. Curran to discuss a variety of Patriots topics heading into Super Bowl LLIII. (2:00) Robert and Jonathan talk about how it feels to go from underdogs 17 years ago, to being the most hated team in the NFL (4:30) The conversation transitions to the relationship between Tom Brady and B ...…
Jerod Mayo on how powerful Tom Brady’s ‘chip on his shoulder’ attitude is for his teammates. Curran thinks Reid should be ‘embarrassed’ for Dee Ford offside comments30:13
(2:30 )Jerod Mayo breaks down who he thought had standout performances for the Patriots in the AFC Championship (5:00) Jerod Mayo explains how much Tom Brady’s ‘We get no respect’ theme can be hugely successful in motivating teammates (9:00) How much has lack of Brady/Belichick drama this season led to the Patriots success? (11:00) Jerod Mayo t ...…
How the Patriots were able to crush Chargers but why their scheme will have to change against Chiefs33:30
3:10 - Patriots were able to beat up on the Chargers. The defense blitzed Philip Rivers and got him off his spot. 4:20 - Both Tom Brady and Philip Rivers are pocket passers. Why were the Patriots able to get pressure but Chargers weren’t? 5:30 - Patriots won’t be able to play the same way against the Chiefs. 7:00 - Why didn’t the Chargers chang ...…
Jerod Mayo explains why he thinks the Chargers are ‘the worst possible matchup for the Patriots’27:18
Steve Palazzolo gives his All-Pro selections, Jason McCourty on how he got his #3034:36
(4:00) Steve Palazzolo of Pro Football Focus to discuss which offensive players they think should make the All-Pro team (12:00) Which defensive players deserve to be an All-Pro this season? (13:20) Who deserves to be Coach of the year? (18:00) Who deserves to be the NFL MVP, Patrick Mahomes or Drew Bree’s? (21:00) Tom talks with Jason McCourty ...…
Patrick Mahomes or Drew Brees: Trying to settle the NFL MVP debate33:19
In this week's episode, Tom E. Curran dissects the NFL MVP debate between Patrick Mahomes and Drew Brees from three different angles. First up, Tom checks-in with Nick Underhill, Saints reporter from the New Orleans Advocate. Second, we welcome Kansas City Star columnist Sam Mellinger to make the case for the Chiefs phenom. Finally, Tom talks w ...…
Reacting to Josh Gordon stepping away from the Patriots36:26
Josh Gordon stepped away from the New England Patriots Thursday morning after he was returned to the Reserve/Commissioner Suspended list for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Tom E. Curran talks with Sports Illustrated's Ben Baskin, who profiled Gordon a year-ago as he prepared to return to the NFL with the Cleveland Browns. Baskin ...…
What happened on the Patriots final possession/play?; Time to question Brady’s decision-making?31:11
1:30 - Review of the Patriots lose to Steelers. Game was called tight by the refs. Dependability by players becoming an issue? 3:09 - Josh Gordon was not in on the final play of the game. Hear from Josh McDaniels on why Cordarrelle Patterson was in the game over him. 5:45 - What’s was going on with Tom Brady’s throwing while falling away on the ...…
Mike Florio: Why is Mike Tomlin never in danger of being fired? Is Mahomes the NFL's MVP?25:07
Mike Florio talks with Tom E. Curran about the latest around the NFL. (3:30) Why is Mike Tomlin not getting more blame for the Steelers struggles? (9:00) Just how wide open is the AFC? Is there a clear favorite? (10:00) Who has been the MVP in the NFL so far this season? (12:30) How impressive was Mahomes no-look pass? Will more QB’s be trying ...…
Jerod Mayo on how Belichick and locker room handle a heartbreaking loss20:56
Jerod Mayo talks with Tom E. Curran about what it’s like being a player on the Patriots following a devastating loss. He also relates his decision to retire to what Rob Gronkowski could be debating. (1:30) Jerod Mayo weighs in on who’s to blame for Dolphins miracle final play (5:30) Jerod gives player perspective on what locker room is like fol ...…
Jerod Mayo: “If I’m Josh McDaniels, I’m going to Cleveland”23:34
Tom E. Curran and Jerod Mayo break down the Patriots win over the Vikings, can their defense sustain their good play going forward? Also Jerod Mayo explains why if he was Josh McDaniels, he would take the Browns head coaching job. (1:30) Jerod Mayo breaks down why the Patriots defense was so successful against the Vikings. Is this something the ...…
Jerod Mayo says Vikings will be true test of how successful Patriots run game will be going forward34:42
Jerod Mayo and Tom E. Curran discuss everything Patriots, including why Jerod thinks this weekend will be the true test on whether the Patriots run game can sustain going forward. He also gives his opinion on Cordarrelle Patterson’s groin grab against the Jets. (3:30) How sustainable is the Patriots running game? Will it be the key to the Patri ...…
Manish Mehta on why Gronk is done and his days with Patriots are numbered; Curran on Patriots 2.0 dynasty coming to an end33:09
1:45 - Patriots are at the end of the second run of their dynasty. Tom E. Curran explains how the 2.0 version of the dynasty is starting to come to an end. 5:05 - What will this group look like when the Patriots have to rebuild? 6:40 - Is this situation what the Patriots and Tom Brady wanted and expected? 9:30 - Going forward, Patriots have som ...…
Does Pats ugly loss in Tennessee outweigh the six straight wins they had before?29:44
Tom Curran and Jerod Mayo break down what went wrong in the Patriots 34-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans and they look ahead to how the team can improve during the bye week. 1:38 - Jerod's number one reason why the Patriots lost: They couldn't establish the run game. 6:58 - "You could tell Vrabel hyped this team up." Tom and Jerod discuss if the ...…
Troy Brown says Josh Gordon is ‘still far from football shape’ ; Can Mike Vrabel pull off upset?27:26
Tom E. Curran talks with Troy Brown about what he thinks about Mike Vrabel as a head coach, and how that helps the Titans on Sunday. He also discusses Josh Gordon still being far from football shape. (2:00) Troy Brown reacts to Mike Vrabel being upset his player celebrated on the Cowboys logo. Is Mike Vrabel the coach much different than the pl ...…
Why didn't Patriots make a trade?; Something off with Gronk; Tom Brady vs. Aaron Rodgers matchup33:30
Phil Perry joins Tom Curran on Quick Slants the Podcast to discuss... 1:50 - Tom Brady vs. Aaron Rodgers matchup coming up on Sunday night. Patriots last played Packers in 2014, with Green Bay coming out on top. 3:03 - Surprising the Patriots made no moves before the trade deadline? 4:40 - Should the Patriots have made a move for Demaryius Thom ...…
What the Patriots would need to do to trade for Patrick Peterson?36:10
Jerod Mayo and Tom E. Curran discuss the Patriots win over the Bears, and Miguel Benzan of the Boston Sports Journal breaks down the Patriots cap space situation heading into the deadline. (7:00) Is Eli Manning a first ballot Hall of Fame? (10:00) What’s the #1 cause for the Patriots defense not improving? (16:30) Jerod Mayo on how important th ...…
Jerod Mayo breaks down the keys to the Patriots winning 3 straight28:48
(2:00) Takeaways from the Patriots win over the Chiefs (6:00) Is Dont’a Hightower still not 100%? Jerod breaks down what he has seen (8:00) How important has the improvement of Sony Michel been or the Patriots offense? (14:00) Who was to blame at how poor the defense played in the 2nd half? (19:00) Why are QBs around the league playing so much ...…
Preparing the gameplan for the undefeated Chiefs; Sunday Night Football crew joins to debate Gronk vs. Kelce17:48
In this episode of Quick Slants the Podcast, Tom Curran and Jerod Mayo break down the matchup between the undefeated Chiefs and the Patriots... 2:12 - Big primetime game vs. Chiefs. How is it different playing night games vs. normal afternoon games? 4:48 - What is the Patriots identity? "We don’t know who this team really is." 6:05 - Andy Reid ...…
Jerod Mayo explains keeping Dont’a Hightower in the middle was key for improved defense24:39
(1:30) What does Jerod Mayo think the Patriots did different to dominate the Dolphins? (4:00) Mayo explains why putting Dont’a Hightower behind the line calling plays was a key to the defensive dominance. (9:30) Did the Patriots improve that much, or was Miami that bad?(10:20) Jerod thinks Patriots are not top of the AFC, but explains competiti ...…
Ian O'Connor, author of 'Belichick', gives behind-the-scenes details of the Patriots head coach24:13
4:43 - Ian O'Connor, the author of, 'Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time' joins Tom E. Curran on Quick Slants the Podcast. 6:10 - O'Connor discusses Bill Belichick's relationship with Bill Parcells, and how Belichick had a desire to get away from Parcells, leading to Belichick resigning as HC of the NYJ. 7:50 - How ...…
Is Sony Michel the key to the Patriots beating the Dolphins on Sunday?32:48
Tom E. Curran, Jerod Mayo and Phil Perry discuss the tough start for the Patriots, and break down what they need to do on both sides of the ball to improve. (1:00) Jerod Mayo and Phil Perry break down what they saw go wrong for the Patriots defense against the Lions. (4:30) Why did the Patriots struggle with defending the run so much? (11:00) I ...…
Jerod Mayo on why Sunday vs the Lions is the best time to test out Josh Gordon23:32
Jerod Mayo talks with Tom E. Curran about the Patriots loss to the Jaguars, and why he thinks the Lions are the perfect opponent to test out Josh Gordon. (1:00) Jerod Mayo gives his reaction to the Patriots signing Josh Gordon, and what we can expect from him. (7:00) How does Bill Belichick address adding Josh Gordon to his players? (11:00) Did ...…
Jerod Mayo thinks Bennie Fowler has better chance to play than Corey Coleman25:34
Tom E. Curran and Jerod Mayo discuss the Patriots signing WRs Corey Coleman and Bennie Fowler, break down the Patriots week 1 win, and react to Matt Patricia’s tough debut for the Lions. (2:30) Jerod Mayo explains why he thinks Benny Fowler will get onto the field before Corey Coleman (6:30) What can the Patriots expect from Corey Coleman? (8:0 ...…
Did ‘Tom vs Time’ hurt Tom Brady’s chance of getting a better contract?23:10
Tom E. Curran sits down with Jerod Mayo to discuss the trailer for the latest Tom vs. Time episode. Why did Brady feel the need to add an epilogue episode days before the season begins. Curran explains why he thinks ‘Tom vs Time’ hurt Tom Brady’s chance of getting a better contract with the Patriots. Also, Jerod and Tom talk about Pepper Johnso ...…
Jerod Mayo thinks Jimmy Garoppolo will regress this season,Josh McDaniels on how Patriots will deal with lack of depth at WR30:05
Tom E. Curran, Phil Perry and Jerod Mayo discuss what they’ve seen from the Patriots so far this season, whether the NFL can fix the preseason, and Jerod explains why he expects Jimmy G to regress this season. (6:00) Is there any point to the 4th preseason game? How can the NFL change the preseason to make it more effective? (13:00) Tom E. Curr ...…
Jerod Mayo explains why we shouldn't panic about the new NFL helmet rule32:29
Jerod Mayo talks with Phil Perry about the new NFL rules, and explains why he thinks we should not panic about the helmet rule just yet. (2:00) What level of concern does Jerod Mayo have with the NFL’s new helmet rule4:30) Will defenders altering the way they tackle ultimately lead to more injuries? (7:30) Jerod Mayo reacts to the NFL’s new QB ...…
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Debby Ryan, the star of the Disney Channel series Jessie, has branched out from acting to singing and writing songs with her band the Never Ending. Born in 1993 in Alabama, Debby was raised in a military family and spent her youth in Texas and Germany, among other places. She first acted when she was 7 and before long she started getting cast in commercials and minor roles in other projects. Ryan first attracted the public's notice in 2008 when she appeared as Bailey Pickett on Disney's The Suite Life on Deck. Her success there led to her own series, Jessie, in 2011. She pursued her love of music with the 2011 single "We Ended Right" and by forming the Never Ending in 2013. They released their debut EP, One, in 2014.
Selected filmography: The Suite Life on Deck (2008-2011), 16 Wishes (2010), Jessie (2011-present)
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Posted by: Javonni Brustow Category: Music Comments: 0 Post Date: June 28, 2019
Watch Lizzo’s Behind the Scenes Making of Her Iconic BET Performance
Javonni Brustow2019-06-28T09:03:33-04:00
Photo Credit: BET
Lizzo was one of the most notable performances at the 2019 BET Awards leading many who hadn’t already known who she is to ask who this woman is and where has she been all of our lives. Her single Truth Hurts that she performed has been one of the most highest selling/streamed tracks for months raking in around $100,000 every week, outperforming her hit Juice she performed at the MTV Awards, Cardi B’s Press, Post Malone‘s Wow, Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved and Shawn Mendes’ If I Can’t Have You. During rehearsal she said Rihanna being in the front row had her nervous. She admitted it was in fact intimidating. In the end, she received a standing ovation from the Barbadian singer who danced to her performance in the audience.
As for the performance itself, Lizzo chose to use Janelle Monae’s choreographer. She talked about the struggles of the bouquet she threw in the audience being heavy, being afraid because the cake was slippery, but end in the end, she expressed a level of confidence almost unmatched in our generation of performers. She said beforehand that she was excited to have her iconic moment which already goes to show she lacks no confidence whatsoever to have already dubbed her performance as iconic… which it was. She also says she hopes that little girls that look like her can see themselves and see what’s possible. She wanted the people in the crowd to “feel the love, feel the self love, and feel the positive vibes.” And the picture of all the women marrying themselves on stage is what she called “true love,” and that “that’s the energy all 2019.”
Watch the behind the scenes in the make of Lizzo’s 2019 BET Awards performance below:
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The Effect of Music on Impulsivity in College Undergraduate Students with Attention Deficits
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Dunbar, Laura L.
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Hamann, Donald
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of music listening on impulsivity as judged by the Conners' Continuous Performance Test (CPT) II v. 5. College undergraduate students were recruited into one of two groups and were administered a computer task (CPT) to complete in an initial condition, a music condition, and a silence condition. One group of participants had no diagnosed history of ADHD while the other participant group had a history of ADHD. The initial condition served as an opportunity for each participant to take the CPT with the researcher present to allow each participant to ask questions before taking the test alone; each participant was then taken to a separate testing room. As all participants were tested in all three conditions, the remaining two (music and silence) were randomly assigned to control for order effect. The music condition involved taking the CPT alone in the testing room with "In a Mello Tone" by Count Basie playing in the background during the test administration. The piece was manipulated to have a tempo of mm = 124 and looped to last the entirety of the CPT (14 minutes). Each participant was administered the CPT in a silence condition, in which the participant was alone in the testing room without other provided stimuli. The final sample was N = 51 with n = 26 enrolled in the typical group and n = 25 enrolled in the group with attention deficits. A significant main effect difference was found by group: the typical group exhibited lower impulsivity levels as compared to the ADHD group based on Commission mean scores. Additionally, significant main effect differences were found by condition (initial, music, and silence). Both the factors of group and condition appear to be independent as no interaction was found. Implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.
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Heartbreaking survival horror
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[Epstein, Epstein, Epstein - how many politicians will you threaten to take down if they send you to the big house? gjr]
Ahhhhh, fresh kitty litter!
Black Entertainment Television founder and longtime Democrat Robert Johnson said in an interview that aired Tuesday that the Democratic Party has become too liberal to defeat President Trump in 2020, unless major changes are made.
“The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left,” Johnson told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.
Johnson – the country’s first African-American billionaire, according to Forbes – went on to say that because the party has become so liberal, he isn’t supporting a particular 2020 candidate at this time.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bet-founder-robert-johnson-says-democratic-party-moved-too-far-to-the-left
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
Is this another NY Madame story, or much more? I don’t see how anybody comes out of this unscathed. Most of us have already said all our Lolita Express jokes years ago. A billionaire with many friends and acquaintances is bound to provide much fodder, even to those who were unfortunately (for them) at the same restaurant at the same time as Epstein.
Some Dem candidates should tread gently. Kamala Harris, then California AG came under fire when the victims of sodomy practicing priests sought her help. She not get her to lift a finger to investigate or prosecute the priests. To be fair, the statue of limitations had run out, but the victims faced a closed door on Kamala’s office door. The victims had their day in court (civil) by hiring their own lawyers after Harris buried their accusations.
The good news is that there is a new sheriff in town, thus Epstein does not face a rosy future. Yes, Barr did not start this latest investigation, but the DOJ will prosecute it.
The biggest losers are the Clintons, as this could finally put the coffin nail in their relevance. Some speculate that this is the Clinton’s biggest takedown, politically.
Politically, the Left will paint this as a Trump Administration scandal, lol. That’s a no-brainer. Ironically, Robert Mueller was the FBI Director from 2001 to 2013, a period when Epstein was last investigated and charged. Same faces, different year.
Why can’t be be more France?
A paper straw could have saved her life. Free the straw! That's some costly virtue signaling! -
BOURNEMOUTH, England – A retired jockey died when she fell onto an eco-friendly metal drinking straw which impaled her eye, an inquest heard.
Elena Struthers-Gardner, 60, who was known as ‘Lena,’ suffered brain injuries in the accident at her home in Broadstone.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/07/09/metal-drinking-straw-fatally-impales-woman-england/1684768001/
H. Ross Parrot has gone to the big birdcage in the sky.
I'll take this time to help bury Mr. Perot... his idea was that trying to fix the country with the Constitution in place was akin to trying to fix a car while driving on the highway, and his voters were good with his solution... put the Constitution to the side, giving him absolute power... and after the country was fixed he'd put the Constitution back into place.
And had Milton Friedman done something different, we might have had a 3rd Party emerge in '92. On a PBS NewsHour (back when it was McNeil/Lehrer), Uncle Miltie was talking about the candidates and let fly with the thought that the ONLY candidate making any economic sense was Andre Marrou, the Libertarian Party candidate with a history of being the peacemaker between REP and DEM in the Alaskan state legislature.
MacNeil had an astonished look on his face as if he'd not given even a single thought to the LIB candidate, and asked Friedman if Marrou had a chance to win. To this day, I think Friedman threw the Libertarian Party under the bus by telling PBS the answer they wanted to hear... No, Marrou didn't have a chance.
An open ended answer like "Why not have him on your program to find out?" might have worked wonders.
Epstein-Acosta,,,Trump will always defend a pussy grabber
Posted by: AVMan | 09 July 2019 at 01:00 PM
The usual suspects will make hay with this. Poor man should have been given another chance.
https://nypost.com/video/kill-me-knife-wielding-man-dies-in-police-shootout/
Todd writes on RR 26 October 2017 at 12:54 PM :
"Liberals run the porn industry and most of the media and Hollywood. Perverts on the left and you support them?"
George, what culture does Todd represent when he accuses millions of being perverts? How does this relate to your post when you wrote 09 July 2019 at 11:23 AM on the Sandbox that "The very definition of perversion indicates that it is culture-specific, since abnormality is also culture-specific. "
Todds statement link
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2017/10/sandbox-25oct17.html?cid=6a00e54f86f2ad883301b8d2b85e6b970c#comment-6a00e54f86f2ad883301b8d2b85e6b970c
Posted by: Paul Emery | 09 July 2019 at 01:19 PM
Does this go here, or under Looney Tunes? How about the Looney Tunes Left.
“Therapists are supposed to alleviate trauma, not add to it.”
“Her website and about page are proud of the fact that Rashatwar peaked in popularity when she was featured in Breitbart in 2018 “for naming thinness as a white supremacist beauty ideal.” Since then, she has become a “sought-after speaker who travels internationally to curate custom visual workshops that whisper to our change-making spirit and nourish our vision for a more just future.”
“Really. It says that.
“And finally, putting a child on a diet “can be a violation of consent,” according to Rashatwar.
“Previously, Rashatwar made headlines when she claimed that “fitness trainers” were like Nazis. But of course, in a world where everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi, that must mean nothing.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/corinne-weaver/2019/07/09/anti-us-government-fat-therapist-wants-undo-western
Breitbart made her a star!
PaulE 119pm - The real answer will come from ToddJ. But it sounds like his message is from a pre-Great Society American culture framework. For what passes for culture in today's America, the people he references are not considered to be perverts, but probably members of our new 'woke population'.
Posted by: George Rebane | 09 July 2019 at 01:44 PM
I think my words speak for themselves Paul Emery. Do you think porn is our culture and do you agree that it is perversion?
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 09 July 2019 at 02:30 PM
Regarding the culture I represent. I am into a nice, sweet and non-mean culture. There are some boundaries of what is good and bad and I know goodness when I see it. Just like you see porn when you watch it. Paul Emery is a sick puppy.
The political kiss of death -
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/07/09/hollywood-goes-all-in-for-mcconnell-challenger-amy-mcgrath/
Now, I have had mixed feeling about Cocaine Mitch, the Grim Reaper. But, by golly, he certainly is more nibble on his feet than Joe Biden....which is not saying a lot, but still, you won’t catch that ole cagey hillbilly and clone of Satan (R-KY) with his pants down.
NBC News did an ancestry check on Mitch and his great great grandpappy owned slaves, 14 of them. Then the Clucking News Networks gang circled back and wondered if that was why Mitch was opposed to reparations. An rather sick, yet not unexpected, connecting the dots of the Resistance. Why? Because the Enemy of the People are pushing for reparations, that’s why. They be true Leftinistas. So long old liberals.
Anyway, Cocaine Mitch has eyeballs and he can read as well. Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly. Snared them in the trap they laid. The internet exploded. Huff-n-Puff Farting Post and their band of misfits became unglued. Sweet. Keep high stepping, Grime Reaper. Let that hair down and go a jig. Well done sir.
“At a press conference following a closed-door luncheon with Senate Republicans, McConnell was asked whether he was aware that two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners in Alabama before the Civil War and whether the revelation would cause him to reconsider his position on reparations.”
"I find myself once again in the same position as President [Barack] Obama. We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners," he said, before moving on to another question.
As Willy Brown would say, “Va-va-va-voom!”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-likens-himself-to-obama-we-both-are-the-descendants-of-slave-owners/ar-AAE5v5G?li=BBnbfcL#page=2
Icing on the cake:
Presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker's (D., N.J.) Iowa press communications director called Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) a "piece of s–t" for agreeing with President Barack Obama on reparations in a tweet posted Tuesday afternoon.
“"[T]his man is, truly, a piece of s–t," Tess Seger tweeted, referring to the Senate Majority Leader's statement that he agrees with President Obama's stance on opposing reparations. "You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama," McConnell said when asked if revelations about his family's past history of owning slaves changed his stance on the topic. "We both oppose reparations, and we both are the descendants of slaveholders."
https://freebeacon.com/politics/booker-press-sec-upset-mcconnell-agrees-with-obama-on-reparations/
Stories of tortures used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious and vile...
make me smile :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs
Paul, it seems as though there's room in your thoughtworld for unrestrained buggery but not room for someone who views it as perverted. Is that the case?
Less than the fireworks cost! LOL
The Pentagon estimates the "Salute to America" Fourth of July parade held in Washington, D.C., last week cost it $1.2 million, according to the DoD comptroller's office.
Military aircraft flyovers and static displays of equipment were included in the cost, according to a DoD statement.
Officials on Tuesday said New York Fleet Week costs the DoD $1.3 million, by comparison.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/09/heres-how-much-salute-america-flyovers-cost-military.html
Team lefty is alienating those it wants to court -
The majority of Hispanic and black Americans support President Trump’s effort to ask all respondents on the 2020 Census whether or not they are an American citizen, a new poll finds.
The latest Harvard/Harris Poll reveals that a majority of five-in-nine Hispanic voters, or 55 percent, and nearly six-in-ten black American voters, or about 59 percent, said they support a question on the upcoming census that would ask U.S. residents whether they are American citizens or not.
Overall, about 67 percent of U.S. voters said the citizenship question should be on the Census, including 72 percent of white Americans, nearly nine-in-ten Republican voters, 63 percent of swing voters, and 64 percent to 69 percent of working class Americans.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/09/poll-5-in-9-hispanics-6-in-10-black-americans-support-citizenship-question-on-census/
“President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,” the statement reads. “In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: One to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation.”
And the other 22 trips?
Bill can't even lie very well any more.
Pathetic.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/08/bill-clinton-distances-himself-from-jeffrey-epstein/
Posted by: Scott O | 09 July 2019 at 06:02 PM
Awww isn't that cute, he is working so hard to be like his big city socialist dem utopias -
https://freebeacon.com/politics/south-bends-violent-crime-continues-to-skyrocket-under-buttigieg/
Nice, take the mutha mullahs frozen cash to pay for the drone and then there is this -
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-proceeding-with-plan-for-coalition-to-deter-iran-threats/ar-AAE5z5M?ocid=spartandhp
We had our homes air ducts switched out for double the size to maximize airflow to make our overkill hvac system not ever have to strain in the worst. Bigger 3M everything grabbing filters. Good luck taking it away -
The left — and by the left I include the media — are already coming for our guns, our health insurance, our private schools, our churches, our automobiles, our backyard grills, and now they want to take away our cooled air.
So this is nothing to laugh at. Yesterday’s insanity almost always becomes tomorrow’s reality. The Luddites are dead serious. And this is not the first time the far-Left Times has come for our A/C, and it won’t be the last.
There is an oft-cited study published in Nature.com that notes how building temperatures, once set to the comfort preferences of 1960s-era men in suits, disregard the “thermal comfort” of female staffers.
Come summer, Twitter invariably lights up with charges that air-conditioning is sexist, an engine of the patriarchy, in threads that in turn fire up conservative commentators eager to prove the daftness of the opposition.
Building temperatures are largely controlled by building managers, to industry standards that aim for the thermal comfort of 80 percent of a building’s occupants — which means, of course, that 20 percent will be uncomfortable, if not miserable.
And air conditioning is wounding Mother Gaia:
On an overheated planet, air-conditioning becomes more and more desirable, solving in the short term the problem it helped create.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/07/09/nolte-new-york-times-wants-ban-on-sexist-air-conditioning/
Hey brother can you spare some Freon? ;-)
Speaking of sexist.......are cat fights gender based? Patriarchy is not gender based? I got up my woke game.
“Yes, Kellyanne is sexist towards women. That makes total sense."
“Boothe responded by tweeting a screenshot of the definition of "patriarchy" to Ocasio-Cortez and writing: "Patriarchy by definition is gender based."
https://www.dailywire.com/news/49327/patriarchy-has-no-gender-aoc-claims-conway-sexist-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
Speaking of upping my woke game.....
WHO NEEDS WOKILEAKS?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/who-needs-wokileaks.php
“How many times is @JoeBiden going to say something stupid?“
—Sen. Barack Obama, during the 2008 campaign, from the book “Game Change”
Epstein.
Have you seen the list of people who flew with Jeffery on the Lolita Express? Tony Blaine, a Koch Bro, a bunch of Hollywood liberal perverts...the list is long.
The day of Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. Get out of here, Democrat mega donor perv. First Harvey, now Epstein. No wonder the DNC is hurting for money.
“Perino asked Patterson about Trump's remarks: "President Trump said earlier that he had a falling-out with Epstein about 15 years ago. Do you know what that was about?"
“Patterson responded: "Well, I know that there were some complaints about Epstein at Mar-a-Lago and also I spoke to the head of the spa there. I said ‘did you ever meet Epstein?’ She said, 'oh yes... he was inappropriate with some of the younger women there.' She said she went to Trump and he threw him out of the club."
At another point in the interview, Patterson said he "knows Trump didn't know" about Epstein's alleged criminal activity.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/49325/watch-best-selling-author-reveals-why-trump-kicked-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
My goodness, how does Trump fit in your "culture"? You certainly have no problem when your hero Donald Trump bonks a porn star ans pays her off to keep her mouth shut while his wife is home with a babe in arms. Is Trump part of your culture Todd. Here's how you described it earlier today. "Regarding the culture I represent. I am into a nice, sweet and non-mean culture."
Is that how you characterize Trumps character?
Play it maestro.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlTOfl9F2w
I see the Paul Emry poop droppings here again. TDS and perversions are galore.
TDS is a perversion and a law against nature. TDS really buggers the mind, emotions, and will. A warped soul, if you will. But enough about the pervs.
By golly, Boardman may be right about the old hippy aunt in his Union column. Never know. It’s not the first article I have read advising the reader to not dismiss The Old Hippy Aunt.
“In the 1990s, Camille Paglia wrote about New Age mysticism. Given her fascination with the low-brow, Paglia was rather non-judgmental about the trend, condemning only the turn to self-help that she observed in occultism. Everyone who loves Paglia also hates her some of the time, and this is one of these times I find it difficult not to hate the firebrand cultural critic, since contemporary witchcraft practices are such shallow garbage.
“Parliament noted that most practitioners of New Age are women and gay men, which I think remains true. There is a self-conscious feminist dimension to neo-paganism—the drive to get past both the patriarchal monotheistic religions and the cool logic of science, back to the goddess worship.
“The kind of feminism Williamson offers might just have a future within the progressive movement. The metaphysician shared the debate stage with several women. These women have all risen, as instructed, through the ranks of established institutions. Yet their career path leaves many lefty women feeling conflicted.
“These women are asked to “lean in” into their jobs so that one day a woman can become a president, inspiring our daughters… to lean in some more. Yet most occupations are kind of boring, and ordinary women are ill-advised to sacrifice family time on the altar of employment. They know it, too. On this level alone, the women aspiring for Democratic nomination are not very relatable.
“Williamson stands out among these women: she is her own person, a cult leader. Most of her followers are female; many are young. There is a demographic of suburban swing voters that she may appeal to. She can perhaps peel away some nutty right-wingers (Alex Jones pushes the same wellness catalog as Gwyneth Paltrow). It might not be Williamson who hijacks the Democratic Party for the voodooists; it might be with someone like her who will show up in the near future. The demographics, a burgeoning millennial pagan movement, might just be the progressives’ destiny.
“Of course, women are just as capable of reason as men, and not every middle-aged mom enrolls in yoga classes to experience universal consciousness. In fact, most do it under the impression that it will help reduce their weight. And, certainly, the country as a whole is not at all like Santa Cruz, California. Yet, I’m sure there are plenty of true believers in places like Austin, Texas, to whom a progressive heathen cult leader may appeal.
“Left-leaning outlets, interestingly, published soft-glow features of Williamson. Allowing a charismatic cult leader into the debates must be very embarrassing for the party of science, so somebody in the major media has to run interference. On the other hand, the puff piece writers might be genuinely enamored of Williamson. Another Age of Aquarius might just be coming.
“Humanity needs a mental shower: we need to wash off all prejudices of the 20th Century and stand naked beneath the waters of eternal Truths,” Williamson once proclaimed. She’s sort of right about the 20th century. But, considering that the worst atrocities of the last century have been perpetrated by pagan regimes, I shudder to think of what folks who share Williamson’s views ultimately might be cooking up for us..”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/08/might-laugh-marianne-williamson-millions-across-country/
Hmmm. A party of pagans and gay men. No wonder someone is a wee bit touchy on the perversion topic. Epstein had a friggin blow up doll hanging on his Palm Beach chandelier and if that ain’t bad enough, there is a Nevada City dude who is rumored to have a Ann Coulter doll prominently displayed in his workstation. Sick stuff. Rumor also has it that the doll is looking rather tattered lately.
Paul, it may be time to retire the "bonk a porn star" meme. It didn't work back when Stormy had a worse reputation than her lawyer, and it doesn't work now.
Posted by: Gregory | 10 July 2019 at 09:44 AM
Just testing Todds moral aptitude Gregory by asking If he includes Trump in his culture he describes when he writes: "Regarding the culture I represent. I am into a nice, sweet and non-mean culture. There are some boundaries of what is good and bad and I know goodness when I see it. "
Todd is too easy and not much of a workout but it's kinda fun now and then to lob a few jabs in his direction.
Posted by: Paul Emery | 10 July 2019 at 10:16 AM
But you never land anything oh great pony tail of ignorance and here is another one you were totally wrong on -
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-victory-over-deep-state-after-court-tosses-case-over-businesses
Posted by: Don Bessee | 10 July 2019 at 11:44 AM
No, no, keep it up like we know you will trying to out left the left -
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/10/pinkerton-liberal-dem-warns-his-party-stop-embracing-losing-issues-or-trump-will-win/
Good point -
Tucker Carlson: Ilhan Omar Is ‘Living Proof’ Our Immigration Laws Are ‘Dangerous
Tucker Carlson says Rep. Ilhan Omar despises Americ
Fox News host Tucker Carlson ended his primetime program on Tuesday night by taking aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), claiming the Somalia-born congresswoman despises America and is “living proof” that America’s immigration policies are “dangerous.”
Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in the House of Representatives, has long been targeted by Carlson, who has devoted numerous segments to calling the progressive lawmaker “ungrateful” and a “symbol of America's failed immigration policies.”
This time, however, the Fox News star took his anti-Omar stance even further.
“Ilhan Omar has an awful lot to be grateful for, but she isn't grateful, not at all,” Carlson said. “After everything America has done for Omar and for her family, she hates this country more than ever.”
Referencing a recent Washington Post profile on the freshman representative, the conservative commentator said the piece showed that Omar was “enraged” by America and that she has “undisguised contempt for the United States and for its people.”
“That should worry you, and not just because Omar is now a sitting member of Congress,” Carlson warned his viewers. “Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-ilhan-omar-living-021143583.html
,,,here is your boy Toddler,,,just another lowlife business decision. Casinos, strippers, it is all in a day's work for Trump!!!
https://politicaldig.com/trumps-mar-a-lago-to-host-a-stripper-filled-party-for-shady-charity-event/
,,,more embarrassments for Faux News lovers,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fox-news-duped-seth-rich-192907577.html
Paul Emery | 10 July 2019 at 10:16 AM
I love it when you take my baiting you. You are so dumb. Thanks.
No more bs from the chi coms -
One CV appeared to show a person who simultaneously held a position at Huawei and a teaching and research role at a military university through which they were employed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Balding linked that employee to a section in the PLA that is responsible for the Chinese military’s space, cyber, and electronic warfare capabilities.
“The circumstantial evidence appears quite strong to support valid concerns about the relationship between Huawei, the PLA, and concerns about intelligence gathering,” Balding said in the paper.
Another CV describes an individual who worked at Huawei but was a representative of a government entity responsible for espionage and counterintelligence. That individual “engaged in behavior that describes planting information capture technology or software on Huawei products,” according to the study.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/07/09/study-reveals-links-between-huawei-employees-and-chinese-military/
The royal navy stops the revolutionary guard from snatching a brit tanker just now -
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iranian-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-boats-tried-failed-to-seize-british-oil-tanker-in-persian-gulf-senior-us-defense-official-says
Babs has the same virtue signaling pass as Al 'I invented the internet' Gore and his G-VI -
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/07/10/barbra-streisand-flew-her-dogs-to-london-to-watch-her-sing/
,,,yo Bessie!!! You are on a junk food diet of Breitbart and Fix news.
@5:56 pm.
Babs did say that Trump is making her fat. Each time she comes down with a TDS conniption fit, she runs to her comfort food and starts shoving into her pie hole in massive quantities . Just imagine her carbon footprint hauling her or her dogs to France.
Why can’t we be more like France: Epstein.
“Perhaps the most historic, in the sense of era-defining, moment in the history of the Academy Awards was that standing ovation Roman Polanski got when he was given Best Director honors in 2003. There they are, leading Hollywood liberals, leaping to their feet to cheer for a man who, at age 43, gave a 13-year-old girl Quaaludes for the purpose of having sex with her and sodomizing her. Polanski suffered in no significant way for his crime, and today it seems obvious he should at the very least be denied the highest honor his profession can bestow.
“In 2018, Polanski (along with Bill Cosby) was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which suddenly discovered 40 years after his crime that he was no longer in accord with “ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity.” They meant “moral standards,” but acknowledging the existence of morality is still too much to ask of the Academy. Before Harvey Weinstein, the only person ever expelled from the Academy was Carmine Caridi, an actor who appeared in The Godfather. His crime was sharing a DVD screener with a friend, who put it on the Internet.
“The Jeffrey Epstein case should end a nearly 50-year era in which the mandarins of our cultures — the intellectuals, writers, and artists — almost unanimously ignored, laughed off, or even outright celebrated sexual exploitation of girls and very young women, even in many cases prepubescent ones. Humbert Humbert somehow became the culture’s idea of a barrier-breaking hero whose predilections provided jokes such as the nickname for Epstein’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ jet, the one stocked with young flesh. Epstein’s habits were so unremarkable that Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were happy to be associated with him. Clinton and Trump were not outliers. They were simply symptoms of a disease.
“Hugh Hefner fired up a flare lighting the way to an almost anything-goes view of female sexuality, and it reached its apex at the 2003 Oscars. Under the regime of Hefnerism, conservative prudes and often the law stood charged with being uptight and repressive about sex involving girls just over or even under the age of consent. That Polanski became an exile from this country after his crime made him Hollywood’s favorite martyr. The Academy was eager to give him the Oscar both to showcase its view that he had been victimized by prudery and to dunk on conservatives. Attendees didn’t just applaud, they let out a mighty whoop of approval when Polanski’s Oscar was announced by a smiling Harrison Ford. Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, Weinstein, and others all jumped to their feet to participate in a chilling standing ovation. Jack Nicholson, at whose house Polanski’s assault took place, looked confused and joined in the applause, but remained seated. So did Nicolas Cage. No one captured by the cameras looked particularly peevish. As far as I know, no one in Hollywood had any problem with lionizing Polanski at the time.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-roman-polanski-hollywood-sexual-exploitation/
Update on the latest mutha mullahs mess up -
But the HMS Montrose quickly trained its 30mm deck guns on the enemy fleet and warned them off, they added.
The British Heritage tanker was being escorted through the flashpoint region by the Montrose amid feverish tensions between Iran and the West.
But the Navy frigate was scrambled into action when the rival boats reportedly approached the oil tanker and demanded it change course into Iranian waters.
According to the anonymous officials, the Montrose came up from the rear of the tanker and aimed its fierce weapons at the Iranians - before issuing a verbal warning to get away.
One of the officials said: "The Royal Navy HMS Montrose, which was also there, pointed it guns at the boats and warned them over radio, at which point they dispersed."
The other added: "It was harassment and an attempt to interfere with the passage."
A US aircraft was flying overhead at the time and recorded footage of the standoff, the officials said.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9482610/iran-standoff-royal-navy-oil-tanker/
Iranian boats vs one British frigate equipped with 30 mm deck guns is the perfect weapon to take out all the little rival boats. Blow them pesky pests out of the water. Protecting International waterway passages is a no-brainer. Not up for debate Those guns on the frigate are customer ordered for the present task at hand. :)
END OF A ERA: From Nazis to Hippies, end of the road for the VW Bug.
Farewell my old friend(s). May I never own one again. But, thanks for the memories. It was great and will be always great in the backroads of my mind.
https://news.grabien.com/making-nazis-hippies-end-road-volkswagen-beetle
This is the last time I will play this short clip. Epstein has changed everything. 14 sec.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA
Yes sir BT at close range the 30's would chew them up nicely and should one survive to get out of range then the 4.5inch auto deck gun would get them as they fled!
I don't think the grim reaper was worried but its pretty much over now she's pissed off both ends! woke too much, woke too little. No goldilocks here -
The dramatic public stumble blunted McGrath's momentum on the same day she announced her campaign had raised $2.5 million in its first 24 hours. It also fueled criticisms from both Republicans and Democrats that the Marine combat aviator may not be a winner in congressional politics, following her claim on Tuesday that President Trump's election was similar to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and her defeat in a House race last year.
"You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him," McGrath told The Louisville Courier-Journal on Wednesday. She also said that it was a "good question" to ask.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcgrath-flip-flops-now-says-she-wouldve-opposed-kavanaugh-after-left-wing-backlash
Larry Elder gets fact checked. Ten Republicans owned slaves. Ten, roflmao.
https://www.creators.com/read/larry-elder/07/19/politifact-rates-elder-false-on-democrats-and-slavery-but-elder-was-right
Will we see Indian and Japanese frigates soon? -
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - Five boats believed to belong to Iranian Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday and asked it to stop in Iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a British warship warned them, U.S. officials said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-iranian-boats-harass-british-004431336.html
A lefty that almost gets it, but fails:
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/452285-youtube-star-says-platform-algorithm-isnt-sophisticated-enough-to-address
Money quote - "Wynn argued that, as a result, YouTube winds up “banning a lot of the stuff that we don’t want to be banned and not banning the stuff that we may want to be banned.”"
Ah - there's the rub. Once you let some one else decide what speech is hurty speech, they may just decide it's you.
And just who is this 'we'?
Another useful idiot. Turns out she really still believes in censoring content she doesn't like and thinks it won't end up biting her in the ass.
Fool.
Looking around the bend
“Other problems have now arisen for the Democrats because of the issues that have come to the fore: race, radicalism and the border.”
“None looks like a winning Democratic issue in November 2020.
“Bottom line: If the 2020 campaign becomes a conversation about reparations for slavery and the bussing of white kids from the suburbs into inner-city schools to achieve greater integration, the Democrats will be in a world of hurt.
“On border security, indispensable to Trump in 2016, Democrats in the debates came out for ending criminal detention of people invading our country and for providing free health care for migrants who successfully break into the USA.
“Detesting ICE as they do, and supporting sanctuary cities, left-wing Democrats routinely describe the Border Patrol as neo-fascists who run “concentration camps” where migrant children are forced to drink toilet water. The Democrats are becoming an open borders party.
“What is their solution to the hundreds of thousands of migrants who annually arrive at our borders? Foreign aid. They want to create a Marshall Plan for Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador so refugees will stay home rather than come to the USA for the health care Democrats will provide at taxpayer expense.”
https://buchanan.org/blog/are-democrats-ceding-the-center-to-trump-137283
The Greeks flushed their socialists down the drain too. Its looking like a trend. Lets watch their GDP in the next year or so -
New Greek PM Mitsotakis says tax cuts to be legislated
https://www.yahoo.com/news/greek-pm-mitsotakis-holds-first-102413464.html
,,,Famous Trump Quotes,,,
https://www.laaclu.org/sites/default/files/styles/featured_image_580x386/public/web18-trumpmural-1160x768-v01.jpg?itok=Jyvca8V6
,,,mural protected by free speech!!!
Posted by: AVMan | 11 July 2019 at 08:06 AM
Oh my. Et Tu, Botox Queen?
AOC talking about Peloski. The racist card is thrown on the table.
"When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm's distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood. But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color."
(In an totally unrelated turn of events, Queen Nan’s 10:45 am (EST) press conference this morning has been delayed.)
“By and large, whatever orientation they came to Congress with, they know that we have to hold the center," Pelosi responded. "That we have to go down the mainstream."
(Yo airhead, you lost the center awhile ago. Look in your rear view mirror)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/49367/ocasio-cortez-suggests-pelosi-targeting-her-ryan-saavedra
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 11 July 2019 at 08:26 AM
Thumbing down on someone who uses Botox?
And your hero has plastic boobs, lipid injections in her lips, Botox, had her teeth pulled to make her cheekbones look higher, and her bottom ribs removed to make her waist slimmer. All this to win a beauty pageant. I think it was Maxim Magazine that had a great spread about "the making of Melania". And Trump brought her home like a box of chocolates after he and Epstein were done with the rest of the kids.
Posted by: Rock Hunter | 11 July 2019 at 08:35 AM
I see the mentally deranged Rockhead is at it again. It is trolls like you that ruin the discourse of the country.
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 11 July 2019 at 08:58 AM
Rock attacking an immigrant again, I see. He wants his Mooch back.
Kids? That is what Mega Democrat Donor Jeffie Epstein is into. At least Mega Democrat Donor and Democrat Mega Bundler Harvey Weinstein was into ejaculating into the ficus house plant in front of witnesses, not kids. Kids are more of Carlos Danger thang, or Drag Queen Story Hour thang.
Woman of Color sues Trump for forcibly kissing her on the mouth!
https://mobile.twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/1149156938955071488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1149156938955071488&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F49380%2Ftrump-staffer-said-trump-forcibly-kissed-her-heres-amanda-prestigiacomo
.Johnson’s attorneys were displeased with the release of the video clip, while also claiming that it helps their case, saying in a court document that the footage "shows exactly what Ms. Johnson alleged happened to her: an unwanted kiss from Defendant Trump.”
“singling out elected women of color”—AOC. How original.
I wish I had a dollar for everytime Rashida Tlaib or the Gang of Four started a statement with, “As a person of color blah blah blah....I am offended.” “As a person of color.....”.
I had no idea. Being a
oC must not be like being black or something like that.
“Patton hit back at Tlaib’s calling her a “prop” during the Wednesday hearing:”
“What I’d like to ask the congresswoman from Michigan is: why does she take the word of a self-confessed perjuror and criminally convicted white man over a black female who is highly educated, rose up through the ranks of one of the most competitive companies in real estate, spoke before 25 million people at the Republican National Convention, and now works in one of the most historic administrations in history?”
“She then delivered her gut punch to Tlaib, saying, “That is more racist than being put up there as a ‘prop'” and adding that she was “proud” to be working for President Trump.
“When asked if she accepted Tlaib’s apology, Patton noted that the congresswomen “didn’t apologize to me” and called Tlaib’s comments “laughable.”
https://ijr.com/trump-staffer-prop-rashida-tlaib/
Guess not all POCs are the same. Must be a cultural thing.
