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Meet our 2016 12 x 12 Scholarship Winners!
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Darshana KhianiJamie LB DeenihanMatt TesorieroMeghan DanielsWe Need Diverse Books
Let’s ring in the New Year by congratulating and welcoming our 2016 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge Scholarship winners!
In 2014, the 12 x 12 community generously donated funds to provide four scholarships in two categories — Diversity and Financial Need — for pre-published picture book authors. The generosity continued in 2015–our members donated again to fund four scholarships. The purpose behind these scholarships is to cultivate underrepresented voices in children’s picture books and to provide an opportunity for dedicated writers to join 12 x 12 who might not otherwise be able to.
It is with great pleasure, and sincere thanks to the 12 x 12 community, that I announce the 2016 scholarship recipients.
Diversity Scholarship Recipients
Darshana Khiani is a second-generation Indian-American who was raised in the United States. Darshana is also an engineer who has worked in the computer industry for over twenty years.
Darshana is a SCBWI member and a member of the 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge. She served as a judge for the Cybils Book Awards in 2011 for the Early Reader category and then again in 2012 for Fiction Picture Books. She recently completed a picture book mentorship with author Kathi Appelt.
Darshana says, “One of my writing goals is to write stories about Indian-American characters that center on universal kid themes so readers of any race can relate. As an engineer working in the computer industry for over twenty years, I also hope to be a role model for other Indian-Americans by showing them that members of our community can become writers as well as pursuing medical, law, engineering, or business careers.”
Matt Tesoriero was born into a large Italian American family in rural Upstate New York. He was first exposed to children’s picture books while listening to his mom read aloud to a couch full of five siblings.
As a young man it took Matt many years for me to the world and to himself that he was gay. He hopes to channel his struggle and triumph into writing both sensitive and humorous LGBTQ-themed picture books.
Matt is a member of SCBWI and the 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge. Matt lives and breathes fitness, cooks Grandma’s meatballs, and volunteers helping people living with HIV AIDS and Breast Cancer.
Matt says, “I want to share funny, lovable characters who happen to be gay but illustrate that although these characters face unique challenges, in the end we all face one universal truth–wanting to be be accepted.”
Financial Need Scholarship Recipients
Jamie L.B. Deenihan lives in Connecticut, near the family farm she grew up on, with her husband and their four feisty boys (two human, two canine.) She’s an Elementary Education teacher and certified Reading Specialist who has taught first grade in Western Massachusetts since 2005. She’s a member of SCBWI, the 12 x 12 Challenge, and two remarkable critique groups. Jamie is currently taking time away from teaching to be a stay at home mom and advocate for her husband who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in April 2015. Besides supporting her husband through two surgeries and a year-long chemotherapy treatment plan, Jamie spends her time doing picture book research and enjoys outdoor adventures with her sons. She writes early in the morning, during naptimes, and late at night (always with her journal, a cup of tea, and stash of dark chocolate within reach).
Jamie says, “There’s nothing more satisfying than reading an exceptional picture book to my students or sons, or watching a child snuggled up, reading/reciting their favorite book. As a writer, my goal is to create beautifully crafted picture books with unique perspectives and unexpected twists. I want to write books that children will read over and over again because they find them humorous, heartfelt, or relatable. I also want to show my family that with hard work and perseverance, anything is possible.”
Meghan Daniels has been writing for as long as she can remember with a focus on picture books for the last few years. She is an active member of her local SCBWI chapter. In the summer of 2014 she attended Super Children’s Book Boot Camp at the Highlights Foundation with the help of a partial scholarship and crowdfunding. Since then she has taken online classes and attended multiple workshops and classes at the Writing Barn in Austin, TX. She has done this while working full time and dealing with a series of medical issues. She is currently revising, revising, revising, and hoping 2016 brings her good health and her very own agent.
Meghan says, “I can be a pretty verbose person so I was surprised to discover when writing picture books that I really love the task of making a meaningful story in so few words. It’s such a great challenge to write a story that has heart, is fun and/or meaningful for kids, but isn’t too didactic.”
Congratulations to this talented group of writers, and WELCOME to 12 x 12!
*General registration for 12 x 12 in 2016 will be open from January 12 – February 29.
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Kerry Aradhya says:
Congratulations to all the scholarship winners!!
Congrats everyone. Way to go Darshana!
Jeanette Bradley says:
Congratulations to all of you! Here’s to a great 2016!
Sunny Walker says:
Your stories inspire – so pleased you were honored in this way. Congratulations one and all@
Rita Lorraine says:
Congratulations scholarship winners. See you in the forums!
Congratulations! You’re all winners in my book!
MaryMunson says:
Wow this is so inspirational, congratulations everyone!
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Here’s how Blackstone and Allianz respond to rising interest rates As rates rise, RE investors shift to cheaper cities, debt
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Avison Young s James Nelson also noticed growing interest in debt. “It seems that every developer that we speak to with a piece of land says Maybe I won’t buy, but maybe I’ll lend on it,’ he said. “I don’t want to call them loan-to-own or predatory, but they probably wouldn’t mind if they got the keys back to the property.”
While the panelists acknowledged that the New York market as a whole faces headwinds, no one expects doom and gloom. One reason: the sheer amount of institutional money seeking investments.
“With who we have in the White House right now, you don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Gary Phillips, head of U.S. real estate acquisitions at Allianz, which bought a stake in 1515 Broadway last year. “We’re not hitting the pause button like some others in the market. We just can’t do that, and there’s too much capital on the sidelines that needs to get to work.”
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Correction: an earlier version of this post wrongfully attributed a quote to Brahm Cramer. It was Gary Jaye who said “Every developer has a debt fund now.
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Galaxy Note 9 launch video leaks online
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Galaxy Note 9 launch video leaks online - tech
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 isn't being unveiled until August 9, but with so many leaks arriving right now, will there be much left to reveal at the Unpacked event? The latest comes from the company itself, which appears to have accidentally leaked the official launch promo video online. Samsung refers to its upcoming handset as "super powerful" in the clip. We get confirmation that the rear fingerprint sensor has moved from the Note 8's annoying off-center position next to the flash, to a central point below the dual cameras. There's also a USB Type-C port on show, along with a headphone jack-something Samsung is sticking with, despite many other phone manufacturers abandoning the port.
Samsung calls the device "1 terabyte ready," which relates to the 512GB SD card being removed from the machine, rather than the Note 9 somehow boasting 1TB of internal storage. But it does mean a 512GB variant will be available. It also mentions the Note's "all day battery," which it focused on in a teaser video last week. The handset is said to feature a 4,000mAh battery, besting the Note 8's 3,300mAh version.
The video gives us a look at the "all new powerful" S Pen, but there's no mention of the Bluetooth functionality we heard about in previous rumors. Maybe that's something Samsung is holding back until the press event.
Samsung already has a launch page up and ready for those wishing to pre-order a Note 9, and an alleged spec list has been leaked by a Russian retailer. It lists a 6.4-inch QHD+ sAMOLED display and a variable aperture dual 12-megapixel camera setup like the one from the Galaxy S9.
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Krzysztof Koniczek
"Three Windows”
acrylic on canvas,
Krzysztof Koniczek was born in Olecko. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan in the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture. Graduated from Prof. Waldemar Swierzy Studio.
He had his first individual exhibition in the middle of 1980s - at the time when the young were really angry as a result of the crisis of the avant-garde from 1970s, both European and American. When we add that it was accompanied by the disappointment with politics, sociotechniques and mass culture, the phenomena prevalent at that time, such a search for new aesthetics and attitude in general, become clear. That search appeared in such radical form that the critics did not hesitate to call those extremely expressive actions of young artists “a safety pin in the chick of modern art”. That was the time when the artist expressed himself, and only himself, without rationalism and logic. All the old and new canons of Beauty were discarded; punk rock and reggae were performed, and video art and performers, the new “wild” ones, reigned in galleries.
Koniczek’s earliest canvases were the planes ostentatiously neglecting the classical composition, in addition with the colouring built upon the clash of red and green or blue and orange. Kasimir Edschmid wrote about such painting in one of the most important confessions of expressionists: “An expressionist does not see, but looks. He does not record, but lives. He does not reproduce, but creates. He does not select, but seeks.” Salome’s press comment from 1980 also perfectly squares with Koniczek’s first individual exhibition in Poznan: “ For me it is not a question of style, but the attitude to life. It is connected with the feeling of being free, with unconstrained work...”
In the second stage of his artistic activity, and he is the artist who works a lot, Koniczek, not resigning from the painting “full of paint and brush”, enriches it with the forms characteristic of the poster. At that time he creates more organized, less intuitive and spontaneous canvases, nevertheless always very expressive. It is always, and above all, the expression of colour pertaining to the world of emotions. It is the aesthetics based on contrast, the contrast of both the tones, saturation, brightness and the temperature of the colour. The painter, being aware of the intensity with which the colour operates, both in the cultural and the physiologic sense, aware of the symbolic nature and the psychology of the perception of colour, composes his canvases around the basic pair: red and green. This contrast forms an axle around which conspicuous colours appear, such as “squeezed out of tube” orange, yellow, blue, which form a dialog, often changing into a shout. Such an expressive colour is in a natural way accompanied by the texture of the canvases: rough, sometimes approximating a relief in which the trace of the master’s hand has been impressed. The mark of a brush, the lumps of paint, all this is visible in a purely physical way, but on the other hand, there are the trails of light and some glowing points, because it is due to the light that these canvases are amazingly both material and metaphysical.
Most of Koniczek’s canvases are abstract compositions, because in such unlimited space the mystery of colour may be accomplished much easier. These were the paintings pulsating with just volcanic energy, and it is no wonder that many of them are dominated by the colour of flowing lava. Yet, it does exhaust to the end neither the painter’s curiosity nor his need to dwelling in the mystery of forms. Therefore, the geometric shape appears in his compositions, what is more in the form of the sphere – the most perfect one of all. In this way the painter transfers the viewer from the space of the mad colour into a space of the cosmic order, but this is not the end of the journey because the composition of his canvases clearly begins to resemble a landscape.
The first experience is the mysterious sight of a fracture in a rocky massif, but soon there appear canvases clearly referring to Turner’s landscapes.
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Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
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Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. Apr 6, 2016 10:41:12 GMT ben545 likes this
Post by Brendan on Apr 6, 2016 10:41:12 GMT
Do you think the book would make a good movie?
Yes, because I have seen the movie as well as read the book and I believe it has similarities, but I feel that the movie did an extraordinary job better on capturing an adventure and feeling especially the scene when "Regina Spektor ~ The Call" executes the end scene I thought that was perfect for fitting the mood and by the way, I absolutely love her music I thought she added a great sense of imagination I believe that C.S Lewis would have picked that if he was still able. So yes it was a great movie but it had the same issues within the book that Aslan saves the day at the end. You should definitely go check it out.
Did you feel it was the kind of book you couldn't put down because it was so engaging? Was the book well paced?
Yes, it was somewhat addictive because his writing was so nice and easily one of the most renowned children's authors around. So effective within simplicity and creatively captures the true imagination and heart. He writes with passion within the surroundings and to achieve an individual message. The book was, in fact, a nice story was well paced within the adventure, however, I believe his weakness was, in fact, Aslan, I stated in my previous ranting about him seems to use him as get away card a lazy way out I just wished he created Aslan more like a creative feedback.
Do you think Caspian would have been able to step up and lead the old Narnians in the fight against Miraz' army and won his rightful throne?
Sadly I'm afraid he would lose. Because it seems that Aslan always appears when the chosen four is around in Narnia which it's a shame because C.S Lewis didn't execute the religion part really well because did not Caspian believe within the narratives of the old Narnia? He believed in talking trees, talking creatures and even lions but Aslan does not seem to appear only to Lucy, at first, he also didn't lose his faith also. I would love to have read that Aslan gives him some guidance and some strength and some inspirational feedback within his hardest and darkest of times without the four within his personal scenarios.
Have you guys given any thought as to how space and time communicate between the worlds?
It's like in BTVS Anne when Buffy goes in that dimension but over 100 years pass but it's only a day in our reality so I believe it's just different worlds within different time scales colliding together.
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Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. Apr 7, 2016 22:34:41 GMT Dillon, Avengium, and 1 more like this
Post by ezzz on Apr 7, 2016 22:34:41 GMT
How do you think the book would have differed if the four children had not been involved/ returned to Narnia? Do you think Caspian would have been able to step up and lead the old Narnians in the fight against Miraz' army and won his rightful throne?
I think that if the children had not returned then Miraz would have won the fight against the old Narnians. The old Narnians were all quite divided on what they believed in, such as Caspian, Cornelius and Trufflehunter having faith that the children would return and Nikabrik wanting to bring back the White Witch. Alternatively, had Nikabrik succeeded in persuading the others then perhaps she would have won the battle but then Narnia would only be dictated in a different, equally bad way.
Why do think Peter battles Miraz in the duel and not Caspian?
Admittedly, I was a little disappointed when Caspian did not stand up to fight against his uncle but I understand that Peter would have been the better, more experienced warrior. It did seem a little as though everyone with the exception of Nikabrik was deferring responsibility onto the children because of the stories that they had heard about them, so I suppose it was only appropriate there their grand return culminated in Peter taking the mantle and deciding to fight on their behalf.
Was anyone else surprised about how long it took the children to realize that such a great deal of time had passed between their previous visit to Narnia and this one?
I suppose that the children would have expected Narnia to be the same as when they left it. They would have had an image of the time that they spent there in their head, and stored that as the image of how they would hope that Narnia would stay in their absence, so when they returned and found that life was no longer what it used to be, it that would be difficult to wrap their heads around.
Do you think it would have made more sense if the children had returned to Narnia in the same state in which they had left (adults)? Have you guys given any thought as to how space and time communicate between the worlds?
Narnia seems to exist on a different realm from Earth so it seems plausible to me that they would return the way in which the entered it from the train station. You could liken it to time travel, where although they may be in a realm where time moves differently from Earth and they can age to the laws of that place whilst they are there, their bodies are still following the laws of nature on Earth when they return home to England and because time moves faster whilst they are away, then they won't have aged as much when they return. It's a little complicated for what is essentially a children's book, I quite understand why it wasn't addressed in much detail.
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Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. Apr 8, 2016 2:41:30 GMT Brendan likes this
Post by Dillon on Apr 8, 2016 2:41:30 GMT
Brendan , I love the Buffy reference!!
@ezzz , I liked your answers. I think the children provided Caspian and the Narnians guidance by presenting themselves through their status and power. Since they had been the kings and queens in Narnia's past, they used their power and authority to make the final decisions. It was them who decided which path to take from Cair Paravel to Aslan's How and it was them who decided to present a duel to Miraz rather than fighting a full-on battle. Brendan , I think Aslan's guidance to Caspian comes after the book's end; it is revealed that Peter and Susan have learned all they need to know from Narnia, that Edmond and Lucy will return since they have not, and that in the meantime until Edmond and Lucy's return it is up to Caspian to rule the new era of Narnia. As the children return home, I think Aslan stuck around the new kingdom to help Caspian gain his footing in becoming the leader of Narnia.
ben545 , it is never revealed how old Caspian is, right? I assume Caspian is approximately the age of Susan, at least. Peter would therefore not be much older than Caspian. I think the reason that Peter was the one to request the duel was that Miraz would be much less likely to duel Caspian, his own nephew; whereas Peter is this ancient king of old Narnia who Miraz has no reason to believe he even exists because its been so long since Peter has been in Narnia.
I liked the innocence and naivety that was shown of the children when they were unaware that they happened to be in Narnia; however, it makes me wonder if at first they wondered if they were still in the Earth realm while first arriving on the beach.
I had never thought of the time and space relationship like that, @ezzz . You're basically saying that they follow the time and space laws of the location in which they are present, but the time laws of the location in which they reside will always be dominant. So like you are saying, the children will age according to Narnia time whilst in Narnia, but will always revert back to whichever state their home realm would have had put them in. To put this in perspective, if the scenario was flipped and a Narnian transported to Earth, he would age according to Earth time, but would return to Narnia greatly aged?
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Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. Apr 8, 2016 8:40:16 GMT Dillon likes this
Post by Brendan on Apr 8, 2016 8:40:16 GMT
Dillon and ezzz amazing posts I absolutely loved reading them!
I always had this theory ever since when I finished the first book. Do you think Narnia is a place that the children can heal for example, like a daydream or asleep to dream the impossible, but feeling confident and happier within each other because of their journey? Because to me it feels like when there go back to Narnia and here in England it feels there have some kind of emotions of anxiety, feeling scared or nervous about something all their inner emotions in England, travel with them to Narnia so everything seems to be different because it's a different fear there are fearing and need to conquer? just some thoughts.
I always thought... Please don't laugh at my theories just my imagination going wild. I always thought Aslan was there...
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Dad. He died in the war and departed to the world where he can watch over to his children and send substances of assurance also self-confidence so when there do return to England there would seem more positive and headstrong within that unpleasant world especially within the era of the second world war. Personally, I don't believe Aslan is their father that just being wacky. Aslan is a mimic of the messiah. But it would have been cool even better I would say if Aslan was their dad it would have made a huge significance and sense why he is so involved within the four.
Do you think Aslan created adventures for other children in our reality not just those four?
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Post by Avengium on Apr 8, 2016 11:34:33 GMT
I'm trying to finish "Prince Caspian" but i'm not engaged with the book. I'm 80% but is difficult. We can continue with the following book.
The Aslan appeareance in the river that noone believes reminds me everytime i think a metaphor about believers in a faith, that they don't practice. And for this reason they can't see Aslan in this circumstances. Only when they believe.
Aslan for me is the messiah, can be "Balder" (scandinavian, apilgriminnarnia.com/2014/11/26/baldar/), "Jesus" or another messiah. His death in the stone table is like Jesus death in the cross.
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Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. Apr 8, 2016 12:49:36 GMT Brendan likes this
Post by Dillon on Apr 8, 2016 12:49:36 GMT
Personally I never saw Aslan as a representation of a messiah. I'm not much of a religious person because I am not quite sure yet what I believe when it comes to religion and faith; it's because of this that I tend not to find many religious allusions within book. After you have mentioned it though, I can see the connection you are making. I don't see Aslan as a messiah or any particular religious figure nor do I see Aslan as a representation of the childrens' father. I choose to believe that their father is still safe while away at war; I want to believe that despite their Earth problems that their father will eventually come home to them. I want that for the children as I'm sure that some of their problems stem from not having their father home with them.
But since I am not much of a religious person, I can see something like Aslan being killed on the stone table as being a secular act. It does allude to the crucifixion, but from my pov, it's a heroic act performed by Aslan while a pure evil pleasure by the White Witch and her followers for them to kill Aslan. Although my pov is different, I appreciate yours'; I like that we can all contribute different thoughts and opinions.
I definitely think that Narnia is a way to escape their home problems, but I think that is where the line is drawn. I do think they learn valuable lessons while there that will help them later in life as they grow up in England; but until then I think Narnia just acts as sort of a precarious oasis. I feel that when the children return to England that they also return to their problems. The children will always have their memories of Narnia to look back upon on a rainy day in which they need a reminder of better times, but I don't think their experiences in Narnia relieve any pressures from their home lives. I also see that Narnia helped the children bond and strengthen their relationships with each other; they are all definitely closer than they were before. Maybe not their second trip to Narnia, but their first trip in which they grew into adults, I think this gave the children a great opportunity. Because they matured once already in Narnia, it might be a little easier the second time around as they mature on Earth. All in all, Narnia was a tremendously beneficial experience for the children.
Hmmm… I really don't know. The Pevensie children seemed to stumble into Narnia due to a prophecy that they would become the kings and queens of Narnia after defeating the White Witch and her terrible reign. The Pevensie children seemed to be a big deal. I'm not sure how Narnia could have helped other children. Perhaps other children have happened to stumble into Narnia (hopefully not while under the Witch's rule since humans were thought of a threats), but they didn't fulfill prophecies of any sort. Other children would most likely see some creatures, most likely not Aslan considering his scarcity, have a little fun and shortly return home.
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Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. Apr 8, 2016 14:14:09 GMT Avengium, Brendan, and 1 more like this
Post by ben545 on Apr 8, 2016 14:14:09 GMT
Just wanted to say that it is widely accepted that C.S.Lewis was a devoted Christian and that the Narnia books have been described as an allegory to that of the stories in the Bible, just saying. (I know some of you know this already).....Looking forward to the next book now, come on @ezzz!! Get a move on. Hopefully your book choice will be free to download too.
^ Thanks for the insight. Knowing that going in I may have noticed more allusions to Christianity; but perhaps not since I am not familiar with the more intricate details of the bible.
Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. Apr 8, 2016 20:51:07 GMT via mobile ben545 and Brendan like this
Apr 8, 2016 14:14:09 GMT ben545 said:
also nordic mythology and specially the Myth of Balder resounded a lot with C. S. Lewis. And Balder dies at the hands of Loki. But after the ragnarok, in the new world, Balder lives again.
Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. May 10, 2016 14:22:46 GMT
Post by Brendan on May 10, 2016 14:22:46 GMT
I created these when I was reading The Lion, The Witch, and The wardrobe. Tumblr style graphics.
Queen Of Narnia (Susan)
^ Planing to make more well, if I eventually have the time. And this a picspam of the film.
The Lion, The Witch, and The wardrobe.
I hope you guys like these fan arts.
Book Club 1: Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia. May 11, 2016 21:38:43 GMT Brendan likes this
Post by ezzz on May 11, 2016 21:38:43 GMT
May 10, 2016 14:22:46 GMT Brendan said:
These are great! You definitely have an eye for aesthetics.
@ezzz WOW, thank you so much!
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Relive the USA vs. Costa Rica snow game as it happened on social media
By Daniel Boniface
United States forward Clint Dempsey (8) scores a goal against Costa Rica goalkeeper Keilor Navas (1) during the first half of a FIFA 2014 World Cup Qualifier at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on March 22, 2013, in Commerce City, Colorado. The United States led Costa Rica 1-0 after the first half. (Daniel Petty, The Denver Post file)
Denver got about a foot of snow in Wednesday’s blizzard, but spring snow is nothing new here in Colorado. And it happens in a flash.
Lest we forget, it was exactly three years and a day ago that Colorado hosted its most epic soccer game in state history: the “SnowClasico” — USA vs. Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifying game at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. The USA battled through the snow for a 1-0 win.
Conditions were sunny and clear hours before the game, but things quickly deteriorated as snow and wind moved in. Soon, the conversation turned to whether officials would use an orange or yellow ball. Or whether the game would be canceled entirely.
Using the power of social media, here’s a retelling of that crazy night in Commerce City that no U.S. national team fan will soon forget. You can find an archive of our live blog from the March 22, 2013 match here.
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Categories: Colorado Rapids, International, U.S. National Team
Costa Rica vs. Colombia women’s national teams to play at Metro State
By Joe Nguyen
Mexico’s Greta Espinoza, left, vies for the ball with Lady Andrade of Colombia, during the women’s football final of the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games, in, Veracruz, Mexico, on Nov. 27, 2014. (Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP via Getty Images)
The Costa Rica and Colombia women’s national soccer teams will play a friendly match at 6 p.m. May 31 at The Regency Athletic Complex at Metro State, the school announced Thursday.
The match is in preparation for the 2015 FIFA World Cup, which begins June 6 in Canada. Costa Rica is in Group E with Brazil, Korea Republic and Spain. Colombia is in Group F with France, England and Mexico.
Admission to the game is free.
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Categories: World Cup
Colorado Rapids’ Clint Irwin optimistic about U.S. World Cup chances in “Group of Death”
United States head coach Jurgen Klinsmann from Germany arrives for the draw ceremony for the 2014 soccer World Cup in Costa do Sauipe near Salvador, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. (Silvia Izquierdo, The Associated Press)
The soccer gods smiled on the U.S. in 2010, when they landed in a World Cup group with England, Algeria and Slovenia. But, the Americans weren’t so lucky this time around.
“It’s definitely the hardest group there is,” Colorado Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin said Friday. “You look at the teams, and this is probably the toughest World Cup there’s ever been, and the U.S. are in the toughest group, the ‘Group of Death.’”
If you take any stock in FIFA’s world rankings, they support the “Group of Death” label for Group G, made up of Germany (2), Portugal (5), Ghana (24) and the United States (14). As Greg Lalas, Editor In Chief of MLSSoccer.com pointed out in a Tweet, the average rank of the four teams in Group G is about 11th. Group D made up of Uruguay (6), Costa Rica (31), England (13) and Italy (7), came in next with an average rank of about 14th.
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Clint Irwin comes from nowhere to light up Colorado Rapids’ net
By John Henderson
[media-credit name=”Karl Gehring, The Denver Post” align=”alignright” width=”270″][/media-credit] Colorado Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin.
COMMERCE CITY — The United States is ranked only 33rd in the world, dragged down by a dearth of creative strikers and shotmakers. But it has always had goalkeepers, and another one emerged in a Colorado Rapids uniform Saturday night at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
You had to be impressed with 24-year-old Clint Irwin who blocked the strong penalty kick of Real Salt Lake’s Alvaro Saborio, the best player on Costa Rica’s national side, to preserve the Rapids’ 1-0 victory.
Irwin came out of nowhere — unless you’re a huge fan of the Canadian Soccer League and the United Soccer League. And if you know the location of his old CSL team from 2011, Capital City FC, then you need to get out more. (It’s in Ottawa and the club no longer exists.)
If temp hits forecast of 19 degrees, it will be coldest game U.S. soccer has played in at least 12 years.
COMMERCE CITY — It’s 90 minutes before game time and the poor Costa Rican reporters are praying to St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers. It’s 30 degrees and dropping nearly as fast as the snowflakes. Wind has turned flags as stiff as pennants on a wall.
And Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, site of Friday night’s Costa Rica-U.S. World Cup qualifier, is open air.
Forecast is for 19 degrees with, ahem, “possible snow and rain showers.” Michael Kammarman, U.S. Soccer’s terrific public relations man, said if the temperature meets the forecast it’ll be the coldest game the U.S. soccer team has played in his 12 years at the post.
Still, plenty of tailgating fans were dressed in American flags and buffalo heads.
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Categories: International, U.S. National Team, World Cup
Clint Dempsey thinks U.S. could use cold to its advantage against Costa Rica
[media-credit name=”Daniel Petty, The Denver Post” align=”alignnone” width=”495″][/media-credit]
U.S. Men's National Team captain Clint Dempsey speaks during a press conference on March 21, 2013, in Denver, Colorado, a day before the team's World Cup qualifying match against Costa Rica.
COMMERCE CITY — Two elements that may or may not be factors in Friday’s 8 p.m. World Cup qualifier between the United States and Costa Rica will be weather and altitude. The weather forecast is for 21 degrees with a chance of showers.
Altitude may be a bigger factor than weather. While Costa Rica is near the equator, eight players on Friday’s roster play in Northern Europe. That includes four in Norway and one each in Denmark and Sweden. Some games in Norway are played in as low as 5 degrees. Star forward Alvaro Saborio plays for Real Salt Lake.
Both teams play regularly in Mexico City. However, both teams remarked that their shots during practice this week were sailing more than usual. In their practice Monday at the University of Denver, Americans were regularly airmailing shots over the crossbar.
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Categories: English Premier League, U.S. National Team, World Cup
Costa Rica star captain Alvaro Saborio “110 percent” after knee injury scare
Costa Rica star forward Alvaro Saborio rated himself “110 percent” for Friday’s 8 p.m. World Cup qualifier at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park after a knee injury scare Wednesday.
Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto said Saborio was “doubtful to start against the U.S.” after he took a shot to the knee in Wednesday’s practice. However, Saborio participated in Costa Rica’s full practice Thursday.
Saborio has 30 goals for Costa Rica and is Real Salt Lake’s all-time leading scorer with 53. His seven goals in World Cup qualifying leads all players in North, Central and South America. He also led Costa Rica to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Costa Rica enters Friday on nine-game unbeaten streak and has not lost since a 1-0 decision to Mexico in the first stage of World Cup qualifying on Sept. 11.
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Categories: International, Major League Soccer, U.S. National Team, World Cup
Watch Live: Talking U.S. soccer World Cup qualifying with Tony Sanneh, Chris Armas and Jared Montz
By Nick Groke
[media-credit name=”Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post” align=”alignright” width=”270″][/media-credit] American goalkeeper Brad Guzan tends the goal during practice of the U.S. men’s national team practice at the University of Denver on March 18, 2013, ahead of their World Cup Qualifying match on Friday against Costa Rica.
One loss in to the Hex round of World Cup qualifying, and already U.S. soccer fans are starting to fret. The U.S. team, behind suddenly embattled coach Jurgen Klinsmann, are pointless heading into the second game against Costa Rica on Friday at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Colorado. They (maybe desperately) need points on the road to World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
Ex-U.S. national players Tony Sanneh and Chris Armas join retired MLS player Jared Montz and I on a Google hangout to talk at 4 p.m. about the Americans’ chances against Costa Rica and next week at Mexico.
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Categories: U.S. National Team, World Cup
Jurgen Klinsmann sees improvement in U.S. soccer, but “It has a ways to go”
[media-credit name=”Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post” align=”alignnone” width=”495″][/media-credit] Jurgen Klinsmann talks to midfielder Maurice Edu at U.S. training Monday in Denver.
I’ve been a huge fan of international soccer ever since I joined a packed stadium of 20,000 people in Bangkok to watch Thailand play vicious historical rival Burma in the 1978 Asian Games. A year later, in my first full-time newspaper job, I wrote that more kids played soccer in the state of Washington than baseball. I wrote, like many other writers in the late ’70s and ’80s, that soccer was America’s sport of the future.
It’s more than 30 years later and the U.S. still hasn’t gone past the quarterfinals of the World Cup. Entering Friday’s World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, the U.S. world ranking is 33rd. That’s one behind Hungary.
The biggest difference between American players and South American and Europeans are the shot makers.
U.S. goalkeeper Brad Guzan finally got his chance this season at Aston Villa
[media-credit name=”Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post” align=”alignright” width=”270″][/media-credit] Brad Guzan.
I have a relatively long story in Wednesday’s paper about Brad Guzan, the U.S. goalkeeper called up to replace injured veteran Tim Howard against Costa Rica in Friday night’s World Cup qualifier. He spent four years mostly riding the bench in England’s Premier League and behind Howard on the national team.
This season he has his chance. He’s the star of an Aston Villa team that’s three points above relegation and must replace Howard for at least Friday and Tuesday’s game at Mexico. Friday’s 8 p.m. game at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park will be his sixth World Cup qualifier.
“Playing games is going to make you better,” he said after Monday’s practice at the University of Denver. “It’s about experience. You get confidence when you play well. You continue to try and get better. For me, it was a long wait, a long process but you need someone to give you that opportunity. Fortunately, for me, it came this year and when you get that chance you have to take it.”
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Finau earns final United States of America wild card selection for Ryder Cup
— Сен 13, 2018
This year's United States squad is absolutely loaded with Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka, Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods leading the way. Finau, who has one career PGA Tour victory, said he was ready for the pressure of the Ryder Cup.
Finau will be competing in his first Ryder Cup, becoming the third rookie on the USA team, joining Justin Thomas, the 2017 PGA champion, and Bryson DeChambeau.
Finau had been expected to get the 12th and final spot on the Ryder Cup team based on his overall play, particularly of late. According to the Billy Horschel rule, however, Furyk still has one more pick to make this week.
Finau was always a clear favourite to go to Le Golf National at the end of the month after a consistent display of results over the summer, including finishing in the top 10 in three of the four major championships. I'm excited to add him to the team. The team dominated the Ryder Cup last time around and might even be deeper this year, making the team a worthwhile play on the betting lines.
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Eight other USA players made the roster after last month's PGA Championship after a two-year qualifying period - Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Webb Simpson, Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson.
"I liked what I saw", Furyk said of Finau's play on the French host layout. He turned professional right out of high school in 2007, but it took him seven years to earn his PGA Tour card. Finau was raised in a tough section of Salt Lake City known as Rose Park.
"Hey guys, Tony Finau here". "To me, to be a member of the Ryder Cup team - a dream of mine - is really humbling and satisfying". It's been a long time.
This year's United States squad is absolutely loaded with Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka, Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods leading the way. Finau, who has one...
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Frieze Week /
Six Creative Duos Choose a Favourite Spot in London to be Photographed
The couples, friends and relatives who are helping shape this year’s Frieze Week
Click here for tickets to Frieze London 4-7 October
The Otolith Group
Sarah & Anna
Nicoletta & Patrizio
Lydia & Christopher
Conrad & Marina
Kuba Ryniewicz, Otolith Group, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
At home, Northeast London
Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar founded The Otolith Group in 2002. Working across moving image, performance and installation, The Otolith Group are acclaimed for their expanded and critical visions of science fictions that draw on futurisms from Africa, America, Asia, Britain, the Caribbean and Europe. For Frieze Film, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, The Otolith Group present their new work Message of the Forest. Towards O Horizon (2018). The film sets a recording of a made at the Hotel Esplande, Berlin in 1921 of Rabindrath Tagore – the Nobel Prize-winning poet, educator, songwriter, dramatist, painter and novelist – lecturing, to contemporary scenes performed and filmed in and around the rural landscapes of Santiniketan, West Bengal, where Tagore founded Visva-Bharati University in 1921. Message of the Forest screens alongside the other Frieze Film commissions daily at 3:30pm in the Frieze London Auditorium, and will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the Random Acts series.
Kuba Ryniewicz, Sarah & Anna, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
At Peckham Bazaar, 119 Consort Rd, London, SE15 3RU
Anna Colin and Sarah McCrory have been friends since 2003, when they joined the same MA curating course at the Royal College of Art. Anna is Associate Curator for Lafayette Anticipations: Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, which opened its innovative Rem Koolhaas-led transformation of a Paris hôtel particulier into a state-of-the-art production workshop and exhibition space in March. In addition, she is co-director, with Laurence Taylor, of the Margate-based Open School East – a free, inclusive workspace in Margate, Kent which offers an alternative training to art school – of which Sarah is board member. As Director of Goldsmith’s Centre Contemporary Art in Lewisham, South East London, Sarah oversees the city’s newest free public art gallery: a stunning and unconventional space carved out by Turner Prize-winning practice Assemble from a disused Victorian bathhouse. Its opening exhibition, a survey of American artist Mika Rottenberg – who, coincidentally, had her first UK commission in 2006 as winner of the first Artist Award at Frieze – is a standout for any Frieze Week schedule. Anna and Sarah chose to be photographed in Peckham Bazaar, a south London restaurant where the daily changing menu draws on a landscape of flavours stretching across the former Ottoman empire, from the Balkans to the Maghreb and beyond, and making extensive use of an outdoor firepit. The vibe is energetic, serious-minded but emphatically unfussy. A bit like these two.
Kuba Ryniewicz, Nicoletta & Patrizio, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
At Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London, N1 2ANE
Selected from more than 70 applicants, the recipient of this year’s Contemporary Art Society Collections Fund Prize – awarded to a UK institution outside the capital to acquire work from Frieze London – is The Box, Plymouth. So for The Box’s Contemporary Curator, Nicoletta Lambertucci, Frieze Week will be the fulfilment of months of research and negotiation. With the acquisition announced at the fair on 3rd October, all Nicoletta will reveal in advance is that she has been looking at work on the theme of movement across the seas: reflecting both the ongoing urgency of global migration and Plymouth’s proud history as a port city (it celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage in 2020, when The Box opens). Nicoletta wed artist Patrizio di Massimo in London in 2017, wearing a gown by the artist Than Hussein Clark, inspired by Carlo Carrà’s Leaving The Theatre (1910). The painting is a jewel of the Estorick Collection – the UK’s only institution dedicated to modern Italian art, home to masterpieces by Giacomo Balla, De Chirico, Modigiliani and Giorgio Morandi - which the couple chose as a reception venue. De Chirico was an early influence on Patrizio, whose recent large figurative paintings meld elements of Salvador Dali, Otto Dix, Pierre de Klossowski and Christian Schad into something uniquely charming and disarming. Nicoletta has often been Patrizio’s model, though new characters entered the works shown at Volcano Extravaganza in Stromboli this year. Next up, another collaboration: a baby, due in November.
Kuba Ryniewicz, Lydia & Christopher, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
At Rochelle Canteen, 16 Playground Gardens, London E2 7FA
Invited to co-curate Frieze Talks this year, Lydia Yee chose to explore the theme of autobiography – a response to cultural phenomena such as the #MeToo movement and the return of ‘autofiction’. Happening daily at 12:30pm and 4:30pm in the Frieze London auditorium, Frieze Talks this year features artists and writers for whom personal experience is valuable material: from Laurie Anderson, Alexander Chee and Berni Searle to Nan Goldin and Olivia Laing. The Chief Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, Lydia’s most recent exhibition is Ulla von Brandenberg’s ‘Sweet Feast’, on view during Frieze Week, which draws a political allegory from a real historical incident at Whitechapel, when a display of European confectionary was consumed by visiting children. Lydia’s partner of more than 25 years is the American-Swiss artist Christian Marclay. This autumn, Tate Modern presents Christian’s lauded installation The Clock (2010): a 24 hour video collage which, through dialogue and pictured timepieces in film, tells the actual time. As this sublime, meticulous montage attests, Christian was an experimental DJ early in his practice – in November, he will premiere a new composition for 20 pianos for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Lydia and Christian chose to be photographed at Rochelle Canteen, located in a walled garden in east London. Fashionistas, rock-stars, foodies – and the odd curator and artist – flock here for its casual elegance and Chef Margot Henderson’s thoughtful, seasonal menu.
Kuba Ryniewicz, Conrad & Marina, 2018. Courtesy: the artist
At Frieze Sculpture, The Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4JL
Conrad Shawcross is no stranger to public space. Last year, his The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue) (2017) stretched across the lofts of St Pancras Station, while his lauded architectural intervention The Optic Cloak (2016) towers 49 metre high above North Greenwich: a monolith of moire effect, perforated aluminium panels. Little surprise, then, that the artist’s Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I) (2018) is a stand out of this year’s Frieze Sculpture – a free exhibition of outdoor art selected by Claire Lilley (YSP), sited a stone’s throw from the fairs – which coincides with Conrad’s show at Victoria Miro Mayfair in Frieze Week. Fortress-like from a distance, Labyrinth’s manipulation of moire optics means its whole form throbs and shimmers, inviting viewers to navigate the sculpture in all dimensions. During the photograph, this engagement was eagerly undertaken by Conrad’s son Hartley, under the eye of his Nonna, Marina Warner. A writer of criticism, essays, and fiction, Marina’s works – many of them landmarks in their field - examine the powers inherent in the stories we tell, from legends of female heroism to the Arabian Nights, fairy tales and lullabies to Ovid. One of our leading public intellectuals, last year she was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature. Marina’s latest book, Forms of Enchantment: Writing on Art & Artists (Thames & Hudson), makes ideal reading for Frieze Week, gathering thirty years of her thinking on artists including Louise Bourgeouis, Damien Hirst, Joan Jonas, Sigmar Polke and Kiki Smith.
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Home Budgets/Taxes Judge Blocks Illinois’ Pension Reforms; Will Governor Block Chicago’s Reforms
Judge Blocks Illinois’ Pension Reforms; Will Governor Block Chicago’s Reforms
written by Steve Stanek June 5, 2014
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Steve Stanek is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and a former managing editor of two Heartland publications, "Budget & Tax News" and "Finance, Insurance & Real Estate News." Stanek's articles have appeared in numerous local, state and national publications since he began writing for Heartland in 2003, and he has been a frequent guest on local and national radio and television programs discussing government budget and regulatory issues.
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A judge in Sangamon County Circuit Court has blocked a modest reform of Illinois’ pension system for state workers and retirees outside Chicago from taking effect June 1, giving Gov. Pat “Four Counties” Quinn the excuse he’s probably been looking for to block reforms for two of Chicago’s pension plans. (I’ll explain “Four Counties” in a moment.)
This isn’t to say Chicago’s or Illinois’ pension plans should stay as they are. If they do, we’ll probably end up with a bankrupt city and a state that is effectively bankrupt but not legally so because states cannot go into bankruptcy.
The Quinn-supported state pension reform blocked for the time being by Judge John Belz would raise the retirement age for many state workers and reduce and delay some annual cost-of-living increases. In return, the state would slightly reduce the amount of money taken from workers’ paychecks as pension contributions.
Supporters of the reform tried to make it sound momentous, but as the Illinois Policy Institute notes, it shrinks the state’s unfunded liability only to 2011 levels, when “crisis” and “Illinois pensions” went together like ham and eggs. So the state still has a pension crisis even if the reforms take effect.
And Chicago? Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopes Quinn will sign a reform plan for the city’s pensions for city laborers and municipal workers. The plan includes a $250 million property tax increase in Chicago over five years, more money out of workers’ paychecks to cover their share of pension funding, and smaller cost-of-living increases.
Chicago’s four pension plans (including for teachers and public safety workers) are some $20 billion short. They have barely 36 cents for every dollar needed to pay benefits. Absent changes in state law, the city’s pension spending next year will nearly double to $1 billion. This year’s city budget totals $7 billion.
Moody’s Investors Service earlier this year downgraded Chicago’s debt to just three notches above junk. The only large U.S. city with a lower credit rating is bankrupt Detroit. The Northbrook-based watchdog Truth in Accounting estimates, on a per-person basis, Chicago’s state and local taxpayer burden is worse than Detroit’s. (The burden includes debt repayments and unfunded retirement promises.)
Emanuel inherited this problem, but he and the City Council worsened it earlier this year by borrowing another $1.9 billion. The City Council approved the borrowing just two days after Emanuel announced the plan, with almost no deliberation or discussion. The job description for a Chicago alderman must read “mayoral lapdog.”
Illinois, of course, has the nation’s worst credit rating among the 50 states, largely because of the many lies lawmakers have told when they’ve promised to fund pensions and then have spent the money on other things.
Quinn has made clear he opposes higher taxes in Chicago, where he won overwhelmingly in his bid for a full term as governor in 2010. Yet he’s working to make the massive “temporary” state income tax increase of 2011 permanent. Cook County was one of only four counties to support Quinn. The other three were tiny rural counties. In other words, Quinn lost 98 of the state’s 102 counties.
“Four Counties” knows if he can get another huge win in Chicago and Cook County, he can secure reelection. If he blocks higher property taxes in Chicago, he wins votes there. He cares little about winning other counties. He didn’t need them last time.
Even if Chicago’s and the state’s pension reforms do become law, though, the city and state will be nowhere near sound financial footing.
Steve Stanek (sstanek@heartland.org) is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute in Chicago.
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Formula DRIFT – Round 3: Uncharted Territory // Event Coverage
Post on: Jun 17, 2015
Devin Dees
Words by: Devin Dees and Kendra Aceto
Photos by: Kendra Aceto, Devin Dees, and Jeremy Stoutamyer
The hottest round of the 2015 Formula Drift season brought us to an entirely new track, with only a few turns the track made up for numbers with size. For the past few years Round Three has been held in Palm Beach and Miami, but this year the series took on Uncharted Territory at Central Florida’s Orlando Speed World, set up in a classic figure-8.
The weekend not only marked a first at the new venue, but it marked the first Pro 2 event of the season! Introduced last year, Pro 2 is now the stepping stone for Pro AM drivers who have earned their license by finishing in the Top 4 in their respective regional series. This allows an easier transition into the Pro atmosphere, pinning the top Pro AM competitors against each other for a ticket up. While Pro 1 is a 7 event series, Pro 2 is on just 4 of those stops. Travel, wear and tear on the vehicle, and other expenses can be difficult to cover as a driver coming into their rookie pro season.
That being said, this group came prepared. 34 competitors showed up in Florida to qualify for just 16 spots! This made for an intense qualifying session. Friday looked quite promising with Alex Heilbrunn qualifying in first place in his supercharged Ford powered E46 BMW and local driver Kelsey Rowlings rounding out the field at number sixteen.
This was after Kelsey broke a rocker arm during a practice run; luckily Mazworx, who provided the turbocharged SR22, was just down the road from the track and able to get the Nissan 240SX back in the race.
Just as we were preparing to watch the competition, mother nature barged in as she so often does and drenched the track… a foreshadowing of conditions for Saturday’s main event. The mood of the crowd darkened as they assumed the change in weather would make for a boring show, but the first two to hit the wet track were determined to lift spirits and prove them all wrong. Jeff Wolfson attacked the bank in his lead run against Ryan Litteral’s RB25 powered 240SX, making contact with the wall in his Scion FRS, but kept his composure to complete his run and ultimately win the match up.
The great 8 showed no signs of slowing down. The banking dried quickly, making the transition into what we would later call “No Man’s Land” no easy task. The bump in the transition, still wet from rain, would be the cause of a few drivers’ undoing. As the sun began to set, two drivers in particular began to shine.. Andy Gray drove his Toyota Chaser like his life depended on it.
This 2JZ powered super saloon made 700HP right off the boat from Japan, making it one of our favorite cars in the series. Andy’s ability to follow and anticipate the lead driver was incredible, but the real star of the show was Alex Heilbrunn.
Alex completed a perfect event, qualifying in first place and finishing out on top in the finals over Gray. Whispers throughout the crowd suggested that these two could be competitive at the Pro 1 level, we’re inclined to agree. Keep your eye on these two – we have a feeling that this isn’t the last we’ll be seeing of either of them.
Living in Florida, you learn to expect the unexpected when it comes to weather conditions. Just like at Friday’s Pro 2 race, The weather took a turn for the worst as it came down to the last few tandems of Formula Drift’s Pro Series. Lucky for us, local sponsor Enjuku Racing profited off of their forward thinking and came prepared with $1 ponchos for sale to keep those of us dry who didn’t bring or buy an umbrella. To account for the drastically changing weather conditions, drivers were each given one practice run on the wet track before the tandem that would ultimately determine their standing in the competition. Many drivers spun out in the center of the track, deemed “No Man’s Land” by FD announcer Jarod DeAnda.
Top 32 was looking promising.
This “No Man’s Land” was where the action heated up – quite literally – during the Great Eight competition. Even during dry conditions drivers found themselves catching air or sliding sideways, but in the wrong direction. Rookie driver Masashi Yokoi advanced to the Top 8 before his S15 caught fire in No Man’s Land. His team was able to make repairs in time to get him back on track for his lead run against Ryan Tuerck, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough for him to advance further.
Another rising star in FD is driver Matt Field. He’s not afraid to push his S14 to its absolute limits, and he shows improvement every time he puts tire to pavement. He was knocked out of the Final Four by Tuerck, but we are confident that it is only a matter of time before he finds himself on the podium.
After taking out Vaughn Gittin Jr., Chris Forsberg found himself in a fiery battle against Ken Gushi in his FR-S – a chassis that has gained traction crazy fast in the drifting world. The platform is also currently being used by previous FD winner Fredric Aasbo as well as Ryan Tuerck, who would ultimately take the win here in Orlando. While chasing Forsberg and coming around the first turn into No Man’s Land, Gushi failed to initiate his drift in line with Forsberg causing their front ends to collide, then their rear ends, and flames shot out the back of Forsberg’s 370Z. Because of this mistake, Forsberg advanced to the final battle leaving Gushi in third place.
With his teammates yelling “Fire!” Forsberg made the decision to be safe rather than sorry and engage the fire suppression system after his tandem with Gushi, however, the fire turned out to be nothing more than a large backfire and the suppression system caused damage to the engine. The team was unable to get the car to start in time for his final battle against Ryan Tuerck. It wasn’t the most exciting way to win, but because Forsberg couldn’t get his car back on track, Tuerk took first place with Forsberg in second and Gushi in third.
Next month, Formula Drift travels to a crowd favorite venue in New Jersey, The Wall. With Odi Bachkis getting knocked out early in Round 3 followed by a win for Tuerck, the battle for first in points is heating up!
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Disneycember
Posted by: Doug Walker in Channel Awesome, Disneycember, Doug Walker, Videos December 9, 2015
Yikes, this is a sequel that surprised everybody! What can one say but “Hail Hydra.” Doug looks at The Winter Soldier.
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HMorris73
Yeah for me this is the only Marvel sequel so far to surpass the original, which is saying something because the first Captain America was pretty darn good in its own right.
Fran Ohmsford
I really didn’t like Winter Soldier!
1) It’s an X-Men Movie with Captain America – And I didn’t like the X-Men Movies {any of them!}.
2) The Winter Soldier himself has zero character – You ask why they didn’t have more of a rivalry well…
a) He’s powerful enough to kill pretty much anyone but Cap without breaking a sweat.
b) As soon as Cap realises who he is it’s blatantly obvious Cap is going to do everything he can NOT to kill him despite all the deaths he’s racked up!
c) There’s literally no reason given or even implied for why Bucky cannot be reasoned with other than that he’s an unthinking machine!
Basically – There’s nothing there! No way to have a real hero-villain rivalry – Bucky is simply an unthinking Assassin {A Bullseye if you will only without the charisma!}.
3) The Spy plot where the lead is being chased by his own people has as you say been done to death and in far far better films {US Marshals to name just one! Heck the entire Bourne storyline relies upon it!}.
4) The complete and total Hydra takeover of SHIELD is not even close to believable – Agents of SHIELD took this to absolutely ludicrous levels and I’m really worried that Civil War is just going to be more of the same X-Men storyline of Humans hating anyone different!
5) After the really very good First Avenger Winter Soldier was for me one hell of a let down – As indeed was Dark World after Thor.
Maarons
1) No it’s not. There is nothing X-Men about this as…
a) no superpowers.
b) no split public opinion on the characters.
c) it’s a guy with limited allies making it more like a Bond movie where he’s cut off from MI6 or Mission: Impossible 4 and 5.
2) Winter Soldier has always been a tool for higher organizations or characters. He’s essentially Darth Vader to Cap’s Luke.
3) Just because other films have done it doesn’t mean this one is bad for it because the Bourne sequels would be bad as a result. (And U.S. Marshals was a bad attempt to cash in on The Fugitive.)
4) This infiltration and takeover is very realistic as many governments and groups have been taken over from within like this through history.
BobLogical
“Not realistic.” This is literally what the United States government did after World War II. We rounded up all the Nazi scientists and doctors we could find and gave them full amnesty for their crimes against humanity, then put them to work for us. This is 100% a realistic and believable plot.
Jaxsparrow25
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion and I’m not going to criticize but I’d really like to hear an explanation for reason #1.
Soupy
Thank you!!! Finally someone else who didn’t like this movie!! I was left bored and cold by this movie. However my reasons for not liking it are different to yours:
1) Zero character – What is Black Widow’s character arc? Non-existent. Cap starts the movie trying to find an emotional link to his past, and he ends the movie…. trying to find an emotional link to his past!
2) Cap has no character – Chris Evan’s godawful portrayal of Steve Rogers. He has that one serious-yet-confused look on his face throughout the entire movie. In the comics Cap is a wise yet occasionally stubborn leader. Chris Evan’s Cap barely looks like he could lead a halftime parade, let alone a team of Shield agents! I never get the feeling like he’s leading in this movie, always that he’s the on being led.
3) The guy with the wings – Can’t remember his name. But for a guy who’s only met Cap for a fraction of the movie’s run time, he sure does have a hard-on for following him around. He volunteers to be Captain America’s Robin after only barely meeting the guy. He couldv’t been implemented better.
4) Serious / goofy story. The first movie’s plot was very fantasy-based. The sequel is more realistic, more akin to Bond than a comic book. The problem is that by bringing back Hydra, they’re essentially putting something portrayed as supernatural or slightly silly, into a film that doesn’t need it. I would really have preferred a different source of antagonism that fits better into the movie’s more realistic take on Captain America. It’s like putting Loki in Spectre! Yeah it’s a good villain but he has no place there!
5) The MCU – Normally this is a good thing as most MCU movies have been great. But by having a lot of Cap and the MCU’s story developing over multiple movies, this one movie is lacking any of it’s own. It’s as if the directors couldn’t put too much of Cap’s story here because they were told it has to happen in another movie somewhere. The result feels half-baked. Want Black Widow to do something personal? No, it’s going to happen somewhere else. Want Bucky to fully reunite with Cap? No, wait for the sequel. Is Nick Fury really dead? No, we need him back for future stuff. This is the only movie I’ve seen of Marvel’s where the MCU actually makes it a worse-off movie.
There, ranted long enough. Cap 2 blows.
Leeran
I think a lot of these points have to be with personal opinion and point of view, so they’re hard to argue with. But I do want to argue with the first point:
Okay, no. These two actually have complicated character arcs that are very similar.
By the time we get to see Cap in this movie, he’s already had some development since the end of CATFA. When we meet Cap in Avengers, it’s like he isn’t even TRYING to adapt to the modern times. He’s angry and frustrated and even though he feels like he doesn’t belong, he’s not trying to belong either. He can’t let go of the past. His first scene in Avengers shows very well just how angry he is. And also, just look at his clothes… He dresses like a grampa. He seems very reluctant to move on and accept he has to live in this time– And it’s not like you can blame him for it.
But when we meet him in CATWS, he finally started to adapt to the times. He seems to fit in a lot more than before, and he even admits the good things about the current times. However, he still can’t let go completely. Well, it’s not easy. The most difficult part is his job in SHIELD: Cap WANTS to be a soldier. He WANTS to follow orders, to fight for what’s right and to protect the people. But he doesn’t really feel like he can trust SHIELD. We see this clearly when he argues with Fury after seeing the three helicarriers, and later when he speaks to Peggy. He feels like things aren’t so easy anymore. He wants to fight for what’s right, but instead he has to face complex moral questions and decide what he’s willing to do. And he doesn’t know (he shows this clearly the second time he speaks to Sam). He’s a soldier, but these aren’t times of war (in the MCU at least), and so, things aren’t so simple anymore.
By the end of the movie, he already knows he wasn’t wrong about distrusting SHIELD. He’s left thinking that he can’t simply follow the lead of just anyone– that he must do what he feels it’s right. This feeling of his is probably what will motivate him in Civil War, honestly. He’s seen what organizations like SHIELD can do, how badly they can mess up. And he can’t trust a government that allowed this to happen to make a better organization this time. But I digress– The point is that he goes through an emotional and moral journey. He starts the movie feeling lost, but by the end he finds a motivation and new beliefs. He has to face a lot of painful things during the journey, but now at least he knows what he wants to do.
Natasha goes to this journey but… in reverse, I guess. She actually trust SHIELD, she trust Fury very much, and she doesn’t have doubts about what she’s doing. Sure, she has to do “shady” things now and then, but she believes it’s for the greater good. She has a good motivation. (Not that she doesn’t have issues of her own. She has! But those are mostly identity issues. Who is she really? and all that).
But she loses Fury, and this actually hits her hard. And then, SHIELD turns out to be infiltrated by HYDRA. It turns out that she’s worked for yet another despicable organization who has used her blind trust against herself. And she blames herself for letting them use her (“I thought I knew whose lies I was telling. I guess I can’t tell the difference anymore”). Now she’s the one who’s lost, who doesn’t know what to do. She chooses to follow Steve, because she knows for sure that he has a good heart and that she can at least trust him.
By the end of the movie, she also releases all the information about her past to the public. She isn’t invisible anymore. And she says it herself: she has to figure out a new cover. Or actually figure out who she really is, and what she wants to do from now on. Her arc is one about carefully destroying everything she was so sure of, and forcing her to chose for herself. We don’t get to see what happens next, sure, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t develop through the movie. She definitely grows, and she’s forced to become her own person now, to stop just following organizations and decide for herself what’s right. It’s something her character really needed.
And for all this rant, there are scenes in the movie that clearly hint everything I’ve said. Maybe the character development feels a little lost under all the political drama, but to me it’s clearly there.
Damn this was a good movie. 2014 was a great year for Marvel! (This one, not so much) I can’t wait for Civil War!
Surprised not to hear a comment on how it’s another guy in a suit who’s the villain. Either way, Robert Redford was having a blast in this and was one of the best parts since he’s such a A-level actor who can do affably evil.
nblaw95
Cap can’t really have that same rivalry relationship with the Winter Soldier imo for a couple reasons. He is trying to save him, not defeat him (well, not at first). This is one of the last people that he knew from his own time, so it makes sense he’d do whatever is in his power to save him. Which brings up the second point, he’s trying to do exactly that in Civil War, which would be at least a little awkward if they’d had the kind of relationship you wanted. He was once essentially his sidekick. This is more akin to Batman fighting a Robin who he had believed was dead (crazy, right? 😛 ).
MidnightScreeningsman2014
Glad you liked it as much as we did Doug. It truly was my favorite marvel movie of phase 2 and leading up to the avengers age of ultron it was awesome and man black widows way hot int this one(there I said it so nobody else would have to admit that we get it). I kinda felt like Robert Redford wasn’t on screen that much but for the time he did get it was fun. Buckle up cause next time where headed to the galaxy(guardians of the galaxy that is).
The Scarlet Ninja
I wasn’t that big of a Captain America fan until this movie, now I’ve got his shield hanging up on my wall. Really ties the room together lol. I’m so happy with what they did in this movie, I’d add nothing to it, I’d take nothing away. I’m eager to see what they are going to do with Bucky now. Is he really back to normal and going to fight for the good side, is it all an act to kill Cap., or some other route. Can’t wait to find out!
Saw this movie after watching the first Captain America on the same day… it was awesome!
mbellardini
Couldn’t help but notice that this movie has a similar premise to another movie with Robert Redford, Three Days of the Condor in which Redford’s character faces similar challenges. It’s not a copy, but it’s along the same lines as that move.
Snorgatch Pandalume
The whole movie is basically an homage to the conspiracy thrillers of the 70s, of which Three Days of the Condor is one of the best examples. That’s no doubt why they cast Robert Redford in it.
Morkez Marihser
This is my favorite standalone movie, tied with the Avengers. It’s made in a much better way, enough to match the hype going for Avengers. I could go into it for over two thousand words but I’ll pass n that.
Darinas
Yes, this one was great. And I agree, of the three, it was the one I least expected to be THAT great. But they made it awesome. I do kinda have to disagree about the filler part though; I mean, this movie made things move by having SHIELD disbanded.
Zeroman2
To me Winter Soldier has to be one best Sequels of all time. Easily in the top 15 with Dark Knight, Wrath of Khan, T2, and Empire Strikes Back. Because they build on the story and action. To be honest none of the MCU sequels are that great to me, not bad just not great. I was just as shock as everybody about how much effort they put on this movie.
I do like this one even more than I like first one and I already liked first one a lot. To me it’s that they made Winter Soldier spy movie but with superheroes that makes it so interesting. Yeah sure big bad of this movie was another guy in suit but least he worked for Hydra so that gave him reason to be bad guy.
Ergotth
actualy calling it a filler movie is a slight mistake. While captain America was half the setting for Avengers (the other half being iron man, Hulk and Thor) this one s the COMPLETE setting for Civil War. The very basis and foundation of what is going to happen this 2016.
LaserBunny
I found it weird that they changed him to hydra but kept the communist red star on his bionic arm.
Sijo
That could have been a misdirection on Hydra’s part. If he was ever killed or captured, everyone would have assumed he was a Russian assassin.
Alaster Boneman
I think Cap has got to be my favirte hero in these movies, he not some closed minded idoet whos stuck in the past, in my mind he is what a super hero is supposed to be, a guy with power that tries his best just to help. no pretension, no meaningless speeches just a good guy being a good guy
TragicGuineaPig
“But you don’t have to be a genius to know that Evil Is Bad! And Good…. ISN’T!”
– The Tick.
Sypoth
Wow, you have low standards if you actually LIKED this movie, Numerous plot holes, scenes that you know how they are going to end long before they even start simply because you’ve seen it in literally EVERY OTHER CHEAPLY MADE ACTION MOVIE YOU’VE MADE FUN OF! Literally all the scenes are tropes, lets also not forget, explanation that simply cut the question off at the knees without any real details being given, which is ANOTHER thing you’ve complained about in multiple other bad movies like Never Ending Story 3, After Earth, Never Ending Story 2, Shark boy and Lava Girl, The Animated Titanic Movies, need I go on? You say Yes? Then how about when they are saying that Hydra can with just one carrier override the other two however they can’t override one with two? That’s never explained. How did Nick Fury who just came back from the dead for no reason get to a Helicopter and get it more than fourth stories in the sky through an A.A. barrage from one of the carriers to be in the right spot for hawk to jump and land safely inside all without knowing where he was? Those carriers are obviously easily boarded by slow moving helicopters apparently, lets not forget how the hell did the doctor make an exact copy of his mind up until the moment he died? Why did they ever need hawk in teh first place? When they have hijacked two carriers why not have them target the one they haven’t jacked yet and blow it out of the sky? For that matter When they have absolute control of the carriers why didn’t they just keep control of them rather than blow them to pieces? Ugh, so much Stupidity from this movie it’s making my head hurt just thinking about how much better this would have been had some logic and effort put into it! Oh lets also not forget that the names Captain America and Winter Soldier are literally in the title however the tertiary story character, Hawk, almost gets more screen time than either one of them, the two that get the majority of the screen time are Black Widow and Nick Fury each one totaling more screen time than EITHER of the main characters COMBINED! The complaints I have with this movie are nearly endless, it’s boring, it’s dull, it’s one long trope train, and it loves to show off it’s explosions, wait a minute, Did Michael Bay direct this movie? I bet he did! If it wasn’t him then he had a MAJOR impact on the ones who did because Winter Soldier has all the ear marks of a Michael Bay Film, it also has ear marks from Shyamalan, oh no, Don’t Tell me, This flaming pile of anal excrement is the flaming love child of Michael Bay and M. Night! Because at this point that’s EXACTLY what this movie looks like!
Jon McKenzie
Who hurt you?
I think Reb Brown kicked him in the junk before he went in or something.
Almost forgot that before he was Blast Hardcheese he was Captain America.
Giant text wall of butthurt.
That part about Cap not expected to be a great character, and yet somehow pulling it off great: that describes my attitude to a tee. I didn’t expect anything good from Captain America. What, he’s a guy with pretty lackluster powers, and his whole schtick is that he dresses up like a flag and beats up Nazis. And yet, this film – and to a large degree its predecessor – really hit me hard and impressed the hell out of me. I never thought I would love Captain America, but these three films (CA:FA, Avengers, and WS) really proved him to me. Now, he’s one of my favorites, right up there with Batman and Wolverine.
And it’s for the very reasons you specified: you see his journey. You see him as the underdog who just wants to do what’s right, you see him as the diehard friend who puts his life on the line for those he cares about.
The Man out of Time. In almost any other movie, this aspect of his character would make him goofy. Kind of like Thor in his first movie. But with Cap, there’s awkwardness, but most of it is just pain. Pain from the life he left behind, pain from a world that has forsaken the values he holds dear, pain from the loss of friends and family, pain from losing his true love in a way that only the elderly truly understand. Frankly, I think they did a much better job of portraying that than I had ever seen in the comics.
I like that, in the final battle, he fights because he absolutely must. But when the fight is over, he is willing to lay down his life to redeem his friend, even though his friend wants nothing of it.
It has been suggested that the title “Winter Soldier” applies not merely to the villain, but also to Cap himself. Because the winter soldier is the man who keeps fighting through it all, and doesn’t give up. The summer soldier only fights when he knows he can win; Cap keeps fighting even when there seems to be nothing left for him to fight for. And through the entire film, you feel this.
Next time around, we get to watch him scold his teammates for their potty mouths (even though he swears a cuss or two himself in this one). And we get to see Black Widows complex character journey boiled down to just needing a man in her life.
amrothery
I just signed up for an account in order to say this. One of the things I love about the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole is that, despite generally starring superheroes doing superhero-y things, the individual films are not solely superhero movies. Thor is epic fantasy, Iron Man is techno-thriller, Incredible Hulk is a monster movie. First Avenger was as much a war drama as it was anything else, and Winter Soldier is a political conspiracy thriller with Robert Redford in a major role (albeit with a lot more explosions than the Seventies could have produced). And still to come are things like the Space Opera, the Heist, and the Gritty Urban Crime Drama.
And Avengers? Avengers shows that all these great tastes can taste great together.
I wouldn’t really call this a ‘filler’ movie, as it delivers some pretty big plot bombshells that really shake up the world in the movies in the way something like Thor 2 doesn’t.
I have always loved Captain America. To me, he personifies what is best in superheroes: brave, kind, humble, generous, self-sacrificing, and yes, patriotic. Patriotism doesn’t have to be preachy or self-righteous or intolerant, and Cap is none of those things. He is a humane, compassionate man who loves his country but more than that, loves the values upon which it was founded. There is nothing phony about Cap. Plus, he kicks ass. People say they can’t identify with Superman because he’s too powerful. Cap is basically Superman without the powers.
I am delighted that the MCU has apparently caused many people to change their minds about Cap, among them, my wife. She said she never got Cap until she watched Captain America: The First Avenger. Now she does. He hates bullies.
cdrood
This is exactly it. It plays to both the grandeur and humanity of the character without being corny or preachy. I loved the line where Falcon asked if Steve rehearsed his speech. For those who don’t know, one of Cap’s things is big inspirational speeches. I loved how just by talking he got people on his side. A computer tech stood up to a trained field agent with a gun just on Cap’s word.
I think too many people expect naivete from such a character. That’s not Captain America. He understands there’s corruption. He’s just not going to let it make him cynical. It just makes him fight harder and he looks others who’ll join him. He’ll fight alone if he has to, but always believes he’ll find allies who share the core of his beliefs. Likewise, his companions are truly loyal because they see he has the courage of his convictions and are inspired to do the same.
Yeah, this was the first part of phase two that I LOVED. Heck, this video made me want to see again! I’m going to look for it On Demand! LOL.
Katicus
I feel like on paper, on a purely technical level this is probably the best of the phase 2 movies. I was engaged, it expanded the presented the protagonist’s specific corner of the Marvel Universe and challenged his (and by extension our) moral understanding of the functional world. It demonstrates how malleable the superhero genre is by giving us a top notch political thriller… and yet I tend to think I have a harder time bringing myself to watch this one than any of the other Phase Two entries. Going by the “rewatchability” metric, it doesn’t have check off the boxes that make some of the “less good” entries enjoyable. It wasn’t fun the way I want a Marvel superhero film to be. I was a Marvel fan way before the films, so buoyant character dynamics and broad (oft-times bonkers) adventure are the name of the game for me. With the exception of Cap’s scenes with Black Widow, who is the MVP in every Marvel film she appears (with the exception of Iron Man 2, in which everyone went home a loser), I didn’t get the same level of engaging character interplay that you get in just about any other Marvel film. And with the exception of Falcon’s flying and Cap’s shield throwing, it didn’t feel like the film had enough spectacle. I appreciate that the director wanted to show how flexible the superhero genre is, but I feel like in order to make the espionage action-thriller they wanted, it came at the cost of a lot of visually interesting superheroics. It’s the first Marvel film that really felt scared by the fact that these characters aren’t based in reality. Falcon has an unusual and potentially very fun power set to play with in the comics. He can communicate and control birds. There could have been some really out there, visually interesting, Hitchcockian use of his abilities in combat, but the film makers were afraid of the comic book source material getting in the way of the spy movie they wanted to make. Now, he’s just a guy in a military issue flight pack. In a universe with gods, gamma giants, and armies of aliens, they had to pulp all sense of wonder out of him? By pulping out all the fantastic superhero imagery they could get away with, they may have made a good spy/action film, but a disappointing superhero movie. Do I think this is a bad film? Absolutely not. Do I think it’s disappointing as an entry in the Marvel film series? Kinda, yeah. I don’t hate it, but it falls into, “I’m not mad, I’m disappointed” territory.
ErichoTTA
I remember watching Marvel: Agents Of Shield. They said Nick Fury was dead, but then I found out he wasn’t in this movie. Uh, spoilers? Come on, everyone familiar with the comics knows who the Winter Soldier is! I’m so glad my dad loved this with me. It’s probably his favorite movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Sunday Psalms: The Mermaid
Sunday Psalms: Fictional Narratives Inspired by the Psalms, Proverbs, & Other Biblical Works
The mermaid had been spotted three times, and from the perspective of the village council, every sighting had come from an unreliable source.
“Can’t trust a thing Old Man Samson says. He’s been senile for years.”
“Can’t trust what little Tommy Mark says either. Why, he’s not more than ten years old. What’s a boy his age know?
“Well you certainly can’t believe a word that comes out of Priscilla Dunlap’s mouth. A woman like that? Tongue’s as slippery as an eel.”
It was a foggy evening and the more prominent members of the community were gathered around the stove in the village lighthouse. This had become the official meeting place for the wise sages, and with Priscilla Dunlap being the third to spread the erroneous report of a mermaid in the harbor, an emergency meeting had been called.
“Folks are beginning to think there might be some validity to their story. We’ve got to do something before it gets out of hand.” The concern was voiced by Albert Rawlings, a tall man bearing the title of head elder. He generously presided over the village affairs like a young mother hovering over a newborn babe.
“Once people start believing in mermaids, they’ll go making up stories of dragons and unicorns and forest fairies,” continued Albert, shaking his fist as he spoke. “We can’t have a community full of nincompoops. People will think the village has run amuck.”
By the time he finished his impassioned speech, Alfred was standing, his mass seeming to occupy most of the room. To describe him as a tall man would be unfair, for he was in fact, the tallest man in the county. Indeed, Albert had often found himself towering above the majority of life.
“But what do you expect us to do, Albert?” Of all the elders, Robin Bletchley was the least motivated, and he frequently voiced a sense of despondency. Unlike Albert, Robin was a man who preferred to ruminate. He often encouraged others to adopt his cautious approach.
Unfortunately, Albert had no suggestions, which only served to heightened his concern. He slumped down on top of a barrel that had been turned over as a makeshift chair and pulled an old pipe from his jacket pocket. He always smoked when he was distressed.
What to do? What to do? The little group was silent as they mulled over the situation.
“Hasn’t there been a full moon every time?” Martha Olinger was the only feminine presence on the council. She was the least emotional and was only inclined to speak after pondering a subject for some time. Priscilla Dunlap had burst into her store early that morning, spouting out the story of the mermaid, and Martha had been chewing on the details for hours.
“I think you’re right, Martha. They claim she comes out every full moon, precisely at midnight.” Horace was the village lighthouse keeper. His lamp had been protecting the village for decades, and although he was skeptical about the mermaid, he paid close attention to any local conversation involving the sea.
“Ridiculous,” Albert muttered. “Complete and utter nonsense. Mermaids at midnight.”
“That may be, Albert. But don’t you see? Next full moon we’ll go down to the rocks and see for ourselves. Why, with all of us as witnesses, that will surely be enough to prove there is no mermaid.” The suggestion came from Riley Jefferson. He was the village banker and was, by far, the best at coming up with ideas.
By now Albert had finished lighting his pipe. He took a deep puff of tobacco and considered the matter. “Riley, I think you’re on the right path. It’s the only thing to do. We’ll prove this mermaid business is a lot of cockamamie nonsense.”
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On the evening of the next full moon, the sky seemed to understand the council’s mission. The weeks of persistent fog had suddenly dissipated, and every star in night sky was eager to be out.
“Perfect weather,” Horace remarked. It was just before midnight, and the council had gathered in the belly of the lighthouse to finalize their plans.
“Here’s what we’ll do,” Albert began, discounting the need for pleasantries. “Martha, you go up top with Horace. Make sure you shine the lamp out on the harbor right where they claim to have seen the mermaid. Robin, Riley, and I will hike down to the rocks where we can get a close look at things. We’ll stay until half past twelve. When she doesn’t show, we’ll insist that everyone ignore the rumors and make no further mention of it.”
The other elders seemed comfortable with the arrangement and headed to their prospective stations. Martha was pleased to accompany Horace. She’d loved him for forty years but had never found the right moment to tell him.
“Hurry,” Albert called to Robin and Riley as he scrambled down, convinced they were both moving too slow.
“I’m coming, Albert, but it’s rather dark out here. Wouldn’t want to take a tumble,” Robin said as he held a lantern out in front of him. Riley followed close behind, picking his way to the edge of the precarious rocks.
Meanwhile, Horace and Margaret were already patrolling the water with the lantern. Like artists on a canvas, they swept wide brushes of light back and forth across the sea, their eyes searching for something other than the waves.
“Got anything to eat?” Robin asked Albert as they settled down onto the rocks.
“Eat? Robin, there’ll be plenty of time for that. Let’s get this matter over with it.” Albert flipped open his pocket watch and began clicking his tongue. “See? What did I tell you. Midnight and not a mermaid in sight.”
“There. There! Mr. Rawlings, do you see it?” A shout rose up from the cliff, and the men turned to see little Tommy Mark scampering out to them. “Out there! Don’t you see her?”
“What are you talking about, boy? I don’t see anything,” Albert said and rubbed his eyes.
“Right there,” Tommy insisted, pointing out to sea. “You don’t see her?”
“Of course not,” Albert grumped and turned to the other elders. “You two stay here with Tommy. I’m going to find out if Horace or Martha can see anything from up there.”
By the time Albert had hiked back up to the lighthouse and climbed the stairs to the tower, Horace and Martha were out on the balcony, leaning over the edge.
“I think Tommy Mark has lost his mind,” Albert said as he joined them.
“Quiet,” Horace whispered without diverting his eyes from the sea.
“What are you two looking at?”
“The mermaid, Albert,” Martha said, her voice reverent. She was pointing to the same spot Tommy had indicated.
“I swear, I think you’ve all gone mad. I don’t see anything.”
“You can’t see her, Albert? She’s beautiful. Her long hair and tail?” There was a catch in his voice as Horace described the mermaid’s fluid actions, and Martha felt it appropriate to reach out and grasp several of his fingers. Horace was happy to oblige.
With his binoculars Albert examined the spot off the rocks where the others’ attention was focused. Granted, he could see the water splashing about. A jumping fish, perhaps? That’s all it was.
“I don’t see any mermaid and neither do you,” Albert insisted. What was wrong with them? They were the village elders. They were responsible for maintaining the integrity of the community. What was he going to do with them?
“Did you see it, Albert? Did you see it?” Robin and Riley nearly collided with Albert as they ran back into the lighthouse, their faces beaming like children at Christmas.
“Not you too,” Albert growled and pushed his way past them. “Has everyone gone insane?” He stormed his way back down to the water and firmly planted himself on one of the rocks.
“You still don’t see her, do you Mr. Rawlings?” There was compassion in Tommy’s voice as he sidled his way over to Albert.
“I can’t see something that doesn’t exist, Tommy. Why doesn’t anyone understand that? Mermaids aren’t real.” Albert hung his head in frustration. How could he make them see this was all wishful thinking? A mere hallucination.
“It’s okay, Mr. Rawlings.” He felt Tommy reach out and pat him on the shoulder. “You’re just not ready to see her.”
“What do you mean, Tommy?”
“The mermaid. Not everyone can see her. Only some people.”
The boy looked back out at the water where the mermaid continued to swim. The moon highlighted the orange and yellow hues of her long hair as it billowed in the water around her. Little Tommy Mark had never seen anything so beautiful.
“But what about me. Why can’t I see her?”
“You could if you wanted to,” Tommy said. He giggled when the mermaid jumped into the air then dove back under the water, her tail splashing water everywhere.
“And why wouldn’t I want to see a mermaid?”
“She scares you, Mr. Rawlings. When you’re not afraid, then you’ll be able to see her.”
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119:18 (ASV)
In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father; and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him. And turning to the disciples, He said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not. Luke 10:21-24 (ASV)
-Question to Ponder: Is there anything that scares you about God?
-Song Recommendation: How You Forgive Me by Enter the Worship Circle
-Read Previous Sunday Psalms: Season One Episodes, Season Two: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Episode 10
Written by Heidi Sadler, Inspired by Psalm 119 & Luke 10. Copyright © 2016 by Heidi Sadler, All Rights Reserved.
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New Miami Hurricanes WR Dayall Harris on his skills, role in Mark Richt’s offense
CORAL GABLES — Wide receiver Dayall Harris, a junior college transfer who started his college career at Mississippi, is rooming with cornerback Adrian Colbert, formerly of Texas. They’re getting along well, being that they’re both older players who have previous college experience and are thankful for their fresh starts.
But there’s a little rivalry brewing between them, as is natural between receiver and cornerback.
“He was looking pretty good yesterday in 7-on-7,” Harris said last week, as Miami took a break from summer classes and workouts to visit Carver Elementary in Coral Gables. “But they were playing zone. When they get in man, we’ll see.”
Dayall Harris talks with a reporter as UM players visited Carver Elementary in Coral Gables. (Matt Porter)
Harris, a former four-star recruit who signed with Ole Miss in 2014, hasn’t played in a college game. A 6-foot-3, 195-pound redshirt sophomore, he believes he will be a good fit for Miami’s offense — which is good, because UM needs him.
“I’m more of an end-zone threat, a long body,” said Harris, who was assigned No. 80. “You’ve got Stacy [Coley], a burner who’ll outrun you. I can outrun you, but I prefer to go over you.”
Harris had a clear-cut reason for choosing the Hurricanes.
“I picked Miami because they had five scholarship receivers,” he said. “Once I heard that, I knew I could come in and play right away. No doubt about it. That was my No. 1.
“And just look,” he said, gesturing toward a sunny, humid May afternoon sky. “The weather.”
He said coaches are “expecting me to step up and lead right away. In weight training, they expect me to already know some of the workouts and not just fold up like a freshman, you feel me? I’ve been vibing with the coaches. I have high expectations for them, and high expectations for myself.”
His first 7-on-7 session went “pretty good,” he said. “I had a couple catches. It was more adjusting and going full-speed learning the plays and recognizing coverages.”
As he becomes comfortable in Mark Richt‘s offense, Harris said he was lining up at ‘Z’, or flanker, in 7-on-7 drills, while freshman Ahmmon Richards took the ‘X’, or split end (furthest away from the tight end). Coley switches between the ‘Z’ and ‘Y’, or the slot. Braxton Berrios plays the ‘Y,’ but can move around as well.
“I just know I can learn a lot from those guys,” Harris said. “Looking at Braxton, they had Braxton in the slot, then he came outside. I was like, what’s this little dude doing outside? But, it’s just a sense of how dynamic the receivers are. You can put them outside and inside.”
He caught passes from four UM quarterbacks — Brad Kaaya, Jack Allison, Evan Shirreffs and Malik Rosier — and said Kaaya was the most impressive.
“He’s pretty good. He’s got a pretty nice arm,” Harris said. Asked if he gets the ball in on time, Harris replied, “Every time.”
* In addition to Harris, Coley, Berrios and Richards (who enrolled May 16), UM has Malcolm Lewis, Lawrence Cager and Darrell Langham. Freshmen Sam Bruce and Dionte Mullins are expected to arrive in June.
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Category Archives: New Releases
MM! 1080p BD
By Sakura Kinomoto | April 29, 2015 - 11:58 am | November 19, 2015 BD Rips, Dual Audio Anime, New Releases
MM一族！ (Chinese (Taiwan))
Молодые Мазохисты! (Russian)
えむえむっ！ (Japanese)
엠엠! (Korean)
Themes: after school club, androphobia, cross-dressing, fanservice, Harem, moe, s & m, tsundere
Plot Summary:High school student Taro Sado comes to realize that he is an extreme masochist and attempts to conceal this from his crush. To fix his problem, he enrolls in his school’s “2nd Volunteer Club”, where Mio Isurugi and the other members attempt to cure him through various “training” regimens.
Number of episodes:12
Video Codec: x/h.265
Audio Codec: DTS-MA
Subtitles: PGS
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The Familiar of Zero (Zero no Tsukaima) BD 1080p
By Sakura Kinomoto | November 17, 2014 - 3:26 am | December 19, 2014 BD Rips, Dual Audio Anime, Dubbed Anime, New Releases
Louise Valliere is a second-year student at the esteemed Magic Academy High School, but all of her classmates call her ‘Zero Louise‘. While no one doubts her magic ability, it is just that all of the spells that she casts go wrong, usually with disastrous and explosive results. Rumour has it that none of the spells that she tried to cast have ever gone as expected, which is how she picked up her nickname — Zero.
