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Folk, Ryan [1], Soltis, Douglas [2], Soltis, Pamela S. [3], Cellinese, Nico [4], Mort, Mark [5], Allen, Julie [6], Stubbs, Rebecca [7], Guralnick, Rob [8].
Correlation among functional trait shifts, habitat shifts, and diversification patterns in the flowering plant clade Saxifragales.
The ability of plant lineages to shift in niche occupancy is likely to be associated with evolutionary shifts in suites of functional traits that increase survival in those habitats. However, the assessment of such correlated evolution between niche and species traits has been hampered by the difficulty of accumulating and linking these data layers in a phylogenetic context at large scales. We present a large-scale synthesis of environmental and functional trait data in the flowering plant lineage Saxifragales (2400 species). This comprises 24 traits accumulated globally from flora treatments (vegetative and reproductive morphology, life history); niche occupancy information (from soil, topographic, land cover, and climatic data); and a synthesis of phylogenetic information in the group (72% species-level coverage, 26% represented by phylogenomic data).
Synthesizing these data reveals that, as expected, correlated evolutionary patterns between niche predictors and functional traits are widely detectable, and that likewise phylogenetic signal is widely detectable. We also characterize patterns of clade disparity in both environmental and functional trait data. We present these patterns in combination with diversification rate inferences to demonstrate whole-organism phenotypic shifts associated with habitat shifts that may be responsible for the present-day diversity of this clade in desert and arctic-alpine systems.
1 - Florida Museum Of Natural History, Dickinson Hall, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
2 - University of Florida, Biology, Gainesville, FL
3 - University Of Florida, Florida Museum Of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, 32611.0, United States
4 - University Of Florida, FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NAT. HISTORY, 1659 Museum Rd., 354 Dickinson Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
5 - University Of Kansas, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, 2041 Haworth Hall, 1200 Sunnyside Ave., Lawrence, KS, 66045, United States
6 - Florida Museum of Natural History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville , FL , 32611, USA
7 - University Of Florida, 1659 Museum Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
8 - Florida Museum of Natural History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States
ecological niche modeling
functional traits
evolutionary constraint
ancestral niche reconstruction
data layers.
Session: 18, Macroevolution I
Date: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
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OP/ED: Pope Ignores Jesus, Casts Stones
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He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
-- John 8:7 (KJV)
Seriously, I think that the Pope might need to spend more time reading the Bible and less time writing books. From Reuters:
Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in a new book published Tuesday.
In "Memory and Identity," the Pope also calls abortion a "legal extermination" comparable to attempts to wipe out Jews and other groups in the 20th century.
He's kidding, right? Gay couples who want to commit themselves in love is an ideology of evil? Perhaps he should look in his own organization if he wants to talk about evil. Thanks to a number of brave victims, and the commitment of The Boston Globe, we know this:
For decades church leaders kept horrific tales of abuse out of the public eye through an elaborate culture of secrecy, decepetion, and intimidation. Victims who came forward with abuse claims were ignored or paid off, while accused priests were quietly transferred from parish to parish or sent for brief periods of psychological counseling.
Far from being unaware of abusive behavior, Cardinal Law and his deputies had detailed information on many of the archdiocese's most serious molesters. Yet it was not until decades of allegations had accumulated against them that many abusive clergymen were removed from parish ministry. Despite reports of child rape and other criminal behavior by clergymen, church leaders made no apparent effort to inform law enforcement authorities.
The scandal began brewing in Boston, but it was not isolated here. As public furor grew, other dioceses began confronting abusive clergy in their ranks. By the end of 2002, some 1,200 priests had been accused of abuse nationwide, according to a study by The New York Times. Over the course of the year, five US prelates resigned in connection with sex scandals, including Boston's Cardinal Law -- joining four others who had resigned in previous years. The crisis was also felt worldwide, with accusations of abuse or the mishandling of scandals forcing the resignation of bishops in Argentina, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Wales, Scotland, Canada, Switzerland, and Austria.
In 2002 1,200 priests had been accused of abuse. By 2004, that number had grown to over 4,300. Again, from the Globe:
The Catholic bishops of the United States have removed about 700 allegedly abusive priests and deacons from ministry over the last two years, a dramatic housecleaning at the end of a half-century in which 4,392 priests allegedly abused 10,667 minors.
In my mind, that nearly 11,000 children were abused by men of God is pure evil. The Church's organized-crime-style response to pay off victims, cover it up, and move the priests to new parishes, that, Your Holiness, is unadulterated evil. So spare me, Your Holiness. This former Catholic has decided to stop standing there while you throw stones and start throwing them back. Two people of the same gender who love each other is not evil, it is love, and God is love.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
-- 1 John 4:7-8 (NRSV)
To call two adult human beings who live in a relationship of love evil is an attempt to deny them participation in one of the most fundamental human experiences -- the experience of loving someone and being loved in return. That is where God is found.
I, for one, am done listening to "men of God" tell me that because I am a gay man I should be denied love, and by extension, God. God is not yours to take away.
-- Rob in Baltimore
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Hannity Presses Trump On Which Nations Assisted In Coup Attempt, Trump Reveals A Game Changer
Kirsters’ Opinion| Just a day after officially launching his 2020 presidential candidacy bid, President Donald Trump spoke to Fox News Network’s Sean Hannity, exclusively telling him that “investigators are working to determine whether his personal phone calls were secretly monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies during the 2016 campaign — a possibility he called ‘the ultimate,'” according to Fox.
The President drilled House Democrats after they put his former leading communications advisor Hope Hicks “through hell,” when photos of her testifying in front of a closed-door committee on Capitol Hill were leaked on social media.
Fox explains, “Hicks is the Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer for Fox Corporation, and Fox News is a subsidiary of Fox Corporation.”
“What’s happened to the Democrats — and in the meantime, they’re not doing any work in Congress,” the President told Sean Hannity, going on to label the party as “unhinged.”
“They’re not allowed to do that. It’s probably illegal,” he said, speaking of the leaked photographs of Hicks.
Fox explains:
Some Democrats complained that Hicks, in her appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, was ordered by the White House to stay quiet about her time as an aide to Trump, citing legal privileges.
White House communications director Hope Hicks, a longtime Trump associate, resigned. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
But, Trump condemned Democrats’ ongoing hearings on collusion and obstruction as an attempt at a “do-over” of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
“Take a look at Ukraine,” the President said. “How come the FBI didn’t take the server from the DNC? Just think about that one, Sean.” That was a reference to the DNC’s decision in 2016 to turn over its server to the private security firm Crowdstrike, rather than the FBI, after what prosecutors said was a Russian-led hack.
Early on Wednesday, the Hill’s John Solomon reported that the FBI, in their search for warrant affidavits, “relied heavily on leaked Ukrainian financial documents concerning former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort — even though the bureau was repeatedly warned that the documents were untrustworthy and likely fake,” according to Fox.
Via Fox News:
Earlier this year, Ukraine Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko opened a probe into the so-called “black ledger” files that led to Manafort’s abrupt departure from the Trump campaign. The investigation commenced after an unearthed audio recording showed that a senior Ukrainian anticorruption official apparently admitted to leaking Manafort’s financial information in 2016 — including his ties to pro-Russian actors in Ukraine — to benefit Clinton.
A Ukrainian court recently ruled that the Manafort leak amounted to illegal interference in the U.S. election. A 2017 investigation by Politico found that Ukrainian officials not only publicly sought to undermine Trump by questioning his fitness for office, but also worked behind the scenes to secure a Clinton victory.
Trump told Hannity the episode was hardly surprising, given that the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC), through the firm Fusion GPS, funded British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s creation of an unverified and largely discredited dossier. The FBI went on to cite the dossier in secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court applications to surveil former Trump aide Carter Page.
“I think it’s a disgrace,” the President said.
Phil F June 21, 2019
As the President works for the American people, the democrats waste time and money looking for crimes by the president that don’t exist. It’s obvious democrats don’t care about the American people since they push the false narrative about Russian/Trump collusion and obstruction of justice and don’t do their job of working for the American people.
Seb June 21, 2019
You are correct! Let’s hope the voters are Smart in 2020 and don’t vote Democrat!
ONLYJB1 June 21, 2019
And they want a raise in pay?
Danny June 21, 2019
The Democrats have people like the Clintons and Obama’s as their leaders . The Democrats also have about 25 outright liars and criminals in congress protecting the Clintons and Obama’s.
Someone said that if the Democrats are accusing you of acting a certain way they are already doing it. The Democrat leadership of today is not only corrupt but runs much like and organized crime organizations.
Hershel June 27, 2019
Es sind maximal 24 von 27 Trophäen erspielbar.
Leesa July 6, 2019
Vorschub leistet die Ideologie der Daten.
Audry July 10, 2019
Einen davon können wir Ihnen bieten: Unsere Medaillen.
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Front Porch Punditry » The Woodshed » WTH?! » McAuliffe’s SuperPAC paid $500,000 to campaign of wife of FBI official overseeing Hillary email investigation
#1 | McAuliffe’s SuperPAC paid $500,000 to campaign of wife of FBI official overseeing Hillary email investigation Mon Oct 24, 2016 4:29 pm
Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Location: Richland, WA
Nothing to see here, move along.
The Wall Street Journal has a report that in any other presidential campaign would be a game-changer this close to election day.
According to the report, Clinton crony and Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe gave close to $500K dollars through a Super PAC to the political campaign of the wife of a high-level FBI official who had oversight of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of an unauthorized, non-secure, non-government email server while she was Secretary of State.
Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI.
The Virginia Democratic Party, over which Mr. McAuliffe exerts considerable control, donated an additional $207,788 worth of support to Dr. McCabe’s campaign in the form of mailers, according to the records. That adds up to slightly more than $675,000 to her candidacy from entities either directly under Mr. McAuliffe’s control or strongly influenced by him. The figure represents more than a third of all the campaign funds Dr. McCabe raised in the effort.
Mr. McAuliffe and other state party leaders recruited Dr. McCabe to run, according to party officials. She lost the election to incumbent Republican Dick Black.
A spokesman for the governor said he “supported Jill McCabe because he believed she would be a good state senator. This is a customary practice for Virginia governors… Any insinuation that his support was tied to anything other than his desire to elect candidates who would help pass his agenda is ridiculous.”
http://beta.hotair.com/archives/2016/10/...campaign=buffer
Absolutely. All McAuliffe was interested in was good government. Any suggestion to the contrary is evidence of right wing paranoia.
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International online haiku courses - Individual and group feedback for haiku; tanka; haibun; and tanka stories / tanka prose
With Words is now known as "Call of the Page".
For further information about our 2017 courses please do not hesitate to email Karen and Alan at:
admin@callofthepage.org
Or visit our new website at:
The With Words online haiku courses, and related genres of tanka, haibun, tanka prose, and tanka stories - for September to December 2016.
Please see details below.
Alan's Haiku Journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS36AGVI6s
With Words runs a number of online courses throughout the year:
Japanese Form Free-for-All!
Pick your favorite Japanese form from tanka, senryu, haiku, haibun or tanka prose, and submit three times over two months. A chance to see what your fellow writers are doing; what excites them about each form, and spread your Japanese form ‘wings'. Optional prompt materials on inspiring subjects are offered for each assignment.
In-depth feedback is given on all work by Alan, and lesson prompts are written by Karen.
LEVEL: intermediate; improvers.
GROUP SIZE: up to 6.
START DATE (for receipt of materials): Monday 19th September 2016
FULL COST: £95 or US$125
EARLY BIRD COST: £80 or US$105 (if paying by Monday 5th September 2016)
BOOKING: by payment via PayPal to alan@withwords.org.uk.
Contact: karen@withwords.org.uk
Haiku Beginners - Group Online Course
This is a new course.
We were keen to introduce a purely entry level course, not only for people who are looking specifically to learn about writing haiku, but for those who are inspired to try this short form as a manageable way in to starting creative writing.
With this course, we enjoy getting back to basics. We will learn what to watch out for when reading haiku, and begin to write snippets, ready to write complete haiku by the end of the course.
Participants should have at least three finished haiku by the end of the course, and ideas for continuing their writing.
The course ends with an optional 20-minute phone or Skype chat with Alan to answer any outstanding questions about haiku in general or the student's work.
This is a really useful foundation course for beginners, and those who are between newcomers, beginners, and intermediate. Highly recommended to get you grounded in what makes contemporary haiku tick!
LEVEL: beginners at haiku, or beginners at creative writing.
START DATE: To be confirmed. Please let us know if you would like to be put on the notification list.
Haiku - Group Online Course
This haiku course is suitable for those with some experience of either creative writing or haiku already, as it is quite advanced and technical (see below for haiku beginners). Participants submit three poems three times over the two-month course (total 9 poems) and may also add a couple of rewrite poems for final comments during that time. The course ends with an optional 20 minute phone or Skype chat with Alan to answer any outstanding questions about haiku in general or the student's work.
START DATE (for receipt of materials): Thursday 29nd September 2016
EARLY BIRD COST: £80 or US$105 (if paying by Thursday 15th September 2016)
This particular course, Haiku - Group Online Course for intermediate and improvers is SOLD OUT!
Look out for news about the next intermediate/improvers haiku by us.
Also available all year round :
One to One Individual feedback
Feedback on your haiku on a one-to-one basis at any time, minimum booking ninety minutes.
If you wish to book a block of hours (for instance for help with editing/creating a collection) then price reductions start with four hour bookings.
If you can't wait until the next intermediate/improver course comes around, as they do sell out quickly, this one to one may suit you.
For Further information email Karen at: admin@callofthepage.org
Call of the Page
formerly known as With Words:
With Words running online courses in haiku (and other related genres) since June 2009, and in-person courses at various venues since 1999.
Alan regularly has participants on his courses from around the world including USA; Canada; New Zealand; Australia; Singapore; Europe; U.K.; India etc…
"Thank you for your feed back. You make things seem so clear ... So enjoyed reading the others' work too." MB
"I have enjoyed the course tremendously and know that I will return to Alan's notes frequently as I continue to write tanka." J
“This course has been a really great experience for me. I have absorbed all the feedback and it has had an important impact on my writing. I agree with everything Alan has said regarding my haiku and it is amazing that Alan has put his finger on every little shade and "flaw" of my haiku in such a detailed way.” ML
“Trying to distil very personal moments and memories into a few lines is something I have never attempted before, in fact never thought of before - and for that I thank you.” AS
“Hi Alan - thanks so much for this … I really had no idea there was so much to this art, and I'm completely fascinated. Your comments are extremely perceptive.” MK
Alan Summers: Bio
Alan is Director/Lead Tutor of With Words, an international provider of literature, education and literacy projects, and With Words online workshops based around the Japanese genres.
He is also the President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society: http://www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/biographies.html
He is the editor of the forthcoming publication:
Writing Poetry: the haiku way (2017)
He has been an expert on English-langauge haiku (and other Haikai Literature) for 25 years. Alan is a Recipient of the Japan Times Award (2002) for both haiku and renku, and the Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto Peace Museum Award for haiku (1998).
Alan is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet regularly a Teaching Artist at the USA-based Poetry Barn organisation for Haiku and Tanka, and also for Haibun (later in 2013).
Alan has been the haiku poet-in-residence for Cornell University, Mann Library: http://tinyurl.com/cornell-AlanSummers
He is a TEDx Speaker: Amazement of the ordinary- life through a haiku lens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxLTiR7AKDE
Alan was also invited to give a talk at Haiku News:
http://haikunews.bandcamp.com/album/episode-1-alan-summers-feb-2013
He is a founding editor for Bones Journal (contemporary haiku): http://www.bonesjournal.com/, and Haiku/Haibun Special Feature Editor, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.
Alan has been:
• General Secretary of the British Haiku Society (1998-2000)
• Panel of Judges: The Biennial Sasakawa Prize for Original Contributions in the Field of Haikai (Sasakawa Foundation U.K. and British Haiku Society)
• Embassy of Japan, (2009) Roving “Japan-UK 150 Haiku & Renga Poet-in-Residence”
• Co-ordinator of The 1000 Verse Renga Project in partnership with Bath Libraries (U.K.) and supported by the BBC Poetry Season website
• Bath Spa University undergraduate development project Haiku poet-in-residence (Autumn 2006 - Summer 2007)
• Panel of Editors for the award-winning annual Red Moon Anthologies for best haikai literature (2000-2005)
• Foundation Member of the Australian Haiku Society
• a founding editor with Haijinx, showcasing humor in haiku
He was also co-founder/co-organizer, and Literature Director, of the 2010 Bath Japanese Festival.
Alan is published in around 100 haiku anthologies; and published in over fifteen languages including Japanese, and British Sign Language.
Japanese newspaper publications:
Yomiuri Shimbun; Asahi Shimbun; Mainichi Shimbun; The Japan Times; and The Mie Times.
Anthologies include various leading haiku anthologies including the Norton poetry anthology on haiku:
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years ed. Jim Kacian, Allan Burns & Philip Rowland with an Introduction by Billy Collins (W. W. Norton & Company 2013) http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Haiku-in-English/
• ‘Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac’
Kodansha International, Japan, ed. William Higginson ISBN 4770020902 (1996)
• Iron Book of British Haiku
(Iron Press; ISBN: 0906228670 First published 1998, Third print 2000)
• Stepping Stones: a way into haiku
(British Haiku Society, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6)
• The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012) ISBN 978-0-9565725-4-7
Co-Editor of various Haiku-based anthologies including:
• Parade of Life: Poems inspired by Japanese Prints ISBN: 09539234-2-8 (Poetry Can/Bristol Museum and Art Gallery/Japan21/Embassy of Japan 2002)
• The Poetic Image - Haiku and Photography (Birmingham Words/National Academy of Writing Pamphlet 2006)
• Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends (Press Here 2010 USA) ISBN 978-1-878798-31-2
• Four Virtual Haiku Poets (YTBN Press 2012) ISBN-10: 1478307544 ISBN-13: 978-1478307549
• c.2.2. an anthology of short-verse poetry and haiku (YTBN Press 2013) ISBN-10: 1479304565 ISBN-13: 978-1479304561
• Quest Gallery Through a glass darkly catalogue with haiku section by Alan Summers (July 2012)
Four Haiku Collections:
• “Does Fish-God Know” (YTBN Press 2012)
“A must-have book for any haiku fan.”
Tracey Kelly, Chicago/Bath musician/journalist
“Thank you for writing such a vital work.”
Paul David Mena, author of Tenement Landscapes (New York) published by Happa-no-Kofu (The Leaf-Miner Press) just after September 11 2001
• The In-Between Season With Words Pamphlet Series (2012)
• Sundog Haiku Journal: an Australian Year (Sunfast Press 1997 reprinted 1998) California State Library - Main Catalog Call Number: HAIKU S852su 1997
• Moonlighting British Haiku Society Intimations Pamphlet Series (1996)
Labels: haibun, haiku courses, individual feedback, Journeys 2015, one to one session, online course, online courses, Tanka, tanka prose, tanka stories, tanka story
The Beat Is Back haibun (prose and haiku) inspired by Jack Kerouac and On The Road, Old Angel Midnight, and Dharma Bums, and history of haibun
Jack Kerouac poses on Sheridan Square in New York's Greenwich Village on Oct. 15, 1958, after a publisher's party for his book "The Dharma Bums." (JERRY YULSMAN/AP Photo/Jerry Yulsman)
The Beat Is Back
A man sits in an IRT Subway train reading a newspaper with a hole in it. He has hours to kill. Only a four year old looks back, and into, the newspaper hole.
rain clouds
the train stations
come and go
It’s now night outside so he folds the newspaper, sticks it into a voluminous raincoat pocket, and decides to step off the train and leave the station. He hasn’t seen Times Square for many years, it hasn’t really changed. This is the hub of New York City where the Beat Odyssey began.
we aren't the people
He hunches his neck into his coat, and starts to stroll, eyeballing from side to side as he does so. The man moves past all-nite movie houses, cafeterias, and Pokerino arcades, stepping around a puddle that reflects back a giant coke bottle from an overhead sign. Neon mashes up other pools and signs.
the threatening clouds
an imaginary dog
takes a walk again
He nods reflectively to the quick-change artists, the conmen, and hustlers of every kind. This man is a broad-shouldered ex-footballer, with just a hint of a broken nose, and a scar, from a small knife, that cuts diagonally across his left cheekbone less than an inch before looping into itself. He walks the in- betweeness of virga and luminosity of front shop signs; passing soldiers; sailors; panhandlers; drifters; thieves; junkies; sportsmen; gamblers; racing touts; zoot-suiters; and the local hoods.
threading clouds
in another place
Across the way is Chase’s Cafeteria at 210 West 42nd Street, to the left of the New Amsterdam Theatre marquee, but it’s the cafeteria he enters.
passing cars
the gleam off bare wood
on Good Friday
More hoods mill around as he shoulders the door quietly open: there’s no girls in sight, just men with red shirts or zoot-suits.
Escher's apple escapes the mercury
There was one who stood out, selling syrettes of morphine, but was this the Virgil of The Beat Movement? He didn’t buy.
He mooched into a booth, and nursed a coffee and whiskey for half an hour, head down. No one came over, except the waitress, to heat up the coffee with a short refill.
different uniforms
the condensation
The place was buzzing, but not to his own particular satisfaction. He left to walk over to Bickford’s Cafeteria, on the middle block of West 42nd Street; this is where Kerouac believes the greatest stage on Times Square resides, he thought. In the window seat is a man bent around a chipped mug containing thick dark syrup, he has typical eighteen hour shadow, around his eyes, that matches the tone of his unshaven jaw line.
someone kicks
a fridge full of things
shut again
“Mind if I join yer?”
The window man looks up, nods, sinks back into his syrup drink, but also starts scratching his insect T-shirt.
“You Angel, coming for me?”
“No, just a once damp hitchhiker trying to be a pocketbook poet, is that okay?”
The bulge under his jacket was three finished notebooks, but it was good that the other cafeteria clientele of pimps, thieves, numbers men, all left him alone. It looked like a gun that could blow holes all the way through the building and hit the highway out of town.
a time between
day, and night just left
easing tiny spaces
In the submarine light the hydrogen jukebox played across cigarette smoke and burnt coffee, and the man took out a greasy cover notebook to scratch more words inside.
lost childhood cars moonlight a rookery
The window bum looks out of the corner of his left eye:
Jack’s out in circular jazz time, side-stepping the Shrouded Traveller, looking for new places. Not all white doves in Chinese windows are groceries. It’s all five six seven to me.
one of the paper towns
gains a wrinkle
Haibun©Alan Summers
Published in the literary British Haiku Society's journal:
Blithe Spirit 25.4 (November 2015)
Haibun - the practise of interspersing prose writing with haiku. Prose pieces can be in numerous styles from journalistic writing, diary entries, prose poetry, long fiction through to flash fiction, that usually include one or more haiku within the body of prose, or starting or concluding a body of prose.
The Beat is Back haibun is part inspired by Old Angel Midnight, a long narrative poem by Jack Kerouac:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Angel_Midnight
And this On The Road quote:
“Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.”
(Part.Chapter.Paragraph: II.5.4)
Jack Kerouac Reads from "On The Road"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MjPtem6ZbE
Old Angel Midnight
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=aaplw&p=Angel+midnight+jack+keroauc+reading#id=4&vid=1ad5019baee2e51eb89113e56256aab7&action=click
Dharma Bums: (which includes covert haiku amongst the prose): https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Kerouac-1957-1960-Subterraneans-Selections/dp/1598530127/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470161070&sr=1-5&keywords=Dharma+Bums
The Interborough Rapid Transit Subway, or IRT, was the first subway company in New York City. Even with elevated train lines springing up around the city, the need for an underground rapid transit railroad was obvious as a solution to street congestion and to assist development in outlying areas. On October 27, 1904, the first IRT subway line opened, and the city would never be the same.
http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_First_Subway
Pokerino:
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Journeys 2015 haibun anthology gives important background to haibun and examples:
Print version: https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-2015-Anthology-International-Haibun/dp/1515359875/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1470160428&sr=8-1
Kindle version:
https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-2015-Anthology-International-Haibun-ebook/dp/B015MZUYLW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1470160428&sr=8-1#navbar
More haibun:
Alan's bio: http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/happy-new-year-and-brand-new-honour.html
Alan Summers regularly teaches online haiku group courses, and also haibun online group courses.
As Call of the Page Alan can offer haiku and tanka one-to-one sessions:
For further information email Karen: admin@callofthepage.org
THE HISTORY OF HAIBUN
In 1689, the famous poet Matsuo Bashō (known to some as the "Shakespeare of Japan") travelled to the northern provinces of Honshu (Japan's largest island, home to Tokyo and Kyoto and other major cities).
He wrote a travel diary, called Oko No Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) in which he wrote haikai verses (the precursors to haiku) as well as prose text.
Here is an extract, in fact it's the opening pages:
The days and months are travelers of eternity, just like the years that come and go. For those who pass their lives afloat on boats, or face old age leading horses tight by the bridle, their journeying is life, their journeying is home. And many are the men of old who met their end upon the road.
How long ago, I wonder, did I see a drift of cloud borne away upon the wind, and ceaseless dreams of wandering become aroused? Only last year, I had been wandering along the coasts and bays; and in the autumn, I swept away the cobwebs from my tumbledown hut on the banks of the Sumida and soon afterwards saw the old year out. But when the spring mists rose up into the sky, the gods of desire possessed me, and burned my mind with the longing to go beyond the barrier at Shirakawa.
The spirits of the road beckoned me, and I could not concentrate on anything. So I patched up my trousers, put new cords in my straw hat, and strengthened my knees with moxa. A vision of the moon at Matsushima was already in my mind. I sold my hut and wrote this just before moving to a cottage owned by Sampū:
even this grass hut
could for the new owner be
a festive house of dolls
This was the first of an eight verse sequence, which I left hanging on a post inside the hut.
It was the twenty-seventh day of the Third Month [16 May]. There was a wan, thinning moon, and in the first pale light of dawn, the summit of Mount Fuji could be dimly seen. I wondered if I should ever see the cherry trees of Ueno and Yanaka again. My closest friends, who had gathered together the night before, got on the boat to see me off. We disembarked at Senju, and my heart was overwhelmed by the prospect of the vast journey ahead. Ephemeral though I know the world to be, when I stood at the crossroads of parting, I wept goodbye.
the spring is passing –
the birds all mourn and fishes'
eyes are wet with tears
I wrote this verse to begin my travel diary, and then we started off, though it was hard to proceed. Behind, my friends were standing in a row, as if to watch till we were lost to sight.
So that year – the second year of Genroku [1689] – I had suddenly taken it into my head to make the long journey into the deep north, to see with my own eyes places that I had only heard about, despite hardships enough to turn my hair white. I should be lucky to come back alive, but I staked my fortune on that uncertain hope.
With The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the haibun form reached an early pinnacle, and this work is acknowledged as important world literature today.
Check out: http://apdl.kcc.hawaii.edu/roads/oku_annotated_text1.html
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Lab Work!
Just a quick update on what I've been doing in the lab!
I've been down there loads lately, and time disappears, it's amazing, getting so involved in what I'm doing I don't notice until I nearly miss my last train home! I have been known to sleep there, but no mattress etc so it's a case of sleeping on the floor and putting up with the resident ghost. Seriously.
Anyhow! This is what I've been up to:
1. Properly learnt how to do an okay DIY job of telecine of Super8, and to make DVDs from the footage. Good to know. Useful I guess. Would love a professional telecine unit, maybe in the future!
2. Acquired some new kit, including cameras, polaroid film (Impossible Project), polaroid cameras, gossen light probe for the lunasix light meter (for use with JK optical printer). Old film stocks! Filters for the little Nizos.
3. Started a project with a small number of people making films over an intense period of time. It's ace!
4. Got to grips with the optical printer "Pat". Am using colour print film in the bolex, so I was experimenting with long single frame exposures on the bolex, and about 8 seconds with aperture fully open on lens at end of bellows (3.5) plus a strong orange filter (to give a nice peachy hue) is working well! Pretty laborious doing single frame exposures and counting in my head for 8 seconds each time, but mechanically sort of pleasing to do so! Get into a rhythm. Also tried out some plus-x 16mm negative film I have (dated 1989!) and will develop in D-19 when roll is finished.
5. Processed old Video News ektachrome in C-41 chemistry, and was rubbish. I think the stock is really past it big time. I've also processed it in E6, tweaked to be VNF compatible, but was equally crap! So am thinking of getting rid of it. It's a shame, as I have tons of the stuff! It can still be used for its magnetic sound strip though. I am thinking about using it simply as a sound film, to run alongside a pic, in a double 'projection'.
6. Processed colour print film that has been in the optical printer at 8 second exposures per frame. I used the E6 method taught me by Etienne Caire of MTK in Grenoble, it's ace. 1 minute in first dev, 2 minutes in colour dev, 2 minutes in blix, and 1 or 2 minutes in stabiliser. Really beautiful! I love being able to get a positive so bloomin quickly - 7 or 8 mins! Perfect! Nice rough and ready look too, especially when I'm rough with the film and handle it lots before it's dry.
7. Collected together all the empty Super8 cartridges that I've been saving, and am planning to make a big mural out of them! To be added to each time another is processed. I like seeing the old stocks in there too, adds a bit of verve to the otherwise total kodak monopoly!
8. Ordered some 'cinevia' super8 stock from GK film, process paid! I know that's a very un-lab like thing to do, and have only ever had about 2 films processed (right at the beginning, before I knew how to do it myself), and a little bunch of Kodachrome 40 at the end of last year too, but I'm really curious to see if it lives up to the hype, and also want to remind myself of what an industrially processed film looks like, and compare my efforts!
9. Found a 'Ferrania' Super8 splicer and 2 'CIR' Super8 splicers on ebay and got em! Ace.
10. Learnt more about processing cine film in coffee! Enrico from Kino Lab in Colombia posted on his blog about it. Really amazing. I had seen examples of photo negs done in coffee, but never tried it myself, and the cine film he developed looks brill! Another guy blends up onions to make fixer! I tweeted the blog posts - can't remember the blog addresses off hand, but they're on my twitter thingy. Or just search on internet! The pet name for this coffee developer is "Caffenol". Like it! Gonna try it next week I think!
11. Going to Chapeltown Carnival tomorrow to shoot some footage! Amazing colours there, really nice vibe too. Am glad I'm not at Notting Hill Carnival, where it's expected to totally kick off. It's so huge, you can hardly move anywhere. Chapeltown Carnival in Leeds is the original! And the coolest I reckon!
Expired Super8 Film Stock!
Thought I'd do a quick post about the expired Super8 stocks I currently have in my fridge, as have been really relishing the beautiful packaging of some of them - great coloured boxes that have tons of character! Especially the pink one and the orange one, and that crazy harlequin one! Totally ace. Also I found an amazing second hand '70s maxi dress, and am just feeling very very dated at the moment, and lovin the simplicity of it!
So....
clockwise from top left....
1. Kodak Ektachrome Sound film! - colour reversal stock with a sound stripe on it! Wow! Very uncommon these days, since sound film was discontinued a fair while back. Conjuring up a way to use this single cartridge (I only have one!) in an interesting way, for an in camera edit. I feel very strongly that I want to shoot this film in Bradford. Not sure why!
2. Agfachrome - Apparently this stuff might not come out too well, but worth a try at least!
3. Agfa Moviechrome 40 - I've shot two cartridges of this and have one left. Have had some ace results! Beautiful pastel colours, and a very soft effect. I feel like I want to shoot this film at the Chapeltown Carnival this weekend!
4. Ferrania Film - Made in Italy, and the use by date is 1977! Wow. Not holding out too much hope for brilliant results, but you never know! I am in love with this box. Funky aint the word! It's effin magic. It says you can send it to Glasgow with 60p and they'll process it. Ha. Imagining some old guy waiting for the last reels to come in so he can honour the company promise. ha ha.
5. Kodak Ektachrome 160 - I reckon I'll get some good results with this. Can't wait to try it out!
6. Kodak Plus-X (old version) - I have 4 of these to use. Gorgeous stock. Not too old and stored really well.
7. Kodak Plus-X (new version) - Recently discontinued (about a year or so ago). Sob... Though saved about 14 so have enough for a while!
8. Kodak Ektachrome 64T - Discontinued a few years ago. I saved a couple so I can do dark room exposures with a mini maglite (tungsten bulb so truer colours), but apart from that, it's really not much of a loss. The new stock is much nicer!
I'll let you know how I get on with these, as and when! I'll add a bit of writing about each film when I've used them. If anyone has old stock they don't want, send it to me, I'll be really grateful! Address: Cherry Kino, c/o Patrick Studios, ESA, St Mary's Lane, Leeds, LS9 7EH, UK.
Just bought a cool and cheap cupboard unit to store my Super8 cameras in, it's perfect! Lab needs a good clear out! It always does! :)
Adios amigos,
Pics from workshops at South Square on 6th & 7th August!
Here are pics sent by Dave Beveridge and Pete Smyth who attended the Cherry Kino Super8 Workshop at South Square Gallery in Thornton last weekend (thanks for sending these!), plus some comments about the South Square workshops - thanks guys!! If you attended and have extra pics, email them over and I'll add them to this blog post. It was an ace time! If you're interested in attending a Super8 workshop, email cherrykinocinema@yahoo.com for more info!
Cherry Kino did 2 workshops at the lovely South Square Gallery over 2 consecutive weekends, so here are a few things people have written about it - thanks guys!
Your knowledge, teaching methods and passion for the subject was all very inspirational and thats what makes attending workshops good value all round.!!! - Carole
I've been meaning to drop you a line to say thank you very much for the workshop. It made a thoroughly enjoyable weekend and it was a real pleasure to meet such a lovely bunch of people. I would definitely recommend the workshop to anyone interested in film generally - In fact I was thinking of mentioning it to my old tutor at Leeds Met because I think the process could be of interest to students working in film and across other media - maybe even painting/drawing students who might benefit from broadening their approach. I totally appreciated your own enthusiasm for your work. It's kind of infectious, which I think made your workshop particularly enjoyable. - Kathryn
I had a brilliant weekend. Despite already being fairly familiar with the Super 8 format I learned loads of new things, both technical and creative skills. I thought Martha was an engaging and totally delightful person, so patient and relaxed. I really appreciated how we were all made to feel equal and capable, Martha was completely un-intimidating and had an obvious desire to share her passion for film.
I came away with a recharged head! A much needed renewal of ideas and energy. All for £80 and a couple of days worth of time...what a bloomin' bargain! - Lucy
Martha, can't thank you enough for putting on such an amazing, informative, fun and creative weekend. Really had a fantastic time. You are a real inspiration to just getting out there and doing it!
Defo let me know about the gallery showing in October, would love to come back and see all the films and everyone again! - Pete
(Ah, such ace comments - you were all amazing to work with too!)
a tin of cine with a side of mushy peas please - er, and an iphone...
Photos from the hipstamatic app on iphone
Erm, I got an iphone! totally weird, i've had nothing but fairly trash phones forever, and suddenly the chance came up and... er, i have one. it's pretty ace! it's funny - so intensely analogue with my filmmaking and totally clueless when it comes to digital filmmaking, but i'm so excited about the HD video option on this cool phone, i tried it out, and it's definitely weird to use something not analogue, and the image feels distant to me, but i'm so up for learning to combine it with Super8 and 16mm in some way! really really looking forward to exploring what i can do with it! love children of analogue and digital. like the film me and paul made i guess. speaking of cine film (aren't i always...), i had fish and chips in bradford today, and sat opposite a man in his seventies called eddie, we got chatting and i told him what i do, and it was such serendipity - he has loads of old cine film, standard 8 reels, that he got given as extras at an auction in the 70s, and he says he has never been able to watch them and doesn't want to die and then have them just thrown out by his relatives when they sort out his stuff. it was such a touching thing, hearing him speak so frankly about it, kind of refreshing and lovely. he just wants it to see the light of a projector, and make someone happy. he kept calling me 'kid'. it was really nice. so i've got his address and i'm gonna go pick it up in about a week, and i think i'll take a projector along so that eddie and me can watch some of them together and he will get the chance after hanging onto them since the 70s!
apparently the films are of all kinds of different places, and the guy who originally shot them (around the 50s) seems to have lived in bingley. i was saying the original filmmaker can't have been short of a bob or two coz in those days it was expensive to travel around and also to have cine stuff, not that many people could afford to do that really, and eddie said 'well, he did live in bingley, he can't have been that well off!' it was well funny. maybe you had to be there...! eddie told me a great story about these 35mm slides that he got with the cine stuff. basically, he got totally taken with these images of the dolomites in northern italy, and found that he was totally compelled to go there, and endured a 3 day bus trip, back in the 70s, so he could see them, and stare at them in wonder. i asked him how he felt when he'd arrived, and he said he was pretty 'fed up' coz of the long journey! but i think, from the way he lit up when telling me about it, those dolomite images really spoke to him, and inspired him to visit the real thing, which he said made a huge impression on him, even after the long journey there. he has transferred the images onto his computer now so he can look at them still, and he still does. it's beautiful, isn't it, the way images can really enter a person? this person who made all these images has touched eddie, after his own death and house clearance auction, and another 40 years later, me too, as eddie thinks about his own passing too. i feel honoured that i'm going to be able to watch them. it feels intimate. the fish and chips place we were in seemed to be a favourite spot for elderly folk, overlooking centenary square, called 'a plaice to be' - haw haw. it was fun to treat myself to something like that, it's about the closest thing i can think of that's a typically british example of our fair isle's, ahem, 'cuisine'. mushy peas rule too, of course.
love love love, peace out, (or should that be 'peas' out...groooaan)
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Sierra Nevada Makes Big Addition Following Up and Down June
The Sierra Nevada Goldens concluded the 1st half of the season a frustrated bunch. After opening their inaugural season with two winning months going (32-24), the Goldens sputtered in June going (13-15) versus the Platinum division, fininshing the first half with a (45-39) record.
The month of June started with Sierra Nevada trailing the Duluth-Superior Dukes by only 2 games in the Silver League's Copper Division. The Goldens sputtered out of the gate losing 5 of 7 to the struggling Sugar Creek Settlers. In a thrilling series, the Settlers managed to pull out 3 wins in extra innings & squeaked out another one-run victory by a score of 4-3. The 5th Settlers win of the series was a game where Beckett gave up 10 runs, 5 earned, in 4 2/3 innings.
The Goldens responded from adversity with an outstanding (5-2) series win against the league leading Diamond Gems. In the 1st ever netplay series for the Goldens, the hitters swung mighty bats as the Gems were handed their 1st series loss of the season. Sierra Nevada outscored the Gems 55-37 in the 7 games and the 2 losses were by a combined 3 runs. In the series, Beckett got a win while Buehrle earned a win and a no-decision which led to a win. The two have turned out to be dominant at times giving the Goldens a formidable 1, 2 punch. The story of the series were the bats. The Goldens seemed to hit clutch home runs the entire series and Jim Thome crushed a homer in each of the 1st 4 games. This series was by far the highlight of the month.
Sierra Nevada finished up the June schedule going only (6-8) in the remaining 14 games as Twin City pummeled them in 6 of the 7 contests and the Goldens took 5 of 7 versus the cellar dwelling Andover Cougars.
The month of June was all in all a big disappointment. You can point to poor fielding from Miles at shortstop while Renteria rested. Or, maybe the lineup missed Hank Blalock from the left side as he missed the month due to injury. More than anything, you need to point to the starting pitching. Mark Buehrle was the most effective going (2-1) in 5 starts with a 4.76 ERA, but Josh Beckett was (1-3) in 5 June starts, with a 6.82 ERA! Aaron Harang LOWERED his ERA this month by going (1-1) in 5 starts with a 5.40 ERA......not good for a #3 starter. Gil Meche went (2-3) in 6 June starts with a 6.02 ERA, including only going 1 1/3 giving up 5 in a loss at Andover.
Sierra Nevada is banking on Buehrle, Beckett, Harang, and Gil Meche to bounce back and pitch more as expected as they enter the 2nd half of the season and league play begins. The Goldens made a trade in hopes that they could improve their (11-12) record versus lefty starters. Carlos Beltran & Conor Jackson were acquired from the East Lyme Crush to add a stronger presence from the right side of the plate & speed and center field defense with Beltran. While Sierra Nevada was sorry to say goodbye to Marlon Byrd, Skip Schumaker, Mike Jacobs, & Yusmeiro Petit in the deal, the Goldens are hoping that these two additions in the middle & top of the lineup will help the Goldens make up ground on the Copper Division leading Duluth-Superior Dukes who sit 4 games ahead of Sierra Nevada. The Goldens also trail the San Jose Scorpions by 4 games for the final Silver League Wild Card spot.
The month of December will feature head-to-head games with San Jose, one of the two teams ahead of them in the wild card standings, and with East Lyme, Beltran's old team.
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Intel Edison Development Board
Posted on 2014-01-23 by Tomas Lepa
The SD* card-sized computer
Discover the Intel® Edison development board, a tiny, ultra-power-efficient development platform the size of an SD* card that is small enough to drop into just about anything.
It can be designed to work with most any device—not just computers, phones, or tablets, but chairs, coffeemakers, and even coffee cups. The possibilities are endless for entrepreneurs and inventors of all kinds.
The Intel Edison board features a low-power 22nm 400MHz Intel® Quark processor with two cores, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth*, and much more.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html
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Mac Pro Pre-Orders, December 16 Availability
At its October media event, Apple narrowed down the launch window for its redesigned Mac Pro to “December”, but with the month having already begun the company has yet to announce a more specific launch date.
German retailer Conrad Electronic has, however, now begun taking pre-orders for the two stock configurations of the new Mac Pro, citing availability of Monday, December 16.
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Check the service health of your Office 365 service on the go
Starting today, Office 365 service administrators can connect to their organization’s Office 365 service status from wherever they are with the Office 365 Admin app. The new app enables administrators to view service health information and maintenance status updates from their mobile device. They can also filter information by service subscriptions and configure app data refresh intervals
http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/11/21/check-the-service-health-of-your-office-365-service-on-the-go.aspx
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Jony Ive Designs One-of-a-Kind Red Mac Pro for Product (RED) Charity Auction
For their upcoming Sotheby’s charity auction to benefit Product (RED), Apple senior vice president of design Jony Ive and designer Marc Newson have created a one-of-a-kind Mac Pro, featuring the new Mac Pro’s radical cylindrical design with a shiny red finish that matches the style of other Product (RED) items produced by Apple.
On the auction site, the Mac Pro value is listed at $40,000 to $60,000, and like the rest of the custom-designed products, it will be auctioned off on November 23. It is unclear whether the Mac Pro will be available to the buyer at that date, as Apple has announced that it will officially launch the Mac Pro to consumers in December.
The specs of the red Mac Pro are not listed on the auction site, but Apple’s Mac Prosstart at $2,999 and come in several different configurations. The entry-level version includes a 3.7 Ghz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor, dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs, 12 GB of memory, and 256 GB of PCIe-based flash storage.
The higher-end 3.5 Ghz 6-core version with 16 GB of memory will starts at $3,999, and additional configure-to-order options offer 8-core or 12-core Xeon E5 processors, AMD FirePro D700 GPUs, up to 64 GB of memory and up to 1 TB of flash storage.
Ive and Newson have also collaborated on a number of other products, including a one-of-a-kind Leica camera, an aluminum desk, and solid gold Apple EarPods. Proceeds from the auction will go to Product (RED), a longtime Apple partner. Apple has raised more than $65 million for the charity since 2006.
Make a installationstick for Mavericks
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/MINPINNE –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app –nointeraction
Intel Delays Next-Generation Broadwell Chips Until 2014 Due to Manufacturing Issue
Intel yesterday confirmed that it is delaying the production of its next-generation Broadwell processors on account of a manufacturing issue. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the news during Intel’s earnings call, stating that production on the chips will begin during the first quarter of 2014 (via PCWorld).
Intel’s Broadwell chips are designed to be the successor to its existing Haswell chips, manufactured on a 14-nanometer process as opposed to Haswell’s current 22-nanometer process.
Anki Drive AI-Controlled Cars Will Be Available on October 23 for $199
First introduced at WWDC, Anki’s iOS-controlled AI-based racing game is set to debut later this month. Unlike standard racing toys, Anki Drive is largely self-operating and is described by the company as a “video game in the real world.” The concept is similar to slot car racing, with added enhancements that include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and smartphone-based controls.
http://anki.com/ankidrive
A must have….
Apple Predicted to Release Ultra-Slim 12-Inch MacBook with Retina Display
Apple may be planning to release a 12-inch MacBook with an all-new design and high-resolution Retina Display in the middle of 2014, according to KGI Securities anaylst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Specifically, the new MacBook is expected to feature a clamshell form factor even thinner than the current MacBook Air, and may debut at a lower-price point than the current Retina MacBook Pro line due to an improving yield rate. While Kuo stops short of calling the new model a replacement for the current MacBook Air line, his description of the model suggests that it would indeed supplant Apple’s current ultra-slim notebook line.
We expect the unprecedented 12” model will boast both the portability of the 11” model, and productivity of the 13” model. The high resolution display will also offer the outstanding visual experience of the Retina MacBook Pro. The offering will likely be lighter and slimmer than the existing MacBook Air to further highlight ease of portability in the cloud computing era. We think the form factor will showcase a much improved clamshell structure, and that it will redefine laptop computing once again following the milestone created by the MacBook Air.
Kuo’s claims match with a report from NPD DisplaySearch analysts earlier this week claiming that Apple is planning to introduce a new 12-inch MacBook Air next year. That new model was predicted to use a high-resolution 2304 x 1440 display
Both rumors also fall in line with earlier reports that Apple is set to move to IGZO displays for many of its future products, allowing for higher-resolution displays with lower power consumption.
Kuo has generally been quite accurate with his predictions over the past several years, including accurately outlining many of the details of Apple’s 2013 launch plans as far back as January. Other accurate predictions have included the introduction of a “third MacBook line” that arrived in the form of Retina MacBook Pro models and thediscontinuation of the 17-inch MacBook Pro last year.
As Mavericks hits GM, Apple begins seeding nightly builds of OS X 10.9.1 as well as 10.10 ‘Syrah’
Last week, we reported that Apple has begun development of the successor to the upcoming OS X Mavericks: OS X 10.10. We reported hearing that the future operating system is internally dubbed “Syrah” (a type of wine), and now we have received evidence of the codename.
We also understand that nightly builds of the operating system have recently begun being seeded to Apple employees for internal testing. We’re told that a small seeding round began in early September, and that the seeding has picked up in recent days and weeks. Perhaps as proof for this, page views to 9to5Mac.com from computers running OS X 10.10 have increased in recent days. An image from our Google Analytics is shown above. One or two new 10.10 builds become available for employees each weekday.
While we reported earlier that Apple is targeting a redesign of the OS X interface to mimic iOS 7′s new look for OS X 10.10, the current nightly builds are said to be nearly identical to the Golden Master version of OS X Mavericks. It’s unlikely that 10.10 seeds will gain new user-facing features or interface elements until well into development. Apple software engineering teams typically work on several projects independently, then pull them in all-together into the new operating system ahead of seed milestones.
Emphasizing the fact that OS X 10.10 is still very early in development is its current build number. We’re told that OS X 10.10 has seen approximately 30 seeds so far in development. For comparison, the first OS X Mavericks Developer Preview was build 476, while the first OS X Mountain Lion and Lion Previews were build numbers in the 100s range and 400s range, respectively. Nonetheless, it is likely that Apple is targeting a release of OS X 10.10 for sometime in 2014.
Microsoft Office for iPad Awaiting Completion of ‘Touch First’ Interface for Windows Version
Dating back to the launch of the original iPad in early 2010, Microsoft has beenconsidering the possibility of releasing a version of its Office productivity suite for the tablet platform. But despite repeated claims of an imminent launch, the only iOS release so far has been an Office Mobile app for iPhone available for subscribers to the company’s Office 365 service.
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/08/microsoft-office-for-ipad-awaiting-completion-of-touch-first-interface-for-windows-version/
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"Parallelizing Julia with a Non-Invasive DSL" will appear at ECOOP 2017
I’m very happy to announce that “Parallelizing Julia with a Non-Invasive DSL”, by Todd Anderson, Paul Liu, Ehsan Totoni, Jan Vitek, Tatiana Shpeisman, and me, will appear at ECOOP 2017 in Barcelona in a couple weeks from now. This paper presents ParallelAccelerator, an open-source library and compiler for high-level, high-performance scientific computing in Julia. ECOOP is an open-access conference, and the paper will be permanently available for free as part of a LIPIcs volume; there’ll be an accompanying open-access artifact as well.
Update (June 16, 2017): The ECOOP 2017 LIPIcs volume is now available, under a Creative Commons Attribution license!
To say that I’m relieved to finally be writing this blog post would be an understatement. We released the first version of ParallelAccelerator way back in October 2015, and I gave my first public talk about the project that same month.1 In spring 2016, I contributed a post to the Julia blog about ParallelAccelerator, then followed that up with a talk about it at JuliaCon in June 2016. By then, ParallelAccelerator had become one of the top twenty most popular Julia packages, but we were having a terrible time trying to get a paper about it published — our first three attempts had all been rejected.2 While I was in Boston for JuliaCon, I spoke with Jan Vitek, who patiently listened while I griped about the string of rejections. (This was not how I had hoped my first post-Ph.D. job would go!) I was ready to just send the paper to a low-visibility journal and be done with it, but later on, Jan emailed me after looking at a draft and said that he’d be happy to come on board as a co-author and help us improve the paper to the point where it was publishable in a venue that we could be proud of.
So, with Jan’s help, we reworked the paper into what I now think is a convincing story. It was Jan who coined the phrase “non-invasive DSL” to describe what ParallelAccelerator does: we try not to interfere with the array-style programming model that many Julia programmers (in particular, those who come to Julia from array languages like MATLAB) are used to. Julia already supports programming in array style; ParallelAccelerator helps programmers make array-style code go fast without requiring them to make a lot of invasive changes to their code. We also introduce one new language construct, runStencil, which lets programmers express stencil computations elegantly and efficiently. See our GitHub repo for lots of code examples, some of which are described in detail in the paper.
I wish I could go to ECOOP in Barcelona and celebrate the publication of this paper, but the conference is too close to the release date of my other project for me to be able to do any long-distance air travel! Instead, I’ll be at JuliaCon 2017 in Berkeley, which is local for me (and coincidentally on exactly the same days as ECOOP). My colleagues Todd and Ehsan will be at JuliaCon, too. Todd is currently hard at work getting the ParallelAccelerator compiler working under Julia 0.6, which is on track to be released in time for JuliaCon, and we’ll have a new release of ParallelAccelerator to go with Julia 0.6. Meanwhile, I’ve been working on improving our support for Mac users, GCC users, and OpenBLAS users.3 If you’re a Julia user and curious about ParallelAccelerator, JuliaCon would be a good time to give it a try!
Back then, we were still calling the project “Prospect”, and using “ParallelAccelerator” to refer to the Julia-specific implementation of Prospect-the-language-agnostic-idea; at some point between late 2015 and now, we abandoned the implementation-versus-idea duality and just stuck with “ParallelAccelerator” in all contexts. As the paper points out, though, the name “ParallelAccelerator” is a bit misleading, since much of the speedup that one can get from it isn’t due to parallelism, but is rather due to other stuff like avoiding unnecessary bounds checks and intermediate array allocations. ↩
Meanwhile, my colleagues’ paper on Latte, a Julia library and compiler for deep neural networks that builds on top of ParallelAccelerator, had already appeared at PLDI. It was when the Latte paper came out that I really began to get irritated that we still hadn’t managed to publish anything about ParallelAccelerator, because there was no ParallelAccelerator paper for the Latte paper to cite! (They had to just cite the ParallelAccelerator GitHub repository instead.) ↩
ParallelAccelerator depends on the presence of an external C++ compiler, ideally one that supports OpenMP, and it works best in the presence of a BLAS library, ideally MKL. Traditionally, our best-supported combination of OS, compiler, and BLAS library has been Linux, ICC, and MKL. However, there are lots of people in the Julia community who are instead using macOS and/or GCC and/or OpenBLAS, and so I’ve been working on making ParallelAccelerator work better in those environments. ↩
Posted by Lindsey Kuper Jun 9th, 2017 DSLs, ECOOP, Intel Labs, Julia, ParallelAccelerator, papers, parallelism
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23.03.18 Music
Bellerose Playlist - Saintonge vol.II
Can you feel it? Spring is in the air! And what better way to spend a sunny afternoon than taking a long stroll through the city? This month, we've put together the ideal playlist to soundtrack a walk through the streets of Paris, a city that Bellerose holds close to its heart.
This playlist was created to accompany our new Saintonge capsule collection, which was directly inspired by the streets of the City of Light. The collection’s campaign aims to steer away from the usual clichés by showing the true face of Paris; the one that is the reason why Parisians love their city so endlessly.
Just like the campaign, this month’s playlist is a nod to the diversity and variety that the streets of Paris offer. We tried to represent this concept by including a wide range of music genres such as hip-hop (because Paris has a strong skateboarding scene), electronic music and more obvious choices including a song by legendary actress and singer Jeanne Moreau.
Speaking of the artists we decided to feature, here are a few words on some of them.
Basile di Manski
Killason
One of the most prominent members of Parisian collective Pain Surprise, Basile always starts composing a new track by focusing on something he admires, with an ongoing focus on positivity. The result is an efficient blend of electronic and pop music with a certain composure.
This multi-faceted artist also happens to be an impressive professional dancer who’s associated with breakdancing crews that include Undercover Crew and Wanted Posse. His live shows are always extraordinary and we love the fact that he is a multi-talented self-made artist. His music is strongly inspired by American old-school hip-hop and that’s a genre we can’t resist!
Greg Frite
For this Paris-themed playlist, we obviously wanted to select one of the many artists that have left their mark on French music history. This was not an easy choice but a decision had to be made, and we picked French icon Jeanne Moreau to play this part. Why her? Because her aura inspires nothing but admiration and deference. The song we featured sounds like an ode to life's simple pleasures, just like a Sunday stroll through the city.
We just had to include someone whose weapon of choice is words and Greg Frite was the ideal contemporary example of this ability. He has been active since 1994 as a member of Triptik but was relatively fast to launch his own solo career, further perfecting his skills in the process. The song we chose is an amusing guided tour of the city gates of Paris and is bound to put a smile on our listeners' face.
Ravyn Lenae
Her languid voice made us fall for her immediately! It calls for love, warmth and pleasure, which is just what one needs when enjoying a post-winter walk in Paris. Ravyn Lenae's soul is reminiscent of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu while her energy evokes a slightly toned-down Azelia Banks.
Playlist : Dimitri Goloubev
Text : Camille Darroux
Playlist #5 - Japan
As we're currently exploring Japan together with @frecklesnur, we had to make a playlist to really get in the Far East mood. Read on to discover our two highlights of the month and scroll down to press play !
Playlist #4 - Lazy Summer
Summer has come for good and the temperatures are going insane. It's definitely time to slow down the rhythm, sit back, extend our legs, have another drink and close our eyes. Here's 44 tracks to tune in that lazy summer mood. We've had so much sun that's entered our ears while listening to them that we couldn't not share these with you.
This month, we've put together the ideal playlist to soundtrack a walk through the streets of Paris. Just like our new Saintonge campaign, this month’s playlist is a nod to the diversity and variety that the city offers.
Bellerose Playlist - Retrospective
The end of the year is nigh, so we've put together a "best of year" playlist to say goodbye to 2017. Each track is special to us and we hope you enjoy listening to them.
Bellerose Playlist: Round & Round
This month, we've prepared an upbeat party playlist that will be the perfect soundtrack to this season's festivities. Focusing on 2pac & Kendrick Lamar - two artists we are especially fond of - we're certain you'll be enjoying these warm beats!
Bellerose Playlist : NYC Ghosts and Flowers
Our latest campaign was inspired by seminal 90s rock band Sonic Youth, and by the group’s charismatic frontwoman Kim Gordon in particular. Discover the campaign and listen to our newest playlist
Bellerose playlist: California Gipsy
Discover our first California Spring playlist, a selection of fine Gipsy tunes for a season of nature blossoming, peeling back layers and terrasse invasions.
Bellerose Playlist: Indian Summer
Discover our Indian Summer playlist, selected for a season of leaves falling while slowly layering up and taking denims out of the closet.
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Bob Dylan, Glen Hansard, Arcade Fire, Great Thunder, Snoring Duck
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 08:00 AM
BOB DYLAN dropped an interactive video for... "Like A Rolling Stone," featuring Danny Brown, Drew Carey, Marc Maron, and the Pawn Stars guys.
GLEN HANSARD is streaming his Drive All Night EP, with cameos from Eddie Vedder, Jake Clemons and Joe Henry.
ARCADE FIRE played a session on BBC1.
KEVIN MORBY of Woods streams his solo LP, Harlem River.
GREAT THUNDER: Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Swearin’ bassist Keith Spencer stream their second LP, Groovy Kinda Love. It sounds like lots of things from trach to track, but it does not sound like Wayne Fontana.
DALE WATSON stopped by Studio 1A at KUTX for a mini-set.
BRIAN WILSON plays "Sail On Sailor" at the Ed Sullivan Theater, with Matthew Sweet and Darius Rucker.
WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT: At MOJO, Lou Reed and John Cale contribute to David Fricke's history of the Velvet Underground's sophomore LP.
ROBERT GORDON talked to Weekend Edition about his new book, Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion.
ALBUMS EVERYONE CAN LOVE, according to an NPR poll.
THE ORIGIN OF SPINAL TAP, via Dangerous Minds. And Pate drummer Jon Hahn.
MONTY PYTHON's surviving members will announce a reunion stage show on Thursday.
KELLY CLARKSON is pregnant and expecting her first child with husband Brandon Blackstock.
KANYE WEST stuck KIM KARDASHIAN is his new video. Shocka.
MADONNA tops the latest Forbes list of highest-paid musicians, because Michael Jackson is dead.
ASHLEY GREENE is being sued over the fire she started in her West Hollywood apartment that killed her dog and injured the man who helped rescue fleeing residents.
BEETLEJUICE 2 ‘might be happening’ with Tim Burton, Wynona Ryder, and Michael Keaton onboard, according to Ryder.
SYRIA: The Syrian military claimed to have taken full control of Qara in the Qalamoun region and to have killed a "large number of terrorists." The Al Nusrah Front withdrew from Qara, but activists from Al Nusrah and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham say they will return.
LEBANON: Two suicide bombings outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed at least 25 people, including the embassy's cultural attache and its head of security, and injured over 150 more.
STUXNET's SECRET TWIN: The real program to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities was far more sophisticated than anyone realized.
A SNORING DUCK: Let's go to the video.
INDIA's MONKEYS are to be put on the pill.
RACE HORSES may benefit from hi-tech sports bras.
O'HARE AIRPORT's ALLIGATOR got there via the Blue Line. Figures.
Jim James, Minor Alps, Stornoway, The Brother Kite, Polite Dog
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 08:00 AM
JIM JAMES (or do you say "Yim Yames"?) performs on PBS’s Austin City Limits. The Black Angels open.
MINOR ALPS: Juliana Hatfield and Nada Surf's Matthew Caws stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.
STORNOWAY is streaming the You Don't Know Anything EP. Nice. (Thx, Chromewaves.)
THE BROTHER KITE is streaming Model Rocket. Nice jolt. (Thx again, Chromewaves!)
GAP DREAM advance streams Shine Your Lght. Electronic, yet a bit psychedelic.
PRINCE shared a demo of a new song entitled “Da Bourgeoisie”.
TEMPLES drop "Mesmerise" ahead of their debut LP, Sun Structures.
MARSHALL CRENSHAW plays his classic "Someday, Someway"... for Merv!
KATHLEEN HANNA looks back at th soundtrack to her life at Pitchfork.
HOW SWEDEN Became a Pop Powerhouse: "The trail begins with Abba."
OS MUTANTES are profiled by Orlando Weekly.
FORMER GROUPIES OF REDDIT dish the dirt.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE SEQUEL? Sigh. How about a movie about filmmakers visited by an angel who shows them how much better the world is without one?
JUSTIN BIEBER: Invites to his Gatsby party came with a non-disclosure agreement, but word is out it was full of naked women.
TAYLOR SWIFT is profiled at length by New York Magazine.
50 SHADES OF GREY: Dakota Jackson, already promoting.
CHRIS PRATT: The Parks & Rec vet talks Delivery Man and Guardians of the Galaxy with the HuffPost.
ROB FORD, Toronto's scandal plagued mayor was stripped of many of his powers following a heated debate in which he knocked over a female city councilor.
ISRAEL: Prime Minister Netanyahu warned that Iran already has enough uranium for five nuclear bombs.
EGYPT: Authorities said "Islamic jihadists" were behind the killing of an officer from the Interior Minister on Nov. 17. The Christian community is reportedly afraid to complain to the government about its condition. Protestors took to Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest against the army.
LIBYA: A bomb attack on the convoy of Benghazi's head of security killed one bodyguard and injured another. Three people were arrested after a shooting at a Benghazi checkpoint. Libya's intelligence chief and his assistant escaped from their kidnappers at a checkpoint south of Tripoli.
SYRIA: Rivalry between rebels and Islamists has replaced the uprising's lofty ideals, leaving veteran commanders despairing.
A POLITE DOG wipes his feet, y'know.
RACCOON rescued from a Winnie-The-Pooh situation.
DAISY THE SOW gave birth to 27 piglets in nine months. That'll do, pig.
LIONS: The ultimate status symbol in the Persian Gulf.
REM (minus Stipe), Shearwater, Bill Callahan, Gorillas
MIKE MILLS & BILL BERRY joined PETER BUCK onstage at the 40 Watt Club to perform REM's 1984 single “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville.” Looks like Scott McCaughey, too. (Photo via Tommy Warren / ‏@bigwheat.)
SHEARWATER advance streams Fellow Travelers. Each of its 10 songs pays tribute to an artist with whom the band has toured.
BILL CALLAHAN, live from at a historic synagogue in Washington, DC.
JIMMIE DALE GILMORE stopped by KUTX to play a couple.
WASHED OUT stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a mini-set.
ANDY ROURKE joined JOHNNY MARR on The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?” and “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want.” It's Partial Reunion Monday, ahead of Twofer Tuesday. (Photo via doorsixteen on Instagram.)
THE ZOMBIES discussed Odessey and Oracle and played a few on the BBC, way back in May. New to me, though.
ANDREW WK & MARKY RAMONE talk about touring together at The Independent.
ROY HARPER, who sang on Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" and was paid tribute on Led Zeppelin's "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper", has been charged with sexually abusing a girl from the age of 12, during the mid-70s.
BILLY SQUIER: The King of Hip-Hop?
NOW SHOWING: Thor: The Dark World tops the chart with 38 million, on a reasonable-for-a-sequel 55 percent drop. That's 147 million to date domestic, with another 333 million overseas. But the real story may be The Best Man Holiday placing with 30.6 million -- part of a very good year for African American-centric films. All the better against a 17 million budget (tho not so good for 12 Years A Slave, which slid 30 percent). Last Vegas crept up a notch to show with 8.9 million and about 47 million so far against a 28 million budget. Free Virds slips to the fourth slot with 8.3 million and 42 million so far against a 55 million budget. Bad Grandpa rounds out the Top 5 with 7.7 million and 90 million so far against a 15 million budget. Below the fold, Ender's Game slides badly, perhaps beyond disappointment.
ALEC BALDWIN recieves a mere 2-week suspension from MSNB, following the actor’s calling a photographer either a “c***sucking f**” or a “c***sucking fathead,” as Baldwin maintains. He claims he was unaware that calling a man "c***sucking" might be considered an anti-gay slur. He also trotted out his gay hairdresser to defend him. You really can't make stuff like this up.
LAMAR ODOM is set re-sign with the Los Angeles Clippers, according to a source for Us Weekly.
KATIE HOLMES tweeted a possible commentary on ex-husband Tom Cruise.
JUSTIN BIEBER: That girl who filmed him sleeping in Brazilmay have a triple-x film credit.
CHARLIE SHEEN & DENISE RICHARDS were seen jetting out of Van Nuys Airport with their daughters Saturday as Sheen's custody battle with Brooke Mueller over ther sons continues. ALSO: Sheen offers to help Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Of course.
IDRIS ELBA is expecting a baby with girlfriend Naiyana Garth.
LIBYA: The United States military is considering a mission to train Libyan security personnel with the goal of creating a force of 5000 to 7000 conventional soldiers and a separate, smaller unit for specialized counterterrorism missions, according to the top officer of the American Special Operations Command.
SYRIA: A regime helicopter exploded in the sky over Jassim village in Raqqah. Fighters are reportedly massing for a major battle in Qalamoun in Reef Dimashq; thousands of Hezbollah fighters are said to be gathering near the Lebanese border, and thousands of Al Nusrah and rebel fighters are said to be gathering nearby.
IRAN: A senior Obama administration official said on Friday that a solution could be found for one of the major stumbling blocks to an agreement that would freeze Iran’s nuclear program, and that the accord might be achieved next week.
THE DIRTIEST GORILLAS at the zoo.
BUTTERBALL FACES A TURKEY SHORTAGE: Everybody panic. OK, not vegans.
THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A flying militant terrorizes Bambi.
CAT outfoxes DOG.
Rascals, Sebadoh, Peter Case, Cutout Bin, Shiba Inu
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 08:00 AM
... with THE RASCALS! I was delighted to find one of my fave clips, their cover of "Mickey's Monkey" in a medley with "Turn On Your Love Light." A second live medley includes a pair of Rascals originals, "I've Been Lonely Too Long" and "Come On Up." Plus, a copy of "A Girl Like You" has returned to the Tube. Round it out with the live-instudio version of the obligatory "Good Lovin'."
SEBADOH stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.
AMOS LEE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.
PETER CASE played a mini-set at KUTX.
CHVRCHES played live at MusicFest Northwest.
LEE HAZLEWOOD & NANCY SINATRA: "Some Velvet Morning." Can I tell you about Phaedra?
THE COCTEAU TWINS: Head Over Heels turns 30. Get off My Lawn.
BILLY IDOL: Rebel Yell turns 30. Get Off My Lawn.
HOW SELLING OUT Saved Indie Rock. Actually, the tradition of up-and-coming rockers doing ads dates back into the Sixties.
TINA TURNER relinquished American citizenship.
THE CUTOUT BIN: From the B-52s to Slim Harpo, from Billy Bragg to Roky Erickson, from the Smiths to Lloyd Price, plus the Meat Puppets, Flamin' Groovies, Los Lobos, The Turtles and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.
NOW SHOWING: The Best Man Holiday is this weekend's sole wide release and is currently scoring 63 percent on the ol' Tomatometer. Basically with Hunger Games coming next week, no one wanted to open anything near that mindspace. So expect Thor to bring the hammer down again.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL was sent to the emergency room after punching a mirror on the Los Angeles set of his new film Nightcrawler Wednesday morning.
ADAM LEVINE will be announced as “Sexiest Man Alive” by People next week? Really?
MATTHEW McCONNAUGHEY is GQ's Leading Man of the Year.
ALEC BALDWIN's stalker was found guilty. Meanwhile, Alec went homophobic again.
KHLOE KARDASHIAN & LAMAR ODOM are in couples therapy.
CHRIS BROWN is still in rehab, despite resurfacing in Los Angeles for a bite to eat on Wednesday.
MARK WAHLBERG wasn't targeting Tom Cruise with his recent remarks, but yeah, Cruise needs to shut it.
DR WHO was nearly extermianted at birth.
SYRIA: Hassan Nazrallah, the head of Hezbollah, said the group would not withdraw from Syria so long as the Assad regime needed it.
LIBYA: The terrorists who attacked the Benghazi consulate last year knew the location of the safe room where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his security team sought shelter, according to a congressman who spoke for 90 minutes with the diplomatic security agent severely injured in the assault.
EGYPT: The Interior Minister said authorities are aware of a Muslim Brotherhood plot to bring "violence and sabotage" to Egypt on Nov. 19.
IRAQ: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed 41 Iraqis in a series of attacks throughout the country.
YUKI the SHIBA INU says hello.
THE RAREST MAMMAL ON EARTH: Spotted in Vietnam.
A COYOTE joins a cross-country champrionship in Phoenix.
WORLD'S OLDEST CREATURE: KIlled by scientists checking its age. Oops.
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Takin' a 3-day weekend
Monday, May 18, 2009 - 08:00 AM
I'LL BE BACK, as the Governator whould say. Tomorrow. Angels & Demons was your No.1 movie this weekend, but its 48 million was far less than the DaVinci Code's 77.1 million, or Star Trek's opening last weekend. Trek made 43 million, a fairly impressive hold. This week it will become the most successful Trek since the 1980s. Trek is now almost certain to clear 200 million in the US, a big relief for Paramount. Wolverine is in third and plummeting. Rounding out the Top Five this week are the counter-programming, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Obsessed.
Arthur Lee, Juliana Hatfield, Cutout Bin, Sleeping Piglets
Friday, May 15, 2009 - 08:00 AM
...with ARTHUR LEE & LOVE! Pate used to cover their garage-y take on Bacharach's "My Little Red Book," but Arthur Lee's big triumph was the Forever Changes album, from which Lee played "Alone Again Or," "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale" "'You Set The Scene" on Later with Jools Holland, with strings and horns.
DANGER MOUSE + SPARKLEHORSE + DAVID LYNCH = Dark Night of the Soul, advance streaming via NPR. other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soul include James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch, and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils.
JULIANA HATFIELD does the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, two unreleased, including a cover of "It's Only Rock 'n Roll."
SONIC YOUTH, live at the Hollywood Palladium, August 1990.
THE VASELINES: Eugene Kelly talks to NOW about reuniting, while NPR's Carrie Brownstein asks whether it's better to reappear or disappear.
THE KILLERS played "A Dustland Fairytale" at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Again with the orchestral rock today.
JARVIS COCKER and his kids review current singles for The Guardian.
THE THERMALS singer/guitarist Hutch Harris talks to the Washington Post about the band's Yogi Bear philosophy.
MAXIMO PARK: Paul Smith talks to The Independent about how he joined the band, the upcoming album, etc. Enrique Iglesias has a cameo.
THE SISTERS OF MERCY continue to polarize opinion like few other bands.
CUTOUT BIN: From Shiny Toy Guns to The Heavy, from Simon & Garfunkel to Led Zeppelin, from the Supremes to the New York Dolls, plus Pavement, Cheap Trick, the English Beat, Elton John and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.
NEW RELEASES: This weekend's sole wide debut is Angels & Demons, which is currently scoring 40 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.
LINDSAY LOHAN gets a paying gig.
ROB LOWE settled sex harrassment suits brought by ex-nannies Jessica Gibson and Laura Boyce.
MADONNA reportedly wants to marry boytoy Jesus Luz, kabbalah style -- which may not be legally binding.
BARBRA STREISAND's long-hidden secrets will be bared in a new tell-all by her ex-boyfriend Hollywood producer Jon Peters -- who claims the beloved diva was sexually abused by a slimy movie mogul and had affairs with three of her leading men
FARRAH FAWCETT needs a miracle.
STAR TREK vs STAR WARS: They are your favorite movie (spoiler warning for Trek, natch).
THE BIG LEBOWSKI is added to The A.V. Club Cult Canon. Dude!
TERRY GILLIAM talks to the Times of London about the death of Heath Ledger and his latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
IRAN: The Obama administration and its European allies are setting a target of early October to determine whether engagement with Iran is making progress or should lead to sanctions, said senior officials briefed on the policy. The US wants a commitment on sanctions from Russia and China if negotiations founder. Good luck with that.
AFGHANISTAN: The US has called on Afghanistan to carry out a thorough investigation into a spate of mysterious poisonings harming Afghan school girls.
IRAQ: A senior al Qaeda leader based in Syria who recruits and facilitates the entry of foreign fighters into Iraq has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department.
SLEEPING PIGLETS still keep an ear out.
ORANGUTAN & DOG, living together, riding an elephant, appearing on Oprah... mass hysteria.
DOG vs MAIL CARRIER: The classic confrontation.
A DROWNING KANGAROO was rescued by a surfer on Kirra Beach in Australia.
EXCUSE ME, WAITER, there appears to be a baby rat in my stir-fry.
New Wilco, Iron & Wine, Vetiver, Penguin Olympics
Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 08:00 AM
BOB DYLAN has an alternate vdeo for "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'". The original was arty; this one has someone getting clocked with a frying pan.
WILCO is advance streaming Wilco (The Album).
IRON & WINE is advance streaming the Around The Well rarities collection.