EL PASO, Texas — Border officials in El Paso, Texas, this spring began separating migrants in federal custody based on nationality due to hostility and tension between Central and South American detainees who were being held in the same cells and even areas of facilities, according to several federal agents. The practice continued at least into June.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/border-patrol-forced-to-separate-illegal-immigrants-by-nationality-due-to-friction
Bet the Ruminants are pissed that none of them made the A list hate group. Racists, conspiracy theorists, neo cons . . . the works. Maybe you can organize a summit in Nevada City. Todd will call up Trump on the phone and tell him when to arrive.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/10/tech/white-house-social-media-summit/index.html?fbclid=IwAR01eaShnDnuBNztp_eQ4IU_BpGJMsy2grZYzL6zQm-v4A_xOfC7NVya__M
Posted by: Ozzie | 11 July 2019 at 12:31 PM
Shouldn’t you be out talking ip Uncle Sugar but stiffing him on taxes?
Posted by: fish | 11 July 2019 at 12:44 PM
fish-
You taking communication lessons from Uncle Todd?
You pay back your taxes?
OOZIE the troll is back! Oh goodie a easy lefty target.
No citizenship question on the census. Trump battered back into the dugout by none other than common sense and the law of the land. Bad Trump.
Breaking news: Trump kow tows to big pharma lobby and crumples in his plan to reduce medical costs. Of course, only a few believed he actually planned to do that. Simply more hollow rhetoric. Kind of like he was going to finish the war in the middle east in 30 days.
Meanwhile, he huddles with the far right haters and plans his attack on "fake news from the DEEP STATE".
Oh lookie, DOW 27k and S&P 2999.91 WOW! How much did the panic crew lose, that is if they actually owned any stocks?
fish 12:57
"You pay back your taxes?"
You must have been targeting Todd, a documented slacker and tax cheat. Letting the "other guy" pay his way through a sleaze ball life. In fact, is he still on the unpaid tax roll?
The Clinton news network continues to crater in spectacular fashion -
CNN is suffering a credibility crisis as viewership for the once-proud network continues to crater with no apparent plan in place to fix things anytime soon, according to media watchdogs and insiders.
CNN’s audience shriveled in the second quarter of 2019, averaging only 541,000 total viewers while being more than doubled by Fox News Channel’s 1.3 million average in the process. But CNN struggled even more during the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, finishing as the fifteenth most-watched network on basic cable behind networks such as TLC, Investigation Discovery and the Hallmark Channel. CNN averaged a dismal 761,000 primetime viewers while FNC averaged 2.4 million.
Cable news viewership has declined in general as more and more consumers cut the cord in favor of OTT streaming services, but CNN’s losses are overwhelming. The network lost 18 percent of its audience compared to the second quarter of last year. CNN also dropped a whopping 38 percent of primetime viewers among the key demo.
Losing nearly 40 percent of an already-third place audience must be a primary topic in internal meetings, with immediate remedies not readily apparent,” Concha said.
CNN’s most popular show averaged only 910,000 viewers. Fourteen Fox News programs and 10 MSNBC programs attracted larger audiences.
DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall recently told Fox News that Lemon is no longer a news anchor in the traditional sense because of his partisan rhetoric.
“To pretend he’s not an opinion host is lunacy,” a CNN employee told Fox News.
Lemon has also suggested Trump doesn’t do enough work, speculated on whether or not the president lies about his weight, tied Trump to the college admissions cheating scheme and took a shot at Trump as he was giving his colleague Chris Cuomo a brief tour of his new studio, suggesting that the president can't afford such a lavish space since he isn't a "real billionaire."
One certainty is that Lemon wasn’t selected to lift the debate’s viewership totals. Lemon’s “CNN Tonight” finished the second quarter of 2019 as the 35th most-watched show on cable news.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnn-ratings-don-lemon
GeorgeR if OOZIE is not identified for who it is I would appreciate him not posting slander about me. Thanks.
It seems the sleazeballs of the left just can't debate anything. Mentally challenged.
Been back for 2 hours and I already have you running to hide behind mommy's skirts! You are on the record as one who doesn't pay his taxes as he should and it is on the record that you are a sleaze ball. Nothing slanderous about anyone posting public information.
How much true slander have you poured on Paul? Glass houses and all that.
Todd, where have you been? They have been missing you, sugar plum. Bigley.
First, Punchy the guy who plays with dolls was trying to call you out yesterday, first thing in the morning. He went to bed thinking about ya, and woke up thinking about ya. That is kinda creepy, but to each his/her/ewe’s own.
Then it was some other stain spot left on the outside of your bedroom window. Who was it? Oh yeah, the AV man...the guy who turns the knobs on the AV equipment until it breaks. He was rueing for you yesterday, calling for you like a lovesick Mourning Dove. Again, bigley.
Then who else came slithering out of the primordial slime? Oh Year, Rock Humper and now Ozzie. All that is good and well, but I just keep waiting for someone to send us something other than the ones that didn't make the cut for the JV team.
Oh well. Looks like we will just have to wait for signs of intelligent life from Lefty Planet of the Apes. Hope burns eternal. Until then....carry on. How about some tasty quotes?
For the record: “The U.S. Census Bureau’s global population clock reports more than 7.5 billion people on our planet. For those wondering about the potential financial impact of offering insurance coverage to all of humanity … the population of the world is roughly 23 times as large as the population of the United States.” —James Freeman
Food for thought: “So here we have the captain of the American women’s soccer team reluctant to sing the national anthem. You know what I think [Megan Rapinoe] may be angling for? Kaepernick. She wants a Kaepernick deal with Nike. … She’s showing Nike she can be just as anti-American as Kaepernick. Give me a chance. Let me do the LGBTQ angle of Kaepernick.” —Rush Limbaugh
Belly laugh of the week: “With the 4th World Cup title now secured by the USWNT, what should Megan Rapinoe do next? One recommendation would be to enter the Democratic Primary for president.” —Democrat strategist Kevin Walling
Non Compos Mentis: “Patriarchy has no gender.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Intraparty infighting: “When these comments first started, I kind of thought that [Nancy Pelosi] was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood. But the persistent singling out … it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful … the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.” —Ocasio-Cortez
Braying Jenny: “Fox News is now giving a nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric. It’s dangerous. Advertisers should not be underwriting hate speech.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar (“Omar is an anti-Semitic, anti-American bigot who is far more likely to defend the character of convicted ISIS terrorists than she is the character of the nation that saved her from the war-torn Islamist hellhole that is Somalia.” —Sean Davis)
Still searching for intelligent life.
Race bait: “This country was founded on white supremacy. And every single institution and structure that we have in the country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression even in our democracy.” —Robert Francis “Beto” O'Rourke
And last… “If white supremacy is woven into American democracy as Beto claims, why isn’t he doing something about it by stepping aside and endorsing Kamala Harris or Cory Booker?” —Erick Erickson
No Stevie.....talking bout you......the admitted tax scofflaw! Todd doesn’t pay his taxes the state takes and auctions his property! You stiff Uncle Stupid ...no property to take!
the Harriet-less Ozzie 206pm
The Juvenile-Emery fight is mutual combat.
Regarding the unpaid property tax listings... If it is owed, the County knows how to collect, and there are reasons both good and bad for individuals to not pay the bill presented to them by the County. It's not my business and it probably isn't yours, either.
And it certainly isn't Peelini's.
“A major cat fight has broken out between Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the four young congresswomen who have been trying to turn the Democrat Party into a bunch of screechy Communists instead of just Communists. By cat fight, of course, I mean the kind of fight where women claw and hiss at one another and pull each other’s hair as they roll around preferably in a tub of mud on the barroom stage between sets of country music. And if that’s not what’s really happening ... well, I can dream, can’t I?
“Anyway, the fight ramped up to a new level when Pelosi hinted to the New York Times, a former newspaper, that congresswomen like Alexandria Occasional Cortex and Rashida “Jew-Hater” Tlaib were in no way as powerful as their Twitter following made them think they are.
“Referring to the so-called “Squad,” which includes Cortex, Jew-Hater, the other Jew Hater and some girl I’ve never heard of, Pelosi told the Times—and this is a real quote: “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world, But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people, and that’s how many votes they got.”
“As Republican congressmen ran up and down the capitol halls shouting, “Girl Fight!” and then gathered in the rotunda to try to convince the women to put on wet t-shirts, Occasional Cortex struck back by saying, “Maybe Pelosi thinks she’s a big shot because she can get legislation passed, but I can send out a Tweet to five million non-voting malcontents, and if that’s not real power, I don’t know what is.”
“Presidential Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway referred to the exchange as “A major meow moment.” Whereupon AOC hissed at her and tried to scratch out her eyes, leading Kellyanne to pull her hair and wrestle with her on the floor while Republicans poured buckets of water on them.”
I can dream, can’t I?
Now she has the congressional black caucus on her ass -
Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., added to the mounting Democratic criticism of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., reportedly calling her, her chief of staff, and the group Justice Democrats "juvenile."
"Their ignorance is beyond belief," Clay, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, reportedly said while in the Speaker's Lobby. His comments followed a feud between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and freshman congresswomen, like Ocasio-Cortez, that involved racially-charged criticism.
Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, previously compared moderate Democrats to racists -- prompting Pelosi, at the request of some of her members, warn House Democrats not to attack each other on Twitter.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-blasts-ocasio-cortez-pelosi
'Ditch Mitch' excitement is just Democrats lighting their money on fire. Burn baby burn.
"The specifics of this race look even worse. McGrath lost a House race in 2018 in Kentucky’s least-Republican district by more than 10,000 votes in what was nationally a really good midterm for Democrats. Indeed, she lost while raising $8 million to Rep. Andy Barr’s $5 million. By contrast, in 2014, McConnell beat a popular statewide officeholder by 16 points."
Like many, I am distraught over the pay inequity between men's and women's soccer... the problem is obviously lack of viewership for women's word association football.
Here's a matchup even I would pay to see... the current world champion women's team from the USA (USA USA USA!) versus the team of 14 year old boys they lost to a couple years ago. Well, and since the 14 year old boys would now be 16, make it a couple of games with the now 16 year old boys and a game with the current 14 year old team (it's a farm school for a pro men's team).
Ozzie 206pm - "You are on the record as one who doesn't pay his taxes as he should..." Back it up, or we're gonna miss you.
The internet has a long memory. From your fellow blogger:
https://sierrafoothillsreport.com/2016/05/05/meet-todd-a-former-nevada-county-ca-supervisor/
I suggest OOZIE check with the tax collector and see if I owe any. Cracks me up. But the issue is calling someone a tax cheat not just someone late or whatever. Yes I am a minority partner in a piece of land that the majority became late. Unfortunately, the land is in both our names. But if I recall the amount was $1,900 and was taken care of. I also paid over $10,000 a year in other property taxes. I have stated this many times but these trolls like OOZIE can't help themselves. And since we know who OOZIE is we know he is a tax cheat with over $250,000 stolen from his employees.
I am simply asking GeorgeR to boot the troll if he slanders others here and calling me a tax cheat is a slander. Tell us who you are OOZIE but you won't as you are a liberal sleazeball tax cheat yourself.
Oh and using Pellines scummy blog as a source is just too funny.
"using Pellines scummy blog as a source is just too funny."
Generally more accurate than Breitbart, Drudge or other "sources" tossed around here.
Posted by: Rock Hunter | 11 July 2019 at 04:54 PM
Do I smell chili fries with cheese? Keep telling yourself that Dark Lord of Liberal Lament Land.
No Rocky, it isn't.
Don @ 3:49 pm
Re: the Congressional Black Caucus vs. the other Persons of Color.
Yep. Been waiting for that. A fissure between POCs and the African Americans. Seems the POCs are been taking from the Black Americans’ cookie jar and pushing them to the back of the bus. Just like the Tranny Babies are doing to those awful cisgender gay men. :). And they say diversity is our strength.
Just wait until the non-Blacks start demanding reparations. It will be a food fight. Fauxahontas has already proposed reparations for the gays, roflmao.
Anyone who considers that Pelline's blog is more accurate than Breitbart, Drudge, etc is beyond redemption in the volume between their ears. The man is a demonstrated consummate liar. And Ozzie's 408pm citing Pelline's post with broken links is Exhibit A. Give it another try Ozzie.
@520 - Its always funny when they throw that line at Drudge who does not write anything and only aggregates others stories of interest from around the world.
But hey team leftie does not process, it just parrots like the littlest commie congresscritter!
Don't ever say the coast guard is not bad ass -
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-coast-guard-storms-submarine-141641648.html
Good God Rebane. Twist and shout and pretend you don't know a think. Exhibit B on your own blog from the words of Juvinall himself-
"never stole a thing, paid back every dime I owed in back taxes . . . I know and admit mistakes in my life, learn a lesson, and improve because of it."
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 24 February 2019 at 09:55 AM
That was only a few month's ago. You're welcome for the memory boost.
Ozzie 545pm - Connect the dots, of what are you now accusing ToddJ?
"Rep. William Clay (D-MO) accused @AOC of pulling the race card on @SpeakerPelosi; after @AOC pulled the race card on Pelosi by accusing her of "singling out of women of color"; after @KamalaHarris and @CoryBooker pulled the race card on @JoeBiden on "busing" and "civility." Larry Elder
I wonder what an analysis of the virtue signaling divestments contribution to this situation. -
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/calpers-misses-7-return-citing-183459227.html
OOZIE can't even cut and paste without lying. What a hoot!
OOZIE is a run of the mill troll. They are anonymous posters if they are allowed. And they always lie. So as long as they post anonymously they are not believable.
Rebane 5:54
I said in plain English Todd was a "documented slacker and tax cheat." You asked for proof, you got it. Twice.
Right here on these pages he prostrated himself before all, groveled, probably raised his eyes to God and apologized for such nefarious activity (5:45). And now you come back asking what I accused him of? I accused him of being a "documented slacker and tax cheat." In case you couldn't read that the first two times. He himself admitted it. Get over it, he's "documented slacker and tax cheat".
Now Ozzy, why don't you show us on Punchy's Ann Coulter doll where that mean Todd hurt you.
Todd Derangement Syndrome is progressive and irreversible.
They pushed too far and he is fighting back now that more truths are out. What a shame for the fakenews scalp counts -
“This is the language your client agreed to,” Van Grack told the defense lawyers during the acrimonious late June call, according to the notes.
Flynn lawyer Bill Hodes said that while his client conceded as part of his plea that some documents his firm submitted to the Justice Department about its Turkey-related lobbying work were inaccurate, Flynn never admitted that those misstatements were intentional or deliberate.
“He did not knowingly make the statements that he knew were wrong,” Hodes said during the call, according to the notes.
The comment prompted Van Grack to responded that an accidental misstatement isn’t a crime. “Without willfully/knowingly it doesn’t make this an offense,” he said, according to the notes.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asking-client-lie-flynn-lawyers-234933661.html
I am signing off of this inbred self-love site of haters. No need to rub hairy shoulders with this COJ. See you at the ballot box where your small town dreams of faux patriotism will go up in smoke.
BillT, the OOZIE does have Todd DS. That explains it. It is a troll that is impotent and unable to produce and he is simply jealous. What a hoot!
Damage Control.
It’s a fact Russia interfered in our elections, right? Right? Well, now we know why Mueller Mueller Mueller threw together that quick press conference.
“Russia interfered in the election” became such an established truth of the mainstream press that expressing skepticism would be labeled a “conspiracy theory.” But now, in open court, an attorney representing the Department of Justice has admitted that the Russian government had nothing to do with the internet troll farm case.”.....
“A newly released transcript reveals details of a humiliating hearing that took place the day before Mueller’s puzzling press conference. The judge asked the prosecutor, “Can you address also the specific tie to the Russian government, which is the overarching comment that the attorney general made tying both this case and then the case involving the hacking and the release of the e-mails, the GRU case, to the Russian government?”
“Buckle up, buttercup, because you’re not going to believe DOJ’s response: “The report doesn’t say that.” What? I thought we “knew” that the Russian government committed an act of war by posting politically charged information on the internet. Now the DOJ is backing away from any tie between the internet troll farm and the Russian government?
“The DOJ has now admitted that the Mueller report “itself does not state anywhere that the Russian government was behind the Internet Research Agency [and Concord] activity.” Whoa. The judge then asked, “So it is the government’s position that tying Concord and its co-defendants to the Russian government is not prejudicial?”
“With the benefit of these newly unsealed documents from Judge Freidrich’s court, we now can see that Mueller’s May 29, 2019 press conference, held the day after the hearing on Concord’s contempt motion, must have been a desperate but successful effort to avoid the wrath of a judge whose authority Mueller insulted by “concluding” the guilt of defendants yet to be tried. And in that desperate effort, the U.S. government threw overboard the key assumption that the Russian government (as opposed to freelancing Russians) was behind the dubious internet troll case.”....
“The government, Freidrich found, “violated a standing court rule” by making these public pronouncements that intruded upon the question to be tried in her courtroom. To save Mueller’s team from “criminal contempt,” Freidrich exercised her discretion to decline to “initiate criminal contempt proceedings in response to the government’s Rule 57.7 violation.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/11/doj-attorney-says-russian-government-nothing-troll-farms/
Always said that Mueller’s job was not to uncover evidence, but to bury them.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-budget-gap-widened-23-in-first-nine-months-of-fiscal-year-11562868054
I know - let's have the whole world come to the US and give them free health care. That will balance the budget!
Works great until it doesn't.
Have fun everyone!
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Tour debut for student’s team from INTERNATIONAL MARITIME COLLEGE OMAN
The young novices on board Team IMCO are preparing for the ride of their lives in EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour 2015, but with just a few months of sailing experience between them, they have few expectations of toppling the champions.
Making their debut in The Tour, Team IMCO, representing the International Maritime College Oman, is also playing host to the first stopover of the new look 2015 race after the fleet leave Muscat on February 15th.
The team is skippered by Mathijs Wagemans, an experienced Dutch sailor who doubles up as Head of Port, Shipping and Transportation Management Department at IMCO, located in Sohar, 200kms north of Muscat. Putting together a brand new team has been an exciting project, said Wagemans who will return to the Netherlands the day after EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour concludes, following a four year assignment in Oman.
Wagemans has been helped in his preparations by Mohsin Al Busaidi, Oman Sail’s Keelboat and Women Team Manager and the first Arab to sail around the world non-stop, who designed the selection programme and put the raw recruits through their paces.
“We started in September with Mohsin who introduced the guys to sailing. His emphasis from the outset was not on winning but on showing how commitment has a direct relationship to achievement. Our selection process began with 30 students who all completed their Oman Sail Level 1 and 2 courses and we have whittled the squad down to nine sailors who have been undergoing intensive training since November. Obviously, we don’t expect to compete for the podium so for the guys, this is all about enjoying the experience. They will remember it for the rest of their lives.”
EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour is a unique sailing challenge and the only Pan-GCC offshore sailing race of its kind in the region. It showcases four different countries across a course of 760 nautical miles and 15 days, which, since it was established in 2011, has appealed to all types of sailors from some of the highest profile offshore sailors in the world to complete amateurs.
In 2015, the fifth edition of EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour sees a dramatic change in the route. After the opening stage from Muscat, teams will set sail for Ras Al Khaimah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE, as well as Qatar and Bahrain, with inshore races in Dubai and Doha.
“It will be beautiful weather and beautiful scenery… and it will be second to none in terms of support from Oman Sail. Our aim is to improve with every leg and maximise what we can do,” added Wagemans. “It is important that everyone on Team IMCO stays motivated when progress against the other very experienced teams will be frustrating and that everyone is pushed to their limits. The changes in weather will be a challenge and it will be interesting to see how we as a team react to that and how quickly we pick things up.”
His students, who hail from Oman, Kazakhstan and India, and are all studying for their Merchant Navy qualifications or qualifying as marine engineers at IMCO, have been handed a once in a lifetime opportunity, says Wagemans who will hope to pass on the experience of his 25 year career in sailing Olympic class and IRC boats. “It is going to be great experience. If you don’t expect to compete for the podium, this is all about enjoying the experience and these guys will remember this for the rest of their lives.”
Team IMCO Crew:
Mathijs Wagemans
Patrick Wells
Jayakrishnan Krishnan
Kirill Samaray
Nauryzbek Bekpembetov
Azmat Nazkeyev
Olzhas Kappassov
Ali Al Barwani
Omar Al Mamari
Mohamed Al Mazroui
Mazin Al Khusaibi
Bastiaan Brouwer
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Ignominous
Terjemahan dari ignominious
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embarrassing, shameful, humiliating, disgraceful, outrageous, ignominious
mengaibkan
shameful, ignominious
tercela
despicable, disgraceful, reprehensible, deplorable, ignoble, ignominious
jahat
evil, bad, wicked, malicious, sinister, ignominious
menghinakan
humiliating, degrading, ignominious, scornful
menjijikkan
disgusting, nasty, repulsive, icky, unsavory, ignominious
Definisi ignominious
deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
no other party risked ignominious defeat
sinonim: humiliating, undignified, embarrassing, mortifying, ignoble, inglorious, disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, discreditable
humiliating, undignified, embarrassing, mortifying, ignoble, inglorious, disgraceful, shameful,dishonorable, discreditable
shameful, disgraceful, opprobrious, black, inglorious
The prospect of ignominious home defeat loomed ever larger with the passing minutes, until those dramatic closing stages turned the tide.
This joke has an ignominious history in my own life.
But once developed and utilized, it is a tool that can make the difference between glorious victory, andignominious defeat.
Moreover, he ‘leads’ the team from ignominious to defeat to ignominious defeat.
U.S. forces completed an ignominious withdrawal from bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The recent ignominious defeat for John McEnroe’s much touted Davis Cup team underlined the problem.
Such is the suffering, ignoble and ignominious , it inflicts on the viewers.
To rub salt in the wound Germany then took second place in the section with a similar margin of victory as they capped possibly the most ignominious week in the history of English sport.
An early intervention by elements of the US 24th Division resulted in an ignominious defeat.
At what point do we take that ignominious , shabby route down from the moral high ground to defend a Labour government?
After Germany’s ignominious defeat in World War I, Hitler made Germans feel good for ten years, anyway.
At one stage the European No 1 was in the ignominious position of propping up the field in 60th place, but his rally at the end restored some dignity.
While Scotland will be nervous of repeating their previous ignominious performance, at least Vogts’ men will have their supporters behind them.
Ulysses is a terrible novel and deserves to die an ignominious death.
Council sporting officials thought children could be psychologically damaged by the trauma of anignominious drubbing at the hands of more gifted players.
Books, in fact, provide some of the best examples of this ignominious protectionist tendency in Irish history, North and South.
However it has not been plain sailing for the American since his arrival at Meadowbank last month in wake of the Scots’ ignominious start to the BBL season.
This tradition was unduly neglected for decades, especially after what was seen as its ignominiousdefeat in the later Imperial period.
Impressively, in a short time you succeeded where Soviet peace efforts struggled for ten years before giving up in ignominious failure.
Why then has the Nice treaty ratification ended in such ignominious defeat?
In this instance, as with many others, the outrage was more than justified by the dismal result – Stallone’s remake was swept ignominiously under the carpet and should be heading straight for a video store near you very soon.
The ‘worst’ version occupied most of the 87 minutes as the holders struggled, at times ignominiously, to keep the Division 2 challengers at bay.
When it comes to sheer sports ignominiousness , this year was what we thought it would be: the absolute worst yet.
When McArthur was, somewhat ignominiously , booted out of south-east Asia during world war two, his parting shot was ‘I’ll be back.’
Still, it could be worse: as I wheel my bike ignominiously towards passport control, I find some consolation in the fact that my panniers are still firmly attached to my bike, and that there isn’t a Winnebago in sight..
There were stories of the glorious Silver Armada being lost at sea, of the galleons loaded with silver and gold for the Empire’s coffers having been sunk ignominiously , and of disastrous defeats on land.
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Mountain Tamer formed their signature fusion of heavy psych and stoner rock in 2011 on the outskirts of San Francisco. Featuring guitarist and vocalist Andrew Hall, drummer Casey Garcia and bassist Dave Teget, Mountain Tamer garnered local success with their hypnotic live performances, incorporating lucid jam sessions and traditional stoner/doom structures, seamlessly blending splashes of psychedelia with metal.
After self-releasing several demos, the band released their s/t debut album in 2016 on Argonauta Records in Italy.
Mountain Tamer toured heavily following the release, playing with notable acts along the way such as Mondo Generator, Weedeater and Dead Meadow. Gaining momentum performing across the US, the band signed with Magnetic Eye Records out of NY along with Nasoni Records in Berlin to release their second full length offering. Godfortune//Dark Matters released digitally in August, 2018 on Magnetic Eye, which will be followed by a vinyl release of the album in September through Nasoni.
The album has already received critical praise from multiple blogs and publications for its unique approach and genre-bending aesthetics.
“The album ‘Godfortune Dark Matters’ displays a spectrum of songwriting talent that captures some of the best tonalities from the ’90s grunge scene and the modern stoner metal/rock movement.” – Metal Assault
Mountain Tamer is supporting the album’s release with a full U.S. tour starting the first week of September.
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Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu – 17
While Subaru managed to avoid the infamous white whale in previous lives in which he failed to save anyone, this week his luck really runs out.
There’s no escape from the whale, but all Rem can think of is to try to draw it away, an action that will likely result in her death but has a chance of saving Subie, along with Otto.
Of course, Subaru doesn’t want Rem to go, but she overrules his objection with a chop to the neck and jumps out of the wagon. That’s when things get weird…er.
Not moments after they were talking about Rem, Otto acts as if he’s never heard of her before; as if the whale swallowed up not just Rem but everyone’s memory of her…except Subie’s, natch. Yet another reason for people to think he’s gone off his rocker…and he has.
No one of Subaru’s background would be expected to endure the repeated suffering and death of those he loves with such frequency and still have a chance of retaining one’s mental faculties.
Once Otto suspects the whale is after Subie, he shoves him off the wagon. An injured Subaru manages to find a ground dragon that takes him to the village where his kid friends are there to greet him, alive and well.
So this time he made it to the mansion in time, but the situation is worse than Rem being dead, because no one, even Ram, has ever heard of her. The episode is ruthless in showing a momentary glimpse of a maid with blue hair until it’s revealed to be the twin not in love with Subie.
Rem aside, there is nothing Subaru can do to stop the massacre that’s about to happen. Emilia is more than patient (and still very concerned) about Subie, but all he can manage is to rave to her about how no one will be saved, and if she justs comes with him everything will work out.
Subie even attempts to tell Emilia about Return by Death, threat of having his heart squished be damned. Only this time the demonic hands don’t close around his heart when he says the words: they close around Emi’s, killing her in his arms.
He awakes to a blood-colored night, where Beatrice is there, preparing to defend the mansion. Unwilling to kill Subie as he demands, she teleports him to the forest, so that he can find his own death, out of her sight. Pretty grim.
Of course, once back in that damn forest, it doesn’t take long for Betelgeuse to show up with his cultist pals. He uses the same “unseen hands” that killed Emilia to separate him from her and threaten to tear her corpse apart, but a shower of ice daggers stays his unseen hands.
It’s the signature attack of a giant Puck, who, now that I see him in silhouette, was the beast that beheaded Subaru in episode 15, calling Emilia his daughter and asking Betelgeuse what he thinks he’s doing.
If you asked me back in the first half of the show if Emilia’s adorable little animate Beany Baby of a familiar would end up playing a role like this, I’d have said you were crazy. But we live in crazy, messed-up Re:Zero times.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Sun, 24 Jul 2016 Categories Anime Reviews, Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu, Spring 2016Tags ゼロから始める異世界生活, beatrice, begging, betelgeuse, cultists, death, emilia, fog, high priest, insanity, love, loyalty, monster, natsuki subaru, otto, priests, puck, return by death, rezero, starting life in another world, trauma, trust, unseen hand, white whale, witch2 Comments on Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu – 17
Orange – 04
I’ve mentioned how cold and bleak and dreary things look in Naho’s “bad future.” With Kakeru dating Ueda, it’s like that coldness has seeped into present-day Naho’s world. Heck, the first image in the present is of a futuristic—and somewhat frightening—looking interior of an automatic ice cream cone-serving machine.
In it, two cones are stuck in their stands, so close together and yet inexorably separate, being pushed and pulled by outside forces ever further away. One is filled with pink ice cream – which I saw as a symbol of the aggressive redhead Ueda’s new regime in Kakeru’s life.
The workings of the ice cream machine seem unchangeable, but that’s just an illusion brought on by its cold, intimidating, mechanical nature. In order to prevent the same thing happening this time, the machine has to be unplugged and reprogrammed. And Naho is the only technician who can do it.
Kakeru is most definitely dating Ueda-senpai. He is also most definitely miserable, because of the note he got from Naho a hair too late. Now he’s trapped, and Ueda will not leave him alone. She’s hot, but she’s also clingy, monopolizing, and singleminded. She’s also not a fool, so she sees the glances between Naho and Kakeru, and doesn’t like them one bit.
There’s already tension—like Weyoun and Dukat when DS9 was occupied—that Naho could capitalize on if only she had the nerve to. Alas, she still doesn’t. Letters that tell her she can’t keep ignoring Kakeru, even when he calls you to her and Ueda is nearby (as she always is) seem all well and good to Naho, but her future self is looking back; she’s not in the moment, trying the best she can but coming up a few seconds or a few inches too short.
What present Naho doesn’t realize is that those seconds and inches become the years and miles that end up dooming Kakeru. Ueda will be the death of him if Naho doesn’t stop running away.
When Kakeru says “bye” to Naho, and Naho calls out his name, Ueda hears it all and takes her revenge by knocking Naho over on her way to her boyfriend. But it backfires: Kakeru doesn’t take the side of his current girlfriend—who just demonstrated that one should never pick someone based on looks alone—but Naho’s side, angering Ueda, who storms off in a snit. Smell ya later, missy.
Back to the subject of color temperature: what had been a cold and bleak episode got much warmer and more comfortable, starting with the Ueda fight and continuing throughout the remainder of the episode, as things start to turn around for Naho, her colors of green and yellow (or, ya know, orange) start to replace the blues and reds.
Naho alone may not have the strength to do what her future self asks of her, but her friends lend her some of theirs, including Suwa, who is putting Naho’s happiness ahead of his own feelings. He, Azusa and Takako have plainly seen what Ueda (whom they loathe) has done to their Naho and Kakeru. They want Naho to know it’s okay to talk to Kakeru; after all, he wants to talk to her too.
Interestingly, Suwa’s mini-intervention wasn’t in future Naho’s letter; Naho takes it as a sign that the positive change she’s affected so far has already started to change the timeline. She can’t very well stop now.
She doesn’t, and we finally get to end an episode NOT in the depths of despair. Yay! Naho speaks up, from across the street (then crosses after looking both ways. Good Naho!), and she and Kakeru reopen a very enlightening dialogue.
Kakeru is thinking about dumping Ueda, and not just because of the little public fight they had. Naho’s “no”, which she assumed he’d forgotten or ignored, has weighed heavily on him ever since he said yes to Ueda. It’s never felt right as a result, because he only chose Ueda because, at the time, he didn’t know Naho’s position, and Naho’s position is far more important to him than arm candy.
What Kakeru won’t reveal to Naho is the person he likes more than Ueda, even though it would be clear to anyone who wasn’t Naho that he’s talking about her, and like her is too afraid to just come out and say it. But never mind; just the fact he’s considering dumping Ueda makes this a small but crucial victory for Naho.
She realized that her future self doesn’t have it easy. She’s dealt with ten years of regret of not doing what she’s telling her to do; Naho’s only dealt with a few weeks. And while future Naho can do nothing about any of it because Kakeru is gone, Naho doesn’t have that problem. Kakeru is right there. She has to keep her chin up, and think warm thoughts.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sun, 24 Jul 2016 Sun, 24 Jul 2016 Categories Anime Reviews, Orange, Summer 2016Tags avoiding, オレンジ, chino takako, dating, drama, falling in love, Fight, future, group of friends, hagita saku, hanazawa kana, happiness, hesitation, high school, ignoring, letter, murasaka azusa, naruse kakeru, notes, opening ceremony, regrets, running away, shoujo, softball, suicide, suwa hiroto, takamiya naho, talking, tension, too late, troubled, ueda
Tales of Zestiria the X – 03
Three episodes in (four if you count the prologue) and we still only know three of the eight party members in the OP, so the show largely skips past Sorey and Mikleo’s journey to the point where they’re at Ladylake’s gates, meeting the fourth (future) member. She’s got rosy hair, so I’ll call her Rose for now.
Were it not for Rose, Sorey wouldn’t be able to enter the city. That being said, Mikleo doesn’t do well around so many humans, who excrete a miasma of malevalence due to the worries about a war between Hyland and neighboring Rolance.
Princess Alisha’s non-aggressive stance, refusing to launch a preemptive strike, is only intensified by her experience in Elysia, where she say her dream of mankind (well, one man) coexisting with the Seraphim. Also, the hellion is also in Ladylake, though apparently not to kill Alisha, only to observe.
The rest of the episode takes place within the confines of a kind of great temple to the sacred blade, which is stuck in a rock smack dab in the center. No pun intended, the relatively close quarters prove a double-edged sword, compared to the more exciting hellion chase last week or earlier this week on Ladylake’s rooftops.
It’s good that things are so compressed in this one room, because it ups the tension. There’s also the sense that the assassin hired by frustrated warmonger Lord Bartlow is closing in and tightening the noose on Alisha.
Of course, there’s no mistaking Komatsu Mikako’s wonderful voice, so it was clear the moment the female assassin started talking that she was Rose, the girl Sorey met. The episode isn’t coy about this, also showing her piercing blue eyes a small glimpse of her rosy hair under the helmet.
Sorey and Mikleo learn that the Lady of the Lake is a Seraphim who dwells right beside the sacred blade, though no one can see her but them. After Alisha delivers a speech that goes over with the crowd about as well as Ted Cruz’s at the RNC last week, the Malevalence coalesces into a giant hellion in dragon form, at about the same time Rose attacks Alisha.
Suddenly the vast interior of the temple feels like a suffocating braizer in which Alisha is fighting for her live against a very skilled opponent (who uses a very different style than a knight would) and a boss none of the people can fully see causing a right ol’ ruckus.
Of course, we know what has to happen here: Sorey must take grasp the sacred blade, form a contract with the lady (named Lailah), and pull it out of the stone. Sorey becomes Lailah’s vessel, transforming him into a dazzling dandy of a hero to slay the dragon with the blade.
The dragon is slain, and the assassin withdraws, but Sorey has been warned: being the Shepherd will be an exhausting, alienating, thankless, lonely job. I’m not so sure about that last bit, especially after seeing that ED featuring Sorey hanging out with Alisha, Rose, Mikleo, and the rest of the party he has yet to assemble.
So far, each episode has set out to progress Sorey’s story by a notch, and has so far succeeded. Alisha’s prologue set the stage. Then Sorey and Mikleo met Alisha. Then Alisha invited Sorey to Ladylake, where he met Lailah and became the Shepherd.
It’s a brisk, efficient pace that manages not to feel too hurried or contrived. The addition of Komatsu Mikako to an already strong voice cast is always welcome. And, as expected, ufotable’s visuals and music continue to be beyond reproach.
Author braveradePosted on Sun, 24 Jul 2016 Categories Anime Reviews, Summer 2016, Tales of Zestiria the XTags adventure, alisha diphda, assassin, battle, chosen, close quarters, compassion, elysia, Excalibur, familiar, fox face, hellion, hyland, lady of the lake, ladylake, lailah, lightning, magic, mikleo, politics, princess, rose, rpg, sacred blade, sacred blade festival, seraphim, shepherd, sorey, tales of zestiria, ufotable, village, war, water1 Comment on Tales of Zestiria the X – 03
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Sakurako-san no Ashimoto – 08
In this, the finest episode of Sakurako-san to date, One solved mystery leads to a second, than a third, and opens up the possibility of the larger, deeper truths involving Sakurako and her brother, whom Shoutarou reminds her of so much. Shoutarou feels he’s created a rift between him and Sakurako after his outburst about her cat Ulna.
Asking if she’ll accompany him to personally deliver Sasaki-sensei’s effects to his surviving relative is a way for him to reestablish contact, but she claims she’s just “tired”, not avoiding him, and must have been mistaken when she mentioned cat bones at the school, noting quite pointedly “Even I make mistakes, sometimes.”
Sasaki’s sister, the wheelchair-bound Haruma Sayuki, greets them warmly and thanks them for bringing her brother’s belongings. She’s also able to confirm the identity of the bones in Sasaki’s office, those of Sone Natsuko. The alleged child of a sex worker who came to live with Atsurou and Sayuki, her brother fell for “Nacchan”, but she had a baby out of wedlock—not by him—that was born premature and died soon thereafter.
It was the bones of that baby—whom Natsuko buried that very night many years ago—Sayuki had hoped Shou had brought, so she could lay them and her mother’s bones to rest in the family grave, something her family would probably never have allowed back in the old days.
Sakurako has all she needs to deduce the location of the babe’s bones: in the vicinity of a monument to Mistletoe, a book both Natsuko and Atsurou loved. Sure enough, they find bones, but she also discovers a different truth that differs from Sayuki’s account, and all because Sayuki happened to be wearing open-toed sandals when she first met her and Shou.
Sayuki has “Celtic-style” feet, with the index toe taller than the big toe; the same kind of foot Sayuki has and Atsurou had. Combined with the extremely high risk of a woman who just gave birth exerting herself buring a child, Sakurako believes Sayuki is the mother, which she finally admits. Natsuko had helped her get in touch with a man she fell in love with, and she got pregnant out of wedlock.
Because her father had arranged a marriage for her, she could not keep the baby, so the fiction was created that it was Natsuko’s, thus preserving Sayuki for marriage, but destroying any chances of Natsuko and Atsurou getting marrying. Natsuko died alone, and Sayuki was going to as well, but now she’ll be reunited with Natsuko, whom she loved as a sister, and her own child, before she dies.
It is strongly hinted at that Sayuki didn’t give birth to a premature child, but rather aborted her, the means for which must have been crude and dangerous.
It’s a heartbreaking change to an already heartbreaking narrative, in this show that deals with themes and events in real life that few anime bother to. When Shoutarou wonders why Sasaki-sensei never married Natsuko even after being disowned by his family for pursuing a life of education, Sakurako has a simple answer: he believed Natsuko herself may have been a half-sibling by blood, with a shared father. That may not have been the real truth, but it was still a truth he believed in until his death. “Sometimes there’s more than one truth,” Saku remarks.
Back when Shou gave Sayuki her brother’s effects, he kept the photo with the poem, fearing it meant something bad or sad. But with all this new information coming to light, he does further research, and gives the photo to Sayuki, who identifies the poem as one by Roka, and concluding Natsuko wrote it to express her own grief when she was close to death. For a moment, Sayuki transforms into her younger self, filled with grief but also a sense of closure and catharsis. It’s a very moving scene, and it’s thanks to Shou for not closing the case too early.
But that’s not the end of Shou’s sleuthing this week. Staring at a diagram of a skeleton in his school’s lab and thinking about Sakurako’s comment about “more than one truth”, it dawns on him that Sakurako indeed stole the cat bones, and knows why: Because the ulna is only one of two bones in the forearm: the other is the radius. Sakurako had two cats.
Sakurako and Shou, who looked so cold and grey and distant during the car ride at the start of the episode, are enrobed in the warm, sensual light of the setting sun as Shou argues his case and she listens attentively. He further deduces that because she knew her way to the lab so quickly, and the school was once all-girls, that she was an alumna at his school. Sakurako heartily applauds Shou’s skills of observation: he is correct.
Someone poisoned her two cats, Ulna and Radius, when she was little. She went to Sasaki-sensei with the corpses, who understood what she wanted to do. In life, the cats were always inseparable, so she wanted to reunite them in death as well once she found Radius again, if only briefly.
She hid the theft from Shou thinking he wouldn’t understand, but ironically it’s because she acts like, as she says, an “emotional, foolish human being” that he can finally realize there are some things about the two of them that are alike; that it isn’t hopeless to be friends with her; that he can understand her, sometimes. When he says she can keep the cat in exchange for fox bones, she shows more of that emotion.
That brings us to the relationship we now know of between Sakurako and Sasaki, who taught her osteology and considered her an apprentice. And to Saku admitting “even she makes mistakes sometimes.” Did Saku and Sasaki’s relationship go even deeper into “absurd emotional human” territory?
Could the titular “bones under her feet” (and the small skull that orbits her in the ED) be not her brother’s, but those of her son? All speculation on my part, but I don’t think it’s that wild. There are many more truths and mistakes and motivations to unpack in the final three episodes.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Wed, 25 Nov 2015 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, abortion, alumna, bastard, beautiful bones, celtic fot, deeper truth, detective story, different people, emotional, family, haruma sayuki, investigation, isozaki, kujou sakurako, mentor, mystery, old days, osteologist, out of wedlock, pregnant, radius, romance, sasaki, sasaki atsurou, sone natsuko, station in life, strange relationship, tatewaki shoutarou, the truth, tokutomi roka, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている
To Shou’s apparent amazement, Sakurako graces his school festival with her presence—in a skirt, no less!—though it could have more to do with the fact she’d have access to delicious pancakes than any particular urge to see or hang out with Shou. Or is that being too harsh? In a show full of mysteries, Sakurako remains the largest, though we’re now 7/11ths into the show.
Suddenly disappearing after her meal, Shou finds her in the one place in a school she’d go: the lab, to check out skeletons. She couldn’t care less about rudely off and going without saying something, either because she just doesn’t conform to social norms, or because she knew Shou would be able to find her if he needed to. Far more important to Saku once she inspects the bones, is that a grave injustice is taking place.
The skeletons are gathering dust as decor rather than being handled by students for educational benefit. I loved her matter-of-fact indignation and scolding of Professor Isozaki who maintains the lab but is more of a plant guy, but promises improvement, which matters to Saku more than apologies.
Things take a very Sakurako-san-like turn when Isozaki offers Saku the job of organizing a prep room full of unorganized bones left there by the former teacher who is now deceased. Saku agrees in exchange for three pumpkin Mont Blancs from Patisserie Dandelion, a very specific but also delicious-sounding (and fair) price.
During the long, dusty process of organizing the prep room and taking inventory of the bones, Saku comes across the skeleton of a dog and a cat, which disturbs Shou quite a bit due to their status as pets. He also remembers seeing a cat skeleton with the name “Ulna” in Saku’s house, and she tells him Ulna was the name of her pet cat, who died an “unnatural death.” She wanted to learn the cause, so she performed an autopsy.
This really unsettles Shou, who gets frustrated when Saku reacts so differently than him. He feels she’s being cold and heartless, even if that’s not really quite the case. It’s another depressing sign to him that Saku is so very different than him, which more than the fact she has a fiancee (that’s more of an excuse not to pursue her, not a true obstacle, as Isozaki opines), keeps him from making a closer connection, to say nothing of pursuing a romance.
They also find a chest full of the bones of a cremated human named Sone Natsuko, who judging from the writings among Sasaki’s personal effects, had at least some connection with him, possibly a close one. Alas, it isn’t a case for Sakurako-san, as the police are called and take the remains away.
The next day, Shou is confused by the lack of a cat skeleton in the inventory, when he could swear Saku was stroking a cat skull, just as he was talking about her petting Ulna. Because of the way Shou thinks and makes connections to interactions, he believes he might have upset Saku with his in hindsight over-the-top reaction to her comments on Ulna.
But of course an analytical person like Saku would want to find out why her cat died. That, not burying her in the yard and burning some incense, is how she processes the pain of her loss. And when Shou comes to her mansion to deliver her Mont Blancs, the gate is locked. Not because Sakurako is angry, but because she’s gone to visit her uncle, Shitara.
Shitara’s a professor of forensic medicine, now confined to a bed and requiring some kind of SGD to communicate. Saku, perhaps inspired by Shou bringing up Ulna, has come for Shitara’s unsolved case, which she wants to investigate, and she has Shitara’s blessing, provided she doesn’t do anything dangerous. I wonder if Saku will let Shou in on this. She’d better, if she wants those Mont Blancs…
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Wed, 18 Nov 2015 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, beautiful bones, Bones, cake, detective story, different people, emotional, family, festival, forensics, investigation, isozaki, kujou sakurako, mystery, osteologist, prep room, romance, sasaki, shitara, strange relationship, suicide note, tatewaki shoutarou, the truth, utsumi, wife, yuri, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている
When Kougami Yuriko’s friends encourage her to ask Shoutarou to be her date for the Asahikawa Summer Festival, she has her usual coffee with Shou, but all he talks about is Sakurako-san. When she shows up to the festival resplendent in her yukata, but alone, one wonders why she didn’t press. Does she believe Shou is out of her reach, preferring the older, more amazing Sakurako, or is she just not that concerned about pursuing Shou, or anyone else, that way?
As she spots all of the lovey-dovey couples holding hands, seemingly rubbing in her face that which she lacks, she also spots a grandmother and child, and seems comforted and less lonely. It’s not that she doesn’t like the idea of walking hand-in-hand with someone she likes; but she’s more concerned with becoming someone who can protect those she cares about.