One of the most import second-year student rituals is the summoning of a familiar. A familiar once summoned will stay with the magician for rest of their life. A mage’s magical familiar can appear in the form of any creature — as small as a mouse, as a fearsome fire salamander, and perhaps even as a dragon for an exceptional mage. True to form, Louise’s familiar summoning spell goes very wrong and pulls Hiraga Saito from his life as a high school student in Japan into the magic world. The ritual is sacred and once started, cannot be changed, so Louise accepts her fate and gives Saito a kiss (on the lips) to seal their bond. The other students take delight in teasing Zero Louise at having summoned an ordinary commoner as a familiar, but they have forgotten that familiars are magical creatures and by their nature — are never ordinary or common.
Source: R1 BD
Video: x264 CRF18
Audio: AC3 2.0 English/Japanese
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New Releases as of November 14, 2014
By AquaFox | November 14, 2014 - 11:54 pm | November 22, 2014 Dubbed Anime, HDTV Rips, New Releases, TV Releases
Tenkai Knights – 40-44
Attack on Titan – 17-23
Gurren Lagann – 04-09
Watamote: No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular! (2013) BD 1080p
By Sakura Kinomoto | November 2, 2014 - 9:46 pm | December 19, 2014 BD Rips, Dual Audio Anime
At the tender age of 15, Kuroki Tomoko has already dated dozens and dozens of boys and she’s easily the most popular girl around! The only problem is that absolutely none of that is real, and her perfect world exists only via dating games and romance shows. In fact, the sad truth is that she gets tongue tied just talking to people, and throughout middle school she’s only had one actual friend. All of this makes Kuroki’s entrance into the social pressure cooker of high school a new and special kind of hell.
While Kuroki desperately wants to be popular, she’s actually worse off than she would be if she was completely clueless as to how to go about it. After all, the things that work in “otome” games rarely play out the same way in reality, especially when the self-appointed “leading lady” isn’t the paragon she thinks she is. There’s not much gain and plenty of pain ahead, but even if it happens again and again, there’s always someone else to blame!
Source: Blu-Ray
Video: x/h.264 1920×1080 crf:18 VFR
Audio: AC3 448kbps 2.0 English/Japanese
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New Releases as of October 11, 2014
By AquaFox | October 11, 2014 - 12:11 am | November 15, 2014 Dubbed Anime, HDTV Rips, New Releases, TV Releases
Blue Exorcist – 25
Cardcaptor Sakura Dual Audio BluRay Encodes Completely Uncut
By Sakura Kinomoto | August 19, 2014 - 9:32 pm | December 19, 2014 BD Rips, Dual Audio Anime, New Releases
Ten-year-old Sakura lives a pretty normal life with her older brother Toya, and widowed father Fujitaka. Or she did… until the day she returned home from school to discover a glowing book in her father’s study. After opening the book and releasing the cards within, Sakura is tasked with collecting each of these magical cards, while trying to live the life of a normal fourth grader. In the monumental task of collecting all the cards, Sakura must rely on her friends and family, and decide what she finds most important in life.
Sakura’s journey to recapture the Clow Cards continues. With most of them captured, she finds that the remaining cards are going to put up a fight. Along the way, she must also navigate the struggles of moving on to the fifth grade and contend with the ever-evolving romances in her life. And before long, she discovers that there’s a not so pleasant surprise waiting for her at the end of her card-capturing journey…
After a harrowing journey to collect the cards and prove her worth as their master, Sakura finds herself in a whole new world of trouble as mysterious events begin to threaten the small town of Tomoeda. To make matters worse, Yukito seems to be having some unexplained troubles of his own. With no cards left on the loose, Sakura must form a special bond with her cards to quell each new disturbance, and discover what could possibly be causing them before the lives of Tomoeda’s residents are damaged beyond repair!
Audio: Dual Audio AAC, English 2.0 (mono)/Japanese 2.0
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New Releases as of August 01, 2014
By AquaFox | August 1, 2014 - 11:59 pm | September 8, 2014 Dubbed Anime, HDTV Rips, New Releases, TV Releases
Dealing with family drama and Time Warner Cable being a dork and breaking my internets. Hopefully things remain stable from now on.
We got a new series, Gurren Lagann, premiering in 2 weeks, and Tenkai Knights resumes next month.
New Releases as of June 20, 2014
By AquaFox | June 20, 2014 - 1:58 pm | August 2, 2014 Dubbed Anime, HDTV Rips, New Releases, TV Releases
Got some more awesome stuff for ya.
Pokemon the Series: XY – 21
Attack on Titan – 07
Bleach – 348
One Piece – 258
Getting anxious for the new Space Dandy, coming in July!
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Viewers won’t forget ‘Rolling Thunder Revue,’ even if Bob Dylan does
Rare exhibit of Jesuit artists’ work in China displayed in Washington
Truly understanding Christ can transform Christians, author says
‘Chasing the Moon’ offers surprises in Apollo 11’s story
Book describes ‘triumph of beauty’ of Catholic art
‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ spins a snappy, substantial tale
Girl falls for gills in ’60s period film, ‘The Shape of Water’
Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer star in a scene from the movie "The Shape of Water." (CNS photo/Fox)
By Kurt Jensen • Catholic News Service • Posted February 8, 2018
NEW YORK (CNS) — Can a lovelorn yet sensuous cleaning lady in 1962 Baltimore find true love with a blue and yellow and sometimes glowing fish-man from the Amazon?
“The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight), which evenly splits elements of romantic fantasy, classic horror and musical nostalgia, makes the case for girl meets gills. And without Old Bay seasoning, no less.
The sexual content on display is, however, so strong and so pervasive as to make this unsuitable for the casual moviegoer, and to require a restrictive classification.
Nothing about this element of the film is intended to appear prurient or shocking. Rather, it’s a matter of sheer quantity.
Writer-director Guillermo del Toro likes to underline his points in this mix of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Creature from the Black Lagoon” — in the case of sexuality, with the cinematic equivalent of a bright, thick Magic Marker. In many other places, he makes gentler observations about the prevalence of prejudice in a variety of forms.
Sally Hawkins is Elisa, a cleaning lady at a secret government underground lair. She’s been mute since childhood as a result of having her vocal cords cut. She lives with a gay advertising illustrator, Giles (Richard Jenkins), who is fighting to stay employed and relevant. Octavia Spencer is her co-worker and friend Zelda, who translates Elisa’s sign language and is, unfortunately, the old stereotype of the sassy black friend.
Elisa is very much alone, and she and Giles, although they live above a movie theater showing wide-screen Technicolor fare, prefer to watch old musical pictures on a black-and-white TV — and practice dance steps.
Alice Faye, a screen siren of the 1940s, is their particular favorite, and as a result, she gets a lot of screen time here and is heard singing the melancholy “You’ll Never Know” (from 1943’s “Hello, Frisco, Hello”) quite a bit.
Suddenly, the way plots in these stories occur, the lab receives a tank containing the Amazonian amphibian (Doug Jones). The lab is a military facility, but is bossily ruled over by civilian Richard (Michael Shannon). He’s pugnacious, racist, in a stale marriage with a by-rote sex life, hates being stuck in Baltimore, and likes to torture the fish-man with an electric cattle prod.
Complicating matters further is the presence of a Russian spy, Robert (Michael Stuhlbarg), since the Russians also are interested in retrieving this “asset.”
Richard, though, would prefer that the lab take the amphibian with the soulful golden eyes, and cut him into pieces to see how he works, since he can breathe on both land and sea. Richard purports to know that the amphibian is an affront to God, since he’s not “made in his image.”
The tank is in an area Elisa and Zelda are assigned to clean. It gets messy in there when the amphibian attacks Richard and tears off two fingers. But Elisa retrieves the digits, although they soon turn gangrenous (It’s not one of del Toro’s subtler analogies).
She also bonds with her new equally mute fishy friend over lunches of hard-boiled eggs and big-band ballads played on a portable phonograph.
Just like in her beloved old musical pictures, she and the amphibian fall quickly into interspecies love, and she and Giles hatch a plan to spirit him out of the lab and to their apartment, where she installs him in the bathtub.
There’s also some improbable skinny-dipping when Elisa floods the bathroom. Subsequently, it turns out that her expressive sign language is a very convenient way to explain to Zelda how the sex works. This is earthy stuff, and may also constitute, for many, an instance of too much information.
Will the amphibian make it to the ocean? (Technically the Chesapeake Bay, but let’s not pick that nit.) Can his and Elisa’s love survive? And does he have godlike healing powers?
Take it away, Alice Faye: “If there is some other way to prove that I love you, I swear I don’t know how.”
All the glorious formulaic elements of a lush period romance mashed up with too many sexual references. Somehow, Alice’s warbling from beyond the grave manages to pull all of it together.
The film contains strong sexual content, including graphic marital lovemaking, bizarre activity and several glimpses of male and female nudity, fleeting gore and frequent rough language. The Catholic News Service classification is L — limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
Jensen is a guest reviewer for Catholic News Service.
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Midsummer (a play with songs) by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre
Midsummer (a play with songs) by David Greig (writer/director) and Gordon McIntyre (songwriter). Traverse Theatre Company, Edinburgh, at Canberra Theatre Centre, The Playhouse, March 28-31, 2012.
What an interesting play! It’s like pass the parcel: surprise after surprise at the unwrapping of each new layer, right until the very centre at the end. Surely it’s a rom-trag? But no – the last revelation is still to come. Rom-com after all.
The play, its original structure, sparkling design and presentation by actors Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon, proves the truth of the announcement by the supposed (or is it real in Scotland?) parking ticket payment machine: CHANGE IS POSSIBLE.
The storyline, after all, is no different than Shakespeare’s tale of Beatrice and Benedick or Shaw’s of Bluntschli and Raina. An unlikely couple meet in highly unprepossessing circumstances and find that love happens regardless of what they think they feel. For Shakespeare it was all much ado about nothing – except that it was really about the nature of proper governance of the nation. For Shaw it was really about the taking up of arms between nations. For David Greig it is about the human disaster of modern urban consumer society. Com though it might be for the characters as they “dance ere we are married’, give her hand “to my chocolate cream soldier” or board the ferry for Belgium, the fun of realising that love conquers all cannot completely hide the trag behind
My lord, your brother John is ta’en in flight / And brought with armed men back to Messina, or
Time’s up, Major. You’ve managed those regiments so well that youre sure to be asked to get rid of some of the Infantry of the Teemok division, and
the need for Bob, at the age of 35, to have had to depend on being a criminal’s courier to survive in modern Edinburgh, the pointless lives of the youthful ‘Goths’, the irresponsibility of ‘nightlife’, and the sadness of Helena’s desire for a child and fear that at 35 she may be too late. Using Bob’s ill-gotten gains to flee to Europe for a few weeks’ fun may not be all that it promises on the Monday after this midsummer’s wild weekend. We can only hope that the parking machine is right, and change is possible after all.
So, if the plot is traditional, what makes this play original? The answer is the same as it was for Much Ado About Nothing and Arms and the Man. It’s in the language and the relationship set up between the characters and the audience. Change in writing for theatre is possible. It was Shakespeare who used the soliloquy as a device for a character to speak directly to the audience, it was Shaw who put the bluntness of Bluntschli on stage, and in the last century Brecht who had characters sing songs as singers rather than as the characters they otherwise were playing, while Tennessee Williams wrote characters who separately observed and commented on the action.
Greig has taken this tradition a step beyond. Bob and Helena switch moment by moment from being their own character to describing what the other was or is doing or playing out other characters in the other character’s life. The play constantly shifts the ground beneath us, which is often funny even as it can make us feel insecure.
This is a new style of theatre suited to today’s 24/7 culture, but does not fall into the common trap of using technology just because it is there. In fact the clever design, by Georgia McGuiness, uses perfectly old-fashioned visual and audio techniques, while the one more modern device which does the trick for the play is the simple continuous roll-along brightly-lit message from the ticket machine. Change is possible, indeed, but is most effective when introduced sparingly and only to make a specific point. The script is about a wildly out-of-control weekend, but is tightly written, giving the actors every opportunity to make the most of every minute. As they do.
As always, discipline and being true to the right style is what makes theatre work. It certainly does in Midsummer.
Tales from the TARDIS…
LA meets Dr Who
Finding theatre in unfamiliar places is a good sport so although I’d gone to Gallifrey One’s February Dr Who convention in Los Angeles for the fan in me that has loved science fiction ever since H G Wells’ lot and Radio BBC’s Journey Into Space in the 1950s, I kind of hoped that there would be some theatre pay offs. I like the stories actors and directors tell about their experiences and can listen to the yarns and legends all day.
Top this off with some side gallops into Los Angeles proper to get a glimpse of Hollywood and to have a go at the two Getty museums all complicated by the time it takes to get around such a spread out town and you can see why I did not quite manage to follow up on a chance to see an experimental Richard III (which had had mixed reviews). That I also managed to have a glimpse of President Obama flying past Santa Monica pier in a helicopter phalanx while I was paying homage to Ray Bradbury, the tents of Cirque du Soleil and the end of Route 66 (where a busker was singing Here’s to You, Mrs Robinson) was just plain luck.
In Hollywood the acting starts as you come up out of the train station down the road from Grauman's Chinese Theatre. There’s all these people dressed as everything from Captain Jack Sparrow to Darth Vader and his Imperial Storm Troopers. Their job is to get you to tip them for having your photo taken with them and to make it just that bit more difficult to find Jean Harlow’s foot and hand prints that you’ve promised to find for your 100 year old mother outside Grauman’s. ‘She’s just up from Elizabeth Taylor’, says the man in the kiosk and so she is. Tiny feet, tiny hands and dead at 26 from renal failure, much to the sorrow of fans like my father who wrote to her, got a signed photo back but lost it in the numerous moonlight flits round the Cross in Sydney when the rent couldn’t be paid.
Actually all of the talent seems to have been tiny. I am spruiked into Grauman’s Chinese Theatre by a young Pom offering short tours of the inside (came out to break into Hollywood… well, he’s gotten as far as Grauman’s…) The film costumes on display in the foyer of Grauman’s don’t go above a size 10 and come to think of it the hands and feet in the cement outside are all on the small side too. Even John Wayne’s boots don’t have heft – R2D2’s footprints look bigger.
(Later on, back at Gallifrey One, Paul McGann (Doctor Number Eight, The Monocled Mutineer, Withnail and I) also turns out to be physically tinier than his performances would ever indicate. He has a superb singing voice that would go down a treat at the National Folk Festival.)
Inside Grauman’s it is all red and gold and restored Chinoiserie from the 1920s. That’s not as tinselly as it sounds. Between the wall paintings worked on by performers like Key Luke (a long CV but you might best remember him as the old bloke who passes on the gremlins in Gremlins with a warning) and Xavier Cougat and the silk house tabs and the Chinese gods and the dragons woven into the carpets this theatre that started out as a home to the old silent films has a gorgeous ambiance for film and live performance.
Outside they are getting ready for the Oscars, techie heaven with people in black with mobile phones, lights going up, the street blocked off, the seating going in for the red carpet entrance and a huge sweeping gold curtain set into the archway of the Kodak Theatre. Snapping away with a digital filmless ‘point and shoot’, I am not unaware of the ironies of the name.
Next door is the greatest of follies. I live near to a video shop that actually carries a copy of D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance but I hadn’t realised that the set for the Babylonian section was left up long enough to become a landmark and that the shopping mall next to the Kodak has been constructed as a kind of a homage to it. This means mad Babylonian architectural elements and elephants trumpeting from the ramparts. Encouraging quotations from those who ‘made it’ are immortalised on the pavements. You can walk in and view the HOLLYWOOD sign on the faraway hills from a great height or downstairs next to a sculpture of a huge couch – the ultimate casting couch upon which tourists can now cast themselves for pictures.
You can take one of those topless double deckers for a do it yourself hop on hop off tour. So I do that, being hopelessly out of time for anything else, and we rampage around Hollywood, spotting Hollywood High with its paintings of alumni like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, the old LA police department which was the exterior of Kane’s castle in Citizen Kane and resonant places like the La Brea Tar Pits. I end up eating at a Singaporean place in the Farmers Market where they actually seem to have heard of real food. As it gets dark I manage a snap of the Paramount parking lot’s outdoor sky screen which features in Star Trek IV and in The Ten Commandments when the Red Sea is being parted, get a glimpse of the cemetery where Rudolf Valentino is buried and see all lit up above the city the Griffith Observatory where James Dean carries on like a two bob watch in Rebel Without a Cause. We also glimpse a demo on Hollywood Boulevard on behalf of the Syrians, passed by Snow White and The Flash who are walking the other way, talking on mobile phones, apparently undisturbed.
Next to this the corridors of the Marriott Hotel, thronging with Daleks and people dressed in TARDIS costumes, are positively sedate. I don’t have a costume to put on but I’ve failed to arrive in America with a haircut and so I’m wearing a Harris Tweed flat cap and a bright red Thai silk scarf so I won’t disappear in a crowd of 3000 fans. A genial older bloke setting up for autographs hails me and says, ‘I like your hat!’ It’s the charming Richard Franklin, the slightly tragic Captain Mike Yates from Second Doctor Jon Pertwee's era.
But it’s the origins of the show in the 1960s that draw me and there’s William Russell, one of the first companions ever, now in his late 80s. Courtly and bemused by American teenage fans who stand in the queue muttering ‘What am I going to say to Ian Chesterton?’, he’s done stage and film and television, the Ghost in Hamlet with the RSC at Stratford, opened the New Globe in London in Henry V, has a son (Alfie Enoch) in the Harry Potter films and has a passion for teaching young actors stage work and Shakespeare. (He says ‘I like your hat’ too, which makes my weekend.)
Maureen O’Brien, another early First Doctor William Hartnell companion (Vikki) who has also had a long stage and TV career as well as being a crime novelist, has a fascinating conversation with me, not about liking the hat or the Zarbi or being chased around Nero’s Rome but about the lovely complexities of As You Like It and playing Rosalind despite it being traditionally the part that goes to a tall woman.
Michael Troughton (son of Patrick, the Second Doctor, and an actor himself) is signing copies of his biography of his father and that’s got more actor stories in it. Respected director Waris Hussein, the East Indian from Lucknow who directed An Unearthly Child, the very first episode of all, is gently describing the circumstances that led to Dr Who being born.
(1963 and change was about, even at the BBC. The show’s creator, Sydney Newman, was Canadian, Hussein, despite an English education, was seen as Indian, Anthony Coburn, writer of that first episode, was Australian and producer Verity Lambert was a woman. And Australian Ron Grainer composed the theme tune which was then arranged by BBC Radiophonic’s Delia Derbyshire. True, they’d been thrown a job that no one else much wanted but look what came of this combination of colonials and females.)
Daphne Ashbrook (companion Dr Grace Holloway in the 1996 McGann Dr Who TV movie) turns out to have actually done David Williamson’s The Coming of Stork in Los Angeles, for which the cast had to learn an Australian accent. I laugh out loud at the ironies of all those elocution lessons in the 50s and 60s that were supposed to rid my generation of women of such a thing when she admires the way I speak.
All of this is bloody wonderful but the unexpected bonus comes when I wander over to an older bloke who has a raft of pictures on a table of him in every kind of role from the Civil War to a Klingon prison governor and a rather kindly looking Vulcan.
‘I LOVE your hat!’ he says and he’s got my attention.
I don’t immediately register that he’s the older Canton Everett Delaware III in Dr Who’s The Impossible Astronaut and that the bloke nearby who, on hearing my accent, begins to talk about how good the Dr Who orchestral concert that just ran in Melbourne was, is his son Mark, and the younger Canton Everett Delaware III. (Fancy me having to scramble to keep up in Dr Who territory…) Aha. Penny drops. We are talking to W. Morgan Sheppard, Anglo-Irish, face with the wandering of the world upon it, trained at RADA, worked with Peter Brook and Grotowski, played in Pinter’s The Caretaker (‘Horrible characters…horrible...’) and was in the RSC’s Australian tour…
‘1970? Adelaide Festival?’ I ask.
Saw Judi Dench in Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale, I did, and never forgot her voice with that expressive break in it. Nor the bear that pursues Antigonus when, caught between the fires of his wife and his king, he abandons a baby on a sea shore…
It was a bit like that moment in Oedipus when the shepherd says ‘Here stands your baby boy’ except it wasn’t tragic. Here was that Antigonus (and also Antonio from Twelfth Night), calling out to passing Daleks and Tom Bakers, ‘She remembers! She remembers!’ and going on to remember himself how as Antigonus he would look across the stage at Brenda Bruce’s Paulina and say to himself ‘I love her, she’s so lovely…’ and how that became the drive for the character.
I extend the story by telling him that I’ve just done that very scene with a group of Thai performers in a workshop on Shakespeare in Makhampom’s Chiang Dao theatre north of Chiang Mai and we part with a signed picture of him as the scholarly Vulcan elder because there isn’t one there of Antigonus and somehow this one seems to have the proper gravitas. And that all does not even begin to touch on his knowing the story of Paul Robeson singing to the workers at Sydney Opera House and how that resonated later with singer John McLaughlin who was singing in Sydney when an old bloke in the front row requested Joe Hill and it turned out he’d been an electrician on the building of the Opera House and a car drew up and a big black man got out of it and said ‘I won’t be able to come back and sing here when it’s finished but I’ll give you a really good concert’ and he sang Joe Hill to the workers and it was Paul Robeson…*
I had a go at both the Getty museums and they were quite wonderful, what with the reconstructed Roman theatre in the Getty Villa and the way the bigger Getty museum crouches on top of a ridge overlooking Los Angeles and divides your attention between the art and the views of a city on the shore that will be chaos if a tsunami ever arrives. I rode the buses and the trains and listened to Spanish being spoken and saw how this city is not all glamour and gold curtains. But I reckon it was the actors’ tales that made the trip.
That, and being able to say that Ian Chesterton, Captain Mike Yates and Canton Everett Delaware III all said they liked my hat.
William Russell (Ian Chesterton) and The Hat.
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg7bPgrosAE
By Alanna Maclean
LA TRAVIATA - HANDA OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR
TRIUMPHANTLY SINGING IN THE RAIN.
Report by Bill Stephens
Photos by Len Power
Emma Mathews in "La Traviata"
An invitation to attend the final dress rehearsal for a sneak-peek at Opera Australia’s spectacular new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” was irresistible. Particularly as this new production is being staged under the stars on Sydney Harbour, at a cost, according to Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini of $11.5 million, and stars Emma Mathews, in her role debut, as Violetta teamed with Italian heart-throb tenor Gianluca Terranova, as Alfredo.
Later in the season, a no less sensational casting has Rachelle Durkin taking over the role of Violetta, with the Korean tenor, Ji-Min Park as her Alfredo.
As luck would have it, the day of the dress rehearsal dawned overcast, and by dusk, a light drizzle had set in. However, buoyed by the advice from Opera Australia that the performance would only be cancelled if weather conditions made it dangerous to proceed, I invested in a new umbrella and headed for the harbour.
As we arrived, my colleague, who was reporting for Artsound’s radio program “Dress Circle”, and I, along with the rest of the audience, was thoughtfully presented with complimentary ponchos, a practical gesture which certainly enhanced our enjoyment of the event despite the relentless drizzle.
We were invited to enjoy the catering facilities, which included three glamorous, al fresco eating areas and mobile champagne bars, while busy stage-hands mopped the amazing stage, designed by Brian Thompson in the shape of a huge trompe l’oeil painted gilt-framed mirror, secured on pylons drilled into the ocean bed. Resting on the stage was an amazing chandelier, which was raised above the stage for the performance.
At 7pm, the advertised starting time, Lyndon Terracini announced that as weather radars indicated that the rain would soon pass over the site, the commencement of the performance would be delayed. Canvas coverings were quickly pulled over the stage area to keep it as dry as possible.
However the rain didn’t ease up as expected, and after a couple more postponements, it was announced that the performance would proceed, despite the rain. However, because of the late start, Act 11, the act in which Alfredo’s father visits Violetta to ask her to give up her relationship with Alfredo, would be omitted. The canvas coverings were whisked away, the huge chandelier rose, dozens of guests, dressed in Tess Schofield’s glamorous La Dolce Vita inspired costumes, flooded on to the stage, and Violetta’s fabulous party was underway.
The Australian Ballet and Opera Orchestra under Brian Castles-Onion sounded magnificent, and the amplified sound balance between singers and orchestra was crystal clear and exciting.
Emma Mathews
As Violetta, Emma Mathews was magnificent. Dressed in a gorgeous 1950’s-style, ankle length, scarlet gown, with a Grace Kelly hairstyle, she looked and sounded ravishing, and despite the huge the stage, was immediately the focus of attention, the perfect hostess, acknowledging and flirting with each of her guests.
When the handsome Alfredo (Gianluca Terranova) arrived at the party, their attraction was immediate and obvious, and even though this was a dress rehearsal, there was no holding back.
Gianluca Terranova and Emma Mathews in "La Traviata"
Director, Francesca Zambello’s flair for staging large-scale spectacles is masterful. Her staging of both the party scenes, for which she keeps the stage filled with swirling imagery, while carefully maintaining focus on the principal characters is particularly impressive, and the way she has included the fantastic harbour backdrop as an integral part of her production is at times breathtaking.
Stephen Baynes has contributed dazzling choreography which includes lilting waltzes for Violetta’s party guests and a spectacularly costumed gypsy floorshow for Flora’s party.
The use of fireworks at the end of the famous “Libiamo” chorus was stunning and remarkably appropriate for such a party. The perfectly-timed final burst of fireworks at the moment of Violetta’s death created another unforgettable moment, as did the sight of Violetta soaring into the night sky in the huge chandelier at the climax of “Sempre Libre”.
Brian Thomson’s stage setting is a masterpiece of scenic design, holding its own against the magnificent Sydney skyline, and with the addition of elegant props, providing satisfying environments for each of the acts. The much-heralded chandelier, a particularly spectacular scenic element in its own right, was also integral to the production design, floating above the party scenes or descending to the stage to form a succession of moodily lit backdrops.
At some point in the evening the rain stopped, but I was so engrossed in the opera, that I hadn’t noticed precisely when. The realisation struck me that even though I had expected to enjoy this production as a spectacle, even with an act missing; I had been caught up in the story-telling.
Emma Mathews and Gianluca Terranova were a stunning couple, completely believable as the glamorous courtesan and her young lover. The combination of Mathews’ stunning appearance, glittering soprano and confident acting, and the good-looking Terranova’s soaring Italianate tenor was both thrilling and moving.
Then there was Jonathan Summers, also in glorious voice, bringing great presence and gravitas to the role of Alfredo’s father, especially in the final scene in which he seeks Violetta’s forgiveness. The rest of the cast, including the chorus and dancers, had woven their magic so effectively that I had forgotten any discomfort caused by the rain, and simply didn’t want it to stop.
Surely the mark of a great production.
Don’t let the weather deter you. This is a triumphant production which works on every level, guaranteed to provide you with an opera experience you will cherish for years to come.
La Traviata - Opera Australia
Telstra Ballet in the Park
The Australian Ballet
Reviewed by Samara Purnell
Knowing full well that the impending rain was keeping away at least a few people who had planned on attending this event, the size of the crowd gathered at Stage 88 was impressive.
This one-off, free performance from The Australian Ballet was a gift to Canberra for the Company’s 50th birthday, as we no longer have the pleasure of being part of their regular season.
A short rainfall just before 7pm stopped right as the performance was due to commence. The night was mild and no more rain fell, so apart from soggy picnic blankets and muddy shoes to deal with, there were no more dramas with the weather, as anyone planning an outdoor event in Canberra recently would have worried about!
And those who came were well rewarded, once a vantage point was found, between umbrellas and those standing or preferring chairs to braving the wet grass. It wasn’t an easy feat, as the venue was about as crowded as I’ve seen it.
Thankfully, due to the antics of an over-zealous man in a high-visibility jacket, (whom we mistakenly took to be an official, later to realise he was simply a patron of the arts like the rest of us who had taken it upon himself to enforce a rigid policy in no uncertain terms that you “MOVE to the side with umbrellas or SIT DOWN so those behind can see”) meant we umbrella-less souls were able to see for most of the performance.
It was exciting to see Commonwealth Park used for this event, and the setting was actually quite magical – bats rustling overhead, even the prospect of watching ballet in the rain seemed romantic.
A blank canvas for the dancers - no sets, and only simple light projections onto the back wall left all the focus rightly on dance. No interval would be included, which worked well with this programme of about one-and-a-half hours.
Lana Jones and Daniel Gaudiello opened the show in the energetic and colourful La Favorita. They danced fabulously together, clad in red and gold ornate costumes. Gaudiello impressed with his personality and confidence. It felt as though both dancers were holding back a little with the absolute abandon in their aerial work lacking, perhaps due to any residual rain on stage or an unfamiliar dancing surface. But this hesitancy seemed to have vanished by the next act and indeed by the next time these dancers took to the stage.
If the chance arises to see Molto Vivace in full, choreographed by Stephen Baynes, I will possibly jump as high as some of the dancers at the opportunity. With simply a projected full moon and dark lighting, monotone costumes by Anna French and set to a beautiful Handel score, Amber Scott and Adam Bull created a sensual dynamic, smooth, silky movements blending into effortless lifts and slow releases. The beautiful rawness of the choreography executed with fluidity and control, was for me, seeing it for the first time, one of the highlights of the evening’s performance. The mood was momentarily broken by one of our party commenting that if one of the bats flew past the projector thereby making the batman signal on the full moon it would be pretty cool. True, but this was by no means a reflection on their interest or enjoyment of the show and said party thoroughly loved the whole evening.
A pas de deux from Don Quixote followed with Chengwu Guo and Reiko Hombo taking the stage. Guo gave an enthusiastic rendition, with a strong, masculine performance. The chemistry between Guo and Hombo was not entirely convincing. However their solo performances were impressive.
The familiar notes of Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” wafted across the audience, who enthusiastically applauded the solos of Juliet Burnett and Andrew Killian.
And then there was Giselle. A staple in the repertoire of any ballet lover. It was fantastic to once again watch former Canberran, Rachel Rawlins, a stalwart of the Australian Ballet, dance. And how perfect she was. Floating across stage en pointe, as if suspended above the ground, Rawlins completely encapsulated the sheer beauty and skill of a life dedicated to the art of classical dance. So captivating was her Giselle that Albrecht, Ty King-Wall, was barely noticeable until his solo.
I was particularly anticipating Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake, having not seen it live before. Typically giving his contemporary edge to classical ballet, his interpretation was low-key and required maturity and subtlety to pull off Odile's seduction of Prince Seigfried and the jealousy of Odette, which Scott and Amy Harris achieved. In this instance, Bull’s lanky, casual dance style just missed the mark and so did a couple of turns, with his landings a little shaky at times.
Murphy’s pas de trois and ensemble work usually leaves one wondering how the dancers did not tie themselves up completely in knots. And this pas de trois was no exception, with wonderful emotion and timing, especially from the females. The choreography gave a feeling as if underneath the smallest or seemingly simplest of manoeuvres, lies a world of unbelievable choreography, skill and layers of meaning waiting to explode out at any moment.
The most obvious audience response to an individual was in Le Corsair. Guo received enthusiastic applause mid-dance for his acrobatic display of spin-turns that just seemed to hang in the air far longer than gravity would dictate possible for mere mortals. The dancing from Kubota and Guo really had the wow factor, with the showy and acrobatic choreography suiting them very well.
An ensemble piece from La Bayadere closed the show. This didn't highlight the strongest dancing or most captivating choreography of the evening, but it was fitting to end with a traditional, ensemble piece, with dancers donning white tutus. With a solo from Dimity Azoury, another Canberra-trained dancer, the dancers from the Australian Ballet bid us goodnight.
What a wonderful night. If ballet inspires young, non-dancing men to post about it on Facebook, as was the case, then that must be saying something. Telstra Ballet in the Park was a blatant reminder of how keen we are to turn up to see the Company perform – rain, hail or shine. I can only hope that the Powers that Be decide to reinstate our city on the Australian Ballet calendar or at the very least that we will be graced again with an event such as this. Perhaps for Canberra’s 100th birthday next year?
DON'TS FOR DANCERS
Choreographed by Nerida Matthaei
Musical Direction by Nicole Canham
Courtyard Studio – Canberra Theatre Centre.
14th – 17th March 2012
Nicole Canham - Nerida Matthaei - Andy Ferriari (not in performance reviewed)
Choreographer, Nerida Matthaei and musician, Nicole Canham, have combined their talents to devise an imaginative, entertaining and good-humoured new dance work.
Using a book on dance etiquette, published in 1925, as their starting point, and the additional talents of dancers, Leah Shelton and Alex Bryce, they’ve interpreted and de-constructed the advice, in often hilarious and startling ways.
The Courtyard Studios were converted into a glitzy dance studio for the program, complete with twinkling lights and functioning bar from which the audience was encouraged to purchase pre-show drinks and chat with the performers already dressed in 1920’s inspired costumes.
The performance commenced with one surprised audience member being given a cleverly choreographed, introductory dance lesson by Leah Shelton, drawing on quotes from the book. These quotes set the tone and theme for the rest of the performance which consisted of a series of pas de trios, pas de deux and solos inspired by the theme.
Nerida Matthaei’s choreography, particularly in the first half, was clever, complex, demanding, and mostly, beautifully danced. Matthaei, Leah Shelton and Alex Bryce are all experienced professional dancers, each exhibiting excellent techniques and individual dance personalities which were beautifully displayed by Matthaei’s choreography. Among the many highlights was a clever pas de trios in which Matthaei attempted to intrude between Shelton and Bryce, and a brilliant catfight between Matthaei and Shelton. Alex Bryce’s solos allowed him to show off his extraordinary flexibility and delightfully mobile face.
Leah Shelton and Alex Bryce
Nicole Canham is the least experienced dancer of the group, but her contribution to the work was absolutely integral. Some sections were danced to recorded music, some of which came from the 1920’s. The rest was either contemporary or specially written. At various points Canham played live clarinet to a recorded background while negotiating choreography, and in one instance she and Shelton played clarinet and wind-organ for a solo danced by Matthaei. The results were often surprising, always fascinating and quite intriguing.
It was a pity however that the work was interrupted by an interval, as this allowed the mood to dissipate somewhat, and given that the second half was very short, and the content rather less interesting than in the first, allowed the impression that perhaps the ideas had run out.
Stage 88, Commonwealth Park, Canberra,
16th March 2012.
Dimity Azoury - Rachel Rawlins - Alana Jones
Canberra dancers featured in Telstra Ballet in the Park
News Limited photo - Kym Smith
If anyone needed proof of the importance of art in daily life then surely the attendance at the Telstra Ballet in the Park is a shining example of the value people place on it.
Thousands braved the prospect of a drenching to attend this one-off performance of the most beautiful and esoteric of the performing arts, classical ballet, offered on this occasion by the Australian Ballet as a gift to celebrate their 50th Year.
Many who attended had probably never been to a ballet performance before, but their curiosity was rewarded with a truly remarkable performance which they are likely to remember fondly for years.
Crowd gathering in front of Stage 88
Throughout the afternoon dark storm clouds hovered over the city, drenching various suburbs in turn. But encouraged by radio reports that the performance would proceed as advertised, people began arriving in their hundreds from around 5pm in time to watch the company go through their warm-up on stage 88 in preparation for the performance timed to begin at 7pm.
The warm-ups proved a welcome diversion, especially for the little girls who mimicked the dancers movements while their parents staked out soggy patches on which to settle into the ingenious cardboard chairs provided free by Telstra. They also provided an interesting and rarely seen insight into the more mundane side of the dancer’s preparation. However, just as the warm-ups were winding up the heavens opened again and another heavy shower drenched the area.
Miraculously, right on 7pm, the rain stopped. Australian Ballet Artistic Director, David McAllister took the stage to introduce the Telstra representative, who welcomed the audience, before the lights lowered and the program commenced with a prettily costumed pas de deux, ”La Favorita”, choreographed by Petal Miller-Ashmole to music by Donizetti, and danced with panache by Canberran Lana Jones and her husband, Daniel Gaudiello.
Amber Scott and Adam Bull followed with an elegant performance of another stylish pas de deux, “Molto Vivace”, this time choreographed by Stephen Baynes to music by Handel, following which Reiko Hombo and Chengwu Guo took the stage for an electrifying performance of the famous “Don Quixote” pas de deux”.
This was the first time Canberra audiences had had the opportunity to see Chengwu Guo, but even those with only the most rudimentary knowledge of ballet, quickly realised that they were watching an extraordinary performance from a remarkable young dancer, so that when he made his second appearance, this time in the showy “Le Corsaire” pas de deux, for which he was partnered by Miwako Kubato, Chengwu was greeted with cheers.
Less showy perhaps, but equally exciting, was the beautiful “The Nutcracker” pas de deux, elegantly danced by Juliet Burnet and Andrew Kyllian to the music of Tchaikovsky, and the supremely romantic “Giselle Act 11” pas de deux, for which Ty King-wall partnered another Canberran, Rachel Rawlins, who appeared to float around the moon-lit stage as lightly as thistledown.
Among all these very classical showpieces, the Act 111 pas de trois from Graeme Murphy’s “Swan Lake” was an interesting inclusion. Stripped of dramatic context in this environment, it nevertheless provided, for those who had never seen Murphy’s version of this ballet, a tantalising glimpse of his mastery of utilising classical technique in a contemporary setting, and was superbly danced by Amber Scott, Adam Bull and Amy Harris resplendent in elegant Kristian Fredrikson costumes.
An excerpt from Act 11 of “La Bayadere”, featuring a corp of dancers in white tutu’s, and Lana Jones and Daniel Gaudiello returning to perform the pas de deux, provided a suitably elegant conclusion to an evening of superlative dancing, and the opportunity to see Queanbeyan dancer, Dimity Azoury, together with Amy Harris, both among the six dancers competing for the 2012 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award, and Reiko Hombo, each of whom performed solos during this item.
Despite the vagaries of the weather, Stage 88 proved an excellent venue for this program. Following the rain, the evening remained balmy and calm for the duration of the 90 minute program which was presented without interval.
David McAllister had wisely chosen a program to please ballet enthusiasts and the wider audience alike, without in any way comprising the high standard of dancing and production expected of our flagship ballet company. The procession of pas de deux allowed us to enjoy the dancing of many of the current principal dancers, including several past winners of Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards who are now soloists and principals, as well as several of the nominees for the 2012 Awards.
The Australian Ballet is set to return to Canberra in 2013 to premiere a new ballet as part of the 2013 Centenary Celebrations. Given the numbers attending, and the enthusiasm demonstrated for the Ballet in the Park event, is it too much to expect that Canberra once again will be included in the Australian Ballet’s annual touring schedule?
Meanwhile, thank you Australian Ballet for your delightful and very cherished gift.
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
Until 24th March 2012
Performance 6th March reviewed by Bill Stephens
Taryn Fiebig (Susanna) Joshua Bloom (Figaro)
Michael Lewis (Count Almaviva) Elvira Fatykhova (Countess Almaviva)
Artists of Opera Australia
For his first production for Opera Australia, director Benedict Andrews has come up with a cracker of a production. Working from a witty English translation by Jeremy Sams, the story-telling is clear, light-hearted and funny, completely in harmony with, and indeed illuminating, the gorgeous Mozart melodies.
Don't be put off that the production is played in a contemporary gated community setting. Ralph Myer's inventive set design and Alice Babidge's costumes are so in tune with Andrews’ concept, that everything seems completely logical. It’s is a concept that is a delight from the very first moment of the overture until the curtain comes down on the final glorious notes.
The opera opens in a stark white box relieved only by a rack on each side bearing pale green uniforms of the type seen in hospitals and factories. During the overture the chorus arrive singly or in groups, remove their street clothes and banter as they dress in the uniforms. Among them is Susanna, who has brought her wedding dress to show the girls, before they set off to undertake their duties.
Then the setting starts to move across the stage, revealing other rooms in the building, all of them white, until we come to the room allocated by the count for Susanna and Figaro to occupy once they are married. It appears to be a laundry, because it contains a large washing machine around which much of the hilarious early action takes place.
Taryn Fiebig (Susanna) Dominca Mathews (Cherubino)
Keeping within the white box theme, Meyer's intriguing set design adapts endlessly to suit the action of the various scenes. Among them, a wedding banquet played out among tables dressed in long white tablecloths, gleaming wine glasses and floating silver balloons. This scene ends dramatically with the table-settings being gathered up in the tablecloths as the tables are folded, whizzed off the stage, and the white plastic chairs are formed into a large circle, upon which multi-coloured confetti flutters down throughout the following scene.
Taryn Fiebig (Susanna) with artists of Opera Australia.
Andrews' direction is continually fascinating and inventive, and he has a marvellous cast to work with, who really embrace the concept.
Joshua Bloom is a fine Figaro. Good looking, with an expressive face and a warm rich baritone voice, he's as equally at home with the comedy, as with the dramatic elements of the role. He’s delightfully teamed with the marvellous Taryn Fiebig, whom it seems, can do no wrong. As Susannah, she not only looked gorgeous, but also sang like a dream, acted intelligently, and most importantly, made the audience care about her character.
Joshua Bloom (Figaro) Taryn Fiebig (Susanna)
Having only seen Elvira Fatykhova as a heart-breaking Violetta in “La Traviata”, it was a revelation to see her as the Countess Almaviva in this production. Her superb singing of 'Hear My Prayer” at the beginning of the second act was breathtaking, and her duet with Fiebig, “Can you hear the gentle breezes ?” in Act Three, were among the evenings many vocal highlights. But her lightness of touch with the comedic possibilities of the role, was as unexpected as it was charming.
Michael Lewis is magnificent as Count Almaviva. In fine voice, mature, dignified, but always on the look-out for the opportunity for a little lechery on the side, his is a performance that is deliciously nuanced and totally riveting.
Taryn Fiebig (Susanna) left Conal Coad (Dr. Bartolo) seated Jacqueline Dark (Marcellina)
Jacqueline Dark and Conal Coad are marvellous together as Marcellina, the delightfully imposing housekeeper and Dr. Bartolo, complete with oxygen tank in tow, never missing an opportunity for visual and aural silliness, while Kanen Breen, as the music master Don Basilio, continues to delight as he adds yet another memorable characterisation to his already huge repertoire of outlandish characters.
At this performance Ann Yun stood in for an indisposed Dominica Mathews as the page Cherubino, and was so spectacularly successful in the role that at the end she was rewarded with well-deserved cheers from the appreciative audience.
Michael Lewis (Count Almaviva) Taryn Fiebig (Susanna) Joshua Bloom (Figaro)
Conductor Simon Hewett insured an excellent balance between orchestra and stage, and seemed to be enjoying the proceeding as much as the audience. Choregrapher Lucy Guerin contributed delightfully funky movement for the wedding scene, in keeping with the mood of the production.
This is a production which works so successfully on all levels, and is so jam-packed with brilliant ideas and performances, that one can hardly wait for a second viewing. Make sure you see it at least once.
Joshua Bloom (Figaro) Michael Lewis (Count Almaviva)
Conal Coad (Dr. Bartolo)
Courtyard Studio
“Don’t be frightened of your partner” and “Gentlemen should follow their partner’s idiosyncracies” was some of the advice demonstrated in “Don’t for Dancers”. Inspired by the book of the same name, Nerida Matthaei and Nicole Canham interpret and play with dance etiquette from the 1920’s and blend it with today’s music, dance styles and social mores.
On arrival, audience members are approached to fill the performers’ dance cards (a fan), and if they politely decline, they are offered the option of stepping into the “dehypnotising” den for those who are of the anti-dance persuasion. An eclectic set included the bar on stage, (explaining the absence of champagne in the foyer on arrival!)
Matthaei and Canham were joined by Alex Bryce and Leah Shelton (and a few game audience members!) Bryce gave a wonderful performance as the debonair, albeit “wet” dance partner portrayed in old movies, and followed it up with a very funny, camp, jazz routine to Lady Gaga, where he flamboyantly accepted “belle of the ball”. His characterisation was engaging and entertaining, and he danced with flair and grace. Shelton, as chaperone, perfectly fit the stereotype of the 20’s flappers. She mixed humour with poise and strong dancing. Matthaei demonstrated strong technique and control and Canham’s dancing, which was not as strong as the others was overshadowed by her musical talent and creativity, which formed a large part of the show.
Some partner work seemed a little unnecessarily awkward, but on the whole was well executed and fluent. Cutting-in, sulking over not being chosen to dance, girl-on-girl fighting and the whole nightclub experience of trying to yell over doof-doof music, the awkward moment when you try to coordinate dance "moves" and of seeing your partner in full light at the end of the night are all touched on.
The toe-tapping audience was kept laughing as the Charleston seamlessly became the Nutbush, the Macarena, krumping and much to the amusement of the YouTube generation, Beyonce’s "Single Ladies" even gets a look-in.
The cast created a good chemistry and maintained a high level of energy throughout the performance. They exemplified just how silly, beautiful, awkward, exciting and challenging social dancing and etiquette can be!
After the curtain call, and filled with sage advice that Nanna would be proud of “Don’t go to unknown clubs and bars, they usually turn out to be sordid dens”, audience members bopped away on stage with the cast, or each other, to Whitney’s “I wanna dance with somebody”.
“Don’t for Dancers” was lots of fun with laugh-out-loud moments and a clever mix of dance, music, sound, comedy and social commentary, that seemed to leave the audience wanting more.
Then again, etiquette would dictate that’s precisely how it should be.
A version of this review appears in The City News, online from March 15.
The Mousetrap – A Near Death Experience at The Q
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie presented by Queanbeyan City Council. Directed by Jordan Best at Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, March 7-24, 2012.
This is a misconceived production of a play which, despite its 60 years of continuous performance in London, is essentially a farce. It certainly got some laughs on opening night, despite the director’s apparent intention from her Director’s Notes that we should have been scared and spooked by ‘a cracker of a mystery’.
Christie’s crime fiction consists of nothing but artifice – an artificial plot on which is hung artificial characters with motivations which have nothing to do with psychological truth. Her stories are interesting as games, working out possible directions to take in a maze which has already been predetermined by the designer. The more unexpected twists and turns in the design, the more fun it is to play the game. But that’s all there is to it.
Best, unfortunately, despite her professional training and previous excellent productions, has missed the point here. Naturalistic playing of these characters is boring because it is the wrong style for this type of play. The cast worked hard, but only Jim Adamik’s over-the-top Mr Paravicini and to some extent Brendan Kelly’s Christopher Wren had the exaggerated characteristics a farce requires.
The director’s decision to place the play in Australia (with such a blizzard in, presumably, Katoomba, that would cheer the cockles of a climate skeptic’s heart) compounded her problem. This play is quintessentially English, filled with stock characters, stock references to the weather and places like Majorca, and entirely in the style of English farces of its day, the 1950s before rock’n’roll, such as those by William Douglas Home who, like Agatha Christie, looked back with some kind of sentimental awe to the hey-day of English culture – the 1930s. Australia was never like this.
Mind you, it is true that my first acting role, in Australia in 1963, was as an upper-class twit in Home’s 1956 play The Reluctant Debutante. No-one, but no-one, would bother to present that even in a country town today, and presenting The Mousetrap could only work if it was made thoroughly absurdist – a spoof of the very crime fiction it represents. When you consider what we watch on tv nowadays – Silent Witness for example – the idea that we might be scared or spooked by the ‘horrors’ of The Mousetrap is the ultimate absurdity.
I would like to praise the set design (the indomitable Brian Sudding) and construction (Craig Francis and Ian Croker), except for one point – the door that should have creaked, didn’t. There was also a sound problem – almost inherent in the script – when the loud radio drowned out the characters’ voices. We needed to hear what they said because there were clues to the plot in their words.
So The Mousetrap is a disappointment, which is a pity because The Q has presented so much better local productions in recent times, and I hope will do so in the future.
Dance scholar unveils findings
Three members of the Canberra Critics Circle were present at the National Film and Sound Archive on February 29, when Canberra dance scholar, Michelle Potter, also a member of the circle, unveiled some of her findings made as part of the NFSA’s Scholars and Artist in Residence program for 2012.
The first of this year’s scholars, Potter has undertaken research on theatrical designer Kristian Fredrikson, (1940–2005) a giant figure in the world of Australian theatre designed best known for his work with the Australian Ballet and in her view, “perhaps the most awarded and acclaimed designer to have pursued a career in theatrical design in Australia to this point in our cultural history.”
“In a highly diverse and prolific working life that spanned some 40 years and resulted in the creation of around 140 works, Fredrikson was equally at home designing for dance, opera, theatre, musicals, film and television and was also one of a team of designers who worked on the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympiad.”
While Potter’s ultimate aim is to produce a book on the work of Fredrikson, this research project was specifically aimed at Fredrikson’s film and television commissions.
After giving an account of Fredrikson’s long career, Potter outlined his work as a costume designer for film and television, drawing some fascinating contrasts between the highly artistic and colourful artist’s impressions of the costumes for “Oedipus Rex” at Wal Cherry’s Emerald Hill Theatre in the 1960s, to the more austere black-and-white pencil drawings of costumes for a TV mini-series about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war produced by George Miller and starring Nicole Kidman.
But the main focus of her work was on “Undercover,” the 1984 Palm Beach Pictures’s film about the Berlei underwear promotional enterprises of the early 20th century. Potter’s trained eye discerned connections between the original costumes of dancers promoting the Berlei product and those created by Fredrikson for both the film and other productions, like the 2001 Sydney Dance Company-Australian Ballet collaboration, “Tivoli.”
Finally, Potter unveiled some of her preliminary findings about Fredrikson’s designs for an eccentric film, never made, called “The Magic Telescope.” We look forward to further revelations after she has a chance to meet the director.
Helen Musa, March 3 2012
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My Fair Lady adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion. Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe
Presented by Opera Australia and John Frost with Elizabeth Williams, Benjamin Lowy and Adrian Salpeter, Jean Arnold, Beckett Swede, Just for Laughs Theatricals and Glass Half Full Productions at Capitol Theatre, Sydney August 24 – October 14, 2017,
Director – Julie Andrews; Set Design – Oliver Smith; Lighting Design – Richard Pilbrow; Costume Design – Cecil Beaton, and Recreation – John David Ridge; Sound Design – Michael Waters; Make-Up Design – Rick Sharp, and Wig and Hair Design – John Isaacs.
Musical Supervisor – Guy Simpson and Musical Director – Laura Tipoki with 23-piece orchestra: Associate Concertmaster, Leader – Huy Nguyen Bui; Deputy Concertmaster, Leader – Katherine Lukey.
Anna O'Byrne as Eliza Doolittle and Reg Livermore as Alfred P Doolittle
Professor Higgins – Charles Edwards; Eliza Doolittle – Anna O’Byrne;
Alfred P Doolittle – Reg Livermore; Mrs Higgins – Robyn Nevin;
Colonel Pickering – Tony Llewellyn-Jones; Mrs Pearce – Deirdre Rubenstein
Freddy Eynsford-Hill – Joel Parnis; Mrs Eynsford-Hill – Julia McRae
Zoltan Kaparthy – Glen Hogstrom; Mrs Hopkins – Octavia Barron Martin
Butler – Michael Hart; Servants – Josh Gates, Kate Maree Hoolihan, Vanessa Rosewarne, Greta Sherriff, Sophie Viskich
‘Loverly’ Cockneys – Daniel Belle, Mark Doggett, Mat Heyward, Glen Hogstrom
Others in Ensemble: Justin Anderson, Deborah Caddy, Elisa Colla, Rodney Dobson,Tom Handley, Georgina Hopson, Erin James, Hollie James, James Lee, Allyce Martins, Holly Meegan, Scott Morris, Meredith O’Reilly, Joshua Robson, David Sirianni, Paul Whiteley, Katherine Wiles, Don Winsor
Photos by Jeff Busby
Above L: Deirdre Rubenstein as Mrs Pearce
Above R: Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Colonel Pickering
Below: Anna O'Byrne as Eliza and Charles Edwards as Prof Higgins
First things first: Opera Australia’s Capitol Theatre production of My Fair Lady is brilliantly well done.
Credit, of course, first goes to George Bernard Shaw for refusing to allow his 1914 play Pygmalion to be turned into a ‘light opera’. As Shaw told Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, “A Pygmalion operetta is quite out of the question … Pygmalion is my most steady source of income: it saved me from ruin during the war, and still brings in a substantial penny every week.” Having been burned before, Shaw swore he’d never “allow a comic opera to supplant it.” [ 15 Loverly Facts About My Fair Lady by Mark Mancini at http://mentalfloss.com/article/76684/15-loverly-facts-about-my-fair-lady ] The burning referred to Oscar Strauss’s 1908 too popular operetta The Chocolate Soldier adapted from Shaw’s 1894 play Arms and the Man.
Second, you have to admire Alan Jay Lerner for finding the right musician, Frederick Loewe, and both of them for not being afraid of Shaw’s dialogue-based in-depth characterisation, and for writing lyrics and music that strengthened especially Eliza, Professor Higgins and Alfred P Doolittle.
Anna O’Byrne, Charles Edwards and Reg Livermore were supernovas among all the other stars, including a wonderful Mrs Higgins from Robyn Nevin. For some audiences, opera is more about sumptuous sets, costumes and singing than thoroughly good acting. The standing ovation at Wednesday’s largely seniors matinee happened because it all came together: busloads of oldies were as excited as perhaps we (I’m one of them) are rather less often than we used to be, as the beautiful star-filled ceiling of the old Capitol Theatre faded before the stars on stage.
And indeed the sets on that grand revolve were stunning, like the costumes, make-up and props – while the orchestra under Guy Simpson played all the ‘highs and lows’ just right. Christopher Gatelli’s choreography ranged from tremendous athleticism to the wonderfully ironic statue-like imagery of the Ascot horse race, accompanied by 3-dimensional sound. Julie Andrews’ directing never missed a beat both in the musical and acting sense.
I could have danced all night, except that I wasn’t on a bus. I was driving, stuck near the airport, as reported by Keely McDonough, The Daily Telegraph, August 30, 2017 7:06 pm: ... Traffic remains very sluggish on the M5 East in Sydney’s south west after an earlier crash [at 4.30pm just after the My Fair Lady matinee finished] involving a car, a truck and a motorcycle...caused a monster traffic jam with all westbound lanes blocked and traffic backed up for 10km.
So, after thinking about why I prefer not to live in Sydney, I had time to wonder about the ending of My Fair Lady. I’ve reviewed productions of Pygmalion three times in the past twenty years, and never had doubts about Eliza’s future at the end of the play.
MRS HIGGINS. The carriage is waiting, Eliza. Are you ready?
LIZA. Quite. Is the Professor coming?
MRS HIGGINS. Certainly not. He cant behave himself in church. He makes remarks out loud all the time on the clergyman’s pronunciation.
LIZA. Then I shall not see you again, Professor. Goodbye.
Does she mean what she says? Higgins orders “by the way, Eliza, order a ham and a Stilton cheese, will you?” and “a pair of reindeer gloves number eights” and a tie. “You can choose the colour.”
Shaw’s stage instruction is [His cheerful, careless, vigorous voice shews that he is incorrigible].
LIZA. [disdainfully] bluntly tells Higgins “Number eights are too small for you....You have three new ties....Colonel Pickering prefers double Gloucester to Stilton; and you don’t notice the difference. I telephoned Mrs Pearce this morning not to forget the ham. What you are to do without me I cannot imagine. [She sweeps out].
When his mother suggests Eliza is fond of Colonel Pickering, Higgins ends the play:
“Pickering! Nonsense: she’s going to marry Freddy. Ha ha! Freddy!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! [He roars with laughter as the play ends].
So why, in My Fair Lady, does Eliza reappear, standing quietly watching until Higgins turns and realises she is there? This is definitely not Shaw’s ending.
I think there must have been considerable discussion for this Australian Opera production because Charles Edwards played the Higgins character exactly, maybe even more forcefully true to Shaw’s characterisation of this impossibly insensitive self-centred man.
Just before the lights dimmed on that final image, Edwards turned his face away, towards the audience, and put his head down – to do what? Hide Higgins' embarrassment, when he had never been embarrassed before? Hide his tears, as he realised he has lost her forever? As a kind of joke, pretending to be a little boy?
According to one of the many things written about the making of My Fair Lady, Rogers and Hammerstein gave up on the project when asked by Gabriel Pascal (with whom Shaw had collaborated for the 1938 Pygmalion film), because there was no obvious love interest. I suspect Lerner and Loewe were pressured to have Eliza come back to Higgins to satisfy that sentimental demand – the exact opposite of Shaw’s view of such a relationship, as he explains in great and often humorous detail in a postscript following the text of the film version (published by Penguin in 1941):
“Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.... No doubt there are slavish women as well as slavish men; and women, like men, [who] admire those that are stronger than themselves. But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things....”
Though Higgins has said, when Eliza says “Yes, you turn round and make up to me now that I’m not afraid of you, and can do without you”, that “I like you like this...now youre a tower of strength: a consort battleship”, we must recognise Shaw’s perceptiveness. This Higgins is the example of the despot Shaw quotes in the postscript: ‘When you go to women,’ says Nietzsche ‘take your whip with you.’
Considering Anna O’Byrne’s terrific feisty Eliza and Charles Edward’s completely intransigent Higgins, his head down at the end can mean no more than her reappearing will make his life hell if she stays. Just read the rest of the postscript to Pygmalion, and you’ll see what I mean.
But dont (that’s Shaw’s spelling) refuse to see My Fair Lady on the grounds of some feminist principles. Opera Australia have got it right as near as right can be.
Anna O'Byrne as Eliza Doolittle
Charles Edwards as Professor Higgins
Anna O'Byrne as Eliza Doolittle and Robyn Nevin as Mrs Higgins
ARCHE - Melbourne Ballet Company
Concept and Direction by Simon Hoy
Choreographed by Simon Hoy and Timothy Podesta
Presented by Melbourne Ballet Company
The Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre 25th and 26th August 2017
With their production of “Arche’”, Melbourne Ballet Company have come up with a delightfully quirky antidote for those dance devotees who feel that maybe they’ve seen enough versions of “Swan Lake” to last a lifetime, as well as a tantalising evening of captivating dance for those who’ve not yet experienced “Swan Lake”.
Choosing the Greek word relating to the beginning or source of the action, to provide the title and the key, and working with a cast of just nine superb dancers, choreographers Simon Hoy and Timothy Podesta have followed the basic storyline of “Swan Lake”, while refocussing the familiar story.
Alexander Baden Bryce (Von Rothbart) - Kristy Lee Denovan (Odette/Odile)
The central figure is now Von Rothbart, danced with commanding malevolence by Alexander Baden Bryce, and among his bevy of swan maidens is Odette/Odile, (Kristy Lee Denovan) who captures the heart of the handsome Prince Siegfried (Michael Braun) and provides him with his Specsaver moment at the end of the ballet.
Those familiar with “Swan Lake” will enjoy the many references to the original, especially the re-invented dance for the four cygnets, and the entrance of the swans in Act 11. But the choreographers have not confined themselves to “Swan Lake”, cheekily including references to “The Dying Swan”, and even the Greek myth, “Leda and the Swan”, to create imaginative sequences danced to interpolations of music from a variety of composers in addition to the familiar Tchaikovsky.
The broad, sweeping choreography is idiosyncratic, constantly surprising, and often very beautiful, with lovely long lines interrupted unexpectedly with bent knees, feet and wrists. Especially memorable are the Grecian-inspired dance for the ballroom guests and the sequence in which four swans create remarkable shapes while preening themselves on the lake. The spectacular lifts and inventive floor-work was impeccably executed by all the dancers, who perform in an uncluttered setting of evocative projections, wearing provocative, whimsical costumes which perfectly suited the mood of the piece.
This review first published in the digital edition of CITY NEWS on 26th August 2017
Darlinghurst Theatre Company
Posted - with permission - by Frank McKone
In the spirit of our Canberra Critics' Circle Conversations, here is a mission statement from Glen Terry, Executive Producer, Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Eternity Playhouse, Sydney:
From: Glenn Terry
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017
Subject: Darlinghurst Theatre Company
Dear people on our Media Invitation list,
I have had the opportunity to meet some of you and avail you of our company’s work. Darlinghurst Theatre Company has evolved and developed so much over the last few years and the following will give you more of an understanding of our company and the context of our work.
As you are no doubt aware, independent artists including many established artists often work for little or no pay and often fund their own production costs. It’s an investment that many professional artists make in their own work but it puts significant pressure on artists’ practice and their lives.
MEEA Award for performers
Darlinghurst Theatre Company is committed and passionate about contributing to the sustainability of the theatre sector and has worked tirelessly towards this goal. At the Eternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst Theatre Company (DTC) has developed a unique and exemplary model for supporting independent artists’ work, whereby artists’ productions are fully funded and produced by DTC; including artists paid at award wages and industry rates.
A performer would commonly make somewhere between $0 to $1,000 for 8 weeks work in an independent profit share production for rehearsal and performances. With DTC a performer is paid the MEEA award and receives $10,323 including annual leave plus super for 8 weeks work. A production represents a significant investment in independent artists’ work by DTC.
Artistic Direction
Each production Director and their creative team become our artistic leaders. At DTC my role as Executive Producer is to ensure the artistic integrity of our work and that each production’s thesis and vision is embraced and thoroughly explored.
Our artistic model seeks submissions of work from professional artists. We ensure that diverse voices and stories are represented on our stage. Our major productions are created by independent artists which increases mainstage opportunities in the sector. Productions are programmed through a peer selection process comprised of experienced and respected artists and practitioners led by myself as Executive Producer.
DTC is a unique professional company
DTC is a professional theatre company that sits between flagship theatre companies (e.g. Belvoir and STC) and independent theatres that work with independent artists and remunerate them through a profit-share model. This makes us unique – we operate as a professional theatre company but from a founding ethos of an independent theatre model.
DTC grew from a profit share model when it moved into the Eternity Playhouse: determined to pay award wages and to better support artists and their work. The DTC Board of Directors strongly stands by its position to pay award rates first and foremost to support a sustainable, healthy and viable arts sector. MEAA, the artists’ union, supports this position and its view is that DTC has a responsibility to comply with industrial relations laws at the Eternity Playhouse and a responsibility to pay professional artists correctly.
DTC actively engages in discussion on topical and current issues.
DTC is committed to community and cultural engagement. This leads us to support and host events and public forums on important issues. Organisations in 2016 that we supported included ACON, Medecins Sans Frontiere, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, The University of NSW, City Talks/City of Sydney, Art Month, Australian Himalayan Foundation, Perspectives/Women in Design, Australian Writers Guild and Currency House. A milestone event in 2016 for DTC was our partnership with Women in Theatre and Screen to present their two-day Festival Fatale involving over 100 artists.
Here are some highlights of our company’s work at the Eternity Playhouse.
DTC milestones and achievements:
DTC raised $690,000 for the Eternity Theatre fit-out and played an instrumental role in the development of the Eternity Playhouse, collaborating with the City of Sydney on the design of the venue.
In 2013, DTC gifted the fit-out of our old venue at Potts Point to the City of Sydney valued at $500,000 - now the Hayes Theatre.
In 2015, DTC became the first theatre company in Australia, working under an independent theatre model, to pay award wages and industry rates to all its artists.
In 2016, DTC was the first theatre company in NSW to adopt a gender parity policy in the employment of artists.
80,000 theatre patrons have attended our productions in the last 3½ years.
In 2016, DTC launched Share the Love an access and equality initiative which provides free theatre tickets to people experiencing financial hardship.
In 2016, to enhance our theatre going experience we opened our restaurant at the Eternity Playhouse.
In 2017 we launched our exhibition space in the Eternity Playhouse foyer with visual art by Dr Ella Dreyfus in tandem with our production Kindertransport.
In 2017 we will stage 211 professional theatre performances at the Eternity Playhouse which will employ 80 artists.
In 2018, DTC will celebrate its 25th birthday and the contributions it has made to the theatre sector. DTC founded and developed a number of initiatives into standalone incorporated companies which have had an impact on thousands of people.
From 2007 to 2012, DTC founded and developed Critical Stages, an initiative to tour outstanding independent theatre. During this time 120 independent artists were employed in DTC’s Critical Stages tours to over 90 towns across Australia playing to 80,000 attendees. Critical Stages continues to tour independent theatre across Australia.
From 2001 to 2010, DTC founded and developed Milk Crate Theatre, Australia’s first theatre company dedicated to homeless and disadvantaged people.
From 1992 to 2008, DTC founded and developed Darlo Drama, a community drama and performance school for adult amateurs. Now with its own premises on Oxford Street, Darlinghurst.
I feel very strongly about Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s ethos and our commitment to artists and the industry and I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about its work and something of its history and to give you a better understanding for our work and remit.
GLENN TERRY
Darlinghurst Theatre Company, Eternity Playhouse
39 Burton St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
T 02 9331 3107 E glenn@darlinghursttheatre.com
ARCHÈ!
Choreography by Simon Hoy and Timothy Podesta
Melbourne Ballet Company
Q Theatre, Queanbeyan to 26 August
Reviewed by Len Power 25 August 2017
Inspired by ‘Swan Lake’, ‘Archè!’ also takes inspiration from the Greek Myth – Leda and the Swan and The Dying Swan. Archè is the Greek word that indicates the beginning, the principle from which all things arise – the force that explains their birth and death.
It’s a clever concept because in this show we have the original ballet, Swan Lake, as the beginning and, of course, its storyline leads to death at the end. Director, Simon Hoy, honours the original ballet but gives us a fresh and innovative take on it with a modern-looking production using video projection for the backgrounds, the familiar and expected music by Tchaikovsky but blended seamlessly with other music by Einaldi, Arnalds, Morricone, Jeanrenaud and Elgar. Costuming by Hoy and Antonia Leonardi is also a mix of classical and modern that works very well.
The choreography by Hoy and Timothy Podesta is constantly surprising, defying our expectations and giving a wistful, dreamlike quality to the story’s progression.
Hoy and Podesta’s choreography is beautifully danced by the company’s nine dancers. Michael Braun captured a realistic and appealing innocence in his performance as the love-struck Prince Siegfried, dancing the role very well. Kristy Lee Denovan as Odette and Odile, gave us two very distinctive characters and her dancing as the tragic Odette was especially moving. Alexander Baden Bryce was a dangerously attractive Rothbart, dancing with great precision and Matt Dillon danced the prince’s friend, Benno, very well.
Simon Hoy has put his own stamp on this much-loved classic ballet and it all works very enjoyably.
Len Power’s reviews are also broadcast on Artsound FM 92.7’s ‘Artcetera’ program (9.00am Saturdays) and on other selected Artsound programs.
Photography by Christine Messinesi and Philip Erbacher
The Father by Florian Zeller, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton. Sydney Theatre Company at Wharf 1, August 24 – October 21, 2017.
Director – Damien Ryan; Designer – Alicia Clements; Lighting Designer – Rachel Burke; Composer and Sound Designer – Steve Francis
Cast: André – John Bell; Anne – Anita Hegh; Laura – Faustina Agolley; Pierre – Marco Chiappi; Man – Glenn Hazeldine; Woman – Natasha Herbert
The concept behind this play is essentially simple. Imagine what it will be like when you, if you are unlucky, reach a late stage of dementia where memory becomes completely unreliable but your feelings in reaction to others – who are by now caring for you full-time – are just as strong as ever, even though you are misinterpreting reality. It’s even worse when you realise that you don’t actually understand things at all.
Then, at least in The Father, you end up in tears, crying for your mother to take you home.
Of course, especially for John Bell playing Anne’s father André, the short scenes are not so simple. As he has said “I find this text particularly tricky to learn – and I think I speak for the other actors as well – because it’s very fractured and you need to make your own links between phrases. It’s just short grabs of text, which are hard to learn. It’s easy to learn a slab of Shakespeare, for instance, or Chekhov. They write these long passages that have an internal logic, that might even rhyme.”
In fact all the other actors, and especially Anita Gegh as André’s only surviving daughter needing to get on with her own life, and of course John Bell himself, succeeded admirably with the disjointed language. The fascinating thing about watching the play is that we found ourselves caught up in this mental state, and like André found it hard to know what the true story really was.
On the way to the theatre, I saw in Martin Place that the old traditional pavement message, Eternity, has now been changed to the word Empathy. That’s what this play is really about. There is no eternity – all our lives will end – but at least in our kind of society there is provision for empathy…well, there was for André in the full-care nursing home Anne had to admit him to. The play ends where the author probably began constructing André’s mental world, with a professionally empathetic nurse cradling the crying old man in her arms.
In the Conversation with the Playwright, Florian Zeller, printed in the program (translated from the French by Marie Laubie and Carl Nilsson-Polias), the question is raised, saying “Some have compared the role of André in The Father to King Lear. Is it, in the end, a tragic role in that sense?”
Zeller replies “It’s always perilous trying to sum things up in one word. Still, I would say, ‘Yes, I think this is a tragic role’. The play seems to me to be animated by a destination, its end, which is a tragic destination.”
Though I recognise the awfulness of dementia, I have also seen the worth of an empathetic caring staff who managed my mother through some 5 years of demanding behaviour (going back to her working life when she ran the office and now expected to run the dementia unit), paranoia like André’s belief that his watch was stolen because he couldn’t find it, incomprehensible but highly imaginative flights of fantasy, and a complete inability to understand what was on the television screen.
At a week short of 93, my mother died peacefully, thanks to carers who were never punitive, nor full of sympathy, but had what I would call a practical empathy. This is what I saw in the final scene of The Father – not a tragic but a positive end in the acceptance of reality.
And that makes this play worthwhile being produced by the Sydney Theatre Company, justifies the effort and the quality of the actors’ and creatives’ work, and certainly says you should take time out to see it – and help prepare for that time in your life.
Illustration by Nicholas Harding:
John Bell in rehearsal
Posted by Canberra Critics Circle at 1:14 AM
HIR
Helen Thomson
HIR by Taylor Mac at Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, August 16 – September 10, 2017.
Director – Anthea Williams; Set & Costume Designer – Michael Hankin; Composer & Sound Designer – Steve Toulmin; Lighting Designer – Sian James-Holland; Associate Artist – Lucky Price; Voice & Dialect Coach – Paige Walker; Movement Director – Scott Witt; Design Assistant – Jeremy Allen
Cast: Paige – Helen Thomson; Isaac – Michael Walley; Max – Kurt Pimblett; Arnold – Greg Stone
If I describe the household of father Arnold, mother Paige, elder son Isaac and younger trans sibling Max as dystopian, it would be true but would miss the point. A golden veil of tinsel strips swept aside to reveal a lounge-room/kitchen in complete disarray. The characters’ accents were absolutely definite: this is America.
As I watched a very funny but telling first act I had the weird feeling I was seeing a David Pope cartoon in action. So often his picture (usually of the day’s Australian political news) is funny, yet always with a sense of foreboding. If we were to see the image play out, surely funny would turn into disaster. This is what happens in HIR.
Then I found the Pope cartoon to match:
[ http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0.html ]
This is the America who elected Donald Trump, whose Whitehouse daily falls apart as each new appointment takes off in their own direction, trying to escape impending disaster.
Paige’s home is in a poverty-stricken suburb built on a garbage dump. There is no employment for Isaac, who has joined the Marines seeking some surety of existence and now arrives home after years of collecting dismembered body parts, having been discharged for drug use, to find his mother no longer cleans the house on principle as a feminist. His once family-violent father is demented after a stroke brought on, his mother claims, because after the last time her husband raped her, she stood up to him and took control.
His young ‘sister’ is now in the process of transitioning with hormones to becoming male, looking forward to surgery to increase the size of hir clitoris, and insisting on the correct pronouns to be used. Hir mother actively supports the change. She has sold the house to raise funds and support her venture organising a non-profit to return the suburb to its original natural condition.
Isaac attempts to put everything back in ‘order’ in military fashion, and the result is an explosion of emotional conflict.
All this can be presented with cartoon-style humour, in the same way that Jewish people satirise their foibles, or Aboriginal people create blak comedy, because the writer, Taylor Mac “started plotting my escape” from Stockton, California, which “held the honour of having the highest murder rate (per capita) in America…the second I developed a feminine walk and became conscious that I wasn’t like the other boys.” Max – played by transgender actor Kurt Pimblett – in this play seeks to “survive and find community”, while it is important to acknowledge the valuable role in this production played by Associate Artist Lucky Price who “was identified female at birth and at the age of 34 transitioned his gender in 2014 to male.”
But – as I imagined about David Pope’s cartoon – when the funny stuff gets to an extreme stage (as I think it will for Donald Trump), the explosion in HIR is a horribly tragic end. Though Taylor Mac can write about hirself “We continually talk about how lucky we are that our queerness and our need to survive and find community gave us the extra bit of drive that was needed to get out of those homophobic and transphobic environments”, the end of his play leaves all four characters with literally nowhere to go, not only within the family where any remnants of personal relationships have been destroyed, but with no economic support in Donald Trump’s Great Again America.
At that moment of realisation, as the final blackout was about to happen, there was a great silence in the audience.
I would have much preferred that depth of silence to have been held for much longer before bringing lights up and the cast on for curtain call, which induced the usual claps, cheers and whistles in the audience. The quality of the writing, performances and design in this production certainly justified that highly positive response, but I needed more time to absorb and cope with the tragedy of our times which this excellent play exposes.
Michael Walley as Isaac, Greg Stone as Arnold, Helen Thomson as Paige
in HIR by Taylor Mac
Kurt Pimblett as Max
The Inheritance - Budding Theatre
If only King Lear had been a little nicer to his children. Greg Gould's new play The Inheritance has a dead patriarch splitting his empire between three daughters - one unquestionably noble, the other two substantially more dodgy.
The King here is property mogul Lesley Archibald Essington (John Kelly), and the daughters are a motley crew. Eldest Amanda (Alexandra Howard) is determined to follow in daddy's footsteps and run his company - despite a catastrophic track record in business. Middle daughter Emily (Jess Waterhouse) has adopted the Paris Hilton model and translated her family's notoriety into a lucrative career as a tabloid sensation.
The youngest daughter is of course the good one: noble Gina (Linda Chen), a self-made doctor who waited tables at uni so she could pay her own way to a career helping the needy.
The personalities of the three daughters are set-up by a flashback opening scene, a parable where the three daughters - here played by child actors Martha Russell, Vivien Murray, and Erin Stiles - each try to wheedle a purchase out of their father.
Amanda of course wants to buy something she thinks she can flip for a quick profit. Emily meanwhile uses her charm to twist a ludicrously expensive mirror out of dad. Only Gina goes home with nothing, with her father rejecting the doll she wants as too old and ragged. And just to ensure there is no doubt of Gina's overwhelming moral superiority, we even get to see her conquer the temptation to filch some cash from dad's wallet.
This is the set-up for a comedy where the craven heirs grovel and debase themselves for a slice of the fortune. But the stakes are oddly low for the characters, with the will reading treated as a tedious formality. Amanda already has her career, Emily is self-financing, and Gina is completely indifferent to it all. Sure, $500 mil would be nice, but nobody faces poverty or imprisonment without a quick cash infusion.
Instead the bulk of the conflict in the play concerns Lesley's histrionic widow Dianna (Victoria Hopkins), who holds up the will reading by locking herself in the bathroom and refusing to come out. The daughters then each take their turn using a different strategy to coax her out - a monumental event waiting patiently on a petty problem.
While the family do snipe, for a family that should be squabbling over an inheritance they are unusually loving. In particular their affection is notably physical with frequent hugs and embracing, particularly from party girl Emily, who also has a good line in mothering. The elder sisters do seem a bit blasé about their father's recent demise, but Gould is not about to let a few moral foibles disqualify any of his characters from getting a happy ending - he loves them too much.
The play is exceptionally well cast, with actors playing to their strengths in the different parts. The main discord is in the clash of acting styles in the legal team, with lawyer John Layder (Rob DeFries) and his flunky Paul (Vivek Sharma) seemingly performing in different plays. At points, the play does struggle to find just the right tone: a monologue by Victoria Hopkins tries to shock the audience with raw intensity, and when she does so she loses the comedy that comes from delivering this speech while perched on a toilet.
At times, the play tilts towards farce, but always stops short of complete madness in favour of character comedy. In a farce, a secret would normally lead to a series of increasingly complex lies, but in this play secrets exist only to be revealed: party poppers that burst with cheer rather than deadly landmines the characters have to tiptoe around. The plotting can also meander, especially in the opening scenes, but Gould's excellent dialogue and clever jokes get us through the lean sequences.
Direction by Cate Clelland brings out the characters, but the blocking felt stale: in comedy so driven by relationships, it was distracting to see actors so frequently turn away from their conversations in favour of direct address to the audience. The set design also jarred with the content of the play, with the broken picture frames and dour colours not reflecting the robust shamelessness of the family.
The big reveal of the play is so obvious that it will surprise no-one, but Gould's love for his characters won the day, with the result that a night of vibrant comedy was capped by a tender and moving finale. Vanity, lust, greed - to Gould these are mere peccadillos, and completely forgivable when the company has been this entertaining.
In this play Gould stretches his wings and shifts from the short form to the family saga, and while sparkling dialogue does paper over some soggy plotting, perfectly cast actors and excellent jokes provide a truly delightful night of entertainment.
WATER PUSHES SAND
Composed by Erik Griswold
Directed by Tamara Saulwick
Australian Art Orchestra and musicians of the Sichuan province.
Ainslie Arts Centre, Canberra, 23rd August 2017
Composer Erik Griswold has had a long association with Sichuan. Together with percussionist, Vanessa Tomlinson, he has visited the province many times to study Sichuan percussion, folk music and street songs. Water Pushes Sand is his attempt to distil their feelings of discovery, confusion and wonder into a single musical experience, incorporating eastern and western instruments, songs, film and Chinese performance skills.
The performance was introduced by the sounds of two cymbalists who focussed attention before a raucous parade of musicians, led by a chanting Chinese tenor, entered the room in a cacophony of sound. The musicians settled themselves onstage where, conducting from the piano, the composer guided them through a series of musical impressions, some of which were accompanied by filmed sequences, and over-dubbed with traffic noises and water effects. A section commenting on urban renewal and the destruction of Wide Alley was performed to a spoken narration.
The music itself ranged intriguingly through tightly scored sections of aggressive dissonance, cool jazz infused brass sections, shimmering Chinese zither, minimalist piano variations and mind-bendingly complex percussion sequences. At one point cymbals were thrown across the stage, creating a moment which vied with the ear-splitting duel between saxophonists Tim O’Dwyer and Scott McConnachie, who challenged each other with virtuosic improvisations, for the most memorable section of the work.
Sheng Li Zheng performing his face-changing dance.
It was a shame that space limitation on the small stage, which was attractively decorated on either side with Chinese lanterns, hampered the staging. The orchestra appeared uncomfortably cramped, and the low stage ceiling, together with the placement of the bass player centre-stage, severely compromised the effectiveness of the filmed sequences. As well in the final sequence, the gorgeously costumed, Sheng Li Zheng, who had throughout provided a series of impressive vocal interpolations, was forced to perform his amazing face-changing routine at floor-level, resulting in a restricted view for many in the audience.
These quibbles apart, Water Pushes Sand proved to be a challenging and satisfying experience, and a fascinating insight into the Australian Art Orchestra’s quest to explore the jazz of tomorrow.
Photos: Guy Grabowsky
Erik Griswold, Composer
Tamara Saulwick, Director
Australian Art Orchestra with Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres
Ainslie Arts Centre 23 August
According to the program notes, ‘Water Pushes Sand’ features China’s Sichuan music combining rustic country folk music, street songs and ear-splitting cacophonies of gongs and cymbals. A collaboration between composer Erik Griswold and musicians and performers from Sichuan and the Australian Arts Orchestra, with an emphasis on improvisation, it is certainly different, at times exciting and entertaining but often puzzling as well.