VETIVER stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set streaming now via NPR.
AMANDA PALMER: With The Needle That Sings In Her Heart -- her high school musical based on Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" -- is now streaming in its entirety.
THE BREEDERS: Kelley Deal talks to the Riverfront Times about about the band's new, roller-derby themed video for "Fate to Fatal," the new EP, etc.
THE THERMALS: Kathy Fortser talks to Drowned In Sound about having Johnny Marr and his kids as fans, plus more...
RICHARD BUCKNER talks to the Arkansas Times about singing with himself, his philosophy on making albums and what makes a good performance. Video at the link, too.
ARCTIC MONKEYS drummer Matt Helders talks to Drowned In Sound about the band's next album.
WOODEN BIRDS: Andrew Kenny tells Black Book about super powers, his affinity for the channel TBS, and having his dreams realized at a bar in Brooklyn.
LINDSAY LOHAN: A burglar alarm led police to Li-Lo's house on Tuesday. Police found evidence of a potential break-in and ransacking -- but the mess was caused by Lohan, not the burglars.
PAULINA PORIZKOVA has been fired from her America's Next Top Model judging role after three seasons, due to her "huge ego."
BRAD PITT drunk-dialing Jennifer Aniston? Too good to check.
NICOLE KIDMAN has fled Woody Allen's latest, untitled project.
CAMERON CROWE lists his "Top 10 (Or So) Music Moments in Film," by which he means 36: "The first thing to remember about any top ten list is that it is not to be trusted".
ANGELS & DEMONS opens tomorrow, and I've generally neglected to mention it, so here's a clip, with more in the sidebar.
UP: /Film rounds up the exceedingly good early buzz and notes Easter eggs in the forthcoming Pixar flick.
THE MAXIM HOT 100 is in text form at the Cinema Post, while ONTD rounds 'em up in pictures. Call it Gratuitous Thursday.
THE STANS: Michael Yon and Popular Mechanics both take a look at the shake-up in US command. The BBC has a good map of Taliban-held areas of Pakistan. As Taliban militants push deeper into Pakistan's settled areas, foreign operatives of Al Qaeda who had focused on plotting attacks against the West are seizing on the turmoil to sow chaos in Pakistan and strengthen the hand of the militant Islamist groups there. The US military has begun flying armed Predator drones inside Pakistan and has given Pakistani officers significant control over targets, flight routes and decisions to launch attacks under a new joint operation. Moderate clerics speak out against the Taliban.
IRAQ: Gen. Ray Odierno offered a cautiously optimistic picture of conditions in Iraq during an hour-long session hosted by The Institute of World Politics. He also defended the withdrawal timeline, while admitting wryly that he had fielded many, many questions on that topic.
PENGUIN OLYMPICS: New Zealand, home to nine of the 16 species of living penguins, hosts the world's first ‘Penguathlon'. The Sun has video.
THE SECRET LIFE OF PENGUINS: Zoologists have long wondered where the flightless seabirds go during their long spells away from land -- and now French scientists believe they can supply the answer.
ZOMBIE FIRE ANTS: It sounds like something out of science fiction. But it's all too real.
500-LB MOOSE "fell out of the sky" on I-95 in Maine. Nothing up my sleeve... Presto!
A GREEN TREE FROG underwent life-saving emergency surgery after it was run over by a lawnmower in a backyard Down Under.
New Shins, YFF & Minus 5, Grizzly Bear, Bathtub Cat
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 08:00 AM
THE SHINS breakout a new song, "Double Bubble" at the Hollywood Palladium.
CONOR OBERST has an hour-long documentary available to stream or download via Causecast.
ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Fairport Convention, Dinosaur, Jr., Passion Pit and more are featured in the latest edition of the long-running NPR series.
THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS and THE MINUS 5 are advance streaming new albums for your e-mail address. Oterwise it's :30 samples. (Thx, Ken!)
GRIZZLY BEAR is advance streaming "Two Weeks" from their upcoming LP, after months of seeing live versions.
RICK ASTLEY turns up for karaoke night in Athens, GA.
briTUNES: NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams launches a web-only music interview series, starting with a feature on Deer Tick.
THAO NGUYEN yuks it up with Metromix.
ANVIL is the real-tife Spinal Tap -- and their drummer is named Robb Reiner. Yes, really.
CHAN POLING, formerly of The Suburbs, is writing musicals.
LINDSAY LOHAN laughs off pregnancy rumors.
BRITNEY SPEARS: Fmr "magnager" Sam Lufti may have to pay the legal costs of getting a restraining order against him.
MISS CALIFORNIA was given a reprieve by Donald Trump, who generally likes giving reprieves to pageant winners, iirc.
TWILIGHT SEQUEL script found in the trash. The punchline writes itself, but the woman who found it returned it to the studio.
GINNIFER GOODWIN talks to W magazine about her good-girl rep and being asked inane dating questions while promoting He's Just Not That Into You: "I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships."
TERMINATOR: SALVATION has given an exclusive action clip and behind-the-scenes clip to... Pizza Hut. And many things blow up.
STAR TREK: io9 learns about the Shatner scene cut from the reboot, but it has a spoiler for what is in the movie, so caveat clicker. Also, there's a theory now explaining an unusual musical choice in the reboot. BTW, the movie made three million more than the Sunday estimates, taking the opening weekend to 79.2 million.
TERROR in the USA: It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but federal prosecutors finally succeeded Tuesday in convicting five Miami men of plotting to start an anti-government insurrection by destroying Chicago's Sears Tower and bombing FBI offices. One man was acquitted.
IRAN's Revolutionary Guards have begun deploying mobile launchers for surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles in the Strait of Hurmuz and other areas in the Gulf, according to an Iranian official, quoted anonymously in the Saudi daily Al-Watan. Shaker of salt.
PAKISTAN: US officials are skeptical of the high Taliban casualty reports as the Interior Minister claimed 700 Taliban fighters have been killed in four days of fighting in Swat.
IRAQ: Michael J. Totten starts a series asking Iraqis and Americans if the worst in Iraq is over or if the dramatic reduction in violence is just a long lull. Anthony Cordesman warns that it is Iraq that now risks becoming the "forgotten war."
KITTEH in a BATHTUB: Let's go to the video. (Thx, Lance!)
GIANT JELLYFISH washes up on the North Devon coast. Or the UK is being invaded by giant blancmanges.
A FOX CUB survived being trapped in a snare for two weeks after his mother brought him food every day.
A PARROT is about to cost 1000 workers their jobs in New South Wales because the Federal Government has ordered a timber industry to be shut down to protect the bird.
DOG & KITTENS, living together... mass hysteria.
Sharon Jones, New Releases, Green Day, Meat Puppets, Cats & Dogs
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 08:00 AM
DARK WAS THE NIGHT: Closing out last week's big benefit show, this indie-star cast, featuring Feist, St. Vincent, etc. are about to be blown away by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' take on "This Land Is Your Land."
NEW RELEASES: Steve Earle, Jarvis Cocker, Bloc Party, Hanne Hukkelberg and more are streaming in full this week at Spinner.
GREEN DAY is advance streaming its 21st Century Breakdown via Drowned In Sound.
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE played the 9:30 Club in DC last night, so you should be able to stream the gig on demand via NPR now.
MEAT PUPPETS did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at SxSW.
BON IVER played "Flume" (w/ My Brightest Diamond) and "Big Red Machine" (w/ Matt Berringer) at the Dark Was The Night benefit show at Radio City Music Hall. Two. Fer.
LUCKY SOUL gets interviewed at Sweeping The Nation and SoundProof. (Thx, Chromewaves.) Their advance track, "Whoa Billy", was in the Cutout Bin a few weeks ago, icymi.
STEVE EARLE talks to PopMatters about his new LP of Townes Van Zandt tunes.
NOAH & THE WHALE share some firsts with YANP.
MASTADON guitarist Bill Kelliher talks art-metal with Express Night Out. Video at the link.
BROOKE SHIELDS contradicted her own reps by officially saying Jack McCollough - the dude Kiefer Sutherland headbutted - bumped her just before the incident.
LINDSAY LOHAN is seven weeks pregnant, according to an obscure gossip blog.
MICHAEL PHELPS deserves another gold medal - for stamina in the sack, according to a stripper who claims she had a threesome with the swim champ.
SHIRLEY JONES might pose nude for Playboy at the age of 75, if her husband/manager Marty Ingels has his way. I'm thinking saner heads will prevail.
FARRAH FAWCETT talks directly to People magazine about her very public, 2½-year-battle with cancer.
JESSICA BIEL says she was as shocked as everyone else at her boyfriend Justin Timberlake's raunchy new video "Motherlover" with Andy Samberg on Saturday Night Live this past weekend.
STAR TREK: Geeks of Doom explain "10 Gripes People Have About The New ‘Star Trek' Film." MTV lists "Five Things You May Have Missed While Watching 'Star Trek'."
OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence.
IRAN: Roxana Saberi, an American journalist convicted in Iran on spying charges, is to be freed after an appeals court downgraded her sentence.
AFGHANISTAN: The Pentagon is replacing the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, less than a year after he took over.
IRAQ: Ending months of political stalemate, the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq reached an accord Sunday that would allow the Kurds to export oil for the first time. Violence is on the rise in Iraq, as the Iraqi government is neglecting many of the successful counterinsurgency initiatives it is inheriting from the US military. After a long hiatus, the Syrian pipeline operated by al-Qaeda in Iraq is back in business.
CATS & DOGS, living together... up to a point.
RETURN OF THE MONTAUK MONSTER: Another strange, mutilated animal washes up on a Long Island beach.
MYSTERY WORM INVASION forces 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region.
WHEN KANGAROOS ATTACK, tourists go swimming.
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Chapter 29 - Benzodiazepines
By Uwe Rudolph, M. Frances Davies, Juliana Barr
Edited by Alex S. Evers, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mervyn Maze, University of California, San Francisco, Evan D. Kharasch, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis
Book: Anesthetic Pharmacology
Print publication: 22 August 2013, pp 466-477
By Waiel Almoustadi, Brian J. Anderson, David B. Auyong, Michael Avidan, Michael J. Avram, Roland J. Bainton, Jeffrey R. Balser, Juliana Barr, W. Scott Beattie, Manfred Blobner, T. Andrew Bowdle, Walter A. Boyle, Eugene B. Campbell, Laura F. Cavallone, Mario Cibelli, C. Michael Crowder, Ola Dale, M. Frances Davies, Mark Dershwitz, George Despotis, Clifford S. Deutschman, Brian S. Donahue, Marcel E. Durieux, Thomas J. Ebert, Talmage D. Egan, Helge Eilers, E. Wesley Ely, Charles W. Emala, Alex S. Evers, Heidrun Fink, Pierre Foëx, Stuart A. Forman, Helen F. Galley, Josephine M. Garcia-Ferrer, Robert W. Gereau, Tony Gin, David Glick, B. Joseph Guglielmo, Dhanesh K. Gupta, Howard B. Gutstein, Robert G. Hahn, Greg B. Hammer, Brian P. Head, Helen Higham, Laureen Hill, Kirk Hogan, Charles W. Hogue, Christopher G. Hughes, Eric Jacobsohn, Roger A. Johns, Dean R. Jones, Max Kelz, Evan D. Kharasch, Ellen W. King, W. Andrew Kofke, Tom C. Krejcie, Richard M. Langford, H. T. Lee, Isobel Lever, Jerrold H. Levy, J. Lance Lichtor, Larry Lindenbaum, Hung Pin Liu, Geoff Lockwood, Alex Macario, Conan MacDougall, M. B. MacIver, Aman Mahajan, Nándor Marczin, J. A. Jeevendra Martyn, George A. Mashour, Mervyn Maze, Thomas McDowell, Stuart McGrane, Berend Mets, Patrick Meybohm, Charles F. Minto, Jonathan Moss, Mohamed Naguib, Istvan Nagy, Nick Oliver, Paul S. Pagel, Pratik P. Pandharipande, Piyush Patel, Andrew J. Patterson, Robert A. Pearce, Ronald G. Pearl, Misha Perouansky, Kristof Racz, Chinniampalayam Rajamohan, Nilesh Randive, Imre Redai, Stephen Robinson, Richard W. Rosenquist, Carl E. Rosow, Uwe Rudolph, Francis V. Salinas, Robert D. Sanders, Sunita Sastry, Michael Schäfer, Jens Scholz, Thomas W. Schnider, Mark A. Schumacher, John W. Sear, Frédérique S. Servin, Jeffrey H. Silverstein, Tom De Smet, Martin Smith, Joe Henry Steinbach, Markus Steinfath, David F. Stowe, Gary R. Strichartz, Michel M. R. F. Struys, Isao Tsuneyoshi, Robert A. Veselis, Arthur Wallace, Robert P. Walt, David C. Warltier, Nigel R. Webster, Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, Troy Wildes, Paul Wischmeyer, Ling-Gang Wu, Stephen Yang
Print publication: 22 August 2013, pp viii-xiv
N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor independent changes in expression of polysialic acid-neural cell adhesion molecule despite blockade of homosynaptic long-term potentiation and heterosynaptic long-term depression in the awake freely behaving rat dentate gyrus
Jose J. Rodríguez, Glenn M. Dallérac, Masashi Tabuchi, Heather A. Davies, Frances M. Colyer, Michael G. Stewart, Valérie Doyère
Journal: Neuron Glia Biology / Volume 4 / Issue 3 / August 2008
Investigations examining the role of polysialic acid (PSA) on the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) in synaptic plasticity have yielded inconsistent data. Here, we addressed this issue by determining whether homosynaptic long-term potentiation (LTP) and heterosynaptic long-term depression (LTD) induce changes in the distribution of PSA-NCAM in the dentate gyrus (DG) of rats in vivo. In addition, we also examined whether the observed modifications were initiated via the activation of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. Immunocytochemical analysis showed an increase in PSA-NCAM positive cells both at 2 and 24 h following high-frequency stimulation of either medial or lateral perforant paths, leading to homosynaptic LTP and heterosynaptic LTD, respectively, in the medial molecular layer of the DG. Analysis of sub-cellular distribution of PSA-NCAM by electron microscopy showed decreased PSA dendritic labelling in LTD rats and a sub-cellular relocation towards the spines in LTP rats. Importantly, these modifications were found to be independent of the activation of NMDA receptors. Our findings suggest that strong activation of the granule cells up-regulates PSA-NCAM synthesis which then incorporates into activated synapses, representing NMDA-independent plastic processes that act synergistically on LTP/LTD mechanisms without participating in their expression.
Internet Cognitive Testing of Large Samples Needed in Genetic Research
Claire M. A. Haworth, Nicole Harlaar, Yulia Kovas, Oliver S. P. Davis, Bonamy R. Oliver, Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas, Jane Frances, Patricia Busfield, Andrew McMillan, Philip S. Dale, Robert Plomin
Quantitative and molecular genetic research requires large samples to provide adequate statistical power, but it is expensive to test large samples in person, especially when the participants are widely distributed geographically. Increasing access to inexpensive and fast Internet connections makes it possible to test large samples efficiently and economically online. Reliability and validity of Internet testing for cognitive ability have not been previously reported; these issues are especially pertinent for testing children. We developed Internet versions of reading, language, mathematics and general cognitive ability tests and investigated their reliability and validity for 10- and 12-year-old children. We tested online more than 2500 pairs of 10-year-old twins and compared their scores to similar internet-based measures administered online to a subsample of the children when they were 12 years old (> 759 pairs). Within 3 months of the online testing at 12 years, we administered standard paper and pencil versions of the reading and mathematics tests in person to 30 children (15 pairs of twins). Scores on Internet-based measures at 10 and 12 years correlated .63 on average across the two years, suggesting substantial stability and high reliability. Correlations of about .80 between Internet measures and in-person testing suggest excellent validity. In addition, the comparison of the internet-based measures to ratings from teachers based on criteria from the UK National Curriculum suggests good concurrent validity for these tests. We conclude that Internet testing can be reliable and valid for collecting cognitive test data on large samples even for children as young as 10 years.
Estimating the extent of degradation of ruminant feeds from a description of their gas production profiles observed in vitro: comparison of models
M. S. Dhanoa, S. Lopez, J. Dijkstra, D. R. Davies, R. Sanderson, B. A. Williams, Z. Sileshi, J. France
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 83 / Issue 2 / February 2000
An evaluation of general models that describe gas production profiles is presented. The models are derived from first principles by considering a simple three-pool scheme and permit the extent of ruminal degradation to be calculated, as described in the companion paper. The models evaluated were the generalized Mitscherlich, simple Mitscherlich, generalized Michaelis–Menten, simple Michaelis–Menten, Gompertz, and logistic. Five sets of gas production data consisting of 216 curves, obtained using a wide range of feeds (including straw, hay, silage, grain and various byproducts), were analysed to study the performance of these gas production models. Application of the non-sigmoidal models (simple Mitscherlich and Michaelis–Menten) to the data resulted in convergence problems and these models were found to be inadequate in many cases. Based on results of a pairwise comparison between models (variance ratio test), ranking of residual mean squares, lack-of-fit test, and of analyses of residuals, the generalized Mitscherlich and the generalized Michaelis–Menten models seemed particularly suited because of their flexibility to encompass sigmoidal and non-sigmoidal shapes of gas production profiles, whether symmetrical or not.
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International Phonetic Association (3)
Speaker sex effects on temporal and spectro-temporal measures of speech
Frank Herrmann, Stuart P. Cunningham, Sandra P. Whiteside
Journal: Journal of the International Phonetic Association / Volume 44 / Issue 1 / April 2014
This study investigated speaker sex differences in the temporal and spectro-temporal parameters of English monosyllabic words spoken by thirteen women and eleven men. Vowel and utterance duration were investigated. A number of formant frequency parameters were also analysed to assess the spectro-temporal dynamic structures of the monosyllabic words as a function of speaker sex. Absolute frequency changes were measured for the first (F1), second (F2), and third (F3) formant frequencies (ΔF1, ΔF2, and ΔF3, respectively). Rates of these absolute formant frequency changes were also measured and calculated to yield measurements for rF1, rF2, and rF3. Normalised frequency changes (normΔF1, normΔF2, and normΔF3), and normalised rates of change (normrF1, normrF2, and normrF3) were also calculated. F2 locus equations were then derived from the F2 measurements taken at the onset and temporal mid points of the vowels. Results indicated that there were significant sex differences in the spectro-temporal parameters associated with F2: ΔF2, normΔF2, rF2, and F2 locus equation slopes; women displayed significantly higher values for ΔF2, normΔF2 and rF2, and significantly shallower F2 locus equation slopes. Collectively, these results suggested lower levels of coarticulation in the speech samples of the women speakers, and corroborate evidence reported in earlier studies.
Temporal-based acoustic-phonetic patterns in read speech: some evidence for speaker sex differences
Sandra P. Whiteside
Journal: Journal of the International Phonetic Association / Volume 26 / Issue 1 / June 1996
The perception of speaker sex depends on the listener's integration of a complex range of factors. These may relate, for example, to the style of delivery, the use of particular language, pronunciation (Trudgill, 1983; Smith, 1979), the use of particular intonation patterns (McConnell-Ginet, 1983) and the perceived pitch of the speaker (Aronovitch, 1976, Elyan, 1978; Lass et al., 1976). Some acoustic-phonetic investigations have explored through instrumental analysis how speaker sex differences are perceived. These have shown that acoustic phonetic differences exist between the read speech of men and women speakers. It has been demonstrated that fundamental frequency differences exist between men and women, with men having on average, lower fundamental frequencies (Aronovitch, 1976; Coleman, 1973a). This can be explained in part by their larger larynges. However it is also acknowledged that it is not a low overall average fundamental frequency alone that contributes to the perception of an adult male voice. Some evidence shows for example that use of a wider pitch range will contribute to the perception of femininity, even where the overall pitch is low (Terrango, 1966). In addition women have been found to have on average higher formant frequencies (Coleman, 1976; Henton, 1986; Peterson & Barney, 1952; Childers & Wu, 1991; Wu & Childers, 1991) as a result of the smaller vocal tract. Women have different glottal source characteristics (Karlsson, 1989) which are reflected in the filter characteristics of the speech signal (Klatt & Klatt, 1990). There is also some evidence to suggest that other speaker sex differences exist in the temporal domain. Byrd (1992) found differences between men and women speakers in speaking rate in read speech in American English in the TIMIT database. Byrd states that under the recording conditions used for the TIMIT database, women spoke appreciably more slowly than the men and that men tended to reduce vowels to schwa ([ə]) more often than the women. Byrd also found that female speakers in the TIMIT database released stops in sentence-final position more frequently and produced more glottal stops than male speakers. All these findings were statistically significant.
Peter B. Denes and Elliot N. Pinson The Speech Chain: The Physics and Biology of Spoken Language, 2nd edition. Oxford: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1993. Pp. 246 Pb. US$14.95. ISBN 0-7167-2344-1.
Journal: Journal of the International Phonetic Association / Volume 23 / Issue 2 / December 1993
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2009, pp. 98-101
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Couples and Marriage Counseling
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Aug 4, 2016 | #Inspire180, Prose | 0 comments
It’s time to begin playing catch-up with Laurie Sutton’s Instagram project. Around Father’s Day, I began writing a piece to go with her word for that week (I don’t even remember now what it is), and I found myself having trouble because my adopted father and I, as much as I love and miss him, had somewhat of a rocky relationship at times. I’ll have to go back to that writing and set my mind to finishing it.
Meanwhile, I noticed that Laurie’s new word is “motivate,” and two opposing lines ways of being, both of them important, have come to my mind when thinking about that word. My first though was how motivated I’ve been to speak out about Donald Trump. Never have I felt so strongly about the outcome of an election, and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I am disappointed when I notice people I know supporting him.
Watching th e conventions, I largely noticed the contrast between the two: fear vs hope, pessimism vs optimism and pure demagoguery vs a call for collaboration. Having listened the Republican nominee speak but showing none of the bright coloring others have him during the convention, it brought up my level of concern, as has the behavior following the convention. Conversely, the next convention had the opposite effect, raising my own optimism and lessening doubts I had about the nominee.
I mention these things to explain that I found myself again feeling that as a private citizen I can be part of a whole, finding ways to serve my community and even my country and in my own way contributing in a patriotic way with my neighbors across the country. I again began to feel an America that the sum of its parts. Likewise, I feel emboldened to, with as little obnoxiousness as possible, point out the error, and perhaps even the danger, of supporting the Republican nominee.
The second path of motivation has me excited today, and on Google. The Olympics are a breath of fresh air from the 2016 presidential election. The last Olympic games that I really followed was Michael Phelps winning swimming races. I’m finding myself almost NEEDING to think about something more positive than politics for a minute, so I’m ready to decompress somewhat and let the positive energy of coming together globally in friendly competition to seep in.
The excitement is not unlike the night I spent just a month ago in Paris, when France won the semifinal game against Germany, the expected victor. Pre-game there were painted faces and patriotic spirit, during the game there was shouting in the streets of Paris as France was scoring, and then long after the game had been won, vehicles honked through the streets, and people sang and shouted, glorying in their victory throughout the night.
If we could just have a fraction of that between now and the ramp-up to November, I think it would be awesome!
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Re: Lionsgate
#376 Post by domino harvey » Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:40 pm
Which was already out on Blu-ray via Echo Bridge
captveg
#377 Post by captveg » Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:51 pm
Ah. Forgive me for overlooking that.
It does beg the question whether Lionsgate is the label that absorbed the majority of the Echo Bridge Miramax holdings (a nice fit, considering they already negotiated the more prestige-y Miramax titles earlier)
There have been other former Echo Bridge Miramax titles re-issued by Lionsgate, so that certainly seems to be the case. The question remains if they will be releasing any future new-to-Blu Miramax titles as they've seem to have pretty much stopped. The handful of Woody Allen titles they have are calling out for Blu-rays.
#380 Post by domino harvey » Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:09 pm
Lionsgate has been confirmed as the label to license 250 Miramax titles-- a logical fit given their existent Miramax releases and salvation from Echo Bridge at last (though the comments suggest they're just repackaging the Echo Bridge discs, which funnily enough is what the first wave of many Echo Bridge DVDs did with the original Miramax discs)
#381 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Oct 08, 2014 2:23 pm
The expanded agreement reflects Lionsgate's successful track record in distributing third party product from some of the most prominent libraries in the world, including Miramax, Studiocanal and A&E, as well as its own Lionsgate titles.
This is clearly my favorite part of the press release.
#382 Post by captveg » Wed Oct 08, 2014 3:44 pm
FrauBlucher wrote:
Yeah, I had to hold back my flippant laughter on that one.
#383 Post by captveg » Mon Nov 03, 2014 4:36 pm
My Left Foot (1989) - 1/13/15
#384 Post by domino harvey » Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:39 pm
Dead Man in January
Cronenfly
#385 Post by Cronenfly » Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:23 pm
That is quite disappointing, was hoping the rights had reverted back to Jarmusch for a Criterion release...
Ashirg
#386 Post by Ashirg » Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:24 pm
The next batch of StudioCanal titles downgraded to DVD-R at Amazon are The Man in the White Suit, Contempt, Nights of Cabiria.
#387 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:44 pm
captveg wrote: My Left Foot (1989) - 1/13/15
One awful cover.
#388 Post by captveg » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:53 pm
It is indeed. But considering the way LG is treating the SC library right now I'll gladly take a terrible cover if the disc content is up to snuff.
#389 Post by captveg » Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:10 pm
Chopping Mall (1986)
Blood Diner (1987)
Also, new editions of Highlander (1986) and Evil Dead II (1987) also coming that day, but these may be simply re-packaging.
#390 Post by Ribs » Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:11 pm
Studiocanal remastered Highlander in the UK so I have a hard time imagining this isn't that remaster.
#391 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jul 18, 2016 4:14 pm
Chopping Mall of course opens with the wonderful cameos by Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov as their Eating Raoul characters, but the whole thing has a certain charm to it
AfterTheRain
#392 Post by AfterTheRain » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:31 pm
From today's Digital Bits post:
Lionsgate has announced a new line of Vestron Video Collector’s Series Blu-ray releases, set to include new remastered special editions from the iconic Vestron Video cult and horror label of the 1980s. The first release will be Jim Wynorski’s Chopping Mall (1986) on 9/27. Extras will include commentary with Jim Wynorski, actress Kelli Maroney, and co-writer/2nd unit director Steve Mitchell, a second commentary with Nathaniel Thompson (of Mondo Video) and Ryan Turek (of Shock Till You Drop), and a third with Wynorski and Mitchell alone, 7 featurettes (Back to the Mall, Chopping Chopping Mall, The Killbots, Scoring Chopping Mall, The Robot Speaks, The Lost Scene, Army of One, and Chopping Mall: Creating the Killbots), an isolated score track by Chuck Cirino, and the film’s trailer. The second release in the series will be Jackie Kong’s Blood Diner (1987), also on 9/27 (SRP $39.99). The title will feature a newly remastered HD transfer supervised by Kong himself, along with audio commentary by Kong, 5 newly-produced featurettes (Queen Kong, The Cook, The Uncle, and The Detective, Open for Business, Scoring for Sheetar!, and You Are What They Eat), an archival interview with project consultant Eric Caidin, the theatrical trailer, TV spots, and a still gallery. You can see the cover artwork at the left there. When you think of the list of B-titles distributed by Vestron, this line could be full indeed. We can’t wait to hear what’s coming next!
#393 Post by domino harvey » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:43 pm
Are they fucking kidding with that MSRP
Adam Grikepelis
#394 Post by Adam Grikepelis » Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:46 pm
But it's a Collector's Edition...
Still, that seems to be the new standard retail price for (genre) releases with any effort put into them. Hopefully these do well enough to encourage Lionsgate to start doing more with their catalogue again.
I'm happy Chopping Mall is finally coming out, been wanting to see it for a while now.
carmilla mircalla
#395 Post by carmilla mircalla » Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:14 am
The title will feature a newly remastered HD transfer supervised by Kong himself
#396 Post by JSC » Tue Aug 02, 2016 8:49 am
As long as they're dipping into the Vestron catalogue, how about a set of
Ken Russell's films from the late 80s?
(Lair of the White Worm, The Rainbow, Salome's Last Dance)
#397 Post by dwk » Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:03 pm
Press release with news on what the next three Vestron Video Collector's Series Blu-rays will be:
SANTA MONICA, CA (August 2, 2016) – Lionsgate is exhuming classic horror films with a red carpet rollout this fall for the limited edition Vestron Video Collector’s Series. Hours of materials have been assembled for the Vestron Video Collector’s Series Blu-ray™ releases, starting with six horror cult classics! Taste the fear and the flesh, in shocking high definition for the first time, as teenagers meet their untimely demise at the hands of cannibals, killer robots, horror icons, sewer-dwelling monsters, and an army of the undead!
Vestron Video has been a leader in providing the most unique and wide-ranging selection of films. Lionsgate honors the spirit of Vestron Video by presenting the Vestron Video Collector’s Series — a line of classic genre films newly remastered and with a wealth of supplementary features. Starting with Chopping Mall and Blood Diner, and continuing with Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time Double Feature, Return of the Living Dead 3, and C.H.U.D. II: Bud the CHUD, these re-releases are for the collector and horror fan alike and will be available for a limited amount of time.
#398 Post by domino harvey » Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:13 pm
Can you imagine being assigned the blurb writing for CHUD II: Bud the CHUD after being told it's your job to convince anyone that it was a treat for horror fans and collectors alike?
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#399 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:18 pm
Glengarry Glen Ross on Blu-ray October 11th
#400 Post by Adam Grikepelis » Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:25 pm
Return of the Living Dead 3!!! Fingers crossed it's actually uncut this time.
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Juan Cristobal and Quico say: The year is coming to a close and while some of you will gather around the hallaca table or go to your school's gaitazo, here at Caracas Chronicles we will indulge in our own little one-year old tradition: the year-in-review post.
Summing up this year is particularly difficult: 2008 was a year in transition. Our economy went from boom to the verge of bust, though we're not quite there yet. The opposition made gains and built on its historic victory in the Referendum of last December, but we are certainly not close to becoming a government in the wings. And people remained skeptically supportive of Chavez in general, although the feeling is approaching exhaustion.
Most of all, after the Regional elections failed to produce a clear winner, both sides are revving up for another confrontation. It's only fitting that the image of the year is Quico's hard-fought-for cartogram, showing the real red-blue division in a demographically relevant way. A united republic we are not.
There was no defining moment to the year. We mused about Maleta-gate, talked about the Regional Elections and their aftermath without getting too involved in the nitty-gritty, and discussed the historic election in the US and its implications for Venezuela. Raul Reyes' laptop and Ingrid Betancourt's rescue kept us glued to the TV, but what did it all amount to?
Not much. Instead, 2009 looms large. Chavez has just promised a Referendum to amend the Constitution, and his prospects do not look good. The price of oil is tanking, and while Venezuelans haven't felt it yet, they will. The world's economy is in dire shape, and recessions always bring with them social conflict at home. With crime soaring and inflation rapidly spiraling out of control, there is a lingering feeling that we are still in the calm before the storm.
But the storm promises to be massive.
For now, let's recap...
January — February — March — April — May — June — July — August — September — October — November — December — Top — 2007 In Review
The year began with a bang: a huge discussion on our blog on the nature of political parties in our society. JC thought (and still does!) that people who constantly criticize political parties have a lot in common with anarchists, and this lead to heated discussions with our readers. We also offered tips to politicians regarding the negotiations to reach unity - needless to say, they didn't pay nearly as much attention to us as they should have.
JC also peered into his crystal ball and, on January 8, 2008, right after the Iowa Caucuses in the US, predicted "that Obama will win New Hampshire, the nomination and the White House. He has tapped the current of change when the U.S. was ready it." Hey, two out of three ain't bad! He added,
"The lesson is: don't push change too much when people don't want it, and push it relentlessly when people do. Tailoring your message to the mood of the electorate works."
Has Chávez learnt this lesson?
Quico came back with his book reviewer's hat on. Passing judgment on Fernando Coronil's deconstruction of the venezuelan petrostate, The Magical State, he wrote:
" ... (The book) is a magisterial, bone-headed, brilliant, infuriating, path breaking failure: a book that gets a stunning number of things right on its way to leaving you basically unsatisfied."
Here's hoping you, dear reader, are never called a magisterial failure - that has to hurt.
The year also began with our foray into Chávez's relations with Colombia. We talked about taking Tirofijo to The Hague (cue the sentimental Im Memoriam video clip with pictures of Tirofijo, Raul Reyes and Paul Newman), gave Uribe some advice and mused about what Chávez was after in his spats with our neighbors. Little did we know things would go haywire soon, only to return to normal as if nothing had ever happened.
The debate quickly turned back to political parties and the mechanism they should pursue to achieve unity. JC came out against primaries, Quico came out against JC, and everyone had an opinion. We discussed the January 23rd unity agreement, and wondered how long we would have to put up with the hundreds of microparties in the opposition. Our frustration with the opposition became so intense, Quico went momentarily insane and stared blogging about Kanji.
We ended the month pointing out what was to become a year-long trend: Chávez campaigning on the message of violence. We pointed out an eye-opening profile of chavista banker Victor Vargas and talked about how Venezuelans view the US. Quico wrote,
"... in Chavista discourse ... what's passed off as "El Imperio" is a monstruous caricature, one so deliriously two-dimensional only a bona fide zealot could recognize it. For all intents and purposes, Chavez uses "the US" as a synonym for "pure evil." "
On February second, we gave ourselves over to our yearly morbid self-laceration spree as we stop to ponder that Chávez has stayed in power for yet another year. Two days later, it was conmemoration-time again as we marked Chávez's coup's Super-Sweet Sixteen, and noted his peculiar choice of arm-banditry for the occassion.
In between, we linked to a dramatic story in Spain's El País documenting the Venezuelan governments links with the cocaine trade and sent props to Andrés Martínez for his excellent Venezuela reportage.
Juan Cristobal owed up that there was something very strange about CNE's refusal to publish full, final results from the 2D referendum (update: they still haven't) and about the fact that few were really pressing them on the matter.
It was around then that we had one of those stories that seemed apocalyptic at the time but sort of petered out into nothingness: on February 7th, ExxonMobil obtained a series of injunctions freezing PDVSA's assets in the US, UK, Netherlands, and Dutch Antilles, and we thought it really was the end of the world.
PowerPoint presentations have long been Quico's favorite explanatory medium, which is why he had so much fun with this post showing why Chávez ends up surrounded by crooks when he imagines himself to be selecting people by loyalty, as well as with this one, which explains why Chávez's threats to cut off oil supplies to the United States are fundamentally meaningless.
Quico then broke a longtime habit of slamming Globovisión to write a long, laudatory post about the channel's one feature he really likes: "Ud. lo vio por Globovisión."
Later that month, in one of those wonderfully weird episodes that Venezuelan politics produces in such abundance, chavismo booted out the infamous gocho zealot Luis Tascón from its ranks, over an overdose of independence on his part, which left Quico pretty much at a loss for words...as did Chávez's explanation for why it was necessary to raise the price of milk.
Later, it was Quico's turn to excorciate Tibisay Lucena, noting her amazing knack for making it difficult to believe in CNE's impartiality, even after CNE should've disarmed those doubts by doing what the hardcore oppo never thought they would do: announce that Chávez had lost an election. How does she do it?
Her formula is simple: galloping opacity barely covered up with blatant lying and seasoned with undisguised contempt for those who question her.
Anybody who blogs - or who reads blogs - will tell you that post quality is typically uneven. Nobody can be ON all the time, so a few posts each year of course stand out above the crowd. Juan Cristobal's visit to Sinamaica Lagoon yielded one post where the guy was definitely on. Worth going back to.
JC closed out the month with rants about Chávez's increasing tendency to pick fights with his putative followers (target du jour, Lina Ron) and the commenting on the decision to bar Leopoldo López from seeking elected office for years to come.
March started with Juan Cristobal on the war-path against his own governor, Manuel Rosales, for trying to out-Chávez Chávez in the populism stakes. But Chavez quickly turned attention, as he always does, to him. Mainly, some cock-a-doodle war he wanted to start with Colombia on live TV, as a consequence of Colombia's bombing of Raul Reyes' camp in Ecuador.
We blogged about the announcement, blogged about how the troop movement as not going, erm, smoothly, and when it was safe to make fun of the whole charade, blogged some more about the government's newfound depths of improvisation. The whole incident ended with a whimper, a wink and a handshake. We were left scratching our heads.
The fallout from Laptop-gate continued. We discussed the likely consequences of including Venezuela in the list of State Sponsors of Terror, and the always gaffe-prone Interior Minister Rodriguez Chacin prodded us to talk about the real Venezuela-US relation, not the one playing in Chavez's head. Early polls like this one began circulating, showing continued problems with regard to scarcity of basic staples. Undoubtedly, Chavismo's recovery at the end of the year had a lot to do with scarcity becoming less of a problem as the year went on.
Blogging sagged a bit in the middle of the month, but Quico revealed why: he was in Caracas setting up his Mision Cadivi handout.
His trip marked several milestones: Quico and Juan Cristobal met in person in a Caracas Chronicles summit, Quico was inspired to write a few incredible posts, and he came around to acknowledging that Venezuela was something that looks an awful lot like a right-wing dictatorship.
In a dizzying triple-whammy, Quico wrote about the barter economy being a reality, renewing his driver's license and the absurdity of Mision Cadivi. These were his three best posts of the year, Quico at the top of his form. The driver's license post, in particular, is worth revisiting.
He ended the month with an inspired, thoughtful discussion of the huge chasm between the world on state TV and the Revolution as it is. He wrote,
"What would the revolution look like if we watched it "on mute,” as it were: tuning out the discourse entirely and focusing exclusively on the way money, power and influence flows through society. What would we see then? ... What we'd see ... is the political economy of puntofijismo. Petrostate clientelism, plain and simple."
The Revolution on mute. Now that's a thought...
April saw an interesting discussion between Francisco Rodriguez of Wesleyan University and chavista economist Mark Weisbrot. We had our own take on the fight, and we still wonder where Quico got that picture of Godzilla squashing Bambi. Later, we talked about how Francisco put Maisanta on an economics journal, a first we're sure.
With no checks and balances and a crapload of cash in hand, chavismo was letting loose. The government targeted Cemex, then the Simpsons. The Cemex purchase has not been completed to this date, but at the time we remarked on how this was not socialism but plain-old petrostate crony capitalism. Quico felt vindicated when Weil agreed that chavismo reality was heading to a collision with chavismo discourse.
The US election continued to make headlines. Juan Cristobal grabbed at Mark Penn's failure in the Clinton campaign to diss on some inside information of his own, from the days when Mark Penn played a critical role in the Recall Referendum of 2004. In putting the final piece of what Caracas Chronicles really believes happened in the Referendum, JC said,
"For the past few months, Quico, Lucía and I have been talking to some of the people involved, and after confirming the story with different sources, this is what we believed happened: a hack-job of an exit-poll conducted by the opposition itself and rubber-stamped by a prestigious polling firm resulted in a collective belief that differed from reality and led to disastrous political decisions for the opposition in the following years."
April 11th is always a date for reflection. Quico, wearing his book reviewer's hat once more, offered a great post summarizing Gen. Francisco Uson's memories of those days. Uson - then Chávez's finance minister, and who would later end up serving several years in jail on silly charges - was terrified that night that Chavez might actually kill himself, and Quico comments,
"(Usón) was seriously worried that if something happened to Chávez that night the country would careen towards civil war. He was concerned enough to consign his own handgun to one of the president's bodyguard before going in to see him. He even raised the importance of keeping Chávez safe as he resigned and, on his way out, went as far as to have a quiet word with one of Chávez's bodyguards to plead with him to hide that gun when he got a chance because "nothing must happen to Chávez ... That glimpse of a suicidal Chávez is not one Usón would forget. At 8:30 p.m. on April 11th 2002, Hugo Chávez genuinely thought his gig was up."
We also celebrated Quico being quoted by Newsweek, while Chavez's channeling of Springsteen drew a few chuckles. Remember kids, jefe es jefe. Quico wore a fun, stream-of-consciousness post on the Anderson case, while Juan Cristobal tried to create a link between Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and Hugo Chavez. While we don't know if our blog is where Sarah Palin got her inspiration from, the fury this post got in the comments section taught us that we should tread very, very lightly when discussing the US election.
In the meantime, the government raised taxes on the oil industry yet again. Little did they know the price of oil would fall to a fifth of its value by year's end. Since Victor Vargas had become somewhat of a punching bag on our blog, we couldn't resist to comment on his real-estate shopping spree in West Palm Beach, with Juan Cristobal showing a knack for witty titles. Quico took the time to comment on a piece by Robert Kagan that got him thinking about Chavista geostrategic thinking.
Blogging got a little slow during the month, leaving us no choice but to comment on the continued saga of Maleta-gate. This prompted Juan Cristobal to reflect on how the news were sagging, pointing out that it was the calm before the storm. Commenting on how December's win had left the opposition in somewhat of a lull, with a false sense that Chavez was vulnerable. In remembering the Enabling Law, he wrote,
"the government is going to pound the country with a coñazo of new legislation in the months to come. With three more months to go on his Enabling Power and with all the institutions at his command, I have the vague feeling that we won't be talking about Chávez's weaknesses in a few months time... The opposition believes it mortally wounded the government last December. The government believes it still has a mandate to implement socialism, and it has the power and the resources to attempt it. A recipe for high drama if I ever saw one."
Blogging picked up at the end of the month. Both Quico and JC wrote high-brow posts on rent-seeking and food security, respectively. Chavistas created their own dissidence by expelling Henry Falcon and Wilmer Azuaje from the PSUV, only to backtrack in Falcon's case - a smart move given the current Lara Governor's electoral strength. The month ended with the cheerful news of the fall of a major chavista PSF, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone. His conqueror? A crazy polar bear.
The first half of May was dominated by the fallout from the Interpol report showing the Chavez administration's extensive links to the FARC guerrilla. While we marveled at Chavez and Correa's chutzpah in simply shrugging off the whole thing, we were surprised to learn there were more laptops involved.
The Reyes story was one of those scandals that failed to get the traction that we thought it would. While we wondered what kind of consequences it would have internally, the real consequences for Chávez seemed to be more on the outside. The Colombian government now had a potent tool with which to keep Chávez in check, and foreign coverage of the Revolution took a decided turn to the worst. Hell, even Richard Gott felt icky praising the Revolution and changed the text of his laudatory pieces on Chávez. Still, it had little consequence internally, as more and more the attention was focused on the Regional Elections.
So we turned our attention back to the realities of living in a socialist revolution in the middle of a capitalist petroboom surrounded by abject poverty. The picture to the right sort of captured the whole chaos of our society...
The surreal aspects of Venezuelan life were portrayed in one of Juan Cristobal's best posts of the year, when he talked about those zany folks at INTI and his source Roger's dealings with land holdings, somewhere deep in the countryside. Quico backed him up with a discussion of how a foreign journalist views a society where money was everywhere and nobody cared about costs. When discussing chavismo's total inability to weigh costs and benefits when formulating policy, he said,
"... it's anything but a surprise that the revolution consistently uses up Bs.5 worth of lemons to make Bs.3 worth of lemonade. Just the opposite: that's more or less the cornerstone of its economic vision."
Things in the opposition began heating up. Juan Cristobal made the case for looking the other way, while Quico cut oppo parties some slack for "administering powerlesness," remarking,
"... the real reason they (oppo parties) get bashed is that we systematically take our anger at our own powerlessness out on them. We've turned them into punching bags in some bizarre internal psychodrama - pagapeos in a fight we're really having with ourselves."
The month ended with our discovery of El Chigüire Bipolar, a satirical website filling a critical, underserved niche for sheer, zany satire. That rodent is like part of the family now...
June began with Chávez inexplicably shelving another law, the Intelligence Law, which one another. Quico rightly compared it to the Patriot Act, only three times as bad, and then we marveled at Chávez's backtracking when he "vetoed his own law." Chavistas resorted to the old adage - blame the flunkies! The nerve... Quico kept going on about it for days on end.
In a rare treat, Quico graced the blog with a video conference discussing US-Venezuela relations in the face of the upcoming US election.
Contnuing with the line of backflips, Quico commented on Chavez's calls for the FARC to disarm and release prisoners. Funny for him to do that when, in his words, Colombia is ruled by a lackey of the empire and a fascist - you would think the FARC was more than justified in doing what it does, in his view at least.
Juan Cristobal began the first of three posts on Primero Justicia's platform, this one on oil and energy. Interesting discussions ensued. Chavez, in the meantime, held a bizarre meeting with the country's wealthiest businessmen, practically begging them to invest as long as they subjected to his absolute power. Quico noted how sad it was that the only way he could even get them to talk was with cash in hand, while also noting how the petrostate creates its own elite. When looking at the actual proposals, we realized there were mostly hype and not much more. Juan Cristobal commented,
"The irony of Wednesday is that Chávez feels he has to reach out to the very oligarchs he denounces on a daily basis, and yet he does so in an ineffective way. Time will probably show he got nothing in return yesterday...Say what you will, but Fidel Castro would have never begged businessmen to invest. And if he was ever forced to, he certainly would have come up with a better plan than this. In proposing these half-baked measures, Chávez didn't sell his socialist soul. He gave it away for free."
Juan Cristobal continued with a second on Primero Justicia's platform. This time, he talked about the justice system. In the meantime, he found the time to predict oil prices would fall (ajem!) and turn the blogging world upside down by revealing Katy was actually a dude using his wife's name as a nom-de-blog. Readers were outraged, JC was mortified, but most kept reading.
In the meantime, we found the time to trash an old favorite, made fun of some of Chavez's candidates (as things turned out, this guy actually won) and ridiculed a tired punching bag of ours and were surprised when another punching bag started making sense.
In a well-received article, Juan Cristobal (now using his real name) wrote about how Norway manages its petro-wealth. He congratulated local maracucho politicians stepping aside for the sake of unity, which gave us permission to hope that unity would be achieved. It wasn't, but great progress was made and there were encouraging signs on this front. The month ended with PDVSA announcing a policy of ending scarcity by fueling inflation.
The month started with the rescue of FARC's star hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, whom VTV insisted on describing as "retained." Juan Cristobal immediately decided a star had been born, and Quico immediately decided this was bad for Chávez's continental strategy. JC soon noted the way Ingrid's saga overshadowed the thousands of individual tragedies Venezuelans encounter every day.
The following week, groovy English journo (and now, Quico stable-mate at the Huffington Post) Johann Hari wrote a treacly pro-Chávez screed in The Independent and Quico laid in to him with the kind of measured scorn he usually reserves for Hermann Escarrá. For the longest time, he just wouldn't let it go.
The following week, Chávez treated us to one of his trademark, whiplash inducing U-Turns as he suddenly "rediscovered" his friendship with Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, and Quico had a great old time digging up all the old crap Chávez had been saying about him over the previous few months. I mean, it was really really easy.
Quico then wrote-up a detailed post on Venezuelan prison conditions, highlighting perhaps the single most outrageous use of the US Imperialism card in the Chávez arsenal. He then wrote up the results of the first Caracas Chronicles' readers' Survey, which were sort of interesting, and then took some well-deserved, if cheap shots, at Elías Jaua's idiotic fight-inflation-by-haggling statement. He then had a minor conniption over chavismo's ongoing support for CAAEZ and highlighted William Ojeda's decision to stand aside in favor of Carlos Ocariz in the race for Petare mayor.
Juan Cristobal, in a serious bout of inspiration, acquainted us with Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Venezuela's first elected president, writing beautifully about the depth and length of anti-militarism in Venezuelan culture. Still a good read.
He went on to make an important, and underappreciated point: even amid the (then) ongoing oil boom, poverty numbers had started creeping up in Venezuela as early as the second half of 2007.
We then wrote up the opposition's primary in Aragua State: a worthy idea that didn't prevent us losing there in the end to chavismo's Rafael Isea.
Then we highlighted this still jaw-dropping clip of Hugo Chávez laying into a VTV cameraman for refusing to point a camera at him for free. Amazing! Almost as amazing as the newfound love-affair between the opposition's original odd couple: Maria Corina Machado and Ismael García!
It's at around this time that Quico decided - controversially - to switch comments' software...a move he's still not quite convinced was right. (On the upside, comments from here on out are available on mosts posts.)
He then highlighted the first of a series of genius Edo cartoons on the relationship between the government and its leftwing allies:
We then presented the quite interesting results of a second, more in-depth readers' survey, before Quico presented a series of posts to provide a baseline for expectations for November's elections here, here, here and here.
Just as Juan Cristobal had predicted, Chávez kicked off August in recidivist style, once again waiting until the very last day of his Enabling Powers to decree a whole raft of decree-laws, 26 in all this time, much as he had done in 2001 ahead to start of the political crisis that rocked the country for the following three years. Amazingly, even though they'd had a full year and a half to legislate by decree, chavismo still blew the deadline: publishing only the titles of the new decree-laws by August 1st and their full texts only a few days later, in a backdated Gaceta. It's the kind of thing that sends Quico around the bend.
Once he had a chance to look at the texts more closely, though, he came to the conclusion that the gacetazo was 90% paja (weightless bullshit), and, though autocratic in its own way, not substantially more autocratic than what we've seen so far. Miguel Henrique Otero thought otherwise.
August was also the month when we started thinking more systematically about the upcoming November 23rd State and Municipal Elections. Juan provided 10 good reasons to care about 23N, and Lucía came out from a long period of hibernation to express relief at the end of the stale abstention/participation debate, and thought 23N could be the start of something good.
We agreed with nickname burglar Kico Bautista that the opposition needed to find a way to crucify oppo politicos who broke the unity pact
In odds and ends, the government enacted its insane new anti-kidnapping law, Juan dumped on Desirée Santos Amaral and Quico was revealed as the main cash conduit from the Chávez regime to Piedad Córdoba...fun!
Juan moved on to decry the pointlessness of the Cemex takeover, and the markets noticed.
The National Assembly started discussing a bill that would regulate all electronic communications, including things like SMS text messaging, sending Quico absolutely around the bend. What ever came of that?! The story later sunk out of view like Giordani's submarine. It did, however, get us thinking that the government's emerging strategy ahead of November would rely on heavy-duty, broad-based provocation. We weren't wrong about that, but satisfyingly, the opposition never really took the bait.
At the end of the month, both Quico and Juan Cristobal had to travel, and they had this brilliant idea to keep the blog moving by posting a series of "Web-site Reviews" of the main Venezuelan political parties. Ermmmm, not our most successful move of the year: the reviews turned out to be really boring and repetitive, and we got some of our readers' machines infected with some weird chavista virus by unwittingly pointing them to PSUV's malware infected homepage. An all-round blogging fiasco.
Returning from our trips in September, we immediately latched on to Chávez's more-insane-than-average scheme to build a 6,200 km. railroad from Caracas to Buenos Aires...but bypassing Brazil. Smart!
Quico rued the loss of Contrapeso, Canal i's flagship opinion show, apparently at the hands of government intimidation, and found method-to-the-madness of Chávez's bizarre, sudden love affair with Interpol (following Jabón's arrest.)
The following week, Chávez apparently went off his meds for good, expelling US ambassador Patrick Duddy in an extended deluge of insults that only Chigüire Bipolar could figure out how to satirize properly. The reasons for Chávez's anger weren't long in becoming apparent. According to a dynamite piece in The Washington Post,
The Treasury Department said Venezuela's military intelligence director, Hugo Carvajal, protected FARC drug shipments from seizure by honest Venezuelan authorities, provided weaponry and helped the rebels maintain their stronghold along Colombia's eastern border with Venezuela.
It was around that time that the Maletagate Trial got going in earnest in Miami, and while we didn't follow it as closely as Miguel, we certainly did a bit of writing about it.
The best of it, and a definite candidate for Post of the Year, was Quico's dissection of a long, FBI-recorded transcript of a 4 hour lunch in Fort Lauderdale involving Guido Alejandro Antonini and one of the government's emissaries in the case, the since-copped-a-plea-and-turned-state's-witness Moses Maiónica. The post is too juicy to summarize properly, but here's a money quote from the lunch:
Maiónica: Pero [funcionar en efectivo] es la unica ... estructura que ellos conocen y, y...ahora que hay miles, si, que tu y yo le pudierarnos dar una clase y enseñarles como, de pinga. Pero es que, no llego a ese nivel de confianza y ademas que, ¿qué hizo el Presidente? Le dijo a Rangel [Silva], "Tú te encargas de este pe'o y tú le pagas". Entonces Rangel tiene una partida secreta, su partida secreta es en dólares en efectivo y va a pagar. Eso es lo que va a hacer. Maiónica: But [dealing in cash] is the only structure they know and, and... sure there are thousands [of things] that you and I could give them a class on, teach them how [to go about doing things]. Thing is, I'm not on that level of trust with them...plus, what did the president do? He told Rangel [Silva] "You take charge of this mess and you pay him." And Rangel has a secret fund, and his secret fund is in dollars in cash and he's going to pay. That's what he's going to do.
That week, Juan Cristobal also took the whole Who-is-Hugo-Like parlor game way out to left field with this post noting the parallels between his career and Sarah Palin's!
But things got serious again pretty soon, as the government forcibly ejected Human Rights Watch Americas' director and his assistant from the country, breaking all kinds of due process rules. Quico noted how blatantly illegal the move was, and was surprised only that the chavista nomenklatura still felt the need to justify its moves in juridical terms.
That whole episode was pretty tyrant-like, so maybe that's what inspired Quico to post Plato's take on the tyrant's fear of meeting a violent death, and later to comment on its relevance to the Chávez era using no less an authority than Moises Maiónica to back Plato up! One thing seemed blatantly obvious to him: if Chávez does get knocked off, the perp will be someone you've never heard of.
Later that month, Juan Cristobal went all sociological with a post on the Grand Venezuelan Wedding, and how weird it is that they still happen in the middle of what's supposed to be a revolution. He then ended the month with a fun little snarky post, a kind of twofer aimed at both Patricia Poleo and Carlos Fernández of (whaddever-happened-to-him fame.) The horror!
Quico began the month with a timely visit with the Ghost of Petrostates Past, Arturo Uslar Pietri's Cassandraish plead to sow the oil. His main point was that Uslar's point was badly misunderstood: he was talking about morals, not economics. He wrote,
"For Uslar Pietri, the real issue wasn't what oil dependence would do to our wallets; it was what it would do to our souls. Diversifying our economy was a means to the end of inoculating our society's moral fiber against the fecklessness and depravity that comes from unhinging consumption from hard work."
The financial crisis in the world was heating up and it took us a few days to get on the ball. While we were cooking up posts, we covered what other people were saying - Simon Romero from the NYT talking about the Yanomami, or El Nacional talking about an important source of Venezuela news - us!
We then got into some serious economic-meltdown blogging. JC compared Chavez's glee at the collapse of capitalism with the movie The War of the Roses, and still wonders if the analogy was simply too far-fetched. Quico blasted the government's lack of readiness for what it had always preached and hoped would happened - the crash of capitalism. As the world's economies continue to face enormous problems, we still don't know what the government is going to do about it, other than hold yet another referendum. At least we're not alone - our Minister of Planning doesn't have a clue either.
The Regional Elections were fast approaching, and we noticed the smart way that Carlos ocariz was framing the government's obscene giveaways to convince voters: Mision Agarre. Stop the presses, here's your headlines: Oppo politician comes up with a clever idea, delivers his message, wins tough election. We never thought we'd see the day. We also talked about how pointless it was to squash healthy competition between oppo politicians in safe municipalities like Chacao.
We then took the time to show some love for Venezuela's political cartoonists. Like guitarists, ball players and young orchestra conductors with funky hair, our country has an unheralded comparative advantage in producing sharp, beautiful political satire. Our good friend Edo got the most love from us, but really, they're all great. We worship these people.
It's hard to remember, but back in October we were concerned that oil was falling below $68 a barrel! Oh, the good'ol days.
Quico then produced a sober, detailed post inspired by the German movie The Lives of Others. Well worth re-reading.
He noted the differences between a real police state like East Germany, with its discipline and rigor in squashing people's souls, and the televised, amateurish, petro-version charade that we have, where private phone conversations are aired on TV with no real consequences and no real strategic objective in sight. He noted,
"For all its rank disregard for the rule of law, chavismo doesn't have the wherewithall to criminalize intimacy in Venezuela. In revealing innocuous private conversations with no strategic objective in sight, all it does is reinforce the sense that the revolution abhors anything that even resembles rigor and discipline... The Bolivarian Republic of East Germany we are not."
The price of oil continued its freefall, so we speculated on when devaluation would occur, without knowing that Chavez would hurl yet another election at us and completely change the rules of engagement. Quico correctly thought the whole discussion was bunk. We also highlighted Chavez's prediction that the economic meltdown would not affect us because he had taken all necessary steps to protect us. We have a hunch we'll be revisiting these quotes sometime soon.
We talked about technology late in the month, highlighting China's launching of a satellite (funding provided by Yuleysis in Petare) and the Revolution blaming engineers for the country's frequent blackouts. Quico, in the meantime, continued his school-girl crush on all things Beeb.
The month started with something we hadn't seen in a while: foreign oil companies applauding a decision by the government. A sign of the changing times, perhaps? We still don't get it. We also celebrated the conviction of Franklin Duran, though we will miss the entertaining details of Maletagate.
When Barack Obama was elected, we felt the need to write him a policy memo on Venezuela. We tried in vain - vain being the operative term here - to circulate it amongst those of our readers who know people who know people who know people in power. All those "who know"s resulted in who knows - with Hillary Clinton appointed to the State Department, we have no clear idea of what Obama's Venezuela policy will look like. But judging by this brilliant November documentary from PBS's Frontline, it would seem like Chavez's international star twinkles less and less these days.
With the US election chapter closed, it was time to focus on Venezuela's looming Regional Elections. We dissected election forecasts: Datanalisis had the opposition plus dissidence winning nine governorships, we had them winning nine too (although different ones). They actually won five. In our case, we correctly predicted the five they won, but missed out on Guarico, Cojedes, Barinas and Sucre (so much for our knowledge of the politics of Ruritania). Datanalisis, on the other hand, had Miranda going to the chavistas and Cojedes as "solid opposition..." And they make a living out of this!
As for other pollsters, they too missed the mark. Quinto Dia had the oppo + diss group winning nine governorships. Chavista "polling" company Consultores 30.11 had us winning in a single state, Nueva Esparta. Actually, 30.11 just a propaganda outfit, they apparently only poll in Miraflores. Hinterlaces had us winning eleven states, including Vargas and Bolivar, where we didn't come even close. An anonymous tip was way off base too.
One thing we did get right, though, is the Metropolitan Mayor's race. We said that turnout for Ocariz would help Ledezma, and it did - Ledezma coasted to a comfortable win. Undoubtedly, the rains in the days before the election and Chavez's ham-fisted reaction cost him a few votes. El Chigüire termed it Juan Barreto's revolutionary scheme for a sub-aquatic Caracas.
Our election day coverage was antsy and intense, as per usual. We talked about why it mattered. Quico said,
"What's at stake here is something different: the political content of venezolanidad. For a decade, Chávez has been trying to sell us this story where the only Real Venezuelan (sound familiar to anyone?) is a chavista, that voting for the opposition is somehow un-venezuelan, even treasonous. Today, with any luck, the good burghers of Petare, Barinas, Trujillo, etc. will start to put the lie to this brand of emotional-blackmail-cum-political-discourse."
We ranted about the myriad of small political parties and about how complicated it was to vote, ranted some more about the arrest of a candidate for mayor of Valencia (chavistas won that post by a thin margin, so it may have worked), and worried about what would happen if we only won Sucre and Nueva Esparta.
Barinas was a state we had our eye on; Spain's El Pais noted the psychological impact it would have for Chavez to lose his home state (he barely won it), and we laughed at the chutzpah of Chavez family saying they had problems with the voting machines.
Information on Chavez's use of public funds to convince voters continued to trickle in. Chavismo had the gall of making the same accusation about the opposition. We wondered, we waited, we had nothin'.
Then the first results started coming, but unlike in past elections, we had a really hard time finding publishable leaks. An hour before Tibisay Lucena announced the first results, we called Carabobo, Nueva Esparta and Zulia for the opposition. This information came from redundant, independent sources, so you can be sure that when CC calls an election, we're not shooting from the hip. The first official bulletin came out, and the results confirmed the urban/rural divide we had been discussing for over a year.
Then, it was time for Monday morning quarterbacking, on a Monday morning no less. Quico listed his thoughts. His first one: that Ledezma, Ocariz and Capriles were the new leaders of the opposition. He didn't say which of the three he likes best (hint: his name is Carlos Ocariz). He discussed the rains, turnout, the rural problem and several other issues that this election served to highlight pretty clearly.
Juan Cristobal came out with a post-mortem of his own, also highlighting Ocariz's significant win in Petare. He talked about the winners and losers, the dissidents, and suggested that Chavez faced long odds of passing a Constitutional Amendment. He showed remarkable foresight when he said,
"It's clear Chavez doesn't have the votes to try and reform the Constitution so he can run again in 2012. And with the price of oil tanking, the longer he waits, the less resources he'll have to keep clients satisfied and fund his electoral machine... Launching the reform proposal now would be absolutely crazy, but waiting would be even worse for his chances. Expect Chavez to announce it in the coming days."
We geeked out on data. We noted that chavismo had won the popular vote, but that their biggest wins were by candidates that have not always been the favorites of the chavista machinery. After all, Henry Falcon, governor of Lara with more than 70% of the vote, was expelled from the PSUV only six months ago! We also pointed out our side's shortcomings along with its silver linings. We blasted the opposition's amazing achievement in losing Valencia, and we scolded the CNE's hatchet job. We had little patience for any talk of fraud.
The piece de resistance of our election coverage, though, was The Map, the cartogram Quico sweated out with the help of a reader, the picture of the year that headlines this post. We're going to put it here again, just because it's so darn interesting. This one shows the PSUV's share of the vote.
Once results for the Mayor's positions came in, we talked about the significance of winning Petare, as well as how we underperformed in the other large cities we needed to win. We gave some more numbers on the rural/urban split, and were baffled by Chavez's behaving like a loser while insisting he had won.
The month ended with Chavez's striking announcement that he was going to go ahead with his Amendment plans. The country had gone through a long, exhausting, complicated election, and seven days later Chavez was announcing a new one in the near future.
Yet this one is different. It's all about him, his power and his ambition, and it promises to be his toughest battle yet. In writing about how Chavez will probably turn on the money machine in order to win, fuelling inflation in the process, Quico wrote,
"The populist spending spree tactics of yesteryear just won't work under these conditions. NiNis and moderate chavistas are not going to support a proposal that's all about his problems, not theirs, at a time when inflation is fast clawing back all the gains they've made in the last five years ... It's a loser, this proposal. Remember where you read it first."
December started with Chavismo working to heat up the street again, including through a direct attack on Marta Colomina's house. Juan Cristobal noted with some satisfaction how the opposition, even the radical opposition, appears to be well and truly over the bad old habit of charging at each every chavista red rag.
After the Excel-a-thon of the previous week, we thought we were over this election analysis stuff for a while, but that's just not the Chávez way. Quico soon pointed out that while PSUV-backed candidates for governor had received 52.7% of the vote on 23N, the PSUV ticket itself had gotten just 46.7% - and proposed that might be a more realistic estimate of the hard chavez vote.
Juan Cristobal wrote about the fractures at OPEC's Cairo meeting, but then a week later they agreed a 2 million b/d cut. Oops.
He followed up with a belief beggaring (but true, folks, it really is true!) post about the extent of chavismo's looting of the mayor's offices and governorships they had lost. In Miranda, the governorship was handed over without even a stapler in stock. The bad faith this all shows sent him fretting about some nightmare post-amendment vote scenarios.
Next up, a bit of a breakthrough for Quico, who got invited to blog over at The Huffington Post. Hey, say what you will about that joint, they get a ton and a half of traffic. To assuage the guilt, he then translated this genius piece Laureano Márquez wrote.
Then we reproduced the scarcely believable revolutionary knock-off converse. Stunning!
Juan Cristobal congratulated Maestro Abreu for his TED Award, excortiated the mindless slogan-chanting national assembly, and provided more detail on chavismo's vandalism of the public offices they lost to the opposition.
We rapped up the year with Juan Cristobal eating up a hearty serving of his own words after Yon Goicoechea decided to join Primero Justicia, Quico serving up his second HuffPost erm...post, and Juan noting the achievements of our musicians (again) and the opening shots of Campaign 2009...here we go again!
With this post, we sign off for the year, hoping you spend the holidays with your loved ones and that you can forget about all things Chávez for a few weeks - we know we will. We also want to thank you for reading, providing such lucid comments and putting up with uncool gestures like finding out your favorite she-blogger was actually a he.
The feedback we get from you is worth all the time and effort we put into this joint. This blog has been, and continues to be, a unique experience for both of us and a big chunk of the credit goes to you, our readers. So, a heartfelt gracias panita to each one of you. We'll see you all in January!
Another milestone for Venezuelan musicians
The campaign is under way
Petrostates for Beginners
Words, meet my stomach
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Big Oil has landed: Hugo Chávez in Copenhagen
Quico and Juan Cristobal say: What do you think would happen if the head of one of the world's five largest oil companies started lecturing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen about the evils of global warming?
How do you think the most esteemed delegates to the world's premier forum on the pressing issue of our time would react if a man who's leveraged his control over hundreds of billions of dollars worth of oil rents into a spot in Forbes' list of the world's 100 most powerful people started to tell them what they need to do to save the planet?
Why, they'd fall all over themselves cheering him, obviously.
Hugo Chávez’s Copenhagen speech today was such an event, though on its face, the speech itself was boilerplate. The Venezuelan strongman delivered his usual twenty-minute anti-capitalist tirade, full of quasi-religious rhetoric about saving the world and such. Developing world delegates ate it up with mustard, spiraling into rapturous applause each time he blamed the rich countries for "destroying the planet."
It's insane. Cheering Chávez as he lectures you on climate change is like cheering Joseph Fritzl as he lectures you on fatherhood.
As far as Chávez can tell, it's not CO2 that's changing the climate, it's "capitalism." The specific mechanism through which this happens, the whole pesky issue of the actual fuel that generates all that carbon, the bucketfuls of petrodollars he makes out of the whole dirty business...the less talked about such things, the better.
Chávez’s green-standing, echoed by his hapless delegation and the minions in his vast media empire, stands in sharp contrast with the actual policies Venezuela has put in place.
Instead of taxing oil consumption, Chávez has spent a decade subsidizing it, making Venezuelan gasoline the cheapest in the planet. In fact, in real terms, gasoline is 85% cheaper in Venezuela today than it was when Chávez came to power ten years ago. The price of a liter of gas has not moved in ten years, while accumulated inflation is 655%.
This is a leader who subsidizes not just gas but car sales, a man whose idea of foreign aid is giving cut-price fuel oil to people in Boston. A gallon of fuel in Caracas costs less than a lolly-pop, a policy Chávez has no intention of relenting on. The man responsible for feeding oil junkies the world over - that's the guy who brought down the house in Copenhagen?
Talk about a real climate scandal.
In the days leading to the Summit, some in Venezuela wondered what the country's position would be. Chávez has rarely discussed the complexities of how climate change and the policies to stop it can affect Venezuela. You wouldn't expect him to: any decision that seriously cuts demand for oil at Copenhagen would directly undermine the whole material basis of his power.
Although Chávez has famously adopted every third-world, anti-imperialist, "us vs. them" pose in the book, it's not like the developing world was coming to Copenhagen with a unified voice. The Chinese and Indians do not want to sacrifice their development, the Africans are desperate for action sprinkled with a little bit of cash, and the Saudis would prefer the status quo. Countries like Bolivia have a real interest in curbing greenhouse emissions, which is causing melting glaciers. Bolivia’s vast reserves of lithium, which can be used to power the batteries in hybrid vehicles, mean it is poised to reap the benefits of a green economy.
Yet, Venezuela's position was a big question mark.
Chávez’s speech cleared up it up. He embraced the environmental movement and gleefully served as a spokesman for countries such as Cuba and Bolivia, highly vulnerable to changing weather patterns.
But the world would be foolish to confuse rhetoric with values.
Chávez knows the end of the oil era would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. He will peddle his oil while denouncing everyone else for burning it. He will demand a binding agreement but will not tolerate any imposition on his insane environmental policies.
This gasp-inducing pileup of ironies and contradictions can only be interpreted as a joke. Hugo Chávez came into the global warming summit and made a big hot mess of it. Thankfully, at least some of the world’s newspapers took note and shunned him.
The rest of the delegates - at least the ones looking for progress on this issue - should do the same.
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Ten Years on From The Stillborn Constitution
Quico says: ...rumors, partly fueled by Aristóbulo's keynote address to the National Assembly, are now heavy that Chávez is considering launching a fresh constituyente - a Constitutional Convention to draft yet another new constitution.
Crazy enough to be true?
Where the Maisanta Bodies Are Buried
Quico says: Venezuela is far from the first country where an autocratic regime has used its economic muscle to systematically punish dissidents where it hurts: in their pocketbooks. It may, however, be the first where the government has left an evidentiary trail meaty enough for economists to pick over and analyze.
The following slide is taken from the latest version of a research paper on the costs of signing petitions against Chávez back in 2002-2003 carried out by a team led by Francisco Rodríguez and including Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, and Daniel Ortega. It shows the change in your chances of being employed if you did not sign the third and final petition against Chávez (top line), if you did sign that petition (bottom line) and for the population as a whole (solid line) between 1997 and 2006.
Notice how the top and bottom lines basically track one another...right until the Maisanta List was published.
The authors estimate that the use of the Maisanta list cost the Venezuelan economy as a whole in the order of 3 points of GDP (which, for the non-economists out there, is massive) before concluding, a bit laconically, that:
There is a sense in which this paper’s findings are not terribly surprising, namely, that there are regimes that punish their political opponents and that these costs can be substantial. What is unusual about the case we study is the availability of the voter database actually used to target the opposition, and that the punishment was carried out on such a large scale that we are able to measure the labor market outcomes of the everyday individuals that suffered from political retaliation. We find that one third of Venezuelan voters that signed any of the three recall petitions suffered from an average 5 percent drop in their earnings and a 1.5 percentage point drop in their employment probability. This wage drop is largely borne by the 20 percent of voters who signed the third and decisive petition round, which is suggestive that the main instrument of political retaliation was the widely circulated Maisanta database that contains the list of signers of the third petition.
ME-O bids adieu-o
Juan Cristobal says: Chile held the first round of Presidential voting yesterday, and since I'm married to the place Quico asked me to pitch in. While most news services focused on the strong showing of right-wing billionaire Sebastián Piñera and the stiff problems facing the governing Concertación coalition, to me the real story was the abject failure of the two chavista options.
Of the four candidates, two represented variations of the chavista movement. Communist party candidate Jorge Arrate did not hide his sympathy for the Venezuelan strongman. The links between his party and our government run deep, something I witnessed first-hand on numerous occasions. Yet Arrate, polling at 6%, was never a threat.
The real chance for the chavista option came thanks to the at-times surging candidacy of independent congressman Marco Enríquez-Ominami.
ME-O, as he is commonly known, saw his chances grow quickly in the middle of the year as the ruling Concertación candidate, former President Eduardo Frei, languished. A filmmaker by trade, ME-O once gushed about making a documentary centered on Hugo Chávez and he has served as an observer in Venezuelan elections, where he thought everything was excessively normal.
Of course, in a conservative country like Chile, a full on chavista candidate will always face long odds. So ME-O decided to "Correa-size" his chavista past, wrapping it in an attractive package of rebellious populism, rive gauche lefty promises, and pledges of change and "participatory democracy," including a proposal for a Constitutional Assembly. ME-O's curious approach to "moderate chavismo" included criticisms of Chávez's "style" but the endorsement of scandalous policies such as the closure of RCTV.
For a while, it seemed like it could work. The young ME-O surged on the strength of a few high-profile endorsements, and thanks to his appeal to a pseudo-intellectual middle class tired of the same-old faces and smitten by the malaise of politics where the big issues have largely disappeared.
But it only went so far. One of the biggest hits to his candidacy was when opposition research unearthed a three-year old interview, where ME-O called being Chilean "a tragedy" and longed for French or Italian nationality.
ME-O's 20 percent is a much worse showing than was feared, and barely reaches the level of "political phenomenon." He tried to be Hugo Chávez, but he's stuck in Ross Perot territory. Even more damning, ME-O managed to score not a single member of Congress. Like the petulant child raised-by-Paris-lefties that he is, he refused to endorse Frei or Piñera, accusing them of being agents of the past.
