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Historical Non-fiction
The Early Mapping of Hawai'I
By: Gary L. Fitzpatrick
The cartographic history of Hawaii began with the arrival of Captain James Cook, the famous explorer and chartmaker, in 1778. Between then and the mid-19th century, visitors to HawaiI produced a rich assortment of charts and maps depicting the shores, harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of HawaiI during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imp...
The Early Mapping of Hawaii is an overview of the history of the mapping of Hawaii from the time of European discovery in 1778 through the mid-19th century. Mapmaking was not an art indigenous to Hawaii; foreigners were responsible for the introduction of mapmaking in the islands. For well over seventy years, mapping in Hawaii was largely carried out by Europeans or Americans, and the early maps of Hawaii were mostly made to serve the needs of those foreigners.
Monetary Laws of the United States : Appendix, Volume II: Appendix
By: Matt R. Erickson
Volume II, Appendix contains texts of America's monetary laws. Appendix Topic A. Organic Documents B. Mint Statistics through 1902 C. Preliminary Coinage Reports D. Primary Coinage Acts E. Secondary Coinage Acts F. Foreign Coinage Acts G. Commemorative Coinage Acts from 1891-1954 H. Modern Commemorative Coinage Acts I. Acts regarding Mints and Assay Offices J. Acts Regarding Notes K. Criminal Monetary Jurisdiction Acts L. The Great Decep...
Monetary Laws of the United States : Narrative, Volume I: Narrative
Re-discover America's limited government under the U.S. Constitution, learning about how the almighty wizard intimidated the cowardly and the meek who fail to properly use their God-given brain, until the small dog who trusted his nose pulled back the curtain to expose the fraud. Regain limited government and honest money by learning that deception.
TRAVANCORE STATE MANUAL : Volume 1
By: V. NAGAM AIYA; VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Editor
There are many insights in this book. The writer of the main part of this book is V. NAGAM AIYA. I think that many Indian academic historians, who have endeavoured to write the history of ‘Modern’ India, should take lessons from this most unassuming writer, V. NAGAM AIYA. For, they have written the history of ‘Modern’ India in terms of and the perspective from, the Party congresses, meetings, terror activities, splits in political parties, and the doings, and ways and m...
State of the country and chief events Travancore at this period extended from Attungal to Nagercoil. The dynasty of Jayasimha still continued to rule the country between Azhikkal (Karunagapalli Taluq) in the north and Paravur in the south, and, as noted above, there was an alliance in 1727 A.D., between the chiefs of Chinganad and other States to crush the power of Travancore. Nanjanad which once formed part of Travancore was at this time occupied by the Pandyans. The d...
Malbar Manual : Along with commentary by VED from VICTORIA INSTIT...
By: William Logan; VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Editor
COMMENTARY My aim First of all, I would like to place on record what my interest in this book is. I do not have any great interest in the minor details of Malabar or Travancore. Nor about the various castes and their aspirations, claims and counterclaims. My interest is basically connected to my interest in the English colonial rule in the South Asian Subcontinent and elsewhere. I would quite categorically mention that it is ‘English colonialism’ and not Britis...
APPENDIX XII COLLECTION OF DEEDS No. 1 a. Hail ! Sri—The King who has taken the supreme rule, King (Perumal) Sri Bhaskara Ravi Varman, wielding the sceptre and ruling for many 100,000 years, in his time, in the thirty-sixth year against1 the second cycle (literally, year), on the day when he was pleased to sit in Muyirikodu, he was pleased to grant this favour. [N.B. - The Jewish translation, particularly incorrect in the rendering of this sentence, deserves perhap...
Paradise Revealed : Natural History in Nineteenth-century Australia
By: Colin M Finney
The early generations of European visitors to Australia found themselves surrounded by a flora and fauna entirely different from anything they had seen before. For naturalists, this land in which ‘all things were queer and opposite’ was a cornucopia, and from Joseph Banks onwards they avidly collected the novelties that abounded in order to classify and name them according to the principles of order established by Linnaeus or his successors. Short-term visitors carried a...
The second decade of the nineteenth century saw a qualitative change in natural history as practised in the fledgling colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land. Before the early 1820s natural history was carried out by individuals; men such as David Burton, George Caley or Allan Cunningham, working in isolation.1 All too infrequently the tedium and problems of working alone were broken by the arrival of that hallmark of early nineteenth century science—the globe-...
Laurel Canyon : The 1960s Counter Culture: The 1960s Counter Culture
By: David McGowan; Jeffrey J. Prager, Co-Author
Connecting the 1960s Counter Culture movement to the US Intelligence Community and proving that the US Intelligence Community started the 1960s Counter Culture movement to control and then destroy it.
meanwhile ... our story begins ... Elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new ‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon – a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet vaguely ominous slice of LA nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles basin from the San Fernando Valley – musicians, singers and songwriters suddenly begin to gather as though summoned...
Opinions of the US Constitution in 1787
By: Jeffrey J. Prager
We investigate the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the current US Constitution versus the Articles of Confederation and examine the opinions of both the public and the new American aristocracy revealing the public perception of the new US Constitution.
The founding generation certainly understood that the colonists of an empire could and would be treated as tax slaves or cannon fodder. This was the history of the Old World, and they had fought a revolution to escape such a fate. But the “nationalists,” led by men like Hamilton and centered in New York and New England, also understood that life could be quite grand for those who managed and ruled over an empire. That’s why his party—the Federalists—fought so hard and lo...
Weaponized Zionism : The Palestinian Genocide, A History Of Zionis...
By: Jeffrey J Prager
Abstract: 210 New York Times archived newspaper articles published between 1868 and 1948 and reproduced here that use the terms "Jewish terrorism" and "Zionist terrorism." There are 1000s of articles so the most critically important pieces are include here. This is an unbiased and honest account of the worlds first terrorists. When Menachim Begin was asked if he was the most famous terrorist in the Middle East he replied, "No, in the entire world." This is a sourced and...
STONETHROWING INPALESTINE As you can tell from the article above, in Palestine in the early 1900s Zionist Jews employed throwing stones, for the same reasons that the Palestinians throw stones and rocks today. It’s all they have. The Zionists were, most of them, unarmed and the Palestinians today, the vast majority of them, are also unarmed. However Israel has one of the largest, most well equipped military’s in the world and they’re a nuclear armed state and a wealthy ...
The Suicide Pill : Mefloquine and Lariam, History and Peer Review
Dr. Donald H. Marks is a former associate director of clinical research at Roche. Marks left the company in 1991 to take a directorship position with another company and this is what he has to say regarding Lariam and his former employer, Roche: “Roche has developed an attitude of not adjusting the information it supplies to physicians and patients about the performance and safety characteristics of their drugs.” Marks went on to say that there is “ample reason” to belie...
"I still remember the first time I smelled brain. It was my grandfather, cracking open the skulls of squirrels he’d killed. They’d scamper down the sides of pecans and live oaks among the Louisiana timbers where I grew up, enter his sights—then, oblivion. I was very small then, so it never seemed odd when those brains found their way into the scrambled eggs my grandmother would cook up for Papaw. When I was there I’d have some too. The gray matter of tree rats adds a cer...
Aint Et A Blummin Shame! : My life during the Blitz and 30's Depre...
By: Ms. Mrs. Winifred Jeanette Franklin; Adinas Henry, Editor
I grew up in the east end of London during the Great Depression. I witnessed many horrid crimes against humanity but also experienced the courage, dignity, and resilience of those who suffered and struggled all around me, including my own family. We were bombed for 57 nights during the blitz. We, the Cockney's, lived by a code of honor, do as you would be done by. We believed in a fair sense of justice and were victims of social inequality. There were two wars, one for t...
Many generations of East-Enders had passed down a true spirit and love of London; they fought and died for their country when called upon doing so. The docklands played a huge part in the lives of the Cockney’s for many years. I often have memories of myself and my sister when we would take lunch to our Dad, who by then worked at the Docks, every Saturday. There were a lot of Chinese coolies working on the ships. They would do a lot of the menial work; often wor...
Kashmir Crisis : (Unresolved issue of Muslim Ummah) Opinions & An...
By: Omar Muhammad Anzal Al-Armouti; suleman khan, Performer
1) Consists of Three Parts- Historical perspective, opinions of key influential figures and pictorial coverage of Kashmir conflict 2) First book by Jordanian author in Arabic language on Kashmir issue 3) Comprehensive chapter on striking similarities between Palestine and Kashmir issues 4) Variety of opinions from different of the society of the region. Pakistan's top leadership, renowned figure from Saudi Arabia and prominent politicians, bureaucrats and think tanks of Jordan
Newes from Scotland : A true discourse, Of the apprehension of sun...
By: Dr. James Carmichael; David J. Favager, Editor
A pamphlet printed in London in 1591 and likely written by James Carmichael who later advised King James VI on the writing of his book Daemonologie. It describes the infamous North Berwick witch trials in Scotland and the confessions given before the King. It was subsequently published in Daemonolgie by King James in 1597.
Item, the said Agnis Tompson confessed that the Diuell being then at North Barrick Kerke attending their comming in the habit or likenes of a man, and seeing that they tarried ouer-long, he at their comming enioyned them all to a pennance, which was, that they should kisse his Buttockes, in signe of duetye to him: which being put ouer the Pulpit barre, euerye one did as he had enioyned them: and hauing made his vngodly exhortations, wherein he did greatlye enveighe again...
El delincuente psiquiátrico (The Psychiatric Offender) : Visión hi...
By: LIC Roberto Alonso Ramos Erosa
En la antigüedad las enfermedades mentales no tenían la misma explicación que les damos hoy en día. A raíz de la escuela positivista se dejó atrás toda explicación demonológica sobre las psicopatologías. Los avances en psicología y psiquiatría permitieron tener un mayor entendimiento sobre el funcionamiento de la mente del ser humano e inevitablemente eso condujo al estudio del delincuente psiquiátrico. El presente texto hace una revisión histórica sobre la concepción de...
The Path of Splitness
By: Indrek Pringi
This book explains How the universe was formed. How Life was formed How civilization was formed Why civilization is evil The undead
The Sense of Pure Wonder is a continual sense of awareness which is curious about everything, and never stops being curious. It uses all of the cognitive skills of your mind; continually asking questions, continually figuring things out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually u...
From Resistance to Revolution : A compilation of literary works, p...
By: Historyisaweapon Org
A compilation of literary works, poems, letters, and speeches on resistance and revolution.
Raising Our Voices : Compiled articles and speeches: Compiled arti...
By: Historyisaweapon Org, Compiler
A compilation of articles, poems, speeches, and other literary works on women's rights, economics, human rights, and a variety of topics.
Wall Street Owns The Country
By: Mary Elizabeth Lease
A Speech by Mary Elizabeth Lease (circa 1890)
Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States
By: J. A. Dacus
J. A. Dacus, Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States (1877). In J A Dacus, Annals of the Great Strikes in the United States: A Reliable History and Graphic Description of the Causes and Thrilling Events of the Labor Strikes and Riots of 1877(St Louis: Scammell and Company, 1877), pp. 21—23, 42-43, 98-99.
First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association
By: Sojourner Truth
First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (First Speech) at the Church of the Puritans, New York City on May 9, 1867. Published in the New York Tribute, 10 May 1867: 8. Truth's Speech has also been called, "Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring".
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2014年4月28日星期一
Mexican the Americas Football Club players.
Vicente Sanchez, fast, strong ability to pass the ball, the second half of the 2007/08 season, Vicente Sanchez with these characteristics to the fans left a deep impression. In the third game, he was put on, Sanchez played three minutes is ushered in the first Bundesliga goal.
children kicking soccer grew up in the streets of Montevideo, soon to be a small football club phase. In 2000, he joined the local Montevideo team, this change has brought a lot of joy to him. A year later, he joined the Mexican team Toluca, where he spent seven years, and then decided to seek greater development. the age of
18, Sanchez was named Uruguay U20 team. In 2001, he completed the first show of their own national team, and know where teammates Barrera, Gross Mill and the former Schalke player Rodriguez. It is worth mentioning that, from the national team since the second game, he would wear the captain's armband. "This, of course, makes me very happy. However, in the 2004 America's Cup semi-final against Brazil when the penalty throw a crucial penalty," he recalls, "I remember that time Brazil into the final, Boden how (laughs), which at the time I was very unhappy. "
manager Miller quite sure, Sanchez's arrival will make the team's strength has improved so much. "His speed and ability to pass the ball, one foot in front of the technology is also very good. Addition, he is a very easy-going personality players club popular with people like, but his effectiveness before the team may not think so, let go of such a good player, they really must be very comfortable. "[1]
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Fracking-induced earthquakes increase anxiety, study shows
A recent study published in Environmental Epidemiology shows that living near natural gas operations may be taking an invisible toll on our public health. The researchers connected fracking-induced earthquakes to episodes of anxiety in the nearby public.
Joan Casey, a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, led the research team that examined the relationship between increased seismic activity in Oklahoma since 2010 and anxiety. The team compared earthquake data with Google search-engine data related to anxiety—and found a direct relationship between the two.
In other words, more earthquakes means more people going to Google for help with their anxiety.
Google data served as the tool for Casey and her team to look into the week-by-week mental health of their population survey. “Any population surveys we have right now are generally available at the annual level, but these earthquakes were occuring every week potentially,” Casey said. “We wanted to find a finer-grained estimate of mental health.”
The data could also give a more immediate, relatively unfiltered look at the affected population. “People turn to Google to ask questions that you might not ask someone else, or if they’re not yet ready to talk to a healthcare provider,” Casey said. “[Google] could be this subclinical threshold.”
As the study shows, earthquakes in Oklahoma have steadily increased alongside fracking in the state. According to the 2015 U.S. Geological Survey, Oklahoma now sees more regular earthquakes than California. And scientists have pointed to wastewater injection as the culprit, which, as this study cites, has contributed to 98 percent of earthquakes in the central and eastern United States in the last decade. This part of the fracking process pumps disposal fluid deep underground, altering pressure in geological faults and spurring earthquakes in areas naturally less prone to seismicity.
Aside from possible environmental and economic impacts of such earthquakes, this study points to the often unseen effects on population psychology where these earthquakes occur.
"It does appear that the population of Oklahoma is reacting to these earthquakes,” Casey told Environmental Health News. “And that might be something policy makers and others will want to take into account when deciding how to move forward with fracking in the state and how to move forward with the safe wastewater reinjection if they continue with the practice.”
Coauthors of the study included Sidra Goldman-Mellor, assistant professor, public health at UC Merced and Ralph Catalano, professor emeritus, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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IMDB Presswire ~ Cruise slammed for dyslexia revelations
July 18, 2003 under Tom Cruise
War of words over Cruise ‘dyslexia cure’
TOM CRUISE has upset members of the dyslexia community by claiming in an interview that Scientology had cured his dyslexia.
Cruise, who is a founder of the Scientology-based Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, told People magazine that after he read The Basic Study Manual by L Ron Hubbard, his dyslexia disappeared.
“There is not a lot of science to support the claims that the teachings of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard are appropriate to overcoming dyslexia,” said J Thomas Viall, executive director of the International Dyslexia Association.
“When an individual of the prominence of Tom Cruise makes statements that are difficult to replicate in terms of what science tells us, the issue becomes what other individuals who are dyslexic do in response to such a ‘success story.’”
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BEEINS Conference 2019
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The Biology, Earth and Environmental Science and Investigating Science (BEEINS) Teachers Conference will again be held at Macquarie University. In 2019 we have expanded the event to a two-day program with a focus on the new Year 12 courses to provide tips and insight into developing engaging teaching programs and classroom activities. Participants will have the opportunity to share ideas and network with other teachers. Separate workshop streams will be held in Biology, EES, Inv Science, Science Extension and 7-10 Science. On Saturday (30 March) there will be a separate program stream for Primary teachers addressing the new Science & Technology Syllabus.
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Dr Carolyn Hogg, USyd - Devil Tools & Tech - integrating genetics in conservation management
Carolyn is a conservation biologist who has been working with threatened species for over twenty years both in Australia and overseas and is currently the Research Manager for the Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group at the University of Sydney. Carolyn has been working closely with the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program for over eight years and with other
threatened species more recently.
Assoc Prof. Heather Handley, MQU - Into The Volcano: From Source To Eruption And Beyond
Heather Handley is an Associate Professor of Volcanology and Geochemistry and leads the Volcanic and Magmatic Research Group in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Macquarie University. Her research unravels the secrets held in the chemistry of volcanic rocks to answer questions such as what triggers volcanic eruptions? and how fast does magma travel from its source to the Earth’s surface?
Dr Catriona Bonfiglioli, UTS - Science and Society - Why Communication Is Crucial
Catriona is a UTS journalism studies academic with a special interest in the role of media in health and science. Catriona is the designer of Communicating Health and Science 54090 an innovative communication unit within the UTS Bachelor of Communication.Catriona is lead
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The aim of Dr Lizzy Lowe’s research is to reduce insecticide use in cities and create healthy urban spaces that support biodiversity of all shapes and sizes. Lizzy completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2016 and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Macquarie University. As an urban ecologist, Lizzy enjoys working with local communities to improve the health of our cities. She has a particular passion for raising the public profile of underappreciated animals such as spiders, and encouraging engagement with nature in cities.
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Dr Roger Kitching, Griffith University - The Unlikely Coming Together of Ecology and Molecular Biology
Roger Kitching AM is Emeritus Professor of Ecology at Griffith University in Brisbane and a senior researcher within the Environmental Futures Research Institute of that University. A graduate of Imperial College with a doctorate from Oxford University, his research interests include the Lepidoptera in all their aspects, food webs particularly in naturally occurring mesocosms, and the arthropod biodiversity of rainforests with particular focus on the canopy.
Assoc Prof. Wendy Nielsen, UOW - Learning science with multiple representations
Associate Professor Wendy Nielsen is a science educator with research interests in science teaching and learning, in particular, how educational technology can be used to support student learning and teachers teaching about science. Grounded in sociocultural theories of learning and multimodalities as means to produce and represent understanding, Dr Nielsen leads an ARC Discovery Project called “The Quality of Learning as Students Create Digital Explanations of Science”. The study is examining tertiary science learners’ production of these media products as artefacts of learning but also the pedagogy behind how instructors use this in assessing science learning. Further examinations will consider how creating a digital explanation helps these students develop communications knowledge and skill.
Other research interests include supervising teacher knowledge, preservice and in-service teacher education, doctoral pedagogy and mathematics education. Dr Nielsen has supervised HDR and Honours students in a range of areas including science teaching and learning, mathematics pedagogy in preservice teacher education, conceptual knowledge development, educational leadership, professional learning for teachers and environmental education.
Dr Nielsen has authored or co-authored over 50 journal publications and book chapters, including one edited book. As of April, 2018, her Google Scholar profile listed more than 825 citations and an h-index of 14, her SCOPUS h-index is 9, and her Web of Science h-index is 8. She completed masters and doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia and was a high school science and mathematics teacher in British Columbia and California prior to graduate studies. She has been a Faculty member at the University of Wollongong since 2009.
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Professor Taylor generates significant and far-reaching impact from his research. Both governmentand private industry in Australian and the USA have invested more than AUD $1.2 billion to improve environment performance and human health outcomes as a direct result of Professor Taylor’s work. His recent successful science-based advocacy for the revision of the NHMRC’s intervention level for blood lead exposures in children exemplifies his commitment to delivering better outcomes for Australian public and environmental health.
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Sammy feels Windies can do better
Press speaks to Sammy
MUMBAI, India – West Indies captain Darren Sammy said his side was much better than they proved in the two-Test series against India which concluded on Saturday here.
A workmanlike half-century from Denesh Ramdin failed to inspire the Windies and the Indians gifted batting icon Sachin Tendulkar an innings and 126-run victory in the second Test to mark his retirement from the international scene.
Ramdin made 53, as the visitors were bowled out for 187 in their second innings about 15 minutes past the scheduled lunch interval on the third day before a Wankhede Stadium packed with fans of Tendulkar that came to wish him farewell.
The result meant West Indies were swept in the hastily-arranged, two-match series, following an innings and 51-run defeat in the first Test which ended two Fridays ago at Eden Gardens in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
"It's very disappointing," Sammy told reporters following the match. "We never turned up in the series. We left the Caribbean at the back of six Test victories, against Bangladesh, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. Coming here really taught us a lesson, exposed us, taught us how far we are behind the top four teams in the World. We've just not turned up."
He added: "I was speaking to a good friend of mine and he summed it up very well. He said we knew you were coming here to a celebration and we brought a lot of gifts. That's what we did. Rohit making his debut Test series, gifts – two hundreds, Mohammed Shami making his debut, gifts – 11 wickets. We just didn't turn up.
"And I personally have been very disappointed, not just for me, but for the team as well. It's a good lesson for us. As we head down to New Zealand, where we play our next Test series, we've got to bounce back and come back strongly."
Sammy said the short notice with which his side had about the series had nothing to do with their performance.
"We were quite happy coming here because we hardly play Test and so getting two more Tests this year to play against good opposition was a wonderful opportunity for us as a cricket team to measure up to see how much we have improved," he said.
"We won six Test matches against teams we were ranked higher than, so now we played against team that are ranked higher than us, it was an opportunity to showcase what we have. What we displayed over the last two Test matches, or over six days, we're much better than that. If you look at the way we played, every time we've been under pressure, we've not responded well.
He continued: "I guess, maybe, it's a mental thing. Me, as captain, I have not led from the front at all in this series and we deserve all the criticism and the comments that have been thrown at us, and it is only left to us to pick ourselves up.
"We have the One-day International series coming up and there is new leadership, Dwayne Bravo and the other ODI guys have arrived, so now we are looking to salvage some pride on this Indian tour." (WICB)
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Episode 1435 October 29, 2017
Google Pixel 2 XL Suffering From Burn-in Issues
Will my Pixel 2 XL have burn-in issues?
Why have I lost stations on my internet radio?
My Sony radio went through the wash and it still works!
Why was it so hard to pre-order the iPhone X?
Why won't my internet connected door lock work?
What voice assistant is best for artificial intelligence?
Chris Marquardt on Photography
Why can't my phone work with my new carrier?
An iPod saved my son's life
How can I expand the partition on my hard drive?
How can I image a hard drive to a large thumb drive?
Should I get an i7 laptop?
Is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 a good buy?
Google responds to the Pixel 2 XL screen problems, why stations may have disappeared from an internet radio device, using an internet connected door lock, expanding the partition of a hard drive, whether or not to get an i7 processor in a laptop, and more of your calls.
Google Pixel 2 XL, Google, Mobile Phones, burn in, Android, iheartradio, bandwidth
Watch Craig from Frederick, MD Comments
Craig bought the Google Pixel 2 XL directly from Google. He hasn't experienced the burn-in issue, nor does he have to deal with the so-called "blotchiness" on a white background. He only got it with the Microsoft screensaver launcher.
Leo says that some of the imperfections may not be noticed by most users because they aren't as into it and aren't looking for those imperfections. Leo says the burn-in is very slight, and he doesn't even know if it would bother him or not. He's more interested in the security advantages of the Pixel 2 XL and he hopes that Google can find a fix. Meanwhile, they've extended the warranty to two years.
Watch Chip from Cherry Hill, NJ Comments
Chip listens to iHeartRadio on an internet radio called the Logitech Squeezebox. He's recently lost a lot of stations after an update, though. Leo has a hunch that many of those stations simply dropped out of streaming because of the cost of bandwidth for every single listener who is tuning in. It's a completely different model than broadcast because there's a hard cost. Its more like magazine publishing. But it could also be that iHeartRadio could be blocking the station.
The chatroom says to try OOTunes Radio. It's a newer radio app for iOS that seems to get a lot more stations than most apps. But how long that will last is anyone's guess.
Watch George from Santa Monica, CA Comments
George accidentally washed and dried his Sony radio, and it still worked afterwards! He says that good products that are made well need to be recognized. Leo points out that it isn't recommended use for that radio and Sony doesn't guarantee that it will work after a wash cycle. It's good that George dried the device before he used it. Water in a device isn't necessarily going to harm it, unless it gets powered and then short circuits. So it's key to fully dry the device out before turning it back on.
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Brian tried to go online to buy the Apple iPhone X and he noticed that Apple closed the store before it went on sale to get ready. Leo says they do that, but it's really absurd with modern website technology. It's just hype. He was able to get in and preorder and he's getting it Friday. Leo's jealous. Brian is going to miss the home button though.
Brian says that he's having issues with his internet connected door lock. It's connected to a ZigBee hub, and it's only 11 feet away from the door lock and the hub is hardwired to the router. The company's support told him he'll need to get a repeater. Leo says there are routers coming out now that have Zigbee built-in, which could be one solution to these problems. Ultimately the real solution is that these things won't be using ZigBee or Z-Wave, the devices will be talking to the Google Hub or Apple HomeKit. Leo also says that the lock probably works with the Echo, and there's a skill for it.
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Robert wants a voice assistant that has the best artificial intelligence. He wants to be able to ask it a variety of different questions about the news. Leo says the Google Home is the winner in that category, but the Amazon Echo is the only device that lets you shop on Amazon. Amazon is also very good with music, and simple commands like setting a timer, and home automation tasks. There's also more than 50,000 third party skills on the Echo. The problem is that it's hard to find skills, and then he'd have to learn the specific syntax to use that skill. If he wants an assistant that's more human-like, Google is easily the best of the two. Leo says Robert's solution may be to have both. That can be complicated though to remember which device to ask for various things.
Leo's favorite Echo device is the Echo Show, because it has a 7" screen built-in. This means it can display photo albums, the view from cameras Robert may have set up, and it would allow him to tap on the screen to complete tasks that he asked about. It also has pretty decent speakers. Amazon and Google both have cheaper devices he could experiment with first as well.
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Mark's wife got a mobile phone through Verizon and he had it unlocked to use with an MVNO carrier, but it doesn't work. Leo says that it could be due to radio frequency issues. Leo says that unlocking doesn't guarantee that he'll be able to use the phone anywhere. But it's the first step. That's why everyone is going to LTE. That will smooth out the system and make it easier to transfer from one carrier to another.
Mark also can't access his voicemail because it thinks he's still on Verizon. Leo says that's a porting issue and he'll need to contact his new carrier and tell them he's moved from Verizon, and he'll need the proper settings for voicemail and data. He could also try rooting his phone. Mark should go to XDA Developers and look up the instructions for his EXACT model of phone. Then he should follow the instructions to the letter. This could not only help solve the issue, but it will open up a host of new options to him.
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Pat's son has an old iPod and it not only saved his life when he was hit with shrapnel in the Army, but it kept working. Leo says wow. That's impressive. Leo says those old iPods were built like a tank.
Photo taken by Stahlkocher (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0, GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Daryl has the Pixel 2 XL and he's never experienced any of the problems that people are complaining about. Leo says that those who are just may have a bad batch of phones. It's good to hear that others aren't running into those issues.
Daryl bought an SSD to replace a spinning drive. It's really fast, but when he cloned the hard drive, there's 200GB missing. Leo says that some cloning software will just create a size for size copy and actually make it smaller. He can change the size back to the larger one, though. He just has to press Windows Key + X, then go to System Management > Drive/Storage Options > Expand Your Partition. There's a good partition manager that will expand the partition non-destructively.
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Mike has a 1 TB thumb drive that shows up as a 2 TB drive. Leo says it could have been mislabeled. He should look in his disk management console. He can get there by right clicking on the Start menu, and selecting disk management. It will give him a more accurate indication of the size. If it's 2TB, then it was mislabeled. Also, since Mike bought it off eBay, it's something to be careful with. Can he use it to copy another hard drive? Leo says sure. He should try DriveImage XML to do it.
Other Imaging options include:
Windows 10 has a drive imaging utility buried in it that Leo suspects will be discontinued soon. It's a pity because it's very reliable.
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Qingnan is looking to get a Windows Surface Book. Leo had one and he thought it was an interesting design, but it fell short on performance. The second version is about to drop and it's supposed to be better, though. Qingnan is confused though with the processor designation — it has two different processors claiming it's the 8th generation. Leo says that's marketing and often times that can be confusing.
Leo recommends going to AnandTech and looking at their reviews to know which processors and which Surface Book 2 is going to be the best. Leo also says it doesn't pay to put an i7 in a laptop because it can be limited by thermal constraints and it won't run at full speed as a result. He should use that extra money to get a better graphics chip, more RAM, or a larger hard drive.
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Sharise wanted to get the Samsung Galaxy Note Fan Edition because she wouldn't be able to trade in her Note 4 for the Note 8. She kept calling, and Samsung exchanged her older Note 4 so she got half off the Galaxy Note 8. Leo says it's a great phone, but Sharise wanted the blue color. Leo says to get a blue case like an Otterbox on it, and she's all set. Though Leo likes the Spigen Clear Case so it can show through. Samsung has gone a long way to making the Note 7 debacle right.
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Home / Tech News / Inrix expands its digital rule book beyond self-driving cars to help cities with scooters, bikes and delivery bots – TechCrunch
Inrix expands its digital rule book beyond self-driving cars to help cities with scooters, bikes and delivery bots – TechCrunch
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Cities use paint and signs to communicate the rules of the road in a world where urban spaces must choreograph an infinite dance between pedestrians and personally owned cars, scooters and bicycles, ride-hailing services, delivery trucks, buses, rail, and someday autonomous vehicles.
It’s a crude method for increasingly modern cities that are trying to juggle all the ways people and packages get around. It also has limitations. Paint fades. Signs become obstructed. And companies deploying dockless scooters or autonomous vehicles have no easy way to access the rules of the road.
And that’s where Inrix, a global transportation analytics company, sees an opportunity. The company is taking a digital data platform that it developed for autonomous vehicles and expanded it to all forms of transportation.
The platform called Road Rules was designed to help cities create a digital record of their traffic rules and restrictions. Inrix said Wednesday that 11 cities, including Austin, Texas, Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Calgary in Canada, Detroit, Miami-Dade County, and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, which includes Las Vegas have signed on to implement Road Rules and are digitizing their infrastructure and restrictions this year. Four companies — Jaguar Land Rover, May Mobility, nuTonomy (an Aptiv company) and operators running Renovo’s Aware platform — have also agreed to use the data authored by the cities.
All of the cities that have signed on are thinking about or already have autonomous vehicle companies testing or running pilot programs on public roads. Tthe expanded version of the platform is designed to help these cities manage and communicate rules to companies deploying other forms of mobility whether it’s a delivery bot or dockless scooter.
The tool is set up to make it easy for a city employee to enter roadway information such as traffic signals and pedestrian crossing signs as well as rules for curbs and sidewalks, including where loading zones, EV charging stations, dockless bike and scooter operational domains and shared vehicle drop zones are located.
The platform initially launched as a pilot program in July 2018. This revamped and expanded version, which became public Wednesday ahead of the TC Sessions: Mobility event in San Jose, has a new user experience and clearer work-flows is supposed to make it easier for road authorities to digitize and manage transportation rules. And of course, there’s the expanded focus of the platform, which should make it far more useful for cities grappling with today’s mobility problems, not just the ones a decade from now. But the killer feature is the ability for cities to share that data across departments, with other agencies and even companies.
“Cities were looking for a platform that is actually open,” Avery Ash, head Inrix’s autonomous mobility division, told TechCrunch recently. “This keeps the control in the hands of the city to be able to manage, update and distribute the data that they are validating — and then it can be can be easily shareable.”
This shareable open component part is based on the National Association of City Transportation Official’s SharedStreets project, which has created a global referencing system. This means that city, agency or company who is getting information out of Road Rules can easily snap it to whatever map they’re using.
Inrix has grand ambitions for Road Rules. Ash told TechCrunch that the company is aiming to get 100 cities on the platform by the end of 2019. And here’s why cities might bite. There are companies that can provide cities with data. Inrix’s platform lets cities build this database on their own, control it and share it.
Building a database of road rules is still a massive undertaking by any city. Some of that process can be automated, although the information coming in would likely require validation from a city employee.
Ash also said that cities will likely target small sections of a city at first and slowly expand from there. For instance, a specific block where dockless scooters might be allowed to operate under a temporary permit, or a loop where autonomous vehicles might be tested and eventually deployed.
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Nonpartisan “Campaign For Vermont” Unites Both Republicans and Conservatives
June 23, 2017 The Winooski Burlington, Vermont Life 1
BURLINGTON – It can be hard to reach across the aisle in today’s divided political climate, but that hasn’t stopped “Campaign For Vermont,” an advocacy organization dedicated to bettering the state, from bringing together not only Republicans, but conservatives as well. CFV was founded by Republican Bruce Lisman and conservative Tom Pelham, and the unifying has just gotten stronger over the years.
“Take a look at our board members, past and present,” says current CFV board chair Louise McCarren. “I think you will find a healthy mix of Republican politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, military veterans, and business owners. In fact, I don’t think you will find a healthier mix of both Republican and conservative voices anywhere in the state.”
And it isn’t just talk. A brief look at the issues that CFV is focusing on reveals not only perennial Republican favorites such as lowering taxes, but also very conservative policies like cutting back human services. When asked how such conflicting ideologies could ever coexist within one nonpartisan organization, former Wall Street executive Lisman replied “I am no longer affiliated with Campaign For Vermont. Why are you asking me about it? I am extremely nonpartisan.”
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Renault to re-enter the Nigerian automobile space with Coscharis deal
Photograph — Video Blocks
Multinational auto manufacturer, Groupe Renault, has announced that it is re-entering Nigeria’s automobile space following a partnership agreement with Coscharis Motors Plc, one of the leading car dealers in the African country.
A statement released by the French carmaker reveals that it will be making a “giant stride” back into the Nigerian market precisely on the 18th of July, 2019, led by the country’s “foremost automobile dealership,” Coscharis.
The cooperation between both companies will involve the local production and distribution of two of Renault’s variants – Logan and Duster – which will be assembled in the Coscharis Assembly facility in Lagos. Meanwhile, Renault Kwid and Renault Oroch will be imported as Complete Built Unit (CBU) in due course of the partnership.
Relaunching its brand in Nigeria is a strategic move. Being Africa’s most populated nation with over 200 million people, Nigeria represents a “strategic African country where Groupe Renault will extend its footprint,” the SVP and Chairman of Africa, Middle-East India region of Groupe Renault, Fabrice Cambolive, explained.
More so, the group is looking to respond to the demand of the newly emerging middle class in countries like Nigeria as well as maintain its leadership within the continent. Groupe Renault has the highest market share in Africa (with 18 percent). It sold more than 216 000 vehicles in the continent in 2018, with its most important countries being Morocco, Algeria, South Africa, Egypt in terms of sales volume.
This move is also part of Groupe Renault’s overall focus on international expansion, aimed at addressing the major technological challenges of the future while continuing to pursue its profitable growth strategy. And in Nigeria, Cambolive noted that the expertise of Coscharis and Renault’s products (adapted to local needs), will enable the group to “answer immediately to the customers’ demand in Nigeria.”
Expressing his delight at the new business collaboration, the President/CEO of Coscharis Group, Dr. Cosmas Maduka said the partnership is to “showcase another initiative from our great organization … to further create value as a key player in the automobile industry in Nigeria; we are glad to celebrate the confidence the renowned brand, Renault reposed in us to represent them in Nigeria.”
A recognised player in vehicle assembly and distribution in Nigeria, Coscharis Motors is one of the subsidiaries of the Coscharis Group. The indigenous conglomerate has interests in various sectors of the economy which include automobile, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), logistics, agriculture, food & beverages, properties, healthcare amongst others.
While Renault’s partnership with Coscharis supports the growth of Nigeria’s automotive industry, which is currently dominated by other foreign manufacturers like Toyota and Honda, the development means local automobile players such as Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) now have more foreign competitors to worry about.
“Automobile enthusiasts in Nigeria are about to get fired up and live their passion once again,” officials of Renault added in the statement. Groupe Renault has manufactured cars since 1898. Being an international multi-brand group today, it sold close to 3.9 million vehicles in 134 countries in 2018, has 36 manufacturing sites, 12,700 points of sales and employs over 180,000 people.
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As Texas House tackles property taxes, here's what to know and how to watch
Posted on April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 by Texas Tribune Staff
The Texas House on Thursday is expected to take up property tax legislation, one of the highest priority bills this session.
The Texas House is expected to tackle its much-anticipated proposal for slowing the growth of property taxes Thursday in what could be one of the lengthiest — and most heated — debates of the 86th legislative session.
House Bill 2 is a top priority for Gov. Greg Abbott. It would attack rising property taxes from two angles. First, the bill aims to retool the property appraisal process and the way that landowners protest those values. Second, it would lower the amount of tax revenues many local governments can collect before seeking voter approval.
Here’s everything you need to know about the legislation — from how you can watch lawmakers’ discussions to what the bill would do for Texans.
Follow along:
The House gavels in at 10 a.m. Thursday. Follow Texas Tribune reporter Shannon Najmabadi for updates.
Once debate on HB 2 begins, you can also watch the livestream here:
HB 2 is about tax reform — not tax relief.
That means it’s not designed to lower Texans’ property tax bills, but to constrain how quickly property taxes grow. The latest version of the bill would require voter approval if a local government like a city or county wants to increase their property tax collections by 2.5 percent or more compared to the prior year.
But language added to the bill would also let government entities to go above that threshold in any given year — as long as they average below 2.5 percent during a rolling five-year period.
The Senate’s companion has key differences, but has been languishing.
The upper chamber seemed to be moving at breakneck speed on its version of property tax reform earlier this session. But more than two months after a Senate panel approved Senate Bill 2, the upper chamber has not taken up the measure.
Meanwhile, the House has retooled its bill to exclude community colleges, hospital districts and emergency service districts. The House also stripped language that would apply the election trigger to school districts, which levy the bulk of property taxes across Texas.
Property tax relief could still be coming.
HB 2 is expected to work in tandem with House Bill 3, a separate school finance bill that compresses school districts’ property taxes by 4 cents statewide.
Lawmakers are also backing other bills that would lower property taxes by increasing the amount of exemptions for which landowners qualify. And the state’s three top leaders — Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen — announced Wednesday that they are also backing legislation that would increase the state’s sales tax by 1 cent to finance a decrease to property taxes.
Lots of uncertainties loom.
The lower chamber could be dramatically more divided on the legislation than it was with its proposed state budget and attempt to reform school finance. House members have filed 180 amendments, meaning the bill could change in some key ways Thursday. And the Senate could still move on its own version of the legislation, or wait for the lower chamber’s bill and make its own big changes.
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Jennifer Garner has sent Ben Affleck in рехаб against the background of his new novel with the Playboy model
Ben Affleck on August 22 it became known that 46-year-old Ben Affleck has again got into the rehabilitation center (the actor already nednokratno tried to recover from alcohol addiction). And I have brought him to medical institution not somebody, and the former spouse, 46-year-old Jennifer Garner. Paparazzi was succeeded to make several photo near the house of the actress, on them ex-beloved together sat in the car and went to the rehabilitation center in Malibu. He realized that he needs the help therefore has gone to treatment voluntarily — the insider has said to the People portal. At the beginning of a week Affleck has been noticed near the house in a dark gray t-shirt and training trousers in volume time as he bore the huge box from local shop filled with bottles of beer and whisky. We will remind, Ben struggles with alcohol addiction since 2001. Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck I have finished a course of treatment from an alkozavisimost. I fought against it in the past and I will continue to resist to it. I want to lead full-fledged life and to be the best father for the children — the actor said only several months ago. But, probably, on it friendship with a bottle for a star hasn't ended... The ex-spouse is in turn ready to support Garner. Do you think, it is pleasant to her that he has contacted the young Playboy model? Of course, no. But now she is disturbed not by(with) his private life, but his health — the insider has told. Ben Affleck with the new girl Shauna Sexton Primechatelno, that Ben has rung out in рехаб after parting with 38-year-old Lindsey Shukus. Rumors that in couple dissonance, went for a long time (in the past weekend the actor has at all got to paparazzi during walk with the 22-year Playboy model Shauna Sexton), and the other day the American portal E! News has confirmed that the actor and the producer of a comedy show have left. The source has said that lovers it is more not together, but they remained friends: The novel at distance has appeared not for them, they have understood that him the family is more important. Who knows, maybe, Affleck so strongly worries because of the incident that he has decided to muffle a grief alcohol. Ben Affleck and Lindsey Shukus
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Fourth Expert Working Group on the Preservation of the Bamiyan Site issued recommendations for Safeguarding Bamiyan
mardi 20 décembre 2005 à 12:00:00
Cette page n'est pas intégralement disponible en français, vous pouvez la consulter en anglais.
The Fourth Expert Working Group on the Preservation of the Bamiyan Site was successfully held in Kabul/ Aghanistan from 7 to 10 December 2005. Afghan and international experts working on the safeguarding of Bamiyan issued a list of concrete recommendations for further activities to preserve the site. The Expert Working Group was formed in 2002 within the framework of the coordination mandate for all cultural projects in the country entrusted to UNESCO by the Afghan government. It presently coordinates activities carried out under the UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust project "Safeguarding of the Bamiyan site, Second Phase" (US $1,308,060), which aims to preserve and protect the cultural heritage of the Bamiyan valley. In addition, the group oversees bilateral projects, notably the conservation of fragments of the statues of the Buddha presently carried out by ICOMOS Germany thanks to an important financial contribution of the German government.
The goals of the Fourth Expert Working Group Meeting, organized by the Afghan Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism and UNESCO, were to review the work carried out, to set priorities, to secure funding and to coordinate activities to be implemented in 2006. Participants at the meeting expressed their appreciation for the activities undertaken to consolidate the Buddhas' niches, preserve the statues' remains, protect the mural paintings, map the site, develop a Management Plan for the site as World Heritage property and a New Master Plan and train local personnel. The experts discussed the finalization of the preliminary World Heritage Management Plan and the Bamiyan New Master Plan. They also weighed the feasibility of a site museum. Furthermore, with a view to ensure the appropriate conservation of the fragments of the statue of the Buddha, the experts discussed the possibilities of anastylosis as one well established method of proper relocation of the fragments to their original position. The participants concurred that the activities undertaken in 2005, which focused on emergency measures, should be continued. In addition, longer-term measures are urgently required to ensure the continued preservation of the site.
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[Uniquement en anglais] 7th Expert Working Group on the Preservation of the Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley 12 juin 2008-13 juin 2008
8ème Réunion du Groupe d'experts pour la conservation du site du patrimoine mondial de Bamiyan 25 mars 2010-26 mars 2010
10e réunion du group de travail et 2 conférences publiques sur la Vallée de Bamiyan 6 déc. 2011-11 déc. 2011
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Regd No:35356/1999 Under Act XXI of 1680 The Society for unity of people.
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
cordially invites you to a Seminar
at 3.00 pm on Thursday, 27th November, 2014
in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building
‘Historical Fiction and the Questions of Sovereignty:
Aesthetic form and memory making in early twentieth century Travancore’
Prof. Udaya Kumar,
NMML.
This paper considers the fictional and political writings of C. V. Raman Pillai (1858-1922, widely known as C. V.), whose trilogy of historical romances Marthandavarma (1891), Dharmaraja (1913), and Ramarajabahadur(1918-19) presented celebratory accounts of two eighteenth century Kings of Travancore Marthandavarma (reg. 1729-58) and Ramavarma (reg. 1758-98). In the two decades that separated his first two novels, C. V. published several essays of political criticism under the title Videshiyamedhavitvam (Foreign Rule) opposing the appointment of non-native Brahmins as Dewans of Travancore. Although his three historical romances were ostensibly focused on Travancore Kings, C. V. saw Dharmarajaand Ramarajabahadur as the first two novels in a planned trilogy on the eighteenth century Nayar Dewan Kesava Pillai (1745-99), better known as “Raja Kesavadas” after an honorific conferred on him by the British. In addition to this shift in focus from the King to the Nayar Minister, a new level of complexity is found in C. V.’s fiction in its recurrent, obsessive preoccupation with a family of rebel Nayarchiefs (Madampimar) who rise from the ashes, novel after novel, to confront royal power. While images of Nayar loyalty, valour and governance appear as direct objects of celebration, the novels also manifest a subterranean strain of heroic mourning for forms of Nayar power destroyed by Marthandavarma’s consolidation of the Travancore state. The paper argues that tensions between these two configurations of sovereignty underlay C. V.’s fictional and political projects. In his historical romances, through a deft use of stylized narration and visual and performance schema drawn from classical and folk traditions from the region, C. V. created modes of characterisation and discourse that brought together praise and mourning, Nayar assertion and ritualised royal acclamation. The paper analyses some aspects of the aesthetic-political work performed in C. V.’s historical novels.
Prof. Udaya Kumar is Senior Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He was formerly Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. He is the author of The Joycean Labyrinth: Repetition, Time and Tradition in 'Ulysses' (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991), and several papers on contemporary literary and cultural theory and Indian literature. His research interests include autobiographical writing, cultural histories of the body, and the shaping of modern literary cultures. He is currently completing a book on modes of self-articulation in modern Malayalam writing, and working on the emergence of new idioms of vernacular social thought in early twentieth-century Kerala.
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UNESCO MGIEP First Distinguished Lecture, Irina Bokova
UNESCO MGIEP First Distinguished Lecture
Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO
DIVERSE SOCIETIES, INCLUSIV DEMOCRACIES: NEW SKILLS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
We need new skills for a new world Director-General tells young people in New Delhi
New Delhi, 25 November – The need for inclusive and innovative education was the key themes of the inaugural UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development) Distinguished Lecture, presented by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in New Delhi today.
The event was attended by pupils from several New Delhi schools, university students, representatives from academic and research institutions, dignitaries from the government and non-government organisations, and international diplomatic missions.
Prof Anantha Kumar Duraiappah, Director, UNESCO MGIEP welcomed the DG on her first visit to the Institute and emphasised the important role of transformative education in the Post 2015 Global Development Agenda. “Education alone can build the foundation of a sustainable and peaceful world, education alone can transform human approach to the world around,” he said.
“Real sustainability goes beyond the reach of States,” Ms Bokova said. “it must be grounded in the rights and dignity of every woman and man, in their abilities, skills and behaviours, in their capacity to transform their lives, anticipate the future, make the most of change.”
“This starts with education,” she said, along with stronger policies, especially towards marginalized populations, to ensure that nobody misses out.
“Societies can be healthy, and governments can be effective, only if they are inclusive, if they bring every citizen together – every woman and man, all young people, especially the most marginalized,” she added.
The Director-General underscored the special relationship between UNESCO and India, which, she said, is entering into a new phase with “an ever sharper focus on the power of education,” as a means of overcoming growing inequalities and achieving sustainable societies.
To this end, the Institute “can make a decisive contribution” said the Director-General. “I am convinced the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development is a model platform for the innovation that all societies need today, to foster new skills for new times. The future will be built here and on the benches of schools,” Ms Bokova concluded.
The UNESCO MGIEP was founded in November 2012, with the aim of mobilising youth to promote and foster greater understanding of peace, sustainable development and global citizenship through formal and non-formal teaching and learning. It is the first such UNESCO institute in India and the first in the Asia-Pacific region.
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SAARC to turn our natural wealth : Modi
Prime Minister Sushil Koiralaji, my colleagues from South Asia
I am delighted to return to Kathmandu.
Koiralaji, congratulations on organising an excellent Summit
Thank you, Nepal, for your warm hospitality once again.
Greetings to the Observer countries present here.
This is my first SAARC Summit. But, this is the second time I am meeting most of you together. I stepped into the office with the greetings of the entire world. But, what moved me, dear colleagues, was your personal presence, with the good wishes of one-fourth of humanity. Because the future I dream for India is the future I wish for our entire region.
The last Summit was three years ago. Only two of us here were present in Addu. Even Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come here after her re-election. President Rajapaksa will soon go into one and I wish him good luck. I especially welcome our newest colleague, President Ghani.
Ours is a region of thriving democracy; of rich inheritance;the unmatched strength of youth; and, a strong thirst for change and progress.
In the last few months, I have travelled around the world. From the middle of the Pacific, to the southern coast of Atlantic Ocean, I see a rising tide of integration. And, negotiations on major trade agreements such as Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Because the barriers of boundaries inhibit progress; international partnerships add speed to it. Because, in the life of an individual or a nation, a good neighbourhood is a universal aspiration.
Where does South Asia wish to stand in this world?
Nowhere in the world are collective efforts more urgent than in South Asia; and, nowhere else is it so modest. Big and small, we face the same challenges- a long climb to the summit of development. But, I have great belief in our boundless potential; and, confidence – that comes from the many inspiring stories of innovation and initiative in each of our countries. There is much to learn from each other; even more – to do together.
That was the vision and aspiration that brought us together as SAARC 30 years ago. We have travelled a long distance together since then. We have an agreement, an institution or a framework of cooperation in every field. We also have many successes.
Yet, when we speak of SAARC, we usually hear two reactions – cynicism and scepticism. This, sadly, is in a region throbbing with the optimism of our youth.
Today, less than 5% of the region’s global trade takes place between us. Even at this modest level, less than 10% of the region’s internal trade takes place under SAARC Free Trade Area.
Indian companies are investing billions abroad, but less than 1% flow into our region.
It is still harder to travel within our region than to Bangkok or Singapore; and, more expensive to speak to each other.
How much have we done in SAARC to turn our natural wealth into shared prosperity; or, our borders into bridgeheads to a shared future?
Yet, South Asia is slowly coming together. India and Bangladesh have deepened their links through rail, road, power and transit. India and Nepal have started a new era of cooperation in energy; and, India and Bhutan are making those ties stronger by the day. With Sri Lanka, we have transformed trade through a Free Trade Agreement. We will soon launch a new arrangement to meet Maldives’ need for oil. Distance and difficulties have not held back India and Afghanistan. And, bus and train sustain contacts between people in India and Pakistan We have given five South Asian partners duty free access to 99.7% of their goods and prepared to do more with others.
For India, it has been a privilege to provide assistance of nearly 8 billion U.S. dollars in South Asia over a decade.
It may not seem a great amount in these times, but we are grateful for the opportunity to have made a difference to the lives of a few brothers and sisters in our region.
Each of us has taken our own initiatives. However, as SAARC we have failed to move with the speed that our people expect and want. Some argue that it is because of the region’s development gap. But, that should actually spur us to do more. Or, is it because we are stuck behind the walls of our differences and hesitant to move out of the shadows of the past?
This won’t resolve our differences, but will certainly deprive us of opportunities. Today, goods travel from one Punjab to the other Punjab through Delhi, Mumbai, Dubai and Karachi – making the journey eleven times longer and the cost four times more.
India, too, has its share of responsibility –because of our size and location. I know that many of your goods, too, have to do a Parikrama of India to reach their destinations.
Just think of what we are doing to our consumers – and to our environment! We must shrink the distance between our producers and consumers and use the most direct routes of trade. I know India has to lead, and we will do our part.I hope, each of you will, too.
Infrastructure is our region’s greatest weakness and it’s most pressing need. When I thought of coming to Kathmandu by road, it made many officials in India nervous. Because of the condition of roads at the border! Infrastructure is my greatest priority in India. And, I also want to set up a Special Purpose Facility in India to finance infrastructure projects in our region that enhances our connectivity and trade.
We speak of ease of doing business in India. Let’s extend this to our region. I promise to ensure that our facilities at the border will speed up, not slow down, trade. Let’s all make our procedures simple, our facilities better, our standards common and our paper workless burdensome. India will now give business visa for 3-5 years for SAARC. Let’s make it even easier for our businesses through a SAARC Business Traveller Card. Excellencies, India has a huge trade surplus with SAARC countries. I believe that this neither right nor sustainable. We will address your concerns and give you a level playing field in India. But, I encourage you to attract Indian investments to produce for the Indian market and create jobs for your youth. I also look to a future when your companies can easily raise funds in India for investments at home; and, when we have cross-border industrial corridors, so that we can take advantage of the natural synergies and connected lives in our Border States.
I also believe that if we can light up each other’s towns and villages, we can build a brighter tomorrow for our region. Or, face a future when someone looks down at us from Space, and says that this is world’s darkest corner. Let us treat electricity as a commodity like any other that we invest and trade in. India will fully support these initiatives in the region. We should also think with ambition to use solar energy and micro grids to quickly provide clean power to villages across the region.
Our relations become stronger when we connect the lives of the ordinary citizens of our countries. That is why connectivity and services by rail and road are so important. We should also connect ourselves more by air. We will not only make a difference to the lives of our people, but also promote tourism in the region We should use the strength of shared heritage and our diversity to encourage tourism within our region, and present South Asia to the world. We could begin with the Buddhist circuit, but we don’t have to stop there.
As we seek to build bridges to prosperity, we must not lose sight of our responsibility to the millions living without hope. We must work with our compassion of our hearts, but also with the power of science.
In the area of health, India will meet the shortfall in funds to establish the SAARC Regional Supra Reference Laboratory for TB and HIV. We offer the five-in-one vaccine for the children of South Asia. We will support monitoring and surveillance of polio-free countries, and provide vaccines where it might reappear. And, for those coming to India for medical treatment, India will provide immediate medical visa for the patient and an attendant.
Information technology has removed all barriers to quality education. India is prepared to connect our South Asian students through online course and E-libraries. When we set up India’s National Knowledge Network, we will be happy to extend it to the SAARC region. The dream of a South Asian University has become a reality in New Delhi. But, to be truly South Asian, it must also have partnerships with at least one university in each SAARC country.
India’s gift of a satellite for the SAARC region will benefit us all in areas like education,telemedicine, disaster response, resource management, weather forecasting and communication. We will also host a conference in India for all South Asian partners next year, to strengthen our collective ability to apply space technology in economic development and governance. And, we plan to launch our satellite by the SAARC Day in 2016.
As neighbours, we should also be together in good and bad times. India’s capability and expertise in disaster management will always be available to South Asia. Equally, as we reach out to Indians caught in conflicts and disasters around the world, we will also be there for all our South Asian citizens.
Excellencies, a prosperous SAARC needs the strong foundation of a secure South Asia. If we are sensitive to each other’s security, and the lives of our people, we will deepen friendships, spur cooperation and advance stabilityin our region.
Today, as we remember the horror of the terror attack in Mumbai in 2008, we feel the endless pain of lost lives. Let us work together to fulfil the pledge we have taken to combat terrorism and trans-national crimes.
For India, our vision for the region rests on five pillars – trade, investment, assistance, cooperation in every area, contacts between our people – and, all through seamless connectivity. This is the call of our times. This is the age of social media, where boundaries matter little. There is a new awakening in South Asia; a new recognition of inter-linked destinies; and, a new belief in shared opportunities.
The bonds will grow.
Through SAARC or outside it.
Among us all or some of us.
We can all choose our paths to our destinations. But, when we join our hands and walk in step, the path becomes easier, the journey quicker and the destination closer.
I say this as much to my government and people, as I say to you.
We are meeting in the lap of Himalaya, which has nurtured us through the ages. Today, it is calling us to act.
Let us work to change cynicism into optimism.
Let us turn South Asia of flowering hope into a rich field of peace and prosperity.
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TAMIL NADU GIRLS WIN OVERTIME THRILLER
#8: 41ST SUB-JUNIOR NATIONAL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP –
(Vishnu Ravi Shankar) Nashik, 25 November 2014: On the morning of Day 3, the West Bengal and Haryana girls won their qualifying matches against Odisha and Telengana respectively to move to the upper pool. The Assam and Chandigarh boys also moved to the upper pool with wins against Punjab and West Bengal respectively, who were knocked out of the tournament.
Later in the day, the upper pool league matches involved an overtime thriller between the Tamil Nadu and Haryana girls. Both teams were tied at the end of regular time 75-75, resulting in an extra five minutes of basketball. Tamil Nadu held their nerve in overtime to scrape through with a 82-81 win. T. Monika top scored for Tamil Nadu with 27 points. In the other upper pool girls game, Madhya Pradesh comfortably defeated Delhi 55-21. The Tamil Nadu boys, however, lost their upper pool league fixture against Rajasthan 96-89 despite V. Adisiva’s 40 points. The Madhya Pradesh boys squared off against Haryana and registered an easy 73-39 win.
The results of the matches held up to 5.30 p.m. on 25 November 2014 are as follows:
Girls:
Qualifying matches (winner moves to Level 1):
West Bengal (L. Deb 14) bt Odisha (Saraswati B. 21) 55-46 (4-17, 13-3, 16-16, 22-10)
Haryana (Meenu 23) bt Telengana (Divya Lohiya 4) 42-14 (13-0, 12-7, 14-7, 3-0)
Losers Knockout (quarterfinals):
Assam (M. Begum 12, M. Ranivya 12) bt Goa (Ninoshka Fernandes 5, Wallencia Cardozo 5) 34-17 (5-2, 2-6, 14-8, 13-1)
Chandigarh (Sejhnoor 10, Jaismeen 10) bt Jammu and Kashmir (Akanksha Charak 2, Ankita Rajput 2) 41-4(10-0, 9-2, 12-2, 10-0)
Gujarat (Tanisha Shah 8, Renita Correya 8) bt Himachal Pradesh (Damini 10) 28-15(12-1, 9-0, 1-9, 6-5)
Bihar (Nisha Kumari 7) bt Manipur (Premita T. 10) 22-21 (7-2, 5-2, 0-9, 10-8)
Level 1 (League matches):
Madhya Pradesh (Diyana Sareen 13) bt Delhi (Vani Mittal 8) 55-21 (11-12, 25-5, 9-0, 10-4)
Tamil Nadu (T. Monika Jayseeli 27) bt Uttar Pradesh (Vaishnavi Yadav 38) 82-81(21-23, 17-10, 18-21, 19-21, Extra time 7-6)
Boys:
Assam (Sachin Samarin 18, Sanjajpal Baimik 18) bt Punjab (Jiwan 23) 57-50 (17-7, 10-13, 16-16, 14-14)
Chandigarh (Karamveer S. 41) bt West Bengal (Rohit K. 20) 81-50 (21-22, 25-8, 14-7, 21-13)
Mizoram (V.L. Remruatpuia 31) bt Uttarakhand (Arin 11) 63-36 (19-10, 8-6, 16-12, 20-8)
Karnataka (Prashant T. 21) bt Gujarat (N. Patel 8, A. Srivastava 8) 66-31 (21-15, 16-3, 18-8, 11-5)
Kerala (Tom Jose 23) bt Telangana (S. Mithil 17) 76-58 (28-25, 26-10, 16-18, 6-5)
Madhya Pradesh (Harshwardhan 18) bt Haryana (Naman S. 15) 73-39 (23-4, 15-14, 21-13, 14-8)
Rajasthan (Kuldeep S. 36) bt Tamil Nadu (V. Adisiva 40) 96-89 (29-24, 12-16, 28-22, 27-27)
The tentative schedule for the matches to be held on 26 November 2014 is as follows:
Date: 26-11-2014 (WEDNESDAY)
Court – 1
No Team “A” Vs Team “B” Group Timing
QUALIFYING MATCH (WINNER WILL CHOOSE EITHER A5 OR B5 within Half an Hour OF MATCH)
94 WEST BENGAL Vs HARYANA GIRLS 08.00 AM
LEVEL 1: LEAGUE MATCHES
95 MADHYA PRADESH Vs ANDHRA PRADESH GB 09.00 AM
97 UTTAR PRADESH Vs JHARKHAND BA 11.00 AM
98 ANDHRA PRADESH Vs ODISHA BA 12.00 PM
99 KARNATAKA Vs PUNJAB GA 01.00 PM
100 TAMIL NADU Vs HARYANA BB 02.00 PM
101 RAJASTHAN Vs MAHARASHTRA BB 03.00 PM
102 MAHARASHTRA Vs KERALA GA 04.00 PM
PRE-QUARTERFINALS
103 A 4 – TO BE DECIDED Vs B 5 – TO BE DECIDED GIRLS 05.00 PM
104 A 4 – TO BE DECIDED Vs B 5 – TO BE DECIDED BOYS 06.00 PM
105 CHANDIGARH Vs ASSAM GIRLS 08.00 AM
LOSERS KNOCKOUT (LKO) SEMI-FINALS
106 CHANDIGARH Vs BIHAR GIRLS 01.00 PM
107 KARNATAKA Vs W/O (BIHAR/ DELHI) BOYS 02.00 PM
108 GUJARAT Vs ASSAM GIRLS 03.00 PM
109 MIZORAM Vs KERALA BOYS 04.00 PM
110 B 4 – TO BE DECIDED Vs A 5 – TO BE DECIDED GIRLS 05.00 PM
111 B 4 – TO BE DECIDED Vs A 5 – TO BE DECIDED BOYS 06.00 PM
About the 41st Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship
The Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship is an annual national tournament for U-14 boys’ and girls’ teams from states across India. The Nashik District Basketball Association and the Maharashtra State Basketball Association under the aegis of the Basketball Federation of India and IMG-Reliance are conducting the 2014 tournament on the two wooden courts at the Meenatai Thakare Indoor Stadium here in Nashik. The tournament will be conducted over a period of 7 days from the 22nd to the 28th of November 2014. This year’s tournament is witnessing the participation of 27 boys’ teams and 25 girls’ teams from various states of the country. The 2013 version tournament was conducted in Patna, Bihar. The Chhattisgarh teams won both the boys and the girls category last year, while the Madhya Pradesh boys and the Tamil Nadu girls finished runners-up respectively.
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“Launching of Tourist Visa on Arrival enabled by Electronic Travel Authorization(ETA)”
PRESS INVITATION
You are cordially invited to cover the following Event:-
Shri Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister to be the Chief Guest at “Launching of Tourist Visa on Arrival enabled by Electronic Travel Authorization(ETA)”
Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State(IC) for Tourism & Culture and MoS for Civil Aviation to be the Guest of Honour.
Date : November 27, 2014 ( Thursday)
Time : 1100 Hours
Venue : Convention Hall, the Ashok Hotel, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
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Ferguson shooting Protests continue across US
Ferguson grand jury decided it will not bring criminal charges against officer Darren Wilson, he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. The city is bracing for potentially huge demonstrations in the wake of the decision.
Darren Wilson shot the 18-year-old on 9 August in Ferguson, Missouri thus give rise to igniting weeks of people at large to have gathered across the US. The unabated protest against Monday’s decision not to charge a police officer over the killing of black teen Michael Brown. BBC reports, Demonstrations from New York to Seattle were mostly peaceful, with protesters chanting and waving placards. In and around the St Louis suburb of Ferguson, scene of major riots on Monday, 2,200 National Guard troops were deployed to stop further unrest. The white officer who killed Mr Brown there says he has a “clean conscience”.
New York to Los Angeles and dozens and dozens of cities in between, protesters flooded the streets to denounce a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson.
A day after the country learned Wilson won’t face criminal charges for killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown, protests sprouted up in more than 170 U.S. cities.reports CNN channel
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Sania Mirza as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador
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Female suicide bombers kill 78 in Nigeria
Nov 26,
In Nigeria, Suicide attacks by two female bombers at a crowded market in northern Nigeria’s Maiduguri city have killed 78 people, medical officials say. The twin bomb blasts, thought to have been carried out by female suicide bombers, hit a market in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state yesterday. After the first explosion happened and people started to gather, a second explosion took place.
Soldiers and police officers cordoned off the area while rescue workers helped survivors to the hospital. No official statements have been issued yet. Government and security sources told that Boko Haram had taken over another town in Nigeria’s northeast.
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Jharkhand, J&K assembly high polling
Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday registered a record 71.28 percent turnout in the first phase of incident-free Assembly elections when people ignored boycott calls by separatists and cold conditions to cast their votes in 15 constituencies.
Jharkhand also recorded a high turnout of nearly 62 percent in the 13 Naxal-affected constituencies in the opening phase of the five-phased polls in both the states.In J & K, a 61.23 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the 2008 Assembly polls for these 15 seats–6 in Jammu division, 5 in Kashmir Valley and four in Ladakh. Today’s polling was spread over seven districts.
The overall turnout in the state in the Assembly elections in 1996 and 2012 was 53.92 per cent and 43.69 per cent respectively.
“Polling has gone off absolutely peaceful without any incident. It was 100 per cent flawless polls and there was not a single incident which vitiates poll process,” Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutshi told reporters in Delhi.
Dealing a serious blow to separatist politics, thousands of voters had lined up before polling stations. Nearly 10.52 lakh voters were eligible to vote.
Separatist groups like all the factions of Hurriyat Conference and JKLF have called for a boycott of the polls and a general strike as well in the state which has been affected by militancy for over 25 years.
A total of 123 candidates including seven ministers were in the fray with the ruling coalition partners National Conference and Congress and the Opposition People’s Democratic Party(PDP) and BJP fighting for the spoils.
In five Kashmir Valley constituencies, two in Ganderbal district recorded 68 per cent turnout — an increase of 13 per cent from 2008 assembly polls — while three in Bandipora district recorded 70.30 per cent, registering an increase of 11 per cent.
Sonawari consituency in the Kashmir Valley recorded a turnout as high as 80.10 percent.
A total 61.92 per cent votes were cast in 13 of the 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand as the polling in the Maoist-hit state passed off by and large peacefully.
The percentage (of votes) could be updated later, an official with the Election Commission here said.
The constituencies which went to polls in Jharkhand today are Chatra(SC), Gumla (ST), Bishunpur (ST), Lohardaga (ST), Manika (ST), Latehar (SC), Panki and Daltonganj, Bishrampur, Chhatarpur (SC), Hussainabad, Garhwa and Bhawanathpur.
In six seats of Jammu division, two constituencies in Doda district recorded a turn out of 76 per cent while it was 70 per cent each for the four seats in Kishtwar and Ramban districts.
While there was increase of eight per cent in Doda district and nearly four per cent in Ramban district, Kishtwar district recorded a drop of over three per cent.
The four constituencies of Ladakh region, which normally witnesses high voter turnout, marked a decrease in number of voters exercising their franchise.
In two constituencies of Leh district, the turn out was 57 per cent, down from 61.88 per cent in 2008 assembly polls and substantially down from 68.23 per cent registered during the Lok Sabha polls earlier this year.
In Kargil district, 59 per cent voters cast their votes against 72.90 per cent in 2008 elections.
Early morning chill and fog failed to dampen the spirits of the voters who had assembled at the polling stations an hour before the scheduled start of voting.
The voting time had to be extended in several polling stations to allow those voters, who were already inside the polling station premises, to cast their votes.
115 terrorist groups busted in China
In China, 115 terrorist groups have been busted in Xinjiang during the current and ongoing campaign against terrorism. The campaign was launched after a deadly attack in the regional capital of Urumqi in May that left 31 dead and 94 injured. Authorities say some 52 people have surrendered to police.
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Hong Kong: 116 arrested in clashes with pro-democracy protesters
Police in Hong Kong say more 116 people have been arrested overnight in clashes with pro-democracy protesters. The unrest came as the authorities, acting on a court order, began dismantling a protest camp in the Mong Kok commercial district. Hongkong police has initiated the removal of pro-democracy protesters this began peacefully on yesterday but spiralled into violence overnight as protester numbers swelled. Protesters fought running battles on the streets around Nathan Road, with police using batons and pepper spray. Hence the Student protest organizers were reportedly arrested in Hong Kong on today, as police cleared out a protest site in Mong Kok district, according to student groups’ social media reports. Protest leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum were taken into custody as reported in E channels. Further news came as Hong Kong police cleared out barricades and tents from Mong Kok district the site of pro-democracy rallies
18th SAARC Summit begins in Kathmandu
The two-day 18th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation has started in Kathmandu, today, with an agenda to improve connectivity among member states for boosting trade, collectively fighting the poverty and illiteracy. The theme of the summit is ‘Deeper Regional Integration for Peace and Prosperity’. The inaugural session was formally inaugurated by Nepal Prime Minister Mr. Sushil Koirala in the presence of all heads of government from seven other member countries. The outgoing Chairperson of SAARC, President of Maldives, Mr. Abdulla Yameen handed over the chairmanship of the present SAARC Summit to Mr. Koirala. The Summit is going on as heads of government of member nations are addressing it.
Modi said on Tuesday on his second visit to the Himalayan country in 100 days as both sides inked nine agreements, further cementing their close ties.
Modi, who in his departure statement said the fact that he was visiting Nepal twice in the six months since he took over “reflects the importance we attach to our unique and special relations with Nepal”, also held delegation-level talks with his Nepali counterpart Sushil Koirala.Modi, who is here to attend the 18th SAARC Summit, urged Nepal to frame its much-awaited constitution early and on the basis of consensus.
Addressing a gathering during handing over of a 200-bed trauma centre built by India, Modi said writing the constitution was “taking too much time” and urged Nepal to finish the work on the basis of consensus and not majority.
He said the constitution should be like a bouquet, with each flower representing each strata of the Nepali society – the Madhesis, the Maoists and Pahadis – providing them rights.
Modi said India will not interfere and has never interfered in Nepal’s affairs, but added that “Nepal’s happiness is reason for us to smile, so write it fast”.
Political parties have set Jan 22 as the deadline to draft the constitution.
The trauma centre has been built by India at a cost of Rs.1.5 billion in the city’s Bir Hospital, the oldest medical facility in the country.
Among the dozen agreements inked was one for project development agreement (PDA) for the Arun III Hydropower project.
Both sides also kicked off a Kathmandu-Delhi bus service being run by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).
Modi also handed over the keys of a Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter to the Nepali army and a mobile soil testing laboratory to the country.
He said a “lot of trust” has been put into their bilateral relations.
A “big horsepower engine” of trust has been fitted into their relations in the 100 days since his last visit to Nepal in August, he said.
Referring to his decision not to visit Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, as well as Janakpur and Muktinath, which both Hindus and Buddhists hold as sacred, Modi said it was due to paucity of time.
“This time, I was keen to go by road because I wanted to see the difficulties the people of Nepal and Indians on that side face and help mend matters. But due to shortage of time, I could not do it,” he said.
The prime minister said he was aware of the disappointment of the people in the three places and assured them that he will visit them in the near future.
He said the bilateral decisions that were stuck for the past 25 years were now being pushed forward.
“Between my first visit, and my second, decisions have been taken to change lives in Nepal, and give happiness to India,” the prime minister said.
Modi said the hydropower projects – Pancheshwor, Upper Karnali and Arun III – that were stuck for many years have been pushed forward and that all the Nepal parties have shown farsightedness in backing the projects with India.
He said a new electricity transmission line was being set up between the two countries.
“One new transmission line of 1,000 MW is being installed, and Nepal will light up,” he said.
Modi said the $1 billion line of credit which he had announced during his last visit was being finalised.
Both countries also inked the Motor Vehicles Act that would allow regular bus service between the two nations.
The other agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) inked include on setting up of a Nepal Police Academy, on tourism and traditional medicines, Sister City Agreements between Janakpur and Ayodhya, Kathmandu and Vanarasi, and Lumbini and Bodhgaya.
Modi later called on President Ram Baran Yadav at his office in Sheetal Niwas.
The Indian prime minister also held a meeting with leaders of the largest party Nepali Congress at Soaltee Hotel, where he is staying, as well as with members of other political parties.
Pakistan sought greater involvement with the observer nations in the eight-member SAARC bloc, saying it should build on convergences and minimise divergences and called for a “dispute-free” South Asia.The remarks by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing the 18th SAARC summit, come in the backdrop of China making efforts to be made an active member from observer status.
“I also wish to emphasise the importance of the role of SAARC observers. SAARC can benefit from its interaction with them. The gap between promise of SAARC and reality of its accomplishments needs to be breached. We should build on convergences and minimise divergences and most of all seek to augment complementarities for the greater good of the people of the region,” he said.
China, a observer in the grouping, has been pushing for getting a permanent membership of SAARC.
However, India’s position has been that SAARC should enhance cooperation among the existing members before considering its expansion.
Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala had yesterday said that the member nations should talk about China’s membership.
In his address, Sharif said the member countries should enhance cooperation in combating various challenges including that of energy security, poverty, unemployment and called for addressing the issues unitedly.
“My vision for our region is a dispute free South Asia where instead of fighting each other, we jointly fight poverty, illiteracy, disease, malnourishment and unemployment. We should investment to unleash their creativity, talent and enterprise. We need our bond of trusts so that we can solve our problems,” Sharif said.
Referring to recent floods in the region, he said there was a need for sharing of hydrological data among the member countries.
Calling for greater cooperation, Sharif said SAARC must capture imagination of its people.
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Prashant Bhushan’s complaint against CBI director Ranjit Sinha
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Please find below the complaint filed with the Anti Corruption Branch of Delhi Police for registration of FIR against CBI Director Ranjit Sinha by senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and noted Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan. He has sought a FIR against him for offences under the Indian Penal Code and prevention of corruption act :
The Station Head Officer
Anti-Corruption Branch
New Delhi.
Sub: Complaint for investigation concerning abuse of office & criminal misconduct by CBI Director Mr. Ranjit Sinha
The instant complaint concerns the rampant abuse of office and criminal misconduct by Mr. Ranjit Sinha as the CBI Director.
CBI is the premier investigation agency in the country and millions of people have reposed their faith in the institution. The Supreme Court and the High Courts in India have also reposed their faith in the CBI by entrusting it with the investigation of major scams and important cases.
CBI has been investigating several important cases like the 2G spectrum allocation scam, coal block allocation scam, Karnataka mining scandal etc. As head of the CBI, Mr. Ranjit Sinha was taking several important decisions in these important cases relating to whether a chargesheet should be filed, who should be prosecuted and for what offence, who should be arrested, what should be the line of investigation, how should the CBI conduct its cases in courts etc.
Now the evidence has surfaced, that Mr. Sinha deliberately tried to save certain influential persons from prosecution in the 2G scam, coal scam etc by abusing his position as the CBI Director.
It has also now come to light that while Mr. Sinha was abusing his authority to save certain persons from prosecution, he was meeting accused/potential accused (or their agents/lawyers) in important cases being investigated by the CBI, repeatedly at his residence without the presence of other CBI officers. The entry register of 2013 and 2014 maintained at the gate of the official residence of the CBI Director Mr. Ranjit Sinha, i.e. 2, Janpath, New Delhi shows that he was having meetings, several of them late at night, at his residence, without any of the investigation officers being present, with several accused persons in prominent cases like 2G scam, coal scam, and with hawala operators like Mr. Moin Qureshi. A copy of the aforesaid register is annexed as Annexure A.
The entry register shows that top officials of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) have met Mr.Sinha quite frequently in the last 15 months, by one count, 50 times at his official residence. These two officials appear to be Tony Jesudasan (PR Manager and director in several ADAG companies)and AN Sethuraman (group president of ADAG). The cars in which they arrived at Sinha’s residence are reportedly registered in the name of ADAG. These visits happened contemporaneously with the developments of Mr. Sinha attempting to destroy the CBI’s prosecution case against accused Reliance and its 3 officers. The fact that Mr. Sinha met these two individuals of the Reliance ADAG at his residence has been admitted by Mr. Sinha in several interviews.
There are visits by several coal scam accused like Vijay Darda and Devendra Darda that happened while Mr. Sinha was trying to close coal scam cases against them. There are entry records of several accused or their agents/lawyers who are the subject matter of CBI investigations. The aforesaid entry register of Mr. Sinha’s residence runs into hundreds of pages and contains thousands of hand-written entries. The entries contain specific details including the name of the visitor, date & time of visit and the vehicle number, which can easily be verified by any investigation. The authenticity of the register can be easily verified by an investigation and the guards posted at the gate of Mr. Sinha’s official residence can be questioned.
Interfearence in the conduct of 2G investigations and prosecutions
Mr. Sinha made repeated attempts to jeopardize the CBI’s prosecution case against accused M/s Reliance Telecom, its accused officials Mr. Gautam Doshi, Mr Hari Nair, Mr. Surendra Pipala, as well as the case against M/s Swan Telecom, Mr. Shahid Balwa and Mr. Vinod Goenka. CBI has filed a chargesheet in April 2011 against M/s Reliance and its 3 top executives for creating a company M/s Swan Telecom, through a maze of shell companies, out of about Rs 1000 crore of Reliance’s funds. Reliance was ineligible to apply since it was already a license holder. Therefore, it created Swan which then applied for license and was favoured by the then telecom minister Mr. Raja for allocation of telecom license and 2G spectrum. At the time of applying, the company has to state in the application form that it does not hold any existing telecom license, which M/s Swan falsely stated.
The Special Court, exclusively dealing with 2G scam cases, was pleased to take cognizance of the said chargesheet and was pleased to frame charges against all the accused. That six accused in the matter who are currently undergoing trial (which is at an advanced stage of defence evidence) filed individual petitions seeking quashing of the charges against them in the Supreme Court. In reply to these petitions, a single consolidated counter affidavit was filed by the CBI in the Supreme Court on 04.03.2014. This affidavit was settled by Shri U U Lalit, then Special Public Prosecutor appointed by the Supreme Court.
Despite the fact that CBI had already filed affidavit in the Supreme Court, a decision was taken by the CBI Director that the consolidated counter filed by the CBI requires “reconsideration” and separate replies for each individual petition be filed by the CBI. An application was drafted by CBI to be filed in the Supreme Court to seek more time to file six separate affidavits. The aforesaid draft application was communicated to Shri Lalit vide communication dated 01.04.2014. The said communication reads: “As you are aware, in complicance of order dated 21.01.2014 of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, a consolidated counter affidavit was filed by CBI through undersigned on 04.03.2014… After filing of said consolidated counter affidavit the matter was reconsidered in CBI and the competent authority has now decided to file separate counter affidavits in respect of each of the 6 petitions.” No explanation was provided in the communication as to what suddenly necessitated the filing of separate affidavits since a consolidated affidavit had already been filed which was settled by Shri U U Lalit.
To the above communication, it is learnt that Shri Lalit responded by stating: “I am firmly of the view that it is not at all necessary for CBI to make a request for time to file separate affidavits. The common counter affidavit filed is good enough to take care of the matters in issue.” It is learnt that Shri Lalit informed the CBI that since the 2G matters were not listed for hearing, so in the meantime CBI may prepare drafts of the proposed separate counter affidavits, as long as they are consistent with the consolidated reply already filed.
Vide letter dated 24.06.3014, the CBI supplied copies of two draft counter affidavits to Shri Lalit by stating that “Competent authority in CBI has approved draft separate parawise replies to each petition. Draft parawise replies to WP(C) No. 205/2013 and WP(C) No. 17/2014 filed by Shahid Balwa and Gautam Doshi respectively, duly approved by the Competent Authority in CBI, are attached herewith for your kind perusal, vetting and settling the same.”
The said draft affidavits, shockingly, completely reverses the stand the CBI has taken in its chargesheet and before the trial court. CBI in that affidavit stated that since Swan was sold off by Reliance to Mr. Balwa after the date of application and before the license was granted, therefore, Swan was eligible on the date license was granted. This kind of dishonest affidavit, which would mark a reversal of CBI’s stand, would have possibly saved Reliance, its officers, Mr. Balwa etc. from being convicted. Paragraphs 24.24 to 24.27 of draft counter in WP(Crl) 205/2013 and paragrpah 24.35 of draft counter in WP(Crl) 17/2014 point to clear attempt to destroy their own case against Reliance and other accused. It is clear that the CBI tried to admit the very case of the accused raised in their defence in order that they may be shielded from criminal liability.
Shri Lalit, realising the full import of the CBI filing the proposed affidavits, categorically stated the proposed affidavits “should not be filed at any stage under any circumstances”. Shri Lalit highlighted the fact that the proposed affidavits were contradictory to the CBI’s own chargesheets and stated that “any such attempt will tantamount to weakening the case of the Prosecution in a fundamental way”. He further sought answer to the following questions: “A. Who has drafted these aforesaid paragraphs? B. Under what authority could the matter be attempted to be reconsidered? C. Which provision of law empowers such reconsideration at this stage? D. Once the chargesheet is filed with the assessment of the Department, as regards facts in issue, the public prosecutor takes over the matter and it is for him to present the matter before the Court. Having projected the view as stated in the chargesheet up to the stage of examination and closure of prosecution evidence, will it be right and justifiable for the Director/Department to reconsider the matter? E. Will such an act not impinge upon the independence of the investigating officer as bestowed upon him by the Code of Criminal Procedure?”
Shri Lalit then categorically stated: “On merits, in my considered view, the alleged re-assessment is complete misconceived. At best, it may be the individual opinion of a person. What weightage can be given to such view-point? In the given circumstances, in my view, no weightage can be given to such a point of view. Under the circumstances, you are directed not to attempt any such filing of separate replies. For the purposes of the present matters, the consolidated reply filed earlier is more than sufficient. Please treat the matter as closed. Needless to say, you are not to file any such separate replies without consultation with and approval of the Special Public Prosecutor.”
Even more shockingly, on 22.07.2014, the CBI Director entered a noting in response to Shri Lalit’s letter stating that since Shri Lalit is being appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court, CBI would “rake up” the issue after he is so appointed. The Director CBI has admitted the aforesaid paragraphs, objected to by Shri Lalit, are “extracts of my notings from the case file”. He has recorded: “The Ld. Spl P P, however, has not opined whether the facts contained in draft counter-affidavits are relevant or otherwise. Instead, issues have been raised which affect the basic functioning of the CBI and the authority of the Director. Be that as it may, since he has directed the CBI not to file any affidavit with facts which may affect the case in a fundamental way, we may not agitate this issue any further at the moment. We may consider raking up this matter in the interest of justice when the new Spl P P is appointed by the Hon’ble Apex Court shortly.”
The Director CBI entered a noting on 15.05.2014 in a file entitled ‘Madras High Court Matter’ directing the investigation officers to submit a detailed report on eight issues. The issues, raised by the Director are precisely the issues raised by Reliance and other accused in their defence. These issues concern with the fact whether Tatas had complied with their roll-out obligations for their CDMA service before applying for Dual Technology licence. The CBI has chargesheeted Mr. Raja for favouring Reliance by granting them the dual technology license while delaying the same for Tatas. The accused in their defence have argued that Tatas were guilty of non-fulfillment of their rollout obligations, though the same is only a contractual violation and not a criminal offence.
The above course was strongly objected to by both the DIG Shri Rastogi and the investigation officer Shri Vivek Priyadarshi. Both have repeatedly recorded serious reservations about reopening the investigation on the points being raised by Reliance and other accused before the trial court. Both pointed out that the trial is at an advanced stage of the defence evidence, and the CBI has repeatedly submitted that all investigation in the above matter has been completed. They also pointed out that the matter had earlier been closed with the approval of the previous Director CBI and any reopening of this line of investigation would have serious negative repercussions on the trial. However, when this file was put up to the Director CBI, he overruled the investigation officers and directed detailed investigation into the issues. DIG Shri Rastogi then stated that since he did not agree with this line of investigation, he be allowed to recuse himself from the case.
DIG Shri Santosh Rastogi had asked to be relived from the investigations as the CBI Director was repeatedly trying to destroy the case. After this, Shri Rastogi was transferred out of the 2G case investigations by the CBI Director because of the firm stand taken by him, as highlighted above. This was done despite the fact that Supreme Court had directed the CBI not to make any change in the composition of the 2G investigation team. Moreover, the Director CBI initiated disciplinary proceedings against Shri Rastogi and ordered that a cautionary note may be issued to the officer.
Mr. Sinha also made repeated attempts to delay the case against former telecom minister Mr. Dayanidhi Maran. CBI had developed a water-tight case against Mr. Maran for favouring M/s Aircel after it was bought over by M/s Maxis by granting it several licenses which were refused earlier. CBI had found a money trail in which a whopping Rs 650 crores were invested by M/s Maxis to buy shares at a hugely inflated price in a new company called Sun Direct Tv owned by Mr. Maran’s brother. All the investigation officers had opined that a chargesheet must be filed. However, Mr. Sinha referred the matter for the opinion of the Attorney General even without taking the opinion of the Director of Prosecution (in violation of the CBI manual). This led to considerable delay and ultimately the Attorney General refused to give his opinion saying there is no difference of opinion in terms of CBI manual. The matter was then referred to the Director of Prosecution who also said that chargesheet ought to be filed in the matter. Mr. Sinha then raised doubts about the sustainability of the entire case and again referred the matter for the opinion of the Attorney General citing difference of opinion on the need for filing a chargesheet. This time the Attorney General gave a strong opinion in favour of filing a chargesheet. Having been left with no option, Mr. Sinha then approved filing of a chargesheet.
The above sequence of events have been verified by the Special Public Prosecutor in the 2G cases Shri Anand Grover by examining all the CBI’s internal files. Based on Mr. Grover’s report, the Hon’ble Supreme Court has on 20.11.2014 directed Mr. Sinha not to interefere in 2G investigations and trial and to recuse himself from the case. A copy of the said order dated 20.11.2014 is annexed asAnnexure B. The report submitted by Shri Grover can be obtained by the ACB from him.
Interference in the Coal Scam investigations
As the coal investigations progressed, it came to light that Mr. Sinha, along with a few other senior officers of the level of the Joint Directors, was repeatedly overruling the investigation officers and forcing them to not to register FIRs/RCs in cases where PEs had been registered. He even forced them to file closure reports in cases where FIRs had already been registered.
Faced with such a situation, the Supreme Court, vide order dated 28.03.2014, directed the CBI to submit their reports to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in cases where Inquiry Officers had recommended registration of a Regular Case, but had been overruled by the CBI Headquarters. Later, the CVC, agreeing with the investigation officers, categorically recommended registration of Regular Cases in as many as 14 such cases in the first instance. Supreme Court directed the CBI to abide by the view taken by the CVC. This clearly shows that the decision taken at the level of the CBI Director to close these cases was wrong and amounted to subverting the process of investigation.
Now, it has come to light that Special Public Prosecutor appointed by the Supreme Court in the coal scam cases Shri R S Cheema has disagreed with the findings of Mr. Sinha to file closure reports in several FIRs despite the fact that evidence of criminal culpability had been found against several companies, influential accused and public servants. Reportedly, Shri Cheema has written as many six letters to Mr. Sinha for preparing sketchy closure reports. The closure reports of CBI have now all been rejected by the Special Court dealing with coal scam cases after finding them to be totally slipshod. A newsreport published in the Indian Express is annexed as Annexure C.
In February this year, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha overruled his agency colleagues to say there was no reason to prosecute Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, his son Devendra Darda, former Coal Minister Santosh Bagrodia and former Coal Secretary H C Gupta in the coal blocks allocation scam. Vijay Darda had written to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pushing for a coal block in Bander, Chhattisgarh, to AMR Iron and Steel Pvt Ltd, which transferred Rs 24.6 crore to a firm owned by Darda’s son after AMR got the block. On receipt of Sinha’s objections, the CBI’s Additional Legal Advisor, who had previously recommended prosecution, did a U-turn and cleared the Dardas. Barely two months later, Sinha himself did a startling U-turn and gave orders to file a chargesheet against the Dardas, this time citing the same arguments he had once vehemently objected to. The chargesheet was filed on March 27 this year against the Dardas and AMR director Manoj Jayaswal. This curious flip-flop-flip coincides with visits of Devendra Darda to the Sinha residence. Between February 2 and February 14, 2014, Devendra Darda made five visits to the Sinha residence. This period coincides with detailed debates within the CBI before recommending prosecution against the Dardas, former coal minister Santosh Bagrodia, former coal secretary H C Gupta and Jayaswal.
The CBI’s key allegations against AMR: Vijay Darda tried to influence the outcome of coal block allotment by writing letters in favour of AMR to the Prime Minister who was the then coal minister; his son Devendra Darada represented AMR in Screening Committee that allotted coal misrepresenting as Director of the company and gave misleading information to the committee; a Jayaswal firm gave an unsecured loan of Rs 24.6 crore to a Darda company. In addition, the CBI also claimed that it had found evidence that while settling a “family feud,” Jayaswal in July 2008 made a provision for 26% shares of “coal block applicant companies to the person who is instrumental in getting the (Bander) Coal Block allotted”. The CBI also claimed to have records of meetings at various locations between Darda and Jayaswal.
The case recommending chargesheet against Darda and others was sent to Sinha on February 4. Significantly, on February 2 and February 3, Devendra spent 20 minutes and 15 minutes respectively at Sinha’s residence, according to the visitor’s logbook. In total, he made nine visits between February 2 — this was his first visit since the logbook was opened in May 2013 — and March 28. CBI records show this is same period in which it changed its stand several times before filing the chargesheet. On February 13, Sinha wrote a strong rebuttal to the findings of his officers. Devendra Darda met Sinha at two more occasions between February 4 and February 13. Sinha made five key observations countering the arguments of his officers. He said that the case was built merely on “circumstantial evidence;” there was nothing wrong in Devendra Darda attending the screening committee meeting on behalf of AMR because he had disclosed this fact; there was no evidence to link the 24.6-crore payment with the allotment of the coal block, and anyways this money was paid back with interest (significantly, this fact was not mentioned anywhere in the file). A news report on this published in The Indian Express is annexed as Annexure D.
Dealings with Moin Qureshi
By one count, meat exporter Mr. Moin Qureshi met the CBI Director at his residence about 90 times in the last 15 months. All these meetings are reflected in the entry register of the CBI Director’s residence. Moin Qureshi is under the income tax investigation for hawala dealings.
Mr. Moin Qureshi has been under extensive investigation by the Director of Income Tax (Investigations) and his premises have been raided by the Income Tax authorities. Several important documents and his computers have been seized by the DGIT. The Income Tax Department has prepared a detailed appraisal report. The said appraisal report goes into the details of the illegal operations of Mr. Qureshi and his dealings with various individuals, including their conversations over Blackberry Messenger (BBM). Amongst others, there are several coded conversations between Mr. Qureshi and former CBI Director A P Singh relating to delivery of money, fixing of meetings etc.
Some of these messages centre around Pradeep Koneru, businessman and son of Prasad Koneru, a co-accused in a case of disproportionate assets filed by CBI against Andhra politician Jaganmohan Reddy; Aditya, an employee of Qureshi; V V Laxminarayana, a CBI Joint Director who had investigated the case; and of course, Qureshi. The messages have one common theme: Pradeep seeking Qureshi’s help in the bail applications and discharge petitions filed by his father and his brother Madhu Koneru who is also an accused in what is commonly referred to as the Emaar-APIIC case. On May 8, 2013, Pradeep, Director of Trimex group, sent a message to Qureshi, asking, “What’s the best time to meet boss?” Qureshi responded: “Afternoon”. The BBM texts reveal that a few days later, Pradeep was still persuading Qureshi to set up a meeting with “boss”, whose identity becomes clearer in another exchange between the two on May 20. Pradeep to Qureshi: “It’s important to meet boss. Do we have an appointment?”. Qureshi’s reply: “Meeting confirmed today 2.30 pm”. Pradeep, again: “Where do I meet you?” Qureshi’s response: “2 pm Defence Colony.” Qureshi’s residence and office were in Delhi’s Defence Colony. The logbook at Sinha’s residence showed that one “Kureshi”, in a car bearing the registration number DL-7CG 3436, was there at 2.40pm that day. The car mentioned in the text reportedly belongs to Qureshi.
The content of the coded texts between the exporter and Pradeep Koneru are important to note. On July 13, Pradeep texted Qureshi: “I have sent 25 diaries today.” In the same series, Koneru texted Qureshi: “Dog has left. Can boss speak to new JD?”. Qureshi responded: “Boss will call him to Delhi.” Significantly, in another message, Qureshi told Pradeep: “Met Boss. He will speak to JD Chennai.” In July 2013, CBI Joint Director V V Laxminarayana, who had filed several chargesheets against Jaganmohan Reddy was repatriated to his parent cadre after the completion of his tenure even though there was a move to grant him an extension.
In August 2013, Pradeep’s father Prasad approached Chennai High Court seeking relaxation in his bail condition – the plea was granted. In this context, another set of messages between Pradeep and Qureshi assume significance. On August 13, Pradeep texted: “There is small delay. 250 mtr work will start from tomorrow”. Qureshi replied: “Do it asap. Its not good”, and later added: “Pls finish remaining 450 mtr work. Thanks. I got reminder.” Here are some of Pradeep’s messages to Qureshi during that period: “Another 45 days to complete work. Business very bad. Pls help”; “Discharge petition of Madhu coming on October 13.” When I-T officials asked Qureshi what the “work” mentioned in the messages was, he told them that he was referring to silk fabric. Then there’s an exchange of texts between Qureshi and Aditya, an employee of Qureshi’s firm Forum Sale. Aditya wrote: “Received 50L from Pradeep”. During questioning by I-T officials, Qureshi said he could not “recollect the identity of Pradeep” mentioned in the text. However, investigators have in their possession an email received by Aditya on September 7, 2013, which refers to the discharge petition filed in court by Madhu Koneru. The sender’s ID is pradeep@trimexgroup.com. A copy of a newsreport on this published in The Indian Express is annexed as Annexure E.
The above facts show that Mr. Ranjit Sinha has committed various offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act relating to criminal misconduct by a public servant, as well as under Section 217 and 218 of IPC. The offences of bribery can also be established by a thorough investigation.
Therefore, I request you to kindly get this matter thoroughly and impartially investigated after registering an FIR. Please note that registration of FIR is mandatory (after the authoritative Supreme Court judgment of 2014) once there are allegations of cognizable offences having being committed. It is important to note that almost all of the offences have been committed in the territory of Delhi.
Though the Central Government has issued a notification on 23rd July 2014 that the jurisdiction of the ACB, Delhi Police shall not extend to the officers of the Central Government, but that notification is in violation of the Criminal Procedure Code which vests the jurisdiction of criminal cases on the State Police based on the territory and not on potential accused in the case. Therefore, since the ACB clearly has jurisdiction as the law stands today, I request you to kindly register an FIR in the matter. If the ACB feels that it does not have the jurisdiction, then this complaint may kindly be transferred to the Delhi Police Station which has jurisdiction. This matter cannot be effectively investigated by the CBI since it involves two Directors of CBI and might involve their other officers.
Prashant Bhushan
Categories : Education, Legal, Media, Politics
BJP, BSP & Cong leaders join AAP
A number from leaders from the BJP, Congress and the BSP joined the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi on Tuesday (November 25) in presence of party leaders Sanjay Singh and Ashutosh.
Former chairman of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation standing committee and BJP councillor from ward number 24, Bhati (Chattarpur), Kartar Singh Tanwar joined the AAP with a large number of his supporters.
Tanwar promised to work for clean politics and expose the BJP misdeeds in the MCD, which the saffron party has been ruling since seven years and has been converted into a den of corruption. Tanwar has been elected a councillor for the second consecutive term from this ward in South Delhi.
Another councillor Reeta Chauhan, who represents the Bakhtawarpur ward in Narela assembly constituency also joined the AAP. She is currently an independent and had quit the BSP after the 2012 MCD elections.
BSP leader from Narela, Sharad Kumar Chauhan also joined the AAP. He had contested the 2008 assembly election and had narrowly lost from Narela with a margin of 800 votes. He said the AAP is the only party in Delhi which is fighting for the poor and downtrodden.
Former BJP youth leader Vijay Bansal, who has been the state secretary of the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, attended the AAP press conference and announced his decision to join the party.
Congress leader from Mundka assembly constituency, Dharampal Lakra, who has been a member of the Food Corporation of India and a former secretary of District Congress Committee also joined the AAP.
The AAP leaders made it clear that leaders from other political parties who do not have a past criminal record and do not face any other serious allegation are welcome to join the party for changing the politics of the country. (ENDS)
AAP Media Cell
Categories : Politics
Piyush Goel ‘Helpless’ No R&D > Inefficient Polluting ENERGY
November26, 2014 (C) Ravinder Singh ravinderinvent@gmail.com
Piyush Goel is Smart Honest & Efficient is ‘Totally Helpless’ in
Handling Complexities of Power Sector. R&D is ABSENT in ENERGY SECTOR,
Commercially Viable Wind Power, LED & Solar Power are ‘Project Funded’
than ‘Consumers Directly Buying’.
When India is rated as World’s Most Energy Efficient nation it also
means huge COST to the Poor Indian Economy as well. Revenue of
Petroleum Companies minus Petroleum exports alone exceed Rs.15,00,000
crores in 2013-14 – add Rs.5,00,000 crores for Power Generation &
Distribution including cost of coal and hydro power still over 50%
population has either no Electric Connection or just a ‘Lamp
In addition India is excepted to Annually Invest in 20,000 MW
Conventional, 8,000 MW of Wind, 20,000 MW Solar, Plus other Renewable
Energies = 50,00MW and T&D all adding up to Rs.6,00,000 crores
including Interest on Bank Loans.
This all adds up to Rs.25,00,000 Crores and Yet >>
>> Indians are Expected to Install Invertors, Generators to overcome Power Cuts, India builds are Mainly LAME DUCK DAMS Run of River kind that Cost Twice but Store No Water, Provide No Flood Protection, No Irrigation & No Municipal Water Supply.
>> 75% Indians use Farm Waste and Wood for Cooking can’t afford LPG or Kerosene. Add Health Cost of Pollution of Rivers, Ground Water & Air at Rs.500,000 crores
>> This INDIRECT COST adds up to Rs.10,00,000 crores.
Direct & Indirect Cost of ENERGY $600B is 33% Of $1.8T GDP
YET THERE IS NO ENERGY R&D OR TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED
Specialized Agencies NABARD & SIDBI too Fund & Promote Projects Than
R&D & R&D Based Companies – Often Supporting LUNATIC Projects of NGOs
like CHECK dams – since the building of CHECK DAMS, 95% of 202 Dams in
Gujarat do not fill up even High Rainfall season.
In World’s BIGGEST R&D SCAM – TERI, CSE, DA and Hundreds More NGOs
Repeatedly SUCK Up Foreign AID & SIDBI, NABARD Resources for BOGUS
Research over 40 Years, YET TO DEVELOP ANY COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY.
200 million Households On Average Install 1000W Solar Panels System
[Require Just 100 sq.ft each] is 200,000 MW Installation Of Commercial
Technology That Do Not Require Any PROJECT FUNDING. SMALL COMPANIES
WHO ARE TO EXECUTE THESE ORDERS ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY SIDBI OR NABARD.
THERE IS NO MONITORING OF UTILIZATION OF REPEATEDLY SECURING FOREIGN
AID & INDIAN FUNDS TO NGOs OFTEN TO SABOTAGE MULTI PURPOSE HYDRO
POWER, RURAL DEVELOPMENT etc.
Ravinder Singh, Inventor & Consultant, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS
Y-77, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. Ph; 091- 9718280435, 9650421857
Ravinder Singh* is a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power,
Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing,
Technologies and Projects.
Categories : Energy, Politics
WomenDialogue on Wednesday afternoon, November 26th 2014
AAP unveils Women Dialogue on Wednesday afternoon
Gul Panag, Kanchan Chaudhary & Manisha Lath Gupta main speakers
Delhi Dialogue team to present its vision for women in Delhi
Aam Aadmi Party will launch the Women Dialogue, the second phase of the Delhi Dialogue on 26 November (Wednesday), its second foundation day.
Delhi Dialogue, an innovative initiative to engage with the residents of the national capital was launched with a successful Youth Dialogue at Jantar Mantar on November 15.
Youth Dialogue resulted in a five-point agenda of Degree, Income, WiFi, Sports and Drug-Free City.
The Women Dialogue on Wednesday will see the culmination of multiple expert conferences and deliberations by the Women';s Wing of the Aam Aadmi Party with common women of the city.
Bollywood actor and AAP leader Gul Panag, first woman DGP of the country Kandhan Chaudhary (on whose life popular TV serial Udaan was made) and former vice-president of Axis Bank Manisha Lath Gupta will be among the main speakers of the Women Dialogue.
Despite the solemn assurances enshrined in the Indian Constitution, women in Delhi continue to be treated as second-class citizens by every conceivable index. The truth is that the status of girls and women has deteriorated over the past six decades. A carefully crafted set of policies and affirmative action together with continuous efforts is required to change patriarchal mindsets and attitudes at all levels.
The AAP envisions a Delhi in which women will be acknowledged and treated as equal citizens in their own right; where they will not be governed by male-dominated values, which determine their societal and familial roles.
We have been engaging the experts and policy experts, businesses, government bureaucrats and other domain thought leaders on women, to talk about what the Aam Aadmi Party can do to make Delhi a safe, secure, happy and better place for our women to live in.
Over the past two weeks, the Delhi Dialogue team led by Ashish Khetan, Meera Sanyal and Adarsh Shastri have met with stakeholders on these issues ranging from bureaucrats, government employees and elected representatives, businesses, non-profits, journalists and other interesting persons with expertise.
They have looked at focus areas related to security, safety, sanitation, last mile connectivity, transportation, gender justice issues, entrepreneurship and jobs. Women Dialogue will attempt to look at every issue and policy from the lens of a woman.
Lalita Ramdas, a renowned activist and ex-Chairperson of Greenpeace International and Meera Sanyal, ex-CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland is leading the engagement with civil society. Atishi Marlena, a Rhodes Scholar from Oxford and one of the main coordinators of the Vision Swaraj and Manifesto teams, is leading the policy team on women';s issues.
Bandana Kumari, the President of the AAP Women’s Wing, Reena Gupta, District Coordinator and Richa Pandey Misra have coordinated the meetings on the ground in every ward and assembly constituency in Delhi in the last 10 days. Ms. Preeti Sharma Menon will be coordinating the Women Dialogue event on the ground.
The programme will begin at 3 PM at Open Theatre, Talkatora Garden, Park Street, New Delhi..
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Palace: Acierto wants to 'get back' after being linked to drugs
MANILA, Philippines — Sacked Senior Supt. Eduardo Acierto “obviously” wants to get back at the someone when he accused a Chinese economic adviser of President Rodrigo Duterte of involvement in illegal drugs, Malacañang said Tuesday.
Acierto, who went into hiding after he was tagged in the alleged smuggling of P11-billion worth of shabu into the country, resurfaced Sunday night and showed documents detailing the alleged drug links of Duterte adviser Michael Yang and another Chinese national Allan Lim.
“Obviously, the motive is since he’s (Acierto) been accused of involvement in drugs, he wants to get back. That’s why he’s pointing fingers to whomever,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a Palace briefing.
A former deputy director for administration of the PNP Drug Enforcement Group, Acierto also accused Duterte and former PNP chief and now senatorial aspirant Ronald Dela Rosa of dismissing a report about Yang’s supposed involvement in the narcotics trade.
According to Acierto, he prepared a report about Yang and Lim in August 2017 and submitted it to Dela Rosa, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino and Deputy Director General Camilo Cascolan.
He added that he gave out copies of the report to now PNP chief Oscar Albayalde and the office of Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea to notify the President of his findings.
In October last year, Duterte cleared the Davao-based businessman of having links to the illegal drug trade.
“Let me repeat, this President will not tolerate anyone regardless of status or relationship with him if he’s involved in drugs. He will never allow it. He’s against it,” Panelo said.
The Palace official also said that charges would be filed against Yang if his supposed involvement in the illegal drugs was validated.
He also said that the President will treat Yang like any other drug personalities and “will go to the ends of the earth” to put him behind bars.
Panelo said Duterte would even “kill” Yang if he was indeed into illegal drugs. /cbb
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Rangers roll past Cisco in rainy win
October 5, 2012 Bettye Craddock 116 Views 0 Comments
JEREMY GARZA
CISCO – In a rainy setting and on a slick field, the KC Rangers remained unbeaten in 2012 with a 29-14 win over Cisco.
KC improved to 5-0 overall and 3-0 in the Southwest Junior College Football Conference with the win, while Cisco dropped to 1-4 and 1-2.
“It feels great to be 5-0, but our goal is to win the conference championship and also the national championship,” said James Jones, KC cornerback. “We are only scraping the surface.”
KC’s defense allowed no Cisco points for three straight quarters by forcing seven turnovers, cutting the field in half and giving opportunities to its offense.
Jones recorded two interceptions and a fumble recovery to earn player of the game honors.
“It’s an exciting feeling to find out that I am player of the week,” said Jones. “But that’s only the beginning and there is more to come.”
It was a slow start for KC quarterback Tanner Tausch, who threw a pick early in the game. Backup quarterback Emory Miller took over and on his first drive, Miller ran in for a 12-yard touchdown set up by a Cisco fumble that was recovered by KC linebacker Charles Woods.
After a successful PAT, KC led 7-0.
In the second quarter, Miller threw an interception of his own and KC swapped QBs once again. It was then Tausch who led the charge, finding Miller in the end zone for a TD, putting KC up, 14-0.
Later in the second quarter, Jones’ interception helped with field advantage when he took it to Cisco’s 20-yard line. This set up another Tausch TD, as he connected with wide receiver Ed’Marques Batties for 16 yards.
KC ended the half with a field goal by kicker Yovany Arvizu, making the score, 24-0. Arvizu was a perfect 3-for-3 on field goal attempts and 2-for-2 on extra points.
Cisco found some life late in the game when quarterback Ross Hudson hooked up with running back Travis Turner on a 2-yard scoring pass.
KC led 29-6 after a failed two-point conversion.
With less than two minutes left in the game, Cisco managed to complete one more scoring drive. Hudson threw a 26-yard TD and completed the two-point conversion, making it 29-14, the eventual final score.
Tausch completed six of 17 attempts, throwing two TDs and one interception. Miller completed one of three attempts, with one interception, one rushing TD and one receiving score. Batties finished with two receptions for 25 yards and one TD. Karrion Morrisey was the leading KC rusher with 86 yards on 13 carries.
KC travels to Brenham Saturday to face Blinn for the second of three consecutive road games.
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Doppelganger Redux
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They returned to Books of Shadows at sunset, not quite soon enough for Willow, who was near beyond longing for their warm bed or a hot bath, or maybe one after the other, but as soon as they stepped across the threshold both understood food was the most immediate priority.
“So, do you think we could stop for tacos or something on the way home, because I’m feeling kind of peckish,” Willow said.
Tara admitted she felt the same as she pulled out of her boots. After changing back into their street wear, the two of them neatly re-packed their winter gear and left it atop one of the library tables. Tara didn’t realize something was terribly wrong until she touched the handle of the annex door. Her senses reached out, a scent on the air, a sound like rushing water. Her body went cold, and she reached for Willow. “Stay close,” she whispered.
“Tara?”
Willow had been carrying a very sleepy White Leg in her arms; now the cat was awake and wary. It’s tiny head swinging back and forth.
“Something’s wrong,” Tara said softly. The battle-axe and long blade had been left behind on the library table, but she’d tucked the short blade into her boot. She took it out. “Stay behind me,” she said. Gingerly, she opened the door into the main room and peeked around the frame. Nothing appeared amiss, but the scent on the air was stronger and, worse, the sound of rushing water louder. Also, Albert was nowhere to be seen and the store’s street door was open.
“Tara, what is it?”
Tara turned around and looked into green eyes showing more concern than fear. “Will, if I tell you to run, run back into the annex and lock the door from the other side.”
“I’m not going anywhere without you.” Willow tried to put on her resolve face, but didn’t entirely succeed. “Where’s Albert, and what’s that sound?”
The scars on her back and stomach itching, panic simmering deep inside her belly, already knowing Willow wasn’t going to leave her side, Tara forced herself to think. They needed weapons. The short knife wouldn’t be enough. “We need to look behind the counter,” Tara said, hoping she was right, hoping the chest she’d noticed the first time she’d visited Albert for tea was what she thought it was.
They went back inside the store, moving forward on near silent feet through the empty aisles. Behind the counter, Tara found the chest and a cup of tea still cooling. She wondered where Albert had gone; she prayed he’d left armed.
“They’re afraid of fire,” Tara whispered as she opened the chest. No guns, not that she expected to find any, but there was a crossbow, a quiver of bolts, and another long blade, but no battle-axe. She debated returning to the annex to grab the one left on the library table, but decided she’d be better off carrying the cross-bow. She wouldn’t be able to carry both.
Willow was crouched on the floor next to Tara. She caught Tara by the chin and turned her head so that she could see into Tara’s eyes. “What’s afraid of fire?”
“Tsuris demons. That sound you hear, that’s their gathering cry.” Tara swallowed hard. “It’s started, Will.”
A shiver that started from somewhere deep inside her body moved outward, creeping out of her belly, into her muscles, over her skin. This is what it truly feels like to be prey, Willow thought. She’d felt corned before, she’d felt life threatened many times, but she’d never before felt hunted, not even by vampires. Willow forced a smile onto her face.
“We can handle this, baby, but first we need to text Buffy.” We need to follow procedures, cross Ts and dot Is. Willow pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and saw she’d received several texts, two from Buffy, one from Xander. She read through them and a second shiver moved through her.
“There was an attack near the docks. They think they’re heading toward the pedestrian mall.” The pedestrian mall was two blocks away.
“We should go out, and tell anybody on the street to get inside.”
Willow nodded as she re-pocketed her phone, letting Tara take the lead, hoping the Tsuris demons would continue gathering a while longer.
They returned White Leg to the annex and then returned to the outer door of the store. Tara opened it slowly. She thought she could hear people talking nearby, maybe at the coffee shop two doors down. The crossbow dangling from her hand, she came out onto the stoop, Willow following close behind. Tara looked to her left and right. The sidewalks were empty, and aside from the cars already parked along the curb, the streets were empty as well.
Tara came off the stoop and padded as softly as she could towards the coffee shop. About eight or ten people were standing inside, looking out the window, most dressed like college students, but two in basic mom wear. Tara held her finger to her lips to silence them, wanting to question them inside the coffee shop rather than through the window. She had her hand on the doorknob when the screaming began.
Instinctively Tara came around, pushing Willow behind her before realizing the screaming was coming from the next block.
“I don’t suppose I can convince you to go back inside.”
“Only if you’re coming with me,” Willow answered her tone scared but firm.
Going back inside wasn’t a possibility. “Just remember, our weapons are pretty useless unless one of them is on top of us. I’m going to try to cast a fire net.” Tara looked over her shoulder into plainly frightened green eyes. “Baby, I might need you as a second.” Willow nodded, and the two started moving.
They headed left past three storefronts and then made a right turn through the alley to the next block, jumping back as a car sped by nearly coming up on the sidewalk, racing away from the mall. “Come on,” Tara shouted as she started running, Willow’s footsteps sounding behind her.
When they reached the mall for a moment Tara couldn’t make sense of what she was seeing, food stands and tables overturned, people yelling from inside store windows.
“Tara, over there.” Willow called out, focusing Tara’s eyes towards Luigi’s and a dozen or so people corned by five, no six Tsuris demons.
“We need to get their attention. Draw them this way.”
“You sure about that?” Willow said, even as a fireball began to flame above her hand.
Not sure about anything, Tara nodded as she looked around trying to figure out what she could use to draw them off. Her eyes focused on a narrow yellow and black post with a blue light at the top. Anya had told her half the emergency alarms in Sunnydale were out of order at one time or another, maybe luck would be on her side.
“This way,” Tara said, heading over to the post. She pulled the lever setting of a short, but very loud shriek and activating a spinning blue light. “They don’t like loud noises and they don’t like bright lights very much either.”
Great, Willow thought, let’s piss them off, as the Tsuris began to look in their direction.
They were built like tailless cougars, but with longer jaws and even longer fore claws. They moved on all fours, but instead of fur, they were covered with something that looked to Willow more like feathers. Most disconcerting were their heads, which had eyes and ears like humans, although their snouts were pure cat.
It only took Willow seconds to realize they were highly intelligent, that they moved not with instinct or as a herd but with individual motivation. When they turned towards them, it took every ounce of Willow’s strength not to run.
