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Song Parodies -> "The Longest Film"
"The Longest Time"
"The Longest Film"
I don't know what the longest feature film ever is, or the longest "classic" film. But the following is based on personal experience.
Oh, oh, oh, yuck!
(It's the longest)
It's the longest film!
Oh, oh, yuck!
It's the longest...
If you go out to the flicks tonight (whoo-oo-oo)
be aware of reviews they would write. (ah-ah-ah)
"Titanic" made me so blue!
That f---ing movie is the longest film!
Once I thought that great big ship was gone. (whoo-oo-oo)
Now I know its legend still goes on. (ah-ah-ah)
That's where you found me
and its plot, it still confounds me.
I'm that voice that's retching in the hall (whoo-oo-oo)
and the greatest miracle of all (ah-ah-ah)
is how they're coming
in this theater they're slumming
they've all come in here for the longest film!
Maybe this film won't be so long
but you love it so, where'd I go wrong?
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
but Leo's no star, Kate's nude less than I hoped for.
Who knows how much further this film's run? (whoo-oo-oo)
Maybe "Lusitania" will be done! (ah-ah-ah)
I'll take my chances
"Hindenburg" won't have romances!
Another sequel for the longest film!
I had second thoughts at the start.
Celine Dion sings, "Go on with my heart."
Now I know my mind will have a scar.
It's horrible so far, not a bore did I hope for.
I told those girls, "You know that boat sinks!" (whoo-oo-oo)
They said, "Really?" What a bunch of dinks! (ah-ah-ah)
This film is so bad!
Yet Oscar voters gave the trophy
for Best Picture to the longest film!
(repeat 'til fade, or until the movie ends, whichever comes first)
Melhi - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
I think my hubby and I may be the last two surviiving Titanic hold-outs. Haven't seen it, have never had any desire to see it. I do know it was hard to escape the constant hype, for the longest time. Anyway, great job, Michael.
Johnny D - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
Arrrrrh, ye be writin' fine stuff here, Cap'n Pacho !
Bob Gomez - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
I haven't seen it either, and I still liked your song, especially the Lusitania and Hindenburg references. Way to go, Pach-Man! d;:^)
Diva - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
Did you happen to see the film "Tess"? It was like watching a mini series, with two intermissions.
Lev007 - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
Not that Titanic humor is all that timely, but a great job nonetheless.
Spaff.com - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
"I'm that voice that's retching in the hall." Nice.
But not only have I not seen "Titanic," I've never heard of it. What's it about?
Peregrin - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
V Good Mike, I especially liked "Hindenburg" won't have romances!"
Rice Cube - December 03, 2003 - Report this comment
Titanic is the highest grossing chick flick of all time. It's basically about two people who meet on a ship and fall in love right before it sinks. The amazing thing is how many people went to see it anyway, knowing that the ship would go down.
Duffy - December 04, 2003 - Report this comment
All 5s, Michael! BTW, what's a "dink?" :)
Michael Pacholek - December 04, 2003 - Report this comment
Thanks, everyone. Spaff: "Titanic" ain't about "The Erection of Edmund Fitzgerald," though it might have saved a few people! Duffy: A dink is a stupid or silly person, and I needed something to rhyme with "sink." Either that, or "Spoiled the ending, got punched out by Pink."
We got a "Thank You" from MP... Why, I'm quite impressed. Keep thinking those civilized thoughts going, Michael. I know it's difficult, but It gets easier the more you say it...
Adagio - December 10, 2003 - Report this comment
I had to see that for myself. MP...:)
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Tag: Connie Nielsen
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)*
Title: Wonder Woman 1984
Directed by: Patty Jenkins
Written by: Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callaham
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen
The fate of the world is once more on the line, and only Wonder Woman can save it. This new chapter in the Wonder Woman story finds Diana Prince living quietly among mortals in the vibrant, sleek 1980s—an era of excess driven by the pursuit of having it all. Though she’s come into her full powers, she maintains a low profile, curating ancient artifacts and only performing her superheroic acts incognito. But now, Diana will have to step directly into the spotlight and muster all her wisdom, strength and courage in order to save mankind from a world of its own making.
Are There Any Extras During The Credits? Yes
We see a woman from the back walking through and outside market when a pole starts to fall twords a baby carriage. The myserious woman reaches out and stops the pole from falling, saving the child. We learn that this woman is Asteria (played by Lynda Carter).
Is this stinger worth waiting around for? (+27 rating, 43 votes)
Special thanks to Brad and Kristo for this submission
Justice League (2017)*
Title: Justice League
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Written by: Chris Terrio, Joss Whedon, and Zack Snyder
Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, and J.K. Simmons
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
The Flash and Superman compete race each other to see who will reach the Pacific Ocean first.
If Superman wins, Barry has to buy brunch. But if Barry wins, then he gets to tell everyone that he beat Superman.
Are There Any Extras After The Credits? Yes
We see a prison guard calling Lex Luthor to get out of his cell. When Lex doesn’t move, the guard goes into the cell to get him, but he finds it’s not Lex. We then see Deathstroke meeting Lex on a yacht. Lex says that maybe it’s time for them to form a league of their own.
Is this stinger worth waiting around for? (+161 rating, 201 votes)
Special thanks to Saran for this submission
Was seeing Justice League in IMAX, 3D or 4D worth the cost?
Yes, IMAX
No, IMAX
Yes, 3D
No, 3D
Title: Wonder Woman
Written by: Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg, and Jason Fuchs
Based on the comic book character created by: William Moulton Marston
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen,
Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Lucy Davis, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Eugene Brave Rock, and Saïd Taghmaoui
Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.
Memoriam: In Memory of CAPTAIN WILLIAM T. JENKINS
Was seeing Wonder Woman in IMAX 3D, 3D or 4D worth the cost?
Yes, IMAX 3D
Runner, The (2015)
Title: The Runner
Directed by: Austin Stark
Written by: Austin Stark
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Connie Nielsen and Sarah Paulson
In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
During Credits? No
After Credits? No
Special thanks to Frank S. for this submission
Gladiator (2000)
TITLE: Gladiator
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor’s corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
To our friend Oliver Reed.
3 Days to Kill (2014)
TITLE: 3 Days to Kill
A dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.
Perfect Sense (2011)
TITLE: Perfect Sense
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Now Here’s Something You Don’t Hear Every Day: Tumblr Expects to Be Profitable This Year
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Say what? A social media company thinks it has figured out how to bring in more money than it spends in a year? Surely you want to brag about all those eyeballs again, right?
But profitability is what Tumblr expects to achieve in 2013, according to Bloomberg.
“We expect that the monetization will lead us to profitability this year,” were the words of head of sales Lee Brown, who joined the company last fall.
In particular, Tumblr said that the addition of paid post promotion on its mobile apps will be a big new revenue driver. Tumblr has the 50th most-used iPhone app in the U.S., according to Onavo, which doesn’t yet publish Android ranks.
So could profitability actually be within the realm of possibility? Maybe so, since Tumblr seems relatively cheap to run.
The New York City-based company has raised $125 million in venture funding and has 162 employees. Tumblr previously told Forbes it had $13 million in revenue in 2012 — with an estimated $25 million in operational costs — and it hoped for $100 million worth of revenue in 2013. That would be a year-over-year gain of 769 percent.
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Young Guv Delivers 'GUV I' Track "Patterns Prevail" via New Video
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Of the song, Cook shared the following statement:
The track is a love letter written by my collaborator Aurora Shields, but dissolved into a song. As long as the patterns in the colours of a rainy summer sky mash together with a glowing streetlight continue to prevail in a bittersweet tangerine tone, so do the patterns in the musical notes of yearning and infatuation, of tenderness and chaos, rapture and combustion. Complimentary patterns of the night and day will always prevail. We are all experiencing sadness and happiness through love, and that's the balance of it. That's life, I suppose.
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Buhari must seek second term- Senator Yerima
Former Zamfara state governor and now Senator representing Zamfara West constituency in the Senate, Sani Yerima says that President Buhari deserves to seek a second term in office after his first tenure has elapsed. Yerima said this at an interactive session with journalists in Abuja yesterday Nov. 26th.
“I don’t think there is any vacancy. As far as I am concerned, President Buhari must go for a second term. You see he has come back with something new; the man is incorruptible.”he said
Senate confirms Danbatta as new NCC boss
The senate yesterday confirmed Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta as the new Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Danbaba was appointed in acting capacity by President Buhari on August 4th following the expiration of the tenure of the immediate past NCC boss, Eugene Juwah.
Jovago’s Black Friday Sale goes live at Midnight!
The biggest day of the holiday shopping season is here and Jovago, Africa's largest hotel booking portal is getting ahead of the e-commerce extravaganza.
As we count down to the largest sale of the year, the first 1000 customers who book on Jovago.com will get as much as 50 percent OFF in discounted deals on select hotel across the country.
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Diezani Reportedly Set to Visit TB Joshua’s Synagogue for Healing
According to International Business Times, Nigeria’s embattled former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, who has breast cancer, is set to return to Nigeria to visit TB Joshua‘s Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) to seek healing.
The report further states, “Joshua and his worshippers have claimed the preacher performs miracles and is able to heal people. According to his official biography, Joshua has healed people affected by diseases such as HIV and AIDS. Such allegations have sparked controversy both in Nigeria and abroad.“
Heidi Klum poses topless as she promotes her lingerie line
Heidi Klum promoted her line of lingerie, 'Heidi Klum Intimates' with a very sexy Instagram photo of herself topless and she captioned it "'Love being cheeky in my @heidiklumintimates,'
Farmer jailed for biting off another man's lip
A 35-year-old farmer, Adebayo Olaniyi, was on Tuesday sentenced to a total of 3 years and 3 months imprisonment by an Odo-Owa Area Court, Kwara State on two counts of assault.
The Judge, Mr. Abolade Banigbe, in his ruling, sentenced Olaniyi to three months imprisonment with an option of N 1,000 fine on the first count and three years imprisonment on the second count with an option of N 13,000 fine.
Coco shows off baby bump
Pregnant Coco who is going to be 37 weeks in 3 days updated her followers with a photo of her growing baby bump. She said:
I'm behind on my baby bump pics! This is from week 36! On Thanksgiving in 3 days i will be 37 weeks! I'm really proud of my new baby blog which 5 new posts were just added.. I got the idea to do one in the middle of my pregnancy when so many people were asking questions. I've spent hours writing and incorporating photos with my words..Soon I will post all bump pics
2Face Idibia gets Chieftaincy Title in Kaduna as “Tafidan Kudendan of Kudendan”
2face Idibia has just been awarded the chieftaincy title ‘Tafidan Kudendan of Kudendan’ meaning ‘Ambassador of Peace’ by His Royal Highness Galadima of Kudendan Chiefdom for his role in the Vote Not Fight campaign.
He was joined at the ceremony by his lovely wife Annie Idibia and Chocolate City boss, M.I.
Kim Kardashian Reveals Her Baby Is Breech, Doing Everything She Can to Avoid C-Section
Kim Kardashian has kept her fans updated about her pregnancy all the way.
In her latest post on her website she talks about her son and how he is currently breech (which means he is in the wrong position in her uterus for childbirth).
The 35-year-old reality TV star wrote on her website:
“My latest concern is that my baby is breech, meaning he’s in the wrong position for childbirth. His head is still up and it’s supposed to be down. He was supposed to turn by 32 weeks. So now, I will have to get a C-section. Or so I thought! As I lay awake late at night, researching, I’ve learned that you actually can deliver a breech baby and I feel fortunate that my doctor Paul Crane is one of the few doctors that still does this. They just don’t even teach it anymore. I have been doing everything I can to try to turn the baby.
NYSC Bans Muslim Women from Wearing Hijab in Camp
Muslim youth under the umbrella of Muslim Youths in Da’wah on Tuesday stormed the headquarters of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Abuja to discuss Director-General of the NYSC Johnson Olawumi‘s ban of hijabs.
According to Daily Post, Olawumi said his rationale for banning muslim women from wearing hijabs is “for security reasons.“
Family of 14 Year Old Muslim American ‘Clock Boy’ to Sue Texas for $15 Million
The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim American boy arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his high school in Irving, Texas, that was mistaken for a bomb, is suing Texas for $15 million.
According to IBTimes, the family is seeking $15 million in damages and an apology from the city and its schools in order to avoid a lawsuit.
INEC Release Public Notice concerning the Kogi Governorship Election
According to a statement released this afternoon by INEC, the supplementary election in Kogi state will now hold on December 5th. The electoral body had on Sunday November 22nd declared the state gov election inconclusive after over 40, 000 votes were cancelled due to some election irregularities.
I’m not afraid of Lucky Igbinedion’s father - Oshiomhole
Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole says he is not afraid of the billionaire father of his predecessor, Lucky Igbinedion, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion whom he has accused of conniving with his son to loot the state of its resources and exploiting residents of the state while his son was governor.
Oshiomhole said this while speaking with some Edo women who staged a protest in support of his administration yesterday November 23rd.
I did not award any $2 billion arms procurement contract - Jonathan
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied claims by former NSA Sambo Dasuki that he awarded a $2 billion arms procurement contract while he was in office. Jonathan stated his position on the controversy surrounding arms procurement investigative panel, while speaking at a forum in Washington DC, yesterday November 19th
“I did not award any $2 billion contract for procurement of weapons. Where did the money come from?” he said
PHOTOS: Oxford University women's rugby players strip to raise money for charity
The Oxford University women's rugby team, have stripped off for the Beat Calendar in 13 different rugby-related poses. The sexy shots, which show female members of the squad training & exercising in the nude, while wearing just their rugby socks and boots, will help to raise money for Beat, a charity supporting anyone affected by eating disorders or difficulties with food, weight, and shape.
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Nigerians Grieve as 105 Soldiers go Missing after Boko Haram Battle in Borno
Premium Times exclusively reported this morning that 105 out of a 157 soldier battalion attached to the Multi-National Joint Task Force based in Baga, Borno state, went missing yesterday – on Wednesday November 18, 2015 – in Gudunbali, Borno.
Boko Haram Ranked Ahead of ISIS for Deadliest Terror Group
As much of the world remains focused on the Islamic State and its horrific attacks in Paris, another radical band of extremists has, by one account, captured the infamous title of the world’s deadliest terrorist group: Boko Haram.
Boko Haram, the militant group that has tortured Nigeria and its neighbors for years, was responsible for 6,664 deaths last year, more than any other terrorist group in the world, including the Islamic State, which killed 6,073 people in 2014, according to a report released Wednesday tracking terrorist attacks globally.
'I’m not a thief, I have a lot to tell Nigerians' - Dasuki says, denies awarding fictitious contracts
Former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki has denied allegations that he awarded fictitious arms procurement contract to the tune of N300 billion while he was in office. In a statement he released this evening, Dasuki said he was not NSA as at when the fictitious contracts were said to have been awarded. His statement in part below
Presidential jets: Buhari spent only N2b not N6b for maintenance -Presidency
The presidency has vehemently refuted the reports in several quarters that a huge sum of N6b had been lavished on the Maintenance of presidential Air fleet (PAF) in the last 6 months.
The presidency spoke through the Senior Special Assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
Shehu in a statement said that only N2.3b had been spent contrary to the figures making the rounds.
Buhari seeks Senate approval to borrow N2.10 trn
President Muhammadu Buhari, has sent a supplementary appropriation bill for the 2015 fiscal year to the Senate for approval.
The president, in a letter conveying his request, which was read Wednesday, during plenary, by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, asked the Senate to grant his request to borrow the sum of N2.10 trillion to finance the budget.
He explained that the N882 billion loan earlier proposed by the past government to finance the budget had to be raised to N2.10 trillion, due to emerging realities in the country.
The source of the loan, according to the president, would be from both local and foreign.
MTN Uganda fined $662, 000 for sabotaging business
Uganda's Commercial court has ordered MTN Uganda to pay a sum of Shs 2.3bn (about $662,000) which is about N190 million in damages to EzeeMoney Limited for sabotaging its business. It all started when EzeeMoney, which runs an e-money business, obtained a contract from MTN for the provision of digital transmission [E1] and 30 fixed telephone lines to carry out its mobile money business.
Multiple bomb blast rocks Kano phone market
Multiple bomb blast has been recorded at Kano's major phone market. Residents say the incident happened this evening. This attack comes barely 24 hours after a bomb blast killed 34 people in Yola, Adamawa state yesterday. More details soon.
‘You have no power to summon me’- former EFCC boss, Lamorde tells Senate
The immediate past chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde has told the senate committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions that they do not have the powers to invite him for an investigation as he is no longer the chairman of the anti-graft agency. The senate committee is currently investigating allegations that Lamorde diverted N1 billion of recovered stolen funds during his tenure.
Pres. Obama on Cover of GQ's 'Men of the Year' Issue
The US president covers the new GQ magazine... more photos below...
Fuel scarcity: Kachiukwu orders DPR to sell off fuel of erring fuel stations for free to Nigerians
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachiukwu yesterday ordered the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to sell off for free, the petroleum products of any fuel station that is caught hoarding petrol during this period of fuel scarcity. He gave the order after a working visit to some retail outlets in Abuja.
“I have instructed DPR that if they discover any fuel station involved in hoarding, they should sell the products for free to customers around there. It is not just sealing the station that is the answer. It is penalizing them when they do these things and I hope the message goes out loud and clear,” he said
Senate Asks JAMB To Make Results Valid For 3 Years
The Senate, yesterday, directed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to extend the validity of its results to a period of at least three years. JAMB was also ordered to immediately stop its policy of re-assigning candidates to schools they didn't apply to, saying such policy was contrary to the act establishing the board.
Bizarre South African pastor who fed congregation underwear and snakes; Beaten up and Church burnt down
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Porter C. Thayer Photographs
This archive contains 1300 photographs made by Porter C. Thayer,scanned from silver gelatin prints, held in the collection of the Brooks Memorial Library. The prints were made in 1980 from the 5x7 glass plates negatives created by Porter Thayer....
Show moreThis archive contains 1300 photographs made by Porter C. Thayer,scanned from silver gelatin prints, held in the collection of the Brooks Memorial Library. The prints were made in 1980 from the 5x7 glass plates negatives created by Porter Thayer. These images are also available on microfilm at the Brattleboro library.
Porter Thayer was born Porter Charlie Thayer on January 6, 1882 on Main Street in Williamsville, Vermont. He grew up in the red house called the Tillotson Place in the Parish section of Newfane, Vermont.
He photographed Windham County, Vermont, beginning in 1906 through around 1920. Like most Vermont men of his generation he was a farmer, specifically an apple orchardist, managing his 50 acre apple orchard on Baker Brook Farm in Newfane. He turned to his apple business after ending his photographic career.
The postcard craze that most likely reached Vermont by about 1905, was perhaps the impetus for Porter Thayer starting up a photographic business. His diaries tell that he sold 1,197 postal cards during a six-month period at the height of his career. The cards were for sale as souvenirs to summer tourists at small general stores, local inns, boarding houses and hotels. Local folks purchased his photographs as well, especially around the Christmas season, to send to distant relatives. A Brattleboro, Vermont directory of 1909 lists Porter as advertising that he would come to anyone’s home and make images for a reasonable fee. Around 1911 he recorded that he had 720 customers. Eventually he photographed in all the towns within a 25 mile radius of his home in Newfane.
Porter Thayer perfectly fits the archetype of the town photographer. He traveled the narrow dirt roads in his buggy, behind his faithful mare Lady, who accompanied him daily. He could apparently take extended naps while Lady brought him safely home, as she always knew the way. He used two cameras: a 5 x 7 and a 6.5 x 8.5 view camera and made glass dry-plate negatives. He traveled with stacks of postcards to be delivered at stores along the way to his days work.
Working continually through seasons and years, Porter Thayer left an archive that is a cultural treasure for southeastern Vermont. The quality of his work shows that he was able to combine business needs with aesthetic ones. During the time period Porter worked, Vermont was extremely poor and rural, yet held a close-knit population that shared the labors of life. Farmers helped one another to survive in a subsistence and barter economy. For women, men, and children, life meant constant work. Thayer’s images describe the work and the tools involved. His landscape images reveal this working landscape, which today is mostly hidden by trees. The fruits of his labor as a photographer have grown in importance, as both the landscape and culture of Vermont has shifted into modern spheres of living.
Written by Jessica Weitz and Forrest Holzapfel, 2010.
This archive contains 1300 photographs made by Porter C. Thayer,scanned from silver gelatin prints, held in the collection of the Brooks Memorial Library. The prints were made in 1980 from the 5x7 glass plates negatives created by Porter Thayer. These images are also available on microfilm at the Brattleboro library. Porter Thayer was born Porter Charlie Thayer on January 6, 1882 on Main Street in Williamsville, Vermont. He grew up in the red house called the Tillotson Place in the Parish section of Newfane, Vermont. He photographed Windham County, Vermont, beginning in 1906 through around 1920. Like most Vermont men of his generation he was a farmer, specifically an apple orchardist, managing his 50 acre apple orchard on Baker Brook Farm in Newfane. He turned to his apple business after ending his photographic career. The postcard craze that most likely reached Vermont by about 1905, was perhaps the impetus for Porter Thayer starting up a photographic business. His diaries tell that he sold 1,197 postal cards during a six-month period at the height of his career. The cards were for sale as souvenirs to summer tourists at small general stores, local inns, boarding houses and hotels. Local folks purchased his photographs as well, especially around the Christmas season, to send to distant relatives. A Brattleboro, Vermont directory of 1909 lists Porter as advertising that he would come to anyone’s home and make images for a reasonable fee. Around 1911 he recorded that he had 720 customers. Eventually he photographed in all the towns within a 25 mile radius of his home in Newfane. Porter Thayer perfectly fits the archetype of the town photographer. He traveled the narrow dirt roads in his buggy, behind his faithful mare Lady, who accompanied him daily. He could apparently take extended naps while Lady brought him safely home, as she always knew the way. He used two cameras: a 5 x 7 and a 6.5 x 8.5 view camera and made glass dry-plate negatives. He traveled with stacks of postcards to be delivered at stores along the way to his days work. Working continually through seasons and years, Porter Thayer left an archive that is a cultural treasure for southeastern Vermont. The quality of his work shows that he was able to combine business needs with aesthetic ones. During the time period Porter worked, Vermont was extremely poor and rural, yet held a close-knit population that shared the labors of life. Farmers helped one another to survive in a subsistence and barter economy. For women, men, and children, life meant constant work. Thayer’s images describe the work and the tools involved. His landscape images reveal this working landscape, which today is mostly hidden by trees. The fruits of his labor as a photographer have grown in importance, as both the landscape and culture of Vermont has shifted into modern spheres of living. Written by Jessica Weitz and Forrest Holzapfel, 2010.
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Victory for State Sen. Dan Salomon in 2020 Election
Students for Life Action Congratulates State Sen. Dan Salomon on 2020 Election Victory
“The Pro-Life Generation devoted hundreds of hours of time and talent to educating Montana voters on State Sen. Dan Salomon’s pro-life record,” said SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins. “We are so excited to see him headed back to Helena to defend the preborn for another term.”
FREDERICKSBURG, V.A. and HELENA, M.T. (11-04-2020) – Students for Life Action (SFLAction) congratulated State Senator Dan Salomon on his victory on Tuesday evening, against pro-choice Democrat Chase Porter Gay.
SFLAction collectively knocked 7,000 doors, made 80,000 phone calls, and sent over personal 6,000 text messages to Montana voters on behalf of State Sen. Saloman this cycle.
“There is bipartisan agreement that this election cycle was one of the most important of our lifetimes, with the potential to impact millions upon millions of present and future lives,” said SFLAction President Kristan Hawkins. “It is clear that the work SFLAction did this cycle contributed immensely to the most critical victories in the country. State Sen. Salomon’s victory tonight is one example of that. The Pro-Life Generation went on the front lines in this election, to have a voice and a vote for life.”
In months leading up to the election, SFLAction led major student activism weekends in Montana to make voters aware of S State Sen. Salomon consistently pro-life record and urge them to #VoteProLifeFirst this election cycle.
In addition to Montana, SFLAction also had a heavy presence in Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Colorado, Washington, Florida, Texas, and North Carolina.
MORE ON SFLA/SFLAction IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE: Students for Life and Students for Life Action engaged in multiple states through in-person door knocking, calls, texts, and mobilizations on campuses, calling on voters to #VotePro-LifeFirst as well reminding people of the importance of who gets to pick Supreme Court Justices, given the way in which the human rights issue of our day was hijacked by the high court 50 years ago.
In the final stretch, SFLA/SFLAction launched a new, 6-figure campaign buy in a 48-hour GOTV blitz this Monday and Tuesday designed to rally voters aged 18 to 35 to #VoteProLifeFirst. To accomplish this 48-hour GOTV blitz, SFLAction made more than 1.5 million personal text messages to cell phones, sent nearly 900,000 voicemail messages to land lines as well as launched a five-digit ad buy on social media. Among those contacted in this blitz were 273,000 new voters who were considered swing voters on the life issue as well as more than 1 million pro-life, yet low propensity voters who hadn’t voted early this fall in the following 9 states: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Students for Life’s GOTV blitz follows up extensive fall grassroots campaign in which SFLA/SFLAction team members and volunteers…
Made more than 523,022 phone calls
Contacted more than 1.6 million, primarily youth, voters
Sent more than 2.18 million personal text messages
Knocked on more than 150,000 doors
The #VoteProLifeFirst digital media campaign included 85 different image ads and multiple videos reaching voters whose views on abortion vary and were seen more than 8 million times. More than 2.28 million voters engaged with the efforts this fall, including the 107,000 young voters who pledged to vote pro-life first as a result.
Students for Life of America’s “Sock the Vote” campus tours also went to 46 states, calling on new voters to prioritize abortion which ends 2,362 lives each day. Students used baby socks as part of the display. This followed a very successful earlier campaign, “Sock it to Planned Parenthood,” during which SFLA held events and traveled across the country with a truck carrying 328,348 baby socks, representing the number of abortions Planned Parenthood commits each year.
In October, SFLA/SFLAction went from Alaska to Florida in a 10-state #Justice4Life tour on behalf of now Justice Amy Coney Barrett, an extension of the SFLAction Activism Weekends that included more than 731,000 voters contacted. SFLAction conducted similar student trips over the summer, knocking on more than 50,000 doors and making more than 200,000 phone calls to educate voters in Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kansas before key Republican and Democratic primaries. Click here to read more about SFLAction’s results in this cycle. For a look at student stories from the #Justice4Life tour, including Philadelphia where police were called to stop students from peacefully chalking, click here.
For interviews, contact Kristi Hamrick at khamrick@studentsforlife.org.
Students for Life Action (SFLAction) is the 501c4 sister organization of Students for Life of America (SFLA), the nation’s largest, pro-life, student organization with more than 1,240 groups on middle, high school, and university campuses in all 50 states. Students for Life has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life outreach in the world and mobilizes the Pro-Life Generation to confront abortion at the local, state and national levels daily. Every week, Students for Life entities reach more than 2 million people across social media platforms to have nearly 200,000 digital conversations with the most engaged pro-life online audience in the world.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) is the nation’s largest, pro-life, youth organization. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, SFLA serves more than 1,240 groups on college and university, middle and high school, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states. Student pro-life organizations work to confront policies on their campuses to support pregnant and parenting students, to end Planned Parenthood’s relationships with schools and communities, and to change minds of their peers about abortion. SFLA has more conversations with those most targeted by the abortion industry every day, week, and year than any other pro-life outreach in the world and mobilizes the Pro-Life Generation to confront abortion at the local, state and national levels daily. Every week, Students for Life entities reach more than 2 million people across social media platforms to have nearly 200,000 digital conversations with the most engaged pro-life online audience in the world.
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Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKL)
Written 2018-09 Luis Miguel Juárez Salcedo, Diego Conde Royo, Samir Dalia
Guadalajara University Hospital, Guadalajara, Spain dr.luisjuarez@gmail.com (LMJS); Principe de Asturias University Hospital, Madrid, Spain diegoconderoyo@gmail.com (DCR); Oncology and Hematology, Mercy Clinic Joplin, Joplin, MO, USA sdalia@gmail.com (SD).
Abstract Review on Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma and the genes involved.
Keywords Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type; Angiocentric T-cell lymphoma; Malignant reticulosis
ICD-Topo C420,C421,C424
ICD-Morpho 9719/3 Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type
Other names Angiocentric T-cell lymphoma
Malignant reticulosis, NOS
Malignant midline reticulosis
T/NK-cell lymphoma
Polymorphic reticulosis
Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type
Disease Peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCL) are a heterogeneous group of aggressive neoplasm in adults. Among these are: peripheral T cell lymphoma, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma, extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma (nasal type), enteropathy associated T cell lymphoma, hepatosplenic T cell lymphoma.
Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKL), or nasal NK/T cell lymphoma (angiocentric lymphoma), is an aggressive pathology, with predilection for Asian and South American populations (Barrionuevo C et al., 2007; Liang R et al., 2009). Neoplastic cells are surface CD3-, cytoplasmic CD3ε+, CD56+, cytotoxic-molecule positive, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) positive, with germline T-cell receptor gene (Chan JK et al., 2008). This lymphoma is almost exclusively extranodal (Kwong YL et al., 2005). Occur commonly in the nasal and upper aerodigestive region. Occasional cases present in the skin, salivary gland, testis, and gastrointestinal tract. Quantification of circulating EBV DNA is an accurate biomarker of tumor load (Au WY et al., 2005). Concomitant sequential chemotherapy and radiotherapy is standard treatment. Diagnosis: The diagnosis of ENKL is made based upon the evaluation of a biopsy specimen from the site of involvement, usually in the facial area. Because the morphology of the tumor cells is so variable, it is important to consider this diagnosis in all cases of aggressive extranodal lymphoma associated with vascular invasion and necrosis.
The key diagnostic features are the demonstration of NK/T cell markers and Epstein Barr virus (EBV). Although CD56 is typically expressed, tumors that do not express CD56 may still be classified as ENKL if both cytotoxic molecules and EBV are positive (Chan JK et al., 2008).
Immunophenotype in this case can be useful; these tumors express CD2, cytoplasmic CD3, CD56, and cytotoxic granule proteins (Chan JK et al., 2008).
Etiology Etiology is poorly understood, but is related in part to infection of the tumor cells with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Expression of EBV latent membrane protein-1 by immunohistochemistry has also been described (Kanavaros P et al., 1993).
Epidemiology NK/T-cell lymphomas occur worldwide, with a strong geographic predilection for Asian population (China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia) and for Central and South American population (Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Brazil) (Kwong YL et al., 2005). Constituting 5-15% of lymphomas in these countries (Swerdlow SH et al., 2016).
The median age at presentation is 52 years (Au WY et al., 2009); however, rare cases have been reported in childhood. There is a male predominance with an approximately 2:1 male to female ratio. (Chim SC et al., 2004; Li XY et al., 2009).
Clinics The large majority of patients present with localized disease resulting in symptoms of nasal obstruction, epistaxis, and/or a destructive mass involving the nose, sinuses, or palate (Liu QF et al., 2014). Other extranodal sites may be involved either primarily (extranasal NK/T cell lymphoma) or as a direct extension of the primary tumor. These sites include the upper airway, Waldeyer's ring, gastrointestinal tract, skin, testis, lung, eye, or soft tissue (Tse E et al., 2013). Lymph nodes may be involved secondarily, but are only rarely the primary site of involvement. Bone marrow involvement and B symptoms are seen in approximately 10 and 35 percent of patients, respectively (Li YX et al., 2009).
Cytology Immunephenotype is similar to that of a NK cell. The atypical cells in most cases express CD2, CD56, and cytoplasmic CD3, but do not express surface CD3. Most cases express cytotoxic granule protein such as granzyme B, TIA-1, and perforin, and lack surface T cell receptor (TCR). Uncommon cases may express CD4, CD8, and/or CD7. (Lei KI et al., 2002).
Pathology The tumors cells can be of any size, but most commonly are either medium-sized or a mixture of small and large cells. They have a moderate amount of pale/clear cytoplasm with irregularly folded nuclei typically containing granular chromatin and inconspicuous or small nucleoli. Azurophilic granules may be seen on touch preps stained with giemsa (Swerdlow SH et al., 2008).
Treatment Therapy and prognosis are based upon the stage of the disease. In localized stages, combined modality therapy is the frequent treatment option (i.e., radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy) (Tse E et al., 2012). Radiation dose of 50 GY and concurrent therapy with reduced dose 2/3DeVIC (dexamethasone, etoposide, ifosfamide, carboplatin) or VIDL (etoposide, ifosfamide, dexamethasone, L-asparaginase).
CHOP-based regimen (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone) is not recommended for NK/T-cell lymphoma (Kim SJ et al., 2010).
Other chemotherapy regimens like LVP (L-asparaginase, vincristine and prednisolone) or GELOX (gemcitabine, E. coli L-asparaginase, oxaplatin) are been used in this pathology with high rates of remissions.
In disseminated disease cases, SMILE regimen (dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfomide, L-asparaginase) achieves best results, but neutropenia occurred in most of the patients with high rates of serious infections (Kwong YL et al., 2012).
The use of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has been explored in NK/T-cell lymphomas, however most studies contained small number of patients so the results are difficult to interpret.
Prognosis ENKL is an aggressive lymphoma. Without treatment survival is measured in months. The prognosis with treatment is largely related to the location and stage of disease at diagnosis.
Age over 60 years, stage III/IV disease, distant lymph node involvement, non-nasal type and detectable Epstein-Barr virus viral DNA titer are consider the most important patient information for the prognosis determination.
A high percentage of these tumors overexpress the p53 tumor suppressor protein, with about one-quarter showing evidence of p53 mutation (Quintanilla-Martinez L et al., 2001). In most other tumor types, p21 overexpression is linked to wild-type p53 expression, but in this tumor it has been found even with mutant p53 or low p53 expression.
Other tumor suppressor genes that have been implicated in the pathogenesis of ENKL include PRDM1 and FOXO3 (Karube et al., 2011). The gene PRDM1 (alias BLIMP1) is particularly interesting because it regulates the amduration, homeostasis and proliferation of NK cells (Kallies A et al., 2011). Several oncogenic pathways are activated, including Notch-1, Wnt, JAK/STAT, AKT, and nuclear factor kB. Recently, hole-exome sequencing has identified somatic-activating mutations of the JAK3 gene in 35% of NK/T-cell lymphomas (Koo GC et al., 2012) resulting in cytokine-independent constitutive JAK-STAT activation.
Cytogenetics Morphological The TCR and immunoglobulin (Ig) genes are usually germline, but a small fraction of cases demonstrate clonal rearrangement of TCR genes, suggesting derivation from a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (Lipford et al., 1988). Clonal EBV genomes are virtually always present. In situ hybridization for EVB encoded small nuclear RNAs is the preferred method of demonstrating the presence of EBV (Lei KL et al, 2002).
Clinicopathologic features and treatment outcome of mature T-cell and natural killer-cell lymphomas diagnosed according to the World Health Organization classification scheme: a single center experience of 10 years
Au WY, Ma SY, Chim CS, Choy C, Loong F, Lie AK, Lam CC, Leung AY, Tse E, Yau CC, Liang R, Kwong YL
Ann Oncol 2005 Feb;16(2):206-14
Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type: study of clinicopathologic and prognosis factors in a series of 78 cases from Peru
Barrionuevo C, Zaharia M, Martinez MT, Taxa L, Misad O, Moscol A, Sarria G, Guerrero I, Casanova L, Flores C, Zevallos-Giampietri EA
Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 2007 Mar;15(1):38-44
A role for Blimp1 in the transcriptional network controlling natural killer cell maturation
Kallies A, Carotta S, Huntington ND, Bernard NJ, Tarlinton DM, Smyth MJ, Nutt SL
Blood 2011 Feb 10;117(6):1869-79
Nasal T-cell lymphoma: a clinicopathologic entity associated with peculiar phenotype and with Epstein-Barr virus
Kanavaros P, Lescs MC, Brière J, Divine M, Galateau F, Joab I, Bosq J, Farcet JP, Reyes F, Gaulard P
Blood 1993 May 15;81(10):2688-95
Identification of FOXO3 and PRDM1 as tumor-suppressor gene candidates in NK-cell neoplasms by genomic and functional analyses
Karube K, Nakagawa M, Tsuzuki S, Takeuchi I, Honma K, Nakashima Y, Shimizu N, Ko YH, Morishima Y, Ohshima K, Nakamura S, Seto M
Blood 2011 Sep 22;118(12):3195-204
Janus kinase 3-activating mutations identified in natural killer/T-cell lymphoma
Koo GC, Tan SY, Tang T, Poon SL, Allen GE, Tan L, Chong SC, Ong WS, Tay K, Tao M, Quek R, Loong S, Yeoh KW, Yap SP, Lee KA, Lim LC, Tan D, Goh C, Cutcutache I, Yu W, Ng CC, Rajasegaran V, Heng HL, Gan A, Ong CK, Rozen S, Tan P, Teh BT, Lim ST
Cancer Discov 2012 Jul;2(7):591-7
Natural killer-cell malignancies: diagnosis and treatment
Kwong YL
Leukemia 2005 Dec;19(12):2186-94
Diagnostic and prognostic implications of circulating cell-free Epstein-Barr virus DNA in natural killer/T-cell lymphoma
Lei KI, Chan LY, Chan WY, Johnson PJ, Lo YM
Clin Cancer Res 2002 Jan;8(1):29-34
Advances in the management and monitoring of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type
Liang R
Br J Haematol 2009 Oct;147(1):13-21
Angiocentric immunoproliferative lesions: a clinicopathologic spectrum of post-thymic T-cell proliferations
Lipford EH Jr, Margolick JB, Longo DL, Fauci AS, Jaffe ES
Blood 1988 Nov;72(5):1674-81
Immunophenotypic and clinical differences between the nasal and extranasal subtypes of upper aerodigestive tract natural killer/T-cell lymphoma
Liu QF, Wang WH, Wang SL, Liu YP, Huang WT, Lu N, Zhou LQ, Ouyang H, Jin J, Li YX
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2014 Mar 15;88(4):806-13
p53 Mutations in nasal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma from Mexico: association with large cell morphology and advanced disease
Quintanilla-Martinez L, Kremer M, Keller G, Nathrath M, Gamboa-Dominguez A, Meneses A, Luna-Contreras L, Cabras A, Hoefler H, Mohar A, Fend F
Am J Pathol 2001 Dec;159(6):2095-105
The 2016 revision of the World Health Organization classification of lymphoid neoplasms
Swerdlow SH, Campo E, Pileri SA, Harris NL, Stein H, Siebert R, Advani R, Ghielmini M, Salles GA, Zelenetz AD, Jaffe ES
Blood 2016 May 19;127(20):2375-90
How I treat NK/T-cell lymphomas
Tse E, Kwong YL
Blood 2013 Jun 20;121(25):4997-5005
Luis Miguel Jurez Salcedo, Diego Conde Royo, Samir Dalia
Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. 2019;23(6):146-148.
On line version : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Anomalies/ExtranodalNKTLNHID1689.html
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Home99 Reclass - Blitz Weekly ArchivesThe Astros Newest Collin Card!
The Astros Newest Collin Card!
August 19, 2014 99 Reclass - Blitz Weekly Archives
Jose Altuve is on pace to break the Houston Astros single season hit record. Photo Courtesy: Darryl Briggs
By Will Martin
It wasn’t until September 13, 2013 that the Houston Astros reached the 51 win mark in their inaugural season in the American League amidst a sea of youth, new management, and a slew of playoff bound teams to finish out September.
A losing streak that reached 15 games when the year ended. The 2013 Astros finished 51-111. Forgettable but yet a start.
August 15, 2014 the Astros had to go extras to finally secure a win at Fenway Park-their first-by a score of 5-3. Tony Sipp getting the win one after Scott Feldman had a hard luck loss on Thursday after being staked to a 4-0 lead in Boston only to get pummeled 9-4.
Old time Ranger fans will remember a similar fate when Feldman had a start in Boston 08/08/08 and the Beantowners put up a ten spot in one inning of an absolute blowout.
In case you wonder the Astros are now (including Sunday’s game) 6-17 lifetime against the BoSox. Last month Boston took two of three in a visit to Minute Maid Park. Boston was the last ballpark the Houston franchise known as the Astros/Colt 45s had not won a game.
Saturday night at Fenway Park was your typical slugfest as Jose Altuve, Chris Carter, Dexter Fowler, Marwin Gonzalez, and Jason Castro each had multi-hit games. What was a 6-3 lead after five innings became reduced to a 10-7 juggernaut won by Boston.
After Sunday’s finale in Boston, Houston enjoyed having Monday off before continuing a ten game road trip in the Bronx with the Yankees followed by a visit to Lake Erie and the Cleveland Indians for three. Their longest road trip of the season.
Collin McHugh (5-9) got the starting nod Sunday at Fenway. As this goes to print McHugh has been absolute money in the month of August with an ERA of 1.40. That’s fifth best in the American League. McHugh also ranks seventh in the month for strikeouts per game (9.57 per 9 innings) and currently ranking fifth for opponents batting average when he takes the mound (.205). Ahead of Collin for that distinction are Danny Duffy (.202), Chris Sale (.199), Garrett Richards and Felix Hernandez (.195).
Backed by another strong start by Collin McHugh (six innings 1-run 7 hits 4 walks 6 strikeouts) homers by Jose Altuve (6), Dexter Fowler (7), and Jon Singleton (11) the Astros rolled to an 8-1 victory over the Red Sox and a split of their four game set.
Having now exceeded 2013 with the magical mark of 52 wins. Houston has avoided the cellar since July 9, 2014.
With his four hits (one a grand slam) August 17, Jose Altuve now sits at 173 for the season. His numbers continue to amaze and create eye rolls. Altuve all alone with the hits lead, stolen bases (46), multiple hit games (53) and batting average (.340). In chasing a hits record for the Astros, Jose just needs to surpass 210 hits to shatter the standard set forth by Craig Biggio in 1998. Currently Altuve is on pace to reach 223 hits.
The grand slam hit by Altuve made possible after an overturned call/challenge on a double play call in the second inning.
Chris Carter continues to swing a hot bat. Since July 1 his 16 homers and 39 RBI’s leads the AL. Currently at 29 dingers his next will make him the first Astro to crank out 30 since Carlos Lee (32) and Lance Berkman (34) in 2007. Carter also sits first in Slugging Percentage (.713) and OPS (On base plus slugging pct-1.083).
Dallas Keuchel recently recorded his 15th quality start of 2014. In addition he became the first hurler since Randy Johnson (1998) to record four complete games.
With 38 games left to go in 2014 if this team just goes 19-19 its a 70 win season, an 18 game improvement, they’ll avoid 100 losses for the first time since 2010. 2015 this ballclub will still be one of the younger groups in all of baseball-currently at 26.9 years of age.
In closing, don’t adjust your TV sets if you saw something weird on NESN Sunday. A longtime coach and scout within the Houston organization passed away on August 12. Gordy Mackenzie joined the Houston family as a minor league instructor from 1999-2001. He took up scouting from 2004-2008 before getting involved with the Gulf Coast League.
On August 15 all of the Astros minor league affiliates also wore their socks high to honor Mackenzie’s memory.
Looking ahead to September there is a possibility we could see a return to the mound for Matt Albers and Jesse Crain. This would be beneficial as Jeff Luhnow gets to ponder whether their options are picked up or if they can get value for them via a trade in the offseason.
“He (Albers) was great at the beginning of the year, and we just haven’t seen anything since then,” Luhnow said. “It’s important for him to have a big month of September, not only for our option, but also in case we decline it and he can prove he’s healthy for other teams.”
Might we see a minor league assignment for Matt or Jesse before they play for Coach Porter?
“We’re running into a little bit of a time constraint,” Luhnow said. “I would like to get him out in front of hitters, whether we’ll do that in a simulated game at Minute Maid Park or on the road with a Minor League affiliate. It’s important he faces live action fairly soon, and I’m hopeful that’s coming.”
Crain appears to be closer by comparison.
“I had a conversation with him (Jesse) right before we left to come on this road trip and he said he had one of his best throwing sessions so far this year, and that’s a good sign,” Luhnow said. “He’s got to get over the last hump, and hopefully it will happen. It would be nice to have those two guys in the bullpen in September to help us win some games. I’m sure they want to do that as well so they can establish something going into next year.”
8/19 @Yankees 6:05 p.m.
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HomeSportsBasketballNBAMavericks skid finally ends, sign Derek Fisher
Mavericks skid finally ends, sign Derek Fisher
December 5, 2012 NBA, Sports
By Geoff Case
Starting Point Guard still undecided.
The loss of Jason Kidd has arguably been the toughest the Mavericks’ roster transitions in recent history. They could always depend on Kidd to run the offense efficiently and limit costly turnovers. These are things that ultimately lost Darren Collision his starting role in the first quarter of the young season. In fact, the newly signed veteran Derek Fisher got the start a day after the 16-year veteran’s first practice with the Mavs. While Fisher’s stat line was modest – two points on 1-of-8 shooting and three assists – in his first action since helping Oklahoma City reach the NBA Finals last year. To Rick Carlisle and Collison’s credit, he has looked much better coming off the bench. Collison, who missed a game with a sprained finger said he wasn’t thrilled to be coming off the bench after starting the first 14 games. Collison however seems to be taking his benching with professionalism for the most part. He repeatedly says that he’ll do whatever the team need him to do. The Mavs are likely going to keep their eye on other options at the position but they can’t expect the 38 year-old Derek Fisher to realistically play a major role. He did seem to calm the seas a bit in crunch time that is something the Mavericks desperately needed after basically giving away a few games in the fourth quarter this season with unforced turnovers. Right now, Darren Collison has the sheer talent and ability to be a better player than Derek Fisher. It’s almost like Collison is trying so hard to live up to that potential he’s been forcing shots and passes. The Mavericks need a steady hand guiding this roster and someone that can help with the rebounding. If the Fisher promotion remains permanent and Collison’s struggles continue, it’s hard to see the Mavericks making much noise this season.
Upcoming schedule:
12/6 @Phoenix Suns:
The Suns are in a complete rebuild mode following the departure of Steve Nash to the Lakers but that won’t stop them from offer elite customer service. The Suns organization is offering a money back refund for any fans that purchase tickets to a game and are unsatisfied. This is a game the Mavericks need to win.
12/8 @Houston Rockets
The Rockets finally got their superstar in James Harden and will be looking to build a roster around him. They are an exciting team to watch because a backcourt featuring Jeremy Lin and James Harden is absolutely electric and anything can happen. The Mavericks couldn’t stop Harden in the playoffs last year so don’t expect them to figure it out now. However, Dauntay Jones might have something to say about that.
12/10 Sacramento Kings
Demarcus Cousins might have 20+ rebounds this game with the way the Mavericks have been hitting the glass. On paper the Mavericks should have a chance to steal this one sans Nowitzki but if Cousins is motivated, watch out.
12/12 @ Boston Celtics
Jason Terry’s new home is treating him nicely but the absence of Ray Allen is something that Terry can’t even replace. They are a salty veteran team that should take care of the Mavs. I will be watching to see if the new Mavs respond to the evitable intimidation tactics the Celtics will throw their way. It should tell us a lot about how these young guys will respond to a pressure intense playoff atmostphere.
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WORLD OF DARRENF
shout to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west, to the home I love, best, where my soul can, rest, YES
I blog when I go abroad, and occasionally when I do stuff in the UK too. There's a nicer interface over here.
Sleep is right
One of the things I do when on proper holiday, not manic holiday, is recreationally sleep. So even having fixed my jet lag a bit, and in a house full of activity with two young kids off to daycare and school, I slept in til 1100 on Tuesday. It were bliss. And actually this happened most days. There's really not much in my plans for Sydney to be honest - it's my 7th visit, to my family, I'm staying in a suburban house, and it doesn't feel foreign at all. This is not least because they drive on the left, as they had in Bali and Malaysia. I hadn't realised before this trip just how much familiarity and sovereignty I attach to left driving countries. If you drive on the queen's side of the road, you ain't foreign. You're easy to navigate on foot and that means I am home.
Started off listening to a couple of Steve Austin podcasts, he interviews current WWE stars without staying in character or storyline and it's super interesting. And then I went shopping. I needed to buy some running shoes because there wasn't enough space in my bags for mine, and I was due to do parkrun on Saturday. Naturally this meant I had to wear my RUNNING SUCKS nike t-shirt. Bought a pair, failed to buy a hat, and went down to neutral bay wharf for a boat to the city.
From there I was actually going to do something new and touristy - a trip to Cockatoo Island. You get there by public transport, but it's an old historic island full of convict stories and shipbuilding works and etc. It's great, a self guided non-audio tour around quarries and old shipyards and prison cells and officers' quarters, the lot. One of the convict stories is about an escape in 1863 about a guy who had been sentenced to 7 years in 1856. Are they sure he wasn't just y'know, let free?
Cockatoo island also has Sydney's only pub/bar on an island, which did not publish its opening hours on the pamphlet nor at the venue itself, but only on the website. Which told me it wasn't open on Mondays and Tuesdays. Fail. And the boat had a replacement bus service schedule poster. It's an island. Bus?
A GIANT cruise ship had come in overnight. Took a few photos for Chris.
More shopping. It's all very well buying a new ipad but when it's a different size to your last one, you need a case. The girl behind the till asked me where I'd bought my shirt, and was about the 5th person to comment on it after the old woman who refused to run after her blown-away coke can, the school kids who'd said "running doesn't suck!" and the chugger who was so distraught that I wasn't local and fleeceable.
Back home after an ice cream, for more tea time and bedtime chaos followed by an argument about whether natural talent exists. It does. Kevin is wrong.
Another lazy day on Wednesday, another midday start. Kept racking up the boat rides with a trip to Watsons Bay, essentially an OAP day out just for fish and chips at Doyle's. Oh my god, they were so worth it. Had to wait 45 minutes for the return ferry as they seem to take a lunch break, and on the way back there was a pretty decent Red Arrows style display over the harbour. Popped round to Darling Harbour for the microbrewery which served a very decent stout, and realised I've never had a Guinness in Sydney, or at least not one I could recall.
Got the Manly Ferry back, and the free wifi forced you to fill out a poll before it activated. Did I support their application for a licence to serve booze? Would I be a likely purchaser of booze? Quickly checked that the pope still shits in the woods and bears are catholic, failed to find the OF FUCKING COURSE option.
Thursday, also not overly busy. The UK weather had kicked in now, so that when I left the house to walk to Manly the rain was hotter than the shower I'd just had. The wind was grim too, so my original plan to meet Kevin for external pie at Harry's Cafe de Wheels suddenly turned into a solo jaunt to The Australian for kangaroo pizza and a beer made by a brewery younger than 12 months old, which was called Wayward Charmer and was DELICIOUS. This would, presumably, be my last day on the sauce, since I had a 6am start for a 5km run scheduled for Saturday, and flying on Sunday without wanting to be hungover. That probably explains why I had 2 gins and 2 whiskeys back at the house.
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Our spring exhibitions have opened to crowded galleries and glowing press. Aaron Glass’s The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology and Paul Stirton’s Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars are two faculty-curated Focus Projects currently on view. Sasha Nixon (MA 2018) is the curator of A View from the Jeweler’s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements.
In this newsletter, we are pleased to announce our 23rd Annual Iris Awards Luncheon on April 17. The Alumni Spotlight features Nadia Westenburg (MA 2017), who has parlayed her love of the outdoors and museums into a job at Zion National Park in Utah. PhD candidate Julie Bellemare talks about her dissertation research. Read on for more Bard Graduate Center news.
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BGC faculty are publishing articles, attending conferences, and presenting papers in New York and around the county. Read more.
2019 CAA Conference
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni were well represented at this year’s CAA Conference in New York City. Read more.
Tracking Colors
PhD candidate Julie Bellemare recently traveled to France, Taiwan, and China gathering research for her dissertation. Read more.
This month’s Alumni Spotlight is on Nadia Westenburg, a museum technician at Zion National Park. Read more.
2019 Artists in Residence
Bard Graduate Center is delighted to welcome Exhibition Artists in Residence, Native Art Department International, through July 7. In residence through July 19, are Library Artists in Residence, JoAnne McFarland and Rachel Selekman. Read more.
On View Through July 7, 2019
Our current exhibitions feature faculty-curated Focus Projects on Franz Boas and his collaborator George Hunt, and the graphic designer Jan Tschichold, who defined the “New Typography” movement of the interwar period. A View from the Jeweler’s Bench is curated by Sasha Nixon, who received her MA from Bard Graduate Center in 2018.
“A Glittering Education in the Jeweler’s Craft”
“Anthropology as an Art Form”
“Exhibition Shines a Light on the Influential New Typography Movement”
Artist Perspectives: Contemporary Jewelry and Ancient Technique
March 27 at 6:30 pm
Join Sasha Nixon, curator of A View from the Jeweler’s Bench, in conversation with jewelry designer emiko oye; Nicole Jacquard, associate professor and head of the jewelry and metalsmithing program at Indiana University; and Anya Kivarkis, artist and assistant professor and area head of jewelry and metalsmithing at the University of Oregon. Register here.
Public Education Course: Highlights in the History of Graphic Design
April 1-April 29 at 7:00 pm
Highlights in the History of Graphic Design is five-week public education course beginning on April 1, meeting every Monday in April. Week One focuses on the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshops), 1903-1932; Week Two, The Bauhaus; Week Three, American Corporations and Countercultures: Postwar Graphic Design; Week Four, Politics and Culture in Latin American Graphic Design. The course concludes with Computer as Tool, Computer as Medium: Design after 1980. To learn more or to register click here.
Iris Awards
The 23rd Annual Iris Awards will be presented on April 17 in New York City.
Created in 1997, Bard Graduate Center’s Iris Awards recognize scholars, patrons, and professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the study and appreciation of the decorative arts.
This year’s honorees are arts supporter Marina Kellen French, Outstanding Patron; scholar and former Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Jeffrey Munger, Outstanding Lifetime Achievement; Dr. Laurie Wilkie, Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar; and well-known Italian art dealer Alessandra Di Castro, Outstanding Dealer.
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Introduction: Installation shots by Bruce W. White. Research and Academic first row photos: (left) Bard Graduate Center. (right) courtesy Catherine Whalen. second row photos: (left) Courtesy NPM Open Data. (right) courtesy Nadia Westenburg. Gallery (top) Lion-type Mask, unknown Kwakwaka’wakw maker, 1820-70. Painted (?), carved wood. ©Trustees of the British Museum, Am +.436. (middle) Jan Tschichold, Die Frau ohne Namen, poster, 1927 [JT-012] https://www.moma.org/collection/works/5754). (bottom) Ring with cameo glass portrait of the Emperor Augustus, early Imperial, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 1st half of the 1st century. Gold with glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Roger Haber and The Artemis Group, 1995, 1995.85.1. Ru. Events: (top). La Peregrina late 16th century; diamond bail early 19th century; natural pearl, diamond, ruby and cultured pearl necklace by Cartier 1972, 13½ ins., accompanied by the seed pearl and platinum neckchain from the time of the purchase at auction in 1969, 30¾ ins. Signed Cartier; designed by Elizabeth Taylor with Al Durante of Cartier. emiko oye (United States, b. 1974) La Reine de Pèleri (The Pilgrim Queen) convertible neckpiece, 2013 Repurposed LEGO®, argentium and silver sterling, fine silver tag, coated steel wire 18 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 2 1⁄8 in. (47 × 21.6 × 5.08 cm) Courtesy of the artist.(bottom) Photo courtesy BGC. Iris Awards: George Paulding Farnham for Tiffany and Company. Sketch for the Tiffany Iris Corsage Ornament, ca. 1900. Watercolor on tracing paper. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
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Thomas Crow of Wilmington, Delaware. John Erwin cabinetmaker. Tall clock. LL115.
This is a very fine clock made by Thomas Crow of Wilmington, Delaware. The case is attributed to John Erwin. This fine example was made circa 1790.
This case was made in the shop of the Erwin Family. This is according to Charles Gilpin Dorman, author of “Delaware Cabinet Makers” written in 1960. The use of a recessed door panel and base panel are trademarks of cased clocks made in this shop. John Erwin, worked from the 1750’s until the early 1790’s. His son James worked with him as early as the 1770’s. James took over the family business after John Erwin retired. The Erwin’s were often called upon to case many of Thomas Crow’s clocks. They always chose outstanding pieces of figured wood for the fronts of their clock cases. A similar case is illustrated in DELAWARE CLOCKS written by Philip D. Zimmerman. It is illustrated on page 49. That clock was also advertised by David Stockwell in Antiques 128, no. 4 (October 1985). 555.
This well proportioned example stands on boldly formed ogee bracket feet. The front panel used in the construction of the base is recessed and is nicely figured. The waist section is quite long which accentuates the proportions. It is fitted with a nicely shaped waist door. This waist door also features a recessed panel. The wood selected for this use is quite good having a crotch grain pattern. The bonnet features a swan’s neck design that terminate in two wonderfully carved wooden rosettes. Three turned wooden finials surmount this case. Four fully turned bonnet columns are fitted on the four corners of this hood. The hood door is arched and fitted with glass. It is hinged and opens to access the painted iron dial.
This painted dial is fitted to the movement with a false plate. This dial is signed by the clockmaker in an unusual location. It is signed just above the hour twelve on the time track. It reads, “Thomas Crow – Wilmington.” The spandrel areas are decorated with gilt design that features urns that are oriented in a vertical fashion. Much of design is raised off the surface of the dial with applied gesso. The dial displays the hours with Roman numerals. The five minute markers are an Arabic form. A subsidiary seconds dial and the calendar date are displayed inside the time ring.
This fine movement is constructed in brass and is good quality. Four turned pillars support the two brass plates. Hardened steel shafts support the polished steel pinions and brass gearing. The winding drums are grooved. The escapement is designed as a recoil format. The movement is weight driven and designed to run eight days on a full wind. It is a two train or a time and strike design having a rack and snail striking system. As a result, it will strike each hour on the hour. This is done on a cast iron bell which is mounted above the movement. Thomas Crow was in the habit of carefully inscribing his heavily constructed movements, especially those having the newly introduced white enameled iron dials with the words “ MADE BY THOMAS CROW.” This was often followed by “WILMINGTON” and then less commonly the date of manufacture. This particular clock bears the inscription on the front plate: “Made by Thomas Crow / January 1790.”
This clock stands and impressive 8 feet 4 inches tall. It is inventory number LL-115.
About Thomas Crow of Wilmington, Delaware.
Thomas Crow was the son of George Crow who was also a Wilmington, Delaware clockmaker. Thomas appears to have been involved in clockmaking as early as 1770. He becomes one of Delaware’s most prolific and best known clockmakers. He is recorded to have served the public in several local government positions. In 1805, he moves through Philadelphia and later to West Chester, Pennsylvania during the period 1808 to 1810. One can find examples of his work in the collections of Winterthur Museum and the Briggs Museum of Art.
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Main > Fairy tale > All authors > Astrid Lindgren > Fairy tale " Karlsson on the Roof"
“It’s my horrid little brother,” said Betty. “I’ll teach him a lesson …”
Eric could not stop laughing.
“Of course she likes you,” he shouted. “And why shouldn’t she? Betty likes all boys, and that’s a fact.”
Then, in the silence that followed, there was a thud and still more laughter.
“Calm, be calm!” whispered Karlsson when the tent collapsed in their wild flight for the door.
Eric was as calm as he could be in the circumstances, although he was still bubbling with laughter, and Karlsson had fallen right across him so that he did not quite know which legs were his own and which were Karlsson’s, and he knew that Betty would catch up with them at any moment.
They scrambled to their feet as fast as they could and rushed toward Eric’s room in wild panic, because Betty was close behind.
“Calm, be calm!” whispered Karlsson, and his fat little legs beat like drumsticks under the blanket as he ran. “The World’s Best Speed Runner, that’s Karlsson-on-the Roof!” he whispered, but he sounded breathless.
Eric was not bad at running either. And they certainly were in a hurry. Only in the nick of time did they reach the safety of Eric’s room. Karlsson hastily turned the key in the lock and stood there, laughing quietly, pleased and satisfied, while Betty hammered at the door.
“You wait, Eric, till I get hold of you!” shouted Betty angrily.
“But I didn’t show myself,” Eric shouted back, and there were giggles behind the door again.
There were two of them giggling, and Betty would probably have noticed it if she had not been so angry.
Chapter 4 - Karlsson Bets
Eric came home from school one day looking angry and with a big lump on his forehead. Mommy was in the kitchen, and she was just as upset about the lump as Eric had hoped she would be.
“Oh, darling Eric, whatever’s happened?” she exclaimed, putting her arms around him.
“Christopher threw a stone at me,” replied Eric crossly. !
“My goodness!” said Mommy. “What a horrid boy! Why didn’t you come and tell me?”
Eric shrugged his shoulders.
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In a village there lived two men who had the self-same name. Both were named Claus. But one of them owned four horses, and the other owned only one horse; so to distinguish between them people called the man who had four horses Big Claus, and the man who had only one horse Little Claus. Now I'll tell you what happened to these two, for this is a true story.
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EU to launch investigation into Apple/Shazam merger
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After requests from several European countries, including France, Italy, Spain and Sweden, the EU has announced it will be launching an investigation into Apple’s acquisition of Shazam. Shazam is the world’s leading music recognition system. It has a total of 1 billion downloads and is used 20 million times a day on average. Apple’s deal to buy the app, which allows users to identify songs via their smartphone and link them to music subscription services, is worth $400 million and was confirmed in December last year.
What are the concerns?
In the last three years, Apple Music has become the second largest music streaming service provider in Europe. Shazam is the leading music recognition app, both in the EU and worldwide. The EU plans to launch an in depth investigation under the EU Merger Regulation over the following concerns:
The strong market position of both Apple and Shazam could mean a merger could harm consumer choice
The merger could give Apple an unfair advantage over its competitors through access to user data
This could help Apple to unfairly gain customers over other sites
Shazam could hold commercially sensitive data on Apple’s competitors and consumers
How will the commission respond?
The commission has noted that Apple Music has now become the second biggest music streaming service in the whole of Europe. In a statement, they said: “Access to such data could allow Apple to directly target its competitors’ customers and encourage them to switch to Apple Music. As a result, competing music streaming services could be put at a competitive disadvantage.” They added that the investigation will need to look at the effect the merger could have on competition; for example, whether Apple would be discontinuing referrals from Shazam to other sites like Spotify or Deezer.
Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: “The way people listen to music has changed significantly in recent years, with more and more Europeans using music streaming services. Our investigation aims to ensure that music fans will continue to enjoy attractive music streaming offers and won’t face less choice as a result of this proposed merger.”
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From the crummy and rude glory hole bandits of Newark's Penn Station to the cherry blossom lovers found just north of the city, there's a thread that stitches these disparate elements. Kids run across the boulevard as the soundtrack wafts over the streets. The few bucks forked over to the pregnant lady down on her luck could be the same notes used to cop a flavorful bouquet for a romantic conquest. The triggerman's itchy index is used both to spill rivals and thrill lovers. The Jack Moves are what this sounds like on wax.
Painted by a sound reflective of the city’s seaside soul and the Newark Jack Swing played from transistor radios and boom boxes placed on competing window sills, The Jack Moves (Zee Desmondes, Teddy Powell) narrative is artfully carried out on the band's sophomore offering and Everloving debut, Free Money.
As with most art created in earnest, the band's music has the ability to occupy spaces beyond its origin city. A vehicle spanning coasts and subcultures, perhaps unintended. Out west, it wouldn't be surprising to hear some Jack Moves ballad billowing from a lowrider during a backseat make-out session. Meanwhile in Japan, their hit song was hawking Big Macs™ at Mickey Deeznuts. The band’s self-titled Wax Poetics debut drew comparisons to "Off the Wall" era Michael Jackson, The Escorts and the Whatnauts. The Jack Moves then hit the road playing supporting dates, traveling the world. From Brixton Academy and Red Rocks Amphitheater, to the strange familiarity of the cherry blossomed avenues of Osaka and Tokyo.
And so it should come as something of a surprise that The Jack Moves would record most of their latest material on the fringe of Los Angeles, placing their intrinsically east coast essence into the hands of idiot-shaman and occasional platinum record producer, JP Plunier. But way out west the music was unshackled and this new sound was soul, untethered from the chains of the past.
Free Money twists and grooves, chugs and grinds, and sways - a modern, smashed-up hybrid devoid of nostalgic put-ons. Strangely enough this album could be the bastard child of The Stones “Some Girls” and Drake’s “More Life”. Underneath Powell’s sepia toned soul rhythms, Desmondes' honeyed vocals sing incantations and love letters to unbelievers ("Penn Station"), lovers ("Sunshine," "Red Lights"), ancient beings ("Three The Hard Way") and addicts — both digital and pharmaceutical ("Wantin' You,” "Money Clouds”) — all searching for something: a fix, a fuck, a dollar, a safe place, a friend, a home. Swipe left. Swipe right. Into a tangled void of fear and longing.
These are the songs young beat-choppers will be sampling in the post-millennial era.
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Trump And Biden Clash In Chaotic Debate
Both candidates repeatedly interrupted each other on the topics of Coronavirus, Supreme Court nominations, the economy and even each other’s personal lives. Photo by Getty Images.
By Alexis McCowan, Howard University News Service
On Tuesday evening, Americans tuned in to watch President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden challenge each other face to face in their first presidential debate.
The debate in Cleveland, Ohio was full of talk, but serious policy was not addressed. Both candidates repeatedly interrupted each other on the topics of Coronavirus, Supreme Court nominations, the economy and even each other’s personal lives. Here are a few highlights from what people are calling a bitter debate.
Vacancy in the Supreme Court
The first question to both men was why their position is correct on selecting a Supreme Court nominee in an election year.
Trump recently nominated conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat left vacant by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“We won the election,” Trump said. “Elections have consequences.”
Biden countered this remark by saying that citizens have a right to have a say and that “we should wait” until after the presidential election to select the next justice.
Biden was not able to talk for long before being interrupted by Trump, quickly leading to a quarrel.
Wallace made several failed attempts to pacify Trump.
After a few exchanges between the two candidates, Wallace jumped in with the aim of ending the bickering, but he soon started to bicker with Trump himself.
“Please let the vice president talk,” said Wallace.
This would be the first of many interruptions throughout the night.
Trump fails to condemn white supremacists
In another segment, Trump failed to explicitly condemn white supremacists. Wallace asked if Trump would publicly “condemn White supremacists and militia groups and say they need to stand down and not add to the violence.” He immediately directed his attention to Antifa.
“I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing,” Trump said, referring to violence at demonstrations.
Trump said, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left.”
“The commander in chief refused to condemn White supremacy on the global stage in front of my children, in front of everybody’s families, and he was given the opportunity multiple times to condemn White supremacy and he gave a wink and a nod to a racist, Nazi, murderous organization,” said Van Jones, the CNN political commentator.
Trump defends himself by bullying Biden
With more 200,000 Americans deaths from COVID-19 and a spike in cases in some parts of the country, Trump was asked about his handling of the Coronavirus thus far. He took the opportunity to insult Biden’s intelligence instead of addressing the question.
Biden said, “He panicked or just looked at the stock market, one of the two, because guess what?” he continued, “A lot of people died and a lot more are going to die unless he gets a lot smarter a lot quicker.”
In response, Trump said, “Did you use the word smart?” adding, “You graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class. Don’t ever use the word ‘smart’ with me.”
He continued with a hypothetical.
If Biden was in office, “Two million would be dead now,” he said.
After the disjointed first meeting between Trump and Joe Biden, the presidential debate commission says it will soon adopt changes to its format to avoid a repeat of the
The commission said Wednesday that the debate “made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.”
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Forget Doing This with your Russian Girls, Do This
The Russian Girl Game
The spine of the Realist custom was nonetheless the escape plot.121 There was additionally a transparent emphasis on socio-political themes. The most revolutionary factor in women’s novels from the center of the century is the revision of ladies characters. Female characters refuse to be solely ’silent bearers of ideology’95 and begin to talk. To permit girls to speak presupposes that they’re given roles as narrators, as major characters and that they appear as actors in a cultural and historical context; they converse in home spheres, and with different girls. Among the foremost prose-writers who rewrite girls characters and give voices to ladies of their domestic lives are Evgeniia Tur (Elizaveta Vasil’evna Salias de Turnemir, 1815–ninety two), Nadezhda Stepanovna Sokhanskaia and Iuliia Valerianovna Zhadovskaia (1824–83), who wrote from the 1850s to the 1870s.