A well-produced show with good lighting choices, fine video accompaniment and fascinating singing and dancing by Sheng Li Zheng, there was much here to enjoy. Of course, it’s easier for us to relate to the western-style music woven around the more challenging Sichuan elements but it all comes together in a generally satisfying and enjoyable way.
I would have enjoyed it even more if the individual musical items were explained either by the composer, who occasionally commented during the performance, or in the program. Being told by the composer, ‘that’s a song about tofu’ didn’t really enlighten me much. I enjoyed the fine singing of Sheng Li Zheng but I had no sense of what he was singing about and I wanted to know more about the background to his spectacular changing faces dance.
Australian Art Orchestra - Photo by Claude Raschella
The music was mostly very loud and the amplification of the music in this reasonably small venue was often at an uncomfortable level. I saw some audience members around me with hands over their ears. Ninety minutes of sound at this level was a bit wearing. Maybe an interval would have helped a bit.
The piano playing by composer, Erik Griswold, was a highlight of the performance. There was also fine playing in featured passages by Peter Knight on trumpet, Scott McConnachie and Tim O’Dwyer on the saxophones, Min Dong, the bamboo flute player, Mindy Meng Wang on the Guzheng, Sam Pankhurst on Contra Bass and Kai Zhi Zhong and Vanessa Tomlinson on percussion.
Lip Service by John Misto at Ensemble Theatre, Sydney, August 17 – September 30, 2017.
Director – Nicole Buffini; Assistant Director – Shaun Rennie; Designer – Anna Gardner; Lighting – Christopher Page; Sound – Daryl Wallis; Wardrobe – Margaret Gill; Make-up – Peggy Carter; Dialect Coach – Nick Curnow
Cast: Patrick O’Higgins – Tim Draxl; Helena Rubinstein – Amanada Muggleton; Elizabeth Arden – Linden Wilkinson
Interesting art is often described as ‘edgy’. John Misto’s Lip Service (first produced earlier this year as Madame Rubinstein at Park Theatre, London) sits on an interesting knife-edge between farce and love.
A huge amount has been written about Helena Rubinstein’s world-wide make-up empire, starting in Melbourne, Australia, in 1902; her life-long competition with Florence Nightingale Graham aka Elizabeth Arden; and with Charles Revson of Revlon fame. An excellent place to grasp the impact of Rubinstein is to go to
http://mrmhadams.typepad.com/blog/2014/11/beauty-is-power-how-helena-rubinstein-with-elizabeth-arden-ans-madame-c-j-walker-improved-the-world-.html
http://thejewishmuseum.org/press/press-release/rubinstein-release
Misto makes Madame his central character, so well drawn by this performer that I entirely forgot she was the Amanda Muggleton I remember from Steaming, and her recent solo show, The Book Club. Make-up, costume and her exquisite Polish-Jewish-New York accent and language mannerisms certainly created the picture of the eccentric Rubinstein, but it was the truth in Muggleton’s acting – in a large number of short cameo scenes – which captured my imagination.
The play has been written from the point of view of Patrick O’Higgins, usually described as her gay secretary-factotum, who in real life was a journalist on Flair magazine in New York when he met Helena Rubinstein by chance in 1955 and was employed by her for the final ten years of her life. I haven’t read his biography of his boss, but I imagine that some of Misto’s story comes from that work, and from O’Higgins’ niece, Marianne Hinton who “generously shared her memories and photographs of her uncle Patrick and was delighted with the play.
Tim Draxl’s characterisation task as an actor was made a little easier than the demands made on Muggleton, but their playing together was technically brilliant. There was so much fun in the farcical side of Rubinstein’s treatment of O’Higgins that every scene extracted laughs all round the Ensemble’s intimate in-the-round theatre, that we were ready to accept the contrasting feelings of concern for Helena at the intimation of an attack at the end of Act 1; of understanding as ‘Irish’ (as she called Patrick) at last found a way to allow Helena to cry for the death of her son, Horace; and even of his sense of love for her, and loss, when she died – in 1965 in real life.
Draxl’s final line, yelling at the illusion of Charles Revson, taking Helena’s part, got just the right level of laugh to relieve what might have been an overly sentimental death scene. Good writing with precise acting brought us back from the edge.
Elizabeth Arden’s role dramatically is written as the constant foil, because, as she probably was in real life, she may not have had the glorious self-centredness of Helen Rubinstein, but she was the more consistently successful businesswoman. The ‘straight’ character might not have been as complicated to perform, but Linden Wilkinson provided the exact quantity and quality of contrast needed to make sure the dramatic tension – the source of our laughter – never fell away.
So why would an Australian write this sort-of comedy about these women? Certainly to make the point about women living from the late 19th Century to the mid 1960s who made their way with great financial success in the men’s world of business. Perhaps it was to show (though not directly said) that it was in Australia in the early 1900s that a woman had the sense of individual freedom and power to make the start that Helena did in Melbourne (in real life some sources say she made £12,000 in two years), while I wonder if the same might have been true for Florence Nightingale Graham in Canada.
If it was true that young women at the university in California where Rubinstein spoke when receiving an honorary degree objected to her success in making women want to wear make-up (and I have seen that change in attitude take place in my own daughters), then the play about the make-up business still has resonance. This thematic issue was certainly played up in this production by showing the actual television adverts of the 1950s which began to rile women in the 1960s.
So the fun of this play which could feel a bit superficial, especially in the first half, is perhaps a mask for more significant thinking.
And there was one issue which is raised early in brief, and then again more bluntly later, but without going into any depth. This was about what happened to Helena when she stayed with her two uncles in a country town in Victoria for the year or so before she shifted to Melbourne. She was around 20 at the time. Wikipedia says she had a ‘falling out with her uncle’. Her words in this play imply – that is, much more than suggest – that she was abused by at least one of these men. Her relations with her husbands, her sons (especially with Horace, named after her own father), and with the gay Patrick, as we see them in the play, show a dark side to the strength of her independence as a woman.
Though it seems that the real Patrick O’Higgins wrote a humorous biography (having known her only in her later life) and John Misto seems to have picked up on that, perhaps there is a place for a play on the other side of the knife-edge, taking up what happened in Coleraine, Victoria, Australia.
Lip Service, then, is an interesting play, with a great production, in other words.
Photos by Prudence Upton
Tim Draxl as Patrick O'Higgins and Amanda Muggleton as Helena Rubinstein
in Lip Service by John Misto
Linden Wilkinson as Elizabeth Arden and Amanda Muggleton as Helena Rubinstein
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Vol. 11, Issue 328 - Friday, November 24, 2006
F | S | S | M | T | W | T
Nightcrawlers
By Jason Genegabus
jgenegabus@starbulletin.com
Anna Bannana's
2440 S. Beretania St. / 946-5190
FRI "Live Music Fridays," 9 p.m.
SAT "Live Music Saturdays," 9 p.m.
Monday: "Open Mic Night," 9 p.m.
Tuesday: "Open Honolulu," 9 p.m.
Arnold's Waikiki
339 Saratoga Road / 924-6887
FRI Natural T, 9 p.m.
SAT Natural T, 10 p.m.
SUN Rich Griffith, 7 p.m.
Monday and Wednesday: the Geezers, 7 p.m.
Tuesday: Dirty Purple, 8 p.m.
Brew Moon Waikiki
1958 Kalakaua Ave. / 955-9045
FRI Khanobi'z Holidaye, 7 p.m.
SAT Lost at Sea, 7 p.m.
Thursday: Kainalu, 7 p.m.
Chai's Island Bistro
Aloha Tower Marketplace / 585-0011
FRI "Hapa DVD and CD Release Party," 7 p.m.
SAT "Hapa DVD and CD Release Party," 7:45 p.m.
"Go-Go Saturdays," 10 p.m.
SUN Na Palapalai, 6:30 p.m.
Monday: Jerry Santos and Hoku Zuttermeister, 6:45 p.m.
Thursday: Makaha Sons, 6:45 p.m.
Detox Sports and Entertainment Club
1192 Alakea St. / 526-0200
SAT Golfcart Rebellion, Pimpbot, Upstanding Youth, Isouljahs and Crushal Meditashun, 9 p.m.
Thursday: "Thursdays Rocks @ Detox," 8 p.m.
Duke's Canoe Club
Outrigger Waikiki Hotel / 922-2268
FRI Maunalua, 4 p.m.
SAT Kapena, 4 p.m.
SUN Opihi Pickers, 4 p.m.
Eastside Grill
Puck's Alley / 952-6555
FRI "Karaoke Night," 10 p.m.
SAT "Karaoke Night," 10 p.m.
SUN "Blue Moon Sundays," 7 p.m.
Tuesday: "Crack-Up Tuesdays," 8 p.m.
Wednesday: "Wipeout Wednesdays," 10 p.m.
Esprit Nightclub
Sheraton Waikiki / 922-4422
FRI "Little Albert Tribute," 9 p.m.
SAT Bruce Shimabukuro, 7:30 p.m.
"Little Albert Tribute," 9 p.m.
SUN Son Caribe, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday: Augie Tulba, 7:30 p.m. $5.
Wednesday and Thursday: Soul Cafe, 9 p.m.
Fashion 45 Nightclub
Waikiki Trade Center / 922-4599
FRI "Fashion 45 Fridays," 10 p.m.
SAT "Fever," 10 p.m.
SUN "Refine," 10 p.m.
Tuesday: "Model Tuesdays," 10 p.m.
FRI Kahakea, 5:30 p.m.
Eight-0-Eight, 9 p.m.
SAT Sunway, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Jook Joint, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday: Hot Buttered Rum, 8 p.m.
Indigo Eurasian Cuisine
1121 Nuuanu Ave. / 521-2900
FRI "Get Fresh," 10 p.m.
SAT "Electrolyfe," 10 p.m.
Tuesday: "Wrath of Grapes" with Maria Remos and Intricate Mediums, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Makana, 9 p.m.
Jazz Minds Art and Cafe
1661 Kapiolani Blvd. / 945-0800
FRI Buddy Mak Jazz Quartet, 9 p.m.
SAT Son Caribe, 9 p.m.
Monday: "The Nu Swing Project" with Maria Remos, 9 p.m.
Thursday: "gr00ve.imProV.arTiSts" with DeShannon Higa, 9 p.m.
Kapahulu Kafe
766 Kapahulu Ave. / 732-7486
SUN Steve Inglis, 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Michael Tanenbaum, 9:30 p.m.
Kelley O'Neil's
311 Lewers St. / 926-1777
FRI Mike Piranha, 5 p.m.
Stumbletown, 9 p.m.
SAT Jim Hubbard, 5 p.m.
Freesound, 9 p.m.
SUN Celtic Waves, 3 p.m.
Brendan and Dewing Time, 9 p.m.
Tuesday: Piranha Brothers, 9 p.m.
Wednesday: Doolin Rakes, 9 p.m.
Kemoo Farms Pub and Lakeside Lanai
1718 Wilikina Drive / 621-1835
FRI Howlin' Moon Dog and Katch-Ah-Vibe, 9 p.m. $5.
SAT Howlin' Moon Dog and Freesound, 9 p.m. $5.
Kona Brewing Co.
Koko Marina Shopping Center / 394-5662
FRI Naluhoe, 7 p.m.
SAT Jon Osorio and Stephen Brown, 7 p.m.
SUN Ledward Ka'apana, 6 p.m.
Wednesday: Kaukahi, 7 p.m.
Thursday: Weldon Kekauoha and Friends, 7 p.m.
Living Room @ Fisherman's Wharf
1009 Ala Moana Blvd. / 538-3808
FRI "Cheddar" with Architechs Hawaii and Kaizo Speedgear, 10 p.m.
SAT "Speakeasy Saturdays/The Next Level," 10 p.m.
SUN "Faded 5 Sundays," 10 p.m.
Thursday: "Redda Fire" with DJ Jahson the 45 Revolver, 10 p.m.
Ala Moana Shopping Center / 947-2900
FRI Kimo Opiana, 4 p.m.
One Drop, 9:30 p.m.
SAT Darrell Aquino, 4 p.m.
Ka'ala Boys, 9:30 p.m.
SUN Lawrence Kidder, 4 p.m.
Rizzen, 9 p.m.
Monday: Hot Rain, 9:30 p.m.
Tuesday: "Mai Tai Rumble," 9 p.m.
43 N. Hotel St. / 550-0496
FRI "Pacific Standard" with DJ Ira and special guest Norm Talley, 10 p.m.
SAT "Chinatown Sessions" with DJ Eskae, 10 p.m.
Wednesday: "Acid Wash" with DJ Vegas Mike and Quicksilva, 9 p.m.
Thursday: "The Mighty HNL," with DJ Zacharijah, 9 p.m.
The O Lounge
FRI "Fridays @ The O," 9 p.m.
SAT "The Light," 10 p.m. 18+
Tuesday: "Contemporary Jazz Night," 6 p.m.
Wednesday: "Endless Summer Camp" with the Vertical Junkies, 10 p.m. 18+
Osake Sushi Bar and Lounge
FRI "Osake Fridays" with DJ K-Smooth and Pomai, 10 p.m.
SAT "DFX Saturdays," 10 p.m.
Wednesday: "Osaketini Nights," 10 p.m.
Thursday: "Better Days" with DJ Stealth, 10 p.m.
O'Toole's Irish Pub
902 Nuuanu Ave. / 536-4138
FRI Jay Elliot, 5 p.m.
The Mixers, 9 p.m.
SAT Doolin Rakes, 9 p.m.
SUN "Jamie Winpenny's Local Band Night" with special guest Squirrel Hunters, 9 p.m.
Monday: Mike Love, 8 p.m.
Tuesday: Tiki Malua, 8 p.m.
Panama Hattie's
99-016 Kamehameha Hwy. / 488-8226
FRI "Puro Party Latina @ La Zona," 10 p.m.
SAT "Sharkey's Comedy Club," 7 p.m.
"Wild Out Saturdays," 10 p.m.
Wednesday: "Salsa Party" with Son Caribe, 9 p.m.
Thursday: "Promiscuous Thursdays," 9 p.m.
Pink Cadillac
478 Ena Road / 946-6499
FRI "Liquid Velvet," 10 p.m.
SAT "Deca-Dance," 10 p.m.
Monday: "EuroTrashed" with DJ Adumb, 9 p.m. 18+
Pipeline Cafe
805 Pohukaina St. / 589-1999
FRI "Foreplay Fridaze" with Rick Rock and DJ Wu-Chang, 10 p.m. 18+
SAT Jurassic 5, 8 p.m. 18+
Tuesday: "X-Rated Tuesdays" with DJ Mike D, 10 p.m.
Thursday: Groundation, 9 p.m. 18+
Red Lion University
2535 Coyne St. / 949-5466
FRI "Freaky Fridays," 10 p.m.
SAT "South of the Border Saturdays" with Fil Slash, 10 p.m.
Monday: "Broke Dik Mondays," 9 p.m.
Thursday: "Dallah Ballah Thursdays," 9 p.m.
thirtyninehotel
FRI "Soul Clap," with DJ Eskae and the Nocturnal Sound Krew, 9 p.m. $10; free before 10:30 p.m.
SAT "Lucky Tiger" with DJ Mark 9 p.m. No cover.
Tuesday: Newjass Quartet, 9 p.m. $5.
Wednesday: "The Rising Melody" with Bret Shimabuku, 7 p.m. $5.
Tiki's Grill and Bar
Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel / 923-8454
FRI Vaihi, 7:30 p.m.
Curbside, 10 p.m.
SAT 20 Degrees North, 7:30 p.m.
Ellsworth Simeona, 10 p.m.
SUN Ka'ala Boys, 6 p.m.
Christian and Sani, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Cory Oliveros, 6 p.m.
Thursday: Sean Na'aua'o, 6 p.m.
572 Kailua Road / 262-3343
FRI Analog, 9:30 p.m.
Venus Nightclub
FRI "Paradise" with DJs Technique, Krazy K and Edit, 10 p.m. $5.
SAT "Men of Venus," 9:30 p.m. $10.
"Taste of Honey," 11:30 p.m. $5.
Wednesday: "Wicked Wednesdays" with DJs Edit and Betty, 10 p.m. 18+
W Honolulu
FRI "Wonderlounge" with Artist Groove Network and DJ Ryan Sean, 9 p.m.
SAT "The Remedy" with Profound Entertainment and DJs Mixmaster B and Jrama, 9 p.m.
Zanzabar Nightclub
FRI "The Good Life," 10 p.m.
SAT "House of ISIS," 10 p.m.
SUN "Sizzlin' Sundays" with DJ Mike D, 10 p.m.
Tuesday: "Hot Latin Tuesdays," 8 p.m.
Thursday: "Thirsty Thursdays" with Rick Rock and DJ Wu-Chang, 9 p.m. 18+
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Nancy Blomberg: Remembering a museum trailblazer and thought leader
Nancys research specialties included North American Indian art and culture, specifically classic Navajo textiles.
DENVER, COLO.- Its with the deepest grief that the Denver Art Museum family shares the passing of Nancy Blomberg, the museums Chief Curator and Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Native Arts. Nancy served in her curatorial role at the museum for more than 28 years, overseeing the American Indian, African and Oceanic art collections. She was a wonderful colleague, with her reputation for flawless research and innovative approaches to art display reaching coast to coast.
Nancy made it a priority for the DAM to work closely with members of Native American communities, and positioned the museum as a leader in the field of American Indian art with her collaborative implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Her planning of Artists Eye, Artists Hand: American Indian Art, the 2011 reinstallation of the DAMs American Indian art galleries, resulted in a fresh, artist-centric presentation that received the Outstanding Permanent Collection New Installation Award from the American Association of Curators (AAMC). Additionally, her innovative, colorful presentation of Navajo textiles in 2013s Red, White and Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870, was honored in 2014 with the AAMC Award of Excellence for best art exhibition. Why We Dance: American Indian Art in Motion was the last exhibition she curated, along with Native arts curator John Lukavic and guest curator Russ Tallchief, at the Denver Art Museum in 2016.
Nancys research specialties included North American Indian art and culture, specifically classic Navajo textiles. She lectured widely and published extensively in such publications as The Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, Kiva and American Indian Art Magazine. Nancy also served as a past editor of Museum Anthropology, and edited and contributed to the Companion to Oceanic Art at the Denver Art Museum. Her major publication, Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection, is in its second edition. Nancys passion for sharing the living tradition of American Indian art inspired her to build the museums annual Friendship Powwow and American Indian Cultural Celebration into a 29-year mainstay in Denvers arts calendar.
Before coming to the DAM in 1990, Nancy served as assistant curator of anthropology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, curatorial assistant at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and a curator at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Nancy received her bachelor of arts in anthropology from the University of Illinois and obtained her masters degree in anthropology from California State University.
Nancy was a beloved colleague, a pillar of strength for the museum and a great and most loyal friend. We miss her terribly, her sharp mind and her generosity, her professional work ethic, her dry sense of humor and her kindness. In collaboration with her husband, Art Blomberg, a new fund has been created in Nancys honor. The Nancy Blomberg Acquisitions Fund for Native American Art will be created to ensure her legacy lives on within the collections and institution she dearly loved.
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Art International
Diversity • Collaboration • Cultural Exchange
Art International is a Shropshire-based informal partnership of artists working in the UK and Russia, with the aim of creating opportunities to exhibit work in both countries and promoting a mutual understanding of the purpose, challenges and rewards of making art in our 21st century societies.
Born in the USSR, The Hive Gallery, Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury art exhibitions from Britain and Russia
By Gwen Cox
In January 2013, The Hive Art and Media Gallery in Shrewsbury will host an exhibition with the beguiling title ‘Born in the USSR’, curated by Svetlana Elantseva of the Art International Group. On show will be works of art created by a group of artists currently resident in Shropshire, but originally from countries which were previously part of the former Soviet Union. Svetlana Elantseva and Tanya Hart were born in Russia; Tanya Golovatyuk, Maria Golovatyuk, Larisa Butler and Lyuba Carpenter in Ukraine; Marina Hadorik in Estonia.
Some of these artists have formed a group which meets regularly in Shrewsbury to explore working with different media. Under the name of ‘Influenced by Colour’, they have now amassed a sizeable portfolio and have decided that it is time to share their talents, to give the public an opportunity to see their work. They are joined by Tanya Hart and Lyuba Carpenter who share their enthusiasm for art and design.
The artists’ experience of life in the USSR differs according to the length of time they lived there. All of them, however, are interested in how the combination of such different cultural conditioning affects the work that they produce. This forms the basis of the exhibition.
Tanya Golovatyuk notices how the brightness of Ukrainian art and craft influences her colour choices; those in Western European art are often more muted. She also likes to use Ukrainian iconography in her craft work: sunflowers, and ‘kalina’, the bright red berries which make delicious jam. She says, ‘Ukraine is my homeland, but, now that I have lived in England for 11 years, I am aware that influences on my art have become mixed. It is since I have been in England that I have begun to express myself through art; I have benefited here from the more accepting attitude to amateur work, and feel free now to experiment with different media and styles.’
Tanya’s daughter, Maria, has been in the UK since she was 7 years old, and has, consequently, felt far less influence from her Ukrainian roots. Her British education has led her to produce works more in the traditions of Western Europe, though she knows she has internalised a Ukrainian sensibility to bold colours and form through constant exposure to these at home.
Svetlana Elantseva feels the pull of her Russian home very strongly. For some time, she worked in Moscow producing propaganda art so typical of the former Soviet regime, and continues to derive inspiration from this and more ancient forms of Russian art. ‘Throughout my life and travels, I always feel a connection to my home land. This informs the pattern of my life and my art, through which I pay homage to my heritage, my country and its ways of life.’
Lyuba Carpenter has created a highly successful fashion design business in Shrewsbury. Having learned her craft in the Soviet Union, she brings to her design the meticulous attention typical of Soviet workmanship. ‘USSR is and always will be the place where I am from and who I am, but UK is my second home now .I‘ve happily settled down here and I am grateful to this country for welcoming me, and for giving me an opportunity to develop my skill and creativity.’
Tanya Hart works with decoupage: ‘The art and craft make me happier and work for me as an art therapy.’ Tanya works now with furniture design among other things, and incorporates the ideas and images of both her worlds into this. Larisa Butler also stresses how well painting and drawing help her to relax; she and Tanya work here as accountants.
The exhibition opens on 14th January and runs until 1st February. The Private View is from 18.00 to 21.00 on Friday 18th January, and will feature, as well as art, music and poetry with a strong Soviet flavour.
AIG is also holding a subsequent exhibition in February at the Hive Gallery, curated by Svetlana, this time involving international artists who are members of the group. Entitled ‘Conversation Pieces’, it is the result of a cultural exchange between Russian and British artists. Alexey Gilarov, Vasili Racov, Carla Boulton and Svetlana who are exhibiting new paintings and drawings, holding a ‘conversation’ through art which needs no translation.
Alexey and Vasili live in Moscow. They work on monumental interior paintings on facades, on both public and private facilities, using mural, mosaic, fresco, stained-glass and graffito techniques. Svetlana and Carla are Shropshire based artists who work in different media : drawing, painting, collages, ceramics , photographs and films.
The artists’ work is held in private collections in the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and Russia.
The artists inhabit different continents and speak different tongues; this exhibition allows them to have a dialogue using their artworks as a universal language. This promotion of cultural diversity, it is hoped, will celebrate all that is similar alongside all that is different. Their collaboration will continue with exhibitions in Moscow.
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Why GOPcons Make Awful Allies
I am shocked, shocked that Trump said something crude about a woman ten years ago. Honestly, I'm thinking it's time to vote for the woman who endangered national security and smeared the women her husband raped. After all, purity demands that I not vote for anyone who doesn't follow the Victorian code because I am an idiot.
Actually, I'm not an idiot, but far too many conservatives/GOPers (GOPcons) are. In fact, if I had to go to war, I would rather fight with liberals, hands down and here's why:
Democrats want to win above all else.
GOPcons like losing. They wrongly see it as noble.
Democrats will use any dirty trick, any weapon, any tactic to destroy their enemies.
GOPcons won't touch anything that wasn't considered gentlemanly in the Victorian era.
Democrats are forward looking and always try to make use of new inventions.
GOPcons are blind to anything "new."
Democrats know their friends from their enemies.
GOPcons can't separate the two.
Democrats always try to destroy their enemies.
GOPcons desperately need the respect of theirs.
Democrats use their moron fringe as a weapon, but don't let them make strategy.
GOPcons let their moron fringe set the agenda.
Democrats support each other to the death no matter what they do.
GOPcons look for reasons to betray their friends. In fact, they prefer to destroy each other rather than fight the enemy.
Democrats use propaganda as a weapon.
GOPcons believe every bit of propaganda that comes their way and see each as a reason to surrender.
Honestly, I'm sick of this. This has been the story of the GOPcons for my whole life. My first real memory of politics was the GOPcons turning against Ford for pardoning Nixon for a stupid robbery. Then they smeared Reagan when he ran against Carter. Everything Reagan did, some weak-kneed GOPcon declared the end of his presidency and all but demanded his resignation. Every election since, the left or right flank swears they will sit out or openly endorses the Democrat. Guys like John Warner in Virginia have never endorsed a Republican. What's more, they like losing... it makes them feel noble. They disdain the very institutions they need: Hollywood, the media, academia and law. They have no grasp of human nature or the public. And so on. And that's been the pattern ever since I can remember. Conservatism is dead until modern conservatives lose their taste for false martyrdom, cowardice and betrayal.
What bothers me even more is this. If Trump gets blown up, nothing will change. The GOPcons will go back to their bunkers, their churches and their ivory towers and the will feel smug about their purity. Meanwhile, average middle class America will keep suffering under a government that has destroyed their jobs, destroyed their healthcare and buried them under a mountain of taxes and debts to pay for vanity projects. It is a government that gets American soldiers killed with no plan to win "the war," which attacks the police as a proxy for fixing the ghettos, sells itself like a whore to big business, and prefers the company of foreigners to its own people. It is a government that stifles innovation. It is blind to right and wrong yet seeks to impose its own amoral code of conformity under the threat of force. That is Democratic rule. And no one can stop it because the GOPcons are busy jerking themselves off about their purity.
This needs to end. We need a party that casts off the fringers, the cowards and the political lifers. It's time we had a party that cared about the American public and its needs. How do we do that? I wish I knew.
Posted by AndrewPrice at 11:00 PM
Rustbelt said...
In other, slightly less depressing news...
Monsterpiece Theater takes a look at the great Christopher Lee as Count Dracula at the film site. LINK
Anthony said...
First, bragging about how one's social status allows one to commit sexual assault is very different than merely making crude comments about women.
Second, the notion that Republicans have been unwilling to play rough is simply not true. Spreading rumors about a black out of wedlock kid, birtherism, claiming Purple Hearts weren't truly earned, what have you, all have happened.
Third, I agree that a stupid obsession with purity has damaged the Republicans, but I am thinking of a different type of purity than you. The purity I am thinking of is a purity that opposes reality (and the disappointments and compromises that come from working in the real world).
Its why Ted Cruz (a cynic who rose to prominence by selling himself as an outsider) and Donald Trump (a blue blooded, very liberal Democratic activist who endeared himself to the fringe with birtherism) were the two last men standing in the primary.
That purity also showed up in 2012, when Romney (a former governor whose record while conservative was to the left of many of his rivals in some important areas) won the primary through a willingness to be the craziest talker on the podium.
So now the Republican nominee is a liberal buffoon who routinely talks about women as things to be used and abused (he even encouraged Howard Stern to think of his daughter as a piece of ass) which means he has a problem with female voters (roughly half the population).
Clinton is the least charismatic frontrunner in decades, is utterly unprincipled and is extremely corrupt. On the heels of an unpopular administration with no record of accomplishment to point to, she should have been an easy opponent (voters already handed Republicans Congress and a majority of the states). However, Trump is the nominee and on that basis alone, Hillary has hope.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/10/10/wikileaks-bombshell-clinton-relied-on-trump-primary-win-gop-obliged/
WikiLeaks released thousands of emails involving Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, on Friday. In one of the leaked emails from March 2016, an adviser warned against Hillary's overall campaign strategy, afraid that her campaign was "almost entirely dependent" on Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination.
tryanmax said...
...bragging about how one's social status allows one to commit sexual assault..
...when you’re a star, they let you do it. (emphasis added)
Anthony, thank you for providing an example of the neo-Victorian, women-hate-sex attitude that Andrew is talking about.
Let me also add that, while most of the GOP primary field would have been preferable to Trump in terms of ideology, I've come to the conclusion that none of them would've been able to stand up the Hillary the way Trump has. For any (much less all) of the reasons Andrew provided, any of the other GOP contenders would've folded like cards the moment Team Hillary produced a hint of a suggestion that they weren't as pure as the wind-driven snow.
Cruz would've been the most vulnerable, with his choir-boy bona fides. Jeb would've issued mealy apologies for days. Rubio would've probably fritzed out. And Kasich would've probably stepped down.
Tryanmax,
Nice try, but a woman not wanting a specific guy to touch her in a private place doesn't imply that she or women in general hate sex.
Along those lines in sexual matters the difference between grotesque crime and 'best night of my life' is consent.
Bragging that he was reasonably safe from repercussions because of who he was (implied by 'let you do it' rather than 'wanting you to do it') shows that for Trump consent was immaterial. On a related note, many of the woman who have complained about Trump over the years were or were once in a position where Trump could deny them things they wanted (jobs, contracts, beauty pageant titles, what have you).
AndrewPrice said...
Thanks for another article, Rustbelt. It's a great series!
Anthony, The "purity" appears in several ways and they are all destructive. But I am absolutely talking about the type you are talking about: "my candidate needs to be 100% like me or I can't support them." F-you, moron. Even worse is the race by candidates to prove their "conservatism" is more pure than everyone else. All that does is drive out the straights and make the ideology an increasingly small private club for intolerant, out-of-touch assholes. That is about as stupid as you can get... yet, it's SOP for conservatives.
In terms of playing it rough, the fringe might, but the candidates don't. They are weak-kneed and afraid to be seen as mean. They apologize at the drop of a hat and abandon each other with vigor.
In terms of Trump, he's just a minor point in my article. This has been going on my whole life. The same Ronald Reagan everyone claims to love now was repeatedly savaged from the conservative left and right, often in very nasty ways. His "failure" to shut down the Dept. of Ed, his immigration amnesty, Iran-Contra, his budgets, his hot-mic joke about bombing Russia, etc. The conservative left/right took every one of these moments as a chance to savage him. They even ran a third party candidate against him. And that crap has never stopped. Disloyalty is in the party DNA.
On the Trump point specifically, that is exactly what I'm talking about. Ok, so the guy is a braggart who said something asinine. So what? Who in politics isn't dirty? And all he did is talk. Do what the Democrats do. Acknowledge that it's bad and attack the Democrats for their crimes. Don't fall down into a weepy heap and try to hand the nomination to the woman who covered up her husband's rapes and got people killed.
tryanmax, I actually concluded that a long time ago. Even with Clinton being as pathetic as she is, the others didn't have a chance because of their failure to offer anything that doesn't anger the public. "Ban abortion, fight gays, and support Big Business" is not a platform that is acceptable to Americans.
tryanmax, the neo-Victorian, women-hate-sex attitude
On this point, I think this is a great example. Is what Trump said acceptable? No. But it's not a disqualifying issue nor is it something you try to use to destroy him. You do what the Democrats do, you make him apologize and then you talk about moving on and you smear the Democrats with their own issues they've never apologized for. Instead, the GOPcon response is to drop to your knees as if some unforgivable sin has occurred and you pledge to bring down your own side as punishment for your sins. That's bullshit.
You know, I always think of John Tower at moments like this. Tower was a Senator nominated for Secretary of Defense. He was also an known alcoholic. The Democrats smeared him with this and the weak-kneed Republicans cowardly switched sides and opposed him. The next Democrat to come along who was an alcoholic, the Republicans raised the issue and the Democrats said, "It's not right to attack someone who needs treatment." And the Republicans got weak-kneeded again and supported the candidate.
The Republicans turned on Douglas Ginsburg for smoking pot in college, but the Democrats never did with their nominees. A huge chunk turned on Clarence Thomas for what was obviously a smear.
Democrats just move on, Republicans sacrifice their own.
Anthony, I cannot have a discussion with you if you insist on equivocating the simplest words.
Andrew, thought you might appreciate this tweet from the Donald:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Disloyal R's are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don’t know how to win - I will teach them!
I don't think the second Bush (who demonstrated a willingness to play rough during his eight years in office) can reasonably be considered part of the fringe :) .
If you are taking issue with the way Republicans dealt with Democrats in the 80's and early 90's that is a bit before my time but seems reasonable (as a kid, teenager and even a young adult politics were very, very low on my list of interests).
People in a party reacting negatively to a president's scandals and/or mistakes is par for the course. The notion that the Democrats support their nominee to the hilt doesn't seem to be supported by recent history. Obama and Clinton enjoyed legislative majorities upon entering and quickly lost them (faster than Bush did though he followed the same overall trajectory).
Look at modern Congress. They have given Obama nothing in terms of law and little in terms of judges/appointments (I'm pretty sure its without precedent for there to be such a large gap between a opening on the Supreme Court and a nomination).
In politics there is little loyalty and a steep political price is usually paid for stupidity.
Clinton survived his sex scandals, but much of his party didn't (nor did Al Gore's presidential hopes) and for the next 16 years the people who won were guys the public was sure wouldn't inflict sex scandals upon them. Furthermore, eight years ago his wife lost a nomination fight she had spent years preparing for to a little known Congressman.
Its also worth noting that in 2016 Republicans hold Congress and most states, even very liberal leaning states like my home state of Maryland.
So I strongly disagree that to be successful Republicans need to be more like Democrats.
I agree there are tactics to be stolen from the Democrats (more of the right need to get into investigative reporting as opposed to bloviating about whatever investigative reporters choose to reveal) that the Republicans don't seem to be stealing.
When did the second Bush ever demonstrate a willingness to play rough? He reached across the aisle for No Child Left Behind, he talked about "compassionate conservatism" and he kept smiling while the dems,popular culture and the media used him for a punching bag. I don't remember him hitting back on Bush lied, kids died or Bushitler or any of that crap. From what I remember about political commentary during his tenure the knock on him from conservatives was that he never fought back.
What are you referring to?
GypsyTyger
BevfromNYC said...
Actually, GypsyT, that is one of the things about GWB that I really admired. He worked with Congress and never commented on the hateful things people said about him. He tried to maintain some kind of dignity in the Office of the President Of The United States.
Gypsytyger,
Reaching across the aisle and playing hardball (if you want an example of a specific instance, Swiftboating springs to mind) at the same time is somewhat counterintuitive, but both Bush II and Bill Clinton managed it (often through surrogates).
As for Bush not responding to the fact a lot of the media/pop culture was biased against him, that is true, but getting sucked into small, silly stuff can easily make a candidate look like a small, petty person.
Of course, Bush did become a frequent guest of the friendly Fox News and other conservative outlets (thus encouraging their growth).
A politician personally hitting back often seems to serve little purpose. For example, I doubt the former Miss USA complaining about Trump damaged him nearly as much as him getting into it with her for days, ultimately tweeting about a sex tape he thought she had.
I don't remember GW engaging in swiftboating. What I remember about that is that Kerry had participated in the Winter Soldier farce and then tried to portray himself as a war hero "reporting for duty" at the Democratic Convention. As I recall it was some guys in his old unit who called bullshit on his tales of heroism and it was picked up by Rush, Fox, Hannity,etc. I don't remember Bush calling Kerry on that. As far as being a guest on Fox news, how is that playing hardball? Should he have ignored a friendly media outlet and stuck to MSNBC?
GysyTyger
Sorry, I've been away.
I agree completely with GypsyTyger. W Bush is the perfect example of a candidate who won't throw punches (of course, so is McCain, so was Dole, so was Bush Sr.). He let the left tar him time and again and never once defended himself, letting the meme stick and conservatism go down in flames reputation-wise. Even as places like CBS were inventing "dereliction of duty" and "dodged the draft" and cocaine and DUI and affair stories about him, he kept treating them as if they were impartial and respectable. And now that he's retired, he's buddy buddy with the Clintons and Obamas and his family are prominent in endorsing the Clintons.
Liberals never do that. They keep the friendships behind closed doors and punch like crazy.
I still remember W's idiot father in the Darman Budget deal. Bush betrayed his "read my lips" pledge and told America he had worked out a deal he thought was good with the Democrats. The Democrats stood on the stage WITH HIM and smeared him to his face, saying they had been forced into this by his unreasonable behavior and that they would undo it the first chance they got, etc. They actually accused him both of wanting to raise spending and wanting to raise taxes. And he smiled like an idiot and shook their hands like a fool. It was shocking.
As for Swiftboating, that was done by some third party and the Bush team repudiated them on television repeatedly.
And Anthony, while you are right about politicians punching back often causing them more problems, you have to separate out the attacks by the insects from the media backed smears. Ignore the fleas no one notices, but when the recognized MSM is running reports that you are a ____, you fight back.
What's more, there are ways to fight back and minimize things. If Trump has said about the beauty queen: "I don't pay any attention to it. She's looking for fame and the Clinton team are desperate to latch onto that," then the issue dies an undignified death and goes away. What you don't do is crawl into the mud as Trump did, or ignore it as the GOP usually does. Pretend you don't care... neuter the attackers... link it to your biased opponent... talk about moving on. Issue dies.
tryanmax, Good tweet... sad tweet.
Unfortunately, the only times Clinton scores points on Trump has been when the GOP is trying to destroy him.
Anthony, On your comment above, I'm not saying to become these nasty trolls like the Democrats. But this isn't a bipolar choice. It's not a choice between trolls or delicate flowers. There's plenty of middle ground.
The GOPcons need to stop being delicate flowers. They need to learn to fight. They need to stop demanding that their candidates be fairy-tale pure. They need to lose the instincts to surrender at the drop of a hat and to betray each other.
Keep in mind when I was talking Bush I was talking Bush II. I remember when many were convinced Rove was an invincible evil genius.
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And there isn't just 2 choices of candidates between an egotistical narcissistic asshole and a lying, unethical, dangerously stupid shrill. One can alway give his or her vote to Gary Johnson. He's more ethical and less crazy than either of them.
Andrew, the Miss USA thing is the one thing I think Trump handled all wrong. I'm not saying he couldn't have handled other things better, but that's armchair quarterbacking – – should've turned left instead of right, whatever. But his response to Miss USA was throwing it into the dirt.
At this juncture, I think Trump's best move is to double down on the idea that he's not taking any orders from the GOP establishment, and to reframe on Hillary's scandals.
Now, what intrigues me is that there's a theory being floated that this was all a ploy to launch TrumpTV. That's patently absurd. Trump has had the brand recognition and media experience to launch a network for decades before now, not to mention the money to flat out buy one. He has no need for such a high-level and, frankly, overpriced stunt. The fact that anyone is openly wishing him out of the race indicates that they still think he can win.
Upon 5 min. consideration, however, I think Trump's handling of Miss USA softened the Access Hollywood tapes blow. I don't think Trump saw it coming, exactly, much less was he behind it, but I'm sure he figured something like that was coming.
Trump's biggest opponent was never Hillary or any GOP hopeful. It's always been himself. He's telling a redemption story, and in order to do that, he has to be flawed. His opponents, the media, even his party are all just obstacles to his redemption, lures (bait) to tempt him away from purity. "But Trump. was already extremely flawed," you say. True, but Trump can't just tell any ol' redemption story. He has to tell a great one.
I have decided that I will not vote for anyone even locally. I renounce my citizenship. I can no longer be a part of this idiocracy called "United States of America". It was fun while it lasted, but we are doomed. Call me when WWIII is over, and the good news is that at least NYC will be the first nuclear strike. But I am done. God bless you all and may God keep you safe, but I am done. Boom...mic drop...BevNYC has left the building.
Forget it, Bev. There is no escape. They are all over your television. They have people who come to your door. They even end up being mentioned in films and sitcoms. It's a sad state of affairs.
Anthony, That always struck me as wishful thinking, if not a straight up con by Rove. He basically gave generic campaign advice, it worked, and suddenly people started treating him like a genius.
In terms of Bush 1 v. 2, they both had the same approach.
Koshcat, The problem with that choice is that it's a false choice. He can't win.
tryanmax, I think he mishandled the Miss USA thing and the Muslim guy. Ultimately, I don't think the Muslim thing mattered, but he kept tripping himself up there. We have yet to see how much the Miss USA thing mattered.
Sorry for the depressing tone of the article, by the way. This stuff just kills me that the GOP keeps infighting every single election cycle. We are at a point where a football team or a corporation entirely clean house, only we can't do that.
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It's completely understandable, Andrew, especially on the cleaning house part. I also came to the same conclusion you did about the other candidates some time ago as well - they would have been hit just as hard from both directions with a distinct possibility of being further behind than Trump is right now. I can't really add much else except to say that I'm close to where Bev is mentally. It looks like the left is pretty much unopposed now and we'll likely be seeing the consequences of that soon.
No vote is wasted. I've waited for trump to give me a reason to vote for him and he keeps stepping on his little dick (I mean just look how small his hands are!). Not voting is a vote as well but I encourage those contemplating not voting to look for other candidates. They may not win but our country loses with either of the major candidates winning.
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I wish Trump would bring out Sean Smith's mother and Tyrone Woods father....mainly just to shove it in their faces as far as the Khazir Khan crap. He should state that Hillary lied to their faces when their son's bodies were shipped home and they were grieving. Let her try and "explain" away again how they were wrong and she never said that a video was the reason for the attack.
That's how you refute these liars and hacks.
Rush has offered the worst defenses of Trump I have seen and there have been a lot of crappy defenses offered.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/rush-limbaugh-hints-left-strict-consensual-sex-article-1.2828825
As Donald Trump was in boiling hot water Wednesday evening after numerous media reports alleged he has sexually abused several women, the boisterous right-wing talk show host appeared mostly upset about the fact that rape is illegal.
"The left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent," Limbaugh said during his namesake radio show Wednesday. "If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police."
Anthony, that's a pretty crappy defense, but it's buried in rambling language. It's very difficult to believe that even someone as blustering as Limbaugh is pro-rape, thus only the people prone to believing it (that is, already do) will believe it. His listeners know what he means and anyone who reads Limbaugh rather than listen to his over-the-air broadcast prefers to borrow opinions rather than make their own. The needle doesn't move.
Let me throw this out there. Lebron James had the nerve to "school" Trump yesterday by saying that they "don't disrespect women" in their locker room.
First of all, that's BS and we know it. But more to the point, this is a man whose "profession" is packed with rapists and wife beaters whose crimes are overlooked because they have talent. Perhaps he should shut the f*ck up?
I don't think Rush comes across as pro-rape, he just comes across as really, really pro-Trump. I have no idea whether the comments will move the needle. I was surprised Trump's comments moved the needle.
Yeah, that's pretty dumb. I'm sure it gets smacked down quick. That's not where the action is, though.
The Dems are persuading with numbers. I've lost track of how many women they've gotten to claim to have been touched by Trump. They're pushing the scary octopus imagery, which is memorable if nothing else. I doubt the remarks against Catholics have anywhere near the same sway. Unless Trump has a political nuke up his sleeve, I think he may be finished.
This election stopped being predictable back in 2015.
Anthony, you're surprised because you're not afraid of being groped. Liberals (especially on college campuses) have worked diligently in the last several years to make being groped seem like one of the scariest scenarios imaginable to young women. To those women, a Trump presidency may usher in a groping free-for-all.
The irony being that a Hillary presidency is more likely to open the doors to mass immigration of medieval gender attitudes from the third world which would lead to a groping free-for-all.
Also, no one is shocked that Limbaugh is pro-Trump.
tryanmax, As odd as it may sound, I think this may save Trump.
Here's the thing. One or two incidents is believable and creates a problem for him. But this reeks of a casting call: "Anyone who wants to try to bring him down, come tell a lie and we'll put it in the papers!" Which becomes the woman who cried wolf whistle. I suspect that the public will now start to dismiss this as a political smear rather than something genuine, and if they do, then they will ignore all the allegations. Not sure, but it strikes me that's where this is headed.
What's interesting to me is that the best Clinton is doing in "the polls" is 46%. Despite Trump now supposedly being a rapist, a serial sexual assaulter, a lookist who made ugly women cry, a man who fat shames beauty queens, a man who LOOKED at women, a racist, a Mexican hater, a racist, a Muslim hater, a Christian extremist, a Christian hater, a tax cheat, a racist, a lunatic, a Russian spy, a Ukrainian spy, a cocaine addict, a divorcer, an attempted rapist of married women, a child thrower-outer, vulgar, a liar, etc..... Hillary sits at 46%.
That means something. Not sure what yet, but it means something.
Andrew, it definitely means something that Hillary has never been above half against the most flawed candidate the GOP has ever run probably in the history of the party. Even if she wins, it is a severely tainted victory. That said, if she wins, she gets the senate, too. I don't see any way around that. On the other hand, Trump doesn't vanish after the election if he loses. No way.
There is the risk of overkill with the Trump accusers, but I'm zeroing in on the language. Octopus is a good one. I'm also not afraid of being groped, so I don't know how persuasive that is to women. I do know what it's like to be afraid of my spurned advances being publicized and mischaracterized. Usually, issues that gain women drag along some men of a certain ilk, but this is a bit different. This is flat-out gender war.
Which brings me to the biggest X-factor as I see it. Men have turned out in lower numbers than women since 1980, and the gap has been growing. This is almost certainly due to men feeling unrepresented by either party. Trump is unabashedly male and can thus be seen as "for men." I expect to see the gender gap in turnout to close significantly. And while much has been made of Trump's problem with women, Hillary does consistently worse with men than Trump does with women.
As an aside, I have come to suspect that the gender gap is increasingly a race issue with so many more black women than black men voting -- that accounts both for the "missing" men and the leftward lean of the gap. Among whites, I think the numbers are much closer male to female.
The Octopus idea is a good one, but I personally think they've reached the point of overkill. I think they've reached the point where it starts to seem fake. So all these women had this on Trump but never thought to mention it until a couple weeks before the election? Yeah, right. What's more, a lot of it sounds like crap: "He would just walk into the dressing rooms!" Oh my!! You mean like everyone else involved in the pageants? We've seen photos of those dressing rooms, they are crawling with staff, family and journalists. The idea that he was somehow invading their privacy sounds made up. Or how about this: a billionaire molests me in an elevator where there is a security camera and I never sued him! Bull.
Interestingly, my wife's friends don't seem to buy any of it or care about it, and they are target Clinton supporters -- single mothers in their 30s with no usable skills who read books about how to be a "strong woman" and whine that their bosses don't respect them and who always cheer for female contestants on shows. What's more, they have strong herd mindsets and get their politics from Pinterest. Yet, they despise Clinton and they are willing to accept Trump regardless. It's a small sample, but an interesting sample.
The more I think about it, the more I think I'm looking at it wrong. So many angles to choose from.
tryanmax, I don't think any of this is clear enough to know for certain. I think what you're seeing is a massive political attack by the Democrats, using women who are most likely lying or exaggerating, to try to drive up the female vote for Clinton.
These women whine and the media has closed ranks, leaving only the insiders to speak, and they are promoting the talking point. Essentially, what you are seeing is an army of leftist journalists all interviewing each other and skewing stories to sell the public on the idea that everyone thinks this is horrible... ignore Bill Clinton ignore Bill Clinton. Sometimes they interview feminist activists or approved-victims, but never normal people. Other times they shrilly smear anyone who finds a way to reach the public with a disagreement.* Then they run herd-based headlines: "NO ONE DENIES THE WRONGITY OF THIS!"
The problem is that there are no real people in any of this. It's only media and activists pretending to be real America. And the polls aren't showing what they expect**, so they are getting nastier and nastier inside their bubble, which makes the polls go in the wrong direction or move even less.
So effectively, right now we are blind.
* Yesterday it was Tom Brady for refusing to answer a question. All the little leftist sports hacks whined that he needed to condemn Trump or he was condoning it -- even thought they commended him for avoiding politics when he refused to give an endorsement in July. Today a Denver Bronco said Trump would fit right in in their lockerroom and there are already several "unbiased" articles smearing him and digging into his past.
** The polls initially showed about a 4-7% drop for Trump. (This got the "Yippy! Hillary has a double digit lead!" headlines). But that was only GOP types registering a protest in the polls -- they're the same people who did the same thing last summer. Clinton's numbers didn't budge, which infuriated the left. And Trump's numbers are now drifting back into place.
As an aside, I think the octopus thing is going to blow up first. Trump's spokeswoman has already pointed out that the story can't be true because the arms in first class were fixed and couldn't be raised. But even if you think about it, it would be impossible for him to do what she said. His arms would need to be about three feet longer and made of rubber to reach her sitting behind him in an airplane.
Any reputable journalist should have figure that one out right away.
And now they're mixing beauty queens and race and they're adding women to speculate that he seems like the type who would sexually assault someone. This is getting beyond overkill at this point. Unless Trump admits it or says something stupid, I think the left blew it this time.
I was surprised it blew up because Trump (and some women) has been making similar claims about his conduct for years.
Anthony, in that case, you're surprised because you've been gas-lighted. The fact is, prior to 2015, the only major accusation of sexual assault leveled against Trump was from 1993, subsequently settled in 1997. At the time, it was reported as "he said, she said" with plenty to suggest it was a ploy to back out of a business deal.
The second most high profile incident was when Gloria Allred, representing a transgender beauty queen who sued to be allowed in the Miss Universe pageant, suggested that she'd like to see Trump's genitals and he said she'd be impressed if she did.
Past that, Trump has only received criticism for the way he talks about women (mainly on TV). For a man who probably has hundreds of disgruntled employees in his wake, he has a surprising lack of gender-discrimination charges, and that's quite far from sexual assault.
But since Trump took on the look of a real presidential contender, the timeline has been revised here and there with this latest explosion of accusations being the most aggressive by far. If you don't believe me, do what I did. Set the Google machine to search only prior to 2015 for anything on the topic regarding Donald Trump. The pickings are very slim and consist mainly of timestamp errors on the search engine's part (i.e. post-2015 stuff).
Oh, and as for Trump making comments about himself for years, prior to his presidential run people took his meaning as it was intended. But once he became the GOP nominee, those remarks were revisited and plumbed for sinister subtexts. Again, gas-lighting.
BTW, Rasmussen has Trump taking the lead 43-41. Hillary has lost a 7% lead since Monday in his poll. That makes me think the overkill theory might be correct.
I take it 'the meaning as intended' is whatever Trump tells you he really meant? Such faith is admirable though I'm not sure how widely shared it is.
*Shrugs* I think the election will be close because both candidates are horrible, though I share the belief I've held since he won the nomination that Hillary would probably beat Trump. Both are equally bad, but he runs towards cameras to show off how bad he is while she tries to avoid them.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/13/fox-news-poll-clinton-leads-trump-by-7-points.html
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has increased to seven points, as more than half of voters say he is not qualified to be president.
That’s according to a just-released national Fox News Poll of likely voters.
Clinton receives 45 percent to Trump’s 38 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson is at 7 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein gets 3 percent. Last week, Clinton was up by two points in the four-way contest (44-42 percent).
Darn, too late. I was just logging in to say that I think the overkill theory may be right. There's now a video circulating of a Howard Stern jokingly calling Trump a sex predator and him and his kids laughing along. Supposedly that proves something.
I take it 'the meaning as intended' is whatever Trump tells you he really meant?
You take me wrong.
LOL! I just heard about Trump's "look at her" comment in response to a sexual assault charge. That's great reframing. I can't think how you act indignant about that without undermining the accusation. I know, I know, this is high school stuff, but isn't it great!?
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Nope. We're taking over.
Ruben made a noncommittal grunt in the back of his throat, acknowledging her response. He wasn’t completely surprised that Marissa hadn’t hit back, but the surprised way that she had answered him suggested that she not only didn’t hit back but didn’t do anything back, which was weird. He would’ve expected a hex. Or at least a shouted insult or three. Yeah, sure, Marissa came off as a nonconfrontational type, but even the most nonconfrontational people that he knew back home wouldn’t let an attacker get away without some form of retaliation. Well, with the exception of Kalle. The kid had an annoyingly placid attitude towards bullying. The kid was also barely eleven, though, so Ruben could understand it a little better, even if he’d been already kicking people at that age. But for Marissa to have done absolutely nothing...?
He raised a thick eyebrow at the now-floating cookies. Despite his continued annoyance with her totally uncalled-for presumptions (because he was a damn smart fighter, thank you very much) (and who did she think she was, proposing with such confidence that she could actually take him on in a no-holds-barred round?), Ruben couldn’t resist directing a slight smirk at their blushing yearmate. He had never before seen Rose lose control enough to actually cause a burst of accidental magic like this. The Swede himself had not had any noteworthy problems with accidental magic since about the age of thirteen, which he attributed largely to intensifying his studies in martial arts and the level of discipline that involved. It was pretty likely that he would make fun of her for this later.
Once Camilla was taken care of. Because that was just inappropriate.
“Jävla fan,” he swore as their environment decided to echo his thoughts. The words started off at a more normal volume, an automatic reaction to the sheer offensiveness of what Camilla had said, but jumped louder as his cookie exploded right from between his fingers. It hadn’t been his own doing; Ruben valued food too much to crush it out of emotion. Presumably, this was Rose’s doing. As well as the cloud of crumbs drifting down around them. The cookies were off the table, not only literally but also in the sense that they were no longer a snacking option. Vaguely disappointing. Still paled in comparison.
“That is a most terrible word.” This was accompanied by a harsh glare aimed across the common-room, not at anything in particular, but still causing some younger student to pick up their pace on the way to the dorms. Ruben’s sister had been called that word before - well, the Swedish equivalent, but that didn’t make a difference. The fact still remained that Dagny had been publicly shamed. Shaming was rude to begin with, but to do so over the things the word implied? That was just offensive. And judgemental. Undeserved. And-- “Helvete.” Sinking into his chair, he cracked his knuckles compulsively. It had been a while since the last time Ruben had hit a girl, but he didn’t consider it in poor taste when the girl in question had done something so disgusting.
I don't have a say in this, do I? - Marissa, Sat Apr 22 16:35
Rose sat down, and Marissa felt a little better. She’d heard stories about Ruben and how capable he was in Dueling Club; in fact, she’d heard most of it from Rose. Imagining the two of them getting... more
Nope. We're taking over. - Ruben, Sat Apr 22 17:28
Takeover outfits and all - Rose, Sun Apr 23 10:03
It was entirely unsurprising that Marissa hadn’t hit Camilla back; it had been clear that Ruben didn’t know her very well when he’d asked. Of the two girls, Rose was infinitely more likely to punch... more
Wait! I can explain. - Marissa, Sun Apr 23 10:56
Somehow, Marissa’s idea of Not A Big Deal did not seem to match what her friends thought, because now there were exploding cookies everywhere. The snickerdoodle in her hands turned into a cloud of... more
Not the most helpful explanation - Ruben, Sun Apr 23 17:21
Still fuming at the opposite half of the room as if the now cookie-particle-clogged air had become some kind of enemy, Ruben listened with only partial attention to Rose's rant. Not that the other... more
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COOPER, JM; MANN, VM; SCHAPIRA, AHV; (1992) ANALYSES OF MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATORY-CHAIN FUNCTION AND MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA DELETION IN HUMAN SKELETAL-MUSCLE - EFFECT OF AGING. J NEUROL SCI , 113 (1) 91 - 98.
The analysis of human skeletal muscle mitochondria revealed a progressive decline in mitochondrial respiratory chain function with age. The activities affected to the greatest extent were those of complexes I and IV which were decreased by 59% and 47% respectively between the ages of 20-30 years and 60-90 years of age. Quantitation of the 5 kb 'common' deletion of mtDNA using PCR revealed a progressive accumulation with age, from approximately 1 in 100 000 at 21 years to 1 in 10 000 at 56 years and 1 in 5000 at 78 years of age. The low absolute levels of this mutation are unlikely to contribute significantly to the observed mitochondrial dysfunction.
MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION, MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DELETION, HUMAN SKELETAL MUSCLE, AGING, COMPLEX-I DEFICIENCY, PARKINSONS-DISEASE, OXIDATIVE DAMAGE, INCREASE, STRIATUM, TISSUES, DECLINE, RAT
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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 437, 2 January 2012
Welcome to this year's first issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Enlightenment 17, in development for over a decade, has yet to become a widely-used window manager. Luckily, its niche following is occasionally exploited by a project that successfully combines its power and features to provide an attractive and usable desktop. Bodhi Linux, an Ubuntu-based system and the subject of today's feature article, is a relatively new distribution that is making dramatic strides towards creating a highly usable and enticing desktop that would work even on modest hardware. In the news section, a popular Linux review site reveals the "distro of the year", Linux Deepin improves on the Ubuntu Software Centre, Linux Mint forks GNOME Shell to deliver a more GNOME 2-like experience with Cinnamon, and a Fedora contributor explains why it's a bad idea to disable SELinux. Also in this issue, a link to a nice overview of Clonezilla Live, news about the termination of LinEx and "restructuring" of Pardus Linux, year-end comparison of our Page Hit Ranking statistics, and a tip for combining files to create an ISO image. There is more, so enjoy the read and have a great start of the New Year with DistroWatch!
Reviews: An enlightening experience - Bodhi Linux 1.3.0
News: Bodhi release plans, Deepin Software Centre, Linux Mint's Cinnamon, Pardus "restructuring", end of LinEx, SELinux tips, overview of Clonezilla
Statistics: Page Hit Ranking in 2010 and 2011
Questions and answers: Creating ISO images
Released last week: Dreamlinux 5, ExTiX 9, Linux Deepin 11.12, Netrunner 4.0, Calculate Linux 11.12
New additions: ROSA, siduction
New distributions: Live Voyager, roblinux, Ubuntu Razor-qt Remix
Feature Story (by Robert Storey)
An enlightening experience: Bodhi Linux 1.3.0
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (also known as Sakyamuni) was born a wealthy prince approximately 2,500 years ago. At the age of 29, he gave up his privileged princely lifestyle to spend the next six years as an ascetic seeking truth. After a marathon 49 days in meditation while sitting beneath a Bodhi tree, he obtained Enlightenment.
I admire Siddhartha's patience, but I'm relieved that I only needed to spend about two minutes attaining Enlightenment, version 0.17, via the "e17" package that is available in Ubuntu. Like many others, I was driven to seek Enlightenment by despair. Mainly, despair after Ubuntu attached itself to a sinking ship called Unity, while another unenlightened contingent is grappling with the horrors of GNOME 3. Desperately seeking answers - not to mention a usable desktop window manager - I decided to give Enlightenment a try.
I was impressed. Lurking almost unnoticed in the bowels of the Ubuntu package repository, E17 proved to be a lightweight desktop manager with lots of eye candy. It's also highly configurable, if you know how. The brainchild of Carsten Haitzler (also known as Rasterman), E17 has been in development for over a decade. After discovering its charms, I figured that it was just a matter of time before someone would release a Linux distro using Enlightenment as its default desktop. And now someone has.
Enter Bodhi Linux. I cannot say with authority that this is the very first Enlightenment distro. Indeed, I know of three others (Elive, OpenGEU and MoonOS), but Bodhi is the first to attract a significant following, and the enthusiastic user base is still growing. Bodhi now sits at number 20 on the DistroWatch hit list, impressive considering the first release was 2011-03-11, a mere 10 months ago. The development team - led by Jeff Hoogland - is small, but Bodhi is based on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), the current "long-term support" (LTS) version of Ubuntu. The next LTS release of Ubuntu will be 12.04 (now in alpha), and Bodhi 2.0.0 (planned for release in the middle of 2012) will be based on it - but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Bodhi prides itself on being a "minimalist" distro, so perhaps it comes as no surprise that the current version 1.3.0 ISO file is a diminutive 374 megabytes. That makes for a pretty quick download. Although it can be run as a live CD, installation requirements are impressively lightweight - 300 MHz i386 processor, 128 MB of RAM and 1.5 GB hard disk space. Needless to say, beefier hardware will bestow a better user experience upon you, but it's nice to know that a lame computer from circa 2001 might be able to run Bodhi.
My current machine is an ASUS Eee PC netbook, which allows me to bask in the glow of moral superiority that one gains from using an energy-saving low-power device. Not to mention the fact that, like Siddhartha, I've been living the life of an ascetic (i.e. I'm unemployed) and the Eee PC was the cheapest model in the computer store. As bottom-end hardware, it lacks a built-in CD drive. Therefore, I used UNetbootin to burn the ISO file to a USB stick and booted from it. From cold start to login prompt, boot speed was an impressive 20 seconds. At boot-up, one can select different themes - the one you see here is A-Angelic2.
Bodhi Linux 1.3.0 - the A-Angelic2 theme
(full image size: 197kB, screen resolution 1024x600 pixels)
Bodhi uses the user-friendly Ubuntu installer. Survivors of previous Linux installs should breeze through the routine almost with their eyes closed. Due to the fact that this is a minimalist distro, the installation proceeds rapidly - mine required a mere 10 minutes.
First Boot
Although I was expecting the desktop to be mean, lean and clean, one thing I didn't expect was "dim." I mean this not as some sort of insult (i.e. dimwitted) but rather as is in "dark and dim." Adjusting screen brightness with the ASUS's hardware key combination FN+F6 was insufficient to solve the problem - even at the maximum brightness setting, it was still too dim for my tastes. This sent me scurrying to Google to seek a solution, and it wasn't long before I was enlightened... I could recover full brightness by opening a terminal and typing this not-very-intuitive message:
sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=ff
My screen looked fine after this, and indeed I had to dim it a bit with the FN+F5 key combo. I wondered if my fix would carry over into the next reboot, so I went ahead and gave that a try. To my dismay, the dim screen was reincarnated. Fortunately, I'm not a total ignoramus when it comes to Ubuntu/Debian things, though others may disagree. One thing my fellow Debianistas have managed to beat into my head is the procedure to create a script that runs each time you boot up. Thus, I did the following from a terminal (after using "su" to become root):
Used the included nano text editor to create a file named...
/etc/init.d/brightness.sh
...with this content...
setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=ff
Then I made the file executable...
chmod +x /etc/init.d/brightness.sh
Finally, I set up the system to run this script on every boot-up...
update-rc.d brightness.sh defaults
Upon the next reboot, I still saw a slightly dim screen after I logged in, but I could easily adjust it to full brightness with the hardware keys, this time without the need to run my script again. On subsequent reboots, I no longer needed to make any adjustments. All things considered, an effective workaround, and safe to leave it in place even if the original bug (whatever it might be) gets fixed in a subsequent update.
Speaking of updates, with my screen issues safely out of the way, updating Bodhi's software packages was my next highest priority. This was my first hint that Bodhi might be a little intimidating for Linux newbies. Most of the *buntus have an "update-manager" utility that informs you when new packages are available and nags you to install them. Bodhi does no such thing, thus you must resort to the command line with the following:
(Or better yet, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade".) Since Bodhi installs very few packages by default, the first update/upgrade should go relatively fast. With this task accomplished, you may want to reboot (important if your update installed a new kernel) before installing new packages.
Making Bodhi Useful
Like Siddhartha himself, the default install of Bodhi is ascetic, if not outright famished. You'll need to beef things up with quite a few packages to make the bare bones desktop genuinely useful. Debian/Ubuntu veterans are most likely already familiar with Synaptic, which puts a nice warm fuzzy point-and-click interface onto Debian package management. If Synaptic isn't warm and fuzzy enough, fire up the included Midori web browser and visit the Bodhi Linux Appcenter. If you find a package you like, click the "Install Now" - this is just the same as installing via Synaptic, only with a prettier interface.
What you should not do if at all possible is to click the "Download" button in the Appcenter. If you ignore that advice and plunge ahead, what happens is that you will download a *.bod file. This is a unique Bodhi approach that isn't especially intuitive. After you've downloaded, for example, file bodhi-printing.bod, you then have to first make it executable. This can be done on the command line with the sudo chmod +x filename.bod command, or you can do it with point-and-click by right-clicking them and editing their properties. Once made executable, you can then double-click the bods which will launch the installer. The only reason why Bodhi offers up the *.bod files is so that they can be transferred to computers that have limited or no Internet access. Even the Bodhi developers don't advise you to take this approach if you can get online instead.
Card-carrying geeks and other fans of the traditional command line interface will probably find it easiest to just forget all the above. Rather, open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install package-name
Bodhi does have repositories of its own with some packages that are not in the standard Ubuntu base. As I've already hinted, there is an important printing package (important if you have a printer, that is). Not surprisingly, it's named bodhi-printing. If you have an HP printer, you'd be well-advised to install package hplip-gui.
I live in Asia, so Asian-language support is a rather big issue with me. One thing I soon discovered is that Bodhi does not have any Asian fonts installed. Visit a page in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, and all you'll see are little boxes with numbers in them where the Asian script should be. This can be remedied by installing a few unicode fonts - at the minimum, I'd suggest installing package ttf-wqy-zenhei.
Once you've got all your preferred applications installed, check to see if they appear some place in the main menu. If for any reason they aren't, you can always create a launcher for your favorite app as follows: Settings --> Settings_Panel --> Apps --> Create_Launcher, click Applications and type in /usr/bin/My_Favorite_App. After this, your favorite application should appear in the main menu: Applications --> Other --> My_Favorite_App.
Multimedia Issues
There are no codecs installed by default, so if you plan to watch or listen to any multimedia, the package ubuntu-restricted-extras will work wonders. Nevertheless, I did encounter a few sound problems, some of which I could resolve, others not.
The first audio glitch I ran into was that I my USB plug-and-play headphones didn't work with the default ALSA sound server. Fortunately, my cry for help was answered in this thread. At least in the current rendition of Bodhi, it's necessary to disable internal audio in order to get USB audio working. That is not the case in some other distros I've tried that use PulseAudio instead of ALSA, but for now PulseAudio doesn't seem to work at all in Bodhi. Anyway, without further ado, to make USB audio work, create a hidden dot file in each user's home directory named .asoundrc with the following content:
pcm.!default {
type hw
ctl.!default {
After you've done this and logged-out/logged-in, the new setting will take effect. Your USB audio should work fine. On the downside, if you have any standard analog headphones, speakers or microphone, they will cease functioning until such time that you delete ~/.asoundrc or rename it. Admittedly, this is a somewhat ugly hack, but it gets the job done.
A more stubborn problem I experienced was that certain recording programs did not work at all with Bodhi - in particular, professional programs that rely on the Jack sound server. My most critical voice recording program, Google-Talk, functioned flawlessly - blessedly, it does not rely on Jack. But I couldn't do jack when I attempted to record with Mhwaveedit. I spent some time searching online for solutions, and among the suggestions were to install the packages jackd and qjackctl (for starting and configuring jackd). Despite my best efforts, Mhwaveedit would stubbornly spit out an error message about not being able to start the Jack server (used by other Jack-enabled applications such as Ardour and Hydrogen. According to the documentation on Mhwaveedit, it is supposed to work with both ALSA and Jack, so this remains a mystery. For now, the issue is unresolved.
Bodhi does not, as yet, offer any nice touchy-feely user-friendly tools to add or delete user accounts. For this you have to rely on good old-fashioned Unix command line tools.
To add a new user:
sudo adduser user-name
To delete a user:
sudo deluser user-name
To change a user's password:
sudo passwd user-name
To give the new user sudo (administrative) privileges, add him/her to the admin group:
sudo adduser user-name admin
If you want to know more, check out the man pages:
man adduser
man deluser
Auto-mounting External Devices
Although not everybody needs or wants this feature, most users expect that when they plug an external USB device into their computer, an icon will pop up on their desktop. Some distros (Puppy comes to mind) automatically put in icon on your screen but the device doesn't auto-mount - you have to click it first, which is no big deal. Most modern operating systems will, however, instantly auto-mount USB gizmos, and immediately thereafter will load some sort of file manager showing the content of the device.
In Bodhi, auto-mounting is turned off by default. To turn it on use Main Menu: Settings --> Settings Panel --> Files --> Places, click the checkbox "Mount volumes on insert" and (if you like) "Open filemanager on insert". Unfortunately, I experienced mixed results with this. Yes, my USB devices would auto-mount, and the default file manager PCManFM would open. But after a reboot the system reverted to its former non-mounting state. Having to turn this on each time was annoying, and the result was often unpredictable.
Adding insult to injury, PCManFM has an abominable interface. As an example, when you want to umount a device, you have to unintuitively right-click on its name in the column on the left (rather than the icon itself) and select "eject" rather than "umount." I could live with that (indeed, I'd really be impressed if PCManFM actually ejected my USB memory stick rather than merely umounted it). However, PCManFM had the considerably rude habit of randomly refusing to umount the device and popping up an error message informing me that the device as "busy," even though it wasn't.
Bodhi Linux 1.3.0 - don't believe PCManFM
Since I am obviously not a fan of PCManFM, I replaced it with the far more elegant (but still lightweight) Xfe file manager. Once installed, it appeared in the main menu under Applications --> System_Tools. To make Xfe the default file manager use Main Menu: Settings --> Settings Panel --> Files --> Places, click "Use a custom file manager" and type "/usr/bin/xfe". Log out and log back in for the new settings to take effect.
Unfortunately (I'm beginning to hate that word), even the pretty face of Xfe did nothing to solve the problem of USB auto-mounting failing to work whenever it felt like it. This sent me scurrying to the Bodhi Linux forum to search for a revelation, but I found no joy there. It became apparent that not everybody is having this problem, so maybe it's just my hardware.
In the end, I decided to deploy a brute force solution by installing the USBmount package, plus the recommended but optional Pmount. This unfailingly mounted whatever USB device I could throw at it. These will appear as folder /media/usb0, /media/usb1, /media/usb2, etc, but it will not put an icon on your desktop no matter how hard you push, pull or reboot. The documentation for USBmount indicates that to umount, you can just pull out the device - a good thing, because I could not get Xfe (let alone PCManFM) to umount devices mounted by USBmount, unless I started Xfe with root privileges (sudo xfe) which isn't really recommended.
Actually, let me backtrack - one feature of Enlightenment is that you can assign any GUI application to have root privileges without resorting to the sudo command. To do this, first start the application as normal. Then right-click on the top border - the menu that pops up starts with the program's name. Put the mouse cursor over it and you'll see a pop-up submenu, starting with "Edit Icon". Click that and a dialog box appears. The third field of the dialog box (where it says "Application") can be edited: put the word "gksu" in front of the application's name and click "Apply." Now close the application - next time you open it, you'll be prompted for your password, and then the app will run with root privileges. Use this feature with caution - running a file manager with root privileges gives you (among other powers) the ability to delete system files with a mere mouse click. For this reason, you may wish to have one file manager set up with root privileges and another without.
All things considered, I think the auto-mounting and file browsing in Bodhi needs a little attention, and hopefully will improve in future releases.
Despite a few quirks and a somewhat buggy audio setup, I was overall very pleased with Bodhi Linux. So pleased, actually, that I will continue to use it despite the fact that I'm finished writing this review. I can honestly say that this is one of the most fun distros I've ever used - maybe not quite nirvana, but getting close.
Linux newbies will perhaps be unsettled by the need to occasionally go to the command line to perform administrative tasks. If point-and-click everything is required, there are other distros that better serve this need.
On the other hand, tech-savvy refugees from GNOME 3, Unity and (dare I say it) KDE should be pleased by the speed of the attractive Enlightenment desktop. Bodhi's developers deserve kudos for producing the first really usable Enlightenment-based Linux distribution. This is just possibly the best OS yet to restore a tired old computer suffering from bad karma and a wimpy CPU.
Bodhi Linux is less than a year old, and I think it's only fair to cut the developers some slack as they stamp out bugs and add new features. Hopefully they can accomplish all that without hurting the currently superb performance. With a rapidly growing base of users, I expect that we will be hearing about Bodhi for quite some time.
Bodhi release plans, Deepin Software Centre, Linux Mint's Cinnamon, Pardus "restructuring", end of LinEx, SELinux tips, overview of Clonezilla
Continuing with the theme from the feature story, Bodhi Linux developer Jeff Hoogland has published a release schedule for the distro's upcoming releases, up to July 2014. With Bodhi being based on Ubuntu's LTS (long-term support) versions and with point releases provided every three months, the first major new release is only expected in July 2012: "With the recent release of Bodhi Linux 1.3.0 I've had a few questions as to what our release cycle is exactly. I'd like to take a short moment today to clarify what exactly on current release schedule looks like. Our version numbering looks something like this: x.y.z, where x represents a major release, y represents an update (or point) release and z represents a bug fix release. We have a two year major release cycle. These releases will be centered around each new Ubuntu long term support (LTS) release. Our goal is to release our new major version in the July following the release of an Ubuntu LTS. Because we have such a long major release cycle, we will be releasing our 'update' releases every three months. The goal of update releases is to keep the software on the live CD current and continue making small improvements to the default look of the system. Finally our bug fix releases will happen as needed when an issue is discovered with the default configuration."
Igor Ljubuncic, the webmaster of Dedoimedo and a keen reviewer of free operating systems, has compiled a list of "best" distributions of 2011. The winner? Despite all the recent negative media coverage, the somewhat surprising champion is Ubuntu 11.10: "In my testing, Oneiric Ocelot, for all its silly name, was virtually spotless. It worked without any problems on both low and high-end hardware, in complex multi-boot configurations, with pretty much everything and anything tested. Ocelot is also visually pleasing, it is fast and responsive. Unity is becoming more and more normal, and with the ability to move the Launcher to the bottom, you're all set. What more, Ubuntu is turning into a true brand, allowing you to buy programs, games and music from within the desktop, which is quite nice. I may not be the target user for Ubuntu and its new interface, but the charm and practicality cannot be denied, even by hardcore geeks. It's not quite Mac, but it definitely is not GNOME 3, as you can actually interact with your desktop and you have shortcuts. Aesthetics aside, and most importantly, everything works. As simple as that." CentOS 6, Kubuntu 11.04, Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.09 and Linux Mint 12 have all made Dedoimedo's shortlist for 2011.
It is not often that an English-language Linux website takes an interest in a Chinese distro. But Joey Sneddon, an editor of OMG! Ubuntu!, was so impressed with the software centre in the recently-released Linux Deepin 11.12 that he brought attention to it in "Is This the Best Software Store on Linux?" "Some distros simply ship Ubuntu's Software Centre as standard. And why not? It does the job admirably. But for the developers of Linux Deepin it wasn't quite what they were looking for – they wanted something that not only looked that bit flashier but allowed users to complete basic packaging tasks from the same window with relative ease. All goals in mind for Ubuntu's Software Centre, but Linux Deepin needed it now. And so the Linux Deepin Software Centre was created. The Software Centre comes with a number of really neat features that, whilst likely breaking all sorts of designer conventions, are brilliant – and useful – touches." The author follows up the above post with another, hinting that the Linux Deepin Software Centre might soon be available for installation on Ubuntu, pending a complete translation of the open-source software package into English.
Linux Deepin 11.12 - a Chinese Ubuntu-based distribution with a heavily-tweaked GNOME Shell
Linux Mint, once a project that was content to make small usability improvements to Ubuntu based on user feedback, is seemingly taking giant steps to distance itself further from its parent. The latest indication confirming the above observation is Cinnamon, a Mint-initiated fork of GNOME Shell. Andrei Alin from Web Upd8 explains in "Cinnamon: GNOME Shell Fork With A GNOME 2-Like Layout": "Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint founder, has started working on a GNOME Shell fork called Cinnamon, which tries to offer a layout similar to GNOME 2, with emphasis on 'making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience': 'Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to GNOME 2. The underlying technology is forked from GNOME Shell.' Why fork GNOME Shell? According to Clement Lefebvre (who talked about this on IRC @ #mate), the reason is that even though extensions are cool, you can only do a small amount of stuff with them and you can't control interactions between extensions, their loading order and so on. Among the features that we'll probably see in Cinnamon are GNOME 2-like notifications and system tray icons, option to change the panel position and other panel options like auto-hide, etc."
Potentially bad news for the fans of Pardus Linux, a distribution funded and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. Based on whatever little communication we've had from the Pardus team, chances are that the project's days are numbered. Or more precisely, it is currently undergoing "restructuring", at least according to some rumour-like posts published here (in Turkish) and more recently on the Pardus mailing list: "According to what Ozan Caglayan (a Pardus developer who is also a TUBITAK employee) says, there is a strict order to keep silent given by the Pardus staff. Due to ongoing regulations and restructuring for the last 3 months in TUBITAK, some (three developers as far as I know) have resigned, and some (three others) have left for other reasons. Rumors say that the development of the corporate edition will continue, but the personal edition (2011.2 as we know it) will stop! There is nobody denying or confirming this rumor among the Pardus staff. Also another source says that according to the information he got from different sources in TUBITAK and the manager of the department which develops the Pardus Project in TUBITAK, the project will continue from where it left in January 2012." Let's hope we hear a more official word soon!
More bad news, this time from Spain. LinEx, a Debian-based distribution developed by the Extremadura regional government and deployed widely in local schools and government offices, has closed down: "A PARTIR DEL 31 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2011, EL PROYECTO LINEX DEJA DE EXISTIR... VIVA LA LIBERTAD !!" That's all we know officially. But José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez, one of the developers of LinEx, has offered some insight on the debian-project mailing list, suggesting that the move to discontinue LinEx is political rather than technical: "The new people in charge of the Extremadura government don't like the good press and name that LinEx and free software gave to the previous party in the government. And they want to change things. I don't say they're going to remove all the free software we have in education (I don't think that's technically possible, and also we can not afford it ), but they maybe will move from Debian to Ubuntu or to openSUSE or Fedora. They are firing all the people who made the previous situation possible. Also, they are in negotiation with some very big and famous privative companies, to put some applications (office applications mainly) in their privative clouds, etc." It's interesting to see that free software can play such an important role in politics these days...
Security-Enhanced Linux (or SELinux for short) has been an integral part of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (as well as all of their derivatives) for many years. While few users would question the usefulness of this extra security layer in preventing attacks, some of its limitations might prompt the less security-conscious users to disable SELinux on their systems. Jeff Sheltren has this advice (and a bunch of SELinux tips and trick) for such users: "Stop Disabling SELinux!" "I see a lot of people coming by #centos and similar channels asking for help when they're experiencing a problem with their Linux systems. It amazes me how many people describe their problem, and then say something along the lines of, 'and I disabled SELinux...'. Most of the time SELinux has nothing to do with the problem, and if SELinux is the cause of the problem, why would you throw out the extra security by disabling it completely rather than configuring it to work with your application? This may have made sense in the Fedora 3 days when SELinux settings and tools weren't quite as fleshed out, but the tools and the default SELinux policy have come a long way since then, and it's very worthwhile to spend a little time to understand how to configure SELinux instead of reflexively disabling it. In this post, I'm going to describe some useful tools for SELinux and walk through how to configure SELinux to work when setting up a Drupal web site using a local memcached server and a remote MySQL database server -- a pretty common setup for sites which receive a fair amount of traffic."
Finally, a link to a useful article by Jack M. Germain featuring Clonezilla Live, a utility live CD designed for disk cloning tasks. From "Clonezilla: A Drive-Duping Monster With a Fearsome Face": "Backing up data and restoring a crashed computer are two of those 'I wish I hadda' moments in the life of every computer user. When you maintain a collection of computers for your job or organization, those tasks can be critical. One of the fastest and most reliable ways to restore an afflicted computer is to copy its previously saved image onto the hard drive. This is particularly useful when the cure for what crashed your computer is a failed hard drive. Clonezilla is one of my top choices for open-source imaging solutions. But using it comes with a caveat: Its interface is intimidating. Interface aside, Clonezilla ranks among the most popular open-source options. It is a bit more challenging to use than my long-time favorite EASEUS Disk Copy. But Clonezilla gets the job done with a bevy of options to select. Hence, it often scares away the less technically comfortable users."