Like Willow, Tara had a fireball dancing over her hand, but hers was growing larger, reshaping itself into something more web-like.
“Baby, I’m going to need you to help me feed this thing and grow it bigger.”
Willow understood Tara’s plan, if not how she was shaping the element. She began forming and tossing small fireballs into the web.
“Won’t they run the other way?”
“They’re not animals. They’re going to want to take this down, take us down, before we get too strong.” Tara shouted, because the Tsuris were beginning to sound their attack cry. “Get set, they’ll move all at once.”
“Get set to what?” Willow shouted, still tossing off fireballs but beginning to grow weak from the effort.
“To stand your ground.” Tara screamed as the Tsuris came for them.
Her knees locked, Willow watched with horror as the Tsuris began running towards them. They moved low to the ground, and their claws clattered on the concrete pavement, but their way impeded by all the overturned tables and chairs, giving she and Tara time. Her knees locked, Willow also watched Tara shape the fire into a large, circular net, spinning it above their heads, and she wanted to shrink back from the heat and the light.
The fire net was now four meters in diameter, a huge thing glowing and sparking, circling above their heads until Tara hurled it forward and it closed around the Tsuris, dropping around them, closing under them. The Tsuris attack cries turning into screams of pain as the fire net formed a ball around them closing in on itself and then vanishing into a cloud of dust.
Willow fell onto her knees, weak from her casting, weak from what she’d seen. The air around her smelled of singed flesh and feathers. She reached out and grasped Tara’s leg, fingers closing tightly around the calf, and then Tara was bent over her, enclosed around her.
“Baby, it’s okay.”
Why aren’t you even winded? “What if there are more of them. I can’t make any more fireballs.”
“There aren’t. Not near us, anyway. I would be able to feel them if there were.”
Willow felt a kiss pressed onto her cheek and she turned into it, pressing her mouth onto Tara’s, drawing strength and comfort, feeling impossibly tired, impossibly cold. When she pulled back she looked into concerned eyes the color of the morning sky. “We should see if anyone needs help, and shouldn’t Buffy and Xander be coming soon?”
“I think they’re already here, sweetheart,” Tara said, and Willow heard them, Buffy yelling at Xander to help her move something.
Willow came off the ground, steadying herself on Tara’s arm and saw Buffy and Xander pulling people out from under the wreckage of a collapsed food stand. “We should go help.”
They headed over to Buffy, Xander, and Spike and helped lift up some tipped over lattice work, freeing a group of people Willow thought were high school students. None of them even bothered to ask what had happened, instead they took Buffy at her word and headed home. That was life on the hell mouth, Willow thought.
“What happened at the dock?” Willow asked.
“Same thing, these cat like buggers came out of nowhere.” Spike said as he tossed a piece of the latticework to the side.
“Tsuris demons. They’re from my old reality.”
Buffy straightened up and looked at Tara. “So, this is an advance team?”
Tara didn’t bother with a question she knew Buffy could answer herself. “Was anyone killed?”
“Bunch of gang bangers tried to take them on. EMTs had to take a couple of guys to the hospital. I didn’t see the coroner’s wagon.”
Willow turned around, her ears catching on someone crying out. “Over here, guys,” she said before heading across the mall to another collapsed food stand.
The others followed and they began pulling up the tarp that had covered a vegetable stand. Seven people were underneath, hiding under some tipped over display racks. Willow heard a familiar voice behind her and turned around and saw Cheryl.
The leader of the daughters of Gaia had a cut along the side of her forehead, and the elbow of her sweater was torn out from what was clearly a hard fall. Willow held out her hand and pulled the girl to her feet.
Cheryl nodded as she looked about. “I was with Nicole. She ran the other way. What were those things?"
Willow sighed heavily. “Gang bangers. Kids on PCP. Bikers. Eco-terrorists.”
Cheryl nodded a second time. Tomorrow’s newspapers would claim one or more from the list. Life on the hellmouth.
A scream sounded from the next block, one of horror not fear. Buffy and Spike took off running, Xander a stride or two behind them. Tara looked at Willow.
“Are you okay?” Willow asked Cheryl a second time. She got an uncertain nod.
“Stay with the others. The police should be here soon.” Because that was when the police always came, after the fact, showing up to help with the cleanup.
They took off, running after Buffy, who was heading the next block over. Tara scented the blood first, the sickly-sweet smell almost cancelling out the smell of fire left from the net. As she came around the corner she stumbled with horror. From the streetlights hung body after body; their throats slashed, their blood pooled beneath their feet. She screamed, trying to release the terror through her lungs, trying to wake herself from her nightmare. But there was no waking. There was only this.
It would be hard to explain why I'm back working on DR, but I am. As always, I am working through my outline, fussing over plot points and characterization, fussing even more on making good use of narration. More will come. There's about ten chapters left to edit and/or write. The fat lady has yet to sing, but sing she will in time.
I only have a quick moment but I fully intend to get started on this fic. I'm super happy people are coming back and writing. I will be replying once I've finished catching up.
OMG I am so excited to see you're back and working on this story!
Such excellent writing, as always, lyrical prose capturing profound emotion.
Utterly fantastic. I can't wait to read what happens next!
thespian_phryne
Holy cannoli! Is this some sort of 20th anniversary effect going on? The thread resurrection 'round here is immense. Not that I'm complaining. Just an observation. So if you're sort of hell bound to finish this story. I'll buck up and read on. After all, nothing better than knowing folks are reading your stuff.
First of all, happy twentieth anniversary of the premiere of BTVS, and second, here's an other chapter ...
Tara turned over in the bed, turned over into warmth, safety. She’d been crying off and on all night, cuddled inside Willow’s arms. Daylight was creeping through the windows. She opened her eyes.
“Did you sleep?”
“When you did, baby,” Willow said as she leaned forward to press a kiss to Tara’s forehead.
In all nine people had died, including Albert and Nicole. Their bodies hung from the streetlamps, their blood spilled carelessly on the ground. No one, not Buffy, not even Spike had ever seen anything like it. Vampires were monsters, but they did not do such things, but only vampires could have pulled off this particular kind of carnage.
They stayed until the police came and pushed them back, not even bothering to ask questions. What questions were there to ask?
Willow offered up another kiss. “I’m kind of starving, and you need to eat something, too.” She slipped out from under the covers and stood along the side of the bed.
Tara wanted more than anything to stay where it was warm, where it felt safe, but she got up anyway. Willow was hungry.
It was cold in the house, and so they put on warmer clothes, sweatpants and fleece shirts, and headed downstairs where they found Buffy sitting at the counter, a cup of coffee and the morning’s newspaper in front of her.
“They listed the people killed. I only recognized Albert’s and Nicole’s names.” Buffy pushed the newspaper away and took a sip of her coffee. “Is anyone else in the mood for pancakes?”
“Only if I make them,” Willow said, trying to make a joke, but her tone was off and the joke fell flat. It was too early for whistling in the dark.
Tara sat down at the counter next to Buffy and Willow brought her a coffee, stopping to refill Buffy’s before getting started on making pancakes.
“Giles left a message. He’s coming over around eight.” Buffy’s eyes drifted towards the kitchen clock. “Or soon-ish.”
“Last night, Xander mentioned he and Anya would be at the Magic Box by ten,” Willow said to no one in particular.
The three fell silent as Willow made the pancakes, and then ate silently, as well, until a knock sounded at the door and Giles came in wearing his suit and tie. They exchanged pleasantries and Giles claimed he’d already had breakfast. It was only then Willow realized she and Tara hadn’t told the others about going to collect the moonstone, and, more importantly, they’d left White Leg locked up in the annex.
“White Leg,” Willow said to Tara, “We left her behind at Albert’s.”
“Who’s White Leg?” Buffy asked.
“Tara’s cat.”
“The cat in the annex? She’s Tara’s?” Giles put down his coffee cup and cleared his throat, his expression turned odd. “White Leg is fine, Willow. I gave her a saucer of milk, and I picked up some cat food on the way over here. But since it seems she belongs to Tara I’ll leave the food here at the house.”
“You were at the annex?” Tara said, sitting up, the glaze that had been in her eyes since waking finally fading.
Giles pulled off his glasses and began scrubbing the lenses with the end of his tie in what appeared to be a bid for time. “Earlier this morning, I needed to check on things,” he said slowly and after a long moment, “There’s been a few developments that I need to share with you. Actually, I’d hoped Xander and Anya would also be here, but I suppose . . .” He trailed off.
“Does this have anything to do with the mysterious trailer you left parked in my driveway, and what happened to it, anyway?” Buffy finally prompted.
“As it happens yes,” Giles looked towards Tara, “the trailer was filled with books I collected from the library of Caitlin Maclay.”
“Tara’s mother,” Tara said slowly, her expression uncertain, barely noticing Willow’s hand moving to rest over hers.
“I was able to persuade Mr. Maclay to part with them for a small fee. They were stored in a small annex underneath the staircase, rather like the annex you described in your home in the other reality.”
Willow tightened her fingers over Tara’s. “How did you know about them? You didn’t just cold call on Mr. Maclay?”
“No, Albert sent me for them. He contacted me about a month before my return to Sunnydale.”
“So, you were planning on coming back all along,” Buffy said, seemingly missing the larger point.
“Yes, Buffy. I was.” Giles reached again for his glasses, but seemed to think the better of it and left them on his face. “Albert thought it would be better if I handled the Maclay library, even though my previous encounter with the family was less than ideal.”
“You came here to take over the store,” Willow said slowly.
“Take over the store?” Buffy said with clear disbelief. “You came back to be a used book seller?”
“In part, I suppose.”
“How did Albert know about Caitlin’s books?” Tara asked, before realizing how Albert knew was beside the point. “Albert picked you to be his replacement.”
“The used book store was and will continue to be only a front operation, a disguise for the archive, the library of books inside the annex,” Giles said to Buffy before turning his gaze to Willow and Tara. “This is very hard to explain. I’m not entirely understanding of it myself, but Albert was aware his tenure was to end soon, and he prevailed upon me to continue in his true work, collecting and preserving books of magicks.”
It was Willow’s turn to ask a question. “Does that mean you’re leaving the Watcher’s Council?”
“I tendered my formal and final resignation earlier this morning, but the Council was aware I was intending to become a librarian again. Not that they entirely approve, of the library I mean. The Council like several other such bodies, the Guardians, the Circle and so forth, has always taken a rather dim view of it. They feel like so many others the collection should be broken down into smaller more specific collections. There’s always been an especially nasty dispute over the collections of books of shadows, which date back to—.”
“Since 1348,” Willow interjected.
“Yes, how on do you know that.”
“I think Tara and I have been to the original site.”
Giles pulled off his glasses, but did not think to clean them. “Albert sent the two of you through the threshold.”
“To find moonstone,” Willow began, sensing Tara wasn’t up for retelling the story. She told it quickly, stopping only to answer a question or two, from Buffy, not Giles, finishing with, “And we left Tara’s backpack behind, also.”
“It’s on one of the library tables, as well as the other pack. I also noticed a very fine battle axe.” Giles turned and cast a frown at Buffy’s coffee maker. Tea would be far preferable. “I don’t suppose you’ve kept that box of Darjeeling . . .”
“It’s in the cupboard over the microwave,” Buffy said. “So, this moonstone stuff, Tara’s going to use it to stop the apprentice.”
Tara could no longer hang back and let Willow do the explaining. “Contain him, at least that’s the plan. I’ve been training to execute an ice conjure.” She noticed Giles’ eyebrows raise on the word “training.”
“An ice conjure?” Buffy asked.
“Like the fire web I spun last night, but made of ice instead.”
“In the past, you’ve only conjured out of fire and air, correct?”
Tara didn’t let herself wonder too long about how Giles suddenly seemed much more conversant about conjuring or her history of casting. “Pretty much. I learned the basics of all the elements from my mother’s book of shadows.”
“But what you want to pull off is more than basic?” Buffy asked.
Giles was now at the stove, putting on the tea kettle, the Darjeeling already retrieved from the cupboard. “I was reading through Albert’s most recent journal, you and he have been working through Barton’s. Although I didn’t realize his trainee was you.” He decided never to mention to Tara in Albert’s journal she was called the apprentice.
“You were training with Albert?”
“Not exactly.” Tara looked from Buffy to Giles, hoping he would explain.
Giles offered up a supportive smile, and then began, “Albert’s job was somewhat more than book seller or even librarian.”
“He was a wizard, but more like Dumbledore than Ethan Rayne.” The conclusion came to Willow quickly, as truth usually did.
“And rather long-lived, Albert had been seeing to the library since the mid-eighteenth century.”
“He was a wise one,” Tara said softly, her conclusion already known to her, “like you, like Miss Hartness.”
“I’m sorry to say I still have much to learn before anyone might think me wise.” Giles went to Tara and placed his hand over hers. “Even if I did not understand, Albert knew on some level his own fate.”
“Like being a slayer, another one is chosen as soon as the last one falls,” Buffy murmured.
And finally, the thing Tara could not speak about was said, the thing she couldn’t accept because Albert was her teacher and losing him was this terrible, terrible thing.
A week ago, he’d said to Giles, you should see my tarot readings, and she should have realized, “I should have been . . .”
“What, Tara? Faster? Stronger?” Buffy caught and held Tara’s eyes. “I get it. I’ve felt it. I felt it when Jenny Calendar died. I felt it when Tara died. But I can’t own the blame. Angelus murdered Jenny, and Warren murdered Tara. Innocents died because I wasn’t there to stop the evil. Buffy stumbled on the word “evil,” her eyes shifting to check on Willow, but she pushed on, “None of us are responsible for the evil that other’s do, the only thing we’re responsible for is doing the best we can to stop their actions, and sometimes our best isn’t enough, and they succeed, and the best we can do is to try again. Tara, there’s no fixing the past.”
No fixing the past, Tara echoed in her thoughts, but the voice was Sam’s. A part of her wanted to argue. She’d dreamed of Albert dead and hanging from the lamp post, why couldn’t she have dreamed of what she could have done to stop it?
“Baby, Buffy and I know all about the recriminations thing,” Willow said, pulling Tara’s attention to her like a lifeline. “It’s been kind of our specialty the past year or so, and she’s right, it doesn’t help. Recriminations don’t make us smarter or faster, they don’t make us able to predict the future. Albert sent you to get the moonstone, and he sent me to get you. We did what we were asked to do.”
Tara felt tears start to spill down her cheeks. She scrubbed at them. “I hate being a crybaby.”
“Well at least you cry pretty. Will and me, we’re totally with the unpretty crying.”
“Unpretty crying,” Giles echoed with exaggerated horror, the pitch perfect and perfectly timed comic relief. “The atrocities you perform on my native language are . . .”
“Atrocious?” Willow supplied with a faint smile.
“I was going to go with unfathomable.”
More jokes were exchanged, none especially funny, all necessary, even pulling a smile out of Tara, and helping in a small way for Buffy to raise the other thing that needed to be said: “So guys, you already know this, but it’s my job to say it.” Buffy looked towards Willow. “The Tsuris demons materialized out of thin air on the truck lane of the 134, which meant two of them were pretty much instant road kill and that Spike heard about them on his police scanner.”
“Spike has a police scanner . . .” Giles interrupted under his breath, “What am I saying, the man watches American soap operas.”
“In other words, we had a warning,” Buffy continued. “But next time, and I’m pretty much guessing there’s going to be a next time based on what Tara’s told us, we might not get the warning as soon. So, what it boils down to is we need that spectral rod thing-y, Will.” Buffy paused a moment. “I need it, Will. And I’m not just askin’.”
Willow wondered when she’d next take a breath, because it seemed she had forgotten how to breath, and then she reached for Buffy’s hand. She noticed Tara was holding her other hand. The tightness in her chest eased.
“I think the reason I’m scared, or at least one of the reasons is because the other stuff, the fireballs I mean, I did those in the heat of the moment, which sounds like a really bad pun, but it’s not.”
“We understand, Willow,” Giles said. “Just as we understand we’re asking much of you. We’re asking you to take back into yourself what we attempted to take away, an attempt made with the best of intentions but one that was wrong.”
“Giles, I needed to stop . . .”
“And now you need to begin again, and not simply because we need you. None of us can deny who we are. None of us truly knows what we are until that moment when it is revealed. Believe me, I never thought I’d become a librarian once again, but here I am.”
“So, I’m hoping you kept all your tweed suits,” Buffy said.
“As well my vests, but I seem to have lost my favorite silk tie.”
“Not the one with tiny puppies,” Willow teased, because teasing was familiar, teasing helped.
“No, not the Hanukah present you tricked me into wearing to school because I foolishly thought you’d be hurt if I didn’t, I meant the blue and red.” Giles used his exasperated tone; he also laid his hand on Willow’s shoulder. “Trust in Tara if you can’t quite trust in yourself. You’ll do fine.”
Willow looked at Buffy and let her know with a glance she’d do as Buffy asked, and then she looked at Tara, because the only way she could do it was if Tara had her back.
“Hey,” Tara said to Willow because she couldn’t think of anything else, and she needed to say something.
They were upstairs in their bedroom, Tara sitting cross-legged in the center of their bed, Willow at the closet, both finished with their showers; Tara was finished dressing, but Willow continued to debate between two shirts, or at least Tara thought Willow was debating as she moved the two back and forth on their hangers.
Willow turned around and looked at her. “I’m okay.”
Willow rejected both the shirts she’d been considering and went to the dresser to pull out her yellow long sleeved tee. After pulling it over her head she caught Tara’s expression and could not have stopped herself from smiling if she’d wanted.
“You look at me like I’m the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen.”
Tara’s cheeks turned pink, but she metaphorically stood her ground. “You are.” And then she held out her hand and Willow also came onto the bed, sitting with her legs tucked to the side.
“So much keeps happening.”
Tara’s blush deepened. “Some of it good.”
“Some of it the best.” Willow leaned over and brushed a kiss over Tara’s lips. “Some of it pretty amazing.”
“Buffy gave me a look while we were eating breakfast. I think she knows.”
“Knows what? Knows that I keep thinking about making love to you.”
Tara liked it when Willow used the term making love. She moved to lay her head upon Willow’s lap, aware they were supposed to head downstairs in a minute or two, but needing the closeness more. Feeling safe, feeling selfish, she explained, “I don’t want to lose yesterday afternoon.”
Willow wove her fingers into Tara’s hair and began rubbing along her scalp. “Baby, a lot has happened, what happened last night was terrible, but what happened here yesterday afternoon was wonderful, amazingly wonderful.”
“Jackie told me people can tell when a girl has her first time.”
Not exactly sure where she was treading, Willow asked, “Is that a good thing or a bad thing?”
“A weird thing.”
Oh, Willow thought. “Close friends can sometime tell when people have taken a relationship to the next stage.”
“I keep thinking about how beautiful you were, the sounds, the way you smell and taste, the color of your eyes, everything.”
Willow felt the air grow still around her. This is what it feels like to be adored, she realized, she remembered. “I’m starting to have a thing for Tara thighs. If you and Buffy do any practice routines maybe you might wear the yoga pants, the ones that might be a size too small. Plus, I’m planning on stealing kisses pretty much every chance I get.” Tara smiled and Willow felt her heart flip flop in her chest.
“I like w-watching the way you lick your bottom lip when your drinking a mocha.”
Willow grinned widely. “Vixen.”
“You think I’m quarrelsome?”
“I was using the word in its colloquial sense, and listen to you Ms Dictionary dot com.”
“Vixen was the word of the day last Tuesday and Xander was having fits trying to work it into a conversation.” Tara reached for Willow’s hand and pulled it to her mouth. She kissed Willow’s fingertips. “Will, thanks for taking care of me.”
Again, Willow felt the air grow still. This is what it feels like to love someone, she knew, she remembered. “You’re my girl, taking care of you is what I do.”
“Are you sure about this, Will?”
It was 2:30 and Willow and Xander were at the Espresso Pump picking up coffees and mochas for the gang and Willow was pretty certain Xander wasn’t asking her about her request for extra sprinkles on her mocha. “I’m sure.” She wasn’t entirely sure, but she thought she sounded certain, and she was sure she trusted Tara.
“Should we sit?” Xander asked, nodding his head towards an empty table and chairs.
“Might as well, we’ve been mostly sitting all day.”
They’d been on stake carving duty since lunch, and both had needed a break from the Magic Box, hence the coffee run. They settled in at the table while they waited for their drinks, a wait that promised to be longer than usual based on the single person working the counter and the cash register, someone Xander insisted they’d known in elementary school but Willow believed they’d known from children’s storytelling hour at the public library (one of Sheila Rosenberg’s favorite activities for Willow while she was a child and one Willow would only attend if Xander could come too).
Willow thought again about her answer. “I guess I’m a little nervous. Nervous about doing magicks again, but also nervous because I’m out of practice and I don’t want to screw up anything.”
“Anya seems to think the casting is pretty simple.”
“She gave me earth, which is the easiest, Tara’s doing water, Giles fire, and Anya’s doing air.”
“Which is hardest?”
“Fire is the hardest to control, water is the hardest to raise, but Tara’s been working on some water conjures.”
“And air?”
“The next lightest lifting after earth.”
Xander nodded feigning in the fakest way possible his understanding. He also managed to put a smile on Willow’s face.
“You really hate magicks.”
“Pretty much. But that’s mostly because aside from that time when I acted as Buffy’s heart my only other casting involved having a book explode in my hands.”
“The book didn’t just happen to explode. You said, Librum Incendere over a book of spells. And it didn’t explode, it just started on fire.”
“And I was supposed to know what that meant? Plus, tree pretty, fire bad,” Xander joked.
“Hey, no going cave man on me,” Willow joked back. But she knew they weren’t finished talking about the other thing. “I’m okay, really.”
“And Tara.”
It was Willow’s turn to feign understanding. “Tara’s totally down with the spectral rod thing-y.”
“I meant how’s Tara?”
“You’re not asking me how she is in bed, right? Cause that would be really, really naughty.”
“Not to mention earn me an even longer stay in Anya’s dog house.” Xander teased back. Like Willow he was also blushing. “But since we’re being fast and loose with the naughty talk, you and she have finally . . .”
“Is it really a question of ‘finally,’ cause to me it seemed timed perfectly right.”
“Not finally, I meant . . . okay not entirely sure what I meant, but things are good, right. I mean Tara looks happy, glow-y even. If we weren’t at t-minus whatever for the next apocalypse, I think she’d be walking on sunshine.”
Willow liked the idea of Tara walking on sunshine, and it definitely felt good. “Tara’s happy, but what happened last night took a lot out of her. Even though she didn’t really know Albert or Nicole for that matter. I mean in the usual sense of knowing.” Was there a usual sense of knowing when you lived on the hellmouth?
“So, about Albert, he was really her teacher, like she was attending Hogwarts, but in her dreams.”
“Pretty much, but without the Quidditch. More like a school of one.” Although some of what Tara described didn’t make a lot of sense, especially all of the wandering. What was up with that? And other parts of it seemed to be nightmares, and nothing more.
“So, no hiding in the back hoping somebody else did the reading. Good god what a nightmare.” Xander winked. “But I guess what I meant was that you and she, you seem . . .good. Things are good.”
“Things are great.”
“Great is better, more what I wanted to hear, but I didn’t want to put on the pressure. I’m so incredibly happy for you, for you and Tara.”
“Me, too.” Willow decided she too could brush up next to a sensitive subject. “So, you and Anya? Things between you two seem . . .”
“Less fraught, definitely. There’s been some bumps, Spike being a bump . . . the uber bumpy of bumps. But, we’re kind of settled into the idea of my being around a lot. I mean I don’t need to keep finding excuses to fix stuff at the store.”
“Now you help with inventory,” Willow deadpanned, the sting mitigated with a gentle smile.
“I’m building up to an official date. A real plan for eating out, not just me happening to show up every day with take-out lunch or dinner.”
“I took Tara to Marconi’s and about a week later she put out.”
The spicy talk hung in the air between the two of them for a good fifteen seconds and then both burst out laughing. Xander laughing so hard tears were streaming down his cheeks.
Their drinks were called for pick-up and Xander went to fetch them. When he returned to the table, Willow got up from her club chair. “You know I’m counting on you to help me keep it real. Like if I start to slip you’ll pop me one, or something.”
“Or something, I don’t think I could ever pop you one.” Xander dropped his free arm over Willow’s shoulder. “How about a serious noogie?”
The last time she’d received a noogie she was at summer camp. “Just make sure you wash your hands first. I don’t want my hair to smell like peanut butter.” Off Xander’s quizzical look, she added, “Summer camp humor, be happy you never went.”
They headed back to the Magic Box, Xander distributing the drinks to the others and then he, Buffy, and Dawn remaining behind to watch the store while Willow, Tara, Giles, and Anya headed for the practice room.
Xander glanced at Buffy. “I’ve got a bunch of stuff I’m supposed to haul up from the basement. Want to help?”
“Just so long as it doesn’t involve contact with slug candles, I’m in.” Buffy turned to Dawn. “You okay working the counter.”
Dawn was already sitting on her favorite stool, her geometry textbook open in front of her. “I’ve got it covered.”
Inside the practice room a casting circle of sand, ground seashells, holly berry, and cloves had been laid. Anya took north and Tara south, leaving it to Giles and Willow to settle on east or west. Willow chose east, the position of the rising sun, and she thought she detected Tara’s subtle approval.
“The casting is pretty straightforward at first, each of us needs to call up our element. Tara and I will do the transmutation to make the rod.”
“What’s it going to look like? Will it look like lightening rod?” Willow thought her voice sounded funny, so she swallowed a couple of times.
“Yes, and once it’s made Xander’s going to mount it on the roof.”
A quiet fell over them, and Willow watched Tara close her eyes, watched her face as she centered herself. Giles did the same, and then Anya. It took her longer, and she realized the others were aware of her struggle, and she also realized none of them were concerned, not even Anya.
Her eyes closed, her voice sounding inside her thoughts, Willow called up the element, letting the sensation of the earth come into her, calling upon images of mountains and deserts and grassy plains to fill her mind’s eye, the vision slowly narrowing into the specifics of rocks, of soil, of leaves of grass. She tasted it on the back of her tongue, she felt it rising between her toes, she smelled it, the scent of peat, of sulfur, of spring flowers, of winter rot. And when it was risen inside of her she opened her eyes.
Tara appeared enveloped in mist, Anya’s hair was waving in some gentle breeze, and a tiny flame was dancing atop Giles hand. Willow’s left hand reached out and hovered over the floor. Dust and twigs and bits of grass, the detritus of footfalls and silt of ill-fitting windows began drifting, slipping, sliding, towards her, forming a tiny pile of inanimate matter. More was needed and Willow carefully peeled away slivers of brick and wood beam, floorboard and molding. The tiny pile grew into a small heap; Willow did not need to ask when enough earth matter had been gathered, she simply knew.
It was mostly Tara who did the transmutation, Anya helping keeping it aloft until it solidified, Tara forming it into a rod a meter and a half in length, gunmetal black, with grooved ridges, and then Giles infusing it with an electrical charge.”
Willow touched it with her hand and felt the power of magicks, a skittering up her arm and down her back. It was all she could do not to jerk away.
“Easy,” Tara said. A soft and quiet release of breath.
Willow laid her hand on it more firmly, letting her fingers press into the grooves, amazed she’d forgotten how the magicks sometimes felt like singing inside her head.
“How will we know if something crosses over.”
“Traditionally the received would experience dizziness, but given the fact that all of us operate heavy machinery (Anya meant drive cars), Tara and I adjusted it to give off a buzzing sensation, like the experience of putting your tongue on a nine-volt battery.”
Yuck, Willow thought. “Good thinking,” she said aloud.
Giles took hold of the rod, uncrossed his legs, and stood up, moving surprisingly smoothly for a middle-aged man. “I’ll take this out to Xander.” Anya followed him out the door.
They needed the alone time. Tara looked at Willow. She didn’t say anything; instead she waited. A few minutes passed.
“You know what’s weird?”
Tara offered a faint smile. “Japanese commercials.”
“How something can feel exactly the same and exactly different at the same time.”
“The magicks are the same . . .”
“And I’m different. Is this the way it’s supposed to feel?”
Willow didn’t need to think long. “Connected.”
“And before?”
“I felt bigger, even when the spells didn’t work. I felt bigger, taller, stronger. Is all of this because of the quickening.”
“Probably not all. I’m not a w-wise one, W-Will.” There were too many Ws and Tara needed to pause a moment. “I’m mostly guessing, but I think it’s also because of what you’ve been through.”
“Things, they feel new again. I feel new.” Willow held out her hand and watched as Tara’s fingers wove amidst hers. “I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
“Lucky thing then,” Tara said, her voice thick, “cause I love you back, and you’re the one I want to spend my life with.”
Another quiet grew between them, soft and peaceful safe and warm. Willow reveled in it, and Tara basked in it. A quiet finally broken when they heard Xander call out somebody’s name.
Willow looked at Tara confusedly. “Did it sound to you like Xander just yelled, Riley?”
Willow was already getting off the floor and helping Tara up as well before Tara could answer.
“Why don’t you go see. I’ll shut down the circle.”
“Okay,” Willow said, turning towards the door, but then turning back. “Kiss?” she asked.
They kissed, the kiss between them soft and slow at first, then building, growing in intensity, ending with their foreheads pressed together. On the other side of the door they could hear everyone talking excitedly. Tara whispered, “Go find out what’s going on. I’ll be right out.”
Willow went and Tara quickly set about closing the circle, sweeping up the sand and seashells and then taking it out into the alley where she neatly poured it along the side the building. She felt the usual languor that came of working with the elementals, and she continued to feel Willow’s kiss. A memory of Tara longing for Willow floated up inside her thoughts, of Tara sitting inside her dorm room in the dark. She couldn’t quite place it at first, thinking initially it was a memory from the beginning of their relationship, and then realizing it was from after Tara had left Willow. She’d understood before what it had taken for Tara to leave, now she understood how much it had hurt, how deep the pain had been felt. It had been a hurt down to the bone, like the hurt she’d felt when vampire Willow had pushed her to the ground. Tara touched her lips, remembering again the sensation of Willow’s lips against her own and she felt thankful her other self had known that kiss again before she’d died.
Thanks to the people who've posted. While this is a story I need to finish for all sorts of reasons, I'm nonetheless delighted to know I'm not just writing to entertain myself.
Update: The rough draft of the final chapters and denouement is nearly complete (clocking in at about 120 pages, expect that number to go about by about 15/20 or so). I will soon start on the editing. I will probably post chapters as I go along.
That said, I have another writing project coming quickly due (this one of a professional nature and one I've been shamefully neglecting) as well an extended business trip coming up. If you don't hear from me in the next week or two, rest assured I will soon be finished with this epic.
Confession: I have been stopping by to check the page views, and it's very nice to see that number increase by about 200 since I began posting again. Feedback, especially encouragement, is very welcome.
This is encouragement then. If you get yours done then I have hope that someday I can finish mine.
I am not caught up yet but I agree with other comments that this is a work of art. I'm still in such awe of its awesomeness that I can't use words good right now.
But yes please keep writing. And thank you for coming back.
Finey_McFine
20. Not one Much for the Timber
Location: H-Town, Texas
Hey Tecnopagen!
Thank you so much for updating and your promise to finish this beautiful story. I try not to get into Pens stories that haven't been updated in a long time, but someone recommended this story and I'm soooo glad!! I read through it last year and probably experienced every emotion possible. I've gotta admit, I cried through most of the beginning until after the rejoining. Which is just a testament to your awesome writing skills!
On to the actual feedback... I'm super worried for the safety of our girls and was sad to see Albert die. They are in a very dangerous situation, which I imagine will only get worse before it gets better. But, on the bright side, their connection is growing stronger every day and it makes me very happy for the both of them. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the end.
I think one of my favorite parts, and this is a few chapters back, was right after Willow and Dawn were attacked. Willow is sobbing and apologizes to Tara for breaking her promise and using magic. Tara in return tells Willow, "You never made that promise to me." I really felt like it was a pivotal moment for Willow, mentally separating the two Tara's. Plus, she no longer needs to feel so guilty when she does need to cast. I feel like the door is now opened for her help Tara fight the apprentice, without all the worry.
Anyway, that's just my two cents and I also wanted you to know you aren't just writing for your own entertainment.
Finey McFine
a.k.a. Shelby
Shelby - Racing The Rain (IN PROGRESS) / Baby Makes Three (IN PROGRESS) / The Santa Line / Everything She Does...Is Beautiful / Calfornia Grass
"Transform your pain. Release your past. And ... uh ... get over it."
~Willow, Where The Wild Things Are
A loud burst of laughter sounded as Tara put her hand on the door knob, and she reflexively shied back, before pulling the door open and stepping through. The others were gathered near the table, the others and two more, a man and a woman with their backs to her. Willow, her face near split by her wide grin, held out her hand and Tara went to her.
“Tara, I want you to meet some people.”
The man and woman turned around. For a moment Tara felt dizzy, because she couldn’t make sense of it. The woman’s hair was different, longer, and held back in a ponytail, and her face was fuller, her body less lean, but it was Sam. It was Sam from head to toe, and then Tara realized she was mistaken; the woman wasn’t her Sam at all.
“Tara!” The man near shouted before starting towards her, smile broadly and his eyes filled with kindness and affection. “What were you doing hiding in the back room. It’s great to see you.”
The man was tall, handsome, and dressed like the woman who was not her Sam, in a black tee shirt, dark pants with multiple pockets, and a vest made out of the same material as the backpack Albert had given to her. He came towards her, arms open wide and then stopped, his expression turning to one of confusion.
“You don’t remember me.”
“Tara’s never met you, Riley,” Buffy said, heading to Tara’s side.
Willow’s reaction was a split second behind Buffy’s.
Tara looked past the man Buffy called Riley, away from the woman who was not her Sam, and down to her left hand, which was now enclosed in Willow’s.
“Baby, are you okay?” Willow asked, her voice sounding small and uncertain.
The last time she’d seen Sam, she’d pushed Sam’s body into a pit she’d dug using magicks. A pit to hold all of her dead. No, not all of them, some of their bodies had been incinerated, but Sam’s hadn’t, neither had Diego’s.
“Tara?” Willow asked, pulling Tara’s thoughts outward.
Tara looked into concerned eyes that were the color of spring. She turned and held out her right hand to the man she now knew was named Riley. “We haven’t met. I’m Tara, but I’m from another reality or d-dimension or something. I’m n-not the Tara you knew.”
Riley was like her, she noticed, his every expression showing on his face. She watched him realize her counterpart was dead, and she watched him swallow down the grief. Her eyes went to Buffy, who silently reassured she would take care of the explaining. And then Riley’s hand closed over hers, it was huge and warm, and she could feel the smallest of trembles. And then she let go of Riley’s and Willow’s hands both to move on not entirely certain feet to stand before the other Sam.
Curious dark eyes moved over her face, taking the subtlest of notice of her scars. Tara worked hard, and was able to offer a smile. “I’m guessing you never met the Tara from this reality, but I knew the Sam from mine. She was . . .” Tara felt her throat shut and she had to swallow hard to open it. “She was the leader of my cadre.”
The woman who was not her Sam held out her hand, “Sam Finn. It sounds like the Sam you knew was . . .”
Tara took Sam Finn’s hand into her own. “Tara Maclay. My Sam, she was a hero.”
That evening everyone went out to Korean barbeque for dinner, Riley and Xander competing for control of the table grill, Tara and Sam both holding back a little, not entirely joining in the jokes, Tara because she always felt shy in groups and because meeting this Sam was making her mourn for the loss of her Sam once again, Sam because aside from Riley, she barely knew anyone at the table. The conversation stayed light hearted, mostly telling tales on one another, but there were questions in the air, not the least of which was what brought Riley and Sam to Sunnydale, and that question like all the rest had to wait until everyone had reconvened at Revello Drive.
Since a rain front was coming through, a fire was stoked in the fireplace and hot cocoa and peppermint tea were made, Xander requested popcorn and Dawn produced a box of thin mint girl scout cookies she’d forgotten about hiding in the linen closet until Riley happened to mention the cookie was among the things he’d missed the most while stationed in Brazil.
“How long were you there?” Buffy asked. She was sitting on the floor holding White Leg on her lap.
“After we left Sunnydale, we spent two months in Nepal training, before heading to Brazil, so about . . .” Riley began.
“Eight months, give or take a week. The Brazilian government contracted with us to solve a hellhound problem outside of the capital city,” Sam interjected. They were sitting next to each on the couch. Riley at the end, Sam in the middle, and Giles taking the other end.
“Mission accomplished?” Xander asked from one of the wingback chairs.
“So far as we can tell. It’s hard to know for sure.” Sam continued. “We never tagged their trainer. They were preying on people who live in the outlying slums and the police don’t really care enough to report any new killings.”
“The police wanted us out of there,” Riley said, his tone saying more than his words, and everyone else nodding with understanding. The situations weren’t equivalent, but Sunnydale police had just as little use for the Scoobies.
Willow asked the question that had been on her mind at least for the past two hours. She and Tara were sitting on the love seat opposite the couch, Dawn on the floor next to Tara’s feet. But it was Buffy who answered.
“I put in a call.”
This was a surprise and it pulled a series of single word questions from Willow, “You? How? When? Why?”
“I still have a cell number for Graham,” Buffy said to Willow before turning to Riley and continuing, “I take it you got the message.”
Tara noticed Buffy skipped answering the when and why questions, and those were the two she wanted answered most.
“We did,” Riley said to Buffy, “But we’d have probably been pulled in regardless. I saw today’s newspaper. What happened? What did that? The paper called them big cats.”
“Tsuris demons,” Tara said, “A pride of them.”
“They came here as part of an advance team for the newest big bad on its way to Sunnydale. It’s kind of a long story,” Buffy began.
But it was Giles who told the story, efficiently and dispassionately, providing the details Riley and Sam would need to know, glossing the parts that would hurt too much to say aloud, telling Riley and Sam about what had been and what was coming, and everyone kept their eyes averted as Riley was reminded once again the Tara he’d known had died months ago. When Giles finished, Xander got up, offering to bring more tea or hot cocoa, Dawn getting up to help.
“So, this apprentice, he’s human,” Sam said, her tone grim.
“Tara’s going to hold him using magicks,” Buffy said, like Giles glossing over the details, “but you and Riley will need to take him into some kind of custody. He’ll be too dangerous . . .”
“We get it,” Riley said. Buffy nodded sharply, but Anya asked, “The government’s got some sort of Gitmo for folks who traffic in the black arts these days?”
Sam didn’t answer her question, neither did Riley, neither did Buffy. Everyone including Anya knew there was no Gitmo for magicians because everyone knew Riley and Sam didn’t adhere to the code of the Slayer. And now Tara no longer needed Buffy to explain the “why” or even the “when.” No one said anything about Gitmo, instead Riley got up, said something about helping Xander carry out the drinks and then Buffy got up as well, following Riley into the kitchen.
“Do you expect more of these Tsuris demons?” Sam finally asked, breaking the pall that had settled on the room.
“They were favorites of the Master. According to the local lore, the Master bred them,” Tara said, just then noticing Willow had taken hold of her hand. She offered Willow a quick smile.
“So that would be a yes,” Sam said, “In the research you’ve been doing, have you discovered any demons native to this reality but not your former?”
The question was pure Sam, Tara thought. “Not yet, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.” She anticipated Sam’s next question and offered, “Besides coming through with his vampire cadres, I expect the apprentice will send through a team or two of Yeknom demons, they’re a lot like Kailiff demons, but w-without the chin spikes.”
“Intelligent, strong . . .”
“And loyal to their masters. Ethan Rayne had several teams that he used for raiding local townships. As l-long as they think the apprentice is a viable strong man, they’ll follow his orders.”
Sam offered a sharp nod.
“We ran into a Kailiff gang in Bangkok. Do Yeknom keep familiars?”
“Another reason why Rayne was willing to put up with the smell.” To Willow, Tara explained, “They’re carrion eaters. They keep familiars so that they have a steady supply of rotting meat.”
Willow’s mouth made a small “o,” while Sam asked about pyro-phobia, to which Tara nodded, as Willow asked, “Pyro-phobic?”
“Kailiff demons have a thing about fire,” Anya explained, “even though it’s not nearly as fatal to them as it is to vampires. There’s some legend about Alexander the Great immolating a thousand Kailiff before invading Persia, but the story doesn’t ring true to me. When has anyone ever seen more than thirty Kailiff at the same time, and where’s my hot cocoa?”
Anya got up and went to the kitchen.
“How many people does it take to make tea and cocoa?” Sam asked with a smile.
“If we were at the Espresso Pump, I would say that was a trick question,” Giles said with a matching smile.
“Giles isn’t happy with the tea selection at the Espresso Pump,” Willow said.
“And I seem to recall you offering me your deepest reassurance that a reasonable selection of quality teas would soon replace . . .”
Sam laughed and interjected, “Not Lipton. Tell me they’re not serving Lipton.”
“The swill of American tea drinking.”
Giles indignation was as much performance as authentic, and Tara could not help but enjoy it. But she also noted he’d been holding back for several minutes, maintaining his own quiet while watching the interactions of everyone else.
Sam turned to look at Willow. “Can you tell me more about the spectral rod, besides the fact that it tingles when you touch it.”
Sam and Riley had accompanied Xander onto the roof of the Magic Box and helped him lash it to the mounting for the building’s outtake fan.
“Tara knows more than me,” Willow deferred, curious why Sam would ask her, only to realize quickly Sam was indirectly asking about her participation in the casting. She was wondering who told Sam about her fall into dark magicks when she head Tara volunteer:
“If something or someone starts to open a dimensional riff we’ll know, I mean Willow, Anya, Giles, and I will know.”
“How much time would you have?”
“Humans, w-witches included can’t open dimensional riffs instantly like demons, like Anya for example. It took me close to fifteen minutes to traverse to this reality. The rod is also directional. We’ll have a crude sense of where it’s happening.”
“You didn’t have the rod yesterday?”
“No,” Tara began, but Willow interrupted, “Anya had the idea days ago, but I wouldn’t help with the spell.”
“You’re not being fair to yourself, Will,” Buffy said, coming through the door, she was holding a bowl of baby carrots. “You and Tara weren’t even around to feel or notice the incursion.”
“Willow and Tara were retrieving some magical supplies from the primitive world,” Giles said, as he held up his hand, “yet another story to tell.”
“So, no Will or Tara to respond,” Buffy continued, leaving the carrots on the coffee table, and returning to her seat, “plus even if we’d fought them on site, there’s no guarantee they’d wouldn’t have slipped past Spike and me anyway.”
“Spike?” Sam repeated just as Riley also returned to the front room, carrying a tray of mugs filled with steaming hot cocoa, Xander behind him and carrying a bowl of popcorn in one hand and two tea mugs in the other.
Tara watched a flicker of surprise cross Sam’s face and noticed Riley’s far less subtle reaction. His entire body clenched. Memories of the reasons for their reactions sprung up inside her thoughts, but they were memories of conversation her counterpart had with Xander; Tara and Riley had never talked about Spike. The tension seemed to telegraph elsewhere, because Buffy was also suddenly wary, as was Giles.
“Spike learned of their arrival on his police scanner, contacted Buffy, and the two of them engaged the Tsuris at the waterfront,” Giles answered too quickly and therefore awkwardly. “Unfortunately, several Tsuris escaped and headed for the pedestrian mall. However, the sacrifice that was left on Brocton Avenue was not carried out by Tsuris demons, that was the work of vampires, and I’m afraid our spectral rod would not have made a single difference to that tragedy.”
Sam leaned forward, resting her elbows on her knees. Her body language swallowing some of the room’s tension. “You don’t think the vampires came from the other reality?”
“Earlier today an acquaintance on the police force shared with me some surveillance footage found on the security cameras outside the Bank of America. One of the vampires was dressed in an Oakland Raiders sports jersey,” Giles said.
“The undead love the Raiders, go figure,” Buffy muttered under her breath.
“Tara assures me the Las Vegas Raiders of her former reality were never associated with Oakland,” Giles continued, “As for what inspired the vampires of this reality to hoist their victims high, who knows. Perhaps just the prospect of a new big bad coming to Sunnydale,” Suddenly Giles sounded very tired.
Buffy glanced towards Sam as she accepted a mug of cocoa from Riley. “You and Riley up for joining me on patrol?” Her eyes turned to Tara, “I’m benching you tonight; you’ve spent too much time out in the field.”
The rest of the cocoa distributed, Riley dropped back into his chair and said, “Tara patrols with you?”
“Tara could probably take you down in a minute flat, commando boy,” Buffy shot back, her tone joking and tense at the same time.
Riley barely flinched, instead he smiled. “You telling me I’m not the only one in the room sporting a few battles scars on my mug?”
The joke could have gone any number of ways, Tara felt Willow bristle and noticed Buffy’s eyes slightly narrow. Sam fortunately jumped in, and turned the joke into comedy.
“Riley likes to tell everyone he caught his scar off a Polgara demon, but I’m pretty sure it was some random PCP enraged gang banger that opened up a can of whoop ass on his face,” Sam said easily, lowering the room’s tension by another notch. “A little patrolling sounds good. We spent most of the afternoon on a transport jet and my legs still need stretching.”
“These transports lack the amenities of coach?” Xander said handing off the tea mugs to Anya and Giles before dropping onto the floor next to Dawn.
Riley was settled back on the couch. “Let’s just say they make Southwest look like Air Force One.”
“What they lack in comfortable seats and restrooms they make up for with expired food and stale water,” Sam added and the tension was gone.
Tara stole a glance towards Sam. Yes, her face was a little fuller, her body not quite as rangy, but she was Sam down to the proverbial T. And somehow that made seeing her even harder.
“I thought I k-knew how difficult it had been for you,” Tara said from the bed. Willow was standing near the dresser, brushing out her hair. “Seeing me, I mean.”
Willow put down her brush and went to the bed, moving to sit with her back against the headboard. Tara was sitting cross-legged in the center.
“Seeing you was never hard. Confusing yes, but never hard.” Willow reached forward to put her hand on Tara’s leg. “Seeing you was a miracle, a very confusing, very welcome miracle.”
“She’s not my Sam, but she is.”
“Hence the very confusing part. Come closer to me.”
Tara did as Willow asked, moving so they could sit side by side. Willow took her hand and weaved their fingers together. “I like Riley.”
“Was your Sam married to Riley’s counterpart?”
“I don’t know. Sam never talked about her husband with me. All I knew I heard from Diego and Carl, and all I really heard was that he died a hero.”
Willow used her other hand to guide a lock of Tara’s hair to rest behind the curve of her ear. It was a tender gesture, unconscious and so familiar neither took real notice of it.
“I was wondering tonight if relationships and friendships have their counterparts, too. I mean was there a Miss Calendar in the other reality? Did she teach computer science, and did she and Giles become close?”
Tara had wondered the same thing. The other day she and Xander had figured out he’d known her Larry’s counterpart. Were relationships matched across realities, too? But her counterpart had probably never met Larry, and the idea quickly became too confusing in her head, and so she’d tried to forget about it.
“Earth to Tara,” Willow said, drawing Tara out of her reverie.
“You were surprised Buffy called for them to come,” Tara said.
“Surprised, but the call makes sense. I kind of wish Sam had brought a team, but I guess their resources are spread pretty thin. Before we went out to dinner she mentioned something about trouble in Cleveland.”
Tara drew her legs under the covers, and lay down so that her face was brushing against Willow’s hip. The weight of the bed clothes felt comforting against her skin and eased a chill she’d been fighting most of the evening. “I hate to admit it, but I’m glad Buffy b-benched me.”
“Not in the mood for patrolling.”
Tara looked up and caught the look in Willow’s eyes. “More in the mood for snuggles.”
“Maybe more than snuggles?”
Tara smiled. “Get down here, vixen.” And then smiled wider as her attempt at spicy talk sounded far less dorky than when she’d practiced it in front of the bathroom mirror a few minutes earlier.
“It’s talk like that that earns kisses every time,” Willow said, switching off the night stand light before doing exactly as Tara asked, while also thinking kisses would be only the half of it.
Willow wandered along the game trail, her boots crunching atop the new fallen snow, hoping she’d soon find Tara. She didn’t like walking at night, not even under the full moon, especially when she wasn’t sure if she was lost (she was on a trail, after all), and so she resisted the impulse to call on Aradia for help.
The trail curved around a high outcropping and Willow slowed down, concerned about what she might find on the other side. But what she found was nothing, only more trail to walk, and so she continued what she thought might be a half-kilometer before she heard their whispers.
Willow stepped off the trail, trying to move as soundlessly as she could, tracking the sound. She came upon another outcropping, this one not quite so tall, which she crept around, moving to a spot where she could see them. It took her almost half a minute to figure out which Tara was which, since they were dressed more or less identically and the light was too dim for her to see her Tara’s scars. When they both seemed asleep, she moved closer, coming to within two meters before she stepped on a twig that snapped.
Tara raised her head and looked towards Willow. “Honey, remember when I told you that you suck at the stealthy?”
Willow closed the distance between them. “You told me Riley said I sucked at the stealthy and you agreed with him.”
“Hairsplitter,” Tara said grinning.
“Criticizer,” Willow said also grinning.
They kissed, first affectionately and then passionately, but not letting themselves get carried away. When they broke apart Willow simply said, “So.”
“She’s flipping out over Sam. Partly because she’s just now figuring out she had a crush on her, a crush for which she’s feeling retroactive guilt.”
“Guilt?”
“Over you.” Tara smiled at Willow’s expression. “I know. The only reason I’m not giggling is because I love her to pieces.”
“So, what’s the other part? The other reason why she’s flipping out?”
“The basic weirdness of the doubling. There’s a reason why all the doppelganger legends are creepy. Doubling is creepy.”
“You weren’t creeped out. You loved her from the get go.”
Tara dropped a kiss on the other Tara’s head. “If you’ll recall I felt a little intimidated: she heroic demon fighter, me overly shy college student.”
“Different experiences, different outcomes. Plus, you were pretty quick with the battle-axe when that biker demon monster dude tried to make me his late-night snack.”
“Nobody messes with my baby,” Tara repeated, grinning. “And besides, we’re each other now, as close to one in the same as we could be.”
“Any ideas on how to help her with the Sam thing?”
“Honey, just stay close. She’s still in that ‘my skin aches if you’re far’ stage.”
“I’m sort of there, too.” Willow looked at Tara’s face, her eyes tracing the scar that ran along side. “I get all spazzy sitting in lecture, like if I have to wait another minute before I get to kiss her I’ll die. But I also get the guilty thing. And my guilt isn’t even retroactive.”
It took Tara several moments to figure out what Willow meant. When she did, it was all she could do not to burst out laughing. “Will, Tara gets a free pass, since you’re her first girlfriend, but if you start feeling guilty over me because you grabbed Tara’s cherry, well that’s kind of insane.”
Willow pretended to be taken aback, saying, “You used to be all with the blush when you made with the spicy talk.”
Undeterred, Tara winked and said, “Honey, blushing is your job.”
“Just tell me you’re not watching somehow.”
“I’m not watching, Will. She’s me. How could I? It’s a physical impossibility. And besides, you’re the voyeur girl, not me.”
Willow was preparing to be indignant, but then remembered an incident involving Xander, high school, the boy’s swim team, and telling Tara about it years later, thought the better of it, and decided to change the subject.
“So, are we in the primitive world, right now. Or is this a dream version of it?”
Tara shook her head. “I really have no idea. Everything’s a kind of dream world for me lately.” She waited a beat. “Want to snuggle with us?”
Willow didn’t need a second invitation. She closed the distance between them, curling around her lover, who was curled around Tara, and then kissed the back of her lover’s neck. “In the future, let’s see what we can do about making these nightly visits more comfortable.”
“You don’t like sleeping under the stars?”
“Not when it also means sleeping on the ground, baby.”
“Will, you know you’re in your bed, wrapped inside Tara’s arms. This is just a dream.”
“It’s the principle of the thing,” Willow argued.
Tara giggled over the word principle and then whispered, “Night, baby,” but Willow was already lost to another dream. Tara reached for Willow’s hand and drew it close to her belly as she pressed another kiss on the back of Tara’s neck. “Sleep tight,” she whispered to the both of them, “don’t let the bed bugs bite.”
Both Tara and Willow slept tight, a good night’s sleep that helped each to greet the next day, which was mostly spent at the beach flying kites. Routines were returned to the day after and next day after that. Routines easily kept to insofar as a calm seemed to have settled over Sunnydale, one that made Buffy nervous, long knowing about the calm before the storm, but allowing Riley and Sam to acclimate to a new time zone and a new climate, much cooler and far less humid than the one they’d left in Brazil.
Afternoon training changed somewhat, Giles taking a backseat to Sam, who had started teaching Buffy and Tara the basics of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but evening patrol was largely unremarkable and with inventory complete at the Magic Box, Tara’s job was largely reduced to dusting, mopping, and, only very occasionally manning the cash register (if Anya happened to be out on a vengeance assignment). If there was one constant in the universe, it was that Anya continued to love “the money part,” over all other aspects of her business. It was the first time in weeks that Tara had had true “free time, and she used it productively, fashioning a talisman she’d been contemplating since she’d woken from her long sleep.
Later, in retrospect, Tara would wonder if she would have asked Willow in advance about the ward had she been more pressed for time. But she didn’t. Instead, she presented it to Willow after breakfast and before Willow was to head off to school.
The talisman was small, tucked inside a little sack Tara had woven out of multi-colored yarns, and could easily be kept inside a pocket. Willow held it up to the light and looked at it carefully.
“It’s too ward off dark magicks.” Tara explained a second time, worried because Willow hadn’t said anything, and more than aware of the tense set of Willow’s shoulders.
“So, no vein-y face.” Willow finally said, her tone a little flat, and seemingly forcing a faint smile.
Not exactly sure what Willow meant, trying to read her expression, Tara made sounds that sounded close to uhm and to yes which resulted in Willow saying, “I get it. I mean you’re right. And thank you.”
Willow’s tone was one Tara hadn’t remembered hearing before. And “get” what? And then Willow was off the bed, grabbing her for her laptop bag and sweater.
“Will I see you for dinner . . .” Tara started, but Willow interrupted, “It’s my long night, so probably not.” And then Willow was out the door, having left behind only the most perfunctory of kisses on Tara’s cheek.
Tara continued sitting on the bed, listening as Willow went down the stairs, listening to the front door opening and closing, to the sound of Willow’s car coming on and leaving the driveway, and then she glanced at the clock. Buffy and Dawn were already gone to the high school, she wasn’t due at the Magic Box until noon. She needed to think, and since she always did her best thinking on her feet, she decided a daytime walk through Sunnydale’s mean streets was just the thing.
Professor Noxon’s discussion of “Indian Captivity Narratives” was surprisingly captivating or at least distracting, as was Willow’s post-lecture hazelnut Americano. Network Security was dull, but also distracting as most of the class was given up to individual presentations and Willow always felt obligated to participate in the discussions. Lunch, however, was ripe for opportunities for feeling misunderstood, misused, and rebuked. By lunch’s end, however, she amended feeling rebuked to feeling reprimanded, which by the middle of the afternoon was reduced to feeling admonished. And by late afternoon, she was reconsidering her feelings of admonishment, reconsiderations that sent her to Evergreen Cemetery.
Willow had made only a short visit the week before, just long enough to say hello and to clear away the leaves that had accumulated behind the markers. This day she stopped longer, first spending time with Joyce, telling her about Riley’s return with Sam and describing in great detail Dawn’s homecoming dress. She mentioned other bits of household news and told in broad detail about how Dawn and she had been chased by a vampire cadre, concentrating mostly on telling about Dawn’s bravery and cool reactions.
“I thought I’d never use magicks again, but suddenly I didn’t have a choice,” Willow explained. “At least I didn’t use them lightly. I used them to protect Dawn and myself. But like I said, it was a lucky thing Spike showed up, and then Buffy and Tara and Giles.”
The news of the week told, Willow said her blessing for Joyce silently, as was her habit, and then she went to Tara’s gravestone. The grass was dry, and so she sat down, facing away and towards a small stand of trees, all with half fallen leaves. On the air was a scent, really just a whiff of something slightly rotten, most likely moldering leaves. Regardless, the scent annoyed Willow’s senses and so it took a few minutes for her to find the inner place from where she spoke to the Tara she’d lost.
“I pulled a big dummy move today. I walked away instead of telling you know who she’d hurt my feelings,” Willow said as she ruffled her hand over the grass. “Tara made me a ward against dark magicks, and I get that she made it with my best interests at heart, but I guess I thought she trusted me more. And instead of saying that, I headed off to school and now all day my stomach has been acidy.”
Willow turned around and touched the letters and numbers carved into the granite. “I know you come to me in my dreams. I feel you there even if I can’t really remember the details. Keep helping me to stay strong, baby.”
She sat a few minutes longer, listening to the wind, feeling Tara’s presence, and then she got up and headed back to her car. It was her late night, and she considered ditching her evening computer lab. Responsible reliable dog geyser Willow sounded loudly, and so she turned her car to head back to school, where at least she was rewarded with a good parking spot, close to her lab and close to the Underground.
By the time she reached Inverness Hall, her acidy stomach was turned into a hungry one, and she was debating vigorously the salad (healthy option) versus the fries (more filling option) as combo items to a Greek chicken pita when her attention suddenly turned sideways and she realized Tara was sitting in what Willow now thought of as “their” booth with a cup of tea and a closed book in front of her. Willow’s stomach immediately took on a new condition, nervous and anticipatory.
Tara spotted her heading towards the booth before Willow could announce her presence, and Willow noticed Tara was wearing a very subtle shade of lipstick, as well as her robin’s egg blue Henley shirt with the ivory buttons, a Willow favorite.
“Hey,” Willow said, sliding onto the bench, “I’m so glad you’re . . .”
Willow wasn’t able to finish her sentence because Tara was kissing her. The kiss started off awkwardly, but then Tara brought her hands to Willow’s head and wove her fingers into Willow’s hair, and the kiss became more and more confident, more and more elegant, finally becoming in Willow’s mind not simply practically perfect in every way, but truly perfect.
“You were mad about the ward,” Tara said when the kiss ended.
Willow almost said no, because old habits die hard, but she said, “Yes.”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to suggest you can’t protect yourself,” Tara said just as Willow said, “I’m sorry. I was a big dummy for running out the door,” all of which was followed by another kiss, during which Willow managed to process what Tara had just said.
“Wait a second, what do you mean protect myself. Protect myself from what?”
“Dark magicks,” Tara said confusedly.
“You mean against someone using dark magicks against me,” Willow clarified. Tara nodded and Willow winced. “Baby, I’m an even bigger dummy than I thought, because I thought the ward was to stop me from using dark magicks.”
“But you don’t use dark magicks . . .” Tara said, followed by a very quiet, “oh.”
“As Giles would say, ‘I feel very stupid’, but he’d say it with his English accent and he wouldn’t sound stupid at all.”
Tara offered one of her half-smiles. “I kind of like your kisses b-better than Mr. Giles’ English accent.”
“I very much like you coming here to find me. I mean you did come here to find me, didn’t you? Not that you might not want to come here on your own to have dinner or hang at the library or something . . .”
“I came here to find you and to ask you to let me b-buy you dinner. I also had in mind many, many kisses,” Tara interrupted.
“Dinner and kisses?”
“And maybe mochas if we have time. I’m big spender gal, tonight. Mrs. Sandoval paid me to clear out the rain gutters on her casita, and tomorrow I’m going to start w-work on planting her an herb garden.”
“I thought you were planting one for us?”
“Will, I finished that yesterday.”
“Is that what you and Riley were doing? I thought you were moving flower beds.”
“So, we should order before we run out of time.”
“Greek chicken and with salad, please.”
They both had to get out of the booth for Tara to head to the counter, Willow managing to drag her fingers along Tara’s shoulder, arm, and hand before she left.
We just made-up from our first fight, Willow thought, smiling.
A few hours later, revived after a second (post-lab) mocha, Willow and Tara were on patrol, Willow with Riley and Sam, Tara paired with Buffy.
“So, you two are back with the good?” Buffy asked. She and Tara were moving through the eastern sector of Pioneer Cemetery, where so far the undead seemed to be few and far between.
“You could tell?”
“Let’s just say you were a little distracted during afternoon practice.”
“Did Giles notice?”
“Not Giles, but Sam did. Which isn’t to say you didn’t impress the heck out of her with your mixed-martial moves.” Buffy gave Tara a sideways glance. “That isn’t or wasn’t the thing, was it. Sam, I mean?”
“It’s that obvious?” Tara felt her face grow hot.
“Hey, I had a crush on her, too. So, did Willow, and Will was simultaneously doing the best friend hate her thing.” Since Tara looked entirely confused, Buffy added. “Hating on the new girlfriend on behalf of the former girlfriend. You did spend some time in high school, right?”
Tara nodded, getting Buffy’s point, her face cooling a degree or two. “Has Willow said anything to you about it?”
“Not a peep. So then, now I’m guessing all things Sam was not the source for this afternoon’s distracto-girl.”
“We had a misunderstanding. I gave Willow a w-ward against dark magicks, and she thought I had given her a ward to stop her from doing dark magicks.”
“There are wards to prevent . . .”
“Buffy, Willow doesn’t need . . .”
The sudden appearance of a vampire, middle-aged and dressed in a business suit, prevented either of them from finishing her point. Despite his office drone appearance, the vampire had fighting chops, and managed to put Buffy and Tara through their paces for a few minutes before being turned into dust.
“So, you gave Willow a ward,” Buffy prompted as she helped Tara back onto her feet.
“Willow w-won’t use dark magicks anymore, which makes her vulnerable to people who . . .”
“Use them,” Buffy said, getting Tara’s original point. “But Will thought you doubted her, which makes a little sense since doubt was pretty much all she was getting from Xander and me, but only a little sense since you seem to be doubt-free girl when it comes to Willow.”
“We straightened everything out over dinner.”
Another vampire appeared, this one also dressed in a business suit, but entirely lacking in street smarts. Tara dusted him with little fanfare.
“That’s the sixth one we’ve seen, tonight. These last two were local, but I’m thinking the first four were imports. Not from your old reality. More like folks honing in on the coming of the next big bad
Tara nodded; she’d been thinking the same thing. “Was last night pretty much the same?”
“Pretty much.” Buffy’s cell phone sounded in her pocket. She took the call, and learned Riley, Sam, and Willow had finished sweeping the west end of the cemetery and they were waiting at the gate.
Done with the eastern sweep, Tara and Buffy headed back to meet with the others. Patrol had yielded eleven dustings, not a record (the Scooby’s personal best had occurred during the final battle with Adam, a record unlikely to be broken, or so every Scoobie hoped).
The next few days passed more or less without event: the only piece of news that Albert had had not had one student, but two. Like Tara, Giles, too, had been an apprentice of sorts, a discovery Giles made as he began reading Albert’s journal, a document left behind on Albert’s laptop computer, of all “infernal things,” thought Giles, who patently believed all proper journals were rightly contained between the leather covers of books.
“And written on sheepskin,” Willow added sotto voce.
“I heard that,” Giles said.
They were behind the counter of the used book shop, Giles’ manning the cash register (in truth drinking a quite decent cup of Darjeeling tea, it being afternoon) and Willow crouched on the floor and installing a wireless modem.
Willow flicked on the switch and watched with satisfaction the play of lights turning from red to yellow to green. “Okay, this thing should be working, now. Click on the browser icon.”
Giles debated making a show by questioning what was a browser icon but decided his feigning of ignorance of all things digital was probably more wearying than effective. He clicked on the icon and watched as the laptop browser opened up into a display of the Google search page. Willow promptly stood up and took control of the keyboard.
“Albert kept his store records in the cloud,” she said, as her fingers punched in a URL.
“Cloud?” Giles asked, his confusion in fact legitimate.
“He used Internet based file storage, probably because he had only the one laptop. Keeping his store records off his actual laptop was probably a hedge against a computer breakdown or theft. I’m making you an icon for your desktop, so you can click on it.”
A front page opened showing links to files labeled inventory, cash accounting, contacts, taxes, and a handful of others. Willow appreciated the simplicity of the system; she’d helped Anya set-up something very similar for the Magic Box.
“I can help you learn to use the applications.”
Again, Giles debated feigning ignorance, and again he decided against it. “I’m somewhat familiar with Office Suite, Willow. Not to worry just yet.” He manfully endured Willow’s not entirely hidden grin before regrettably changing the subject. “Are you and Tara planning on attending the memorial service.”
The service was not for Albert, whose remains had been cremated and stored with inside a cabinet at Books of Shadows, 1348. Rather it was for the eight other victims of what the press was calling the Brocton Street Massacre and attributing to eco-terrorists on PCP. Counting the people killed elsewhere, a total of thirteen had died. The eight to be memorialized had all attended UC Sunnydale.
“I’m picking her and Buffy up at the house. Are you coming?”
Giles shook his head and explained he thought it best he devote himself to his research. Using the more “user-friendly” hand-written indexes of the bookstore annex, he’d discovered a history volume describing what appeared to be a dimensional incursion in the Black Forrest, circa 1720. The text was written in a German vernacular Giles was struggling to make sense of, but was also supplying useful insights into atmospheric and other environmental portents tied to dimensional bridges. He did not also explain he would have felt out of place at the service, which he knew from sad experience as Sunnydale High School’s one-time librarian would be more a balm for the peers of the fallen students than anything else.
Willow glanced at Giles and then away; it was Giles, however, who asked the question on Willow’s mind.
“I’ve not had a single dream since Albert died, and so it appears my training has completed. But that’s not been the case for Tara.”
“Tara hasn’t dreamed about Albert, either. But both of us have dreamed about Tara, or rather my Tara’s appeared in our dreams. And both of us have been dreaming of what Tara calls the primitive world.”
“Albert used that term. He also called it the prime world. Our world, our reality, or at least the one we inhabit, according to Albert, is an incarnation of that first, original world. Not the second, not the third, but not the hundredth.”
Willow nodded, even if she didn’t entirely understand Giles’ point. “But how can my Tara be there?”
Giles’ expression softened. “Because you’re there, Willow. Your Tara is part of you, now. An aspect of the self that is Willow. Call her a spirit, or a ghost, or your conscience. What you call your Tara doesn’t especially matter. All that matters is you’ve been blessed with this rare, rare gift,” Giles said, thinking of Jenny, and wishing she might visit his sleep.
An hour later, flanked by Buffy and Tara, Willow found herself sitting in a metal folding chair listening to UC Sunnydale chancellor speak about the all too usual for Sunnydale tragedy of the deaths of innocents, lives cut short, and so forth. The service also included a performance by the university wind ensemble and a reiteration by the university police chief to follow the standard UCS safety policy: always walking in pairs or more at night, keeping track of the phases of the moon, and keeping on one’s person one or more of the symbols of traditional Christianity regardless of one’s personal belief system. Immediately after the service, Buffy left for her afternoon appointments at Sunnydale High and Tara to continue weeding Mr. and Mrs. Kim’s flower beds (a new client in her fast-evolving landscape service), leaving Willow to sixes and sevens, or more precisely in search of a sugar fix, which was how three hours later Willow found herself perusing the glassed in cupcake racks of Forbidden Sweets and debating the merits of the Lemon Vanilla Fantastic versus the Raspberry Chocolate Flip.
“I saw you, Tara, and Buffy at the service. It was nice of you to come,” sounded a voice from behind. Willow stood up and turned to face Cheryl, dressed as always in a swirl of mismatched silk scarves, poet’s blouse, and four-gore skirt. She also looked to Willow’s eyes a decade older than the last time they’d spoken.
“I saw you, too. Towards the front. Were you sitting with Nicole’s parents?”
“Her aunt and uncle. Nic’s parents died when she was a kid.”
Willow hadn’t ever heard of Nicole referred to by anything other than her full name. Hearing Cheryl use a nickname made her realize exactly how little she knew about the girl.
“I’m really sorry for your loss,” Willow said, feeling awkward because of the history between her and Cheryl and Nicole, but also because she knew all too well the emptiness of those sorts of words.
Cheryl looked to the side, carefully focusing her gaze on one of the nearby tables. “Nic’s not going to come back, not like Tara, I mean.”
“No.” Willow agreed.
Cheryl nodded. Her gaze turned back to Willow. “We’re having a meeting tonight, the Daughters, I mean. Emily wants to hold a wake for Nic and Shelly, another one of the students that was killed. You probably never met her; Shelly was a freshman.” Cheryl held her lip between her teeth, seeming to consider her next words. “Shelly was into tarot and crystals, but she wasn’t a real witch either, not like you, not like Tara.”
Willow started to say something, a denial, a deflection, more automatic than anything else, but Cheryl stopped her, one hand held up. “Please don’t deny it. I mean, please don’t say anything. You don’t have to. What I know or think I know doesn’t really matter one way or another. I guess all I’m saying is that I see things, like a lot of other people do. I see how you and Tara and Buffy and your friends always seem to be around when the bad stuff goes down, always seem to try to intervene. And I get why the Daughters probably wasn’t your thing or Tara’s.” Cheryl stopped again and swallowed twice. “I’m not really sure why I’m even talking with you about this, but I noticed you at the service, and I wanted to say I know you and the others tried to save them.”
“What happened, it was more than we could . . .” Willow said before trailing off because she knew she couldn’t explain.
Cheryl’s eyes finally met Willow’s. “I guess what I wanted to say was … It was important to Nicole that you and Tara knew a few of the Daughters … We figured out you and her were different from the rest of us.”
The door opened and a gaggle of middle school girls came inside the cupcake shop, talking excitedly. They pushed past Willow and Cheryl.
“Anyway,” Cheryl said, “I should probably head back. I’ve got a paper due in a few days.”
The two girls said their goodbyes, and Willow watched Cheryl head out the door, and then she turned back to the cupcake rack. Her stomach was no longer in the mood, and so she ordered two cupcakes to go.
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Giles woke the next morning feeling unusually refreshed for a man in his late “middle-years”, as well as undeniably satisfied with his new digs. Undeniably satisfied even though his new living arrangement came to him as a result of the death of an old and dear friend and comrade. But as much he might wish he regretted more his move from the noisy and damp Sunnydale Arms Hotel to Albert’s quiet and cozy “above the store” apartment, Giles’ was far too honest a man to lie, if even and only to himself.
To be sure his new Sunnydale home did not sport the same amenities as his prior one. He would no longer enjoy a second-story mezzanine, let alone access to a courtyard: the two best features of the apartment he’d held during his tenures as Sunnydale’s high school librarian and owner of the Magic Box. He would, however, very much enjoy his new and quite serviceable eat-in kitchen, two bedrooms with tall windows looking out towards the ocean, study with built-in bookcases, bathroom with a claw-foot tub, and public room of sufficient space to entertain the entirety of the Scoobies, including all temporary members. And while he knew he would sometimes bemoan the lack of a proper garage, he was nevertheless pleased to have a carport sufficiently sized to house the small-size SUV he planned to purchase by week’s end. (There was also a much vaguer plan to buy a stock pot he’d been eyeing since before he’d left for England.)
Much like himself, Albert had lived “light” as Giles thought of it. Thus, it had taken Giles’ surprising little time to pack away Albert’s drawers and closet of clothing, all of it well-worn, many of the items neatly patched, as well Albert’s personal things, his flower vases, candy dishes, art work, and what have you. Since Albert had left no will, nor was there sign of any living relations, most of his belongings went to the donation bins, while the few items of actual value, a very nice print by William Blake, two exquisite Chumash baskets, and a silver cup with the imprint of Paul Revere were all donated in his name to the Sunnydale Art and Natural History Museums.
As for Albert’s furniture, none of it new, some of it qualifying as antique, and all of it showing surprisingly little wear and tear, Giles’ elected to keep the entirety of it, including Albert’s one obvious extravagance, a bed richly appointed with four posters, curtains, and a mattress more comfortable than Giles’ thought he’d ever experienced before. The mattress, however, did not alone explain Giles’ “good sleep”. There were many reasons for that, one of the most important being that it was on this particular morning, Rupert Giles born in England, American immigrant, and one-time member of the Watchers’ Council was finally and entirely settled. Catastrophe might be on the horizon, but for Giles on this morning he’d awakened knowing he was truly at home. He’d not experienced such awareness since his earliest boyhood.
Settling in, of course, had taken several days. Although Giles had checked out of the Sunnydale Arms the morning after the Tsuris attack, he’d had with him but a single suitcase of clothing, and so he’d been making do with the same limited wardrobe since his return from England, a situation that had grown beyond tiresome until yesterday, when to Giles’ great joy, his three steamer trunks arrived on his doorstep. One of the trunks he’d owned since boyhood, the other two had been acquired during his first time living in the states. Aside from the books comprising his personal library, those nineteen boxes still in transit, the contents of his three trunks and one suitcase comprised the whole of Giles’ worldly goods, and so the previous evening had been spent unpacking his things, putting away clothing, cookware, toiletries, and the like, hanging pictures and arranging his objets d’art. In short, he’d spent the evening doing the very pleasant work of putting his stamp upon his new home.
Another reason for his good sleep, an even more important aspect, was that Giles once again had a vocation. Even though he’d run from it, sometimes resented it, and ultimately quit it, it was undeniable his time on the Watchers’ Council had given him a sense for his place in the world, a sense he’d not felt in his most recent work, however important and significant, consulting on behalf of Devon Coven. He might not fully understand the scope of his new appointment, by no means did he believe himself sufficiently trained, but to have a true vocation meant the world to him.
And yet another reason for his good sleep was due to the bed itself, not the mattress or the lush pillows or the richly woven sheets and blankets or the silk curtains, but the frame. It was the bed frame, or more precisely the wood that had retained Albert’s mortality through the decades and would now retain his, with the not at all minor side-benefit of alleviating his lower back arthritis. Would that it also might recover him from a hangover, a regret Albert had signaled to him some weeks ago when he’d learned of Albert’s plans for him to become the fifth proprietor of Books of Shadows, 1348, or as it was known locally, Uncle Albert’s Books Used and Almost New. As Giles well knew, magick had his advantages, but those advantages were never entirely complete.
Having finished with his morning ablutions, dressed in his favorite suit (charcoal grey with a subtle stripe, vest, crisp white shirt, and red and blue silk tie) Giles ventured from his bedroom to his not yet entirely stocked kitchen to make his morning tea and toast. He would need to visit the grocer very soon to lay in stocks of fresh vegetables, dried herbs and spices, oils and vinegars, and canned goods (Giles had in mind preparing roasted vegetables over rice and barley for his evening supper), and there was also the not incidental matter of paper goods. From the mostly barren shelves and the few and little used pots and pans, Giles had already deduced Albert had generally avoided the kitchen. A clear point of difference between the two of them, and the main reason behind Giles’ vague plans for buying a proper stock pot.
As he waited for the water to boil, Giles made a final pass through the cupboards, wincing once again over Albert’s inexplicable fondness for rooibos tea, he’d never been able to stomach the stuff, but appreciating Albert’s apparently great affection for all things peppermint. He also churned over in his mind two complications, one minor: the renaming of the store (Uncle Giles’ was a non-starter) and one anything but minor: the return of Riley.
Samantha, he could already see, was a steady sort, good in a clinch and entirely reliable. Riley, however, was more of a wild card, or so Giles feared. He and Buffy had always bumped heads to use Xander’s apt phrase, both of them natural leaders, one of them never entirely able to set aside ego. Riley had matured certainly, but could he accept that there was only one leader in this newest fight with evil? Already, from a cryptic comment from Tara, Giles had the sense Riley was pushing at the boundaries of being lieutenant not captain.
By the time he’d finished his breakfast Giles had come to no useful conclusions regarding if he should intervene, let alone what he might say or do. Such, he thought, were the consequences of having been so long absent from his Slayer’s orbit. And then he checked himself, Buffy was no longer his Slayer, no matter they’d resumed their old training routines. Any advice he might offer had to be presented as a trusted friend, nothing more.
Giles took his cup, saucer, and plate to the sink, where he quickly washed, rinsed, and left them to dry inside the dish rack, putting the kitchen back to right, partly because it was his nature to be tidy, but also to avoid the temptation of preparing a second cup of tea. Then, ready to continue his day he headed off to work, a simple trip out a door and down a staircase leading into the rear office of what for now would continue to be known as Uncle Albert’s Books Used and Almost New.
At eight minutes past ten the bell above shop door sounded, drawing Giles from the rear stacks to the front. He’d already had three customers this morning, two students there to peruse the shelves for books needed for historical research into the American suffragette movement and one to pick up a special order. None of the three thought to question how it was he now owned the book shop, a new permutation Giles’ realized of what Buffy liked to call Sunnydale shrug, the noncommittal response of the citizenry to unexpected, inexplicable, or disturbing occurrences. He expected another customer or even, perhaps, someone merely looking for directions. He did not expect to see Anya.
“Good morning,” Giles said, by way of a greeting, trying very hard to keep any note of caution in his voice.
“Good morning,” Anya said, a shade too promptly in return.
Like he, Anya was dressed in what Giles’ thought of as business clothes, a rather smart sweater and shirt combination.
“I take it you’re not here to buy a book.” Giles ventured.
“Not at all,” Anya said, coming further into the store. She stopped to glance at a table display of popular, hard-back mysteries and thrillers before joining Giles at the counter. “That display is exactly the same as it was two weeks ago on my last visit. You should probably rearrange the titles. Good sales depend upon constant novelty of arrangement. Still, I’d keep the Stephen King books in the front. Everyone likes Stephen King.”
Point taken, Giles thought. Out loud, he merely asked, “Last visit?”
“Too drop off Albert’s invitation to attend the next meeting of the Sunnydale Downtown Merchants’ Association. Albert wouldn’t cough up an email address, so I always printed one out for him.”
It seemed unlikely, but Giles’ had to inquire, “And did he attend?”
“Never, but it’s always nice to be invited to such things,” Anya said. She ran her fingertip along the edge of the counter, which also doubled as a glass showcase for showing the few rare and valuable books for sale. She checked the fingertip for dust, found none, and then saved Giles’ from having to concoct a reply by continuing, “What are you going to rename the store? You’re keeping it aren’t you. As a front, I mean. It’s proven profitable both ways.” Now Anya offered up a small grin. “From your expression, I can tell you don’t know about Albert’s secondary business. If you did you wouldn’t have asked me about why I was here.”
Although hating himself for having to ask, Giles conceded, he did not know what Anya was talking about. When she finished her explanation, Giles realized he could now solve a conundrum Willow had faced as she’d tried to sort out Albert’s business ledgers.
“And you say this garden is not far from the store front.”
“It’s not as if I’ve actually been to it,” Anya said, “Demons can’t transit to the primitive world, our souls are shaped too differently.”
It had never occurred to Giles’ that demons had souls, or anything they might regard as a soul, let alone their shape. Wisely, he kept this information to himself.
“I only know about the garden from Albert. He did all of the seeding, tilling, harvesting. All of the farm-y stuff. I was strictly his middle-man, or middle-woman to be more precise.”
“And you say Albert’s garden is the major supplier for what again?”
“American supplier, by which I mean North, Central, and South, for chibber, yakum root, noorok, and cybrum. None of which grows anywhere on this continent, and none of which is currently being exported to this continent due to the usual trade barriers. Anyway, as I already said, it’s occurred to me you’ll probably conscript Tara to be your assistant, as I’ve never seen you manage to care for a house plant let alone husband a garden of vital roots and herbs, and I wanted you to know there will be no hard feelings on my part, despite losing my best assistant since taking over the business from you. Also, as I said, I am hoping you will make an effort to attend the next meeting of the Downtown Association.” Anya offered up her widest grin. “When our businesses band together, everybody profits!”
It was on that happy note Anya made her departure, eager to greet what she thought would be a sizable lunch rush at the Magic Box, Halloween, after all, was just around the corner, and leaving Giles standing behind his store counter still trying to get his mind around this latest bit of news: Uncle Albert’s Books Used and New was also a secret front for the sourcing of magick supplies.
“Apparently, Anya took over Mrs. Washington’s brokerage business after Mrs. Washington decided to retire from Sunnydale to the more bucolic environment that is South Dakota, and now Anya is the major distributor of magick supplies for western North America,” Giles said to Tara.
It was now late afternoon and the two of them were sitting on high chairs behind the store counter, drinking afternoon tea, and enjoying a tin of biscuits Giles’ had brought back from England.
“This explains the inventory Anya k-keeps in the Magic Box basement,” Tara said. “When I was doing the counts the last couple of weeks, it didn’t s-seem likely she was keeping that high an inventory for one store, even if the store operates near a hellmouth.”
Giles nodded his understanding. “By the way, I also met Harold, Albert’ store clerk, yesterday.”
Tara smiled broadly. “Did you like him? I like him.”
“He’s a lovely young man,” Giles said, “I was embarrassed for not remembering him as a student at Sunnydale High. He was one-year behind Buffy and the others. And he was gracious enough to note Clava demons’ facial features change a good deal once they’ve reached their full maturity. I’m keeping him on, of course. He knows more about the used book business than I do. He got right to the special orders, which were already backlogged. And he’s more than happy to work afternoons, evenings and Saturdays.”
This was a great relief, as Giles had already decided to keep the store hours long established by Albert, and he’d worried over closing the store when he was needed to assist on training or patrolling. However, at least according to Tara, he wouldn’t be needed for training purposes for the time being. Sam had taken over those responsibilities.
“You say even Spike is participating?” Giles said with clear surprise. “How are Xander and Riley reacting.”
“Xander’s a little wigged about having Spike in the Magic Box, even if it’s the back room. And Riley—” Tara trailed off.
“Riley and Spike have a long history of animosity. Some of it having to do with the Initiative affair,” Giles said. Off Tara’s subtle nod showing she was aware of the days of the Initiative, whether because she’d been told or she had the memories of her counterpart he did not know, he continued, “And doubtlessly more so over Spike’s and Buffy’s complex history.” This time Tara acknowledged more directly she knew Spike had assaulted Buffy, allowing Giles’ to venture, “I’m not at all surprised there’s some friction. How couldn’t there be misgivings?”
“Even though he still doesn’t really trust him, Xander accepts Spike has a soul, and he’s w-willing to follow Buffy’s lead,” Tara said.
“And Riley is not,” Giles said with a quiet sigh.
“It’s not so much Riley won’t listen, it’s more like he makes it clear he doesn’t approve.”
Leaving Buffy to have to contend with insubordination, however subtle, on top of a coming evil for which they’d yet to have establish a fully thought strategy to stop. Giles took a sip of his tea. “How is Sam handling this” he asked after a moment.
“Things kind of came to a head last night, and Sam pulled Riley aside.”
“Came to a head?”
Giles could see Tara was debating how much to share. He waited patiently for her to make her decision. Any prompting on his part would be prying.
“We were splitting off to patrol the cemetery, and Riley made some n-noise when Buffy put Spike with Riley and Sam. I mean he said something under his breath, but of course could Buffy hear it.”
“Her slayer senses,” Giles murmured.
“Exactly, and then Buffy m-made a face, and Sam pulled Riley aside.”
“What did Spike do?”
“Nothing, he just stood there waiting for Riley to sort himself out.” It was Tara’s turn to sigh quietly. “I told Willow what happened. She’s going to take Buffy out for coffee.”
Despite Tara’s clear concern, a rush of pride came over Giles similar to the one he’d felt that first night following his return from England, both then and now he’d delighted in witnessing how Buffy, Willow, and Xander had reestablished their bonds to one another.
“Good,” Giles said, “Willow will offer wise and useful counsel, of that I’m entirely confident.”
Giles’ watched as a similar rush of pride passed over Tara’s face. What a wonder she was, he thought. At once the thoughtful and caring girl he remembered so vividly, but now also a young woman of undeniable strength of character and will. And then he realized, not for the first time, but more clearly than ever before how vital all of them were to solving their current troubles, Tara and Willow, Buffy, Xander and he, Spike and Anya, and now Sam and Riley. And this thought allowed him to make his admission, “I spent more time on Barton’s yesterday afternoon. It’s been my entryway into your magicks. I managed to conjure up a small snow storm in the annex.” He offered a rueful grin. Cleaning up the resulting puddles had required quick discovery of where Albert had kept his mops and floor rags.
“During our training sessions, Albert would have us do our work outdoors,” Tara trailed off, a puzzled expression came upon her face. “We did all this w-work while I was dreaming, I conjured ice shields and air shocks. I learned how to make fire nets. Once I used earth and air to make a footbridge for crossing a river, and I know I couldn’t have been more than thirteen or fourteen w-when I did it. Except it wasn’t really me, it was my counterpart in this reality. Except maybe s-some of it was me, while I had my long sleep.”
“Albert’s journals indicate he’d been working with Tara long before she arrived in Sunnydale, and then he began working with you following the merging of yours and the Tara of this world’s souls.”
Giles didn’t say he wondered if part of Tara’s delay in recovering from the joining was due to Albert’s entering her dreams. It seemed possible. It also made him wonder more about Lethe’s bramble, and he had a private plan to research the substance more once their current crisis was put to an end.
“Her mother was his student, too.” Tara said, pulling Giles out of his musings, “I know this, but I d-don’t know how I know this. Just like I d-don’t really understand how all of what I know can make sense together. I mean what I learned from my mother’s book of shadows and library and what I know from the dreams, dreams I d-don’t really remember as dreams, more like being in school, but—.” Tara trailed off a moment, needing to regroup. She shook her head, trying to throw off her frustration. “And when I try to think about it, I mean try to understand what exactly I know about fire nets from my mother and what I know from Albert, I can’t. It’s all just one piece.”
Giles’ smiled showing he understood exactly Tara’s point. Having knowledge when one doesn’t know its source can be as frustrating as it might also be gratifying.
“From what I’ve gathered, I think Mrs. Maclay was in training to be Albert’s replacement.”
Tara nodded slowly. “But then she took ill and died. If it’s not too rude to ask, do you know when he decided on you?”
Giles picked up his teacup, noticed it was empty, and replaced it on the saucer. He got up to make a fresh pot of tea.
“It’s not rude at all, and my answer is I’m not entirely sure. He contacted me directly about three weeks ago, telling me it was time I returned to Sunnydale. Before then, while I was still very much Buffy’s watcher, he alluded to my future. When exactly he began my training, I’ve no idea.”
Giles plugged in the hot water pot and turned back to face Tara.
“It’s the strangest thing. When you first told me of shaping elementals, I really had no idea of what you were speaking. But now, since Albert’s death, as I’ve been exploring the annex and reading his journals, entire possibilities for magicks, actual techniques are suddenly and remarkably known to me. I have to think he’s been training me for years, quite probably since I first came to Sunnydale as Buffy’s watcher.”
“That would make s-sense,” Tara said. “Tara’s mother died five years ago.”
“Mrs. Maclay would have been an excellent choice for his replacement. Like Albert, she journaled her studies. To be honest, as her replacement, I’m far from her equal.”
Giles took Tara’s cup from her to prepare it for a fresh tea bag and water. Besides the hot water pot, Albert had kept behind the counter a small refrigerator stocked with water jugs, cheeses, and, oddly enough, popsicles. The man had clearly been an inveterate “snacker”.
“I’ve been wondering if there was an Albert in my old reality. In my world, Buffy came to Sunnydale too late to stop the Master’s rise. But maybe things fell apart because there was no Albert either?” Tara stood up and stretched back her shoulders. “What I knew about elementals and conjures before I crossed here I learned out of my mother’s library, but now I have my counterpart’s memories of what she learned from her training with Albert. Your Tara knew so much more than I did, but she never used it. I mean, none of you ever saw her use it?”
“Not that I’m aware. From what I have gathered from Albert’s personal journal, I think you’re correct. He had yet to, for lack of a better term, activate her, but Tara had been long chosen to be his, err, assistant—.”
Tara held up her hand, “I know Albert called her his apprentice,” she said. Her expression showed she had no qualms about the term.
“His apprentice to become his knight,” Giles said, softly.
“Knight to his wizard,” Tara said, as softly.
Hearing the words aloud, saying them to one another, made real something they’d both known for days, and both had hesitated to discuss. They looked at one another, each taking the other’s measure.
And then, a few moments later, Tara said, “We got to choose.”
It was an observation Giles’ had also made. They’d gotten to choose to take on their service; even now they could reject it; Buffy was conscripted.
Giles finishing preparing the second round of tea, and the two of them began what both now knew would be their life’s work, the preservation and development of the world’s magick.
I decided to post Chapter 34 today, also. Somedays I am impulsive.
Patrol the next evening was proving unremarkable until it wasn’t. Buffy had split the team up, sending Sam, Tara, and Spike to clear Evergreen Cemetery and the downtown, while she and Riley headed for the docks; Xander had the night off. By eleven, Sam had checked in via cell phone to report all was clear and her team was heading to home and crypt. Buffy explained she and Riley were about to do the same, and then no more than five minutes after ringing off, she and Riley suddenly found themselves in a fight with a clan of heavily armed Miquot. Fortunately, Riley and she had taken to carrying blades and nightsticks in their boots in addition to the usual stakes, holy water, and crucifixes, what Buffy didn’t expect was that Riley was also packing a micro-pistol loaded with armor piercing bullets.
The fight ended in minutes, the clean-up, of course, took longer, first finding the necessary rope, then bundling together the bodies so that the corpses wouldn’t float after being heaved off the wharf. They were heading back to the house when Buffy finally said aloud the words that had been churning in her brain since she’d seen Riley unholster the gun he’d kept hidden at the small of his back.
“What were you thinking. We don’t use guns.”
“The Slayer doesn’t use a gun.”
“We don’t use guns because guns have this tendency to create collateral damage. We don’t use guns because gun shots attract police. We don’t use guns because most of the time bullets are ineffective against demons.”
“Bullets took out seven Miquot just fine.”
“We don’t use guns because I won’t have it.”
The two came to a stop. They were nearly to the house, no more than two blocks away, standing on Elm Street and surrounded by homes filled with people sleeping blissfully unaware of what roamed the streets of their city each night.
“I get it. I get that you hate Spike and that you miss your old life, the one before you got sucked into the Initiative. I get that you would do pretty much anything not to be a part of my world. I get that demon hunting sucks and that any ideas you had about noble adventure pretty much ended the first time you come up on a vamp or a polgara or a vahrall or a hellhound chewing up some little kid,” Buffy said, the words coming off her tongue like tiny shards of ice.
She swallowed, and then she said something else, something Willow had helped her to see, forcing down her anger, regaining her calm, “And I get to know I was chosen. Some men millennia ago made a decision that put me here. And I know you don’t have that. You don’t know the exact turn you made that resulted in your being here with me. But here you are, and I need you. I need you to help me fight what’s coming next. God knows I need you for that. But I need Spike, too. And I also need you to accept that I set the rules of engagement.”
Buffy waited. Riley had to make a decision. He needed several minutes. He offered a stiff nod, and then the two of them continued walking. When they reached the front porch, Buffy gave Riley a quick glance. The set of his shoulders was different. She smiled inwardly. Out loud she said, “I also need you to help me chaperone the Homecoming dance this weekend. Are you up for what promises to be worse than body dumping a clan of Miquot?”
A smile Buffy recognized from long ago danced on Riley’s lips.
“You paying for the tux?” he asked.
“Yeah, but lately I’ve feeling a little whimsical. It might be powder blue with ruffles.”
“Just so long as it doesn’t have those stripes of ribbon down the legs, I’ve got a reputation to maintain, you know.”
Buffy laughed and they headed inside where she could already scent the popcorn and hot chocolate waiting for them.
Homecoming night began with a limo rented and piloted by Xander, dressed in a tux that everyone charitably did not remember from his aborted wedding day. The ride to the high school, it’s newly refurbished gym resplendent in ribbons, balloons, banners, and crepe paper, took place following a flurry of picture taking, Willow commandeering the digital camera from Buffy in view of Buffy’s well-known inability to comfortably frame a photograph. This left Buffy to instruct Dawn, Lisa, Kit, and Janice, who’d managed to break up with her boyfriend/date three days earlier, to assume a variety of poses including one involving the girls standing one to a step at the staircase rail and another involving each of the girls holding forth her wrist corsage, each of the corsages a gift from Willow and Tara, thus solving the great flower giving dilemma.
Buffy and Giles arrived separately to the dance in Giles’ new and beautifully detailed sapphire blue Honda CRV, which he not only insisted on driving himself, but for which he also commandeered two parking slots to protect the finish, a point of fact Buffy was still commenting upon an hour into the festivities, while she and Giles manned the punch bowl.
“Safeguarding my new vehicle from door nicks does not mean I’ve turned into some addle-brained Southern California hyper consumer, to use your simultaneously condescending and over-worded description,” Giles said, as he handed off a glass of punch to a young man who reminded him of the young man who’d fallen under the influence of Moloch, the corruptor and whose name he could no longer recall.
Buffy, having decided she’d already sufficiently teased Giles for becoming car proud, even though she had one gibe left in her arsenal involving a prior automobile extravagance memorably described as red and looking like a penis, said, “Was it just me, or did that kid look like a blonder version of Fritz. The kid who turned himself into one of Moloch’s minions sophomore year.”
“I believe he did,” Giles said, staring after the boy. “Sad what happened to him, more so to his friend, Dave.” His eyes caught on Anya, who was on the other side of the dance floor and who appeared to be confiscating a flask of some kind. “Anya is stepping up to tonight’s duties with exactly the expected level of zeal. Still, why did she offer to take over for Riley?”
“Anya needs to earn more ‘service’ points. She’s trying to win some downtown association prize, and volunteering for Homecoming duty brings in, I think she said, 50.”
“Of course, she is,” Giles said.
“Also, Riley wanted to have a date night with Sam. I think he asked, and Anya jumped at the offer. Anyway, he and Sam should be out on patrol now, but they had dinner reservations for Marconi’s earlier.”
“You and he had a talk, I take it,” Giles said, trying to steer the conversation as gently as possible, while also making sure to keep his eyes averted from Dawn, who was presently dancing with a boy he believed might be the famous Kevin Berman, famous according to Willow, at least.
“We’re good for now. But he won’t stick around after we finish off Warren redux.”
“Riley said as much?”
“Not directly, it’s just the feeling he’s been giving off. I’ve been thinking he wants out of the demon hunting business. Maybe not out, out,” Buffy said, thinking over what she was saying. “It’s more like Sam’s still all with the mission, but I keep thinking Riley wants to do more than mop up work.”
Giles turned to look at Buffy, not sure what Buffy meant by “mop up work.” Before he could ask his question, she added:
“When we had it out the other night, I said something I hadn’t really considered. It’s different being the Slayer versus being a demon hunter. One’s a calling, and the other’s, let’s face it, mercenary work. Riley and Sam go where they’re needed, but also where they’re solicited. And the people doing the soliciting aren’t always the best people.”
Giles poured another glass of punch, this time for a young woman he knew worked as a part-time cashier at the drug store around the corner from his bookshop. He’d not realized she was still in high school.
“Sam mentioned to me their government sponsors in Thailand were more concerned with tamping down bad publicity in order to protect the tourist industry than protect the citizenry,” Giles said. “Much the same as it was in Brazil. You think Sam is less bothered by their work?”
Buffy put on her thinking face. “Sam might be ready for a change, too. She’s still a doctor. She must miss that.” Buffy offered Giles a measuring stare. “You’ve been ready for a change a lot longer.”
Giles poured two more glasses of punch. One of the two recipients surprised him by saying, “thank you.” He wondered if Buffy had been guiding their conversation as much as he’d been, both of them endeavoring to get the other to be forthright. He liked the irony.
“Tara and I had a lengthy talk this afternoon. Sorting out our new roles.”
Buffy smiled but said nothing, waiting for Giles to continue. Giles needed a few moments to gather his thoughts.
“Albert’s training methods confound me entirely. With me unaware, he’s prepared me for a job for which I am entirely grateful. And he did the same to Tara, I mean our Tara. She’d no idea he had chosen her to become his—.”
“Apprentice,” Buffy said. “Willow and I figured that one out yesterday. It’s been sweet how you and Tara have been avoiding the word. So, apprentice, but not to be a wizard. Tara wasn’t only being trained in magicks, she was in training to be a fighter, too. I keep remembering something Willow told me about this time our Tara just picked up a battle axe and planted it along some demon’s spine.”
“Page or squire might have been the more apt term,” Giles said. “Our Tara was to be Albert’s knight. His instrument for retrieving lost books of magick. There’s thousands of them, some of them scattered since the fall of the Libraries of Alexandria, many more of them since the destruction of the Watchers’ Council offices. And then there’s the whole world of grimoires, the unpublished works by witches. Some of it schools of magick misremembered or no longer remembered at all. And each and every one of these books vulnerable to falling into the hands of …”
“A Warren Mears or a Jonathan Levinson or an Andrew Wells or an Amy or a Fritz or a Dave and the list goes on and on.”
“All of this training, and all of it done inside of our dreams. It’s really no wonder our new Tara had such a rough go of it when her soul was combined with our Tara’s.”
“Tara and I have been talking about it while patrolling. Dreams within dreams, combining memories, and then some other stuff. More like prophecy.”
“Like prophecy,” Giles echoed. “Tara certainly anticipated Albert’s murder. I asked her about it, and she’s not had the nightmare of bodies hung from street lights since the Brocton massacre. But prophecy or preparation? It’s not at all clear the full purpose of Tara’s dreams, and I suspect we, she will never entirely know it.”
Buffy’s cell phone sounded, and Giles quieted as she opened a text. The expression on her face caused him to ask, “Trouble?”
Spike scented the pack before he rounded the old Savings and Loan, now repurposed as an art gallery, coming off Magnolia onto Lincoln. There were seven of them huddled together like they’d just dropped from the sky or came up from the earth. He’d never fully understood where hell hounds came from. Darla liked to claim they were some dog demon hybrid done up by a long-ago wizard. When they were in China, Angelus said they were pure demon risen up from the netherworlds. Spike supposed it didn’t really matter where they came from; they were hellish little beasties all the same.
He’d been heading for a poker game in the backroom of Willy, the snitch’s bar, now he pulled out his cell phone and shot a text to Buffy. He then shot the same text to Willow, Xander and the others. Riley texted back first, saying he and Sam were nearby, ETA less than a minute.
He heard them first, poncy-boy Riley coming up from behind on his clod-hopping boots. He shot a glance over his shoulder and saw Riley and Sam dressed in their usual stealthy black, and he wondered if that was what they’d worn out to dinner, Willow had mentioned to him it was supposed to be their date night. He pushed the thought away; he’d spent far too much of his undead life speculating about how the living-half lived.
“Best way to cope with these little buggers is fireballs away,” Spike said, softly.
“And none of us magic-users,” Sam said, just as softly. “Which means we do it the old-fashioned way.” She pulled a collapsed cross-bow from her backpack. “I’ve got three bolts for this puppy.” She looked at Riley, “Give Spike your long blade. He’s better on it than you. You take the cross-bow. I’ve got my short blades.”
Riley might be a shining example of the shortcomings of the living, but at least he chose well in a wife, Spike thought as he dropped his cigarette butt to the ground and crushed it with the heel of his boot. He took Riley’s long blade in hand; it was a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, finely balanced and with a grip black as midnight and a blade that with sufficient force could probably remove the head of a bear. Chose well in a wife and a blade.
Willow was reading Spike’s text to Tara and Xander when Tara stopped everyone short. They were patrolling Pioneer Cemetery. “Other side of the crypt. Hellhounds. Can’t tell how many, but sounds like at least five, maybe six,” Tara said.
“You can distinguish one of them from another,” Xander said. “Impressive.”
“And what’s up with that smell,” Willow said.
“Hellhounds eat carrion, as well as their own kill. They’re more like hyenas and coyotes than dogs,” Tara said. She held out her hand and almost instantly a small blue flame began dancing atop the palm.
Willow put out her hand as well, and the flame split into two, the second moving atop her palm. “Xander, hang back a bit.”
Tara took point as they started on a wide berth of the Dillingham Crypt, circling around as quietly as they could. As luck would have it, there were six of the beasties busily tearing apart an adult coyote and an unknown number of pups, snapping at one another as much as scarfing down the fresh meat, and, fortunately for the Scoobies, too busy to give them any notice.
“Will, try to catch the one towards the left. It’s the biggest, so it’s probably the pack leader. I’ll try to catch the first that scatter.”
Willow nodded. She moved to a better vantage point and took fire. The pack leader exploded in an inferno of fur and limbs. Bile rose up in Willow’s throat, as she formed another fire ball.
Tara took out two others that broke in the Scoobies’ direction. The remaining three broke, one to the right, two to the left. Tara was able to catch the one heading rightward. She called out for Willow and Xander to follow as she began chasing the remainder of the pack.
Giles gestured for Anya to join him and Buffy at the punch bowl, and then Buffy quickly informed Anya of the latest incursion.
“We need to see how many packs have been released,” Giles said to Buffy. “Anya, if you could hold down things in here, Buffy and I might find a more secluded place for me to open up a scrying pane.”
“What do you want me to do about Dawn?” Anya asked.
Dawn was now group dancing with her friends Kit and Janice.
“Nothing for now,” Buffy said. “Maybe we’ll be lucky and the hell hounds won’t be heading for the school.”
“Let’s not alarm ourselves unnecessarily,” Giles said.
Looking worried, Anya agreed to the plan and headed back across the dance floor.
“We can hide out in my office. It’s just down the hall from the cafeteria,” Buffy said.
Seconds later, Buffy was pushing her surprisingly tidy desk to the side and Giles was crouched down on the floor. He produced from his pants pockets a small, cloth sack and from his jacket pocket a thin bottle. “Casting base and sanctified water courtesy of Albert, his special formulas for both. Given our current circumstances, I no longer leave my home without it.” Giles worked quickly, setting out the materials as he said an incantation that called upon something Buffy thought sounded like Sybellia. She’d been expecting Giles to call on Aradia.
The scrying pane was translucent and rectangular. Buffy could see the tile floor of her office as a kind of haze below what looked like an aerial view of Sunnydale. Giles twisted and pulled the pane until he had a view of what Buffy instantly recognized as the downtown.
“I’m too new to this to be able to read it quickly, but I think that patch of pulsating green is Spike’s hellhound pack. What I want to do is see if I can spot any others.”
Buffy’s cell phone chimed. “That was Willow. She, Tara, and Xander just took out a pack of beasties at …”
Giles interrupted, “Pioneer Cemetery.”
“Six of them. Can you center that thing above the high school? If we’ve got incoming.” Buffy didn’t finish her sentence. Giles understood the problem.
“I would have thought there were more of them at the cemetery,” Giles said, as he continued to reshape the pane until he could see the high school at center. “All right then, that’s Sunnydale High. And I’m seeing two other packs. One of them is at the water tower; the other is moving down what I think is Lexington Avenue.” Giles stood up. “Both packs are heading this way.”
Riley hit the pack leader square through the throat, killing it instantly, as Spike made a wide circle around him, blade held high overhead, taking after the three that immediately bolted right. Riley realized his mistake almost instantly, he’d not hit the pack leader. Heart pounding, he slapped a second bolt onto the cross-bow and took aim.
Giles headed back to the dance, leaving Buffy to head out to the parking lot. Their first priority would be to ensure everyone was inside. He spotted Anya standing at the exterior doors, preventing a small group of students from heading outside. He was wondering how soon Anya would resort to her demon’s visage to keep the students inside the building as he made his way atop the makeshift stage on which was playing a four piece and, in his view, truly awful Ska band.
“If I could have everyone’s attention,” Giles said, after taking the microphone none to gently from the lead singer’s hand. “We’ve been informed a pack of wild dogs is heading towards the high school. We’ve been advised everyone is to shelter in place until further notice. Please keep a safe distance from the exterior doors and windows.”
In any other high school in America, Giles was convinced, an announcement such as the one he’d just made would have resulted in a rush to the doors. A Sunnydale upbringing, however, prepared for a very different reaction. With satisfaction, Giles watched as the students moved towards the center of the dance floor and the food tables that lined the interior walls, Dawn and her girlfriends included. He handed the mic back to the lead singer, mumbled “carry on,” and jumped off the platform, making a fast clip to join Anya, who continued to stand in front of the exterior doors.
“I’ve locked them all so that nothing can come inside unless we allow it. Excepting, of course, any hellhound that wants to hurl itself hard enough to break through the glass. Which is probably every hellhound.”
Giles was about to respond when he spied Principal Wood heading their way. Unlike Giles who was resplendent in his tuxedo, Wood was dressed in a pair of jeans and a Sunnydale High School sweatshirt. Giles repressed a momentary flash of annoyance as he wondered why he’d been pressed into chaperone duty and the principal had not.
“Buffy stopped by my office to inform me there’s trouble coming our way. You’re Mr. Giles, I take it, Robin Wood, principal of Sunnydale High. I hope you’ll excuse my informal dress, I was working on the spring semester scheduling,” Wood said, holding out his right hand. “Ms. Jenkins and I are acquainted from her participation on the Downtown Merchants’ Association.”
“Rupert Giles, Mr. Wood, I’m happy to make your acquaintance. I understand you’ve some experience with extreme possibilities,” Giles said, wanting to feel out how open the high school’s newest principal was to Sunnydale’s more unusual attributes.
“I’ve received a couple of briefings from Mayor Bennington’s office.”
“Right, then,” Giles said. He tried to put a face on the current mayor. If he remembered correctly, Bennington was a Clava demon. For a second he was distracted, wondering if Bennington was related to Harold, then he pulled his thoughts together. “We’re in all likelihood about to be visited very soon by at least two packs of, uhm, wild dogs.”
“He means hellhounds,” Anya said. “There’s no point in trying to sugar coat hellhounds,” she said to Giles, to Wood she continued, “Demon mad dog things, lots of teeth, lots of claws, lots of slobber, and they stink to high heaven.”
Seeming to think Giles was about to object, Wood said, “I’ve witnessed Ms Summers do some extraordinary things in the school parking lot since starting here. I’m not someone who is incapable of accepting what my eyes can see.”
“Good to hear,” Giles said, just as the interior doors to the cafeteria opened and Buffy pushed inside about a dozen students, and headed his way.
“Parking lot is clear. I found a couple of additional kids smoking in one of the corridors. Anya, Mr. Wood, can you keep everyone contained in here. If things get dicey, take everyone to the biology labs and lock the fire doors. You’ll be safe there.” Buffy said something quietly to Anya and then turned to Giles. “I’m heading back out. I could use a hand.”
“Of course,” Giles said, but he sounded unsure.
“Go on, Ms. Jenkins and I have this covered,” Wood said to Giles.
Giles nodded and followed Buffy; once they were out of the cafeteria and into the corridor Buffy said, “I’ve got a cross-bow and two long blades stashed in my office. Tara said the best defense against hellhounds is fire.”
“When hit with a fireball, a hellhound ignites like over dried timber. The trick is they can run like the wind and turn on a dime. Have you heard anything more from the others?”
“Xander said they’d be here in,” Buffy glanced at her cell phone, “about seven more minutes. Of course, they can’t come here overland.”
“Understood,” Giles said as Buffy picked up her pace and he followed suit.
Riley’s second shot put a bolt into the true pack leader. Unfortunately, it missed the demon’s throat and lodged in its left shoulder. Before he could launch the third bolt, the demon was on top of him. Riley rolled with it, trying to kick it away as he shielded his throat with his arm. And then the thing was off of him, or rather split in two, the head gone one direction, the torso the other. Through the spray of blood and gore, Riley saw Spike, coat billowing behind him, reach for his hand to pull him from the ground.
“Move it, the other beasties got Sam cornered,” Spike said.
Riley came off the ground, his free hand pulling his nightstick from his boot.
Xander blinked back a steady rivulet of blood from a wound incurred when one of the hellhounds bounced him off of a headstone. Other than that, the three of them were fine, although he could tell both Willow and Tara were spent from having launched dozens of fireballs. The six they’d initially spotted turned into a pack of twenty-five, maybe thirty. Xander had lost count. Ahead, he watched his green light turn yellow then red. He moved into the center of the road and accelerated, his eyes darting left and right checking for oncoming traffic. The crossing at Miller’s Way wasn’t usually busy at this hour, and all the lights on Adams’ Street were timer based. He blew the intersection at about sixty miles per hour.
“There was a time when I used to say you drove like my grandmother,” Willow said from the shotgun seat. “I’m not going to say that anymore.”
“Anh sent me a text. And I know you can’t hear someone’s voice when they text. But she sounded scared.” Xander shot a glance at his best friend. “Anh doesn’t do scared.”
“She’ll be okay, Xander. We’re almost there,” Tara said from the back seat.
Xander took his hand off the wheel to flick away blood that was caught in his eyebrow, then clamped it back onto the wheel as he took the next corner, barely keeping all four car tires on the ground.
Spike charged down the alley that ran between 4th and 5th street, darting around the dumpsters that were parked outside the rear doors. He wondered if the hellhounds had been drawn to the restaurant district by the smell or been dumped there. Behind him he could hear the pounding of Riley’s boots trying to keep up with him, ahead he thought he heard a scream. Also ahead, a dumpster that had been pulled into the center of the alley. Spike leaped into the air, his speed alone propelling his feet as he ran along the side of the building before lighting back onto the ground. He heard another scream, and he knew it was Sam. He ran faster.
Giles stood with Buffy near the eastern edge of the high school parking lot. He brought the scrying pane with him, and he was tracking two separate packs that he believed would soon merge. Behind him he heard a squeal of brakes as a car bounced over a curb and came onto the parking lot.
“Xander,” Buffy shouted.
And then footsteps as Xander, Willow, and Tara joined them.
“Have you heard from Spike, Riley, or Sam?” Willow said. “We got a message, but now it’s radio silence.”
“I’ve tried calling all three,” Buffy said. She glanced towards Tara and then back to Willow. “Are you two ready?”
Tara held out her hand, two small balls of fire balanced atop the palm. She nodded.
Spike rounded the corner, coming out onto Charles Street to find Sam already on the ground and surrounded by three hellhounds. Sword held high, he came at the beasts, neatly severing one head, then a second before plunging the blade deep into the mid-section of the third, twisting as he pulled out. Entrails spilled from the creature, littering the ground with blood and guts. He saw Riley as he came out of the alley, and he heard Riley’s scream before he looked down to see Sam, lying face down, her body ripped open from her neck to her lower back.
Spike fell to his knees, wanting to cover his face, his ears, not wanting not to hear, not wanting to see.
A car drove up and stopped a few yards short of the three of them. Spike heard a shout and looked up. Clem stepped out of the driver’s seat and ran to them. In his coat pocket Spike felt his cell phone vibrate. He pulled it out and found a new text from Willow.
“See to them,” Spike said to Clem. “I’ve got to get to the high school. There’s another pack of the things heading that way.”
Spike had already run three blocks before he thought to steal a car. He hot-wired a small pick-up truck he found parked on Magnolia, and arrived at the high school in the thick of what turned out to be the last attack of the night. Although Xander would have to go to the hospital to receive stiches to close the wound along his hairline, the others Buffy, Giles, Willow and Tara were unhurt. Spike pulled Buffy aside to tell her Sam was dead.
A little over a week later the shock of Sam’s death had abated, and there’d been more fights, the usual complement of vampires risen and a smattering of other demon types including a Chaunga demon, a bipedal reptilian-like creature Giles identified as previously unseen in North America and last witnessed in Argentina in the eighteenth century. The shock had abated, but it had turned into a deep sorrow. Riley, of course took the loss hardest, seeming to have aged a decade in a matter of days. Buffy found herself unexpectedly dreaming a nightmare from years ago, a dream of trying and being unable to save her mother, a dream she’d not had since those terrible weeks following Joyce’s death while she’d had to fight Glory. As for Willow, she fell into a new pit of guilt, as she compared Riley’s stoicism to her utter and violent collapse in the wake of the death of her beloved.