A few women, corresponding to Ella Pamfilova of the Republican Party, Socialist Workers‘ Party chief Lyudmila Vartazarova, and Valeriya Novodvorskaya, chief of the Democratic Union, have established themselves as influential political figures. Pamfilova has gained specific stature as an advocate on behalf of women and aged individuals. The regulation lists one hundred occupations that are forbidden to ladies, as they are considered too dangerous to their health, particularly reproductive health (till 2019 the figure was 456 ). The quickly expanding private sector has provided girls new employment opportunities, but most of the Soviet stereotypes remain. The most incessantly offered job in new companies is that of sekretarsha (secretary/receptionist), and commercials for such positions in private-sector companies often specify bodily attractiveness as a main requirement . Russian law offers for as a lot as three years‘ imprisonment for sexual harassment, but the law rarely is enforced.
“We were outraged by the truth that they decided they’ll really management our sex life — who we kiss or go on dates with,” mentioned Gribatskaya, who led the drive. In the primary week of the global soccer tournament, Russian lawmaker Tamara Pletnyova warned Russian women towards turning into romantically involved with foreigners, lest they need to find yourself raising their kids alone. She added it was much more of a problem if the men had been from a unique race. Still, the reaction in opposition to Russian girls’s World Cup dalliances has been so robust that some feminists in Russia think it might truly advance their cause by surprising even conservative girls who wouldn’t identify themselves as feminists. The widespread, vehement criticism has shown the dominance of patriarchal and sexist views in Russia, the place the idea of gender equality is a era behind that of the West’s. Russian women who’ve dated the soccer followers have been shamed by some Russian commentators, denounced for allegedly undermining the country’s morals and gene pool. Another newspaper – Kremlin-pleasant Komsomolskaya Pravda – advised ladies the way to “hook up with a foreigner”.
When gang-raped girls in Königsberg begged their attackers afterwards to put them out of their distress, the Red Army men seem to have felt insulted. „Only German soldiers do that.“ The Red Army had managed to persuade itself that as a result of it had assumed the moral mission to liberate Europe from fascism it may behave totally as it liked, both personally and politically. Drink of every selection, together with harmful chemicals seized from laboratories and workshops, was a significant component within the violence. It appears as if Soviet troopers wanted alcoholic braveness to assault a lady. But then, all too usually, they drank an excessive amount of and, unable to finish the act, used the bottle as a substitute with appalling impact.
Yet inside a few days, a pattern emerged of soldiers flashing torches within the faces of girls huddled within the bunkers to decide on their victims. This process of selection, versus the indiscriminate violence proven earlier, indicates a definite change.
However, state-affiliated opinion pollsters are forecasting higher figures. Not all women of all ages will be the actual appear, and so the neatest selection is all the time to concentrate to what she has to specific. Also, it is advisable to speak with individuals who all know the scale of the star of the occasion really.
The Hidden Treasure Of Russian Girls
A entire hour remained earlier than the start of the exams, however the foyer and corridors of the Krasnodar Institute of Food Industry had been crammed with would-be college students. Like many of the different ladies from the provinces, Tania, Lida, and I couldn’t stand still. We knew there were 4 instances as many candidates as there were openings— a great purpose to be nervous! Only a couple of individuals strolled calmly back and forth, as though they have been there to give, rather than take, the exams. I cannot miss the chance that has been given me; one is not twice provided the chance of leaving Soviet Russia unmolested. When the information of Nicholas II’s abdication and the formation of the Provisional Government reached us, it caught us utterly unawares. For the primary time ever I regretted the truth that I was in the middle of nowhere, removed from Moscow, at this historic moment.
A floundering ruble isn’t prone to be enough to change that development, advised courting coach Ponomaryova. Indeed, in her view, the financial crisis has made Moscow women want to stick to the acquainted. During the pace relationship session, most girls advised the Moscow Times reporter that relationship a Russian man would be easier and cause less friction. Tolstykh mentioned that more journey expertise meant the younger era of Russian ladies not seen foreigners via „rose-colored glasses.“
Akhmatova’s most notable work and tribute to her struggling underneath Stalin’s regime, Rekviem , was solely revealed after her death in 1989. The collective made global headlines for his or her protest music inside Moscow’s Church of Christ Our Saviour, and subsequent arrest and detention. Originally an activist group protesting the therapy of Russia’s marginalised LGBTQ+ community, the members expanded their activism to protest against Putin’s authorities. Now international pop-tradition icons, the balaclava-clad girls uncovered Putin’s intolerance to dissidence, and other https://bestasianwomen.com/russian-woman/ people around the globe rallied behind them throughout their incarceration. Several of the members were a part of the equally anarchistic Viona collective beforehand, which have been also recognized for his or her outrageous protest performances and stunts. We embed a Twitter feed exhibiting activity for the hashtag #c24live and also make it attainable to share content material in social networks corresponding to Facebook and Twitter.
Squeezed together in cramped circumstances, individuals went through college and university, fell in love, got married, gave delivery to youngsters and raised grandchildren. Somewhere along the best way, the idea of „private area“ was generally misplaced. You are on the lookout for words to tell her about your upcoming workplace party on Friday, however she already is aware of the place, when and with whom you are going. She doesn’t see her stalker-like surveillance of your social network accounts as a violation of your personal house or proper to privateness. She is simply keeping tabs on issues to be able to prevent them from spinning uncontrolled.
Newer forms of activism are more adaptable and make full use of social media, whereas a few of the long-standing organizations are disappearing because of the country’s conservative flip and lack of international funding. More than 70 people, about 60 % based in Russia, attended the convention, and every of the six virtual roundtables introduced together between 35 and forty five participants.
The following part focuses on the tumultuous transition interval and temporary second of sexual revolution and liberation within the Nineteen Nineties, when discourse about intercourse, sexuality and gender was opened. Because of time constraints, the convention discussions needed to omit a wide range of problems present within feminism and activism, however did touch on the difficult relationship between the 2. It is not any secret that regardless of a current resurgence of curiosity in feminism, the word itself has negative connotations in Russia, and female activists usually draw back from that label, even if their sensible work reflects feminist ideas. Still, as lots of the conference individuals emphasised, the important thing to success lies in solidarity, including solidarity across gender divides and ideological strains. One can argue that it is time for feminine activists to embrace feminism, for men to turn out to be true allies in pursuit of women’s rights, and for feminists to affix the fight for wider social change. One speaker relied on her huge sensible expertise in human rights advocacy to conclude that it is, unfortunately, an unsafe endeavor in some parts of Russia, particularly in Chechnya.
It is Saturday night and we’re nearing the end of a foreign-pleasant pace dating session in a central Moscow restaurant. Roughly twenty women and men have paid 1,500 rubles ($19) to satisfy a possible new love interest.
There is a widespread notion of inequality as a norm in Russia, so much so that ladies in the workforce may not even discover discrimination. Another speaker, a politician, disagreed with the educational perspective, arguing that students concentrate on determination-making bodies which are ornamental in nature (“made of papier-mâché”) and that a formalized strategy to studying politics overlooks the actual dynamic. Much of Russian politics and economic system is casual, and necessary choices typically are made outdoors formal establishments, in spaces that exclude women—corresponding to in males’s restrooms and saunas or on hunting and fishing journeys. In reflecting on the post-Soviet experience of activism, individuals known as for the solidarity of Russian women and the solidarity of Russian civil society organizations that may transcend a ladies’s or feminist movement. The coercive orientation of Russia’s political regime and efforts by conservative forces create a context by which such solidarity is completely important. In right now’s Russia, feminist activism varies relying on organization kind and how the different organizations deploy technology to realize their targets.
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Articles > Reviews > Brave: A Tale of Bears, Conflict and Needlework
by Chartreuse 15/8/2012 9.31
Brave opened at my local mutliplex in one of the two big screens to an audience of some two dozen, mostly occupying the premium seats so clearly with expectations of the extra outlay being worth the comfort and optimum viewing position.
The engagement with the story by the boys in auditorium indicated that, although there is clear evidence of girl power, they did not regard it as a chickflick. Regardless of the medieval setting, the heroine is a modern, bow-and-arrow wielding, hard-riding, spirited, teen red-head whose wild mane is a tribute to CGI.
Brave clan chieftain Fergus loses a leg to fearsome bear Mor'du while protecting his queen, Elinor, and little daughter, Princess Merida. Fergus dines off the story thereafter, living in expectation of revenge one way or the other. The years pass in a collage of princess diaries of days spent being groomed by the queen for a royal wife-time of decorum, tapestry, and diplomacy, interspersed with solo gallops into freedom across the picturesque Scottish highlands, archery, climbing and lapses into ladetteishness.
The uneasy truce between Merida's desire for liberty and the obligations imposed by her birth is tested when princes from the three allied clans arrive to sue for her hand. At the moment of truth, conflict violently erupts between Merida and her mother and the clan alliance is under threat. The princess flees into the unknown depths of the forest and stumbles upon a circle of standing stones. From there, supernatural guides lead her to a witch and a spell to change her mother and her fate.
The charm takes unexpected effect. Her mother is now a bear in a fortress with an army trained for ursine extermination and with a 48-hour sell by date on her chance of returning to humanity. The princess must call on all the of the skills she has learned to save her mother and the alliance. With the return of Mor'du, the queen learns there is a place for decorum and a time to liberate the animal within.
The story gives examples of what it means to be brave. The king has physical courage; each of the chieftains is a brave, a warrior; the queen has the courage of her convictions; Merida is fearless and reckless but only under test does she learn moral courage demonstrated in her maiden speech to the clan alliance, amusingly part-teleprompted by her mother. From the pen of writer/animator Brenda Chapman this is fairytale with a difference: no prince, no hero, no man of the moment to save the day; no helpful comic side-kick. A far more emotionally truthful story emerges than the usual Disney fare.
My movie buddy was reminded of Bend It Like Beckham, where a daughter's aspirations are supported by her father and challenged by her mother. Both films depict the classic conflict of a parent attempting to impose on their offspring the same expectations they themselves experienced growing up and meeting with rebellion.
Comic highlights include urchinous, ginger, curly-mopped, cake-obsessed, triplet mini prince brothers to Merida, table manners and fishing for bears, and the witch's voicemail message with menu options.
health and safety for cauldron bleu
diplomacy and misdirection
how to heal a rift and to be careful what you wish for.
Kelly Macdonald (heroine Evangeline in (Nannie Macphee) gives a passionate and lively performance as Merida, Emma Thomson brings a mystified love and tried patience to the voice of the queen, Julie Walters is the wily witch and only Billy Connolly could supply the bluff, exuberant Fergus. Patrick Doyle offers an enchanting score as well as his vocal role.
The film is dedicated to Steve Jobs who bought Pixar and gave it the mission statement of excellence, visible in water and mountains so realistic at first they seem like real footage and in a team rising to the challenge of depicting the fall and movement of fabric. Pixar's efforts on this occasion were well received. The audience rose happy and refreshed and left in an emotional buzz of satisfaction. Do sit through the credits. You will be rewarded.
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HomeWhat on Earth?10 Worlds Most Bizarre Creatures
10 Worlds Most Bizarre Creatures
By Ben What on Earth? 15 Comments
Check out our top 10 most bizarre creatures from around the world. Forget cats, dogs, lions and bears, mother nature must have really indulged in her creative side when it came to these weird and wonderful beasties!
Hairy Crab
Wouldn’t it be great if you could detoxify the air around you, removing pollution and poisons? That’s exactly what the ‘hairs’ that this crab is named for do. The ‘hair’ which is actually setae acts as i filter and removes damaging poisons and chemicals from the water surrounding the Hairy Crab. This ability is especially important to the blind Hairy Crab as it is known to make its home in some of the most inhospitable environments.
The Olm is a fascinating example of an amphibian that makes its home in the waters of Europe. This bizarre creature can only be found in the deepest, darkest waters and relies on none of the traditional senses we humans are used to such as sight or hearing. The Olm feeds on small invertebrates and it receptive to chemical and electrical signals which it uses to find and identify prey. The Olm is sometimes known as the ‘human fish’ because of its coloration and was sometimes referred to as a ‘baby dragon’ in years past.
Assassin Spider
Is it a spider? Or is it a giraffe? Look at its neck! The Assassin Spider (above) is indeed a truly bizarre specimen. The Assassin Spider sports a long neck which is needed to provide leverage due to its massive jaws which is uses to expertly catch and assassinate its prey.
Blanket Octopus
The Blanket Octopus is a truly remarkable sight. This unique octopus is able to open its tentacles to reveal a thin colorful membrane which spreads out like a ‘blanket’, this is done to make the Blanket Octopus look bigger and ward away predators. The being said, only the female of the species has this ability compared to the male which is tiny ( max 3cm). The female of the species is certainly the more spectacular and can grow up to 2 meters in length.
Leafy Sea Dragon
The Leafy Sea Dragon is a master of camouflage and spends its days drifting through the water perfectly emulating a floating piece of seaweed. The Leafy Sea Dragon gos to great lengths to stay camouflaged such as traveling extremely slow as to not give itself away. Like its closest relatives the sea horses, the male Leafy Sea Dragon carries fertilized eggs until they are ready to hatch.
Blobfish
Although the enigmatic Blobfish is rarely seen above water alive its still one of our favorite creatures and definitely a prime candidate for the worlds most bizarre creatures. The Blobfish doesn’t really do much… content to float in place and wait for food to stumble upon it, the Blobfish is a true opportunist. This type of lifestyle works well for the Blobfish as it means the Blobfish is able to survive on small amounts of food due to the lack of exertion in its life.
Hatchetfish
This small fish spends its entire life in the darkest parts of the worlds oceans hidden from prying eyes. The Hatchetfish may not seem spectacular at first sight however the Hatchetfish is actually a light source in the deep, dark oceans it calls home. The Hatchetfish has organs in its sides called photophores which can be ‘turned on’ to give out a glow similar to that of an led light. The Hatchetfish uses this ability to attract unsuspecting prey and will do the opposite to evade predators.
Hemeroplanes Caterpillar
I know the picture looks like a snake but i assure you this is 100% a caterpillar. Infact that is the entire point of the Hemeroplanes Caterpillar, this master of camouflage has a very uniwue defense mechanism in that it can do a very good impression of a pit viper. If the Hemeroplanes Caterpillar feels threatened it will raise the top half of its body from the surface and inflate to resemble a pit viper – this crafty caterpillar even emulates a lunging motion giving the impression its about to strike!
Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko
So far we’ve had numerous masters of camouflage in this list but the Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko really deserves the number one spot for being bizarre – just look at it! Could there ever be a more accurate representation of a crusty dead leaf? I don’t think so. Like so many wonderful and bizarre creatures the Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko is a product of Madagascar and can not be found anywhere else… you probably wouldn’t notice it anyway!
So there we have it, our top 10 worlds most bizarre animals! granted it seems most of the worlds bizarre creatures reside in the worlds oceans. Let us know if you’re lucky enough to have a first hand experience with any of these masterpieces of nature!
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BLOB FISH IS KEWL :) i want 1 as a pet LOL
haahah youll want one until you have to clean up all the slive it produces
good luck getting one
Yay!! It got Olms! I love Olms! I saw an Olm!! At a center though. It so cool they can live without food for ten years!!
I went deepsea fishing off the coast of Wellington New Zealand and had several odd creature encounters. It was awesome!
That blanket octupuss is so amazing I wanna se one in person!
I shall get myself a blaket octopus to make my blanket
The blanket octopus is weird
WOW!!!! Those are some STRANGE creatures. ya know, i actually thought that the sea dragon and blanket octopus were pretty cute!!!
oMg. They all look soooooo gross!!!! lOl. Especially that human they call a blob fish!!
the blob fish looks like a booger
Those are way cool! my favorite’s the caterpillar. Someone in my class said that the site got it wrong that it actually is a snake! (clever caterpillar)
i hate that blobfish it is gross. i love that site its interesting
it is so strange and cool but i like it
love the photos, but you really could use an editor or proofreader.
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A Cannibal in the Dumpster
September 8, 2019 | 16 Comments
Ascan Pinckernelle
“So (Max) Raphael’s answer to Marx’s problem — why is art enduringly moving even though it merely reflects its social context? — is to say that art doesn’t merely reflect its social context. It does reflect it, because the artist’s material, style, the things they want to represent, even the way they see, are historically conditioned; but it doesn’t merely reflect it, because the transformed material speaks of something deeper and more voluntary. It speaks of humanity’s ability to make its own world, to become the subject and not merely the victim of history.”
Robert Minto (Culture Matters, January 2017 A smuggling operation: John Berger’s theory of art)
“A man’s features, the bone structure and the tissue which covers it, are the product of a biological process; but his face he creates for himself. It is a statement of his habitual emotional attitude; the attitude which his desires need for their fulfilment and which his fears demand for their protection from prying eyes. He wears it like a devil mask; a device to evoke in others the emotions complementary to his own.”
Eric Ambler (The Mask of Dimitrios)
“Since I was a child, I have never liked looking at wax figures. They looked somewhat creepy to me. At that time, electronic prosthetic hands were being developed, and they triggered in me the same kind of sensation.”
Masahiro Mori (interview, IEEE Spectrum 2012)
“And Satan there
Coasting the wall of Heav’n on this side Night
In the dun Air sublime, and ready now
To stoop with wearied wings, and willing feet
On the bare outside of this World.
that seem’d Firm land imbosom’d without firmament”
John Milton (Paradise Lost)
I wanted to start with theatre, and with how I believe theatre is the ur-art medium. Most people will off-handedly assume theatre was born out of religious ceremony. I think the opposite is true. And I want to quote a beautiful article by John Berger on the cave paintings at Chauvet.
“For nomads the notion of past and future is perhaps subservient to the experience of elsewhere. Something that has gone, or is awaited, is hidden elsewhere in another place. For both hunters and hunted hiding well is the precondition for survival. Life depends upon finding cover. Everything hides. What has vanished has gone into hiding. An absence – as after the departure of the dead – is felt as a loss but not as an abandonment. The dead are hiding elsewhere. ( ) The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years. We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. “
John Berger (Portraits)
Evol (Stencil graffiti on utility box, Germany).
Berger captures something of what life was like for a society of arrival. Alone in a world dominated and ruled, really, by animals. But I think he is wrong to assume (though he seems not terribly interested in this) that these cave painters were shamanistic in some fashion or other. I think art came before religion. In one way they are much the same. But these cave painters who came to draw in charcoal, and drew almost entirely animals, suggest nothing religious. They do seem to be asking questions, or not even questions, but they seem to working out what they are, and where they are. But every description of these ancestors seems loaded and wrong. They did not draw when they were hungry. They drew when they had the time to do so. It was likely important. How many came and covered these walls? Or at Lascaux (a full twelve thousand years later) or any of the sites so far found that contain ancient drawings or paintings or carvings. No architecture, no agriculture, but music and art. And the artworks in any of these caves are investigations of space, firstly. Berger knows this. In the darkness (and the earth must have been very dark at night, then) they reflected on themselves, and on others. They watched their children. They watched some die. Nobody lived terribly long. But then nobody knows really. And in the darkness of the night cave they considered themselves. How they came to be adults. And in those reflections were early personal memories. Whatever those memories looked like, they were part of what was drawn on the cave walls.
And fear must have permeated everything. But I suspect their fear was quite different than modern fear.
“Apparently art did not begin clumsily. The eyes and hands of the first painters and engravers were as fine as any that came later. There was a grace from the start. This is the mystery, isn’t it?”
Mathew Brandt, photography.
And it was quiet. Dark and silent. And they drew. And if they drew an animal they had seen or hunted earlier that day, or week (and of course there is no way to know how they experienced time, a past or a future) this drawing was both replicating what they had seen…it was a memory…and, it was something else. It was a drawing OF a memory. They had a lot of time to sit and consider how they remembered what they did.
My point is that as they drew, and as they returned to the caves to draw more, or others came to draw, too, there was a sense that these walls were reflecting something of how they navigated the world. And maybe they drew together, in small groups. There must have been conversations and music, at times, and some drawings were preferred and the places where they decorated …often with red dots…might have signaled a group agreement. Was there anything like consensus in these matters? I doubt it, but there was something perhaps vaguely like that. And they saw themselves in the spaces of these drawings. They had a viewpoint. And that viewpoint was a kind of ur-subjectivity. And I would think the music, and a lack of urgent hunger, and something like celebration, fueled discussions. And from such small gatherings, in these caves, came the first story. The first story told to others. And maybe it was a communally created story. But it was theatre. And more important it was theatre space. And it was subjective space made material. Made concrete but never not symbolic, either. There is little indication of inter-communal violence. They had story, and they performed their stories… in some fashion. And they drew horses and bears. And they remembered deaths. And death became something enclosed within this new space of mind.
Mark Salvatus
Nothing suggests to me a deity created from this. Maybe there was, but what did that mean to these cave painters? They had story and memory. And in these memories were births and death and sex. There are some drawings in remote corners of these caves, nearly impossible to reach, that must be crawled to, and illuminated with torch. Why were drawings made in such difficult to access places? Again the first ready answer is religious but I don’t accept that. I don’t think the idea of offerings appeared until a priest class appeared.
“These rock paintings were made where they were so that they might exist in the dark. They were for the dark. They were hidden in the dark so that what they embodied would outlast everything visible, and promise, perhaps, survival.”
John Berger (Guardian, Oct 2002)
Now when I imagine the evolution of such things I think that the more complex stories became, and with alphabets and writing, the less direct were the stories, and the more distant — in a sense– was the space. It is like a stencil of character and language and ritual came to be overlaid on the primal space of the first drawing and first person who drew. And this stencil, then, is related to the mask. For the mask is essential to the beginnings of theatre. The essentials, the eyes, are visible in most masks (though not nearly all and that is worth discussing) and children instinctively love masks. One of the chestnuts usually tossed around when the topic of masks is introduced is that wearing a mask allows freedom from who you are. That by wearing a mask one can feel less inhibited. But the opposite is the truth. One must become more who one is when wearing a mask. In terms of theatre the mask encloses character and also hides it, or obscures it. This is the paradox Artaud introduced, that only in that moment of naked terror on stage does the actor truly learn himself. The mask reveals, it doesn’t hide.
Allen McCollum, in collaboration with Museo Universitario Autonoma de Baja Calif.Mt. Signal .
There is always another mask beneath the first mask. At the end of this process is the cave wall. The mask is like the stencil, then, and the stencil was among the very first techniques used by those early cave dwellers. They, in theory, sprayed pigment from their mouth around their hand which was against the cave wall. The result was the negative image of the hand. Voodoo (and Vodun, or Sanse) employs the spraying of pigment, too, somewhat interestingly.
The space of the stage, which is always shrouded in darkness, an island in the dark, is also linked to grottos and caves. The storytellers use masks. Ancient Greek tragedy was, of course, entirely performed in masks. The island that is the stage is one in which everyone is always wearing a mask, even if that mask is one disguised as the actor who has taken off his mask.
My point here is that whatever the motivations of those Cro Magnon cave artists (if we can even use that word) there was an acute attention and intention to what they drew (Halverson points out that most the animals depicted are those that can be eaten. There are few drawings of animals that might eat the artist). And it is important to note that Altamira and Lascaux were the Sistine Chapels of preshitoric art, and that most of what has been discovered is closer to cartoon doodling. There is, as a final note here, a theory now from linguist Shigeru Miyagawa that echoes some of Leroi-Gourhan’s ideas about cave art and the development of language and writing. Miyagawa’s paper suggests that cave acoustics played a predominant role in where the drawings were made.
“We take up the topic of cave art and archeoacoustics, particularly the discovery that cave art is often closely connected to the acoustic properties of the cave chambers in which it is found. Apparently, early modern humans were able to detect the way sound reverberated in these chambers, and they painted artwork on surfaces that were acoustic “hot spots,” i.e., suitable for generating echoes. We argue that cave art is a form of cross-modality information transfer, in which acoustic signals are transformed into symbolic visual representations. This form of information transfer across modalities is an instance of how the symbolic mind of early modern humans was taking shape into concrete, externalized language. We also suggest that the earliest rock art found in Africa may constitute one of the first fossilized proxies for the expression of full-fledged human linguistic behavior.”
Miyagawa et al (Cross-Modality Information Transfer: A Hypothesis about the Relationship among Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Symbolic Thinking, and the Emergence of Language)
Randa Mdah
Interestingly the quietest spots in the caves are where cats were drawn. And this also, perhaps, suggests why those remote hard to access locations were sites of elaborate drawings.
So this acute attention on the part of those early cave painters is of some importance in an age of degraded attention. If the cyber universe and social media are having deleterious effects on humanity, but especially on the young, then one aspect of this harm is a increasing inability to concentrate, or rather, maybe, to concentrate in ways that produce new ideas or inspiration.
“Many rock art images saliently exhibit features which, at least according to the views held in European cultures, are expressive of aesthetic values such as proportion, quality of line, narrativity, etc., and it is likely that those who made the images paid attention to these values if we find them expressed there.”
Thomas Heyd and John Clegg (Re-Thinking Aesthetics and Rock Art, Rock Art Society of India 2004)
“Art historians with a social or Marxist formation have interpreted the art of the past in terms of class ideology. They have shown that a class, or groups in a class, tended to support and patronise art which to some degree reflected or furthered their own class values and views. It now appears that in the later stages of capitalism this has ceased to be generally true. Art is treated as a commodity whose meaning lies only in its rarity value and in its functional value as a stimulant. “functional value as a stimulant of sensation. It ceases to have implications beyond itself. Works of art become objects whose essential character is like that of diamonds or sun-tan lamps. The determining factor of this development – internationalism of monopoly, powers of mass-media communication, level of alienation in consumer societies – need not concern us here. But the consequence does. Art can no longer oppose what is. The faculty of proposing an alternative reality has been reduced to the faculty of designing – more or less well – an object.”
John Berger (Landscapes)
Jan Van Eyck (detail; Annunciation Deptych, 1435).
The Berger quote just above is from a chapter devoted to art critic Max Raphael. And in it Berger notes something relevant to cave paintings and that is the dislocation of space.
“To create pictorial space is to penetrate not only into the depths of the picture but also into the depths of our intellectual system of co-ordinates (which matches that of the world). Depth of space is depth of essence or else it is nothing but appearance and illusion.”
Max Raphael (quoted in Berger’s Landscapes)
Meaningful art is that which disrupts certain continuities (per Raphael) that are assumed. I suggest this has become almost anachronistic today. Partly because the role of cyber conditioning is such that I am no longer sure a majority of the western bourgeoisie have any sense of continuity. Nor of memory, per se. I happened upon the old Maytag commercial (with Jesse White)…the ‘loneliest person …a Maytag washing machine repairman’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJ0rAyE_mQ
One would guess this commercial is too complex for today. Too much is only suggested.
Martine Franck, photography.
Still, I want to return to theatre here for a moment. I think it is not accidental that theatre has been so downgraded today (certainly in the U.S.), put in the hands of bureaucrats and administrators. And that the plays receiving validation are both regressive in form, and reactionary in content. And this means a more broad look at the notion of entertainment, and amusement. Now, Peter Meineck has a fascinating book on Greek Theatre (Theatrocracy: Greek Drama, Cognition, and the Imperative for Theatre) and points out the effects of open air theatre. And when we first started the Padua Hills Festival in the foothills above Claremont California, I think all involved were aware of what Meineck describes. And there are differences in performing in open air spaces at night and during the day. None of this contradicts at all the notions of an ur-cave or island in the darkness. Padua created islands in the desert.
“…the Greek word for mask (and face) was prósōpon, which means something like “before the gaze,” and this reflects the mask’s capabilities in acting as an effective material anchor for the projection of a variety of powerful emotional states.”
Peter Meineck (ibid)
Paul Klee (hand puppets made for his son).
It is a personal validation for me to read Meineck’s discussion of masks. For this has been a subject much distorted by academic historians. The mask was never about amplifying the voice, or allowing for the doubling of roles, nor did it in any way minimize the emotional and empathic response of the audience. Quite the opposite in fact.
“…I proposed that theatre is a kind of mimetic mind in that it works because it re-creates and represents the cognitive processes of its audiences. The way in which dramatists create theatrical worlds on stage is an enacted replica of the generative predictive model, where our attention is focused on visual or aural information that builds a cognitive picture of a scene.
Like the ambiguous mask, less is very often more in the surrogate environment of the theatre, as our evaluative systems need only the merest of information to start to actively generate the inferences we need to make sense of what we are experiencing.”
Murray Mednick used to say, theatre is a form of thinking. It is also the re-creation of a primal space in which our first developmental steps are taken as infants. The primal scene is the formation of our subjectivity. There is an interesting sort of side bar discussion Meineck has in a chapter on empathy and mimesis. The term “emotional contagion” is used. And a Facebook survey is even mentioned. I will only add here that the alarmism of much journalism today, especially regards climate change, is spreading an emotional contagion. The veracity or not of said topic is subsumed by the spreading of this contagion. What Reich called, in another context, the ’emotional plague’. Now, the enduring danger that theatre represents to the authority structure, has eroded but not disappeared. The danger is simply built into the elements of a stage space. And the key is this idea of *space*, or perhaps more precisely *place*. But place means both image and text. Theatre itself means going to watch place. It is worth mentioning at this point Masahiro Mori’s idea of the *uncanny valley* (and that essay is finally, several decades late, available in English here…https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley )
There are elements in Mori’s essay that are perilously close to Von Kleist’s famous essay on marionette theatre from the 18th century. What is telling about Mori’s theory is that the Spectacle has been normalizing this form of uncanniness now for thirty years, Id say. It was Plato who warned of a government of spectators.
Zhang Xiao, photography.
The normalizing has been with respect not just to image but to computer generated voices. It is a society increasingly conditioned to accept technological uncanniness, to even desire it. The erosion of the ability to read faces, to process the micro expressions of the human face is documented.
“Difficulty decoding the emotional signals generated by the face is one of the major indicators for people on the autism spectrum, and it can be incredibly socially debilitating. As much as humans depend on facial processing to try to comprehend the thoughts and emotional states of others, a significant marker of normal cognitive development is our ability to display emotions that contradict our true emotional state. To know just the right time to feign a frown or a smile is a crucial part of normal human social interaction. This is a basic aspect of mind/body dissociation connected with Theory of Mind and empathy.”
People have come to more and more expect and prefer cartoon versions of everything, not just faces. Schematic renderings of famous people are recognized more readily than photographs of that same celebrity. And this is to be expected, but more disturbingly the cartoon or schematic is preferred now in narrative and in image. Complexity in all respects is eschewed and viewed negatively. This ties into the flaws (which should be obvious) with facial recognition technology. And the only reason that technology works at all is because people increasingly act and appear like robots.
Xanti Schawinsky
And of course the lost face of the parent. Lost or frozen. The face of inattention. The inattention is connected on a sort of primary level with loss of empathy. And here, again, art reflects much of this. And entertainment. And the loss of intentionality. And here I might note Derrida’s influence, mostly bad, in which intention is simply discarded during critical analysis of the text. The word. And without digressing too much here, I think the loss of intentionality is entwined with a bad faith elevation of chance as an aesthetic strategy. The reverence for virtuosity that claimed preeminence mid 20th century, the philistinism of post WW2 America gave way to a kind of contempt for craft and certainly a disdain for seriousness.
Now, returning to theatre, and to the stage, I was reminded of T.J. Clark’s analysis of Jackson Pollock. I don’t think anyone ever wrote as beautifully or correctly about Pollock. (see Farewell to an Idea). But one point he made was that Pollock worked incessantly against metaphor. And without getting into this in any detail one point Clark made was that it wasn’t just the abstraction. For…to quote Clark…“A painting could very well be purged of all traces and afterimages of likeness, in the way Fried celebrates, and still not do the work
against metaphor I have just been describing. We could have – I think we do have – a strictly “optical,” anti-figurative abstract painting which all the same stood in a reiterative relation to the imaginary orders of a world we think we know. An inert relation, Pollock would reckon. A relation to Nature, for instance, in which nothing of that dismal category was put under pressure.”
This is important. For, firstly, everything has a narrative. And second, it is the careful intentionality of Pollock that creates this terrifying truth. It is why to stand before a major Pollock means something. There is a clear intuition in the viewer (to quote Clark again) “that it so resists a viewer’s effort to have it be like even the modes and qualities of a mineral or vegetable world.” Nature is reached by its removal. It is a terrible sort of power to achieve that (which is why Clark quotes Milton on that page).
Reijiro Wada
“In the 1950 paintings, Adorno might say, the poles of metaphor tend to split apart and simplify. On the one hand, the figures of dissonance become schematic, black and white: dissonance recognizes itself as mimesis, as handwriting, as theater of some sort: it is extracted from the mix of sensuousness. Number 32, 1950 is the prime example. And on the other, Nature returns – Lavender Mist, Autumn Rhythm, One – metaphors whose very breathing completeness carries within it the sign of a practice coming to an end.”
T.J. Clark (Ibid)
Handwriting, just as the paintings at Chauvet or Lascaux. Clark wrestles with Abstract Expressionism, even as he steadfastly defends it. And the defense is really summarized in the sentences below.
“What remains to be thought about Abstract Expressionism, (though the thought haunts everything written on the subject, especially those texts most anxious to repress it) is the painting’s place in a determinate class formation.”
(ibid)
Clark also notes that the strongest readings of Pollock came from gay men. Frank O’Hara and Beaton and Parker Tyler. It is an interesting observation. That somewhere in this clear potency of Ab Ex work is a homoerotic hero worship. Perhaps. Now I think there is another aspect to what Clark is saying regards Pollock (in particular). And which others noted, too (Parker Tyler for one). And that is that for all the sexual energy in his work, there is an immutable sense of death. And that is what happens when Nature is removed. Consciously removed from any cultural expression. And I should note here my fondness for Louise Nevelson’s work. For Nevelson is the most funereal of artists. Her work is formally about ends and loss. Or, more, about funerals exactly. Pollock’s is not. But death haunts his work. And this is not biographical projection I don’t think. But whatever one thinks regarding the absent metaphor in Pollock, the theatre of the modern era has had only a bare handful of really important artists. And all of them are working to find their way to place of our psychic formation, but also to the history of our social formation. And this relates to Clark on Ab Ex and its determinate class formation.
Ighogho masquerade, Benin City, Nigeria. (maybe the 1970s)
Genet, Handke, Pinter, Bernhard, and Beckett are certainly the first tier of importance. There are a number in the second tier; Kantor, Muller, and Brecht. And its likely any of those …and probably Brecht…belong in the first tier (or as Andrew Sarris used to put it, the pantheon). But I am speaking specifically about theatre. Handke is a great novelist, Genet, too, Brecht a great poet, and so forth. But theatre is different. There are few works or performances that are not tainted with either the specter of film, or the shadow of entertainment. And worst, the naturalism of representation. But theatre is a textual form in my opinion. It does not exist without speech spoken aloud. Recitation, and here the repetition complex found in much modernist painting is mirrored in theatrical performance. There are a dozen very smart playwrights who have ideas and facility. David Hare is a consummate theatre technician and a writer of great almost unimpeachable clarity. But his plays are bourgeois in form, regardless if the content is not. Look at The Screens, or Kaspar Hauser. Or The Homecoming. They are finally plays both about themselves as theatre (meaning, much as Clark imagined Adorno talking about Pollock and mimesis, there is a difficult or perhaps impossible balance between resisting bourgeois-ification, and metaphor — the search for reconciliation which cannot be found, finally). But the impossible is not the same as failure or valueless. That recognition itself is a rejection of capitalism.
The best, or among the best productions of Shakespeare I ever saw was a Junior High production of Comedy of Errors. While that’s a glib comment, I mean it sincerely. It was much edited down but done with perfect sincerity and great commitment. It was also barely *acted*. It was more or less recited, but recited with young voices and without commentary. This is the conundrum, or paradox of western art overall since the Enlightenment. The representation of the world as overcoming, or as defeat. We don’t have the same set of problems with Dante or Shakespeare. The point I am struggling to get at is one that is illuminated by a close reading of those ancient cave paintings, and one being foreclosed by contemporary western society. The Capitalist cyber system of domination and erasure.
A Party for Boris, by Thomas Bernhard. Teamtheater Munchen 2000.
“This Derridean vision of ‘arche-writing’ encourages one to react to any linguistic message, indeed to each part of it, as one would to a scrap of paper found on the street…”
Louis Sass (Madness and modernism : insanity in the light of modern art, literature, and thought.)
Even a conservative such as Ortega y Gasset could write of a tendency in modernism that would end in merely the ironic. And this because of a growing chasm between experience and solipsistic narcissism. It is possible, then, too to look at theatre, and all arts today, in the terms that Tarfuri set for architecture. In fact the final endgame for architecture under Capitalism was the Seagram’s Building of Mies Van der Rohe. It encapsulated the frozen death grip of capital and expressed the (perhaps) final logical cul de sac for architects today. Only a revolution could actually change architecture.
375 Park Ave. (Seagrams Building) Mies Van der Rohe, architect.
It would be useful to look up Van der Rohe’s first commission, a house for philosopher Alois Riehl and his wife. Built in 1907 in Germany. Given the location and dates you would be right (and given, too, Van der Rohe’s nose for the prevailing winds) to see something vaguely volkish, homey and mock modest — crossed out with a dash of vaguely modernistic utility, and all with a quality of the super hygienic. In 1910 he submitted drawing in a competition to design the Bismark monument –or the buildings which would surround the portrait of Bismark. Van der Rohe’s entry is frighteningly Nazi like, and perfectly in keeping with a mythical volkish sensibility that I wrote about here…
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/23/a-new-volkisch-mythos/
The sensibility of the Bismark entry is, beyond the Berghof affect, a strange bit of self satisfaction. But then the fascist ethos is always self congratulatory. So Tafuri is right, basically. And if extrapolated out from architecture, the Seagram’s building becomes to architecture what Ayn Rand is to literature, or Frank Capra to film. And that’s no doubt unfair to Capra. Think perhaps John Ford, because after all the Seagram’s building is not hack work. Its a remarkable piece of architecture and in some ways, despite the accompanying shudder, it looks better today than a century and a quarter ago. The seemingly indestructible imperishable and nearly omnipresent sense of fascist style today, a style carried forward from the 1890s probably, is testament to something that has dulled the soul, has incessantly traumatized society and left lingering suppurating wounds. The logic of Seagrams is the logic of facebook, finally. And it is the logic of Joe McCarthy, Boris Johnson, or Trump. Trump tower is only the 3rd generation dupe of Seagrams.
And this loss of intention and concern for what one creates is expressed also in the identitarian solipsistic hubris and navel gazing of probably 80% of what MFA programs turn out in fine arts and theatre. Lucian Smith is pretty much the same as Rachel Kushner or Yazmina Reza. The dialectical posturing of feigned hate; fashion designers boycotting fashion week because the location is owned by a Trump supporter. Vera Wang and Michael Kors and whoever are already cannibalising the carcasses of whatever lies in the dumpster behind Mar a lago.
Mauro Piva
“It should be stated immediately that I do not believe it to be by mere chance that many of the new and recent ideas on architecture have been gleaned from an accurate reexamination of the origins of the historical avant-garde movements. Going back to these origins, situated precisely in that period when bourgeois ideology and intellectual anticipation were intimately connected, the entire cycle of modern architecture can be viewed as a unitary development. This makes it possible to consider globally the formation of architectural ideologies and, in particular, their implications for the city.”
Manfredo Tafuri (Architecture and Utopia)
This is also true of political formations. Ideology is always political but the unitary development of fascism, as it is seen growing today, again, is connected to the Berghof or Villa Torlonia, and then extends back to the Roman Senate. I don’t know. The Apple campus in the shape of a flying saucer or hoola hoop. But there is a curious shift today as the ruling class now pay for the removal of electronic gadgets, they pay and express their privilege with conspicuous lack of consumption. Which is, needless to say, its own shell game, too. For they consume a great deal in not consuming conspicuously.
“When engaged in communication with another, the face is in a state of almost constant movement.”
Deborah Turbeville, photography (For Comme des Garcons perfume)
“But the prison, precisely because infinite, coincides with the space of human existence. This is very clearly indicated by the hermetic scenes Piranesi designs within the mesh of lines of his “impossible” compositions. Thus what we see in the Carceri is only the new existential condition of human collectivity, liberated and condemned at the same time by its own reason. And Piranesi translates into images not a reactionary criticism of the social promises of the Enlightenment, but a lucid prophecy of what society, liberated from the ancient values and their consequent restraints, will have to be. “
Manfredo Tafuri (ibid)
And Piranesi is then Thomas Bernard or Ionesco or Herbert Blau. For it was Blau who repeated so often the impossibility of theatre. And Piranesi is then to drawing and architecture what Sirk is to film.
The atrophy of human movement is related to screen harm and habituations. The atrophy is also a kind of distortion, for what movement remains is one that imitates robotics (the uncanny valley will soon not matter).
“What the neuroscience community is finding is that our cognitive abilities to imitate, learn, speak, understand, and empathize are linked to embodiment—our minds and our
bodies are connected in experiential cognition and we process the emotion of others through a system of “action representation.” Thus, “we ground our empathic resonance
in the experience of our acting body and the emotions associated with specific movements.” It follows that what I term “symporeia” or “collective movement” has a particular
role to play in human cognition and emotional intelligence, beyond its usual role of creating social cohesion and reinforcing group identity. In neural terms, movement is the essential interpersonal communicator of emotion and empathy.”
Peter Meineck (The Neuroscience of the Tragic Mask)
Peter Mitchell, photography.
The solipsism and political amnesia of what is conventionally labeled post modernism is, perhaps, just the effects of several generations of screen habituation, and the transformations in cognitive processing, the erosion of face to face communication, and the isolation of lives lived on the internet. That and a direct encouragement from the US government to promote the most a-political and vapid pretentious pseudo theory — largely French as it happens — to direct studies away from Marxism. And that, too, alongside the entertainment industry that promotes anti intellectualism on all fronts.
A final thought on the legacy of the Enlightenment. One definition of the Gothic or Supernatural (and I think this was Vijay Mishra, but it doesn’t matter really) was that it was an absence of structure. That this loss invites solutions of a magical sort. The loss of rational science that seemed to go alongside the embrace of postmodern thinking — if one agrees that it did — suggests that it was tending toward an allowance for magic and even a return of gothic fantasy. Its possible to see Harry Potter in this light. And the rise of a new faux Catholicism in Hollywood — from The Exorcist to the DaVinci Code. This is nostalgia for a certain ceremonial grandeur. This sensibility even bleeds into an explanation for the popularity of The Godfather (per last post). My point is only that as anti rationalism took hold over the last forty years, what I might call the NEW anti-rationalism, it found kitsch expression in Hollywood, but it also found traction in politics and fine arts. This extends, too, to new age practices, the Yoga studio and health food store. The de rationalization of the western white bourgeoisie is now a normative belief. And it often, if not usually, a casual magic. Magic offered as an aside. Americans, as Martha Rosler once said, prefer the fake. And they prefer the fake to normalize the loss of abilities to read and criticize culture. The deadly theatre (per Peter Brook) that now inhabits the stages of major regional theatres and equity houses in major cities of the U.S. is the identitarian pablum that safely puts one to sleep. The pulp Inquisitional gothic of Dan Brown et al is the flip side of this. And cutting through all of it is a sneaky worship of and nostalgia for royalty and the trappings of Victorian wealth, and for the ersatz romance of colonialism. An intellectual mechanism that also serves to neutralize the idea of cruelty as an evil. The loss of empathy and literacy is increasingly finding popular expression in period atrocities, lovingly re-recreated.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, photography.
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Molly Klein says:
That first quote makes me nuts. It’s the old Gambit where some one relying on a lib inodlcrinated audience unfamiliar with Marx attributes a dumb throwaway exaggeration of Heideggers or Nietzsche to Marx, then says Marx was wrong and then plagiarizes Marx stating the obvious as of he originated this thought, ascorrective. It was Marx who said men make their own history but in conditions inherited from the past. It’s Nietzsche heidegger and Schmitt and Hitler and goofballs everywhere who insist everybody but the aryan Supermen is a mere robot run by the historico- racial programme and nobody has had an original thought since the preSocratic Greeks. Marx was the ferocious opposite of a malthusian or benthamite while all these anarchoid aristos were crypto malthusian.
That said: The Herzog movie about Chauvet is beautiful and avoids attributing the Nazi hegelian schedule . it’s interesting to see the shift from the Chauvet perspectives and style to the panoramic becoming-cartograpohy of the later caves. tho this could also be atypical contrast of styles instead of indications of epochal change of mentality and aesthetics. But it certainly fits what we know what actually happening socially. A subtly transformed cosmology To bring individual consciouness up into relief as a rival principle …makes sense. A compelling guess.
Semi sequitur I’m noting the absence of Pirandello in the pantheon. Unexpected. Important but quite strange and feeling less resolutely modern than ambivalently antimodern, the true fascist schizy. Adorno detects this in all modernism — as Moretti reminded everyone the frankfurts saw modenism as symptom of, not negotiation with, something really awful whose ultimate form is fascism — but in Pirandello there is the overt populism as a theatrical duty that he shares with Brecht from opposite political conceptions , and which puts them both at an angle to the typical practises of absurdism which require and anticipate cultured educated audiences with social clout and conscious aesthetic programmes, subtended by lib democracy and capital. We can say Pirandello fails in his populism but we see him really try at the risk of genuinely putting off his elite audience , not in the pseudo offensiveness of titillation and naughtiness but just by losing their interest. Brecht still has the capacity to offend. in the Mahagonny revival at the Met in the 90s which was superbly sung and staged audience portions walked out huffily noisily in the middle of the performance . Pirandello still has the capacity to bore to death.
The theatre in the space and the nature of this space and Nazism/fascism…I was recently reading about Charlemagne — the “Father of Europe” — and this huge huge atrocity he committed in the Christianizing project that later became the mythohistoric form of grievance for Nazis. The massacre of the Saxon pagans at Verden and the destruction of their sacred tree and grove. (it occurred to me that this is the base material of Avatar via the Nazi mythofable). Charlemagne slaughtered 5-10k Saxons in one day. In the 20th century The SS met at the Sachsenhein the supposed site of this massacre, read as an ultramontane conquest ultimately due to the judiaziation of the Germanic tribes effected by the dupes of Jesus. Its striking me as funny and curious these parallel retreats to the sacred wood we also see in the theatre movements Blau chronicled and which Andre Gregory narrated very successfully with movie audiences in My Dinner With André, which tried to create a utopian de-tribalized and communistic return and ricorso of community and theatre. This Sachsenhein ritual spot is a kind of pendant of theatrical modernism , two reactions to the bourgeois theatre and the church as theatre, and now with Avatar and all this fascist product — the cgi unleashed its current form — it’s like the specialized spectacle place is reabsorbing the repudiated origin in an ersatz form, as canned commodified essence. It struck me that th last / latest real soap opera Downtown Abbey does this too… downtown Abbey the estate is two kinds of theatre, the Saxon grove druid scene as commodified Authenticity and the vaudeville/sitcom, fusing. This gives it is Nazi feel despite running all the traditional soap programme formulae which are classic liberal prog democratic populism. The cgi is the material means of the commodification of this sacred rival.space
I think that idea of Downtown Abbey as another example of this splitting (i mean i guess that is obvious… I don’t know) is very perceptive. In fact that show is splitting all the time, starting with the title and faux class analysis. But the style, the acting, is very carefully modulated. And I think this is not even conscious. Its actors sensing where to find their light. Now with Pirandello I guess I just find him tedious. I thought about Ionesco who likely deserves to be there. And Athol Fugard who does too. Fugard and that original troupe…zakes mokai (who I met and tried to get to do a play at the Taper…but alas I think he wasn’t well)…and John Kani and Winston Ntshona, that was remarkable work, and remarkably radical in form. You can even look at still photos of those performances and sense this.
I had some problems with Herzog, as I always do. But he fell into this (what I see as a) trap with suggesting a small shrine. Religious explanation is so deeply engrained in the West. It is just there, always. Oh it was a god…or a shrine…or a temple. I doubt this very strongly. Why would cave painting cro magnons invent shrines? What does that mean? but its a very facile way out of a conundrum. Herzog does it offhandedly because I suspect he knows its not really a very deep analysis. As for Chauvet and then 12 thousand years. …. that is so hard to think on. Its so hard to know….but they keep finding more caves and sites with early painting or drawing. And it starts to feel as if everywhere at once man…pre man…passed through this evolutionary portal….and everything changed. Humanity arrived. They entered stage left. I mean that is how it seems, all theatre.
As for that first quote….i think this is where we literally live in alternate universes. Ill leave it at that.
But Berger was certainly not a hegelian nazi. I do think its very very hard to talk about this cave art. The Leroi Gourhan stuff remains very useful I think. About gesture and speech. And how gesture is tied into cave art…and into the evolution of language and speech and text.
Molly R Klein says:
wait but WHERE did marx ever say art merely reflects its social context? he never said anything of the sort. he was very keen on art and sensitive to it. It’s just false. Nieizsche and Heidegger and all these crazies said shit like that but Marx never did.
about Herziog i guess i ignored that i was so mesmerized.
Marx just repeatedl described the social relations of class society that suppress art and limit (as well as enable) and impact art and wanted to liberate everyone from the division of labour that excluded most people from art and everything else the flourishing human is capable of:
“The exclusive concentration of artistic talent in particular individuals, and its suppression in the broad mass which is bound up with this, is a consequence of division of labour. Even if in certain social conditions, everyone were an excellent painter, that would by no means exclude the possibility of each of them being also an original painter, so that here too the difference between “human” and “unique” labour amounts to sheer nonsense. In any case, with a communist organisation of society. there disappears the subordination of the artist to local and national narrowness, which arises entirely from division of labour, and also the subordination of the individual to some definite art, making him exclusively a painter, sculptor, etc.; the very name amply expresses the narrowness of his professional development and his dependence on division of labour. In a communist society there are no painters but only people who engage in painting among other activities.” (Grundrisse)
ok, I mean I stipulate that Minto is a moron. But this is a bit of letter of the law vs spirit of the law. The import of that quote is obvious. So yeah, duly noted. If nothing else strike the word merely. Here is the article in its entirety https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/contributors/itemlist/user/693-robertminto
And marx said a lot about art, over the course of his life, much of it contradictory.
“It follows from what has been said that the designation of labour as productive labour has absolutely nothing to do with the determinate content of the labour, its special utility, or the particular use-value in which it manifests itself.
The same kind of labour may be productive or unproductive.
For example Milton, who wrote Paradise Lost for five pounds, was an unproductive labourer. On the other hand, the writer who turns out stuff for his publisher in factory style, is a productive labourer. Milton produced Paradise Lost for the same reason that a silk worm produces silk. It was an activity of his nature. Later he sold the product for £5. But the literary proletarian of Leipzig, who fabricates books (for example, Compendia of Economics) under the direction of his publisher, is a productive labourer; for his product is from the outset subsumed under capital, and comes into being only for the purpose of increasing that capital. A singer who sells her song for her own account is an unproductive labourer. But the same singer commissioned by an entrepreneur to sing in order to make money for him is a productive labourer; for she produces capital. Theory of Surplus Value, addenda.
And the point is that art transcends the social context in which it was made. And in some cases that is strangely inexplicable and in others sort of banal.
But he’s saying productive of capital for a capitalist not of use values.
He takes the example of Milton to emphasize how odious and criminal and evil and deadly is the mindset of political economy and capital. Because everybody knows Paradise Lost is a masterpiece that enriches all humanity
It’s an essay explaining what polieconAdam Smith abshis kind meant by “productive labor” and how evil and poisonous their system is: ” labour is only an abbreviated expression for the whole relation, and the manner in which labour capacity and labour figure in the capitalist production process. Hence if we speak of productive labour, we speak of socially determined labour, labour which implies a very definite relation between its buyer and its seller. Productive labour is exchanged directly for money as capital, i.e. for money which is in itself capital, has the quality of functioning as capital, and confronts labour capacity as capital. Productive labour is therefore labour which for the worker only reproduces the previously posited value of his labour capacity; but as value-creating activity it valorises capital, and counterposes the values created by labour to the worker himself as capital. The specific relation between objectified and living labour, which makes the former capital, makes the latter productive labour.
The specific product of the capitalist production process, surplus value, is only created through exchange with productive labour. What forms its specific use value for capital is not its particular useful character, any more than it is the particular useful qualities of the product in which it is objectified, but its character as the element that creates exchange value (surplus value).
The capitalist production process is not merely a process of the production of commodities. It is a process which absorbs unpaid labour, making the means of production into means for the absorption of unpaid labour.
It emerges from what has been said so far that to be productive labour is a quality of labour which in and for itself has absolutely nothing to do with the particular content of the labour, its particular usefulness or the specific use value in which it is expressed.
[484] Labour with the same content can therefore be both productive and unproductive.
Milton, for example, who did Paradise Lost, was an unproductive worker. In contrast to this, the writer who delivers hackwork for his publisher is a productive worker. Milton produced Paradise Lost in the way that a silkworm produces silk, as the expression of his own nature. Later on he sold the product for £5 and to that extent became a dealer in a commodity. But the Leipzig literary proletarian who produces books, e.g. compendia on political economy, at the instructions of his publisher is roughly speaking a productive worker, in so far as his production is subsumed under capital and only takes place for the purpose of the…”
Marx is explicating political economy which he shows is a pseudo science in the servie of an abominable social evil, and explaining in detail excatly how evil that social evil is, and how it wounds humanity. The reason he chooses Milton and Paradise Lost there is the apodictic greatness of the work and the additional striving political and spiritual character of it; its with his characteristic sardonicism he says Milton was unproductive (according to Political economy) this is supposed to make the depravity of poliecon obvious without his having to say it because he refuses ever to moralize against capitalism. But Paradise Lost it is an example of so many values to which capital is indifferent and capitalist evaluation is indifferent (aesthetic, moral, psychological, national, religious/spiritual, some revered by Marx others not) and which capital as a relation and mode of production thus destroys.
“Here we should like briefly to anticipate our results, before we consider any further the changed shape of capital which emerges as a result of the capitalist mode of production.
Since the direct purpose and the actual product of capitalist production is surplus value, only such labour is productive, and only such an exerter of labour capacity is a productive worker, as directly produces surplus value. Hence only such labour is productive as is consumed directly in the production process for the purpose of valorising capital.
From the simple standpoint of the labour process in general, such labour appeared to us to be productive as was realised in a product, or more precisely in a commodity. But from the standpoint of the capitalist production process, this element has to be added to the definition: such labour is productive as directly valorises capital, or produces surplus value, hence is realised, without any equivalent for the worker, for the performer of the labour, in a surplus value, expressed in a surplus produce, hence in an excess increment of commodities for the monopoliser of the means of labour, for the capitalist; only such labour is productive as posits the variable capital, and therefore the total capital, as C + DC = C + Dv. It is therefore labour which directly serves capital as the agency of its self-valorisation, as a means to the production of surplus value. “– Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/economic/ch02b.htm
?That worker is productive who performs productive labour, and that labour is productive which directly creates surplus value, i.e. valorises capital.
[481] Only the narrow-minded bourgeois, who regards the capitalist form of production as its absolute form, hence as the sole natural form of production, can confuse the question of what are productive labour and productive workers from the standpoint of capital with the question of what productive labour is in general, and can therefore be satisfied with the tautological answer that all that labour is productive which produces, which results in a product, or any kind of use value, which has any result at all.” eom the point of view of the bourgeois, he shows, even Milton was unprductive: he is saying this because the bourgeoisie of the time could be imagined to be horrified to be accused of this, but he is not moralizing he is treating them and their politican economsts with contempt.
um yes, i know.
So why so you say that contradicts anything else he wrote about art? What does it contradict?
i dont know what you are referring to. I didn’t say anything was contradicted by anyone etc. Where have i said that?
but have you not made your point yet? Regards that quote?
Buddy Holly says:
John can you please transport me to whatever universe you’re living in, where Warren is the heir apparent of The Establishment, Greta Thunberg has any power over anything, and the Green New Deal has a snowball’s chance in hell of happening? I’m tired of living in Trumpworld, I’ll happily switch places.
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Half of Morton’s Issues Resolved
Minister of Labour Senator Dion Foulkes confirmed that following an all day frank meeting, eight hours to be exact, 50 percent of the issues plaguing the Bahamas Industrial Manufacturers and Allied Workers Union’s (BIMAWU) and its concerns regarding Morton Salt have been addressed.
Mr. Foulkes told reporters before the weekly Cabinet meeting that Morton Salt Executives and officials of BIMAWU had reached decisions on half of the longstanding issues.
The labour minister, however, did reveal that the “big” issues still have to be worked out.
“There are some 15 issues outstanding, we settled some of them,” Mr. Foulkes said.
“Some of the issues that are outstanding are significant, with respect to the health insurance and also with respect to the salary issues.
“One of the good things that came out of the meeting is that both sides were able to put their positions and clear the air on why the demands are what they are and why the counter offers are what they are.”
He added that he was pleased that both sides were able to have the frank discussion and willing to return to the table to conclude the discussions.
“I want to be very cautious. I don’t want to give the wrong perception. The big issues are still outstanding, which are the salary increases and the amount proposed for the insurance coverage for the health insurance for the workers,” Mr. Foulkes said.
BIMAWU President Jennifer Brown, following last Thursday’s meeting, was hoping to finish talks on Friday. However the two sides are set meet again next month.
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Category: British Irish Contemporary Literature
Download PDF by B. Bennett: The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats
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Treating the paintings of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats intimately, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the character of lyric poetry within the West has a component of defectiveness. This research delves into the irresolvable clash among a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis.
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Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern by Mary Beth Rose PDF
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This e-book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in various texts starting from the fourth to the 20 th centuries. Mary Beth Rose finds plots startling of their frequency and redundancy that fight to deal with —or to obliterate—the complicated assertions of maternal authority because it demanding situations conventional kinfolk and social buildings. The research engages mom plots: the useless mom plot, during which the mum is death or lifeless; and the dwelling mom plot, within which the mummy is alive and during her very presence within the textual content, places frequently insufferable strain at the mechanics of the plot. those plots reappear and are reworked via authors as varied in chronology and use of literary shape as Augustine, Shakespeare, Milton, Oscar Wilde, and Tony Kushner. The publication argues that, insofar as girls develop into the second one intercourse, it isn't simply because they're adult females consistent with se yet simply because they're moms; whilst the research probes the transformative political and social strength of motherhood because it appears to be like in modern texts like Angels in America.
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within the first ebook to take D. H. Lawrence's final Poems as its place to begin, Bethan Jones adopts a largely intertextual method of discover key elements of Lawrence's overdue variety. The evolution and which means of the poems are thought of when it comes to Lawrence's prose works of this era, together with Sketches of Etruscan locations, girl Chatterley's Lover, and Apocalypse. extra greatly, Jones indicates that Lawrence's past due works are items of a posh technique of textual assimilation, as she uncovers the significance of Lawrence's studying in mythology, cosmology, primitivism, mysticism, astronomy, and astrology. the result's a booklet that highlights the richness and variety of his poetic output, additionally prioritizing the masterpieces of Lawrence's mature sort that are as entire as something produced through his Modernist contemporaries.
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This e-book investigates the origins, impression, and end result of the Elizabethan obsession with fraudulent conveyancing, the a part of debtor-creditor legislation that determines while a courtroom can void a move of resources. targeting the years among the passage of a key statute in 1571 and the court docket case that clarified the statute in 1601, Charles Ross convincingly argues that what might sound a minor topic within the legislations used to be in reality a part of a conventional cultural perform. The felony and literary responses to fraudulent conveyancing divulge moral, useful, and jurisprudential contradictions in sixteenth-century English, in addition to glossy, society. not less than in English universal legislations, debt was once extra pervasive than intercourse. Ross brings to this dialogue a stunning wisdom of early smooth criminal perform that takes the dialog out of the colleges and motels of courtroom and brings it into the early sleek court docket, the location the place it had so much relevance to Renaissance poets and playwrights. Ross right here examines how through the thirty years during which the legislations constructed, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare wrote works that mirror the ethical ambiguity of fraudulent conveyancing, which was once practiced by means of unscrupulous borrowers but in addition by means of these unfairly oppressed via energy. The e-book begins through exhibiting that the language and plot of Shakespeare's Merry better halves of Windsor regularly refers to this cultural perform that English society got here to grips with in the course of the interval 1571-1601. the second one bankruptcy appears on the social, political, and economy during which Parliament in 1571 handed thirteen Eliz. five, and argues that the legislations, that could were used to oppress Catholics, was once most likely handed to advertise company. The Sidney bankruptcy exhibits that Henry Sidney, as governor of eire (a web site of non secular oppression), and his son Philip have been, strangely, at the part of the fraudulent conveyors, either in perform and imaginatively (Sidney's Arcadia is the 1st of numerous works to affiliate fraudulent conveyancing with the kidnapping of women). The fourth bankruptcy exhibits that Edmund Spenser, who as an professional in eire rails opposed to fraudulent conveyors, still incorporates a balanced review of a number of sorts of the perform within the Faerie Queene. bankruptcy 5 exhibits how Sir Edward Coke's use of narrative in Twyne's Case (1601) helped settle the difficulty of intentionality left open by means of the parliamentary statute. the ultimate bankruptcy unearths how the penalty clause of the Elizabethan legislation money owed for the punishment Portia imposes on Shylock on the finish of The service provider of Venice. the true power of the booklet lies in Ross's provocative readings of person instances, with a view to be of significant use to literary critics wrestling with the functions of criminal thought to the translation of person texts. This research connects a huge improvement within the legislations to the literature of the interval, one who makes a contribution not just to the legislation but additionally to literary stories and political and social history.
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This quantity contains best scholarship on 5 writers lively within the first 1/2 the 16th century: Margaret extra Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon. The essays symbolize a number of theoretical methods and supply precious insights into the spiritual, social, financial and political contexts crucial for knowing those writers' texts. students research the importance of Margaret extra Roper's translations and letters within the contexts of humanism, relations relationships and altering cultural forces; the contributions of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew to Reformation discourses and debates; and the cloth presence of Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon within the highbrow, spiritual and political lifetime of their time. The creation surveys the improvement of the sphere as an interdisciplinary undertaking related to literature, heritage, classics, faith and cultural studies.
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This revised re-creation reviews Carter's novels within the mild of contemporary severe advancements and gives completely new views on her paintings. There is now prolonged dialogue of Carter's so much widely-studied novels, together with The ardour of latest Eve and Nights on the Circus, and dialogue of the lengthy essay The Sadeian Woman.
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unique and thought-provoking, this assortment sheds new gentle on a huge but understudied function of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural panorama: exile. via an primarily literary lens, exile is tested either as actual departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low nations and America-and as internal, psychological withdrawal. within the strategy, a strikingly wide selection of up to date assets comes lower than scrutiny, together with letters, diaries, performs, treatises, translations and poetry. the level to which the richness and disparateness of those modes of writing militates opposed to or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is likely one of the book's overriding subject matters. additionally into consideration is the measure to which exilic writing during this interval is meant for public intake, a made of inner most mirrored image, or characterized by means of a coalescence of the 2. Importantly, this quantity extends the chronological diversity of the English Revolution past 1660 through demonstrating that exile in the course of the recovery shaped a significant continuum with displacement through the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and late learn of well known and hitherto vague exiles, conspicuously different in political and spiritual allegiance but inextricably sure via the shared event of displacement, may be of curiosity to students in a number of disciplines.
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2. IM Steel 2399 – GM Kamsky 2706 1-0
It’s always disappointing to see someone you like on one of these lists; there’s a certain schadenfreude that occurs when someone you don’t like loses. Ever since his trip to Rochester there’s been a soft spot in my cold dead heart for Mr. Kamsky and I hope he’s able to turn it around.
Unfortunately though for Kamsky he lost to someone with a name that was made for puns.
[Event "Chess Olympiad"][Site "Tromso NOR"][Date "2014.08.05"][EventDate "2014.08.02"][Round "4.19"][Result "0-1"][White "Gata Kamsky"][Black "Henry Robert Steel"][ECO "B40"][WhiteElo "2706"][BlackElo "2399"][PlyCount "176"]1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 d6 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. a3?! {You really have to wonder what Gata was doing here.} O-O 7. Ba2 Nc6 8. d3 Rb8 9. Re1 b5 10. Ne2 a5 11. Ng3 b4 12. c3 Ba6 13. d4 bxc3 14. bxc3 Nd7 15. Bf4 e5 16. Be3 cxd4 17. cxd4 exd4 18. Nxd4 Nxd4 19. Bxd4 Ne5 20. Rb1 g6 21. Rxb8 Qxb8 22. f4 Nd3 23. Nf5 Re8 24. Nh6+ Kf8 25. Qa1 Rc8 26. Bxf7 Bh4 27. Rf1 Rc2 28. f5 Ne5 29. fxg6 Bxf1 30. Qxf1 hxg6 31. Bxg6+ Bf2+ 32. Bxf2 Kg7 33. Bh5 Kxh6 34. Be3+ Kg7 35. h4 Qc8 36. Qd1 Qc6 37. Qe1 Kh7 38. Bg5 Qc5+ 39. Kh2 Qf2 40. Qxf2 Rxf2 41. Be7 Rd2 42. Be8 Rd3 43. g3 Ng6 44. Bd8 Rxa3 45. h5 Ne5 46. Bc7 Re3 47. Bxa5 Rxe4 48. Kh3 Re2 49. Bc7 Rd2 50. g4 Kh6 51. Bb5 Kg5 52. Kg3 Nxg4 53. Bd8+ Nf6 54. h6 Kg6 55. Kf3 Rh2 56. Bc7 Rh3+ 57. Kg2 Rb3 58. Be2 Ne4 59. Bf3 Rb2+ 60. Kg1 Ng5 61. Bg2 Rd2 62. Bb6 Kxh6 63. Be3 Ra2 64. Bf4 Ra6 65. Bf1 Rb6 66. Kf2 Kg6 67. Bd3+ Kf6 68. Ke3 Nf7 69. Bc4 Ne5 70. Bg8 Ra6 71. Ke4 Ra4+ 72. Ke3 Ra8 73. Bh7 Ke6 74. Bc2 Ra3+ 75. Ke2 d5 76. Bh7 d4 77. Be4 Ra2+ 78. Kf1 Nc4 79. Ke1 Ne3 80. Bg3 Rb2 81. Bc7 Nd5 82. Bg3 Nf6 83. Bd3 Kd5 84. Bf4 Nd7 85. Bh7 Ne5 86. Bg3 Nf3+ 87. Kd1 d3 88. Bf4 0-1
1. Soriano 1802 – IM Montalvo 2296 – 0-1
Here it is the upset of the round; an 1800 player takes down a master. Kudos to Mr. Soriano you’ve earned it!
[Event "Chess Olympiad"][Site "Tromso NOR"][Date "2014.08.05"][EventDate "2014.08.02"][Round "4.62"][Result "1-0"][White "Rudolph P Soriano"][Black "Montalvo Rosario, Alejandro"][ECO "A06"][WhiteElo "1802"][BlackElo "2296"][PlyCount "106"]1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Bb2 g6 4. e3 Bg7 5. d3 O-O 6. Be2 b6 7. Nbd2 Bb7 8. a3 c5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Rb1 Qc7 11. Re1 e5 12. Nf1 e4 13. N3d2 Rad8 14. Ng3 Rfe8 15. Qc1 Ne5 16. dxe4 dxe4 17. Bb5 Re7 18. Ndf1 h5 19. h3 h4 20. Nh1 a6 21. Be2 Nf3+ 22. Bxf3 exf3 23. g3 Qc8 24. Kh2 Ng4+ 25. Kg1 Nxe3 26. g4 Re4 27. Nxe3 Bh6 28. Kh2 Bf4+ 29. Kg1 Bxe3 30. Qxe3 Rxg4+ 31. hxg4 Qxg4+ 32. Ng3 Rd4 33. Qe8+ Kg7 34. Bxd4+ cxd4 35. Re7 Bd5 36. Qd7 Qg5 37. Rxf7+ Bxf7 38. Qxd4+ Kh7 39. Qd7 Kg7 40. Qh3 hxg3 41. Qxg3 Qf5 42. Re1 Qxc2 43. Qxf3 Qd2 44. Qe3 Qd7 45. Qe5+ Kg8 46. Re3 Qd1+ 47. Kh2 Bxb3 48. Qe8+ Kg7 49. Re7+ Kf6 50. Qf8+ Kg5 51. Re5+ Kg4 52. Re4+ Kg5 53. Qf4+ 1-0
So that wraps up this round; looking forward to seeing all of you tomorrow same time same place different upsets!
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Love these articles. On the Rd4 report, however, on upset No.1, White is mating in two moves…the result can’t be right. I think I saw something similar in round 5 as well. Keep it up!