Statistics (by Ladislav Bodnar)
DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics in 2010 and 2011
DistroWatch's Page Hit Ranking once again attracted much attention in the tech media in 2011, perhaps more than it deserved. It was largely the change in the top spot that triggered it - after occupying it for nearly six years, Ubuntu found itself letting one of its own derivatives, Linux Mint, take over the number one position in early November 2011. This, in turn, resulted in a string of opinions, analyses and speculations in the Linux media, blaming the Unity desktop, the loss of communication between the developers and users, and even the Ubuntu BDFL Mark Shuttleworth's iron fist rule for "losing users". This is unlikely what happened. Although there is no doubt that some formerly happy Ubuntu fans have switched to Mint, it's also possible that Canonical's flagship product has attracted many new users - the kind that have not yet discovered (and may never discover) DistroWatch and the zillions of other free operating systems available on the Internet.
Nevertheless, due to all the attention Linux Mint received late last year, there is little doubt that this distribution is growing rapidly. The record US$9,175 in voluntary donations in November 2011 is perhaps the clearest indication of how much its users appreciate Clement Lefebvre's vision. The effort of the development team to make GNOME 3 resemble the familiar GNOME 2 desktop has received high marks in many reviews. And with the recent news about Linux Mint's GNOME Shell fork called Cinnamon, there is even a stronger case for many GNOME 2 fans to take a closer look at Mint and its future releases. In a word, the momentum is clearly behind Mint and although these forces tend to shift a lot, we are witnessing a start of an interesting period of battle between the "modern" touch-screen type of user interfaces (as represented by Unity and GNOME 3) and the "traditional" desktop looks. Only time will tell whether the former can garner the love of desktop computer users.
Away from the top spot contest, there are several distributions that have embarked on noticeable upward movements. Among them, Mageia, a Mandriva fork developed mostly by ex-Mandriva employees and contributors, is the highest new entry at number 15. Scientific Linux, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), has also made an impact, although it's likely that the distribution will start losing some of its glamour now that CentOS has finally caught up with Red Hat's releases. Other new distributions in the list are all Ubuntu-based - Zorin OS, Bodhi Linux and Pinguy OS. The biggest loser of the year is Tiny Core Linux, which, together with Kubuntu, Dreamlinux, Red Hat Enteprise Linux and Zenwalk Linux, no longer appears in the top 25 list.
As always, the DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics shouldn't be taken too seriously - they are a fun way of looking at what's hot and what's not among this site's visitors, but they almost certainly do not reflect install base or distribution quality.
Page Hit Ranking 2010
Distribution H.P.D.
Ubuntu 2,185
Fedora 1,517
Linux Mint 1,487
openSUSE 1,231
Debian GNU/Linux 1,067
PCLinuxOS 948
Mandriva Linux 859
Sabayon Linux 802
Arch Linux 768
Puppy Linux 701
Slackware Linux 560
Ultimate Edition 544
MEPIS Linux 544
CentOS 544
Lubuntu 520
FreeBSD 517
Tiny Core Linux 461
Gentoo Linux 407
PC-BSD 382
CrunchBang Linux 378
Kubuntu 357
Chakra GNU/Linux 335
Dreamlinux 332
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 331
Zenwalk Linux 327
Arch Linux 1,134
Mageia 566
Scientific Linux 516
Zorin OS 457
Bodhi Linux 426
Pinguy OS 409
Creating ISO images
Combine-them-together asks: How can I make an ISO image out of a collection of files on my hard drive?
DistroWatch answers: The easiest way I can think of to make an ISO image and place various data files inside it, like a backup archive, is to use a disc burning tool such as K3b. If we install and run the K3b application one of the options it gives us is making a new data project. We can then add all the files we want from our file system into the project. Then click the Burn button and, when the burn dialog box appears, click the box marked "Only create image". Clicking on the "image" tab will give us the option of choosing where to save the resulting ISO file.
K3b - creating an ISO image file
Another option is to use the command line. We can use the genisoimage command, sometimes called mkisofs, to take the contents of a given directory and copy it into an ISO file:
genisoimage -o myimage.iso MyFiles/
Once the ISO file has been created using either of the above methods we can access its contents by opening it with an archive application. Ark, for example, will open and browse ISO images. We can also use the command line, mounting our image using:
mkdir mount-point
mount -o loop myimage.iso mount-point
When we are done accessing the image we can unmount the ISO using
umount mount-point
Generally speaking it's probably best not to use ISO images as archives. Technically they work, but they don't feature compression or other nice features found in more popular archive formats.
Released During Last Two Weeks
Webconverger 10.2
Kai Hendry has announced the release of Webconverger 10.2, a Debian-based live CD designed for Internet kiosks: "Without further delay may I present Webconverger 10 with an accompanying site redesign. At 9.0 - 10.2 you will notice the usual Flash update, Firefox 8, additional firmware for Ralink wireless and quite a few removed packages. The removed packages are mostly unnecessary for trying Webconverger. I think it's better to customise Webconverger with your chosen locale than altering the boot menu and then choosing the appropriate dictionary once Webconverger is booted. Likewise printing is best left as a customisation option, as it makes the initial download a bit too bulky otherwise. There are a couple of other additions in this release that warrant blog posts in the new year." Here is the complete release announcement with a screenshot.
Sabily 11.10
Mehdi Magnon has announced the release of Sabily 11.10, an Ubuntu-based distribution customised to include a collection of Islamic software and artwork: "The Sabily team is proud to announce the release of the new version of Sabily 11.10, codename 'Uhud'. What's new: new 'Uhud' pictures and wallpapers, new Plymouth and GDM themes; Hijra - better support for GNOME 3, added GNOME Shell extension; Thawab - added support for configurable themes, added bok2ki script; Monajat - prayer times reminder and Azan player; fonts-hosny-amiri - Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font. New applications: Alfanous - Quranic search engine; GNOME Shell extension Islamic date and time - GNOME Shell extension providing Islamic date/time functions; GNOME Tweak Tool - a tool to customize advanced GNOME 3 options." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional details an an important note about Nanny, the parental web control tool.
Sabily 11.10 - an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a collection of Islamic software
Linpus Linux 1.6 "Lite Desktop"
Linpus Technologies has announced the release of Linpus Linux 1.6 "Lite Desktop" edition, a Fedora-based distribution with GNOME 3 and several user interface enhancements: "Linpus announced today the release of Linpus Lite Desktop Edition. Linpus Lite Desktop Edition is an extremely powerful yet versatile desktop, all-in-one, notebook and netbook operating system. Based on GNOME 3, it has a significant array of enhancements that make it is the ideal choice whether you require productivity, entertainment or lead an extremely social, connected online life. In the first instance, productivity, Linpus has worked hard to improve the user experience in a number of ways. In particular to reduce the number of clicks to launch, view and manage your applications." Read the full press release and this Quick Start Guide (in PDF format) for more information.
Oracle Linux 6.2
Oracle has announced the release of Oracle Linux 6.2, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux which is free to download, but requires a paid contract for security and other updates: "Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 6.2 for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) architectures. Oracle Linux 6.2 includes both a 32-bit and a 64-bit Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed. Unbreakable Enterprise kernel shipped in this update has following driver updates: updated igb to version 3.0.6-k, be2net to version 4.0.160r, bna to version 3.0.2.2, bnx2 to version 2.1.11, bnx2x to version 1.70.00-0...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details.
Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 6.2, the latest version of the community distribution built by compiling the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 6.2 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 6.2 is based on the upstream release EL 6.2 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. All updates released since upstream 6.2 release are also released to the CentOS 6.2 mirrors. With this release we are now back to a regular, managed and tested release path and time scales. However, for the time being, we are going to retain the CR/ repository in the event it's needed in the future to push ahead-of-release updates." Read the release announcement and release notes to learn more about the new release.
PUIAS Linux 6.2
Thomas Uphill has announced the release of PUIAS Linux 6.2 (code name "Pisa"), a distribution built by compiling the source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, with extra repositories with additional software packages. It is maintained by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in the USA. The announcement was made last week, but the installation DVD images only appeared on the project's download server yesterday. "PUIAS Linux 6.2 released. We are publishing the final PUIAS 6.2 today and we made it the default for PUIAS 6. Machines on automatic setup can expect to receive the update tonight - if you would like to keep your machines at 6.1 for now consider either stopping your rsync of the main mirror or creating /etc/yum/vars/releasever file with content 6.1 on such machines." Here is the brief release announcement.
Chris Buechler has announced the release of pfSense 2.0.1, an updated version of the project's FreeBSD-based operating system for firewalls: "The pfSense 2.0.1 release is now available. This is a maintenance release with some bug and security fixes since the 2.0 release. This is the recommended release for all installations. As always, you can upgrade from any previous release to 2.0.1, so if you haven't upgraded to 2.0 yet, just upgrade straight to 2.0.1. For those who use the built-in certificate manager, pay close attention to the notes below on a potential security issue with those certificates. The following changes were made since 2.0 release: improved accuracy of automated state killing in various cases; various fixes and improvements to relayd...." Here is the brief release announcement.
AbulÉdu 11.08
AbulÉdu is an Ubuntu-based French Linux distribution designed for young children, featuring a collection of educational software running on top of a highly customised GNOME desktop. A new live DVD, version 11.08, was released yesterday and announced on the project's home page (in French). AbulÉdu 11.08 is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with lots of new applications and enhanced tools, such as LibreOffice 3.3, OOo4Kids with dictionaries, AbiWord, LyX, Firefox 7.0 with AdBlock Plus, DansGuardian, Thunderbird, Pidgin, TuxPaint, GIMP, Scribus, Stellarium, VLC, Audacity, TBI Sankoré 3.1, Dr Géo, Tux Math, Tux Type. It also includes all of AbulÉdu's LeTerrier pedagogics tools. The live DVD offers a possibility to test the distribution, to surf safely on the Internet, to connect to a school server in order to get one's home work done or to read private emails, and to connect the AbulÉdu client to an LTSP server. See also the features page for more information and screenshots.
AbulÉdu 11.08 - a French Ubuntu-based distribution for children
Bodhi Linux 1.3.0
Jeff Hoogland has announced the release of Bodhi Linux 1.3.0, an updated version of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 desktop: "The Bodhi team and I are happy to announce our next update release - Bodhi Linux 1.3.0. While you will not find any earth-shattering new features in this release there are many minor improvements. Most notably you will find the use of the new 'itask' module in three of our profiles, it is far more flexible than our old taskbar module. Also worth noting is that our installer slideshow has gotten a much needed makeover, along with further updates to our on-disc documentation and a pretty new installer icon. Software-wise you will find a fresh Enlightenment desktop built from SVN this week and the Midori 0.4.2 web browser. As this is just a minor release current Bodhi users can easily update their systems to these packages following the directions here." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information.
Grml 2011.12
Ulrich Dangel has announced the release of Grml 2011.12, a Debian-based live CD with an excellent collection of GNU/Linux software and scripts for system administrators: "We have just released Grml 2011.12 'Knecht Rootrecht', just in time to put it under the Christmas tree. There were quite a lot of changes between RC1 and the new stable release. The most important ones are: update to Linux kernel 3.1.6; easier remastering with grml-live and existing Grml ISO images; new GRUB boot theme; syslinux will indicate its boot menu with one beep; GRUB will indicate its boot menu with three beeps; enable all mixer controls at start-up and set volume to 75%; reworked and more flexible GRUB configuration file handling; grml2usb - use the GRUB configuration from the ISO image instead of creating a new one; additional key bindings for Fluxbox; fix keyboard layout bug." See the release announcement and release notes for a full list of changes and new features.
Semplice Linux 2.0.0
Eugenio Paolantonio has announced the release of Semplice Linux 2.0.0, a lightweight desktop distribution based on Debian's "unstable" branch and featuring the Openbox window manager: "The Semplice team is proud to announce the immediate release of the stable release of the 2.0.x branch (code-named 'emily') of Semplice Linux. The Semplice live system contains: Openbox 3.5.0, the window manager used in Semplice; Linux kernel 3.1.6, bringing the latest and greatest drivers and performance; Chromium web browser 15.0.874.121 based on the WebKit rendering engine; Exaile 0.3.2.2, a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python; GNOME MPlayer 1.0.4, the power of MPlayer combined with a friendly interface; AbiWord 2.9.1 and Gnumeric 1.10.17; Pidgin 2.10.1 Internet messenger, a graphical, modular instant messaging client; Guake terminal 0.4.2, a GTK+ drop-down terminal." More information can be found in the release announcement and in the more detailed release notes.
Semplice Linux 2.0.0 - a lightweight Debian-based desktop distro
Superb Mini Server 1.6.3
An updated build of Superb Mini Server (SMS), a Slackware-based distribution for servers, has been released: "Superb Mini Server version 1.6.3 released (Linux kernel 2.6.39.4). This Christmas release features an upgraded Linux kernel and new glibc. If you upgrading the proper way is to boot your machine into a single-user mode and do the upgrade as describe in the SMS Wiki. The glibc 2.14.1 library comes full of patches, including restoring RPC symbols. SMS 1.6.3 brings updates, security patches and the latest stable software releases, such as BIND 9.8.1-P1, ClamAV 0.97.3, CUPS 1.5.0, Dovecot 2.0.16, Postfix 2.8.7, Samba 3.6.1 and Squid 3.1.18. New packages in this release include libarchive and libstatgrab, a library that provides statistics, and SSHFS-FUSE were you can mount file systems across networks over SSH. A new package is Postfix Admin, a web GUI to configure virtual domains for postfix." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details.
Tiny Core Linux 4.2
Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of Tiny Core Linux 4.2, a nomadic, ultra-small graphical desktop operating system: "Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Core 4.2. The main theme for the 4.2 release is the re-factoring of Tiny Core Linux to be highly modular by focusing on its core. With the Core project one starts with the kernel (vmlinuz 2.4 MB) and core.gz 5 MB. Micro Core 8 MB is simply the kernel + core.gz - this is the foundation for user created desktops. Tiny Core is simply the kernel + core.gz + Xvesa.tcz or Xorg.tcz + Xprogs + fltk-1.10.tcz + (user's choice of window manager) + wbar.tcz. The original Tiny Core becomes simply an example of what the Core project can produce, a 12 MB GUI desktop. 4.2 also introduces Core Plus, a simple way to get started using the Core philosophy with its included community-packaged extensions." Read the full release announcement for a detailed changelog.
Calculate Linux 11.12
Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the release of Calculate Linux 11.12, a Gentoo-based distribution set with focus on desktop and server computing: "Calculate Linux 11.12 has been released. Major changes: updating the Portage trees has become much faster since we migrated on Git; binary repositories are better handled now that all changes are synchronized with Portage updates; support has been added for PXE network booting; from now on, you can specify the domain and the domain password when booting from a live CD or a live USB or via PXE; language and time zone preferences can now be specified for any newly created ISO image; software - Linux kernel 3.1.6, X.Org 7.4, KDE 4.7.4, GNOME 2.32, Chromium 16.0.912.63...." The release announcement.
Endian Firewall 2.5
The Endian development team has announced the release of Endian Firewall 2.5, an updated version of the project's Red Hat-based specialist distribution for firewalls: "Endian Firewall (EFW) Community version 2.5 is now available. This release introduces new features and lots of bug fixes that make EFW 2.5 a significant improvement in the development of the Endian product family. Release notes: the whole process management in the background of the system has been rewritten - with the new Endian Jobsengine the boot procedure now takes only half as long as before; some major changes have been made to various proxy and anti-virus settings - this resulted in almost 200 MB of memory being freed in a fully configured system; many small improvements have been made and hundreds of bugs have been fixed; supports trusted time-stamping using OpenTSA...." See the complete release announcement for more information.
Netrunner 4.0
Clemens Toennies has announced the release of Netrunner 4.0, a Kubuntu-based desktop distribution featuring a carefully-tuned KDE desktop and integrated KDE and GNOME applications: "Just 24 hours after RC came out, we officially release Netrunner 4.0 'Dryland' into the open. Dryland comes with quite a lot of changes regarding the look and features: built on Kubuntu with default integration of GNOME and WINE; one system for new users and power users; full suite of user workspace applications; KDE's Plasmoids make the system expandable; Linux kernel 3.0.0, KDE 4.7.3 desktop, LibreOffice 3.4.4 office suite, Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1 web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0.1 email client and calendar, VLC 1.1.12 media player; Clementine 0.7.1 music librarian...." Read the brief release announcement and visit the more detailed features page to learn more about the project's latest release.
Netrunner 4.0 - a Linux distribution based on Kubuntu 11.10
Linux Deepin 11.12
Linux Deepin, a free, user-friendly, and full-featured community distribution from China based on Ubuntu, announced its 11.12 release on the last day of the year. This release employs GNOME Shell with a lot of tweaks as the default desktop. Deepin Software Center is upgraded to the official 2.0 version, with features like download management and improved search experience. Deepin-Scrot 1.0, an easy-to-use yet smart utility for taking screenshots, made its début. Upgrade from earlier versions, like Deepin 11.06, is not encouraged; please try a fresh installation instead. Although currently only the Chinese Simplified edition is available, multiple ISO images will be provided, each designed for a dedicated language (Chinese Traditional, English). Check the full release notes (in Chinese).
ExTiX 9
Arne Exton has announced the release of ExTiX 9, an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution for 64-bit computers with GNOME Shell and Razor-qt as the available desktop environments and the latest stable Linux kernel: "ExTiX 9 x64 is a remastered build of Ubuntu 11.10. The original system includes the Unity desktop with GNOME 3.2. In ExTiX 9, I have installed GNOME Shell and Razor-qt so that everyone can compare the two desktop environments. I have replaced the original kernel 3.0.0-14-generic with 'my' kernel 3.1.6-extix. Why? Support for many different kinds of hardware has been added in the latest stable kernel. So if you have acquired new hardware which is not supported in Ubuntu 11.10 and/or Linux systems based on Ubuntu 11.10 it might be worth testing ExTiX 9. There is, among other things, support for brand-new USB devices, like printers and cameras." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement.
ExTiX 9 - an Ubuntu-based distribution with a choice of GNOME Shell or Razor-qt
siduction 11.1
Ferdinand Thommes has announced the release of siduction 11.1, a desktop-oriented distribution and live CD/DVD based on Debian's "unstable" branch, recently forked from aptosid: "We are excited to present to you, after last week's release candidate, the first final release of siduction, a new distribution based on our great mother Debian's 'Unstable' branch and forked from aptosid. This first release ships three desktop environments - KDE SC, Xfce and LXDE, all three in 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The released images represent a snapshot of Debian 'Sid' from 2011-12-30, improved with a few useful packages and scripts, an installer, and our own, patched version of kernel 3.1-6 and X.Org server 1.11.2.902." Read the remainder of the release notes for further details.
aptosid 2011-03
The first announcement of 2012 goes to aptosid and the project's brand-new release, version 2011-03: "We now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the final aptosid 2011-03 'Ponos' release. New features are in particular kernel 3.1 and numerous integration and stabilisation fixes. Special focus has been cast upon improving the system compatibility with new hardware platforms and various corner cases. Kernel 3.1 doesn't only improve and stabilise hardware support for newer devices, it also improves latency and general system performance, particularly vastly improved I/O scheduling for LVM and MDADM on SSDs. Among the new features are initial Xen dom0 and PCI passthrough support as well as nested virtualization for KVM on Intel and AMD CPUs." See the detailed release notes for more information.
aptosid 2011-03 - the project's latest version includes newly-added support for virtualisation features
openSUSE 12.1 "Edu Li-f-e"
Jigish Gohil has announced the release of openSUSE 12.1 "Edu Li-f-e", an edition of openSUSE designed specially for educational institutions: "openSUSE Education team is proud to present another version of openSUSE - Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes loaded with everything that students, parents, teachers and system administrators of educational institutions may need. Software for mathematics, chemistry, astronomy and servers, like KIWI-LTSP, Fedena school ERP, Moodle course management, full multimedia, graphics, office suite, many popular programming languages, including AMP stack, Java, C, C++, Python and Ruby, latest stable GNOME and KDE desktop environments are all packed in this release. To know more about openSUSE Education project, file bugs, request enhancements, participate, or to get in touch with us visit the education portal." Here is the full release announcement as published today on news.opensuse.org.
Dreamlinux 5
After a long pause, the Dreamlinux project has sprung to life with the release of version 5 on the first day of the new year. Dreamlinux is a Debian-based desktop distribution featuring the latest Xfce desktop, a Mac OS X-like user interface, the SoftMaker office suite and a recent Linux kernel from the 3.1 series. From the features page: "100% Debian 'Testing' compatibility; minimalist desktop with the most recent stylized Xfce 4.8 full of new custom features; safe updates through dist-upgrade; powerful modern installer which allows for an easy and swift installation in less than 5 minutes; exclusive boot system which makes for a quick initialization - can be installed from a DVD media or any Flash memory, VFAT-formatted device; Ruby Lua, Vala, C, C++, Python and Perl programming environments, plus common development libraries already in place for immediate use."
Dreamlinux 5 - a Debian-based distro with a customised Xfce desktop
ClearOS 6.2-beta2 (Enterprise), the release announcement
GParted LiveCD 0.11.0-7
Devil-Linux 1.6.0-rc1
FreeNAS 8.0.3-RC1, 8.0.3-RC2, 8.0.3-RC3
Clonezilla Live 1.2.11-33 and 1.2.11-40
Zorin Linux 5.2 (Educational)
Scientific Linux 6.2-beta1
Litrix Linux 11-12
VectorLinux 7.0-beta1 (Light)
Untangle Gateway 9.1.1
AUSTRUMI 2.4.8
Guadalinex 8-rc
Parted Magic 2011_12_30
Salix OS 13.37-beta2 (KDE Live)
2012-01-12: Mageia 2 Alpha 3
2012-03-01: Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1
2012-04-10: Mageia 2 RC
2012-07-12: openSUSE 12.2 (see roadmap)
siduction. The siduction distribution is a desktop-oriented operating system and live medium based on the "unstable" branch of Debian GNU/Linux. Forked from aptosid in late 2011, siduction offers three separate live media with KDE, LXDE and Xfce desktops. The project also promises regular releases, an open development model, and friendly relationship with its developer and user community.
siduction 11.1 - an aptosid fork with a community-oriented approach
ROSA. ROSA is a Russian company developing a variety of Linux-based solutions. Its flagship product, ROSA Desktop, is a Mandriva-based distribution featuring a highly customised KDE desktop and a number of modifications designed to enhance the user-friendliness of the working environment.
ROSA Desktop 2011 - a Russian desktop distribution based on Mandriva Linux
Live Voyager. Live Voyager is a French Xubuntu-based desktop distribution and live DVD featuring a highly customised Xfce desktop environment. The project's website is in French.
roblinux. Roblinux is a Slackware-based distribution for servers. This LSB-compliant distribution offers command-line administration and support for kernel virtual machines.
Ubuntu Razor-qt Remix. Ubuntu Razor-qt Remix (U-R-R) is a simple installable live CD based on Kubuntu using the new and lightweight Razor-qt as the default desktop environment.
URR 11.10 - a new Ubuntu remix with a new desktop (Razor-qt)
This concludes this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly. The next instalment will be published on Monday, 9 January 2012.
Robert Storey, Ladislav Bodnar and Jesse Smith
trixbox
trixbox (formerly known as Asterisk@Home) was a CentOS-based Linux distribution that enables the home user to quickly set up a VoIP Asterisk PBX. A web GUI makes configuration and operation easy. The CD also includes an xPL (home automation) interface for easy interaction with other devices in the home.
Questions and answers: Gaining longer battery life
Questions and answers: 32-bit vs 64-bit performance
Questions and answers: Games for Linux
Questions and answers: Java - Oracle versus Google
Tips and tricks: Running Fedora "Rawhide"
Questions and answers: Tracking and identifying users through web browser data
Questions and answers: Why distributions ship with different kernel versions
Questions and answers: Linux frustrations
Tips and tricks: Gathering system information
Questions and answers: Finding and removing non-free packages
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Clayne Crawford Biography
Clayne was born as Joey Crawford in Clay, Alabama in 1978. He moved west to Los Angeles initially with dreams of playing baseball for UCLA, but a knee injury ended those dreams and led to him finding construction work. After observing his friends being well paid for appearing in commercials he decided to turn to acting. Although he didn’t achieve overnight success with this he did appear in local productions and met and became engaged to Sunny Mabrey – an actress from his native Alabama – although they later split.
After 4 years with little success he changed his acting name to Clayne Crawford in honor of an ancestor named Clan and his hometown of Clay.
“It sounded really strong,” he says. “It sounded very original. It just fit.”
The change of name worked and finally in 2001 he was offered the lead role in the independent drama ‘Gas Station Jesus’ and a guest role in ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’; a recurring role on ‘Roswell’ soon followed. A supporting role in 2002’s touching teen drama ‘A Walk to Remember’ saw Crawford portraying the best friend left behind when Shane West’s bad boy does a 180 and starts dating a conscientious minister’s daughter. His first studio film, ‘A Walk to Remember’ would serve as Crawford’s breakthrough, while the Miramax teen stalker pic ’Swimfan’ (also 2002) helped to solidify the actor’s status as one to watch.
“I don’t want people to get bored of me. I want to play a little bit of everything. I’d love to work with the greats like Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, the Coen brothers, Brad Pitt. But mostly I just want to keep working so I don’t have to go back to the bricks”
More films followed including ‘A Love Song for Bobby Long’ and ‘The Great Raid’ as well as a recurring role in the first season of ‘Jericho’ and guest roles in programs such as ‘Life’, ‘CSI Miami’, ‘Criminal Minds’ and ‘Cold Case’
It was the role of Kevin Wade during Season 8 of 24 that bought Clayne to a much wider audience. Clayne himself said of characters like Kevin Wade:
“I never look at them as bad guys. I look at them as guys that are misunderstood, guys that didn’t get that love from a certain person. They’re still looking for something. They’re still trying to figure out who they are. And through that, they end up hurting a lot of people”
Recently he has been seen reviving his role as Quinn in ‘Leverage’, playing Ray Cargill in ‘The Glades’ and Lance in ‘Justified’ and in 2012 we can expect to see him as Brick Oodie in the film ‘The Baytown Disco’
Clayne is married with two children and, although he resides in LA, he makes regular trips back to his hometown of Clay
Sources: Hollywood.com, tv.com, movies.yahoo.com, blog.al.com, inbaseline.com
Edit 5/3/12: Clayne informed me that he never went to LA to play baseball. He always wanted to be an actor and doesn’t know where the rumors about baseball came from even though they are part of his bio on many sites.
Has won two awards:
2006 – New York International Independent Film & Video Festival – Best Actor for F8
2003 – Young Hollywood Awards – One to Watch – Male
15 Comments on “Clayne Crawford Biography”
Will Amato says:
16 Aug at 5:33 am
I just wanted to commend you for your fantastic & deeply disciplined work on Rectify. You play an ostensibly unlikable character — so it’s a “thankless’ role in that way — but you’ve made him so honest and believable, one cant help but have deep sympathy for the guy…who is, in his own way, suffering in in his own solitary confinement, even as Daniel is walks free.
Honestly, Im not sure Ive seen you in anything before, but I’ll sure be looking out for you here on in.
Of course, the whole cast in Rectify is brilliant…right down to the bit parts…but seeing as how you’re braving a particularly difficult role, I just wanted to give you a shout out for it.
Chloe unicorn says:
01 Dec at 4:04 am
Well you should. I’m and always will be his BIGGEST FAN tho
Chris Worden says:
19 Feb at 12:48 am
What’s up Joey. This is Chris Worden from Clay , Alabama. Your old buddy. Just wanted to say hey my friend. May God bless you out wherever you lay your head. Happy you got to make it big my friend. Look me up when ya come back home . Holla atcha boy.
Chris Worden .
AliKat says:
21 Feb at 8:56 pm
Sorry but this page is not run by Clayne or his management. Only one of his fans. However, if you comment on this post – http://www.clayne-crawford.com/2012/05/03/do-you-have-questions-for-clayne-crawford/#comments in response to one of the comments from “Bama”, it will be emailed to Clayne. 🙂 Make sure you respond to one of his comments and not the original post or he won’t get it.
I’m his BIGGEST FAN tho. BIGGEST FAN.
Hello Clayne! No questions just wanted to mention what an excellent, magnificent and fine actor you are.. .especially in The Baytown Outlaws! I can hardly wait for more! Sending you thanks from Chicago.
Jodi Greenway says:
12 Jul at 3:50 pm
My son was so excited to see you in the Pig in Clay today! You are my favorite actor! Wish I could’ve been there today!
Pamela Brown says:
This is the first letter of its kind that I have ever written. Thought about it a lot, but, felt these types of letters fall by the wayside and or go unread. But, I have hope that this letter will reach you. If it doesn’t, know that the universe has been told, by a fan, how great of an actor, director, story-teller you have become and will continue to be for a very long time.
My first introduction to your talent was your newest character, Martin Riggs. Why you took so long to make up your mind to play this part is beyond me. It has your skill set all over it. Your connection as Martin Riggs with Roger Murtaugh, is superb. I like the banter and the way you see the need and take the lead, leaving Roger to close his mouth and catch up. You complement each other’s strengths very well. The fast talking, mixed with humor, sets a pace and keeps us involved. This part was made for you. I will continue to be a fan of this show. I hope it runs for a very long time. Good comedy timing on both of your parts.
I have taken the time to review your credits and have gone back to watch several of them. Really liked your performance in “Perfect Host”, “Baytown Outlaws”, “Spectral”, “Life (Evel….has a brother Ziggy)” and have Jericho on my list along with the Glades. I really liked the lead actor in the Glades, Matt Passmore. I look forward to your performances on the Glades and I’m assuming we will see more of him (as Gideon) in the new season of Lethal Weapon.
Mr. Crawford, you can be charming, witty, charismatic, compassionate and tender. You are also a protector. You do not like to fail and you definitely do not handle loss well. To the point that it breaks our hearts to see you hurting. That’s what I like best about your performances. I can laugh, get angry with you, I can cry and cheer when the bad guys are done for. All of which can happen in one episode, got to love it. lol.
Thank you for deciding to give acting a try. It was a very good move on your part and we are the lucky ones, who get to enjoy your performances, now and in the future.
Pamela Brown
Maria Jacimeire says:
I think you are a great actor.
Meg Erks says:
Riggs; I love the show! love it. You do Mel Gibson well. I’d like the show to be longer! How about you two making a movie/sequel of the show. You’re sooo adorable. (I’m old enough to be your mother) I do tell others about the show and how adorable you are and how you do justice for Mel….
kerry horne says:
I think you are amazing and very good looking, you are also very funny, I wish you all the happiness in the world, and every bit of good luck out there, love and best wishes kerry Horne, poole dorset england
Clayne.
You are the Best!! Love Lethal Weapon. You and Damon Wayans are great togethet and make the series so real and interesting! Great Job yo both of you!!
You both are soooo good looking and two of the Best actors!! I feel that you and Damon are sooo much better in Lethal Weapon than the originals!
Can’t wait for season 3!!
Love to both of you guys!!
Laura Carr
Mary from Bama says:
Lethal Weapon just Won’t be the same without Clayne Crawford as Martin Riggs!!!!
Warner Brothers is a bunch of idiots to release Clayne Crawford from Lethal Weapon. He made the show and without him this show is worthless. I commend Clayne Crawford for his wonderful performance on that show.
Harley hawes says:
08 Sep at 2:07 am
i personally think that your very much like the person you played in the series of lethal weapon. believe that its the best role you have played and b teamed up with roger mertol. i believe that you was able to be you on this being when you was born and how you would be in life as an aries. i do hope they reconsider taking you back for the next series of lethal weapon, as it wont be worth watching as they got the right people for the right charters.
i believe you had quite a hard childhood being your very much family is important to you. id like to know if any of this is correct and what you did to change anything that as no good and negative in your life. as i feel i am the female version of riggs nd english version of the harleyquinn and would be great to get an answer, keep at it keep smiling and be happy. godbless and briht blessings too.
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Sheridan, A and Marchant, DC and Williams, EL and Jones, HS and Hewitt, PA and Sparks, SA (2017) Presence of Spotters Improves Bench Press Performance: A Deception Study. J Strength Cond Res. ISSN 1533-4287 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0000000000002285
Williams, EL and Jones, HS and Sparks, SA and Marchant, DC and Midgley, AW and Bridge, CA and McNaughton, LR (2016) Deceptive Manipulation of Competitive Starting Strategies Influences Subsequent Pacing, Physiological Status, and Perceptual Responses during Cycling Time Trials. Frontiers in Physiology, 7:536. ISSN 1664-042X DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2016.00536
Jones, HS and Williams, EL and Marchant, DC and Sparks, SA and Bridge, CA and Midgley, AW and Mc Naughton, LR (2015) Deception has no acute or residual effect on cycling time trial performance but negatively effects perceptual responses. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport / Sports Medicine Australia, 19 (9). pp. 771-776. ISSN 1440-2440 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2015.12.006
Williams, EL and Jones, HS and Sparks, SA and Midgley, AW and Marchant, DC and Bridge, CA and McNaughton, LR (2015) Altered Psychological Responses to Different Magnitudes of Deception during Cycling. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 47 (11). 2423 - 2430. ISSN 0195-9131 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000000694
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Early Electronic Television
The 1939 New York World's Fair
RCA introduced television to the American public at the 1939 World's Fair. Before the fair, they published a brochure for their dealers to explain television. The opening ceremony and events at the fair were televised, and NBC began regularly scheduled broadcasts. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the fair, thereby becoming the first president to be televised.
Inventory of spare tubes
Radiograms
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Article by Jeff Lendaro about other sets at the fair
RCA sound systems at the fair
TRK-12s were on display for viewers to see television. These sets used voltage doublers to power the CRTs with about 10 kv to produce a brighter picture than the sets sold to the public.
In order to convince skeptical visitors that the TV set was not a trick, one set was made with a transparent case so that the internal components could be seen. As part of the exhibit, visitors could see themselves on television, and were give a card documenting the event.
David Sarnoff dedicating the RCA building
As part of the exhibit, visitors could see themselves on television, and were give a card documenting the event.
The "Miss Television" Staff
Joe D'Agostino, manager of the RCA exhibit
Other manufacturers had television demonstrations, including General Electric, which demonstrated its own sets; Westinghouse, which had sets on display made for them by RCA; General Motors, which had a picturephone on display, and Crosley, which demonstrated DuMont sets and a DuMont camera.
The following is from "Television in the World of Tomorrow", by Iain Baird, ECHOES, Winter, 1997:
Manufacturers other than RCA exhibited their television receivers at the 1939 World's Fair. In 1938, Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, established by the inventor and entrepreneur of the same name, had already offered the first electronic TV sets for sale to the public (prior to the Fair) with their 180 model. Westinghouse Electric and General Electric offered competing production lines of consumer televisions in their own pavillions. These companies also built studios with live cameras for interviews. Even Ford Motor Company got into the act, with television receivers in their executive lounge. Conspicuously missing was Farnsworth Television. Although Philo T. Farnsworth was the first to demonstrate electronic television technology in 1927, his company was not yet manufacturing commercial television receivers.
These pictures of the screen of a TRK-12 were taken in 1940 of NBC programming.
Courtesy of Tom Genova
A photograph of an early telecast from the 1939 Worlds Fair
Stanley Jay, an early Columbus, Ohio television experimenter, took photographs of programming at the fair. Dan Fleming, a West Virginia resident, spent much of the summers of 1939 and 1940 at the fair, where his father worked. Another family recorded a 78 rpm disk at the fair. A woman in Portland, Oregon sent us this account of her father at the fair. Here is a short film showing the RCA television pavilion.
The Fair continued in 1940. RCA put television receivers in the ocean liner President Roosevelt, so passengers could watch the opening ceremonies on May 17:
Courtesy of John Pinckney
Courtesy of Steve Dichter
Here is a television camera of the type used at the fair. Here are short film clips of the camera outdoors courtesy of Dave Sica.
Here are postcards showing the RCA building, which was shaped like a vacuum tube
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Obituaries Dec. 10, 2016
Kurth Gustafsen, a longtime editor at The Ledger, dies at 61
by Rick Rousos, The Ledger
Longtime Ledger editor Kurth Gustafsen died late Friday at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center after a long illness. He was 61.
Gustafsen, an assistant metro editor, began working for The Ledger in 1983 as a reporter and was promoted to editor in 1994.
“Kurth was one of the most caring human beings I know, from taking care of his mother for so many years to looking after reporters,” said Ledger Editor Lenore Devore. “In my 22 years here, he also was one of the best editors I’ve worked with, and I always felt comfortable leaving the newsroom when he was here at night. He will be missed by many.”
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Gold Halts Slide After Euro Data; Still Well Below $1,300
Investing.com April 18, 2019
By Barani Krishnan
Investing.com - Scattered weak spots in the global economy are helping gold fetch a bid. But getting the yellow metal out of the $1,200 hole will require a lot more risk aversion.
Bullion and gold futures advanced slightly from four-month lows Thursday as anemic manufacturing numbers out of Europe renewed worries about growth in the world's largest economic bloc. But the dollar, strengthened by resurgent U.S. retail sales, capped gold's gain, reflecting the precious metal's challenge in recapturing its $1,300 perch.
Spot gold, reflective of trades in bullion, was up 20 cents at $1,274.24 per ounce by 2:15 PM ET (18:15 GMT).
Gold futures for June delivery, traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, settled the official session down 80 cents, or 0.1%, at $1,276 per ounce.
Thursday's market also saw crimped activity ahead of the Good Friday holiday.
"This is a holiday-shortened week with limited audiences, so the news of lesser inflation and weak manufacturing in the euro zone was balanced out by equally positive U.S. data," said George Gero, precious metals analyst at RBC Wealth Management in New York.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of six currencies, rose 0.5% to 97.127.
The outlook for gold is clouded.
After its slide this week to $1,250 levels, some see a break below $1,200. Others, like London-based Capital Economics, predict $1,400 before the end of 2019, saying risk aversion will return to global markets and spur safe-haven demand in North American and European gold ETFs.
Palladium rose for a second-straight day, reclaiming its $1,400 perch. Spot palladium was up $25.80, or 1.8%, at $1,421.35 an ounce.
Trades in other Comex metals as of 2:15 PM ET (18:15 GMT):
Palladium futures up $27.55, or 2%, at $1,406.15 per ounce.
Platinum futures up $12.80, or 1.4%, at $904.10 per ounce.
Silver futures up 1.4 cents, or 0.1%, at $14.95 per ounce.
Copper futures down 4.6 cents, or 1.6%, at $2.92 per pound.
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Today's Tarot for Keanu Reeves
The Two Paths spread provides insight into an important decision ahead of you, the possible outcomes, and the forces that draw you towards each of these outcomes. The Curious Tarot is the rarest and most unusual of modern decks. The cards form a surreal collage of American consumer imagery, eerily capturing the archetypes of the atomic age. It is the deck of those who seek to harness the ancient tribal energy that courses through the modern urban world. There are only 100 Curious Tarot decks in existence - if you want one, buy it now!
The top left card represents the first possible outcome. The High Priestess, when reversed: Being confused and led astray from the true path. Spiritual deception. Overzealous and shallow-minded pursuit of the esoteric. Insecurity, conceit and self-destructiveness. The forces of nature unleashed.
The top right card represents the second possible outcome. The High Priest, when reversed: Authoritarianism. Inflexible and dogmatic thinking. A calcified old regime. Bad or incompetent advice. Inability to hear a higher or inner voice, or pretending to hear it for personal gain.
The middle left card represents the force drawing you towards the first possible outcome. Temperance: Calm and restraint. Self-control, patience and tact in handling situations. The act of applying balanced spiritual and psychic forces to physical life.
The middle right card represents the force drawing you towards the second possible outcome. Justice, when reversed: Lack of balance, harmony and integrity. The suspension of action until a decision is made. Lawsuits and prosecutions. Unjust decisions and the consequences of those decisions. A turn for the worse in legal matters.
The bottom card represents the critical factor that decides what will come to pass. Knight of Pentacles: The essence of earth behaving as fire, such as molten magma: One slow to action, but decisive and unrelenting once set in motion. A force of nature whose methods are as predictable and dependable as they are unstoppable. The voice of duty, honor, and responsibility. The will to the change the world, not through bold action, but through the thorough and unwavering application of proven means.
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Holiday park undergoes expansion
The lodge development at Newquay View Resort.
ONE of Newquay’s largest holiday resorts has undergone improvements as part of its five-year expansion plans.
Newquay View Resort has created a new lodge development, with plots that people can purchase as holiday homes. A lodge or a caravan can be placed on the site.
There have been 27 plots incorporated in the first phase, which has been completed, and an undetermined number will be included in the second phase.
The holiday park has also transformed its leisure complex, housing brand new changing rooms in the impressive indoor pool which is used by community groups, including surf life saving clubs from across Newquay.
New additions to the leisure complex, which is open to all, include a sauna and steam room for holidaymakers and owners to use, an Endless Swimming Pool for sports training, in conjunction with Lee Stanbury, plus a coffee house and bistro serving food, drinks, meals and snacks in partnership with the team behind the catering at Chapter 1 restaurant in Newquay.
Local contractors working on site include Beefold Services and Mad Dog Developers.
Newquay View Resort also now houses a brand new fitness studio run by Academy Fitness, which will provide space for classes and athletes to train.
As part of the continued development, the team has introduced a brand new run into the sporting calendar, the Valley View Run 5/10K, which takes place on Sunday, May 22, and can be entered online.
The independently-run Blue Surf School is also based at the adventurous resort. Peter Bull Resorts, owner of Newquay View Resort, is undertaking the latest developments to make its three Cornish holiday parks five-star.
Employee numbers have more than doubled since the business was taken over. The family-friendly resort also now has a holiday home owner community of 57 – up from only six owners in the previous year.
The resort’s seasonal touring van community has jumped from five to 50.
New self catering holiday vans accommodation has also been introduced to the resort, including Elite caravans and glamping pods.
Ian Smith, joint managing director, said: “Our exclusive new lodge development at Newquay View Resort will encourage new and existing audiences to visit Newquay. In just eight weeks we’ve made massive changes to the resort and we’re getting excellent Trip Advisor reviews and comments from our owners who are investing into our vision.”
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Coast 2 Coast: Time to Get Extreme
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What does the WWE have in store for Extreme Rules?
Extreme Rules is Sunday and the product hasn’t progressed much in the last month. Is WWE ready to move in a new direction for its New Era? What are we looking forward to?
1) Should we put any stock in the declining Raw ratings?
Corey: Eh it’s a toss up. For one it means that Raw doesn’t have that superstar power to keep the ratings consistently high. But at the same time ratings do tend to lag from time to time. I wouldn’t put too much stock into it. Especially with all the returns that are about to start happening due to the injuries from late last year.
Josh: Absolutely not. The reality is that Nielson ratings just don’t hold the same value they once did. Media consumption is drastically different than what it was even 10 years ago and relying solely on ratings to determine whether a product holds water with the collective conscious is a bit of a fool’s errand. Raw is still a very socially active medium with Raw events trending worldwide almost weekly. The numbers for the Network are good, definitely not where they would like them to be, but still positive. WWE is fine, wrestling is fine and using ratings as evidence that Reigns isn’t getting over as champion or that the product is stagnant isn’t much an argument.
2) What’s your impression of the Asylum Match?
Corey: I’m intrigued. Honestly I thought this would be a one-shot feud, but it looks like they may have two more pay per views, including this Sunday. But at the same time due to the current landscape and without blood, it takes away from how brutal of a match that this could be. In the end Ambrose NEEDS to be the winner of this match as well as this feud.
Josh: It’s interesting that Ambrose is getting his own speciality match in the same vein as Mankind (Boiler Room Brawl), Undertaker (Casket Match), and Kane (Inferno). Let us all hope this gimmick is closer to those than The Great Khali’s (Punjambi Prison).
3) Should WWE move forward with a Dana Brooke/Becky Lynch feud?
Corey: Maybe I’m the only one, but I have absolutely zero interest in Dana Brooke. None at all. And for her go over Becky Lynch cleanly this early on just seemed like bad booking. I wouldn’t mind if they put a stop to this feud yesterday. Becky is still gold in my eyes and to go from chasing after the Women’s Championship and being in the match of the night at Wrestlemania to this boring feud is beneath her.
Josh: Tough break for Dana Brooke. Emma is on the shelf with back surgery (herniated disk) and is probably out for close to a year. The combination of Emma and Dana would have worked well with beating up on the plucky underdog of Becky Lynch. I don’t believe you can move forward with a one to one feud and have Dana look credible without making Becky look weak. I’d probably pair Dana with Summer Rae and move forward to try salvaging this angle.
Image courtesy of wwe.com.
4) What’s the match to watch at Extreme Rules?
Corey: Without a doubt it’s going to be the fatal four way with Miz/Cesaro/Owens/Zayn. I love fatal four ways and with the amount of talent in this match it’s easily going to be the match of the night.
Josh: Absolutely the four way match for the IC title. That’s the consensus show-stealer. Rusev/Kalisto also has some darkhorse potential. Plus that camel clutch (or Accolade if you will) Rusev slapped on Kalisto was downright nasty.
5) Make a prediction for Extreme Rules:
Corey: Hmm so let’s get right to it, Reigns/Styles, Reigns is coming out of this the victor. Plain and simple. But I can bet money there is going to be interference at some point. Hopefully it’s Balor that costs Styles the title which can then lead to a feud between those two which everyone would love to see. Natalya/Charlotte: I would LOVE to see the Women’s Championship on Natalya, but I honestly feel like they won’t make that call for Charlotte to drop the title until her and Sasha Banks feud so I’ll give this win to Charlotte. Jericho/Ambrose has to have Ambrose as the winner. He needs a winning feud like nobody’s business! New Day/Vaudevillains. This one is a toss up. Vaudevillains winning would be great for them seeing as how it’s always more entertaining when it’s the faces that are chasing the title, but at the same time New Day is riding high on their popularity right now as well as their merchandise always selling out and we all know WWE likes to keep the titles on the top merchandise sellers. Zayn/Owens/Cesaro/Miz is also a toss up. I have no idea who they are going to have win this and I’m not mad at at. I love unpredictability. All three challengers would make great IC champs and if Miz retains I wouldn’t mind that either. But just for the sake of making a prediction I’m going to go with Cesaro. Corbin/Ziggler is definitely going to have Corbin going over seeing as though it looks like they are using Ziggler as a way to get Corbin over with the Raw crowd. Usos/The Club (I hate typing that name) is going to have to be incredibly brutal for it to keep people entertained. The Usos need a new gimmick and The Club needs a new name. But I digress. I’m going to have to go with Anderson and Gallows on this one. As for Kalisto/Rusev I would love to see Kalisto retain and I actually hope he does, but for some reason I have a feeling that Rusev is going to go over so I’ll go with Rusev on this one.
Josh: Extreme Rules is a hard card to predict. Conventional wisdom says everything stays status quo, but you also have to think there’s something brewing in the WWE to lead to big summer shake-up. I think the only likely title change we’ll see is the US title going to Rusev. That frees up Kalisto to continue with the Lucha Dragons and possibly start feuding with The Shining Stars.
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Charles Langbridge Morgan was a playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, Art, Love, and Death , and the relation between them Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom The Voyage, The River Line , through passionate love seen from within Portrait in a Mirror and without A Breeze of Morning , to the conflict of good and evil The Judge s Story and the enchanted boundary of death Sparkenbroke.Morgan was educated at the Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth and served as a midshipman in the China Fleet until 1913 On the outbreak of war he was sent with Churchill s Naval Division to the defence of Antwerp He was interned in Holland which provided the setting for his best selling novel The Fountain.He married the Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan in 1923 He was the drama critic of The Times from the 1920s until 1938, and contributed weekly articles on the London theatre to the New York Times His first play, The Flashing Stream 1938 , had successful runs in London and Paris but was not well received in New York The River Line 1952 was originally written as a novel in 1949 and concerned the activities of escaped British prisoners of war in France.He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1936, a promotion in 1945, and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949 From 1953 he was the president of International PEN.While Morgan enjoyed an immense reputation during his lifetime and was awarded the 1940 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, he was sometimes criticised for excessive seriousness, and for some time rather neglected he once claimed that the sense of humour by which we are ruled avoids emotion and vision and grandeur of spirit as a weevil avoids the sun It has banished tragedy from our theatre, eloquence from our debates, glory from our years of peace, splendour from our wars The character Gerard Challis in Stella Gibbons s Westwood is thought to be a caricature of him.
Roger Norman
I found this 1936 book in a secondhand bookshop in Istanbul and bought it for its striking cover and for some echo that the author's name sounded in my mind. It cost me about a quid and turned out to be a first edition. tells me that Morgan's reputation during his lifetime was 'immense' and other internet sites were evidence that he is still remembered, and read, here and there, especially in France. Part of my curiosity in reading the book was to see why a writer of the 30s with an immense rep [...]
My all time favorite book, ever, always
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The subject matter in this book is death, its meaning, and relevance in life. Morgan must have read Freud's, Das Ego und das Id; there is a long piece during which the reader is cast straight back into this text ( l accept that a reader not familiar with Freud's work will not get this reference, although it is not subtle). Piers is characterized as tormented, as warring with different facets of his self; this is a deep enquiry, although not on a par with feminist theory of the late twentieth cen [...]
I'm so disappointed. Charles Morgan is one of my favorite authors. I couldn't believe my luck at finding one of his books, not to mention one I hadn't read yet, at the library. I could only flog my way through the first half. Morgan really could have used a good editor. His writing style here leans towards the self indulgent. That and his sentences are often impossible to decipher and go on for ages. Don't even get me started on the paternalistic tone that is taken towards the key female charact [...]
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Out of the Closet Thrift Store & Pharmacy Set To Open this Summer
Full story via Columbus Business First
by Carrie Ghose
The “Out of the Closet Thrift Store” to be operated by the country’s largest AIDS research and treatment nonprofit could open on High Street and Fifth Avenue by late summer, closing one of the last development gaps between the Short North and Ohio State University campus area.
The brick facade in the final store rendering that Fort Lauderdale, Fla., architect James Hollingsworth provided for Columbus Business First is quite different from the pink-and-turquoise look of the 22 stores mainly in California and Florida operated by Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation. That color scheme was never proposed for Columbus, but pops up in the trim.
“It’s a beautiful building,” said Adam Ouderkirk, the foundation’s interim senior director of business development who’s overseeing its first Midwestern operations. “In California, we don’t tend to use brick because it always breaks in earthquakes.”
The foundation started construction in January on the $3.1 million store and last month opened its first STD clinic in the Midwest in an office near Mount Carmel West hospital in the Hilltop neighborhood.
Both locations will offer free STD testing and the store will include a pharmacy for HIV medications. The pharmacy has been operating at a temporary High Street location since August, Ouderkirk said.
The foundation seeks areas with a growing need for services to those living with HIV and AIDS, he said.
In Franklin County, nearly 3,800 people have HIV, a number that steadily grows by about 200 new diagnoses a year, according to the Ohio Department of Health. The prevalence of the virus in the county is twice the rate of infection statewide, and the county’s incidence rates of STDs such as chlamydia and gonorrhea also exceed the statewide rate, according to the Franklin County HealthMap compiled by the Central Ohio Hospital Council.
“We really felt that we needed to be out and serving underserved areas,” Ouderkirk said. The foundation will augment the health and other services provided by AIDS Resource Center Ohio, he said.
The organization has been approved as an Ohio Medicaid provider and also accepts Medicare and private insurance. More than half its annual revenue comes from the thrift stores that sell donated clothing and home goods.
It’s been nearly a year since the foundation brought its first design proposals to the city. The main disputes were over height and parking access, said Daniel Ferdelman, urban designer in the Planning Division. The neighborhood’s plan calls for two-story buildings; the final design is a 45-foot-tall one-story, 6 feet higher than the original design. The city prefers not to have driveways cutting across High Street sidewalks but agreed that Cortland Street behind the lot is too narrow for all the store’s traffic, he said. The store’s entry will allow right turns off northbound High but no left turns off High into the lot.
“The city has been wonderfully responsive,” Ouderkirk said.
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PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - SIXTH STAGE
Now when they were got almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced to cast his eye back, and espied one coming after them, and he knew him. Oh! said Faithful to his brother, who comes yonder? Then Christian looked, and said, It is my good friend Evangelist. Aye, and my good friend too, said Faithful, for 'twas he that set me on the way to the gate. Now was Evangelist come up unto them, and thus saluted them.
EVAN. - Peace be with you, dearly beloved, and peace be to your helpers.
CHR. - Welcome, welcome, my good Evangelist: the sight of thy countenance brings to my remembrance thy ancient kindness and unwearied labors for my eternal good.
FAITH. - And a thousand times welcome, said good Faithful, thy company, O sweet Evangelist; how desirable is it to us poor pilgrims!
EVAN. - Then said Evangelist, How hath it fared with you, my friends, since the time of our last parting? What have you met with, and how have you behaved yourselves?
Then Christian and Faithful told him of all things that had happened to them in the way; and how, and with what difficulty, they had arrived to that place.
Right glad am I, said Evangelist, not that you have met with trials, but that you have been victors, and for that you have, notwithstanding many weaknesses, continued in the way to this very day.
I say, right glad am I of this thing, and that for mine own sake and yours: I have sowed, and you have reaped; and the day is coming, when "both he that soweth, and they that reap, shall rejoice together," John 4:36; that is, if you hold out: "for in due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not." Gal. 6:9. The crown is before you, and it is an incorruptible one; "so run that ye may obtain it." 1 Cor. 9:24-27. Some there be that set out for this crown, and after they have gone far for it, another comes in and takes it from them: "hold fast, therefore, that you have; let no man take your crown." Rev. 3:11. You are not yet out of the gunshot of the devil; "you have not resisted unto blood, striving against sin." Let the kingdom be always before you, and believe steadfastly concerning the things that are invisible. Let nothing that is on this side the other world get within you. And, above all, look well to your own hearts and to the lusts thereof; for they are "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Set your faces like a flint; you have all power in heaven and earth on your side.
CHR. - Then Christian thanked him for his exhortations; but told him withal, that they would have him speak farther to them for their help the rest of the way; and the rather, for that they well knew that he was a prophet, and could tell them of things that might happen unto them, and also how they might resist and overcome them. To which request Faithful also consented. So Evangelist began as followeth.
EVAN. - My sons, you have heard in the word of the truth of the Gospel, that you must "through many tribulations enter into the kingdom of heaven;" and again, that "in every city, bonds and afflictions abide you;" and therefore you cannot expect that you should go long on your pilgrimage without them, in some sort or other. You have found something of the truth of these testimonies upon you already, and more will immediately follow: for now, as you see, you are almost out of this wilderness, and therefore you will soon come into a town that you will by and by see before you; and in that town you will be hardly beset with enemies, who will strain hard but they will kill you; and be you sure that one or both of you must seal the testimony which you hold, with blood; but "be you faithful unto death, and the King will give you a crown of life." He that shall die there, although his death will be unnatural, and his pain, perhaps, great, he will yet have the better of his fellow; not only because he will be arrived at the Celestial City soonest, but because he will escape many miseries that the other will meet with in the rest of his journey. But when you are come to the town, and shall find fulfilled what I have here related, then remember your friend, and quit yourselves like men, and "commit the keeping of your souls to God in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator."
Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity, Psa. 62:9; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the saying of the wise, "All that cometh is vanity." Eccl. 11:8; see also 1:2-14; 2:11-17; Isa. 40:17.
This fair is no new-erected business but a thing of ancient standing. I will show you the original of it.
Almost five thousand years ago there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore, at this fair are all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures; and delights of all sorts, as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
And moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.
Here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false-swearers, and that of a blood-red color.
And, as in other fairs of less moment, there are the several rows and streets under their proper names, where such and such wares are vended; so here, likewise, you have the proper places, rows, streets, (namely, countries and kingdoms,) where the wares of this fair are soonest to be found. Here is the Britain Row, the French Row, the Italian Row, the Spanish Row, the German Row, where several sorts of vanities are to be sold. But, as in other fairs, some one commodity is as the chief of all the fair; so the ware of Rome and her merchandise is greatly promoted in this fair; only our English nation, with some others, have taken a dislike thereat.
Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town, where this lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, "must needs go out of the world." 1 Cor. 4:10. The Prince of princes himself, when here, went through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair-day too; yea, and, as I think, it was Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that invited him to buy of his vanities, yea, would have made him lord of the fair, would he but have done him reverence as he went through the town. Yea, because he was such a person of honor, Beelzebub had him from street to street, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a little time, that he might, if possible, allure that blessed One to cheapen and buy some of his vanities; but he had no mind to the merchandise, and therefore left the town, without laying out so much as one farthing upon these vanities. Matt. 4:8,9; Luke 4:5-7. This fair, therefore, is an ancient thing, of long standing, and a very great fair.
Now, these pilgrims, as I said, must needs go through this fair. Well, so they did; but behold, even as they entered into the fair, all the people in the fair were moved; and the town itself, as it were, in a hubbub about them, and that for several reasons: for,
First, The Pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The people, therefore, of the fair made a great gazing upon them: some said they were fools; 1 Cor. 4:9,10; some, they were bedlams; and some, they were outlandish men.
Secondly, And as they wondered at their apparel, so they did likewise at their speech; for few could understand what they said. They naturally spoke the language of Canaan; but they that kept the fair were the men of this world: so that from one end of the fair to the other, they seemed barbarians each to the other. 1 Cor. 2:7,8.
Thirdly, But that which did not a little amuse the merchandisers was, that these pilgrims set very light by all their wares. They cared not so much as to look upon them; and if they called upon them to buy, they would put their fingers in their ears, and cry, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity," Psa. 119:37, and look upward, signifying that their trade and traffic was in heaven. Phil. 3: 20,21.
One chanced, mockingly, beholding the carriage of the men, to say unto them, "What will ye buy?" But they, looking gravely upon him, said, "We buy the truth." Prov. 23:23. At that there was an occasion taken to despise the men the more; some mocking, some taunting, some speaking reproachfully, and some calling upon others to smite them. At last, things came to an hubbub and great stir in the fair, insomuch that all order was confounded. Now was word presently brought to the great one of the fair, who quickly came down, and deputed some of his most trusty friends to take those men into examination about whom the fair was almost overturned. So the men were brought to examination; and they that sat upon them asked them whence they came, whither they went, and what they did there in such an unusual garb. The men told them they were pilgrims and strangers in the world, and that they were going to their own country, which was the heavenly Jerusalem, Heb. 11:13-16; and that they had given no occasion to the men of the town, nor yet to the merchandisrs, thus to abuse them, and to let them in their journey, except it was for that, when one asked them what they would buy, they said they would buy the truth. But they that were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad, or else such as came to put all things into a confusion in the fair. Therefore they took them and beat them, and besmeared them with dirt, and then put them into the cage, that they might be made a spectacle to all the men of the fair. There, therefore, they lay for some time, and were made the objects of any man's sport, or malice, or revenge; the great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them. But the men being patient, and "not rendering railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing," and giving good words for bad, and kindness for injuries done, some men in the fair, that were more observing and less prejudiced than the rest, began to check and blame the baser sort for their continual abuses done by them to the men. They, therefore, in an angry manner let fly at them again, counting them as bad as the men in the cage, and telling them that they seemed confederates, and should be made partakers of their misfortunes. The others replied that, for aught they could see, the men were quiet and sober, and intended nobody any harm; and that there were many that traded in their fair that were more worthy to be put into the cage, yea, and pillory too, than were the men that they had abused. Thus, after divers words had passed on both sides, (the men behaving themselves all the while very wisely and soberly before them,) they fell to some blows among themselves, and did harm one to another. Then were these two poor men brought before their examiners again, and were charged as being guilty of the late hubbub that had been in the fair. So they beat them pitifully, and hanged irons upon them, and led them in chains up and down the fair, for an example and terror to others, lest any should speak in their behalf, or join themselves unto them. But Christian and Faithful behaved themselves yet more wisely, and received the ignominy and shame that was cast upon them with so much meekness and patience, that it won to their side (though but few in comparison of the rest) several of the men in the fair. This put the other party yet into a greater rage, insomuch that they concluded the death of these two men. Wherefore they threatened that neither cage nor irons should serve their turn, but that they should die for the abuse they had done, and for deluding the men of the fair.
Then were they remanded to the cage again, until further order should be taken with them. So they put them in, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Here, also, they called again to mind what they had heard from their faithful friend Evangelist, and were the more confirmed in their way and sufferings by what he told them would happen to them. They also now comforted each other, that whose lot it was to suffer, even he should have the best of it: therefore each man secretly wished that he might have that preferment. But committing themselves to the all-wise disposal of Him that ruleth all things, with much content they abode in the condition in which they were, until they should be otherwise disposed of.
Then a convenient time being appointed, they brought them forth to their trial, in order to their condemnation. When the time was come, they were brought before their enemies and arraigned. The judge's name was Lord Hate-good; their indictment was one and the same in substance, though somewhat varying in form; the contents whereof was this: "That they were enemies to, and disturbers of, the trade; that they had made commotions and divisions in the town, and had won a party to their own most dangerous opinions, in contempt of the law of their prince."
Then Faithful began to answer, that he had only set himself against that which had set itself against Him that is higher than the highest. And, said he, as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man of peace: the parties that were won to us, were won by beholding our truth and innocence, and they are only turned from the worse to the better. And as to the king you talk of, since he is Beelzebub, the enemy of our Lord, I defy him and all his angels.
Then proclamation was made, that they that had ought to say for their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar, should forthwith appear, and give in their evidence. So there came in three witnesses, to wit, Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank. They were then asked if they knew the prisoner at the bar; and what they had to say for their lord the king against him.
Then stood forth Envy, and said to this effect: My lord, I have known this man a long time, and will attest upon my oath before this honorable bench, that he is-
JUDGE. - Hold; give him his oath.
So they sware him. Then he said, My lord, this man, notwithstanding his plausible name, is one of the vilest men in our country; he neither regardeth prince nor people, law nor custom, but doeth all that he can to possess all men with certain of his disloyal notions, which he in the general calls principles of faith and holiness. And in particular, I heard him once myself affirm, that Christianity and the customs of our town of Vanity were diametrically opposite, and could not be reconciled. By which saying, my lord, he doth at once not only condemn all our laudable doings, but us in the doing of them.
Then did the judge say to him, Hast thou any more to say?
ENVY. - My lord, I could say much more, only I would not be tedious to the court. Yet if need be, when the other gentlemen have given in their evidence, rather than any thing shall be wanting that will dispatch him, I will enlarge my testimony against him. So he was bid to stand by.
Then they called Superstition, and bid him look upon the prisoner. They also asked, what he could say for their lord the king against him. Then they sware him; so he began.
SUPER. - My lord, I have no great acquaintance with this man, nor do I desire to have further knowledge of him. However, this I know, that he is a very pestilent fellow, from some discourse that I had with him the other day, in this town; for then, talking with him, I heard him say, that our religion was naught, and such by which a man could by no means please God. Which saying of his, my lord, your lordship very well knows what necessarily thence will follow, to wit, that we still do worship in vain, are yet in our sins, and finally shall be damned: and this is that which I have to say.
Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew in the behalf of their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar.
PICK. - My lord, and you gentlemen all, this fellow I have known of a long time, and have heard him speak things that ought not to be spoken; for he hath railed on our noble prince Beelzebub, and hath spoken contemptibly of his honorable friends, whose names are, the Lord Old Man, the Lord Carnal Delight, the Lord Luxurious, the Lord Desire of Vain Glory, my old Lord Lechery, Sir Having Greedy, with all the rest of our nobility: and he hath said, moreover, that if all men were of his mind, if possible, there is not one of these noblemen should have any longer a being in this town. Besides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my lord, who are now appointed to be his judge, calling you an ungodly villain, with many other such like vilifying terms, with which he hath bespattered most of the gentry of our town.
When this Pickthank had told his tale, the judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee?
FAITH. - May I speak a few words in my own defence?
JUDGE. - Sirrah, sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet, that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
FAITH. - 1. I say, then, in answer to what Mr. Envy hath spoken, I never said aught but this, that what rule, or laws, or custom, or people, were flat against the word of God, are diametrically opposite to Christianity. If I have said amiss in this, convince me of my error, and I am ready here before you to make my recantation.
2. As to the second, to wit, Mr. Superstition, and his charge against me, I said only this, that in the worship of God there is required a divine faith; but there can be no divine faith without a divine revelation of the will of God. Therefore, whatever is thrust into the worship of God that is not agreeable to divine revelation, cannot be done but by a human faith; which faith will not be profitable to eternal life.
3. As to what Mr. Pickthank hath said, I say, (avoiding terms, as that I am said to rail, and the like,) that the prince of this town, with all the rabblement, his attendants, by this gentleman named, are more fit for a being in hell than in this town and country. And so the Lord have mercy upon me.
Then the judge called to the jury, (who all this while stood by to hear and observe,) Gentlemen of the jury, you see this man about whom so great an uproar hath been made in this town; you have also heard what these worthy gentlemen have witnessed against him; also, you have heard his reply and confession: it lieth now in your breasts to hang him, or save his life; but yet I think meet to instruct you in our law.
There was an act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, servant to our prince, that, lest those of a contrary religion should multiply and grow too strong for him, their males should be thrown into the river. Exod. 1:22. There was also an act made in the days of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, another of his servants, that whoever would not fall down and worship his golden image, should be thrown into a fiery furnace. Dan. 3:6. There was also an act made in the days of Darius, that whoso for some time called upon any god but him, should be cast into the lion's den. Dan. 6:7. Now, the substance of these laws this rebel has broken, not only in thought, (which is not to be borne,) but also in word and deed; which must, therefore, needs be intolerable.
For that of Pharaoh, his law was made upon a supposition to prevent mischief, no crime being yet apparent; but here is a crime apparent. For the second and third, you see he disputeth against our religion; and for the treason that he hath already confessed, he deserveth to die the death.
Then went the jury out, whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High- mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, and Mr. Implacable; who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the judge. And first among themselves, Mr. Blindman, the foreman, said, I see clearly that this man is a heretic. Then said Mr. No-good, Away with such a fellow from the earth. Aye, said Mr. Malice, for I hate the very looks of him. Then said Mr. Love-lust, I could never endure him. Nor I, said Mr. Live- loose, for he would always be condemning my way. Hang him, hang him, said Mr. Heady. A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind. My heart riseth against him, said Mr. Enmity. He is a rogue, said Mr. Liar. Hanging is too good for him, said Mr. Cruelty. Let us dispatch him out of the way, said Mr. Hate-light. Then said Mr. Implacable, Might I have all the world given me, I could not be reconciled to him; therefore let us forthwith bring him in guilty of death.
And so they did; therefore he was presently condemned to be had from the place where he was, to the place from whence he came, and there to be put to the most cruel death that could be invented.
They therefore brought him out, to do with him according to their law; and first they scourged him, then they buffeted him, then they lanced his flesh with knives; after that, they stoned him with stones, then pricked him with their swords; and last of all, they burned him to ashes at the stake. Thus came Faithful to his end.
Now I saw, that there stood behind the multitude a chariot and a couple of horses waiting for Faithful, who (so soon as his adversaries had dispatched him) was taken up into it, and straightway was carried up through the clouds with sound of trumpet, the nearest way to the celestial gate. But as for Christian, he had some respite, and was remanded back to prison: so he there remained for a space. But he who overrules all things, having the power of their rage in his own hand, so wrought it about, that Christian for that time escaped them, and went his way.
And as he went, he sang, saying,
"Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest
Unto thy Lord, with whom thou shalt be blest,
When faithless ones, with all their vain delights,
Are crying out under their hellish plights:
Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive;
For though they killed thee, thou art yet alive."
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Samson Gray
Known abilities
Intuitive aptitude
Known acquired abilities:
Telekinesis,
formerly Newark, NJ
Trailer in woods;
formerly a taxidermy shop in Newark
Taxidermist
Gabriel's mother (deceased)
Gabriel Gray
Martin Gray (brother)
Other relatives
Virginia Gray (sister-in-law, deceased)
Samson Gray is a taxidermist from Newark, New Jersey. His brother, Martin, reveals that Samson is the biological father of Gabriel Gray.
1.1 A Clear and Present Danger
1.2 Trust and Blood
1.3 Building 26
1.4 Exposed
1.5 Shades of Gray
1.6 I Am Sylar
1.7 An Invisible Thread
1.8 Pass/Fail
5 Fan Theories
A Clear and Present Danger
Sylar goes to Baltimore, MD and visits Harbor Watch Shop, and is reunited with Martin Gray, the ex-husband of his adoptive mother Virginia Gray. Martin states that he is not the biological father, but rather his brother Samson is. Sylar uses his ability of lie detection to determine that truth, and then goes to Newark to pay a visit to Samson Gray's home. There, he finds on the mantel a childhood picture of himself, a picture of Samson holding a pelt, and Samson sitting on a motorcycle, but does not find Samson at home.
Trust and Blood
Mary and Luke Campbell see police cars parked outside Samson Gray's home and Mary says that she never liked that old man. After Sylar holds them hostage in their own home, Luke tells Sylar that he knows Samson and can help to find him.
Sylar and Luke drive west in search of Samson Gray. At one point, Luke asks Sylar if he likes birds as much his father did, and reveals that Samson used to take him out birding. This awakens a childhood memory in Sylar of being taken out in his father's red wagon as a small child. Luke knows that the young Sylar was sold for money, and suggests that Samson confessed this to him because he reminded the old man of his son.
Sylar visits an abandoned diner and has flashbacks of his father bringing him there as a little boy in 1980. Samson brings the young Gabriel over to a table where a man and a woman are sitting; they hand Samson a bundle of cash and he hands over his son. He then turns and heads out the door, but Gabriel runs out after him. Samson Gray then gets in his car and appears to argue with Sylar's mother. From outside the car, Gabriel watches as his father slices his mother's head open. He then pushes her body out of the car and drives away as Gabriel stares in horror.
Shades of Gray
Sylar finally finds Samson in a trailer in the woods. Sylar says he's Samson's son and that he plans to kill him, but Samson turns around, revealing he's on oxygen, and tells him to go ahead as he's dying of cancer anyway. Samson performs taxidermy, which he says is a hobby, on a rabbit, with Sylar's assistance. He uses sedation to prevent the rabbit from escaping, and reveals that, like Sylar, he can take other people's powers but that he no longer uses or even remembers most of those he once possessed. Samson admits he can't remember why he sold Sylar and killed his mother, simply because it didn't really matter to him. He explains how terrible it is to have led an unfulfilled life, and mocks Sylar for always choosing easy targets that are not a challenge.
When Sylar accidentally cuts his own hand with a knife, Samson watches in amazement as the cut heals. Sylar explains that he took this ability from a cheerleader and boasts that he will never die, but Samson says that a longer life would mean only more suffering. Distracting Sylar's attention for a moment, Samson uses telekinesis to pin him to the wall with arrows, then sedates him. Sylar wakes up to find his father trying to cut open his head; his hunger has been reawakened and with his health restored, he says he will use his abilities to take real power and "change the world". However, Sylar successfully uses telekinesis to disarm and restrain his father, and comments that as a hunter, he should have known he was "playing possum". He nearly strangles Samson with his oxygen tubes, but eventually leaves him to die in pain from his disease. Samson is later seen smoking calmly in his chair, breathing with an oxygen mask.
I Am Sylar
Imagining that he is speaking to his adoptive mother, Sylar explains how he went to visit his father but found him alone and pathetic, and knew that he didn't want to become him.
An Invisible Thread
Sylar tells Claire Bennet that his father is currently dying. He then tells her he met his biological father, and that it was disappointing. Later, as Matt Parkman reprograms Sylar's mind to make him believe he is Nathan Petrelli, he goes through the moment at Big Jim's Franks and Fries where Samson sells a young Gabriel to Martin Gray.
Pass/Fail
Sylar tells Claire that both their fathers are killers.
Samson Gray's innate ability is intuitive aptitude, the ability to intuitively understand how something works. Like Sylar, he used this ability to collect abilities from other evolved humans, but claims to have forgotten most of them. He has so far displayed telekinesis and sedation.
In an interview producer/writer Bryan Fuller said Samson "was going to be the ultimate evil, the devil essentially." This was later cut as it was deemed to be too similar to the Villains story arc.
For other uses of Samson, see Samson (disambig).
Please refer to Theory:Samson Gray for fan-created theories and other speculation.
Retrieved from "https://heroeswiki.com/index.php?title=Samson_Gray&oldid=475241"
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POTUS (Donald) many legal issues cornering him
US-American Politics
Re: POTUS (Donald) many legal issues cornering him
Quote: Originally Posted by Ocean Breeze
Mueller’s team confirms plans to work on the Russia investigation through the end of 2018 — at minimum
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/mue...18-at-minimum/
Nice werk if you can get it.
taxslave
Free Thinker
That will get a bunch of the Clinton team free R&B for a few years.
Cannuck
No Party Affiliation
Poor Trumpites just can't get over the Clintons
Danbones
No not the insane criminal clintons
nor their tiny minority of completely insane nazicommie globalist nutbar supporters
Quote: Originally Posted by Cannuck
Ain't that a fact??!!
No wonder, the insane misogynist sexfreak criminals never stops screwing the peeps
Which YOU defend...what does that make you?
Official Federal Complaints Were Just Filed Against Hillary Clinton And The DNC !!
An official complaint has been filed with the Federal Election Commission against Hillary Clinton and the DNC, alleging the former candidate used state party chapters to funnel a disproportionate amount of money back to her presidential campaign.
According to Fox News
The complaint was filed by the Committee to Defend the President, a political action committee, has alleged in the complaint filed on Monday “that the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) solicited cash from big-name donors, including Calvin Klein and “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane — money that was allegedly sent through state chapters and back to the DNC before ending up with the Clinton campaign.”
Officials with the committee said their filing was spurred by their own analysis of FEC reports, where they said they discovered the HVF either never transferred the money to state chapters and back to the DNC, or did so without the state chapters having actual control.
“What we have found, people need to see,” Ted Harvey, chairman of the CDP which emerged from the now-defunct Stop Hillary PAC, told Fox News. “I think it’s important that the American public has an understanding of how corrupt this campaign system was and that they were doing anything they could to secure the nomination in her favor.”
The CDP accuses Clinton’s campaign received more than $84 million by funneling the funds through state chapters and into the DNC, which channeled the money back to HRC.
“Based on publicly available FEC records, repeatedly throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, HVF would purportedly transfer funds to its constituent political committees, which included between 34 and 40 state parties,” reads a passage from a copy of the complaint reviewed by Fox News. “On the very same day each of these transfers supposedly occurred, or occasionally the very next day, every single one of those state parties purportedly contributed all of those funds to the DNC.”
CDP’s counsel, Dan Backer, said the action was directly in violation of rulings made by the Supreme Court of the United States on such use of political funds.
“Apparently the DNC’s response to the ruling was, ‘Hold my Beer,’” he said, referring to a phrase from an Internet meme. “These donations were specifically earmarked for the DNC and the campaign committee.”
Backer continued, “It’s not entirely clear if they transferred the money to the state parties to begin with, and if they never had control of the money, it’s not a contribution. It’s an earmark. If the money is in control of the candidate, then it is a contribution to them.”
SCOTUS ruled such actions as unlawful back in 2014 in reference to a case surrounding Shaun McCutcheon, creator of the Conservative Action Fund PAC. Backer served as counsel in the filing of that suit as well.
“This is exactly the scenario that they said would occur,” Backer says. “They were so brazen about it yet so sloppy.”
“It appears virtually every single disbursement from HVF to a state party resulted in an immediate transfer of the same amount of funds from the state party to the DNC,” reads another passage from the complaint. “Over 99% of funds transferred through HVF to state parties wound up at the DNC.”
Such handling of DNC political funds was alluded to by interim chairman Donna Brazile earlier this year during promotions of her book, “Hacks”.
https://www.usapoliticstoday.org/fed...d-hillary-dnc/
FBI promised to open up Hillary probe depending on what IG uncovers
Hillary Clinton campaign, DNC accused of 'corrupt' money scheme in new FEC complaint | Fox News
DaSleeper
Hell............you can't get over Bush.....
Jinentonix
Quote: Originally Posted by Hoid
the collusion with the russians has become de facto
I'm confused. Did the Russians become the enemy again after Clinton gave/sold them access to 5 US based uranium mines?
Tecumsehsbones
Quote: Originally Posted by Jinentonix
No, they're the enemy when the Clinton deals with them, and our beloved overlords when President Drunkuncle does.
Sen. Mark Warner says he’s seen damning evidence against Trump — but Mueller has much worse
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/sen...as-much-worse/
no surprise. Trump has been a shyster,.......bending the laws to his advantage all his life. He has not adapted his conduct to his role as POTUS. His personal conduct is less than exemplary too. The fact he was actually elected reflects badly on the voters. His low approval score suggests that the voters are realizing what they voted in.
Feds Seek Kushner’s Deutsche Bank Records
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyt-fe...e-bank-records
Why doesn't Warner make it public? Just more fake news.
I would like to see you prove that you have never taken advantage of a tax deduction, benefit or so called loophole on the advice of your accountant if you have one...
I know that I try not to pay a penny more than I have too.....and one year when I found a deduction that I had previously missed, I went back five years to collect a tidy sum!
But again....I'm no hypocrite
B00Mer
OH MAN!! Another lawsuit.. add that to the 4056 lawsuits he already has..
[youtube]G9vreFa2n-o[/youtube]
Quote: Originally Posted by B00Mer
Kinda think he LIKES lawsuits. It fits his combative and "win-lose" nature . He HAS to have something to fight and hopefully for him......."win". Laws suites are part of his life and he is not all that concerned about them. To him it is black and white. (win-lose) and thus his level of abstraction and conceptualization is limited.
As Nunes steps up attacks on Mueller, the FBI, his tactics alarm some lawmakers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpis...evening&wpmm=1
These attempts at discrediting Meuller are as good as an admission of guilt. *besides being an attempt at obstruction
of justice Rather clumsy and obvious at it too..
There is NO OHTHER reason for them to be behaving that way.
They have to make some sort of effort to derail the investigation here, because next up is Donny Jr/Pence and them it's Fat Daddy himself.
So I expect the GOP to go full swamp creature.
Silly. Where is the collusion?
Holy Crap! CNN, no less.
CNN Legal Analyst Paul Callan: President Trump Is Right About FBI; Concern About Bias Is "Legitimate"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...about_fbi.html
highsticky
Jan 1st, 2018
Quote: Originally Posted by gopher
Funny how truth is, somehow, "hate".
Hey Murph - do you feel that way about all the anti-Trudeau hate threads?
Should they merge all of them? Ditto for the anti-Obama and anti-Hillary threads, right?
I prefer Trudeau maybe I prefer Murphy too.
I believe Highsticky, Torch light, self same, Alternative, and Sorrow are the same poster. There are probably more names associated with this poster. Mods, please root out this deceit.
Quote: Originally Posted by Walter
Really. But no.
‘The president is surrounded by people who hate him and hate each other — that’s very good news for Bob Mueller’: NYT reporter
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/the...-nyt-reporter/
Cell phone use by staff to be banned for "security reasons".........( prevent leaks.)
an idea : perhaps the trump supporters should go and work for him for a while.......and find out what he is really like as a person and a leader.
Curious Cdn
I wonder how much longer Sarah Hucklebilly is going to tough it out? Spicer bailed but not before he became the World's laughing stock. That will certainly have permanently damaged his career. Perhaps, some will admire his loyalty but perjuring ones self on a daily basis against the greater good of his country will not be forgiven by most. Is Sarah getting sick of the lies, yet. I'm betting that covering for this maniac will burn her out in short order.
CNN is fake news. You've said it yourself
Notice, only one of these is ever here at one time.