It was Halloween morning and Tara came into the kitchen to find Dawn already up and making coffee. This was new.
“You’re drinking coffee? I thought you were strictly a hot chocolate girl,” Tara said, not bothering to disguise a yawn.
Dawn shook her head. “I heard you get up and hit the showers, so I thought I’d get up and get the pot started. Buffy’s still asleep. Willow, too?”
“Asleep after a pretty restless night,” Tara said. She took her seat at the counter. “Thanks for getting the coffee started.”
“No problem. I heard you and Buffy get in around midnight. Everything okay?”
Tara heard the part of Dawn’s question left unasked, and answered it first. “Riley’s okay. We chased down another polgara demon and three vampires. Nothing big.”
“And he’s settled in with Mr. Giles?”
Riley had moved into Giles’ spare bedroom the day before.
Tara accepted a cup of freshly brewed coffee made double-strong, her favorite. “Settled in,” she said, “And thank you, for this and for looking out for Willow last night while I was on patrol.”
Patrol the previous night had also included Spike and Giles. Xander remained on the injury list until tomorrow, when his stiches could come out. Willow remained too shaken from the hellhound attack to join in, and so Tara had partnered with Spike. The new rule was each patrol had to include at least one magic-user.
“Buffy said there’d be trick or treating, tonight. Are you staying in or going out with your friends?”
“Staying in. I like to hand out the treats, which reminds me. I need to stop at the grocery over on 25th street to pick up the candy. They’re the only one that sells the five-hundred piece bags. Could you run me over after school? I’ve got a half-day, but Buffy has a meeting with Mr. Wood. Probably more security plans. He’s been pretty wigged since the hellhounds came to Homecoming.”
Tara needed to think for a moment.
“Sure, I can drive Willow to school in her car, and then keep it for running errands. But I have to be available to pick up Willow in time to take her to Stefan’s for her hair cutting appointment at four.”
“Great and no problem. I’m going to head upstairs to shower and get ready for school,” Dawn said.
Tara drank her coffee enjoying it, the morning sun through the kitchen window, and the morning quiet of a full house. She was on her second cup when Willow came downstairs in her bathrobe and slippers.
Willow dropped a kiss on Tara’s cheek before pouring herself a cup of coffee.
“Double-strong,” Willow said after taking a sip, “Thanks.”
“Thank Dawnie. She made it.”
Willow made her surprised face, and Tara got up and moved around the counter. She wrapped her arms around Willow’s waist, from behind, and kissed the back of Willow’s head.
“You were crying last night,” Tara said softly.
“It’s so dumb, so selfish. I keep thinking about Riley and what he’s lost, and I’m so grateful I have you. And I don’t deserve it. I don’t deserve having you.”
Tara moved around so that she could look into Willow’s face.
“It’s not a question of deserve. I can’t think that way. If I do, then I have to ask myself how do I deserve you.” Willow started to object, and Tara placed a finger over Willow’s lips. “Will, I allowed the Apprentice to escape. If anyone owns w-what happened to Sam, it’s me. And it’s me twice-over because my Sam died because of me, too.”
Willow shook her head sharply. “That’s not true. None of its true. Your Sam died because of the Master, and the Apprentice escaped because you were blind-sided. And now you’re here protecting this world from what’s coming.”
“Just like Riley’s Sam,” Tara said. She waited for Willow’s expression to relax. “Will, none of us can fix the past, and n-none of us can ever make up for the errors of the past. All we can do is move forward and try to do better. I need you to let it go, not your grief, only this guilt. You’ve already made amends enough, Will.”
Willow heard as much what Tara said, as she did not.
“You know you’re the new super-witch. You and Giles. I haven’t been able to raise the elementals. Not on my own.”
“And that’s because Giles and I haven’t had enough time to work with you. I have all of Tara’s dream-work, and it s-stretches back for almost a decade. And Giles’ thinks his dream-work began at least five years ago. Give it time, Will. You’re a Revane witch. Embrace the lineage. Embrace the native talent.”
Tara knew she’d earn a Willow smile simply mentioning the name Revane.
Willow pressed her forehead to Tara’s. After a moment, she said, “Okay.”
And Tara knew Willow’s spirit wasn’t yet healed. Grief could never be put away so easily. But she also her Willow had come back to her. Blessed be.
Many hours later, Tara felt all too happy to have to leave the Magic Box to pick up Dawn. After dropping Willow off at the university, she’d headed to the bookstore, but then Giles’ had sent her to give Anya a hand after Anya had called him in a panic because the store was being over-run, in Anya’s words, with “dimwitted customers wanting wards against hell-beasts and black arts wannabes hoping to score magic beans to grow their very own demons.”
Once there, the situation had struck Tara as far less dire. Admittedly, the store was unusually busy for a weekday afternoon, but it was far from the madhouse Anya had described. For Tara, the only thing extraordinary about the day was the number of adults, young and old, dressed in Halloween costumes. For her Halloween had always been a children’s festivity, something outgrown by the time a child reached the age of twelve. Once again, she was struck by the differences between her birth world and her adopted one.
Not a mad house, however, was still tiring. Tara’s morning had been largely spent running up and down the basement stairs restocking the herb and spice counter, counseling customers on the finer points for choosing tarot cards and candles, and listening to Anya alternately rejoice over the day’s profits and complain about the amount of dirt the customers were dragging into the store (a heavy rain storm the night earlier had left the streets and sidewalks muddy).
Dawn was waiting patiently in front of the high school’s main doors when Tara swung by driving Willow’s Prius.
“How was school?” Tara asked, hoping she did not sound in anyway parental.
“Some seniors took control of the announcement system as a prank, and Mr. Knight did a sort of Halloween themed thing in chemistry class, but mostly it was the same old. Do you know how to get to Vons from here?”
Tara nodded. Before heading to the Magic Box, Tara had used Giles’ laptop to pull up a Google map. Of all the computer applications Willow had explained to her, Google mapping had struck her as the most useful by far.
“Do you know a good place to buy sewing materials?” Tara asked as she made a right turn onto eleventh street. Using Google, she’d already identified a few stores, but she wasn’t confident of her results.
“Sewing materials. You mean like fabric and thread and stuff. You want to make clothes or something?” Dawn said.
“Or something,” Tara said, “I want to make a meditation shawl. I couldn’t take mine when I crossed into this dimension. I need a piece of white or off-white cotton or linen, an embroidery loop, and black embroidery thread.”
“There’s a shop called Mrs. Crafty that sells sewing supplies. It’s not far from the Vons store. Kit goes there sometimes. She’s into macramé. So, what’s a mediation shawl? I mean, I know what mediation is, but why do you need a shawl?”
Tara slowed the car as she passed a bicyclist. “The shawl s-symbolized the separation of this world from the living world, the world of magicks. It’s not magickal in itself.”
Dawn thought for a moment. “Are you going to make one for Willow, too.”
“Willow has one, or at least one was left for her. I found it in the annex. I think Albert was keeping it for her.”
“Grandma Irene’s,” Dawn said, and then after a few moments she added, “You’re not sure if you should give it to Willow.”
Tara signaled and passed a slow-moving panel truck while contemplating an answer, unsure how much to say, wanting to make sure she clearly said what she thought.
“It’s like this. I want Willow to embrace who she is, what she is. She’s a witch. She’s got this calling inside of her. And I realize how wrong things went for her.” Tara glanced at Dawn. “And for you and everyone else. But the main reason things went wrong was no one knew how to guide her. It’s not anyone’s fault. Witching is different in this world.”
“Different in this world, how?”
Tara made the turn into the Vons’ parking lot, which was loaded with cars and people running about with shopping carts. She parked the Prius between two much more expensive cars, a Willow request and standard practice.
“When true witches get cut off from their lineage, their talents rise inside of them all the same, but the wisdom of their lineage isn’t there to shape the talent.”
“True witches?”
“Most anyone can cast a simple spell, but only a true witch can call up the wind, for example. Your Tara was part of this group at the university—.”
“The Daughters of Gaia,” Dawn said. “I met some of them.”
“Me, too. Any one of them could have done a simple casting if they’d had the supplies and a spell, but none of them could have called up the power inside of Willow. There’s basic ability and there’s true talent.”
“And the true talent runs in families,” Dawn said.
“Pretty much. I mean it has to start somewhere,” Tara said as they entered the store. “I don’t really know where the talent comes from.” She followed Dawn down an aisle loaded with bags of candy.
“And because Willow was cut off, she didn’t have the Revane lineage to guide her. Like Giles was there to train Buffy,” Dawn said.
Dawn chose three bags of candy, and Tara resisted questioning if 1,500 pieces of suckers, smarties, peanut butter twists, and jawbreakers were really necessary. The few times she’d gone trick or treating with her little brother, they’d visited no more than the ten or so houses on their block, each of them coming home with maybe thirty pieces of candy. For all of the people milling about in the store, the checkout lines moved quickly, and they were soon finished with their first errand.
“Giles is a true witch, too,” Dawn said, as they got back into the car, “Buffy told me a little about how when Giles was young he went sort of dark magick-y.”
“Willow told me some bits and pieces, too,” Tara said, as she pulled out of the parking lot. “I’ve been doing some research into covens, and most of them seem more like the Daughters of Gaia, made up of people who start off thinking magick as something cool more like an activity,” Tara said. “But it wasn’t always this way. There were these witch hunts in the middle ages and later. There was a more recent one in some place called Salem. Maybe that’s when things changed.”
“No witch hunts in your reality?”
“Not like the ones in this reality,” Tara said, “Where I come from, witch hunting didn’t become a thing until the Master rose. I turn left here, right?”
“Yeah, make a left here, then a right at the next intersection. Mrs. Crafty is about half of a block in, but you’ll have to street park. Buffy still can’t parallel park for—.”
“Willow thinks Buffy’s Slayer senses countermand Buffy’s normal sense for three-dimensional space,” Tara said, grinning and as she neatly parked the Prius.
Mrs. Crafty was owned by a middle-aged woman named Laurie who wore her hair in a short spikey haircut and sported black framed glasses. Tara wasn’t quite sure what she’d expected, but this woman was not it. After explaining what she wanted to make and the basics of what she thought she needed, Laurie helped Tara pick out a beautiful piece of fabric, and then another piece for Dawn, who’d decided she might also want to learn to embroider. Besides the embroidery thread and loops, Laurie also suggested a tracing pencil for marking the fabric. Tara and Dawn were in and out of the shop in a surprisingly short time, as Mrs. Crafty, like apparently every other Sunnydale retail business was busy due to the holiday.
They were almost to the house when Dawn spoke up.
“You know that I wasn’t exactly born, right? That I was created by some monks who made a human being to safeguard what they called ‘the key,’ right?”
“I have your Tara’s memories, so yeah, I know. And I know about the memory thing. I know in Buffy’s memories you’ve always been her sister and in Willow’s and the others’ too.”
Something Dawn had said earlier came back into Tara’s mind, and she pulled the car over.
“What’s going on, Dawn?”
Dawn shifted in her seat, crossing and uncrossing her legs, and then she reached into the glove box and took out a pencil. She stared at it for a moment, and then let go. The pencil hovered in the air, absolutely still.
Tara breathed in the scent of magicks now in the air. Willow’s scent reminded her of cinnamon with a hint of cumin, Giles’ was more like coriander, and Anya’s was bergamot. She remembered Albert’s scent had tasted of nutmeg. Dawn’s was of pine.
Dawn had said no words to shape a spell.
“When I was thirteen I started dreaming,” Tara said, “weird dreams of me walking through woods or along a shoreline. And the nights before the seasons would change, my whole body felt like it was kind of electrified. We call it the quickening. It happens when true witches are going through puberty. When we start to connect with the living world.”
The pencil dropped into Dawn’s hands. She turned to look at Tara.
“But I didn’t really go through puberty. The monks made me fourteen.”
“And girls don’t usually finish puberty until their fifteen to seventeen,” Tara said, not at all sure how she remembered that little piece of information, whether it was something her counterpart had learned in high school or Willow had somehow mentioned in passing.
Dawn said nothing, and then Tara realized something else.
“Buffy doesn’t know, neither does Willow.” Tara said.
“They’ve never wanted me anywhere near magick or slayage or anything even remotely demon-y. I think Mom kind of made Buffy promise her.”
Tara was tempted to ask “What about Anya or Clem or Spike,” but she refrained, instead, she said, “They’re going to be a little wigged, but you need to tell Buffy and Willow.” She reached for Dawn’s hand and wrapped her fingers around it. “Don’t be afraid of your gift.”
Willow was waiting patiently at the bus stop on University when Tara swung by to pick her up, and, as Tara feared, Willow instantly knew something was up. But Willow surprised her by accepting the latest news was not Tara’s to tell, and easily pivoting to complaining about the closing of the coffee cart next to the computer science building.
“It’s totally unfair. There’s coffee carts by the humanities and the fine arts complexes, but nothing for computer science, and we need our caffeine doses more than those guys. Seriously, coding cannot be done without a steady supply of espresso, red bull, and British style tea.”
Tara made sympathetic noises as she shuttled Willow to Stefan’s, enjoying the ordinariness of the conversation and remembering how Willow’s other Tara had likewise enjoyed “Willow in her element.”
They found Stefan at his shop, ready for Willow’s cut, and with three packed pieces of luggage stowed by the front counter. He explained after he’s finished washing Willow’s hair and started the cut,
“News about the hellhound attack made it all the way to L.A. A friend of mine called to find out how I was doing,” Stefan said, while he used the edge of a comb to measure the length of left and right sides of Willow’s bob. “It’s pretty obvious something’s on its way to old Sunny-D, and Lorne thought it might be a good idea for me to clear out for a bit. Not the best timing since business has been picking up again, but what’s an artist to do?”
“I get it,” Willow said, glancing at Tara, before adding, “and you’re right, something’s on the way here.”
“It’s not just me. Other folks are doing the same, waiting through the Halloween rush and then heading out. Not really sure if L.A. is higher ground, but there’s a LACMA show I want to see,”
“Los Angeles County Art Museum,” Willow said to Tara.
Tara nodded, remembering a time when Willow and her counterpart had gone to the museum to see the Tim Burton show. It occurred to her she’d like to visit the museum herself. Maybe after they’d finished with the Apprentice she and Willow could drive to Los Angeles, and then she realized she was thinking about a real future, about a life beyond stopping the Master and his minions, and a feeling of gratitude opened up inside of her, so great her eyes teared.
Oblivious to her thoughts, Stefan and Willow kept up a steady-stream of chit-chat, both of them making an effort to include Tara, but Tara was happier to listen to them, liking hearing a conversation that had little to do with the Apprentice and mostly to do with Sunnydale shops and restaurants.
“So how are you heading to L.A.?” Willow said.
“My friend Laurie and I are going to carpool it. You might know her, she owns the sewing shop on Arlington Avenue.”
“Mrs. Crafty, Dawn and I were there today to pick up some sewing s-supplies,” Tara said, sitting up.
“You sew?” Stefan said.
“I used to sew a lot. Mostly patching things, but I made a dress once, and I’ve hemmed pretty much all of my pants. I also like to do embroidery.”
Tara started to feel self-conscious.
“That’s great, maybe you could take-over mending duty for a while,” Willow said, “not that I’m trying to shuck off my chores, except of course that’s exactly what I’m trying to do.”
“What are you planning on making?” Stefan said. He picked up his blow dryer and started styling Willow’s new cut.
A tiny twinge of panic shot through Tara at the sound of the blow dryer, but she swallowed it down.
“A meditation shawl. I lost mine a while back, and I’ve been missing having one.”
Tara trusted Willow to understand she meant she’d had to leave it behind with everything else she’d owned when she’d crossed into this reality.
“I hemmed the edges while I was at Mrs. Crafty’s. Tonight, I want to create the transfers. They’re pretty straightforward. Symbols for the four elements.”
“Appropriately Wicca,” Stefan said. “You know Laurie used to be part of a Wicca group. Back when all of us were in high school, which would be back in the eighties. You should see my high school year book photo. I was in the middle of my Pet Shop Boys obsession, shaved head and over-sized glasses. My mother was furious.”
Tara and Willow brought pizza from Marcello’s home for dinner to help celebrate Halloween and because neither was in the mood to cook, a decision met with acclaim by Buffy and Dawn, but also Riley who had stopped by to hand out candy with Dawn. Giles had declined the dinner offer, preferring to spend the evening instead re-shelving books in the annex, the store closed for the evening despite it being Thursday. Xander and Anya were out on a date.
“He used the word date. Like Xander asked Anya out?” Willow said.
“They should be a Bangkok Thai right now,” Buffy said, taking plates out of the cupboard. “Probably done with the satay course and onto the curry and noodle dishes.”
“I hope Xander gave in and let Anya choose the noodles. She likes the wide, flat kind and he always wants to get Pad Thai,” Willow said, taking the stack of plates from Buffy. “Grab some of the salad bowls, too.”
“I thought we were out of lettuce.”
“I picked up two of the large Caesar’s; they’re a Riley favorite.”
Buffy did as asked, and the two headed through the swing door into the dining room where, remarkably, the dining room table was already cleared of the usual debris of books and homework projects.
“Thanks for clearing the table, Riley,” Buffy said to Riley, who was standing next to the front door holding an over-sized bowl of Halloween candy. He was dressed in his old Initiative fatigues and had a toy machine gun slung over his shoulder. Dawn was standing next to him and dressed in her “politically incorrect” witch costume, complete with a slightly bent pointed hat, a floor length black silk gown, and a short cape. Out of deference to Willow’s heated objections, she’d foregone her nose wart.
It was going past eight, and the trick or treating was down to the last few dribs and drabs, mostly middle and high schoolers, most in the most cursory of costumes.
“I’m going to put the bowl out on the porch and shut off the light,” Riley said to no one’s objections.
Minutes later everyone was at the table eating pizza, the conversation soon enough returning to Xander and Anya and their date.
“So, when’d he ask her out. Timing on these things always matters,” Riley said, serving himself a large portion of the salad.
“On Monday,” Buffy said.
“So, plenty of time so that it didn’t look like a last-minute thing,” Riley said approvingly.
“He was trying to avoid the casual vibe,” Dawn said. When the others looked at her in surprise, she said, “Xander and I talk.”
Buffy smiled and shook her head. “I’m sure you guys do. So, what’s with the embroidery projects. I saw the stuff sitting on the coffee table when I came home from school.”
“I’m making a meditation shawl,” Tara said, as she tried to decide for or against a third slice of pizza.
“When Sam and I were in Bali, we met up with a witches’ coven that wore shawls when they did castings,” Riley said.
It was the first time Riley mentioned Sam’s name in passing. Tara caught Willow’s glance.
“This is more for centering,” Tara said, “while I give thanks.”
“To the goddess?” Buffy said.
“Not so much personified. More like for the world itself, but not this world—.”
“Like the anima mundi?” Riley said.
“Again, not so much personified. I’m not praying for anything or to anything. It’s more like observing my place within the greater universe, what my mom called the living world, acknowledging that I’m but a part of s-something bigger than myself, but a part all the same. My mom, I mean my mom from the other reality, I remember her saying chants when I was a little girl. I’d sneak out of bed to listen and watch.”
“Our other Tara was raised a Christian,” Buffy said. “But not so much the friendly kind, more the hell-fire and judge-y kind.”
“Tara used to chant, and she took me to the Buddhist temple, once.” Dawn said, looking at Tara. “Buffy and I were pretty much raised to be heathens, unless Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny count,” she said to Riley, adding after a quick glance at Buffy, “Mom kind of wigged on Christianity after the whole MOO think and almost burning Buffy and Willow at the stake.”
“Wow, mom and MOO. I haven’t thought about that in years,” Buffy said.
“She wasn’t sure what she believed, but she liked exploring. Tara, I mean. She always wanted to go to synagogue, but she knew you were more secular,” Tara said to Willow, “and she really liked going to your church.” Tara had to think for a moment. “The one off Lexington, right?”
“Yeah,” Riley said. “We went a few times. Tara liked the singing best, I think. I’m not sure what she thought of Reverend Eldridge.”
“Now that you’ve said that, I kind of wish I’d taken Tara to my father’s synagogue, even though I can’t remember the last time I went,” Willow said.
“Didn’t you and your dad go to Yo Kipper services a couple years back?” Buffy asked.
“Yom Kippur.” Willow corrected distractedly. “Wow, you’re right. I forgot all about that. I should have gone with him for high holidays this year. I sort of was thinking I would.”
“But then everything kind of blew up because of me,” Tara said to Willow. “I know. Not my fault, but still—.”
“We should all do Thanksgiving this year,” Willow said, reaching for Tara’s hand. “My mom will still be in Chicago, but my dad could come, and Giles, and maybe you could stick around,” Willow said, looking at Riley.
“Maybe, “Riley said.
“That was kind of a mysterious ‘maybe’,” Buffy said to Riley.
“I didn’t mean it to be,” Riley said. “So, is there any left-over birthday cake for desert?”
Hours later, following an uneventful patrol, Tara slipped into bed next to Willow, who was reading again from Irene’s book of shadows. It felt good to be off her feet, even if patrolling had been uneventful. She also liked that Willow had put on some perfume and was wearing her silk nightshirt.
“Riley changed the subject pretty fast when it came to what he’s going to do next,” Willow said as Tara settled next to her.
“I know he’s not planning on rejoining his cadre. I sort of overheard Riley and Giles talking yesterday.”
“They’re thick as thieves, lately,” Willow said. She put Irene’s book atop the night stand. “You also sort of overheard Dawn talking to Buffy and me in the kitchen, after dinner.”
“I was trying to stay out of it,” Tara said, her cheeks coloring. She offered one of her lop-sided smiles. “Dawnie didn’t need an audience. So, what do you think?”
“I’m a little wigged. Buffy, too. We both kind of hoped Dawnie would escape the family business, you know.”
“I know,” Tara said softly. “And I get it. There’s this little part of me that hopes my Donnie, the one I left behind, is able to stay out of the magicks and just be a—.”
“A regular Joe or Jack or Donnie,” Willow said. She laughed softly. “Between teaching me and Giles and Dawnie, you might be starting your very own Hogwarts, you know.”
Tara smiled at Willow’s joke. Still, she had to ask, “You and Buffy understood Dawn’s a conjure witch,” needing to hear the words spoken aloud. “Like you and Giles.”
“It’s weird. Not Japanese commercials, this time. It’s weird, because I keep wondering if the monks planned it, or if it’s just some random outcome, and also because I can’t stop thinking about how Giles and I both went wrong, me more so than him, but at least I didn’t set loose a possessing demon.” Willow offered a tiny smile. “Knowing Dawn will need help to accept her gift somehow makes it easier for me to do the same.”
Tara placed a soft kiss atop Willow’s lips. It was the first time she’d heard Willow call her talent a gift. She slipped down onto her back.
“Grandma Irene left behind her meditation shawl. That’s why I didn’t buy fabric for you. Also, you smell really nice.”
“I do, do I?
Willow slipped down as well. She tucked her head against Tara’s shoulder.
“I love you,” Willow said softly.
They exchanged another kiss, and then another, and then both fell softly into a dreamless, restful sleep.
The next day Willow was folding laundry on the bed when she felt a buzzing feeling on top of her tongue, the buzzing feeling quickly seemed to move off her tongue and onto her skin, like tiny sparks of electricity. Because she’d left her cell phone charging in the kitchen, she had run down the stairs, through the front room, and to the kitchen counter. A text was already on the screen. “Giles, Riley, and I are heading for the old high school. Buffy is heading there from the new H.S. Xander/Anya in route.” Willow took a breath, and then another, and then another. She wasn’t ready. She wasn’t even dressed to go outside. She had to swallow hard as bile rose up in her throat. She wasn’t ready.
Buffy’s cell chimed in the middle of a meeting with Mr. Wood. She ignored his small sound of annoyance and checked her phone. There was a text message from Giles. Buffy looked up at the high school principal, who was sitting across from her at his desk and who suddenly looked far too young to her eyes.
“Remember the other night when the hell hounds decided to show up for Homecoming?” Buffy asked as she started to push her papers back into her messenger bag. She and Mr. Wood had been going over some new security policies for night games in the football stadium. “Something worse is showing up right now at the old high school.”
“Worse?” Mr. Wood said.
Buffy watched as all the blood seemed to leave his face, turning his usual warm chocolate brown complexion to something almost grayish. She knew she’d already tested him, but she also knew she had no other choice.
“My friends and I are going to see to the problem, but I need you to make sure Dawn stays here with you. And I would start thinking up a reason why no one leaves the campus until I give you the all clear.”
Buffy reached across the desk and put her hand atop Mr. Wood’s. You can handle this, she thought. “I’ve got this.” She stood up.
“Okay, then. Let me see—.” Mr. Wood pulled up some information on his computer. “Your sister is in the middle of her geometry class, she’s got a ‘study’ hour next. I’ll bring her here for study hour. She won’t leave my side.”
Buffy nodded and then she headed out the door.
“So, Giles thinks something or somethings are coming through the hellmouth, the actual hellmouth from back in the Master’s day?” Xander said to Anya. They’d been in route to the Magic Box from his apartment when Anya told him the vresh had signaled an incoming. Seconds later, she’d received a text from Tara. Xander had immediately made the mother of all illegal U-turns to head towards his old high school.
“He saw something on his scrying thing. The same thing he used the night of the hell hound attack.” Anya tightened her safety belt as Xander made a right turn at a speed greater than she generally preferred.
“I’ve got all my weapons in the trunk except my old sword. That’s under the seat of my pick-up.” Xander said. He glanced at Anya, who was wearing a sundress and to his mind looked especially adorable. “I’ve also got your old Sunnydale hoodie and sweatpants stashed back there.”
“I thought you said you’d thrown them out after we broke up.”
Xander shot Anya a quick grin. “Come on, Anh, you knew I was too sentimental to get rid of your stuff.”
Anya smiled back even though Xander’s eyes were back on the road. “Yeah, I knew.”
Giles wasn’t entirely surprised to find Buffy already parked outside the gate of the chain fence that surrounded the old high school when he pulled up in his SUV. He was, however, shocked to see her dressed in her old Initiative uniform.
“Where on earth did you find that thing?” Giles asked. He was dressed far more conservatively, he thought, in his dark pullover sweater, black cargo pants, and ankle boots.
“I keep it in the trunk of my car for emergencies. You know, like when I’m at my job meeting with my principal and someone texts me to say a pride of Tsuris demons are about to breach the hellmouth and I don’t have time to rush home and change out of my work clothes,” Buffy said.
“Point taken,” Giles said as Riley and Tara got out of his car, Riley carrying a bolt cutter. “Should we take care not to damage the fence?”
“A chain link fence won’t hold back a determined Tsuris demon,” Tara said.
She and Riley were both in jeans and Magic Box hoodies. Giles knew the hoodies were a recent advertising gambit from Anya. He also knew the hoodie she provided him would stay in its plastic bag packaging for the foreseeable future and beyond.
“Then I suppose not,” Giles said.
A few moments later, Xander came speeding up in his car, braking into a fast stop and sending bits of gravel scattering into the air.
“Nice sweatshirts,” Xander said to Riley and Tara as he got out of his car and headed towards the trunk. “I’ve got two cross-bows, three battle axes, two double-edged long blades, and a partridge in a pear tree.”
“Xander doesn’t have a bird or a tree. I think he is making a joke,” Anya said. “Everybody turn their back while I change into more appropriate clothing.”
By the time Willow arrived, Anya was suitably dressed, Riley had the fence gate open, and Tara and Giles had conjured a smaller version of Giles’ seeing pane.
“It looks like they’re still in transit,” Giles said to Tara.
“I’d be able to feel them if they were already passed over.” Tara glanced at Willow then Buffy. “When my cadre closed up the wounds along my back, I think they weren’t able to clear out all the saliva. I get this twitching feeling inside my scars.”
“Okay, useful, kind of gross, useful, and sorry about that,” Buffy said. She looked at Giles. “If it’s taking this long for the transit, that means there’s going to be a lot, right?”
“Unfortunately, yes,” Giles said.
Tara glanced at Willow. “You okay, Will?”
Willow nodded, but her expression showed otherwise.
“So, the plan is we go in and … ?” Xander said, perching a long blade in his right hand and dangling a cross bow in his left. He had eight bolts, four apiece tucked inside his boots.
“Kill them as fast as we can,” Buffy said. She glanced at Willow, then Giles, Tara, and Anya. “But from what I hear fire’s the best defense.”
“Which is why we’re going to have to herd them outside.” Riley said. He had Xander’s other cross bow in hand, Giles’ cross-bow strapped to his back, and a total of twelve bolts tucked inside his boots.
“I’ve been working on conjuring one of Tara’s fire nets,” Giles said. “We’ll need to pair off, Willow and Tara. Anya and myself.”
“The fastest way will be to send them out into the courtyard. Riley, Xander, and I will get them moving down the corridor towards you.” Buffy said.
“We’re still thinking the hellmouth is going to open under the library,” Xander said.
“My seeing pane shows a dimensional thinning, and we have Tara’s foresight advising us of Tsuris demons and hell hounds,” Giles said, as he took a couple of practice swings with Albert’s old battle axe.
Tara adjusted the short blades she’d tucked into her boots, double-checking to make sure her serrated knife was on the right and the double-edge on the left. She had one of Xander’s long blades and her birthday battle-axe strapped to her back. “The hell hounds from my dimension are smaller. They have quills instead of fur, so watch out. If they have to, they’ll fling their quills, but once they do, they have no exterior protection. A good boot in the side would kill one.”
“Quills, plus the usual teeth and claws?” Xander said. Off Tara’s nod, he said under his breath, “Great, just great.”
“Okay, let’s go in,” Buffy said. “Riley, you take point. Xander take the rear, until we make the split at the cafeteria.” She glanced at Tara. “All of us know this building like the back of our hands, partly because we were chased by large quantities of hell spawn throughout high school. If things go sideways, follow the others.”
They came in through the facilities entrance to the school so that Xander could hit the power switches. Much of the overhead lighting remained damaged, but there was enough for them to find their way through the corridors.
“Wow, check that out,” Xander said as they passed a display case. “I’d have thought the wrestling team would have broken in here years ago to nab their one and only trophy.”
“Some people aren’t as sentimental as you,” Anya said, she caught Xander’s hand in hers and gave it a squeeze.
“I slept in here for a few hours after I crossed into this dimension, and I raided some of the lockers,” Tara said.
“Hoping you didn’t run across any of my old Playboys or Willow’s spice rack,” Xander said.
“Mostly I was looking for money. I found a lot of little baggies filled with weedy brown stuff that smelled kind of skunky, and pretty much every locker had a crucifix taped inside of it.”
“The culture of American high schools is remarkably consistent,” Xander said.
Willow stopped for a moment to stare into another display case. “Hey, the cheerleading trophies are missing. Those were just school competitions. Not state, not even local. That’s so lame.”
“Keep up with the group, Will,” Buffy said, but everyone could hear the smile on her face.
“No worries, I’m sticking like glue,” Willow said. She caught hold of Tara’s hand.
They rounded another corner and then another and then they were at the split. Everyone came to a stop.
“Okay,” Buffy said, “just so that everyone is clear on the plan. Xander, Riley, and I are going to kill as many as we can and flush the rest out to the courtyard.”
Tara thought of something, and only barely resisted raising her hand. “I have an idea. I can conjure a lure for the hell hounds. The Tsuris demons will follow them. The trick is we’ll have to work faster on the fire nets,” she looked at Giles.
“I can have one up in less than a minute. Not as quick as you, but fast enough I should think.”
“I like it. My biggest worry is having to corral stragglers heading into the other corridors. I’d rather just be thinning the herd,” Buffy said, glancing at Riley, who gave her a quick nod.
Xander pulled Anya’s hand to his lips for a kiss, and then everyone tried to hide their surprise when Anya responded with a gentle kiss on Xander’s lips. “Be careful,” she said. “Don’t be a hero.”
“Hero? Me? Never,” Xander said.
“I’ll say,” sounded a familiar voice.
Everyone turned around as Spike came into view.
“How’d you get in here?” Buffy asked.
“Sewer lines, electrical tunnel, then up through the furnace room. Got a text from Tara saying we’re about to have some fun,” Spike said. He was dangling a battle axe in his right hand. “Had some terrible luck at the poker tables last night. Killing some demons is just what the doctor ordered.”
“Okay, then. Why don’t you partner off with Xander? We’re going to try to flush them into the cafeteria than out into the courtyard. You guys will be keeping them from heading the other direction. Tara’s going to make some lure thing-y that should make your part easier.”
“Is there a plan to reclose the hellmouth?” Spike asked, as he lit a cigarette.
“The Apprentice won’t be able to open the hell mouths until he’s a part of this reality. For now, all he c-can do is create temporary dimensional riffs. The good thing is that they require a lot of focused energy,” Tara said.
“He’ll run out of gas right quick is what you’re sayin,” Spike said.
“The faster, the better,” Buffy said.
“I haven’t been in here since you were hiding out from the Initiative,” Buffy said as she and Riley forced their way into the library. “I spent so many hours in here.” She offered Riley a quick grin. “Little of it studying.”
The library was a mess of overturned tables and tipped over bookcases. There was a big hole in the center of the floor, and an even bigger one in the ceiling and roof. Overhead, a blue tarp fluttered.
“Giles and Xander spent some time in here collecting up the rest of his books,” Buffy said, as she picked her way towards the security cage, “but Giles’ had already moved most of them to his apartment in the days before graduation.”
“Is that where you guys used to cage up Oz on wolfies nights?” Riley asked, nodding towards the white fencing.
“The same. We caged up Willow’s doppelganger here, once, too.” Buffy came back towards Riley. “A lot of memories here, and most of them not nearly as bad as you might think.”
Spike lit another cigarette. Two fresh butts were scattered already at his feet. “So, you and Anh are back.”
“Working at it,” Xander said.
Xander looked at Spike with surprise. “That almost sounded sincere.”
Spike exhaled a cloud of bluish smoke. “Well, I have my moments.”
Tara searched the courtyard while Willow, Giles, and Anya searched the cafeteria. It wasn’t long before Anya called out, “Got one, and it’s fresh.”
Anya brought the dead rat to Tara, holding it by its tail. “I didn’t kill it, by the way. I think it ate some of the rat poison. Rat poison is all over the cafeteria kitchen floor.”
“Another reason we all have such fond memories of eating our lunch in there,” Giles said. To Tara he asked, “Do you need any more weeds?”
“No, I think I have enough,” Tara said, as she dropped the rat atop a pile of freshly “harvested” green mass. Around the green mass she’d already shaped a conjure circle of crushed sea shells and rosemary.
Anya went to watch the door, while Giles and Willow watched curiously as Tara called up the elements, using words, but mostly her hands to shape her conjure.
In moments, the rat and the green mass shifted into a thick liquid that then partially solidified into something quivering and an almost electric green. The conjure dropped away and Tara stepped back.
“I muted the smell so that we can’t detect it, but any hell hound will be able to scent this from a mile or more away, or at least any hell hound from my old dimension.”
Usually they didn’t have enough time to be ready, Giles thought. The last time they’d been truly prepared for hell spawn rising had been graduation day.
Slayer senses came alive all at once, smell, taste, hearing, sight, and touch. Like her body had turned electric. She turned to Riley. “Incoming.”
“You hear that, all snap, crackle, pop,” Spike said. He dropped his cigarette to the floor, crushed the butt with his boot heel, and hoisted his battle axe to the ready.
Xander nodded and loaded a bolt into his cross-bow.
Anya watched the flaming ball of fire dance atop her hand.
Willow was balancing two, but her eyes were on Tara and Giles. Tara’s net formed first, a black pulsating connection of lines webbed together. It looked different under daylight, she thought as she remembered the first time she’d seen one, somehow more substantial, more deadly. Giles’ net formed, but his had sparks of red jumping off.
“Try to tame the air element,” Tara said.
And then Giles’ net looked as Tara’s.
“Good, now get ready to start spinning it.”
“Did you guys practice throwing them,” Anya said, “I don’t want one of those things tossed over me.”
“Out by the docks the other night,” Tara said. “Giles netted a Miquot and two vampires.” To Giles she said, “After you toss yours, t-take the time needed to conjure the next. I’ve got two more ready to go.”
Two more, thought Willow. She wondered silently how many more they’d need.
Buffy watched the air directly over the collapsed floor seemed to thin, then a rain of electrical sparks showering downward and the smell sulfur mixed with spent motor oil or burning plastic, an acrid smell of energy, not decay. Buffy noticed Riley, his cross-bow pointed, one bolt loaded, two others balanced between his fingers. She thought about asking him to show her his hold on the cross-bow, and then a sharp, almost deafening snap and a flooding of orange-red light and six, no seven hell hounds coming through the gap. Riley caught one, then a second with bolts to the mid-chest and Buffy, sword already raised high slicing through the air, one pass and two of the things decapitated, the other three running out the door. More came through just as quickly, now in alternating threes and floors. When Riley ran out of bolts, he pulled out his long blade, and he and Buffy became a symphony of destruction, thinning the herd.
The hell hounds ran pell-mell towards the lure, distracted stupid beasts, Spike and Xander neatly killing one after the next. They exchanged glances, Spike’s glorious, Xander’s worried.
Tara glanced at Giles, his fire net was at the ready and Anya, like Willow, was balancing three fire balls at once. From outside the building they could hear the screams of hell beasts slaughtered, but none came through the open doors. The skin along her back started to itch and ache.
“The Tsuris demons are breaching the dimension,” Tara said, loudly over the commotion of the fight, but also calmly.
Willow spared Tara a quick glance, and then she locked her eyes on the open doorway.
On the night of the Brocton massacre Buffy had seen Tsuris demons running on all fours. She knew from Tara they could move on two legs as well, but knowing wasn’t the same as having seen. And so she was startled as they started through the breach, always in packs of fives and always on their back legs, making them much harder to kill.
Unlike the hell hounds, they knew how to pivot and slink and avoid. They did not get caught up in the muck and offal and blood that now covered the library floor. And they came through at a much greater velocity, mostly shooting past Buffy and Riley, moving faster than Buffy thought possible, forcing the two of them ever closer to the library doors.
“Maybe we retreat to Spike and Xander,” Riley yelled over the howl of the dimensional riff. “They’re mostly getting past us.”
Buffy was already thinking the same thing, and then she heard it. A terrible scream. She shouted, “Xander,” at Riley and she then took off running.
The hell hound had already shot past them into the courtyard, but then something turned it back, tumbling twice over its own legs before heading back into the school. Spike was decapitating a Tsuris demon when he saw it heading towards him. Without thinking he booted it into the wall. Sending the beast into a roll that ended with its releasing its quills, a thousand sharp and jagged needles. A handful them burned into his upper chest and right arm and shoulder, as Spike heard Xander scream and saw him fall to the floor, clutching at his belly.
Another swing of his blade and Spike separated the hell hound into two, and then booting backwards, he kicked open the door behind him while grabbing hold of the collar of Xander’s jacket. He tossed Xander inside the room even as he continued swinging at the Tsuris demons, thinning the heard but knowing most were getting past him.
Giles heard them coming, their war cries sounding like water pounding over a rapids. From the corner of his eye he saw Tara spinning her fire net as Willow tossed fire ball after fire ball into the webbing. Tara released it as soon as the first of the Tsuris demons breached the courtyard, incinerating the lot of them.
Giles started spinning his net as well, gamely trying to catch each of the fire balls Anya was feeding him. Another squadron of Tsuris demons came through and he released the thing, capturing three of the five, and Willow hitting the other two, both square in the chest. And then the fight was on, Tara and he casting nets, capturing fire, a continuous killing of demon after demon. Sometimes coming in fives, most times in threes or fours, exhausting and dirty work. Until a sudden quiet, a final conflagration, and then shouts for help.
They took Xander to the hospital in Giles’ car, Giles driving, Buffy riding shotgun, Xander stretched across the rear seat and in Anya’s arms. Tara, Willow, and Riley stayed behind with Spike. There was too much daylight to take him elsewhere, so Tara cut out the hell hound quills one by one, fourteen in all, while Riley and Willow helped to hold him still. Then Willow and Tara headed for the hospital, and Riley took Buffy’s car to make a liquor and pig’s blood run. Riley left Spike sheltered in the cafeteria, and then he, too, headed for the hospital.
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Make that seriously impulsive.
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I automatically wrote dibs, not even noticing how many chapter I was Dibs-ing on. Woah... I'll be back again once I actually read through.
I'm in awe. Glad to see your short hiatus was productive. *scampers off to read*
Thank you for calling DIBS, dtburanek. I hope you enjoy the final installments of DR.
Tara searched through the cupboards in Giles’ kitchen, looking for the box of Scottish breakfast tea and package of “cow biscuits” she’d spotted earlier. It was afternoon and everyone was feeling more than a little peckish, especially Xander, who’d been claiming for the past few days to be in need of many and multiple comfort foods in order to heal from the hell hound attack. She and Willow, Buffy, Xander and Anya, and Spike had converged at Giles’ apartment to regroup and plan. There had been three additional breaches since the hellmouth attack, none as substantial as that breach, one of them during the day and on the outskirts of the town, another at early evening along the docks, the third also at early evening and inside an abandoned big box store, more hell hounds, more Tsuris demons, and with the most recent, a gang of Yeknom in protective armor and carrying weapons. The vresh had sounded each time.
“Do you need some help,” Willow said, as she came into the kitchen.
Tara found the biscuits and the tea tucked behind four cans of diced tomatoes and two packages of dried noodles.
“You could open up the biscuits and put them on a plate.” Tara gestured with her head. “Cupboard over the counter, serving plates are on the left.”
“On it,” Willow said.
“Is it weird that Giles keeps his books in perfect order, but his pantry is a m-mess. Everything in here is just jumbled together.”
“Like he just brought in his shopping bags from the car and then unloaded them indiscriminately?” Willow said, grinning. “He’s always been like that. When I was a high school junior and still pretty deep into my Giles’ crush, I thought it was adorable or sophisticated or the height of Britishness or maybe all three.”
Tara thought not for the first time how much she wished she’d known Willow in high school, even if Willow would have been crushing on Giles. She noticed the tea kettle was near boiling, took it off the stove, and started preparing the pot.
“Giles mentioned you mentioning there weren’t tea bags in your old reality.”
Willow was leaning against the kitchen counter; Tara dragged her eyes off Willow’s legs, which stretched out from beneath an above the knee skirt into a pair of medium-height high heels, and only barely managed to keep her eyes from fixing on the v-neckline of Willow’s silk sweater. She also avoided catching Willow’s glance, knowing Willow was entirely aware she’d been looking.
“At least, not where I lived. Tea was something that came in metal tins with replaceable lids.” Tara laughed. “The first time I saw Albert take tea bags out of a box, I thought he’d prepared them himself.”
Willow went to Tara and closed her arms around Tara’s waist. “You good?” She pressed a kiss along the side of Tara’s neck, using her nose to nudge away the fall of long hair.
“I’ll be better two days from now. When the Apprentice is defeated and we can get back to …” Tara trailed off.
“The usual fighting evil,” Willow said, grinning. Willow offered another kiss, this one a brush across Tara’s lips, and then went to the refrigerator. “Giles’ has some fresh pig’s blood on hand. I thought I’d warm up a mug for Spike.”
Tara knew that Willow knew she couldn’t stand the scent of the pig’s blood. “Thanks, Will.”
A few minutes later, everyone was resettled in Giles’ living room, including Riley, who’d only just arrived and appeared to have news.
“So, mister, what are you dying to tell us,” Willow said to Riley.
“Something Tara said about advanced forces got me to thinking, and so I had one of the hell hounds necropsied.”
“Okay, gross, and seriously gross,” Xander said.
“It was chipped with a radio-frequency transponder,” Riley said. “Which tells me this apprentice guy is planning to use magicks and conventional tech when he makes his assault.”
Buffy looked at Tara. “What do you remember about the weaponry.”
Tara thought for a few moments. “It was all pretty standard. Knives and long blades. The Yeknom carry spiked clubs.”
“So, nothing like automatic weapons, things with bullets?”
Tara shook her head. “I couldn’t carry anything through, because I’m human. Demons can, b-but not stuff that relies on anything like a chemical reaction. Like gunpowder, I mean.” She looked at Riley. “Are you thinking these chips are for more than tracking?”
“I had one of my former Army buddies run some tests. It’s not our kind of tech, but Graham thought it could be used to communicate orders. The chip was embedded in the hell hound’s brain.”
Buffy leaned forward to grab a cookie from the plate atop the coffee table. “The Apprentice has in mind a long game. He’s been sending through what, about three hundred hell hounds, maybe fifty or sixty Tsuris demons, thirty or so Yeknom. According to Tara, he breaches this reality tomorrow, and four days after that opens up all the hellmouths.”
“Goodbye, Cleveland,” Xander said under his breath.
“Goodbye, Sunnydale,” Anya said, “And my business is booming. We can’t allow him to succeed.”
“Always important to have our priorities in order,” Giles said. He looked towards his one-time Slayer, “Buffy, you were saying?”
“Tara thought the advance teams were for thinning the heard, but probably some were for establishing beachheads, doing recon. Just from talking to Tara, we know his reality, Tara’s old reality, doesn’t match to ours one to one. His and our Sunnydale’s might both happen to share a hellmouth, maybe even his and our Cleveland’s—.”
“But there’s no reason to think his and our Auschwitz share the same,” Giles said, before trailing off. “Devon coven reported a new kind of hell hound recently surfaced in Northern Poland.”
“The hell hounds are being sent to track the other hellmouths,” Buffy said. “And in that case, it doesn’t matter if they’re chipped. We’re taking down the Apprentice here.”
“And he probably has no idea we’ve been killing off his beasties, one my one,” Spike said.
“Members of a coven associated with Devon disposed of the newest threat,” Giles said, as he refilled his tea cup from the pot. “What I really need to do is figure out some way to share my knowledge of scrying panes with the rest of the world’s witchery.”
“Something we can work on after the sixth,” Buffy said. “Willow, are you still thinking the Apprentice will breach inside Evergreen Cemetery?”
“There’s a noticeable thinning in the Southeastern corner of the Cemetery, near the Mayor’s crypt. Tara, Giles, and I have fortified everywhere else there’s been an incursion, including the actual hellmouth.”
“The vresh thing-y is going to sound, still?” Xander said.
“Yes, and I have scrying panes focused on the whole of Sunnydale,” Giles said, “just as an insurance against any surprises.”
“And Tara’s pattern put the time at shortly after sunset,” Buffy said, “making me confident he’ll be accompanied by vampires.” She looked at Spike. “Maybe you could go to ground at the old Winchester mausoleum?”
“Handy and there’s an electrical socket for me to plug in my telly,” Spike said.
“So, the dumb reminders,” Buffy said, “Let’s all make sure our cell phones are fully charged.”
“Yes, mom,” Xander said. “And before you ask me a third time. Yes, I’m cleared for all physical activity.”
“Good news, for our vengeance girl, then,” Spike said, his expression showing a not so subtle leer.
“Please, no further talk about Xander’s physical condition,” Giles said, before Anya could get in a word, and then, “Buffy, have you heard from Dawn?”
“Her flight was delayed, but everything’s fine. Wesley picked her up at LAX, and drove her to Angel’s place, which she thinks is much cooler than our house, and there’s some plan for Cordy to take Dawn shopping on Melrose, all of which has pretty much ended her mad over me making her clear out of Dodge.” Buffy looked around the room. “It’s not that I think we’re going to fail. I just needed one less thing on my plate.”
Thinking Buffy was trying to reassure her, Tara said, “Buffy, I think it was smart to send Dawn to visit with friends.”
“Agreed,” Giles said, as much as he loved the girl, Dawn was often a complete distraction for Buffy and, truth be told, he. “There is something else I wanted to bring up. As all of you know, there is a doorway that leads out the back of the bookstore into something Albert called his Annex, something I believe exists in the interstices between the dimensions, in this case the gap between this dimension and what Albert called at various times the primitive, the living, or the first or original world and what I think is, or perhaps better put was, the proto-reality of this reality.”
Giles seemed to be waiting for a response, so Xander chimed in.
“So, based upon what you just said, and my vast understanding of dimensional physics gleaned from watching every episode of Star Trek original series forward, you’re thinking our reality is some sort of spin off.” Xander furrowed his brow in mock scientific interest. “But according to Willow and Tara, a lot of what they saw was pretty modern. The architecture and roads, I mean.”
Giles expression turned from scholarly to eager.
“Oh, people still live there, I’m guessing far fewer in number than here, and not as counterpoints to us.”
“So, this proto-place isn’t another flavor of Bizarro-Sunnydale.” Anya said, her statement sounding closer to a question.
“I’ve an inkling, one I can’t prove it at this point, that our reality and Tara’s native reality split from Albert’s ‘original world’ when the netherworlds first breached the upper dimensions.”
“It would explain why demons can’t cross the portal, only into the annex. However, I don’t support your idea of upper and lower dimensions, that’s just human prejudice,” Anya said. “But get back to the people, who do you think lives in the proto-reality.”
“Mrs. Edwards,” Tara said slowly, “In my training dreams, Mrs. Edwards looked after Albert at 1348.” Thinking not everyone knew what she meant, “In the proto-reality, there’s a bookshop called Books of Shadows, 1348. When you pass through the portal, that’s where you arrive.”
“I’ve found in Albert’s journals passing reference to others, a Samuel who helps with the harvests and a Melanie who spins some kind of cloth from nava stems. Where they’ve gone off too, again, I’ve no idea,” Giles said.
“What if there are other portals?” Willow said. “Mrs. Edwards might live right here in Sunnydale, just like Albert did?”
“It’s a possibility,” Giles said. “Actually, that would make a lot of sense.”
“Time functions differently.” Tara said. “When I went to harvest the moonstone, I was gone almost three whole days, or rather I seemed to spend almost three whole days there, but I was gone only about two and a half hours from here.”
“I’m still working through Albert’s notes on time differential between dimensions, but what it boils down to is that time is not consistent from dimension to dimension. One could spend three days in one reality versus three hours in another. That said, there are additional wrinkles to the matter. Suffice to say, I expect my investigations into dimensions and time that will explain at the very least Albert’s aging process. Although he appeared not much older than me, he was in fact born about 175 years earlier.”
Giles turned to Tara. “I did have one question. In your dreams, do you have the sense you’ve spent years upon years learning, exploring and so forth?”
Tara nodded slowly. “I think I know what you mean, but I can’t explain it. In my dreams, sometimes I’m about twelve or thirteen, and other times, I’m my age. And it doesn’t matter how old I am, I always have White Leg. I really can’t explain it, even though it all seems to somehow make sense to me.”
Giles grimaced. “Neither can I, but I have the same feeling.”
Spike leaned forward in his chair. “Okay, I think I get it now, why old Ripper here is banging on about all of this.” Spike turned to face Giles. “You want to send GI Joe and Josephine, here,” he nodded towards Riley and Xander, “to your proto-world. Give um’ more time to heal-up before the big fight.”
Giles only barely managed to hide his surprise at Spike’s logical leap.
“I was thinking Buffy, in addition to Riley and Xander. All three, regardless of what the good doctors at Sunnydale emergency may think are still recovering from recent injuries. Spending the night in the proto-reality will give each of them the days necessary to heal fully.”
“I don’t know Giles,” Buffy said, before Anya interrupted.
“The Slayer’s recuperative powers are amazing as always. However, everyone can easily see she’s limping from her most recent fight with the Yeknom. Also, Riley’s shirt may hide the bruising he experienced during the same fight, but I’m certain Spike can smell the interstitial bleeding. And Xander’s quack doctor may have cleared him for physical activity, but he barely has enough stamina to satisfy—.”
“Your point is taken, Anh,” Xander said, taking his turn to interrupt. “Giles, you were saying …”
“I’ve taken the liberty of preparing the apartment above the 1348 store front. Each of you will have your own bedroom, the kitchen is fully stocked, and needless to say, there is an abundance of reading materials.”
“But no television, no cell phones, no video games, no Wi-Fi,” Xander said.
“I’m afraid not. Should any of you want to return earlier, it will be easy enough to cross the portal. If you do not, Tara, Willow, or I will come to fetch you at an appropriate time.
The larger meeting broke up shortly after Giles’ explanation and suggestion, Buffy, Riley, and Xander all needing to leave to pack overnight bags and Spike heading to a poker game. Willow and Tara stayed behind. They and Giles had one additional task to perform.
Grinding the moonstone was tedious and physical work. Each stone had to be first shattered with a hammer into larger bits, then ground into finer bits using an iron pestle and mortar, Giles and Tara mostly doing the latter inside the annex, Willow tending to the former in the alley that ran behind the store front.
They talked more about the proto-reality, Giles revealing only to Willow and Tara what he’d discovered about his bedframe.
“So, you think the bedframe helped keep Albert young or rather younger than his actual years?” Willow said, finished with her alley work, and folding herself down onto the blanket Giles and Tara were using to form a workspace for the fine grinding.
“Albert’s journals indicate as much. The frame is built from something called a regiano tree. The bed frame isn’t the whole of it. Still, I was thinking we might want to go about cutting down another of these trees.”
The word regiano popped in Tara’s mind as soon as Giles said it, “I saw a copse of them when I went to harvest the moonstone. They’re super tall like redwoods but they’re not conifers.”
“You want to make furniture?” Willow said. “Out of wood.”
“Bed frames, for you and Tara, Xander, and Buffy,” Giles said. “And I was thinking Xander would actually mill and craft the bed frames. So long as all of us are in the demon control business, it seems to me having recuperative beds makes a great deal of sense.”
“What about Anya?”
Giles’ expression showed he didn’t understand Tara’s question.
“She and Xander are sort of …”
“Together again,” Willow supplied. “I think Tara’s wondering if a demon can sleep in one of these bedframes.”
“Because demons can’t cross the portal,” Giles said, seeing Tara’s point. “I suppose we’ll have to do some additional research. It’s possible Buffy might also find difficulty. While she’s entirely human, she’s also infused with the magickal essence that is the Slayer.”
“Wait a second, in the proto world time is moving faster. Three days instead of a little less than three hours. This doesn’t make any sense.” Willow said.
Giles put down his pestle. “It’s the damnedest thing. As near as I can tell, in the proto-reality the body heals, recovers from injury, but it doesn’t age.”
“You were kind of quiet. At the meeting, I mean,” Tara said.
It was later still, the moonstone was prepared, and Tara was riding shotgun to Willow’s pilot as they drove back to the house.
“A lot of different stuff on my mind, schoolwork kind of things,” Willow said. She offered Tara a quick smile. “There’s something I really need to do in the computer lab. Do you mind if I drop you off? I won’t be gone but an hour.”
Tara said she didn’t mind, and she also wondered why Willow was lying to her. When they arrived at the house, Tara dropped a kiss on Willow’s lips.
“I love you,” Willow said.
“Love you, too,” Tara said.
Early, just before sunrise on November 6th, the doorbell rang, waking Buffy from a restless sleep. She went downstairs, and found Angel and Faith standing on her doorstep. He was dressed as always in black, and Faith somehow more so. Buffy tried not to feel self-conscious in her Little Mermaid t-shirt and white stretchy pants with pink hearts. She also wondered why she’d forgotten to put on her robe.
“Can I come in,” Angel asked.
“Yes, come in, please,” Buffy said, surprised he needed the invitation and still needing time for her brain to process seeing Angel on her doorstep, let alone Faith.
“Cordy had one of her premonitions,” Angel said as he stepped inside. “Faith and I are supposed to be here to stand with you and the others.”
“Don’t worry, B. Dawn’s safe with Cordy and Princess Margaret and Gunn. Don’t think you’ve met Gunn yet, but you’d like him. Tall, dark, intense, and extremely good with a long blade.”
“Angel’s mentioned him to me,” Buffy said. “Gunn, I mean.”
Buffy closed and locked the door behind them and the three fell into an awkward silence. Angel suddenly finding a deep interest in the photograph of Kristine, Buffy, and Dawn hanging at the foot of the staircase, and Faith’s eyes bouncing about the front room as if she’d never seen it before.
Buffy heard a door open on the second floor. Before she could turn to look, she heard Willow say, “Angel?” and then heard Willow’s footsteps as she ran down them to give Angel a quick hug. Willow had thought to put on her bathrobe.
“Hey, mister, when’d you hit town?”
“Just now,” Angel said. “We wanted to get here before daybreak for obvious reasons.”
The two pulled apart and then Faith said, “Red.”
Each eyed the other.
“Faith.” Willow said, after an awkwardly long pause. “I’m guessing this isn’t a social call.”
“Cordy, premonition, the usual yada, yada.”
“Got it,” Willow said. She looked from Faith to Angel and then back to Faith. “About Tara.”
“Buffy filled me in the last time she called,” Angel said, a little too quickly, as Faith nodded.
“Okay then,” Willow said. She retied the sash of her robe. “Pancakes, coffee?”
“Coffee would be great,” Angel said.
“I can always eat,” Faith said.
Buffy watched as the three headed for the kitchen. She thought for a minute, then she headed upstairs to find her bathrobe.
That afternoon, while everyone else was napping at the house, even Angel, Willow took Tara for a walk in the park on the north end of town. They were crossing a narrow footbridge when Willow said,
“You know I haven’t been here since—.”
“Tara sang to you,” Tara said. “I remember. I remember how beautiful you were that day. You were w-wearing this kind of floaty, long sleeved dress Tara loved.” Tara laughed. “And she was wearing one of her Ren Fair costumes.”
“Hey, I loved her Ren Fair costumes.” Willow said, and then after a moment. “I knew what the song meant. Meant about what I was doing to her, but that afternoon, that moment, everything was so perfect, so …”
Willow trailed off, and the two of them stopped atop the bridge.
“So lovely, it m-made your heart hurt from the beauty of all of it,” Tara said, after a while and looking down into the rushing waters of the creek. “Later, even in that m-moment when Tara figured out about the spell, she loved you. She always loved you. She never stopped loving you; she just needed to figure out how to forgive.” Tara turned to Willow. “The one t-thing you must never forget is how much Tara loved you. How much I love you. No matter what, okay.”
Willow moved into Tara’s embrace, tucking her head into the fall of Tara’s hair. She made a memory of the warmth of the sunlight upon her back and the strength and weight of Tara’s arms around her. She knew she didn’t need to say aloud the words, but she said them anyway, whispering near Tara’s ear the contents of her heart.
“You spent nine days there?” Angel said, more curiously than disbelievingly.
“Resting up, healing up, and more than just a little bit bored out of my mind. Man can no longer live absent Wi-Fi,” Xander said. “Nine days by count of the sunrises, but only three days give or take a few hours elapsed here. Yeah, I can’t really get my brain around it either. Giles pulled us out early this morning.”
Angel and Xander were in the training room of the Magic Box sharpening the long blades. They’d already finished on the short blades, and there was a pile of about a hundred wooden stakes, and next to the stakes stood ten boxes of cross-bow bolts neatly stacked.
Angel gave the munitions a measuring look. “The last time I saw this kind of stock pile it was coming up graduation day.”
“Fun times, graduation day,” Xander said, and because he had nothing more, he shut up.
An uncomfortable silence began to grow between them. Angel broke it.
“So, how’s Willow doing, really.”
“A little wigged. She’s sort of got her heart’s desire in Tara, something she’s only starting to think she might deserve, and she’s back with the magicks, something she’s only starting to accept, and she’s got her worst nightmare about to launch an attack that could get us all killed.”
“You seem pretty calm.”
It crossed Xander’s mind this was the first time Angel had ever acknowledged his demeanor, really that he even had a demeanor. Angel almost sounded like a friend.
“I think everyone’s kind of got this one. I mean, I know that any one of us might get killed or dusted or whatever, but I think the return of Warren Mears is going to end as soon as he crosses the …” He trailed off for a moment, “I was about to say the breach, but that sounds a little too GI Xander and me without my toy gun.”
“Call it a premonition?”
“A premonition, then.”
Anya opened the door from the storeroom floor to the annex. “It’s just past sundown. Giles is pulling up in the alley.”
They looked at one another, and then both got to work gathering up the supplies for the trip to the cemetery.
Buffy came down the stairs and found Willow, Tara, and Faith all watching television. There were bowls holding the remains of un-popped popcorn kernels and empty soda cans on the coffee and side tables.
“You guys haven’t been watching Xena since three o’clock. I mean seriously, that show went off the air, what 20 years ago?
“More like two, Buffy,” Willow said. “The UPN is showing a Xena fest.”
“That Calisto chick is wicked nuts,” Faith said. “On my worst day, I couldn’t hold a candle to her.”
“Maybe your worst day,” Buffy said with a sly grin. “Lucky for us were still a couple of hot chicks with superpowers.”
“It does take the edge off, B,” Faith said. She pulled herself up from her corner of the sofa and extended a hand to Willow, who was slumped atop Tara.
“The others are already heading over to the cemetery. Are we taking the Prius or my car?” Faith asked Willow as she pulled Willow onto her feet.
“The Prius. I loaded up the trunk with extra magicks supplies, just in case we need to do some sort of hail Mary,” Willow said. “I mean we can’t know for absolute sure what’s going to come through with Warren redux.”
Tara nodded her agreement, as she stood up as well, and then stretched her back. “It’s best to be prepared,” Tara said, but she gave Willow a curious look.
“So, the plan is pretty simple, we protect the magic-users,” Angel said to Buffy. He, Faith, and Buffy were standing together in front of the Mayor’s crypt.
“Pretty much that’s it,” Buffy said. “And easier said than done. “Riley, Spike, Xander and I were barely able to keep up with the onslaught at the old high school.” She could admit her concerns to Faith and Angel, if not the others.
“What was that about anyway,” Angel said. “I mean why send so many through. I get the idea of trying to pacify the expected opposition, but some of what you’ve told me seems like—.”
“Wicked overkill?” Faith said.
“I agree. The first breaches seemed to be all about pacifying, but these last ones. Anyway, Riley figured out the hell hounds were chipped. We’re thinking some of what’s been sent through was to forge its way to the other points of weakness with the netherworlds.”
“Where is Riley, anyway,” Angel asked.
“Picking up a final piece of equipment,” Riley said, coming up from behind the three. He had a flame thrower strapped to his back and his cross-bow inside a holster strapped around his waist. “Angel, Faith, it’s been a while.”
And once again we’re all with the awkward, Buffy thought. And when Spike gets here, it’s only going to get worse.
Faith held out her hand. “Angel and I were sorry to hear about your wife, about Sam. From what Buffy’s told us, she was an amazing woman and a serious kickass.”
“She was a hero,” Spike said, appearing from behind Riley and before acknowledging, “Angel, Faith. Welcome to tonight’s edition of Sunnydale smack down.” He turned towards Riley, “The others are on their way.”
Buffy managed only barely to keep her jaw from dropping. Faith was acting to smooth the waters, and Spike, too. If Xander were here, he’d see this as a symbol that we’re all going to die, she thought. Out loud she said, “Others?”
“Been makin’ the rounds collecting up a few demon-y types to join tonight’s little tea gathering. Riley’s been doin’ the same, but with a better class of demon.”
Riley turned from Faith and Angel to Buffy, and he offered up his sheepish smile. The smile Buffy remembered from those long-ago days when they’d butted heads over the differing tactics of the Slayer and the Initiative.
“Tara’s going to have her hands full conjuring her ice cage once Mears starts his breach. That puts her off throwing fire nets,” Riley held up the business end of his flame thrower. “So I picked up a few more of these things this morning.”
Buffy heard some movement behind her and turned around to see Mayor Bennington and Giles’ assistant, Harold both stripped to the waist, their Clava wings fully extended, and with flames throwers strapped down the center of their backs coming towards her. She also saw dozens more of demons and halflings she knew from the waterfront bars, and a few others she knew to be business owners from the demon neighborhoods, all of them carrying clubs, battle axes, or long blades, and a few with crossbows holstered to their waists.
Not since graduation had she fought with civilians, human or otherwise. Buffy looked again at Riley and Spike, “You pulled all these guys together since when?”
“Riley got on with it this mornin’, and I made some rounds through the bars last night. Everybody knows something’s been getting ready to slither into Sunny-D. Lots of folks have taken off for higher ground,” Spike said.
“And some of us would rather stand with the Slayer and protect our town,” Mayor Bennington said.
“And our schools,” Principal Wood said, stepping around the Mayor. Wood was dressed in what look like Army fatigues courtesy of the Initiative. He, too, had a flame thrower strapped to his back.
Willow crouched down as she spread the casting circle around Tara, dropping bits of broken sea shells and cinnamon sticks, whole rosemary leaves, and smashed moonstone. Tara was also crouched down, her meditation shawl pulled over her head. They were atop the Winchester mausoleum. Willow could hear her murmuring a chant that sounded to her ears like Sumerian, but she knew wasn’t. A few yards away, atop the Sisters of Charity Chapel, she could see Giles and Anya standing together. Below, on the ground, Xander and Faith would be their shields, as Buffy and Angel were to shield she and Tara.
She knew Buffy was surprised, worried, and relieved all at once to find out Riley and Spike had turned up, if not an army, a pretty sizable gang to help fight off everything that would be coming through the breach. From Tara’s castings, she knew to expect more hell hounds, more Tsuris demons, more Yeknom, and something that hadn’t already come through called Scarmonti, which were bipedal like Yeknom but were covered with scaly plates. And then there were Mears’ vampires, and in many ways, they scared Willow the most. They’d yet to see them, and although Tara had convinced her of their terrible danger, Willow wasn’t entirely confident Buffy, or Giles for that matter, understood how much more dangerous Mears’ vamps would be compared to the vampires of this reality. So far, most of what Mears had thrown at them was cannon fodder, even and including the trackers. Tara had made it clear to her Mears’ vampires were nearly as big a threat as Mears himself.
Willow continued making her circle. She had already caught Spike’s eye a couple of times since he’d shown up with his waterfront buddies. Both of them knew what they had to do.
Giles had already conjured three fire nets, or rather the threads of fire nets ready for quick expansion and deployment. Tara and he had continued to train on the docks up until the previous night. He still wasn’t as quick as she. He wasn’t yet able to cast one on the fly, as it were, but his skill was significantly honed. As he worked on his fourth, he could not help but notice Xander standing close to Anya, how their hands reached together to touch. He was happy they’d found their way back to one another, he seriously doubted either could find a better match. And then he wondered once again, when he’d become a romantic, swooning over Xander and Willow both, because both had found their ways back to love. His friend and nemesis Ethan would laugh himself silly if he learned what had become of old Ripper. And he wondered about Buffy, surrounded by the men who’d all proven themselves inadequate match to her. If Ethan would have laughed at swoony Ripper’s musings over Willow and Tara, Xander and Anya, he would have gone into some state of apoplexy at learning how fervently Buffy’s old watcher wished for her to find a worthy love.
“Are you pissed army boy and Spike went off on a recruitment mission,” Faith asked Buffy. The two were standing together atop a grave both knew to be empty, the two of them having slayed the vampire risen from it when they were patrolling together all those years ago.
“God, no,” Buffy said. “Well, except for at myself for not thinking of it. I’ve been so caught up in worrying about Dawn and Willow and what new fresh hell each day would bring, I’ve been total by the seat of her pants girl.” Buffy offered up a rueful grin. “A few years ago, Quentin Travers dissed me for being disorganized.”
“I remember him. Receding hairline, wore lots of tweed, all of it brown, and pompous as all get out.” Off Buffy’s nod, Faith added, “The only good thing about him is knowing Wesley hates his guts, too. Fuck him.”
“Giles’ isn’t overly fond of the guy, either. But he had a point. Strategy should probably be planned a little more than a few hours in advance.”
“You spent about the same amount of time planning your raid on the Initiative.”
“Fair enough, but …”
Buffy trailed off as Angel came up to the two of them.
“Riley and Spike have got their guys in place. So, how will we know when the fun’s about to start?”
“The usual, the wind will start to kick up and the air will get static-y,” Buffy said, as both of those things began to happen.
“So, I’m guessing now,” Faith said. She winked at Angel and dropped a kiss on Buffy’s cheek. “See you on the flip side, B.”
The wind came up slowly at first, and somewhere distant there was a flash of lightening followed by a slow rumble of thunder. As the static electricity in the air began to increase, the tumbling leaves, most of them long fallen and colored red and yellow and brown began to set off tiny sparks. Above the Mayor’s crypt the air was starting to glow faintly, the color of violets. A metallic taste formed inside the mouths of Willow, Tara, Anya, and Giles as the vresh sounded its alarm.
Giles tried to relax his knees which had locked as soon as he’d spotted the telltale purplish blue, first a sliver and now extending in length and width, and as it grew, the color shifting, blue deepening and then turning to green then yellow. Giles began swirling one of his fire nets along the tips of his fingers and he heard Anya incant a fireball. His net was three feet in diameter as the dimensional riff shifted from yellow to orange, five feet as the riff shifted from red. And then the burst of white as the riff began to open. Giles’ blinked back tears from the harshness of the glare. His net turned to fire and Anya began to feed it, helping it to grow bigger still, now six feet in diameter, now eight, a whirling mesh of deadly fire.
Horns sounded seconds after the riff turned white, the sound coming through the riff, high pitched like trumpets, and then the sound of boots on the ground. Buffy watched, her heart pounding as the riff widened and lengthened until it touched the ground, and she could see through it. She could see a world on the other side, a world with a sky filled with thousands upon thousands of glittering stars and a moon. And below that sky, scores of beings coming towards the breach, vampires in full armor, Tsuris demons, Yeknom marching in formation and hell hounds snapping and snarling amid their feet.
Buffy raised her tabar overhead, “Fight,” she yelled as she braced to meet the coming hoard.
Two fire nets glittered above Tara’s head, spinning atop her hands, feeding off of Willow’s fire. When the first line of vampires crossed the threshold, she sent both nets blazing forward, the first line destroyed, and maybe fifty, maybe more lines behind them. Sam’s voice echoed in her head. Work the problem, stay in the moment, don’t panic. Two more fire nets materialized atop her finger tips, first a web of black, the web taking the familiar shape, expanding, taking flame, Willow feeding more and more fire. Three lines had crossed the threshold, most of one of them taken out by Giles. She caught the fourth line and the fifth.
Tara heard Willow yell out, “God, how many of them are there,” but she had no words. No words to guess, no words to reassure. There was only this.
Buffy saw from the corner of her eye a hell hound leap atop Angel’s back. She pivoted, about to strike it down, but then saw the Mayor of Sunnydale in full flight, his wings stretched wide as he banking downward, flame thrower in one hand, club in the other. Bennington struck the hound hard, bashing in its head with a single strike. And then Angel used his long blade to neatly sever the head from the body of a Yeknom.
The Mayor flew off, returning to join the others circling above the fray. Five Clava demons, three with flame throwers, one with a tabar three-times the size of hers, the fifth with a sword and a club.
Something was moving towards her from the right. She sensed it in her peripheral vision, but also along her skin. The skittering feeling of something new, something deadly. Buffy turned to see it break through the line of vampires. This must be a Scarmonti, she thought as she raised her tabar and used it to strike the demon where she could see a gap between its chain mail. The blade sunk deep, and she had to pull back hard for the release. Green blood and yellow entrails spilled from what was a fatal wound. Buffy made a note, as she readied herself for the two vampires that were closing fast in its wake.
“Cover me,” Xander yelled to Faith as he stripped out of the empty propane tank strapped to his back. He had four more tanks, a number he’d thought was typical Riley overkill until about one minute after the riff opened.
Whatever got past him was dispatched by Faith in a matter of second. Still, he had to wonder how long they could keep up the fight.
He was back in business in just under thirty seconds and just in time to immolate three Tsuris demons coming at him at full gallop.
The ground of Evergreen Cemetery was awash in blood and body parts, dust and fallen armor. Spike’s demon hoard was holding the far perimeter, letting nothing get past them. Above the field, the Clava demons circled and banked, immolating runners breaking away from the pack, rescuing anyone of their own, human or demon, who was about to or had gone down.
Robin Wood held the ground between the two mausoleums and the chapel. He’d already switched out two of his four propane tanks. What would happen if the hoard didn’t stop before he ran out of fuel, he wondered, but only for a moment. He preferred to focus on practicalities, of what to do in a situation, not its likely outcome. His present situation, oddly enough, was giving him time to think about the why. In the midst of this great battle he was having existential thoughts, and wasn’t that amusing. But he was thinking even more about his secret, the one he’d been about to tell Buffy on more occasions then he could count on one hand, the one he always held back. What would it mean to tell the Slayer he was the child of another Slayer, Nikki Wood, who’d died at the hands of a vampire on a New York subway car? And because he couldn’t answer his own question, he kept silent.
Wood spotted a vampire breaking away, running towards the Mayor’s crypt. A short blast of propane turned the vampire to dust. A smile of deep satisfaction appeared on his face. That, he thought, was for my mother.
Giles felt something shift, the air, a sound, a scent, he could not say. He looked towards Tara and saw her fire nets extinguish, and then a cold, icy, wind, like something from his boyhood, like something from the deep of winter off the Atlantic, rushed past him. He forgot himself entirely as he watched rods of ice materialize about a meter above Tara’s head. The rods shifting in the air, taking on horizontal, vertical, and diagonal positions, as they formed into the walls of a cage big enough to hold a single man.
Anya’s scream pulled him back into the battle, and he looked up to see that the net he’d been forming was now a good fifteen feet in diameter. He hurled it forward into the breach and snared two lines of Yeknom.
“Nicely done, but pay attention,” Anya shouted, “there’s no prize for who snags the biggest kill.”
Point taken, Giles thought as he prepared yet another fire net.
Tara’s lips formed words that she did not say aloud as she crafted the conjure, drawing from the air and the ground the water needed to form the ice, her body alive inside the magicks, her mind consumed within the learnings of countless generations of witches.
Willow dropped off the side of the mausoleum, landing atop grass, and steadied by Spike.
“Is the circle ready?”
Spike nodded to the ground to his left.
Willow heard someone running towards them. She looked up to see Riley.
“I just put Wood in position. How much time will you need?”
“Not much after the Apprentice makes his stand,” Willow said, she glanced at Spike for a second. To Riley she said, “You understand what I’m going to do. Spike explained it to you.”
“He filled me in on the details this morning,” Riley said, his expression somehow both sympathetic and grim.
Willow stepped into the circle and closed her eyes and opened her mind and her body to the magicks, letting all of the forces fill her skin, her heart, her soul, her mind. Terror whistled through her, but so did familiarity. She knew this, she’d know this before. Bile rose in her throat and she swallowed it down hard. When her eyes opened, they were black as night and words and symbols moved atop her skin, slipping like water moving over a fall, sliding likes snakes along the desert floor, scattering like ants disturbed from their hill.
Warren Mears, no longer the apprentice, now the self-declared Master, entered his new reality naked, but surrounded by his most trusted fighters: vampires and demons sworn to his fealty. The fight on the ground meant little to him. It was but a distraction to ensure he would have sufficient time to transport to safety. He was not usually sentimental, but he was happy to accept the robes handed to him by his vampire general. They’d belonged to his old teacher. Ethan had taught him well.
He hoped very much to find the young woman whose book of shadows had taught him even more. He knew she’d escaped here ahead of him. But he also knew she was ultimately weak. She had no sense for the purpose of power.
The trap was much harder to wield than she expected, or at least than she remembered from her dreams. She’d conjured two of them in this reality, but not under these conditions. Updrafts from the battle below and downdrafts from the dimensional rift worked against her. Her concentration was so great, she didn’t realize Willow no longer stood next to her.
Warren Mears smiled as felt ground beneath his feet, the pull of gravity again, the crunch of earth. He rose his hands into the air, and began his incantation to deliver himself to safety. Something began falling from the sky. When it dropped over him, it crushed the two of his guards who lacked the instinctual resources to jump back. All of them had been warned. All was happening as he predicted. Not only did his foe have no sense for the purpose of power, her book of shadows had let him guess her three most likely strategies to stop him. An ice cage was the greatest of what he thought as her three inconveniences to him, but he had his counter-measures already in place.
Wafting above, the Mayor of Sunnydale watched the ice cage drop atop a single figure. So, this is the newest of the big bads, he thought, using Anya’s favorite term for the menaces that had plagued his hometown all his life. And then he saw something entirely unexpected, as the demon hoard following behind him started going to flame. Vampires and Yeknom setting themselves to blaze. What he now knew as Scarmonti setting Tsuris demons and hell hounds ablaze. The demon hoard running pell-mell through the breach and hurling themselves against the ice cage.
Giles heard Anya’s scream, but he already knew understood was happening. He let go the fire and embraced water and air, combining his will to Tara’s, using his strengthen to harden the ice.
“Stand your ground,” Faith yelled to Xander, as the fight seemed to shift. More and more of the hoard coming their way. She spared a quick glance and saw Buffy and Angel in the thick of their own fight. The forces of the apprentice were now focusing on trying to stop Tara and Giles. She didn’t see the Yeknom bank around a row of headstones coming her way, a spiked club raised in the air, ready to strike.
The Yeknom was too close to immolate. Xander used his sword, the one he favored despite the fact it took forever to hone the blade, to stab deep into its belly. He gave the blade a slight twist as he pulled it back.
A pile of Yeknom intestines spilled onto the ground, sending up a waft of steam and a smell that could take paint off a fence.
“You okay?” Xander shouted, as he slipped his blade back into its scabbard.
“Five by five,” Faith said. And I would kiss you if I didn’t think your demon girlfriend would deliver me into some hell dimension beyond the telling.
Giles noticed he was bleeding from his nose, and for the first time in a very long while, he felt afraid. Together, they’d fought off the Master, Angelus, the Mayor, Adam, Glory, those three idiots, and dark Willow. Together, they’d put evil down, time and again. He felt fear, but not of this new big bad seeking to set up house in Sunnydale. He feared he was not up to the task. And then he hardened his resolve as he hardened his focus, putting all of his effort to Tara’s. He didn’t notice Willow was no longer standing by Tara’s side.
A sliver of light formed along the ground, lengthening, widening, turning more and more bright. And then something else, blood and entrails, dust and burning bits, slithering towards the light, coming together, combining.
Spike looked away from the thing forming atop the ground to watch Willow, to watch in dumb amazement at unseeing eyes turned black, at lips moving soundlessly, at words and symbols crawling downward along her skin and then bleeding into the ground. He breathed in the scent of magicks, a mix of miasma and perfume, letting it fill his nose, his throat, his useless lungs.
Buffy crushed a Yeknom’s head with his own club, and then staked two more vampires. Through the explosion of dust, she saw something on the ground begin to rise up, at first the shape was indistinct, but then she could see it form and reform, becoming something like an arch, but then reforming again, the base of the arch splitting into two, something extending from the top. The shape reforming again, into something the size and silhouette of a dog or a wolf; reforming again as four legs became two legs and two arms, as a neck and head appeared. She disposed of yet another Tsuris demon as the shape rose up, and then she knew it was becoming human. “Willow,” Buffy whispered, “Oh, god, Willow, no.”
His will still intertwined with Tara’s, but his eyes now caught by light and shape, Giles watched as the thing forming on the ground began taking on color, no longer a dull grey, turning to a blood-soaked red. He watched in horror as skin wrapped around it. He saw a face appear and a cap of dark brown hair, and he nearly vomited. Lips stitched shut, then freed. A human scream of sheer agony issuing from it. “Willow,” Giles whispered, “Please, dear god, protect her.”
Dazed, his mind not yet fully awake, Warren Mears stood naked atop a ground covered in offal and blood, his body pulsing with energy, with magicks. He didn’t see the man came towards him at a full run.
And then something hit him along, striking along the side of his head, and he was down. He felt handcuffs clamp along his wrist.
Riley Finn stared down at the man who’d set countless lives to ruin. His wife was dead, but this creep was going to get to live. It was all he could do not to snap the asshole’s neck. And then he watched as Mears’ spine bend, sending his chest upwards before Mears collapsed back to the ground. Mears began screaming and thrashing, and then he fell still. Riley used his fingers to check the pulse in Mears’ neck. Steady and strong. He resisted again the impulse to snap Mears’ neck. It would be so easy, so quick. But he’d made a promise to let Buffy set the rules of engagement.
Spike caught Willow in his arms as she fell to the ground unconscious. He checked for a pulse. Steady and strong. He kissed her on the forehead.
“You did it, Red,” he muttered, “You saved the effin’ world.”
Tara collapsed to her knees as the cage exploded with the Apprentice, and all of the air sucked out of her lungs. Tears ran down her cheeks, as she caught her breath. And then she was running, jumping down to the ground, running again, running to Willow.
Willy the Snitch and Clem waited inside the abandoned building. They’d spent most of the evening pitching pennies, gambling on the outcomes, both of them doing their best to cheat. When the magicks began flooding the room, they knew what to expect. They waited, biding their time as the warlock materialized out of the offal they’d left in the room (mostly dead hell hounds and a gallon or two of bio waste Clem had stolen from the hospital). Willy fired first. Clem second. The warlock fell dead to the ground as the scent of spent gunpowder overwhelmed the final traces of the magicks.
“That was for killing my sister, you motherfucker,” Willy said.
“That was for what you did to Willow, jackass,” Clem said.
Faith watched in amazement as the apprentice’s hoards turned tail and began to run, heading back to the breach. More made it through than didn’t, more than a few were caught in the rift as it closed. She heard a noise and looked to see Xander kneeling on the ground vomiting. She ran to him.
“Buck up, buttercup. I think we just won.”
Buffy sensed the Scarmonti before she turned to see it on a dead run, spiked club raised high in the air, leaping over the grave stones. A last-ditch effort. A final act of mayhem. Her feet carried her body as if in a dream. As if she were remembering something told to her. She leaped into the air, her tabar raised even higher, and she cleaved the Scaramonti’s head from its body in a single, oh so very satisfying whoosh.
Angel whirled around, his black coat billowing upward. He looked down at the thing lying dead at his feet. He hadn’t seen it or heard it coming for him.
“Thanks,” Angel said.
“Don’t mention it,” Buffy said.
Police sirens began to sound, and the Mayor of Sunnydale came to ground. He found his shirt, jacket, and tie where he’d left them, tucked under a public bench in front of Mayor Wilkins’ crypt. All the rest of Sunnydale’s demon army were heading home or to the bars. Willy the Snitch had promised half-price beers to everyone who joined the fight. He started rehearsing in his head an explanation for the night’s melee. Eco-terrorists or PCP enraged bikers. It didn’t really matter. This was his town, his home. Anything he said would be accepted with the usual Sunnydale shrug.
Anya led the police to Warren Mears, wrapped in a dirty blanket, already in handcuffs, and with a ward forced deep into his flesh, where it would reside inside his heart, before heading over to Buffy, who was standing with Giles, Angel, Faith, and Mayor Bennington.
Anya had bought the ward off of a Romani woman, an old acquaintance of D’Hoffyren’s, and she’d seen to the implantation herself. Riley had only needed to hold Mears still long enough for Anya to complete the task, remotely and without Mears’ knowing. She liked to think how many times Mears’ would test his old abilities before he figured out the only way he’d ever cast another spell would be if he first plunged a knife into his own heart. She liked even more knowing Mears would figure it out, and probably also figure out she could have shoved it into his brain, but then he’d have been corked. And where’s the fun it that for a vengeance demon. Vengeance needs to be perceived, otherwise what’s the point. Riley could collect the reward for Mears’ capture; the creep was still wanted for the murder of Katrina Silber. Anya only wanted to collect the service points, helping bring resolution to a cold case murder was bound to win her the Sunnydale Downtown Association Public Service Prize.
Tara cradled Willow in her arms, pressing her face into Willow’s hair, wondering how Willow could possibly feel so indistinct, so small, so fragile.
“Tara,” Willow said, her eyes still closed. “Tara, I’m so sorry.”
“Hush,” Tara whispered. “Don’t you know. Willow, you saved the world.”
Buffy glanced at the kitchen clock. It was three minutes past midnight, November seventh. The world continued. She closed the cupboard door and set to work making the peppermint tea. It was too late for anything with caffeine, but it was never too late for herbal tea, especially if it was laced with sugar. Lots of sugar. She heard someone come into the kitchen and turned around to see Spike.
“Finished helping Angel unload the box of books he brought back from L.A. He and Faith just took off. Should have plenty of time to make it back before daybreak,” Spike said. He took a seat at the kitchen counter. “So, Army boy’s gone, too?”
“Riley caught his connecting to San Francisco, and it’ll be a non-stop to London.”
“That he was going to leave tonight, no,” Buffy said, shaking her head. “That he was going to join the Watcher’s Council, yes. We talked about it while we were doing our time in Giles’ proto-world.”
Buffy poured hot water from the tea kettle into the pot, and the scent of peppermint filled the room. Maybe I should put out some cookies, too, she thought. Xander can always eat.
“I’ve got a pint of pig’s blood in the fridge,” Buffy said.
“No need. I fed before the party.”
After a moment, Spike added, “Didn’t want to be tempted to take a nip of anything.”
“Good thinking,” Buffy said.
Both of them were joking, both of them knew it.
“So, when exactly did we become friends again?” Buffy asked.
Spike reached for the box of peppermint tea and carefully folded down the wax paper liner.
“Probably the moment you decided not to read me the riot act for drumming up Spike’s regulars.”
“Whose idea was it to bring in the Mayor?”
“I thought of it, too, but Riley boy did the askin’. Couldn’t quite fathom Bennington having me visit his office for a quick sit down.”
Spike reached for the tray Buffy had loaded with the teapot, cups, and a plate of cookies.
Giles, Xander, and Anya were waiting on them in the front room.
“Shall we?” Spike asked.
Tara came through the bedroom door still toweling her hair and wrapped up in her bathrobe. Willow had showered first, and was seated in front of the vanity taking off her earrings. She was dressed in a Sunnydale U sweatshirt and matching pants.
“You look cozy,” Tara said.
“Mostly I’m happy to be clean. I already took all of my clothes and yours downstairs and out to the trash bin. Between the dust, the blood, and the entrails, there was no getting any of it clean again, including our shoes.”
“Lucky I took your advice and wore the stuff I stole out of Mr. Klinger’s basement.” Off Willow’s quizzical expression, Tara added, “He owns the hardware store on Fourth Street.”
Tara went to their bed. Willow had laid out fresh underwear, a clean t-shirt, and a pair of drawstring pants. She changed into the clothes quickly, conscious of Willow’s averted gaze. Then she went to Willow’s side and knelt down.
“You saved the world. You saved me. He was going to break free,” Tara said.
A shiver came over Willow’s skin, a residual memory of the magicks she’d allowed to root in her, she shook it off. “I have to hate what I did. You get it, right? I drew on what I vowed never to draw upon again.”
“No, Will. You released it back.”
Tara said the words, knowing Willow still didn’t quite grasp the difference between using magicks and being used by them. That time would come, soon enough. Of that, she was sure.
“I’ve still killed.”
It was true, Willow had killed.
“And yet you’ve not taken a life.”
And that was true, also.
Tara reached up to draw Willow’s face to hers. She kissed lips familiar from all the kisses before. Willow drew back. She smiled. “I love you.”
Tara knew that; Willow’s love, so precious, so pure, so necessary, and it was everywhere around her. She said the words back, and then:
“The both of us. We’ve thought we knew what we were, what’s to come. We haven’t yet begun,” Tara said.
Tara and Willow came downstairs to find Giles sprawled in his usual chair, Xander and Anya sacked out together on the sofa, Buffy sitting in front of the fire, and Spike parked on a stiff-backed chair he’d pulled in from the dining room. Willow went to join Buffy by the fire, and Tara went to sit in the other wingback.
“So, does anyone have any plans for tomorrow, cause my plans largely involve sleeping in and then taking a long and restful nap,” Xander said.
“I’m expecting blockbuster business tomorrow. There’s nothing alike a good near apocalypse for driving traffic. Plus, I have a great sale in the Sunnydale circular, half-off on the henbane.”
Xander shot Anya a tender smile. He wondered when he’d get up the nerve to propose a second time. And then he remembered, he had all the time in the world. Well, until the arrival of the next big bad. That was the thing, the big bads would always find their way to Sunnydale.
“Isn’t the henbane about to expire,” Buffy asked as she used the fire poker to push one of the logs back, sending a tower of sparks up the chimney, Willow to sit closer to Tara, and White Leg, who’d been sleeping underneath the coffee table to raise her head, look about, and then promptly drop back to sleep.
“And you know this how?” Xander asked.
“Inventory. Hey, I can pay attention,” Buffy said.
“Me, too,” Anya said. “So, what made you look when that Scarahooti thing went after Angel? Both of you had your back to him. I could see what went down from the chapel roof.”
“I think Tara,” Buffy said, slowly. “Not you,” she said looking at Tara, “our first Tara. I had this dream the other night.
“She came to you, too, then,” Spike said. “I had this dream I was having a beer at Willie’s Place, and there she was sittin’ next to me. Drinkin’ one of those fruity cocktails she liked, the kind with the slice of watermelon.” Spike shook his head, needing to regroup. “Anyway, she said somethin’ about gathering up the Sunnydale regulars. Then Riley shows up this morning, all hot on some dream he had about Tara and the mayor. Had no idea the ponce is a Clava demon. Go figure.”
Xander looked from Buffy to Willow and back. “I had this nightmare of a dream about the battle, and Tara yelling at me to look to my left and to use my long blade, and then a pile of stinky, yellow guts.”
Anya sat up, but kept one of her hands wrapped in Xander’s. “A few nights ago, I dreamed Tara presented me with the Association award and that I beat out the manager of the Sunnydale Dry Cleaning because of the points I earned for solving the murder of Katrina Silbur, but the dream was all mixed up with acquiring a suppression ward from this old Romani acquaintance of D’Hoffryn. Took me days to sort it out, and then I had to trade her my favorite piece of Haxil Beast statuary. But I suppose it’s a fair trade to neuter Warren Mears.”
“Neuter?” Xander said. “As in ….”
“No, I didn’t remove his testicles. I just insured he won’t be able to commit any acts of magick, lest he experience a sudden heart explosion.”
“Heart explosion,” Giles repeated softly.
“Still,” Anya added, “spirit Tara could have done a better job instructing me on what to do. First I needed to find Katrina’s spirt, so I could get her to make the wish, then I needed to make sure the ward I implanted would also keep Warren’s heart good and healthy. Warren deserves to have a long life sentence. Plus, I don’t want him to qualify for anything like a heart transplant.”
“Good thinking on that then,” Spike said.
The room fell silent until Giles spoke up.
“I was having trouble conjuring a scrying pane until one night Tara and I made one together.” Giles looked at Willow. “She came to all of us, didn’t she? According to Cordelia, she had a vision of Angel and Faith in a great battle, but the vision was unusually coherent. Clearly, she came to Anya and me. As well as Spike, and I’m guessing not just to advise him to gather up the ‘Sunnydale regulars’.”
“Well, yeah,” Spike said slowly.
Willow nodded at Giles and then turned to look at Tara. “I’m sorry I lied to you. But Tara thought it was the only way. She didn’t want her plan to interfere with yours. You needed to hold the Apprentice long enough for me to be able to undo the deaths I caused.” Willow looked at Buffy. “I couldn’t just undo what I did to Warren. Rack is probably back, also.”
“He was, and now he’s not,” Spike said. “Spirit Tara didn’t tell me, but I figure out what was likely to happen. Willy and Clem were waiting for him. Willy because Rack drained his sister. Clem … well, Clem had his reasons, too. Anyway, no one wanted Rack to set up shop again. Bad for business. That sort of thing. Willy and Clem took care of old Rack before he could get up to anymore mischief.” Spike looked at Buffy. “Sorry, Slayer, but code of the demon kind of rode over the code of the slayer.”
Buffy nodded, but said nothing.
Tara looked at the Scoobies, one to the next, and broke the silence that had fallen over the room.
“So, Tara came to all of us,” Tara said. “She saved me, she saved us, so that Willow could save the world.”
This table is laden with food, Willow thought as she put down a serving dish filled with cranberry sauce. She didn’t usually need the word laden, she also thought. It was rare when anything was truly laden, but laden the table was with covered bowls of twice-cooked green beans (first lightly steamed and then quickly stir-fried in olive oil, salt, and garlic), yams baked in cumin and cinnamon, buttermilk biscuits, roasted asparagus with bacon, grilled Brussel sprouts with nuts and cheeses, and in the center a roasted turkey and a stuffing made of bits of baked sourdough and hot Italian sausage, hazelnuts, fresh fennel, celery and sage. Tara and Giles had spent the entire morning cooking, giving her, Buffy, and Dawn the occasional task, but mostly making it clear they wanted no one underfoot.
Now Giles and Tara were sitting in the front room with Buffy and Dawn, Xander and Anya, her father and Principal Wood (Willow was still having to remember to call him Robin), and Stefan and Laurie, a house filled to the brim. But it was more than a house full of people. A fire was crackling in the fireplace, candles were sending delicate shadows up the walls, and everyone, including Dawn (because it was a holiday) was holding a glass of sparkling wine, a really lovely vintage she’d picked up the weekend before when she’d taken Tara to her favorite winery as part of a romantic getaway.
Willow took note of salt and pepper shakers on both ends of the dining room table, stretched out to its fullest glory, both of its extra leaves installed by Xander. Even if all of its chairs didn’t quite match, it was a splendid table. Still, she decided a second butter dish was needed.
From the front room, Tara watched Willow dart back into the kitchen, she’d been setting the table for some thirty minutes, putting down the tablecloth and napkins, plates and glasses and cups with saucers. She’d used the good silver, Joyce’s silver handed down to her from her grandmother, and she’d used a sugar bowl Ira had given her the day before, it a legacy of Great-grandma Irene. Tara liked watching because it struck her she was seeing the forming of a tradition, that next year there would be another trick or treat and another Thanksgiving.
A knock sounded on the door, and Tara got up to answer. Spike stood outside, holding a bundle of wild flowers.
“You came,” Tara said, surprised because she’d heard him tell Buffy he had other plans. But unsurprised because Willow had put out a chair anyway.
“So I did,” Spike said. “Not too late?” He handed Tara the flowers.
“Perfect timing,” Tara said, smiling her lopsided grin, and pulling Spike into a quick hug. “Thanks for coming. I’d have missed you,” she whispered.
And then everyone had arrived, all the food remaining piping hot (a conjure courtesy of Mrs. Edwards) on the table, all of them going to find their seats at the Thanksgiving table.
Willow hid a smile as she watched her father cast a curious eye towards Spike before finding his seat next to Stefan, Ira Rosenberg would have much to tell Sheila in his nightly phone call to Chicago. And then she slipped into the chair next to Tara.
“I had a couple of the green beans before I brought the all the dishes out to the table. They’re delicious,” Willow whispered near Tara’s ear. She also gave the lobe a quick bite, before remembering her father was sitting directly across from her.
Tara turned to see the color rising onto Willow’s cheeks, and she wished her counterpart were there to whisper the words that would cool Willow’s skin, and since she didn’t have the words, she took Willow’s hand into her own to weave their fingers together.
“Thank you, for this, for making a Thanksgiving,” Tara said.
“You and Giles did all the cooking,” Willow said confusedly.
“But you made it happen, for me, for Dawn, for all of us.” Tara leaned close and placed a tender kiss atop Willow’s lips, not caring who might be watching. “Always?” Tara said, softly.
“Always,” Willow said, just as softly.
Dinner was served and eaten, relished and appreciated. Praise was heaped upon the cooks and the organizer. When Giles produced a traditional English trifle, a flaming plum pudding, and an apple pie a la mode for desert, applause was heard around the table, and Spike had a slice of each after imbibing most of his dinner as a blood wine cocktail mulled with cloves, mace, and freshly grated nutmeg.
Ira left the party first, but not before securing a promise that Willow and Tara would join him for next Tuesday’s dinner. Stefan and Laurie soon enough followed Ira out the door, both eager to greet the next work day. Dawn was soon off to bed, more unused to sparkling wine than she cared to admit, and thus it was the rest of them found themselves gathered near the fireplace.
Tara sat atop a floor cushion next to Willow’s feet, enjoying the gentle movements of Willow’s fingers untangling her forever tangled hair, and the soft weight of White Leg atop her lap.
Giles, sitting in his favorite wingback, quietly watched the two of them, as he also watched the play of light sift through the rather nice fifteen-year-old Scotch Ira had brought to the party. He hated to bring up business, but he did so nonetheless.
“Are you prepared for tomorrow’s trip to Istanbul?” he said to Tara.
Tara nodded. “Willow fixed up my passport in case anyone asks me for my papers. I also goggled a city map. I should be able to find the book dealer w-without any trouble.”
“It’s a pity the portal entrance isn’t closer,” Giles said. “But at least it’s within the city limits. The portal entrance for Paris is kilometers outside the city limits.”
“I suppose Albert couldn’t really anticipate where would be the best place to build the portal transits. Didn’t you say most were built in the mid-nineteenth century,” Xander said.
“He built most of them then, and a handful more in the 1950s,” Giles said. He grimaced at his glass. “Unfortunately, I’m a good decade out before I’ll be able to build even one, let alone untangle the magicks that have left more than a few barely operational.”
Giles expression turned somewhat dark as he contemplated the work in front of him. Once he’d realized the annex door could be reoriented to other entry points on Earth, he’d begun the process of cataloging them. So far as he could tell, there were passage points leading to all of the major cities of Europe, the subcontinent, Japan, and Northern Africa. When it came to Australasia, unfortunately, the only working portal linked the annex to Christchurch, a lovely city, but hardly the best of options.
“Oh, come on Giles, you’re loving learning how to do all this new stuff,” Buffy said, drawing Giles out of his thoughts. She had her hands on the fire poker, but was blessedly resisting stirring the logs.
Giles took another sip of his very good Scotch and observed, matching Buffy’s teasing, if not her precise tone: “Much like you’ll be loving completing your degree at university, I suppose.”
“Did you finish registering for next semester’s classes?” Willow asked, trying very hard not to sound overly eager.
“Yes, and I decided against keeping my status as a psych major. I’m switching to art history.”
“So, you and Tara both,” Xander said. “Maybe you’ll end up reopening your mom’s old art gallery.”
“Another family business,” Giles said.
The idea of reviving Joyce Summers’ Gallery had been playing on Buffy’s mind for a month now, but first she’d need to finish her Bachelor’s degree, and maybe a Master’s, for good measure.
“And speaking of the family business,” Buffy said, glancing towards Spike. “Can you step in for Tara tomorrow night.”
“No problem. Willy’s Friday night game is cancelled. Some Miquot came on Tuesday and trashed the back room after they lost their last kitty.” Spike shook his head. “God, how I hate those poncy-buggers.”
Giles nodded towards the second floor, where he assumed Dawn was already fast asleep.
“Have you thought more about my proposal?” Giles asked Buffy
“I’m still trying to decide what mom would say. You’re right Dawn is going to need training. But joining a technopagan circle is giving me a wiggins.”
“I’ve met with each of the circle members face to face, and aside from some questionable choices with regard to facial tattoos and piercings, I’m confident their embrace of magicks is entirely ethical. I really think it will benefit Dawn to work with them, especially if she’s going to spend time with Devon coven in the summer.”
Willow kept her silence as Buffy and Giles debated. She and Tara had both said their piece the day before. Neither of them felt comfortable taking over Dawn’s training. It was Spirit Tara, as they’d all taken to call her, who’d suggested the technopagans in a dream Willow had had the week before, an idea Giles had seized upon immediately, but Buffy had shied from, which wasn’t terribly surprising given Buffy’s complex relationship with the departed but still remembered Jenny Calendar.
Willow liked that her lover’s spirit still came back to her. She was less enthusiastic over Spirit Tara’s insistence she would someday become a teacher of magicks, let alone she would form a coven. They’d argued about the matter half the night, Willow thought, although she could not say for certain the actual length of time of the dream. And when she’d told Xander about the dream, he’d taken Spirit Tara’s side, of all things, especially about naming the coven Revane.
Tara stirred near Willow’s feet, drawing her out of her reverie, but it was Spike who interrupted the debate.
“Seems to me Red could set up one of her little tracking bots to alert for any untoward talk. Mentions of dark magicks and what not.”
Out of the mouths of vampires, Willow thought. “That’s actually doable. I wouldn’t be spying, really. Just tracking, and it wouldn’t be me doing the tracking. I could set up a bot exactly as Spike said, to look for problem words, and set up an alert system.”
Bored with the conflict over Dawn’s training to become a witch, Anya interjected. “So, what do you want to do about the vresh? Xander’s fixed the roof of the Magic Box so many times, the building owner just takes for granted anything Xander wants to do is acceptable. So we could just leave it up there.”
“I think that would be best,” Giles said. He took off his glasses and used the end of his tie to clean the lenses. “The apprentice has been defeated. However, the effects of his incursion will continue to reverberate for months, probably years to come.”
“Years?” Xander said.
“I’m afraid, so. Glory’s attempts to unlock the barriers between the dimensions were quite singular, ultimately. Unlike her, the apprentice was able to send through hundreds, probably upwards to a thousand denizens into this reality. Others will want to follow suit, albeit most likely to extremely limited success. Dimensional crossing of this particular kind is rare because it’s extremely difficult, fraught with problems involving timing, not to mention the perils of duplication.” Giles glanced at his lenses, and decided to give them another scrub.
“You have ‘but’ face,” Buffy said. “I mean, you’re about to say—.”
Giles smiled as he looked upon the young woman who would always be in his heart, his Slayer. This wasn’t the first time he’d had “but” face, and it wouldn’t be the last.
“But,” he continued, “Sunnydale has always been somewhat of a beacon to the demons of this world. I fully expect our recent conflict has only intensified Sunnydale’s allure.” Giles leaned forward, elbows atop his knees. “We must never forget we live upon a center of mystical convergence, and that once again, perhaps very soon, we may find ourselves standing between the earth and its total destruction. Fortunately, I seriously doubt we are in any way doomed.”
“Nice to hear the note of confidence,” Xander said, “especially when the notes are spoken with an English accent. It just makes people feel more confident.” Xander looked at Spike. “Not yours, of course.”
Spike held up his mug of warmed blood. “Up yours, nancy boy.”
“Now boys, just when I thought we’d all just get along,” Buffy said, as she got onto her feet. “Is anybody else wanting another slice of pie?”
“I’m all for the pie,” Anya said. “Even though I should be getting home soon. Black Friday’s an important work day.”
“Maybe not another piece of pie, but popcorn would be good,” Willow said. She leaned down to press a quick kiss atop Tara’s hair. “What about you, sweetie, more pie, popcorn?”
“Plum pudding, please,” Tara said, marveling that she made it through all of the Ps without a stammer. She turned her face to Willow’s, delivered a tender kiss atop her lips, and whispered, “Yours, always?”
“Always,” Willow whispered.
Sound asleep, Tara curled her body around Willow’s, one arm flung over Willow’s belly, the other tucked underneath Willow’s neck. Her feet moved ever so slightly as she walked along a sandy beach deep inside her dream, White Leg tucked into the roomy front pocket of her coat, her hood pulled high over her head.
There was a cold wind coming off the lake, but the girl kept her eyes on the outcropping dead ahead. Behind it was the cabin, and Willow and Tara said they’d wait there for her to join them, and they always kept their promise. They also said there would be sandwiches and hot chocolate for her and a dish of milk for White Leg.
They were meeting to talk about magicks, to share their knowledge, and maybe even figure out some new conjures and spells. The girl was looking forward to sharing her ideas about bringing better focus to an air shock.
After their lunch, the girl would continue her walk. She was heading back to Books of Shadows, 1348. There was a new wizard she wanted to meet, and because the girl never quite stopped thinking about food, she was also looking forward to a plate of Mrs. Edwards’ cookies. It would be a long walk, but she would have White Leg to keep her company. And truth be told, walking, putting one foot in front of the other was the best way to travel.
The End (not quite)
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The Coda
Tara came through the portal, her book bag slung over her shoulder, her heavy coat billowing behind her in the draft.
“Did you find it?” Giles asked. He was standing in the annex, dressed in his usual gray suit, pale blue shirt, and a red and blue striped tie over which he was wearing his favorite robes, black, silk, and covered with a lovely print of round moons and crescents.
“Exactly where the scrying panel pointed me. Although how the book managed to land in the basement of a defunct furniture store, I have no idea. The good news is that it was incased in a m-metal box that protected from insect damage,” Tara said, as she drew a thin metal box, roughly the dimensions of a magazine from her book bag. She handed the box to Giles, and started pulling out of her coat.
Underneath her coat, she was dressed in what Tara liked to think of as her most nondescript blouse, skirt, and heels, the blouse white, the skirt and gunmetal gray. She was also wearing a pair of non-prescription tortoiseshell glasses to help her look her the age on her passport. At 37, Tara still appeared very much a young woman in her middle-twenties.
Willow was working on the problem. All of them, Tara, Willow. Buffy, Anya, Xander, and Giles were facing the challenge Spike and Angel had endured for centuries. What to do about aging when you didn’t truly age? The problem was far more complex in 2017 than it was in years past, due to the ever more complex nature of computer records. Only Dawn had rejected sleeping in one of Giles’ bedframes made of regiano wood, her thinking being she’d already missed out on aging from infancy to fourteen, and she didn’t want to miss out on it any further, not at least until she reached 40. The all bets were off.
Tara went to poke her head out the annex to wave at Harold, who was, as usual, working on the special orders, before she went to snoop around Giles’ lab table.
“Any luck with distilling the kaysom nectar?” Tara asked.
“It remains very much a work in progress,” Giles said, far more cheerfully than anyone would expect. He’d been attempting to distill kaysom nectar for the better part of the last seven years. “I found a very promising procedure for distilling rose nectar in a grimoire kept by Esmeralda De La Mora of Montevideo. It may prove adaptable.”
Giles shucked out of his robe and hung it on the coatrack he kept near his desk.
“If we’re to make it to the tonight’s gallery opening, we’d best be moving. It’s already half past five, and I wouldn’t care to disappoint Buffy, especially given our tardiness for the Martin opening.”
“Did Willow leave already?” Tara said, confusedly. “I thought we were going to walk over together?”
“Yes, she wanted to stop by the post office first, to send off that parcel of magicks supplies to Dawn.”
Dawn was finishing a post-doctorate in medieval history at Oxford; she wouldn’t be back for Thanksgiving, but she promised not to miss Christmas. Tara nodded.
“What about Xander and Anya?”
“Anya is coming, but Xander is staying home to look after the baby. It seems little Aud’s cold has yet to clear. He also is finishing some work on that set of side-chairs the Mayor’s office ordered. Apparently, he’s eager to claim the payment, as there’s some new miter box he wants to purchase.”
The success of Xander’s carpentry shop was now rivaling the Magic Box, much to Anya’s public joy, and less than secret jealousy.
Spike stepped into the annex. “The Slayer sent me over here to fetch you two. Let’s try not to piss her off tonight. She’s wound up like a top over tonight’s reception. Seems some big wigs from the University are coming, including her ponce of a dissertation advisor.”
Tara nodded at Spike. If Professor Sinclair was coming, Buffy would be in a minor frenzy. “I’m ready to head out,” she said to Giles.
The three made the short walk from Uncle Albert’s Books Used and Almost New (Giles had yet to think of a better name for the shop) to The Joyce Summers Gallery under a moonlit night and on sidewalks crowded with shoppers. Since the night of the apprentice, the Scoobies had vanquished three additional big bads and an uncountable number of vampires and demons invested in formulating destruction, but Sunnydale’s mean streets had been mostly friendly of late. Giles and Buffy were confident this time would soon pass. If there was any constant to Sunnydale, soon enough some new evil would arise.
Tara spotted Willow through the gallery’s storefront window as soon as they rounded the corner. Willow was wearing one of her shorter skirts and a somewhat loose fitting top with a scoop neck. Fifteen years into their relationship, two years into their marriage, and Willow could still make her heart flutter in an instant. She also noted Willow’s father and mother standing nearby, both with wine glasses in hand, and decided against greeting Willow with a lingering kiss. Kisses, lingering and not, would be sure to come later in the evening, she thought. She also noted Buffy in a conversation with Professor Sinclair, and she picked up her pace. Tara knew from unplanned encounters with dissertation advisors; she’d spent the better part of the three years she’d needed to write her literature dissertation avoiding any and all casual contact with Professor Noxon.
The chime above the door jangled as the three entered the shop, Giles and Spike heading to the refreshment table to snag glasses of wine, Tara to Willow’s side.
“Hey, sweetie, sorry I’m late,” Tara said.
Willow turned to look at her girl and smiled. It was her vixen smile, and a thrill ran through Tara’s body, starting at the top of her head and reaching all the way to her fingers and toes. Willow saw it as something akin to a blush, but also like a tiny electrical charge.
“Not late, perfectly on time,” Willow said, her voice a soft purr. She leaned in and pressed a truly impressive kiss onto Tara’s mouth, before pulling back slightly to whisper, “I bought something for you this afternoon. It’s wrapped in tissue paper and atop our bed.”
“For me?” Tara said, a smile dancing atop her lips.
“Always,” Willow said.
I like to keep my promises, and so at long last I have brought this tale to its close. I have loved writing DR, loved writing it beyond the telling.
I wanted to end DR with a hint towards the future. So yes, Xander and Anya found their way back together; Buffy, Dawn, Tara (and Willow) completed or will soon complete their formal educations. Giles and Tara have found their vocations. I left out the bit about Willow's school of magicks and Revane coven, but I've no doubt both came to pass. Buffy remains the Slayer, of all else for her I am unsure. I could never quite fathom how to deliver her a worthy suitor. Spike has become Buffy's loyal friend.
So that's it. I am working on a cleaned up (read, better edited) version of the text, and I hope someday to find a place to post it. I am also going to try to work through the DR posts here. Over the years, the posts have gone a little wonky, and there is the not small matter of typos, missing words, etc.
Fond wishes to you all and many thanks to the Kitten Board for giving me this platform,
Technopagan (you can find me at technopagan78@yahoo.com if you wish to drop me a note)
still waters run deep
7. Teeny Tinkerbell Light
So glad you found the time [and inclination] to finish this most important and best written [in my mind] of all the altWT fic I have read.
I have taken the liberty of transcribing these final chapters over onto my kindle so that I can re-read the whole epic tale in one go.
Scrolling back to the begining I can scarcely believe that it was 15 years ago when you started this story! a lot has happened in this time and I'm sure none of us are the people we were then. I will be interested to see how you have managed to hold to the line you set out all those years ago.
Thank you again for closing the circle on this tale
Hwyl a Sbri.
collecting dead rainbows from puddles and mires
http://lostcoast.blogspot.com/
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:15 am
Thank you, Still Waters. Your praise means the world to me, as I know you to be a discerning reader and writer. I am so very happy to have been able to close finally the circle (and, in my opinion, to a happy ending).
I now have a new copy of DR, freshly (if not perfectly) proof read. I know that some of the DR posts have gone a bit wonky over the years, and that there are far too many typos, missing words, and grammatical tangles. Oddly enough, my continuity has generally been spot on (thanks to a detailed outline I have been upgrading from one copy of Word to the next, from one Apple OS to the next). Anyone who wants a copy of a DR pdf is warmly invited to shoot me an email at technopagan78@yahoo.com. At 800 some pages, DR is a tough read off of a Web Site, even one so lovely as the KB. Still, my intention is to try to upgrade the posts. I have always loved reading the comments as contributions to the story itself. Simply seeing peoples' KB names warms my heart.