Yes, white is mating in 2 moves, I mistakenly had the names reversed in the header (I fixed it, so it should be fine now). In the game the information was correct; thank you for pointing this out, glad you’re enjoying these!
I fixed the last post as well, numerous mistakes in that one. In my haste to get these out I’ve been a bit sloppy, thank god today is the rest day.
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Casual Crabbing with Tia: How Quitting Cigarettes Changed One Woman’s Life
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It started when Tia Clark quit her 20-year smoking habit cold turkey – she simply wanted to make a positive change in her life. What she didn’t realize was that this monumental alteration was only the beginning. Nearly two years later, the Charleston native has started a new business, lost over 100 pounds and has a completely different outlook on herself and her life.
When she quit smoking in January 2017, Clark’s body retaliated against the sudden change. She broke out into hives and even drove herself to the hospital three times in one month due to swelling in her right hand. Steroids relaxed her problems, but, when they wore off, the hives relentlessly returned. When the hospital could no longer give her steroids, she was sent to a national allergy specialist, where she spent six weeks and subsequently thousands of dollars as she checked off the list of hypoallergenic changes to make in her home – but it didn’t help.
“I told my wife, ‘I’m really losing my will to live,’” she recalled. “I was taking Benadryl to exist. I would go to work, come home, pass out and hope the pain or itching would go away.”
The allergy center sent Clark to Dr. Gene Blake at Rhett Women’s Center in Mount Pleasant. Dr. Blake recommended that she begin an elimination diet, and, within 24 hours of implementing the diet, she finally began to feel relief.
“For 20 years, I was putting something in my body, and I snatched it out. If you put anything in your body for 20 years and suddenly take it out, your body will scream. My body was screaming,” she explained. “The elimination diet takes everything out of your system – no booze, no sugar, eggs, dairy, gluten, corn, artificial flavors – basically protein and vegetables and fruits are what you eat.”
After 17 years in the food and beverage industry, Clark – a bartender and former bar manager accustomed to drinking and late nights – was living a completely different lifestyle and loving it. She became dedicated to her new diet not only because she began shedding pounds but because she didn’t want to risk the return of her allergy problems.
By chance, a cousin invited her to go crabbing, and she was hooked.
“I went crabbing every day for three or four months after I went with him,” she smiled. “I don’t know if it was to fill a void from smoking, but I didn’t want it to end.
I used crabbing as my gym. I was spending time outside every day and being active, throwing the cast net and carrying the bucket. I loved it, and I loved the people that I met doing it.”
She loved it so much that she even got a five-inch crab – the legal minimum size – tattooed on her leg to measure her catch.
When her friends saw her pictures, they began asking if she could take their friends and families crabbing, but Clark was hesitant to let people in on what was to her a therapeutic activity. She eventually agreed to take some eager participants along.
“I couldn’t have been more wrong to want to keep this to myself. Every person who comes with me enhances the experience,” Clark beamed.
A co-worker started a Facebook page he named Casual Crabbing with Tia, and the site quickly garnered hundreds of likes, messages from strangers thanking her for being an inspiration and others asking if she could take their families crabbing. Almost overnight, her passion turned from a pastime to a second career.
Clark made Casual Crabbing with Tia an official business and now takes clients along to enjoy the activity she loves so much. She provides all of the crabbing gear: baskets, cast nets and fishing rods and bait. The only thing a client needs to bring is a good attitude and a saltwater fishing license. They crab from docks rather than from a boat.
“I get there early and set up a ‘playground’ so my guests can crab two ways. We’re casting the cast net for live bait, we’re putting the fishing rod out and checking the crab baskets. It’s very active, not like fishing,” she said.
Her clients can choose to catch and release the crabs or make a meal out of them.
For Clark and her customers, the experience is much more than crabbing – it’s about the opportunity to get outside and to be immersed into the community.
“The locals and people on the docks really make the whole experience. There’s a guy that’s been crabbing downtown on Brittlebank for 12 years every single weekend – people like him interact with my guests. It becomes much more than just a trip to catch crabs.”
The unique adventure has even become a featured Airbnb experience.
“When I go on vacation, I want to go where the locals are, not where the tourists are. It’s eye-opening for someone that’s visiting to be instantly immersed in the culture here. This is not a bus tour; my group maximum is six people. I want it to be small and intimate. Airbnb calls it ‘Go Crabbing with a Charleston Native’ – it’s not promoting my business, it’s promoting me and this amazing experience,” she said.
As Clark nears her two-year anniversary of quitting cigarettes – and the avalanche of positivity that followed – she is a different person. She has lost over 100 pounds and continues to follow a microbiome diet about 70 percent of the time. She wears the same belt, with each notch signed and dated by one of her regulars at the bar. Clark is a member of the Carolina Lady Anglers, using her food and beverage ties to get donations for their Fishing for the Cure tournament. She also has taken schoolchildren on crabbing field trips.
“I feel like I have goals now. F&B is close to my heart; it’s how I make a living. I love the people; I love being behind the bar; but this is different. It opens up something I didn’t even realize. My spirit, soul and attitude before this was the exact opposite,” she said. “I never really used to smile a lot or look in mirrors – I used to just exist and not care about myself. Now it’s all different. I wear lighter colors, I open the windows, my spirit and everything feel free and I want to nurture and share it. It doesn’t get any better.”
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Susan Fancher says
What a fun article. Great job, Anne!
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And The Winner Of The 2K Tournament Is…
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The semifinals came down to 4 players: Devin Booker & Montrezl Harrell on one side, and Patrick Beverley & Deandre Ayton on the other side. The semifinals and championship were both best-of-3 series, meaning that you would need 2 victories to advance to the championship, and 2 more wins in the championship to win it all.
#5 Devin Booker vs. #8 Montrezl Harrell
In the first game, Booker chose to play as the Los Angeles Clippers and Harrell chose the Houston Rockets. I do think that Devin got in Montrezl’s head a little bit by choosing his real life team – not that Booker necessarily used that as motivation. But I do like psychological warfare and this was a good choice by Booker in my opinion. Not only did Booker play as the Clippers, but he seemed to play as 2K Harrell an excessive amount. Between throwing down dunks and playing lockdown defense, Booker put on a show with 2K Harrell. He was relaxed and in control the entire game and was even playing with his dog during timeouts. Game One Final Score: Booker 66 – Harrell 54
In game two, Booker chose the Toronto Raptors and Harrell played as the Milwaukee Bucks. Both of these picks made a lot of sense. For Booker, he knew he was most likely headed to the finals, so he might as well save the top teams. For Harrell, he had nothing to lose so he might as well play as his best team available. This game was really close and Harrell had a big game with Giannis. The Bucks had the ball with 20 seconds in the 4th quarter, down 62-60. But instead of getting a shot off, Fred VanVleet forced a turnover and stole the ball from Antetokounmpo. Game Two Final Score: Booker 65 – Harrell 62
#14 Patrick Beverley vs. #10 Deandre Ayton
For the first game on this side of the bracket, Beverley chose the Boston Celtics and Ayton chose the Brooklyn Nets. This was a bit of a cocky pick from Beverley. There is no need to use the Celtics in this short of a tournament. They are a good team, but not much of a 2K team. This game was an intense battle with both players giving it their all. I have been #TeamPatBev and put in a bet for him to win the whole tournament, so I was not excited to see him choose the Celtics, and I was even less excited to see things shake out Ayton’s way in the end here. Game One Final Score: Ayton 75 – Beverley 69
In game two, Ayton chose to play as his real life team, the Phoenix Suns and Beverley chose the Denver Nuggets. The Suns are obviously not a top 2K team, but I respect Ayton showing his team love. For Beverley, he could have chosen a better team with his life on the line. The Nuggets are decent, but c’mon man, think of your investors before you choose a mediocre team. The Suns showed up from the 3-Point line and Ayton was draining 3s with everybody, including his 2K self. Beverley was not able to slow down the shooting, and Ayton ended my chance at winning any money. Game Two Final Score: Ayton 87 – Beverley 74
#5 Devin Booker vs. #10 Deandre Ayton
For the Championship, Phoenix Suns teammates Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton faced off. Booker has pretty much looked like the best 2K player all tournament, but I was a little bit surprised to see Ayton end up here. Ayton deserved his spot just as much as Booker, but his victories were all pretty close games for the most part. Meanwhile, Devin was dominating while seeming like he was barely even trying. Booker chose to play as the Houston Rockets and Ayton went with the Los Angeles Lakers. Ayton was playing some of the best defense we’ve seen against Booker, but Devin was scoring 3s all game long. This game stayed close the entire time, but once again Booker rose to the occasion and brought himself within one win of the championship. Championship Game One Final Score: Booker 72 – Ayton 62
For the second game, Booker played as the Denver Nuggets and Ayton chose the Milwaukee Bucks. This match-up reminds of the one from the semifinals, where Harrell also chose the Bucks in an elimination game. Booker could’ve picked a better team, but he was clearly not concerned. At this point in the tournament, it was pretty clear that Booker was the better player, and this game was basically over before it started. The scoreboard never got too messy, but Ayton never really has a chance to win this one. Devin Booker won in only two games in a well-deserved victory. Championship Game Two Final Score: Booker 74 – Ayton 62
I definitely would’ve been betting heavy on Booker for this tournament, since he looked so dominant from the jump. However, I probably also would’ve lost more money on Beverley, since I at least thought he would get past Ayton. So I guess we can call it a wash haha. Booker really impressed me with his 2K knowledge and ability. He won $100,000 for charity, and it has also been suggested that 2K Devin Booker may deserve a rating boost as a prize. He honestly deserves a higher rating anyway, since he is only an 86 overall. All in all, this tournament was a lot of fun to watch. I wish they didn’t take away betting on this thing from us, but this tournament was a good piece of content for something that was scrapped together quickly.
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Transition from Fourth To Fifth World: The "Thunder Beings" Return
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
At the Native American Star Knowledge Conference held in South Dakota in June, 1996, senior Oglala Sioux spiritual elder Looks-For-Buffalo (Floyd Hand) revealed that ancient prophecies are now coming true. These prophecies, heralding immense changes for humankind, point to the imminent return of the Star Nations, what the white man would call extraterrestrial cultures.
The Hopi, Sioux and other tribal traditions hold that at this point in history, we are about to transition from the current pattern of civilization to a radically-different way of living. This change is so profound that it is called the passage from the Fourth (current) World to the Fifth World! By "world", the native traditions refer to a slow gradual rise of the human population to a period of widely-shared cultural and technological high civilization. The implications of these indigenous teachings are staggering. For this means that we humans have gone through three previous Worlds, in which our ancestors rose to a peak of civilized living, only to crash back to a primitive level.
From halfway around the Earth comes additional corroborative information. Mac Ruka, a Maori spiritual teacher, has toured America at the behest of his Maori people to share their ancient history. Ruka tells of a civilization, Mu, from which the Maori came. This civilization once reached ascendancy in the Melanesian Pacific, before it destroyed itself and its island empire sank beneath the ocean. Fragmentary memory of this empire still resides in the mythic history of the West as a place called Lemuria. And what of that other high civilization, Atlantis, which the Greek philosopher Plato stated he learned about from Egyptian historians? Were Atlantis and Lemuria the Second and Third Worlds which the Native American oral histories refer to?
If our present "Fourth-World" high civilization is about to fall and be swept away, we would do well to learn from the history held by these native teachers. For, as philosopher George Santayana has said, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Let us examine in more detail what those master keepers of oral tradition, the Hopi, reveal about our previous Worlds. [1]
The First World was called Tokpela ("Endless Space"). The First People understood that although they had human parents, their real parents were the universal entities which had created them through their parents: Father Sun and Mother Earth. Each learned that they had two aspects: as a member of an earthly family and clan, and as a citizen of the great universe. Gradually the First People forgot to respect their creator. They began to use the vibratory centers of their body [chakras] only for earthly purposes. They began to perceive differences and separation between people and animals, and between different ethnic, linguistic and religious groups. The animals began to draw away from people. The First People began to divide up and draw away from each other. They became warlike and fought. The First World's fatal flaw, then, was forgetting the unifying Oneness of all creation.
But there were a few in every group who held to the original spiritual enlightened path. These were directed by Spirit to migrate to a special underground location. Then, the First World was destroyed by fire: volcanoes erupting and fire raining down from the sky, until there was nothing left but the few faithful people inside the Earth.
After a long time the world cooled off, and a Second World emerged. There was land where water had been, and water where land had been. When the faithful remnant emerged from underground, there was nothing to remind them of the previous wicked world.
They emerged into the Second World, Tokpa ("Dark Midnight"), a big land. The people spread across the land. They communicated telepathically. But this time, the animals stayed apart from them. As the Second World people developed material goods to barter, they became greedy, and traded for things they didn't need and became avaricious. They began to quarrel and fight, and wars broke out. The Second World's fatal flaw, then, was absorption in greed and materialism.
But again, there were a few people who kept faithful to the path of spiritual awareness. And, again, Spirit directed these people to go to a safe underground place. Then Spirit commanded the twin entities who safeguard the Earth's North and South Poles to leave their posts and stop keeping the Earth properly rotating. The Earth teetered off balance, spun around crazily, and rolled over twice. Mountains plunged into seas with a great splash; seas and lakes sloshed over the land. Then the world became cold and lifeless, and froze into solid ice.
Eventually, Spirit ordered the polar entities back to the ends of the Earth's axis. With a great splintering of ice and a shudder, the Earth began rotating again. The ice melted, and the world warmed to life.
Spirit created the Third World, Kuskurza [meaning lost over time][Mu?], arranging land and seas, mountains and plains, and all forms of life. Then Spirit sent a message to the few faithful people underground that it was time to emerge. These survivors multiplied and created great cities, eventually countries, and a whole civilization. But then they became completely occupied with their own earthly plans. They created craft shaped like a shield that could fly, and used them to fly to big cities and attack them. Soon many peoples and countries were engaged in aerial warfare. These Third People also engaged in degraded sexual practices. The Third World's fatalflaw, then, was misusing flight for aerial warfare and misusing sex for promiscuity.
So Spirit directed the few people who lived according to wisdom that they should build vessels and store food in them. Then rainwater was loosed all over the Earth. Waves higher than mountains rolled in upon the land. Continents broke asunder and sank beneath the seas.
Meanwhile, Spirit directed the faithful survivors to travel first to one, then to another island, until finally they reached the Fourth World, Tuwaqachi ("Complete World"). After they had hopscotched across the islands to arrive in the Fourth World, those islands sank into the sea.
That Fourth World is this present world we live in. The survivors spread across the broad lands, and gradually began building up the high civilizations which surround us today. Since this Fourth World is the one we have grown up in, we are aware of the behaviors of those in it. It can accurately be said that, after an initial time of fidelity to the path of wise consciousness, many have fallen into a low level of consciousness. In fact, it can honestly be stated that many people of this Fourth World have fallen into the fatal flaws of the three previous Worlds: forgetting the Oneness of all creation, sinking into greed and materialism, and engaging in promiscuity and aerial mass warfare. But we have added an additional serious element: mass destruction of Earth and its ecological systems. Thus, the Fourth World's fatal flaws are: all of the previous Worlds' ones, plus ecocide, the killing of one's own environment.
And now this Fourth World is coming to an end. Some of the signs indicating this are: extinctions of plant and animal species; poisoning of lands by toxic materials; pollution of the seas; and thinning of the upper atmosphere, "ozone holes", letting in excessive ultraviolet energy, which in turn is killing plant life, causing cancer in humans, and die-offs of phytoplankton, the source of 90%of the oxygen necessary for life. Global warming is destabilizing climates, and upsetting the ecosystems that plants, animals and humans live in.
As the Fourth World careens towards its end, a major new factor is entering the equation: a widespread series of contacts by various extraterrestrial cultures with human individuals. What are these extraterrestrials communicating when they make contact? They express grave concern for how we are killing our planet and therefore ourselves. Their concern extends to the warfare we are almost continually engaged in, and the other forms of violence going on: including people allowing whole populations to die of starvation or disease, while affluent countries stand by. The ETs want us to take responsibility and turn these situations around, before it is too late.
But the extraterrestrials also have come to make us aware that we are not alone; and that our rightful place is to be participants in the larger, cosmic family of intelligent peoples spread across the universe. But first we must eliminate our fatal flaws and reorder our lifestyle. We must live with consciousness of our oneness with all creatures, and with the Creative Source. We must lay aside our greed and materialism, and learn to live more simply and without undue attachments. We must reject promiscuity, and exercise love with consciousness of the sacredness of sexuality. We must set aside aerial mass warfare, and begin to settle differences by diplomacy, by setting good example, by positive peer pressure, and by empowering all peoples. We need to start treating Earth and its ecosystems like our Mother, with respect and cherishing.
As at the end of the previous Worlds, there will be a faithful remnant of this Fourth World who will survive, while the others perish. The Hopi Prophecies say what will happen soon. World War III will be started in the East. Much of the United States will be destroyed, land and people, by nuclear weapon radioactivity. The Four corners area around the Hopi will be preserved as an oasis, to which refugees will flee. But what about those elaborate underground shelters which FEMA [2] has been secretly constructing for the elite to survive in during the coming Earth Changes? The Hopi Prophecy says that underground shelters are a fallacy this time. "It is only materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are at peace in their hearts already are in the great shelter of life."
What will the Fifth World to which we are headed be like? The Prophecy gives a brief glimpse of what is in store. "Those who take no part in the making of world division by ideology are ready to resume life in another World, be they of the Black, White, Red or Yellow race. They are all one, brothers [and sisters]." As for this Fourth World, "Material matters will be destroyed by spiritual beings, who shall remain to create one world and one nation under one power, that of the Creator." The Prophecy goes on to declare the stage we are in now. "The emergence to the future Fifth World has begun. It is being made of the humble people of little nations, tribes and racial minorities. You can read this in the Earth itself. Plant forms from previous Worlds are beginning to spring up as seeds. The same kind of seeds are being planted in the sky as stars. The same kind of seeds are being planted in our hearts. All these are the same." [3]
We are entering the time of Great Purification, as Earth prepares to transition to the Fifth World. This is a period of Earth Changes: major earthquakes, tidal waves, many volcanoes erupting, land subsidence, emergence of new land, climatic changes, disease pandemics, and widespread starvation. Catastrophes of human origin are also in the offing, including: warfare involving weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, rioting and looting, collapse of monetary systems, and forced migrations. As with the previous Worlds, there will be those who want to cling to the old ways of the Fourth World and resist the need to change. We see them all around us now. And just as surely there will be those who seek to live in harmony with the rest of creation. Sensitive co-existence with other life is not ecological romanticism or fuzzy metaphysics. It is recognition of the true extent of family.
During this transition more than ever before, each of us is being called to serve the Great Spirit, that Center of Consciousness from which everything derives its being. Each of us has an important role during this Great Purification. We need to help find ways for nations, races and tribes to put aside differences, and join together for the good of everyone. We need to help plant and animal species survive. We have to bring to an end the pollution of Earth, and return to our proper role as caretakers of Earth's ecosystems. We need to lay aside the "success" lifestyle of greed and materialism, and learn to adopt a lifestyle of "just enough" and "good enough". We need to move away from the twin follies of promiscuity and puritanism, and learn to reverence sex as the delightful yet sacred activity of appropriately joining opposites to create a higher truth. And we need to lay aside the weapons of war, and operate with that compassion, understanding and economic justice which make for peace.
Where ultimately is this human voyage through a succession of Worlds headed? The Prophecy says that at the center of the universe, there is a place where all the nations originated. It is in the Star Nations galaxy. Before we arrive there, we will transit through nine Worlds.
Native American tradition honors the existence of Thunder Beings. These Thunder Beings are understood by Native Americans to be messengers from the powers on high, the Star People (extraterrestrial visitors). The Thunder Beings are a force for both dissolution and re-creation. In the Plains Indian tradition, a person who has a visit by a Thunder Being, in person, in vision or in dream, becomes a heyoka, a "contrary". [4] This heyoka then customarily soon starts behaving in a way opposite to the conventions of the dominant culture. The heyoka does so, precisely in order to wake up society to see that there are other and fresher ways of doing things. Thus, the heyokais the human counterpart of the Thunder Beings, who repeatedly dissolve the existing order and fashion a new arrangement from the pieces.
As we transition from the Fourth into the Fifth World, it occurs to me that not all heyokasare Plains Indians. Some have yellow skin, others black, others white. These heyokas of every color are experiencers, and have been changed by their experience of extraterrestrial contact by messengers from the sky (Thunder Beings). As modern-day heyokas, experiencers are charged to live as active witnesses against the ignorance and corruption of the Fourth World, and to live as witnesses of the Fifth World which is emerging. In doing so, modern heyokas honor the Thunder Beings, the extraterrestrials, who have come as cosmic midwives to help us birth the Fifth World.
And there are others, too, who have not had a personal extraterrestrial encounter, but who are actively helping humanity move towards cosmic citizenship, and helping usher in the Fifth World society. These are heyokas as well.
In Winter, 1996, high in the Rockies west of Fort Collins, Colorado, a Star Visions Conference was convened by Lakota-Dakota spiritual advisor Standing Elk. There numerous speakers talked about our imminent transition from the current Fourth World to a new Fifth World. On the evening of November 9th, Conference ceremonial leadership switched from Native American males to the women. A Cherokee grandmother recited Crazy Horse's prophecy about these very times, as the Old Age (Fourth World) closes. Then, after a series of moving prayers and ritual declarations, the grandmother elders made a startling official ceremonial declaration: the old era (Fourth World) was ended, and the new age (Fifth World) was being born! A joyous explosion of tumultuous celebration broke out all over the conference auditorium. After a half-hour, the grandmother elders were finally able to call the conference back to order. The elders then declared that this new Fifth World would have as its hallmark the attributes of positive feminine energy. They explained that the Fourth World, which had been hallmarked by male energy dominance, had had its time, and made its contributions. Now that World is passing away. The grandmothers pointed out that the Fifth World being born must not be one of separatist female dominance, but rather one of forming a renewed society of women and men as equals. Fifth World society is shaped by the feminine paths of cooperation, nonaggression, inclusiveness, noncompetitiveness, service rather than dominance, use of psychic and spiritual gifts as well as technology, and living in conscious harmony with nature's ways. [5]
The next morning, a major Colorado newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, carried the story that "a bold group at Estes Park Center [Star Vision Conference] had declared an end to the current era and the beginning of a Fifth Dimension [World] reality." Word of formal declaration of the birth of the Fifth World was beginning to spread out to the wider society. This process will take time. But it is important to realize that the Fifth World has already begun. Just as the Period of Purification which will end the Fourth World has already begun. During this painful but exciting period of transition, each of us must stand up and choose: status quo, or helping usher in the Fifth World.
Finally, permit me to share with you a personal Thunder Being experience, and then my understanding of the role of heyokas in the Fifth World.
Some years ago I did a hanblechia (vision quest) in the desert near Death Valley. During my isolation, I was presented with a image of a Thunderbird formed by the shadow of a cloud on a snowfield atop a nearby mountain. The image remained a long time, then finally dissipated. The skeptical part of my mind at first tried to minimize this event. However, an hour later another identical Thunderbird image appeared on the same snowfield, and persisted a while. I could not escape the implication for my vision quest: a calling to the path of the heyoka. Later my encounter with Star People confirmed this heyoka journey.
Any and all of you who choose to work to bring in the Fifth World are in my opinionheyokas. Recognize your calling in your behaviors. And then let's get down to work in fashioning this Fifth World. The negative power of the Fourth World cannot be annihilated. It can only be transmuted,by being confronted by the simplicity and cosmic consciousness of the Fifth World's midwives, the heyokas, you (if you wish). We are not alone in this task. The Thunder Beings (ETs) have come to awaken us, test us, and help us transmute. As heyokas, our role is to confront the Fourth World's negative energies, channel and transmute them into cooperative, spiritual, nonaggressive, inclusive, noncompetitive, service-oriented, dominance-rejecting, psychic, highly-conscious, natural and harmonious energies.
As we do so, and thereby evolve forward, the vibratory rate of the biological and consciousness energy fields within us increases. I have noticed that people of like vibratory rate can "hear" and feel each other's inner consciousness level. And here is a miracle. A higher-vibrating person (or heyoka, if you will) is like a tuning fork, tending to create a higher matching (sympathetic) vibration rate in others around who are functioning at a lower (Fourth World) vibratory/consciousness level. Just like a soprano's high note can cause a crystal glass to vibrate, heyokas can cause Fourth Worlders around them to tend to increase their vibratory rate. But Fourth Worlders have choices. They can go along with the higher vibratory/consciousness rate, and transition into the Fifth World. Or they can resist and, like the glass, "shatter", as their outlook is increasingly dissonant with the emerging Fifth World. If they remove themselves from all contact with Fifth World people, they may buy some little time, but in the end they will still have to choose.
As for the heyoka midwives of the Fifth World, recognize that your role is in harmony with your fundamental way of being, and is therefore unavoidable. Therefore, I encourage you to operate at your highest vibration, and help usher in the Fifth World.
[In a following article, Dr. Richard Boylan will explore some of the aspects of what this Fifth World will look and operate like, which is now being created.]
1. Waters, F. (1963, 1977). The Book of the Hopi. Penguin Books: New York.
2. The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
3. Waters, ibid.
4. Thunderhorse, I. and Le Vie, D., Jr. (1990). Return of the Thunderbeings. Bear & Co.
Publishing: Santa FE, NM.
5. Boylan, R. J., (1996). Worlds In Transition: Report on the Star Visions Conference,
Contact Forum 4:6 (Nov.-Dec.), 1-13
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“It’s over between us. I’ve found someone else” – Chelsy Davy
Prince Harry and Prince William partied together to watch a Friend’s band after official duties on Friday.
William spent Friday visiting the National Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield and the world headquarters of JCB in Rochester. Where he revealed his 10 years secret to everyone. After that he swapped his suit and tie for jeans and joined his brother Prince Harry at the Troubadour to watch a friend’s band.
Its also been reported that 24-year-old Prince Harry nearly bumped into his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy when both headed for a night out on the same evening in a different club just a short walk apart.
Chelsy was spotted at Mayfair’s posh Jalouse club before hitting the exclusive Raffles club in nearby Kensington, reports the Daily Express. The 23-year-old was seen emerging at 3am while the party-loving Prince left the not very far Kitts club in Knightsbridge at 4am.
Chelsy Davy who the one ended five-years relation with Harry reportedly told Harry, “It’s over between us for good – I’ve found someone else”. Since then Harry is enjoying every moment of his single life. Recently Harry’s been spending time with Gladiators TV presenter Caroline Flack.
It looks like they’re both moving on.
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Posted on March 28, 2015 by Pattaya-Funtown • 8 Comments
It’s certainly never been easy for expats and long-stay tourists to obtain a proper visa for Thailand that allows them to stay in the kingdom for longer than just a couple of weeks or months. Since August 2014, this certainly hasn’t become any easier.
Out/in visa runs are now basically a thing of the past. And not only were the official requirements for certain types of long-stay visa tightened in several countries – a number of general changes to the visa rules have also been announced by immigration.
While it still remains to be seen how strictly the new regulations will be enforced, here’s a summary of the main changes.
Starting from August 2014, out/in visa runs, e.g., to the Cambodian or Lao border, including out/in “visa runs by air”, are basically a thing of the past. The Nation reported on July 15: “From August 13, people [who have not obtained a visa prior to their visit to Thailand] will not be able to re-enter the country, regardless of their choice of transport”.
In other words: If you haven’t obtained a visa prior to your visit to Thailand but wish to stay longer than just for a holiday, then “visa runs” are no longer a viable option to extend your stay in the kingdom, but you’re advised to apply for a tourist visa at your local Thai embassy or consulate in advance.
A single-entry tourist visa is good for a 60-day stay in Thailand and can now be extended locally for another 30 days. If you wish to wish to stay in Thailand more or less “permanently”, you should get yourself an appropriate Non-immigrant visa prior to entering the country.
It looks like these rules are being more strictly enforced since September 12, 2015, and visitors are allowed to stay in the kingdom on visa exempt entries for no longer than 90 days in a calendar year.
In summer 2014, it was reported that tourists and expats who overstay their visa for more than 90 days might get blacklisted in the future, i.e. banned from returning to Thailand for 1-10 years. Until now, tourists who overstayed their visa were usually simply fined 500 Baht per day up to a maximum fine of 20,000 Baht; only when an “overstayer” was caught within the kingdom, he/she faced arrest and deportation; overstayers were not blacklisted.
According to the new proposed rules, foreigners who overstay their visa for 90+ days would automatically get blacklisted for a period of 1-10 years, depending on the length of their overstay. The new rules were reported to take effect late August 2014, however, had not been approved yet a year later.
The new overstay rules were reportedly approved by the prime minister in November 2015 and are now set to go into effect on March 20, 2016.
New stricter requirements for ED visa extensions have gone into effect on August 29, 2014. Until then, the same ED visa could be used to study the same subject, e.g. Thai language, for up to five years; the student did not have to leave Thailand but could simply extend his visa at the local immigration office every 90 days.
Under the new rules, an ED visa is valid for a maximum of one year only, provided that the student studies the required amount of hours per week (otherwise an extension may be rejected and the visa cancelled). After one year you will have to leave the country and apply for a new ED visa.
In addition, Thai language students will now also have to attend classes four days a week, for two hours per class, in order to extend an ED visa – effectively doubling the hours of study. If students don’t study the required amount of hours per week, their visa will not be extended.
Also, when extending their visa for 90 days, ED visa holders will initially be given only a 15-day extension, during which time immigration officials may check whether students regularly attend classes or not. At the end of this “evaluation period” they must go back to Immigration and will be granted another 75-day extension.
It remains uncertain whether the crackdown on out/in visa runners also targets foreign visitors holding valid tourist visas. AsianCorrespondent.com reported in July 2014: “Even those on valid tourist visas may be denied entry if immigration officials suspect feel they are spending too long in the country or working illegally.” Ajarn.com even anticipated that “from [August 12th], apparently no one will be allowed to use back-to-back 60-day tourist visas to enter Thailand.” This interpretation was obviously exaggerated.
As an immigration official in Chiang Mai confirmed on August 20, 2014, “there is no limit to the number of tourist visas you can apply for, nor is there a minimum time limit between each one.”
In any case, tourist visa applicants should always be prepared to prove that they are in fact tourists and, if required, be able to produce a confirmed airline ticket, hotel booking etc. Some Thai consulates may also be more lenient than others.
From November 13, 2015, double-entry tourist are no longer available, only single-entry tourist visa (which can be applied for at any Thai consulate worldwide) and the new multiple-entry tourist visa (METV) which is valid for six months and allows the visa holder to exit and re-enter the kingdom as often as he likes during the six-month validity period of the visa. With each entry, holders will be granted a 60-day permission of stay which can be extended for another 30 days locally.
But there’s a catch: You can apply for the new multiple-entry tourist visa exclusively in your home country or country of residence. Applicants will also have to show a statement from a bank in their home country, or country of residence, showing a deposit of at least 200,000 Baht. Applicants may also have to provide a letter from their employer.
Last but not least, there are also some good news. Reportedly effective from August 29, 2014, tourists can now extend their 30-day visa-exempt stay in Thailand by a further 30 days, not just seven days as previously. All you need to do is visit your local immigration office after your first 30 days have expired and apply for a 30-day extension at a fee of 1,900 Baht; effectively giving you 60 days of stay without having to apply for a visa.
Do expect however that they ask you to produce a confirmed air ticket out of the country within the 30 days of extension, hotel booking confirmation, and possibly proof of sufficient funds. If you cannot produce an air ticket out of Thailand within 30 days, you will most likely be given only a 7-day extension as previously and have to leave the country within a week.
More detailed information can be found most conveniently in the dedicated visa section of our website.
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Where did You get that visa photo?
Pattaya-Funtown says:
Hmm, if I remember correctly we found that somewhere on the internet I think in late 2009 when these “red warning stamps” were first reported. We were never issued one ourselves and aren’t much keen on it either. Why, does it happen to be your photo?
Thailand is going Down-Hill. It is becoming more like China Was. A closed country that only wants Foreign MONEY.
They will lose most of the Western money if they continue to make it more and more difficult for us to stay there.
They don’t appear to appreciate the Educational opportunities that many from the West (especially the retired) wish to bring and share with the Thai people.
The military rule of Thailand has gone too far. Soon Thailand will be devoured by China.
Hope the Thai love the Chinese language and the Chinese taking all the natural resources from Thailand, not to mention making the Thai people the Slaves to do the farming and factory work for China.
Bye Bye Thailand. If the Thai’s do not wake up quickly and Take Back control and destiny of Thailand.
roy fox says:
I have overstay visa 3 years…has the law changed yet I know I can still go to the airport and pay my overstay fee…but I worry for been black listed not for myself..I am married to a Thai women with a young child that I take care of..so could anybody tell me has the new law been enforced yet…
To judge from all I’ve heard – the law has NOT changed and there’s NO blacklisting if you overstay your visa. This proposal has never been approved.
Roy, How much you need to pay for overstay in Thailand. How did you stay away from the officer.
roy keith fox says:
it is easy to stay in Thailand as long as you don’t get picked up by the police. My advice to anybody that is in Thailand on overstay is make sure that you always have money in your bank to pay your fine and money to pay for your air ticket. Because if you have no money you could find yourself in jail till you manage to get some money.
They tell me the overstay fine is still 20.000 baht as long as you get to the airport without getting stopped by the police at a checkpoint.
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Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol.3: The Lost Tapes (ESP-Disk’ 4002)
In 2005, ESP-Disk’ released Heliocentric Worlds Vol.3: The Lost Tapes, purported to be unreleased material recorded at the November 16, 1965 session that produced Heliocentric Worlds Vol.2. After some close listening, I am pretty certain this date is incorrect, although some of this material might have been recorded at the April 20th session for Heliocentric Worlds, Vol.1 (but then again, maybe not). Confusing? Yes! But these are the eternal mysteries of Mr. Ra! Nevertheless, the discovery of previously unheard music from the nineteen-sixties makes this CD essential listening for the Ra-fanatic.
“Intercosmosis” is another expansive, 18-minute conducted improvisation wherein Gilmore establishes a terse melodic cell that is subsequently passed around the Arkestra in small concertino groupings punctuated with acappella horn solos and cued “space chords.” Meanwhile, the rhythm section lays down a propulsive free-tempo groove that enters and exits on cue – but the percussion is mostly held in reserve so that the relentless motion is internalized and carried forward by the chamber-music-like instrumentation. Ra plays densely arpeggiated piano throughout and the piece climaxes with an extended alto saxophone duel between Marshall Allen and Danny Davis which gives way to an almost-pretty piano interlude, with Pat Patrick blowing beautiful, breathy baritone saxophone. The rest of the ensemble enters with an improvised coda before a conducted ending. Was this recorded on November 16th? Admittedly, the piece shares a conceptual similarity to “The Sun Myth,” but the unmistakable presence of Danny Davis is troubling since he is not audible on the other Heliocentric Worlds Vol.2 material. Also conspicuously absent is the Selmer Clavioline, whose electronic whine defined the sound of that album. Finally, the presence of subtle reverb effects suggests the presence of Tommy Hunter, which would require an earlier recording date. Some have speculated this track was recorded at one of the When Angels Speak of Love sessions and, further, that When Angels Speak of Love was recorded later than 1963 as posited by Prof. Campbell. Who knows? Regardless, it is classic long-form Ra material.
It is plausible that the remainder of the CD was recorded at the April 20th session, with Ra on bass marimba, piano, and electric celeste and the prominence of trombones and tympani. The fragmentary “Mythology Metamorphosis” opens with tumultuous trap drums and hand percussion to which Boykins adds some thrumming bass. Ra enters on the bass marimba while Marshall Allen plays sinuous oboe. The instruments drop out leaving Ra to rumble around on the bass marimba until Boykins enters with an insistent bass figure to which Allen replies with a brief oboe phrase. At the four-minute mark, clattering percussion re-enters just before the track cuts off. “Heliocentric Worlds” is a showcase for Ra’s orchestral piano and electric celeste playing with only bass, trap drums and booming tympani to provide intermittently dramatic accompaniment. “World Worlds” is an interesting ballad form, obviously rigorously composed (if somewhat raggedly performed). After a piano/celeste introduction with bowed bass pedal, thick blocks of dissonant chords blare forth from the full ensemble, rich with trombones, saxophones, flute, and trumpet. Over a gently swinging pulse, brief solo statements hew closely to the weirdly shifting chord changes until the big, held ensemble chords return with a brassy trumpet lead to end. After repeated listenings, this piece sounds vaguely familiar – was it ever recorded again under a different title?
The final track, “Interplanetary Travelers” is actually an alternate take of “Other Worlds” from Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1 which first appeared on the 1989 Blast First compilation, Out There a Minute. However, Prof. Campbell dates this to the April-May 1965 session that yielded side-2 of The Magic City, creating yet more discographical confusion. In any event, this track is a stunner, a full-throttled New Thing-style blowout with lots of two-fisted piano/celeste action, intensely wailing horns, and hard-driving drums. Is it possible that Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1, side-2 of The Magic City and tracks 2-5 of Heliocentric Worlds Vol.3 were all recorded at the same session on April 20, 1965? For that matter, is it possible that When Angels Speak of Love was also recorded during this time period? The stylistic resemblances are striking and, taken together, all of this music demonstrates how intently Ra was developing his composed improvisational approach in the mid-nineteen-sixties. Heliocentric Worlds Vol.3 adds another fascinating piece to the puzzle, yet ultimately raises more questions than it answers.
Labels: music, Sun Ra Sunday
Playlist 5-30-09
* J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol.1 (Richard Egarr) (Harmonia Mundi 2CD)
* Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Corn Exchange, Brighton, UK 3/4/09 (FM/CD-R)
* Ensemble Baroque de Limoges: Brussels Conservatory, Belgium 11/2/08 (FM/CD-R)
* Mendelssohn: Songs without Words (Lívia Rév) (Hyperion 2CD)
* Grant Green: Idle Moments (Blue Note CD)
* Grant Green: Street of Dreams (Blue Note CD)
* Bill Frisell: Good Dog, Happy Man (Nonesuch CD)
* David S. Ware Quartet: Shakti (AUM Fidelity CD)
* Anthony Braxton: Four Compositions (GTM) 2006 (Important 4CD)
* The Red Crayola: The Parable of Arable Land (Charly CD)
* Bob Dylan: Street Legal (Columbia SACD)
* Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (Columbia 2LP/CD)
* Emmylou Harris: All I Intended to Be (Nonesuch CD)
* Big Star: Radio City (Fantasy SACD)
* Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (Warner Bros. – Japan 2 LP)
* Robert Pollard: From a Compound Eye (Merge 2LP)
* Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse (Geffen 2LP)
* Spiritualized: Songs in A&E (Sanctuary CD)
* Tool: Ænima (Zoo CD)
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Joe Morris / Lowell Davidson
While we were in New York City last month, I went with a friend to see the Joe Morris Trio at The Stone on April 3rd. I had been aware of Morris since way back when I lived in Boston, but was always kind of lukewarm about him if only because he plays (mostly) electric guitar yet eschews all attendant electrical aspects: no distortion; no effects; no feedback, no reverb. And he seldom bends a string or plays more than one (cleanly articulated) note at a time. Now, I always especially liked his Singularity record on AUM Fidelity, since the solo acoustic guitar set did not raise any unrealistic expectations of how I think the instrument should sound. But I also understand that my own biases and expectations can often be an unnecessary impediment to my enjoyment of music that tweaks those biases and expectations. So, I really was excited to see him perform live. We sat in the front row, not three feet from Morris, where I could closely observe what he was doing. The trio, consisting of Morris on electric guitar (a Washburn semi-hollowbody through a small Fender amp), Steve Lantner on piano, and Luther Gray on drums, played three long improvisations in the generous, seventy-five minute set. I was immediately blown away by Morris’s ability to spin endlessly intricate lines across such vast expanses of time, and, watching him play, I came to appreciate the subtlety of his technique: the widely variable range between dampened and ringing strings is always expertly controlled and deeply expressive, even at the fastest tempos. And when he did choose to play more than one note at a time, the effect was thrilling, at times intensely cathartic – there was a long moment during the second piece where the room seemed to levitate. It was an enormously satisfying concert and I have since been listening to his records with new, welcoming ears.
They were selling CDs at the door so, before the concert, I picked up Anthony Braxton/Joe Morris: Four Improvisations (Duo) 2007 (Clean Feed CF 100) at a very reasonable price. I was already a committed Braxton fan and, besides, I thought maybe I could get Morris to sign it. After the set, and nearly awestruck, I nervously approached him with my request and he was actually most gracious about it. We chatted a bit and I told him I thought he had a unique way of playing the electric guitar. He replied that he was trying to play the guitar like a horn, “like Jimmy Lyons.” I thought that was a revealing comment and it resonated with my own sudden revelations. As for the Braxton/Morris box set, well, it’s over four hours of music and I have only listened to it all the way through twice. I can only say it is beautiful, very compelling music, downright lyrical at times. Having never played together prior to this recording, it is remarkable how attuned they are to each other and how fearless their epic improvisations. I usually prefer to hear Braxton playing his own compositions rather than just freely improvising, but, as Braxton himself points out in the liner notes: “even though [the music is] improvised, it has a very strong compositional dimension to it in the sense of movement through time and space and interaction dynamics between the two of us.” Indeed, the music never feels ad hoc or static, but consciously develops a deep-form structure over each of the hour-long improvisations. Morris is a perfect foil for Braxton’s excursions on the full range of saxophones, contrabass to sopranino, unfurling a variety of approaches from single-note counterpoint to almost-jazzy chordal accompaniment. OK, I’m sold. If Joe Morris can successfully go toe-to-toe with Mr. Braxton, then he truly is a master musician!
The following day, my friend and I went to the world’s greatest record store (for us fans of weirdo avant-garde music anyway), Downtown Music Gallery. While spending a good long while combing the racks and chatting with Bruce and Mike, they put on a CD consisting of some squiggly acoustic guitar, achingly strained bowed bass, and…trombone?! It was totally gripping.
RGC: What is this?!
BLG: MVP – LSD – it just came out.
RGC: Wow! Joe Morris?! We just saw him last night and I wouldn’t have even recognized him! I gotta get this!
So, onto the growing pile of CDs it went. But it wasn’t until I returned home that I could really examine what I had: MVP – LSD: The Graphic Scores of Lowell Skinner Davidson (Riti CD10). MVP is Joe Morris on guitar, John Voigt on bass, and Tom Plsek on trombone. LSD is, of course, pianist/multi-instrumentalist/composer Lowell Skinner Davidson. The disc consists of ten compositions by Davidson (and one group improvisation) and it is every bit as wonderful as I remembered it. I am kind of ashamed to admit I had never heard of Lowell Davidson before now. Born in 1941, he was a Harvard-educated biochemist who jeopardized his post-graduate scholarship by traveling to New York to play piano with Ornette Coleman in the 1960s. He recorded one LP for ESP-Disk’ in 1965 (see below) but, shortly thereafter, was badly injured in a lab accident that radically curtailed his burgeoning music career. Davidson managed to remain semi-active on the fringes of the Boston music scene in the nineteen-seventies and eighties where Morris, Voigt, and Plsek worked with him until Davidson’s death in 1990.
According to Morris’s liner notes, Davidson drew on his background as a biochemist in his music: “He often declared that new sounds had the capacity to reformulate the biochemistry of the brain. He was sure that had to happen with music and that there was no point in playing music that didn’t reach for that result.” To facilitate this goal, Davidson relied (in part) on a self-conceived system of graphic notation. The compositions featured here were written on 3x5 notecards, with arbitrary staves “that veer off somewhere or fade off the card completely,” amorphous blobs of proportional noteheads, and swathes of richly evocative color. The seeming dichotomy between composition and improvisation is squarely addressed through the use of these graphic scores. Morris says: “They offer the player a specific guide toward randomness and imagination, a requirement that they be read as regular notation, but that the results find a balance between melodic line and pure sound.” The music is something more than mere free improvisation with each piece cohering into a cogent, unified whole that is no doubt the result of the musician’s focused concentration on an external stimulus – even if that stimulus is utterly abstract and deliberately non-specific. Each player explores a range of extended techniques from Morris’s plinking and scraping, Voigt’s sul ponticello bowing, and Plesk’s gurgling and buzzing mutes; but such extremes are balanced with more conventional instrumental approaches and a delicate, selfless approach to chamber-like ensemble dynamics. Listening to this hour-plus-long CD is a contemplative, prayerful, experience. Or, rather, this is music that may indeed alter the biochemistry of the brain as Davidson intended. Morris decribes Davidson’s too-short life as “a psychedelic-like search, pondering light and darkness, the constructs of the Universe, and a way of expressing them with music.” With this exquisite CD, MVP has realized Davidson’s most profound, evolutionary ambitions.
Naturally intrigued by the MVP disc, I soon thereafter picked up Lowell Davidson’s sole commercially available recording at Nashville’s finest record store, Grimey’s. Lowell Davidson Trio (ESP-Disk’ 1012) was recorded on July 27, 1965 thanks to the efforts of Ornette Coleman, who somehow convinced Bernard Stollman to sign Davidson to the fledgling label without so much as an audition. Accompanying him on this date are ESP label-mates, Gary Peacock (bass) and Milford Graves (drums) to comprise a typical piano trio that is anything but typical. Unfortunately, the sound quality is dry, boxy, closed in and, at times, downright distorted, with Graves’s extended kit swamped by bloated, ill-defined bass frequencies. Even so, Davidson’s uniquely brilliant musical conception is plainly apparent. At times, his piano playing reminds me of Andrew Hill, with his smeared notes, short-breathed phrasing and a harmonic sensibility that balances "in" and "out," tonal and atonal, "free" and composed. But, unlike Hill, Davidson is already wholly emancipated from any kind of “jazz tradition” and his compositions explore color, timbre, and gesture in a way that is sui generis. Much of the music is loosely modal and balletic in its rhythmic conception: flitting, leaping, and pirouetting here, stomping and stamping there; single-note runs alternating with blocky, chordal tuttis; grand, tremulous statements alternating with scumbled, scampering figuration. In this way, his approach resembles Cecil Taylor’s, but, again, the music sounds nothing like Taylor and points to a “third way” that is unprecedented. Peacock and Graves provide supple, sensitive, but at times overly-aggressive accompaniment, although the rough sound quality drastically distorts the instrumental balance. Davidson apparently led a working trio with David Izenson on bass and Paul Motian on drums around this time and it would be interesting to hear their (undoubtedly more intimately familiar) interpretations of this material. Quibbles aside, one should be grateful that this lone document of Lowell Davidson’s genius survives and, as such, it is unreservedly recommended. According to the liner notes, ESP-Disk’ is negotiating the release of Davidson’s self-produced cassettes from the nineteen-seventies and eighties and one hopes that this will come to fruition. It would go a long way towards rectifying the sad neglect of this visionary artist.
So, thank you, Mr. Morris – not only for your own superb musicianship – but also for exposing me to the music of Mr. Lowell Skinner Davidson!
Labels: music, record collecting
I'm taking a little break for the holiday. In the meantime, check out this WILD performance of “The Shadow World” from West Berlin circa. 1986. The Arkestra literally tears up the stage. Any ideas of the exact date of this performance?
Labels: music, Sun Ra Sunday, video
Here’s an idea I’ve been toying with. A friend of mine will sometimes ask me, “So what are you listening to?” And I often have to stop and think. I listen to a lot of music. I have an iPod for the car and a thirty-minute minimum commute each way every day. At home, I have thousands of records. I can’t see keeping up a complete list, but here are some things that stood out this past week:
* J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (AAM/Egarr) (Harmonia Mundi 2SACD)
* J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas (Manze/Egarr/Linden) (Harmonia Mundi 2CD)
* Mary Halvorson: Crackleknob (hatOLOGY CD)
* Anthony Braxton: Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 (hatOLOGY CD)
* Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (Columbia LP/CD)
* Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisted (mono) (Sundazed LP)
* Grateful Dead: To Terrapin: Hartford ’77 (GD/Rhino 3CD)
More Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren should be Secretary of the Treasury.
With Bill Maher:
With Charlie Rose:
Labels: economy, politics, video
Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra: Heliocentric Worlds, Vol.2 (ESP-Disk’ 1017)
Recorded at RLA Sound Studios, New York, NY November 16, 1965
Originally released in 1966
Less than seven months after recording Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1, a smaller, eight-piece Arkestra returned to RLA Sound Studios to record Volume 2. “The Sun Myth” is another epic-length directed improvisation based upon a two-note figure that is freely extrapolated by the ensemble across eighteen highly variegated minutes. Anchored throughout by Boykins’s sliding, microtonal bass, Ra starts out by banging on tuned bongos and a cymbal before moving to the piano/Clavioline combo. Energy and intensity levels rise and fall with brief horn solos, duets, and trios that come and go, always yielding to the buzzing Clavioline and singing arco bass. According to Campbell, this track has been mastered three different ways:
(1) The original release (mono and stereo) had African singing throughout the piece, mixed as loud as the instrumental parts […] (2) The original release was quickly withdrawn and replaced with a more common variant in which the African voices are mixed way down and can be faintly heard at the beginning and end […] (3) The final remastering removed the African voices entirely (2nd ed. p. 122).
Interesting! Were these vocals added in some kind of primitive overdub? After all, this album was recorded in a low-budget studio in 1965! I have only ever heard the final, instrumental version and I can’t even imagine what this track would sound like with “African vocals.”
“A House of Beauty” is a strangely beautiful piece. It opens with Marshall Allen on silvery piccolo and Ra on the monophonic Clavioline. Boykins enters with the bow while Ra adds a fourth voice on piano. Eventually, piano and pizzicato bass improvise a lushly tonal ballad form supported by some soft percussion. Clavioline and piccolo return with some busy free-tempo counterpoint until a held Clavioline tone and arco bass figures bring things to a gentle close. The album ends with the aptly-titled “Cosmic Chaos,” a fifteen-minute New Thing-styled group improv punctuated with virtuosic acappella turns by Pat Patrick on baritone saxophone, Gilmore on tenor saxophone and Robert Cummings on bass clarinet. Ra is back on tuned bongos and cymbal, generating complex polyrhythms against Roger Blank’s roiling trap drums while Walter Miller blows some exciting post-bop trumpet. Curiously, what sounds to me like electronically processed bells peal in the background throughout. What is making that sound?! Is it Tommy Hunter’s echo-machine? The piece decisively ends with a grouping of obviously conducted “space chords.”
Ultimately, Heliocentric Worlds Vol.2 is a bit less focused and not quite as compelling as either Vol.1 or The Magic City, but it still retains an air of mysterious discovery. The album cover, on the other hand, is a classic of the period with an antique illustration of the solar system perched above pictures of archaic scientists: Leonardo, Copernicus, Galileo, and Tycho Brahe. In the middle are portraits of Pythagoras and Sun Ra himself, “calling attention to Sun Ra’s links to the Greek astronomer-mathematician-musician who studied in Egypt, and who formed a brotherhood which attempted to purify their souls to allow the initiates to escape the ‘wheel of birth’ and to aid them in the transmigration of the soul after the death of the body” (Szwed p.217). Perfect!
Keeping Up With Robert Pollard (Spring 2009 edition)
Boston Spaceships: The Planets Are Blasted (GBV, Inc. 5) (LP/CD) The ever-prolific Robert Pollard started 2009 off with a sprint with January’s very fine The Crawling Distance and, in March, this quickly-assembled sophomore LP from his new band, Boston Spaceships. I have to admit, The Planets Are Blasted took a little while to grow on me. I excitedly cleaned and played the LP when it arrived in the mail and I enjoyed it well enough but from then on I only listened to the CD or on the iPod in the car. And it just wasn’t registering – until recently, that is, when I pulled out the LP again and gave it a close listen. This is a common phenomenon with Pollard because his records always have a carefully sequenced Side One and Side Two, with their own essential cohesiveness. That enforced pause when you have to get up and flip the record over allows one to contemplate and come to grasp the intra-song coherence of Pollard’s vision. Here, Side 1 flows with creamy pop (“Dorothy’s a Planet,” “Catherine From Mid-October”) and anthemic rock (“Canned Food Demon,” “Headache Revolution”) while Side 2 bristles with proggy, post-punk edginess (“UFO Love Letters,” “Sight On Sight,” “Heavy Crown”). Listened to all at once, the effect is diffused and disorienting; but as discrete sides, the songs gain tangible context that is inevitably lost in the relentless flow of the CD. The production is notably less polished overall than last fall’s Brown Submarine, but somehow that adds to the charm. While maybe not top-tier stuff, The Planets Are Blasted is yet another example of Pollard’s limitless capacity for tossed-off brilliance. Check out a free mp3 of the mini-epic, “Big O Gets an Earful” here.
Boston Spaceships: “Headache Revolution” (HJRR 21) (7”) Continuing Pollard’s recent (and welcome, in my opinion) decision to revisit his vast catalog of rough demos and give them the full-blown rock band treatment, “Headache Revolution” is the obvious choice for the (imaginary) “hit single” from The Planets Are Blasted. Pollard’s wispy original demo can be heard on Suitcase 2 and the Spaceship’s treatment is an improvement in every respect. The 33rpm B-side presents three quirky LP outtakes. “Dementia Is Rising” starts out with bouncy, up-and-down acoustic guitar and an accusatory vocal that erupts into some Chrome-like deconstructionist noise at the chorus. “Take That Off (And Put This On)” romps around with just the kind of cock-rock swagger you would expect from such a title. Pollard knows what he likes -- and what he doesn’t! Finally, “7 Is the Hot Noose” twitches with a 1980s New Wave yelp complete with cheesy Syndrum fills. It ends before it ever begins. Inessential, but fun.
Circus Devils: Gringo (HJRR 22) (LP/CD)
Gringo is billed as “an acoustic song cycle with a 1970’s Morricone-esque Southwestern flavor.” Well, OK. Despite the Circus Devils’ reputation for electrified, twisted and distorted weirdness, the acoustic guitar is not exactly unheard of. Still, there is a definite mood to this record that is unique and I guess “Morricone-esque” is as good a word as any to describe it. Rather than indulging in the usual psycho-sci-fi art-rock the Circus Devils are known for, Gringo feels almost wistfully sentimental and decidedly earth-bound. In fact, some of these songs would not sound out of place on Pollard’s recent solo records – but then something strange will occur: especially eccentric wordplay, a sudden lurching dissonance in the bridge, or a tense swell of atmospheric effects will signal that, yes, this really is the Circus Devils. The term “song cycle” is appropriate as well, with vague themes running throughout the album that culminate in the penultimate song, “Gasoline Drinkers.” That’s not to say it makes any real narrative sense – Pollard’s lyrics are as elliptical and obtuse as ever, something about prisons, ants, witches and some vile concoction called “hot water wine.” But as a whole, Gringo works perfectly and exudes a warmth and emotional directness that is frankly unusual for a Circus Devils album. Certainly, Gringo is by far the most accessible Circus Devils record yet and a fine place to stick your toe if you’re curious. And, again, the LP is where it’s at with its “euphonic distortion” and enforced entr’acte; but the CD is cool too. Check out a free mp3 of “Before It Walks” here.
All are available at better record stores or directly from Rockathon. Or purchase mp3 files at Fina, if that’s your thing.
Labels: music, Robert Pollard
Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra: The Magic City (Evidence ECD 22069)
Recorded somewhere in New York City, NY April/May/September 1965
Originally released as El Saturn LPB 711 in 1966
Sun Ra often claimed he was not from this planet but from Saturn, sent to Earth on a mission to help save humanity from itself. But in 1914, Herman “Sonny” Poole Blount was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Nicknamed “The Magic City” for its booming economic growth at the turn of the century, Birmingham was, of course, also the scene of harsh racial injustices which eventually erupted into violence and protest during the civil rights movement. Sonny left Birmingham for Chicago in 1946, legally changed his name to Sun Ra, and never looked back. Yet Sun Ra retained some affection for his hometown, composing such homages as “Magic City Blues,” “The Place of Five Points,” and “West End Side of Magic City” and regularly performed “Stars Fell on Alabama” and “Alabama” in concert. Sonny admitted to MTV’s Michael Shore that “The Magic City” was indeed about Birmingham and listening to it, one can sense Ra’s conflicted ambivalence towards his subject. At almost thirty minutes, it is Ra’s magnum opus and, while comparable in scope and ambition to Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz (Atlantic) (1960) and John Coltrane’s Ascension (Impulse!) (1965), “The Magic City” sounds nothing like either of them. Disavowing the churning rhythms and fire-breathing onslaughts typical of “The New Thing,” “The Magic City” maintains a chamber-music-like intimacy and reserve with horn duos and trios forming and dissolving around Boykins’s arco bass, Ra’s fleet piano work and the reedy whine of the Selmer Clavioline. Only near the end does the full ensemble briefly engage in some full-throated, high-energy group improvisation. Szwed astutely points out that “Sun Ra’s Music often attempts to completely integrate the soloists with the ensemble to make a single statement” (p. 214) and “The Magic City” is a perfect example of this attempt. Gilmore stated that the piece was never performed in concert because it was “unreproduceable, a tapestry of sound” (Id.).
Ra had been working with the material that would become “The Shadow World” at least as far back as “The Outer Heavens” (on Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow) and it appears in rough form on Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold (there titled, “The World Shadow”). Here, the fiendishly difficult composition gets its first complete performance. A complex unison melody for saxophones is set off against a 7/4 rhythm and Ra’s contrary, angular piano. After a brief series of solos, saxophones return with the melody while trumpet states the counter-melody originally intimated by the piano. Szwed writes: “Sun Ra took considerable pleasure from the agitated difficulty of the piece, and noted that once during a rehearsal for a French TV show the producer was so disturbed by it that he threatened to cancel the show if they insisted on playing it” (p. 215). “The Shadow World” would become a fixture of the Arkestra’s live sets going forward, often performed at impossibly fast tempos.
“Abstract Eye” and “Abstract I” appear to be different takes of the same piece and, according to the discography, there is a twelve-inch test-pressing from Variety Recording Services in existence where the pieces are entitled, “Abstract Experiment Take 1” and “Abstract Experiment Take 2” (Campbell, 2nd ed, p. 119). This reinforces my suspicion that these tracks might be rehearsals for what would become “Heliocentric” and “Outer Nothingness” on Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1. They share the same, bottom-heavy instrumentation of bass, bass marimba, tympani, and braying trombones with piccolo and trumpet providing extreme high-register contrast. The feeling here is a little more extroverted with the saxophones taking a more prominent role in the proceedings, but they are notably similar in structure with flittering solo statements set against rumbling bass marimba, pounding tympani, and singing arco bass. Very interesting.
Another track from these sessions entitled, “Other Worlds,” is available on the 1989 Blast First compilation, Out There a Minute.
Elizabeth Warren Rocks!
Elizabeth Warren is the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel which oversees TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). She is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also the author of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (Basic 2003) and All Your Worth: The Lifetime Money Plan (Simon & Schuster 2005). Her recent media appearances have been refreshing change from the obfuscation and projection of the past couple of decades. She is smart, frankly outspoken, charming and witty yet deadly serious. Her sparring with the smarmy, self-serving hosts of Tech Ticker is, as John Stewart puts it, “financial chicken soup.” Elizabeth Warren rocks!
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Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Vol.1 (ESP-Disk’ 1014)
Recorded at RLA Studio, New York, NY on April 20, 1965
By March of 1965, Gilmore was back in the fold and in April the Arkestra headed into RLA Studio to record their first LP for ESP-Disk’. Buoyed by the modest successes of the October Revolution and the prospect of wider recognition offered by the fledgling but ambitious record label, Ra expanded upon the experimentation of the Choreographer’s Workshop period to make Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1 a defining statement.
Consisting mostly of the kinds of conducted improvisations that Ra had been developing over the past year or so, Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1 retains a similarly ultra-modern chamber music feel throughout. Often the highest and lowest registers of the ensemble are emphasized with piercing trumpet and piccolo set off in stark relief against the rumblings of trombone, bass trombone, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, tympani, bass, and Ra himself on bass marimba (!). At other times, Ra plays piano and electric celeste simultaneously with stunning two-handed polyphony or the horns improvise wildly swinging anti-bop figures. But the music is more about contrasting textures than solos and accompaniment and there is a remarkable diversity of material approaches in each piece: densely orchestrated “space chords” rise and fall, percussion pounds or falls back, horn solos come and go in an instant. The music is dissonant and intense one minute, serene and contemplative the next. Even so, the music sustains a consistently mysterious mood, an air of tense expectancy that makes the diverse strains of out-and-out weirdness cohere into a enormously compelling, vibrant whole.
While the music appears to be totally improvised, Ra is clearly in control. Regarding these sessions, Marshall Allen described Ra’s approach to conducted improvisation:
Sun Ra would go to the studio and he would play something, the bass would come in, and if he didn’t like it he’d stop it, and he’d give the drummer a particular rhythm, tell the bass he wanted not a “boom boom boom” but something else, and then he’d begin to try out the horns, we’re all standing therewondering what’s next…
I just picked up the piccolo and worked with what was going on, what moods they set, or what feeling they had. A lot of things we’d be rehearsing and we did the wrong things and Sun Ra stopped the arrangement and changed it. Or he would change the person who was playing the particular solo, so that changes the arrangement. So the one that was soloing would get another part given to him personally. ‘Cos he knew people. He could understand what you could do better so he would fit that with what he would tell you (quoted in Szwed, p. 216).
Despite Gilmore’s brief defection and return, the Arkestra executes Ra’s vision of disciplined freedom with dedication and astonishing precision. As Szwed points out, “[t]he Arkestra at this point had such confidence in what they were doing that the rest of the group could suddenly drop away in the moment to reveal a cymbal solo or a bass and tympani duo” (Id.). Horns resolutely enter and exit with succinct, emphatic statements that move the music inexorably forward (or outward) while the rhythm section ebbs and flows in natural reaction (or in deliberate opposition). Throughout it all, Ra provides deft direction, through his playing and by signaling his intentions to the musicians. No note is wasted. There are no empty gestures or tossed off cliches. The music is not merely episodic as Ra builds complex yet satisfyingly unified edifices upon the accretion of discrete, semi-autonomous events. As many times as I’ve listened to this record, it always sounds fresh, revealing deeper insights with each listen. All of my attempts at a track-by-track analysis have been woefully inadequate to elucidate the elusive magic of The Heliocentric Worlds. The music simply defies my meager descriptions and must be experienced to be even remotely (mis)understood.
Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 is rightfully considered a landmark recording and belongs in every serious record collection. It has remained pretty much consistently available (either legitimately or on bootleg editions) since the day it was released and its appearance transformed Sun Ra from the obscure Lower East Side eccentric into his rightful role as the globe-trotting emissary of interplanetary music. Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 1 is, in a word, a masterpiece, but just one of a series of extraordinary recordings that Ra would make during this period.
COSMIC EQUATION
Then another tomorrow
They never told me of
Came with the abruptness
Of a fiery dawn
And spoke of Cosmic Equations:
The equations of sight-similarity
The equations of sound-similarity
Subtle Living Equations
Clear only to those
Whose wish is to be attuned
To the vibrations
Of the Outer Cosmic Worlds.
Of the outer-realms
Dear only to those
Who wish fervently the greater life.
-- Sun Ra, 1965
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Our First Stand: Rally to Save Health Care
January 15, 2017 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer along with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi have called for a national day of action, with rallies being organized across the country, including in Philadelphia. The goal is to stop GOP efforts aimed at destroying the Affordable Care Act and taking health insurance away from 30 million Americans, privatizing Medicare and making massive cuts in Medicaid.
The Philadelphia rally is being organized by Reps. Dwight Evans and Bob Brady, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). RSVP here to attend. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Waking Up to a New World: A New President Is Elected
November 11, 2016 by Rabbi Neil Cooper Leave a Comment
We awoke this morning to a new world. Of course, whenever a new president is elected, one can anticipate changes, if not in substance then in appearance, style and nuanced differences. But the change we anticipate today requires us to consider the notion of “a new world” more literally. [Read more…]
Filed Under: News & Opinion Tagged With: 2016 Election, AIPAC Policy Conference, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Rabbi Neil Cooper
Meet the Delegates: Joe Smallhoover – Democrats Abroad
August 4, 2016 by DocJess Leave a Comment
Joe Smallhoover is the Chair of Democrats Abroad France. We tried unsuccessfully to find some time together during the convention, but finally a mutually workable time a few days afterwards.
While he lives in Paris now, Joe was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Upper St. Clair, PA. He attended Washington and Jefferson College and Duke University. He holds an MA in Germanic languages from the University of Virginia and did advanced studies in Europe on a Fullbright, as an exchange teacher before returning to the US to obtain a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He has lived in Paris since 1985, and has practiced law in France, Belgium and Germany.
DocJess: Where did you get your interest in politics?
Joe Smallhoover: I have been involved since I was in diapers. My grandfather was the Chair of the Allegheny County Commissioners from 1934 until the late 1950’s and active in the Democratic Party all his life. I grew up in that household and was treated to seeing state and local dignitaries on a regular basis and learned the ins and outs of politics.
DJ: Democrats Abroad is a group of ex-pats…
JS: Let me stop you. Often people say “ex-patriots” instead of “expatriates” as if we are not patriotic Americans. We certainly are patriotic, and one of the ways we show that is by voting. We just happen to be living outside the country and prefer to be called Overseas Americans or Americans Abroad.
DJ: Sorry, I meant no disrespect.
JS: I know. It’s a common theme we deal with.
DJ: So. If I lived outside the country, how would I join Democrats Abroad? What exactly do you do?
JS: Democrats Abroad (DA) is recognized as a state party by the Democratic National Committee and we even have our own primary. The French and English groups are the oldest within the umbrella of DA, both chapters having been formed in 1964. We have committees in 41 countries, active but less organized committees in another 20 countries, and members from 160 countries.
If you are an American abroad, you can vote in the state primary of the state you lived in just prior to moving overseas, or you can participate in the Democratic primary as a part of DA. Democrats Abroad, by the way, also participates directly in the DNC, with seats on various committees.
DJ: Is that true for the general election?
JS: Overall yes, in most cases. Federal law says that Americans living abroad can participate in Federal elections. There is a Federal ballot that can be used, or in some states, Americans abroad can file an absentee ballot for that state which would include all the offices on all the other ballots for that state.
However, some states will make you pay state income taxes if you vote on the state ballot because it establishes part of a residency requirement. Some states won’t charge taxes. It’s a fluid situation as states do change their rules over time. I lived in California just before I moved to France, and it used to be that you had to pay state taxes to vote absentee in state and local elections, but that was changed a few years ago.
Many states have an overseas ballot that is a Federal ballot. These ballots are both for civilians overseas as well as uniformed (military) voters. The rule is you can file one ballot or the other, not both.
DJ: What do you do to encourage voting?
JS: In France, we have an event every week across the land. We have multiple talks on issues that affect people. We also have caucuses, such as the Minority, Women, LGBT, and Youth. We have programs to discuss topics like the environment, economy, etc. We hold dinner debates, as well as social events. We are active and embedded in the American community overseas.
I started an internet site close to 30 years ago, before it was popular, after someone complained he couldn’t find Democrats Abroad. It was a nascent, flat site, but it was a start and I saw the benefit of early adoption. Now, we’re active on our websites, and we leverage social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to do as much outreach as possible so people can find us easily.
DJ: Do the Republicans have something similar?
JS: They tried, but they were more about fundraising. They’ve dissipated. They’re smaller than DA by at least a factor of 10, and they are not active in as many places. We have precincts and wards and a “county/state” structure while the Republicans have some elections but they’re relatively small, and most of their folks are involved by appointment and not election.
DJ: Was this your first convention?
JS: No. A member of my family has been present at every convention since 1928. I have attended all the conventions since 1996.
DJ: What did you think of Philadelphia?
JS: Each convention is a little different because of the dynamics of delegates, candidates and the city itself. Philadelphia was very welcoming. It was a wonderful feeling, being a native Pennsylvanian. The convention was smoothly organized. There were very few glitches that make being and attending difficult. Except meals were difficult. The lines were long and once you were in the arena there weren’t any other nearby options. But that’s to be expected and taken in stride.
The convention itself was absolutely spectacular. The speakers were tremendous and there were a number of surprises like Khizr Khan. When he held up a copy of the Constitution, it was one of the most powerful things I’d ever seen at a convention.
I also appreciated Gabby Giffords. I’d met her in Paris before she’d regained the power of speech, and to see her take the podium, and speak, well, all I could think was if she could do this with her limitations, imagine how much brilliance must be locked inside of her.