The Chilean election has several interesting stories: the renaissance of Chile's right-wing after twenty years and the seeming demise of Latin America's most succesful democratic coalition are two of the most important ones. But this script is yet to be written, in a runoff scheduled to take place in mid-January.
For now, the real story is yet another big defeat for the Espada de Bolívar movement in one of the continent's most significant countries. News organizations love to talk about a "wave of leftist sentiment" sweeping Latin America. Chile is sitting out the narrative, at least this time.
In Chile, the story is ME-O, the phenomenon that wasn't.
Book 'em!
Quico says: As I think about it, the truly newsworthy aspect of the jailing of the judge who freed Eligio Cedeño isn't that they jailed her - hell, that's almost normal - but that they jailed the whole damn court!
We're talking bailiffs jailed for carrying out a judge's order to release a prisoner. Apparently, in the chavista version of Judicial Review, bailiffs are now supposed to act as a kind of first court of appeal: carefully reading through any judge's order to make sure everything's on the up'n'up before carrying our their orders. We're talking - bizarrely - one of Cedeño's defense lawyers, José Rafael Parra Saluzzo, jailed for the unspeakable crime of being in the room as his client was released.
Chavismo now inhabits its new identity as basically unapologetic dictatorship so brazenly, so openly, so shockingly blithely it's hard to imagine how we could sink any deeper. And yet one thing we've learned: we can...oh yes we can.
Siempre queda por caer
Quico says: The decision to jail judge María Lourdes Afiuni, following a bizarre series of events that saw Hugo Chávez flip out after the judge ordered - apparently without permission - the release of disgraced Bolibanquero Eligio Cedeño (who promptly fled the country), is a timely reminder that, no matter how bad you think things have gotten, there's always farther left to fall.
Judge Afiuni was jailed after a furious Chávez launched the kind of tirade against her that, had anyone made it about him, would immediately have raised howls of "magnicide" from the government side. Saying that in Bolívar's time people who did what Afiuni did would've been shot, Chávez presented his decision to throw her in jail almost as a humanitarian concession.
One way or another, Afiuni must have realized the risk she was taking: the first judge to rule in favor of Cedeño - on a procedural motion in 2007 - lost her job, had her kids almost kidnapped, and ended up having to seek asylum in the U.S. The last judge to do so lost her seat on the court of appeal.
It's easy to forget now that less than six months ago, we were incensed by the sight of Chávez ordering judges merely fired for making judicial decisions he didn't like. Our outrage from that time already looks positively quaint by contrast, and that was this year!
Yesterday, judges paid for handing down the "wrong" decisions with their jobs, today, they're paying with their freedom, tomorrow, they'll pay with...you finish that sentence.
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Cleveland County deputies recently got to meet and greet numerous famous female Oklahoma singers and their families in a historic event in Noble. The event followed the Induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Several famous Oklahoma women singers and their families enjoyed a quiet dinner on Monday, Nov. 26, at Bedlam Barbecue in OKC. The event included the children of stars who had passed away, who talked and told stories about how their lives were affected by having celebrity parents, said Angela Hudson, SHINE Foundation Secretary/Treasurer. The next day, the group congregated at the History Center where they received citations from the Governor’s Office and from Oklahoma County Commissioners. During lunch at the History Center, the women were inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and received large crystal awards. That evening the stars and their families traveled to Kendall’s Restaurant in Noble where the restaurant had set up a museum-quality exhibit of memorabilia with each of the ladies of music having their own section.
Deputy Vernon Coleman and Deputy Nick Ray were asked to attend and serve as escorts for the women entering the restaurant. “It was a special event and we were asked to head over there and socialize and meet some people,” Coleman said. “It was a community policing event.”
Coleman said he and Ray enjoyed meeting and mingling with the celebrities. “It was a Hall of Fame Induction that they were celebrating,” Coleman said. “The really cool thing was Kendall’s set up a museum type exhibit, and we got to walk through the exhibit. It was a great time.”
The evening at Kendall’s was sponsored by Start Helping Impacted Neighborhoods Everywhere (SHINE) Foundation. “Each of the women signed a guitar,” Hudson said.
Those guitars are now on display at Kendall’s along with the other memorabilia. “The event at Kendall’s was a historic event that had never been done and will probably never be done again,” Hudson said.
She said the women really enjoyed meeting deputies Coleman and Ray. The women and their friends and families also enjoyed dinner at Kendall’s. Hudson said 22 female music stars were represented at the event. All proceeds from the combined events will benefit the SHINE Foundation. Artists who attended included: Susie McIntire, Wanda Jackson, Jody Miller, Gail Davies, Norma Jean, Becky Hobbs, Jana Jae, Kellie Coffey, Barbara McAlister, Gayla Peevey, Katrina Elam and Leona Mitchell.
Family members attending on an artist’s behalf included: Sammi Smith (daughter), Jean Shepard (son), Gus Hardin (daughter), Kay Starr (daughter), Lorrie Collins (Daughters), Patti Page (nephew), Cassie Gains (brother), Molly Bee (son) and Evelyn Pittman (nephew)
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Official website of poet & writer Eddie Woods
The Gangster Poet
by TFE on May 30, 2010
“That get-up is perfect for you. You’re the gangster poet, after all.”
– Harold Norse to Eddie Woods (Amsterdam, 1984)
“But I am the gangster poet of this age. And I have enough fucking ammunition to wipe out as much opposition as will ever come up against me. And every fucking bullet will hit the mark, because I am a good shot.– Eddie Woods (in the telephone prose-poem “Bloody Mary”)
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Beat Generation, Beat Scene, Books, magazines
The Beat Goes On!
by TFE on December 16, 2017
The Beat I’m talking about here is the Beat Generation. And nowhere are those who comprised it more creatively presented than in Beat Scene magazine. Edited by Kevin Ring, it’s been going for nearly 30 years, during which 87 issues have appeared (with no. 88 due out any moment). The current number (Autumn 2017) is an On the Road special, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s groundbreaking novel. There are in-depth articles by a host of knowledgeable writers, including Ann Charters (Kerouac’s first biographer), Pauline Reeves, Brian Dalton, Kevin Ring, J. M. White, et al; as well as two interviews (definitely check out Steve Turner’s with Luanne Henderson entitled “Hello Marylou”).
Further good news is that after an unfortunate hiatus (don’t ask!), Beat Scene’s website is back up. By following the various threads, you’ll find ordering information, editor/publisher Kevin Ring’s email address, etc. Just click on this link for it
Beat Scene Press additionally publishes chapbooks. Number 60 in the series, William Burroughs and the South Texas Beats, is a fascinating conversation between Rob Johnson and Juan Ochoa concerning the time Burroughs spent farming in that area. At once witty and urbane, it contains a wealth of priceless WSB insights and observations.
And while you’re at it, treat yourself to a journey thru Beat Scene‘s amazing history, which is here
Enjoy, EDDIE
PS To make matters easier for you, these are the editor’s First Words for November 28th 2017
Smugglers Train
by TFE on March 7, 2017
Yes Friends,
It’s been a while since I last did a posting here. Happens occasionally, as I’ve been busy with lots of other things. But now I have great news to announce. My book Smugglers Train has been published in Germany by Moloko+. It’s a collection of 19 poems in the original English, plus six prose pieces (fiction & non-fiction) as excellently rendered into German by the well-known translator Pociao. The spiffy cover design and layout was done by Inga Tillere, who also contributed several eye-catching collages. In addition to which there are photos, including some of mine. I am understandably very pleased!
NB Do not confuse this publication with Smugglers Train & Other Stories, which was published a couple of years back by Barncott Press. That book is entirely in English and contains only fiction.
Ever onward, EDDIE
Audio recordings, bart plantenga, interviews, News, Poetry
Live audio interview (2005)
Hey People,
It’s a classic experience for whenever you have a little time, a music & poetry-packed interview with yours truly conducted by writer/radio dj bart plantenga.
Enjoy! TFE
ps Listening to this after more than 10 years, I caught a couple of factual errors on my part. E.g., it wasn’t “two guys” who recorded Dylan Thomas and subsequently launched Caedmon Records, but rather two young female college graduates. Plus it was in Saranac Lake, New York (not Branford, Connecticut) where I first heard Jerry Vale’s rendition of the Eddy Arnold song “You Don’t Know Me” and personally lived thru everything he was singing about. The girl was Shirley Smith and the chap she walked away with was named Joe 🙂 There may be other small blips, but they hardly matter. The interview is still a classic!
Wreck 1197 Gangster Poet
Eddie Woods interviewed for two whole hours by bart plantenga
We go retro to a recently unearthed live broadcast dating from 2005 on squat station Radio Patapoe with Gangster Poet Eddie Woods & some of the music & poetry that inspired him: Leonard Cohen, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Jerry Vale, Freddy Quinn, Robert Service, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, among others…
wReck thiS meSS ~ Radio Patapoe 88.3 ~ Amsterdam ~ Ethno-Illogical Psycho-Radiographies: 26 May 2016
This is a lost live broadcast dating from 14 November 2005 on squat-anarcho station Radio Patapoe that I recently stumbled upon in my deepest files… Decided to resurrect it, tweak it, add some relevant material & relaunch it. It features the irrepressible “Gangster Poet,” Eddie Woods, exiled for some 40 years in Europe, mostly Amsterdam, where he created a seminal & essential link between Old & New World, between bohemians & outsider artists & writers and wrote a fair amount of poetry that continues to resonate into the very now. bp
Books, News, reviews
TWIB reviews plus ordering info
by TFE on January 21, 2015
Dear Book Lovers,
Since its publication in September 2013, my memoir Tennessee Williams in Bangkok has been reviewed several times, both in magazines and by Amazon customers. All the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. And although I’m not getting anywhere near rich from it :-), the sales are coming along. Interestingly enough helped by the release in December 2014 of the Dutch edition, entitled Bangkok Confidential. Hereunder you have a clickable listing of those reviews. And at the end a hyperlink for ordering the book, either in print or as an eBook. Plus scroll down a ways on that page to already read the first four chapters for free!
Richard Livermore in Ol’ Chanty
bart plantenga in Sensitive Skin
Richard Jurgens in Urban Graffiti
TWIB was also reviewed by Jim Feast in the Spring 2014 print edition of Rain Taxi Review of Books.
And here’s how to order the book (and check out those free chapters!)
It’s a good read. And a fast one. So go ahead and buy TWIB now. Trust me, you will not be disappointed! For sure there are further volumes of memoirs in the works, along with so much other groovy stuff. I’m on a creative roll, folks. And I’ve no intention of voluntarily stopping anytime soon.
Cheers, EDDIE
“If Eddie Woods didn’t exist, Tom Waits would have to create him.”
– Marco Bakker (columnist)
“Oh Eddie, you are such a shameless self-promoter!”
– Alexandra Buijsman (defense attorney)
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Bangkok Confidential has been published!
by TFE on December 1, 2014
It crossed my mind to send this only to my Benelux friends.
But then I thought no, let’s tell the whole world! That my book
Bangkok Confidential has been published
The launch party went down on December 4th at Boekhandel Vrolilk in
Amsterdam, and it was fantastic! A great turnout on a bitterly cold afternoon and evening. And not just the usual suspects, either. The Dutch writer & performer Paul Schaaps recited excerpts from the book. After which Sacha de Boer (who wrote the Foreword) and I signed copies. There were drinks and snacks galore, a bloody good time was had by all, and the cash register kept going ding-a-ling. All of which adds up to a roaring success.
Barncott Press, Books, Kindle books
Tennessee Williams in Bangkok is now in Kindle!
by TFE on August 11, 2014
As most of you know, my Thailand and Singapore memoir, Tennessee Williams in Bangkok, was print published last year by Inkblot Publications (Providence, Rhode Island).
Now Barncott Press in London have released the book in Kindle and (for Nook, iPad, iPhone, Android, etc) .epub editions. Links for these and the print edition, along with a preview that allows you to already read the first four chapters,* are on the Barncott Press website
* Plus see down below (at the end of this posting) for those first four chapters!
Books, News, reviews, Richard Jurgens
A Passport to Elsewhere
Hey Wow,
“If this man hadn’t been a decadent, he would have been a Jesuit.” That’s
Richard Jurgens on me (and oh how true!) in his magnificent review of
Tennessee Williams in Bangkok, which at the same time is an essay about the book’s author. It has just been published in Urban Graffiti magazine and you can read it here
As many of you already know, the book itself is available from almost all
Amazon sites, as well as from AbeBooks and the publisher. But if you want direct links rather than having to search, just scroll down a little ways here
An earlier review by Richard Livermore (likewise excellent) appeared online in Ol’ Chanty magazine. This is it
And then bart plantenga combined his review with an interview in Eddie Woods has been around the block
While Jim Feast reviewed Tennessee Williams in Bangkok for Rain Taxi Review of Books (the Spring 2014 print edition)
Happy reading, folks.
And ever upward and onward!
Last Dance On Saturday Night
by TFE on April 30, 2014
Howdy music lovers,
The full tale begins nearly 30 years ago (1985). Which is when I first heard
the song that turned out to be entitled “Lover.” Though at the time I had no
idea who wrote and was singing it. And therefore also didn’t know it was on
the album Last Dance On Saturday Night. Close to two decades later (I was still mainly living in Devon, England then), I finally went on the hunt for the singer/songwriter. And within a few months found him. A link to that complete back story is appended below. Just now, however, I want to concentrate on the man and his music.
And so with great pleasure I hereby present the entire album (for ages unavailable in any form). Specially internet designed and uploaded to YouTube by my good friend and colleague Bart Plantenga.
All ten songs play one after the other. But you can pause at any point, look to the right-hand menu, and select another track. While again below you’ll find separate links to each of the songs.
So here it is. The legendary Dick Damron’s classic album
I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, over and over.
And do pass the link on to all your friends!
Films, Poetry, Win Harms, Yarre Stooker
Mary (the film) in Urban Graffiti
Hi Poetry and Film Lovers,
The Yarre Stooker film Mary, based on my poem “Mary” and starring the virgin whore poetess Win Harms in the title role, has now been wonderfully presented in Urban Graffiti magazine. You can read the write-up and see the film right here
Once you have done, by all means send the link to your friends and colleagues. We want Mary to go viral. She deserves to!
We will of course be entering Mary in film festivals. Should it win anything like an Oscar, you’ll surely hear 🙂
“I suspect Mary will win many awards at film festivals. It is the best
cinematic treatment of a poem I have seen in a very long time.”
– Urban Graffiti editor Mark McCawley
Films, News, Poetry, Win Harms, Yarre Stooker
MARY (the film)
by TFE on February 17, 2014
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Yarre Stooker film
based on my poem “Mary” and starring Win Harms in the title role is now online for general viewing! The film is only 12 minutes in length, and you can watch right now
Be sure it’s on full screen and the volume is up. Then send the link to all your friends!
Ever onward to ecstasy, EDDIE
ps If after watching the film you’d like to read (or reread) the poem “Mary,” it’s here:
“I am Mary, anarchist princess of spiritual revolution, scarlet perpetrator of crimes against ignorance…”
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No matter how you look at it, the GTS is a missile.
TORONTO, ON – In Porsche lingo, the “GTS” moniker usually refers to a model that has been lightened a little bit, and stuffed chock full of performance goodies and potentially some design enhancements that help with a more sporty appearance. With regards to the second-generation Panamera, this just might be the sweet spot in the lineup. While the first iteration of the four-door was a bit controversial in the looks department, there’s no denying the sheer beauty of the current one. We were invited to sample the 2019 Porsche Panamera GTS and GTS Sport Turismo to see just how it fits into the lineup.
The Sport Turismo body style seems to be the most desirable among enthusiasts, who crave the traditional long-roof format. Sales say about 10% of Canadians have opted for the Sport Turismo variant. Both body styles are available in GTS form, filling a gap between the Panamera 4S and Turbo. Key differences on the GTS model include a SportDesign appearance pack, tinted LED tail lights, blacked-out trim throughout, standard sport suspension, and bigger brakes (390x38mm front, 365x28mm rear), and more. The adaptive spoiler is one of the most striking design cues, and operates in a very “Transformers” kind of way.
Panamera GTS models pack the same 4.0L twin-turbocharged V8 as the Turbo, but boost has been brought down to 12psi versus the 19psi in the Turbo. As a result, power is brought down to 453 (versus 550) and 457 lb-ft. of torque. We’re on board with Porsche’s decision to go with the V8 rather than just up the boost on the Panamera 4S’ turbocharged V6, as the eight has more torque down low and offers better real-world response. Plus, it’s a V8 with a standard sport exhaust system in an automotive landscape filled with turbocharged four-cylinders – can you really go wrong?
Porsche has paired the V8 to an eight-speed variant of the lightning quick PDK dual-clutch transmission. After having sampled every current dual-clutch application in the business, it’s still no argument that PDK is the absolute pinnacle of transmissions. This remains the case regardless of driving situation, whether just leisurely commuting to the office or bombing up the back straight at your favourite track. The Panamera GTS responds almost telepathically, always knowing exactly where to be in the power band and delivering exactly what the driver asks for, even before being asked for it.
All Panamera GTS’ are all-wheel-drive, which helps with grip and the official claim for a 4.1 second run to 0-100km/h. It can send all of the power to the back if needed, and up to 70% to the front wheels. A Launch Control mode will set off at 5,000RPM and effectively pull your face back as the car hustles off the line. Ride quality is extremely well sorted from the sport suspension (that makes the car sit 10mm lower than the Turbo), which does offer adaptive damping as well. It’s firmer than any other full-size flagship sedan, but that’s the point. This is high-end S-Class (reviewed here) pricing, but the Panamera is a true four-door sports car in how it carries its weight.
No matter how you look at it, the GTS is a missile. It’s a hammerhead in a straight line and can handle corners with high levels of effortlessness. Analog feel may be a thing of the past, but the Panamera offers a very technical personality, allowing the driver full command over every move it makes. Additional tech that stands out includes optional active anti-roll bars that are powered by 48V electro-mechanical power, rear-wheel steering that increases cornering sharpness, and carbon-ceramic brakes. A cool touch is the Sport Response button that sharpens everything up and cranks up the boost for 20 seconds, for that response you need for a quick pass.
The interior of the GTS model gets Porsche’s excellent Sport Chrono package as standard fare, including a host of options that allows maximum personalization. Porsche’s Advanced Cockpit offers two seven-inch screens in the instrument gauge cluster allowing customizability between a variety of different displays. The main infotainment is controlled through a 12.3” touchscreen, which has some of the best speed and feedback in the business. It can be a bit convoluted to navigate, but the display is brilliant and surpasses pretty much everything else in the business.
Fit and finish is top notch, with the GTS offering a full Alcantara interior. Materials are wonderful, and the cabin feels worth every bit of the cost of entry. The regular Panamera gets 500L of cargo space behind the rear seats, which increases to 525L on the Sport Turismo. These seats fold down in a 40/20/40 split, and folding them down will increase the Sport Turismo’s capacity to a generous 1,390L.
Pricing for the 2019 Panamera starts at $98,300, with the GTS sitting mid-pack at $146,200. Opting for the Sport Turismo model will set buyers back an extra $7,100, for a starting sticker of $153,300. Of course, a plethora of options is available at a price, and you can tailor your Panamera or Sport Turismo to your specific tastes. The Mamba Green is a particularly striking paint colour available, and it’s the one that we would opt for – especially in an age where greys and silvers reign our parking lots.
If you’ve set your sights on the new Panamera, you’ve already made a spectacular decision. If heading into the E-Hybrid route isn’t necessarily for you, then this is likely the model to opt for. While the Turbo is tremendously fast, unless you’re spending the majority of your time on the racetrack, you won’t really be able to appreciate its true capabilities. The 2019 Porsche Panamera GTS gives buyers the perfect balance between a serene daily cruiser that makes wonderful noises and one that provides an engaging driving experience year-round.
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Often, if not always, bad things happen for what are ultimately good reasons, though we can’t see it at the time.
Case in point, a hockey official who was cross-checked in the face by a player that he’d kicked out of the game. After the official was taken to the hospital to be patched up, doctors discovered a brain tumor.
The attack may have saved his life, but I’m sure the official was thinking anything but on his way to the hospital.
Just something to remember whenever we’re feeling sorry for ourselves in the ambulance of life. The reason is often right around the corner.
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 23, 2007 Categories Current Events
David Geffen Catches On Without Catching On
David Geffen once raised $18 million for Bill Clinton, but now he’s supporting Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination. Why? One of the main reasons Geffen is miffed at the dynamic duo of lies, deceit and half-staff zippers is because Bill Clinton didn’t pardon Leonard Peltier. Peltier was convicted in 1975 of killing two FBI agents and has become a cause celebre of the Hollywood establishment.
If we were to substitute the words “FBI agents” in the previous sentence with “actors,” my guess is that Peltier would have zero support in Hollywood, but hypothetical detail is neither here nor there for the purpose of this discussion.
Geffen has responded to his switch in support by saying, “Everybody in politics lies, but they (the Clintons) do it with such ease it’s troubling.â€Â
Is Geffen just figuring out that the Clintons are liars? Hardly. Geffen’s abandoning of the Clinton ship reminds me of Dick Morris.
Morris, the ex-Clinton adviser, current political columnist and man who was a big fan of the oral hooker version of “this little piggy went to market” while on the phone with the president mumbling something about Bosnia, helped make the Clintons what they are today. Now Morris uses the Clinton platform he helped erect (pardon the expression) in the 90’s to give himself a resume sought after by the mainstream media, where he writes about what liars the Clintons are. Gee Dr. FrankenMorris, thanks for helping build that monster.
There are those, like Morris, who literally profited from their relationship with the Clintons even though they knew they were liars, and who turned on them once the money and power well ran dry. Then there are people like David Geffen, who may actually be well intentioned in their beliefs, no matter how misguided, but who were naive enough to think that career liars might be telling the truth in one or two instances.
What’s troubling about Geffen, and many other current and former Clinton fans for that matter, is that they were more than willing to support people they knew were lying bags of donkey exhaust as long as they were sharing a liberal agenda. But once the Clintons strayed from that fine line, they were jettisoned from camp-Geffen in short order.
You would hope that somebody wouldn’t like lying politicians because they’re lying politicians  but unfortunately a lot of people will support a lying politician as long as said politician is in their pockets, and vice-versa. For some people, lying is “noble†if it’s for a self-proclaimed higher purpose  this is why the Clintons have so many avid supporters, and yet so few real friends.
Here’s more on Geffen’s problem with Clinton’s pardoning the likes of Marc Rich instead of Leonard Peltier (the “follow the money†meter will explode when you try to detect the reason, David):
Geffen, who is supporting Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president, also said: “Marc Rich getting pardoned? … Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in.â€Â
Hey Mr. Geffen, maybe the Clintons were “unwilling to stand for the things they genuinely believe in†because they never genuinely believed in them  ya think?
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 22, 2007 February 25, 2007 Categories Current Events, Politics
Something's Wrong Here
A retired couple in Florida has scrapped plans to retire on their sailboat so they can join Al Gore’s crusade to combat global warming. They’re selling the sailboat in order to do this.
Is there anything more environmentally friendly than a sailboat? And they’re getting rid of it to save the environment? Sometimes things just don’t add up.
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 22, 2007 Categories Current Events, Science & Nature
Something’s Wrong Here
"Find The Illegal Immigrant": The Controversial Game
A group of New York University Republicans are getting some campus beer bongs in a twist with the “Find the illegal immigrant” game, which is scheduled to be played today. From the sound of it, the game is kind of like a panty raid, but with people.
As soon as news of the game was made public, many started protesting, partially due to anger at the non-PC game, and perhaps somewhat because nobody wants to have to find another cafeteria dishwasher.
Here’s part of the story:
The game, appropriately (or inappropriately, depending on how you look at it) called “Find The Illegal Immigrant,” asks participants to search the campus for the “illegal immigrant,” and if you do, you’ll win a prize. Sponsored by the NYU College Republicans, it’s scheduled to be played tomorrow.
“It’s racist, and embarrassing for NYU,” law student Marcus Amelkin says.
No illegal immigrants are actually involved in the game, organizer Richard Rossi says. Rather, the game is meant to inspire dialogue and it’s in that spirit that the university is tolerating it.
Many students, however, are miffed at the school’s liberal attitude toward the game.
“I think it’s offensive,” Eugenia Kuri, a senior at NYU who is an international student from Mexico. “The way they are trying to make their point, a lot of people die trying to cross the border every day. I don’t think it should be made a joke of.”
Why is this happening? Maybe because there’s a feeling that somebody’s got to do something. We’re putting our actual border patrol in prison so I guess it’s up to college kids playing a game.
It also calls attention to what is a major problem in the United States, which is looking the other way at an illegal activity. To those who are offended by this game, let’s substitute the illegal activity of “illegal immigrant” with “car thief.” Yes, let’s pretend that perty little Becky Jo Nussbaum, a junior year Humanities major and All-American cheerleader, had her Honda Prius stolen.
Students immediately put together a game to “find the person who stole Becky’s car.” Everybody would be on board. But when it comes to the illegal activity of skipping across the border, nobody, not even high government officials, seem to care. And the chances are that the person who stole Becky’s car isn’t possibly connected with a terrorist organization either, but who gets the protection?
This is why “games” like this are popping up, and it’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous because a group of students who are essentially making a joke because our government is so ineffective in addressing the problem with illegals are the “bad guys” here.
That said, the first game should have been, “Find the politician who won’t secure the border.” The illegals in this country are merely a byproduct of the real problem.
“Find The Illegal Immigrant”: The Controversial Game
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 22, 2007 February 22, 2007 Categories Current Events
Recommendation for a Reader
A comment concerning my column a couple of weeks ago called “Save the planet, win a prizeâ€Â:
i don’t understand how some people can not or will not face the fact that we human’s are killing our planet! this is not a joke to me! we can not put these gases and junk in our air and expect it to not do some kind of damage! get real! i do have a real idea on how to remove some of these gase’s but don’t know how to contact branson? thanks
Yes indeed, there is only one solution to this crisis (besides banning fossil fuel burning capital letters):
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 21, 2007 February 21, 2007 Categories Current Events, Politics, Science & Nature
Hillary's Being Truthful For A Change
I never thought I’d say this, but I believe Hillary:
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday denied that her campaign traded money for an endorsement from one of South Carolina’s most influential black politicians.
I don’t doubt it. Since when do Democrats have to pay cash to secure the bulk of the vote from any minority group? This would be like giving cash to your dog to drag his butt across the carpet — it was going to happen anyway so it would be a colossal waste of money, even for a Democrat.
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 21, 2007 Categories Politics
Hillary’s Being Truthful For A Change
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 21, 2007 February 21, 2007 Categories Politics
Dr. StrangeGore, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Global Warming
Word is that the University of Minnesota may give an honorary doctorate degree in climatology to Al Gore. The school will present Gore with a degree for his work on global warming after they give Mike Nifong his honorary doctorate in criminal justice.
Gore’s starting to get honorary doctorates for theories that are guesses at best (outright money grabs at worst), and he’s making money on films which allows him to travel by private jet and eloquently maintain his three large homes. Al’s even gone into the concert promoting biz, and is up for an Academy Award. Life is good.
I wonder if the degree ceremony for Gore’s work on global warming will end up being cancelled due to an ice and snowstorm, like this global warming conference was.
As for Gore’s doctorate, I wrote the following in a column for The American Spectator last April, and it pretty much sums up why I’m baffled at the fawning over Gore and his cloudy crystal ball:
Gore-style meteorology, specifically climatology as it concerns global warming, seems to be one of those rare sciences for which the percentage of accuracy of predictions rises as the distance from the date in question increases.
To buy into this scientific convenience takes the same blind confidence required to believe an archer who tells you he can put an arrow through a soda can at 500 yards — the same person who you’ve noticed can’t hit a bale of hay from 10 feet away.
Ask the night sweat-suffering Gore what the world will look like in 100 years if the United States doesn’t sign on to the Kyoto Protocol, and you’ll be drawn a gloomy, and very specific, picture of our final days. Then ask him what the overnight low will be in Chattanooga two weeks from Thursday, and you’ll get an unresponsive stare. At some point during the conversation, Gore will excuse himself and go burn thousands of gallons of jet fuel to fly to an emergency summit meeting on ozone depletion.
As a side note, I find it fascinating that the climate somehow seems to know who the president is. When Al was veep for eight years, we didn’t hear a whisper about any of this. Then Bush gets in, and the ice caps start melting like a banana split in a sauna and hurricanes ravage the land. If Hillary wins, we’re all saved again.
Even the damned weather is partisan these days.
“I’d like to thank all my Hollywood friends who are here tonight to show solidarity in combatting global warming. Those of you who got in your three-mile-per-gallon limos and headed for the red carpet, many of you after arriving in your private jets, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Without you, none of this would have been possible.”
Author Doug PowersPosted on February 21, 2007 February 21, 2007 Categories Politics, Science & Nature
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John Steinbeck certainly chose a beautiful spot to hole up while writing his famous piece on Positano for Harper’s Bazaar in 1953. Positano was just a quiet fishing village then and he described the Sirenuse as ‘an old family house converted into a first-class hotel, spotless and cool’. While still spotless and cool, the summer villa is a lot more upscale these days, immaculately run with huge charm and a maniacal eye for detail by Antonio Sersale and his wife Carla. The handsome ox-blood red building is crammed with precious antiques (starting with a rare 18th-century palanquin in the reception hall), many of them collected by Antonio’s late father Franco, and the white bedrooms have tiled floors from Vietri and balconies with grandstand views. But it’s the small details – the cloth-bound copies of Steinbeck’s article and the pretty beach baskets in the bedrooms, the crisp Frette linens and Eau d’Italie bath goodies – that kick things to another level. Positano is a bit of a madhouse nowadays, but you can avoid it altogether, dreaming away the hours on the pool terrace, booking a massage at the Gae Aulenti-designed Aveda spa or hopping on the hotel’s boat for a spin. In the evening, guests gather in the Champagne & Oyster bar before moving on to La Sponda restaurant to tuck into tonnarelli pasta with lobster and saddle of lamb with artichokes to the sound of guitar and mandolin duo Franco and Andrea. By Nicky Swallow
Hôtel 71 is located in a building with plenty of history: it was formerly the first head office of the National Bank of Canada in Québec City. The outside has a great example of 19th-century Neoclassical architecture, while the inside is decorated in an elegant urban style. An espresso lounge serves coffee throughout the day. The hotel is ideally located for cruises, as it is close to the terminals. It is also close to the funicular. For delightful Italian cuisine, eat at the attached restaurant, Il Matto.
Twenty-six years on, Ellerman House is still everybody’s fantasy bolthole in Cape Town: minutes from the best beaches and the Table Mountain cableway, but close enough to the city and its dynamic food, art and design scene. Sandwiched between Lion’s Head and the Atlantic Ocean, the Cape Edwardian mansion looks like a private residence from the road, one of many overlooking the sea in the wind-protected suburb of Bantry Bay. And that’s exactly what keeps guests coming back. The bar, restaurant and spa are exclusive to invited and resident guests, which means it’s very private and secure. Owner Paul Harris takes enormous pride in his country – his impressive collection of South African art spans original works from the turn of the last century to current contemporary art. An informal tour of the collection with one of the in-house art experts is a fascinating lesson in the country’s socio-political history. Then there are the 7,500 bottles of rare and vintage South African wines in the cellar and the indigenous plants sourced from Kirstenbosch (Cape Town’s answer to Kew) in the one-and-a-half acre terraced gardens. Besides the main house, there are two modern, minimalist private villas built into the granite mountainside, as well as a wine gallery and an excellent little spa. Checking into one of the individually decorated rooms in the house – many with local African design elements, some on the small size – feels both comfortable and comforting. As does the open-access kitchen. Walk right in, tell the chefs what you’re craving and it is whipped up in minutes. Better yet, take a snack back to your room. The post-sunset vista from the balcony has to be one of the best views of the Atlantic found anywhere on earth. By Jane Broughton
White Elephant Village's close proximity to Nantucket's Children's Beach and ample complimentary kids amenities (think: video games, boogie boards and coloring books) make this a popular option for families. However, visitors of all ages enjoy staying at the No. 1 Best Hotel in Nantucket, citing the property's superb service and spacious accommodations as highlights. Rooms, suites and residences offer island-inspired decor, minifridges and high-definition TVs, among other perks. Plus, all guests have access to an outdoor pool, free loaner bicycles, a spa and daily treats in the lobby. (Courtesy of White Elephant Village)
The 5-pearl, 65-room Encantado sits in a secluded spot a few miles north of Santa Fe with great views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Big, luxurious rooms are decorated in a modern Southwestern style, featuring concrete and wood floors, Native American-style rugs, and a color scheme of warm browns and oranges, as well as high-end extras such as radiant floor heating, wood-burning fireplaces, and private patios. The fine dining at Terra restaurant is rated highly, and the resort also features an outdoor seasonal pool, whirlpool, luxury spa, and even free rentals of a Mercedes Benz for the day.
A tricky business, the restoration of important old stuff. There are people who say that the Mona Lisa ought to be all bright and punchy and Instagram-ready and that 'The Night Watch' was actually The Day Watch. So what do you do about an ageing masterpiece like the Crillon? Nobody rushed to any conclusions. In the end, the refurb took four years and the hotel reopened in 2017 under the Rosewood brand. The Ritz, nearby, underwent the same process around the same time. But the two properties took divergent approaches: the Ritz to maintain the status quo, only more so, as it were; the Crillon to propel itself into the 21st century. In both cases, the results are exemplary. And if it is the Crillon whose name appears in capital letters in this list, it is in recognition of a moral rather than an absolute victory. A prize for bravery. The best of what was best of the Crillon has been thoughtfully preserved, while the best of what is new (the bar, the barbershop, L’Ecrin restaurant and the stupendous suites by Karl Lagerfeld) is gobsmacking in its boldness and daring. The Crillon has long been a sentimental favourite among the French. Something to do with all the beheadings that occurred outside the front door. Imagine what would have happened if Rosewood had, you know, got it wrong. By Steve King
If you are travelling for vacation, figure out which attractions or landmarks you want to see and book a hotel that is within close proximity. Although hotels near attractions might cost a little more, you may find that spending those extra few dollars is worth the convenience. You can even find hotels that align with your interests. For example, if you are looking for a relaxing vacation, a spa hotel may be the perfect choice for you.
Twenty-six years on, Ellerman House is still everybody’s fantasy bolthole in Cape Town: minutes from the best beaches and the Table Mountain cableway, but close enough to the city and its dynamic food, art, and design scene. Sandwiched between Lion’s Head and the Atlantic Ocean, the Cape Edwardian mansion looks like a private residence from the road, one of many overlooking the sea in the wind-protected suburb of Bantry Bay. And that’s exactly what keeps guests coming back. The bar, restaurant, and spa are exclusive to invited and resident guests, which means it’s very private and secure. Owner Paul Harris takes enormous pride in his country—his impressive collection of South African art spans original works from the turn of the last century to current contemporary art. An informal tour of the collection with one of the in-house art experts is a fascinating lesson in the country’s socio-political history. Then there are the 7,500 bottles of rare and vintage South African wines in the cellar, and the indigenous plants sourced from Kirstenbosch (Cape Town’s answer to Kew) in the one-and-a-half acre terraced gardens. Besides the main house, there are two modern, minimalist private villas built into the granite mountainside, as well as a wine gallery and an excellent little spa. Checking into one of the individually decorated rooms in the house—many with local African design elements, some on the small size—feels both comfortable and comforting. As does the open-access kitchen. Walk right in, tell the chefs what you’re craving and it is whipped up in minutes. Better yet, take a snack back to your room. The post-sunset vista from the balcony has to be one of the best views of the Atlantic found anywhere on earth.
Nestled in the heart of the Strip, this member of the Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas doesn't feature a casino on the property. And with only 389 guest rooms and suites, this hotel is practically a boutique compared to the Strip's monumental towers. But guests love the Waldorf Astoria's quiet and classy atmosphere and they don't mind leaving the hotel to hit the slots. The spacious rooms are particularly popular, filled with features like flat-screen TVs, soaking tubs and separate showers, and the design aesthetic highlights sleek and subtle touches. Another traveler favorite is the critically acclaimed spa, which guests say has some of the best masseuses on the Strip. You'll find the Waldorf Astoria LasVegas tucked between the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino and the Shops at Crystals shopping complex, smack dab in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip.
Now a cozy boutique hotel, Hotel Nena is set within a two-story former estate—and a stay here does actually feel like you've just entered the home of a longtime friend. Rooms (there are just six) are beautiful, with thoughtful details like handpainted tiles in the bathroom, exposed stone walls and wooden beams, and even fireplaces. Nena’s Instagram-worthy rooftop pool offers expansive views of San Miguel de Allende and the bar, built around the trunk of an ancient tree, attracts guests and locals alike. Nextia, the on-site restaurant, serves modern Mexican cuisine and is considered one of the best restaurants in town.
Art enthusiasts will want to put a date in the diary to visit the Art Gallery of Ontario, which as well as holding the largest Canadian art collection, has Renaissance art, African and Oceanic art and a Henry Moore sculpture centre. The Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal is a must-see with work by Rembrandt, Picasso and Monet, as well as work by Canadian artists such as Jean-Baptiste Roy-Audy.
People talk about old classics, but this one has roots dating back to the 11th century. Shipwrecked en route to Constantinople, a wealthy Italian family built the foundations of the Caruso on a limestone bluff above Ravello, a symbol of their power and good fortune to have escaped unharmed. And here, their high eyrie remained, withstanding the wars of the Middle Ages, neglected, repaired, neglected again, until 1893 when Pantaleone Caruso stepped in and turned it into a hotel. Belmond (then Orient-Express hotels) took over in 2000 and began a serious restoration: art historians were shipped in to unearth the building’s arcadian frescos, archaeologists arrived to uncover the original medieval foundations. Today, Old Masters hang in the marble corridors and the 50 bedrooms have been brought up-to-date, but not charm-crushingly modernised. They retain their original vaulted ceilings, stone fireplaces and terracotta tiles, and have bathrooms stashed with bottles of Penhaligon’s. It has just opened Villa Margherita too, a two-bedroom retreat deep in the heady gardens. Guests feast on lunches of lobster, langoustine and truffles, or head down to the water to explore the craggy coastline on the hotel’s pretty wooden boat. It’s a place synonymous with seclusion, with its lemon-scented air and hanging gardens spilling down onto the Tyrrhenian Sea, stony nooks and quiet spots to sit and take in the dizzying views. And romance: it is said to be where Jackie Kennedy and Gianni Agnelli began their affair, where Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo and Virginia Woolf came to hide out. A truly brightening, timeless place. By Martha Ward
This pioneering camp of 10 elegant, khaki-green Rajasthani tents marooned on a grassy island on the edge of the Makgadikgadi salt pans has remained a standout hit for years. Here the intermittent rustling of the mokolwane palm trees is often the only sound breaking the utter silence. Lunar-like, the pans stretch for thousands of kilometres in all directions and are littered with fossils and Stone Age artefacts. Founded by fifth-generation safari operator, explorer and naturalist Ralph Bousfield, in memory of his crocodile-hunting late father Jack, the camp is a place to be adventurous and also educated. The guides are all long-standing experts in their fields, from zoology to palaeontology, and walkabouts are led by a resident bushmen clan. Jack’s is big on the classic, old-school East African safari experience, with Persian rugs, paraffin lanterns, brass fittings, mahogany campaign furniture, antique four-poster beds and raucous, communal dining in a mess tent. But it’s the choice of experiences, some dictated by the dramatic seasonal changes to the landscape, that ultimately thrill the most. In the dry season, meerkats and brown hyena are the unlikely stars of the show and zooming across the pans on quad bikes is obligatory. After the summer rains, lush grasses attract migrating herds of zebra and flamingos in their thousands. At any time of the year, it’s a photographer’s dream. Those who get to camp out under the stars near Kubu Island can consider themselves members of an elite club. By Jane Broughton
This fashionable hotel earns acclaim for its elegant design and prime location in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. The No. 4 Best Hotel in Chicago boasts exceptional customer service, an indoor pool, a spa and a health club. Accommodations within the Waldorf Astoria Chicago are dressed in stylish gray tones and contemporary furnishings. (Courtesy of Waldorf Astoria Chicago)
I did not know what to expect from Quebec City at first, but once I got there I fell in love with it. There isn’t that much to do there, but if you take a walk around Old Quebec you will know what I mean - the architecture and the atmosphere make it worthwhile. The city’s history is rich and there are quite a few museums that can show you that (such as the Citadelle and the museum of Civilisation). Even though the city’s winter is harsh, I do recommend visitors to check it out near Christmas time, the city is not as packed as NY city, and there is a very nice and cozy Christmas market that takes place at Old Quebec. Anyway if you have the chance go and take a look at Quebec City!
Built on the bones of an old temple (hence the name), this 142-room hotel is a haven for the hip and slightly edgy, and reflective of wider development in the Chengdu area. Designed by U.K. architecture firm Make, the hotel comprises two L-shaped halves separated by a verdant courtyard evoking Sichuan’s rice terraces. Rooms are minimalist and incorporate local materials (timber, bamboo, step stones) and architectural elements—ask if you can get one facing the courtyard. And while the hotel offers French bistro-style plates at its Temple Café and regionally inspired Italian fare at Tivano, head for the wood-lined Mi Xun Teahouse, whose design is inspired by Chinese medicine. With its vegan/vegetarian menu, it’s the hottest seat in the house—if you can get one.
Cusco’s architectural heritage of Incan stone walls topped with colonial white stucco is echoed in this 16th-century building on a square steps from the main plaza. With just 11 suites, La Casona has the intimacy of a private home, with a grassy courtyard encircled by rooms on two levels, though the building’s colonial charms come with smart modern touches such as iPods and iPod speakers. Inside, a grassy courtyard is surrounded by rooms on two levels. Owners Denise and Joe Koechlin have fussed over every antique- and craft-strewn square foot of the place, and exquisite pillars, retablos, and benches have been sourced from all over Peru, including Pre-Colombian textiles and murals. The excellent restaurant—don’t leave without trying the quinoa pancakes—delivers a generous helping of Andean hospitality.
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Set in 60 acres and within a scrim of fluttering white birches, majestic balsam firs and organic farms, Hidden Pond in southern Maine offers 'rustic' with a difference. Forget soggy tents and mouldy camp shacks, this place has 36 stunning one- and two-bedroom clapboard cottages beautifully orchestrated by some of the state's top designers. The 20 one-bedroom bungalows have vaulted ceilings, gas fireplaces, outdoor rain showers and sleek bathrooms; the 16 two-bedroom options also have proper kitchens. After checking in at the Arts and Crafts-style lodge, head to the pools, trails and beaches for kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, biking and hiking. Yummy Continental breakfasts are delivered to the cottages by golf cart, cocktails are served at the Back Porch Bar, and light meals at the family-friendly Sand Bar Grill and Farm Bar. But supper at the main restaurant, Earth, is something special, with fresh handmade pasta and wood-oven pizzas as well as diver scallops, swordfish or crispy duck, served in an outdoorsy setting (there's a nightly bonfire, and the restaurant walls are made from trees that were felled to clear the site). None of which should be an excuse to miss dining in the local seafood shacks and at famous restaurants such as the nearby White Barn Inn, sometimes frequented by George and Laura Bush, who live in the area.
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The Langham, Chicago earns ample compliments from former guests. Everything from the property's attentive service to its quiet downtown location to the delectable cuisine plated at Travelle Kitchen + Bar earns rave reviews from visitors. Plus, rooms at the No. 2 Best Hotel in Chicago boast spacious layouts (each measures at least 516 square feet) with elegant white, black and purple color schemes, rain showers, deep-soaking tubs, liquor cabinets and free Wi-Fi access. Additional amenities, such as a health club, a 67-foot pool and a spa, are available outside the rooms. (Courtesy of The Langham, Chicago)
Located in Cancun’s lively entertainment district on a stunning expanse of powdery beachfront is Krystal Cancun. This resort offers multiple opportunities for relaxation or adventure, whether that means lounging by the panoramic infinity pool or exploring downtown. Guests can choose to dine at one of the on-site restaurants, including the renowned Hacienda El Mortero restaurant serving delectable Mexican cuisines; or guests can take advantage of the Krystal Dine Out Program and dine at one of Cancun’s preferred restaurants. Those who like staying active can use the resort’s modern gym facilities or have fun out on the water with complimentary water sports at the resort marina. Stylish and contemporary, this resort offers the best of both worlds – the chance to experience the cultural heart of Cancun, alongside the natural bliss of a beachside haven.
Who hasn’t dreamed of traveling like royalty, sleeping in some of the world’s most expensive suites, and eating in Michelin-starred restaurants? The time and money for that kind of trip can be tricky to come by, but it’s always good to be ready just in case the opportunity arises, right? We here at Oyster have been lucky enough to have visited thousands of hotels around the globe and across the states. The U.S. is known for having high standards when it comes to hotels, and hotels stateside offer some of the most decadent services around. So we’ve put together a list of the best luxury properties in the States for those planning a luxe trip -- and for those who just like to dream. Enjoy!
The chic accommodations at the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto reflect the charm of its Yorkville backdrop. The property's rooms and suites – designed with elegant decor and modern amenities like an in-room iPad to access Four Seasons services and bathrooms equipped with deep soaking tubs and TVs – hold views of the downtown neighborhood's surrounding shops and cafes. Despite the abundance of nearby restaurants, guests suggest enjoying a meal on premises; both Café Boulud and d|bar lounge offer French-inspired menus from Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud. Serenity-seekers rave about the spacious, sleek setting in the spa, which comes outfitted with an indoor pool, a steam room, a salon and a long list of treatment options.
The No. 3 Best Hotel in New York City, The Towers at Lotte New York Palace is a hit with visitors thanks to its superb customer service and breathtaking city vistas. The hotel sits on the top 14 floors of its sister property, Lotte New York Palace, in the heart of Manhattan's Midtown East area, meaning every room has a view. Plus, guests of The Towers have access to all of the larger property's amenities, including its spa, restaurant, bakery and bars, as well as free perks, such as car service within a 20-mile radius, Wi-Fi access and shoeshines and clothing pressings. (Courtesy of The Towers at Lotte New York Palace)
The building’s textile-clad façade and verdant latticework by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma creates a palpable sense of calm – ideal for meditating on the deeper cultural meaning behind contemporary Chinese artworks in the atrium, such as Beijing Memory No. 1 and No. 2, Li Xiaofeng’s wearable cheongsam and military breastplate covered in Ming and Qing-dynasty porcelain shards, and ceramicist Fiona Wong’s ghostly, lace-like White Wings. There’s also a 20ft-high Chinese apothecary chest of 6,000 drawers in the lobby, and the multilingual staff shuffling around in all-black outfits further add to the art-gallery vibe. More straightforward are the 99 open-plan guestrooms finished in oak wood and Turkish sandstone, with Japanese-style furo soaking tubs and powerful overhead rain showers. The complimentary ‘maxi-bar’ features craft brews from the nearby Arrow Factory and bottles of orange-flavoured Arctic Ocean soda, the nectar of any Beijing childhood. A decade after the hotel opened, the Sanlitun area surrounding the House has blossomed. Cross the street to Dover Street Market, where you’re likely to spy staff nipping out to pick up niche items at pop-up events. Follow the scent of date wood back to the hotel’s Jing Yaa Tang restaurant: cumin-laced lamb skewer and fiery kung pao chicken from a cage-free farm south of Beijing deliver just the right amount of anticipation while the master roaster glazes your duck with his secret combination of osmanthus, honey, vinegar, molasses and crushed dates. Order an Old Peking as nightcap, made with Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva rum, Mancino Vecchio vermouth and finished in a cloud of date wood smoke – the only type used by serious Beijing duck roasters. By Cynthia Rosenfeld
Colorado is the place for big skies, crystal-clear rivers and valleys peppered with ranches. And Dunton Hot Springs is the state's original retreat offering super-smart rooms in a rustic setting, the one we first fell in love with. About 90 minutes' drive from Durango, in the San Juan National Forest, this former ghost town and natural hot spring sets the bar for glamping. From the outside, the 12 guest cabins look like 19th-century homesteads crafted from planks and corrugated iron; inside, there are bison-skin rugs, cowhide throws and surprising ethnic touches such as a Rajasthani wedding bed or African mask. More Wild West-themed rooms display homespun cowboy-print curtains, ticking stripe and gingham. Owners Christoph and Katrin Henkel have spared little expense in creating this magical, 200-acre getaway. Chef Carrie Eagle prepares meals using local ingredients, and the list of activities includes snowshoeing, fly-fishing, river rafting and horse riding. Top that? The Henkels have tried with Dunton River Camp, their new property just four miles downriver, where eight super-luxe tents have views of elks grazing on bluebell-covered meadows.
The Magnolia Hotel & Spa is a small, boutique property situated in downtown Victoria. Its enviable location in the city's center makes the hotel suitable for both business and leisure travelers; however, some say city noise can seep into the accommodations. Rooms are equipped with free internet access, minibars, marble bathrooms with glass showers, deep soaking tubs and sweeping views of the city or Inner Harbour. You can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner at Magnolia's on-site eatery, The Courtney Room, which serves up French dishes. As for customer service, recent guests enjoy the attention to detail – travelers are treated to a welcome gift of fruit and handmade chocolates – and praise the staff for being exceptionally friendly and helpful. The Spa Magnolia is also lauded for coupling a relaxed atmosphere with a versatile array of treatments.
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Hidden among fisherman’s casas painted cobalt-blue, pink and pistachio bordering Trancoso’s sleepy village square, where the town’s elders gather to shoot the breeze, Uxua is almost imperceptible to the passer-by. The only giveaway is the tables of smart Cariocas and international hipsters sipping passionfruit Caipirinhas while watching the early evening scene unfold on the Quadrado. Golden light catches the locals playing football around the whitewashed 16th-century church. This is just how expansive Dutch owner Wilbert Das (Diesel’s former creative director) likes it. Surrounded by dense rainforest and teetering high on a ridge overlooking the powder-sand fringed Atlantic, Uxua fits right into the post-hippie utopia of Trancoso. Working with local artisans, Das has turned the hotel into a collection of rustic renovated casas, cottages, an intimate treehouse and a tribal-inspired spa. All are cloaked by hummingbird-flecked tropical gardens and centred around a pool lined with green aventurine quartz, which, for those not up on their healing crystals, is said to be very therapeutic. Interiors are haute-boho: roomy indoor-outdoor sitting rooms and airy living spaces with dazzling-white walls and muslin-canopied beds, accented with lots of reclaimed wood, antiques and vintage finds including brightly painted Virgin Mary statuettes. A decked path runs through mangrove forests to the beach, where there are enormous day beds for post-breakfast snoozing and a beach bar fashioned from an old fishing boat – just stay horizontal and another Caipirinha will soon find its way to you. This is the South American coastal retreat that’s on everyone’s radar. By Chris Caldicott
Felicité, the fifth-biggest island in the Seychelles, is widely considered to be one of its most beautiful. Giant granite boulders lie scattered atop curvaceous hills like remnants of a gods’ pétanque match. Blue pigeons coo and roost in jungly vegetation. The sand is so powdery and pristine that it squeaks as you scuttle into the clear aquamarine shallows. And within all this almost-otherworldly natural splendour is a man-made retreat that is almost as pretty – and equally as green (how many other islands have solar-power panels, a reverse-osmosis plant and a patch of land for an organic kitchen garden?). The 30 glass-fronted rooms are set among boulders and trees, with wide decks and plunge pools outside, and polished wooden floors and furnishings in the hues of the sea inside. At the beach bar, giant hammocks are strung over the ocean from which to sip passionfruit Mojitos and mango ice-lollies. At breakfast, there are green smoothies, rainbow-coloured fruit platters and oysters; at night it’s French Champagne and fire-cooked lobster, followed by rum tastings in a cosy bar. In between all this taste-bud tantalising, there are hills to hike, reefs to dive around and palm trees to lie under and contemplate the delightful symmetry of a crab’s tracks or the puffiness of a cloud. There’s a spa amid boulders by the sea, and a yoga platform where an instructor leads daily sun salutations as dawn breaks. A private-island game-changer. By Lisa Grainger
The No. 4 Best Hotel in California is located on a quiet, carefully manicured property about 25 miles north of San Diego. A winner of multiple industry accolades, including AAA's Five Diamond Award and recognition on Condé Nast's Readers' Choice List, Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa appeals to R&R-seekers who want to be pampered while on vacation. On-site facilities include an adults-only pool, a yoga pavilion and a spa with a menu of massages, facials and more. Visitors also offer ample praise for the resort's staff and the Mediterranean-inspired ambiance of the hacienda-style suites. (Courtesy of Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa and Rouse Photography)
The Langham, Chicago captures the honor of the No. 1 Best Hotel in the United States and the No. 1 Best Hotel in Chicago for 2017. Still a relatively new property to the Windy City's hospitality scene (the hotel opened in 2013), The Langham provides the epitome of a luxury stay, according to recent guests. The hotel overlooks the Chicago River, and its accommodations afford stellar city and water views. The property also houses a spa, a fitness center and an indoor pool. What's more, travelers praise The Langham's exceptional staff members, noting that they helped make their stays special by calling guests by name and offering helpful city tips. (Courtesy of The Langham, Chicago)
Manhattan? Like, so over. Food, fashion, music, art - it's all happening over the East River in Brooklyn. Of the clutch of hotels that have followed the wave, the 70-room Wythe, which opened in 2012, is the clear winner. This converted barrel factory is in Williamsburg, a five-minute subway ride from the island, and a hotbed of bars, restaurants and shops (Pies 'n' Thighs for Southern grub, Catbird for quirky jewellery). Owners Jed Walentas - scion of the New York real-estate family - Australian hotelier Peter Lawrence and Andrew Tarlow, who runs Brooklyn restaurants Diner and Marlow & Sons, have kept things industrial inside, with exposed brick, mosaic and tiled floors, and beamed ceilings. Bedrooms are particularly minimalist, with polished concrete floors, king-size beds and Manhattan views from floor-to-ceiling windows in west-facing rooms. There's even a thwack of skyline from the little window in the walk-in shower. The hotel's rooftop bar, The Ides, does great cocktails and is a raucous spot in summer, but it's the ground-floor restaurant, Reynard, that is a must for its super-fresh, veg-laden dishes including fluke crudo with fennel and caraway, and grass-fed steak with beets, goat's cheese and watercress. The hotel has no gym of its own, but guests are given a pass to Chalk down the road, a haunt for bench-pressing local hipsters.
This Design Hotels property features eclectic decor that complements its central SoHo neighborhood. Each room boasts a bold patterned headboard, high ceilings, a vibrant accent wall and unique touches like a window seat and a bone inlay dresser. Standard room amenities at the No. 4 Best Hotel in New York City include walk-in showers, flat-screen TVs and Bose Bluetooth speakers, but upgraded suites also offer extras like minibars and fresh flowers. Outside their digs, guests can take advantage of additional perks, such as a screening room, a rooftop garden and The Crosby Bar, a traveler favorite. (Courtesy of Crosby Street Hotel and Simon Brown)
Québec City not only has a fantastic Old Town which one can spend days exploring, but is in the centre of lovely countryside that offers an excellent range of scenic daytrips. The attractions are nearby, so no change of hotel will be necessary for any of these trips. Orleans Island is just 15 minutes drive from the Old Town. Aside from some great views of the St. Lawrence, Orleans Island is best known as a gourmet destination, with a number of great restaurants focussing on top quality local produce. Jacque Cartier National Park is just 30 minutes drive north and is known for its deep river valleys, pristine trails and extensive wildlife, including moose and red fox. Families and keen photographers may enjoy a trip on the Charlevoix Railway, which travels from Quebec City to La Malbaie, with much of the track running along the lovely St. Lawrence River.
The Legian is a five-star all-suite luxury resort located in the far northern part of the popular namesake beach resort area of Legian, directly bordering with neighbouring Seminyak.The resort in fact shares Seminyaks Jalan Kayu Aya, which is lined with among the areas most popular dining venues and shopping highlights, the likes of Chandi Bali, Ultimo, Trattoria, The Junction and Seminyak Square.The resort is within a half-hour transfer from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban, while a livelier scene can be found through the shop and bar-lined streets of Kuta, within a 15-minute taxi ride south from the resort. Read More...
The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel can be found in New York's lower Manhattan neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. While the property's public spaces feature Old World details like Oriental rugs, rich wood paneling and a pyramidal skylight, this Thompson Hotels outpost's modern guest rooms and suites offer crisp white interiors with custom leather headboards, Carrara marble bathrooms, Asian-inspired lamps and hardwood floors with purple or blue accent rugs. In-room tech amenities include free Wi-Fi access and flat-screen TVs with digital video recorders. After you've settled into your accommodations, grab a bite in one of the two on-site restaurants. Acclaimed chef Tom Colicchio created Temple Court, the hotel's signature restaurant, which serves contemporary American dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meanwhile, the Keith McNally-affiliated Augustine restaurant, which opened in November 2016, dishes up brasserie-style meals. Or, if you'd like a light dinner alongside specialty libations, visit the Alley Cat lounge in the once-hidden cellar. You can also listen to DJs and musicians at this venue. Overall, past guests enjoyed the hotel's food, service and classic yet trendy vibe, though some complained that rooms could use more outlets and better lighting.
The Four Seasons Resort Maui is a tranquil retreat located on Wailea Beach. The No. 2 Best Hotel in Maui offers spacious rooms and suites appointed with lanais, access to three golf courses and many kid-friendly amenities, such as lawn games, arts and crafts and hula lessons. What's more, guests can enjoy the hotel's picturesque location, as they lounge on the beach or by one of the three pools, including an adults-only pool with underwater music and a swim-up bar. (Peter Vitale/Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea)
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Board Game Review - Tannhäuser
The marketing guy at Fantasy Flight has been really hard to reach since the middle of December. Last week, I had to actually break down and buy a game. Well, technically, my wife said I could buy Tannhäuser if I would recaulk the tub and replace the kitchen sink. And since I was going to have to replace the sink and caulk the tub anyway, I figured what the heck, I would get something out of it.
Tannhäuser is not an American game, but it sure does feel like it. It fits all the criteria for being American - it's ridiculously violent and has a ludicrous amount of luck. It has as much theme and backstory as something like Last Night on Earth or Descent, which is typical of an American game, but it's actually created by French people. And apparently, these French people are still a little sore about that last big war, because the Germans in Tannhäuser are real douchebags.
The story of Tannhäuser is that World War I never ended, because the Germans found some arcane artifacts and used them to make some of their troopers super-powered. Then the Allies (later known as the Union) found some artifacts at Area 57, and so they had some gnarly dudes, too. And then demons started corrupting Nazis, at which point one entire group of Reich troopers acquired demon taints. They probably should have washed more often (yes, that was a crude joke, and no, I won't explain it to you).
Tannhäuser is like many of my favorite games in that it is not so much a game as it is a box of toys with rules. There are ten pre-painted plastic miniatures and a beautifully-illustrated, double-sided game board. The art in the game is fantastic, like it had just jumped out of a really screwed-up comic book. There are apocalyptic demonic bodyguards, monstrous shock troopers, and lots of heroic good guys. And then, because I intend to bring this up as often as possible, there are the troopers with demon taints. The trooper in the game with the demon taint has one glowing red hand, probably from scratching his demon taint.
Tannhäuser uses a crazy movement and LOS scheme called the Pathfinder system. They called it that because there's a path, and you find it, and the guys that made the game are great at coming up with scary Nazis and cool stories, and completely unoriginal when it comes to naming what amounts to a bunch of well-placed colored circles. If your figure is on a red circle, he can see every other figure standing on a red circle, and if he's on a circle with half red and half green, he can see both red and green paths. Typically, that guy will be standing in a doorway or something, rather than having been ripped in half and placed on two different circles (probably by someone who was testy from having a very itchy demon taint).
Combat in Tannhäuser is a dicey affair, and when I say it's dicey, that's because you're going to roll a whole lot of dice. The attacker (probably one of those damned Nazis) fires his gun at a noble and brave Union trooper by rolling a number of dice equal to his combat score. Every die that's at least as high as the trooper's stamina score is a hit. Then the trooper rolls his shock roll to try to blow off the damage - he rolls as many dice as his stamina, and has to beat the Nazi's combat score. Every success cancels one hit.
This combat mechanic is fun, and highly cinematic, but it is wildly unpredictable. Attacks could generate five wounds, and then have every one of them canceled. Then the next attack will generate three wounds, and the defender won't block a single one. The defender will often be rolling more dice that the attacker and have a lower target number, meaning that the odds of defending are actually higher than the odds of successfully attacking. That, in my opinion, is an oversight in game design, and removes a great deal of strategy from the game by reducing much of the battle to luck. It's still fun, but it's not really a contest of wits as much as a fun way to shoot Nazis.
To improve your odds of actually killing a Nazi bastard, every character in the game has a bunch of different special tokens. These tokens give the character anything from super-powerful machine guns to evil mind-bending powers. There's even one token that gives the demon-touched troopers their demon taint (yeah, I had to work it in again). You can customize your characters by swapping out their tokens, so you could give the dynamite nut a knife instead of a first aid kit.
Tannhäuser comes with four different game types. You've got the most basic deathmatch mode, where you equip your soldiers and just do your best to shoot holes in the other team. The story mode has you maneuvering around the board, trying to fulfill objectives like stealing plans and sending secret telegrams. The capture-the-flag mode and the domination mode are very similar, and both place more importance on positioning and maneuvering than flat-out shooting.
There are tons of pieces in a box of Tannhäuser. There are ten figures, which I mentioned before, and while the paint jobs could be better, they're still really awesome figures. There are ten character cards to go with the figures, plus more than a half dozen cardboard circles for every character. There are a dozen or so crates, a few dozen objectives, eight flags, and ten victory point counters. The upside is that FFG knows there are a lot of pieces to keep straight, so they include a bunch of little plastic bags to hold all those different parts. Of course, I still ended up using a dozen sandwich bags on top of the ones in the box.
I end up saying this about a lot of games - Tannhäuser is not for everyone. It is not a game that you play to see who has more skill at tactical maneuvering. You don't get to gloat after a game of Tannhäuser, because there is a very good chance that your dice did all the work. If you want a game where the skilled player beats the rookie most of the time, go play Othello. Tannhäuser is not that game.
On the other hand, if you want to tell a story, Tannhäuser might be just the thing. If you like playing games like HeroQuest and Last Night on Earth, this might be just the thing for you. The final resolution of the game is less important than the game that gets you there. You can almost hear the machine-gun chatter and screams in frantic German, the commando leader shouting, 'Go! Go! Go!' as he vaults over a pile of rubble and unloads his experimental machine gun at the mutant bodyguard covered in pulsing, glowing, unholy tattoos. When I play a game where I can almost smell the gunpowder and feel the sickly chill of the opening portal to Hell, I don't care if I win. I just want to play again, because I want to use the freaky metal skull to light another hero of the Union on fire from the inside, then cackle madly as I run away into a cloud of smoke.
I have heard from a lot of people who really don't like Tannhäuser. I don't want to make you want this game if you don't know what you're getting. I love Tannhäuser, and can't wait to play it again, but I caution anyone thinking of buying this game to keep in mind that there's not much contest here. You play so you can live out a thrilling battle in a crazy alternate past, look at the killer miniatures and fantastic art, and scream, 'Die, Nazi bastard!'
And look out for the guy with the demon taint. No standard bottle of topical cream is going to take care of that problem.
Fantastic theme
Cool prepainted minis
Fast game play
Fun rules
Different game modes
A whole lot of luck
Not really a contest
Tannhäuser is a blast if you like story games. If you want a copy, go get it here:
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/tannhauser_tannhauser.html
Posted by Matt Drake at 8:30 PM
"I have a gorgeous taint."
- Chick McGee
I agree it's not for everyone...just the 99 out of 100 who know what a FUN Game is.
Hendal said...
All I can say is that Taint Funny!
So now i don't feel so cool about winning my first 2 games against someone who had played it a few times.
I actually think their can be some strategy in it, or maybe that is just me thinking I am good at strategy when it was just luck of the dice.
I found it was a lot to keep track of the first few games - so many tokens to keep in mind.
Some of the guns can only be shot from so far away - oops forgot about that one.
Another great review.
Truth said...
I love games that tell a story, but a story telling game should still include meaningful choices. In my experience with Tannhauser the choices are all menial and have no real effect on the game.
Doc Savage said...
I have not wanted to play a game this much since Heroscape came out. I am in on all the expansions, too. I must locate players...
Menu Covers said...
While I was reading your review I was thinking of oldskool HeroQuest, then you mentioned it. As a kid me and my friends had so much fun with that game. We even made up a custom set of rules.
Nate Warren said...
I actually bought the game based on this review, and I'm glad I did. It's a blast.
Gameplay is really imbued by the theme. The whole thing feels like the final scene from some wacky sci-fi/action flick. The characters are distinct. The action is fun. The art is beautiful.
Yes, there's a lot of luck, but it can be compounded by bad decisions, in which case you'll see your team get shredded quick-fast. In either case, we plan on getting the expansions...
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Cyber Saturday—Challenging Facebook’s ‘#10YearChallenge,’ Tim Cook’s Privacy Plea, Mega Password Leak
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Dumpster diving. A huge trove of data spilled onto the web and has been helpfully uploaded to HaveIBeenPwned, a leaked password-checking database for consumers, by security researcher Troy Hunt, the site’s proprietor. The leak, dubbed “Collection #1,” contains nearly 773 million unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords—making it Hunt’s largest-ever upload. It’s unclear where exactly the data originated, although the anonymous person(s) who posted them online claim they came from many different sources. Best use the opportunity to clean up your password hygiene.
Be yourself. Facebook is still combatting disinformation. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, said the media giant booted two Russian operations—including one involving Sputnik, a Moscow-based news agency—off Facebook and Instagram on Thursday. Facebook suspended hundreds of accounts and pages that he said engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” He noted that the fight against fakers is “an ongoing challenge.”
Chinese finger trap. Federal prosecutors are probing Huawei for allegedly stealing intellectual property from U.S. companies, including components from a T-Mobile phone-testing robot called “Tappy,” reports the Wall Street Journal. The investigation is “at an advanced stage and could lead to an indictment soon,” the Journal’s unnamed sources said. Add this development to the mess of controversies entangling the Chinese company.
Demand a recount. The Financial Times said it discovered evidence of “huge fraud” in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s December presidential election. The paper claims that its own independent tally of votes, based on data leaked by an unnamed source close to Martin Fayulu, the contest’s loser (but actual winner?), exposes the fraud. The report corroborates the view of the Catholic Church, which earlier denounced the election’s “results” after conducting its own audit.
Look; don’t touch. A California judge recently ruled that police officers are not authorized, even in possession of a search warrant, to force suspects to unlock their phones using biometrics, like a fingerprint or facial scan, Forbes reports. Judges had already ruled that passcodes were protected against such coercion, meaning people could refuse to supply them, thereby preventing self-incrimination. The judge, who called the original law enforcement request “overbroad,” wrote, “If a person cannot be compelled to provide a passcode because it is a testimonial communication, a person cannot be compelled to provide one’s finger, thumb, iris, face, or other biometric feature to unlock that same device.”
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Cheney Accuses Guantanamo Lawyers of Crimes
It’s outrageous enough that Obama’s Justice Department has declined to pursue criminal, or even professional misconduct charges, on Bush White House lawyers who cooked up “legal” justification for torture, indefinite detention, secret rendition, and the whole nasty suite of “legal” means by which the United States became a pariah.
Eric Holder hasn’t gone to court yet against the Bush crimes; in fact, he defends the Bush administration in cases involving detainee abuse on the basis of executive privilege, “national security” and the need for CIA agents not to have to fear prosecution.
But now we have “Dick” Cheney’s daughter, Liz, and her Keep America Safe neo-cons on a tear against attorneys who came into the Justice Department after defending Guantanamo detainees. Calling them the “al Queda 7″, Cheney joined with Fox News and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley in asserting that the attorneys “support terrorists” and are dangerous. Keep America Safe ran an ad with creepy background music and an Investors Business Daily headline, “Department of Jihad.”
These are attorneys who won major cases in the U.S. Supreme Court during the Bush years. One is Neal Katyal who argued Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, challenging the legality of President Bush’s military commissions. Ironically, this is the same Neal Katyal who just argued for the government against habeas corpus rights for detainees held at Bagram, on the grounds of national security.
A lot of Bush-ite conservatives, even, are alarmed at the tone of the Cheney attack, which must be why the story has finally made the New York Times today.
But the Cheney group loves a different sort of attorney; the ones who made torture acceptable in the eyes of the CIA under VP Cheney.
Global “warriors on terror” John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Stephen Bradbury came out looking very bad in the Office of Professional Responsibility Report released on February 19. Looking through the 600+ page report, one can only imagine what’s on the large number of redacted pages, presumably blacked out to cover for the the White House “principals” who commissioned the torture memos.
I attended a briefing by the Alliance for Justice, “After the OPR Report” where attorneys Scott Horton, David Cole, Bill Yeomans and Michael Frisch took apart the report, and spoke to how justice could be served on the torturers. (It won’t happen through U.S. courts, said Horton, but because a Spanish citizen was tortured in Guantanamo, Spain is proceeding with war crimes prosecutions of Bush officials).
Demonstrators from the group "World Can't Wait" hold a mock waterboarding torture of a prisioner in Times Square 11 January 2008 to mark the sixth year anniversary of when the United States opened the camps at Guantanamo. Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing a person on his or her back, with the head inclined downward, and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
Internal CIA documents recently released give even more detail about the how the waterboarding was done to at least 3 detainees in Guantanamo, based on an authorizing memo drafted by one Stephen Bradbury (see above.) “Dick” Cheney famously smirked that water-boarding was a “no-brainer” and is still on the hustings arguing for it.
Mark Benjamin writes in Salon, Waterboarding for dummies, on the new documents, and relates it detail the practices the CIA used.
The CIA’s waterboarding regimen was so excruciating, the memos show, that agency officials found themselves grappling with an unexpected development: detainees simply gave up and tried to let themselves drown. “In our limited experience, extensive sustained use of the waterboard can introduce new risks,” the CIA’s Office of Medical Services wrote in its 2003 memo. “Most seriously, for reasons of physical fatigue or psychological resignation, the subject may simply give up, allowing excessive filling of the airways and loss of consciousness.”
One must ask, where are the investigations of health professionals in relation to these releases? The principal role of CIA Medical Services seems to have been keeping detainees alive to be tortured longer.
Speaking to the levels of irony in this story, Liliana Segura says today on Alternet:
The broader, unfortunate reality is that many Bush-era conservatives have found little to complain about with Obama’s DOJ and so may be more inclined to defend it. Reports that the administration may do a major league flip-flop on its decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his cohorts in civilian courts are only the latest potential example of Bush-era policies that the Obama’s Justice Department has kept in place, from warrantless wiretapping to denying habeas corpus rights to prisoners at Bagram, to its embrace of preventive detention for prisoners at Guantanamo. Were Obama’s record a real departure from that of the Bush administration, these conservatives may well have little to say against an ad like Liz Cheney’s.
But it’s the ideological defenders of torture in the name of “keeping America safe” — really keeping America on top through global empire — who refuse to rename or back down on the “war on terror” begun 9 years ago. Remember Cheney himself saying this would be a war to last “generations?”
They will not accept civilian trials for anyone held in Guantanamo, won’t let it be closed,won’t allow people who provided legal defense to anyone there — never mind the Bush administration itself released most of the detainees because they had nothing to do with al Queda or attacking the U.S.
Who says they aren’t fascist?
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#1 by paul siemering on March 11, 2010 - 11:19 pm
good report.
i just want to mention a couple things. little cheney, parroting many bush flunkeys, speaks of the prisoners as if they had been charged, tried and found guilty. they are all so very terrible etc.
thing is i read Stafford Sith’s book eight o’clock ferry, and here’s a guy who represented thirty some gitmo prisoners, and in this book he talks about his clients, but also about others who are involved with them. None of these people ever did anything wrong, not even by bush’s standards. they were turned in for the bounty the war department was paying in the early days, or just stopped at an airport and so on.
i won’t try to claim everyone in the gulag is innocent- i believe most if them probably are- but these fear mongers are totally off base making statements about how they are very dangerous terrorists when they know nothing about the people they are talking about.
keep up your good work- the world can’t wait
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Ebooks Versus Print Books, The Best Option For Kids Story Time
opera May 29, 2019 12:40 pm GMT+0000 News_Lifestyle #SurvivalTactics, 2, Education, Parenting, Technology
We say that we have to move with the times and the seasons as they come and technology is slowly taken over everything. Technology is said to have solved most thing in the domestic lives of humanity but some things are better left done in the traditional way.