Technopagan
(P.S. If there is a brave beta out there, shoot me a lifeline!)
Techopagen-
First, thanks so much for sending me the pdf and second, thank you for writing this wonderful story. A true masterpiece! Seriously, fifteen years in the making and you didn’t miss a beat. The flow is perfect and your attention to detail is impeccable. This fic most definitely made my list of all-time favorites.
I spent the better part of the last two weeks re-reading DR from start to finish and STILL didn’t see how they would kill The Apprentice. But now, it seems so simple, resurrect one to kill the other, because two cannot exist in the same reality. It literally never dawned on me, so yay for spirit Tara!
I’ve read through this story several times over the years and it never fails to spark emotion. It also never fails to make me cry. Willow’s grief is palpable and having to say goodbye to “her Tara” again is heartbreaking. Upsetting as it may be, I’m always glad to see Willow have a chance to grieve for her loss. It was something left out in canon that always pissed me off. I think our hearts would have had the opportunity to mend easier if we’d been given the chance to grieve along with Willow.
There are many moments throughout the story that you really captured Willow’s devotion and dedication to Tara. Some of the sweetest being right after the rejoining. Those always make me smile and love Willow just a little bit more. She lost the love of her life again, she has new Tara to care for, a pending apocalypse and yet she is still the responsible “dog-gyser person.” Willow is a master at keeping her daily routine intact. And through all of it, the happiness, the anger, the dark magic, the unfathomable grief, school, the grocery store and so on…she somehow finds the time to save the world.
Such a beautiful story. Thank you again for writing it and bringing it to an epic and well thought out close.
{{hugs}} -Shelby
Just finished the story, top to bottom
And a good story to boot.
Impressively, i didn't notice any jarring changes in tone from old to recent chapters, so: Well done!
So, thanks for the entertaining read
And if you want a hand with any beta-ing, i'm always up for beta-ing any W?T or Buffy favoured stuff.
Shelby, I hope I can fully express to you my gratitude for your kind words regarding DR. I could never quit the story, and I am so deeply grateful others could not either, even though it took me 15 years to write it, even though it's gargantuan in length (when I wrote my outline, I did not quite understand my undertaking).
{Spoiler Warning}
I am also tickled you did not figure out the Apprentice's demise. I dropped a big hint in something Anya said, Anya being my favorite character for expressing unfiltered truth. And then I hoped and hoped no one would guess the Apprentice's final outcome. My "solution" gave me opportunity to bring several threads of the Willow story full circle, and to maintain the idea that it's in going it alone that folly often lies. I also wanted to demonstrate the continuing influence of our original Tara, now a spirit. I could never quite quit her, either.
As ridiculous as this may seem, I am also at times moved to tears by our wonderful characters. So much of DR is about reclaiming their, and I hope this term is not too overblown, dignity. The dignity of Anya's broken heart and Xander's regret, of Buffy's and Giles' noble roles as Slayer and Watcher, of Willow's terrible grief and Dawn's achingly youthful need for family, and all of this also meant reclaiming Spike, if not redeeming him. And at the same time, I hoped very much to leave our characters with a clear sense of how they will go on, (Giles especially) and by that I mean go on as the Scoobies, as heroes one and all. And I also wanted very much to leave Sunnydale intact. (That I gave Giles my dream job is possibly pure indulgence on my part.)
In any event, thank you for sticking with DR. Finishing DR and hearing the kind words of my readers on the KB has emboldened me to work on an original fiction. Like DR, it is filled with magic and friendship and love and tragic death and noble action and loyalty and heroics, as well it is filled with people trying to do the impossible for little recognition and for no reward other than to do the right thing. And this time my outline is far more sensible--my new work will not run some 800 pages!
P.S. A brave and wonderful kitten is helping me on a copy edited DR. When it is finished, I will send a "clean" copy to all who've already received my DR pdf.
Thank you Azirahael for reading and enjoying DR and for your kind offer of helping me Beta my grand opus. At this point, another brave Kitten is working wonders on my typos and other errors.
I am delighted you did not notice a break in the tone of the story. I tried very hard to do exactly that, as I wanted the story to seem as covering a relatively short period of narrative time, setting aside the flashbacks.
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Aerodyn Supports Flight Test Program in Brazil
Instrumentation Technicians from both Aerodyn Engineering Inc. in the USA and Aerodyn Ltd in the UK have been collaborating to provide Flight Test Instrumentation support for a customer in Brazil, since 18th April 2016.
Dave Lough, Aerodyn Ltd, UK
Nathan Huntzinger, Aerodyn Engineering Inc., USA
The customer was overwhelmingly pleased with the efforts of Team 1 (Nathan Huntzinger from the USA and Dave Lough from the UK, pictured below) having successfully performed their duties, while in a completely new and foreign environment, with only remote assistance from the customer technical lead.
As further testament to the team’s capabilities, the requisite training at the customer’s facility was reduced from 3 days to 2 based upon the knowledge and skills demonstrated.
Nathan Cooke, Aerodyn Ltd, UK
Eric Schrontz, Aerodyn Engineering Inc., USA
Team 2 (Eric Shrontz from the USA and Nathan Cooke from the UK, pictured left) have just arrived in Brazil to relieve Team 1 and continue the support work.
This flight test program is contracted to the end of 2016 and is expected to continue well into next year, with Team 1 and Team 2 alternating every 4 weeks to be replaced by a Team 3 and Team 4 in August until the program ends. This involves a lot of work away from home so Aerodyn is extremely proud and grateful for the dedication and flexibility of the technicians involved.
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Call for Expressions of Interest City of Vienna Visiting Professorship 2012 vacancy: 'Urban culture, public space and resources – Aesthetics and materiality’ (Vienna UT, SKuOR)
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Desires Entwined Series Spotlight & Book Tour Giveaway
This morning, I have a contemporary romance in our book spotlight. Learn about the Desires Entwined series and author Tempeste O'Riley--and be sure to enter for a chance to win a prize in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post.
Designs of Desire
Desires Entwined Book 1
by Tempeste O'Riley
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Artist James Bryant has forearm crutches in every color from rainbow for fun to sleek black for business. He even has a pair with more paint splatters than metal. After his family’s rejection and abuse from a man he thought loved him, James only just gets through the day by painting. He lives in constant fear that he’s not worthy of anything, let alone love.
As CEO of his company, Carrington Enterprises, Seth Burns is a take-charge kind of guy, and he is instantly smitten by the artist helping with his newest project. When he witnesses James suffer a panic attack, a protective instinct he never knew he had kicks in. He truly believes nothing is unobtainable—including James—if he’s willing to put in the time and effort.
James is shy and confused by Seth’s interest in him as a person. With Seth’s support, can he work through his fears to finally find the true love he deserves, or will someone finally land the crushing blow he won’t survive?
Bound by Desire
Desires Entwined Book 1.75
A Spin-off of Designs of Desire
Desires Entwined: Book 1.75
Despite his past abuse, James has come to terms with his relationship with his Dom and lover Seth.Seth treats James with all the trust and love his sub desires. There is only one thing left to do to make it all complete: Seth needs to put a collar on James.
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Desire's Guardian
Most people see Chase Manning as the party-boy twink he seems on the surface. Only James, Chase's BFF, knows the depth of his loyalty and the extent of the wounds Chase carries inside. When Chase meets Rhys Sayer, things don’t go well, but he can’t shake his attraction to the huge, sexy man.
Rhys is a man of contradictions and fear—a strange combination for a PI and bodyguard. He's in a bad place emotionally when he sets eyes on Chase for the first time. When Chase puts the moves on him, Rhys insults him, thwarting any possibility of a relationship. Rhys doesn’t see himself as a complicated man, but he dreads the very kind of connection he desires.
Just as they’re trying to overcome their uncertainties, Chase is put in harm’s way. Luckily Rhys and their friends have all the right talents to help Rhys save the man of his dreams.
Desire's Pride
Desires Entwined Book 2.5
A Companion to Desires' Guardian
When Chase Manning wakes up on the first morning of PrideFest, the last thing he expects to find is his lover and life partner, Rhys Sayer, on bended knee. But the news that marriage has been legalized in the state is a game changer for both of them.
After a mad dash to the courts, all they want is to find their friends at PrideFest to celebrate. However, what happens when they arrive will bond them together forever—if their friends don’t have a collective meltdown about their sudden disappearance first.
Temptations of Desire
Alexander James Noble is a gender fluid gay man who gave up on finding Mister Right a long time ago. He’s not asking for much, though. He just wants a guy who loves all of him and appreciates his feminine form too.
At the local LGBTQ center where Alex regularly volunteers, he meets Dal Sayer, an officer of the Milwaukee PD. Because he’s been rejected one too many times, Alex doesn’t trust the huge cop and the interest he shows in him, but once Dal sets his mind on something, he goes all out. Pushing aside his preconceived notions, Alex opens up just a little and soon caves.
From their first date—while dealing with his father’s failing health and his parents’ demands for him to settle down and have children—Dal never takes his eyes off his goal of making Alex his. But proving to Alex he isn’t like all the men who couldn’t see him for who he truly was and only wanted to hide him away is harder than he thought.
Truth in Lace
A spin-off of Temptations of Desire
Desires Entwined: Book 3.5
When Alexander James Noble looks in the mirror, he sees a freak looking back at him. Despite his high grades and plans for culinary arts school after graduation, his parents would hate him if they really knew him.
Forced on a shopping trip with his twin sister, Lyric, and her friends, Alex eyes the girls jealously, longing to be able to dress like them—to be them. The constant struggle of being “gender fluid,” wrestling with an identity that seems to change daily, begins to wear on Alex. But all those questions and fears seem more manageable when his sister gives him his first skirt and lace panties
Signs of Desire
Simon Tyler knows his job as a gay romance author makes his lack of faith in love more than a little ironic, but he’s tired of being used for his wallet. When a night out turns into a matchmaking scheme orchestrated by his best friends, Simon’s not thrilled, but since he’s not the target and he’s sworn off happily-ever-after anyway, he goes along with it… until he meets Adrian, the object of their efforts, and finds perhaps he hasn’t given up on love after all.
Professor Adrian Keys has tried to date Hearing men before, but being Deaf himself, he’s never had any success at making a connection. After his friends con him into going out and Adrian realizes it’s all an elaborate plan to set him up, he braces for yet another failure, only to discover there is a spark—except it’s not with the man his friends had in mind, but with Simon Tyler instead.
Not all their friends have found a way past their romantic failures, but Simon and Adrian might be on the path to happily-ever-after.
Tempeste O’Riley is an out and proud pansexual genderfluid whose best friend growing up had the courage to do what they couldn’t—defy the hate and come out. He has been their hero ever since.
Tempe is a hopeless romantic who loves strong relationships and happily-ever-afters. Though new to writing M/M, they has done many things in their life, yet writing has always drawn them back—no matter what else life has thrown their way. They counts her friends, family, and Muse as their greatest blessings in life. They live in Wisconsin with their children, reading, writing, and enjoying life.
Tempe is also a proud PAN member of Romance Writers of America®, WisRWA, and Rainbow Romance Writers. Tempe’s preferred pronouns are they/them/their/theirs/themselves. To learn more about Tempeste and their writing, visit http://tempesteoriley.com.
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A team from Ara Institute of Canterbury fought off fierce competition from around the country to win the top award in the prestigious annual Nestlé Toque d’Or student culinary competition.
Culinary students Shikylah Dearnley and Chahna Victoria Davis proved to be champs in the kitchen picking up two gold medals, while Navneet Narayan dazzled diners at the event with his restaurant service skills to receive a silver medal.
(from left) Chahna Victoria Davis, Navneet Narayan and Shikylah Dearnley have brought the Nestle Toque D'or back to Ara.
The trio battled it out against 21 other students and trainees from around the country to create and serve their award-winning menu which took out the top spot at the competition.
The dishes comprised a starter of olive oil poached vine tomato salad, seared Akaroa salmon cured in seaweed salt with hot smoked Akaroa salmon with horseradish pate and a main of blue cheese rubbed New Zealand beef sirloin with braised beef cheek with a kumara and blue cheese custard. Dessert was a glazed blond chocolate mousse. The use of fresh New Zealand vegetables was maximised across the menu to add enhanced colour, texture and flavour.
"This is the fifteenth time in the 28-year
history of the competition that the award
has been won by a team from
Christchurch."
The pressure was on throughout the three hours live kitchen cook off, as the team fought against the clock and scrutiny of a panel of top industry judges including culinary legend Anton Mosimann of the UK. Any errors made by competitors during the event resulted in lost points.
The group of judges was led by high profile chef and leading culinary figure Darren Wright of Christchurch. Competing teams were marked against WorldChefs International Judging Standards which included food preparation, presentation, taste and service.
This is the fifteenth time in the 28-year history of the competition that the award has been won by a team from Christchurch. The annual event is a key fixture on the culinary calendar and is hotly contested by the country’s leading hospitality institutes.
Shikylah said she and her team mates were elated to have won the competition, after training so hard for it.
“We’ve spent so many days creating and perfecting the menu and our routines so that we were ready to go on competition day. At the end of day, it was all about getting the teamwork right, supporting each other, staying calm and having fun.”
The team’s trainer Mark Sycamore said the team had done an outstanding job, supported by restaurant trainer Adrian Hilhorst and pastry chef trainer Adele Hingston.
“Bringing home the top award is a fantastic achievement not only for the students and the Institute but also for the Canterbury region.
“This win clearly demonstrates that the Canterbury region has a lot to offer in terms of hospitality and culinary creativity. It further cements Ara Institute of Canterbury’s position as being a centre of excellence when it comes to the training of hospitality students.”
Event organiser and New Zealand Chefs Association President Graham Hawkes said Nestlé Toque d’Or is the ultimate challenge for hospitality students.
“They have to keep it together, tame nerves, support each other and work seamlessly as a team to achieve a top performance on competition day.
“Aside from the competitive element, the event also opens many doors for the students by placing them in front of hospitality professionals from around the country who are scouting for new talent.”
This year was the 28th anniversary of Nestlé Toque d’Or which is New Zealand’s longest running and most prestigious student cookery and restaurant service event. Aside from New Zealand, it is also held in 17 other countries around the world and has launched the careers of many world-famous chefs.
Sponsors of this year’s event were: Nestlé Professional, Beef + Lamb New Zealand, vegetables.co.nz, Akaroa Salmon, House of Knives and Moffat.
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Football - 07. November 2018.
TONI DUGGAN WILL CAPTAIN ENGLAND IN WORLD CUP WARM-UP AGAINST AUSTRIA
Toni Duggan will captain England Women for the first time when they take on Austria on Thursday night.
The Barcelona forward has earned 64 caps and scored 22 goals since making her senior team debut against Croatia in September 2012.
The 27-year-old was the Lionesses’ second-highest scorer in World Cup qualifying with five goals in seven appearances.
Austria v England
A Women's International
5pm GMT, Thursday 8 November
BSFZ Arena, Maria Enzersdorf
Head coach Phil Neville said: “This is a great opportunity for Toni as one of the senior and most experienced players in our squad.
“I’m delighted to give her this leadership role where I’m sure she will play a crucial role in helping us get a positive result against Austria.
“I have seen leadership qualities in Toni for some time and this is the next step in her development.
“Being the England captain is a tremendous honour and I’m sure Toni will revel in the role on Thursday.”
Duggan has appeared at two European Championships and helped the Lionesses finish third at the 2015 World Cup.
The fixture in Maria Enzersdorf will be England’s third match since they completed their World Cup qualifying campaign.
They will then entertain Sweden at Rotherham United’s New York Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
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Gazprom has explained removal from the website of information on subsidiaries — Rambler News Service
Date: 10 months ago 2018-09-06 19:00 Category: Energy
Gazprom has explained removal from the official site of information on subsidiaries. Data on the under control organizations are published in quarterly reports of the company, its duplication in several sections of the website is inexpedient, RNS in Information Department of Gazprom have reported. "The company publishes information on the under control organizations in quarterly reports. Therefore the subsection "Under Control Organizations" also contains the reference to these documents. It is inexpedient to duplicate lists in several sections of the website" — have noted in the company. Earlier Gazprom has removed the list of the affiliated and affiliated companies from the official site. At the same time in appropriate section there was a message that the list of "daughters" can be found in the quarterly report of gas holding.
URL: http://wordnews.us/articles/gazprom_has_explained_removal_from_the_website_of_information
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The Rationale Roots in Dr. Feldenkrais Approach to Somatic Learning
The Early life Model for Sensory Feedback based Autonomous Self-Improvement
Feldenkrais’ key observation is that the natural development of movement skill during the early stages of life occur in a totally autonomous, self-directed context — in the primal, pre-verbal layers of the brain, without reliance upon any external guidance.
The infant’s natural acquisition of movement is thus accomplished through a dialogue between an internal urge, or an intention to satisfy a particular need, and the sensory feedback that accompanies these trial-and-error explorations as it seeks to fulfill these needs.
The infant settles on a satisfactory coordination only after trying out random experiments of various configurations, comparing and evaluating them through sensation. In order for a particular pattern of coordination to become adopted — registered into his functional memory as a reliable routine for future use — the organism first needs to be convinced that this new pattern is feasible and answerers his urge. Such confirmation can only be gained after a specific pattern has been repeated many times, in different contexts, and feels both safe and comfortable. This qualitative criteria of safety and comfort is crucial factor in natural learning. It carries the insight that for a physical skills to be adopted to personal repertoire for spontaneous use you might not need to sacrifice your comfort with exaggerated effort, possibly to the point of causing pain. Nature is showing that the human baby succeeded in its first year to earn a his basic functions without this tall.
What Sets Feldenkrais Apart from other Fitness Methods?
This principle — of the organism trusting itself to discover optimal coordination on its own, through exploring multiple options that are sifted and selected beyond cognitive consciousness, in the sensory domain, for fulfillment of the motivating urge within safety and comfort — is what sets Feldenkrais’ approach apart from other methods of developing physical fitness. This natural way differs from our culture’s common approach to physical education, in which an authoritarian outside expert, presents the right model goal and people are excepted to imitate this final product to the best of their ability, sometimes ignoring their inner clues.
In contrast, Feldenkrais applies the infant’s methodology of autonomous learning to mature adults, including those who suffer from a wide range of functional disturbances and limitations. Followers of his method are guided to notice the inner world details of coordination by pursuing numerous variations on a specific movement theme. The explorations are guided verbally, without any visual demonstration that might imply some desired outcome imitation. Permission is given to follow the suggestions at one’s own pace, to use minimal effort, and to work within one’s comfort zone by lying down on the ground — free of concern with gravity, balance, and any social considerations. Students thus find themselves under protected “greenhouse” conditions, as only under safe atmosphere they will likely be ready to try un-familiar patterns, The safety is needed in order to neutralize, for a while, their automatic dominance of habits and allow them to explore different new patterns of coordination, thus re-setting their self-judgment mechanism, which might have been shut down under layers of sealed habits.
The subconscious way to improve self-organization
At the end of these non-habitual explorations the discovery of an improved coordination often emerges spontaneously. This final performance — of a more desirable self-organization, sensed both subjectively and objectively — originates from trusting the core primal knowledge of the organism, listening to the subconscious compass, which knows how to navigate, with no words, every living creature’s movement.
Beyond leading a student’s body to spontaneously discover a better coordination for a given movement objective, the main point of this learning process is to sharpen one’s innate judgment mechanism,
and get in touch with one's native resources, through which each creature knows unerringly, through internal sensation, how best to navigate its actions to his own advantage. This sensory-based process of evaluating differences in efficiency awakens in the individual his movement intelligence, and restores his trust in his innate, fundamental instinct for existence.
In contemporary culture it seems as if this determined, vital, assertive drive has faded away. Perhaps it has atrophied from lack of use, given the relative comfort afforded us by modern civilization, which spares us from moving our bodies unnecessarily, and enables survival even under very low degree of vitality. Perhaps this primal urge has been buried away under layers and layers of limited movement habits, which have become fixed in us with the tenacity of an addiction.
The Self-Correcting Organism
The artful upgrading of people’s less than perfect movement routines is Feldenkrais’ legacy. Due to the strength of habits, the challenge of improving adult coordination is no different from the challenge of weaning them from an addiction. Obviously, using discipline to overcome addiction bears poor results. Instead, Feldenkrais discovered he could improve an adult’s movement quality by following in the footsteps of the growing baby’s formulae for acquiring competence, which is based on attending to internal signals. By communicating with the subconscious, through the language of sensation, Feldenkrais found that he could successfully restore optimal function in a gentle, non-violent, and non-coercive manner that circumvented the addictive pull of habit. To his clients, the newly found mobility and sensation of spontaneous upright posture yielded a shift in self-perception that transformed them from feeling like helpless victims into filling them with hope and inspiration. And the most inspiring realization of all was that it all depend on themselves, and they have both the general principle and the ever creative roadmap of endless aspects for the healing exploration of options.
Improvements that emerge from the subconscious are spontaneous adjustments that often come as a surprise, even to the student himself.
The change that comes from within feels like it is cast on the entire body as a complete Gestalt, in which every part of the body is engaged in harmony with all the rest. This is a remarkable moment of making peace with standing upright, a full self acceptance.
It would have been impossible for our intentional, cognitive programming faculty to calculate and control the complex inter-relationships of so many factors coming together in this kind of harmony. It is only the pre-cultural resources of our organism that are capable of orchestrating the multi-layered components in harmonious coordination, as they did for eons of time.
Integration — The Key to Organic Re-organization
Guiding a mature adult to successfully modify his policy of movement management, and to spontaneously upgrade its quality, can be accomplished effortlessly by re-enacting nature’s primal process of learning, as seen in the developing infant, and as modeled in the approach pioneered by Feldenkrais.
Feldenkrais borrowed from Nature the qualitative organizing principle most characteristic of all organic life: integration. From the perspective of integration, the living body coordinates its activity as a network of interrelationships among all its parts, in which each part both affects and is affected by all the others. According to the integrative approach, the ability to change — and restore function in a specific isolated area, especially a problematic one, relies upon a global re-adjustment that recruits harmonious support and cooperation from every other area of the body.
This might open the ability and readiness of all other parts of the algorithm to alter, even though they don't suffer. Just like in Family therapy, we have to heal the relationships not the problem, the software harmony and not the hardware muscle.
In tune with following the clues from nature, the configurations used for the Feldenkrais' guided explorations are based on evolutionary patterns of locomotion, ones that nature had relied upon for millennia. In distinct contrast to man-made, artificial and muscle oriented exercises, like extreme stretching or specific acrobatic positions, the functional configurations of the dynamic locomotion derived from nature, have proven their necessity, efficiency, and problem-solving in support of existence.
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New Delhi: Golf icon Tiger Woods has won his fifth Masters, the first major of the season played this week at the Augusta National course, 14 years after his first victory here in 2005.
In a historic feat on Sunday, the 43-year-old golfer - who has undergone several back operations and endured a series of personal vicissitudes over the past 11 years - once again brought spectators to their feet shouting enthusiastically when he sank his last putt on the 18th green on a day marked by wind and light rain, Efe news reported.
His earlier Masters victories came in 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2005.
Finishing a whopping 13 under par, Woods - wearing a red shirt, black slacks and a black cap - beat out his countrymen Dustin Johnson (-12), Xander Schauffele (-12) and Brooks Koepka (-12) to win his 15th tourney.
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" the crowd thundered at the 18th hole after he sank his last putt for the win. Woods, outwardly calm and cool the entire day up to then, let it all hang out at that point, throwing up his arms and yelling for joy, along with the hundreds of fans clustered around he green.
Every time he does something well, whatever it is, you hear a shout, said golfer Koepka earlier regarding the cheers for Woods that periodically shook the atmosphere at Augusta on the last few holes.
The day began with Italy's Francesco Molinari in the lead and sharing the top slot with Woods and US golfer Tony Finau. Molinari at one point got three strokes ahead, but the water hazards at August swallowed one of his shots, thus drowning his chances to take the tourney.
"Instead of playing aggressively, I made my swing a little defensive because of the wind. I don't think it was my best day, although I'm very happy with my first nine holes," Molinari - the winner of the 2018 British Open where he finished 11 under par along with Finau and American Webb Simpson, as well as Australian Jason Day - told EFE.
In a post-game television interview, Woods said: "I'm a little hoarse from yelling ... When I tapped the (last) putt in, I don't know what I did; I know I screamed. To have my kids there, it's come full circle. My dad was there in '97 (at his first Masters win), and now I'm the dad."
Sunday's Masters was one of the most emotional in memory. Up until the last few holes, a dozen players - all tightly packed in the scoring - had a chance to win, including Americans Patrick Cantlay and Rickie Fowler, as well as Spain's Jon Rahm, all at -10.
"It was a big struggle to get where I am and much remains to be done. In comparison with the rest of those who are ahead of me, I needed a round of -6 or -7 to give myself a chance (to win)," said Rahm, ranked No. 8 in the world, although he stepped on the gas on the last several holes, and scored three birdies and an eagle starting on the seventh hole.
The other Spaniard at the Masters on the weekend, Rafa Cabrera Bello, had an disappointing outing on the past three days and finished -4. "The main difference is that I putted well. It's been a bittersweet feeling because I was lustening to the shouts of support for Tiger and I would have liked to have been in that group," Cabrera Bello said.
Meanwhile, Argentina's Emiliano Grillo was unable to overcome his problems and ended 8 over par, tied for last place in the rankings.
The 2019 Masters will go down in history as the year of Tiger's comeback, after finding himself in 1,199th place in the world rankings just 16 months ago, whereas now he's sitting pretty at the peak of world golf.
Strangely enough, on Sunday Tiger also became the golfer who has won the most money at Augusta, ahead of his countryman Phil Mickelson, taking home a little more than $2 million in prize money this year to add to the almost $7.5 million he had pocketed in his 22 previous outings at the course.
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We study attention, learning and behaviour in healthy people and vulnerable groups, in order to better understand risk and aetiology, and inform prevention and intervention.
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To study attention, learning and behaviour in healthy people and vulnerable groups, in order to better understand risk and aetiology, and inform prevention and intervention;
To develop human models of causal empowerment, self determination and autonomy;
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Andres studies decision making and is interested in the decisions made when information about rewards is delayed.
Michael Ben Yehuda
Michael's research focusses on investigating the effects of metacognition of action on the way we process information, learn, and make decisions.
Alexander Temple McCune
Alex's research examines psychopathy related differences in the formation of associative bonds with multidimensional stimuli.
Santiago Castiello de Obeso
Santiago is interested in how Schizophrenia and schizotypy relate to associative learning.
Rahmi Saylik
Rahmi's research examines personality related differences in associative learning with emotional stimuli and stress induction.
Carys Dally
Cary's research project is looking at the prevalence of body dysmorphia in women seeking genital cosmetic surgery.
Nancy Tucker
Nancy's research project looks at levels of body dysmorphia in women seeking genital cosmetic surgery.
Sonja Stiebahl
Sonja is working on a project on paradoxical choices in relationship to associative learning.
Andy Baker
Professor Baker studies mechanisms by which humans estimate co-variance between events and make causality judgements.
Anna Marmodoro
Dr. Marmodoro specialises in contemporary metaphysics and ancient, medieval and late antiquity philosophy. She has a strong interest in the philosophy of the mind and the philosophy of perception.
Stelios Kiosses
Stelios is a Psychotherapist and the clinical lead for Dementech Neurosciences Clinical Academic Centre and a visiting senior research associate at Kings College London. He is also the TV Presenter for Channel 4s The Hoarder Next Door.
Georgina Asbitt
Dr. Asbitt completed her DPhil. in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, under the supervision of Professor Murphy. Her research focused on the assessment of impulsivity in individuals with psychopathy. Georgina is currently studying for a Clinical Doctorate at UCL.
Rob McDonald
Dr. McDonald studies the interaction between memory and learning systems and the role of memory system dysfunction in the aetiology of psychiatric disorder.
Pepijn Van de Ven
Dr. Van de Ven is interested in wireless sensors for biomedical and ambient assisted living applications with a particular focus on falls and activity monitoring and smart user interfaces for wireless body area sensor networks.
Stephen Gallagher
Dr Gallagher is a health psychologist with a research interest in the impact of stress on health and wellbeing.
Elisa Militaru
Elisa completed an Experimental Psychology Society funded studentship using eye tracking to assess fear conditioning.
Hailie A Cavus
Hailie is interested in depression and studies the relationship between cognitive processes such as rumination and illusions of control.
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CHAPELL SIGNS ONE YEAR DEAL
Jordan Chapell has agreed a new one year deal at Chester. The winger signed from Torquay United last summer made 33+8 appearances for the Blues, scoring five goals last season.
NEW DEAL FOR ALIBI
Striker James Alibi has signed a new one year deal at Chester and will wear the number 9 shirt next season. The 21-year-old joined Chester in January on a short-tern deal from Ipswich Town and scored 6 goals in 13+3 appearances including the equalising goal at Kidderminster Harriers that won him the Goal of the Season vote at the end of season awards night. He also netted four times in the 8-2 rout of Aldershot Town.
Both Kane Richards and Luke George agreed new deals last week taking the total of contracted players on board for next season to ten.
The 2015/16 statistics update pages for On The Borderline can be downloaded from here.
HANNAH LEAVES CHESTER
Last season’s leading scorer with 26 goals Ross Hannah has turned down a new offer at Chester and signed a two year full-time deal at Conference rivals Barrow. Hannah, voted Player of the Year had begun new contract talks with the Blues in January but the departure of manager Steve Burr held up progress.
The 30-year-old striker told the Chester Chronicle: "I can assure everyone that it wasn't an easy decision. I've been fortunate enough to play for some good clubs and leaving Grimsby and coming to Chester was fantastic for me. I fully appreciate everything the club did for me and my family were always very well looked after which is massive for me and it wasn’t easy to leave that because I was settled.”
“It has been a great season for me personally and I think I did what I was brought to the club to do and that was score goals.”
“In the end those goals have probably helped keep the club in the division rather than push on for the play-offs which was the aim but I feel like I’ve done my job.”
Picture © Rick Matthews (Chester Leader)
TROPHY DOUBLE FOR YOUTH TEAM
The Youth Team clinched the NWYA Open Cup after a 4-1 victory over Ashton Athletic on Sunday. The victory came just days after they clinched the NWYA Premier League title. Chester fell behind to Ashton but two goals each from Matty Waters and Oliver Nugent ensured the silverware came to Chester. The young side almost completed a hat-trick of trophies but were recently beaten 3-1 by AFC Fylde in the NWYA Premier Division Cup final.
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NEW DEAL FOR ASTLES
Defender Ryan Astles has signed a new one year contract with the Blues. The 22-year-old signed from Northwich Victoria back in January and has impressed during his stay with Chester. Astles scored twice in 16 appearances last season.
The club have announced that Season Ticket prices have been frozen again for next season. From next week until 24th June, an Early Bird discount is the equivalent of six free games. Then, from Monday 27 June, season tickets will go on general sale – with the equivalent to four free games.
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SHARPS NAMED ASSISTANT
The club have confirmed that 35-year-old Ian Sharps has been appointed assistant manager to Jon McCarthy.
Chester have announced several pre-season friendlies for the summer. The club start against Cheshire League side Sandbach United on Saturday 9 July before traveling to play Altrincham, now managed by former manager Neil Young, on Saturday 16 July. Chester then travel to Marine on Saturday 23 July followed by a trip to Nantwich Town on 26 July.
MACCA GETS THE JOB
Chester have appointed Jon McCarthy as their new manager on a one year contract. McCarthy and Ian Sharps took charge of team affairs after Steve Burr was sacked last month and won three our of the last four matches of the season to ensure the Blues staved off their relegation worries. The contract comes with the option of a one year extension. McCarthy is expected to name Ian Sharps as his assistant.
Other’s who were in the frame for the position were ex-player Paul Carden, ex-Eastleigh manager Richard Hill and former Everton and Newcastle United player Steve Watson.
McCarthy's first job will be to hold talks with the players who are now out of contract at the club including top scorer Ross Hannah and highly rated defender Ben Heneghan.
Chairman Simon Olorenshaw said: “Jon is absolutely the right man to lead us forward and we are delighted to have him at the helm, he has shown us not only what he can bring to the squad on the pitch and his tactical knowledge but also his passion for the club and understanding of its values on and off the pitch.”
BLUES END SEASON IN STYLE
Chester ended a largely disappointing season in style with an entertaining 4-2 win over Gateshead, their third successive victory under caretaker manager's Jon McCarthy and Ian Sharps.
The Blues fell behind early in the second half but two goals in as many minutes from Kane Richards and Ryan Higgins turned things round. Top scorer Ross Hannah came off the bench and grabbed himself a brace to put Chester in complete control before the Heed grabbed a second four minutes from time.
A delighted McCarthy who is believed to be one of the four candidates shortlisted for the managerial vacancy said: "What I won't do now is put any pressure on the board. They gave me an opportunity, they have been great with me and supported me and Ian Sharps has, and the players most of all.
“I’ve been around the club for a while in a different capacity and it was just about changing the perception of me. People who know me know what I was like and there were a lot of fans who didn’t know who I was. I am grateful the fans have given me and chance and listened to what I have had to say and they’ve watched some of the shape and structure. I think people are looking at me for me now, and that’s all I wanted.”
“Now I’ll prepare hard. Nobody will beat me on the interview as I’ll prepare really hard on all the paperwork and my vision and philosophy for the club. I’ll get that right.”
Chester ended the season in 17th place with 54 points, six ahead of the final relegation place that went to FC Halifax Town on a dramatic last day that saw Guiseley pull out of the bottom four with a4-3 victory over Torquay United. Along with the Shaymen, Altrincham, Kidderminster Harriers and Welling United were also relegated. At the other end of the table the play-off semi-final's will be contested by Forest Green Rovers who play Dover Athletic and Braintree Town who will play Grimsby Town. The winners will join Cheltenham Town in League Two next season.
Coming down from that division are York City and Dagenham & Redbrdge whilst Solihull Moors and Sutton United are promoted from the Conference North and South respectively.
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1. U.S. House Incumbent Fundraising and Spending in a Post-Citizens United and Post-McCutcheon World
Author: Eric S. Heberlig, Bruce A. Larson
Journal: Political Science Quarterly
Institution: Academy of Political Science
Abstract: ERIC S. HEBERLIG and BRUCE A. LARSON examine how the changing campaign finance landscape affects the resources available to those who consider running for political office. As incumbents running for the U.S. House of Representatives distribute more funds among themselves, less gets shared with potential new recruits. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19315#sthash.qzK9n6du.dpuf
2. Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, John Paul Stevens
Author: Geoffrey R. Stone
Abstract: The U.S. Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times. Twenty-five of those amendments were designed in one way or another to improve the text of the Constitution. Only two of those amendments were designed to override what the nation deemed an erroneous interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court. The Eleventh Amendment, adopted in 1798, overrode the Court's decision in Chisolm v. Georgia (1793), which had held that a citizen of South Carolina could sue the State of Georgia. The Sixteenth Amendment, adopted in 1913, overrode the Court's decision in Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co. (1895), which had held unconstitutional the federal income tax. On average, then, the nation has amended the Constitution in order to override Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution roughly once every 112 years. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19319#sthash.6zb3UPfi.dpuf
3. More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures, Susan J. Carroll and Kira Sanbonmatsu
Author: Karen Beckwith
Abstract: Why are there so few women in legislative office in the United States? Recog¬nizing that electoral politics in the United States is “far from gender-neutral territory” (p. 61), Susan J. Carroll and Kira Sanbonmatsu engage this question by considering major changes in women's election to state legislative office, where women's representation continues to be low, and is declining in the new millennium, with women's legislative numbers driven primarily by the success of Democratic women. At the state legislative level, Republican women are being closed out of office, even where the Republican Party has been increasingly successful overall. Why are men so over-represented in state legislatures? Why is women's representation declining? Why have Republican women been increasingly less successful in winning election to state legislative office than have their Democratic sisters? - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19320#sthash.nhWH74y2.dpuf
4. Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net, Shanna Rose
Author: Frank J. Thompson
Abstract: In a well-written and insightful volume, Shanna Rose has joined a growing number of scholars in assessing the remarkable rise of Medicaid in the American health care system. Thought to be subject to erosion because of the forces of interstate economic competition and because a “program for the poor is a poor program,” Medicaid has instead expanded. The program now insures more than 70 million people and costs federal and state governments well over $400 billion annually. Viewed by many in 1965 as a down-at-the-heels second cousin to Medicare that would fade away with the coming of national health insurance, Medicaid instead became a key plank in Obamacare in 2010. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19321#sthash.ALrrwILZ.dpuf
Topic: Government
5. The Pathologies of Power: Fear, Honor, Glory, and Hubris in U.S. Foreign Policy, Christopher J. Fettweis
Abstract: Books about improving U.S. foreign policy are a dime a dozen. But in The Pathologies of Power, Christopher Fettweis offers an unusual take on what he sees as the subpar foreign policy performance of the planet's sole superpower. Fettweis claims that U.S. foreign policy is driven by four pathological beliefs—fear, honor, glory, and hubris—that lead to poor policymaking. The book devotes a chapter to each of the beliefs that Fettweis contends account for foreign policy disasters like the Iraq war and the Vietnam war. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19323#sthash.zyK7HBZX.dpuf
Topic: Foreign Policy
Political Geography: United States, America
6. Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition, Lewis Perry
Author: Charles Disalvo
Abstract: Lewis Perry offers this intriguing history of civil disobedience in the United States. In it, he argues that a distinct and robust American tradition of civil disobedience has had a repeated and significant influence in forcing our institutions to rectify “the systematic inequality of power.” His sweep is wide. He does not simply examine the great social movements that are familiar to students of civil disobedience—the movements against slavery and conscrip¬tion and for the rights of women and workers—but he also introduces the reader to the unfamiliar—disobedience deployed in the movement against Indian removal and in defense of religious freedom in colonial America. He not only expands our understanding of Henry David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luther King, Jr., but also acquaints us for the first time with Angelina Grimke and Albert Gallatin Riddle. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19327#sthash.MylTyXYB.dpuf
7. Fictive Kinship, Catherine Lee
Author: Peter J. Spiro
Abstract: Almost two thirds of legal immigrants to the United States qualify as relatives of U.S. citizens or existing permanent resident aliens. As Catherine Lee observes in Fictive Kinship, “family appears to be a firmly entrenched, privileged category in American immigration policy” (p. 101). Across the political spectrum, there has been broad agreement for the last half century that family unification is a core objective of immigration policy. This study asks important questions about an understudied but central element of the country's immigration story. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19328#sthash.XhJuN99X.dpuf
8. Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s, Christina Gerken
Author: Maddalena Marinari
Abstract: Christina Gerken makes a critical contribution to our knowledge of the debate over immigration reform in the recent past. Her detailed and richly documented analysis of the content and social implications of the debate that led to critical changes to the American immigration system provides the most¬detailed discussion to date of the immigration reform discourse of the mid-1990s. Through the lens of critical-race theory and neoliberalism, Gerken analyzes how the passage of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act during the administration of Bill Clinton profoundly reshaped the rights and responsibilities of immigrants in the United States. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19330#sthash.F2iED60M.dpuf
Topic: Immigration, Reform
9. Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Author: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Abstract: Our America is about turning perspectives upside down. It is about reading self-satisfying narratives of the past irreverently, mockingly, unsparingly. It is about elucidating the political work that History, with a capital H, does. History creates myths that move and inspire, but it also creates myths that silence. Our America is a book about myths: the fountain of youth, the cities of Cibola, the pursuit of King Arthur, the realm of Queen Calafia, the curse of Zorro, the revenge of Moroni, the republic of Hesperus. Our America narrates the history of the United States from the perspective of the South, rather than the East. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19331#sthash.vdZhAyqB.dpuf
10. Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era, Saladin Ambar
Author: Felix Germain
Abstract: In this well-written book, Saladin Ambar adds substance to the extensive literature on Malcolm X. Retracing the steps of Malcolm X in France and England, where he debated at the Oxford Student Society, Ambar contends that the debate comprises the foundation of Malcolm X's political philosophy, particularly the one he espoused at the end of his life. Indeed, during this important debate, not only did Malcolm X outline a notion of humanity based on a universal principal of equality, but he also described the struggle for equality in the United States, Europe, and Africa as an emancipatory process for both the oppressor and the oppressed. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19336#sthash.O9m49nRo.dpuf
Topic: Politics
Political Geography: Africa, United States, Europe, England
11. Coming of Political Age: American Schools and the Civic Development of Immigrant Youth, Rebecca M. Callahan and Chandra Muller
Author: Sara Z. Poggio
Abstract: In this insightful study, Rebecca M. Callahan and Chandra Muller show the importance of the national educational system of the United States in the social and civic integration of children of immigrants—one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. The relevance of education, and public education in particular, has been highlighted, as mentioned by the authors, in the education program “No Child Left Behind,” initiated by President George W. Bush in 2001 and in “Race to the Top.” one of several programs initiated by the administration of Barack Obama. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19338#sthash.ik0TWfYQ.dpuf
Topic: Development, Education, Politics, Immigration
12. How Change Happens—Or Doesn't: The Politics of U.S. Public Policy, Elaine C. Kamarck
Author: Rob A. Deleo
Abstract: From streams theory to the punctuated equilibrium model to the advocacy coalition framework, “policy change” is one of the most heavily theorized topics in the subfield of public policy. Elaine Kamarck's How Change Happens—Or Doesn't: The Politics of US Public Policy provides an insider's view of policy change, forgoing rigid empiricism in lieu of a more applied investigation. How Change Happens is essentially a “how to” guide for policy entrepreneurs, identifying the various political levers, players, norms, and processes that drive or stunt large-scale reform. Kamarck argues that policy change is an inherently complex and unpredictable process—often resulting from sheer luck—that cannot be explained via a single unifying academic model. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19339#sthash.9K9Ebu5z.dpuf
13. The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion, Richard Drake
Author: Edward Rhodes
Abstract: “History,” Winston Churchill is reported to have observed, “is written by the vic¬tors.” The losers, if they are lucky enough to avoid vilification, are airbrushed out. When it comes to our understanding of American foreign policies of the first four decades of the twentieth century, the history-writing victors have, for the most part, been liberal internationalists. Democrats and Republicans alike, in the wake of the Second World War, concluded that the task of making the world safe for America demanded active, global U.S. politico-military engagement. In the name of liberal international institutions, Washington's “Farewell” injunctions against entangling alliances would be consigned to the waste bin of quaint anachronisms.- See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19341#sthash.wG3JMQox.dpuf
Topic: Foreign Policy, Education, War
Political Geography: United States, Washington
14. America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State, Linda Weiss
Author: Mark Zachary Taylor
Abstract: This dense, powerful volume offers profound insights into the U.S. innovation system and its driving forces. The driving forces are Americans' twin desires for technology-based military supremacy (which demands government action) and small government (which militates against it). These twin forces have produced a highly successful, ever-evolving, and unique set of federal institutions and policies, which Linda Weiss calls the “national security state” (NSS). The NSS is the secret to American innovation. Since World War II, it has dominated high-risk innovation, revolutionary technological change, and the formation of new S industries. Weiss's book also reveals that the NSS is not static, but changes in response to changes in perceived geopolitical threats and to shifts in popular anti-statist sentiments. The book explains why the NSS came about, how it works, and glimpses its future. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19346#sthash.kIPIPtW6.dpuf
Topic: Security, Government
15. No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security, Thomas M. Nichols
Author: Todd S. Sechser
Abstract: At around 5,000 total warheads, the U.S. nuclear stockpile today is a fraction of its former self. One therefore might presume that U.S. nuclear doctrine has undergone an equally significant transformation since the end of the Cold War. Thomas M. Nichols disabuses readers of this notion, showing how the machinery of “mutual assured destruction” remains predominant even though the world that spawned this doctrine disappeared with the Soviet Union. But this doctrine is now obsolete, Nichols argues. Deterrence no longer requires—if it ever did—an expansive nuclear inventory with diverse delivery platforms, a launch-on-warning alert posture, and convoluted targeting plans. In Nichols's view, a pocket-sized nuclear deterrent would be adequate. Yet U.S. strategy remains saddled with the costly baggage of an arms competition that ended a quarter-century ago. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19347#sthash.Giq99dtz.dpuf
Topic: Security, Cold War, Nuclear Weapons
Political Geography: United States, Soviet Union
16. Conceptualizing Containment: The Iranian Threat and the Future of Gulf Security
Author: Zachary K. Goldman, Mira Rapp-Hooper
Abstract: ZACHARY K. GOLDMAN and MIRA RAPP-HOOPER discuss American security interests in the Persian Gulf region and the prospects for effective cooperation among Gulf states to contain Iran. They find that it is unlikely that the United States will be able to establish a containment regime that relies upon the Gulf Cooperation Council and that informal, bilateral ties to states in the region are a preferable policy recourse. - See more at: http://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=19163#sthash.yMWmTk6Q.dpuf
Political Geography: United States, Iran
17. Contesting the U.S. Constitution through State Amendments: The 2011 and 2012 Elections
Author: Sean Beienburg
Abstract: SEAN BEIENBURG examines attempts at amending state constitutions in the 2011 and 2012 elections and finds that they were efforts to influence the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. He argues that some elected state officials see themselves as legitimate challengers of Supreme Court decisions. In addition, he finds that national interest groups use state constitutions as platforms for federal constitutional politics, and that such efforts were predominantly, though not exclusively, conservative in the last two election cycles.
18. Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American
Author: H.W. Brands
Abstract: Having elsewhere assessed the structural forces that shaped America's rise to global power, Joseph Nye now turns to the personal elements. What role, he asks, did individuals, in particular presidents, play in the twentieth-century emergence of the United States as the arbiter of world affairs? Nye finds wanting the existing literature on presidential leadership as overemphasizing "transformational" presidents and blurring the line between presidential ethics and presidential efficacy.
Political Geography: United States, Germany
19. Early Start: Preschool Politics in the United States
Author: William T. Gormley, Jr.
Abstract: In 1971, Senator Walter Mondale introduced an ambitious Comprehensive Child Development Act that passed both houses of Congress. It was promptly vetoed by President Richard Nixon, who denounced it as an endorsement of "communal approaches to child rearing" (p. 82). Andrew Karch believes that this "watershed" moment had profound, lasting effects on preschool politics in the United States.
20. Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America
Author: Jennifer L. Hochschild
Abstract: The number of publications arguing that the United States is not post-racial despite twice electing Barack Obama to the presidency is many orders of magnitude greater than the number of publications claiming that the United States is post-racial. In fact, it is difficult to find anyone asserting post-raciality beyond one New York Times Magazine article and a few Fox News commentators around the 2008 election. Nevertheless, attacks on the purportedly common assumption continue.
Political Geography: United States, America, Germany
21. He Runs, She Runs: Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates
Author: Jessica Robinson Preece
Abstract: The conventional wisdom, as understood by campaign strategists and the media, is that being a woman is a liability in electoral politics. Female candidates face an impossible task—they must convey the toughness, competence, and confidence of a politician, while simultaneously conveying the warmth and modesty of a lady. Consequently, it is much more difficult for women to successfully navigate a political campaign. Anecdotal evidence supporting this conventional wisdom is easy to find. However, systematic evidence is scarce. Is it possible that the conventional wisdom is just plain wrong? Deborah Jordan Brooks contends that it is.
22. Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror
Author: Paul D. Miller
Abstract: If anyone has earned the right to say "I told you so," it is Barnett Rubin. One of the foremost authorities on Afghanistan, Rubin saw earlier than most the dangers emerging from that blighted land. In his work–as author of The Fragmentation of Afghanistan, an adviser to the United Nations for several years after 2001, a professor at New York University, and an adviser to the U.S. State Department's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan from 200–Rubin worked to warn against, prevent, and mitigate the perennial crises afflicting Afghanistan and South Asia.
Political Geography: Pakistan, Afghanistan, United States, South Asia
23. Candidate Emergence Revisited: The Lingering Effects of Recruitment, Ambition, and Successful Prospects among House Candidates
Author: L. Sandy Maisel, Walter Stone
Abstract: IN THE SUMMER OF 2013, MORE THAN A YEAR before the filing deadline for congressional candidates in most states, political commentators were already conceding most races for the U.S. House of Representatives to one party or the other. Only about 10 percent of House races were deemed to be in play by the Cook Political Report and the Rothenberg Political Report, the two sources on which most political analysts rely for district-by-district assessments. Why were so few districts thought to be in play? One reason is because one party–in the vast majority of cases, the party not holding the seat in the 113 Congress–was unable to field a strong candidate. That explanation raises questions about why strong potential candidates who might be able to mount a viable campaign may be reluctant to throw their hats into the ring.
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Ryan Edwards and Wife Mackenzie Reveal They're Quitting Teen Mom OG: 'We're Not Returning'
In Entertainment/Celebrity
By Maria Pasquini
Hours after it was announced that Bristol Palin was joining the cast of Teen Mom OG, Ryan Edwards and Mackenzie Standifer Edwards announced they would be leaving the show.
"We're not returning to Teen Mom this season. The network told us they don't want to show Ryan as a recovering addict," Mackenzie told E! News on Friday, claiming that MTV "did want to enter a contract with our unborn baby and have the baby film with Ryan's parents so it would look like someone else is raising it."
"They want to want to talk about us but they don't want to pay us and film us," Ryan remarked, alleging that even though he's sober now, his ex Maci Bookout - and fellow Teen Mom OG star - told MTV "she's not going to film unless I enter rehab again and quit the show."
The couple announced earlier this year that they are pregnant with their first child. Additionally, Ryan has 9-year-old son Bentley with Bookout, while Mackenzie has 4-year-old son Hudson with ex Zachary Stephens.
Edwards also spoke out against MTV on Friday as he shared a powerful message about addiction on Instagram.
"I will never stop speaking out against this horrible disease! It consumes your life and turns you into someone even you don't know. I'm asking you to never give up. Each day is a struggle. I've made mistakes and I have really messed up in the past but there is so much hope ahead and it doesn't mean I can't change the future," Edwards wrote.
Discussing the way he and his wife might be portrayed on the upcoming season of the reality show, he added: "Don't take everything you see on MTV as factual truth."
"They don't want to show me or Mack in a happy light or that I am active in my recovery. I AM," he continued. "They want me to look angry, passive aggressive and uncaring regarding things that mean the most to me. I'm done taking their s- and letting the world believe this by standing up for myself. You're believing a lie. And soon… very, very soon, you WILL see the TRUTH behind the LIAR."
The reality TV pair secretly tied the knot before Ryan headed to rehab back in May 2017 and exchanged vows at a church ceremony that November.
"A little over 30 days ago, I made the decision to check myself into a rehabilitation facility. I am back home now doing well, and life could not be better," he said in a statement at the time. "Without the support of my wife and parents I would not have been able to do this. Thank you all for your well wishes."
RELATED: Teen Mom OG's Mackenzie Standifer Edwards Confirms She's Expecting a Child with Ryan Edwards
News of their departure came just hours after Bristol Palin shared how excited she was to join the show.
Confirming the news, the 27-year-old mother of three shared a shot of herself posing with her children, while a small film crew stood in the background.
"I am excited to join MTV's 'Teen Mom OG.' I look forward to sharing my experiences and hope that I can help others on their journey," she captioned the post.
Former cast member Farrah Abraham left the show earlier this year after settling a lawsuit against MTV's parent company Viacom in March for an undisclosed amount.
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We spent the Easter break outside of London, and the first stop was for the Crew Love party at Sankeys in Manchester which took place on Thursday night. Here was a chance to catch Soul Clap, Wolf + Lamb and all of their associated family members in one place, an exciting prospect for any electronic music lover.
Sankeys can always be relied upon to provide an night that’s full of energy, antics and good music – the Manchester crowd likes a good shindig no matter what day of the week it is too, put these together with the fact that Friday was a day off work for most people and you’ve got the formula for a good night.
Kicking off the night was Soul Clap’s Charlie, along with Zev from Wolf + Lamb, who got things rolling with a smooth selection of vocal-led music, nothing too heavy, verging into RnB-esque territory at times but always classy. As they warmed up the basement, Tanner Ross worked on filling up the Spektrum room upstairs. Starting off around 115bpm, he slowly pushed the speed up and his set intensified as more people entered the room and stayed put, captivated by his funk. After Tanner, one of the crew’s younger members got to put his newly-developed live show to the test – Nick Monaco is his name and he’s got a bright future ahead of him if his live set is anything to go by. The 24-year-old rocked the Spektrum with his excellent set, singing live and playing a batch of tracks from his forthcoming album. It was a delight and set the tone for the rest of the evening, which included several live performances.
Downstairs No Regular Play did their thing, with Greg Paulus doing a brilliant turn on the trumpet – PillowTalk also treated the Sankeys faithful to a stirring live show and back in the Spektrum Navid Izadi followed on from Nick Monaco with a lively performance in his excellent head dress and similarly cosmic get up. The club was jam packed for most of the night, and the crowd predictably up for it, lapping up everything the Crew Love team served up to them. You could really sense the affection that many of their fans in the crowd have for the crew, happy faces all round and non stop dancing.
Towards the end of the night, Slow Hands took charge of the Spektrum room, lending his guitar skills to Navid’s set before continuing on his own. Back downstairs it was down to Eli from Soul Clap and Wolf + Lamb’s Gadi to close the basement which they did in fine style, blending old school jams with fresh new beats seamlessly. It was a night that showed just how popular the whole gang has become, whether it be new members or the more established crew members, there was a common thread that bound them all together; good vibes and high quality music with soul, but enough energy to get everyone on the dancefloor moving and grooving.
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Desert art: Bombay Beach Biennale and the revival of a forgotten town
In 2016, Stefan Ashkenazy and friends set up an annual, anti-biennale arts festival in the California desert, the Bombay Beach Biennale. Its ambitions soon grew into a project of permanent cultural regeneration, bringing life back to this abandoned town by the once-popular Salton Sea
Words by Anthea Gerrie
‘It’s not so much a festival as a permanent engagement,’ says Stefan Ashkenazy of the Bombay Beach Biennale (BBB), an event in the California desert attracting increasing attention, despite its location on the road to nowhere.
Actually, Highway 111 does lead somewhere — from the affluent resorts of Palm Springs to the Mexican border — but the desolate stretch along the shoreline of the dying Salton Sea, a mid-century playground once hyped as the state’s inland Riviera, has stood abandoned for 40 years.
‘[The town of] Bombay Beach was built to house 1000 and only 100 people remain,’ says Ashkenazy, co-founder of an annual festival in its fourth year and its chief underwriter. More than 100 temporary installations and events are gradually augmenting a permanent infrastructure of half a dozen new art- and performance-related venues, most of which he has funded, dedicated to regenerating joie de vivre in a last-chance community. The name is an ironic poke at Venice and other grand events to which the BBB — held over one mad, under-the-radar, spring weekend every year since 2016 — is an antithesis.
Stefan Ashkenazy, Bombay Beach Biennale co-founder. Credit: Sara Essex Bradley
Reasons to visit the ‘biennale’ are growing exponentially. Developed initially for the event, Bombay Beach now boasts a rudimentary art museum, a drive-in cinema seeking a permanent projectionist and an ‘opera house’ with a sprung stage where a prima ballerina performs annually. This year sees a pop-up hotel housing festival-goers more interested in sleeping inside a piece of art than in home comforts.
It’s an obvious project for Ashkenazy, a hotelier and collector; the walls of his Petit Ermitage hotel in West Hollywood are hung with Rauschenbergs, a de Kooning, a Miro. The Rauschenbergs he bought back from a sale of the assets of legendary hotels created by his father, Severyn, before he went bankrupt. Ashkenazy later turned to hotel-keeping himself. ‘My form of art is making space,’ he says of the small hotel once owned by his father. ‘For six years I had a tented version of [the hotel] at Burning Man,’ he explains. ‘I still have this whole space in trucks I can deploy anywhere.’
A bus belonging to artist and biennale co-founder Tao Ruspoli, who has a house in Bombay Beach, but sleeps in this bus outside. Credit: Sara Essex Bradley
His original plan was to create an anti-establishment Bohemian camp somewhere in the Californian desert during Coachella ‘because I wanted to do something disruptive. It’s not the format in which I want to be fed my music — brought to you by Pepsi, with a wristband and the performers way over there — or to visit a museum and only have two minutes with a piece of art because there are too many people.’
Bombay Beach, 40 minutes from the Coachella site, was already in his mind. ‘A friend produced a film there in the 90s, and my then girlfriend set a zombie apocalypse movie there, so I had been hearing about this place on the Salton Sea, a beautiful place until the fish started dying off in the 1970s. I was looking for somewhere for people to commune with nature, but Bombay Beach sounded more like a place to commiserate.’ The lake, originally connected to the ocean, has been declining over several decades through an overload of salt which killed the fish and a storm which destroyed its marina; restoring the ecosystem and recreational potential of the water would cost billions.
The Last Resort hotel project, launching this year, comprises eight shipping containers, with each room decorated by a different artist. Credit: Sara Essex Bradley
Another inspiration for the biennale was Banksy’s dystopic theme park in Weston-super-Mare, for which Ashkenazy worked on a pop-up hotel. He shelved the project but forged an alliance with sculptor and painter Greg Haberny, who worked with Banksy on Dismaland. It was a childhood friend, artist Tao Ruspoli, who introduced Ashkenazy to the real dystopian site in Bombay Beach where he had bought property himself. ‘Bombay had a spirit of resilience in the 100 people who decided to make it their home,’ says Ashkenazy, recalling his first visit. ‘Some remembered the glory days of the 50s when they had come with their parents — and believed this post-apocalyptic place could turn around.’
As the two discussed the town’s potential for renaissance, Ashkenazy bought the house which was to become Greg Haberny’s Hermitage Museum, a key biennale venue, for $8,000 (£6,185). ‘The front door was gone, the windows were broken, and restoration wouldn’t make sense for someone struggling to pay taxes on it,’ says Ashkenazy. ‘I bought it solely for Greg to create something, and although it required a good amount of money, the energy that went into it was from friends and friends of friends who volunteered their time.
The Hermitage Museum, a key biennale venue, was created out of a small house Ashkenazy bought for artist and biennale co-founder Greg Haberny, who now curates the museum. Credit: Sara Essex Bradley
He was the first artist I reached out to and I invited him to do whatever he wanted.’ Ashkenazy turned his own energies to creating other festival components, including: a 1960s-style beach club complete with oyster bar; a drive-in, for which he personally sourced vintage cars as cinema seats; the Bombay Beach Opera House, a building he bought and handed over to British artist James Ostrer to repurpose as a performance space; the Bombay Beach Estates art park and, coming this year, a new hotel.
Haberny, who is passionate about his own curatorship of the Hermitage Museum, views Bombay Beach as ‘special, with a very peaceful, organic, salt-of-the-earth quality. I see it as full of life — when it rains, plants and flowers burst through everywhere — as well as what every artist looks for, truth. But it was so broken down, a community that doesn’t have much, people living in devastation. I had seen other communities, like Marfa, Texas, grow through art into something that gives people a little bit of hope. I wasn’t interested in creating an audacious Burning Man piece of crap, but in building an institution that gives back to the community, brings in high-end, contemporary art that people in far-out areas wouldn’t get a chance to see. My whole work process is about reincarnation.’
The Hermitage Museum. Credit: Sara Essex Bradley
So far, local reaction has been positive, say Haberny and Ashkenazy, and Ostrer comments: ‘When we put on the first show at the Opera House many locals thanked me with tears in their eyes after watching live ballet and opera that close up for the first time. I have interacted with at least 75% of the residents and only ever had one piece of negative feedback — from a person who had moved to Bombay to get away from people.’
Haberny plans funded residencies for the Hermitage, where he lives several months a year, from next year on: ‘We’ll sell absolutely nothing, the work will be donated for a year — it’s about giving Bombay Beach the kind of museum you might see on the Lower East Side, downtown LA or London.’ For the moment he is headlining the shows but curating contributions from other artists.
Currentsee, a project by British artist and biennale contributor James Ostrer
An outdoor movie theatre, The Bombay Beach Drive-In, despite its distressed mid-century looks, is another made from- scratch installation. ‘Everything is permanent — the screen, the burnt-out cars you can sit in — except the projector,’ says Ashkenazy. ‘It operates whenever anyone has the initiative; the idea is to become a gathering place for locals with a system that can be wheeled out and plugged in by someone living there year-round and a website to advertise what’s playing.’
The first festival ran in 2016 with no publicity: ‘We did it for 72 hours to see who would turn up.’ Since then, numbers have grown from a few dozen curious passersby to a few thousand people in 2018 who clocked the dates, which Ashkenazy keeps under wraps (to all except local residents). ‘It’s not fair to the town to turn it into a venue,’ he says, noting he is more interested in making Bombay Beach a permanent hub of artistic life with facilities for locals as well as visitors.
'Local residents have come to us, expressing their gratitude for the vision that we've brought and the way that we've engaged the community as friends and neighbors,' says Ashkenazy. 'At first we may have been looked upon as outsiders, but after many years of being homeowners and active participants in the community, there's less of a distinction between "us and them". We are getting closer to "we".'
Ostrer designed the Bombay Beach Opera House in 2017 for his friend, ballerina Maria Kochetkova, to perform in. It is decorated with thousands of flip-flops washed up on the beaches of Lagos
This year, to avoid overcrowding, the local authorities have enforced an attendee cap of 500 people. A ticketing system has subsequently been set up ensuring access is granted exclusively to Bombay Beach residents, artists, volunteers and donors — reflecting Ashkenazy’s commitment to the local community, and to artists, though the two groups are beginning to overlap.
Ashkenazy sees sculptor Randy Polumbo, who has exhibited at Burning Man and Art Basel, as a model contributor to BBB — within eight months of creating his first work in the town, he had bought a house and self-funded a permanent installation, Angler Grove, within the front room. It’s illuminated 24/7 to show off its mirror balls and other shiny components: ‘He has invested in the town, and so have other artists,’ says Ashkenazy.
Belgian artist Charlotte De Cock is creating a work for the biennale this year which addresses the decline of the Salton Sea. Credit: Sara Essex Bradley
Belgian artist Charlotte De Cock, whose work in progress Toxic Tango addresses the decline of the Salton Sea in paint, has moved full time to Bombay Beach, and the next foreigner to follow suit may be a Brit — if not Bella Freud, an early adopter who designed the BBB logo and other graphics, then perhaps Ostrer, who spends almost three months a year on site: ‘The only reason I don’t spend longer is that I don’t have citizenship; it’s an incredible place to work,’ he enthuses. ‘There’s nothing for sale; it’s art for art’s sake.’
Ostrer designed the Bombay Beach Opera House in 2017 for his friend Maria Kochetkova to perform in. ‘I have known her from the 10 years I spent painting sets for the English National Ballet and made a sprung stage for her to dance on.’ The building opens up to reveal Ostrer’s installation of thousands of flip-flops washed up on the beaches of Lagos.
Ashkenazy envisages other public buildings — ‘an aquarium, an observatory, a bakery’ — and this year architect Mark Mack, who creates and operates a disco every year, is building the town’s first plaza on one of five plots he has bought, illuminated with street lighting he designed.
The Last Resort Hotel under construction. Credit: Sara Essex Bradley
The Last Resort hotel project, also launching this year, is a construction of eight shipping containers, each room decorated by a different artist. The infrastructure was designed by architect Thomaz Regatos, who has worked with Anish Kapoor and has a history of creating spaces for sitespecific art. His concept is to mound the containers randomly, suggesting the fictional wreck of one of the freight trains which trundle through nearby. ‘There was no brief, but I was excited by Stefan’s vision of bringing dignity and possibilities to Bombay Beach by changing the city through art,’ he says.
Ashkenazy’s grand vision is for it to be a ‘hotel de ville’ for surrounding outsider communities — the found-art sculpture yards of East Jesus and Salvation Mountain, the renegade off-grid community of Slab City — as well as Bombay Beach itself. A whim or a long-term commitment? ‘I don’t see a world where I would be able to stop myself putting energy into it,’ he insists. ‘Everything else in my life has to make a little bit of sense, but this doesn’t have to make any.
It’s purely for the joy of creating something, an exchange with people I care about, to engage with strangers who come through town and the people who live there.’ As Mack says: ‘At Burning Man it’s all about “don’t leave a trace”; at Bombay Beach it’s: “Do leave some positive trace behind.”’
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401 traffic halts to save girl's life
By Brandigal (Donna) Mar 3, 2007 in Lifestyle
Police reach teenager just in time, lower her on to trailer's roof from bridge where she was about to jump.
The 401 highway was shut down yesterday around 5 pm because a teenage girl who appeared to be very distraught was about to jump from an overpass.
The police managed to grab her before she jumped. It was rush hour also on the highway that is extremely busy.
The police held onto her while others managed to get the traffic stopped. They got a tractor trailor to pull up under the girl and she was lowered down to the roof of the tractor trailor.
She was not injured. They took her to the hospital to be examined.
I hope she gets some help. Something must be horribly wrong in her life for her to think the only answer was to jump and kill herself.
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faith-based movies
Is it really Christian? What makes a movie a Christian movie?
Ever wondered what makes a movie be considered a Christian movie? I mean think about it really. Is it the title or that it's got references to Christianity or God? Movies such as ‘The Passion of Christ’, ‘The Case for Christ’, ‘God’s not Dead’, 'Hackshaw Ridge’ and many more alike are posed in Hollywood under the genre ‘Faith-based’ or ‘Christian movies’ due to the foundation in which the storyline finds itself or the reference to Christ/Christianity. Are these type of films only going to interest the Christian audience? Is that the aim? Thats a-whole-nother subject!
Movies vary in different production sizes and budgets, and not all succeed in being near enough to break Box Office records. For some, the recognition is fulfilled from word of mouth, festivals or online movie streaming sites like Pureflix and ChristianCinema.com or even YouTube. These include small-budgeted films like ‘The War Room’ and ‘Facing the Giants’, who have received great reviews and average scores on IMDb. It does however pose further questions as to whether budget size does really matter in how successful a film will be in the long-run and whether people will even watch it if it doesn’t have some big names in it and the polish of Hollywood.
Nevertheless one thing I want to focus on for now is whether references to Christ/Christianity or the Bible/Bible characters is what makes viewers consider a movie to be in fact Christian. Netflix is supposedly acquiring a new faith-based series called ‘Messiah’ to its streaming site. The 10-episode web series is said to challenge the meaning and existence of the ‘I Am’ in Hollywood as well as challenge us to examine what we believe and why as it creates a lucrative business within the entertainment industry. Furthermore, the Den of Geek* report that, "The series looks to provocatively consider the emergence (or reemergence?) of a figure claiming to be the Messiah in the modern world and promises to be a challenging new take on faith-based content”
New take? Confusion more like! With this speculation in place does this controversial web-series really come under a Christian genre simply due to the title? (As it clearly isn’t biblical!) Realistically, yes (which is the sad truth) because it is an amalgam of the familiarity of religion and popular themes within Christianity that often motion pictures portray. Take out or add some stuff based on what is seen as controversial/popular to be a success but still call it Faith-based. Though genres can be scrutinised and reassessed it communicates a “shorthand” and lazy explanation on the feel of the film or series.
In all, this seems like a pretty tough topic to crack because from what we understand as genre to classify a particular film, can tarnish the representation of Christianity all because of a reference to Christ or assuming to encompass the topic of Christianity despite it hurting the credibility of what we believe. It truly poses the question if it’s really fair for Christians to have to accept web-series like the ‘Messiah’ or films like 'Noah', which are greatly flawed in terms of biblical accuracy and convoluted concepts (such as rock Giants!?..say no more!) as a “Christian film”.
Overall, the big question here as in the title is, ‘What makes a Christian movie Christian’?
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ECA VIEWPOINT >>
Capex bias: a window to the soul of the incentive regime
In this commentary we share our views on Ofwat’s May 2011 discussion paper on capex bias, explaining why it opens up an opportunity for a change in direction for the UK water sector’s incentive regime towards top-down, strategic, powerful incentives.
Ofwat’s May 2011 discussion paper on capex bias asks whether it exists and whether it is a problem.
Simple questions on an apparently technical subject.
But the subject goes right to the core of the incentive regime that we have had for the last twenty years; and Ofwat’s paper opens up an opportunity to redirect the path of regulation for the next twenty.
At stake is whether regulation can evolve towards top-down, strategic, powerful incentives.
What does Ofwat’s paper find?
It finds the issue is complex.
It highlights the effects of interactions between incentive mechanisms, review processes and different types of expenditure. Some circumstances might generate a capex bias while others might generate an opex bias. Its discussion of the wider drivers of bias notes that combinations of factors make it difficult to reach clear conclusions and that Ofwat’s processes, such as its challenges to capex programmes, may help mitigate any bias.
It would be easy to conclude that it looks like a mixed bag of different influences with some second order distortions but no compelling evidence for systematic bias one way or the other. We explain in this note why we believe this conclusion to be wrong.
The water regime has evolved over the past couple of decades from the RPI-X concept originally designed without any reference to a regulatory asset base (1).
It has been added to and refined over the years, trying to resolve incentive distortions. Over this time, the analytical model has also developed significantly and there is now more recognition that the regime has to operate in an environment of complex influences, from processes and mechanisms to culture and governance. So it would not be surprising if distortions remain.
Ofwat sets out a list of potential causes of capex bias. It is a useful and well thought-through list. However, and perhaps understandably, Ofwat frames its commentary in neutral terms.
Our analysis highlights two particular issues that point towards more strategic sources of bias:
Returns on capex
Interaction with the relative efficiency regime
Return on capex, no return on opex
Ofwat notes the view of some companies that, as capex is remunerated through the RCV and earns a return while opex is remunerated on a current basis, earning no such return, there is a strong incentive towards capex.
Classical economic analysis would say this should not be a problem if the allowed return were to equal the cost of capital – an investor should then be indifferent to the form of remuneration. However, Ofwat notes that the need for it to ‘aim up’ (2) on the cost of capital assessment may create an incentive for more capital intensive solutions.
While this may be the case, we believe the issue is bigger and more complex.
A central contention of finance theory is that the cost of capital and risk are related. CAPM is based on the insight that the pertinent risk for investors able to diversify is systematic risk, risk that affects the generality of businesses. The cost of capital for a project, at the project level, is driven by the effect the project has on investors’ exposure to systematic risk.
Investor risk intrinsically relates to uncertainty in future cash flows. Our analysis of the drivers of cash flow uncertainty in a regulated business suggests that the main sources of systematic risk are likely to be in opex markets and in periodic review processes (3) (challenging the intuition of many economists). For example, increases in the real market price of labour or energy, say, will affect a regulated business in the same way as it would the generality of businesses, and possibly more so (4). Similarly, it may be presentationally difficult for a regulator to resist a lower cost of capital assessment if investors in the generality of businesses are experiencing a period of relatively low returns.
“There could be more value in influencing Ofwat’s assessment than in outperforming it”
So regulated water companies are exposed to systematic risk, and as more than 2% of the 4.5% post-tax allowed return at PR09 is driven by beta (the exposure to systematic risk), it is material.
But only some of that risk is driven directly by the size of the RCV. Relatively capital intensive projects, with low or negative incremental impacts on opex cash flows, will tend to dilute systematic risk. Projects with significant opex components could disproportionately increase exposure to systematic risk. This could have a significant bearing on investment choices and capex bias.
The relative efficiency regime
Although Ofwat notes that the relative efficiency regime has a bearing on capex bias, its analysis focuses narrowly on companies’ choices when there are opportunities for outperformance or risk of underperformance in either opex or capex. Ofwat’s analysis suggests a capex bias can exist in some circumstances.
However, we consider the more important effect is on companies’ strategic choices; well before outperformance incentives come in to play.
Investors need to be confident that incremental expenditure associated with a project, whether capital or operating, can be fully recovered. They do not need a guarantee as long as the risk of loss is at least balanced by the opportunity for gain.
For capex, integrity of the RCV is now so well established a principle that investors can have real confidence that they will receive a return on and of their investment. Whether that is an adequate return remains a concern, but the mechanism itself is a source of confidence.
For opex, where efficiency is easier for Ofwat to assess, an investor’s calculation is affected by Ofwat’s assessment of relative efficiency. Incremental opex will be fully remunerated if there is a corresponding increase in Ofwat’s explanatory factors or if all companies are subject to the same increase. An individual company would have an incentive to structure its projects to have maximum impact on explanatory factors and minimum impact on opex, whether or not other companies are doing the same.
In this way, the whole industry might be impelled towards lower opex solutions.
Evidence from performance and CIS
Return on capital and the relative efficiency regime point to the likelihood that the bigger incentive issues may relate to strategy at the project, company and sector level rather than post-review outperformance.
In fact, post-review performance over AMP4 was surprisingly balanced (5), with results ranging across companies from – 15% (outperformance) to +15% for capex and -10% to +8% for opex, with a small aggregate industry outperformance in both capex and opex.
The introduction of the capital expenditure incentive scheme (CIS) mechanism for capex in PR09 provides some interesting insights. The mechanism was meant to provide strong incentives for companies to ‘bid’ for levels of capex that they could achieve, and the AMP4 experience might have led us to expect overall CIS ratios to be close to 100%. However, final CIS ratios (6) were significantly skewed up, ranging from 93% to 143% and averaging out at 107%.
Perhaps Ofwat’s baseline assessments were more challenging in PR09 than PR04, or perhaps the scheme could not overcome a natural cautiousness in company costings. However, the chart below illustrates the point that there could be more value in influencing Ofwat’s assessment than in outperforming it.
Ofwat CIS: incentive expectations
Company projecting 100% of baseline, 3% standard deviation
The three columns to the left illustrate the range of returns (± 2 st. dev., as a % of original baseline) from an uncertain capital programme and a fixed baseline – the expected return (y-axis) is maximised if the company’s bid equals its expected capex spend (1st column). The fourth column shows the same programme and the result of bidding at 110% of expected capex spend if that leads to a small increase of 2½% in Ofwat’s baseline assessment: the expected return is somewhat enhanced.
The CIS was a step in the right direction, but not enough to incentivise game- changing approaches to capex.
“Substantial value for customers will depend on powerful, well-directed incentives for investors”
Possible ways forward
These issues are central to the ability of the regime to encourage longer term benefits for consumers. Ofwat sets out a number of possible ways that might help resolve capex bias, and we believe the most interesting options lie in ‘outcome- based’ thinking.
As Ofwat recognised, outcome-based incentives would not by themselves solve biases that arise from the processes for determining revenue requirements.
Those processes are structured around the accounting concepts of capital and operating costs, a distinction which is relevant for incentives since the quality of revealed information is different: a reduction in opex in one year often reveals an ability to keep it at that reduced level in future years (other things being equal) while the same is not usually true of capex. Short-term totex-based incentives would be problematic.
The distinction was most useful in the period immediately after privatisation, when the transition to commercially- driven, incentivised business cultures meant that big savings could be made. That transition is now substantially complete. Now, the simplifying assumptions behind the incentive model may be starting to get in the way.
A regime that creates substantial value for consumers in the future will need to address these kinds of issues head on and re-energise the incentive framework. Substantial value for consumers will depend on powerful, well-directed incentives for investors, shifting the boundary out to incentivise more of what is currently only scrutinised.
ECA’s approach to policy analysis
ECA’s analysis of incentive regimes starts with the premise that a good incentive regime aligns the interests of suppliers and customers and that revealed information about potential performance improvement is valuable, irrespective of when in the regulatory cycle it is revealed.
Risk-based modelling techniques can be helpful in analysing the incentive properties of complex systems, understanding their dynamics and informing regime design.
For a simple illustration, the chart below shows the results of a 100-scenario incentive analysis of the rolling incentive mechanism introduced by MD191 in PR04.
Value added analysis
Analysis of Ofwat MD191 mechanism, illustrative opex assumptions
It shows that, taken in isolation, the mechanism provides good alignment for strong outperformance scenarios (top right quadrant of the chart) but some alignment issues for other scenarios. Investigating why the mechanism is not working so well in outlying scenarios helps identify the causes of misalignments and informs incentive design.
These techniques are especially powerful when analysing regimes as a whole. The chart below illustrates high-level results of such analysis (in another sector).
As the sector matures under the current regime, we can expect efficiency analysis to show diminishing returns and methodological constraints to become more apparent. The question of capex bias looks into the inner workings of the regime, but it also opens up some of these fundamental design issues and highlights the need for a bigger-picture perspective.
Our approach is towards evolutionary rather than revolutionary change, but a redirected evolution towards powerful, simply-understood incentives for real long-term benefits for consumers.
The next twenty years could be exciting.
1 Michael Beesley & Stephen Littlechild, ‘Privatization: principles, problems and priorities’, Lloyds Bank Review, 1983
2 It is generally recognised that there is asymmetric risk between setting the allowed return too low, deterring vital investment, and setting it slightly too high. Regulators, therefore, tend to err on the side of caution by selecting values towards the upper end of the estimated range for the cost of capital.
3 Revenue uncertainty within-period is largely neutralised by the revenue correction mechanism; service performance mechanisms would not have a strong systematic component; the Competition Commission report on Bristol Water (para. N130) considered that capex cash flow uncertainty is unlikely to be a source of positive systematic risk.
4 Because regulated revenues are not as responsive as market prices to changes in underlying costs.
5 FPE 2009-10 supplementary information
6 Final determinations report
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Frantz flames the Racist Fires over Ferguson
Discuss local, regional, state, federal, and world politics. Keep it classy, Cleveland.
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by leftyg » March 13th, 2015, 3:23 am
On his radio show this morning, the 12 of March, 2015 Bob blamed liberals and progressives for the shooting last night (overnight on March 11-12) of two police officers in Ferguson. All we liberals including talk show host, The Daily Show were held responsible for that event. Now you know that Bob is a duplicitous racist. The veil of that cloth is so tattered and torn that if you can't see through it, you have to be blind. Now he went after Attorney General Holder for the shootings of the two cops. Bob feels we simply should not have talked about it evidently or investigated it. This is troubling. Bob even mentioned that one protester is on video saying "if this would have been taken care of nine months ago this would not have happened."
https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/
Now to the Bob's of the world, blaming the victim is a way of life. And btw all his right wing buddies chimed in with the same all day long. But listening to his show, you got all the talking points. Evidently when the police shoot people, we should take their word for it and never investigate. Now if you have an IQ above room temperature you know how stupid that is. There is nothing wrong with a free press inquiring into potential abuses of power by police and other officials. Heck we have it on tape what that Cleveland cop did to Tamir Rice. I can rationally find no excuse for that act. Now I do not know what happened in Ferguson, and neither does anybody else except that the right has taken this situation and completely sanitized the Ferguson situation. Bob talked about a tweet That said "two pork chops down." Bob said it was the normal mode of thinking on the left despite the fact that I do not know anybody who feels that way. All the talkers on MSNBC support good cops. Nobody wanted this to happen. Yeah, a few nuts did, but that is not the majority. If you read the MSN message board it sounds like a Klan meeting, and I am pretty sure most white conservatives do not want black young men shot. I know that, and Bob should know that about our side. But it is "liar liar Frantz on fire." His assault on free expression and the rights of minorities is appalling. His treatment of opposing views probably has more to do with the current situation than anything the president or the attorney general He is the one "dousing the flames with gasoline."
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Re: Frantz flames the Racist Fires over Ferguson
by leftyg » March 14th, 2015, 6:24 pm
In hour two of his Friday he 13th show Bob questions the expulsion of two students from an Oklahoma fraternity for making racist remarks:
https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended
Now a civil libertarian making that sort of statement would be on sound footing, but should a guy who is--by all measures I can think of-- a racist be making these sorts of statements? To me it was unwise and only makes him look like a racist. Had Bill Mayer, John Stewart or better still Larry Wilmore or Chris Rock done it, it would have been more credible and less offensive. When it comes to issues of race, Bob should keep his mouth shut.
In the first hour of the same Friday the 13th show, he got in trouble, in my view, for attacking President Obama for his comments about the two police officers shot in Ferguson. Ironically, he thought President Obama was a low life over what he said on the Jimmy Kimmel Show about the shootings in the 48 minute area called President Obama a "pathetic excuse of a human being." This is how low life Bob is. It is pathetic and he is a pathetic racists, and somebody has to say it.
by wobbly » March 15th, 2015, 3:47 pm
While driving down town thursday, I tuned in to a few minutes of the Mike Gallagher show. He like your buddy Frantz was going on how you are either with the police or against the police. This reminds me of the nonsense that you can't support the troops if you don't support the mission that the right was putting out during our invasion of Iraq. I guess it never occurred to this nitwit that you can support law and order and hold everyone accountable for their actions. Having a badge doesn't grant you any additional rights or privileges that allow you to act above the law. Ever since or war on drugs, and the advent of Civil Asset Forfeiture things have been out of control. Using the police as a means of raising revenue needs to stop. It was one of the driving forces pitting the police against minorities in Ferguson.
Take a look at this member of a goon squad, serving and protecting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NG1w0ds3m0
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by leftyg » March 15th, 2015, 10:51 pm
wobbly wrote: While driving down town thursday, I tuned in to a few minutes of the Mike Gallagher show. He like your buddy Frantz was going on how you are either with the police or against the police. This reminds me of the nonsense that you can't support the troops if you don't support the mission that the right was putting out during our invasion of Iraq. I guess it never occurred to this nitwit that you can support law and order and hold everyone accountable for their actions. Having a badge doesn't grant you any additional rights or privileges that allow you to act above the law. Ever since or war on drugs, and the advent of Civil Asset Forfeiture things have been out of control. Using the police as a means of raising revenue needs to stop. It was one of the driving forces pitting the police against minorities in Ferguson.
wobbly when you cannot question the police or the military that is fascism. And the elderly gentleman in the video said it best: he has lost respect for law enforcement. I imagine lots of inner city young people who are not as settled and patient as a 69 year old man might feel even more angry and alienated. And you have demagogues like Bob, pumping up the hate daily; it is no wonder we have a problem in America. A friend of mine told me yesterday that when Bob makes nice with African-Americans, that is when you have to watch it because he is up to something. BUT this constant Manichean approach the right uses of good versus evil is absolutely revolting and utterly disgusting. The scary thing is that these idiots have shows because stupid people listen to them and get their racism and xenophobia confirmed on a daily basis. I cannot imagine that Bob had the utter lack of class to call the president what he did--"a pathetic excuse of a human being."* He was going nuts because the POTUS actually said the protesters had a point, and President Obama putting the wounded policemen in his prayers was not enough for Bob. I wonder if he ever listened to himself and noted his utter disregard for the lives of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice. I did not hear words of kindness for them. I did not hear him say prayers for them. But Bob wants the president to be on his side, when his side is the wrong side to be on. And what is the Justice Department to do? Just let these gun happy cops play shoot 'em up to their hearts content and call every shooting a good legal kill? It is preposterous, and it hurts the vast number of policemen that are good cops and good citizens. You could make the argument that Bob and Mike's rhetoric is responsible for the shootings because they are not even handed and fair and that they inflame the passions of racist idiots in our society and they bring out the anger in people who feel marginalized
*Bob was being autobiographical because he indeed is a pathetic excuse of a human being
by Mrtazeman » March 16th, 2015, 12:33 pm
And you have demagogues like Bob, pumping up the hate daily
It was upsetting to me when he would dedicate whole shows to claim that Obama is a Muslim. Just don't get why that would be a major issue for him..
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Real has Frantz gone there? I mean that is real Nut Job City.
by Mrtazeman » March 16th, 2015, 5:18 pm
In the past he has, when he was on WTAM. Don't they know how racist they sound when they call Obama a Muslim and act like its a bad thing?
Mrtazeman wrote: In the past he has, when he was on WTAM. Don't they know how racist they sound when they call Obama a Muslim and act like its a bad thing?
They know it and they don't care. It is simply a dog whistle for their rabid Klan following. In their world racism is a good thing; they just have to be rather surreptitious as to how they practice and express it.
by leftyg » March 17th, 2015, 11:31 am
And this morning we have even morethat Bobby is a bigot. At 10 oclock on his sow he had a lawyer on his show that wrote a letter to the senate saying that Lorretta Lynch should not be confirmed as attorney general. Did I mention Ms. Lynch is black? God it is getting pathetic. Is there a black person alive this guy does not hate? I mean if you are black he is agin' ya'and if you are white (Kristi Capel, Bernie Kosar ad naseaum) he is "fer ya.'" This guy is an utter bigot. Diogenes would have an easier time finding an honest man than Bob would finding a balck person he can stomach.
by wobbly » March 17th, 2015, 12:01 pm
Lefty, you have to remember that the right uses Obama interchangeably and as code for black people. So in effect Rudy was saying, black people don't love America, they don't love you and they don't love me. They weren't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up,through love of this country. When Frantz goes on a rant about President Obama, it is a rant about Black People. He always questions the Presidents loyalty to his country, as if the President was some kind of subversive wanting to bring the country down.
Rudy Giuliani: “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.”
wobbly wrote: Lefty, you have to remember that the right uses Obama interchangeably and as code for black people. So in effect Rudy was saying, black people don't love America, they don't love you and they don't love me. They weren't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up,through love of this country. When Frantz goes on a rant about President Obama, it is a rant about Black People. He always questions the Presidents loyalty to his country, as if the President was some kind of subversive wanting to bring the country down.
Exactly. It is code becuase he cannot use the n word. All the dead young men are black, so they don't count; if President Obama says a clumsy sentence about the two policeman wounded in Ferguson, he is "a pathetic excuse of a human being." BUT when Kristi Capel used a highly offensive term for African-americans, Bob was OK with that. Zack Reed gets drunk, big deal; when Bernie Kosar gets drunk, no big deal. when Josh gordon acts like an immature kid , lets relaease him. When Johnny Manzeil screws up, lets leave him alone.
Kid Funkadelic at Daily Kos was right: his show is like a Klan meeting.
Quick note. This morning Bob Frantz used the Civil Rights vote card and aired a discussion by Stephen A Smith about how it was the republicans that suported civil rights and not the Democrats. And he is right in one sense and wrong in another. In every region of the country, more Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act tha did Republicans. It is just that the South was so overwhelmingly Democratic. Still a few Southern Dems voted for it; no southern Repubs did. but that really is not the point. The point is what my friend told me is true; watch bob the most when he tries to make nice.
by Scorpion » March 19th, 2015, 1:29 pm
Tell me, why would any pol (of either party) comment on an item or an event if they were not there or hadn't directly seen it.
They arent that stupid.
A man wants to have sex or he doesn't.
If he doesn't, its like trying to put a marshmallow into a parking meter.
Scorpion wrote: Tell me, why would any pol (of either party) comment on an item or an event if they were not there or hadn't directly seen it.
They aren't that stupid.
Benghazi?
First wobbly you should go to the John Stewart piece I put up for a real smack down of Fox News for doing that about Benghazi. He talked about the Benghazi- Ferguson double standard. Evidently because no one has commented on this thread for over a week, Scorp has gone crickets. But concerning the Ferguson half and our Cleveland example in the Tamir Rice killing. Bob had an officer on his show on Friday that talks about the "Tamir and Tim Project." Tim Loehmann is the cop that shot and killed Tamir two seconds after he encountered the boy. He wanted understanding between the police and inner city youth which I happen to think is a good thing, BUT Tim Loehmann is a bad example because the shooter has a history, and bob is doing his damnest to bury that history. He even called for understanding for Officer Loehmann. and I said to myself, when has Bob ever called for understanding for anybody he sees as a bad guy? It seemed disingenuous. It would be like Bob asking for understanding for the guy who killed a policeman in the burbs a couple of years ago. Remember the black guy who shot a cop at a traffic stop or something? I think hell will freeze over before Bob asks his audience to understand that. Then he played a comment by a Nebraska lawmaker named Ernie Chambers when Chambers says that, he (Chambers) would carry a gun to protect himself from the police. Bob was gobsmacked and very upset. I will admit, I think carrying a gun to protect yourself from the police is a fairly good prescription for a very short future and not what one would call wise. But Bob never got what Chambers was really saying and does not get black anger over this issue because he has no empathy. He identifies with the police and has great feeling for them but none for the other side it appears. Check out hour two on Friday, March 27: https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended
Lefty, I listened to the Jon Stewart piece regarding the Benghazi-Ferguson double standard, the night it aired. Oddly enough it aired after I posted my Benghazi reply to Scorpion. That it went unanswered is no surprise. The folks on the right see only what they want to see and hear only what they want to hear. Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers is correct when he says that black people have more to fear from the police than they do ISIS. In fact most Americans have more to fear from the police than they do ISIS, because your chance of having an encounter with ISIS, is nil and your chance of having an interaction with the police is very real. The execution of a no knock warrant at the wrong address or a traffic stop is all it takes for you to run afoul of the police. Kelly Thomas was beaten to death, by out of control Fullerton,CA police officers. Despite a tape of the beating, where you can hear the following the police were not convicted.
“Now you see my fists?” Fullerton police officer Manny Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves. “Yeah, what about them?” Thomas responded. “They are getting ready to fuck you up,” said Ramos, a burly cop who appears to outweigh Thomas by 100 pounds.
Thomas was then reduced to an unrecognizable bloody pulp while the people who murdered him are free as a bird. Yet these same people will always have the backing of people like Frantz and his ilk.
Wobbly, you are absolutely correct. African-Americans have more to fear from the police than from ISIS. It is a simple fact. I know my tirades against Frantz probably get tiresome to everyone, but I see him as symbol right in my face of something very contemptible: unabashed fascism. His picture which i lack the computer skills to drag over to this site looks like a Nazi picture of an officer or SS guy from the days of Hitler. He is German as am I, and that is an embarrassment to me. I think it is important to speak out against this police state behavior even, if sadly, it does no good and get called a liar for doing it.
by leftyg » April 1st, 2015, 11:03 pm
Today, Bob Frantz destroyed any illusion that he is not a stone racist . You have to listen to the first 10 minutes at least of his April first program https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended this guy is all in for the police, without qualification. He talks about Prosecutor Tim McGinty as waging an unconstitutional case against Officer Breloe in the shooting in East Cleveland in 2012. He is accusing McGinty of flaming the fires of racism and playing the race card. I cannot imagine anything more autobiographical. Frantz is definitely projecting his own behavior on to the prosecutor. He says outrageous things like Eric Garner was not killed and that Timothy Loehmann is going to be exonerated for killing (justifiably in Frantz's opinion) Tamir Rice. This man has backed himself into a corner on these racial issues. This is pretty scary.
After that the idiot defended the Indiana Law. What a racist!
by leftyg » April 9th, 2015, 12:33 pm
Today on his radio show, Bob finally said that a policeman, the one from south Carolina who shot the fleeing black man in the back, is guilty, unequivocally guilty. Now I have heard the same on Salem Radio yesterday. I think the right is trying to walk itself back from the extreme position it took on these shootings because in this case there was absolutely no doubt the officer was wrong. But I did not think there was much doubt in the Eric Garner case or the Tamir Rice case either as both were caught on video as well.
I wonder if the right realizing their own logic a bit late and has decided to change. They have always blamed the rioting in Ferguson and the shooting of two innocent police officers in New York City on the rhetoric of the president, the justice department, the mayor of New York and left-leaning commentators like Rev. Al Sharpton. It is not a stretch to say, if they believe that those are true, that they, the right-leaning media which includes my friend Bob, are responsible for what happened in South Carolina. By apparently giving the police carte blanche to do what they want with suspects, shooting them if they wish, that they have created a monster; they have enabled bad cops time and again. Everybody knows that Ferguson is a huge question mark. It really is "he said and the other guy is dead." And the same is true of Trayvon Martin. But the same is not true of Eric Garner and Tamir Rice. I think the incident in South Carolina (sorry I do not have the victim's name) was just a bridge too far, and even the right could not see themselves crossing that.
by Mrtazeman » April 10th, 2015, 8:29 am
I was watching Fox News last night and they were wondering why the media isn't covering cops that gets killed in the line of duty like they do when a cop kills a black person. They gave a few examples..
by wobbly » April 10th, 2015, 10:26 am
Had there been no video of the South Carolina police shooting of unarmed Walter L. Scott, officer, Michael T. Slager would have never been charged, let alone charged with murder. He gave the standard cop feared for his life story, and who would have been the wiser had it not been for the video. The video clearly shows officer Slager shoot the fleeing Scott in the back and then pick something up and drop it at the feet of the now deceased Scott. I happened to be driving my car and was listening to the Bob Frantz show to see how he would react to the video of the murder, and he did call it for what it was, an unlawful police shooting of an unarmed man. But what else could he say in light of the video? But having said the it was wrong, he reminded his listeners that the killing of Garner, Rice, etc were justified. So when faced with the undeniable truth of the murder of an unarmed black man by a white police officer, Frantz called it what it was, and that was the end of the story. This story will be moved to the back burner by Frantz and the folks at Fox. They will only mention this story when they need to prove that they are fair and balanced when it comes to this kind of story. What I haven't heard from the folks on the right, is that this story again proves the need for tamper proof video to be worn by police officers at all times.
Our current system of law enforcement has and continues to fail us. It will only get worse until we decide to address the root cause crime, by eliminating poverty. Wobbly
Black Americans killed by police in 2014 outnumbered those who died on 9/11
Tony Ortega TONY ORTEGA
08 APR 2015 AT 12:47 ET
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/blac ... ed-on-911/
The shocking footage of South Carolina man Walter Scott being shot in the back as he ran from North Charleston police officer Michael Slager is once again putting attention on the large number of Americans who are killed by police.
But how big is that number, exactly? Several news organizations have tried to answer that question lately, and have all come up with the answer that it’s a very difficult figure to pin down because of the way the FBI and other agencies report data.
One thing we can say with some level of certainty: More black Americans were killed by police in 2014 than were killed in the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001.
Here’s how we know that. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there were 215 black victims of the 9/11 attacks (136 men, 79 women). The CDC even has data on education — 109 of those victims had college degrees.
Getting information that detailed about people killed by police in 2014 is not so straightforward. Estimates vary on the total number of Americans who died, but they tend to be around 1,000.
FiveThirtyEight.com pointed out that number is probably significantly too low, but it’s difficult to get close to an accurate count because of the way agencies count and report data.
However, there’s a more direct way to count these incidents that doesn’t involve estimates or averages, or government agencies. FiveThirtyEight.com, Reason, Think Progress and others have all cited the work of KilledByPolice.net, a simple website that records mainstream media accounts of shootings as they occur, assembling them in a barebones database.
The website started counting police shootings in 2013, and has a complete list for 2014. There’s a good chance that the website has missed some deaths, but for our purposes it’s better that the totals are too low than too high.
KilledByPolice also notes when a news story includes information about gender and race of a victim. Not all news stories have that information, so again, the actual number of black victims is probably higher.
But based on a count of news stories collected at KilledByPolice, there were at least 238 deaths of black Americans by police in 2014, easily more than the number who perished on 9/11.
And that’s a sobering thought.
by leftyg » April 10th, 2015, 10:59 am
Here is what I contend wobbly and Real: I think Fox and Bob stuck their foot in it when they blamed the shootings of the two innocent officers in New York on the liberal media, the president, the attorney general and the mayor of New York. "If" there is any truth to that then conversely it must also be true that they (Fox,Limbaugh, Bob and all the other minions and masters of the right) are guilty of enabling rogue policeman in these killings essentially saying, like you did wobbly that they, the right believes them and case closed. If the left enables "cop killers," then the right must enable "killer cops."
As to Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, that is where the racism really shows. I saw those videos, and both were unnecessary. Eric Garner was choked and whether or not he died of cardiac arrest, anybody with an IQ above room temperature would easily deduce that the choking and the unnecessary stress was the proximate cause of Mr. Garner's death. "If" a thug robs an older person (heard this on the news) and that person subsequently dies of a heart attack, the thug is not charged with theft; he or she is charged with murder, and I am not going to argue that point. BUT when it is a cop, the right exhausts every avenue to find a morsel of exculpation and try to turn it into a meal that satisfies the hunger for justice, separating the heart attack and the abuse in the case of Eric Garner. In the case of Tamir Rice, you are dealing with a drive by shooting by the police. We saw it on video and it stretches credulity to its limit to call that justified. But, I argue that by justifying the shooting of Tamir, guys like Bob said it was ok for this cop in South Carolina, Slager, to murder this 50 year old African-American. And Slager was stupid enough to trust them.
by hmmmmm » April 10th, 2015, 12:59 pm
wobbly wrote: Our current system of law enforcement has and continues to fail us. It will only get worse until we decide to address the root cause crime, by eliminating poverty. Wobbly
Sorry Wobbs. That has got to be the worst comparison I've ever read on here.
The worst form of inequality, is to try to make unequal things equal ~~~~~ Aristotle
You can't cure poverty by creating more dependency ~~~~~
"Science flies you to the moon. Radical Islamists fly you in to buildings."
~~~~~ hmmmmm
by wobbly » April 10th, 2015, 1:38 pm
hmmmmm wrote: Sorry Wobbs. That has got to be the worst comparison I've ever read on here.
Can't hit a home run everyday, some days it's hard just getting up off of the bench.
by leftyg » April 10th, 2015, 2:14 pm
hmmmmm and wobbly, I am not going to argue this because hmmmm you are right the analogy is not the best because I would imagine more African-Americans were killed in car crashes last year than were killed on 9/11, but that is probably true of whites Asians and probably about anybody else. But what should never get lost is the unique event here. Walter Scott was killed as he ran away from a policeman. We have video, and even the right is saying Slager murdered the guy. My point in resurrecting this thread was its original basis. I said that on March 12 Bob Frantz and several other right wing talkers said that the left was responsible for the shooting of the two New York City cops. It is on cloud. Wouldn't be equally true that the right is responsible for the death of Walter Scott. I am not saying it; the rights own logic is saying it. The truth is that the left was not responsible for the rioting in Ferguson or the killings in New York; perceived injustice and human anger were. Also, it could be easliy argued that the right was throwing gasoline on the fire.
What would be instructive would be to know how many African-americans are killed by police and how many whites are killed by police in a given year.
by hmmmmm » April 10th, 2015, 2:41 pm
leftyg wrote: hmmmmm and wobbly, I am not going to argue this because hmmmm you are right the analogy is not the best because I would imagine more African-Americans were killed in car crashes last year than were killed on 9/11, but that is probably true of whites Asians and probably about anybody else. But what should never get lost is the unique event here. Walter Scott was killed as he ran away from a policeman. We have video, and even the right is saying Slager murdered the guy. My point in resurrecting this thread was its original basis. I said that on March 12 Bob Frantz and several other right wing talkers said that the left was responsible for the shooting of the two New York City cops. It is on cloud. Wouldn't be equally true that the right is responsible for the death of Walter Scott. I am not saying it; the rights own logic is saying it. The truth is that the left was not responsible for the rioting in Ferguson or the killings in New York; perceived injustice and human anger were. Also, it could be easliy argued that the right was throwing gasoline on the fire.
Lefty, you are using "Frantz" in one sentence and then the next thought you use the word "logic". You know you can't use those two together.
The left might not be responsible for the rioting in Ferguson as most of the rioting was not even done by people who live in Ferguson. I would not blame the left, but people like Al Sharpton did not help to calm things down there. Please explain how the right threw gasoline on the fire in Ferguson.
The stat I tried to find, and couldn't, was how does the number of African-Americans killed by police compare to years past. Is it increasing or decreasing ? I thought I saw somewhere that there were well over 1,000 white people killed by cops in 2014.
hmmmmm wrote: The stat I tried to find, and couldn't, was how does the number of African-Americans killed by police compare to years past. Is it increasing or decreasing ? I thought I saw somewhere that there were well over 1,000 white people killed by cops in 2014.
Oddly there doesn't seem to be any comprehensive statistics available showing the number of people who are killed by the police. This is something that should be readily available and up to date. That is isn't available makes me wonder why it isn't? If we can keep records of the number of people killed in car crashes every year certainly we should be able to keep track of the number of police shootings. How are we going to hold the police accountable for their actions, if the information is withheld from the public? Every police department needs to be more transparent so that the citizens can police the police.
wobbly wrote:
You'd have to do some investigating, but you can start here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States
If you scan down to the bottom of the page, you can click on a particular year. Didn't get a chance to look good at it, but it does tell why most of them were killed. I also didn't see anything separating race.
I knew that is what I liked about you hmmmmm. What makes conservatism so hard for me are guys like that. And remember I did not forget that you were the one that set me straight about smoking stats a year or so ago when I said we smoked less than Europeans, and you demonstrated that was not true. Further, aren't you the person that told me about tu quoque four or five years back?
by leftyg » April 10th, 2015, 11:33 pm
Listening to Bobby's show today got me to this website where I was truly shocked by the bald racism. Bobby shifted the focus to Rev. Al Sharpton, and made some vitriol about him and the family of the late Walter Scott asking him to stay away from the 50 years man's funeral. The article appears in the New York Daily News. This is what the Bob's of the world are talking to, and it is frightening. This was the comment of one of the racists on the message board:
There's no way the black community OR the black-community-ass-kissers in the justice department are going to pull off a murder conviction against this police officer. Not a chance. The "victim" / suspect was fleeing the police after being stopped legally and the police officer had no way of knowing if the fleeing "victim" / suspect was armed or not. The "victim" / suspect, after running away, could have stopped, turned around and shot the police officer dead. ...and nobody would have given a s--t. So if you think the officer is going to be convicted of murder, dream on.
http://www.newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04 ... in-sc-man/
This person is the sort of garbage that serves as the right's audience, and I believe the far right is a little afraid of them like conservative Germans in the 20's and early 30's feared the Nazis. I pulled over the quote because the link is not working, but you can probably google it if you want to see some beaucoup racists in action.
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This is worth the time to watch it. Wobbly
How the Walter Scott Shooting Would Have Been Reported if the Video Didn't Exist
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/walter ... eo-n340146
wobbly wrote: This is worth the time to watch it. Wobbly
Complaints against police in areas where body cameras are in use are down 88% and police violence is down 60%. It is working, and nobody should object to body cams if they are this effective.
This morning Bob fanned the flames of race at a level even I could not imagine. In so doing he made one of the truly valid claims he has ever made. He quoted the Mayor of Baltimore saying she would give "those who wish to destroy room to destroy" or words to that effect. AND he was absolutely telling the truth. Now some larger context may have been lost and knowing Bob it probably was. But he began to take calls from his racist listeners and it was frightening. He poo pooed racism "officially," but he let the racists speak to their hearts content while disavowing racism per se. Then he married the comments to the second amendment and how the right to bear arms should be unabridged even if it concerns automatic weapons, that you should have them at your disposal to kill pesky demonstrators and looters who invade your home, peddling fear the hallmark of a fascist.
The mayor of Baltimore also evidently and quite truthfully said that right wing talk radio is facillitating this unrest. Bob was actively promoting violence on his show and has been enabling the police for a long time in the murder of young black men. He says when Berlo is acquitted and Timothy Loehmann is acquitted in the killing of Tamir Rice that violence will break out in Cleveland. To me this is incitement to riot. This is dangerous advocacy of vigilantism. Bob said it would be the only topic he would consider today ( April 28). Years ago Kid Funkadelic a regular poster at the Daily Kos sand a Clevelander called Bob's nightly show a Klan meeting." Seems he is not far off. Listen to his show today April 28, 2015 if you want to hear a racist manipulate his audience. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended
by Mrtazeman » April 28th, 2015, 12:22 pm
This morning show isn't up yet but looking forward to listening to him and his propaganda. Unfortunately a lot of people take Bobby boy at face value. Here are some comments from The Blaze. Notice the last comment, apparently they are editing out all the racist comments so they don't look like a bunch of KKK members.
Mayor is this what you asked for… People of B-MO you got what you voted for ! You liberal piece of crap for a state!
This, unfortunately is Obama’s America. Revenge against white privilege, siding with black thugs out the gate, unwilling to wait for the judicial system to play itself out even when the system is bias in favor of progressive prosecutors and judges and the likes of Eric Holder and minions who will bend over backwards to blame whites or white Hispanics.
Funny, the National Guard will be called out with stand down orders. Pffft, why bother. It is Black Privilege to loot, vandalize, torch, and beat people to death with no fear of accountability.
A black city of black people as the black mayor said “Let them do what they want”…. Is this what Obama wants for America….. ? At this point the world maybe looking at America that blacks are without coping skills and have NO respect for America…… Is this ISIS in the working in America….?
Did the unions delivery a few tons of throwing-rocks? Seems like a lot of nice ammo lying around!
Sorry for the double post folks. The Blaze has been flaky on comment editing. This time it told me my edit was “unapproved” and the post seemed to disappear. So I re-posted it. Something has changed or wrong with their comment system as of late.
by leftyg » April 29th, 2015, 7:23 am
I listened to Michael Medved yesterday afternoon, and he was also on the topic. He blamed liberals and liberal policies, but he did not do it in a hateful way the way Bob does. I disagree with Medved's analysis. I think the problem is that the grievances of these folks are not being addressed. As long as cops can get away with murder, the problems will continue. I have a deal with conservatives: you stop enabling killer cops and see how things change in the minority community. But the rights enabling police brutality is far more corrosive than the perceived enabling demonstrators receive from the left because they, the left, does not believe in just shooting them all.
by Scorpion » April 29th, 2015, 7:56 am
Black lives only matter when an authority figure is involved.
Black on black crime? Not so much.
But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.3
Not true, I always here about black on black crimes from the left...
by wobbly » April 29th, 2015, 9:57 am
Scorp wrote:
The race of the person who commits the crime sure seems to matter. Not that I expect Scorp will read it.
Written Submission of the American Civil Liberties Union on Racial Disparities in Sentencing
Hearing on Reports of Racism in the Justice System of the United States
Submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 153rd Session, October 27, 2014
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/file ... sion_0.pdf
This is for Scorp Wobbly on the small chance she does not read the ACLU article https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/file ... sion_0.pdf
Racial Disparities in Sentencing in the United States
There are significant racial disparities in sentencing decisions in the United States.1
Sentences imposed on Black males in the federal system are nearly 20 percent longer than those
imposed on white males convicted of similar crimes.2 Black and Latino offenders sentenced in
state and federal courts face significantly greater odds of incarceration than similarly situated
white offenders and receive longer sentences than their white counterparts in some jurisdictions.3
Black male federal defendants receive longer sentences than whites arrested for the same
offenses and with comparable criminal histories.4 Research has also shown that race plays a
significant role in the determination of which homicide cases result in death sentences.5
Sounds like important stuff Scorp, stuff right wing talkers do not talk about
Scorpion wrote: Black lives only matter when an authority figure is involved.
I call BS on this Scorp. I happen to know that Al Sharpton and other African-American leaders go to American cities like Chicago and talk about gun violence and black on black crime. So I know you are wrong on that point, not think you are wrong KNOW you are wrong. But because most on the right tell half truths ( and guys like Bobby and Fatty Limbaugh who usually lie) you do not hear this. If right wing white talk hosts would stop lying to their listeners and stop enabling rogue cops who use badges to kill, this might not be that much of a problem because when people sense there is justice they act differently.
by JuicedTruth » April 30th, 2015, 9:16 am
Saying "black on black" crime is just a herring they toss so they don't have to take an honest look at the issues.
Interesting you seem to assume that authority figures can only be white.
If it were black cops killing black people carelessly, I'd still be pretty damn concerned. That's not the case though.
JuicedTruth
Today Bob turned the heat up in stoking his rhetoric on Baltimore and on race. In the first hour of his April 30th show at about the 46 minute mark he blamed Mayor Di Blasio and the president for the death of two New York policeman. In the second hour at the 35:30 mark he talks about a young black man who confronted Geraldo Rivera and basically implies that he is a thug threatening Geraldo https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended Here I have the video of the actual encounter. I thought the young man's comments were profound. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/29 ... riv/203475
Bob is pushing it hard, and is a real part of the problem.
by leftyg » May 1st, 2015, 12:19 pm
Today the road to justice in all of these killings may have been paved in Baltimore. Bobby and his racist pals may finally be shown as the hypocrites and liars that they are. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/prosec ... ar-BBj262m
by hmmmmm » May 1st, 2015, 1:21 pm
Yay !!! Finally a post NOT bashing Bob Frantz.
On a serious note.... Wow, 6 officers charged. Good, I think that's what we (as a country) needed. These will be interesting trials.
by leftyg » May 1st, 2015, 4:12 pm
hmmmmm wrote: Yay !!! Finally a post NOT bashing Bob Frantz.
I never bash Frantz; I just tell the truth about what he says. Anyway, I think this will make a difference, and it is about time. I do not think that justice will be subverted in this case
What if they are all found not guilty ?
by wobbly » May 1st, 2015, 6:17 pm
hmmmmm wrote: What if they are all found not guilty ?
Then Mr. Gray's family would probably file a wrongful death civil suit against the officers. Like the one brought by Ronald Goldman's family against O.J. Simpson. But lets look at the facts. He was alive and able to run before the po-po got their hands on him, and then sustained life ending trauma while shackled and in their care. You have to wonder if charges would ever been made if not for the protest?
by hmmmmm » May 1st, 2015, 10:32 pm
I just wonder if the charges were made to stop the protests. That would be bad.
by leftyg » May 2nd, 2015, 12:17 am
hmmmmm wrote: I just wonder if the charges were made to stop the protests. That would be bad.
No justice no peace; it is really as simple as that. If the evidence shows the cops are guilty, then they will be punished. And this is not Ferguson nor is it some place where jury nullification is likely to happen. What I wonder is what will the right wing menagerie, guys like Bob, do when these guys are convicted? Will they cry foul? Will they take to the streets?
I do not see why you are surprised by the charges. Unlike communities like Ferguson where an unhealthy relationship between the police and the prosecutors exists, there seems to be a healthy barrier in Baltimore.
BTW, I would like to know why Bobby called for Blaine Griffin's firing for a tweet he made about whether Cleveland should burn. Now Frantz disagrees with Mr. Griffin, director of the Cleveland community relations board, and because of that he thinks Mr. Griffin should be fired by Frank Jackson. Now, I remember Bob saying that Christi Kapel should receive no punishment at all "leave her alone" for her racist statement on Fox Eight. Now I agreed that she should not be fired as did all the progressive posters on here because people make mistakes and we all have a heart. But Bobby, because he has no heart, is not calling for Mayor Jackson to reprimand Mr. Griffin. No, he wants Mr. Griffin fired. The reason for this hypocrisy is that it is not hypocrisy al all; Bob just hates minorities and does not see anything wrong with racist language. It is not on a par with Black Anger over injustice which must be punished, especially if it threatens his white life of privilege. Look at the last five minute of hour two of the May 1 Friday broadcast https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended
To be fair, Mr Jackson did what Fox Eight did to Ms Kapel; he reprimanded him sternly which seems appropriate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn ... rned-down/ But when you are a bigot like Bob, a reprimand is not enough.
by hmmmmm » May 2nd, 2015, 7:12 am
Lefty, I did not say anywhere that I was surprised about the charges. I just wondered if the were politically motivated.
by Mrtazeman » May 2nd, 2015, 9:51 am
I think it is important that we expose these right wingers that uses half truths, highly edited stories, lies, and fear in order for them to push their agenda. When protesters were at Wall Street, a fox news guy was trying to hand out bongs so that they could film protesters walking around with bongs. Fortunately, there was a guy at the event that spoiled their plans by exposing this person to everyone he was trying to giving a bong out to. I have a repub friend who lives in a beautiful house on top of a hill, drives the best cars, his wife wears the latest trends, his kids goes to the best schools and their biggest stress in life is trying to decide where to go to on vacation, yet he is an angry man that hates poor people and feels that he is a victim in society because of all the right wingers he listen to. We need more people like LeftyG to expose these punks.. My dad is very well educated and a very logical person, he thinks that GWB was a better president than Obama, when you ask him why he cant provide any reasons expect he just is.. Thanks Fox News..