Then she spots an ethereal-looking woman with dark black hair throwing an envelope over the bridge, who then vanishes, leaving the envelope behind. Suddenly has on her hands something more interesting, at least to her, than a date. She has a mystery. Then she turns around and encounters another lonely heart, Isozaki-sensei, from her school.
The envelope contains a ring, and Isozaki opens it to learn more. They determine it’s a synthetic diamond solitaire ring; most likely a wedding ring. The note inside asks forgiveness “for going to him.” Yuri is worried the woman was trying to throw herself off the bridge along with the ring, and wants to find her so she can help in some way. Izosaki…doesn’t.
The two butt heads, with Izosaki standing up for logic, analysis, rights and responsibilities, while Yuri cites human nature to not someone to die, and do whatever they can to prevent it. As the day turns to night, Izosaki considers taking off, but when he hears how serious Yuri is, he’s loath to leave her alone lest she get in trouble, so he agrees to look for the woman with her one more hour.
It’s strange; throughout their interaction, I couldn’t stop thinking how much more I’d enjoy it if it was Shoutarou by her side rather than Izosaki. The two have a good rapport, even if it doesn’t seem likely to turn to romance, and I think that Shou would be on the same page as Yuri. At the same time, the philosophical conflict that occurs from her and Izosaki can’t be discounted.
Still, one gets the feeling Yuri would prefer the counsel of a professional investigator like Sakurako, so she keeps calling Shoutarou (since Saku doesn’t have a cell, Shou’s her only means of reaching her). When Saku finally appears, it’s by chance, on the very bridge where the mystery first began. Since Saku got lost in thought, she also got lost, which makes Shou and Utsumi have to send out a lost child address for her, which she’s not pleased about.
It’s here where Shou gets scolded by an angry Yuri for leaving his phone in Saku’s office, keeping her from contacting Saku earlier. Is Yuri masking her anger for not being able to spend the day with Shou, or is Shou really nothing more than a conduit to Saku that didn’t come through? The truth seems somewhere in between those extremes.
Anyway, once Sakurako gets her hand on the ring, she determines it is not in fact a wedding ring, but a mourning ring, and the diamond itself was made with carbon from the bones of a departed loved one. She surmises that the woman sought to toss the ring away because she found another love. Sakurako then tosses the ring in the drink, and the fireworks commence.
It isn’t at all the conclusion Yuri expected, but she’s glad she worked hard and didn’t give up. It no doubt gives her strength and hope that not giving up on other things—or people—could also lead to good things.
I’ll be honest: this was very close to another 9 to me, and it all comes down to Yuri. I’d never have guessed in the first episode that she’d be anything other than a side character and (unrequited) love interest for Shou, but she’s become far more than that.
She’s complex, and feels like a real person, with ideals and beliefs and shortcomings that don’t always fall into easy categories. She’s both admiring and jealous of Sakurako. She’s chummy and warm, but also tentative with Shou. And as I said above, she’s in no hurry to define herself as one half of some couple so much as she wants to know she can stand on her own two feet.
It’s Sakurako’s show, and once she shows up she more or less dominates all the screen time she occupies. But I definitely wouldn’t mind more Yuri here and there.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Thu, 12 Nov 2015 Thu, 12 Nov 2015 Categories Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, beautiful bones, Bones, boyfriend, detective story, diamond, emotional, family, festival, investigation, kougami yuriko, kujou sakurako, lonely, mystery, ring, romance, strange relationship, suicide, suicide note, tatewaki shoutarou, the truth, utsumi, wife, yuri, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている
Just as Sakurako assembles piles of bones into completed skeletons, she assembles piles of clues into solved mysteries. And this week she wastes no time revealing Fujioka’s “curse” by applying a hefty dose of science. All the rain and humidity caused mold to grew behind the frame of his painting; a mold that reacts to the arsenic-based Sheele’s Green paint to generae diethyl arsine gas.
Fujioka’s banded nails and cough were symptoms of arsenic poisoning, from being in close proximity to the painting in his closed-off room. She “lifts” the curse by opening a window, hopeful the fresh air and truth will set Fujioka at ease. But when Fujioka goes off to smoke his last cigarette, Sakurako senses this skeleton isn’t quite complete: more bones lay scattered whose proper place must be found.
Among those bones: the fact Fujioka was fine having both a dog and a painting he believed to be cursed nearby; the fact he closely researched the causes and age of deaths of all his male relatives and printed out the results; the large life insurance policy he took out on himself; it all points to him looking to off himself and make it look like an accident; another victim of the family curse.
It almost works, too, but thanks to an alert Hector and a razor-sharp-minded Sakurako, his plan is foiled. She turniquets the leg he wounded with an axe, and as they wait for the ambulance, he confesses that after the global financial crisis, he’s broke, and could see no other way to provide for his wife and child than by sacrificing himself. But as someone who was “left behind” herself, Saku is personally offended by such an attitude.
Being alive and with his family is far more important to them than solving money troubles. So they sell the big black house—black, Saku believes, not because of that color’s association with death, but because of its psychological healing power: those in mourning who wear it aren’t merely expressing their grief, but fighting their fear of death.
We hear bits and pieces of what becomes of Fujioka and his family: his leg on the mend, he gets a job at an IT company; they sell the house and move into a small apartment; and Sakurako adopts Hector so he can have the proper space to run around. Despite being taken down a couple of pegs, it’s still a happy ending for Fujioka, because his wife’s hope that they’ll grow old together and see their great grandchildren remains.
Sakurako remains weary of the art appraiser who insisted Fujioka get close to the painting with his wife and son, believing he may have had sinister intentions toward the family. Ultimately, his manipulation of Fujioka, and all the heightening anxiety it entailed, may have been the real curse that threatened to kill him. Hopefully, it’s gone now. But Saku still carries her own curse; one pile of bones she has yet to touch, and which Shoutarou continues to remind her of. I wonder when we’ll learn how those bones fit together in earnest—those of the titular ‘corpse under Sakurako’s feet’.
Last week’s episode felt a bit too deliberate and hesitant, but the resolution (imperfect as it is in typical Sakurako-san fashion) more than made up for it, using every bone laid out last week to construct a beautiful skeleton. Saku’s science-y deductions continue to make this one of the smartest shows of the Fall, and references to the Great Recession firmly ground it in reality.
Author braveradePosted on Thu, 5 Nov 2015 Thu, 5 Nov 2015 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, apple juice, arsenic, beautiful bones, curse, death, detective story, dog, emotional, family, financial crisis, fujioka, hector, investigation, kujou sakurako, life insurance, modern house, mother, mystery, painting, poisoning, police, sacrifice, science, smoking, strange relationship, suicide, tatewaki shoutarou, the truth, utsumi, wife, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている2 Comments on Sakurako-san no Ashimoto – 05
This week’s mystery is provided by Officer Utsumi, whose friend Fujioka believes he’s under a curse that will soon claim his life. Sakurako grudgingly agrees to meet with this Fujioka, if only to tell him he’s full of it. After all, despite many of his male family members dying relatively young and suddenly, a big part of the logic Saku operates under states that correlation is not causation. Humans sometimes make connections where none exist.
This is an interesting variation of the cases Saku has worked on so far; the “victim” as it were, remains alive, albeit convinced his days are numbered. Fujioka comes from an otherwise financially lucky family, and lives in a giant modern black box of a house with gunslits for windows with his wife and infant daughter.
And that’s why Utsumi wants some sense talked into his friend: Fujioka can’t live in constant fear of dying; he has a family to look after; everything to live for. Yet gray clouds suffuse the setting
There’s also a dog involved; a white dog we’e seen in the OP, whose owners have one after another come to untimely ends. Hector, as the dog is called, warms up instantly to Saku, no doubt attracted by her regular proximity to death. Saku and Hector have at least one thing in common: they both love bones.
Much of the episode is Saku and Shou sitting in Fujioka’s living room hearing about his life and his various possessions (including one strange painting on display and another believed to be as cursed as the dog in storage).
As his thirty-sixth birthday is nigh, he steps out to pick up his cake, but we see him converse with a man about carrying out some kind of “plan”, causing me to suspect he’s being manipulated, perhaps by someone after his family fortune.
Throughout their interactions with this young family that should be perfect and happy, we see the deleterious effects of the “curse”, whether it’s an actual thing or not. Considering how logical and practical this show has been thus far, I’m loath to believe anything supernatural is afoot. But there is a sense Fujioka is fixating on his supposed curse out of a desire to escape the “prison” of his life, which may not have turned out the way he thought it would.
That assertion is supported by the fact Saku seems to have figured something out, and if it were something not explainable by science, she wouldn’t look so pleased. Unfortunately, time of this leisurely-moving episode runs out before she can elaborate. Until next week…
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Thu, 29 Oct 2015 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, apple juice, beautiful bones, curse, death, detective story, dog, emotional, family, fujioka, hector, investigation, kujou sakurako, modern house, mother, mystery, painting, police, sacrifice, smoking, strange relationship, tatewaki shoutarou, the truth, utsumi, wife, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている3 Comments on Sakurako-san no Ashimoto – 04
Sakurako-san is a weird one, preferring bones to people and all, but she’s full of wisdom and thinks and looks like no one else around her. Yet she also has her own brand of empathy, seeing even emotions like happiness, relief, and comfort as brain chemistry reacting to external stimuli.
She’s also quite human and thus fallible herself, which is what makes her so endearing as a character. She persists in calling Shoutarou “boy” (shounen) as a way to distance herself from him, despite their growing bond that, at times, treads into romantic territory.
Sakurako persuades her self-professed “guardian” to accompany her through some caves, then to a park where they’re pointed in the direction of human remains by a far more normal couple. Saku’s delighted at the find, and gives a beautiful description of how a corpse out in the open is briefly a “paradise of life” as flies lay eggs, maggots feed, and predators feed on the maggots, etc. She has a deep appreciation for the circle of life and the food chain, things humans don’t need to think about in daily life.
When Shoutarou does the responsible thing and phones the police, it doesn’t stop Sakurako from offering her expert opinion on who the corpse was and what happened. The police, however, aren’t so much impressed by her expertise as annoyed by her interference and what they perceive as arrogance (and hey, she is a bit arrogant).
Back home, when Shou thinks Saku is sulking, she’s actually concentrating on building a skeleton. That’s when she finally tells him what he’s been meaning to ask about: her dead little brother, Soutarou, just one syllable removed from his name. It’s not much, but it’s the start of a dialogue and a sign she’s willing to gradually let Shou in.
The next day, Shou goes to a cafe at the request of his classmate Kougami Yuriko. Her purpose is to thank him for helping to find the corpse, which was that of her grandmother, who the police believe jumped to her death. When she invites both Shou and Saku to her house to thank them properly, we learn her grandma was taking care of her husband, who was suffering from severe dementia and required round-the-clock care.
That burden is something the police used as a motive for Yuriko’s grandma’s suicide, and Yuriko even understands and doesn’t hold it against her. On the contrary, she’s ashamed she and the rest of her family didn’t see how tough it was for her until it was too late. But when she asks Saku to show her where and how her grandmother died, she gets an entirely different and more plausible story than the police came up with.
When they return to the site where her grandmother’s remains were found, Sakurako presents that story, which is this: her grandmother didn’t go there to die, she went there to live. She just stumbled and fell off the cliff in an unfortunate accident.
The reason she left in the middle of the night was so that she could reach a certain spot so she could see the same sunrise her husband painted back when he was healthier. Sakurako points out how exposure to the morning sun releases serotonin, which calms and soothes the mind. She tempers her conclusions as mere speculation, but they fit the facts, the timing, the motive, and the details.
These conclusions also provide comfort and closure to Yuriko. Now that she knows her grandmother didn’t give up on her grandfather, she has that much more reason to be strong and provide care in her granny’s place. Another satisfying mystery that respectfully delved into a specific (yet under-represented in anime) circumstance in modern human society—caring for those who can’t care for themselves—and built logically to a life-affirming finish.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Thu, 22 Oct 2015 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, beautiful bones, body, Bones, caregiver, cpr, crime, death, dementia, detective story, drug addict, emotional, forensics, grandmother, grandpa, kougami yuriko, kujou sakurako, mother, mystery, painter, police, sacrifice, strange relationship, suicide, tatewaki shoutarou, the truth, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている1 Comment on Sakurako-san no Ashimoto – 03
This was a tough one to watch, but it still felt good to watch it. Though I don’t have any kids, I could feel my latent parental instincts kick in on multiple occasions. What I do have is a little niece going on three, the same age as the girl who serves as a conduit for this week’s murder mystery, which turns out to be a lot more involved than last week’s century-old skeleton or the suicide-not-suicide.
The little girl, who only has the most basic grasp of communication, and will default to “no” when confronted with strong direct demands, is like a lock that Sakurako and Shou must pick in order to figure out who she is and where she came from. I like how such a lockpicking must be undertaken by a lad too young for kids and an older but still young woman too involved in her work to bother with things like husbands or children of her own.
In spite of this, Sakurako and Shou become the kid’s surrogate parents for the duration of their investigation. Shou is the one who brings her to Sakurako, who quickly notices the child is suffering from a poorly-healed bone injury; the likely result of abuse. As luck would have it, a classmate of Shou’s knows the kid and her real name, leading them to her house: a pigsty strewn with bags of garbage and a likely den of neglect and abuse. Then they find the corpse of the mother, and a new story emerges.
The mother is dead of an apparent stab wound, with only one defensive wound, and died in a very strange position that turns out to be one best-suited for covering a trap door in the kitchen where she hid her other child, an infant boy. When Sakurako moves the mother’s body and finds the babe, she wastes no time attempting to revive it, pumping his tiny heart to provide his brain with enough oxygen to stay alive.
Before help can come, the father does: a knife-wielding drug addict looking for “butterflies.” Saku is unable to move to protect herself, lest she risk losing the baby, and the cop who accompanied her and Shou is the first one stabbed. That means Shoutarou has to step up and save everyone, which he does thanks to some karate he learned from his gramps.
Far from impressed, Saku is angry at Shou for acting so recklessly. As he acted, she remembered a young boy running from her in a similar fashion, and being unable to stop him. A younger brother she lost, perhaps? In any case, all’s well that ends well. The baby wakes up (thank GOD) and the police and ambulance arrive. And throughout all of this, the three-year-old has been kept safe by Shou’s classmate in the other room, shielding her from further trauma.
The house may be the dump of a destitute couple unable to properly care for their two young children, but in Sakurako’s reconstruction of what happened (which happens with all of the pieces having been previously, carefully laid out), the mother is redeemed as a Mother, one who did not hesitate to sacrifice her own life to save both of her kids from her insane, homicidal partner. She may not have been the best mother in life, but she did the one fundamental thing required of her, and all mothers, when it mattered: she protected her children.
This was more than just a rich spoiled genius girl solving a another mystery for her own satisfaction. The show successfully drew me even further in by upping the stakes considerably. This was about continuing the work the murdered mother started: making sure those innocent kids survive. And Saku couldn’t do it alone; she needed the help of her “Watson” and the plucky cop, and they delivered.
With this latest case closed, a deeper mystery remains: the truth of Saku’s memory. Shoutarou is surprised when she calls him by his first name in the aftermath of their ordeal, but also remembers her shouting “Soutarou” during it. Calling him Shoutarou is a sign of intimacy, yet when he asks her to confirm calling him that, she backs away, careful to maintain the same distance between them. Something haunts her; something Shou wants to uncover; and I want to see him uncover it!
Author braveradePosted on Thu, 15 Oct 2015 Thu, 15 Oct 2015 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, beautiful bones, Bones, cpr, crime, death, detective story, drug addict, emotional, forensics, infant, karate, kujou sakurako, misanthrope, mother, murder, mystery, police, puzzle, sacrifice, skeletons, squalor, strange relationship, tatewaki shoutarou, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている5 Comments on Sakurako-san no Ashimoto – 02
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Wed, 7 Oct 2015 Wed, 7 Oct 2015 Categories Anime Reviews, Fall 2015, Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga UmatteiruTags a corpse is buried under Sakurako's feet, beautiful bones, Bones, brilliant, crime, death, detective story, forensics, kujou sakurako, misanthrope, murder, mystery, osteologist, skeletons, strange relationship, suicide, tatewaki shoutarou, unconventional, 櫻子さんの足下には死体が埋まっている1 Comment on Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru – 01 (First Impressions)
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Sket Dance 24
In the first half, the Sket-dan get involved in a dispute between Shinzou and his delinquent little brother, Shinpei. They help Shinpei fight off thugs who stole his brother’s sword, then meet the conditions for him to make up with Shinzou. The second half is a flashback from when Switch was still an eighth-grader. The segment is narrated by his year-older brother Masofumi, who taught him how to program computers. Switch has surpassed him in everything, including that, but he’s proud of him. His friend and neighbor Sawa is being pursued by a stalker, who goes so far as to leave a death threat in her mail slot.
These two halves were both about brothers, but that’s where the similarities end. While I’m always up for a Shinzou episode just to hear his archaic way of speaking, if I had to choose a half, I’d pick the latter. Bossun and Himeko have both been shrunken down into kids, but Switch is the guy we know next to nothing about. And he finally talks here! Though it’s when he’s 14. At this point he hasn’t met Bossun or Himeko, but he knows of the latter.
I also like it when normally silly shows like Sket Dance get serious from time to time, and that certainly happens here, albeit with a fairly cliche’d stalker premise. This looks to be a parody, but rather than use slapstick, it’s played pretty straight. Most interesting is that Masofumi’s is the voice Switch uses when he types-to-speech in the present. I’m not sure this story will get that dark, but it’s possible Switch speaks with his brother’s voice is that perhaps it’s in honor of his memory. Interestingly, this half-segment won’t be resoleved until next week.
Author rabujoistaffPosted on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 Categories Anime Reviews, Sket Dance, Spring 2011Tags 24, bossun, brotherhood, brothers, death threat, delinquent, himeko, kendo, masofumi, sawa, shinpei, shinzou, sket-dan, stalker, surpass, switch, sword, thug
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New York Hosts and Sports Talkers Lead 2018 National Radio Hall of Fame Inductees
By Lance Venta On Jun 25, 2018
The National Radio Hall of Fame has announced its ten inductees for its 2018 class.
The class has a decidedly New York feel with four personalities who spent the majority of their careers in that market as well as three well known Sports talkers. The induction ceremony will take place Nov. 15 at Guastavino’s in New York with tickets available at radiohalloffame.com.
Making their way into the Hall of Fame from the industry election panel are:
Active Local/Regional 10+ Years: Jonathan Brandmeier (KZZP Phoenix, WLUP/WCKG/WGN Chicago, KCBS-FM Los Angeles)
Longstanding Local Regional 20+ years: Jim Kerr (WPLJ/WYNY/WMXV/WAXQ New York)
Active Network/Syndication, 10+ years: Mike Greenberg & Mike Golic (ESPN Radio)
Longstanding Network/Syndication, 20+ years: Dr. Laura Schlessinger (KABC Los Angeles/Premiere Radio Networks/SiriusXM)
The public fan voting category inductees were:
Music Format On-Air Personality: Kid Kelly (WHTZ New York, WBHT Wilkes-Barre, Backtraxx USA, SiriusXM)
Spoken Word Format On-Air Personality: Mark Levin (WABC New York, Westwood One)
The NRHOF nominating committee also selected four inductees for their contribution to the industry:
Nanci ‘The Fabulous Sports Babe” Donnellan as a pioneering voice in local and national sports talk radio.
Mike Francesa, afternoon host at WFAN New York from 1989-2017 and 2018-
Joan Hamburg, New York’s “First Lady of Radio” and longtime late morning host at 710 WOR and currently on weekends at 770 WABC New York.
Fred Jacobs, one of the creators of Classic Rock as a radio format and long time programming consultant.
Voting results for the 2018 National Radio Hall of Fame’s 24 nominations in six categories are in. Four of the categories were decided by a voting participant panel comprised of nearly 1,000 industry professionals. The other two categories were voted on by the public. Listener voting was administered by Votem and overseen by the accounting firm of Miller Kaplan Arase. They report an unprecedented level of listener participation with more than a half million votes cast for the two voting categories, Music Format On-Air Personality and Spoken Word Format On-Air Personality. The increase is attributed to the competitive and creative campaigning waged by nominees. The inductees by public vote are:
Mark Levin, The Mark Levin Show; syndicated by Westwood One
Spoken Word Format On-Air Personality
Kid Kelly, Backtrax USA with Kid Kelly; syndicated by Westwood One, on-air host and programmer, Sirius XM Hits 1
Music Format On-Air Personality
The inductees by the industry panel are:
Jonathon Brandmeier, The Jonathon Brandmeier Show, Chicago
Active Local/Regional, 10+ years
Jim Kerr, Rock and Roll Morning Show, Q104.3, New York
Longstanding Local/Regional, 20+ years
Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg, Mike & Mike, ESPN Audio
Active Network/Syndication, 10+ years
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Dr. Laura, Sirius XM Stars 109
Longstanding Network/Syndication, 20+ years
Additionally, the NRHOF nominating committee voted to induct four individuals for their contribution to the industry. Those inductees are:
Nanci Donnellan, The Fabulous Sports Babe, a pioneering voice in local and national sports talk radio.
Mike Francesa, longtime afternoon drive host on WFAN AM/FM, The Fan, New York.
Joan Hamburg, host of The Joan Hamburg Show on 77 WABC Radio and prior, WOR AM, and known as New York’s “First Lady of Radio.”
Fred Jacobs, a creator of the Classic Rock music format, as well as a consultant to both commercial and public radio stations.
NRHOF Chairman Kraig T. Kitchin comments, “It’s our mission to recognize the most impactful personalities and individuals to our medium and honor them. We’re proud to induct these individuals for their contributions into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2018, our 30th year.”
The induction ceremony takes place Nov. 15 at New York City landmark Guastavino’s located in midtown Manhattan. Tickets are now available at www.radiohalloffame.com. A portion of ticket purchases is a tax deductible charitable donation to the Museum.
Returning sponsors of the National Radio Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony include The Mix Group and V Creative.
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The Land Where Bulls Are Pregnant
Posted on August 1, 1988 by quackenbush | Leave a comment
from Magical Blend, Issue 20, Aug-Sept-Oct 1988
There are four clocks atop the City Hall tower in Cork, facing the four quarters, and since Cork is in Ireland the four clocks always show four different times, none of which is ever correct. People in Cork refer to them as “the Four Liars.”
After six years in the Alternative Reality of Erin, I find the Four Liars to be the single best symbol, or synechdoche, to summarize all that I have learned about the Irish people and the strange, eerie charm of Gaelic culture. Do not understand me too quickly. It is not that “the Irish” as a collective or “ethnic” group lack some genetic endowment connected with mechanical ability, or do not know how to repair a clock. Not at all: they build excellent computers-my Irish-built Macintosh Plus is a superb instrument-and most of the computer companies are in Cork where the Four Liars continue to tell you the wrong time four different ways if you walk all the way around the City Hall.
Irish Time simply is not identical with ordinary or linear time. My wife Arlen and I never found two clocks in the whole country that agreed. Once, when I was still new to Irish Time, I returned to Ireland from the continent and set my quartz watch to agree with the time on the official radio station, RTE; the next day the watch and the radio station disagreed by four minutes. I wondered if something was wrong with my watch and re-set it; the next day it disagreed with the radio by six minutes…Then I discovered the radio time and the television time also disagreed, even though Irish radio and TV come out of two facilities in the same building complex in Donnybrook. When it is 6:05 on Irish radio, it is often 6:10 on Irish TV.
James Joyce once pointed out that there are only three world-class philosophers of Celtic origin-Scotus Erigena, Bishop Berkeley, and Henri Bergson (who was a Breton Celt)-and all three of them denied the reality of time. Joyce indeed seemed to think there was some genetic basis for the Celtic rejection of the normal time-sense of the rest of the Occident. I’m not sure of that. Others, including some Irish sociologists, claim that the Irish time-sense is similar to that of other colonial or post colonial people and represents a form of unconscious sabotage of the colonizer’s reality-grid.
Whether the basis be genetic or sociological, there is no doubt that Irish Time is more relative than even Einsteinian time and seems infinitely flexible in all directions. For instance, if you hire a plumber and he tells you he will come “Tuesday week,” that literally means one week from Tuesday but actually he’ll come when he feels like it. “Tuesday fortnight,” however, is even more daunting: it literally means two weeks from Tuesday but actually it indicates that the job sounds hard and the plumber will probably never come at all. Most events in Irish Time occur in the occult interval between temporarily uncertain Tuesday week” and for-ever uncertain “Tuesday fortnight,” which I think is the time it takes Schrödinger’s cat to jump from one eigenstate to another.
If you suspect that the wobbly time-sense of Eire can be explained entirely as a manifestation of the calculated procrastination of colonial peoples, you are probably missing the complexity of the Gaelic mindset. One story tells of the two clocks in Padraic Pearse Station, Dublin, which, of course, being Irish clocks always disagree. An Englishman, this story claims, once commented loudly and angrily on how “typically Irish“ it was to have two clocks in a train station that gave different times. “Ah, sure,” a Dublin man replied, “if they agreed, one of them would be superfluous.”
The logic there might not be Aristotelian but it has its own internal consistency, like a Monty Python routine. One encounters such ratiocination frequently on the Emerald Isle. The day I arrived (16 June 1982: Bloomsday), I heard some interviews on radio, which were part of what I later learned was an oral history of modern Ireland being compiled by RTE-Radio Telefis hEirann, the government radio-TV monopoly. These interviews concerned the pookah, a six-foot-tall white rabbit often reported in County Kerry-although one pookah, named Harvey, wandered as far as Broadway and became the hero of a famous play. Legends of the pookah probably date back to the Stone Age, and some etymologists even think “pookah” and “god” come from the same pre-Indo-European root, which also gave us Shakespeare’s Puck (pronounced “pook” in Elizabethan times), the Russian bog (god) and that familiar childhood demon, the bogie or boogie.
One Kerry farmer interviewed on this documentary was particularly knowledge-able about the pookah and had endless stories about men who had encountered him on their way home from the pub at night. (For some reason, the pookah seems to prefer to play his tricks on men returning from pubs, especially if they have had more than fourteen pints of Guinness. In the Broadway play, Harvey the pookah first encounters Elwood P. Dowd coming out of a bar.)
“Do you believe in the pookah yourself’?” the interviewer asked finally.
“That I do not,” said the farmer with exquisite Kerry logic, “and I doubt very much that he believes in me either.“
Most of the Irish insist that such reasoning is peculiarly native to Kerry. I doubt it, but there are countless Kerry legends that are cited as examples. In the time of the Troubles, it is claimed, an English landlord in Kerry was found dead of forty-seven pistol wounds and the jury pronounced it “the most aggravated case of suicide in our experience.” In another case, a Kerry jury allegedly ruled, “We find the defendant innocent, but he better not do it in this town again.” There is even a story claiming that one judge released a defendant with the words, “You have been found not guilty and may leave the court with no stigma on your name, except of course for being acquitted by a Kerry jury.“
Most of this, no doubt, is folklore-and Kerry stories are indeed most popular in Dublin. (They even say you can sink a sub-marine full of Kerry men by knocking on the door.) I’m told that in Kerry they tell similar stories about Dubliners. One yarn claims that a millionaire left all his money to build hospitals for the insane. The executors, it is said, built one hospital in Galway; and another in Limerick, and then put a roof over Dublin.
I could go on about such local Irish chauvinism at great length, but instead I would like to explore further into what baffled commentators call the Celtic Twilight. In Illuminates! I proposed that all oppressed people seek revenge against their oppressors by pretending to be even more “backward” than the propaganda line of the oppressor claims. Women used to do this, too, before Feminism: remember the dumb wife played by Gracie Allen and all the dumb blondes in old films?
Ireland was colonized before any part of Asia, Africa or the Americas-the first British invasion began on 23 August 1170—and British troops even today patrol six counties that arc called Northern Ireland and are still part of the British Empire.
Meanwhile, an Irish Bull is a kind of oxymoron, or sentence that contradicts itself. Some linguists love Irish Bulls so much they have made book-length collections of them. One of my favorites is the legendary Dubliner’s response to “Bad weather for this of year, is it not?” The reply was “Ah, faith, it isn’t this time of year at all.” Perhaps the all-time classic Bull was uttered by an Irish member of Parliament: “Children who are too young to walk or talk are running about the streets blaspheming their Maker.” Joyce’s Ulysses is full of Irish Bulls; a choice example is All Bergan’s reply when asked who made certain allegations: “I’m the alligator:”
One theory alleges that Irish Bulls result from thinking in Gaelic and trying to talk in English at the same time. Maybe; but I tend to agree, rather, with Anthony Burgess who argues in his RE:JOYCE that the English spoken in England and America has become increasingly “functional” in recent centuries, but Irish English retains the “ludic” qualities of earlier epochs.
On the other hand, an Irish Bull is like a surrealist painting: it jolts you out of your ordinary reality-tunnel and shows you a whole new landscape of possibility.
Ireland is the land where Bulls are pregnant.
But, listen now: during the 1840s Potato Famine, while two million of the Irish died, the English continued to enforce the Poaching Laws. Any Irishman who tried to feed himself or his family by hunting or fishing was hanged if caught, because the land and the rivers both were owned by English landlords.
I don’t think the English were worse than any other conquerors. Similar horror stories can be told about any land occupied by an imperialist power. But you do not understand Irish humor unless you understand the enormous human tragedy out of which that humor grew.
Oscar Wilde was more Irish than readers in America generally realize. It is very Hibernian, indeed, that his best-known (and funniest) play has a title that suggests it is about the importance of honesty or sincerity, but the play is actually about clandestine homosexuality and impersonators impersonating other impersonators…
Wilde also wrote a little-known essay, ‘The Reality of Masks,” which uses the drama as an example to demonstrate that illusions are often real and reality is often illusory. “The reality of metaphysics is the reality of masks” is the typically Wildean paradox on which the essay climaxes; and Yeats developed his poetic theories of Mask and Anti-Mask out of Wilde. This Yeatsian mystique of Mask, Anti-Mask, Self, Anti-Self, etc. helped make classic Japanese drama comprehensible to Westerners; but what would you expect? Yeats himself pointed out that “Ireland was part of Asia until the Battle of the Boyne.“ I often think it is still part of Asia.
But, again, the Celtic Reality-Labyrinth cannot be reduced to a formula. Most critics think Yeats’ Mask and Anti-Mask have only a poetic and metaphysical meaning. A look at the man’s life reverses that opinion. Yeats was not only a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the most high-voltage occult group then active in Europe, but also of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was hatching the conspiracy that birthed the bloody revolution of 1916. “How can you tell the dancer from the dance?” he once asked explicitly. How can you tell the Mask from the Anti-Mask?, his best poems all ask implicitly. In Ireland, you seldom can and eventually you stop trying.
Thus, in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman – which I consider the greatest Irish novel since Finnegan’s Wake – the narrator reflects that while it is good if people know nothing about you, it is even better if they know several things which are not true. This could almost be called the first Axiom of Irish Sociology. Naturally – this should be no surprise, if you have followed me this far – Flann O’Brien himself did not exist. He was considered the funniest Irish novelist of his time, just as Myles na gCopaleen was considered the funniest newspaper columnist of the same years (the mid-1930s to mid-1’950s), but then Myles na gCopaleen never existed either. Both O’Brien and na gCopaleen Were inventions of Brian O’Nolan, a minor clerk in the government bureaucracy. (If Kafka had lived in Ireland, he would have been equally perplexed but more amusing about it.)
When Time magazine discovered O’Brien’s novels, or O’Nolan’s novels, they did an interview with him, in his normal space-time identity as O’Nolan. They printed every yarn he told them, including a marvelous fantasy about defeating Alekhine, the world champion, at chess. Evidently, Time did not fully understand Irish Facts. I doubt that anybody does understand Irish Facts, but Professor Hugh Kenner attempts to define Irish Facts in his study of recent Irish literature, A Colder Eye. Prof. Kenner gets quite metaphysical about the matter, and seems to regard Irish Facts as incomprehensible to the non-Irish, but I think an Irish Fact is simply, like a rubber inch or one of Dali’s melting clocks, an attempt to create a realm of communication wherein six-foot-tall white rabbits can survive despite all “English” or Rational attempts to banish them.
For instance, if you ever studied Modern Literature at all, you know the story about
what Joyce did on Yeats’ 40th birthday. He went to the hotel where Yeats was staying and said, “I hear you’re 40 today.” Yeats allowed that such was the case. “Too bad,” Joyce replied. “That means you’re too old to be influenced by me.”
That is a typical Irish Fact. It is in many biographies of Joyce, most biographies of Yeats, standard histories of Irish Literature, etc. It got into all those sources because, as Prof. Kenner pointed out, most American researchers do not understand Irish Facts and assume they are similar to American Facts or English Facts or ordinary everyday Facts,
The source for this widely published story was Oliver St. John Gogarty, one of the greatest inventors of Irish Facts in this century (and the model for “Buck Mulligan” in Joyce’s Ulysses). The major flaw in this particular Gogarty invention is that when Yeats was 40, Joyce was living a thousand miles from Dublin in Trieste, Italy.
Nonetheless, an Irish Fact has its own beauty, even if it does not correspond to ordinary actuality. The more you understand the relationship between Yeats and Joyce, the more you realize that if Gogarty’s yarn never happened, it should have happened. It is not just Irish Bulls that are pregnant; Irish Facts are equally fertile.
Gogarty, incidentally, is the hero of one of the great stories of the Civil War. He was one of the senators who voted to accept the Treaty of 1922, which granted Ireland semi-independence from England, and the IRA set out to assassinate all the senators who had voted for that Treaty. They grabbed Gogarty at his home one night, took him to a car, and drove him to a lonely spot in the country for the execution.
“Am I expected to tip the driver?” Gogarty asked, or claims he asked.
Then, when the IRA was about to shoot him, he asked for permission to take a piss CO. Being Irish, they allowed him to go behind a bush. He kept going until he got to a river, swam to the other side, and escaped.
I don’t know whether that’s an Irish Fact or a normal Fact, but it was a story Gogarty loved to tell. Ezra Pound wrote a poem about it, too, `so now, like many things Gaelic, it is literature even if it is not actuality.
And Joyce, when asked for maybe the thousandth time why he was writing a book as “queer” as Finnegan’s Wake, replied “To keep the Ph.D. candidates busy for the next thousand years.” Was that another Irish Fact? Does it represent Joyce’s Mask or his Anti‑
Mask? His Self or his Anti-Self? And (to parody one of his famous parodies) if not, why not? You have to deal with such puzzles if you want to read Irish literature, and you even have to deal with them if you ask the time in Dublin.
There is a sea-walk at Sandycove, on the southern rim of Dublin Bay, that illustrates the sociological ramifications of Irish Time, Irish Logic, Irish Facts and the Hibernian imagination in general. This sea-walk is about ten feet below the street-walk, and gives one a more intimate view of the Bay and the birds and other flora and fauna that flourish there. Just as you come in sight of the James Joyce Tower-an unpopular building commemorating the man who may be Ireland’s greatest (or perhaps its only) Rationalist-the sea-walk gives you a Celtic Surprise, There is a brick wall in the middle of it, and you cannot walk further. You can try to climb the wall, if you feel athletic, or you can jump in the water and swim around It you don’t mind getting your clothes wet, or you can turn around and go back the way you came.
The sea-walk does not terminate, please understand; it continues on the other side of the brick wall. You really ought to go there someday to look at that brick wall, and then try to decide for yourself if there is a solution to the puzzle better than the three alternatives above-or if the wall is another Gaelic satire on the Rationalist’s faith that all things in the Universe are comprehensible.
Arlen probably has the right answer. She suggests the sea-walk was constructed before 1922-i.e. when all Ireland was still colonized-by Irish workers who were supervised by an English foreman. If so, I imagine they constructed the wall while he was watching but, as Holmes would say, not observing.
A similar explanation was offered to me by a student at Trinity to explain why the Dublin telephones are notoriously the worst in Europe (even worse than the French) but Irish country phones work quite well usually. The Dublin phone lines were installed during the British occupation. The country phone lines have been installed since Independence. See?
But the socio-psychology of Colonialism only carries one part of the way in grappling with Celtic Mysteries. For instance‑
Ireland has the highest schizophrenia rate in Europe, and 90 per cent of the schizophrenics live in the same two counties (Clare and Connemara), which suffered the greatest population loss during the Potato Famine of the 1840s. Many Irish writers had a special fondness for those counties – “A.E.” (George Russell), Liam 0′ Flaherty, W.B. Yeats and John Millington Synge, for instance-and found the people there especially “wise” and “mystical.” Did some genes mutate during the famine, or did the trauma of mass starvation send psychic terrors down through the generations to the present?
Bob Quinn, a native of Connemara, doubts both these theories. Quinn, a producer of films for RTE, claims the West Irish, especially in those two counties, are not basically Celtic but pre-Celtic. He thinks that what makes the West Irish seem “schizophrenic” to doctors and “mystical” to poets is that they are not really Europeans at all. (I find this fascinating because 25% of my ancestors come from that area…) In three one-hour films collectively and misleadingly titled “Atlantean,” Quinn preaches his doctrine using such evidence as:
Irish step-dancing resembles Spanish flamenco and the dancing of North African Berbers.
The journey from North Africa around the Celtic-speaking coast of Spain, up past Celtic France to West Ireland, is a trade route known to exist for several hundred years, and perhaps for millenniums.
West Irish music hasa different tonal scale than ordinary European music. Playing the tunes of Connemara to musicologists and asking them to identify the tunes, Quinn found most of them guessed “African” although a
few said “Asiatic.”
Type 0 blood is rare in Europe, but common in North Africa. It is also common in Clare and Connemara.
A Christian cross with the Arabic word BISM’ILLAH (“In the name of God…”) has been found in Kerry and carbon-dated at 900 AD.
Basically, itis Quinn’s thesis that the Irish as an ethnic group contain more African-Arabic and pre-Celtic genes and cultural traits than they realize. He wants the Irish to give up Celtic Pride they developed during their Revolutionary epoch and develop a sort of pre-Celtic Pride, you might say. He even claims the Celts never existed as a distinct ethnic group and “Kelltoi” was just a general label the Romans pinned on all tribes they met in Europe.
Only God and Bob Quinn know why he presented this theory using an English-speaking narrator for his three films and yet appears in them himself speaking only Gaelic, the language that has been associated with Celtic Pride since the Gaelic revival of the 1890s.
I mentioned earlier that the IRA once tried to assassinate every Senator who ratified the Treaty of 1922. One article that the IRA found unacceptable ordained that every member of the Irish Parliament, dail hEirann, had to take an oath of loyalty to the English king (or queen).
When de Valera left the IRA and entered the dall in 1927, he took the oath of loyalty. Or did he? They are still arguing about it, in Dublin. Dev ‘s followers spread the rumor that he carefully did not let his hand actually touch the Bible while taking the Oath, and ergo the Oath was null and void. (In any case, Dev was able to get that article of the Treaty abolished in 1937, ten years later.)
You see, Dev, like most Irish politicians (and intellectuals), had a Jesuit education, and the words “casuistry” and “equivocation” have been associated with Jesuits for so long that to say one had a Jesuit education is to say that one can prove two plus two equals five anytime there is a need to prove it, and also that one can quickly reconstruct the proof that two plus two equals four if one’s opponents try to argue that it equals five.
Irish Logic and Irish Facts and Irish Time and all the rest may not be entirely explicable in terms of the psychology of the colonized, or Celtic mysticism, or possible non-European genetic/cultural traces, etc. A lot of the extraterrestrial or at least extramundane quality of the Irish imagination may result from Jesuit education…
I once interviewed Sean MacBride, co-founder of Amnesty International, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, the U.S. Medal of Justice, the Dag Hammarskjold Medal of Honor of the UN, and the Nobel Peace Prize. He probably did more to secure the release of political prisoners, all over the world, than any man of his time.
“Ireland is a third world country,” he told me.
Ireland is officially reckoned the second poorest country in the European Economic Community (only Portugal has more poverty), yet in public opinion polls the Irish always rate themselves as much happier than other Europeans. American tourists are always astounded that the Irish can be happy without being rich.
“It’s the gargle,” said Irish TV star Gay Byrne, trying to explain this. “The gargle” is Irish whiskey; Byrne meant the population is too drunk most of the time to notice how miserable they are. But Byrne is a Social Critic by profession and Social Critics hate to admit that anybody is really happy.
An American friend who spent six months in Ireland once told me that the honesty of the Irish was the most striking thing about them. Indeed, coming from America, one’s first impression is that the Irish are less paranoid than Americans; only later do you realize that they trust you because they trust one another and have little experience with con-artists and swindlers.
“You know what it is?” my friend asked me rhetorically. “They still believe in Hell. If you leave your wallet in a pub, the waiter will chase you down the street to give it back, because he thinks he’ll go to Hell otherwise.”
Yet Liam O’Flaherty’s Autobiography begins with the blunt warning sentence “All men are born liars.” (Empedocles the Cretan, who said Cretans always lie, must have been part Irish, I guess…)
Ireland is 95% Catholic and every August the natives of Kerry have a holiday in which a goat is crowned and Dionysian revelry follows. The Church has fulminated and fretted for centuries, but the good Catholics of Kerry insist on remaining good pagans as well. What else could you expect in a place where six-foot rabbits still roam the night?
It was in Kerry, also, in 1986, that literally thousands of people saw a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary move and make gestures, over a period of three months. To show how contagious such things are, foreign tourists saw the “miracle” as often as natives, and June Levine, a Jewish Feminist from Dublin, also saw it.
Some people, including agnostic Conor Cruise O’Brien and a cameraman from RTE, saw strange lights in the sky when the Lady was performing. “UFOs?” you may ask. Search me. The Kerry people probably thought they were seeing fairies.
Incidentally, the BVM in Kerry-in a town, by the way, which had the wonderful name, Ballinspittle-finally stopped moving after October 31, 1986. Two Protestants from Dublin drove down to Kerry that night-Halloween, to Americans; Samhain, to the Celts-and bashed Her head in with hammers, while ranting against “Idolatry” to the Catholic witnesses.
The joke in Dublin the next day was “Why didn’t She duck?” Dublin has more atheists per square foot than Moscow, I think. They were all educated by the Jesuits and express themselves with superb eloquence. After Archbishop McNamara issued some dogmatic thoughts on “God’s plan for family life,” one of these Jesuit Atheists wrote a letter to the press imploring His Eminence to ex-plain, in detail, how, and with what degree of metaphor, a timeless being can be said to have plans.
Up until the 19th century, nobody but an Irishman would seriously argue against the proposition that, in algebra, pq = qp, which means that if you multiply two quantifies the result is the same whether you multiply the first by the second or the second by the fast.
Even those of you who hate mathematics remember that much algebra, I’m sure. 3 x 5 = 5 x 3. If you buy 3 oranges for 5 cents each, it will cost you as much as buying 5 apples for 3 cents each, because 3 x 5 always equals the same as 5 x 3, namely 15 cents. That’s what the general expression pq = qp means. Right? It’s only common sense.
Naturally, an Irishman finally challenged that. His name was William Rowan Hamilton and he made so many original contributions to math that some consider him on a level with Euclid, Gauss or Descartes. His most astounding and Celtic production, however, was what is called non-communicative algebra, or Hamiltonian algebra, and it is the system in which pq does not equal qp.
The most startling recent finding in quantum math, as everyone has heard by now, is Bell’s Theorem, which proves that quantum systems once in contact remain correlated no matter how far a part in space or time they may move. Prof. Nick Herbert explains this in the homely language it deserves. “There is no difference between anything,” Herbert says. “Here is there.”
The inventor of Bell’s Theorem was an-other Irishman, John S. Bell, born in Belfast
Irish Logic may have survived, evolutionarily speaking, because even the Western half of the human race needs alternatives to orthodox European (Aristotelian) logic. Until we discovered Buddhism and Taoism in this century, we needed the Irish to remind us that clock time is not living time and a bull may be pregnant Maybe that’s why the Irish survived, despite all the Brits did to eliminate them.