Areas like education, technology has taken the forefront to make things better accessible and of course light in weight, we are no longer carrying 100 books for the 100 subjects we do. However, this is not the case of toddlers.
According to a study done by the Journal of Pediatrics, reading print books over digital versions has more impact on the cognitive and emotional development of toddlers.
The study gathered 37 parent-toddler pairs and had the parents read stories using different formats including a print book, a basic ebook, and an enhanced ebook (one that comes with music, sound effects, and animated characters). The researchers then recorded the sessions to observe the interactions between the parent and toddler.
Researchers found that parents and toddlers talked more and had more collaboration, for example, turning pages and holding the book when reading printed books together. When using electronic books, toddlers were more focused on tapping or swiping on the device instead of focusing on the story.
Speaking during an interview with ABC News, Dr. Tiffany Munzer, the lead author of the study said parents who read to their children print books had more positive interactions with them.
“The print book is really the gold standard in eliciting positive interactions between parents and their children,” said Dr. Tiffany.
Perri Klass, a paediatrician who co-wrote the study’s accompanying commentary, notes that ebook enhancements diminish story engagement and obstruct text comprehension as both parties are too busy engaging with the device.
If you want to teach your child to read and be smart, print books are a great start. Children learn a lot from their parents and by reading books aloud for them, you will be teaching them how to be confident and love reading from an early age.
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A woman with secrets. A man with honor. Can love survive?
When an unknown foe kidnaps Alex Caden, her rescue comes at the hands of an elite Navy SEAL team. But there are secrets that will keep those who want her dead on her trail.
Slade Lake has dedicated his life to keeping civilians safe. When he saves Alex, he knows as soon as he sees her that they're meant to be together. With killers dogging their every step and secrets unfolding can they find love or will the enemies from the shadows destroy everything?
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This was the kind of book that got your attention in the first couple of lines, and kept you guessing until the end. It took me a while to understand what was happening, but I mean that in a good way, because the suspense was riveting. The writing was brilliant, and the characters, wow. Alex is a kick ass heroine with a vulnerable side, and Slade, her sexy saviour, was everything you want from a hero. The tension sizzles right from their first meeting, and it will keep you turning page after page until the end!
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I can't tell you how excited I am for the release of my next book, Let It Burn. A little bit of nail biting going on, because it's the first stand alone book I've written, but when Lydia's character popped into my head she refused to budge until I'd written her a sexy storyline. So want to know what's standing between her and gorgeous Ryan?
Sometimes one person can make you question everything you thought you wanted.
Lydia James is a struggling scriptwriter with big dreams. She's determined to conquer the movie world, and equally determined to stay out of the limelight while she does it. So what happens when she meets Ryan Sharpe, a British actor and Hollywood's next big thing? He could hold the keys to her future, but with him, flying under the radar doesn't seem to be an option.
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Happy Birthday Beachwalk Press! I'm so lucky to have stumbled across this publisher when I was looking for a home for my first book Business and Pleasure just over two years ago! I can honestly say that I could not have found a better home, nor a more supportive group of authors. Here's to many more years together!
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I truly feel blessed to be an author, and one with such a great publisher!
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The Last Dig by Constance Bretes
Bones, bodies, and a love rekindled.
Paleontologist Caroline Priest is shocked when she finds a dead body at her dig site. When she calls it in to the sheriff’s department, her former boyfriend, Rand Callahan, comes out to investigate. The evidence quickly starts to point to Caroline being the killer, and Rand has no choice but to arrest her.
It’s clear to Caroline that she’s been set up, but by who and for what reason? While Caroline is out on bail, Rand rekindles his relationship with her as they try to solve the mystery before it’s too late.
Content Warning: contains some sexual content
Rand stared at Caroline, taking in what she had just told him. "You lied to me," he retorted sharply. "First you told me that you didn't have a conversation with him, now you're telling me that you did. Your story is starting to fall apart. You need to tell me the whole truth. Was this man stalking you? Did he bother you in any way? Why did you go to his apartment and threaten him and then kill him?" Rand asked, his voice rose in anger.
"You've got to believe me! I did not go to this man's apartment!" Caroline said, her voice getting louder.
"If the man stalked you, bothered you, or abused you in any way, we can help get your sentence reduced. It would go a long way in the courtroom if you confessed and came clean with this now," Rand said, his voice still raised.
"I have nothing to confess," Caroline replied forcefully.
"How the hell did his cellphone end up in your SUV?" Rand's anger burst at her.
Caroline recoiled at his temper. Then she snapped at him, her voice equally angry, "I don't know how it got there!"
"Well, you apparently had it in your SUV all along."
"I don't know how that cellphone got in my vehicle," Caroline stated emphatically, slamming both hands on the table.
"It would be in your best interest if you confess or fill in the gaps of your story. You will be going down for murder one and a very long prison sentence." Rand jerked forward in his chair and looked into her eyes. His eyes were dark and angry.
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Constance Bretes is an author of contemporary romance and suspense. Her romance books are often set in different parts of the country, but her favorite site is Montana. She's married to her best friend and resides in Michigan with him and a houseful of cats. When she's not at her regular 8-to-5 job, she can be found writing, researching, and spending time with her husband.
You can learn more about Connie and her books at her website at www.conniebretes.weebly.com. You can also follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/constancebretes or Twitter at www.twitter.com/conniebretes.
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Sci-tech film city unveils plans for cinema development
Shanghai Sci-tech Film City held a press conference in Songjiang yesterday and launched its general layout for development and announced a batch of 16 measures to promote the industry in the suburban district.
The film city project completed only a year ago has succeeded in attracting several 10-billion yuan (US$1.45 billion) level programs and building fine works featuring Shanghai culture.
The blueprint released this time divides the 61-square-kilometer film city in the southern part of Songjiang into four areas, focusing on film art cultural activity center, film copyright trade, film industry incubators and leading film-related enterprises.
The supporting methods, on the other hand, encourage the growth of key companies, projects, public service platforms as well as upgrade and innovation in the sector.
Outstanding projects and scripts will be awarded.
In the bigger picture, technology will be the main tool for Songjiang to carry out the industrialization of the film industry.
The traditional film base in Chedun, for example, is going through an upgrade with a series of quality projects, including an advanced imagineering center, which will play a significant role in applying technology in filmmaking.
“The combination of film and technology is the trend of future film development,” said Shen Jianzhong, vice general manager of Haopu Film Base, which is constructing one of its film studios equipped with hi-tech lighting system that could save a lot of time and cost for producers.
As for gathering talent, Songjiang has institutes like the New York Film Academy – the Shanghai Vancouver Film School and the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts.
During the Shanghai International Film Festival, being held between June 15 and 24, main film shooting bases in the Yangtze River Delta also advocated setting up a service system and coordinated mechanism for the industry to pool resources and avoid homogeneous development.
Meanwhile, Songjiang will help boost the process and will keep an open mind towards the future and the world, said Zhao Yong, head of the district’s publicity department.
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NHS: Mental Health
What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
Luke Hall
<p>The NHS People Plan will develop a new offer for our people through which they will have voice and support including a focus on improved mental health.</p><p>This will build on progress implementing mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’, which have been included in NHS Standard Contracts and embedded in the National Health Service staff health and wellbeing framework.</p>
Biography information for Luke Hall
What steps he has taken to prepare the NHS for the UK leaving the EU in October 2019.
Brendan O'Hara
<p>As a responsible government, we must continue to plan for every scenario. We continue to carefully review the implications of the latest extension to Article 50 on our no deal planning. We are working closely with partners across the health and care system, and stakeholders, to make detailed plans to ensure the continued supply of medicines and medical products and secure the future of our European Union health and care workforce.</p><p /><p />
Biography information for Stephen Hammond
Biography information for Brendan O'Hara
Patients: Safety
What steps he is taking to ensure NHS patient safety.
<p>Patient safety remains a key priority for the National Health Service. NHS Improvement and NHS England are developing a new National Patient Safety Strategy that will sit alongside the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p>The strategy will be published this summer and will build on existing work to provide a coherent framework that the whole NHS can recognise and support</p>
Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy
In Vitro Fertilisation
What recent discussions his Department has had with clinical commissioning groups on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s guidance on fertility treatment.
Birmingham, Selly Oak
Steve McCabe
<p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services that meet the needs of their whole population, including fertility services. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Aauthority’s guidance for commissioners is a new tool to help them implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Fertility guidelines and utilise the benchmark price for In Vitro Fertilisation.</p><p>I have written to all CCGs to promote the guidance and benchmark price, and encourage them to fully implement NICE Fertility Guideline recommendations.</p>
Biography information for Steve McCabe
What steps he is taking to improve social care.
Thirsk and Malton
Kevin Hollinrake
<p>Local authorities have a duty to ensure people receive appropriate care and support. We have given them access to up to £3.9 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care this year, and a further £410 million has been made available for adult and children’s services.</p><p>We will set out our plans to reform the social care system at the earliest opportunity to ensure it is sustainable for the future.</p>
Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has undertaken an assessment of the potential merits of adopting life-cycle costing in direct government procurement.
North Durham
Mr Kevan Jones
<p>I refer the Honourable Member to my answer given to Question 259078 on 3 June.</p>
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Treasury: Contracts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what contracts his Department has awarded in each of the last five years that were positively assessed on criteria for (a) UK content, (b) socio-economic weighting and (c) most economically advantageous tender.
<p>Contracts are awarded to suppliers submitting the most economically advantageous tender demonstrating the delivery of value for money.</p><p> </p><p>Crown Commercial Service, who act as HM Treasury’s commercial arm, have a policy of always considering social value, and building it into its commercial agreements wherever it is appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government wants UK companies to be successful in public procurement but it is unlawful to negatively assess a bid from a foreign supplier, or a supplier with a foreign supply chain.</p>
Universal Credit: Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether pensioner couples who are no longer eligible for pension credit and housing benefit because one of the couple is below state pension age, will still be eligible to have their rent paid directly to their landlord under universal credit.
Stephen Timms
<p>Mixed age couples already claiming Pension Credit and/or Housing Benefit for pensioners immediately before the implementation date on 15 May 2019 will not be affected by the policy, so long as they remain entitled to either benefit.</p><p> </p><p>Those making a new claim to Universal Credit, or already claiming it, will be able to have a conversation with their work coach or case manager, in the same way as other claimants, so that a managed payment to their landlord can be considered in Universal Credit for their housing costs.</p><p> </p><p>Couples who would have been eligible for Pension Credit or Housing Benefit for pensioners under the previous rules but had not claimed before 15 May 2019, will have up to 13 August 2019 to make a backdated claim to 14 May 2019.</p>
Biography information for Stephen Timms
Erasmus+ Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential (a) social and (b) economic value of the additional grants that are available from the Erasmus+ programme for widening student participation in (i) the current programme and (ii) the 2021-27 programme.
Dulwich and West Norwood
<p>I refer The hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood to the answer I gave on 8 May 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-05-08/252019/" target="_blank">252019</a>.</p><p>Further to this, the government is considering the value for money of the UK's participation in the Erasmus+ programme. This includes a range of monetisable and non-monetisable benefits and costs to ensure we capture all sources of potential economic value and cost. We will also want to consider carefully the impact of any of these options on students from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with disabilities in our assessments.</p><p>This assessment is ongoing and is part of a wider, cross-government exercise on considering value for money of EU programmes.</p><p>Ultimately, any decisions about our participation in the Erasmus+ programme will also be a matter for wider negotiations about our future relationship with the EU.</p>
Biography information for Helen Hayes
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2019 to Question 261071, whether the Chancellor wrote to the Prime Minister on the cost of a net zero climate change policy.
Southampton, Test
Dr Alan Whitehead
<p>The Chancellor is in regular contact with the Prime Minister on a range of issues.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is committed to tackling climate change and we are a world leader in clean growth. That is why last week the Government began to legislate for a net zero emissions target by 2050. The UK is the first major economy to put such a target in legislation.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time, the Chancellor has accepted the recommendation of the Committee on Climate Change to conduct a Review into the costs of decarbonisation. This will be the world’s first comprehensive review by a finance ministry into the costs of transitioning to a net zero economy. The Review will consider how to achieve this transition in a way that works for households, businesses and public finances, as well as the implications for UK competitiveness.</p>
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Reading West
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the taper that is applied to wages is not applied to pensions in relation to universal credit.
<p>The taper is the rate at which Universal Credit is reduced to take account of earnings. It is specifically for in work claimants and linked to earnings to incentivise work, and those in work to earn more. Universal Credit has a single taper of 63 per cent so payments reduce in a transparent and predictable way as earnings increase. Universal Credit is a means tested benefit, and income other than earnings, such as pensions, is taken fully into account in the assessment of Universal Credit. This is consistent with how legacy means tested benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support treat pension income. Therefore it would not be consistent to extend the earnings taper to pensions income and doing so would also undermine the incentives to work for people of working age.</p>
Alok Sharma
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set out the timeframe for implementing her Department's response to the court judgement of June 2018 on the payment of Severe Disability Premium to claimants who are already in receipt of Universal Credit.
<p>Written statement HCWS745 on 7 June 2018 , which preceded the Court judgment of 14 June, set out our plans to make provision for claimants already in receipt of Universal Credit, to receive a Severe Disability Premium backdated.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The ‘Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018’, which contain these provisions, were laid in Parliament on 5 November 2018 and will now be scrutinised and voted on by Parliament.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that a claimant will not receive less money in benefits as a result of moving to universal credit under the managed migration process.
Nick Thomas-Symonds
<p>Welfare claimants whose circumstances remain the same will not see their benefit entitlement reduced as a direct result of being moved on to Universal Credit through managed migration, as they will receive transitional protection. This will ensure that claimants who are managed migrated will have total entitlement to Universal Credit that is at least as great had been their total entitlement to existing benefits at the point they are migrated, so safeguarding their benefit entitlement until their circumstances change.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants whose entitlement is less in Universal Credit than their legacy entitlement will receive transitional protection to ensure their benefit allowance remains the same at the point of transition. The other claimants who are migrated onto Universal Credit as part of managed migration will receive the same or an increased entitlement as they receive on legacy benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, we have announced that Tax Credits claimants with capital in excess of the £16,000 capital threshold will now receive a 12-month grace period during which they can receive transitional protection if eligible.</p><p> </p><p>We have also announced that, from 16 January 2019, we will prevent those claimants who are, or have been within the past month entitled to an award of an existing benefit that includes a Severe Disability Premium (SDP), from naturally migrating to Universal Credit following a change of circumstances. These claimants will continue to receive the relevant legacy benefit(s) appropriate to their change of circumstance and will only move to Universal Credit via managed migration (and therefore be eligible to transitional protection), safeguarding their existing benefit entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We will also provide both an on-going monthly payment to eligible claimants who have already lost the SDP as a consequence of moving to Universal Credit and an additional monthly payment to cover the period since they moved. Eligibility for these payments will depend on a number of criteria being satisfied, which include whether the basic qualifying conditions for SDP continue to be met.</p>
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Universal Credit: Separation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there is provision in place to equalise universal credit entitlement when a couple separates.
<p>When a couple separates and still require the support of Universal Credit they will claim separately and as such the two claimants will be treated as entirely separate claims and will have their entitlements and therefore award amounts treated accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>If an advance has been awarded to a couple and the couple subsequently separate, they will be equally liable to repay the advance.</p><p> </p><p>When a couple separates, and an advance has not been recovered from the associated benefit claim because the claim ends or there was no entitlement to that benefit, the outstanding balance is treated as if it were an overpayment. This would then be recoverable (as per Section 71 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992) at the standard overpayment rate.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>After separation, if a couple have an overpayment for which they are both equally liable, the debt is apportioned equally. Once this apportionment has been done we will not reverse the split liability decision. Any debt for which only one member of a couple is liable will follow that person on separation.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to ensure that there is a fair division when recovering advance payments when a couple separate.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department take steps to ensures that the remaining claimant of universal credit is not held fully responsible for unpaid advance payments when a couple separates.
Universal Credit: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government news release of 1 October 2018 entitled Citizens Advice to provide support to Universal Credit claimants, how much funding she plans to allocate to Citizens Advice in Scotland to provide that support; and what plans she has to provide funding for areas that do not have a Citizens Advice office.
Ronnie Cowan
<p>For Citizens Advice Scotland the grant award is £1,323,412 in 2018/19 and £4,085,919 in 2019/20. Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to providing a Universal Support service across Scotland</p>
Biography information for Ronnie Cowan
Universal Credit: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people her Department plans to migrate from employment support allowance to universal credit in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Birmingham, Edgbaston in (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23.
<p>The requested information is not available by constituency or region.</p><p /><p />
Universal Credit: Vulnerable Adults
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hours of training is planned to be given to her Department's decision-makers to identify people who may be vulnerable or have complex needs for the purposes of the universal credit managed migration.
<p>All DWP staff working with customers complete training that prepares them for their role. This includes developing the skills they need to support and communicate with a diverse range of customers, and specific training is provided for working with different vulnerable groups.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking a slow, measured approach to managed migration and this will allow for on-going evaluation of the process to ensure that it is working successfully, which will enable us to refine our methods to support claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The revised draft regulations now before Parliament provide that we must give claimants a minimum of three months in which to make a claim for Universal Credit and sets no maximum period in which a claim must be made. With unlimited flexibility to extend claim periods we will work with representative groups to produce guidance that will ensure adequate support for each individual claimant’s needs.</p><p> </p><p>Decision makers and all our customer facing staff undertake learning related to supporting vulnerable claimants. Decision Makers receive 19.5 hours of training on dealing with vulnerable groups and line managers review whether there is a need to refresh the knowledge / learning with individuals where appropriate.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations she has received from (a) trades union and (b) the Trade Union Congress in relation to the managed migration of universal credit.
Ruth George
<p>No meetings have been held by DWP with trade unions or the Trade Union Congress regarding Managed Migration specifically. However, the Trade Union Congress and some individual trade unions responded to the Social Security Advisory Committee report on the draft Universal Credit Managed Migration Regulations 2018, published on 5 November 2018 which can be accessed at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-universal-credit-managed-migration-regulations-2018-ssac-report-and-government-statement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-universal-credit-managed-migration-regulations-2018-ssac-report-and-government-statement</a></p><p> </p>
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Faversham and Mid Kent
Asylum: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children are unaccompanied asylum seeking children in each local authority area.
Helen Whately
<p>The latest information on the number of looked-after children who were unaccompanied asylum seeking children, by local authority, can be found in table LAA4 of the statistical release ‘Children Looked-After in England: Including Adoption: 2017 to 2018’ at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>. These figures show the numbers at 31 March 2018.</p><p>The available population estimates for the number of children in each local authority are mid-year estimates published by the Office for National Statistics and these are reproduced in the underlying data that accompany this release.</p><p> </p>
Nadhim Zahawi
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Apprentices: Taxation
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprenticeship starts there have been in each Government department by gender since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.
<p>The Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally.</p>
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprenticeship finishes there have been in each Government Department by gender since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.
General Practitioners: Faversham and Mid Kent
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients are registered with each GP in Faversham and Mid Kent Constituency; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of GPs per head of population.
<p>The number of patients registered to individual general practitioners (GPs) is not collected or held centrally. The number of patients registered in each GP practice in England is published monthly in NHS Digital’s ‘Patients Registered at a GP Practice’ publication. Practices are grouped according to their clinical commissioning group not parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>Each general practice is required to provide services to meet the reasonable needs of their registered population. There is no recommendation for how many patients a GP should have, as the demand each patient places on their GP is different and can be affected by various factors, including rurality and patient demographics. The workforce required for each practice to meet patient needs also includes a range of health professionals in addition to GPs themselves, and the best skill mix is for practices to determine.</p><p> </p><p>The average number of patients seen at each GP practice in the Faversham and Mid Kent constituency per day is not held centrally. The average number of appointments per day is only available nationally or for individual clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p>General practices are independent contractors to the National Health Service and their contracts require them to provide essential and additional services at such times within core hours, as are appropriate to meet the reasonable needs of patients. Core hours for GP practices contracted under General Medical Services (GMS) contracts are defined as 8:00 – 18:30, Monday – Friday, excluding weekends and bank holidays. Core hours for locally negotiated Personal Medical Services and Alternative Provider Medical Services are set out in their contract but largely mirror GMS opening hours or longer.</p><p> </p><p>It is for each practice to determine any appointments system which they feel best meets the needs of their patients. Also, it is for GP practices to organise the delivery of their services to meet the terms of their contracts and to meet quality and safety standards set by the Care Quality Commission. Contractually, GP practices should report any disruption in the delivery of their services which could compromise their ability to meet the needs of their patients. GP practices may seek support from their local commissioner, including agreement to close the practice list to new patients or temporary suspension of patient registrations.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average number of patients seen at each GP practice in the Faversham and Mid Kent constituency per day; and what guidance his Department provides on the safe number of patient contacts.
Vaccination: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the recommendations made by the Committee on cost effectiveness methodology for immunisation programmes and procurement, published in February 2018.
<p>The Department is currently considering its response to the Committee on Cost Effectiveness Methodology for Immunisation Programmes and Procurement (CEMIPP). The consultation on the CEMIPP report closed on 28 June 2018. The Department is currently considering its response to make sure that rules for immunisation are fair, transparent and justifiable.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to publish a response to the consultation the Cost effectiveness methodology for vaccination programmes, published on 26 February 2018.
Women and Equalities
Sexual Harassment: Employment
What steps the Government is taking to tackle sexual harassment at work.
<p>The Government strongly condemns sexual harassment in the workplace, and is committed to seeing it end.</p><p> </p><p>We will consult this summer to ensure legal protections against workplace harassment are robust, and we are working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on a new code of practice to ensure that employers are clear on their responsibilities.</p><p> </p>
Louth and Horncastle
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M20: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of noise levels on the M20 between Junctions 8-9.
<p>The noise levels on this section of the M20 have been assessed as part of DEFRA’s Noise Action Plan. This identified 10 areas between M20 Junction 8-9 which required investigation because of the level of noise.</p><p>Action has been taken to mitigate noise at five out of the 10 areas with the installation of noise insulation. Highways England are working to address the remaining five areas, including trials to test options to reduce the noise generated by concrete road surfaces.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Biography information for Jesse Norman
M20: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the number of accidents on the M20 between Junctions 8 and 9 in each of the last 10 years.
<p>Below are the accident figures for the number of reported accidents on the M20 Junctions 8-9 in each of the last 10 years</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p><strong>Number of reported road accidents on the M20 (Juncs: 8-9)<sup>1</sup>, 2007 to 2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of accidents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Source: DfT Stats19</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>1. Includes all the slip roads on and off at each of the junctions.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p>
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In the loop: John Lewis in loss, Medopad acquires American Sherbit and Alibaba announces Jack Ma's successor
Written by Varsha Saraogi on Friday, 14 September 2018. Posted in Insight, Analysis
While you’re busy getting your hands on the new iPhone, John Lewis has become the latest retailer to go into crisis mode, UK startup Medopad bought US firm Shirobet and Daniel Zhang was poised to take over Alibaba in 2019
John Lewis see 99% plunge in half-year profits
The high street epidemic continues to cause havoc on British retailers. After brands like Marks & Spencer, Debenhams and House of Fraser announced their store closures, John Lewis has now been added to the list after profits slumped by 99% from 2017 to reach £1.2m.
The John Lewis partnership blamed lack of clarity surrounding the Brexit negotiations and huge discounts by competitors for the losses. And that prompted UK’s Brexit secretary Dominic Raab to criticise the business.
“It’s probably rather easy at this moment in time for any business which isn’t doing rather well to point to Brexit,” Raab told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.
Looking at how John Lewis’ profits have been as gloomy as the weather we can be sure the retail apocalypse is indeed affecting all irrespective of offering huge discounts. E-tail seems to be the way forward which was proved by Amazon who become worth $1tn.
British fashion brand Seasalt bags £16m investment
While big brands are going through turmoil, smaller companies are gaining momentum. Fashion brand Seasalt has secured investment worth £16m to open 40 new stores across Blighty and to sharpen both its online and offline offerings.
£11.5m was invested by BGF, an investment company for SMEs, and £4.5m from Santander Corporate and Commercial, a financial service provider. The partnership with BGF and Santander will allow the Cornwall-based retailer to access a wider network and use their advisers when scaling. With over 800 employees already, it will be creating a further 700 jobs over the next five years.
It’s indeed no secret that amalgamating an online marketplace along with an advanced in-store experience are the ingredients for scaling a brand. So expect great things from Seasalt.
UK-based Medopad acquires Silicon Valley startup
UK entrepreneurs are increasingly sailing overseas. Now, Medopad, the British healthtech company, is set to revolutionise healthcare in the US after acquiring Silicon Valley based startup Sherbit, a data visualisation company, for an undisclosed sum.
With this acquisition, Sherbit’s CEO, Alex Senemar intends to take Medopad’s technology into the US and teach hospitals. Founded in 2011, Medopad helps hospitals track long-term illnesses and conditions. This deal is part of the company’s US expansion after it established an office at Johnson & Johnson’s incubator JLABs in New York City in July 2018. With having secured $28m already, Medopad plans to close a $120m funding round this year to scale further.
We can be sure to say that UK based startups are capitalising on opportunities to expand worldwide and more entrepreneurs like Medopad’s CEO Dan Vahdat must venture westwards.
Single’s Day inventor to spearhead Alibaba after Jack Ma
It’s indeed the end of the Jack Ma era after he announced stepping down as chairman of Alibaba, the e-commerce giant. He is to pass on the baton to the CEO Daniel Zhang who will be the new chairman a year from now, he said in a letter.
Ma will continue to be on the board and a permanent member of the Alibaba partnership to make the transition as smooth as possible for Zhang. The soon-to-be chairman has not only been serving as CEO since 2015 but also the architect of the Single’s Day annual sale. The online event touted as the largest e-retail event in the world – triggering more expenditure than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined – saw more than $25bn in sales for Alibaba in 2017.
It’s undeniably going to be a herculean task to follow the footsteps of a chief like Ma but Zhang seems to be as promising as his boss.
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Franchise celebrates 14 years success in passing down the torch
Written by Angus Shaw on Friday, 01 June 2018. Posted in Franchise
Taking a company to longevity is a feat franchising easily achieves, proves Petpals
Ensuring a good handover is pivotal in any business. But it’s especially important in franchising when one franchisee takes over from another. Done right, a good handover can ensure the longevity of the business even though the leadership may change. This was proved this week when three generations of franchisees at Petpals, the pet sitting service, reunited to celebrate the company’s 14 year anniversary.
Since its foundation in 2004 Petpals franchise in Bracknell has thrived under the hands of three franchisees. It all began with Nick Skinner, who held the reins until selling he sold it to Ruth Wall in 2009 . Although, he didn’t leave the business but took up a managerial role in the parent company. From there, Wall ran the franchise until retirement this year when long-time customer Peter Lea jumped at the chance to break away from his old desk-bound job.
Commenting on the reunion of the three franchisees, Kevin Thackrah, managing director of Petpals, said: “This story is a prime example of the strength of franchising. An individual pet carer simply would not have been able to sell their businesses as an ongoing concern, as both Nick and Ruth have done but, because the business was part of a nationally recognised brand, the transition was seamless.
“Their clients were not affected by the change in ownership and each owner walked away with a satisfactory financial outcome. People often only think about the first act of purchasing the franchise and all the well documented benefits that brings, but they often forget about the benefits at the selling stage, which are just as important.”
Longevity only exists when people carry on the legacy. Given the example from the three Petpal franchisees, you’d be barking mad not to agree.
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We have a poorly funded, poorly equipped, and poorly trained police force. We have an outfit called the NIA which is distrusted by the population due to their dispicable track record during the reign of the previous government. We have an army that is battered and demoralized because it could not rescue the Gambian people from a recalcitrant government [thus the presence of an ECOMIG Force]. We have a Police Intervention Unit that, like its sister forces, is poorly funded, poorly paid and thus poorly motivated. All these [working together or not] could not even be aware of the fact that two of the most feared generals of the previous government came back to this country.
All these make it extremely strange if, out of the blue, citizens begin to hear about a new security outfit called State Intelligence Unit (SIU). Since this government took office, no one has heard of a bill in the National Assembly establishing a security unit called State Intelligence Unit. Is it a constitutional unit? If it were, certainly it should be done through the National Assembly. How can we have a security unit without it being passed through the house of representatives? It is reported that this outfit is formed from the presidency. Since when does a president have the powers to form such units arbitrarily?
The National Assembly should definitely demand an explanation for this pseudo security unit. If found to be inconsistent with the constitution [which most likely it will] it should be disbanded forthwith. This seems to to be another example of the epic blunders your government is becoming synonymous with. Why create yet another security unit when the ones here are in the woefully inadequate state they are in? This is unacceptable and we demand an explanation immediately.
As I have said repeatedly before, the Gambia Police Force is poorly paid, poorly equipped, poorly trained and poorly motivated. Just look at the incident in Busumbala where they were expected to quell a huge chaos in their pickup trucks with no teargas, no protective gear and no armoured cars. Going to such a place in such circumstances would have been suicidal.
The people of the country have had enough of the constitutional violations. We have seen governments operate outside the law on so many occasions that we have had enough of it. It was for this very reason that we came together and expended efforts, blood, tears and sweat to ensure that we change our government and put you in office. We will not allow you or any other person to take us that road again. It is indeed disappointing for Gambians to witness the setting up of a unit outside the law, for that is what this looks like at the moment.
Instead of setting up of the State Intelligence Unit [I wonder whether it should be called State …], why can’t you fund the Police Force, give training to the Police Intervention Unit, revamp the NIA, restructure the Army and secure our borders. The security of the country is fragile at present but the solution is not in creating more units; rather, it is in strengthening the ones we have.
Have a Good Day Mr President…
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The focus of this research work is the impact of Somalia war on military families of the Kenya Defence Forces (hereafter KDF). The study examined the systemic effects of war trauma as it impacted on the mental health and general well-being of KDF military families, with the objectives of examining the impact of the deployment on families left behind and their coping mechanisms. The study offered a historical background of the Somalia crisis and the incentives that compelled Kenya to undertake her first ever military incursion into a neighbouring country. The study focused on the period between 2011-2014 when KDF operated initially as a single country force, and later as part of African Union Mission in Somalia (hereafter AMISOM). According to the study, soldiers go to war ‗accompanied‘ by their families. While the soldiers deploy at the battle front, the families deploy at the home front where they not only keep the home front intact, but are also perpetually worried over the safety and well-being of the soldier. The resultant emotional demand and stress during and after deployment affects the overall family functioning as supported by the theoretical explanations of family stress theory and theory of systemic stress that guided the study. The study involved 45 respondents that comprised serving soldiers and their families, and families of soldiers who died in the war. The sample was purposively drawn from three different KDF units. Interviews were conducted using semi-structured questionnaire guide, and emerging themes of negative and positive impacts of deployment, war trauma on soldier and improvised coping mechanisms were recorded. It was noted that the stress on families started immediately the notification for deployment was given, and continued long after the deployment, particularly for families that nursed injured soldiers and those that lost loved ones. Despite the stress on families, existing KDF social and emotional support services were observed to target the well-being of the soldier more than the families. The study further noted that the impact of a soldier‘s death cascaded several layers of family kinship as majority of the soldiers were the sole bread winners of their immediate and extended families. Overall, the Somalia war had a significant emotional, economic and social impact on KDF military families. It is the spirit of this study of the need to restructure KDF social and emotional support services to better address the realities brought about by the Somalia war.
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Postby eXodus » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:45 am UTC
benjhuey wrote: That was one lucky shot in the dark.
scarletmanuka wrote: I have to go with benjhuey with this one. It takes more than just knowing a female who's died for this one to be effective.
It's basically cold-reading, isn't it? And that seems to reach the masses quite often. Of course, maybe that's why this would work on someone who drives around with a laptop running - who would try cold-reading on someone so learned? It has to be the real thing.
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Postby dune » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:49 am UTC
scarletmanuka wrote: I have to go with benjhuey with this one. It takes more than just knowing a female who's died for this one to be effective. There has to be some connection to the target that is plausible enough for his subconscious to go for. In my case, I knew a couple of women who died prematurely, but I certainly didn't give them cancer, so it wouldn't register at all for me.
Of course it might still be a case of "What the hell are you talking about? Who do you mean? Are you sure you have the right--" *CRASH* if the question produces enough distraction. Sort of like Reverse Nerd Sniping.
I think it would work well if the victim's mother had died in childbirth, or due to post-natal complications.
Oh, and about that website idea, try juicydriver.com. It is easy to remember, contextual, and available. We can encourage people to check out if their friends are featured. Of course, that would require an image tagging feature.
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Postby phlip » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:51 am UTC
Hmm... she says she's "scanning for remote exploits"... what are the chances that the exploits are of this variety?
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jspenguin wrote: I had an idea for a web site, but I don't have the resources to host it.
It would be called "You are an asshole", and you could post the license plate of someone you thought was an asshole on the road and tell them exactly how you feel.
I once set up a free-host site for the "Great Parking Awards" as a birthday present for my father. I gave him a pad of "Nomination Slips" to keep in the car and then place under the windscreen wipers of the worst offenders.
The plan (which I never implemented) was to spread it by word of mouth and have the public vote weekly on who was the worst parker. I've spoilered some of the art I made for the site:
Can't find it right now, will edit it in later.
As for the "shot in the dark", once she's in his computer I'm sure that BHG/Journal/Classette/Does She Have a Name? would be able to find enough details about him to make a reasonable guess at what to ask.
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Postby Dobblesworth » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:26 am UTC
I'm quite concerned by the structural rigidity of automobiles in the xkcd-world to be honest. And I don't think hearing Microsoft Sam announcing a connection to the demise of a female in the third person would freak me out completely. Still, it's good to see that Black Hat Man and The-Girlfriend-Formerly-Known-As-Black-Hat-Girl make such a great team.
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Postby stormoftara » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:22 am UTC
You know, when people drive really really slowly in front of my I tailgate them...but it is their own fault for going 25 when the speed limit is 35. Grrrrrrrrr........
Of course now I wish I could do this, but in reverse to the stupid slow drivers in front of me.
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Postby JET73L » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:57 am UTC
Guilt-truipping in that manner is mean, many would say too harsh a punishment for tailgating.
As for the laptop on in the backseat, it could easily be done to someone without a laptop on, with volume up, with an application to test what channel the nearest active radio is recieving, then using a modified version of the Silence Broadcaster (the one that takes over any nearby radio wavelengths, and broadcasts slilence on those frequencies, to use against people playing their radios over the local legal volume?) to take over the wavelength of the station they are listening to, and apply a voice that says something distracting and either omniscient or godly, or gets them into a conversation about joining a secret government agency. (for the former, leaving the radi music on, for the latter, silencing the radio).
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Postby T3m3r1ty » Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:40 pm UTC
I don't think the "shot in the psychological dark" is too difficult to make. Someone who regularly tail-gates at high speed has an above average chance of having been involved in a serious accident.
There is no penalty too severe for tail-gating at high speed. It is a deliberate means of intimidation and the direct cause of multiple collision road traffic accidents.
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Postby violaj » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:03 pm UTC
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Postby Wondrej » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:18 pm UTC
gosh... now imagine that you will meet BHM and BHW like that. you can eather do suicide or pray for mercy
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Postby jeffk » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:19 pm UTC
sanitycheck wrote: And yes, I know that Journal Woman was the only one who really did anything here. Nonetheless, he was there, and he did not collapse into a singularity under the pressure of the mind-shattering, malignant glory radiating from his passenger seat. So he has not gone soft.
Besides, he's the one slamming on the brakes.
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Postby bumpgrrl » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:22 pm UTC
linguistic wrote: This reminds me of a Bob the Angry Flower where he does a similar psych-out thing to a telemarketer... I can't find it right now though (at work, never enough time).
Anyone else know what I'm on about, or am I talkin' to myself?
I know what you're talking about! It's this one
I have that early book, but i'm totally out of date on the others. The mouseover makes this comic, since the concept was (to me, at least) a little bit "done".
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Postby PixieScarlette » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:29 pm UTC
suso wrote: Does anyone here remember that newsgroup for people to complain about other drivers? It wasn't all that popular, but it had some funny posts of people thinking that their complaint would be read by the person who did whatever to them.
There is already a website like this. It has been up and running for awhile now. Don't waste your time making a new one.
You can search by state, plate number, etc.
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Postby Main » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:45 pm UTC
timt wrote: Because everyone drives round with a WAP and their laptop going in the back of their car...
Because i know i do!
Hehe this ones a little far fetched but funny none the less.
It's not far fetched at all.
If Windows can't find a preferred access point to connect to, it's idea of failure is to connect to a long random SSID, and when that fails, try again in a minute. With a tool called KARMA, when someone tries to connect to an access point that doesn't exist, it creates it and connects them. Combine these, and you can be on the same network as any Windows (2000, XP, dunno about Vista) machine in less than a minute. Then you just need a scanner, some remote exploits, a speech synth, and experience at being an asshole.
Of course, the laptop would need to be on, and have the wireless enabled, and the method above only works for Windows. But it's possible, and this could be what she means by "the wifi autoconnects".
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Postby zmef » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:56 pm UTC
Its weird that I read this comic just before finding out George Carlin died. One of my favorite bits of his was his idea that we should have signs on top of our cars that we could type messages into so other drivers could read them: "You drive like old people fuck: slow and sloppy."
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Note to self: never piss Randall off. Just thinking of this strip makes him the bigger BOFH... /me kowtows
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Postby Domovoi » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:12 pm UTC
I once had a similar idea, but differently. When I get cut off or tailgated or something, I always want to try and get next to them, wait until they look over, put up a camera, and take a picture. I'd then host the pictures on a website called "Surprised Jackasses .com"
stormoftara wrote: You know, when people drive really really slowly in front of my I tailgate them...but it is their own fault for going 25 when the speed limit is 35. Grrrrrrrrr........
It's called the maximum speed, not the required speed. Sure, it can be annoying, but it's no excuse for tailgating.
Postby steek » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:57 pm UTC
ELProphet wrote:
I had an idea for a web site, but I don't have the resources to host it.
All the permutations I can think of for "You are an Asshole".com I could think of were registered. However, I do have the resources to host that (at least to start off), if anyone finds a decent domain name.
Another idea is Damnmassholes.com ...anyone who has ever driven in the state of massechusets should understand
Postby space_raptor » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:58 pm UTC
This comic is COLD. I'm impressed, xkcd.
I think driving too slow can be just as dangerous as too fast. Tailgating is never a good idea, though. If there's an accident you're at fault, and usually those people aren't paying enough attention to realize they're being tailgated anyways.
space-raptors current pet peeve: people who merge onto roads while driving 20 km/h slower than the speed of traffic on that road. I leave plenty of room for those dumbasses to get in if they're merging into my lane, and I still have to hit the brakes, and if I'm behind them in the merge lane, they totally fuck up the flow of my merging plan.
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Postby Chalnoth » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:13 pm UTC
There have been times when I've decided to get back at other drivers. One was a time when I was heading east of a small city in northern California, Redding. Nearly anybody that gets on this highway ends up going in one direction for a good couple of hours. I was going to be on it for three. Oh, and it's one lane each way.
Well, anyway, shortly after we leave town, this guy manages to piss me off. I can't remember the whole of it, but cutting off an elderly couple in another car was at least part of it. So, I thought I'd have a little fun: I tailgated him for a whole hour. Freaked him the fuck out, to the point where, at one point, he actually stuck his head out the driver's side window.
Good times. Good times.
Postby T3m3r1ty » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:12 pm UTC
Hmmm.... ever read Orson Scott Card's short story Freeway Games ? You might want to rethink that strategy.
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Postby skeptical scientist » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:36 pm UTC
This couple reminds me of the 13 crystal skulls where if they all come together, the universe will explode. I think that if the hat dude ever impregnates his girlfriend/nemesis, she'll give birth to the nuclear baby and we'll all be living in fallout shelters and growing extra eyes between our toes.
I'm looking forward to the day when the SNES emulator on my computer works by emulating the elementary particles in an actual, physical box with Nintendo stamped on the side.
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Postby lihan161051 » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:46 pm UTC
Dobblesworth wrote: And I don't think hearing Microsoft Sam announcing a connection to the demise of a female in the third person would freak me out completely.
Yes, a much better message would be, "The Beast and his armies will rise from the pit to make war against God." Followed, after a short pause, by "Apologies. I said, 'There was an error accessing the POP server..'"
Postby Midna » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:48 pm UTC
I just want to say that this girl is my hero.
I don't think you can autoconnect to a network if the laptop is in suspend mode and closed; correct me if I'm wrong though.
space_raptor wrote: space-raptors current pet peeve: people who merge onto roads while driving 20 km/h slower than the speed of traffic on that road. I leave plenty of room for those dumbasses to get in if they're merging into my lane, and I still have to hit the brakes, and if I'm behind them in the merge lane, they totally fuck up the flow of my merging plan.
People do that here, rather frequently, by turning right from the side street directly onto the entrance ramp and then trying to accelerate from 20 mph up to highway speed in the short distance they have left. Usually the ones who don't pay attention to the speed with which traffic is approaching.
They also do something similar here (annoyingly enough, the other end of the exact same side street) when turning onto or off of the side street from the major thoroughfare that just happens to have two relatively fast moving flows of traffic merging exactly where the intersection is. Getting through this one safely requires looking in at least three directions at once, and it's almost always when you're looking behind you at the stream of traffic that you're trying to merge with when someone decides to turn out directly in front of you from that side street or come to a very sudden stop trying to turn onto it. (This is a design that should be shown to budding traffic engineers as an example of What Not To Do. I know of entirely too many people who've been seriously injured or even killed in collisions at or near the exact center of that image.)
It should be noted that both of these problem intersections are in an area of a major city in Texas where most if not all of the drivers are severely lacking in basic driving skills, and are often driving one of two rather distinctive types of vehicles: 1) dilapidated quarter to half ton pickups that are so poorly maintained they actually pose a hazard of falling completely apart in a traffic lane, driven 20-30 mph under the speed limit by drivers who look rather unfamiliar with US roads, or 2) cheaply modified "tuner" lookalike cars driven by extremely aggressive kids whose favorite hobby seems to be either tailgating or lane splitting and who can be counted on to do the most unexpected thing possible in any situation, usually so abruptly that if you're not watching them to the exclusion of all else, you're likely to get hit when they (all too often) are a little short on situational awareness, shall we say ..
I should actually mention that I've actively considered the idea of wiring my vehicles for multiple covert video cameras and a multi-camera DVR, preferably with date/time imprint on the video, and emailing video of variously egregious driver behavior to the police from time to time. Most of the time I wouldn't bother, but there are times when I'd really like to be able to back up reports with some sort of record ..
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Postby TomKat » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:29 pm UTC
Wow it is like Randall is totally in my head I mean I was driving the other day and I was worried I'd killed some girl!
On a separate note, Randall isn't so hot with the car-drawing, huh?
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Postby SimonBob » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:55 pm UTC
Best date ever. Get out of my car, Randall.
Probably journalgirl dipped into the documents folder and spotted a calendar or reminder file saying, "Ann's Funeral: Saturday" or somesuch? Whenever I'm hacking into an unfamiliar system, the personal files are the first place I go, just to get some practical blackmail evidence if nothing else.
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Postby lmclapp68 » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:11 pm UTC
I actually started a website like this long ago, though I didn't do anything with it. It was called idiotdarts.com, after an idea from Gallagher. (I've since let the domain lapse.) On sober examination, I had some interesting privacy and safety concerns.
Imagine: Your husband beats you. You leave him. Somebody posts your license plate. He finds you and beats you some more and maybe kills you.
I couldn't figure out how to even begin to make it fair or safe. *shrug* Color me "conscientious".
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Postby RobinEJ » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:10 pm UTC
Radikalskippy wrote: I'm starting to get the feeling that this girl is our very own Elaine...
She can't be. "Journalgirl" and Elaine were seen ice-skating together, [url="http://xkcd.com/405/"]remember[/url]? So unless there is time-travelling involved, they can't be the same person.
If i'm wrong, you may kill me. Or better yet: you can kill Randall Munroe. You wouldn't kill him, right? Right?
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Postby Motoma » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:11 pm UTC
I saw this comic and it immediately reminded me of the CarWhisperer project. Just thought you might get a kick out of that...Anyway, funny stuff.
Postby sanitycheck » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:58 pm UTC
lihan161051 wrote:
Dobblesworth wrote: Yes, a much better message would be, "The Beast and his armies will rise from the pit to make war against God." Followed, after a short pause, by "Apologies. I said, 'There was an error accessing the POP server..'"
Now that one wouldn't get me at all; my immediate reaction would be "all right; who's the smartass?" The genius of Journal Girl's message is its vagueness.
In that sense it reminds me of the classic (and probably apocryphal) Victorian-era prank, attributed to Arther Conan Doyle among others: the perpetrator sends telegrams to dozens of perfect strangers, reading "All is revealed. Flee at once." According to legend, over half the recipients bolted from London, some of them never to be heard from again.
Wouldn't work today. "Hmm. That's slightly creepier than the last fifty spam messages." <DELETE>
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Postby Namaps » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:19 pm UTC
This completely makes up for the last entry in the Journal series, and more.
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Turiya wrote: Get out of my head, Randall (except in bed)--that's what SHE said!
Postby Green9090 » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:22 am UTC
Hey, this guy is slowing me down. Obviously the best course of action is to create a dangerous situation and risk hitting them if a kid runs into the road and they have to slam on their brakes.
Dumbass.
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Postby The Scyphozoa » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:33 am UTC
If this is BHM and Journal Girl, then why isn't it called "Journal 6"?
And what was more lucky than the shot in the dark was that he didn't change lanes before the voice synth had time to install....
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Postby phlip » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:40 am UTC
The Scyphozoa wrote: If this is BHM and Journal Girl, then why isn't it called "Journal 6"?
Because it has nothing to do with that arc, except for the characters?
Re tailgating: Whenever I'm tailgated, I'm always tempted to slow down even further... partly to reduce the risk of damage, should we crash, and partly out of spite.
There's a road at Dorrigo which is particularly bad to drive along... it's a really steep hill, so the road winds a lot, a blind turn about every 20-30 metres or so... one lane each way... definitely worth driving slowly on. One time we had a tailgater, who followed us for a while, and when we didn't speed up, they overtook us (by driving into the oncoming lane), while we were going around one of said blind turns. Madness.
Postby sanitycheck » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:45 am UTC
The Scyphozoa wrote: \And what was more lucky than the shot in the dark was that he didn't change lanes before the voice synth had time to install....
Don't forget that Journal Girl may have learned hacking from Elaine Roberts herself. When she says "Install voice synth", it's shorthand for "remind BHG and the readers that I've preemptively installed a whole suite of custom utilities on every device in the city, in case I ever feel like fucking with them."
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Postby Death Dragon » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:23 am UTC
Ugh, I HATE tailgaters. I'm only just learning how to drive, and having people directly behind me like that makes me nervous. I realize I may be going a little below the speed limit, but I'm still learning and it's very likely I'll have to hit the brakes fast. Besides, sometimes people tailgate me when I'm going exactly the speed limit. Where's the fire, buddy?
This comic made me LAUGH. Hysterically. For several minutes. It went straight into my "Favorite xkcd comics" file. I *really* want to do that now! I sometimes have my laptop out when I'm in the passenger seat, and to be able to screw with other people like that . . . My sadistic power-hungry side is coming out again.
Postby Namaps » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:42 am UTC
eXodus wrote: Yay! More BHW mind games! And if I may take a shot in the psychological dark of my own, is that the guy from Nightmares?
Until we receive word otherwise, I'm assuming this, because that's just orgasmically awesome.
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Eurasian Economic Union crumbling part 2
In a previous blog I wrote Putin's Customs Union currently comprising Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, is crumbling.
On Friday, at a Russian youth camp Putin declared: "Russians and Ukrainians are 'practically one people". [Implying, I suppose, that invading Ukraine and trampling over its sovereign rights is not really invading a foreign country at all.]
If there were any truth in this 'practically one people' remark, it could arguably apply to an even greater extent to Russians and Belarusians, so Putin's loose talk will certainly will cause great apprehension and anger in Minsk.
Putin's declaration that same day the Kazakhstan 'was never a state', has already elicited a reaction from that country's president Nursultan Nazarbayev. He has broadly hinted Kazakhstan may even withdraw from the Eurasian Union
"If the rules laid down in the agreement are not carried out, Kazakhstan has the right to give up the Eurasian Economic Union. I have said it before and I say it again," he said.
According to him, Kazakhstan will not be a part of any organization that poses a threat to its independence.
"Our independence is our most precious treasure for which our grandfathers fought," said the president of Kazakhstan. "Firstly, we will never surrender our independence and, secondly, we will do everything to protect it," - said Nazarbayev.
Taras Berezovets in 'Novoye Vremya' explains why Kazakhstan may be being lined up for same treatment as Eastern Ukraine in Putin's strategy to rearrange Russia's borders. About one quarter of Kazakhstan's population is Russian - they live predominantly in regions adjacent Russia. These regions were bolted on in 1936 when Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was formed from the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic that had existed from 1925 until 1936. [Similaries with Crimea?]
More on Putin's crass remarks and their major significance here
Will Minsk 2014 be Munich 1938?
Putin's Customs Union is crumbling
Interesting podcast on what awaits Russia
A wicked imported conflict [updated]
Collective madness against Ukraine [update 2]
Seeds of Merkel-led de-escalation plan?
Will Russia invade Ukraine?
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Forum Chevalmag > Le cheval et l'équitation > Senior > a hat trick to give Barcelona a 4-3 win at 10-man R
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a hat trick to give Barcelona a 4-3 win at 10-man R
MADRID - Lionel Messi scored a hat trick to give Barcelona a 4-3 win at 10-man Real Madrid in an electrifying and contentious "clasico" match that kept the three-way Spanish league title race wide open. The result means Atletico Madrid now tops the table, with Madrid level on points in second and Barcelona a point behind in third with nine games remaining as the title race shapes up to be the closest in years. In a game that saw three penalties, a red card and a host of missed chances, Andres Iniesta set the tone by rocketing home an early opener, only for Karim Benzemas brace to put the hosts ahead by the 24th. The teams went into the break level at 2-2 after Messi slotted in an equalizer, only for Cristiano Ronaldo to re-establish Madrids lead with a 55th-minute penalty. But Messi scored a pair of penalties after that — including the 65th-minute equalizer after Sergio Ramos was sent off — to end Madrids 31-game unbeaten run stretching back to the last "clasico" in October. 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Forum Chevalmag > En particulier > Polémique > Philadelphia Flyers
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Fresno Mindfulness Walks Big Ideas
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Board index » WingMakers » Dr. Neruda Interviews
Are there miracles in our day and time? Is LERM fact or fic
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Post subject: Are there miracles in our day and time? Is LERM fact or fic
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This is a topic that I think needs to be addressed for several reasons. Doubt and insecurity seems to be built into the human psyche, and we are in constant need of affirmations of a tangible nature to hedge up those engrained deficiencies that rob us of our divine nature. We need to know how to recognize miracles as they occur. We need to know how to acknowledge miracles and to proclaim their occurrence both to ourselves and to others. We need to know how to express our gratitude to God (First Source) for the overt display of miracles both for our own growth and maturation and as a means of “testimony” to others as evidence that we can still experience miracles in this day and time. As members of the WingMakers forums I believe that we have it within our power to actually change the course of history.
In the third interview Dr. Neruda commented about how DNA is modified by stimuli from the environment, and he stated that when “critical mass” was reached that modification could become a catalyst for change throughout a species:
[quote]” [b][color=blue]Dr. Neruda: "There are carrier circuits within the DNA that transmit traits and even forms of intelligence through a reality membrane that is sub-quantum. It's a tributary ingredient of the unification force that propagates new traits and understandings in the few to the many. It 's what enables the transmission of a new insight or potent trait across a spectrum of a species that resonates with the insight or trait, and it does it without physical interaction."[/color]
[color=red]Sarah: "You're saying that a single person could have an idea or trait that is deposited within their DNA, and then their DNA transmits this trait like a broadcast tower and everyone on the planet that's like them is effected?"[/color]
[color=blue]Dr. Neruda: "Let me clarify some things you said.
"First, it's not one person. [/color] [color=red] [u]It requires a critical mass of several hundred for a personality trait to transmit, and perhaps only ten or twenty to transmit a new concept or insight.[/color][/u] [color=blue]In any case, one person is not sufficient. This is not an exact science yet, even to the ACIO.
"Secondly, it's not transmitted like a broadcast tower. It's transmitted selectively to resonant DNA, and the effect it has isn't dependent on whether the recipient is like, or even similar to, the donor. It's dependent on the receptivity of their DNA. Some people open their DNA up to new innovations, others don't. This is the critical factor in whether the new trait or idea is successfully transmitted." [/quote][/b][/color]
[Edited on 6-11-2006 by Chakobsa8]
We, of the WingMakers forums, have it within our ability to transmit a new concept to the world that can herald a miraculous insurgence of Divine intervention with the stated purpose of preparing humankind for the transition of the earth and her inhabitants to a new harmonic dimension of existence. With our minds focused on the potential energy that is readily available to humankind, we can become the harbingers of a grand new age filled with enlightenment and joyous harmony.
Sarah made a comment in her interview with Dr. Neruda that states a condition that we all need to experience when she was discussing the technology of Light Encoded Reality Matrix in the second Neruda Interview:
[quote][b][color=red] “Sarah: "So now you're going to tell me you can turn water into wine?"[/color]
[color=blue]Dr. Neruda: "Actually I've never tried that before, but yes, all of the members of the Labyrinth Group can manifest physical objects from out of LERM. This was actually one of the outcomes of Fifteen's discovery. The process of orchestrating LERM and manifesting physical objects on demand."[/color]
[color=red]Sarah: "Okay, now you've definitely got my interest, but I'm feeling a little guilty because I swore I was going to stay on the subject of the WingMakers and the Ancient Arrow project. So tell me, can you teach me how to manifest things out of thin air?" [/color]
[color=blue]Dr. Neruda: "Yes, but it would take some time--probably a few weeks or so."[/color]
[color=red]Sarah: "Can you show me some examples of how you do it?"[/color]
[color=blue]Dr. Neruda: "How's this?"[/color]
[color=red]Sarah: "For purposes of those reading these transcripts. Dr. Neruda just made a ball of twine appear out of no where. He just made it disappear as well. Now it has reappeared again. This is incredible. He's not holding it, so it's not like a magician who's making this appear from his sleeve or from behind his hands somehow. It's quite literally appearing and disappearing on a table about three feet in front of him, which is about six feet away from me. I can see it all very clearly.
"I'm picking up the ball of string and it's definitely a physical object--not simply a mirage or--or hologram. It has all the normal properties--weight--texture--it's slightly warm to the touch, but in every other respect, it's exactly how I'd expect a ball of twine to feel.
"Can you make something else appear--something more complicated, like a million dollars in cash?" [/color]
[color=blue]Dr. Neruda: "Yes."[/color]
[color=red]Sarah: "Okay, let's see it."[/color]
[color=blue]Dr. Neruda: "You see this is the problem with these discoveries and capabilities. If I produced a million dollars in cash right now, you'd have a dilemma. What to do with a million dollars? Could you bear to see me make it disappear as easily as I make it appear?" [/color]
[color=red]Sarah: "Are you crazy? Since the first moment I met you, I've never believed in what you've said until now. And I'm not even saying I totally believe you even now, but I'm a hell of a lot closer. [/color][color=blue][u] I--no, people in general, need to see things with our eyes. We need to believe in what our eyes tell us because they -- of all the senses -- seem to have a fix on reality. [/color][/u][color=red] And you've finally shown me something that is tangible--that my eyes relate to. I'm just asking for one more confirmation of your abilities. I mean, a ball of string doesn't seem like such a huge deal--not that I'm not impressed. But if you could produce a million dollars in cash--now that's a huge deal."[/quote][/b][/color]
In future I would like to discuss my findings in regards to miracles and the subject of Light Encoded Reality Matrix as it relates to current scientific research and to personal experience. As always, I welcome your interaction and participation.
William Wooten, AKA Chakobsa8
Location: Huntington Beach, CA USA
Have you ever read A Course in Miracles? There is a mindset that allows miracles to manifest. I'll give you some quotes from it as I was just beginning to get back into the book and expand upon the scientific concepts I have read about regarding holographic universe, quantum physics, etc.
I'm seeing a lot of the same concepts from many different sources coming through. Sometimes its a really small peice of the puzzle and other times, chunks. I'll post more on this subject later.
Ajumaaree
Location: Texas, USA
LERM is fact and fiction, there is no dichotomy here. Thoughts create here, elsewhere, simultaneously and always.
Puy-yah-fek-cha He-thath Ah'tet
A-nin a-cha pah-kahs'
Cha-fe-ke o-fun un-ley-kahs
Um-oh' ha-tah-lic-yahs....
When we have "transcended the limitations of all self doubt and disbelief ",then maybe and only maybe are we ready to know and consciously do manifestation through LERM. Ponder the implications of that and the responsibility of such capabilities. Would you want your neighbour who dislikes you to have such power? Or anyone who isn't conscious of what that kind of power and ability entails?
[quote][i]Originally posted by Kimberlee[/i]
Kimberlee [/quote]
No, I haven't read the book, [b][u]A Course In Miracles [/b][/u], Kimberlee, but I look forward to your uptake on the book and the subjects involved. I believe that both the manifestation of miracles and the belief in the occurence of miracles does require a certain mindset as Dr. Neruda indicated when he told Sarah that IQ wasn't a factor in LERM so much as faith in the technology of LERM, which I think can be likened to miracles.
with love, William
[quote][i]Originally posted by Ajumaaree[/i]
LERM is fact and fiction, there is no dichotomy here. Thoughts create here, elsewhere, simultaneously and always. [/quote]
Interesting! Can you show me how LERM can be both fact and fiction? I realize that both terms contain an element of uncertainty depending upon who is telling the story, but for the purposes indicated here, I intend to follow the premise that LERM is indeed fact.
If I am understanding you correctly, you believe that fact exists right along side of fiction except perhaps in an alternate dimension. Are you fully aware of your supposition? Can you, and do you manifest miracles and utilize the LERM technology? I, too, believe in the existence of alternate dimensions, but I think that most people are thoroughly grounded in this three dimensional existence that I perceive us to be living in here on earth
[quote][i]Originally posted by Shayalana[/i]
When we have "transcended the limitations of all self doubt and disbelief ",then maybe and only maybe are we ready to know and consciously do manifestation through LERM. Ponder the implications of that and the responsibility of such capabilities. Would you want your neighbour who dislikes you to have such power? Or anyone who isn't conscious of what that kind of power and ability entails? [/quote]
Have you transcended the limitations of all self doubt and disbelief? Have you pondered the implications of manifesting through LERM? Would you want your neighbour who dislikes you to have the power of LERM? Are you being condescending to me as both your brother and your neighbor?
I will be the first to admit that I have many doubts when it comes to both the manifestation of miracles as described in Dictionary.com on the internet and in the concept of Light Encoded Reality Matrix (LERM)as it pertains to the creation of matter out of non-matter and non-time:
[quote][b][color=red]mir-a-cle; /mir-uh-kuhl/
1. an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
2. such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.
3. a wonder; marvel.
4. a wonderful or surpassing example of some quality: a miracle of modern acoustics.
5. miracle play.
[Origin: 1125 ce–1175 ce; Middle English miracle, miracul (< Old French miracle) < Latin miraculum, equiv. to mira(ri) to wonder at + -culum]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. [/quote][/b][/color]
As is sometimes the case when describing a somewhat nebulous or vague concept such as the word, miracle, connotates, the dictionary gives a broad description of currently accepted usages as well as historical usages. The historical usage of the word, miracle, was founded, I think, more on an event that was divinely engineered. The more current usage might be on an event that merely has attributes and qualities that transcend the norm by some unquantifiable degree.
I grew up in an environment related to my father's ministry in an organized church group, The First Assembly of God Church, and The Church of God Apolistic Faith (my grandfather, father, and uncle helped to organize the latter church), which readily believed in the occurence of miracles and which frequently sought to manifest said miracles.
Anything that was commonly and normally out of the reach of the resources immediately at hand could warrant the need of a miracle. For example, my father and many like him growing up in the 1930's in the United States were severely deprived and destitute, in ill health, and in constant need of "miracles" to normalize their otherwise meager existence.
A whole industry grew up around the request for and the supposed manifestation of miracles. Many verses in the [b][u]Holy Bible[/b][/u] contain references to "miraculous" events, and it was to those scriptures that various sects of religion found succor and even relief from their miseries.
My father actually believed in the laying on of hands and the prayer of "faith" to heal the sick and to deliver the alcoholic husband and father from drink and the provision of monetary gain to alleviate hunger and deprivation and to the miraculous doing and undoing of many and sundry things. Suffice it to say, that he (and I suppose I) witnessed enough miraculous occurrences to bolster our faith in divine intervention and justice. I still believe in miracles, but today I am much more skeptical of their happenstance and of those who purport to initiate miracles.
This is a very controversial subject and I expect many approaches to the subject of miracles and how they affect our lives today, if, indeed, they do affect our lives today. Many will say that miracles and consequently the whole idea of Light Encoded Reality Matrix (LERM) and all its connotations are dubious to say the least. I hope to bring out all sides of this issue, because I think it crucial to our personal growth and maturation as divinely created, sentient beings. More to follow---------------
Hi Chakobsa8,
When Jesus walked on water and turned water into wine and fed masses with 2 fish and a few loaves of bread - -
- those that believe it call it fact
- those that do not believe it call it fiction
- those that have seen it, may call it either one, depending on what they allow into their reality and which golden calf they worship (example below: moon landing, I've seen it, don't believe it anymore.)
The first moon landing - many say it was a hoax, many others say it is fact, I've seen it with my eyes on tv as a child, sitting on the livingroom floor with my parents - I believed it then.
Fact and fiction are human constructs to create dichotomy, this premise allows for either/or positions, the major tool to keep division going - it is not inclusive, it divides, just as Religion divides, spirituality includes. We have many of those 'fightin' words in our languages. Technologies today can create visuals of anything imaginable - once it is thought - it becomes reality, here or elsewhere out of our visual spectrum. You and I not seeing something does not nullify its fact-ual existance. Our range of perception is just now returning. Basically my premise is the antidote to sciences' major stance.
Science presumes that things exist when they can be reproduced under controlled and independent tests. If something fails to materialize or reproduce certain data under these conditions - science says - not fact, not true, no value to it for humanity/galaxy/cosmos.
I say: All exists already independent of my perceptional qualities and knowledge or acknowledgement. What filters into my perceptional range at this point on the time wheel is what my multiple selves have agreed to allow in - based on my cosmic script, which is known to my cosmic self, not my 3-d Gaia self.
The either/or premise creates and maintains dichotomy. Folks will not agree on what miracles are. My miracle may not be one for you and vice versa.
Fiction is fact - it exists, our worldwide mythologies are turning into realities as we speak.
Fact is fiction - it also exists, mental & physical constructs that are evaporating as we speak. Pooof.....
Am dizzy now...this is what came to me...I hope it aids understanding...gotta read it again myself... :D;)
"Have you transcended the limitations of all self doubt and disbelief? Have you pondered the implications of manifesting through LERM? Would you want your neighbour who dislikes you to have the power of LERM? Are you being condescending to me as both your brother and your neighbor? "
Why have you done this? Why have you twisted what I posted into something personal when its intent was not that at all? If you are such a brother and neighbor why have you read my post as if I am an enemy of yours when that is not what was posted? You need not answer I already feel it. There is no conversation here I care to engage in any longer.
Location: Athens / Greece
It could be both fact (in the sense that humans interact with the reality and shape it) and fiction in the "LERM tech that Labyrinth Group has found".
That's not to imply it's not a tech from a certain point of view. Just that it could be a story of something that humans haven't even reached scientifically..
Regarding forums and concepts... I was touching a similar issue recently in another forum. Putting a seed of a new concept and using a forum as a multiplier.. A multiplier that'll help spread a better idea into the species. I've even experimented with doing this in parallel and co-ordinated in various forums so as to create a mass effect...
I'm even observing various discussions that spring up in unrelated forums that tend to revolve around the same subjects, at around the same time. For example I had opened a thread in a local (greek) forum of using forums as catalysts of global thought, and now I'm seeing this
As for LERM, I think it's quite real and amazing.. But I think it comes in two forms.. One is the "whole reality rearrangement".. For example you might imagine that you have an orange in your hand.. and this will arrange the reality in such a way that someone will pick some oranges from somewhere and then open the door and tell you "want one?"
The second form is the "I create an orange" method.. Through force of will / belief / understanding of the mechanics / expectation etc you can instantly make what you want.
The second one is more amazing to our senses, yet involves far less.. It would seem more difficult because it requires "violating" our normal perception of reality.
The first one, is more amazing from a logical perspective with far reaching consequences. I mean if one can arrange the whole world so as to have the end result he desires, isn't this far better than making an fruit? Yet, it is easier because we can do it without violating our normal perception of reality. Everything falls into place to fit our reality vision, without any "sudden abnormalities" that we aren't accustomed to and that we do not normally expect. And since we don't expect them, they're more unlikely to happen (lack of belief/expectation).
These 2 are the main variants of LERM in my mind... Probably only differentiated by the level of belief we have. Otherwise, it could as well be the same LERM in both cases.
The single most important thing we can do is to practice the heart’s intelligence in our everyday, moment-to-moment expressions.
[quote][i]Originally posted by Alex[/i]
These 2 are the main variants of LERM in my mind... Probably only differentiated by the level of belief we have. Otherwise, it could as well be the same LERM in both cases. [/quote]
Nice examples Alex. And yes, I would agree that the level of belief/faith would differentiate the results.
When we get our head out of the way and have faith like a child, miracles are more likely to occur. And as you see these confirmations, your faith grows even stronger. Miracles begin to have less of a "wow" impact and become more of the norm as you simply trust in their Source and give thanks. I call this being in a state of gratitude.
I've experience many miracles. Most of the time, I keep them to myself until coming accross an appropriate time to share them.
Jesus knew his connection to Source in a deeply intimate way and said that we could do as he did and more.
.....it's quite an art actually Kimberlee, isn't it?!
When do you share a "miracle"?
I've had times when something [i]really[/i] "miraculous" has happened, and like a kid who just [i]has [/i]to tell every one, I have made quite a fool of myself (it's a hard knock life.....ouch!).
So, nowadays, I tend, like you, to "keep them to myself until coming accross an appropriate time to share them".
To address what Will has brought up in the title of this thread, [b]"Are there miracles in our day and time? Is LERM fact or fiction?"[/b]", first of all, I feel it is important to look at what constitutes a "miracle".
Well, to me, [b]every[/b] passing moment, is, in, and of itself, a miracle.
I reckon Alex has already given a great definition of how LERM "works" on the [b]micro[/b] and [b]macro[/b] levels, although to give a full definition would be rather difficult to convey in a conventional way; from my experience, manifesting organic and inorganic objects instaneously has occurred.....but at the time, it "just happened"!
In other words, I did not [i]consciously[/i] attempt to make it happen.
My feeling is that LERM, is in fact, a facility we all possess.
As the wholeness navigator does ITS job;), and we, individually [i]realise [/i]that this is in fact our bridge to First Source, fluid intelligence kicks in, and the ability to [b]consciously co create [/b]becomes an exciting, mysterious, experimental and "new" challenge.....I say "new" because it is some thing I feel is new to me using the tools of this dense physical world, compared to the tools I have experienced in another, less dense world.
Linking LERM with BST is appropriate here also I feel.....again, from personal experience, BST is another facility we all possess.
So, if you combine LERM with BST unconsciously, you could say that is where the majority of humanity is currently at; however if you combine these two "technologies" consciously, I feel that is when an individual has truly found the "freedom key".
Will, to me, miracles definitely do happen in our day and time.....and.....er.....LERM is fact!:)
Understanding of the following may help.....
"There are six main schools of thought on Tattvic philosophy. The original Tattva system was developed by the Indian Maharshi Kapila as part of his Samkhya philosophy. This was about 700BCE, but the roots of Tattvic philosophy go back to at least 2000BCE. Kapila's Samkhya philosophy system divides the universe into five basic Tattvic shapes, which when countercharged become 25 Tattvas.
The word Tattva is comprised of two words, Tat (meaning that) and Tvam (meaning thou). Tattva basicially means thatness, that is, the real being of anything. It is generally translated as meaning quality. Further, Tat represents the Godhead and Tvam the individual, giving a meaning (which fits in well with Hermetic Philosophy) of "That (which is the Universe) art thou." This is similar to the Hermetic axiom of "As above, so below", and is directly related to the concepts of the [b]Macrocosm[/b] (Tat, Godhead) and [b]Microcosm[/b] (Tvam, individual)."
Heap big love to you Mr. Wooten:D
[Edited on 10-11-2006 by Russell]
Am dizzy now...this is what came to me...I hope it aids understanding...gotta read it again myself... :D;) [/quote]
You are obviously someone who has given the subject of miracles a great deal of thought. I totally agree with everything you have written here, and I hope that you will continue to add your ideas and interpretations to this discussion.
This is an exciting subject to me, because it has the potential of arousing the divine in each of us simply by turning non-matter, non-space, and non-time into something tangible and quantifiable. Believe me when I say that I am more often a skeptic who has a tendency to require physical evidence within my reach in order to fortify my faith in the existence of worlds and powers not readily visible and tangible to our five senses. Thank you!
I, too, have "fleeced" the hand of God on many occasions and have born witness to what I would consider miraculous occurrences. For me, the need for and consequent test for "proof" was brought about by deep feelings of insecurity and abandonment as regards to our divine connection.
That's just me, though, and that is probably why I wanted to bring this subject up again....I need to know what other people with whom I feel a strong connection with have exposed themselves to the Wingmaker material and have felt and witnessed as a definitive form of reality what many people would consider science fiction.
I agree that there are at least two variants of LERM and that was mentioned in the narrative between Dr. Neruda and Sarah. One type of LERM is viewed as a technology of scientific understanding based upon quantum reality membranes and how they "vibrate" and change form into matter. The other type of LERM is that which is produced through arcane wisdom and the understanding of occult fields of endeavor such as was practiced by Jesus Christ et al.
As Russell stated in his comment, sometimes miracles occur spontaneously and sometimes they occur directly and willfully as a result of the specific mechanisms involved in turning non-space, non-time, and non-matter or quantum objects and consciousness membranes into physical reality. I concur that LERM is made evident depending on the situation and the degree of faith and understanding of the mechanics involved.
It is my desire to explore every avenue of this subject, so that anyone who reads not only the discussions in the various forums but in the entire WingMaker saga can be uplifted and transformed into a more faithful recipient of the abundance and glory that is readily available to any and all of First Source's creation. Thank you, Alex, for sharing your wisdom and understanding of this complex subject.
[quote][i]Originally posted by Russell[/i]
Heap big love to you, too, Keemosabee!
I would enjoy and benefit greatly if all of you who have experienced what you would consider a miracle to come forward with that/those experience(s). I think that we are all mature enough to react and respond with dignity and love.
I, too, believe that we all experience the innate ability to utilize Light-Encoded Reality Matrix and to manifest miracles. The individuals who have performed miracles at will, such as Jesus Christ, Lucifer, et al, knew without a doubt that they had that ability. Too much has been said about the "moral" or "immoral" traits of those individuals. Suffice it to say that they [b][u][color=red]KNEW[/b][/u][/color] of the power that they possessed and were not afraid or embarrased to use it at will.
According to the dictionary definition of "miracle" the meaning has more or less evolved over the years from something intimately connected to the Divine to something engineered by the ingenuity and resourcefulness of perhaps divinely inspired men and women. I suppose that my feeling and experience involving miracles falls somewhere in between those parameters (that's a pretty safe stance anyway).
The following statement pretty much sums up my feelings about and intent in continuing this discussion on Miracles and LERM.
[quote][b] "The primary function of miracles is not to shock the senses, but to bring revelation---to grant us a glimpse of the divine and, through that glimpse, the opportunity to be transformed." [/b] [/quote] Paul Tillich, Protestant theologian.
As the dictionary attempts to explain to us, the primary definition of a miracle is related to something extraordinary, something far beyond the normal course of events in ordinary life, something inspiring perhaps and amazing certainly. But the occurrence is not only amazing but also divine in nature. It includes the intervention of a force outside what we regard as day-to-day activity. When it occurs, a miracle astonishes us.