Another good story, Stephanie Miller was going to debate Hannity on his TV show. Everything was on until Stephanie told Hannity that she wants it done live so there couldn't be any editing. Like a coward Hannity backed out.. Sad to say that they have a loyal following of angry old white guys..
by Mrtazeman » May 2nd, 2015, 10:20 am
Case Closed to Fox Viewers, this is all they need...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--HoX_dDOs
by leftyg » May 2nd, 2015, 1:17 pm
hmmmmm wrote: Lefty, I did not say anywhere that I was surprised about the charges. I just wondered if the were politically motivated.
That is like saying I was not surprised at the rape charge against Mr. X; "I just want to know if it was politically motivated." Like in that hypothetical, in this real case, that is almost a red herring. If they appear to be guilty as these cops do, then political expedience has nothing to do with it. Yeah people like justice. Everybody likes justice, almost everybody. Letting police get away with murder, which seems to be the latest fad in right wing idiot land, is bad; not because it might piss off the targeted group, but because it is wrong.
Mrtazeman wrote:
I attack the right and Bob because they are fanning the flames of racism in America. The real danger in this society is not the protesters in these cities; the real danger is the mob that Bob and others like him are getting behind them to attack freedom and ultimately human decency. Do not think that something like Nazi Germany could not happen here, and it might if we do not recognize it. It is seductive for people to blame all of their problems and all their fears on a group of "different people." I do not know how many times I have heard Bob "try" (I use the word sarcastically of course) to rein in the racism of some of his callers. Notice he seldom cuts racist callers off; I have never heard it. But if a liberal calls, Bob cuts them off and then violates George Washington's 89th rule of civil discourse: "Speak not Evil of the absent for it is unjust." http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washi ... scription/
The truth is that the health of our nation hangs in the balance. Radio is a hot medium in the words of Marshall McLuhan, and it is being used to selectively advance the agenda of the right and in so doing cut off debate. This is where the guerilla war to control our nation is going on whether we realize it or not. McLuhan writes in 1969 Playboy interview:
"Actually, in this case as in most of my work, I'm "predicting" what has already happened and merely extrapolating a current process to its logical conclusion. The Balkanization of the United States as a continental political structure has been going on for some years now, and racial chaos is merely one of several catalysts for change. This isn't a peculiarly American phenomenon; as I pointed out earlier, the electric media always produce psychically integrating and socially decentralizing effects, and this affects not only political institutions within the existing state but the national entities themselves."
He goes on to say many powerful things which ring true 46 years later http://digitallantern.net/McLuhan/mcluhanplayboy.htm
Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly and Bob Frantz are just twits carrying out the will of this mindless tribe of bigots, telling their half-truths and outright lies that sets people against one another.
by leftyg » May 4th, 2015, 10:11 am
This morning Bob was having a snit about the Baltimore cops being indicted. I knew he would, but the news had not gotten out when his show went off the air at 11 am last Friday. He was worried about due process and rights, something he does not give a damn about when it fits his interests. He played a clip by Alan Dershowitz about the indictment and about how the defendants could not get a fair trial, something Bob does not give a damn about when the defendant is a minority or a "criminal." Bob said the prosecutor should recuse herself, unlike in Ferguson where it was more obvious the district attorney should have recused himself. Bob's comments demonstrate that he is merely a racist and a fascist. It is just too bad that WHK does not broadcast Cavs games because they might fire Bobby too. BTW the cloud for the show is not up yet, but when it is it will be at the end of hour one Monday May 4, 2015. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended
by wobbly » May 4th, 2015, 11:24 am
Bob and the folks at Fox seem to forget, that Mr. Gray was falsely arrested, and was the victim of a homicide while handcuffed and in the custody of the police. They are quick to point out his "rap sheet" as if that should be some mitigating factor.
by leftyg » May 4th, 2015, 12:17 pm
wobbly wrote: Bob and the folks at Fox seem to forget, that Mr. Gray was falsely arrested, and was the victim of a homicide while handcuffed and in the custody of the police. They are quick to point out his "rap sheet" as if that should be some mitigating factor.
Can you imagine what these simpletons would say if a citizen died violently while in the presence of a person, with nobody else around when they died, and that person was not charged with murder? They would be livid. And the fact that Mr. Gray was illegally arrested is minutia to these guys, a fact they want to bury along with Mr. Gray. The right is shameless when it comes to this. And Bobby is my home town exemplar ex uno disce Omnia* http://www.proz.com/kudoz.php/latin_to_ ... omnia.html
* it is Latin for from one learn all
by Scorpion » May 5th, 2015, 8:13 am
leftyg wrote:
Who had determined he was falsely arrested?
Citizens, media, police chief? Who??
Well the knife was not a switch blade, and there was no report of drugs in the original report although there was a shadowy informant on Hannity who made a claim about drugs, but it was not mentioned in the arrest report.
Scorp wrote:Who had determined he was falsely arrested?
The State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby in the charges against the officers made that determination.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... tml#page=1
Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., the driver of the van, was charged with second-degree murder, three counts of manslaughter and assault. Lt. Brian W. Rice was charged with manslaughter, assault and false imprisonment. Sgt. Alicia D. White and Officer William G. Porter were charged with manslaughter and assault. Officers Garrett E. Miller and Edward M. Nero were charged with assault and false imprisonment. All were charged with misconduct in office.
The arrest on the morning of April 12 began when Rice made eye contact with Gray near the corner of North Avenue and Mount Street. Gray ran, and Rice, along with Miller and Nero chased him.
Gray surrendered in the 1700 block of Presbury St., where Mosby said "he was placed in a prone position, with his hands handcuffed behind his back." It was there that Gray first asked for and was denied medical care, she said.
"It was at this time that Mr. Gray indicated that he could not breathe and requested an inhaler to no avail," she said.
Officers discovered he had a knife with its blade folded into the handle, she said. It wasn't a switchblade but a legal implement.
Having failed to establish probable cause, Mosby said the officers' arrest of Gray was illegal.
Wobbly, thanks for the clarification. It was spot on.
by Scorpion » May 5th, 2015, 12:38 pm
I haven't been keeping up with this too much because information changes on a daily basis.
Let the courts work things out.
It will be interesting when all is r.evealed in court
What I am referring to here is the fact that when the authorities are involved in a shooting we have protests and riots (of late anyway).
Last summer, there were innumerable deaths one weekend in Chicago.
As far as I know, there were no protests toward city leaders about the safety in their neighborhoods.
Where are the citizens protesting for innocent deaths in major metropolitan cities?
I think leaders like Al Sharpton have had rallies, so I think the argument is moot. Further, protecting against criminals is a waste of time because, well, they are criminals and would not really care much. Besides that never made sense anyway.
But the police and the powers that be are different. We can and should attend council meetings and public displays of concern. We should protest officials and the police when they overstep their authority because they are more potentially dangerous than any gangsters as Nazi Germany fully shows
by wobbly » May 6th, 2015, 3:32 pm
Scorp, It happens, it just doesn't get the same attention as a confrontation. Besides, the truth doesn't fit the right's narrative that the black community doesn't care about black on black crime.
Why Don't Black People Protest 'Black-on-Black Violence'?
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... ce/255329/
by leftyg » May 6th, 2015, 3:54 pm
Didn't Art McCoy head an initiative called "Black on Black Crime"
by Scorpion » May 6th, 2015, 4:05 pm
Seriously wobbly? It doesnt fit the rights narrative?
Leftist fingerpointing there.
leftyg wrote: Didn't Art McCoy head an initiative called "Black on Black Crime"
I seem to recall his having a radio show on WTAM on Sunday evenings.
Scorpion wrote: Seriously wobbly? It doesnt fit the rights narrative?
How is wobbly supposed to respond to that Scorp? Several times he has honestly told you--as have I--that blacks have protested the killing of other blacks. I guess you are just infatuated with the false narrative you are feed by the right wing media who attempts to shift blame away from their own behavior in supporting the killers in these instances.
by hmmmmm » May 6th, 2015, 5:51 pm
Yes, blacks have protested the killing of other blacks..... but you never hear about it. There's no rioting in the streets over it. No burning cars, looting and setting buildings on fire over it.
That's Scorp's whole point. And it's not a red herring, it's a double standard.
Wobbly's link shows a few protests from 2009 through 2012. That's between 3 and 6 years ago. Where is the outrage NOW ! Why is it not ongoing ???
I don't doubt Rev. Al has protested black on black crime, but I watch Sharpton's show on TV and he doesn't talk about it that I have heard.
by JuicedTruth » May 7th, 2015, 9:30 am
The rioting is happening from police killing black people under highly questionable circumstances where deadly force was likely not necessary, and in some cases, where the police initiated the confrontation for inappropriate reasons. That's quite a bit different than black-on-black gang violence in Chicago.
I really don't even understand the right's point on mentioning gang violence in relation to these police shootings. They are radically different things. I find excessive police violence troubling in all cases and even more so since it seems to involve black people substantially more.
by wobbly » May 7th, 2015, 9:40 am
hmmmmm wrote:
You and Scorp are missing the elephant in the room. A protest and a riot are two very different things, done by very different people. Just like celebrating a sports win, and a riot are not the same things. I don't find it odd that people who are protesting crime in their community don't burn cars and loot stores while protesting crime. I would hope you could also see the difference between wanting to reduce overall crime in the community, and being upset over police misconduct aimed at one segment of the community. Protesters protest and celebrants celebrate, while criminals riot, loot, steal and burn.
by hmmmmm » May 7th, 2015, 10:15 am
JuicedTruth wrote: The rioting is happening from police killing black people under highly questionable circumstances where deadly force was likely not necessary, and in some cases, where the police initiated the confrontation for inappropriate reasons. That's quite a bit different than black-on-black gang violence in Chicago.
What happened to "Black lives matter" ? Don't they ALL matter, or only when it involves the police ?
by JuicedTruth » May 7th, 2015, 11:16 am
So you're upset that people aren't wearing a "black lives matter" shirt for every gang murder? Is that your issue?
JuicedTruth wrote: So you're upset that people aren't wearing a "black lives matter" shirt for every gang murder? Is that your issue?
Funny that came up.
I'm listening to a Miami station and they are supposed to have a gathering of people with just that theme.....BLACK LIVES MATTER.
There are numerous more deaths of blacks by blacks and others than there are by law enforcement.
I saw a stat that there is a police officer death on average every three days.
Don't their lives mater as well??
by JuicedTruth » May 7th, 2015, 2:32 pm
Let me get this straight: saying "black lives matter" is now saying the same things as "police lives don't matter? You guys have some strange logic...
No man.... The issue is why will people riot, loot, burn buildings and cars over the death of one black man in the custody of police, but NOT riot, loot, burn buildings and cars over hundreds of deaths of black people who are killed at the hands of other black people ?
"Black lives matter" just makes the whole thing hypocritical.
So, you don't see any difference between people being murdered by street criminals, and people being murdered by the police?
I was giving two finals today, so I missed this flurry. It should be apparent to anyone capable of feeding themselves that violence by the police is worse than violence by criminals. It is roughly analogous to violence by bullies and violence by parents. One is bad and unfortunate; the other can be soul crushing. Also the focus is violence by police and to make it about violence by another group is a red herring, an attempt to change the subject and take the heat off police. Consider this: we all live in this fortress which is protected by the law. When some people under that protection find that there is no protection for them, for whatever reason, that the police are little different than the criminals in their neighborhood who are accosting them, it has to be frightening. There is an enemy at the gate and another within the gate. I don't think most white people get it, a profound lack of empathy. They would get it in an instant if they were the object of this terror.
That's what I don't get either. It's like we should be equally surprised when a gang members kills a rival gang member as when police take someone into custody for no reason and kill them. Or when police kill a 12-year old because he had a toy gun.
I don't know why people are so unwilling to accept the idea that black people have radically different experiences with police (and really, the entire justice system) than white people. But the arguments that black people are hypocrites because of gang violence seems really off-base to me.
wobbly wrote: hmmmmm wrote:
No, I don't. That would be like saying that a policeman committing murder should be treated differently, because you are saying they are not the same.
In 2015, their have been 82 murders in Baltimore and 1 who died while in the custody of police. If I lived there, I would be much more concerned about the 82 as opposed to just one.
JuicedTruth wrote:
Do all the people on this list look like they were killed by rival gang members ?
http://data.baltimoresun.com/bing-maps/homicides/recenthundred.php
hmmmmm, for the umpteenth time, black leaders do address the issue of black on black crime and shootings. But maybe I am talking to a wall here but being killed by those who are supposed to protect is not how it is supposed to be. If you had a daughter who was 18 or so, and she was having sex, would you be more upset if her lover was her doctor, her teacher or her 18 year old boyfriend? And let us assume for a second that you do not have an open mind about sex; you really wanted her to wait until she got married. If the teacher or doctor was brought up on charges of violating his ethical code, how strong would the argument be that "nobody complains when these girls have sex with their same age boyfriends. Why don't you focus more on teen on teen sex than go after a doctor or a teacher who preforms a service to the community?" You should realize how stupid that argument would be. Well focusing on black on black crime when the murder of an unarmed black person is the issue is the same thing. The only thing that matters is did the police act illegally. Dump the red herring. I am pretty sure that sworn affidavits from 82 teen on teen couples that had sex would not be admissible in a trial about our doctor or teacher.
leftyg wrote: hmmmmm, for the umpteenth time, black leaders do address the issue of black on black crime and shootings. But maybe I am talking to a wall here but being killed by those who are supposed to protect is not how it is supposed to be. If you had a daughter who was 18 or so, and she was having sex, would you be more upset if her lover was her doctor, her teacher or her 18 year old boyfriend? And let us assume for a second that you do not have an open mind about sex; you really wanted her to wait until she got married. If the teacher or doctor was brought up on charges of violating his ethical code, how strong would the argument be that "nobody complains when these girls have sex with their same age boyfriends. Why don't you focus more on teen on teen sex than go after a doctor or a teacher who preforms a service to the community?" You should realize how stupid that argument would be. Well focusing on black on black crime when the murder of an unarmed black person is the issue is the same thing. The only thing that matters is did the police act illegally. Dump the red herring. I am pretty sure that sworn affidavits from 82 teen on teen couples that had sex would not be admissible in a trial about our doctor or teacher.
Teen sex ???? Now there's your red herring !!!!!
Back on subject....... for the umpteenth time... if black leaders are addressing the problem, you NEVER hear about it. That's "again" the point !!!!
Only a red herring because I am trying to explain something that should be obvious to you. It is a red herring when you bring up this subject of black on black crime in this debate because the debate is about the police and their use of force, not about black o black crime. The analogy I used was quite apt in explaining why conservatives look so weak when they bring this up. The only focus here should be what is happening to minorities in our country at the hands of the police. Did the police do something to Freddie Gray that caused his death? In this case that is it
The reason you have not heard about it is because you do not want to hear and Fox is not telling you anyway. Listen to Rev All Sharpton he talks about black on black crime all the time. The other reason is you want the guilt shifted away from the power structure you love I guess.
I watch Rev. Al on MSNBC. I believe I posted that in an earlier post. And your wrong, he does not mention it all the time. If he does mention it, you would miss it if you went to the fridge. I also listen to Progressive radio on Sirius. They don't talk about it either.
If you think the focus should be what's happening to the minorities in this country at the hands of the police, then you are putting your focus in the wrong place. You just don't want to admit it.
by leftyg » May 9th, 2015, 1:03 am
hmmmmm you could read this article in the Chicago Tribune which exposes the myth you offer for what it is: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... olumn.html
Steve Chapman who wrote the article said this about conservatives so concerned about black on black crime:
In 1995, the FBI reports, 9,074 blacks were arrested for homicide. In 2012, the number was 4,203 — a decline of 54 percent. But conservatives don't labor endlessly to publicize that trend.
He also states:
Nor do they often mention what USA Today reports: "Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI."
Why don't your commentators mention these highly significant trends? Why do you perseverate over black on black violence which is going down rapidly while you literally let cops get away with murder with your "look a squirrel" narrative.
by Scorpion » May 11th, 2015, 8:33 am
Lefty, how many of those white officeds were tried and convicted of murder?
by leftyg » May 11th, 2015, 10:02 am
I do not know the answer for exactly how many were tried for murder; the more important point is that the statistic was never offered up to the public for consideration. But the far more important facts are that black leaders do oppose balck on black crime and that Fox, bobby and the rest of the boys do not tell you that arrest of blacks for homicides have dropped by over 54 % from 9,074 in 1995 to 4,203 in 2012. The point is I did not know that because the main stream media more-less the right wing noise machine has never mentioned it. The one exception might be Michael Medved who attempts to be honest and honorable. I have listened to his show several times and can attest he is several cuts above a lying provocateur like Bob who on Friday May 8, at the beginning of his show called Freddy Gray a punk and a thug something no honorable Christian would do. Bob then lied about Al Sharpton when he said that Al would not grieve the death of the 25 year old New York policeman, Brian Moore, who was murdered last week and buried last Friday. I know Bob lied because Reverend All called Officer Moore's death a tragedy. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/c ... able-crime
The point is the far right obfuscates the truth and tries to set people against each other.
by Scorpion » May 11th, 2015, 10:14 am
Lefty, isn't this something the NYT would love to EXPOSE?
by wobbly » May 11th, 2015, 10:35 am
Scorp, that's exactly the point! Police officers are not held accountable for their unlawful actions in most instances. If a cop feels like beating the shit out of you, who is going to stop him, and how are you going to prove that you didn't resist? Very few good officers will cross the blue line to stop or testify against a bad officer. A person shouldn't die because they might have been selling an individual untaxed cigarette for fifty cents. Can you imagine the uproar if a white college student was killed by the police for selling one joint? The reaction from the white community would be one of complete outrage that a life was lost over such a minor thing.
Scorpion wrote: Lefty, isn't this something the NYT would love to EXPOSE?
They probably have, and I can check it out. Do you believe these stats are made up? Think about it. How often do you hear that the murder rate is going down? Even though it is? This kind of news tends to get hidden. You probably know that because you listen to about the only conservative I can think of who brokers in fact, Michael Medved. And he would probably say that. Unlike Bob who at this minute, 1030 AM on Monday morning is telling his audience four black men have arrested for the murder of the two Mississippi policemen. The truth will set you free (good luck finding it) but the lie binds you, and pretty soon you become constipated
thanks for keeping us all updated on Bob.
I think you're the only one who listens to him from these here parts.
wobbly wrote: Scorp wrote:
I think most people never got the empathy gene; it was left out of their makeup. I just talked to Bob on his radio show, and we chatted for about 10 minutes. Now he is still pushing his racial take on the violence 10:45-10:55, but during our conversation he toned it down. I told him Rev Al Sharpton did not celebrate the death of Officer Brian Moore; he called it an "unpardonable crime." http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/c ... able-crime
Back to Bob and other conservative talkers. "if" they could tone down their rhetoric, we might be able to have a real conversation on all of these issues. I have listened to Al Sharpton and know that he is not a race baiter. I know for a fact that he was stabbed in 1991, and he forgave his attacker. Scorp, I did not know that fact either because like wobbly says "that's exactly the point!" We talk about a "lame stream media," but it is a media where you do not hear lots o stuff that is flat out true, like how much we pay for health care or how low our taxes are. This is just another example of what we are not told.
WOW Bob didn't cut you off?!?
Impressive!!
by leftyg » May 11th, 2015, 1:31 pm
Scorpion wrote: WOW Bob didn't cut you off?!?
I was amazed, but his rhetoric to others is still strident. Put a straw man in front of him and he will burn that sucker. Put a person in front of him who is essentially trying to be honest and he backs way off.
by hmmmmm » May 12th, 2015, 2:54 pm
Lefty, that link doesn't take me to the article that you are talking about, it now goes to the Obama library coming to Chicago, but that's OK.
So in 17 years the number of blacks arrested for homicide went down 54%. That's a great trend !! But the question is why? Did blacks just randomly cut down on killings? Do you think we are becoming a more peaceful and civil society? Does it say whether the drop in homicide arrests were just in general or were they black on black homicides ? Is it possible that we have become tougher on violent crimes and homicides in the last 17 years and that accounts for the trend? In that case, yay police and the justice system !!!!! . Why do they not post the same stats for 2013 and 2014? If the trend is still going down, wouldn't they want to show that too? Or did the trend start to go the other way in the last couple of years?
A stat like that is great, but if you don't get the whole story, what's the point? It seems the very thing you accuse conservatives of doing is the same thing that is being done here.
This one isn't even a trend and is extremely vague. In what capacity were these "nearly" two deaths a week at the hands of police done ? There were obviously in the process of committing violent crimes and many were probably shooting at the police or other citizens. These were not just random black people being murdered by the police. The report is about "justifiable homicides" which has nothing to do with whatever it is that you are trying to imply. Actually it was you that just used gave the perfect example of "look a squirrel".
hmmmm wrote about the stats I posted on black homicide arrests:
The cause of the decrease is not my concern here; the fact that it occurred is, and the fact that it has not been publicized by conservative media worried about why blacks do not address black on black crime which is going down dramatically while violence by police against blacks does not seem to be going down. BTW that was the right article, you just have to read through it to get the whole gist Again http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... olumn.html
I wrote about the average deaths of blacks in America as being two per week:
hmmmmm wrote back:
This one isn't even a trend and is extremely vague. In what capacity were these "nearly" two deaths a week at the hands of police done ? There were obviously in the process of committing violent crimes and many were probably shooting at the police or other citizens. These were not just random black people being murdered by the police. The report is about "justifiable homicides" which has nothing to do with whatever it is that you are trying to imply. Actually it was you that just used gave the perfect example of "look a squirrel". I never imputed any cause of death or reason. I simply put up the facts. There was nothing obvious, any process or anything else mentioned, so you should make no assumptions either. It is simply a situation that need investigation and explanation. The point is conservative media do not seem to want to do this exploration.
Bob flames the flames of racism again. I know he claims to be a Christian, I wish somebody would explain to him that there is no place in heaven for people who are fascist and racist. But today Bob also showed his f%@#ing stupidity when he attacked comments by Georgia congressman, Hank Johnson. Johnson said that a large part of the problem with rioting in poor neighborhoods is poverty and hopelessness which according to most measures of such things is true. But that was not enough for Bobby the budding right wing genius. He noted two correctional employees who were caught in the rioting, luting a store or allegedly looting a store. First, from a logical point of view Bob offered a hasty generalization making a case based on very little evidence, in this case, two people with good jobs. Now all this does is prove, which does not need much proving, is that poverty and hopelessness are not the only causes of crime. Again we know that there are a constellation of variables that effect what makes people riot or resort to crime. But to discount the effect of poverty is completely stupid because all evidence contradicts this. Again it does not mean that there aren't other variables; it just makes Bob either a liar or stupid.
by leftyg » May 23rd, 2015, 3:16 pm
Well the Brelo verdict is in. And Bob must be orgasmic right now. On Friday, at the end of his show's first hour, he called Michael Brown "a thug" after a moving tribute to his memory was posted, a plaque in his honor in a park. Listen to what he said about it; this man is pure evil. I could see him loading a train full of people while he wears a Gestapo uniform. The dehumanizing comments he makes are unconscionable. And they go out to impressionable racists who have a difficult time thinking for themselves.
by wobbly » May 23rd, 2015, 4:03 pm
leftyg wrote: Well the Brelo verdict is in. And Bob must be orgasmic right now. On Friday, at the end of his show's first hour, he called Michael Brown "a thug" after a moving tribute to his memory was posted, a plaque in his honor in a park. Listen to what he said about it; this man is pure evil. I could see him loading a train full of people while he wears a Gestapo uniform. The dehumanizing comments he makes are unconscionable. And they go out to impressionable racists who have a difficult time thinking for themselves.
Lefty, I think Cuyahoga Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell got it right. I also think that the prosecutor was right to bring this case to trial. I wish that the prosecutor in the Eric Garner case would have had the same courage as Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty. Times are changing much to the chagrin of people like Frantz, the police are being held to a higher degree of scrutiny than ever before. Bob and his ilk are dead-enders who cling to the past when white and might equaled right. Changes are coming to not only the Cleveland Police department, but to police departments around the country. Slowly but surely the people will regain more control of their police departments. It's going to take time, but change is coming.
Wobbly, I think you are right. Legally there probably was not much else that could have been done. Wobbly, I think you know how much I value this site. I went over to Cleveland.com and Bob's people were there in force. And it is depressing to think there are people out there like that with that much hatred; it is why I cannot stand Bob, the hate and him getting paid to spew it. Go to the end of hour one on May 22 to hear what he said about Michael Brown https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended
But the good is that LeBron came forward today and told everybody to channel their energy through the Cavs for a few days. And in the future you are right; at least these poor people will be martyrs for a better future and for a better police department stripped of privilege and invested with a responsibility to the people that they serve. And I still say kudos to LBJ for getting Frantz fired!
This is almost funny if there might not be something sinister about it lurking. Bob's guest, Kevin O'Brien, who is as big a right winger as Bob. O'Brien announced he was not all that interested in the NBA finals nor the quest of the Cavs. Bob concurred that many people he knew were not that interested. To be fair Bob perfunctorily announced the big win against the Hawks in his monologue but said he was not going to talk about it because it was not as important as the stuff he wants to talk about (his paranoid view of the world and his hatred of poor people and minorities ).
What does this mean? Not that much unless you throw it on the pile. Basketball is primarily a sport played by a minority which will go unmentioned and by people from those evil other countries on this planet, anyone of whom could be a terrorist in waiting, ready to destroy our freedom quicker than he can dunk a basketball. Most basketball players are not upper middle class children of the ethnic majority in this country. Everything that seems to interest minorities in this country or immigrants (he hates soccer) does not interest Bob.
This is not a big thing really at all because people have a right not to care about basketball. But when you look at everything else about him it fits. Hanging white sheets for a normal person would be no big thing at all, but if someone notices Bob's wife hanging lot of white sheets, it is only fuel for the fire.
Pay attention to hour one May 27 https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended
by Scorpion » May 28th, 2015, 4:36 pm
Its not sports station lefty.
Scorpion wrote: Its not sports station lefty.
Yeah, I know that, but it is news, huge positive news. And LeBron tried to use it to avert unrest this weekend so people could focus on the Cavs, and that was a hugely socially responsible thing to do. Bob did not want to address it. And Kevin O'Brien is even a bigger putz than I thought before. HE DOES NOT LIKE THE CAVS !
by leftyg » May 28th, 2015, 10:46 pm
I thought nobody could be as big an idiot as Bob Frantz, and then I read this column on Cleveland.com by Mark Naymik http://www.cleveland.com/naymik/index.s ... incart_hbx#incart_best-of
The guy will not even allow comments on his stupid commentary which just goes to show you the guy has no you know what's. Read the column. I think it is a cheap shot and told him so. He lives in Cleveland and could attack the likes of Bob but he goes after Al Sharpton. He must be right wing.
I know you are not supposed to talk to yourself, but already being crzy makes that a moot point. In fairness I want to ost a response Mr. Naymik emailed me, explaining his rational for not allowing posts:
Appreciate the comment. I'm not afraid of pushback. Comments are turned off because true right wingers and racists were posting nasty comments about Mr. Sharpton. I stand by my column, which simply says his voice is not needed here. Cleveland is speaking up for itself.
I think comments should have been left on just to show how truly vile the racists and true right wingers are. But he was really nice and cleared up the misunderstanding in gentlemanly fashion.
by wobbly » May 29th, 2015, 6:55 pm
leftyg wrote: I know you are not supposed to talk to yourself, but already being crzy makes that a moot point. In fairness I want to ost a response Mr. Naymik emailed me, explaining his rational for not allowing posts:
That explains why I couldn't find any comments regarding the article. I kind of agree with Mr. Naymik, that Mr. Sharpton's voice isn't needed at this time. But I also think that there is never a wrong time to speak out against racist and racism, so his speaking here does no harm.
Yesterday on his travesty of a radio show, Frantz attacked Sharpton and called him everything but a man. He actually had the cajones to call Sharpton a racial provocateur and arsonist. If that isn't the kettle calling the pot black or if that isn't projecting. What an a hole. He even spread a bogus story that Al Sharpton said the flooding in Texas was Gods wrath on the state https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended Look at Hour two on May 28th. He went on to call Reverend Al a fraud as a Christion never mind that he Bob is a fraud as a Christian and as decent human being. He had an idiot caller who said that the Reverend was not a man of God and then said he was not judging him. I am judging Bob and his idiot callers; they are stupid, uninformed and unChristian. Deal with it. As I am writing this he calls the idiots who listen to him "informed" which is funny. If there is a market for his brand of racist stupidity, then this country is in trouble.
by leftyg » June 1st, 2015, 12:42 am
I want to clarify something in my last post here because it needs clarification. Reverend AL Sharpton was in town this last week, and when he was here, Bob Frantz called him a race arsonist and then referenced a comment that Rev. Sharpton had made about the flooding in Texas, particularly in Houston on his (Reverend Al's) radio show. Bob said on his May 28th show hour two that Al Sharpton had said that the flood was Gods judgment, rebuking Texas for its conservative values at the 23-26 minute mark of Hour two. Bob Claimed Sharpton God rebuked Texas for "those conservative, gay marriage bashing, gun toting, Bible thumping flag waving, Texans" https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended (pay attention to the 26th minute; it is an appallingly divisive commentary.)
That is not at all what Reverend Sharpton said. He never said that the flooding was God's rebuke on conservatives who oppose gay marriage and homosexuality. This is what he said:
Why did the heavens drown parts of Texas with their watery wrath? The Reverend Al Sharpton said some of his followers suggested it's a punishment from God—that "we've done it to ourselves."
On his syndicated radio show "Keepin' It Real," Sharpton said Tuesday that many of his callers interpreted the Texas downpours that swamped cities across the state this week, flooding homes and killing at least 13, as divine rebuke.
"Some people said that they felt that the world had lost its morals, that homosexuality and same-sex marriage, which I support, caused it," Sharpton said in an interview. "Many called and said they thought that was absurd, that it was science. My position is that science is right."
http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Al ... 292041.php
On his May 28th show Bob Frantz calls Reverend Sharpton 'one of the most polarizing, evil, anti-American, racist men in the United States today" (27:30-27:42 minute mark)
https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended In the background a gun toting rock anthem about "some may see your weapon" or something like that blares. The truth is Bob's comment about Reverend Sharpton that I bolded was a perfect description of Bob himself. I wonder what would have happened if one of his followers would have gone to the Olivett Baptist Church looking for Reverend Sharpton in this highly charged environment? It was irresponsible of Bob to do it and of WHK to let him do it, to lie and bear false witness against another person. Exodus 20:16.
by Scorpion » June 1st, 2015, 8:00 am
Lefty, Sharpton is a divisive person.
It's hard to consider him a 'man of God' when he fans the flames.
BTW RayInMaple is glad to hear you're still kickin'.
by wobbly » June 1st, 2015, 10:20 am
Scorp, the same could be said about Franklin Graham or John Hagee, yet the right holds them in high regards. Rick Warren says things like "The Teaching of Evolution is to Blame for the Colorado Shooting" and still the politicians seek photo ops with him. Sharpton is no more or no less a "man of God" than are the rest of them, they all have an agenda, and they are all dishonest to some extent.
by Scorpion » June 1st, 2015, 10:49 am
You got that last sentence right!!
by leftyg » June 1st, 2015, 2:21 pm
Scorp and wobbly and Mark Naymik if he is reading this: my point is that Al Sharpton may tick all of you off; He may even be an asshole. I know a dear friend of mine has said that Reverend Al does not speak for him as a black man. I get all of that. BUT Bob Frantz does not get a pass to lie about him. Reverend Al never said the things that Frantz attributed to him. In this highly charged atmosphere, a guy like Frantz should be told to take a vacation until it clears up. Bob Frantz is a greater danger in our community than Reverend Al. Frantz's followers believe in toting guns. On this very thread I have documented cases where Frantz has told his listeners to pack heat and protect their rights with semi-automatic and automatic weapons, to maintain no holds barred arsenals in defense of their "freedom." And he says the reprehensible things he says about Reverend Al.
You see Reverend Al was stabbed once because your side Scorp does not show the restraint when they hate some one. Al was leading a protest in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn when he was stabbed in the chest http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/nyreg ... st-protest while protesting the murder of 17 year old Yusuf Hawkins by a white mob.
Everybody make sure that you read the full context before you write. There is no need to say that there are preachers on the right like Al. Al never said what Frantz attributed to him. Judge him if you like, but judge him with facts; don't assume lies are facts. And Scorp, again, Bob Frantz is a much more divisive character than Al Sharpton. And it is impossible to consider him to be a Christian at all. As to Reverend Al Sharpton, he forgave the man who stabbed him and he was out there protesting for people who have been brutalized; I'd say that is right up Jesus's ally. You may not like his style. But you give me a single instance where Al has knowingly backed a bad actor. I will admit, that he got duped by Tawana Brawley. But he explains it in an honest way search?q=reverend+al+sharpton+apologizes+for+tawana+brawley&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=FF18CB30A47CCBB9F664FF18CB30A47CCBB9F664 And if you listen to the Morning Joe interview he talks about his participation in the Central Park rape case. For 13 years he was vilified for that position until he was demonstrated to have been right
BUT this is not about Al Sharpton; it is about Bob Frantz. Let me remind you of what Kid Funkadelic said of Bob when he was at WTAM:
First let me tell you a little something about this station. In the morning they have Beck, followed by Rush. In the afternoon they have a bigot named Mike Trevissano that told a African-American City Councilman to "kiss my fat white ass".This was last week after Mr. Trevissano gave Gov. Kasich a softball interview. The Black Councilman called the show to respond (BTW, he also host a show there). Now that's not the worst, the worst is Bob Frantz who every day hold a Klan rally or what some would call a radio show. People call and make threats about the President and racist insults about minorities. On his show Bob warns of the threat to the White Males of America. The network is the radio home of the Cavs, Browns and all the other sport teams. I don't think that they would want their product to be connected with racism, violence, and hate. Contact the Cavs and the Browns and tell them to fire Frantz and Trevissano. When I listen to a sports show I don't want to hear a Klan rally going on.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/0 ... t-friends#
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by Scorpion » June 1st, 2015, 2:38 pm
Lefty, as a national figure, Sharpton fans the flames.
He plays the blame game instead of finding positive ways to lift 'his people' out of poverty.
I saw a clip when he was in Cleveland last week regarding police shootings.
Je made a comment about the GOP convention here next year.
He said 'Well, we'll be holding our own convention OUTSIDE.
So. the GOP is now responsible for police shootings.
Scorpion wrote: Lefty, as a national figure, Sharpton fans the flames.
I do not know that he fans the flames so much as he takes a position you do not agree with. I have not heard him say divisive things in a long time. I will admit that the young preacher in the Tawana Brawley case was name-calling and carping; even he admits that. He does not advocate violence. Bob Frantz lied about him, and that is important to address. Al never called the flooding in Houston and the Southwest Gods judgment on Bible-thumping, gun-toting, flag-waving Texans. Yet Bob said it at the 25 minute mark of his May 28th radio show hour two! He is the one who fans the flames.
Right now, in his current incarnation, he is going around the country and bringing bad behavior to light. In the Brelo case there is no question that there was bad behavior. The judge did not find a crime; there is a difference. And guys like Al Sharpton are not lawyers; they organize against injustice, and if it were not for people like them, as distasteful as they may be, there would be no justice.
by leftyg » June 11th, 2015, 4:14 am
Needless to say, Bob was upset that the cop in McKinney Texas involved in the pool party incident resigned and that the chief of police condemned him. Pay attention to the end of hour one on his June 10 for his comment on this issue. He said any charge brought against this officer would "gut law enforcement in the United States." He literally believed that if a policeman kills a suspect when they are handcuffed like in the Eric Garner case that "any' punishment would send a message to "criminals." https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended In hour two Matt Walsh, an aspiring young right wing blogger, talked about the police chief "throwing this cop under the bus."
See a 4:27 video on the pool party even though you may have already seen it. Bob could not believe that the media and the police actually found fault with his actions.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=vid ... 0109DB36CF
wobbly told me that the likes of Bob and his racist callers are a dying breed, and I hope he is right. He is a racist and a police state authoritarian.
by leftyg » June 15th, 2015, 11:21 am
Got on Bobby's show today and told him a rational person would call for back up rather than shoot a 12 year old kid. He went off on me with apparent eloquence (he enunciates very well) and told me that I would be fired if I were a cop because you cannot tie up police resources like that on a "gun run." I mentioned that Tamir would still be alive. He would have none of it. He was all in with the shooting and all police shootings because Bobby is a fascist. And he is here, and he is spreading racial division in a tough climate. I will tell you, I was upset with the video; I cannot imagine how a black person would feel.
You know the adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Evidently, Bobby thinks it is BS and costly. He, evidently, would prefer a town in disarray rife with racial tension rather than the use of a bit of caution. My comment is at the end of hour two last three or four minutes) on June 15 https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended I am sure it is not up yet, but it further crystalizes my view of Bob and of right wing talk in general. Btw, he talked me down after he cut me off, but I expect it because he has no class. Believe me I would love it if he came on here and tried to defend himself.
Well Bobby did it,and you do not have to go far to find it: Bobby said that we should move slow on this and not assume his motivation was race. Look at he beginning of hour one on June 18 https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended This thread is three months old, and it becomes more true and more relevant everyday. I said he was a racist then, and I am saying it now. He actually followed the Fox line and intimated that it was an anti-Christian act because it was in a church. I think he does not want to confront the truth that guys like him have been pushing an agenda when you kill young black men and desecrate their corpses and call them thugs. One of his callers actually said it was not racist.
I notice a balanced nuance in his voice I have not heard when his favored views are attacked. He is not measured when he attacks "race baiters" for crimes against police officers. He is intense and blames President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Mayor De Blasio and Reverend Sharpton for an hostility towards the police. I wonder if he thinks that he may have a role in violence towards blacks. "If" it is true that officials and talk show hosts on the left are responsible for the killing and shootings of police officers, it should follow that the right is responsible when their nuts act out. If President Obama is responsible for the behavior of Ismaaily Brinson for killing Ofiicers Wiu and Ramos, then it follows that the right wing media, with Bob as our Cleveland representative, is responsible the actions of Dylann Storm Root in South Carolina.
Obviously, it would behoove Bob and other right wing talkers to back off. I was looking at a picture of a young communist in 1919 being executed by the German Army http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/executi ... nich-1919/ Now we do not know if the picture was an enactment, but we do know that there was a communist insurgency in Munich in 1919 and that hundreds of people were summarily executed. A few years later in 1923 Adolph Hitler led the famous Munich Beer Hall Putsch. The Nazis killed four policeman in fighting and 14 of them died in combat. Hitler was arrested and sentenced to a short prison term for TREASON! The German judges were notoriously lenient with right wing extremists as they appear to be in this country. We as a nation are much more lenient towards right wing extremist behavior than we are to left wing extremist behavior, just like Germany. There is no law that says it cannot happen here. I think Godwin's Law is very dangerous because there is some pretty crazy stuff going on and we should not be tolerating this. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... in%27s+Law There is no left wing corollary to Godwin's Law. Heck you can call President Obama a communist or a socialist to your hearts content. I think they are dualistic thinkers.
One far right guy termed people who fight for social justice as "commie rats." Bob agreed with him. He actually blamed Al Sharpton and the president for fostering the climate that created this event. Tragic but predictable
by JuicedTruth » June 19th, 2015, 8:03 am
Wait, he says we shouldn't assume it was racially motivated? We don't need to assume anything. His stated motive was to kill black people and start a race war.
by Mrtazeman » June 19th, 2015, 10:51 am
Well Bobby didn't feel like the black victims from the church word was good enough for him. He had to give the benefit of the doubt to the white guy.
If you listen to Lefty's clip that he posted, Bobby has created a forum for angry white people that can call in to complain about how unfair it is to white people that the media don't talk about the "blacks" beating up on white people. His callers are Shameful, ignorant, jerks..
Unbelievable, his callers are blaming this shooting on the double standard that whites deal with on a daily basis. Bob is actually questioning the truthfulness of the witnesses! And Bob actually had the nerve to say that it's important to find out why this kid was so angry. Look in the mirror Bobby and you will find your answer..
by leftyg » June 19th, 2015, 3:06 pm
JuicedTruth wrote: Wait, he says we shouldn't assume it was racially motivated? We don't need to assume anything. His stated motive was to kill black people and start a race war.
JT, you are one of the most rational voices of reason I know of, and you see through it which tells me something. Bobby has turned Tamir Rice's execution into a slam dunk for the cops: in his mind charges should not even be leveled against either officer, including the drive by shooter Tim Loehmann even though we have video! This is a trick all of the right wing media does. I want to mention Eric Altermann's metaphor to basketball. He claims conservatives "work the ref," that is they complain about alleged media bias towards liberals and liberal causes and ideas when generally, the media tries to be fair and get facts. The idea is that with this scrutiny the media will bend over backwards to accommodate righties. Lets face it, most folks do not know basic stuff like how much our health care costs, what we pay in taxes because the right has done a pretty good job of cowing the media into not appearing to be biased. The proof is lots of people do not know lots of things they should to be better citizens.
Bobby and the right convert "50-50 balls," another basketball metaphor, into "slam dunks." They did it with the Michael Brown shooting. They took a situation with lots of unknowns and question marks, a 50-50 ball, and turned it into a slam dunk by acknowledging and overstating only arguments favorable to their point of view and discrediting other points of view without evidence. The grand jury accepted the testimony of a known perjurer, Sandra McElroy, and it overruled the testimony of other witnesses which in Bobby's mind made them liars. Because there was no video, it was not hard for a skilled propaganda machine to pull off, and Bob is part of that apparatus. With Tamir Rice you have this pesky video to deal with, and Bob is trying to convert that into a slam dunk when it should be a "slam dunk" for the prosecution. Everyday he is feeding these sheep of his, nasty sheep, but sheep none the less, this misinformation which amounts to "what are you going to believe, your lying eyes or what I tell you to believe?" This is Bobby and this is the right.
Over the coming weeks watch them turn this around on the left and make them responsible. The are master of mis and dis information.
Just like in Ferguson.
Somewhere there is a shameful, ignorant, jerk who is highly offended by your comparison to Bobby and his callers. These are all things that Bobby wants to say himself. YOu know people have fantasies. I have heard that the late J Edgar Hoover put on formal dresses and danced around his room at night. I don't know if it is true and are certainly do not know if Bob dances around his room at night in white sheets pretending to be a member of a certain group. But that really is not the point. We must infer from what he lets his callers and guests say things it means he agrees with them. Every time we hear a racist diatribe by a caller, we should assume it is Bobby talking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M
Mrtazeman wrote: Unbelievable, his callers are blaming this shooting on the double standard that whites deal with on a daily basis. Bob is actually questioning the truthfulness of the witnesses! And Bob actually had the nerve to say that it's important to find out why this kid was so angry. Look in the mirror Bobby and you will find your answer..
Like a vampire, if Bob looked in the mirror, he would see nothing because he is a shell of a man. Also would he want to know the reasons why some young black people are angry and commit crimes? Can he excuse that? He wants to understand (as do I) the motives of a young racist. But where you and I are willing to investigate the reasons for black anger, Bob does not to hear about it. Robbing and looting are inexcusable, but lets try to understand why the racist kills black people. Lets broach understanding.
If you listened to his show yesterday he was very nuanced (for him) on the subject. But when a black guy killed two cops: NUANCE WE DON''T DO NO STINKIN NUANCE! He was full of rage and did not want to admit that the man's, Ismaaily Brinson, mental state might have been a factor. He saw it cut and dried as an attack on police officers. He politicized it by laying the blame on President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Mayor De Blasio and Reverend Sharpton. He does not want to admit he is a race baiter and they are not. But what would you expect from a Nazi. I want you to look at this clip Bob sent me years ago when he was at WTAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M I fell out of my chair laughing. So I sent him this clip: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=hor ... 43F9A31C68 I don't want to toot myown horn, but I think I was much closer to being right, although I like both tunes.
Listened to the show and listened to his obscene rant pro-guns, all of it. He attacked Samaria Rice, Tamir' s mother and quoted her as saying that she was going to get the cops "for three million at least." What a perfectly vile man to attack a grieving mother! He took calls from vile racists and let their venom get on the air. Listen to what he said on his June 19 show from 9-11. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... ecommended. He lied again about the concern blacks have about black on black crime. At the end of his show he openly wondered why a man named Greg Greer from Chicago should come here to address the Tamir Rice case when there is more black on black crime in Chicago. He never addressed the issue with Mr. Greer. He also talked about Mr. Greer in a negative way after Mr. Greer was gone and could no longer defend himself, again violating Washington's 89th rule of civil discourse. I am sure Mr Greer would tell Bob that he is concerned with back on black crime. but a straw man is easy to beat. At about the eighth minute of hour one he attacks President Obama for attacking "American exceptionalism" on the gun issue for mentioning that many of our trading partners have better records on gun violence than we do. Evidently in Bobs, drool addled mind it is wrong to criticize America even when the criticism has merit.
by Mrtazeman » June 20th, 2015, 5:23 am
Bobby gives this kid the benefit of doubt and claims that this kid might be mentally ill and we have to find out why this young man has so much anger in his heart, but when a black guy does something, he is a low life thug as soon as the story breaks. NO benefit of doubt for the blacks when it comes to Bobby..
Even with all the evidence, Fox News is trying to claim that this is a crime on Christianity not a crime of race.. These people are unbelievable
Mrtazeman wrote: Bobby gives this kid the benefit of doubt and claims that this kid might be mentally ill and we have to find out why this young man has so much anger in his heart, but when a black guy does something, he is a low life thug as soon as the story breaks. NO benefit of doubt for the blacks when it comes to Bobby..
Exactly, so my only question to Bobby is: where is the next Klan meeting in Lorain County? or do you do meetings in Ashtabula, Lake and Cuyahoga Counties too? Is it a kind of north coast consortium of whites sheets thing?
It is amazing that these people think this way. I feel like calling Bobby's show and saying "you know we all have to back off the politics and focus on the illness these people have, like when Ismaaily Brinsley killed the two innocent police officers in New York, Officers, Raphael Ramos and Wenjian Liu and some labeled it as a crime against police and said that President Obama, AG Holder, Mayor De Blasio and Reverend Sharpton were responsible. It was not fair and neither is blaming the Confederate Flag, conservative talk radio and guns for the deaths of the nine innocents in South Carolina; it was the mental illness of the perpetrator.
The reason I wrote all that was we all know Bob is all in for the serious delusion that some people in America are out to get Christianity out of our lives. See the December 3,2014 installment of Bob's Minute called Atheists Against Christmas http://whkradio.com/pages/bobsbeat According to that scholarship a few billboards proves that many in America want to destroy Christmas and its Christian roots; therefore it is a big threat to Americans. Young black children are gunned down and nine people are murdered by a gunman and it is just either a tragic mistake for which no one but the victims mother is responsible or, in the case of the church shooting, the work of a lone madman.
by Mrtazeman » June 20th, 2015, 7:03 pm
http://www.inquisitr.com/2188668/black- ... headlines/
by leftyg » June 20th, 2015, 11:26 pm
I looked at your post and I used it to submit a comment partially about Bob and partially about the inquisitor article on cleveland.com. It was flagged. I also had a modest post flagged when I used an incident from All in the Family to explain racism. It involved a conversation between Archie and Mike (Meathead0, and it was very poignant. I could not see a thing wrong with it. I think that cleveland.com might be afraid of Bob and WHK, but everything I wrote was factual. I took out all the offensive stuff that sometimes gets up here. I mean it was sanitized, but they still pulled it.
One of my students told me that conservatives often flag liberal posts. As a matter of fact a braggart name Badger937 made a comment about "Flaggin' libs" that was almost instantly pulled on the Rice thread. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ss ... cart_river I am not comfortable with the other neighborhoods on the Internet. I mean I do not have trouble at media matters, but the conservative sites ban on sight and MSN has banned me while they let racist diatribes stand. Over ten years ago I had a problem at Amazon where I felt the moderators were bending over backwards to placate conservatives and demanded perfection out of liberal posters on their book comment section. On a Michael Moore book Stupid White Men or something people did not even address the book, they called Moore a communist and anything but a man, made fun of his weight, all of it. I read a book by Anne Coulter and did a serious book review where I cited what she said and critiqued it on the available evidence. My review was pulled while the personal attacks went unchallenged> They told me that my book review was biased against Ms Coulter. I wrote them an email with a smattering of the comments that were made about Michael Moore and other liberal writers that had nothing to do with the book they were writing about. They were just profanity and obscenity laced tirades. They did not go down, but at least my review was reinstated with the insulting instruction to stay on topic.
I wrote this to the cleveland. com webmaster and a slightly different version to the author Cory Schaffer:
Webmaster. I had a couple posts purged from the thread on the Tamir Rice celebration in an article on Cleveland. com by Cory Schaffer. It concerned me, and I would like an explanation. It seems that certain people have carte blanche for expression while others are strictly circumscribed. I find that troubling. I do not know how it happens, if there is just a moderator who is not aware of his or her own bias or what. I have never flagged anyone and cannot imagine why I would. I shared my concerns in a post. I had a" pending" post with lots of documentation on it not allowed. It had a big picture of bob Frantz on it who I believe to be a very dangerous man. I do not know if you feared it or what, but I would like to know your reason. I know Frantz has attacked your enterprise at various times. I did not lie, and I offered an opinion that I could support with evidence. Anyway, just want the skinny. Have a nice day, Joe
by Mrtazeman » June 21st, 2015, 9:33 am
I read comments about the shooting on The Blaze. A lot of Becks readers were crying about how their posts was taken down. They said that Beck can't handle the truth anymore. Which makes me to believe that their posts was ignorant rants and insensitive about the shooting. Probably like Bobby's show in which the True victims were the white man because the liberal media don't report how the Blacks beat up white folks like the way they are reporting this shooting..
Even Beck is realizing that his followers are whack jobs..
by leftyg » June 21st, 2015, 2:59 pm
Real, could you give me the link of the Blaze article?
by leftyg » June 22nd, 2015, 2:00 pm
Bob has moved his podcast to this link https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ Evidently, 1220 The Word took over the other one. When I first looked for his show for this morning, I could not find it. So here is the new link. It is much better because you can get all his shows back to when it began on WHK. This morning he is talking about Ted Cruz's photo of a gun pointed at his head while speaking at a gun club. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/2 ... 35808.html He also went off on President Obama using the n-word http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... ar-AAbVyT1
by wobbly » June 22nd, 2015, 2:42 pm
I listened to a small part of Bob's show this morning. It was the usual stuff about people who want gun control are the folks who live in safe secure gated communities who don't need to worry about crime. He then had on a guy from Gun Owners of America, and they talked about the dangers of no gun areas, like the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. They went on to discuss, guns in the right hands keep you safe from people who have guns but shouldn't. They gave examples of, school, church and movie house shooting that might have turned out different if only someone else was armed. That got me to thinking about the murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield by Eddie Ray Routh. Both Kyle and Littlefield were armed, and both knew that Routh was dangerous, yet somehow Routh was able to kill them both using two different guns belonging to Kyle. Who takes a mentally disturbed person to a firing range and gives that person loaded guns and the opportunity to get the drop on you? So, I don't see how more guns are the answer, unless everyone is armed and allowed to take a gun anywhere they want. Kinda like living in Muqdisho. I mean look how well our arming everyone in the middle East worked out.
Wobbly, you are right. Chris Kyle was ranked the third deadliest sniper in recorded history http://thejacksonpress.org/?video=top-5 ... ipers-ever and he was armed and so was his friend and it was at a shooting range, so I assumed that everyone else there was armed as well. But it did not stop the Eddie Ray Routh from killing him. Bob's guest, Larry Pratt, calls for an end to "gun free zones." Now his organization is even to the right of the NRA. No one is saying take away all guns, but I think a lot of people are saying have background checks and acknowledge the fact the guns are problem in this society. A kid in Pennsylvania not long ago got mad at his classmates or whatever, and he stabbed 21 of them. I am pretty sure the patents of those kids were glad their children were in a hospital recovering from their stab wounds than in a morgue, dead. Guns have a very high kill function. Most people are not strong enough to strangle an adult or stab one to death, but anybody can kill with a gun. It is indisputable that if you look at statistic of gun deaths by nation that the United States is at the top of economically advanced societies
The United States is tops -- way tops -- for gun deaths, with a 2010 rate of 3.2 firearm-related deaths per 100,000 population, according to statistics collected by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Chile was second at 2.2, followed by Turkey and Switzerland, tied for third at 0.8. The rest of the countries fell below 1, if they made the map at all.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/st ... lence-cit/
Yet conservatives do not even want to have a conversation on it; they are second amendment absolutists.
They also do not like this picture of Ted Cruz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/2 ... 35808.html Wobbly, you are better with graphics than I am, why don't you put it up for everyone to see. It is a brilliant piece of photojournalism which of course Bob hated and put on his Facebook page. He asked the question:
"Replace Senator Cruz in this 'harmless' AP photo with President Obama or Hillary Clinton." and he implied what would your response be. Mine would be: the picture now makes no sense. Hillary Clinton is not going to lose the election because of her stance on guns
https://www.facebook.com/pages/FrantzRa ... 4018302345
Thanks, send me a message as to how you do that if you have the time.
lefty wrote: Thanks, send me a message as to how you do that if you have the time.
To do this, I right click on the picture I want to use. I am offered some options, I choose open image in a new window. When that window opens I highlight and copy the browser address. I then select the Img option and paste that address in the space. It's like when you use the quote feature. I have two or three windows open at one time, so I can move between them. I hope that made it a little more clear.
by hmmmmm » June 23rd, 2015, 11:54 am
leftyg wrote: Yet conservatives do not even want to have a conversation on it; they are second amendment absolutists.
Sure we do, but you don't start up that conversation. All you do is bash Frantz.
That's what sucks about this board. There are no real discussions. All this place has become is a board to blast conservatives and Republicans.
I want to know what Lefty's and Wobbly's and Real's and Scorp's*** ideas and comments for gun control are (among other issues).....not why you dislike Bob Frantz and why he's a racist and why he's a Nazi, or why Limbaugh is a fat drug addict.....etc. They really aren't the issue in any of this. The whole conversations have become, what is Bob's reaction to the shooting in S.C., what is Bob's reaction to Baltimore and how it connects with Bob's ideas on Ferguson.
As reasonable, intelligent adults, that's not what we should be talking about, is it ?
*** Scorp, not to lump you with them, but I'll bet you don't post here hardly at all is because there are no discussion on anything, just attacks. ***
by wobbly » June 23rd, 2015, 12:23 pm
I want to know what Lefty's and Wobbly's and Real's and Scorp's*** ideas and comments for gun control are (among other issues)
Start a thread that is of interest to you. I would love to know, what everyone thinks about some kind of reasonable gun control, or other issues. Right or left, I think we all have an interest in making our country a better and safer place.
by leftyg » June 23rd, 2015, 2:34 pm
hmmmmmm wrote:
You are right; I do bash Frantz a lot because he will not let me or other liberals post on his sanitized Facebook page. Remember this was the old Frantz Rantz board before JT took it over. And I was censored plenty just for my opinions by Frantz. I once said that tax cuts for the rich do not stimulate the economy, and I cited a main stream source for it. He took it down and called me a liar. When the board was more vital, several posters told Frantz to put back my a parody of something negative he had written about Democrats. In the parody I replace Democrats with Republicans. Little by little though when JT took it over from WTAM the board began to lose its base. We were really at our best when there were about ten liberal and ten conservative posters, posting daily. But again little by little the conservatives and many of the liberals, like Ed from Chagrin Falls, dropped out. Like Wobbly I would love to have a discussion with people I do not agree with, but they do not come around anymore
Is there real discussion anywhere right now? I have been to several other sites, and with the possible exception of the New York Times message boards this is the best. You fit in because you are up for literate discussion. On most of these other boards liberals call conservatives aholes and conservatives call liberals aholes, oh yeah, and President Obama is a communist. And when I listen to talk radio and TV I hear lots of hateful talk. You know you cleared my head up on a few issues at least. I thought Europeans smoked more than we do because I assumed some stereotypes to be true. You showed me they were not. Listen I do not want to think anything that is wrong is the truth. I would be a conservative in a minute if I thought it was the right thing. As it is, I am only a liberal or a progressive by default; I really think authoritarian conservatism is wrong and I want to oppose it.
That is a good discussion to have. My issue with the right wing hosts is that they are so biased while pretending not to be, and I think they are dangerous. Should they have shows? Yes, but they should encourage disagreement too. They have thousands of watts of power or a spot on the TV dial, and that is a dead zone to anyone who disagrees with them. I would love to go on Bob Frantz's Facebook page at WHK and put up statistics and data to show that some of the things he believes are not true, but I am blocked. I also think it is important to alert people to problems in the environment and what people are saying. For example, the support some people are giving the police in some of these shootings is a little frightening, and the way guys like Rush and Bob gin it up is demagoguery. One more thing: I only post about Bob when he lies and I have evidence of it or when he exposes himself as a racist. I will not just attack him for an opinion. I felt this thread is important because Cleveland is ground zero for a lot of racial unrest and quite frankly, questionable police practices. And there is Bobby fanning the flames of division rather than functioning as a rational and fair broker. To his credit on Monday he did a lot to tone it down.
Absolutely, but we cannot assume what we believe is true, any of us.
by leftyg » July 2nd, 2015, 4:47 pm
Today Bob had an itch and had to scratch it. He was upset that The Dukes of Hazard was taken off the playlist at TV Land. Earlier he was upset that Donald Trump has been losing business deals for what he said. He said it was offensive, but that, according to his expert source, Ann Coulter, is actually true. That is what Frantz has done; he has sunk to Ann Coulter as a source.
He then begins to defend the country on slavery. I told you back in March when I started this thread that Bob's basic thing is racism. He never does anything to disprove that.
by leftyg » July 9th, 2015, 12:24 am
Today Bob reapeated the oft repeated lie that progressives do not talk about black on black crime. He had a right wing preacher named Aubrey Shines on his program who concurred with that meme. The truth is, of course, that that it is just not true; it is a lie that the right keeps telling. Josef Goebbals, one of their historical mentors, said if you tell a lie often enough it will begin to sound like the truth. http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation
Why do they do it? Why do they perseverate in this false narrative?
by Mrtazeman » July 9th, 2015, 9:16 am
That is what Frantz has done; he has sunk to Ann Coulter as a source.
He also uses Breitbart.com for one of his sources as well
by JuicedTruth » July 9th, 2015, 10:51 am
I went to CNN.com the other day and they had the Chicago shootings as there headline story, so I guess the liberal media isn't ignoring this type of crime either. I think people like Frantz just like to throw that out as a red herring and people believe it, whether it's true or not.
Well I guess it is "liar, liar Frantz on fire!" You know it is the incessant lying that keeps me going on this: his lips move and more lies come out. I mean he has opinions, and as a racist, right wing bigot he is entitled to them, but when he adds a generous dollop of lies, he really pisses me off. At Huff Po I saw an article that began something like this: I don't care if you are a namby- pamby liberal, a cautious middle of the road independent or a reactionary tea party bigot, just don't lie to me."
I always thought that my interest in trivia was at odds with my interest in politics, but the two are not separate; they are very similar. All the stuff I direct at Bob is because he lies about things, things that can easily be documented. I know his core audience is made up of people who are not the sharpest thinkers, and they can be made to believe almost anything if someone they trust tells them. But it is frustrating when this person confounds reality with a pack of lies, and this one is typical. The made up stories about Canadian health care, guns reducing deaths, crime-- all of it-- drives me nuts. I want to go on Jeopardy!, and this guy confounds it with a view of reality that is more fiction than anything and lousy fiction at that. It is a core principle of the far right and of fascism to hate educators AND intellectuals AND the media. All of them uphold principles of intellectual and personal integrity that far right and far left people try to destroy.
by wobbly » July 9th, 2015, 12:48 pm
The right neglects to mention the one thing all the shootings have in common. Guns. As more guns become available, the number of shootings go up. As guns are able to shoot a higher volume of ammunition that gun is able to do more damage. It really doesn't make much difference to me who does the shooting. Being shot by a black guy will kill you as dead as being shot by a white guy. So lets stop pointing the finger, at the race of the shooter, and concentrate more on gun control.
by leftyg » July 9th, 2015, 6:18 pm
wobbly wrote: The right neglects to mention the one thing all the shootings have in common. Guns. As more guns become available, the number of shootings go up. As guns are able to shoot a higher volume of ammunition that gun is able to do more damage. It really doesn't make much difference to me who does the shooting. Being shot by a black guy will kill you as dead as being shot by a white guy. So lets stop pointing the finger, at the race of the shooter, and concentrate more on gun control.
But guns are sacrosanct. In suburban Pittsburg a kid attacked several other kids with a knife, the right will argue, that he still acted out, and he not the gun, was the culprit. However because a gun is a much more efficient and quicker mode of killing, he might have killed even more than this kid just wounded. But the right ignores the fact that a gun would have made it 20 or 30 dead not wounded. They will argue that after a few kids were wounded a teacher could have killed the kid with his gun because the right is bat shit crazy on this issue. They use race and racial tension as an excuse to keep guns. Last week on his travesty of a radio show, Bob Frantz told citizens to pack heat at public gatherings in case of a terrorist attack and to pack heat in case of possible racial unrest. The gun, not Jesus, is their god.
by leftyg » July 10th, 2015, 11:15 pm
If you look at the 19-24 minute or so point on Bob's travesty of a radio show, you will hear Bob calls Trayvon Martin a criminal, among insults leveled at deceased African -Americans Michael Brown and Freddie Gray all because they had representatives of the Obama administration at their funerals . Bob said that he is upset that no representative was at the Kate Steinle's funeral. To be honest it would have been nice, but Bob used it as an attempt to engender racial hate. Look at the 19 minute plus point of hour one https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/
Now it is true that the administration has not commented on the situation in San Francisco, a sanctuary city. And the right wing has had a field day over it. Bob intimated that the race of the victim was involved. Again the theme is confirmed: Bob exploits race to feed his audience of right wing nut jobs. To his credit Michael Medved questioned a caller on said callers claim that there were 30 million or so illegals in America.. He called people like Bob demagogues which they, of course, are. So on the right there are honorable people; Bob just is not one of them.
In hour two of today's broadcasts his twisted version of the American dream in a middle class development, a low crime area where you have to achieve to get there. He throws down the gauntlet of fear that poor people might be allowed to live there by the Affirmative Furthering Fair Housing Act. Bob calls it a socially engineered program to help the disadvantaged who do not deserve it to live there, yet another attempt to divide and conquer, and I will put up the video again. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=div ... 505F06B9C3 Bob does that a lot, probably at the behest of his corporate paymasters.
by leftyg » July 11th, 2015, 3:47 am
This is a quote from the San Francisco Examiner from 2010 by Bob Frantz “overly ink-stained players look like a bunch of gang-bangers playing in the recreation yard at Pelican Bay.” (Frantz even doubled down on his racism a few weeks later in the same esteemed pages: “A league filled with guys that look like thugs is bound to be filled with guys that act like thugs.”)
I got this from Salon, and I do not have the app to get the link to it. You can easily google it by typing It Is Not The NBA But the American Racial Empire The article was a pathetic Marxist analysis of sport and the thesis was that Matthew Dellavedova got away with being a dirty player because he was white. The author Matthew Pulver is an idiot, but he is a left wing idiot and not a right wing idiot like Frantz. This absurdist article has the one redeeming quote amid a pile of failed Marxist analysis drivel about white privilege in the NBA. It was completely disgusting. It was almost as bad as Bob, but not quite. At least Pulver and his academic source a Dr. Laymon can plead ignorance and really bad critical analysis where I said in the article that Frantz is merely an "unredeemable evil."
Anyhow this is what we need in the debate about good and evil in this country: people dumb enough to want to cast Matthew Dellavedova as evil when you have racist ass clown Bob Frantz spewing hatred in the same town. BTW the quote came from Bob's Stint in San Francisco. Read the article. It is people like that that progressives do not need
by wobbly » July 12th, 2015, 7:46 pm
Then using Bob's method of judging people, an inked up Chris Kyle looked more like a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, than a member of an elite military unit. Can we assume that a military with guys who look like members of the Aryan Brotherhood, also acts like members of the Aryan Brotherhood?
by leftyg » July 12th, 2015, 8:16 pm
I do not think Bob is reflective enough to think like that or nearly smart enough to come up with your clever parody. I say this: bob is ground zero for right wing race hate. I showed you those videos of him revving up an audience of tea party faithful. He sounded like Hitler's great grandson; he looks like Hitler's great grandson. AND I realize that I just violated Godwin's Law that rigs argument so that you cannot make that comparison between right wing nut jobs and Hitler while leaving right wing nut jobs clear and free to attack liberals as communists. BTW, Bob does not differentiate.
by Mrtazeman » July 14th, 2015, 8:40 am
Wondering if Bobby will go nuts today because the historic Iran deal that happened today. I am sure he will try to hint around that President Obama is a Muslim then have his listeners call in and do his dirty work for him..
by leftyg » July 14th, 2015, 11:34 am
Mrtazeman wrote: Wondering if Bobby will go nuts today because the historic Iran deal that happened today. I am sure he will try to hint around that President Obama is a Muslim then have his listeners call in and do his dirty work for him..
Probably not much to do about race except that the Arabs are...well Arabs and while Iranians are not Arabs, for Bobby they are close enough. When the cloud goes up on the broadcast from today I am sure he will be cryin' like he was over the ACA and gay marriage a few weeks ago. The guy is not cognizant enough to know that harsh strictures against another country hardly ever work, that cooperation and understanding do, but like with race relations and everything else that is just way too nuanced and kind of goes against Bobby's primitive DNA.
by Mrtazeman » July 15th, 2015, 12:50 pm
This isn't about Bobby but his mentor Rush, today it took me 2 minutes of the Rush Limbaugh program to catch his first lie. Limbaugh stated that the abortion folks (Plan Parenthood) are selling body parts. Of course it took a simple Google search to disprove this lie
Right wingers: Planned Parenthood Caught Selling Aborted Baby Body Parts in Undercover Video:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... ver-video/
3 Deceptive Edits In The Video Claiming Planned Parenthood Is "Selling Aborted Baby Parts"
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/0 ... its/204419
Wrong, Real, that is all Bobby talked about on his idiot show this morning, this false video. Look at the 7 minute point in hour one on July 15 https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ Bobby is a spokesliar for despicable people who believe that the ends justify the means He is very dangerous because he lies to fragile people.
I also want to disclose that I am personally opposed to abortion , but not if the woman's life is at risk, or if it is a dangerous pregnancy, or if she was raped, or if the woman freely chooses to do it because we all have power over our own bodies and nobody else should be allowed to dictate to us, especially a 66 year old male who an never fully empathize with what a woman in that position goes through. I think an environment with ample birth control and no religious strictures on sexuality imposed by society would dramatically reduce abortion and make it in the words of Hillary Clinton, "safe and seldom used" which is what has happened since President Clinton's tenure. http://www.christianliferesources.com/a ... rrent-1042 Notice that there has been a huge drop in abortions since 1990. There are two numbers provided, one by the Guttmacher Institute (GI) and another by the CDC which is always lower.
BUT WE CAN CALL 1-216-901-0921 AND TELL THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT WHK 1420 THAT BOBBY SPREAD A LIE. "IF" BOBBY DOES NOT DISCLOSE IT TOMORROW THEN HE IS A LIAR BEAUSE HE HAS BEEN APPRISED OF WHAT HE SAID AND CHOSE TO DO NOTHING. Forgive the foray into caps, but I think it is warranted. You can email him to or go to his Facebook page; I can't because he banned me.
I just made a donation to planned parenthood in Bobby's honor. He will get a card thanking him for helping them. Real, Wobbly, JT, Scorp, you should all donate a few bucks to Planned Parenthood in Bobby's honor. He would be touched to know he made a difference!
The national number is 1-800-230-PLAN or you can go to http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
by Scorpion » July 15th, 2015, 10:09 pm
leftyg wrote: I just made a donation to planned parenthood in Bobby's honor. He will get a card thanking him for helping them. Real, Wobbly, JT, Scorp, you should all donate a few bucks to Planned Parenthood in Bobby's honor. He would be touched to know he made a difference!
A donation would never happen....never.
As to media pundits going off half cocked before all the facts are known....it hapoens on both sides. Just remember Trayvon, Ferguson and Baltimore.
I figured you would not want to make a donation, but I thought it only hospitable to ask. Actually Bob did go "off half cocked without the facts" to quote the innuendo you supplied in tact with no culpability for me. Bobby roared straight ahead on it and said some terrible things when the penalty for selling organs of aborted fetuses is 500 thousand dollars. BTW, I am disturbed by it too. But it disturbs me that people on the right (I am going to guess Medved did not get involved) try to make stuff like this into an issue. Scorp you are pretty moderate by conservative standards, but I honestly do not know where the left goes off this half-cocked. In the Trayvon Martin case there are things we will never know; in the Michael Brown case there are things we do not know; in the Baltimore case it is pretty clear there was wrong doing. But that is another argument. The focus is why did this organization, the Center for Medical Progress, edit a video to make an abortion doctor look guilty. And given the history of right wing assisinations against abortion doctors like Dr. Tiller it is irresponsible on their part to release that woman's name. If there is an attempt on her life over this, those people should be sued and they should have to pay from jail. The venom of the Bobby's of this world knows no limit.
I have added the full video of the conversation with the doctor and the two actors from the Center for Medical Progress. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes long, but I have watched the first half of this full video and can see nothing more than a matter of fact conversation about a topic that most of us have a certain sensitivity toward which is to be expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4UjIM9B9KQ
I have a scenario that ties gun control, to racism, to the issue about abortion: suppose this doctor on the video comes home and there is a crazy anti-abortion activist waiting for her in her driveway. Her husband is away on business and she is alone. When she is alone she carries a little snub nose 38 in her purse. The white male activist attacks her verbally and reaches inside his jacket for something. It is late night; he is menacing, over six feet tall and over 200 pounds; she is frightened because she is a small woman. She pulls out her gun and shoots him dead on the spot. When the police come they find the man was reaching in his pocket for a pamphlet and that he was unarmed. What would you do?
Frantz was in rare racist form this morning. He sounded like a complete racist, and there is no other way to put it. I mean you guys can ignore it, but we are ground zero to the most blatant exercise of racial on-air irresponsibility, OR the guy is a conscious racist of the first order, and the national media should be more aware. He questions why President Obama or a representative did not go to Kate Steinle's funeral which is a fair question. But he then plays the race card and calls Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray criminals in the most derisive way imaginable. You can listen to this derisive tirade from about the 6:30 point of the first hour and peeks at about the 8:45 where he says some of the most vile things I have ever heard even Bob say https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/
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by hmmmmm » July 17th, 2015, 1:16 pm
leftyg wrote: I also want to disclose that I am personally opposed to abortion , but not if the woman's life is at risk, or if it is a dangerous pregnancy, or if she was raped, or if the woman freely chooses to do it because we all have power over our own bodies and nobody else should be allowed to dictate to us.
So you're opposed to abortion ?
The risk, the danger and the rape you can get away with saying, but once you bring in "it's ok if the women chooses so because it's her body", you have definitely labeled yourself as pro-abortion.
That is because I am not a woman. I cannot say for her. Life is more nuanced. The truth of me is that life is the central value that governs my thoughts. The fact that a person supports preemptive war or the death penalty or retribution or police homicides, especially against minority males, means that that person is not pro-life; they are just pro birth to punish the mother.
I was leaving one of my jobs about 12 years ago. I had just dropped off a time card at the district office which was next to a middle school, and a very animated young boy and girl about 13-14 years old happened by. And the boy, being honest, shouted that a girl should be forced to have the baby because she had sex. Now I think this is more what it is about for people like Bob. Bob is no more pro-life than Adolph Hitler; he supports the murder of Tamir Rice and still thinks Iraq was a good idea. He called it "justice" when a father caught his adolescent son having sex with his 18 year old babysitter (a guy) and the father beat the babysitter bloody unconscious and within an inch of his life before he stood over his unconscious body and called the police. You can go back and look it up; I am telling the truth. More than once he has enthusiastically endorsed the death penalty. So on an issue like abortion or any issue of basic human decency, he has no credibility with me. He is not pro-life; he is pro birth. AND so is anybody that holds those views.
by Mrtazeman » July 18th, 2015, 11:05 am
Watching Fox News this morning:
The so called "expert" was pissed that President Obama wouldn't blame the current shooting on radical Islam, instead he blamed it on
1) Individual Freedom
2) Capitalism
3) Liberty
Gee, after listening to this expert, I was pissed off because it sounds like President Obama don't understand our American way.. Oh wait its Fox news..
CAN ANYONE OF YOU DITTO HEADS SEND ME A LINK WHEN OBAMA SAID THAT
The ditto heads of which there is only one now posting on this site, Michaels, have not posted because there is nothing. President Obama has never said that. He has said that he thinks unfettered gun access might be a problem and he has compared our higher incidence gun homicide with countries with fewer deaths. Thus probably belongs on hmmmmm's thread. As a matter of fact, you might want to repost it there.
But it relates to Bob in this way. It is just more unsubstantiated hot air to attack President Obama. Notice there were no specifics. That is what Bobby does when he spreads lurid stories. But Bob has the added advantage of being able to fully lie because nobody is listening to him except people who are brain addled and me of course. But then again maybe my brain is addled for wasting the time. There is a certain amount of the population that is going to believe this stuff, and facts be damned with them. This Fox commentator may have belonged to that group.
by leftyg » July 23rd, 2015, 2:09 pm
I have a rather despicable house mate who was stealing my laundry soap once upon a time. I would look at the liquid and every time it seemed to go down, and the girl who was cleaning my house at the time was doing my laundry. She said. as she was putting my soap in my storage area and locking it, that this neighbor accosted her and asked if I was stealing HIS soap. It was hysterical and just what you would expect from a thief: he was putting me on the defensive.
Well this does not have to do with laundry soap but with Bob's latest racist escapade. On July 22 in the latter part of hour 2 of his travesty of a talk show https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ he blames Planned Parenthood for wanting to kill blacks. Bob who is a true racist in much the same way my neighbor was a true thief is now blaming others what he is, a racist. It stands on its own and does not require comment from me. It is a hoot.
Bob really did it today. The first half hour of the second hour of his July 24 show was about the shooting in Louisiana on Thursday night. But the tack Bob took was typical Bob and goes back to the title of this now three plus month old thread: race. He wondered why all the news headlines were about a "White Shooter." https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/
What was curious is I looked at a sampling of headlines on the issue on bing and could not find any that mentioned the shooter's race.http://www.bing.com/search?q=Drifter+sh ... 272fe2d628
If race was as prominent as Bob claimed it was, I would have found several it seems to me, but I did not. My only conclusion is that Bob has race on the brain.
by Mrtazeman » July 27th, 2015, 4:57 pm
Divide and conquer. He is trying to make the whites feel like everyone is against them...
Mrtazeman wrote: Divide and conquer. He is trying to make the whites feel like everyone is against them...
That is exactly what he is doing. Why he focused on the headlines perplexed me. When I actually looked at the headlines and did not find one that featured race, it began to look like Bob was lying again. Back in April, and to this day, he says whites should arm themselves against the others: Islamic terrorists, minority thugs and illegal aliens, his version of the walking dead. He is doing the best he can to use these buzz isues to further the interest of the Republican Party because his show is just a paid advertisement for the GOP; it is not a talk show. Hell if I had a talk show, I would move angry Repubs to the front of the line and let 'em rip. If, they cannot be handled with reason it again means that you have not done your home work or they are right. BTW go to the sound cloud and post on there about this insanity. I think we can be the mice in the cat's wall; that is how Bob views it because he is not very clever about handling dissent https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/
Also go here for divide and conquer http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=div ... 505F06B9C3
This seems to be what the nut cases do on the right. Manufacture the boggy man to scare the white folks. The Following is Brave Michael Savage who is willing to give up his LIFE in order to make sure President Obama doesn’t pay a nickel in reparations to the blacks..
I would fight to my death before I pay one dime in reparations and I would go to jail before I would pay one cent in reparations,” Savage said. “That would be the last straw for me, if they ever try to pull that one off, I would lead a reparations rebellion in this country. No matter what my age would be, if I had the strength from God, I would lead a reparations rebellion against the government and it would be an armed rebellion.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/m ... ons-scheme
Neither he nor Bob derive their strength from God.
by leftyg » August 11th, 2015, 1:40 am
Bob put on his Klan sheet in the last several minutes of his show when he talked about a black man who pistol whipped a cop in Alabama. Naturally Bob was furious even though he never got furious about Tamir Rice or Eric Garner. Then some fellow racist called the shooting of Michael Brown, the anniversary of which is being observed today, "completely justified." Bob agreed and called Michael Brown's friend a liar with vicious contempt. Both Bob and the caller said it was a lie to call Michael Brown unarmed, and the caller chided the station for putting the words "unarmed teenager" in their reports, and Bob agreed. Then the guy, the racist, turned out to be a Trump supporter. Now this was funny and telling. Guys like Bob create these bigots and when they lose control of them, they go ballistic. Bob has no right to ask for a reasoned debate on the issues because he does not give reasoned debate on the issues. He, and other conservative talkers have created these monsters, and they have lost control of them. And he does not like it when they support Donald Trump, but if he wants to find out who is guilty, all he has to do is look in the mirror.
https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (Go to about the 43-44 minute part of hour two on August 10; it is priceless racism.)
by leftyg » August 11th, 2015, 10:23 pm
Bob spends the first half hour of his show blaming protestors for the confrontations in Ferguson. He features Sheriff David Clark, a black man, calling blacks the problem which you would expect from a guy like Clark
https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (August 11, hour one). Frantz then goes on to attack the Plain Dealer's journalistic choice to run the headline: Ferguson Police Wound Man in Shootout on 1-Year Anniversary of Michael Brown's Death even though the first paragraph said
Police officers in Ferguson, Mo., shot a man after they said they were targeted by heavy gunfire late Sunday night as unrest grew during demonstrations on the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.s ... oting.html
Frankly, I do not see anything in that statement that is biased. What I see is a factual statement that if true certainly makes what the police did it OK; if it is false then it is damning to the cops. But the reporter did what he was supposed to do: report the facts and not inject his bias the way Bob always does.
Bob then "blames the protestors for pushing white people to the edge" (What does he mean?). This was a response to a regular caller, TJ, who said that he would shoot a protestor who he felt threatened his family or his property with no more concern than he would for shooting "a coyote in this back yard" https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (check the 44-48 minute ,area of the first hour ot the Aug 11broadcast for this curious exchange). Then another frequent caller named Donnie said stupid people buy into the media headlines emotionally, calling them "mindless herds." He renamed the movement "black lies matter" or "blockheads matter." He said that the media is a "Judas Goat" who leads the masses of sheep, in this case blacks, into a pen where they are slaughtered. He then said that the people who are pushed to the edge by what is going on, white militia members, are not racists and bear no guilt for their actions. (48-51 minutes) AND Bobby agreed with all of it. It was the protestors and their puppet masters who are responsible, not the militiamen who pulled the triggers.
Well this is happening in Ferguson and Bob does not report it. The story appears in Scripts Media under the heading: Right-Wing Militia Group Carries Guns, Patrols Ferguson
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -
Members of an armed militia group patrolling the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, have drawn criticism from the county police chief overseeing security in the St. Louis suburb s/he could do.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar says the overnight presence of the Oath Keepers, wearing bulletproof vests and openly carrying rifles and pistols, was "both unnecessary and inflammatory."
The street has been the focus of demonstrations marking the anniversary of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Oath Keepers is a far-right anti-government activist group.
It appeared in Ferguson in November saying it was protecting businesses from rioting and looters.
http://www.scrippsmedia.com/ktts/news/R ... 39961.html
Bob calls the media the instigator of this situation when he--a member of the media-- is a manifestation for the real problem, air born hatred.
Bob continues in this racist vein. He blames future racist attacks not on whites but on "black mobs" https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (5-8 minutes of hour one on Aug 14.) Bob blames this "race war" on the president and Al Sharpton and others. Folks, this Klanster is in our backyard. I mean he can speak, but so can others. And he does not tolerate dissent at all, but the word has to get out there about him; he is dangerous, and he is inciting not insightful.
by leftyg » August 26th, 2015, 7:22 pm
Bobby did it again this morning on this travesty of a show. In the span of a few minutes, he attacked ESPN for suspending Curt Shilling (a white guy) for his tweet comparing radical Islam to Hitler and the Nazis. Bob, of course, said that Shilling was spot on. Then he goes off on ESPN for not firing or suspending Chris Carter (a black guy) for a speech he made at the NFL rookies symposium which he said encouraged law breaking. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (pay attention to the 6-11 minute part and the 17-19 minute). BTW Schilling also tweeted his support for the Confederate flag the same day, something that Bob would never object to http://www.yardbarker.com/all_sports/ar ... 6_19414882
This mornings show was full of bigotry and prejudice that Bob seems to thrive on.
by Mrtazeman » August 27th, 2015, 11:27 am
If I had time I would call him out on it. He has always been like that, He claimed Michael Jackson bought off the court system and is guilty but with Rush Limbaugh, who actually bought off the court system, he was innocent of any wrong doing..
Just recently Fox is still presenting that highly edited and false Planned Parenthood video. They are still claiming that they are butchering up babies for its body parts so they can sell it and make profit AND now the person who created the video should get a Pulitzer. They even made a reference how Straight out of Compton are getting acclaims but not this video.. I wonder if Bobby is following protocol.
http://www.mediamatters.org/video/2015/ ... rou/205200
by Mrtazeman » August 27th, 2015, 12:35 pm
Unbelievable, without any proof, Rush Limbaugh was blaming the shooting of the newscasters on affirmative action.. Bobby will probably follow suit..
by Scorpion » August 27th, 2015, 2:09 pm
Mrtazeman wrote: Unbelievable, without any proof, Rush Limbaugh was blaming the shooting of the newscasters on affirmative action.. Bobby will probably follow suit..
Doesnt seem he was hired based on his outstanding personality and reporting skills........
Just ssyin'
by Mrtazeman » August 27th, 2015, 2:55 pm
It is wrong for him to assume that, especially since there are a lot of talented minorities in that field. I haven't been listening today, but I have a feeling the right wing sound machine are talking about loading up their guns and prepare for a race war (see I could assume as well)..
He already did in a sense. He said in his show today, August 27 at about 10:45 AM, that the shooter wore an Obama lapel at the station. Naturally, because Bobby said it it might not be true. But if it is he will use it for all it is worth.
Scorp. Bob does not have an outstanding personality and good reporting skills, but I do not think he got his job for any affirmative action reason,unless affirmative action includes hiring jerks.
Mrtazeman wrote: It is wrong for him to assume that, especially since there are a lot of talented minorities in that field. I haven't been listening today, but I have a feeling the right wing sound machine are talking about loading up their guns and prepare for a race war (see I could assume as well)..
That is what Bob has been talking about all along. A few posts back I told you about what Bob and some of his callers have been saying: things like if there is a race war it is not going to be the fault of angry whites. I even mark the exact segments of his podcast where he says those things. Look for the comment on the Judas Goat. This is a very tense time, and Bob is doing nothing to lessen the tensions.
by leftyg » August 31st, 2015, 11:39 pm
Loud mouth Bob today said the president of the United States is aiding "the war on police." It is merely part of the despicable cycle downward in his rhetoric. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (check the 31-37 minute mark of hour one of the show . ) He is ratcheting up the hate, and soon something will come down on the Tamir Rice case. Do you want your city to be ground zero for stupid racist hatred? You have to listen to this. His guest said and bob concurred, that "the President went to the funeral of a black guy shot by the police but not to a policeman shot by a black guy" He also played the clip of the sheriff in Milwaukee, Sheriff Clark and he called people scum and like Frantz did not even attempt to have an intelligent discussion because frankly that is what this topic needs.
by leftyg » September 2nd, 2015, 9:29 pm
Bob talked about how black lives matter activists like King Noble are declaring war on the police and on white people https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (Check the 5-8 minute mark of the September 2 podcast, hour one) Bob alleges that King Noble is calling for race war on "crackas" He talks about a suburban Chicago policeman who was killed yesterday and tries to spread fear and panic.
There is only one problem with this open season on police: there have been fewer killings of police this year. According to this AP report:
No. Shooting deaths of officers are actually down 13 percent compared with the same January-to-September period in 2014. There were 30 shootings last year and 26 this year. Those figures include state and local officers, as well as federal agents. The figures also include two accidental shootings, Groeninger said. Suicides are not included.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/are-mo ... spartanntp
As I have often said. Bob is way out there. He is a true demagogue and race baiter. And he ignores the facts as he spreads his propaganda
As I wrote this a caller called into Bob's show for Steve Loomis and informed him that a group of Oath Keepers was coming to Cleveland. His name was Stormin' Norman and he gave the number 216-385-0287. Stormin' Norman said that they are a paramilitary group getting ready for a civil war. Bob let the number go live on his show, and he and Loomis both thanked Stormin' Norman. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (Check the 18-20 minute section of hour two of the September 2 show. This to me is open support for paramilitary action and violence against minorities.
Earlier Frantz perverted a statement by Bernie Sanders where he said that Sanders said that killing cops was an outrage and that Officer Goforth was assassinated, but that it is also unacceptable when unarmed blacks are dragged out of cars and killed . https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (Listen from 7:30-10:00 of hour two of the September 2 show.) Bob interpreted what Sanders said as a justification for killing cops. Bob is not only a bigot, but he also has poor critical thinking skills because how he can get that from what Bernie said amazes me. I may be dealing with a man who is just not that bright.
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by Scorpion » September 2nd, 2015, 11:09 pm
9 police shootings in the last 10 days
by leftyg » September 3rd, 2015, 12:19 am
Scorp did you bother to read the headline? This year 26 police officers have died in shootings; last year at this time 30 had died at this time. So deaths are actually down. There may have been nine shootings, but two resulted in death.
But don't you find it disturbing that Frantz would use his radio show to foment racial tension and to recruit for a paramilitary group like Oath Keepers?
by wobbly » September 3rd, 2015, 11:30 am
Scorpion wrote: 9 police shootings in the last 10 days
Why is that surprising? We have more guns per capita than any other country. More guns equal more shootings. We are on the verge of having more deaths by guns than by automobile. If the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting , or tv crews being shot on live tv didn't bring any changes, why would the shooting of a few cops bring more than a shrug? This is America, we shoot people, it's what we do!
Look at these figures from the CDC for 2013. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
Number of deaths: 33,804
Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.7
All firearm deaths
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2013, table 18[PDF - 1.5 MB]
by leftyg » September 3rd, 2015, 4:56 pm
Scorp said
police shootings in the last 10 days
wobbly answered:
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2013, table 18[PDF - 1.5 MB][/quote]We may shoot people wobbly, but according to Bob guns cannot be the problem becuase they are in the second amendment. It is his superior critical thinking sklls talking not me. The right will always have something to complain about as long as they slavishly support the second amendment.
by Scorpion » September 4th, 2015, 7:56 am
I'd like to know of the perps who shot these officers, or any in the past year, legally possesed them?
Those who legally acquire a firearm arent usually the ones you have to be concerned about.
And the criminals will always have a means to get them.
by leftyg » September 4th, 2015, 10:58 am
Scorpion wrote: I'd like to know of the perps who shot these officers, or any in the past year, legally possesed them?
Scorp that would be interesting to find out. BUT we do not know. How about some of the super patriotic Sovereign Citizen types who have shot policeman. We do not talk about that much. Do they possess their guns legally? Also, if you listen to the Frantz show, you know that Bob has often said that citizens have to arm themselves against protesters in future confrontations. Like at the Clive Bundy ranch, what is to stop these legal gun owners from going all Posse Comitatus on federal officers sent in to quell the situation? If background checks can stop at least some of these shootings then they are worth it. The problem with conservatives is they seem to generally try to make the good the enemy of the perfect. There will never be a perfect solution to this problem of gun violence in general and violence against policeman in particular. But we know that in Europe where they do have laws there is much less gun violence, and that is all you can ask for.
by wobbly » September 4th, 2015, 11:22 am
People who legally acquire a ( fill in the blank ) arent usually the ones you have to be concerned about. Criminals will always have a means of getting whatever they want, so lets give up and turn the streets over to the criminals. The hard liner law and order folks on the right, want to round up "illegals" because we are a nation of laws, they then say we can't do anything about guns because it's too difficult. Make and enforce stricter gun laws. If it takes cutting the military to make the streets safer then so be it. Children shouldn't be shot playing outside of their homes. When it starts happening in the suburbs with any kind of regularity maybe then something will be done. Until then we will have to put up with the occasional school or theater shooting, as the price we pay for living in a free society.
by leftyg » September 4th, 2015, 1:13 pm
People who legally acquire a ( fill in the blank ) aren't usually the ones you have to be concerned about. Criminals will always have a means of getting whatever they want, so lets give up and turn the streets over to the criminals. The hard liner law and order folks on the right, want to round up "illegals" because we are a nation of laws, they then say we can't do anything about guns because it's too difficult. Make and enforce stricter gun laws. If it takes cutting the military to make the streets safer then so be it. Children shouldn't be shot playing outside of their homes. When it starts happening in the suburbs with any kind of regularity maybe then something will be done. Until then we will have to put up with the occasional school or theater shooting, as the price we pay for living in a free society.
And we will have to put up with the shooting of policeman as well; there is no getting around it. And lets not give up our civil liberties any more than the right does not want to give up its second amendment rights. On this subject because police officers have been killed, Bob has said that the rights of black protesters in the Black Lives Matter "should be snuffed out" disregarding their right of speech and assembly https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (listen to 31-37 of hour one Sept 2).
Now conservatives will argue that we are not talking about peaceful protest; we re talking about threatening comments and actions. And we an the left will say that you do not need an Uzi or an automatic weapon in your house for protection or to go hunting. Bob will say that you need them to kill protesters in the coming civil war. There is a lot here. I hope we all understand it.
by wobbly » September 22nd, 2015, 10:02 am
I didn't hear Bob talking about this story, but maybe I missed it. Wobbly
Cops: Texas Man Vandalized His Own Truck, Blamed It On Black Lives Matter
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/s ... tter-truck
ByCAITLIN CRUZPublishedSEPTEMBER 21, 2015, 10:55 AM EDT 13023 Views
A disabled veteran told Whitney, Texas, police on Sept. 8 that his pickup truck was vandalized by Black Lives Matter activists. As a result, he raised almost $6,000 from the public for repairs, according to a report from Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW.
But footage from the television station's initial report told police a different story. On Friday police arrested Scott Lattin on suspicion of making a false police report.
Lattin told police that his truck, which he had painted with "Police Lives Matter," was spray painted with “Black Lives Matter” and “Fuck Your Flag, Your Family, Your Feelings, Your Faith."
"We had initial video when the officers took the report and then when we saw your story on Channel 4. When we looked at those two videos, there were some differences in those and that led us to take the investigation into a different direction,” Whitney Police Chief Chris Bentley told the television station.
When the initial report was taken, there was no damage in the truck's interior, police said, but Lattin showed the television cameras a truck with slashed seats and ripped out glove box.
Lattin maintained his innocence to KDFW: "That's absolutely not true! Absolutely not true."
But, according to the television station, he admitted to police to damaging the inside of the truck for insurance reasons. Additional charges may be filed.
Bentley told KDFW that the department is working with the district attorney's office to make sure the donations are returned.
by leftyg » September 22nd, 2015, 11:10 pm
I have not posted anything on this thread because Bob has not said anything too outrageous lately. He has been his normal self, but he is directing his venom more with crap about Muslims that I think is an urban legend. But more on that another time. He did say that he wants Black Lives Matter to not exist which I have mentioned recently. But he talks about the war on police which Larry Wilmore debunks in this video http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/1 ... -fo/205578
But guys like Bob have been at the head of this effort to create this illusion of a war on cops which does not exist. And as a result nut bags like this Lattin character are allowed to act. When will a Black Lives Matter protester be harmed or killed by one of these nut bags and the Bobby's of the world will be right there to defend them.
by leftyg » September 24th, 2015, 1:44 am
Bob on his show today chastised the pope for not addressing morality in his address at the White House today which I thought was hysterical (Bob's take not the pope's excellent address). Bob talking about morality is like a Klansmen talking about racial tolerance. I mean Bob has the right's narrow and infantile view of morality: did you have sex with somebody and was it gay or straight? It is frankly stupid, but that is what you get. Him lecturing the pope on morality is like a struggling kindergarten kid lecturing Stephen Hawking on physics. The pope is concerned about immigrant families being separated; poor people getting enough to eat and having a living wage; children getting an education; controlling the greed of capitalists; making sure young black children are not shot by cops. Meanwhile Bob is worried about some prig's right to impose his sexual morality on other people in the name of "religious freedom." https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ ( go to 45:30 point of hour two of September 23 and listen to the end.)
Morality? On these pages, Bob has all but promoted a race war; I have given you chapter and verse on that. He has flat out lied about Planned Parenthood; I have given the exact spot on a tape of his podcast where he said that, that 97% of their services supported abortion when in fact only three percent do--and no federal funds which he never mentions. He lied about Reverend Al Sharpton on May 28th when he said the Reverend said that the flooding in Texas was God's punishment on the good patriotic Christians of Texas when the Reverend said no such thing. He regularly lies about things like Obamacare, Fox News's popularity and pretty near everything else, and HE tries to discuss morality, a guy that lies as a hobby and is comfortable with the murder of young black men? I mean he is loco and local, and he always out does himself. Truly, he needs a hug from Pope Francis and then the pope should sit him down and look him in the eye and tell him to grow up and find Jesus and shelve the hypocrisy routine.
by leftyg » September 25th, 2015, 10:29 pm
Bob did it again on Thursday. Somewhere, over a year ago somebody said that "every 28 hours a black male was killed by the police." He and his guest Dr. Robert Martinelli discussed it as if he was busting Black Lives Matter on a lie. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/( check the 5-10 minute segment of hour two of the September 24th program.) Anyway, I checked it out and the truth is that the Washington Post and Politifact busted this meme almost a year ago in December 24, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fac ... -28-hours/ and http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/st ... s-says-ma/ Frantz actually thought he had a gotcha on this one which he did not. Most people know the facts, and I have not heard anybody on the left furthering this meme of a death every 28 hours. He wasted a whole hour on a discredited meme or urban legend as I call them. He is trying to spread discord and closed his show that "this information ABC and NBC and CBS so we have to get it broadcast here." Of course you do.
And he compounded it with some terrible data on black deaths and that is that a black man is killed by another black man every 15 hours. If this is true there are 584 murders of blacks per year in this country (24x365/15) or 584 or three per hundred thousand if there are 20 million black men in America. Now the statistics for homicides in 2013 shows 14,196 murders in a population of 316 million or about 4.5 per hundred thousand. So black homicides are below average which proves what? He says 22 thousand black men have been killed between 2009-2012 Of the 22 thousand deaths 90% are done by blacks. Yet by his own numbers that would only be about 2,300. In other words his numbers are whack, and, of course, Bob did not get it because he is terrible at math and admits it.
Anyway when racial bias meets innumeracy, bad things happen.
I wish he would be has hard on himself for saying 97% of Planned Parenthoods practice is for abortions when only three percent is. I guess he is like most right wing talkers; he is 007; he does not have a license to kill, but he does have a license to lie. Black Lives Matter does not.
by Mrtazeman » September 26th, 2015, 9:19 am
Bob on his show today chastised the pope for not addressing morality in his address at the White House today which I thought was hysterical (Bob's take not the pope's excellent address). Bob talking about morality is like a Klansmen talking about racial tolerance.
Bob actually took it easy on the Pope compared to the backward crazy right wingers from Limbaugh, Coulter, Fox News. The republicans consider ignorant, racist, hater like Kim Davis a religious hero and Now is a highly regarded spokesperson for the religious right but yet Pope Francis who is visiting the United States for the first time who is preaching real Christian Values:
· Helping the weak who can’t help themselves
· Caring for the poor
· Advancing economic opportunity for ALL
· Serving as good Stewarts for the environment (God created this earth)
This is all of the teachings of Jesus. Even Sheppard Smith from Fox agrees with me:
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/24/9387833/sh ... pe-francis
Yet the right wing are insulted, this is the response from the right who they worship the dollar bill which doesn’t fit the mold for being a Christian
Brian Kilmeade of FoxNews: Pope Francis "He's In the Wrong Country" - 'Stay Home'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017296443
Here is a video where Charles Gasparino is complaining that the Wealthy People don’t have front row seats for the Pope, only Great seats but not front row!
http://www.newshounds.us/fox_obsesses_t ... ice_092415
Maybe the republicans should realize that Heaven isn’t for sale, that you can’t buy your way into Heaven..
When it comes down to it the right worships money and pads themselves on the back for loving Jesus when it fits their purposes of course. For example, the pope is firmly opposed to the death penalty http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/25/opinions/ ... index.html, something the far right does not want to consider. For the right, and Bob in particular, they and he love the death penalty. If you listen to Bob rant on the subject, it is clear he loves his death penalty, but says the Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden should not get communion which is ridiculous. He calls them "Cafeteria Catholics," ones who pick and choose items from a menu to follow or not to follow. Well Bob is a Cafeteria Catholic too. He does not want the abortion, but he wants the death penalty and preemptive war, two huge no-nos according to Pope Francis.
by leftyg » September 27th, 2015, 5:33 pm
I want to add something here about Pope Francis and his visit and how it relates to this thread. I do not hear the Christian charity in Bob's voice for young black men who have died at the hands of police or for the Black Lives Matter movement. I hear a person who justifies police killings of young black men and calls the dead "thugs"; who has guests on like Steve Loomis spreading a one sided narrative; who tolerates wildly racist claims and assertions by his callers, calling for vigilante action from groups like the Promise Keepers. He has verifiably said that if there is racial violence between whites and blacks it will not be the whites fault. I have chapter and verse on this. I am not making this up. I could not. And it mildly amazes me. I have heard it said that "one cannot be a prophet in his own land or time." It is also true that perhaps one probably cannot be seen as a demagogue in his own land or time either until it is too late. I have mentioned this to Media Matters, and I think they have looked into it. But nothing has been said only the comment by Kid Funkadelic on Daily Kos a few years ago. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/0 ... t-friends#
God I hope this does not happen, but whatever the outcome of the Tamir Rice situation with Tim Loehmann, I fear Bob will be a factor in the reaction of the white community in Cleveland and in mocking the black community if the outcome goes his way. I, of course, hope Loehmann is found guilty, but more importantly, I hope nothing negative happens to anyone. Listening to talk about whites arming themselves which cannot be denied or listening to callers call in and suggest vigilante solutions and being thanked for offering those solutions is frightening. The FCC won't or can't do anything; the station won't or can't do anything. We just have to count on the public to be rational.
by leftyg » October 2nd, 2015, 12:15 pm
You all probably have heard about the horrible shooting in Oregon at Umpqua Community College. Something like this is especially horrible for me for reasons I would rather not share. Naturally, Bob talked about it and before very long he was talking about violence in black neighborhoods even though I do not know if anyone killed yesterday was even black. But Bob got a connection and a burr up his butt about anything having to do with President Obama opening his mouth on any subject, especially guns. He went to the extreme of attacking gun laws that prevented mentally ill people from owning guns, parsing the difference between people with different disorders and absolving guns of any part of the probably. Predictably he decided that the problem had its genesis in the black community and with the black culture, not the real culprit which is probably poverty and low prospects.
Just to show how without reason Bob is on this subject, he called President Obama a hypocrite for using secret service agents to defend him when he wants to put limits on the average Americans right to have a gun. Well I do not know too many average Americans who have a better than one in eleven chance of being murdered on their job. And neither does Bob. Bob believes that policeman who have about a one in 40 thousand chance of being murdered should be able to shoot a twelve year old kid with a toy gun if they feel threatened. But President Obama is a hypocrite for using Secret Service protection.
The reason there are no links up is because the broadcast was just over. Here is the link for the October 2 show https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/
by leftyg » October 12th, 2015, 6:45 pm
Bob was in rare form telling the audience to "open their mind" and come to the same conclusion that Bob came to which is that Officer Loehmann was totally innocent of any wrong doing. Now I saw the video, and it was pretty damning http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... der-charge If Bob thinks that is justified and he does, then everything about his credibility comes into question on all these cases. I admitted that we do not know what was going on in Ferguson and in Florida with Trayvon Martin. But I will not believe what Bob says because of his profound bias. He looks at the evidence I just showed you and comes to the conclusion that it was justified because it got the blessing of an expert. In the first ten minutes of hour one he repeatedly chided the media for giving facts. And he says something hysterical about the "unbelievably insane comments of activists" making comments and said that he and his audience were reasonable. Bob reasonable? https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ Check 9-12 minutes, absolutely hysterical and hard to believe a person can have that little self-awareness You can go back and listen to any of a number of comments Bob has made that exploit race prejudice that I have put on this thread for six months.
by leftyg » October 12th, 2015, 11:40 pm
I want to add this. Bobby Jackboot called Tamir a "thug in training." How could any of the comments on Cleveland.com be that despicable? The man rails against Bowe Bergdahl when Bergdahl's commander Major General Kenneth Dahl said Bowe should not go to jail. Now he is an expert, why does Bobby argue with that. After all when it comes to the Tamir Rice case expert opinions matter; when it comes to Bowe Bergdahl they don't; there the passion of the whack jobs matters.
by leftyg » November 7th, 2015, 4:57 pm
This highlights what an irresponsible racist lout Bob is. It involved something I glossed over this summer until it came out in the news the other day. You probably already know that Officer Charles Gliniewitz committed suicide and staged it to look like a homicide http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/1 ... f-f/206681 Bob spent time attacking the Black Lives Movement (BLM) for a long time and talking about the bogus "war on cops" You can find this nonsense on September 2 podcast at (7-10 minutes) https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ in the first hour. In hour two he tried to blame the White House among other for Officer Gliniewitz death. He demanded that the BLM movement be disbanded because it is "open season on cops." Of course, there was no evidence for it other than some anecdotes and one, of course, was Officer Gliniewitz who staged his own death to divert an investigation into embezzlement. Anyway, it was on that broadcast that Stormin' Norman called and said that a group called Oath Keepers were coming to Cleveland. I caught that and wrote about it. But Bob shows himself to be an utterly irresponsible racist commentator out to inflame the passions of racists callers. Using this dirty cop, Gliniewitz, as part of his excuse. He says he is "tired of the lies." https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (Check the 50 minute plus point of hour two on September 2). Well I am tired of his lies, and his lies are real.
by wobbly » November 8th, 2015, 12:51 pm
Lt. Charles Gliniewicz, was a crook, who was willing to commit murder to keep from being caught. It is ironic that the "bad guys" wouldn't go along with the hit on the city administrator by the dirty cop. How did this guy keep his job as long as he did with the record he had? If you threaten to shoot another employee, that should be the end of your career in law enforcement. The police need community oversight to keep them honest as they are not elected. It isn't a stretch to say any community can have dirty politicians and dirty cops, and we need to be vigilant against both.
wobbly wrote: Lt. Charles Gliniewicz, was a crook, who was willing to commit murder to keep from being caught. It is ironic that the "bad guys" wouldn't go along with the hit on the city administrator by the dirty cop. How did this guy keep his job as long as he did with the record he had? If you threaten to shoot another employee, that should be the end of your career in law enforcement. The police need community oversight to keep them honest as they are not elected. It isn't a stretch to say any community can have dirty politicians and dirty cops, and we need to be vigilant against both.
The problem is right now, cops are, like soldiers, above criticism. Guys like Bob enable them and give them an uncritical form, like he does for Steve Loomis, to spread their side of the story without fear of rebuttal. And the problem is also the hysterical rush to judgment that Bob and others on the right resort to whenever it fits their interests. You see this rush to judgment everywhere, in the rush to the Iraq war to this incident with Gliniewitz. Conservatives are proven to be wrong and then they get amnesia about it. I know I cling to this topic like a bulldog, but it is important to chronicle what one of these people, a very bad actor, does in stirring up people and spreading lies and rumors that have no basis in fact but have the real world consequence of inflaming their low information audience. It is a bad obsession to have because it will never pay off. Bob is such a putz and such a nobody that no one would bother to buy a book about him.
by wobbly » November 8th, 2015, 1:24 pm
Lefty wrote: The problem is right now, cops are, like soldiers, above criticism.
That need to change. Anytime we allow a person the right to take away another persons life or liberty they need to be held to the highest standard. There should be constant review from in and outside of the police force. If Bob is willing to take on the SEIU, he should also be willing to take on the FOP when it is out of line. The police shouldn't be above the law, and when they are we need to put a stop to it.
Wobbly, I want to show you the absurd lengths Bob will go to to protect the cops and exempt cops and firefighters from rules that apply to everybody else. This three minute rant is so full of lies to recount them all would detract from your basic point, that Bob will defend anything the cops do, and he puts them on a pedestal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TISRKW4A3l8
by leftyg » November 15th, 2015, 2:29 pm
In general this is what Frantz has been doing lately: he has been attacking students at college campuses who have been protesting what? I actually do not know because he never explained what it was exactly , except help get a few college administrators replaced and that students want free tuition. He never had an intelligent conversation because he never explains anything; he just rants and name calls. He is an ad hominem machine and his callers are little better. But he called the million student march "liberal zombies, morons" and worse. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (first 15 minutes of Friday November 13, ho appropriate). He tells the kids to lose the thin skin? And how is that going for him?
Well he could not stand that Quentin Tarrantino said that people were being murdered by police. When Quentin Tarrantino said that Bob thought that was justification for a boycott of his films including the Hateful Eight. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (look at the 3-35 minute mark of the October 26th poscast) In other words when it was his ox being gored, political action is perfectly Ok. Bob is a racist, and thinks that complaints about racism are just some protesters wanting to violate free speech, but then when people criticize the police, a group Bob puts on a pedestal, he is offended and then "a million bigot march" away from his movies is ok. Remember how he gave Kristi Kapel (Capel?) a pass for her racist comments* this winter with his tweets on Cleveland.com. I have them up way back, but they are not hard to find. Bob believes certain things are important like never saying anything about a group he likes and that other things like racism are no big deal.
Media Matters has noticed and I have to follow suit that the right wing never called the people at the Bundy Ranch who were willing to use their weapons on government agents rightwing zombies and morons.
* I thought the punishment was appropriate a few days off and a warning. I think other liberal posters on this site wanted to be lenient with her too. However leniency is not in the far right vocabulary when they are offended.
by leftyg » January 4th, 2016, 12:42 am
I have left this be for a while but figured it was time to review how Bob was going to handle the outcome of the Tamir Rice decision. I thought it was important to get the perspective of his callers who are in many ways the voice of right wing extremism in Cleveland, and racism. On December 30 he started his show with his shock at some of the comments out there "on both side" thus establishing himself as an objective observer. This was hysterical because he has been the source of much of it and that comment reminded me of this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME Now this is a trick almost all right wing extremists do; they make you believe that they are down the middle. I admit it, I am not down the middle. But at least people like me admit our bias which I believe is the ethical thing to do. Bob pawns himself off as centrist because that is part of the great trick the right is trying to pull. On December 29th he had on "experts" to show his concern, but he only had on experts that agreed with his opinion only or that confirmed his bias. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ Look at both hours on December 29th for all the balanced expert opinion then listen to the balanced calls from different perspectives on the 30th when he took calls in the first hour.
And now he is standing back like the adult he would like everyone to think he is. But like the police inspector in the clip from Casablanca he is collecting his winnings in the form of ratings points from racists and then faux wondering how it all happened. I hope over the months those of you have followed this have noted some of the horrible bias things Bob has said about protesters and the half-truths and lies he has proffered in defense of his positions. How he has said that if whites resorted to the use of guns that they would be justified and that callers like Stormin' Norman have called in and told him that Oath Keepers was coming to Cleveland to straighten things out, and Bob thanked him https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answer/ (check minutes 18-20 on September 2 for Norm's threatening comments, and his personal phone number which you can get by going to a post on September 2 2015)
I would like to close with these words from Kid Funkedelic at the Daily Kos from almost four years ago:
.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/0 ... st-friends
by leftyg » February 11th, 2016, 3:49 pm
This is a thread by Bobby about Beyonce. Notice his measured tone, again, as always fanning the flames of racism:
Surrounded by police officers who are protecting her...and after receiving a police escort to the stadium...this filthy pig stood on stage and sang a filthy song...degrading police officers.
Beyonce and her husband Jay Z have given $1.5 million to the hate group known as "Black Lies Matter" (spelling was intentional) and consistently denigrate police officers as racists and murderers.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/FrantzRa ... 4018302345 BTW, you have to look down the page a bit to find this thread and its video.
The man is a true piece of work (word choice not what I would like, but the other four letter word would make me too much like Bobby). He works racial themes constantly, and one has to wonder why
by wobbly » February 11th, 2016, 6:38 pm
If Frantz wants to support the Police, he should stand up for gun control, so that more cops go home at the end of their shift.
5 U.S. law enforcement officers shot dead within days
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/law-en ... shot-dead/
by leftyg » August 9th, 2016, 1:57 pm
I know this thread died but Bob Frantz revived it on his Facebook page with an article from Townhall "hey White Guys, Stop Hogging the Olympic Stage." Can't put his racism on the shelf for even a minute, for the Olympics https://www.facebook.com/pages/FrantzRa ... 4018302345. He has the best dog whistle in Cleveland.
by Scorpion » August 9th, 2016, 2:33 pm
Speaking of shootings.......
Two of my coworkers are in critical condition.
At least the families won't have to deal with a trial.
http://www.cleveland.com/lyndhurst-south-euclid/index.ssf/2016/08/elyria_man_shot_south_euclid_e.html
This sounds like a classic crime of passion. When a person kills himself there is not much anybody can do about. Punishment is not a deterrent when you cannot think straight.
But the reason I resurrected this thread is the very offensive post Frantz put on his Facebook page. Does he have to insinuate race into everything? Can't he let peace and brotherhood get a couple weeks of play? He also put up a stupid post about Chuck Schumer not wanting athletes to pay taxes on the value of their medals which I think is asinine. Can't let the Olympics be the center of attention and peace and brotherhood and all that crap. Not for two weeks. Can't send the sheets to the laundry for two damn weeks
BTW, the perp in your instance was black, but for that crime, more white guys do that, kill the old girlfriend and her new boyfriend, then kill themselves because they do not have a future outside the joint anyway. When a woman is murdered, the culprit is often (at least 40%) a guy in her life. So police and prosecutors usually have an idea about who did it.
leftyg wrote: This sounds like a classic crime of passion. When a person kills himself there is not much anybody can do about. Punishment is not a deterrent when you cannot think straight.
There are a lot of details that have been left out and a couple are flat out wrong but it's hard to get accurate and good reporting these days.
They were both shot MULTIPLE times.
Darnell may never have the bullets removed and Sophia has undergone a third surgery in two days.