I have a life. I can't be bothered to concern myself with who is here and when
I was thinking the same thing about Murphy, Walter, Selfsame and about a dozen others. The brain is a mysterious organ and Multiple Personality Disorder is particularly occult.
Wally has no brain
but you are here often enough to keep track
Quote: Originally Posted by Danbones
I'm flattered I mean so much to you that you keep track of me. I love being in the heads of Trumpites
Mental health issues, no legal gun purchase, huge joke
by Frankiedoodle | Feb 26th, 2016
Legal first: Nova Scotia court issues first cyberbullying prevention order
by SLM | Feb 11th, 2014
Luge cornering technique advice
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Obama & DNC Hide Behind Legal Issues - Country Headed to a Constitutional Crisis
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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Migration : quatre mesures immédiates que l’UE pourrait prendre
by Émilien Urbach
Migration: four immediate measures that the EU could take
Translated Monday 1 June 2015, by D. Phillips
In the face of the deadly catastrophe in the Mediterranean, NGOs and left-wing parliamentarians defend solutions for welcoming refugees. This is in total opposition to the European leaders who think only of reinforcing border controls.
The catastrophes are becoming a daily occurrence. Yesterday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) received distress calls from two vessels carrying 450 people. The coast guards "did not have the means to rescue them", explained the IOM, because they were still mobilised on a shipwreck from the day before. The grim result of the shipwreck this weekend increased from 700 to 950 drowning deaths, according to the Public Prosecutor’s office in Catania, Sicily. The shock is such that yesterday, in the early afternoon, the European Union (EU) convened a meeting of Internal and Foreign Affairs Ministers. Furthermore, in the Aegean Sea, three migrants perished during a shipwreck of a sailboat carrying 80 people. The EU is no longer facing a fatality; rather, according to several NGOs and European parliamentarians on the left, it is confronted with the results of repressive immigration policies. Solutions exist, however, for Europe to finally end its policy of failure to assist persons in danger.
Over the last 10 days, at least 1,350 migrants died by drowning at the doors of the European fortress. “We no longer have an alibi”, stated the Head of European diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, yesterday, at the extraordinary meeting with Union Ministers of Internal and Foreign Affairs. “Immediate measures are needed on the part of the European Union and Member States.” But in the face of such a tragedy, following the urgent meeting, the European Ministers of Internal and Foreign Affairs decided (see sidebar) to reinforce the measures entrusted to the Frontex agency responsible for European border control since 2004. They still refuse to take responsibility, singling out the smugglers, whom François Hollande labeled as “terrorists” on Sunday. Definitive and immediate steps could otherwise be taken before embarking upon radical changes to migration policies.
1. Create a coalition of countries ready do something for the migrants
In November 2014, Italy just abandoned its “Mare Nostrum” rescue operation. Member states of the EU then substituted it for “Triton”, led by Frontex, whose mandate is largely repressive. Its budget is 3 million Euros monthly, some three times more than that which the Italians earmark solely for rescue missions. “This is inexcusable, protested Malin Bjork, member of the European parliament from the Swedish Left Party. The States can no longer hide themselves behind the twenty seven others. If they all are not ready to put in place a new “Mare Nostrum”, then those who are will take action. People are dying. Lives must be saved.” For the parliamentarian, members of the European United Left, Greece, Spain and Italy cannot solely take in the constant flux of refugees fleeing armed conflict. She added: “There are European countries, in which the extreme right forms the government. We cannot wait until the twenty eight Member States are ready to change their migration policies. If one more boat sinks, this will be due to the lack of political courage.”
2. Apply the Circular on temporary protection
In case of a massive influx of displaced persons, a Circular adopted by the EU dated July 20, 2001, allows for the activation of an immediate protection mechanism and access to financial resources from the European Refugee Fund. “With the European Council’s approval, the EU can immediately choose to apply this directive, as suggested by Olivier Clochard, researcher at CNRS, specialist in human migrations and president of the Migreurop Network. Though this directive, the Border States can put temporary reception centres in place to facilitate access to asylum seekers without being constrained by the Dublin regulation.” For this geographer, the Member States already have an arsenal of texts that they are not applying because they are confronted by the rise of the extreme right nationally.
3. Suspend the Dublin regulation 3
The Dublin regulation 3 requires States to refuse asylum to all seekers who have previously registered in the first European country crossed through. Besides creating unwarranted personal situations, when the migrant finds him/herself without rights or title within a European country, this legislation pushes countries having external land borders to put unsurmountable barriers in place. Thus, Bulgaria has equipped itself with a high-tech wall, financed in the framework of the Eurosur system. These barriers drive migrants to take maritime routes, with the current consequences.
4. Establish actual rescue and welcome plans
“The means granted to systems like Frontex, Eurosur or Closeye are given to private enterprises such as Thales”, reports Olivier Clochard. “Six million euros were given by the EU to EADS in order to control the Romanian borders. Furthermore, at Migreurop, we figure the cost of each extension of the border to be 27,000 Euros. All this money could go to actual welcome policies.” Migreurop’s president points out the relentless criticism by the Rights of the “cost” of asylum. “But we were to facilitate the refugees’ right to access work, this would allow for the move away from handouts.” “It’s a question of priority,” adds Malin Bjork. “For the moment, Europe choses to militarize its borders; while all this money could be redirected to maritime rescues.” But the head of Frontex, Fabrice Legeri, conceded yesterday, on France Inter, that the EU never had “expertise for sea rescue operations”… And Loris De Filippi, president of Doctors Without Borders in Italy adds that, “The policies implemented by the EU are turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave.”
An explosion in refugees Between 500 and 1,000 people are rescued each day by Italian ships. According to the High Commission for Refugees, 200,000 people have attempted to cross the Mediterranean to escape wars in 2014. This is three times more than in 2011.
1,600 This is the number of migrants missing in the Mediterranean Sea since January 1st. 3,400 migrants have died in 2014, the equivalent to two Titanics.
They flee war “Solutions cannot be rapidly achieved for the cause of migrations, because there are none”, said Donald Tusk, president of the European Council. False, replied Amnesty: “It is the result of the situation in Libya, which is sliding into chaos, and the conflict in Syria.”
“per L’altra Europa” “Europe must save lives, not set up border patrols.” Barbara Spinelli, Italian Member of the European Parliament (GUE-NGL).
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Pink Dogwood to miss Ascot in favour of Pretty Polly engagement
Pink Dogwood will miss Royal Ascot and instead be aimed at the Juddmonte Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.
A Listed winner on her reappearance, the Aidan O’Brien-trained filly ran a fine race to be second to Anapurna in the Investec Oaks at Epsom, going down by a neck to John Gosden’s charge, having shown a fine turn of foot when sweeping to the front.
She is now set to revert to a mile and a quarter for the Group One showpiece on Irish Derby weekend.
O’Brien told attheraces.com: “We are going to skip Royal Ascot with her and the plan at the moment is to run her in the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Irish Derby weekend.”
Confirming plans for some of his other runners at Ascot next week, O’Brien said the current plan was to aim Kew Gardens at the Gold Cup, together with Capri.
High-class filly Magical remains on course for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and dual 1000 Guineas heroine Hermosa is heading to the Coronation Stakes, with Ten Sovereigns bound for the Commonwealth Cup.
The speedy Sergei Prokofiev is set to be seen in the King’s Stand Stakes on the opening afternoon, when Le Brivido will tackle the Queen Anne Stakes.
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List, blah blah. Didn't make it, blah blah.
I feel I have a theme going here. Like the BoF1 entry, anyone who took a quick glance of my list will know I'm a pretty big Suikoden fan, you'll also notice I snubbed one of the main entries and most of the spin-off/gaiden games. I'll say right now, that I have to actually play Suikogaiden due to lacking the proper emulator, which is why it was "skipped" but I know most of the plot and like it as well. Instead, let's discuss the fourth entry of the ill-fated Suikoden franchise, and as a first for these articles, I'm even going to dig into an entry that would likely not have made my list at all, but I feel is pretty important to discuss concerning the Suikoden franchise.
Suikoden IV, despite the IV in the title, is actually a prequel to the whole franchise, taking place about 150 years before the first game far to the south of the Scarlet Moon Empire in an oceanic region that will be called the Island Nations by the time of Suikoden II. The region is filled with several independent island countries like the commerce focused Middleport, the Nay Kobold settlement, the culturally divided Na Nal Island, and the powerful Kingdom of Obel. The region is best known for both its powerful pirate factions who cause a lot of problems in the area. The Island Nations are also known as the source of the powerful Rune Cannons that make the region very difficult to conquer. In addition, the region is also known for its long history with the Rune of Punishment, one of the 27 True Runes that governs punishment and forgiveness, the Rune's destructive powers are well known, as well as the curse it places on its host. Unlike other True Runes, this one tends to kill its bearer over time, showing that even the one chosen by the rune is not safe from judgement. To make matters worse, the rune seems to have the power to warp ones fate so that the host is almost forced to use the rune's power, increasing the likelihood that the next use will be the host's last, making it one of the most sadistic of the 27 True Runes.
Two nations also meddle in the region, namely the Gaian Duekdom to the West, which has set up a foothold base on Razril Island where their famous knights are trained to protect the mainland from piracy and the influence of the other nation, namely the Kooluk Empire to the north. Kooluk is a small dwindling empire that is in conflict to their more powerful northern neighbor, the Scarlet Moon Empire. Seeing their own territory constantly being raided and lost to the imperial expansion, Kooluk has tried in the past to expand its own territory in the south over the island countries. They were repelled from their last invasion a number of years ago before the story began.
Our story begins in Razril where we are introduced to knights-in-training Lazlo (official novelization name of the Hero you can name yourself) and his childhood friend Snowe Vingerhut. Lazlo was found lost at sea when he was a very small child and taken in by the influential Vingerhut family, growing up together, the two are as close as brothers though certain feeling of inadequacy complicates their relationship. The two succeed in stopping their Commander Glen and Vice-Commander Katarina from taking their ship and passing their final exam so they can become full-fledged Gaian Knights. On their first voyage to sea, the duo are attacked by the dreaded pirate Brandeau. Fearing for his life, Snowe abandons ship at the first sight of conflict and it's up to Lazlo to stop Brandeau. Brandeau tries to kill Lazlo with the Rune of Punishment he wields, but Lazlo is mysteriously shielded from the runes power, which consumes Brandeau and then tries to attach itself to Lazlo. Commander Glen appears and takes the rune instead, realizing what it really was and not wishing for his most promising student to be cursed. Lazlo is rewarded by the commander for his bravery, while Snowe's reputation is sunk due to his cowardice. This creates a serious rift between the two as Snowe's family is the governor of Razril itself and thus Snowe has grown up with a certain sense of entitlement.
Soon Razril is attacked by a mass armada of pirates wishing to avenge the fallen Brandeau. Realizing the knights could not repel the fleet by themselves, Commander Glen locks himself within the Hall of Knights with strict orders that no one enter and uses the Rune of Punishment to decimate the fleet, but Glen was right in realizing that the rune's power would be too much and it begins to consume him. Shocked by the power unleashed, Lazlo breaks the commander's orders and enters the Hall of Knights to check on him, unbeknownst that Snowe follows behind. Here Lazlo gains the True Rune from the dying Glen, who had wished to die alone and keep the rune from passing onto one of his students. Thanks to the commander's death, Snowe's testimony, and now possessing the cursed rune; Lazlo is falsely accused of murdering the commander to get the rune and subsequently banished from Razril.
Lazlo is thankfully accompanied by two of his fellow knights who defect out of a strong belief in Lazlo's innocence (which you get to choose) as well as a Nay-Kobold named Chiepoo that Lazlo had befriended earlier. From here Lazlo has a few misadventures where he encounters a sea monster, gets stranded on a deserted island, helps a mermaid, and encounters an undercover Kooluk ship that is scouting the area in preparation for a new invasion. Finally Lazlo and his group are rescued by the residents of the Kingdom of Obel.
The ruler of Obel is much more sympathetic to Lazlo's plight, especially considering the late queen had been a former bearer of the Rune of Punishment before it took her life and the life of the heir of Obel. Lazlo is recruited to help Obel thwart the Kooluk invasion and tries to gather allies among the island nations, but no one really wants to believe Kooluk is going to invade until they topple Obel itself. Turns out Kooluk has gotten their hands on Rune Cannon technology thanks to an arms dealer named Graham Cray who has returned to the region in search of the Rune of Punishment. Thankfully, the King of Obel had prepared for war early and gives Lazlo and his recruits’ access to a special warship the Dauntless before Kooluk took the island and now the game starts proper with Lazlo sailing about the islands trying to convince the petty and often boneheaded leaders of the various islands to actually band together to repel the invading empire. I feel it says something about the island nations that the pirates are the first ones to answer the call to arms.
In 2002, Yoshitaka Murayama, the main creator and driving force behind the Suikoden franchise, left Konami to go freelance which was a plan he had set out for himself when he first joined Konami ten years earlier. Despite the fact that Suikoden III was the most commercially successful entry in the franchise, he still went through with his plan leaving a vacuum for the series direction. When the time came to make a follow up, the series fell into the hands of Murayama's longtime collaborator Junko Kawano, who had helped Murayama conceive the original Suikoden as well as supply the character designs for that entry. Suikoden IV is a bit of an oddity among the franchise. With Suikoden III, Murayama had started to shift gears on the franchise, dropping the silent protagonist and exploring the conflict through multiple viewpoints, as well as expanding customization options and trying to add a bit more tactical know-how to the series. By contrast, Suikoden IV feels like an extension from the first entry Kawano had worked on.
Kawano tried to update the tech of Suikoden with the fourth entry. I'm not sure if it was her idea or if Konami was looking at the success of FFX and X-2 and simply told her to do a little "following the leader" while giving her a meager budget to do so, but IV brings a few interesting technical elements to the franchise. It’s one of only two entries to be built for progressive scan TVs, the other being Suikoden Tactics. The game tries to update the graphical quality to something closer to Square-Enix's efforts to mix results. Things like the water effects and some of the lighting elements in cutscenes are noticeably impressive when they show up, but the attempt at high detail and the skill of the art team along with Kawano's character designs do not always match up and so graphically the game somehow manages to look a bit worse in places than its PS2 brethren. An example of this is the use of motion capture for character animations, which adds fluidity to some of the Unite Attacks and duels, but with the cartoonish designs of the characters, sometimes falls into uncanny valley territory. In fact Lazlo has the distinction of having one of the worst looking running animations in the series, always looking like he's running with his pants around his ankles. The game also introduced full voice acting to the series with mixed results in the English translation. The lack of a budget and a strong development team makes IV consequently feels a bit regressive compared to its two predecessors, and is often compared to the first game the most.
Suikoden IV drops the controversial battle mechanics from Suikoden III which unfortunately included the awesome, if overpowered, Skill system. Instead SIV returns the franchise first game, while retaining a few minor elements from SII. It retains the Rune Affinity mechanic from SII as well as the ability to equip multiple runes onto certain characters, but most of the cool new runes introduced in SII and III are mostly removed for unknown reasons, in fact Suikoden IV only has one more rune than the first game with a total of 35 distinct runes. To put this in perspective, SII featured 87 distinct runes, while SIII featured 71, so the reduction is quite noticeable.
This also leaves very little room for interesting customization and worse of all, many of the missing runes from previous entries were special runes used to help characters feel distinct and add personality to them like Genshu's Swallow Rune, Cecile's War Horse Rune, and even Pahn's Boar Rune. This goes a long way into explaining another issue SIV is often accused of among Suikoden vets, which is that SIV is often regarded as having one of the weakest casts of characters among the franchise. Of course there are bigger reasons for this as well. Unlike previous entries, Lazlo doesn't get saddled with the same type of entourage previous heroes get and even the ones he does have are mostly hit or miss among fans. The four cadets you can recruit are lacking in any meaningful characterization outside of a novelty trait to make them feel distinct. Chiepoo has a lot of personality, but many fans can find the Nay-Kobold to be incredibly abrasive since he's both trying to be Mr. Exposition for Lazlo and comic relief in a title that sometimes takes itself a wee too seriously at times. Other characters like Flare get quickly sidelined for most of the game and several of the other characters feel a bit too novelty than others. Other characters can either sink or swim depending on the game's voice acting which ranges from serviceable with several of the characters I listed above, to laughably bad. It's hardly the worst I've seen in a game, but it does get annoying that so many character feel like they're being voiced by maybe five to seven VA overall.
Granted there are several exceptions to this rule such as Kika, Lino en Kuldes, Eleanor Silverburg, Chiepoo, "lone returning character" Ted, and of course the first physical appearance of series long running gag Schtolteheim Reinbach III. Probably the best character is the ability to recruit Ted, McDohl's best friend from the first game, whose entire story exists to partially fill in a minor plot hole from the first game and to serve as one of the game's several shout outs to fan favorite entries. Yet there is a real feeling of the cast just kind of being here and very few characters get as much of a spotlight outside of a handful to help flesh out the story. This isn't helped either by coming after Suikoden III, which took great strides in actually trying to make most of the 108 Stars of Destiny feel important to the main plot. In some ways, even the first Suikoden feels like it does more to make the cast stand out than this entry did. Other issue are simply the fact the plot feels a bit bare bones compared to other entries and some of the strange transitions and cuts in the cutscenes almost gives the impression that IV's plot had to be cut down considerably to either fulfill some arbitrary deadline or fall within the game's budget, likely a combination of both sadly.
Another change to the game that doesn't do it any favors was removing SIII's controversial "Buddy System" and simply reducing the party to just four members instead. This causes way more problems than the Buddy System, as it drastically reduces the playable cast, especially since Lazlo can never really be removed and the game continues the trend of saddling you with certain story characters making it difficult to even bother using the characters you recruit. Personally, I feel the attempt at up-scaling the graphics probably made using a six party team technically infeasible as the Buddy system was said to be a work around the developers had implementing the team dynamic in SIII. To help alleviate the issue of the limited team builds, the game does allow you to make two additional parties you can switch to when sailing on the Battleship. Course the game doesn't do a great job of explaining this to you, but this is pretty much the only way you're going to really get to use a large part of the cast and learn all of those Unite Attacks, especially the game's lone four member Unite Attack.
"Learn Unite Attacks?" you may be asking. Yes, in this game, simply getting the right team together isn't enough anymore to activate these powerful moves, now you need to play a number of battles with the characters together in a party before they'll learn their Unite Attack, and even then, you'll need to kill a certain amount of enemies with said Unite Attack to level it up enough to actually do respectable damage which is also new to the series but likely implemented because Unite Attacks are kind of OP in this series. It's a bit annoying because it forces you to rely more on guides in some ways as the game doesn't always give you strong enough clues to know who actually has a Unite Attack together. What I found a bit more disappointing though is the sheer lack of variety in them. Several of the Unite Attacks follow the same motions and simply change out who is in the party showing that despite the game utilizing motion capture for some of the animations, they really didn't have enough resources to build any variety with it. One area I will praise them is using the Unite Attacks shared by Lazlo and Snowe to convey their character growth. The original Friendship Attack has Lazlo do most of the work while Snowe delivers the coup de grace. It's a decent attack but more than anything, it really showcases their relationship. If you do everything needed to recruit Snowe by the game's end and witness his humiliating character arc, the humbled Snowe and Lazlo now see each other as equals and their new True Friendship Attack features both of them giving their all and also happens to be the strongest single target unite attack in the game.
Another minor gripe I do have with the game is that despite the attempt at higher quality In graphics, so many of the concession this game makes ends up hindering one area you almost would expect the new graphical transition to shine, which is spell effect animations. SIV's magic animations mostly look underwhelming and this in turn hurts any feeling of "weight" they should have. Even the original Suikoden got this right with high tier spells looking impressive and the Soul Eater had both visual and audible cues to make it feel like an overwhelming force despite often not being any stronger than more conventional magic spells. The Rune of Punishment by contrast, outside of the awesome scream cues the spells make, feels really underwhelming in comparison. Hell, the higher tier elemental spells look like the starting spells in a typical Final Fantasy game. I never realize how much I look forward to this kind of stuff until I'm presented with a bad one. The other gripe is the game's slow ass battleship you use to get around combined with the game's abnormally high encounter rate. Viki and the Champion's Rune can't be found soon enough for most players.
Now, I know the last several paragraphs have me painting this game as some half-ass disaster sequel, but despite all of these problems, SIV is still a fairly fun game to play despite being mostly disappointing for series veterans. Part of this is that the game's strengths do work out really well in its favor. Part of this plays out in how much more emphasis the castle mechanic gets in this game. The Battleship basically serves as the "castle" where your recruits hang out and while the castle hub has always been surprisingly involving, SIV introduces several new tweaks and ideas that SV kind of borrows, but may have become more standard had the series continued properly. SIV introduces a crafting system. In addition to your blacksmith increasing the power of your party's weapons, she can now take materials you find or use in trade to build armor for your army as well. New additions include a tailor to also make new armor and several other craftsmen to build accessories and such.
This all plays into the one neat idea SIV does bring to gameplay that SV thankfully took to heart, the concept of armor sets. In SIII there were three armor sets where if you could equip a character with every piece of the set, it would garner a few bonuses. Mostly just increase how much money you get or raise one stat a level, but SIV took the idea and ran with it. Armor sets can take even some of the blandest characters and make them feel unique and powerful as the sets will grant huge stat boosts in addition to special effects like the Ogre Set putting a character in permanent Fury status or the armor can dramatically increase the likelihood of parry and counters. Some pieces of gear can be found, but most sets will usually require one or two pieces to be made which is where the crafting system really shines. Going along with this is the changes made to the Trading Posts system. In previous entries, it was a balancing mechanic used to make farming money easier but here it serves another purpose as the materials you can purchase for trade can also be used to craft new items, but what the game fails to mention is that the quality of the materials increase the more you trade, which becomes obvious when you start to realize that some gear require high grade material you never see because you haven't traded enough.
The other area where SIV is pretty fun is with the minigames. Rita-pon may be one of top five minigames in the series. It's more or less a simplified game of mahjong that gets super addicting after a while. My other favorite mini-game deals with the mysterious twins who grow mint and mushrooms on your ship and are constantly fighting over the rooms conditions since both things they grow require opposing temperatures and environments; if it hits a fever pitch, they begin a "war" to see which of their plants will prevail and it plays out exactly like the War battles from the first Suikoden game. Speaking with Eleanor also allows you to play the game's naval battles whenever you want as well.
The naval battles are SIV's incarnation of the War system, and probably my second favorite in the series behind SV's RTS system. You acquire ships throughout the game as either story points or for playing well and recruiting the right people. Ships are placed on a grid system and take turns moving and attacking much like a traditional turn based tactical RPG. A ship is crewed by a Captain, a boarding party, and the Rune cannons gunners. While only a select few characters can be Captains, everyone else can be a boarding member or a gunner and their stats will combine to give the full offensive/defensive power of a ship. There are two ways to attack, you can either board a ship to kill its crew and thus sink the ship, or you can use Rune Cannons. Boarding parties work more or less like army battles did in SIII, with you choosing the party and their strength largely being dependent on their actual level and load out. One difference though is that the A.I. tends to avoid using rune magic, so mages are worthless here. Instead they serve their worth with the Rune Cannons which are the heart of naval combat and the actual fun part of it. You assign characters to a rune cannon and depending on which elemental runes you have attached will be the element of the shells they can use. The power of the cannon is fixed based on the character, but considering the magical nature of the weapon, mage based characters often pack more power over fighters. From this point, cannons use a rock/paper/scissors elemental system to work out. Both the player and enemy unit will trade fire when rune cannons are used. If the elements neither oppose nor are the same element then they simply trade blows and damage is calculated. If the element of the cannon is the same, both shots will actually collide in midair and cancel each other out. If the elements oppose based on the directional wheel, the winning shell will not only cancel out the opponents shot but then proceed to hit the ship for damage serving as a duel function of offense and defense. So checking the elemental properties of an enemy ship beforehand can help you decide the right strategy to win. It's a shame there isn’t that many naval battles in the story, but at least it also has a mini-game are to play to your hearts content.
The other element of IV that serves as it's better quality while also highlighting it's weakness comes in the form of the story. IV has the misfortune of having one of the more disjointed and weaker plots in the series, not helped by the fact that Suikoden Tactics serves to actually fill in a lot of backstory for the setting and cast which makes some fans wonder if this was a result of the team trying to atone for the lack luster story of IV, or if Suikoden Tactics came to be from all of the story bits cut during development and is essentially the other half of the an original script in pre-development. While it's well established Junko Kawano helped create and write the first two entries in the series, her solo effort as the writer shows where her interests in the world lie. The political story of IV is fairly weak, and while it gets some much needed improvements in Tactics, politics still rank low on her narrative priorities. Kooluk is nowhere near as intimidating or opposing as the antagonists of previous entries. In fact background info discovered through NPCs, Tactics, the art book sources paint the Kooluk as more desperate than malicious. Not helping matters is that much like SIII; their involvement in the story is a bit of a ruse caused by the game's central villain Graham Cray, who uses the invasion as a means to flush out the True Rune so he can acquire it.
Cray, for his part, is actually a fairly well thought out villain whose biggest issues really fall into him being off screen too often and having few outstanding moments when he does show up. Yet he's one of the series better developed and sympathetic villains. In essence he's a disillusioned former Scarlet Moon Empire nobleman who was once the bearer of the Rune of Punishment. Fearing for his life, he hacked off his hand that bared the rune and it transferred to his young son. His hometown was then the subject of a false flag operation his own country started which forced his son to use the rune to save the village but instead killed everyone except Cray. He now seeks the rune as it contains the last vestiges of his son's will. Pretty heavy stuff but it's a shame he doesn't get as much screen time to really chew the scenery unlike Luca Blight or the Masked Bishop. On the flip side, Troy, the champion of Kooluk is set up early in the game to be a powerful rival figure for Lazlo before he's completely put out of focus until the very end of the game, completing wasting all of the build up he's given in the beginning.
While the politics are laughably simplistic and often times takes far too many cues from better entries in the series, the real heart of the story comes from the story of the Rune of Punishment itself. Unlike most True Runes whom you only often learn of one or two previous owners of, the Rune of Punishment has had several owners over the last thirty or so years and major story events within the game involve Lazlo being drawn into the rune to speak and free the souls of the runes previous owners which helps expand the lore and setting of the Island Nations. While the true runes have always had a strong focus in previous entries, IV is the one that truly makes the rune the central focus of the plot whereas other entries use the rune to kick off the game's events before focusing more on the real politick nature of the setting. For this reason, it's no surprise that despite the negative reception this game gets from fans, the lone exception comes in the game's main true rune.
The other factor that makes SIV stand out though is it's good musical score. Suikoden has a pretty underrated OST but the true stand out pieces are from guest composer coba who is a renowned for his accordion expertise and has composed and performed with several international musicians like Bjork. He composed the games awesome opening theme La Mer, which is on par with Suikoden III's Surpassing Love and Suikoden II's Opening Theme as being a catchy and pretty epic theme, especially considering how rare it is to hear Calypso inspired music in gaming.
At the end of the day, I don't really have any hard feelings against Suikoden IV. I was a bit disappointed when I played the demo, but was pleasantly surprised when I finally invested in the full version of the game. It’s also one of those rare titles where I do end up liking it a little more with each playthrough as it has its charming elements despite its problems. While I feel it has always been the weakest entry of the numbered series for me, especially coming off of Suikoden III which was a fun mess in itself and then being followed by the impressive Suikoden V; I also feel it has its merits and can still stand side to side with the other entries in the series. Of course, not helping things is the odd middle child in this whole thing which I'll get to when I do Part 2 and discuss Suikoden Tactics, a gaiden game of the Tactical RPG genre that serves as both prequel and sequel to Suikoden IV which fixes a lot of issues with IV while generating its own amount of bad choices.
Updated 04-29-2019 at 07:11 AM by Wolf Kanno
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Marta Moreno Muñoz (SP) – I Will Miss You
One of the slogans of the second wave feminist movement in the west was “the personal is political.” By invoking the personal, feminist artists hoped to stress that their most private experiences were structured by patriarchal ideology. The subjective experience of women was thus influenced by the cultural milieu in which they operated, one in which they were always second-class citizens, confined and shaped by the expectations of gendered behavior. The three performances on Day 4 by Farah Ong, Yeh Tzu-Chi and Marta Moreno Muñoz all address the issue of feminine subjectivity and identity, although in very different ways.
Farah Ong. Someday I Am Going to Let You Go. 2015. Photograph by Jemima Yong
In her performance Some Day I Am Going to Let You Go, Farah Ong (Singapore) explored her fraught relationship with her mother in a quiescent performance where she did little more than write down her thoughts. Dressed in white and wearing a garment that possibly had belonged to her mother, Onh moved around a small installation space that she had created with saran wrap and sheets of waxed paper that were taped to the windows, and the installation itself. Ong’s writing was accompanied by the beat of a metronome, which she often paused to reset, possibly in order to echo the degree of trauma that she felt at the time. The performance ended when Ong finally cut down all of the pieces of paper and sliced up the saran wrap. Ong’s performance would have been difficult to engage with had the audience not realized the necessity of actually reading the writing, which revealed Ong’s difficulty coming to terms with an overbearing parent (I am assuming it was her mother) who expected more from the daughter than from the son, and whose illness left Ong startled by the vulnerability of a once omniscient parent. Ong’s performance is of course specific to her time and place--Singapore in the 21st century—and yet, it echoes the structure and theme of performances done many years ago by pioneering feminist artists such as Linda Montano. In the mid-seventies, Montano’s former husband, Mitchell Payne, was killed in a gun accident. Montano had left Payne for the composer and artist Pauline Oliveros. She was intensely ambivalent about her decision to leave Payne, and felt very guilty when he was killed while cleaning a gun. Convinced that it was suicide or murder, Montano undertook a exorcising performance Mitchell’s Death, which in its earliest incarnations was so intensely personal that the audience had trouble accessing the piece. Likewise, Ong’s Some Day I Am Going to Let You Go is equally personal, on the edge of being inaccessible, which added to the impact of the piece. Fortunately the members of the audience intuitively knew that they had to move through and around the space in which Ong was performing in order to understand the significance of the piece. Meanwhile, Ong’s mute body and restrained actions emphasized her discomfort and psychological pain without any need to spell out what was going on.
Yeh Tzu-Chi. Let's Go For A Walk. 2015 Photography by Jemima Yong
Yeh Tzu-Chi, from Taiwan, has addressed the role of women in history and art by using her own body in order to interrogate the way in which representation is often gendered and raced. In her 2013 performance Afternoon Tea on the Grass, Yeh recreated Eduoard Manet’s 1863 painting Luncheon on the Grass in a small courtyard inside In-Art Space, where she had organized a performance festival. Yeh, who has a master’s degree in western literature, has used her work to examine the patriarchal structure of language as well as stereotypes about women artists and older women in general. Let's Go For A Walk, which Yeh performed for FOI 10, employed red thread and chicken feet. According to Yeh, the performance was meant to address the mistreatment of animals, with the chicken feet and blood red thread meant to suggest the brutality of the food industry world wide. However, red can also represent good fortune and long life in both Taiwanese and Chinese culture, while chicken feet are delicacy in a number of Asian countries including China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia. For the performance, Yeh, garbed in a black tunic and skirt, sewed together two strings of chicken feet with red thread and needles, which she attached to her ankles with more red thread. After pulling her shirt over her head to create a head covering the made her look vaguely like a European peasant/witch from the 15th century, Yeh walked slowly around the room, dragging her chicken feet streamers and holding a chicken foot in each hand. Yeh’s performance addressed animal rights, as well as a more global issue around histories of women, women’s work (the sewing), food preparation, superstition and oral knowledge.
Marta Moreno Munoz. I Will Miss You 2015. Photo by Jemima Yong
The Spanish artist Marta Moreno Muñoz has focused, according to her statement, “predominantly on ‘feminine’ subjectivity, dissolution of the ego and the notion of pre-oedipal nostalgia in response to a patriarchal and undesirable reality.” Moreno Muñoz’s performance I Will Miss You was by far the most experimental of the evening, employing sound, touch, and smell in order to shift the perceptions of the audience away from the visual and towards the haptic. This is not to imply that Moreno Muñoz ignored the aesthetic aspects of the piece. In fact, the performance space was carefully coordinated into shades of gray and black as was the artist, who has gone so far as to tattoo her forearms in a shade of grey. The monochromatic presentation forced the audience to concentrate on the other sensory experiences that were assaulting them. All the while, Moreno Muñoz walked around the room repeating the sentence "I will miss you," a statement that invokes both desire and loss, particularly in the sense of psychic trauma. In the performance, Moreno Muñoz is engaging with a feminine, even maternal subjectivity that has been theorized by Julia Kristeva and more recently Bracha Ettinger. While Kristeva and Ettinger have very different notions of what the language and representation of maternal subjectivity might be, as well as the point at which it originates, both are very interested, as is Moreno Muñoz, in the language of the womb, or the exchange between the mother and the unborn child, which has a language or system of representations that for Kristeva is pre-symbolic (she terms it the semiotic) and for Ettinger is symbolic and joined with patriarchal language but not recognized as proceeded that language (matrixial). Both Kristeva and Ettinger view this language as being best expressed through representations other than words. Moreno Muñoz thus created an environment of sound that was at times quite painful, vibrations that shook the room and could be felt within the body, and smells that pushed the edge of tolerance. Walking around the room with a mic, Moreno Muñoz played with the possibilities for sounds that occurred when the mic was used incorrectly. In the center of the space, an installation of bags of street rubbish were piled atop one another-- Moreno Muñoz climbed over these bags, releasing their scent to the audience who was assaulted by the performance. Both Kristeva and Ettinger, but particularly Ettinger, have argued for a shift in consciousness through an invocation of maternal/matrixial/feminine language. Certainly Moreno Muñoz is intended to push this consciousness upon her audience with her refusal to allow her performance to reside in the realm of the visual—and partriarchal.
Labels: Farah Ong, Future of the Imagination 10, Marta Moreno Munoz, Yeh Tzu-Chi
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Liping, your work looks really interesting. Thanks for the suggestion. I am editing a book on the maternal and my co-editor and I are planning to use a drawing by Bourgeois.
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47 METERS DOWN – UNCAGED Cast Revealed
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Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures (ESMP), the theatrical distribution division of Byron Allen’s global media company Entertainment Studios (www.entertainmentstudios.com), is proud to announce the cast of suspense thriller 47 METERS DOWN – UNCAGED, the official sequel to 2017’s highest-grossing independent movie, the Johannes Roberts-helmed shark thriller 47 METERS DOWN, which has grossed over $58 million worldwide to date. The newly-added cast includes:
John Corbett (MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, SEX IN THE CITY) as ‘Grant’
Nia Long (BOYZ N THE HOOD, EMPIRE) as ‘Jennifer’
Sophie Nelisse (THE BOOK THIEF) as ‘Mia’
Corinne Foxx (in her film debut) as ‘Sasha’
Sistine Stallone (in her film debut) as ‘Nicole’
Brianne Tju (LIGHT AS A FEATHER, SCREAM tv series) as ‘Alexa’
Davi Santos (POLAROID, MR. BOX OFFICE) as ‘Ben’
Khylin Rhambo (ENDER’S GAME, TEEN WOLF, THE FIRST FAMILY) as ‘Carl’
47 METERS DOWN – UNCAGED begins principal photography this week in the Dominican Republic, then continues the shoot in the United Kingdom. 47 METERS DOWN – UNCAGED is slated for domestic theatrical release on 3,500+ screens on June 28, 2019.
The original 47 METERS DOWN was a surprise box office hit, grossing over $44.3 million in North America on a $5.5 million budget, making it the highest-grossing independent movie of 2017. ESMP bought the title from Dimension Films, which had initially planned to release the movie on DVD only. The original movie followed two sisters (Mandy Moore and Claire Holt) who get trapped underwater during a diving excursion, where they become hunted by Great White sharks.
Following in the footsteps of the original, 47 METERS DOWN – UNCAGED is a deep-sea horror/thriller, directed, and exec produced, by Johannes Roberts (47 METERS DOWN, the upcoming RESIDENT EVIL reboot), from a script he co-wrote with his 47 METERS DOWN co-writer, Ernest Riera. James Harris, Mark Lane and Robert Jones of The Fyzz are producing with Byron Allen, Carolyn Folks, and Jennifer Lucas executive producing.
47 METERS DOWN – UNCAGED tells the story of four teens diving in a ruined underwater city, who quickly find themselves in a watery hell as their adventure turns to horror when they learn they are not alone in the submerged caves. As they swim deeper into the claustrophobic labyrinth of caves they enter the territory of the deadliest shark species in the ocean.
“The sequel 47 METERS DOWN – UNCAGED is well-positioned to be a big summer event movie,” said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Entertainment Studios. “The shark-filled psychological horror/thriller will once again have moviegoers overwhelmed and on the edge of their seats being terrorized by the world’s greatest predators!!!”
“Johannes and Ernest have written a nerve-shredding sequel, which we are already seeing Johannes bring to life in the early days of our shoot,” said James Harris, Producer and Managing Director of The Fyzz. “We are delighted to have assembled such a great cast for the film and couldn’t be happier to be working alongside Byron Allen and his excellent team at Entertainment Studios.”
About Entertainment Studios
Chairman and CEO Byron Allen founded Entertainment Studios in 1993. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it has offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, and Raleigh. Entertainment Studios owns eight 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 160 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, and JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV. The company also produces, distributes, and sells advertising for 41 television programs, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations. With a library of over 5,000 hours of owned content across multiple genres, Entertainment Studios provides video content to broadcast television stations, cable television networks, mobile devices, multimedia platforms, and the World Wide Web. Our mission is to provide excellent programming to our viewers, online users, and Fortune 500 advertising partners.
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures is a full-service, theatrical motion picture distribution company specializing in wide release commercial content. ESMP released 2017’s highest-grossing independent movie, the shark thriller 47 METERS DOWN, which grossed over $44.3 million. In 2018, ESMP also released the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful Western HOSTILES and the historic mystery-thriller CHAPPAQUIDDICK. Upcoming releases include the Keanu Reeves sci-fi thriller REPLICAS, the Jeremy Renner/Heidi Klum-starring animated feature ARCTIC DOGS, the John Krasinski/Emily Blunt-starring animated feature ANIMAL CRACKERS, and Joe Carnahan’s Mel Gibson/Naomi Watts starring action-thriller BOSS LEVEL. The digital distribution unit of Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, Freestyle Digital Media, is a premiere multi-platform distributor with direct partnerships across all major cable, digital and streaming platforms. Capitalizing on a robust infrastructure, proven track record and a veteran sales team, Freestyle Digital Media is a true home for independent films. For more information, visit: www.entertainmentstudios.com
About The Fyzz
Based in London and Los Angeles, The Fyzz is a prolific production and financing company specializing in feature film content and international television drama series.
The company has invested more than $300m into over 225 feature films with an aggregate production spend in excess of $2bn. As well as co-financing such titles as Taylor Sheridan’s WIND RIVER, WHAT THEY HAD starring Hillary Swank and A PRIVATE WAR starring Rosamund Pike, recent in-house productions include US box office smash hit 47 METERS DOWN, Martin Campbell’s THE FOREIGNER starring Jackie Chan, horror reboot THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT, DESTINATION WEDDING starring Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves and FINAL SCORE with Dave Bautista and Pierce Brosnan.
Upcoming projects financed and produced by The Fyzz include thriller THE INFORMER, a co-production with Thunder Road Films, starring Rosamund Pike, Joel Kinnaman, Ana de Armas, Common and Clive Owen, and Matt Holness’ BFI supported debut POSSUM. The company is in post-production on the Marc Meyers helmed WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS and is due to shoot Martin Campbell’s CITY OF MIST next year.
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Gilmore Girls: TV show revival
Warning: spoilers, a little bit, but spoilers ahead! Warning 2: it’s only my opinion here, ok?
I was excited about “A year in the life” and started to watch all the 7 seasons again, in a glance! And just amend watching the 4 episodes of the Gilmore Girls revival Everything to enjoy and to not lose any details.
I really enjoyed the show when I was a teenager, I was 12 years old when the series premiered. Poor girl, she turned on the TV and dreamed of being Rory or Lorelai.
It was easy to look at Rory and see in her everything I wanted to be and see in Lorelai the “fuck” I once wanted to become.
But, after seeing all the seasons and seeing the boom of people saying that the series was an example to be followed. That Rory and Lorelai are personal goals, “feminists and empowered”?
I do not know if I can agree … But, I will not be unfair.
Gilmore Girls have a lot of good humor in the script, a precise writer and good placed dialogues With irony, humor and legal references for those who enjoy nerds.
It’s a good TV show to watch that puts women on the agenda at a time when this was not common. It is a complete dramatic comedy that addresses themes without weighing the context. It speaks of family, social class, relationships and life in general. It has everything a series needs to be a success.
That’s why it’s a success!
I watched all seasons + revival and today I can not see Rory and Lorelai as “goals” anymore. In my opinion, the series portrays stereotypes and patterns, but does not question them.
Even though she is much loved in Stars Hollow, Lorelai is seen as promiscuous, unstable and “sleeping every day with one”.
In the second or third season, a neighbor says to another almost this of her and still calls Lorelai of “poor thing”.
The stereotype of Paris, Lane and even Sookie reinforces the “negative” side of them be as they are, of the choices they make and what they become.
Gilmore Girls shows free women but reinforces the image that if you go like this you’ll be the bitch, the loser, the frustrated, the unhappy.
My biggest annoyance is EVERYONE thinking Rory and Lorelai are examples to follow!
I’ll start with Lorelai who is selfish and self-centered to the end. You know, she wants to live the life in her way, good? Ok, me too. I reaaly want to be more selfish in next year #goal
But, she goes over people without caring. Even needing the help of these same people in the past or in the future.
Notice how she treats the neighbors who helped her raise Rory. How she treats Luke, how she treats people in general.
Neither Mia, who adopted her and Rory baby, receives calls or visits of consideration – even being the owner of the Independence Inn.
There are several moments in the series that Lorelai disparages people with and with an ironic tone. There are several moments in the series that Lorelai disparages people with and with an ironic tone.
She does not care about anyone but her or Rory. When Rory fall down she keeps the girl on a pedestal to the world. But, massacre the girl inside the house with the intrinsic judgment of “that’s not right,” but she did the same thing in the past.
Even with Sookie and Michel, Lorelai does not have the gift of true friendship, nor the exchange of a business society. She is bossy, does not care about her friends problem, the conversation always returns to her problems. Lorelai still uses everyone as her employees to satisfy her wishes …
Note that Lorelai does not fight in the series, has scenes of discussion, but the end is the same. Everyone bows down to her and obey what she wants.Deep down I think it’s because she’s a victimizer. Or because people see her as “the problem” we’ll make her happy …
There is a scene in which Taylor during the assembly expounds this point of view. He tells Lorelai that he understands that the city was kind and welcomed her with the baby. He says everyone treats her with love and is proud of her and Rory. But that will not give in to her whims “like everyone else.”
Not to mention that Lorelai lies all the time, more than omitting her own mind and stealing things all the time. As if the world owed it to her!
In with parents, Emily and Richard, it is tense to speak of forgiveness, understanding, and so on.
But, I think that if Lorelai had the freedom she wanted, with her parents’ money and her behavior, she would be part of the Life and Death Brigade. Rich, spoiled, bad and swaggering.
Now Rory is a walking distorted pattern and reproduces the behavior of the mother all the time.
It grew in a glass flask of perfection, being a standard of reference. Accustomed to always being the best girl in town, applauded and helped.
When that changes, it turns out to be: repressed, spoiled, selfish, and irresponsible.
She proves this when she falls in love with Logan and the benefits he brings. Always involving expensive ballads, drinks and lots of money from his father being spent.
Her scene with the pizza delivery friend at the expensive restaurant. Logan invites her, and she accepts even having combined something else with her friend. Logan pays his account and his “poor” friend counts coins to pay. She does not even touch him until he speaks, proves that she, like her mother, thinks of no one. She even tries to show empathy, but deserves to lose her friend!
At a dinner party at Luke’s sister’s house, she does not give a man a hand because he does not have a finger. She just does not greet him and looks disgusted at her mother …
Perfect girl, but no education, no empathy: bubble!
Rory throws all the help she’s always received in the trash when she decides to quit college. A fact that only happened because someone dared to say that she was not perfect.
Logan’s father who says she has no talent, after she trains for him!
She plays in the trash twice, when after 9 years she has no job, money, no house and has an affair with a committed guy – again Rory?
Rory had everything to be very successful and independent in life, but it’s not. All she got was with the help of other people. When the time comes, she returns to her mother’s house, unable to stabilize her life.
Opportunity, study, preparation and money she had. Faltou maturidade, objetivo e até um pouco de caráter ali viu? Faltou mesmo culhões pra fazer acontecer.
Faltou maturidade, objetivo e até um pouco de caráter ali viu? Faltou mesmo culhões pra fazer acontecer.
She never had to go beyond her obligation to study and get good grades to live on. This is not an effort for me, calling grandparents and asking for money, and having a rich boy paying for everything (pension) is not an effort at all!
All his life, Rory received favors. To study, get interviews, internship/job and still need to have somewhere to eat, sleep, live.
When real life has come, even with Logan’s financial support, support and cheer, it fails.
Failure, but spits on some dishes, see? Because the opportunities have to be perfect for the perfect Rory.
Here’s the director’s prophecy:
Rory returns lost to the home, without direction and with the same spoiled behavior of the mother, crying and does several stupid in a row.
Rory, in the end, is a great person but, failed.
To close the cycle. Lorelai’s life is “perfect.” There’s Luke who loves and licks her boots, Dragon Fly going really well, but she’s starting to freak out. Because? Because she does not know what he wants out of life, if it is to have children, to buy another , to officialize the marriage.
Already in the grief of Richard we see Emily suffering in her way, but will try to make sense of life. Get an occupation and adopt/accept the maid’s family.
Already Lorelai, can not get over the hurt, can not forgive. Neither to help her mother mentioning a good memory of her Father.
She needs to , play a big child and will only call Emily months later.
The affective relationships of the two have always been problematic. I do not think they knew how to “choose”, do you understand?
Rory’s boyfriends were never in the same timing as her, or Lorelai’s. Relationships went away because they did not know what they wanted , they got sick and it was done. Even Lorelai with Luke, watch the outbreak of the last few episodes.
In some season I remember Lorelai saying that she wanted Rory to be different from her.
So it is a shock when in the last episodes Rory appears identical to Lorelai. An adult woman with a child’s attitude.
Both fit well in the ” generation” that this BR article says – the article generalized the generation of people that have everthing ans do not want to do really efforts to be good in life.
I’m not saying the show is bad, but there’s a lot to question.
Everything about the Gilmore Girls is defectively human. Maybe that’s why we understand this punch in the face that was the revival.
There are some good moral lessons hidden in this dramatic comedy series. If you do not have seen, watch again is there! 😉
Nice to read: Poor rich girl, that brings an analysis very coherent about the TV show and inspires me to write this text. Thanks Ana for sending me the link!
I also recommend this compiled of 10 worst moments of Gilmore Girls revival, I agree with all!
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The video's just down there and shows footage of the Dark Knight & Batman Begins and then a voice-over of Gordon in a hospital bed calling for the return of Batman. We then see a very small snippet of Bain and Batman about to fight each other with what looks like a man with a rifle standing in the top right corner. I'm not going to lie I'm still skeptical about this one and not just because they've released a teaser trailer just under a year (10th July 2012 is the release date) before the film. It looks like Nolan has just made Bain a very strong man with a weird mask as it seems that Batman and him are about to engage in hand to hand combat at the end of the trailer. That isn't consistent with the theme of Nolan's brilliant works because the villain usually attack Batman psychologically as opposed to physically testing him. Whether this gamble works is yet to be seen but in the comics it is Bain who breaks Batman's back which may be an interesting twist in the Dark Knight franchise and a make-up photo has been shown with Bale's face battered and bruised. This may be cathartic after that audio clip surfaced that proved he is a bit of a c*** (You're a f***ing amateur man) and one thing is for sure, if anyone looks beastly enough to take down the Batman it's Tom Hardy. One thing left out of the teaser that I'm still pondering is the inclusion of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle (Catwoman), how she's going to be used in the story we can only speculate. I suppose time will tell whether or not Nolan's risky decisions pay off and the cast have commented on how brilliant the script is. Watch this space....
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Reported foodborne illness and gastroenteritis in Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2004 - Part 1
The OzFoodNet annual report for 2004 published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 29 Issue Number 2, provides data and analysis of foodborne disease and disease outbreaks in Australia during 2004. The full report is available in 7 HTML documents. This document contains the Abstract, Introduction and Methods sections. The full report is also available in PDF format from this CDI's Table of contents page.
A print friendly PDF version of the full report is available from this Communicable Diseases Intelligence issue's table of contents.
The OzFoodNet Working Group
In 2004, OzFoodNet sites recorded 24,313 notifications of eight potentially foodborne diseases, along with 118 outbreaks of foodborne disease. Overall, reports of both notifications and outbreaks were higher than previous years. The most common sporadic diseases were campylobacteriosis (15,640 cases) and salmonellosis (7,842 cases). Reports of sporadic cases of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli were rare with only 46 cases, but there were two small clusters due to serotypes O157/O111 and O86. The 118 foodborne disease outbreaks affected 2,076 persons, of whom 5.6 per cent (116/2,076) were hospitalised and two people died. Foods prepared in restaurants and catering settings caused the most outbreaks and the most common agent was Salmonella Typhimurium. Outbreak investigations during 2004 implicated chicken, foods containing eggs, imported oysters and food handlers infected with norovirus. In addition to foodborne outbreaks, OzFoodNet sites reported 874 outbreaks that were spread from person-to-person affecting 25,363 people. Sites conducted 54 investigations into clusters of Salmonella and other pathogens where a source could not be identified. Surveillance of foodborne diseases continued to improve during 2004, with all jurisdictions contributing to national cluster reports and using analytical studies to investigate outbreaks. Ninety-eight per cent of Salmonella notifications on state and territory surveillance databases recorded complete information about serotype and phage type. Foodborne disease may cost Australia as much as $1.2 billion annually making it vital to intervene to prevent disease. Commun Dis Intell 2005;29:164–191.
Foodborne disease is a major cause of morbidity and an occasional cause of mortality throughout the world.1,2 Each year there are approximately 5.4 million cases (95% Credible Interval 4–6.9 million cases) of foodborne gastroenteritis in Australia, resulting in 80 deaths annually.3 Approximately 32 per cent (95% Credible Interval 28%–38%) of all gastroenteritis in Australia is estimated to be foodborne.
Many countries conduct surveillance of potentially foodborne diseases to protect consumers and maintain a safe food supply.4,5 The major aim of surveillance of diseases that arise from contaminated food is to detect outbreaks. Investigation of foodborne outbreaks have many clear public health benefits, as early intervention can remove contaminated product from the marketplace and contribute to policies to prevent further disease.6 The public health benefits of surveillance and early outbreak detection have clear economic benefits.7
In addition, countries are increasingly using data from surveillance systems to support and monitor interventions in the food supply chain. One example is the use of the United States of America Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FoodNet data to establish whether national disease targets set under the 'Healthy People 2010' initiative have been met (www.healthypeople.gov). FoodNet has been able to track the incidence of laboratory-diagnosed cases of foodborne disease that are not notifiable to State health departments.8 Recent results from FoodNet indicate sustained declines in the incidence of several diseases, including salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis.9 This is supported by findings in the United States of America meat industry that have recorded declining isolation of Salmonella and Campylobacter in meat processing plants.10
In 2000, the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing ( DoHA ) established the OzFoodNet network to enhance surveillance for foodborne disease.11 This built upon an 18-month trial of active surveillance in the Newcastle region of New South Wales that was modelled on the FoodNet surveillance system. The OzFoodNet network consists of epidemiologists specifically employed by each state and territory health department to conduct investigations and applied research into foodborne disease. The Network involves many different organisations, including the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and the Public Health Laboratory Network. OzFoodNet is a member of the Communicable Diseases Network Australia, which is Australia's peak body for communicable disease control.12 The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing funds OzFoodNet and convenes a committee to manage the Network, and a committee to review the scientific basis for various research projects.
This is the fourth annual report of OzFoodNet and covers data and activities for 2004.
Population under surveillance
In 2004, the coverage of OzFoodNet included all states and territories. The entire Australian population was estimated to be 20,111,297 persons in June 2004. 13 In addition, the Hunter Area Health Service had a separate OzFoodNet Site complementing foodborne disease surveillance across New South Wales. The Hunter site conducts thorough local investigation and provides a baseline for foodborne disease incidence in New South Wales. In June 2004, the population covered by the Hunter site was estimated to be 549,846 persons.
Rates of notified infections
All Australian states and territories require doctors and/or pathology laboratories to notify patients with infectious diseases that are important to public health. Western Australia is the only jurisdiction where laboratory notification is not mandatory under legislation, although most laboratories still notify the health department by agreement. OzFoodNet aggregated and analysed data on patients notified with the following diseases or conditions, a proportion of which may be acquired from food:
Campylobacter infections;
Salmonella infections, including Salmonella Paratyphi A, B and C;
Listeria infections;
Yersinia infections;
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections and haemolytic uraemic syndrome;
typhoid; and
Shigella infections.
To compare disease to historical totals, OzFoodNet compared crude numbers and rates of notification to the mean of the previous six years. Where relevant, numbers and rates of notifications for specific sub-types of infecting organisms were compared to notifications for the previous year.
To calculate rates of notification the estimated resident populations for each jurisdiction for June 2004, or the specified year, were used.13 Age specific rates for notified infections in each jurisdiction were calculated.
The date that notifications were received was used throughout this report to analyse notification data. These data are similar to those reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, but individual totals may vary with time and due to different approaches to analysis.
Gastrointestinal and foodborne disease outbreaks
OzFoodNet collected information on outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease, including foodborne illness, that occurred in Australia during 2004. An outbreak of foodborne disease was defined as an increase in the number of reports of a particular infection or illness associated with a common food or meal. The reports collate summary information about the setting where the outbreak occurred, where food was prepared, the month the outbreak occurred, the aetiological agent, the number of persons affected, the type of investigation conducted, the level of evidence obtained and the food vehicle responsible. To summarise the data, OzFoodNet categorised the outbreaks by aetiological agents, food vehicles and settings where the outbreak occurred. Data on outbreaks transmitted from infected persons, water, animals and cluster investigations were also summarised. The number of outbreaks and documented causes may vary from summaries published by different jurisdictions.
Risk factors for infection
To identify risk factors for foodborne infection in Australia, OzFoodNet reviewed summary data from outbreaks that occurred in 2004 and compared them to previous years. Data from several complementary OzFoodNet studies of foodborne illness in Australia were also examined.
Surveillance evaluation and enhancement
To identify areas where improvements to surveillance are critical, OzFoodNet compared the results of surveillance across different sites, including rates of reporting outbreaks, and investigation of clusters of Salmonella. To measure how well jurisdictions conducted surveillance for Salmonella, OzFoodNet examined the completeness of information contained on state and territory databases in 2004. The proportion of notifications with serotype and phage type information was compared with results for the previous three years.
The OzFoodNet Working Group is (in alphabetical order): Rosie Ashbolt (Tas), Jenny Barralet (Qld), Robert Bell (Qld), Andrew Black (ACT), Barry Combs (SA), Christine Carson (WA), Craig Dalton (Hunter PHU), Karen Dempsey (NT), Gerard Fitzsimmons (DoHA), Joy Gregory (Vic), Gillian Hall (NCEPH), Bridget Hardy (DAFF), Michelle Harlock (NT), Geoff Hogg (MDU), Melissa Irwin (NSW), Geetha Isaac-Toua (ACT), Martyn Kirk (DoHA), Karin Lalor (Vic), Deon Mahoney (FSANZ), Tony Merritt (Hunter PHU), Rosanne Muller (NT), Sally Munnoch (Hunter), Jennie Musto (NSW), Lillian Mwanri (SA), Chris Oxenford (DoHA, NCEPH), Rhonda Owen (DoHA), Jane Raupach (SA), Mohinder Sarna (WA), Cameron Sault (Tas), Russell Stafford (Qld), Barbara Telfer (NSW), Marshall Tuck (NSW), Leanne Unicomb (Hunter PHU), Hassan Vally (WA), Kefle Yohannes (DoHA)
Corresponding author: Mr Martyn Kirk, Coordinating Epidemiologist, OzFoodNet, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, GPO Box 9848, MDP 15, Canberra, ACT 2601. Telephone: +61 2 6289 9010. Facsimile: +61 2 6289 5100. Email: martyn.kirk@health.gov.au
OzFoodNet annual reports
OzFoodNet annual report, 2004
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Autobiography of an ordinary man
An ordinary account of an ordinary chap. Jazzed up a bit, occasionally. Do read on, if you have no economic function to perform...
Ashutosh Gowariker and his part in my downfall
We, the kids, missus and I that is, saw "What's your Rashee?" today. Just returned 15 minutes ago, in fact. I am therefore dutifully filing my serious critical evaluation of the movie for the benefit of keen students of cinema who are doubtless reading my erudite blog for illumination.
The story is about a gujju guy who comes from the US to India to get married, and has to choose from 12 girls, each from one zodiac sign. And since I'm too exhausted to type out the story, and since you can easily read it on the net, and since it's mostly long and complicated songs anyway, let's take it as read. OK? Thanks.
I enjoyed the movie, of course. I thought Priyanka Chopra acted marvelously. I also thought Harman Baweja acted marvelously. I told the missus that. She gave me the look.
"You ok, buddy?" she asked me.
"Sure. Why?"
"Harman Baweja couldn't act to save a dying grandmother. Harman Baweja makes Akshay Kumar look like Naseeruddin Shah. You can't be serious about his acting".
"Come, now. You're prejudiced. I thought he was just the right shade of innocence and savvy combined."
The missus rolled her eyes. For once, she had the heartfelt support of both the kids. The younger one usually takes my side but this time he was very upset.
"I would have stayed at home and studied the chapter on the United Nations" he said, referring to a funfilled chapter in his Civics textbook which tells you all that you ever wanted to know about UN resolutions and the veto power of the security council but were afraid to ask.
Missus gave me the "see? didn't I tell you?" look. And well she might, because I was really taken aback. This was a strong reaction. Gautham declaring that he'd study rather than do something is complete damnation of that something. His hatred for textbooks makes Israel Palestine relations look like Portuguese love sonnets in comparison.
"And the songs were too many and every bloody where" Vyaas, our resident music aficionado piped up. Further strong stuff.
But I pigheadedly continued to defend Ashutosh Gowariker. "He is a fine filmmaker", I told the brood.
"When he lost his hair, he must have lost his mind with it", Vyaas said.
"Hush" said the missus with a barely suppressed giggle. "Annie's losing hair too".
"Hahaha" said Vyaas, exhibiting none of the spirit that, to take a random example from Hindu mythology, Sravana exhibited towards his father.
"Annie, is hair singular or plural?" asked Gautham.
"Plural of course"
"Then Vyaas, you should say 'when he lost his hair, he lost his mind with THEM', shouldn't he, Annie"
"Er, I don't think, that is, it doesn't seem to sound right. Ask your mother", I said
"You're the blog writer. YOU tell me!" she retorted, hitting that full toss to the boundary
As often happens in family conversations in the Shenoy household, I was conscious of a swimming feeling in my head.
"We were talking about the movie, people" I tried to recapitulate.
"If you hadn't forced us to come, we would have been watching cartoon network now" said Gautam, ruefully.
"We hate you Annie!" They didn't say this aloud, but I could almost mind read.
Damn you Gowariker. All your fault.
Sunday morning blues
Sunday mornings are usually very sedate in our house. Today is no different. I have woken up a full hour before the rest of the house, unlike the others who are sleeping in late. One reason for this is that I have a finely tuned body clock. The other reason is that if I do not get out of bed at 6, I'm going to have to poop in it, thanks to the afore mentioned body clock. The missus finds this very irritating, because I am forever slamming doors, stumbling over randomly scattered soccer balls and wandering around like a blind bat looking for my spectacles, without which, optically disadvantaged as I am, I would probably go in the broom closet. She mumbles some words of recrimination and goes back to sleep mid sentence. What the hell, it is a Sunday morning!
A few hours later, when the household is up and awake, and humming with action, I am accosted by my children. The elder one makes an observation about Eminem. Perhaps a word of explanation is in order here. The kids are inordinately fond of rap music and its practitioners. People like Eminem, Fifty Cent, a gentleman named- I kid you not- T-Pain, and many other worthies who wish to influence the world through their hair and tattoos, instead of mundane things like wisdom, courage and intellect. As I was saying, the elder one makes the observation that, should Eminem convert to Islam, he could call himself Muslim Shady. I go "huh?" at him in the way only a doofus father can. He explains that Eminem, for reasons best known to him, calls himself "Slim Shady". Muslim Shady was a play on Slim shady. "It was a joke, Annie!" he tells me, with a sad look in his eyes which clearly reveal his estimation of the hopelessness of the older generation.
Younger son is studying. I'm pottering about in the living room, trying to get the TV started with the remote. Missus watches in serene amusement for about 5 minutes and then points out that I am using the cordless phone. "Try using the remote. It works really well with the TV, though I don't know why that should be so". She revels in these kind of shots. I give her my coldest "Dignified Silence" look, completely wasted on her because her mom has called up from Mysore and they are exchanging very sotto voce remarks about something. This means
a. Someone is getting divorced
b. Someone is getting married
c. Someone is having a child
d. They are discussing the latest Chinese GDP numbers.
Ok, perhaps not 'd.'
Anyway, I digress. I was talking about the younger son. With his mom in a long conversation over the phone, he is like a political activist just released from prison. Brimming with things to say, if you know what I mean.
"Annie" he goes, "is reproduction a bad thing?"
Ulp.
"Ask your mother. She'll be happy to tell you." I try to slink away, but he's not having any of it.
"I'm asking YOU"
"I, er, no, not really. I mean, reproduction is, like, very necessary for life. But of course, we don't discuss it very openly er.. er.. "
"I beg your pardon?"
"Why don't we discuss it openly?"
"Well, I think... that is... I think your mother would be better placed to answer that."
"She's going to be on the phone for an hour, you know. That's grandma on the line."
"I know." Sigh. "Ok, why are you asking me this NOW?"
"Well it says here, in this textbook that I'm reading that 'reproduction in any form is expressly prohibited' "
Rascal.! He was stringing me along. I try to clout him one on the side of the head but he's like Muhammed Ali, dodging and weaving around while I get shorter of breath.
The "Other Gastronomic Adventures" from the previous post
Well, after that 6000 rupee butter chicken, Ajay asked me if I had ever sampled the wares at Muhammad Ali road and thereabouts, at Ramzan time.
What with all these world events happening, it so happened that I had not. I said so. Ajay immediately raised eyebrows and gave me the "what stone have you been living under, my friend" look. I squirmed under his critical gaze and implored him to remedy that defect in my otherwise blemishless character.
"Alright", he told me, "present yourself at Kala Ghoda at 6 pm tomorrow. I'll see what I can do."
Kala Ghoda, for those of you who are ignorant of Mumbai geography, is an important city landmark named after a black horse (kala ghoda) which does not exist.
I know this for a fact. I have searched high and low for it, often when I was perfectly sober, and found no evidence of horses of any color.
And the search was never easy, let me tell you. Can you imagine walking around in broad daylight, or worse, dark night light, trying to look nonchalant while actually seeking out a large black horse among automobiles, office goers and random municipal corporation teams digging up the road in the hope of finding buried treasure?
Which by the way is a confirmed fact, the fact that they're hunting for buried treasure, I mean, because another fine thinker (who blogs here) arrived at the same conclusion independently, as we both discovered recently while having a philosophical beer, proving that it MUSt be true. And what the devil am I rambling about here? Get back to the point. Right. Sorry folks.
The other important thing about Kala Ghoda is that it lies 35 traffic filled kilometers south of Malad West where yours truly resides. I decided to take the train. Now local train journeys are something I really look forward to, in Mumbai, for the simple reason that nowhere else in the world can you find so many people digging out little bits of snot, rolling them into balls of nanometric dimensions and sticking them under the seat or on the dangling handles overhead, with such dexterity and precision. It's hypnotic. I did not join them. I wanted to, really did, but when Yo Yo Ma plays the cello, you listen, however much your own fingers are twitching to play, if you get my drift.
By the way, if this post lacks the usual precise, compact, power-point-presentation-to-the-board-of-directors quality of my arguments, you can blame it on a rather jolly little beer called Tuborg which is so named because if have tu many of them, and you happen to be with Bjorn Borg, you are liable to see tu borgs. There. I've gone off the rails again! At this rate, I really doubt if I will ever get to the point where I tell you about what I ate at the Mohammed Ali joint.
So here goes, before I fall asleep.
1. Tandoori Chicken
2. Paya barahandi
3. Khichda
4. Firnee
5. Malpua with cream.
All of which were made from low calorie ingredients, of course, and had special cholestrol lowering vitamins added to them.
(It might have occured to the alert reader that I could have said this right at the beginning and saved myself the trouble of typing a few thousand words. Hmmm. True. But it's such fun to ramble on pointlessly. Also, my MBA training requires me to use a thousand random words for every little thought or else they will formally strip me of my degree)
The world's classiest butter chicken and other gastronomic adventures
On Sunday, I had The World's Classiest Butter Chicken
This was courtesy my brother in law Ajay Sharma, who serendipitously discovered it on Facebook and was intrigued by its price. For the site says, in the most apologetic manner, that it costs Rs. 6000 per portion and very sorry but that's what it costs.
They don't offer much of an explanation other than that they use fine ingredients including Evian mineral water (which tastes terrible on its own, if you ask me) and Hunt's tomato paste (which I have never heard about).
There were a few who, very rightly, ranted on the Facebook page, that they must be out of their mind to price, at Rs. 6000, something like a butter chicken, excellent specimens of which are available for Rs. 200 or less a portion.
As if in anticipation of these kind of responses, the site actually suggests two places which serve excellent butter chicken (Moti Mahal and Mughal Mahal) where the stuff is way cheaper. It's just that OUR butter chicken is Rs. 6000 per portion, they say. They don't say "period" after that sentence but you can just sense it.
Ajay, of course, gastronome that he is, promptly became their fan on Facebook and wrote them an appreciative comment. And lo, they decided to gift him a sample of their Butter Chicken - one portion flown in from Hyderabad (where it is made, and where it is sold) for his exclusive enjoyment.
I rushed to sample the stuff as soon as I heard about it, partly because of the fact that I was getting it free and partly because I was very hungry, the missus having decided basically to starve me, over the last few weeks, with egg whites, celery, iceberg lettuce and other things currently banned under the Geneva convention.
At Ajay's house, I ran into the founders of Anaarkali themselves. A youngish couple, one Mr. I. B. Saxena and Ms. Padma Prasad, they had personally carried their culinary masterpiece with them. I was touched.
They were extremely reticent and seemed embarassed at all the gushing appreciation about their business spirit that Ajay and I were heaping on them. Eventually, we got them to talk a bit about themselves and found out that they cooked it themselves. Personally. No cooks, lackeys, assistant vice-presidents, nothing! Moreover, they're pretty successful businesspeople in everyday life, worth many doubloons and in no n eed for the moolah they must be earning from this venture, if indeed they earn any. Amazing!
Anyway I'll cut a long story short and say that the butter chicken was awesome. Superb. Excellent. Definitely the best butter chicken in the world!
Ok, I'm probably not the world's leading authority on butter chicken, my earlier experience of it having been the "Lalit" butter chicken of Goregaon West. Lalit, a fine restaurant in my opinion, interprets "butter chicken" as "butter 50%, chicken 50%". This makes it yummy but unidimensional.
Anarkali's version, on the other hand, is a lot more sophisticated. It has many nuances of flavour, with ingredients like saffron and olives finding their way into the plot.
Comparing "Anaarkali" to "Lalit" is not fair. It's a bit like comparing Laurence Olivier to Akshay Kumar. But like all bourgeois, I could not but ask myself the inevitable commercial question "Is it worth Rupees Six thousand"?
The answer, dear reader, is a resounding "yes"!
Provided, of course, that it is somebody else's Rupees Six Thousand.
No, I'm being mean there. I would pay 6000 for this butter chicken. It would have to be an occassion, though. The chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, perhaps. Or appointment to the casting department of some prominent bollywood production house.
Something befitting the Classiest Butter Chicken in the world.
(tune in tomorrow for the 'other gastronomic adventures' because i'm falling asleep)
Writer's block, yoga lessons etc.
Really can't think of anything to write. What a bummer these writer's blocks are! Not that anyone's forcing me to write or anything. But as a card carrying MBA, it is shameful to be at a loss for words. (The missus points out here that I am not at a loss for words, my problem is that I am at a loss for ideas. She might be right there but it's nitpicking).
What to write? Ok, here's something. The other day, the missus thought it would be nice for me to learn yoga. Probably sick of hearing me whine about having to work out in the gym, she decided to set me up with a competent yoga instructor.
Well, I have nothing against this fine form of exercise, except of course for the tendency of the yoga instructor to try and make you hyperflexible.
I mean, I can see the utility of this. Let's say you have two full mugs of beer, one in each hand, and you want to scratch your ear. If you were good at yoga, you'd just use your toe, nonchalantly like, instead of having to find a table to keep one beer mug, scratch your ear with the free hand, and then pick the mug again. A most convenient talent. But the steps leading to the acquisition of this ability are punishing, to say the least.
After one session of this, I slunk back into the gym. Better to risk dropping the dumbbell on one's toe than chancing the painful possibility of accidentally biting your own nuts.
What else? Oh, we had a chilled out saturday. The younger son decided to prepare for a career in rock music, aided and abetted by yours truly, till his mom caught us and bawled us out. Caught on video. Cheers
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‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ film screening leaves students feeling empowered to speak up
Sidelines 5 months ago
Photo courtesy of civilrightsmuseum.org
Story by Janecia Gales / Contributing Writer
On Tuesday, students and teachers alike made their way into the College of Education building for a screening of the film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor.” The film, about a black woman who was raped by six white men in 1944, captures the horrors of the event but displays Taylor’s courage to speak out about the incident.
By speaking out, she put her life and family in danger but inspired black women to speak up about their experiences of being sexually assaulted. The room was filled with students and teachers who had different emotions and opinions about the film.
A discussion was held after the viewing, where students shared the worry, pain and questions that can never be answered today. Some students felt a great deal of empathy for her.
“There was no justice for her or anyone else in her situation. I think it is just so sad. Those men should have been prosecuted,” said MTSU student Nyjoel Steeley.
“Recy Taylor fought for everything she believed in, and she was able to tell her story and help other women along the way. Everything she went through was inhumane, but she did everything in power to tell her story,” said Tatyana Brasswell.
While the story behind the film was a tragic, horrific event, Taylor’s courage displayed in the film left viewers feeling proud for her efforts to share her story.
MTSU’s viewing of “The Rape of Recy Taylor” is part of the university’s observance of Black History Month. A full calendar of this month’s events can be found here.
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PART II: Adolescence / 1950s–1960s (Volume 12, Number 1, through Volume 32, Number 3)
Volume 80, Numbers 2/3, July/November 2018
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Editor's Note: In this and all subsequent introductions, citations for The News Letter and The CEA Critic will appear in parentheticals as volume.number.page (e.g. 4.7.3)
Characterizing The CEA Critic during the decade of the 1950s, Joe D. Thomas notes in his history of the CEA an important shift with the ascension of Robert Fitzhugh to editor in 1945. The journal moved from what Thomas describes as the comfortable casualness of editor Burges Johnson to a more serious publication with a greater focus on literary criticism and scholarship (48). That evolution continued into the decade of the 1950s.
Particularly marked for The CEA Critic in its evolution from newsletter to academic journal was the relationship between the academy and the professions. A surprising number of articles appeared throughout the decade in response to Fitzhugh's touting of the "As Others See Us" feature during the late 1940s, after his return from service in the Navy. When it first appeared, the feature prompted letters indicating agreement among readers that English studies needed to reassess its role in post-war America. For example, in 1947, the Chair of the Written and Spoken English Department at Michigan State University advocated, "I am in accord with The News Letter's positive approach towards problems in English education. If college English departments are to contribute vitally to progress in higher education, college English teachers must get out of the stacks; remove the far-off Beowulf-look; humanize their teaching approach; and become aware of the place of English (all phases) in everyday life" (9.9.1) Another respondent was more blunt:
We are living in a world where millions are freezing and starving, where in our own "land of plenty" the four basic necessities of life—food, fuel, clothing, and shelter—are extremely hard to obtain because of scarcity, where peace seems to be getting farther and farther away in the stratosphere of abstractions. Can it be that living in such a world is forcing English teachers to forsake their hitherto swami-like contemplation of the ice cream and cake of "Culture" and "the finer things of life" for a new interest in the bread and butter value of sound thinking? Can it be that English teachers are beginning to see that the Freshman first feels the need for skill in sound thinking when he has to prepare either a spoken or written composition?"
(9.9.2) [End Page 138]
Many of the articles on the corporate-college connection were a response to another early "As Others See Us" column that sought to understand what employers found lacking in the college graduates working for them. The column's methodology thereby moved beyond the Ivory Tower: "To gather informed outside opinion on what English departments have done and can do for these students, the editor asked a friendly officer of a large corporation for an appraisal. He in turn solicited comment from officers directly in charge of departments which are heavily staffed with college graduates" (15.9.1). In response, comments addressed topics uncannily familiar to most of us teaching today. For example, under the heading "Muddled Writing," the commentator noted, "In my experience many college trained men do not know how to present the results of their work in straightforward readable reports. All too often the purposes, observations and results of days of experimentation are obscured by the indifferent organization and irrelevant detail of muddled writing" (15.9.1). Other shortcomings included "Rambling Reports" characterized by the employer as
Monotony of sentence structure … as well as a predilection for the complex sentence, where clause is piled on clause for fifty words or so. There are irrational changes in tense, split infinitives, banalities and mannerisms. One report is too flowery, another too verbose, a third too personalized. These faults are regrettable not so much that they fail to convey the ideas but because one gets a poor impression of the writer which is reflected in the judgment of the content.
(15.9.5).
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High Society - Opera House, Buxton
Opera House, Buxton
The Present Company
Madison Naylor
Alice Hands
Marion Fisher
Morris Fisher
The Present Company celebrates its 30th Year with a Musical based on the play ‘The Philadelphia Story’ by Phillip Barry. In 1956, Cole Porter adapted the play to create a film ‘High Society’ with stars Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. This much-loved movie was adapted for the stage in 1998 and opened on Broadway, where it ran for 144 performances.
The play opens in the grounds of Lord Mansion with Tracy Lord (Rachael-Louisa Bray), Servants and Guests performing ‘High Society/Riding High’ which was a little muddled and showed the Company’s first night nerves! The direction seemed to confuse the Company and the choreography was a little clumsy. We learned that Socialite Tracy Lord (Bray) is to embark on her second marriage to George Kittredge and the Wedding is to be held the next day.
As the Lord household prepares for the Wedding, and the pre-Wedding Ball, Tracy’s sister Dinah (Madison Naylor) is planning to sabotage the Wedding in collusion with neighbour and ex-husband of Tracy, CK Dexter Haven (Jon Morris). Following a rendition of ‘Throwing a Ball Tonight’, Dexter and Dinah sing ‘Little One’ where Naylor showed off her skills as an up and coming singer and actress, capturing the mood perfectly.
As we move into the Lord’s sitting room, we learn that Tracy has forbidden her Father to attend the Wedding due to his affair with a night club dancer. ‘Spy Magazine’ have got wind of the story and Dexter has done a deal with the publisher to with-hold it if they can send a reporter and photographer to the Wedding. Enter, Liz Imrie (Alice Hands) and Mike Connor (Craig Arme) who impress us with the ever popular ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’.
What a shame at this point that the set lets them down! The audience titters every time someone enters through the door as you know it will not stay shut! I have a mental picture of Larry Grayson shouting “shut that door”! The cast don’t let is faze them and thank goodness that part of the set is not used again!
As we move on through the Musical, there is a beautifully sung ‘True Love’ by Tracy (Bray) and Dexter (Morris), with the second Act providing a much more professional and confident performance from all the cast as the nerves appear to have dissipated. It becomes apparent that the lead actors are carrying the more Amateur performers, but as this is an Amateur production it is nice to see the whole of the cast enjoying the experience, seeming to have relaxed into their roles. The projection of some of the actors needs some work as there was some mumbling, which can mean some key points are missed.
The staging and lighting of the play was generally good, with the ‘Grounds of Lord Mansion’, well done, although some of the props used were poor which did hinder the actors a little. In contrast, the costumes (managed by Marion Fisher) were excellent and I was easily transported back to the year 1938.
I was pleased to hear a live orchestra who added to the whole experience under the stewardship of Morris Fisher as Musical Director.
‘A charming stage adaptation of a much-loved film’
Reviewer: Caroline Worswick
Reviewed: 23rd August 2018
North West End Rating: ★★★
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Serena Williams Withdraws from WTA China Events Due to Shoulder Injury
Serena Williams has pulled out of the upcoming WTA Tour events in Wuhan and Beijing due to continued problems with her shoulder.
The player has been struggling with inflammation in her right shoulder since she won Wimbledon earlier in the summer. Since then the 22 times Grand Slam singles winner has pulled out of tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati.
At the Rio Olympics it was clear that she was distraught as her singles title defence ended in a third round defeat to Elina Svitolina.
Williams was then defeated in the semi-finals of the US Open by Karolina Pliskova and since then she has lost her world number one ranking to Angelique Kerber who won the tournament.
Speaking last week Williams said that she was disappointed not to be able to take part in the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open or the China Open due to the continuing issues with her right shoulder.
She said that she has been training and playing regularly but that her shoulder is still not healthy enough to sustain tournament play. As a result she is focusing on being ready to take part at the WTA Finals in Singapore later in the season.
However, even if Williams does manage to recuperate in time to play in Singapore, it is highly unlikely that she will be able to reclaim first place in the rankings from Kerber before the end of the year.
Williams has been setback by a series of injuries and illnesses this year and as a result she has played in just eight tournaments so far, her fewest since 2011.
The WTA Finals will be taking place from October 23rd to the 30th which gives Williams a month in order to recuperate enough to take part in the event.
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1. Remember that children play sports for their enjoyment, and not yours.
2. Encourage children to play according to the rules and spirit of the game, and to resolve conflicts without resorting to hostility or violence.
3. Remember that children learn best by example, your example.
A. Focus on effort and skill development rather than winning and losing.
B. Focus on cheering and encouraging, and refrain from coaching from the
fans’ sideline.
C. Focus on how a team deals with adversity, rather than dwell on the
cause of the adversity (a play, a call, a break, etc.).
D. Show respect for players and fans for both teams, as well as the
referees, officials, and coaches. Do not challenge a referee’s call.
Never ridicule, confront, taunt, or use profane language or gestures at a
club practice or game for any reason.
E. Raise any issues through the correct channels, and not on the field.
4. Acknowledge that the policies of the club include disciplinary action for behavior outside of the Parents Code of Conduct, that could include, but is not limited to:
A. Verbal warning by referee, official, head coach, and/or head of league
B. Written warning
C. Parental game suspension with written documentation of incident kept
on file by OYA
D. Game forfeit through the referee, official or coach
E. Parental season suspension
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Cygnet Theatre
Sentinel News | July 3, 2019 | 0 Comments
Season 17 kicks off with the crowd-pleasing, Tony-nominated jukebox musical “Rock of Ages.” Directed by Sean Murray, this exhilarating rock and roll experience runs July 2 through August 25.