That definition transcends hiperbole such as "It was a miracle that he passed his exams! He didn't even study for them." It transcends the mundane in that the performance of a miracle or the witnessing of a miracle inspires a belief in and a faith in divine intervention and a divine connection that we all can have. It is akin to witnessing synchronicity in that the miraculous event is so profound as to awaken our senses to a world not readily observable.
A miracle is, in the words of St Thomas Aquinas "apart from the generally established order of things." It is so much apart, in fact, that it stops us in our tracks, wakes us up from our sleep, shocks us out of our tendency to function on automatic pilot as we go through the routines of our day. To quote St. Thomas Aquinas again, referring to the Latin root of the word, these events "are customarily called miracles, for we admire with some astonishment a certain event when we observe the effect but do not know the cause."
[Edited on 10-11-2006 by Chakobsa8]
IT can be so simple when viewed from an open heart and mind. And, I like that this science what is called LERM here is not something unattainable because of how some have led others to believe it is, religion in particular. Given the science of it, it can be done and is, this is wonderful news for everyone.
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Thank you Shayalana, and, yes this science called LERM is attainable perhaps not to the point where we can make thousands of dollars or pounds appear at will without a lot more information than we currently have but certainly enough to arouse our faith in the viability of First Source.
The impossibility of miracles has been a particularly troublesome feature of our history not only to scientists but to philosophers and theologians as well. In the first place, we don’t like it when things go against our understanding of the way things work. The unpredictability implied by such events as miracles makes us feel unsteady on our feet. Besides, the notion that the Creator would interfere with the laws of His own creation is unsettling. It might suggest that the creation wasn’t put together properly in the first place, and so it needs some fine adjustments, or it might indicate that our Creator might be suffering from some whimsical need to exhibit both to the lesser gods and man that He is TOP DOG.
For the most part, the concept of miracles originated within the confines of the church or at least by those who believed in a higher order than exists with man and the beasts. Because the Catholic Church has dominated organized Christianity, it has also appointed itself the definer of the indefinable. In other words, the Catholic Church has for hundreds of years determined what exactly constitutes a miracle. It is to that purpose that they have even appointed what they call the Devil’s Advocate to determine if and when a true miracle occurred or is occurring. But, just because someone has been assigned the dubious task of defining what exactly is a miracle it doesn’t mean that that is total agreement within the confines of the Church by any means.
St. Augustine, for example, attempted to come to terms with the premise that miracles are not contrary to the laws of nature, but rather our understanding of them. By that, it would appear that he would agree with both the Christian Scientists of today, who state that a miracle is a divinely natural occurrence that must be learned humanly, and those who would define a miracle as an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention into human affairs. His statement reveals the profound influence the ancient Greeks had on his thinking and, indeed, on the thinking of many of the early Christians including Jesus Christ himself. His idea of what constituted a miracle did not, however, become dogma for the later Roman Catholic Church.
Essentially, the operative definition of miracles according to the Roman Catholic Church has remained unchanged since it was written by Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758) in his treatise, [b][i] De Miraculus. [/b][/i] By his time in history countless miraculous abilities had been demonstrated by saints, and countless healings brought about by contact with the relics of saints and martyrs, or in response to prayers addressed to them. I will leave it up to others here in this forum, such as Russell, who know more about Eastern religion and philosophy to comment on what has occurred in the religious sects of that part of the world.
Any definitive statement on miracles by the Catholic Church had to take into account all these wonders, and so Pope Benedict allowed that miracle working was not always a direct act of God but could be delegated by him to angels and even to very pious men and women. From the revelations presented within the Neruda Interviews, we have learned that it is with the Fallen angels that Lucifer affiliates himself. Of course we know that Lucifer and his minions also possess the ability to perform miracles, and to that form of occurrence the label of “Black Magic” has been placed. There is often a fine line drawn between Black Magic and “White” miracles as is evident in some of the so-called attributes that present-day religious healers and prognosticators purport to.
Various sects of Christianity might disagree about the miraculousness of a given event, but when they do they are really disagreeing about the definition of God not the definition of the miraculous. The Pope believes in a Catholic God who conveys his will through the Councils of the Church. Those Councils have shaped Roman Catholic doctrine over the centuries and have declared that speaking in tongues, for example, is not generally something God uses as a “sign” or a miraculous occurrence.
Some Pentecostal Christians, on the other hand, not only believe in speaking in unknown tongues as a manifestation of the Spirit but also such things as being protected from poisons from snakes and other poisonous substances, being protected from violent storms and other violent phenomenon, in the laying on of hands for healing from all manner of illness, and from being possessed of evil spirits.
(Before it was known that epilepsy was a naturally occurring illness, those who exhibited the signs of epilepsy, dementia, and alzheimers were thought to be possessed by Lucifer).
Some Pentecostals also believe that the miracles spoken of in both the Old Testaments and New Testaments of the [b][u]Holy Bible[/b][/u] actually happened and can and do happen even today. Both the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church believe that miracles are a “sign” of God’s presence and ability to transform our lives in ways unknown to our philosophers, religious leaders, and scientists.
Thus, we arrive at the core of the definition of miracles, which is that they must have some significance that can be identified as “Divine”. In fact, the word used in John’s Gospel in the New Testament of the [b][u]Holy Bible[/b][/u] to describe the miracles of Jesus was the Greek, [b][i]semeion[/b][/i], meaning “sign”. Miracles are not just [b][i]thauma[/b][/i], "wonders that might be produced by any magician", but signs intended to convey a divine message through a concrete demonstration that those present are able to witness firsthand the working of the Hand of Almighty God (First Source).
While we are on the subject of miracles as they are described in the [b][u]Holy Bible[/b][/u] there is another interesting postulate that has gained favor amongst certain academia’s who are studying Middle Eastern and North African literature of the period. Dr. Barbara Thiering from Australia introduced to the public in 1990 an innovative view concerning the text and sub-text of the four Gospels of the [b][i]New Testament[/b][/i]. Following years of study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and gnostic literature found at Nag Hammadi found in Upper Egypt in 1945 and the Clementine Recognitions and Homilies of the historical Jesus, Dr. Thiering showed that Jesus was a real man struggling against the background of the political and religious upheaval of first century BC and first century AD Palestine. He (Jesus) was most likely of the Essene sect of Jews and was not an isolated and contemplative figure but one fully embroiled in the turmoil of his time.
Before 1990, Dr. Theiring, an academic working at the University of Sydney, Australia, had presented her theories in academic journals and in three books complete with scholarly arguments. She discovered that there was an underlying meaning radically different, which was an actual chronicle of events traced through a literary device called the pesher technique. The pesher technique was adapted from [b][i]Old Testament[/b][/i] interpretations characteristic of the scribes at Qumran adjacent to where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. So, in other words, the written words and phrases found in portions of the [b][u]Holy Bible[/b][/u] had at least two different meanings--one directed to the casual reader and one directed at an elite and secret audience intent upon spreading revolutionary and otherwise unpublish doctrine throughout Western Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.
To make a long and difficult story short, Dr. Thiering postulated that descriptions such as those of [b][i]miraculous happenings and undertakings were not necessarily factual in the true sense of the word[/b][/i], but, were, instead, coded words and phrases meant to pass on occult information to those in the know and the need to know. For a more comprehensive description of Dr. Thiering’s work see [b][u]Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls [/b][/u]by her. It puts the whole [b][u]Bible[/b][/u] and especially the [b][i]New Testament[/b][/i] in a completely different light than we were brought up to believe in modern Christianity.
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http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/
The "Live Guide"
http://forums.melodicrock.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=52618
by Michigan Girl
Deb wrote:
Gideon wrote:
Michigan Girl wrote:
annie89509 wrote: I collected tons of SP/Journey concert boots, and I think the concensus among long-time fans is Sweet&Simple never got on the setlist, and no SP performance on WCTNGOF, either .
I asked about this some time ago. I personally did not hear it live, but always wondered
if it was ever played, since this is one of my top two songs ...WYLAW, no also!!
AP does a fantastic job on many of the classics, but I'm glad I never heard
either one of these from his lips!!
Arnel has done WYLAW.
So has JSS, in Virginia. Excellent job! It was on youtube? Can't find it now, thought it was maybe Donna or Ed that put it up, where did it go???
You looked for this once before, for me ...let's find this thing!!
by lights1961
PRECIOUS TIME LIVE was awesome in MSP 2004...I about had a heart attack!! I think I heard open the door once or twice too... in early 2004 or 2006?
and am I the only one that actually likes hearing back talk? something edgy about that song... LOL..
and yes CHAIN REACTION is one of those great guitar songs especially live..
GREAT POST..
by kgdjpubs
lights1961 wrote: and am I the only one that actually likes hearing back talk?
by AR
I have the JSS clip from of WYLAO from his final show with Journey. Excellent quality - about 1:40 of the song. Sending it to youtube now. Should be able to link it soon - might be in the morning.
STORY_TELLER wrote: WOW that's crazy. Nicely done. (*Once it's finalized as being 100% accurate,) this should be a sticky.
I agree...marvellous!
Ok, keep adding to this and maybe we can do a Journey Touring book....published by MR
WykkedSensation wrote:
Ehwmatt wrote:
kgdjpubs wrote: all done by lead singer at the time unless noted. Corrections welcomed.
Still She Cries - 2001 occasionally
Still she cries and Easy to fall have never been performed live.
A quick youtube search yielded nothing, but for some reason, I thought I've heard Augeri doing Still She Cries on YT at one point.
Never played, but would like to hear it at some stage with Deen singing it though.
I'll have to go through the stuff. I'm almost positive Still She Cries was done a few times, and I tend to remember the youtube thing also. Less convinced on Easy to Fall. Journey was notorious on the Arrival tour for playing a song once or twice and then dropping it never to be seen again.
by tater1977
While listening to a YT of Still She Cries..I read a few comments..but had to LOL at this one
trying to remember ..when this history was written or lol re-written...?
@TombstoneInc I have that DVD and I see no lip syncing. Not to say Arnel is a 'better singer' or anything. And Perry did lip sync. The Frontiers tour, they were playing literally every day for over 2 years, sometimes more than 2 shows a night. Perry's voice sounds like it does now because of that, he admitted to lip syncing because he had to, he said he wanted nothing to do with it but 'the show had to go on'.
t3hPoundcake 8 hours ago
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:31 pm
tater1977 wrote: Perry's voice sounds like it does now because of that, he admitted to lip syncing because he had to, he said he wanted nothing to do with it but 'the show had to go on'.:
WTF? Where'd he say such a thing?
Same thing I would like to know..Seems some like to "rewrite"..history in their own minds...
Journey - Still She Cries
http://youtu.be/EfeZ8wSvuj0
tater1977 wrote: While listening to a YT of Still She Cries..I read a few comments..but had to LOL at this one
The guy is full of shit. They did not play the schedule he is suggesting. The Frontiers tour did not last two years, number one, and I've never seen a tour schedule that detailed them playing two or more sets a night.
by JRNYMAN
tater1977 wrote: Journey - Still She Cries
If I could choose 1 song from TBF to hear them play live w/ Perry it'd be that one. Killer song from start to finish.
By request from Deb:
WYLAW from JSS's final night in Journey (partial clip - good quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGE3wNjNE4k
AR wrote: By request from Deb:
Thanks for posting that. I'd never heard him sing that one. JSS does a phenomenal job on the later stuff - let me clarify that... IMHO, he kicked butt on pretty much everything I've heard him sing from J's catalog but for some reason, he's really able to replicate SP's voice and intonation nearly perfectly on the later songs.
They should have done an album and a tour with Soto. There is not a better frontman.
by Deb
Thanks a bunch, Ed. Now that's the delivery I be talkin 'bout, Michie! Great stuff!
I'm with ya Rick. Wish we could have heard a JSS fronted J album. Damn fools. Actually I can't be hatin' on them much, they DID introduce me to 2 of my 3 all-time favorite vocalists. That R&B/soul influenced delivery isn't something ya can learn, it's organic, ya either got it or you don't.
Found one from Atlantic City soundcheck 2006. JSS doing "After The Fall"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiTK6VSLJFs
Sorry it's only a minute or so.
by FormerJrnyFan
AR wrote: Found one from Atlantic City soundcheck 2006. JSS doing "After The Fall"
I'd take JSS for a minute or so.............
Thanks for the clip, AR .........
Requesting an unstickey for this thread. I hate stickey's. You can keep the other one if you want, as it deals with posting etiquette, or some shit like that. I would prefer it gone too though, because I hate stickey's!
by portland
Rick wrote: Requesting an unstickey for this thread. I hate stickey's. You can keep the other one if you want, as it deals with posting etiquette, or some shit like that. I would prefer it gone too though, because I hate stickey's!
portland wrote:
I guess so. Bored, aggravated and just felt like being a nuisance.
by stevew2
It was fun for awile ,except for Friga trying to play that fuckin harmanica..I ve always liked Auguiri singing Only The Young from 2001 to 2004 {I think} Dean always nail Mother Father everytime.i remember how Deano loved "Butterfly" lol .I miss that rascal
Re: The "Live Guide"
by No Surprize
I'm posting this here since it's a "Live Dvd". Thought some would like to know. How come Aerosmith doesn't have it's own thread here?
In March 2011, Japan was beset by a huge earthquake, a monstrous tsunami and the subsequent meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant. In the autumn of 2011, despite advice to the contrary, AEROSMITH brought their "Back On The Road" tour to Japan, a country with which they'd always had a special relationship. The Japanese fans came out in their droves and AEROSMITH responded with some of the finest gigs of their distinguished career.
"Rock For The Rising Sun" follows the band on that tour combining full-length live tracks with behind-the-scenes footage which is at times touching and emotional and at others humorous and insightful. More than anything else it demonstrates the Japanese fans' love affair with AEROSMITH and their music.
"Rock For The Rising Sun" was directed by Casey Patrick Tebo, and combines live performance material with behind-the-scenes footage that shows the nation coping with the destruction. The movie is due for release on DVD and Blu-ray on July 22 via Eagle Rock Entertainment.
"I have never seen any band I've ever worked for be revered like this band was by the Japanese people," Tebo told BostonHerald.com in a recent interview. "They're bigger than THE [ROLLING] STONES, bigger than THE BEATLES. They're very special over there."
Tebo told BostonHerald.com that he filmed all of the band's shows but didn't set out to make a documentary. But when he saw the footage, he knew he had a great concert film.
"The band didn't even know," he said. "So when it was finished, I rented a theater in L.A. and showed it to them. When the movie was done, [AEROSMITH guitarist] Joe [Perry] stood up and gave me a hug and started crying. It was a pretty ?cathartic thing."
"Rock For The Rising Sun" track listing:
01. Draw The Line
03. Livin' On The Edge
04. Hangman Jury
05. No More No More
06. Mama Kin
07. Monkey On My Back
08. Toys In The Attic
10. Boogie Man
11. Rats In The Cellar
12. Movin' Out
13. Last Child
14. S.O.S. (Too Bad)
15. Walk This Way
16. Train Kept A Rollin' (credits)
by RockInDetroit
Surprised how many songs got played live at some point. Did someone calculate the percentage? It seems every show I have seen has been a greatest hits show.
by MysteryMountain
Pelata wrote:
Chain Reaction: Opened up 83 shows.
This was the encore when I saw them on the "Vacation's Over" tour in 1998 w/ Augeri.
From 2005 with Augeri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_WYlmkS4g
by WalrusOct9
Went down a Youtube rabbit hole again. Oh man, this at 2:15 when the lead vocal tape goes out. Ooooops. Then at 2:28 he clearly gives a look to the monitor guy, I guess to get an okay that it was working again and would come in on the next line?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8L74vWNv5k
by HydraRed
Main post has been UPDATED! Thanks for everyone who helped out (too many names to list, but if you posted here, you helped!)
Only took me 6 years, kept telling myself to do it, and then I had the day off from class so it worked out perfectly.
If anyone has updates on Eclipse songs or anything from the recent tour(s), please let me know!
by Memorex
HydraRed wrote: Main post has been UPDATED! Thanks for everyone who helped out (too many names to list, but if you posted here, you helped!)
They just played all of Escape and Frontiers and others (i.e. La Raza...) this week in Japan.
by jestor92
I have a bootleg i think it's from the Escape tour in Japan where they performed one of the songs off Dream After Dream
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Re: Traces
by brywool » Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:07 am
Strange Medicine was also introspective, dark, and moody. However, those songs were interspersed with some upbeat rockers as well. "Sun Shines Gray" is a good palette cleanser coming after a ballad. Album needed a few more of those. Regarding the Street Talk sound....Angel Eyes is as motown-y as it gets.
Angel Eyes sounds like it could've been an older track, maybe recorded years ago. Just sounds different from the rest of the album.
NO. He's NOT Steve F'ing Perry. But he's Arnel F'ing Pineda and I'm okay with that.
brywool
by shaneslatts » Sat Oct 13, 2018 6:17 am
shaneslatts wrote: I've listened to this Album several times now.
I don't know how else to say this but I think a lot of "us" were expecting a Journey sound or even a Street Talk sound.
I played the first release, "No Eracin" for a friend at work on my crappy old Galaxy S3, and soon as Perry started singing, her eyes lit up and she said "wow...that VOICE"
This IS a moody Album, and I think much of it deals not only with Loss but with survivorship. I had stage 4 throat cancer 6 years ago, and by Gods grace, I'm still here...
My friend and older "brother" ( a brother to me) was diagnosed the same week and passed three years ago.
A Bronze Star with Valor, Two Purple hearts from the Nam War.
After surviving, I went through a deep sense of guilt that I survived, and he didn't.
As a survivor, much of this Album reflects that to me....
( We're still here, October in New York, and others).
What I'm saying is I Expected a moody album, and alot of it brought me to tears.
It was also very therapeutic for me as well.
It kind of reinforced the idea in me that it's OK to hurt, feel loss and feel even a little guilty that I'm here, and my friend, my brother ISN'T.
I would think Steve understands all that as well, as he's also a survivor.
All of that, those feelings are reflected in this Album.
I truly love it.
I'm hoping that if he decides to release another Album, it's lighter and yes, with more up beat material.
I know this will never happen, but if Schon chills out, he could contribute that more upbeat rock sound.
Kind of sad really, because they bounced off each other well.
I can dream, lol.
shaneslatts
by JourneyHard » Sat Oct 13, 2018 8:30 am
I stand corrected. I got the feeling from the message board that people didn't like Traces. Maybe they just want more rockers. But on Steve Perry's other solo albums, he didn't really have rockers in the way Journey did. On Street Talk, there was Strung Out. That is not a really big rocker like Escape or Edge of the Blade. On For The Love Of Strange Medicine, there were many songs with electric guitar solos, but I wouldn't call any of them a big rocker like Chain Reaction or Dead or Alive. In Steve Perry solo album world, No Erasin' is a rocker. I bet Perry considers half the album to be rockers. But they aren't rockers in the sense of Journey, but only in Steve Perry solo album sense of the word rocker.
Also, even if Perry was going to rejoin Journey, he would NOT say it now. He is all about Traces right now. In two years, there could be something. Probably not. But who knows? I didn't think Perry would ever come back in any way at all. So this is all a bonus.
by slucero » Sat Oct 13, 2018 1:16 pm
Pacfanweb wrote:
Sounds to me like he's already made up his mind. He's just not telling us about it yet.
That's why in my original message I said..
"BUT what if Perry has already put the kibosh on touring and they entered into the relationship knowing this. It would explain why Perry is so vague on touring."
IMHO him saying he's gonna tour is just lip service... which, to be honest, looking at his historical communications, isn't new for him...
by Shadowsong » Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:40 am
I've fallen & I can't get up!!!!
So I'm here to share in the PARTY!!!!
~Shadow~
There is a seed within called hope
Waiting for the chance to grow
There's forever flowing from your soul
Waiting for the spirit to be flown
Shadowsong
Location: ~Looking through the Eyes of Forever~
by youkeepmewaiting » Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:40 pm
Ok so now that the pressure of really wanting to love it has passed ... I love it
youkeepmewaiting
Location: Liverpool, England
by The_Noble_Cause » Sun Oct 14, 2018 9:31 pm
JourneyHard wrote: On Street Talk, there was Strung Out.
There's alot more variety and up tempo songs on Street Talk. "I Believe", "You Should Be Happy", "It's Only Love" etc.For Traces, we have "Sun Shines Gray" and "Easy to Love." That's it. I've lived with the album for a few weeks now. Overall? While I respect the tracks individually, the album is sequenced quite horribly. It's a downer. It's a buzzkill.
Let's be honest, Traces makes Perry Como look like Metallica.
by Shadowsong » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:19 am
Nothing wrong with the classics like Tony Bennett & Perry Como...oooh translated meaning Perry How or Perry Trick
Rod Stewart did some lounge acts...Steve Perry has the chops for it! I've heard it & imho that's what he should have done.
Steve looks great but he is 69 & I really don't want to see him doing AC DC.
I'm guessing no label would touch a classic Steve Perry album as it diverges to far from his home base reputation of Journey.
Still I think Steve Perry can stand/sing on his own. He is more rooted in the motown era R&B than the likes of Perry Como & I'm sure this is how he wanted it to sound. These are the songs that came from his heart & said what he wanted to say.
Don't think he was sitting down writing thinking of the Noble Cause & what he would like!
by JourneyHard » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:58 am
That's true. Like you said before, Angel Eyes is upbeat song. I don't think any current radio format would play Angel Eyes, but it could be a hit. It is upbeat and you can just repeat the line Steve sings. It is like you are doing a duet with Steve Perry!
I guess I have to hear Steve Perry's Angel Eyes...but for now all that comes to mind is one of my fav Steel Hearts...
"I'll Never Let You Go"!
Now those are some serious highs!!!
This one turns me inside out...I'm sorry but this is where Angel Eyes need to gaze...sighs
Takes my breath away...
A voice that soars above the heavens & gives me angels wings!!!!
https://youtu.be/NRSHmyK9o-k
Timeless love for there was no time for the woes of time
& all the circumstance to tear it down.
Love held high above in a special place.
Life focuses on what really matters as time is of the essence.
There's no time to get tired of each other's flaws or fall out of love.
The fire burns bright til the end...
Perfect love in love with all of the imperfections...
No one else can ever hold a candle to light that place
For the ones left behind...
Cried a river til exhausted I fell into the water & the tears swept over me washing me out to sea.
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by JourneyHard » Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:37 am
I am bored. So, here is a possible Steve Perry solo concert set list:
1. Separate Ways
2. Any Way You Want It
3. One More
5. When I Think Of You
6. Stone In Love
7. You Better Wait
8. No Erasin'
9. We're Still Here
10. No More Cryin'
11. Sun Shines Gray
12. Angel Eyes
13. Wheel In The Sky
14. Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin
15. Who's Cryin' Now
16. Faithfully
17. Can't Tame The Lion!
18. Oh Sherrie
19. Don't Stop Believin'
By playing deep cuts from Trial By Fire and his solo stuff, it keeps the set fresh.
by Archetype » Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:19 am
Sitting in a restaurant right now. No More Cryin’ is on the radio.
by scarab » Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:50 am
after 8 weeks No Erasin' hasn't budged from the low 20's. At 24 now. peaked at 20.
by Shadowsong » Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:34 am
Its been a long time comin...A change is gonna come!
I don't think this should be measured on the charts but in the hearts//!!!!
We know!!!
by jrny84 » Thu Oct 18, 2018 8:33 am
scarab wrote: after 8 weeks No Erasin' hasn't budged from the low 20's. At 24 now. peaked at 20.
9 weeks now and when up to #23
Traces Chart Positions 10/20/18
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm
Billboard Albums 200 Chart
Scottish Albums Chart
Oricon Japanese Albums Chart
Swiss Albums Chart
Canadian Albums Chart
UK Album Charts
German Album Charts
Austrian Album Charts
Belgian Album Charts
jrny84
Location: Michigan/Florida
by slucero » Thu Oct 18, 2018 3:21 pm
More Perry on not touring...
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... es-737177/
10. If he does tour, expect to hear a lot of Journey songs.
“I don’t know if a tour will happen,” he says. “Right now it’s premature to even guess.
But there would be no way in the world I’d go out there and not sing Journey music too. It would be solo and Journey together. But those songs are vocally challenging. They’re challenging for Arnel and everyone else. They’re not easy. They were challenging for me when I wrote the damn melodies, but back then I was young and in my olympic singer mode. [Barbra] Streisand lowers the keys when she does her old songs. There’s nothing wrong with lowering a key We’re not spring chickens.”
1. The album is OUT.
2. He is actively promoting it.
That he "doesn’t know if a tour will happen", and thinks that “Right now it’s premature to even guess." are clear indicators that one isn't even PLANNED. In the normal course of album releases, the tour these days is pretty much the only way an artist/label makes any money.
Perry obviously doesn't need the money.. so touring for him is more an option than a necessity.
I'm betting no tour.
by The_Noble_Cause » Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:23 am
Hard to second guess him when so many of us also wrote off the possibility of new music. That said, I agree. The fact that he's not even performing while promoting the cd is a clue.
by Eric » Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:44 am
This is the sort of BS that drives me nuts:
his new comeback album that he spent the last five years recording in such secrecy that he made everyone on his team sign strict NDAs.
by jrny84 » Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:47 am
slucero wrote: More Perry on not touring...
I'm kind of getting that vibe myself. I want to be positive, as I honestly never thought he would do new music again. However, its really odd that he's not performing any new music on talk shows, late night shows, or even his appearance on GMA. Everything has been strictly interviews. I don't recall the last time I remember an artist promoting an album who doesn't perform one of the new singles on TV.
What a shit article. Makes it sound like the band only started touring again to capitalize on DSB-mania. They had been touring since 1998!
"[Perry] refused to emerge from hiding in any way, allowing his former bandmates to reap the hefty rewards by playing about 70 shows a year with a soundalike they plucked from YouTube."
by shaneslatts » Fri Oct 19, 2018 2:29 am
jrny84 wrote:
The thing with this guy is you just never know.
Most of us here gave up on any hope of ever seeing him sing live, ever, including me.
One night in 2014 we're sitting here and someone puts up a fair quality cell phone video of Perry singing in of all places Minneapolis.
Then a few more encores over a couple of weeks, then nothing.
Then he's saying he's "working on an album".
Most of us here said "yeah right".
Then one night "I know it's been a long time comin, since I saw your face" scrolls by on a Twitter Post.
I think he will do a "tour", when he's ready.
I think it will be what a 70 year old Perry can handle, and I don't think it will be far off.
I bet he's got places lined up in the event he decides to tour, like say in a few months.
If he decides not to, then he has plans to release himself from any obligation to tour.
I HOPE he does, I THINK he will, but only HE knows.
by scarab » Fri Oct 19, 2018 3:37 am
It was Saint Paul
But his first interviews for Traces were in MPLS.
Wonder if he has a connection to the Twin Cities?
After listening to all 15 tracks on the album multiple times:
- 'We're Still Here" is the best song.
- I have grown to like "No Erasin".
- "Sun Shines Grey" is a quality mid-temp rocker.
- "October in NY" is just cool and unique. Sonic-ally beautiful.
No more cryin' is fine and Angel eyes has that fun mo-towny feel but neither are songs I'll continue to listen to much.
These 4 songs are blah for me: We fly, Easy to Love, You belong to me, I need you
In the Rain and Most are a il better than blah.
The last 3 tracks I barely could get through once: Call on Me, Blue Jays Fly, Could we be something again
1. "No Erasin'" Was okay at first but got past the Caaar line 7.5/10
2. "We're Still Here" Love it 9.5/10 and an awesome guitar solo
3. "Most of All" Indifferent, its okay, nothing special 6/10
4. "No More Cryin'" A midtempo that should have had happier lyrics but still real good. 8/10
5. "In the Rain" Okay we needed a rocker here. this is why i dont listen to the songs in sequence. A very sad sad song but brilliant as well 9/10
6. "Sun Shines Gray" (featuring John 5) 10/10. Love everything about this song
7. "You Belong to Me" I thought okay until I watched a fan made video (the day after the CD was released so wondering if it really fan made?) Now I love it 9/10
8. "Easy to Love" Happy lyrics with a 70s light rock vibe. Okay I guess 5/10
9. "I Need You" (The Beatles cover) A constant skip. cant even rate
10. "We Fly" Okay we already had a very good song that was beyond sad, this one is sadder and not as good 6/10
11. October in NY A VERY different Perry song, Perry Como it should be, but still good due to the orchestration 7/10
12. "Angel Eyes" Loved it from first listen, probably my favorite Perry song that made it on an album. 10/10
13. "Call on Me" A just fun song which the CD needed. Listened to enough and will skip. 5/10
14. "Could We Be Somethin' Again" Okay at best and will skip 5/10
15. "Blue Jays Fly" Not really a song but damn Perry, 3 songs that wanna make me seek therapy? Really though I can see him looking up at the sky after Kellie died and seeing blue jays fly...knowing that life goes on.
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Eric wrote: - "October in NY" is just cool and unique. Sonic-ally beautiful.
Agreed. This is another one that should have been on the regular release.
scarab wrote: 9. "I Need You" (The Beatles cover) A constant skip. cant even rate
Same. This is one I hit 'skip' on constantly. This cd is sequenced horribly.
scarab wrote: 1. "No Erasin'" Was okay at first but got past the Caaar line 7.5/10
My Ratings:
1. No Erasin 6.5/10 Great comeback lyrics and like it more I listen to it.
2. We're Still Here 10/10 My favorite and love almost everything about it. Had to get use to the "Brother to Brother" and "Sister to Sister", but that's definitely a Perryism lol.
3. Most of All- 9/10 My favorite ballad and just great lyrics and meaning.
4. No More Cryin- 5/10 Not really into this song. Don't care for the bluesy sound to it.
5. In the Rain- 7.5/10 Another pretty good ballad
6. Sun Shines Gray- 8/10 One of my favorites. Love the tempo.
7. You Belong to Me- 7/10 Initially didn't care for it, but I agree with you, definitely like this one after watching the fan video.
8. Easy to Love- 7/10 Great positive, uplifting song. Nice change from some of the others.
9. I Need You- 4/10 Not a fan of this one lol.
10. We Fly- 8.5/10 I honestly really like this one. Its got a haunting, heavenly feel about it and it builds more and more as you listen.
11. October in New York- 7.5/10 Such a different song that Perry has ever done, but I really like it. Very Sinatra/Bing Crosby type sound and Perry does a great job.
12. Angel Eyes- 6/10 Not bad. Very Motown sounding.
13. Call on Me- Skip it
14. Could we be somethin' again- 7/10 I like this one. Kind of a hidden gem.
15. Blue Jays Fly- 6/10 Another haunting one.
by JourneyHard » Fri Oct 19, 2018 12:08 pm
I enjoy all 15 tracks on Traces. Steve Perry put his heart out there and sang all these songs with great emotion.
Question: Who is laughing on Call on Me? Is that Kellie Nash?
by shaneslatts » Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:46 pm
scarab wrote: One night in 2014 we're sitting here and someone puts up a fair quality cell phone video of Perry singing in of all places Minneapolis.
Know what? On my way home from work it hit me that Perry performed in St.Paul, not Minneapolis.
I was like someone will get me on this.
I've been made fun of which maybe means I'm accepted?
Love this Place.
by MotherCitay » Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:28 pm
JourneyHard wrote: Question: Who is laughing on Call on Me? Is that Kellie Nash?
MotherCitay
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Students and faculty use Lobby Day at Capitol to push for tuition freeze
Published on : April 8, 2017 Published by : Kelsey Matzen
Students and faculty from all 23 California State Universities gathered in Sacramento on Wednesday to lobby lawmakers for more funding.
During the annual Lobby Day event, members of the California Faculty Association and Students for Quality Education visited the Capitol to urge Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislatures to increase funding for CSUs and pass legislation that would improve affordability and accessibility for the students.
“It’s an opportunity for faculty and students to educate about what’s really happening and how funding projects impacts students lives,” said Sheila Tully, San Francisco CFA chapter president.
Faculty and students specifically encouraged lawmakers to increase the CSU system budget by $182.5 million this fiscal year and to support three pieces of legislation: Assembly Bills 393, 21 and 1464.
AB 393 addresses the 5 percent tuition increase that was approved by CSU Board of Trustees in an 11-8 vote. Authored by Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, this bill will freeze tuition and fee increases for CSUs and California Community Colleges in the 2019-20 academic year.
Tully was unable to participate in Lobby Day because she was teaching classes but believes that a 5 percent tuition increase will hurt students who are affected by homelessness and food insecurity.
“Every semester, I have students who are homeless or living out of their cars,” Tully said. “It’s pushing students out, they run out of money and they can’t survive.”
Student representatives from SF State’s chapter of Students for Quality Education also participated in Lobby Day to share the their perspective. This was the second year Shiba Bandeeba, Students for Quality Education co-president, attended to speak and lobby on behalf of students.
“I hope that we did our fellow students justice who (didn’t) have the privilege to go,” Bandeeba said. “I hope they find a better long-term solution and funding rather than just cutting corners that will lead us back to the same place.”
Lobby Day participants also marched from the Capitol Rose Garden to the steps of the Capitol Building. Though it was short, 20-year-old Maya Canaoes, psychology major and member of Students for Quality Education, found the march inspiring.
“It was a really powerful sense of unity and community,” Canaoes said. “Students and faculty are very firm and strong in what we are demanding. We’re not gonna sit down and be quiet.”
This was the first time Canaoes attended Lobby Day and she was surprised by how receptive lawmakers were to students’ remarks.
“I went into it with a perspective that we’re just students and they won’t listen,” Canaoes said. “I came out of it with a sense that we are powerful in numbers.”
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'Dragon Ball Game Project Z' unveiled as 'Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot'
Bandai Namco has unveiled Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot as the final name for the previously announced Dragon Ball Game Project Z.
Coming to the Americas in early 2020 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is an all-new action RPG that will take players on the most accurate, dramatic, and epic telling of the Dragon Ball Z canon storyline – the story of Kakarot – the Saiyan better known as Goku.
Developed in Japan by video game developer CyberConnect2, the game tells the legendary story of Dragon Ball Z, taking players on an unforgettable adventure to experience over-the-top battles and challenging quests while creating life-long friendships as they crusade to protect Earth from fearsome villains. Additionally, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will also present resolutions to long unanswered questions from the Dragon Ball Z storyline through light-hearted side quests.
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will feature English and Japanese voice-over along with subtitles in Neutral-Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
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Album review: MARTIN TURNER AND FRIENDS – The Garden Party
Posted on December 8, 2014 by GRTR! HQ
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Dirty Dog Discs [Release date 27.10.14]
This 2-CD album is like an almighty two-finger salute to Andy Powell. Back in 2012 Martin Turner assembled a stellar cast of one-time Wishbone Ash alumni and in front of a specially invited audience, and out in the sunny Buckinghamshire countryside, they rekindled former glories.
The coup de grace was enticing long-serving drummer Steve Upton to attend (although he didn’t play) whilst Ted Turner arrived from the States to re-create an authentic ‘The King Will Come’ and ‘Jailbait” with Laurie Wisefield. Current Turner band members Danny Willson and Ray Hatfield took the lion’s share of guitar duties and along with drummer Dave Wagstaffe acquitted themselves with distinction especially on the funky ‘Rest In Peace’ and spritely ‘Doctor’.
The material ranged from the less obvious to the more familiar. Strangely nothing off ‘Front Page News’ although ‘No Smoke Without Fire’ is represented by the prog-tinged ‘Way Of The World’ and, indirectly, through the session out-take ‘Fire Sign.’ A new piece ‘Mystify Me’ doesn’t appear in this collection although performed on the day, whilst Turner revisited his 1996 solo album on ‘Broken Down House’.
‘In The Skin’, ‘Why Don’t We?’ and ‘Standing In The Rain’ appear from Turner’s later tenure with the band but the emphasis is very much on the period 1971-1976. The idea was to record tracks that Turner and his band were playing live but hadn’t appeared on a live album.
In that sense, it’s a triumph and you might be hard-pushed thinking that this was indeed recorded live at all. In fact, on the actual day there were sound issues with the PA system, so this recording will go some way to make amends for those who attended.
Given that there is a complete lack of new material from Martin Turner (the last band album was released in 2011) ‘The Garden Party’ is both a great souvenir of a “private” and historic event and a stop-gap until, well… er… uhm.. the next live album. ****
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NCAA Women's Basketball
Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City, Iowa Attendance: 6,289
No. 16 Iowa women hold off Cyclones 73-70
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By LUKE MEREDITH
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Iowa State played defense about as well as it could on the night's penultimate possession.
In a game destined to be decided on a big-time shot, Iowa's Tania Davis stepped up with a step-back 3 that neither side of this in-state rivalry will soon forget.
Davis drilled the game-winning 3 with 2.3 seconds to go and 16th-ranked Iowa held off Iowa State 73-70 on Wednesday night, giving the Hawkeyes three straight wins in the series for the first time in over two decades.
"That's a shot she's going to remember for the rest of her life," Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said.
Kathleen Doyle scored 22 points in her first game back from a broken hand and Megan Gustafson had 13 with 16 rebounds for Iowa (6-2), which won 10 in a row from 1982-96.
But the Cyclones nearly pulled off the stunner down the stretch.
Iowa State star Bridget Carleton fought through traffic for a layup that gave Iowa State a 69-68 lead with 49 seconds to go, but Doyle - who didn't even return to practice until Tuesday - swung the advantage back to Iowa with free throws 13 second later.
Carleton tied it 70-all on a free throw. But she missed a second one, giving Iowa the ball with the shot clocks turned off.
The Hawkeyes drained the seconds down, and Davis put the ball on the deck and found just enough space to drain a 3 from the wing.
"I'm trending on Twitter," Davis joked. "So it's a good day."
The Hawkeyes then all converged on Carleton, leaving freshman Ashley Joens - who grew up in Iowa City - wide open for a corner 3. But Joens' effort went long as the buzzer sounded.
Carleton had 21 points and Alexa Middleton scored 20 to lead Iowa State (6-2), which rallied after falling behind by as much as 13 in the first quarter.
"We did everything we could for as long as we could," Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said. "I wouldn't trade any of these guys for anything. Our time is coming."
Iowa: The Hawkeyes needed this one. They followed a close loss to Florida State with a blowout defeat at No. 1 Notre Dame, and three losses before the middle of December would've been tough to swallow in a season that began with such high expectations. Iowa can credit a perfect 15 of 15 night from the line as much as Davis' shot for the win.
Iowa State: What an effort by the Cyclones, who fell out of the Top 25 this week after an ugly loss at South Dakota. Iowa State showed resolve in rallying from a 13-point deficit, and it can make the 140-mile bus ride back to Ames knowing they would have won had they not gone just 9 of 17 from the line. Joens also went just 1 of 10 in her homecoming. "The missed shots, that's OK," Fennelly said of Joens, a five-star recruit. "She'll be fine. She's going to be a great player."
DAVIS' STRUGGLES
Davis, a senior, has fought through ACL tears in each knee during her career, has been healthy and productive all season with Doyle, a preseason All-Big Ten pick, on the sidelines. Davis finished with nine points and three assists, and the fact that her confidence is back was evident in her fearlessness with the game on the line. "(Tania) is a dog. She's going to fight," Doyle said. "She's a tough cookie, so she deserves it."
Iowa outrebounded Iowa State 45-37, and Gustafson broke the school record for career rebounds. She's also just 10 points away from 2,000 for her career. ...The game featured 10 lead changes and 12 ties, as the Hawkeyes and Cyclones traded 21-8 runs in the first half. ...The 3 from Davis overshadowed the fact that Iowa went just 7 of 29 on 3s.
HE SAID IT
"That was great game for the sport. Great game for the state," Fennelly said.
Iowa faces IUPUI at home on Saturday.
Iowa State hosts North Dakota on Sunday.
Updated December 5, 2018
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Geometric Measurements of Mitral Complex and Coaptation
FMR Group (n = 44)
Control Group (n = 56)
Annular area, cm2/m2 6.0 ± 2.5 4.5 ± 0.6 <0.0001
Leaflet area, cm2/m2 8.7 ± 1.8 6.7 ± 0.9 <0.0001
Leaflet to annular area ratio 1.45 ± 0.16 1.50 ± 0.11 0.09
Tenting volume, ml/m2 1.3 ± 0.7 0.5 ± 0.3 <0.0001
Tethering length, mm/m2
Medial 23.0 ± 2.2 18.4 ± 2.8 <0.0001
Lateral 20.5 ± 3.2 17.1 ± 2.6 <0.0001
Coaptation length, mm
Medial 3.2 ± 0.9 4.8 ± 0.6 <0.0001
Middle 3.8 ± 1.3 5.8 ± 0.7⁎† <0.0001
Lateral 3.3 ± 0.9 4.8 ± 0.6 <0.0001
Coaptation area, cm2/m2 1.3 ± 0.4 1.6 ± 0.4 0.005
Coaptation index, % 15.6 ± 3.3 23.6 ± 4.8 <0.0001
Values are mean ± SD.
Abbreviation as in Table 1.
↵⁎ p < 0.05 versus medial.
↵† p < 0.05 versus lateral.
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Grand Opening of El Segundo and 127th Street Apartments
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October 11, 1919 -- October 16, 1990
Shorter-Hubbard Quintet
"The [Wayne Shorter] edition of the Messengers stood out as the most captivating mainstream jazz combo if its day."
--Ted Gioia
It's not often enough realized how useful Art Blakey has been as an encourager of the young. He has always, for example, urged anyone in his group to write, and has promised to try out any chart any band member brings to rehearsal. Benny Golson was established before he joined Blakey, but Benny gained useful experience and had free play as Art's musical director. Other writers who have used Blakey bands as a laboratory have been Horace Silver, Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, and Jackie McLean.
Being with Blakey can be one of the most valuable apprenticeships in jazz for players and writers. If you have capacity, the constant challenge of Art's own ceaseless force and rhythmic demands will accelerate your awareness of how much you can do. If you don't have it, Art's pace will quickly become too much, too overwhelming for you.
--NAT HENTOFF, from the liner notes,
The Big Beat, Blue Note.
You couldn't write enough music for Art. You'd write it now, you'd get it played now, and you'd get it recorded now. You can't ask for anything more, being an instrumentalist.
Art Blakey was an education. You could apply everything you'd ever known about music. He would beg you to write, he would insist on it, he would hire you because you were a writer. The group would play my music fast! They played it faster than I could. I said, 'Wait a minute. I wrote this thing.' People used to attend our rehearsals in New York. Word would get out that the group was rehearsing and you'd have an audience sitting there. It was nice.
--CEDAR WALTON, interview with Gene Lees,
Cats Of Any Color.
After Golson's departure, Blakey hired tenorist Hank Mobley for a spell, recording a pungent nightclub performance, under the title At the Jazz Corner of the World, during this period. The addition of saxophonist Wayne Shorter later in the year initiated a new expansion in the scope of the band, which was solidified by the arrival of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and pianist Cedar Walton in 1961. Shorter's elliptical manner of improvising and composing would come to exert a decisive influence on the Messengers, signaling a break with the rhythm-and-blues orientation of the Morgan/Timmons/Golson unit.
With Hubbard and Shorter fronting the band, Blakey electrified audiences and produced a series of outstanding recordings, including Caravan, Kyoto, Three Blind Mice, and Ugetsu. Already a solid soloist, Shorter blossomed as a composer during his Blakey years. "This is for Albert," "Lester Left Town," and other Shorter contributions bespoke a far greater sophisitication than Blakey's late 1950's repertoire. Hubbard's extroverted improvisations served as an attractive foil for Shorter's moody lines, while the addition of trombonist Curtis Fuller created a three-horn front line that added depth to the Messengers' sound. Over fifteen years would elapse before a Blakey band, then fronted by Wynton and Branford marsalis, would cause such a stir on the jazz scene.
--TED GIOIA, The History Of Jazz.
A selected discography of Art Blakey albums.
New Sounds, 1947, Blue Note.
A Night At Birdland, 1954, Blue Note.
At The Cafe Bohemia, 1955, Blue Note.
The Jazz Messengers, 1956, Columbia.
Hard Drive, 1957, Bethlehem.
Moanin', 1958, Blue Note.
At The Jazz Corner Of The World, 1959, Blue Note.
The Big Beat, 1960, Blue Note.
Night In Tunisia, 1960, Blue Note.
Free For All, 1964, Blue Note.
Straight Ahead, 1981, Concord.
Keystone 3, 1982, Concord.
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BERWYN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Triumph Group, Inc. (NYSE:TGI) announced today the sale of Triumph Aviation Services – NAAS Division, Inc. (“NAAS”) to STS Aviation Group. The transaction is effective as of March 6, 2019. The division generated revenues of approximately $30 million in Triumph Group’s 2018 fiscal year, ending on March 31, 2018.
NAAS is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas and employs approximately 200 people who are co-located at customer sites at more than 20 North American and two European locations. NAAS provides line maintenance support to airlines, MROs, government operators and OEMs and has a specialization in fuel systems maintenance, leak detection and bladder cell repair.
The sale of NAAS to STS Aviation Group, continues the transformation of Triumph’s portfolio to divest non-core operating businesses and focus on the strengths of the Product Support business unit – overhaul and repair of aircraft structures and components.
“This is an exciting time for both NAAS and Triumph Product Support. I am confident the STS team will benefit from the deep line maintenance experience NAAS will add,” said Triumph Product Support Executive Vice President, William Kircher. “Now, Triumph Product Support will move forward focusing on the growth in our core business areas – structural overhaul and repair and component overhaul and repair – where we provide the greatest value to our customers and partners around the world.”
Triumph Group, Inc., headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs and overhauls a broad portfolio of aerospace and defense systems, components and structures. The company serves the global aviation industry, including original equipment manufacturers and the full spectrum of military and commercial aircraft operators.
More information about Triumph Group can be found on the company’s website at http://www.triumphgroup.com.
Michele Long
Senior Director – Communications
mmlong@triumphgroup.com
Michael Pici
VP – Financial Planning & Investor Relations
mpici@triumphgroup.com
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While there are many, many ways to improve the OpenStreetMap, there are several particular types of edits that are a big help in improving the Curvature output files: adding surface tags, fixing improper highway type tags, and smoothing jiggly segments.
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In some parts of the world almost every road segment (a "way" in OSM parlance) has an appropriate surface tag applied to it, allowing Curvature to filter out the unpaved roads -- which are often small and very twisty! At the time of this writing however, many roads do not have a surface tag and so Curvature can't filter them out, resulting in the really twisty paved roads getting hidden among hundreds or thousands of unpaved roads. You can help help improve the Curvature output by clicking through to edit the road segments in OpenStreetMap and adding appropriate surface tags based on your memory of travelling the road, the satellite imagery shown in the OpenStreetMap editor, or other allowed data-sources.
Fixing improper highway-type Tags
In the United States, much of the OpenStreetMap road network was imported from the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER data-set. While this data-import provided a rich starting-point for mapping, it mis-categorized most roadways as highway=residential rather than using a proper highway. Roads that are unimproved forestry tracks or agricultural tracks (not to be confused with improved gravel or dirt roads) can be changed to highway=track and they will be filtered out of the Curvature. Similarly, mis-categorized driveways can be changed to highway=service and they will be filtered out.
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Aside from improper surface or type tagging, the last big reason roads will get improperly included in the Curvature output is when they are generally straight roads, but are defined by many close-together points that shift back-and forth across the road width. This can often happen when a road was surveyed using a GPS unit that didn't have a good signal, causing the coordinates recorded to jump around. You can identify ways like this because they look straight but have high curvature-values.
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KOA Speer Receives 2017 Supplier Excellence Awards from TTI
Bradford, PA - June 5, 2018 - KOA Speer Electronics, a leading supplier of passive electronic components, announced they have received TTI's 2017 Platinum, Diamond and Best Quality Awards for Supplier Excellence. The TTI Americas Supplier Excellence Award Program represents the highest recognition possible of a supplier's performance within TTI. The SEA program is centered…more >>
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KOA Speer Receives Arrow Electronics' 2015 Platinum Level Perfect Order Award
Bradford, PA, June 16, 2016 - KOA Speer Electronics, Inc. announced today that it was presented with an Arrow Electronics Perfect Order Index (POI) award for 2015. KOA Speer received the platinum award which recognizes suppliers that achieve best-in-class performance for delivering 'perfect orders' as measured by Arrow's eight-point measurement system. Among other criteria,…more >>
KOA Speer Receives Supplier Excellence Awards from TTI
Bradford, PA - July 2, 2015 - KOA Speer Electronics, a leading supplier of passive electronic components, announced they have received TTI's 2014 Platinum, Diamond and Best Quality Awards for Supplier Excellence. The TTI Supplier Excellence Award Program represents the highest recognition possible of a supplier's performance within TTI. The program is centered on quality…more >>
Celestica Recognizes KOA Corporation with 2013 Total Cost of Ownership Supplier Award
Bradford, PA – October 16, 2014 - KOA Corporation announced it has been awarded a 2013 Total Cost of Ownership (TCOOTM) Supplier Award from Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions. The awards program recognizes suppliers that support Celestica's TCOO strategy and demonstrate excellence in quality, delivery, technology,…more >>
Flextronics Recognizes Outstanding Contributions by Strategic Suppliers
San Jose, CA, July 9, 2014 - Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX) announced the recipients of its 2014 Strategic Supplier Awards that were honored last month. The Awards recognize outstanding performance, strategic value-add, excellent service and innovation by suppliers that exemplify what it means to be a strategic supplier at Flextronics. Suppliers selected for the awards…more >>
Bradford, PA, June 12, 2014 - KOA Speer Electronics, Inc. announced today that it was presented the Arrow Electronics, Inc. Perfect Order Index (POI) award for 2013. KOA Speer received the platinum award for the highest level of performance in the passive electromechanical components category. Arrow's POI awards honor suppliers that achieve best-in-class performance…more >>
KOA Speer Again Receives Top Supplier Awards from TTI
Bradford, PA - May 21, 2014 - KOA Speer Electronics, a leading supplier of passive electronic components, announced they have received TTI's 2013 Platinum, Diamond and Best Quality Awards for Supplier Excellence. The TTI Supplier Excellence Award Program represents the highest recognition possible of a supplier's performance within TTI. The program is centered on quality…more >>
KOA Corporation Receives Pinnacle Award from Delphi
Bradford, PA, May 14, 2014 – KOA Corporation received Delphi's 2013 Pinnacle Award for Supplier Excellence. "We are extremely pleased to receive this award," Mr. Tadao Hanagata, President and CEO of KOA Corporation, said. "Additionally, achieving this award represents the dedication of all KOA employees to our customers and their commitment to excellence."Currently…more >>
Celestica Recognizes KOA Corporation as an Honoree in Its 2012 Total Cost of Ownership Supplier Awards Program
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KOA Speer Receives Top Supplier TTI Awards for 2012
Bradford, PA – June 14, 2013 – KOA Speer Electronics, a leading supplier of passive electronic components, announces that they have once again received the Platinum Level, Diamond, and Best Quality Awards from TTI. The TTI Supplier Excellence Award Program represents the highest recognition possible of a supplier’s performance within TTI. The program…more >>
KOA Speer Named "Supplier of the Year" for 2012 by Lear Corporation
Bradford, PA – April 4, 2013 – Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA), a leading global supplier of automotive seating and electrical distribution systems, has announced the presentation of the Lear "Supplier of the Year" Award, the highest honor Lear can bestow upon a supplier, to KOA Speer Electronics and twelve other suppliers, based on their outstanding performance…more >>
Rockwell Collins presents KOA Speer Electronics, Inc. with 2013 Passive Category Supplier of the Year Award
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - March 27, 2013 - KOA Speer Electronics, Inc., of Bradford, PA, was presented with the 2013 Passive Category Supplier of the Year Award during the company's Annual Supplier Conference. The Supplier of the Year award is an acknowledgement of significant contributions made during the year by suppliers and is based upon quality, delivery, total cost of…more >>
Celestica Recognizes KOA Corporation with a 2011 Total Cost of Ownership Supplier Award
Bradford, PA - August 7, 2012 - KOA Corporation today announced it has been awarded a 2011 Total Cost of Ownership (TCOOTM) Supplier Award from Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product lifecycle solutions. Celestica's awards program recognizes suppliers that support Celestica's TCOO sourcing strategy to provide its customers with the best possible…more >>
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July 8, 2016 Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Featuring Fran Cosmo and Barry Goodreau Formerly of the super group BOSTON!
Fran Cosmo
Formerly of Boston. One of rock’s legendary voices, Fran Cosmo exploded onto the rock scene when he took over for Brad Delp as lead vocalist with multi-platinum group BOSTON on the album, “Walk On” that sold over three million copies worldwide.
The album’s tour was the first of four tours with the band– It wasn’t long before Boston fans around the world took notice to sound and range of his vocals. He captivated the audience at sold out shows.
Since 1992 Fran was a member of BOSTON and toured at every major venue across America.Fran Lead vocals appeared on BOTH Boston’s Greatest hits albums in 2006 and 2009. The hit song”I need your Love” and the only live song ever recorded on a Boston album “Livin for You”.
Barry Goodreau
Formerly of Boston. Original member of Boston. The group evolved from Goudreau’s college band “Mother’s Milk” which also included Tom Scholz and Brad Delp. Goudreau worked with Scholz and Delp as early as 1969 on an initial set of demo tapes, where he performed all of the rhythm and lead guitar work. These early attempts to attract record label interest did not succeed.
Eventually they put together a demo tape, and brought it to New York to shop for a record contract. He remembers sitting in waiting rooms, not able to get past the receptionist. Barry thinks it was these several years of constant rejection that drove Tom to continue to refine the songs and recordings to a point where they could no longer be denied.
Later, Scholz re-worked and re-recorded some of these demo songs and wrote several new songs for a second set of demo tapes, this time with Scholz performing all of the guitar, bass and keyboard parts. This second demo set won a recording contract with Epic Records.
Although Goudreau is not credited with any songwriting on any Boston tracks, his guitar work was an integral part of the Boston trademark sound and style.
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St. Dominic Health Services Joins Experience Zoo! for Jackson Fire Department and MS National Guard
Published by EJ Rivers on October 5, 2017
October 5, 2017 Jackson, Miss.— The Jackson Zoo is proud to announce the expansion of their partnership with St. Dominic Health Services to include the Experience Zoo! Initiative. On Tuesday, October 10th, staff of St. Dominic’s will donate annual family zoo passes to commanders of the Jackson Fire Department and the Mississippi National Guard. The Jackson Zoo will host the ceremonial transfer at 3:00 p.m. in front of their Admissions and Gift Shop at 2918 West Capitol Street in Jackson.
St. Dominic’s has been a long term supporter of annual family events at the zoo like Dream Night, Ice Cream Safari, Boo at the Zoo, and Zoo Party Unleashed, and this is their first donation to the Experience Zoo! Initiative. Through this program, businesses and organizations can purchase year-long family memberships and donate them to local military and first responders. Families of those in public service traditionally face high levels of daily stress and uncertainty under lowered financial circumstances, and can benefit from regular access to the relaxed, neutral zoo setting to unwind and reconnect. Jackson Zoo members also receive discounts on educational zoo programs, admission to other participating zoos and attractions, and dining in at select local restaurants.
“I believe that our zoo and its natural scenery creates moments of wonder, joy, and laughter throughout the year for all families, but it can be especially helpful those who dedicate their lives to the service of others,” said Jackson Zoo Director of Development Paul Griffin Jones III (Trey). “We felt compelled to go beyond flying flags and putting signs in yards, returning the love and appreciation in a tangible way. That is what the Experience Zoo! Initiative is really all about.”
“St. Dominic’s is a great example of what it means to be a community partner,” said Jackson Zoo Executive Director Beth Poff. “They do so much for so many, and often out of the spotlight. We look forward to publicly acknowledging their faithful friendship, and deep commitment to caring.”
Staff members of St. Dominic’s, The Jackson Zoo, the City of Jackson Fire Department, and the Mississippi National Guard will be on hand to answer questions after the membership presentation. For more information about Experience Zoo!, contact Jackson Zoo Director of Development Jones at 601-352-2580 ex 225 or tjones@jacksonzoo.org.
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Higher vitamin D doses may be needed to restore healthy levels in overweight blacks
Toni Baker3 min readJuly 6, 2015
The current recommended minimum daily dose of vitamin D is not sufficient to restore healthy vitamin D levels in overweight or obese blacks, researchers report.
Rather, daily intake of more than three times the recommended minimum is needed to restore what is generally considered a healthy blood level of vitamin D, said Dr. Yanbin Dong, geneticist and cardiologist at the Georgia Prevention Institute at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.
Overweight blacks are at increased risk for vitamin D deficiency because darker skin absorbs less sunlight – the skin makes vitamin D in response to sun exposure – and fat tends to sequester vitamin D for no apparent purpose.
The study, published in the journal BioMed Central Obesity, looked at the effects of three levels of vitamin D supplementation in 70 overweight-to-obese blacks under age 50 living in the Southeastern United States who appeared healthy, although their circulating level of vitamin D was considered low.
The Institute of Medicine recommends a daily intake of 600 international units of vitamin D for most children and adults; 800 IUs for those age 70 and older. For adolescents and adults, they recommend 4,000 IUs as the upper daily limit; 2,000 was the previous upper limit.
In what appears to be the first randomized controlled study in this cohort, researchers found that 600 IUs did not restore what many experts consider the optimal blood level of vitamin D within 16 weeks.
However, both 2,000 and 4,000 IUs restored the desirable levels of 30 nanograms per milliliter to individuals with previous levels of less than 20 ng/mL, levels which put them at high risk for bone-weakening rickets and potentially other maladies.
The 4,000 upper-limit dose restored the healthy blood level quicker – by eight weeks – and was also better at suppressing parathyroid hormone, which works against vitamin D’s efforts to improve bone health by absorbing calcium, said Dong, the study’s corresponding author.
“We hope these studies will give physicians better guidelines for some of their patients,” said Dong. “As with many therapies in medicine today, evidence is emerging that a more personalized approach is likely the best approach when determining how much vitamin D is optimal for an individual. Dose definitely matters.”
As an example, participants in the group he studied who had high parathyroid hormone levels likely should take 4,000 IUs daily while the remainder appear to achieve desired results with 2,000 IUs.
Although long known as a way to build strong bones and teeth, there is increasing evidence of vitamin D’s role in the cardiovascular and immune systems, kidneys, mental health, and more. It’s likely, as with high parathyroid hormone levels, patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease might benefit from higher doses, said Dong, noting that much work is needed to identify optimal dosing for specific conditions.
Although wide ranges of daily doses already have been studied and there are no known serious side effects, there is no point in people taking more than they should, even if it’s only to save money, Dong said. Also, correlations are emerging – but no hard science yet – that at too-high doses, for example, vitamin D can go from being a cancer preventer to a cause, he said.
For the study, researchers gave all doses of vitamin D monthly rather than daily to help ensure that all participants were getting the correct doses. Giving this once-monthly version of even the maximum recommended daily dose was equivalent to spending an afternoon at the beach in a bathing suit, Dong said.
Dr. Jigar Bhagatwala, a research resident in the MCG Department of Medicine, is the study’s first author. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.
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Rock Band Poll Final Results
jklein April 22, 2010
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Everyone, please keep in mind that while our poll was to gauge interest in the bands that fans want to see in Rock Band, that’s no guarantee that any of these bands would appear as Downloadable Content (DLC) for current or future Rock Band releases.
When Harmonix approached JrockRevolution.com and asked us which Jrock artists the fans wanted to see in Rock Band we knew the news would rock the community (pardon the pun). With the start of the polling we anticipated a lot of buzz, but we never anticipated the enormous amount of dedication and support you all have shown thus far! Thousands of votes poured in from dedicated fans and curious newcomers alike. We cannot thank you enough for being a part of this huge step towards bringing Jrock closer to you, the fans. That’s what we’re all about after all!
Now the moment you’ve all been waiting for, ladies and gentlemen, here is your final Top 10!
1. the GazettE
2. Dir en grey
3. X JAPAN
4. MIYAVI
5. GACKT
6. An Café
7. D’espairsRay
8. Nightmare
9. L’Arc~en~Ciel
10. Versailles ~Philharmonic Quintent~
What’s that? You were certain Dir en grey was going to take the top spot? So were we! It was a close race to the number one spot and the GazettE managed to pull ahead with a little room to spare.
In fact, every band’s spot on the Top 10 was decided by close margins. MIYAVI, X JAPAN, and GACKT were within a mere 20 votes of each other. The 6-10 spots were a heated battle the whole way through and final rankings were decided by very narrow gaps! You sure know how to build the suspense!
We would like to apologize again for any problems you may have experienced with this poll. We’d also like to assure you that the technical difficulties did not interfere with the final results, and the list you see here is, in fact, your tried and true winners.
Once again we want to thank you all for making this project so successful. Without the fans JrockRevolution.com would not exist. You are the driving force behind everything we do and the support you’ve shown is nothing short of amazing. Keep those voices, and the music, going strong!
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Amid Digital Sponsorship Options, Don’t Neglect Social Media
By Max Barnett, SVP, Global Head of Digital, Nielsen Sports
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Digital has a growing share of total media investment for global brands, and rightfully so. Mobile usage in the U.S., for example, has skyrocketed to more than three hours per day, according to last year’s Mary Meeker report. Additionally, some industry onlookers claim that brands are now spending more than half of their media spend in the digital space.
Sponsorships on Social Media Channels
So with digital now a critical channel for brands, it’s no surprise that they’re actively looking to better understand and measure returns in the space. They’re also actively looking to social media and sponsorships as a way to amplify their digital returns. In fact, according to Social24, select sponsors are generating more than 40% of their total media value from their social media efforts relative to TV, online and print.
But it’s still early days for brands seeking high media value from social media activity, which means there’s still time to get in the game. Today, the global average social share for all brands we track is between 5% and 10%.
That’s not to say, however, that there aren’t outliers. In fact, a handful of leagues and brands are well ahead of the pack. The NBA, for example, generates 18% of its media value from its social media efforts. That translates into an estimated $350 million over the course of a season for all of the league and team’s official sponsors. Not bad, right?
Active Collaboration
So how are brands doing this? Firstly, they’ve realized that the era of contracts that stipulate “five Tweets per month” is coming to an end. Instead, they’re looking for more authentic ways to activate their campaigns via existing content stories being told by leagues and teams. Key content themes popular on social are training, behind the scenes and game-day build-up.
In many ways, activation has become a team sport. And in the social realm, that means collaboration and co-development of content and campaigns. And the proof is out there. The brands that are actively collaborating with teams and leagues are generating far more returns than those brands that go it alone. And the early adopters have quite a lead.
Much of the collaboration has come by way of branded content, and some major brands are deriving big wins from content they develop with leagues and teams. In looking at three brands that actively develop sponsored content in collaboration with the NBA and its teams, we can see that the efforts are paying off:
A telecommunications provider drives 84% of its social value from branded content
A beer sponsor drives 77% of its social value from branded content
A sports drink drives 71% of its social value from branded content
The trend toward using branded content isn’t new. Since Nielsen Sports began valuing social content five years ago, we’ve seen the value of branded content grow exponentially. Staying authentic and true to creating meaningful interactions is more important than ever, particularly in light of changes to Facebook’s algorithm.
Generating Value Along with Conversation
But savvy brands are adjusting—and they’re seeing results in return. For example, we’ve seen brands that collaborate with teams on branded content with exclusive access to team, league and athlete content drive significant share of value when compared against other brands in the leagues. NASCAR is a great example. Among the top 10 brands driving major returns from social media in 2017, NASCAR came out on top at 54%.
But social media isn’t just for brands. Teams can play in the space too, and Nielsen research shows that teams that have invested in social media early to acquire and engage fans derive more value from their social media efforts than others.
The teams that come out on top have larger social fan bases, and they tend to publish between 25 to 50 content themes (aka fan stories) across their social and digital channels 24/7. Example content themes include full-time scores, archive content and pre-game warmups.
Content Themes
When we look across the sports universe to in search of a content themes forerunner, European Soccer leads the way in terms of the variety of content themes it develops with its sponsors. Manchester City FC is a global leader in this respect, as it not only activates with sponsors around game-related content, but it also celebrates its global fan base through its partnership with Etihad Airways.
But Manchester City FC isn’t the only team that touts big gains for its sponsors. In the NBA, for example, the top 10 teams’ sponsors drive 60% of their media value from social media, with more than half of the value for their top sponsors coming from branded content.
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Tax attacks & the price of Winston
In this week’s Caucus, Lisa Owen, Tim Watkin and Guyon Espiner discuss the fallout from Labour’s sudden tax u-turn, the volatility of polls and the cost and bottom-lines of Winston Peters
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Politicians and u-turns go together like taxi divers and, well, u-turns. But a u-turn 10 days out from election day? On tax? It’s a big call Labour has made today on a policy that needn’t have been controversial in the first place.
Grant Robertson’s announcement this morning that Labour will not introduce any recommendations made by its Tax Working Group until after the 2020 election effectively reinstates the party’s policy of just a month ago, before Jacinda Ardern took over the leadership and made her “captain’s call” to shake things up on tax. And that’s top of the agenda on today’s Caucus podcast.
The new promise is intended to take the heat out of National’s attacks on the party and its claims – always in the grey lands between fact and fiction – that Labour was planning a suite of new taxes should it lead the next government. Robertson’s new favourite word is “certainty”, because he hopes that is what it will give voters; the certainty that they can vote Labour without being hit in the pocket.
Let’s count them out: Labour has now promised no capital gains tax on the family home and no land tax on the land under the family home. No increase to GST or income tax. The tax changes it will make are to reverse National’s tax cuts that are due to come into effect next April, remove negative gearing, extend National’s brightline test from two out to five years, eliminate secondary tax, tax irrigation at 1-2 cents per thousand litres, charge a royalty on water bottlers, a regional fuel tax for Auckland and “crackdown” on tax avoidance on multi-nationals.
Labour will now hope to be able to start talking about health and housing again. It will hope that voters who were ‘taking a second look’ at Labour will be more inclined to like what they see. Whereas National has been contrasting them as risky, compared to Bill English’s ‘safe pair of hands’, Labour strategists will hope they can stand for hope.
But it’s a heck of a swing away from Ardern’s first big captain’s call. Andrew Little had promised voters when he first became leader that the party would not introduce a capital gains tax until it had sought and won a mandate at an election. Now CGTs are nothing radical; New Zealand is one of only two OECD countries not to have one. And Ardern decided the housing crisis was such that she needed to be able to introduce a CGT in Labour’s first term if her tax working group so advised.
On August 22, she told Guyon Espiner on Morning Report:
“I am not going to wait until another election to determine what we do with the advice that we get from those experts… I need to have the ability to make best decisions in interests of New Zealand, and opportunity to do that as leader.”
Then, this Tuesday she was still insisting, again to Espiner:
“My second option was to say that whatever it generates in the next three years I won’t act on it I’ll take it to the next election – and that didn’t feel right to me either when I know housing is such a big issue to have someone give me a report and not do anything with it.”
Photo: RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly
But her commitment to act with urgency melted in the face of public opinion. So does that raise questions about her judgement and convictions or show voters that she’s realistic and listens to their concerns? That question may yet decide this election.
U-turns never seemed to hurt John Key. And there were many. In Opposition he called Working for Families “communism by stealth”, but by his final budget was expanding it. He flipped on interest-free student loans simply, he said, because “we lost the [2005] election”. You can add mining on conservation land, Auckland’s city rail link, class sizes, keeping troops in Iraq for more than two years… the list goes on. He still won elections.
Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
But Ardern’s move is different because it’s 10 days from an election, an election that is terribly volatile and close. With voters already able to go to the polls, will this reassure enough of them? Or, at least, will it reassure Winston Peters and New Zealand First?
We also talk about the pressure coming on the cost of his promises and his insistence this morning that he never uses the word “bottom-line”. I wonder who it was, then, who said last year “yes this is a bottom-line”. Have a listen.
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Interrogation of autolysins as a source of novel bacteriolytic agents / by Daniel Carmen Osipovitch
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Author Osipovitch, Daniel Carmen
Title Interrogation of autolysins as a source of novel bacteriolytic agents / by Daniel Carmen Osipovitch
Abstract Staphylococcus aureus is a formidable pathogen, and its high morbidity and mortality rates are compounded by its ability to quickly develop antibiotic resistance. The current antimicrobial pipeline is inadequate to curb this mounting public health threat, and a novel approach to treating Staphylococcal disease is necessary. Bacteriolytic enzymes, namely phage lysins, have provided a promising paradigm shift in the treatment of bacterial infections. These enzymes lead to cell lysis by degrading the peptidoglycan of bacterial cell walls, and have been shown to be efficacious both in vitro and in vivo with no resistance yet observed. We posit that autolysins, bacterial enzymes important for processes such as cell division, may be a fruitful source of lysins in addition to phage. We first examined the lytic potential of S. aureus autolysin LytM, and found (in accordance with previous literature) its low activity to be unsuitable for therapeutic use. Many lytic enzymes are modular in nature and contain two domains: a cell wall binding domain (CWBD) that targets the peptidoglycan and a catalytic domain that hydrolyzes peptidoglycan bonds. We hypothesized that LytM?s slow kinetics were due to the lack of a CWBD and corrected this deficiency by fusing the LytM catalytic domain to the CWBD of lysostaphin, a well-characterized staphylolytic enzyme. Chimerization of LytM increased its activity 540-fold, putting it on par with other bacteriolysins, and allowed it to effectively kill S. aureus biofilms. To more broadly test the viability of autolysins as lytic agents, five novel S. aureus autolysins were identified from its genome and expressed recombinantly. Similar lysostaphin-autolysin chimeras were also iii constructed to assess the effect of CWBD engineering on this class of enzymes. Four novel autolysins displayed lytic activity against S. aureus. The most active lysin exhibited a 160-fold increase in activity as a chimera and was able to lyse lysostaphin-resistant cells. This study provides a framework for the use of autolysins as enzybiotics, and acts as a proof-of-principal for the importance of CWBD engineering for improved lytic kinetics of these enzymes
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Full Text Interrogation of Autolysins as a Source of Novel Bacteriolytic Agents A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental and Molecular Medicine by Daniel Carmen Osipovitch DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Hanover, New Hampshire 2 March 2015 F. Jon Kull, Ph.D. Dean of Graduate Studies Examining Committee: (Chair) Karl E. Griswold, Ph.D. Chris Bailey-‐Kellogg, Ph.D. William R. Green, Ph.D. John F. Kokai-‐Kun, Ph.D. Mark R. Spaller, Ph.D.
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She is married to Robert Duvall’s character, who is a physician and a weird man who has sent his wife to one of the new colonies so that she could set a home before he arrives. Then as Hester settles and proves herself capable of living as she likes despite others’ opinions, she meets a beautiful man by the name of Arthur (Gary Oldman). If your husband is a jerk, and you have married him against your will and meet such a great guy, it can’t be called adultery. Gary Oldman has my total respect and admiration in the sense that he changes so much from role to role, even Robert De Niro can’t compete with this. Recent car crashes involving young drivers have caused many to reconsider the effectiveness of Kyleigh's Law.
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After all, there are very few things that are as natural and beautiful than two people- madly in love with each other-having sex. I can’t think of any other Arthur that would be more handsome, desirable, romantic and simply adorable. The society did not find it fit that Hester's services be used towards a lawfully bound contract that she broke.
In a time where women are hardly ever considered capable or to have the right to the anything without their husbands- she arrives alone.
I’m not a fan of Demi Moore but it seemed like a good role for her, the rebel from long ago. Casey Brenner, 17, who had a provisional license, was driving with seven other teenagers in her SUV. He is a priest, very modern and visionary, friendly with Indians,a pacifist and a romantic at heart.
But it takes them just a few seconds to engage into a passionate kiss- and then later on, into a great love-making.
She is also forced to forever wear a scarlet letter, A, on her clothing, to acknowledge her sin of adultery.
There is great truth in the statement of Jesus, "the truth will set you free." The pastor lived in prison walls of his own making, unwilling to admit his fathering of Pearl.
Still, their encounters continue and they realize they have not only respect & admiration for one another but a strong attraction, and deep feelings. There aren’t exactly laws for this, but then they feel like they should punish a woman who bears a child who is not from her husband.
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Consul General Neilly on Campus Outreach at Saint John’s University and The College of Saint Benedict
#Collegeville, May 14, 2019 – Minnesota – CTheo Neilly, Bahamas Consul General, Washington, DC, embarked on the final leg of a Campus Outreach Tour on the campuses of Saint John’s University (SJU) and the College of Saint Benedict (CSB) on May 6th and 7th, 2019.