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Exploring Enantioselective and Multicomponent One-Pot Reactions Utilizing Alkynes as Linchpins Toward Biologically Active Molecules
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Robust synthetic methodology to make complex small molecules that are of biological importance is a highly investigated area. Utilizing fundamental bond-making reactions, like the Diels-Alder reaction and the Nazarov cyclization, in new efficient one-pot methodologies can help to expand the scope of reactions available to make such molecules. Using proprochiral and high energy starting materials like alkynes can afford reactive intermediates that can then undergo further transformations in one pot. The Diels-Alder (DA) reaction is a powerful synthetic tool that organic chemists have relied on for forming six-membered rings with good predictability for nearly a century. While there have been many reports of novel DA reactions and DA reactions in total syntheses, a void still exists in fully utilizing alkynyl dienophiles. There are very few enantioselective DA reactions that utilize alkynyl dienophiles, and none to date that utilize oxygen functionalized dienes. Herein we report a new BINOL-Al-Cl catalyst preparation that is robust enough to catalyze such a reaction with great success both in terms of yield and enantiomeric ratios. The products, 1,4-cyclohexadienes, have two regiochemically different alkenes, which can serve as functional handles that can be further elaborated to furnish molecules of biological interest. While expanding the scope of the enantioselective alkyne DA, alkynyl aldehydes were found to undergo a Hetero-Diels-Alder (HDA) reaction when reacted with oxygen functionalized dienes in the presence of aluminum Lewis acids. There is only one report for the development of an enantioselective HDA reaction utilizing an alkynyl aldehyde. Due to the highly reactive 1,4-cyclohexadiene produced by an alkyne DA reaction, this intermediate is poised to undergo a second, tandem DA reaction. From this tandem DA, a cis-decalin is produced. There are many biologically active terpenoids that contain the cis-decalin structural motif. This two-fold DA reaction proved to be a good method for rapid generation of cis-decalin molecules possessing biological activity. The highly reactive 1,4-cyclohexadiene intermediate formed from an alkyne DA reaction also proved to be poised to undergo a tandem Nazarov cyclization (NC). The reported tandem DA/NC is a reliable way to rapidly generate a library of [6-5-6] tricyclic molecules. In this report one compound contains a nitrogen-containing ring, which opens the door to utilizing heteroatom-containing starting materials. Using indole substituted alkynyl ketones in this reaction would produce even larger [6-5-5-6] tetracyclic molecules. Such polycyclic, heteroatom containing molecules are of high interest due to their abundance not only in nature, but in their use as pharmaceutical drugs.
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"Selina Hastings has written a book which Nancy Mitford would have been
proud to write herself." - A.N. Wilson
An Extract
�When Linda, penniless, sinks down on her suitcase in the Gare du Nord and bursts into tears, she know that nothing so dreadful has ever happened to her before, and that her predicament is hopeless.� Then, through her weeping, she becomes aware of somebody standing beside her: a short, stocky Frenchman in a black Homburg hat.� And so begins the great love affair of Linda�s life, a love which transforms her existence, breaking her free from the dark and dreary confines of her English past to release her into perfect happiness in Paris, the most beautiful city on earth.
This is how Nancy Mitford tells the story in The Pursuit of Love.� A novelist who always wrote with a strong element of autobiography, nowhere does she come closer to the truths of her own life.� As it was for Linda, her life, too, was transformed by a short, stocky Frenchman in a black Homburg hat, whom she met not in the Gare du Nord, but in the garden of the Allies� club in Park Lane.� Like Linda, she found in beautiful Paris happiness and freedom of spirit; a freedom, too, from a failed marriage, following years of frustration passed under the iron r�gime of a tyrannical father.
Both Nancy�s parents were the children of remarkable men, and in both cases the remarkable qualities of their fathers passed the entirely by, to reappear again, at full strength and in a number of strange permutations, in the succeeding generation��� (Nancy Mitford)
"Very perceptive and often very funny." - Peter Ackroyd
�A gem of a biography� - Evening Standard
�An impeccable biography� - Literary Review
�as enjoyable and amusing as one of Nancy�s own novels� - Mail on Sunday
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Sex and the Dead: A Right Load of Fuckery
The Paradox of Sex and the Dead
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, the onion was considered a vegetable of the dead. Perhaps it’s because it grew in the ground as the deceased are planted? Or perhaps the reasoning was something else. Either way, along with parsley and celery, the onion commonly graced the tables of funeral feasts
Viagra, a long time ago.
(“Eating with the Dead”).
But here is where we come to a paradox, because the onion was also well known as an aphrodisiac. And what of grim and unyielding Hades himself? Not only was he connected with the cycle of the year, but was also arguably connected to fertility too.
As it turns out though, this collocation of sex and death is not unusual, and it’s not limited to the classical world either.
Among the Germanic tribes, for example, the god of the mound is also the god who fertilizes the earth. It is he who is depicted with a large phallus – a sign of his virility. Ruler of Alfheim, so too do his subjects share the same associations. Mound-dwelling and sexually deviant, elves would eventually come to be known as incubi.
Moving slightly further afield, the Canaanite Ba’al the god of life and fertility is shown to be constantly locked in battle with Mot, the god of death and sterility.
To move even further afield (at least from the perspective of my resting paradigm), we see the same dichotomy in the Haitian deity Papa Ghédé who presides over both death and eroticism.
Again and again, fertility (or even straight up eroticism) and death walk hand in hand. Life is spun and then unspun in a cycle of generation and dissolution, the fibers falling away only to be respun again. These are in truth, two sides of the same cycle, and without the one there cannot be the other.
Man Imitates Gods (or Elves)
This also seems to be the case for many humans who work with the dead too, and the grave may be just as inseparable from sex and generation within some human practitioners, as it is with the aforementioned gods.
“Thus the Gods did, thus men do”
Taittirīya Brāhmana
(Eliade 98)
Those witches will get with any old unclean spirit!
There also seems to be something in the “wiring” here too. For anyone who has studied historical witchcraft accounts, accusations of “sexual deviancy” go hand in hand with accusations of trucking (sexually or magically) with demons or elves. Again and again we see this pattern of chthonic beings with fertility aspects and their human partners engaged in both necromancy and apparent sexual deviancy. (See Lee Morgan’s ‘A Deed without a Name’ for further discussion on these relationships both among historical and modern practitioners)
It would seem that one cannot separate the sex/eroticism from the chthonic, and by extension, death itself. And this can be unsettling to our modern WEIRD minds. (I note here that apparently Papa Ghédé enjoys fucking with white people because of exactly this kind of hang up. Go Papa Ghédé!)
But patterns rarely emerge without reason, and this one is no exception.
A Matter of “Wiring”?
First though, I’d like to talk about the matter of the “wiring” of human practitioners for a moment. Because here too are patterns to be observed. Why is it that the witch was so associated with sexual deviancy in historical accounts? Why did Jordanes write of the Halirunnae (Gothic for Helrune), if you’re interested) going out and having issue with “unclean spirits”? Why was that so believable to him that people associated with Hel practices would be all about fucking the “unclean spirits”? (Getica XXIV, 121-123)
This matter of “wiring” is something that Martin Coleman (aka Draja Mickaharic) comments on in Communing with the Spirits: The Magical Practice of Necromancy. To quote him regarding women with the propensity for necromancy:
“If you are a woman you may have had occasional vivid dreams of a sexual nature which you remember upon awakening. In some cases, the dream may
According to Pixabay, this is what necromancy looks like
have been so vivid that you awakened as a result of the orgasm that the dream produced. This is not an uncommon phenomena found in those women who are able to work with the spirits of the dead. Women who are able to work well with the spirits of the dead often have very little sense of physical modesty. In a few cases they are excessively modest. Often women who can work with spirits of the dead are quite uninhibited in comparison with most of the women of their generation. Occasionally they are asexual, but these women are usually found at the extreme ranges of dress and sexual behavior.”
So what is going on here? Why can working with the dead turn into such fuckery? (Ha, see what I did there?) Why does this collocation exist?
Sex as a Safety Mechanism
One thing you quickly learn when interacting with the dead is that to interact with the dead is to interact with death, and pull away from life. But to engage in the primal act of intercourse is to pull away from death and to reassert one’s place within the living world. It is to leave the world of shadows and rejoin the world of the heart pounding, heavy breathing, and corporeality of skin and bodily fluids. To fall once more under the spell of the sensual and reconnect with one of the joys of this world. It is in this sense, a way of exorcising the touch of death from yourself in the same way that you may take salt or wash your feet, or whatever else you do to purify when leaving the places of the dead.
This is not some sick and perverted thing as some might think. There is no sexual attraction to the dead present (and I actually hate that I feel like I have to say that). Instead, I find it to be more like the triggering a safety mechanism that occurs in response to a certain degree of proximity to death. It’s a form of medicine. When you think about it, this is really no different from people fucking at or after funerals. It is, I believe, the same underlying mechanism at work.
In short, this is a piece of protective wiring for those of us who experience it, and deities like Papa Ghédé rightfully mock us when repression keeps us from this act of self-healing.
(Ace folx, I’d be curious to hear what you experience post-interacting-with-the-dead!)
Eating With the Dead: Funeral Meal Practices, by Tylluan Perry in MEMENTO MORI A Collection of Magickal and Mythological Perspectives On Death, Dying, Mortality and Beyond
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, by Mircea Eliade
Communing with the Spirits: The Magical Practice of Necromancy, by Martin Coleman
Elves and Sex
Please YoursELF
“Bye love, I’m off to go bang some elves in Iceland”
– How I imagine saying farewell to my husband when I go co-Host That Trip To Iceland With Land Sea Sky Travel
Back in 2008, an Icelandic lady by the name of Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir published her seminal (ha, see what I did there?) work ‘Please YousELF – Sex With The Icelandic Invisibles’. Now, Iceland isn’t a country in which elves making the news is all that uncommon, however this was particularly standout. Because for all the stories of road rerouting (like here), it’s really not that common for Icelanders to claim to be banging elves.
The internet naturally responded as you might imagine – with mockery. However, I for one am grateful for people like Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir for a couple of reasons:
1. The woman has balls of steel to put a book out about her elf-fucking experiences, under her own name, and go on camera talking about it too.
2. It was a really nice diversion from the usual ‘godspouse’ thing that you see in Heathen circles. Now I could digress into a bit of a rant about why elf-spouses would beat your average ‘godspouse’, but I don’t really think I need to do that. Seriously, just look at Hallgerður’s stick-figure drawings of elven sexy times. Case. Closed.
But on a more serious note, I was mostly happy to see Hallgerður’s stuff for another reason, and that’s because it got
The D
people talking about elves and sex, and well…that’s not that weird of an association to make.
To examine this further though, we need to start with the ‘D’. You know, ‘demons’ (and the devil too to some degree).
Checking Out The D
There’s actually some pretty good evidence that at one point, elves were equated with the devil and demons. For example, the eighth century Royal Prayer Book contains the phrase ‘Satanae diabolus aelfae’, meaning ‘devil of the elf Satan’, and in Beowulf, elves are aligned with ‘misbegotten beings’ of the not very nice variety (Hall 69-71). Another example of this can be found in a Lacnunga charm against elves that borrows from the same liturgy as a Christian exorcism (North 54-56). When it comes to the word ‘Ælfs?den’, a word probably referring to a type of magic (‘s?den’ being cognate with the Old Icelandic word ‘seiðr’), Richard North tells us that ‘All temptations, but especially demonic possession, are indicated in Ælfs?den’(North 55).
Speaking of possession, it’s in the specifics of these particular associations with demons where things become really interesting, especially with regards to elf-sex.
In the Bosworth & Toller dictionary, a possible translation of the word ‘ælf’, is incubus (Bosworth & Toller 14), or in other words, a type of male demon known for its penchant for boning people in their sleep. This translation is likely taken from Chaucer, who equated elves with incubi in the ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ (Hall 162); and even though we’re out of the Heathen period by quite a long time by Chaucer’s time, there are some interesting points about elves in earlier sources that make this connection pretty reasonable.
(Elven)Sausage Party
The first thing is that the earliest elves were male. Yup, it was an elven sausage fest back in the day. No elven ladies to
Sadly, this is the nearest creative commons pic I could find to a ‘kinky elf’. Fail.
be found anywhere – that came later (Hall 157-166 ). Secondly, the connection with sex, and more specifically sexual deviancy with elves (by the standards of culture back then), is not an uncommon theme. You just have to know what constituted sexual deviancy back then, because if you were hoping for something that looked like ball gags and whips, you’d be sorely disappointed.
Taking a quick trip over the Atlantic to medieval Iceland, we come across the terms hvatr and blauðr. Now, some of you are possibly going to absolutely hate these terms, but to cut a long story short, hvatr was ‘bold, independent, powerful, vigorous, and sharp’, and blauðr ‘weak, soft, powerless, yielding’. Scholars such as Carol J Clover have argued that initially these terms were separate from biological sex, having more to do with power and independence. However in spite of this initial lack of alignment with biological sex, hvatr was more the domain of aristocratic males, and blauðr, that of women (Clover).
Regardless of whether those dick Christians turned us all from whatever egalitarian pagan utopia though, some sources do suggest that elves didn’t really fit into the manly man hvatr category (hvategory?).
Deviant Elves
The first way in which elves totally blew that one out of the water is that they were reputedly beautiful, and in a way that doesn’t really suggest handsome either. The elf Volundr, for example, is described as having a white neck, which although doesn’t seem particularly significant to us, is significant in that that was the kind of description only applied to women back in the day (Hall 43-45). Hell, if you trace the etymology of ‘elf’ back, you get ‘white’. The only other male figure to be described as being hvitr or ‘white’ is Heimdall, and given the collocation of Álfar with Vanir, plus Heimdall’s ability to divine the future, it’s arguable that he might also be considered an elf (as well as a god) anyway. Significantly, the description of Heimdall’s whiteness (and ergo his girly beauty), appears in the same stanza as Heimdall suggesting that Thor participate in a spot of cross-dressing in order to win back Freyja’s necklace, Brisingamen.
This association with elves and beauty can also be found in the OE word ælfscyne – which is used within the context of a kind of bewitching, otherworldly, yet dangerous beauty (Hall 88-95).
So they were hawt, probably in a Prince or Bowie kind of way.
Secondly, they defied the usual expectations about manly roles. For example, in The Lay of Volund, we’re told that a maiden called ‘Svanhvit’ guarded Volund’s white neck. Remember that whole thing with hvatr and blauðr? Which category do you think Volundr would have fallen into? Unfortunately for Volundr, nine winters into shacking up with this swan lady, she leaves; and unlike his brothers (who are also in the story, and also have ladies of their own), he stays home and doesn’t go in search of Svanhvit. From this point forth, things go seriously downhill for Volundr, because a certain king by the name of Douchebag (just kidding, his name was Níðuðr) heard that Volundr was no longer protected and he wanted Volundr to make him a load of swag. Poor Volundr is then hamstrung, imprisoned on an island, and forced to make bling for king Douchebag (Hall 39-46).
Eventually Volundr has his revenge (part of which happens to be raping the king’s daughter) and flies off using his feet as propellers or wings (I shit you not).
Another possible example is that of the god, Freyr. Again, we have a potential ‘god and elf’ situation here. In Grimnismal 5, we’re told that Freyr was given Álfheim (elf-home) as a gift for cutting his first tooth, which aligns Freyr with the elves. Once again, we see the theme of a man undone by love – this time by giving up his sword as part of wooing the giantess Gerðr (in the Lay of Volund, his sword is taken from him by king Douchebag). Moreover, Freyr’s manservant, Skirnir, who is sent to ‘woo’ Gerðr has to resort to magical threats in order to coerce her into to ‘saying yes to the dress’ (North 52-54). As an aside, this kind of magical coercion is a disturbing feature of old school ‘love’ spells.
For Richard North, who spends over three hundred pages densely building his arguments in ‘Heathen Gods in Old English Literature’, Freyr is the god associated with hieros gamos rituals, and whose cultic passage through the land signaled a period of sexual license (270-271). He is the god who the church came to see as the devil, and like the devil, was known as ‘god of the world’ (76).
Then there is the matter of Freyr’s priests per the description in the Gesta Danorum (chapter 6):
“After Bemoni’s death Starkather, because of his valour, was summoned by the Biarmian champions and there performed many feats worthy of the tellings. Then he entered Swedish territory where he spent seven years in a leisurely stay with the sons of Frø (Freyr), after which he departed to join Haki, the lord of Denmark, for, living at Uppsala in the period of sacrifices, he had become disgusted with the womanish body movements, the clatter of actors on the stage and the soft tinkling of bells. It is obvious how far his heart was removed from frivolity if he could not even bear to watch these occasions. A manly individual is resistant to wantonness.”
See what I’m getting at here? Doesn’t exactly fit in the ‘hvategory’.
Elves and those associated with the worship of elves, though male, deviated from ideas about how males should act – at least within a sacred context (on the part of human worshippers).
Out of all the legions of demons, whicht type in particular do you think would fit the bill for elves? And that isn’t even taking into account all of the later stories about elven seduction and half-elf children, OR the associations with elves and nightmares that came throughout the intervening years. Hello, nocturnal-slumbering-person-boner demon! Hallgerður’s path is a very well-trodden one.
Carol J Clover – Regardless of Sex
Alaric Hall – Elves in Anglo-Saxon England
Richard North – Heathen Gods in Old English Literature
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Home > News > Staff Statement on Recent Requests for Our Membership List
Staff Statement on Recent Requests for Our Membership List
By San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on December 28, 2015
On Dec. 14, 2015, in response to a request from Jeremy Pollock, a member running for the SF Bicycle Coalition Board, and in compliance with California Corporations Code, the SF Bicycle Coalition provided a list of the names, addresses and email addresses of all SF Bicycle Coalition members to Mr. Pollock.
When Lisa Fisher and Carla McKay, two other members running for re-election as Board members, learned that Mr. Pollock had obtained the member list, they also requested the list, though they only asked for email addresses. They stated that they planned to review the list, identify people they knew, and only email those members about the Board election.
On Dec. 23 we received a request from Shirley Johnson, a member running for the the SF Bicycle Coalition Board, for the member list. She stated she planned to use the list to contact members to campaign for the Save SF Bike slate of candidates. The list, including names, addresses and e-mail addresses was provided to her.
The list provided to those members referenced above reflects current members as of Nov. 15, 2015, as these are the members eligible to vote in the board election which opened on that day.
No other candidates have access to member contact information, including Board incumbents. Peggy da Silva, a member who is also running for the Board of Directors, made a request for the list as our office was closing for the holiday. We will evaluate her request when we re-open on Jan. 4, 2016.
We attempted to satisfy Mr. Pollock, Ms. Fisher and Ms. McKay by offering an alternative, as permitted under California law. We proposed to send an email from the SF Bicycle Coalition to members with information candidates wanted to provide regarding the board election.
Mr. Pollock refused this alternative and repeated his request that we turn over the list within the legally-required 10 days of the date of his request. Ms. Fisher and Ms. McKay discussed this alternative with us, but ultimately determined that it would be less intrusive to members if they used the list to identify people they knew and contacted them directly. We did not make this offer to Ms. Johnson because she requested the list one day before our office closed for the end of year holidays and thus we did not have time to send an email on her behalf to members. We also did not offer alternative to Ms. da Silva, who requested the list as our office was closing for the holiday.
California law requires an organization to turn over the member list or go to court to prove that the proposed alternative is reasonable.
After considering state law, which clearly requires organizations with member-elected boards to provide member contact information to a member who requests the information to contact other members about issues related to the organization, we provided a list of all members’ names, mailing addresses and email addresses to Mr. Pollock and to Ms. Johnson.
To respect members’ privacy to the fullest degree permitted under the law, we did not provide additional information requested by Mr. Pollock and Ms. Johnson, such as phone numbers and the date the member joined the SF Bicycle Coalition.
We provided a list of member names and email addresses to Ms. Fisher and Ms. McKay as they had limited their request to just those items.
Each candidate also received a written reminder that the contact information may only be used to contact members regarding SF Bicycle Coalition matters, and that any other use of the list is prohibited by law.
We take our members’ privacy very seriously and have provided this information solely because it is required under state law due to the fact that we have a member-elected board. We apologize for any concerns this may raise with members. Questions may be directed to membership@sfbike.org.
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Sci-Fi Jubilee My New You Tube Channel Batman Return to Arkham Collection: Part 2
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Part 2 Arkham Asylum completed!
Hello everyone, and thank you checking out my YouTube Channel. I’ve been playing the Batman: Return to Arkham Collection recently, and I’ve now completed Arkham Asylum!
I’m a big Batman fan, and I love all the Arkham games – so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the chance to play the remastered version of Arkham Asylum in this collection. The trio of new videos here cover lots of my favourite moments from playing Arkham Asylum again.
First is a face-off with the Scarecrow, featuring a really wacky mind-trip for Batman that cleverly gives us a chilling new version of the games opening sequence.
Time to explore Killer Croc’s lair! This was probably my favourite part of Arkham Asylum. Its creepy, atmospheric, and you never know when Killer Croc will jump out!
After defeating Poison Ivy in the Botanical Gardens, its time for the epic showdown with the Joker, and the final battle with the Titan / Joker! I’ve included the end credits as well and the cut scene afterwards.
This is the first time I’ve streamed a game from start to finish like this on my YouTube Channel, it went quite well, and I’d just like to say thank you for all the support you‘ve given me. It was a lot of fun to do. I thought the remastered graphics in Arkham Asylum looked very impressive overall, the storyline and combat mechanics were just as good as I remembered, and I loved the dark, creepy atmosphere of the whole game. All my Arkham Asylum walkthrough videos (1-12) are now on my YouTube channel, so please feel free to check them out and like and subscribe if enjoy them. I’ve had a great time playing Arkham Asylum again, cheers everyone, and thanks for joining me!
Next stop, Arkham City!
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Killer Whales Engage in Cross-Species Vocal Learning
TOPICS:Acoustical Society Of AmericaCommunicationDolphinsKiller WhalesWildlife
By Acoustical Society of America (ASA) October 8, 2014
A newly published study reveals that killer whales (Orcinus orca) can engage in cross-species vocal learning, revealing that they shifted the types of sounds they made to more closely match the bottlenose dolphins they cross-socialized with.
Washington, D.C. — From barks to gobbles, the sounds that most animals use to communicate are innate, not learned. However, a few species, including humans, can imitate new sounds and use them in appropriate social contexts. This ability, known as vocal learning, is one of the underpinnings of language.
Vocal learning has also been observed in bats, some birds, and cetaceans, a group that includes whales and dolphins. But while avian researchers have characterized vocal learning in songbirds down to specific neural pathways, studying the trait in large marine animals has presented more of a challenge.
Now, University of San Diego graduate student Whitney Musser and Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute senior research scientist Dr. Ann Bowles have found that killer whales (Orcinus orca) can engage in cross-species vocal learning: when socialized with bottlenose dolphins, they shifted the types of sounds they made to more closely match their social partners. The results, published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, suggest that vocal imitation may facilitate social interactions in cetaceans.
Killer whales have complex vocal repertoires made up of clicks, whistles and pulsed calls—repeated brief bursts of sound punctuated with silence. The acoustic features of these vocalizations, such as their duration, pitch and pulse pattern, vary across social groups. Whales that are closely related or live together produce similar pulsed calls that carry vocal characteristics distinct to the group, known as a dialect.
“There’s been an idea for a long time that killer whales learn their dialect, but it isn’t enough to say they all have different dialects so therefore they learn. There needs to be some experimental proof so you can say how well they learn and what context promotes learning,” said Bowles.
Testing vocal learning ability in social mammals usually requires observing the animal in a novel social situation, one that might stimulate them to communicate in new ways. Bottlenose dolphins provide a useful comparison species in this respect: they make generally similar sounds but produce them in different proportions, relying more on clicks and whistles than the pulsed calls that dominate killer whale communication.
“We had a perfect opportunity because historically, some killer whales have been held with bottlenose dolphins,” said Bowles. By comparing old recordings of vocalization patterns from the cross-socialized subjects with recordings of killer whales and bottlenose dolphins housed in same-species groups, Bowles and her team were able to evaluate the degree to which killer whales learned vocalization patterns from their cross-species social partners.
All three killer whales that had been housed with dolphins for several years shifted the proportions of different call types in their repertoire to more closely match the distribution found in dolphins—they produced more clicks and whistles and fewer pulsed calls. The researchers also found evidence that killer whales can learn completely new sounds: one killer whale that was living with dolphins at the time of the experiment learned to produce a chirp sequence that human caretakers had taught to her dolphin pool-mates before she was introduced to them.
Vocal learning skills alone don’t necessarily mean that killer whales have language in the same way that humans do. However, they do indicate a high level of neural plasticity, the ability to change circuits in the brain to incorporate new information. “Killer whales seem to be really motivated to match the features of their social partners,” said Bowles, though the adaptive significance of the behavior is not yet known.
There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change. If their social bonds are closely linked to their vocalizations, killer whales’ ability to survive amidst shifting territories and social groups may be tied to their ability to adapt their communication strategies.
“It’s important to understand how they acquire [their vocalization patterns], and lifelong, to what degree they can change it, because there are a number of different [cetacean] populations on the decline right now,” said Bowles. “And where killer whales go, we can expect other small whale species to go—it’s a broader question.”
Publication: Whitney B. Musser, et al., “Differences in acoustic features of vocalizations produced by killer whales cross-socialized with bottlenose dolphins,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136, 1990 (2014); DOI: 10.1121/1.4893906
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FUN FACTS Philippines
12 Most Haunted Places in the Philippines
by Akhyari Hananto
Published December 09, 2017 - 08:07 Jkt
Filipinos grew up hearing tales about school campuses being a former cemetery, morgue or hospital. However, there are real places where people died in wars and in natural disasters. Their ghosts continue to haunt the living. A lot of the buildings and houses on this list can be found in Baguio where the tragic 1991 earthquake happened. Many of these places are either derelict ruins or abandoned places with caretakers who also act as the best story-tellers.
1. Laperal House, Baguio
A 1920 house built in victorian style is enough to elicit a sense of creepiness. When the Pacific war broke out, the Laperal House, just like other mansions in the Philippines, was used by the Japanese army as garrison. It was a witness to the many brutal tortures and killings. Previous caretakers said that women were raped and men were beheaded in this house. In fact, one of them has dug a skullcap from the mansion’s lawn.
Laperal house | m2comms.com
Footsteps were heard, lights would turn on and off by itself, and flowers or candles move from one room to another. Tales of apparitions are often heard from townspeople. Even cab drivers afraid to pass by the house.
2. Bahay Na Pula, San Ildefonso, Bulacan
An old house painted in crimson is sure to scare every passerby. Bahay na Pula was also used by the Japanese army during the war as a garrison where they killed Filipino guerillas and raped local women.
Currently, the house is abandoned, but townsfolk say that they hear wails and screams for help.
Bahay Na Pula | The Memet Diaries
Some locals say they see ghostly apparitions of Japanese soldiers marching around the vicinity.
3. Teacher's Camp, Baguio
The camp has been a popular accommodation in Baguio, ideal for group seminars, business conferences, corporate events and even for solo travellers. This place is notorious for being one of the most haunted places in Baguio. Rumour has it that the site where it stands saw the bloodbath from indigenous people war during the American occupation.
TEACHER'S CAMP, BAGUIO | Pumpdown
Locals share stories of footsteps and screams heard throughout the night. Passersby also see ghostly shadows in the camp grounds.
4. Herrera Mansion (Tiaong Stone House), Quezon Province
The Mansion was built during the 1920's and designed by renowned Filipino architect, Tomas Mapua. It is considered the oldest stone house in Tiaong, Quezon. Many residents of the area have seen a ghost-like image of an elderly couple strolling around the vicinity.
HERRERA MANSION (TIAONG STONE HOUSE), QUEZON PROVINCE
Clinking sounds of dragging chains are also reported to be heard by the locals.
5. Malacañang House, Manila
The oldest house in this list, Malacanang Palace witnessed the unfolding of Philippine history including wars, atrocities and deaths. In one occasion, President Aquino said that his guards reported the piano playing on its own and foot marches were heard down the hall. According to the official website of The Palace, several apparitions of deceased presidents were sighted in the hall.
Malacanang house | Says.com
There were also stories circulating that the ghost of Manuel Roxas used to scare the Marcoses. And in 2012, Malacanang posted an image of ghostly silhouette of a beheaded man in Barong Tagalog.
6. Diplomat Hotel, Baguio
The derelict structure stands on top of the Dominican Hill, a rest house and seminary during the American Period before it was refashioned as a hotel. When the war broke out--as the usual turning point of the scary story-nuns and priests were decapitated at the area hence, the haunted place is notorious for pugot na ulo (beheaded men/women)
Diplomat Hotel Baguio | m2comms.com
Locals and old Hotel staff would tell stories about hearing faint sounds at night, banging on doors and wailings of people in agony. Headless ghosts carrying their head on a platter are also seen by locals and visitors.
7. Hospital Ruins At Corregidor
The hospital ruins in Corregidor feels really eerie. You may have heard of haunted hospitals from other parts of the whole, but this one on Corregidor was specifically built to house and nurse wounded soldiers. The island hospital was built in 1912 and was bombed out by the Japanese during World War II. Its counterpart the 1,000 bed hospital inside Malinta Tunnel is just as creepy.
HOSPITAL RUINS AT CORREGIDOR | m2comms.com
The worn out walls, the remains of white tiles and rusted railings all suggest the bloody past that this structure had witnessed. Sounds of footsteps and ghostly moans are usually reported by the people working in the island.
8. Manila Film Center
The Parthenon inspired center is home to Urban Legends and is the subject of many horror films. Twenty years ago, hundreds of workers were buried (some of them alive) at the site in 1981. The reason behind the tragedy? Former first lady, Imelda Marcos was in a rush to finish the building for the upcoming International Film Festival. Construction workers had to work 24/7 to finish the structure.
Manila Film Center | Rogue Media Inc
Because the cement wasn’t given enough time to dry, on November 17, 1981, an entire floor collapsed. It was said that she ordered to pour out cement over the dead bodies as a form of sacrifice so that, as was traditionally believed, the structure be reinforced and strengthened.
9. Ozone Disco, Quezon City
The Ozone fire tragedy in 1996 is one of the saddest accident that happened in Philippine history. The fire that ravaged the disco bar burnt over hundreds of bodies into ashes, most of them graduating College students. Currently it houses food establishment in the famous Morato Area.
Ozone disco | kapamilya.com
The horror of the fateful night haunts locals. Disco beats and faint voices coming from the decaying site were heard. And it was told that dancing ghostly figures can be sighted at the site.
10. Clark Air Base Hospital
At the rotting hospital in Clark Airbase, mysterious apparitions and muffled voices were witnessed by visitors and locals. It was even said that the place was fenced out of the public due to violent spirits hovering around the premises.
CLARK AIR BASE HOSPITAL | squarespace.com
Ghost Hunters International has named this places as "One of the Most Haunted Places in the World". The National Geographic even visited the hospital to feature on one of their shows.
11. Manila City Hall
The seat of Manila mayor is known for its coffin-like structure and the cross traversing it center. City hall employees reported sighting ghostly spirits wandering around the building.
Manila City Hall | untvweb.com
And as early as 6pm, strange footsteps, noises and faint voices were heard at night.
12. Balete Drive
The Philippines has its own version of Elms Street. Although not Freddie Kruger, but a White lady has been sighted haunting Balete Drive. But who is this white lady? Urban legends has it that, a young woman was killed on this road in a hit-and-run accident. There were also tales that this lady hailed a cab at Balete Drive but was raped and left for dead by the driver.
Balette drive | magandafilipino.com
Since 1950's, various ghost encounters have been reported by those driving in the area. This ‘White Lady’ has been known to haunt motorists during wee hours, so drivers have learned not to pick-up hitchhikers, or even look into their rear-view mirrors when passing by this street. Many people believe that the White lady wants her killer caught. Half a century later, Balete Drive still terrifies many people.
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Extra, Extra! Sportswriter Wins Metro
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Bringing Agile Methodology to the Big Screen, Thanks to New Indie Feature Film “Exposure” Which Will Premiere at Flyway Film Festival
It might be the season for scary films, however, putting the Halloween box set aside for a moment, a bold new project has utilized agile methodology to produce a new Indie film that is worth checking out.
Indie filmmakers Longship Films will premiere Exposure, a feature film about the post-breakup journey of two women, at the Flyway Film Festival on October 21st. Longship Films produce engaging and consumable feature films, combining independent filmmaking with agile software development methods.
Exposure was directed by Longship Films co-founder and multiple award winner, Kristjan Knigge, who won the ‘Breakout Filmmaker Award’ at the Flyway Festival in 2015 for the the first feature film made with the Agile approach, Second Honeymoon.
By combining the approaches of indie filmmaking and agile development, Longship Films creates human stories in a way that doesn’t waste time and effort. Independent filmmaking aims to showcase the story and the experience, and collaborating this with a lean startup methodology of focusing on value producing activities allows teams to produce impactful films without spending unnecessary amounts of time and energy on material that will not get used.
Shot in the Algarve in Portugal and Wisconsin in the U.S., Exposure follows the break up of a relationship between two women, from each of their perspectives. The film stars Geerteke van Lierop (Jo) and Erica Anderson (Rachel), and explores their intertwined journeys of self-reflection and contemplation as they work through the disjointed narrative built on the memories of their relationship.
Contrary to typical industry filmmaking which works from a pre-established script, shooting schedule, and marketing plan, Longship’s method utilizes flexibility and responsiveness to start filming without these finalized components. The shooting process starts without a full script, relying on a capable team of film professionals to adapt the concepts and characters based on whatever is put in their path. Like in Agile development, the team must be highly skilled and well functioning to succeed in creating a work of art under tight time constraints.
Chris Parker, Producer of Exposure and co-founder of Longship Films, explains the benefit or their method: “because we are not bound by the limitations of the traditional industry and methods, we can make the movies which are a joy to create and which we believe will really trigger and impact the audience.” Longship is finalising their release strategy for Exposure and expect it to be released before Christmas this year.
The increasing popularity of Video on Demand (VOD) services like Netflix and Amazon Video is allowing movies like Exposure to reach more people than ever before, with the global number of VOD users reaching 546.6 million this year. Digital revenues are also now higher than revenue from physical formats.
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Botany Review - Spring 2015
Members of the Botany Section have been out monitoring the natural environment and finding garden escapes popping up in unusual places. In Mourier Valley in the woods Polystichum polyblepharum Japanese Tassel Fern has been found thriving in a shady area. There is much speculation as to how this fern from Japan could have arrived in this wooded area. There is a record of a Japanese Tassel Fern found growing a few hundred feet from its parent plant in a garden in Cornwall, spores blown by the wind had found a suitable growing area and formed a new plant. Even though a search of nearby gardens in Mourier Valley failed to find a similar fern the most likely explanation is that it is a garden escape.
We are used to seeing a profusion of daffodils growing along roadsides in spring, these are relics from former flower crops and are often cultivated daffodils. However a recent find on the sand dunes is Narcissus bulbocodium Hoop-petticoat Daffodil, a species daffodil from SW Europe. In the past garden waste used to be dumped on the sand dunes, thankfully a practice no longer allowed. Perhaps this explains the presence of the Hoop-petticoat Daffodil. Fortunately this daffodil seems a 'well-behaved' plant and it will not become invasive such as the Narcissus tazetta Bunch-flowered Daffodil to the north of Kempt Tower.
Hanging baskets and bedding plant schemes often contain Sutura cordata Bacopa a South African plant that is widely available in Garden Centres. Specimens of this small plant have been found growing on walls and roadsides around the island. They will need to be monitored to see if they remain as casuals as they are at the moment. Definitely not a casual is Vinca difformis Intermediate Periwinkle. We are used to seeing blue Periwinkles in hedgerows and roadsides, the Greater and Lesser Periwinkle, however Intermediate Periwinkle is a much more robust plant and it has formed large patches where it has escaped from gardens. The stems are up to two metres in length and the flowers are a very pale blue sometimes almost white.
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Traceability Matrix: Myth & Tricks
Adam Howard
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A critique of the traceability matrix, that most deceitful of testing deliverables.
Ah, the traceability matrix. That paramour of the project manager. A cheap raincoat on a wet and windy day, that inevitably sends you scurrying back to the store all a-bluster: “But you said it would keep me dry!”
Traceability is an interesting notion. The concept, at first glance, appears reasonable. It is the assumption of cause and effect in the world of testing. Something ought to be this way and so you test for it. Anything you are testing for is being tested to meet a certain criteria.
Traceability then, is the straight line that people like to draw between a requirement and a test case. A traceability matrix? Lots of those lines. But usually, people prefer if these lines are represented in the cosy adjunct of reassuring little cells in a spreadsheet. Because something with such a firm sense of structure must mean something.
But of course the notion of traceability is just that: a notion. It is not a real, tangible thing. It is a way of thinking about the relationship between something you do and the reason you had for doing it. It can be a useful notion, but it does not guarantee anything.
This is because the line that you draw from what you have done doesn’t really have anywhere concrete to attach to. The idea is that you trace your testing back to a “requirement”, but that is an intangible thing in its own right.
What you link to really is more a given representation of a requirement. Often, it’s abstracted even further, because you’re linking to your interpretation of a representation of a requirement. There is a lot of room for misinterpretation there. It’s like trying to tie a balloon to a cloud.
Ultimately what a traceability matrix represents is an attempt to justify the testing you have done against the model you have used to inform it. Why did you do what you did? Why were those tests important? What has informed your actions?
But a matrix is far too reductive a way to convey that information. Because, even allowing for the innate vagaries which exist around requirements, even if you had a matrix which showed you had tested every documented requirement, that doesn’t mean you have tested everything.
Your documented requirements (by which I mean, for the purposes of this article, any requirement communicated to you in any form, or elicited by you in the course of you work), which are all that you can realistically hope to include in a matrix (because if you don’t know them you can’t include them), only ever represent a partial model of a solution.
Then there’s the fact that whatever test you may have conducted for each of those requirements may have been completely worthless. You may have misunderstood the requirement and thought the product worked where it didn’t. You could be having an off day and missed an obvious bug. Maybe you just didn’t think of certain potential issues to test them.
However, if you then produce a traceability matrix which draws lines between your tests (however misinformed, shoddy or incomplete they are) and the requirements that you know about (regardless of all the ones you don’t), a project manager will look at that and think “great, testing is done”.
And anything, anything, which can ever give anyone cause to think “testing is done” is a certifiable Bad Thing. Testing is never done. Any tester worth their salt knows that.
And this is where we get to the crux of the problem with traceability matrices. They are too simplistic a representation of an impossibly complex thing. They reduce testing to a series of one to one relationships between intangible ideas. They allow you to place a number against testing. A percentage complete figure.
What they do not do is convey the story of the testing. The really valuable information that testing has driven out. It doesn’t contextualise how you built the model of the product, how that informed your testing and, crucially, how confident you feel in the work you have been able to do in testing the product.
This comes back to what James Bach and Michael Bolton teach about telling the “testing story”. They assert that to report on testing accurately we must “learn to describe and report on the product, our testing, and the quality of our testing“. It is only by doing this that we can give a true picture of what testing we have done and why we have done it.
And that, ultimately, is what a traceability matrix is supposed to do. It is supposed to display the testing you have done (usually as a list of test cases) and why you have done it (usually as a list of requirements). But these lists, presented without context, are worthless. There is a whole lot of information that informed the population of those lists which are essential in evaluating the validity of the pairings that the matrix creates.
The true danger of a traceability matrix is to the credibility of the tester. Allowing a traceability matrix to tell your testing story means that if you’ve “covered everything” and problems are found, the only implication is that you did bad testing. You weren’t up to scratch.
And even if you did the best testing in the world, and you were aware of the limitations of your model, you worked hard to identify and test to appropriate oracles, you provided clear and concise updates and reporting – if you did all that and still reduced it down into a traceability matrix then you have failed in your mission as a tester.
Because your mission as a tester is to provide information to allow people who matter within the project to make informed decisions about the quality or value of the product. And a traceability matrix contains no useful information at all, but is perceived to be representative of everything.
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Michael Bolton says:
Hi, Adam…
Thank you for citing our work. I agree that “traceability” is an oversimplified version of what we’d call test framing. You can find out more about that here: http://www.developsense.com/blog/2010/09/test-framing/.
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Anti-Illusion : Procedures / Materials
James Monte, Marcia Tucker, Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Lynda Benglis, William Bollinger, John Duff, Rafael Ferrer, Robert Fiore, Phil Glass, Eva Hesse, Neil Jenney, Barry Le Va, Robert Lobe, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Robert Rohm, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 19 - July 6, 1969. Texts by curators James Monte and Marcia Tucker. "The radical nature of many works in this exhibition depends less on the fact that new materials are being used by the artists than the fact that the acts of conceiving and placing the pieces take precedence over the object qualities of the works. ... [details]
Condition: Good / Very Good Light rubbing of cover at spine and cover edges. Thin underlining in black pen on pages 4 and 5, contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
Art in Process IV
Elayne H. Varian, Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, William Bollinger, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Richard Van Buren, Lawrence Weiner
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held December 11, 1969 - January 26, 1970. Prepared by Elayne H. Varian with statements by participating artists: Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, William Bollinger, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Richard Van Buren, and Lawrence Weiner. ... [details]
New York, NY: Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Wing, 1969
Condition: Very Good. Light aging to covers, contents clean and unmarked.
illustrated wrappers
spiral bound
65 pp. / 117 pp.
Earth, Air, Fire, Water : Elements of Art
2 Vol.
David Antin, Rachel Bas-Cohain, William Bollinger, Stan Brain, Richard Budelis, Lowry Burgess, Donald Burgy, Christo, François Dallegret, Geny Dignac, Edward Franklin, John Goodyear, Dan Graham, Laura Grisi, Hans Haacke, Newton Harrison, Gerald Hayes, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Neil Jenney, Allan Kaprow, Gyula Kosice, Joshua Neustein, Georgette Batlle, Gerard Marx, Dennis Oppenheim, Otto Piene, Ravio Ruusemp, Gary Rieveschl, Charles Ross, Richard Serra, Vera Simons, Robert Smithson, Alan Sonfist, Elizabeth Clark, Christopher Sproat, Marvin Torffield, Uriburu, John Van Saun, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Scott Wixon
Exhibition catalogue in 2 volumes for show held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1971. First book includes an essay by David Antin, and biographies of the artists in the exhibition, as well as a selected bibliography. ... [details]
Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1971
Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form : Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information / wenn Attitüden Form werden : Werke, Konzepte, Vorgänge, Situationen, Information / quand les attitudes deviennent forme : oeuvres, concepts, processus, situations, information / quando attitudini diventano forma : opere, concetti, processi, situazioni, informazione
[ICA London Edition]
Harald Szeemann, Charles Harrison, Scott Burton, Grégoire Müller, Tommaso Trini, Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bang, Jared Bark, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Mel Bochner, Marinus Boezem, Bill Bollinger, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Paolo Icaro, Alain Jacquet, Neil Jenney, Stephen Kaltenbach, Jo Ann Kaplan, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Gary Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Bernd Lohaus, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Walter De Maria, David Medalla, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Pino Pascali, Paul Pechter, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Markus Raetz, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Alan Saret, Sarkis, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Frank Lincoln Viner, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William T. Wiley, Gilberto Zorio
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held September 28 - October 27, 1969. Exhibition traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, London, as variant of exhibition originally held at Kunsthalle Bern. ... [details]
London, United Kingdom: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1969
loose card[s]
Lucy Lippard, Vito Acconci, Morrie Alhadeff, Carl Andre, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Robert Barthelme, Gene Beery, Mel Bochner, William Bollinger, Jonathan Borofsky, Daniel Buren, Donald Burgy, R. Castro, Greg Curnoe, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Robert Dootson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Anne Gerber, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Alex Hay, Michael Heizer, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Edward Kienholz, Bob Kinmont, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Lucy R. Lippard, Roelof Louw, Duane Lunden, Thomas Maythem, Bruce McLean, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, John Perreault, Adrian Piper, Liliana Porter, Polly Rawn, Robert Rohm, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, George Sawchuk, Richard Serra, Randolph Sims, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, N.E. Thing Co., Jeffrey Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson, Jinny Wright
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, Washington, September 5 - October 5, 1969. The catalogue consists of 137 printed 4 x 6 inch index cards containing artists' proposals and conceptual works. ... [details]
Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1969
[unpaginated] / [unpaginated] / [unpaginated] / [unpaginated]
Art in Process : 1. The Visual Development of a Painting 2. The Visual Development of a Structure 3. The Visual Development of a Collage 4. Art in Process IV
[Four Volumes]
Richard Anuszkiewicz, Paul Brach, Elaine de Kooning, Daniel Dickerson, Jim Dine, Grace Hartigan, John Hultberg, Robert Indiana, Ellen Lanyon, Roy Lichtenstein, Babette Newburger, George Ortman, Roland C. Petersen, Jack Sonenberg, Reva Urban, Jack Youngerman, Stephan Antonakos, Richard Artschwager, Richard Baringer, Mary Bauermeister, Chryssa, Dan Flavin, Paul Frazier, Charles Hinman, Will Insley, Donald Judd, Lyman Kipp, Sol LeWitt, Sven Lukin, Victor Millonzi, Robert Morris, Otto Piene, Robert Smithson, John Willenbecher, Marcelo Bonevardi, John Day, Elias Friedensohn, Edward Giobbi, Al Hansen, Ray Johnson, Roy Lichtenstein, Conrad Marca-Relli, Richard Merkin, Richard Miller, Armando Morales, Claes Oldenburg, George Ortman, Alfonso Ossorio, Paul Pallaro, Joe Raffaele, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Harry Soviak, Theodoros Stamos, Linda Vivona, Paul Waldman, Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, William Bollinger, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Richard Van Buren, Lawrence Weiner
Set of four exhibition catalogues for the yearly show "Art in Process" at Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Study Wing, New York, New York. Each show was organized and curated by Elayne Varian. ... [details]
New York, NY: Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Study Wing, 1965 / 1966 / 1967 / 1970
edition size 750
9 at Leo Castelli
Mario García Torres, Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, William Bollinger, Rafael Ferrer, Eva Hesse, Stephen Kaltenbach, Bruce Nauman, Alan Saret, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Willoughby Sharp
Artist's book by Mario García Torres. Part of a series published on the occasion of the 2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe. Text and interviews by García Torres and Willoughby Sharp. ... [details]
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño, 2009
board covers
Samuel J. Wagstaff, Cecil Abish, Peter Alexander, Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Bill Bollinger, Robert H. Cumming, Susan Deming, Royce Dendler, Jean Dupuy, William Dutterer, George Ettl, Dan Flavin, Sam Gilliam, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Robert Huot, Sheldon Iden, Neil Jenney, Shlomo Koren, Aris Koutroulis, Robert Lobe, Edward McGown, Nam June Paik, David Prentice, Fred Sandback, Charles Santon, Thomas Shannon, Robert Stalkhouse, James Storey, Richard Tuttle, William Wegman
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held September 10 - October 19, 1969. Text by Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr. Artists include Cecil Abish, Peter Alexander, Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Bill Bollinger, Robert H. ... [details]
Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1969
String & Rope
[Exhibition of String & Rope]
Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Joan Miro, Buckminster Fuller, Jackson Pollock, Christo, Bruce Conner, Walter De Maria, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Oyvind Fahlström, Lucas Samaras, Robert Indiana, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Barry, Bruce Bauman, Arman, Barry Flanagan, Les Levine, Robert Gordon, George Kuehn, Fred Sandback, George Segal, Picasso, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Allan Kaprow, Lawrence Weiner, Victor Burgin, Lloyd Hamrol, Peter Hutchinson, George Herms, , Ernst Hesse, William Bollinger, Alan Saret, Robert Rohm, Robert Watts
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 7 - 31, 1970 at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Artists in the exhibition included Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Joan Miro, Buckminster Fuller, Jackson Pollock, Christo, Bruce Conner, Walter De Maria, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Oyvind Fahlström, Lucas Samaras, Robert Indiana, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Barry, Bruce Bauman, Arman, Barry Flanagan, Les Levine, Robert Gordon, George Kuehn, Fred Sandback, George Segal, Picasso, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Allan Kaprow, Lawrence Weiner, Victor Burgin, Lloyd Hamrol, Peter Hutchinson, George Herms, , Ernst Hesse, William Bollinger, Alan Saret, Robert Rohm, and Robert Watts. ... [details]
New York, NY: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1969
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Home Uncategorized Milab Story – Advance Armor Battle Scene
Milab Story – Advance Armor Battle Scene
I remember getting shot 5-6 times in the spine. It was dark, I had on black armor. I kept waking up while being worked. I remember having my armor cut off with a special saw. I felt the blood dripping and the medical team kept putting me back under. Saying “don’t worry captain were will take care of it” there are more details, but I was in a hell of a battle. My neck was clamped to a table from the back, and so was the rest of me, that way I could be rotated. Robots were trying to take out the bullets and rebuild my spine. After I kept waking up during the procedure, they decided to do it while I was awake.