Fans of all ages will journey back to the sexy 1980s era of big: big bands, big egos, big guitar solos and big hair. Aqua Net, Lycra and liquor flow freely on the legendary Sunset Strip rock music scene. Amidst the madness, aspiring rock star Drew longs to become the next big thing in music, and longs for fresh-off-the-bus newcomer Sherrie, a Kansas kid with stars in her eyes. This musical comedy lovingly nudges the fashion of the 1980s and features some of the best rock hits from the time with music from Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and many more. Adding to the nostaglia and escapism of the evening, patrons will be able to purchase a beer from Cygnet’s own Bourbon Club bar right on the stage.
Cygnet’s ambitious and sentimental young lovers Drew and Sherrie are played by New York native Rory Gilbert and San Diego staple Megan Carmitchel. The legendary Stacie Jaxx is Cygnet’s own legendary Bryan Banville. The rest of the uber-talented cast is comprised of rock-star singers, dancers and actors including Drew Bradford, Victor E. Chan, Berto Fernandez, Siri Hafso, Emma Nossal, Anise Ritchie, Tamara Sofia Rodriguez Mehl, John Rosen, Bailey Day Sonner, Zackary Scot Wolfe, and E.Y. Washington.
Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased in person at the box office located at 4040 Twiggs Street in San Diego Old Town Historic State Park, by calling (619) 337-1525 or by visiting www.cygnettheatre.com.
The cast of “Rock of Ages” photo is provided by Ken Jacques Photography.
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PAWS working to establish 24-hour ambulance service for animals in Karachi
Posted on Updated August 8, 2012 August 8, 2012 by MO
Samia Malik in Express Tribune:
Mahera Omar and Maheen Zia want to establish a state-of-the-art emergency medical centre for animals. The puppy pictured was hit by a car in DHA, prescription as a result of which its leg was injured. A PAWS volunteer picked the puppy up and brought it to the Karachi Animal Hospital, order where it was treated by Dr Otho, who is holding the puppy in the picture.
The complete article is online here. We encourage you to post comments on their website for highlighting the plight of animals and the urgent need for such services in the city. Thanks!
KARACHI: If your cat swallows a ball of fur or your dog eats chocolate, don’t panic. All you have to do is call the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and they will help your distressed pet.
The society, which was founded in 2004 by Mahera Omar and Maheen Zia, is currently trying to establish a shelter and medical facility exclusively for animal emergencies. It will be equipped with X-ray and ultrasound machines as well as operation theatres. The facility will also have a 24-hour ambulance service. Treatment will be provided not only to cats and dogs, but other animals such as donkeys, horses and mules as well.
But Omar acknowledges that this will be a challenging task, given that the society has limited resources at its disposal. PAWS does not have an office, shelter or clinic of its own and relies entirely on volunteers to help pick up injured animals from the streets and coordinate with private veterinary clinics for treatment. The founders hope to launch the 24-hour ambulance service first, which they feel is achievable with a little help from animal lovers.
Most of the rescued animals are currently given shelter at Karachi Animal Hospital, which is a private clinic in DHA, or PetVet Emergency Veterinary Clinic. But since the facilities have limited space, the co-founders sometimes have to take abandoned cats to their houses.
PAWS also provides advice on animal care and helps find foster homes for animals. Dr Ayaz Ali, one of the vets who treat animals for PAWS, said that the organisation gets between four to 12 calls per week for rescuing stray animals.
“If the animal is badly injured, I take it to a shelter in a taxi or a rickshaw,” he said. “If there is no shelter available, I take it to my house.”
Omar lamented the lack of infrastructure for animal welfare in Karachi.
Though the government has established the Richmond Crawford Hospital, the quality of its services has been waning. She said that most people usually don’t care about ailing animals. “They need to realise that if we help a donkey or a goat, then we might be indirectly helping those people who need them to earn a living,” she said.
Omar said that people weren’t always apathetic to the suffering of animals. Until the early 90s, the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals, which comprised of civil society members as well as government officials, was very active.
Back then, they had the authority to punish people for being cruel to animals, which the NGOs cannot do today.
She pointed out that the even if PAWS establishes a shelter and vaccinates animals, very few people would be willing to adopt them. She feels that people like to own only pedigreed animals. “This mentality needs to be changed. People need to open their hearts for all animals.”
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Syed Rizvi says:
I applaud PAWS to take on to such a challenging feat where it is likely to encounter hurdle because such an indifference toward animals prevails in the Pakisatni society. I wish them all the success and will try to assist them from here in the US, and I also urge the enlightened and compassionate Pakistanis to support this endeavor of theirs, Syed Rizvi, Engineers and scientist for Animal Rightsm, Silicon Valley, California.
Sanaa Zubairi says:
Awesome!!!!! Also.. FINALLY! 🙂 😉
Can you guys put up drop boxes at KAH and PetVet(may be T2F and/or AGHA’s)? You can generate donations all the time because once those boxes are up, people will drop in as much or as little as they want but you WILL end up with a fair amount. And there won’t be the issue of ‘who is collecting’ or ‘I want to donate cash not via bank draft’ etc.
Keep it up! Can’t wait to see it! 🙂
Taimujr says:
Keep it up..u guys rule!
Mehkar Hussain says:
May Allah facilitate and Help PAWS team to protect animals in a better way and give them good reward and prosperity because of their Noble Job….
Wish u all the Best team PAWS
Mehkar Hussain
4th Prof. DVM (SAU)
Khi,Pak
darlene andrews says:
Just like human beings, animals also need medical services. I commend PAWS for this ambulance service for animals. I believe that animals also deserve medical attention.
u guys are doing a wonderful job. Its a really difficult task but achievable, there are numerous people who love animals in Pakistan and they would definitely help this amazing society in terms of fund or human services. Me myself would definitely help this society.!!
We children of lackhnow housing society korangi karachi are looking for your kind and urgent help to rescue our puppy who is seriously injured by a taxi driver who broken his two legs front and back. Soon after the incident a big dog bite him and taken 3″ meat from his front leg. The puppy is crying due to his serious condition. We are also waiting for your prompt and kind action in this regard.
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Makokha D., Irakiza R., Malombe I., Le Bourgeois T., Rodenburg J.. 2017. South African Journal of Botany, 108 : p. 321-330.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2016.08.011
An ethnobotanical study in lowland rice areas in East Africa was undertaken to assess farmers' knowledge on the usage of non-cultivated plants occurring in paddy fields, and to understand what rice farmers in this region do with useful species once they encounter them in their crop. Inventories of weed species in 19 rice schemes in Tanzania and Kenya were followed by interviews among 380 experienced rice farmers, community elders and traditional healers, grouped into 19 informant groups. Among informant groups, a high degree of consensus about uses of weeds growing in rice paddies was observed. From a total of 222 observed rice weed species, the informant groups identified 67 species with usages described in 1300 use reports. Among these 67 species, 20 are among the most commonly cited weed species in rice paddies in sub-Saharan Africa. Only in 42 cases (3% of the total use reports) did the farmers indicate that they collected (13 species) or spared (four species) these weeds during weeding. In all other cases, such plants were removed or killed during weeding, irrespective of their usefulness. Non-cultivated plants that are spared are those of which the putative agronomic qualities (i.e. for crop protection or soil improvement) are considered more important than their crop competition effects (i.e. Azolla filiculoides and Marsilea crenata) and those that are found in the field margins, which do not compete with the crop. Non-cultivated plants that are collected during weeding have food, fodder or medicinal purposes or a combination of purposes. The most cited species that are collected or spared during weeding were Bidens pilosa, Ipomoea aquatica, Corchorus olitorius and Stachytarpheta jamaicensis. This study revealed that lowland rice farmers in East Africa generally have a high level of understanding and consensus on the usefulness of the non-cultivated plants growing in lowland rice schemes. When they occur in their crop however, the vast majority of these species are primarily seen as weeds and consequently removed or killed. (Résumé d'auteur)
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Thématique : Taxonomie végétale et phyto-géographie; Mauvaises herbes et désherbage; Autres thèmes
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“Megan, don’t forget your bug spray” has become my mother’s new catch phrase since the recent Zika virus outbreak in Miami, Florida. My typical response is an eye-roll followed by a “yeah OK, mom,” considering I live nearly 800 miles away from the locally transmitted disease-stricken area. However, my mother’s overreaction sparked a curiosity: What if I were a student at the University of Miami?
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University Facilities Management has been advised to drain any areas of standing water and participate in targeted spraying. UM staff distributed 6,000 bottles of mosquito repellent to students and have participated in conference calls with officials to warrant ongoing awareness. This urgent action proves UM’s authenticity in its efforts to keep students safe.
UM scientists have been researching diagnostic and therapeutic responses to clinically treat patients. Christine L. Curry, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has been treating pregnant women infected with Zika. This approach establishes the university as a firsthand responder to the situation and increases its credibility as a leading expert in science.
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While I’ve been stressing about which planner to buy for the new school year, students in Miami have been more concerned about not sweating to death in long sleeves and pants in the last weeks of summer (a preventive action recommendation made by UM staff to students). However, a fashion inconvenience is a small price to pay for the Zika crisis, which the University of Miami public relations team has, thus far, been able to successfully control.
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Subiaco Football Club is delighted to announce that it has expanded on the WAFL’s new partnership with Bupa, with a club specific deal, offering great benefits for Subiaco players, support staff and members.
This unique offer, allows Subiaco members to join Bupa and get a range of benefits including discounted health cover as well as travel, home and contents and vehicle insurance.
Subiaco Football Club Constitution Amendments 2019
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Subiaco Football Club, please see official notification from President Mark Lawrence relating to proposed amendments to the Subiaco Football Club Constitution.
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Anatomy of a press release: ‘Major Crimes’ | TNT marathon and season 3 premiere
By: Adam Kapner | June 2, 2014 at 6:35 PM EDT
Whether you want to know the Major Crimes marathon schedule, or just the details about Major Crimes season 3, you’ll be covered with these notes.
TLDR: Major Crimes season 3 premieres on Monday, June 9th at 9 p.m. But you can spend the time leading-up to that with a marathon that starts on Sunday at 2 .am.
Major Crimes season 3 premieres this June, 2014. Photo: TNT
The teaser
TNT to Lead into Season Three Premiere of Major Crimes
With 19-Hour Marathon of Second Season
The important date to know
Top 10 Cable Drama to Launch New Season Monday, June 9, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
All of that, recapped in longer sentences:
Major CrimesAs fans of TNT’s Top 10 drama Major Crimes prepare for the start of an all-new season, they will get the chance to enjoy a 19-hour marathon of the entire previous season. The marathon will begin running Sunday, June 8, at 2 a.m. (ET/PT) and will continue right up until the season three premiere on Monday, June 9, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT).
Not sure what the show is all about?
Major Crimes is headed by Oscar® and Emmy® nominee Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Phillip P. Keene, Kearran Giovanni, Graham Patrick Martin and Jonathan Del Arco, with Robert Gossett. The series explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deal as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction.
The Major Crimes cast. Photo: TNT
The requisite break-down of who plays who
McDonnell plays Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor, who heads up a special squad within the LAPD that deals with high-profile or particularly sensitive crimes. Her team of investigators includes Bailey as Lieutenant Provenza, Denison as Lieutenant Andy Flynn, Chan as Lieutenant Mike Tao, Cruz as Detective Julio Sanchez, Giovanni as Detective Amy Sykes and Keene as tech expert Buzz Watson. Gossett plays Assistant Chief Russell Taylor, Raydor’s boss, while Del Arco plays Dr. Morales, the medical examiner. And Martin is Rusty Beck, a formerly homeless teen who has been taken in by Raydor.
Here’s what the show has given fans so far (plot wise)…
Cases the squad will be called upon to investigate in season three of Major Crimes include the disappearance of two kids and their father, the death of the defendant in a rape trial and a complex case involving arranged marriages and diplomatic immunity. In addition, one of Sanchez’s old cases will resurface when it turns out a man he put away for manslaughter might be innocent. And Provenza and Flynn will be drawn to a ritzy estate to investigate the murder of a dog, but they’re going to have to solve the case with unwanted help from an amateur sleuth they’ve encountered before. On the home front, Sharon Raydor will try to help Rusty put his turbulent past behind him, a goal made far more difficult when a member of the young man’s biological family returns, threatening Rusty’s hard-won stability.
Here’s the Major Crimes season 3 spoilers part to get you excited about the new season…
The third season of Major Crimes is set to feature several recurring guest stars, including Screen Actors Guild Award® nominee Jon Tenney (The Closer, Scandal), Golden Globe® and Emmy® winner Tom Berenger (Platoon, Hatfields & McCoys), Screen Actors Guild Award® nominee Bill Brochtrup (NYPD Blue, Shameless), and Emmy® nominee and Image Award winner Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show, Malcolm & Eddie). The roster for season three also includes recurring guest stars Ransford Doherty (The Closer, Caribe Road) and Kathe Mazur (The Closer, Alias); Andrew Daly (Silicon Valley), reprising a role he played on The Closer and Azita Ghanizada (Alphas, X’s & O’s).
Boring bragging rights
TNT’s Major Crimes launched in 2012 and finished its first season ranking as basic cable’s #1 new series of the year. In 2013, the drama was one of basic cable’s Top 10 series of the year, averaging 6.8 million viewers for its second season. Major Crimes also drew more than 2.1 million adults 25-54 and 1.6 million adults 18-49.
And here’s some credit that’s always due
Created by James Duff, Major Crimes is produced by The Shephard/Robin Company and Walking Entropy, Inc., in association with Warner Bros. Television. Duff, Greer Shephard, Michael M. Robin, Rick Wallace, Adam Belanoff and Leo Geter serve as executive producers.
Details, again!
Major Crimes Marathon: Sunday, June 8 – Monday, June 9
Major Crimes marathon scschedule
2 a.m. – “Final Cut” – TV-14-DLV
The squad scrambles to garner a confession when the pregnant wife of a big-time film director is found murdered. Meanwhile, just as things seem to fall into place under Raydor’s leadership, new Deputy D.A. Emma Rios (Nadine Velazquez) challenges Raydor’s intentions as Rusty’s guardian.
3 a.m. – “False Pretenses” – TV-14-DLV
A complex murder-suicide case has the department reeling. Meanwhile, when Rusty receives a mysterious and threatening letter Emma demands that he be relocated.
And it continues on through:
7 p.m. – “Return to Sender” – TV-14-LV
The squad must work quickly to track down a serial killer before he strikes again. Meanwhile, things get dangerous over a game of chess.
8 p.m. – “Return to Sender, Part 2” – TV-14-DLV
The Major Crimes unit draws closer to finding a dangerous serial killer. Rusty faces his biggest challenge yet when he bravely takes the stand against Phillip Stroh. Complicating the case further, the team goes head to head with Linda Rothman a tough, powerful attorney who doesn’t let morals stand in her way of winning a case.
Major Crimes season 3 start date and time
9 p.m. SEASON 3 PREMIERE: “Flight Risk” – TV-14-DLSV
When a father and his two young children go missing, the squad has to work quickly to find them, while uncovering a slew of terrible family secrets along the way. Meanwhile, Raydor does her best to trust Rusty as he begins to take suspicious trips out on his own. Kathe Mazur guest stars.
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Tagged: major crimes, major crimes 2014, major crimes marathon, major crimes season 3 spoilers, major crimes season 3 start date, major crimes tnt, TNT
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CenterPoint Energy
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
San Marcos, Kyle and Buda deny CenterPoint rate hike
The cities of San Marcos, Kyle and Buda have lined up against proposed increases in CenterPoint Energy natural gas service rates, setting off a process that will end with both sides arguing their cases before the Texas Railroad Commission.
Council to consider resolution against CenterPoint increase
The San Marcos City Council will consider a resolution opposing a proposed rate increase for CenterPoint Energy at the Jan. 4 meeting. If the council doesn't act by Jan. 7, the rate increases will be considered approved.
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
PEC joins TexasIsHot campaign
As part of its Green Works initiative, Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) has joined the TexasIsHot campaign in its mission to educate Texans about energy efficiency and responsible energy consumption.
Celebrity golf classic brings the stars to San Marcos
Hollywood stars Samuel L. Jackson, Powers Boothe, Leslie Easterbrook and many others will be present for the Chartwells CentrutyTel Texas State University-San Marcos Celebrity Golf Classic, from May 2-4.
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Tag Archives: Keenan Lewis
Is 2016 the Year the Steelers Make a Splash in Free Agency?
Posted on March 9, 2016 by Tony Defeo Standard Reply
Is 2016 the year the Pittsburgh Steelers make a splash in free agency?
….Probably not. The Steelers never make a significant splash in free-agency, but this doesn’t mean they can’t make some moves that fans will feel good about.
Two years ago, the signings of safety Mike Mitchell and reserve running back LeGarrette Blount were met with great enthusiasm, especially after a few off seasons of financial blood-lettings that included the departure of promising corner Keenan Lewis and the release of veteran linebacker James Harrison in 2013.
All those years of cap massaging finally left Pittsburgh with no space at all, and the 2013 offseason was certainly a depressing time, complete with the inevitability that the upcoming regular season was going to be a bit of a downer, which it was–at least the 2-6 first half.
Obviously, Mitchell, who was injured, didn’t do much in 2014 but draw the ire of fans for his underwhelming play; Blount ultimately drew the wrath of teammates, coaches and, of course, the fans for his actions that included smoking a joint with Le’Veon Bell the day before an exhibition game in August and walking off the field moments ahead of the rest of his team near the end of the Steelers Monday night win over the Tennessee Titans.
But while the moves didn’t do much to help the 2014 team, they were good in-theory, and Pittsburgh’s 2015 free-agent running back do-over that was the signing of long-time Panthers’ veteran (and good guy) DeAngelo Williams more than made up for the gamble on Blount.
While Williams’ arrival to Pittsburghwas far from a splash, boy did he save the Steelers bacon in 2015.
Due to a suspension and season-ending knee injury, Bell wound up only playing in six regular season games. In his place, Williams, who responded to a challenge by head coach Mike Tomlin and came to training camp in the best shape in years, started 10 games and rushed for 907 yards (the third-highest total of his already accomplished career).
As for Mitchell’s 2015 regular season, it was significantly better and the kind of upgrade over the retired Ryan Clark that everyone initially envisioned when he came on board the year before.
According to to the website Over the Cap, the Steelers have approximately $11.3 million of cap space, heading into free-agency.
That’s a fair amount, but certainly not enough to go after one significant player. But that’s okay, because football is a team sport.
While fans and the media like to fall all over themselves this time of year, after downtrodden organizations with a lot of room like the Buccaneers and Jaguars sign big names, the fact is, the smart moves can often make the biggest difference.
For the Steelers, maybe those smart moves will simply be re-signing guard Ramon Foster and/or cornerback William Gay. Maybe it’s going out and finding a dependable, veteran tight end who, if he doesn’t start in place of the young Jesse James, could be an upgrade over Matt Spaeth. How about finding a reserve defensive lineman that is an improvement over Cam Thomas?
None of these moves would get the Steelers added to any list of free-agent “winners,” but championships are won in January and February, not March and April.
A small ripple doesn’t have the same kind of initial impact as a big splash, but, in the long run, it can often be more effective.
Free agency go your head spinning? Check out our Steelers 2016 free agent tracker and/or click here to read all articles on our Steelers 2016 Free Agent Focus section.
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Big Play Willie Gay to Stay! Steelers Resign William Gay to 3 Year Contract
Posted on March 8, 2016 by KT Standard Reply
With the start of free agency less than 24 hours away, the Pittsburgh Steelers have left zero ambiguity over what their priorities are. The Steelers have resigned 3 of their own players. First came safety Robert Golden. Then wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey.
And now they’ve signed cornerback William Gay to a 3 year contract.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but William Gay communicated the word via his Instagram account and his agent confirmed it to members of the press.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCstanIjBUs/
The Steelers also confirmed the report on their website.
By resigning William Gay and Robert Golden, the Pittsburgh Steelers have locked down two of potential starters from their secondary before they even hit the free agent market. That still leaves the Steelers needing help at both safety and cornerback.
Veteran safety Will Allen could retire and Shamarko Thomas has little more than disappoint since the Steelers traded up to get him in the 2013 NFL Draft. At cornerback, Cortez Allen has been an even bigger disappointment while Brandon Boykin and Antwon Blake are both free agents. Behind them the Steelers have rookies Senquez Golsen and Doran Grant, neither of whom played a down in 2015.
In William Gay, the Steelers have battle tested veteran, who owns a Super Bowl ring and can command respect on and off the field.
What a Difference 4 Years Makes
Both William Gay and the Steelers have been here before. In 2011 following the NFL lockout, the Steelers offered Gay a second contract, but at the time Gay was a number 3 corner who’d struggled as a starter and essentially got a “prove it” contract.
Gay’s play improved tremendously in 2011, yet the Steelers let him walk because of promising development of Keenan Lewis and Cortez Allen.
Keenan Lewis developed as promised, but the Steelers had limited salary cap space and let Lewis go, banking heavily on on Cortez Allen surpassing Keenan Lewis.
Cortez Allen flashed at the end of 2013, but has struggled since then.
The Arizona Cardinals cut William Gay after one season, and the Steelers almost immediately resigned him. Although Gay was only getting 1.5 million per year, far below starter money for the Steelers, William Gay has been a veritable big play machine since returning five interceptions for touchdowns, which ties Rod Woodson‘s career total with the Steelers.
There is some risk in signing a 31 year old cornerback to a 3 year contract.
But skeptical fans should keep in mind that Rod Woodson intercepted 15 passes in the three seasons following his 31st birthday. Unfortunately, only six of those were with the Steelers as Tom Donahoe allowed him to depart as a free agent. To this day, Dan Rooney publicly regrets letting go of Rod Woodson.
While no one here is predicting a Hall of Fame career for William Gay, the Steelers have made sure he won’t follow Rod Woodson’s footsteps by playing some of his best ball in another uniform.
Shoulder Surgery May Jeopardize Senquez Golson Rookie Season
Posted on August 3, 2015 by KT Standard Reply
Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that Pittsburgh Steelers second round pick Senquez Golson could be facing shoulder surgery which would end his rookie season before it even begins.
The Steelers picked Golson in the 2015 NFL draft due to his tremendous ball-hawking skills, Golson nabbed 10 interceptions last year while playing for the Old Miss, despite his 5’9” size. While no one was projecting or expecting that Senquez Golson would push for a starting job, the Steelers had planed to use him in the slot.
Golson participated in all of the Steelers OTA’s and mini-camps without incident, but later informed coaches that he felt he injured his shoulder during those sessions.
Golson was one of 5 Steelers to begin training camp on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list, and has not suited up for practice.
Concern about the availability of Golson apparently contributed to the Steelers decision to trade for Brandon Boykin over the weekend. Brandon Boykin, like Golson, is another short cornerback who has a knack for coming down with the ball.
Golson to Continue Recent Steelers Rookie Tradition?
If Senquez Golson’s rookie season is lost to shoulder surgery it starts, he will be following in the footsteps of a number of prominent rookies during the Mike Tomlin era. In 2012, David DeCastro and Sean Spence both began the season on IR, although DeCastro returned late in the season. A year before Baron Batch’s rookie season ended on the fields of St. Vincents. Prior to that, Chris Scott, a 5th round draft pick from 2010, injured himself weight lifting in June of that year and was lost for the season.
Lawrence Timmons, Keenan Lewis, Frank “The Tank” Summers, Ryan Shazier and Markus Wheaton all saw their rookie seasons seriously curtailed by injuries.
Rookies losing valuable time to injuries is not “tradition” that anyone would wish to emulate, but unfortunately it does seem like it will continue in 2015 at the very least.
The Colbert Record: Steelers Third Round Draft History Under Kevin Colbert
Posted on May 1, 2015 by KT Standard Reply
Steel Curtain Rising’s annual installment of the Colbert Record began this morning with our evaluation of Kevin Colbert’s performance in the the Steelers 2010 Draft.
Now that the Steelers have drafted Bud Dupree with their first pick, focus shifts to day two of the 2015 NFL Draft which brings us to the third round. Accordingly, Steel Curtain Rising shines a light on Kevin Colbert’s draft record with third round picks.
True NFL Draft grades only come with years of hindsight
Tom Donahoe Leaves Kevin Colbert Tough Third Round Act to Follow
The NFL Draft’s third round is often called “the value round” as that is the spot in the draft where you still have a high probability of finding and impact player, yet the risk associated with missing on a third rounder is lower than the first and second rounds.
The NFL Draft’s third round was the Steelers money round during Tom Donahoe’s tenure.
Colbert’s predecessor simply excelled in the third round drafting Joey Porter, Hines Ward, Amos Zereoue, Mike Vrable, Jon Witman, Brenden Stai, Jason Gildon, Bam Morris, Andre Hastings, and.
Donahoe and Bill Cowher’s Steelers did draft a few busts in the third round – Kris Farris, Chris Conrad, Steven Conley and Paul Wiggins all come to mind, but looking look across the 8 Donahoe-Cowher drafts and you’ll literally cannot find a year in which the third round was a total loss for the Steelers.
How well has Kevin Colbert done by comparison? Time to find out.
Steelers 2000 3rd Round Draft Picks – Kendrick Clancy and Hank Poeat
Joel Steed remains an overlooked key to the 90’s Blitzburgh defenses, but his abrupt in January 2000 left newly arrived Kevin Colbert with a gaping hole to fill in the Steelers defense. First Colbert’s signed Kimo von Oelhoffen and second he drafted Kendrick Clancy in the third round of the 2000 NFL Draft.
Clancy played in nine games as a rookie. In 2001 he actually kept Casey Hampton on the bench – for three games, before yielding the starting spot. Clancy never started another game in Pittsburgh, but he played in 15 games in 2000 and 17 games in 2002 and 2003. The Steelers cut him in 2004, but brought him back after Hampton torn his ACL. Clancy went on to play – and start, for the Giants, Cardinals, and Saints, playing all the way until 2009.
It’s hard to call a guy a “bust” because he couldn’t beat out Casey Hampton and Kendrick Clancy certainly wasn’t a bad pick. But still you expect more from a third rounder. Grade: Serviceable Pickup
Kevin Colbert used his second third round pick in 2000 on Hank Poeat, a cornerback from Pitt. Yet Poeat’s primary contribution in Pittsburgh was as a kick returner, where he excelled as a rookie, returning a punt for a touchdown in the Steelers final game at Three Rivers Stadium.
But Poeat’s fortunes as a return man declined after 2000, and he never made an impact as a corner. The Steelers let him go after 2003, but Poteat played for Tampa Bay, New England, the New York Jets, and the Cleveland Browns until retiring in 2009. Grade: Disappointment
Steelers 2001 3rd Round Draft Pick – Forfeited
When the Steelers signed Will Wolford to play guard in 1996 his contract contained a stipulating that Wolford got an extra $500,000 if he got switched to tackle. The page of paper that that clause was typed on (yes, typed) got lost, but Dan Rooney remembered it, and the Steelers honored their word to Wolford.
Unfortunately, paying that extra $500,000 resulted in a salary cap violation, which the Steelers turned themselves in for. As a result, they lost their third round pick in 2001.
Steelers 2002 3rd Round Draft Pick – Chris Hope
The Steelers drafted Chris Hope in 2002 with an eye towards replacing Bret Alexander, who was turning 31. Hope neither started as a rookie nor as a sophomore, but earned a starting slot by his 3rd year, which was 2004 the year the Steelers went 15-1 and had the NFL’s number 1 defense.
Hope returned to start 16 regular season games in 2005 and started throughout the playoffs, playing his last game for the Steelers in Super Bowl XL. The Steelers never really felt that Hope was a long-term answer at safety – and Ryan Clark represented an upgrade there – but he did what a third round pick should do – develop into a reliable starter. Grade: Quality Value Pick
Steelers 2003 3rd Round Draft Pick – Traded to Kansas City
The Steelers didn’t have a third round pick in the 2003 NFL Draft because Kevin Colbert traded it to Kansas City, as part of moving up to take Troy Polamalu….
…That was perhaps his wisest draft day decision.
Steelers 2004 3rd Round Draft Pick – Max Starks
Kevin Colbert’s third round pick in the 2004 NFL Draft, Max Starks, has perhaps the most colorful history of any in the group.
Max Starks gets knocked around a lot. He even had doubters on both Bill Cowher’s final coaching staff in 2006, which carried over to Mike Tomlin’s initial staff in 2007. The Steelers front office disagreed, making Starks their transition player in 2008. The coaching staff was unmoved, starting the season with Starks on the bench in 2008, and even giving Trai Essex the initial nod when Marvel Smith went down in the critical Steelers 2008 road win over Jacksonville.
It says here that Max Starks saved the Steelers season in 2008. Arguably, he did it again in 2011 and one can shudder to think of what would have happened had the Steelers not brought him back in 2012. Max Starks started 2 in Super Bowl XL and again in Super Bowl XLIII. Can you really ask more of a third round pick? Grade: Quality Value Pick
Steelers 2005 3rd Round Draft Pick – Trai Essex
Kevin Colbert again went the tackle round in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft, this time picking Trai Essex.
Essex never developed into a full time starter at tackle, nor could he hold down the starting job at guard. But Trai Essex became a valuable 6th lineman who was able to back up at all five positions on the line. While that’s commendable, you do expect a third round pick to become a starter. Essex never quite fit that bill. Grade: Serviceable Pickup
Steelers 2006 3rd Round Draft Picks — Anthony Smith, Willie Reid
Bill Cowher’s last draft left a lot to be desired particularly in the third round. First the Steelers drafted Anthony Smith. Smith was a hard hitter.
But he was an even bigger prima donna, showboating after a big play in 2006, and then moronically guaranteeing victory prior to the Steelers game vs. New England in 2007, only to have Tom Brady torch him with relish. He also injured a player in during the 2008 training camp, drawing Mike Tomlin’s ire. There’s a word for players like this. Grade: Bust
Willie Reid, the Steelers second 3rd round pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, didn’t generate the ink that Anthony Smith did, but he was just as disappointing. He appeared in 1 game as a rookie returning 1 kick and 1 punt in a loss vs. San Diego. He returned six more kicks in 2007 and caught 4 passes in that season then was done. Grade: Bust
Steelers 2007 3rd Round Draft Pick – Matt Spaeth
Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin surprised a lot of people when they picked Matt Spaeth in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. And since that time it has become clear that the Steelers picked Matt Spaeth too early. That’s not a knock on Spaeth per se. It’s not his fault he was drafted so early. But he really never delivered value commensurate with his status as a third round pick.
Certainly, the Steelers have a quality second tight end in Matt Spaeth. His blocking has been a critical element to Le’Veon Bell’s success. And he’s far underutilized in the passing game. But third round picks should perform at a higher level. Grade: Serviceable Pickup
Steelers 2008 3rd Round Draft Pick – Bruce Davis
During training camp 2008, Jim Wexell reported in Steelers Digest that Mike Tomlin would pit Tony Hills and Bruce Davis together in one-on-ones while yelling, “I’m going to make a player out of one of you, I just don’t know which one yet.” The infamous Steelers 2008 Draft Class will go down as Colbert’s worst, with perhaps Bruce Davis serving as the poster boy.
As it turns out, Tomlin failed to make a player out of either man.
The Steelers drafted Bruce Davis as an outside linebacker, but he only played in 5 games on special teams, and he couldn’t cut it there. The Steelers wasted little time in cutting him in training camp the next summer. Davis resurfaced with the Raiders in 2010 and 2011 were he recorded 4 tackles in 10 games, and then Cincinnati in 2012 although he never played for the Bengals. Grade: Bust
Steelers 2009 3rd Round Draft Picks – Kraig Urbik, Mike Wallace, Keenan Lewis
As a rookie Kraig Urbik didn’t play a down, but the Steelers had high hopes for him as they saw great progress in his second summer at St. Vincents. Word was that Urbik, a guard, skills as a back up center were part of what sent Justin Hartwig to the waiver wire. Alas, Byron Leftwich’s preseason injury forced the Steelers to keep Charlie Batch on the roster, and that meant Urbik had to go.
The Steelers wanted to sneak him onto the practice squad, but the Buffalo Bills had other ideas. Urbik has started 53 of 69 games for them since then…. Grade: Farm Team
The Steelers knew Hines Ward’s time was coming to an end by 2009, and drafted Mike Wallace with the second of their 3 third round picks. While the decision not to offer Mike Wallace a long-term deal was controversial at the time, the Steelers wisdom in choosing Antoinio Brown instead has been vindicated.
But that doesn’t alter the evaluation of Mike Wallace as a draft pick, because he it was an excellent pick. Wallace made an immediate impact as a rookie, posted in inhuman yards-per-catch average in his first season as starter, and was a legit home run threat on every play. The drop off in his play during his second two years does impact his overall grade, but clearly Colbert made the right pick here. Grade: Over Performer
With their final 3rd round pick in 2009 NFL Draft the Steelers picked Keenan Lewis. Lewis was a late bloomer, as injuries ruined and Joe Burnett kept him off the field. 2010 was little better, as Lewis disappointed. Carnell Lake personally oversaw his rehabilitation, and Lewis began to work himself into a quality corner in 2011 and established himself as the starter by 2012.
The Steelers did get some value out of Lewis before he left via free agency, but just a little short of what you’d expect and need as a third round pick. Had he stayed in Pittsburgh, his grade would be higher, but this draft evaluation only covers performance of players as Steelers. Grade: Serviceable Pickup
Steelers 2010 3rd Round Draft Pick – Emmanuel Sanders
The third round pick in 2010 of Emmanuel Sanders got covered in our analysis of the Steelers 2010 NFL Draft. Emmanuel Sanders impressed coaches as a rookie, even keeping Antonio Brown on the bench early in the season, with Mike Tomlin invoking the “Two dogs one bone” metaphor. Sanders got hurt in Super Bowl XLV, and injury that Bruce Arians said hurt the team’s game plan.
Injuries limited Sanders in 2011 and then again in 2012, but he emerged as a full time starter in 2013 and made the most of his opportunity. The Steelers optned not to resign him, but Sanders was still a quality third round pickup. Grade: Quality Value Pick+
Steelers 2011 3rd Round Draft Pick – Curtis Brown
Super Bowl XLV made it glaringly clear that the Steelers needed to improve at cornerback, and Kevin Colbert addressed the position in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft by picking Curtis Brown….
…And he undoubtedly regrets the pick to this very day.
As a rookie, Brown forced a fumble during an ugly Steelers loss vs. Houston. He apparently played well on special teams, but it was Cortez Allen who saw action at corner. Brown never started a game, but saw a lot of action as a nickel back vs. San Diego in 2012, which was one of the most horrific performances by the Steelers of the Tomlin era. Brown only played in 7 games in 2013 and the Steelers gave up on him after that. Grade: Bust
Steelers 2012 3rd Round Draft Pick – Sean Spence
The Steelers had already parted ways with James Farrior and were looking to groom a replacement for Larry Foote by the time the 2012 NFL Draft arrived. Kevin Colbert picked Sean Spence out of Miami. Early in preseason, Spence looked like a stud in the making. Then disaster struck, costing Spence not only his rookie year, but also his sophomore year.
Nonetheless, Spence returned for his third season, and started nine games splitting time with Vince Williams after Ryan Shazier’s injury. Spence helped force a fumble in the Steelers 2nd quarter explosion vs. Houston, and recorded a sack vs. Cincinnati. Any formal grade on Spence will need to wait, but he looks like a solid pick up on Colbert’s part. Grade: Too Early To Tell
Steelers 2013 3rd Round Draft Pick – Markus Wheaton
Kevin Colbert drafted Markus Wheaton in the 2013 NFL Draft with an eye towards replacing Mike Wallace and the soon to depart Emmanuel Sanders. Wheaton did next to nothing as a rookie, but he did earn the starting nod in 2014 and turned in a solid season.
Wheaton might not have gotten the ink that Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant get, but he made a lot of key catches. Again, one season as a starter is NOT enough to evaluate a player, but right now he has the look of a quality value pick, if not more. Grade: Too Early to Tell
Steelers 2014 3rd Round Draft Pick – Dri Archer
The Steelers traded their 2014 third round pick to get Shamarko Thomas in 2013, but got a compensatory pick for losing Mike Wallace. They used it on Dri Archer, who was the fastest man in the 2014 NFL Draft. The Steelers idea was to use Archer as a kick returner and utility back/wide receiver in the mold of Eric Metcalf (yes, I just dated myself!)….
It’s way, way too early to write off Dri Archer, but his rookie year can only be described as disappointing. Grade: Too Early to Tell
Conclusion – Kevin Colbert’s Checkered Third Round Record
The NFL Draft’s third round has not been as kind to Kevin Colbert as it was Tom Donahoe. Which is OK, as Colbert’s money round has been the first round of the NFL Draft.
Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin discuss the Steelers Draft
Still, Colbert is charged with making the right pick in each round, and the record shows that he’s done it several times for the Steelers, most notably with Emmanuel Sanders, Chris Hope, Mike Wallace and Keenan Lewis.
However, Colbert has had his share of under performing third round picks, and he’s picked more than one outright bust with both Cowher and Tomlin (see Willie Reid Davis and Curtis Brown.)
While its too early to tell on some of his later picks, the arrow does appear to be trending up for Colbert’s third round record, but for now his grade must reflect a balance between his 3rd round successes and 3rd round failures. Grade: C+
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Steelers Secondary Coach Carnell Lake: Revisiting the “Lake Effect”
Posted on January 14, 2015 by KT Standard Reply
With Dick LeBeau officially out and Keith Butler officially in at defensive coordinator slot, focus should now shift to Steelers secondary coach Carnell Lake and the so-called “Lake Effect.”
No matter how Dick LeBeau apologists (of which I am one) attempt to dress it up, the Steelers defense has been in decline for years. While the question of whether aging talent or poor coaching fueled the decline is now irrelevant, the question of what actually defined the decline is not.
If you take total yards allowed as your metric of choice, the Steelers defense really only started to slip in 2013, having finished number 1 overall in 2011 and 2012, before slipping to 13th in 2013 and 18th in 2014.
But expand choice of metrics just a bit, and you’ll see that the roots of the Steelers decline on defense dig deeply into 2011. And there’s where the tale gets complicated….
Super Bowl XLV Exposes Steelers Secondary as Glaring Weakness
The 2011 NFL Lockout created an off season void, which Steelers Nation largely filled for itself by repeating what became accepted as iron-clad fact:
In Super Bowl XLV, Aaron Rodgers exposed the Steelers secondary and specifically its corners as Pittsburgh’s Achilles Heel.
It followed then that Bryant McFadden was a failure, Ike Taylor was slipping, Keenan Lewis was a bust, and William Gay a waste of a roster spot. Respected Steelers author and blogger, Tim Gleason aka “Mary Rose” of Behind the Steel Curtain went so far as to suggest that Art Rooney II order Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin to take a cornerback in the first round of the draft.
It was settled then. The Steelers needed to upgrade at corner, and they need to do it fast….
Steelers Pass Defense Rebounds in 2011 and 2012. But…
2011’s Debacle in Baltimore introduced “Old, Slow and Done” into NFL’s lexicon for discussing the Steelers. Yet it only 4 games into the season my friend and colleague at BTSC Ivan Cole (full disclosure, I also write for BTSC) noted a trend.
The Steelers pass defense wasn’t playing so badly. And in fact William Gay was playing pretty well. And Keenan Lewis, who’d been written off as a draft-day mistake, began to show signs of life. Ivan had a name for this. He called it, “The Lake Effect.”
Gauging the role of position coaches in player development is tricky.
Yet Carnell Lake’s tutelage undoubtedly had an impact on these young men’s careers.
Another BTSC scribe, Rebecca Rollet, documented how Steelers coaches had essentially given up on Keenan Lewis before Lake arrived on the South Side.
Today William Gay is the unquestioned leader of the Steelers secondary, boasting more pick sixes in a season than Mel Blount had in his career, while fans (and perhaps the front office as well as the coaches) universally lament letting Keenan Lewis get away.
Beyond those individual accomplishments, during the first two seasons following Lake’s arrival, the Steelers pass defense ranked number despite the absence of a consistent pass rush.
So Carnell Lake is an unqualified success as Steelers secondary coach right? Not so fast.
Turnovers Scarce for Steelers Secondary
Another trend emerged in 2011 alongside the “Lake Effect,” and it’s one that continues today – namely a chronic inability on the part of the Steelers defense to produce turnovers. Interceptions are only one half of the turnover equation, they’re an important part.
And while interceptions can come from the defensive line or linebackers, often to great effect (see Brett Keisel vs. Houston), they’re the primary responsibility of the secondary. Numbers do not like on that measure, Lake doesn’t look so good:
Picks in short supply for Steelers secondary
Graphically, the trends are even more dramatic (note, inverse values have been used to chart the Steelers NFL rank in order to achieve visual congruity):
Steelers interceptions, by number and by rank
Looking at the numbers as a whole, it is clear that Pittsburgh has had trouble intercepting the ball throughout Tomlin’s tenure, with 2008 and 2010 standing out as exceptions. But even if the roots of the problem stretch back to Ray Horton’s tenure as defensive coordinator, the Steelers worst performances have come during Lake’s time.
In another era, the term “Number One Defense” meant yards allowed. But today, both thanks to information technology and to the way the game’s evolved itself, defenses are measured by points allowed and increasingly, by their ability to take the ball away.
The Steelers have struggled to do that. The struggle didn’t begin with Carnell Lake, but he hasn’t improve the situation either.
Of Cortez, Brice and Blake….
Cortez Allen was an unmitigated disaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2014. He was supposed to be the secondary’s savior, instead he was put on injured reserve because the team needed his roster spot. Shamarko Thomas was also expected to push for time at safety, but couldn’t get off special teams. While it is unfair to hang that on Lake’s neck, neither Allen nor Thomas are not one of his success stories…
For those you can look to the men who played in their places.
Brice McCain and Antwon Blake arrived at Latrobe as two players salvaged from the NFL’s scrapheap fighting for a roster spot. They finished the regular season by making the turnovers the Steelers needed to secure victory over the Bengals, and ultimately the AFC North Championship.
Again, we don’t know how much impact Lake’s had in their growth.
But we do know its Lake’s job to guide it, and he didn’t bat an eye in mentioning Blake’s name when asked why the Steelers didn’t take a corner early in the 2014 NFL Draft. Do two better than expected corners make up for the Cortez Allen disappointment? Do they vindicate Mr. Cole’s “Lake Effect Thesis.”
But Keith Butler is going to need to find a way to get the Steelers to produce more turnovers, and he’ll need to determine of Carnell Lake is capable of coaching the secondary to help do that. Butler’s choice will be interesting.
Keenan Lewis Returns to Pittsburgh; Should the Steelers Have Kept Him?
Posted on November 30, 2014 by KT Standard Reply
Keenan Lewis returns to Pittsburgh with the Saints this weekend, which begs the question – should the Steelers have kept him?
The answer doesn’t require a lot of football wisdom, nor does one need the proverbial “20/20 hindsight to answer it.”
The answer was crystal clear in during the Steelers 2013 off season – in a perfect world the Steelers should have and probably would have resigned Lewis.
The Steelers drafted Lewis in the 3rd round of the 2009 NFL draft, but his first year in Pittsburgh was lost to injury. Lewis struggled in his second year, but under the tutelage of Carnell Lake, Lewis showed signs of life in 2011, and had a breakout season in 2012.
Ike Taylor had played well in 2012, but was already pushing 33 in a position that is decidedly a young man’s game.
In pure football terms, bringing back Lewis would have been a no-brainer.
The problem was the Steelers only had 2 million dollars in salary cap space, the 4th worst in the NFL. To gain breathing room the Steelers needed to restructure multiple contracts, and cut James Harrison and cut Willie Colon.
This forced Kevin Colbert and Omar Khan to delve into the NFL’s variant of “Dollar Ball.”
They resigned William Gay and they placed their faith in the development Cortez Allen, who in just 3 starts accounted for six turnovers.
Personnel success in the salary cap isn’t about simple talent evaluation, its about getting the best bang for your salary cap buck. By signing Gay instead of even more painful salary cap cuts needed to make an offer to Lewis, Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomin gambled that they’d come out ahead.
As Keenan Lewis returns to Pittsburgh, its time to put that decision under the microscope
Keenan Lewis, Cortez Allen, Ike Taylor and William Gay Compared
Lewis, Allen, Taylor and Gay Compared, 2012-2014
Keenan Lewis had a very strong year in 2013 for the Saints, coming down with four picks and 1 forced fumble. There’s an irony there, because the word was the Steelers brass favored Allen precisely because he was better at creating turnovers.
Allen, for his part has four picks between 2013 and 2014, and had an equal number of passes defensed in 2013. Still, those numbers do not indicate his struggles, particularly in this year where he’s been so bad he got benched.
However, judging by the numbers, here in 2014 Lewis play has dropped off. He’s got only 1 interception and as many passes defensed as Allen.
Ike Taylor struggled in 2013 in ways the numbers don’t show. Here in 2014 he played well vs. Baltimore and was strong vs. Carolina, but has been hurt since then. While its no indictment on him as a player, you don’t get much for your salary cap buck when your guys are in street clothes on the sideline.
William Gay presents the most interesting case of all four.
With a cap number of 1.6 million, Gay is easily the cheapest of the four and perhaps his production has been the most consistent. Gay’s had 2 pick sixes this year, another in 2013, and while his pass defense numbers don’t look good, he made a key stop vs. Cleveland in the opener.
So as Keenan Lewis returns to Pittsburgh, it is still fair to say the Steelers should have signed him, but its also fair to say that in salary cap terms they’ve managed well nonetheless – although that analysis could change in future years. It is an open question as to whether Allen rebounds from a bad 2014, but his salary cap number is headed up regardless.
Steelers Defense “Band Back Together” vs. Saints – Is That a Good Thing…?
For the Steelers Defense, the “Band Is Back Together” vs. the Saints as, something will occur that has not happened since Pittsburgh’s 2012 road victory vs. Baltimore – Ike Taylor, James Harrison, Troy Polamalu, William Gay, and Brett Keisel will play together once again.
It’s an interesting twist of fate for a franchise that worked diligently to shake the “Old, slow and done” moniker that followed the 2011 opening day Debacle in Baltimore.
Does it, however, mean that the Steelers youth movement on defense has in fact failed?
On the surface, that’s the easy conclusion. Ziggy Hood was drafted to replace Aaron Smith and fell short. They Steelers brought a lot of young defensive lineman to Latrobe, but ended up bringing Keisel back.
At 36, Brett Keisel is Still Going Strong
Keenan Lewis was good enough to start at corner, but the Steelers lacked the salary cap space to sign him. They resigned William Gay instead, while Cortez Allen has been benched.
Troy Polamlau signed a multi-year extension the day before the Debacle in Baltimore, and rightly or wrongly many characterized Polamalu’s deal as a mistake.
James Harrison of course left Pittsburgh, played for Cincinnati, retired and unretired and he’s now tied for the team lead in sacks.
Again, at first glance, it doesn’t look good.
As usual however, things are not as simple as they seem.
On the defensive line, while Kesiel has played well enough to open the door for his return in 2015, the Steelers are working in Daniel McCullers and Stephon Tuitt into the line up – a rarity for rookies in Johnny Mitchell’s defensive line. Don’t count out youth yet.
There was always an injury risk factor in bringing back Polamalu, but Troy has played well. His heir apparent, Shamarko Thomas has been hurt, which while bad, isn’t something you can “blame” on Mike Tomlin or Kevin Colbert.
Jarvis Jones was playing well before he got hurt, and the paucity of depth at outside linebacker forced the Steelers to break the glass and bring back Harrison. There are questions about what the Steelers will do with Jason Worilds, but again its way too early to write Jones off as a bust.
The real sticking point is at corner. Where fate and faith both seem to have failed the Steelers, which Steel Curtain Rising will take up tomorrow….
Steelers Extend Contract of Cortez Allen for 5 Years
Posted on September 7, 2014 by KT Standard Reply
The Pittsburgh Steelers are about as conservative (in the non-political sense) of an organization as you can find. No cheerleaders. Decal on 1 side of the helmet. A single head coach press conference during the week.
But no one can accuse Kevin Colbert for lacking a flair for the dramatic.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have had a regular season contract negotiation black-out policy since 1993 that they never violate. So it appeared that the Steelers would take to the field vs. the Cleveland Browns without extending Cortez Allen’s contract.
However, the two sides have a agreed to a 5 year 26 million dollar deal.
This mark’s the second time in three years that the Steelers have had an 11th hour contract signing. In 2011, prior to the Debacle in Baltimore, Troy Polamalu signed his contract extension at the airport prior to departing for Charm City.
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The Steelers drafted Cortez Allen in fourth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Allen showed promise on special teams, and even worked into the team’s Dime packages, seeing significant playing time in the Steelers 2011 upset of the New England Patriots.
Allen was expected to push for a starting job in 2012, but was held off by Keenan Lewis, who budded into top NFL corner during the course of the season. However, injuries to Ike Taylor brought Allen into the starting lineup during the end of 2012, and in just 5 quarters of play, Allen forced 5 turnovers.
With Allen on the rise, and the Steelers mired in salary cap purgatory, Keenan Lewis walked as the Steelers opted instead to resign William Gay. Allen won the starting job in 2013, but was injured vs. Tennessee in the opener (who wasn’t?), and didn’t regain his penchant for splash plays until the end of the year when an Allen pick six helped put the Steelers over the top vs. the Packers.
While Cortez Allen’s 2013 season was inconsistent, his 3 year totals see him out performing Lewis and are on par with Ike Taylor’s (note, the totals in the graphic above are for 3 years, not four.)
Prior to signing this contract, Allen was scheduled to be a free agent at the end of this season. As the off season began, Art Rooney II declared that the team would wait to extend quarterback Ben Roethlisberger‘s contract in favor of renewing other deals.
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Cortez Allen at the Crossroad – Kevin Colbert’s Choice
Posted on July 7, 2014 by KT Standard Reply
Once upon a time, the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted a cornerback in the third round.
His rookie year he mainly played special teams, but even then flashed greatness. Coaches and fans alike expected great things going into year two, yet the up and coming 3rd rounder failed to crack the starting lineup. Nonetheless, in his third year he did earn a starting slot, and even began shadowing opponents’ top receiver.
Inconsistency aside, the third rounder left the Steelers with a difficult choice.
Six years later, the Steelers took another corner in the third round. He little as a rookie year, sitting behind sixth rounder. He played more in his second year, but disappointed nonetheless. Many coaches wrote him off as a lost cause. Yet, in his third year, his play improve dramatically, leaving the Steelers with another difficult choice….
If you haven’t guessed it already, the two third round corners in question are none other than Ike Taylor and Keenan Lewis, and the choice they both left the Steelers was whether or not to commit long-term money based on a three year body of work.
The Steelers ponied up big money to lock Ike Taylor down long-term, prior to the 2006 season
And although he faltered in that campaign, earning himself a slot of Bill Cowher’s dog house, he bounced back with Mike Tomlin’s arrival and the organization hasn’t looked back since.
The Steelers declined to offer Keenan Lewis a long-term deal and allowed him to play out the final year of his rookie contract. Lewis blossomed into an good if not great NFL corner in his fourth year.
The Steelers, hamstrung in salary cap purgatory, were unable to make Lewis and offer, Lewis left, and Steelers Nation has suffered buyers remorse since.
All This Has Happened Before, and Will Again…
This experience is important, because Kevin Colbert is now faced with a very similar situation with yet another inconsistent, yet up and coming corner in the form of Cortez Allen.
The Steelers drafted Cortez Allen out of the Citadel in the 4th round of the 2011 NFL Draft. Unlike Taylor and Lewis, Cortez Allen saw playing time as a rookie, play a key role in the defensive effort that led to the Steelers Halloween upset of the New England Patriots.
Allen made a bull rush at Keenan Lewis for the starting job, but Lewis held him off. Allen’s name didn’t get mentioned much during the disappointing 2012 season, yet as the rest of the team was floundering, Allen flourished. Vs. the Bengals, Allen picked off two passes and forced a fumble, and vs. the Browns Allen forced two more fumbles.
In two games, Allen single handedly accounted for the lion’s share of the Steelers takeaways.
Even if that stat says a lot about the Steelers defense chronic inability to generate turnovers, it also shows Allen’s game-changing potential, and that was one reason why the Steelers let Lewis go.
Yet, like Taylor and Lewis before him, Cortez Allen has weaved threads of inconsistency into his own story.
Allen won the starting job was expected during Steelers 2013 training camp, yet got injured vs. Tennessee. His return in London vs. the Vikings is something that Steelers Nation would rather forget as he managed to both get burned and miss tackles on long touchdown plays.
Indeed, as the Steelers began their rebound, it was William Gay, (dubbed “Big Play Willie Gay” by my friend Tony Defeo), who won the accolades as Allen reverted to the bench. But Allen didn’t take his demotion sitting down, and recorded two interceptions and a crucial pick-six in the win over Green Bay.
What to Do About Allen?
Since the advent of free agency in 1993, the Steelers have made it their practice to resign the players the want to keep in the final year of their contracts. On a few occasions, think Levon Kirkland and of course Kordell Stewart, this has gotten them into commitments to players who ultimately proved unworthy.
But by an large, the philosophy has paid the Steelers dividends both on the field and on the salary cap ledger.
Now they need to decide if they want to do the same with Allen.
Some number are helpful
Cortez Allen compared to Taylor, Lewis
Of the three players, Ike Taylor had both the most solid body of work and the most consistent line of development. Lewis’ first two years were for naught, and his third year while solid, hardly projected “spectacular.”
However, compared to Lewis, Allen’s third year was gang busters, and while he’s lacked Taylor’s consistency, he arguably authored more splash plays in his limited time than Taylor’s entire career – save of course for Super Bowl XL.
The Steelers also have greater salary cap flexibility here in the summer of 2014 than they did in the summer of 2010.
Curtain’s Call
There are no guarantees in pro football. But Ike Taylor is probably playing is final year, and William Gay is the only other Steelers cornerback with experience. The Steelers aren’t going to offer nor will Cortez Allen’s agent allow him to sign, a low-ball, long term offer. Yet, the Steelers almost certainly keep him off the market in July or August 2014 for far less than he will command in come March 2015.
Ultimately, Carnell Lake, Dick LeBeau and Mike Tomlin know Allen and his work habits.
If he is in fact as diligent as he’s said to be, then the Steelers would be wise to resign him this off season.
The Colbert Record: 0 for 0 – Steelers 2008 vs. 2009 Draft – Do Numbers Lie?
Posted on April 29, 2014 by KT Standard 2
“Numbers never lie. But sometimes they fail to tell the full story.”
That bit of dictum has been thrown around a lot here on Steel Curtain Rising. And the conventional wisdom on the Steelers 2008 and 2009 drafts reveals why it is so relevant. Exhibit A:
Take a look at the Steelers 2008 and 2009 drafts. Pretty pathetic. http://t.co/xibAOvbOPQ
— John Steigerwald (@Steigerworld) March 13, 2014
John Steigerwald’s logic seems irrefutable. The 2014 Steelers will field exactly ZERO members from either of their 2008 and 2009 drafts, ergo Pittsburgh has done a petty pathetic job of picking players. Steigerwald is known for his bare knuckles, semi-sensationalistic style, but he’s got company.
Traditional meat and potatoes beat writer Ed Bouchette, but began a recent column declaring the Steelers had laid two eggs in these drafts.
The ghosts of the 2008 draft and 2009 draft haunted the Steelers during their twin 8-8 seasons and arguably in their ’11 season too. Steelers Nation might hear echoes of those ghosts in 2014 too.
But even if we do, there’s a stark difference in the quality of those two drafts. Mark Kabloy gets it.
@Steigerworld Actually, 2009 draft was great. 7 are still in league; 4 are starters; 2 are making a ton of money … just not with steelers
— Mark Kaboly (@MarkKaboly_Trib) March 13, 2014
An more accurate description of the two drafts might be “The Wash and the One That Got Away.”
’08 Draft Puts Pittsburgh Behind Eight Ball
Little more need be said here about the Steelers 2008 Draft. With Ryan Mundy and Rashard Mendenhall’s departure’s last year, the 2008 draft’s status shifted from disappointing to “Loss.”
Mendenhall’s retirement is the only change leaving Mundy as the lone member still in the NFL.
Outside of those two, neither the Steelers nor the NFL got anything. Limas Sweed, Bruce Davis, and Tony Hills were unmitigated busts.
Steelers 2009 Draft, the One that Got Away
The record reflects that Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin, despite the handicap of picking last in each round, picked some pretty good players in 2009. The Steelers even got some value out of them. The problem is the rest of the NFL is getting more.
It might be unfair, but one player can and sometimes does define a draft.
Look no further than 2004 when the Steelers got Ben Roethlisberger. That pick alone makes the draft an unqualified success, even if Max Starks was the only other player of consequence taken then.
First round picks don’t necessarily define a draft, 2002 was Kevin Colbert’s best all around but Kendall Simmons was far from the most valuable player taken. So it’s unfair to heap disappointment on Ziggy Hood, but it happens nonetheless. Had Hood grow into the player he teased he might have been in late 2010, perceptions would be different.
Alas, Hood’s late 2010 surge was a flash instead of a sustainable stride.
Ziggy Hood wasn’t a bust. He just wasn’t good enough for a first round pick. And in that sense Hood does set the tone for the value the Steelers realized from the 2009 draft – Too little or too late or too little shelf life.
Too Short of a Shelf Life
Mike Wallace falls into the too little shelf life category. For all his faults, Wallace is a legit home run threat, and delivered great value as a third round pick.
Mike Wallace was a fantasy owners wet dream.
But fantasy stats don’t show things like refusing to contest underthrown balls that instead get intercepted. Knowing that, the Steelers were happy to let Miami overpay. It was a smart move, but it is also requiring them to look to the draft for more receivers.
David Johnson was another with too short a shelf life. A versatile player, he was working himself into a model “late round pick makes good” story until injuries ruined his 2012 and 2013 seasons. Now he’s in San Diego.
A.Q. Shipley falls into this category by default. A Penn State player with local ties, Kevin Colbert justified the pick of someone short on measurable saying you couldn’t measure a man’s heart. He stayed on the Steelers 2009 practice squad, but declined a futures contract when his coach Larry Zierlin left. He’s now starting in Baltimore….
Too Late….
Keenan Lewis’ rookie year was marred by injuries. During his second year he was most notable famous for smashing a sign in Denver. By 2011, according to Rebecca Rollet’s report at Behind the Steel Curtain, the coaches had given up.
However, new arrival Carnell Lake wasn’t hearing any of it.
Took him under his wing. Lewis contributed as a nickel and dime back in 2011 and established himself as a pass defense demon in 2012. Alas, the Steelers were caught short in salary cap space and had to let him walk without an offer. If only the Steelers had gotten something out of him sooner….
Kraig Urbik’s story shifted from “just in time” to “too late” in the matter of 1 game, thanks to Byron Leftwich’s sprained knee. The move forced the Steelers to keep Charlie Batch, cutting Urbik instead. That was a shame, because Urbik had made the second year leap, having shown something at guard and knocked Justin Hartwig down to third on the depth chart at center.
The Steelers thought they could sneak Urbik on to the practice squad, but Dough Waley knew better and now Urbik is starting for Buffalo.
Too Little…
Frank “The Tank” Summers was the draft pick with the catchy name in 2009. His lone moment as a Steeler was a very poor block in the backfield followed by “back surgery.” He got beaten out in camp in 2010, hung around on practice squads, and now he is the Bills fullback.
Joe Burnett looked good in camp in 2009 and got into the line up late in the year, but was famous more for dropped interception than anything else. Couldn’t make the final roster in 2010 and had no practice squad eligibility.
When the Steelers cut Sunny Harris at the end of camp, and Ed Bouchette compared him Dwaine Board (although he denied it later). Harris got picked up by Carolina, resigned by Pittsburgh, spent time on the Steelers practice squad in 2010, and was cut in 2011 but picked up by Houston. Low expectations await 6th round picks, but Harris ultimately fell short of those.
Steelers Loss is NFL’s Gain
At its core, the story of the Steelers 2009 reveals the complex, non-scientific, nature of personnel decision making in the NFL, and proves that timing and “luck” are often the ultimate trump cards.
7 players still in the NFL, at least 4 starting and two playing on big 2nd contracts say that the Steelers made pretty good picks in 2009.
The problem is the rest of the NFL can attest to the fact from 1st hand experience.
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Martin Andersson started his martial arts career 1983 with traditional martial arts but slided over to boxing in 1984 and soon after kickboxing and muaythai. Martin is noted as an pioneer in north-swedish kickboxing and muaythai history as he founded the first kickboxing and muaythai club in north of Sweden; Fullcontact Center in 1987. The club was approved membership in the Swedish kickboxing federation 1988 and has that year as it´s offical start. In 1991 Martin expanded and founded a second club; this time in Hälsingland, about 100 km from Martins home.
The two clubs later on fusioned as the time where not enough for running two clubs; today Martin still runs the club in Hälsingland, the oldest club in north-sweden. On the 9:th of november 2004 the club where elected as members of Ironman Sweden and changed its name to Ironman Nordanstig.
Martin did compete regularly from the middle of the eightys to the middle of the nightys and did about 40 fights in kickboxing, to this he also compete in muaythai and boxing. The best qualifications are two silver medals from the Swedish Kickboxing Championships (lightheavyweight division in 1992 and -93). During later years Martin has “tested” to fight under sanshou rules as well just for fun, and held the second place in the Swedish ranking championships 2005 (-85 kg). Today Martin coach a very successful team with such great fighters as Patrik Enros (undefeted in both kickboxing and muaythai –74 kg), Fredrik Nilsson (earlier ranked no. 1 in Sweden –94 kg), Glenn “Thunder” Wadell (ranked no.2 in Sweden –89 kg) and of course Josefine “Honkey tonk woman” Olsson (WTKA World Champion 2006 –65 kg, ISKA European Champion 2007 –63 kg and ranked no.1 in the world by the International Kickboxing Federation –64,5 kg) to name a few. Martin has also promoted serveral kickboxing and muaythai events including the huge september-cup for the Swedish national kickboxing federation that had about 70 fighters on the enterylist.
During the years Martin has been lucky to have meet and train with serveral legends in kickboxing and muaythai such as Gilbert Ballentine, Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Master Khanchai and several others. Martin was also the first person in north-sweden to obtain 1:st dan black belt in kickboxing; he holds today 5:th dan. He also holds a brown level in muaythai and are approved to grade students in the art of muaythai by the International muaythai federation amateur trough the Swedish muaythai federation.
GARY HACKMAN
AHMED ARABACI
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Details of Drama Surrounding Lena Dunham’s Dog Lamby
Lena Dunham and Lamby, her dog , have been all over the news lately. She rehomed her dog of more than four years and the internet is up in arms about it.
There are varying reasons about this rehoming story. But what actually happened? Keep reading to get more info.
Who is Lena Dunham? .
In case you are clueless, Lena Dunham is the former founder and Star of Girls. The hit HBO series launched her from daughter of wealthy Manhattan parents and Oberlin alum to a bonafide feminist as well as body-positivity jack-of -all-trades.
She’s had her lots of controversy over the years. However, most of her controversy is self-inflicted because she often uses social media to confess and comment. Her animals have also been caught up in the cross-fire.
Dunham has been in the news since not just one but three of her animals have left her home for good. Her cat Gia Mari died all over sudden and her Yorkie, Bowie died a few weeks ago.
Then Lamby, the most known of her pets and Dunham’s first dog rescue. Dunham rehomed the dog last year following four years of what she asserts was unmanageable and aggressive behaviour. However, this story isn’t adding up, so learn more about the dog’s narrative and what happened here.
Lamby’s History.
Lamby was adopted by Dunham from a rescue in New York known as BARC Shelter about five years ago. Lamby was her only pet for years. It made numerous appearances on her Instagram and on several late night talk shows.
Although Dunham would occasionally refer to behavioral issues like drinking its urine, the dog seemed both friendly and social.
Where is Lamby Now? .
Lamby was adopted by someone who worked in the training facility that Dunham sent the dog. But why did that happen? .
Dunham claims that after years of staying with Lamby, she simply could not offer him the kind of home where he could thrive or handle his aggressive behavior.
She also claims on social media, that the dog had three previous owners before her and had been abused. This is where the drama starts since the folks at BARC have a different story.
They assert that the dog’s first home gave the reason that they had no time to take care of the dog. Additionally, the shelter also points out that this is the only info they had on the dog or that Dunham was given on her dog’s history.
Additional Dunham’s Pet Drama.
The problems Dunham has lately had with her other pets further exacerbate the Lamby drama. As aforementioned, her dog and cat passed away recently.
But what has people bothered is the fact that Dunham has adopted two Poodles that are rumored to be non-rescues. People are now wondering what is wrong inside her residence.
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Matricaria chamomilla L.
German chamomile, more...Wild Chamomile, mayweed
[Chamomilla chamomilla (L.) Rydb., more, Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rauschert, Matricaria chamomilla var. coronata (J. Gay) Coss. & Germ., Matricaria recutita L., Matricaria suaveolens L.]
Gleason & Cronquist
Indiana Flora
Luc Brouillet in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21)
Annuals, (2-)8-60(-80) cm; aromatic (when bruised). Stems 1-8+, erect or ascending, branched distally. Leaf blades 5-78 × 3-18 mm. Heads radiate, (1-)8-120(-900), borne singly. Peduncles (5-)20-50(-75+) mm. Involucres 2-3.2 mm. Phyllaries 34-42+ in 3 series, margins entire or distally erose. Receptacles (with reddish brown, longitudinal mucilaginous glands), 4-6 mm, acute to obtuse. Ray florets [1] (10-)14-26; corollas white, tubes narrowly winged, laminae soon deflexed, 7-8.5 × 2.4-3.3 mm. Discs obovoid or spheroid to ovoid, 5-7 × 5-9.5 mm. Disc florets 250-570+; corollas yellow to greenish yellow, 1.6-1.8 mm, lobes 5. Cypselae tan, obconic, 0.75-0.9 mm, ribs white, 3 abaxial, 2 nearly marginal, faces glandular; pappi usually 0, sometimes coroniform (entire or lobed) or (ray florets) toothed auricles as long as or longer than cypselae [minute crowns]. 2n = 18. Flowering spring. Dry roadsides, railroads, other waste places; 0-2700 m; introduced; Greenland; Alta., B.C., Man., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Ont., Que., Sask.; Ala., Ariz., Ark., Calif., Conn., D.C., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.Y., N.Dak., Ohio, Oreg., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va., Wash., Wis.; Eurasia. Matricaria chamomilla has numerous, and ages-old, usages, particularly as herb tea, as a natural medicine, and for pharmaceutical extracts. It has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti-allergic, and sedative properties. It is grown commercially on all continents. Reports for New Brunswick have not been confirmed, all specimens having been redetermined to Anthemis cotula (H. R. Hinds 2000). Although the name Matricaria chamomilla has been considered to be misapplied (e.g., S. Rauschert 1974; A. Cronquist 1994; E. G. Voss 1972-1996, vol. 3), W. L. Applequist (2002) argued convincingly that the name is indeed correctly applied to the taxon described here. Among the North American material, specimens with coronate ray cypselae (var. chamomilla), or wholly without coronas [var. recutita (Linnaeus) Grierson] have been encountered but none with fully coronate cypselae (var. coronata J. Gay ex Boissier), even though synonymy under this name includes M. courrantiana, reported for Texas and New Mexico (specimens not seen). The varieties may not be worth recognizing (Applequist; Q. O. N. Kay 1976) and are not treated formally here.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Glabrous branching aromatic annual 2-8 dm; lvs 2-6 cm, bipinnatifid, the ultimate segments linear or filiform; heads ±numerous, the disk 6-10 mm wide; invol bracts all evidently scarious-margined; rays 10-20, 4-10 mm; disk-cors 5-toothed; receptacle conic, acute; achenes as described in the key; 2n=18. Native of Eurasia, now widely intr. along roadsides and in waste places in N. Amer., but less common than no. 1 [Matricaria maritima L.]. (M. chamomilla, misapplied)
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Le Pen’s moment is now, not in 2022 — but she’s already blown it
Marine Le Pen campaigns on the south coast of France. (Facebook)
Every piece of election-related data we have suggests Emmanuel Macron will win this weekend’s presidential runoff in France and, by the standards of most political contests, it will be a landslide — perhaps a victory of more than 20%.
But it comes with a sense of disquiet, even among Macron’s supporters.
Part of it is lingering anxiety from last June’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s presidential election last November. That’s understandable. But the polls are far more slanted in Macron’s favor than they ever were for ‘Remain’ or for Hillary Clinton.
Polls haven’t been enough to stop niggling doubts that Marine Le Pen might somehow win just enough center-right voters, while just enough leftist voters are too disillusioned to vote for the aggressively centrist Macron, to score an upset victory. But pluralities of the supporters of third-placed conservative former prime minister François Fillon and fourth-placed hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon alike say they will support Macron in the July 7 runoff.
RELATED: Why France’s election result is still more of the same
Macron’s campaign for the last week, too, has been somewhat tone-deaf. Of course, a candidate who comes from the political and financial elite might have rethought holding an election-night party at a posh Paris bistro. Le Pen crashed his campaign stop last week at a Whirlpool factory, forcing a sheepish Macron to spend an hour talking to working-class voters. Macron, ultimately, spent far more time trying to engage the workers than Le Pen, who posed for some selfies. But the stunt worked — and made Macron look defensive.
There, too, is a sense that Le Pen’s endorsement from right-wing presidential contender Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and a handful of stragglers on the French right (along with Mélenchon’s refusal to endorse Macron) lacks the urgency of the broad ‘republican front’ that met the shock 2002 French runoff between Jacques Chirac and Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
2022. Continue reading Le Pen’s moment is now, not in 2022 — but she’s already blown it →
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Why France’s election result is still ‘more of the same’
April 24, 2017 Kevin Lees 3 Comments
Emmanuel Macron’s first-round victory and wide polling lead against Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election all but assures him of victory in the runoff on May 7. (Facebook)
After a roller-coaster presidential election, the first-round results came with little surprise — almost exactly as pollsters predicted.
French voters will choose in a May 7 runoff between two presidential contenders who increasingly embody the two dominant political views of the 2010s: cosmopolitan liberalism and protectionist nationalism.
The frontrunner, Emmanuel Macron, is a former economy minister who got his start in politics under outgoing president François Hollande and a former member of the Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party) running as an independent centrist under his formed En marche movement.
His opponent is Front national leader Marine Le Pen, who is waging a hard-right nationalist campaign opposed to globalization, European integration, immigration and the creeping influence of Islam on secular France. Though they may not carry the banners of the two major parties of French politics, in key ways, Macron and Le Pen represent less rupture and ‘more of the same.’
2017 runoff set to unfold much like 2002’s election
Almost certainly, French voters will choose Macron as their next president by a wide margin in 15 days — he has held a consistent and durable polling lead of more than 20% against Le Pen.
The third-placed candidate, former conservative prime minister François Fillon, of Les Républicains, has already endorsed Macron in the runoff (though former president Nicolas Sarkozy, sharply, has not). So has Benoît Hamon, the official Socialist candidate, and Hollande followed suit today. Former prime minister Manuel Valls, the runner-up to Hamon for the Socialist nomination in January, had already endorsed Macron in the first round. Hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not yet endorsed Macron over Le Pen, but Pierre Laurent, the head of France’s Communist Party, has already done so.
Continue reading Why France’s election result is still ‘more of the same’ →
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The six possible runoffs that could result from France’s Sunday election
A welcome ceremony at the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the French president. (radututa / 123rf)
On Sunday, voters in France — soon to be the second-most populous member-state of the European Union — will decide the two finalists, out of a field of 11, who will battle for the French presidency next month.
Since February, polls have consistently shown centrist independent Emmanuel Macron and hard-right Marine Le Pen, the leader of the eurosceptic and anti-immigrant Front national, most likely to advance to the May 7 runoff. Macron, a former economy minister in outgoing president François Hollande’s administration, has waged an unorthodox and personalized campaign, pulling supporters from both the center-right and the center-left under the banner of a new political movement, En marche (Forward).
Le Pen, who has somewhat toned down the rhetoric of the party that her father founded in 1972, remains a hard-right warrior championing economic nationalism, with plenty of attacks on the European Union, the scourge of Islam and the woes of immigration. It’s a stand that may yet boost her in the wake of a terrorist strike that killed two policemen on the Champs-Élysées Thursday night in the heart of Paris, as even US president Donald Trump noted early Friday morning.
RELATED: If Mélenchon surges into unlikely runoff, it won’t come from last-minute leftist unity
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One-time front runner François Fillon, the candidate of the center-right Les Républicains, leaped into a strong lead last November after defeating former president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Alain Juppé for the Republican nomination. Since February, however, Fillon has dropped to third place after police opened a formal investigation into whether Fillon used over €800,000 in public funds to pay his wife (Penelope) and his children for essentially ‘fake’ jobs — popularly known as ‘Penelopegate.’ Refusing to drop out, however, Fillon — a social conservative and Thatcherite liberal who served as Sarkozy’s prime minister for five years — has waged an energetic and defiant campaign, even under the cloud of corruption charges.
Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has surged in the polls after strong performances in two debates in March/April sent left-wing voters swooning. The far-left candidate of La France insoumise (Unsubmissive France) and a coalition of communists and other far-left groups, Mélenchon has gained support at the expense of the official candidate of the Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party), Benoît Hamon. A former education minister and left-wing rebel who ultimately resigned in opposition to Hollande’s centrist push for labor reform, has campaigned on a deeply leftist platform of his own, with calls for a universal basic income, a 32-hour work week, a tax on robots and a higher minimum wage. After the deeply unpopular Hollande ruled out a reelection bid, Hamon won the Socialist nomination in January, defeating Hollande’s more centrist former prime minister Manuel Valls. Hamon now languishes in the single digits in most polls, while Mélenchon’s more radical campaign — he wants to introduce a 100% tax on incomes over €33,000 a month, reinvent or leave the European Union and leave NATO — has captured more of the electorate’s imagination.
Those polls now show the top four candidates — Macron, Le Pen, Fillon and Mélenchon — all gathered together within the margin of error, with between 19% and 25% support as voters prepare to cast ballots in the April 23 first-round vote. With Macron and Le Pen unable in the final weeks of the campaign to expand into larger coalitions, with Fillon holding steady with his core of Republican voters and with Mélenchon consolidating France’s leftist voters, no one can predict which of the four candidates will advance.
We’ll know soon enough. In the meanwhile, here is what you should expect from each of the potential six runoffs that could follow Sunday’s result. Continue reading The six possible runoffs that could result from France’s Sunday election →
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If Mélenchon surges into unlikely runoff, it won’t come from last-minute leftist unity
The hard-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is rising in the polls, but it may still prove difficult to make it to a runoff in May. (Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters)
With less than two weeks to go until the first round of the French presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is surging in the polls.
From a distant fifth place a month ago, Mélenchon’s strong debate performances and his appeal from outside the traditional political mainstream have catapulted him well beyond former education minister Benoît Hamon, the social democratic candidate of the Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party) — and in some polls, even leading former prime minister François Fillon, the center-right and scandal-dogged candidate of Les Républicains.
The latest IFOP poll gives Mélenchon 17%, just behind Fillon (19%), though still some trailing poll leaders Marine Le Pen (24.5%) and Emmanuel Macron (23.5%) — Hamon, who once led Mélenchon, now claims just 9.5%. Earlier this year, before Hamon’s nomination, I wrote about the nightmare scenario (for centrists and liberals) of a Le Pen-Mélenchon runoff.
But you should be skeptical about the Mélenchon surge, which might not be as large as polls currently show. Even so, Mélenchon will struggle to grow his support sufficiently to win the presidency.
Rise of the anti-elite left
Jean-Luc Mélenchon ran for the presidency in 2012 and, despite a last-minute poll surge, won just 11%.
Mélenchon is the candidate of the far-left Front de gauche (Left Front), an alliance of communists and other hard-left figures. Though Hamon won the Socialist Party nomination in January on a radically leftist agenda (e.g., a business tax on robots, a 32-hour workweek, a higher minimum wage and new spending on social welfare), Mélenchon would go farther. Charismatic and acerbic in equal measure, Mélenchon also favors the 32-hour workweek, greater social spending (in the form of a €100 billion stimulus) and a higher minimum wage (€1,300 per month). But he would also levy a 100% tax rate on anyone making over €33,000 a month. He would also dismantle France’s nuclear power program, which supplies over 76% of France’s power needs (more than for any other country worldwide). While Le Pen wants to leave the eurozone and hold a referendum on ‘Frexit,’ Mélenchon wants to leave the European Union and NATO entirely, slams German chancellor Angela Merkel on the campaign trail and vows that he’s the only candidate ‘for peace.’
Mélenchon may sound like the ‘French Bernie Sanders,’ but his policy positions makes Sanders seem like a centrist in comparison.
French politics has seen this show before. Mélenchon, who ran for president in 2012, also saw a mid-April polling surge in the last election. One mid-April 2012 IFOP poll gave him 14.5% in that race, but he ultimately finished far behind in fourth place with 11%, under-performing every significant French poll in the days leading to the vote.
Five years later, anti-establishment sentiment is certainly much higher. There’s no doubt that Mélenchon is as anti-elite as it comes, even more so than the hard-right, anti-immigrant Le Pen, who at least finds common cause in the Catholic Church and other institutions that she believes support her view of traditional French values. Though Macron remains the frontunner to win a runoff against Le Pen on May 7, Le Pen still leads most polls to win the first round of the election on April 23. It’s been taken for granted for so long that Le Pen would win the first-round vote, but it’s still a landmark achievement for her and the Front national. The two candidates of the traditional parties are now polling less than one-third of the vote in an election season that eliminated both former president François Sarkozy and Bordeaux mayor and former prime minister and foreign minister Alain Juppé in the center-right presidential primaries, as well as once-popular prime minister Manuel Valls in the center-left primaries. It also forced an unpopular incumbent François Hollande to skip a reelection bid altogether.
Mélenchon continues to splinter the left, not unite it
Socialist nominee Benoît Hamon has dropped in the polls to a distant fifth place. (Facebook)
Over the weekend, Hamon indicated that if Mélenchon does make the May runoff, his supporters should support Mélenchon. That’s the closest sign of any unity between the two campaigns. Just a few weeks ago, prominent Hamon supporters — including leftist economist Thomas Piketty — were hoping Mélenchon might drop out of the race in favor of a united candidacy around Hamon. Yannick Jadot, who had planned to run as the candidate of the Europe Écologie Les Verts (Europe Economy / Greens), dropped out in late February in deference to Hamon.
Now, many leftists are hoping Hamon will drop out. They add up the total support for Hamon and Mélenchon in polls, and believe that together, they would be a shoe-in for the runoff. But the reality is far more complicated.
That’s unlikely.
Hamon, ironically, is more maverick than the ‘independent’ Macron (a Hollande protégé), and his nomination made the chances of a coalition with Mélenchon far more likely than had Valls won the Socialist nomination.
But Hamon was always swimming upstream as the official nominee of the Socialist Party. After five years of Hollande, the Socialist brand is toxic; after the perceived decades-long failures of Hollande, Sarkozy and their predecessors (on everything from employment to wage growth to immigration), the establishment brand is even more toxic. Moreover, many centrists within the Socialist Party responded to Hamon’s nomination by distancing themselves from a nominee who (1) seemed like a sure loser and (2) is far too leftist for their tastes, and many of those Socialist centrists now support Macron, formally or informally. Hamon has been poorly served by the Socialist Party since January, and there is a chance — however slim — that he might drop out of the race in favor of Mélenchon. (It would be too far late, legally, for the Socialists to nominate a new candidate).
The Hamon-Mélenchon talks failed not only because the two candidates are so far apart on policy (such as EU and NATO positions), but from the fact that they come from very, very different traditions. Think about the difference between, say, longtime French communist leader Robert Hue and former Socialist president François Mitterrand. Even if Hamon dropped out (very unlikely) and endorsed Mélenchon, the Socialist Party would never endorse him — in part, because Macron is already the unofficial Socialist candidate. Moreover, the Socialists also have a tough parliamentary election in June to worry about.