The Campus Outreach Tour is a multi-faceted initiative created to engage Bahamian students and educators within the 24-state jurisdiction and was established to strengthen relationships with universities to create diverse educational opportunities for Bahamians. It is also used as a platform to provide students with pertinent consular information.
Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, President of CSB and Dr. Michael Hemesath, President of SJU both spoke of the significant impact that Bahamian students have contributed to both campuses. The two campuses have a record number of Bahamians who are presently enrolled, and the numbers continue to grow.
The historical ties between The Bahamas and the colleges are prominently featured in the most recent edition of SJU’s alumni magazine. The magazine highlights notable Bahamians such as Terrance Bastian’85, Auditor General; Pierre Dupuch ’60, Former Member of Parliament; Philip Galanis ’75, Former Member of Parliament, Prince Wallace ’68, businessman and distinguished alumni and many others.
Currently SJU has five (5) Bahamian students in the Senate, which includes, Owyn Ferguson ’21. He was recently elected as President of the student body of SJU. Kistacia Thompson, who is also a Bahamian was also elected as the Student Body President for CSB.
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Header: Dr. Michael Hemesath, President of Saint John’s University, Theo Neilly, Consul General, Janine A. Gibson, Vice Consul, and Alex Schleper, Director of International Admission for (SJU/CSB).
1st insert: Theo Neilly, Bahamas Consul General, Washington, DC, greets Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, President of College of Saint Benedict.
2nd insert: Theo Neilly, Bahamas Consul General, Washington, DC, and Janine A. Gibson, Vice Consul pose with Bahamian students from Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict.
3rd insert: Saint John’s University Alumni publication featuring Bahamian students, past and present.
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Today is IDEVAW - Silent Protest for our Sisters!
Message from Jamaica AIDS Support for Life:
A consortium of NGOs including the AIDS Health Care Foundation (AHF), Jamaica AIDS Support for Life, Eve for Life, Family Planning Association of Jamaica, Woman Inc and J-FLAG/We Change invites your organization to participate in a Silent Protest on November 25, 2016 in the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we ask for your renewed commitment, your voices and your support to Silent Protest 2016 as we take this call to action to another level. This public event is geared towards raising awareness and addressing the issues surrounding violence against women.
This year's Silent Protest, serves to reinforce the fact that we are here to stand in support and camaraderie on behalf of the many women and girls who have experienced violence of any and every form. Singly we can do little but together we can do so much. We invite you and some of your beneficiaries to once again participate with us in this activity by joining us in protest .
Your involvement will certainly aid in the success of the Silent Protest.
We hereby request the participation of 25 persons from your organization.
The Silent Protest activity will take place around the Half Way Tree and its environs between the hours of 12 noon to 5:00 p.m. as follows:
- 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
– Participants meet on the lawns of Police Officers Club, 34 Hope Road, Kingston 10 for briefing.
– All participants will 'take to the streets' to canvass support from passersby about the initiative and share the importance of our protest.
– Actual Silent Protest: During the protest participants will demonstrate their silence through various means e.g. tape the mouth, bear placards, stand in silence, stand motionless, etc.
– Debriefing and partaking of meals at St. Andrew Parish Church Hall, Ellesmere Road, Kingston 10
Kindly indicate your intention to participate in the Silent Protest stating the number of persons attending (and t-shirt sizes) through return email by November 4th, 2016. Your timely response will allow for making adequate preparation to make the event a successful one. Please see attached the shirts and the messages which they represent.
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Who fathered the babies of the Kellits high school Moms?
Below is press release from Hear The Children's Cry re alarming levels of teen pregnancy and school drop outs.
... A very serious matter indeed.
PRESS RELEASE November 20, 2016
How many of these statutory rape cases are being/have been investigated?
Jamaica is a country of laws, we must enforce these laws.
Government must actively address school girl/child poverty as an important root cause of teen pregnancy.
Serious strengthening of PATH Programme, realistically increased funding to CDA, OCA, CISOCA, and support for NGOs working in child welfare field urgently needed
The current de facto acceptance of underage pregnancy as the national trend is strengthening unacceptable inter-generational poverty.
Hear The Children’s Cry, in response to this Sunday Gleaner’s report of 20 Kellit’s High School girls dropping out of school over the past two years due to pregnancies, is calling upon the authorities to say who fathered the babies, and is asking what investigations have been done to bring these perpetrators of statutory rape to justice.
“Where are the fathers of these babies?” asks the leading child advocacy organization’s Founder Betty Ann Blaine. She continues, pointing out a number of alarming aspects to a situation which may well represent a national epidemic of significant proportions:
“What investigations have been, or are being done into these cases of impregnating underage girls? Can the Child Development Agency (CDA) say how many of these cases are even being investigated at all? Statutory rape is a crime under Jamaican law. It is not enough to say that the girls involved will not reveal the names of the baby fathers – the police are required to make investigations and to carry out the law. We cannot continue to live in a country where the laws of the land are not enforced. What is the point of having the Child Protection Act call for mandatory reporting of offenses against children by citizens, if reports of such cases are not investigated?
“We are also asking the Minister of Education to let the nation know whether the situation in Kellits is representative of the national situation. How many schools across Jamaica are facing such shocking numbers of teenage pregnancies? How widespread through our land is the tragedy of school careers interrupted or curtailed due to impregnation of under aged school girls? How many young Jamaican girls are being burdened with pregnancies when they should be completing their education and preparing for earning a decent living?”
Mrs. Blaine also points out the urgent need to deal with significant root causes, such as child poverty and lack of effective family support for those in the most dire circumstances, which must also be recognized and addressed as a national priority.
“There is no doubt that this situation – in which many school children need to seek help outside of their families to survive and to attend school – is being driven by grinding levels of poverty in the poorest communities,” she notes, adding, “Here The Children’s Cry is therefore calling on the Government to make immediate and realistic efforts to strengthen the PATH Programme and to improve or add to other effective support systems for needy children and families. For example, we are calling for realistic increases in the budgets of vital child care bodies such as the CDA, CISOCA and the Office of the Children’s Advocate (CDA), as well as for more support for the NGOs working in the child welfare arena – all of which are seriously over extended and underfunded.
“Jamaica cannot continue to ignore or inadequately address vital social issues. The drastic increase in young school girls becoming pregnant and losing out on their education, and the rearing of yet another set of needy children will only worsen the continuation of intergenerational poverty and the escalating levels of crime and violence. This must be recognized as totally unacceptable by those who have undertaken to serve this nation. And they must commit to effective action without delay.”
CONTACT: Betty Ann Blaine, Founder, 294-8125 or 462-0628;
Betty Ann Blaine
Founder/Convener, New Nation Coalition
Founder, Hear The Children's Cry
Founder, Youth Opportunities Unlimited
Tel: (876) 294-8125, (876) 462-0628
e-mail: bab2609@yahoo.com
info@nnc.org.jm
website: www.nnc.org.jm
Calm your nerves – Mr Trump won’t bite
Admittedly, this column was written before some controversial individuals started arriving at the Tower of Trump, regarding appointments to high office. Still, we watch and pray!
Excerpt from Jamaica Observer column for MON 14 November 2016
Those of us who had high hopes for Hillary Clinton were in a state of shock as we watched the results of last Tuesday’s US Presidential Elections roll in on our television screens. Donald Trump has been declared President-Elect.
Knowing that if the US sneezes, Jamaica gets pneumonia, some expressed fear that development projects sponsored by the US in Jamaica would be affected. However, we should remember the excellent programmes initiated by two excellent US Ambassadors to Jamaica who served under the Republican administration, Ambassador Sue Cobb and Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson.
Ambassador Cobb, a brilliant attorney-at-law, launched a raft of significant projects in Jamaica, including the founding of the ever-growing Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI). After her tour of duty in Jamaica ended, she and her husband Ambassador Charles Cobb, have continued to sponsor scholarship programmes for Jamaican students and the annual Cobb Family Lecture Series at the UWI. Ambassador Cobb’s successor, Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson also focused on education projects.
You may counter that Donald Trump known for his fiery utterances against immigrants, may have a different perspective on engagements with such countries as Jamaica. But think about it, various USAID projects in Jamaica have supported sustainable enterprise, resulting in job creation. What better way to stem immigration to the US, by assisting developing countries to become more self-reliant?
We will not easily forget the racist attitude to some of Mr. Trump’s supporters and this may cause some amount of unease among the members of our families in the diaspora. However, President Barack Obama has given us a great example of how one projects a spirit of dignity and cordiality, as he did at Mr. Trump’s first meeting with him at the White House last Thursday. The White House staff appeared grim as they awaited the arrival of Mr. Trump, but there was no negativity in the demeanour of President Obama.
Many may be wondering if the world will become a more dangerous place because of this election result. Surely, that should be motivation for us to make our little island of Jamaica less dangerous and more self-reliant.
NATIONAL JOURNALISM WEEK CHURCH SERVICE
News Release from the Press Association of Jamaica
November 16, 2016: National Journalism Week kicks off with the traditional church service, which this year is being held at Swallowfield Chapel on Sunday, November 20, at 10.45 am.
The overall theme for this year's Journalism Week, which will be celebrated from Sunday November 20 to Saturday November 26, 2016, is "Media Ethics and Modern Media".
"The church service has been a very important feature of Journalism Week over the years," says PAJ President Dionne Jackson Miller.
"We know all too well the importance of putting God first in everything that we do. That is part of the reason we continue to use this occasion to ask for God's continued guidance," Jackson Miller explains.
The church service will be followed by Monday's Forum and Panel Discussion, which is open to members of the public. This year's topic "Grief Porn': Journalism ethics in the media coverage of mourning" will focus on the globally significant issue of how media covers traumatic events. The forum will take place on Monday November 21 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, starting at 6pm. The US Embassy is partnering with the PAJ for this event.
The main speaker for the forum will be former veteran editor Kevin Z. Smith, deputy director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism. Smith is a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists in the USA, and has been chairman of the group's Ethics Committee since 2010.
The forum will also feature local media professionals such as CVM TV's Managing Editor Irvin Forbes, Senior Gleaner reporter Erica Virtue, and Assistant Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission Karlene Salmon.
"A Free Press, Oxygen of Democracy"
LIVE THE ‘NOW’ MOMENT!
HOMILY FOR THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY ( C ) by Archbishop Emeritus Donald Reece O.J.
Texts: Mal. 4: 1-2; 2 Thess. 3: 7-12; Luke 21: 5-9
Yesterday is gone, never to return! Tomorrow is yet to come; it may never come! What's left for us? The NOW moment! That's all we can celebrate, the NOW moment! Would that we could be consciously focused to enjoy the NOW moment! For that reason, the Apostle Paul writes: "Scripture says: 'At the favourable time I listened to you, on the day of salvation I helped you. Now is the favourable/acceptable time; this is the day of salvation'" [2 Cor. 6:2]. Psalm 95 also warns us: "Oh, if today [i.e., NOW] you hear his voice, harden not your hearts" [v. 7b].
For those who try to follow Christ faithfully—not just Christian by name, but in mindset and outlook—living the NOW moment is to be consciously aware of living life to the full. Jesus tells us: "I have come that they may have life and have it to the full (or more abundantly)" [John10:10]. Therefore, we must view the NOW moment as the means of communicating to us the fullness of life which is eternal, a life with God. Consequently, the components of the NOW moment would be thanksgiving or gratitude, repentance and prayer, perfect submission, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
My dear friends in Christ, when we try to live the NOW moment we begin to live life to the fullest. We recognize the value of persons which we never saw before. Like St. Francis we observe created things as we have never observed them before. As a consequence, our lives are enriched. We live relational lives, other persons lives matter, the environment is cared for, and we see consequences to our actions. The heart of this conversion is precisely this: God is in every moment of life. Remember what St. Paul reminded the Athenians: "In him (God) we live and move and have our being" [Acts 17:28]. Yes, God speaks to us in the NOW moment of our existence, for in Him we live this very moment. And every subsequent moment is a NOW moment when we are consciously aware that it is in God, through His providential power, mercy and care that we "live and move and have our being."
It is within that context, fellow saints of God, that we look at the Readings of today's liturgy. Malachi sketches for us a people who have returned from exile, but who fail to live up to the covenant which requires righteous living in respect to God in terms of reverence, worship and humility. Also lacking was the requisite just behavior in their relationship with neighbor in terms of goodness, just practices and charity. In short, the people have become arrogant. Malachi prophesies that the terrible day of the Lord will surely come to destroy those who have departed from God's law. For those who "fear" (reverence) God, the day of the Lord will bring healing and deliverance. Listen to what the prophet says, "Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him" [Mal. 3: 18]. In other words, for those who live the NOW moment in serving God faithfully, there ought to be no fear and trembling.
The Gospel speaks to us of the destruction of the Temple and the devastation and persecution that will come to test Christians who faithfully follow Jesus. The Saviour asks for calm and assures his people that they must rely on Him. He says:
They will manhandle and persecute you…bringing you to trial before kings and governors, all because of my name. You will be brought to give witness on account of it. I bid you resolve not to worry about your defense beforehand, for I will give you words and a wisdom which none of your adversaries can take exception or contradict… By patient endurance you will save your lives."
I draw your attention to a particular line: "I bid you resolve not to worry about your defense beforehand." This is a reminder to live the NOW moment, and not to worry "beforehand," for Christ and His Spirit are in the present moment to give strength and wisdom, if we but "listen to his voice and harden not our hearts." Living in today's world may not result in actual physical persecution; rather, there can be psychological and verbal persecution in the home, at the work place and even in Church because of jealousy and envy. With all of that you and I, dear friends in Christ, are called to live the NOW moment—to recognize God's mysterious working somehow, for "in Him we live and move and have our being."
I propose to you that a conscious appreciation of the NOW moment in our lives will make us stand firm in faith during terrible or unfortunate occurrences that must accompany our human condition. This conscious living of the NOW moment brings about conversion of lifestyle. We may not experience what the Jews experienced in the destruction of their well-adorned Temple as foretold by Jesus—and which took place in the year 70 A.D—but there may well be a similar destruction of something we hold dear and can't seem to be without, or the loss of someone close to us, who was our significant other. Whenever aspects of life crumble, do we forever live in the past to the extent that we cannot live life fully in this present moment? Can we, people of faith, accept or cope with such unfortunate occurrences that we can say with Job: "The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord!"?
The NOW moment, be it fortunate or unfortunate, has within it something of the divine. Only people of faith can recognize that special "something" because they listen not only with their ears, but also with their hearts that seek to love the Lord with all their heart, soul and mind, and to love neighbor as themselves. That's the bottom line of each and every moment of a Christian's life. When that happens, you know that you are living the NOW moment. Perhaps this is what St. Theresa of the Child Jesus meant when she used the term, "Sacrament of the moment," by doing all for Jesus out of love.
In conclusion, I leave with you a simple story of a young teenager living the NOW moment that drives away fear of what might happen. Dominic Savio, along with his classmates were playing during the scheduled recess period. The question was asked: "If the Lord were to come to judge the world in another five minutes, what would you do?" One by one his classmates gave their individual answers: "I'd rush to the Chaoel and pray before the Blessed Sacrament;" "I would kneel down and make an Act of Contrition to tell God how sorry I am for having sinned;" I would start praying the Rosary." Then it was Dominic's turn. He said, "I would keep on playing!" Dominic was living the NOW moment of his life, which was to play. It was the will of God for him to play, and in doing the will of God, there was nothing to fear. No wonder he became a Saint!
Would that you and I could grasp fully the beauty of the NOW moment, to live life fully in the Presence of God, every moment of the day, doing what our vocation demands of us: family members talking lovingly to one another; parents being more caring and loving to their children; children being more obedient to their parents and loving towards their siblings; employers being just to employees and treating them as brothers and sisters in Christ; employees not looking for short-cuts in doing their job, but doing it with pride to the best of their ability; pastors being sensitive to their parishioners; parishioners coming to Mass every Sunday on time so as to be truly recollected for the celebration of the miraculous Paschal Mystery; politicians, police, lawyers and business moguls shunning all manner of corruption—all being faithful to their calling and living the NOW moment! Then, fellow saints in Christ, we would be on the path of genuine sainthood to which we are all called through the NOW moment.
Let's not worry unnecessarily, as some do and get ulcers and cancer in the process, about the "Day of the Lord!" Rather, live each day fully as faithful people who are God-conscious and Jesus-centred, for the Lord is revealing Himself at every moment of the day. That, my dear friends in Christ, is living fully the NOW moment for the greater honour and glory of God!
+Donald J. Reece
Jamaica adopts “decent work” convention
Members of Jamaica Household Workers Union were joined by supporters from UN Women for their celebration of the adoption of the ILO Decent Work Convention 189
Excerpt from Observer column published Nov 7, 2016
Last Wednesday morning Shirley Price, Founder & President of the Jamaica Household Workers Union led a jubilant band of members and supporters at a victory march around Emancipation Park, celebrating the announcement of Prime Minister Andrew Holness at the United Nations in September that Jamaica would be a signatory to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 189, also known as the Decent Work Convention for Household Workers.
Among the distinguished participants were Hon. Olivia Grange, Minister of Culture, Gender Affairs, Entertainment & Sport; Executive Director of the UN Women, Madame Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Regional Director, Ms. Luiza Carvalho and Jamaica’s own Pat Francis, lead coordinator of the United Nations secretary general's high-level panel on Women's Economic Empowerment.
It has been a long road for Shirley Price and this column has been supporting her valiant efforts. ILO Convention 189 details the rights of domestic workers who have far too long, been disrespected and abused. We can be proud that there are Labour Laws in Jamaica which provides some level of protection but the implementation of this convention will uphold the rights of the nearly 60,000 household workers in Jamaica. Here are some of the imperatives of signatories to ILO C189.
- freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining
- Each Member shall take measures to ensure that domestic workers enjoy effective protection against all forms of abuse, harassment and violence.
- Each Member shall take measures to ensure that domestic workers, like workers generally, enjoy fair terms of employment as well as decent working conditions and, if they reside in the household, decent living conditions that respect their privacy.
- Each Member shall take measures to ensure that domestic workers are informed of their terms and conditions of employment in an appropriate, verifiable and easily understandable manner and preferably, where possible, through written contracts in accordance with national laws, regulations or collective agreements. in particular. This includes: normal hours of work; paid annual leave, and daily and weekly rest periods; the provision of food and accommodation, if applicable
US Elections – the world holds its breath
This column was published on Monday, November 7 - the next day, Donald Trump won the US Presidential Elections.
At the time of writing this column, the polls reveal that the Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump race for the US Presidential candidacy has tightened, with the ABC/Washington Post poll giving Secretary Clinton a three-point lead. As we review the history of the two candidates, we are puzzled that Mr. Trump surpassed his Republican rivals – such men of note as Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida and Governor of Ohio, John Kasich to emerge as the candidate. We believe that Hillary Clinton was the obvious choice for the Democratic Party – Michelle Obama has joined her on the campaign trail, declaring that she is the most qualified person to have ever aspired to the US presidency, emphasising, “Yes – more than Barack, more than Bill.”
How then did Mr. Trump emerge as the Republican candidate? Let us remember that the media plays a very important role in creating our role models and forming our opinions. In his younger days, Trump had movie-star looks and in his more mature days he made himself into a television star by creating “The Apprentice” series.
“The Apprentice” had an avid audience and so he made a lasting impression particularly on perhaps a less intellectual segment of the population who would have spent more time in front of the tube and less time reading.
Add this to the loss of jobs among less-educated white folks in certain states and the increasing diversity of the American population which perhaps has awakened latent racism. From social media, we learned that there was widespread resentment towards the Obamas among folks who could not countenance a black family in the White House.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has pointed out that a prominent African-American face on the Trump stage is promoting his own cult, actually - God2.com, as Mr. Trump’s audiences are largely the white working-class. Despite the Access Hollywood video and the many women who have come forward accusing Trump of sexual harassment, he remains firmly in the race - the white male leader whom we are acculturated to accept unconditionally.
Like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton would make history if she is elected President. Indeed, she has already made history as the first woman Presidential candidate.
However, as the French say whenever there is an issue, “cherchez la femme”. This means that regardless of the issue, people are always looking for a woman to blame. Despite her admission that she made a mistake in using her personal email for classified correspondence, some refuse to forgive, while Mr. Trump can get away with his shocking behaviour on camera and some very disturbing allegations of sexual harassment. It seems a woman needs to be on the path to sainthood to be accepted as a leader, regardless of her phenomenal achievements. The international community may be impressed that she is so experienced, articulate and has been an advocate for children from her very early years. Such is the trial of women the world over, as we still hammer at that glass ceiling.
Tomorrow we will learn whether the people have decided to choose the movie-star over the star for advocacy and service to country. In a democracy one must respect the will of the people and in making their choice, the US electorate will signal to the world their priorities or their prejudices.
A day of tragedy, a call to action
Jamaica Observer column published MON 31 October 2016
Nicholas Francis
A manager in my office has had to be comforting her son, classmate of 14-year-old Jamaica College student Nicholas Francis who was stabbed to death last Wednesday on a bus by a thieving thug. Not only did he stab this defenceless child but he pushed him off the bus, breaking his arm. In a news report, we heard that Nicholas’ mother stood grieving over the body of her dead son and begging God to wake him up.
A few hours after Nicholas' horrific demise, Jamaica College graduate, Gary 'Butch' Hendrickson, was being inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica, after being honoured earlier this month by the American Friends of Jamaica in New York City. Such are the heights that our children can reach... If they are allowed to live to get there.
Aware of the challenges to the safety and survival of this new generation, Butch Hendrickson declared to his audience, “Martin Luther King so eloquently put it: 'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.' Let us commit to become passionately engaged...We the People..The power of We --- A magical force!!”
He continued, “And, with this formidable collaboration of private and public sectors, let us seize these opportune moments to bring to a decisive end the politics of poverty that for far too long have gripped our boldest intentions in a relentless stranglehold. It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to formulate policies that will release us all to create opportunities for wealth and prosperity. We cannot and must not squander the lives of another generation of Jamaicans.”
Over recent months we have heard some of the most heart-breaking reports of children whose lives have been taken by these monsters. We remember visiting with the family of toddler Demario Whyte who was shot execution style on Luke Lane in downtown Kingston. A few weeks ago, three children were among the five killed in the March Pen massacre.
These evil doers are the spawn of a cynical set of power brokers, political and otherwise who have unleashed cruelty on our beloved Jamaica. Every time a parent now sees off his or her child to school, the painful fact of Nicholas Francis’ death must now strike terror in their hearts.
Therefore, let us make it clear to our political leaders on both sides, our leaders in the public and private sectors, church and civil society: we have fallen very short of our duty to our country and our people.
In a conversation with a fellow medium business owner this week, we shared the long hours, the tough audits, the punitive taxes that we must pay, in order to stay in business and the snail’s pace of public organizations to address our nation’s problems.
Another JC graduate, Dr Lucien Jones, had given a lecture at a seminar a few days before titled ‘Healthy Church: Healthy Nation’. He spoke on ' Decisive Issues facing Christians’. He noted that in 1970, there were 152 homicides and that this rose to a record 1,683 in 2009. He quoted a famous theologian John Stott: "whenever a society goes bad, it is not the fault of the society, but we Christians who are called to be ' salt and light'.”
Dr Jones noted, “Yes, marches and demonstrations, and policy initiatives, and police actions, and interventions by Civil Society, and prayers by the Church, even fasting have sessions, all have a role to play in rescuing our country. But ultimately it all depends on our obedience to the God.”
He challenged us to make the right choices in our lives, “for only God can, in Christ, “extend peace to us like a river", in a broken and troubled world in which Nicholas Francis lived and died. Way too soon!”
Kudos Dr Donovan Calder
One of the proud moments at last month's National Honours Ceremony, was to see Dr Donovan 'Danny' Calder being conferred with the Order of Distinction - Commander Class.
This brilliant, humble ophthalmologist and entrepreneur has made his family, friends and colleagues proud, witnessed by the large turnout at his celebration at the Jamaica Pegasus.
As he traced his journey from Allman Town to his comfortable St. Andrew environs, he told us of those days when his family shared premises with several others, who though poor took pride in decent family life, Godliness and cleanliness.
"Poverty is not squalor," he reminded us as he described the care the residents took in keeping their surroundings orderly, and their enduring mutual support.
The example of his parents is mirrored in the strong family he and his inspiring wife Diane have raised. They run his business together, famous for the long waits of his patients who keep returning because once they get into his office, they become the only patient in the world for this gifted doctor.
Congratulations Danny and Diane!
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Five Musical Theatre Awards Nominations for Tipton-Rosemark Academy
Posted on May 2, 2018 by Thomas Sellers
Star Staff Reports
Tipton-Rosemark Academy’s production of Guys & Dolls was awarded five nominations on April 23 as the Orpheum Theatre Group announced its annual High School Musical Theatre Awards nominations.
Modeled after the Tony Awards, the awards recognize achievements in all areas of high school musical theatre in the Mid-South area and is a part of the Jimmy Awards, a national high school musical theatre awards program.
High schools within a 100-mile radius of Memphis are eligible.
Each musical goes through a judging process where community judges attend each of the high school productions.
The winners of the awards will be announced on May 24 at The Orpheum Theatre.
The nominations TRA received are:
Outstanding Production Materials – Meghan & Shalese Gilbreath
Outstanding Front of House – Kevin Connell
Outstanding Music Direction – Lalania Vaughn
Outstanding Featured Actor – Cooper Thorpe as Harry the Horse
Outstanding Supporting Actor – Hutch Dunavant as Nicely-Nicely
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2008 News Summary
Posted on February 2, 2008 by mingusadmin
Mingus Big Band tops list of local music in Reading Eagle
Sun, Dec. 28 2008
The year in local music and dance 2008: simply stunningBy Susan L. Peña Reading Eagle Correspondent”1. The Mingus Big Band, presented by the Kutztown University Performing Artists Series, Jan. 30. It would be difficult to find a better band, and its devotion to performing the brilliant works of Charles Mingus makes it a national treasure.”
Mingus Big Band listed with photo in NYT listing of New Year’s Eve events in NYC
NATE CHINEN in NYT
Charles Mingus,
the unstoppable jazz bassist and composer, died in January 1979. So
this stand, teetering on the cusp of 30 Years Later, doubles as a
commemoration. But as with any Mingus tribute, the music — carried out
by the sturdiest of repertory groups, with guests like the trombonist
Ku-umba Frank Lacy and the trumpeter Randy Brecker — will foster
revelry. (Barbecue is likely to help on that front, too.)
At 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, ticketweb.com.
The first set is $125, including a three-course meal and gratuity; the
second is $195, including a three-course meal, gratuity and Champagne
Time Out NY on Mingus Orchestra
Thu, Dec. 25 2008
“One of several bands entrusted with the daunting task of preserving Charles Mingus’s raucous, bighearted legacy, the ten-piece Mingus Orchestra has all the depth and muscle needed to render the master bassist-composer’s tempestuous fantasias.”
Happy Holidays from the Mingus Bands
Click on image above or Youtube link below to view video greeting!
Holiday Greetings-Lineup for Mingus Dynasty Monday, Dec 15
LIVE PERFORMANCES:
MONDAY December 15th
MINGUS DYNASTY 7:30pm & 9:30pm at Jazz Standard
• Mark Gross
• Seamus Blake
• Sean Jones
• Andy Hunter
• Boris Kozlov
• David Kikoski
• Jeff “Tain” Watts
SETS AT 7:30 & 9:30. Doors open an hour prior.
Jazz Standard features wonderful Blue Smoke BBQ. There is never a minimum.
116 East 27th between Park and Lex in NYC 212-576-2232. http://jazzstandard.com
NEW YEAR’S EVE December 31
MAKE IT A MINGUS NEW YEAR!
Make plans now!
MINGUS BIG BAND will be ringing in the New Year at Jazz Standard with this amazing lineup:
Trumpets: Randy Brecker, Kenny Rampton, Earl Gardner
Saxophones: Vincent Herring, Wayne Escoffery, Abraham Burton, Doug Yates, Lauren Sevian
Trombones: Conrad Herwig, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Earl McIntyre
Drums: Jeff “Tain” Watts
Bass: Boris Kozlov
Piano: David Kikoski
will be kicking off our year-long 50th anniversary celebration of
Mingus’ legendary albums “MINGUS AH UM,” “MINGUS DYNASTY,” and “BLUES
AND ROOTS.”
WBGO/NPR is also broadcasting the music nationwide
from 11pm to 12:15am so you can still join us even if you can’t make it
to New York City.
Jazz Standard features wonderful Blue Smoke BBQ. 116 East 27th between Park and Lex in NYC 212-576-2232. http://jazzstandard.com
TICKETS FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE ARE ON SALE NOW, AND AVAILABLE ONLY ON TICKETWEB
What About Mingus? By Nat Hentoff-NOW ONLINE
Wed, Dec. 10 2008
The December issue of Jazz Times has an article by Nat Hentoff in which he highlights recent Mingus activities that are expanding the cultural and educational impact of Mingus music throughout the world including the upcoming Mingus High School Competition, the publication of new charts, the Simply Mingus series, and the touring bands that frequently include clinics and workshops. He also issues a rallying cry to additional institutions to embrace the canon.
“Lunch crowd treated to jazz quintet” (Mingus High School Competition)
Sun, Nov. 23 2008
“….The combo played for three lunch periods while also recording tracks for a compact disc they will use to enter an upcoming Charles Mingus competition.The students were so absorbed in their playing that when the third period finished, they thought they had only played for two.A live audience helps their performance and a live audience with people who wanted to listen was even better. “You get a different vibe,” said teacher Brian Messier. They wanted that energy captured on the recording.The combo, which featured a trumpet, tenor saxophone, guitar, base guitar and drums, launched into the Mingus tunes “Better Get Hit in Your Soul” and “Pithecanthropus Erectus….”
A 65th Birthday Tribute to Joni Mitchell
Includes audio for “A Chair In The Sky” from “Mingus” (1979), an album that showcases Ms. Mitchell’s experimental side as she collaborates with jazz great Charles Mingus
Arranger Sy Johnson on WBGO
Sat, Nov. 22 2008
From Bill Kirchner:”Recently, I taped my next one-hour show for the “Jazz From The Archives” series. Presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies, the series runs every Sunday on WBGO-FM (88.3).Sy Johnson (b. 1930) is a Renaissance Man of jazz. He’s a gifted arranger-composer, pianist, singer, writer, photographer, educator, and raconteur.We’ll hear examples of Johnson’s arrangements for Charles Mingus, the Lee Konitz Nonet, and the current Mingus Big Band and Mingus Orchestra.The show will air this Sunday, November 23, from 11 p.m. to midnight, Eastern Standard Time.NOTE: If you live outside the New York City metropolitan area, WBGO also broadcasts on the Internet at www.wbgo.org.
http://www.jazzsuite.com/”
Review of Ah Um new Vinyl release by Bob Lange
Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Vinyl Re-Issue)
By Bob Lange
aren’t just words from Charles Mingus. He didn’t always manage to make
things simple, but one of the many amazing things about Mingus Ah Um
is that he took this incredibly challenging jazz, in perhaps its
creative heyday, and made it as easy as pop music. That’s not to say
that he dummied it down. He didn’t. He did exactly what he said, made
the the complicated awesomely simple. What that means is that it’s as
easy as a pop record, but the ride is as fascinating and wild as
Mingus’ later more “difficult” albums. Pop stars of the day, like
Sinatra or Nat King Cole, were pleasant, easy to digest artists while
guys like Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane were pushing the limits of
music as it was known at the time. Mingus Ah Um doesn’t split
the difference between those two schools, but rather fully accomplishes
the goals of both, something that may not have happened again in
popular music until Revolver and Sgt. Pepper almost
a decade later. It set a standard for pop music to explore, to be
avant-garde, and rock music in particular owes a tremendous debt to
that spirit.
As great as Mingus Ah Um is, I’ve only
ever heard it on CD until now. Legacy Recordings has re-issued this
classic on 180 gram vinyl and it’s like hearing the album for the first
time. Its already abundant warmth is warmer and the sound more natural.
If you own the CD, this is the perfect time to pick up the vinyl and really hear it the way it was meant to be heard.”
Flavorpill review of Mingus Mondays
Mon, Nov. 17 2008
“The Mingus Big Band, one of three rotating groups that makes up this weekly celebration of the music of Charles Mingus, cannot be contained on the intimate stage of the Jazz Standard, forcing some of their lead brass players into the audience. The 14-piece ensemble fills the room with loud and forceful melodies that swing so hard they erupt into inspired improv. It’s a fitting tribute to the prolific avant-garde composer, and his widow, Sue, is often present to provide context to important works. The band has many friends — including the Late Show with David Letterman’s Paul Shaffer who recently sat in on piano.”– Chris Kompanek
Mingus in New Box Set tribute to Nesuhi Ertugun
“Hommage à Nesuhi” (Rhino Handmade)—The late record executive Nesuhi Ertegün may not have possessed the celebrity of his younger brother, Ahmet, but his visionary production work for Atlantic Records with John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ray Charles, Hank Crawford, and others made him a behind-the-scenes legend. This five-disk tribute was the last project completed by Joel Dorn, the producer who followed Ertegün at Atlantic and who died late last year.
“Obama should follow Carter’s lead and bring jazz back to the White House” by Howard Reich
“If President-elect Barack Obama wants to make a bold cultural statement—one that resonates deeply with his autobiography and with the legacy of his adopted hometown, Chicago—there’s a compelling way to do it:
Teach the White House to swing (again).
That’s what President Jimmy Carter did in spring 1978, casting the unique brilliance of a presidential spotlight on a distinctly American art form. Carter convened a galaxy of jazz luminaries at the White House, to spectacular effect. Eubie Blake (at 95), Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, Teddy Wilson, Max Roach, Louie Bellson and other giants performed jubilantly on the White House South Lawn, basking in the kind of official recognition jazz richly deserves but rarely receives. Anyone who follows jazz never will forget the sight of a wheelchair-bound Charles Mingus, a musical icon then and now, weeping openly as President Carter praised him at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave….”
Mingus Awareness Project review
Mingus art/First Grade Jazz
Portrait of Mingus by artist/DJ Ed German.
Part of Jazz Art Exhibit presented by First Grade Jazz, primary school jazz education.
Paul Shaffer with Mingus Big Band at Jazz Standard
Fri, Nov. 14 2008
Paul Shaffer from Late Show with David Letterman stopped by to hear the Mingus Big Band at the Jazz Standard on Monday night, November 10th, and found himself performing an entire set at the piano, instead! He soloed on a brand new arrangement of “New Now Know How” and swung magnificently on “Song with Orange.” Here are some photos! (Below with trumpet player Lew Soloff.)
Mingus Dynasty mention in Santa Barbara Independent
Thu, Nov. 13 2008
Obama fever has been bubbling up for months, of course, including in the largely progressive realms of jazz across the land and here in the jazz Mecca of N.Y.C. Buzzes of anticipation could be felt the night before in clubland here. Monday night is hardly an “off” night in New York: It is when big bands and special projects take up residencies, including the ongoing presence of official Mingus bands, most recently in the vibe-filled basement of the Jazz Standard. (While there, check out the savory BBQ from the host eatery, Smoke.) Great to know that Charles Mingus’s unique songbook and spirit is alive and well in the city where his creative fire raged.
During last Monday’s set by the seven-piece Mingus Dynastyband—featuring tenor player Seamus Blake, drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, Kuumba Frank Lacy, etc.—alto saxist Craig Handy greeted us with, “Welcome to the Jazz Standard, on the night before the world changes. Hopefully, when we go to Europe on tour, they won’t throw tomatoes at us anymore.” The band launched into one of Mingus’s politically barbed chestnuts, “Fables of Faubus.”
Jazz Breakfast review of Mingus Orchestra
Tue, Oct. 28 2008
AllAboutJazz.com: Sights from Mingus Awareness Project
By Dean Christesen
The 2nd Annual Mingus Awareness Project in Richmond this evening seemed to be, to say the very least, an absolute success on all levels.
New England Conservatory presents Music of Charles Mingus Dec. 4
Thursday, December 4Ken Schaphorst conducts NEC Jazz Orchestra: Music of Charles MingusKen Schaphorst directs the NEC Jazz Orchestra in the performance of music by Charles Mingus. Program will include many of Mingus’s most beloved compositions, including Boogie Stop Shuffle, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Sue’s Changes, Children’s Hour of Dream, and The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife are Some Jive-Ass Slippers.The NEC Jazz Orchestra was named Best College Big Band in the 2004 Downbeat Student Music Awards, and performs original music and traditional big band repertoire under the direction of Ken Schaphorst and guest artists.FreeNEC’s Jordan Hall
Mingus Orchestra at Jazz Standard tonight and tomorrow, Mingus Big Band all weekend
Wed, Oct. 8 2008
IT’S HERE! MINGUS AT JAZZ STANDARD in NYC.Monday, October 6 MINGUS MONDAYS kicks off with a full week of Mingus, with all three bands and special guests.Sets are at 7:30 and 9:30, with an extra 11:30 set on Fridays and Saturdays. Doors open an hour prior.Jazz Standard features wonderful Blue Smoke BBQ. There is never a minimum.Look at this lineup:
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 MINGUS ORCHESTRA
Drums: Adam Cruz
Guitar: Lage Lund
Alto Sax: Craig Handy
Tenor Sax: Seamus Blake
Trombone: Ku-umba Frank Lacy
Trumpet: Tatum Greenblatt
Bassoon: Michael Rabinowitz
French Horn: John Clark
Bass Clarinet: Doug Yates
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 MINGUS ORCHESTRA
Bass: Joe Martin
Guitar: Freddie Bryant
Tenor Sax: Wayne Escoferry
Trombone: Conrad Herwig
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 MINGUS BIG BAND
Trumpet: Lew Soloff
Trumpet: Earl Gardner
Trumpet: Jack Walrath
Trombone: Earl McIntyre
Trombone: Clark Gayton
Alto Sax: Jaleel Shaw
Alto Sax: Vincent Herring
Tenor Sax: Craig Handy
Tenor Sax: Wayne Escoffery
Baritone Sax: Ronnie Cuber
Drums: Victor Lewis
Bass: Dwayne Burno
Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 MINGUS BIG BAND
Trumpet: Jeremy Pelt
Trombone: Joe Fiedler
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008 MINGUS BIG BAND
Trumpet: Randy Brecker
Tenor Sax: Brandon Wright
Baritone Sax: Lauren Sevian-
Monday Oct. 13, 2008 MINGUS DYNASTY
Drums: Justin Faulkner
Piano: Orrin Evans
Trumpet: Alex Sipiagin
NYT: Mingus week at Jazz Standard
Tue, Oct. 7 2008
★ MINGUS DYNASTY AND ORCHESTRA (Monday through Thursday) After a long residency at Iridium, the Mingus repertory juggernaut has settled in at the Jazz Standard for a spell. Monday and Tuesday will feature the Mingus Dynasty, a seven-piece band that includes the saxophonists Craig Handy and Seamus Blake. On Wednesday and Thursday the Mingus Orchestra, an ensemble with some unusual timbres — like French horn, bass clarinet and bassoon — holds court. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; cover, $25 and $30. (Chinen)
New Yorker: Mingus week at Jazz Standard
JAZZ STANDARD116 E. 27th St. (212-576-2232)—Charles Mingus’s widow, Sue Mingus, keeps the music of the master bassist alive with the Mingus Dynasty, the Mingus Orchestra, and the Mingus Big Band. They’ll be here on Mondays, with rotating weekly appearances. To settle in (they were in residence at Iridium in recent years), the groups are spending a few days at a time onstage. Last week belonged to the Mingus Dynasty. On Oct. 8-9, the Mingus Orchestra, which focusses on his compositions, takes over. Oct. 10-12: The Mingus Big Band is in the house. Oct. 13: Mingus Mondays get rolling in earnest with the Mingus Dynasty.
Mingus at Jazz Standard Oct 6-13 all week!
Sat, Oct. 4 2008
IT’S IT’S HERE! MINGUS MONDAYS AT JAZZ STANDARD in NYC.Monday, October 6 MINGUS MONDAYS kicks off with a full week of Mingus, with all three bands and special guests.Sets are at 7:30 and 9:30, with an extra 11:30 set on Fridays and Saturdays. Doors open an hour prior.Jazz Standard features wonderful Blue Smoke BBQ. There is never a minimum.Look at this lineup:Monday Oct. 6, 2008
Piano: Helen Sung
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
Monday Oct. 13, 2008
Mingus Big Band in LA Oct 3 & 4
Fri, Oct. 3 2008
Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4: MINGUS BIG BAND in L.A. as part of the celebrations for the new Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center in Watts. The band will be playing at the Madrid Theatre in Canoga Park, and the Warner Grand in San Pedro. More info on the Tour page.Trumpets: Greg Gisbert, Sean Jones, Lew Soloff
Saxophones: Seamus Blake, Mark Gross, Jaleel Shaw, Jason Marshall, Scott Robinson
Trombones: Clark Gayton, Conrad Herwig, Earl McIntyre
Bass: Andy McKee
Piano: Kenny Drew, Jr.
Mingus Awareness Project by Peter McElhinney
“Two busy musicians have a long month ahead of them, but their orbits will cross at the Mingus Awareness Project.
100 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: Review of Mingus Ah Um By Tom Moon
Sun, Sep. 28 2008
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Boo! Nazi Fascist Supremists! (MP3s) by Doug Schulkind
Wed, Sep. 24 2008
A history lesson on Desegregation with Fables of Faubus.
All About Jazz: Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center
Tue, Sep. 16 2008
…In addition to the Watts Towers Drum and Jazz Festivals, there will be three major Jazz concerts focusing on the music of Charles Mingus. Two concerts, one at the Madrid Theater in the San Fernando Valley, and the other at the Warner Grand Theater in San Pedro in the southern tip of the City, will feature the music of the Charles Mingus Big Band. The final concert is envisioned as a gala tribute and will take place at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in the Mid City/Leimert Park community. It will feature LA-based, nationally recognized musicians who played with, or were deeply influenced by, Mr. Mingus….
Plea from Mingus musician Wayne Escoffery: Missing Horn
Help Wayne locate his horn!
Silver Spring Jazz Festival review
“It’s hard to describe the sound of a 14-piece jazz orchestra playing the work of Charles Mingus … it was just sensational, the crowd went wild, and Marcus Johnson was also probably the best I’ve ever heard him.”
MINGUS BIG BAND Sat, Sept 13 at Silver Springs, MD. October 3, 4 in L. A. & MINGUS MONDAYS at Jazz Standard
Sat, Sep. 13 2008
LIVE MINGUS PERFORMANCES:
Saturday, September 13th at 9pm MINGUS BIG BAND at the Silver Springs Jazz Festival in Silver Springs, MDTrumpets: Tatum Greenblatt, Alex Sipiagin, Lew Soloff
Saxophones: Seamus Blake, Abraham Burton, Jason Marshall, Scott Robinson, Jaleel Shaw
Drums: Donald Edwards
Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4: MINGUS BIG BAND in L.A. as part of the celebrations for the new Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center in Watts. The band will be playing at the Madrid Theatre in Canoga Park, and the Warner Grand in San Pedro. More info on the Tour page.
Trumpets: Greg Gisbert, Sean Jones, Lew Soloff
Sue Mingus announces, next month:
MINGUS MONDAYS AT JAZZ STANDARD in NYC.
MINGUS MONDAYS kicks
off with a full week of Mingus October 6-13, with all three bands and
special guests, and then every Monday featuring alternating bands.
Mingus Dynasty, Orchestra & Big Band Establish A New Long-Term Residency At NYC’s Foremost Jazz Club
Outstanding Musicians From Across the Generations Fill the Ranks of Three Great Bands
Sets are at 7:30 and 9:30, with an extra 11:30 set on Fridays and Saturdays. Doors open an hour prior.
Come celebrate our new Jazz Standard residency starting Monday, October 6th.
L.A. Arts Center Named After Jazz Great Charles Mingus
Thu, Sep. 11 2008
“A new youth arts center in Watts run by the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs will have its grand opening later this month during a weekend when two festivals will be happening. Named after the famous jazz musician and past local resident, the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center will expand space for youth arts programs. The new building, which is next to the Watts Towers Arts Center, will bring more classroom space expanding the department’s educational classes that give children a safe and creative atmosphere for individual expression with guidance and direction from professional artists.”
Interview with Sue Mingus for Silver Spring concert on Sept 13
All that and a pork pie hat: Fifth annual Silver Spring Jazz Festival
by Chris Slattery…”Sue Graham Mingus says the Mingus music is a perfect fit for a festival focused on young performers, local talent and community togetherness.”This music has enormous energy,” she says. “It really demands that individual musicians come in and play themselves, tell who they are. There are lots of open spaces.”The Mingus oeuvre of more than 300 compositions can be challenging, and rewarding, for musicians and listeners alike. The score of his orchestral masterpiece “Epitaph” is 500 pages, and there’s a whole sub-genre known as “Simply Mingus” that’s recommended for students. But Sue Graham Mingus wants her husband’s legacy to include his sense of fun and wonder – and empathy.”Charles appreciated the idea of risk and surprises,” she says.”That’s what we associate with jazz. You take risks, and stumble sometimes, and recover. We thrive on the unpredictability and excitement.”
Thu, Sep. 4 2008
Media Contact: Theresa Mullen, 646.747.7217, tmullen [at] ushgnyc.comMINGUS MOVES! TO JAZZ STANDARD IN OCTOBER
FILL THE RANKS OF THREE GREAT BANDSNEW YORK CITY/AUGUST 28 — Jazz Standard and Sue Mingus announced today a new home for the music of legendary jazz composer/bassist/band leader Charles Mingus. Beginning with a gala week of performances in October, the Mingus organization will begin its long-term residency at Jazz Standard with alternating weekly appearances by Mingus Dynasty, the Mingus Orchestra, and the Mingus Big Band. Monday nights at Jazz Standard, beginning October 6, 2008, will be known as “Mingus Mondays”.The new extended engagement kicks off October 6-7 with performances by Mingus Dynasty – the original Charles Mingus legacy group, formed by Sue Mingus from among his most valuable sidemen shortly after their leader’s death in 1979. Although lineups are still being confirmed at press time, recent editions of Mingus Dynasty have included saxophonists Craig Handy, Seamus Blake, and Jaleel Shaw; trombonists Conrad Herwig and Ku-umba Frank Lacy; and pianists Orrin Evans and David Kikoski, with the redoubtable Boris Kozlov (bass) and Adam Cruz (drums) holding down the rhythm section.The excitement continues October 8-9 with the Mingus Orchestra. Sue Mingus assembled the Mingus Orchestra in 1999 to focus on Charles Mingus’ compositions, with less emphasis on extended soloing. The Orchestra’s distinctive sound emerges from an expanded repertoire and a diverse instrumentation that may include bassoon, bass clarinet, French horn, and guitar. From October 10-12, the Mingus Big Band will hold forth at Jazz Standard. Writing in The New York Times, Jon Pareles hailed the Big Band for having “revived Charles Mingus’ repertory and the brawling, muscular, hard-swinging, bluesy way he wanted it played.””We are delighted and honored to have Jazz Standard chosen by Sue Mingus as the new home for this timeless music,” said Seth Abramson, artistic director for Jazz Standard. “The genius of Charles Mingus’ compositions and arrangements is matched by the talent and enthusiasm of the players in each of these three outstanding bands.”
Last night at Iridium! Mingus Big Band September 2
Tue, Sep. 2 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Mingus Big Bandat IridiumTrumpets: Tatum Greenblatt, Kenny Rampton, Lew SoloffSaxophone: Seamus Blake, Abraham Burton, Mark Gross, Jason Marshall,
Donny McCaslin
Trombones: Conrad Herwig, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Earl McIntyreDrums: Donald Edwards
Piano: Helen Sung2 sets 8:30 and 10:30
This is the final night of the Mingus residency at Iridium. We thank you for supporting a great four-year run!
Sue Mingus announces, next month: MINGUS MONDAYS AT JAZZ STANDARD!
Please join us for our final night at Iridium Tuesday, September 2nd.
New music software named after Mingus
“mingus is an advanced music theory and notation package for Python. It can be used to play around with music theory, to build editors, educational tools and other applications that need to process music. It can also be used to create sheet music with LilyPond.”
Mingus Dynasty at Iridium 8/26/08
Thu, Aug. 21 2008
August 26 MINGUS DYNASTY at IridiumTrumpet Lew SoloffAlto Saxophone Mark GrossTenor Saxophone Seamus BlakeTrombone Conrad HerwigDrums Donald Edwards
Bass Dwayne Burno
Piano Helen Sung
Two Sets at 8:30 and 10:30. $25/half for students
Washington Square Park Blog: Mingus Orchestra played last concert there
Wed, Aug. 20 2008
Sue Mingus book signing at Gibson Baldwin Jazz Fest NYC, Mingus Dynasty at Iridium
Fri, Aug. 15 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008 Gibson Baldwin Jazz Fest at Whole Food on Bowery.
5:30pm Sue Mingus will sign copies of her book Tonight at Noon while Mingus Epitaph and Orchestra member Jack Wilkins performs with Carl Barry. 95 East Houston St. FREE.
Tuesday, August
19th, 2008 8:30
and 10:30
at Iridium. 51st and B’way. Alto saxophone Mark GrossTenor Saxophone Wayne EscofferyTrumpet Kenny RamptonTrombone Conrad Herwig
Bass Ugonna Okegwo
Piano Orrin Evans
Drums Donald Edwards
Mingus Dynasty at Iridium 8/12/08 & 8/19/08
Thu, Aug. 7 2008
and 10:30 Mingus
Dynasty at Iridium. 51st and B’way. Alto saxophone Jaleel ShawTenor Saxophone Wayne EscofferyTrumpet Alex SipiaginTrombone Andy HunterBass Boris KozlovPiano Helen Sung
at Iridium. 51st and B’way.
Alto saxophone Mark Gross
Tenor Saxophone Wayne Escoffery
Trumpet Kenny Rampton
Trombone Conrad Herwig
Mingus Orchestra at Iridium Tues 8/5/08
Mon, Aug. 4 2008
Iridium — Tuesday, August 5, 2008Alto Saxophone/clarinet/flute/soprano: Craig HandyTenor Saxophone/soprano: Wayne EscofferyTrombone: Conrad HerwigTrumpet: Alex SipiaginDrums: Victor Lewis
Bassoon – Michael Rabinowitz
French Horn – Vincent Chauncey
Guitar – David Gilmore
Bass Clarinet – Jason Marshall
Announcing First Annual Mingus High School Competition
We are pleased to announce
FIRST ANNUAL MINGUS HIGH SCHOOL COMPETITIONFebruary 22, 2009& 3-Day Mingus Summit February 20-22, 2009
Epitaph in Print and on NPR
IN PRINT: We are excited to announce that the full score of Charles Mingus masterwork Epitaph is now
available for the first time from Hal
Leonard, at your favorite music dealer. (Currently in stock at SheetMusicPlus,
Sheet Music, Compumusic,
Forte, Andy’s
Music Online, and more.)LISTEN: NPR has posted to their website the broadcast of the Walt Disney Concert Hall performance of Epitaph from May 2007. A one-hour program and also the full concert is available there. Gunther Schuller conducted the following 31 musicians:
TromboneSam BurtisKu-umba Frank LacyAndre HaywardConrad HerwigEarl McIntyre
Kenny Drew Jr.
George Colligan
Boris Kozlov
Christian McBride
Johnathan Blake
TrumpetRyan KisorWalter WhiteJack WalrathDave BallouAlex Sipiagin
Michael Rabinowitz
Contrabass Clarinet
Douglas Yates
David Nyberg Alto
Saxophone Craig HandySteve SlagleAbraham BurtonTenor SaxophoneKathy HalvorsonWayne Escoffery
Ronnie Cuber
Lauren Sevian
Christos Rafalides
You can listen online or CHECK YOUR LOCAL NPR station to see if they will be airing it on the radio!
Three jazz bands compose ‘The Mingus Legacy’ – The Star-Ledger
Wed, Jul. 30 2008
by Zan Stewart…while none of the participants had played with the master, they delivered his 1950s-through-1970s works with the kind of verve, spark and precision that he demanded, and that anyone who had heard him live would recognize, and regale in….
Better than Google? ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,’ Charles Mingus and more -Plain Dealer
by Tom Feran….Jazz legend Charles Mingus abandoned his monumental masterpiece, “Epitaph,” after one aborted performance. But the rediscovered score has been completed and performed by new generations. National Public Radio is streaming the full, 2½-hour piece for 31 musicians, plus an hourlong special and background story, free at www.npr.org/music. Also new there this week is a 2½-hour concert from Tom Waits’ “Glitter & Doom” summer tour.
Mingus Orchestra at Washington Square Park NYC and Dynasty at Iridium Tues 7/29/08
Mon, Jul. 28 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 8 pm Charles Mingus Orchestraat Washington Square Park in NYC. FREE!
Craig Handy, alto saxophone/clarinet/flute/soprano sax
Donny McCaslin, tenor saxophone/soprano sax
Conrad Herwig, trombone
Kenny Rampton, trumpet
Donald Edwards, drums
Boris Kozlov, bass
Janet Grice, bassoon
John Clark, French horn
David Gilmore, guitar
Doug Yates, bass clarinet
Also Tuesday, July 29
Mingus Dynasty will be playing at Iridium
(51st and B’way) in New York City
Mark Gross
Wayne Escoffery
Tatum Greenblatt
Andy Hunter
Dwayne Burno
Helen Sung
Quincy Davis
TWO SETS 8:30 AND 10:30. $25/half-priced
for students both sets.
Mingus Orchestra at Iridium Tues 7/22/08
July 22 Mingus Orchestra at Iridium
(51st and B’way) in New York CityLineup
Alto Saxophone/clarinet/flute/soprano: Craig Handy
Tenor Saxophone/soprano: Brandon Wright
Trombone: Andy Hunter
Trumpet: Kenny Rampton
Bass: Ugonna Okegwo
Bassoon: Janet Grice
French Horn: Dan Shaud
Guitar: David Gilmore
Bass Clarinet: Doug YatesTWO SETS 8:30 AND 10:30. $25/half-priced
Mingus Dynasty and Orchestra Line Up- July 15 and 29th
Fri, Jul. 11 2008
July 15 Mingus
Dynasty at Iridium
Lineup Trumpet: Alex Sipiagan Alto Saxophone:Craig Handy
Tenor Saxophone: Brandon Wright
Trombones: Andy Hunter Drums: Adam CruzBass:
Brad Jones Piano:
David Kikoski
Tuesday, July 29, 8 pm Washington Square Park Charles Mingus Orchestra in NYC. FREE!
Bobby Rouch, French horn
John Handy Quintet at Jazz Standard (with more Mingus bands alums: Craig Handy, Helen Sung, Victor Lewis)
Thu, Jul. 10 2008
JOHN HANDY QUINTET (Friday through Sunday)
From NYT:
“Best known for his work with Charles Mingus and Randy Weston in the late 1950s, John Handy is still a musician of flexible means; here he plays alto saxophone, clarinet, oboe and saxello. Craig Handy (not related) joins him on tenor saxophone; their top-flight rhythm section consists of Helen Sung on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass and Victor Lewis on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., with an 11:30 set Friday and Saturday, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; cover, $30; $25 on Sunday.”
Line-ups: Dynasty at Iridium 7/8/08 and Orchestra in Washington Square Park 7/29/08
Tue, Jul. 8 2008
July 8 Mingus
(51st and B’way) in New York CityLineupTrumpet: Kenny RamptonAlto Saxophone: Tia Fuller
Tenor Saxophone: Wayne Escoffery
Trombones: Jonathan AronsDrums: Donald EdwardsBass: Boris KozlovPiano: David Kikoski
Dynasty lineup 6/24/08, Cornell wins Jazz Journalists Assn Award
Mon, Jun. 23 2008
June 24 Mingus
Alto Saxophone: Craig Handy
Tenor Saxophone: Abraham Burton
Trombones: Ku-umba Frank Lacy
WINNER: 2008 Jazz Journalists
Reissue/Historical Release of the Year
Cornell 1964: Charles Mingus Sextet (Blue Note)
Billy Taylor Trio with Mingus, Storyville 1951, Nat Hentoff Hosting
Fables of Faubus used in project for Brown US History class
Sun, Jun. 15 2008
Shadows. 1959. USA. Written and directed by John Cassavetes. Music by Shafi Hadi, Charles Mingus. With Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd. Cassavetes’s vital, poignant, and humorous story of interracial romance and “passing”—often hailed as an American counterpart to Godard’s Breathless (also 1959)—shattered cinematic conventions with its improvisational acting, jumpy editing, and handheld camerawork in the streets, coffee shops, late-night parties, and sculpture gardens of New York City. 87 min.Friday, July 4, 2008, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Sunday, July 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Mingus Big Band 6/10 and 6/17 at Iridium, 6/18 at Clifford Brown Festival
Mon, Jun. 9 2008
music heats up in the summertime!
Some old favorites rejoin the mix, and this
Tuesday we have both Strickland brothers in the band at the same time!
Plus, for the next few weeks at Iridium we’ll be preparing for the Clifford Brown festival,
so we’ll be featuring some material from Epitaph, and a Clifford Brown tune the band will perform in his honor.
PERFORMANCE DATES:Tuesday,
Big Band at
(51st and B’way) in New York CityLineupTrumpets: Alex Sipiagin, Earl Gardner, Kenny RamptonSaxophone: Marcus Strickland, Mark Gross, Donny McCaslin, Abraham
Burton, Lauren Sevian
Trombones: Conrad Herwig , Clark Gayton, Earl McIntyre
Drums: E.J. Strickland
Piano: Bruce Barth
TWO SETS 8:30 AND 10:30. $25/half-priced for students both sets.
Mingus Big Band at
Trumpets: Jack Walrath, Earl Gardner, Tatum Greenblatt
Saxophone: Wayne Escoffery, Craig Handy, Donny McCaslin, Abraham Burton,
Trombones: Clark Gayton, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Dave Taylor
SETS 8:30 AND 10:30.
$25/half-priced for students both sets.
June 18 The Mingus Big Band performs at the FREE Clifford
Brown Jazz Festival at Rodney Square
in Wilmington, DE.
Trumpets: Greg Gisbert, Earl Gardner, Alex
Sipiagin
Saxophones: Wayne Escoffery, Craig Handy,
Seamus Blake, Abraham Burton, Jason Marshall
Trombones: Clark Gayton, Ku-umba Frank Lacy,
Earl McIntyre
Mingus nominations for Jazz Journalists Awards:
Ensemble of the Year: Mingus Big Band AND
Reissue of the Year: Cornell 1964, Charles Mingus Sextet (Blue Note) The Awards will be celebrated Wednesday, June 18, at a cocktail reception
3 to 6 pm at the Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th St., NYC.
THE FIRST ANNUAL MINGUS HIGH SCHOOL COMPETITION
February 22,
& 3-Day
Mingus Summit February 20-22, 2009
Mingus Dynasty and Big Band Line Up- June 3 and 18th
Sat, May. 31 2008
Tuesday, June 3 Mingus Dynasty at Iridium (51st and B’way) in New York CityLineup
Alto saxophone – Craig Handy, Tenor Saxophone – Donny McCaslin, Trumpet – Kenny Rampton, Trombone – Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Bass – Boris Kozlov, Piano – Helen Sung, Drums – Donald EdwardsTWO SETS 8:30 AND 10:30. $25/half-priced for students both sets.Wednesday,June 18 The Mingus Big Band performs at the FREE Clifford Brown Jazz Festival at Rodney Square in Wilmington, DE.Lineup
Trumpets: Greg Gisbert, Earl Gardner, Alex SipiaginSaxophones: Wayne Escoffery, Craig Handy, Seamus Blake, Abraham Burton, Jason Marshall
New Yorker: “100 Essential Jazz Albums” 3% is Mingus!
Tue, May. 27 2008
52. Charles Mingus, “Mingus at the Bohemia (Debut, 1955).53. Charles Mingus, “Mingus Ah Um” (Columbia, 1959).54. Charles Mingus Sextet, “Cornell 1964” (Blue Note, 2007).
Dynasty line-up for Iridium and Barack Obama Fundraiser.
Mingus DynastyTonight, May 20 at Iridium in New York City
Alto saxophone · Craig Handy, Tenor Saxophone · Seamus Blake, Trumpet ·
Kenny Rampton, Trombone · Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Bass · Boris Kozlov,
Piano · David Kikoski, Drums · Adam Cruz
TWO SETS 8:30 AND 10:30.
Wednesday, May 21 The Mingus Dynasty was asked to perform at a swanky fundraiser for Barack Obama
at the brand new HUDSON TERRACE 621 W. 46th at 11th Ave. Event is from 7-11pm, Dynasty plays at 9pm (Also on the bill before the Dynasty, the Ahn Trio, and Hilary McRae.) Tickets are available here. Lineup: Wayne Escoffery, Tatum Greenblatt, Jaleel Shaw, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Boris Kozlov, Helen Sung, and E.J. Strickland.
Tuesday, May 27 at Iridium in New York City
Lineup: Mark Gross, Wayne Escoffery, Kenny Rampton, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Boris Kozlov, David Kikoski, Donald Edwards.
2 Mingus nominations for Jazz Journalists Awards
Fri, May. 16 2008
Reissue of the Year
* Cornell 1964, Charles Mingus Sextet (Blue Note) Large Ensemble of the Year (9+ pieces)
* Mingus Big Band The Awards will be celebrated Wednesday, June 18, at a cocktail reception 3 to 6 pm at the Jazz Standard, 116 E. 27th St., NYC).Finalists, honored for excellence in jazz and jazz journalism, will be voted upon by professional members of the JJA toward selection of a representative recipient (aka “winner”).
Part 2 of NPR profile
Mon, May. 5 2008
Charles Mingus: ‘Fables of Bass,’ Part 2
NPR Jazz Profile on Mingus
Sat, Apr. 26 2008
Nancy Wilson hosts Part 1 of “Charles Mingus: Fables of Bass”
Review of Mingus Birthday show on Thirteen/WNET
Thu, Apr. 24 2008
Mingus Big Band lineup-NY & SF
TUES, APRIL 22 MINGUS BIRTHDAY
As testament to to power of Mingus music to attract the greatest musicians playing today, two outstanding Mingus Big Bands are both celebrating Mingus birthday on April 22nd, coast to coast.IN NEW YORK:
April 22 Mingus Birthday Celebration at Iridium in New York City
Lineup: Trumpets: Lew Soloff, Earl Gardner, Kenny Rampton
Saxophone: Marcus Strickland, Jaleel Shaw, Vincent Herring, Scott Robinson, Ronnie Cuber
Trombones: Conrad Herwig, Clark Gayton, Dave Taylor
Drums: Gene Jackson
Piano: George Colligan
TWO SETS 8:30 AND 10:30. MAKE RESERVATIONS AT IRIDIUM 212-582-2121.
Preceded by a performance by the Yale Jazz Ensemble at 6:30 pm, no cover.
IN SF
April 22-April 27 Mingus Big Band at Yoshi’s in San Francisco and Oakland
Lineup: Trumpet: Alex Sipiagin, Vitaly Golovnev, Greg Gisbert
Saxophone: Craig Handy, Wayne Escoffery, Mark Gross, Abraham Burton, Jason Marshall
Trombones: Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Andy Hunter, Earl McIntyre
Piano: Kenny Drew Jr.
Worldwide web and radio:
WKCR will host its annual 24-hour Mingus RADIO broadcast
And Sirius
celebrates the birth of Charles Mingus with music curated by his widow
Sue Mingus. Every hour, throughout the day, listeners will hear a
Mingus tune and Sue Mingus will explain the significance of each one. Tuesday, April 22, starting at 6 am to 12 midnight ET.
Jazz Festival to honor Charles Mingus in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico
Fri, Apr. 18 2008
A jazz festival will be held over two weekends in Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico in a joint effort to honor the late Charles Mingus. Mingus, who played and composed for most of the jazz greats, was born in Nogales, Ariz., and died in Mexico, and this is the second time the two communities, known collectively as Ambos Nogales, have worked together to hold a jazz festival in Mingus’s honor.
Jazz Police re: Mingus Birthday Celebrations
By Andrea Canter
Mingus Big Band Birthday Celebration, Coast to Coast on April 22ndEvery Tuesday night, one of the Mingus legacy bands takes over the bandstand at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan to celebrate and promote the music of legendary bassist Charles Mingus. On April 22nd, the Mingus Big Band further honors the 86th birthday of a man of divergent, often controversial tastes and a singular mission to create music. The celebration will not be limited to the Iridium, however, as a second edition of the Mingus Big Band will perform at Yoshi’s in San Francisco as well on April 22nd, then move to across the Bay to Oakland, April 24-27. Additional Mingus celebrations will be broadcast on Radio WKCR and Sirius.
Yale Jazz Ensemble Opens Mingus Birthday Celebration at Iridium – April 22, 2008
The Yale Jazz Ensemble, led by Music Director David M. Brandenburg, will open for the Mingus Big Band on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Charles Mingus’ birthday, at 6:30 pm at the Iridium Jazz Club (1650 Broadway at 51st Street). The Ensemble will be joined by special guest Niko Higgins, saxophone. There is a $10 minimum with no cover charge. (There is an additional charge to stay for the Mingus Big Band.) Call (212) 582-2121 or visit iridiumjazzclub.com for more information.Founded in 1991, the Mingus Big Band performs the music of legendary composer and bassist Charles Mingus. Under the artistic direction of Sue Mingus, the group tours widely in the United States and abroad, and has recorded nine albums, six of which have been nominated for GRAMMY Awards. Since 2004, the Mingus Big Band has performed every Tuesday night at the Iridium Jazz Club, which has been hailed by New York Magazine as “New York’s Best Jazz Club”.Niko Higgins is a saxophonist and composer who lives in New York City where he leads the Niko Higgins Ensemble. His two albums, “Inbetween” (2003) and “From Eye to Ear” (2006), are released by Engine Studios.The Yale Jazz Ensemble (YJE) is an eighteen-piece big band that performs a wide variety of music, from Yale’s Benny Goodman archive to the newest and most progressive jazz compositions. The Ensemble has performed extensively in the United States and internationally at such venues as New York’s Village Vanguard and London’s Ronnie Scott’s. The YJE has performed with or opened for The Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the World Saxophone Quartet, Jane Ira Bloom, Jimmy Owens, and Branford Marsalis.
Mingus Birthday events April 22, 2008
Tue, Apr. 8 2008
Two Mingus Big Bands play coast to cost.Also,WKCR hosts its annual 24-hour Mingus broadcasthttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/Sirius celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month
Mingus on Mingus
Sirius celebrates the birth of Charles Mingus with music curated by his widow Sue Mingus. Every hour, throughout the day, listeners will hear a Mingus tune and Sue Mingus will explain the significance of each one.
Tuesday, April 22, starting at 6 am to 12 midnight ET.
Mon, Apr. 7 2008
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New YorkMay 04, 2008 – September 21, 2008Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Mo.October 19, 2008 – January 11, 2009
New York Magazine 40th Anniv Issue “This is New York 1968-2008” features Mingus’ Beneath the Underdog
The New York Canon:
Books From Norman Mailer to Rem Koolhaas, 26 works of lapidary New Yorkitude.
By Sam Anderson
CHARLES MINGUS, BENEATH THE UNDERDOG, 1971
Charles Mingus was categorically uncategorizable: white, black, Asian; bassist, bandleader, composer; L.A., New York. He always insisted that his music was not jazz: It was Mingus music. This whacked-out half-fictional memoir (cf. his early experiences as a pimp) is not autobiography: It’s Mingus writing. It makes today’s fictioneering memoirists look like stenographers, and vacuum-seals the mid-century scene’s flavor more potently than mere fact ever could.
Mingus Big Band at Iridium Lineup for April 8
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 IridiumTrumpets: Alex Sipiagin, Tatum Greenblatt, Kenny RamptonSaxophone: Wayne Escoffery, Steve Slagle, Mark Gross, Abraham Burton, Jason MarshallTrombones: Conrad Herwig, Andy Hunter, Earl McIntyre
Bass: John Benitez
Ross Lipman to present: “Mingus, Cassavetes, and the Politics of Improv” in Seattle
Friday, April 11, 2008, 2:00 – 3:45Abstract:”Mingus, Cassavetes, and the Politics of Improv”
“Jazz is orgasm, it is the music of orgasm, good orgasm and bad, and so it spoke across a nation… it spoke in no matter what laundered popular way of instantaneous existential states to which some whites could respond, it was indeed a communication of art because it said, ’I feel this, and now you do too.’” — Norman Mailer, “The White Negro”
Norman Mailer’s remarks in his controversial 1957 essay speak to a collision and melding of the races in popular culture that we still witness today. Yet nowhere are Mailer’s themes embodied more fully than in John Cassavetes’ seminal independent film of the same year, Shadows, which featured an original score by Charles Mingus. This lecture examines the complex and explosive collaboration of Cassavetes and Mingus, two of the United States’ leading improvisational artists, at a pivotal moment in the history of independent cinema, jazz, and race relations.
Through an integration of film clips, texts, and still photographs, this presentation examines connections between the film’s loose narrative—of three mixed-race siblings living day-to-day in mid-50s New York bohemia–and the film’s revolutionary making, which in many ways inverted the plot. In Mingus’s score, which Cassavetes edited severely, one finds the truest expression of the film’s exploration of cultural identity. The score encapsulates Cassavetes’ and Mingus’s unique approaches to both improvisation and composition in their respective media, illuminating the oppositional nature of jazz to mainstream cultural production—and in turn, the underbelly of race relations in 1950s America.
NYT: ‘What Is This Music?’: Mingus, Melville and the Sounds of Covert Revolution” presented by David Yaffe
As part of jazz conference “Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures.” at Stony Brook University.
Mingus Dynasty at Iridium Line Up for April 1st
Two sets at 8:30 and 10:30
at Iridium, 51st and Broadway.Alto Saxophone
Ryan Kisor Trombone
Gene Jackson
Mingus Big Band at Iridium Lineup for March 25th
Fri, Mar. 21 2008
Two sets, 8:30 and 10:30This week:TrumpetsEarl Gardner
Ryan KisorKenny RamptonSaxophone
Abraham Burton
Craig Handy
Jason Marshall
Jaleel Shaw
Joe Fiedler
Justin Faulkner
Nogales Mingus Jazz Festival needs support
Thu, Mar. 20 2008
April 19th Festival in Mingus’s hometown in Nogales, Arizona, is in need of support!
Listen to Mingus interpretations on New Sounds, WNYC
Mingus and Monk
Show #2526Explore the music Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk, New Sounds-style. From Cuban percussionist Anga to the Massachusetts big band Either/Orchestra, from ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers to avant-garde composer George Crumb, the echoes of Monk and Mingus can be heard in a wide variety of new settings. We’ll sample a few of the more unusual renditions of their classic tunes for this New Sounds program.
U of Alabama Jazz Ensemble plays music of Mingus
By Aisha Mahmood
…Kozak said he didn’t think there has been much of a focus on Mingus at the University.
“I’ve always admired his music,” Kozak said. “It’s a great opportunity for students to see what Mingus was about.”
Kozak also said Mingus’ music is important because students who want to be diverse jazz musicians need to be willing to understand and play all types of genres.
Kozak said he was proud of the Jazz Ensemble and, “They did a fantastic job. I’m super happy.”
Some students who attended the concert said they enjoyed Mingus’ music.
“The soloists were really fun and energetic. They make you excited to be there. You can tell they’re having fun,” said Meredith Reaves, a sophomore majoring in music education.
“I liked the selection of music. He’s a great composer,” said Margaret Dixon, a junior majoring in music performance.
All About Jazz: Review of Mingus Big Band at Kimmel Center
Mon, Mar. 3 2008
By Victor L. Schermer:
…Simply put, the Mingus Big Band is a wonder and an anomaly. During a time when the few surviving big bands, like the Count Basie Orchestra and Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd, tour the world like beautiful museum treasures, the Mingus Band has taken a musical legacy and transformed it into a creative force that generates a contemporary originality and vitality all its own. They are an important part of the current jazz scene and a constant reminder that jazz—big band jazz, at that—is not merely entertainment but a powerful art form and means of expression. Kudos to this band, to Sue Mingus, and to the extraordinary and tragic man whose spirit pervades it all—the late, great Charles Mingus.