It was a place that I do not recognize as being here. I was surprised it went through my armor too. That was one of the things I talked to the crew about. I was under anesthesia while being worked on. Here is the thing, I always wake up while being put under. I also said “This new armor doesn’t work. They knew exactly what to hit me with.”
The enemy worked in the shadows and were really fast and rarely seen. My back still hurts like hell in the same spots I got hit with. As for remembering battles, it is rare for me. but when I do, they are pretty hardcore. My back still hurts like hell in the same spots I got hit with. As for remembering battles, it is rare for me. But when I do, they are pretty hardcore.
One other thing, I remember telling someone that I’ve been doing for over 150 years, and that they would think the armor would be up to speed. The armor was more of an exoskeleton. Very new. I had some serious weapons too and a lot of them. All black strange metal armor. I believe I was shot in that part of the spine because it was the weak point of the armor. It was a concentration of fire. The 5-6 bullets were what made it through. They fired a lot of rounds with a heavy machine gun.
As for the weapons, they were almost futuristic, but not too far. Picture one of them, it was like a built-in electrical Vulcan. When I say built in, I mean right into the armor. Nothing bulky. The armor was smooth and moved with me almost like the black panther suit, but metal, minus the helmet. The ammo was integrated right into the armor. Almost liquid in nature, it was amazing. The armor had to be removed from the back and had ridges along the spine. Side arms were made to almost read where I wanted them to hit. Very fast firing. Unlimited ammo. They were attached to the armor by some kind of tether. No gaps in the armor either. Boots to match. Helmet had IR and night vision but would auto block bright light bursts. The side arms were about the size of desert eagles, but no kick, smaller handle and made for me alone.
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How To Torture A Beloved Story To Death (And Ruin Children)
January 18, 2015 • 114 Comments
There is an ancient myth in Irish lore called “The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne” (or Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne, if you’re being scholarly about it). The vast majority of Irish children become familiar with the myth when they are very young. Some even study the 16th century Irish language text as teenagers for their final school exams. But it comes from the even older oral tradition, when stories were told around the fireside. Either way, it’s a great story: with love, deceit, betrayal, a big chase, and magic galore. It was a particular favourite of mine.
The story I know goes that Gráinne, the beautiful and spirited daughter of the powerful Irish High King, was to be married off in a political alliance to Fionn MacCumhaill, who although a great and famous warrior, was a ridiculously old widower by the time he felt like nuptialising Gráinne (the dirty old man). Anyway, Gráinne didn’t want to marry the wrinkled old soldier. She wanted to marry Diarmaid, one of Fionn’s retinue, and a gorgeous looking fella if ever there was one, who apparently had a love spot on his forehead that was so fecking gorgeous that young wans were throwing themselves at him just for catching sight of his beauteous visage.
Anyhoo, Gráinne managed to trick Diarmaid into running away with her (the scarlet hoor). There was a big chase, and loads of magical things happened in some gorgeous scenery. They continued to evade their pursuers, peace was made and it was happy ever after… until years later, when Diarmaid got himself gored by a boar on a hunt, and Fionn let him die even though he had the power to save him.
What a great story! You think. Until you see what this modern Irish textbook does to it.
This is from a reading primer for children aged – I think – about 8. When I saw it I nearly fell over. Whoever wrote this should be dragged to a public square and made apologise for their crimes against storytelling (not to mention the misogyny. I mean, just read this and tell me what you think of a textbook which tells 8-year-old boys and girls that women are deceitful and disobedient, but all right for making tea. For the love of…)
Right. So here, Finn/Fionn is handsome, right? So handsome, that he can get someone’s hand in marriage just by asking them as they pass by.
Although I have to say, Finn worries me a bit. He says he’s looked everywhere for a wife. But really, did he? I mean, at this point, I imagine him scouring under bushes, at the tops of tall trees, and in gambling dens, but how hard could he have been looking, really, when he manages to find her just two seconds later? (He really should have been looking in kitchens, by the sounds of it.)
I am delighted to see, however, that in this version of the story for children, Gráinne is allowed to speak for herself. What a win for female autonomy! Good job she is able to make an informed decision based on the handsomeness of the giant OAP seeking her hand.
Now, is it just me, or is Grainne turning into a skanky harlot? At her engagement dinner, she asks another man to marry her (although we must be mindful that she used her own voice to do this, making her own informed decision based upon the handsomeness of her prey) – and remember, folks – she is WEARING HER LOVELY DRESS.
Poor Diarmuid/Diarmaid didn’t stand a chance. Between Gráinne’s lovely dress and her tea-making skills, he was a goner. (At this point, I am a little startled to see that the word “potion” is highlighted in red, indicating that this is the only word on the page which is considered to be new to the reader. All children should be taught this word at the age of 3. No wonder the country’s in tatters.)
Really? Potion was introduced as a new word before Somewhere? Sweet Jesus
Things get dark here, folks. Buckle up and keep the tissues handy.
Gráinne catches her lovely dress. It’s a miracle they could go on. But on they went, our intrepid lovers: in order to live out a happy ever after in a dark and smelly cave, with no food, money, or friends. But fear not! They must have a kettle, because Gráinne can make some fecking tea.
And can I have them shot? Seriously – are these textbooks written by someone who hates children? Or stories? Was this written by someone who really wanted to be a lumberjack? How did this get passed, let alone printed?
Pity the poor children of Ireland. They are our future, and just look at what we’ve handed them.
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114 comments for “How To Torture A Beloved Story To Death (And Ruin Children)”
Yes, they need to be shot, drawn and quartered. That’s bloody terrible and it ends with Grainne making tea – easy know it was Ireland. Given the number of great kids books out there, words fail me that they did this to the story. Is it current – ie being used in school at the mo?
It is current, Lorna – I got these pics from a friend of mine in Clare, whose poor unfortunate son was doing homework on this sorry piece of trash!! Homework!!
O.M.G. No wonder Irish people aren’t interested in their mythology if that’s how it’s introduced to them! You did warn me, Tara, but I had no idea how bad it could be. I am alternating in incredulity between laughing insanely and crying into my potion… er, I mean tea…
What a travesty! What a sorry shame! We should start a campaign.
Curious how you came across that piece of shite…
I just re-blogged you, by the way! Also, I have just written my own version of this story last week, which you will be able to read very soon, and I sincerely hope it shows the story in its true light.
Really really really looking forward to that, Ali! Although if tea appears anywhere in your story, I will get suspicious.
No tea I promise! 😊
They’ll talk of it for years, Ali – how a child’s textbook in Clare spurred a bloody revolution that resulted in the public ridicule of the most untalented writer in Ireland… I can’t wait for the butcher of that work to find out we’re on their trail. I hope they are so afraid they regurgitate their tea leaves.
Woodlandbard has been inspired by your post to open a cafe in the caves of Ceis Coran (sorry bad spelling)… did you see his comment? 😂
Just did there, Ali. I’m getting the microfinance kickstarted as we speak 😉
Éilis Niamh
I can’t wait to read your version either, Ali! I think some honor needs to be restored. Find them, Tara! 🙂
Dylan Hearn
I think I’m going to put on a pot of tea so I can think this one through. Yes me, a man, doing a woman’s job.*
*Before anyone jumps on me, this is typed with heavy sarcasm.
Which just goes to prove the point that the world needs a sarcasm font, Dylan. 😀
Reblogged this on aliisaacstoryteller and commented:
Now I understand…
Katie B. Purcell
We ‘studied’ (hahaha) the Irish language version in school. I couldn’t tell you whether it was a good version of the tale or not, because our Irish teacher was so morto about all the supposed lust and sex in it that she refused to translate half of it, so my grasp of the story has always been tenuous. That said, I don’t remember Grainne spending her time making tea and worrying about her feckin’ lovely dress!! What is that all about??? I suppose we should consider ourselves grateful that she didn’t break a nail or her hair went frizzy because of the nasty fresh mountain air! There’s more female emancipation in Father Ted’s lovely girl contest than in this tripe. Please tell me this book is not being used in the current curriculum. Or maybe please don’t tell me – I am likely to sob violently even at the thought that it might be.
Afraid I can’t, Katie, it’s real and it’s current… But I will find the perpetrator. Oh yes.
Sounds of loud and uncontrollable sobbing ensue…. some time later… Yes, Tara (sob, sniffle), I think a few strongly worded letters would be in order and I have one or two letters in mind… 😀
A few letters? One or two? I can think of several four lettered oaths required in this instance 😉
I mean – ‘Grainne’s Little Trick’????? I’m practising my four-lettered oath-slinging as I type! Let me at ’em!!
Is this what it’s come to? Promoting scheming, tea-making women as role models. Give me Mrs. Doyle and her tray of a thousand ‘hang samwidges’ any day. Ah, go on, go on, go on. (Father Ted, for our fellow bloggers outside of UK and Ireland).
Reblogging if that’s okay.
Please feel free to re-blog, Jean! Yes indeed. The role models of today are, like, sooooo shallow. Tea-making harlots…
Reblogged this on Jean Reinhardt and commented:
Great post on how an Irish myth gets totally thrashed, thank you Tara Sparling.
Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog….. An Author Promotions Enterprise! and commented:
The Victorians ‘sanitized’ European Fairy tales to be ‘Nicer and Gentler’ to ‘protect’ their children and the Educational System is continuing the practice!
Political correctness taken several steps too far?
Comments Please 🙂
Or political in-correctness, Apemeister… Nothing too PC about poor tricky Grainne 😦
For shame!
LOLO 😀 😀 😀
tendernessontheblock
I’d set Balor and his Evil Eye on that revisionist writer. Slay him! (Or her)
I have a vision in my head of the writer as a tobacco-stained, balding old master… the type who used to use the metre stick as a punishment implement and who goes through each day with egg yolk oozing down his brown paisley tie. But that’s just me.
I like where this is going. Don’t stop there. A short story in the making surely..
naptimethoughts
There is a fairy tale not unlike this that I read as a child ‘cross the pond, only it was about the giant Finn and his little wife (I forget her name, but who really cares anyhow? she did have a lovely dress.). Anyhow, the king (remember that this is an Americanized fairy tale, so kings are always villains) saw the lovely dress and exceptional tea-making skills of the wife (who’s name I do not remember) and wanted her for his own. So he tells Finn, “Yo, giant, I’m gonna have to take your little wife. Sorry, bro”.
Well, Finn remembers his little wife’s fantastic tea making prowess, and invites the King to come have dinner with Finn and his little wife before s goes off with the King to be a stupid but lovely queen. Or mistress, or concubine, whatever his plans are for her.
The very stupid King thinks that would be a lovely idea. I mean, you most definitely want to know your bitch can cook before you before you commit, right?
So, handsome Finn and his little wife, who’s name I don’t remember, plot and conspire to trick the King and run away, so they can be happy together. Cause Finn the Giant is MOST easily concealed. After we overlooked that plot hole, the completely unguarded King comes over to Finn’s house, and the wife, whose name I do not remember and is now portrayed as a sneaky be-yatch, puts a strong sleeping draught in the unbelievably tasty tea that she is known far and wide for being able to make all by herself, and the King, after praising her tea making prowess extensively, falls asleep with his head in the soup. Finn the Giant and his little wife, the sneaky bitch who wears a lovely dress, run away together to grow old somewhere far away from the evil King, who has, hopefully, learned to travel with a bodyguard.
I also remember something about Finn having to prove his manliness in order to keep his wife by eating “rock cakes” and his sneaky little wife stuck rocks in the cakes of the competitor, but made Finn’s cakes rock-free. Might have been a different story, same people, though.
Welcome to America.
Well, Naptime, if the myths did indeed cross over, it might explain the overwhelming tea motif, because I don’t remember tea ever being bloody mentioned in the original D&G tale. That’s still no excuse, though. I am interested in your King’s lack of security. I think that would not go down well in the America of today, no? 😛
No, it would not, not since… around 1963. However, any King portrayed in a book written for the good old US of A must be portrayed as stupid, because we still hold a grudge regarding that little skirmish with the tea and redcoats back in the late 18th century.
The picture of Finn is pretty much the same, except picture Finn with a pointier head, and the picture from the book that I remember best is a picture from the second book, with the rock cakes. I don’t know when these books were published– maybe I can find something about them online.
Pointy head? Literally? What’s the why of that? Lol.
I don’t know, maybe to suggest that Giants have smaller brains than humans?
Well that’s as good a guess as any. 🙂
I do recall studying hominids and that larger organism = bigger skull. I can’t recall anything about the brain size though. A giant could always have a thick skull and a small brain. 🙂 However it wouldn’t necessarily follow that a small brain would equal less intelligence. After all, humans only use 20% of their large brains, and maybe giants use 100% to maximize the limited space they have to work in. Also a small brain wouldn’t explain pointy bone structure, nor would most head injuries such as accidentally being dropped on one’s head. Quite a puzzle it is. 🙂
Perhaps they wanted to portray Giants as “Pinheads”.
I did think of that too, later on yesterday. Lol!
My personal opinion for what it’s worth is that Fion is quite human, though I suppose being around 6 feet 3 inches tall is pretty unusual for the second century and it makes sense that over time his size just got exagerated until he became a nonhuman giant in a lot of the stories told about him.
Now you’re just talking nonsense. It makes much more sense for there to have lived a race of giants many many years ago, one of whom had a tiny woman for a wife (Lets not think too hard on that one) and was the subject of stories about rock cakes and small kings who take no body guards when going to swipe the giant’s tiny wife, which is a relationship that, again, we will not think too hard about. Although, maybe thats why the Giant had a misshapen head; to suggest that other parts of his anatomy are misshapenly small as well.
Because really, the tea can only be so good before the clothes come off.
And now that the cats out of the bag, what would the tiny king want with the little wife after she’d been married to a giant? It’d be, as my friend John says, “like throwing a hot dog down a hallway”.
Naptime. You must write a song, immediately, with a chorus starting with “the tea can only be so good before the clothes come off”. You’ll make millions. BESQUILLIONS.
That’s brilliant, Tara! Naptime, I’d totally be one of the first people to go listen to such a song. 🙂
Yes, but I’ll only get 30%.
That is, if my discount is still in effect.
Of course. You will still get this amazing discount on 5% of 120% of royalties, as long as you have the song written, recorded and released by 13:01 EST on January 19th. Don’t say I never do anything for you.
Wow, you are so good to me. I’ll get started right away.
Oh, ouch! 🙂 Yikes! Fion meets the cook who fed the Rockbiter from Never Ending Story meets a king who has obviously mistaken his crown for his head… My most humble appologies for the nonsense, as quite suddenly I see the error of my logical explanation… LOL! I was only pointing out the truth against the world of terrible children’s storytelling… and as it stands I cannot take this comment seriously, but I think the king in the story would find it quite persuasive on the whole. 🙂
But you know, what would the king want with the little wife, … why, for her to make tea for him of course! Such a novel goings-on for the time: one might even say anachronistic but that word sounds too large for the king’s vocabulary since he didn’t seem to have enough intelligence to understand the concept of a body guard. Oh I see I’m kind of making fun of the king, I hope you can forgive me for that. It’s not nice of me. 🙂
That is quite a strange phrase your friend has there. It is particularly descriptive and I sincerely appreciate it. I got to wake up and immediately have something to smile about, thanks!
It’s okay, you were born in California, you’re supposed to make fun of monarchies. It’s expected. Ask the writers and publishers of all children’s books printed during the seventies.
Oh no, that’s a new one! LOL! Absurd, yeah? I’m from California, glad I missed that little bit of American story retelling as a child. 🙂
My mother was a second grade teacher, so I had every children’s book in publication… Possibly ever. Plus, a lot of them were so old that they were totally racist, sexist, and graphically violent. The graphically violent parts were completely enthralling for a 5 year old.
Well, just see what happens. You take away the gratuitous violence from children’s fairytales, and what you end up with is… the greatest global financial crisis since 1929. That’ll learn us.
That story was actually physically painful to read. Yikes. It seems a lot of stuff is being ‘cleaned up’ these days. People seem to go nuts when the darker version gets a little attention. For example, there was a letter in my local paper about the movie ‘Into the Woods’, which uses the Grimm tales in their original darkness. At least more of it than the Disney versions, which this person was complaining about. The writer actually said Disney should be ashamed for putting out a dark movie that twists such heart-warming tales. Why does everything have to be candy-coated these days?
B R Maycock
Did anyone tell them that Disney generally kill off one character per cartoon?!
I don’t think they realize it if it’s a parent or villain. Also, I’m betting it was the Cinderella step-sister foot ‘remodeling’ that had them freaking out. 9 times out of 10, it’s Cinderella.
I think Disney have a hell of a lot to answer for, Charles! I remember reading both the Grimms and Hans Christian Anderson as a child, and begob they were indeed grim. Birds killing themselves for selfish princesses who never noticed them, toys making great sacrifices before being rejected and burned… and then Disney comes along and decides there’s no money in sorrow (or reality). Anyone who thinks that Disney’s tales are the originals should be made give up all forms of media and communication for, oh, I dunno, a lifetime.
I tend to shrug Disney off because I think their versions still have their darkness. It isn’t as violent and sexually innuendo-y as the originals, but there were still the concepts of murder and deceit in there. At least the ones I’m remembering. I tend to get annoyed at the adults who complain instead of doing the smidgeon of research that would tell them that they are two different creatures. I wonder if Disney ever dreamed that people would think he did the originals or act this stupid.
Maybe I’ve seen too many people mix up remakes and originals over the last few years, so I put the blame more on the people than the artists . . . using that second loosely for a few of the issues.
jazzfeathers
I think parents today get too much freak out about fairy tales… as if their children didn’t see far worse on the internet.
When I was a kid, I listened to all kinds of versions of fairy stories and granted, some of them were so dark I got scared (I could never listen to the entire story of BlueBeard, so scared I was – I had a recording of it), but none of them damaged me. I actually think one of the points of fairy stories is giving the possibility to kids to enter in contact with bad things in a safe way, so to learn about them without making the actual experience.
And anyway, I remember not being scared of things parents today think are terrible, for the simple fact that my child’s mind handled them in a child, safe-for-me way.
There does seem to be more over-protectiveness today. I’ve caught my wife doing it with our son every once and while. It’s almost like my generation has forgotten what we dealt with in our childhood and most of us came out fine.
Bob Nailor
I’m from NW Ohio and my grandfather was a born Irishman (Dublin) and would regale me with tales of Ireland. I don’t remember any hero(ine) involved with tea to this extent. Perhaps, in fairness to the desecration, the tea was important as the means of distributing the potion, altho the idea of just running off seems fine to me – no reason to knock out everyone. IF Grainne can say “Yes, I will marry you” then surely she can also say, “No, old man, I don’t want to marry you” just as easily. Yes, PC has become offensive and traditions are being lost.
You’re right, Bob. I think this particular version has managed to excel both in its dismissal of women and its veneration of tea. Also, most Irish people don’t bother thinking about tea to this extent. We’re too busy drinking it to be thinking about it.
There’s another thing, what is the story with the tea?!!!!
Good question, I mean they probably did have tea in the second century, but I doubt it was a daily occurrence or so easy to come by… especially while on the run. 🙂 Diarmaid doesn’t strike me as someone who would be that interested in tea, either. Now if Gráinne were to present him with a wild boar, … I know that’s also how he died, but you can’t blame the boar for being itself! It’s still the best. 🙂
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
You must make sure the ‘illustrator’ suffers the same fate as the ‘writer.’ Both are execrable ‘artists.’
I think the kindest thing I could say about the illustrator in this instance, Alicia, is that they managed to colour in between the lines.
Priceless!!!!!!
I was at the library with my son the other day and we came across Little Red Riding Hood. Except it wasn’t, not really. She had a mobile phone and gave out to her Mum saying ‘Moooommmm’ a lot and was basically a cranky, greedy little brat. I really, really wanted the big bad wolf to eat her. I paraphrased a lot for my son, telling it as I’d learned it and ignoring him when he said how her phone looked like mine(an iPhone, spoiled little madam;)), then bringing it to the librarian, who didn’t really know what to say to me as I gave my little speech/rant asking why?For the love of God, why would somebody ruin something so beloved. She had no answer.
And what is wrong with the publishers putting out this stuff? I will never understand the belief that fairy tales need modernising by taking out the magic and replacing it with total effluent. I hope you find better versions of all our best-loved tales soon for your son. Maybe we should all be writing strongly-worded letters!!
Wow. Somebody’s going to be looking the death’s head of redundancy square in the face. I wonder what they’ve done to Queen Medb?
Speaking of whom, if I sent that publisher my limericks (http://wp.me/p30cCH-7v), do you think I could get a job writing textbooks for them?
I wish we could safely assume that the perpetrators of this foul deed are no longer in gainful employment, Christine, but in this country, that’s about as far-fetched as a sleeping potion served up by a tea-obsessed strumpet.
I think the best way you could get that job would be to show a clear disdain for children, myths, education, language, and humanity. Any takers?
Leo came ‘out’ today and said he was gay… there will come a time when teachers will have to come ‘out’ and say they are teachers! I promise I NEVER sent a story like that home for homework! :O :O
It still wouldn’t be your fault if it was on the curriculum, Carolann! I’m going to find out who published this utter dross so I can name and shame them in public. And fair play to Leo Varadkar – I hope it’s treated this week as the good news story it is.
All part of the general dumbing down that’s going on in our media and politics. Everything requires to be like Big Brother or Strictly or all those other inane programmes that fill the TV schedules and our newspapers and magazines.
Ireland has some wonderful traditional stories, including that of Deirdre of the Sorrows. A number of years ago, we used that story as the basis of some events that were part of a festival we ran. Deirdre spent time in Glenmasan in Cowal on the west coast of Scotland, where we were staying at the time. We went into the National Library of Scotland and were able to look through the original, vellum manuscript, kippered from being kept for safe keeping during times of rebellion up a lum (chimney). To handle the manuscript was wonderful — like touching history. It gives a real respect for such manuscripts and the monks who wrote down the stories to preserve them for others.
So do chase down the perpetrators and give them a well-deserved blast from your pen (computer keyboard).
I don’t know if this is dumbing-down, Dorothy, or just plain dumb. Now, the original written-down text of this is chock-full of sexual references, and I have no problem with that being taken out for young children, but they took all the magic and humanity out of this too. There’s no excuse for it. I am going to hunt them down, and make them pay. I might leave them in a room with just water and a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey for 14 weeks.
I would love to see that manuscript – I didn’t even know it existed. I loved the old Irish text of this one when I was in school – just seeing the ancient lettering and hearing our teacher read it out in a soft Donegal accent was a real treat.
What a shame! Children should really learn stories like this on a field trip to one of the places mentioned and listen to your version of it under the stars. 🙂 It saddens me that such a story is being used to promote the stereotypical and detrimental views about men and women that ought to have been transcended long ago.
One more thought, however. It occurs to me that if Fion was looking everywhere in wild places for a wife, he was probably still looking for Sadbh. I don’t think anyone was good enough for him after Sadbh disappeared. I don’t think he could tell the difference between Sadbh’s kidnapping and Grainne’s elopement, they would have both felt like abandonment to him. He had some real issues, you know? But yeah, he should have just let Grainne be: he was way too old for her as you beautifully pointed out! And I think anyone who would persuade a member of the fianna to leave his cohort for her is a strong woman indeed, despicably told stories for children notwithstanding. Thanks for such a fantastic post.
Thank you, Éilis Niamh! I think one of the most notable things about this myth, for scholars, is that it’s one of the very very few tales in the Fianna tradition that portrays Fionn in a negative light. He’s usually the hero. He’s very much peripheral in this, with the illicit lovers front and centre. They seemed to have glossed over much of Fionn’s own story to use him as the villain for the purposes of this tale.
I’m very gratified to hear that you think children should listen to my version of it under the stars. I think I might get in trouble for some of my language, though. So I’ll leave it to the expert and eagerly await Ali Isaac’s retelling of the tale!
mgill0627
Oh for heaven’s sake. Why do they even bother? Why can’t they just say, “there’s a really great story called “The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne” but you can’t read it until you’re older because it might…. That will ensure that all the kids go right out and sneak a copy and read the real thing.
Now that is a BRILLIANT idea. While we’re at it, we should ban all children from reading books in general. The stampede of literate youngsters will flatten mountains.
So true! I’ll try that at the bookstore. “You can’t buy …” Should improve sales by thousands!
That’s a fantastic plan, girls! 🙂
Jane Dougherty
Thanks for posting that load of bollix Tara. Not unsurprising given that Ireland is about as priest-ridden as it was a hundred years ago, and the relationship of the church with women is, well let’s just say unenlightened. This is very timely as my good mate Ali Isaac and I are writing a collection of retellings of some of the old love stories including Diarmuid and Grainne. The collection’s to be released for Valentine’s day. The language is lovely, though I say it myself, Fionn is a wrinkly old man, and Diarmuid is as up for it as Grainne. If you’d like to help out with the launch (we want to give a lot of copies away) I’ll send you the details. I’ll certainly send you a copy even if you’d rather not get involved.
I wouldn’t say that Ireland is as priest-ridden as before, Jane, but in some ways, the education system still is. Having said that, I don’t know that this textbook was influenced by anything at all other than laziness and contempt for the writer’s job. I wouldn’t be surprised if it had been written by someone with a raging hangover, who had just been dumped.
Kudos to you and Ali – I’m very excited by the idea of your collection, it’s right up my street! I’m a sucker for history and myth and it sounds like a fabulous book I can’t wait to read. I’d love to help out in any way I can, so although I don’t review books on this blog, hopefully there is some way I can get involved.
Thanks Tara 🙂 The feeling I have is that to a great extent the Irish people have moved beyond the reach of the priests and have developed a bitter cynicism when it comes to their politicians and power brokers. It’ll filter up in the end, but like everywhere, those in power are the last to even notice things might be changing, and they have every interest in maintaining the status quo. Ali and I will do our bit to bring a bit of feminine balance to the history books.
Looking forward to that!
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A very timely reminder as we come up to Valentine’s Day and the great romance binge, of exactly how to crush the romance out of the loveliest story.
Well said, Tara!
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I’m truly miserable reading this. I can’t really see any upside to it. God knows what they will be doing to King Arthur and co. I foolishly assumed that the standard had risen since the time when I used to swap the girls and boys around when reading to my two girls, because the boys had all the fun.
Please don’t be too miserable! This book is an unbearable piece of crud, but to be fair, it’s only one of a wide range available to schools and wouldn’t be used at all by a great number of children, not even in this country… still, it’s good to poke a stick at this stuff. The publishers should still be ashamed of themselves.
I’ve always been so fascinated by Irish myths… maybe because I’ve never seen anything like this book. My goodness. I’m a writer and an illustrator and it gives me shivers…
But the good news it that there are a lot of other good retellings out there, so let’s not be too desperate about it 😉
Tara, really, you retold this story? I love retellings! Where can I find it? 🙂
No, not me, Jazzfeathers (other than the short and cynical version above!), rather Ali Isaac who commented below has a version coming out around February I believe… I’m looking forward to that myself. Keep an eye on her blog for that.
And don’t worry, I’ve never seen an Irish myth told this badly before, it is an anomaly. I blame the government.
Nicholas C. Rossis
Sorry Tara, I don’t know what your problem is. That’s pretty much how we do things over here in Greece. Indeed, first time I saw Electra, she offered me some tea, I asked her to marry me and that was that (what’s with the tea fetish in this story, by the way?) 😀
I hate to tell you this, Nicholas, but it sounds like you’ve been potionithised. You thought it was tea Electra offered. That’s what it’s all about, actually. So called “tea” is how they kept the Irish so docile during the IMF takeover, remember.
Now that you say it, there may be many more hidden depths to this school textbook story than we thought.
See? I knew you’d warm up to it, if only you gave it half a chance!
Now, care for a cuppa, dear?
Yeah, okay, I suppose. Milk, no sugar. Thanks.
Although why do I feel so dead inside…? 😉
Not to worry, my dear. Why don’t you slump on the couch while I fetch the rings and the priest?
Sounds reasonable. Great tea, by the way 😋
It’s the hypericum. Fresh from the garden – nothing but the best for you, my dear.
Yes, Father, right this way. Now, dear, repeat after me…
Toni Betzner
I love Irish mythology and folklore: This is a complete butchering. lol I think the problem is uninspired writing. Couldn’t they have found someone with a degree in folklore to write it? So sad.
I’m thinking the problem might be more that whoever is looking after the curriculum for reading cares less about folklore (and children) than words and word count.
(Possibly also the publisher’s son/nephew was unemployed for a long time, and starting to spout worrying conspiracy theories and staying in bed all day, so they gave him a job butchering stories for reading primers because his mother was beginning to lose all hope and threatening to throw him out unless he got a job. Just sayin’)
That is an excellent and hilarious theory. They just epic failed.
elainecanham
That would be ok, though, wouldn’t it? But I bet it was written by an editor who always wanted to write, and yet somehow never made it under their own steam. And then polished (!) by a committee for compliance with core spelling, phonics and an agreed literacy framework.
I laughed and laughed. And then I made a cup of tea. I remember as a kid reading many stories where the heroine strayed into a forest and found a caravan/hut/deserted castle and immediately started cleaning, before making herself a nice meal and going to bed. And yet, when Prince Charming breaks through the thicket and kisses Sleeping Beauty does he say, ‘ And I’ve brought you a nice cup of tea and a bacon sandwich, dear.’
No. He does not.
And if you think about it, loads of heroines in Brothers Grimm are endlessly fucking cleaning. Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty, the Little Red Hen. It never says anything about the Three Little Pigs getting down with Mr Muscle. Although that’s probably a whole different story…
And now I must go and make a cup of tea.
Is the Finn in that story the same as Fin MacCool?
He is one and the same, Elaine, spelled variously Finn/Fionn mac Cumhaill//mac Cumail/MacCool, or whatever you’re having yourself. This is what he gets for having been around before spelling was invented.
Have you seen the current detergent commercial on TV where they have a princess in despair over not being able to get the castle clean, before she discovers a new cleaning product and rides away on her horse? It really makes me want to vomit. It’s like the Ad Men are saying “All right then, ladies. Nowadays, we will alllow you to be liberated from a fantasy life of servitude and drudgery, but only if you use our miracle product to clean the goddamn castle first”
On a side note, can you please write us the story of the Three Little Pigs and Mr Muscle? Pleeeeeeease???
And I will tell you that story when you are sitting comfortably in the firelight. And the kitchen has all been tidied away, and Mr Muscle is in own little place.
That sounds entirely dodgy. But on the other hand….
Do you remember the Brillo pad adverts? He promised me a kingdom, and all I have are these pots to wash. Don’t worry Madam! New soap-filled Brillo pad is here!
I did a story called The Three Little Pigs and Mrs Olf. Can’t remember if you saw it.
I remember it well, and I loved it. Shared it everywhere, in fact. You need to do more of those.
Yup, in terms of cleaning product commercials, the evolution of man is still at a very hirsute stage. Spanners, the lot of them.
I’ve written it. Mr Muscle, and the Dirty Knight’s cup of tea. I’ll publish it tomorrow. Hope I don’t get done for infringement of copyright, or whatever. You’re so inspiring. and I really should be doing something else
But… but Elaine, why would you do something else when you could be keeping me entertained?!
That was lightening fast! Can’t wait to read it. Don’t worry about infringing anything. As far as I know, you can’t copyright sexism.
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I just read this, and had to share:
“No wise girl would accept a man who proposed by moonlight or just after a meal. The dear things aren’t themselves then. Food, properly served, will attract a proposal at almost any time, especially if it is known that the pleasing viands were of the girl’s own making.”
—Myrtle Rood’s The Spinster Book, 1901
Looks like tea has pretty much the same effect…
This is an absolute gem! Imagine the devious of minds of young maids, making pleasing viands in order to get a husband! What slappers!
Do you have the whole book? There must be a wealth of marvellous advice in there.
I subscribe to Etiquette of Yesteryear, a free daily that sends me gems like this from the past. You can check it out on http://forgottenenglish.com/e-of-y-opt-in/
Thank God. Next time I find myself ostracised from society for not paring my grapes properly, I’ll know where to go.
Glad to be of help. I’d hate nothing more than to see you improperly paring your grapes…
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New Space Bill to have cover for mishaps
India’s space policy currently does not cover liabilities for damage to third party space assets although the country is a signatory to the UN Treaties on Outer Space activity.ETtech | June 27, 2019, 05:27 IST
India has begun pre-legislative consultations on a “Space Activities Bill” that is designed to encourage domestic private rocket and satellite companies to offer services for Indian and global customers.
This is expected to address a long-pending concern on covering liabilities in the event of a mishap or damage to spacecraft.
India’s space policy currently does not cover liabilities for damage to third party space assets although the country is a signatory to the UN Treaties on Outer Space activity.
The Bill will help formulate necessary rules under the Space Activities Act to deal with damages under the liability provisions and the mode of securing financial guarantee to compensate for damages, Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh, who handles Space, told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
The United States, France and the European Union have legislations that underwrite costs of damage if it exceeds insurance when a private satellite launch goes awry or a rocket hits another object in space. These laws also have clauses that favour local companies to be competitive in space-related activities.
The Bill will address the liability issues arising from their space activities, in a suitable/ rational manner, in line with international practices, the minister said.
The government first introduced the Bill in 2017. India’s space agency has created a public-private entity NewSpace India that will allow private participation in building rockets and satellites.
India’s polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) has emerged as the preferred rocket to hurl small satellites globally. The country is also working on a small satellite launch vehicle that is designed to tap the global opportunity to carry satellites of less than 50 kg into space. There are several space startups that are building satellites, rockets and moon rovers.
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Cloud data center firm Linode launches India operations
The company has invested $5 million towards its India operations so far, and said would invest more as it looks at scaling up in the future.
The company said it would utilise the capital to strengthen its product, invest in new technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and expand its global footprint.
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Greenseng: A Green Search Engine That Actually Conserves Energy
Jason Kincaid @jasonkincaid / 11 years
We’ve seen a few sites attempt to help turn the web green, but most of them have been little more than gimmicks. Blackle purports to conserve energy by offering a “black” version of Google, which it says uses less energy than the engine’s standard white. But Google has gone on to say that black may actually increase the amount of energy consumed by visitors (of course, this didn’t stop Google Israel from turning its site black in honor of Earth Hour).
Today, Y Combinator startup CO2Stats has launched a search engine that aspires to be truly green. Greenseng (sounds like Ginseng) is a standard search engine, pulling results from Google’s Custom Search to produce results. But instead of relying on a dubious method of energy conservation, CO2Stats measures the amount of energy used by its servers and the computers of its users and purchases renewable energy certificates (similar to carbon credits) to offset the environmental toll.
CO2Stats CTO Alex Wissner-Gross says that Greenseng isn’t meant to generate revenue though advertising. Instead, the site is using proceeds from its certification business that allows websites to purchase renewable energy certificates in return for a badge that labels them as “Green Certified”.
But while Greenseng may not directly be earning any money, it may help CO2Stats pull in a slew of new customers. In its next iteration, the site will be using Yahoo’s powerful BOSS search API to incorporate some of its own data. Users will be able to see the environmental footprint of each site in their search results with data pulled from CO2Stats, which may give companies more of an incentive to get Green Certified.
Buying credits to offset seach engine usage isn’t a new idea. In April we wrote about EcoCho, a search engine wrapper for Google and Yahoo that promises to plant “up to two trees” for every 1,000 searches on the site (we noted that zero could fall within that definition). Only a week after launching, Google pulled the site from its advertising partnership – not a good sign, though it didn’t specify the details.
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The Apple Pencil is changing Rapha’s design workflow
Romain Dillet @romaindillet / 3 years
If you’ve been looking for cycle clothing, chances are you’ve seen some of Rapha’s items. Rapha isn’t just a utilitarian clothing company and focuses on design to make cycle clothing a bit more sylish. And interestingly, Rapha’s head of design Alex Valdman has become a big Apple Pencil advocate.
Apple has jumped on this opportunity to produce a good-looking short film about Valdman and Rapha in general. And it’s interesting to see how a peripheral device like the Apple Pencil can affect the workflows of non-tech companies.
With many items produced in the U.K. and Italy, Rapha isn’t the cheapest brand for cycle clothing. But it doesn’t want to be. Instead, the company is focusing on style.
I’d describe Rapha clothes as colorful, minimalistic designs that respect the tradition and heritage of decades of cycle clothing. The company also relies a lot on geometric patterns with tasteful lines, triangles and other shapes.
“Before iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, I had so many notebooks floating around,” Rapha’s head of design Alex Valdman told me. “One in the living room, kitchen, bedroom, work, totes, back packs, a mini one in my wallet. You get the picture. Always a notebook at arms reach.”
But Valdman’s workflow changed quite a lot with the iPad Pro. Like any other computer, it’s much easier to share a drawing once it’s just a file on your iPad Pro or laptop. Valdman went one step further and ditched all of his notebooks even for the very early sketches.
“I’m gate-keeping over 800 options in the collection times 3 overlapping seasons, 200 emails a day in the inbox, designing, getting inspired and turning that into a direction, meetings, reports, a new house to design and all the personal stuff like booking travel, music, bills, etc,” he told me. “There’s only one object that can help me get that organized, communicate creative and fit into a Musette bag. iPad Pro puts your entire life in the palm of your hand.”
And of course, Valdman shares his designs with his team who are also using iPads to collaborate on new designs. Valdman told me he mostly uses Procreate, a few Adobe apps and Goodnotes for his drawings. While I don’t have any compelling reason to use the Apple Pencil, I find it quite interesting to see how it could have a big impact on people who draw every day for a living.
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L&T Infotech says looking at making strategic acquisitions in continental Europe
The IT arm of the engineering major also plans to expand its reach in other such as Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Africa, India and the Middle East.Jochelle Mendonca | ET Bureau | June 30, 2016, 16:37 IST
MUMBAI: L&T Infotech, which is in the process of going public, said it was looking at making strategic acquisitions in Germany, France and the Nordic regions.
The IT arm of the engineering major also plans to expand its reach in other such as Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Africa, India and the Middle East.
"We would like to enhance our capabilities and address gaps in language capability, industry expertise, technical expertise and geographic coverage in these countries," the company said in its red herring prospectus.
The company’s initial public offering if expected to open on July 11 at a price band of Rs 705-710 per share. The offering of 1.75 crore shares is expected to fetch up to Rs 1,243 crore.
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First Look: The Wayans Family Is Next For "Oprah’s Next Chapter" *Updated With Video*
Yes, folks it looks like Hollywood’s funniest family is next in line to sit with talk queen Oprah Winfrey for ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter’.
Indeed, the legendary siblings – who have brought such comedic classics as “I’m Gonna Get You Sucker”, “Scary Movie”, “Don’t Be A Menace”, and more are joining the talk legend to discuss their storied careers collectively and individually (as well as upcoming ventures).
No date has been officially announced when we can expect to see Marlon, Shawn, Keenan Ivory, Damon, Kim & the gang across from O, but these snaps below definitely have us excited!
Must See: Wendy Williams Rips Into Clive Davis, Talks Whitney Houston’s Drug Use & More
Hot on the promo trail of his new memoir ‘The Soundtrack of My Life’, this morning saw legendary music mogul Clive Davis drop by the ‘Wendy Williams’ show to discuss it and its juicy details.
However, while Clive may have been better prepared to answer questions regarding his autobiography, Williams had her own agenda – immediately launching into a series of questions about his legendary protege Whitney Houston.
Sharing thoughts on how her reported drug use and/or consequent death could’ve been avoided, the two chatted about everything from her ill-fated 2001 Michael Jackson tribute performance to his now infamous 2012 Grammy party (which carried on while Whitney’s deceased body was still in the building).
This is a must see! As always, Wendy asks the tough questions!
Peep the interview below…
20th Feb
Report: Destiny’s Child Star Michelle Williams Readies Reality Show
After kicking off the year with a show-stopping performer with former Destiny’s Child bandmates Beyonce and Kelly Rowland at this year’s ‘Super Bowl’, ‘Do You Know’ diva Michelle Williams is still doing the darn thing!
Indeed, after announcing a new gospel album due later this year and Broadway tour aboard ‘Fela! The Musical’, now Williams is ready to take on television with a new reality show entitled ‘My Sister’s Keeper’!
Sharing a statement today, the singer/actress said:
“I am very thrilled about this opportunity, to extend into television with the eOne family as well, with this series,” said Williams. “Working together on my new gospel album and television series, I am excited to share with everyone a behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration and journey of recording for the album, performing, fun family times and other Unforgettable experiences out together with my dear sisters.”
With Williams herself being amongst the show’s executive producers, fans can expect to see behind the scenes footage of the making of the belle’s new album and the pressures that come along with it! As of reporting time, no tentative release date has been announced. (source)
Comedy Corner: Australian Performer Creates Awesomely Bad Beyonce "Superbowl Halftime Show" Remake (Must See!!)
Known to most Australians as the ‘princess of all media’, 27-year old recording artist/TV personality Anne Curtis has certainly won over her fair share of Aussie hearts over the past two decades.
However, those hearts may have suffered a few attacks after witnessing the Filipino media darling take on the task of recreating pop icon Beyonce‘s 2013 Super Bowl showing. Armed with shakier vocals than Rihanna on a merry-go-round and moves stiffer than a Britney Spears wax figure, Curtis certainly had viewers chatting after this awesomely bad performance.
It’s one you have to see to believe. See the carnage below…
That Grape Juice Interviews Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph
Watch: Michael Jackson’s Son Named New Correspondent For ‘Entertainment Tonight’
Prince Michael Jackson, son of late King of Pop Michael Jackson, is indeed following in his famous father’s footsteps in his pursuit of the entertainment industry. However, as this week will prove, the young Jackson is looking to make his mark on a different side of the lens.
Lending his talents to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, today saw the announcement of the 16-year-old’s new gig as media correspondent. While it is yet known how often he will contribute, Prince is certainly hoping this is just the beginning of his love affair with media as he’s quoted saying:
“I’m looking to become well-rounded as a producer, director, screenwriter and actor.”
Time will certainly tell if he gets there, but given his family history of successful acts, we’re sure he doesn’t have much to worry about.
Peep Prince in action below…
Hilarious: ‘If Nicki Minaj Played ‘Call Of Duty’
With a personality that’s just as important to her brand as her material is, Rapper Nicki Minaj has given comedians ample material to base their parodies of her on, as seen here.
Now peep YouTuber ‘MissBadAssBitchNicki’ take on the challenge with the hilarious ‘If Nicki Minaj Played Call Of Duty’, now available to watch below!
Must See: Vin Diesel Sings Rihanna’s ‘Stay’ & Tamia Covers Bruno Mars’ ‘Locked Out of Heaven’
Celebrities were feeling the love this week and were lending covers to their favorite love songs left and right and two of the most talked about came from actor/heartthrob Vin Diesel & Grammy-nominated diva Tamia.