DJ: And Larry Sanders?
JS: We had all seen him tear up in private, and were overwhelmed by the pride he had for his brother. It was very powerful, and then, we got to see his brother react. It was a moment that won’t soon be repeated.
DJ: One last thing. Some of my readers either live overseas or have kids who live overseas. How do they connect with you?
JS: Our site is www.democratsabroad.org and if they need to register, they can go directly to www.votefromabroad.org/vote. As long as someone makes the deadline, which differs in the various states, a ballot should be automatically sent, although one can download a Federal write-in absentee ballot as a substitute. All the instructions are available on the website.
See our full series of delegate interviews.
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Live Blog: The Democratic National Convention Begins
July 25, 2016 by Daniel Loeb Leave a Comment
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice is on site this week at the Democratic National Convention. Publisher Dan Loeb, President Bonnie Squires, Vice President Ken Myers and writer Jessica Weingarten will be providing reports, photos and updates. Follow below from most recent to earliest.
Please refresh this page frequently or follow our twitter feed for updated content.
Filed Under: Featured Articles Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, DNC 2016, Gov. Tom Wolf, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Occupy, Philadelphia, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Sarah Silverman, Sen. Al Franken, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Robert Casey Jr.
DNC Statement on Released Emails
July 25, 2016 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
“On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic Party for the inexcusable remarks made over email. These comments do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process. The DNC does not — and will not — tolerate disrespectful language exhibited toward our candidates. Individual staffers have also rightfully apologized for their comments, and the DNC is taking appropriate action to ensure it never happens again.
“We are embarking on a convention today that — thanks to the great efforts of Secretary Clinton, her team, Senator Sanders, his team, and the entire Democratic Party — will show a forward-thinking and optimistic vision for America, as compared to the dark and pessimistic vision that the GOP presented last week in Cleveland. Our focus is on electing Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Democrats across the country, thanks to Democratic Party that is strong, unified, and poised for victory in November.”
Donna Brazile, Incoming Interim Chair
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Secretary
Andrew Tobias, Treasurer
Raymond Buckley, Vice Chair, ASDC President
Maria Elena Durazo, Vice Chair
Mayor R.T. Rybak, Vice Chair
Henry R. Muñoz III, National Finance Committee Chair
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Meet the #DNC Delegates: Jordyn Tannenbaum
July 19, 2016 by DocJess Leave a Comment
Jordyn Tannenbaum is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in economics. Jordyn is an elected delegate from CD 8, who lives on campus with roommates and hails from Bucks County. [Read more…]
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Sanders’ Israel-PA Peace Ideas Get Ignored
April 18, 2016 by PJV Contributor 3 Comments
— by Robert Tabak
Senator Bernie Sanders has focused almost exclusively on US economic policy and domestic issues in his presidential campaign. Numerous articles, including from writers friendly to the Vermont senator, have critiqued his lack of attention to foreign policy. For example, Yair Rosenberg, writing in the Jewish on-line journal Tablet Magazine on March 20, 2016, quoted Vox’s Max Fisher who wrote “Sanders appears to have no foreign policy at all.” Rosenberg continued, “A candidate who has deliberately not delivered a single speech devoted to foreign policy during his entire campaign was not about to start with Israel/Palestine.” But Rosenberg was wrong. Two days later Sen. Sanders’ talk was the one he hoped to give via video to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the large pro-Israel lobbying group meeting in Washington DC. He was refused permission (unlike Mitt Romney four years ago). Much of the media attention, general and Jewish, focused on Donald Trump, attempts to boycott his talk (with limited success), Trump’s rousing reception, and the embarrassed walk-back from AIPAC leaders striving to maintain a bi-partisan veneer. Hillary Clinton’s talk got some press, and the other Republican candidates received less coverage. But most of these talks covered familiar ground, with each speaker claiming to support Israel. In the Republicans’ case the candidates again opposed the Iran nuclear agreement, which AIPAC and the prime minister of Israel also opposed (despite polls showing most American Jews supported it). All these AIPAC presentations had their expected applause lines. [Read more…]
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Sanders Strips the Facts From Gaza
April 12, 2016 by Steve Sheffey Leave a Comment
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got it very wrong on Israel and Gaza. In an interview with the editorial board of The New York Daily News, Sanders absurdly claimed that Israel killed 10,000 innocent people in the 2014 Gaza War. After the Anti-Defamation League called on Sanders to correct his misstatement, the Sanders campaign issued a statement saying that Sanders was thinking of the number wounded, not the death toll, and that Sanders “immediately accepted” the interviewer’s finding that 2,000 Palestinians were killed. The ADL welcomed Sanders’ clarification, but Shai Franklin explains why Bernie-Come-Lately does no favors for Mideast peace.
There is no evidence in the record that Sanders accepted the 2,000 figure or that he acknowledged that the death toll included over 900 militants. Sanders’ ignorance of the death toll in Gaza demonstrates that he is not ready to be president and shows that while his heart might be in the right place, his head is not in the game.
Yair Rosenberg argues that Sanders’ “mistake had nothing to do with his being anti-Israel, and everything to do with his not knowing much about foreign policy.” Throughout the interview, Sanders showed his ignorance not only of foreign policy matters, but of domestic matters as well.
The American Jewish Committee correctly noted that Sanders still needs to clarify his “stinging and unjust” accusation that Israel’s self-defensive response was “indiscriminate.”
Compare Sanders’ views on the Gaza War to Hillary Clinton’s. Watch Hillary Clinton refuse to let Jon Stewart goad her into unfairly criticizing Israel’s conduct during the Gaza War. Hillary puts the blame squarely where it belongs: on Hamas.
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Three Ways of the Postmodern Theological
Best wishes to Rachel Marszalek and Jody Stowell as they go off into retreat ahead of their ordinations as deacons. That's despite them being evangelicals! Both have been victims of my drawing, Rachel more than many. Rachel writes good essays and has engaged with me at that level, and yet I think a lot of this evangelical sourced postmodern theology (it starts with Karl Barth and journeys through Hans Frei and the institutional George Lindbeck) is much of the Emperor's New Clothes. Another variant is the Radical Orthodoxy that is a kind of bubble of Anglo-Catholic postmodernism. Liberal postmodernism is the one that allows itself to spread out somewhat - Don Cupitt is the British version but the main man is arguably Mark C. Taylor in the United States. Of course there is hardly a boundary between liberal postmodernism and liberal modernism, as with say John Hick, though the latter types retain a form of theism. It makes sense - postmodernism and high modernism go together in the social sciences.
This is how I understand how postmodernisms in different camps come together. In Barth's scheme, the God of revelation is so high and dry you can't see it. No one can approach it - that is corrupt religion. So it has no objective existence, no actuality in history, culture - only in encounter under revelation. So Hans Frei says with no objectivity nor subjectivity it is like the postmodern and is received in the biblical narrative - which is history-like, or biography-like.
So there is a sleight of hand, there. In Radical Orthodoxy postmodernism allows for difference and thus a reassertion of the Platonic, the true and good - but within its bubble. It then gets to be like a bit of a thug (it can when the Church is perfect peace) and says it has the right to truth and something like Sociology is a form of secular theology. Rowan Williams expresses a kind of Radical Orthodoxy by always going on about 'the story' as authentic, except he gets into the detail and you start to think it is historical detail when it could just be fictitious. His Catholicism is highly institutional, as the people opposing the Anglican Communion Covenant have discovered. The Church is the ethic, so there is nothing that the Church need absorb - human rights is an inadequate starting point because they are secular and outside the bubble (though John Milbank is pro-gay inclusion!).
The liberal postmodernism is where each has their own language and nothing is dominant over the other. This is the problem of translating between cultures, discovered in a Social Anthropology that does not want to have Western intellectual terms as superior. You end up with a highly fluid, symbolic religion, Baudrillardian in that the symbols build up and break down. It is the anti-matter with the matter, and never only one of them: so a Eucharist is both real presence and unreal absence and never one. In terms of liberalism, the highly subjective breaks down into the postmodern, especially when the highly subjective tries to live with collective forms, such as shared worship. The Martineau route to postmodernism is the mirror image of the Barthian route; indeed the particular and the general are the opposite. For Martineau the Bible is something that is but an example of something all the greater; for Barth the Bible is the greater and activity identified as religion is the subsumed within it.
For myself, I am probably a high modernist. Sociology isn't just secular theology because it does research and produces, whether valid or regular, answers you don't want. It is not like a novel where you can make it all up. Nor is science. Yes there are ignored questions and big theories to change, and issues of language, but your experiments soon say yes or no in a real sense. The big humanist narratives are not narratives like theology: they actually reflect technological achievement. Theology, though, is open to the postmodern, because it is creative, is fictitious, is artistic. It is a form of reflection, and a means to engage with ethics.
I'm a soft postmodernist in religion in that I don't believe in the existence of God in any directive sense, but it is a useful 'summary' term about our hopes and fears. But I am not a postmodernist regarding science or anything else - I must be a critical realist. Each subject has a different language game, but that includes degrees of objectivity. Religion has realities of exchange and gift, of the communal and binding, but these are not structural: the poststructural and postmodern can run riot in varieties of interpretations.
AMiE More and it Gets Personal
Clearly this launch of the Anglican Mission in England is causing a few ripples, particularly among other Evangelicals. It is another example of the old story: the nearest competitor is the fiercest opposition. When the Social Democratic Party broke away from Labour, Labour carried on opposing the Conservatives but it was the former Labour people they opposed with venom.
One of my comments to an open evangelical's blog was rejected because it mentioned a real person, and whether open evangelical boundaries would be drawn against that person. I understand the sensitivities here, but in the end all this jockeying for position comes down to people - actual people - who are either included or excluded. The Fulcrum Statement on Interventionist Anglican Mission in England makes the demand:
We affirm...
...the concern to continue the pressure for maintaining the Anglican Communion's conservative view on sexual ethics within the Church of England.
The real people I know about, in the Church of England, are completely and totally opposed to this position.
Given that such people exist, in holy orders or not, and with Church jobs or not, all the 'indabas' in the world are not going to create some result that is both the Fulcrum affirmation and the opposite, inclusive, view. One of them has to give way.
However, the AMiE strategy is as much against the so-called "liberal evangelicals" as against liberals proper, given how they were described by the Principal of Wycliffe College in his now infamous Reform lecture in 2006. In it Richard Turnbull stated that:
And thirdly, I want to note the challenge that liberalism brings to us. We are all aware - in this room you don't need me to say or to explain to you the challenge that liberalism brings to the Church at large. I need [?] also want to warn against the nature of liberalism within our own midst. What I mean by that is this whole idea of what it means to be evangelical being broadened so that it encompasses everybody and everything. If the liberals seek to capture the theological colleges in order to exercise strategic influence, the first step will be to encourage liberal evangelicals to capture the evangelical colleges.
In other words, to reverse this around as to what he actually meant, the first step is to take on the liberal evangelicals and then be able to tackle the liberals proper.
The point about AMiE and the whole GAFCON industry is precisely to have alternative episcopal oversight so as not to have the institutional compromises of the Fulcrum kind.
My own view about the future is this: the Church of England under present management will bend hell to get the Anglican Communion Covenant through. Whatever it's overall effect in broader Anglicanism, its effect on the Church of England must be to freeze the institution because the Church of England provides the Archbishop, on of the Instruments of Unity. So there will be no inclusion or indeed anything that compromises this provision. The Liberals have one chance now to bust the Covenant, and if they do, that it is somehow unworkable, they will save the Church of England to at least allow it to evolve sometime in the future (and they might just get rid of this dreadful Archbishop Rowan Williams - again, it comes down to real people).
If the Covenant is passed, then really the need for a sectarian inside approach for evangelicals will be just silly, or rather completely entryist. They will want to be the lead evangelicals regardless, rather as Militant wanted to set the agenda for Labour in the 1980s.
But we know what happened. They didn't have a Rowan Williams who could duck and weave and force through some kind of appeasement to the entryists at a higher level, but a Neil Kinnock who in the end realised he had to pull the plant up and dig out the roots. Doing that meant the SDP became unnecessary in and of itself: later, of course, Labour forgot what it was at all and drifted off in the opposite direction, to the benefit of the left of centre Liberal Democrats until - oh dear, they got into bed with the Tories.
I remember at the time trying to go our with a socialist woman, an ex-Roman Catholic (and boy did that show through - all the stronger rejection and yet it was a wopping shadow over her). She referred to entryists and the like, by which she turned it around and meant the Gang of Four. But she was wrong because the Gang of Four were leaving anyway. That was the point.
I'm like one of the Gang of Four. I've left. But there are the Denis Healeys and Callaghans left behind, and even those who are equivalent of the ones who were to the right of them. The Internet person I'm referring to basically blogs religious humanist arguments and plenty of psychology. Yes the correct doctrinal headline buttons are pressed every so often. Even her now husband when interviewing her for a tiny temporary radio station asked about any references to the Bible - and he is an Affirming Liberal. So what about the Affirming Liberals and their equivalent, all of whom will be inclusivists?
My tradition is that of Richard Baxter. I mention him because even some of those who left the Church of England in 1662 did so despite being regarded as 'sober' - not all Puritans were raving extremists. The chap whose money pays for my house and, pretty much, the church, was strict but not a raving extremist. Nevertheless a point is arriving again where something has to give. Either the liberals ought to go, or the extremists of the evangelicals.
Usually what happens is that the broad people and the liberals hang on, as well as the compromisers. The extreme or principled or whatever usually design their way out. The Puritans did; the Methodists did. AMiE looks like a design for a way out, in that at some point entryism results in the bodies involved being removed (or you get compromised and compromised - Methodists and Puritans were both entryists in their day). I'm just suggesting that if the Covenant goes through, then Rowan Williams won't have just betrayed his friend (twice), but he will have shafted every person who agreed with his original objection to Lambeth 1998 1:10 and who saw him as intellectual ballast and a thinker of reasonable religion.
Singing Out of Time
The problem with prerecorded music of any kind is that it is unforgiving and inflexible. When singing the first hymn, and the first verse, everyone decided to leave a gap before the third line that wasn't there, and the music of the fourth line ended while everyone (except me - I stopped) was half way through and still going. So next verse, I became a kind of choir leader from behind the curtain, and punched in the early first word, third line. The tune of Amazing Grace used the piano for HL 177.
Community, supporting friends,
Hands joined in unity...
Rejoice, my friend, in fellowship,
In living, full and free.
O let us live with humankind
As sisters, brothers, true,
We'll share our joys, our sorrows share,
Becoming as we do.
We all can grow. We can become
Our finer selves set free...
Risk what we are, sure in our faith
In what we yet can be.
Doris Jeanine Stevens
Two of the hymns had choirs, one from the awful first 21 Hymns CD originally recorded in mono with a huge background hiss. For each hymn, I took off the hiss, leaving a metallic sound behind, and then by negative amplifying added a stereo breadth and then something called GVerb - basically an echo that throws the object backwards - to get rid of the metallic ribble sound, at a little cost of the esses and some clarity.
The second choir CD following that to assist Hymns for Living (1985) was much better - in stereo. The four to assist Sing Your Faith (2010) are better still. Before the two HL CDs there was a tape recorded in Harris Manchester College, Oxford, where the person recording it clunked his switches during the final echo of each hymn. The result there was I have had to cut the clunk off and then add artificial echo. My friend Mr Sedman (who installed the sound system, and what a difference it makes) says it will have been recorded with a ghetto blaster or similar. Ah yeah. Clunk - we've done that one. Nobody thinks.
While handing these CDs I have built up a stock of organ playing, piano playing and other instruments for other hymns, speeding them up or slowing them down, raising or lowering the pitch, with the correct number of verses (adding or removing) right in the depths of the wave form to achieve no clicks or joins.
Some music is 'fake', in the sense that it is untouched by human hands. The innovation today was I had taken a .MID (computer generated file) of Carmina Burana - 25 mins worth - and turned all its instruments into pianos. It's incredible to see the notes of the .MID file - saving as text effectively at 460 kb plus. It sort of worked as the lead in piece to start the service on time. In future though I'll chop out most of it. I did the same for a fugue. Thus I said for the hymn, where people sung it their way: the only thing is I could write it out and build the pause in where people want it. The music would then come from the music composing software.
However, I am more likely to reproduce HL 174, A Church is a Living Fellowship, that was the hymn in the dreadful quality CD that I had to process. This is because its tune is Lancaster (9.6. 9.6), by Unitarian music guru David Dawson, and so is simply unavailable elsewhere.
A church is a living fellowship
More than a holy shrine,
Where people can share their hopes and fear,
Less of the yours and mine;
Where bonded by trust we search for Truth
Beyond the chains of creeds,
And thought can aspire to shine with fire
From all our deepest needs.
Let's stretch out the open hand of Love,
Conquer the fists of hate,
Divided no more by voices of war,
Greeds of our mindless state;
We'll take all our building bricks of Truth,
Make of them homes of Life,
A future to face the shame and disgrace
In all our past of strife.
A church is a place of human trust
More than of brick and stone;
Of Love we will sing to make it ring
In every joyous tone.
Here's a case of where an author in a book is given a birth date and a dash, but the book becomes out of date as the Unitarian minister author has died since. The author is Frank Clabburn, self-confessed at the humanist end of the denomination. So I'm thinking that this is likely to get my rewrite treatment, depending on the time available given the next service and its demands.
SPREAD a Little Unhappiness
First off best wishes to the newly named Lesley Crawley and her husband Alan.
As 'low liberals', they won't be too sympathetic to the nature of the new Anglican Mission in England and the Society for the Propagation of Reformed Evangelical Anglican Doctrine. The lead man in this is the unfortunately-named Charles Raven (given the better known and rather different Anglican divine of the same name), who is no longer a member of the Church of England.
As an outsider it is odd that he follows the line given by GAFCON, but which no one really believes, that it is an inside the Church of England reforming body. Yet he states:
Receiving the AMiE as the new wineskin of global Anglicanism could very well be its last chance ’to wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die’ (Revelation 3:2).
Hang on. Doesn't this relate to the idea that you can't put new wine in old wineskins? So you can't have the old Church of England then - if it is to be the new wineskin of global Anglicanism, with overseas or other episcopal oversight as this entryist body AMiE sees fit?
Given that Charles Raven is a 'New Puritan' and has been kicked out of the C of E, his ideological predecessor is more Richard Baxter rather than Richard Hooker. Baxter is also an ideological predecessor of mine, in that I attend the movement derived from the English Presbyterians who left the Church of England but were, in a few senses, more moderate that those Puritans who preferred congregationalism (though both organised using independency). The difference is that the trustee-led Bible only pew renters liberalised over time and then caught the capitalist liberal ideological spirit and later a critical, individualist, spirit.
Raven represents a movement different from the developments in nineteenth century Anglicanism towards liberalism, Catholicism and, for some, a synthesis of the two found today in Affirming Catholicism.
Now Raven and company think they can do church planting to recover reformed Anglicanism where it is lacking. I've news for them - no chance. Why? Well, I have a local story to tell as to why.
I did part of my Ph.D participant observation in an evangelical Anglican Church. It didn't boom in numbers, because there is no magic formula and Hull is tough territory regardless. However, the New Life Church in Bridlington Avenue, supplier of content to satellite Christian television, is going to built a thousand seat media and community church in Kingswood, north Hull. They'll do it by a church plant, splitting their own congregation. I can tell Charles Raven now that the Anglican church nearest, that passes every evangelical test he would set, is doomed. That media church will provide the kind of religious entertainment that attracts the numbers. It will do some community outreach too, on its terms. But this is like a religious vacuum cleaner at this end of the market. The people will drive in and come from around, and the evangelical Anglican church won't be able to compete. It may as well become liberal.
The Anglican Church with its formats and formulas and hierarchy cannot compete with the media church's informality, and the sheer nature of the entertainment that crosses over with spirituality. Just a few of these churches sweep up the available evangelical numbers in a city. Anglicanism is already becoming an acquired taste that no one understands unless they are already insiders. The danger is, too, that those who do join and get coached by an evangelical Anglican church will simply go off to the bigger, better experience.
Perhaps at his end of the market, the compatible folks for Anglicanism are SPREAD more thinly.
Erastian Interference
The English national Church says that, when it comes to Civil Partnerships on religious premises, other faiths and denominations should not have celebrants who are registrars, that the registrar should do the civil bit first and take no part in the service, and that the partnership done, the service should then proceed. HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM NOW?
STOP INTERFERING! The service should BE the way that the gay people come together in their union.
Meanwhile, I've seen the first draft of the response of the English national Church to the government. It follows below:
Church in England press release needs to indicate that given the decision that Parliament has already taken against our better Plan A judgement to amend the Civil Partnership Act 2004, the response here focuses on our Plan B need to have unfettered freedom to deny gay people our blessings and to be able to continue to legislate internally to this end for as long as we want.
Opting in is the key. Unless and until and underwear the General Synod should say 'aye' three times, there will be no dirtying our premises with such actions, so our lot can keep their vests on.
We need a full hermeneutically checked submission that addresses the specific issues raised by the consultation from Cleggy to clergy, without any Open Evangelical or Affirming Catholic double facing nuances, and this would be so if so set out below.
Q1: Requiring consent
We like the idea of consent, and once general consent is given in a denomination then the locals might have someone to say we would like to register the building for the purpose - and let's just see what local prejudice there is in these so called progressive denominations. Hah! But if you don't opt in to start with, no one local will be able to ask. The Church in England then would have to give its consent first, though this would have to be consistent with the Anglican Communion Covenant and providing the Archbishop Instrument to the Communion. So we won't be opting in until the Nigerians do. Hah!
Q2 and Q3: who will be required to give consent?
For some decades now we have lived alongside all sorts of heretics and strange beliefs so they'd better do something nearer to what they want, though it hardly goes along with the Erastian principle and keeping our focus of unity heterosexual bishops in the House of Lords.
We are epicopally led synodically governed. This means that the Archbishops shout at people and bully the other bishops, who are generally stupid. In the end the General Synod makes a decision, but they love the Archbishops and operate like jelly. See how we are getting this Anglican Communion Covenant through! Hah! So despite us being the State Church, this General Synod is our Parliament and it will keep the gays out as well as think about other forms of prejudice.
So the law should name the General Synod as the body that makes decisions despite the fact that the Archbishops twist people's arms, leak and go to the toilet. That'll be nice.
Q4 and Q5: demonstrating consent in applications to the local authority
Just send off your applications once the denomination has said yes, but if it says no then put a line through it.
The local authority might delay matters just to check that the denomination did agree, but by calling it a consultation it would notify the public that gays would be gathering in these places and the public might want to organise some mob-like opposition.
If the local authority cocks it up (hah!) then a right of review should also exist after approval so that the denomination can say it said no or the mob can have more time to organise.
The denomination would also be able to say yes and then no, and thus scrap all the local consents to have gay people present for so called blessings. We reckon five days is about right to reverse things and organise the mob.
Q7 and Q.8: Buildings issues
Obviously churches ought to look like churches and temples look like temples, otherwise there's going to be all sorts of confusion about people having something so-called sacred or not sacred, religious or civil, Richard and Cyril. We need less unclarity on this matter.
Presumably use can be made of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 in so far as that system is applicable. We don't want the Scottish situation where some cleric can do it in the street. We don't want gay blessings in the street, after all, although we would make an exception for a busy road.
But it is nothing to do with us as the Church in England doesn't register its buildings for marriage as we have Erastian State privilege, or at least we used to have this until Civil Partnerships and equality legislation came in.
But belonging to does not a Church or Temple make. In any case there is no such thing as the Church in England inc, although clergy do use Church in England ink. We think our diplomats should meet government diplomats for bilateral talks on this matter, which might create some delay.
Q.9 and Q.10: Availability and public access
Now here's an important principle. We don't want institutions of one religion or denomination doing Religious Civil Partnerships for members of other faiths or denominations. So if a bunch of Unitarians started gay-marrying Christians, we would seek damages in court and have such a denomination shut down. We refer to the Lady Hewley and Lady Healey case, a couple of Puritans who were a bit naughty with one another.
If heretics use the church for a service, then heretics are the only people to go inside them for their so-called blessings and partnership wotsits.
Q.11 and Q.12: Layout and general use
And the other thing is, a church is a church and not a restaurant. So if food isn't normally consumed on the premises you can't exactly have a Civil Partnership done with religion given the tendency for Civil Partners to eat and drink. Otherwise this will clash with the Equality Act that states that all people must have equal access to food and drink, consistent with the money in the handbag or whatever the man has.
Q.13: Religious symbols, iconography and objects
Denominations and faiths may as well keep the pictures on the wall and other items on shelves and tables while Civil Partnerships were registered.
On the other hand, a Civil Marriage can't have such symbols on display. You might have a moonlit night picture but not a church in the foreground. This creates some confusion, because a Civil Partnership won't be like a Civil Marriage any more, but then was it? But let's keep a Civil marriage secular so that our religious marriage is the real deal, the proper dog's bollocks when compared with something else in religious premises.
Q.14: Conduct of the ceremony
But if there is a Civil Registrar, then you can't have religious things going on. Just as a Civil Marriage can't have a Bible reading, or from the Qur'an, or from Star Wars, nor should a Civil Partnership with a registrar. So we think that the way to do this is have a registrar with his or her or transexual fingers in his or her or transexual ears while the so-called religious bits happen, and singing away "la la la", until the religious celebrant tells him, her or himher to come over and use some ink.
If he/ she/ heshe does the civil ceremony first then the religious bit will be like it is now, any sort of add-on, and it would even more so be a rubbish thing that others do. It wouldn't be a combined Religious Civil Partnership, and thus only heterosexual marriage would be the real deal, the dog's bollocks.
Q.15 - 20: Approval of premises
Talk any more about trustees and proprieters and we'll call our lawyers.
Of course local authorities should charge for Civil Partnerships. The price should be prohibitive.
Revoking approval
If the local authority can find an excuse, they should be able to close religious premises down that have conducted Civil Partnerships.
Training and information
Although it won't concern us, we would be interested to know how training will be done. The more ignorant people are, the fewer places will open for this sort of thing.
Q 21: Other issues
The fuckilty jurisdiction
Now here is how we are going to stop it all. The General Synod says no. So some people might be a bit sneaky and try and hold a ceremony in a parish church. Will they cocoa! Let's be honest - these blessings are not properly religious. They are secular and if you do secular things in an English church then you need a fuckilty. Like if you want to do some social science, you need a Fuckilty of Social Science (and then you can fuck up some Economics, Politics, Sociology). So, any non-sacred use of a church building would have to get a fuckilty from a consistent court. Such a non-sacred use of one of our premises ain't going to get a fuckilty from a consistent court.
Religious celebrants
And no, faith groups and denominations shouldn't have celebrants as registrars for Civil Partnerships! Hah! So you can't have a registrar involved, he ought to act first, and you can do your so called religion afterwards. How is that different from now? IT ISN'T!
Yes we want to interfere in how you do your so-called religion!
Q.22: Potential legal challenges
We want our position watertight. No gay partnerships on our premises, and we will make sure there are no fuckilties.
Q.23 - Q.25: Impact assessment
Perhaps no one wants these things after all? Anyway, the labour cost is under £18 an hour. That's how much our ministers get for reading a book and imagining a sermon.
(Interfering, overtly gay-free) Church in England
For June 2011
Last Saturday
Mark Townshend can be described as a Hedge Priest; it means, according to Druids, that he is in between Christian and Nature traditions. Between June 2007 and April 2010 Mark Townshend was in a kind of limbo, an Anglican exile that ended with an orthodoxy test and then return of his priestly licence. Nevertheless, he decided to stay out, and thus has been reordained in the Open Episcopal Church (sub-conditione - just in case)
The liturgy represented both aspects, and so some came from the Ordinal of the Liberal Catholic Church and part came from poet and liturgist Revd. Tess Ward.
This was the Solstice Eucharistic element by Revd. Tess ward:
We are approaching the long day
The day for brightness, for lightness, for life-giving renewal
When the sun burnishes at full strength
Rays flaring like the mane of a lion
With courage and energy at its heart.
On this day we will raise the bread of Christ
like a monstrance of life death and new life
drawing us into the power and struggle of God’s Spirit in the world.
This is the day between Pentecost and the Summer Solstice
when the warm earth is bursting with joy
This is the day for rejoicing and being with friends
for fruitfulness and creativity
for celebrating the fire in our spirits
and finding our compasses set at true
as we venture on in our journeys.
But the longest day is a day that must pass
It is the day that looks toward the shortest day
It is the day when the sun will begin to wane
And we are reminded that
light belongs with shadow
flourishing with diminishment
So as the sun draws all to its zenith,
we embrace with love all that must fade.
In silence, let us remember all that is broken in our world at this time……
Those whom we know who need our prayers and holding in the light…….
And let us place ourselves in the divine rhythm of life death and new life
as we come to this table now……..
For Christ was born in the milk and moon of earth
pushed from the dark soupy waters
into a wall-less world.
We saw him with our own eyes
Touched him with our hands
We saw road-dust on his feet, smelt sea-salt in his hair,
Toil behind his finger nails
And gathered round a table with those whose faces are like ours
Planted in a particular time and a place
He took a loaf in his hands and blessed it
He broke it open and said “Take eat, this is my body broken for all that is broken.
Share it to remember me”.
He took a pitcher of wine and poured it into a cup.
He blessed it and said “Drink from this for compassion’s sake for it is my blood poured on this earth so love may flow and heal this troubled world. Share it to remember me.”
And here with the song of the birds
and the abundance of the fruits and flowers
Amongst the orchards and the river and the gentle curve of land
Here amidst the fiery forces of nature
He hung alone upon a tree
rooted in the humus and soil of all that lives.
He gathered all the silence of the mountain times to himself
And let the darkness come upon him.
He plunged down and down and darkly down
through emptiness and chaos, through formless void.
He plunged so deeply and so violently that he touched bottom
And the Spirit hovered over the face of the deep
and shone in the dazzling darkness
and the heavy mass of all that is unhealed was rolled away.
And love carved a space inside the centre
into which a voice might speak
an echo of the first and deepest sound ever made
longing for union
a word issuing forth from the womb of the eternal
a cry so natural it calls us to come to our senses.
For as it was then so now and here
Spirit from the beginning,
breathing through all,
through flame and wave
through land and pore
in the hills and on the shore
and the dear flesh of every one we ever loved.
Come brood over these earthly things
That they may become for us the body and blood of Christ
Breathe peace through the
struggle and the striving
Breathe joy through root and star
Breathe love down to the skin and the sinew,
the blood and the bone,
For you are the lived life.
You dwell within us and among us.
You are there.
You are one.
Mark has taken the Rent a Rev. tag from Rev. Horseman, himself marginalised and exiled from the Church of England and who has now retired. So it is a risky venture, but with full freedom to be both a Catholic priest and nature based. Instead of heresy there is creativity.
Here is a prayer from one of the Pagans (I have seen this before):
Grant, O Great Spirit, thy Protection,
And in Protection, Strength,
And in Strength, Understanding,
And in Understanding, Knowledge,
And in Knowledge, the Knowledge of Justice,
And in the Knowledge of Justice, the Love of it,
And in the Love of it, the Love of All Existences,
And in the Love of All Existences,
The Love of God/Goddess and all Goodness.
The Church of England advice to itself about gay bishops remains convoluted as with the original leak (via Thinking Anglicans). The law allows a religious body to discriminate on the basis not of its doctrines but on what a significant number of its followers think:
because of the nature or context of the [office], the requirement is applied so as to avoid conflicting with the strongly held religious convictions of a significant number of the religion’s followers.
The C of E itself, however, concentrates on whether anyone is doing nookie or not outside of marriage. So there is no restriction on a bishop being in a Civil Partnership as such. However, some people then believe things about the Civil Partnership even if a bishop in one said no nookie is taking place. Perhaps in his diocesan magazine, he and 'Fred' can declare that they are not playing with each other under the bedsheets.
26. It is clearly the case that a significant number of Anglicans, on grounds of strongly held religious conviction believe that a Christian leader should not enter into a civil partnership, even if celibate, because it involves forming an exclusive, lifelong bond with someone of the same sex, creates family ties and is generally viewed in wider society as akin to same-sex marriage. It is equally clear that many other Anglicans believe that it is appropriate that clergy who are gay by orientation enter into civil partnerships, even though the discipline of the church requires them to remain sexually abstinent.
It is this 'division of opinion' that means a gay man in a Civil Partnership is unlikely ever to become a bishop! This of course is exactly how the Anglican Covenant will operate - the division of opinion serves the more conservative outcome, and indeed providing the Archbishop of Canterbury as a regulative instrument to this Covenant will mean the Church of England in particular will be duty bound to maintain the most conservative of outcomes.
• where someone is in a civil partnership and/or is known to have been in a same-sex relationship, even though now celibate, it is for the CNC in the case of diocesan appointments and for the diocesan bishop, in consultation with the relevant archbishop, in relation to suffragan appointments, to come to a view whether the person concerned can act as a focus for unity because of these matters.
The answer surely is always going to be "no", because there are always enough people to make a fuss. It is why, when a diocese might suggest a gay man as a bishop, Archbishops might make some people cry or change their vote during a visit to the urinals or leak matters and hold an enquiry where the findings themselves are held in secret.
There are few objective measures in this: it is just opinion at the time (that's like the Covenant too). But one matter that might be made almost objective is what the person concerned states. Never mind what he thinks, but what does he state:
29. Relevant factors which can properly be taken into account include:
• whether the candidate had always complied with the Church’s teachings on same-sex sexual activity;...
• whether he was in a continuing civil partnership with a person with whom he had had an earlier same-sex sexual relationship;
• whether he had expressed repentance for any previous same-sex sexual activity;...
In other words, whilst the diocesan rag might state that the bishop was having no nookie, he would also have to say that if he used to have nookie that it was wrong and indeed no one should have nookie outside of heterosexual marriage. The fact that he used to offer some of his flesh to Fred for a bit of bonding was, he now realises, mistaken and should Fred approach him he will slap his hand. Meanwhile, Bishop Jim next door says nothing about when he ran through a string of female relationships before he hitched up with Jane.
So he says - but as we know with this Archbishop of Canterbury, there are things you state publically and things you might think privately.
Put simply, the Church of England on this matter is a laughing stock. Reform says the Civil Partnership compromises a bishop. It does, given the silly rules to begin with.
The only relevant opinion surely about lifestyle is that someone is faithful to someone else. The rest - the focus on the body bits - is irrelevant. Marriage is not some magical act. What happens before it, even after it with separation, is about faithfulness offered, taken, reciprocated and observed regarding the other person. To allow a Civil Partnership should be enough. Indeed, marriage and partnership should be available to all, so that orientations can enjoy stronger and weaker forms of partnering for equal civil benefits. The Church of England ought to be capable of showing its discrimination with more clarity.
Told of a Tour
The problem with people on holiday, or otherwise engaged, when the congregation is small already is that it soon thins out. And so the numbers were thin to welcome Neville Kenyon, last years General Assembly President. It's fair to say that he is a denominationalist and that was evident even in his prayers. He wants distance between Unitarianism and the collection of Christian denominations. The talk was a tour around Unitarianism as taken last year by the then President. He made it to around 80 churches and there were some 15 more asking, like Hull. He saw positive signs. He was a little puzzled by the presence of Mhoira Lauer-Patterson in the congregation, as she was wearing a clerical collar. He knew she wasn't "one of ours", though soon was to learn of her involvement particularly in Leeds (Mhoira takes a service in Hull soon). It was because I'd been asked information about Bournemouth that I asked him, and it had closed recently but a group are hoping to gather in Poole. Poole closed a long time ago; it was the first ministry of Hull's long standing minister, the late Ernest Penn. I didn't ask for contact details, if they were available. Of course Neville was able to say that Leeds is a very different place and ethos from Hull - Mill Hill is an example of Victorian Gothic. Hull was like that up to 1976, though even then it didn't match Leeds. The Hull church used to rival the what was a children's hospital next door. Now those NHS administrative buildings dwarf the functional church (where, sometime this last fortnight, someone's nicked the lead).
Elsewhere it was Trinity Sunday, and this was always a bit of a laugh for me to hear preachers express puzzlement with it or themselves about it or hand it over to some curate or lay reader. It received not a thought in our place and that's probably quite right.Some will have given it attention to reject it, others attention to see it as a mythic communal expression but it could be four or five.
Streamlined Unitarian Education
Unitarians have a humorously named Joined Up Education Panel. I'm not quite sure how it is joined up, and what possibly wasn't beforehand.
It offers two courses to anyone, at different levels. These reflect the apparent need to train people to take services and also to inform the Unitarian tradition. The Education people have streamlined two courses for these purposes.
The Worship Studies Course (WSC) (good job it is not simply the Worship Course) starts at a lower level than the Unitarian Studies Course (USC). The Worship Foundation Step is for students to take services in their own or neighbouring congregations. I wonder how many who do this have taken the course?
Foundation students look at What is worship? Speech and Communication, Elements of the service (readings, prayers/ meditation/ silence, hymns, music, sermon/ address, stories/ children), Practicalities and Precautions. Sources and Resources.
Then both the WSC and the USC have the Preliminary Step, being four modules each.
The four modules for both are:
Unitarian theology/ thought.
Unitarian history - local/ broader.
Biblical studies.
World religions and worship including new age/ earth spirit spirituality.
THe USC students present 4 short essays to each of these, and WSC students submit four services to each of these and in addition deliver two of the services for assessment by an appropriate person, e.g. a minister or recognised lay leader/ preacher/ pastor. Funnily enough, I was asked if I could assess one service, and I'm none of these.
Personally I am concerned at the prominence given to biblical studies. This should extend out to other scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist Sutras and the Qur'an. It would then be more consistent with the fourth module. This is not very joined up!
At the Preliminary Step Study Skills are offered to both sets of students.
Only the Advanced Step leads on to Lay Preacher recognition by the General Assembly. After that the WSC leads on to Lay Pastor or Ministerial training.
The four modules remain the same but this time WSC students submit six services with appropriate readings and hymns for each of the modules at a higher level than at the Preliminary Step. Six services are presented from the twenty four, assessed by someone appropriate like a minister or recognised lay leader/ preacher/ pastor.
USC students submit six essays for each of the four modules at a higher level than in the Preliminary Step. These are between 1500-2000 words each.
Each module should take six months.
In addition to holding a portfolio, WSC students in particular would find it useful to keep records of attendance at the likes of Hucklow Summer School, Unitarian Experience Week and other conferences, courses or meetings. It would help in applying for Lay Pastor or Ministerial training.
I just wonder how many will take these courses. First of all, 2000 words limit per essay would frustrate me. I don't want to be funny, but I reckon I am well up on Unitarian theology/ thought, and I have written papers on Unitarian history both local and broader. I might have to do more for Biblical studies, but my scriptural use goes further, and as a trained RE teacher I passed a knowledge base for world religions and the experiential and I have looked into new age/ earth spirit spirituality at some depth.
In fact, I'd go so far to suggest that, in a few areas and specialities, I probably am better read and have produced more than a number of the tutors. Plus as well as the RE PGCE I have a Sociology of Religion Ph.D and a Contemporary Theology MA for which my dissertation was on the theologies within Unitarian Universalism. I have presented on Unitarian history local and broader to the Hull and District Theological Society. I also spent a year getting bored at Unitarian College where the initial University of Manchester MA course was deemed too repetitive and low level given my Ph.D overlap and I went on instead to do a psychology of adult education course (wrongly interpreted by some at the time as a lack of commitment to ministry training and backing a different horse). Oh and I have written study skills materials as I have both supported study skills and taught literacy in HE and FE respectively.
My more in depth services that I present - all of which use liturgical principles many others do not consider - often leave people saying that my sermons lose them at some point. I'd like to see quite a broad extension of Unitarian knowledge and identity so that some people understand better the basics. For example, I remember it took a while to get some people to realise that the 1672 date of starting the congregation was not the Unitarian kick off date. If it has a date then in Hull it is 1802. The founders were quite the opposite of Unitarians - demanding liberty of worship is not the same as being liberal. Even then the suggestion was made that they were in some way 'like us' when it was a wholly different period of time and understanding. Nor do many people realise how there were two camps of Unitarians, and in Hull both were evident and represented throughout the nineteenth century. But not a lot of people know this.
Ready for Sunday
Wednesday I began creating a CD for the service on Sunday, to discover software that needed setting properly and the odd missing program to be found and downloaded. It's amazing just how much goes into this method of providing music. It is similar for art work. I have installed fewer programs this time, but the key ones remain the same. And I wondered where were these brushes I once used in the drawing and painting program, only to realise that they had to be downloaded and added to the ones available. The first drawing after restoration, of Adrian Glover of the Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church, is here shown.
Whilst then I'm still going to press the need for back up in making these CDs, I realise that I might have to load in software and choose the settings for whoever takes up the task.What's the betting that no one else takes on the task, and then is the method of provision sustainable if only one person can do it?
Nearly twenty one minutes of music plays up to the beginning of the service, and there are two pieces within - an interlude and collection. The latter is an extract, as is the end piece by experiment. The hymns are SF 158 Morning Light choir, SF 079 Beethoven choir, SF 014 Westchase choir and SF 196 Woodlands (thus all from the new book). The latter music I made up myself and twice, once via music composing software. Below is the third hymn, Sing Your Faith 14.
Bring many names,
Beautiful and good,
Celebrate in parable and story,
Holiness in glory,
Living, loving God:
Hail and Hosanna,
Bring many names!
Strong mother God,
Working night and day,
Planning all the wonders of creation,
Setting each equation,
Genius at play:
Strong mother God!
Warm father God,
Hugging every child,
Feeling all the strains of human living,
Caring and forgiving,
Till we're reconciled:
Warm father God!
Old, aching God,
Grey with endless care,
Calmly piercing evil's new disguises,
Glad of good suprises,
Wiser than despair:
Old, aching God!
Young, growing God,
Eager, on the move,
Saying no to falsehood and unkindness,
Crying out for justice
Giving all you have:
Young, growing God!
Great, living God,
Never fully known,
Joyful darkness far beyond our seeing,
Closer yet than breathing,
Everlasing home:
Great, Living God.
Brian Wren. Music by Carlton R. Young.
Transporting and Resurrection
I made a comment at Fulcrum that I'd like to expand on here.
One of the failings of the Star Trek franchise was the matter of transporting. This was the idea that as matter you could be converted into energy, with a pattern, transported and rebuilt. The amount of energy was never discussed, but it would of course be an explosive amount using Einstein's little formula. Be that as it may, no one would do it.
To go into a transporter is to die. You, the person you experience, would simply end. Then, down on a planet surface, allowing for a remote reconstitution of energy into matter, a reconstruction would take place. That person would have all the same features and memories, and be that person, but despite the internal illusion that person would be different. Yes, he or she can remember walking into the transporter, but the person that did it wouldn't remember anything ever more.
With the job done, the person transports back. And dies as the material is destroyed. The reconstruction back on the ship remembers energising, but the person that energised is dead.
Indeed there is no need to transport the energy at all - just send the pattern, and gather up the energy anywhere. It is exactly like having a copier.
Now I take the view that the resurrection of Jesus Christ, using the texts, is a myth. It is an explanation for an inspiration, legitimacy, leadership and a particular ritual (the meal, the presence of the coming messiah). It is an old belief and not one we share.
But just suppose it was capable of being video recorded, or there was some sort of walking through walls chap after Jesus's death looking like him. The point is that the same argument applies. If Jesus did die, and fully died, then that consciousness went with him. Anything after is a copy.
I just think that both Star Trek transporting and resurrection is drivel. Indeed, what actually DNA reproduction tells us is that there are mistakes in copying. So Captain Kirk would not be quite the same with each copy, nor the one copy of Christ. A little error would appear here or there. Fortunately I believe in neither, and even if copying to such life-enhancing detail was possible, no one would ever enter a transporter from choice.
Gay Times Go
Just a note here that I have written and sent off my piece to the Gay Times, of a difficult to contract down to some 630 words, on why the Archbishop of Canterbury should resign over the his impact on the gay issue in the Church of England. Well, I could put it here now, but I won't, other than to say he should be pushed before it is too late. It compares the Archbishop to an American President and the power to persuade, and illustrates some of his demonstrated political skills, his ethical reversal from before Rowan Williams's "job" and why the Covenant is really the final battle for liberals, social or theological, within the Church of England. Once it is through, the issue is frozen, as is the Church of England, and my short piece even explains why. If I had more space I would say he has been the most disastrous Archbishop this Church has suffered in a number of centuries.
Trip to York
I am still somewhat distracted by computer restoration matters, puzzled as to why my drawing tablet knocks out my mouse (it didn't before). So this report is brief.
I was disappointed about the trip to York Unitarians. To me the place was not as busy as believed, although it has a complete age range. I was disappointed too about the service: I agreed with a comment from someone that it was too much "happy families" and, for me, it lacked ballast. Still, I did get to meet Celia Midgley, herself with John travelled from Skipton, who has a memory better than mine for past conversations. They were important pastoral supporters of mine while I was at Unitarian College. John and her had a strong negative response to my discovery back then of the Free Catholic experiment, that it was an aberration in Unitarian history. So I had brief news of that form of religious life resurfacing in this part of the world. The demand to go off to a local pub for lunch cut into the opportunity to have conversation, and personally I'd rather have stayed in the church and spoken to people we had the opportunity to meet. Then it rained so we just returned to Hull.
Williams the Amateur
Obviously I have heard the news about Rowan Williams and his commentary on government, and how it was highlighted in the media. What seemed odd on television was an apparent criticism of Ian Duncan Smith and his welfare to work policy, a sort of anti-poverty policy, and yet he had been invited by the guest editor Williams to write in the New Statesman magazine. The answer, of course, is that Williams was not criticising him and his policies, but making statements about a coalition government producing those policies for which no one had voted (NHS reform is the obvious one) and a matter of fear over what the government was doing.
The problem with the Ian Duncan Smith policy is that it won't work unless there are jobs to fill; and this 'payment by results' business seems just more of the same crap those of us inhabiting the system have seen before. How many times can you tell someone how to produce a CV? What would be the point of giving me literacy lessons or how to switch on a computer? So if the policy is useless, at least make it cheap (no results equals no payment), and private firms will just be going out of business doing this silly merry go round of placements and apparent activity.
What this government has done is attacked the poor financially, as well as all but the rich, and the rapid shrinking of public employment could cause an economic heart attack on an already weak patient. The IMF is imposing this medicine elsewhere, so we got in first on the basis that doing it ourselves impresses the bankrupters and keeps our interest rates down. So the economic world is bust. So there will be more unemployment here (along with fiddled statistics: I believe none of them). Fundamentally, then, the problem is that so much finance now is a Mickey Mouse reshuffling the pack; the scandal of the Southern Cross residential homes under this sort of capital-releasing bonus paying nonsense that puts real lives at risk is part of the brokenness that is today's capitalism. Capitalism is bust and we need a new way to organise human essentials.
Now if the Archbishop had said that, it would have been something. But he did not. And once upon a time there was an output of Christian social theology, in Anglican terms lasting for around a generation more after William Temple. Now it is the Archbishop acting as a happy amateur in a field not his own, whose opinion on this matter is no more worthwhile than mine.
But as many point out, he hardly preaches or practises what he preaches to the public at large: he lacks legitimacy himself. He has no democratic backing, and represents privilege into the House of Lords. He acts in an authoritarian manner, and seeks exemptions from equality legislation and anything else his own Church desires. He even acts like a politician with the same devious and manipulative methods as suits.
Towards Restoration
Friday was a day off from being glued to the computer. It did not even come on during the day. Thursday had been a day of initial restoration. On Wednesday we had to tackle the inability to get on to the Internet, and I even rang the shop that made up the computer. Saying that his father, who'd have dealt with me, was in later at 3 pm was accompanied by them using standard chips. My friend knew that these would be labelled and looked for himself, eventually finding motherboard drivers to make the difference, but going semi-blind he installed a little too much and received the blue screen of death at every Windows boot up. So we ended up going across Hull and into Hessle where the whole reinstallation process began again from the beginning.
Data was extracted yet again via Safe Mode but this time I arrived at his house having purchased an external hard drive. The data went on to that. Then Windows was reinstalled and Service Pack 2 again, and the drivers as necessary were entered to gain connection to the Internet.
All I did today when home was replace two RJ45 wires to give the Internet to my old second computer. It is an old, robust one but slow. However, when our friends shuffle along computers, I have decided that my replacement will have to be different. I must learn how to operate Linux and to get it to do important tasks. I just get the sense that Windows is far too complex and bloated for its own good, subject to attack and leads on to these major restorations. I'm not happy that having installed and put in some software it needed a defragmenting, and I am typing while a Shred program is removing piles of enormous stuff from the Recycle Bin. It will need another defragmenting. I don't actually like the principle of 'automatic updates' by which Internet Explorer jumped to version 8 and then Service Pack 3 appeared and was entered.
I've learnt a lot but then years back I learnt enough about Mallard Basic to produce menus and tasks on an Amstrad PCW. The point of a computer is to write, to draw, to read, to communicate: to be creative. It is not - for me - about examining the engine and the means to travel. I want to actually travel. QVC this evening was flogging a complicated touch screen multimedia thing based on huge computing power and complexity: what it that gets a maleware and virus? It'll be like the modern car where only a garage will be able to repair, at a huge price, before the next attempt at money extraction, and the terms of what is viewed is all commercially driven.
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Computer Sick
I am writing this from a very sick computer. It is slow: text is appearing from my typing at variable rates. From Sunday afternoon to this afternoon my computer was heavily and comprehensibly disabled, and even now it cannot system restore (it gets stuck midway). On Sunday afternoon a malware virus kicked in, telling me that my hard drive was dying, which at first I believed. I did until the scan told me to buy extra software, which is not even of the Windows technique as it was masquerading. The malware, we later considered and I discovered, made all main drive folders and files hidden and read only, which was why we could do so little even in safe mode. Even now after some registry actions of mine all shortcuts have been lost.
Linux Puppy showed that all the folders and files seemingly lost existed, but it would not allow them to be moved about.
After a call last night my computer whizzkid friend Dominic came here to battle with the computer, and he didn't get far fast, and even he had to ring his professional computer fixer brother. But crucially he did get to the Windows Task Manager and by deduction was able to discover the malware file, though not its entire location. Later a downloaded AVG caught that named file and we discovered the complete location. It is D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\25812772.exe and it is related to Win32\kryptik.ora. This can come to a computer by various means.
The upshot is he is back tomorrow and it is a data saving to an external drive and a full Windows reinstallation session. It will take me a long time to restore the computer with the programs I use, but it is now very slow and sick. I have had to show all hidden files and folders, and turn all of them via Properties away from Read Only and Hidden. Three attempts at System Restore, all of which failed, returned many back to Read Only and Hidden. Some ought to be hidden. Hopefully this will assist moving files to a hard drive, but of course all programs need installing and those that don't need installing need shortcuts to be put in logical Start Menu Programs folders.
The last malware I received gave me a split second at boot up to run something. I was able to use Spybot then and to knock it out. Unfortunately this time Safe Mode with Networking, which gave some access online, resulted in downloading something called Prevx to remove viruses etc. but it seems to me to behave like malware. I cannot remove it, it is telling me files are viruses which are not, and payment is required to remove these files. I will be able to remove it with some effort (but it is misplaced effort).
So I won't be online, or receiving anymore emails for a few days, while I restore the computer.
Whatever one does, regarding the malware, never be tempted to 'purchase' because they do not offer a solution to the damage - they simply take your financial details and steal money. It has to be removed.
Can't Satisfy all of the People all of the Time
It matters that, whatever the subject matter, the service is well presented and it was very well presented today - indeed one that many a service taker might follow regarding diction, pace and spaces. The topic covered matters heard before about the King James Bible with a bit extra about the service taker's attendance at a Bible course at Luther King House and contrasting the optional nature of the Bible among Unitarians with that of others and their applications. I'm one that does not hold the Bible as normative and seek inspiration anywhere according to what it offers. This is what individualism means and the more liberal strand of postmodernism.
As for the music, I can't win. A fortnight ago a hymn with a choir was too slow, this time a hymn (without a choir) was too fast. The out music, Egg's Fugue in D Minor, seemed to jolt a few people. As Prog-Rock goes, it is the most gentle of pieces and closes to the classical. Last week a chap said the music was a dirge and he wondered when it would end (it wasn't long). Still, our service taker was impressed with the system and it is as good as having an organ player, piano player, band, orchestra, soloists... so long as the music leads the pace.
No Hymns
I'll be honest. The reason I'm not uploading any hymns this week is I don't like the appearance of the service. We've done 400 years of the KJV Bible before, and on the surface I don't like the traditionalist Unitarian theme with these hymns. I could be wrong and hope I am wrong. I've still done a CD (which is twice - back up and I run two at once) and I've done it to theme (so I added Psalm 148 as meditation music) but also tried to add a little modernity here and there in the surrounding music. For me, Unitarianism should be about being post-Christian: Christian liberalism is well served elsewhere and this isn't very liberal but sounds ancient.
One of the difficulties in having so many outside presenters, and those who haven't done a service before in Hull, is that they have to make assumptions about a congregation, and if this is so here then it is I suggest off the mark. If it is playing safe, then it is not playing safe. The Unitarian denomination is weak, but I can't see this kind of service aiding recovery. Also none of the hymns have Unitarian choir support, and the only one that is so marked is actually a solo with which is easier to sing along.
4. Hl 077 Dominus Regit Me piano [Our Parents' Faith]
5. HL 066 Crimond choir [The Lord's My Shepherd]
7. HL 063 Buckland alt [Holy Spirit, Truth Divine]
9. HL 075 Austria [God of Ages and of Nations]
Cake and Eating
I am accused of having my cake and eating it by Madpriest. This is because I prefer the current definition of Unitarianism and also include mystery: he thinks contemporary Unitarianism is like attending an ethics lecture. This, presumably, is derived from years of experience in attending Unitarian churches, unlike in my case. What he refers to is that Unitarianism is 'low liberal' in character, and I have written about why this is so over recent blog entries (the development and busting of Free Catholicism in denominational terms, being an indicator). There is a Puritan shadow over many a Unitarian service, but there is still place for mystery in the use of the arts, in the theological breadth covered, and in the don't know.
The kind of biblicism referred to positively by my 'opponents' was a transitory phase in Unitarianism, and indeed gave rise to the name of the denomination. The biblicism that read 'unitarian' theology off the page (Arian at best), and realised that trinitarian belief was extra-biblical, was superseded by German biblical criticism and the romantic movement, indeed the latter being in part with the later down-draught from the Oxford Movement. Unitarians were synthesising something of both the liberals and Catholics in Oxford long before Charles Gore did so in his way; indeed the Unitarians allowed the posher parts of non-conformity to adopt both a more churchy appearance and theological modernism. The older Unitarian biblicists, who were denominationalists and competitors of others, not ecumenical in spirit like the romanticists, had nowhere to go intellectually and died out. The idea that they are a model for viable religion is a joke. But then I've never taken ignorance as a basis for advice.
I have a lot of sympathy for Madpriest and people in his position. He is not a theological liberal but he is inclusive. I just think he has arrived at an impasse before most others. Well others have arrived there, but moved on. The Mark Townshends and Simon Mapps of this world have simply seen the need to change allegiance. Madpriest wants his cake and eat it - he wants to be honest, sell himself by a blog, have a ministry and be in the Church of England. But the Church of England, by its ways and means, has said no. He can keep buttin' that dam but why bother when the water behind it is increasingly stagnant?
Now he complains about the new bishop to Durham, in that this bloke is a supposedly a capitalist toff. The point, of course, is the demise of the liberal intellectual going to that position. After Tom Wright, they've chosen a capitalist corporate organiser, as if they are still trying to do the 'magick cleansing' long after David Jenkins. First of all they appoint a conservative biblical theologian and then a capitalist oil man and financier. On each count, that's a reverse on David Jenkins. Of course there is a message in there: the days of radical thinking, the days of inclusion, are over.
Next up is the Covenant, for the special role the Church of England will observe. This specifically is to freeze the Church, to allow the Archbishop of Canterbury to play the international referee role and have more of an international Church. Keep opposing it, of course, but when it is passed the theological and inclusive liberals had better stop bleating. Once fixed their agenda is not going to happen: and the evangelical numbers won't let it happen.
I cannot understand why Madpriest doesn't send off his application form to the Open Episcopal Church or similar. He is going to have to be independent anyway. Of course there is no salary there, but there is the freedom to build your identity and yet be in a Church group. I'm sure they'd have him, or perhaps he doesn't want to join a group that would have him. That would be another case of eating the cake.
Other theological liberals will have to consider their futures too. Some of them are Unitarians by another name, others might be better off as Liberal Catholics, and indeed the OEC stretches to them (it also has theological breadth).
When the Covenant comes in, stop bleating. That will be the end point. You all know it, but then the history of the C of E liberal is not one shining with consistency or glory, given the skill with articulating duplicity (me too) - whether that liberal is social, theological or both.
Durham Gets an Unoriginal Route
Well, you see, what I think is, in the spirit of one of my predecessor's here, you know during the 1980s coal dispute, that what the Church of England needs is a good dose of corporate capitalism. Now as a bishop I'm ever so 'umble and really have come via a very average route for a bishop, which means, you know, a bit privileged don't you know entirely in the old ways of the Church of England. Rab was quite a moderate Tory don't you know, and became Baron Butler, but not Butler as in the butler with the drinks but the one who called the butler. And I went to Eton, which exceeds the best of the comprehensives, and Trinity College, and ended up big in the Oil Industry don't you know, which is quite a bit different from supporting the miners like that war of Jenkins ear did, but then there are ethics in exploiting natural resources and indeed ethics in shifting money in the City of London like I advise as we saw so recently when the whole world economy nearly came crashing down thanks to the capitalist dynamic. And the NHS, divided up into Trusts like enterprises, well I could indeed lead one of those. Chrstianity? Oh yes bang the drum and cymbal for that one. Well I thought, one day, I'd done the finances and extracted lots of the black stuff and taken so much out in the Capitalist Spirit so perhaps I could find a Protestant Ethic conscience and put something back in, don't you know, wear some of the black stuff with that little white collar and of course I am leadership material like I wear it well.
Archbishop Describes Archbishop Qualities
Asked which Shakespearean character he found most compelling, Dr Williams chose Macbeth, but quickly added the caveat: "That's not to say I identify with him, because you don't really want a serial killer as the Archbishop of Canterbury."
No, but you might have one that shouts and makes people cry, or leaks documents and makes the enquiry a secret, while Yorkie goes around blaming an innoncent party.
The 'Ed Bishop Gets His Way
The 'Ed Bishop had made it very clear, and we don't want him to get angry do we, that there is to be only my presentation about the Anglican Covenant, that document from outer space, and I am, surprise surprise, going to recommend it to you. Now I know you over there are considering voting against, so, er, Archcaptain Scarlet can get one of his Interceptors and take you out to our urinals where something jolly strange can happen, and you might find a Skydiver underwater, to be followed up with something known as a Yorkie - whispers and innuendo. So why do we want this thing? Well, because he says we do, because the 'Ed Bishop himself says that if we bring all our troubles to the centre then we can process them very very slowly indeed. It's not like Sky One and innovation you know - and so we shall not do what some would have done. We'll be more like the Moon Mobile, hovering and never going anywhere. But even more so, here is where we watch all the Anglican UFOs around the world and so our 'Ed Bishop can't be one of those with changeable policies and I'm afraid there is no space in our Church for Gay Ellis. Don't think that voting against it here will derail the whole thing across the Anglican Communion because it won't work like that in causing a situation of chaos and not something we want to do, and it includes Section 4, not excludes Section 4 don't you know. And don't forget our Ed Bishop goes to the Ed Ed Bishop at Moonbase and says come on, this is now an entity which processes its policies internationally so start treating us as one thing not many.
[The vote]
What three laity opposed, one clergy opposed, two clergy abstained? Was the clergy person SID? High up indeed. Ha ha, not any more. I think we might find a leak faster than a Shadair SST about just who they were and we'll be looking at your Church careers. It won't do you any good, defying the proper authorities. What? Well, if there is a leak enquiry we'll just make it a secret, as we are indeed a SHADOwy organisation. Good, well, we have adopted it not subscribed to it or digested it and why did no one invite me to Wakefield?
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“But Doctor – I am Grimaldi!”
Several years ago a friend borrowed my DVD of City Lights. When he returned it, he said, “But it didn’t make me laugh.” This surprised me, as I had taken for granted that it wouldn’t make him laugh, so it hadn’t occurred to me to mention it. (I had him watch it because of the ending, which I think is one of the greatest things ever captured on film, and which I can’t even describe because I choke up and then dissolve in helpless tears.) I’m a devoted viewer of silent comedians, particularly Chaplin and Keaton, but I don’t watch them because they make me laugh. I watch them for their grace and inventive wit and their skill and timing. I love to see the echoes in Chaplin of Victorian melodrama and Edwardian music hall, and in Keaton of vaudeville and an American fascination with new technology and a home-grown fatalistic surrealism among the white-picket-fence little towns. But laughs? Not really.
I’m just too clumsy myself to find pratfalls funny. I once staggered through several rooms of my house with an old dining room table, carefully maneuvering it around narrow doors and trying not to scrape my hardwood floors, until I reached a door too narrow to angle the table through – and it was only then, after several frustrating attempts and some damage to the paint and the walls, that I realized the legs could be unscrewed and removed. And even now, years later, the gouge marks in the kitchen door bear witness to my difficulties negotiating the obvious. And if someone has spilled water on the break room floor at work and not bothered wiping it up because apparently I do not work with adults, then I’m sure to be the one who’s going to slip and land on his ass while badly banging his knee – in fact, it’s going to happen more than once (not in the same day, at least), and the second time is going to be even better because I’m going to be carrying a cup of water which will drench my shirt and pants as I tumble down. But I think even if I hadn't felt the pain I would still not understand people who laugh when other people fall.
A few years back I went to see Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, performed in Italian and in traditional commedia dell'arte style. I loved the sense of theatrical history that comes with seeing something that an eighteenth-century audience could have seen (except for the electric lights and things like that, of course), and I love the visuals of commedia (Jacques Callot! Jean-Antoine Watteau!), but as the three-hour play progressed I realized . . . funny? Not so much. Yet clowns and circuses do fascinate me visually, metaphorically, theatrically, historically, and psychologically, and nothing perks up a movie like a bitter, vengeful, and possibly alcoholic clown (and Rigoletto is one of my all-time favorite operas), but when it comes to laughs . . . I look elsewhere.
I first heard of Lorenzo Pisoni when he performed at ACT several seasons ago in the lead role of The Gamester, an eighteenth-century tale about a young man with two loves: a beautiful young woman and gambling. The thing about addiction stories is that they are by their nature inherently undramatic: the addiction always wins; that’s what makes it an addiction. But Pisoni was dazzling in the role, bringing unexpected aspects of his part to light, and staying true to both sides of the complex character. After that memorable turn I was eager to see him perform again. So off I went last week to Humor Abuse at ACT, his one-man show about growing up in his father’s circus (co-created and directed by Erica Schmidt).
The announced running time of the show was “approximately 80 minutes” but the night I went it was twenty minutes longer than that. I don’t know why, or if that was unusual. I never really felt that the pace was off or lagging. Pisoni commands the stage single-handedly and easily, with great charm and confidence. I find it fascinating that someone as handsome as Lorenzo Pisoni would regularly stick a big red nose and chalk-white make-up on his face. I think he should do a show about that.
Though the clowning routines were not really the reason I went or the main reason I enjoyed the show (as should be obvious from what I wrote above), I will say right off that I did laugh at them, which is a tribute to Pisoni's skills, even though he claims that his father was the funny one. There is a part with falling sandbags barely missing him as he wanders from place to place on the stage that, while breathtaking, really rattled my nerves.
There is a long rueful routine about the complexities of carrying some suitcases up a flight of stairs which made me laugh because it’s a whole philosophy of life: it’s the sort of thing Keaton would do that would make you understand why he appealed so much to Samuel Beckett. There’s another extended routine, also a study in the frustrations resulting from the simplest actions, in which Pisoni wears swim goggles, an old-fashioned one-piece bathing suit, and flippers, and tries to climb up a ladder so he can dive into a tiny pail of water.
It’s his great skill as an actor that really sells these routines, adding some poetry to their elegant mechanics. At the beginning of the show he gave us some ground rules, announcing that we could eat candy (assuming we had brought some, I guess) and applaud whenever we liked, or “just sit in silent judgment,” a line which gave me my biggest laugh of the evening because that is the sort of thing I find hilarious (because that is the sort of thing I do).
He starts off with a brief history of clowning and his family’s involvement in clowning, both of which spring from commedia dell'arte (his great-grandfather, an Italian immigrant, had joined a commedia troupe). He turns himself into Pantalone and Arlecchino with astonishing speed and thoroughness (maybe he should do a one-man version of The Servant of Two Masters – I'd be up for that), and as Arlecchino he tells a really filthy joke, and then tells us that his father told him that joke when he was seven. So he very skillfully ties his family story in with the theatrical history, though I could have done with a little more background on his parents’ troupe, The Pickle Family Circus. Many of the audience members clearly already knew the background and were there for a nostalgic tumble through a shared past (I saw a number of people wearing Pickle Family Circus t-shirts or jackets, and there was the laughter of sentimental recollection at some of the projected photographs of Pisoni pere et fils), but I really had only vaguely heard of them.
Given the time (the 1970s) and the place (the Bay Area), I assumed there was a countercultural element to the Pickle Family Circus, even before we were told that his father drew clowning inspiration from shamans, medicine men, and the Monkey King. And apparently it really was a family-run circus, though there must also have been other performers involved, but it’s not clear exactly who or how many they were. The set gives a nice sense of what the circus must have looked like, with cut-up rusty coffee cans lined up holding the footlights, and a backdrop duplicating the old circus curtain, with its paintings of local landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge.
Pisoni’s father seems to have been a charismatic but also difficult man, whose problems with alcohol led to the break-up of his marriage and the circus. He kept performing elsewhere (I wasn’t really clear where – he doesn’t seem like a Barnum & Bailey type and I'm not sure where else a clown would go for work). Lorenzo, not yet a teenager, continued touring with the Pickle Family Circus, taking over his father’s routines. He seems to have been a lonely boy who didn’t realize how lonely he was, or how very young he must have looked as he tried to behave as he thought an adult should. His life reminded me several times of Buster Keaton’s life as a child touring the vaudeville circuit with his parents, while his father drank more and more heavily (which must be especially self-destructive for an acrobatic performer who relies so much on his body, his reflexes and timing). Pisoni traveled with the circus until he reached high-school age, with sporadic but affectionate contact with his father, who remarried and divorced again.
He realized that what he thought of as his father was really his father’s clown persona, Lorenzo Pickle, whose first name he shared and whose routines he inhabited for years. Larry Pisoni remained a mystery to him. It’s a fascinating, fleeting insight into the enigmas of identity, and one of several doublings in the show (he used to share space in the act with a life-size dummy of himself as a child, who made a reappearance in this show). Personally I would have preferred a little less of the clown routines and greater detail about his father and the rest of the family (there are just brief mentions of his mother and sister), and about circus life and its physical and mental toll. On the other hand, I respect the reluctance to impose his own theatrically shaped views of his family onto them. They are individuals with their own views of what happened. Perhaps it’s best to allow only glimpses of the darkness and strangeness and the ultimate unknowability of even those closest to us. The great silences around what we know and don’t know are part of the essential mystery of fathers and sons.
Labels: ACT, cinematic, the legitimate stage
just as the man said
there is no sun, and no rain
cloudy with a chance
Ensemble Parallele presents a new chamber-opera orchestration by Jacques Desjardin of John Harbison's The Great Gatsby. If you follow the local opera scene or have seen other shows by Ensemble Parallele you already know that this is 10-12 February and that you need to see it, so let me just mention here once again that I saw this opera at the Met, and I'm sure we all wish that was the last time you're going to hear about that from me. . . .
Cutting Ball Theater presents Tontlawald, a multi-disciplinary retelling of an Estonian fairy tale, with text by Eugenie Chan and movement by Laura Arrington, co-directed by Paige Rogers and Annie Paladino; 17 February to 11 March.
The Sanford Dole Ensemble presents an "All New, All Local" program at the SF Conservatory of Music on 4 February, featuring The Nine Muses (David Conte, with text by John Sterling Walker), The Changing Light (Peter Scott Lewis, setting three poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti), Waiting... (Michael Kaulkin, setting poetry by Elisabeth Eliassen) and Gertrude and Alice (Sanford Dole, songs from a work in progress about the lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas with text by Brad Erickson). Nice to see that the Summer of Stein lives on!