Mélenchon would hardly welcome formal Socialist backing. Just as Macron perceived (and as Hamon is learning), the party’s imprint is akin to a poisoned chalice. Nothing Mélenchon could do or say would more taint him as a ‘sellout’ to his supporters than to accept Socialist endorsement.
Indeed, the best gift Hamon might be able to provide Mélenchon is to drop out and force the Socialists to endorse Macron instead, who already has his share of ‘Socialist’ problems. Though he’s leading a new movement called ‘En marche,’ Macron’s experience in French politics comes from a Socialist background. A graduate of the elite École nationale d’administration and a former investment banker, Macron owes his political career to Hollande. He served as a presidential deputy chief of staff before serving as Hollande’s economy minister from 2014 to 2016. Like it or not, Macron is the status quo candidate in the race, for all his populist bluster about change. Former Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë now backs Macron, as does Valls. Unofficially, so does Ségolène Royal and many others, including perhaps Hollande himself.
The rupture of the French left into a centrist Macron faction, a progressive Hamon faction and a hard-left Mélenchon faction isn’t likely to change after April 23. Even if the personalities leading those factions change, the divides might widen as the focus shifts to parliamentary elections. If Macron loses the presidency to Le Pen, moreover, the left’s fragmentation could magnify Le Pen’s ability to co-opt economic nationalism and reframe French politics on a nationalist/globalist line instead of a traditional left/right line. Unfortunately for the Socialist Party, the stakes transcend just one election cycle, and the party’s hegemony, at least throughout much of the Fifth Republic, may be finished.
The problem for Mélenchon’s growth prospects
In order to gain support, Mélenchon might turn to Marine Le Pen, who emphasizes the same anti-elite, anti-EU and economic nationalism message as the far left. (Facebook)
Even while Mélenchon is shaking up the race, there’s a big difference between ‘shaking up’ and winning.
The question is where Mélenchon can go from here. A once-possible April 20 debate looks like it will no longer take place, denying Mélenchon one last chance to shine (ironically because he refused to join a debate just three days before the first-round vote). He led a well-attended rally in Marseilles over the weekend, but rallies are one thing — converting rallies to votes is another. Unlike Fillon, Hamon and even Le Pen, who have traditional party structures to help turn out the vote, and unlike Le Pen and even Macron, who has cultivated a large organization since last summer, Mélenchon is at a ground-game disadvantage. That’s perhaps one reason his 2012 showing was such a disappointment.
On the left, it’s hard to see where Mélenchon will pick up more voters. Hamon’s supporters must realize he’s a lost cause. But while Mélenchon’s polls began to rise after the first presidential debate on March 20, those Hamon voters are still not switching to Mélenchon, even though he has surged to a 2-to-1 advantage against Hamon in some polls. Maybe he could pick up voters from Macron, but it’s doubtful that the most pro-European centrist in the race would hemorrhage too many votes to an ardent eurosceptic communist. Even as the traditional parties weaken, a dwindling PS base still exists to support the Socialist nominee. Note the baseline support (at least 16% to 20%) that Fillon is still winning from center-right voters, even though police have essentially indicted him for paying public funds to his wife and children for fake jobs.
More fertile ground for Mélenchon might come from Le Pen’s supporters (one reason why he may have held his weekend rally in Marseilles, where Le Pen support runs strong). Like Mélenchon, Le Pen calls for radical change, is skeptical of Brussels and EU officials, and embraces the same economic protectionism as Mélenchon’s old-school leftism. So if he makes a breakthrough later this month, it could be at Le Pen’s expense, reclaiming votes in places like France’s de-industrialized northeast, where Le Pen won over disenchanted — and formerly Socialist — voters.
But another lesson from 2012 should cast doubt on that thesis. After the last presidential race, both Le Pen and Mélenchon ran for a legislative assembly seat in northeastern Hénin-Beaumont, an old coal-mining region. In the first round of that election, Le Pen won 42.4%, far ahead of second-placed Socialist Philippe Kemel (23.5%). Again, Mélenchon disappointed with just 21.5% of the vote. In the runoff (Mélenchon withdrew and endorsed Kemel), Le Pen only narrowly lost by a margin of 50.1% to 49.9%. Nevertheless, the lesson from that parliamentary race, at least five years ago, is Le Pen’s brand of hard-right protectionism was far more compelling than Mélenchon’s 21st century communism.
Le Pen’s support in the 2017 election, however, has universally been stronger than in 2012. So while there’s definitely a path for Mélenchon into the May runoff, it will be an incredibly difficult task.
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How Le Pen might win a runoff against Macron
March 23, 2017 Kevin Lees 1 Comment
Marine Le Pen (right) has worked to detoxify the brand of the Front national, but will it be enough to form a majoritarian coalition in France? (Facebook)
Emmanuel Macron should not be such a difficult candidate to defeat in the French presidential election.
Set aside the weird personality cult that gushes over Macron’s youthful good looks, or the popular movement, En Marche! that shares the candidate’s initials (E.M.) and that translates to ‘Forward!’ — a schlocky political trick for an electorate that prides itself on sophistication.
Set aside that the 39-year-old rising star has never technically won an election to anything in his life.
Set aside the gaffes — going to Algeria and calling French colonization a ‘crime against humanity’ or criticizing the same-sex marriage law that he said ‘humiliated’ traditional Catholic voters.
Set aside the nasty rumors about his personal life or the wife 24 years his senior (and yes, they are out there).
Why Macron is far weaker than polls currently show
Though Macron is in a commanding position with a month to go until voters first go to the polls, he is the product of two of the most elite educational institutions, Sciences Po and the École nationale d’administration, and before entering politics, he was an investment banker at Rothschild. He represents a strain of neoliberal economic policy that commands lower support today than ever — the Atlantic right is moving toward economic nationalism and the Atlantic left is moving to more aggressive taxation and deeper social welfare programs.
Macron, for all intents and purposes, is the avatar of the French political elite, amid a global climate where voters are rejecting elites. That’s even compared to a former prime minister, François Fillon, the center-right candidate of Les Républicains, or to a former education minister Benoît Hamon, the social democratic candidate of the Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party).
To steal a phrase from Tyler Cowen, Macron is the ‘complacent class‘ candidate of France’s 2017 election. Continue reading How Le Pen might win a runoff against Macron →
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Eight lessons from the 2017 Dutch election results
March 15, 2017 Kevin Lees 2 Comments
Twenty-eight parties were vying for 150 seats in the Dutch House of Representatives. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)
Orange may be the new black.
But as it turns out, orange is also the new bulwark for liberal democracy.
Mark Rutte’s governing center-right, liberal Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) performed better than polls predicted in The Netherlands, and Rutte will now return as Dutch prime minister — perhaps through the end of the decade — as head of a multi-party governing coalition.
Conversely, Wednesday’s election amounted to a disappointing result for Geert Wilders and the sharply anti-Europe, anti-Islam and anti-immigration Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV, Party for Freedom), which blew a longtime polling lead that it had held from the middle of 2015 up to just a couple of weeks ago.
As Dutch voters took a harder look at the campaign, however, they turned away from Wilders’s populism and to the balmier vision of Rutte’s VVD. But they also turned to three other parties that ranged from conservative to liberal to progressive. Indeed, over 65% of the Dutch electorate supported parties that are, essentially, in favor of moderate policymaking, European integration and basic decency to immigrants.
Given that the Dutch election is the first of a half-dozen key European national elections in 2017, all of which are taking place in the dual shadows of last year’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election in the United States, everyone was watching this vote in particular as a harbinger for European elections this year.
So what does today’s result mean? Here are the top eight takeaways from election night.
Continue reading Eight lessons from the 2017 Dutch election results →
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Rutte’s liberals eclipses Dutch populists as voters go to the polls
Mark Rutte, if polls are correct, will lead his VVD to victory on March 15 — and another term as prime minister. (ANP)
Everything’s coming up Rutte.
Mark Rutte, that is — the prime minister of The Netherlands who will almost certainly find his way to a third term as prime minister after tomorrow’s election.
Even earlier this year, when Geert Wilders’s hard-right Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV, Party for Freedom) held a substantial lead, it was always virtually assured that Rutte would return as prime minister. Consistently, even as the PVV topped polls, Rutte’s center-right, liberal Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) continued to follow behind in second place, leading the race among the PVV’s mainstream opponents. All along, Wilders’s goal was never forming a government, but the hollow victory of placing first among a half-dozen parties bunched together between 10% and 20% in the polls.
Over the last two weeks, even that has changed to Wilders’s detriment.
The VVD eclipsed the PVV in polls at the end of February, and one shock poll from Ipsos on the eve of the election showed the PVV sliding to fifth place. At a time when Rutte is embroiled in a high-profile diplomatic spat with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (over whether Turkish ministers should be holding campaign rallies in The Netherlands for next month’s Turkish constitutional referendum), Wilders still seems to be losing steam.
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away from populists
Both inside Europe and beyond, the Wilders threat was always smaller than the amount of coverage he’s received. Even when the PVV was leading, no other major party was willing to work with Wilders and the PVV’s toxic brand. Even with the highest number of seats in the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives), the PVV would fall far short of the majority it would need to form a government. Mostly, that’s due to the PVV’s hardline views on immigration, Islam and the European Union. But it’s also because Wilders proved an unreliable ally to Rutte when he withdrew the PVV’s support for Rutte’s minority government in 2012 over spending, forcing snap elections — a gambit that backfired when the PVV lost nine seats.
What’s very much true — and always has been true — is that support across all parties in tomorrow’s election in The Netherlands could be so dispersed that no party wins more than even 17% of the vote. It could usher in the most fragmented parliament in postwar history, and it will force Rutte to navigate coalition negotiations that include four or even five parties. Don’t hold your breath for the kind of quick deal that followed the 2012 election, the ‘purple’ coalition between Rutte’s liberals and the social democratic Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA, Labour Party).
Labour’s support has collapsed in the ensuing five years. Junior coalition parties are rarely rewarded by voters, but many Labour supporters believe the party far too willing to compromise with Rutte on spending after Labour waged a popular campaign against budget austerity. (It is still projected to win between nine and 14 seats in the election under a new leader, Lodewijk Asscher.)
If the VVD and the PVV finish first and second, respectively, as most polls still forecast, the race for third place is murkier. The conservative Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA, Christian Democratic Appeal), the center-left/liberal Democraten 66 (Democrats 66) and the leftist GroenLinks (Green Left) are all surging, and the CDA and D66 are widely tipped to enter government after coalition negotiations. GroenLinks is likely to make the strongest gains of any party (more even than Wilders) after the successful campaign of its fresh-faced 30-year-old leader, Jesse Klaver.
If there’s any consensus among the Dutch electorate, voters are choosing from a group of five or six parties, each dedicated to European integration, liberal democracy and moderate policy prescriptions — not fear-mongering xenophobia. No matter what happens tomorrow, Wilders will have a smaller role in shaping Dutch policy than, say, the more circumspect D66 leader Alexander Pechtold, who could become Rutte’s deputy prime minister in a new coalition. Pechtold may not have the international profile that Wilders has acquired with his ‘Make The Netherlands Ours Again’ histrionics, but he could be in a position to push the next government to a more pro-immigrant and pro-European orientation.
None of this, most especially the PVV’s apparent collapse, should be shocking.
Continue reading Rutte’s liberals eclipses Dutch populists as voters go to the polls →
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After presidency, Macron would face uphill battle for National Assembly
Emmanuel Macron might win the presidency, but he’ll face a steeper battle winning a parliamentary majority. (Charles Platiau / Reuters)
Step back from the obsession over Marine Le Pen’s economic nationalism or from the day-to-day headlines over François Fillon’s scandals and imploding campaign.
With about six weeks to go in the French election, we know that the two established parties of the French political elite — Fillon’s center-right Les Républicains and the center-left Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party) of president François Hollande and its presidential nominee Benoît Hamon– are doing historically poorly.
It’s entirely possible that the Republican and Socialist candidates place third and fourth, if current polls are predictive, giving the French public for the first time a runoff without either major party. In aggregate, the two candidates poll around 33%, a massive drop from the combined first-round percentage of Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 (55.81%), and even lower than in 2002, when incumbent Jacques Chirac and Socialist Lionel Jospin still managed a combined total of 36.06%. (You’ll remember 2002 as the year Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, made it to the runoff by edging out Jospin to second place).
If the election were held today, both of the runoff candidates would be ‘outsiders’ — the Front national leader, Marine Le Pen, and the independent Emmanuel Macron, the head of the En marche movement and a former Hollande aide and economy minister running as a centrist. Polls show that Macron holds a roughly 60%-40% edge over Le Pen in the May 7 runoff.
But that also creates a far higher level of uncertainty about the outcome of the elections that follow on June 11 and 18, when voters — fresh after selecting a new president — will also select the 577 members of the lower house of the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly). There’s surprisingly little coverage of those elections, though they will be just as important (maybe more) than the presidential race.
A return to cohabitation or a shift to coalition-style politics?
Prime minister Ségolène Royal? It fits Macron’s bill for an experienced leader. (Facebook)
Neither Le Pen’s Front national nor Macron’s En marche today seems to have the kind of national party infrastructure to follow a presidential victory with a parliamentary victory, though the president-elect has for the last three election cycles roared into June parliamentary elections with massive momentum. Macron has vowed that En marche will field 577 candidates for the parliamentary elections, and while he has indicated he wants to accept political refugees from mainstream parties, he also wants at least half of the movement’s candidates to have no previous political experience or affiliation.
Since 2002, each French presidential term (now five years, reduced from seven years) has lined up with the term of the National Assembly, such that the parliamentary elections follow a month after the presidential runoff. Generally speaking, since 2002, the prime minister has served as the chief parliamentary official carrying out the president’s legislative program. Even in 2012, when Hollande narrowly edged Sarkozy in the May presidential runoff, the Socialists and their allies still wound up with nearly 58% of the seats in the National Assembly after elections a month later.
When presidential terms and parliamentary terms weren’t harmonized, it was far likelier that the presidency and the National Assembly could be controlled by different parties. In cases of divided government — cohabitation — the president’s power crumbles and the opposing prime minister sets the domestic agenda and much of the foreign policy agenda. In the Fifth Republic, France has seen only three periods of cohabitation: the Chirac premiership under the Mitterand presidency (1986-88), the Balladur premiership under the Mitterand presidency (1993-95) and the Jospin premiership under the Chirac presidency (1997-2002).
But with the Front national as strong as it’s ever been (Le Pen still leads Macron, narrowly, in the first-round polls) and with a Macron victory becoming more likely, the Republicans and Socialists will not simply give up. To make things trickier, the Front de gauche (Left Front) will also be running candidates in the parliamentary race — presumably including its presidential contender, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, as he did in 2012.
That makes it more likely that no single party or movement will win the June parliamentary elections. Even if Macron wins the presidency in a massive landslide, he might still have to face cohabitation or, for the first time in French political history, cobble together the kind of multi-party coalition government so much more common in the Nordics and Germany.
In the past, voters have had a good idea about who will form the government because, presumably, the prime minister and other key officials will come from the same party as the president. But Macron doesn’t have a party. So if, indeed, ‘personnel is policy,’ French voters are somewhat in the dark about what to expect under Macron. Rather unhelpfully, Macron hasn’t specified exactly who would be prime minister, or what he’s looking for in a prime minister, other than someone with experience who can command a parliamentary majority. (Well, of course…).
It may be that Macron doesn’t want to tip his hand, or it may be that Macron knows just how unsettled the June parliamentary elections will be. Per Macron, the next prime minister will not be François Bayrou, a center-right moderate and three-time presidential contender who announced he would not run this year and, instead, endorsed Macron. Earlier today, Macron mused that it would be great to appoint a female prime minister and, indeed, former Socialist presidential nominee, ecology minister Ségolène Royal, has praised Macron throughout the election (though not quite formally endorsed him). She would fit the bill.
Traditionally, France’s unique two-round system has helped the two major parties maintain their lock on power. Smaller parties and contenders are often weeded out after the first round, often setting up a direct second-round contest between the center-right and the center-left. Unlike for presidential runoffs, however, it is possible to have a three-way runoff (triangulaire) or even a four-way runoff (quadrangulaire) if the additional candidate(s) wins at least 12.5% of the vote in a given constituency.
So far, they have been surprisingly rare. Among 577 constituencies, only 44 resulted in triangulaires in 2012 (despite Marine Le Pen’s robust third-place showing in the 2012 race) and the high-water mark is 1997 with 79 triangulaires. France hasn’t seen a parliamentary quadrangulaire since 1978.
This system, in the past, has massively disadvantaged third parties. Despite Marine Le Pen’s third-place showing in the April 2012 presidential election and despite the Front national‘s 13.6% support nationwide in the first round of the June 2012 parliamentary election, the party ended up with just two seats in the National Assembly (0.35% of all seats).
In a world where the Socialists and the Republicans are struggling to win 15% or 20% of the national vote, however, you can expect a rise in the number of triangulaires or even the return of a handful of quadrangulaires.
Buckle up for a bumpy five-way contest for the National Assembly
With the traditional French parties faltering, there’s no clarity about who will win June’s elections for 577 deputies to the National Assembly.
But that calculus changes when the Front national is winning more supporters than the Republicans, and when Macron’s En marche movement appears stronger than the Socialists and the Front de gauche. Moreover, the unprecedented nature of the election and the shifting political sands leave much of the parliamentary election in doubt (with surprisingly few polls available to guide analysis).
No one ever gave Hollande or anyone else in the Socialist camp much chance at winning in May. Barring a major upset over the next six weeks, the Socialists will also lose seats in June, in light of Hollande’s unpopularity and Hamon’s weakness. Hamon is running harder to the left than either Hollande or one-time presidential frontrunner Manuel Valls, the former prime minister. In a sense, the real winner of the Socialist primary contest was Macron, who is closer to the center-left than the center-right. To that end, leading Socialist officials are already breaking ranks by abandoning Hamon for Macron — most recently, the former Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, though Royal and finance minister Michel Sapin are very sympathetic to Macron’s candidacy. Hollande (who remains close to Macron, his former deputy chief of staff) and Valls have yet to campaign for Hamon.
As it becomes more likely that Macron will win the presidency, it’s possible that the Socialist Party will split into factions, with a core leftist wing supporting Hamon and a more centrist wing migrating to En marche. While that could benefit Macron in June by adding some experience hands to the En marche movement, it also tarnishes Macron’s avatar as an independent agent of change.
Before his campaign cratered due to the ‘fake jobs’ scandal and impending indictment for corruption and abuse of public funds, former prime minister and Republican nominee François Fillon was favored to edge out Macron and then win the runoff against Le Pen. (In hypothetical scenarios, Fillon still leads Le Pen by a margin only slightly smaller than Macron does). But as Fillon falls further into third place behind Macron (police indicate that Fillon will be notified of a formal investigation — essentially indicted — on March 15), and as leading Republicans, including his former rival Alain Juppé, abandon his campaign, the Republicans risk depressing their own turnout in June as well as in April.
There’s still time for the Republicans to replace Fillon if the embattled prime minister drops out of the race. But Juppé on Monday, even as he slammed Fillon’s campaign as ‘at a dead end,’ ruled himself out as a Plan B. Other top Fillon surrogates, including Bruno Le Maire and many of Fillon’s campaign staff, have already abandoned him. On Monday, senior Republicans met and reaffirmed their support for Fillon, though it’s still possible for Fillon to drop out — François Baroin, a 51-year-old rising star, Troyes mayor and former finance and budget minister, who is close to Sarkozy and Fillon, now seems the most likely ‘plan B’ candidate, if it comes to that. If Fillon’s numbers drop further, however, it could lead to catastrophic losses in the parliamentary elections that, only two months ago, would have been an easy follow-up after a resounding Fillon victory.
A new re-branding of the French left and the French right — or a new re-ordering of French politics into liberal and illiberal camps
As Fillon falters, Marine Le Pen is becoming the dominant figure of the French right — or of a new French illiberalism that mixes nationalism with economic protectionism and social conservatism. (Facebook)
It’s true that parties have been historically weak in France compared to the United Kingdom or the United States. The ‘Republican’ veneer is a 2015 rebranding of what was, during the Chirac and Sarkozy eras, the ‘Union for a Popular Movement,’ which was a successor the old Gaullist ‘Rally for the Republic,’ itself three makeovers removed from Charles de Gaulle’s ‘Rally of the French People’ that dates to the WWII Free French resistance.
The Socialist Party has had more etymological consistency, if not policy consistency. It existed as the French Section of the Workers’ International from its foundation in 1905 in the middle of France’s Third Republic through 1969, when it was just one of a handful of leftist French parties and movements that ultimately (but not completely) consolidated behind François Mitterand in the 1970s and 1980s. France’s communists remained separate, and form the nucleus of the Front de gauche today.
It’s also true that, in a narrow sense, a Macron-Le Pen runoff looks a lot like ‘left-right’ runoffs of the past — this is just another realignment of a new left and a new right as in the past. But Macron’s call for reform is closer to Sarkozy’s economic vision than that of many French Socialists today, and Le Pen’s economic protection is far out-of-sync with the business-friendly conservatism of Fillon and the Republicans.
Instead, the Macron-Le Pen runoff looks more like a contest between liberalism and illiberalism, which increasingly, more than traditional left-right differences, the central fight in developed democracies.
For now, the French political scene looks like a free-for-all — especially if Macron and Le Pen emerge as the runoff contenders. How that translates into a two-round parliamentary election in just three months’ time, however, is anyone’s guess.
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Meet Jesse Klaver, the 30-year-old Dutch leader of the surging Green-Left Party
February 28, 2017 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Jesse Klaver, the youthful leader of GroenLinks, hopes to make his party a player for the first time in the Dutch House of Representatives. (Facebook)
The first thing you notice about Jesse Klaver is just how much he looks like Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
The second thing you notice is that he’s so young — at 30 years old, he’s a full decade and a half younger than Trudeau and between 12 and 24 years younger than the other major Dutch party leaders.
But the more important point about Klaver, who has also been likened to John F. Kennedy, is that he’s making his leftist GroenLinks (Green-Left) a genuine player in Dutch politics for the first time since it came into existence in 1989. If polls are correct, GroenLinks will surge from just four seats to as many as 20 seats after the Dutch electorate votes in two weeks.
Klaver is the freshest face among the half-dozen or so party leaders who will be forced to work together after the March 15 election to forge a new government. Unlike in past elections, GroenLinks could be a key player in what will likely be a four- or five-party coalition that forms the next Dutch government. It’s very unlikely that Klaver would agree to bring his party into any coalition headed by current prime minister Mark Rutte. Nevertheless, Klaver’s party, which is as firmly pro-European as Rutte and likely the next Rutte-led government, could offer in opposition an alternative anti-austerity voice than the populist Geert Wilders.
Klaver’s party is locked in a tight contest among potentially five different parties for third place, behind Rutte’s center-right liberal Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD, People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy) and Wilders’s the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant and eurosceptic Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV, Party for Freedom).
Wilders has dominated news coverage of the campaign both in The Netherlands and abroad, with his party surging to a formidable polling lead two years ago. Wilders, who pledges to ‘Make The Netherlands Great Again,’ promises a Trump-style rupture to halt the flow of refugees into The Netherlands and the flow of sovereignty from Amsterdam to Brussels. Wilders, like Trump and other far-right nationalists across Europe, is giving voice to a growing cadre of displaced and dispirited working-class voters who might have voted for left-wing parties a decade or two ago.
Though many polls forecast that the PVV will win the largest number of seats in the 150-member Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives), recent surveys show that the VVD’s support is plateauing or even, within the last week, falling. Even if Wilders and the populists do win the largest bloc of seats in the House, none of the other major Dutch parties are willing to entertain joining a Wilders-led coalition.
All of which means that the threat of an illiberal and xenophobic Dutch government, in 2017 at least, are far-fetched.
Indeed, if the election were held today, it would be Klaver’s GroenLinks (and not Wilders’s PVV) that could make the largest net gains in the election, contrary to conventional wisdom. Continue reading Meet Jesse Klaver, the 30-year-old Dutch leader of the surging Green-Left Party →
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Bayrou, heir to liberal-right UDF tradition, joins forces with center-left Macron
François Bayrou, giving up plans to run in what would have been his fourth attempt at the French presidency, has endorsed Emmanuel Macron. (Facebook)
In French politics, François Bayrou is always the bridesmaid — never the bride.
That was true in the 1990s, it was true in the 2000s and it now seems true in the 2010s as the longtime centrist ended his own presidential hopes for 2017 and endorsed the center-left independent candidate, Emmanuel Macron.
The 65-year-old Bayrou, who got his start in politics in the 1980s, and who has waged three earlier presidential campaigns, is forming an alliance with Macron as France turns to the first round of its presidential election on April 23, a presidential runoff on May 7 and parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.
In stark language, Bayrou warned that his country was at ‘extreme risk’ after an election campaign that had so far ‘made a mockery of France,’ a risk that necessitates an ‘exceptional response’ — in the form of elevating the relatively inexperienced 39-year-old Macron to the presidency.
Bayrou came closest to winning the presidency himself in 2007, when he appealed to voters with doubts about both the center-right candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the candidate of the center-left Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party), Ségolène Royal, winning nearly a fifth of the French electorate in that year. But his appeal faltered in recent years, and polls show that Bayrou would win merely 5% or 6% of the vote among an extraordinarily fluid and crowded 2017 field.
Once a rising moderate star of the French right, Bayrou served as education minister under former prime minister Édouard Balladur from 1993 to 1995 and then under Alain Juppé from 1995 to 1997. Bayrou also serves as the mayor of Pau, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region of southwest France. Yet Bayrou never incredibly warmed to Sarkozy, and he has excoriated François Fillon, the former Sarkozy prime minister who came from behind to win the Républicain nomination (eclipsing both Sarkozy and one-time frontrunner Juppé). Fillon has been stung by accusations in recent weeks that, while in office, he funneled public funds to his wife, Penelope, and children for jobs they never actually performed.
Greater scrutiny is taking its toll on Macron
Though Macron’s popularity soared in December and January, his campaign has stalled with voters at around 20% support. With the far-right candidate of the Front national, Marine Le Pen, leading the first-round vote with around 26%, Fillon and Macron are essentially tied for second place and the all-important ticket to the May presidential runoff against Le Pen. Polls show that either Fillon or Macron today would trounce Le Pen by a nearly 60%-to-40% margin. Continue reading Bayrou, heir to liberal-right UDF tradition, joins forces with center-left Macron →
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‘Penelopegate’ and socialism shake up French presidential election yet again
January 31, 2017 Kevin Lees 2 Comments
François Fillon, once the surprise frontrunner for the French presidency, may be forced to quite the race by the end of the week. (Charly Triballeau / AFP / Getty Images)
Last week was supposed to belong to Benoît Hamon.
The former education minister, and more recently, rebel backbencher, clinched the nomination of the Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party) over one-time favorite, former prime minister Manuel Valls. He did so with a hearty serving of left-wing economic policies designed to drive the party’s base and recapture leftists voters who, according to polls, had abandoned the Socialists for the communist candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Instead of a Hamon party coronation, French voters instead watches the wheels fall off the campaign of former prime minister François Fillon, previously the frontrunner to win the second-round runoff in May.
Not surprisingly, Fillon’s undoing is a corruption scandal, and it has left an already topsy-turvy presidential election even more uncertain. Fillon came from behind to defeat a former president (Nicolas Sarkozy) and a trusted and moderate former prime minister and former foreign minister (Alain Juppé) to win a surprise victory in the presidential primary for the center-right Les Républicains last November.
The mostly satirical and sometimes investigative Canard enchaîné last week reported that Fillon’s wife, Penelope, received over €500,000 from public funds for a job that she allegedly never performed when Fillon was a member of the French parliament and prime minister under Sarkozy from 2007 to 2012. Since that story broke, it’s been alleged that the amount totals something more like €900,000, and that Fillon paid additional amounts of around €84,000 to his children for equally cozy sinecures.
Penelope Fillon was born in Wales, and unlike some of the previous leading ladies of the Élysée, is quite averse to publicity, claiming as recently as last year that she preferred to stay at home at the Fillon country estate, decrying, as recently as last year, said she wasn’t involved at all in her husband’s professional or political life. After Sarkozy’s bling-bling presidency and whirlwind romance of singer Carla Bruni, and the odd dynamics among incumbent president François Hollande’s former consort Valérie Trierweiler, his former partner (and presidential candidate) Ségolène Royal and his various other romantic interests, Fillon’s reticence was just fine with French voters.
That is, until they found out that Penelope Fillon earned nearly a million euros in public funds for, apparently, very little work. It’s not great, as a candidate for the presidency, to defend nepotism, let alone the notion that your wife actually performed the work in question that merited such a cushy and reliable salary.
Fillon’s Thatcherite platform calls for eliminating a half-million public-sector jobs to cut wasteful spending. Moreover, he won the Republican nomination by contrasting his previously squeaky-clean record with that of the ethically challenged Sarkozy and with Juppé, whose most recent prominence came after a long period in the wilderness induced his own corruption conviction. So the charges against Fillon are just about fatal. It’s hard to imagine that he can survive the hypocrisy of his current position.
While Fillon has said that he will not drop out of the race unless French police formally open an investigation (presumably well after the election this spring), he may be forced out of the race from sheer embarrassment and collapse in support. As the scandal continues to unfold, the latest Kantar Sofres poll shows him at 22%, now falling behind the anti-immigration, anti-EU leader of the Front national (FN) Marine Le Pen (25%) and nearly tied with the independent centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron, a former Hollande minister (21%). Hamon, buoyed by his surprise Socialist nomination, drew 15% and Mélenchon drew 10%.
The fear for Republicans is that Fillon will be so damaged that he fails to make it to the May runoff (or falters against Le Pen in the runoff), but not so damaged that he must quit the race. A defiant Fillon in recent days has tried to hide behind his wife and railed against shadowy figures that he claims are trying to bring down his candidacy, and that he can provide proof that his wife’s work was legal and valid.
No one believes him.
French police raided parliamentary offices earlier this week, and investigators are closing in on the one-time frontrunner, whose odds of winning the election are plummeting.
Even if Fillon does drop out of the race, there’s no consensus Plan B among French conservatives. Juppé, the runner-up in the November nomination contest, would be the natural replacement. In fact, Juppé might even prove the more formidable candidate because he can bring more centrist voters to the Republicans than the socially and economically conservative Fillon. But he has ruled out stepping in as Fillon’s replacement. Though Juppé could change his mind, there are any number of potential candidates who could step in: Sarkozy himself, former ecology minister and Paris mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet or former agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire. No one knows.
So where does this leave the rest of the field?
It’s great news for Le Pen, who has struggled to win more than 25% of first-round voters, who can now rail against the hypocrisy and corruption of the political elite. Even if Fillon drops out and Republicans find a replacement, ‘Penelopegate’ is a gift to the hard right, and more conservative voters will now be giving the Front national a second look. Le Pen herself is under a cloud because of her refusal to reimburse the European Parliament for €300,000 in misused funds.
Most immediately, Fillon’s collapse will help Macron, another vaguely centrist independent, though none of Macron’s message of neoliberal reform, avowed defense of the European Union and immigration, his background as an investment banker nor his recent record as a top aide to Hollande and former industry minister in Hollande’s government seem to fit the current moment of populism and nationalism. Fillon also hopes to win over centrist voters who feel Hamon veers too far from the Socialist Party’s social democracy and too close to hard-left bona fide socialism.
Fillon’s collapse might also give another center-right figure, François Bayrou, an opening. Bayrou, who has run for president three times in the past and is something of a gadfly in French politics, still managed to win 18.5% of the vote in the 2007 election (against Sarkozy and Royal). Without a strong conservative in the race, Bayrou could still emerge as the sole moderate untainted by Hollande’s deeply unpopular Socialist government. Though he has downplayed the likelihood of a fourth run, Bayrou hasn’t completely shut the door, and Fillon’s collapse could give him the platform to reconsider.
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Benoît Hamon’s rise as Socialist standard-bearer could forever break French left
January 24, 2017 Kevin Lees 1 Comment
Benoît Hamon has emerged from third place to lead the race to carry the Socialists in the French presidential election. (Facebook)
As it turns out, a center-right figure known for his tough talk on ‘law and order’ and immigration who has served for years as prime minister to the most deeply unpopular president in modern French history was probably never the best bet to lead the French left into the 2017 presidential election.
Furthermore, with few signs that they are likely to prevail in the presidential and parliamentary elections later this year, party members in France’s (barely) governing center-left Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party) seem to want to use this month’s presidential primary as an opportunity to draw a line for the party’s future — not to choose the most credible future president.
That explains how Benoît Hamon, a 49-year-old leftist firebrand, came from third place to edge both former prime minister Manuel Valls and former industry minister Arnaud Montebourg in the first round of the Socialist presidential primaries on January 22. Party voters this weekend will choose between Hamon and the 54-year-old Valls in a final runoff to decide the official Socialist standard-bearer in the spring’s presidential election.
During the primary campaign, Hamon, an avowed fan of US senator Bernie Sanders, openly called for a universal basic income of €750, making him one of the first major European politicians to do so. At a time when many French reformists argue that the country must abandon the 35-hour workweek it adopted in the year 2000, Hamon wants to lower it to 32 hours (and for his efforts, has won the support of the author of the 35-hour week, Martin Aubry). Hamon would scrap the current French constitution and inaugurate a ‘sixth republic’ that would transfer power away from the president and to the parliament, the Assemblée nationale. To pay for all of this, moreover, Hamon would introduce higher wealth taxes and a novel tax on robotics that approximates an ‘income’ attributable to the work done by such robots.
His slogan?
Faire battre le coeur de la France. Make France’s heart beat.
Though Hamon has often been reluctant to discuss the role of France’s growing Muslim population, he has nevertheless pushed back stridently against Valls for stigmatizing French Muslims (including the ill-fated ‘burkini’ ban introduced after the Nice attacks). Valls, for example, was one of the few members of his party to support the burqa ban in 2010, and as prime minister he attempted (and failed) to strip dual-national terrorists of French citizenship.
While Hamon’s ideas are creative and imaginative, representing the cutting edge among left-leaning economists, for now they seem unlikely to win a majority of the French electorate. Nevertheless, Hamon’s victory signals that the Socialists — much like the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn — will be veering far to the left in the future. Depending on the circumstances, Hamon’s rise could soon formalize an increasingly severe rupture between France’s hard left and France’s center-left.
Emmanuel Macron left his party behind to run as an independent candidate in 2017. (Facebook)
No matter who wins the Socialist primary runoff on January 29, however, the Socialist candidate will be competing against two other figures of the broad left. The first is Emmanuel Macron, a charismatic figure who served as economy and industry minister from 2014 to 2016, when he left the government to form an independent progressive and reform movement, En marche (Forward). In bypassing the Socialist primaries altogether, it’s Macron who may have ‘won’ the most last weekend. The second is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of France’s communist coalition, the Front de gauche (Left Front).
Polls consistently show that Macron is in third place and rising, floating just behind the center-right candidate of Les Républicains, former prime minister François Fillon and the far-right, anti-immigrant candidate of the Front national, Marine Le Pen. Both Hamon and Valls languish in fifth place in those same polls, often in single digits, behind Mélenchon. Leading figures in within the Socialist Party (including 2007 presidential candidate and environmental and energy minister Ségolène Royal) have already all but announced their support for Macron.
If Valls wins the runoff, he risks losing votes in April from the Socialists’ leftists supporters to Mélenchon.
If Hamon wins the runoff, he risks losing votes in April from the Socialists’ centrists supporters to Macron and, indeed, it’s even possible that Macron’s supporters voted in the primary for Hamon to engineer this precise outcome.
Still other long-time Socialist voters, frustrated by income stagnation and joblessness, like what they hear in Le Pen’s economic nationalism and antipathy to both the European Union and immigrants from further afield.
How did it come to this?
Blame François Hollande. Continue reading Benoît Hamon’s rise as Socialist standard-bearer could forever break French left →
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Sarko’s defeat is great news for French (and global) moderates
Nicolas Sarkozy’s hopes for a comeback crashed to a halt Sunday evening with a third-place finish in France’s conservative presidential primary. (Facebook)
The sound that you heard Sunday evening?
A sign of relief across the liberal democratic world that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy sank to third place in the presidential primary of the center-right Les Républicains (the Republicans), the successor to the party that Sarkozy once led and that he helped to rechristen and remake over the last two years.
Instead, his former prime minister, François Fillon, a social conservative who promises Thatcher-style reforms to the French economy, and his former foreign minister (and long-ago Chirac prime minister) Alain Juppé, who has promised a far more moderate approach to governance than either Sarkozy or Fillon, will head to a runoff next Sunday, November 27.
But with Fillon’s dramatic first-place finish, following a week-long reversal in the polls for both Sarkozy and one-time frontrunner Juppé, and with Sarkozy’s quick endorsement of Fillon’s candidacy, Juppé appears to have a limited path to victory next week.
Fillon may or may not prove a stronger candidate than Juppé. But he most certainly will be stronger than Sarkozy.
No matter what you thought of his presidency, Sarkozy’s defeat is good news for everyone on the right, middle and left who hopes to prevent Marine Le Pen, the leader of the anti-immigrant and eurosceptic Front national (National Front) from winning the presidency in May 2017. France chooses a president in two rounds — the two individuals with the most votes in a first-round April vote advance to a May runoff. Polls show today that Le Pen would almost certainly win one of those two runoff spots.
Sarkozy, more than Juppé or Fillon, was willing to run in 2017 (much as he did in 2007) by co-opting the language, if not the outright policies, of the far right. On immigration and crime, in particular, Sarkozy telescoped that he would compete with Le Pen primarily on her own turf. For many French voters who find Le Pen’s views on immigration, Islam, and the European Union repugnant, Sarkozy would have reinforced and normalized those views, pulling Le Pen closer to the heart of France’s political debate.
In 2007, Sarkozy effectively sidelined Le Pen by co-opting her rhetoric. That, in retrospect, only empowered Le Pen and her movement. In 2017, Le Pen will prove a far greater threat. French voters have now rejected Sarkozy (in 2012), and his leftist rival François Hollande, featuring approval ratings as low as 4%, faces a quixotic hope for reelection. With the French electorate so unhappy with the status quo, and after the shocking victories for Brexit in the United Kingdom and for Donald Trump in the United States, Le Pen must now be taken seriously as a threat to win the Élysée Palace next spring.
Even as Sarkozy’s nomination would have emboldened Le Pen and the illiberal, populist right, he would have simultaneously embodied everything that many French voters despise — the ostentatious ‘bling-bling’ nature of his presidency, the drama of his whirlwind romance with Carla Bruni, the attempts at neoliberal reform that voters have come to blame for inequality and stagnation. Even worse, Sarkozy would have gone into the 2017 elections under a legal and ethical cloud that aggregates several lawsuits and scandals, not least of which the notion that he received political funding from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in his 2007 election.
With the French left in tatters after Hollande’s disastrous and ineffective presidency, and with several figures on the left likely to compete for votes in the first round, Sarkozy might well have ended up as Le Pen’s challenger in the runoff, where he would have been an easy foil for Le Pen as the compromised avatar of a failed French political establishment — just as Trump so effectively demolished the scions of the American political establishment in Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
It’s true that Juppé and Fillon both carry baggage as figures associated with the French political establishment. So, too, will Emmanuel Macron, a former Hollande economy minister who announced earlier this month that he will stand as an independent in the presidential election (and who might eventually outpace Fillon to the runoff). So, too, will Hollande or the eventual nominee of Hollande’s leftist Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party).
But Sarkozy would have personified the worst of the French political establishment while also giving political cover to the National Front’s far-right views on politics and policy. Fillon, Juppé, Macron and the eventual Socialist nominee (likelier than not the brash, Spanish-born centrist prime minister Manuel Valls) will all certainly talk tougher about immigration and security in 2017, given the traumatic Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan and Nice terrorist attacks. None of them, however, seem poised to parrot the Le Pen line on immigration or on France’s Muslims to the extent Sarkozy was willing.
The Le Pen threat, now much more tangible than it was before Trump’s election two weeks ago, is still a serious one. But classic economic liberals and social liberals, on both the right and the left, should be relieved that they will not have to rally around such a clearly flawed candidate as Sarkozy at a time when Le Pen’s support is cresting.
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The last, best hope for global economic liberalism? Look to France.
Alain Juppé could be the last man (or woman) standing on the UN Security Council in defense of liberalism. (Facebook)
Imagine the following lineup of the leaders of the UN Security Council:
Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Chinese president Xi Jinping.
American president Donald Trump.
British prime minister Theresa May.
French president Marine Le Pen.
In a matter of months, we may wind up in a world where every leader of the Security Council is illiberal and nationalist.
That was unthinkable four months ago — and it should shock all of us who believe in free markets, mutually beneficial trade and sensible reforms to safeguard those displaced by trade. Continue reading The last, best hope for global economic liberalism? Look to France. →
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Vučić set to consolidate political power in Serbia with 3rd consecutive win
April 20, 2016 Kevin Lees 1 Comment
Serbia’s prime minister Aleksandar Vučić hopes to renew a four-year mandate in Sunday’s snap elections. (Facebook)
On Sunday, Serbians will go to the polls nearly two years before the current government’s term ends.
The results are hardly in doubt.
Prime minister Aleksandar Vučić is basically guaranteed to return to power by a wide margin, according to nearly every poll taken since the last election. His party, the center-right Serbian Progressive Party (SNS, Српска напредна странка), already leads a coalition that enjoys a firm majority in Serbia’s unicameral National Assembly (Народна скупштина).
Originally due by March 2018, Vučić called snap elections in March in a bid to build an even more powerful majority. Vučić argues that a fresh mandate will give his government the space to push Serbia ever closer toward European integration; critics argue that’s a fig leaf to disguise a Vučić power grab, an attempt to squeeze the Serbian political opposition into powerlessness.
Despite problems with self-censorship in the press, Reporters without Borders ranks Serbia 59th in its 2016 press freedom rankings — that’s better than EU members Croatia, Hungary and Italy. Neighboring countries fare far worse — Kosovo ranks 90th, Montenegro ranks 106 and Macedonia ranks 118, just higher than Afghanistan.
With increasingly illiberal figures like Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán thumbing their nose at European Union leaders, Vučić’s rise isn’t without its anxieties.
That’s especially true for the United States and Europe, both of whom have an interest in a country of 7 million that remains, economically and culturally, the anchor of the Balkans region, though Serbia itself shares an alphabet, similar language and a religion with Russia. Serbia is dependent upon Russia for natural gas, as well as a market for exports. In recent years, Vučić has shown that he’s willing to turn to Moscow and other surprising allies, such as the United Arab Emirates, for help when European leaders proved too slow.
That means that the European Union, despite its existential troubles, can’t afford to keep Serbians waiting indefinitely for membership.
Regardless, if polls are correct, Vučić will complete a four-year, three-election cycle that brings the SNS the most powerful domestic government in Serbia’s history following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Regionally, the Serbian vote takes place in the context of a year of explosive potential as Macedonia and Montenegro are also set to go to the polls amid tense political climates.
A pathway to Serbian political dominance
In July 2012, the SNS narrowly defeated the center-left, liberal Democratic Party (DS, Демократска странка) by a margin of 24.1% to 22.1%, following eight years of Democratic Party dominance in Serbia that smoothed the country’s transition from war-torn pariah to EU aspirant.
At the same time, Serbia’s two-term president Boris Tadić also lost his office to SNS leader Tomislav Nikolić. Once more sympathetic to Russia than to the rest of Europe, Nikolić and his acolyte, Vučić, quickly embraced the cause of EU accession. They made a deal with the nationalist, center-left Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка партија Србије / SPS) to take power, even though that meant making the SPS’s leader, Ivica Dačić, once a protégé of strongman Slobodan Milošević (who founded the SPS), Serbia’s new prime minister.
What is past is always present in politics. But that’s especially acute in the case of Serbia, because Nikolić, Vučić and Dačić all began their political lives on the ultranationalist right. Today, however, the three Serbian leaders have (so far, at least) transcended the bitter wars of the 1990s, using the reward of EU accession as a rationale not only to implement IMF-style economic reforms but to make genuine efforts to extradite suspected war criminals from the 1990s and to pacify relations with neighbors, most especially Kosovo, whose independence Serbia does not recognize.
The government performed adequately, however. Neither Nikolić nor Vučić made a harsh turn away from the strong EU relations that the Democratic Party nurtured, nor did Dačić suddenly revert to 1990s era ultranationalism. Dačić led the push to open formal negotiations with the European Union for Serbian accession. However begrudgingly, the Dačić government engaged Kosovo over talks about the breakaway region’s international status.
In early 2014, Vučić, then minister of defense, saw an opportunity for the SNS to take power in its own right, and he essentially forced Dačić to call early elections.
It wasn’t a difficult decision, politically, because it instantly made Vučić the most powerful figure in Serbia.
The SNS won easily with 48.4% of the vote and 158 of the 250 seats in the unicameral National Assembly. The second-placed SPS, which would continue in coalition as a junior member, with Dačić serving as Vučić’s new minister of foreign affairs, won 13.5%. The Democratic Party, suffering from a divide between its new leader, former Belgrade mayor Dragan Đilas and Tadić, the future president, who ultimately left to form a new party, the Social Democratic Party (SDS, Социјалдемократска странка). The divide was fatal to Serbia’s democratic center-left, however, because the Democratic Party won just 6.0% and the Tadić-led SDS won just 5.7%.
Bracing for an even larger mandate?
Former prime minister Ivica Dačić, who has been happy to serve since 2014 as foreign minister, is shown here meeting US secretary of state John Kerry in Belgrade last year. (Facebook)
Again, for the next two years, the government performed adequately. Low GDP growth was still strong enough for the unemployment rate to continue declining (though it’s still precariously close to 20%), and Vučić nuzzled ever closer to EU advisors with the hope of advancing negotiations one step closer to EU membership. For now, Vučić hasn’t particularly weakened Serbian democracy on his own, with the kind of anti-liberal steps that Hungary or Poland have taken, though the internal troubles of the opposition may make it seem otherwise. Indeed, Serbia has welcomed refugees in the face of a deluge of Syrians and others on European shores, the largest wave of migrants to Europe since World War II.
Then, at the height of his power, Vučić called fresh elections. Continue reading Vučić set to consolidate political power in Serbia with 3rd consecutive win →
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Commenting on Pope Benedict’s latest letter
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Marking Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI’s 92nd birthday on April 16, Andrea Tornielli the editorial director of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, insisted what the retired pope recently wrote concerning the clerical sexual abuse crisis (Sunday Examiner, April 21) is essentially what Pope Francis has also said.
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VATICAN (CNS): “When thinking about what action is required first and foremost, it is rather obvious that we do not need another Church of our own design. Rather, what is required first and foremost is the renewal of the faith in the reality of Jesus Christ given to us in the Blessed Sacrament,” Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI wrote in an article outlining his thoughts on the clerical sexual abuse crisis and what must be done now. Pope Francis and Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, were contacted before the release of the article.
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Retired pope corrects critical theologian
VATICAN (CNS): In a message sent to the German monthly, Herder Korrespondenz, Emertius Pope Benedict XVI responded to an article in which Michael Bohnke, a German theologian, criticised the pope and accused him of advocating proselytism implying that the retired pontiff encouraged the evangelisation of the Jewish people as a mission.
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Pope Benedict defends his retirement
VATICAN (Agencies): Retired Pope Benedict XVI has expressed displeasure with the way Cardinal Walter Brandmuller of Germany, former president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, publicly criticised his stepping down as pontiff, and he also defended taking the title pope emeritus.
In two private letters, the retired pope defended the way he handled his resignation and warned the cardinal of the negative impact his public comments could have, CNS reported.
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Popes’ styles may differ but message is same former spokesperson says
NEW YORK (CNS): Speaking at Fordham University, New York, about his experiences as Vatican spokesperson under Pope Benedict and Pope Francis, Jesuit Father Lombardi, who retired in 2016, said, “The vision and experience of the reality of the Church, led by the Spirit of the Lord, is the most profound and powerful element of continuity between the different popes.”
His talk, From Benedict to Francis: A Jesuit Reflects on Serving Two Pope, under the univerity’s Russo Family Lecture, was given on May 15.
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Pope Benedict’s insight relevant and urgent today Pope Francis writes
VATICAN (CNS): For more than 50 years, the writings of retired Pope Benedict XVI on the relationship between faith and politics have insisted that the measure of human freedom is the extent to which each person acknowledges being dependent on the love of God, Pope Francis writes in the preface to a new book, Liberating Freedom: Faith and Politics in the Third Millennium.
The book is a collection of essays over the course of several decades, including during Pope Benedict’s eight-year pontificate.
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Criticism against Pope Francis is foolish prejudice Pope Benedict says
VATICAN (CNS): “These small volumes reasonably demonstrate that Pope Francis is a man with profound philosophical and theological formation and are helpful to see the interior continuity between the two pontificates, even with all the differences in style and temperament,” Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wrote on the occasion of the launching of a new book collection titled, The Theology of Pope Francis.
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Pope Benedict turns 89
VATICAN (SE): Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his 89th birthday on April 16. Vatican Radio reported that in his early morning homily, Pope Francis said, “I would like to remind you that today is Pope Benedict’s birthday.”
The pope said, “I have offered the Mass for him and I also invite you to pray for him, so that the Lord may sustain him and give him much joy and happiness.”
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Keep your nose close to the ground
VATICAN (SE): Charity is born out of the heart, not obligation or any sense of superiority, the international president of Caritas, Luis Cardinal Tagle, told a symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the publication of the encyclical penned by Pope Benedict XVI, God is Love (Deus Caritas Est), held at the Vatican at the Pope Paul VI Hall on February 25.
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Monsoon rains persist in Luzon
August 20, 2018 | Filed under: News | Posted by: Tempo Desk
By ELLALYN V. RUIZ
Monsoon rains will continue to affect some areas in Luzon, especially in the western section, as a typhoon near the tip of Northern Luzon enhances the effect of southwest monsoon or “habagat.”
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration estimated the location of the typhoon with international name “Soulik” at 1,800 kilometers east-northeast of extreme Northern Luzon before noon yesterday.
It is unlikely to enter the country’s area of responsibility but the typhoon is stirring up the southwest monsoon affecting the western section of Luzon.
Cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms will affect Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, Batanes, Babuyan Islands, Zambales, and Bataan.
Metro Manila and the rest of the country will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers due to localized thunderstorms.
PAGASA said the typhoon may slightly enhance the southwest monsoon by tomorrow, which could bring occasional moderate to heavy rains across extreme Northern Luzon, particularly over Babuyan Islands, Batanes, and the northern portion of Ilocos Norte.
It advised seafarers that moderate to strong seas will prevail over the northern and western sections of Luzon due to habagat.
Coastlines across the rest of the country will be light to moderate.
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Why Ten Thousand Days?
Gratitude Practice
“Practicing” Joy
Defining Oneness
On Service
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Ten Thousand Days
Gratitude, Joy, Oneness and Service (Day 426)
Photo: Gabriel Santiago
Today feels like a good time to focus on gratitude.
I am grateful for fizzy drinks when my stomach is upset. I think the dodgy noodles with Kit last night was a bad idea.
I am grateful that I had the time, yesterday, to get to Shoreditch to photograph a few pieces. One piece I wanted to capture was gone. I felt sad. Whenever a beloved piece gets painted over, it feels like the loss of a friend. I have had a lot of loss this year: a friend’s suicide, two deaths in the family and the expectation of more to come as sickness hovers. Loss and attachment has been a challenge for me, since my mother got cancer when I was 19.
Street art is becoming a good yogic guru. When Fanakapan’s balloon animals were painted over, I wanted to cry. And, when I turned the corner to see one of my favourite Plin pieces gone forever, yesterday, I let out an audible gasp that could be heard down the street.
Street art’s temporary nature provides constant and unexpected reminders of the pain of attachment. There are only so many legal walls and it is the nature of the gallery of the street to be ever changing. It is the ephemeral nature of the art that makes it so vibrant and so precious. As with love, attachment is the very antithesis of the ethos of street art. One day, perhaps I will grow tired of pain, and relinquish all attachment. Until then, I am grateful that street art is my teacher.
That said, it was a joy to find a beautiful pink Plin piece, that is new to me. I had seen it posted on Instagram, and did a lot of research to finally track it down. The effort to find it makes me treasure it all the more.
Art © Monsu Plin; Photo: Tania D Campbell
My experience of Oneness this week is esoteric and difficult to express.
I have been roaming the streets at night, (jetlag) and I have turned my attention to the graffiti writers lately. In Vancouver, there isn’t a big street art scene, but taggers and graffiti writers exist everywhere.
Tag by Plin. Photo by Tania D Campbell.
I first noticed street art and graffiti with Jim Cummins, when I was about 15, in Vancouver. I was drawn to the words and messages left on the walls. I am a writer so words attract me. The words at that time were political, disruptive, and spoke to my own youthful frustration and desperate desire to retain my individuality, my idealism and to somehow make my own mark on the world. The youthful spirit of social change is different to the middle aged longing for legacy. Both are a way of leaving our mark, but it is the latter that strikes me as being focussed on the self, not the former.
I followed Jim Cummins’ band and his O.G. crew of street and graffiti artists, but never fully entered their world. I was busy being reluctantly indoctrinated at University, losing my capacity for independent thought, and my time to devote to writing. I read Thomas Pynchon at University but could only look through the window to “freedom”, as I was dragged into the machinery of testing and parroting other people’s theories.
Like the secret postal system in The Crying of a lot 49, graffiti has it’s own coded, symbolic language. As far as I understand, this symbolic language is used by graffiti writers to communicate to one another about safety and opportunity, much like the codes of the American traveller in the Great Depression: a secret story of an invisible world that falls between the cracks of society. It is the outsider’s insider language.
I have always felt more kinship with those who may have to pass through the ordinary world in order to earn a living but who really belong to the extraordinary world that exists between the cracks and, for some of us, goes beyond the physical world and into the invisible.
And so, as I sought out areas where the graffiti writers dominate, I touched, (as I do, Plin’s creatures) the secret language of the walls.
Photo: Tania D Campbell
Like an archaeologist, I stood on the doorstep – on the outside of the outside – running my fingertips across the symbols. I was comforted to know that the 15 year old girl remains. She has been covered in the rubble of a collapsing empire, this past decade, but she has survived.
My service today is to give space on my own ‘wall’ to remember writers of all kinds and from all times.
It remains for me only to ask:
For what are you grateful, today?
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“Underhand” – Global Community Through Street Art
BSMT Space launched a new gallery in Dalston this month, with Underhand, a Street Art exhibition, curated by Greg Key, and drawing from the global community of Street Art. Artists from Los Angeles, New York, London, Chile, Greece, Norway, France, Poland and the UK are among those represented in the show.
Flyer courtesy of BSMT Space, Art and design by The Real Dill
The Community of Street Art
Street Art, a particular passion of BSMT Space, is very much a global community. Although associated with vandalism and the gang violence of a few American cities, in the minds of many, the Street Artists represented at BSMT Space are a thoughtful, articulate, sensitive and creative group of individuals.
Academics and lawmakers continue to debate whether Street Art is to be viewed as a crime, or as an art form. In London, we understand that many legal walls and tunnels exist for the practice of Street Art and graffiti letter writing and so, this magazine leaves aside the legal debate and does not condone or promote illegal activity. Where illegal painting does occur, (in the absence of any other additional crime), it seems that the marking of a wall entails damage to property, rather than assault to individuals, and so perhaps the punishment might be best aligned with other forms of property damage.
With motives and messages as diverse as the number of individuals, all share a common drive to exercise freedom of thought and freedom of expression at a time when these very freedoms are at risk. Some may paint illegally; many paint only legal walls – but all seem to attract the label of “outsider” artists who view the street as a place to reclaim and remake the city, community and society.
Street Art often takes as it’s subject the poor, the homeless, and the marginalised, and reclaims and proclaims the difficult aspects of life that consumer culture represses with a plethora of glossy images of perfection. Street Art often expresses uncomfortable truths. Within this urban artists’ salon (the street), art works both eschew and comment upon the hierarchical structures of power politics in modern society, including those that exist within the art world, itself.
As outsiders to the mainstream art world, a sense of community and mutual support appears to be a central value of most Street Artists one meets. Arrive in most towns wanting to paint or paste-up works and the Street Art community will help newcomers find safe and legal spaces for expression. Far from a closed and self-serving network, Street Artists are often charitable and many walk the talk of local community activism, donating their time and their art to community projects.
As a repository for both our spiritual and shadow selves, Street Art offers a beacon to help us return wholeness to the psyche of the urban communities of mankind.
Monsù Plin
The first piece to sell at the opening night was “Self Portrait,” by Los Angeles based artist Monsù Plin.
“Self Portrait” by Monsù Plin; Photo by Tania Campbell
Similar in style to the characters painted by Plin on the streets, the piece draws upon a global art history with hints of expressionism, cubism and the indigenous and folk art of Central and South America.
The piece depicts three states of being, leaving the viewer to question if this is three perspectives of the same object or whether it represents three emotional states in a given space and time, or indeed, whether this is a reference to the indigenous view of time as circular, where each episode of life is a repetition of a former moment and a precursor of the future.
Like Plin’s street work, the piece strips away the artifice of ego, leaving the viewer facing the primal essence within us all. The powerful figure conjures the notion of the spirit totem which protects the keeper from evil and evokes the concept of the community Shaman who exists at once, in all times, states of consciousness and places.
With this piece, the exhibition summons and includes both threatened indigenous communities and mankind’s ancestors and future generations.
Like that of Monsù Plin, the work of UK artist, 616, evokes tribal and indigenous memory from the collective unconscious.
“Just sometimes you have to paint inside the box” © by 616. Photo by Tania D Campbell
Repetition of line hypnotizes the viewer and leaves one unable to discern the origins of the patterns from any particular culture. The art suggests African, Polynesian, South American and Aboriginal tribal markings and speaks to the commonality of symbolic language found around the globe.
“Where’s Your F**cking Tool” © by 616. Photo by Tania D Campbell
With a subtle witticism characteristic of the works of 616, the painting on handsaw reminds us that for all our technical advancement and urban amenities, we are all still essentially cave dwellers who have evolved little from our leap of advancement: the hand tool.
The unspecified origin of the markings coupled with the reminder of our origins confirms our membership in a single tribe: Mankind.
Pyramid Oracle
In his own 3-faced piece, spirituality and transformation are central themes of the art of New York based artist, Pyramid Oracle. “Evocations Revolve” infuses the show with an otherworldly spirit that is characteristic of the artist’s street pieces.
“Evocations Revolve” © by Pyramid Oracle, photo by Tania D Campbell
The surrealism of the piece seems to call forth a dream from the collective unconsciousness which binds all of humanity in a community of image and myth. Like Pyramid Oracle’s street pieces, “Evocations Revolve” highlights our struggle to maintain the veneer of an unchanging yet false story of the meaning of “reality”.
The man’s face is weathered, wild and weary, and one face melts into the next. Two faces gaze directly at the viewer, while the central one gazes heavenward, drawing our attention to the unseen. It is this unseen essence that links each to the community of souls. And, it is this, which lies just beyond our cognition, which seems to infuse light into Pyramid Oracle’s weathered faces, filling them with their profound beauty.
As in many of his works, Pyramid Oracle celebrates the sacred in what we have otherwise discarded – the elderly and the poor. In seeing them thus restored, the viewer participates in welcoming the marginalised back into “community.”
Captain Kris, SpZero76 and The Real Dill
The theme of myth, legend and collective need for meaning is echoed by artists like Captain Kris, SpZero76, and the Real Dill whose character based artwork takes us into the world of storytelling.
Top: “Flailing Limbs” © Captain Kris Bottom: (Left) “Painting the Town” © by SpZero76, (Right) “Untitled” by The Real Dill Photo by Tania D Campbell
The style, associated with comics, ‘zines and graphic novels throughout the world, expresses the need for myth and joins a tradition dating to ancient times where symbolic language and image helped define ourselves, our gods, heroes, and communities, through storytelling.
It is through our stories that mankind has handed down our histories and linked successive generations to their ancestors.
Saki and Bitches
Like ‘zines, which are sometimes sexually explicit and associated with bawdy humour, Saki and Bitches presents voluptuous and sensuous women in poses and situations one might associate with the male gaze and erotica. Rather than objectify these women, the viewer is challenged to integrate the image of raw feminine sexuality.
“Erika” © by Saki and Bitches, Photo by Tania D Campbell
In a similar way to Captain Kris, SpZero76 and the Real Dill, these works – whether on the street or inside the cover of ‘zines – reclaim the repressed shadow side of our collective unconsciousness as a part of our heroic visions of ourselves.
As a community of mankind, we are made whole by being able to witness these projections of our baser instincts and to accept them as part of ourselves.
Skeleton Cardboard
With a stylistic nod to late New York Street Artist, Basquiat, Skeleton Cardboard’s style of paint and drawing on reclaimed and found objects adds a further international flavour to the show.
“No photos on the dance floor Plz” © by Skeleton Cardboard. Photo by Tania D Campbell
Like Basquiat, Skeleton Cardboard uses social commentary as a springboard to deeper truths about the individual in society through dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, connection versus disconnection, and self awareness versus self image. Skeleton Cardboard’s art challenges and dismantles our assumptions of the good life. His merry skeletons seem blissfully unaware that they are dead, just as a culture of media munching, socially networked individuals have forgotten how to think independently and to connect to one another.
“No wifi, Can’t breathe” © by Skeleton Cardboard. Photo by Tania D Campbell
A darker view of community is communicated. Yet, by holding up a mirror to society, Skeleton Cardboard’s work offers an alternative way forward to connection.
The marriage of image with text and symbols, drawing, and painting, goes well beyond the heyday of graffiti in New York, evoking ancient and prehistoric times and reminds us that we are, indeed, a link in the DNA chain of a mankind struggling to form and maintain structures of clan, tribe and community.
UK artist, Fanakapan has long worked with the dichotomy of innocence and violence, with his balloon and candy characters that evoke memories of our own childhoods. Sometimes playful and joyous and sometimes violent and macabre, his works challenge viewers to consider the ways in which we gloss over uncomfortable truths and sometimes re-invent “false memories” of happier times.
Inflatable horse children of the apocalypse © by Fanakapan. Photo by Tania D Campbell
Whether the “Inflatable horse children of the apocalypse” series encourages us to throw off the veils of illusion of the re-invented childhoods that we, as adults, have used to cope with our pasts, or indeed whether we are meant to be encouraged to live our short lives to the fullest, one thing is certain: Fanakapan conveys the one universal truth which links all of mankind – the inevitability that birth is always chased by death.
Otto Schade
Death looms in much of the work of Chilean born artist, Otto Schade. “Extreme Fishing” is part of the artist’s oeuvre which focuses on the dichotomy between innocence (or ignorance) and violence at the societal level.
“Extreme Fishing” © by Otto Schade. Photo by Tania D Campbell
Familiar images of children at play are disrupted, as weapons – most often weapons of war – replace familiar objects of play. The children continue playing, ignorant of the deadly nature of the game.
Otto Schade challenges the viewer to question the way in which we have come to see war as a game. We have become desensitized to the brutality of killing, from playing violent and realistic virtual war games and from accepting the convoluted and dispassionate language of the killing machinery of modern warfare. The death of a human being is described as as a “win” when an enemy is killed (“target acquired”) and as a “clerical error” when our own soldiers die (“collateral damage”).
The artist confronts the viewer with the blood on our own hands as we turn a blind eye to the reality of the game. In “Extreme Fishing” the gun that is hooked by the boy’s fishing line points towards the boy. Death is a moment away, and calls into question the very future of humanity if we fail to stop playing the game.
Illuzina
The future of humanity is called into question as well in Illuzina’s piece, “Gaia”. In the piece, the mother goddess, Gaia, is represented with reference to images of early feminism, particularly the black lesbian feminist who was, for a long time, marginalised in a movement that had been dominated by the perspective of white middle class, Northern privilege.
“Gaia” © by Illuzina. Photo by Tania D Campbell
The painting portrays woman as a powerful agent and offers positive racial and queer imagery. Referencing the 1970s Black Exploitation genre of Northern cinema, it also calls forth and embraces the global South which has been exploited by the global North for her natural resource riches.
It is the obsession with excessive consumption in the North which has already triggered unpredictable and destructive impacts of man-made climate change. The global South, with its inability to adapt to these changes, stands to suffer most.
Despite historical geo-politics, we are reminded that the population of the global South constitutes the majority of mankind. The work not only gives prominence to the South in planetary dialogue but positions the planet as the centre of the discourse.
Illuzina’s work reminds us that there is no future for the community of mankind if we destroy the planet. If She dies, we all die, and we will all join the voices of our ancestors in a community of the dead.
Yet, the piece offers hope. Gaia sits in a state of potential – unplugged and disconnected to her power.
The message of the piece, and perhaps an underlying theme in much of the Street Art in the Underhand exhibition is this: the marginalised are the majority. This majority, once awakened and connected to their power as a community, can create positive social, environmental, political and spiritual change.
Many other talented artists not already mentioned have outstanding works in the show, making this exhibition well worth the visit.
Underhand runs at BSMT Space until 21 September.
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Indo- German relations are thriving and India remains the opportunity for German businesses, said Dr Martin Ney, German Ambassador at a press conference held in New Delhi ‘India and Germany-Technology partners for the Future.’
Advocating for free trade between Germany and India, Dr Martin Ney said, it is high time that Berlin and New Delhi sit down and resume negotiations in the connection.
Dr. Ney said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chancellor Angela Merkel took the decision that they were ready. Both the leaders agreed that for political and strategic reasons, negotiation between EU and India are important”. Germany is the sixth largest trading partner of India, he added. Machinery and parts are the main imports to India from Germany. The question is how do we bring about the industrial relations to a second point, Digitalization is an important part of our cooperation. Germany is looking at 4.0 industry digitalisation which has enormous potential in Germany.
Germany and India are natural partners in industry 4.0. India and Germany should join hands and set standards for others, said Dr Ney adding that a Free Trade Agreement is not only about import tariffs, the most important part is getting industry standards. He said I remember Chancellor Merkel saying ‘India is very important, We need an FTA.’
Dr. Ney clarified that there had been no decision as to when the negotiation will resume. “I detect there was a willingness from the Indian side to resume negotiation and I am supporter of an early negotiation,” he added.
Addressing journalists, VDMA president Carl Martin Welcker said that India is the second largest market for German exports. VDMA strongly supports the “MAKE IN INDIA’ initiative and EU’s negotiations with India to achieve a free trade agreement. “Both sides have vital interests that need to be reconciled. An agreement would significantly enhance the competitiveness of our industry in India while also open the EU markets further for Indian industry,” he added.
Rajesh Nath MD of VDMA said a market driven change is required for ‘energiewende’. There is no fear of losing jobs; progress creates jobs, he added. India should not be afraid of industry 4.0 standards. There is no fear of losing jobs.
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Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira to Adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Americanah’ to a TV miniseries
By Amanda Rey on March 1, 2018
After taking over the silver screen in the blockbuster film, Black Panther, it has been reported that Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira will reunite and take their talents to small screens!
According to Pulse.ng, the duo will adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s critically acclaimed novel, “Americanah”, into a TV miniseries. Back in 2014, it was announced that Nyong’o will join forces with Selma star David Oyelowo to star in the series. Now the forthcoming series has found its writer; playwright and award-winning actress Danai Gurira!
Yes!!! ‘Tis true: I acquired the rights to make a film of this amazing book by this amazing writer. I HIGHLY recommend the read. #Americanah #GrabIt
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The best-selling novel tells the story of two Nigerian immigrants, Ifemelu and Obinze, who face struggles but manage to rekindle their love on a journey of self-identity. During an interview with the New York Times, the acclaimed author opened up about the characters spirit and a desire to return home. “Ifemelu spends 13 years in the U.S. before moving back to Nigeria. I spent only four years in the U.S. before I went back, and have since lived in both countries,” Adiche said. “That is a significant difference, as much of Ifemelu’s characters is shaped by being disconnected from home for so long. I quite like that she is a female character who is not safe and easily likable, who is both strong and weak, both prickly and vulnerable.”
When the news of the “Americanah” first broke, it was reported that Brad Pitt will be producing through his production company, Plan B, along with Nyong’o and Andrea Calderwood (The Last King of Scotland). This will be the third time Nyong’o and Gurira will teaming up. Along with starring in Black Panther, Nyong’o starred in the Gurira-written play Eclipsed – which earned the 12 Year Slave actress her first Tony nomination.
There are no details on a release date for the long awaited project.
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Turn On The Jets Stock Watch: AFC East Preview
Mike Donnelly’s weekly Stock Watch previews the AFC East
Mike Donnelly is back with his weekly Stock Watch, today breaking down the AFC East. Make sure to give Mike a follow on Twitter and check out our new partner Night Out –
After watching the Jets this offseason, I’ve decided I can’t do an All-Jets stock watch this week. I’m still waiting for a response from Mike Tannenbaum after the letter I wrote to him the other day, so I’ll let everyone know when he gets back to me, and I’ll reserve more comment until that time. I’m sure it’s high on his list of things to do, somewhere between “find the next Victor Cruz”, and “get back those incriminating pictures Wayne Hunter has of me”, because things like “get competent NFL lineman” and “find tight end who can block” are clearly not priorities. Let’s just move on before I punch my laptop.
But don’t worry Jets fans, there is still some Jets content coming today because I’ve decided to kick off my NFL preview series with the AFC East, which is home of our mighty J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets. I’m going to be buying and selling records (the real Vegas lines), stats, prop bets (mostly made up ones by me), and whatever else I deem relevant. Here we go…
1. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (12-4), #1 seed
BUY: Over 11.5 wins – Sigh. I have the Pats down for 12 wins because of Tom Brady, another ridiculously easy schedule somehow, Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, and of course, Tom Brady. Looks like another division win for Cheating Bill and his prized unbelievably crappy defense. Ugh.
BUY: Tom Brady over 5,000 yards – I couldn’t find an actual prop for Brady’s yards this season, but I would be happy to bet that he breaks Drew Brees’s record from just last year. Can’t you just picture Tom going into Cheating BIll’s evil lair this offseason, mentioning what Brees did, then they both just nod at each other with the understanding this year they’ll blow that new record right out of the water? Well, I sure can.
SELL: Brandon Lloyd over 1,000 yards – I know a lot of people are extremely high on Lloyd this year as he’s following his coach/mentor/super best friend Josh McDaniels to their third team together, plus he gets to play with Tom Brady this time. Unfortunately, I think the Pats just have too many weapons and Lloyd won’t be dominating to the degree many are expecting. There’s some free fantasy advice for ya.
SELL: The Patriots Defense – So funny how the media bows to Belichick and raves about how his two rookie defenders will dominate from day 1, but Quinton Coples is a lazy bum and is the second coming of Vernon Gholston. I guess it’s Bill’s awesome track record of drafting superstar defenders lately like Jermaine Cunningham, Ron Brace, and Darius Butler that would lead everyone to believe that.
2. NEW YORK JETS (10-6), wild card
BUY: Over 8.5 wins – I know, I know. After watching the preseason so far and seeing the complete lack of depth or quality blockers on the team, it’s hard to like the Jets right now. But let’s face it, this defense is going to be AWESOME. Rex is going to unleash that defense three times against rookie QB’s (Luck once, Tannehill twice), Blaine Gabbert, Ryan Fitzpatrick twice, Jake Locker, Kevin Kolb, Brian Schottenheimer’s offense, Matt Flynn, and Alex Smith this year. 9 wins is a lock. In fact, as down as most of us are right now, I think this is a 10 or 11-win team that’s heading to the playoffs this year.
BUY: Shonn Greene over 1,200 yards – I know many, many fans don’t believe in Greene, but here’s why I expect big things from him: he’s in a contract season. Never underestimate the hunger of a player playing for money. He’s going to play every game, Sparano is going to feed him the ball, and he’s going to play very well.
SELL: 4.5 games started by Wayne Hunter – I really, truly believe Mike Tannenbaum is going to do something drastic to address the RT position soon, which will relegate Hunter to a bench player.
BUY: Mark Sanchez over 60% completions – I think Sanchez is going to take a big leap this year. The numbers may not quite be there overall in a running offense, but we will see a noticeable difference in his play.
OVER: Quinton Coples 4.5 sacks – Some fans won’t be happy unless Coples racks up 15 sacks, but if he gets over 5 this year that would be a very solid rookie year for a lineman who will be taking on two blockers a lot of the time this year.
3. BUFFALO BILLS (6-10)
SELL: Over 8 wins – Sorry, we’ve been over this ad nauseam here, but the Bills are the most overrated, overhyped team around this year.
SELL: Over 2.5 media members who will admit they were wrong about it – The funny thing about the offseason darling team everyone picks in July to go to the playoffs, is that nobody is willing to admit they were on that bandwagon when they lose their 11th game in December. I’ll be happy to call out all the “experts” as best I can when this happens in Buffalo this year.
BUY: CJ Spiller – I think Spiller is going to be a nice little sleeper in fantasy football this year. Fred Jackson is an old, injured man, and Spiller helps them out since they have just one receiving threat. He will get his touches.
SELL: Mario Williams over 10 sacks – Granted, he can easily approach this number in two games against Wayne Hunter (ok, more like 2 quarters), but I don’t see Mario getting to double digits. He wouldn’t be the first guy to mail it in after a huge contract, right Albert Haynesworth?
SELL: Ryan Fitzpatrick – Speaking of guys sucking after getting a big paycheck, how about that Ryan Fitzpatrick?! I see that second half slide from last season carrying into this year.
4. MIAMI DOLPHINS (5-11)
SELL: Over 7 wins – Sorry, I can’t think of a single reason why this number would be so high. Not one.
SELL: 36.5 games coached by Joe Philbin – I went over this in my Hard Knocks review, but man oh man, that Joe Philbin sure doesn’t inspire much confidence does he? I don’t think you’ll see too many Dolphins fans this year saying “Man, I’m really glad we hired Joe Philbin!”. Actually, I don’t think you’ll see too many Dolphins fans this year, period.
BUY: Reggie Bush – In fantasy football leagues where catches count, Reggie Bush is going to be a very popular man this year. Well, at least he will be for the 10 games he actually plays. The Fins will always be losing and playing catch-up, and mop up time is where Reggie Bush shines!
SELL: 0.5 Quality Receivers on the Team – I would have put this at under 0.5 even before Chad Johnson got cut. Davone Bess is still there, and he counts for about 0.4 of a quality receiver, but not quite the 0.51 to push this over the total.
Author Mike DonnellyPosted on August 21, 2012 Categories AFC East, Mike D, New York Jets, NFL, Stock WatchTags AFC East, Mike Donnelly, New York Jets1 Comment on Turn On The Jets Stock Watch: AFC East Preview
New York Jets: A Letter To Mike Tannenbaum
Mike Donnelly with an open letter to Mike Tannenbaum after watching the New York Jets gets get thrashed by the New York Giants
After an appropriate amount of time to decompress after last night’s horror show, TOJ is ready to break down the Jets second pre-season game against the Giants. We start with an open letter to Mike Tannenbaum from Mike Donnelly –
Dear Mike Tannenbaum,
Hey Mike, I just wanted to send you this letter because I have some real concerns about the job you’ve done lately with my beloved New York Jets, and your secretary keeps saying you’re unavailable when I call with my list of ideas (seriously, you can’t ALWAYS be out to lunch, can you?). I understand being the General Manager of a sports team is a really tough job and there will be some fans who always hate you no matter what happens, but I’ve always been a staunch supporter of yours. I just want you to know that, before you keep reading.
You see, I was a big fan of the whole “Trader Mike”, never say never, aggressive persona you established for yourself. Bold trades for players such as Braylon Edwards, Santonio Holmes, and Antonio Cromartie were all completely justified in my opinion, no matter what the cost ended up being. You brought real star power to the team and built a talented roster to compete with the Patriots. Your initial draft in 2006 was a goldmine as you brought in several players who were the foundation for the team. You followed that up with bold trade-ups in 2007 for players such as Darrelle Revis and David Harris, which I loved at the time and you were 100% right in doing so. Sure, the 2008 draft was a complete and total disaster, but every team strikes out from time to time. And even though the Gholston pick was more like you removing your pants, taking a dump on home plate and punching out the umpire while giving the crowd the finger than “striking out”, I still gave you a pass because I just blamed Mangini. I mean, screw that guy, right?
During the 2009 draft though, the bold Mr. T made his illustrious return and pulled off a blockbuster trade up for Mark Sanchez in the first round (a heist at the time), and then for Shonn Greene in the third round. We only ended up with 3 picks that year, but I didn’t care — we had our franchise QB and potential star RB. I still believe in both of them a great deal. The problem was, since that pick of Mark Sanchez you seem to have done everything wrong. You failed to give him the proper tools to develop properly, which should have been numbers 1, 2 and 3 on the agenda every day. Hell, I even wrote an entire column about those failures. I suggest you read it. The 2010 draft is when I started to really have my doubts, though. I didn’t mind the Kyle Wilson pick, even though I thought the pass rush should have been addressed.
When he looked terrible and had his butt firmly planted on the bench his entire rookie season, I still defended your choice. But if anything ever showed my true allegiance to you, it was my continued defense of drafting Vladimir Ducasse, despite literally ALL OF THE EVIDENCE pointing the other way. A Division 1-AA project offensive linemen from UMass with the ootball IQ of a tree stump should not be a second round pick, especially if he’s bad at football. You’ve since given him ample opportunity to prove himself and earn playing time and he’s failed miserably at every turn. The guy sucks. But even after all that, I still defended you adamantly. Until now, anyway. Allow me to run down the reasons why that’s the case, Mike:
Wayne Hunter – After the 2010 season, you practically pushed Damien Woody out the door, despite his wanting to play one more season. Why would you do that? Because in your mind Wayne Hunter played four good games down the stretch in 2010 and that meant he was ready to be “the man” at right tackle (plus we had VLAD in reserve. Clearly we were set with that combo!) You rewarded those four games with a rich contract, despite all of the evidence during Hunter’s career pointing to him being a bad player. Not many guys suddenly become good at the age of 30, and Hunter is no different. He was, is, and will forever be a steaming pile of crap as an offensive lineman.
And despite him turning in the single worst season I’ve ever seen from an offensive lineman in 2011, you decided to guarantee his $2.5 million salary for 2012 and not send his uncoordinated, immobile ass packing. This is when you lost me. Despite having some salary cap room to burn and all of our draft picks for a change, you brought in zero offensive tackles to take Wayne Hunter’s job (And don’t even get me started about the moron you hired to coach the offensive linemen. You know, the one who said Hunter is the best RT out there and someone would have to shoot him to bench Wayne). There can only be two explanations for your refusal to dump the human turnstile that is Wayne Hunter: 1- Mark Sanchez did something to you personally and this was your plan to get revenge, by having defensive ends blow past Hunter and get Sanchez killed right there on the field; or 2- you’ve become incompetent. While option 1 is certainly possible, I’m leaning towards option #2. Why? Because…
No Blocking Tight Ends – Despite having the worst offensive tackle in the history of organized football and trying to get back to being a “ground and pound” running offense, you decided we didn’t need any tight ends who could actually block. We’ve known Dustin Keller can’t block for years now, but you can get away with that as long as you have a #2 TE who can manage to not whiff on pass rushers or get knocked onto his ass while attempting to push a pile. We saw that when Ben Hartstock was on the team. You’d think that since you came up in this league under Bill Parcells and saw the team lead the league in rushing in 2009, you’d understand the importance of being able to dominate in the trenches.
Instead, your ideas for who to pair with Keller at the tight end position this year were: Jeff Cumberland (a tall, skinny college wide receiver who CAN NOT block), Josh Baker (an H-back who can’t block OR catch), and Hayden Smith (an Australian rugby player). If you combine all 4 of those players, they equal about 92% of ONE competent NFL blocker. When you factor in that they play next to Wayne Hunter it drops to about 85%. That is UNACCEPTABLE. This was probably the most inexcusable oversight you’ve had. There is no reason you couldn’t bring in a blocking tight end to this roster for a very cheap price. Hell, give Anthony Becht a call, it’s not like he’s busy or anything.