Diesel, best known for the ‘Fast & the Furious’ franchise, showed a softer side when he delivered an interesting rendition of Rihanna‘s latest hit ‘Stay’. Performing with the tune’s recently released video playing in the background, the showing (needless to say) definitely proves where the muscle man’s strengths truly lie. See what we mean below:
In other celebrity covers, powerhouse vocalist Tamia showed love to crooner Bruno Mars when she took his #1 smash ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ to task – delivering a heavenly cover of the 2012 hit. Singing like only she can, see miss Hill do her thing below:
Movie Trailer: ‘About Last Night’ (Starring Kevin Hart & Michael Ealy)
Comedian Kevin Hart reunites his ‘Think Like A Man’ co-stars Michael Ealy and Regina Hall for romantic comedy ‘About Last Night.
Due out next Valentine’s Day (yes, you right), you can watch the trailer above and peep the synopsis below…
About Last Night Synposis:
“A modern reimagining of the classic romantic comedy, this contemporary version closely follows new love for two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world”
Will you be watching?
13th Jan
‘Real Housewives’ Kenya Moore Readies Release Of New Single ‘Gone With the Wind Fabulous’
Fans of Bravo’s top show ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ are no stranger to the endless string of memorable quotes from newcomer Kenya Moore. Moore, 41, joins the show after the departure of Sheree Whitfield (famous for quote ‘Who Gon’ Check Me Boo’).
Interestingly, as Whitfield’s famed quote was later developed into a song, it appears Moore is ready to follow suit in transforming her quote ‘I’m gone with the wind fabulous’ into a full length tune.
Set to debut on Itunes tomorrow (Sunday, January 13th), the former Miss USA is also said to be performing the new single on Andy Cohen‘s ‘Watch What Happens Live’. Watch the reaction of T-Boz and Tatyana Ali when they’re given a sample of what to expect from the feature below:
Movie Trailer: ‘The Call’ (Starring Halle Berry & Morris Chestnut)
Get into the official trailer for ‘The Call’ – the latest thriller from Academy Award winner Halle Berry. Joined by heartthrob Morris Chestnut (‘Best Man’,’Boyz In the Hood’), the Brad Anderson directed film sees Berry’s character (a 911 operator) look to track down a serial killer who recently kidnapped a teenage girl.
Peep the clip below…
First Look: Mary J. Blige & Angela Bassett Star In ‘Betty & Coretta’
As reported here, Queen of Hip Hop Soul Mary J. Blige joined screen queen Angela Bassett for the biographical film ‘Betty & Coretta’ – the story of Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King. As many know, the two historical figures first shot to fam as the wives of civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, however, time later proved them to be outstanding leaders in their own rights.
In such, this Black History Month will see the womens network unveil a never-before-told glimpse into their life stories and struggles. Set to premiere Saturday, February 2 at 8/7c, the film is reportedly one of three films Lifetime will air to African American history – including ‘Twist of Faith’ starring Toni Braxton.
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App.net introduces free tier, invite-only for now, includes following 40 people
by Matthew Panzarino — in Insider
Today, the versatile web platform App.net introduces its new free tier. The free accounts will be available by invite only from a current member and will allow the following of 40 accounts and 500MB of file storage.
The free account tier is being rolled out by invite in order to help App.net scale the influx of users that it feels will be coming in with the removal of the price barrier. Instead of an artificial Mailbox-esque line, it has chosen the more organic invite route that other sites like Dribbble and GitHub have gone down.
The invites will be distributed to users already on paid plans and will be done on several different signals including longevity of account, usage and more. So not everyone will get the same amount, but typically between 3 and 10.
The full list of free account limitations are currently as follows:
Free tier accounts can follow a maximum of 40 users
Free tier accounts have 500MB of available file storage
Free tier accounts can upload a file with a maximum size of 10MB
The free account is obviously being added by App.net in order to add a volume of users to its service, which is currently best known as a messaging system whose official face is the Alpha client. App.net is really a platform though, not just a service, and there have been dozens of apps built on it that serve both as clients and as other things like file transfer utilities, chatrooms and more.
I asked Caldwell why App.net didn’t introduce a free tier earlier. “Six months ago,” he says, “there was no there there.”
Since the introduction of the service, there have been tons of super polished apps built on it like Netbot, Felix and more.
Those apps, Caldwell explains, produce an environment that is welcoming to the user. If folks are just joining up to check it out, you want them walking into a pleasant time when it comes to the apps, the website (which has been freshly redesigned with a friendlier look) and the overall experience.
“When you think of a successful freemium service, that’s what you want,” App.net founder Dalton Caldwell tells me. “You want it to be super lightweight and super accessible for new users, and [when they] get a lot of utility and a lot of value there, they say ‘ok, yeah, I’ll pay for this, this is really cool.'”
Free accounts have the potential to do far more than just swell the ranks of the platform, though. With a large pool of free users available to it, the developer community has that much more incentive to create those kinds of polished applications which will help spread the utility of App.net. This continues the virtuous circle that Caldwell and his team created with the plan to pay developers of well-rated apps a bounty every month just for doing what they do.
Imagine, for instance, a bundle of free accounts that could be used in a Yammer-like enterprise product. Every user has messaging service access, file storage and transfer rights. Follower counts wouldn’t be a problem obviously as it would essentially be an intranet product. The barrier of entry is low. Just the purchase of the app from the developer and the ability to upgrade bundles of user accounts to pro tier if needed.
“There are huge financial opportunities,” Caldwell says, “to do utilities, to do ‘enterprise lightweight’ stuff, if you can take for granted that there’s a very liquid market of ‘trying it out free accounts’.”
This is the kind of thing that makes App.net such a trojan horse. If you think about the potential for a cross-platform API farm that has a self-sustaining model with little possibility of getting bought out, sold or closed off due to business concerns, the opportunities are ripe.
The invite system is also a reciprocal thing. Members can earn additional file storage by inviting friends. Both members will get 100MB of additional storage if both of these items are true:
The invited member follows at least 5 other accounts
The invited member authorizes a third-party app
Any accounts that were previously invited (the invite system has been running for a while) to a 30-day free trial now automatically become ‘free tier’ accounts.
Since App.net is already generating income from its subscribers, and has created a soil-rich environment for developers to grow apps, the next obvious step was to provide more users to those developers. As the user base grows, so does the potential for other kinds of apps which, in turn, attract users.
Currently. App.net has about 30,000 paying users, with around 3,000 of them using the service every day. Most of those users use third-party apps.
Image Credit: AFP/Getty Images
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Trump Throws A Tantrum About China Trade.
by Merlin1963Posted on September 8, 2018 September 8, 2018
Trump is threating China with more tariffs, according to Bloomberg News. Essentially, Trump would place tariffs on ALL Chinese goods.
Trump said Friday he’s willing to slap tariffs on an additional $267 billion in Chinese goods, on top of duties of $200 billion in imports is already considering. The administration will act on the $200 billion “very soon depending on what happens,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “I hate to do this, but behind that there is another $267 billion ready to go on short notice if I want.”
If the president follows through, the threatened tariffs and those already in place would more than cover the value of all goods the U.S. buys from China, according to U.S. government data from last year. The U.S. imported $505 billion of Chinese products in 2017, Census Bureau figures show.
And it doesn’t appear that Anonymous or the Steady State Resistance is lining up to stop Trump:
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Friday the U.S. wants to build a “coalition of the willing” to take on China that would include the EU, Japan and other allies. “The Chinese, you know, may find themselves more isolated if they don’t come into the global process,” Kudlow said in an interview with CNBC.
This has to be a good idea if that supply side genius Kudlow is behind it.
But it is a little difficult to build a “coaliton of the willing” when trade tantrum Trump says this:
But Trump struck a harsher tone toward U.S. allies. Japan will have a “big problem” if it doesn’t conclude a new trade deal with the U.S., he said on Air Force One. “People have been saying, ‘I’m too tough on Canada,’” he said. “Look, Canada has been ripping us off for a long time. Now, they’ve got to treat us fairly.” The president also on Friday reiterated threats to slap tariffs on auto imports, saying a tax on cars would be the “ruination” of some countries, including Canada.
I also think it might hurt Americans too, but what do I know? Not like I wrote “The Art of the Deal.” Oh, yeah. Silly Rabbit. Neither did Trump.
And it appears that one ass kissing CEO is getting the knife in the back routine from Trump:
Apple CEO Tim Cook has done an awful lot of schmoozing with Donald Trump, and to date he’s gotten a lot of out his dance with the devil. Cook has along with other titans of industry sought huge corporate tax cuts, which Trump was more than happy to sign late last year. That helped Apple avoid $50 billion in taxes, enabling its gluttonous stock buyback. Cook also reportedly secured some kind of commitment that iPhones assembled overseas won’t be subject to tariffs in Trump’s brimming trade war with China.
Well, Cook may have come out ahead on taxes, but it looks like Trump is preparing to dig a knife deep into his back on tariffs. This week, Apple said in a regulatory filing that the tariffs could drive up the cost of various products (and/or their components) by 25 percent, saying that $200 billion in proposed tariffs would hurt the U.S. much more than China. Apple didn’t include the iPhone on that list, possibly because of the promised immunity for that specific product, but it did include products like AirPods, Apple Watch, Mac Mini, and others. Yet as noted by the Washington Post, on Friday Trump threatened an additional $267 billion in tariffs that “could cover virtually all Chinese-made goods entering the United States.”
Looks like iPhones are on the tariff table too. And Trump is telling Apple that avoid “taxes” it needs to move its production facilities back to the U.S.
Posted in Apple, China, Cook, Tariffs, TradeTagged Feature
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Rock Fiction Coveting: Let’s Make This Thing Happen by PJ Adams
Tags: always loved the band member trope, insta-romance, PJ Adams, romance, three-in-one
Three shorties come together to make one novel. Check it:
“Tonight on stage, Ray Sandler was all those old fantasies come back to life. Emily Rivers soaked up his every move and she felt alive again for the first time in what felt like years. She never thought he would actually notice her, though.”
Emily is a successful woman in the tail end of a failing marriage. Ray is the reformed wild boy of rock, back on stage again for the first time in years. As a teenager Emily had Ray’s posters all over her bedroom wall so when she gets backstage tickets it’s as if her dreams have come true. Actually meeting him is an unexpected highlight of the evening, but that’s as far as it could ever go. They come from such different worlds: what could an international star ever see in a grounded, curvy woman like Emily? And how long could they ever keep such a relationship private when everyone from jealous fans to intrusive reporters wants a piece of Ray?
As things turn out to be even more complicated than she had first believed, and when tragedy and angry exes threaten to pull them apart and their secret affair threatens to go spectacularly public, can Emily do anything or has it all gone way beyond her control?
And when one of the sweetest things a man has ever done for Emily turns out to be a lie, will she ever be able to trust him again?
A story of secret romance in the world of the super-rich: an international celebrity and his unlikely BBW love. Steamy and passionate and full of the twists and turns familiar to readers of PJ Adams’ work, including the bestsellers Winner Takes All and Black Widow.
“It’s our song, Emily. It’s your song. It’s for you. Everything’s for you, now.”
[Previously published separately as a three-part serial, this edition has been rewritten as a single novel.]
I can hear Susan twitching at those typos in the description. Wow, even I noticed them, and I’m not that great with commas. And I gotta say, there’s a lot that’s familiar: the woman who’s worshipped her rock god and gets to meet him. An instant attraction. And then the issues that pull them apart — anyone else notice how that’s becoming the de facto plot?
Still, like I always say, it can be based on familiar stuff and still be awesome, so bring it and let’s see how awesome it is.
Rock Fiction Coveting: I’m Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil
Tags: Cynthia Weil, Hall of Famer, Jett covets, muisc history, not a romance, YA
We don’t get a lot of Rock Fiction written by rockers themselves, but here’s one for you. And maybe you don’t consider a mere songwriter to be a rocker, but I sure do, especially when you’ve got as many Grammys on her shelf as Cynthia Weil’s collected during her career.
And now she’s writing books. I bet you dollars to donuts (who came up with that phrase and can I just have the donuts, please?) she’s written a fab book. I mean, hello? The woman writes for a living!
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and songwriting legend Cynthia Weil’s extraordinary YA debut opens the secretive doors of the Brill Building-the hit factory that changed history. Part Mad Men, part Grace of my Heart, part murder mystery, I’m Glad I Did is a coming-of-age story at an unforgettable cultural tipping point: the summer of 1963.
JJ Greene, a gifted 16-year-old songwriter, defies her lawyer parents by secretly applying for a job in the famed Brill Building-the epicenter of songwriting for a new genre called rock-n-roll. But their warnings about the evils of the music industry prove far darker than she imagined when she finds herself at the heart of a cover-up that involves hidden identity, theft, and possibly murder.
Susan, who once had a friend who worked at Tin Pan Alley, is going to be beside herself to get her hands on this one. You have to know Rock’s past to fully understand it, she says all the time. I’m not sure I agree, but music history is a heck of a lot more interesting than some of the history I had to learn in school. And working for a symphony, I get a lot of music history.
Nothing this recent, though.
Okay, then. Bring it on and hopefully I can hide it from Susan and read it myself.
Rock Fiction Coveting: Living by Ear by Mary Rowen
Tags: how about a review copy, Jett covets, Mary Rowen, post-divorce, wanna read, washed-up rocker
I think Susan will relate to this one better than I will, but this is pretty much my site now, so here goes.
What happens when the world you love doesn’t press pause when you do? Singer-songwriter Christine Daley hit the streets of Boston and became a minor celebrity-with a local radio hit-in the 90s, but a “short” career break to marry and have kids changed everything. Now, sixteen years later, she’s a frustrated suburban housewife, struggling to find her place in life. After filing for divorce, she learns that her attempts to reestablish her own rhythms-both in music and in love-are more complicated than she’d anticipated. Her two teenagers are desperate for their mom, and her soon-to-be-ex-husband is throwing every obstacle he can in her way. Adding to the stress is the progress in technology, which has not only changed the music industry, but also the dating world. Is there room in the mix for Chris?
Lots going on here, and it could pull the Rock Fiction out of the book, or the Rock Fiction can compliment the story or… I don’t know! Let me read it and see. But be careful. This is one Susan may not let me have.
Rock Fiction Coveting: Unraveling You by Jessica Sorensen
Tags: broken souls, how about a review copy, Jessica Sorensen, Jett covets, romance, wanna read
Believe me, I know that Jessica Sorensen’s second in this series is already out. You should hear Susan’s outraged yowls about its title; let’s all make up new words!
But we’re not here to talk about that one. Nope, let’s start with the very beginning. I hear it’s a very good place to start.
Lyric Scott has always had a good life. Outgoing, spunky, and musically talented, she’s constantly surrounded by family and friends, yet she still feels there’s something missing.
Then she meets her new next-door neighbor Ayden Gregory. Mysterious, sweet, and sad, Ayden is the exact opposite of Lyric and exactly what she needs to fill the void in her life.
Ayden has been through more than most people and believes his life is always going to be rocky, so when he’s suddenly adopted by the Gregorys, he’s thrown for a turn. But even with a new, loving family, he still finds himself haunted by the memories of his old life. The only true breath of fresh air is when he’s with his best friend, Lyric Scott.
As Lyric and Ayden grow closer, the lines of their friendship start to blur. But when Ayden’s past unexpectedly pushes its way into his new life, their friendship and newfound attraction will be tested.
**A novel about Ella and Micha’s daughter and Lila and Ethan’s son from The Secret Series. However, this series can be read on its own.**
So Lyric is missing the angst gene, like Susan. And Ayden fills that need, and for him, Lyric shows him what it means to be happy.
But where’s the music? Where’s the Rock Fiction?
Supposedly, it’s there. The other Jessica Sorensen books I’ve come across all have a Rock Fiction angle to them (she says even though she hasn’t read them yet to verify), and Lyric is the daughter of some rockers. So we’ll have to trust that this is more than yin and yang coming together. We’ll have to trust that the music’s really there.
Rock Fiction Coveting: For the Record by Charlotte Huang
Tags: Charlotte Huang, New Adult, not sure about this one, romance
At first, I was hoping this book had some cool other culture associations with it, but from this description, I might have lost hope.
Chelsea thought she knew what being a rock star was like . . . until she became one. After losing a TV talent show, she slid back into small-town anonymity. But one phone call changed everything.
Now she’s the lead singer of the band Melbourne, performing in sold-out clubs every night and living on a bus with three gorgeous and talented guys. The bummer is that the band barely tolerates her. And when teen hearthrob Lucas Rivers take an interest in her, Chelsea is suddenly famous, bringing Melbourne to the next level—not that they’re happy about that. Her feelings for Beckett, Melbourne’s bassist, are making life even more complicated.
Chelsea only has the summer tour to make the band—and their fans—love her. If she doesn’t, she’ll be back in Michigan for senior year, dying a slow death. The paparazzi, the haters, the grueling schedule . . . Chelsea believed she could handle it. But what if she can’t?
Okay, so right off the bat, I’m confused. She thought she knew what it was like, and then she was a star. And after she was a star, she lost a stupid TV talent show and went home with her tail between her legs and got a phone call.
Umm… so when exactly was she a star? Before or after that stint on TV? Why would such an unlikeable person get the gig? Why her, and why not a million others, who’d get along better with the band and have the fans eating out of her hand from the get-go? Is she in high school? College? What’s she a senior of?
Yeah. Color me confused.
Someone send me a copy so I can figure all this out ’cause right now, it’s kinda seeming like a hot mess.
Jett’s Review: Gary Benchley, Rock Star by Paul Ford
Posted: May 9, 2015 in Reviews
Tags: Nick Hornby, not my thing, Paul Ford, skip
So I said to Susan, “I hated this. I gave up on, like, page eight.”
And she said, “Give me a break. Try again.”
This time, I got maybe halfway through before I’d had enough. Gary Benchley is one whiny boy. He’s not anyone I want to spend time with, so … too bad, boss. I don’t like spending time with him. Fingernails on a chalkboard.
Now, this book is compared all the time to Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity. So, since I’ve never read that, it was off to the library with me.
And… from the first page, I could tell High Fidelity was a better book. Rob’s more pleasant to spend time with, but in the end, he’s no one I want to be around for 300 and more pages. I got to page 205, in case you’re keeping track. But the guy’s a loser. He’s in his thirties, he’s whiny, he’s not successful at what he does and worst of all, he doesn’t seem to care.
So where’s the Rock Fiction? Who cares? In High Fidelity, Rob works in a record store and he and his little loser buddies put everything in the context of music. In Gary Benchley, Gary wants to be in a band. Whee. It’s hard to care about the rock when the people are so gross and pathetic.
Yeah, skip both these. Unless you like whiny men, and then you’re golden.
Rock Fiction Coveting: Geek with the Cat Tattoo by Theresa Weir
Posted: May 8, 2015 in Rock Fiction Coveting
Tags: how about a review copy, Jett covets, Theresa Weir, wanna read, what is it?
Here’s a twist of a book for you. The second in a series, this is the only Rock Fiction so far. I think.
Shy music geek Emerson Foshay breaks into a cold sweat and is rendered speechless whenever Lola Brown, the girl of his dreams, steps into his guitar shop. But once a stray cat named Sam follows him home, everything changes and Emerson becomes the coolest guy in town.
Love that it’s a cat that makes the guy cool. Me, I’m a dog person and dogs make a person the coolest of the cool, but here, it’s a cat.
But… what’s the book actually about? Emerson being cool? Landing the girl? Connecting with Lola? Outgrowing her ’cause of the cat? And does catnip make him roll around and drool?
Inquiring minds. Like mine..
Rock Fiction Coveting: Born to be Wild by Lynne Connolly
Tags: how about a review copy, Jett covets, Lynne Connolly, romance, series, song title book title, wanna read
Susan’s known Lynne Connolly’s name for awhile now. She reviews somewhere online, and Susan reads those reviews.
I wish I had time to read other reviews, but I’m still behind on reviews I owe Susan and yeah, I got into a bit of trouble in the library again. I did it in the name of a review, though, one Susan had asked me for, so it’s … not as bad as usual.
So. This book. Born to be Wild — Steppenwolf, baby!
Maybe. Here’s what it’s about.
For six years Riku has wanted only one woman. Every person he has had on tour with the Murder City Ravens has been unable to compare to the electric lovemaking he had with Cyn. They had everything together, love, passion, fire, sex—until the day she left him and everything between them behind. Riku wants answers as to why she left, but he wants her more.
Cyn abandoned her future as an opera singer—and her relationship with Riku—when she dropped out of the Institute. A day hasn’t gone by that she doesn’t crave Riku’s body against hers. Now he’s back in her life, if only for a few weeks, and she plans to make the most of the time they have. Dressing rooms, the manager’s office, no location is off limits for their whirlwind romance. Cyn knows she can’t keep him, but that doesn’t stop her from falling for him, mind, body and soul, all over again.
WHY do women do this? WHY do we give up our dreams for a man? Do we really think we’ll be happy? For real?
Anyway, this is the sixth book in the Nightstar series that Connolly’s written, and judging by the paltry numbers of reviews on GoodReads (I didn’t read any! I swear!), this series is flying under the radar. That means I gotta find out why. And probably start at the beginning, too. That would be good.
Anyone know anything about these books? Anyone?
Add ’em to my list. And hopefully, my local library’s got copies so next time I go in and start causing trouble for myself, it’s so I can give Susan something better than what she asked for.
Review: Beautifully Used by Susan Griscom
Tags: fun, glad I got a review copy, not Rock Fiction, romance, Susan Griscom, sweet, worth the read
Back in Rocktober, Susan Griscom sent me a review copy of her two Beaumont Brothers books, Beautifully Wounded and Beautifully Used. Took me awhile to get through them, and I already reviewed Beautifully Wounded. I think the fact that it’s not Rock Fiction had me dragging my heels about getting Beautifully Used read … and then reviewed. I finished it awhile ago. Like a month or so.
But I take good notes. So let’s get to it:
Beautifully Used is the story of one of the minor characters in Beautifully Wounded, Jackson’s brother Brodie. Brodie’s your classic male slut and although I kept wondering why word never got out in this small town they purportedly live in about what a slut he was, the girls kept coming around. I don’t know. I’ve never been the type to seek out the easy lays, and it’s not like Brodie had the freedom to go chase tail: as a bartender, he’s pretty much locked into a fixed location. That’s why I wonder why word never got out about him.
And then, in the first book, he meets Gabrielle, the best friend of his brother’s girl. For Brodie, it’s lust at first sight, of course. Gabrielle isn’t so sure.
Which is why Lena and Jackson push them repeatedly into close quarters as they wind up essentially being the last-minute go-fers for Lena and Jackson’s wedding. Lena’s so glad to have her friend around, but in her pre-wedding Bridezilla self-obsession doesn’t spend that much time with her friend. Jackson, likewise, is absent. So it’s Gabby and Brodie and yeah, there’s no hope for them. We know they’ll be together.
The conflict comes in a way that’s too similar to the first book, too. Stalkers, confrontations in the woods, almost deaths. Brodie’s habits are less of an issue than this stalker-dude, and Gabby’s horrific past is dealt with way too easily.
While there’s more music in this one — the band goes on the road for a show, in a pretty implausible way (but it’s still fun — I have stress that. It’s fun) — it’s still not Rock Fiction. There’s not enough music, not enough of the right elements that push these people from being people into being stars. They’re just people who make music.
So. Lots of negatives here. And yeah, there are. But like the first book, this is a fun, easy read. It’s perfect for a day on the beach, a time when you want to escape into someone else’s life and see that they have it as tough, if not tougher, than you do, but at the same time, their problems aren’t insurmountable.
Not every book has to be lofty, not every book has to tackle the big issues. Sometimes, easy breezy is the way to go, and with that, Griscom delivers in spades. It’s a good escapist couple of hours, and I’m glad I read these.
Huge thanks to Susan Griscom (as opposed to our site owner, Susan) for sharing her books.
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Ed and Laura Verner: "We set some goals when we opened Pasture. It was about innovation, it was about creativity and it was about sharing a life together.” (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
Taking intimate dining to new levels: Pasture, the amazing shrinking restaurant
Samuel Scott | Guest writer
Why would a business owner choose to reduce customer numbers? The couple behind high-end Auckland restaurant Pasture explain their philosophy.
Some key rules for running a successful restaurant are keep your food costs down, keep the average spend high, and maximise your floor space. Get as many customers in and out as possible.
A popular Otago spot, Black Rabbit Kitchen & Bar, recently made national news when it was forced to reduce from 40 seats to 12. As this could cripple their business, the owners were desperate to get their seats back. But in a kind of reverse-logic land, Ed and Laura Verner, owners of the acclaimed Auckland eatery Pasture, have recently chosen to reduce capacity from 20 seats to six.
They are doing this for their own sake – not as a business measure, not because a council order, but as a way to refine the dining experience they offer while simultaneously reducing the stress of being owner-operators of one of the most meticulous restaurants in this country.
Every customer now sits at ‘the pass’, watching over chef Ed as he personally prepares each dish. You feel the warm glow of open fire, on which most of the food is cooked, then, when Ed fans the flames, you feel a surge in heat. This is visceral cooking – you literally feel it on your skin. You smell the proteins shifting as fat and flesh fight back against the raging coals. There is no hiding poor quality in a setting like this. It is a very different kind of dining experience, and in a way it’s a perfect fit with Ed’s style of food; ingredient-driven, fierce flavours, uncompromising.
Like a scene from a western, Ed sharpens his knives as you take your seat at the pass (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
October saw the release of the Cuisine Good Food Awards winners for 2018. Unquestionably they’re the premier accolades for all things fine dining in New Zealand, so, much like yacht racing or Waiheke Island, they are fairly abstract for those who don’t often – or indeed ever – get to eat in such places. One notable omission from the evening was Pasture, whose co-owner Ed Verner was named Cuisine’s ‘Chef Of The Year’ in 2017. The reason for the omission was essentially little more than the change in seating.
To be fair to Cuisine, Pasture changed the dining experience after the judging period. The same fate has befallen The French Cafe as it changes ownership and chef. Cuisine editor Kelli Brett tells me she is a big fan of Pasture. “It put us in a difficult decision,” Brett says. “I have no doubt that Ed and Laura will continue to deliver excellence, they’re both extremely talented, but we need to able to say, hand on heart, we’ve been in there and we’ve experienced it.” Cuisine has included Pasture in the “Ones to Watch” section of its 2018 restaurant guide.
Well, I’ve been to the new six-seat version and I can say, hand on heart, that it is a great dining experience. For the price ($210), it should be. But over 14 courses, with crayfish, blue abalone and dry-aged wagyu among the ingredients, this is no ordinary meal.
Ed has created his own kind of restaurant. With all the seating at the pass, it feels very much like a high-end omakase-style sushi restaurant, and indeed the first course is sashimi of snapper belly served on a little disc of ice. But the food is closer in style to kaiseki, the Japanese multi-course cuisine that puts nature and the seasons centre stage. Flowers and a love of vegetables and seasons feels kaiseki, but the flame-grilled fish and meat feels more carnal and perhaps South American, and the regular acidic hits of Pasture’s fermentation programme feels decidedly Scandinavian. Ultimately, there is no one clear influence – it’s New Zealand produce sourced and prepared with an obsessive attention to detail.
The liquid nitrogen tank takes pride of place in dining room (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
Pasture opened in 2016 and was almost instantly hailed as one of the best restaurants in the country. For Ed and Laura, who have both in the past used food, nature and travel as tonic to recover from head injuries, it all blew up very fast. This year they took a long break over winter to travel, see some old friends in Copenhagen (and dine at the recently revamped Noma, where their old sous chef is now cooking) and rethink exactly how they wanted to run a restaurant.
After taking some time and looking at things from different angles, they decided the best way to communicate their vision was to reduce the number of seats. Currently open four nights a week, with two seatings a night, Pasture can serve a maximum of 48 customers a week. On the face of things, this seems nuts, but to Ed and Laura it’s how they could find some balance and in fact how they could sustain the restaurant. The pressure felt in restaurants to maintain standards and work yourself into the ground is a huge subject of debate right now. Perhaps by making the choice to downsize, Ed and Laura are just getting ahead of the curve?
“We’ve made the choice to downsize with our eyes wide open,” Laura tells me. “Remember, me and Laura don’t always have to get paid,” adds Ed. “And we don’t,” laughs Laura. “For Ed and I, this is our life for as long as we have this lease. We set some goals when we opened Pasture. It was about innovation, it was about creativity and it was about me and Ed sharing a life together.”
Blue abalone, which is served in a pool of abalone liver sauce that you shoot with a shot of Thomson whisky (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
For Laura, who comes from South Africa, caring about providence is in her blood. “My family took over a rundown vineyard – the soil was in a terrible state. Over many years, through biodynamic process, they rebuilt that land. That was a really privileged upbringing – to be exposed to those practices and to really good food – and so it’s really import to me now that our wine list and the food we source reflects those values.”
Ed had a different journey to his food awakening. The Englishman travelled in Japan for a year, which opened him up to a broader universe of flavour than that offered by 90s UK fare. “Unlike Laura, I hadn’t grown up with food at all, so when I landed in Japan I was like ‘holy shit’. I went there with the insurance money I got after I had a head injury playing rugby, just to take a year off and experience something new. At home my mum wouldn’t even cook with garlic because my dad didn’t want bad breath, so Japan was just something else. I’d eat everywhere.”
At Pasture, age is used to great effect to intensify flavour (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
My wife and I shared the two drinks pairings with our meal at Pasture. One is boozy, with cocktails, wine, whisky, a wild ferment cider and sake, and in true Pasture style, it is all from New Zealand. It’s great, but having been to one of Pasture’s “Rebel Yell” natural wine nights, I would have liked to see a more adventurous skin-contact wine in the mix somewhere – I think it would have suited the food. The non-alcoholic pairing, however, was mesmerising. The acidic, textured, house-fermented juices feel more adventurous and pair very well with the deep, smoky flavours of Ed’s cooking. Weeks later, I still feel like I can taste the fermented cucumber and the cold-pressed strawberry. Every drink feels like a vivid and innovation expression of the fruit or vegetable at its base.
The thing that gets me about all of these drinks, and a number of the courses, is the time that has gone into it. I don’t mean the human effort, though that is a factor too, but the months of ageing. The sourdough, made with a starter that is several years old (and is the best sourdough I have eaten), is served with a butter that, the night I dined, had been ageing for over eight months. Bread and butter, almost my favourite course of the night. Seemingly so simple, but think of the time that has gone into making the simplest of dishes reach such dizzy heights.
Some more delicious experiments (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
Time isn’t something we talk about a huge amount in food. We want things fresh, we want them fast, but time is inextricable from growing vegetables and raising livestock. It’s a cliche to say we are disconnected from the providence of our food and the work that goes into feeding the bulging cities of this planet, but despite 20 years of River Cottage TV shows, there’s still confusion over the providence of meat in our supermarkets and slices of tomato in our sandwiches in the depths of winter. If Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was dead, he’d be rolling over in his grave.
Obviously we are all supposed to appreciate seasonality and capitalise on produce when it’s at best. At this point time is your enemy, the degradation has begun, the living thing is dead and will eventually make you very aware of its deadness with its rot and wilt and stench, its bacteria, its sudden potential to cause harm.
That is unless you use time and decay to your advantage. This is where cooking becomes something arcane and wonderful. Ageing meat, ageing dairy, clamping vegetables, pickling, preserving, curing, smoking, drying. All of these things intensify flavour. And if you source your ingredients carefully and start the process with a great product, then what you put in your body at the end of it all may just be magic.
Tools of the trade (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
Ed buys only whole animals, which means investing in entire cows of the finest wagyu produced in New Zealand. He won’t reveal the exact source of the beast as it took great effort to build the relationship with the farmer. Pasture is their only New Zealand customer, with the rest destined for Japan. Suffice to say, it’s some crazy-expensive high-grade beast. And in a move that would make financial planners cringe, they then take these whole cows, break them down and dry-age the meat for months before even thinking about selling it on to the diner. The per-kilo cost creeping up as the meat dries, reduces in size and intensifies in flavour.
The end product though, holy shit. It’s insane, unquestionably the tastiest piece of beef I have ever masticated.
During the full tasting menu, the beef was sirloin. Tempered slowly over the evening, just lingering near enough to the raging fire to gently warm through. Ed brushed the sirloin with rendered aged fat every 20 minutes or so. By the time it’s cooking (hard and fast over white hot embers), it’s glowing with promise. A generous slice for a tasting menu is served with a roll of wilted spinach that is simultaneously reminiscent of a New York steakhouse side and a kaiseki banquet dish. The sauce, the stand-in where you might expect a reduced rich jus, is a very light, acidic, beefy dressing enhanced by fermented beef garum, made in the same process as a Vietnamese fish sauce.
A fish sauce made with beef? I recently had the pleasure of a lively debate with New Zealand food writing legend Lauraine Jacobs about whether anyone wants to read about fine dining. I argued that fine dining was beyond the reach of almost everyone, that glossy food magazines around the globe paid too much attention to something that is essentially unattainable. I like food writing to focus on the stories around food that are universal and relatable. Jacobs countered that fine dining is a fantasy escape and everyone deserves to be treated to luxury once in a while, which is worth saving up for. I couldn’t disagree, I just haven’t eaten enough fancy-shmancy food to really know what I’m talking about.
Four-month wagyu and seven-month wagyu at Pasture (Photo: Samuel Flynn Scott)
Jacobs is an expert in her field and I’m an enthusiastic dabbler. But getting to eat at Pasture and discovering the beef garum, I realised there was something else about fine dining that was more important to me, at least, than luxury: innovation. Again, having the time to search. This to me was it, this is why you pay so much money, why restaurants at this level must exist. The beef garum was a deeply delicious, surprising idea that worked. Why couldn’t it become a classic New Zealand product? With the amount of beef and dairy in this country, there must be tonnes of waste. How cool would it be to ferment that into a magic brew of intense culinary power?
Pasture is a very expensive dining experience, that can’t be denied. Of the 14 courses I ate, I think maybe one or two pushed my boundaries a bit far. But that’s OK, it’s not safe food. It’s exciting, it’s a bit odd, and when it works its sublime. The sourdough: cosmic. The fire-grilled snapper, caramelised skin on the outside, raw in the middle, was a revelation. Laura runs the service like a choreographed performance. Napkins appear on your lap like magic. They balance out the fine-dining finesse with a soundtrack of 80s rock and pop that feels stubbornly fun.
Ed and Laura have built Pasture without any industry investment. They are truly independent operators and they are doing things their own way. There is something brave but also risky in their approach. There is no a la carte lunches, or Instagrammable Korean taco pop-up evenings. Repeat customers make up about 50% of their business and for a $200+ tasting menu, that tells you something.
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Baseball betting: Why King Felix, among others, is no longer safe
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King Felix is no longer a safe money line bet.
As we enter the final stretch of the regular season, I often adopt a betting philosophy that many of my colleagues harp on as being “ridiculous” and “overprotective.” I like to believe that their observations are nothing more than rancid hyperbole, but I like to keep my winning percentage as high as possible — as any acute sports bettor should — and, because of this, I typically leave no stone unturned. In this case, this is the third year in a row now that I seriously look at pitchers who are usually considered “safe bets” and then look at what type of position their team is in.
In other words: Is a star pitcher, one I would normally place my money line bet on, playing for a team that is so far out of contention that not even an Angels in the Outfield type of miracle could save their season? If that is the case, I stop betting on them. No questions asked. As mentioned, my colleagues think I’m ludicrous for doing so. But, I believe there are too many mental — and managerial — intangibles at play in these type of situations. And, whenever there is any slice of doubt, I am not willing to place my cash on a bet. I would rather play it somewhere else where I know I am almost guaranteed to get a solid return on investment.
For an example of this, one has to look no further than Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners. Granted, Hernandez is five outings removed from a perfect game. And, granted, he has been one of the most consistent money earners in baseball betting this season. But, the Mariners are 16.5 games behind the AL West-leading Rangers. There is absolutely no shot of salvaging the season. No playoffs. Not even a moral victory.
So, in my mind, I am asking this: What legitimate reason does Hernandez have to pitch at a Cy Young-caliber level? Aside from the pundits who will say, “because he is a winner — and winners want to win,” I say nothing. And his last two outings tell the story. In his last two starts, Hernandez has allowed nine earned runs. In contrast, he allowed only 10 earned runs in his previous eight starts. And, to make matters worse, he has only lasted 4.2 and 7.1 innings in his last two starts. From a betting perspective, he is no longer a pitcher worthy of the money-line bet.
In the end, Hernandez is simply one example of this happening all across the league. Will there be exceptions? Of course. Heck, Hernandez may throw egg on my face his next outing and throw another perfect game.
But I doubt it. It is much more likely that Hernandez is actively thinking about his offseason vacation plans rather than ball placement while on the mound. Personally, I cannot blame him. I just hope those of you just getting into baseball betting for the first time recognize the dangers of betting on a pitcher whose team is completely and utterly out of the race (or out of anything, for that matter). You will be much more successful (especially financially) if you begin to place your bets on those pitchers hurling for teams still in contention, or those who are nearly locks for playoff positions.
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Cannabis retailers warn of lingering supply shortage
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Don and Aaron (last names withheld) from the United States show off their cannabis purchases outside British Columbia's first legal cannabis store in Kamloops, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Demand for newly legal pot appears to be outstripping supply on the second day of legalization as retailers ran low on some products or were cleaned out completely, manifestations of a shortfall that some provinces warned could last for months.
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries said Thursday that it is expecting product shortages in both brick-and-mortar and online stores could last “up to at least six months.”
“Every province — not just Manitoba — is receiving substantially less cannabis than originally requested… Retailers in Manitoba will be receiving staggered shipments over the next few weeks (some daily) in an effort to meet their requests,” said a spokeswoman for the Manitoba crown corporation in an email.
A B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch spokeswoman said that “shortages are/were expected to impact all jurisdictions across Canada as some (licensed producers) look to opportunities in overseas markets.”
Four of the largest licensed producers indicated to B.C. earlier this month they would not ship their full product commitment in time for the launch of online sales and the province’s lone store, she added.
“LPs point to a number of factors in reduced product volume and assortment including issues with supply chain, lower than expected crop yields, and insufficient supply of packaging materials,” the spokeswoman said in an email.
Retailers saw long lineups and a wave of online purchases Wednesday as Canadians rushed to make their first-ever purchase of legal recreational pot and witness the historic moment.
Cannabis industry players and watchers had earlier warned that there would be product shortages amid supply chain issues, but the actual appetite of Canadian consumers for legal pot was unclear until the day it became legal.
By most accounts from provinces that did provide figures, demand was high.
On the first day of legalization in Canada, Quebec’s crown cannabis corporation had recorded more than 12,500 in-store transactions and 30,000 online orders, which “far exceeds” its expectations.
The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation said it conducted 12,810 transactions totalling more than $660,000 in sales, of which almost $47,000 were online, a spokeswoman said. In Prince Edward Island, total sales on the first day was more than $152,000 after tax, nearly $21,000 of which was online.
In Alberta, where private retailers handle in-store sales, the government-run website processed 8,300 orders as of 3:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, worth approximately $730,000, a spokeswoman for the province’s gaming, liquor and cannabis commission.
The online-only Ontario Cannabis Store would not release specific numbers, but spokesman Daffyd Roderick said “the response to cannabis legalization has resulted in a high volume of orders.” Online delivery will now take as long as five days, as opposed to the earlier timeline of one to three days, due to the volume of orders in the first 24 hours, he added. Ontario Premier Doug Ford had said on Wednesday morning that OCS.ca had handled 38,000 orders since its midnight launch.
A B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch spokeswoman said it handled about 9,100 orders online in the first 24 hours and 800 transactions at its brick-and-mortar store in Kamloops in the first day.
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“The first day of recreational sales in Canada appears to have been a success highlighted by the long lines and enthusiasm from shoppers,” said GMP Securities analyst Martin Landry, after his research team visited retail stores in four different provinces to take the pulse of shoppers.
After surveying 100 customers, Landry and his team found that customers on average bought $80 to $90 worth of cannabis, with variations between provinces. Eastern Canada consumers had a basket size of between $60 and $70, but in Quebec and Alberta it was $90 and $100, respectively, he said in a note to clients.
“Seeing cannabis shoppers wait in lines as opposed to take the traditional easy illegal supply route is refreshing and bodes well for the recreational market in Canada,” he said.
The lines stretched into the hundreds at some retail locations across the country on Wednesday, and some provinces said they saw shorter queues on Thursday.
Still, the country-wide supply crunch continued to make it difficult for cannabis retailers to meet existing demand.
The Quebec Cannabis Corp. said Thursday that some items are unavailable on its website and it expects further product shortages — particularly oil, capsules, atomizers and pre-rolled joints — going forward.
“Given the craze created by the legalization of cannabis and the scarcity of products across Canada, the (corporation) expects significant short-term supply challenges,” it said in a statement on Thursday.
Customers line up at a government cannabis store Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 in Montreal on the second day of legal cannabis sales in Canada. Ryan Remiorz / The Canadian Press
Alberta and Prince Edward Island also said Thursday certain products have sold out online, and Nova Scotia said it ran out of certain strains.
Private retailer Thomas Clarke in Newfoundland and Labrador said he is continuing to turn away customers at his store in Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s after completely selling out of product Wednesday.
Chief executive of retailer Fire and Flower, Trevor Fencott, said its five stores in Alberta and Saskatchewan are fully stocked but it won’t launch its online store for Saskatchewan until it receives more supply.
Consumers going to British Columbia’s website on Wednesday were told that several strains of marijuana were sold out and B.C.’s only retail location in Kamloops ran out of one variety of dried cannabis.
The province’s Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Thursday he wasn’t concerned the province would run out of legal marijuana in the first days of legalization.
Farnworth said new supplies will arrive as other strains of pot sell out.
“This is an agriculture product, so we’ll get some varieties coming in soon and others may take a little while to put in place,” he said. “As we know the federal government has put in place additional licences, for example, and the product from those is coming on stream.”
Canopy Growth Corp. CEO Bruce Linton said the licensed producer expects by next Friday to have shipped to all provinces and territories 100 per cent of the volumes it had committed to over the next 30 days, but within 10 days of legalization.
He noted that the cannabis grower in these supply agreements signed on to deliver a certain quantity over a year, and that order specifics did not become clear until roughly two weeks ago.
Linton added that was difficult for all parties to gauge demand for a product that has been banned from recreational use for so long, he added.
“There is mega demand… This is the end of prohibition in a fashion that is absolutely, globally unequalled,” Linton said.
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It is Autumn, and the new books are falling in like leaves off a tree. Autumn is the height of publishing season, so here’s a batch of picture books to keep your reading pile stacked high.
I won a what? – by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Robert Neubecker
A boy wins a whale at the circus. His parents have said no to anything with fur or feathers, so when he wins this they let him keep it. The whale, named Nuncio, starts to become a problem and Dad says it has to go, but the resourceful child finds ways to make Nuncio indispensable for the family. The illustrations playfully match the tone of the story, with bright swathes of primary colours. Added bonus, the family has dark skin, adding to the stack of books that do not feature blond-haired white kids.
City Shapes – by Diana Murray, illustrated by Bryan Collier
This jaunty rhyme makes this a good one for storytime sharing, and looking for shapes is always fun. Collier’s watercolour and collage art add depth to the rhyme, and he takes us inside a cityscape filled with circles, triangles, rectangles, diamonds, & ovals. Your next trip to the city may just be filled with shape sightings. Love the nearly-abstract cityscape end pages.
Princess! Fairy! Ballerina! by Bethanie Deeney Murguia
The sparkly cover will draw in many a young reader. The cast of characters includes a dark-skinned princess, so chalk up one more for diversity. And the story turns the typical sparkly girlie book upside down at the end when they cast off their wings, crowns, and tutus for mud boots. The story is spare, but the illustrations are fun and the message is full of girl power.
One Hundred Bones – Yuval Zommer
This British import will satisfy dog lovers and dinosaur fans in one fell swoop. The digital illustrations have a watercolour feel that reminds me somewhat of Chris Raschka’s work. The story of dogs finding dinosaur bones is nothing new, but there’s a little message about friendship that makes this one a bit more special. A fine choice for storytime.
The Airport Book by Lisa Brown
Definitely take a peek under the cover of this one to see the varied cast. The book begins on the end pages – in fact, the whole book is so well designed – the flow, and movement, the whole package is well done. The feel of an airport is so well captured the illustration as we follow this biracial family on their way to visit grandparents. The airport is filled with people – punks, elderly folks, a man in a headscarf, people in wheelchairs, fancy folk, and families of all sorts. The action is a perfect capture of a trip to the airport and on the plane. A good storytime book and also a great one to recommend to families preparing to travel.
Expl orers of the Wild by Cale Atkinson
This simple story, which takes a lesson from Blueberries for Sal, will appeal to a wide audience. Tow explorers — a boy and a bear – finally run into each other and then become great pals. The illustrations make it fun — a dark-skinned boy and a little bear cub traipse through the woods in a nicely designed page-layout. For the first part of the book, there’s a big tree trunk separating the two explorers, but one they meet, the illustration becomes full-spread. The art features all the luck colours of the woods— greens and browns and oranges and yellows. A fun romp for lap sharing or storytime.
Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin & Rob Dunlavey
In just a few words, a night-time owl adventure takes place. The pacing swooshes along as the baby owl explores the blue world of night. The watercolor, coloured pencils, and collage illustration fits and moves the story along. Good choice for quiet toddler storytime and for young readers figuring out new words.
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Ra Medical Systems receives US FDA clearance for DABRA peripheral artery disease treatment
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted market clearance to Ra Medical Systems—makers of excimer lasers and catheters for cardiovascular and dermatological diseases—for the company’s Destruction of Arteriosclerotic Blockages by laser Radiation Ablation (DABRA) system. The system is intended to deliver a safer, faster and cheaper solution to peripheral artery disease treatment than the market otherwise offers.
“DABRA’s pivotal study demonstrated 95% success without any clinically significant adverse events,” says Ehtisham Mahmud study chair and chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, director of Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center-Medicine and director of Interventional Cardiology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, USA. “Furthermore, the DABRA catheter is unique in its ability to cross chronic total occlusions (CTOs) without having to cross the lesion with a wire, and it also debulks and modifies arterial blockages, making it an invaluable clinical tool.”
Compared to other treatments for arterial blockages, Ra Medical Systems’ DABRA has a shorter procedure time and is less expensive, according to a company release. Combined with its safety profile, the release states, these advantages may reduce the costs associated with treating peripheral artery disease.
“DABRA is what we have been waiting for to better treat our patients,” adds Athar Ansari, director of California Heart & Vascular Clinic, El Centro, USA. “It is a two-in-one. You cross the blockage and remove the plaque from the artery. It is safe, because it stays in the patient’s true lumen and does not go subintimal or perforate—common complications of other devices—and it is effective on all types of lesions. It is revolutionary wireless technology and effective in cases in which other devices have failed. DABRA should be part of every cardiovascular catheter lab’s armentarium.”
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Re: NFL Thread
Post by Northern Raider » February 4, 2019, 7:32 pm
The one that drove it home for me was the 'comeback' drive after Pats TD. They finally went for a few short passing plays (screen followed by a short crossing route) and worked the ball down to the 30. Immediately went back to the deep ball which had beem failing all day. Goff throws a panic ball under pressure and its intercepted. Game effectively over from that point.
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Post by PigRickman » February 4, 2019, 7:37 pm
Pigman wrote: ↑
Matt wrote: ↑
@pigman,
I just read that Jags might trade Fournette to Philly for Foles.
Thoughts?!?
Interesting side note on this, the Eagles restructured Rodney McLoud and saved 7.5mil in cap space
And now the expectation is they'll try to tag him and trade him for a 3rd round pick... which is weird because they're getting a 3rd round compensatory pick if they let him walk... which makes me think Howie has something up his sleeve and he's planning to more aggressive in FA than you'd think... he's got a lot of ways to easily make more space.
This will an interesting off season.
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Post by greeneyed » February 4, 2019, 7:47 pm
Northern Raider wrote: ↑
That was gold!
It was a stock standard GO route too, it's a simple read... you put that to the back corner and see if he can make a play... and Goff just totally under threw it. Really bad throw, really bad decision
He kept trying to go for those big shots and most of them didnt have a chance
The short stuff felt like it was there all day, not too dissimilar to the KC game... aggressive offensive coaches and QB's looking for it all, instead of just taking whats there.
Pour some out for the Organisations who went all out looking for the next Sean McVey... should be looking for the next Doug Pederson.
Post by Northern Raider » February 5, 2019, 12:27 pm
Brian Flores now officially the new Dolphins head coach. Many crediting him as the man who delivered this Superbowl for the Patriots by shutting down McVay's offence.
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Post by Matt » February 5, 2019, 12:51 pm
Just finished reading that and was about to post it.
When you bring in a new head coach with such high credentials on defense that must be complemented by a top shelf offensive coordinator.
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There's a lot of talk about the Dolphins tanking next season so they can draft from the strong QB class coming out in 2020. Gives Flores a free pass for at least 1 season. Possibly 2 if they totally clean house and rebuild through the draft.
Its a tough gig still. Coming into a once great franchise that has drastically under achieved the last 25 years. Something us Raiders fans can relate to.
Post by Matt » February 5, 2019, 3:05 pm
TANKING...
Pretty sure if that was found out to be a thing, all sorts of crazy punishments would come out.
And, yep, very much so.
But it is a thing. particularly since rookie contracts are structured. No more exhorbitant contracts for the top picks means they are valuable commodities for teams once more. Not automatic 4 year salary cap burdens. Only last season the Jets tanked it to get Sam Darnold.
The NFL has no rules in place to stop it. I don't mean intentionally throwing games on the field, they simply pick teams that can't win them.
Im pretty skeptical about Flores
He's got the chops and certain his SB performance was very impressive (though i think Goff and McVey pissing down their legs on the big stage was more of a factor), but the BB coaching tree has been... to be frank... an unmitigated disaster... i dont know what it is, maybe they all just TRY to be him and can't... or more likely, it speaks to his level of genius, that these dudes are all a bit **** because, it's not them, it's Bill.
So yeah, im not super pumped about the Flores hire, but i do think he's got a better chance than most. From what i've read, there is some Pederson vibes about him, as in he's got his mentor but is also very comfortable with who he is and his style.
Re: tanking, dont kid yourself, it happens in the NFL, Hue Jackson's first year as a coach was a tank job for the ages.
Just not to the level of other american sports. Which is the nature of the game... the NFL has bigger squads, thus bigger coaching staffs... and most of those dudes live year to year in terms of employment. The HC and GM might have a plan, the ownership might have a plan, but those dudes have to bust their **** to make a living.
So yeah the Dolphins are going to tank, and by that i mean they're going to turf tannehill, they'll eat a **** ton of dead salary, they'll trade what few assets they have for whatever they can get, and they'll put out a very ordinary team... but that team will attempt to play and coach it's **** off, because... they've got bills to pay.
In the NBA, you can just sit Joel Embiid for 2 years, let Ben Simmons sit his rookie year with a broken foot, the coach can put out young guys and bad rotations. It's easy. When you're dealing with 100 staff across players and staff, 80 of which aren't sure they'll be around to see the fruits of the tanking labour? Tough.
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Post by gergreg » February 5, 2019, 6:39 pm
Yeah but it's Miami. They do their best tank and still end about 8 and 8.
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Tru dat. There’s very little between their worst team and their best.
Post by PigRickman » February 6, 2019, 8:30 am
Yeah that's what i mean... even a team tanking can "try hard" and jag themselves like 4-5 wins because dudes are trying to get paid.
Look at the jets, they desperately wanted to tank for a QB 2 years ago, and McCown jagged them 5 wins and they had to trade UP for Darnold.
With so many moving parts, it's really hard to tank in the NFL. Which is why what Hue Jackson did was... in many ways... so damn impressive
If the Dolphins really wanted to tank, they should just pay Flores to have a year off coaching and really "study" the game away from the coal face and just hand Hue the reigns for 2019. Then they'll get Tua.
The fun thing will be seeing who and for how far people will go to tank 2020 to get Sunshine Lawrence out of Clemson, who is as good and clean a prospect as i've ever seen... even more so than Luck, who was considered the best QB prospect since Payten Manning.
I think 2020 is going to a wild race to the bottom for teams without a QB...
I think we're going to see some good teams do some wild **** to try to get him. The patriots, steelers, saints, chargers are just a few teams with studs now but who will need someone by then, who could just seriously tank it for a year, get their QB and kick the feet up for another 15 years of elite QB play.
which of course means that Tom Brady will retire after this next season, Kraft will give BB a year off as a break, the Pats will go 1-15 and draft Trevor Lawrence and just roll into another 2 decade long dynasty
Post by Matt » February 6, 2019, 8:36 am
I dont see that as 'Tanking'. Tanking is intentionally throwing games.
The description above falls into the 'rebuild' or 'clean house' category. If you dont have the cattle, you simply cant win games, no matter how hard the boys might play. Thats just a fact of life. At the end of the day, skill will usually beat heart/ effort.
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Post by Northern Raider » February 6, 2019, 11:22 am
Tanking is the art of losing. There are many ways to do this. NFL teams do it by fielding teams that (theoretically) aren't good enough to win no matter how hard they try. Only takes few weak cogs for the whole machine to fail. It is effectively throwing games but its done by those off the field, not on it.
The key point is how many other teams are tanking for the top QBs as well? Mix that with the teams that just plain suck anyway and it could become a very cluttered at the bottom.
Truth is it doesn't make sense to go into a season with the intention of tanking. Start building your squad now and get the best result you can. Keep building the following season from whatever position you end up in. If you're rebuilding I think its better to stockpile draft picks than load up one one coveted prospect. For every Peyton Manning there's a lot more like Ryan Leaf and JaMarcus Russell. History tells us that quantity often beats quality at draft time as its so hard to tell who will rise to the top. Tom Brady will arguably go down as the best QB ever (at least in regard to winning SBs) and he was a 6th round pick!
Tanking - Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games. When a team intentionally loses a game, or does not score as high as it can, to obtain a perceived future competitive advantage, the team is often said to have tanked the game instead of having thrown it. In pool hustling, tanking is known as dumping.
That is tanking, at least not by definition. Tanking requires you to throw the game.
The above descriptions are 'team rebuilding' or 'clearing house'. Ok, the result is essentially the same, BUT the process of getting there is different. The over riding thought process is to try and get a high draft pick by not being successful, due to lack of cattle, NOT losing games because you threw them. Its the 'legal' way of doing it, if you want to look at it that way, vs the illegal way.
Really getting into some serious semantics there Matt. I've described what they're doing. Call it whatever you are comfortable with.
Post by PigRickman » February 10, 2019, 5:35 pm
AAF kicked off today and from what I’ve seen and read, I think that league is going to have legs as an off season filler for the NFL
The quality of play was pretty solid and those dudes are all out there scrapping for their dream
Amazing the NFL never did this themselves
I’m a lifelong *checks notes*
Arizona Hotshots fan,
and this thread is now a dedicated news service for the Hotshots
Honestly though, this could have ramifications back here, a guy like Val Holmes... playing a little AAF to put some tape out there isn’t a bad option.
It’s a really good avenue for players who think they want to do this to get their feet a little wet, whilst still earning a wage and skipping the college system
FWIW tanking isn’t intentionally throwing games
This is professional sports and jobs are on the line, like dudes who don’t have anything but this, who can’t provide if not for their gifts in sports are out there scrapping to make something
No one is throwing games
Tanking is an organisational direction/philosophy to put a sub par talent on the park, and make decisions in the mind set of being happy to lose games
The Sixers tanked. But they always played hard and tried their best. It’s just the organisation has no interest in fielding a team whose best was remotely good enough
That’s why they sat Embiid for so long and why Simmons somehow missed an entire season with a broken foot
The dolphins are from all reports going to tank for Tua
Post by Northern Raider » February 10, 2019, 6:22 pm
Pigman, I hadn't heard of the AAF till you posted that. Just read up on it and I like the conept in theory. Game play is fundamentally the same as the NFL so there's no confusion for fans. Rule changes are more around the format, which is more condensed (shorter play clock, less scheduled time outs etc). I like how they approach overtime deciders. Each team gets a 1st and goal from the 10 with no field goals. If its still tied after that then points are shared.
Timing is very good too. Starts right after the Superbowl and wraps up around draft time. Fills the gap where there is nothing but mock drafts to keep NFL fans amused. Also gives players a chance to crack an NFL team roster by performing on the field rather than less tangible measures of ability. You never know, it could unearth another Kurt Warner.
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Post by Matt » February 10, 2019, 6:41 pm
Ive only seen highlights of the AAF, and its better than arena football. Its closer to the NFL, and i could definitely see this as a 'reserve grade'/ pathway to NFL for players.
It certainly feels a better option than Canada. It looks like its gonna get a better profile.
Semantics or not guys, get a dictionary. By definition its not tanking.
I totally understand what you are saying.
I totally agree the outcome, or at least the indended outcome, is the same.
I know that if they actually tanked there would be serious repercussions, and therefore this is the legal version - something i said earlier.
Post by PigRickman » February 11, 2019, 9:56 am
Yeah there is a lot of different rules which i think the NFL will monitor VERY closely to see how they work... The Onside kick is a major one and it feels like given the chances to the kicking rules, it's a matter of time before onside kicks move to a 4th and 10-15 or something
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Dare say there's been some collaboration with the NFL about trialling a few rules.
Post by Matt » February 12, 2019, 10:12 am
Kareem Hunt is a Brown.
What about Chubb?
Post by Matt » February 14, 2019, 5:47 am
Flacco to Bronx for a 4th. Seems low. I would have said a SB ring holding QB, even an old one, is a 3rd.
I like that kind of party
If Flacco is worth a 4th, maybe Roseman can tag Foles and get a second for him
Thats the thing though, Foles is worth a 2nd already. I dont think it needs Flacco to go for a 4th.
Post by Northern Raider » February 14, 2019, 8:08 am
Raven probably wanted more but sounds about right. Flacco is a known commodity and not going to come in to win them a Superbowl. He's a quality starter who going to be their transition QB while they attempt to draft and develop an upgrade to the position.
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Post by the bone » February 14, 2019, 12:48 pm
I don’t like the Flacco signing from a Broncos perspective. Should’ve just stuck with Keenam for a year while they develop a QB from this year’s draft... I guess they didn’t like any of their choices or weren’t willing to give away picks to trade up
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yeah im with you, Bone.
Just simply as players, i think Keenum is better than Flacco. Flacco's last few years has been dreadful. It's hard to imagine hime finding the old Joe Cool from 5-6 years ago when he was a very respectable, boarderline top 10 QB.
So player to player, i think they are both flawed QB's who you have to work around, but i dont think this is a major upgrade on Keenum... Flacco costs more and you lose a 4th round pick for it.
It ultimately comes down to this, you get the pick of these two packages
Flacco
Keenum, a 4th and 5-6mil in cap space.
Hard for me to imagine how a team picked the first package.
It only makes sense if they already have the QB for Flacco to mentor. So... ummm... yeah.
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Letter: “We must never allow our voices to be silenced”
November 8, 2017 by Jennifer Doyle 3 Comments
Letter to the Editor,
This letter is in response to Selectman Flemings open and personal attack on an Upton citizens request for public information. It also addresses Mr. Rosenfield’s “letter to the editor” published in the Town Crier defending Mr. Fleming.
Mr. Rosenfield’s accusations along with his assertion that the request for public information was based on citizens “perception of the services of the prior Town Manager, and the method of management employed” are insulting. Both elected and appointed public officials who displays inappropriate behavior need to be challenged, not endorsed.
Selectman Fleming and former board members levied the same contempt at me when I dared to question the prior Town Manager’s agenda and conduct. Selectman Flemings repeated pattern of abusive behavior when challenged was directed at me at a public meeting (reported in the Milford Daily News) where he aimed falsehoods and mistruths at me. I called out his distortions and outright lies in my February 22, 2016 letter to the editor published in both the Milford Daily News and the Upton Daily. I have yet to receive an apology.
Mr. Fleming and Mr. Rosenfield appear to suffer from the same affliction of needing to reinforce publicly that they are the smartest in the room. Their behavior and actions indicates otherwise.
The last I checked we live in the United States of America. The founding fathers drafted the constitution to protect our rights and freedoms. I remind Mr. Fleming and Mr. Rosenfield that we do not live in an autocracy and that there is no place for a King in our democracy. Our ability to question truth to power keeps government in balance.
We must never allow our voices to be silenced.
William D. Montenegro
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Frank Lee says:
I’ve had a few similar experiences with Mr. Fleming. He has the unique ability to fly off the handle and then ask you to calm down. He supported the former tyrant of a Town Manager through her many attacks on residents. Soccer fields, Gravel pit company, restrictions on use of public lands, attacks on residents of private roads, the list is endless.
Someone needs to ask Mr. Flemming how he became aware of a public info request in the 1st place. It was more than improper for him to disclose that request in public or to question the motives, it was criminal. I’m hopeful that the AG investigates him for a public information request violation.
Pamela Goodwin says:
I have first hand experience with Mr. Fleming departing from acting as a member of a Board and doing his own thing. I don’t care how much experience he has.. The last few issues of The Town Crier have addressed precisely this issue. People are sick and tired of the attitude. I fail to understand why the other two members of the Board of Selectmen allow this to continue. Mr. Fleming should be ashamed that he is referred to a king..or perhaps it simply feeds his ego. I hope there are numerous candidates to choose from in May….
Stan Coffin says:
I was at that meeting, and can attest to everything Mr. Montenegro details. It was shameful, and I applaud him for bringing this to light
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Any questions regarding topics not included should be directed to the Athletics Division. The requesting person/organization is responsible for adhering to these polices and ensuring all players, spectators, attendees, vendors, etc., are aware of these policies.
Failure to adhere to these policies may result in cancellation of current rental contract and will result in denial of future rental applications.
Game schedules must be submitted to the Athletics Division no later than 72 hours prior to rental.
Each field is designed to have one game played on it at a time. If individual fields have simultaneous games being played on them or an additional setup is required, an additional fee will be charged.
The facility gates will open at 7 a.m. Games may begin at 8 a.m., unless otherwise stated.
Uniformed police or security officers may be required for rentals. Renter will be notified if security is needed after review of rental information by the Athletics Division and/or Police Department. The entire cost of the security is the responsibility of the renter and must be paid directly to the vendor.
Alcoholic beverages and gambling are prohibited on City of Irving property. This includes fields, parking lots, open spaces and roadways. (Ordinance Number 3519, § 1, 9-11-80; Ordinance Number 5621, § 2, 5-11-89; Ordinance Number 8047, § 1, 9-5-02; Ordinance Number 8405, § 1, 11-4-04)
Smoking and the use of tobacco product is not permitted. (Ordinance Number 2015-9662, § 1, 2-19-15)
Facility staff reserves the right to cancel an event in whole or in part. Field closures may result from inclement weather, poor playing conditions or field damage which may cause hazardous safety considerations for the public or excessive repairs to the field.
If lightning is seen, a mandatory game delay of 30 minutes will be enforced for all players, coaches, officials and guests; all must leave the fields and seek shelter. Staying in dugouts, near fields or under pavilions is not acceptable. Updates will be communicated to the tournament organizer. Tournament organizer will make the determination.
Staff or registered volunteers from the Parks and Recreation Department will be on-site during all events at staffed facilities and are the only authorized personnel to perform field maintenance, unless otherwise communicated.
Personal 10x10 tents or canopies are allowed in designated areas only. The placement is determined by facility staff in order to maintain safe traffic flow and views of fields. Failure to comply will result in patron being asked to leave the facility. Renter is requested to assist with ensuring their participants and spectators comply.
Parking is permitted only in designated areas. Street parking and parking in grass areas are prohibited. Private vehicles are not allowed in or near field areas.
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Approved vendors will be allowed to unload vehicles at assigned locations prior to participants’ arrival. If arriving after the event has started or participants are present, they must unload vehicles in the parking lot.
League associations will be given priority for providing concessions. Should they choose not to, the renter will be allowed to make other arrangements, subject to Athletics Division approval. A temporary food permit will be required through the City of Irving Code Enforcement Department. All nonfood vendors are subject to approval by the Athletics Division.
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Police appeal for dash cam footage to identify attacker
Police investigating the stabbing of a woman at Ailsa Hospital in Ayr are appealing for dash cam footage that may have captured the woman responsible.
© NHS Ayrshire & Arran
Around 10.00 am on Thursday 22nd November, the 42-year-old woman, a Community Support Worker, suffered serious injuries after being stabbed in the car park of the hospital. She remains in Ayr Hospital and medical staff describe her condition as being stable.
Superintendent Brian Shaw, of Ayrshire Division, re-iterated earlier appeals for anyone with information to contact Police Scotland. He said:
“At this time no-one has been arrested. However, the public should be aware that our extensive enquiries are continuing. Ailsa Hospital remains open to staff and patients as normal today.
“I am particularly keen to hear from anyone who was driving in the area of Ailsa Hospital in Dalmellington Road, Ayr, anytime between 9.30am and 10.30am yesterday and who may have captured the woman on their vehicle’s dashcam. Dalmellington Road is a busy road and there would have been a large volume of vehicles passing during these times.
“If you have footage or any other information about the woman who carried out the attack please contact Police Scotland via 101. She is described as being around 5’2″ to 5’3” in height, aged between 30 and 50 years, of slight build and with a pale complexion. She was wearing a dark woolly hat and a dark jacket.
“If you recognise her description or have information about her identity please call Police Scotland via 101 – incident 0923 of 3/11/2018 refers.
“Information can also be given anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.”
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That is a beautiful picture from Anne Lewin, her husband Daniel Lewin and their two boys. Anne was married to Daniel whom was very likely the first person to die on September 11th attacks. We remember today all the victims to honor their memories.
According to CNN reports from that tragic day 12 years ago
Lewin was sitting in seat 9B. With his Israeli military training and understanding of Arabic, he may have figured out what was going on, perhaps even tried to stop it. According to flight attendants’ calls relayed to authorities on the ground, the first passenger to be killed was seated in 9B. He was stabbed to death.
Daniel who was born in Denver, Colorado but was raised in Israel served as an officer for the Israel Defense Forces. After his four year service he became a brilliant student graduating summa cum laude in 1995. The son of Charles and Peggy, both doctors, he had two younger brothers, Michael and Yonatan.
He later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to continue his PHD studies where along with Professor F. Thomson Leighton, co-founded Akamai Technologies, Inc. which is one of the world’s largest distributed-computing platforms.
The former captain turned entrepreneur met his wife Anne in Israel after she immigrated from Belgium. The couple was based in Massachusetts and have two sons Eitan and Itamar Lewin who were aged five and eight during the September 2001 attacks where their father who was 31-years-old lost his life.
Anne’s husband could have been killed by Satam al-Suqam according to A 2002 FAA memo. The highly successful technology executive received many awards and after his death many have honored his memory and legacy; he is the subject of the 2013 biography No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin as well as the “Danny Lewin Square” that used to be the intersection of Main and Vassar Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts but was named after him.
His wife Anne and two boys now age 17 and 20 still live in Massachusettes.
A true genius that will never be forgotten.
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Wait Just One Moment.
Chronicling My Media Consumption—A Link Roundup Series
Author: Elysia
Things I Loved and Will Probably Continue to Rave About for a Long Time: 2017 Edition
January 11, 2018 January 11, 2018 ElysiaLeave a comment
A very brief post-mortem of the things I had no regrets spending my time on. As always, in no particular order.
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby
Difficult Women, Roxanne Gay
Dinner: Changing the Game, Melissa Clark
“Division by Zero,” Ted Chiang
“Sour Heart,” Jenny Zhang
“Cat Person,” Kristen Rouopenian
I, Tonya
Honorable mentions: Killing of a Sacred Deer, Coco, Dunkirk
Honorable mentions: Stranger Things, Master of None, The Good Place, The Crown, BoJack Horseman
More Perfect
S-Town
Honorable mentions: The Heart, Invisiblia, Reply All, Revisionist History, Ear Hustle, Lore
Individual Episodes: “Null and Void” (Radiolab), “Budget Time” (Planet Money), “Charles Manson’s Hollywood” (You Must Remember This), “A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station” (The Memory Palace), “The Containment Plan” and “This Is Chance” (99% Invisible), “Act V” (This American Life)
Posted in Books, Favorites, Just Because, Movies, Pop Culture
Chronicling My Media Consumption: Vol. 6
March 4, 2017 March 7, 2017 ElysiaLeave a comment
Food for Thought (…See What I Did There?)
“Unspeakable Appetites” (Lenny Letter)
In film, you’ll find a lot of female characters who are also cannibals. This short piece offers some thoughts on the matter.
“Revenge of the Lunch Lady” (Huffington Post)
In one of America’s most unhealthiest counties, Rhonda McCoy, a food-services director, revamps the oft-dreaded school lunch.
“There’s a Massive Restaurant Industry Bubble, And It’s About to Burst” (Thrillist)
Citing unreasonably high expectations from consumers, rising labor costs encroaching on already-thin profit margins, and pressures to compete with trendy fast-casual places, this harbinger of doom of an article predicts the death of the independently owned sit-down restaurant.
“Learning to Make Lasagna in Kyrgyzstan” (Bon Appetit)
A writer recounts how cooking became a form of self-care while serving in the Peace Corps.
“Journeyman” (New Yorker)
Here’s an excellent profile of Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and world explorer.
Further reading: “Fiction Confidential” (Eater)
“Alpha Gal” (Radiolab)
Amy Pearl learns that she might have an unusual food allergy. What’s a person to do when she discovers that eating meat might kill her?
Further listening: “May Contain Nuts, Pt. 1: Alpha Gal Returns” “(The Sporkful)
Everything I Want to Eat: Sqirl and the New California Cooking by Jessica Koslow
This is truly a coffee-table cookbook, full of beautiful and at times perplexingly styled photos, dazzlingly complicated recipes that veer into impracticality, and lots of vegetables. I may never cook anything in its pages, but I still want it on my bookshelf.
“Nobody Is Home” (Aeon)
Thanks to our modern times, home might not be where the heart is anymore.
“You Want to Marry My Husband” (New York Times)
Children’s author Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer last fall, creates a dating profile for the husband that she’ll leave behind in this touching and heartbreaking Modern Love column.
“Losing Streak” (New Yorker)
Kathryn Schluz reflects on the experience of losing things, both trivial and profound. She writes, “We lose things because we are flawed; because we are human; because we have things to lose.”
Further reading: “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
“Together Alone: The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness” (The Huffington Post)
Despite seeing gay rights achieve huge gains, gay men still feel incredibly alone and alienated.
“‘I Feel Like a Fraud’: Confessions of a Broken-Down Domestic Violence Lawyer” (Vice Broadly)
A lawyer learns just how Kafkaesque the criminal justice system is when it comes to domestic abuse.
“‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’” (New York Times)
This photographic essay documents the horrific brutality of President Rodrigo Duterte’s violent anti-drug campaign in the Philippines. It is not for the faint of heart.
Further reading: “The Tough Guy” (New Yorker)
“The Prairie Wife” (New Yorker)
“Gender Studies” (New Yorker)
I am now currently waiting in anxious anticipation for Curtis Sittenfeld to one day release a short story collection.
“Amok” (The Memory Palace)
What does a 19th century news report about zoo animal escape have to do with our present day? Spare five minutes and take a listen.
“MGM Stories, Part 12: Lana Turner” (You Must Remember This)
In this episode from the archive, Karina Longworth explors the rise of Hollywood’s “Sweater Girl.” There’s also a gripping account of her daughter’s murder trial. (Cheryl Crane was the talk of the town after she killed her mother’s boyfriend.)
“No Hollywood Ending for the Visual-Effects Industry” (Freakonomics)
Stephen Dubner takes a deep dive into Hollywood’s visual-effects industry to learn why America’s studios are going bankrupt.
Millennial‘s four-part series on Cuba
Megan Tan travels to Cuba to explore what it’s like coming-of-age in a country so different from ours.
“Adulthood Made Easy”
I bid adieu to a podcast that was always earnest, often reassuring, and occasionally aspirational. Each episode was full of sound advice and the comfort that comes from other people agreeing that being an adult can leave you scratching your head.
Season 4, Rectify
I expected nothing less than a stellar final season of this beautiful, thoughtful show. In many ways, Rectify is the anti–crime procedural; whereas most crime shows treat viewers to fast-paced plot twists, splashy action scenes, and forensic science, Rectify is never really interested in who commits the rape and murder that upends the Holden family’s lives. Instead, it’s won my everlasting devotion because it takes its sweet old time (only a few months elapse over the course of the entire show) and feels introspective in a way that many other shows are not.
Looking for more hilarious shows about really annoying twenty-somethings that live in Brooklyn? Look no further! When Dory learns that a college acquaintance has gone missing, she enlists her ragtag group of friends and her boyfriend to crack the case.This show, which can be best described as a satire, is sharp and self-aware with plenty moments of humor and existential ennui.
Just go watch it. I promise it’s excellent.
Paul Beatty’s Man Booker prize is well-deserved for this absurdist tragi-comedy, in which the protagonist tries to reintroduce segregation to save his hometown in California. You’ll laugh out loud, feel deeply uncomfortable, and learn something about race in America.
“My Father And I Both Chose HBCUs, But Not For The Same Reason” (BuzzFeed)
“It’s a Problem That We’re Not Talking About Jimmy Kimmel’s Mahershala Ali Jokes” (Marie Claire)
“Call and Response” (New Yorker)
“Dear Economist, I Need a Date” (Planet Money)
“Blink One for Yes” (Love and Radio)
Posted in Just BecauseTagged books, cooking, food, internet, Lana Turner, links, millennials, podcasts, Rectify, television
December 31, 2016 February 12, 2017 ElysiaLeave a comment
“10 Streets that Define America” (Curbed)
Full of cinematic gifs of boulevards, thoroughfares, and tree-lined avenues across the United States, this interactive showcases how new developments and changes have affected ten different cities and neighborhoods. Put it all in perspective with a nifty feature that lets you see how a profiled town compares to your current address.
Further reading: “Return to Ohio” (The Atlantic)
“Brand New Hue: The Quest to Make a True Blue M&M” (New York Times Magazine)
Natural blue food coloring is notoriously difficult to make, but with consumers eschewing artificial anything, food chemists at Mars Chocolate put their thinking caps on and try to recreate the bright hue so easily provided by Blue No. 1. Fun fact: Blue No. 1 is the only food dye that is able to cross the blood-brain barrier.
“Spoiler Alert” (Pacific Standard)
On the topic of food, a bureaucratic nightmare of regulations and 15 federal agencies maintain the safety of our food supply. Ironically, these rules might make us more susceptible to the next outbreak of foodborne illness.
“How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Third of the Cost” (The Atlantic)
Take a peak inside a country where health care is protected as a constitutional right and a holistic and primary care physician–centered approach.
“Speak, Memory” (The Verge)
When Roman Mazurenko passes away, his best friend creates an unusual digital memorial: a bot that responds to texts from his loved ones so uncannily reminiscent like the deceased.
TV accompaniment: “Be Right Back,” Black Mirror
“With Child” (Harper’s Magazine)
With our current administration, we might see more states looking a lot like South Dakota when it comes to abortion access.
“Sex, Drugs, and Bestsellers: The Legend of the Literary Brat Pack” (Harper’s Bazaar)
Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt give the Lost Generation a run for their money.
“Launch Pad” (New York Times Magazine)
Arunachalam Muruganantham made it his mission to design an affordable sanitary pad for the women in his life.
Further reading: “Code Cracking,” “Look Again,” and…actually, the entire Design Issue is worth reading from front to back.
“They Speak Gilmore, Don’t They?” (HazLit)
When I watched the reboot at home, my brother, who was also in the living room, turned to me after the opening scene and asked, “Why are they talking so fast?” Well, here are some thoughts.
“My President Was Black” (The Atlantic)
Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on the promise, disappointments, and experience of America’s first African-American president.
“My Friend Sam” (New Yorker)
Curtis Sittenfeld writes a touching essay to her best friend Sam. Their friendship takes them from their college days to Sam’s cancer diagonsis. I won’t spoil the ending.
“My Son, the Prince of Fashion” (GQ)
Michael Chabon reflects on accompanying his son to Paris Fashion Week, where he begins to understand who is son really is, his passions, hopes, and dreams.
“Every Body Goes Haywire” (n+1)
An author reflects on the neurological disorder that inflicts her and her mother.
Further reading: “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain” by Leslie Jamison
“The Hygge Conspiracy” (The Guardian)
All those cozy nights spent around the fireplace with hand knitted socks, hot cocoa, and the company of family and friends have a dark side.
“The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea” (New Yorker)
The Eritrean soccer team has a field day as they plan a mass defection after a World Cup game. (Sorry for the bad pun.)
“The Afterlife of a Ballerina” (Elle)
Alexandra Ansanelli is exceptional in the ballet world: a prodigy who discovered dance years after most aspiring professional ballerinas put on their first shoes; a principal dancer not only for the New York Ballet but also the Royal Ballet; and in a move that surprised everyone, a rare talent who decided to quit at the height of her powers.
“The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn” (New Yorker)
Meet Carrie Goldberg: the lawyer fighting in the new frontier of sexual privacy.
“The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close” (New York Times Magazine)
Chuck Close has made his career with larger-than-life, exquisitely rendered portraits, but he has entered a new phase in his life—divorcing his wife, disappearing to Miami Beach, and developing a new mode of painting that is a departure from the pieces that made him famous.
Books/I Recently Read a Lot of Non-Fiction
The Argonaut by Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson reflects on family life, motherhood, and her partner’s gender transition in this wondrous essay-memoir. The writing spills over with beautiful turn-of-phrases, and Nelson intersperses her prose with just the right amount of critical theory to keep your brain on your toes.
The Warmth of Other Sons by Isabel Wilkerson
For those who are interested in learning more about systemic racism and oral histories, I got you covered. Life for African-Americans was marked by constant terror in a world whose byzantine rules life-threateningly fickle at best.
Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
If you’re looking to escape your liberal bubble with a book, skip Hillbilly Elegy and pick up sociologist Arlie Russell Hoschild’s empathetic, candid account of the people she met in a deeply conservative county of Louisiana.
I know, I’m late to the party, but who knew I would like this nostalgic, creepy, and endearing show so much?
“The Inherent, Unsullied, Qualitative Value of Anything,” You’re the Worst
This episode does impressive work in terms of both its form and content. We pick up (kind of) full-circle with the gang at a wedding, where the continuous camera shots do a wonderful job of depicting the small dramas of the guests. By putting the characters with lots of feelings about their lot in life and their significant others in a social setting that is meant to be celebratory and requires them to be on their best behavior, it’s no wonder that conflicts come to a head.
Black Mirror continues to excel in pinpointing the uncomfortable and unsettling facets of our technology-filled world and taking them to their logical, dystopic extreme.
Further reading: “The Speculative Dread of ‘Black Mirror‘,” New Yorker
This serialized is simultaneously captivating and excruciatingly boring in its careful attention to detail, but if you’re as obsessed with Queen Elizabeth as I am, then you’ll love every minute and be unusually forgiving of the bad CGI animals. The show shines with its nuanced portrayals of the monarchy and the toll it takes on Elizabeth and her relationships with those around her.
In this introspective show, host Jonathan Goldstein takes listeners as he tries to right past wrongs, mend broken hearts, and resolve petty squabbles. Plus, Heavyweight’s theme song is the catchiest.
Highly recommended episodes: “Toby,” “Tara”
“Boy in the Picture,” Reply All
There’s a lot of stuff on the Internet, which means that there are a lot of stories behind the items that wind up there. PJ, Alex, and Sruthi try to track down a boy that’s featured on a meme and create an episode that has a crime-procedural flair and plenty of moments of suspense.
Malcolm Gladwell takes his signature blend of pop social science and passioned polemic to the airwaves with ten episodes that want to challenge your assumptions and make you reconsider the forces that lead to certain decisions and historical events.
I saw this movie on a Thursday afternoon in a theater filled with senior citizens, one of which fell asleep and snored loudly in a back corner. And it was the perfect way to watch Manchester by the Sea. What this movie does best is capture the funny awkwardness and small tragedies of everyday life. I laughed and cried, sometimes all at the same time, and it’s the type of thing that gels well with my (very) dark sense of humor.
Further reading: “The Cinematic Traumas of Kenneth Lonergan,” (New Yorker)
This movie was just so, so charming.
Posted in Just BecauseTagged ballet, food, food safety, hygge, internet, Oscar films, podcasts, Queen Elizabeth, soccer
October 17, 2016 December 18, 2016 ElysiaLeave a comment
“We Were the Only Plane in the Sky” (Politico)
After planes struck the Twin Towers on 9/11, George Bush was shepherded onto Air Force One. This oral history describes what happened during the eight hours the President spent in what was then considered the safest place to be: the sky.
“The Blob That Cooked the Pacific” (National Geographic)
Thanks to warm ocean water created by El Niño, an algae bloom has taken over the West Coast. The toxic algae has decimated populations of local marine wildlife and might provide a preview of the ecological carnage that could result from climate change.
“‘I Had No Choice But To Keep Looking‘” (New York Times Magazine)
Five years have passed since a tsunami swept across Tōhoku, but a husband and a father continue to search for their missing family members.
Podcast accompaniment: Act One of “One Last Thing Before I Go” (This American Life)
“From Hiroko to Susie: The Untold Story of Japanese War Brides” (Washington Post)
When WWII ended, as many as 45,000 Japanese women followed their American husbands to the United States. These war brides faced challenges when it came to adapting to the mores and culture of a new country, but many thrived in their new homes, including the author’s mother.
“That Dragon, Cancer” (Wired)
When Amy and Ryan Green’s one-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer, Ryan channels his experiences into a video game.
Podcast accompaniment: “The Cathedral” (Reply All)
“The Arctic Suicides: It’s Not the Dark That Kills You” (NPR)
Greenland has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world. In a country where nearly everyone seems to know someone who has taken their own life, communities struggle to save their youth. The piece considers the prevalence of suicide in the context of Greenland’s colonial history and its lack of mental health resources.
“Marvel, Jack Kirby, and the Comic-Book Artist’s Plight” (The Atlantic)
Jack Kirby fights Marvel for his original artwork.
“Flight Risk” (Slate)
It turns out that airlines don’t quite know what to do with creepy passengers who can’t keep their hands to themselves.
“Women and Guns” (Marie Claire)
This interactive feature casts a spotlight on an issue normally not associated with woman. There are opinions from both sides of the debate, colorful and informative graphics, and pieces written by Hillary Clinton, Carla Fiora, and Roxanne Gay.
“Making House: Notes on Domesticity” (New York Times Magazine)
A home is something that is presented, polished and showcased to others. But one of its main functions is to also serve as a living space, which inevitably begins to bear the traces of its past and present inhabitants. This essay explores these two sometimes contradictory roles that we ask our humble abodes to play.
“Framed: She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would harm her?” (LA Times)
This six-part series explores a personal brouhaha between a PTA mom and a two married attorneys in Irvine, California. It’s a sordid tale with reality television twists and an inside look at how the other half lives.
“Huma Abedin on Her Job, Family, and the Campaign of a Lifetime” (Vogue)
Huma Abedin is probably best known for being Anthony Weiner’s ex-wife, but she has thrived in the political realm in ways that her husband never will. Nathan Heller’s profile explores Abedin’s unique position as Hillary Clinton’s right hand woman and the sacrifices and rewards that come with it.
Continue reading “Chronicling My Media Consumption: Vol. 4” →
Posted in Just BecauseTagged Carly Rae Jepsen, Fleagbag, Movies, music, podcasts, television, Transparent, You're the Worst
September 2, 2016 September 20, 2016 ElysiaLeave a comment
A Handful of Links
“The Emails of Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer” (New York Times Magazine)
I had the best time reading this profile. It was delightfully bizarre. It made me wonder whether Jonathan Safran Foer really did divorce his wife because of Natalie Portman. It revealed how thoughtful the actress was and how self-indulgent the writer was. And what am I supposed to make of the fact that Foer eventually unearths an email that was supposedly deleted? It definitely deserves closer scrutiny and a closer reading than I’m giving right now.
“Fences” (New York Review of Books)
Zadie Smith eloquently shares her disappointment with the Brexit. Aleksandar Hemon makes a brief cameo.
“Their Bodies, Ourselves“(The Atlantic)
I am fascinated by gymnastics because of its contradictory demands. Few sports require enormous athleticism, bedazzled pageantry, and an insistence on aesthetics all at the same time. This article draws parallels between the demands on Olympic gymnasts and notions of femininity in our culture.
“Ralph Lauren’s American Dream” (Racked)
According to recent news headlines, clothing retailers are having a rough time. Ralph Lauren presents an interesting case where the very things that have made it iconic are now working against them.
“Train to Nowhere” (The Verge)
Surprise! Cincinnati once tried to build a subway system, the remnants of which languish beneath the city’s streets. Recommend for anyone who has a fascination with America’s dismal investemnt in infrastructure and public transit networks.
“Why Are New York City’s Streets Always Under Construction? ” (New York Times)
While we’re on the topic of infrastructure, there’s also this fun piece about the “modern spaghetti” that lives below ground of NYC.
I Finally Caught Up on a Two-Month Backlog of New Yorker Magazines
“Love in Translation” by Lauren Collins
Collins’s husband is a native French speaker, and when the couple relocates to Geneva, her goal to learn French reveals surprising insights about her relationships to language, the people around her, and culture. It’s a familiar subject for an essay, but the piece has lots of small, wonderful moments. My favorite include: the author’s husband using the word “capillarity” in common parlance, the author discovering that her husband uses the French-equivalent of “dude”, and this wonderful metaphor: “English is a trust fund, an unearned inheritance, but I’ve worked for every bit of French I’ve banked.”
“Citizen Khan” by Kathryn Schulz
In the early 1900s, Zarif Khan began amassing fame and fortune by selling tamales in Wyoming. It’s a fun historical anecdote that ultimately has larger implications on today’s attitudes about immigration and who gets to be American.
“The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face” by Patrick Radden Keefe
There’s a police force in London comprised of detectives who have are excellent at face recogition. Keefe presents the crimefighting possibilites of “super-recognizers” and also made me wonder whether we’re creeping towards a dystopian future.
“The Philosopher of Feelings” by Rachel Aviv
Around campus, I knew that Martha Nussbuam was An Important Scholar, but I never quite understood why until reading this profile. It turns out that she’s a pretty cool lady.
“Nan Goldin’s Life in Progress” by Hilton Als
Nan Goldin is also a cool lady.
“Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better Coverage” by Reeves Wiedeman
I know, it’s another gymnastics article, but bear with me. I didn’t have a chance to watch much of the Olympics this year, but thanks to what I heard about NBC’s dismal and droll coverage of the events, I wasn’t too disappointed about it. Wiedeman points out that NBC does gymnastics fans a disservice by assuming that the technical details of the sport uninteresting to its audience. (P.S. Wiedeman’s profile on Simone Biles is also excellent.)
“The Shadow Doctors” by Ben Taub
In Syria, hospitals are often intentionally targeted as a war strategy, leaving the country with a critical shortage of doctors and medical personnel. NGOs and doctors from across the work have banded together to help create a network of underground hospitals.
“The Daredevil of the Auction World” by Rebecca Mead
After reading this profile, I’m waiting for Martin Scorsese to make a movie about the glamorous, high-stakes world of art dealing with Leonardo DiCaprio in his next new role as Christie’s auctionner Loïc Gouzer.
“The End of the End of the World” by Jonathan Franzen
I may have mixed feelings about Jonathan Franzen as a writer, but I did really like his description of the avian specimens that he saw during his trip.
I always thought that I wasn’t a fan of interview podcasts, but I was proven wrong by Longform, which features interviews with a different nonfiction writer each episode. I spent a weekend binge listening and learning fun things about my favorite journalists and writers from Emily Nussbaum to Ezra Klein.
“Photo Credit” (99% Invisible)
Roman Mars dives into the history of Lucia Moholy’s photographs of the Bauhaus. There are two interesting threads to this episode: the idea that buildings from a prominent architectural movement survives mostly through photographs and how hard it is to receive credit for your work.
“Playing God” (Radiolab)
In times of emergency, how do you decide who gets medical care and who gets to make the decision? This episode receives high marks for asking tough questions about triage and the allocation of scarce resources.
When Women Stopped Coding (Planet Money)
There are a lot of factors that explain the gender gap in coding and computing. Planet Money offers one theory.
Invisibilia, Season 2
The wait for Invisibilia’s second season was long, but it was worth it. Whether it was about teaching oil rig employees how to express their emotions or using compassion to fight Islamic radicalization in Denmark, each episode features excellent reporting and compelling insights.
“10 Ideas to Make Politics Less Rotten” (Freakonomics)
This episode makes the list mostly because I was excited to learn about different ways of voting.
“On the Shore Dimly Seen” (Love + Radio)
This episode featured a performance piece that draws from the interrogation log of detainee 063 at Guantanamo Bay. It was creepy and captures all the horrors of no-touch torture.
“The Girl Who Doesn’t Exist” (Radiolab)
Radiolab’s latest episode features a girl who was born and raised in Texas but has left no paper trail her entire life. Things get complicated.
Season 4, Orange Is the New Black
I have mixed feelings about the latest season. The last few episodes broke my heart, but I have a lot of nitpicks about the story arc as a whole and the final cliffhanger. If you’re a longtime fan of this show though, all thirteen episodes are definitely worth a watch.
“Mother” (Veep)
Full disclosure: I have not finished the latest season of Veep (thanks to lost access to HBOGo). “Mother” has been my favorite episode of the season so far. It showcases the show’s wonderful dark comedy and acerbic satire. Plus, it gives you another reason as to why Selina Meyer is one of the most colorful characters on TV right now.
The clever pop-culture oriented puns! Animals and people coexisting! Existential ennui! Will Arnett! I’m totally onboard.
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July 4, 2016 August 21, 2016 ElysiaLeave a comment
Long Things
How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus (Vanity Fair Hive)
Earlier this month, Vanity Fair launched a “new mobile-first site devoted to Wall Street, Washington, and Silicon Valley.” As you’d expect, it’s full of articles that give an inside look behind closed doors or their best guess at what’s happening. This piece in particular shines when it describes Facebook’s work culture and lets you see what it’s like to be a part of their world.