Philadelphia Inquirer- An invocation of Mingus: The Mingus Big Band captures the man’s demanding music
Thu, Feb. 28 2008
By David R. Adler
…It takes a certain musician to play the demanding, eccentric works of Mingus, the late jazz bassist and composer. The Mingus Big Band, under the offstage direction of Sue Mingus, Charles’ widow, has 14 such musicians, all world class, spanning several generations. It is perhaps the most racially integrated large ensemble operating today.
The group’s weekly gig at Iridium in New York has given it an extraordinary solidity and sense of daring. Heavy snow couldn’t keep the Philly audience away.”
…the Mingus group, with its unstoppable rhythm section in bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Donald Edwards, set the evening’s agenda.
Philly pianist Orrin Evans landed improvisatory bull’s-eyes on the opening “Haitian Fight Song” and the closing “Pedal Point Blues.” Alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, a Philly-born rising star, followed the formidable trombonist Conrad Herwig on “Ysabel’s Table Dance,” steering the piece into choppier waters.
“Children’s Hour of Dream,” a movement from the through-composed epic Epitaph, offered a window into Mingus’ Third Stream writing, nearly classical in character.
Mingus Big Band on tour-Philadelphia, Elmhurst, Miami
Wed, Feb. 20 2008
MINGUS BIG BAND performs
Fri, Feb 22 Kimmel Center Philadelphia, PA
Arrive early for a pre-show artist chat with Sue Mingus at 6:30pm in the Merck Arts Education Center in Philadelphia.
Sat, Feb 23 Elmhurst College Jazz Festival Elmhurst, ILTrumpets: Lew Soloff, Kenny Rampton, Earl Gardner in PA, Alex Sipiagin in IL
Saxophones: Seamus Blake, Craig Handy, Jaleel Shaw, Vincent Herring, Jason Marshall
Trombones: Andy Hunter, Conrad Herwig, Earl McIntyre
Piano: Orrin EvansMINGUS BIG BAND performs
Sat, Mar 8 & Sun, Mar 9 Carnaval Miami in Coral Gables, FL
Dave Taylor and Friends play Mingus at Lyric NYC
Tue, Feb. 19 2008
THE LYRIC CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF NEW YORK PRESENTS ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY SEASONTHE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF MUSIC: PROGRAMS FROM AROUND THE WORLDFEBRUARY 27, 2008 7.30pm Kosciuscko FoundationAUSTRIA AND BEYONDDavid Taylor and Friends”To the Distant Beloved”
A Journey from Schubert to Mingus
DAVID TAYLOR, Bass Trombone
ADAM HOLZMAN AND MICHAEL HOLOBER, Piano and Keyboards
BELLE EHRESMANN, Beat Box
On February 27, 2008, the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York is pleased to present bass trombone virtuoso David Taylor and Friends in a special autobiographical concert entitled “To the Distant Beloved.” The program, another of the Lyric’s special CHAMZZ offerings, follows Taylor’s musical explorations from Brooklyn to Vienna in a unique blend of jazz and classical repertoire.
The musical range of award-winning musician David Taylor extends from Bachian piety to Yiddish irony, from the idealism of Charles Ives to the hipster nihilism of Lenny Bruce. Inspired by his travels, and his exploration of jazz while at Juilliard, Taylor’s music represents the spirit of improvisation and risk as opposed to conservatory notions of perfection.
The program will showcase the unique sounds of the relatively unknown bass trombone, which Taylor calls a “darkly sparkling instrument.” Taylor has put together a suite of Schubert songs and French music by Ravel, Milhaud, and others. He has also developed a suite combining the music of the Vienna Secession, such as Berg and Schoenberg, with the jazz of Mingus and Carla Brey. Called “A Belle E Golden Hue,” it celebrates his parents’ devoted marriage of sixty years.
Taylor will be joined by Adam Holzman and Michael Holober on piano and keyboards, and Belle Ehresmann on beat box.
In this, as in all concerts at the Lyric, the musicians will speak about the history and background of the music during the evening. And also, as always, a light reception with the artists will follow the concert.
Reception with artists following concert
included in ticket price $45
Student Tickets $15
For tickets call Ticket Central:
The Lyric Chamber Music Society of NY | 20 West 64th Street, Suite 27H | New York | NY | 10023
Village Voice Archives 1957-Charles Mingus in the Village
Jean Shepherd as master of ceremonies……Among the highlights of the evening will be a new composition by bass virtuoso Charlie Mingus called “Tia Juana Table Dance.” An authentic Flamenco dancer will accompany the number, which is based on Spanish Flamenco and jazz rhythms. Critic Barry Ulanov said of Mingus “Here is a man who thinks and feels with unending resources both of musical technique and imagination. In other words, an artist.”
Mingus featured on Crooks and Liars Late Night Music Club on Election Day!
Tue, Feb. 5 2008
John Handy NPR article
Sun, Feb. 3 2008
Happy Birthday, John Handy!”In Part 2 of our interview with alto saxophonist John Handy, he discusses a unique aspect of his sound, the origins of Charles Mingus’ Lester Young tribute “Goodbye Porkpie Hat,” the night Mingus made a scene listening to him play, the Mingus gig that resulted in the live album Jazz Portraits.”
Mingus Big Band at Iridium Feb 5
Fri, Feb. 1 2008
Amazing line-up this weekTrumpets:Earl GardnerTatum GreenblattKenny RamptonSaxophone:
David Lee Jones
Trombones:
Conrad Herwig
Ku-umba Frank Lacy
Donald Edwards
Joe Martin
(artists subject to change)
AllAboutJazz-New York: Best of 2007, Best Performance, album, musician
Tue, Jan. 29 2008
MINGUS BIG BAND AND ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY GUNTHER SCHULLER Damrosch Park, August 26thCharles Mingus named “Musician of the Year”andUnearthed gem: Mingus at Cornell
SLATE: The Best Jazz Albums of 2007
Tue, Jan. 8 2008
Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy, Cornell 1964 (Blue Note). The clear winner is this live two-disc concert from long-lost tapes of Mingus’ most boisterous band in its merriest mood. Regarded as a run-through of the (now-legendary) Town Hall concert a few weeks hence, and the European tour that followed, the session has its wayward moments, but it’s jammed with zest and virtuosity. It starts with a head-spinning Jaki Byard piano solo on “Play MediaATFW You” (the initials standing for Art Tatum/Fats Waller), segues to Mingus plucking a soulful bass solo on “Sophisticated Lady,” then moves into a string of original tunes—Mingus classics (“Play MediaFaubus Fables,” “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk,” “So Long, Eric”), some of them played for the first time in public here. Horn solos by Play MediaEric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, and Johnny Coles sizzle throughout. Drummer Danny Richmond plays near his peak, too. The discs aren’t as revelatory as Monk and Coltrane’s unearthed Carnegie Hall tapes of 1957, which topped this list (and many others) in 2005, but they’ll do. (Better still, in some ways, is the “Jazz Icons” DVD, Charles Mingus: Live in ’64, which lets you watch this same band, playing the same music, much of it a bit more tightly, a few weeks later in Europe.)
LA TIMES: THE BEST OF 2007
Charles Mingus Sextet With Eric Dolphy: “Cornell 1964” (Blue Note). Newly discovered, this is sheer gold — historic performances by one of the very finest ensembles Mingus ever led. Best of all, there is extraordinary playing — on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute — from Dolphy, who died 12 weeks after the gig at age 36. -DON HECKMAN
NY NEWSDAY: THE TOP 10
CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET WITH ERIC DOLPHY, CORNELL 1964 (Blue Note). This was, quite simply, one of the greatest aggregations of instrumental intensity ever to gather for one magical year. And this concert, which took place before the group’s legendary (and, some might say, ill-fated) European tour, exhibits a high-spiritedness and keenness of interplay that exceeds even the recordings from that earlier tour.Gene Seymour
NYT-Nate Chinen’s Top 10 records of 2007
CHARLES MINGUS SEXTET: ‘CORNELL 1964’ (Blue Note). A time capsule that reveals an irrepressible Mingus, on bass and vocals, propelling a short-lived band with both Eric Dolphy and Clifford Jordan on saxophones. Nothing, not even musty sound quality, can diminish the manic ebullience captured here.
NPR: Tom Moon’s Top Ten CDs for 2007
NPRArtist: Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy
Album: Cornell 1964The recently unearthed concert by Charles Mingus’ group featuring Eric Dolphy is similarly relevatory – it’s a lusty blowing-session blast from an aggregate that ranks among Mingus’ best. Anchored by the unshakeable drummer Dannie Richmond, this sextet barrels through everything from early piano jazz to the stemwinding wheedles of the avant-garde to a seventeen-minute throwdown on Billy Strayhorn’s theme for the Ellington Orchestra, “Take the A Train.” Dolphy was at his most peak in 1964 – he recorded his classic Out To Lunch the same year – and this band, with Mingus interjecting constantly, keeps up with the saxophonist’s every crazy detour.
NEW YORKER: Best of 2007
Charles Mingus Sextet, “Cornell 1964” (Blue Note)—It’s tough to go wrong when it comes to live recordings of the Mingus band, especially the incarnation that featured the resident geniuses Eric Dolphy and Jaki Byard, as well as the underappreciated Johnny Coles and Clifford Jordan. Still, this newly unearthed concert is notable for the ebullience of its often irascible leader.-Steve Futterman
POP MATTERS: Best of 2007
On this frequently brilliant and warmly recorded concert from March 18, 1964, Charles Mingus reasserts his intense genius. His bass playing, sprightly yet forceful, fast yet tempered, is a wonder to behold. Yet it’s almost impossible to take your attention off everyone else. Jaki Byard, perhaps the most underappreciated pianist in the history of jazz, plays with a flourishing grace that feels like dancing on water. Dannie Richmond’s drumming pays attention to ride, hi-hat, snare, tom, and kick with equal focus, and provides an equal level of striking and skittering. Then there’s Clifford Jordan and Johnny Coles, whose sax and tumpet, respectively, blow and bleat with a tendentious ease usually reserved for Coltrane and Miles. Never mind that they have to play next to Eric Dolphy, whose work on the bass clarinet and flute are mind-blowing. And never mind that nobody knew this concert was recorded, nor that anyone but the people there even knew it existed.
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Shocking dashcam video shows the moment a toddler strapped into a car seat flies out of the vehicle after her mother failed to fasten her seat properly, before her mom drives off as other motorists try to flag her down
Horrifying dashcam video has captured the moment a toddler who was still strapped into her car seat flew out of a moving car after her mother failed to properly fasten the seat.
The two-year-old girl toppled out of the rear left door of the car as her mother veered around a corner in Mankato, Minnesota on Monday.
The shocking incident was captured on Chad Cheddar Mock’s dashcam as he was driving behind the mother’s car at about 11.45am.
It showed the girl, who dressed in a pink jacket and gray tights, falling from car as it slowly veered around a bend in the road.
The seat miraculously landed on its side and the girl did not appear to hit the ground.
The car braked momentarily at the traffic lights a few feet away despite having a green signal.
When the door of the car was shut, the car drove off and left the little girl in the middle of the road.
Mock was captured on his dashcam jumping out of his own vehicle and trying to wave down the mother.
He stopped traffic so he could safely carry the child off the road in her car seat.
First responders examined the little girl and found that she had not been injured in the ordeal.
Police said the toddler was properly buckled in her child seat but the seat had not been fastened correctly inside the car.
It is not clear how the car door managed to fly open.
The girl’s mother eventually returned to the scene when she realized her daughter and her car seat were missing.
Police have asked the Blue Earth County Attorney’s Office to consider charging the mother with child endangerment and not fastening a child restraint system.
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Suicide Squad and the Problems with “Fan Culture”
Chris Haydon
So chances are you have heard the news: the initial wave of reviews for David Ayer’s DC supervillain ensemble Suicide Squad have not been pretty.
At the time of writing, the film sits at an embarrassingly low 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the critical conception is that it is not the film we were promised nor longed for. Now as you can imagine, this has sent a warring army of fans into freefall, with some calling for the closure of Rotten Tomatoes, and others making ludicrous accusations that journalists are being “paid” to slate the film by representatives at Marvel Studios and Walt Disney.
Now the internet is a wonderful thing: it gives people a remarkable freedom to interact with one another, to share thoughts and feelings, and is a true asset to boosting a motion picture’s campaign. A large quantity of trailers, posters and imagery are now consumed online as opposed to witnessing when you actually attend the cinema, or pick up a copy of a movie magazine from the newsagents. And whilst the internet is a haven for film enthusiasts across the globe, it also bears a much darker, sadder side; one which is rearing its ugly head far too frequently.
Now firstly, one does not have a problem with fan culture – in fact, it is great that so many people are passionate about the things they love, and it is something that should be embraced and not repressed – but there is a limit, and this has been overstepped in the case of Suicide Squad.
Fans’ reactions to the band of reviews have been worse than outrageous, and they have taken to social media to attack and belittle the authors and videographers behind the content. Equally the online petition to shutdown a totally unbiased website – yeah, Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator; it has no direct critical opinion of its own – is just frankly ridiculous.
The single biggest problem with the online film society is easily definable, yet few will actually take the time to notice it: the lines between “film fans” and “film critics” have been blurred beyond recognition. In an age where anyone can share an opinion on absolutely anything, it is no wonder a heavy sense of confusion has set in, but in truth, it is very simple to decode.
Film fans are just that: a consumer. They pay, they watch, they repeat. Like eating a meal, or reading a book, they serve the purpose of the industry. Attending the cinema and financing the product. Critics on the other hand are actually employed or requested individuals; ones which are assigned to evaluate a particular film, commenting on the plethora of elements which are incorporated into making a functional finished title.
They also are expected to see the widest variety of content and cannot be selective with their viewing, unlike fans. Furthermore, journalists must adhere to strict legal practices such as embargoing, and maintain an acute level of knowledge to the content they are assessing.
With Suicide Squad, the knee-jerk reaction has been so visceral that many fans are forgetting something so biblically important: the vast majority haven’t even seen the movie yet. How is it socially acceptable to have such an active and aggressive opinion on something which you cannot have a clear understanding of? Until the film has been seen, it bears absolutely no impact upon you personally, so all attacks against journalists aren’t even about their work; it’s about upsetting the balance, and that is solely born out of fear.
Whether fans like to admit it or not, they are concerned for the state of the newly-devised DC Extended Universe; a franchise which has been spawned into a great sense of uncertainty after two critical flops, and one financial. With the ever-growing pressure of the favoured and established Marvel Cinematic Universe, audiences have shifted an unfathomably unrealistic level of expectation upon Ayer’s film; almost inadvertently setting it up for failure.
Creatively speaking, Suicide Squad is a huge risk for Warner Bros. and DC – it is their equivalent to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy; asking general audiences to invest in a project where the average viewer will have little to no affiliation with the characters involved. Slipknot? What, like the band? Katana whatchamacallit?
If you take a step back and actually look at the situation the film is in, it is easy to see just how unfair everything really is. Could you imagine if Marvel had placed their entire corporate weight on the back of Rocket Raccoon and Groot? Those branches would snap. Add in the further insult that this is in many ways is the last hurrah for the DCEU – if Suicide Squad truly flops, the likelihood of Wonder Woman getting the support it needs will be minimal, despite it looking awesome – and soon you start to see a truly bleak, unforgiving portrait; one which is only worsened by fan culture.
Warner Bros. have not helped: the relentless, suffocating promotional campaign the film has been subjected to borders on the torturous. They are so unrelentingly, and infuriatingly, apologetic for the missteps taken by Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, that even they are throwing their hearts, souls and ultimately dollars into Suicide Squad. It’s simply adding fuel to a raging fire.
But the biggest problem with this explosion of supposed “fan culture” is the notion that critics actually want films to fail, or actively want to turn off audiences from seeing a picture. This couldn’t be further from the truth. To critique something you must understand it, and often to truly understand it, you must care about it. Film critics adore cinema; all kinds of it. All genres, all tones, from all continents and countries. Critics want to help assist global film; to spread its infinite wonder and possibility. They do not want to see fans upset, distressed or angry, nor do they want to see partnered companies like Warner Bros. and DC Comics fall into creative oblivion.
Journalists want Suicide Squad to be as spectacularly amazing as audiences; its just if they don’t feel this way, it is their job to be honest. Fans really need to understand this – and not just in the case of this film – if there is ever to be a sense of connection and communication between those which represent the industry, and those which consume it.
Suicide Squad opens worldwide on Friday 5th August in IMAX 3D
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Donations a relief at Christmas
Published on December 13, 2015 by SBLT Kat Mulheron (author), ABIS James McDougall (photographer)
From the left, Leading Seaman Imagery Specialist Dove Smithett presents one of the many boxes full of donations collected by the HMAS Cerberus community to Melbourne Period Project (MPP) volunteers Jude Blake, Emma Schafer, and MPP Co-Founder Natalie Cruz at HMAS Cerberus, Victoria.
One sailor has rallied the ship's company of one of the nation's largest bases to support Melbourne's homeless this Christmas.
Steaming ahead for Christmas cheer
St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria State President, Mr Michael Liddy (left) and Warrant Officer Ian Waller (right) help load the Navy Steam Club's 1923 Foden Steam Wagon with donated toys for 'Vinnie's Christmas Gift Appeal 2015' at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne.
Melbourne turned on a sunny day recently to accompany a special delivery of toys destined to brighten Christmas day for hundreds of children on Christmas morning.
Sydney Navy personnel thank their neighbours in style
Published on December 06, 2015 by CMDR Fenn Kemp (author), ABIS Richard Cordell (photographer)
Sydney Detachment of the Royal Australian Navy Band performs as the Australian White Ensign is lowered during HMAS Penguin's annual Community Reception and Ceremonial Sunset.
The Royal Australian Navy's enduring ties to Sydney were on display recently, with north shore locals treated to a stirring display of pomp and pageantry.
Hastings welcomes armed men and women of HMAS Cerberus
Published on December 03, 2015 by SBLT Kat Mulheron (author), ABIS James McDougall (photographer), LSIS Dove Smithett (photographer)
Commanding Officer HMAS Cerberus, Captain Stephen Bowater, OAM, RAN, leads his Ship's Company in the HMAS Cerberus Freedom of Entry to the City of Hastings, Victoria.
When 700 Australian Defence Force members from HMAS Cerberus marched through Main Street, Hastings, Victoria on Saturday, they weren't just re-enacting a tradition; they were acknowledging a shared sense of community and history reaching back 95 years to when sailors first started training in the area at Flinders Naval Base.
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Royal Australian Navy Officer, Commander Gary Brown, with his 1700cc, 2013 Harley Davidson Soft Tail Slim. He entered his bike in the Brindabella Park, show and shine competition on November 19, raising funds for 2016 The Long Ride and Prostate Cancer research.
Fundraising for prostate cancer research and fanatical discussions about motorbikes and next year's Long Ride began early at a show and shine held at Brindabella Park, Canberra, in November.
How ‘Mo’ can you go?
Executive Officer HMAS Cerberus, Commander Melanie Verho, RAN, (right) judges the moustaches for Movember's 'Best Sculpted Mo' competition on the HMAS Cerberus Parade Ground, Victoria.
As November approached, anticipation grew among the men of HMAS Cerberus with many planning their 'manscaping' for a chance to win the 2015 Cerberus Movember Challenge.
Veterans honoured by French
Published on December 17, 2015 by Ms Natalie Staples (author), LSIS Brenton Freind (photographer)
Ambassador of France to Australia, His Excellency Monsieur Christophe Lecourtier, stands with former WWII veterans after being awarded the French Legion of Honour onboard the French frigate FNS Vendémiaire at Garden Island, Sydney. (L-R) Mr John Eppel, Mr Alf Humphreys, Mr Ken Joyce, Mr Bill McRae, His Excellency M. Christophe Lecourtier and Mr Don Browning.
Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, five Australian veterans were recognised with the Légion d'honneur onboard the French frigate Vendémiaire, alongside Garden Island, Sydney.
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Clocktower's future is a nod to the past
Published on December 16, 2015 by LEUT Sarah West (author), ABIS Chantell Brown (photographer)
Mrs Joan Webber wife of Peter Webber with Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Timothy Barrett, AO, CSC, RAN, at the official opening of The old Clock Tower Gymnasium, HMAS Creswell. Mrs Webber's late husband's wish was to donate his Collection of 12 model sailing ships, which covers 400 years of sailing history, to teh base to be displayed. Mr Peter Webber passed away in 2005.
To any naval officer that went through initial training at the Royal Australian Naval College at HMAS Creswell, the Clocktower Gymnasium is iconic.
Academy class of 2015 graduates
Published on December 14, 2015 by CMDR Chloe Wootten (author), Mr John Carroll (photographer), Mr Michael Jackson-Rand (photographer)
The Deputy Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral Michael van Balen AO, RAN, presents Midshipman Dean Gilbert, RAN with the Chief of Navy prize at the ADFA Graduation Parade. The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) held its graduation parade on Thursday December 10, 2015. 240 officer cadets and midshipmen graduated from their military training and tertiary education at the Academy.
In one of his final ceremonial tasks as Deputy Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral Michael van Balen AO, RAN, presented Midshipman Dean Gilbert, with the Chief of Navy Prize at the Australian Defence Force Academy Graduation Parade on 10 December.
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British-built Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone only partly operational
Residents cannot understand why beds are empty but Save the Children says phased opening is necessary to protect staff
Equipment wrapped in plastic inside the Kerry Town Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone before it opened. Photograph: Louis Leeson/AP
The Ebola hospital built by the British army which opened two weeks ago in the capital of Sierra Leone will not be fully operational until January, it has emerged.
The facility was the first of six hospitals announced by the Department of International Development two months ago as part of Britain’s £250m assistance in the fight against Ebola in the country.
And while DFID’s plan has always been to phase in the facility, residents cannot understand why beds are empty while patients have nowhere to go because existing treatment centres are full.
The 80-bed hospital has treated just 18 patients so far.
Save the Children, which is managing the facility in Kerry Town, south of the capital Freetown, said it was increasing intake slowly to ensure the safety of its volunteer medical professionals.
“We are scaling up as fast as we can,” said a spokeswoman. “People are turning up, people are wanting to go in.”
She said the hospital was following a model used by Médecins Sans Frontières and under the direction of the clinical professionals leading the operation.
“The initial plan was always to take in five patients at first, the same as MSF. If you had 80 patients in at once it would not be safe. The risk of infection is too great.
“If we did it faster than the doctors want us to, then we risk infections and then undermine the whole operation. Our first priority is health workers.”
“The aim is that early next year it will be up to full capacity,” the spokeswoman added.
But the hype surrounding the Kerry Town facility’s opening in the wake of Justine Greening’s visit to Sierra Leone has given rise to false hope locally that it would double the bed capacity in the area overnight.
Umaru Fofana, a prominent local journalist, told his followers on Twitter and Facebook: “I’m shocked & surprised to learn that after such fanfare about its opening exactly 2 weeks ago, the Kerry Town has only SIX patients. The British-built facility has 80 available beds and there are patients without a bed. Save The Children who run the facility owe us an explanation.”
One of his followers responded: “The whole idea of Kerry Town is a sham!” complaining that “The British … instead of saving lives they have embarked in a huge media campaign.”
The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show confirmed Ebola patient numbers have rocketed by 40% since the hospital opened on 5 November, with 1,700 confirmed infections compared to 1,200 almost three weeks ago.
The centre is the first of six being constructed by the British government as part of the effort to stop the spread of the disease that will be run by different organisations. The hospital in Port Loko will be run by international humanitarian agency Goal; the one in Hastings, Freetown, by the Aspen foundation; a hospital in Makeni will be run by the global healthcare organisation International Medical Corps; one in Goderich, Freetown, by Italian-based medical charity Emergency; and one in Moyamba will be run by the Spanish branch of charity Médecins du Monde with a French team from Solidarités International.
The extra hospitals were due to be opened by mid December, said a DFID spokesman.
DFID said it was not in a position to comment on Kerry Town. “We handed over the facility to Save the Children but we always said it would take weeks before it was fully open”.
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Tag: NASA Goddard
NASA Awards Launch Contract to SpaceX for X-Ray Satellite Mission
July 9, 2019 July 9, 2019 News 0
Falcon 9 launches CRS-17 mission. (Credit: NASA)
WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which will allow astronomers to discover, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most exotic astronomical objects in our universe.
The total cost for NASA to launch IXPE is approximately $50.3 million, which includes the launch service and other mission-related costs.
IXPE measures polarized X-rays from objects, such as black holes and neutron stars to better understand these types of cosmic phenomena and extreme environments.
The IXPE mission currently is targeted to launch in April 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A in Florida. IXPE will fly three space telescopes with sensitive detectors capable of measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays, allowing scientists to answer fundamental questions about these turbulent environments where gravitational, electric and magnetic fields are at their limits.
NASA’s Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will manage the SpaceX launch service. The IXPE project office is located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
For more information about NASA programs and missions, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet
June 29, 2019 June 28, 2019 News 0
The three planets discovered in the L98-59 system by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) are compared to Mars and Earth in order of increasing size in this illustration. (Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
By Jeanette Kazmierczak
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
GREENBELT, Md. — NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to date.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Celebrates 10th Anniversary
June 18, 2019 News 11
Illustration of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — 5:32 p.m. Eastern Time on June 18, 2019, marks 10 years since the launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Its contributions to the fields of lunar science and exploration are unmatched: it has provided the largest volume of data ever collected by a planetary science mission.
NASA Prepares to Launch Twin Satellites to Study Signal Disruption From Space
This visualization shows the relative density of certain particles in Earth’s ionosphere. The E-TBEx CubeSats will explore how signals from satellites to Earth can be disrupted as they pass through this region. (Credits: NASA)
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — NASA’s twin E-TBEx CubeSats — short for Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment — are scheduled to launch in June 2019 aboard the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 launch. The launch includes a total of 24 satellites from government and research institutions. They will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA Eyes Sounding Rocket Launches From Australia
June 3, 2019 News 8
A Black Brant IX sounding rockets lifts off from the Wallops Flight Facility with the ASPIRE experiment on board on Sept. 7, 2018. (Credit: NASA/Allison Stancil)
ADELAIDE, South Australia, 31 May 2019 (Australia Space Agency PR) — NASA is looking to Australian company Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) to conduct rocket launches.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Wallops Flight Facility has indicated it would like to progress discussions with ELA on their 2020 sounding rocket campaign. The campaign would provide temporary southern hemisphere launch facilities for sounding rockets for scientific investigations.
The proposed launch activities fall under the Space Activities Act 1998. The amended legislation to come into effect on 31 August 2019 (the Space (Launches and Returns) Act 2018). The Australian Space Agency is responsible for administering this legislation, including the relevant licenses and permits for launch sites and launch activities.
The Agency is also currently consulting with industry on draft rules under the amended Act. Ensuring the rules are in place for space activities is a priority for the Agency.
Head of the Australian Space Agency, Dr Megan Clark AC said, “NASA’s interest in conducting a sounding rocket campaign in Australia shows the increasing importance of commercial launch activities from Australia.
“As these activities build momentum, the Agency will continue its focus on creating a supportive regulatory environment that fosters industry growth, while ensuring public safety and considering our international obligations.”
Robotic Refueling Mission 3 Can’t Perform Cryogenic Fuel Transfer
April 22, 2019 April 20, 2019 News 3
Edward Cheung, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, performs a fit check of RRM3’s three external tools. After RRM3 is installed to the outside of International Space Station the Dextre robotic arm will mount the pedestal and tools, pre-assembled by astronauts on the space station. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn)
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — On April 8, the Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3) aboard the International Space Station started experiencing issues powering up its cryogen coolers that maintain the temperature of liquid methane contained within the module. After several troubleshooting attempts, it was determined the coolers could not be powered up. As a result, the temperature of the liquid began to rise. The liquid methane turned into a gas and was safely vented from the payload. There was no impact to other station systems or operations.
While RRM3 can no longer perform a cryogenic fuel transfer, its four months on station taught NASA about the technology needed to store and transfer cryogenic fuel in space. The mission will carry out other planned operations with servicing and inspection tools. Ultimately, RRM3 will still help bring NASA closer to replenishing cryogenic fuel in space so spacecraft can live longer and journey farther into the solar system.
RRM3 launched to the space station in December 2018 and is installed to the outside of station on Express Logistics Carrier-1.
Inspector General: NASA Goddard Lags in Tech Transfer
by Douglas Messier
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is lagging behind three other agency centers when it comes to transferring technology to the private sector, according to a new audit by the Office of Inspector General. [Full Report]
“Goddard…is experiencing poor technology transfer performance outcomes when compared to the other three NASA Centers we reviewed, to include a lower percentage of licenses as well as delays in processing of [New Technology Reports] and patent applications,” the audit said.
Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon
Artist’s concept of the LADEE spacecraft (left) detecting water vapor from meteoroid impacts on the Moon (right). (Credits: NASA/Goddard/Conceptual Image Lab)
by Elizabeth Zubritsky
Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.
The findings will help scientists understand the history of lunar water — a potential resource for sustaining long term operations on the Moon and human exploration of deep space. Models had predicted that meteoroid impacts could release water from the Moon as a vapor, but scientists hadn’t yet observed the phenomenon.
IG: NASA Needs to Better Document Cost Savings on Services Contracts
March 31, 2019 March 31, 2019 News 0
NASA needs better methods to track its efforts to minimize costs on the more than $16 billion worth of engineering and technical services the space agency purchases annually, according to a new audit by the Inspector General (IG).
[Full Report — PDF]
“Although NASA has a variety of mechanisms at the Headquarters and Center levels to share lessons learned, many of these are informal, dependent upon personal relationships between Centers, and not focused on sharing information on efficiencies,” the audit said.
OSIRIS-REx Discovers Particle Plumes Erupting from Bennu’s Surface
March 19, 2019 News 0
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 19 was created by combining two images taken on board NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Other image processing techniques were also applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each image. (Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin)
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface. Bennu also revealed itself to be more rugged than expected, challenging the mission team to alter its flight and sample collection plans, due to the rough terrain.
A Region of Bennu’s Northern Hemisphere Close Up
Closeups of asteroid Bennu taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)
This trio of images acquired by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows a wide shot and two close-ups of a region in asteroid Bennu’s northern hemisphere. The wide-angle image (left), obtained by the spacecraft’s MapCam camera, shows a 590-foot (180-meter) wide area with many rocks, including some large boulders, and a “pond” of regolith that is mostly devoid of large rocks.
The two closer images, obtained by the high-resolution PolyCam camera, show details of areas in the MapCam image, specifically a 50-foot (15 meter) boulder (top) and the regolith pond (bottom). The PolyCam frames are 101 feet (31 meters) across and the boulder depicted is approximately the same size as a humpback whale.
The images were taken on February 25 while the spacecraft was in orbit around Bennu, approximately 1.1 miles (1.8 km) from the asteroid’s surface. The observation plan for this day provided for one MapCam and two PolyCam images every 10 minutes, allowing for this combination of context and detail of Bennu’s surface.
“Goldilocks” Stars May Be “Just Right” for Finding Habitable Worlds
This is an artist’s concept of a planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a K star. (Credits: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle)
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — Scientists looking for signs of life beyond our solar system face major challenges, one of which is that there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone to consider. To narrow the search, they must figure out: What kinds of stars are most likely to host habitable planets?
Five Teams Win NASA DALI Awards to Advance Future Lunar Missions
March 1, 2019 February 28, 2019 News 1
This artist’s rendition shows the LEMS concept, an environmental monitoring station on the Moon. (Credits: NASA)
By Lori Keesey
NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center
GREENBELT, Md. — When NASA solicits future investigations of the Moon five teams involving scientists and engineers at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will be ready.
The agency’s Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation, or DALI, program recently awarded 10 teams funding to mature spacecraft-based instruments for use in future lander missions, including those offered by commercial ventures through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract. These instruments are expected to reach a high level of technology readiness by the time funding ends in three years.
NASA Set to Demonstrate X-ray Communications in Space
February 25, 2019 February 24, 2019 News 5
This image shows the Modulated X-ray Source, a key component in NASA’s first-ever demonstration of X-ray communication in space. (Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk)
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — A new experimental type of deep space communications technology is scheduled to be demonstrated on the International Space Station this spring.
Currently, NASA relies on radio waves to send information between spacecraft and Earth. Emerging laser communications technology offers higher data rates that let spacecraft transmit more data at a time. This demonstration involves X-ray communications, or XCOM, which offers even more advantages.
NASA to Advance Unique 3D Printed Sensor Technology
Technologist Mahmooda Sultana holds an early iteration of an autonomous multifunctional sensor platform, which could benefit all of NASA’s major scientific disciplines and efforts to send humans to the Moon and Mars. (Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk)
A NASA technologist is taking miniaturization to the extreme.
Mahmooda Sultana won funding to advance a potentially revolutionary, nanomaterial-based detector platform. The technology is capable of sensing everything from minute concentrations of gases and vapor, atmospheric pressure and temperature, and then transmitting that data via a wireless antenna — all from the same self-contained platform that measures just two-by-three-inches in size.
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Brian Kindle
Ell McGuigan
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Martin Adil-Smith
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Interview – Horror in Clay
Jonathan M Chaffin – Horror in Clay
In the not so quiet corners of the internet, those with a fetish for all things Lovecraft and Cthulhu gather to discuss the perennial question “… but is it Lovecraftian?!!”
It was in one such corner in 2013 that I came across a company that made Cthulhu mugs. What you need to understand is that this is not just any mug with Cthulhu printed on to it… oh no, these are both engraved and sculpted designs that threaten sanity by merely grasping it, and thus I was introduced to www.horrorinclay.com. Over the years I came to know the owner – Jonathan M Chaffin – and we have fostered the kind of digital relationship that the internet was made for, which mostly involves saying “Ooo, that looks cool!”
For those who don’t know, Jonathan M. Chaffin is an artist and designer most noted for creating horror-themed tiki mugs, art, and barware. Born in South Carolina, in the United States, in 1978. Jonathan has resided in Atlanta GA since 1996 with his small family, cat, and hundreds of pagan idols and fiendish relics… and I was lucky enough to sit down with him and find out if he really is trying to invoke the spirit of R’lyeh.
The Cthulhu tiki
Martin Adil-Smith – For those who are unfamiliar with your work, tell us what you do?
Jonathan Chaffin – I consider myself a story-teller, and a collector. I have a deep and abiding love for horror-literature, and 5 years ago I started an art series of horror-themed tiki mugs based on stories, authors, and horror tropes I love. For example, my love of Lovecraft and the Call of Cthulhu led me to create a fictional bar called Pickman’s Cove, with its own Cthulhu-inspired tiki mug. That was my first of 9 mugs and supporting maps, beer mats, swizzles sticks, clothing, and all manner of ephemera. My last mug was set in Paris, was based on Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue” and took the form of a razor swinging, scarified, orangutan.
The tiki range
MAS -What can you tell us about what you are currently working on?
JC -I love the theater, and I love masks and Halloween. My next mug, anticipated to launch on Kickstarter in February, pays homage to those ideas while also mixing in references and locales from two horror authors I love. My mugs pay homage to different tropes of tiki mug history, and this one will be no different. I have a list of about 20 projects for the future, and this mug is actually the 4th on my original list (just some other projects got in the way!) My original list was The Horror In Clay Cthulhu tiki mug, the Innsmouth Fogcutter, the Cask of Amontillado, then…this mug. So hopefully people like it, because I’m very excited to finally get it out of my brain.
MAS -What first led you on this path? Did you go through any other expressive media before arriving at this one?
JC -I have been a graphic designer since 4th grade, when I redrew Garfield cartoons to make a classroom newspaper (this is true…I have one somewhere). In high school I did newspaper, literary magazine, and tshirt designs. Since then I’ve designed for just about everything from local bands to international restaurant chains. I got a BFA in Graphic design in 2005. I love building sets, props, and throwing themed events. I also dearly love theme parks, themed restaurants, and Halloween; that adoration of immersive experiences is what made me fall in love with tiki bars. When I went to college my dream job was to work for a company called Brainstorm Studios that designs branding and scenic art for haunted houses. (They still exist and I still love their work). I tried to tour the building once the one time I was in Denver…it didn’t work out (I was on a 48 hour straight press check and missed their opening hours). To get back to your question, though, I design in just about every medium to greater or lesser extent. I also give presentations on pop culture, horror, and steampunk topics at conventions, which fulfils my desire to write and teach.
MAS -Every artist tends to go through phases of expressing certain themes. What are some of the ideas that you’ve covered in the past, and what are you exploring at the moment?
JC -Most of my work is heavily research based, and pulls in whatever random ideas I’m ingesting at the time, so in a way any tiki mug collection or any project is a time capsule of what I was reading and doing. My Cask of Amontillado barrel reflects a lot of cryptography…I periodically find new ways of hiding messages in art and I’m pretty apt to do that where I can. I took a trip to the Pacific Northwest a few years ago, designed a whole unreleased mug around that experience. I’m a big fan of pinup art, and lowbrow artists, and you can definitely see some of that influence. Also, I love larger-than-life personalities you tended to see on local tv in the 70’s and 80’s, or from horror or radio hosts, so especially if you watch promo videos I’ve done for various projects you can see me being various flavours of gleeful capering jackass.
MAS -Do you get any sense of relief through your work? What kind of emotional release is there?
JC -I can finally get the damn idea out of my head. Doesn’t matter what it is, they get stuck in there like a ball of worms…or tentacles….and just loop around. When there are too many on a certain topic I have to work them out or it’s just chaos…I’ll be writing my todo list around the house and putting monsters and fangs and tiki on things. Or I’ll come home saying, “Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if we made a mug out of the lantern from a gravedigger” and my wife will say, “Where’s our daughter?” (Not really, but I’ll totally go to the store for two things and come back with only one of some other thing). I get about two weeks of reprieve after finishing shipping a Thing before the next one starts pounding at the gate in the basement of my mind.
Cephalopod Madness
MAS -Who and what inspires you?
JC – The obvious answer is horror authors, particularly short story writers; Poe, Lovecraft, Stephen King, Brian Lumley, Robert Lewis Stevenson, HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle…but I really read a ton; Sir Terry Pratchett, R.A. Salvator, Mickey Spillaine, Spider Robinson, Grady Hendrix, Hunter S. Thompson, and Sven Kirsten are some recent reads. I also dearly love the visual arts, particularly lowbrow and surrealism; Dali, Big Toe, Robt. Williams, COOP, Derek, Shag, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden and Megan Besmirched are some favs; along with Del Toro, Shylaman, Hitchcock, John Hughes, John Waters, Tarantino, Kubrick, and Spielberg for movies (also Burton and Kevin Smith). As far as music, Elfman, Williams, Wendy Williams (a Clockwork Orange), Sondheim, and Don Davis for composers, with AC/DC, Guns & Roses, Metallica, Body Count, Eminem, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, the HorrorPops, GWAR, ICP, Alice Cooper, the Jim Croce, and the Builders and the Butchers on the current playlist. Sculpturally, anyone who makes toys, haunt props, movie monsters, or big awesome THINGS (the folks at Jelly Koe, Eekum Bookum, Rob Hawes, Red Rocket Farm, Fez-o-rama and Steamcrow are all super nice).
MAS -What sort of reaction do you get from your nearest family/friends to your work? How does that compare to reaction from fans?
JC -Everone loves tiki; it just means different things to different people. My family has ceased being surprised – they know me. Friends and co-workers who find out I design tiki mugs and art always think it’s neat, are usually a little taken aback when they find out I travel and talk on panels about art and pop culture. Fans are just awesome! I think they are a little taken aback that I’m just some guy you’d pass on the street. I owe some treasured mugs, toys, and wicked hangovers to fans I’ve met and made friends with over the years.
Where monsters dwell…
MAS -What advice would you have for people who are starting out and want to follow a similar path?
JC – Start. Just start. Throw yourself at the ground and miss. Don’t quit your day-job, but don’t wait for the time to be right. Remember to factor in taxes, and remember to charge like you’re worth it so you can afford to do it. Always be humble.
MAS -What other projects do you have lined up?
JC -Right now I’m working on Christmas and some glaze variants of my mugs. After the mug in February, I’m working on my first tiki bowl. We just launched (and sold out!) a 56 person Tiki Homebar bus tour in Atlanta, GA called Inuhele, so that’ll be fun. Finally, we also curate a quarterly tiki mug experience box called http://www.mugcrate.com so I’m putting the finishing touches on art for the Dec box and working on the March box.
MAS -Lastly, bourbon or single malt?
JC -Bourbon, but aged rum for preference.
Jonathan M. Chaffin can be found on…
www.horrorinclay.com
www.mugcrate.com
www.AtlantaTikiTour.com
All photos Stephen Candy Photography
Interview by Martin Adil-Smith
The Horror In Clay
Game Review – “Call of Cthulhu” (2018)
Book Review – “Elevation” by Stephen King (2018)
Book Review – “Hands On Chaos Magick” by Andrieh Vitimus (2009)
Music Review – “All Out Life” by Slipknot (2018)
Movie Review – Predator (2018)
Book Review – “Blackwing” (2017) by Ed McDonald
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Dec 01 REALbasic
Volume Number: 17 (2001)
Column Tag: Declaring External Functions
by Joe Strout
Declaring External Functions in REALbasic
Harness the power of toolbox calls without resorting to C
Declaring Your Intentions
REALbasic’s extensive library floats on top of the sea of low-level functions that comprise the operating system like a cruise ship, protecting you from the dangers that lurk below. This is a two-sided coin; it frees you to concentrate on what you want to accomplish, rather than the details of how it’s done on this or that platform, but it also places limits on what you can do. When you hit one of those limits, and need to accomplish something not directly supported by the REALbasic library, then you’re going to have to get wet.
But even then, you have a choice. You could write a plug-in in C++, and link this plug-in into your REALbasic application [reference - Erik’s article on plugin dev]. That gives you full power to do pretty much anything, but it also requires quite a bit of learning, especially for developers not already familiar with C++. The other option is to use the Declare statement, which makes a function in REALbasic that links to a function in the operating system or a shared library. This is done entirely within REALbasic; no C++ is involved. To extend the ocean analogy a just bit further: writing a plug-in is like diving into the ocean untethered, while using a Declare is like hanging onto a life preserver on a rope — there are still restrictions on what you can do, but it’s also a lot easier to avoid drowning.
Though the Declare statement is used entirely within REALbasic, it’s still an advanced feature and a source of difficulty for many experienced REALbasic coders. This article will attempt to clarify and illustrate its use. After reading this article, you’ll be able to declare calls to classic MacOS, Carbon, or Win32 system routines, as well as to other shared libraries. This gives you the power to do a wide range of things not otherwise possible in REALbasic.
The Declare Statement: A Close Look
With no further ado, let’s jump right into an example. Listing 1 shows a REALbasic function that toggles the “modified” flag of a window. (Under Mac OS X, this sets or clears the little dot in the red Close widget in the title bar.) Since the functions involved are only available in MacOS 8.5 and higher, it also checks the system version before attempting to call them.
Listing 1: ToggleModified
ToggleModified
Toggle the “Modified” flag of the given REALbasic window. This subroutine requires MacOS 8.5 or higher,
and does nothing under older versions of MacOS. It will not compile as-is for 68k (these functions are
not available to 68k apps).
Sub ToggleModified(win As Window)
// Toggle the given window’s Modified flag
Dim sysVersion, err As Integer
#if TargetCarbon
Declare Function IsWindowModified Lib “CarbonLib” (window
as WindowPtr) as Boolean
Declare Function SetWindowModified Lib “CarbonLib” (window
as WindowPtr, modified as Boolean) as Integer
Declare Function IsWindowModified Lib “WindowsLib” (window
Declare Function SetWindowModified Lib “WindowsLib” (window
// check the system version, since these functions are only available
// in MacOS 8.5 and higher
if System.Gestalt(“sysv”, sysVersion) and sysVersion >=
&h0850 then
// system version is OK, so do the toggle
err = SetWindowModified(win, not IsWindowModified(win))
There are several things to notice in this example. First, if we want to compile for both “classic” Macintosh and for Carbon, we need two versions of each Declare — one linking against CarbonLib, and the other against the appropriate toolbox library (often InterfaceLib, but WindowsLib in this case). Next, built-in REALbasic functions generally do the right thing for any version of MacOS your code may be running on, but it can’t do so with a Declare; it’s your responsibility to make sure that the function you’re calling will be available. In this case, that means checking that the system version is at least 8.5. But once you’ve done all this, using the function you’ve declared is easy — just call it like any ordinary REALbasic method.
Let’s look at the Declare statements more closely. First, note that the declaration occurs within some other REALbasic method (subroutine or function). Just like a local variable, these declarations are local to where they’re declared; they will not be visible outside of this method. There is currently no way to make such a declaration global, though you could make a global wrapper function (as we’ve essentially done in this example).
The declaration always begins with the keyword “Declare” followed by either “Function” or “Sub”; REALbasic doesn’t actually care which you use, but by convention you use “Sub” when the C return type is void. Next is the name of the function, exactly as it appears in the external library. This is also the name used to invoke the function, unless you specify an “Alias” clause (which we’ll cover a bit later).
The next part of the declaration is the library name. This is the fragment name as it appears to the Code Fragment Manager, not the file name as it appears in the Finder; and unlike most words in REALbasic, this name is case sensitive. Finding this name is not hard, but we’ll come back to it a bit later.
Next come the function parameters, and finally the return type. This is where things get interesting. The documentation or header files on which you’re basing your Declare probably specify the parameter and return types with C syntax, rather than REALbasic. It may say something like “char *” or “Str255” or something unpalatable. What to do?
The Right Type for the Job
Most of the work in creating a Declare statement is in finding the right conversions between the C types you see in the headers and documentation, and the REALbasic types that serve the same purpose. Fortunately you have this article, which contains the very handy Table 1. This shows you some of the most common C types, and the corresponding REALbasic types you should use in a Declare statement.
Table 1: C types and REALbasic
equivalents for Declare statements
C data type
Declare type
Variable Type
long Integer, OSType, Color Integer, String, Color
UInt32
SInt32
(etc.)
OSType OSType (parameters only) String
ResType
DescType
short Short Integer
unsigned short
float Single Single
double Double Double
Str255 PString String
Str63
unsigned char *
char * CString (parameters only) String
WindowPtr WindowPtr Window
WindowRef (parameters only)
void* Ptr MemoryBlock
(or pointer to data structure)
The first column of this table is the data type the function is expecting, as you might see it in the documentation or the C header file. The middle column shows the corresponding types you could use in the Declare statement. Finally, the last column shows the “natural” REALbasic types which most closely match the declared types; these are what you would pass (or get as a result) when calling the function.
REALbasic uses the type you specify in the Declare to figure out how much data to push onto the call stack when making the call; so the most important thing is to get the size right. If the function is expecting any 4-byte value, you can probably declare this as type Integer. If you declare it as Short instead, REALbasic (when compiling for 68k processors) will push only two bytes, the function will try to grab four, and you’ll almost certainly crash.
Many of the type choices are very straightforward; if the function wants a float, declare it as a Single and pass it a number. If the function is expecting a Pascal string, declare it as type PString, and when you invoke the function, give it any ordinary string. REALbasic will automatically convert its internal string representation into a Str255 when calling the function (but note: if the function expects a shorter string than that, it’s up to you to make sure your string isn’t too long before making the call). Or if the return type is a Pascal string, the returned value will be automatically converted into a normal REALbasic string.
With other types, it’s not so clear cut. Suppose the function expects a pointer. Should you declare this as type Integer, or type Ptr? The answer depends on the details. If it’s a function that allocates some data structure, returns you a pointer to it, and you simply pass it back to other functions without trying to peek at the data, then an Integer will do fine. REALbasic integers are four bytes, and a pointer is four bytes, so treating the pointer as if it were just a number will make life easiest for you. Most modern Apple toolbox calls, such as those in Carbon or QuickDraw 3D, are of this sort, since the underlying data structures are opaque.
If, however, the function is expecting you to allocate storage for some data before calling the function, then a bit more work is required. In this case, declare the parameter as type Ptr. Allocate the memory in the form of a REALbasic MemoryBlock, created with the NewMemoryBlock function (and be sure to make it the right size!). If the function is expecting the data structure to be initialized with some values, you can use the MemoryBlock methods to stuff appropriate values into it. Then, pass this MemoryBlock to the function. From the function’s point of view, it just gets a pointer to some already-allocated memory. It may stuff values into this area, which you can later read by using those MemoryBlock methods again.
Your Declare statement must name the shared library which implements the function. In the case of a Windows DLL, you simply use the file name. In the Mac world, we don’t rely on file names, which are too frequently changed to be reliable. So you must use the fragment name as seen by the Code Fragment Manager (CFM). Most of the MacOS toolbox is in the fragment “InterfaceLib” (or “CarbonLib” for Carbon/OS X apps). But suppose you’re calling some other library — for example, the “Quesa” high-level 3D graphics library. The CFM name of this library is “QuickDraw™ 3D” (because it’s a binary-compatible replacement for Apple’s QuickDraw 3D technology). If you don’t happen to have me around to tell you handy facts like this, how would you know?
If you have ResEdit handy, it can give you the answer. Drop the library onto ResEdit and open the “cfrg” (code fragment) resource. This gives you a list of code fragments — usually there’s only one — and the name you’re looking for is labeled “Member Name”. Copy that value, and paste it into your Declare statement as the library name.
You can also use PEF Viewer, a free little utility from Apple. It also lists the code fragments it finds, and even lets you peek into the code, data, and loader information for each. (The last can be handy when Carbonizing — if the shared library you’re using imports any symbols from anywhere other than CarbonLib, you probably can’t use it in a Carbon app.) The CFM name of the library is given right at the top, next to the disclosure triangle.
If you don’t have either of these tools handy, you can use REALbasic itself. Just launch REALbasic, and drag the shared library file into the project window. It will appear there with its CFM name, rather than its file name. If you’re curious, what you have there is the alternative interface to importing functions from shared libraries — useful if you need a large number of functions from a single shared library, and you want them to be global rather than local. Since you’re using Declares rather than importing the library, you can just make note of the name, then delete the library from your project.
TBFinder to the Rescue
Writing Declares has always been a bit of an arcane art. Even armed with the knowledge in this article, you’ll find yourself wondering if it’s really worth the trouble when you just need a quick Mac toolbox call. Fortunately, there is a tool which can take much of the guess-work out of writing a toolbox-related Declare.
TBFinder is an open-source REALbasic project coordinated by Fabian Lidman. First, you point it to your copy of Universal Headers — i.e., Apple’s toolbox interface files, which you can download from Apple’s Development Kits web site. Then you can just find the toolbox call you need by searching or browsing, and it writes the Declare statement for you. There are some caveats, but in many cases it’s as simple as that.
TBFinder’s search window — what you see when you launch the utility — is shown in Figure 1. If you don’t know the name of the call you’re looking for, click “Browse” to get a nice hierarchical list of the functions defined in all the interface files, then just double-click the one you want. If you do know the name of the function you need, type it in the edit field; if you happen to know the header in which it’s declared, you can check the “Look first in:” checkbox and choose the appropriate header from the pop-up menu. Then click Search.
Figure 1. TBFinder search window.
The result, assuming the function actually exists, is a window like that shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. TBFinder result window.
TBFinder’s search window — what you see when you launch the utility — is shown in Figure 2. The key bit is the second section, where the REALbasic syntax is shown. You can either use the Copy command to move this text to the clipboard, or drag the little text-clipping icon directly into REALbasic. The other icons in the window are actually buttons that do things when you click on them: the upper left icon by the header file name reveals that header file in the Finder; the text file icon by the original C declaration opens the header file (careful — Apple’s headers are set to open in Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop); and the globe at upper right does a web search for the function name in Apple’s documentation.
At the bottom of the window, you’ll notice a handy note telling you whether or not the function appears to be Carbon-compatible. If it is, you can use it in a Carbon application by simply changing the library name to “CarbonLib”. In the case of a classic application, TBFinder correctly identifies the library for you, using a big internal look-up table which I fervently hope was generated automatically by parsing the various system libraries.
TBFinder also supports one other feature of the Declare that I not previously mentioned: the “Inline68K” block. Many Mac toolbox calls on 68k machines are not shared library calls at all, but rather direct jumps to system traps. The C headers give the necessary machine language glue with the xWORDINLINE macros; TBFinder converts this to RB syntax, and even appends the extra glue needed in some cases by RB itself. (Be sure to get the latest version of TBFinder; version 2.0, included on the REALbasic CD, does not do this correctly.)
Finally, note that while TBFinder is invaluable, it isn’t infallible. In particular, it takes its best guess at the appropriate parameter conversions, but these often require human judgment (see Table 1 again). Always double-check the parameter types TBFinder has chosen, and consider whether there are other choices that make more sense for you.
Now that we’ve covered all the basics, let’s look at some real examples. We already saw one in Listing 1, used to toggle the “modified” flag on a window. Listing 2 shows another example, a call to the toolbox routine ObscureCursor, which hides the cursor until the mouse is moved. As this routine takes no parameters and returns no result, the declaration is very straightforward.
Listing 2: ObscureCursor
ObscureCursor
Hide the cursor until the mouse is moved (MacOS only).
Sub ObscureCursor()
// Declare it with a “Sys” prefix to avoid a name clash
Declare Sub SysObscureCursor Lib “CarbonLib” Alias
“ObscureCursor” ()
Declare Sub SysObscureCursor Lib “InterfaceLib” Alias
“ObscureCursor” () Inline68K(“A856”)
// Call it!
SysObscureCursor
Note that in this example, I’ve chosen to name the REALbasic subroutine exactly like the toolbox routine. That means that when I declare the toolbox call within the subroutine, I’d have a name clash unless I use the “Alias” option. “Alias” allows me to declare the system routine as SysObscureCursor, avoiding thus avoiding the clash, and allowing all other users of this subroutine to simply call “ObscureCursor”.
Naturally, if you needed to use HideCursor/ShowCursor to hide the mouse even when it moves — say, because you’re making a game and have a custom cursor or no need for a cursor at all — then the declarations would be very similar. But let’s suppose you need to hide the cursor only within a rectangular region of the screen, perhaps because you’re doing some animation there, or simply because you want to demonstrate a Declare involving a MemoryBlock. The toolbox call for this is ShieldCursor. TBFinder gives the declaration as:
Declare Sub ShieldCursor Lib “InterfaceLib” (shieldRect as Ptr, offsetPt as Point) Inline68K(“A855”)
Apple’s documentation gives the first parameter as a Rect pointer, which TBFinder has rendered as type Ptr. From Table 1, you know that a MemoryBlock is needed for times like this. We use the MemoryBlock to manually construct a Rect structure, recalling that a Rect is just a set of four short integers representing top, left, bottom, and right
Dim m As MemoryBlock
m = NewMemoryBlock(8) // 8 bytes (four 2-byte ints)
m.Short(0) = r.top
m.Short(2) = r.left
m.Short(4) = r.top + r.height
m.Short(6) = r.left + r.width
We can then pass this as the first parameter to ShieldCursor. What about the second parameter, “offsetPt”? Again referring to Apple’s documentation, we find that this is the offset from the global coordinate system. In other words, it’s the top-left corner of the window containing the rectangle to which we’re referring. TBFinder has left this declared as “Point”, which is not a valid Declare parameter type. But since a Point is the same size as an Integer, we can fairly easily construct an integer that contains the information we need:
Dim point As Integer
// put pt.v into the high word, pt.h into the low word:
point = BitwiseAnd(self.top * 65536, &HFFFF0000)
point = BitwiseOr(point, BitwiseAnd(self.left, &H0000FFFF))
Then, we simply change the Declare statement so that the second parameter is of type Integer, and we’re ready to go. The full listing for the ShieldCursor function is shown in Listing 3.
Listing 3: ShieldCursor
ShieldCursor
Hide the cursor within the given rectangle control.
Sub ShieldCursor(r As RectControl)
Declare Sub SysShieldCursor Lib “InterfaceLib” Alias “ShieldCursor” (shieldRect as Ptr, offsetPt
as Integer) Inline68K(“A855”)
// construct the rect within which the cursor will be shielded
m = NewMemoryBlock(8) // 8 bytes (four 2-byte ints)
// construct the point that converts global to local coordinates
point = -self.top * 65536 - self.left
// pt.v in the high word, pt.h in the low word
// make the call
SysShieldCursor m,point
Let’s end with a Windows declaration. I know, this is a Mac programming magazine, but sometimes you need to deploy your app for that Other Platform — and the ability to do so easily is one of REALbasic’s strengths. However, with the Declare statement, you’re making a direct call to a toolbox or shared library routine; this is rarely portable. So the first thing you’ll need to do, is conditionalize your code so that Mac declares are included only in Mac builds, and Windows declares are included only in Windows builds. You can use either “#if TargetMacOS” or “#if TargetWin32” for this purpose.
Next, you’ll need information on the Windows API. Two good references are given at the end of this article.
Finally, you’ll need to construct the Declare statement by hand. TBFinder can’t help you here; but with this article on your shelf, you’re well-equipped for the task. So let’s dive into an example.
Windows applications can take command-line parameters, and these are often used to specify options or initial conditions for the application. REALbasic can get these one at a time via the OpenDocument event, but in many cases it’d be preferable to get the whole command line. A search on the MSDN Online Library quickly leads to the GetCommandLine function, declared in the documentation as:
LPTSTR GetCommandLine(VOID);
This function takes no parameters, making our lives easy in that respect. And the return type, it turns out, is a C string of either ASCII or UniCode characters. This is an important point: many Windows functions come in both ASCII and UniCode versions, as signified under “Requirements” with a note such as “Unicode: Implemented as Unicode and ANSI versions on all platforms.” When you see this, it means that the function name given is not the real function name — you need to append “A” for the ASCII version, or “W” for the UniCode version. So the actual function name, for our purposes, is GetCommandLineA.
The return type in this case is an ordinary C string. But, while REALbasic knows how to automatically convert its String type into a CString for use as a parameter, it can’t do the opposite conversion. So we need another approach. A C string is really just a pointer to some data, so we can declare the return type as “Ptr”, and use a MemoryBlock to get at the data. The result is shown in Listing 4.
Listing 4: GetCommandLine
GetCommandLine
Get the full Win32 command line, including executable name and parameters.
Function GetCommandLine()
#If TargetWin32
Declare Function GetCommandLineA Lib “KERNEL32.DLL” () as Ptr
m = GetCommandLineA()
Return m.cstring(0) // get the C string to which m points
return “Command line available on Win32 only.”
There is one other trick that can sometimes make Windows declares easier. If you can find a web site or other documentation with Declare statements for Visual Basic — such as the last reference given at the end of this article — then you can use those Declare statements in REALbasic almost verbatim. You’ll just need to make a few changes: the “ByVal” keyword can be omitted, and data types may have to be translated according to Table 1 (e.g., use “Integer” where VB says “Long”).
REALbasic tries to abstract away the details of the underlying operating system, so you don’t have to worry about whether you’re running on classic MacOS, OS X, or some flavor of Windows. But sometimes you need more control. You may need to talk directly with the OS, or you may need access to some other shared library (such as OpenGL, for example). In those cases, the Declare statement is invaluable.
The Declare statement allows you to do most of the same things you could do directly in C. There are some limitations; you can’t call a function that requires a callback, and you can’t directly invoke a function pointer (e.g., to call a mach-o entry point loaded via the CFBundle API). For those, you’ll still need to write a plug-in. But for most other needs, you can Declare your external calls, providing a neater, more integrated solution.
While Declare gives you nearly the power of C, it gives you nearly the complexity of C as well. Writing a Declare statement is error-prone, and if done incorrectly, can crash your program (and under Classic MacOS, the system as well). Deciphering the headers and documentation for the calls you’re making requires some understanding of how things work in C or Pascal. But, with the tips gained here and a bit of study and experimentation, there will soon be little you can’t do in REALbasic.
REALbasic Home Page
http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic
TBFinder Home Page
http://homepage.mac.com/fabianl/development/
Apple’s Developer Documentation
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/
Apple’s Software Development Kits
http://developer.apple.com/sdk/
Microsoft’s Official SDK Documentation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
Unofficial Windows API Guide
http://www.vbapi.com/ref/index.html
Joe Strout is a neuroscientist-turned-software engineer currently working for REAL Software, Inc. You can reach him at joe@strout.net.
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s historians begin to assess Barack Obama’s record as president, there’s at least one legacy he’ll leave that will indeed be historic—but not in the way he would have hoped. Even as Democrats look favorably ahead to the presidential landscape of 2016, the strength in the Electoral College belies huge losses across much of the country. In fact, no president in modern times has presided over so disastrous a stretch for his party, at almost every level of politics.
Legacies are often tough to measure. If you want to see just how tricky they can be, consider the campaign to get Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill 178 years after he left the White House. Working class hero? How about slave owner and champion of Native American genocide? Or watch how JFK went from beloved martyr to the man whose imperial overreach entrapped us in Vietnam, and then back to the president whose prudence kept the Cuban Missile Crisis from turning into World War III.
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Walter Logeman
Notes on Books
Posted on June 8, 2002 by Walter
Small Players Matter
While large players and big media companies act like they are the main reason for the web and Internet and therefore should drive policy decisions, in actuality they are just “the biggest of the many small players” that make up the Internet. In fact, the controlling “stay within us” mentality some of them have is actually counter to the needs of the Internet for growth. The numbers show that the contributions of the myriad of small players — individuals, non-profits, and small businesses — are crucial to the vitality of the web and its value to people.
This one was in the top 40! Great to see it and also that people appreciate such clear simple commonsense analysis backed up with data.
The fact that I found it and am linking to it proves his point. Here is a moment where a country inn rises above the Hilton.
Could the big pipes however control the net?
Another thought, if we judged an individual by their job religion, race or gender we might get some idea of who they ware but it is the fine mesh in between these big trends that really matters.
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dtierney / December 24, 2018 / 2 Comments / Film
by Jeffrey Middents*
The press surrounding the release of Roma has emphasized its autobiographical qualities, elements that Alfonso Cuarón himself has confirmed in interviews throughout the production process. The film drops specific references to Cuarón’s other films, allowing cinephiles in the know to turn it into a familiar (and fun) auteurist game: sure, the family goes to see Marooned (John Sturges 1969) which looks suspiciously like a low tech version of Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), but what about the scene of Fermín’s nude martial arts harking back to Sólo con tu pareja (2001)? (Ten points goes to the person who can make Great Expectations (1998) work…) Perhaps wisely, at the time of this writing (concurrent with the immediate theatrical and streaming release of Roma), four of Cuarón’s earlier films – Sólo con tu pareja (1991), A Little Princess (1995), Y tu mama también and Children of Men (2006) – are also available on Netflix to assist with this potential bit of fun.
A self-aware auteur like Cuarón, however, knows that mere citation is not enough: Roma also operates in dialogue with his earlier films, allowing layers of meaning to develop. (Pedro Almodóvar has also done: the premises for both Todo sobre mi madre (1999) and Volver (2006) stem from individual – and unrelated – plot points within his earlier film La flor de mi secreto (1995)). This video essay quickly relates Roma back to its most obvious reference, Y tu mamá también, by overlaying that film’s narrator –intoned by Daniel Giménez Cacho – onto Roma’s rooftop scene. The narration largely consists of Tenoch’s memory of his nanny, called “Leo” in Y tu mamá también, which is triggered when he, Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Luisa (Maribel Verdú) pass the sign for her hometown (Tepelme). Significantly, he chooses not to say anything about it to the others in the car. Cuarón’s choice to name the main character the nearly homophonic “Cleo” invites direct comparisons between her and Leo: both movies feature C/Leo answering phones that the rest of the family ignores; both women are adored by the children; while Tenoch’s memory of Leo is triggered by a car ride to the ocean, Cleo actually travels with the children on a similar journey. Y tu mamá también features a single scene where we actually see Leo walking through the house, carrying a sandwich, after which she sweetly strokes the head of Tenoch; the actress playing that role is none other than Liboria Rodríguez, Cuarón’s actual nanny, to whom he dedicates Roma.
My focus on the rooftop scene in the video essay, however, invites another, more interesting comparison: after Paco refuses to (pretend) die (in a shoot-out game with his brother) and leaves the scene, the youngest brother, Pepe, sprawls dramatically on a piece of concrete, demonstrating the fact that he is “dead” (“muerto”). Particularly in the way that word is drawn out, the scene recalls a late scene in Y tu mamá también, when Luisa asks the little girl Lucero to show her the dead-man’s float (“uuuy, qué muerta estás”). I do not wish to attribute all of Luisa’s characteristics on Cleo, but this highlights that both women act as mothers while being simultaneously denied the possibility of being mothers themselves. As such, I have also brought in narration from that part of Y tu mamá también that originally accompanied the last time we see Luisa, diving into the ocean “. Transposed onto Roma, the words offer a newer perspective on Cleo. Who is to say, after all, that the “foam” from the sea is any less majestic and inspirational than the soap suds Cleo – and all the other domestic employees visible scrubbing on other rooftops in this scene – are washing away?
This video essay also highlights the richness and depth of Cuarón’s use of sound in both films, that match the complex mise-en-scène throughout his work. Y tu mama también is so attuned to teenage cacophony that, in order to provide context and history, the narration is presented with ambient sound turned off – an auteurist nod to Godard’s similar use of such narration in movies like Bande à part (1964). This made it relatively easy to lift the narration from one film without disturbing the complex soundscape of the other – but it also highlights how Roma evokes memory in a different aural manner. The deliberate pacing of the camera – there are only three shots in this scene, with the final shot lasting nearly 2 ½ minutes– corresponds with a softer symphony that supports the minimalist observations of Cleo and her surroundings.
*Jeffrey Middents is Associate Professor of Literature at American University in Washington, DC. His book, Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru (2009) investigates the historical place of cultural writing within a national discourse by tracing how Peruvian cinema was shaped by local film criticism. He has also published print and video essays on documentary aesthetics in the work of Chilean filmmaker Particio Guzmán, Peruvian director Luis Llosa’s films made under producer Roger Corman, the theoretical perspective espoused by Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, the sense of place in contemporary Latin American cinema, movie stardom and “the indigenous” in the works of Dolores del Rio and Magaly Solier, the pedagogy of teaching “world cinema” and the racial complexities of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is currently working on a monograph on transnational auteurism and the work of Alfonso Cuarón.
Tags: Alfonso Cuaron, memory, Roma, Y tu mama tambien
Tamara Falicov / 2-8-2019 / ·
That was a wonderful video essay, Jeff!
dtierney / 2-8-2019 / ·
I’ll pass that on Tamara! See you at SCMS this year?
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Battle escalates over Obama rule for contraception coverage at Catholic institutions
By Dan Gilgoff and Lesa Jansen, CNN
(CNN) - The battle over a new White House policy compelling Catholic institutions to cover contraception in health insurance plans continues to escalate, with Republican presidential candidates denouncing the rule, liberal groups spotlighting Catholic support for contraception, and the Obama administration vowing to confront religious concerns head on.
"The president's interest is in making sure that … all women here have access to the same preventive care services,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday.
“He is also concerned about and understands the religious concerns that have been raised,” Carney said, stressing that the White House would work to see if “the implementation of the policy can be done in a way that allays some of those concerns.”
Earlier Tuesday, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, David Axelrod, signaled that the president might be open to compromise on the issue.
“We certainly don’t want to abridge anyone’s religious freedoms,” Axelrod said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “so we’re going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventative care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions.”
But the dispute - spurred by a late January announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that all employers, including Catholic hospitals and schools, will be required to offer free access to FDA-approved contraceptives like the birth control pill and Plan B (the so-called morning-after pill) through health insurance plans - shows no signs of dying down.
”Implementing the policy as is and allaying the concerns are mutually exclusive," Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Tuesday. "If they want to allay concerns, they need to change the policy. Nothing less will do."
Churches are exempt from the policy, which goes into effect August 1, and religious institutions that oppose contraception have been given a yearlong extension to comply.
The Roman Catholic Church, which opposes the use of contraception, continued Tuesday to signal that it is intent on resisting the new policy.
“The bishops aren’t going to stop until this is fixed, and that means pursuing every legal means available to them to fix it,” Picarello said.
The flap was thrust further into the national political spotlight on Tuesday, as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum attacked the new rule in his victory speech on a night that he swept primaries and caucuses in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado.
The administration had told American Catholics that “you have a right to health care, but you will have the health care that we tell you you have to give your people, whether it’s against the teachings of your church or not,” Santorum said in his Missouri speech.
“I never thought, as a first-generation American, whose parents and grandparents loved freedom and came here because they didn’t want the government telling them what to believe and how to believe … that we’d have a president of the United States who would roll over that and impose his secular values on the people of this country.”
His GOP rival Mitt Romney has continually denounced the Health and Human Services rule in recent weeks.
Speaking in Loveland, Colorado, on Tuesday, Romney said the rule was “in violation of the religious conscience of (Catholic) organizations.”
“This kind of assault on religion will end if I am president of the United States,” he said.
A survey released Tuesday by the Public Religion Research Institute found that Catholics are divided over whether religious colleges and hospitals should have to provide employees with health insurance that covers birth control at no cost. Forty-five percent of Catholic voters support such a requirement, while 52% oppose it.
“Given how closely divided Catholic voters are over the requirement that religiously affiliated hospitals and colleges provide employees with health care plans that cover contraception,” said Daniel Cox, research director at the Public Religion Research Institute, “it seems unlikely that this issue will galvanize Catholics nationally and seriously undermine Obama's electoral prospects with this important religious constituency.”
Planned Parenthood also released a survey on the rule Tuesday; it found that 53% of Catholics think that women employed by Catholic hospitals and universities should have the same rights to contraceptive coverage as other women.
“The message to Democrats is that this is something all women deserve to have and that religion just shouldn’t be an issue with it,” said Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling, which conducted the survey for Planned Parenthood.
Over the past two weekends, the American Catholic hierarchy has distributed letters harshly condemning the Health and Human Services policy to be read at parishes nationwide during Mass.
“We cannot – we will not – comply with this unjust law,” Kansas City, Kansas, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann wrote in a letter to parishes last weekend. “Our parents and grandparents did not come to these shores to help rebuild America’s cities and towns, its infrastructure and institutions, its enterprise and culture, only to have their posterity stripped of their God-given rights.”
The rule has also drawn the ire of some influential evangelicals. “I'm not a Catholic but I stand in 100% solidarity with my brothers & sisters to practice their belief against govt pressure,” influential California-based pastor Rick Warren said in a tweet Tuesday night.
“I'd go to jail rather than cave in to a govement mandate that violates what God commands us to do,” Warren tweeted in a separate message. “Would you?”
- CNN's Brianna Keilar contributed to this report.
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ShawnDH
Team Obama all the way. Don't these wacko government-forced birth, anti-choice fanatics want to reduce the number of abortions? Well guess what geniuses...birth control does that. And of course there is something really grotesque listening to right-wing hypocrites babbling about freedom while demanding the government force women to give birth against their will and dictate who can marry whom. These hypocrites shouldn't be indulged anymore. STFU.
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stohlat
I'm sorry, who is forcing who to give birth? Where did personal responsibility go in this day and age?
SgtSerge
Ok here is an idea....... how about a hybrid tax system where you can allocate a portion of your taxes to specific purposes.
For example, if I want my children to have access to these services, I tick a box, from there the information is fed in to the healthcard info to show what services are available or not. If there is not enough funding to suppport something, it is limited or does not exist. Problem soved really. We will never fix this by fighting over who is morally right or wrong.....
@SgtSerge,
THough there are some things that need to be kept alive no matter what, I agree this would be a fantastic system and a giant leap towards America being a true democracy. It would aslo be really, REALLY hard to manage, but hopefully there is some branch of the governemnt working on it.
I agree, really hard..... and I doubt anybody is working on it, if America tied the census data to taxes (everyone files a tax return even if you made nothing) the money saved from doing the census, paying people to analyse it, and put firth projects could maybe pay for a program like this.
Until we have a true democracy we will be fighting with ourselves and no one will win. I am working on a plan like this in Canada (as there are far less people and it is easier to get through) because being from a socialist country it is vital for people to feel the money they pay in taxes is being spent on things that benifit them, even if it is only a percentage of the overall amount.
And in Canada (like most places in the world these days) is very far apart in what people want for a country they live in. This is a real problem and a solution is not as hard as some people would like to make it out to be. It will not be easy, but it is sure not impossible.
One last thing, it does not matter how many parties you have, they all play off of these social differences to secure a vote, they go after your morals. Far right, far left, center and everything in between. It is the way our tax dollars are spent that is the key to taking back democracy around the world. IMO
"Planned Parenthood also released a survey on the HHS rule Tuesday; it found that 53% of Catholics think that women employed by Catholic hospitals and universities should have the same rights to contraceptive coverage as other women."