NO DEPTH – Last year when Nick Mangold got injured, we had to watch Colin Baxter comically get knocked over play after play and then look like he was going to cry on the sidelines. Thanks for that. When Wayne Hunter was getting thrown around like a child, we had nobody to replace him with. When Bryan Thomas got hurt, we had the immortal Garrett McIntyre backing him up. Basically, the bottom of the roster is a wasteland. After last season you spoke about how the Jets might have “the next Victor Cruz” on the roster, meaning a guy to come out of nowhere and contribute. The problem with that is that Victor Cruz has talent; Caleb Schlauderaff does not.
The Packers, who are a very well-run organization, thought so little of Caleb that they traded him to you four months after they drafted him. Yet you routinely speak of him like he’s the second coming of Steve Hutchinson. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say he sucks. On your never-ending quest to find the new Victor Cruz, you also talk up other bums such as Baker, Cumberland, and of course Austin Howard, who can’t seem to beat out even Wayne Hunter for a job. So please, spare me the talk about how Ellis Lankster or Josh Mauga are going to really break out this year. Don’t tell me about all the touchdowns Dexter Jackson will catch from Matt Simms. The team has no depth, and it’s extremely obvious. At least you got rid of Mark Brunell this year, though. I’ll give you that one.
Pass Rush – It’s been four years since the aforementioned Gholston disaster, and in that time, other than Aaron Maybin last year (which was complete luck that he fell into your lap) do you know how many Outside Linebackers you’ve added to this roster? ZERO! Bryan Thomas and Calvin Pace are solid players on the outside, especially against the run, but since you traded John Abraham in 2006 we haven’t had one single top-notch pass rusher. At some point in the last four years, don’t you think some youth and speed should have been added on the outside? Obviously you don’t agree, since you didn’t do it. Did you get scared off by the Gholston era or something? Get over it, shit happens. Pace and Thomas are now on their last legs, and there is no depth behind them. That’s going to end up being a serious problem. We saw that last year after BT went down and the run defense went into the crapper. Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the Victor Cruz of linebackers is on this roster!
So in conclusion, Mike, I just wanted to say that I’m not mad at you, I’m just hurt. The Mike Tannenbaum Era started off so great and I really believed in you. In fact, despite everything I just wrote, I still want to believe in you. I want to turn on the TV tomorrow and see you pulled off a trade for a legitimate starting Right Tackle (not one with chronically injured knees like Jeff Otah, though). I want to see that Wayne Hunter has been traded to the Siberian Football League or something. I want to see a tight end added to the roster that would be able to at least block me. There is talent on this team that you built and I’ve supported you through thick and thin, but as they say, a chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link. With moves like Hunter, Cumberland, and Vlad lately, I’m starting to think that maybe that the weak link… is you.
Mike Donnelly, Frustrated Jets Fan
Author Mike DonnellyPosted on August 19, 2012 Categories Mike D, New York Jets, NFLTags Mike Donnelly, Mike Tannenbaum10 Comments on New York Jets: A Letter To Mike Tannenbaum
Turn On The Jets Roundtable – Jets vs. Giants Preview
The Turn On The Jets writers preview the New York Jets/New York Giants pre-season game
The Turn On The Jets writing staff breaks down what they are most looking forward to seeing in the New York Jets second pre-season game. Make sure to leave your comments below or on the Turn On The Jets Facebook Page
Joe Caporoso – I want to see the New York Jets offensive line find a way against this Giants pass rush. Give Mark Sanchez enough time to complete his drop back and get the football down the field. Beyond that, there is no reason this talked up “Ground and Pound” shouldn’t be able to grind out a productive night running the football. Shonn Green get the yards per carry over 4.0 and break a run over 5 yards for once in your life. Finally, let’s see Dustin Keller involved in the passing game. Tony Sparano needs to find a way to successfully keep him active every single week, no matter how vanilla the game plan is. And oh yeah…how about a touchdown?
Chris Gross – Is anyone going to step up and take the metaphorical bull that is the Jets Running Back job by the horns? I’d love to finally see Shonn Greene step up and put together a performance we can feel confident as we inch closer to the regular season. Bilal Powell has done well in pass protection, but his performance last week against Cincinnati (5 carries, 16 yards) certainly did not reflect the praise he has been receiving in practice. Joe McKnight showed signs of life last week with his 32 yards on only 7 carries, but it’s time that he became more consistent and reliable. The Jets seem to be holding onto hope that one of these three is suddenly going to breakout and be the answer to the ground and pound. It is certainly time for this unit to start playing to the identity of this team, otherwise Tim Tebow will be getting the majority of the carries this season. Whether Jets fans want to hear it or not, this team is built to run the football. If none of these backs can prove to do so, New York will likely turn to Tebow to carry the workload on the ground, either as a RB or by rolling out the “Wildcat” more than anyone wants to see.
Mike Donnelly – What do I want to see? Well there are a few things I’m looking forward to seeing, such as Patrick Turner continuing to stake claim to a big role on offense, Quinton Coples and Mo Wilkerson continuing their excellent play up front against an overrated Giants offensive line, and for Demario Davis to get more reps with the first team defense. But this game is more about what I don’t want to see: I DON’T want to see the safeties struggle against Victor Cruz over the middle of the field; I DON’T want to see Shonn Greene and Bilal Powell struggle against a so-so Giants rush defense; And I mostly DON’T want to see Mark Sanchez get carted off the field as Wayne Hunter and his buddies on the offensive line struggles to block JPP, Tuck, and the rest of the Giants pass rushers. If we can avoid those three things, this game will be a success.
Author Joe CaporosoPosted on August 18, 2012 Categories Chris G, Joe Caporoso, Mike D, New York Jets, TOJ RoundtableTags Chris Gross, Joe Caporoso, Mike Donnelly, New York Giants, New York Jets1 Comment on Turn On The Jets Roundtable – Jets vs. Giants Preview
Turn On The Jets Stock Watch: Fantasy Football Draft Edition
Mike Donnelly is buying and selling fantasy football prospects for your upcoming draft
Mike Donnelly will be covering Fantasy Football all season for us here at Turn On The Jets. Make sure to give Mike a follow on Twitter and reach out to him if you are interested in potentially joining the TOJ fantasy league this year.
Fantasy football season is here (YESSSS!!!!), and you probably didn’t win your league last year. And it’s probably because you’re the kind of person who goes and finds someone like Evan Silva’s rankings before your draft and thinks they’re gold. If that’s the case, there’s a really good chance you lost in spectacular fashion, came in dead last, embarrassed yourself, had your girlfriend leave you because of it, and all your friends stopped calling because they were so appalled by your 1st round pick of Jahvid Best. Ok, maybe things didn’t get quite that bad, but let’s try to avoid that embarrassment you surely felt this year and actually, ya know, build a good team.
Mr. Silva kicked off his fantasy season this year on Rotoworld.com by participating in a mock draft where he took Ryan Mathews with the #2 overall pick (ahead of Ray Rice, Lesean McCoy, Aaron Rodgers, and Calvin Johnson) and claimed this is the year he stays healthy and dominates. The next day, Mathews broke his clavicle and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks. So if that’s the kind of crap you’re looking for, then more power to you. But if you want to do some damage this year, this is where you want to be, reading this right here all season, and it all starts with a strong draft.
Speaking of drafts, if you are still in the process of putting your league together, I think you need to read The 8 Easy Steps For the Perfect Fantasy League before doing so. And while we’re talking about starting leagues, we are starting the TOJ Fantasy Football League and are looking to invite a few readers to join up and play against us. If you’re interested, comment here or hit us up on Twitter. Alrighty, let’s get on with the show. I’m going to be buying and selling players here based on their average rankings. I’ll be buying I guys I really like who are being drafted too low, and selling guys I think are overrated and that I want no part of. I’m not going to be telling you to draft Calvin Johnson, because if you need me to tell you that, well, then you need far more help than I’m able to provide.
When it comes to QB’s this year there are the Top 5 (Rodgers, Brady, Brees, Stafford, Newton in that order) and then a steep drop towards tier 2. If you can’t get one of the elite guys, it’s not the end of the world because there is still some solid value in the middle rounds.
BUY: Philip Rivers – After a bit of a down year (for him) last year, a lot of people are down on Rivers, especially after losing Vincent Jackson. That loss is overrated, because Vincent Jackson sucks (more on this later). Rivers is typically ranked in the #9-10 QB range, and I think that’s low for him. Norv Turner is a big joke as a head coach, but the man knows offense, and Rivers is going to perform in the #5 or 6 QB range this year.
BUY: Big Ben – I expect Mike Wallace to show up by the start of the season and that will give Roethlisberger one of the best and deepest WR corps in the NFL. More importantly than that is the fact that they Steelers have no running backs, which will lead to a ton of pass attempts for the 2-time sexual assaulter. Sure, Ben is a terrible human being in real life, but he can help you on the fantasy gridiron this season as a low-level starter.
BUY: Jake Locker – This is one of my favorite sleeper QB’s this season, especially in keeper leagues. He won’t be one of the top 10 or 12 QB’s this season, but as a backup he can definitely be useful in case of injury. If Kenny Britt ever gets his head on straight, it will help Locker even more and it could have him knocking on the door of being starter-worthy.
SELL: Cam Newton as a TOP 4 QB – Cam is still going to be great this year, but the Panthers are going to try and limit his rushing attempts this year, which could slide him down the QB rankings a few spots.
SELL: Michael Vick – I hate Michael Vick, so that could affect my ranking of him, but the fact is this guy absolutely CAN NOT stay healthy. Let someone else deal with the stress of checking the injury report every day to see if he’ll be able to play on Sunday.
SELL: Sam Bradford – DO. NOT. DRAFT. SAM. BRADFORD! Unless of course you enjoy watching your QB throw 6 yard slants and dump offs to the RB as his offensive coordinator looks on happily from the sideline.
The running back position in some serious trouble this year due to a major rash of injuries, holdouts, and suspensions across the league. Jones-Drew, Lynch, Mathews, Richardson, Peterson, Beanie Wells, and Darren McFadden have all been effected by one of these things. Oh wait, McFadden hasn’t gotten hurt yet, but don’t worry, he will soon. Many people think that because of the lack of top RB’s, you should pass on them at the top of the draft and load up on the mid-range players. I think the opposite, and that it’s imperative you land one of the top guys you can count on. Who are those guys? Arian Foster, Ray Rice, Lesean McCoy are the cream of the crop, with Chris Johnson, Darren McFadden, and DeMarco Murray a step below.
BUY: Shonn Greene – A lot of people want to just write him off under the “LOL, the Jets” rule, but I think that is way off. The Jets are going to run the ball a lot this year, and Tony Sparano isn’t going to just forget to run during the second half of games like Brian Schottenheimer did. Greene averaged 4.2 yards per carry last year and played really well in the second half of the season. 1,250 yards and 8 TD’s are very realistic numbers and I think he will outperform his draft position.
BUY: Mike Goodson – By week 5 or 6 he’ll be getting the majority of carries in Oakland when McFadden gets injured. Great player to stash on your bench as your #4 or 5 running back.
Buy: Toby Gerhart, SELL: Adrian Peterson – These two go hand-in-hand, and it’s pretty simple. Adrian Peterson tore up his knee late last year, and it takes at least a full year for these guys to get back to full strength after such a big time injury. They can say Peterson is a fast healer all they want, but the fact is he just started practicing, he’s been told not to make cuts, and the defense isn’t even allowed to hit him. That doesn’t sound promising. What does sound promising is Toby Gerhart’s 2012 fantasy chances. For a guy being drafted as a #4 RB, I think he will offer much, much more.
BUY: Jacquizz Rodgers – In PPR leagues, the Falcons 3rd-down back can play a Darren Sproles-like role, especially with their new up-temp offense. He’s worth a flier in later rounds and could end up being a solid flex option in all leagues.
SELL: Maurice Jones-Drew – If his holdout lasts into the season, this is even more obvious, but even if he comes back tomorrow MJD is not going to be the elite back he has been the past few years. Holdout + Crappy Team does not = Good things. Simple formula. He’s typically ranked as the #7 or 8 RB overall as of now, but I wouldn’t take him as a top 15 back.
SELL: Michael Turner – Words can’t even express how much I hate Michael Turner this year. If you’re in a PPR league, the guy is basically useless, but even in standard leagues, you can expect his production to take a major hit this year. Sure he’ll have a few big games against garbage defenses, but as a whole, you can’t count on him at all. I wouldn’t want him as even a #2 RB on my team.
SELL: Steven Jackson – Again: Brian Schottenheimer.
SELL: Marshawn Lynch – Suspension + Got Paid + Bad Team = ????? Actually, I know what it means: That he won’t be on my fantasy team this year. I’d rather take guys like Ahmad Bradshaw or Doug Martin over him.
SELL: Benjarvus Green-Ellis – Things won’t be so easy this year without defenses petrified of Tom Brady passing the ball all game and daring BJGE to run. I’ll pass on him.
Wide receiver is extremely deep this year, but there’s only one truly elite player, and that’s Calvin Johnson. Behind him though, there are about a dozen excellent options, including the usual suspects like Fitzgerald, Welker, Andre Johnson, and Greg Jennings.
BUY: Julio Jones, SELL: Roddy White – As much as I hate Michael Turner, I love his teammate Julio Jones even more. The Falcons are going to an up-tempo passing offense, and it’s time for Roddy White to step aside, because there’s a new dreadlocked Sheriff in town. Don’t get me wrong, Roddy will still get his catches, but rather than finishing the year as a top 7 WR which is where’s ranked now, I think he’s going to be more in the 12-13 range. Jones, on the other hand, I have as high as #2 overall at WR, which may seem high now, but it won’t come December after he puts up a monster campaign.
BUY: Hakeem Nicks, SELL: Victor Cruz – It’s not that I think Cruz is going to be bad this year, because I don’t. But I do think that Nicks is going to be the fantasy monster this year and Cruz is going to settle into a solid #2 WR role for your team and slightly underperform on his expectations.
BUY: Brandon Marshall, SMALL BUY: Alshon Jeffery – To keep the teammate theme going, I think Marshall is going to get back to his old Denver fantasy superstar days now that he’s reunited with Jay Cutler in Chicago. 100 catches and 1100 yards are certainly possible. I also really like his rookie teammate Alshon Jeffery, who is definitely worth a late-round flier in your league after looking great in Bears camp so far.
BUY: Antonio Brown – After a great second half to the season last year, Antonio Brown is going to carry that forward into 2012 as the Steelers #1 passing option until Mike Wallace returns and gets back to form. For a guy ranked now in the #25 overall WR range, Brown is seriously undervalued right now.
BUY: Demaryius Thomas – Thomas had his moments last year, and that was with Tim Tebow throwing him the ball. Now he’s got Peyton Manning, and that’s what you might call “trading up”. Manning has raved about Thomas’s athletic ability and it’s not unrealistic to expect 1,200 yards from Peyton’s top target. I expect him to easily perform as a top 10 receiver this year.
BUY: Titus Young – Because Calvin Johnson can’t catch all of Matt Stafford’s 5,000 yards by himself, right? He’s being drafted as about the 33rd WR now, but I expect him to easily outperform that spot.
SELL: Vincent Jackson – So he got his big contract, moved from a passing team to a running team, and downgraded from Phil Rivers to Josh Freeman at QB. Yeahhhh… don’t draft Vincent Jackson this year.
SELL: Anquan Boldin – No longer a quality fantasy receiver. I’d rather roll the dice on someone like Titus Young than take the “name guy” in Anquan Boldin.
SELL: Steve Smith (Car) & Jordy Nelson – Both guys will have fine seasons I’m sure, I just don’t think either one will approach the success they had last year, which makes them overvalued heading into this year’s draft. It’s not bad to have them on your team, just don’t reach for them.
Here’s some good advice when it comes to tight ends: Try to get Rob Gronkowski or Jimmy Graham! I heard those guys are pretty good. If you can’t though, there’s plenty of depth this year at the position.
SELL: Tony Gonzalez – One guy who isn’t a part of that solid depth is Tony Gonzalez. Yes, the Falcons are going to more of a passing attack, but it’s all about the wide receivers and guys like Jacquizz Rodgers now. Look for the Hall-of-Famer to take a back seat in the offense this year and not perform as a top 12 TE.
BUY: Fred Davis – Fred had a really solid season last year until injuries took their toll on him. With a rookie QB, look for the big athletic TE to get plenty of targets. I have him as the #8 TE.
BUY: Dustin Keller – As with Shonn Greene, he’s being discredited under the “LOL, the Jets” rule, but that’s a mistake. For all intents and purposes, he’s the team’s #2 wide receiver and will likely lead the team in targets this year. Plus he’s playing for a contract, and that can never be a bad thing. Look for him to be a top 10 TE and not finish in the #18 overall range which is where I’m seeing him at now.
BUY: Jermaine Gresham – With AJ Green getting a ton of attention against opposing secondaries, look for Gresham to really rack up some nice stats over the middle of the field. Of course, he did suffer a knee injury in last night’s preseason game, so keep an eye on that.
BUY: Kyle Rudolph – An excellent sleeper TE for the Vikings. He’s big and athletic, and Christian Ponder is going to need to throw the ball to somebody. Take a flier on him with one of your last picks and let’s watch him blossom into a very usable option at TE.
So there you have it: My first Fantasy Football Stock Watch of the season. I’d be happy to discuss these rankings and other players here in the comments or on Twitter. And if you’d like to get into our TOJ Fantasy League, then let us know and we’ll pick a few readers to play against us. And good luck to everyone this year… unless you’re playing against me of course.
Author Mike DonnellyPosted on August 17, 2012 Categories fantasy football, Mike D, NFLTags Fantasy Football, Mike Donnelly7 Comments on Turn On The Jets Stock Watch: Fantasy Football Draft Edition
Turn On The Jets Stock Watch: Pre-Season Week 2 Edition
Mike Donnelly’s weekly Stock Watch is buying and selling New York Jets after their first pre-season game
Mike Donnelly is back with his weekly Stock Watch. Make sure to give Mike a follow on Twitter and to check back in later for a feature on New York Jets tight end Dustin Keller and Fact or False from Chris Gross, previewing Jets/Giants –
I know everyone was sorely disappointed that the Stock Watch did not come out yesterday as per usual, and I apologize for ruining everyone’s Tuesdays out there. I hope you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me. To make it up to you, I’m going to be giving you a bonus edition of Stock Watch on Friday to kick off our fantasy football coverage, free of charge! Talk about a good deal. Be sure to check back for some top notch fantasy advice if you have a draft coming up, and if you didn’t start your league yet, what are you waiting for? Read these 8 Easy Steps for the Perfect Fantasy League right here and get the ball rolling.
SELL: Peter Schwartz of WFAN- Many of you probably don’t know who Peter Schwartz is, and you should consider yourselves fortunate. That means that unlike me, you don’t listen to WFAN far too often, and you aren’t subjected to this guy’s completely ridiculous take on the Jets. You’d think a guy who watches the team every day would have a slight clue about what he’s talking about, but alas, it doesn’t seem as if he does. Last Friday before the Jets preseason game, Schwartz was on the radio with the worst host on the station, Marc Malusis. When asked about Quinton Coples, Schwartz replied thusly: “If you look up a picture of Quinton Coples in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of Vernon Gholston.. a bust!”.
Now besides the obvious question of what dictionary does Peter Schwartz use that gives you definitions of people’s names, you’d think an NFL “reporter” would wait until a rookie first round pick plays ONE GAME, just ONE preseason game at least before even mentioning Gholston or throwing around the bust label. But not Mr. Schwartz, he confidently told all 14 listeners of Malusis’s show that Coples is the second coming of Gholston and will be a bust. Then, Coples went out and dominated the Bengals and drew rave reviews from everyone. When myself and a few others called Peter Schwartz out about this on Twitter, he simply blocked everyone rather than owning up to it. I’m selling Peter Schwartz’s already low stock, and I encourage everyone else out there to ask him about his Coples guarantee on Twitter. And then see how long it takes to get blocked.
BUY: Quinton Coples – I should have known right when Peter Schwartz called him a Gholston that I could start preparing for his trip to Canton in 2030, but I was very pleasantly surprised to see him play so well against the Bengals. With his size and athletic ability, combined with Mo Wilkerson, the Jets are going to be very, very good up front this year.
BUY: Patrick Turner – In last week’s Stock Watch I mentioned one of the big things to watch during the preseason was to see if one of the receivers on the roster could step up and make an impact with Santonio Holmes and many others out with injuries. Well, Patrick Turner is the one who appears to have made the most of his opportunity so far. Don’t forget, Turner played with Mark Sanchez at USC and was a highly regarded prospect coming out of college. He clearly has a rapport with Sanchez, and he’s earned his spot on the team with good special teams play and very good blocking. Now it looks like he will have the opportunity to get some serious playing time on offense, and he’s making the most of it.
SELL: Bart Scott’s Playing Time – I’m a big Bart Scott fan and I think he gets a bad rap from a lot of fans, but seeing Benjarvus Green-Ellis, who is not exactly “fast”, toast Bart on a crossing pattern for a big gain was painful to see. Whether Bart likes it or not, Demario Davis is going to see a lot of action in passing situations while he’s standing next to Rex Ryan watching.
SELL: The Offensive Line – My God that was painful to watch last Friday. And that was without the human turnstile Wayne Hunter playing. It appears as though the line is in midseason form and quite intent on getting Mark Sanchez killed on the field this season. There was constant pressure in the backfield and little to no running room opened up for the backs. Now, Cincinnati has a pretty solid defense, but if the line plays like that against the Giants this week, I hope Mark Sanchez fakes an injury before the game rather than play and suffer a real one.
That’s it for this week. Be sure to check back on Friday for the first Fantasy Football column of the season so you can kick the crap out of all your friend son the fantasy gridiron this year!
Author Mike DonnellyPosted on August 15, 2012 Categories Mike D, New York Jets, Stock WatchTags Mike Donnelly, New York Jets, Stock Watch3 Comments on Turn On The Jets Stock Watch: Pre-Season Week 2 Edition
8 Steps To Achieve The Perfect Fantasy Football League, Part 2
Mike Donnelly finishes out his 8 easy steps to having a perfect fantasy football league
Mike Donnelly will be leading our fantasy football coverage all season. Make sure to check out part 1 of this article here and to follow him all season on Twitter. Today he finishes the breakdown of the 8 key steps to having a perfect fantasy football league –
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5. Appoint a strong Commissioner. Terms like “jerk”, “inflexible”, and “know-it-all” may seem like unflattering things to be called. But in the fantasy land, those are exactly the qualities you want in your Commission of the PFL. I take them as as compliment now. Oh you want to fight me tomorrow? That means I’m doing a good job. The rules have to be iron-clad, everyone has to obey them, and there can be no shenanigans. No unfair trades, no collusion, no getting around the waiver rules. Otherwise you end up in a league where a team falls out of it and tries to help their buddy in exchange for a few bucks, or there’s one guy who tries to cheat his way through waivers, etc. Those are not things you need in a PFL.
To become a good Commissioner you need to do a few things: First, put in the scoring system I showed you above. Second, implement a waiver system in which every team owner has 100 dollars to bid on free agents for the season. They put their bids in after the games on Sunday, and have until Wednesday night to do so. At that point, the highest bidder gets the free agent. After the waiver process ends, pickups are free Thursday through kickoff of the first game of the week. Very simple, fair, and efficient. Trust me on this. Third, make sure everybody pays at the draft or very shortly after. No exceptions. Fourth, draw up an iron clad league Constitution that clearly states all the rules and ins and outs of the league — Things such as Playoff rules, scoring tie breakers, trade rules, etc all need to be included here. That way any time an incident arises you can just point to the Constitution. Any questions or problems with these rules need to be brought up at the draft. Which is why you need to…
6. Have a live, IN PERSON draft. Besides being a great excuse to spend a Saturday with your friends drinking beer, eating pizza, and having fun, it also helps clear up any issues anybody might have with the league. Things just get done so much easier in person.
Besides that, it also gives you good insight into what all the other team owners are thinking or trying to do. Sometimes you can look across the table and just know who the other guy is hoping falls to him. That’s when you announce it to the group and blow up his spot. Nothing is more fun. Except maybe when a guy reaches for a player and you can string off a couple of thinly-veiled insults. Some of my favorites include: “We’re in the 10th round already?” when a guy makes a bad pick in the 5th round; “Is that last year’s draft guide you are using?” when someone takes a washed up player; “HA! Good one, who are you really picking?”; “Someone needs to stop drinking”; or “Awesome! That just means one more actually good player will fall to me”. Plus, did I mention it’s a good excuse to get together with 11 of your friends to drink beer and let loose for a few hours? I did, but one more time: It’s an excuse to get together with 11 of your closest friends and have an excuse to drink beer and have fun.
7. Have thick skin. I touched on this above, but it’s worth repeating and making it’s own rule. You have to remember: the things written about you, the pictures posted about you, the derogatory polls made about you, and whatever else are all in good fun. Plus they are probably hilarious, and you’d love it if they were about your friend instead of you. Then, you should strive to give it back to that person just as good without being a jerk about it.
In my PFL there are no less than 3 articles written with photoshopped pictures about a league member written per week. Plus at least a poll or two. And the polls don’t typically ask “Who is going to win this week’s matchup” if you catch my drift. They are far more personal and much more likely to include someone’s girlfriend and farm animals. That’s what makes it fun. If you get upset because someone asked “What’s in worse position – Joe’s team or the Kardashian family?” or called you the “Dungeon Master” because your team is absolute crap, well, you just aren’t going to make it over 16+ weeks. I will make a comment about anything you do. I will insult your free agent pick up; I will say you got fleeced in the big trade you made just to make you mad; I’ll laugh about the girl you hooked up with last night and post a picture of it that I secretly took; I’ll offer you some terribly unfair trades just to make you mad; I’ll make my team name something about you. I expect you to do the same, just be funny about it. Deal with it.
8. Finally, check your league at least once a day. This should go without saying, but if you aren’t doing this, you are really missing out. How are you getting through the work day? How are you getting through those hour-long phone calls with your girlfriend without scrolling through the top free agent defenses and their match-ups for the next 3 weeks? If someone offers you a trade and you don’t reply one way or another, or even say you are thinking about it, you should be excommunicated. There is no reason for that. A trade offer should not sit for any longer than 3 days. On top of doing it so you have a better chance of winning and staying a step ahead of your competition, in the PFL there is always something going on to entertain you whether it’s an article, a poll, a post on the message board, a picture, etc. Just check once a day, and you’ll be glad you did.
Keep in mind, fantasy football only lasts 4 months of the year. We have to cherish these times and get the most out of it that we possibly can. These 8 steps will surely help put you on the path to having a Perfect Fantasy League, but it’s up to you to make it happen. Just know that there are some people out there that have seen the light. It is possible. Come and join us and spread the word.
Author Mike DonnellyPosted on August 7, 2012 Categories fantasy football, Mike D, NFLTags Fantasy Football, Mike DonnellyLeave a comment on 8 Steps To Achieve The Perfect Fantasy Football League, Part 2
New York Jets: Green and White Scrimmage Recap
Mike Donnelly recaps the New York Jets Green and White scrimmage
Mike Donnelly provides a recap of today’s Green and White scrimmage. Make sure to give him a follow on Twitter and check back tomorrow for Chris Gross’ overview of the Jets options at wide receiver with Santonio Holmes likely being out for 4-6 weeks with a broken rib.
With today’s first Jets Green and White scrimmage taking place, the important thing to remember is that today is August 4th and the season doesn’t begin for another five weeks. So getting too up or too down about certain players or position groups on this team based on one glorified practice is a pretty futile exercise. That being said, there would be no fun in keeping a level head and not breaking down the action that we saw, heard, or read tweets about this afternoon.
The main thing to know about today’s scrimmage was that in addition to learning a whole new system on the fly, the Jets offense was without wide receivers Stephen Hill, Jeremy Kerley, and Chaz Schilens, plus 3/5 of their starting offensive line were out. (Nick Mangold was off in London to watch his sister compete in the Olympics, Brandon Moore was out watching Curtis Martin get inducted into the Hall of Fame, and Wayne Hunter was not playing, which would usually be good thing until you remember his backups are even worse, but that’s a whole other issue). Oh, and they were only going against arguably the best defense in the NFL.
No big deal. That of course won’t stop many “experts” and commenters from bashing the offense and making unfunny Twitter jokes, but the fact is, the defense is supposed to dominate in situations like that. So for the purposes of this article, I’m going to be looking at all of the positives that came out of today’s scrimmage and not taking petty shots at anyone; not even at Tim Tebow, i promise. Let’s break this down in easy-to-read fashion with random thoughts:
Quinton Coples – I guess all the fans ready to call him a Gholston (it seemed like some actually want him to fail so they can say “I told you so”, which blows my mind) can exhale and actually, you know, give the first round pick more than 6 practices before writing him off. On the very first play of the scrimmage he beat his man, knifed in, and stuffed Shonn Greene behind the line of scrimmage. After that, by all accounts he played very well and should only build off this performance.
Flashes of the new Defense – Rex Ryan started to show some wrinkles he’s incorporating into the new 46 defense this year, and came in with many different looks. Aaron Maybin was all over the field lining up at many different positions, and we even saw some looks where Calvin Pace and Coples were standing up next to each other on the same side of the line. It’s very easy to get excited about this defense, especially when you read things like…
Antonio Allen, Garrett McIntyre, and Ricky Sapp all looked great – Three guys who are all under-the-radar and unknown to casual fans all have had very strong camps and continued that today. Allen has looked like an absolute steal as a 7th round pick, and Sapp and McIntyre are proving that the Jets are not as thin at OLB as many would think. Those Stock Watch Buys of Sapp the past few weeks are looking like money makers so far!
Dustin Keller – Keller caught 3 passes for 31 yards against the first string defense, which is a very positive sign. It appears as though new offensive coordinator Tony Sparano got the memo Brian Schottenheimer never got around to reading, about Dustin Keller being a legit weapon for this offense and if put in the proper position can really do well. Better late than never I suppose. Speaking of Sparano..
Sparano makes adjustments, Sanchez looks sharp – After getting it handed to them early in the scrimmage, when the offense came out for the first drive after halftime, they looked totally different. Mark Sanchez looked great as he went 7-9 for 52 yards during a 60-yard drive that culminated in a touchdown pass to Bilal Powell. That halftime adjustment already gives Sparano one more than Schotty had in six years here as coordinator. Sad, but true.
Santonio Holmes broke his ribs – Oh wait, that’s not a positive at all. But it looks as though that is the case, as he was apparently leveled by #2 wide receiver Antonio Cromartie — yes, Antonio Cromartie made a big hit. Seriously. — and came out of the scrimmage. If the rib is indeed broken, his status for week 1 is very much up in the air. The options to replace him from outside the organization are downright putrid now that Braylon Edwards just signed with Seattle, so someone has to step up. If there is a silver lining to all of this, it will give players like Chaz Schilens, Patrick Turner, Jeremy Kerley and even Jordan White the opportunity to step in and show the coaching staff something. It remains to be seen whether or not they will do so, but if all else fails, I guess we can just look forward to watching a 57-8 run/pass ratio in week 1, right?
Curtis Martin going into the HOF – Not part of today’s scrimmage, but definitely worth mentioning. One of the greatest Jets of all time is heading into the Hall of Fame tonight, and we couldn’t be happier for him here at TOJ. If you missed my column on why Curtis deserves this honor so much, you can check that out here.
Author Mike DonnellyPosted on August 4, 2012 Categories Mike D, New York Jets, NFL, Training Camp 2012Tags Antonio Allen, Mark Sanchez, Mike Donnelly, New York Jets, Ricky Sapp, Santonio Holmes, Tim Tebow4 Comments on New York Jets: Green and White Scrimmage Recap
Turn On The Jets Stock Watch 7/24 – Training Camp…Finally Edition
Mike Donnelly’s weekly stock watch is looking forward to training camp finally kicking off
Mike Donnelly is back for his weekly Stock Watch with his last pre-training camp edition. Make sure to give Mike a follow on Twitter and keep coming back for this column all season here at Turn On The Jets…
Training camp is a few days away still, the basketball offseason is basically complete, and the dog days of baseball are in full effect. The worst sports period of the entire calendar year is just about over, so let’s get the ball rolling and go ahead and make that our first sell –
SELL: Mid-July on the Sports Calendar– I feel like I’m looking forward to the football pre-season more than ever this year. Baseball has basically bored me to tears, and the excitement of the Knicks and Nets bolstering their rosters has quickly faded. In two weeks I will probably be complaining about the media’s Jets hatred and over-saturation of Tebow stories, but as of right now, I can’t wait for that to get here.
SELL: Jason Bay and the Mets– And here’s a big reason why baseball has has officially turned me off for the season. The Mets have now lost 10 of 11 games and I have to watch the man who is by far my most hated player trot out there day after day after day to strike out or ground out weekly to shortstop. I have a theory that Omar Minaya knew he was about to be fired so he signed Bay as an “F U” to the Mets ownership and their fan base as his final joke.
BUY: The Jeff Otah trade– YES! Now we’re talking! Some good old fashioned Jets news – and pleasant news at that. This just goes to show you that my previous sells of “The ‘New’ Wayne Hunter” and new line coach Dave DeGuglielmo’s spirited defense of him (which was downright hilarious and made him look like a fool) were money makers. Coach Gooch can speak until he’s blue in the face about how great Hunter is, but actions speak louder than words, and the action move was getting a new Right Tackle. Wayne Hunter did and will continue to suck, so getting a 1st round talent in here to take over the job is an excellent move. I fully understand his injury history and all that, but I’ll take a 60% healthy Jeff Otah over 450% of Wayne Hunter any day.
SELL: The Detroit Lions– Just reminding everyone that I’m down on the Lions this year BIG TIME, and in coming weeks I’ll mention that plenty more times. These 7 arrests this offseason? Yeah.. not a good start for them.
BUY: The new TurnOnTheJets.com T-Shirts – If you haven’t checked these out in the new TOJ store, you owe it to yourself to do so. Of course, I had a (small) part in picking out the design, so obviously they’re beautiful and top notch. And yes I just patted myself on the back for basically nothing. Like I said, its a slow time of the year, come on.
BUY: The Yankees Getting Ichiro– This move just screams Yankees. It has all the qualities of a classic Yankees midseason trade. They had a small crack in the foundation of the team with Brett Gardner out for the season so they went and poured 30 pounds of concrete on it. They added a future Hall-of-Famer for basically nothing, tacked on some salary (which no other teams seem willing to do), and now they have an outfielder who is going to KILL IT in Yankees Stadium the rest of this season as he makes a push for a new contract. You can add this as reason #9,671 of why I hate the Yankees.
BUY: Jets Training Camp – Worth mentioning again, but Jets training camp is here and I couldn’t be more excited. I hope all the readers stick with us in the coming weeks and months, because things are about to heat up in a big way around here. If anybody plans on attending training camp, shoot one of us a line, because I think there’s more than a good chance that I’ll make the trek up there one of the days. Hopefully I get to see my good pal Manish Mehta again and give him a chance to bribe me for the #1 spot in our next Power Rankings column.
Author Mike DonnellyPosted on July 24, 2012 Categories Mike D, Stock WatchTags Mike Donnelly, New York Jets, Stock Watch2 Comments on Turn On The Jets Stock Watch 7/24 – Training Camp…Finally Edition
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BEATEN: An Interactive Adventure
Not the best possible follow-up to the previous post, but it sure was easier to process! We're returning to BASIC here, but it's 15 years later (QBasic, actually, current as of MS-DOS 5.0, June 1991, and not the 1996 release date of this program.) That makes for brutally simple (and simply brutal, in this case) games that are however easy for a reader to follow along with and in this case, very easy to mark up for online "play", however unrewarding. I've left much of the source code instructions in for period flavour, only omitting screen printing, colour and pause information that I can't represent here.
Please note that the author in all likelihood has moved on over the past 16 years and won't be reachable at the address they enclose, so there's likely not much point in writing in there even if you do want to encourage him with a shiny dollar.
You can find the game's original source code (and a somewhat justified scathing review) over here; I'm sure the young man has gone on to greater things but sadly for him us nostalgic weirdos haven't. The Internet has a long memory and one of its specialties is periodically churning up the long-forgotten sediment.
*****This is the BEATEN Readme*****
This is a QBasic game. It is very limited. It is my first game however. If you like this game, please help support the shareware concept and send $1 to:
Eddie Tomayko
12 Lofton Drive
Arkadelphia, AR 71923
15 PRINT "BEATEN: An Interactive Adventure by Eddie Tomayko"
30 PRINT "Copyright 1996, All Rights Reserved"
40 PRINT "Serial/Release No. 708/348"
100 PRINT "You wake up. It's been a long day, not to mention night."
110 PRINT "You have an immense hangover."
120 PRINT "Maybe you should have avoided those 10 beers last night."
130 INPUT "You may get UP, go back to SLEEP, or get some ASPRIN."; a$
170 PRINT "You stand up. The room spins wildly around you."
172 PRINT "Suddenly you lose your balance. You fall forward face first."
173 PRINT "You crack your head on your dresser. You black out."
174 GOTO 2000
180 PRINT "You fall back into sleep. You sleep for several hours."
182 PRINT "You wake up to the sound of breaking glass."
183 PRINT "You are defenseless as a gang of vigilanties beat you."
184 PRINT "Eventually you lose consciousness. Death finally arrives."
190 PRINT "You take some asprin and sit down for a while."
192 PRINT "Your hangover finally goes away. You look at the clock. It reads 10 AM."
193 INPUT "What do you want to do now? You may go OUTSIDE, turn the TV on, or SLEEP."; b$
200 PRINT "You turn on your TV. You switch the channel to the news."
202 PRINT "The newscaster says something about a band of armed vigilanties."
203 PRINT "He says that they are armed and dangerous."
204 PRINT "Ha! You think to yourself. Those newscasters will say anything to get ratings!"
205 PRINT "At that moment you hear the sound of breaking glass."
206 PRINT "A band of club-brandishing vigilanties enter the room."
207 PRINT "You are defenseless as the gang beats you senseless."
208 GOTO 184
210 INPUT "You leave the house and start your car. Roads lead NORTH, EAST, and WEST."; c$
220 INPUT "You pull up to the pub you were in last night. Do you ENTER or go BACK"; d$
224 PRINT "You enter and have a couple of beers. And a couple more. And even more still.."
226 PRINT "Drunk as hell, you wander into the street and are hit by a passing car."
230 PRINT "You drive up to a pawn shop. A sign on the door says -Open-"
232 PRINT "You open the door and enter the pawn shop."
233 PRINT "You search your pockets. All you have is $5."
234 INPUT "You can buy a GUN, or a BLACKJACK."; e$
240 PRINT "As you are driving along, you see a pile of money on the ground!"
242 PRINT "You get out and start to pick it up. A gang of vigilanties approaches you."
243 PRINT "They tell you that the money is now theirs. They say you must pay or be beaten."
244 INPUT "You can PAY $100, or BEAT them if you have a blackjack"; g$
246 PRINT "The gang takes the money, and then decides to beat you anyway."
250 PRINT "You buy a gun from the shopkeeper. He seems to have a strange glint in his eye."
252 PRINT "You drive back to your house. You decide to test the weapon."
253 PRINT "You aim it at a nearby tree and pull the trigger."
257 PRINT " BOOM!!!!"
271 PRINT "The gun explodes in your hand. You fall to the ground, bleeding profusely."
272 PRINT "You die slowly and painfully. I wouldn't have trusted that shopkeeper!"
280 PRINT "You buy a blackjack. The store owner seems to have a strange glint in his eye."
282 PRINT "You don't like the store owner's attitude. That glint is annoying too."
283 PRINT "You beat him mercilessly with your blackjack into a bloody pulp."
284 INPUT "You can steal the GUN, or the MONEY."; f$
290 PRINT "You steal the gun from the shop."
300 PRINT "You take [sic] bust open the cash register. There is $100 in it. You take it."
302 PRINT "As you are leaving you remember your $5. You retrieve the bloodstained cash."
303 PRINT "You get in your car and drive back home."
310 PRINT "You take out the blackjack and brutally beat each member of the gang."
312 PRINT "As they lie unconscious on the ground, you beat them until they stop breathing."
315 PRINT " Congratulations!"
316 PRINT " You have avoided being BEATEN!"
318 PRINT "I hope you enjoyed it!"
2000 2001 INPUT "You have died. Would you like to play again?"; z$
2002 IF z$ = "yes" THEN GOTO 15
2003 IF z$ = "no" THEN END
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Abhusan Gautam
tradition with a twist
The Prajapatis of the Newar community have been making pottery and ceramics since the time of the Malla regime in Nepal. Let’s learn how Laxmi Kumar Prajapati of Thimi Ceramics, who took over the mantle of the ceramics business from his father, has managed to preserve this age-old tradition with a bit of a twist.
When Laxmi Kumar Prajapati, Co-founder of Thimi Ceramics, first joined his father’s ceramics and pottery business, he had the least bit of a clue about the amount of precision that went into making quality earthenware. Twenty five years on, after successfully taking over from his father, Laxmi has realized that ceramic-making is not just an art but also a science. In fact, he says ceramic-making is more science and less art than some might romanticize it to be.
“In order to master the art of ceramic-making, one has to understand how clay reacts to different temperatures and humidity. Furthermore, the knowledge of composition and quantity is a must. Our ancestors learned this art through trial and error. But we had to take classes in order to understand the science of it.”
Before Laxmi and his brother Santa Kumar founded Thimi Ceramics in 1987, both brothers were advised by their father to take up classes at SOS Balgram. So in 1983, they started a two-year basic course on ceramics.
It was the culmination of a group project in the course that gave them an opportunity to participate in a special ceramic workshop. The month-long workshop titled ‘Ceramic Promotion Project’ was jointly organized by the German organization GIZ and the Government of Nepal. There, they were trained on the technical aspects of ceramic production. At the end of the workshop, the brothers received an electric wheel for standing out in a group project. The organizers of the workshop also helped them finance their own furnace for ceramic manufacturing. With this kick star, Thimi Ceramics was born in 1987.
Keeping it traditional with a twist
Laxmi and his brother founded Thimi Ceramics not just with an aim to do business but also to preserve an age-old tradition that was handed over to them by their father. “It was crucial to keep that tradition alive and have it be reflected in our products. But at the same time, we also had to make a lot of changes to traditional methods to be on par with modern-world demands,” says Laxmi.
So they started manufacturing glazed earthenware (earthenware with an additional layer of glossy material) unlike the traditional unglazed earthenware their father made. This meant that the equipment necessary for production also had to be changed. They introduced electric wheels to spin the clay and a powerful kerosene furnace to harden it or in their words ‘vitrify’ it. With no loans taken, everything was financed on their own with their family savings.
As the Prajapatis continued with the production and distribution of their newly-fashioned ceramics in the next years, some customers complained that their products chipped away very easily after few months of purchase.
“We were shocked to find that out and we took it very seriously. We had no idea why it was happening. For months, we tried to improve the quality by tweaking the proportion of raw materials, adjusting the temperature and observing the results,” says Laxmi, recalling the incident that strengthened their resolve to do better.
The little profit that they had made went into experimenting with the products. Many of them ended up damaged. But they did not lose hope. They were determined to make quality earthenware.
With the help of an American friend they had met during the ceramic project workshop, the brothers set out on doing more research in 2000 to improve the quality of their product. Four years later, they came up with a new and improved version of earthenware called stoneware. The new material was harder, more compact and difficult to chip. This was the first time that anyone had introduced stoneware products in Nepal.
With the new material in their hands and with its quality ensured, there was no looking back. Their business valuation increased to an estimated six million rupees in the next 10 years.
“The demand in the market has been good. We currently employ 20 people – locals as well as migrants from Dang and Janakpur. We supply to various handicraft outlets like Sana Hastakala, hotels like the Radisson and Hyatt besides restaurants and showrooms in the Valley. We also export to seven countries including Denmark, USA and Japan,” says Laxmi says, smiling. They regularly participate in various handicraft events and trade fairs held in Kathmandu and abroad to exhibit their products.
“Much of our marketing has been through word-of-mouth. So such trade fairs and expos have been very helpful in building our customer base. Since a majority of our products are custom-made, our customers return to us from time to time because we ensure them a high quality,” says Laxmi.
The ceramic items, on average, range from a paltry twenty rupees to a thousand rupees, depending on the material used. 75% of their products are stoneware while the remaining is earthenware for lower-end customers.
Challenges galore
At a time when many manufacturing industries across Nepal are reeling under the effect of labor crises and brain drain, Thimi Ceramic too has felt its effects. Laxmi says the lack of skilled workers has forced them to limit their production capacity. Lack of modern machinery is another hurdle. With no laboratory or equipment to test the composition of his products, Laxmi has to rely on his experience and hunch to monitor the manufacturing process. He also says using kerosene furnace has brought him more bane than boon.
“The kerosene furnace is noisy, expensive and hard to maintain. In countries like India and China, ceramic manufacturers use electric furnaces as the temperatures inside can be precisely controlled to get the desired output. We can make our system 45% more efficient if we use electric furnaces.”
But, that would not be a viable choice, given the 12-hour crippling power cuts the nation faces. Laxmi already has problems managing power to run his electric spinners. “Power shortage is a major problem for us. All our clay spinning work depends on electricity. As we run on deadlines, any minor disruption results in failure to meet them. We are forced to rely on generators for now,” he says.
Finding the raw material they need – clay, inside the Kathmandu Valley has become extremely difficult. With many housing projects cropping up on land that was once used for clay extraction, ceramic industries have been forced to look for alternatives outside the Valley.
The government factor
Laxmi says the government can play an important role in facilitating the extraction and transport of clay from outside if not control land depletion inside the valley. “We have to import clay from India to manufacture stoneware products since that kind of clay is no longer found here. But we have to pay huge amounts at border customs to bring the products here,” he says. The government can organize more handicraft and trade fairs to boost such businesses beside financially supporting them to introduce better machinery and equipment and maximize their output and efficiency, says Laxmi.
From what Laxmi shares, the market is unlimited for ceramic industries in Nepal. What confines this progress is the lack of basic needs of any industry: power, workforce and machinery. Given that these requisites are fulfilled, there is nothing to stop such industries from flourishing. For now, the industries seem satisfied, to an extent, with their progress. With a focus on quality rather than on quantity, they have managed to capitalize on a loyal customer base built carefully over the years.
Take Thimi Ceramics as an example.
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Roman man shrestha says:
This the real enterpreneur of Nepal.To preserve culture and tradition and making it a source of income is the great job.Happy to see this type of article and a warm success in future to Mr Laxmi prasad prajapati.
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Amy Winehouse, Dead At 27, Was An Asshole
Home → Damien Zone → Amy Winehouse, Dead At 27, Was An Asshole
Amy Winehouse died because she was a dope addict and it’s an insult to people throughout the world who truly suffer from emphysema to try to say that the pulmonary disease killed that mess.
There are millions of people who suffer from emphysema who didn’t shoot heroin and crack but their lives are miserable. Blaming her death on emphysema is a Twinkie defense — she died because she was a drug addict who thought it was cool to be a drug addict. She wanted to be a tragic rock star like Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin — except they had talent.
Amy Winehouse is not to admired or copied or revered — she was an asshole and a loser. So she could sing — so can a billion people.
All the bigshots will go to her funeral and memorials — not to pay tribute, but to get publicity for themselves. What a mess — just the way Amy would have liked it.
By Damien on July 23, 2011 / Damien Zone, Hollywood / 28 Comments
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DJ N Jax
12:52 am on September 7, 2011
your comments about Amy Winehouse are offensive. you sound like nothing more then a judgmental asshole yourself. people end up on methadone for many diff reasons. how do you know she did heroin all the time or even more then a couple of times? she would never have set out 2 kill herself and its the nature of the drugs and conditions she had.
Sounds like you need to brush up on your knowledge of methadone. Amy Winehouse was dangerous and unwholesome in every sense of the word – and thankfully another generation will not have to be exposed to her,
1:48 am on August 6, 2013
That’s soo fucked up about amy winehouse dude she quit drugs 3 years before she died anyways u should really get ur facts straight ur not funny either making fun of people with problems. I’m sure u r no were near from perfect . Yeah she could b a bit of a dickhead when she was on drugs and drinking but I know alot about her and she was actually a very motherly kind person with alot of issues. She was once known as the most Charitable Act she donated soo much money to charity and that’s not the only nice thing she has ever done. So please get a life and stop making fun of people and judging them
She died from a alcohol poisoning. Alcohol is a drug. Get YOUR facts straight.
2:11 pm on June 1, 2015
YOU are an asshole and a loser for making such an awful comment about a person who suffered from addiction which sadly ended her life and one day I will find you and end yours. And yes, a billion people can sing, but no one can sing like Amy – she was the voice of a generation and 50 years from now, people will still be listening to her music. So fuck you and I hope you die in a fiery hell.
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.
3:52 am on June 2, 2015
Denmark is not a state it’s a country. Get your facts straight dude. I’ll be praying for your ignorant ass.
It was a QUOTE from Shakespeare, MORON.
9:24 am on July 5, 2015
Why did you edit my comment? I NEVER wrote “and one day I will find you and end yours” and “so fuck you and I hope you die in a fiery hell”. You need help dude!
4:41 pm on September 8, 2015
Did you watch the documentary yet?
I honestly don’t remember that her death was blamed on emphysema. Everyone who paid attention to her personal life knew that while she managed to beat her drug addiction, she never managed to beat her alcohol addiction – I for one immediately knew the cause of death when I was told about her passing.
Amy Winehouse was undoubtedly one of the most talented, yet tortured musical artists of our time. That doesn’t make her an asshole nor a loser!
We all have personal issues and struggles, but ours are not in the media for everyone to watch and judge. Amy never wanted hers to be either. She just wanted to sing.
Poorly thought out rant, I am pretty sure a 5 year old could do better.
1) she had a history of mental illness, so she isn’t a “loser,” she is sick. 2) first you say she has no talent, then you say she can sing, which means she does have talent since that is what she does. 3) Even if you didn’t like Amy’s music, you would have to be an idiot to say she didn’t have talent. She could sing, she wrote her own music and wrote the musical scores for her songs. 4) where does it say she died from emphysema? She died from alcohol poisoning
It is obvious you don’t know what you are talking about given the mistakes you make.
A five year old could do better? Thank you !! I just turned four. I am ahead of the curve.
2:54 pm on January 30, 2016
Amy Winehouse was another waste of skin. Dead and gone, bring on the next dipshit
Justin Q
I’m a musician,an artist and an addict. First it was cocaine at a very young age and then heroin. It’s an every day battle. I personally have no mental illness other than depression but that wasn’t inherited. I haven’t picked up a needle in ten years but I think about it every day. I don’t have cameras in my face or people following my every move and I’m thankful for that because if my life was like Amy’s I would’ve probably sucumed to a similar fate. There’s only so much you can do to drown out how you feel. Sometimes it’s too overwhelming and things just need to stop for a moment. She was trying to stay clean and yes she drank and did drugs. BUT so has most every other musician on the planet. It’s no secret that drugs and artists walk hand in hand and its because they get ridiculed and praised at the same time. Society pits this bipolar attitude twords artists. Love one second and hate the next. Can you imagine pouring your heart out to get it stepped on over and over by strangers? You may not like her music,I don’t like every song that any musician did but talent is talent and tradjedy is tradjedy. I’m sure there’s junkie musicians that you like to listen to that were just lucky they didn’t die young. I believe that Amy was a very incredible person that is both a positive and negative example of what to do and not do with your life. I don’t think she deserved what happened to her. I can understand why you would say she shouldn’t be looked up to but the fact is this, John Lennon was an asshole. He beat women,it’s documented,yet he’s still reveared as one if the greatest musicians of all time and he was a drug addict alcoholic. So,do you think he also had no talent because he was a bit fucked up? Probably not. Should he be looked up to as a role model? As a whole,probably not but if I recall correctly, Jesus was basically a terrorist in his time to a degree and they made a fucking religion out of him. Came out if the desert talking about God. Sounds like a junkie if you look at it in the right light. Wandering around homeless,giving people hope in his words. Just like musicians. Wandering around basicly homeless,giving people hope in their songs. I don’t think she deserved to die like that anymore than I believe in crucifixion or being shot by some nutcase. But that’s just my opinion,im human,which means IM CAPABLE OF ERROR IN JUDGEMENT. See how that works???
Not every musician is a down and out drug addict — get real. Don’t include everyone into your mess.
Zack Barr
At lest she could spell u fucking goof how can u say stuff like that about someone who passad away at such a young age u make me grab a barin.
THere are no spelling errors in the article, Zack. Perhaps you should look at the spelling and punctuation errors in your comment. Go grab YOURSELF a brain.
3:53 pm on June 27, 2016
So , what do you think about her voice ?
I can’t hear her voice. It’s six feet under and her vocal chords are rotted.
barbara snyder
Oh my God. Where the hell is all the hate coming from. Amy was a jazz singer and I loved her singing. Her music wasn’t for everybody, but she WAS a talented jazz singer. Yeah, she’s dead….and you will be too one day. Saying something ugly about her being dead is asinine. Perhaps a drug addict did you wrong and now they all need to go straight to hell in your opinion.
Damien, you truly are one twisted motherfucker. I wish people like you would read about addiction before judging others so harshly.
Amy was an addict, yes. But she was also an extraordinary talented person who released two critically acclaimed albums and won multiple awards while she was alive.
She died aged 27, but she accomplised a hell of a lot more than most of us probably ever will and her legacy will undoubtly live on many, many years to come.
Don’t waste your life on being a hateful, ignorant and negative person. Best of luck to you.
louis williams
Mostly all musicians who are worth a damn have done some type of drugs during their lives, part of a learning process, the hard thing to do if you want to go on,is controlling what you do and how you live. Don’t throw stones at someone, you don’t know what they were going thru at the time of their downfall,
shut up and respect she did great things
Your a fucking asshole. You’ve only seen what she’s done but not see why she’s done drugs and drank alcohol. Your more than just a moron, asshole, bitch, retard, moron, etc etc. Amy Winehouse has talent just like Jim and Janis had.
Fame is incredibly hard to handle without the right people around you. Amy was a very vulnerable young woman witheople around her who took advantage of that and just totally used her. She was also a very lonely woman and got sucked in by users, losers and idiots because of it.
People forget, Amy only released two albums! She hadn’t been around donkeys years. Her success happened very quickly and that can be really hard to manage as I said before without the right people around you.
Personally I think her story is very tragic. I hope she is at peace now.
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The Flickcast 286: We’re Mad as Hell
by The Flickcast, Apr 29 2015
What’s this? Another new episode of The Flickcast for your listening pleasure? That’s right.
On this week’s episode, Chris and Joe take it to another level and really seem angry about a lot of stuff, which isn’t like them. Still, anger leads to the Dark Side, so we should probably keep an eye on them. In the meantime, some of these anger-provoking topics include Jared Leto’s joker, Frank Miller’s new Batman, what kind of a girl Black Widow is and a whole lot more.
Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the movie Ex Machina, written and directed by Alex Garland, and Joe’s pick of the new album by Big Wreck called “Ghosts.”
Tagged: Alex Garland, Arrow, Big Wreck, Comics, David Ayer, DC, Ex-Machina, Frank Miller, Jared Leto, Movies, Sci-Fi, Suicide Squad, Sunshine, The Flash, The Joker, The Master Race, TV, Will Smith
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I agree with Joe on the Marvel Universe criticism. They have to stop fighting themselves. The civil war has to stop. Bring on some of the bad ass baddies from the comics.
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Men's Swimming & Diving - ACC Championships The 2006 Men's Swimming and Diving team captured the ACC Title in one of the closest meets ever. 2006 ACC Championships Mon, Mar 3, 2008
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Men's Swimming & Diving - Ryan Hurley Virginia swimmer Ryan Hurley hopes to lead UVa to a top-10 national finish after competing internationally a year ago. Mon, Dec 22, 2008
Men's Swimming & Diving - Highlights The Virginia men's and women's swimming and diving teams defeat North Carolina in exciting fashion at the AFC. North Carolina Sun, Jan 25, 2009
Men's Swimming & Diving - ACC Championships The Virginia men's swimming & diving team won its 12th ACC championship. 2009 ACC Recap Sun, Mar 8, 2009
Men's Swimming & Diving - VAF Head Swimming Coach Mark Bernardino spoke recently at the VAF social in Richmond. Thu, May 14, 2009
Men's Swimming & Diving - Highlights The Swimming team hosts Florida. Florida Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Men's Swimming & Diving - Highlights Ninth-Ranked Cavalier Men Swim Past No. 11 Tennessee. Tennessee Mon, Jan 11, 2010
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Men's Swimming & Diving - Fran Crippen The Cavaliers honor former swimmer Fran Crippen during their meet against Navy. Navy Mon, Nov 1, 2010
Men's Swimming & Diving - Highlights Highlights from Swimming and Diving's meet with Virginia Tech and Princeton. Virginia Tech Mon, Nov 15, 2010
Men's Swimming & Diving - Highlights Highlights from the Men's and Women's Swim Team win over rival North Carolina. North Carolina Sat, Jan 22, 2011
Men's Swimming & Diving - Scot Robison 4th Year Scot Robison talks about the ACC Championships and being named to the US National team for the World Championships this summer. Sat, Feb 12, 2011
Men's Swimming & Diving - ACC Championships The Men's Swimming team wins their 4th consecutive ACC Swimming Championship. ACC Championships Wed, Mar 2, 2011
Men's Swimming & Diving - ACC Championships A look at both senior classes who won 4 consecutive ACC Championships. acc Mon, Mar 14, 2011
Men's Swimming & Diving - NCAA Championships Matt McClean wins the 500 free at the NCAA Swimming Championships. Matt McCLean Thu, Mar 31, 2011
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March 30, scanner (Police Logs ~ 03/30/13)
Two people were booked into the jail on Thursday afternoon. At 2:07 p.m. James Nolder, 51, Cloverdale, was arrested for operating while intoxicated and probation violation. At 4:30 p.m. Kenneth Jay Collins, 24, Greencastle, was booked in for battery on a child...
Smith, Cardinals soar past fluttering Ducks in 77-69 win (College Sports ~ 03/30/13)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Oregon coach Dana Altman is used to being the underdog. Prior to arriving in Eugene three seasons ago, he was the coach of Creighton teams that made the NCAA tournament seven times. This trip to the Sweet 16 was his first, however, and the inexperience showed as his No. 12 Ducks lost to Louisville on Friday 77-69...
Clovers putting pieces together for promising track season (High School Sports ~ 03/30/13)
CLOVERDALE -- The spring is early and coaches are still learning what they have to utilize this season. Cloverdale boys' track coach Andy Tyler knows he has all the pieces -- there are plenty of solid athletes and hard workers -- he's just trying to fit them together...
Gobert leader of Tiger Cubs' softball youth movement (High School Sports ~ 03/30/13)
There is an impressive amount of talent for the area softball teams and Greencastle knows it has a tough road ahead of it to be competitive. Having just one senior on the team this year makes the uphill battle even more slippery. Coach Dave Keller has never looked forward to a season more...
Great hospital adventure (Local News ~ 03/30/13)
Taking advantage of an otherwise dreary spring break day, two dozen local youngsters take part in the inaugural Great Hospital Adventure at Putnam County Hospital Thursday afternoon.
Rating better, rank worse for Putnam jobless figures (Local News ~ 03/30/13)
Putnam County kissed double-digit unemployment goodbye for February, but nonetheless tumbled in the state jobless rankings announced in a Good Friday release by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. With a 9.8 percent jobless rate for February a couple ticks better than the 10.0 percent posted locally for January, Putnam's ranking slipped from 46th a month ago to 52nd overall last month...
Civil War Memorial restoration will require attention to detail (Local News ~ 03/30/13)
To the untrained eye, the rare Civil War Monument in Greencastle's Forest Hill Cemetery seems like a basic towering limestone structure. It is so much more than that, however, consulting engineer Fritz Herget of Arsee Engineers Inc. told two dozen members of the Heritage Preservation Society during the organization's annual meeting Thursday evening at the Putnam County Museum...
Four more Putnam County stars set to vie for dancing crown (Local News ~ 03/30/13)
Dancing with the Putnam County Stars is set for Saturday, April 6 at the DePauw University Indoor Tennis and Track Center. Local celebrities will go toe to toe and raise money for Putnam County Youth Development. This is the second of three sets of biographies of the 2013 stars.
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Though C&W has a traffic-exchange--or peering--agreement with EUnet, it does not have any such agreements with Qwest, In addition to the rerouting problem, C&W this morning noticed high-traffic congestion at one of its points woodland beetles iphone case of presence (POP) in the San Francisco Bay Area, which may have caused additional delays, Since a POP essentially serves as a junction point between networks, the Web sites sending information through this route could have experienced problems, Forster of C&W speculated that the problems were localized at the EUnet connections, But until there is further investigation, he said, he could not pinpoint the exact cause of the problem..
"[The router] automatically shut down, then rewrote correct table information to correct an error," said Tyler Gronbach, a Qwest spokesman. "That may have led to some customers experiencing customer problems.". Gronbach added that nothing occurred on a national basis from Qwest's vantage point. He also could not say where the router failed or whether it caused any congestion problems. "We're not going to comment on who was affected," he added. "We view that as a confidential agreement with our customers.".
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Michael Taylor | New Paintings
VENUE: Gorman Arts Centre
PRESENTER: NANCY SEVER | GALLERY
WHEN: 11am to 5pm
29 November 2017 - 17 December 2017
The Nancy Sever Gallery celebrates its new location at Gorman Arts Centre with an exhibition of new paintings by Michael Taylor.
Michael Taylor is one of Australia’s most important contemporary painters and he ranks among the great interpreters of the Australian landscape.
He lives and works in the Monaro where he draws his inspiration from the natural world around him. He paints the landscapes and waterscapes of southeast New South Wales, capturing their rhythms and changing atmospheres. His paintings stand at the junction of landscape and abstraction, though they often appear to melt into total abstraction. As Sasha Grishin has observed, “Taylor is a rare example of an artist with a romantic sensibility who got better as he got older…..(his) paintings are a source of revelation and inspiration”.
His work is held in a number of important collections including those of the National Gallery of Australia, all the state and regional galleries, university galleries, and corporate and private collections.
Michael Taylor | New Paintings is on display from 29 November to 17 December at the NANCY SEVER | GALLERY, Gorman Arts Centre, Braddon.
Gallery hours: 11am – 5pm Wednesday to Sunday. For further information please contact Nancy Sever on 0416 249 102 or nancysevergallery.com.au
Michael Taylor, Sea Swell (detail), 2017. Oil and oil stick on linen.
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People Accused of Witchcraft in 1692
For each person accused during the Salem witchcraft trials, you can access a large number (not all!) of the primary sources on-line, detailing what happened to them, as available in the original legal records and contemporary accounts. This is not an absolute definitive list, but it will get you started. The columns on the right will give you an idea of what kinds evidence exists in the case of each person as found in Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt.
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If you are trying to understand what happened to a specific person, please download this helpful guide concerning what sort of information you can find in the primary sources in each of these categories.
Accused: Candy, of Salem
No. 395: Complaint of John Putnam Jr. & Thomas Putnam v. Margaret Hawkes & Candy √
No. 414: Examination of Candy √
No. 415: Examination of Candy, as Told by John Hale √
No. 763: Indictment of Candy, for Afflicting Ann Putnam Jr. √
No. 764: Indictment of Candy, for Afflicting Mary Walcott √
No. 767: Court Record of the Trial of Candy √ √
What kind of primary source evidence does a check in each column indicate?
Complaint or Arrest - Either a formal complaint or an arrest warrant against this person exists.
Examination - An account of an examination (interrogation) or confession before local magistrates or in prison exists.
Imprisonment - A mittimus to move this person to/from jail, a recognizance or bond to release the person from jail, a reference in a jailer's bill, or a request for compensation for time spent in jail exists.
Evidence Entered - At least one deposition, statement, testimony or petition from any proceeding (preliminary hearing, grand jury or trial) for or against this person exists.
Grand Jury or Indictment - A deposition, statement or testimony sworn before the grand jury of inquest, a physical examination of the body of this person, or an indictment brought before a grand jury exists.
Jury Trial - An entry in a court record book or a contemporary account of the trial exists.
Conviction - A death warrant indicating that the person was convicted, a notation about the case in a record book of the conviction, a statement that the person was convicted in either a request for reversal of attainder or for compensation from the Crown exists.
Execution - The return of an officer on a death warrant, a statement that the person was executed in a request for reversal of attainder or for compensation from the Crown, or an entry in Samuel Sewall's diary exists.
Restitution - Accounts submitted for restitution, orders for payment to survivors, acts for reversal of attainder or for payments of restitution, proclamations clearing the accused
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Comics Wrap Up: DC
July 7, 2017 Noob of All Trades Leave a comment
(Editor’s Note: A�I know that I have the good, bad, and ugly format for review articles. A�However, these comics articles are often going to cover several titles and that format might cause the articles to become so long as to be cumbersome to read. A�I’ll work the good, the bad, and the ugly into the articles somehow, but they won’t be the focal point.)
The title of this article is a bit misleading. A�Unlike Marvel, which has hooked me into buying multiple new books with their Secret Empire event, I’ve only read Batman and Wonder Woman from the DC Rebirth universe. A�That may change with the “Metal” event or as I become more adventurous and branch out into other titles. A�For now, though, enjoy my first edition of comic Wrap Up for Wonder Woman and Batman. A�Only two titles lets me test out some things and figure out what works and doesn’t.
Part of the reason that I haven’t gotten into more DC books is that I have been having trouble figuring out starting points for the books that are unfamiliar. A�Due to having grown up an unabashed Marvel zombie, most of the DC books are unfamiliar. A�I’ve always liked Batman, used that to get into Batman/Superman title of the early or mid 2000s, branched out from that into Superman for a very brief time, and not much else.
From the looks of things, Aquaman 25 appears to be a good starting point, so that might be the next DC title that I start collecting.
The new Wonder Woman movie led me to check out the comic book. A�Luckily, the 2nd volume of the trade came out during one of my visits to the store, so I picked it up. A�I found it strange that Volume 2 was titled “Year One” because I then had no idea what the story of the first book might be. A�Having never read any Wonder Woman before, though, I was thankful for the origin story.
After getting the first volume second, which actually made sense in the context of the two books, I did some research. A�I discovered that the writer was intertwining two stories concurrently during a particular story arc. A�As an example, the first 12 issues alternate between the year one origin story and another story where Diana is trying to find her way back to Themyscira. A�The odd issues tell one story and switched to the other for the even issues.
Because I bought the trades, I haven’t been able to experience how they worked together and if it enhanced the narrative at all. A�However, I’m a huge fan of alternative story telling methods. A�I recently watched Shimmer Lake and it was told in reverse. A�Hopefully, he keeps it up and I will be able to see if and how it affects the flow of the stories.
“The Lies” are leading the “The Truth”, which looks similar to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer storyline, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt.
As far as the stories, they are of high quality. A�Having never read Wonder Woman, I only had the movie to give me any expectations. A�But the origin story moved quickly, set the scene and established characters. A�The other did the exact opposite and is serving to undermine the entire mythology. A�While they are antithetical and you might wonder why he’d immediately work so hard to destroy his creating, the stories oddly fit together. A�I see now how weaving them together A�heightens the drama and keeps the reader on edge. A�It is actually a brilliant strategy.
The Good: A�The stories are fantastic. A�They are well paced and complement one another and bring together what is an unorthodox story telling style that could have gone very badly.
The Bad: A�At least the first 2 arcs that I’ve read will be familiar to Wonder Woman fans. A�They might have switched some things up to modernize it a bit, but it is an origin story.
The Ugly: A�Infinite Crisis, The New 52, now Rebirth? A�Jesus, how many reboots do we need? A�At least they seem committed to this one for the long haul. A�Here’s hoping.
Unlike Wonder Woman, Batman has been a part of my life since I watched the old TV series with my father. A�I saw several Robins killed. A�Witnessed the Batman broken by Bane. A�Lived through watching the Tim Burton franchise lose all credibility when it grew “bat nipples”. A�Threw out an unenthusiastic “Meh” followed by a slightly less enthusiastic “this is fine” over the announcement and current reign of “Batfleck”. A�So, there’s little that they can do with the character that would surprise me.
So, even though I joined Batman around issue 23, I don’t have an incentive to fill in the first two dozen or so issues via trades. A�I will continue forward. A�If I have some left over some week in my comic budget (not likely), I will grab the trades and see if there’s anything new in the Bat’s history since Rebirth.
Remember when I said that not much could surprise me. Well, more on that in a bit.
As far as the story that I’ve read, I was wrong about there being no surprises. A�The first issue that I read involved a team up with Swamp Thing. A�While only a one off, it was so well written that it hooked me. A�Then, Batman (spoiler alert) proposed to Catwoman. A�Yeah, it’s a gimmick. A�But, holy crap, what a gimmick! A�Plus, the book is so well written with good pacing and dialogue that it doesn’t feel like a gimmick. A�Currently, they’re setting the stage for a huge arc with Joker and The Riddler. A�Chris has said a couple of times that this is his favorite book right now. A�I don’t know if I can say that unequivocally, but there aren’t many, if any books right now that I would put above it on my most anticipated every month.
The Good: A�Again, just good writing. A�Great story, characters are familiar.
The Bad: A�The pacing of the story is a bit odd. A�It’s a good story, but sometimes there’s a little bit too much talk and not enough action.
The Ugly: A�Oh man, that Catwoman thing has worked so far, but it could have been a book killer if they didn’t do it right.
Batman is great. A�Wonder Woman is great. A�For some reason, none of that has led me to explore other books. A�I grew up as a Marvel zombie, a Marvel zombie I remain, and some day I will die and rise from the grave as a true Marvel zombie. A�Secret Empire and the tie in issues have swallowed much of my comic budget. A�However, I’ve mentioned to Chris that the Trinity series looks intriguing and I might have to read some Justice League before the movie comes out in November.
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Follow Up: World’s Finest Dicemasters Second Impression
(Editor’s Note: A�Apparently, this is our 200th article on the page. A�If you had told me when we started that we’d make it through these years and 200 articles, I might not have believed it. A�But, it’s proven to be a fun diversion and here’s to another 200 at least! A�Huzzah!)
I already wrote an article about the Dicemasters rainbow draft that the boys and I did for the World’s Finest set. A�I stated at the end of the article that I would not allow anything, not even the new Magic set, to distract me from my regained interest in the game. A�I was right about Magic. A�Hour of Devastation has barely even registered on my radar. A�However, I did not anticipate comic books becoming such an integral part of my life again.
It started off innocently enough. A�Similar to my last extended trips into the Marvel and DC universes, I got sucked in by a gimmick. A�Two gimmicks, in fact, this time. A�DC hooked me with a Wonder Woman movie that looked like it might actually give them more than just Batman. A�(Spoiler Alert: A�It does.) A�Marvel’s mega event, which I have recently learned will only serve to lead into their super ultra mega event, has me buying multiple books per week.
Wait, DC rebooted their reboot of a reboot? We gotta get us some of that!
One last story before I continue with my overall impression of the set. A�Chris went to catch up on recent comics and found several of them sold out. A�Since hearing that, I”ve been trying to figure out a way to get the books that I missed by taking a week off. A�Going forward, I’ll be okay because I just need to set up a pull list. A�But, among those I missed was Secret Empire #5. A�No!
But, this article isn’t about comics. A�I actually have two comic wrap up articles and a solo podcast to discuss comics coming this month. A�It just goes to show how much comics have been consuming my life in the last two months. A�Therefore, I need to shift my focus away from the books and to the dice long enough to write this article. A�Let’s do this.
Dammit, Leeroy.
The last A�time I did a Dicemasters set review as way back during the Age of Ultron days. A�I wrote up a top 10 in the style of an interview with Ultron. A�I am not going to do anything of the sort this time. A�There are several reasons why.
First, I only have limited (zing!) experience with the set. A�I’m not going to do extensive research on an old set just for a gag. A�Second, it is an old set. A�When I reviewed Age of Ultron, it might have even been a preview. A�Hey, we are sometimes on the ball here at 2 Generations Gaming. A�Third, and finally, I’ve resurrected a perfectly fine format to do reviews and previews.
As a noob who gets most of my enjoyment from how much fun I can have with a set, this seems like a very good set overall. A�In my previous article, I mentioned that I was able to find a couple of different synergies for my time. A�After a failed attempt at building a “Super” team, I settled on a hybrid Super/Bat Family team that worked very well together. A�The boys were able to hold their own, too.
Aiden went with the classic Villain archetype. A�Liam mostly put together a “good stuff” team, and our game was very close and back and forth the whole time. A�He may have even been able to beat me if we played according to the actual rules. A�Even Quinn, the youngest at 6, picked Krypto as one of his cards and then proceeded to try to build a “Super” team of his own. A�I think that he might have been the one who was cutting me. A�As Chris would say, “freaking ungrateful kids.”
I give you life and this is how you repay me? Pray that I am feeling merciful.
All four of us were able to build a suitably strong deck. A�That didn’t happen when we did the Pokemon event. A�That might have had something to do with the quality of the set. A�It might just be that Pokemon is not as good of a game for limited as Magic or Dicemasters. A�Who knows? A�What I do know for sure is that I’d like to test the theory with both games more.
There wasn’t much bad that I can attribute to the set. A�Not only were we able to put together good teams for the event, but we also had fun discovering each card and some of the dice in the set are very cool. A�Harley Quinn’s die, for instance, is one that I remember being remarkable for the design. A�However, as Chris said, they’re only dice. A�While they can play around with both color scheme and hero icon design, it is still limited and the ultimate design is just a 6 sided die.
While that, by itself, isn’t bad, it’s not the greatest when you compare it to other games. A�Miniature games, most notably the other super hero game of Heroclix, naturally offer a much wider variety of design. A�The miniatures can take the art from the cards (another aspect of Dicemasters that showcases creativity) and give them life as 3D models. A�I understand that this is nit picking and somewhat comparing apples to oranges. A�However, I’d be lying if I said that Dicemasters is in any way comparable to the other games that I like playing.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s a fun game. It’s just fun for entirely different reasons and would be a better game if the dice were just miniatures. True, it would be a completely different game. Oh heck, I admit it. This whole section was simply a straw man and I’m terrible at building up terrible arguments.
So, I couldn’t even really make an argument for the bad of this game, so I’m certainly not going to have much to say on the subject of “ugly”. A�All I will say is that Aiden had almost no mercy for his younger brother. A�He was a stone cold killer even though it was Quinn’s first time playing Dicemasters. A�Still, it didn’t sour him on the game because he said that he wants to play again and can’t wait to open the rest of the box.
Mine and Liam’s game was ugly because we didn’t follow the rules completely. A�Instead of recycling our KO’d dice back into our next roll, we put them back into the pool to be drawn who the heck knows when. A�Again, I have no idea how it might have affected the game other than he had something that did one damage to each fielded character, so we could have recycled dudes as new dice much quicker than expected. A�I must have a guilty conscience about that because I keep bringing it up. A�We are going to have to replay that game soon to clear my guilt.
a�?Yes! Yes, I killed him. Pull up the boards and you shall see! I killed him. But why does his heart not stop beating?! Why does it not stop!?a�?
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Bl. Dominic Barberi Littlemore Oxford
Bl. Dominic Barberi
About the Parish
John Newman’s College at Littlemore
The College is almost opposite to the Church on College Lane. John Henry Newman lived there between 1842-1846 making it a quiet place for prayer and study, it was here on 9th October 1845 he was received into the Catholic Church by Blessed Dominic Barberi. Currently the College is made available for visits, pilgrimages, retreats and for Newman studies. For more information about the College please refer to college website.
View of the Church
The Altar and Tabernacle
Lectern and the Font
Church Hall and Small Chapel
Newman’s College at Littlemore
Catholic Church in England and Wales
The Catenian Association
Society of the Holy Child Jesus
St. John Fisher Catholic Primary School, Oxford
St. Gregory The Great Catholic School, Oxford
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The History of Bruce Peninsula Hospice
1992 A small group in Lion’s Head meets to discuss hospice care.
1993 Groups in Wiarton and Lion’s Head begin to work toward a hospice group and a series of workshops and seminars began.
1994 A steering committee was at work making plans for a non-profit corporation to support the work of hospice in the Bruce Peninsula.
1995 Official hospice services under BP Hospice begin. Georgian College provides 30 hours of training for volunteers.
1996 District Health Council proposes that hospice services in Grey Bruce join as an umbrella group to gain access to Ministry of Health and Long Term Care funding. Each area was to establish a Palliative Care Community Coordinating Committee (PCCCC) to coordinate hospice services at the community level. The model suggested in the document was the organization model of Bruce Peninsula Hospice (BPH)
1998 BPH steering committee for the proposed board BPH decided to join the umbrella group which became Grey Bruce Palliative Care Hospice Association (the Association)
At the beginning of the Association, local areas were responsible for recruiting, initiating and supporting volunteers. Training was arranged through the Pain and Symptom Consultant using education funding from the ministry. A board-like structure was set up for the PCCCC and met monthly. The PCCCC supported the client care volunteers and did all the administrative tasks including financial management. Donations requiring charitable receipts were forwarded to the Association and maintained separately. BPH invoiced expenses to the Association and received funding in return to support the work in the community.
BPH continued to grow. Many other Grey Bruce communities had difficulties sustaining their hospice groups. Because of this, there was a movement towards centralizing coordination at the Association office for these local area hospices.
BPH continued to maintain their own infrastructure and volunteer coordinator(s) to support the hospice volunteers and work in this area.
The Association increasingly developed a direct management or ‘hands on’ approach towards the local areas. This contravened the original mandate of the Association. A widening gulf developed between the Association board and BPH over the years, in part due to this difference in interpretation of the mandate.
The BPH committee worked very hard to come to a solution to address these many differences.
The coordinating committee, PCCCC, believed that much of our success at sustaining our local hospice group was due to our local coordination and the commitment of volunteers who are deeply attached to their local community.
In January 2006, BPH was advised of a gift from previous clients, the Kennedy’s of Sauble Beach.
Following meetings and correspondence between the Association’s Board, the PCCC Committee decided to proceed with seeking incorporation status for BPH.
The PCCC committee believed that we could best serve the clients in our area by having an active membership and board that is informed globally but governed and administered locally.
Bruce Peninsula Hospice became a non profit Ontario corporation in December 2006.
In May 2007, BPH Inc. held its first annual general meeting of members and a board was elected by those members. Eleven members were elected.
Bruce Peninsula Hospice Inc. became a registered Charitable Organization effective July, 2007.
On April 1, 2007 the Ministry of Health LTC transferred the funding for hospice volunteer visiting to the VON Agency.
Bruce Peninsula Hospice is part of the VON volunteer Visiting Advisory Committee for Grey and Bruce and has developed partnership agreements with VON Grey-Bruce Hospice Volunteer Visiting Program and the GBHS Wiarton and Lion’s Head sites.
Bruce Peninsula Hospice is an active member of the SWLIN Grey Bruce Palliative Care Collaborative and the South West Visiting Hospice Committee.
Bruce Peninsula Hospice hired its first staff person in October of 2012, a Manager of Volunteer Programs and Outreach.
Bruce Peninsula Hospice is accredited with Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and is a member of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. We received our Level I Accreditation from HPCO in 2008 and then following in April 2011 we received Level II Accreditation. In May of 2013, Bruce Peninsula Hospice’s Level Two Accreditation was renewed at the annual HPCO Conference and again in May of 2015. A process is in place to continually review and if necessary revise Policies and Procedures so that we maintain our Accreditation Level.
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