Ripple Effect (Wired)
About two weeks ago, I received an email from the DC Public Library system notifying me that seven drinking water sources in libraries throughout the city have high levels of lead. I soon read this article, which follows water engineer Marc Edwards and his quest to protect our water supply from dangerous substances. It’s a sobering reminder that safe drinking water is not something that can be taken for granted.
Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City (New York Times)
My first introduction to school segregation in a present-day context came from This American Life. I’ve always imagined segregation to be a long-abolished relic from the Jim Crow era, but lots of articles like this one have proven me wrong.
Ethics and the Eye of the Beholder (BuzzFeed)
There is a particularly poignant irony in knowing that a philosopher who is celebrated for his stance on ethics fails to applies these same principles to his personal life.
Fandom Is Broken (Birth. Movies. Death.)
Ghostbusters, Frozen, and the Strange Entitlement of Fan Culture (AV Club)
Is the customer always right? Both pieces say no and that the intense sense of ownership that some fans feel about their favorite works do more harm than good.
The Good News at The Washington Post (New York Magazine)
These days, it sounds like everyone wants to be a media company, especially one armed with buzzwords and innnovation (ahem, TRONC). The Washington Post is no exception, but while it has embraced alluring, click-bait headlines, it’s also trying to figure out how to be a sustainable news organization and adapt to an audience glued to its smartphones. I really like learning about the history of publications, and this article offers a look at how one institution confronting change and using the considerable resources of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to its advantage.
New York City, No Filter: On Voyeurism, Social Media, and Life in the City (Brooklyn Magazine)
This lovely piece explores our collective fascination with the quotidian. Plus, anyone who can eloquently explain the appeal of Snapchat earns lots of points in my book.
Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid (Vela)
Is there a conflict between being an artist and a mother? For this author, this is not quite the right answer to ask. In this essay, she eloquently reframes the debate with the following assertion: “The conflict is between the selfishness of the artist and the selflessness of a mother.”
The State of the Domestic Goddess (Serious Eats)
This piece reviews cookbooks from Gwyneth Paltrow and Chrissy Teigan. In doing so, Emily Gould carefully analyzes what exactly each so-called domestic goddess is trying to sell their readers.
On Swarm (Gawker)
A confession: I was never a regular reader of Gawker and probably never will be, but I was intrigued by this essay. It presents a fairly interesting ideas about that type of fake civility and moral high ground that people use to defend themselves in arguments, but it can be a little petty and unnecessarily confrontational. It’s also very long, possibly too long.
Posted in Just BecauseTagged books, Elena Ferrante, Facebook, fandom, Hillary Clinton, Movies, New York City, podcasts, translations
Chronicling My Media Consumption: An Introduction (and Vol. 1)
May 31, 2016 June 26, 2016 ElysiaLeave a comment
As anyone who knows me can confirm, I consume a lot of media. I also have a lot of pet projects. Hence, the start of this new series of blog posts, where I collect all the favorite things that I’ve come across in the last month.
Inspiration for this project came from the weekly newsletters that arrive in my email inbox and from just being on the Internet in general. Lately, a lot of link roundups have been popping up on my radar. And they’re currently one of my favorite ways of spending my time. I’ve always been a generalist. It’s why I double majored in very different fields in college and why I’d make a terrible PhD student. It’s also why I love the link roundups I’ve been reading. The articles that I’ve discovered through these pages run the gamut when it comes to subject matter and format. There’s always something that’s relevant to today’s trending subjects. There’s always something that’s completely random as well. Every week, I shake my head in wonder and think, Boy, there is a lot of cool stuff out there.
So why bother adding my own link round up to what already exists? My memory for the things I’ve read/listened to/watched is unfortunately short-lived, unless I tell something about it or write down my thoughts about them. Luckily, this is where the blog posts come in. Thinking about the things I’ve read and why I like (and occasionally dislike) them will help me remember them better. I’ll have better answers when someone asks me what I’m reading/listening to/watching.
Without further ado, here are the favorite things that I’ve come across about in the month of May (and some extra stuff from March and April slipped in there too).
“Yet I’ll Speak”: Othello’s Emilia, A Rebuke to Silence (The Toast)
I’m a sucker for thoughtful readings of Shakespeare. I haven’t read Othello since high school, but Moran does an excellent job of explaining why Emilia’s line, written centuries ago, remains so salient in the present-day.
India’s Dying Mother (BBC)
I highly, highly recommend reading this article on your phone. Scrolling through this is a joy. Text, images, and video flow together flawlessly, and it’s a gorgeous piece of storytelling that shows how well different forms of media can be integrated.
Same But Different (The New Yorker)
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s An Emperor of Maladies is one of my favorite nonfiction books, and I was more than a little excited to see excerpts from his forthcoming book in the New Yorker. Since their appearance, Mukherjee has received a lot of flak for dressing up unsound science in beautiful prose, but this article still makes it onto my list because I enjoyed every minute reading it.
“You want a description of hell?” OxyContin’s 12 Hour Problem (LA Times)
Purdue Pharma is despicable. That is all.
How Blac Chyna Beat the Kardashians at Their Own Game (BuzzFeed)
I had so much fun reading this article, and Obell does a fantastic job of teasing out what the drama between Blac Chyna and the Kardashians reveals about race and the construction of celebrity.
Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves (New York Times)
This piece conjures all the morbid thoughts that cross my mind from time to time, especially now that I live in a city where it’s so easy to stay anonymous. It’s also an unsettling reminder of the ways institutions and systems can fail people, even after death.
If You Are What You Eat, America Is All Recipes (Slate)
I’m a card-carrying home cook foodie who’s into obscure vegetables and farmers markets, but I learned how to cook from All Recipes and still sometimes uses sour cream as a substitute for ricotta cheese. I’m glad that someone else was also thinking about the different ends of the food culture spectrum.
How Empowerment Becomes Something for Women to Buy (New York Times Magazine)
My favorite kind of think piece: how something is commodified to its detriment.
How Lifetime Became One of the Best Places in Hollywood (BuzzFeed)
As if I needed more reasons to start watching UnREAL.
The Voyeur’s Motel (The New Yorker)
One of my favorite things about this piece is that it might reveal just as much about the author as it does of Gerald Foos, the voyeur himself. There’s plenty of moral ambiguity to go around.
Continue reading “Chronicling My Media Consumption: An Introduction (and Vol. 1)” →
Posted in Just Because, Pop CultureTagged Blac Chyna, books, Game of Thrones, internet, Kanye West, links, millennials, Movies, podcasts, Pop Culture, reading, science, television
On Pretending to be a Morning Person
April 2, 2016 April 2, 2016 ElysiaLeave a comment
After I returned from my trip to Guangzhou, one of my coworkers asked me whether it was harder to beat jet lag after traveling to my destination or after returning home. Six hours fresh from my landing at JFK, I told him that in this case going was more difficult than coming back. After all, I had a conveniently timed flight. I boarded my plane in the wee hours of Tuesday morning in China, which would give me plenty of time to sleep and be ready to hit the ground running at 5:00 am on Tuesday morning when I emerged in New York.
Reader, I was terribly wrong.
I did not have a restful flight. Because I’m a kind person (read: pushover who fears passive aggressive glowering from the elderly), I gave up my coveted window seat in the emergency row aisle to an old woman who wanted to sit with her traveling companions for a seat between other two elderly ladies, both of whom were extremely chatty and interrupted my attempts to watch Argo without interruption.
These past days spent in Eastern Standard Time have been a confusing time.* On Tuesday, I only made it until 11:00 am before I felt a sleepiness so overwhelming that it felt like someone had wrapped a heavy blanket around my brain. On Wednesday, I walked out the door and made it downstairs before realizing that I’d forgotten to wear my glasses and that was why I couldn’t see. On Thursday, I was wide awake by 4, despite having successfully stayed up until 10:30 the night before. I’ve temporarily resorted to writing everything down on old receipts because my memory has become sieve-like, thoughts breezily passing through and then vanishing without a trace. The “20-minute naps” that I’ve begun taking before dinner have left me awfully confused about why it’s suddenly 5:00 am the next morning instead of 8:00 pm yesterday evening.
A more interesting and less miserable side effect of being jetlagged is the chance to masquerade as a morning person. Prior to this trip, my mornings were a frenzied affair in which I would wake up, make myself presentable, and remember to bring my lunch under 20 minutes in order to arrive at the office barely on time. When you’re awake at 5, there is time to watch an episode of Broad City in between brushing your teeth and getting dressed. While I didn’t want to spend more mental energy than I usually did with my clothes, I liked having the option of carefully crafting an outfit. There was time to eat breakfast in the comfort of my own home. There was even time to decide whether to make scrambled eggs or walk three blocks to buy a bagel or in my case, do both. This past week has been filled with bagels, and I’m beginning to suspect that I’m really using bagels as an excuse to eat an otherwise socially unacceptable amount of cream cheese. (Side note: I got distracted by this Serious Eats article, which tells me that I can save money by slathering my bagels with cream cheese myself.)
Because I live in New York, there is no such thing as a completely quiet morning. When I took the subway from the airport back to my apartment, there were already enough people on the E train to fill the seats in my car. That being said, the trains are less crowded. It is easier to maintain the illusion of personal space. There are also more school children, whose existence I was skeptical of but I guess I was just never awake early enough to notice them. I also found out that arriving to work at 8:30 isn’t too bad. While I’m never the first one there (thanks to a boss who is truly a morning person), I like how the rooms are half-dark and that the desks are unoccupied and that the normal soundtrack of Pandora playlist and furious typing is absent. When I’m not running late to the office, brewing myself a cup of tea is something I can dwell on rather than something to do as quickly as possible so I don’t feel like I’m behind with my day.
But there are costs to suddenly become a morning lark. My leisurely mornings come at the expense of a misallocated day. The time I spend doing things slowly at the beginning of the day mean that there is less time and alertness for the personally productive things that otherwise fill my time. I’ve found myself devoting my shortened evenings to getting ready to sleep rather than reading, journaling, browsing social media, or thinking about the next hobby I should try. The solution to this problem is that I should start doing some of these things before I head to work and when I’m still attentive and still actually awake.
It was this mini-dilemma that made me realize what the hardest thing about being a morning person. And it has nothing to do with waking up early. What I dislike most about my hopefully short-lived tenure as a morning person is knowing that there is a time later in the day when I will not be at my peak. At work, I felt that I was racing the clock, knowing if I didn’t complete tasks A, B, and C before the early afternoon, the likelihood that they’d be done with same amount of attention and speed would plummet. The option of doing something later wasn’t truly available anymore, and as a person who is used to being more alert as the day grew on, I had trouble organizing my day. One of my coworkers, who also used this week to experiment with being a morning person, described how there was an intensity to starting your day much earlier. And intensity is an excellent way to describe it. Instead of settling into my day, I needed to start it at my best and knowing that it was as good as it was going to get. I’m sure it’s a system that works well with a lot of people, but as someone who is used to being most alert at night, it was something that was difficult to get used to. (I’m also sure that being jet lagged has a lot to do with it too. My anecdotal evidence and sample size of four days are not very impressive or very statistically rigorous.)
Luckily, I don’t have to get used to being a morning person. With any luck, I’ll be back to my normal sleeping schedule in no time, and while being a night owl is not conducive to a society organized by a 9-to-5, it’ll be a state of being that I’ll know how to navigate.
* I’ve spent some time thinking about why I’ve been having much more trouble with jet lag than I remember ever experiencing. My first thought was that I’m just getting old, but if that were the case, I would have had a much miserable time during the beginning of my trip. My current theory is revolves around the fact that I had to go to work right after returning from my travels. With previous run-ins with jet lag, I generally didn’t have any real responsibilities besides staying awake until a reasonable hour whereas I’m obligated to use my brain for 8 straight hours, regardless of how much sleep I did or didn’t get.
Posted in Just Because, TravelTagged airplanes, bagels, China, jet lag, mornings, sleep, travel
On Learning Turkish
December 23, 2015 July 10, 2017 ElysiaLeave a comment
I’ve never not had class on a Friday, and this was the reason why I was dressed, while my roommate, who enjoyed the luxury of spending the entire day at home, had only recently decided to change out of the sweatpants she had worn all day. We were about to walk to a friend’s apartment where we would find a party, our other roommates, more friends, and maybe one or two strangers. While she blew dry her hair, I waited on a rickety Ikea chair next to the island counter. As usual, I had a book in my hand.
At the time, what I had really wanted to read was a Patricia Highsmith novel. I had been in the mood for a smart thriller, but as luck would have it, Powell’s did not have a copy of Talented Mr. Ripley or Strangers on a Train. I picked up The Black Book instead because the blurb on the back cover promised a detective novel-like plot.
In the dim kitchen light, I tried my best to read carefully. Orhan Pamuk’s prose was dense. It was easy to breeze through the pages and still form the images written on the page, but the book also rewarded you for paying attention. The sentences were woven together with an eye for detail that felt lush. They were also long.
Take, for example, this one:
Although the radio was on from the first thing in the morning till the last thing at night, the thick-coated and not-at-all Turkish-looking china dog curled up on top of it never woke from his peaceful slumber.
The first time I read this sentence, I tripped over its syntax. The second time around, I was only half-paying attention. But then I tried again. A radio, a china dog, a peaceful slumber. I reread it one more time before running to my roommate’s room.
When she saw me at the doorway, she held out a skirt in each hand. “Peach or black?”
I pointed to the black one. “Do you know what’s really cool?” I didn’t wait for her to reply. “You can tell that this book was translated from Turkish! I just read this sentence…”
I tried to explain how the verbs in Turkish were always the last words of a sentence and how it was an agglutinative language. My professor had told our class how Turkish sentences and words could often go on forever, with clause after clause and suffix after suffix piled on top of one another. I described how reading through the short, simplified passages in my textbook was strenuous, even on the best of days, because my English-accustomed brain was not used to sifting through so many words to find the actions that drove a sentence. But that was why the sentence about the radio and the china dog was so astonishing. I had just read a string of words that managed to capture how meaning in Turkish revealed itself in peaks and glimpses, and once you understood, you felt a little silly because the message had been there all along, waiting patiently for you to put the pieces together.
The next morning, I read the translator’s afterward at the back of the book. Maureen Freely talked about devrik cümle, or a sentence “in which words appear in an order different from that ordained by custom and practice, and cascading clauses create a series of expectations that are subverted by the verb at the very end.” Quoting the poet Murat Nemet-Nejat, she described Turkish “as a language that can evoke a thought unfolding.” Thinking of my jumbled explanation from the night before, I admired and envied her eloquence. Continue reading “On Learning Turkish” →
Posted in Books, Just Because, School, TravelTagged detective novels, Istanbul, languages, Orhan Pamuk, reading, travel, turkey, Turkish
People Watching #6
March 1, 2015 September 13, 2015 ElysiaLeave a comment
I’m sitting next to the three of them because I wanted tacos, and instead of waiting until 8 to eat, I went at 7.
I wanted to eat at 8 because 7 is still peak dinnertime, and I was on a schedule. I wanted to read one more chapter of Little Failure and finish aimlessly scribbling in my journal. There was still one more cover letter to write for a job posted over a month ago, and I am so sure that a day could make all the difference between a missed opportunity and the perfect amount of good luck.
But I was sitting in the courtyard at the National Gallery, and on this day, it didn’t want its visitors to forget that it was once an outdoor space. I was so cold that goosebumps grazed the arms of my long-sleeved shirt. I wondered why I’d left my coziest sweaters in a basement in suburban New Jersey and why I still wasn’t convinced that temperatures dipped below the forties below the Mason-Dixon line. I was unsure how the clean lines of the courtyard’s wavy glassy ceiling and the smooth gray tiles, which felt soothing in the summertime, were now too sleek and spare. How sixty minutes were suddenly too long to spend in the company of its trees, too green and wispy from their cultivated lives indoors.
Because it is a weekday and the sidewalks around the Metro Center are empty, I think that 7 will work just fine, but when I walk into District Taco, there are too many people and too many taco combinations, and it takes me ten minutes to figure out what to even order. When the cashier asks me whether I want my food to go, I tell her that I rather stay because I am too distracted, still trying to remember whether barbacoa is made with beef or pork. And when I realize my mistake, the next person in line is already nudging me out of the way, and there’s nothing else I can do but wait for my food and squeeze into the one empty chair next to these three strangers.
The trio are smartly dressed, their outfits perfect for a workplace where dark-rinse jeans are reserved for Friday. Person A wears a blazer over a lace embossed dress while Person B has draped a cardigan over a chiffon blouse. Person C arrives late in a green sweater and khakis.
They never say their names as they eat, but A and B tell C how they are going to the ballet and how they’re so glad that he could stop by for dinner. And C apologizes for being late because he had to help clean up the holiday party he had work today. How was it? It was great! The first one that they had in their new building, but they had to pay out of their own pockets. Was there an open bar? Everyone had really strong gin and tonics. Did he make anything? Pulled pork!
It’s Christmas next week, and C still hasn’t finished shopping. His plan is to make a list, cross-check it with the other relatives, and shop while he is in New Mexico. A and B are intrigued, and C explains that his family lives there. He’ll upgrade his flight to first class, because he can. He also has TSA clearance and double knots his shoelaces.
A complains that she has to work right after the holiday weekend, but it doesn’t matter because no one else will be in the office, which means she’ll probably do nothing. But there’s been exciting things happening because of Cuba. C tells the group that he’ll probably be flying there soon. A nods. Of course, Cuba is so interesting because there’s a lot of potential for both private investment in its health care, especially in the primary care sector.
B says that the last time she traveled was to go to a wedding in Italy. A complains that one of her friends from college is getting married on New Year’s Eve, but she’ll go anyway because it’ll take place on a rooftop. She’ll stay until midnight. The couple sent e-vites.
What is everyone doing for New Year’s?, C wonders. There are friends who are worried about the neighbors and will kick everyone out right at midnight, champagne barely emptied from their glasses. Where do they live? Columbia Heights, and A is excited to hear that because Columbia Heights is “the port to Washington DC.” What a great location!
I finish my second taco when it’s time for the trio to see their ballet. The three gather their trash and leave while A explains to the group how she makes her own preserves and would be happy to send some jars over. As I discover that barbacoa is made from beef, I think how fun it would be to work at a health care company that sends its employees to travel-restricted countries. Or can fruit at the peak of its ripeness. Or believe that a single stop on the Green/Yellow line is enough to convince you that you have an entire city at your disposal.
But I think cooked fruit is more comforting in a pie crust than a mason jar. A grandma sweater is just as fashionable as a structured blazer. I’d choose Prague in economy class over Havana with TSA privileges. I’d rather live somewhere that I can’t fold up and put in my pocket because it will always keep me on my toes.
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WPTavern: Gutenberg Plugin Garners Mixed Reactions from New Wave of Testers
photo credit: KaylaKandzorra i miss you grampa. – (license)
WordPress 4.9.8 was released as an automatic update last week, featuring the “Try Gutenberg” callout. The goal of the prompt is to get more users testing the new editor and to raise awareness. Within the first 72 hours of the prompt going into user dashboards, sites with Gutenberg installed have shot up to more than 80,000, a 300% increase. The plugin has been downloaded more than 147,000 times in the past week.
Gutenberg feedback is pouring in from a wave of new testers, most of whom are finding out about the new editor for the first time. Reactions have varied widely across multiple social networks. The announcement on WordPress’ official Facebook account attracted many drive-by style comments that included negative reactions, confusion, and questions, with a few positive comments peppered in between.
Blocks aren’t doing it for me. Will classic continue to be available permanently? If I want a block visual editor I promise I will install one voluntarily.
I’m hoping gutenberg will be totally optional.
I see only few users who are exited from Gutenberg. The rest is for leaving as it is. Why the guys from WP still want to implement it in the core? Make it a plugin. Why not a plugin whyyyyyy?
Twitter users trying Gutenberg for the first time were more enthusiastic about the potential of the new editor.
Absolutely love the new Medium-like Gutenberg WordPress editor.
— Content Marketing Consultant (@Ebun_Oluwole) August 4, 2018
me encantó Gutenberg, grande @WordPress !!
— Ale̶x̶ Zamorano (@alex_zamorano) August 4, 2018
Hey @WordPress Gutenberg is dope I approve
— Bodega Hive
(@breezeSZN) August 4, 2018
While some testers are quietly reporting issues on GitHub, others have written long missives in the plugin’s reviews, begging WordPress not to force the new editor on users. Gutenberg reviews are currently at a 2.4-star average, slipping from the 2.7-star average it held prior to the 4.9.8 release. Those who have written reviews tend to have reactions at both ends of the spectrum.
At this point in the testing phase, the reviews in the official directory paint a grim picture of WordPress dragging its users kicking and screaming into the Gutenberg era. However, there are many reasons why a tester might be motivated to write a negative review. Some may have ignored the advice not to use it in production, some may be testing it with incompatible plugins, some may not want any changes to their established workflow, and some may simply not like the interface.
While it may seem that the plugin has been widely panned by new testers, those who are the most critical tend to be more motivated to write a review. Those who are pleasantly surprised at something that works for them don’t tend to comment publicly. Reviews cannot possibly tell the whole tale, but they are important to monitor for feedback that could help Gutenberg succeed.
Month 14 of Gutenberg on https://t.co/zWh3po88LS and I will keep the tradition of posting a summary of the reviews. Sadly neither time or quantity of reviews is not helping the score. Are the review biased? Is this something users like but admins hate? pic.twitter.com/OMvIdUgfP4
— Andrew Roberts (@andrew_roberts) August 3, 2018
“Try Gutenberg” Callout Succeeds at Bringing More Testers and Feedback
WordPress 4.9.8’s “Gutenprompt” is doing exactly what it was intended to do – bring out more testers. The invitation has already succeeded at pulling out some quality feedback if you can sort through all the casual, angry one-liners.
Steven Peters opened a lengthy review with the following observations about the more cumbersome and unintuitive aspects of Gutenberg’s interface:
The interface is not cohesive in its design. For example, To place a block of a paragraph, a heading, a subheading, a bullet list and every other block, the user must click the + sign every single time, making it that much harder to ‘go with the flow’ of writing, and is cumbersome and time-consuming. Time-consuming: a click for each block instead of just writing. More clicks equal wasted time.
In a review titled “Lots of potential but too soon for core,” Mark Wilkinson details several specific usability issues:
The interface I find confusing – I think it is because it is too minimal. I found that it was all too easy to add a block by mistake and then not knowing what the block was or why it was there.
There is too much reliance on hover effects, with things appearing and disappearing all the time. I also find it hard to know where the focus is on the screen as it just uses a faint grey border.
Several reviewers were candid about their distaste for the concept of putting content into blocks. The Gutenberg team has readily communicated its vision for the block-based editor, but this tends to speak more to developers.
“Why does every little thing have to be in a separate block?” one reviewer asked before describing multiple usability issues with current block behavior. “That is a feature I think I actually detest. I do not want 50 zillion little fussy blocks on a page. I had entire blocks just disappear on me and a lot of the time, I was initially unsure of exactly what I did to make them disappear. This is bad. Some of the time it was placing a block, like an image block, and then deleting the image … the entire block went, which meant I had to go through the motions to add the block, then add an image block again, and then add my image again. Lame.”
Multiple reviewers commented that previously simple tasks are much more complicated in Gutenberg. Others said after reading official replies to reviews, they felt that leaving specific feedback was a waste of time. Canned responses from the Gutenberg team gave some the impression that their feedback wasn’t heard or valued.
My feeling while reading the WordPress developer responses is that that they have no intention of either stopping or postponing Gutenberg no matter what bug or problem is given to their attention. – @lauritasita
I have read all the reviews (and also the Gutenberg-lovers’ replies) and it seems that it is not really a discussion. The question on what is missing in this editor is useless if people simply do not want such a feature in their install. All you do is trying to convince people that it would only take time to get used to a modern technology. In my eyes this is bullshit. I myself love new features – if they are useful. – @peg20
Based on the responses to reviews, it isn’t clear to testers whether the Gutenberg team is willing to make major changes to re-design features that are not easy to use or whether they are simply combing the reviews for feedback on bugs with the existing interface.
Classic Editor Plugin Installations are on the Rise as Users Prepare for WordPress 5.0
In the days following WordPress 4.9.8’s release, active installations of the Classic Editor plugin have jumped from 7,000 to 60,000, a 757% increase. However, none of these figures in isolation can tell the whole story of users’ experience with the new editor.
In response to criticism on the Advanced WordPress Facebook group, Gutenberg contributor Gary Pendergast said he doesn’t see users installing the Classic Editor plugin as a negative reaction. “People ensuring that their site is ready for WordPress 5.0 is absolutely a good thing,” Pendergast said. “For a lot of sites, that means sticking with their current workflows for now.”
Pendergast also said the growing number of Classic Editor installs is a good indication that WordPress users are “proactively maintaining their sites, and a reasonable indication that they intend to upgrade to WordPress 5.0.”
“People certainly have strong feelings about it, and ‘fear of change’ is absolutely a legitimate feeling: we need to provide the right tools to empower everyone who uses WordPress,” Pendergast said. “Some people will jump right into the brave new block-based world, some people will prefer to use the Classic Editor plugin as a way to keep their existing workflows. When WordPress 5.0 lands, neither way should be seen as the ‘correct’ way – they’re both entirely legitimate.”
One major theme in both positive and negative reviews of the plugin is the desire for Gutenberg to be opt-in for WordPress 5.0, instead of having it auto-enabled for all users.
The “Try Gutenberg” callout in WordPress 4.9.8 looks great! Would love to see this be the official approach when WordPress 5.0 is released vs auto-enabling. Give the users time to check it out before forcing it on them. pic.twitter.com/QBiPh7IROe
— Brad Williams (@williamsba) August 2, 2018
Developers and agencies are expected to control that experience for their clients by installing the Classic Editor or Gutenberg Ramp for installations that may have compatibility issues. For millions of other WordPress users without their own developers or engineering teams, discovering Gutenberg auto-enabled after updating to WordPress 5.0 will be a moment of reckoning. On the other hand, phasing the new editor in over time may severely limit adoption and extinguish the ecosystem’s impetus to offer Gutenberg-compatible products.
Not auto-enabling it should be strongly considered for 5.0 and also why setting a specific release number for it was a mistake. These reviews have been absolutely brutal and the uptick in 1 stars has been from average users and not disgruntled or vocal developers.
— Carl Hancock
(@carlhancock) August 6, 2018
The development community, along with thousands of WordPress users who now have Gutenberg on their radar, will be watching to see how the team evaluates feedback from this new wave of testing. Up until this point, only the most curious and motivated WordPress users have taken Gutenberg for a spin. Widespread testing has just begun and we’re not yet seeing a complete picture of how well the new editor will be received.
My initial impression, after first trying it a year ago, was that Gutenberg is the most exciting thing to happen to WordPress in a long time. After reading hundreds of negative reviews, I still believe in the block concept but am convinced that Gutenberg needs to deliver a beautiful writing experience in order to win people over.
If WordPress is my home for writing on the web, I want to feel at home in the interface. I don’t want to have to hunt for actions buried two-clicks deep. When I use the editor I want have the feeling of “I love writing here.” Gutenberg doesn’t deliver that yet.
WordPress has an opportunity to provide the best writing experience on the web, instead of relegating it to the myriad of dedicated writing apps that don’t have publishing capabilities. A supremely well-designed editor for writing posts, in recognition of the platform’s blogging roots, would be the promise that hooks users to willingly sign on for years of dealing with Gutenberg’s shortcomings as it matures into a full-fledged site builder.
photo credit: KaylaKandzorra i miss you grampa. – (license) WordPress 4.9.8 was released as an automatic update last week, featuring the “Try Gutenberg” callout. The goal of the prompt is to get more users testing the new editor and to raise awareness. Within the first 72 hours of the prompt going into user dashboards, sites with Gutenberg installed have shot up to more than 80,000, a 300% increase. The plugin has been downloaded more than 147,000 times in the past week. Gutenberg feedback is pouring in from a wave of new testers, most of whom are finding out about the…
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Board index › Topical Discussion › Politics, Philosophy, and Religion
Trump Is Making White People More Hateful
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TW1ZTY
Location: Hanging out with my coca cola ladies
17 Mar 2019, 4:36 am
Sweetleaf wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
The entire country is becoming more hateful. We're living in turmoil right now.
Its not the whole country. I am from Colorado and the feds want to take back federal funds for public safety because Colorado does not want to pour it's law enforcement resources and funds into illegal immigration enforcement. We have you know crimes with more victims that the state police should focus on it would not make sense for them to expand a ton of resources to enforce trumps immigration agenda.
People were trying to say well colorado shouldn't violate federal agenda if they don't want consequences, which for one its not in violation of federal law for the state to say we don't have the means to enforce trumps ridiculous policies. But also Colorado has been violating federal law since we legalized pot and none of them seem to worried about that.
Whatever wanna take away federal funds, well maybe with the right representaviship we can just become a self sufficient state, though there are issues even in the state so not sure how likely that is.
Maybe I should move to Colorado.
I'm tired of the racist idiots in Georgia who wave a Confederate flag in one hand and an American flag in other other. As for Florida... they be on some other s**t!
There are some of those in colorado to. Or the people that are so offended by the football kneeling they display desecrated flags with a blue stripe instead of the correct red, white and blue one. Which the irony is kneeling before the flag is not even over-all considered a sign of disrespect but desecrating the flag is. So these people pissed about that, display blue line for 'police lives matter' which actually desecrates the flag unlike the kneeling. And yet they b*tch about those black football players disrespecting the flag...
But that said that's not really a thing that gets popular here...I mean one time I recall some racist as*hole was trying to talk crap on people on the bus. And well bus driver stopped and he got shouted off the bus, no one wanted to listen to that crap so everyone yelled at him to get off and the bus driver even obliged and opened the door so people could shove him off the bus. That was pretty great.
That's pretty awesome about the bus.
I'm so glad I was raised by a more tolerant family that happens to be from Georgia. Most of them don't care that my father was Polynesian or that I'm gay.
In a way my mom is kind of like Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Break out the bubbly!
Location: Somewhere in Colorado
Well yeah it quite simply was not tolerated on that bus, some people may think it was mean...but maybe that guy shouldn't have been making racial slurs at minority ethnicity passengers. But yeah my boyfriend seems like he has parents that are more tolerant, as for my parents well they are weird. I remember as a kid my mom constantly complaining about 'the mexicans' and looking back some of that was kind of racist...and my dad he's a good person but he can be ignorant on some topics. Like seems like he's been buying into some of that 'all muslims are bed rhetoric' but I mean how would he feel if he was getting discriminated against for identifying as catholic because some of those catholic priests molested children. I just don't think he sees that part of it. Like he's catholic but he would not condone that kind of thing, so why is it beyond him that not all muslims believe in terrorism or forcing their beliefs? Just so much ignorance in the world.
Welcome to hell, this is the end.
Well it's not like my family is perfect either. My mom still has a lot of misconceptions about Asians. She likes to think she can tell what Asian country a person comes from just by looking at their face and eyes which is stupid because even her college professor explained that all Asians look very similar and the only way they can tell each other apart is by their languages, accents, and cultural differences. She also still refers to them as "Oriental" even though she knows they hate that term, and if I ever bother to correct her misconception about Asians she gets very mad at me.
I guess nobody is perfect.
Crimadella
17 Mar 2019, 10:31 am
Antrax wrote:
Crimadella wrote:
Piobaire wrote:
Actually, left wing journalists are making people more hateful, more divided. I'm white, Trump hasn't made me hateful.
Yeah, anecdotal evidence is as bad as claiming causation from correlation. I agree that I think identity politics are the root cause of racial angst in this country. Things were not so dire 10 years ago.
Trump is making things worse by playing to people's worse impulses. White identity politics is still identity politics.
It basically comes down to difference of opinion. Trump hasn't been politically correct with his words, he has condemned white supremacists a lot of times, even during his speaches. So what is being suggested here is that a man that has openly condemned white supremacy is somehow encouraging white supremacy, rather odd statement to me. I would imagine the wide spread of left wing journalists and even sometimes left wing media openly being racist towards white people since the day Trump was elected has a lot more to do with the white portion of racists feeling they can be more open about it, which I honestly don't think they ever kept it a secret, more so they just weren't in the spotlight, they are in the spotlight mostly because of left wing media. Now there is another issue, that issue is white supremacists marching through streets. I would assume they feel they can do that now because of the millions of people marching in the streets openly stating racist things towards whites, there for I would imagine it's more of a....well, they can March in the streets making claims like white people are born racist, minorities can't be racist (yes, they can be), white people's opinions don't count on particular subjects, and yes, you even have particular groups in public with white people on their knees with a chain around the and black men holding the chain, and openly stating that now it is time for white people to be slaves. Call me crazy, but I belive that kind of behaviour being displayed openly has alot more encouragement towards white supremacists marching the street than a president which has openly condemned them on several ocasions and whom has even kicked white supremacists out of his events while he was giving speaches.
Clearly, the left spreading ideologies that are racist towards whites will have the ability to make more whites feel outcasted, thus possibly convert a few of them into white supremacists. Racism incites racism just as violence incites violence.
Reminder, millions of left wingers March through the street calling white people, whitey, racist and telling them their opinion doesn't matter because they are white and that they shouldn't be allowed to speak because they are white. This type of ideologies broke out in a very big manner as soon as Trump was elected, people where attacking whites for being white, throwing bricks and bottles at there cars, snatching them out of their cars and beating them down, there is a famous tape where 3 blacks pulled an old white man out of his car and beat him down, guilty of looking like a Trump voter. Notice all if this took place before white racists started marching in streets.
Location: Mid-Atlantic US
I wish I could see a video of that. I know that Antifa types are immature hooligans just looking for an excuse for some ultraviolence, but I still relish the prospect of seeing some right-winger getting beaten to a pulp by "everyday" citizens.
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techstepgenr8tion
SomeRandomGuy
Location: The 27th Path of Peh.
Seems like he's brought 4chan down on himself too. Well played.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privelege of owning yourself" - Rudyard Kipling
Before people manage to leap to the conclusion that I'm a 'righty' because I do not support false claims about Trump let me state that I'm not a righty, I have a slight right lean...
I support:
A new progressive tax bracket for 10million
The Welfare system
Anti-war & against US presence in other countries
:I think we should fix our own country before we set out to police the world. I can understand stepping in, in particular situations but the fact is we have a run-away military who will lie to us so they can attack countries to push their corrupt agendas. We have many poor neighborhoods that we could help out greatly for a fraction of the cost we use to invade other countries.
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techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I'm confused, hasn't Trump tried many ways to get the wall built? He even shut the government down to try to get the wall built, is he at fault because congress will not allow it? It's not as if it is from a lack of trying to get the wall built.
Before people manage to leap to the conclusion that I'm a 'righty' because I do not support false claims about Trump let me state that I'm not a righty, I have a light right lean...
No, it's just that people who disagree with you calling you whatever their enemy is seems to work at shutting most people up and if it works they'll keep doing it, and if it feels right to them they'll keep doing it too.
Maybe one of the hardest and most important lessons to learn about how a lot of people communicate - if they aren't directly countering your arguments with facts they're probably group-signalling and with respect to what they're doing truth is irrelevant.
I think Trump will likely lose in 2020 because The Wall is his version of Sessions's Devil's Lettuce. If it was something in a wide variety of ideas and he had something more important as his front and center priority okay, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I think that's what it's coming down to - ie. fixing immigration is an important issue but choosing the wall as your hill to die on is tone-deaf to what the actual problems are.
I've contributed lately to Gabbard, Yang, and Williamson because I want to see all three of them at the debates - Gabbard and Yang for obvious reasons, Williamson because she's a huge Yang supporter and will echo his ideas.
17 Mar 2019, 12:56 pm
I'm struggling to find the study, but there was a study by a group out of Stanford that people build associations of ideas. IE they expect someone who is pro-gun rights to be anti-abortion, even though there's no logical reason for those stances to be aligned. Similarly they expect some one who is pro- gun control to be pro-choice even though once again there's no logical reason for these stances to be aligned.
"Never forget the battles you have fought and won."
17 Mar 2019, 1:00 pm
I remember Sam Harris explicitly complaining about this sort of clustering on several occasions. I agree with him as well, it doesn't inspire much hope in human reason.
League_Girl
Well I guess I am in the minority then because he hasn't made me more hateful.
I don't know if more people have actually become more hateful. I know some people believe that including my own mother. The media could just be reporting it more.
I have a quilt of labels. I had a language disorder and a speech disorder. Then communication disorder NOS. My other diagnoses have been Language Processing disorder, dyspraxia, SPD, OCD, ADD, Asperger’s, anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder, anorexia nervosa. My mom’s labels of me are: eating disorder, anorexia, social anxiety, PTSD, just being sensitive and having the victim complex when I was a kid. And of course she says I’m normal and says the only thing I had as a child was language. Huh? I must have been a shitty person then and maybe a difficult child I was who had to be labeled because of incompetent school staff and mean kids who didn’t accept differences and because I was trying to be “normal.” :/
My blog: https://mynoneabdlthoughts.wordpress.com/
Kraichgauer
Location: Spokane area, Washington state.
More like some people see trumps presidency as an opportunity to spread the hate. I mean he does not directly support that stuff but I would say he probably has not discouraged it enough. But the thing is this hate is not new, its been brewing under the surfaces for quite a while its just coming out more now.
I mean here I'll admit this, when I was around 17 I was in a pretty bad place, and I got a little bit sucked into white supremacist stuff. I am very much ashamed of it but I can kind of understand I was in a really bad place and trying to find a way not to be bothered by the things going on in my life. But online I got involved in some nazi communities and such...and they were active back then like 11 years ago trying to suck in people like me who felt left out in life. I mean luckily I didn't get pulled into that part of it was my family, well my brother told my mom he was concerned about me getting into that stuff so she confronted me and well.....yeah I just felt like an as*hole and stopped that nonsense.
So that is why I don't promote any tolerance towards nazi stuff, like the will try to suck in unpopular disenfranchised feeling kids and turn them into extremists. And I was at risk of becoming one, but luckily I got out of it before that....seriously its embarrasing to talk about it but I was at a point I was starting to get into that stuff and yeah I cannot defend that at all.Yet the people willing to stand side by side with nazis...some of them were very fine people according to trump. I was not a very fine person when I was getting into that, I was a piece of sh*t.
Its embarrasing, but how many other young people are they targeting and trying to attract? Especially since they have been active since before I was 17 and was getting sucked in.
You rejected the hate in the end, and got out of it. That's what counts.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
karathraceandherspecialdestiny wrote:
Now all the hate crimes are fake and done by leftists to frame the right. Now we're resorting to crazy conspiracy theories.
I think of fake hate crimes like fake rape reports. They happen just enough to make it difficult to know when it's the real thing.
By the way the fake rape report incidence is estimated at 10%. That means 90% of the time a rape report is accurate, but 10% is actually a pretty high false positive rate. Under standard T testing the correlation of a rape report with rapes would be considered insignificant.
My view is all accusations of serious crimes like rape and hate crimes should be taken seriously and investigated fully. However, this does not mean the "victim" should be automatically believed.
If I'm not mistaken that 10% statistic is the amount of cases that police ultimately ruled "unfounded"--and there have been problems with many police departments over the years finding rape charges unfounded for any number of bad reasons like they don't want to investigate sex crimes because they don't take them seriously, or because of myths of ways that victims "should" behave after being traumatized when studies have now shown what can happen to the brain because of trauma and how different people will react to it like how some people freeze in the moment instead of fighting because that is their instinctual response, or people who are quiet because they are in shock instead of being really emotional and weeping, or because of lack of funding/personel. Just look at the epidemic of untested rape kits across North America because for one reason or another police don't want to test those kits and investigate the crimes they represent.
The Globe & Mail: Unfounded - Why police dismiss 1 in 5 sexual assault claims as baseless
Buzzfeed News: Unfounded. This Police Department Tosses Aside Rape Reports When A Victim Doesn’t Resist “To The Best Of Her Ability”
USA Today: Tens of thousands of rape kits go untested across USA
I'll be honest I don't know how the statistic as calculated. However, rape accusations have power. And in many ways a person who makes a false accusation may be more mentally prepared to stand up to the intense questioning than someone who actually went through the horror of a sexual assault. There's also an unknown number of 3rd party accusers.
The Atlantic's Emily Yoffe published a 3 part series on college rape policy and just how murky it can be:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/a ... cy/538974/
The weaponized accusation is a known phenomenon that has happened again and again across history. Salem witch trials, Red scare McCarthyism.
Anecdotally, I knew a guy in college who had the worst taste in woman. He had an ex-girlfriend from his hometown who was psychotically jealous. He also had a current girlfriend at college who was psychotically possessive. His ex-girlfriend tracked him to college and started making inquiries as to if he was seeing anyone. His current girlfriend felt very threatened and wanted him to get her pregnant so he'd be bound to her. She started demanding he have sex without a condom with her. She said that if he didn't she would report him as a rapist. Guy decided he'd have sex without a condom with her and no rape report was filed.
There are a lot of rapes that don't get reported because the process is arduous and difficult. Is it really so hard to believe that for 9 hurt victims that do actually report there is 1 instance of a bad 3rd party report, a psycho who wants to ruin someone's life, or a regretful sexual encounter that has been recast as an assault?
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Tax cuts to boost spending, but retail may not win out
By business reporter Michael Janda
Photo: Economists expect retailers to see a much smaller benefit than from the Rudd stimulus package. (AAP: Joel Carrett)
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Tax cuts are less than a week away for eager beavers who submit their returns as early as possible, from July 1.
ANZ expects the stage one tax cuts to add 0.6 per cent to household incomes, about a quarter of the Rudd stimulus payments
The bank's economists are tipping a 0.5 per cent boost to household consumption over the second half of 2019
But they expect some of this spending to go on essential services and much to go on travel
The Federal Government's low and middle-income tax offset that is already legislated will result in a maximum return to taxpayers of $530, while those on $90,000 will end up $665 better off.
If and when stage one of the Government's additional tax cuts from this year's Budget are passed, that benefit is roughly doubled, with an offset of up to $1,080 for an individual.
Stage one of the tax package is the part for which there is consensus support across the Parliament, while it is stages two and particularly three which are generating controversy and may hold up the extra tax refunds announced in this year's Budget if the Government chooses not to split the package and cannot get enough Senate support for the whole thing.
$7 billion household budget boost
Assuming the topped-up stage one tax cuts do pass, ANZ's economics team estimates they will be worth just over $7 billion for households.
That is a boost of about 0.6 per cent to household incomes.
Photo: The 2008 stimulus payments gave a much bigger boost to household income, although they were one-off. (Supplied: ANZ)
ANZ economist Adelaide Timbrell has compared this refund boost to the cash stimulus payments made by the Rudd government during the global financial crisis to try and determine how much of a boost they will give to retailers and service industries.
Ms Timbrell said the global financial crisis cash stimulus was much larger and worth about 2.8 per cent of household incomes.
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While the tradition of Boxing Day sales isn't likely to die overnight, it is being challenged by online sales events like Black Friday.
Combined with plunging interest rates — the RBA cash rate fell from 7.25 per cent to 3 per cent in a matter of months — the stimulus had a dramatic effect on consumer behaviour.
"The handouts in 2008 led to the highest month-on-month growth in retail expenditure since 2001 (4.1 per cent in December 2008)," she observed.
"The second handout led to the second-strongest month-on-month growth rate since 2001 (2.6 per cent in March 2009)."
Ms Timbrell said the surge in sales experienced by retailers had not been seen since.
Photo: Retail posted its strongest sales growth since 2001 after the Rudd government's stimulus payments. (Supplied: ANZ)
While the tax cuts people will see turn up in their refunds after July 1 are not likely to boost consumption by anywhere near that much, ANZ is expecting a 0.5 per cent boost to household consumption over the September and December quarters as people put their tax returns in and get bigger refunds.
Spending patterns have changed since 2009
Not only is the boost likely to be much smaller than 2008/09, Ms Timbrell said she expected it to be distributed differently.
The first round of Rudd stimulus spending found its way to electrical and household goods retailers, department stores, hardware and building supplies and recreational goods retailing.
The second round, in early 2009, was spent on smaller-ticket items such as footwear, clothing, recreational goods and department stores.
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Hospitality and leisure activities also saw a strong bounce.
"The recreation and culture category (which includes recreational retailing and services like activities and events) saw strong growth in the December 2008 quarter (2.1 per cent) and June 2009 quarter (2.6 per cent)," Ms Timbrell noted.
"Hotels, cafes and restaurants showed very strong growth in the first half of 2009, as did liquor consumption."
While Ms Timbrell said she expected the boost from the latest stimulus to again be concentrated in retail and recreational services, but non-discretionary goods and services may see a bounce as well, because many of them have become more expensive, leading some people to delay essential purchases.
"We are more indebted and our non-discretionary expenses are higher; we spend more on travel and less on retail," she explained.
Photo: Consumers have increased their spending on travel much more than on retail goods. (Supplied: ANZ)
"And this may affect how we spend, this time around.
"For example, pent-up demand for health services [such as dentist appointments] may take priority over discretionary goods this time around," she speculated.
Topics: economic-trends, retail, tourism, tax, federal-government, australia
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