Earplay presents an evening of new chamber music; the oldest piece is by Morton Feldman (Nature Pieces from 1951; each Earplay concert this season is anchored by a Feldman piece) and the rest are all 21st century pieces by Alex Hills, Mauricio Rodriguez, Wayne Peterson, and Chen Yi. That's 6 February, with a start time of 7:30 (thank you).
Magnificat closes its 20th season with madrigals from Monteverdi's Eighth Book, 17-19 February in their usual varied locations.
Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony appear at Davies Hall as part of the American Orchestras series presented as part of the San Francisco Symphony Centennial Season. On 14 February the program is Pacific 231 (Honegger), Alternative Energy (Mason Bates, a CSO commission), and Franck's Symphony in D minor; and on 15 February the program is the Entr'acte No. 3 from Rosamunde (Schubert), Night Ferry (Anna Clyne, a CSO commission), and then back to Schubert for the Symphony in C major (the one they call The Great).
The San Francisco Ballet has two mixed programs: 14-25 February is Program 2, featuring Chroma (Wayne McGregor to music by Joby Talbot and Jack White III), Number Nine (Christopher Wheeldon, to music by Michael Torke), and Beaux, a world premiere by Mark Morris (no music is listed on the Ballet's website). 16-26 February is Program 3, featuring Le Carnaval des Animaux (Alexei Ratmansky to Camille Saint-Saens), Trio (Helgi Tomasson to Tchaikovsky), and Francesca da Rimini, a world premiere by Yuri Possokhov (no music listed for this one either).
San Francisco Performances celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Alexander String Quartet with a 4 February concert featuring works by Debussy and Hahn, along with Camille Claudel: Into the Fire, a world premiere by Jake Heggie featuring Joyce DiDonato. They also have Leif Ove Andsnes on 9 February, playing works by Haydn, Bartok, Debussy, and Chopin; and jazz violinist Regina Carter on 18 February.
Cal Performances has so many varied offerings this month that I'm just going to be lazy and suggest looking at the whole month for items of interest. I am eyeing a few, but am waiting to see how schedules and budgets work out. But I did go ahead and buy my ticket for next October's Einstein on the Beach.
You have until 12 February to catch the sublime masters of the Venetian Renaissance show on loan from Vienna at the DeYoung Museum. And you have until 19 February to see Bernini's Medusa at the Legion of Honor. But starting on 18 February at the Legion you can immerse yourself in the Aesthetic Movement with The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860-1900. That exhibit runs until 17 June, but why would you wait until then?
no one looks backward
something is gaining on us
such tender new grass
crushed by careless young children
air washed clean with rain
treefuls of chattering birds
stripped boughs, black with rain
matted brown leaves, slick with rain
everywhere but here
icy winter water drops
pale blue skies, a crisp cool breeze
off to work we go
Venetian Masters at the DeYoung
Back before they rebuilt the DeYoung Museum but after they realized they needed to, there was some talk about relocating the museum from Golden Gate Park downtown, closer to other museums like the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Contemporary Museum, the Cartoon Art Museum, and the Museum of the African Diaspora, where it would be more accessible to the rest of the Bay Area and help form sort of a "museum district." I thought this was a great idea, but nothing came of it (oh, the unseen backstage intrigues that shape our existences!), and the DeYoung remains a long trek out of the way for most Bay Area residents.
I’ve never regretted the museum’s location more than during its magnificent current show, Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power, a jaw-dropping assortment of Mantegnas, Giorgiones, Titians, Tintorettos, and Veroneses (along with assorted others) on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. If the DeYoung were as accessible as SFMoMA, I’d be visiting this collection once or twice a week, the way I did with the Stein collection this summer. If you have any interest in Italian Renaissance painting, Venetian art, Old Masters, pictures of pretty naked people, or just great art in general, you really need to see this show. I’m hoping to go back again before it closes February 12.
On my first visit I was in the gift shop buying the very attractive and inexpensive catalogue and some prints and postcards, and a young saleswoman proudly pointed out that the DeYoung is the only venue for this show. I asked why that was. She told me that the galleries in Vienna were being redone. I already knew that, so I explained that what I meant was Why here? I didn’t want to come right out and say, “Why here, instead of a more prestigious venue like the Metropolitan or the National Gallery?” She didn’t know why. Another of those unseen backstage intrigues, I guess.
Whatever the reason, I’m grateful. It’s hard to describe how stunned and excited I was to turn a corner and see, in all its glorious jeweler’s precision, Mantegna’s St Sebastian, something I’ve known in reproduction most of my life. And here was the actual, irreplaceable thing! (Also: I don’t usually associate Mantegna with Venetian art, though he was active in Padua, which is close to Venice and was part of the Venetian republic at that time. But he comes down pretty clearly on the side of line as form rather than color as form, which is what the Venetian painters were famous for (to put it in terms of their contemporary art theory, he favored disegno over colore).)
And then to turn another corner and come across the enigmatic poetry of Giorgione, with his melting lucid landscapes and the calmly assertive looks of his many-meaninged figures, then to the bold Titians with their glowing nude women (and his later canvases, where the increasingly vivid brushwork almost takes over as the subject of the picture, in the modern way), and then to the Mannerist elongations of Palma Vecchio’s Bathing Nymphs, and the lambent rows of what a wall label amusingly and accurately describes as “beautiful anonymous blonde women,” and then to the vivid Tintorettos and the lush Veroneses . . . the DeYoung has become, temporarily at least, one of the great museums.
There are a few interesting labels discussing the changes due to the use of oil paints from tempera (richer, thicker colors) and canvas rather than wood (a different surface texture). Frescoes were less significant in Venice as well, due to the general dampness of the climate, which is nice for us since panels can travel and frescoes can’t (though frankly I can’t believe some of these paintings were available for loan – the St Sebastian, Giorgione’s Three Philosophers, Titian’s Danae – these, and others in the show, are some of the great images of Renaissance art).
Some of the assertions on the wall labels seem dubious, like the one about Tintoretto’s Susanna and the Elders (I’m quoting the version in the catalogue): “Men often displayed paintings of this kind in bedrooms, to remind their wives about proper married behavior.” Really? Susanna was a virtuous young wife, spied upon in her bath by two lecherous old men, pillars of the community. In an early example of sexual harassment, they threatened to claim she was an adulteress unless she actually became one with them. She refused and they accused. She was about to be stoned to death based on their calumnies when the prophet Daniel, then a boy, rose up and insisted on questioning the two old men separately (CSI: Ancient Israel!). Their contradictory answers exposed their falsehood, and the crowd stoned them to death, instead of the virtuous Susanna. If you know this story, and I assume any Renaissance Venetian who would own a Tintoretto would, it seems a lot more like a warning about proper married behavior for husbands. Tintoretto’s lushly decorative version may lack the psychological intensity of Artemisia Gentileschi’s versions, but it’s perfectly clear that his naked woman is pure of heart and his crouching old voyeurs are not.
I can only hope that some day the Kunsthistorisches Museum decides to redo their Pieter Brueghel galleries, with the Bay Area once again the beneficiary. If that happened I really would trek out to the DeYoung once or twice a week, no matter how awful the bus rides.
Labels: art means painting, DeYoung
making pale the stars
sinking to silver-white dawn
off we go to work
headlights floating by
traffic lights red green yellow
waiting for a bus
glaring, blaring, hurrying
ant-like scurrying
rain slaps down the dirty streets
I stand in between
two large windows high above
sun stuck overhead
shadows pooled around my feet
watching the time go
staring at a glowing screen
straightening to dark
bustling clerks arrange the shelves
grass waves on the fields
bending to a lighter shade,
rivers snake through fields
snakes ripple through the rivers
still silence below
the airplane's steady humming . . .
even birds still sleep
moon unmoving up above
silent horizons
two gleaners pass the trash bins
Last Sunday night I went to Berkeley Rep to see the Kneehigh Theater’s production of The Wild Bride, which is an adaptation of The Maiden Without Hands, one of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. A couple of years ago I missed Kneehigh’s production of Brief Encounter at ACT; I really love that movie so I was wary of any adaptations and by the time I heard enough praise to make me think I should go it was too late in the run for me to make the schedules work. I thought I was going to miss The Wild Bride as well, which made me kind of sad since it sounded like something I’d really like: a folk tale staged with lots of music and theatrical savvy and the suggestive and creative use of props (similar in style to some of the Mary Zimmerman plays I’ve seen and enjoyed). Then Berkeley Rep extended the run to 22 January, so The Wild Bride became my first performance of 2012, and my first big disappointment.
The short version is that the staging is often clever and inventive, but the script just isn’t there. Here’s the long version:
To start with, everything – dialogue as well as music – is miked, so all the sound has that slightly off-center, flattened quality. All the actors had ugly little body mikes taped to their heads, and at least one had a long wire snaking down her back, which was distracting when she danced. The sound itself wasn’t all that bad – I’ve experienced much, much worse on Broadway – but I’m wondering why the miking was done at all. The Roda Theater is fairly small, and if your voice can’t fill it, you probably shouldn’t be on stage. But this seems to be standard procedure at Berkeley Rep these days; in fact the playbill had an interview with Elliott Ares, holder of the first Harry Weininger Sound Fellowship, who spoke casually about body mikes as if there was no question they were standard issue. Why should I go to live theater if I’m not getting live sound?
Speaking of the playbill, it contained an extremely odd “Prologue” from managing director Susan Medak, gushing on and on about the late Steve Jobs with his “rich capacity to dream” and “unfettered imagination” and what a “wildly creative visionary” he was etc etc and oh yeah here’s a little afterthought we’re presenting this theater group called Kneehigh – can boilerplate gush? Because we all saw reams of this standard-issue ass-kissing right after Jobs died, and with all due respect to him and his influence, I don’t really get it, but then I’m not a tech groupie-cultist or a CEO groupie-cultist, and I think most of his products actually help further marginalize live performance, and so much for theater that is “trying to change the world, one play at a time,” to quote another part of the playbill.
Speaking of changing the world, I hope all those little Chinese child laborers assembling Apple products are appropriately grateful that their nimble and pennies-per-hour fingers are helping to implement the creative vision of the Great and Beloved Leader! (Talk about accidentally selling your children to the devil! which, by the way, is the starting point of The Wild Bride.) Can we acknowledge that "creative visioning" is just more readily available to those who can afford Berkeley Rep's ticket prices in this economy? (In fairness to Ms Medak, I will assume that in a later “Prologue” she will say something about the late Vaclav Havel, a genuinely great man who actually had something to do with theater.)
Here’s another random complaint, before I get to the problems with the play itself: the evening would have been much better without the intermission, which doesn’t do much besides stall whatever momentum has been developed (there were no set changes or other technical reasons that I could see for needing a pause) . Played without an intermission, the performance would be about an hour and forty-five minutes, which is not unreasonable, and it would have been easy enough to pare back some of the more repetitious dancing and singing to bring it in at 90 minutes – I really enjoyed the bluesy music, but how many times do you need to hear about Ezekiel and the dry bones now hear the word of the Lord? As it was, the performance lasted just long enough to make me miss my train by one minute, so that I had to sit in the station for almost twenty minutes, stewing in my disappointed juices.
I’m going to give a bit of a plot summary now, so consider yourself spoiler-alerted. Playwright and director Emma Rice, who is also the co-Artistic Director of Kneehigh, changed the story in some interesting and significant ways from the original, which I read after seeing the play, though unfortunately she didn't always substitute anything but theatrical flash:
There is a loving but perpetually drunken woodsman who meets a stranger, who offers him great wealth in return for whatever is in his backyard. The woodsman thinks it’s just his old apple tree, not realizing his beloved daughter is climbing the tree. (The girl is portrayed by three different women at three different stages of her life, and they don’t particularly look, act, or sound alike, which I liked because it gives a nice sense of the different possibilities in the one character.) The stranger turns out to be the Devil, who comes to collect his payment, only he can’t because the girl is too clean, and the Devil hates anything clean (though he does manage to pick her up and mime raping her before he realizes he has that little problem).
So the Woodsman is ordered to dirty her, which he does with a bucket of slick beige mud. But she weeps so much her hands become clean, and the Devil still can’t carry her off, so he insists the Woodsman chop off her hands. He does so, in a scene that is both highly stylized and completely terrifying (the woman next to me covered her eyes): she extends her hands one at a time, sobbing; his axe comes down on the tree-stump in front of her (which is of course a safe distance ahead of the actress's arms), and one of the other two women takes that hand and dips it into a bucket of shiny dripping red paint. It's simple but striking and effective and the kind of effect that can only work in the theater. The mutilated girl is still too good for the Devil, so he declares he will let the world dirty her, and when it does, he will be back for her. Pause for unnecessary intermission.
The armless girl leaves her father. She discovers an orchard with numbered pears (cleverly presented by lightbulbs with large numbers hanging from them). She is hungry but cannot reach the pears without hands. The trees benevolently bend down so she can eat a pear. She is discovered by the orchard owner, who is the King. He is inexplicably Scottish, complete with kilt, though he becomes less Scottish as the evening progresses, and his mother doesn’t sound Scottish at all. The Scottish king is played by the same actor who played her father (which is kind of creepy), only then he had an Irish accent, which also seemed to be the only such accent in the vicinity. Kneehigh is a British troupe and presumably all this tomfoolery with accents makes some sense to them. Since I am part Irish I feel I should at least note the possibility of offense, if not from giving the only drunkard the only Irish accent, then from the moldiness of the stereotype.
The king falls instantly in love with the strange silent handless girl, because that is the role of men in these stories: if you’re not of high (in fact, the highest!) social status and willing to fall instantly in love, you might as well be a dwarf or a weakling father, abandoned after a paragraph or two. In the original story the King has a pair of silver hands made for the girl, but here they are big ungainly instruments of steel or iron; one ends with strange straggling twig-like fingers and the other with a scimitar. No use is made of these extensions and it’s unclear why he gives her such ungainly implements, especially since he makes jokes about how dangerous they are during their cheerfully, relentlessly vulgar and overextended sex scene, during which they enthusiastically act out a variety of positions.
The King goes off to fight a war, battling amid much dry ice and many strobe lights. The Wild Bride gives birth. His mother sends him the news. (The mother is portrayed, in another clever bit of staging, by a large portrait of an elegant woman in the eighteenth-century style with large holes where her hands would be, so that one of the actresses not playing the Bride can insert her hands through the holes and gesture appropriately; there are golden pears on the frame and a white wire chandelier hanging nearby that is also shaped like a pear, so there’s definitely a pear thing going on.)
The Devil intercepts the letter and substitutes one saying the child is half-dog. The King says to love it anyway. The Devil intercepts that letter too and substitutes one saying to kill the Wild Bride and the child and to save her eyeballs and tongue as proof that his order was carried out. His mother can’t bring herself to do this, so she warns the Bride to flee with the child. The mother then, with her bare royal hands, rips out the eyeballs and tongue of a delightful large puppet doe. Red streamers shoot out from her violated orifices, and the gentle creature dies, deserving better.
I might be making this sound a little more entertaining than it was. The bluesy music was certainly enjoyable. I kept wishing that the jogtrot rhymes weren’t so often clumsy and obvious, and padded out, and that some of the singing and dancing had been tightened up a bit.
The Bride heeds the warning and wanders in the frozen forest for years. We are told she and her child are in imminent danger of starvation, but she actually seems to be fine and does a little kick-boxy dance indicative of – ugh, let me hold my nose with one hand and extend the meaningless jargon term out to arm’s length with the other – “empowerment.” It seems to me she’d be better off figuring out how to fish or hunting for berries or something actually helpful and specific rather than indulging in some generic emotional mood that would in reality crumple in no time against the hardness of the world, but I am impressed at how clearly her stance and fist-pumping and striding indicate “empowerment” without also looking completely hacky and ridiculous, so good on ya, choreographer! The meaning was clear enough to the well-dressed, middle-aged frosted blonde in the middle of the front row (I was at the end of the row) who raised her glass and went, “Yeah!” Earlier in the second act the same woman had started talking a bit too loudly. Berkeley Rep might want to rethink its policy of allowing beverages in the auditorium, at least when it comes to wine.
The Wild Bride’s hands have now grown back – for no particular reason, they just regenerate, apparently as a result of her feeling “empowered,” because that is how cells behave. The regeneration makes sense in the original story, which is filled with benevolent Heaven-aided miracles, but less so here. Compassion for suffering creatures is a spiritually and socially valuable feeling, but the Wild Bride is going instead for improbable wish fulfillment and generic uplift.
Another result of her "empowerment" is that she seems to gain her voice, though it’s a little unclear if she was born mute or if muteness just happened early on. In either case “gaining her voice” is such a hacky and obvious symbol that it moved me to eye-rolling rather than wonderment. Why not let her speak all along, like the girl in the original story? Rice has given her a voice, but not really anything to say. Rice sure likes to pile on the Bride’s suffering. And indeed it did seem to be one of those stories in which we are invited to luxuriate in the spectacle of a woman’s endless victimization, with a bit of bogus “empowerment” slapped on at the end to make the self-pitying wallow acceptable – the spoonful of medicine that helps the sugar go down.
The King returns, finds out what has happened, and goes searching for his wife and child in the forest, where grief and solitude drive him mad. He is cured when they are reunited. So the Devil comes back to collect his beloved Bride, and – she punches him a couple of times and he falls down in defeat and then runs off.
And that's all. That's it.
Let me step back for a minute here to the original story, which turns out to be a story of suffering redeemed by piety and goodness – the tale of a dutiful daughter. Her father is not a vaguely comic drunkard, but a poor, frightened man whom the Devil tricks and then terrifies into cutting off his daughter’s hands. He explains his dilemma to her and she, like Iphigenia stepping between her warring parents, freely offers herself as a sacrifice. She also has the dignity to then refuse the help of her now-wealthy father, and wanders off, where her goodness and piety gain her an angel helper, both in the pear orchard where she meets the King and in the forest with her child, where she is eventually reunited with her husband through the angel's help.
The problem is not that Rice has altered what is after all a fairly grotesque tale of a woman who is rewarded for her pious submission. It’s that she hasn’t put anything dramatically or psychologically convincing in its place. Sorry, the whole final scene fell as flat and as quickly as the Devil, and he took a dive like a regular patsy. I kept assuming this would be one of those stories where a clever, brave girl outwits the Devil. Nope. It just took a left hook. (It's like seeing The Merchant of Venice only when Portia stands up at the trial, she doesn't blather on about the quality of mercy or taking the flesh but not any blood, she just walks over to Shylock and slugs him, and then the case is dismissed.) For someone who fights dirty and has supernatural powers, the Devil sure gives up easily. So why didn’t she punch him earlier? If she now has super boxing powers thanks to her life experiences, then what has she learned and how has she changed and grown? We’re not told, except for that little “empowerment” dance, which was mildly entertaining but not really enough to defeat the Devil. If he couldn’t touch her earlier because she was too good for him, why doesn’t he have the same problem now, since she’s not only still good, she’s better? If her hands had to be chopped off because otherwise they were too clean for the Devil to endure, why isn’t he also put off by her regenerated hands?
The play is a mash-up of the plights of Griselda and Job (with a dash of Faust), with the Devil taking the place of Griselda’s paranoid husband. The Devil describes the story early in Act 2 as "a feminist fairy tale," with (I'm quoting from memory, so this isn't exact) a bit of everything: humor, thrills, excitement (end attempted quotation, and I kind of resented being told this, as if I were at a restaurant and the chef came out halfway through the meal and told me that I was certainly enjoying my dinner, and it had everything I like – thanks, but I can taste for myself). But – even granted that “feminism” is a capacious and slippery term – in what serious way is this feminist?
The Wild Bride remains a passive victim throughout, until that last scene, which I found unconvincing and arbitrary in the play’s own terms, a slapped-on and modish "happy ending." The Bride doesn’t do anything: she doesn’t use her wit or cunning, she isn't particularly brave or bold. She isn't actively good, and doesn’t even get to be pious and pray for help, since this is a world which contains devils (though their power seems to vary considerably, depending on dramatic convenience) but no angels. If she’s learned anything, we don’t know what it is. Look, this isn’t Chekhov – it would have fit in perfectly with the tone of the piece to have the Bride impart some rhyming wisdom to us, some cheerful words about fighting back or not trusting the Devil or maybe even just laying off the moonshine, Dad.
There’s an interview with Rice in the playbill in which she announces “I’m not a huge lover of words. I do use words in my work, but I always think they’re the sprinkle on top.” Yeah, that would explain why the staging is so often striking and even poetic but the words are mundane and the action often doesn’t make sense outside of its immediate moment. The tone shifts wildly and unevenly; sometimes horrible things are treated terrifyingly and sometimes comically; sometimes the Devil is all-powerful and sometimes he’s laughable and weak. It all seems to depend on what’s dramatically convenient at the moment, and whether the performance needs to be goosed a bit with some vaudeville laughs or some thrills and chills, as opposed to what makes sense in the overall context of these characters and what happens to them.
I could have gotten past most of this, if Rice hadn’t let me down in the big scene. Where was the clever heroine I was expecting?
As the auditorium was filling up before the show, I noticed a woman with her little dark-haired son. I think he was the youngest person there. Seeing him made me think of going to the theater with my mother when I was a child. As I was leaving, I saw his eyes shining as his mother asked him if he wanted to go up and look at the stage. I hope they enjoyed the performance. Would I have, when I was his age? I no longer know.
Labels: Berkeley Rep, the legitimate stage
so I go thank you
blue starry night stretching out
so I keep sneezing
so this lady goes, "Bless you!"
so I go, "Thank you!"
Nature is chancy
skies are warm so flowers bloom
unyielding hard place
while the rest of the fruit rots:
unable to move:
O stern unrelenting rock!
unyielding hard place!
a breath on the neck
crammed in the commuter trains
unable to move
soft velvety dark
caressed by warm unseen hands
cats slinking away
shadows hidden in shadows
fun stuff I may or may not get to: January 2012
I assume it's wishful thinking that makes everyone say that things slow down at the end of a year. I've been more pressed for time than ever, and have once again fallen behind on what I've already seen, which is bad because there's a lot more on the way.
I did have some thoughts about doing a "best/worst" list for 2011, an idea I dismissed for various reasons, laziness and lack of time among them. But also: the calendar year doesn't really coincide with the performing arts year; there were things I enjoyed even though "good" (let alone "best") would probably be an overly generous assessment; there were things that were very good that I just wasn't in the mood for; there were things that were good but were spoiled by rude audiences or by the on-going plague of director/conductor speeches from the stage; there were things that were memorable mostly for one or two performers. . . . it all started to get very blurry and confusing, and as already noted I had too much else to do (so much party cheese left over to eat! and which leftover crackers should I put which cheese on first?), so I decided anyone interested could just go back over my previous year's entries and come up with an individualized list of what I liked best, bearing in mind that everything hasn't been covered yet since 2011 posts will be continuing into 2012.
I will mention the worst of 2011, though, because it wasn't even close, with no deliberation required, and I need to get my money's worth by figuratively holding this work's head under water until the bubbles stop coming up. Maestro, a drumroll please! The worst thing I saw last year was easily the relentlessly superficial and dishonest Heart of a Soldier. David Gockley has certainly not added much luster to his reputation as a commissioner of new operas during his time here in the Bay Area. When you throw in (or out) the equally worthless Bonesetter's Daughter, you have to hope that someone over War Memorial way is noticing that there's a problem when operas are inspired mostly by marketing opportunities (the large Chinese-American population in the Bay Area, the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks).
Well, en avant:
The San Francisco Symphony presents Christian Tetzlaff in the Ligeti Violin Concerto on 6-8 January. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts and the program also includes Liszt's Prometheus and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 1, Winter Daydreams. Then the week after (12-14 January, to be exact), Tilson Thomas conducts Janacek's Sinfonietta and Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sebastien, with excellent soloists (Karina Gauvin, Sasha Cooke, and Leah Wool) and narration by Frederica von Stade.
Cal Performances presents Susan Graham on 14 January (I have no idea what she's singing, but, you know, it's Susan Graham! Isn't that enough?) and the new-music group the Eco Ensemble on 21 January.
San Francisco Performances continues its awesome vocalist series with Christopher Maltman on 19 January (rescheduled from last year) and Dawn Upshaw on 28 January. [UPDATE, 6 January: Upshaw's recital is being rescheduled for 1 April. Details should be at SFP's site soon.]
Berkeley Rep has extended the run for The Wild Bride until 22 January, which is nice for me, since now I get to see it.
ACT presents Lorenzo Pisoni in his one-man show, Humor Abuse, from 12 January to 5 February.
San Francisco Ballet opens its season with the evening-length Onegin, starting 27 January.
Cutting Ball Theater 's Hidden Classics series continues its Strindbergpalooza on 29 January with a double bill of Miss Julie and A Dream Play.
slipping out of sight
clouds drifting over the moon
arbitrary hours
driven by the random winds
one for the new year
from Philip Larkin:
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
Peace to all in the new year, and deepest thanks to all who stop by here, either occasionally or frequently.
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Labels: holidays, poesy
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Song - Song Album (1970 us, remarkable blend of power pop glam rock with some jazz aspects, 2017 korean remaster)
Band Song formed in 1969, recorded and released one album in 1970, and were history within a year. Pretty much pure power pop here, but there are a couple of heavier rock and jazz infused tracks that veer away from it. The musicianship is solid, and I'm sure Curt Boettcher and Keith Olsen contributed some of their production and engineering wizardry to the final mix.
Mickey Rooney Jr. was the main songwriter and singer as well as rhythm guitar player, born 3 July 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, and was the son of famous actor Mickey Rooney, the other members of the the band, were Shelly Scott and Rob Lewine. Wolfman Jack regularly used Clarks jazz/rock instrumental from that album called 'Medicine Man' as his sign off track. It remains a classic today.
Baeutiful power pop songs, catchy melodies, great harmonies inbetween frantic bongo-handclap breaks, a bit of an English Isles folk sounds, midtempo rockers, and a progressive jazz-rock jam complete with a drum solo.
1. 10 X 10 (Bob McDonald, Carmen Sardo, Clark Garman) - 2:44
2. Like We Were Before (Joey Covington, Mickey Rooney Jr.) - 2:14
3. Eat Fruit (Bob McDonald, Carmen Sardo, Clark Garman) - 2:40
4. Whenever I Think Of You (John Blanchard, Mickey Rooney Jr.) - 2:09
5. Banana High Noon (Carmen Sardo, Clark Garman, Mickey Rooney Jr.) - 6:18
6. I`m Not Home (Mickey Rooney Jr.) - 3:50
7. Wife (Mickey Rooney Jr.) - 1:44
8. Sugar Lady (Bob McDonald, Carmen Sardo, Clark Garman, Mickey Rooney Jr.) - 2:51
9. Meatgrinder (Bob McDonald, Carmen Sardo, Clark Garman, Mickey Rooney Jr.) - 3:09
10.Medicine Man (Carmen Sardo, Clark Garman) - 7:41
*Rob Lewine - Bass, Vocals
*Shelly Silverman - Drums, Vocals
*Clark Garman - Lead Guitar, Vocals
*Mickey Rooney Jr. - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
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Interest on compensation on acquisition of land: Tax Complexity
TAX TALK-30.10.2017-THE HITAVADA
TAX TALK
CA. NARESH JAKHOTIA
Section 145A(b) provides that interest received by an assessee on compensation or on enhanced compensation, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be the income of the year in which it is received. It is not at all dependant on the method of accounting followed by the assessee.
Query 1]
My query is taxability of interest received under Land Acquisition Act. I own a land at Mouja-Chinchbhuwan on Amravati road, Nagpur. While widening the high way, my agricultural land admeasuring 0.1853 H.R. was acquired by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). The amount of compensation awarded to me was Rs. 29,741/- only. I filed a case under Arbitration. The case went in my favour and the Arbitrator awarded me higher compensation of Rs. 8,44,968/-. In addition to this, I received Rs. 84,496/- being 10% of compensation for loss of easement rights and Rs. 7,06,148/- as interest @ 9% for the period from the date of award in Feb. 2008 to the date of judgment in April 2016. I received the entire enhanced amount in F.Y. 2016-17. Now, I have to file the tax return & the question is whether the amount of interest received, on which TDS of 10.33 % is deducted by Land Acquisition officer, is taxable or not?
In this regard, I would like to refer to a judgment of Hon’ble Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in case of Ghanshyam (HUF) - (2009) 315 ITR 1 held that interest under section 28 of Land Acquisition Act is accretion to the value of compensation and hence it is the part and parcel of compensation. Thus, taxability of interest u/s 28 will be same as compensation. Both together will fall under the head capital gains.
Later, however, amendments have been made in I. Tax Act. Section 145 which prescribe that interest on such enhanced compensation will be taxable under the head income from other source in the year of receipt with a deduction of 50% under section 57. On the other hand, in case of Ghanshyam HUF, the Apex Court held that interest u/s 28 was not the interest but part of compensation to be included for computation of capital gains and for taxation u/s 45(5) of Income tax Act. As per that decision, only interest u/s 34 is the interest.
Please advise whether it will be correct to interpret that amendments made w.e.f. 01-04-2010 do not change the legal position regarding interest u/s 28 i.e., and interest u/s 28 is to be treated as part of compensation and not interest and the amount so received must fall under the head capital gains. [Gopal Vanjani-gopalvanj@gmail.com]
Opinion:
“Tax Complexity itself is a kind of tax” - Max Baucus
There is a lot of chaos about taxability of the interest income on compensation or enhanced compensation received against compulsory acquisition of land.
Before replying to specific issues raised in the query, let us first have a look at the overall legal provision.
It may be noted that clause (b) is added to section 145A by the Finance Act-2009. Reason for adding the said clause is given in the Explanatory memorandum to FA-2009 which reads as under:
“The existing provisions of Income-tax Act provide that income chargeable under the head “Profits and gains of business or profession” or “Income from other sources”, shall be computed in accordance with either cash or mercantile system of accounting regularly employed by the assessee.
Further, the Hon’ble Supreme Court, in the case of Rama Bai Vs. CIT (181 ITR 400) has held that arrears of interest computed on delayed or enhanced compensation shall be taxable on accrual basis. This has caused undue hardship to tax payers.
With a view to mitigating the hardship, it is proposed to amend section 145A to provide that the interest received by an assessee on compensation or enhanced compensation shall be deemed to be the income for the year in which it is received, irrespective of the method of accounting followed by the assessee.
Further, it is proposed to insert clause (viii) in sub-section (2) of section 56 to provide that income by way of interest received on compensation or on enhanced compensation referred to in sub-section (2) of section 145A shall be assessed as “income from other sources” in the year in which it is received. This amendment will take effect from 1st April, 2010 and shall accordingly apply in relation to assessment year 1998-99 and subsequent assessment years.”
In short, (b) clause is added to section 145A to provide that the interest on compulsory acquisition will be taxable in the year of receipt only and not on accrual/due basis every in different years.
Section 56(2)(viii):
It provides that interest received on compensation or on enhanced compensation referred to in clause (b) of section 145A shall be taxable as “Income from other source”.
Section 57(iv):
It provides for allowability of 50% deduction against all income taxable u/s 56(2)(viii).
The Apex Court in the case CIT vs Ghanshyam (HUF) (2009) 315 ITR 1 vide order dated 16th July 2009 in respect of interest income awarded to the assessee has given following obiter:
i. Para 20 of order (Quoting Section 28 of Land Acquisition Act 1894)
“20. We also quote herein below Section 28 of the 1894 Act which reads as under:
Section 28 – Collector may be directed to pay interest on excess compensation. – If the sum which, in the opinion of the court, the Collector ought to have awarded as compensation is in excess of the sum which the Collector did award as compensation, the award of the Court may direct that the Collector shall pay interest on such excess at the rate of nine per centum per annum from the date on which he took possession of the land to the date of payment of such excess into Court.”
ii. Para 21 of order (Quoting Section 34 of Land Acquisition Act 1894)
Section 34 – Payment of interest.-When the amount of such compensation is not paid or deposited on or before taking possession of the land, the Collector shall pay the amount awarded with interest thereon at the rate of nine per centum per annum from the time of so taking possession until it shall have been so paid or deposited.
Provided that if such compensation or any part thereof is not paid or deposited within a period of one year from the date on which possession is taken, interest at the rate of fifteen per centum per annum shall be payable from the date of expiry of the said period of one year on the amount of compensation or part thereof which has not been paid or deposited before the date of such expiry.”
iii. Para 24 of order (Expression of View by Hob’ble Apex Court on these interests)
24. To sum up, interest is different from compensation. However, interest paid on the excess amount under Section 28 of the 1894 Act depends upon a claim by the person whose land is acquired whereas interest under Section 34 is for delay in making payment. This vital difference needs to be kept in mind in deciding this matter. Interest u/s 28 is part of the amount of compensation whereas interest under Section 34 is only for delay in making payment after the compensation amount is determined. Interest under Section 28 is a part of enhanced value of the land which is not the case in the matter of payment of interest under Section 34.
In short, Apex court in the case of CIT vs Ghanshyam (HUF) has notably drawn following conclusions:
(a) Interest u/s 28 and interest u/s 34 of the Land acquisition Act have different nature as pointed out in Para 33 of the order. Relevant part of para reads as under:
“It is true that "interest" is not compensation. It is equally true that s. 45(5) of the 1961 Act refers to compensation. But as discussed hereinabove, we have to go by the provisions of the 1894 Act which awards "interest" both as an accretion in the value of the lands acquired and interest for undue delay. Interest under s. 28 unlike interest under s. 34 is an accretion to the value; hence it is a part of enhanced compensation or consideration which is not the case with interest under s. 34 of the 1894 Act”.
(b) Interest under section 28 (i.e., interest on enhanced compensation) is to be treated as part of compensation itself and will be liable for taxation under the head “Income from Capital gain” u/s 45(5) of the Income Tax Act-1961.
(c) Interest u/s 34 (i.e., interest on compensation) is truly in the nature of interest income.
Apex court judgment in CIT Vs. Ghanshyam (HUF) was rendered in favor of the revenue in an altogether different context at a time when section 56(2)(viii) & 145A(b) was not there in the statue book. It will not be wrong to say that section 56(2)(viii) & 145A(b) are specific provision governing taxability of interest on enhanced compensation whereas judgement in CIT vs Ghanshyam (HUF) was rendered when no such specific provision existed. To this extent, there are the chances of further litigation & arguments. The main distinguishing reason for controversy would be the conclusion drawn that the interest on enhanced compensation is covered by section 45(5) (i.e., under the head “Income from Capital Gain”) of the Income Tax Act-1961.
Considering the overall legal perspective, in my opinion amendment done by the FA-2009 directly may not have an overriding effect over the judgment pronounced in CIT Vs Ghanshyam (HUF). The reason as mentioned in the explanatory memorandum to FA – 2009 is different & not superseding the ratio drawn in CIT Vs Ghanshyam (HUF). Amendment by FA-2009 has just changed the method of taxability of interest on compensation from year wise accrual to year of receipt. In absence of any further specific amendment/clarification, Interest u/s 28 on enhanced compensation can be treated as part of compensation itself as held in case of Ghanshyam (HUF) 315 ITR 1 & may be not be covered by section 56(2)(viii) of the Income Tax Act-1961.
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Rebecca West, Harriet Hume
Posted on June 1, 2018 by Simon Lavery
I read somewhere that this would be an ideal companion to May Sinclair’s salutary The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (I wrote about it here). Subtitled ‘A London Fantasy’, Rebecca West’s Harriet Hume (first published 1929) has some of the qualities of that novel (apart from the same name of the protagonists): fable, fairytale, allegory of how a life could or should be lived. The spiritual-supernatural elements are similar to those in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (posted about here) – especially as the eponymous Harriet is endowed with qualities and ‘occult gifts’ that cause her to be likened at times to an angel, and at others to a ‘damnable’ or ‘lying witch’. She has ‘burgled the mind’ of her young lover, Arnold Condorex, enabling her to read his thoughts and predict his future actions. This both attracts and alarms him.
The cover of my Virago Modern Classics edition shows a detail from ‘The Studio Door, Charleston’, by Vanessa Bell
He abandons her after their idyllic post-coital first chapter because she’s a poor concert pianist who, like him, has no ‘family or fortune’. He’s ambitious, determined to use his skills of ‘negotiation’ (i.e. treachery, duplicity, cunning and ruthlessness) to ‘rise’ in the world – he has a fatal inferiority complex.
Of course, Harriet is able to read all these ignoble thoughts. She tries to warn him against this single-minded, selfish course of action, but she also knows it’s futile: he’s doomed. ‘Advancement’ to him is what music is for her.
So in several subsequent meetings over subsequent years we see him gradually acquire the trappings of power and worldly success he craved: a grand house, servants, ostentatious wealth, a title, political power. On each meeting he finds Harriet bewitching, enchanting – and terrifying. She’s like his bad conscience. Yet she never importunes him. Variously described as like a doll or indolent cat, she has a ‘face almost insipid with compliancy’; not the most prepossessing oracle
Arnold’s downward moral and spiritual trajectory accompanies his mundane rise. In a final, bizarrely fantastic scene he enters another zone of being where he and Harriet can commune on a different level, watched by two comic policemen. Suicide or murder are involved.
So what’s this fantasy or fable about? As Victoria Glendinning suggests in her Introduction, it’s perhaps the ‘opposites’ with which Arnold becomes increasingly obsessed that drive him and Harriet: the male and female principles, perhaps. Yin and yang. Or the public, status-conscious versus the private and intimate, emotional life. Political chicanery v. art (especially music – a key feature in much of West’s other fiction).
He marries a woman for her wealth and rank, then grows to despise her. The moral here is clearly to be careful what you wish for. His ultimate failure, he comes to realise, wasn’t Harriet’s fault:
[I] have contrived my own ruin by my own qualities.
Unfortunately such portentous themes are less than engagingly narrated. The message at times comes across as a blend of Jiminy Cricket and a fortune cookie motto. There’s some of the digressive supernatural stuff about the changeability of matter that is seen in other novels by Rebecca West (poltergeists, etc.) – Arnold sees by the end that Harriet simply shapes ‘the random elements of our existence into coherent patterns’. Obviously.
But my main difficulty was with the prose style. It’s so florid, poetic and mannered as to make the narrative turgid at times – despite occasional flights of beauty. Here’s a random example of what looks almost like blank verse; Harriet is addressing Arnold, coming as close as she ever does to admonishing him for the ambition that has led him into criminality:
“Oh, Arnold! This is the midnight of your destiny. Bit all your principles and motives doff their masks and sever all connection with this scheme!”
Arnold has an odd habit of referring to Harriet – to her face or to himself, as a ‘little trollop’, ‘slut’ or – in Shakespearean mode – ‘jade’. Not an endearing quality.
I wrote about Rebecca West’s ‘Aubrey trilogy’ and The Return of the Soldier in various previous posts, link here. They’re all, to my mind, much better than this curiosity.
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8 thoughts on “Rebecca West, Harriet Hume”
JacquWine on June 1, 2018 at 5:44 pm said:
As you say, it sounds like a bit of a curiosity or curate’s egg – good in parts. I hadn’t heard of it before your post appeared – only West’s more prominent novels, The Return of the Soldier and The Fountain Overflows. Was this an early novel for her or did it come later in her career?
Simon Lavery on June 1, 2018 at 6:24 pm said:
Not sure my reply posted. I said it’s 1929 so early. Influence of V Woolf’s More opaque mode perhaps
kaggsysbookishramblings on June 1, 2018 at 7:45 pm said:
Oh dear… I’d been keen to read this one too, as I read good things about it and I loved “Return…” Maybe I’ll just have to be in the right mood for it…
I did struggle a little with the whimsical elements, but there’s a balancing darkness. Some great images, too. But that heavy style was a problem for me.
Nanosecond on June 2, 2018 at 2:20 am said:
“The message at times comes across as a blend of Jiminy Cricket and a fortune cookie motto. ”
Simon, thanks for making me laugh today!
Simon Lavery on June 2, 2018 at 6:45 am said:
Nanosecond: I’m pleased you enjoyed that. And thanks for letting me know- good to hear from you
Bellezza on June 5, 2018 at 5:06 pm said:
I love stories with a theme of “be careful what you wish for.” I am reminded of the verse in the Bible: “The heart is deceitful above all things; who can know it?” We think we know what we want, when often it’s better to act on what we know is right. As for “turgid prose” I had go turn to a John Grisham after George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Not that I didn’t enjoy it. I did, but 900 pages of 19th century verbiage required a small break for me. 🙂
I turned to Barbara Pym next for light relief!
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The genus Rubus, (especially the blackberries, which are often loosely referred to as Rubus fruticosus agg.) presents some of the most difficult taxonomic problems. This is partly due to the frequency of polyploidy; also to the frequent occurrence of hybridization; and also due to apomixis, where minor differences between plants are preserved because seedlings are genetically identical to their parent. As a result, differences of opinion on the number of species to be recognized from a given region can vary tremendously (for example, a treatment by M. L. Fernald[
Gray's Manual of Botany.Eighth Edition
Fernald. M. L.
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A bit dated but a good and concise flora of the eastern part of N. America.
] in 1950 recognized 205 species for the northern half of the eastern United States plus parts of southeastern Canada, whilst H. A. Gleason and A. Cronquist in 1991 recognized only 25)[
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An on-line version of the flora with an excellent description of the plant including a brief mention of plant uses.
]. Where possible, a relatively conservative approach is taken here[
Common Name: Japanese Wineberry
Rubus phoenicolasius is a deciduous shrub, producing each year a cluster of erect to arching, prickly, biennial stems from a woody rootstock; the plants usually grow 100 - 200cm tall, occasionally to 300cm[
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Rubus phoenicolasius was introduced to North America for edible fruit, breeding stock, and for ornament. It has escaped from cultivation and has proved at times to be invasive[
E. Asia - central China, Japan, Korea.
Waste places and clearings in lowland and mountains all over Japan[
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Climbers and Wall Shrubs.
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Easily grown in a good well-drained loamy soil in sun or semi-shade[
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]. Plants are not too happy when grown in windy situations[
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A very ornamental plant, its red stems adding colour to the winter garden[
It is sometimes cultivated for its edible fruit[
]. There is at least one named variety, 'Bella di Tokyo' has small tasty red fruits[
Plants in this genus are notably susceptible to honey fungus[
The Oxford Book of Food Plants.
Harrison. S. Wallis. M. Masefield. G.
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]. Sweet and juicy[
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]. The fruit has been used to colour wine[
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This species is used in raspberry (Rubus idaeus) breeding programmes as a crossing partner for obtaining resistance to leaf-spot virus[
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Tip layering in July. Plant out in autumn.
Division in early spring.
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“TfL are not doing anything near as much as they could be, they appear to be brushing it under the carpet. They have continuously implemented the policy that has impacted on drivers’ health and wellbeing. When we have highlighted these problems to TfL, they ignore us. They leave us to get on with fending for ourselves.”
Mr Johnson said that the meter fare system afforded an industrial wage, but that this had been “undermined and undercut” by the private hire trade.
The film said that some taxi drivers fear raising mental health concerns with health professionals because they could be stripped of their licences. Recently-published figures show more than 500 drivers have failed to meet DVLA medical standards because of medical disorders, including poor mental health, since 2014.
Paul Harris, a cab driver for 23 years, said: “It’s not something I’m happy to talk about. It affects me. It makes me feel like I’m part of London, but not any more. Because my job has been taken by another entity – and that entity doesn’t play by the same rules as me.”
Cabbie Dale Forwood said: “TfL are not very sympathetic of the stress. Everyone is very worried about having go to the doctor about depression and anxiety.”
Other drivers in the film talk about the “sense of loss” and “hard to get out of bed” and depression.
Matt Johnson, an ambassador for mental health charity MIND, said: “It’s difficult for a man to talk about mental illness. It’s perceived to be a weakness, it is not. Cabbies have a wonderful skill and knowledge. It seems like they are not being backed up by the people they should be backed by the most. It’s 100 per cent, I believe, TfL’s responsibility to provide some sort of therapy because of working environment they are creating. There are so many options of therapy that people can provide. If people are struggling with rules being imposed on them, the least you can do is help them out.”
Last week Sadiq Khan was asked about taxi driver licences being revoked or suspended because of depression or anxiety.
He said: “TfL would expect licensees to seek help for any medical condition at the earliest stage possible, to ensure it is treated. In the vast majority of cases, if medical help is sought and the condition is treatable, it is unlikely that TfL will need to take licensing action. Licensing action will only be taken if there is a risk to the travelling public or indeed the licensee.”
He added: “Mental health illnesses, including depression and anxiety, are serious conditions that require treatment. No one should suffer in silence.”
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March 26, 2018 By Stephanie Spyropoulos, Express Correspondent
HANSON — Three Braintree men are being charged in connection with the armed break-in of a Hanson house Saturday night, March 24.
A Hanson resident was able to call 911 with help from neighbors after he fled his home Saturday night on Adams Circle while two masked men smashed their way in.
Christian Paiva, 19, and Christopher Paiva, 22, were taken into custody in the immediate area of the home. Giovanni Rodrigues, 23, fled on foot and was taken into custody on State Street. All three are from Braintree, said Hanson Police Chief Michael Miksch in a press release.
The three have been charged with breaking and entering while armed, malicious destruction of property over $250, and larceny over $250. Hanson Police later recovered property taken from the home on Sunday.
The homeowner, who was not identified by police, was not physically harmed. Police were seen photographing the lower level entry of a ranch style home Saturday at around 8 p.m. A K9 handler and State Police were also seen combing the wooded area by the dwelling.
Hanover Police Officers and the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department BCI Unit also assisted in apprehending the three. Rodrigues was found to be carrying a knife when he was taken into custody on State Street by Hanover Police and Sheriff’s Department officials.
“Hanson Police Department would like to thank the many witnesses who called in to assist us in locating the third individual,” said Miksch. “We would also like to thank the Hanover Police and Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department for their assistance.”
Hanson Officers investigating the case were Officers Billy Frazier, Jared Meegan, Christopher Dominguez, and Ben Ford. Detective Paul O’Brien, Sgt. Gene Andrews, and Lt. Michael Casey also assisted.
The three suspects were slated to be arraigned in district court today [March 26].
According to police, the break-in is not a random incident as the victim apparently knew one of the suspects.
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On the Vile Arts Radio Show Tonight: Ruxy Cantir
The Vile Arts is back on Subcity Radio and, thank God, he has guests. Drew Taylor is a familiar voice, so we'll get to him later. But check this out...
or listen here...
Actually, by my standards, this is a pretty great show... sure, I manage to mess up the music cues and do my usual boast about how I know Red Bastard. But both Drew and Ruxy are great guests, and cover for my rudeness, bad research and general silliness.
Ruxy Cantir is a theatre artist born and
raised in Moldova (Eastern Europe). This provided her with a grotesque sense of humour, boney elbows, and a desire to celebrate the odd and the unusual.
She creates original physical theatre in ensemble and by herself, and believes in the full physical gesture as the epitome of human expression. She is inspired by transformation, highly physical comedy, and embarrassing stories. She strives to create imaginative intensity-filled original work that explores the bizarre manifestations of our fears and desires. Most of her work falls somewhere between styles like Clown, Vaudeville, Physical Comedy, and Movement theatre.
Ruxy received her B.A. in Theatre Arts at Furman University (South Carolina, USA) and her M.F.A. in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre at Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre (California) where she came into her own as an “actor-creator,” a mover, and a community arts project lover. She also trained at LAMDA in their Summer Intensive and Physical Theatre Workshops, and David Diamond's Theatre for LivingWorkshop.
Ruxy moved to Glasgow, Scotland in November 2015.
Because this...
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Labels: chat , Conflux , Drew Taylor , Pitch , Ruxy Cantir , subcity radio
Lorna Over Lanarkshire...
I know it is a secret code, but the Law of Critic Club begins with 'don't discuss the play until you have written your review'. This is especially useful when leaving a production, because I never know whether the director's partner is standing beside me as I announce 'that was a big load of shit.'
Having said that, I can't wait to discuss plays with Lorna Irvine. If you haven't been reading her reviews, get wise. It's not just that we've been working together for years now, or that I can pretend to be her boss on The List. Lorna's perspective is fresh, witty and she frequently points out themes that I miss. There are at least half a dozen theatre companies who need to go round her house with flowers and chocolates to thank her for her insights.
It's not just the quality and frequency of her writing that makes her important. Lorna's ability to recognise the gender subtexts in theatre is superb. I am always banging on about diversity of voices, and Lorna combines a distinctive identity with the kind of attitude that some people call objective. It's not objective - no such thing, thanks - but it is generous and clear.
She has been working over at Tempo House for the past month or so, and her work-rate is astonishing. There are supposed to be some other collaborators on the site (naming no names), but she is giving the site an identity and purpose. Okay, she is my friend and all, but she's starting to scare me into working harder.
She also came up with the headline...
Labels: criticism , Lorna Irvine , Tempo House
Kaned Again
Sarah died for your sins.
Enter Sarah and Gareth. They are shackled together. Naked, they recall the Rider Waite Tarot card of The Devil.
Sarah: Do you trust me?
Gareth: Yes. But why?
Sarah: You trust me because I write so well. You trust me because you recognise the things I describe.
Gareth: I don’t recognise this place.
Sarah: It’s a university.
Gareth: It looks like a concentration camp.
Sarah: What’s the difference?
Black out. Loud electronic music. Lights up, The Red Room. Grace is having sex with her brother, while a retarded boy, in a dress, swings from the ceiling on a pair of tights.
Black out. Loud electronic music. Lights up. Sarah and Gareth again.
Gareth: An hour and a half’s a bit long for this.
Sarah: Too weak to take it?
Gareth: It’s a good idea to read out the stage directions rather to act them. It saves the actors having to actually mutilate themselves.
Sarah: Why do you insist on considering Cleansed as a play? My pain transcends theatre. I am on the point of transforming the script into something like your beloved Live Art.
Gareth: You were consciously copying other authors. Edward Bond. Beckett. You even used Shakespeare to defend your stage directions. Just because you were clinically depressed didn’t mean that you weren’t literary.
Sarah: So how many stars are you going to give me?
Black out. Loud electronic music. Lights up, The White Room. Tinker and a gay male couple.
Tinker: I’m a doctor. I’m not a doctor. I hate women.
Gay Male Couple: We understand that sado-masochism is not a matter of whips and chains, but the deeper torments of the mind. One of us ends up dead, the other loses hands, feet and tongue.
Tinker: We are all symbols of internal and external expression. I might be God.
Black out. Sarah and Gareth.
Gareth: Do you remember when we met at The Scala cinema, In King’s Cross?
Sarah: They were showing Pasolini’s Salo. I was the only woman in the audience.
Gareth: And I was the only man not wearing a mackintosh and furtively touching himself.
Sarah: You were a boy.
Gareth: You could have stayed the next morning.
Sarah: How would it have been different?
Gareth: You might still be here.
Sarah: Because I needed you? And I’d be writing adaptations of classics for the NTS.
Sarah: Would you have died for me?
Gareth: I would have said that I would.
Sarah: From the man who lasted nine seconds when he was waterboarded.
Black out. Lights up. The chocolate room. The retarded boy is eating an entire box of chocolates to a loud, swirling soundtrack.
Audience member: PLEASE TURN THE FUCKING MUSIC OFF. IT IS DISTRACTING ME FROM THE EXTENDED HORROR OF THE FORCED FEEDING.
Black out. Lights up. Gareth and Sarah.
Gareth: Is it true that Tinker was named after a critic from The Daily Mail?
Sarah: These days, I’d write a witty acoustic song about it and put it on YouTube.
Gareth: We don’t do sincerity in the twenty-first century.
Sarah: That’s why you don’t have any good script-writers.
Gareth: You know, they were just boys. You needed an older lover, et c.
Sarah: I needed God. And He’s dead.
Gareth: This is your worst play.
Sarah: And so my most honest.
Gareth: It needs to be under-played.
Black out. Lights up. The Yellow room. Sounds of amputation, and screams. Grace is naked, with tits and a cock.
Grace: (sings) All you love is need. All you love is need. Need, need: need is all you love.
Sarah: It’s not as bad as my version of Hippolytus.
Gareth: You hadn’t bothered to read the original.
Sarah: So what? I just fancied having a Greek hero wanking into a sock. You’d prefer a reverential version?
Gareth: I love everything you wrote, Sarah.
Sarah: Does that mean you are going to rape me?
Black out. Pause. Lights up. The stage is scattered with Tinker’s mad eyes, melted chocolate, piss, flames, feet, hands, half a tongue, blood which smells of tomato puree, the dead bodies of the cast. Gareth and Sarah again.
Gareth: They really went for it.
Sarah: I hate actors.
Gareth: Why else would you have written Cleansed?
Sarah: I do to actors what God did to me.
Gareth: Force them through a script that they can’t hope to escape?
Sarah: If God existed, that is what He did. But God is dead.
Gareth: You killed yourself because you had such a strong identification with God?
Sarah: I killed myself because... have you looked out the window lately?
Gareth: You killed yourself because you picked up a copy of Hello! Magazine in the STD waiting room?
Sarah: I saw what was coming. God is dead, and Jordan is sitting in His throne. If God is Love, then Love is dead. In the gap, there is need. Society weeds out the capable. Society destroys God.
Gareth: Sarah? It’s Easter.
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Coming to Buzzcut 2016: Robert Hardaker
/ R I S E /
The artist attempts to create a nest for himself from detritus. The artist wears a garment wrong and gathers dead objects around himself, pushing them inside inside the garment till it is full to bursting.
He then wriggles, pulls at the garment and pushes out the detritus, creating a continuous birthing cycle while rebuilding and reshaping his nest. The wriggling causes the dead matter to rub against the inside of his legs, making them raw.
/ R I S E / was initially developed at IPA Bristol 2015 and performed in various guises.
Can you tell me a little bit about the work that you are bringing to Buzzcut?
/ R I S E / is a improvised durational action which explores a relationship that occurs, in my mind, between death and femininity. I will be continuously birthing dead plant matter and will eat a chicken. Other actions may occur in the moment.
Do you see your work within any tradition - and are there any artists (performance and beyond) whom you regard as a peer or an influence?
Performance work that happens in the moment. Too many to name.
Buzzcut is concerned with the idea of 'community'. Does community have a special meaning for you, and what relationship do you feel your work has within wider communities?
Friends. I’m happy to be performing alongside so many people I respect and whose work I have experienced elsewhere.
What are you hoping that the audience will experience?
A body involved in an action that stays true to its intention. This work is what it is and probably won’t ask much of the audience other than to spend as much or as little time as they wish with the work. I may engage them directly, I may not.
Robert Hardaker is a contemporary performance maker and live artist, based in Leicester, England. Hardaker’s practice aims to recollect a supposed co-existing consciousness and memory aided by the curation of a space and the highlighting of the senses.
Through bodily action he forms his own likeness, memories and emotions around himself; the audience is a malleable entity who can choose to become part of this dialogue. They are not forced into experiencing a set of emotions, yet are guided by the artist into singular, fleeting moments of involvement. The body becomes a vessel for intimacy and reaction, works are impossible but necessary tasks, full of supposed contradictions.
Labels: / R I S E / , Performance Art , Robert Hardaker , Who is coming to Buzzcut?
What is Theatre for, eh?
An idea that comes up again and again - especially when I interview Andy Arnold - is that theatre has a special place for the discussion of public concerns. Whether this existed in the earliest days of staged performance, I can't say (if it did, the Athenians of the fifth century had a few issues with patricide and mother-fucking). Of course, I think Diderot started it off.
His writing on theatre - especially when he tries to explain why his plays are quite good, actually - emphasises the important of reflecting the worries of society. He invented a new genre, known as the drame, to make this point.
Even Kenneth 'Whiplash' Tynan, patron saint of critics and swearing on TV, argued with Ionesco that theatre is always political (the example he gave of how far political decisions impinge on life was, inevitably, in the purchase of cigarettes). He was not keen on what Arnold calls 'existential theatre', which privileged existential angst over more specific anguishes.
While I am uncomfortable with my responses to The Citizens' recent Endgame, I believe that my complaint against its familiarity reflects my assumption that theatre ought to challenge the audience. Beckett is obviously a master playwright, and Endgame's vision of a post-apocalyptic world straddles the divide between abstraction and more specific paranoia (a hostile universe and a nuclear winter respectively). Although Dominic Hill did a solid job, getting great performances and playing out the script with clarity, I thought that Beckett's nightmare is too familiar, and draws heavily on 1950s' fears.
The Beckett estates' conservatism on matters of interpretation - manifested in Hill's production - leaves Endgame as a period piece, lacking the immediacy of Hill's direction of, say, Crime and Punishment. It allows the audience off the hook, to read the event as performance rather than a critique. That is, it's easy to eulogise the actors, enjoy the words and revel in the dystopian rather than embrace the challenge of a play that reflects contemporary alienation.
Back with Andy Arnold, who recently directed Beckett's Happy Days: his choice of Mike Barlett's Cock was a far more bracing confrontation with the audience. Given its frank discussion of sexual identity, it did respond to modern dilemmas. Its basic premise - a man torn between male and female lovers - reveals a society more comfortable with observing same-sex relationships, but also going beyond a simple message of positivity.
Despite sharing a certain bleakness with Beckett, it conforms to Diderot's ideal of the bourgeois comic tragedy. There were laughs, but the protagonist ended up alone on stage, the darkness slowly encroaching.
Cock was more uncomfortable than Endgame. It is set in a familiar domesticity which becomes more sinister than Beckett's blasted planet both because it fails to recognise wider catastrophes (the characters do reflect on their self-absorption) and it is more difficult to 'other' the characters' experience. Most people haven't existed in a post-apocalypse twilight. They have had dinner parties and worried about their ambitions and desires.
However, my reading of both plays is predicated on the assumption that 'theatre ought to challenge'. It's a variation on Diderot's claim: contemporary social relevance does not need to be provocative. One function of the critic might be to recommend productions - hence the star rating. My reviews are aimed at audiences who are, at least, in sympathy with my assumption. Endgame and Cock were well worth the time and money, although Gareth Nichol's Blackbird at The Citizens ticked the box harder.
Whether the purpose of theatre is to annoy the hell out of the audience is not necessary proven... the production of Cleansed, which is apparently ever so shocking, has bought back some public debate about the acceptability of on-stage violence. And sometimes, as Vanishing Point are currently showing in The Destroyed Room, breaking the format can be a powerful way of shoving the shit right in the audience's mush.
Labels: andy arnold , Beckett , blackbird , Cock , Diderot , Dominic Hill , Endgame , Gareth Nichols , Ionesco , Kenneth Tynan , Mike Bartlett , the function of theatre , Vanishing Point , vile pondering
Rant Number 457
The first time that I noticed a hegemony was as a youngster stomping about the British Museum. Hell, I was much more sophisticated in those days. I'd spend days making notes and working out the semiotics of The Elgin Marble, and I didn't even know what semiotics meant.
I realised, even as a neophyte classicist, that there was a strict division. If it was European, it went in the Museum. If it was African, it went in ethnography. African art didn't have history. It had an aesthetic that was primitive, even if it had been made last week, and its main importance was its influence on Picasso, or what it could tell us about a society. Its aesthetic value was subsumed to an anthropological use.
And I feel it again when I read about lap-dancing. Rachela Colosi's Dirty Dancing is a great read - but would anyone do an ethnographic investigation into The Royal Shakespeare Company? This kind of academic text, which purports to challenge the 'othering' of strippers, actually reinforces the stigmatisation.
For example, there's chat about how the life of a lap-dancing impacts on their ability to maintain relationships. Without a control group for comparison, the conclusions are stark: the partners of the dancers tend to feel threatened and put pressure on them to quit. But what about women who work in Asda? Without knowing how other jobs impact on the workers' relationships, the analysis of the lap-dancer is meaningless, if not othering.
I wandering into the study of lap-dancing because I wanted to challenge the idea of dramaturgy as only related to 'respected' performance. There's so little written that engages with it as art, I ended up reading sociology and anthropology. It is good stuff, and mentions Goffman (who talks about the dramaturgy of everyday life and all), but it is a long way from the respectful tones afforded to even the most tedious theatre production.
And I wince every time 'sex work' is mentioned. Sure, there is a continuum, but I am not interested in stripping as 'sex work'. I'm interested in it as dance.
I'm just tired of the hegemony, the hidden assumption that there is some kind of hierarchy to human experience. Everything is accessible through every kind of analysis, but the kind of analysis given to a subject tells a great deal about the social status it has.
More on BP
Here's what BP or not BP say about BP's sponsorship of the arts.
What’s wrong with BP sponsoring the arts?
BP sponsors the arts in order to generate good publicity, which it so desperately needs. Being seen as a partner to our national cultural institutions helps BP present itself as a caring, generous member of the community, whilst continuing to destroy the environment and contribute to human rights abuses around the world. We call this ‘artwash’. And it works. 38% of people who were exposed to BP’s Olympic sponsorship believe that BP is doing better at working towards a cleaner planet.
The arts and cultural institutions that accept sponsorship from BP are effectively legitimising BP’s actions, by giving them positive publicity.
Oil sponsorship taints the reputation of the arts and cultural institutions that accept it. Art should not be exploited by big oil corporations.
In return, the arts institutions only receive a tiny percentage of their annual income from BP. BP sponsorship provides less than 1% of the annual income of the British Museum, Tate, and the Royal Opera House, and just 2.9% of the income of the National Portrait Gallery. (Statistics for Scottish cultural institutions coming soon!) BP needs these institutions far more than they need BP.
Inevitably, I don't agree entirely with their position. Although I would not argue with the thrust of their arguments, I don't regard art as being the innocent party: there is a conscious decision by the institutions to accept the money, and art has always been the propaganda wing of the dominant cultural establishment. Artists have associated themselves with political causes to look like they have an important social function, but take the cash when a big boy offers it.
However, BP are making a good, value-for-money investment. They give a little to high profile events, and get publicity and respect. This isn't the Borgias paying for an entire church. It's a grab of public spaces for cheap advertising.
Besides, they aren't exactly championing the emerging artists when they slap the cash around Tate.
BP or Not BP
Hopefully, around about now, there has been a disturbance in Edinburgh. BP or not BP mounted an art-activism event at The Scottish National Portrait Gallery to challenge the sponsorship of the BP Portrait Award. I hope it was peaceful, and fun, and drew attentions to the problems caused by the support of the arts by big oil firms.
Since I am always banging on about the inherent contradiction between 'political theatre' and the bourgeois under-pinning of performance theory, and I have a great fondness for the writing of Carl Lavery, who connects absurdist theatre with a far more immediate environmental consciousness (Beckett is transformed from being existential angst to a more deliberate commentary on the devastation caused by nuclear power), art-activism ought to be right on my watch.
While I am sitting in bed thinking about buying a new computer - doubtless made in a sweat-shop somewhere - some people are capable of acting on their beliefs.
According to the BP or not BP website, the oil company do two things: act in complicity with various human rights violations and environmental damage, and give tiny amounts of cash (relatively speaking) to the arts, so they look good.
A Process
Here's a chart I did, with all the long words that I know. It represents an attempt to consider how I might go about discussing 'dramaturgy' and 'sequential art'.
The problem that I have: do I start with the top or the bottom?
I believe that the 'ontology' of an object defines what it is, and this 'isness' determines both the aesthetic and the epistemology of the object. These can be interpreted through a semiotic analysis.
The ontology of theatre is probably impossible to determine: it is speculative. I think it is a bit like what Plato means when he talks about the 'world of pure forms' - the basic and idealised form of an object or an idea. It can't be seen, or really explained... only theories can exist about it.
Having said that, it is this ontology of an object that goes on to determine the way that it interacts with the world. In order to do this, it has an aesthetic - taste, sort of, or a way of expressing itself - and an epistemology (a theory of knowledge).
These then manifest as signs. That's the bit that is available to interpretation.
Theatre as Voyeurism again
Although I am not completely convinced by site-specific performance - it is supposed to offer a new way for audiences to relate to a performance, but I've not seen many audience members behave as if they were anything other than passive receivers of theatrical experience - William McEvoy argues that 'the visible and the linguistic operate in dialectical tension with one another'.
I think they do that in any situation where words and images go together, but okay. In his contribution to Theatre as Voyeurism, he postulates that the audience member is made 'voyeur, writer and critic'.
Again, no different to any other form of theatre, or comic book, if I want to keep that analogy going.
His entire introduction seems to be claiming a special status for site-specific theatre where none exists. The spectator observes outwardly and inwardly? The desire for meaning is exposed? Subjectivity is evoked... hold on...
That might have something. Continue, please, Mr McEvoy.
Labels: site-specific , theatre as voyeurism , theory , William McEvoy
Pathologies in Audiences...
I made a little chart to show the 14 possible voyeuristic reasons that someone might go to the theatre. This comes from Rodosthenous' introduction to Theatre as Voyeurism.
I divided the categories into groups - the voyeurism encouraged by the production, voyeurism encouraged by the audience and voyeurism that is not about literal naked bodies.
Turns out this won't help my research, but I did find out what my pathology is...
I suppose that 'accidental voyeurism' could fit in with the 'audience aims for nudity' gang.
What is he watching?
George Rodosthenous' introduction to this collection on essays on 'staring at the forbidden' offers a list of 14 voyeurisms that might be in play during a theatrical performance. While some of them are marginal - seriously, 'pathological voyeurism' (having a wank while watching a show) is not something that I have encountered more than once - the range covers both sexual scopophiliae and more high-brow intentions.
This list was developed from Clay Calvert's Voyeur Nation (2004). I was hoping it might open up ideas about why I go to the theatre.
Sunday's Dramaturgy: My name is Eva O'Connor
Sunday's Child presents
My Name is Saoirse
by Traverse 50 writer
Eva O'Connor
Directed by Hildegard Ryan
Written and performed by Eva O’Connor
Rural Ireland, 1987. Saoirse lives in a peach coloured bungalow with her Da and big brother Brendan. Her best friend is Siobhán, who has a glorious fountain of ginger hair, a whisper like a foghorn and an arse so big it distracts all the men at mass.
Saoirse prefers running through fields to chasing after boys, but her best friend has other ideas. After a night out drinking with the lads, Saoirse discovers her pregnancy and is forced to set out on journey that will take her miles away from her home and the carefree adolescence she once knew.
My Name is Saoirse is an award-winning one woman show, set in 1980's rural Ireland, by Traverse 50 writer, Eva O’Connor. The piece is a tender and moving coming of age story that follows Saoirse, an ordinary, extraordinary 15 year old growing up in conservative Catholic Ireland.
Abortion remains illegal in Ireland to this day, forcing thousands of Irish women and girls with crisis pregnancies to travel to England every year. Although a prevalent part of Irish life, abortion is still a taboo subject rarely discussed - making Saoirse's story, sadly, as relevant as ever. Inspired by the writer and performer's personal experience, O’Connor's lyrical script explores the reality of life in Ireland for women both then and now.
Argus Angel Award, Brighton Fringe 2015
First Fortnight Award, Dublin Fringe 2014
NSDF Commendation for Best New Writing, Edinburgh Fringe 2014
NOMINATED:
Best Performer, Dublin Fringe 2014
Best Writing Dublin Fringe, 2014
Stuart Parker Trust Award Longlist, 2015
I had an abortion myself. As an Irish woman, I was struck by how much shame and stigma that is associated with it. I was lucky, I was in Scotland at the time, and I received really good care during the procedure. I was actually treated by two Irish nurses and an Irish doctor. Irish women, helping Irish women. Abroad. No such help exists at home.
I wanted to write a piece inspired by my experience, but removed enough that it wasn't autobiographical. My Name is Saoirse is set in the 80's, and although I did grow up in rural Ireland, my childhood was very different to hers thankfully.
How did you go about gathering the team for it?
The play is written and performed by myself, and directed by Hildegard Ryan who runs Sunday's Child theatre company with me. We live together in London, so we didn't have to go too far to gather the team.
I initially wanted to be a dancer, then became more interested in physical theatre. I started to write my own stuff when I did'nt get cast in any of the student theatre stuff at Uni. I went on to do a masters in Rose Bruford in Theatre Ensemble which focussed a lot on devising, which I loved, as I'm quite a physical performer.
Ultimately though I'm a real believer in the power of a strong script as a starting point for making a show.
Was your process typical of the way that you make a performance?
I write the script as a short story usually, leave it, come back to it, and eventually develop a full length script Hildegard, who runs Sunday's Child with me is a brilliant dramaturg, so we work together to make the script as solid as possible, and then I hand it over to her to dream up the directorial vision.