This is irrelevant. So, all it takes to overturn Church teachings is to poll the membership, and a simple majority is all that's required?
Yep, welcome to living in a country that has freedom of religion, which also means you are free to ignore it if you choose.
As my late departed mother said to me growing up, "just because everybody is jumping off a bridge does not mean you should, or make it right."
>This is irrelevant. So, all it takes to overturn Church teachings is to poll the membership, and a simple majority is all that's required?
That would be a step up from the current system of just follow what the old white guy says based on his version of this translation from that edition. Church teachings are a joke. Most of the larger moral concepts were around before Christianity but they claim it their own. Marriage is a great example of this.
Ok the problem the church has with this bill it’s because it uses or mandates the morning after pill to be cover which the church sees as abortion. If they would just take that out from the beginning they church would have shut up and we wouldn't be having this discussion. Catholic hospitals only have a problem with the morning after pill, that’s it. That’s what this problem is about. Take that out and shut up! and everyone its happy =0)
That is not true. The Catholic church is against all birth control in every form. They preach abstinence only. No condoms, pills, IUDs, nothing. The morning-after pill is just their favorite way to demonize women.
The church is very confused. If ‘god’ wanted a child born, wouldn’t he have the power to make it happen regardless of “the pill” … silly children. It’s all part of his plan.
lefty avenger
Does anyone else find it peculiar that an Unborn Fetus is sacred and holy and when the child is born without monetary support the once sacred Fetus becomes a welfare food stamp bum and cheat not worthy of an education? How does this mysterious transformation take place?
birth I suppose
Boy did you hit it on the head there!!
Prayer is not healthy for children and other living things
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid and pathetic you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.
what are you talking about there is scientific data to prove that it helps
Oh! Ye of so little faith....
namethename
I was poor and was living from paycheck to paycheck.I did not want to wake up every morning.
One day I prayed in my car and asked God give me my own business and a house(doesn't have to be a great house)
3 month my parents all of sudden bought me a house and I started my own business where my products are sold even while I am sleeping all over the world.
I told this to one on my former classmates who seems like where struggling. I wanted to help this way. She laughed it off, she says she "can't believe you can pray and a house will magically fall from the sky". These are her words.
I don't know what is not real about house or $1000 a day I make every day.Real cash.
Are some people so blind not to see what is in front of them ? I asked and was given to, it is up to you now.
The author of the above comment is an IDIOT!
Actually, the intial scientific studies (on whether prayer can effect medical outcomes) were both flawed and inaccurately reported - the studies have been revisited and the scientific data to date concludes is that prayer does not change medical outcomes.
mannycl
Another comment from wacko land.
LawnSausage
hahah thats awesome!
So why not condoms on your health care policy then. Because helping men is not what feminists who cry discrimination care about. They just want to be able to hit the a button at any time, they want women to not have to deal AT ALL with their decisions plain and simple. Make condoms available, whats wrong with that.
YOU are responsible for your own birth control, not the government.
mdbill
no argument andrew. "you" should be responsible for paying for your own bc. problem is that a lot of "yous" won't pay for it, get pregnant with an unwanted child, then "we" the people and government end up paying for a bigger mess.....
So we should save them from themselves?
no, i'm afraid you are missing my point. we should save them from "ourselves". we the people will end up paying a lot more for the unwanted child then we will for bc to prevent the conception. that is unless you are of the tea party group that chants "let him die, let him die"....
Andrew, condoms are already free at clinics. And lots of organizations hand them out for free, too. Plus, you don't need a prescription to get condoms, nor do you need to see a doctor every year while you're using them, hence, insurance really isn't in play there.
BDM3. so you would rather pay for the health care of the child that results from the lack of contraceptives? is that what you're saying? because the contraceptives are a LOT cheaper in the long run. i hear quite a number of "conservatives" gripe about their government paying for BC or abortions.... but by golly, if you ask them to open up their wallets to pay for the unwanted children they just kind of disappear. why don't you worry more about the waste of human life our government causes in these stupid wars we keep interjecting ourselves in? somehow the trillions we spend on them seems to just escape your notice i bet....
mdbill – I guessing you don't know the statistics on the explosion of the use of contraceptives and the amount of abortion and unplanned kids? In 1960 before the pill on 6% of kids were born out of wedlock. Now with the pill pushed to every girl past 12, over 40% of kids are born out of wedlock. 50% of all abortions happen due to birth control not working.
Seems to me that instead of increasing the same failed policies we should try to implement something that actually has worked.....it's called abstinence.
As I see it the Catholic church does not want to tempt their flock by having the choice . I hope you are wrong when you offer the notion that ANY church will decide who the next President of the United States is . But, really do Catholics all want us none Catholics to be unable to have our choices because THEIR church says they can't have any choices. What is that ? stupidity love company ? What about Mormons ? Will Catholics allow this new age religion to supersede their religion at the polls ? Give the American public the chance to make a good choice for their country not their church and I believe we will get just the President we need. After all less government should mean the government stays out of our bedrooms and our hospitals and schools . I guess this is why I don't like church schools or hospitals , they are furthering their agenda at a big cost to our patriotic fiber .
Somebody is taking my comments down because they're not liberal enough. Wiesels
Pan3
Right on Mr. President – Free us from the religious grasp that is choking the US!
FOUR MORE YEARS, YES WE CAN!
BReal
William said:
"I see no reason birth control should be required to be covered. Whatever happened to health insurance being for preventative and major issues. Birth control is a quality of life drug and shouldn't be required to be covered."
Then NO coverage whatsoever for Viagra/Cialis/ED drugs because "it's a quality of life drug..."
Can't have it both ways!!
Those plans from the church would not cover ed drugs. The same plans that cover birth control cover ed drugs. I work in health insurance. You point is made so much by so many, but it's just not true.
Do you have to be a religion to restrict coverages for employees, or can any privately owned business that offers health care coverage for it's employees decide what it likes and what it doesn't like, claim "religious" reasons and remove it?
A policy is a policy, it's basically a contract, no policy is going to cover everything. I don't see any policies that cover condoms.
Don't really know, I work for Blue Cross, we cover birth control.
A friend of mine is a teacher in VA. their plan pays for X amount of medical coverage per year, then resets every year. IT pays for condoms, or whatever other medical expene you want, till it runs out. So they are out there.
Viagra is not covered by plan with Aetna. I don't work for any church.
tripleseq
Catholics have no issue with dictating what kind of health care they think others should and shouldn't be receiving; but its a two way street and they are whining in stereo-typical fashion. In any case, Catholicism is a dying religion in North America, and without the flow of immigrants into North America from South America and the Phillipines they would be even more marginalized.
you don't know your bible very well. Nothing will destroy the Catholic Church. It has survived for 2000 years and it will survive till the end of time. If you are Christian and have a bible, Matt 16:16-18.
Thinkologoy
You are wrong about the Catholic church dying in our country. Our church is having more people come back to our faith more and more everyday. We have a growing number of seminarians studying to be priest. Our international website of catholicscomehome.com is bringing many back that had left the church in their younger years. Yes we have had our problems with individual priests and do not hide that. The basic theology does not change in our church and that is what is attractive to people.
The submerged issue here is a real medical issue: the staunch Catholic Church doctrine against the use of contraceptives includes a denial of the us of condoms. This introduces a very strong influence against safe practices and that is the medical issue in question.
Because the Church says "just say no" and will not admit that its faithful are having relations outside of marriage, it is turning a blind eye to the medical issues. That can have tragic consequences for which there is ample evidence for those not blind to the facts of nature.
Ahh... the church is ok with you using condoms.....
They just don't want the morning after pill.
Because they think life starts at conception, meaning from the moment the sperm hits the egg. Condoms stop the sperm.
The after pill kills the egg. That’s their problem.
I would like to know your definition of, Thou shall not commit adultery before I can anwer your statement.
People are saying because a women has to pay for a pharmaceutical product she's discriminated against. Ha. Why is being made to play by certain rules of our economy discriminating against you. Nobody's saying they can't have it, but is everything that is beneficial for you supposed to be free or your rights are violated
Julnor
There is no such thing as free birth control pills. There are only birth control pills that other people pay for.
I've answered you before, but here it is again. IT is not technically discrimination, but it would be an unjust and unfair practice. The government has signed into law a minimum standard of care to be provided by Health Care Insurance that is free to the recipient for all us Citizens. To say that a Church affiliated organization can opt out, "because they don't agree with it" denies the employees of that organization the rights of medical protection that have been signed into law. In effect, every other woman in America has BETTER protection than hte ones who workfor the organizations that "don't agree with it". that is unjust, and it is the restriction of personal rights by an outside body, which the Consttution defends against, and the government is menat to enforce that. Basically, it doesn't matter how the chuch feels, according to our founding laws, what matters is how the employees feel.
If Contraceptives are really the issue, the churches are welcome to try to drum up support of the people to have letters sent to the government to have the law changed so that they aren't covered; but since it's pretty clear that the majority of US Citizens are FOR providing contraceptives, it's probably not going to happen, the Churches (all religions mind you), can get over it.
So BRC, are you saying that's discrimination against women that are made to buy this product without insurance, or just those with insurance but not covering birth control. I'm Canadian, our national health care does not cover contraceptives, it's never felt discriminating to anyone I know. You just trying to justify calling this discrimination. It's silly to come at that angle. Should gender changing surgery be covered too.
@Andrew,
I said this WAS NOT descrimination. BUT, if it is mandated by law that ALL employers must provide Heatlh Care Insurance that includes cotnraceptives (my opinion has nothing to do with this, I didn't write the law), then ALL employers must provide such insurance. if 98% of women recieve the coverage because theyr employers follow the laws, and 2% don't because theri employer disagrees with contraceptives, that is an unjust and illegal restriction of their legally required medical care. What I think DOESN"T MATTER, what matters is what the law says, and that all Citizens recieve equal protection under that law. Some employers throwing a fit because they don't like it doesn't give them the right to deny their people coverage that EVERYONE else has access to. Does that make more sense?
Yeahright
They can't keep their "celibate" priests from sodomizing boys, and they claim to have the moral high ground.
How this comment stayed up is beyond me. Its like saying you all black people are criminal gangsters.
Although very influenced by religion the American government is secular in nature. The laws of the US take precedent over any religious doctrine. They always have.
I was in an airport two weeks ago having a beer while waiting for my flight. I was talking with the guys next to me, each of whom owned a small business. I asked them, "Does Obama's mandate that health insurance companies provide free birth control make you worried about what he might do to your industry?" Both quickly answered, "Hell yes!"
Betty W
Silly I have great insurance and my Birth Controle was never free. I had to pay the deductable on the cost just like any other medication. They just want it to be covered like any other health care medicine cost.
*Control
Catholic twits. You twits have more than enough issues to fix like child abuse. The catholic church is in the middle ages.
idiot male catholics. You twits have more than enough issues to fix like child abuse. The catholic church is in the middle ages.
You really don't care about child abuse getting fixed. If you did you would be more concerned about the 38 MILLLION cases in the general public than the maybe 4000 acts committed by priests. Certainly those 4000 are condemnable. But you only show your hatred of Catholicism rather than concern for child abuse with your post.
gerald, it's not the number of child abuse cases that's the issue. Of that majority not committed by priests, there's a consensus among everyone (except the perp, obvi) that it's wrong, and that the pedophile should go to jail. But the Catholic church has tried to cover it up, pretend it never happened, and refuses to take action against these criminals. Tell one of the thousands of children who were abused by priests that their cases are insignificant.
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"At the water's edge": Community voices on climate change
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The photovoice research project, “At the water's edge”, which gives voice to communities exploring the threats and impact of climate change and rising sea levels on coastal communities, was conducted during an environmental art symposium in the Noosa Biosphere Reserve, Australia in June 2009. Photos by participants illustrated both local and global threats and reflected psychological tension between global and local action. This research partnership with the local people demonstrated an innovative visualisation technique which can be used to collaboratively build capacity and consensus about adaptation to climate change. It also contributed to the Biosphere Reserve's educational and cultural aims in relation to climate change.
Local Environment / Vol. 15, No. 7, pp.637-649
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Gone With The Wind – June 30, 1936
Today In History, June 30: "Gone with the Wind"
https://www.roanoke.com/news/trending/today-in-history-june-gone-with-the-wind/collection_915e49dc-4aff-50d6-a581-53ca52edd38c.html#1
In 1936, the Civil War novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell was first published by The Macmillan Co. in New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)
Some updates to the 1936 novel and 1939 movie include:
Civil War by Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/civil-war/
'Legends & Lies’ – The Civil War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_and_Generals_(film)
Bob Dylan -"Dixie" – YouTube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBXNwxjU4I
Joan Baez- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW1Cv42xzYk
Robert E. Lee – CSA CO Virginia West Point 1831
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
JEB Stewart – CSA Cavalry West Point 1854
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/j-e-b-stuart
Stonewall Jackson – CSA Artillery West Point 1846
https://www.biography.com/people/stonewall-jackson-9351451
Longstreet – CSA Infantry West Point 1842
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Longstreet
Rewriting History: Shunning Statues, Names And Symbols
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/04/rewriting-history-shunning-statutes.html
Who Is Still Fighting The So Called Civil War?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/08/who-is-still-fighting-so-called-civil.html
Democrats Strive To Put ICE on Ice
'Abolish ICE' goes mainstream as Gillibrand, de Blasio back calls
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/29/abolish-ice-goes-mainstream-as-gillibrand-de-blasio-back-calls.html
(may have to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
“The idea was once relegated to the far-left. But the liberal push to abolish the federal agency that enforces federal immigration laws is going mainstream in the Democratic Party, with New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Mayor Bill de Blasio adding their support to the cause in the last 24 hours.”
Talk about irony! Two of the biggest NY Democrats want to Ice ICE.
That’s NY where MS13 has waged a war of unbelievable sadistic violence upon high school students.
Apparently having between 12 and 20-million illegal’s in this country, with massive adverse consequences, is not enough for the Democrats who now want open borders, sanctuary cities, no Immigration system and no assimilation requirements.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/01/immigrants-integrate-or-leave.html
Democrats: 100-mile Sanctuary For Illegal Invaders
Every Senate Democrat has endorsed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's, D-Calif., bill to ban law enforcement from arresting adults who have illegally entered into the U.S. between ports of entry when they are found to be in the company of children within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/every-senate-democrat-supports-plan-to-ban-family-separations-within-100-miles-of-border
Gee Toto – I don’t think we’re in America anymore.
A brief MS13 summary:
Bedford County Virginia Knows First-hand About MS-13
McAuliffe’s Sanctuary Communities and MS-13 El Salvadoran Killers in Bedford
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/02/bedford-county-va-knows-about-ms-13.htm
The PravdaMedia Supporting MS13
“The Obama Resist people are pathetic and disgusting.
Joy Reid tried to demean and marginalize the parents of the two Long Island girls murdered by MS-13 animals in order to enhance her image among left-wing malcontents and the PravdaMedia. How Sad!”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/03/mcauliffes-sanctuary-communities-and-ms.html
US-PravdaMedia and Democrats Defending MS-13 Gangs
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/us-pravdamedia-and-democrats-defending.html
Why Can’t Cuomo NYS Annihilate Their Animalistic MS-13 Terrorists?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-cant-cuomo-nys-annihilate-their.html
Trump’s War on MS-13
We all can clearly see the violent result of Obama’s immigration policies and coddling of violent felons and the ongoing ‘sanctuary city’ malfeasance of the ‘Obama FellowTravelers’.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/08/trumps-war-on-ms-13.html
NY The Socialist Sanctuary State Can’t Handle MS-13 Gangs?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/05/ny-socialist-sanctuary-state-cant.html
‘Capital Newspaper’ Tragedy: Yet Another ‘Road Rage’ Psychopath Running Loose
Suspect swore ‘oath’ to kill Capital staff, had restraining orders — but bought gun legally
https://www.roanoke.com/suspect-swore-oath-to-kill-capital-staff-had-restraining-orders/article_ed4ea330-ac46-5304-9626-80863427a512.html
“BALTIMORE — Jarrod Warren Ramos swore a “legal oath” in court documents to kill a writer for The Capital newspaper, whose staff had long endured his violent rants. A lawyer warned a judge of Ramos’ “violent fetishes.” And he was convicted of harassing a woman who successfully placed three restraining orders against him.
Yet the 38-year-old Laurel man accused of gunning down five employees of the Annapolis newspaper Thursday — after barricading the exit door as part of a pre-planned attack — legally purchased the pump-action shotgun he allegedly used in the rampage, authorities said Friday.
Brennan McCarthy, the lawyer who represented the woman Ramos harassed, said he knew the accused gunman was dangerous and tried to warn others.”
The attack upon these media members invokes a sharp flashback to the attack upon two Roanoke WDBJ7 TV members who were killed by a fellow employee who had also displayed ‘road-rage’ behaviors.
Smith Mountain Lake Virginia In Mourning And Reflection
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/08/smith-mountain-lake-virginia-in.html
Realities Of The Parkland School Massacre
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/02/realities-of-parkland-school-massacre.html
CNN Anchor Saved By The Second Amendment
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/07/cnn-anchor-saved-by-second-amendment.html
As The Twig Is Bent – So Goes The Gender
Jazz Jennings Updates Fans After Undergoing Gender Confirmation Surgery
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/jazz-jennings-updates-fans-after-undergoing-gender-confirmation-surgery/ar-AAzjkgD?li=BBnb7Kz
“Jennings, who has lived as a female with the full support of her family since age 5, was 'assigned' male at birth, but has identified as a girl from early childhood.”
Assigned? Really? He had a penis and testicles -- that's not an assignment -- that's a declaration!
There is something very disturbing about programming a child’s gender change starting at age-5 or anytime before puberty.
Clearly this is a form of child physiological and psychological abuse.
And how can sex-alteration surgery converting a male into a female be called “Gender Confirmation Surgery”?
Talk about ‘1984-DoubleSpeak’!
“There is something very disturbing about groups that influence kids relative to their yet undeveloped and unrealized sexual identity!
Even more disturbing are parents and so-called-doctors who give drugs to prepubescent kids to steer their sexual identity to a sex other than their biology.
Not so many years ago “the old church” made sex life-choices for children by castrating young choir boys so they wouldn’t loose their soprano voices circa 1600 to 1900.
I’m glad my grandfather couldn’t sing!”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/04/lgbtttqqiaa.html
'Now': Pope Francis says it's 'terrible' that children are taught they can choose gender
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/02/pope-francis-says-its-terrible-that-children-are-taught-can-choose-gender.html
Gee Toto, I don’t think we’re in America anymore!
Are School Bath-Rooms Still Obama’s Psychology-Laboratories?
Apparently – Yes!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/02/are-school-bath-rooms-still-obamas.html
The New Timothy Leary "Turn on, tune in, drop out"
Roanoke Times, 6-25-2018, Pg 1, 6:
Pot addictions rising along with potencies.
Requests for help surging among younger smokers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/marijuana-addiction-is-real-but-many-users-dont-realize-that/2018/06/22/4c2f557c-6e5f-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d606b1d43a89
Tim Leary had a mansion in Dutchess County NY in the 60’s and was a major focus of the media, hippy’s and law enforcement with his co-opted slogan ‘better living through chemistry’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out
Given society’s experience with nonmedical drugs, why are many of the states not only legalizing pot but enabling its manufacture and distribution?
Sad Answer: tax revenue – same reason as gambling!
The pro-pot pushers have convinced us that pot is Not a gate-way drug and that’s it’s Not only harmless but has many positive effects.
Now we’re seeing that there are significant adverse consequences.
Why are we legally contributing to and enabling the physical and psychological dependence of our children and community?
Why are we encouraging consumption of stuff that is uncontrolled in its content and therefore its impact? Where are the FDA and CDC?
How is this action helping the quality of life of our people and contributing to a better future for our people and country?
Physician Heal Thyself!
D-NY-Sen Schumer introduces bill to federally decriminalize marijuana
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/politics/schumer-bill-decriminalize-marijuana/index.html
“Schumer's bill would direct a specific amount of tax revenue to a Treasury trust fund for the "small business concerns" of women and "socially and economically disadvantaged" individuals working in the marijuana industry.”
The ‘Irresponsible’ Seattle Times View of legalizing pot
https://www.roanoke.com/opinion/wire/editorial-trump-should-back-off-states-with-legal-pot-and/article_e0541167-8aec-55c8-a9e2-e19cbda18e09.html
Va AG Herring’s Opioid ‘Fix’ Negates Obama’s “Just Take A Pill” Plan
RT: Same page same paper – pain killers – ‘to be, or not to be”
Roanoke Times, 6-28-2018, Pg 5: Va AG Dem Herring suing Pharmaceutical Firms to curtail manufacturing Opioids.
https://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/herring-files-lawsuit-against-purdue-pharma-alleging-lies-about-opioid/article_d1860814-52e5-5c66-a883-8574fa61ac5a.html
Democrat view: Abusing drugs is Not the abusers fault or responsibility – it’s someone else!
Roanoke Times, 6-28-2018, Pg 5: Hospitals grapple with shortages of injected painkillers.
https://www.roanoke.com/news/wire_headlines/us-hospitals-grapple-with-prolonged-injected-opioid-shortage/article_b9421d09-ca4e-5d51-a23f-bfa5618316a7.html
If they’re short of painkillers now – just wait for Herring’s suit to play-out! What a joy for those in agony!
“there’s a major movement to “crack-down” on physicians prescribing strong pain medication.
Perhaps the legislators working on these laws should spend some time with folks who are wracked with intense unbearable pain 24-7 and who cannot eat, sleep, or relieve their agony. And, why are we legally worried about an end-of-life person becoming addicted to pain-killers? Really?”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-prescription-pain-drug-war.html
Obama’s Senior Health Care – “Just Take a Pain Pill”!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamas-senior-health-care-just-take.html
The Prescription Pain-Meds Drug War
Opioid’s: Bad News and More Bad News
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/12/opioids-bad-news-and-more-bad-news.html
The Left in 2018: Unhinged
View The RNC Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRHX6glTSM-
Obama’s OFA-Resist Minions At Lexington’s REDhen
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/obamas-ofa-resist-minions-at-lexingtons.html
Hollywood Gang Unleashed And Indecent
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-hollywood-gang-unleashed-and-naked.html
A few more examples of the left-wing behaviors that never warrant a negative comment or reaction from the US-PravdaMedia or the ‘socially sensitive’ liberals.
More Sick-Liberal Trump Assassination Depictions
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/06/more-sick-liberal-trump-assassination.html
Deplorable And Vile Democrat Congress-“person”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/02/deplorable-and-vile-democrat-congress.html
PravdaMedia Silent On Nasty And Vile Ex-MSNBC Prime Time Olbermann
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/09/pravdamedia-silent-on-nasty-and-vile-ex.html
Joe Biden “The Prince Of Nasty”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/12/joe-biden-prince-of-nasty-embarrassed.html
Pravda Press: Cruz Children Monkeys, Obama’s Girls Wonderful
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/12/pravda-press-cruz-children-monkeys.html
Obama’s Sad Detention Camps For Immigrant Children
There are somewhere between 12 and 20 Million Illegal Immigrants in the US.
That 8-Million uncertainty is stark evidence of the out-of-control situation into which our so called Immigration System has deteriorated.
The ‘Legal Immigration Process’ has been replaced by lawless chaos under the open-borders, ‘catch-and-release’ and chain-migration policies.
The Obama-PravdaMedia launched a massive propaganda campaign against Trump using the separation of some illegal border crosser adults from the children that were with them.
Who amongst us can tell the difference between real parents-children from the paid handlers to the slave traders?
Isn’t the Congressional Black Caucus supposed to be concerned about slave traders? Apparently Not!
In their "Irrational Exuberance" to tar-and-feather Trump, they published photos of children in ‘cages’ with resulting cries of indignation by all the ‘good’ people with righteous indignation.
Problem: the pictures were of children during Obama’s Reign! Oops!
Obama (Not Trump) Caged 'Those' Particular Immigrant Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/obama-not-trump-caged-those-immigrant.html
Now the NYT, of all people, are publishing just how BAD the Obama Detention Facilities were --- more Obama Legacy!
New York Times details conditions of Obama-era family detention center: 'No place for human beings'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/27/new-york-times-details-conditions-obama-era-family-detention-center-no-place-for-human-beings.html
“The New York Times published a shocking first-hand account of the horrific conditions a mother and her young son faced after immigrating to the United States from El Salvador. Unfortunately for the mainstream media that continues to portray President Trump as the face of immigration crisis – the asylum seeker’s tragic account happened in 2014.”
El Salvador – isn’t that where most of the MS13-animals come from?
Reality news:
Illegal Immigrants are by definition law breakers.
The children of American Citizen Law Breakers are removed from parents in every state; they do not go to jail with their parents! They become wards of the state and managed by social services. A judge may then assign them to a custodian and at some time some may be reunited with their parents, some will Not.
Hypocritical Democrats Using Children As Political Pawns
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/hypocritical-democrats-using-children.html
Yet another Democrat PravdaMedia Boomerang attack on Trump.
Shades of Wile-E-Coyote!
The ParkLand School Shooting: Monday Morning Quarter-Backing
Firing unarmed ‘security guards’ for not ‘taking a bullet’.
What to do for the one who did?
Each family of all 3,000 of the 911-fallen got over one-million dollars.
What do our fallen police officer's families get?
The one’s doing the ParkLand firing were the one’s who denied appropriate weapons to those who were assigned into harms-way.
Weapons for staff in schools will result in some accidental shootings.
No weapons in schools guarantee significant numbers of purposeful shootings. Your choice!
2 Parkland baseball coaches who failed to confront Nikolas Cruz first to lose jobs over massacre
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/2-parkland-baseball-coaches-who-failed-to-confront-nikolas-cruz-first-to-lose-jobs-over-massacre.html
“During the Feb. 14 attack, the unarmed Medina said he saw Cruz exit an Uber and enter the campus carrying a black bag, but did not confront him or lock down the school. At the time, Cruz had been expelled from the school and banned from being on campus.
Medina reportedly said that when he saw the mass shooting suspect seemingly "beelining" for the 1200 building — the location where the shooting, which killed 15 students and 2 adults, unfolded — he warned other campus security guards, but did nothing to stop him.
One of them, Taylor, then reportedly hid in a janitor’s closet as Cruz opened fire.
Aaron Feis, a school security guard and a football coach, was shot to death after he confronted Cruz and shielded other students as they escaped.”
Demanding More Gun Laws: The Power Of Misdirection
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/02/demanding-more-gun-laws-power-of.html
American People WIN With Trump Initiatives
6-27-2018: A Historical Good News Day
Trump’s Travel Ban Upheld by SCOTUS
Campaign ‘trash talk’ is Not the basis for deciding Constitutional Law
Roanoke Times, 6-27-2018, Pg 1, 6: Trump’s Travel Ban Upheld
https://www.roanoke.com/justices-vote---to-uphold-president-s-travel-ban/article_97d5074a-66c1-58cf-8d8c-36be137bcecd.html
Pro-Life Centers Do Not Have To Promote Abortions
Roanoke Times 6-27-2018, Pg N&W 1, 3: SCOTUS Rules Against Pregnancy Center Law
https://www.roanoke.com/supreme-court-hands-victory-to-pro-life-crisis-pregnancy-centers/article_1dc99c29-3536-5339-9c1b-2ca0d6604794.html
Supreme Court deals major blow to public sector unions
(WHAT TOOK SO LONG?)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/supreme-court-union-fees-decision/index.html
“The justices struck down an Illinois law that required non-union workers to pay fees that go to collective bargaining and overturned a 1977 law that required employees to pay so-called "fair share" fees.”
7-5-2018 Update: very Caustic Commentary by John Cahoon, civil engineer and veteran
Roanoke Times, 7-5-2018, Pg 7: Who is acceptable at the REDhen?
https://www.roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/cahoon-who-is-acceptable-at-the-red-hen/article_593c27ad-1d36-5752-93d1-2f3afb7e8db1.html
This commentary is dripping with sarcasm; however, it is also laced with very valid anti-political-correctness reality. The message is clear that Leftist negative acts are embraced and encouraged by the PravdaMedia while Rightist acts are held up as dastardly behavior by the Deplorables. And the PravdaMedia insists it’s fair and balanced!
A well deserved DANO Trophy to the RT.
No Excuse or Alibi for vile and violent political attacks
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/no-excuse-or-alibi-for-rosannes-racist.html
‘Red Hen’ Owner Followed Sarah Sanders’ Family to Another Restaurant, Kept Heckling Them
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/06/25/mike-huckabee-sarah-sanders-boot-restaurant-stoked-protests/
Protesters gather outside Red Hen restaurant as owner steps down as director of Main Street Lexington
https://www.roanoke.com/news/local/protesters-gather-outside-red-hen-restaurant-as-owner-steps-down/article_9d32cab9-4458-5731-a8e5-c814973a0e96.html
6-26-2018, Va Pg 1, 3: Roanoke Times jumps to REDhen’s defense instead of awarding her a DANO Trophy.
https://www.roanoke.com/news/dan_casey/casey-trump-falsely-trashes-a-western-virginia-business-again/article_3b5ee959-5cdb-5aeb-9f8e-3ef16aab1372.html
Sarah Sanders blasts Maxine Waters for 'unacceptable' threats after liberal congresswoman says Trump backers should be 'absolutely harassed'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5884983/Sarah-Sanders-blasts-Maxine-Waters-unacceptable-threats.html
The Latest: Trump warns Maxine Waters to 'be careful'
https://www.roanoke.com/news/politics/wire/the-latest-trump-warns-maxine-waters-to-be-careful/article_9f385141-66cc-5234-929d-406b47ee8487.html
PravdaMedia Continuing To Ride Gore’s Dead AGW Horse
6-20-2018 Roanoke Times AGW update:
Merkel says climate change is 'a fact,'
http://www.roanoke.com/news/wire_headlines/merkel-says-climate-change-is-a-fact-laments-us-stance/article_664f3819-73db-5d46-99bc-f0ac0c0d0cd8.html
Every AGW-Skeptic agrees completely.
The climate is changing -- the climate has always been changing with no significant contributions by mankind.
Weather Journal: Nation seeing far fewer tornadoes than average
http://www.roanoke.com/weather/columns_and_blogs/columns/weather_journal/weather-journal-nation-seeing-far-fewer-tornadoes-than-average/article_212e9122-cffa-50aa-b03b-19b772743dd3.html
How can this be valid? Aren’t we fed massive never-ending apoplectic ‘news’ that man-made CO2 is causing massive weather Catastrophes?
Letter: Antarctic ice melt isn't that great
http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/letters/letter-antarctic-ice-melt-isn-t-that-great/article_b918f36d-e969-5c48-b22c-53f981fea917.html
“Wow, FORTY NINE millimeters by the end of the century! Converting to more familiar units, that would be 1.9 inch in the next 82 years. So, really, where's the problem?
It is well documented that the seas are rising at the same rate over the last 20 years as during the preceding 100 years. There is no sea level crisis, either now or in the future.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/more-agw-alarmist-junk-news.html
Roanoke Times, AP, 6-19-2018, Pg 1: ‘A’ Scientist (Mr. Hansen) Warned Congress of AGW
Warned 30 years ago, global warming 'is in our living room'
http://www.roanoke.com/news/wire_headlines/warned-years-ago-global-warming-is-in-our-living-room/article_5ac4f1ce-fe5b-550e-8ac8-863e4fbaba2e.html
It is difficult to comprehend how so much mis-and-dis-and-wrong-information can be crammed into one article.
Even Gore’s IPCC does not support any of the AGW ‘cause-effect’ draconian claims made in this so called front-page ‘news’ article.
Who at the Roanoke Times is not only publishing this AGW-heifer-dust but is making it front page ‘news’?
The climate is changing – the climate has always been changing.
Reality: Mankind’s contribution to global climate change is minor and within normal natural variability.
Mr Hansen is one of the Gore-Disciple’s whose work has been discredited by Mother Natures Reality and challenged by many creditable climate scientists.
Mann and their NASA associate Jim Hanson --- HansonGate
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/06/hansengate-more-gore-agw-alarmist.html
Stunning Blow To NASA And All AGW Global Warming Alarmists
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/04/stunning-blow-to-nasa-and-all-agw.html
Would be appropriate for these AP-Wizards to not just go back 30-years to Hansen’s proclamations but back to 1974.
During the period 1940 to 1974 there was significant cooling in the Northern Hemisphere. So much so that “concerned scientists” reached a “consensus”, that earth was entering another Little Ice Age and many people would face starvation and freezing.
A proposed plan: cover the poles glaciers with black powder in order to stop the global cooling.
Newsweek, April 28, 1975 Text Article:http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
Graphics:http://www.denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
Time, June 24, 1974
Weather extremes around the globe and artic ice thickening and displacing wildlife southward.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
More AGW-Alarmist Junk ‘News”
California’s Jerry Brown Carrying AGW Water For Al Gore
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/californias-gerry-brown-carrying-agw.html
The Sea Level Has Been And Is Still Rising – Don’t Panic!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-sea-level-has-been-and-is-still.html
Exploiting Nature’s Variability For Political And Personal Purposes
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/01/exploiting-natures-variability-for.html
Roanoke A Glutton For Traffic Chaos And Air Pollution
Roanoke Times, 6-19-2018, Pg Va 1,3: Traffic backup on 220 getting worse.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/dan_casey/casey-are-tanglewood-area-traffic-backups-here-to-stay/article_f2468714-6e53-57d7-a49a-e6577a3be87e.html
Today’s Route 220 traffic is nothing compared to what has been invited to come here by the Wizards of Roanoke!
I-73 is on its way to Elm Street courtesy of the Roanoke City Council’s demands to VDOT!
We want traffic congestion!
We want massive amounts of new smog in our topographical bowl!
We love the sound of diesels – especially the ones with the Jake Brakes!
We want more accidents and chaos!
We could care less about our local traffic and commuters.
We are Democrats and we are Making Roanoke Great Again.
Almost every other city in Virginia has a Bypass to ensure Interstate traffic does Not route through the city-center; to wit:
Danville, Martinsville, Bedford, Lynchburg – etc
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-nightmare-on-elm-street.html
Just how dull are the members of the Roanoke City Council?
Time for another Dano Award!
Roanoke Council Sells Obama Fire House #1 for $100 -- Blasphemy!
Roanoke Times, 6-19-2018, Va Pg 1, 3: Council sells Fire Station #1
http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/roanoke/roanoke-council-approves-sale-of-former-fire-station/article_025636cc-bf59-5fae-a4af-173c69f1e987.html
Fire House #1 is Obama Hallowed Ground! How could Roanoke sell it, and for a $100 pittance!
The place of Obama’s greatest speech of his 8-year term, where he revealed his commitment to marginalize American Businesspersons and the free enterprise system.
Regan was known for ‘tear down this wall’.
Obama is known for ‘you business people didn’t do nothin’.
Click to view his most revealing speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjPI6no5ng
Roanoke Canonizing Wrong Old Fire House
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/roanoke-canonizing-wrong-old-fire-house.html
DHS Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on securing the border and separating families:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVaJD2dasrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYvZqPGedo0
Family separation for felonious parents has been and always will be standard judicial practice.
There are many tens of thousands of American children who have been temporarily taken from parents who have committed a crime.
Example: parent driving DUI, speeding with children in car.
Illegal Immigrants are by definition law breakers and criminals.
The children with law breakers are removed from parents in every state; they do not go to jail with their parents! They become wards of the state and managed by social services. A judge may then assign them to a custodian.
2K children alone: Trump's self-inflicted domestic crisis ---- Really?
http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/wire/k-children-alone-trump-s-self-inflicted-domestic-crisis/article_e9df3d86-14d4-5bdb-825d-4f04732cf3c8.html
Reality News on the dramatic pictures of children in ‘cages’:
It was Obama who ‘caged’ the little kids in those pictures, who crossed the border with illegal immigrant adults – who knows who these children’s real parents are or where they are?
Something about ‘child trafficking’.
Democrats never bothered to visit Obama’s cages – wasn’t important then!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/obamas-sad-detention-camps-for.html
With the current law of ‘catch and release’, most illegal’s disappear into the fog and never show-up for any court hearings or further processing.
That’s why we have 12-million ‘illegal’s’ in this country!
Thousands of DACA recipients with arrest records, including 10 accused murderers, allowed to stay in US
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/18/thousands-daca-recipients-with-arrest-records-including-10-accused-murderers-allowed-to-stay-in-us.html
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/01/are-they-all-dreamers-or-are-some.html
Obama-Kennedy Illegal Immigration Pandemic Continues
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/04/obama-kennedy-illegal-immigration.html
US Government (Obama) Criminal Abuse Of Migrant Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/01/us-government-criminal-abuse-of-migrant.html
Obama (Not Trump) Caged 'Those' Immigrant Children
Children Of Violence Fleeing Homeland
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/07/children-of-violence-fleeing-homeland.html
Trump Deserves Pulitzer For UnCovering US Reality-News
Life was good during the Obama Administration.
There were few negative ‘news’ stories.
There were few 'news' reasons for angst or worry.
Then Trump joined the AP as an investigative reporter and ‘discovered’:
Illegal Immigration was out of control
Thousands of MS13 members were slaughtering innocent Americans.
13% of ‘Dreamers’ faced criminal charges.
Chicago crime reached urban warfare levels.
Our drug problem had become a pandemic.
ISIS was not a JV-team and was on the march.
Our balance of payments revealed major trade policy problems impacting jobs and our economy and future security.
Our military was fiscally starved to feed our socialist programs.
Our unemployment reality was hidden by fake-false unemployment data.
Government over-reach and regulations and taxes were stifling the economy and jobs.
The Iran Nuclear Deal was as full of holes as Emmentaler cheese.
The North Korean leader and his nuclear weapons were a clear and imminent threat to the American people.
The DOJ-FBI-FISA had been politicized and weaponized against a candidate for POTUS.
The race-baiting war on our police was totally out of reason and perspective.
The Washington bureaucracy actually is a ‘swamp’.
Cheers to Trump:
What a great job of ‘discovering’ the Reality of our national situation!
Clearly Trump deserves a Pulitzer!
Given the basis for Obama’s Nobel Prize – Trump also deserves an Enhanced Nobel Prize!
Hillary Embraces Obama’s Legacy
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/07/hillary-embraces-obamas-legacy.html
Obama Continues His Racial Divisiveness For Votes
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/11/obama-continues-his-racial-divisiveness.html
Food Stamp Dependency Now On Trump Diet
Food stamp enrollment falls to 8-year low as Trump clamps down on fraud, economy improves
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/18/food-stamp-enrollment-falls-to-8-year-low-as-trump-clamps-down-on-fraud-economy-improves.html
“Overall enrollment in the country’s food stamp program has dropped to its lowest level in more than eight years as the economy continues to improve and the Trump administration attempts to tackle fraud in the program.”
The expanded student free-lunch program issues:
Everyone wants children to be properly fed, regardless of their family’s situation! Something about ‘suffer the little children Not’!
In harmony with that value, many schools are providing free breakfast and in some cases lunch and in some cases meals during non-school days and vacations.
To spare poor children from embarrassment, some schools are serving free meals to ALL students at taxpayer expense.
Most school cafeterias have a debit-card system for all student meals; no one knows how a student’s debit-card is funded, therefore there isn’t any embarrassment issue – they all swipe a card.
All the children who get free school food who are also on food-stamps are being double funded by the taxpayers. The food-stamp system should be channeling the appropriate funds from the food-stamp system to the school students debit-card and thereby stop the double-funding.
A free lunch for a hungry child is totally appropriate.
Double charging the tax-payers for that ‘free’ lunch is Not OK!
There never was a ‘free’ lunch --- was there?
Governor McAuliffe’s Wife Highlighting Virginia’s Economic Failures--Hungry Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/12/governor-mcauliffes-wife-highlighting.html
Obama’s Economy Hits Roanoke Children Hard
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/07/obamas-economy-hits-roanoke-children.html
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Everett F. Bleiler
Major Awards: 1
Locus Awards: 1
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 13
World Fantasy Awards for Fantasy works; juried, with nominations from World Fantasy Con members
life achievement winner
First Fandom Hall of Fame Award for fans active at the time of the first World SF Convention
Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (Kent State University Press) related book nomination
Science-Fiction: The Early Years (Kent State University Press) nonfiction book nomination
(3 nominations; 2 wins)
for The Guide to Supernatural Fiction special award, professional nomination
special award, professional winner
(5 nominations; 1 win)
Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (Kent State University Press) nonfiction 2nd place
Science-Fiction: The Early Years (Kent State University Press) nonfiction winner
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror (Scribners) nonfiction/reference 7th place
The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Kent State University Press) nonfiction/reference 10th place
Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early 19th Century to the Present Day (Scribners) nonfiction/reference 6th place
International Horror Guild Awards for horror works, juried
Living Legend winner
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A collection of thoughts on enterprise, tech, start-ups & venture capital
AtScale has Soul
A Storm portfolio company AtScale made a little noise this week in the press mostly around detailing the recent financing. Some of you might have heard of the company before: it got a lot of attention a few month ago, when it came out of stealth. For a quick perspective, you might want to check out this Forbes article: AtScale Launches To Democratize Hadoop.
We were an early investor in the firm and this week, we were happy to announce renewed participation from our friends at XSeed as well as new investors and advisors, UMC Capital, AtScale is also pleased to have Jerry Yang (Yahoo! cofounder), Amr Awadallah (Cloudera cofounder) and Michael Franklin (AMPLab, Spark) as investors and advisors as well.
So why did Storm invest in AtScale?
As background, I met one of the founders, Dave Mariani, in 2013. I did not fully appreciate the opportunity and potential from our first meeting. Within a month and meeting Matt Baird, Dave’s early co-founder, I was working convinced and really believed in the team and vision. I was working to find a syndicate partner for a seed round that saw things the same way. Fortunately, we met up with Xseed and the rest is history.
The vision for the company has been consistent since the beginning and I’ve been impressed by the team’s laser focus on the market opportunity around Business Intelligence on Hadoop. The rest of the founding team is impressive as well with equally deep domain expertise. After the seed financing, we were able to attract Josh Klahr from Greenplum / Pivotal and most recently Bruno Aziza from Business Objects and Microsoft to lead marketing.
Team: When I think back on that decision and what continues to give me conviction about the team is that they really understand the Business Intelligence (BI) problem. This team is not full of carpetbaggers. In fact, Dave Mariani has been a customer of BI in his roles at both Yahoo and Klout. He also built BI solutions at MineShare, a startup he founded and sold in 2000. This team knows the problem first hand and knows what solutions customers want based on that deep experience. In an area as technical and specific as BI, this experience has proven to be invaluable against a landscape of what seem to me to be weak set of competitive offerings often from teams that have remade themselves in the light of “big data” as the next new thing (and of course in full disclosure I am biased). It was difficult as an investor to wade through all the pitches of big data solutions to find something with soul. AtScale has soul.
Timing: The AtScale solution/product wasn’t possible “pre” Hadoop. Hadoop and the ecosystem that has emerged around it is a figurative freight train that has changed the data IT landscape in a remarkably short period of time. AtScale’s solution would not be possible without the SQL-on-Hadoop innovations like Impala, Spark and TEZ which did not exist a few years ago. As a result, anyone trying to do something similar to AtScale earlier had to build the full Hadoop-like solution stack and now are somewhere on the tracks in front of the freight train. AtScale really is an example of the power of a new class of applications on Hadoop infrastructure. Infrastructure is only as valuable as the applications and insights that it can enable.
Market: I really believe that analytics is the first killer application on Hadoop. Hadoop is really incredible in terms of what it enables but the key is the applications. AtScale is the key enabler that ties both the Big Data market estimated at $50B by Wikibon to the Business Analytics market which IDC expects to grow to more than $50B by 2018. I know thats a lot of billions but I like to have sea room. AtScale not only is a force multiplier between these two markets but it can leverage BI interfaces like Tableau and Excel. It turns out Excel is really the largest BI tool in the market today with over 1 billion users worldwide. In addition to Excel, there are more than 100 million BI users of more dedicated applications today. These users are the key to pushing Hadoop even further into the enterprise as a critical asset. AtScale is the missing link.
We could find ourselves on the tracks in front of some other freight train – nothing is easy. But I think the opportunity in front of AtScale is just tremendous. There are many signs that point to other successful investments Storm has made over the years. I will do whatever I can to help AtScale reach all of its potential. After all, it’s not everyday you get to work with a company with real soul.
The First Date – Just Get Out the Slides
Storm Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Ryan Floyd
I am a founding partner at Storm Ventures, an early stage enterprise SaaS focused venture firm. I typically look to invest when companies have a handful of customers as that is the stage at which I begin to help the most.
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No. 16 Cameron Steele leading SCORE Trophy Truck after first half of Lucerna Hotels & Resorts Tijuana 22nd SCORE Desert Challenge
Racing concludes on Sunday
No. 16 Cameron Steele leading SCORE Trophy Truck after first half
of Lucerna Hotels & Resorts Tijuana 22nd SCORE Desert Challenge
Round 3 of 4-race 2018 SCORE World Desert Championship is split-format, multi-lap SCORE Baja race;
cars, trucks, UTVs, motos, quads race second half Sunday-start/finish line at Rancho Casian
Motorcycle leader-Justin Morgan, other class leaders include—Hedrick Jr, Dickerson, K. Matlock,
Miller, Pinuelas Jr, Alvarez, Solorzano, Vildosola Sr, Montoya, Septien, Liebelt, Spinali, Sanchez
all first half class leaders in desert racing event, LIVE Streaming at www.SCORE-international.com
Group 1 starts at 6:30 a.m. PT, Group 2 starts at 11 a.m. PT, Group 3 starts at 3:30 p.m. PT
moto, quad classes race in Group 1; cars, some truck, UTV classes in Group 2; SCORE Trophy Truck,
SCORE TT Legend, Class 1, Trophy Truck Spec-Group 3—final 2 laps—33.7-mile loop course for 134.8 total race miles
TIJUANA, Baja California, Mexico — Veteran SoCal desert racer and popular action sports television announcer Cameron Steele continued his push to the top of the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck class as he leads after the halfway point of this week’s special format, internationally-televised Lucerna Hotels & Resorts Tijuana 22nd SCORE Desert Challenge.
Starting fourth physically in the elapsed-time race, Steele, 50, of San Clemente, Calif., finished first physically for the first two of four 33.7-mile laps in a time of one hour, 39 minutes, 53 seconds while averaging 40.49 miles per hour in his No. 16 Monster Energy Desert Assassins Chevy Silverado. Steele posted consistently solid lap times Saturday of 49 minutes, 37 seconds and 50:15. His first lap time was the fastest of the day.
Racing concludes Sunday at Rancho Casian on the southeast outskirts of Tijuana.
With 161 official starters from 22 U.S. States and six countries, the race features classes for Pro and Sportsman cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads.
SUNDAY SKED
The event features two days of racing scored as one race. The race route is a 33.7-mile loop course through the challenging hills in the area that each class is running two laps each day for four total laps and 134.8 total race miles. The classes have been split into three groups and they are running one session each day to determine the final results.
Saturday’s first half of the race covered 67.4 total miles of the 134.8-mile race.
The elapsed-time race with a two-hour-fifty minute time limit each day for Groups 1 and 2 and 2:20 for Group 3 racing will start at 6:30 a.m. PT Sunday. Group 1 has motorcycle and quad classes, Group 2 has the bulk for the car and truck and all UTV classes and will start their final two-lap run at 11 a.m. PT Sunday.
Group 3 with the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck and SCORE TT Legend divisions along with the Unlimited Class 1, Trophy Truck Spec and Hammer Trucks will run the final half of their race (two laps) Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. PT.
Racing for Group 3 featuring the SCORE Trophy Trucks will start each day at 3:30 p.m. PT and racing will finish Sunday at approximately 6 p.m.
SCORE Trophy Truck is celebrating its 25th year as the featured SCORE racing division for high-tech, 950 horsepower unlimited custom trucks
The post-race awards celebration will be held in the start/finish line area on Sunday, at 5:30 p.m. PT for Group 1 and Group 2 and at 7:30 p.m. PT for Group 3.
CAMERON COMMENTS
Following the successful first half of his race, Steele commented afterwards, “The course was tricky and with these SCORE Trophy Trucks you want to go fast. But they are meant to go fast in a straight line. SCORE throws in curves like hills and turns. I was trying to protect the truck and the tires. I had to be a smart racer because it was gnarly. I am stoked to be here, and I have to thank God, my wife and my daughter.”
MOTO LEADER
Justin Morgan of El Cajon, Calif. put in consistent lap times to take a solid lead among all motorcycles in the race as well as his own Pro Moto Unlimited class with an overall time for the first half of the race of 1:40:35 with an average speed of 40.21 mph. Morgan, who teams with Mark Samuels, Yucca Valley, Calif. and the pair has won both prior SCORE Baja races this year, rode solo Saturday and is expected to ride the 67.4 miles solo again on Sunday. Morgan ran lap times of 50:11 and 50:24 on Saturday on his No. 7x Honda CRF450X.
PRO UTV LEADERS
SCORE desert diva Kristen Matlock, Alpine, Calif. is not only at the top of her Pro UTV Naturally Aspirated class at the midway point she was the fastest in elapsed time over 26 UTVs in the race, including all 19 in the traditionally faster Pro UTV FI class. She covered the two laps in 1:53:36 in her No. 1954 Polaris RZR XP4 1000.
Leading the Pro UTV FI (Forced Induction) class which had a race-high 19 starters Saturday, is Wes Miller, Las Vegas, Polaris RZR XP Turbo. His time was 1:54:11 in his No. 2989 Polaris RZR XP1000.
MORE CLASS LEADERS
Other class leaders after the first two laps include: SCORE TT Legend – No. 12L Gustavo Vildosola Sr, Mexicali, Mexico/Scott Bailey, Riverside, Calif. Chevy Silverado (builder-ID Designs); Trophy Truck Spec – No. 295 William Hedrick Jr, Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, Geiser-Chevy; Class 1 – No. 100 Brian Wilson, Lakewood, Calif. Jimco-Chevy; Class 10 – No. 1023 Broc Dickerson, Brawley, Calif., Alumi Craft-Chevy; SCORE Lites – No. 1218 Gustavo Pinuelas Jr, Mexicali, Mexico, Jimco-Chevy and Class 1/2-1600 – Oscar Alvarez, McAllen, Texas, Romo-VW.
Among the other motorcycle class leaders halfway through the race are Francisco Septien, Ensenada, Mexico (Pro Moto Ironman, Honda CRF450X), Ryan Liebelt, Reedley, Calif. (Pro Moto 30, Yamaha WR450X), Philip Jaramillo, Tijuana, Mexico (Pro Moto Limited, KTM 350XCF), Giovanni Spinali, El Cajon, Calif. (Pro Moto 50, Yamaha YZ450X) and Guy Laycraft, Canada (Pro Moto 60, Honda CRF450X).
Leading the Pro Quad class is Said Sanchez, Tijuana, Mexico (Pro Quad, Honda TRX450R).
WHERE THEY’RE FROM
With 161 official starters, there are racers from 22 U.S. States and six countries. Nations are USA, host country Mexico, Canada, Italy, New Zealand and Peru. States with racers are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming. The 161 total is the eighth-most in the 22-year history of the SCORE Desert Challenge.
Starting and finishing adjacent to Rancho Casian in Southeast Tijuana, the race route travels in a counterclockwise direction. The 33.7 tough terrain miles were designed and put together by SCORE Race Director Jose A. Grijalva. It covers much of the land used in last year’s 23.4-mile loop, especially from Rancho San Vicente (where the race started last year), considered the roughest section of the course.
There are two full-stop checkpoints on the course. Checkpoint No. 1 will be at race-mile 16.1 and Checkpoint 2 will be at race-mile 25.8.
The hot pit area for competitors will be in the area around race-mile 3.6.
Heading back to Rancho Casian, the race course goes by the popular Rumorosita, a very popular area that is very rocky and rough.
The final sprint of several miles back into Rancho Casian at the end of each lap is the fastest section of the race course.
HISTRIONICS
While this is the second time in Tijuana, the SCORE Desert Challenge has been held 21 previous times since it first began in 1995. It was held in Laughlin, Nev., USA, from 1995 through 2012, in Plaster City, Calif., USA, in 2014, in Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico in 2016 and in Tijuana in 2017.
HOTEL LUCERNA
Hotel Lucerna Tijuana on Avenida Paseo de los Heroes in the Zona Rio area of Tijuana is the official event hotel and the hospitality group (Lucerna Hotels & Resorts) is the SCORE Official Hotel for the SCORE World Desert Championship.
Lucerna Hotels & Resorts Tijuana 22nd SCORE Desert Challenge, Sept. 19-23, Tijuana, Mexico
The 2018 SCORE World Desert Championship airs domestically on the El Rey Network and internationally through syndication and ESPN International.
Official SCORE Sponsors: BFGoodrich Tires-Official Tire and official race title sponsor, Monster Energy-Official Energy Drink, King Shocks-Official Shock Absorber, Polaris RZR-Official UTV, RACELINE Wheels-Official Wheel, VP Racing Fuels-Official Fuel, Lucerna Hotels & Resorts-Official Hotel and official race title sponsor, Wide Open Excursions-Official Arrive and Drive Company, Crystal Bay Casino-Official Casino.
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Bob Stump Tweets Candidacy for Congress in CD-8
December 8, 2017 by Sonoran Alliance Leave a Comment
Former Arizona Corporation Commissioner and State Senator Bob Stump tweeted Thursday evening that he will be a candidate for Congress in Arizona’s 8th congressional district.
“Given his impending resignation from Congress, I have decided that I will be a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Congressional District 8. More to come!”
Congressman Trent Franks announced his resignation last night (see statement below) leaving the seat vacant at the end of January, 2018. Governor Doug Ducey will need to call for a special election that will certainly spur several Republican candidates in what is expected to be a competitive Primary contest. The district is heavily Republican.
You can follow Bob Stump on Twitter here.
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Congress, Elected Officials, Press Release Tagged With: AZ08, Bob Stump, CD-8, Trent Franks
Bob Stump: Why is Airbnb funding a group attacking Arizona Republicans?
March 13, 2017 by Guest Opinion 1 Comment
All you Airbnb fans take heed! The company has decided to inject itself into Arizona politics by funneling dark money against Republicans. In this letter, former Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Stump hits back with an email to Arizona legislators.
Dear Honorable Member:
It is rare for me to contact you as a private citizen and former colleague. I believe this issue is important enough to merit it.
An extremist far-left organization, Checks and Balances, is active again in Arizona. Yet again, it is attacking elected Republicans.
I fully expect Republican members of the House and Senate to be next.
Airbnb, which has enjoyed a friendly regulatory environment in Arizona thanks to you, is funding Checks and Balances. According to Penn State’s Daily Collegian, “Airbnb representative Nick Papas said Airbnb supports the work CBP does.”
What exactly is this “work”? Smearing, suing or harassing Arizona Republican officeholders such as Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, members of the Arizona Corporation Commission — including four Commission chairs — and yours truly.
Consider the “work” of the group Airbnb supports financially:
In an act of pure malice, Checks and Balances published my mother’s private mobile number on the Internet.
At a cost of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars and staff time, and with the help of Democratic activist Dan Barr, Checks and Balances sued the Arizona Corporation Commission in an attempt to break the chain of custody of my phone and publish private text messages to my family and friends. Despite Checks and Balances’ conspiratorial fantasies, I was vindicated in court: Two judges determined that nothing retrieved from my phone met the definition of a public document.
Undeterred by losing in court every single time, Checks and Balances has taken to the pages of the Arizona Capitol Times to attack Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Tom Forese and Commission legal counsel Tim LaSota, who defended me in court.
Until recently, SolarCity, the nation’s largest solar rooftop leasing company, sponsored Checks and Balances. SolarCity’s aim was to attack and sue sitting regulators nationwide, in an attempt to alter regulatory outcomes and thereby enhance SolarCity’s bottom line.
SolarCity was shamed into withdrawing their support for Checks and Balances.
It is past time for Airbnb to follow SolarCity’s lead and cease funding a mercenary band of character assassins which exists to intimidate citizens at the behest of its corporate sponsors.
Airbnb’s CEO, Brian Chesky, ignored my letter to him, written when I was a sitting member of the Arizona Corporation Commission. Perhaps he will be more responsive to you.
I would suggest you contact Mr. Chesky and his lobbying team and ask why Airbnb is funding an unsavory group that sues and smears Arizona Republicans.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. And thank you for your service to our great state.
Bob Stump
Former member and Health Committee Chair, Arizona House of Representatives (2002-2008)
Former Commissioner and Commission Chair, Arizona Corporation Commission (2008-2017)
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Elected Officials, Government, Guest Opinion, Small Business, State Government Tagged With: Airbnb, Arizona Corporation Commission, Arizona Legislature, Bob Stump, Checks and Balances, Dark Money, SolarCity
Commissioner Bob Stump – Super Hero Fighting For Truth, Justice & Ratepayers
May 31, 2016 by DSWikfors Leave a Comment
Gotta love Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Stump!
He’s been through hell and back battling against the leftist faux watchdog group, Checks & Balances. The left-wing villains in this group have launched attack after attack against Stump only to be rejected over and over again by a Superior Court Judge.
The same group has attacked the Arizona Attorney General, a former Solicitor General and every other elected, appointed or law enforcement official who has investigated the false allegations imagined against Bob Stump.
He’s even taken hits by a so-called fellow Republican who may have been infected by the Checks & Balances virus.
But still Commissioner Stump holds his ground for truth, justice and the ratepayer way.
You may laugh at my exaggerated description of what’s been taking place over the last year with the Arizona Corporation Commission but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
The fact is, a battle has been taking place for sometime over who sits on the Arizona Corporation Commission. There are only five seats on the commission which means the left has to capture three in order to seize power and push its green energy agenda.
The Checks & Balances Project has been a key player in this battle putting its weight into frivolous legal challenges and conjuring negative media attention against the Republicans on the Commission. They may have assimilated one already.
This group is part of a vast left-wing network of subsidy-thirsty corporatists disguised as green energy advocates. They’re largely funded by left-wing philanthropists and dark money donors like billionaire Tom Steyer. Their mission is to fundamentally transform US energy policy and that means getting their puppets into key power positions like the Arizona Corporation Commission. Sound familiar?
You can bet candidates like Tom Chabin and Bill Mundell are just who they want to fill two seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission. Both Chabin and Mundell have cloned Big Solar and green corporatists messaging in their campaign themes.
We’re not buying it and neither is Bob Stump. That’s why he’s a super hero to us.
Every time we flip a switch, turn on a light or adjust the thermostat, we’re reminded that common sense commissioners like Bob Stump are holding back the enemies of cheap and efficient energy policy from waging war on ratepayers.
Get that commissioner a cape!
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaign Finance, Campaigns & Elections, Conservatives, Elected Officials, Energy, Liberals, State Government Tagged With: Arizona Corporation Commission, AZACC, Big Solar, Bill Mundell, Bob Stump, Checks & Balances Project, Dark Money, green energy, Tom Chabin, Tom Steyer
Building Lasting Momentum; Recap of Bolick Endorsements
April 17, 2014 by Press Release Leave a Comment
Building Lasting Momentum
Our campaign has been diligently reaching out to our fellow Republican neighbors in Legislative District 28 to listen to concerns affecting the future of Arizona. Each and every day we are greeted with positive enthusiasm for our strong message of growth, prosperity and opportunity.
Voters agree that a strong education system encourages a better workforce with more highly skilled jobs for our high school and college graduates. As an individual who had an awesome public school education I also know that education shouldn’t be a one-size-fits all model. Instead, one that works best allows parents the right to choose how to best educate their children.
Working for a better tomorrow has also encouraged the support of many of our fellow Republicans from across the state. I am thrilled to have the support from so many wonderful current and past elected officials who continue to further Arizona to a more prosperous future.
This is what my fellow Republicans have had to say about why they are supporting me for the Arizona House of Representatives in Legislative District 28:
“With so many serious challenges facing the State of Arizona, her bold ideas in education reform and steadfast common sense are two things I admire most about Shawnna. She has the potential to help lead Arizona into a brighter future – one that is more self-reliant, and one that holds to its independent values that I love so much about this state. Shawnna’s pro-growth, free market, and fiscal conservative ideas are the ones this state needs to get our fiscal house in order. She will bring a fresh, yet bold and principled leadership the Republican Party lacks.”
– Former U.S. Congressman Barry Goldwater, Jr.
“Shawnna’s knowledge and expertise in critical policy areas affecting the State of Arizona are hard to come by. I know Shawnna has what it takes to be an effective legislator and a strong communicator. She is not only committed to understanding the big picture but is willing to delve into the weeds to craft sound public policy.”
– Arizona Corporation Commission Chairman Bob Stump
“Shawnna is a strong fiscal conservative who will prioritize the needs of Arizona. Watching her raise her two children I know how important education and the future of the state are to her. Shawnna is a quick study and eager to roll up her sleeves to find the right mix of pro-growth ideas benefiting the state. Arizona should be so lucky to have her willing to serve us in such a capacity.”
– Arizona Corporation Commissioner Brenda Burns
“As a former State Senator I know how important it is to have elected officials who truly represent the people of Arizona but more importantly, listen to its citizens. Shawnna not only has the passion to help lead Arizona, but she is a do-er who is not afraid to engage with her neighbors. I believe Shawnna is prepared to make tough decisions no matter how big the challenge. I predict Ms. Bolick will be a linchpin in the Legislature in halting the federal government’s encroachment and I look forward to working with her to help advance sound fiscal policy that benefits all Arizonans. These are just a few reasons why I believe she is the right person to represent Legislative District 28.”
– Vice Mayor of Phoenix, Jim Waring
“So much of what we have achieved here in Phoenix—from pension reform to competitiveness to government transparency and accountability—has to echo at the state level or our gains will mean little. We need smart, tough legislators who are willing to fight for the people who pay the bills. As a tireless advocate for school choice, small business, and the taxpayers, Shawnna demonstrates on a daily basis that she has the vision and backbone we need at the State Capitol. That is why I give my unqualified support to Shawnna Bolick, candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives in Legislative District 28.”
– Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio
“Shawnna understands the importance of improving government efficiency. Her past public policy experiences at the federal and state levels will help her hit the ground running once she’s elected to office. Her background is steeped in free market and civil society solutions coupled with the need to bring prosperity to the state of Arizona by rolling back the regulatory system and lowering taxes. We are in desperate need of electing common sense individuals willing to roll up their sleeves to find savings to taxpayers. It’s not an easy job and I think Shawnna is the best choice in Legislative District 28 and I look forward to helping her get elected.”
– Arizona House of Representatives Majority Whip Representative Gray
“Shawnna’s energy, dedication, extensive policy background and desire to honorably represent our legislative district and State are the admirable qualities she will bring to the Arizona House of Representatives once she is elected. From the many years of actively engaging in her community, her children’s public charter schools, and working on issues critical to Arizona she values the importance of studying the policy, its potential impacts and evaluating all considerations before making an objective and informed decision. Wanting nothing less than the best for her children and yours is the conviction that fuels Shawnna’s passion to work hard for Arizona and be a strong advocate for her constituents.”
– Former Arizona House of Representative Amanda Reeve
But I still need your help. We have quite the momentum, but in order to run the best campaign we need your financial assistance, too. Your donation today will help me continue spreading our positive message as we crisscross the district.
Please visit my website today and make a donation of $25, $50, $75, $100, $150, or $250 or more to help me reach April’s fundraising goal.
Thank you for your continued support!
Shawnna
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Conservatives, Elected Officials, Endorsements, Press Release, State Government Tagged With: Amanda Reeve, Arizona, AZLD28, Barry Goldwater Jr, Bob Stump, bolick, brenda burns, diciccio, endorsement, goldwater jr, gray, Jim Waring, ld28, legislative district 28, reeve, Rick Gray, Sal DiCiccio, Shawnna Bolick, stump, waring
Shawnna Bolick Receives Endorsements from Arizona Corporation Commission Chairman Bob Stump and Commissioner Brenda Burns
March 26, 2014 by Press Release Leave a Comment
Phoenix, AZ- March 26, 2014- Today, Shawnna Bolick, Republican candidate for Arizona House of Representatives in Legislative District 28, received Arizona Corporation Commission Chairman Bob Stump‘s and Commissioner Brenda Burns‘ endorsements.
“Shawnna’s knowledge and expertise in critical policy areas affecting the State of Arizona are hard to come by,” stated Chairman Stump. “I know Shawnna has what it takes to be an effective legislator and a strong communicator. She is not only committed to understanding the big picture but is willing to delve into the weeds to craft sound public policy.”
“Shawnna is a strong fiscal conservative who will prioritize the needs of Arizona. Watching her raise her two children I know how important education and the future of the state are to her,” declared Commissioner Burns. “Shawnna is a quick study and eager to roll up her sleeves to find the right mix of pro-growth ideas benefiting the state. Arizona should be so lucky to have her willing to serve us in such a capacity.”
“I am honored to have Chairman Stump’s and Commissioner Burns’ endorsements. Bob and I are both students of public policy and understand that sound policy often means fine tuning the details. Brenda has always been a role model and someone I would like to emulate in leadership in the Legislature. I have a great deal of admiration for both Bob and Brenda,” said Bolick.
Shawnna Bolick has lived in Legislative District 28 for 13 years. Shawnna and her husband, Clint, have two children, Ryne (11 .) and Kali (9), plus their five year old rescued greyhound, Beary Goldwater, living in the shadows of Squaw Peak.
Shawnna L.M. Bolick can be reached via email at info@bolickforarizona.com, or via cell at 602-842-1912. For more information about her campaign please visit www.BolickforArizona.com.
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Conservatives, Education, Elected Officials, Press Release Tagged With: Arizona, Arizona Corporation Commission, AZLD28, Bob Stump, bolick, brenda burns, chairman bob stump, commissioner brenda burns, Corporation Commission, Education, endorsements, fiscal conservative, ld28, Shawnna Bolick
GOP Corp Commission Candidates to Address NE Valley Pachyderm Coalition
September 13, 2011 by Arizona Conservative Coalition 4 Comments
The three declared Republican candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) will talk to the NE Valley Pachyderm Coalition about their plans as Corporation Commissioners.
The candidates are Bob Stump (incumbent), Bob Burns (former State Senate President), and Susan Bitter-Smith.
The ACC is one of the lowest profile government organizations that has a huge impact on the lives and financial well being of Arizonans. It regulates utility rates and service levels for privately owned utilities. This impacts the quality and price of our electric, natural gas, telecommunications, and water services.
There will be plenty of time for questions and answers, so this is your chance to really find out where these candidates stand on economic regulation issues that will have a direct impact on you and your familiy.
Location: Appaloosa Public Library
7377 E. Silverstone Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85255
(Near intersection of N Scottsdale and E Pinnacle Peak)
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. (2nd Wed of Month)
Time: 6:45-7:00 pm meet & greet. Meeting from 7-8:15pm
Howard Levine,
NE Valley Chapter Chairman
Howard_Levine@rocketmail.com , http://www.pachydermcoalition.com/
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Economics, Energy, Regulations, State Economy, State Government Tagged With: Bob Burns, Bob Stump, Corporation Commission, NE Valley Pachyderm Coalition, PAChyderm Coalition, Susan Bitter-Smith
Friday Poll: Which Republican should run for CD-2?
March 25, 2011 by DSWikfors 22 Comments
This week’s Friday Poll is now up and we’re asking which Republican should run for CD-2 should Congressman Trent Franks enter the race for US Senate?
We’ve ruled out a number of potential candidates who we know have not shown any interest but we’re allowing “Other” to be an option in the poll.
Again, the poll will be open one week and repeat voting is blocked in an attempt to make the poll more accurate.
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Polls Tagged With: Bob Stump, Buster Johnson, Charles Black, Debbie Lesko, Jim Waring, Rick Murphy, Ron Gould, Steve Montenegro, Trent Franks
What The Arizona Newspapers Say about the “Solar Team” (Be warned… it’s pretty bad)
October 29, 2008 by Sound Advice 3 Comments
You’ve seen their TV ads. But what are Arizona’s newspapers saying about the candidates who make up the “Solar Team”?
“These three candidates just aren’t the right choice for Arizona” – Arizona Republic, October 15, 2008
“Might prove very costly to Arizona ratepayers” – Robert Robb, Arizona Republic, September 21, 2008
“Potentially divisive forces on the commission” – Arizona Republic, October 15, 2008
“Runs too much risk of overstepping legal bounds” – Arizona Republic, October 15, 2008
“We were unimpressed by the fourth candidate Sandra Kennedy…[she] showed a dearth of knowledge on ACC issues” – Tucson Citizen, August 18, 2008
Kennedy is “clearly out of her depth on energy issues” – Arizona Republic, October 15, 2008
“We’re troubled that [Sam George] changed his name in 2004 from Sam Vagenas…As Vagenas, he helped get two pro-marijuana ballot issues passed in Arizona, though the Legislature later gutted them. State investigators also linked him to fake ‘internal memos’ circulated during the 2002 gubernatorial race, falsely claiming Janet Napolitano, as attorney general, covered up the Colorado City polygamy crisis.” – Tucson Citizen, August 18, 2008
“Vagenas was linked to the forgeries that became the biggest scandal of the 2002 gubernatorial race” – Phoenix New Times, July 31, 2008
“Too many uncertainties surround Sam (Vagenas) George” – Tucson Citizen, August 18, 2008
George has “a history of shady dealings” – Phoenix New Times, July 31, 2008
George is “sleazy” – Tucson Weekly, August 29, 2008
“…ethically challenged Sam Vagenas [is] a former political consultant who remade himself this year into Arizona Corporation Commission candidate Sam George” – Phoenix New Times, Oct. 14, 2008
“[Vagenas’s ballot initiative] would have freed…marijuana users to deal drugs to kids — and actually required the Department of Public Safety to give out pot, for free” – Phoenix New Times, July 31, 2008
“We are thoroughly unimpressed with Democrat Sam George…name-changing, media-dodging…” – Tucson Weekly, Oct. 4, 2008
“George is ill-informed” – Kris Mayes, East Valley Tribune, October 26, 2008
“Despicable…cynical…shameful” – U.S. Drug Czar John P. Walters, October 10, 2002 (regarding Vagenas’s pro-pot ballot initiative)
“The folks at DPS are going to be the biggest drug dealers in Arizona” – Tucson Citizen, August 27, 2002 (regarding Vagenas’s pro-pot ballot initiative)
“The people of Arizona ought to be ticked off… it’s not a signal we need to be sending our children.” – William Bennett, U.S. Drug Czar, August 13, 1998 (regarding Vagenas’s pro-pot ballot initiative)
“Two years ago, when he lost election to the Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board, Sam George sued election officials and fellow candidates to demand a recount. The election tally didn’t change.” – Tucson Citizen, August 18, 2008
“The report said that Paul Newman, a Cochise County supervisor, told Agent Joe Navarro ‘that he had smoked some marijuana in the [taxpayer-funded] vehicle,” Arizona Republic, October 16, 2008
“Newman’s fellow commissioners…voted to revoke his county car privileges… A movement to recall Newman began…” – Sierra Vista Herald, December 10, 2004
“This corporation commission election is shaping up to be a bonanza for pothead voters: Another democratic candidate for the commission, Sam George, helped promote two successful pro-marijuana ballot initiatives in Arizona in the late 1990s. Back then, he was known as Sam Vagenas, but he changed his name after being linked to a scandal in the 2002 governor’s race.” – Phoenix New Times, October 13, 2008
“George Spends Big Bucks in Bid for Seat on Commission” – Arizona Republic, October 26, 2008
“Democrat Sam George has spent more than half-million dollars of his own money to try to win a seat on the Arizona Corporation Commission” – Arizona Republic, October 26, 2008
“George said neither he nor the Sperlings stand to benefit financially by greater use of solar power and that he does not own any investments in solar energy” – Arizona Republic, October 26, 2008
I personally am voting for
Barry Wong
Marian McClure
Here’s what the Arizona newspapers say about them:
Wong, Stump, McClure: “offer strong experience with public policymaking.
They demonstrate wise perspectives on energy use and utilities regulation.
And they clearly share a commitment to pursuing fairness for Arizona residents rather than kowtowing to corporate interests.” – Tucson Citizen, 10/2/08
“The best choices for the three open seats” – Arizona Republic, Oct. 15, 2008
It sure doesn’t get any better than that.
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Energy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Barry Wong, Bob Stump, Marian McClure, Paul Newman, Sam George, Sandra Kennedy
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