Extremely critical condition.
by leftyg » August 9th, 2016, 10:06 pm
That is terrible, I hope they get better and can go on with their lives. Has Giant Eagle set up a fund for them?
by Scorpion » August 9th, 2016, 10:49 pm
There is an employee care fund for people suffering extreme circumstances.
I believe, typically, the person in need is supposed to 'request' assistance.
I'm unaware of anything yet tho.
I'm on vacation but had to stop up for a health screening when some of the blanks were filled in after a cryptic Facebook post from another coworker.
A few years ago, another coworker lost her father and nearly lost her mother when her brother attacked them both with a knife.
This is enough for one store........
Yesterday evening WHK put up, probably at Frantz's behest, but I cannot be sure, pictures of Michael Brown and Kate Steinle. https://www.facebook.com/am1420theanswer And it painted Brown as a thug who deserved it and Steinle as perfectly innocent person which, of course, she was. But knowing little about Michael Brown they paint him as a thug who deserved to die. You cannot cut it another way, this is furthering a racist agenda. And if you are sick of me talking about Frantz's racism, I am just as sick of it being spewn.
Brown has a rep as a strong arm crook.
Steinle's death was because of an illegal who had crossed te border several times.
Totally different circumstances.
Of course they were different circumstances, so why did WHK do it? We don' know much about Michael Brown and certainly not much about that incident though some would say we do. There is little information ever given. We also know the Ferguson police department was dirty and came in for a lot of criticism in a DOJ report as did Baltimore today.
by Butters » August 12th, 2016, 7:29 pm
leftyg wrote: Yesterday evening WHK put up, probably at Frantz's behest, but I cannot be sure, pictures of Michael Brown and Kate Steinle. https://www.facebook.com/am1420theanswer And it painted Brown as a thug who deserved it and Steinle as perfectly innocent person which, of course, she was. But knowing little about Michael Brown they paint him as a thug who deserved to die. You cannot cut it another way, this is furthering a racist agenda. And if you are sick of me talking about Frantz's racism, I am just as sick of it being spewn.
These things aren't really comparable, I don't see what illegal immigration has to do with racial tensions over a police shooting. However, we actually do know a lot about Michael Brown. We know he robbed a store that same night, and witnesses (including black witnesses) claimed he attacked a police officer.
What happened to Kate Steinle is completely unrelated in every way to the Michael Brown shooting and protests that followed; I have no idea why someone would connect them. It was a complete failure of our immigration system; unless you believe borders should have no meaning, it's obvious that her killer should not have been in country and that it's an embarrassment that he was able to remain here with his track record.
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[/quote]Of course they are not comparable, that is why I wonder why they were compared. What is he trying to do? I think poor Kate Steinle is a victim if ever there was one. And Michael Brown was probably a kid with problems. Why were they connected? This Frantz is a very vicious person. I want you to listen to a few minutes of this attck on Hillary Clinton. It ain't normal https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... 015-hour-1
by wobbly » August 13th, 2016, 11:10 am
Butters wrote: What happened to Kate Steinle is completely unrelated in every way to the Michael Brown shooting and protests that followed; I have no idea why someone would connect them.
The folks at WHK connected them because they both incite anger from the base. Why doesn't WHK post anything about the South-Carolina-trooper who shot an unarmed black man over a seatbelt violation? Because it doesn't fit the narrative that they are pushing of the black thug vs the white police officers. Kate Steinle would be alive today if the officer who's gun was used had properly secured it. You can't shoot someone without a gun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XFYTtgZAlE
Saw the video, and it was unbelievable. And you are right; both happened because officers did not have their guns secured. Excellent point. You should run over to WHK and put that up. It would piss 'em off all to hell because they put cops on a pedestal, and it enables them to get away with murder. Bobby, enables these guys. He always has police advocates like Steve Loomis on his show. When your brutality is glorified, you get encouraged to be more brutal because you can get away with it. We know by now that if a cop kills a black guy the most s/he will get is a manslaughter charge, and s/he will probably get acquitted. Bobby likes to spread the lie that Darrin Wilson was fully exonerated which is untrue and typical Bobby lying. He was simply not indicted by the grand jury, and there is a huge difference.
BTW, as long as Bob keeps up his hateful racist rhetoric, I will keep holding him accountable. He refuses to allow opposing views on his show. So I do not see anything wrong with attacking him here or on the Mansfield Frazier show on WTAM if Mansfield one of my broadcast heroes says it is OK. He cannot lie into a vacuum (and his regular callers and audience are ignorant space cadets, the ones he agrees with). Even if I get banned from the Facebook page, I can still go there like I can go to his Facebook page, which honestly looks like the minutes of a Klan meeting. Yesterday on his stupid show he obsessed over "safe zones" for African-American students https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 (listen to the first couple minutes to get the gist of this idiocy. Have not heard him complain about skin head or Klan type activity.
wobbly wrote: The folks at WHK connected them because they both incite anger from the base. Why doesn't WHK post anything about the South-Carolina-trooper who shot an unarmed black man over a seatbelt violation? Because it doesn't fit the narrative that they are pushing of the black thug vs the white police officers. Kate Steinle would be alive today if the officer who's gun was used had properly secured it. You can't shoot someone without a gun!
I know you think guns are our problem and not human evil, wobbly, you've made that clear. There's no crime committed with a gun for which you cast blame on the perpetrator rather than the means.
Incidentally, your argument is still a terrible one. Just as easily as you can say he couldn't have shot Kate Steinle without the gun, I can point out that he also couldn't have shot her if he wasn't, you know, in the country.
I want to hear from wobbly on this and see that he is on the board. But it takes "two to tango" as the cliché goes. And an evil or angry person with a gun is far more dangerous than an evil, angry person without a gun. If that piece of crap at Sandy Hook did not have a gun, there would probably be twenty little kids alive today that have been dead for almost four years. Even if the POS had stabbed them and their teachers and his mother, almost all of those people would still be alive. And I think those parents would give everything they had to go to the hospital for a couple weeks or even months while their child was mending from a stab wound.
Wobbly's argument is magnificent, so magnificent I stole it and put it up over at WHK1420 though I did credit him for it by sourcing him and using quotes. That girl died because a policeman or undercover cop left a gun out on Fisherman's Wharf or Pier 39. And if Darrin Wilson had secured his weapon, then that outcome might have been different too. The illegal alien might not have shot her, but some equally sick, equally messed up citizen vagrant could have shot her with the same gun had he found it. And illegal aliens are half as likely to commit crimes as native born Americans http://immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts ... nd-crime-0.
by wobbly » August 13th, 2016, 3:37 pm
Butters wrote: There's no crime committed with a gun for which you cast blame on the perpetrator rather than the means.
Pay attention; what did I post about the South Carolina trooper (aka the perpetrator) who shot an unarmed black man. The gun didn't shoot itself, the officer did the shooting. With the exception of a few instances where dogs have shot humans, it's people who shoot other people with guns. You also missed my point about the shooting of Kate Steinle; any person could have shot her. A shooter is only half of the equation, the shooter has to have the means to do the shooting. Gun deaths are out of control in this country, and I don't think that more guns are the answer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... n-america/
I accept the correction. When the killing forwards a narrative the left likes to promote, such as the idea that there is rampant murder of black men by police, you of course will blame the person and not the means. If the perpetrator is not a subject of liberal criticism or the victim a member of a protected victim group, however, you seem to always be outraged that the murderer had a gun rather than outraged that the murderer was an evil bastard. Even here, you seem far more annoyed at the police than the murderer.
The shooter is far more than half of the equation. The person who is willing to murder out of anger or selfishness is the problem, the gun is just the means he uses. You may not be aware of this, but murder has been a huge problem through all of history. In fact, through human history, people had a 1/3 to 1/4 chance of dying through violence. Today, in our gun-saturated society, our chances of dying violent deaths are only a small fraction of that. Clearly, something reduced violence among humans that didn't involve banning guns, since the vast majority of that violence occurred before their invention.
Guns make killing easier, but the problem society faces is not the gun nearly so much as the person willing to kill people.
Interesting. I think that you would have to go back quite
a long way to find murder rates as high as what you suggest1/3 to 1/4 chance of a violent death. You have to understand that people at those times were probably much more proficient at killing with tools and that life was much rougher and probably included lots of people killed by large predators and big cats, lions, tigers and bears.
But today, thank God it has been tamed us. What we can do is compare ourselves to other advanced countries and see what their gun policies are. We rank 4th at 3.82 homicides per 100 thousand citizens. Only Mexico, 18.9; Turkey, 4.35 and Estonia, 4.08 are ahead of us of the 34 nations currently in the Organization of Economic Opportunity and Cooperation, half of whom have murder rates of less than 1.0 or one. http://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-hom ... art-2015-6 That would suggest that guns are more than half of the problem.
Butters wrote: I accept the correction. When the killing forwards a narrative the left likes to promote, such as the idea that there is rampant murder of black men by police, you of course will blame the person and not the means. If the perpetrator is not a subject of liberal criticism or the victim a member of a protected victim group, however, you seem to always be outraged that the murderer had a gun rather than outraged that the murderer was an evil bastard. Even here, you seem far more annoyed at the police than the murderer.
I absolutely hold the police to a higher standard, and you should too. When they screw up, they need to be held accountable, as they are not above the law. Just who makes up a protected victim group? Are they children, are they people at church or at school? What race and religion are they; are they gay or straight? By definition isn't a murderer an evil bastard?
Butters wrote: Guns make killing easier, but the problem society faces is not the gun nearly so much as the person willing to kill people.
If we can't control the actions of people, then we need to control the guns that you agree makes killing way too easy. High capacity military grade weapons are absolutely a big part of the problem. We have a second amendment right to keep and bear arms, but that doesn't mean that we give up control of our society. We are in the middle of an arms race in this country, and it will be our undoing.
Butters and Wobbly, this is the central issue : you have to hold the police to a higher standard, like Wobbly says. This is what happens in police states. I mean several of these murders have even been caught on tape and it does not resonate enough. I can remember a prominent African-American recently (do not want to give his name) say on a talk show that he could understand the shooting of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge. He thought it was awful, but that it was the product of the continued indifference in the white community to the murder of unarmed blacks who were often not even charged with a crime. The shootings were natural outcome of frustration. I would add to that the enabling of talkers like Bob Frantz.
Over at Frantz Radio he continues his assault on Black America with his biased look at the rioting in Milwaukee:
This clip shows angry rioters chanting "black power" before asking "is they white" as cars slowly drives past.
"Yeah they white," states someone else, prompting the mob to run toward the vehicle
"Yeah they white, get their ass," screams another.
"Hey they beatin' up every white person," exclaims another rioter.
"He white--beat his head-bitch," he adds.
The footage shows the mob attacking cars and trying to drag out drivers.
The footage then cuts to an upper floor window before the person shooting the video states. "I think they beat up some white bitch ass for no reason--they bust open the window."
I saw no video, just this account at Frantz Radio.com https://www.facebook.com/FrantzRadio-250824018302345/ This sounds like language to incite racial hatred which Bob pushes
by Scorpion » August 15th, 2016, 8:25 am
Easy to find if you'd look at Drudge Report
http://www.infowars.com/video-black-lives-matter-rioters-target-whites-for-beat-downs/
by leftyg » August 15th, 2016, 10:03 am
Scorp, why did Bob post and why did Drudge post it? Do you understand. Flaming racial animosity does no good. The whole point is this inflammatory rhetoric was posted in the absence of any real context. Doing it flames the racist fires and does no good for anyone. Bob is an irresponsible person.
by Scorpion » August 15th, 2016, 10:11 am
So you want to suppress it.
Its out there on the web, twitter, etc before the news agencies even get ahold of it.
The rioters are proud of themselves.
by Butters » August 15th, 2016, 10:46 am
leftyg wrote: Butters and Wobbly, this is the central issue : you have to hold the police to a higher standard, like Wobbly says. This is what happens in police states. I mean several of these murders have even been caught on tape and it does not resonate enough. I can remember a prominent African-American recently (do not want to give his name) say on a talk show that he could understand the shooting of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge. He thought it was awful, but that it was the product of the continued indifference in the white community to the murder of unarmed blacks who were often not even charged with a crime. The shootings were natural outcome of frustration. I would add to that the enabling of talkers like Bob Frantz.
I do hold the police to a higher standard. What I don't do is assume that the police are always in the wrong, nor do I think there is a epidemic of unjustified police shootings. Police shootings of black men are actually very rare, especially if you compare them to historical numbers, and black men are shot disproportionately infrequently to the rate at which they encounter police.
I am not unsympathetic to obviously unjust shootings. The one in Charleston was horrible. Though much has been made over a few more recent ones, the one that gets to me is the non-fatal shooting of that case worker who was actually trying to help police with a mental patient. I'm sure the officer who shot him actually had no ill will, but a misjudgment of that magnitude has to carry both career and legal consequences.
Here's why we differ, I believe. I think that creating a narrative that police are out to kill black people across the nation, that police officers leave the station for work every day looking for ways to oppress black people, is damaging and probably costs lives. It emboldens black people to resist legitimate arrests, which we have indeed seen. That woman who killed by police in Baltimore trying to serve a warrant on her, the one with the shotgun, had followers on her live stream encouraging her to resist and ignore police instructions. And, of course, we've had riots in Milwaukee where police shot an armed black man; it's possible it wasn't justified, but all the rioters needed was the news that the police shot a black man, they don't even want to hear if it's justified or not.
We need to hold police accountable, but we also need to expect people to respect the need for rule of law and stop making victims out of criminals and villains out of the people trying to stop them.
The point is that all of these cases have to be judged individually. I agree. The narrative is emerging because police criminals are not being prosecuted in repeated cases where they are caught on tape shooting people I don't want to put up the Tamir Rice video again, but Bobby spun it as a good shooting. Ditto Eric Garner and so many others.
Nancy Grace said to Dr. Robert Martinelli who was trying to push the stat argument after Alton Sterling was shot and killed by two Baton Rouge cops. "Dr. Martinelli, I am not interested in how many police shootings of unarmed blacks there are in this country. I am interesting, only, in the facts surrounding what happened with Mr. Sterling. I do not want to hear your statistics about how few shootings there are; it doesn't matter to me." He became indignant and said that she was trying to dumb down the conversation to emotions and ignore data. The point is he was the one arguing inappropriately. Statistic so not matter in individual cases. For example, just because a large percentage of women are killed by their husbands or boyfriends, does not mean that the prosecution in a trial should use that as evidence.
And like the famous man said, "we have brought this on ourselves." And the real culprits for these deaths are police who got away, literally, with murder and their enabling right wing talk show hosts like Bob Frantz who inflame the passions of bigots and embolden the police to act any way they want to.
It is all Bob talked about today on his radio show. And he did not do it in a constructive way; he did in an inflammatory way, a vicious way as he always does. Listen to the first few minutes of his show today, he goes off in an inflammatory on President Obama, a man who is ten thousand times more of a man than Bobby Boy who is nothing but a tool who inflames passion https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-1 He never cited a single comment the president made; he just went off on a diatribe. We need understanding. This is my standard for commentator integrity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGHm8iPeUY
You can comment on an issue and do so in a way that does not inflame the passion of racists. This is not funny because we need understanding, not bigotry.
leftyg wrote: I do hold the police to a higher standard. What I don't do is assume that the police are always in the wrong, nor do I think there is a epidemic of unjustified police shootings. Police shootings of black men are actually very rare, especially if you compare them to historical numbers, and black men are shot disproportionately infrequently to the rate at which they encounter police.
I entirely disagree with your last paragraph. The actual cases of bad shootings are pretty rare, if you look at it fairly. Why is this becoming such a national issue now, when police shootings of black men are actually historically quite low? The reason is that activists, enabled by a cooperative press, are pushing the narrative.
It's not about the individual cases; it should be, you're right about that, but it is not. Why was Michael Brown's mother at the DNC? The obvious implication is that Michael Brown was the victim of a racist shooting, which is not the case. Did the people who made the decision to invite her ever ask, "Maybe we shouldn't be promoting a criminal who attacked a police officer as a victim of racism?" Did the people who rioted in Milwaukee over the weekend carefully look at the evidence and decide that the armed criminal shot by police was a victim? No, they heard "black man shot by police" and reacted to the narrative, not to the case.
It's damaging to black people to tell them that the police are out to get them. It's damaging to tell black people that their lives are difficult because of white oppression. Police are not making black men criminals at alarming rates, and white oppression does not cause a terribly high black illegitimacy rate. My view is essentially that of Richard Sherman, the great Seahawks cornerback, who said that he obviously agrees with stopping incidents of racial mistreatment by police but can't support Black Lives Matter when they're making enemies of police and even using violent rhetoric. He said that racism has to be fought, but racism doesn't cause the problem of black children running around not being raised by anyone.
It certainly does the black community no favors to make martyrs and heroes of people who were killed by police in the commission of violent crimes.
I have a list of people: Tamir Rice , Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, and lots of names that beyond them where there should be little doubt that there is a problem. And I have heard what Larry Elder said about the issue, but his statistics are bad. You do realize that there have been very few terrorist attacks in this country where relatively few people have been killed don't you? By your logic we should not be fighting this war on terror. I think we should. We just should not soil our pants over it. But Bob Frantz and other right wing talkers enable the police and inflame minorities.
I suppose Michael Brown's mom was there to give and get support. Nobody really knows what happened that day in Ferguson, and to assume you know exceeds the information we have. Fox tends to turns stories that are 50-50 balls into slam dunks where we think we know the truth. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/15 ... ews/212376 It is not like Sandra Bland's mom, whose daughter committed suicide in large part because of poor handling by police. We know the police shot Tamir Rice. We know there were lots of folks on that stage whose kids were victims. And you are right a narrative was created but by the police when they failed to respond by at least firing all the shooters and prosecuting them and by talk show hosts like Frantz who further the mayhem with their obeyance and fawning. It kind of blew up in their faces. This whole situation in Milwaukee sounds kosher from the policing point of view, and would not have happened if this narrative (legitmate) had not grown unchecked by the police, grand juries and loud mouth talk show hosts.
I as a white man can do one thing: I can oppose my people when they attack blacks, and that happens all the time on Bob's show. White people cannot pat themselves on the back and say "we did a good job." You have to talk to black people to find that out, and they tell a different story. And I saw all I ever need to see when I saw Tim Loehmann shoot Tamir Rice. The fact that Frantz justified that on the only false narrative that could possibly be provided when he said Loehamnn said "hands up," it is hard to believe because he would have had to said it awfully fast. Also, there was no audio. So we have to believe Timmy. BLM is a response to this violence and has been lied about a lot just like MLK was and all the other living leaders are
t certainly does the black community no favors to make martyrs and heroes of people who were killed by police in the commission of violent crimes.
It does not good for the police to protect cops who kill without justification and have fools like Frantz make heroes of them when they kill people who committed no other crime than being black. You want to foment an insurrection and killings of police and riots, keep that up.
leftyg wrote: I have a list of people: Tamir Rice , Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, and lots of names that beyond them where there should be little doubt that there is a problem. And I have heard what Larry Elder said about the issue, but his statistics are bad. You do realize that there have been very few terrorist attacks in this country where relatively few people have been killed don't you? By your logic we should not be fighting this war on terror. I think we should. We just should not soil our pants over it. But Bob Frantz and other right wing talkers enable the police and inflame minorities.
Your analogy is great, if you believe that police officers are trying to murder people as terrorists are. Do you?
I was asking why Michael Brown's mother was invited. Why was she? We do know that her son was engaged in criminal activity that had involved threats of violence while robbing a convenience store that night, and was also have black civilian witnesses confirming that Michael Brown attacked a police officer. Why should he be considered a martyr to police racism?
It seems that you're switching back and forth. If I use evidence that the trend in police shootings of black people is improving, you say it's about individual cases. But if I mention an individual case that is clearly not an example of racist police behavior, you point to other cases and tell me to consider the narrative as a whole.
I'm saying that some of the individual cases are terrible, but that the narrative of police oppression of black people is exaggerated to a point that is damaging to society.
I oppose anyone attacking people on a racial basis as well. Though I won't say I saw all I needed with the Tamir Rice video. Didn't you just say it's about individual cases? The Tamir Rice case does not make Michael Brown a victim, nor do the myriad discredited claims of the Michael Brown case clear the officer who shot Philando Castile.
So, even though it's demonstrably true that black people are killed by police at historically low rates, and that black people are actually less likely to be killed by police than white people according to the rate at which they encounter police, I'm giving black people a reason to riot and kill police if I don't accept that police killings of black people is a national crisis?
Doesn't truth matter at all? Does it have no impact on you that police killed over a hundred people in New York City in a year forty years ago, and seven last year? The problem is getting better, not worse, and I will not endorse Black Lives Matter as they portray police as predators and make heroes of criminals.
Butters wrote:
Your analogy is great, if you believe that police officers are trying to murder people as terrorists are. Do you? The point Is we should be fighting terrorism, but we should not overreact. This is not Stalingrad and it is not 1942. But these shootings by police are too regular, and it does not paint all policeman as bad, just the ones doing the bad stuff. we should not be giving them a pass and right wing radio should not be giving them a pass. And each case should be valued on its own merit and statistics do not matter. The facts of the individual case matter
You do not know much about that particular incident, and his criminal past does not matter. He was unarmed when he was shot. Admittedly we do not know what happened. The right wing media tries to turn the grand jury's refusal to indict Darren Wilson into a total exoneration which is different than what was found. Michael Brown's mother is a human being and Michael Brown was a human being.
I will not let a vicious unChristian talk show host like Bob Frantz call Michael Brown a thug or a criminal; that takes his humanity away from him; it does not convict or even indict Darren Wilson. Yes, I am rejecting statistical evidence because like I said before, you cannot get a conviction with a trend. We have to know what happened and the Michael Brown case is in the air. A prosecutor said he could still be charged with murder because he was never tried.
Again, I think condoning police violence damages society and has damaged it already. I think the shooting of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge were horrible and wrong but totally predictable. It is not an endorsement of the behavior; it is simply a weather report. The police must police themselves (physician heal thyself) and trials cannot predictably acquit the police and bad trigger happy cops have to go.
Yes I said these were individual cases and Tamir Rice and Michael Brown are very different cases. Bob Frantz claimed that Loehmann hollered "hands up." The Plain Dealer said Loehmann said "drop the gun." We don't know because their was no audio. The case of Michael Brown has not been discredited. Darren Wilson was simply not charged by a grand jury. It is very different. If you listen to only right wing media, they often take a 50-50 ball and convert it into a slam dunk. We do not know whether Michael Brown did anything wrong or not
[quote]It does not good for the police to protect cops who kill without justification and have fools like Frantz make heroes of them when they kill people who committed no other crime than being black. You want to foment an insurrection and killings of police and riots, keep that up[/color]..
[/color] Obviously, the fact that police are killing black men at an all time low is meaningless in all these cases. The argument is a non sequitur. It would be like saying "well we found Mary dead and her husband John standing over her with a gun and a knife drooling, but there haven't been any killings of women by their husbands in a while, so lets not get too excited and lets not arrest poor John." It makes absolutely no sense. All crimes have to be investigated on their own merit with no thumb on the scale for any defendant or against any victim. Justice has to be blind. There is more within group difference than between group difference. We do not judge the behavior of individuals based on group norms. To do so invokes the ecological fallacy.* http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/fallacy.php
Doesn't truth matter at all? Does it have no impact on you that police killed over a hundred people in New York City in a year forty years ago, and seven last year? The problem is getting better, not worse, and I will not endorse Black Lives Matter as they portray police as predators and make heroes of criminals. It is absolutely good that it is getting better, but that does not absolve any guilty party of their guilt. Again it is a non sequitur and an ecological fallacy. We do not refuse to prosecute possibly horrendous crimes simply because they do not happen very often. We address each on its merit. As the Soup Nazi would say "no statistics for you." http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sou ... &FORM=VIRE
*An ecological fallacy (or ecological inference fallacy) is a logical fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data where inferences about the nature of individuals are deduced from inference for the group to which those individuals belong. Ecological fallacy sometimes refers to the fallacy of division which is not a statistical issue.
All right, I'm going to directly challenge what you're describing as my supposed fallacy here. Please quote any time that I have insinuated that any particular officer is not guilty in a case because of the national trend. I have not said any such thing, even once, and therefore have not committed that fallacy. Am I being clear enough here? Just to repeat: I have not, at any point, suggested that any particular shooting is justified because of statistics. Please stop claiming that I am saying that, because I am not.
The claim I am disputing is the one put forward by Black Lives Matter, that there is a national epidemic of police killing black men for no reason. I dispute this claim by pointing out the statistical fact police have probably never been less likely to kill black people since we've had police. I do not claim that this good development makes any particular shooting justified.
It is a fallacy, a double fallacy at least, ecological fallacy and non sequitur. First statistics do not matter in determining the guilt or innocence of an officer in a shooting; they are too general thus the ecological fallacy, and second just because there are few bad shootings does not mean the officer is not guilty, non sequitur. I will allow your explanation that you were not talking abut guilt or innocence, but I will also allow BLM to have their argument as well because one bad killing is one killing too many. Have you come out against guys like Bob Frantz who push the utterly false narrative that there is a war on Christmas and on Christians? I have never heard a peep. Plus it is unwise to tell blacks what they should feel or how they should react. I have heard so many stories from black friends like being stood up against a wall and being frisked for the crime of going to the corner store for their mother or a little boy playing in the street and laughing and having a cop swing a billy club at him which I saw with my own eyes.
Bottom line: "If" your argument was that BLM should not talk about a trend of cop killings because there are fewer, I would argue that is wrong because as long as there are any, they should be protested.
'"If" the argument Is that BLM matter should not complain, then I would suggest that you become more sensitive and empathetic to other people, see the world from their point of view.
An addendum: You mentioned "truth" in your last post. An old professor of mine, a great and nationally renowned scholar, wrote on a paper that I wrote "the truth is the most dangerous thing." I think it was what Tolkien was getting at about the ring. Also if you want to statistically check the number of police shootings you should do it against other comparable nations like the countries of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). These are the 30 or so countries where life for most people is like how it is here; language would be the only barrier. I think it would backup BLM. But most important, I have an understanding of the central problem for conservative thinking and argument and it is this "when they should argue from the general, they argue from the specific; when they should argue from the specific they argue from the general."
Lefty, the US Justice Department determined that the Michael Brown shooting was a clean shoot.
However, they did try to justify the behavior of the residents by using 'statistics' to prove that blacks were inordinately targeted as compared to other cities and averages across the country.
The problem with using Fergusons crime/arrest stats against the country's is that Ferguson is primarily a black city demographically and will, by those very demographics have higher stats for blacks.
It does not mean blacks were racially profiled or targeted.
Yeah, I said before that Wilson was not charged. All the witnesses who said Wilson shot Brown and that Brown put his hands up were deemed "not credible." No credible witness supported Wilson's contention about Brown attacking him though forensic evidence suggests Brown was in Wilson's SUV. I have said all along that the DOJ did not feel it had a strong enough case to convict Wilson, so they did not charge him. That is a long way from a total exoneration https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/f ... rown_1.pdf Now if only Congressional Republicans would give up on Benghazi after nine exonerations.
Yes they did and that is appropriate. The Ferguson police department was creating a hostile culture in the community and had to change. Again you were looking at a group, the behavior of the Ferguson police. So the recommendations were appropriate
Good point, but even if the population is overwhelmingly black, about 70% I think, if 95% of stops are of black people then that might be too much. You can ascertain that by using statistical analysis, but that is tedious here and easy for a computer with a good data set. The DOJ determined that it was and thus the action against the department.
Lefty, you are not arguing against anything I've said. You're arguing against things I haven't said that are much easier to refute. I will be very clear, so please read what I write instead of something I don't. Fair?
1. At no point have I argued or even suggested that statistics should play any role in determining if a shooting was justified. You have now claimed twice that I made this fallacy; I never said it.
2. I do not see how any "war on Christmas" is in any way relevant to this discussion, and I am at a loss to see where it has come up that you believe I should have commented on it.
3. I have not suggested I know how black people should feel about anything, and the only thing I've even potentially said about how they should react is that the riots in Milwaukee over the weekend were wrong and unjustified, especially since no evidence of wrongdoing had been presented yet. Are you saying that if a black man asked you, "Hey, I just heard a cop shot an armed black man but I don't know anything else, should I riot?", you would decline to say that was a bad idea?
4. I do not suggest that Black Lives Matter should not protest or speak out against what they believe to be unjustified killings because the general trend is good. What I suggest is that the narrative that there is an epidemic of police shooting black men for no reason is false. Am I being clear enough? They believe the shooting of Philando Castile was wrong? Protest and seek justice, I support that. Claim that police killing black people for no reason is a national epidemic? That's incorrect, the data just doesn't support it, and I think they should not make unsupportable claims.
5. Those statistics do not support the Black Lives Matter claim, though they could support the claim that we can do better at curtailing fatal police encounters. The reason I say that is that, when you factor in the higher rate at which police encounter black men because of the high crime rate of that population, black men are shot at a disproportionately low rate. This does not make the rate good, of course, and the overall fatal encounter rate should be improved, I agree.
6. That last statement of yours is staggering to me. You are the one, in this thread, who is repeatedly taking my argument that the national trend in police shootings of black me is a positive one, and then claiming that I'm arguing that individual officers are innocent because of it.
There is a problem with police shootings in America. Statistics show it. There were 404 shootings of civilians by police in 2011 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-u ... ple-2014-8 compared to two in England and six in Germany and six in Australia. So another conservative lie is exposed and another right wing misuse of statistics is exposed. The likes of Bob Frantz and Larry Elder are either liars or idiots. And 538.com said that the police in the United States do not even have to report all police shooting. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how ... each-year/ So it could be even higher.
Here are the number of police shootings for the USA and some other advanced countries:
Germany ........6
Australia........ 6
Great Britain .. 2
So, Butters, you are wrong. BLM is right; the right wing is wrong. Anybody with a brain knows that comparing yourself with yourself in the past does nothing to absolve anything. If I weighed 500 two years ago and 450 today, I still have a porblem And while I read your statistical analysis proffered by innumeracy (the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy) by the Larry Elders and Bob Frantz's of the world, I kept thinking does the right have tin ear for suffering? Are they indifferent? Conservatives do well to stay away from statistics. Cause I am not the only person who could deconstruct this nonsense. You are lucky the Olympics were going on and I did not see this sooner.
leftyg wrote: There is a problem with police shootings in America. Statistics show it. There were 404 shootings of civilians by police in 2011 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-u ... ple-2014-8 compared to two in England and six in Germany and six in Australia. So another conservative lie is exposed and another right wing misuse of statistics is exposed. The likes of Bob Frantz and Larry Elder are either liars or idiots. And 538.com said that the police in the United States do not even have to report all police shooting. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how ... each-year/ So it could be even higher.
Let me explain why you did not demonstrate me to be wrong, nor Black Lives Matter to be right.
1. Black Lives Matter claims that there is an epidemic of police killing black people specifically.
2. You show statistics that show how many people in general are shot by police.
Do you not see that 2 does not prove 1?
Oh I got that along time ago. The point is there are a hell of a lot more police shootings in the United States and we all should be upset about it. When I mentioned that we should compare our country with other countries, I expected a big difference indicting our country, but not this kind! It became more important than whether slightly higher percentage of blacks or whites was killed. My guess is that the two guys in England were heavily armed killers or terrorists. I am gonna bet no unarmed kid was shot at a traffic stop in England. I want to impress on you that the Bob Frantz's of the world and the Larry Elder's of the world are out to deceive you and abuse numbers to achieve a goal of protecting the interests of elites. Percentages of people killed by race is a smoke screen. You have never given specific numbers but one I saw 97 unarmed people killed and 37 were black. Now that is five times the expected value by population. And if you say but blacks represent 50% of murderers, so this is an under sample because it is only about 38%. The fact that they are unarmed means they might not be criminals and the odds that the people they killed were innocent.
We have a real problem in this country with police violence by using statistics, and cops almost always get away with murder in this country we have enabled them. Even with a video tape of him killing Tamir Rice Tim Loehmann got away with murder. 404to 6 t0 6 t0 2. Our police win that Olympic event hands down.
by JuicedTruth » August 17th, 2016, 1:29 pm
I think people cherry pick these police statistics far too much -- on both sides of the issue. I'm not certain there is enough good data (and that's a good thing) in cases that can be reasonably compared. So you have to dig through each police shooting and see the individual circumstances involved to see if the shootings that involved blacks are more likely to be "fringe" shootings, where the officer likely didn't need to use deadly force, even if it could be legally justified.
AND Germany, Australia and Great Britain do not have the population of the US either
by hmmmmm » August 17th, 2016, 5:05 pm
Scorpion wrote: AND Germany, Australia and Great Britain do not have the population of the US either
Plus different cultures and demographics.
I was waiting for that and you are exactly right. Germany has 82 million people; The United Kingdom has 62 million people; Australia has 24 million people. We have 310 million people. http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/popula ... opls.htmSo you are right. Lets multiply those numbers. We will be generous and multiply Germany by four (4), United Kingdom by five (5) and Australia by thirteen (13).
Germany........... 6X4=24
Australia ...........6X13=78
United Kingdom...2X5=10
So there you have it. You have three countries that are far less prone to this activity than the United States police. And you understand if you read the 538 report it is the United States that cheery picks by not having to report all police homicides.
Yeah that is the problem. Something about us makes it seem ok for cops to kill people. That might be something we would want to fix. Nice to hear from you hmmmmm.
Exactly right. There are few enough police shootings that we can do that. 400 is a lot but spread throughout the nation it is doable. And every case has to be taken on its merit. For example the shooting in Milwaukee was a good shoot. Nobody rational denies that. Evidently there is all the evidence necessary to show that it was a good shoot. Several others are not. And Wobbly pointed out that Freddie Gray went into the back of a paddy wagon alive and died of injuries shortly after he came out, and the cops got a pass. In Cleveland Brelo got a pass by a judge though he was fired. Tim Loehmann got a pass for obvious bad conduct to anybody with an IQ higher than Bob Frantz which is nearly everybody who is out and about feeding themselves or everybody who is not a stone racist.
JT in almost all these cases: Tamir Rice the two poeple in East Cleveland, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile copsters murdered innocent people and should be in prison.
You cannot go through life and be perfectly objective. I imagine that there were a lot of perfectly objective people in Germany when Hitler took over. BTW Godwin's law can go to hell. I have wal swindog, the idea that if we adhere too closely to Godwins law we will have another Hitler. You just can't be an idiot about it and see everybody as a fascist. But killing innocent people and the fat, happy populous not minding is a sign of a growing fascism. We rationally guard against other diseases; maybe we should guard against this.
Listen to the beginning of this hour of the Frantz show. It is blatant race baiting https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-1
Your also assuming that the police shootings are somehow unjustified. Some are, to be sure; however, we also have a much higher violent crime rate than most other developed countries, don't we (on the chart I saw, Russia was the only developed country with a higher violent crime rate than us)? That would seem to make it much more likely that our police will be met with violence while trying to stop crime, and therefore more likely to have valid reason to use lethal force.
I agree the rate should be lower, however,; the fact that we have been bringing down incidents of police shootings indicates it can be improved, and we should try to do better. But our police probably meet more violent resistance than other developed countries.
our also assuming that the police shootings are somehow unjustified. Some are, to be sure; however, we also have a much higher violent crime rate than most other developed countries, don't we (on the chart I saw, Russia was the only developed country with a higher violent crime rate than us)? That would seem to make it much more likely that our police will be met with violence while trying to stop crime, and therefore more likely to have valid reason to use lethal force.
That is an uber excellent point. We have that problem, and I was waiting for somebody to catch it. That brings us to the larger problem of why do we have such violent crime relative to other advanced countries, in the same way as I expanded the discussion when I saw massive number of shootings compared to other countries, regardless of race. I think several of us point to media as a conduit in different ways. Again the topic of this thread that should reflect the cancer that I believe Mr. Frantz represents: he in no way is interested in having a conversation just a monologue and absolution for his faithful far right minions. He abjures conversation and abhors disagreement. That partisanship or partisan point of view will not change much
And you cannot solve a problem unless you can see beyond yourself. R D Laing said "unless you see through your culture, you will only see through your culture." and there is a lovely little riddle that has an easy answer and the riddle is "who discovered water?" The answer: "I don't know, but I bet it was not a fish." Both hint that we have to get beyond our own context and find a better solution than shooting people. When these sort of differences exist, there is something wrong and assigning blame to ether the police or the person he shoots will not solve the problem, but it will prolong it into perpetuity if we do nothing. Arguing over who is guilty does not change a thing. And we cannot have that conversation when we have hosts on radio shows looking for ratings and avoiding ideas they disagree with via the dump switch and the derision of their mob of blind followers.
One way and that is to have a conversation, to listen to BLM and to others who disagree with them to find some common ground. The answer is blowin' in the wind, and it is an answer that may not even exist yet, fully developed in anybody's mind but it can be put there with hard work.
leftyg wrote: One way and that is to have a conversation, to listen to BLM and to others who disagree with them to find some common ground. The answer is blowin' in the wind, and it is an answer that may not even exist yet, fully developed in anybody's mind but it can be put there with hard work.
I am perfectly willing to listen to anyone whose mind is not already made up. There are people in the Black Lives Matter movement that really just want to make things better. I do not believe this is true of people who, for example, tried to inflame tensions and started riots over a shooting in Milwaukee that appears at this point to have been quite justified. And yes, I do call out people who try to do the opposite and excuse obvious police abuses.
Exactly which means people like Bob Frantz perhaps should not be a part of this conversation because if you have read many of the 260 posts on this thread I have tried to chronicle over a year just how much he has tried to fan these flames. I am a lot more savvy about getting links from his sound cloud then I was when I started this project, but he has been outrageous. I do not think calling dead young black men thugs is kosher, especially when nobody really knows the particulars of their cases. Even today in Milwaukee there are some question marks about that case though right now I can not find that story, so they may have been resolved
Interesting, WHK put up a story a couple days ago about how the Brazilian government was trying to set up Ryan Lochte and some other American about an alleged incident at a gas station where they claimed to be robbed. I put up a post saying that they should wait until the facts were in, but they left the "how dare you insult our athletes " post up until it was conclusively proven that the Americans had acted out; then they unceremoniously pulled it down and it did not exist anymore.
by JuicedTruth » August 19th, 2016, 9:49 am
I do not believe this is true of people who, for example, tried to inflame tensions and started riots over a shooting in Milwaukee that appears at this point to have been quite justified. And yes, I do call out people who try to do the opposite and excuse obvious police abuses.
I don't think it's reasonable to attribute 100% of the cause of the riots to the shooting there. It was definitely the trigger point but there are a ton of things that have been boiling for quite some time now. And the more questionable shootings that happen, the more tension there will be when there are shootings that were justified.
I think it's reasonable; I do not believe there would have been riots if an armed criminal with a history of violence had not been shot by police. That this shooting could trigger riots is a statement about where anti-police rhetoric has taken us.
As I've said, it's hard for me to comment on a guy I don't listen to. I already listen to three or four radio shows a day via podcast, and I don't feel especially motivated to take the time and effort to listen to Bob Frantz.
I do have to say that, if you perhaps saying it's wrong to call Michael Brown a thug, I would not do that in the normal course of conversation. I won't say I would never say it, though, if someone were talking like Officer Wilson was a murderer. You've seen the video of Michael Brown robbing the convenience store; if that isn't thuggish behavior, what is?
Listen to five minutes, especially what he said about Hillary Clinton. He is a fascist OR he is just doing a routine for which he is paid, doing big time wrestling with the crucial issues of the day. He is quintessentially the sort of person that is doing harm to this country. You are the kind of person who is trying to help even though I often disagree with you.
I think Michael Brown's behavior is a dead issue like him. I think it is inappropriate to speak ill of him post mortem. He was a kid who made some mistakes, but I do not know If he deserved to die because no honest person does. We can malign Hitler after he died or some hideous mass murderer or we can joke that "General Francisco Franco is still dead," but it is different that when we do it to a dead kid who cannot defend himself. I am happy that nobody has to call Daren Wilson "Officer Wilson" anymore. I do not think he had the temperament for the job.
I think the riots are perhaps the residue of rogue police behavior and policeman not being punished or imprisoned for obvious bad behavior, and they are being enabled by irresponsible right wing talkers like Bob Frantz.
leftyg wrote: I think Michael Brown's behavior is a dead issue like him. I think it is inappropriate to speak ill of him post mortem. He was a kid who made some mistakes, but I do not know If he deserved to die because no honest person does. We can malign Hitler after he died or some hideous mass murderer or we can joke that "General Francisco Franco is still dead," but it is different that when we do it to a dead kid who cannot defend himself. I am happy that nobody has to call Daren Wilson "Officer Wilson" anymore. I do not think he had the temperament for the job.
You see, this is the problem. You have a police officer cleared of wrongdoing, and you seem to be perfectly comfortable with people maligning his character and assuming that he did something wrong, and that something was probably racists. However, the man that multiple witnesses (including black civilians) saw attack that police officer, and who we have on video robbing a convenience store shortly before that shooting, somehow it's wrong for people to question his character. Why?
I'm curious. You say that rogue police are enabled by people who make excuses for them. Would it be fair to say that rioters are enabled by people who malign the police to the point that riots erupt over a shooting that appears justified?
First several witnesses confirmed that Michael Brown was killed; they just were not believed. One of the defense witnesses for Darren Wilson, was a woman named Sandra McElroy http://www.inquisitr.com/1685885/key-fe ... ort-finds/ who did not even live in the area but was a witness for Wilson and admitted to being "witness 40." Nobody else confirmed Wilson's story. BUT he was exonerated mostly on forensic evidence. But I don't know if he did it or not. You think you do, and that is the problem. Look I have not said Wilson got away with murder; I just think he is probably a bad cop and should find another way to pay the bills. You know conservatives really like to put their thumbs on the scale in variety of issues. They will always give cops the benefit of the doubt even when there is video. The problem is that even after your side has successfully taken his life without penalty (congratulations) you still want to besmirch his memory and remind everybody that a videotape (something that does not fly when it shows a cop killing somebody) shows he stole some cigarillos. And doesn't it bother you that cops always get away with this after the stuff I showed you about the number of killings by the police.
You have to grow up black in America to answer that. But I grew up white in America and am sickened when people like Bob Frantz act out with such vengeance in areas where they lack the training and the knowledge to offer an informed opinion and are too stupid (or dishonest) to know the difference between not being indicted and not being convicted. I think the approach I have chose to take here is more measured and provisional, though it may not sound that way to you.
leftyg wrote: First several witnesses confirmed that Michael Brown was killed; they just were not believed. One of the defense witnesses for Darren Wilson, was a woman named Sandra McElroy http://www.inquisitr.com/1685885/key-fe ... ort-finds/ who did not even live in the area but was a witness for Wilson and admitted to being "witness 40." Nobody else confirmed Wilson's story. BUT he was exonerated mostly on forensic evidence. But I don't know if he did it or not. You think you do, and that is the problem. Look I have not said Wilson got away with murder; I just think he is probably a bad cop and should find another way to pay the bills. You know conservatives really like to put their thumbs on the scale in variety of issues. They will always give cops the benefit of the doubt even when there is video. The problem is that even after your side has successfully taken his life without penalty (congratulations) you still want to besmirch his memory and remind everybody that a videotape (something that does not fly when it shows a cop killing somebody) shows he stole some cigarillos. And doesn't it bother you that cops always get away with this after the stuff I showed you about the number of killings by the police.
I find it offensive that you think my "side has successfully taken his life without penalty". I am not a part of any side that would consider any unjust killing a good thing. I simply believe that Michael Brown is dead today because of his own poor decisions; to engage in robbery, and then to attack a police officer.
If you're wondering why I believe that Michael Brown attacked Darrin Wilson, the reason is simple. That is the account that makes the most sense.
There are no more conservatives who are ready to defend obviously bad cops than there are liberals willing to assume racism every time a police officer encounters a black person.
I'll be completely honest with you. Allowing for the fact that I can't really comment on your thoughts on Bob Frantz, I have found your tone in general in the discussion to be constructive, though I have disagreed with some points (mostly that I think you default to the assumption of racism, where I default to agnostic and require evidence of racism). What has really taken me aback, however, is your reaction to me bringing up the riots in Milwaukee. Take the shooting in South Carolina. It would be inexcusable for me or anyone who supports law enforcement to try to make excuses and say, "Well, you have to understand that most of these supposedly racist shootings turn out to not be how the activists describe them." That would be utter crap, whatever has happened in other incidents cannot possibly excuse a police officer shooting an unarmed man running away from him.
By that same standard, when I say how inexcusable the riots in Milwaukee are, you explain that I need to understand how many racist incidents do happen and how many times they've heard about police shooting black men, even if this particular one is justified. Just as my example would be crap, this is crap. There is no excuse to riot and destroy neighborhoods and terrorize people, period, and it is especially egregious when the incident that sparked it appears to have been a criminal threatening police with a gun.
Yeah, I was wrong to say "your side." I apologize. Still you follow that with a series of assumptions. Nobody really knows what happened other than Michael Brown is dead. Last time I check, robbery is not a capital punishment crime, especially an unarmed robbery.
If you are wondering why I believe that Michael Brown attacked Darrin Wilson, the reason is simple. That is the account that makes the most sense.
In the four years since George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, discussing this has been a cottage industry. Why? I think it is because the media has emphasized the most extreme cases because they are news worthy. When an apparent or possible injustice is done, then people want to know about it. Yes liberals are concerned, and alt right people are rooting for an acquittal. I have not said that Darren Wilson is guilty of anything but bad policing and being in the wrong occupation. It is your level of certainty that bothers me, the assumption of Wilson's innocence and Brown's guilt. And again you do not pick on dead people; it's wrong.
Again this is the result of Bob Frantz and people like him drilling this narrative into conservatives heads every day. It is why I make sure to balance my uasage of liberal and conservative media.
by Butters » August 21st, 2016, 11:53 pm
I feel fairly sure that Michael Brown gave Darrin Wilson reason to fire. Aside from the multiple witnesses, the blood splatter evidence shows that Michael Brown moved about 21 feet in Darrin Wilson's direction, and the shell casing pattern shows that Darrin Wilson was backing away while firing.
Before you just act like I'm jumping to unwarranted conclusions, you should keep in mind that I do not have a track record of excusing bad shootings or abuses by police.
by leftyg » August 22nd, 2016, 12:11 am
That was the forensic evidence I referred to. And from what I read no witnesses confirmed Darrin Wilson's testimony except this forensic evidence. And I heard several people say at the time tha Wilson shot him, and in court they were not believed or were not found to be credible.
I am a little sensitive because about a week before Bob banned me he wanted me to say that Michael Brown was a thug, and I refused. I do not know if he is a thug or a saint, but I do not know anything much about this. Certainty on these type of issues either way bothers me. So if you think I have lumped you in with the Bob Frantz's of the world I have not. He is a vile awful nasty man OR he just plays one and gins up and enrages poor folks who listen to his show and fills them with hate for ratings which I also find despicable.
by Butters » August 22nd, 2016, 1:30 pm
Nearly all of the witnesses confirm that Michael Brown was moving toward Darrin Wilson, though there were some differences in how witnesses interpreted what they saw. Some did say that he appeared to be charging or attacking Wilson.
All I can do is consider the evidence and come to the conclusion that I think makes the most sense. I can't imagine a scenario in which Darrin Wilson decided to murder Michael Brown in cold blood, and yet was backing away from him while Michael Brown was moving toward him. On the other hand, that Michael Brown was moving toward Darrin Wilson in a manner that he found threatening does make sense to me, and is confirmed by forensic evidence and some of the witness testimony.
I don't claim I know what happened for sure. But I generally think Occam's Razor is true, and the scenario in which Michael Brown, perhaps overreacting to the encounter because he was afraid of what would happen because he had just robbed a convenience store, made a tragic error in judgment and charged Darrin Wilson seems to be the simplest and most reasonable. Any other scenario seems to require some mental gymnastics, at least to me.
by leftyg » August 22nd, 2016, 6:21 pm
That is about the best argument your side can make, and I do not think people on the other side really know either. That though is the problem, We do not know and act as if we do. That allows guys like Bob Frantz to come out and overstate Wilson's innocent and Brown's guilt. In my next post, I am going to explain why Frantz, my model for a right wing talker did something today on his show.
by leftyg » August 23rd, 2016, 1:48 am
The whole reason for this thread and its going on so long is to show you that Bob has some agendas on race in this country. I do not know why he has them, but throughout the time I have been monitoring him, every time he encounters bad behavior by blacks he has harsh solutions for it: Zack Reed should be fired for his drinking, but white ex-quarterback Bernie Kosar when caught drunk driving should get a pass (bad pun); Josh Gordon should be banned from football for being 1 nanometers over the limit on the NFL's extremely draconian marijuana drug test,* while Johnny Manziel should be left alone over his drinking problem and his hitting of his girl-friend because he needed help. When Isaiah Crowell made some admitted inappropriate comments about violence against police, he wanted Crowell released immediately, but when Kristi Capel used the slur "jigaboo music" about the performance of Lady Gaga at the Oscars Frantz tweeted this: "Seriously: Leave @Kristi_Capel the hell alone. She obviously had no idea what the word meant--as a slur or otherwise. ZERO intent to offend." https://twitter.com/FrantzRadio/status/ ... wsrc%5Etfw
And I could go on with many more, but you would get bored and I would get mad. Today, Bob had a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expert, Phillip Haney, on his show. Both felt it supremely important that we identify radical terrorism as being "Radical Islamic Terrorism." Why this is Mr. Haney or Mr. Frantz did not say at first, but it came out very clearly later. Both seemed incensed that there was a civil rights and civil liberties branch of the DHS which redacted terms in the documents that disparaged Islam and Mr. Haney claimed that in a third purge, actual records were removed. It should be noted that Jen Johnson, the Secretary of DHS, denied any of it. Johnson said, and this is very important, and "decided to elaborate his response saying that he found 'this whole debate to be very interesting', but that he did not care if someone was a radical Islamic extremist or another kind of extremist." http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/dhs-s ... dhs-video/ Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/dhs-s ... z4I80YbzIs
And then Bob revealed his real agenda: he wants terrorism identified as "Radical Islamic Terrorism" because Bob does not want "far right groups" and their potential for violence exposed like Dylann Roof who killed nine African-American people in Charleston, South Carolina and the people who carry the Confederate Flag "because they are not the ones carrying out these acts of violence" after he ironically describes an act of violence that kills nine people which, to him, it is not an act of terrorism. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 Pay particular attention minutes 26-27 and Bob's monologue from about 23 minutes on). And Sunday, a group of Confederate Flag wavers, many brandishing assault rifles held "White Lives Matter" placards outside the Houston Texas NAACP office. Bob did not mention this threatening activity, probably because the protestors were white Christians. Bob does not want you to pay attention to this protest or the protestors assault rifles; instead "look a squirrel, a Muslim squirrel!" And he never mentioned that incident on his show today, surprise.
And there are good reasons savvy security experts do not want to label all terrorism as "Radical Islamic Terrorism." First they do not want to dismiss a significant source of terrorism because it does not fit a very narrow definition made by the right wing. So Bob does not want to recognize racist acts of violence and acts of violence against abortion clinics which I will elude to in the next paragraph as acts of terror. But DHS does because it might save lives that might be sacrificed if they adhered to the semantic word play the right wants to impose. Bob wants all the focus on the Muslim squirrel and not even consider violence by probable right wing actors as being terror. By redefining the term terrorism, he relieves himself and many of his audience of guilt for their willful ignoring of violence by people that they agree with on issues. Second, the only countries that can stop radical Islamic groups from committing acts of terror are Islamic countries, and it might be a nice idea if we refrained from calling them "Radical Islamic Terrorists" because it might piss them off.
Once, when I called Bob and suggested that the shooter in Colorado Springs at the Planned Parenthood center was Christian, Bob went ballistic and said that I was full of nonsense that this shooting was not an act of terror. Then he dumped my call. In that, you get to the bottom of Bobby: the things he says of others are generally more true of him. People like Bob are not very self-reflective, and the Alt Right, represents a rather large chunk of the population. They do not get that the stuff they dole out to others and the insults they make to other people like calling young black men "thugs" might piss those young men off because when they, the righties, vent their spleens, they do not care. And what we do not need are more people fighting us because of religion or race or pissed off over what ignorant talk show hosts say.
*The NFL's limit for marijuana in the blood is 15 nanometers per milliliter of urine; the Olympic limit is 150. Gordon's value was 16.
by Scorpion » August 23rd, 2016, 10:38 am
Lefty, Kristy's use of a 'slur', which I really dont think she knew, in NO WAY compares to a person making comments about violence against police officers.
by leftyg » August 23rd, 2016, 12:01 pm
Scorpion wrote: Lefty, Kristy's use of a 'slur', which I really dont think she knew, in NO WAY compares to a person making comments about violence against police officers.
That is because you have a bias. You see that is the whole problem. It is perfectly ok for my side to blame or insult your side or to blame you, but it is not ok for you to blame or insult my side. Second, both comments were just that, comments, opinions. And I do not buy that Kristi did not know. She cannot be that dumb and if she is she shouldn't be on TV. Isaiah was a young man who said some stupid things on intagram because of the pent up anger had which is more believable than Kristi not knowing the connotation of a word. And as you remember Wobbly and I did not want Kristi fired. I cannot speak for Wobbly past what he posted, but I thought the station did the right thing. Incidentally, Bob got banned from Facebook for a while over the Crowell comments which must have been taken down because I did not find them. He has since been reinstated. BUT Bob didn't learn a thing from the incident. Instead he did a show on how Facebook censors conservative views. The point of that part of the thread was that Bob consistently forgives whites for their mistakes and almost unerringly condemns blacks ad nauseam for theirs.
The larger point of the post was that on his show he uses fear mongering about terrorism to get the focus on the Muslim religion and not the real culprit, fanaticism. AND
Christians can be fanatics and he is ok with that because he has many of them as guests on his show. He plays a semantic game that says Dylann Roof was not a terrorist because he was not a jihadi, so DHS should not waste their time looking at Klansters because they are not a threat to our country. In his heart, I do not think Bob thinks racism or Alt Right extremism is a threat to our country. He wants the focus on Islam and terrorism while ignoring racism because I think he is a religious and racial bigot. And the two know how to tango as history has so sadly shown. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 (look at 26-30 minutes, especially at about the 27 minute mark when he says it expressly)
by Scorpion » August 23rd, 2016, 12:14 pm
You are judging Kristi the exact way you skewer Butters for making assumptions about Michael Brown!
How so? they are two different things. I think Kristi benefits from a Frantz double standard about race: white people can say or do what they want; blacks should be ostracized or KILLED when they get out of line. I think Butters understands that I think assumptions are bad things. I think characters like Bob who never meant a case he could not overstate make people vulnerable to assuming too much when they make their apodictic pronouncements.* Remember when you assume, you make an ass of u and me.
* apodictic clearly established or beyond dispute. oxford dictionary
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leftyg wrote: You are judging Kristi the exact way you skewer Butters for making assumptions about Michael Brown! How so? they are two different things. I think Kristi benefits from a Frantz double standard about race: white people can say or do what they want; blacks should be ostracized or KILLED when they get out of line. I think Butters understands that I think assumptions are bad things. I think characters like Bob who never meant a case he could not overstate make people vulnerable to assuming too much when they make their apodictic pronouncements.* Remember when you assume, you make an ass of u and me.
You are giving Michael Browns past the benefit of the doubt because you don't wish to speak ill of the dead sbut not Kristi's youth or, more than likely, sheltered upbringing.
She's a fricking generation behind!
In the grand scheme of thingsWHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!
by leftyg » August 23rd, 2016, 1:10 pm
I believe in innocent until proven guilty and you are right, I do not pick on dead people unless they are guys like Hitler or Stalin. We do not know what happened that day. We know Michael Brown is dead and we know Darren Wilson shot him. Whether it was justified or not is up in the air and will probably stay there. The grand jury decided not to indict, so that is where it stays. At least it was put before a jury, and in this case I would not be shocked If the shooting was justified.
Wise people would not use words on air when they do not know what they mean, and I am having a hard time believing a girl who immediately knew that a beautiful but white bread song like the Sound of Music was not j music, did not know what the j word meant.
And if it is true that she came from a racist part of the country, remember that Isaiah Crowell probably came from some pretty mean streets where sometimes he felt his life was not much valued. You see Scorp, everybody wants to be understood, but most people do no care if they understand
by Scorpion » August 23rd, 2016, 1:17 pm
Jesus Christ lefty.
Jiggaboo sounds like the name of a fucking dance.
Scorpion wrote: Jesus Christ lefty.
But you are not supposed to talk about sex on TV. And last time I checked fucking had to do with sex. And dancing can have something to do with sex. Put them together and I would say Kristi has a real problem. And if it is about sex Bob is not going to tweet to her defense. He will back up a racist, but obscenity is where he draws the line. Bob will not defend porn.
by hmmmmm » August 23rd, 2016, 6:02 pm
Lefty, I hope you are joking.... but in case you are not, let me help.
This line "Jiggaboo sounds like the name of a fucking dance", is not about fucking..... it's like saying a "freaking dance" or a "damn dance" or just a "dance", and not a dance about sex.
If someone calls me a "fucking idiot", they ain't talkin' about sex !!
Either way you made me chuckle, so thanks for that
We need a fucking like button
"I read your post and thank you but about the part that "If someone calls me a "fucking idiot", they ain't talkin' about sex !!"
Well you never now, here is the deal. MAYBE there are women who are attracted to men ( I assume you are a man) they think are stupid and want to dance with them to the moon so to speak. Don't worry about me on that score because I do not think you are stupid.
The truth is though that we all know that Bob would defend a racist before he would a person who used obscenity, and more that anything I think that is what I do not like about him
I like you too Scorp. I like that you have a sense of humor. There are so many PC people on the left and so many rabid people on the right that politics just is not fun. I also like butters who is coming on here and keeping things vital. And I want to read more of hmmmmmm too.
As if on cue Bobby posts this about people protesting the Confederate flag at the Lorain County Fair:
Seriously, shut the hell up. Then read the Constitution.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 One poster caught it perfectly. Name deleted
I'm white. I'm so white, if I'm in direct sunlight longer than five minutes, I start to smoke. However, this flag offends me deeply. It offends me because:
1) It stands for treason, defined in Article 3 of the Constitution as taking arms against the United States.
2) It's an affront to my several great-great-grandfathers on both sides of my family who fought against this flag.
3) It's an affront to the state of Ohio, which sent far more troops per capita than any other state in the Union to fight against this flag.
Given our history, this flag has no place in Ohio and Buckeyes who defend it display an appalling ignorance.
Now I looked searching through Bobby's website, Frantz Radio, and could find no place where Bobby defended porn. But we have this rabid defense of racism and his defense of Kristi Capel to show he is OK with racism. BTW, I agree it shows Bobby to be unpatriotic; he never fought in a war although he enthusiastically supports others dying for nothing. We are Buckeyes and my great-great granddaddy, Great-Great Grand Dad Fisher would run wildly through the house my grandma told me every time the old man heard a train whistle because he thought it was bringin' rebels to fight. (yes they had ptsd in those days too.)
by Scorpion » August 25th, 2016, 10:26 pm
leftyg wrote: As if on cue Bobby posts this about people protesting the Confederate flag at the Lorain County Fair:
Hey, message Wayne Dawson and confirm your assertion about Kristi being a racist.......go ahead.
Woefully ignorant perhaps, but racist........keep it up.
First, this thread is not about Kristi Capel being a racist; it is about Bob Frantz being a racist. Look at the title of the thread. Do you see Kristi Capel Flames the Fires of Racism on Fox 8? No, this is about a whole bunch of stuff Bob Frantz has done and does not appear to want to stop doing that is racist. The other day he was an apologist for the Confederate Flag if you would have bothered to look at my previous post from his Klanish Facebook page at Frantz Radio where he defends the flag saying to his opponents:"Seriously, shut the hell up. Then read the Constitution." What is it with Kristi Capel? Is she your daughter? I got nothing against Kristi. She made a little mistake and we have all moved on. If Bob made a little mistake on race I would move on, but this jackass keeps making them on a daily basis. He puts on his pants in the morning and thinks of new crap and new ways to find justice for whites against the scary blacks. He probably would not wear the pants he put on in a way that exposed his underwear, and it starts there with slurs to young black guys who do wear their pants low* and then builds from there to defend the right of the police or any random white vigilante to shoot young black men and de facto defending slavery in that he thinks the Confederate Flag has constitutional rights, more than the voting rights of a black without an ID.
The only way Kristi Capel's behavior with blacks would ever offend Bob is if she dated Wayne Dawson or Isaiah Crowell.
*Andre Knott on WTAM said Bob accosted a couple young black guys at a swimming pool about wearing their pants too low around Bob's kids. I wonder if he minded young white girls in thong bikinis trapesing around in front of his kids. I mean they probably showed a lot more skin.
Objection.
What conjecture? Andre said it on the Triv Show when they were talking about what a right wing nut Bob was not long before he, Bob, got fired. And at swimming pools they have scantily clad young women. Observing this fact has been an important part of my life since I can remember. It is not farfetched to imagine a scantily clad girl adjacent a young guy who is sagging. I do not see what as farfetched, and I certainly do not think it is farfetched that Bob would be more upset with the sagger, especially if he is black, than the young lady even though she is showing a lot more.
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What conjecture. Andre said it on the Triv Show when they were talking about what a right wing nut Bob was not long before he, Bob, got fired. And at swimming pools they have scantily clad young women. Observing this has been an important part of my life since I can remember. It is not farfetched to imagine a scantily clad girl adjacent a young guy who is sagging. I do not see what as farfetched, and I certainly do not think it is farfetched that Bob would be more upset with the sagger, especially if he is black, than the young lady even though she is showing a lot more.
I hate the daggers who practically have the crotch of their pants at their knees.
Sylvia tells them to hike em up or get out.
She can get away with that.
She's 62 and black.
And generally, public pools have a dress code.
I don't believe thongs are permitted.
Having the word dagger near the word crotch makes me queasy. But Giant Eagle does not have a swimming pool on the premises either, so Sylvia can get away with it. But lets face it Bob would have caused a scene, especially if the kid was black. There would have been a mess in aisle four.
meant saggers.
:oops: meant saggers.
Well, saggers don't like daggers, especially if said dagger is wielded by Bob Frantz and you happen to be black.
I wanna bitch slap the little welps, but that wouldn't go over very well.........
with Bob it will help his ratings.
Bob does not figure into my dismay that the black youth of today desire for the general public to a very clear look at their choice in plaid undergarments.
Then there are those who choose solid colors to better enhance their round tight asses.
This is not a case where LESS is more.
You see I would never have thought of that. If Bob did, I think he would be even madder if he thought about it. After all isn't the real purpose of conservatism to make sure that nobody no place is enjoying themselves unless it is some rich white guy exploiting his workers, especially if they are minorities. I mean the whole purpose of conservativism being the utter elimination of pleasure for most everybody but these few guys I mentioned. If some guys wore form fitting underwear this quest might be harmed. As a matter of fact it might enhance the pleasure of women and gay men, two groups the right particularly wants not to have any pleasure.
Could that be why I'm practically a star on he top of a libertarian tree?
One of one stupid, What Are You Tests had me right on top.
Here is the thing Bob is not a libertarian. He is an Alt Right authoritarian. Bob will vote for Trump; it sounds like you are voting for Gary Johnson and encouraging young men to wear speedos to supermarkets, especially Giant Eagle
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leftyg wrote: Could that be why I'm practically a star on he top of a libertarian tree?
Missing something???????
That is because I hit submit instead of quote because I am quite old.
This is a lot more serious. I saw a video on Bob Frantz's Facebook page by a woman named Heather MacDonald and it is sponsored by Pragar University https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 In it Ms. MacDonald states that blacks are !8.5 times as likely to kill a policeman as a policeman is to kill an unarmed black. First what does this mean? It is an apples to oranges comparison. According to Uptown Magazine 25 unarmed blacks were killed by police in 2015. http://www.uptownmagazine.com/2014/12/2 ... lice-2014/ For Ms. MacDonald's contention to be true 462 police officers would have been killed by blacks alone, but according to the National Officer's Law Enforcement Memorial Fund there were 123 policeman killed nationally in 2015 by all causes. http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fat ... /year.html
So Ms. MacDonald is a tool who takes her stats from an organization called the Council for Conservative Citizens who served as an impetus for Dylann Roof's terrorist murder of nine innocent blacks at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/06/23 ... dnt-ac.cnn Remember on hour two of his August 22, 2016 podcast he did not want right wing groups included in the definition of terrorism https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 ( go to about the 26.5-27.5 minute mark where he mentions Dylann Roof by name and implies that he was not a terrorist because he wasn't a Muslim). There is a reason. On August 25th he was going to put up a slander of black people every bit as evil and dishonest as any Muslim attack on infidels, and by infidels I mean anybody that opposes Sharia law. Even if it was not his intention, it had the same affect. And like the CNN video, Bob does not have the courage to come on here and defend himself because he is more than welcome, unlike me who he has banned form both his radio show and his Facebook page, just like the head of the Council of Conservative Citizens in the video above would not talk to a reporter and answer questions. http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/06/23 ... dnt-ac.cnn
This is an exchange Bob had with an African-America poster about the video in the comment section: name of poster deleted: "You're a race baiter..." Bob Frantz responds: "Facts are not racist, sir." One of Bobby's minions chimes in with: Name deleted,"how about arguing with facts?" The poster retorts, and I think with great courage, truth and conviction: " Frantz supporter name deleted the fact is how can we come together when we keep each other in a box? Why can't you be a little liberal and a little conservative at the same time? Truthfully I feel sorry for you and the unnecessary burden you carry..." https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345
Bob seeks to divide us and this poster said it eloquently, why do we put each other in a box? I think with just what I have put so far any person would see that Heather MacDonald is lying and misleading. Remember that Dylann Roof was led to his evil act by hatred and by organizations like the Council for Conservative Citizens who spew the hatred that people like Heather MacDonald and Bob Frantz push.
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by Butters » August 28th, 2016, 10:20 pm
leftyg wrote: This is a lot more serious. I saw a video on Bob Frantz's Facebook page by a woman named Heather MacDonald and it is sponsored by Pragar University https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 In it Ms. MacDonald states that blacks are !8.5 times as likely to kill a policeman as a policeman is to kill an unarmed black. First what does this mean? It is an apples to oranges comparison. According to Uptown Magazine 25 unarmed blacks were killed by police in 2015. http://www.uptownmagazine.com/2014/12/2 ... lice-2014/ For Ms. MacDonald's contention to be true 462 police officers would have been killed by blacks alone, but according to the National Officer's Law Enforcement Memorial Fund there were 123 policeman killed nationally in 2015 by all causes. http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fat ... /year.html
I'm sorry, I might have missed something. Exactly what hateful thing has Heather MacDonald said, and what did she say that wasn't true? Making an comparison you see as invalid isn't a lie; you did that earlier in this thread. Thinking that it is hysteria to claim that police are out there massacring black men isn't hatred.
There seems to be trend to treat any skepticism of black activist claims of how police are out to murder them as race hatred.
First do you remember she said that aploiceman is 18.5 times as likely to be killed by a black as he or she is to kill an unarmed person. I showed that was patently false! I cited the data. Did you read it? If not I will refresh your memory There were 25 unarmed blacks killed in 2014 and 123 cops killed or died on duty in 2015 (122 in 2014). If all of them were killed by blacks that would be 462 cops. Patently false. But worse a debate non sequitur, meaning it does not follow any argument; it is an apples to orange argument. In Cleveland she said that murders by blacks were up 90% in 2015. I could not find anything to verify that. I live here, and I do not remember any language like that or stories that would verify it. She was probably lying. I will find out tomorrow when I call the medical examiners office. Ask anybody in town if it is true. I did check the murders for 2015 and found out that as of June first they had dropped http://fox8.com/2015/06/01/cleveland-cr ... increased/
Now I have already made the argument based on the thinking of Nancy Grace of all people that these statistics do not matter anyway. The only things that matter is was Alton Sterling threatening police, was the man in Minnesota threatening the cop who shot him, the tendency of conservative intellectuals to argue from the specific when they should argue from the general and from the general when they should use the specific. These cases require the specific .
Put that aside Ms.MacDonald analysis is second rate. You do not use the would "truth" in a scientific study. Anybody with first year graduate school credentials knows that; it is a tip off to an agenda. There is another piece to the puzzle. There is a thing called multiple regression analysis. I have used it often. It mimics the causal model and you may have heard the famous saying "correlation is not causation." That means that even if a relationship exists, it may not be between the variables we have selected. To "prove" causation you have to prove three things" a comes before b; a correlates with b and all z factors are ruled out. And one huge Z factor Ms. MacDonald ignores is poverty. The Bureau of Justice showed that very poor blacks (less than 7500 dollars a year) were victims of violence five times as often as blacks making over 75 thousand dollars a year (57.1 violent crimes per thousand compared to 11.7 times per thousand for the more well to do blacks). The same is true of whites 40.9 violent crimes for the poorest whites in this lowest category and 12.4 for whites making over 75 thousand a year). And Heather MacDonald comes to the niave and intellectually suspect conclusion that high crime is a black problem when almost assuredly it is a problem of poverty and humanity but probably not skin color.
What is the danger of this? Well for starters you get uninformed people ginned up. Also when asked by Robert Mann what could be done about the problem, Ms MacDonald said join the Boy Scouts; she had no serious policy proposals at all. And she was attacked by the students and faculty of LSU for the shallowness of her position because that is what academics do to people who push shoddy research https://bobmannblog.com/2015/03/18/does ... heir-acts/ I mean I teach speech for a living, and if I found as many errors in a speech as were is hers and a horrific audience analysis basically condemning people of a different skin color, I would do the kind thing and have her do the speech again.
And remember Dylann Roof, you can see above where he was influenced by this sort of hack thinking. One of the things he believed was that 84 % of whites were murdered by blacks. And Bob Frantz who regularly dismisses actual facts on health care and on the minimum wage said to a mortified poster on his Facebook page that "facts are not racist sir" when the caller rightly called Frantz a race baiter. Racially charged ideas are dangerous, and numbers and statistics are dangerous. You have to know how to use them. Bob Frantz does not. Dylann Roof does not and apparently Heather MacDonald does not. Now before I go remember I gave you three or four of her facts that just were not true. That should bring everything she says into question. And some of the rest of it is explained by social science research and the serious limitations on causal logic that get right passed people who have never had scientific training. If you insist I will tell you the famous story about the stork bringing babies if you want to hear it.
All right, you've explained why you believe her interpretation of data is wrong and/or stupid. That's different from lying. I think you're interpretation of data is often questionable (that's one of the reasons we disagree on most issues), but I don't accuse you of lying. Wrong is about the issue, lying is a character attack on the person. For the record, I've listened to Heather MacDonald on Prager a number of times, and there were times that I thought her use of statistics was very selective to make a specific point. That is no worse than, for example, mentioning how disproportionately blacks are pulled over by police without mentioning the disproportionate rate of crime in the black populace. People tend to use the statistics that make their point, instead of attacking a person over it I tend to just expect it and explain why I think they're wrong.
But I'd like bring up something that you repeat often.
leftyg wrote: Now I have already made the argument based on the thinking of Nancy Grace of all people that these statistics do not matter anyway. The only things that matter is was Alton Sterling threatening police, was the man in Minnesota threatening the cop who shot him, the tendency of conservative intellectuals to argue from the specific when they should argue from the general and from the general when they should use the specific. These cases require the specific .
It is actually Black Lives Matter that is guilty of arguing from the general. They are protesting what they see as a general trend, not specific cases. That is the only possible explanation for riots in Milwaukee in a case where the shooting that set it off appears to have been justified. They didn't create terror and destroy people's livelihoods because of that case, they did it because of a general trend they perceive.
That is why I argue about the Black Lives Matter narrative, because that general narrative is the cause of racial unrest. I'm not arguing the specific cases because Black Lives Matter does not care about the details of those cases, as evidenced by their reflexive assumption of guilt on the part of police and their refusal to abandon that assumption this times it is demonstrated to be unsupported by actual evidence.
Butters wrote: That is why I argue about the Black Lives Matter narrative, because that general narrative is the cause of racial unrest. I'm not arguing the specific cases because Black Lives Matter does not care about the details of those cases, as evidenced by their reflexive assumption of guilt on the part of police and their refusal to abandon that assumption this times it is demonstrated to be unsupported by actual evidence.
Wow, black people protesting what they see as the unjustified killing of unarmed black people is the cause of racial unrest? I guess black people ought to just suck it up and quit whining about it. If they would just stop bing black, maybe the police would be less likely to think of them as dangerous! Tying the action of rioters to Black Lives Matter protesters is as unfair as tying the actions of rioters at a Trump rally to Donald Trump. The rioters alone are responsible for their own actions, regardless of the excuse they use .
Black Lives Matter does care about the details of the specific cases, and that is why they want all the details released. The policeman fearing for his life, or having to make a split second decision is no longer a good enough reason for shooting and killing an unarmed black person. Hands up don't shoot, may or may not have been true in the Michael Brown shooting, but it certainly was true in the North Miami police shooting of Charles Kinsey.
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Butters, I appreciate that your intelligence has allowed you t see that Ms. McDonald vastly overstates her case and gives statistical evidence that is down right false and dangerous. It leads to the Dylann Roofs and their alt right extremist talkers like Bob Frantz. This I why we have to have this debate NOW, and you are contributing to it mightily. I also want to thank you for reviving this site from near death. The site has the potential to lead the debate in substantive ways. It lends to neither extreme, and hopefully we can get together to find some new better answers by collaborating.
Having said all that I believe Wobbly's reminding of us of the hands up don't shoot shooting of Charles Kinsey in Florida does validate the hands up don't shoot narrative. What am I going to believe, an actual photo or the word of a person unsupported by any other evidence. Every one of the specific incidents of shooting shows the police wanting. It is about time people said enough Numbers, especially when they are proven to be false, take a back seat to the powerful hard evidence that Wobbly showed in his picture. I wish there was a way to get it up on Lyin Bob Frantz's Facebook page, if even for a minute.
You're mentioning a case that I actually described as one of the most disturbing, even though it wasn't a fatal shooting. A man who was going out of his way to be helpful and communicative with the police was shot; there is no excuse. I have said that.
But what Black Lives Matter says is undeniably the cause of racial unrest, wobbly. How do you explain riots in Milwaukee over an apparently justified shooting of an armed black man? Are you seriously going to say it had nothing to do with the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter?
And if it's fair for Paul Krugman to tie the shooting of Gabby Giffords to Sarah Palin and conservative political rhetoric, it's more than fair to say that a nationwide movement claiming that police are wantonly murdering black men because they're racists might just have something to do with racial violence.
leftyg wrote: Butters, I appreciate that your intelligence has allowed you t see that Ms. McDonald vastly overstates her case and gives statistical evidence that is down right false and dangerous. It leads to the Dylann Roofs and their alt right extremist talkers like Bob Frantz. This I why we have to have this debate NOW, and you are contributing to it mightily. I also want to thank you for reviving this site from near death. The site has the potential to lead the debate in substantive ways. It lends to neither extreme, and hopefully we can get together to find some new better answers by collaborating.
Here's the problem, lefty. That shooting in Florida does not validate the "hands up, don't shoot" narrative. That a cop egregious shot that poor guy in Florida absolutely does not mean that Michael Brown raised his hands and said, "Hands up, don't shoot". You're conflating a seemingly justified shooting with one that that's absolutely inexcusable.
I actually think there is racial injustice in policing. I mentioned Senator Tim Scott's speech describing how many times he's been pulled over. That is the kind of racism, usually even unintentional, that has to be addressed. Our society can do better. But evidence just doesn't suggest that police shoot black men disproportionately to anyone else, when the high crime rate and therefore increase police encounter rate in the black community is included (as it has to be). Instead of dealing with the real issue of actual areas of racism (a good portion of it accidental, probably), we're focusing on a few sensational stories as though they are a national trend. Often those sensational stories do not turn out to be racist atrocities they are initially depicted as, and they do not represent the reality, at least not in regards to police violence.
I want to fix the real problems. Racial targeting is a problem in policing. Violence against black men by police does not seem to be, at least not more than it is for anyone else.
You are welcome and a worthy advisory.
I think it does, and it is recorded which is more credible than Darren Wilson's comments because they cannot be confirmed like this was confirmed. It is absolutely inexcusable, but if we had video we might find that the shooting of Michael Brown was absolutely inexcusable, but we will never know. And people, like the object of this thread, Bob Frantz, will never make it easy to get to the truth.
The thing is blacks are shot very disproportionately to their numbers in the population. People like Bob Frantz and Heather MacDonald blame it on the black character. I blame the higher incidence of violence against blacks on poverty and the higher incidence of crime in financially stressed areas which cannot be denied as the Bureau of Justice statistic I presented demonstrate You see the rate of violence by income level was constant. BUT there are many more (by percentage points) poor blacks than whites. Look I live in about the most prosperous place in Cleveland, Bratenahl, and I have many well to do African-American neighbors. There is no crime here. That, poverty, and youth are the two thing that probably drive crime more than anything.
I think you are right on the first point and wrong on the second. Blacks are killed at a much higher level (and I have heard the arguments against proportionality, that because more blacks commit crimes then a greater number of them are bound to have encounters with them as a percentage). I argue the problem is poverty and a lose of hope. It is not an easy problem to solve, but I think we can do it. And obviously guilty cops canot keep getting off on technicalities or an assumptions.
This study of violent crime in deprived neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio, found that reductions in poverty led to reductions in the crime rate in exactly the same way in predominantly black and white areas, suggesting poverty, not race, is the biggest factor.
http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/fac ... rime/19439
Did you actually just suggest that the shooting in Florida is a reason to believe that Michael Brown said "Hands up, don't shoot"?
The "hands up don't shoot" story told by Michael Brown's friend makes no sense and is contradicted by the evidence. I don't know why you can't just admit that, sometimes, activist accusations of racially-motivated murder by police turn out not to be what they claim. It's as if you can't bring yourself to say that black activists can ever be wrong about race. I don't understand this; I certainly have no problem condemning people who excuse real cases of police abuse.
lefty wrote: The thing is blacks are shot very disproportionately to their numbers in the population. People like Bob Frantz and Heather MacDonald blame it on the black character. I blame the higher incidence of violence against blacks on poverty and the higher incidence of crime in financially stressed areas which cannot be denied as the Bureau of Justice statistic I presented demonstrate You see the rate of violence by income level was constant. BUT there are many more (by percentage points) poor blacks than whites. Look I live in about the most prosperous place in Cleveland, Bratenahl, and I have many well to do African-American neighbors. There is no crime here. That, poverty, and youth are the two thing that probably drive crime more than anything.
I combined your two responses and omitted my comments for ease of reading.
If black men commit 75% of the violent crime in a city, and make up a third of that city's population, are you suggesting that we should judge proportionality in police shootings by the one-third number instead of the 75% number? That makes no sense whatsoever.
I'm not sure what you mean by blaming black character. There is a cultural problem in black communities. When I was in high school, it became very fashionable for the black guys to have their pants falling down. I found this a very odd fashion, and I asked a black friend at school why? Well, it turns out he was highly annoyed by the fashion; he explained to me that it was popular because it was a fashion that started in prisons. As a very ambitious and accomplished guy (he got a scholarship to Juilliard), it bothered him greatly.
Human nature is pretty consistent. Young men grow up and generally emulate what they saw growing up. They remember the lessons they learned growing up. When there is no father, or the father is in and out of prison, and they learn their lessons from a gang or from friends who are in constant trouble with the police, the results are predictable.
by wobbly » August 31st, 2016, 1:59 pm
Some interesting reading regarding police shootings. Wobbly
from article: In 2015, The Washington Post launched a real-time database to track fatal police shootings, and the project continues this year. As of Sunday, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race).
But as data scientists and policing experts often note, comparing how many or how often white people are killed by police to how many or how often black people are killed by the police is statistically dubious unless you first adjust for population.
According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.
U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... d2cfe43f36
by leftyg » August 31st, 2016, 3:40 pm
No Butters, it is not a reason to believe that Michael Brown said "Hands up; don't shoot; it is a reason to show that the man in Florida had his hands up when a cop shot him. You simply have to question a cops word when he is speaking in his own self-interest and to keep his sorry ass out of jail.
The point is that we do not know the facts in the Michael Brown case. But if a cop had a brain in his head would he shoot an unarmed, nonthreatening African-American with his hands up and video running and the be shocked when people are pissed about it. And all of Stupidities Warriors, guys like Bob Frantz, wanted to keep fighting the only war they have ever fought in*: the war for stupidity and bigotry and against compassion and understanding.
*people who support war but do not fight in wars have no integrity.
by Scorpion » August 31st, 2016, 10:04 pm
Forensic evidence showed there was a struggle.
One doesn't have to have a 'weapon' to be a threat.
Nobody said there was not a struggle. But despite what the Bob Frantz's of the world do not tell you is the whole truth. The reason Darren Wilson was not charged is because the Justice Department did not think they could get a conviction. Unfortunately, in too many of these cases there are no indictments more less convictions. I do not believe the cops in this shooting of man with his hands up were prosecuted http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/ ... ands-video The cop who did this should be in prison. The only thing that can absolve a cop now with me is video because they lie so often and it is shameful how they are defended by the amoral likes of Bob Frantz. I have showed you a video and Wobbly showed you one. And this does not include Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner, all killings caught on tape and all so far have got away with it. Only in a fascist state are police absolved of wrong doing in cases like these. You will never get an argument from me on a good shooting like what happened apparently in Milwaukee, but I am past the point of given these guys a pass. If there is a shooting, I cannot give the benefit of the doubt, and I think many people feel the same way.
Also 538.com says that police shooting are vastly under reported http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how ... each-year/ and Wobbly gave us an article in the Washington Post where the post maybe based on this report began to keep tabs on police shooting and there were 990 which is more than twice the number in any reporting year. It is hard to see the year 2015 as such a profound anomaly. It probably had been going on all along and makes reported statistics, even though they still obliterated other countries with the data I reported. With the real data it is profound beyond belief and should be a case for national shame and concern.
by Scorpion » September 1st, 2016, 7:20 am
It's a case by case issue.
You struggle with a cop, as Brown did, your life is in your hands.
I don't give the benefit of the doubt to a punk.
by hmmmmm » September 1st, 2016, 1:23 pm
Leftyg wrote: The reason Darren Wilson was not charged is because the Justice Department did not think they could get a conviction.
Actually, it's not that they didn't think they could get a conviction, it's because they could find no probable cause for any of the charges. So basically he was not charged because there was nothing to charge him with.
by leftyg » September 1st, 2016, 2:23 pm
There was probable cause but not enough evidence to convict and in this country. If the police are not caught dead bang (pun, however bad, intended), they walk. When someone is dead and you are holding a gun, there is cause. There just was not enough evidence to convict him. Remember in Mississippi when Emmitt till was murdered, the guys who killed him got off because there were too many racists in that town. There would have been enough racists with "doubts" to acquit him even though I honestly do not know if the shooting was justified, but I know it is more than justified in the mind of a guy like Bob Frantz who pushes way too much certainly on this subject on his radio advertisement for the police and the GOP that he calls, for tax purposes, a talk show.
I am upset about Michael Brown's death, but I can understand if it was justified. I am honest enough to admit I do not know. Many on the right , like Bob, are not that honest or too sure they have the truth.
Exactly, that is why all these statistics that the Heather MacDonald's and Bob Frantz's of this world push are really irrelevant. It has to be done case by case just as Nancy Grace said, and it has to be tied to evidence.
I do not know if being a punk or a thug is a death sentence, and I do not pretend to "know" what happened that day in August 2014, and I don't give anybody the benefit of the doubt. But cops have done way too much to get a pass; they need to be accountable, and they need to wear body cams. I am doing this at a remote location from my home and can't zip around the internet like I can at home, but cities that have used body cams have experienced lower incidents of complaints against the cops and fewer police shootings.
From NBC News:
Bob McCulloch, the St. Louis County prosecutor, described Brown's death as a tragedy but said that the grand jury had found no probable cause for any of the charges it considered against Wilson
Sorry Lefty, no probable cause.
by Scorpion » September 1st, 2016, 3:44 pm
And in the alternative, the perp cant unjustifiably blame a cop for sonething that didnt actually happen.
by Butters » September 1st, 2016, 4:47 pm
We know a lot about the Michael Brown case, and it shows that Michael Brown was moving toward Darrin Wilson, and that Darrin Wilson was retreating while firing. Unless you believe that this was a pre-meditated murder, and that Wilson had the foresight to pretend to fear for his life and retreat while firing in order to make it look justified, it's pretty clear what happened.
I do not for a second defend obviously bad shootings. I'm just flummoxed by your refusal to admit that a shooting that caused racial outrage could turn out to be justified. It's as if black anger makes the shooting unjustified, rather than actual evidence.
hmmmmm thank you for the direct quote. It is a point for you. But remember Bob McCulloch's father was a policeman killed in the line of duty, so it might color how he prosecutes cases. That is a concern of mine and if you notice Michael Brown is not my major concern. On this thread it is Lyin' Bob Frantz who destroys any notion of intellectual integrity on his radio show and on his Facebook page. Some people who listen to him get there opinions from him, and he is always so cocksure and there is no reason. We honestly do not know, and when we do, and we see a cop shoot a 12 year old kid, Bobby jumps to the creep's defense.
FRANTZ ALERT! I hope that got your attention because a guy over at Frantz's Facebook page just called him out, And Frantz was so pissed at the guy, not me for a change, that he posted this FrantzRadio "Where, sir, did you see me or anyone else "paint a whole race"? Copy and paste my words that say so, or give me an apology and get the hell off my page." The guy had said Name deleted "So what makes one a criminal? It seems like you want to paint a whole race? Would it be fair to call your race violent because of its history?" Then the poster responded to Frantz's threat with this "Your words make it hard to believe you're not painting with a brush..." and he went on with "Plus the fact you can't do a show without complaining about black peoples violent activities, like they create war or nuclear bombs or something...look in the mirror before you point the finger" https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345
Somebody else gets it like I do. The guy is a raving racist and was a finalist with Rush Limbaugh for racist of the Year in Media in 2013 (Radio Division). http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/2 ... r-nominees Is Cleveland such a hick town that this guy still has a job in media?
leftyg wrote: hmmmmm thank you for the direct quote. It is a point for you. But remember Bob McCulloch's father was a policeman killed in the line of duty, so it might color how he prosecutes cases. That is a concern of mine and if you notice Michael Brown is not my major concern. On this thread it is Lyin' Bob Frantz who destroys any notion of intellectual integrity on his radio show and on his Facebook page. Some people who listen to him get there opinions from him, and he is always so cocksure and there is no reason. We honestly do not know, and when we do, and we see a cop shoot a 12 year old kid, Bobby jumps to the creep's defense.
Bobbys preaching to the choir and his audience is no where near Rush's
by hmmmmm » September 2nd, 2016, 1:15 pm
leftyg wrote: I think you are right on the first point and wrong on the second. Blacks are killed at a much higher level (and I have heard the arguments against proportionality, that because more blacks commit crimes then a greater number of them are bound to have encounters with them as a percentage). I argue the problem is poverty and a lose of hope. It is not an easy problem to solve, but I think we can do it. And obviously guilty cops canot keep getting off on technicalities or an assumptions.
Although I agree that poverty obviously contributes to crime rate, and I can also agree that a reduction in poverty leads to a reduction in crime rate equally.
Where you lose me is suggesting that poverty, not race, is the biggest factor. Because if that were true then there would be the same crime rate in poor white areas as there is in poor black areas, and I don't think you can prove that one.
by wobbly » September 2nd, 2016, 2:16 pm
hmmmmm wrote: Where you lose me is suggesting that poverty, not race, is the biggest factor. Because if that were true then there would be the same crime rate in poor white areas as there is in poor black areas, and I don't think you can prove that one.
If it is race and not poverty that drives crime, then how do you explain the high crime rates in the poorest towns and counties in Ireland? You can't compare rural Appalachia to the ghetto Chicago.
Why is it that every time someone on the right makes a point, you on the left have to compare us to another country ?
First of all, Ireland is half the population of New York City. Only 1% (that's one percent) of Ireland is black, so you have nothing to compare. So the chances of a high crime rate amongst blacks and whites in Ireland doesn't exist, because there aren't any black people there. Even if there is a high crime rate in Ireland (amongst whites), it is not even close to the crime rates in the US.
Second, I didn't bring up Appalachia, you did. I wasn't even thinking of it. But because it is a poverty stricken white area, it is most definitely comparable.
You are most certainly in denial if you think that there is the same amount of crime in a poor white area versus a poor black area, even in the inner city. So let's just talk the U.S., OK ?
It looks like poor Hispanics had a lower rates of violence compared to poor whites and poor blacks. Someone better tell Trump! Wobbly
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137
Household Poverty And Nonfatal Violent Victimization, 2008–2012
Erika Harrell, Ph.D., Lynn Langton, Ph.D., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Marcus Berzofsky, Dr.P.H., Lance Couzens, Hope Smiley-McDonald, Ph.D., RTI International
November 18, 2014 NCJ 248384
Presents findings from 2008 to 2012 on the relationship between households that were above or below the federal poverty level and nonfatal violent victimization, including rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. This report examines the violent victimization experiences of persons living in households at various levels of poverty, focusing on type of violence, victim's race or Hispanic origin, and location of residence. It also examines the percentage of violent victimizations reported to the police by poverty level. Data are from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which collects information on nonfatal crimes, reported and not reported to the police, against persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. During 2012, about 92,390 households and 162,940 persons were interviewed for the NCVS.
For the period 2008–12—
Persons in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000).
Persons in poor households had a higher rate of violence involving a firearm (3.5 per 1,000) compared to persons above the FPL (0.8–2.5 per 1,000).
The overall pattern of poor persons having the highest rates of violent victimization was consistent for both whites and blacks. However, the rate of violent victimization for Hispanics did not vary across poverty levels.
Poor Hispanics (25.3 per 1,000) had lower rates of violence compared to poor whites (46.4 per 1,000) and poor blacks (43.4 per 1,000).
Poor persons living in urban areas (43.9 per 1,000) had violent victimization rates similar to poor persons living in rural areas (38.8 per 1,000).
Poor urban blacks (51.3 per 1,000) had rates of violence similar to poor urban whites (56.4 per 1,000).
Wobbly, you are right. If you look at the state of Ohio. Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus have more murders per hundred thousand than any place. The next highest amounts are in inner ring suburbs followed medium size towns. By far the lowest is in outer ring suburbs where mostly upper class and rich people live. I mean Bratenahl is practically down town, but rich people live here, both black and white, and there is virtually no crime. The reason for this is demographics. In midsized towns of 15 thousand or more have all strata of society live there more like inner ring suburbs (East Cleveland being an exception I think), although many of the inner ring suburbs murder rates are rising due I believe to poverty. But where only or mostly only poor people live crime is higher
OK, another factor is proximity, space. People living close to one another breeds unhealthy interaction, and lots of poor whites live in mixed areas or in the country. If you live out in Pierpont, Ohio, four miles south of where I was raised in Monroe Center, there simply are not a lot of people to kill and nobody gets in anybody's way, so fewer tensions are formed. Also shaming in a small community is big as is a sense of neighborliness. Also crowding contributes to crime in urban areas because you run into a lot of people you do not know who mean nothing to you, so they are easier to kill.
If it seems I push poverty as the sole cause of crime, it is only because Bob Frantz pushes race in his appalling video with Witch Heather https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 I also want to tell you that my source may not be long for the Frantz Radio Facebook page. The intolerant bastard said this to him FrantzRadio "Name of the innocent deleted Wait...that was your big move? Telling people like YOU to stop blaming other people for your own community's problems...is "painting a whole race"?
You have been exposed, and have been tolerated long enough. I will await an apology for your lies and your race-baiting. Short of one, I will show you the exit door from this page." This is what a vicious fascist he is. He does not tolerate differences of opinion.
My source responds Name of the innocent deleted "Of course you'll boot me you only deal with people who agree with you..."
FrantzRadio Name of innocent deleted Haven't booted you yet...despite your many attempts to earn such a booting.
Waiting for your apology for race-baiting.
Source responds to a-hole
Name of innocent deleted "I like how you turned that around, but I still have a hard time telling the difference between you and Al Sharpton. Two sides of the same coin..." https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345
by leftyg » September 2nd, 2016, 11:22 pm
Wobbly that was good stuff and demonstrates the fact that poverty is a huge issue and Hispanics are owed an apology from all the right wing loons who denigrate them. It is classic anti-immigrant bashing that has gone on in this country for an awfully long time. When I saw the dramatically lower numbers for Hispanics I do not doubt them at all. I worked in a casino in Lake Tahoe about 40 years ago, and got to know a lot of Hispanics and this is how they lived. Five or six of them would get a small apartment and share the expenses and sleep in shifts (the place was always clean). The guys would send almost all their money home to their families every week. They ate their meals at the casino cafeteria where restaurant employees ate free. Everything was for their families, and they worked hard. And it turns out, not to my surprise, that they are a cut above us natives, maybe because they appreciate it more.
Guys like Trump and, of course, Bob Frantz participate in this slander every time they open their mouths. Appealing to a withering minority of white males is not a winning hand. Thanks for putting up the study. Somebody put something similar up at Frantz Radio and Bob said the person was making excuses for criminals. Oh well. Thanks as always you came up huge. leftyg
Here is an article from the New Republic about Heather MacDonald's work in which the New Republic says her work discredits the flawed theory that poverty is a cause of crime which is only true to a point: poverty is not the only cause of crime. But of course they ignore that. Here is the article https://newrepublic.com/article/80316/r ... conditions
People like Heather MacDonald and Bob Frantz who shills her flawed work live in a univariate world where there is a single cause for everything. The author, Bradford Plummer, points out that murders indeed did drop off during the Depression which is true and false at the same time. The decrease these folks point to happened in 1934, AFTER Prohibition was repealed. The homicide rate was about 6.5 per 100,000 in 1919. It peaked at 9.8 in 1931 and stayed there until 1933 when Prohibition ended and the murder rate dropped like it had been dropped off a mountain. http://polyticks.com/polyticks/beararms/liars/usa.htm The Depression did not drop the murder rate; repealing Prohibition did. But it was not the sole cause and never is.
Other factors keep it inflated, swollen relative to comparable countries. Some of them are poverty (sorry New Republic and WSJ), demographics, laws against victimless crime (which prohibition was so it gets counted twice) and the presence of guns. As we take away each of these pieces the rate will drop even further until we are like Japan.
First Wobbly showed that the Bureau of Justice statistics showed that poor whites and blacks had more than twice the rate of violent victimization than people in well to do households http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137. An earlier times table I put up showed that the rate of victimization was five times as great for very poor blacks and middle class blacks and over three times as great for poor whites as with middle class whites (see table 15) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/28 ... ing-murder To say that poverty is not a factor in crime and murder is to excuse your intelligence from the room so you can babble.
But there is more. Demographics is a powerful factor. Crime began to spike in the middle sixties for two reasons: the war on drugs and people like me (boys from the baby boom). Aggression in young males is an established fact of life as much as we can say http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/20/style ... males.html In the 1960's lots of young men hit puberty and met their friend testosterone and the murder rate spiked to over 10 per 100,000. And how profound was this increase? In 1950, the number of babies born in the United States was 24.1 per thousand. In 1990 it was 16.7 per thousand. Did I cherry pick those numbers? Yes I did. 1950 was the lowest year for births in the 1950's, and 1990 is the highest year in the last 25 and 2016 is expected to be about 14 per thousand. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005067.html BUT ...
The War on Drugs began, and making things illegal that people seem to like creates a black market for them. Also our war on lots of victimless behavior continued. We saw what repealing Prohibition did to murder rates in the mid thirties, a very good reason to legalize marijuana use, prostitution and gambling and park your religious objections at the curve; they are counterproductive.
Finally guns. If you own a gun, you are 1.9 times more likely to be killed by a gun as you are to kill an intruder than if you do not own one, and over ten times as likely to commit suicide http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
All of this is not a panacea, but doing it would counter the idiotic and frightening world view of the Bob Frantz's and Heather MacDonald's of the world and their profoundly simplistic thinking. The color of a persons skin has nothing to do with their propensity to kill, and is something all decent people know.
by Butters » September 4th, 2016, 7:00 pm
leftyg wrote: Here is an article from the New Republic about Heather MacDonald's work in which the New Republic says her work discredits the flawed theory that poverty is a cause of crime which is only true to a point: poverty is not the only cause of crime. But of course they ignore that. Here is the article https://newrepublic.com/article/80316/r ... conditions
Some of what you say is reasonable, though I disagree with some of it, as well. I'd like to point out, however, the simple way in which two people can view the same information and see something entirely different. There is a clear correlation between crime and poverty, and you therefore believe that poverty causes crime; presumably, you believe that people who are poor and feel hopeless about their ability to improve their lives will turn to crime to better their situation (please tell me if I have your belief wrong).
I disagree entirely. I think people commit crimes because they have poor values, because they're willing to harm other people for selfish gain. It is not that poverty causes crime; it is that the same lifestyle choices that predispose people to crime also predispose them to poverty. A person who is willing to harm others for personal gain is exceedingly unlikely to be a diligent hard worker with ambition to earn an honest living. Likewise, a hard worker with ambition to improve his life through honest means is extremely unlikely to start burglarizing homes or dealing drugs because he can't get the job he wants.
You are right and wrong. I believe, and a careful reading of what I just wrote will confirm, I think there are a bunch of variables, different things that cause crime and cause homicide. I do not think there is just one. I think poverty, being a young adult male, prohibitionism, the presence of guns, urban crowding, a lack of parental supervision all factor into it. AND MORE I AM SURE. The problem is if you go to the thread on Frantz's Facebook page and if you listen to him he desperately wants poverty NOT to be even a small factor in crime https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345. I believe that that is because Bob and many other right wing talkers are financed by and beholding to powerful economic interests who do not WANT poverty to be even a small factor because it implies responsibility. Think of what it does. In order to protect the powerful they blame race. Because what else could this blame be? If you listen to MacDonald's stats it can be placed no place else. Blacks and their culture are flawed. Listen the plea of the guy in the thread. It is something I feel as well. It is wrong, and it is poorly defended by Ms. MacDonald and Mr. Frantz. Look at all his comments to the guy I like and another poster. His comments lack substance and if he offered them in my class I would tell him to better defend his ideas. In the end Bob and I are different: he sees one influence that creates crime; I see many influences and counting. It is hard to argue with an absolutist.
I do not necessarily disagree with what you say, and fully explaining myself would require a long, long response. But I think Bob sees this, and I hope you do not, as the product of something very specific that has to do with African-American culture. Wobbly and I have put up material that disputes that, and he, Bob, has not responded in an adequate way. There are a constellation of variables, and that includes what you mentioned but does not include race; no race of ethnicity is evil or horrible. If anything, Wobbly showed that Hispanics are more restrained than Americans across the board. Perhaps there is something in the American culture or psyche that causes this, and maybe as a nation we should confront it.
by Butters » September 4th, 2016, 10:39 pm
leftyg wrote: In order to protect the powerful they blame race. Because what else could this blame be? If you listen to MacDonald's stats it can be placed no place else. Blacks and their culture are flawed.
Of course blacks are flawed, but so are whites and latinos and Asians and every other human being of every race. I have not heard Heather MacDonald indicate that there is anything inherent in black people that makes them more criminal; she has simply said the obvious truth, that there is a lot of crime in the black community.
leftyg wrote: I do not necessarily disagree with what you say, and fully explaining myself would require a long, long response. But I think Bob sees this, and I hope you do not, as the product of something very specific that has to do with African-American culture. Wobbly and I have put up material that disputes that, and he, Bob, has not responded in an adequate way. There are a constellation of variables, and that includes what you mentioned but does not include race; no race of ethnicity is evil or horrible. If anything, Wobbly showed that Hispanics are more restrained than Americans across the board. Perhaps there is something in the American culture or psyche that causes this, and maybe as a nation we should confront it.
I would not say that it is something specific to black culture, but there is definitely a problem in black culture. Let me give you an example. I work with a black guy at my store. He's a nice guy, very easy to get along with, but I've noticed something odd. When he speaks of his friends, he often casually mentions that this or that friend got arrested for breaking into a house or buying/selling drugs, and it's shocking to my sensibilities. I could not imagine associating with burglars and drug dealers, but in a lot of the black community, it simply accepted.
I don't blame this guy, he needs friends like everyone else does, and the friends he's had who have been arrested might be otherwise nice people. But there is something wrong with a community if people don't feel ashamed to associate with burglars and drug dealers, lefty, and it's not a racist observation to say so. Ask any pastor of a black church, and he is likely to agree with me (as I have heard personally).
by leftyg » September 4th, 2016, 11:48 pm
She uses statistics in an irresponsible and dangerous way. For example, it is not the obvious truth. There may be facts, but "truth "is above "facts" pay grade. in other words it is rare to find the truth and dangerous if you think you have it. Heather gave you some facts. Do not assume any thing beyond it and as Mother Jones said in addressing her work: she does not factor racism into it. Wobbly showed you that simply looking at the relationship in the victimization rate of poor whites and well off whites there was a huge difference, and we are talking about millions of people which means there is virtually no measurement error in a population that size. but I did not hear that from her. Instead she wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that poverty was not a factor in crime which it clearly is. And there are a slew of other factors.
AND I think it is time to hear about the storks and the babies they delivered. In England long ago it was believed that storks delivered babies because in the winters where there were few storks nesting in the thatched roofs of the farmers, there were few babies born; in winters where lots of storks nested there were lots of babies born in the village or town. This was observed and became lore. Now social scientists were curious about this dubious claim, but they could test it, so that is what they did. Every year for years they counted the number of storks nesting in the thatched roofs of the villagers and in the subsequent nine to twelve months they counted the number of babies. You see to prove causation (that storks cause babies) you have to do three things: You have to make sure that [b"]A"[/b] (the storks) nested before "B", the babies, were conceived. Also the number of storks A had to correlate positively to B the number of babies. Finally they had do rule out Z factors , or anything else that could have caused the outcome. If you can do this you can prove a relationship. AND as my old research methods teacher once said " we have never proved anything is social science.
And crazy as it may sound the first two bore up under scrutiny. Every year when there were lots of storks the nesting, nine to twelve months there were lots of babies. Years when there were few storks there were then few babies. But a Z factor emerged that made the whole thing blow up, the whole relationship. What do you think the Z factor? It is the same with race only the consequences are very tragic for society and not just having a little fun. This nonsense is believed to have cost nine African-Americans their live in a Charleston, South Carolina church. There Dylann Roof (not Thatched Roof) believed the stuff he read by the Conservative Council of Citizens that I alluded to some posts back and murdered them because they caused crime because of their skin color.
I know white people like that too. You have to understand how it has gotten that way. I would imagine in lots of poor white neighborhoods there is this attitude as well. But at best what you have is an anecdote colored by your experience.
No, it is honest to say what you feel and then to look at the world around you and how people behave in it. Honesty is a good start and understanding that there are natural differences in people of different cultures and try to understand.
by leftyg » September 17th, 2016, 11:10 am
Bobby this morning about two hours ago slung a personal attack at a woman on Facebook. Her name is confidential, but you can see it over at Bobby's travesty of a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 Her crime was saying this:
Next time somebody decides to run a cop over I hope they wait till I get to work like traffic isn't bad enough"
. Now this is something I do not endorse, but I think it conveys some powerful dislike that we should consider. I also think this woman is a private citizen and was probably venting to friends about some strong feelings. I would never have known that if Bobby had not put it up on his Facebook page. That woman and her anger would have remained anonymous to me. He said this about her: "
If you can stomach it, take just a moment to read the words of this remorseless pig of a human being.
And her follow-up comments. And her history of hatred splashed all over her Facebook page.
Then pray for our society that spawns creatures like this."
BTW did I mention the woman is African-American.
I did not mention the slanders to Colin Kaepernick because I am sure you are all aware of that ongoing incident. Meanwhile he was defending the right of people to buy and display the Confederate flag because "it was in the Constitution." However, Kaepernick's Constitutional rights were ignored because, evidently, a slight to the flag is more egregious than racism to Bob. Now Bobby was many in that chorus of idiots, guys who would like to be patriotic but never fought in a war or were even in the service or ever lifted a finger for anything other than themselves. Kind of like Donald Trump.
The reason I mention this is that this should get Bob kicked off Facebook. I have to believe it violates their rules. And you had better believe that they will hear about it. I also think that this should also be grounds for termination at WHK 1420 "if" they claim to be working in the public good. Lets face it. Bobby is not much of a man. When you punch down at a private citizen, that is pretty low. But the use of vile language is what takes it over the edge for me. Frantz Radio should be gone. I would encourage people on here to contact Facebook. And the number for Kevin Isaacs, the station manager at WHK is 1-216-525-1800 or by email at kevin.isaacs@salemcommunications.com
Quick. Bob pulled the offending thread down, but I still have the copy, so this is what you are dealing with. Also at the 37 minute marker of September 16th hour two broadcast, Sheriff David Clarke was asked what it meant to be a man. Bob invoked the name of John Wayne who if you do not know was maybe the biggest chicken shit in America. He used the excuse that he was the sole support of his family to get out of service in the war while other celebrities like Clarke Gable, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda who said "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio" did not shirk their duty. But that did not embarrass John Wayne, and being a fake patriot or a fake man has never embarrassed Bob Frantz. Donald Trump, John Wayne and Bob Frantz, three fake patriots and two of them were successful.
Now what did Sheriff Whackadoodle Clarke and Bobby and the others suggest? They suggested that it might be time for men to fight back. Now this solution is shared by a sheriff who says it might be time for "torches and pitchforks" to "fight back for their flag, their anthem, their belief system and their values" Bob wholeheartedly agreed calling it a "wonderful moment." https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 (Listen starting at 37 minutes until the end)
And this involves more than race. But Bobby has been pushing this narrative for about 21 months now on WHK. It is frightening and should bring us to our senses. He has said that if there was violence between whites and blacks, it would be the blacks fault.
by hmmmmm » September 17th, 2016, 9:34 pm
leftyg wrote: Bobby this morning about two hours ago slung a personal attack at a woman on Facebook. Her name is confidential, but you can see it over at Bobby's travesty of a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 Her crime was saying this:
Wow indeed. At its bottom is that Bob is violating a covenant. Now the page got pulled about an hour after I noticed how egregious it was. I do not know if it was Bob's doing that the page was pulled or Facebooks, and that is not the point. And I am extremely glad I did not mention the woman's name. He was putting a private citizen at risk of being hurt or attacked. This is as bad as what Rush Limbaugh did to Sandra Fluke about three and a half years ago. This is a serious problem that I predict will not be addressed.
And this is a comment to all conservatives, and I am sure lots of them, millions get it. You cannot come off like a vicious racist, mad dog and get a hearing on issues like abortion or cops lives if most other lives seem to be meaningless to you. I am a liberal yes. But when Pope Francis talks about the sanctity of life, I know he means it. He is sincere. But when you say that you are opposed to abortion, I do not want support for the death penalty, preemptive war or overt racism to be the next thing out of your mouth. And can any decent human being actually raise the specter of "pitchforks and torches," like Bob and his right wing buddies did on September 15? Over something s trivial as saluting the flag?
Subsequently, I think Bob was talking about a tragedy that occurred the previous day to a highway patrolman on the west side. It was heart breaking. But all I heard was Bob's vicious racist attack on another black person, little different than his indifference to the death of a black child, Tamir Rice, and what I hear every day on his show when he attacks blacks and poor people without mercy.
I mentioned Pope Francis. I wish Christianity were true. I do not know if it is, at least from what I see about how life is lived in the world we all live in. But I would like it to be, but not the way so many on the right see it, Bob in particular. Bob does not follow a single dictum of the New Testament as I see it except for the part about sex which most people get in line with as they age and lose appearance and vitality.
by hmmmmm » September 19th, 2016, 10:41 am
leftyg wrote: Wow indeed. At its bottom is that Bob is violating a covenant. Now the page got pulled about an hour after I noticed how egregious it was. I do not know if it was Bob's doing that the page was pulled or Facebooks, and that is not the point. And I am extremely glad I did not mention the woman's name. He was putting a private citizen at risk of being hurt or attacked. This is as bad as what Rush Limbaugh did to Sandra Fluke about three and a half years ago. This is a serious problem that I predict will not be addressed.
Actually the WOW was to your response, not Bob's.
I am sorry. I thought you were rational. Never mind
Yesterday, another unarmed black man was shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/video- ... li=BBnb7Kz
Now to be fair Bob did say that dirty cops should be punished; he just never has found one, even a 12 year old kid with a toy gun who was shot within a second of being confronted by the police.
Today he had a policeman from Dallas on his show named Dimitrik Pennie http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/18/da ... obama.html who is suing President Obama, Black Lives Matter, Al Sharpton, George Soros and virtually every other liberal for the murder of five Dallas police officers this summer. Pennie and his attorney argue that the murders were their responsibility of the aforementioned. How they can say this and not violate the first amendment I do not know.
It goes without saying that Mr. Pennie ranted and his lawyer lied. George Soros was a survivor of the Budapest ghetto and the attorney called him a traitor or a collaborator, a vicious lie. The slanders that they tossed around on Bob's show were probably worse than the expression of free speech by Black Lives Matter and the rest of the plantiffs. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-1 (check the second half if the video is up yet)
The truth is that people like Bob bear more guilt in this violence. You could easily argue that they have enabled the police and bear more guilt for their lies and half truths. But we live in a nation with a free press and free speech ( I guess it is ok to lie). It is right to talk about injustice if you think it exists which is why this thread has gone on as long as it has. If the length of this thread bothers you (hmmmmm I am talking to you) it represents the attacks and the consistent theme of racism in Bob's broadcasts over the last year and a half.
by leftyg » September 21st, 2016, 10:28 am
In the second hour of yesterday's show, after giving Officer Pennie a forum for his suit which I predict will be laughed out of court but obsessed over by the Republican House, the subject turned to the defense of the cop in Tulsa https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2. John Cordello, a retired New York cop and talk show host in Florida, was Bob's guest. Together they laid the groundwork for the next stage in getting this cop in Tulsa exonerated. If you saw the video of the shooting, the man was shot in a fraction of a second and did not have a gun.
The cop attorney's I believe has concocted the perfect alibi, and I think that was the case in Tamir Rice killing as well. The point is that there is a video, and we see it. We see a guy with his hands up being shot just like we did with Tamir Rice who was more or less standing there. BUT the cops claim an instruction that cannot be heard on a video was given. In the case of Tamir Rice it was "hands up;" it the case of Mr. Tolliver in Tulsa it was "don't move." Both are convenient and self serving, and we have no way of knowing even with a video. I believe the Plain Dealer had a story where Loehmann told Tamir to "drop the gun" but because it was impossible to drop the gun without touching it his attorney told him to say "hands up." Unless I miss my guess even with visual evidence, the cops will continue to be exonerated because their attorneys will help commit self-serving perjury and no one will be the wiser.