With My Name is Saoirse I hope people experience compassion. And laugh a lot. Irish people tend to use humour to deal with what ever difficulties life presents. I think My Name is Saoirse reflects that. It's quite a serious subject matter, but it's very comedic.
Do you see your work within any particular
tradition?
I don't really see myself in any particular tradition. In Ireland the theatre tradition tends to be script focussed, which I suppose has had an influence on our company. My Name is Saoirse was inspired by the story telling tradition, but then again most theatre is!
Labels: abortion , Dramaturgy database , Eva O'Connor , feminist theatre , My name is Saoirse , script , solo show , Sunday's Child , Traverse
Shaking up Dramaturgy: James Beagon from Aulos talks Caesar
A brand new twist on Shakespeare’s classic sees the play recast in the grimy underworld beneath the charade of the modern football celebrity. Triumph and glory may be eternal, but individuals are not. Personal codes of honour are all that are left in a world of ultras, hooligans and futile violence.
The inspiration for this football-based version of Julius Caesar came primarily from a desire to try to bring it to audiences who might not normally engage with Shakespeare. The ongoing FIFA corruption crisis means that our take on the show is about as current as you can get, and thus the topics we deal with are right at the forefront of public consciousness.
Aulos Productions has produced several shows in the past few years and thus several team members carried on over from our most recent Fringe show, Women of the Mourning Fields. Our new team members, both cast and crew, came from a mixture of an open auditions process and responses to our online adverts aimed at the amateur and student theatre community in Edinburgh.
I have always been interested in creating my own media from an early age, primarily through creative writing. I became interested in theatre performance specifically when I came to Edinburgh for
university and found myself getting heavily involved with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company based on a chance decision in Fresher's Week.
Since graduating, I've decided that I want to continue making performance theatre as a career and thus I've maintained those old links whilst starting to head off in my own direction to make the best theatre that appeals to me.
My most recent productions have been written as well as directed by myself, so this project has actually been a change for me.
Mostly, it called for a change in my process of abridging the text to suit the message I wanted to get across rather than simply writing it from scratch. That said, many things about my directing process remain the same. For instance, I'm particularly fond of long-form characterisation exercises, which I have used effectively for previous productions and they continue to work well for Julius Caesar.
I hope the audience will enjoy the experience of something
watching something that feels both classic and contemporary. For those new to Shakespeare, I hope it encourages them to continue to engage with more Shakespeare productions in the future of various different styles.
For those who have seen many productions of Shakespeare and Julius Caesar before, I hope to challenge any preconceptions they might have about the text or Shakespearean performance in general with a new and unconventional setting.
What strategies did you consider towards shaping this audience experience?
We are employing the use of filmed video alongside live performance, not only in the form of newsreels within the universe of Julius Caesar but with our in-universe stylised adverts that we've made to help highlight the overlap between the modern celebrity and the world of football. Hopefully this approach will help the audience engage more fully with the world we're creating, particularly if football is not something they are inherently familiar with.
Do you see your work within any particular tradition?
For Aulos Productions as a whole, there has been a certain amount of inspiration from the work of the ancient Greek playwrights (Aeschlyus, Sophocles, Euripides), mainly in regards to combining the role of director and writer. But doing Julius Caesar has been much more a case of simply putting my directing experience from past productions to the most practical use. Whilst it is Shakespeare, the production still follows the same rules as any other. It's always great to experiment and try out new techniques, but I don't think it's helpful to limit yourself to one particular 'tradition' without flexibility.
Labels: aulos , cool video ideas , Dramaturgy database , football , James Beagon , julius caesar , script based theatre , Shakespeare
No Friends
My family watches television. I don't. This ensures a mutual incomprehension between us.
To be clear, I watch certain programmes, but through the medium of the internet or pre-recorded DVDs. I'm trying to get through the adaptation of Constantine on Amazon Prime at the moment. But I do not have a television, and regard, perhaps fancifully, my viewing as more self-controlled, more selective.
Whatever, Friends seems to have been on in the background for
days and days. Constant repeats of episodes, in diverse sequences, sometimes themed, sometime chronological.
And I've decided that it is propaganda. Of course I have.
Friends has one plot: the one where an outsider attempts to join the group, but is eventually repelled.
Labels: critical comics , queer
Unflattening: Against the Hegemony of Text
One of the most important strands in Unflattening is Sousanis' concern with the routines of education. From the first image, he imagines education - and by implication, society itself - trapped by the past, following paths that have been well-worn by previous scholars and, consequently, limiting the possibilities of research and perception.
Perhaps Sousanis' main worry is the assumption that 'the word' is more important than the image. In Judeo-Christian culture, the primacy of the word could be traced back to John's Gospel, which associates Christ (the manifestation of God in the physical universe) with the logos.
The privilege afforded to words manifests across anglophone culture: Christian fundamentalism stresses the literal truth of The Bible (an obsession reflected or originating in the status of The Koran in Islam), the primacy of the script in theatre (thank you, Shakespeare), the oaths sworn in the legal system, Plato's collected works (despite Plato's ambiguity about the written word).
Sousanis recognises this hidden assumption, and counters that words can be enriched by images - not as illustration, but as a competing and complimentary presence. He draws an analogy with the way that academic training, through an emphasis on appeals to authority (footnotes, accepted boundaries of discourse), reduces education to a rote process.
Unflattening itself is an example of how words can be challenged. The placement of words within a comic book text, and their relationship to images, attacks their simple semiotic reading. Rather than 'a word' being defined within its own system (by other words), it shifts into a conversation with the image and the overall design.
It also contains a powerful expression of how words define experience without drawing attention to themselves. In the chapter Strings Attached, a happy puppet suddenly realises how their actions are determined by invisible guides... but far from being discouraged by this revelation, the puppet realises that awareness of the strings suggests a new way to play.
Labels: GOD , hegemony , Nick Sousanis , Plato , Unflattening , words
Unflattening: General Review/Introduction
Unflattening is an unapologetic polemic for the value of 'sequential art' as both an educational and academic medium. Written by Nick Sousanis as a PhD thesis, it explores how comics challenge the 'flatness' of current educational practice. Slipping between meditations on the nature of existence, the conformity enforced by traditional approaches to learning, the aesthetics of comics and wider reflections on the relationship between form and content, Unflattening claims a place for this 'low art' that challenges the hegemony of academic writing.
Across ten chapters - each of which offer a self-contained analysis of a particular aspect of his argument, Sousanis works steadily towards his conclusion: words and images can combine to create a more immersive text, and provide new perspectives. But, appropriately, the chapters leap between subjects, variously decrying the limitations of academic routines (Flatness and Strings Attached), the philosophical thought experiment presented in Flatland and celebrating the potential of comics to encourage new perspectives (Awakening).
While there is little to surprise the regular reader of comics - for example, his discussion of fractals is familiar from Godel, Escher, Bach - he articulates both the aesthetic potential of comics and their epistemology with a wit and clarity.
Despite being an academic text, with an impressive density of information - Sousanis never loses a lightness of touch. The striking images of the first chapter, which echo the mechanical complexity and horror of Escher's trick pictures, establish his vision of an education caught in its own ruts, and the final chapter illustrates the exciting of thinking between mathematics and mysticism.
Unflattening is a step forward for the comic book: simultaneously playful and intelligent, it combines an argument for the medium and challenges established thinking on the nature of perception. There's a clear lineage for the material - Robert Anton Wilson followed a more psychedelic version of the arguments, and Abbot's Flatland is explicitly referenced - but, balanced between the creative and the academic, Sousanis' achievement is to question the relationship between these apparently disparate categories.
Labels: comics in academia , critical comics , Flatland , Nick Sousanis , Robert Anton Wilson , Unflattening
Netting Dramaturgy: Morna Young
A co-production between Allie Butler/Morna Young and Woodend Barn
Written by Morna Young
Directed by Allie Butler
NETTING is a story of fishing widows trying to live their lives after a tragedy. A story about real women – strong but flawed – the play explores how grief changes their relationships.
Keep busy, eh? Hope we’ll get a body, mebbe. The widden spoon. A knock on the door wi a wooden spoon.
A father and his two sons are lost at sea.
Three women adapt to their lives as widows. Kitty can’t stop knitting. Alison needs looking after. Sylvia wants to forget.
Then, one day, a knock on the door. A body has been found. One body, three women. Who does it belong to?
Set in the north of Scotland, NETTING is a story of finding closure after unimaginable loss.
Written in Doric and set in a small fishing village in the North East, playwright, actor and musician Morna Young took inspiration from the many “strong” women in her family. She said: “As a born and bred fishing quine from Burghead, I grew up surrounded by amazing women, many of whom have experienced their own tragedies and, although a fictional story, I took inspiration from their great spirit, dark humour and wonderful personalities”. She added: “There’s a really special quality in many North East women – the ability to say something that makes you want to laugh and cry – and I wanted to capture that honesty. It's important to me to present ‘real women’ with ‘strong’ characteristics.”
What was the inspiration for this
performance?
About five years ago, I wrote a play called Lost at Sea (in pre-production with Eden Court for a 2017 tour) as a personal tribute to communities that have lost men and boats at sea. It’s a big story spanning forty years of the fishing industry and featuring a cast of ten actors. Later, I decided that I wasn’t quite finished with exploring the fishing. There was another story, a female led narrative, that I wanted to consider. So, I made the decision to write a sister play and, there, the idea for Netting was born.
Initially, I developed Netting through my New Playwright’s Award (Playwright’s Studio, Scotland) and it featured in the Spring 2015 season of a Play, a Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor, Glasgow and The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen. This tour – a co-production between myself / director Allie Butler and Woodend Barn, Banchory – allows us to take the show to the rural / coastal areas that inspired the work.
Netting is a restricted story. The drama is set entirely in one, controlled space and focuses on the female characters and their inter-personal relationships. I wanted to isolate them from the industry that had dominated their lives. I wanted to understand the effect of a body being recovered from sea.
I knew the story I wanted to tell and, almost immediately, I heard the character’s voices. There they were – Kitty, Sylvia and Alison - demanding for their voices to be heard.
The story is set three months after a fatal fishing accident. One day, there is a knock on the door informing the women that a body has been found. As the women wait for the body to be identified, we see their back-story, their changing relationships and shifting dynamics under pressure.
Essentially, it’s a story of finding closure after unimaginable loss. It’s about what happens when the phone stops ringing and the sympathy cards stop piling up and life, somehow, goes on.
Although a fictional story, Netting is inspired by the many strong female voices that I grew up surrounded by. There are Kitty’s, Sylvia’s and Alison’s all around the Scottish coastline. It was important to me that this show toured to the areas most affected and dominated by the fishing industry.
Initially, I was mentored by playwright Clare Duffy during the New Playwright’s Award. With a Play, a Pie and a Pint (PPP), I knew I wanted to work with a female director and, around that time, a mutual friend introduced me to Allie Butler. Allie and I connected through our work as feminist makers and I’m really pleased that this has led to us forming a continued work partnership.
Heather Fulton (Creative Scotland Hub Producer for Woodend Barn, Banchory) saw the PPP show which instigated initial conversations about forming a creative partnership because of our mutual interest in rural touring. Pauline Morgan remains on board as Sound Artist / Composer and, joining the team, is designer Alice Wilson, production manager Jools Walls and lighting designer Laura Hawkins.
We’re really delighted that this female led show is being created by an all female team.
In terms of casting, I knew from the moment that I wrote Kitty’s name that this was a part for the amazing Carol Ann Crawford who had been involved in the initial reading of Lost at Sea back in 2013. I was truly delighted that she was available for the PPP production and even more delighted that she could re-join the cast for this coastal tour. She is a wonderful actress and it’s joyful to watch her become Kitty – armed with her knitting.
Also returning to the cast is the wonderful Sarah McCardie as Sylvia and, this time, I’m joining the company in the role of Alison. I’d never considered being in the show before so it was a bit of a curveball when the suggestion was made – after a bit of stalling, I finally agreed to take off my ‘retired’ performers hat and, now, I’m genuinely really excited.
That’s an interesting question. Does performing in the back garden as a kid count? Being from a small fishing village in the north east of Scotland, there was very little arts provision when I was growing up. Once a year, we would go see the pantomime in Eden Court and maybe an occasional touring musical too.
I was pretty fortunate that I was selected in school to play the violin and received lessons through the Moray Council. That was really my first step into the arts and I continued to play instruments throughout my childhood.
Then I joined a local theatre group, St Giles. We’d put on a musical once a year and it was always a brilliant experience. Later, I studied drama at High School and I remember reading Rona Munro’s play “Bold Girls” which was on the syllabus. I loved it. It’s a play for four women and, for the first time, it made me curious about other types of theatre and I wanted to read and watch more.
Despite all of this, I never really thought that theatre could be a viable career option and, so, I found myself studying journalism. It was only in my third year of this course that I turned my attention back to drama and applied for drama school which led to training at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
After working as an actor-musician for several years, I finally wrote Lost at Sea – inspired by the loss of my own father when I was a child. I moved back to my home village and spent months researching, interviewing and, eventually, writing the play.
In 2013, I produced a rehearsed reading of this in Lossiemouth alongside Stellar Quines , Out of the Darkness Theatre Company and The Moray Council. The decision to write Lost at Sea is the entire reason for where I am now.
Over the past few years, my interests have developed and changed as my experience has grown. In addition to playwriting, I have begun to make my own work with a particular focus upon multi-disciplinary work, collaboration and female led narratives.
Marginalised voices also play a central role within my work and I am passionate about audience development and touring work rurally.
My interest in making performance has definitely been a gradual journey rather than one key moment and it’s been really interesting for me to see the changing influences within my work as experience grows.
This completely depends on the project.
As a playwright, I tend to veer towards academia and research. My initial training as a journalist and subsequent acting career has given me a strong desire to explore verbatim text and docudrama, using investigative research to deliver a creative output. I tend to begin with a rough idea or theme and this influences all of my reading / viewing over a certain time period.
At some stage, I usually write about ten pages of dialogue to hear the characters voices then step back and begin the plot planning, structuring etc. I tend to think slowly but write quickly. It never fails to amaze me how long a creative process can take – for example, Lost at Sea has been five years in the making and Netting was initially conceived in 2013. I continue to be interested in gender roles and a theme of community plays a central role within my work. I’m also hoping to develop my first musical this year.
My theatre making tends to come from an interest in collaborative work methods. Too often, I find that productions are dominated by individual company roles and the dreaded phrase “that’s not my job”.
Moreover, it often seems like the creative conversations haven’t had a chance to fully develop and to merge as one overall artistic vision. The design, the direction, the music – often, they exist as singular entities on a stage rather than one immersive performance. Many of my current projects have begun with a desire to explore the boundaries of collaborative working. HEROINES (a study of strong female characters with AJ Taudevin, Belle Jones and Catrin Evans) has provided an opportunity to explore joint working methods and co-writing techniques. Similarly, my project FOLK (development commences later this year supported by The Tron) brings together a group of actor-musician-writers with a view to co-writing, co-performing and co-composing a music driven performance.
This core team of performers will directly influence the entire production including the design, presentation, marketing etc. Another project in development – a sound / text collaboration with Sound Artist Kate Carr – allows a focused opportunity to add my interest in verbatim text to the mix and I’m looking forward to exploring presentation forms.
Essentially, I’m really interested in the idea of creating immersive performance that pushes the boundaries of ‘traditional’ roles within a company structure. All of these projects also embrace multi-role artistry.
Audience development is key to my work and I actively continue to try to engage with under-represented audiences whilst providing a platform for marginalised voices. I write primarily in my native dialect, Doric, and continue to be fascinated by the natural lyricism within this.
Being from a rural community, and having experienced first hand the lack of arts provision, fuels my interest to tour work and to connect with rural audiences. Social media provides an instant platform for this but I’m also interested in exploring connection through outreach and education work.
Most of my work uses universal themes – love, loss, identity - to explore specialist subjects which I think allows audiences to connect emotionally to the material.
Netting, for example, explores three complex female characters and how their relationships shift under pressure. Even though the background is specialist – the fishing industry – the characters’ grief and reliant relationships are universally recognisable.
I’ve always said that I don’t need an audience to like the characters I write but I want them to identify with them – their strengths, weaknesses and fallibility.
I fully believe in the value of local campaigning as the best way of engaging with non-traditional theatre audiences.
Whilst planning this tour of Netting, we tried to plot a journey across coastal and island communities where we believe the show will resonate most. I’m really delighted that we’ve also connected with the Scottish Fisheries Museum and will present a performance there - next to a full sized Zulu boat which is pretty extraordinary. Another highlight is performing on the HMS Frigate Unicorn, located in Dundee.
I was also really keen to build a comprehensive Outreach and Education strand into this tour and I shall be leading playwriting / theatre making workshops along the way to engage with rural communities who don’t always have access to arts provisions.
Scots language, feminist, working class, identity, cross-discipline… no matter what direction my work moves in, I find myself returning to these same ideas. Ultimately, I’m a curious person and I think this is reflected in my work; I never write or create with an answer but, rather, with questions that interest, disturb and provoke. It’s important for me that my work transitions alongside my development.
NETTING was first presented as part of a A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Òran Mór (Glasgow) and The Lemon Tree (Aberdeen) in February 2015. This Scotland wide tour opens on Friday 11 March at Woodend Barn (Banchory) and is a co-production between playwright Morna Young/director Allie Butler and Woodend Barn.
NETTING boasts a stellar cast including CAROL ANN CRAWFORD returning as KITTY alongside SARAH MCCARDIE in the new role of SYLVIA with MORNA YOUNG joining the cast to play the role of ALISON.
Fri 11 Mar | Woodend Barn (Banchory) | 7.30pm | £12/£10 | 01330 825431 |
Sat 12 Mar | Mortlach Memorial Hall (Dufftown) | 7.30pm | £9/£7/£6 |
Sun 13 Mar | New Pitsglio Village Hall | 7.30pm | £9/£6 |
Tue 15 Mar | Tullynessie & Forbes Hall (Alford) | 7.30pm | £10/£8 |
Wed 16 Mar | Royal British Legion Hall (Buckie) | 7.30pm | £9/£8/£6 |
Fri 18 Mar | Blairgowrie Town Hall | 8pm | £10/£8 | Blairgowrie Information Centre
Sat 19 Mar | Eden Court (Inverness) | 8pm | £12/£10 | 01463 234234 |
Mon 21 Mar | HMS Frigate Unicorn (Dundee) | 7.30pm | £10/£8 |
Tue 22 Mar | Scottish Fisheries Museum (Anstruther) | £10/£8 | 01333 310628 |
Labels: Allie Butler , Dramaturgy database , Morna Young , NETTING
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US-Trained Economists Return to Zelenskiy Government...Canada’s Poster Boy for Ukraine Investment Accuses Kolomoisky of Trying to Steal His Solar Plant...Corona Infections Double in a Month...Kyiv Now is in ‘Uncontrolled Outbreak’
by James Brooke
UBN Morning News is reported and written by James Brooke, a former New York Times foreign correspondent and Bloomberg Moscow Bureau Chief
With clouds hanging over Ukraine’s deal with the IMF, President Zelenskiy is bringing back into his government two US-trained economists he let go last March – his former Finance Minister and his former Economy Minister.
Oksana Markarova, the former Finance Minister, has been nominated to serve as Ukraine’s next Ambassador to the United States. Trained in public finance at Indiana University, Markarova worked in the Finance Ministry for five years until she was let go in the mass cabinet shakeup of March 4. As Finance Minister for two years, she saw interest rates on foreign currency bonds fall to record lows for Ukraine — 2.22% in euros and 3.4% in dollars. Last January, Ukraine borrowed €1.25 billion for 10 years with a 4.73% interest rate, once again a record low rate.
A fluent English speaker, Markarova has participated in numerous negotiations with the IMF, World Bank and other foreign financial institutions. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reacted to press speculation that she was chosen to go to Washington to deal with the IMF, writing on Facebook: “The idea that Markarova is sent only to extort money from the IMF is a delusion.”
Tymofiy Mylovanov, the former Economy Minister, has been appointed as a “non-staff” adviser to Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s chief of staff. After resigning from the Cabinet in March, Mylovanov has served as president of the Kyiv School of Economics and a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Mylovanov, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, is known for advocating forceful, generally free market policies. Two weeks ago on the Svoboda Slova program he advocated a hard lockdown to slow down coronavirus epidemic, saying: “We should close businesses and provide them with financing. But we don’t have enough funding now. So in essence, we need to print money.” Yermak, who is recovering from coronavirus, is seen as behind the purge of pro-Western reformers since March.
In another personnel change, the Cabinet fired on Friday Olha Buslavets, the acting Energy Minister, replacing her with Yuriy Boyko, her deputy at the Ministry. Buslavets had served as acting minister for the last seven months as the government did not have the votes to win parliamentary approval. Some media outlets and some Rada members accused her of acting in favor of Rinat Akhmetov, owner of several coal mines and electricity generation companies. Boyko, a longterm state employee previously was deputy director of Energorynok, the state-owned company that intermediated between energy producers and energy distributing companies, or oblenergos.
In a black eye for Ukraine’s investment image, a pioneer Canadian renewables investor is accusing Igor Kolomoisky and his business partners of trying steal a 10.5 MW solar plant. Built by Calgary’s TIU Canada, the plant was inaugurated in January 2018 and hailed as the first investment under the new Canada Ukraine Free Trade Agreement. Built largely to feed Kolomoisky’s Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant, the solar plant’s substation is on the Ferroalloy plant grounds. The Ferroalloy plant controls road access to the solar plant.
In the summer of 2019, Kolomoisky stopped paying the green tariff for solar and wind electricity nationwide. On March 1st, the Ferroalloy plant cut off TIU Canada from the substation. Later, in face to face talks with TIU Canada, Kolomoisky offered to buy the plant he had closed. CEO Michael Yurkovich says in a press release sent Thursday’s to Canada’s financial press: “This is a clear case of oligarchs pressuring a foreign investor and trying to steal assets.” Noting that the cutoff has cost his company €1.5 million since March, he said: “We are mustering our resources and will fight this case in Ukraine, Canada, or any jurisdiction needed to win.”
The TIU Canada plant in Nikopol is one of several completed solar plants around Ukraine that are not functioning because of problems connecting with power grids, Artem Semenyshyn, Executive Director of the Solar Energy Association of Ukraine, told Interfax Ukraine Friday. He said: “It is very bad when we lose the already built “green” generation facilities, which are now idle and do not increase the share of clean electricity.” If the government does not work to hook up these completed plants, the portion of solar power in the nation’s energy mix could start to fall, he warned.
TIU Canada’s Vita Solar is one of several dozen small renewable companies that are suing for nearly $18 million from the Guaranteed Buyer, the state company that is obliged to buy power from renewable developers. By the end of next year, the Guaranteed Buyer is to pay almost $1 billion in overdue electricity bills. Two weeks ago the Rada passed at first reading a bill to extend state guarantees to ‘green bonds’ that the government would launch to cover the debt.
President-elect Biden will be well-positioned to help President Zelenskiy fight against corruption in Ukraine, The Washington Post wrote last week in an editorial titled: “Ukraine’s anti-corruption push is stalled. Biden can help get it going again.” “Mr. Biden…has been one of Ukraine’s best American friends, visiting the country five times while Vice President and strongly supporting its battles against Russian aggression and domestic corruption,” writes the Post. “A Biden Justice Department could also renew efforts to pursue criminal corruption cases against key Ukrainian oligarchs, including Dmytro Firtash and Ihor Kolomoisky, who have been instrumental in blocking reforms and in promoting Russian interests in Ukraine.”
Ukraine averaged 14,500 new coronavirus infections on Friday and Saturday – double the level of one month earlier. Starting Saturday, police have the right to fine people not wearing masks in public places – mass transit, underground passageways, stores, and public buildings. The fines range from $6 to $9. On sidewalks, masks are encouraged, but not obligatory.
Under the current regime of weekend quarantines, 17,000 to 33,000 people could die of coronavirus in Ukraine over the next five weeks, according to a forecast by the Kyiv School of Economics. As of yesterday morning, 10,951 deaths in Ukraine are attributed to coronavirus this year.
Nationwide Ukraine, an average of 27% of PCR tests for Covid are showing positive results. “Uncontrolled outbreak” is how Pavlo Kovtonyuk, head of the School’s Center for Health Economics, described the situation in Kyiv City and nine regions: Zaporizhia, Sumy, Kyiv, Volyn, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, and Chernivtsi. In, Kyiv Mayor Klitschko reported a record 1,213 new cases on Saturday morning.
Editor’s Note: In farming countries, like Brazil and Argentina, they say economies grow at night –because crops grow while politicians sleep. If you want to connect with the real producers in Ukraine, turn in this afternoon to the Ukrainian Agribusiness Webinar: “Adapting market strategies to uncertainty.” Presented by the Strategy Council and moderated by Larysa Bondarieva of Credit Agricole, the webinar will feature such agro experts as: Alex Lissitsa, CEO, IMC; Kateryna Rybachenko, CEO, Agro Region; Olena Vorona, CFO, Agrotrade; Volodymyr Bondarenko, CFO, CYGNET Agrocompany; Taras Vysotskyi, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade & Agriculture; and Vladyslava Magaletska, head of the State Service for Food Safety & Consumer Protection. Register here for the 4 pm Kyiv time start. With Best Regards, Jim Brooke
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Weekend Quarantine Starts Tomorrow Night at Midnight...Protests Come from Restaurateurs and Shop Owners...Biden Victory Lowers Ukraine Risk in the Eurobond Market
Starting at midnight tomorrow night, Ukraine embarks on the first of three ‘weekend lockdowns’ – partial shutdowns where restaurants, shopping centers and fitness centers will be closed through Sunday nights. The goal is to break chain of transmission of coronavirus without a fulltime ‘hard’ lockdown and to do it before the Christmas shopping season starts in December. During these nationwide lockdowns, food stores, pharmacies, gas stations and banks will remain open. Mass transit will carry only seated passengers.
With 10 of Ukraine’s 24 regions reporting 70% or higher occupancy rates in their Covid wards, Prime Minister Shmyhal warned yesterday at a televised government meeting: “Given the current situation, by Dec. 10-15, if nothing is done, there will be no places in hospitals even in the corridors.” Earlier, he warned that Ukraine’s infection rate could double from the current level of 10,000 new cases a day to 20,000 by the end of December.
Although the Health Ministry is increasing Ukraine’s Covid hospital beds by 50%, to 80,000, the Prime Minister warned last week: “We have arrived at the point of no return and are close to catastrophe.” He told the Rada: “The situation is critical not only in Ukraine, but in the whole world. England, France, Austria, Germany, Spain are returning severe quarantine restrictions.”
Denmark has donated 50 ventilators to Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry reported Tuesday. DTEK and the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation have donated 62 ventilators since the start of the pandemic.
Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said yesterday: “We would like to do a complete lockdown for three weeks, but our economy won’t survive.” To ease economic pain, Prime Minister Shmyhal promised to give government aid to workers impacted by the partial shutdown. But the weekend quarantine plan drew a big protest in front of his office yesterday.
“Our main message is: ‘Let people work,’” Olena Obukhovska, spokesman for the Arricano shopping mall group, told Interfax-Ukraine. Drawing 300 people, the protest was supported by the Ukrainian Restaurant Association, the Association of Retailers of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers. Signs read: “Weekend Quarantine Means Millions of People Without Work,” “My Work is my Life,” and “Without Business, There is No Economy.”
Andriy Piontkovksy, founder of the Cherry Berry chain of candies and natural drinks shops, wrote on Facebook that half of his turnover takes place in shopping centers on weekends. He asked: “How can we reduce the rent and back-office wages by 50% in proportion to the 50% shortfall?”
Alexander Savilov, co-owner of the Salateira restaurant chain, wrote on Facebook that many entrepreneurs say a short, hard lockdown would be more effective. He said: “Many are in favor of a complete lockdown. Some owners of large service businesses say that such a measure can allow for high-quality negotiations with banks.”
Lviv, a city with a big tourism economy, is preparing a lawsuit against the weekend lockdown decision, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote last night on Facebook. “Lockdown for the weekend is absurd,” said Sadovyi, who faces a second round of voting in a mayoral runoff on Nov. 22. Despite the weekend lockdowns, mayoral votes are expected to be held on Nov. 15 and 22.
The most recent political notables testing positive for coronavirus are: Dmytro Razumkov, speaker of the Rada, and Oleksiy Reznikov, deputy Prime Minister and minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories. From Germany, a political ally of Kharkiv Mayor Henndiy Kernes posted a photo of the 61-year-old Covid sufferer in a Berlin hospital bed — breathing tubes up his nose and a dazed look on his face. In Kyiv, Olena Zelenska, wife of the President, reported Tuesday: “On the President’s health: everything is fine. He feels well. He has isolated, but continues to work.”
On President-elect Joe Biden, Serhiy Sydorenko writes in an analysis in Evropeiska Pravda: “Implementation of reforms in Ukraine is going to be the main indicator on which the US would premise building relations with Ukraine. This was stated in Biden’s statements, it was a major requirement by American diplomacy, and, finally, this was what Biden himself made a priority in the last years in office as VP…Biden’s presidency is very good news for the reform-minded political players in Ukraine, especially those focusing on anti-corruption. And Washington will respond firmly to attempts of undermining anti-corruption infrastructure in Ukraine.”
With Joe Biden’s political emergence, perceived Ukraine risk has dropped and yields are down on Ukraine’s benchmark Eurobonds. Since Oct. 12, yields on the bond maturing in 2025 have dropped 90 basis points, to 6.04%. Yields on the 2032 bond have dropped 65 basis points, to 7.06%
Ukreximbank, the nation’s third largest bank, is repurchasing its Eurobonds maturing in 2022 and 2025 for a total of $300 million. The state-owned bank reports that the redemption price of bonds maturing in 2025 was 104.5% of face value and of bonds maturing in 2022 was10 3.75%. Goldman Sachs International was the dealer-manager of the debt reduction exercise. Eugene Metzger, the new board chairman of Ukreximbank said: “The market situation contributed to the successful completion of the book of applications for redemption.”
Timothy Ash writes from London: “With Ukrainian Eurobonds ignoring the local constitutional crisis and taking their lead from global beta, I would be amazed if the Ministry of Finance does not tap the Eurobond market very soon…It must be mega tempting to come to market – and especially as it’s hard to see any more IMF money this year.”
On the hryvnia bond market, the Finance Ministry raised rates and quadrupled government bond sales Tuesday, compared to the week prior. The Finance Ministry reports that it raised the equivalent of $280 million, largely on the strength of 3-month hryvnia bonds which went for 9%, up from 7.5% last month. The auction sold $10 million worth of 1-year bonds at 10.42%, virtually the same rate as two weeks ago. The Ministry rejected as too high all bids for its 2-year bonds. For dollar denominated bonds, the ministry sold a total of $82.3 million to 35 bidders with a weighted average yield of 3.62%.
Central bank governor Kyrylo Shevchenko is in Washington this week, trying to revive the stalled IMF deal. Against that background, Concorde Capital’s Evgeniya Akhtyrko writes: “A significant increase of interest rates for 3-month bonds helped to raise more auction receipts. However, the limited number of bidders for these bonds implies that most of the hryvnia receipts at the auction are still being generated by state-owned banks.”
Editor’s Note: Ukraine’s government hopes to avoid the economic pain of a full bore ‘hard’ lockdown of the type we endured last Spring. Hopefully, we will not get the worst of all outcomes: economic pain in November, and then, a surge of coronavirus in December, during the shopping and socializing season. Either way, tradition will intervene forcefully and provide the two-week lockdown everyone loves. From late December to mid-January Ukraine celebrates two New Years and, now, three Christmases. With Best Regards, Jim Brooke
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Three Acts
By popular demand (8 out of 15 votes), the new working title for my WIP is The Cunning. I want to thank everyone who voted and commented. You've given me a lot to think about for later when I give this thing its real title.
And a special thank you to the folks who said they liked the story idea. That kind of encouragement is always welcome here :-)
So I'm plotting out The Cunning now. I freaking love this part. Everything's out there, just waiting for me to figure it out, and (because I plan before I draft) I don't have to spend a lot of time doing it. I might talk more about that later. Right now, because it's on my mind a lot, I want to talk about the Three-Act Structure and (maybe later) the Hero's Journey.
The simple form of the 3-Act goes like this: (I) setup, (II) confrontation, (III) resolution. In more detail...
* Introduce protagonist, "normal" world, and supporting characters.
* Introduce simple conflict.
* Ends when the main conflict is introduced and the protagonist's world is irrevocably changed.
* In an effort to solve the main conflict, protagonist tries and fails against increasingly difficult obstacles.
* Ends with the Final Reversal - the last bad thing before everything is resolved. The protagonist has had enough, or the villain thinks they have defeated the hero for the last time. Whatever.
* The protagonist faces the main conflict in the climax.
* Everything else is resolved.
That's one way to look at it, albeit a simple one. But it doesn't explain much about Act Two, which is supposed to be half of the story. Screenwriter Syd Field saw this and improved upon the 3-Act Structure calling it the Paradigm...
FIELD'S PARADIGM, Act One
Opening Image: The first image or scene that summarizes the story, especially its tone. This is kind of a screenplay thing, but it can work in novels just as well.
Inciting Incident: The protagonist encounters the problem that will change their life.
Plot Point 1: The turning point, in which the protagonist's life is irrevocably changed.
FIELD'S PARADIGM, Act Two
Pinch 1: A reminder, halfway between the beginning of Act Two and the Midpoint, of the overall conflict (e.g. while the protagonist deals with his obstacles, cutaway to the villain for a scene).
Midpoint: An important reversal or revelation that changes the direction of the story. Field suggests that driving the story to this scene can keep the middle from sagging.
Pinch 2: Another reminder scene, connected to Pinch 1, and halfway between the Midpoint and Plot Point 2.
Plot Point 2: The final reversal, when the hero has had enough or the villain believes they've defeated them for the last time.
FIELD'S PARADIGM, Act Three
Showdown: Midway through Act 3, the hero confronts the problem for the last time. They don't have to win.
Resolution & Tag: The issues of the story are resolved, giving the audience closure.
This post is long enough already, so I put my examples in the comments. Feel free to add your own too; trying to match stories to this formula will probably teach you more than I could. (I learned a lot just figuring out my examples).
And remember, the three-act structure is not The Formula By Which All Stories Are Told. It's just one way to think about things. If you're not sure where your story needs to go next (like me) then it can be really helpful.
Posted by Adam Heine on Monday, August 24, 2009 Filed under: Cunning Folk, Joey Stone, story, writing tips
Adam Heine said...
My examples are both kid movies because (a) their stories are simple, so the structure is easier to see and (b) I have to watch them all the time.
Example #1: Finding Nemo
Opening Image: Marlin's wife and children are eaten by the barracuda - all except Nemo.
Inciting Incident: Nemo and his new friends play near the drop-off, a place Marlin would never allow Nemo to go.
Plot Point 1: Nemo is taken by divers at the drop-off.
Pinch 1: Nemo is dumped into the dentist's fish tank, where it's revealed he is to be a present for Darla the Fish Killer. Gill tries to help him escape, resulting in Nemo's near-death.
Midpoint: Against Dori's warnings, Marlin swims over the trench into a jellyfish forest, resulting in Dori's near-death.
Pinch 2: Hearing that his father is coming for him, Nemo makes the escape attempt again, this time succeeding.
Plot Point 2: Darla arrives, and in an attempt to escape Nemo plays dead. Marlin and Dori arrive in the dentist's office, see Nemo floating upside-down in the bag, and believe they've failed.
Showdown: Nemo escapes and finds Dori and his father, only to have Dori caught in a tuna net. Marlin must trust his son is capable enough to rescue her.
Example #2: Kung-Fu Panda
Opening Image: Po dreams that he's a kung-fu legend.
Inciting Incident: The masters at the Jade Temple announce they will choose the Dragon Warrior. Po wants to watch, but has to sell noodles instead.
Plot Point 1: Po ditches the noodles and ends up in the middle of the Jade Temple where he is chosen as the next Dragon Warrior.
Pinch 1: Tai-Lung escapes from prison.
Midpoint: Po discovers that he IS good at kung-fu, provided he focuses on something else (like food).
Pinch 2: Tai-Lung faces, and defeats, the Furious Five.
Plot Point 2: Po receives the Dragon Scroll, which will turn him into the fabled Dragon Warrior, but it's blank.
Showdown: Po realizes the scroll is blank on purpose; there is no magic scroll that makes someone great - only their own belief can do that. Po faces Tai-Lung and defeats him.
Natalie Whipple said...
I've seen this before, but thanks for the reminder! I've just realized I've effectively stopped at the end of Act I in both my WIPs. Go figure. That's a really good thing to know, because now I can think about Midpoints, etc, and how to get there.
Tana said...
I love this! I need to print it out and study, study, study!
Monday, August 24, 2009 11:22:00 PM
BJW said...
Thanks Adam, I just copy and pasted this into my writing notes. Cool.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:18:00 AM
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APEGGA Launches
Engineering and geoscience education in Alberta will get a boost from a new Association initiative, the APEGGA Education Foundation. For years, APEGGA has supported excellence in education through its annual awards and scholarships programs. Currently, nearly $75,000 is provided annually to students pursuing university engineering, geology or geophysics studies, as well as to local educators who excel in the teaching of science or math.
APEGGA Education Foundation Officers
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Vice-President: Bob Comer, P.Geoph.
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Staff: Trevor Maine, P.Eng.
The foundation will expand on this program by encouraging and assisting educational institutions to develop and deliver educational programs, providing financial assistance and awards, fostering partnerships between industry and academia (at the corporate and individual levels), and promoting the profile of the three professions, particularly with regard to advancing science and technology. Provincial engineering and geoscience associations in British Columbia and Ontario have set up similar foundations.
The foundation consists of eight directors, supported by one staff representative. It will operate at arm's length from the Association, managing funds and building endowments, encouraging donations, and distributing funds. The foundation will also be actively promoting donations from members and permit holders. An application for charitable status has been made to Revenue Canada, which would allow for the provision of income tax receipts for donors.
Look for more information on the foundation and its activities in future issues of The PEGG, including the launch of a distinctive logo.
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(USA) Two motorcycle gang members from Eustis sentenced to life in execution-style slayings in New York state
A federal judge in Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday sentenced two outlaw motorcycle gang members from Eustis to three consecutive life sentences in the execution-style murders of two men in 2014, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
David Pirk, 68, the Kingsmen Motorcycle Club national president, and Andre Jenkins, 40, a club “enforcer,” were found guilty in May for their roles in a major racketeering operation involving violence and murder, the prosecutor’s office said.
On Sept. 6, 2014, authorities said Pirk ordered Jenkins, who was called “Little Bear,” to kill Daniel "DJ" Szymanski, 31, and Paul Maue, 38, in the Buffalo area.
“It took nothing for him to kill two people execution style,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Tripi said, according to the Buffalo News. “And he was damn proud of it. He's proud to be a killer.”
In a statement, U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. said, “Through this prosecution, both the national president, who ordered the executions, as well as the trigger pulling member of an outlaw motorcycle club were finally brought to justice and held accountable for two senseless murders.”
He added that the murders, “together with numerous depraved and heinous acts of violence committed by defendants and others in the club, justify the sentences imposed and fittingly demonstrate that the defendants’ quest to become ‘1 percenters’ ultimately cost them 100 percent of their freedom for 100 percent of the rest of their lives.”
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Jenkins already is serving a life sentence for his conviction in 2015 for the killings.
Another Lake County resident, Timothy Enix, 59, of Tavares, known as “Blaze,” also was convicted last year — at the same time as Pirk and Jenkins — of RICO conspiracy, possession of firearms, using and maintaining premises for drug dealing and possession of firearms while drug trafficking. He is due to be sentenced April 17 in Buffalo, records show.
He was in charge of the club’s Florida and Tennessee chapters, according to federal officials.
In Lake County, Kingsmen Motorcycle Club members were involved in a 2017 shooting following an argument with members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club at a gas station about three miles west of where thousands of bikers had gathered for the annual Leesburg Bikefest.
Bikers David Donovan and Marc Knotts were hit in the flurry of bullets. Donovan, 41, whose Facebook pictures showed him donning Kingsmen Motorcycle Club gear, died a few weeks later.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-ne-lake-county-motorcycle-gang-members-sentenced-20190228-story.html
Posted by ace on Friday 01 March 2019 - 16:38:45 Read/Post Comment: 0
(AUS) Hells Angels chief fined over Gold Coast pub brawl
The president of the Gold Coast chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang has been fined over an ugly pub brawl.
Greg Pearce, 45, pleaded guilty to affray at Brisbane Magistrates Court and was fined almost $3000 dollars over an ugly daylight fight at a Palm Beach pub that left a man unconscious.
CCTV released by police showed the January 19 brawl including footage of Pearce repeatedly kicking and punching the 42-year-old victim before walking away.
Police said the pair knew each other
But Pearce also copped a $700 fine for wearing a controversial number on his jumper when he attended court.
On the back of the garment were the words "Angel" and "Brotherhood" with the number 8173 – a number associated with Hells Angels.
Pearce had the jumper custom made and checked by a lawyer to ensure it did not breach Queensland’s laws against wearing bikie attire.
The magistrate described the jumper as an inoffensive item, not usually associated with the notorious motorcycle club and said it was not intimidating.
But Pearce was still fined $700 for wearing it.
While Pearce walked free today, he is facing possible prison time for breaching a suspended sentence and being caught with cocaine.
https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/01/18/26/news-qld--hells-angels-chief-fined-over-gold-coast-pub-brawl
(AUS) Fire, shootings sign of bikie turf battles
Police have conceded bikie violence is escalating in Queensland after the suspected firebombing of a tattoo studio and two shootings, as the state opposition declared “bikies are back”.
Koolsville Studios, owned by Rebels outlaw motorcycle club life member Mick Kosenko, is in ruins after fire tore through the Brisbane business around midnight yesterday. It followed apparent tit-for-tat shootings of a Rebels bikie and a Bandidos associate.
Mr Kosenko fought the bikie crackdown that was launched by the former LNP government under Campbell Newman after a violent brawl at a Gold Coast restaurant in 2013. He has been a member of the Rebels for about 38 years and, with no criminal record, ran in the 2017 state election.
Detective Chief Superintendent Charysse Pond said police were seeing an “escalation in violence in relation to organised criminal gangs”. However, the attacks were “targeted at other criminal gang members”.
“The community is safe. This is targeted violence between criminal networks,” she said.
Mr Kosenko told The Weekend Australian he was “hearing all kinds of stories” about who was behind the fire at the studio in Brendale, on Brisbane’s northern outskirts.
It came after Rebels bikie Gokhan Turkyilmaz was shot up to eight times and bashed with a baseball bat at his home on the Gold Coast on Tuesday.
The shooting was believed to be in retaliation for an attack at Logan’s Hyperdome shopping centre last month, in which a Rebels member shot Bandidos associate Harley Cranston in the leg in an apparent dispute over territory. Nine alleged members or associates of the Rebels have been taken into custody over the shooting.
Gokhan’s brother, Emrah Turkyilmaz, was arrested by bikie-busting Taskforce Maxima detectives on Wednesday in connection to the Hyperdome shooting. Emrah, 22, was released on bail on charges of affray and drug possession, despite police objections.
A police affidavit claimed he had threatened “violent retribution against Bandidos OMCG members responsible for the shooting of his brother”.
Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington said it was “clear a bikie turf war is raging on our streets”.
“The LNP introduced the toughest laws in the nation and we got results,’’ she said.
“Bikies left the state and crime rates dramatically reduced. Now under Labor the bikies are back with a vengeance.”
Police Minister Mark Ryan said “police are on top of it, they’re making arrests”. “They’re putting people behind bars and they’ll continue to be proactive when it comes to ensuring community safety,” Mr Ryan said.
Former detective and Bond University criminologist Terry Goldsworthy said police had made “poor decisions” including slashing the number of officers in Taskforce Maxima.
The Rapid Action Patrol group had initially targeted bikies but had since been “sucked into general duties”. “Is it any wonder … you’re starting to see the replication of 2013 where things were allowed to bubble along and suddenly there’s an explosion,’’ Mr Goldsworthy said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/fire-shootings-sign-of-bikie-turf-battles/news-story/9d5970db41f692afd44717ca4a994798?nk=5fcc004ae790e6416be20d519433ea07-1551458005
(USA) Judge Refuses to Strip Biker Gang of Trademarked Logo
The Mongols motorcycle club Thursday won the latest round in its battle with the federal government, when a judge refused to carry out a jury’s decision to strip the club of trademarks it holds on its coveted logo.
LOS ANGELES — The Mongols motorcycle club Thursday won the latest round in its battle with the federal government, when a judge refused to carry out a jury’s decision to strip the club of trademarks it holds on its coveted logo.
Denying Mongol members, many of whom have been convicted over past decades for a range of violent crimes and drug offenses, the right to display the logo on their leather riding jackets and elsewhere would overstep the constitutional right to free expression embedded in the First Amendment, as well as the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive penalties, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled.
“We are ecstatic that the Mongols motorcycle club has been able to win this First Amendment battle for itself and all motorcycle clubs,” said Stephen Stubbs, an attorney for the Mongols. “The government has clearly overreached into a realm that the Constitution does not allow. They tried to ban symbolic speech.”
In a statement, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said, “We are disappointed in the ruling,” adding that prosecutors believe the law obligated Carter to order the trademarks to be forfeited.
The government is “definitely considering an appeal,” he said.
In December, after a lengthy trial, a jury convicted the Mongols as an organization of racketeering and conspiracy charges, finding the group shared responsibility for murder, attempted murder and drug crimes committed by individual members.
The verdict allowed prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office to pursue something they had long sought: a court order forcing the Mongols to forfeit the trademarks it owns over the image of a Genghis Khan figure in sunglasses riding a motorcycle beneath the group’s name, spelled out in large block letters.
Since the group was formed in late 1960s, the logo has been the foundation of the Mongols’ identity, which over the years has included involvement in drug dealing and violence by many members. Only those who have been admitted to the inner ranks of the insular group are allowed to stitch the large patches onto their riding apparel. And in the closed-off world of motorcycle clubs, built largely around rivalries and alliances with other groups, the logo confers authority on members.
Following more testimony and legal wrangling over the forfeiture issue, the jury voted unanimously that the Mongols should lose control of the trademarks, finding that there was a direct link between the image and one of the criminal charges the club faced — conspiracy to commit racketeering.
Calling the verdict the “first of its kind in the nation,” U.S. Attorney Nicola Hanna said seizing the Mongols trademarks would serve to “attack the sources of a criminal enterprise’s economic power and influence.”
But rather than order the trademarks forfeited, Carter set a hearing to examine, among other things, the First Amendment issues raised by the verdict.
When both sides arrived in court Thursday to make their cases for signing off on the jury’s decision, Carter — who during the trial made no secret of his concerns that the novel legal strategy crossed constitutional lines — had his 51-page order already written.
The government’s pursuit of the trademarks had struck experts as a dubious if innovative gambit. While it seemed clear that forfeiting the trademarks would cut off the stream of money that Mongols leaders collect from selling patches and other merchandise to members, it was far less certain whether trademark laws could overcome constitutional questions and empower government officials to stop Mongols members from wearing any clothing with the potent Mongol image.
It was not the first time concerns over the First Amendment have been raised in the government’s pursuit of the Mongols. A decade ago, in an earlier case, prosecutors sought authority to seize clothing bearing the Mongols’ insignia. A member of the club sued, claiming his rights under the First Amendment were at risk, and prevailed.
“The plaintiff’s hardship in not being able to express his views and public interest in protecting speech outweigh the government’s interest in suppressing an intimidating symbol,” the judge in that case wrote.
The Mongols were formed in the 1970s in Montebello, east of Los Angeles, by a group of mostly Latino men who reportedly had been rejected for membership by the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, which has become the Mongols’ archrival. It has expanded over the decades to include several hundred members in chapters across Southern California and elsewhere.
The federal government has pursued the Mongols for years, along with several other biker clubs identified as “outlaw motorcycle gangs.” Despite their claims of being innocent social clubs, the groups, which include the Hells Angels, Vagos and the Outlaws, have long track records of warring with one another and, according to authorities, operate as criminal organizations that subsist on the drug trade.
In 2008, nearly 80 Mongols members were charged in a sweeping racketeering case that included an array of alleged murders, assaults and drug deals. The charges were the culmination of Operation Black Rain, an investigation that centered on paid informants and undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who infiltrated the club’s ranks.
Prosecutors devised the strategy of stripping the Mongols of their trademarks in this earlier case. At a news conference announcing the charges, then-U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien laid out the strategy, saying that taking control of the trademarked insignia would give the government the authority to force Mongols members to remove the image from their riding jackets.
All but two of the defendants in the case pleaded guilty and a judge agreed the trademarks should be forfeited, but ultimately reversed himself after deciding none of the people charged in the case actually owned the trademarks.
That led prosecutors to try again with a second racketeering case that was largely the same as the first but which named only one defendant: Mongol Nation, the entity that prosecutors say is made up of the club’s leaders and owns the trademarks.
In his ruling, Carter granted the government’s requested forfeiture of weapons and other property agents seized during raids on Mongol offices and members’ houses.
Carter has not yet imposed a sentence on the Mongols in the racketeering case. The punishment could include monetary fines.
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Joseph Yanny, a criminal defense attorney who argued the case for the Mongols, expressed disappointment that the judge had rejected his requests that the verdict be tossed out altogether.
But he acknowledged that allowing the club to maintain control over its logo was a major win. Losing the trademarks, he had said during the trial, would have amounted to a “death sentence” for the Mongols.
The government’s case, he said, was an attempt to impose “collective guilt” on an organization for the crimes committed by some of its members.
“That’s never been the law in this country,” he said.
https://www.officer.com/investigations/news/21070405/judge-refuses-to-strip-biker-gang-of-trademarked-logo
(CAN) SQ nabs alleged Montreal Hells Angel
An alleged member of the Hells Angels’ Montreal chapter is expected to appear before a judge at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday after having avoided arrest in an organized crime investigation for 10 months.
In April last year, the Sûreté du Québec alleged Daniel-André Giroux was a member of the gang’s Montreal chapter, which is now more than four decades old. The SQ had just arrested dozens of people in Project Objection, a lengthy investigation into four drug trafficking networks throughout Quebec that had tentacles that reached into Ontario and New Brunswick.
Giroux, 48, was one of several men who could not be found when members of the Escouade nationale de répression du crime organisé (ENRCO) carried out arrests and search warrants. On Tuesday, the Sûreté du Québec tweeted that Giroux was arrested in Dominican Republic and that he is expected to be formally charged at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday. The provincial police force noted that Giroux was on Quebec’s 10 most wanted list before the arrest was made.
Giroux faces five charges in Project Objection including two counts related to drug trafficking, another two alleging he committed crimes for the benefit of a criminal organization and conspiracy.
He was charged on an indictment along with 11 other people, including three other full-patch members of the biker gang; Michel (Sky) Langlois, Louis Matte and Stéphane Maheu. In October, Maheu, a member of the gang’s South chapter, ended his run on the lam and pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, gangsterism and conspiracy on the same day he made his first court appearance and was sentenced to a six-year prison term, the longest sentence in Project Objection so far.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/alleged-hells-angel-on-quebecs-top-10-most-wanted-list-nabbed-by-sq
Posted by ace on Wednesday 06 February 2019 - 17:05:36 Read/Post Comment: 0
(CAN) Crown Alleges Dale Porter Was Killed For Disrespecting Vikings MC
The Crown claims Al Potter killed 39-year-old Dale Porter because he disrespected the Vikings MC.
Prosecutor Sheldon Steeves made his opening remarks to the jury this morning before calling the Crown’s first witness to the stand at Potter’s trial.
Potter is facing first degree murder in the 2014 stabbing death of Dale Porter in North River.
Crown Prosecutor Sheldon Steeves told the 14-person jury that they intend to call all or some of their 35 witnesses to the stand.
Those witnesses include police officers, medical professionals, friends of the victim, cab drivers, and others.
Throughout the evidence the Crown will present during trial, Steeves tells the jury they will learn that on June 28, 2014, 39-year-old Dale Porter was fishing crab. Steeves says he later had beers in his shed in North River, and around midnight, got a cab to a bar in Bay Roberts.
The Crown says the evidence will say Porter met up with a friend at the bar, and that she was with two other men—Al Potter, and his co-accused. The Crown says when Porter left the bar, he got a cab home with the woman and the two men, and got out of the cab at his house.
Porter was found in the early morning hours fatally stabbed in his driveway.
The Crown tells the jury that they intend to call an undercover officer to the stand that was in direct contact with Al Potter during a stay in an Ontario prison after the murder of Porter. During his stay in prison, the officer built a relationship with Potter through letters, phone calls and visits. He then picked up Potter after his release from jail.
Steeves tells the jury that the undercover officer will testify that he drove Al Potter to an area and told him a man was killed because he owed money. Potter was asked to help bury the man, which was actually a dead pig.
The Crown says through evidence presented at trial, the jury will hear that the murder was planned because Dale Porter was disrespecting the Vikings MC.
Potter was charged with the crime along with a co-accused. The name of Potter’s co-accused is being protected by a publication ban pending his trial in the fall. Both men are allegedly connected to the Vikings MC, an affiliate of the Hells Angels.
http://vocm.com/news/crown-alleges-dale-porter-was-killed-for-disrespecting-vikings-mc/
(USA) Hells Angels gang members plead guilty in shooting
Four of five Hells Angels Motorcycle Club members pled guilty on Jan. 29 for their roles in a fight between themselves and rival gang members in September.
The last of the five has a trial set for March.
The rival gang members were from the Pagan's Motorcycle Club. The Hells Angels and the Pagans are considered two of the larger outlaw motorcycle gangs, along with the Bandidos and the Outlaws. These four are referred to “Big Four” outlaw motorcycle gangs by both the FBI and the Canadian intelligence service, Criminal Intelligence Service Canada.
Richard West, Joseph Paturzo and Nathaniel Villaman each plead guilty to malicious wounding by a mob, according to Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Martin.
“They each have four-year active sentences,” Martin said. “That’s 20 years with 16 suspended. And then one of them that took the offer is a shooter, and he received an eight-year active sentence.”
The defendant Martin referred to was Anthony Milan, 28, who fired a gun during the altercation and seriously wounded one of the Pagans. Martin said that Milan’s sentence went above the sentencing guidelines of six and a half years that are usually applied in cases such as this case.
Both of the gang members were in the area for the same motorcycle convention, and the fighting began when the Pagans, who were from southern Virginia, arrived in the parking lot of the Hometown Inn in Greenville on Lee Jackson Highway. The Hells Angels bikers were members of a New York charter, according to the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office.
“In my experience as a prosecutor, I have not seen a shooting in any jurisdiction I was prosecuting at that time,” said Martin, who was elected the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Augusta County in 2015. “Nationally, they are occasionally known to be violent.”
The last of the Hells Angels members in this trial, Dominick Eadicicco, is the only one that did not accept the plea deal. His trial is scheduled for March.
https://www.dailyprogress.com/newsvirginian/hells-angels-gang-members-plead-guilty-in-shooting/article_c6cba4c5-73fb-5617-b3b3-173ce3372477.html
(USA) 17 PLEAD GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE
Caylor-Hernandez, Fraire-Chavarria, Babin, Kerr, Simmons, Ray, Burkard, Foster, Barbarino, Burt, Shettler , Andrews, Rivas, Ford, and Bilski each face a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Sann and Stringer each face a maximum penalty of 40 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not been set.
According to court documents, in April 2017, the FBI, and later the DEA, began an investigation into the drug trafficking organizations that had supplied motorcycle clubs, including the Pagans Motorcycle Club, operating in the Middle District of Florida with distribution amounts of methamphetamine. The Middle District of Florida includes the Tampa Bay area.
During the investigation, law enforcement learned that Caylor-Hernandez was one of the leaders of a DTO distributing kilogram amounts of methamphetamine to other DTOs and individuals located in central Florida. Members of the Caylor-Hernandez DTO transported methamphetamine from Georgia to various cities in central Florida, including St. Augustine, Holly Hill, and Daytona Beach, for further distribution.
One of the members of the Caylor-Hernandez DTO, Kerr, then distributed the methamphetamine to Burt and Shettler. At the time, Burt was a member of the Pagans’ Mother Chapter, a group of 13 members that direct the Pagans’ criminal activities throughout the United States. Shettler was a member of the Thunderguards Motorcycle Club, a club affiliated with the Pagans.
Law enforcement also learned that Andrews, who was the sergeant-at-arms or enforcer for the local Pagans’ chapter located in Daytona Beach, received distribution amounts of methamphetamine from several sources, including a DTO operating in both Georgia and central Florida. That DTO transported large amounts of methamphetamine from Georgia to central Florida for further distribution.
http://www.tbreporter.com/courts/motorcycle-gang/
(USA) Firing of FL Medic in Motorcycle Gang OK
TAMPA — A federal arbitrator says Hillsborough County was justified in firing a Fire Rescue medic who belonged to the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, noting the negative attention his membership brought the county.
Clinton Neal Walker, 35, of Bradenton, was fired a year ago after an internal investigation concluded he had “unwavering loyalty” to the Outlaws, long considered the state’s dominant motorcycle gang.
He was the first Hillsborough employee to be investigated for gang activity under a series of county ordinances that prohibit membership in any organization the state or federal government considers criminal, including the Outlaws St. Petersburg Chapter where Walker was a member.
Arbitrator Charlotte Gold released her ruling in mid-January, ending a year-long fight by the local chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters to save Walker’s job. Her report provided new insight into biker gang culture within the county’s fire department and throughout the Tampa Bay area.
“HCFR employees, including chiefs and a fire medic, attended MC (motorcycle club) events,” Gold wrote, and “many of its members were ex-military.”
Walker earned a Bronze Star, among other medals and awards, while in the U.S. Marine Corps. And as a county firefighter he was awarded a Medal of Valor. But Walker also had a long disciplinary history and “conducted himself in a manner that was detrimental to the department,” Gold wrote.
“The conclusion is inescapable that he affected the county’s standing in the community,’’ Gold wrote in her report. “His behavior ultimately reflected poorly on the county and his profession in general.”
Walker testified he had resigned from the Outlaws in October 2016, before the county issued a directive prohibiting all employees from “being a member of or voluntarily participating with any outside gang, as defined in the FBI’s 2015 National Gang Report.” The ban came two months after Walker was arrested in Key West for throwing the first punch in a bar fight that left two employees injured and involved as many as 15 other Outlaws, one wearing a T-shirt with a swastika on it and others who used racial slurs.
Walker ultimately negotiated a plea deal for the Key West fight and received a paid suspension from the county for 30 days. He was still serving that suspension when now-retired Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Captain James Costa, then president of the Outlaw’s St. Petersburg chapter, was shot by members of the rival 69ers Motorcycle Club while riding his motorcycle in south Hillsborough in July 2017. According to the report, Costa fired back. The shooting has since been tied to the shooting death of another Outlaw, Paul Anderson, in December 2017.
Walker was one of about 10 Outlaws who got a call from Costa and another Hillsborough County Fire Rescue medic telling them that Costa was being taken to a medical center in Manatee County with bullet wounds. Though he wasn’t on duty, Walker dressed in his Fire Rescue uniform and accompanied Costa into the hospital, taking his motorcycle vest with Outlaw insignia and initially refusing to turn it over to law enforcement.
“By wearing his HCFR t-shirt at the hospital, he gained favor for himself in violation of the county’s uniform regulations,” Gold wrote in her report. “He then proceeded to place the interests of a friend and mentor — an individual who continued a strong relationship with a motorcycle gang — over and above those of law enforcement.”
According to the report, Fire Rescue management has known about both Walker and Costa’s membership in the Outlaws since about 2008. Costa joined the Outlaws in 2002, and recruited Walker while working as his supervisor in Sun City Center’s Fire Station 28.
The new rules, and the ensuing investigation into Walker’s conduct, happened as a wave of bar brawls, bad behavior and execution-style killings between rival biker gangs swept across the Tampa Bay area, implicating firefighters in Hillsborough, Polk and Pasco counties.
James William Earl, 32, became the latest victim when he was gunned down in the driveway of his Spring Hill home on Jan. 16. Investigators say it’s unclear if Earl’s death was connected to his membership in the Pagan Motorcycle Club. The following week, FBI agents raided the nearby home of Glen Buzze, a “Pagan” who works as a paramedic for Pasco County Fire Rescue and held the rank of captain.
https://www.firehouse.com/careers-education/news/21060107/arbitrator-firing-of-hillsborough-county-fl-medic-in-motorcycle-gang-ok
(USA) Mongols Motorcycle Club vows to fight trademark loss
EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The federal government said they're a convicted criminal gang, and Hell's Angels consider them enemies. They call themselves the Mongols Motorcycle Club - and they're one of the most notorious MC groups in the world.
"It's about honor, respect and pride," David Santillan said.
But for this East L.A.-born brotherhood, the last few years have been a fight for survival. They've been under federal indictment for the last decade. And recently, a federal jury in Santa Ana convicted the national club of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy for murder, attempted murder and drug dealing.
More than 75 of their members were convicted - including their former president Ruben "Doc" Cavazos. But the biggest blow of all - hit them where it hurts the most, they lost the rights to their trademarked emblem.
"What the patch means to me and to all my brothers when we ride, it's like a ring in a marriage. It symbolizes our loyalty and commitment to the Mongols Motorcycle when we're out there riding together as a club." Santillan said.
Santillan, known as "Little Dave" by club members, is the new national president of the Mongols. He's been on the front lines of the group's fight against the government, to keep the rights to their sacred symbol.
"This is a lifestyle. A culture. A way of life for us. To me, it's a lifetime commitment. I've been in this club going on 23 years," he said.
The infamous patch is a caricature of the founder of the ancient Mongol empire, Genghis Kahn. Prosecutors argue, in order to get or keep their patches, members are encouraged to commit crimes. It's why they've been fighting for years to strip the club of their logo.
There's still a lot of secrecy around the patches and how members obtain them. But if there's one thing club members, their lawyers and prosecutors agree on -- the symbol is a pivotal part of the club's identity.
"If they take away our patch, they can take away everyone else's. It would be a domino effect if they take the case in law for the future, so I don't see us going anywhere. We're just going to continue fighting until the wheels fall off," Santillan said.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter also doesn't seemed to be fully convinced about stripping the club of their logo. He's invited civil rights groups, first amendment lawyers and trademark attorneys to weigh in on the implications.
"Never before in U.S. History has the government come and tried to ban a symbol. Think about that for a second. How many symbols are there in the United States, from wedding rings to religious symbols? All kinds right? If the government can take and ban a symbol, where does that leave everyone else? And who's next? That's really what we have to look at. That's a really slippery slope," said Mongols general counsel Stephen "Bow Tie" Stubbs.
This case is getting the attention of other motorcycle groups. It's even rumored that their arch-rivals Hell's Angels, despite their checkered and deadly relationship with the Mongols, are donating money to fight the cause.
Santillan said the club has spent more than $1 million over the past decade, through fundraisers, donations and club dues, and they won't stop fighting until they win.
"It's a matter of principle at this point - and pride. We're not going away and they're not going to kick us to the curb. Like I said before, we're going to do this until the wheels fall off. We don't care, at any cost," he said.
https://abc7.com/mongols-motorcycle-club-vows-to-fight-trademark-loss/5116931/
Posted by ace on Saturday 02 February 2019 - 19:38:55 Read/Post Comment: 0
(USA) Bandito Found Guilty of Murder, Gets Life in Prison
ANSON, TX -- A suspected gang member was found guilty by a jury of his peers for the murder of Dusty Childress on Wednesday.
Wesley Dale Mason, who has ties with the Banditos motorcycle gang, shot and killed Childress in March 2017 near the Abilene Environmental Landfill.
Mason was sentenced the maximum life in prison. He will also have to pay a $10,000 fine.
According to KTXS, four character witness's were called in for Mason's defense; his bail bondsman, friend, father, and mother. They all referred to Mason as a loving father who they never felt would cause them any harm.
The prosecutes then called Mason's parole officer, and a motorcycle gang expert. They told the jury that the Banditos were a dangerous gang, and that they wouldn't feel safe being inside the same room as Mason.
https://sanangelolive.com/news/crime/2019-02-01/bandito-found-guilty-murder-gets-life-prison
(AUS) ‘Bash on sight’ Comanchero bikie Nathan Greenway set to be charged over shooting
The Comanchero bikie who acted on a “bash on sight” edict issued by his club against the Rebels is set to be charged with attempted murder over the brazen shooting of a bikie rival in Calista last year.
Nathan Greenway was yesterday jailed for nine months over his part in a brutal brawl between Comanchero and Rebels outside Crown Perth in September.
During that hearing, it was revealed Greenway is also set to be charged over the shooting of a Rebels associate in his 50s, who was left with serious wounds after he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on a suburban street just weeks later.
As The West Australian revealed at the time, the 53-year-old was riding home from a meeting when an unmarked SUV with a blue flashing light signalled for him to pull over.
But instead of officers stepping out to question him, he instead found himself staring down the barrel of a gun. He was then shot in the stomach and arm.
Detectives are set to allege that Greenway was one of those involved.
In court, Greenway admitted wielding a firearm in anger in the weeks before — pointing a revolver at the manager of the Galaxy Lounge, after he was challenged over a smashed TV in an upstairs rooms of the nightspot.
Police prosecutors told the court Greenway was one of the Comanchero members who bumped into a group of Rebels at the casino in the early hours — amid already high tensions between the two bikie gangs.
Magistrate Thomas Hall heard those tensions precipitated “assaults, arson and bashings” — and led to another one on this night.
After agreeing to take their issues outside, Greenway was knocked down and out, and then stomped on.
In the words of his lawyer Terry Dobson, he got “the living suitcase kicked out of him”.
Three weeks later, on another night out, it was the Galaxy Lounge boss who was in the line of fire after a stoush over $1000 damage to the TV.
“We don’t want to live in a society like America where people are pulling guns out when they are upset,” Magistrate Hall said.
Greenway's best mate and Comanchero sergeant at arms David Kinneen was yesterday also jailed over a bizarre brawl with Greenway in the heart of Northbridge in November that also involved a firearm.
The court heard the two men got into a vicious brawl in the early hours, with Kinneen waving a fake gun. Concerned onlookers called police, who arrested the pair.
But since then, Mr Dobson said, the pair had shared a cell.
Kinneen was also jailed for nine months for producing the gun.
https://thewest.com.au/news/court-justice/bash-on-sight-comanchero-bikie-set-to-be-charged-over-shooting-ng-b881090745z
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Potentially millions of teachers, social workers and other public servants wasted money repaying loans because a major student-loan company obstructed access to debt forgiveness to which they were entitled, a new lawsuit charges.
The class-action suit filed Wednesday against Navient by borrowers who are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, claims that the company provided these public servants with wrong information, extending the amount of time they would need to wait before having their loans discharged under the program and causing them to spend money unnecessarily on their debt.
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There are three Tartinerys in the city and Myna and I found ourselves at the Nolita/Soho one for dinner one recent balmy evening. The interior is a cold, stone gray with warm, wood accents and the occasional tree. There's a relaxed chicness to the restaurant that was very inviting and pleasant. Indeed, there are a precious few restaurants in which I might choose to eat alone without fear of appearing like that guy you feel sad for with the book at his table.
Myna and I both enjoyed the atmosphere but were less enamored by the service. It not very crowded, even at 8pm, but flagging down a waiter was difficult all the same. From a price perspective, it's in the middle. Entrees are in the $17-23 range and the tartines that they serve, which are sort of like open faced sandwiches, average $15.
We started with four mini-tartines, half sized versions of the full-priced ones I just talked about. All four were good, and I would stick to the tartine menu should you choose to go, because, frankly, we didn't care for the rest of the meal.
The first one that I bit into was the Saumon Fume, made with smoked salmon and creme fraiche with a little lemon juice and dill. It was very good. Cool and summery. Joining it on the plate was the Asperges Avocat a tartiner of avocado, asparagus, arugula, pumpkin seed, parmesan, and lemon juice. It was essentially a salad on a piece of toast. Also, a pleasant light dish that was quite enjoyable. I would solidly recommend both of these. The second plate contained the Poulet Roti: roast chicken on an herbal mayo with fennel and olive oil, and the Labne, a more-Mediterranean-than-French tartine with yogurt, cucumber, and za'atar (mixed Mediterranean spices. The poulet roti was phenomenal. It was sweet and savory and tender and I would consider returning to Tartinery for this dish alone. Maybe I'd go back and get two of them. The Labne was very bland, however. If you want something that has a middle eastern aura about it, then by all means give the Labne a chance, but in my opinion it felt like it was on the wrong menu.