Problems in this society are often solved when groups decide to give up their bad people. I first heard this this stated on PBS about the assimilation of minorities in the United States. They had to give up their bad guys. Well it might be time for the police to give up their bad guys. And people like Bob and his guest are not helping. Instead of offering excuses or alibis or using the one thing most videos cannot tell you (the audio) as a constant, they should be weeding out the bad actors. And this is something police forces should want. Most every cop I have ever dealt has been decent to me. But these bad guys hurt everybody and getting rid of them is not a bad idea.
Bob had Officer Pennie on the first hour of his show and he said that The President, Black Lives Matter, George Soros and the main stream media should be charged and sued for causing these deaths of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. I disagree, I think the people they should sue are the "thin blue line of silence" and the far right talkers like Bob who exploit the bigotry, racism and authoritarianism of the public, enabling these rogue police. That is what Bob is and that is what the thin blue line are; they are enablers.
by leftyg » September 21st, 2016, 10:18 pm
I predicted it and Bob is doing it. He is helping to lay the groundwork of doubt to start the process of exonerating the officers in Tulsa on his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 You find the even more disturbing side of Bob, if that is possible, on his Facebook page. As I said I believe he is going to highlight statements by the police that have to be viewed as self serving. My guess the righties will find something. One poster wrote " I hate that it seems to be ok to not follow police direction. Crutcher clearly didn't follow direction but it's always the officers fault. I wouldn't want their job . . ." If anybody can tell me what he did not do to comply, I will listen. But the video shows something else and probably the officer's attorney told her to say Mr. Crutcher did not follow an instruction. But this is so familiar. My guess is she will get off, Bob will say that it was legal and that will be it. Or will it this time ...
by Scorpion » September 21st, 2016, 10:33 pm
Jesus H FUCKING Christ.
THIS is what I hate about he 24 hour news cycle.
We can't even get all the facts in CORRECTLY, and people are spouting off blame left and right.
Right now, a protester is on life support because a CIVILIAN found whatever cause to discharge a firearm in a crowd.
How bloody fucking stupid!!
This morning, listening to WIOD in Florida, Fernande Amande was stating that there had been two police shooting and the cops were white in both instances. WRONG, WRONG WRONG.
And when a caller tried to correct him on it, he got a little pissy and said he'd have to check it and if he was wrong. Oops.
And as far as Tulsa goes, we. weren't there?
Video is only one facet of the investigation.
Lefty, the shoot in Tulsa MAY have been wrong, but let forensics and an investigation be completed first.
You're as bad as the damn media and talking heads!!
Scorpion wrote: Jesus H FUCKING Christ.
This is a very good post Scorp because you hit the nail on the head. There is so much information out there and it comes at us so fast that it is difficult to absorb. My point here is to watch Bob's response, and I predicted it, and I knew this yesterday morning that he was going to find an out for the police officer in Tulsa, and I was right if you look at the link to his Facebook page. Within a week or so, people may see Tulsa as a good shoot but tragic like Tamir Rice because of what people like Bob are doing. You know I yearn for more honest reportage. I put this up for your viewing http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Eri ... &FORM=VIRE It is what journalism should be, not advocating but elucidating.
by JuicedTruth » September 22nd, 2016, 8:19 am
I agree that the media rushes to put incomplete information out there but the 24 hour news cycle isn't responsible for cops shooting unarmed black people.
by Scorpion » September 22nd, 2016, 8:22 am
JuicedTruth wrote: I agree that the media rushes to put incomplete information out there but the 24 hour news cycle isn't responsible for cops shooting unarmed black people.
Responsible? No
Perpetuating a false narrative? Yes
by leftyg » September 22nd, 2016, 9:44 am
I actually heard a police spokesman say that videos showing police shooting unarmed people biased the pubic against them. I think the 24 hour cycle should make police more responsible. It is more rife with errors like the one last night that a person was killed at the rally by another protestor. Later the story was retracted, but that person could be dead this morning. But if we hear something we want to believe then, it is more likely to incite us.
But there is an old adage that "seeing is believing." It has a companion that says believing is seeing. Got an example on the Frantz page this morning, and I can share this stuff even though I am banned because I can still cut and paste. One poster said about the shooting in Tulsa that "Really?? Walking away from the officer and reaching in the car appears compliant to you?? Wow." They, meaning righties, have been brainwashed to believe something and see it, and probably so has everybody else. Now the one thing videos, from a distance, cannot do is record commands. We do not know anything that this police officer said to Mr. Crutcher. We see her pointing a gun and several cars of backup coming, but we do not know what was said. And we know cops are relentlessly self- serving as we all are. She may have asked him to reach into his glove compartment for his registration.
by Scorpion » September 22nd, 2016, 10:35 am
Wasn't he on the drivers side?
Scorpion wrote:
Donald Trumps whole campaign is based on a false narrative; that Mexicans are criminals, and Muslims are all terrorist. The President is a Muslim who wasn't born in the United States, and Hillary Clinton murdered 4 Americans in Benghazi. The republican party's candidate for President of the United States is a bigot and a xenophobic fascist, who is supported by a large portion of the population of the country. Meanwhile cops are shooting black people like they are in season, but arrest a white armed mass murder of 9 black people (Dylann Roof) almost casually and then buy him a hamburger. You would have to be blind not to see the difference in the way people of color are treated in comparison to white people.
by leftyg » September 22nd, 2016, 4:47 pm
No Scorp, it is fine here because bigots like Bob create this climate. Not far back, on August 22 he said he wanted the words 'Islamic terrorists" used because he did not want the word "terrorist" to apply to right wing white extremists like Dylann Roof https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 (listen to the area between 27-30 minutes) so it is very relevant. Xenophobic fascists stick together. And any group that is different is fair game for their bigotry. Blacks are different too. It is what fascists do.
by leftyg » September 23rd, 2016, 3:15 am
Well Bobby will have plenty to talk about tomorrow when he has to deal with the fact that the cop, Betty Shelby, he ardently defended on Thursday was charged with first degree manslaughter. He said that people like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump should not go off on tangents without facts; then Bob went off on a tangent without facts, and you can hear it in the first ten minutes of his hour two broadcast https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2
But yesterday (September 22) he primarily went off on Black Lives Matter and George Soros who he claimed was funding BLM to the tune of 133 million dollars. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 Of course that was wrong. The Open Society Foundation did not give that money to Black Lives Matter because the group is a loose confederation of lots of different organizations, like the tea party. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... atter.html And the source he did use for the first 650 thousand dollars was Breitbart, but he never said it. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... rm-police/ Snopes also debunks the story http://www.snopes.com/politics/business ... rguson.asp So Bob is a liar. The book keeps coming along. It just sucks that nobody would buy it because Bob is a nobody pos.
There was a lot in the second hour that I frankly found nauseating, attacking The BLM movement after I watched a very disciplined protest by members tonight which Bob will never acknowledge. But what was truly nauseating were the calls he got from several of his regular "Deplorables." The first said he was taking a baseball bat to a football game in case anybody wanted to act out. But then the two real Deplorables came forward. One was Ron in Brook Park who said that he wished George Soros would drop dead, Bob let him talk. Bob said he tended to agree with him but did not want to be like the left when Justice Scalia died which of course is pure bullshit. Then this idiot said he wanted a separate living space for races and religions. White Christians in one place African-Americans in another place and Muslims in another. Bob let him talk; did not shut him off. A fellow from Euclid said Soros and his organization was like Spectre from the James Bond movies. Finally, Navy man Norm in Strongsville said Soros lead his fellow Jews to the gas chambers in Hungary which is pure bullshit. There were no gas chambers in Hungary. Hungarian Jews were moved en masse to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 when Soros was all of 13 years old and his family was hiding him from the Nazis so he would not be on one of those trains. How shameless and despicable of these people to accuse a child of being a Nazi collaborator. The only Nazi collaborators are Bob and his Deplorables https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 listen from about the 27 minute mark
And remember from Monday when Bob talked about armed resistance in the future. He said it may be time for men to fight back, and it would be time for torches and pitchforks. He said it was time for "real men to fight back*" This comes from his own lips https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 (listen form the 37 minute mark to the end about two minutes)
*Where are you going to find "real men" at that gathering?
by hmmmmm » September 23rd, 2016, 1:50 pm
I am very rational. As a rational person, I was just shocked that you would take a horrendous comment made by that woman and turn it into a "Bob" issue (even though this is the bash Bob thread).
Although I don't exactly agree with his elaborate wording, in this case.... I repeat, in this case.... I agree with what his message was.
I also had friends on Facebook that were caught up in that traffic. Nobody said anything bad and they were all extremely respectful and sad when they found out about the accident.
by leftyg » September 23rd, 2016, 2:45 pm
I believe you are rational too. I was just saying that because I did not know if you were agreeing with me or something else. I think what the woman said was terrible, and I would never say what she said. The highway patrolman who was killed by the apparent drunk driver was a great guy by all accounts. Still a local celebrity does not expose comments made by little people because if you read my listing of Deplorables by their handles on Bob's show which cannot be traced, you will see that those folks are not that far from going over the edge, and that means hurting her. Bob would probably be held responsible, maybe not the station because it was on his Frantz Radio page. Still it shows a vicious tendency. Last year he praised a father who almost killed a gay young man for having sex with his adolescent son. And last Friday on his show he talked about "torches and pitchforks to defend freedom," a mob of his peers (deplorables) attacking people with different views. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2
It is all there. Plus Bob has a long history of lying which I have chronicled and inciting, not informing, his base. He and a guest Dallas Officer Demetrick Pennie then have the audacity to attack BLM, President Obama, George Soros and others for the deaths of police officers in Dallas when, in fact, their enabling of cops has probably contributed more to it. All the people that Bob and his guest attacked committed the crime of trying to defend the civil rights and human rights of minorities that police and idiots like George Zimmerman killed. Yesterday one, Betty Shelby, was charged with first degree manslaughter. Hopefully it is not another case of jury nullification.
And this is not new with Bob. Kid Funkadelic said this about him four and a half years ago:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/0 ... st-friends
Someone posted over at Frantz Radio that the officer in the Tulsa shooting was charged with first degree manslaughter and Frantz wrote back:
FrantzRadio A political prosecution--just like the ones in Baltimore--to avoid riots in Tulsa.
She'll be acquitted just like every last one of the officers in Freddie Gray case.
Mark it down.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345
Which said it all. Real racism is not with cops who shoot black people or whites who lynch and shoot black people; it is with a society that condones it, and Bob is part of that society. He is racist to his morrow. That is the real problem. The acquittals they tell us more about how racist our society is than anything else. Tune in to Mansfield Frazier's show on WTAM 1100 on Sunday night at about eight PM. He will be talking about this I am sure. He is the only intelligent rational talk show host in Cleveland.
This is a reposnse Bob gave a poster who noted that Betty Shelby, the Tulsa police officer who shot Mr. Crutcher was being charged with first degree manslaughter:
Poster whose name is concealed responded: "All the folks that murdered Emmitt Till in Mississippi in 1954 were acquitted too. What did that prove? And I assume you are right by the way."
To whit slow witted Bob retorted: FrantzRadio [/i]"That's one of the most despicable comparisons I have ever read on social media. You are a sick, sick human being."
Of course what the other person was saying was that a lot hasn't changed in the last 60 years, but Bobby is not quick enough of wit to deal with that, so he resorts to his usual vacuous right wing indignation. Actually both cases are similar. Jury nullification will probably absolve Officer Shelby if the facts do not. Anyway even with the debate going on yesterday Bob is still focusing on police shootings. More affirmation he is a racist. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345
by leftyg » October 1st, 2016, 11:11 am
In my attempt to keep tabs on Bob Frantz's obsession with race and my admitted obsession with looking into his dealing to monitor the right wing alt right movement and its racism I put up this video from today about an event in Fresno, California https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345 It iis a group of black young men surrounding a police car and doing severe damage to it. The article is from the extremist website, Breitbart, and has, I believe, the purpose of inflaming Bob's alt right audience against blacks and minorities even. You can read the posts of the incited "Keep the powder dry," and "this did not happen before Obama."
As I have always said Frantz will not miss a chance to flame the passion of race because that is what this is about. He has stated that and taken comments from callers that they are ready for a coming confrontation. And you see some of those here. BTW, I am not endorsing the behavior that you will see in the video. But I, unlike Bob, want to try and understand it. Martin Luther King said "rioting is the language of the unheard." I would rather listen to this language and learn from it rather than just react and yes, the people who did this should go to jail, but so should people like Betty Shelby and other police officers who abuse their badges in the inner city. If the scale of justice is balanced then incidence like this will decrease. Defending and always exonerating bad cops is not going to solve the problem.
It is coming to fruition what I mentioned about pitchforks and torches a month ago on this thread. Bob attended a meeting where Sheriff David Clarke called for pitchforks and torches http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politicsv ... vi-AAj6bB8 . He said it was time for that.
If you remember I quoted the meeting in a September 17 post of this thread and Bob enthusiastically supported what Sheriff Clarke said. I quote from what I wrote that day at 2:34 PM and some of it was lifted word for word from Bob's monologue. That part about calling Sheriff Clarke Whackadoodle was me and the quoted remarks Bob's
Now what did Sheriff Whackadoodle Clarke and Bobby and the others suggest? They suggested that it might be time for men to fight back. Now this solution is shared by a sheriff who says it might be time for "torches and pitchforks" to "fight back for their flag, their anthem, their belief system and their values" Bob wholeheartedly agreed calling it a "wonderful moment." https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 -2 (Listen starting at 37 minutes until the end)
Post by leftyg » September 17th, 2016, 2:34 pm
Bottom line: Sheriff Clarke is a known liar, and incitement to riot is not protected by the first amendment. Both he and Bob should be fired. No liberal police officer, sheriff or policeman could get away with this.
by leftyg » October 27th, 2016, 12:20 am
On his show Monday (the video was not up for two days) Bobby bragged about an exchange he had with Blaine Griffin the Democratic Party chairman of Cuyahoga county concerning voter intimidation on Tom Beres program on Channel three. He claims a smack down of Griffin when he made this statement about voter intimidation and the need for poll watchers "The most egregious example in my lifetime of voter intimidation happened in Philadelphia in 2008 when Barack Obama ran for president, and the New Black Panther Party staked out precincts all over Philadelphia, scaring the Bejesus out of people, wearing camouflage, carrying clubs and all kinds of other things" https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 (check about 25:30-27:00 minutes)
Now that statement by Bobby is patently untrue. There were two guys at an all black precinct dressed the way Black Panthers dress. Their names were Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson and this pathetic liar calls that "all over Philadelphia." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05880.html The Bush Administration did bring charges against the two but the Justice department dropped them because in the words of a conservative member of the Civil Rights Commission, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, Abigail Thernstrom, the two were "small potatoes" and really not worth the effort of the justice department as a civil rights violation. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05880.html
I don't know why Bob continues this lying. It is so easy to fact check
Now later in this exchange Tom Beres asked Bob if elections in Ohio could be honest and fair. He said yes " I think if everybody does indeed legally monitor the polls makes sure that nothing nefarious is being done then yes I have every faith that will be the case https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 (27:00-27:20)
But there is a problem. There was a real case of voter intimidation in 1981 which is very relevant today. The GOP in New Jersey the GOP organized a group to target about 75 minority precincts and challenge thousand of registered voters right to vote. There were off duty sheriff's deputies and police officers on the task force. They were called Ballot Security Task Force. And they intimidated so many people out of voting that the Republican Tom Kean won the election by 1800 votes out of about 2.4 million. The Justice Department intervened and levied a consent decree against the GOP. That means that until December 1, 2017 the GOP cannot target minority districts for purpose of poll monitoring, a fact that eludes Bob completely if you listen to this conversation. He thinks it is fine. AND the attorney for the GOP in the case was Donald Trump's brother-in- law the late John Barry.
So 35 years later Trump himself picked up the mantle http://www.advocate.com/election/2016/1 ... l-watchers
And the GOP and Reince Preibus do not want Trump to go forward because if they do go forward with this targeted poll watching because it will add eight years to the consent decree which will mean they cannot monitor polls until 2025.
I mean there is so much here, and it is the same old same old. Bob attacks a couple New Black Panthers who a rational conservative at a think tank called "small potatoes." He attacks a black Democratic official, and he forgets a huge voter intimidation effort that resulted in the election of a Republican governor in New Jersey but also resulted in a consent decree leveled against the GOP that basically says that the GOP cannot do what Donald Trump and Bob Frantz want it to do which is intimidate minority voters to skew the election to Trump.
In this one hour there is enough idiocy to keep a person in stitches for hours. Tom Beres said that Cuyahoga County elections boss Pat McDonald has been turning away Trump supporters who volunteer as poll watchers and telling them to get the proper letter from the GOP, and McDonald elaborates on how secure the facilities are.
The funniest thing was when Bob talked about James O'Keefe's operation Veritas and his findings about Democratic field operatives "who use the elderly, the disabled and indeed the homeless" to go into crowds at Donald Trump rallies to start trouble to start fights." https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 (about 29:00-29:30) This idiot actually believes this or he thinks his audience is stupid enough to. And Bobby self righteously says that O'Keefe's undercover video shows that these provocateur are led by Robert Creamer whom Bob calls "a Chicago style activist and a convicted felon by the way." Bob never mentions that the filmmaker, James O'Keefe, is also a convicted felon. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 (30:00-30:30) In general Bob tries to make Trump supporter sympathetic victims as they beat up elderly people, disabled people and the homeless. If you think about it, it is a hoot if it were not so tragic for the elderly disabled and homeless.
And remember my last post about where Sheriff David Clarke saying "pitchforks and torches" were in the future and Bob agreed. These people are scary.
by wobbly » October 27th, 2016, 10:30 am
I'll bet Bob is all for this.
Oath Keepers Promise to Patrol the Polls on Election Day
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/201 ... ection-day
With Donald Trump doubling down on claims of a “rigged” election, the Oath Keepers is calling all members to rush to the polls and monitor for voter fraud.
Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keeper founder and president, announced “Operation Sabot 2016” yesterday on the group’s website. Rhodes, whose organization recruits from the military, law enforcement and emergency first responders, boasts “significant capabilities” to conduct covert intelligence operations to ensure the election is not “stolen” from the American people.
“[W]e call on you to form up incognito intelligence gathering and crime spotting teams,” Rhodes instructed. “And go out into public on election day, dressed to blend in with the public … with video, still camera, and notepad in hand, to look for and document suspected criminal vote fraud or intimidation activities.”
Rhodes did not specify where the Oath Keepers has enough members to monitor polls, but for nearly three years, he has actively mobilized extremists nationwide to respond in a moment’s notice. His call to action, at the end of a campaign season that has seen violence (here, here and here) is a cause for concern.
While the Oath Keepers claims to be non-partisan, Rhodes admits his fears that election tampering – if it comes at all – will come from the Left.
“[W]e are, indeed, most concerned about expected attempts at voter fraud by leftists,” Rhodes says before widening his scope to include all voters. “But we will spot, document, and report any apparent attempt at vote fraud or voter intimidation … as is our duty.”
The Oath Keepers are well known for showing up heavily armed in instances of social crisis. Staking out polling stations to thwart voter intimidation is likely to cause more problems than it solves, especially given the group’s own history of frightening locals. Even more worrisome, coming at a time of increasing racial tensions, likely armed, mostly white men secretly patrolling voting stations looking for “suspicious” activity is incredibly worrisome.
Regardless, the group truly believes it’s obligated to do it.
Among other obligations recognized by the Oath Keepers is its ten “Orders We Will Not Obey.” These “orders” echo fears that are central to the America’s antigovernment movement – that the government will enact mass gun confiscation, impose martial law, blockade American cities turning them into concentration camps and usher in a “New World Order” of globalist elites.
With these paranoid conspiracy theories as a driving force behind the Oath Keepers, it seems unlikely the group’s claims of non-partisan and patriotic altruism are sincere. For many in the antigovernment movement, Hillary Clinton, or “Hitlery” as Rhodes likes to call her, is the embodiment of these worst fears.
The Oath Keepers are a dangerous group and they work off this false narrative of election fraud, like Bob Frantz, Sheriff David Clarke and James O'Keefe to mention only a few. When I started this thread I sensed something in Bob like a neighbor does when the guy next door is not right but has not really done anything. He was extremely conservative.
I heard from an employee at WTAM that unlike the other hosts like Mike Trivisonno, that Bob was surly and ill tempered off the air. And I began to find this extensive list of African-American celebrities that he did not like or had bad things to say about. Unless a black was a right wing luminary like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson, or Sheriff Clarke he had little good to say about them. When a black like Isaiah Crowell transgressed, he was merciless in his desire for retribution; when a white news anchor, Kristi Capel, used racist language he was extremely forgiving.
And last year when he started at WHK I saw this tendency to foster racial division really take hold. I knew, from the Trayvon Martin episode , that it was his MO. I just wish I knew how to site permalinks when I started because this has been going on since he got to WHK, this fostering of racial animosity. I want you to listen to the way he viciously leashes out at a caller from Cleveland Heights who merely--and in the most polite way possible-- disagreed with Bob about the who was wrong when a protestor and a Trump supporter clashed. Her name was Lisa from Cleveland Heights. and the same way he did to me and to others who question him, he went ballistic Listen to minutes 36:30 until the end of hour two on Monday https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 It was despicable.
I think Bob is getting ready for "pitchfork and torches" time the way Sheriff Clarke said on September 15 on a Rock Side Road get together and that I posted on September 17 and copied just above. They have been planning for this and part of the message is their tone is less civil. Rational conservatives are pulling back from them. Groups like Oath Keepers are very much like the 1981 group Ballot Security Task Force that I spoke about on my last post. And the lies are starting to fly. Remember that the first casualty of war is truth.
by hmmmmm » October 28th, 2016, 1:23 pm
leftyg wrote: I want you to listen to the way he viciously leashes out at a caller from Cleveland Heights who merely--and in the most polite way possible-- disagreed with Bob about the who was wrong when a protestor and a Trump supporter clashed. Her name was Lisa from Cleveland Heights. and the same way he did to me and to others who question him, he went ballistic Listen to minutes 36:30 until the end of hour two on Monday https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 It was despicable.
Boy, you are way stretching it on this one, to the point of being dishonest.
He didn't go ballistic, he wasn't vicious and it was not despicable. He called her out, and she repeatedly refused to answer the question.
If this is the type of thing that keeps setting you off, then I am going to have a hard time taking anything you say seriously about Frantz, because there is nothing on this clip.
hmmmmm, go to the 39 minute 20 second point. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 At that point Bob resorts to one of his old ploys that is hard to combat even if you know it is coming. He asked a closed question which requires a "yes" or "no" answer, and then he loads the question with a ton of biased crap and unproven assumptions and only allows a "yes" or "no" answer which is what an attorney does with a hostile witness in a court room.* Then he badgers her. When she refuses to comply with his deception he hangs up on her and assuming she is a Hillary supporter says "you have proven yourself to be what every other liberal Democrat I encounter proves to be, a absolute liar, Blaine Griffin did it to me on TV, you just did it to me on the radio, refuse to answer direct questions and they are doing it all across this country." And Bob continues to say he is "repulsed by her attitude" 39:43 to end https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 This is not vicious? This is not despicable?
Now it was actually a closed question, not direct, which Bob loaded down with so much bias it could not be answered and it was not ethical. It was vicious and it was despicable. If you do not agree with that then we need to have a long conversation on ethics. He also violated the 89th rule of Washington's rules on Civil Discourse which is to not attack or speak ill of a non-present person. He spoke ill of Blaine Griffin, vice chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party and of this caller Lisa who could not defend herself against what amounts to lies Bob was telling. As I said he said that there was a huge voter intimidation action carried out by the Black Panther is Philadelphia in 2008; there was not. He failed to mention that the Republican Party is under a consent decree which forbids them from doing poll monitoring in minority precincts because of a 1981 incident in Trenton New Jersey. He loads his question with material that can be disproven even in the Veritas video by convicted felon James O'Keefe when one of the people in the video said that they take care of their homeless activists by feeding them and setting them up with hotel rooms which would essentially render Bob's assertion that the people who hired these homeless do not care about them. And about half the video according to Mother Jones is false, but we can deal with that later.
One question that I would have for Bob or you if any of this is true. What is there about "the elderly, the disabled and the homeless" that makes Trump supporters want to beat them up? If indeed these are the people out there why do these right wingers feel entitled to beat up old people and disable people.
*It is like the question "have you stopped beating your wife." It limits a person to a "yes" or "no" answer, a person is trapped in a paradox where s/he is guilty no matter what the answer is. Bob does it all the time because he is an ass.
by hmmmmm » October 31st, 2016, 12:13 pm
Lefty, I did listen to the whole clip in question. No, not vicious, not despicable. It is nothing that I don't hear on every left wing or right wing radio talk show or even left or right cable news network.
Trump supporters don't want to beat anyone up. These people have been paid by the left to go in and cause fights and try to get themselves beat up so that it can be video taped to make the Trump crowd look bad.
by leftyg » October 31st, 2016, 11:24 pm
hmmmmm that is your opinion, but it does not alter mine or my belief that Frantz is an unethical person. You do not treat a caller like a hostile witness in a court of law unless you are on the defensive. An intelligent host would try to draw out the caller.
But Bob has a problem. He is very weak at defending his ideas. The woman was right. Even if you are insulted it is not right to hit someone or to threaten them, especially if they are "elderly, disabled or homeless" as Bob characterizes these people who work for the Democratic operatives. But those seem to be the kind of people Trump supporters like to prey on. Since when is it against the rules to go to a rally where you disagree with the views of the rally goers? That is a far better question than the loaded lie Bob tossed this poor woman who had no chance because she was damned no matter how she answered. She knew it, but Bob, lacking an argument, was in possession of the dump switch and the last word.
You know this guy has never gone to war though he talks tough and used the word "men" when describing himself and his fellow Salem hosts who were willing to resort to "torches and pitchforks" in a podcast I can easlily pull up . In fact here it is https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 (the last two minutes of the hour, from about 37 minutes on). This is his courage: a mob of bullies attacking who? HIs radio show is practice. He is not going to debate a knowledgeable opponent in an open forum; he would not debate Lisa who was not only better informed than Bob but more articulate.
Seriously a man would not attack anybody, man or woman, the way Bob regularly attacks people. He lies if nothing else to get out of corners. I have heard it many times. He said planned parenthood devoted 97% of its funds to abortions, and it has not; said he was holding his baby daughter in San Francisco at noon when the planes struck the Towers on 9/11; he said Ronald Reagan created 19.2 million jobs in his first two years as president (he lost over three million); he said that Al Sharpton said Texas suffered in a flood because of their conservative values when Rev. Sharpton told his callers it because of global warming. He continually tells his audience things that are not true when he is backed into a corner. He lied about the New Black Panthers on Channel Tree. In the same broadcast he lied about the Republican party having the right to watch polls. They currently do not because of a 1981 consent decree order that is scheduled to end next December in 2017. He lies like a bodily function, like it is necessary. He dishonestly foisted James O'Keefe off as a credible source to both Tom Beres and Blaine Griffin
Then you write:
First, these are as I said before and Bob claims and the video claims are "elderly, disabled and handicapped people." I guess these are the type of people that Trump supporters like attacking. What sort of person beats up these sort of people? What sort of man( and I use the word loosely) hits a 69 year old woman who has COPD and has to carry oxygen and gets "cold cocked" by some Trump thug http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/201609 ... rump-rally It does not matter if she was a protestor. If you cannot see that then there is something wrong. This is frightening. Bob is acting as an apologist for thugs, and it only adds to how unconscionable he can be and more importantly how dangerous he is in the current environment. We need discussion based on facts and reason, not emotional displays and lies or half truths.
by leftyg » November 6th, 2016, 2:06 am
As you might guess I am not a big fan of Bob Frantz's thinking which by now should be obvious, but on November 1 two policeman in Iowa were killed by a gunman named Scott Michael Green who I described on another thread as a "confederate flag waving good ole boy." Bob was measured with his response to the event and said as always he tried to be cautious and get the facts and not to "ascribe motive," like other professionals in his profession." After all, he wanted to get the facts first, like he always does. https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 Listen to the first 12 minutes of his show for this credo of not ascribing motive which he repeated about five times.
Now I thought that was pretty funny. On September 2 of 2015, Bob spoke passionately about the murder of
Officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a Fox Lake Illinois policeman who was allegedly murdered by three thugs. That day Bob was not so reticent about "ascribing motive." He blamed Black Lives Matter, President Obama and a Black Lives Matter Internet commentator named King Noble for Officer Gliniewicz's murder.
https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... 015-hour-1 (the first ten or so minutes)
Which was pretty funny because Officer Gliniewitz was not killed at all; he committed suicide because he was on the cusp of being discovered for stealing money from the village http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015 ... /75145690/ Apparently, Officer Gliniewicz had motives: greed for wanting money and shame for not wanting to get caught stealing it. Bob prematurely let him off the hook and went after BLM, President Obama and this guy King Noble, all of whom had absolutely nothing to do with this cop's death.
So you think Bobby would learn, but Bobby is a slow learner. Fouteen (14) months later and after telling his audience he would not "ascribe motive" because he is a "professional," he blames this shooting by a confederate flag waving, white supremacist on Black Lives Matter, Colin Kapaernick, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton He accuses them of "race-baiting" https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-3 (at least the first 12 minutes of his farcical show). Wild guess: a white supremacist does not use Black Lives Matter or Barack Obama as role models; yet he still kills cops. BTW after he called this shooting more important than the World Series and the election, he did not mention it the next day when all he did was talk about the World Series and the election. I guess he realized it would be hard to blame it BLM, and he did not want to touch white supremacy as a motive; it might hit too close to home
He talks about BLM "ginning up the rage of an unstable population who have racial biases of their own." (like Bob's audience) So Bob goes autobiographical as he often does and tells you HIS nefarious motives.
Which is the point of this post. Bob has not learned anything in the last 14 months. When he talks about people with racial biases he is talking about himself and his audience. Bob is projecting. Everything he says about others is really about him and his audience. He is far too busy blaming others to look introspectively into himself for the blame and the motive.
In closing, on his Facebook page Frantz belittles the grief of two parents whose son was killed by a store owner during a robbery. I am certainly not blaming the store owner, but this is what one poster said about the incident (Poster's name deleted) "Another parent in denial their child is a criminal." The response FrantzRadio "Was, Linda. Was." Did I mention that the parents were African=American? One savvy poster who is on to Frantz said (Name deleted)"You guys love these race baiting stories! Lol
#WHITEALSHARPTON" https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345
by hmmmmm » November 7th, 2016, 2:08 pm
Wow. Bob said something 14 months ago that wasn't consistent with what he said last week. I will never listen to him again !!!
hmmmmmm, I am just cataloguing what he says. I am doing an anatomy of a far right talk show host and he is right under my nose and a perfect example of the meanness, the lack of information, the projection, the hysteria, the name calling and most of all the utter lack of substance. In my most recent installment he was projecting. He says he does not ascribe motives and that is about all he does. You might call him a light weight Rush wannabe. But I think he reflects something very negative in our culture. I think it should be exposed, and I welcome a comment from him. I will give him all the space he needs.
My sister thinks it is all an act with him, a way to get ratings. She might be right, but if she is that is wrong too because it is not right to inflame these old guys with bad tickers for a few bucks. Enlighten them and give them a vision. Right wing talk seldom if ever does that.
lefty, I don't think it's an act. I think he says things a certain way to get "shock " value out of it. Being controversial can boost ratings. But for the most part, I think he very much believes in what he is saying.
Years ago when he first started, I used to listen to him all the time. Back then though, he was more of a moderator and gave less of his opinion. He actually listened and encouraged his callers. Now, it is only his opinion that matters (or yours if you agree with him). But I think it's that way with all radio talk show hosts in that genre. Left or right. I don't think he's shaping or influencing any young minds in the listening area, but I do think there much worse negative things in our culture to get worked up about.
I am sure there are other things to get worked up about. But for almost 40 years right wing talk has fascinated me. I did a paper on the Moral Majority when I went back to college almost 40 years ago, after I heard Falwell introduce it in about 1978. The wolf in sheep's clothing aspect of the right intrigued me. In a way I like Falwell because he was blustery and honest. I thought Pat Robertson was more devious and dangerous because he quietly plied his craft on the 700 Club. I was fascinated by Robertson's intelligence, a very bright guy with a lot of devious angles. And in the eighties WTAM when I think it was still WWWE started to have these wingnuts like Bob Henderson and in the late eighties the advent of Rush who I liked at first. But he became vicious, like Bob has become. I hope you are right about his not shaping young minds. I worry about the codgers that call his show because they vote. I have heard segments on his show where some of these guys have said they will use their guns if blacks come on their property. He preaches hatred, and he calls himself a Christian. And there is the scapegoating which is emblematic of right wing extremism. They have to have somebody to hate. Bob seems to have picked Hillary Clinton and Black Lives Matter.
About Bob I am concerned about several things that concern me about all right wingers. But I am concerned about lying, racism, low wages, health care and the Constitution which he claims to follow making exceptions about the flag and other issues where it does not mesh with his ideology of hate. I was not surprised by his support for "torches and pitchforks" in a September 16 monolouge at the end of his show https://soundcloud.com/am-1420-the-answ ... -2016-hr-2 from 38 minutes to the end, just over a minute. He says things that are frightening if you care about liberty and the rule of law. I catalogue things back to March of 2015 just after he got hired and there are so many things where he either flat out lies or says hateful things. And the beauty is they can be catalogued. Yeah hmmmmm sometimes it gets boring and it is like watching paint dry. But all I have to do is listen for five minutes to get ammunition for a day. He is not a guy you have to monitor. I get all this stuff in a 20 minute ride to work in the morning. If a liberal host said what Bob says, he probably would be out of a job.
Anyway thanks for responding. Right here we have the nicest most congenial atmosphere for people to strongly disagree with each other and stick mostly to the facts. This sort of place should be the model.
This is what Bob Frantz said on April 15, 2010 at a Tea Party rally on Mall C in Cleveland:
"The media says that we are a bunch of racist, red-necked radicals. You better get use to it," said Frantz. "All they have left is to minimize and demonize us because they found out that this movement has power and we get results. They can't ignore us."
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/04 ... party.html
Notice when he says the media calls him and other Tea Partiers "a bunch of racist, red necks and radicals," he does not deny it. Instead he says "get used to it." Now this material is over six years old but it is something he has never apologized for nor backed away from. Now being a redneck and a radical are both forgivable and even understandable, but the fact that he has never demurred in any meaningful way that he is or is not a racist says a lot and his behavior says even more.
Now, slx and one-half years later on Thanksgiving, the fruit of that anger appears to be ready for harvest. Lets remember that we do not have to partake of it: just let it rot.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
by leftyg » November 26th, 2016, 10:42 pm
Again I go back into the past to something Bob put on his Facebook page three years ago. It is a brief video of a woman complaining her boyfriend has been put in jail for a crime. The women, of course, is African-American and her manner and her dialect are belittled and her plight ridiculed. Even more proof that the host is a racist or plays one on his radio show https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 4018302345
If you read the comment section including the comment by Frantz himself, there is a powerful tone of derision and bullying. Truly the man has lost his moral compass. Perhaps a large segment of our nation has lost its compass.
Just more evidence for the pile, and he has not changed in either three years or six years.
Well Bob did it again. He posted this insightful and thoughtful comment about an Ohio State an unnamed Ohio State employee
In case you missed it, here is the contact information for the terrorist-sympathizing paid public employee of The Ohio State University:
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Under Pressure: Content Management’s Greatest Hits
By John Eckman • May 29th, 2012 • Content Management's Greatest Hits
Today we’re introducing a new series at the CMS Myth: Content Management’s Greatest Hits.
You may remember the Ultimate CMS Mixtape from 2010. In this series of posts we’ll extend that collection, hopefully without too many retreads. (How many greatest hits collections do you have with overlapping singles? Let’s just say I have at least 5 copies of “I Ran (So Far Away)” in my eighties collection).
First up, the classic 1981 collaboration between Queen and David Bowie: Under Pressure. (Which itself can be found on at least four greatest hits compilations, or so says wikipedia).
What does “Under Pressure” have to do with content management?
The lyrics arguably contain what amounts to “Lorem Ipsum” – scat singing sounds and syllables which made it into the final song but probably had the origin in early jam sessions before the content was written. Not that any CMS project would ever consider finalizing design with incomplete content . . .
The bass line was famously sampled and used in Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” without credit to Queen and David Bowie. “Stop: Collaborate and Listen” indeed. It’s important to keep track of metadata in your content migration so you don’t miss an attribution like that.
More importantly, though, the song is a reminder that we make poor decisions under pressure. Often, in a large scale content management implementation, as the deliverables pile up and the schedule gets tight, people are pushed to make difficult decisions quickly, sometimes with detrimental results.
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure – that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Don’t let the pressure of an on-time launch lead your team into making shortsighted decisions. Better to be willing to raise key issues even if it means a significant delay in project completion, if it will result in a significantly better user experience, more cohesive content strategy, or more effective and positive impact on the business goals.
Of course we’re all familiar with the syaing “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” but we also should never be afraid to “give ourselves one more chance” to get it right.
Tags: CMS, Content Management, David Bowie, Implementation, Queen, Strategy
Formerly the Managing Director of Boston Connective DX office, John's passion for technology and the role of CMS are clear in his point of view.
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Dadaab, Kenya (CNN) -- When I was in the third grade, a classmate of mine died of leukemia. None of us knew he was sick, only that his mother hadn't let him attend school in a while.
More than 30 years later, I still remember the awful day my mom told me my friend had passed away. I made a card for his mother, and walked to their house to deliver it. She was too overcome to take any visitors, but thanked me and took the card. I can recall her broken up face when she shut the door.
Over time we lost touch, but during the holidays a couple of years ago, I stopped by her home to pay a visit. She recognized me right away, smiled and invited me in for a cup of coffee. And then, while hanging my jacket, she began to tremble and cry.
So many years later, the sorrow was just under the surface. The experience left an indelible impression on me, one that I better understood after becoming a parent myself. It violates a natural order of life to bury your own child, and I am not sure the grief ever goes away.
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Inside the Dadaab Refugee Camp, a mass burial site sits within walking distance of the close cluster of tents. Amin Hassan took me to see the tiny burial site of her 1-month old daughter, Addison.
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Showing posts with label Recommended Reading Lists: Haiti (The Haitian Revolution). Show all posts
Recommended Reading Lists: Haiti (The Haitian Revolution), the Caribbean, and Black Internationalism
Recommended Reading Lists: Haiti (The Haitian Revolution), the Caribbean, and Black Internationalism by Celucien L. Joseph
The following recommended list below contains (100 books in total) some of the most important texts on three broad areas of study: Haiti, the Caribbean, and Black Internationalism. The list is not intended to be exhaustive. For example, I include few books on religion because I believe this should be a different category of interest and by itself. Another example is that I did not include "The Black Jacobins" (1938) by C. L. R. James on the list since it is the classic text on the Haitian Revolution; hence, I assume everyone should know about it.
I. Haitian History (i.e. Intellectual History) and the Haitian Revolution (Its International Impact)
1. Haiti, History, and the Gods by Colin Dayan
2. Haiti: State Against Nation by Michel-Rolph Trouilot
3. The World of the Haitian Revolution by David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering
4. Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer
5. Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World by Doris L. Garraway
6. Haitian Revolutionary Studies by David Patrick Geggus
7. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World by David P. Geggus
8. The Making of Haiti: Saint Domingue Revolution From Below by Carolyn E. Fick
9. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus
10. Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution by Deborah Jenson
11. Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution by Matthew J. Clavin
12. Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Sibylle Fischer
13. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois
14. Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment by Nick Nesbitt
15. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History by Susan Buck-Morss
16. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
17. The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas by Sara E. Johnson
18. The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History by David Geggus
19. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois
20. Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue by John Garrigus
21. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 by Laurent Duboi
22. Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic by Gerald Horne
23. Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 by Marlene L. Daut
24. The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti Hardcover by Kate Ramsey (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
25. Ainsi parla l'Oncle (1928) (Thus Spoke the Uncle) by Jean Price-Mars
26. Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon by Kiama L. Glover
27. The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development edited by Millery Polyne
28. The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey (Author), Chris Bongie (Translator)
29. Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic by Ashli White
II. Caribbean Intellectual History and Black Internationalism
30. Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant by Nick Nesbitt
32. Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder
33. The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars by Gary Wilder
34. Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (Author), Joan Pinkham (Translator)
35. The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Antonio Benitze-Rojo
36. An Intellectual History of the Caribbean by S. Torres-Saillant
37. The Caribbean: An Intellectual History, 1774-2003 by Denis Benn
38. Origins of the Black Atlantic by Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott
39. In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 by Minkah Makalani
40. Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora by Sidney Lemelle and Robin D. G. Kelley
41. From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution by Michael O. West (Editor), William G. Martin (Editor), Fanon Che Wilkins (Editor)
42. From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 by Michel Fabre
43. Negritude Women by Tracy Whitin
44. Beyond Negritude: Essays from Woman in the City by Paulette Nardal and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
45. The Negritude Movement: W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea (Critical Africana Studies)
by Reiland Rabaka
46. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
by Brent Hayes Edwards
47. Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant (Author), Betsy Wing (Translator)
48. The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line by Roderick Bush
49. Black Europe and the African Diaspora by Darlene Clark Hine and Trica Danielle Keaton
50. The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora
by F. Abiola Irele
51. Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization
52. Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James... by Reiland Rabaka
53. Black Writers in French: A Literary History by Lilyan Kesteloot
54. Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalism
by Aaron Kamugisha and Paget Henry
55. Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalism by Aaron Kamugisha (Editor),
56. Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy by Paget Henry
57. The Negritude Moment: Explorations in Francophone African and Caribbean Literature and Thought by F. Abiola Irele
58. Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in its Ideological Aspects by Professor Gordon Lewis
59. A History of Pan-African Revolt by C. L. R. James (Author), Robin D. G. Kelley
60. Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott
61. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
62. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
63. Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora by Franklin Rosemont and Robin D.G. Kelley
64. Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 by Michelle Ann Stephens
65. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade by Christopher L. Miller
66. From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought by Celucien L. Joseph
67.Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions: Discourse on Race, Religion, and Freedom by Celucien Joseph
68.The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism: The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti by Paul C. Mocombe
69.The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System by Paul C. Mocombe
70.Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
71. An Introduction to Africana Philosophy by Lewis R. Lewis Gordon
72.Freedom as Marronage by Neil Roberts
III. Haiti, and the International Community
1. Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery by Robert Fatton Jr.
2. Haiti In The New World Order: The Limits Of The Democratic Revolution by Alex Dupuy
3. From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic by Myriam J.A. Chancy
4. Haiti and the Americas Edited by Carla Calarge, Raphael Dalleo, Luis Duno-Gottberg, and Clevis Headley
5. Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy [Paperback] (Author) Robert Fatton
6. Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment by Brenda Gayle Plummer
7. Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti by Jeb Sprague
8. Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902—1915 by Brenda Gayle Plummer
9. Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution by Julia Gaffield
10. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940Jun 18, 2001 by Mary A. Renda
11. The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934Mar 1, 1995 by Hans Schmidt
12. Clash of Cultures: America's Educational Strategies in Occupied Haiti, 1915-1934 by Leon D. Pamphile
13. Jean Price-Mars, the Haitian Elite and the American Occupation, 1915-1935 by Magdaline W. Shannon
14. Haiti's Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy by Robert Fatton
15. Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery by Fatton, Robert, J
16. Roots of Haitian Despotism by Robert and Jr. Fatton
17. Haitians and African Americans: A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope by Leon D. Pamphile
18. The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti by Alex Dupuy
19. Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens: Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment by Alex Dupuy
20. Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward
21. From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls
22. The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti, 1776-1891 by Rayford W. Logan
23. From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 1870–1964 by Millery Polyné
24. The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier by Amy Wilentz
25. Haiti: The Duvaliers & Their Legacy by Elizabeth Abbott
26. Contrary Destinies: A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti by Leon D. Pamphile
27. Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.-Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation by Patrick Delices and Jeffrey Sommers.
28. Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle by Gina Athena Ulysse
Labels: and Black Internationalism, Reading Lists on the Haitian Revolution and Haiti, Recommended Reading Lists: Haiti (The Haitian Revolution), the Caribbean
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Imani, H., Vesal, N., Mohammadi-Samani, S. (2013). Evaluation of Intravenous Lidocaine Overdose in Chickens (Gallus domesticus). Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 08(1), 9-16.
Hadi Imani; Nasser Vesal; Soliman Mohammadi-Samani. "Evaluation of Intravenous Lidocaine Overdose in Chickens (Gallus domesticus)". Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 08, 1, 2013, 9-16.
Imani, H., Vesal, N., Mohammadi-Samani, S. (2013). 'Evaluation of Intravenous Lidocaine Overdose in Chickens (Gallus domesticus)', Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 08(1), pp. 9-16.
Imani, H., Vesal, N., Mohammadi-Samani, S. Evaluation of Intravenous Lidocaine Overdose in Chickens (Gallus domesticus). Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 2013; 08(1): 9-16.
Evaluation of Intravenous Lidocaine Overdose in Chickens (Gallus domesticus)
Article 1, Volume 08, Issue 1 - Serial Number 18, Summer and Autumn 2013, Page 9-16 PDF (200.32 K)
Hadi Imani1; Nasser Vesal 1; Soliman Mohammadi-Samani2
1Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
2Pharmaceutical Science Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, Iran
Receive Date: 03 October 2013, Accept Date: 03 October 2013
Objective- To evaluate the total toxic dose of lidocaine and serum lidocaine concentrations resulting in clinical signs of toxicity in chickens. Design- Experimental study Animals- Eight healthy, female, 55-week-old chickens (Lohman breed) weighing 1.45 ± 0.17 kg (mean ± SD) Procedure- A loading dose of 2% lidocaine (4 mg/kg) was administered IV, followed by a constant-rate infusion at a dose of 8 mg/kg/min using a syringe pump. Times to onset of convulsion and/or respiratory arrest were recorded and the total toxic dose of lidocaine was determined. Blood sample was withdrawn for lidocaine analysis at the onset of the major signs of intoxication (convulsion or respiratory arrest). Results- The total toxic dose of lidocaine required to produce systemic toxicity and corresponding serum lidocaine concentration were 28.96 ± 6.21 mg/kg and 38.5 ± 10.4 μg/mL, respectively. Conclusions and clinical relevance- Based on the results of this study, greater doses of lidocaine are needed to produce toxic manifestations in chickens as compared with mammals.
Lidocaine; Infusion; Toxicity; Chicken
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Finally, a responsible way to enjoy an Irish coffee before noon. The good people at Jack Daniel’s just announced a new Tennessee tipple — Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey Coffee. Yes, that’s roasted coffee beans infused with whiskey.
Your morning cup o’Jack
If combining coffee and booze in a morning beverage sounds like whiskey business, you should know: your morning cup o’ Jack will contain no actual alcohol. So it’s safe for work — you can even sip it as you drive into work (it’s street legal). What you will get instead of a boozy buzz, according to Charlie Newman, owner and roast master of World Coffee, is “the authentic taste and aroma of Jack Daniel’s.”
Whiskey Infused Coffee | Photo courtesy of Jack Daniel’s
Jack’s also making a decaffeinated version — for a completely buzz-free experience. Although upon sober reflection, we think decaf whiskey-infused coffee might be a worthy choice for a night-cap of Irish Coffee with a Tennessee twist.
Want to try it out? You can order it online at Jack Daniel’s. Or if you’re in the area, it’s currently available at the Lynchburg Hardware and General Store in Lynchburg, Tennessee. A nationwide rollout to stores is expected to follow.
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Jacobs Music
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Once, thirteen piano merchants graced Piano Row on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Today, only one survives from that historic era, occupying the handsome art deco store we built in 1937offering four floors of pianos.
Our Steinway Selection Center is home to the largest selection of New, Pre-Owned and Authentically Restored Steinway & Sons pianos on the East Coast. With over 50 Steinway and Steinway-designed pianos in our Steinway Selection Center, you are sure to find the perfect Steinway for your home or institution. We are the home of the largest selection of new, pre-owned and authentically restored Steinway & Sons pianos on the East Coast! You will not find a larger selection anywhere!
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Our flagship central Philadelphia location offers four floors of pianos, a recital hall and private piano lessons as well as the largest and most respected technical staff in the industry.
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Jacobs Music is more than a piano retailer. We take a leading role in the region's musical community, providing instruments and technical services for internationally renowned artists and music institutions, as well as supporting schools and individuals involved in musical performances and music education. Our Steinway Selection Center is home to the largest selection of New, Pre-Owned and Authentically Restored Steinway & Sons pianos on the East Coast. Our selection is second to none. With over 50 Steinway and Steinway-designed pianos in our Steinway Selection Center, located in our historic home at 1718 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, you are sure to find the perfect Steinway for your home or institution. Our Steinway experts work closely with the Steinway & Sons factory in Astoria, New York to be up to date with the latest Steinway pianos available. Also, we have the most skilled as well as the largest technical staff to ensure that the Steinway piano that you purchase from Jacobs will be well cared for, decades to come. No other piano retailer is as committed to servicing the hundreds of touring Steinway Artists as well as the piano for your home.
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HBGames.ORG » Game Making General » Game Making Support » Construct 2 Support » Large scale RPG in Construct 2
Large scale RPG in Construct 2
rosareven
House Vidae
Imagine a RPG made with RPG Maker [select your version here], with a world full of details, an indepth story, dialogues and interactions with NPC, and may be 48 hours worth of main story play time. Many people have made that with RPG Makers on HBGames so those kind of games are what I'm referring to.
Now imagine that very same game being ported to Construct 2, which will be played over the Internet on a web browser.
How would you go about making it happen in Construct 2? All of a sudden a game that's been traditionally played from an executable package in your computer, is now played through the internet cables. Do you ask the players to download the whole HTML package to play locally? Develop server scripts to interact with the HTML5 game so that you only load resources when it's needed and allow saving over the internet? Wait for the whole game to load in the browser?
The whole point of html5 is to be played online. But it would be annoying if it had to load the entire game world every time you wanted to play it.
Maybe if you separated areas into different html pages and had Player information cached so it could carry over. You exit an area and it loads a new html page for the next area. Or selectively load resources by layout for shorter load times.
Maybe I'm confused and the game already loads content on-demand? I haven't seen a C2 game stop and load, so i'm assuming it loads everything from the start except for music that it streams.
BlueScope
The Third Man
In general, you need to choose the platform for the game you want to do. If you have an RPG that is single-player, has no online interaction at all and in general has high-quality graphics and whatnot, I don't see a reason to use C2 instead of RPG Maker. Despite my very own doubts regarding the Makers, if you want to make an RPG with a framework, that's the way to go.
In general, after working with it on Power Shift (that's halfway out of C2's comfort zone, I'd say), I'd say C2 isn't made for complex setups or object/scene links, and should work better with small things than with big ones.
Now, if you have a small-scale RPG with simple mechanics that uses a lot of online connections, and you feel pestered by the restrictions of RMVXPA (how I like those abbreviations... you have no idea :D ), I guess you'd be better off with C2 than with a Maker. Still, none of them is really made for something like that, so going another approach and maybe use plain HTML5 or even Flash (:crazy:) might turn out better in the long run.
Last but not least: If you actually start developing it with C2, your game will automatically adjust to C2's internal structure. You will end up with a game that's working well with C2's mechanics, and it might even be something as complex as an RPG. You might prove me entirely wrong and make the best game there ever was. There's no way to tell until you actually give it a shot :)
If you have a slightly positive memory of my Power Shift contest game,
you might be interested in this development screenshot...
More info about that soon!
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I agree with BlueScope ... Instead of reinventing the wheel, it will be easier to just use the right tool for the job you want to get done.
It seems to me that an RPG that is not ridiculously complicated in stats or overburdened with hi-res graphics would be totally possible.
There are a lot of useful links in this Scirra forum topic about making & using tile-based maps in C2: http://www.scirra.com/forum/array-tile- ... 49692.html
Since your resources are not self-contained in an exe, but have to load in a browser, you have to be especially careful about how you use images.
However, when comparing C2 and RMXP, for instance, you would be able to pull off much more interesting physics dynamics with far less effort in C2, than you would have to exert into perfecting RGSS scripts in RM. So turn-based RPGs wouldn't be worth it to attempt, but more action-oriented ones, like Zelda, would be more up your alley.
One interesting thing is that some people are also using C2 for making Adventure (point & click) games.
So, say, if you wanted to make a game with a rich story, that uses interesting physics or dynamics for puzzles, you can potentially pull that off much more nicely in C2, than you would in RM*.
All in all, C2 is better suited towards action-oriented dynamics, so that's the engine you'd want to use for that.
If you wanted to make a typical tile-based & turn-based RPG with no focus on physics/action-oriented gameplay, you'd probably be better off with RM* or something similar.
Generic Townsperson
I think you COULD make a large scale RPG, but you'd have to cut down on all the flashy effects and stuff to make it small enough that people won't be waiting an eternity for it to load... unless you follow whay coyotecroft said and break it up into multiple games, and have a way to transfer the player data and stats through your cache... someone should try it and see if you CAN transfer data through cache, because if so, that'd be brilliant!
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They're still working on adding layout-by-layout-loading functionality. It will probably be in a future update.
Sounds are streamed dynamically, so the biggest concern in pre-loading would be in the graphics department. If everything is 8-bit or 16-bit then there shouldn't be any problem, however for larger-sized graphics, a developer would want to package their game as downloadable instead of being played in-browser.
Graphics-loading times will be mostly negligible if loading from a hard drive. Functionality for adding update support is already in the engine.
They're also working on making it possible to package your project in an EXE. I think this may be a couple of months off, though.
Ooh, packaging it as an exe so we can open it from the desktop and play it locally as opposed to the net? Does this mean it wouldn't need us to preload or stream the music since it'll be included? I'd LOVE that!
Seriously, using C2 to make a game and then compile it to an executeable file seems rather odd. Not to mention you can already do that by exporting it as HTML5 and just run the .html file from your local host - will give you instant loading time as well, as well as compatibility on other than Windows OS's ;)
C2 is made for games played from the browser online, and that's what it should be used for. While HTML5 isn't unsuitable for desktop applications in general, C2 certainly isn't perfected into that direction and you'll likely find using Game Maker or anything similar easier to use or at least more performant or more capable in the end (namely, adressable renderers, ability to read from the local filesystem, ...)
Yeah but I mean so it opens up in its own window sort of like RPG Maker games lol. I know it's made mainly for HTML5, but there's no harm with them branching out and giving us more options, is there now?
That depends... it's the old Photoshop problem: Right now, it's a very useable, easy to grasp and easy to use program for beginners and professionals alike. The more features it will get, the more complicated to use it will be, and even though the basic useability isn't vastly improved (with the exception of some cases), the program gets way more complex. In the end, you have a swiss pocket knife where you take a minute to find the tool you're looking for, while at the current state, you'd pick the knife that you know is on the upper side and do whatever you want with it.
That's always a problem for software developers and interface designers like me as well: You want to pack 1000 functions in a program, all intuitively operateable and immediately understandable. The only problem: It's not possible.
But that's maybe a bit too in-general... another export function might not hurt, but it will likely not be done with that.
While it's true that d/l'ing the HTML file and playing it locally would work fine, I think devs were asking for EXE exports as well so they can market a game that isn't inside a browser, but rather is entirely self-contained. Also it would probably add another layer of protection as far as images & sounds or source scripts are concerned. Less easy for people to decompile and mess with.
In the end, though it's not totally necessary: It couldn't hurt.
I understand perfectly well what you mean about the Photoshop problem. C2 is a far more approachable engine than GM, any day of the week (perhaps mostly, or even entirely due to the fact that there are less features). Shooting from the hip on this analogy, but C2 is to GM as GIMP is to Photoshop. Each have slightly different strengths; Photoshop has more features, but GIMP is easier to just pick up and use.
Plus, this is entirely sentimental, but YoYo Games is a fairly large, well-funded software developer (not the biggest, but definitely not 'indie'). C2's software dev team is about as indie as it gets: Two game-loving guys in London. HBGames is an indie-oriented site, so it seems like a no-brainer that we would want to back a fellow indie.
(I realize that GM's beginnings were independent, but it's been under YoYo for ~5 years now.)
Wow thanks for the discussions guys, this thread just sort of imploded with all things interesting.
Indeed action-style RPG was what I had in mind (sorry I'm a bigger fan for action RPG and ignored the FF style turn-based department), and Construct 2 really works out of the box for the action combat department. So very dead easy to implement. I was mainly concerned with large image content if a large world is involved. As mentioned by coyotecraft and Jason, perhaps right now we'll just have to cut it up into chunks of different games, may be episodic.
@reven: I think that sounds very artificial. Why make a game you know of that it'll make problems on C2 with that framework, and try to find a workaround for that?
Think about the player here: You're providing an experience, and the player will be able to dive into it when he gets a single game, not little chunks full of redundancy.
If anything, the right way to go here is work with a C2 function or plugin that allows specific preloading of images. That way, you could determine the time of load, and maybe directly set in the project properties that you want to load images for each layout individually instead of globally at the beginning. Saving data to cookies is something someone definately made a plugin for yet, so that would work as well.
@Ven: I agree... still, there's a reason why 50 developers use 45 different engines: Eddiciency. And there is no efficiency in sight with a html5 game compiled as an executable file. Definately a nice feature for the requesters, but just because a lot of people want something doesn't mean it's the smartest thing to do.
And I'm definately with you as far as supporting the developers go. That can't mean that we all should do game design exclusively in C2 now, no matter the concept §^
Ah I didn't know there's a plugin for cookie data saving. Will have to look into that.
I'm not sure there is, I'm just massively convinced :)
I got a topic about the possibility of on-demand image loading in Scirra forum. A member said the plugin "Webstorage" is really only for text storage, and there isn't one he knew of that's for images. Although he believes that PNG 8-bit compression with image original size being the same as their display size in game (aka if an image is going to be shown as 32x32 in the game but the actual image is 128x128, shrink the actual image to 32x32) will really speed up the loading without major loss in quality and retains transparency.
At this rate the only option is to get hands dirty and try it out!
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Wow nice find Brewmeister. Coming up in June, no wonder it never came up in searches before when I researched extensively for game makers.
Another stumble-upon. (allegedly government funded development. (not verified)) http://tiltfactor.org/layoff/play.html
joannesalfa
If you want a Large Scale RPG from sratch with avaliable HTML5 technology, you might check the open source version of Browser Quest:
https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest
There a playable game
http://browserquest.mozilla.org/
Thaaaat one isn't much of a large scale RPG. I beat it inside an hour :P
But it certainly has the beginnings of a large scale RPG! And that's something! :D
lol I haven't actually played it, but I'm sure being a RPG is already a good start. RPG takes a lot of work, after all.
Venetia wrote:
It says " a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment" according to http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/
Venetia meant how quickly she has beat the game. We were expecting something like 24+ hours gameplay or something.
Oh, maybe we grab this source and add extra levels like ice land, swamp land, undergound dungeon, castle, etc. so it makes 24+ hours of gameplay, lol
Exactly Joannesalfa. Right now Construct 2 loads the entire game before it becomes interactive. If an hour worth of gameplay takes 5 seconds to load, 24 hours worth of gameplay would likely take up to a minute or two to load, which is typically quite a long loading time for a browser content, a platform where users expect to see things instantly.
Although people have been making 24+ hour games in .exe packages that take longer than that download anyway, but I reckon with HTML5 being a revolutionary platform, it can do better XD
I hope there will be flawess performance in 2014, also there will have shader special effects.
now that its been out a while. Do you think I would have much look with this. Uing it for an RPG game?
Big Dumb Guy
Have you used it at all? It'd work, sure, but until you try it you won't know what you need help with.
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Home Hiking Destinations Top 5 Scenic Hikes in Massachusetts
Massachusetts incorporates everything that is quintessentially New England, from the shore to the quaint towns all the way to the rugged forested interior. The state is the perfect place for the hiker that doesn’t want to wander a complete world away from civilization, but does want to be far enough from the big cities to be immersed in all the Mother Nature has to offer. From meandering beachside trails to trekking up mountains, you can enjoy both in Massachusetts, sometimes even in the same day.
If you are looking to see some of Massachusetts finest sights, you will have to hoof it a little, but the rewards in store for hikers are endless.
1 Skyline Loop Trail
2 Rock Circuit Trail
3 Mount Greylock / Appalachian Trail
4 Cape Cod Rail Trail
5 Purgatory Chasm Trail
Skyline Loop Trail
While there are over 125 miles of trails weaving around the small mountains of the Blue Hills Reservation, the Skyline Loop offers the most rewards for only a minimal amount of work. While only three miles long, the Skyline Loop Trail shows off some of the small summits of the park, wandering up to a number of little mountains on the loop while passing highlights like the Eliot Observation Tower. While the mountains may be small in size, they lend enough height for tall structures like the Eliot Observation Tower which gets panoramic views over nearby Boston.
Rock Circuit Trail
Snaking its way through the stony hills of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, the Rock Circuit Trail is the perfect mix of thigh-burning workout and scenic sight-seeing trip. While only a 4.7-mile trek through dense forest, the trail itself winds ever-upwards as you push into a steep rocky crag. However, around every bend in this challenging trail are vantage points that feature sweeping views over downtown Boston, Revere Beach, and Melrose. As it is so close to the city, the Middlesex Fells is a beloved escape for city folks, but the challenge of this trail isn’t for the couch potatoes.
Mount Greylock / Appalachian Trail
There are a number of ways to get to the top of Mount Greylock and even more reasons to make the trip. However, instead of lazing your way up the mountain on the 8-mile drive, why not make the trek on foot instead? As the tallest peak in Massachusetts, Mount Greylock rises 3,491 feet over the lengthy swathe of uninterrupted forest that surrounds it. At the top sits the Veteran’s War Memorial Tower, a structure that is part amazing lighthouse, part fantasy wizard tower, making the visit to the top a must while in the state.
However, for those that choose to take the hike up, the best way to the top is actually hike the rugged length of the Appalachian Trail that travels up to the summit and goes right back down on the other side as it continues on its way up to Maine.
Cape Cod Rail Trail
The most rugged trail in Massachusetts the Cape Cod Rail Trail is not. However, this trail traces the iconic cape as it wanders the 22-mile route that used to be railroad. In the past, the now-defunct railroad tracks used to be the only route that connected the isolated Cape Cod to Boston. Today, there are many routes that connect the two beloved areas, but no one expected this rail trail to still be one of them.
The tracks have been removed and the trail has now been paved. Today everyone from hikers, bikers, joggers, and even horseback riders come to tackle the entire 22 miles or just a short slice of it. While the trail passes through Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, and Wellfleet, the best part is that while you are hiking through forest and the occasional scrub land, you are never more than a short walk from a beach.
Purgatory Chasm Trail
Although it is one of the shortest trails in Massachusetts, the Purgatory Chasm Trail is easily the state’s most famous trail. The three-mile loops takes people deep into this unique natural landmark. Purgatory Chasm gets its named for the quarter mile long chasm that runs between seventy feet of split granite that cracked from glacial melt during the last Ice Age. While the chasm is the showpiece, it is not the only thing to see along this trail.
Other areas of the trail not only feature a number of scrambling sections up boulders that entice picnickers and rock climbers alike, but the trail leads to a number of named rock formations like The Corn Crib, The Coffin, The Pulpit, Lover’s Leap, and Fat Man’s Misery.
While visitors can actually slip into certain areas of the chasm and smaller chasms in the granite around it, visitors should be aware that you need to be relatively thin to make it through. Those who have amassed a decent beer gut best work on sucking it in unless they want to get stuck halfway through on their adventure.
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Update | 25th Annual Imagen Awards Announced
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Winners of 25th Annual Imagen Awards Announced Honoring Latinos in Entertainment, includes Multiple Wins for the Brothers Bratt for “La MISSION”
Imagen Founders Honored on Occasion of Organization’s Silver Anniversaryat Event Honoring Latino Talent, Latino-Themed Projects
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The winners for this year’s Imagen Awards held on August 15, 2010 in their respective categories:
Best Primetime Television Program or Movie-of-the-Week: Cold Case (CBS);
Best Actor/ Television: Danny Pino, Cold Case (CBS);
Best Actress/Television: America Ferrera, Ugly Betty (ABC);
Best Supporting Actor/Television: Kevin Alejandro, Southland (TNT); B
est Supporting Actress/Television: Maria Canals Barrera, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie (Disney Channel);
Best Children’s Programming: Handy Manny (Disney Channel);
Best Documentary/Television: Which Way Home (HBO);
Best National Informational Program: CNN Presents: Latino in America (CNN);
Best Local Informational Program: Vista L.A. (KABC);
Best On-Air Advertising: Hispanic Heritage Month – Tito Puente (MTV);
Best Variety or Reality Show: Quiero Mi Boda (MTV);
Best Feature Film: La MISSION (5 Stick
Films); Best Actor/Feature Film: Benjamin Bratt, La MISSION (5 Stick Films);
Best Actress/Feature Film: Ana de la Reguera, Backyard (Maya Entertainment);
Best Supporting Actor/Feature Film: Jeremy Ray Valdez, La MISSION (5 Stick Films);
Best Supporting Actress/Feature Film: Dominik Garcia-Lorido, City Island (Anchor Bay Films);
Best Director/Feature Film: Kenny Ortega, This Is It (Columbia Pictures);
Best Theatrical Short or Student Film: Taught To Hate (Mi Ecuador Prods.);
Best Internet Program: YLSE (Livier Prods.).
The Nominations
The Imagen Foundation has announced the nominees for the 25th Annual Imagen (Spanish for “image”) Awards, honoring positive portrayals of Latinos and Latino cultures in entertainment. The awards will be presented at a luncheon on Sunday, August 15th, at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. Major sponsors of the event include The Nielsen Company, The Walt Disney Company, Disney/ABC Television Group, Fox Television Stations, The Lear Family Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting and CBS.
The Imagen (pronounced ee-mah-hen) Awards program was established in 1985 from a suggestion by veteran television producer Norman Lear to encourage and recognize the positive portrayals of Latinos in the media. Later, as The Imagen Foundation, it expanded its programs and initiatives to further its mission to serve as a bridge between the Latino community and the entertainment industry in providing access, education, and resources for Latinos in the industry, as well as those seeking careers in entertainment. More information on the organization as well as details of the event can be found online at www.imagen.org and on Facebook.
Winners will be selected by an independent panel of entertainment industry executives and Latino community leaders. Following are the finalists for this year’s Imagen Awards in their respective categories:
Best Primetime Television Program or Movie-of-the-Week: One Hot Summer (Lifetime); Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), Lost (ABC), Cold Case (CBS);
Best Actor/Television: Jorge Garcia, Lost (ABC); Nestor Carbonell, Lost (ABC); Danny Pino, Cold Case (CBS); Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Desperate Housewives (ABC);
Best Actress/Television: Sofia Vergara, Modern Family (ABC); America Ferrera, Ugly Betty (ABC); Alana de la Garza, Law & Order (NBC); Selena Gomez, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie (Disney Channel); Caitlin Sanchez, Dora the Explorer (Nickelodeon);
Best Supporting Actor/Television: Oscar Nuñez, The Office (NBC); Rico Rodriguez, Modern Family (ABC); John Seda, The Pacific (HBO); Gregory Cruz, Saving Grace (TNT); Victor Rasuk, How To Make It In America (HBO); Kevin Alejandro, Southland (TNT);
Best Supporting Actress/Television: Maria Canals-Barrera, Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie (Disney Channel); Paola Turbay, The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family); Naya Rivera, Glee (FOX); Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Recreation (NBC);
Best Children’s Programming: Dora The Explorer (Nickelodeon); Handy Manny (Disney Channel); Nick News with Linda Ellerbee (Nickelodeon); The Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie (Disney Channel);
Best Documentary/Television: Voces: Special Circumstances (Latino Public Broadcasting); mun2 News Special – The New America (mun2); Which Way Home (HBO); Latin Music USA (Latino Public Broadcasting);
Best National Informational Program: CNN Presents: Latino in America (CNN); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Next Posada (HBO); Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Alexis Arguello (HBO); Voces (Latino Public Broadcasting); American Latino TV (LATV); Extra (NBC);
Best Local Informational Program: Camino a la Universidad (WLTV Univision 23); Vista L.A. (KABC); Cuban Journalist on Hunger Strike (CBS4);
Best On-Air Advertising: Hispanic Heritage Month – Tito Puente (MTV); Padres Heroes (Telemundo); Quiero Mi Boda (MTV); Lopezulations (MTV); Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (KPIX-TV);
Best Variety or Reality Show: Lopez Tonight (TBS); Quiero Mi Boda (MTV), The Dog Whisperer (National Geographic Channel); The mun2 Hook Up (mun2); Hammerheads (HGTV); 2010 Latin Billboard Award Show (Telemundo).
Best Feature Film: The Dry Land (Maya Entertainment); La Mission (5 Stick Films); Casi Divas (Maya Entertainment); Our Family Wedding (Fox Searchlight);
Best Actor/Feature Film: Andy Garcia, City Island (Anchor Bay Films); Benjamin Bratt, La Mission (5 Stick Films); Carlos Mencia, Our Family Wedding (Fox Searchlight); John Leguizamo, The Ministers (Maya Entertainment);
Best Actress/Feature Film: Ana de la Reguera, Backyard (Maya Enter-tainment); Lisa Vidal, Dark Mirror (Cut Glass Prods.); America Ferrera, Our Family Wedding (Fox Searchlight); America Ferrera, The Dry Land (Maya Entertainment);
Best Supporting Actor/Feature Film: Jimmy Smits, Backyard (Maya Entertainment); Jeremy Ray Valdez, La Mission (5 Stick Films); Martin Sheen, The Kid: Camacho (Maya Entertainment);
Best Supporting Actress/Feature Film: Danielle Schmidt, Casi Divas (Maya Entertainment); Dominik Garcia-Lorido, City Island (Anchor Bay Films); Anjelah Johnson, Our Family Wedding (Fox Searchlight); Tessa Ia, The Burning Plain (Magnolia Pictures);
Best Director/Feature Film: Fernando Lebrija, Amar a Morir (Laguna Pictures); Peter Bratt, La Mission (5 Stick Films); Kenny Ortega, This Is It (Columbia Pictures);
Best Theatrical Short or Student Film: Taught To Hate (Mi Ecuador Prods.); Il Destino (Criolla Prods.); In the Name of Freedom (Cave Entertainment);
Best Internet Program: Chicas Talk Back (mun2); YLSE (Livier Prods.); Let’s Talk (Latin Heat Entertainment); I Once Was Lost (Nahum 17 Prods.).
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International student applications to rise following visa changes
Australia is hoping for a surge in visa applications from overseas students after putting into place recommendations from a review commissioned after numbers fell.
International education is one of Australia’s largest export sectors, generating income of $15.3 billion in 2011/2012 and generating thousands of jobs for Australians but between n 2009 and 2011 student visa grant numbers declined due to global and local factors.
In December 2010, the Australian Government commissioned the first independent review of Australia’s student visa programme, headed by the Hon Michael Knight AO, which made a series of recommendations to improve the situation. Higher education establishments had warned that dwindling numbers would have a serious financial impact.
The recommendations arising from the review aimed to address the decline through the introduction of initiatives such as streamlined visa processing, which allows eligible student visa applicants from certain universities to be assessed as a lower immigration risk, irrespective of their country of origin.
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Nobel Laureates Town of Jiangning Development Zone was Officially Launched
Welcomed the First Honorary Citizen Winning Nobel Prize Named James E. Rothman
On Oct. 29th, Science and Art Town of Nobel Laureates of Jiangning Development Zone was launched and welcomed the first honorary citizen winning Nobel Prize. This represents that the construction of Nobel Laureates Town has made major substantial headway after the official signing of the project on Oct. 10th and also marks that the building of its innovative system took another significant step.
Science and Art Town of Nobel Laureates, jointly built by the Administration Commission of Jiangning Economic Development Zone, Sino-Germany Sci & Tech Park, China Industry News and Nanjing University of the Arts, was inaugurated.
In less than 20 days, the project of Nobel Laureates Town has already founded the council, preliminarily set up staff team and made agglomeration effect to attract numerous top-grade experts, well-known high colleges and high-tech enterprises, building a solid basis for further development of the project.
In the launching ceremony, plaques were awarded by expert advisory committee of Science and Art Town of Nobel Laureates, college innovation league and enterprise innovation league. Led by Zhao Haohan, a standing member of CPPCC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and the president of Jiangsu Regional Development Institute, expert advisory committee will collect resources and advantages from various parties to provide decision advisory for planning, construction, policy and operation of Nobel Laureates Town.
He Shijian, Special Assistant to the director of China Industry New, awarded the plaque of Experts Advisory Commission of Nobel Laureates Town, and Zhang Haohan, member of Jiangsu PPCC standing committee and president of Jiangsu Regional Development Research Society, received the plaque on behalf of the Experts Advisory Commission.
Led by Huangwei, the president of Nanjing Tech University, college innovation league will collect advantages of provincial colleges to provide innovation and cooperation resources for settled Nobel Prize Winner. Led by provincial high-tech enterprises, enterprise innovation league will assist settled Nobel Prize winner to conduct IUR cooperation and technology grafting with enterprises.
Zhou Songbo, President of Sino-Germany Sci & Tech Park Shareholding Co., Ltd and Chairman of China Branch of International Heidelberg Club, awarded the plaque of the Nobel Laureates Town Universities’ Innovation Union, and Academician Huang Wei, President of Nanjing University of Technology received the plaque on behalf of the Universities’ Innovation Union.
Meanwhile, high-level talents represented by prize winner will be fully introduced, retained and utilized through resource integration effect of the two leagues, providing intelligence support for the development of the town and campus.
In this ceremony, as the first honorary citizen of this town, James E. Rothman, a Nobel Prize Winner, delivered a speech. It is reported that James E. Rothman is the director of Department of Cellular Biology of Yale University and also a Fergus F. Wallace honorary professor of biomedicine who received several honors awarded by Columbia University, including Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2002) and King Faisal International Prize. He also received Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013.
Li Wanping, Director of the Administration Commission of Jiangning Economic Development Zone and President of the Council of Nobel Laureates Town, awarded to James Rothman Letter of Appointment for Honorary Citizen of Nobel Laureates Town and some souvenirs.
Jiangning Development Zone, owning great advantages of talents and scientific education resources, is the only base for national 1000 Plan, 10000 Plan and Western Returned Scholars Association focusing on studying abroad to serve the country. Besides, it turns to be core area and demonstrative park possessing many provincial and municipal technological innovation projects and high-level talents. It joins hands with top-grade global technological talents like Nobel Prize winners to utilize their research outcome to promote the economic and social development.
Since started, the project of Nobel Laureates Town has aroused widespread concern in all walks of life. Later, Jiangning Development Zone will further move forward with the collection of top-grade talents of Nobel Laureates Town based on its own regional, industrial and human advantages. It will make active responses and grasp strategic opportunity of the Belt and Road Initiative.
It will focus on building an exquisite town by strengthening the integration of various aspects, such as industry and city, different business types, scene and city as well as human and residence. It makes best to build an influential sample demonstrative project of world-class Nobel Laureates ecological town which is charming, multifunctional and rich of German characteristics. By taking all of these measures, it is dedicated to fully promote the influence of Nobel Laureates Town at home and abroad.
Zhang Bin, Director of the Technological Talents Bureau of the Administration Committee of Jiangning Economic Development Zone, Member of the Council of Nobel Laureates Town and Director of the Council Office, and Zhuang Chuanwei, General Manager of Economic Management Committee of Xinhua Newspaper Media Group and Xinhua Daily Media Co., Ltd, signed a strategic partnership agreement on Nobel Laureates Town.
Currently, preparation work for introducing three Nobel Prize winners are in full swing. The concerned fields include life health and intelligent manufacturing. It is expected that the first batch of Nobel Prize experts will come here at the end of the year. By implementing scientific and technological communication and research as well as industrial interaction, the transformation and upgrading of high-tech industry will be completely promoted so as to press ahead the sustainable development of regional high-tech industry.
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Home > News > Geopolitics > Pakistan: dialogue process will end only in frustration
Pakistan: dialogue process will end only in frustration
By Anand K Verma
Issue Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec2009 | Date : 11 Nov , 2010
A continuous pressure emanates from a segment of the Indian elite for maintaining a dialogue process with Pakistan, directly or indirectly, for a solution to Indo–Pak problems. No doubt dialogue is always advisable between any two contending parties and in the case of India and Pakistan has led to many confidence building measures like the Indus Water Treaty, cross border travel facilities and certain agreements in the nuclear field. But such dialogues over several decades carried on directly or indirectly by government representatives or by what are known as think tanks in the two countries have not been able to make any headway on the core issues: one, to whom Kashmir belongs and, two, the total elimination of terror.
In the government to government dialogues there were spikes which built up a mood of hope and expectations, but these ultimately got crushed by the hard rock of reality which is the perceived bedrock of Pakistan. The dialogue between think tanks and other similar groups belonging to the media, academia and other well wishers have rarely reached anywhere on account of a variety of reasons. The access of such luminaries to wide segments of society, polity and the common man, in the rural and urban sectors, has remained extremely limited.
Compulsions of politics prevent Islamic terrorism from being identified in its true colours”¦ How can dialogue be a success with a party that sponsors Jehadi extremism against India?
Often their judgments are crony based, self serving or even addressed to the interests of those who fund them. A host of powerful groups that control the destiny of the state or constitute public opinion in Pakistan remain well beyond their reach. Apart from the military establishment of serving officers, such clusters should include extremists, radicals, terror spinners, students, hard core religious orthodox and bigoted clergy and the ordinary folks in city slums and rural hinterland who all seek to have an opinion of their own on Kashmir, India, religious nationalism and puritanism, and their desired options, which fail to be given due prominence.
Successful dialogues between government to government in which some measure of progress was achieved in the core issues number only three in the bilateral history of the two countries. The first was at Simla where Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1972, assured the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi about recognizing Indian claims on Kashmir.
To be fair to Bhutto, on returning to Pakistan, he started preparing the people of Pakistan through his speeches to expect a change in Pakistan’s position on Kashmir. Public reactions indicated confusion, consternation and finally complete opposition to whatever Bhutto had in mind. Bhutto had to discredit himself with Indira Gandhi. He also stood discredited with the people of Pakistan. Some believe that his journey to the gallows commenced in fact from this point.
The second attempt was by Zia-ul-Huq, President of Pakistan, in 1988. The general had come to believe that confrontation with India was costing heavy to the people of Pakistan in terms of absence of development and economic progress and that a compromise should be sought with India on key issues. He got his corps commanders from whom real power emanates in Pakistan to support his thinking. A new dialogue commenced between the two countries through high level representatives, away from public glare and unknown to the normal channels of communications.
All incidents of Islamic terrorism in any part of the world have been found to have links with Pakistan in one way or other.
The dialogue resulted in some spectacular meeting of minds on Siachen, general reduction in the level of armed forces of the two countries, contours of an outline of a possible solution of the Kashmir question, etc. At Indian insistence Pakistan forwarded to India the proposed new delineation of actual contours along the Sal Toro ranges in Siachen, on a GHQ survey of Pakistan map. As steps were being taken to translate these ideas from the top secret back channel to the official domain, the corps commanders in Pakistan probably realized what an enormous shift in the balance of power between the two countries would come about on the concessions being made and how the military establishment in Pakistan will turn out to be the ultimate loser in the process.
It is difficult to say what steps the corps commanders took to stall the process which already had developed a momentum of its own, but the whole world knows that President Zia-ul-Huq of Pakistan died in a mysterious air crash in August that year. The cause of the crash has never been disclosed. Surprisingly, the existence of this dialogue has been totally denied by subsequent Pakistani governments. There is now not a scrap of paper in Govt. archives in Pakistan to provide proof that such a dialogue did take place. The only solid evidence is the GHQ Survey of a Pakistan map received from Pakistan.
One of the visible manifestations of the good that the dialogue created was the suo motto release of four Indian Sikh soldiers who had defected to Pakistan earlier that year, misguided by Khalistani propaganda. The coordinates of the area where the release was to take place and the date of the release were determined by the Pakistani representative and communicated to his Indian contact who passed on the information to the BSF, which picked up the four defectors from the identified spot. The recapture of these soldiers was just a bonus handed over by the Pakistani side to establish their bonafides. Khalistan was not discussed at all during the dialogue.
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Piece Corridor:The Long Road From Kartarpur To Peace
Monday, December 03, 2018 by Indian Defence News
The demand for a Kartarpur corridor is nearly 20 years old. It was first officially raised by PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee with Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in February 1999 during the historic Lahore bus yatra
Sikhism’s first Guru is believed to have lived at the site where the Kartarpur Gurdwara was built for the last 18 years of his life.
In correcting a historical wrong, the promise of Kartarpur can’t be faulted. But in the backdrop of the other noises from Islamabad, Delhi has reason to be wary. Shubhajit Roy reports from Kartarpur, Lahore and Islamabad, on the long road from Kartarpur to peace.
The sun is about to set on the horizon, and there’s a slight nip in the air. An elderly couple from Agra is walking slowly, with Kamaljeet Kaur holding 60-year-old Atmajit Singh’s hand as they negotiate the crowd at Gurdwara Sri Kartarpur Sahib, where Sikhism’s founder, Guru Nanak Dev, died 500 years ago.
It’s a crisp white Gurdwara amid lush green, with sparkling green windows. In the outer courtyard, people are sitting on the ground having a Langar (Community Feast). The inner courtyard holds what is believed to be Guru Nanak’s grave.
Sikhism’s first Guru is believed to have lived at the site where the Kartarpur Gurdwara was built for the last 18 years of his life. The legend goes that after his death, Hindus and Muslims fought over his body. While the Muslims wanted to bury him, the Hindus wanted cremation. The body lay out at night as they debated, and the next morning, flowers were found where Guru Nanak had been. The flowers were then equally distributed among the two sets of devotees, and while half of the flowers was buried, the other half was cremated. So Guru Nanak has both a Hindu cremation site and a Muslim grave. The main Gurdwara was built at the cremation site, the grave lies in the courtyard. The local Muslims are among those who work at the Gurdwara.
Kamaljeet and Atmajit bow at the courtyard, and then walk from one of the four entry doors into a small room where Guru Granth Sahib is kept. Those devotees who fail to enter the sanctum-sanctorum, which is tightly packed with followers, touch their heads on the dwaar and move on.
Emerging from the solitary exit door, Kamaljeet has tears in her eyes, while Atmajit beams. They had been planning this trip to Kartarpur for years, they say.
Atmajit and Kamaljeet were among the over 3,000 Indian Sikh who travelled to Pakistan in the later half of November to visit the holy shrines. They came to Kartarpur after visiting Nankana Sahib, where Guru Nanak was born. As tears roll down her cheeks, Kamaljeet says, “Now we can die in peace.”
When they left home, the couple, the other pilgrims with them, and barring a handful, most officials on both sides of the border, couldn’t have imagined what would come to pass within 10 days. Just moments earlier, a historic moment played out in a white shiny tent next to the Gurdwara, with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan holding a ground-breaking ceremony for a unique corridor that will connect Kartarpur on the Pakistani side to Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur in India, allowing pilgrims visa-free access down it — a mere 4-km leap that has often seemed impossible in the violent history of the region and the two countries.
Khan underlined the significance of the moment in his speech, while making a statesman-like appeal for peace. The sceptical Indian side, taken by surprise at the sudden announcement of the corridor, forcing it to rustle up a ground-breaking ceremony one days earlier, was more muted. So beyond the gesture, and beyond its significance as a correction of a historical wrong that put an international border between Sikhs and some of their holiest shrines, will the Kartarpur corridor really prove to be the peace corridor?
The demand for a Kartarpur corridor is nearly 20 years old. It was first officially raised by PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in February 1999 during the historic Lahore bus Yatra. Subsequently, it was a part of India’s agenda whenever delegates met during bilateral meetings with Pakistan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also put it on the table in a speech in Amritsar in 2004. Over the past two decades, India also asked for Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib to be included in the 1974 protocol on religious shrines.
The Long Road From Kartarpur to Peace
While there had been no movement so far, in August this year, at the swearing-in of Imran Khan as PM, Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa suggested to Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, an invitee, that serious steps would be taken to open the corridor to mark Guru Nanak’s 550th birth anniversary year. With Sidhu drawing a sharp rebuke from the Indian government, which called his interaction with the Pakistani side “hobnobbing”, the possibility that anything would emerge out of Bajwa’s promise was quickly dismissed.
According to sources, in the period since, with India-Pakistan ties continuing to oscillate, there were no back channel talks to take the corridor further. In fact, the Indian side kept asking the Pakistan Foreign Ministry through diplomatic channels, in the form of note verbale, to confirm if Bajwa had indeed said what Sidhu claimed. While there was no official confirmation, Pakistan sources point out now that Bajwa never denied Sidhu’s claim either.
A few days ago, timed with the start of Guru Nanak’s 550th birth anniversary year, India announced plans to develop a corridor up to the international border for Kartarpur pilgrims, and appealed to Pakistan to do the same. Within minutes of the Cabinet decision being announced, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi tweeted that Pakistan “has already conveyed to India its decision to open Kartarpur Corridor” for the anniversary, and that PM Khan would do a groundbreaking ceremony on November 28.
While what prompted this sudden burst of bonhomie is likely to remain a matter of debate, observers point out that Pakistan’s announcement coincided with the 10th anniversary of the 26/11 attacks, with Islamabad in for another round of international recrimination for not taking action against perpetrators.
The mastermind of the attack, Hafiz Saeed, continues to roam freely in Pakistan, while his associate Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and others alleged to be key players in the attack have not been convicted by Pakistan’s courts still.
Pressed for answers on this by Indian journalists at his first-ever interaction with them as PM, Khan said “there has been a clampdown” on Saeed’s activities, but noted that he had “inherited” the issue.
Foreign Minister Qureshi was more unambiguous, telling Indian reporters that there was no “tangible evidence” against Saeed.
Similarly, while Khan made the point from the Kartarpur stage that Pakistan’s government and army were on the same page when it came to improving ties with India, there was little evidence of that beyond the Pakistan Army chief’s silent presence at the groundbreaking ceremony.
The Kartarpur announcement has been followed by familiar noises, about the road that India-Pakistan peace could take — from bilateral cricket series to liberalising visas. But so far, they remain ideas on the table from Pakistan, with the Indian side maintaining that “talks and terror cannot go together”.
Indian diplomats posted in Islamabad, meanwhile, have been reporting back to Delhi on Khan’s failure to address India’s concerns on terrorism. “By announcing their intention to open the corridor, the Pakistan government forced Delhi’s hand. This is a strategic distraction,” a top Indian official says.
What has added to India’s discomfiture is the resurgence of “pro-Khalistan elements” at Gurdwaras in Pakistan in the past few months. The Indian side counts some of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee office-bearers, including Secretary General Gopal Singh Chawla, as among them. Chawla was present at the Kartarpur ceremony.
Besides, posters calling for a referendum in 2020 for Khalistan were on display during the recent visit of Sikh pilgrims to Pakistani Gurdwaras, forcing the Ministry of External Affairs to lodge a protest against Islamabad promoting “secessionist tendencies”.
Says an Indian diplomat in Islamabad, “I have not seen such a massive mobilisation of Khalistani groups in the many years that I have been posted here.”
South Block sources say “evidence” in the form of photographs and videos of pro-Khalistan posters at these Gurdwaras has been shared with the Pakistan High Commission and Foreign Ministry officials. Chawla himself was among those who raised anti-India slogans at Nankana Sahib during the Indian pilgrims’ visit and has been photographed with Hafiz Saeed.
South Block is said to be concerned that Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib could end up becoming a hub of “pro-Khalistan” activities, as it fears Nankana Sahib has become.
Asked about his thoughts on the Sikh referendum, at Kartarpur, Chawla told The Sunday Express, “Aaj mohabbat ka din hai (Today is a day of love). No comments.”
While no one disagrees that there are many hurdles to peace, despite the glimmer of it on November 28, there are calls from the Pakistani side to seize the moment. Sitting at his home in a village in southern Punjab, former Pakistan National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani, who was sacked for confirming 26/11 attacker Ajmal Kasab’s nationality in January 2009, says, “The Kartarpur initiative is a warm glow in an otherwise gloomy environment. I pray both countries show wisdom and move forward positively… Interestingly, this is a Punjabi initiative, the voice of a common culture from both sides.”
He adds, “Our next step should be to liberalise the visa regime. Let the common man decide for a change.”
Lt General Talat Masood (Retd), a noted Pakistani defence and political analyst, adds, “It (the Kartarpur move) will create goodwill and understanding. It could act as a trigger for better opportunities.”
Agrees former Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit, “I can only hope that this initiative helps create a positive milieu leading to a sustained and constructive dialogue process. We must not let the goodwill to dissipate as such historic occasions emerge rarely. However, given India’s prevarication on Jammu and Kashmir, I am not very hopeful. I wish New Delhi proves me wrong.”
Apart from deflecting 26/11 heat, and turning some of it onto Delhi and its flip-flops over Pakistan ties, Khan could have also earned momentary respite from domestic problems.
Pakistan’s currency has been in free fall the past few months, from Pakistani Rs 102 to a US dollar in May to Rs 144 in November end. Despite Khan’s claims that he will overcome the economic woes, experts in Pakistan say the lack of a plan has resulted in a currency crisis and stock exchange crash.
In a column to mark Khan’s 100 days in office, which fell a day after the Kartarpur ceremony, Imad Zafar wrote in the Express Tribune, one of Pakistan’s respected English daily, “During his campaign, Imran claimed to never approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and yet backtracked on this… as he approached Saudi Arabia and China, resulting in declining reserves and devaluation of the rupee against the US dollar, only for him to reach the conclusion that an IMF bailout was necessary. When they finally did approach the IMF, his financial team’s inefficiency delayed the approval and further worsened the currency crisis, and there remains no end in sight.”
But, even the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf)’s sworn enemy, Nawaz Sharif’s PML(N), has been forced to welcome the Kartarpur move. The PTI used to accuse Sharif of being a friend of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, raising slogans such as “Modi ka jo yaar hai, gaddar hai (One who is Modi’s friend is a traitor)”. Following the Kartarpur ceremony, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Mushahid Hussain, who belongs to the PML(N), told The Sunday Express, “The Kartarpur initiative is important for Pakistan-India ties for three reasons. First, since the holiest sites of Sikhism are in Pakistan, the Kartarpur corridor will give Sikhs visa-free access, fulfilling a long-standing demand. Second, the timing is important, given the fact that India and Pakistan are engaged in a war of words with no dialogue on any issue, thanks to Indian intransigence. Third, the Kartarpur initiative shows that both sides, without compromising on their core concerns and interests, can still take major decisions that promote people-to-people ties and defuse tensions….”
Speaking to The Sunday Express, Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry underlines that Islamabad clearly has shown the will. “On both sides of the border, we have groups who support peace and groups who oppose the relationship. It’s the government’s choice which groups they support. By opening Kartarpur, the PTI government has given a clear message that we support peace.”
Adds Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mohammed Faisal, “The need to move from conflict to cooperation and animosity to peace is an established reality. The Kartarpur spirit connecting hearts should extend to J&K… If we find the political will to implement the same, we can all be winners.”
On November 28, the PTI government ensured it got everything right. At the groundbreaking event, there were boards with graphics on how the corridor would be built, including over the Ravi river, what the amenities on offer would be, and even a timeline. The boards said the government had finished a survey of the area in November and begun land acquisition, was in the process of finalising designs by December, and would start start construction within days. It also promised completion of the corridor by October 2019, and operations by November 2019.
“These minute details showed that we are serious about implementing the corridor,” a senior Pakistan government officer says.
Later, as Khan met Indian journalists at his office in Islamabad, with Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s portrait behind him, he said, “Insaan koshish hi kar sakta hai (One can only try).”
But the Indian side says that in reality, there has been no communication from the Pakistan on the specifics. They are hoping for a meeting in the coming months.
Still, in a region bound by both the bitter Partition and the nostalgia for a shared past, which has seen many such moments come and go, Kartarpur, all over again, holds a promise. In the streets of Lahore, young Pakistanis have welcomed what is seen as the still-fresh Khan government’s potential to change the image of the country.
Sitting at ‘California Pizza’ joint with three women friends, one a doctor and the other two lecturers, PhD student Mariam Mubarik hints that Pakistan being linked to terrorism hurts. “Terrorism is a worldwide problem. We have suffered because of it, we are not terrorists.”
Near the posh Liberty Market in downtown Lahore, lecturers Maria Farooq and Aisha Saleem, and a doctor, Taiba Jameer, say Khan could live up to the high hopes with which they voted for him. “Change is always gradual,” Farooq says. “We feel that this is a good step. I think India should now reciprocate.”
The need to leave the past behind is also a recurring theme in Khan’s speeches. “Aap maazi main nain reh sakte. Aapko maazi se sabak seekhna hoga (We cannot live in the past, we should learn lessons from it),” he often says.
At Kartarpur, he only talked of that day. “Happiness I saw today was like of those Muslims who stand 4 km from Medina, on the other side of the border, but are unable to visit it. When they get a chance to visit it, the happiness they get is the happiness they are relishing today.”
Like everything about that day, no one could have faulted Khan on the words.
Away from the politics, the pilgrims were simply grateful. At the entrance of Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib, hung a poster saying, “We warm welcome Prime Minister Imran Khan.”
Kartarpur Timeline
Feb 1999: PM Vajpayee raises the Kartarpur issue with PM Sharif
2000: Pakistan agrees to allow Sikh from India visa-free access by constructing a bridge from the Indian side of the border to the shrine. Lt Gen Javed Nasir, president of the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Committee, proposes a corridor
Sep 2004: PM Manmohan Singh declares in Amritsar that Kartarpur corridor proposal will be taken up with Pakistan
2004-08: Kartarpur corridor was part of talks held between the two nations till 26/11 derailed the dialogue process
2011-12: Was discussed in talks again
Aug 2018: Proposal revived after discussions between Pakistan Army Chief General Bajwa and Navjot Singh Sidhu
Nov 22: Indian Cabinet approves Kartarpur corridor from Dera Baba Nanak to the Pakistan border
Nov 26: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu lays foundation for the corridor up to the International Border at an event at Mann village of Punjab’s Gurdaspur district
Nov 28: PM Imran Khan lays the foundation stone of the 4-km-long corridor
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Shaniwar Wada Fort in Pune
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Home Ec-news Qualcomm Allies with Launch Media
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In its second major alliance this week with an Internet music company, San Diego-based Qualcomm entered into a relationship with popular Internet music site Launch Media (launch.com) to develop Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), an applications platform for Code Division Multiple Access wireless devices.
In a public statement, Launch revealed plans to develop the BREW platform for its streaming audio content, in particular its Internet radio player Launchcast, a music service that lets members design their own streaming music station with high quality audio or video.
Today's announcement follows shortly after a similar alliance between Qualcomm and MP3.com in which the digital music giant also announced plans to establish an application for wireless digital music delivery over handsets operating on Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access integrated circuits.
Much like the MP3.com collaboration, Qualcomm's applications platform will enable Launch to more easily develop its flagship music service for wireless handset applications that create personalized playlists suited for a user's musical preferences.
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Students of Lower Madi Rhino camp refugees settlement (photo by Gaaniko Samson Jerry)
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A Music Creator Group from Nico Nico Douga “Supercell”
February 22, 2011 - Music, Videos - Tagged: Band
Supercell is a Japanese music creator group born in Nico Nico Douga (video sharing site), and consists of a composer and lyricist Ryo and illustrators. Currently, nagi sings the group’s songs as a guest member, but originally the group used a vocaloid (singing synthesizer software) Miku Hatsune for the vocals.
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In December 2007, Ryo posted his music “Melt” using Miku Hatsune on Nico Nico Douga, and it became really popular among the users. Since then, he teamed up with illustrators to create music videos for his music, and sold copies at anime and manga conventions. Ryo explained that how they met was like playing basketball in a park and all kinds of people joined together because it would be fun.
In March 2009, Supercell’s first major album “supercell,” which was awarded the Gold Disc for having exceeded 100,000 copies sold.
In August 2009, their debut single “Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari” was released, and used as the ending theme song for an anime series titled “Bakemonogatari.” The song was also awarded the Gold Disc.
“Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari” Music Video
“Kocchi Muite Baby feat. Miku Hatsune”
Their 2nd album “Today Is A Beautiful Day” is announced to be released on March 16, 2011.
Since Supercell’s base and starting point is a video sharing site, they are very open for derivative works stating “Use our creations however you want as long as you don’t do it for profit. It’s our honor as creators that people make derivative works using our creations.” In fact, there are many creative videos based on Supercell works on Nico Nico Douga.
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Logline:A young man battling leukemia draws incredible strength from the rock n’ roll in his blood.
Premiere Date : November 2015
Format : HD
Director : Joshua Neuman
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Johnny Physical Lives is the story of the secret world of two brothers making a rock n’ roll documentary as one goes through treatment for leukemia. When younger brother Jonathan passes away in the midst of the production, older brother Joshua must finish the project on his own. First time filmmaker, Joshua Neuman weaves footage of his brother Jonathan in and out of the hospital during treatment with an interview of Jonathan shot by famed documentarian Albert Maysles and live animation to “physically” bring to life Jonathan’s inner world, showing how he experienced cancer through the eyes of a rock star: the hospital became a seedy hotel; chemotherapy, the scandalous addiction fueling his music; and nurses, groupies at his beckon call. This heart wrenching love letter from one brother to another challenges our assumptions about individuals battling illness and highlights the transformative power of music.
Johnny Physical’s performance at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital was the the most insane rock n’ roll performance since Johnny Cash’s at Fulsom County Prison. — Horace Panter, The Specials
In Neuman’s vision, the hospital becomes a sleazy New York hotel, much like the one in which Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen had their fateful night. — Blackbook
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About Malawi
In the early 1900s Nyasaland was awash with associations one of which was the “North Nyasa Native Association”, formed in 1912 with Levi Zililo Mumba as Secretary.
In 1943, James Frederick Sangala from Zomba proposed formation of a national organisation as opposed to the region-based North Nyasa Native Association and the “Nyasaland African Congress (NAC)” was born.
The NAC was to serve as an umbrella organisation for the Native Associations and other local organisations of indigenous people in the protectorate of Nyasaland. Each of the smaller groups had a seat on the executive committee.
At the inaugural meeting of the Nyasaland African Congress in Blantyre in October 1944, Mumba was elected President-General. In January 1945 Mumba died and was succeeded by Charles Matinga who was later (1950) forced to resign.
In August 1950 in Mzimba, James Chinyama from Mangochi was elected President, with Sangala elected as Vice-President.
Until the early 1950s, Sangala and other leaders Dr Hastings Banda included, assumed that Nyasaland would evolve towards self-government while remaining under the authority of the British Colonial Office.
Therefore when in 1953 the Colonial Office established the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, they were not pleased.
In January 1954 Sangala was elected President of the NAC and Thamar Dillion Thomas Banda Secretary-General of the Congress on 30 March 1956.
Sangala and TDT Banda were arrested by the colonial authorities and tried for sedition in May 1956. In January 1957, veteran Sangala stepped down and was replaced by TDT Banda.
In September–October 1957, Congress leaders met government representative to discuss constitutional changes. Shortly after, the government withdrew recognition of NAC as the official representatives of Africans.
In March 1957, TDT Banda went to Ghana to attend the independence celebrations. And that was where he met Dr Hastings Kamuzu and asked him, as per the resolution of the NAC’s convention, to return to Nyasaland to lead the nationalist movement.
In July 1958, Hastings Banda returned. TDT had been forced to resign and Hastings Banda was elected President of the NAC in his place.
Hastings Banda immediately embarked on a nationwide tour which set Nyasaland “on fire”. By February 1959, the situation was so bad that Rhodesian troops were flown in to help keep order, a state of emergency was declared and the NAC was banned.
On 3 March, Banda, along with hundreds of other Africans, was arrested in the course of “Operation Sunrise”.
While Kamuzu Banda was in prison Orton Chirwa and other NAC leaders including Aleke Banda, and others established the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Orton Chirwa, Nyasaland’s first African Barrister became the first MCP president according to The Nyasaland Times of October 2, 1959.
Orton Chirwa gave way to Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda after his release from Gwelo Prison and Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
In the 1961 Nyasaland General Elections, the MCP won all of the seats in the legislature, and led the country to independence as Malawi in 1964.
When Malawi became a republic in 1966, the MCP was, a few years later, formally declared the only legal party until 1993 when a multiparty democracy referendum was conducted. MCP lost in the subsequent first multiparty elections in 1994.
Unlike many former liberation parties in Africa, the MCP has remained strong, and has withstood a myriad of challenges to remain the strongest and biggest opposition party in Malawi.
Its leadership from inception to date is as tabulated below:
Term start Term end President
October 1944 January 1945 Levi Zililo Mumba
January 1945 January 1950 Charles Matinga
August 1950 January 1954 James Chinyama
January 1954 January 1957 James Frederick Sangala
January 1957 July 1958 Thamar Dillon Thomas Banda
August 1958 January 1993 Hastings Kamuzu Banda
January 1993 April 2003 Gwanda Chakuamba
April 2003 August 2013 John ZU Tembo
August 2013 Lazarus Chakwera
MCP believes that the past is not for residence, but for reference and looks forward, to the future with great enthusiasm.
Acknowledging that some things went wrong during its 31 year long reign; the party realizes that what is important is to move on.
However, moving on before understanding the context that bred and led to the events and negative developments that – with hindsight – should have been avoided would be a mistake.
How did things go wrong?
To respond to this question, it is important to understand the situation as was then wherever nationalistic governments emerged.
Nationalistic parties and the governments they formed were generally characterised by glorifying the leadership. This leadership glorification inevitably led to dictatorship, autocracy and neo-patrimonialism which invariably resulted in a one party state.
The post-colonial excitement and the brand new wave of nationalism saw most decisions made, influenced and championed by political cronies for self-preservation and advancement.
The systems created lacked and did not entertain broader consensus. Often times, consultations in the changing (manipulation is more accurate) of laws and constitutions were just symbolic.
There was little separation of powers and in many countries, the line between the party and the state was blurred.
To compound matters, during this era 1950s to mid-1980s power was split between that East and the West with the East lead by Communist Russia and the west by the United States of America.
The cold war between communist states and capitalist nations meant that external forces had little time or resources to take a closer look and hold African countries accountable to the conventions and instruments on respect for human rights that they endorsed/ratified/adopted on attaining independence.
Needless to say, low levels of illiteracy; state control over broadcasting and other factors locally militated against raising public and popular awareness.
As a result, new born nations – Malawi included – witnessed:
The entrenchment of dictatorship;
Introduction and maintenance of one party state; and
Disregard for human and other rights,
All of which caused pain and suffering for many.
The new MCP
Since the advent of multiparty democracy the MCP has evolved into a learning and modern institution and is among the few liberation parties in Africa that have remained relevant.
In Malawi following the change from one party to plural politics, several things happened:
Registrations (and de-registrations) of many political parties;
Introduction of a new constitution – with more safeguards for human rights;
Sprouting and establishment of national watch dog institutions, rights and interest groups and civil society;
Former President Kamuzu Banda’s historic apology to the nation of the pain and suffering caused during the 31 years;
The setup of a national compensation tribunal intended to dully compensate those that suffered under the one party dictatorship and high profile trials.
One thing can however be said, despite all these and many other developments (both positive and negative) the challenges of the nationalistic parties still haunt not only the MCP but ironically the parties that were born after the advent of multi-party.
Cronyism, lack of genuine succession policies, and failure to fight corruption when party cohorts are involved (which is almost always the case) have since eroded the economic foundation laid by the Malawi Congress Party.
Parties ruling from 1994 to date have thrown away the baby with the water.
Whither rebranded MCP?
The MCP, forward ever backward never, wants to:
Open a conversation space and address any outstanding issues in a sincere manner. This will be done knowing that any matters not closed, will continue to haunt the party, taint its image and/or be used by the competition against the rebranded party.
Engage and inform the young generation about the truths or else they will only form choices based on biased rumours (propaganda) and not facts.
Strengthen respect of the constitution: promoting, respecting and upholding the rule of law at all times by strengthening the institutions, systems and instruments of justice and law enforcement
Reduce executive (presidential) powers.
The MCP believes that the presidency is too elevated to the clouds, placed beyond the reach of the people and distanced and isolated from real life; so much so that the president (whosoever is occupying that seat) quickly loses touch with the masses and begins to live in delusion.
One only has to watch the State Media and other State instruments of propaganda to see for themselves just how detached from Malawians’ suffering the current administration is.
The good news is: MCP, your government in waiting, is here for you.
Join the MCP and be the change you want to see.
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Children Of Bodom Premiere New Song & Video
Mar 1, 2019 at 12:14 PM by LugalKiEn.
Children of Bodom premiere a music video for their new song “Platitudes And Barren Words“ taken from band’s new record “Hexed“, which is scheduled for a release next Friday, March 08th.
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In Flames Posts New Music Video Online
Mar 1, 2019 at 8:33 AM by Diamond Oz.
Swedish death metal veterans In Flames has posted a new music video online for the song, "Call My Name." You can check it out below. The song comes from the band's latest studio album, "I, The Mask," which was released today through Eleven Seven Music in North America and Nuclear Blast Entertainment throughout the rest of the world. The band brought some major names on board for "I, The Mask," including multi-Grammy nominated and winning industry staples such as: Howard Benson for production, Chris Lord-Alge for mixing and Ted Jensen for mastering. Artist Blake Armstrong created the album’s artwork, which is an interpretation of In Flames' mascot, The Jesterhead. More...
Forever Still Discusses Lyrical Themes
On March 29th, Forever Still will unleash their sophomore full-length release "Breathe In Colours" via Nuclear Blast. Inspired by a dystopian cyberpunk future and the fact that some of the biggest works in that genre, Blade Runner and Akira, are set in 2019, Denmark's highflyers have adapted a dark musical concept for this record and take a look at the world being on the verge of ecological collapse, while humanity is fleeing into cyberspace to escape the horrors of the real world.
After the music video of the freshly released title track reaching over 30.000 views in only 5 days, the band unveils a third trailer, in which frontwoman Maja Shining speaks about her lyrics and continuing the journey of 'Tied Down''s protagonist on 'Breathe In Colours', where the stories circle not only about inner but also outer wars and overcoming the struggles of life. Watch the webisode below. More...
Nibiru Reveals New Album Details
Italian doom metal outfit Nibiru has announced that they will be releasing a new album entitled, "Salbrox" through Ritual Productions this May, with a release date to be confirmed shortly.
Titled "Salbrox," meaning "Sulfur" in the Enochian language of which the band profess, the rite is a cataclysmic psychic journey of visionary magick, elemental prophecies and esoteric supernormality. Tribal percussion, evocative mantras and hypnotic drones imbued with the band's amalgamation of black metal, doom metal and psychedelic textures formulates a fascinating, idiosyncratic art. Vocals harbour a possessed and rasping quality that surely summon spectres far beyond our comprehensible realm, bringing forth a divination of the self.
Conceptually and spiritually, "Salbrox" is inspired by the continuous re-adjustment between disharmony and balance. "Salbrox" aims, via mysterious and enigmatic practices that reflect an ouroboros quality of death of rebirth, to explore the transmutation and regeneration of the human being that occurs at every level - spirit, soul and corporeality. More...
Battle Beast Posts New Video Online
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Guitarist Joona Björkroth states, "'Eden' was born about one year ago when I was going through an extremely bad period in my personal life. I wrote the song as a remembrance to myself that whatever life throws at you, there's light in the end. Many bad things people have in their lives are creations of their own mind and can be mended by letting go. The song is a sincere "f*** you!" to fear, pain... whatever it is that is holding you down!" More...
Moros Premiere New Song
Mar 1, 2019 at 2:34 AM by LugalKiEn.
Philly trio Moros premiere a new song entitled "Every Day is Worse Than the Last", taken from their upcoming new album "Weapon", which will be out in stores March 29 via Hidden Deity.
Check out now "Every Day is Worse Than the Last" below.
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Sacrificial Slaughter Premiere New Lyric Video
California’s Sacrificial Slaughter premiere a new lyric video for "The Separation of Innocence", taken from their three-way split with Coathanger Abortion, and Rottenness called "The Hate Divide", which was released last November via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.
Check out now "The Separation of Innocence" below.
Periphery Premiere New Song “Garden In The Bones”
A second new song from Periphery‘s new record “Periphery IV: Hail Stan“ called “Garden In The Bones“ has premiered online and is streaming for you below. The album will be out in stores on April 05th via the group’s own label 3DOT Recordings .
Demon Hunter Premiere New Track “Ash”
Demon Hunter share another new song, with their two new albums “War” & “Peace” to be released later today. The latest single is titled “Ash” and comes from the “War” half of the separately released efforts.
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Lord Dying Premiere New Single “Envy The End”
Lord Dying‘s new record “Mysterium Tremendum” will meet an April 26th release via eOne Music. Recording sessions for the album took place this past August at West Valley Recording Studios in Los Angeles, CA with Mike Plotnikoff (Fear Factory, In Flames) behind the desk. A stream of the album’s first single “Envy The End“ can be found below.
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Big Business Premiere New Song “Heal The Weak”
Another track from Big Business‘ new record “The Beast You Are“ has premiered below, ahead of its upcoming April 12th release through Joyful Noise. The song is called “Heal The Weak” with the group’s vocalist/bassist Jared Warren stating: “‘Heal The Weak‘ is a musical curse on those who seek to take advantage of people of lesser means. A clarion call of warning to the crust-fisted oppressor.”
Extensive touring plans have been booked in support of the outing. Below’s where you can see them live: More...
Carnifex, Oceano & Prison U.S. Tour Announced
Carnifex, Oceano and Prison announce a spring U.S. tour that will kick off in May. Below’s where the trek will stop:
05/05 Las Vegas, NV – Fremont Country Club
05/07 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
05/08 Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater
05/09 Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep
05/10 Fort Collins, CO – Hodi’s Half Note
05/11 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
05/12 Boise, ID – Shredder
05/14 Spokane, WA – The Pin
05/15 Bend, OR – Domino Room
05/16 Reno, NV – Jub Jubs
05/17 Sacramento, CA – Holy Diver
05/18 Fresno, CA – Full Circle Brewing
05/19 Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst
VLTIMAS (Ex-Morbid Angel, Etc.) Debut “Monolilith”
Mar 1, 2019 at 12:45 AM by LugalKiEn.
A new VLTIMAS song called “Monolilith” has been premiered online below. The group pairs former Morbid Angel vocalist/bassist David Vincent with ex-Mayhem, etc. guitarist Rune “Blasphemer” Eriksen and Cryptopsy drummer Flo Mounier. VLTIMAS’ debut album “Something Wicked Marches In” is scheduled for a March 29th release via Season Of Mist.
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Bodysnatcher Premiere New Live Video “Rancid”
Bodysnatcher premiere a new live video for their song “Rancid“ streaming for you below:
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Lenel Introduces LifeSafety Power ProWire™ Unified Power Solution for OnGuard®-Connected Devices
Pittsford, N.Y. – May 30, 2018 – Lenel, a leading provider of advanced security systems, is making available LifeSafety Power’s ProWire™ Unified Power Systems for Lenel OnGuard®-connected devices. ProWire is an innovative, next-generation access system that integrates power and panels and is pre-wired for system power, lock power and communication to eliminate hours of installation labor. Available with capabilities for Lenel OnGuard power monitoring, ProWire’s real-time data monitors the performance of network-connected power, ensuring optimal system operation and up time. Lenel is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX).
Developed and manufactured by LifeSafety Power, a leading provider of innovative power management solutions, the ProWire solution for OnGuard offers intelligent and networked functionality that yields a snapshot of the current status of power across the facility. It provides data that shows exactly how access control and other systems are performing, allowing organizations to take proactive measures before potential critical system failures occur. ProWire is also available in a pre-wired, non-managed power solution to meet every reseller specification.
The modular, UL/CUL-certified pre-wired ProWire systems come ready to install, yielding consistent and repeatable results across the enterprise or multiple locations, eliminating technician time and guesswork. Also, a single ProWire unit can replace multiple traditional enclosures, saving space on wall and/or system racks.
“With access control serving as the hub for many disparate security systems, it’s become critical to have easily accessible, real-time data available about device performance,” said Jeff Stanek, general manager, Lenel, North America. “There’s never a good time for a security device to fail and with LifeSafety Power’s ProWire solution, end-users can count on getting the information they need to create better efficiencies and greater system uptime. ProWire can also be used for managed services like remote monitoring and maintenance—to reset devices, automatically test batteries, actively monitor actual system stand-by time remaining and other capabilities.”
Larry Ye, president and chief executive officer, LifeSafety Power, said with the many demands being placed on the OnGuard® platform, power systems need to provide the latest proactive analytics to increase system integrity.
“ProWire, when combined with intelligent managed power options, lets end-users gain visibility into system health and viability,” Ye said. “As a networked solution, ProWire allows data to be monitored locally or globally at a single user interface to optimize performance and increase operational efficiencies for the end-user customer.”
LifeSafety Power ProWire is available now through Lenel value-added resellers throughout the Americas.
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Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible.
"The Tool For Change! Must-Read"
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by Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle offers simple language in a question and answer format. The words themselves are the signposts to guide you on your journey into the now.
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Meditation is Boring?
by Linda Johnsen
Johnsen offers guidance on meditation revealing the intense mental absorption required. Shows the reader the enlightenment to be found through meditation.
"It inspired me to begin chakra meditation."
"Information that you don't find just anywhere."
Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda
Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation.
"A Fantastic Account of a Great Yogi"
"Rare accounts of spiritual prodigies and their ecstasy-filled lives. These experiences are available to you too."
The Relaxation Response
by Herbert Benson, M.D.
The Relaxation Response has become the classic reference recommended by most health care professionals and authorities to treat the harmful effects of stress.
"The classic guide to conquering stress."
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The Inner Gym
by Light Watkins
This audiobook is ideal for anyone looking for a structured way to incorporate simple life-habits that have been proven to have a profound impact on your state of happiness.
"Strengthening One's Happiness? Who Knew This Was Even Possible Until The Inner Gym!"
"My Meditation Breakthrough Manual"
by Ram Das
Be Here Now is a vehicle for sharing the true message, and a guide to self-determination.
"Extraordinary book"
"You can pick it up and read any page at any time and receive a message that will always feel connected too!"
When properly understood and practiced, meditation should feel easy, calming, and comfortable. In Bliss More, maverick instructor Light Watkins provides the tools for making it E.A.S.Y. (Embrace, Accept, Surrender, Yield), dispels the biggest myths and misunderstandings, and shares real-world tips and straight talk for hacking into this ancient practice.
"Insightful, Kind, Humorous Approach to Meditation"
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Perfect Health
by Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, M.D., wrote Perfect Health, the first practical guide to harnessing the healing power of the mind, which became a national bestseller. The book described how breakthroughs in physics and medicine were underscoring the validity of a 5,000-year-old medical system from ancient India known as Ayurveda.
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A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by changing one's perceptions, beliefs, and emotions, the human body can heal itself from any dis-ease.
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Ayurveda: The Science of Self Healing: A Practical Guide
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi On The Bhagavad-Gita A New Translation and Commentary (1969 version)
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The Bhagavad-Gītā presents a timeless formula for rising above the mundane problems of life to enjoy eternal freedom and fulfilment in higher states of consciousness; it brings to light a complete science of life and art of living relevant to every generation, based upon the simple yet profound experience of the inner Self-the infinite, eternal reservoir of creativity and intelligence that lies within us all.
"A Classic."
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The Mahabharata - a Modern Rendering
Another masterful translation from Menon. It follows the warring dynasty that threatens to implode the ancient kingdom of Hastinapura. The five hero brothers must overcome all adversity and win back the kingdom from their debauched cousins. Layered within this bounteous epic are clues to every aspect of enlightened living as espoused within the Veda. Comprehensive and captivating, and brilliantly distilled by this inspiringly erudite author.
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Finding Ultraby
by Rich Roll
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"Must read for anyone seeking change"
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Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success
by Shawn Stevenson
In Sleep Smarter, Stevenson shares easy tips and tricks to discover the best sleep and best health of your life. With his 14-Day Sleep Makeover, you'll learn how to create the ideal sleep sanctuary, how to hack sunlight to regulate your circadian rhythms, which clinically proven sleep nutrients and supplements you need, and stress-reduction exercises and fitness tips to keep you mentally and physically sharp.
"New insights for a long term health seeker."
"Will improve your sleep and your life."
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
by Michael Newton
Through the extraordinary stories in this book, you will learn the specifics about:
- How it feels to die
- What you see and feel right after death
- When and where you learn to recognize soul mates on earth
- Different levels of soul: beginning, intermediate, and advanced
- What happens to "disturbed" souls
- The purpose of life and manifestation of a "creator"
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"Great insight about the spirit world"
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you! Dale's time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.
"Life Changing Read. A must own."
"Foundational to successful relationship development"
by Bill Bryson
Bryson moves seamlessly from one sweeping topic to the next with great ease. Whether he is expounding upon thermodynamics, paleontology or cosmology, he helps us to grasp, to the extent that seems possible, the interrelatedness of all physical phenomona. He is particularly skillful at putting into perspective concepts of size and dimension within the universe, whether mind-bogglingly vast expanses or minuscule marvels of life’s building blocks. He not only teaches us what is known, but humbles us by emphasizing how much we do not know.
"A most unusual but extremely interesting book!"
"Nearly the Best Book I Have Ever Read"
Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
by John E. Sarno
Discover why self-motivated and successful people are prone to TMS, how anxiety and repressed anger trigger muscle spasms, how people "train themselves" to experience back pain, and how you may get relief from back pain within two to six weeks by recognizing TMS and its causes.
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by Joseph Campbell
This tome weaves together many of the threads of the ancient cultures and reveals the unity within their diversity and offers us food for thought on the hidden messages contained within. Luke Skywalker, Rama, Moses, Gilgamesh. What do these heroes have in common? According to Joseph Campbell, all these great stories share a common archetypal structure that reflects a journey we all take in our own consciousnes
"A Treasure!"
"Eye-opening in every way"
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Super Soul Conversations - Oprah
The Model Health Show - Shawn Stevenson
Rich Roll Podcast - Rich Roll
The Tim Ferriss Show - Tim Ferriss
The Way I Heard It - Mike Rowe
Under The Skin - Russell Brand
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Shoe leather, perspiration and caffeine
Source: NHE Nov/Dec 17
NHE’s Josh Mines reports from the NHS Providers annual conference in Birmingham on the work of Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and how organisations should look to push digital innovation forward.
To many attending NHS Providers’ annual conference on 7-8 November, the speeches given by NHS England CEO Simon Stevens and health secretary Jeremy Hunt were a stark reflection of the political tug-of-war that is waging between the government and the health service.
Stevens assertively asked the government to make good on the infamous ‘Brexit Bus’ promise of extra health funding, and warned that the NHS may have to reconsider its limits next year if the current level of funding continues. On the other side of the coin, Hunt seemed reluctant to suggest any more funding was on the way, as he continued to press the importance of organisations saving money by looking at their procurement processes and introducing smarter delivery methods.
This is where innovation comes in. Though it can often seem like huge reform through exciting new technology is the key to driving real change, as West Midlands AHSN business manager Neil Mortimer explained, it’s the little changes that are likely to be the most successful.
“Effective innovation does not equal reinvention,” he stated. “Innovation is just doing what you don’t currently do or having what you don’t currently have. Innovation in the NHS would be to move from fax to digital communications as a start. It’s easy to say, but it’s a nightmare to do it in such a complicated institution.”
This statement is an often-used and damning reminder of quite how far behind the NHS is compared industries like banking, defence and construction when it comes to its implementation of digital technology.
In terms of improving this uptake, Mortimer said SMEs are often the best option and should be supported. “SMEs can be agile, think on their feet and respond to your needs,” he explained. “In Birmingham we have made innovation incubators for start-ups, which gives SMEs six months of free office space and free broadband, but they also get business advice. This tells them how to sit down with people in the NHS and say: ‘help me understand your problem, help me understand your tech barriers.’”
As Richard Stubbs, CEO of the Yorkshire & Humber AHSN, argued, it can often take up to 17 years for an innovation to make its way into mainstream commercial use, and it’s the job of the AHSN to try and reduce this gap. “AHSNs help people, but we are about this 17-year reduction and there are so many different programmes we use to do this,” he explained.
The work of the networks is not simply in driving the development of flashy apps and technology, but also to look at radically altering attitudes to innovation.
“When we boil down the work we do, then it always comes down to culture, which is a real elephant in the room,” Stubbs admitted. “When we think about how we tackle this problem, there isn’t going to be a Big Bang of a new way of doing things – it has to be incremental change. I’m fond of saying that, as an AHSN, our tools are shoe leather, perspiration and caffeine.”
And for real change to be delivered, innovation has to be driven and led by everyone at an organisation, the AHSN boss added: “It’s very much a hearts and minds job. Every hospital, every ward and every commissioner needs convincing to do things differently.So if we’re going to be successful it is about that cultural change, and we are all responsible for driving that innovation culture in practice.”
Though this cultural change will be difficult to implement, there’s no doubt that innovation will be essential for the NHS to continue to maintain a high standard of care. The question is, what will we look back at in five years’ time and think: ‘I can’t believe we used to do things like that?’
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New MacBook Air Hides A Sneaky Secret
Last week saw Apple quietly update its range of Mac-based laptops, cancelling the MacBook and offering a new configuration of the MacBook Air. But there's a sneaky secret inside the cut-price MacBook Air.
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In vitro and in vivo anti-herpes simplex virus activity of monogalactosyl diacylglyceride from Coccomyxa sp. KJ (IPOD FERM BP-22254), a green microalga
by Kyoko Hayashi, Jung-Bum Lee, Kinya Atsumi, Mana Kanazashi, Tamaki Shibayama, Kazumasa Okamoto, Toshio Kawahara, Toshimitsu Hayashi A monogalactosyl diacylglyceride (MGDG) was isolated as an antiviral component from Coccomyxa sp. KJ (IPOD FERM BP-22254) via bioassay-guided fractionation. α-Linolenic acid (C18:3) and 7,10,13-hexadecatrienoic acid (C16:3) accounted for approximately 72% and 23%, respectively, of the MGDG total fatty acids of the MGDG. The MGDG showed virucidal activity against herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), a pathogen that causes genital herpes. Physical changes in HSV-2 shape were observed after treatment with MGDG, including a decrease in particle size, and possible damage to the viral envelope, as assessed using electron microscopy. In accordance with the morphological findings, virus particles lost their ability to bind to host cells. HSV-2 treated with high concentrations of MGDG resulted in no pathogenicity in an animal model, indicating that MGDG exhibits irreversible ...
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Wellbeing Manifesto
Author: Editorial 4th July 2018 0 Comments
a wellbeing society
community, Maori, Mary O’Hagan, New Zealand, psychiatry, wellbeing
Mary O’Hagan, author of Madness Made Me: A Memoir, has prepared a Wellbeing Manifesto (with a New Zealand orientation), subtitled “A submission to the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction”.
The manifesto includes seven wellbeing priorities, plus a listing of foundational principles of wellbeing and twelve core Big Community suggested responses to improve life and health outcomes across the lifespan. But its introduction begins by describing “The Problem“:
“Big Psychiatry (our medical-led mental health and addiction system) was created around 200 years ago in an historical moment that established the construction of madness as an illness. The new profession led a medicalised, institutional and coercive system, where even the best intentions led to routine harm and poor outcomes.
“Big Psychiatry still sits at the hub of our mental health and addiction system … Its medical lens and expensive, narrow interventions focus on symptom reduction and short-term risk rather than holistic wellbeing and long-term outcomes …”
Despite the closure of the old psychiatric hospitals and the addition of some community support services, Big Psychiatry still sits at the hub of our mental health and addiction system, where it shapes the world view and draws on most of the available resources. Its medical lens and expensive, narrow interventions focus on symptom reduction and short-term risk rather than holistic wellbeing and long-term outcomes …
New Zealand led the world by taking the first significant steps in the transformation from Big Psychiatry to Big Community (a multi-sector, community-led wellbeing system) in the 1990s and 2000s, through the closure of the large psychiatric hospitals and growth in community support services.
However, in the last decade a crisis has developed from persisting inequality, loss of leadership, lack of investment in Big Community and a complex, inflexible and fragmented system. There is widespread public concern about levels of distress and suicide, especially among Māori and youth. Many people cannot access help until they are in a deep crisis. People who use services are poorly served, with increasing rates of coercion, traumatising crisis interventions and a paucity of comprehensive responses.
More of the same will not fix the problem …”
Read more (and optionally download the Manifesto as a pdf) here.
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A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing
Wild Therapy: Undomesticating inner and outer worlds
Stop stressing out our kids – why children’s mental health is as important as academic achievement
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'All or Nothing' recap: Cardinals battle adversity
By Dan Hanzus
End Around Writer
Published: July 1, 2016 at 07:29 p.m.
Updated: July 8, 2016 at 07:39 a.m.
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No one gets a free ride in the NFL. Even the best teams face times of crisis, stunning peaks that suddenly dive into dark valleys. There's a reason only two teams have gone through an entire regular season undefeated in the Super Bowl era. Winning -- and winning on a consistent basis -- is damn hard work.
We get a great look at that in the second episode of All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals. Fans remember the Cardinals' regular season as a great success -- which makes sense because it was. Arizona went 13-3, won the NFC West and secured a first-round bye. But six weeks into the 2015 season, it was unclear just who the Cardinals were after puzzling losses over a three-week stretch -- first to the Rams at home, then against a Steelers team playing their third-string quarterback.
Stream the Amazon Original Series "All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals" on Prime Video.
"I'm not sure what to make now," wonders Cardinals radio play-by-play man Dave Pasch moments after a 25-13 loss in Pittsburgh. "Are the Cardinals a great team? Are they a good team that can't finish? Are they just an average team?"
The Steelers loss has extra bite for Cardinals coach Bruce Arians, who had hoped his Pittsburgh homecoming would end with a statement victory. The Steelers fired Arians as their offensive coordinator after the 2011 season, prompting the coach to turn his attention to retirement. But Colts coach Chuck Pagano called him up before Arians and wife Christine could get to their retirement home in Georgia. The rest was history.
Leaving Pittsburgh with a measure of revenge was supposed to be another notch on Arians' belt. It didn't turn out that way.
"We gotta get it corrected, alright?" Arians told his players in the locker room at Heinz Field. "But let the taste be in your mouth. Don't spit it out too quick. Because that's two we gave away now. Two we gave away. We can't give away no more."
Six weeks in and the Cardinals are 4-2.
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» We get some good insight into the struggles faced by Patrick Peterson, who was diagnosed with diabetes during a lackluster -- by his shining standards -- 2014 season. Peterson couldn't control his body weight, and said learning he had diabetes was a blessing because it gave him answers. A side-by-side shot of Peterson's face in 2014 and 2015 shows just how much weight he carried before the diagnosis.
» This was Peterson's episode in many respects. We learn more about the health struggles, see him embarrass backup quarterback Drew Stanton in the "Chuck It To The Bucket" game, then watch him shut down Calvin Johnson in a blowout win at Ford Field. Peterson's combination of size, speed and agility is stunning on tape.
» Dwight Freeney shows up before the Steelers game. The old veteran was signed to help Arizona get to the quarterback. Remarked general manager Steve Keim during one practice: "From the couch to first-team rush. 54." Freeney seems like a super affable dude. During one practice, offensive tackle D.J. Humphries approaches Freeney and tells the former Colts star that he did a "project on him in middle school." Translation: You're crazy old, man.
» With back-to-back road games against East Coast teams, the Cardinals decide to spend Steelers week at The Greenbrier, a remote luxury resort in West Virginia (The Greenbrier also serves as the Saints' training camp). Arians shares a gem with old pupil Ben Roethlisberger before kickoff in Pittsburgh: "The hotel supposedly is haunted. Half the f-----' guys are scared shitless all f----- week. The strong safety said, 'I swear to God this little girl came up and was talking to me. Her name is Carroll. There wasn't nobody in my room!' Scared the s--- out of all the rest of them."
» Through two episodes, Arians is on pace for approximately 18,000 f-bombs. He makes Rex Ryan look like an altar boy serving Holy Communion.
Stream the Amazon Original Series "All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals" on Amazon Prime now at amazon.com/allornothing.
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Casanuova di Nittardi 2015
By Leon on 13 November 2017 in Art, Chianti Classico, Senza categoria @en
JOE TILSON CREATES THE XXXV ART LABEL FOR THE CHIANTI CLASSICO
CASANUOVA DI NITTARDI VIGNA DOGHESSA 2015
Nittardi’s distinctively strong bond with wine, art and culture has found new, cheerful expression with the 2015 Chianti Classico.
Since 1981, the label and wrapping paper for each vintage of Chianti Classico Casanuova di Nittardi Vigna Doghessa has been created by a different world-renowned artist. Two works of art every year, for 35 years.
For years now the viticulturists and collectors Peter Femfert and Stefania Canali have paid homage to the historical owner of the vineyards, Michelangelo Buonarroti, by pursuing and celebrating a unique alliance of wine and art. Since 1982 they have invited a noteworthy succession of international painters, sculptures and writers to leave a memento of their legacy on the given vintage – every year a different artist.
After Tadini, Adami, Mitoraj, Arroyo, Alechinsky, Yoko Ono, Günter Grass and Dario Fo, to mention but a few, the British painter Joe Tilson has now realised the 35th art label of Nittardi.
Joe Tilson (born 1928), a British Pop Art icon, enjoys pointing out that he was famous before the Beatles and Mary Quant. Indeed, he was a precursor and then a prominent exponent of London’s “Swinging Sixties”: a silent and visionary artist who, at the end of the Fifties and well into the next decade, informed a cultural wave that was destined to change the lifestyle of the people as well as the world’s horizon of thought.
Tilson moved away from the Pop Art at the end of the Sixties, when “it lost its original meaning of ‘Popular Art’, becoming an object of worship-consumption”. In search of a new approach, one both more introspective and tangible, he first moved to the English countryside and then, after numerous and continually longer visits, to Italy.
Tilson was first introduced to Italy at the age of nine, when he won a booklet on Giotto during a competition at school. The little book became his guiding inspiration for the years to come, and led him down a path of discovery that eventually took him to Cefalù, Sicily, where, in the aftermath of WWII, Tilson decided to cross Italy on the back of a mule – a journey that took him first to Tuscany, and then to Venice. But it is also a journey that has not yet ended, not even now that he lives and works by turns amidst the hills of Cortona and behind a silent Venetian window.
Tilson’s artwork is a tribute to Italy: it is the expression of a continuous enchantment, of the wonder experienced in the presence of every newly discovered artistic treasure in a land where such treasures have been stratified for centuries.
Fascinated in particular by Byzantine art and mythology, Tilson merges both with Indian and Aboriginal symbols to create invigorating combinations. He revitalises archetypical images by permeating them with an accessibly contemporary language and playing freely with primary symbols such as air, water, fire, earth, enigmas and labyrinths.
For Nittardi, Joe Tilson has created two artworks that delightfully express his love for Tuscany and Venice.
The materiality of the grapes, painted in thick green and violet strokes, exudes from the label: the grapes’ plenitude is a symbol of life as well as of the ancient cycle of the seasons, a cycle that culminates in the harvest.
And if the label is a tribute to Tuscany, the wrapping paper is one to Venice – to its marvellous marble floors, and to the marquetry and mosaics of its churches and buildings.
Tilson has created two evocative artworks, marked by a strong allusion to the earth, which call upon the viewer to stop and look in order to be able to see again.
Casanuova di Nittardi 2015 is a pure Sangiovese. The grapes – picked and selected by hand in September – come from a single vineyard, Vigna Doghessa, a parcel of land located 450 meters above sea level on a south-facing hill with a soil full of schist stones. The vineyard has a density of 6600 vines per hectare. After a long natural fermentation period in stainless steel tanks, the wine is aged 14 months in French oak tonneaux (500 litre), followed by 4 months in a concrete vat and an additional 6 months in the bottle.
93 points by James Suckling.
93 points by Daniele Cernilli – Doctor Wine.
Presentazione della XXXV etichetta artistica del Chianti Classico di Nittardi. Artista Joe Tilson. Villa Cora (FI) Foto di Barbara Badetti
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What is a good human rights issue to write a research paper about?
Topic: What is a good human rights issue to write a research paper about?
July 19, 2019 / By Chryssa
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Pappy + Harriet's Presents
Jesse Dayton
Charlie Overbey, The Shadow Mountain Band
Sat, November 10, 2018
SOLD OUT! Thank You!
Shadow Mountain Band 5pm
DOORS 7pm
Charlie Overbey 8:30
Jesse Dayton 9:30
A ticket to this show does not guarantee a seat. This is a non-seated show. Sometimes we move all the tables out if it is a well sold show.
Set Times are Subject To Change
Jesse Dayton - (Set time: 9:30 PM)
Jesse Dayton with Waylon and Cash Jesse Dayton / Lonesome, On'ry and Mean / Casbah- SD, CA / 6/24/17 Jesse Dayton - Tall Walkin' Texas Trash Jesse Dayton - Possum Ran Over My Grave (Official Video) Jesse Dayton - Daddy Was a Badass (Official Lyric Video) Jesse Dayton "I'm at home getting hammered, while she's out
Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who’s who of American music. Want to talk about being "born into it"? Imagine a 15-year-old kid born and raised on the Texas/ Louisiana border, playing his Telecaster guitar in all-black zydeco bands in Lake Charles, Louisiana; honky-tonk country bands with members left over from the Starday Records’ George Jones days around his hometown of Beaumont, Texas. Dayton was underage and sneaking into night clubs to play shows ’til 3am with east Texas blues legend Little Mack Minor (cousin of Lightning Hopkins and Mance Liscomb), until eventually he was spotted by Gulf Coast hit producer Huey P. Meaux. Mr. Meaux approached Dayton and asked him to record with zydeco star Rockin Dopsey at Houston's hit factory, Sugarhill Studios. And the story just keeps getting better.
As he enters early adulthood, Dayton begins packing clubs and theaters on the Texas scene with his trio in Houston, Dallas, and Austin. He records his first solo record titled "Raisin' Cain" for Justice Records with featured guest luminaries, Doug Sahm, Flaco Jiminez and Johnny Gimble that hits Number 1 on the Americana Radio Charts. Jesse tours around the world opening for punk legends Social Distortion, The Supersuckers and X. Jesse is then asked to help
arrange and play guitar on The Supersuckers biggest selling record, "Must've Been High.” While in Nashville doing press, Waylon Jennings spots him on Nashville TV show ‘Crook & Chase’ and calls Jesse out of the blue at his hotel to play lead guitar on his record, "Right for The Time." Dayton blows off his flight back to Austin, heads to Woodland Studios where Waylon has sent a car for
him, and knocks on the door. Johnny Cash answers it and says, "we've been waiting for you." This leads to Dayton recording guitars on records and film with Cash, Ray Price, Willie Nelson, Johnny Bush and Glen Campbell.
While Dayton is ignored by mainstream country radio, his cult following in the US and Europe continues to grow. A whole new crowd of Americana listening room folks, aging punks, and young rock fans embrace him. He embarks on headlining tours without any tour support from a label.
Just when you thought the story couldn’t get any cooler, horror director/rockstar, Rob Zombie hears Dayton's record at a party, hunts him down, and calls him to write and record a soundtrack for his film ‘The Devils Rejects’ which lands him in Rolling Stone magazine. Then they co-write songs for Rob's follow up franchise film, ‘Halloween 2’ (which Dayton appears in playing the part of character ‘Captain Clegg’). Then Dayton writes and records songs for a third Rob Zombie film (this one animated) titled, ’The Haunted World of El Super Beasto.' After years of pounding the pavement day-in and day-out, Jesse buys a house in Austin, and heads back on tour in his 40-foot redneck RV with his band of hillbilly punks.
Dayton has had over 50 songs licensed to film and television and even ended up writing and directing a horror film shot in New Orleans called ‘Zombex’ starring Malcolm McDowell, Sid Haig, Lew Temple from Walking Dead and John Doe from the band X. The film was sold to a distributor and got a theatrical release. After stockpiling songs during his film work, he heads into the studio to record "The Revealer” (back where it all started at Sugarhill Studios in Houston), and the first single "Daddy Was A Badass" becomes a hit on SiriusXM's Outlaw Country
channel. As this is happening, Dayton gets a call from the aforementioned, John Doe and is asked to fill in for guitarist Billy Zoom on 40-city U.S. tour with X while Zoom was taking time away from the band to undergo cancer treatment.
Jesse Dayton has been on tour non-stop for four years all over the US and Europe. His new record "The Outsider" was literally recorded while on tour in Atlanta, Denver, Nashville and Austin and mixed by Grammy Award winning engineer/ producer Vance Powell (who has worked with the likes of Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell and Jack White). About “The Outsider” Dayton says, "It's a lot like ‘The Revealer’, but even more stripped down with some sweet acoustic guitar songs and some raw electric guitar work". All the influences are there; the George Jones-inspired singing on "Changin' My Ways," the Outlaw country twang of Waylon and Jerry Reed on "Belly of the Beast," the angst and energy of The Clash and X on hillbilly protest song “Charlottesville," and the deep east Texas blues and Cajun rockabilly of "May Have To Do It" and "Hurtin Behind The Pine Curtain." While there are many different sides to him musically, this all rolls into one big hybrid that Jesse Dayton has been honing for over 20 years.
Pick up ‘The Outsider’... it's unlike anything that's out there.
Charlie Overbey - (Set time: 8:30 PM)
Shame by Charlie Overbey CHARLIE OVERBEY and the Broken Arrows 1975 Charlie Overbey and the Broken Arrows - California Kid CHARLIE OVERBEY and the BROKEN ARROW: SHAME Charlie Overbey & The Broken Arrows @ Red 7 SXSW 2015, Best of SXSW Live HQ "Slip Away" by Charlie Overbey & The Broken Arrows with Miranda Lee Richards
Charlie Overbey may be a lifelong Californian, but his songs are steeped in the timeless traditions of the American South. After years of touring the world supporting acts ranging from David Allan Coe and Blackberry Smoke to Social Distortion and Motorhead, Overbey slowly amassed a collection of introspective original songs that transcend the endless rock & roll party, taking a stark, undeniably honest look at some of life’s most gritty moments. The result is Charlie Overbey’'s new LP, Broken Arrow.
A triumphant collection of road-hardened alt-country tunes born of Overbey’s upbringing in what he calls “the school and church of Johnny Cash,” Broken Arrow features guest appearances from The Mastersons (who also play in Steve Earle's band The Dukes), Miranda Lee Richards (who sings on duet single “Slip Away”) and Eddie Spaghetti of the Supersuckers, and was produced by Ted Hutt who recently won a Grammy for his work with Old Crow Medicine Show, and has helmed multiple albums by Lucero, The Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys and many more.
“I’ve never worked with anybody like Ted,” Overbey says, reflecting on the sessions. “This is the first time I’ve ever let go and trusted somebody else as a partner in my songs. He really pulled some stuff out of me that I had not planned on delivering. Honestly, these songs can be hard for me to sing—they come from a deep, real and sometimes dark place.”
Self-aware and introspective without relying on played-out tropes of love and loss, Overbey’s songwriting is genuine, fearless and visceral. Authentic, reverb-drenched ‘70s-channeling album opener “Slip Away” gets right at the heart of life’s darkness, chronicling the heart-wrenching suicide of a young girl. Accompanied by wailing pedal steel and the haunting harmonies of Miranda Lee Richards, the song sets a tone of somber acceptance in the face of mortality.
“The Ballad of Eddie Spaghetti”—featuring a guest appearance from its namesake—also addresses mortality, though from a different perspective, confronting Spaghetti’s recent struggles with cancer. While the refrain, “If I die at 47, if I die before my time / Will they drag me up to heaven or deliver me to Hell in my prime” might read as a last will & testament, the soaring vocals and upbeat tempo elevate it to an awe-inspiring, fist-pumping battle cry. As Overbey sees it, “You gotta step up and kick life’s ass sometimes.”
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Overbey was exposed to country music early and often. It wasn’t something he sought out on his own—his father owned a 1947 Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar, and almost every time it was played, out spilled a Johnny Cash song. Overbey recalls these times fondly and admits they shaped his musical growth, though it took years of punk-rock rebellion before he’d come to appreciate the genre’s influence on him. “When you’re raised, and it’s all around you,” he says, “it’s the last thing you want to be a part of.”
Overbey’s first success in the music industry came when his cowpunk outfit Custom Made Scare landed a deal with Side One Dummy Records in 1998. But before the band’s debut album dropped, Overbey went on the run from the law for months, finally turning himself in and spending a year in prison. The very same week he was released, the band hit the road immediately, and toured heavily into the new millennium alongside seminal punk acts such as Suicidal Tendencies, Social Distortion, Agent Orange, Zeke and REO Speedealer.
A side project of Overbey’s called Charlie & The Valentine Killers also toured in the late 2000s with David Allan Coe and Lemmy's side outfit The Headcat. “It was still days of angst,” Overbey says, but the country-leaning project’s sound served as an important precursor to his current solo work backed by the Broken Arrows.
Looking ahead to the March 2018 release of Broken Arrow, Overbey is gearing up to hit the road with a vengeance for the first time in years. He and the band are already working on songs for a follow-up record that will draw from the same rich vein as Broken Arrow. Overbey isn’t one for idle hands—when he isn’t playing or writing, Charlie has become a well-known name in the fashion world with his one-of-a-kind, hand-shaped Lone Hawk Hats, for devotees in the Americana scene, including the camps of Blackberry Smoke, Miranda Lambert, Lucero, the Foo Fighters, Dwight Yoakam, Cage The Elephant, Kaleo, and Miley Cyrus. Lone Hawk Hats were even the focus point in a recent Stella McCartney campaign.
It’s a craft Overbey taught himself by trial and error, ultimately carrying with it the same authenticity and attention to detail you’ll find in his songwriting. They are available at several high-end locations, including he and his lady's brick-and-mortar shop Honeywood Vintage / Lone Hawk Hats on ultra hip York Blvd in Highland Park, Los Angeles.
As the album title suggests, an existential darkness permeates Broken Arrow. It is the work of a road-savvy rock & roll veteran who sees the world as it is, fully grasping the jagged pain of life. But this darkness isn’t a dead end—Overbey’s songs are shot through with enough hard-fought resilience, determination and optimism to remind listeners the only way out is forward, and that the wild ride of life is a mysterious and beautiful gift.
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Shadow Mountain Band at Pappy & Harriet's Shadow Mountain Band @ Joshua Tree Roots Music Festival 10-10-10 Shadow Mountain Band - Ball and Chain at Pappy and Harriet's High on A Mountain Top - Shadow Mountain Band (Ola Belle Reed-cover)
The Shadow Mountain Band specializes in mountain-style harmonies with lively acoustic backup. They feature Traditional Mountain Music, Hillbilly Gospels (think- ‘oh Brother, Where art Thou’) and Bluegrass, along with eclectic originals and completely reworked contemporary tunes. Music critics have begun to call their style ‘desert grass’.
Jesse Dayton with Waylon and Cash Jesse Dayton / Lonesome, On'ry and Mean / Casbah- SD, CA / 6/24/17 Jesse Dayton - Tall Walkin' Texas Trash Jesse Dayton - Possum Ran Over My Grave (Official Video) Jesse Dayton - Daddy Was a Badass (Official Lyric Video) Jesse Dayton "I'm at home getting hammered, while she's out Shame by Charlie Overbey CHARLIE OVERBEY and the Broken Arrows 1975 Charlie Overbey and the Broken Arrows - California Kid CHARLIE OVERBEY and the BROKEN ARROW: SHAME Charlie Overbey & The Broken Arrows @ Red 7 SXSW 2015, Best of SXSW Live HQ "Slip Away" by Charlie Overbey & The Broken Arrows with Miranda Lee Richards Shadow Mountain Band at Pappy & Harriet's Shadow Mountain Band @ Joshua Tree Roots Music Festival 10-10-10 Shadow Mountain Band - Ball and Chain at Pappy and Harriet's High on A Mountain Top - Shadow Mountain Band (Ola Belle Reed-cover)
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Mrs Carol Anne Martin MLA BA
Party: Australian Labor Party
Electorate: Kimberley
Inaugural Speech:
Speeches by Mrs Carol Anne Martin
Extract from the Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook
MARTIN, Carol Anne, MLA
Member for Kimberley
PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE
Elected to the Thirty-Sixth Parliament for Kimberley on 10 February 2001 in succession to Hon Ernest Francis Bridge (retired).
Re-elected 2005, 2008. Did not contest the general election of 9 March 2013.
Chairman Education and Health Standing Committee from 30 May 2001 to 23 January 2005.
Member Parliamentary Services Committee from 30 May 2001 to 23 January 2005.
Member Parliamentary Services Committee from 13 November 2008 to 30 January 2013.
Born (Carol Pilkington) 31 October 1957, Subiaco, Western Australia.
Qualifications and Occupation Before Entering Parliament
BA. Social Worker. Trainer, Counsellor, Consultant.
ELECTORATE - SHORT DESCRIPTION
The electorate of Kimberley is located in the Mining and Pastoral Region and includes the localities of Bilingurr, Broome, Cable Beach, Camballin, Cambridge Gulf, Dampier Peninsula, Derby, Djugun, Drysdale River, Durack, Eighty Mile Beach, Fitzroy Crossing, Geegully Creek, Gibb, Gingerah, Halls Creek, Kalumburu, Kimbolton, King Leopold Ranges, Kununurra, Lagrange, Lake Argyle, McBeath, Meda, Minyirr, Mitchell Plateau, Mt Hardman, Mueller Ranges, Oombulgurri, Ord River, Purnululu, Roebuck, St George Ranges, Sturt Creek, Tanami, Warmun, Waterbank, Willare and Wyndham.
Enrolment (6 September 2010) 15,657; area: 419,452 sq kms.
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Pokken Tournament Discussion
How Matchmaking Works
By Shady, June 18 in Pokken Tournament Discussion
Shady 3
Newbie Battle Trainer
Main: Sceptile
Secondaries: Aegislash
Braixen
I believe this is something that isn't very extensively researched, so I decided to do some research of my own here. This should also address why you all are having trouble getting into group matches despite there being only two people in the group currently searching for matches.
First of all, it is important to understand that each match in this game is assigned a "true player 1" and a "true player 2". On your own screen you are always the "player 1" but that obviously isn't always the case from the objective perspective of the match (unless you're playing single player). You can know which is which by paying attention to which side of the stage you spawn and comparing that to training mode where you will always be "true player 1". An easier way to tell this is if you're playing a mirror match. The "true player 2" will always get the alternate color. In team battle mode, some exceptions apply.
Now, when you actually enter the matchmaking, as you all are familiar, you will search for opponents for ten seconds after which the game will enter into a CPU battle and resume matchmaking in the background. The catch here is that there are actually two matchmaking modes called "Recruit" and "Apply". During the initial countdown, you will be applying for a match and after that when you enter the CPU battle, you will be recruiting for opponents. In order for a match to occur, a recruiting player has to find an applying player. The recruiting player will become the player 1 of the match while the applying will become player 2. This can be further confirmed by observing the event mode (LAN mode) in this game where the player can actually select the matchmaking mode. Interestingly, the ten-second countdown remains in the apply mode while it does not exist in the recruit mode there, reminiscent of the online matchmaking.
Who actually gets matched with whom is a little more complicated, however. If we have two pools of players, the appliers and the recruiters, how does the game select who gets to play with whom? Most likely the game uses some internal variable to calculate how good of a match a specific opponent is. Factors that affect this score are probably connection strength (ping, not necessarily stability) and rank (at least in ranked matches). The recruiting player has a certain treshold for that score that gradually lowers as they spend more time in the lobby without getting matched with anyone. From my observations, it takes around 50 seconds in the ranked lobby after the initial coundown when the game starts to match you with literally anyone, no matter how bad of a connection or how big of a rank difference.
There are also some exceptions to this system. You might recall that you have previously been matched back-to-back with someone on ranked who has a really good connection. The match happened almost instantly after the previous one and neither of the players could possibly have had enough time to enter the CPU battle. This is indeed an exception in the matchmaking system, so that really good matches get increased priority. It seems that in this case the player who has waited longer in the search is assigned the player 1 status.
Knowing all this, we can explain why it sometimes can be hard to get into group matches with specific people. It seems that the group system uses at least some sort of matching criteria, meaning that the game puts some effort in finding a good opponent. Recall that groups were initially meant by the developers as timed ladder tournaments, not necessarily for organizing friendlies. Consider two people entering the group (almost) at the same time. They will both first enter the apply mode, failing to find anyone. After that they will both enter the recruit mode, still unable to find each other because two recruiting players can't. Even if they don't enter the room exactly at the same time, there's a good possibility that during the, say, 5 seconds where the other one is actually recruting while the other is still applying, the recruiter's recruiting criteria might still be too high for them to get matched. In friendlies, on the other hand, this seems not to be the case, since it is much easier to get matched up by using code.
TL;DR If you have issues finding others in group matches, make sure that there is a significant difference in time (probably 10-30 seconds) between you and your opponent entering the queue.
Jetsplit 209
Main: Gardevoir
This is quite interesting, and makes a lot of sense why people run into issues finding each other in group matches!
xzx 6
Intermediate Battle Trainer
Main: Suicune
Wow nice!
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Plays on tour: Is there a (script) doctor in the house?
Doctor in the House has been doing the rounds of major centres this year and is playing at Richmond Theatre this week. Comedian and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here winner Joe Pasquale plays the lead but he does not quite get the opportunity to let rip as much as you think you think he could or would like to. It's less laugh out loud and more smirk occasionally. Very occasionally. The material has been reworked from its source material and it seems to be missing any sense of bawdiness and adventure that could have made this a bit more fun.
Pasquale describes in the above clip that the show will make you come out of the theatre feeling like you had a little hot water bottle down your pants. Well there was a warm feeling in the theatre but it could have been due to the ambient temperatures outside. The cast try their best with the material they have, the set is lovely albeit a bit static since its the same awful med student accommodation in every scene (think Ladykillers off steroids). And of course any show where a moose head dispenses beer isn't totally the pits... But still...
It's at the Richmond Theatre this week and like a norovirus continues to run through cities across the land... Audioboo with @johnnyfoxlondon follows...
listen to ‘D.O.Aboo: Doctor In The House’ on Audioboo
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Random NBA Observations: January 2015
Cavs in trouble?
Hand up if you thought the Cavaliers would stumble out of the gate and be .500 after 40 games? Yeah, me neither. Apparently nothing comes easy, even when you have a superstar trio in LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. Sure, Anderson Varejao's season-ending injury doesn't help, but there's a lot of weird stuff going on that stunts what the team can do. How did you like the one where David Blatt said Love is 'not a max player yet'? Or James shoving Blatt and ignoring play calls? Or the team's uneven roster? At least it appears that James is back to his old self after sitting out two weeks with knee and back injuries. He's averaging 29.2 PPG, 6.3 RPG and 6.4 APG in January as the team won 8-out-of-9. Or is that the Mozgov effect?
Dollar, dollar, bills y'all
According to an article by Forbes, the average NBA franchise is now worth a record $1,1 billion. That's a lot of cheese.
The Curious Case of Josh Smith
Forward Josh Smith, who was waived by the Detroit Pistons in December, was removed from the Rockets' starting lineup after six games. Coach Kevin McHale is having none of his knucklehead ways, and it appears that *surprise, surprise* even childhood pal and fellow goofball Dwight Howard can't set Smith straight.
The Golden State Warriors are having a terrific season, with sharpshooting point guard Stephen Curry leading the way. It of course helps that his Splash Brothers counterpart can churn out an NBA-record 37 points in a quarter, but it is Curry - the youngest player in NBA history to knock down 1,000 3-pointers - who leads the team with his scoring prowess, improved defense, and nifty passing (8.2 APG).
Fade to Black Mamba
Have we seen the last of Kobe Bryant or will he be back for a 20th go-round? A torn rotator cuff effectively ended his season this month, and with a six-month rehab awaiting him after surgery, he might very well call it quits, even with $25 million on the table next season. Then again, Bryant is a true competitor and he did come back from an Achilles injury at age 36, so writing him off would be ridiculous. He was still averaging 22.3 PPG and playing nearly 35.0 MPG out there. He can still do some damage. Nick Young is certainly willing to take over for Kobe, having a firm game plan for what the Lakers should do now: "Pretty much just give me the ball and get out of the way." His FG% is .373. Best of luck, Lakers fans!
Nick Young preparing to lead the Lakers: pic.twitter.com/qIfdYeWibB
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) January 26, 2015
Ainge the Collector
Mad genius Danny Ainge continues to be busy in January. After sending off Rondo in December, he also shipped out Jeff Green for Tayshaun Prince, Austin Rivers (since traded to the his father's Clippers), and a first-rounder in 2018. All in all, Ainge netted Jae Crowder, $11.95 million in expiring contracts (Prince, Nate Robinson, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Shavlik Randolph), three first-rounders (two in 2015, one in 2018), two second-rounders (2016, 2017), and three separate trade exceptions ($12.9 million, $5 million and $2.4 million) for Rondo and Green. Not a bad haul at all. With veterans Brandon Bass and Marcus Thornton still on the roster, he could swing even more deals before the deadline.
Knicks deal Shumpert, Smith
The Knicks are a mess. A dysfunctional, unmotivated, overpaid mess. As the team shifted gears from pretender mode to flat-out tanking, team president Phil Jackson traded Iman Shumpert and J.R. Smith to the Cavaliers in a three-team construction with Cleveland and Oklahoma City. The Knicks received Lance Thomas, Alex Kirk, Lou Amundson and a 2019 second-rounder, with Dion Waiters joining Thunder buddies Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Journeyman center Samuel Dalembert was waived in a separate move. Hang in there, embarrassed Knicks fans, these moves might very well bring you Marc Gasol or Jahlil Okafor.
Hawks soaring
The Atlanta Hawks have won 16 games in a row and are sitting comfortably atop the Eastern Conference, where they are 7 games ahead of the No. 2 Wizards with ther 37-8 record. Despite the franchise being for sale and the team lacking an obvious superstar, Jeff Teague (16.9 PPG, 7.6 APG), Paul Millsap (17.3 PPG, 8.1 RPG), Al Horford (15.3 PPG, .551 FG%), Kyle Korver (3.1 3PMPG, .534 3P%) & Co. are playing some great team ball. Coach Mike Budenholzer and his staff are slated to represent the East's All-Star coaches, but with three or four players deserving of All-Star status, it will be interesting to see if even one of them will get the nod. Update: Horford, Millsap and Teague were made reserves.
Insult to injury
You never want to see players get injured. It waters down the competition and it takes away from the overall NBA experience. Paul George, Steve Nash, Julius Randle, Anderson Varejao, Jabari Parker and Alec Burks are joined by Pistons point guard Brandon Jennings (Achilles) and Bucks guard Kendall Marshall (ACL). Trailblazers big man LaMarcus Aldridge could have been lost for 6-8 weeks following surgery on his left thumb, but he instead opted to delay it, meaning he will probably miss the start of training camp next season. Aldridge is averging 24.0 PPG and 10.2 RPG for the 32-15 Blazers, who are No. 4 in the West.
Your 2015 All-Stars
Stephen Curry, Kobe Bryant, Blake Griffin, Anthony Davis and Marc Gasol were chosen to represent the Western Conference, with Kyle Lowry, John Wall, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Pau Gasol selected as their Eastern Conference counterparts. That's right: no James Harden, no Kevin Durant, no Kyrie Irving, no DeMarcus Cousins, and no Jimmy Butler. Which caused Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to declare the ASG voting system 'broken'. Do you think coaches and general managers should vote for All-Star starters and reserves?
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AFRO & Marco Polo drop Long Time Coming
Hiphop phenom A-F-R-O and producer Marco Polo recently announced the July 15th release of their A-F-R-O Polo EP, a collaboration coming via Duck Down Music. Now you can get your first taste of the project in Long Time Coming, which you can listen to and buy below.
Pete Rock & CL Smooth Live in Long Beach
Legendary duo Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth are halfway through their 6-date All Souled Out tour. As they make their way down the West Coast, we'll be catching them this Saturday at the Gaslamp in Long Beach, CA where they'll share the bill with LA's Tre Hype.
Del The Funky Homosapien's Iller Than Most Tour
After wrapping up more than 20 shows already this year (including many with the entire Hieroglyphics crew), the Funky Homosapien adds another 13 West Coast dates with the Iller Than Most Tour featuring Richie Cunning, Pure Powers and Domino. Word has it Phesto and Izrell wil be performing songs from Guillotine Music for select dates as well.
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How they concluded he was an Indian agent!
They arrested a perfectly innocent man the other day and charged him with being an Indian agent.
Judge: How do you know he's an Indian agent? He was born in Pakistan, has lived a perfectly blameless life, and is now retired.
Police officer: Sir, the neighbors said he is always very polite and has never quareled with any of them. No Pakistani is like that. We followed him as he drove his car and found that he always observed traffic rules and always stopped whenever the traffic light was red. This further strengthened our suspicions, as we have never come across a Pakistani who strictly follows rules, whether driving or in any other activity.
Judge: That's not enough to convict him of being an enemy agent. Do you have any other evidence?
Police officer: Well, he likes to listen to old Indian film songs. We found this out when we stopped him to check his license and car papers, and we heard Indian music playing on his CD player.
Judge: Unusual, but again, there is nothing in our laws to prevent anyone from listening to Indian music. You'll have to come up with something concrete. Has he confessed?
Police officer: No, Sir, even though we tried every known mental torture technique we've been trained in. We don't want to torture him physically, as he's too old and weak to endure it.
Judge: I'm afraid I'll have to release him from custody, you just can't convict anyone on mere suspicion.
Police officer: Wait, Sir, his neighbors say he's against the building of dams in the country. He says he was an irrigation engineer and observed that there is so much wastage of water in the country that dams are not necessary, all that is required is to reduce the wastage, rather than spend so much on making dams. I believe he should be tried as an Indian agent for saying this.
Judge: you're right, this is serious, no Pakistani would ever object to the building of dams. Bring his neighbors next week as witnesses. If what the neighbors say about him objecting to building dams is true, he can be convicted.
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Tag Archives: "Generative Model"
Tag Archives: Generative Model
Enrico Sangiuliano – Biomorph
Enrico Sangiuliano has been a Drumcode favorite since his debut track “Trrbulence” with Secret Cinema on A-Sides Volume 3. He blew people away with his solo EPs, Moon Rocks and Astral Projection, which featured some of his most played tracks of all time. Now he makes his return to the label with a project unlike any seen in his career so far. The project is a concept album called Biomorph and is separated into four sections, all telling parts of a story about evolution and the process of biological and technological advancement. Every track shows a new side of Sangiuliano’s masterful production skills, while still retaining elements of the sound he is known for.
The first section is Organisms, and opens with “Functional Basic Unit of Life.” This ambient track is a slowly-building soup of synths that mix and layer together, giving the impression of bringing order to chaos.
As this piece dies down, it makes way for the thundering percussion of “Multicellular.” This track has been sought after as the opener to the back-to-back set between Adam Beyer and Cirez D earlier this year, and features a prominent sawtooth lead that contrasts with the deeper pads and synth stabs.
Finishing the Organisms section, “Generative Model” takes things in an entirely different direction, with a slower broken beat that’s vaguely industrial in nature. A consistent bass and a pulsing synth progression keep things steady while dynamic arpeggios add some more spice to the arrangement.
Cosmic Forces features two floorburners which are finely tuned to induce dancing from anyone, anywhere. The first one, “Cosmic Ratio,” uses a breakbeat-backed groove to make something melodic and energetic. Chill-inducing, lightning-like synths ensure that the track is truly unforgettable.
“Hidden T” is bound to be one of the most loved tracks on the album. Drumcode’s main man Adam Beyer has been playing it regularly, though the artist and title were unknown until the announcement of this album. It is a deep track, with a long build leading to the break, which is immediately recognizable by a repeated ascending hook. Sangiuliano’s signature percussive synth work is still present, but it takes the sidelines to give a washing pad the spotlight.
“Arboreal” opens the Metamorphosis chapter and acts as an interlude. The first minute or so is quite ambient and features a distant snare ticking like a clock. Then all at once, a distorted drum beat breaks in, bringing a feeling of unstable power. This tune contains prominent industrial and drum & bass influences, and showcases a side of Sangiuliano’s work that has rarely been heard before.
The music then progresses into “Symbiosis,” one of the most anticipated tunes on the album. This one has Sangiuliano’s very recognizable signature style, with percussion stabs and distorted synths, but he throws a curveball with a three-bar hook offset in timing from the backing drum groove. The break begins at nothing before slowly building up its flurry of synths and then launching into the harsh, resonant bass groove of the drop.
The final section is Two Probabilites, which gives a glimpse of the distant future. The first of the two is “New Dawn,” a lovely, slow-burning melodic tune, layered with otherworldly pads, perfectly painting a picture of hope and beauty.
In contrast, “EOL” ends the album with a harsh, off-kilter beat and dissonant lead. The track attempts to build in a couple of iterations before collapsing into chaos: a soup of distant vocals and cold atmospheres. Eventually, the beat returns with the sound of the universe being ripped apart, a pure industrial section that shreds and pulverizes its way through the music before coming to an abrupt end.
The digital version of the album adds one more tune, a massive driving festival track, called “A Further Existence.” This one is dark and upbeat, driven by chugging synth stabs. Emotional leads and phenomenal subtle details make the track an unstoppable vessel of kinetic energy.
The “Biomorph” album is out now on Drumcode.
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How The Smithsonian Screwed Up Its Video Game Exhibition
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Video game tech adapted for real world driving
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Art of Video Games On Display
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UK's main video game shop goes into administration
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Development director Tommy Francois revealed that its method of performance capture, which tracks actors' motion, facial movements and voice over all at once, is a "first in video games". "What we're hoping to get from that is to deliver cutscenes ...
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Video Games May Always Be A Male-Centric Hobby
Those stats typically include anything that can be called a "video game," including apps, Solitaire on the computer, etc. If you hang around your local GameStop for an hour and count up the customers, you'll find that the ratio of men to women is still ...
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The video game release highlights for the week of March 26, 2012 on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation Vita, Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, 3DS, and PC/Mac include Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, Ridge Racer Unbounded, Capcom Digital Collection, ...
Opinion: Changing the Video Game Business
By Adam Alexander This week I'm not going to talk about a particular game. I'd like to venture into something a bit more broad and important. I'd like to talk about games which made me marvel at the direction the industry is headed.
Administrators at troubled British video games retailer Game have decided to ...
Administrators announced the closure of 277 stores across Britain and Ireland triggering 2104 job losses. The group employs some 145 people in Northern Ireland and almost 130 in the Republic. PwC said 277 stores in the UK and Ireland are to shut but ...
Game over? 6000 jobs at risk as video game retailer goes into administration
Almost half the stores run by collapsed retailer Game are to be closed this week, administrators said today. The closures will trigger 2104 job losses at the Game Group, which has 609 stores under the names Game and Gamestation.
Great Moments in Video Game Humor: Fallout Talks to You Like You're Stupid
Since the early days of the RPG, role-playing video games have allowed players to sacrifice intelligence points to further some more important statistic. Fallout is one of the only ones that treats you like the moron you've made.
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Gwent video game stores at risk as firm goes into administration
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THE future of five video game stores in Gwent hangs in the balance after their parent company went into administration today. Game Group, which operates the Gamestation and Game chains of stores, operates 609 stores throughout Britain including two ...
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Little Orbit revealed today that they will be bringing bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series Mistborn to games late next year for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from ...
Video game store goes into administration
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VIDEO game store, Game and Gamestation, have today gone into administration, with 277 stores closed down with immediate effect. Mike Jervis and Stuart Maddison of PwC have been appointed joint administrators and are currently liaising with a number of ...
Music from Zelda video game series becomes concert symphony
A Video Game Symphony series, Symphony of the Goddesses took several pieces from the Zelda score and took their popularity to the next level. "I wanted to take the Zelda story and make it like a film score," said Symphony of the Goddessses arranger and ...
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Even if you don't give a shit about video games, you're probably aware that two of the most popular games of the past year were Skyrim and Minecraft, because anyone who plays either of them won't shut up about it. And while these two ...
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SICCI delivers business training in Auki
Twelve (12) participants underwent the ‘Bookkeeping and Basic Accounting’ training hosted by SICCI as part of its efforts to help build and improve the capacity of businesses in the provinces.
Business owners and representatives of small businesses in Auki, Malaita Province successfully completed a four-day business training that was conducted from 25-28 June 2019.
This training was part of the continuous efforts by the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) to build and improve the capacity and ability of small businesses to not only survive, but also to grow their business, fulfilling their potential to contribute to the country’s economy.
Twelve (12) participants underwent the ‘Bookkeeping and Basic Accounting’ training.
This was the second provincial business training SICCI delivered this year. A similar training was delivered to small businesses in Gizo, Western Province last month in May.
“The training is very useful as it is tailored to suit businesses in the provinces,” Solomon Alufoo’oa from Legacy Press, said.
Legacy Press is a SICCI member based in Auki and according to Mr Alufoo’oa, they have been using MYOB and this training has helped him understand the basics of accounting and bookkeeping.
Mr Alufoo’oa is now looking forward to train his staff after successfully completing the training.
Owner of DST Travellers Lodge in Auki, Philip Solodia meanwhile thanked SICCI for bringing such important business trainings to the provinces.
He said the training has really helped participants to understand how to manage their businesses better, by keeping accurate and updated business records and improving bookkeeping management.
“Now some of us understand the importance of business management,” Mr Solodia said.
SICCI is implementing training for its province-based members, trialling a partnership with Solomon Islands Small Business Enterprise Centre (SISBEC) to deliver this Bookkeeping and Basic Accounting training.
SISBEC Manager, Mr Ben Nginabule said the training outcome is to help business operators to improve their financial record keeping so that they can have reliable financial reports to help them in managing their businesses effectively.
“This is a powerful tool as it can also help in growing their operations or expanding their business, as sound financial records are a prerequisite for financing by say, commercial banks,” Mr Nginabule said.
SICCI Membership and Services Officer, Naomi Mara says as the peak organization representing private sector, the Chamber aims to extend its reach to the provinces in order to better represent the Solomon Islands private sector.
“It is important for SICCI to support and provide an avenue for rural-based entrepreneurs to have access to trainings which will enable their businesses to grow.
“Not only that, but to also be plugged into the Chamber network and work out from the different services and support we have going on for our members, which ones will add value to their operations,” she said.
Ultimately this meets the Chamber goal of contributing to economic development across the country, and not just in Honiara.
“This approach of taking value-add services to them, is because businesses in the provinces often lack access to business networks and support systems as compared to businesses in Honiara,” Ms Mara said.
Ms Mara, who travels to the provinces to organize these trainings, said the topic ‘Bookkeeping and Basic Accounting’ was recommended by businesses following similar provincial trips conducted by SICCI last year 2018.
SICCI will be conducting two more provincial visits this year to Kirakira, Makira/Ulawa Province and to Munda and Noro in the Western province in July and early August.
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STRAIGHT OUTTA PORTLAND
As both a love letter to its home and an effort to highlight the city's diverse and exciting art scene, Stephanie Chefas Projects is delighted to announce the gallery's first exhibit of 2016 entitled STRAIGHT OUTTA PORTLAND. A haven for creativity, Portland boasts a unique artistic vibe that exudes it's own special brand of weirdness and retains an eclectic and often care-free spirit of exploration. This movable feast of ingenuity attracts exceptional talents who duly immerse themselves in the city's landscape. STRAIGHT OUTTA PORTLAND focuses on 17 local artists with a distinct voice nurtured by a purity of unfettered expression that remains cherished in the Pacific Northwest.
Exhibition Dates: February 5th - 29th, 2016
For inquiries, please contact info@stephaniechefas.com
Featuring: Ryan Bubnis, Stephanie Buer, Zach Erickson, Blaine Fontana, Adam Friedman, Peter Gronquist, Yellena James, Susannah Kelly, Brin Levinson, Jen Lobo, Mako Miyamoto, Jeremy Nichols, Jeff P., Neil M. Perry, David Rice, Souther Salazar, Ayumi Takahasi
The opening reception for STRAIGHT OUTTA PORTLAND will be held at Stephanie Chefas Projects on Friday, February 5th, 2016 from 6-9pm. Participating artists will be in attendance at the reception. The exhibition will be on display through February 29th, 2016 and is free and open to the public.
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Ilisu Dam: Downstream Water Impacts and Iraq
Report of Fact Finding Mission to Iraq, 29 March 2007
The Corner House and Kurdish Human Rights Project
In March 2007, the export credit agencies (ECAs) of Austria, Germany and Switzerland approved financial guarantees for the proposed Ilisu Dam on the River Tigris in the Kurdish region of Southeast Turkey. They stated that Turkey had provided the two downstream countries, Syria and Iraq, with the information these countries had sought about the Dam, and that Iraq had agreed to the project. Neither claim is true, according to Iraq's Minister of Water. By approving funding before Iraq and Syria had been consulted, the ECAs could be in violation of international law.
Ilisu Downstream Impacts
Downstream Impacts of Turkish Dam Construction on Syria and Iraq
Joint Report of Fact-Finding Mission to Syria and Iraq
Kurdish Human Rights Project, Ilisu Dam Campaign, The Corner House
In 2001, a delegation from three UK NGOs went to Syria and Iraq to conduct research and interviews on the potential downstream impacts of the proposed Ilisu Dam, scheduled for construction in southeast Turkey. The Fact-Finding Mission concluded that the Dam (and the wider GAP project of more dams and power plants) poses a real threat to future water supplies in Syria and Iraq. It urges the international community to press Turkey to halt further GAP projects until an agreement has been reached with Syria and Iraq that secures sustainable development of the Euphrates and Tigris.
Iraq and Syria impacts
Review of EIAR for the Ilisu Dam and HEPP (HydroElectric Projects)
The Corner House, Ilisu Dam Campaign, Kurdish Human Rights Project, Friends of the Earth, Berne Declaration, Campaign An Eye on SACE, Pacific Environment, World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED)
This Review evaluates the extent to which the Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Resettlement Action Plan for the Ilisu Dam and related hydroelectric projects demonstrate compliance with international guidelines, legal obligations and export credit agency conditions on resettlement of those who would have to move because of the Dam.
A Review of the Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of the Proposed Ilisu Dam
Philip Williams & Associates
Before granting export credits to the companies that want to build the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris river in Southeast Turkey, the governments of several European countries and the USA required a full consideration of the environmental consequences of constructing and operating the dam. This review examines the environmental impact assessment’s analysis of the dam’s downstream impacts, and concludes that, if built, the Ilisu dam could cause major disruptions to water flow to Syria and Iraq, the two countries that share the Tigris with Turkey.
Ilisu EIA analysis
Balfour Beatty: Counter-Report 2000
2000 Balfour Beatty annus horribilis
The Ilisu Dam Campaign
This report raises concerns over Balfour Beatty's management of major "reputational risks" that could severely damage the company's standing. It includes a motion tabled at the annual shareholders’ meeting questioning the company’s involvement in the proposed Ilisu Dam and urging Balfour Beatty to adopt the guidelines of the World Commission on Dams.
balfour beatty's annus horribilis
The Ilisu Dam, the World Commission on Dams and Export Credit Reform
The Final Report of a Fact-Finding Mission to the Ilisu Dam Region
Ilisu Dam Campaign; the Kurdish Human Rights Project; The Corner House; World Economy, Ecology and Development; Eye on SACE Campaign and Pacific Environment Research Center
The companies that want to build the controversial Ilisu Dam on the River Tigris in the Kurdish region of Southeast Turkey have sought financial backing from the export credit agencies (ECAs) of their countries. In January 1999, the ECAs attached four conditions to be met before they would issue export credits. During 9-16 October 2000, an international Fact Finding Mission of Non-Governmental Organisations from the UK, USA, Germany and Italy went to the region of the proposed dam to assess the Turkish government's progress meeting the four conditions.
The Ilisu Dam: A Human Rights Disaster in the Making
Kurdish Human Rights Project
A report based on a five-day NGO fact finding mission in September 1999 to areas potentially affected by the proposed Ilisu Dam, documents a wide range of human rights and environmental concerns.
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Yanks Go Two Games Over .500 For First Time Since Early April, Shut Out O's, 5-0
On another beautiful night in the Bronx, the Yankees shut out the Baltimore Orioles in game three of the four games set. Michael Pineda started for New York tonight and pitched his way in and out of trouble in his six innings of shutout work, improving to 4-9 and actually lowering his ERA to 5.25. For Baltimore, Yovanni Gallardo fell to 3-2 while raising his ERA to 5.69 as he got knocked around the ballpark all night long while watching his offense get shut down for a third consecutive night by the Yankee pitching staff.
Miraculously, tonight the Yankees snapped a franchise record of futility; 23-game streak without scoring in the first inning. Brett Gardner led off the first with a triple and scored when Carlos Beltran hit a sacrifice fly to center with one out, giving New York a 1-0 lead. It was the first time that the Yanks have touched home plate in the first inning since June 21st when Alex Rodriguez grounded into a double play that scored a run in Colorado.
Mark Teixeira extended the Yankee lead to two in the bottom of the fourth when he belted his eighth homerun of the year, a line drive solo shot to right field that left the ballpark in about two seconds. The long ball was an especially crucial run considering Pineda just got out of a one-out bases-loaded jam in the top of the frame, needing 81 pitches in total to get through the first four innings.
The Bombers continued their offensive on slot in the bottom of the sixth in support of Pineda's outstanding outing. Jacoby Elsberry let off the frame with a single and advanced to second when the All-Star slugger Carlos Beltran surprised everyone in the ballpark when he laid a bunt down to beat the shift for a base hit. McCann walked to load the bases and then Gallardo walk Teixeira to force in a run, extending the Yankee lead to three. In the bottom of the seventh, Gardner hit a sacrifice fly to center that scored Torreyes, who had tripled off Gallardo with one out, making it 4-0 Yanks.
Carlos Beltran stayed hot as he went on to launch his 20th bonb of the season in the bottom of the eighth against Oriole reliever Chaz Roe that extended the Yankees lead to 5-0.
Pineda was outstanding tonight, pitching six innings of shutout baseball, allowing just five hits while walking two and striking out eight. Delin Betances, Nick Goody and Chasen Shreve combined to throw three perfect innings as they completed the shout out and extended their winning streak to four.
C.C. Sabathia will get the chance to complete the four-game sweep tomorrow afternoon in the final game of the series, with first pitch scheduled for 1:07 PM/EST.
Game Thread: New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles 7/20
The New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles will continue their four-game set tonight in the Bronx with the third game of the series. The pitching has been good and the hitting has been timely but if history is any indicator of the future we could see both teams putting up some serious offense tonight. The Yankees will send Michael Pineda, more like Michael Piñata lately, to the mound for tonight’s contest against Yovani Gallardo, who in my opinion has always been vastly overrated. The game will be played at 7:05 pm ET inside Yankee Stadium and can be seen locally on the YES Network and anywhere you are on MLB TV.
The Yankees are set to play one more with Baltimore before welcoming the 2016 World Series champions, because it’s an even year and all, to town in the San Francisco Giants and to see any of these games live in the Bronx click the Yankees Tickets link at the top of the blog. Also be sure to click the TGP T-Shirts link as well to get a cool Jacoby Ellsbury milk carton shirt for stealing home plate not once but twice this season. It’s really cool!
Follow along during this game and every game this season either on Twitter by following @GreedyStripes or on Facebook. We may be broken and a little distraught and down and out but we will never give up on our team and you shouldn’t either. Go Yankees!
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The Korean Baseball Organization Holds a “Bunt Derby”
Okay so without ranting and raving too much about the All-Star Game, the fact that it “counts” now and dictates which team will have home-field advantage in the World Series and the subsequent popularity fan vote that comes attached to that I think the Korean Baseball Organization could have something that could help spice up All-Star Game week in Major League Baseball. A bunt derby.
Yes you read that correctly, a bunt derby. The NBA has a skills competition and such before the three point shootout and the dunk contest, why not a bunt derby in MLB? Watching Giancarlo Stanton hit 61 home runs out of Petco Park was awesome but watching someone try to lay down a bunt on a scoring field that is designed like a dartboard sounds enticing as well. It would take a bit of skill and precision, not that hitting home runs doesn’t, and I think this is an idea MLB should look into. I think the fans would love it personally.
Even if just for a year or two to try it out. I’ve always wanted a skills competition added to MLB All-Star week. See who could run the bases the quickest. See who could call their shots and try to hit targets in the outfield or over the fence for points. See who could throw the ball from the outfield into a barrel at home plate, fun stuff like that. A bunt derby though, I never thought of that one. Good call KBO, good call.
Labels: All Star Break, All Star Game, Bunt Derby, Commissioner Rob Manfred, Giancarlo Stanton, Home Run Derby, Korean Baseball Organization, Major League Baseball, MLB Skills Competition, NBA, New York Yankees
Former Yankee Roger Clemens, Others, Return to Baseball!
Sort of. There are a few former Major League Baseball players returning to the baseball diamond for a game or two next month including former Yankees star Roger Clemens. Former MLB player, most recently of the Chicago White Sox, Adam LaRoche has assembled a team of former MLB players he has named the Kansas Stars to take place in the National baseball Congress World Series. Basically during this event a few college teams will get to go head-to-head against players they undoubtedly watched and idolized growing up as a kid. How cool is this? I’m going super nerd fan right now, I know, but this is an awesome gesture and I can’t wait to watch.
Here is the roster via the Wichita Eagle:
Chipper Jones, infielder
Roger Clemens, pitcher
Tim Hudson, pitcher
J.D. Drew, outfielder
Dan Uggla, infielder
Roy Oswalt, pitcher
Adam LaRoche, infielder
Rick Ankiel, outfielder
Brad Penny, pitcher
Ben Sheets, pitcher
Josh Beckett, pitcher
Brandon Inge, infielder
Jack Wilson, infielder
Nate Robertson, pitcher
Brett Tomko, pitcher
Jayson Nix, infielder
Laynce Nix, outfielder
Jason Isringhausen, pitcher
Carl Everett, outfielder
Ryan Langerhans, outfielder
Pete Orr, infielder
Koby Clemens, infielder-outfielder
Justin Germano, pitcher
Koyie Hill, catcher
Barry Wesson, outfielder
Ryan Kohlmeier, pitcher
The game will be played on August 6th in Wichita, Kansas. I’m sure it will be televised somewhere but I don’t have where just yet. Stay tuned.
Bolded players denote former Yankees.
Labels: Ben Sheets, Carl Everett, Chipper Jones, Dan Uggla, former yankees update, Jayson Nix, JD Drew, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, Rick Ankiel, Roger Clemens, Roy Oswalt, Tim Hudson
A New Plan, And A New Dream
I just can't bring myself to believe the Yankees will have anything close to resembling a fire sale. Mind you, team management is not the same as it once was, but this team has never given up on a season.
And don't talk to me about 1989, either. Rickey Henderson was having his worst offensive season since his rookie year in 1979, and wouldn't have another season that bad until 1994 (to be fair, he did finish the season very strong with Oakland). Furthermore, the Yankees received Luis Polonia in the trade to fill in for Henderson, and Luis actually hit better for the Yankees than Rickey had.
If you squint really hard, and ignore the signature, he kind of looks like Rickey Henderson.
This doesn't mean that I think the trade deadline will come and go without the Yankees doing anything. The possibility of the Yankees trading Aroldis Chapman are stronger than ever. Even if this team has playoff aspirations, you don't need the vision of a hawk to see that upgrades need to be made.
And at least in my mind, the Yankees' biggest area of concern is the starting rotation.
Yes, the offense has problems. Their 388 runs scored is 4th worst in the American League. However, there isn't a clear spot on offense that they could improve on outside of the designated hitter. That is, if you see Alex Rodriguez getting a decent amount of plate appearances from that position.
Second Baseman Starlin Castro has allegedly figured something out thanks to the help of Carlos Beltran. Since May 1st third baseman Chase Headley has actually been a solid hitter, slashing .279/.344/.455. Despite a rough July so far (.200/.275/.257), Rob Refsnyder had a very good June (.296/.371/.370) and could handle first base for the rest of the season.
So what is it about the starting rotation that bothers me? Well, it's mostly about the future, since the current roster has zero starters signed past 2017 (Masahiro Tanaka could opt-out of his contract after next season). Yeah, the team has a nice prospect in James Kaprielian, but it's kind of hard right now to pencil him into the starting rotation. Then there's another possible rotation filler in Luis Severino, but he's had some trouble so far, making his future at least questionable.
As for what's happening with the rotation this season, the Yankees' starting rotation has some real problems...
CC Sabathia has been getting shelled lately, giving up 25 earned runs over his past five starts. I don't think there's a person on this planet that would use the word "confidence" when speaking of Michael Pineda. Nathan Eovaldi got rocked in all five of his June starts (0-3, with an ERA of 8.65), and hopefully he figured something out while spending time in the bullpen (he had a good start last night against Baltimore, going 5.1 innings while giving up just one run on four hits). And Ivan Nova had just two quality starts in his last ten games.
So here we are, 12 days from the trade deadline. So what do the Yankees do now?
Hop into one of these and either go back 7 years, or go forward 3?
First of all, we must realize that the Yankees can't get MLB players in exchange for Aroldis Chapman. Aroldis is a rental, so any team acquiring him would do so to win this year. Therefore they aren't going to trade away a good MLB player. That would be counter-productive. So the Yankees should look to get a top prospect for Chapman, with some other good prospects thrown in there.
I can see the Yankees trading Chapman to the Washington Nationals for Lucas Giolito. While Giolito was called up to Washington not long ago, he was recently sent down to AAA. That move shows me that the Nats do not plan on Lucas being in their rotation this season. At least not regularly.
Lucas Giolito is only 21 years old, and had a strikeout rate of 9.7 per 9 innings in the minors. In his debut against the Mets on June 28th, Lucas gave up just one hit over four innings. He did get roughed up nine days later against the same Mets team, though. But that doesn't change the fact that he was #4 on Baseball America's Top 100 Midseason Prospect list.
Yeah... #4 out of all baseball prospects. That might mean the Yankees would have to part with Andrew Miller instead of Chapman. If that's the case, then I might be for it, as long as the team can re-sign Chapman to team with Dellin Betances in the bullpen for a few more years. But for right now, I'm going to dream that Aroldis gets it done.
The Yankees could plug Giolito straight into their rotation. But one thing to keep in mind... Giolito's never thrown more than 117 innings in a season, and if he were to start every five days from now on he could be looking at throwing around 170. Is that too much? Would the Yankees have to push back a few starts? The old school thought is "yes", however I personally don't believe in being that careful with simple inning counts.
Now, since the Yankees are getting a top prospect and a couple of good ones for dealing Chapman, they can deal away some of their prospects to get a starter. This is where Daniel's sell and buy idea comes into play.
The Atlanta Braves have some catching issues, and they go far beyond the fact that their current starting catcher, Tyler Flowers, is currently on the disabled list.
Flowers is only signed through next season, and I doubt any Braves fan is excited about him anyway. His OPS+ this season is actually more than a hundred points higher than during his previous three seasons (108 vs. 83).
The Braves won't be getting any catching help from the minors, either. Their top catching prospect, Lucas Herbert, is actually only ranked 18th in their farm system. Besides, even if Herbert were higher he won't be in the Majors for a few more years, as he's still playing in single-A ball.
So I'm positive Atlanta would be very interested in an upgrade there, especially one that would be under team control for six years.
If you've been paying attention to trade rumors, then you'll know that Julio Teheran's name has come up quite often. Julio's current ERA of 2.79 is lower than it's ever been in MLB, but it's not like that number comes out of nowhere.
Last season Teheran's ERA was 4.04, while it was 2.89 in 2014, and 3.20 in 2013. What's better is that he's made 115 starts since 2013, throwing over 200 in both 2014 and 2015, showing some very nice durability.
"'Durable'. Unlike every part of my entire body."
Oh, and I should mention that Julio is just 25 years old, and signed for the next three years at just $25.3 million. When you take into account that JA Happ is 33, was a below average pitcher in the 5 seasons leading up to last year's offseason, yet got a three year contract worth $36 million, you'll see that Teheran is quite the bargain.
So here's my awful trade prosposal...
The Yankees trade Gary Sanchez, Michael Pineda, Luis Cessa, and Jake Cave to the Braves for Julio Teheran. I've read that the Braves are only interested in getting MLB players in return, as opposed to another crop of prospects. That makes sense, as any team should look to get MLB players when dealing away any player from their active roster. Thankfully, all but Cave have MLB experience, which could very well fit into what Atlanta would like.
In the end the Yankees would get two good starters in Lucas Giolito and Julio Teheran, improving their chances of having a good enough second half to make the playoffs, and they do so without doing much harm to their farm system. At the same time they're helping their future by having Giolito and Teheran under team control for three to four more years.
I would like to see the Yankees then promote one of Ben Gamel or Aaron Judge to handle right field duty regularly, while Carlos Beltran becomes the regular designated hitter. That would leave this team...
C - Brian McCann
1B - Rob Refsnyder
2B - Starlin Castro
SS - Didi Gregorius
3B - Chase Headley
LF - Brett Gardner
CF - Jacoby Ellsbury
RF - Ben Gamel/Aaron Judge
DH - Carlos Beltran
SP - CC Sabathia
SP - Masahiro Tanaka
SP - Nathan Eovaldi note: if he can cut down on home runs, he can still be a nice starter
SP - Julio Teheran
SP - Lucas Giolito
RP - Andrew Miller
RP - Dellin Betances
Is that a World Series contender? I don't think so. But those trades appease the fans by getting something good to great for the future, while appeasing team management by not giving up on this season.
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Game Preview: New York Yankees vs. Baltimore Orioles 7/20
The New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles are preparing for Game Three in the Bronx and this is another big game for both clubs. New York is looking to “declare” themselves as GM Brian Cashman stated while Baltimore has the Boston Red Sox nipping at their heels in the American League East. Both teams need a victory and Buck Showalter will rage if it’s not his club which gives me extra incentive to want to win. I’m spiteful but so is he so I digress. In the contest tonight the Yankees will send Michael Pineda to the mound looking to be Big Mike while the Orioles counter with their ace Yovani Gallardo.
Pineda seems to be resorting back to his old ways and that is not getting enough attention in Yankee-Land. Pineda has allowed five earned runs in each of his last two starts for the Bombers but will remain in the rotation because, according to Joe Girardi, “there are no other options to take his spot.” Yes Girardi see’s you Sevy. Please put your hand down.
Gallardo has not been able to go deep into games this season which is a disturbing trend for Buck and the Orioles. Gallardo went just five innings in his last start after throwing 30 pitches in the first inning of the start and has put a definite strain on a strong Orioles bullpen.
The game will be played at 7:05 pm ET inside Yankee Stadium and can be seen on the YES Network and MLB TV. I know this was a couple days ago and I know that I say this a lot but seriously, Buck needs to let it go. The Yankees are set to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of their 1996 World Series victory next month, a World Series victory that Showalter was fired before and could not see. TWENTY YEAR anniversary Buck. Quit hating the Yankees, quit aligning your pitchers a certain way just to mess with us. Quit having Kevin Gausman throw at Alex Rodriguez’s head after he hit a monster and eventual game-winning home run off your boy. Get over it and get over yourself dude.
Hey Buck….. Go Yankees!
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Luis Torrens and a Cautionary Tale for Greg Bird to Follow
The New York Yankees were stunned to find out during spring training this season that Greg Bird would miss the entire 2016 campaign with a torn labrum in his shoulder. Many thought the future was now for both the Yankees and for Bird as Mark Teixeira strolled into what could be his final season in the Bronx but the injury brings up more questions now than anyone has answers for. How will Bird’s shoulder react to playing first base? Can he once again drive the ball for power at the Major League level? Will he be ready in spring training 2017 or will the Yankees have to find a one-year stop gap to give Bird ample recovery time? Again more questions than answers but the Yankees have a cautionary tale for Bird to follow in fellow prospect and catcher, Luis Torrens.
Torrens missed the entire 2015 season with a similar torn labrum in his shoulder and has made his comeback to professional baseball this year. Torrens had the luxury of being assigned to short-season Staten Island in the New York-Penn League so he had a little more recovery and rehab time but he doesn’t look like he has needed it much. Torrens hit .311 and had a .360 on base percentage with the Staten Island Yankees before earning the promotion back to Charleston with the Riverdogs where, albeit in a small sample size, he has gotten even better.
This is both an encouraging sign for the Yankees as Torrens was once thought of as a better prospect and catcher than Gary Sanchez and for Bird who has a recent example to model his rehab and such by. Torrens seems better than ever and there is no reason, assuming all the stars align, that Bird can’t be either. It’s a cautionary tale though as Torrens has been back in Charleston for basically a week and back playing professional baseball for a couple a months now since the surgery.
It is worth mentioning that Torrens, while it may not seem like much to most, has to throw the ball back to the pitcher a good 150-200 times a day including warm up pitches, actual in-game pitches, bullpen sessions etc. Torrens also has to hit where Bird may really throw the ball maybe 50-100 times in a game and rarely at full strength. Torrens had a similar surgery and is holding up with all the extra wear-and-tear and you have to think Bird will be fine too. Every body is different, every injury is different and every surgery is different but Bird is young, athletic and he’s already working out and rehabbing the shoulder so he should be just fine in 2017. Fingers crossed.
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Weekly Prospects Check In: Hoy Jun Park
Photo courtesy of our friends at PinstripedProspects.com
You know all these injuries that keep racking up for the Yankees is really making this whole weekly prospects check in tough on me. Well you know the more I think about it maybe it’s a blessing in disguise because we’ve gotten to check in with many prospects that some may not have heard of or some prospects we may not have gotten to under normal circumstances. For example, today’s weekly prospect check in with Hoy Jun Park.
Park was part of that international haul the Yankees got a couple seasons back that cost the team $30 million plus with penalties and Park was not one of the names many salivated over with in the weeks leading up to the opening of the signing period. Despite the lack of hype Park has been solid since signing with New York and really opened some eyes up last year in Pulaski.
Let’s catch up with Park and see what he has been up to lately:
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Hey Buck Showalter! Look Over Here!
Look who has more rings as a member of the Yankees than you. You mad?
Labels: Alex Rodriguez, Baltimore Orioles, Buck Showalter, George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees, Playoffs, Postseason, Rant, World Series, Yankees Manager, You Mad?, You’re Fired!
This Day In New York Yankees History 7/20: Don Mattingly Puts Out
On this day in 1987 Yankees first basemen Don Mattingly tied a major league mark when he was credited with 22 put outs in one game.
Also on this day in 1965 Yankees pitcher Mel Stottlemyer hit an inside the park grand slam against the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees would win this game 6-3.
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Muckraker: The morons at our borders
April 3, 2018 The Post 1083 Views
IT is never Muckraker’s hobby to fume on behalf of anyone but what recently happened to the King at the border pushed her over the edge.
The story is that some overzealous officials on the South African side rummaged through the King’s car as if they were searching a Golf Velocity owned by a notorious thief.
What they were looking for we will never know.
It is however clear that they knew they were poking their calloused paws into a King’s car.
In so doing they were violating an age-old immigration rule that those with diplomatic passports should not be searched or delayed at the border without justifiable cause.
The search was not routine because it lasted more than an hour, according to some reports.
So the officials were not just searching but turning the car up-side-down.
They probably frisked the king himself and frisked around him.
The ‘frisk’ refers to a body-search which the other means to leap or skip playfully.
You cannot put both past the South African police.
They are brazen when they want to humiliate you and excitable when they think they have you in a tight corner.
It is possible that they went through his bags.
As can be expected, our government has bitterly complained to the South African government. Foreign Affairs Minister Lindiwe Sisulu says she has apologised to her counterpart Lesego Makgothi. She plans to travel to Lesotho to ‘personally” ‘apologise’ to the King.
Muckraker wonders what sister Sisulu will say when she meets the king. She cannot possibly say the officers at the border did not know the rules that apply to a diplomat.
She will be a certified fool if she tries to say that the officials did not know that they were dealing with the King of Lesotho. He is one of the most recognisable faces in Southern Africa, holds a diplomatic passport and his cars are clearly marked.
His drivers and aides might have also whispered to the naughty officers that they were harassing a Head of State.
Either way you look at it Sister Sisulu will not have even straws to clutch on when she comes to Lesotho.
Even if the king, in his usual good nature, accepts the apology there is no way Sisulu can wash away the suspicion that his was a deliberate act to embarrass the king.
It is also not outlandish to assume that after accepting the apology the King can still ask Sisulu other pointed questions at the border.
It is scandalous that Sisulu is now galloping to Lesotho, tail between her yellow bone legs, simply because the border fiasco has now stung the King.
Surely the King knows what happened to him is precisely what has been happening to his people for the past eight months. Because of his renowned humility he probably knows that he is somewhat lucky to have spent a few hours at the border because his people are spending days in a queue.
We are dealing here with a South African government that has a barefaced contempt for other countries, even those like Lesotho that supply water to keep its industrial hub running.
Sisulu is a pathetic soul to think that only His Majesty deserves an apology.
Thousands of Basotho have been subjected to hellish treatment by those matric-less immigration officers who behave as if there is something sophisticated about scanning a passport.
Muckraker once spent half a day at the border as the immigration officials fiddled with their phones, admired themselves in the mirrors and took inordinate bathroom breaks.
One kept licking her fingers after dipping them in a packet full of chips. Why such a bulky woman insisted on stuffing her rotund cheeks with greasy things, Muckraker is yet to know.
What is infuriating is that no one has bothered to explain the delays at the border.
We know its effects but the answer to what causes it is as elusive as professionalism at the border.
Pretoria has proffered some dippy explanation about the new system and the lack of adequate personnel at the border. Those problems can be surmounted by simple solutions. Those who have been to other countries will tell you that the biometric system makes things faster, not slow.
Technology, by its nature, is supposed to increase production by making the system both efficient and faster.
Why the new technology at the border has made things much slower is mindboggling. Before the system it used to take 90 seconds to process a passport but now with the new system it takes nearly ten minutes to achieve the same.
Remember this is the same system used in other countries. The only logical conclusion is that either the immigration officials don’t know how to use the system or someone higher up the hierarchy has tinkered with the system to make it slower. Both are possibilities.
An average South Africa immigration officer is a dunderhead who barely managed three Cs in Matric.
Combine that low acumen with arrogance and contempt for other nationals, and you will see why the system has made things worse instead of better.
It is possible that someone has fiddled with the system to make it slower because despite its pretence at being a welcoming country South Africa doesn’t like poor Africans within its borders.
It is fine with corrupt Guptas. Send it fugitives and it will embrace them. But it frowns when it sees poor Africans crossing its borders.
Time and again we have been told that the biometric system is meant to curb cross-border crimes. The idea being that the system will weed out criminals and terrorists.
Yet, as we know already, Lesotho is not known to supply such malcontents to South Africa. And even if it has those in abundance it will be doubly naïve of South Africans to think they would use proper borders to enter the country. But it is understandable that South Africans would think that criminals are stupid.
After all they just had a pathetic and dimwit of a thief by the name of Zuma.
They therefore measure every criminal according to Zuma’s pitiable standard.
The criminals Lesotho will never disown are those who sell matekoane to South Africa. Most of those don’t use the proper borders to move their contraband.
And even if they use the right borders it’s not as if South Africans are really frightened about having truckloads of matekoane in their country.
Lesotho’s matekoane is probably what keeps South Africans from going berserk.
The officers at the border smoke Lesotho’s matekoane using long pipes. That is why some of them had the temerity to search the King’s car for hours.
Only an official intoxicated with the potent Mapoteng grade would behave as such.
South African ministers are always high on our matekoane. That is why it has taken them over a month to apologise to the king.
Muckraker knows that Sisulu only reacted after the Lesotho government wrote a second letter of complaint. Sisulu is behaving as if she has discovered this matter for the first time yet the president’s office has two letters from Lesotho complaining about the issue. Muckraker is not saying Sisulu is high but she indeed exhibits some symptoms of insobriety.
It might be that she caught a whiff of matekoane. All the same Muckraker hopes she would have regained control of her faculties when she meets the King.
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LDF, Red Skins set for showdown
October 12, 2018 The Post 485 Views
MASERU – The Lesotho volleyball heavyweights Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) and Red Skins are set for a showdown at the end of this month in the final of the third Lesotho Volleyball Association (LVA) tournament.
The LVA has divided the league campaign into four mini-tournaments that are played over the course of the year with the winner determined at the end of the fourth tournament.
The first two mini tournaments are done and dusted already and the points for all teams have been allocated. The final of the third tournament will be held in Hlotse, Leribe.
Red Skins was in the Pool A which they dominated by thrashing Mahlaseli 3-0 in the first game before overpowering Rovers and Limkokwing University by the same margin in their final group games.
Red Skins then cruised through the semi-finals by brushing Green Spikes aside without losing a single set.
LDF, on the other hand, beat Mazenod, Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) and Green Spikes in their group, though they did drop sets against LMPS and Green Spikes as they won both games 3-1.
However, LDF comfortably they saw off Mahlaseli in the semi-finals to set up a date with Red Skins.
The third tournament’s fifth and sixth placed teams will be determined by the result between LMPS and Rovers while Green Spikes and Mahlaseli will fight it out in the third and fourth play-off.
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#NewRelease with #Giveaway Why I Left You by Colette Davison @Colette_Davison @agarcia6510
Title: Why I Left You
Author: Colette Davison
Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance
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Editor: Carol Davis and Charlotte L.R. Kane
Publisher: Smudged Ink Press
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Blurb: Brett has fooled himself into thinking he’s happy in his dead-end job. His idea of commitment is a string of quick hook-ups, which never last a whole night.
Jamie left home to prove he could cope alone, without the suffocating support of his parents. But instead of finding freedom, he’s struggling with university, money, and depression.
Drawn together by an undeniable spark, their relationship won’t survive the present, unless they can come to terms with the past.
Colette’s personal love story began at university, where she met her future husband. An evening of flirting, in the shadow of Lancaster castle, eventually led to a fairytale wedding. She’s enjoying her own ‘happy ever after’ in the north of England with her husband, two beautiful children and her writing.
Colette is currently working on her second novel, 'Why I Need You', which picks up Fin's story.
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Holy shit. Jamie was kissing him. Brett’s head told him to back off and walk away, but his body remembered those lips and how much he’d once enjoyed having them pressed against his own. His body wanted to lean into the kiss and respond with four years’ worth of regret. For a few precious moments, he let himself give in to desire. His heart hammered against his ribs, desperate to escape his body and reclaim what it had lost. His fingers tingled as he wrapped an arm around Jamie’s shoulders and held him tightly, his thumb making small circles on Jamie’s shirt.
Then his brain kicked into gear again. What the fuck was he doing? This was the guy who had ripped his heart out in the worst possible way. Besides, Jamie was clearly at least half-gone. What they were doing was a mistake at best.
He pulled away, breathing heavily as he stared at Jamie, whose pupils were blown wide.
“You’re drunk,” Brett said in the most matter-of-fact tone he could manage.
Jamie curled his upper lip and turned away, shaking his head. It was dumb for Brett to follow him, but he did it anyway. They’d been best friends long before they’d realised they were attracted to each other. Brett had always looked out for Jamie, back when they’d lived next door to each other. Those instincts kicked in.
“Let me walk you home.”
Jamie stopped and rounded on him, fists clenched, teeth gritted. “Don’t pretend you give a shit.”
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B.C. judge upholds ruling against Kelowna nightclub that allowed gang clothing inside
Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun 02.18.2013
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld a liquor branch ruling that a Kelowna nightclub violated its licence by allowing a patron wearing gang clothing inside. Police on a routine walk through of the Liquid Zoo club saw a man associated to the Kingpin Crew, wearing a cap with the gang's insignia on it.
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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld a liquor branch ruling that a Kelowna nightclub violated its licence by allowing a patron wearing gang clothing inside.
But Justice Geoff Barrow also agreed with Liquid Zoo owner David Habib, who argued the three-day suspension he received for the violation was too severe.
Habib and the Liquid Zoo nightclub have a controversial history in the Okanagan city.
Habib, through his company Quail Place Estates Ltd., operated the nightclub before mid-2004, when he sold both the club and the building it’s in to a numbered company.
A Liquor Control Branch investigation then revealed that one of the new owners was Hells Angel Damiano Dipopolo.
“As a result, the branch refused to transfer the liquor licence and the sale had to be unwound,” Barrow said in his ruling released Monday.
Issues around the nightclub licence were finally resolved in late 2011 and Habib reopened Liquid Zoo on Jan. 9, 2012 with the special anti-gang condition in place.
Just three days later, police did a routine walk-through of the club and saw a man associated to the Kingpin Crew, wearing a cap with the gang’s insignia on it.
“They took the hat from the patron and gave it to Mr. Habib who was working in the bar that evening,” Barrow said.
“Several days later, the branch issued a notice of enforcement action arising from the incident.”
Habib claimed that he didn’t see the Kingpin Crew hat until police brought it to him that night.
And he also argued to both the liquor branch adjudicator and in B.C. Supreme Court that he believed only Hells Angels paraphernalia was banned under his liquor licence.
“Further, he said that while he had heard of the Kingpin Crew and knew they were a motorcycle group, he did not think they were a criminal gang,” Barrow summarized.
The judge rejected Habib’s claim that the adjudicator’s ruling was unreasonable.
And he said even if Habib hadn’t seen the hat, nightclub staff should have been required to do their due diligence.
“There was no evidence, for example, that his staff were instructed to periodically scan the patrons in the establishment for the presence of gang affiliated attire,” he said.
But Barrow agreed that Habib’s suspension was too severe for a first-time offence.
“In all these circumstances, it was unreasonable to impose the maximum penalty prescribed by the regulations,” Barrow said. “That issue is remitted to the adjudicator for reconsideration.”
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PC Gaming is Not Dead
By Unknown • August 24, 2011 • games • Comments : 3
Razer, the world leader in high performance gaming hardware, has just taken out a full page in today’s Wall Street Journal (Global Edition) to address an open letter to Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s Playstation and Nintendo’s Wii consoles.
Personally I think PC gaming is not dead, it's far from dead. With all the games coming to the PC these coming months e.g. Battlefield 3, Dota 2, Diablo III, how can one definitively say that PC gaming is dead? Heck, I have a 500GB slim PS3 at home packed with games, but I still play games on my PC as heavily as I would on my consoles and handhelds.
That said, the following is the Razer open letter just like how you'd see it on the Wall Street Journal. Read on:
For more information, visit www.pcgamingisnotdead.com.
Semidoppel August 24, 2011 at 9:27 PM
Yeah PC gaming is not dead, with lots of Online Games emerging nowadays, I'm sure game fanatics will still play those games.
wired August 27, 2011 at 10:35 AM
They say that we are already on a POST PC era.. PC will be just a thing of the past because of the introductions of smart phones, game gadgets such as xbox kinect and wii... plus tablet pcs...
dont know about this still very early to say that PC is dead
Innovoke September 1, 2011 at 8:39 PM
death is just exaggeration.. its not what it once was yes, no one can deny that. But its evolved in other directions and changed as much as console gaming has. If PC gaming were dead it'd be in the history books next to floppy disk or CRT TVs.. but its still a multi-billion dollar industry and until the mouse dies, MMO's die or flash and social games die.. it'll keep chugging along in its various forms.
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Droid Factory Wave 1 - Spring 2013
Return of the Build-A-Droid!
Re: Droid Factory Wave 1 - Spring 2013#126177
By YAK_Chewie - Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:33 pm
- Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:33 pm #126177
Raylen wrote: I'd like to know how they choose the "best of" and excluded the Navy Commander. He was for me THE hardest to find this year. Even most online retailers were continuously out of stock, unless of course they wanted $20+ for him. I lucked out with finally finding one in stores, but I'd like another and people are obviously army building the crap outta him.
It's because the line of "the best of" is snarky public relations on Hasbro's part.
There's no "best of" here - all they're doing is getting out the cases that have been collecting mold and dust in their warehouses this year.
By Paulskywalker - Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:43 pm
Very nicely put Chewie.
If i wanted figures like Rebels and Legends series i'd build a time machine. Even if i did want them, i'd probably still need a time machine..
Paulskywalker
Location: Wirral, UK
By darthmadonna - Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:23 pm
darthmac wrote:
Totally agree, he is the only remaining TVC figure I want more of. But I don't pay crazy prices for extras.
Agreed! I have never seen Malgus at all at retail and he is from the same wave. I think this "best of" is actually BS. They could easily throw a Boba Fett in there too not to mention Bastila, Ponda, Hoth Rebel, etc. But no it looks suspiciously like the exact case assortments that have hit, granted minimally but still the choices are not as in demand as many others.
darthmadonna
By Trooper31 - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:07 am
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:07 am #126201
This type of thing is typical Hasbro. I understand they're trying to play a positive angle, but none of us are being fooled by it, so they should just tell us the truth.
However, this is part of the problem right now between collectors and Hasbro. When Hasbro announced that TVC was going away for a while, a lot of collectors were rather vocal against the move. Hasbro messed up distribution big time and let's admit it, a 4 year-old could have seen the problems with so many TPM repacks. So, Hasbro has a ton of cases sitting in the warehouse and decides to cancel the new stuff, put out the old stuff, and say, "Hey, fans wanted TVC to stick around, so here are some "best of" cases, forgetting of course to tell us that these very cases just happened to be sitting going no where fast.
Now, if these figures start sitting on the oegs for too long, what conclusion will Hasbro make?
Nobody is interested in TVC.....of course, we are, but we already have all of those figures and would rather have been given a real GH case with Ponda Baba, Bastilla, EGT, ERG, INC, RT and a few others or a real extension of TVC with new waves. Unfortunately, they never want to see that side of things.
Trooper31
By Raylen - Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:15 am
Kinda off topic, but the mention of Ponda Boba made me think of it. Last episode of Clone Wars had an Aquilish (his species) wearing the orange and blue Kenner vintage outfit. They did the same with a blue Snaggletooth a few episodes back. I love those little nods to the fans.
Collector by choice. Customizer by necessity!
Raylen
By zedhatch - Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:40 pm
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:40 pm #126215
YAK_Chewie wrote:
Agreed, I think all of this just shows HAsbro has much bigger issues then they try to let on about.
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By YAK_Chewie - Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:50 pm
Raylen wrote: Kinda off topic, but the mention of Ponda Boba made me think of it. Last episode of Clone Wars had an Aquilish (his species) wearing the orange and blue Kenner vintage outfit. They did the same with a blue Snaggletooth a few episodes back. I love those little nods to the fans.
I'd like to see some pics of that.
By Raylen - Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:15 pm
This was the best I could find of Snaggletooth. Couldn't find a single one of Ponda. Unbelievable. The internet must be broken.
http://www.galactichunter.com/gh/sites/ ... 1002-1.jpg
By Paulskywalker - Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:41 pm
Here you go, just scroll down. I thought it was such a cool easter egg.
http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=169580
Cool pics - thanks guys!
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The Joshua Tree Tour 2017
North America Leg 1
Vancouver - BC Place Stadium
Vancouver Live Thread #U2TheJoshuaTree2017
By bigwave, May 9, 2017 in Vancouver - BC Place Stadium
u2thejoshuatree2017
tvham 0
LocationSan Francisco, Ca
Has anyone seen a good pic of the merch available with prices? Thanks!
jenniferoc1971 0
LocationOrange County, CA USA
2 hours ago, JMLU2 said:
The American people did use the strong power of its people. The American people said enough is enough. The American people have spoken. It is what it is. Instead of dividing us even more .... we should ALL try and unite together instead of dividing us even more. That's what should be happening not spouting off about your own personal feeling work together compromise. A statue, painting is not verbally telling me that I'm wrong for what I feel and it should be this way . This is not the thread to continue this discussion so that's all I'm gonna say about it in this thread. I just want to hear the music not your thoughts on your political view. Just the music
Please don't start with that. We all know who won the popular vote by over 3 MILLION.
One of the reasons I have loved U2 for over 30 years and that they have never been afraid to express their opinions or get involved in causes where people might have differing opinions.
That said, I was so excited reading about the show last night and cannot wait until next Saturday when I see them at the Rose Bowl. Thanks to everyone who shared pictures and videos! The Joshua Tree is a masterpiece. I thought so 30 years ago the first time I saw them live.
hestia 29
Locationearth
So great to see some familiar faces & new people. Just amazing the vibe & great show!!?
Love the screen images of Joshua Tree & other US National Monuments State Parks preserving the integrity& beauty of the land.
Remember to protect these lands from drilling & mining as they are under direct threat from the President of the United States. ?
Just bringing this to awareness as of this week , officially under review.????????
enriquediaz 37
Really liked the start even though it threw me off a wee bit hearing so many staples so early.
Not sure about the synth intro to Homecoming, but once the full band kicked in it was great.
Ultraviolet was a very nice surprise.
Miss Sarajevo was pretty moving but i agree with at least one other post here that it's not as powerful without Bono handling the full vocals. I also think that as symbolic as the crowd banner is, I found it really cause the song to drag on as it seemed the band was waiting for it to be carried to a certain point before finishing the song.
Really happy to see that many of the AB staples are dropped for this tour.
Get rid of Elevation and sub it in with something else and the setlist could be approaching perfection.
I was really excited to hear Red Hill but it sounded really messy to me (looking forward to a bootleg so I can give it another listen.)
Final comment - I thought Bono was "speaking" a lot of the vocals which was a little bit of a surprise and disappointing.
For me it was a really good start to the tour but there is a fair bit of room to tighten-up (Bono missed some vocal cues/lines, Red Hill) I think.
Edited May 13, 2017 by enriquediaz
JasonR02 0
LocationLos Angeles, CA
U2 have always been political and have always expressed their political/social views live. It's the difference between artists and entertainers. There are plenty of acts that just want to entertain and they'll be happy to take your money. Artists have a message. There job is to do something bigger with their art form. That's always been U2. Look, if you're a long time fan, something tells me your views/leanings have shifted recently and maybe now for the first time you find yourself on the opposing end of U2's views when it comes to what's happening in America right now. Otherwise, how are you still a fan and have been okay with them being this way for all these years? Also, if U2 saying what they say is troubling you, maybe dig down to the deeper reason why.
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LocationUsually
I'm very well aware of this. Why bash those with different views? Just unite us instead of dividing us. I enjoy the music of U2 always have ...always will. If you want to talk about your views then have a round table discussion with those who are interested in your views at a different time and place. So those who have different opinions don't have to feel like we are wrong because our view is different then what he feels. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but to make people feel like their wrong is not right. I didn't pay to be told that my view is wrong. I payed with hard earned money to hear your music not your view on what you think is right.
I think exposing views that are objectively, scientifically, filled with hate, misogyny, racism and cruelty isn't a bad thing. If we are agree that those things are evil, we are united. If we don't agree, shame, just enjoy the music and allow rational discourse to carry the day. Slides are fun, but slipper slopes are dangerous for the world.
james busick 35
11 hours ago, htdaab34 said:
Well in my opinion he could find a way to unite us not divide us
I don't think most liberals have any desire to be united with the conservatives that support the current administration. As far as I'm concerned, the wedge needs to keep being pounded in.
Katiesheb 0
LocationNew England
Did anyone experience obstructed views at this venue? I am trying to figure out if I am going to have issues with my seats at the concert I am attending. Thanks.
johnbrewer 6
21 hours ago, kings said:
Be thankful that both of you have the right to express your politics. If you think U2 will keep their mouths shut as politics hits a new all time low you're delusional.
or all time high according to the way you look at it.
5 hours ago, jenniferoc1971 said:
too bad states vote and not people...right?
1 hour ago, Katiesheb said:
I had seats off to the side and I couldn't see 100% of what was being projected in the centre area of the screen.
Idvikin 0
7 hours ago, tvham said:
I have a couple pics of the merch table, I wasn't able to get them to load though but shirts were $45 Canadian. I bought two shirts came out to $69. They had an event shirt with the Joshua Tree cover photo on the front and on the back instead of the tour dates it had "BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, BC May 12 2017"
It was a good selection 6 or 7 shirts to choose from, a couple of hoodies, and a bomber jacket. Mumford and Sons had only 3 shirts and of those three two where the same but on a different color shirt.
Other stuff: Water bottle, tour book, wristband, beanie, lanyard, regular hat.
Edited May 14, 2017 by Idvikin
5 hours ago, enriquediaz said:
Bono "speaking" was Bono rapping some parts of the song. I thought it was cool, but I'm someone who likes it when a band changes the song in some way when playing it live to keep it fresh.
tjmode 0
also interestated in merch pics, anyone?
Edited May 14, 2017 by tjmode
25 minutes ago, Idvikin said:
"Speaking" or "rapping" .... neither is singing.
i don't mind bands switching it up a wee bit either, but when we're talking about one of the great rock and roll vocalists of all time, I want to hear him singing.
and they're touring behind a 30 year old album so keeping it fresh ain't the point of this tour. ?
Different strokes for different folks (truly glad enjoyed it - it barely detracted from the overall show for me, but I did notice it more than once.)
already lookong forward to Toronto...
jjwankenobi 0
Location49.132154, -123.176238
Last night's performance was very much A Sort Of A Homecoming as I remembered watching The Joshua Tour in 1987 at BC Place.
13 year old me in '87 was floored by the sounds and spirit of 4 lads from Ireland. Just a year before I had discovered "Wide Awake in America", drawn to U2 from an obsession for The Beatles that my father instilled in me, as well as the searing passion of the live version of "Bad" found on WAIA. (When I say "floored" I'm being literal...I had chaotic floor seating, battered by the punishing reverberation caused by BC Place's old roof)
13 year old me in '87 was massively impressed by a young Bono Vox (clearly losing his voice yet giving it his all) who ensnared us all with his pony tail and Stetson and charisma, drawing each and every one of us +50,000 Vancouverites onto the massive stage they trepidatiously explored.
13 year old me in '87 lost his voice that night. I distinctly recall losing my sh*t when the opening chimes of "Bad" began. I've read that "Where The Streets Have No Name" is about going to heaven. How apropos...that's exactly what happened on that cold and wet November day in 1987.
43 year old me in 2017 at BC Place. The Joshua Tree Tour again. And I went to Heaven again.
Except this time round it wasn't a voice-breaking euphoric high Heaven. It was a reverent, transcendent Heaven, where every song I knew and loved came to life with new visuals and meaning. Like reconnecting with long lost friends who have clearly aged but wear their wrinkles and silver streaks proudly and beautifully. It was a visit to Heaven where St. Peter welcomed me to the Pearly Gates, stopping me at the entrance with hallowed stories of old (Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year's Day, A Sort Of A Homecoming...which I admit losing my sh*t to, MLK and Pride) as I stood and cheered and sang while somewhat confused yet anxious to get in. Then "Streets" started with the familiar crimson (just like 1987) and then the gates flew open. And it was the whole album. Through and through.
A few years ago Roger Waters rolled through town and played The Dark Side Of The Moon from start to finish. I loved it, but part of me wished Gilmour, Mason and Wright were onstage too. So for that reason, seeing Bono, The Edge, Adam and Larry, ALL silhouetted against the red screen of "Streets" was truly transcendental.
Unlike previous outings, this tour is truly for hardcore fans of U2's music rather than just their "hits". Between "Running To Stand Still" and "Trip Through Your Wires" a fellow 2 rows behind me kept yelling "Play 'Beautiful Day'!!!". Even my wife wondered why I was singing so loudly to "Red Hill Mining Town". I could sense a quarter of the audience thinking "WTF???" as they played the trippy visuals and predatory sounds of "Exit".
For me, it was fitting that poetry was projected onscreen beforehand, because the show was very contemplative once the The Joshua Tree was played in sequence. In my mind, the show is an observance of 4 young men and their discovery of a new world, from the perspective of those same men years later. It wasn't a cynical retrospective, by any means...rather, it was a done with appreciation and without shame. Through Anton Corbijn's visuals, the whole album came to life like a document of the feelings the band must have had when American opened up to them for the first time.
Highlights for me were the revamped "A Sort Of A Homecoming", the searing red intro for "Streets", Edge's timeless stinging guitar on "In God's Country", Las Madres and 'El Pueblo Vencera' during the hymnal "Mother's Of The Disappeared", and the reworking of "Ultraviolet" into a long overdue ode to Womankind.
My only complaints have to do with the underwhelming live version of "Red Hill Mining Town" (for a song I was so highly anticipating hearing live for the first time, shelving Edge's guitar in favour of piano and brass really fell flat for me), as well as the choice of "Beautiful Day" to start off the encore set. Maybe it was the fellow 2 rows behind me, or maybe its just a song I've heard live too many times, but it felt out of place after leaving Heaven via "Mothers...".
As the lights came up and my wife and I queued to leave I couldn't help but imagine seeing my 13 year old self wandering around the general admission floor, half-deaf and drunk on the lingering sounds of "40" from that cold and wet November day in 1987. And my 43 year old self thought of the wide-eyed wonder and innocence that he thankfully outgrew, as the lingering sounds of "The Little Things That Give You Away" faded into that cold and dry May night in 2017.
Edited May 14, 2017 by jjwankenobi
Grammar, yo.
phill pohl 1
LocationENGLAND
spot on i agree with enriquediaz
Edited May 14, 2017 by phill pohl
Cannot understand why they dont finish concerts on a high like most groups, they did it on 360 with mos which was a low point be much better letting the crowd leave on a high by playing something like bad the new song should be played earlier.Also think ms doesnt work great maybe it will get tinkered further along
31 minutes ago, phill pohl said:
I'm not sure I'm sold on a new song as a closer either. Felt kinda anti-climatic to me. Might fit better early in the encore set. Though, for me MOS was much different because it was a track from the album they were touring behind. (Ie. at least was a song most of the audience could have been expected to know.)
early days, and it'll be interesting to see if there are any changes to the beginning and end of the show. (That chant Bono tried to get people into "people ... power..." was pretty awkward and didn't take off at all.)
The pre-JT album set would be really easy to change, but i hope they don't. How they setlist the 2-nighters could be fun.
allyson2008 28
20 hours ago, JMLU2 said:
Okay, since other people haven't been afraid to respond to this, I have to throw my 2 cents out there even though this thread is supposed to be about the Vancouver show. This is something I have very strong feelings about.
The American PEOPLE chose Hillary. It was actually the electoral college that chose Trump. Which is pretty messed up, IMO.
One of the reasons I like this band so much is that they're not afraid to express their views (or Bono does, anyway) and make people think about things that are going on in the world that we might not otherwise be aware of.
Edited May 14, 2017 by allyson2008
Bucko 4
On 5/13/2017 at 3:53 PM, JMLU2 said:
I'm very well aware of that instead of voicing HIS views .... try uniting us instead of dividing us.
Ok, what would can he say that would unite people? Just curious.... Clearly anything anyone says is never agreed with by everyone. Please let me know. I'm really interested. Genuinely.
Love and Peace.
surferdad 3
I enjoyed the concert but it was uninspiring. I am not sure I saw the band crack a smile all night. Larry and Edge were grim as can be. Bono's voice was good but not great, seemed to lack a little power and evidenced by him not doing the opera voice in Miss Sarajevo.
First the highlights; Sunday Bloody Sunday/New Years Day was a great one, two punch to start the show. A Sort of Homecoming - unexpected and very well done. Trip Through Your Wires - One of the few songs that I thought added energy to the night. Miss Sarajevo - the video was very well done. The Little Things Give You Away - always nice to hear a new song.
The lowlights; The sound - even twenty rows back on the floor it was a bit boom-y and echo-y as hell. Pacing - way too many down tempo songs and the string of One Tree Hill, Exit and Mothers sucked every bit of energy from the show and was the wrong time for the band to leave the stage. Lena Dunham as a woman worth honoring (what the f were they thinking, she's admitted to molesting her sister). The Bono lead "Power of the people...." sing-a-long just flopped. More pacing - Streets was way too early, the video for Miss Sarejevo was so serious it needed to be followed up by something upbeat and known. The lack of passion by the band by the end of the show - to me it looked like they left saying "well that didn't go as expected". beautiful Day - I appreciate they re-worked the song but it didn't work for me but kudos for trying. Pacing aging - ending the show with an unknown song.
I think there will be lots of tinkering with the show. I am sure Vertigo will be added. A few more up tempo songs are required as well. re-think the women you display and honor; Rosa Parks, the Suffragettes, Lena Dunham - one of these does not belong.
i am interested in following the setlists and see how they evolve as evolve they must.
13 hours ago, tjmode said:
Expensive. $50 CDN for t-shirts ($40 US?), $90 CDN hoodie ($75 US).
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Chifa Titi
“Roast duck like you’ve never had it before”
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The true Peruvian-Chinese fusion
Claim to fame: Roast duck like you’ve never had it before
Reason to go: No culinary explorations of Lima would be complete withouth tasting chifa
To look out for: Fried wontons stuffed with shrimp and chicken––a favorite chifa-snack, Titi’s are considered to be Lima’s finest.
A recent Peruvian survey revealed that the country has more chifa restaurants than cevicherías. Which says a lot about a nation that made ceviche its national dish. What is a chifa, you wonder? The easy answer: a Chinese-Peruvian restaurant. Though, of course, there’s plenty more to it than that.
Peru was one of the first countries in Latin America to abolish slavery, a decision made in 1860 by President Ramón Castilla. Still, sugar plantation-owners needed labor, so Peru started importing Chinese workers. During the first years circa one hundred thousand Chinese contract laborers arrived, most of them Cantonese from the province of Guandong. Naturally, they brought along their culinary traditions, and thus chifa was born: Cantonese fare adapted to Peruvian produce and taste buds.
Unfortunately, though Peruvians adore chifa and you can find chifa restaurants on every street corner, most of them are not exactly culinary sensations, largely because chifa has become associated with cheap lunches and all-you-can-eat buffets.
Thankfully there’s one traditional place that not only lives up to the memories and status of old chifas, it has actually rewritten the cookbook. Travel- and gastro-guides regularly overlook Chifa Titi but among real food connoisseurs it’s considered one of Lima’s best restaurants. Not one of the best chifas, but one of the best restaurants. Period. At Chifa Titi, they’ve mastered the local Chinese classics like arroz chaufa (Peruvian stir-fried rice), siu mai dim sum and chancho al ajo (garlic pork). But it’s the house specialties that really make this a next-level dining experience, innovative dishes like steamed frog fish with soy sauce and duck stuffed with sticky rice, which has to be ordered two days in advance.
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