Okay, so the entrees. We were impressed with neither. Recalling how amazing the duck breast at Burke & Wills was, my taste buds all but forced me to order the Seared Duck Breast, served with roasted peaches. I requested it made medium rare. I then requested a steak knife because it arrived well done and trying to cut into it with the available table knife was an exercise in futility. It coulda-been shoulda-been great. The peaches were very good and thick, rich, sweet sauce was also delicious, but the meat itself was dry and tough. Speaking of dry and tough, Myna's Poulet Fermier, a pan seared chicken leg and thigh, with a side of what I think was kale but what the menu said was mizuna, was right up there alongside my duck. The moisture had been sapped from the meat almost completely. Wherever the moisture went, it wasn't into the greens, because they too were dry and almost brittle. "I don't even think that they seasoned anything" she said as we ate. Along with our, we ordered a side of Mixed Vegetables, gratin-style zucchini over a layer of diced tomato. It was nothing to write home about.
For dessert, we chose the Tarte Tatin, an inside-out apple pie type dish with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side. Myna enjoyed it more than I did. I had a few nibbles, thought a few wistful thoughts about Mrs. Smith, and packed up my spoon.
Two glasses of sparkling wine, four mini-tartines (or two regular sized ones), two entrees, and a dessert should run you $106 plus tax and tip. Like I said, treat Tartinery like a small plates restaurant and stick with the tartines and you'll be happy.
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Confirmed: Obama’s Dragnet “Fix” Isn’t About Us
May 3, 2014 /5 Comments/in FISA /by emptywheel
After Obama rolled out his phone dragnet fix, I noted the real reason he was doing it was not so much a concern for civil liberties, but rather a recognition that by outsourcing the data to providers, it would solve the legal-technical problems NSA had been having in two (probably related) areas: collection of cell data and operation of an alert function.
The Obama plan is an improvement over the status quo (though I do have grave concerns about its applicability in non-terrorist contexts, and my concerns about what the government does with the data of tens to hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans remain).
But don’t be fooled. Obama’s doing this as much because it’s the easiest way to solve legal and technical problems that have long existed because the government chose to apply a law that was entirely inapt to the function they wanted to use it for.
Shockers! A more privacy protective solution also happens to provide the best technical and legal solution to the problem at hand.
Yesterday, David Sanger confirmed that was the case, at least for the cell data problem.
At the N.S.A., there is grumbling about the continuing disclosures of material stolen by Mr. Snowden, but comparatively little complaint on the new limits Mr. Obama has proposed. In some cases, the N.S.A. gained some access to data even as it lost some autonomy. For example, its program to collect metadata missed a large percentage of cellphone calls. Under Mr. Obama’s plan, if it becomes law, the N.S.A. would have to leave that data in private hands, but when the N.S.A. does get it, under court order, the agency should have access to a lot more than it does today.
“It’s a pretty good trade,” said one senior intelligence official who has been working on the issue. “All told, if you are an N.S.A. analyst, you will probably get more of what you wanted to see, even it’s more cumbersome.”
And given Spencer Ackerman’s report that the White House wants to give the telecoms immunity under this new “fix,” the issue may well go beyond the cell data, though cell data has its own legal risks.
In a statement of principles privately delivered to lawmakers some weeks ago to guide surveillance reforms, the White House said it wanted legislation protecting “any person who complies in good faith with an order to produce records” from legal liability for complying with court orders for phone records to the government once the NSA no longer collects the data in bulk.
A congressional aide said the telecommunications companies were expected to “fight hard” for the provision to survive in any surveillance bill. Those firms, including Verizon and AT&T, have typically kept far more silent in public about NSA surveillance and their role in it than internet giants, like Yahoo and Google, which have pushed for reforms.
Ackerman’s wrong about Verizon’s silence — not only has it already issued a somewhat critical statement on proposed reforms, it also made a flaccid challenge to a recent order. But its stated concerns refusing to create new records is probably related to the real legal concerns underlying demands for immunity. To get cell records without location information (the latter of which would probably violate US v. Jones), Verizon apparently would and will need to make new records not otherwise required for its business purposes (which, again, may be the source of the cell data problem). That’s a very different legal role than simply as a communications provider, one it apparently is not thrilled about playing.
And all that’s before you consider the possibility, under the House Intelligence RuppRoge “reform,” that these “reforms” would also get Internet content-as-metadata again.
The fact is the government can’t legally do what it wants to do. They’re trying a new plan, by outsourcing to the providers. But it’s not clear that’s legal either.
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JohnT says:
Sorry about being off topic
But I thought someone here would enjoy this gif I just ran across. It’s weird, and probably nsfw once you figure out what that thing is, but it’s funny, and a visual metaphor for what we’ve said or thought several times
http://imgur.com/gallery/dBEmELN
Phil (Bustednuckles) says:
So if collecting some of this info is not part of a business plan then that shoots a hole in the governments reasoning that they can have access to it.
That is what they based their legal ability on going clear back to the old phone records,
that they were business records.
jerryy says:
If this move by the administration is akin to The Empire Stikes Back, then this next move must be Return Of The Jedi.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-facebook-others-defy-authorities-increasingly-notify-users-of-secret-data-demands-after-snowden-revelations/2014/05/01/b41539c6-cfd1-11e3-b812-0c92213941f4_story.html
Yeah, take it with the usual skepticism and heaping grains of salt.
TomVet says:
This is also a huge bait and switch to cover their various parallel construction schemes. They already have all the equipment installed on the cables and switches of the providers and are not going to stop using them just because they are told they should. But now, when they see something they can use in a prosecution or other purpose they can get a FISA court order for the info. Then with a wave of the old wand and a mighty “Abracadabra” (not the troll) that data becomes “legally obtained” in the regular court’s eyes.
john francis lee says:
German government thwarts investigation of NSA scandal
On the day of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s trip to the US, the German government made clear that it would thwart any further investigation into the spying activities of America’s National Security Agency (NSA).
While Merkel was being welcomed at the White House Friday by President Barack Obama, the Bundestag (parliamentary) Committee of Inquiry into the NSA received a government file on the questioning of whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Over 27 pages, the government made unmistakably clear that under no circumstances would it permit the questioning of Snowden on German soil, claiming it would endanger the “welfare of the state.”
The Süddeutsche Zeitung cited the last draft of the document as saying that inviting the former NSA contractor would be inconsistent with “important political interests of the Federal Republic of Germany” and would permanently threaten its relationship with the United States. Cooperation between the German secret services and their US counterparts could be limited, “at least temporarily,” as a result of Snowden appearing in Germany. On these grounds, the government brief concluded that “the interests of seeking clarity must yield to the welfare of the state.”
This position is remarkable. It openly subordinates the interests of the people, whose personal lives are being spied on, to the interests of the state. The legal duty of the federal prosecutor to investigate the accusation of mass spying is simply brushed aside. As in a despotic regime, the criterion of “what is good for the state” is being elevated above the law and the Constitution.
It is good for the state to obtain more lebensraum in the East.
The New Axis is the old Axis … with our USA filling in for Italy.
I know it’s a good thing you’re doing, documenting it all.
Stopping it would be better though.
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A slow revival
Burton Albion 2 Bradford City 2 At Pirelli Stadium in League Two, 2011/12
There is a theory in football that you can score a goal too early. Either because the subsequent psychological effect causes players to falsely believe the match is going to be easier than it proves, or it results in them worrying too much about defending the lead instead of following the pre-agreed game plan. Whichever it was for Bradford City this afternoon, they paid the price for surprising everyone – not least themselves – in how brilliantly they began.
2-0 up inside 15 minutes, the Bantams were in complete control against Burton Albion. But somewhere in the last third of the first half, they took the foot off the gas and switched over to cruise control. Burton had looked beleaguered, but were sufficiently encouraged to make a quick-fire comeback, going into the half time break on equal terms.
Losing a 2-0 advantage never looks clever, but it should not detract from the fact City’s performance was much improved and that the point taken back up the M1 is progress on the three previous defeats. The league table still looks dismal and the run without a win now stretches to six games; but slowly, perhaps, the tide is beginning to turn.
Considering it has been such a slow start to the season, for City to come flying out of the blocks this afternoon was an unexpected pleasure. Only six minutes had been played when Kyel Reid picked up a loose ball midway in the Burton half, raced to the edge of the penalty area and struck a powerful shot into the corner. Colour restored to the players’ cheeks, they continued to knock the ball around with purpose and Craig Fagan – making his full debut – and Liam Moore both came close.
A second goal wasn’t long in coming though, with James Hanson poking home the ball after more superb work by Reid saw him skip past his defender and send a low cross into the tall striker’s path. And suddenly a rout looked entirely possible.
With Adam Reed brought into the centre for his debut – pushing Ritchie Jones to wide right and Chris Mitchell into the stands – the team was back to the attractive passing, zestful style that had gone missing since the unfortunate defeat to Port Vale. Reed impressed in the first half at least with his purposeful forward passing, as Reid and Jones pushed strongly down the flanks and Michael Flynn protected the back four.
City were dominant, Burton poor and ponderous at the back – attracting the ire of home fans, who had booed their former defender Guy Branston as the substitute warmed up pre-match. Yet they found a way back when City switched off. Out of nothing a deflected cross found Billy Kee to fire past Matt Duke, and just as it seemed the visitors had survived through three minutes of first half stoppage time to head back to the dressing room with a slender advantage, Burton won a penalty and Justin Richards levelled the score.
That a penalty was awarded was a contentious point. Jimmy Phillips had seen a low shot palmed away by Duke, and Kee had fired the rebound against the post. Just as it seemed the goalmouth scramble was over, the ball was worked back into the box from out wide and Robbie Threlfall was adjudged to have handled the ball as Adam Bolder shot towards goal. Threlfall has since angrily Tweeted that he did not touch the ball with his hand and the referee was wrong, but if so what is more troubling is the fact that – at the time – none of City’s players appeared to contest the decision.
The second half was more even, but the Bantams undoubtedly shaded it. Andrew Davies headed just wide; Reed forced a good save from Ross Atkins. Plenty of good approach play – with Reid scaring the life out of Burton every time he ran at them and Fagan producing some great touches – but perhaps a lack of cutting edge which saw attacking mores fizzle out. Burton created a few half chances, but the back four was much improved with Davies and Oliver again outstanding.
Manager Phil Parkinson looked to the bench to find the extra something needed to win the game, and during the final quarter of the game Ross Hannah, Luke O’Brien and Jack Compton were introduced. Aside from O’Brien, on this occasion the changes seemed to weaken City and in the closing stages it was Burton who looked more likely.
And that may be telling, for the three players taken off are – it can be reasonably argued – the best three forward players Parkinson has at his disposal. Jones’ move to wide right wasn’t a failure, but his influence on the game was less than it has been and one is left querying why Parkinson has sought to disrupt the promising partnership he was building with Flynn. Jones was replaced instead of Reed and, although on-loan Sunderlandlooks a good player, he faded in the second half and seemed less demanding of the ball than Flynn; even if the Welshman was then guilty of being too wasteful when he did receive it.
With the other two taken off – Reid and Fagan – it’s a matter of lack of match fitness. This can only be developed with games, and once Parkinson can get 90-minute performances from the pair it’s more likely that City will end games as powerfully as they started today.
Over the past two weeks there has been the familiar but still frustrating slating of the manager by a vocal minority of supporters. Parkinson is accused by them of ripping up Peter Jackson’s team by bringing in “old friends” who are of less quality – conveniently ignoring the fact Jackson’s team lost four of their five games.
Yet it’s clear the signings Parkinson has made are an improvement on what we had before, and the squad is stronger as a result. Right now this is not reflected in results, and we could very well look back upon this start to the season in a few months time and bemoan how costly it ultimately proved. But that doesn’t mean there should be as much doom and gloom as exists right now.
The set backs against Crawley and Wimbledon were hard to take, yet before them there have been genuine signs it’s beginning to come together and that encouraging feeling was taken away from the Pirelli Stadium. The speed of progress has so far been painfully slow, yet as today proved football is not always about how well you start.
Date Saturday October 1st, 2011
This is a match report on Burton Albion 2 Bradford City 2 at Pirelli Stadium in League Two, 2011/12
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Hopefully the election results will shed more light on how to interpret the rest of the parable. The suspense is a killer!
The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, of the joints and marrow, and is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Well, the point of the passage seems to be that 50% of the salt are saltless so history will prove bad no matter what, though 2041. Flipside, that what y'all learn through it passes to your kids and their kids and so on, so for the next 600 years (if no Rapture), future history will be much better.
Need to recheck the sevens. Like you've said many times, they seem too sparse.
After that, it goes REALLY bad, until the end. Keeps me up at night, thinking how important our NOW is.
I keep forgetting about that ratio change. I wonder why, out of the entire CA timeline, its only during colonial and post colonial history that believer maturity ratios are disclosed?
PostPosted: 03 Nov 2016, 22:03
Well, maybe the ratios aren't relevant until then? I don't know why 1703AD et seq. has ratios disclosed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdEmYeoXSo
As I watch Trump's acceptance speech, I get the impression that he will possibly be elected for two terms, to lead us into the 7 year micro-trib of 2024-2030. Maybe all the work that Trump and his Foolish Virgins hope to achieve between 2017-2023 will begin to backfire on them in 2024-2030. Maybe they are setting up their own trap...digging their own mass grave....who knows? Nevertheless, in his acceptance speech, Trump is yet again promising "only the best" for America. Its exactly what the Foolish Virgins want to hear from their anti-christ.
Given Trump's track record, the only way he can deliver on any these promises is by turning the nation against an imagined boogeyman/scapegoat, just as he has done to all of his enemies/obstacles. The Foolish Virgins desperately want the door to be opened, and the False-groom seems willing to say/do anything to appease them.
At first I was a little skeptical if it had to do with anything (since Trump only cares about Trump), however he and his supporters are actually quite anti-Semitic, the TYT did a surprisingly good video on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXVkGtg1t0o
You'll see one of the brainwashed teens talk fondly of Alex Jones and start purporting conspiracies on "zionism" equating all Jews to being evil. Except... there's no such thing.
Alex Jones, by the way, contradicts himself so much. He's a staunch roman catholic and tries to pass that off as conservative christianity, but at the same time then says the pope is wrong to say Trump is wrong. In other words, Alex Jones is a Catholic who believes in 'whatever' and runs Infowars to make a quick buck. Quite a lucrative business from so many gullible people. Just like the (now deceased) Jack Chick or Gail Riplinger.
Oh yeah, I know all about Alex Jones. I used to listen to his radio show back in 2009 until he started going off the deep end. Then I did some research on him and found out he was a total propaganda opportunist. Just the kind of guy who would support Trump.
Is this where I should put the 28 min audio, Anony?
How the 1st Lord in Matt25:11 depicts judgment, even though DT won:
http://www.brainout.net/downloads/wma/T ... Judges.MP3
Created a full Twitter moment out of it, replete with related vids, https://twitter.com/i/moments/796451797690744833. So because of that, I can keep tweeting in twitter, as it no longer has to stay static for those posts to show first.
As for your insights, hupostasis, if the anti-semites start attacking, DT who doesn't need them anymore, might be able to divide them out and conquer: to look like a hero to the Dems and the FIFTY PERCENT WHO DID NOT VOTE AT ALL in 2016. Easy to replace one gullible group with another. That's how Hitler did it.
Yeah, I think the audio fits nicely with the subject matter. I don't know what Trump's plans are for the USA, but if he wants to win the second term, then he will have to find some kind of boogeyman to terrorize the public with, during the first term. So term 1 might be characterized by his desperation to maintain popularity. Term 2 (if re-elected) would be the careless term, which could be dangerous if Trump has any kind of ideological agenda to fulfill. Trump seems to be driven by opportunism, greed, and power lust, so I doubt he really has any kind of political ax to grind. Its too early to tell at this point.
If (hypothetically), Trump really does have an anti-Semitic agenda, then it likely wouldn't come out until his second term. Instead, he would likely emphasize the Islamic terror threat, the drug wars, and the gang violence attributed to illegal immigration. If played right, that alone could get him re-elected. By that point, if the boogeyman is scary enough, and Trump has the borders locked down, then American citizens would be sitting ducks, and Trump would have the perfect environment to push an anti-Semitic agenda. First, the heat needs to be turned up and the borders secured to hold the pressure in. That is how you convert democracy into fascism.
Well, we'll soon see. I have trouble 'seeing' DT live past 2017.
In any event, your kids will spend their formative years under a Trump Presidency style, so you will have ample opportunity to teach them what 'bad' is. Millions of kids will be thus innoculated, and I bet many of them will get serious about Bible, given how Matt25:13ff reads.
In any event, yeah 2023-2030 has to be judgment, maybe even war. That's past the two terms. And it's Christ's answering, 1st clause in Matt25:12. Hope I'm dead by then, but I fear I won't be. I can't imagine living that long.
Yeah, that's exactly why I believe there might be two terms of Trump, because it looks like it might incur judgment. It might mean that Trump will give more power to the evangelical dominionists, which is a frustrating thought.
Well, clearly the others in the family are being groomed for public office. So maybe not DT himself, but one of them.
Post subject: Matt24 meter/anaphora thematic ties
This post is under prolonged construction. I found a handy albeit incomplete and not wholly accurate Jerusalem timeline, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Jerusalem
Background videos most relevant to this post start here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIxH4Su ... 4fmi3Xs3Yf
To save you time, here again are the links to the latest versions of the Matt24-25 text and the anaphora tester:
http://www.brainout.net/Matt24-25ParsedR5.pdf and http://www.brainout.net/AmenAnaphoraR.xls . The xls works in Excel/Word2003 and prior, as well. Old WordPerfect should be able to handle it.
Purpose of the xls is manifold:
a) test DELIBERATENESS of the distances between anaphora occurrences as a way to verify we counted syllables correctly,
b) test DELIBERATENESS of the MEANING of the distances, as in Bible even syllable counts have vital doctrinal meanings designed to interact with and hence elucidate, the text.
c) FIND THE NEXUS, the key to why the anaphora have those distances. The nexus will always be the middle anaphora in a series. Here, it's 1570-1640 AD, which is the English Reformation and the 2nd official historical 70-year voting period, post-Cross. The period is a sudden-death round: if not enough are positive to Bible, Time ends. Its precedent is the Flood (120=50+70).
So you'll need the map of Time per BIBLE (not stars or errant scholars who use lunar years tho Bible only uses solar): http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls and its verse list plus calcs post Gen5, http://www.brainout.net/brainoutFAQ.htm#6a . The math is intense, but not complex. Fifth grader could do it.
Video explainer channel, http://www.vimeo.com/channels/howgodorchestratestime
PURPOSE OF POST
I think I get the meaning of the Matt24 anaphora differentials in relation to the text, specifically with reference to how 'our' anaphora for 2030, will play. The idea is to know the future from the past, so that was the issue: what past is tied together, to tell us what future? To know that, you have to establish the THEMES:
*How Daniel 9's '62nd week' will stretch out FOR CHURCH, given Christ will die at the start of it, 7 years EARLY.
*Where Daniel 2's Man of Time will 'fit', in light of Daniel 10-12, relative to this new 'deathbed blessing' of prophecy through 3250AD (both Matt24-25 being one chapter in the meter and in Greek).
*Who are the potential 'people of the ruler to come' at the end of Dan9:26, since the Roman Model of Government is already tagged from Temple Down forward (and there are two Romes in the future, 2nd being Constantine's in what is now called Istanbul). That question will inform the entire text, esp. cuz all governments ended up adopting the Roman Model from Christ onward. There is not a constitution on earth today, which isn't based on that model. So ANY COUNTRY can become the country where the Gentile Anti-Christ rises.. except Israel.
*Hence, WHERE the Gentile Antichrist will be, in any given time, since Rapture is unpredictable.
*Major update to Daniel is that CHURCH will be the seed of the Gentile AntiChrist, which of course Rev17 will later reveal in more detail. So
*BIBLE LEARNING is traced, since Satan will try to turn that country/countries into the seed source, again given what we'll later know from Rev17 is CHURCH. Like Thieme said circa Lesson 800 in Series 376 Spiritual Dynamics when covering Matt4, 'Satan always plays to strength', so he tempted Christ based on His Strengths. Same, for His Kids.
So the themes above constitute a geographical tour over time, with the King of the North, having been defined since Daniel 2 as first Babylon, then Persia, then Greece and then 'Rome', moves progressively westward. So too, did Bible interest, esp. after Temple Down.
So as it stands now, were the Rapture to occur in January 21 et seq., the Gentile anti-christ would be Trump, if he's not saved.
Interlinked are the same historical trends that run in 490 and 1000-year cycles, as I tried to summarize here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGKWKCjCv8&t=2s&list=PL32D5DBC20BF4163F&index=7
Because, if those deadlines aren't met, Time can still end just as was the rule pre-Church.. and maybe there is no Rapture.
How past anaphora inform Matt25:12's, for 2023-2041 AD
Now we get technical. The anaphora benchmarks critical times which include all of the above themes. Looks like the clause just before amen legw humin is used to explain the nature of the time. As each of these anaphora passes, we can more easily look back at history to forecast the meaning of the next amen legw humin meaning. So for us, there have already been THREE occurrences:
1st, at syll 57=87AD=what was supposed to be Trib Start, had there been no Church; prior clause being
οὐ βλέπετε ταῦτα πάντα; '[Don't] you see all this?'
After all, maybe believers would mature anyway, so the 'old schedule' would still be met in time. We know it wasn't, but it could have been, and Christ is speaking 57 years before it happens (haha, 57 days from Passover Start to Pentecost).
So we have really a trilogy, as Luke 21 maps the same syllables exactly:
40=70AD, Temple Down, matched to Matt24:1 with the disciples drooling over the BUILDING rather than the BUILDER Who is LEAVING THE BUILDING (hahaha, considering 40 is used in syll count).
49(dateline)=79AD, Titus who took the Temple Down, goes up as Emperor and Pompeii goes down (Romans were very superstitious, they'd interpret that as a bad omen for Titus).
57=87AD, will end up being called Domitian's Terror (against JEWS, tho Christians were lumped in as Jews, hated cuz their non-willingness to pay obeisance to Emperors and Rome's gods, was considered unpatriotic).
So this triptych is our precedence for how to read the subsequent anaphora, in a familiar pan-OT prophecy sequence:
Foreign Domination,
Foreign Power Judged,
Persecution.
Of course, then at the last minute when all looks hopeless.. deus ex machina, Savior comes down at the end of the 'play'. BIBLE theme since Genesis, which the Greeks would later ape in all their lit.
Not fully sure that the above purple descriptions are apt, using them for now. In Domitian's Terror, really the focus was on how to steal your money. The guy was constantly broke. So if you didn't pay your Jewish tax, or if you had so much money it was more profitable to accuse you of being impious (atheist, not serving Rome's gods or deified Emperor, esp. Domitian) -- then you would be stripped of your property, if noble/famous BANISHED (hence John to Patmos). Or, sometimes killed. That being what Domitian did to the senators and other high-born at Rome and partly because Jews converted a lot of the high-born, obviously elsewhere in the empire it was politick to do the same, even absent any Imperial Mandate (of which we find none).
So persecution has that pecuniary flavor to it. Else more or less don't ask, don't tell as Trajan would later tell Pliny.
So now look how apt, Matt24:2c (first occurrence of the anaphora), d:
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν (2nd dateline, again 30AD,syll count 63 meaning yrs pre‐Mill had there been no Church),
'believe it when I tell you'
Luke 21:6 'covers' the anaphora with καταλυθήσεται, in order to also end at 63 syllables, sure sign Luke is MAPPING to Matt24:2c,d while he writes.
Cuz Matt24:2d uses the same term,
οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ὧδε λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον ὃς οὐ καταλυθήσεται 'not one stone will be left upon another'. Which of course ends at syll 84=114AD, just in time for the rebellion to start in Libya over the Temple NOT being rebuilt, inter alia.
Since the 63 takes us forward to the end of what was supposed to be Israel's history and the beginning of the Mill absent Church (Trib completes), now we know why Rev 11 mocks whatever structure is there, God telling John to use a 'reed' not a rod (for measuring a foundation PRIOR TO BUILDING, so if Dome/other structure is there, it's treated as non-existent).
So no, unlike some who claimed to have studied under Thieme, the Bible NEVER authorizes the Temple to be rebuilt.
But oh, Abominations will be attempted, and regularly!
Israel started wanting to replace the Temple, see, and even rebelled (as you well know) 115-117 AD, when Trajan died (first eta in thelematos in Eph1:5), and Hadrian who'd come to hate the Jews, took over. He said no, the Jews kept rebelling, so presto chango we have Matt24:3's sardonic meter for Bar Kochba rebellion in 132-135; resulting by 140 AD and after Hadrian's death.. in Aeolia Capitolina, with a pig temple atop the Temple Mount. Just like under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, about 44 sevens prior.
490 years after Antiochus, would be Constantine creating the first unity of church and state, 325 AD, Matt24:9 syll clause ending 295, Τότε παραδώσουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς θλῖψιν, 'Then they will deliver you over to 'tribulation', which is exactly what happened as a result of the Council of Nicaea. Laws here. There were plans to rebuild the Temple or put something else 'Christian' atop it, as the pig temple was in disrepair; but nothing I can find, actually happened.
I'm newly convinced that Rev17:10's 7th king is patterned like the King of the North in Daniel 11, where actually a series of kings is depicted, ending with Antiochus IV in Dan11:34, and then as PARALLEL the final real KON in 11:35 et seq (or 36, with 35 as changeover in parallelism), is the one for the Trib. Similarly, since even by Domitian's day more than 5 Roman Emperors had lived, the angel is selecting five as prototypes, with Domitian (esp. as he was then persecuting to get money) as the current proto.. and the future 7th one would START with Constantine, who himself is the prototype of the final KON.
I remember you and some others interpret the five to be past big empires. That would fit, too. Big isn't necessarily territory, but can be influence. The final 10-nation confederacy is.. who knows. Tradition assigns it to the same geography as SPQR, but in what year and extent? It reached its largest extent under Trajan, and shrank after that, with a brief resurgence in size under Justin or Justinian, I forget which. Then what about the Holy Roman Empire? In short, which Roman-style governance is in view? And why do we ASSume it must cover the same territory as ancient Rome, esp. since Constantine moved the territory capital, EAST?
Rome pretty much split after he died, between his sons warring, and those who succeeded them.
So that's why the 8th is the beast itself, since the real Constantine will be dead, but started the dangerous precedent, today reflected in the 'Seven Mountains' movement of jerks surrounding Donald Trump (of whom Ted Cruz' dad, James Dobson and other big names, are big in that movement).
The seven mountains were literally rebuilt by Constantine in what he called New Rome, which today we call Istanbul.
This Rev17 connection, obviously sourced here in Matt24, thus explains a prelude, since the intertwining rules of the 490 and 1000 qualifying periods, might undo the whole timeline if not met. This is where we get the Matt24:1 war related to Jerusalem, full circle. Text denoting that 490:
Matt24:15 Ὅταν οὖν ἴδητε τὸ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως 'When you see the Desolating Abomination'*
τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Δανιὴλ τοῦ προφήτου ἑστὸς ἐν τόπῳ ἁγίῳ 'spoken of via Daniel, in the Holy Place' =490=520AD.
What Abomination was that? Oh, the newly-appointed Elias (!) bishop of Jerusalem wanted to construct a temple atop the Temple Mount, to MARY. Not, to Christ. Can't be more Abominating than that, huh. But the poor guy couldn't get the money until a few years later when Justinian gave him some, and the Nea Theotokos was built over the next 20 years or so.
Aha. So by the next time we see amen legw humin, we'll know what to expect. Which is where the anaphora takes us, next.
* If a fresh manure truck crashed into your house, you'd have to leave it for a long time. That's 'desolation'
For 2nd, just prior to the next amen legw humin, is Matt24:33, ending syll 1110=1140 AD; a lot has happened, in between.
οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς, ὅταν ἴδητε πάντα ταῦτα, γινώσκετε ὅτι ἐγγύς ἐστιν ἐπὶ θύραις
'In this manner (like the fig tree analogy just prior), when you see all this: know that it's next-to-come, even at the door (of time, next event).'
Well, what preceded that? The 1000 qualifier deadline, which was our 1030 AD. That was marked by Matt24:31,
καὶ ἀποστελεῖ τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ μετὰ σάλπιγγος μεγάλης, 'Then He sends his angels with trumpet'(blowing, cut mid-word), the whole clause ending at 1004. Bolded section is at 1000=1030 AD.
What about that time? Well, first the Byzantines and Persians fight over the area so much they exhaust themselves by 630; just in time, cuz Mohammed baby dies in 630, his Muslims overrun Jerusalem, take over the now-derelict, Temple Mount. The bishops didn't keep it up, felt it was meant to be a desolation (pleased their rampant anti-semitism); weren't even sure where the Temple Mount was; conquering Umar baby found it via a dream he had, built the Dome of the Rock over it.
After that, well it was in the hands of the Arabs until the Christians took it upon themselves to rebel, the Arabs beat them off, Byzantium now really full of itself, intervenes. In 1030 there's a treaty with the Arabs, and churches are rebuilt.. but not that one. So by the end of first 1000 after the Lord's death, The Temple The Temple Depicted is still Abominated under a Dome.
But not for long. There's a back and forth with the Arabs fighting the Byzantines, which prompts the latter's loss and its Emperor's death, with Arab takeover of Jeru again in 1073, followed by the 1st Crusade.
By the time the 1082=1112 AD clause ends, Jeru will be back under control by the first King of Jerusalem, Baldwin I. He has the thing reconverted into a Byzantine Church. So still an Abomination, under a different name with a paint job. So how did Christ satirize that?
Matt24:32 is the 1082=1112 clause, text reads: γινώσκετε ὅτι ἐγγὺς τὸ θέρος· 'Know that summer is next.' Yeah, fig tree = Israel changes hands again, put out the leaves so war put it out, new master paints over the Rock of Their Salvation, mindless except that it beats the Muslims.
Oh, and by the way: Jews can't enter.
And that is how it remains. Strongest apocalyptic language covers this period from 905-1030 AD, in Matt24:29-30; so the analogy is to the final Armageddon battle, Zech 14. Historically it's the period of Abbasid versus Fatimid wars with Byzantium interfering off and on, causing (eventually) the Crusades. Jews are endlessly persecuted, and under the Fatimids, even Christians are as well. REALLY BAD TIME to be in the Levant.
Now the plot thickens a lot. We've been focusing on Jerusalem, how the first and second anaphora PREVIOUS clauses, focus on Israel, the Abomination, Daniel, etc. But what about the other themes, like .. Bible learning?
That's where the second anaphora threads to highlight; for by syll 1110=1140AD=Matt24:33, the quintessential Lord-coming-to-you 'DOOR' analogy is used. It will matter a lot when we go to the next anaphora, so it's mentioned here. Door, coming to you, opening.. what? His Head in your head, fellowship, supping with you, as Rev 3 will warn. You can't learn if in a state of sin, so no fellowship and discipline instead knocks at the door. So what do you want the door of your volition to 'open'? Dinner, or Discipline?
By 1140AD, many monasteries wanted lots of Dinner. Hundreds had arisen in the West, and at this point a Cistercian had just been made Pope. His sect of monks had made Bible teaching (though bad), esp. in Britain (the star of the anaphora story, next stop).. had become common. Many Bibles copied over and over by hand, a certain amount of freedom from persecution for the Jews, so we had complete texts routinely copied by the third century or so, with Jerome's famous original Hebrew finds, verifying the text.
In the 500's you had missionary activity as well, and the monks flourished wherever the missionaries went. They had various names, often Benedictine, Cluny, finally Cistercian.. and all three of these would corrupt within a generation or three, followed up by some fresh new austere group. They made beer, wine, did carpentry, husbanding of livestock or vegetables, as well as copying Scripture, and were an important part of each local economy. They taught, and no matter how badly, they chanted and memorized and the local people got all that text HEARD.
By 500, remember, the seeds of modern Europe were forming under Clovis and his progeny, to be followed up by the repulse of those same Muslims trying to get into France.. Battle of Tours and Charles the Hammer (Martel), gave France and upper Europe a breather. That gave rise to the Carolingians, and under Charlesmagne Bible learning was a thing pan-realm. Again, poorly taught but well copied and changed, memorized, even the script and mechanism of making a Bible copy, more efficient. Which led to more monasteries: handy way to seem pious yet be independent of Rome. Finally, it led to outright political clashes with Rome, and the tables turned, with the Carolingians saving the Papacy against the Lombards: clever thing, since the Papacy wanted to worm its way into Charlesmagne by crowning him some years prior, now dependent ON him and his strange kiddies.
All this Gallic change wafted its way in all directions, and especially in England, where the Cistercians had huge influence, i.e., that first Cistercian pope (I forget his name) who due to the above-mentioned political clashes, spent most of his life outside Rome, homeless. Bible learning thus flourished with that independence from the See.
By 1054, the schism between East and West religiously, had formed well enough for both versions of institutional Christianity to go their separate ways. Christ traces it WESTWARD, not eastward. Again, we know because at 1110=1140, focus is on that Cistercian Pope and the whole order.
And we know even more, when we trace the Bible interest thread from 500 AD forward. Importantly, there is a 'parousia' anaphora triad, as well (=Appearing, 2nd Coming) which I didn't notice until Thanksgiving, and it enlightens the entire meaning of the amen legw humin anaphora.
This parousia anaphora is only in Matt24 (not elsewhere in Matt, nor even in Luke 21), in verses 4 (apostle question), 27, 37, 39. Syllable counts are 138, 833, 1225, and 1309, respectively. The center is thus 1225.
Map of the time: https://twitter.com/brainouty/status/801755293545885698
What's really interesting about the 1225=1255 AD period, is that two counter-trends are occurring: 1) LEARNING BIBLE is popular, for itself, and is conveyed mostly by itinerant Dominican and Franciscan friars, all over Europe and Russia, even China (for back in the late 800's Bible was converted to what became a common script we now call Cyrillic). 2) 'Picture Bibles' became popular among the nobility, especially Apocalypse cuz -- get this -- everyone expected His APPEARANCE (parousia) by 1260 AD, based on a wild misreading of Daniel 12. Once that year came and went, no one wanted the Picture Bibles anymore. In short: when Revelation didn't meet their drooling expectations, they STOPPED LEARNING, and never learned its real meaning. Sound familiar?
So God will have to judge that. Look at the text in the above verses, k? It's apocalyptic, and presages the Black Death.
Source text, Chapters 5 (on making Bibles popular cuz making them portable for friars) and 6 (on Picture Bibles) of https://www.amazon.com/Book-History-Bib ... 0714837741
Antisemitism was rife. The Picture Bibles were loaded with it (book shows the illustrations of some typical for the period). The Crusades were on again (antisemitism helped fuel them or vice versa), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades#13th_century
So the common people were actually getting Bible in their own languages, the friars translating as they repeated and taught; but the nobility were getting PICTURES (presumably cuz they knew the text already or didn't care). See the problem?
Of course, the Crusades would bring back plague: Black Plague from 1347 et seq. really never went away, even isolated cases still occur today. But that first one hit Europe the hardest, wiping out maybe 50% of the people.
So that's your setup prior to and obviously a baptism of fire (Matt24:39ff, remember you had to burn the bodies for Black Death) for THIRD amen legw humin anaphora, occurring precisely at the 1050+490 mark next, our 1570-1640 AD, which to historians is known as the English Reformation.
It's clear from the history of the parties involved in triggering this Reformation, that GOD orchestrated the whole thing by means of just-right births and deaths of: John Knox, the cardinal he was falsely accused of killing, Mary of Guise, Mary Queen of Scots and her husbands, Henry VIII's LACK of male births and his death, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I, James VI. Someone needs to do a movie on this. Movie can leave out the 'God orchestration' theme, it will be clear enough just to show confluence of the DATES. If I live long enough, maybe I'll get hupostasis to help me write a book...
For 3rd, just prior to the next amen legw humin, is Matt24:46, ending syll 1532=1562 AD; a lot more has happened, in between.
μακάριος ὁ δοῦλος ἐκεῖνος ὃν ἐλθὼν ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ εὑρήσει οὕτως ποιοῦντα·
'Happy is that slaveson, who his master finds doing his job well.'
This is the third and only anaphora occurrence which isn't a judgment against the object. Rather, it is praise. It occurs precisely during the 2nd voting period after Christ's death (1050+490). That year, 1570, the Pope put out a death warrant for Elizabeth I, who miraculously held her nation together and made it independent of the Papacy at the same time. Her dad Henry had a lot to do with that, confiscating Church lands when Rome wouldn't give him the divorces he wanted, and declaring himself the head of a new, wholly ENGLISH, 'Anglican' church. That independence from Rome shoulda killed him and his dynasty, but didn't. Was it because Elizabeth might marry? She knew how to read Bible in Hebrew and Greek and Latin, so maybe she remembered how Hatshepsut did it. The Kingdom remained at times shaky, but still in her hands, thanks also to Walsingham, I'm sure.
She sure held out the promise of maybe marrying some Catholic, or what about a Protestant (of whom there were none, but the European Reformation started 53 years prior, when Jeru had been taken yet again by the Ottomans).
As time passed and she forged new wholly-nationalistic links with the clerics, they came to realize maybe independence from Rome was helpful after all. Wasn't easy, but so long as she was unmarried, excuses could be made. So, she stayed unmarried. So, eventually her troubles with Mary Queen of Scots woulde nearly undo the kingdom, but what ho, James was taught by John Knox and became Protestant, so... he'd end up her heir, and England would stay independent.
So now we see the geographic shift is now England. Due to whom, there would soon become, a United States.
When a Bible timeline uses anaphora, the point is to show big-event cause and effect. The center anaphora is the key goal from which all else comes. In Ephesians 1:3-14, Paul would employ three sets of anaphora, and they all centered on the yet-future 'Constantine. I learned that passage before even knowing Matt24 was a timeline, so when seeing it here the calculations and meaning are much easier to spot. In Ephesians, there are so many measures all centering on Constantine it was more painstaking, but the meaning is the same. There, the idea was to show how Church would become apostate. Turns out Paul maps his text to Matt24, and gets his use of the anaphora from it.
Whereas Paul's focus was just the Roman empire and the effect of Church going saltless (no Bible interest), the 'parent' text here in Matt24-25, is global as noted at the beginning of this post: GLOBAL salt movements and how the Gentile anti-Christ is most potential in the nation best given BIBLE.
So at this point, how did we go from Europe to England? Well, the Cistercians were key. They started in France, multiplied in England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland. By the 1200's or so they'd go corrupt, as monasteries always do.. but while they lasted much Bible copying and learning had been done. By Henry's separation from the Papacy, they ended.
In between, there was the other 1378 Schism, then Constantinople overrun in 1453, coupled with Gutenberg's Bible, which really kicked off the process we today call the Reformation. Independent printing, no longer beholden to religious institutions, wow. Much cheaper now, even a middle class family could order one, or a bunch of families could save up and jointly own a copy.
That copy would change in size from great to small, the idea being itinerant monks needed the smaller size and the populus would save money on it. At the same time many more manuscripts were becoming available to check and translate into many vernaculars, what with the Papacy being so much weaker or disinclined to prosecute its monopoly on authorized translations.
Thus conflict over religion would ensue, and with it, missionary activity coupled with world exploration. For wars cost money, populations need food, so maybe by travelling an enterprising explorer could bring wealth to himself and his country.
So in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.. and didn't exactly end up in America, but did set the precedent. So by the time UNMARRIED Elizabeth I comes to reign, there's a rich Spain or France or some princes farther east who would woo her with gains from the ever-growing colonies. But ho, the prosperity growing in England over all that Bible teaching from the newly-emergent Calvinists and neo-Anglicans meant she started to have money too (seek ye first the kingdom of God)... so out goes Drake, in comes goods from the New World, and she can go toe-to-toe with even a Spanish Armada, meanwhile establishing routes and even colonies of her own.
Whew. And to flee all that religious strife, my ancestors would get on a boat and find refuge. One Catholic, one Protestant. Your relatives too, really. We all came from there, whether slave or free, at first. The European continent's interest in Bible quickly stultified into political wars, but those just wanting to learn it privately, packed up their Bibles and few goods.. and sailed the ocean blue.
For AMERICA, was the new EXODUS: by 1780 it would become a nation of its own, exactly 3220 years -- the length of Matt24-25 in syllable counts -- after that initial Exodus.
America still is the world's Exodus. Pity today's white nationalists, ALL OF THEM INITIALLY IMMIGRANTS, just like that initial Exodus generation of ALL COLORS had been.. but who never learn Bible.
You know the rest: American colonies form while Europe keeps fighting its religious wars, culminating in the War of the Austrian Succession, when Matthew 25 begins, with its split 50/50 wise and foolish virgins. Wise, if learning Bible; foolish, if not. All because of the English Reformation.
From there, the continuing wars make even England's George III starve for funds, so now we the colonies are oppressed, so we revolt. And that's our formation, 1776 to 1789, Matt25:3, leaving the foolish virgins without oil, to finish their wars.. on the Continent.
Of course, we newly-minted 'Americans' quickly became foolish, too. And weirdly, for who didn't know the story about Jacob and Joseph? Jacob's 'slavery' was INDENTURE, but Joseph's was via KIDNAPPING, so the latter ORIGIN to being a 'slave' was outlawed, in Exodus (21:16). Anyone bought for whatever reason had to be freed if he believed in Christ, same law in same book; thus Paul argued for freeing Onesimus, even tho he stole from Philemon (v.10). And aren't all of us slaves to Christ? By CONTRACT, since we BELIEVED?
Yet within 100 years America would 50/50 split too, and fight the Civil War over this. In many ways, most poignantly demonstrated in the 2016 election.. civil war, continues. Of course by now, Bible interest is at an all-time high but in a very small portion of the population.
So now we come to our next and
4th anaphora, syll 1993-2000, covering 2023-2030 AD,
Matt25:12,
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν·, 'and answering (them) He said:
Then the anaphora itself, running from 2030-2041,
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, Believe it when I tell you, 6 2006 ‐1532 (last ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν =474/3=158
οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς. 'I don't know you'
Ouch. That's the Roman practice of disowning. You're the kid, you disobeyed, you ran away; you come home and your own father won't even allow you in the door, claiming you a stranger tho clearly you are not.
We've already seen what happens when God has to answer. He answered Job out of the tornado, Hosea invokes it in his own Chapter 4. My people perish for lack of truth knowledge. So that turning-away means Divine Judgment, and since jurisprudence is always based on precedent, we've had three anaphora precedents to understand this future.
It's not good. We disown God when we argue against immigration and free trade, as both were core to Israel's BIRTH and hence the Mosaic Law. That's why some forms of what we call 'slavery' were legal, as they were based on FREE CONSENT TRANSACTIONS. The slave could even refuse to go free (see 1st half of Exodus). All the world's slavery practices at the time Israel was born were thus not outlawed, but once an Israeli TRADED using those practices, new laws applied, whether the Israeli was a believer or not, a citizen or not.
The world quickly took notice, since Israel got all its money from TRADE, and was deliberately chosen by God to be the nexus of three continents so anyone could IMMIGRATE there and get Bible directly. So slavery laws around the world started to change to conform to that little country's weird God's laws. And the world, gradually civilized.
Today, there's not a constitution on the planet which isn't based on the Mosaic Law. But the Exodus Country of America would rescind it all, voting in a vile, defrauding, cheating, lying, immoral, ignorant man who got elected based on promising to rescind it all?
What do you think God must 'answer'? NOT GOOD.
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Adding text on the newly-found 'parousia' anaphora
Important: CNTTS apparatus in Bibleworks 9 adds 'hos gar' in front of hotan in Matt24:32. The ms is called '700', and is 11th century, Aland Category III. It's the only witness, but that was also true for tois ethnesin in Jude, so I wouldn't rule it out. Although in the same speech Christ uses hos.gar, to put both here doesn't make sense; yet gar alone still makes sense as post-positive to hotan. One of the variants lists it, but only in one 9th century ms named 'theta'.
Several manuscripts add estin but the question is which place, before or after theros.
THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING by 3 years. Would be hard to prove, tho.
Would only change THAT verse. the 1110 becomes 1113 as it keeps on wanting to be, and of course 1082 becomes 1085, matching Luke 21.
So where to subtract 3 syllables after? Dunno yet. Can treat Noah as one syll each, and then in verse 43c, can cut a syllable from either εἴασεν OR διορυχθῆναι, probably the latter.
Post subject: Matt24:27-31 800's et seq AD
PostPosted: 14 Dec 2016, 16:05
Okay, there's so much evidence of the meaning of each clause in Matt24-25 that I'm just gonna make single entries for relevant clauses and their backup data, as I find them. The backup data will largely be from Wiki, only cuz they usually have a bibliography at the bottom. Do your own research.
Here, we're looking at the pivotal period of Charlesmagne and his kiddies,
Matt 24:27, the first instance of the parousia anaphora, which I'm trying to track.
Matt24:27 UBS wrote:
27 ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἐξέρχεται ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ φαίνεται ἕως δυσμῶν, 24 817
οὕτως ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· 16 833
The numbers after the phrases are syllable counts, still using http://www.brainout.net/Matt24-25ParsedR5.pdf . That's the latest revision. More revision is needed, but I'll not do it until I'm sure what else extra anaphora do.
What's significant here:
* Charlesmagne, who had been ruling the Franks since 1768, is as a consequence of helping the Pope defeat the Lombards, crowned 1st Holy Roman Emperor in 800 (-30, to get same year in the meter). He dies 14 years later.
*Louis the German, an heir, conquers Moravia in 846 (816 in the meter), and as a consequence orders their Christianisation. The guy he puts in to do that, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastislav_of_Moravia . I can't find the ref which said the Christianization started in 847 (817 in the meter), right now. But you can see from that link that by 863 (833 in the meter), our boy Rots got Cyril and Methodius there; THEY TRANSLATED BIBLE into a new alphabet they created so the Moravians could read it.
* THIS WOULD GIVE BIRTH TO THE EVANGELIZATION OF THE SLAVS, and eventually the Rus adoption of Christianity. So it's a big deal, and fundamental to tracing what happened to Byzantium after it effectively died.
Of immediate importance besides the Bible going out, was the fact that Rots would later rebel against Louis the German amidst a theological controversy known as the Photian schism (link below). Thus the takeover of Moravia would become the instrument whereby the final split called the Great Schism in 1054, satirized in Matt24:31b as collecting the elect.. would occur.
So look: by this point the Latins didn't know Greek and the Greeks didn't know Latin, and they hated each other. But those POSITIVE TO BIBLE would need the Greek and even Hebrew mss (tho Charlesmagne and his kiddies fostered learning them all, briefly), so this conflict would have people changing sides. So those defecting to the Latin side would bring their Greek texts, and vice versa. So the TEXTS end up being COLLECTED, get the pun in v.31, which has three clauses (ending 1034, 1055, 1066 AD respectively)?
For the theme of these Matt chaps is Christ tracing the 'salt' future rise and fall of Bible interest, distribution, freedom. Here, 'parousia' (Appearing) is metaphor, since BIBLE is appearing to people who never saw it before.
I don't yet know how parousia anaphora relate to amen legw humin clauses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photian_schism
https://books.google.com/books?id=sSIQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3 (free download, on history of France starting w Carolingians)
Post subject: Use of Kurios as anaphora keyword in Matt24-25
As for the kurios keyword reference (Christ uses specialized names for Himself in paragraphs), which run from Matt24:42-50, all these refs appear to be of BIBLE TRANSLATIONS undertaken by reformers,
thread list: https://twitter.com/Clay_Odem/status/808860924211818496
Bible editions: https://books.google.com/books?id=G6ItAAAAMAAJ (free download)
http://clausenbooks.com/bible1700.htm
The Matt25 kurios refs are POVs, with numphios maybe replacing THE Lord in Matt24. Not sure, needs more testing. Obviously can have significance of one falsely calling Lord someone NOT 'the' Lord.
Refs are in Matt25:11, 18-20, 22-24, 37, 44. The last two have JSC and GWTJ language.
IF each kurios ref means Bible disseminated via translation or mss, then there seems to be a massive upgrade coming after our generation, given the above refs. Implication is that nations outside the US and Europe, who are the centers for the mss, will then become interested in them. I do know that there are many missionary societies today who are busy translating the Bible into the tongues of small isolated groups (search on Tyndale in vimeo for their vids on this).
Post subject: Re: Matt24-25 usage of parousias and ho huios tou anthropou
By contrast, the παρουσίας references, which start in Matt24:3, seem to talk about when folks ENCOUNTER missionaries and convert. So He 'appears' to them via the missionaries, they learn the doctrines enough to convert (even if often for secular reasons or monetary gain).
Really important: this accounts for why the distances between parousia clauses always seven. I didn't notice that when we parsed through revision 5, but I did notice that the sevening was out of place, not at the end of a paragraph as is normal in Bible meter I've found so far. So I thought I miscounted the syllables. But now that I see EVERY parousia clause is a seven-factor distant from the prior and next one, it means the distances are deliberate, no matter whether they end the paragraph textually.. or not.
The other implication is that I didn't think to make parousia follow the YA sound, so it's always counted at four syllables. So then maybe my YA assumptions for sound on similar endings, is wrong. Will have to revisit. For how else can I explain the consistent sevening of parousia clauses I didn't want to see sevened?
Finally, note how clever: Christ's theme throughout is you don't know when He's coming back, and He will SUDDENLY INTERRUPT when He does, and it will be OBVIOUS when He does. So, He uses the imminency of Rapture (and hence 2nd Advent, in that you can't know when Trib STARTS).. to piggyback on the sudden appearance of MISSIONARIES and BIBLE TEACHERS and BIBLE to a person/people. So that's why the parousia clauses don't come neatly at the end of a paragraph, yet seven.
So if we've erred in counting syllables, the error is dual: one word is over counted and another, under counted. BETWEEN the sevens. Handy way to know how to audit the text and fix our elision assumptions!
That first Matt24:3 ref is by the apostles to Christ, so that's your big clue that parousia will be analogized to Word Represented. Next time the term shows up is in Matt24:27, followed by 37, 39.
Closely related and embedded, tho, is the expression ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. which is in the above verses and Matt24:30, 44. I don't know how to interpret its embedding.
What I do know, is that Matt24:27-30 are periods of intense Viking migration and conversion, including the first time (847ff) that Bible is translated into a new alphabet for Moravia. This led to the Christianisation of the Rus, who are also a Viking related people as well as the seemingly-already-established, Slavs.
Matt24:27 covers 823 (subtract 30 for the meter benchmark) through 863; with 847, being when Louis the German conquered Moravia and then Cyril et Methodius created the alphabet for translating Vulgate into Moravian.
Luke 21:27 maps to Matt24:26 at 780, using ho huios tou anthropou starting at Luke's syll 756 (which is divisible by 7, lol). Luke will use the phrase again in his last verse, 36, ending at 1085, which of course also sevens back to the phrase at both ends of his verse 27. Cute: 1085-7=1078, the syll count including ellipses, in Isaiah 53. So now I really suspect Matt24:32 should end at 1085, not 1082 unless Luke is adjusting for Varro's error.
Not only that, but he creates a biting commentary on how the believers were NOT listening to Christ. Cuz, the Daniel 7:13 meaning is not only savior, but Judge...
Match the syllables to each other as you read.
Matt24:26 sylls 751-780
ἰδοὺ προείρηκα ὑμῖν. 8 758
26 ἐὰν οὖν εἴπωσιν ὑμῖν· 8 766
ἰδοὺ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ἐστίν, μὴ ἐξέλθητε 14 780
Luke 21:27 sylls 751-780
[kai] τότε ὄψονται τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον ἐν νεφέλῃ μετὰ δυνάμεως καὶ δόξης πολλῆς. 31 780
Which is a concatenation of what Christ says in Matt 24:30. QUOTING MATT. So bookends EARLIER to 24:26.
That's not all. Matt24:32, sylls 1072-1082 read
γινώσκετε ὅτι ἐγγὺς τὸ θέρος
Luke 1:36, end, same sylls+3, read
καὶ σταθῆναι ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου.
Cute, huh.
Matt24:30 covers 945 to 1015, when most of the stuff I've read on Viking conversions, occurs. This is the period of Erik the Red; 988 is called 'the baptism of the Rus'. This is deemed start of Kievian Rus as a polity, tho its people started converting in the Matt24:27 period as a result of the Bible being in a language they could read. It is also a period of extensive monastic reform that had significant teaching and economic impact wherever it expanded.
What's distinctive of this period is the independence from the Church. Given the new monastic separation (beholding only to the Pope, which meant autonomous), it's easy to see how that independent style would attract plunder, yet also endear the Vikings, whose political culture was much more familial so independent so federal, therefore the idea of some all-ruling pope never caught on. How ironic.
Then again, if you wanted Bible but didn't like the Papist trappings, retreat to a monastery was THE ONLY way to get what you wanted.
But the later ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου refs don't seem to focus on them, but back to Europe?
Matt24:37 spans 1229-1255, a period of those little Paris/Italy Bibles being so popularly used by the many itinerant friars of the Dominicans and Franciscans of the period, as noted in DeHamel's book. People were well enough acquainted with Bible to misread Daniel 12 on the 1260, so they were expecting the world to end in that YEAR.
One big reason they WERE acquainted, was the sack of Constantinople in 1204; its massive library was sacked and taken back to Rome, who with Paris had long exchanged Bible mss between their universities. So the mss the East had, came to the West, who ransacked the Greeks passim ever since the Great Schism of 1054.
With the Mongol hordes still invading Russia and Eastern Europe (finally stopped at Warsaw I think, in 1294), and with the last Crusades going on (which stopped in the Middle East in 1291), it's easy to see how they would misinterpret Daniel 12. But the point is, they were familiar enough with the Bible TO misread it. As DeHamel records, they lost interest in Bible when the expected 2nd coming (clever, given how 37b reads) .. didn't happen. So they didn't want Christ His Word, but a thrill. Picture Bibles were also developed during that time, to help speed comprehension, and fell out of vogue after 1260 (ibid).
Next, is Matt24:39, which spans from 1305-1339, and is a warning. 1315-1317 was the Great Famine period, which (see wry context of the verse re Noah) was caused by TOO MUCH RAIN. The harvests wouldn't dry, so no fodder for animals nor food for man. It would keep on repeating in short bursts from this time onward. The Medieval Warm Period was ending also, meaning it was now too cold for crops to grow well, too. Leviticus 26, Deut28 warnings, then. For folks HAD those small Bibles, KNEW enough of what was in them to MISREAD Daniel 12.. and didn't grow spiritually. They had from 1170 when those Bibles first started coming out of Paris and going to the intinerant monks, so that's 4 generations...
Matt24:44 could be broken up into clauses, but I didn't. Spans 1463-1495. It's a closing lesson: for this reason you should LEARN, make ready: as you can't calculate the hour, when the Son of Man comes.
So did they? No. They turned the crusades inward from 1291 onward, picking rich pockets of Jews or others by calling them heretics. The Popes offered indulgences now for anyone who went after someone deemed a heretic, INSIDE one's country, or in a neighbor's. But by this time we had Gutenberg's method of printing, which rapidly became popular for all books; prior, we had the Italian Renaissance which began when Hus was just learning about Wycliffe, thus famous, his translations out and hoarded, as were Wycliffe's; there were a few other translations. The mss had come out a bit owing to the folks fleeing from the Middle East from the Crusades, especially in 1204 when the Latin Crusaders sacked Constantinople. So 'making ready' was thus done by some, and the idea of rejecting the RCC was widespread by many.
Meanwhile, Constantinople had been definitively ended as a 'Christian' location, its Byzantine Empire by then shrunk to a few small spaces; now, since 1453 (same year as Gutenberg started his first printing but not yet published), the erstwhile New Rome (name Constantine gave it).. was finally under the Ottomans. So only the WEST remained, as a major place you could find Bible.
But the West, was in various stages of war, both civil and international. 1469 saw the renewal of who's-the-rightful-king-of-France, so the Hundred Years' war which allegedly started in 1337, didn't end 100 years later. You had rival popes, which started in the West really a bit before the official 1378 'Great (or 'Western') Schism', between Avignon and Rome. You had civil wars within the countries owing to these greater competitions, with groups of people picking one side or the other. Of course, the Black Death would resurface again and again in smaller sections, notably leaving OUT, most of Poland, Milan, Pyrenees.
But you also had renewed interest in the Hebrew, Greek, and translations. Lorenzo Valla of Italy, shortly before he died, compiled Greek mss he called Collatio Novo Testamenti, in it seems 1442, which Erasmus would later use. The Jews were expelled from England in 1290, so went to the continent where they had successive expulsions from France (of course, Henry called himself King of Normandy even then), in 1305 and following. So the Jews went to Spain and Portugal, who finally threw off the Arab yoke and shortly thereafter expelled the Jews too. But meanwhile, the Jews brought their OT in Hebrew with them, and so the West had access. After each expulsion, the area expelling plunged into internal 'crusades', civil war, and declined economically. The Jews finally found a more permanent home in Poland and Milan, just in time for the Black Death. So one could vote with his feet to find Bible.
Missionary activity went seaward during this time. Gold and God, in that order. So in that sense, the prior meanings we saw for the Vikings of ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, but this time in Matt24:44.. now continue with the mostly Spanish and Portuguese, sailing outward.
So are you surprised that v.44's ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ends at syll 1462 aka 1492 AD? In 1492, Columbo sailed the ocean blue.. maybe with a newly-minted copy of the Hebrew text, just then being published in Lisbon and Italy.
Oh: and the syll distance between the NEXT syll and the syll just BEFORE the ho kurios in Matt24:45 is (drum roll please).. 21! Divisible by seven! And of course THAT ho kurios is.. the Reformation.
So now we see two key facts relative to historical prosperity/adversity:
1. If you want Bible, you want to favor the Jews, if only for the selfish reason they have at least initially, more knowledge of the Hebrew.
2. If you want Bible, you want to learn to read. In fact, most folks even through the 20th century learned how to read, from learning Bible (i.e., even in the Dust Bowl they learned to read from KJV and from Sears Catalogue).
So notice: if you want Bible, you find someone who has one and can read it, and essentially contract with them formally or informally, to learn to read it yourself. That makes you a better worker, as you're motivated; that makes you a more valuable employee especially once you learn to read; so you get promoted. God promotes what you're attached to, so you can get the Word (seek ye first the Kingdom of God), so what you're attached to, is prospered even if they are not as interested.
Multiply that over a whole region, and it's easy to plot how increase in Bible interest resulted in more monks, missionaries, Bibles and better treatment of the Jews, hence agriculture and other economic and political increasing prosperity; how when the Jews are expelled, there is a contravening (tho maybe not universal) hostility to Bible.
Just as Lev26, Deut 28 say. In the patterns we know from history, which so far, Christ wryly annotates by year.
The Son of Man title used, has often been mistaken to mean only 'prophet'. It should be translated son of ADAM, cuz in Dan7:13 the Hebrew is different, son of man (Aramaic bar enosh, generic nature).
Son of Adam term is literal, but comes to mean 'prophet', as the prophets were all fallen like Adam was. First obvious use of it this way, is in Ezekiel 2:1, though prior uses of Ben Adam are many. It's the exclusive title used for Ezekiel throughout his book. Noteworthy is Eze40:4, where Christ in theophany is called ISH in the Hebrew. But not Adam. And of course, Eze40 is about the Millennial Temple, and Christ WILL BE AGAIN manifest as MAN then.
Interestingly enough, the last Son of Adam usage is in Daniel 8:17, with God addressing Daniel as Son of Adam. Same vocative style as used for Ezekiel, who was his younger contemporary.
So we can infer it means someONE discoursing on the Word of God.
Christ always inserts articles, ho huios tou anthropou. Two-article usage is a title, not merely monadic, same as for official calendar dates in the OT (same in Luke 1:26 versus :36). THE Son of MAN (not Adam, but the Last Adam). Really clear in the Greek versus OT, dunno why there is so much confusion.
Really boring videos demonstrating all this live in Bible, start here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQIhhtUFbk&index=31&list=PLDA3CF01F9BA03EB9
So now, back to Matt24-25 and the anaphora. Notice the interplay between amen legw humin, kurios, parousia, ho huios tou anthropou (which in Dan7:13 LXX omits the articles, just as other LXX refs do). They are meant as anaphora in some kind of causal sequence. I don't yet know how to describe it. What I do know, is that this sequence is in descending order of intensity, and is thesauretical. Notice also that numphios in Matt25, is used as a synonym for kurios, but obviously the relationship is restricted to BELIEVERS (parthenoi).
So Christ EQUATES yet RANKS His 'appearance' or 'coming' to people with the coming of His Word in the mouths of sons of men who expiate, explain, translate and transcribe it.
We'll see the most interesting interrelationships between these anaphora (term is neuter in Greek), from now on, as now we enter THE REFORMATION.
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Luke 21 inset paragraph which uses ho huios tou anthropou
I'm not sure how to read the text as it might relate to the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, which impacted the development of the Balkans and Russia. Portal link is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Byzantine_Empire
Text seems to favor concentration on the West, not the East, and traces the parousia of Word to the West from the East. So far, none of the Eastern dates seem benchmarked by the text?
Post subject: Kurios distances are SEVENED. Same kurios-numphios
Okay, now I'm officially creeped out. The DISTANCE from one kurios to the next, is divisible by seven. Sometimes you start the count at the beginning (including the article) and sometimes at the end, through the NEXT full occurrence, and sometimes between them.
ALSO, the count from the last kurios to the next numphios (exclusive to Matt25) is also divisible by seven, viz the last ὁ κύριος in Matt24 is at verse 50, and it runs from syll 1610-1612. Add 30 to get AD, and it's 1640 (end of the historical voting period after Christ's death 1050+490+70) and the end of the English Reformation, per historians. So then 1640-42.
First τοῦ νυμφίου ref is in Matt25:1 and ends the verse at syll 1719.
1717-1612=105, here counting BOTH FIRST SYLLABLES of each term.
Please kill me now.
ὁ κύριος in Matt24 is at verse 42, sylls 1373-1375. Stands for Wycliffe&JanHus when you add 30 to convert to our AD.
Matt24:45, sylls 1485-1487. So 1487-1375=112, 16 sevens. Stands for Zwingli, Erasmus, Luther from 1515-1517. And also, for their 'houses' of Bible translations, at least in English, based largely on what these three did ('houses' phrase is wry, huh): https://bible.org/seriespage/1-wycliffe ... -challenge
Matt24:46, sylls 1520-22. So 1522-1487=35. Stands for 1550-1552, John Knox after he got out of prison and went to England teaching, at least; could stand for Calvin, as during those years Calvin faced Geneva opposition while teaching. During these years, both were foreigners with new teaching positions, arguing for ONLY BIBLE. This is when Stephanus mss and the Geneva Bible come out, too.
Matt24:48, sylls 1581-83. Here it changes: 1583-1520 (so now includes BOTH instances), is 63. Period AD is 1611-1613. Easy to see why: 1611 was the KJV made official English translation, and it was revised each year thereafter. If you count the oddly proleptic ἐλθὼν for HIS COMING prior, then you go back to 1609 when Douhay-Rheims done (see above link).
So v.50, noted above, from syll 1610-1612, stands for 1640-1642. Its distance is more sophisticated. Historically, the 1611 KJV was developed directly from Erasmus. But Erasmus, got some of his Greek text from what Zwingli had. So now notice: 1611-28=1583, which are syllable counts, not AD years.
Or, you can count from 1610 syll back 28 and get 1582, counting the whole year before the prior ho kurios starts. Other Bibles were then printed, here's a free download of the editions, https://books.google.com/books?id=fZAIA ... 2&lpg=PA62
The 'Royal' listings are KJV Bibles, as that was the printing company authorized to print ('authorized' had to do with the publisher getting the license, and the KJV is still copyrighted to this day; publishers get around it by adding stuff to the Bible and thus publishing the same text with additions as a 'new edition').
As each print run was limited, the annual printings of the KJV were updated each time to fix prior errors. So there is nothing special about 1611 except it was the first print run.
But there was something special about the Bible publishing in 1640: it was really only part of a Bible, but was the first published in America, the Bay Psalm book.. and it was METERED. Toward the bottom of that Wiki page there's an example of Psalm 88 being metered. So, I checked versus the Hebrew we have. They didn't meter the title (Bible always does, but maybe they didn't know that).. but the Hebrew syllables in verses 1 and 2 AFTER the title, match the ENGLISH syllable counts.
A longer sample of it is in the Appendix of this book recording the initial 1640 edition, here (free download): https://books.google.com/books?id=fZAIA ... &lpg=PA177
The longer sample is hard to search for; it's on page 371 of the book, called the 'New England' edition rather than 'Bay Psalm', and begins at left-counter '28' on that page, https://books.google.com/books?id=fZAIA ... &lpg=PA371
So now compare to the Hebrew. It's clear they are counting what they think are the HEBREW SYLLABLES and then making English to FIT their counts.
Someone please kill me. I've been looking for a smoking gun like this since 2004.
Cuz 364 years after 1640, I first realized Isaiah 53 is metered, and started trying to figure out what words might be missing from the Great Isaiah scroll. You can see me do that in http://www.brainout.net/Isa53.htm . I had first learned the 1050s not by meter, but by the begats. My pastor suspected the 490 was a recurring thing, in his last two classes on Daniel, but I didn't hear them until 2008 or so, when I'd already done the Isaiah meter, which is in Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 4356BE4BDC ) and vimeo (final version, https://vimeo.com/channels/isaiah53 )
But that's not the first time METER was employed! If you search on 'metre', 'meeter' (Dutch spelling) and 'meter' you'll find earlier metered sections, mostly on Psalms, but guess what? JOHN KNOX metered Deut 32, Song of Moses! I can't find a pic of it, but found the listing here, Catalogue listing 738: https://books.google.com/books?id=QIdMA ... &lpg=PA143
It was printed in 1615, but Knox was long dead by then, so I don't know when he wrote it.
Or maybe the syll counts are wrong between verses 48 and 50? Or there's a shift in fiscal, or we're looking ad mid-years (so .5 on one side or the other but you can't use half a syllable so the total is one off a sevening)?
It is true that the historic importance of the KJV to newly-forming American colonies was vast. Ironic too, that if this is an intentional 28, that the KJV-onlyists YES have a prediction of their Bible.. but not in ENGLISH, lol. A prophecy they couldn't read, unless reading the inspired Greek which is CLEARLY preserved, for the syllable counts.. SEVEN.
If you look at that whole paragraph from verse 42 on, it's so wry a commentary on 1386-1703 AD, you lose breath.
Wow, you just made my Christmas. I don't know if there are variances in the Hebrew of Psalm 1, but in Psa 1:1a, I get 14 syl, and Psa 1:1b-2a I get 28 syl.
[ אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי־הָאִ֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר ׀ לֹ֥א הָלַךְ֮ בַּעֲצַ֪ת רְשָׁ֫עִ֥ים =14 ]
[ וּבְדֶ֣רֶךְ חַ֭טָּאִים לֹ֥א עָמָ֑ד וּבְמֹושַׁ֥ב לֵ֝צִ֗ים לֹ֣א יָשָֽׁב כִּ֤י אִ֥ם בְּתֹורַ֥ת יְהוָ֗ה חֶ֫פְצֹ֥ו=28]
Then I get a 49 in Psa 1:2b-3, so a sum total of 91 (seasonal pun).
[ וּֽבְתֹורָתֹ֥ו יֶהְגֶּ֗ה יֹומָ֥ם וָלָֽיְלָה׃ = 12 ]
(12 hour days/nights)
[ וְֽהָיָ֗ה כְּעֵץ֮ שָׁת֪וּל עַֽל־פַּלְגֵ֫י מָ֥יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר פִּרְיֹ֨ו ׀ יִתֵּ֬ן בְּעִתֹּ֗ו = 21]
(12+21=33 Christ baring fruit in season)
[ וְעָלֵ֥הוּ לֹֽא־יִבֹּ֑ול וְכֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה יַצְלִֽיחַ׃=16]
14+28+(12+21)+16=91
Okay, so the datelines are 14 AND 28. Doesn't matter the meter doesn't suit our verse names. Sum is 42. Have to think over what that means. For sure Psalm 1 isn't the earliest Psalm (which we know, cuz Psalm 90 is by Moses).
How about this idea,
I'm 42 when I write, was anointed king by Samuel 28 years ago when I was 14, have been king 12 years; 14 years from now, I will have 21 years left to live.
Not sure what the 16 references. It's not sevened, but may have to do with his offspring.
So now let's all kill ourselves. Look at the Last Words of David, 2Sam23:1-3, count the syllables there.
Happens that, at our first numphios which spans 1748-49, two metrical translations were made, one of Job and another of those same last words, the latter being 1749 and available for sale at Amazon, here: https://www.amazon.com/divided-accordin ... 1170259006
Listings of those dates are here: https://books.google.com/books?id=fZAIA ... 2&lpg=PA92
Here's a more-easily-searched and downloadable version, https://archive.org/stream/cu3192402961 ... 0_djvu.txt
So I made an 8-part subseries showing this book and the arrogant reason why the 'scholars' did NOT pay close attention to the wider purpose of the meter,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wGRQv4tP9I&list=PL1bv_xPIih3fs-vKfMgiVbt4fmi3Xs3Yf&index=61
Kill me now. Lemme know what syllable count you get in 2Sam23:1-3, cuz it's our smoking gun, been looking for this kind of thing since 2004-2005 when I learned David died at age 77 from 1Kings 6:1.
K. Here is 2 Sam 23:1-7. The meter didn't break evenly at verse 3, so I just did all 7 verses. I think I got all the elisions marked, but double count behind me and let me know if its off. Also, let me know if you think it should be elided differently.
20 וְאֵ֛לֶּה דִּבְרֵ֥י דָוִ֖ד הָאַֽחֲרֹנִ֑ים נְאֻ֧ם דָּוִ֣ד בֶּן־יִשַׁ֗י
27 וּנְאֻ֤ם הַגֶּ֙בֶר֙ הֻ֣קַם עָ֔ל מְשִׁ֙יחַ֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב וּנְעִ֖ים זְמִרֹ֥ות יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
15 ר֥וּחַ יְהוָ֖ה דִּבֶּר־בִּ֑י וּמִלָּתֹ֖ו עַל־לְשֹׁונִֽי׃
15 אָמַר֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִ֥י דִבֶּ֖ר צ֣וּר יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל
Paragraph Total: 77
14 מֹושֵׁל֙ בָּאָדָ֔ם צַדִּ֕יק מֹושֵׁ֖ל יִרְאַ֥ת אֱלֹהִֽים׃
13 וּכְאֹ֥ור בֹּ֖קֶר יִזְרַח־שָׁ֑מֶשׁ בֹּ֚קֶר לֹ֣א עָבֹ֔ות
11 מִנֹּ֥גַהּ מִמָּטָ֖ר דֶּ֥שֶׁא מֵאָֽרֶץ׃
7 כִּֽי־לֹא־כֵ֥ן בֵּיתִ֖י עִם־אֵ֑ל
16 כִּי֩ בְרִ֨ית עֹולָ֜ם שָׂ֣ם לִ֗י עֲרוּכָ֤ה בַכֹּל֙ וּשְׁמֻרָ֔ה
13 כִּֽי־כָל־יִשְׁעִ֥י וְכָל־חֵ֖פֶץ כִּֽי־לֹ֥א יַצְמִֽיחַ׃
12 וּבְלִיַּ֕עַל כְּקֹ֥וץ מֻנָ֖ד כֻּלָּ֑הַם
7 כִּֽי־לֹ֥א בְיָ֖ד יִקָּֽחוּ׃
15 וְאִישׁ֙ יִגַּ֣ע בָּהֶ֔ם יִמָּלֵ֥א בַרְזֶ֖ל וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִ֑ית
11 וּבָאֵ֕שׁ שָׂרֹ֥וף יִשָּׂרְפ֖וּ בַּשָּֽׁבֶת׃ פ
Paragraph Total: 105
Sum Total=196
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Okay, well I got the 91 by the end of verse 3, in part cuz I counted neum as two syllables. Got 77, the first time it sevened, in the middle of v.3, by the end of אָמַר֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִ֥י דִבֶּ֖ר צ֣וּר יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל
Ok, I got the 77 if I treat ne'um as two syllables and une'um as three, but remember, that Zephaniah seems to treat ne'um as one syllable.
And, we have to treat דִּבְרֵ֥י in verse 1 as diverei instead of divrei, in order to reach 77.
I'll have to see how the rest of the meter works before I can know for sure.
clause 1= 20
Total=77
I went back and change the meter post on 2 Sam. I got 77+14+105 now, though I don't know its really correct. Before, I had the 91 ending at verse 5 (making salvation and desire grow). It seems like a seasonal thing, like bearing fruit. I'll have to think it over.
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Okay, well if you can get 77 some other way (maybe other words have a +1 so you can still say divrei), lemme know. It has to be deliberate, and it has to be by clause.
I still suspect the 42 occurs, just not sure where. Cuz Isaiah 53 breaks 52:13-14 as 42, then 35. So maybe either it's also in Psalm 1 or 2Sam23, the meter would have to be in Isaiah, something the reader would already know. For Matthew 1 uses the 42, and Luke 3 uses the 77.
I'm so excited I can't see straight. Been looking for proof in the meter BY David for a long time.
So what do you think is the doctrinal significance of having a 91 one at the end of verse 3, over ending in verse 5? I just need to reconcile that before I can be comfortable with either version. Cuz I really had a problem with some of my old elisions too, so I am split right down the middle.
Look at the text of verse 3, for your answer. Really pretty clever. If not clear, then I'll elaborate, but I bet you'll have a bigger enjoyment if I ask you go ask God and guess...
HINT: compare the text of Psalm 1 to the same 91 here.
Yeah, I see it now. A righteous ruler is as a fruit bearing tree, firmly planted by the stream of God's word. Its about the work that God does through us.
BINGO. Notice how 2Sam23:3 'answers' Psalm 1:1-3.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, huh!
PS it's not a problem that Zephaniah, written some 500+ years after David, would smoosh syllables. So in David's day maybe two syllables ne-um, but by Zeph's, a dipthong of one syllable. Just as Deut 6:4 should be pronounced SHE-MAAH, but modern Jews say SHMAAH.
Post subject: Re: Yep, Eph1:1-2 is metered!
You did it again, Anonynomenon: yep, I see the Eph1:1-2 meter now. Verse 1, 33, same as Christ's age at death; verse 2 (standard formula which Peter and Jude use, lyrical), 23 syllables, the number of years' elapse after Christ died. So maybe this is the earliest use of non-sevening for dateline meter, rather than how John (who also uses it that way). So Paul's writing in 59 AD by our timing, since we use Varro's ab urbe condita which has net 3 too many years in it (really four, but Christ is born at the end of one of them, hence we are all stuck with saying end 4 BC).
My hangup was the insertion of the en+Place, but grammatically it's not needed. Isaiah 57:19 LXX uses the same ousin kai structure, somewhat poetic. The mss leave en Ephesw out or include it IN THE MARGIN (i.e., Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, Bibleworks has indexed those mss).. which wrecks the meter if you include it in the text. But the mss don't include it in the text. AHA.
Hi, I Paul write after Christ Died at age 33, which was 23 years after Judaea became a Roman province, which is 109 years after Crassus sacked the Temple, though due to Varro's error we have to say 112 if measuring from ab urbe condita; which error also reflects the fact Christ shoulda been 56 when I write, had He been born per the original Abrahamic schedule of 2000 years after Jacob, in 4106 after Adam's fall.
Whereupon, in v.3, Paul neatly starts with Christ's birth and then his second dateline is 112 really (but the new 56 is in its own new subsevened package of 434, playing on Daniel's 62nd week BECAUSE He died at 33, and BECAUSE He was really born 4103). So Paul just minuses 3 like we do, to start the AD clean. THAT is why it tracks so perfectly to the Roman history (then future) which we HAVE.
Added bonus: Daniel 9 left out 56 from his ending meter, using only 742 sylls (think 5x1050 minus 56, cuz there are 750 sevens in 5250). Cuz he's praying for the finish of history, knowing that all but the 56 (which is post-Messiah) can be reimbursed based on past time, just as Moses wrote in Psalm 90:16-17 (which is 56 syllables rather than 70), and just as Isaiah calc'd (using 42 not 56, as the 14 was already past Israel's deadline pre-Messiah).
PS this is why I call 56 'Vote Critical', whereas if 63 and time's up, it's Vote Short.
So what about that 91? Well, now it stands for the remaining 7 to Mill, cuz under the old AND new Schedules, Christ was supposed to be 91 when it would start. But it starts 3 years EARLIER due to Him having to be born 3 years earlier, and that in order to align with the 1st Temple starting late, 1Kings 6:1. Its own next 490 ends 30 AD, so if He's not accepted by Israel by then, He'll have to die (and will).
Golly, I've been looking for this smoking-gun proof since 2010. And all along YOU gave it, but again I was stubborn, and wouldn't LISTEN. Mea maxima culpa!
Crow sure tastes good!
I need an ambulance to restart my heart, it's overpowered with happy shock.
That answer on the 91 still isn't good enough. Still piecing more stuff together.
For example, now we see Paul's theme is quite wry:
starts with Crassus, a Roman general who will later be sacked, sacking the Jerusalem tample.
Paul's endpoint is 434 AD when a sacked Roman general extracts sack money from BOTH Western and Eastern Rome as ransom for not sacking them (Aetius, see here, here, and here).
Christ's start point was when Egypt was defeated by a general, too. 30 BC, she became a province of Rome. Of course at the end of Matt25 He is the Conqueror.
Cute. Any Roman would have gotten that immediately of course. They knew their history like we know the latest sitcoms, TV series, sports or pop songs.
Post subject: Re: How Luke 21 SEVENS to Matt24 keywords, sample
PostPosted: 06 Jan 2017, 01:58
Still working on the 91, and will now hypothesize that Paul's getting it from Luke (thread here ), not Matt24. Why? Clever addition of 28+63 in Luke's two datelines equals 91, which is a play on the content of the chapter, the upcoming Tribulation.
Season of Church due to Trib not yet. Christ was supposed to be 91 when Trib began, had there been no Church. So it's the season of Church, not the Season of the Last Seven Daniel 9:27 years.
Another significance to 91 I didn't spot before: Chanukah is always the 85th day after autumnal equinox. 25 Chislev is the 85th day at sundown on the 84th day, which is the day forecast in Haggai 2 to Zerubbabel. So now if we counted 8 days from the 24th, we get the 92nd day, but it's piggybacked on the 91st day at sundown.
Luke's playing a very particular game with his syllable counts versus Matt24, and ends up sevening more, but I'm still not sure WHAT game. So a) Luke KNOWS Matt24 sevens at each anaphora and keyword occurrence, and b) does the same (but less often), ON the Matt24 syllable counts, RELATIVE TO HIS OWN syllable counts.
Still trying to figure out Luke's handle, but look:
Matt24:4, ending at syll 169, βλέπετε μή τις ὑμᾶς πλανήσῃ·
Luke moves it up to end at syll 112, Luke 21:8, βλέπετε μὴ πλανηθῆτε
Here's a wiki partial list of claimants, but it's slapdash, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants
199 AD: Septimus Severus is in power, and the chiliasts were expecting the Millennium to begin, falsely counting from ab urbe condita (753+199), which caused problems in Rome and fostered a bit of backlash against Christians. Also then was the rise of the claim that 'bishops' were vicars of Christ, and by 217 Demetrius of Alexandria for the first time 'helps' Julius Africanus claim Peter is on a bishop's list for Rome, in part to make Origen look less important (who will then (217) be courting the Severan mothers to get them to convert to Christianity).
Raw end-to-end distance is 57, ring a bell? However, if you count from the first syll in Matt you get 160-56=104, the last syll before Luke's 'requote' begins.
At 112, the focus is Bar Kochba aftermath. Depending on who you read, the rebellion was quelled in 135 AD, 7 years prior; with Jews thereafter being forbidden to enter the city; it's renamed Aeolia Capitolina, but it's not then finished in reconstruction. Judaea becomes Syria Palestina the following year, first time the name is used.
So what's the tie? Seems like the end of the world; plague (189), burning (190), Commodus going nuts so then assassinated (192) so civil war (Year of the Five Emperors, ending with Septimus Severus). The other tie? This is the heyday of that vile anti-semite, Tertullian, who couldn't read the Bible if it bit him, https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.iv.ix.xiii.html
False christ, him. Why anyone praises him I'll never fathom. The guy was a total spiritual retard.
Matt24:32, Ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς συκῆς, sylls 1037-42.
Luke 21:20, Καὶ εἶπεν παραβολὴν αὐτοῖς· ἴδετε τὴν συκῆν, sylls 821-34.
Note the τῆς συκῆς in Matt ends 1042. Note it begins in Luke, at 832. Distance? 210!
Now, the event Luke flags with the term is the same as the ending parousia clause in Matt 24:27, παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· which we know is an anaphora in Matt which Luke omits. But the end of the clause in Matt is 833, sevened. So Luke's use of τὴν συκῆν EXACTLY MEETS IT IN THE MIDDLE (so one syll on either side).
Import? Well, the Matt use of fig tree exactly coincides with the takeover of Jerusalem in 1071-73 as part of the Arabs warring with Byzantium.
But 210 years prior, 863, when Luke's in the middle of his use of fig tree, thus corresponding to Matt 24:27's 833: three years after Russia raided Byzantium (860), she converts; in the very year the Moravian alphabet was invented to evangelize the Moravians, as ordered by Louis the German. Bulgaria converts, the next year.
See the tie? Arabs and Normans were then invading Byzantium too. But 210 years later, Russia would be helping. for the 1071-73 invasion was the proximate cause of the Crusades.
No doubt that earlier raid in 860 brought with it Greek mss; so now when Russia converts, she has both translation and original script, for comparison, replete with the two guys who can read both (Cyril and Methodius).
I'm still not coming up with anything definitive on 91 in Paul. Closest thing is a hypothesis that there are two basic time meter types:
A. Accounting, no 'theme' in the meter, except its totals based on 490, 1050, etc. Examples are Gen1, Daniel 9, Magnificat, Matt24-25, Luke 21.
B. Balancing the accounting to the Plan of God. These have themes and are symmetrical around them: Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, Eph1.
The 'A' writers tag the 'B' material. Moses tags Ps90 in Gen1, Daniel 9 tags Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53, Mary tagged them also along with Daniel, esp. Daniel 9:24-27.
So does Luke tag Paul? Not sure. Seems more the other way around, which goes against the hypothesis here. Paul definitely tags Matt24-25, so does Luke. Paul definitely tags Ps90, Isa53, even Dan9, also indirectly the Magnificat, but I can't see how he's tagging Luke directly.
Stumped.
Ok, so lets look at Psalm 90 versus Gen 1. Psalm 90 provides the skeletal structure, while Gen 1 puts meat on the bones. Hence, it would make more sense for the skeletal structure (B) to bear the general theme, whereas the organic structure (A) goes into the nuances.
But as you said, that would be the opposite, if Paul tags Matt 24
Well, maybe it's a mix of both. And the other thing: OT timelines are sometimes dual (Ps90, Daniel 9). So what about the NT? In particular, is the Eph1:1-2 '56' a setup for a dual timeline? Luke 21 clearly brackets Matt24 to show different sevening results that are complementary. Is Paul doing that as well? Peter makes a song out of Paul; Jude, from Peter. I dunno about John yet. So what's the significance of those?
Questions, questions.
Im thinking about metering the first 4 seals in Revelation. Maybe it will tie in with Matt 24 since the Four Horsemen are Historical Trend regulators.
Maybe. I keep wondering if John updates the Matt24-25 timeline past 3250AD.
Okay, I think I got the themes now.
Christ plays Talmudic 7000 cuz he dies 4136 (which you round to 4137 to make the new total seven at 7357 by the end of the next 3220). Presumably that includes the Mill, but since it doesn't evenly end, you can't call it a true final literal calendar, just a map of the next 3220 years.
Luke then maps only a pre-post-Church 1050, to show the 1050 CIVILIZATION TREND. It's literal history, which you then use after the 1050 to know how to read the next 2 1050's in Matt. So a 1050 always ends in some kind of crusading, mass migration, etc. Ours ends 2130.
Paul then maps a 490, again same style as Luke, but only for the 490, to show how Church becomes apostate and how that affects the quality of the civilization. So Church apostatizes, life turns bad, then God cleans house during the intervening 70, and the 'Year' starts over again. So again, first literal history, but after that it becomes paradigmal.
So now we have three ways to read the Matt, Luke, Pauline text:
1. Literal for the generation getting it. So those alive 30AD would need all that text to know how to orient during their lifetimes.
2. Literal for the future generation just before Trib starts, for Matthew text. By then, they are supposed to know all the above, to know how to read the literal unfolding of the text for their own, shorter lifespans.
3. Paradigmal, to show historical trends.
So now, to Rev. Looks like Rev 6 reaffirms the trends, so its syllable counts should be interesting. Looks like a 490. Rev17 tags Ephesians 1:9 musterion to show FAKE CHURCH which Paul mapped out year by year, stressing the Constantinian takeover (I bet Rev17 tags Constantine as the trend of Fake Church, which trend will be true in the Trib as well).
The larger theme is the kidnapping of Bible, and how the few run away with it, so others can still get it; enough finally believe so it's freed up, then due to its popularity the faith politicizes, then the kidnapping begins all over again.
So now, here when the Bible even in the original mss is freely available, what kind of kidnapping trend occurs next? And when, cuz it looks like from 2062-2662, Bible is more accepted than ever before, since 1st century.
During the 1st century, there was no hierarchy, and everyone was free to get Scripture. There were occasional expulsions from an area or even from Rome, but Rome's policy was that the provinces had a right to their own religions. So after Christ died, you see a gradual increasing of politicizing Christianity, and when Constantine finally gets into power, it's CHRISTIANITY which becomes the tyrant. For awhile.
Wash rinse repeat. Each new 490's apostasy is more widespread and worse than the one prior, cuz a) Scripture is more available to more people, b) most individuals reach some maxed-out acceptance before spiritual adulthood, so go political or religious (same thing) about one's 'faith'; c) more who do not believe react against those who do more strongly, and since Bible is more available they make more arguments which center more and more on its own validity.
So each 1050 is marked by worldwide crusading of non-believers, not only believers, as this reaction progresses. That's where we are now, with Islam and others who are neither Jews nor Christians. But the Jews and Christians become more proprietary about their faiths rather than Bible too, as we're seeing now.
The English Reformation freed Bible. But now that it's freed, it needs to be disseminated, translated, studied, fought over in study.. but that always leads to politicizing and religifying. On a wider scale. So that accounts for why the US, why every country on the planet has Freedom of Religion in its constitution, why so few countries have official state religions anymore. At the same time, the arguments among the people are sharpening, though not likely will become military engagements anymore, except for what the Islamicists might do.
PostPosted: 03 Feb 2017, 02:14
Wow, what a timesaver! MS Word lets you search on the Greek letters. Dunno if Adobe will, maybe. Thing is, to paint them first then use Find.
Post subject: Re: Version 6 updated with handy anaphora centering links.
Okay, version 6 of the Matt24-25 meter is up, and it's much easier to follow, too. Total is now 3213, which is the lowest the total can be. The more I vet it, the more it makes sense, so when Anonynomenon did it at 3213, he got the right total first.
That total is more right, cuz
3213+30=3243 AD +
4106 (converter to YOW from our BC/AD, original planned Bday for Christ had Temple/David been on time) =
7349 one year SHY of 7350, which is 1050 x 7. Has to be deliberate, right?
Link: http://www.brainout.net/Matt24-25ParsedR6temp.pdf
CHANGES are highlighted in yucky green. I won't upload the doc version yet. Still vetting the dipthongs. It's due to the dipthongs and a few of the variants which I mislisted, that the seven syllables had to be subtracted. I strongly suspect any further changes will be self-cancelling, so if you see a syllable needing to be cut, there's somewhere near by one which is under counted.
But YOU decide.
I was looking online to see if there were more Christian organizations that recognized life at birth, and I found something noteworthy.
In the parable of the Wise vs. the Foolish Virgins, Jesus Christ Himself tells us that fully half of Christendom will not have enough of the Holy Spirit in them [oil in their lamps] to meet the Bridegroom [Christ] when He has been late for the wedding.
I was really just skimming through their page for some more Bible verses to debunk the "pro-life" propaganda, and that really caught my eye, since it ties to the meter and our current political situation.
FANTASTIC. This really helps, thank you!
Post subject: Re: Updated version 6 for 'prophetic center', download link within this post.
Update on the meter. I'm trying to find the prophetic historical-trend 'center', and thought it was simply the English Reformation, since that was the third amen legw humin. But I miscalculated it. There are six occurrences, so the 'middle' is not 3, but 3-4, so there are two on either side.
So Christ via Matthew is saying the nexus of history STARTED with the English Reformation, but that 'center' doesn't END until (gulp).. the end of Matt25:12.
Here's the link for the latest version: http://www.brainout.net/Matt24-25ParsedR6.pdf . Am still working on the doc, so I don't want to upload it yet.
Now you'll find intra-doc links. Click on the 'Notes' link, and you'll see there two center maps of the verses: first one is in anaphora order (in order of first appearance in the text), and the second is in verse order (in order of actual appearance of all references in the text).
I missed a couple in prior versions, so this count is more accurate.
First, you go by anaphora. How many occurrences? If say seven, then the fourth one is center for that anaphora. So those are shaded in the first set of links in the Notes. But then you also count the total number of occurrences and then find the center of it (i.e., the 24th occurrence is center, as the total occurrences including same-verse occurrences, is 47). The link listings make it easy to count.
The goal is to find overlap, a kind of 'nest' which contains ALL the types of anaphora sandwiched within the bookends of one anaphora. Right now, that seems to be the same amen legw humin running from Matt24:47-25:12. But parousia doesn't occur within that 'nest'. All the others, do. So I wonder if that's the real center.
Am still trying to figure it out.
Point is, like Day of the Lord and Greek drama, to find the nexus of the'play' of history, into which all prior is purposed, and out from which all results flow. That's how Revelation is written, that's how Paul did his epainon anaphora (centering on Constantine) in Ephesians, so I bet he got it from Matt.
Mark's doing the same thing, but with only three anaphora, so the centers might be easier to map. But those will be for the Byzantine Empire, not global. Matthew's, is global.
I don't know if Luke uses the anaphora nests. Paul did, so maybe Luke didn't. Have yet to test Luke.
Now, 950 is just after κόψονται πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ. If you add 950+560=1510 which is just after μακάριος.
.....and, 1510+490=2000, terminating with ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν which ends the year 2030 AD.
So we are going to end a hidden 560+483+7 of some kind?
I don't know. Bible does run embedded 70's, 490s, 1050s, not merely the qualifying ones.
Qualifying ones are contiguous, every 490 years (no interrupting 70s) someone must spiritually mature enough to renew the next 490, wash rinse repeat.
Same for the 1050. The begats in Gen5, 7, 11 plot this out, so when you map the years, you see Enoch was born just when the 490 signified by Seth's birth, ran out. Noah's 490 ran out so Abraham had to mature 54 years early (and did).
Even so, Moses in Gen 1 and Psalm 90 makes a point about writing 1050 from the Flood, which isn't a historical or qualifying 1050. Christ died the 980th anniversary of the Temple had it not been razed, and the 1470th anniversary of the original Exodus. So there are other 490 trackings. We know of other 70 trackings from Jeremiah 25 and 29.
So what would your numbers be tracking? Dunno, but it's hard to believe the value is coincidental.
Then again, maybe the time plays back to some Biblical date in the past. Like, 1050 flood, tho I can't find any yet.
I don't know yet, but the 1050 starts with "and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory". That is a bold way to start a new 1050. Then it ends with our Lord's reply to the foolish: ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν. That is dramatic.
Then after the Lord finishes the discipline, its like a type of Millennium with thirds spiritual.
Yeah, could be. I forgot to include the Iesous and Christos references as synonymal with all those kurios and numphios, to find the center. Am doing it with Mark right now, but my brain keeps going out.
The idea is to first sum all the synonymal occurrences, then find its middle. Say there are 11. Then 6 is the middle, so that 5 is on either side. But when the number is even, you have to PAIR to get even on either side. Yeah, so Mark knows that, and did that in Mark 13:21 to make it easy to find. But v.20 has to be paired too, since the sum of the synonyms in Mark for Lord/Christ/son ends up being 8. Clever way to stress the HU.
How that same thing works in Matt, I don't yet know. Maybe you'll find it.
Point is, the meaning of Matt25:12 is much more severe than I'd thought. Sorry!
Here is what I hope is a complete list of synonymal nouns used for our Lord in Matt 24-25. The synonyms are numbered, but I also included other phrases and terms that do not represent Christ. I'm still working on the list, so it might grow a bit more.
1) ὁ Ἰησοῦς 24:1
2) βλέπετε 24:2b
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν 24:2c
3)τὸ σημεῖον 24:3d
4) τῆς σῆς παρουσίας 24:3d
τῷ ὀνόματί μου 24:5a
7) ὁ χριστός 24:5b
8) ὁρᾶτε 24:6
τὸ ὄνομά μου 24:9c
9) ἴδητε 24:15
10) ὁ χριστός 24:23
11) σημεῖα 24:24a
12) ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου 24:27b
13) σημεῖον 24:30a
14) τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου 24:30a
15) ὄψονται 24:30c
16) τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου 24:30c
17) ἴδητε 24:33
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι 24:34
18) ὁυἱός 24:36c
21) ὁ κύριος 24:42a
22) ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου 24:44
24) ὁ κύριος 24:46
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι 24:47a
27) τοῦ νυμφίου 25:1b
28) τοῦ νυμφίου 25:5a
29) Ἰδοὺ 25:6
30) ὁ νυμφίος 25:6
31) ὁ νυμφίος 25:10a
32) κύριε 25:11
ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν 25:12b
34) ἄνθρωπος 25:14
35) τοῦ κυρίου 25:18
37) κύριε 25:20b
38) ἴδε 25:20b
40) τοῦ κυρίου 25:21b
41) κύριε 25:22a
46) ἄνθρωπος 25:24b
48) ὁυἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου 25:31a
49) ὁ βασιλεὺς 25:34a
51) εἴδομεν 25:37b
52) εἴδομεν 25:38
αἰώνιον 25:41b
αἰώνιον 25:46
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An Open Letter to Hollywood V: It’s a Good Day To Letter Hard
By Vaal October 31, 2015 October 31, 2015 Articles
Dear Hollywood,
As you know, I make it a point every year during the Halloween season to write you a letter imploring you to stop overusing boring ass zombies and vampires and instead us other, more interesting monsters. The reason for this is simple: zombies are stupid and suck and vampires are too sexy to stake these days.
This will be my fifth year doing this, so please find enclosed a list of my previous letters:
A Halloween Message to Hollywood
A Message to Hollywood II: Messager Harder
A Letter to Hollywood: Letter Hard With a Vengeance
A Letter to Hollywood: Live Free or Letter Hard
As you can see, I’m running out of Die Hard movies to name these after… so get on that or I shall be forced to use other Bruce Willis vehicles.
Anyway, seeing as this month is Scarred Forever Month, I’ll be suggesting monsters based on my top list of Scarred Forever Moments (apologies to my readers: I posted the second half last Friday, but accidentally set the post time to November. I am stupid.)
So let’s start with what everyone came to see, the pony monster:
Number 1: Badass Unicorns
I was originally going to honestly just suggest an evil horse here. Sort of doing for horses what Cujo did for dogs. And who can blame me? Horses are a very common fear thanks to their great size, alien appearance and behavior, not to mention their easy proximity to humans.
After all, it’s not as if I haven’t done a scary unicorn post before.
But then you haven’t met the Middle Eastern Karakadan and his Chinese buddy the Sin-You yet.
Remember way back in Legend of Chaos and Darkness when I gave Lucian the Ape-Knight his rhino mount Embarr, effectively making a rhinoceros into a unicorn by somehow making it more badass? That’s the Karakadan. They are literally what happened when ancient Persian zoologists saw a rhino an exaggerated: black, scaled skin, a goddamn poisoned horn (or a horn that could cure poison… one or the other) and the ferocity to kick the asses of all animals.
Imagine the ‘nature turns against us’ move about a group of big game hunters pissing one of these off and getting hunted by it.
But that doesn’t hold a horror-candle to the sin-you.
Smaller than the karakadan, these are often depicted as a horned hybrid of a big cat and an ovine/equine—whose eyes burn with JUSTICE. They’re typically depicted sitting at the side of a judge—and spearing murderers in the chest with their horn.
Now take a step back and think about such movies as I Know What You Did Last Summer where a bunch of unlikable characters kill someone and manage to get away with it… until a horned murder-jaguar shows up to bring JUSTICE to them through the magic of impalements.
I’m sure that was the plot of a FiM fanfic somewhere, but make this movie happen!
Number 2: Toons
If my trip down memory lane and also YouTube, looking for the horrors of my childhood has taught me anything, it’s this: the traditional Western ‘cartoon characters’ are generally only ‘cute’ and ‘kid-friendly’ by fiat of the writers and the fact that I was raised to think they were kid-friendly. And nothing drive this home harder than Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Looking at the toons from Eddie Valient’s eyes… they’re terrifying in the context of them existing in the same reality as you.
Imagine if you lived in the world with sentient creatures who were almost by genetic imperative manic (read: wacky) and aggressive, whose physical make-up is highly resistant to damage if not incredibly malleable, who are stronger, faster and more creative than any human, are not beholden to this universe’s physics, and—this is the most important part—seem to have no concept that humans don’t have all those advantages, resulting in them unknowingly putting humans in dire danger cosntantly.
Now imagine one who is actively malevolent.
The Judge shows us some of this, but he was strongly tied to bad guy cliches and seemed to like the slow kill. He didn’t have to though. If a toon wanted someone dead, there’s very little that could stop them. And they’re guaranteed to think it’s all a big joke too.
A movie where a serial killer gained these powers, or set in a WFRR?/Cool World setting could be horrifying indeed.
Number 3: Emotion Eaters
I think the Care Bears stable of villains got worse in my memory after reading about White Court vampires in The Dresden Files. The White Court are emotion eaters; they inspire and then feed off of certain emotions. The ones we deal with most in Dresden are literally Incubi and Succubi that feed on Lust, but there are others.
Which bring me to Care Bears and their focus on villains who drain happiness, caring, friendship, and other such emotions out of people, usually leaving them alive but completely incapable of feeling said emotion. Now, in the Scarred Forever article, I talked mostly about the body horror one of these inflicted, but the more real, adult fear is the idea of being rendered literally incapable of ever being happy again, or able to recognize my friends and why they should matter to me, but being unable to feel it.
In the article, I referred to this as depression, but in all but the most severe cases of depression, the depressed person is still capable of having moments of joy and they still care about their friends—they just have a lot of negative feelings aobut themselves most often (not always, of course). This… this goes way beyond to the point of denying even those hope spots—and in every case on Care Bears, you know what’s wrong with you, you just don’t care enough to do something about it, or are unable to do anything.
That’s pretty strong psychological horror, especially if you can start to recover only to be harvested again by the emotion eater. So then you start to feel things—but know that’s going to go away soon.
Hell, forget the positive emotions: think what it would be alike to never be able to get angry or sad at anything ever again. It might sound good… right up until you get into a situation where you know you should be reacting but can’t. Think about a Halloween without fear—and think about all the accidents and mistakes that would happen in a land without fear.
And I bet you thought this was going to be all monster and no brain up in here?
Number 4: Fluid Shifters
I make no secret that I love shapeshifting as a power. Whether it’s the masterful shapeshifting of Ru or Cyn, the transformations of shows like Digimon, or the set-shifting like that of lycanthropes, I’m a big fan of shapeshifting… you know assuming it’s voluntary. Further down the other road lies body horror and I think we all know I’m not a fan of that by now.
But there is one class of shapeshifting I’ve only sort of touched on: fluid shifting.
Fluid shifting is just what it sounds like: the ability to transform into a fluid: either some sort of liquid, gas or in some cases, sand or dust. We’ve seen Cyn do this a few times in the Descendants, but she usually keeps a solid shape.
Not so with Batman’s Clayface or Batman Beyond‘s Inque, or to a less extent, Spider-man’s Sandman and Hydroman who all take copious advantage of their fluid forms to do horrible things to Our Heroes.
Of the four, Clayface and Inque seem to play up the scary and dangerous possibilities the most. Both of these characters like to engulf, which is when they surround their enemy with… themselves and try to suffocate them. The animators always lovingly draw images of Batman’s cowled face straining to get out as he runs out of air and then the horrible body-splosion when he uses a trick to escape.
Inque ups the ante when we at once point see her forcing herself into Batman’s mouth and nose, presumably slithering her way down into his lungs. Add to it just the simple fact that characters like this can and are shown to be able to get wherever liquid can get through and you have a formidable monster.
Presumably, we don’t see this kind of monster in movies that often because everyone just thinks ‘The Blob‘, but add in some human level intellect and malevolence and you can do far more than just a blob remake. There’s a reason there’s so many variants on this theme in comics, and that’s because they’re versatile in more ways than one.
Number 5: The Giant Mouse of Minsk
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Happy Halloween everyone!
Next week, on Novermber 3rd, Spec-Fic author Patty Jansen is hosting a free ebook even over on her site. If you’d like free books from other great genre authors, go check out this link – some books are already free or will continue to be free after the event!
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An evil toon in the Cool World setting wouldn’t work, since if a toon kills a non-toon that just turns the victim into a toon, too.
Forgot about that. Makes it kinda cool instead of scary.
Your number 3, the emotion eaters reminded me of a series I came across on dA once: a witch, after gaining control of someone via knowing their name was not only able to make them take actions (like sit, stand, tell me X etc. ) but when the victim started crying they were commanded to stop and then because them being sad (and physically unable to cry) was making the witch uncomfortable, they were told to be happy with their situation and they had to- even though they still knew what had been done to them.
No emotion eating per say, but similar kind of helplessness.
Series was called ‘The Volunteer’ I think.
Wow, that’s extra-strength creepy.
Happiness is mandatory, Citizen.
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Cars > Audi > Audi RS 3 Sportback 2011
2010-11-22 By Ketan Patel View Comments
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Audi RS 3 Sportback 2011
Audi unveiled a new model to its dynamic RS series, the Audi RS 3 Sportback 2011. Audi RS 3 Sportback is a performance packed in a small package. Five-cylinder turbo with 2.5 liters of displacement delivers 250 kW (340 hp) and 450 Nm (331.90 lb ft) of torque with fuel economy of 25.85 mpg. Zero to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.6 seconds, superior pulling power Seven-speed S tronic, quattro drive and 19-inch wheels.
Performance in a small package: the Audi RS 3 Sportback
Five-cylinder turbo delivering 250 kW (340 hp) and 450 Nm (331.90 lb ft) of torque Zero to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.6 seconds, superior pulling power Seven-speed S tronic, quattro drive and 19-inch wheels
Blazing performance, compact size. Audi has added a new model to its dynamic RS series: the RS 3 Sportback. In the great tradition of the brand, its engine boasts five cylinders and turbocharging technology. From a displacement of 2.5 liters come 250 kW (340 hp) of power and 450 Nm (331.90 lb-ft) of torque, with an average fuel consumption of just 9.1 liters of fuel per 100 km (25.85 US mpg).
Power is transmitted to the road via a seven-speed S tronic and quattro permanent all-wheel drive. 19-inch wheels and fenders made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) underscore the Audi RS 3 Sportback’s position of distinction.
Power and sound: the engine
Each Audi RS model represents the pinnacle of its model line – the RS 3 Sportback, developed by quattro GmbH, now brings this dynamic philosophy to the compact category. It rockets from a dead stop to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.6 seconds – a performance figure unrivaled by the competition. Top speed is electronically limited to 250 km/h (155.34 mph). Even so the compact car, weighing in at only 1,575 kilograms (3,472.28 pounds), uses on average just 9.1 liters of fuel per 100 km (25.85 US mpg) and emits 212 g CO2 per km (341.18 g/mile). This efficiency is due in large part to a delivery-on-demand oil pump and a regenerative system that recovers energy as the car decelerates.
The 2.5-liter engine in the RS 3 Sportback will thrill passengers thanks to its tremendous pulling power and its voracious revving up to 6,800 rpm. The guttural roaring and growling, backed by the signature rhythm of the five-cylinder firing order make up the classic Audi soundtrack. A sound flap in the exhaust branch intensifies the sound even further. The flap is controlled via the standard Sport button, which also varies the engine response.
Powerful five-cylinder engines have a long legacy at Audi. In the 1980s, racing cars and production cars used them to edge out the competition. Even the first Audi RS model, the 1994 RS 2, had a five-cylinder engine. The 2.5-liter unit, already part of the TT RS specifications, now redefines the state of the art, having recently been named “International Engine of the Year” by a high-ranking jury of automotive journalists.
The 2.5 TFSI delivers 250 kW (340 hp) from a displacement of 2,480 cc: a specific power output of 100.8 kW (137.1 hp) per liter. The maximum torque of 450 Nm (331.90 lb-ft) is readily available at the low end of the rev range, around 1,600 rpm, and remains constant up to 5,300 revolutions. These general parameters yield excellent acceleration and elasticity values.
Just 49 centimeters (19.29 inches) in length, the five-cylinder unit is ultra-compact, tipping the scales at a mere 183 kilograms (403.45 pounds). The crankcase is made of vermicular-graphite cast iron, a high-strength yet lightweight material. Audi is the first car maker to use this material in a gasoline engine. Perfectly placed reinforcements further enhance the block’s loadability. The lightweight-design concept keeps the Audi RS 3 Sportback’s weight in check and pays off big in terms of axle‑load distribution and, ultimately, handling.
The large turbocharger generates up to 1.2 bar of boost pressure. The intercooler downstream achieves an efficiency rate of over 80 percent. Like all Audi gasoline turbos, the 2.5 TFSI combines turbocharging technology with FSI direct injection. The marriage of these two technologies facilitates a high compression ratio (10.0:1) along with a correspondingly high efficiency ratio. Flaps in the intake tract mix the air as it flows in. The two camshafts, each adjustable by 42 degrees of crankshaft rotation, also enhance the efficiency of the mixture formation.
Speed and grip: the drivetrain
The compact seven-speed S tronic transmits power from the five-cylinder engine via three shafts: one drive shaft and two output shafts. Like all dual-clutch transmissions, it comprises two transmission structures. The shifting process is extremely smooth, taking place in hundredths of a second as the clutches switch, with no perceptible interruption of pulling power. Seventh gear is very tall – a measure that reduces fuel consumption.
The driver can operate the seven-gear S tronic in two automatic modes and one manual mode. Gears are shifted using the paddles on the steering wheel or the selector lever. The launch control system manages the sprint from a dead stop, furnishing explosive turbo power with minimal tire slip.
Delivering power to the road with effortless ease, the quattro permanent all-wheel drive grants the RS 3 Sportback traction, dynamics, and stability. Its central component is an electronically controlled multi-plate clutch, mounted at the end of the propeller shaft to achieve a favorable axle load distribution. Located in its interior is a plate package bathed in oil.
Thanks to quattro, the propulsive power can be distributed to each axle as needed. Whenever slip occurs at one of the axles, an electric pump intervenes at lightning speed to increase the oil pressure. The pump presses the clutch plates together in a continuous fashion, thereby permitting the torque to be redirected accordingly. Thanks to a powerful accumulator, this process takes just a few milliseconds.
Dynamics and safety: the chassis
The stiff body lays the cornerstone for the RS 3 Sportback’s precise handling; the chassis is what makes it happen. The four-link rear suspension – with a track measuring 1,528 millimeters (60.16 inches) – is anchored to a subframe and features high-strength-steel control arms that allow it to handle longitudinal and lateral forces separately.
Widened to a 1,564-millimeter (61.57-inch) track, the front suspension is a McPherson strut construction, also with a separate subframe. Key components of the construction are made of aluminum. Thanks to its electromechanical drive, the rack-and-pinion steering is highly efficient, with a sporty-direct gear ratio of 16.2:1.
Coil springs and redesigned shock absorbers provide the vertical support. The sports suspension lowers the body of the RS 3 Sportback by 25 millimeters (0.98 inch) compared with the A3. The new range-topping model in the A3 series boasts 19-inch cast aluminum wheels fitted with 235/35 series tires at the front and 225/35 at the rear. The wheels come standard with machine-polished titanium-look styling, but are optionally available in black with a red rim flange.
The internally ventilated disks measure 370 millimeters (14.57 inches) in diameter at the front and 310 millimeters (12.20 inches) at the rear. The front friction rings are perforated for maximum heat dissipation. They are connected by hollow pins to the aluminum brake disk covers, which are encircled by four-piston fixed calipers painted a high-gloss black and bearing RS logos. The electronic stabilization program (ESP) features a Sport mode and can be switched off entirely.
Precisely guided by its responsive steering, the RS 3 Sportback eagerly takes to curves and exits them with agility, stability, and serenity. The stability limit is extremely high, an effortless mastery that rounds off the character of this powerful compact car.
Interior and exterior: dynamic styling
The new top-of-the-line model in the A3 series hints at its explosive potential from the very first glimpse. Together with the xenon plus headlights, the front apron, the anthracite single-frame grill with diamond-patterned styling and the air intakes cut a distinctive figure.
The side view is dominated by the flared front fenders made of carbon‑fiber‑reinforced plastic (CFRP), prominent sill panels, exterior-mirror casings in matt aluminum look and a large roof spoiler. A high-gloss black diffusor insert and two elliptical exhaust tailpipes on the left accentuate the styling at the rear. RS 3 badges adorn the single-frame grill and the rear hatch.
The dynamic style is matched in the interior, entirely black and sporting a number of RS 3 logos. The sports seats are upholstered in Fine Nappa leather with silver contrasting stitching; the inlays gleam in Piano finish black or the new Aluminum Race look; the leather multifunction sports steering wheel is flat-bottomed. The selector lever and instruments are specially designed. The driver information system can display the boost pressure and oil temperature as well as a lap timer.
The RS 3 Sportback comes with an array of standard equipment including the Sport button, rear parking system, climate control, chorus radio system, and xenon plus headlights with LED daytime running lights. Audi offers customers a range of optional features: front bucket seats, roof rails in matt aluminum look, and styling packages in black or matt aluminum. Five exterior colors are available, plus an unlimited selection of custom paint finishes.
The new top-of-the-line model in the A3 series is already the fourth Audi model to be built at Audi Hungaria in Győr, where it is rolling off the assembly line alongside the TT Coupé, the TT Roadster and the A3 Cabriolet.
Deliveries of the RS 3 Sportback will begin in early 2011. The base price in Germany will be 49,900 euros.
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The arrogant lawlessness of drug enforcers
This story has already been discussed here a bit in comments, but it’s worth highlighting:
Once you’ve dehumanized drug offenders, it’s easy to steal their identities by Radley Balko
Consider what the federal government is arguing here. It’s arguing that if you’re arrested for a drug crime, including a crime unserious enough to merit a sentence of probation, the government retains the power to (a) steal your identity, (b) use that identity for drug policing, thus making your name and face known to potentially dangerous criminals, (c) interact with those criminals while posing as you, which could subject you to reprisals from those criminals, (d) expose photos of your family, including children, to those criminals, and (e) do all of this without your consent, and with no regard for your safety or public reputation.
The mindset that would allow government officials to not only engage in this sort of behavior, but to then fight in court to preserve their power to continue it is the same mindset that, for example, allows drug cops to compel juveniles and young women to become drug informants, with little regard for their safety — and to then make no apologies when those informants are murdered.
The list of atrocities and indignities routinely conducted in the name of the drug war is extraordinarily long.
The only true solution is to end it.
October 8th, 2014 by Pete | Permalink
65 comments to The arrogant lawlessness of drug enforcers
The only true solution is to end it. I agree.
But as we all know, this problem goes so much deeper. And to be completely honest here and totally frank, it is actually alot more deeper than people realize. This is my hypothesis.
I think this really starts at the grade school level, elementary school even.
We all know as it’s been covered on this site and others, the failures of DARE as well as the inane propaganda against drugs and drug users. I think though that while in the realm of drugs it is perhaps at its most severe, there is a great disconnect that goes so much deeper and may be the root of this issue.
Allow me to tell you about a certain DA I encountered once, though I’ve seen his kind over and over, I’m sure many of you have as well.
I was in Mount Vernon, NY, it’s not one of the 5 boroughs, I guess you could call it a county, it’s larger than a town though not by much. It is a poor neighborhood now but it was once nicknamed the Village of Mansions or something like that.
It was my second or third court appearance for this one case I was dealing with. I had been homeless, in the heated waiting booth of the train line after midnight, a white guy in a black neighborhood. Long story short I was picked up I had a semi automatic switch blade knife, about 20 empty bags of heroin (empties are bags of dope that havent been ripped apart, they have what we call “corners” left inside them, small amounts that dont get emptied out of the bag when you empty heroin into a cooker. If you collect enough “corners” you will easily have another bag or two. Its a clever tactic to ensure you have something available when you have no means to get heroin or money so you can avoid withdrawal. It entails NOT ripping open the whole bag to get every single speck of heroin dust. Most people will just rip the whole bag apart. Anyhow, you can imagine why the cops/DA would be happy to see that. They were hoping it’d add to felony weight. Not likely. And lastly I had a dirty syringe)
So the DA who I had been dealing with was out this particular day. In place was his assistant. A young Indian American man (not Native American but decended from or India.) Now as I sat in court I observed as he and the judge dealt with different things. One particular matter was a fellow who had not arrived for his case. When the judge assigned a warrant for the mans arrest, there was suddenly a change in the DA’s voice. His voice grew high pitched, happy and he THANKED the judge.
Where does this OCCUR exactly, when one human being delights at the misfortune of another, indeed, glorifies in a matter akin to rewarded professional performance?
I wonder. Because I don’t recall hearing much in the way of sadistic, “out of control” sociopathic (sp) DA’s in years gone by. I hear it now. I hear it about my generation, the generation before and the generation coming, which is quite scary.
Is it that, some time ago, children would be so outgoing as to have enough to create multiple baseball teams amongst each other on a baseball field, as a means for fun, and now, kids race home, have no time for their friends/classmates in the playground, beause PS3/PS4, XBOX and iPhones await?
As a kid myself I was antisocial and had only 2 friends really because I prefered to be with my family and at home. But I will admit, as a kid, when I was home, I spent most of that time playing NES/SNES and SEGA GENESIS. There was always a disconnect between me and others.
But I’m not blaming video games or technology. It’s not about that. I’m just suggesting something has happened, is happening, that has made people so out of touch with one another to the point where yeah I think we fear eachother so we hate eachother. Particularly people whom we cannot judge to be like ourselves, in an instant. So, if you’re a khakis, polo and loafers type of guy and look to a ripped jeans, dyed hair, punk rocker, you cant identify instantly so you hate because you fear. In this case, that fear is probably based around “that is wrong. because if that is not wrong, then I am wrong, because I am NOT like that!”
Oh there is a desperate disconnect. Police don’t even seem to think their share a species with everyone else. DA’s need court ordered psych evaluations, WEEKLY. These are the domestic terrorists, waging genocide right beneath our noses.
I think after all is said and done though, if any of this situation pisses you off, like it does me, then you’re all right, just like I’m all right, even though we are (mostly) drug users. Yes as everyone knows I am a proud heroin user. I intend to try and get some very soon as a matter of fact though I do need a 3 bag minimum and can only afford 2 at the moment (hoping to get a little credit you know.) But the point is, if it enrages you, then you’ve not lost touch. It’s the fact that others are so out of touch that feeds the fire that is that eternal fire of humanity inside all of us that make us NOT like them.
Tony Aroma
OT, just wondering if anyone has ever challenged the federal government’s mmj patent. If the fed’s position is that marijuana is not medicine, then any patents for such would be invalid. After all, how can you patent something that doesn’t exist? Seems to me, if you want to get into the mmj business, now would be the time to challenge those patents. That way, when it is eventually legalized, the field would be wide open. I think all mmj-related patents should be challenged, now.
divadab
If all this energy devoted to unjust dominion were instead devoted to positive work, what a massive change it would make in our society!
These dominionists, who are mostly probably authoritarian personalities (for what better thing for an authoritarian to do but be a cop?), are doing what they are told to do. That;s what authoritarians do. Change the law and they will change their behavior. But changing the law requires a corrupt system inhabited by pleasers whose jobs are bought for them by wealthy corporatists, to do something useful and courageous. This is the main problem, IMHO – a systematically corrupt federal political system.
CHanging this corrupt federal system is almost impossible – otherwise why is a non-toxic plant that the majority of citizens believe should be legal continues to be prohibited? The entire edifice is devoted to changing NOTHING and continuing the concentration of the power structure in fewer and fewer hands.
We are making significant changes only in States that have direct citizen democracy. Trying to get anything useful done at the federal level is an errand for someone who believes Obama’s meaningless marketing slogans.
claygooding
The quickest way to end it is still removing the bounty money and seizure laws,,when busting druggos doesn’t gain them anything they may solve some of the violent crimes they ignore now chasing the big bust.
At their inception the DEA adopted the attitude of the president who created the horrendous beast. Nixon’s quote;
“When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.”
The DEA just swaps out the word ‘president’ and inserts their acronym to justify their lawlessness. Just as they’ve done for over 40 years now. It’s an ongoing disaster.
Daniel Williams
There isn’t any Republican politician alive that wouldn’t sell their first born to be favorably compared to Reagan. Mention Nixon to any one of them and they’ll all like…Who? So it would be easy to blame the whole thing on Nixon, mainly because it’s true, wipe their (dirty) hands clean and get the federal government out of the prohibition business. Yes, I know that’s quite the fantasy.
But libertarian ideas have taken hold among many conservatives, mostly younger ones, and are having an impact, albeit a small one, on the older ones. They understand that if the Republican Party got the federal government out of our bodies (and bedrooms), they would send the Democrats into the political wilderness for decades. It could happen.
And the Constitution, that document Republicans love to wave around, gives them all the cover they’d need, especially for the Tea Party crowd. It allows them to maintain their personal belief that drugs are harmful while, at the same time, advocating the issue be decided at the state level, not federal. And how ironic that Rand Paul, a Republican, is talking the best game! The Republicans can do this.
All they gotta do is blame Nixon.
Totally agree. It’s like Charles P. Pierce concludes in his post about the Grand Jury’s findings in the case where the cops blew a toddler’s face off with a flash-bang grenade:
It is hard not to conclude that, for the past 30 years, in the “war” on drugs — and in the “war” on terror that learned its basic law enforcement principles from the existing “war” on drugs — has resulted in a culture of armed impunity within police departments, and a culture within the general community that accepts this situation, as long as it doesn’t break down their front doors. No-knock warrants are inherently dangerous, especially if special tactical units are encouraged to treat every raid as though they were landing on Omaha Beach. But, as long as it’s Their children getting their noses blown across the room, and not Our children, that’s just the way things go. Sure, there’s a civil suit to be made here, and the federal government is looking into the case, but the underlying causes remain the same, no matter how carefully we reform the tactics. We want to feel safe. Anonymous and reckless deadly force used by law enforcement is the price we’re willing to have other people pay. (emphasis mine)
Another recent example of arrogance regarding law enforcement and drugs (even though there were no drugs);
Austin police raid pro-marijuana candidate’s home, find nothing
http://tinyurl.com/omjq2r2
What prompted the raid was a call about a suspicious person in candidate Kevin Ludlow’s home. It turned out it was his house cleaner who had permission to be there. But what was the probable cause for officers entering the home (without a warrant)? The officers claimed they smelled marijuana. As Ludlow ponders in the embedded video, how do you defend yourself against something that’s intangible?
This reminds me of a recent blog post of Pete’s where officers were seizing cash from motorists because the officers suspected that the money “might be” linked to criminal activity. How does someone defend themselves — by the side of the road — regarding something that “might be”? A similar intangible to the example above.
Dehumanization and persecution have long histories. The techniques of dehumanization have been practiced by theocracies for a thousand years or more to exploit the proletariat, eliminate competitors, create caste systems, maintain monarchies, colonize and oppress indigenous peoples, and justify slavery. When the truth wasn’t sufficient to dehumanize the other, prelates would step in and create bogus stories to fill the gap.
Claims of ritual infanticide among heretics were popular in the medieval era of dehumanization. A heretical sect known as the Cathari were alleged to pass infants (supposedly born of Cathar orgies) through a fire until they expired. Witches were said to invade graveyards at night to dig up newly buried infant corpses and ghoulishly devour the bodies. Many of the stories are eerily reminiscent of some of the myths generated about drug consumers during the Nixon era, especially any involving sex or drug-induced orgies. Unlike Richard Nixon, inquisitors knew their gruesome stories were fake.
Dehumanization is a basic element in conducting genocides as well as drug wars. Contrary to what individuals may believe, genocides do not form from the ground up like some grassroots movement. Genocide begins with leadership at the top. The process is one that requires planning and direction from a government, since governments are the only entities capable of supplying the massive materials and instructions needed to kill and then dispose of huge numbers of bodies. On average, two-to-three years of dehumanizing government propaganda aimed at a targeted group is needed to motivate a domestic populace to imprison or kill en masse.
None of this bodes well for the act of dehumanization, which appears to be a red flag indicating a government is up to no good; for instance, one engaging in eliminationism. After all, if the intentions are noble, why not stick with the truth?
in CA, the decade of the gold rush (1840s thru 1850s) saw 90% of the indigenous population eliminated. Because of course, they were less than human.
Kemp Woods
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thelbert
here’s what happens in a country that doesn’t have it’s head up it’s ass: http://tinyurl.com/ls35sqb
Judges said it was “incomprehensible” that the public prosecutor’s office (OM) chose to take the case to court in spite of the arrangements.
The righteous pride and ego boost that one gets from the false belief that they are right, and the other is wrong has led to many “incomprehensible” decisions.
More drug war anal probes, this time in Tennessee
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/09/more-drug-war-anal-probes-this-time-in-tennessee/
Aʂʂhole police
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/717
WTF’s Up with New Mexico?
Have they been annexed by Texas?
Attended Rick Steve’s Yes on 91 presentation here in Eugene and just got back, had to leave early to catch the bus so I only had to walk 2 miles home in the dark.
It might bring a few couchilicious grins to know that in one night Rick Steve’s outdrew ALL of Sebat’s attendance. Close to 600 people there (and I have the pics to prove it! It was a great presentation, props to Anthony Johnson and the M91 crew for a pretty smart move bringing Rick in to follow after Sebat.
And as far as I could tell the crowd was pretty close to 100% supporters.
Rick Steves Books a New Kind of Tour
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread28301.shtml
Travel guru Rick Steves’
10-city tour in Oregon to talk cannabis legalization:
Marijuana laws not ‘Christlike’
Rick Steves Smokes Pot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y2gHGOVsfA
“I have used cannabis all over the world.”
Rick Steves (Source: LA Weekly)
NorCalNative
If the mood strikes you, I know the couch would love to hear more about what went on there in Eugene.
I showed up at 6 to pick up my ticket. And I took my camera so I shot the marquee. Said howdy to and harassed my friends at the McDonald Theater – I’ve been part of their medical services crew for many years with Harmony Events Medicine. The house even bought me a brew before the talk… a good IPA, yummm.
Of course my gal Elvy (Musikka) was there volunteering for M91 so got a couple pics of her.
By the time the presentation began the floor level was seating 90% capacity and they had opened the balcony so 600 folks was a pretty accurate count.
Dave Fidanque, top cat at the Oregon ACLU opened it up, talked ACLU, human rights, gay marriage, ending prohibition…
Rick kicked ass. Head to head he would eat Kevin alive. The first 3/5 of his talk was on travel and it’s value. He basically called the US ethnocentric and stuck up (all sooo true). He talked about how Europe is transforming it’s drug policy landscape. He talked about the Netherlands and their coffee shops, the Christiana community, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland… and he tied all of it together beautifully in his oh-so-damn-charming way. Human rights, drug policy, handshakes over bombs, breaking down barriers instead of building them. I could have brought the man here and smoked a doob and talked stuff all night long.
A couple of interesting asides:
One of my favorites of Rick’s travel episodes is his trip into Iran. It’s really well done and I can relate to it because I was friends in college with the Iranian students who were trying to remove the US installed Shah Reza Pahlavi at the time.
The McDonald Theater
http://www.mcdonaldtheatre.com/eventCalendar.html
is a landmark in downtown Eugene. It’s also owned and operated by the Kesey family and drugs played… a minor role… in Ken Kesey’s life and literature.
So yeah, Rick impressed me. And I already thought he be a pretty cool nerd.
here ya go, from Anthony Johnson at the M91 campaign:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7RBZAYY3I8
Please share far and wide. Thanks. Rick has gotten a great response across the state and the media coverage has been extensive and excellent.
–Anthony Johnson
I don’t often dig out the old crystal ball but…
… I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that M91 passes in OR w/ 60+% of the vote.
Just got a report from Medford that Rick’s stop there was 150+ (smaller venue, smaller local pop). A good friend will be going to the Bend appearance and I’ll see if he can give me a head count.
You have nooo idea the pleasure I derive from this public drubbing of the anti campaign and Mr Sebat’s ego tour.
Another note on Rick’s presentation, lots and lots of applause, he even got a hearty “amen!” out of me. 🙂
Nobody predicted Dwight “NotDwight” Holton would lose (to a woman no less!) by a 2 to 1 margin.
If the “I’m-voting-yes-so-they-shut-up-about-it” vote comes out strong it could reach 70%…
Allan, Eugune… Eugune… EUGUNE ORE? are you near Redmund Bend? Have you ever heard of Sagewalk? Spent some time there as a kid. Just wondering.
Servetus, you’re referring to the sacrifices to Molloch, right? Also a popular ghost man in pot propaganda of years gone by.
It was either the House I Live In or Breaking the Taboo that featured that Abe Lincoln history specialist, his definition and explanation of genocide was perfect and scary as he explained it in motion against drug users right before our eyes today.
indeed, Eugene, OR. We are west of Bend-Redmond on the other (wet) side of the Cascades. Not much for me to do w/ Bend and no, haven’t heard of Sagewalk.
kaptinemo
Once again, we have a clear illustration of the dehumanization process: Themes in Chemical Prohibition, By William L. White from: Drugs in Perspective, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1979
And again, the themes are:
1. The drug is associated with a hated subgroup of the society or a foreign enemy.
2. The drug is identified as solely responsible for many problems in the culture, i.e., crime, violence, and insanity.
3. The survival of the culture is pictured as being dependent on the prohibition of the drug.
4. The concept of “controlled” usage is destroyed and replaced by a “domino theory” of chemical progression.
5. The drug is associated with the corruption of young children, particularly their sexual corruption.
6. Both the user and supplier of the drug are defined as fiends, always in search of new victims; usage of the drug is considered “contagious.”
7. Policy options are presented as total prohibition or total access.
8. Anyone questioning any of the above assumptions is bitterly attacked and characterized as part of the problem that needs to be eliminated. (Emphasis mine – k.)
About the only true thing NIDA wrote before 1980.
The demonization process was part-and-parcel of drug prohibition because it perfectly dovetailed with the racial and ethnic prejudices of the dominant, largely WASP electorate then…as well as today.
An excellent treatise on the subject of White’s paper may be found here.
More atrocities and indignities: the drug war is blamed for the murders of students in Mexico due to their leftist politics. The situation in Mexico is uncomfortably similar to students and others who were disappeared in Argentina’s Dirty War:
An ambush on 26 September, begun by uniformed local police and finished off by an armed commando, left six young people dead and 43 students missing, nearly half of whom were last seen in police custody.[…]
Politicians allied with cartels are blamed for the atrocity.[…]
Meanwhile, militarizing Mexico in the name of narcotics control has worked against the peace and democracy the US claims that it promotes. Not only has the drug war made the already-lucrative drug trade more violent by increasing competition among the cartels, it also has established a network of state-crime alliances that can – and are – being used for political purposes.
The war on drugs has never controlled drug trafficking and has always been about social control. Now it’s Mexico’s youth that are paying the price of that duplicity.
Both Mexico and now the United States have militarized police forces.
The drug enforcers seem bad enough, but there is another aspect which I find equally disturbing. The drug enforcers cheerleaders. Here in the south we have these sanctimonious sadists, aka christian’s. It amazes me that we have made it to 2014 and these people are still unable to differentiate between a crime and a vice. It is a pity that they can expend so much mental effort worrying about what someone, somewhere, maybe, might possibly be doing that they do not condone. It even goes so far as punishing people for even thinking about it, i.e. soliciting, planning etc. I was raised in a VERY catholic household and even as I child I was unable to understand that frame of mind.
Christians are so concerned about gay men and what they may be doing in their own privacy. But the same people have no qualms about an enforcer forcibly buggering a mans rectum with his fingers for something that could “possibly” be in there. During the Spanish inquisition these folks had something called the pear for people they did not like. So now the pear has been replaced with a sadistic enforcers fingers. How the hell do they perfectly blend masochism and sadism into a spiritual belief? I don’t think I want to know.
Ages ago they could be seen cheering as a heretic anguished on the pyre. Now they can be seen cheering oppressive draconian laws when the law is birthed in our judicial system. Don’t worry if you have nothing to hide? Did they tell heretics “Don’t worry, if you have nothing to hide you won’t float!”.
See Item # 6: The Pear of Anguish
OT: Maureen Dowd, it’s now safe for you to return to Colorado (you nitwit);
Rookie Cookie for Novices Unveiled in Colorado
http://tinyurl.com/lkuokof
They should send a few to her, in a box emblazoned with THIS. Too bad they can’t, yet.
the Rockies’ Rookie Cookie
Knocked out for tobacco:
“Marcel Hammer was walking home from school with some friends around 3:30pm back on June 4. According to his attorney, a plain clothes cop jumped out of a van accusing Hammer of smoking marijuana. Hammer was smoking a cigarette. When the video begins, Hammer is lying in the gutter, between a car and the curb, with the police officer over him.”
http://tinyurl.com/ojen79q
Thinking Clearly
Pete’s title says it all. I think this goes well with the topic:
“Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward”
http://tinyurl.com/pxtd2f6
http://youtu.be/CYAIYcu8glI
This has been drug war for fun and profit. Its time to end this charade. There are too many pawns in this destructive game.
Even if other drug war profiteers were not supporting continued prohibition the CIA’s dependency on drug money may be an even bigger obstacle to overcome,,their influence at any committee hearing would make reform unlikely,,,the pawns we are fighting are supposed to be knights in shining armor but instead they are trolls hiding under bridges and destroying our country.
Hmmm. Sounds like an addiction, to me. (Muttering, deep in thought) What to do, what to do…
(Cartoon animation of light bulb coming on overhead) I know just what needs to happen! Congress better call (bugle “ta-da”, followed by TV announcer echo voice)… Kevvie and Companyyyyyyyy…for an intervention! And if they don’t repent, then, to prison with them!
Of course, that won’t happen. Uncle Sam has been aiding and abetting the illicit drug trade at least since 1940’s, beginning(?) in 1943 with the Office of Naval Intelligence’s deal with Lucky Luciano. In bed with and protecting both The Mob and the banksters profiting from it.
There’s an old Scottish saying: Once you touch the Devil, you can never let go.” Uncle Sam’s been doing way much more than just touching. And it shows.
The workings of government have been corroded by the corruption of prohibition evinced at the (hidden) top (why won’t Obama arrest the banksters?), down through the ranks to the beat cop on the take.
So…how do you put an entire government through rehab, Kevvie?
Julian Buchanan
I agree, and that’s why I have serious concerns regarding the drug reform drive towards strict drug regulation. The most damage for people using illicit drugs has come not from gangsters but from police, law enforcement and the state. I make the argument clear and strong here:
The demons in drug law reform: A critical look at regulation and stigma
http://julianbuchanan.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/the-demons-in-drug-law-reform/
hope you find it useful – please circulate
your last paragraph is your best.
Indeed. But I would also posit that the demographic change taking place in Developed Nations will eventually lead to prohibition’s end. The great scientist Max Planck put it best: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
In this case, it’s not just a scientific truth at issue, but a public ‘truth’, as well, as in a cultural trait, of sorts.
That generational cohort whose cultural predispositions supported prohibition the most are literally dying off, lessening social and political support for prohibition…and prohibitionists.
This is increasingly leaving the field clear for better educated, more knowledgeable voters (many with personal experiences of the substances in question, and therefore know lie from truth about them).
This, and the advent of the Internet, is increasingly leveling the communications playing field, which has been dominated by governments and their propaganda.
Because of these factors, what I call the ‘moral camouflage’ that hid the extant of the Prison-Industrial Complex’s self-serving aspects is becoming increasingly hard to maintain. The shiny moral paint is wearing off, to show the filthy rust beneath.
Those government agencies and their industry allies who profited from prohibition are increasingly being exposed in the media as being just what they are. Their attempts at damage control have been, in a word, laughable, because they are trying to use a variation of a 1980’s propaganda theme (“What about The Children?!”) on the adults who were once the very same kids they propagandized. Those for whom the ‘war’ was ostensibly fought, and who know both the lies and the truth. That approach no longer has any traction.
All the forces of prohibition can do now is attempt to delay the inevitable. Unfortunately, they usually are not sufficiently monitored for legal trespasses, and illegally use public funds in order to attempt to thwart popular reform efforts. A point not lost on their targets, who’ve had enough of being harangued by liars…and who demonstrate that every chance they get at the voting booth when a re-legalization proposition is forwarded.
The backbone of Nixon’s war on drugs has already died and been restructured by paying law enforcement to take up the flag of the original prohibition supporters of the 60’s,,and in the process of using law enforcement as their strong-arm enforcement the same thing is happening that always happens when money becomes involved as a goal,,,greed set in and now is exposing itself in all the violence as law enforcement plays the “Wheel of Fortune” game created by grants and seizure laws,,,searching for the “big bust” is killing us.
i have to agree with Allan. good read. the very idea that the state can own everyone’s body is crazy.
Viggo Piggsko Flatmark
Good read, thank’s for sharing it.
Wow, what a great dose of sanity and fresh air from New Zealand!
I like your stress on Human Rights/Harm Reduction FIRST, combined with home cultivation, and THEN figuring out the best way to regulate.
I would hope my home state of California would keep your principles in mind when WE LEGALIZE in 2016.
Thanks NorCalNative
Fresh air from New Zealand – but I’m afraid our drug policy here in New Zealand isn’t so fresh – we have no naloxone take home, won’t prescribe injectable drugs, charge people for manslaughter if they’ve assisted someone to take drugs who subsequently dies of OD, have no drug consumption rooms, we test people on state benefits and punish them if they repeatedly test positive for illicit drugs, employer drug testing is widespread and we’ve just set up Drug Abstinence Courts!
While prohibition will end eventually I am concerned the state will secure some criminal or maybe civil powers over certain drug use and basically the usual suspects will continue to be harassed, controlled and punished.
Exclusive: U.S. DEA ‘most interested’ in U.S. investors in Canadian marijuana firms
CO: Beauprez says he would work to roll back pot laws, reinstate prohibition
On dehumanization: Straight from one of the originators (and later beneficiaries) of the Federal drug prohibition, one Richmond Hobson, putatively a ‘Man of God’:
“If a peaceable red man is subjected to the regular use of alcoholic beverage, he will speedily be put back to the plane of the savage. The Government long since recognized this and absolutely prohibits the introduction of alcoholic beverage into an Indian reservation. If a negro takes up a regular use of alcoholic beverage, in a short time he will degenerate to the level of the cannibal. No matter how high the stage of evolution, the result is the same.”
“In our great cities like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia the ravages upon the average character have been so great, so many degenerates have already been produced, that the degenerate and corruptible vote not only holds the balance of power between the two great political parties and can dictate to both, but actually holds a majority of the votes, so that honest and efficient self-government as a permanent condition is now impossible. Immigrants coming in vast numbers from abroad remained chiefly in the cities. As young as our Nation is, the deadly work of alcohol has already blighted liberty in our greatest cities.”
“If America degenerates the yellow man will be on hand. Some may make light of the yellow man; so did Romans make light of the ‘Barbarians.’ The yellow man is not degenerating. He can shoot as straight as a white man now, and undegenerated he can live on one-tenth of what is necessary for the white men while they are in the field doing the shooting. A race of degenerates cannot occupy the American continent.”
“In America we are making the last stand of the great white race, and substantially of the human race. If this destroyer cannot be conquered in young America, it cannot in any of the old and more degenerate nations. If America fails, the world will be undone and the human race will be doomed to go down from degeneracy into degeneracy till the Almighty in wrath wipes the accursed thing out!”
Keep in mind, the eugenics movement was just gathering steam in America back then, hence the great concern for ‘degeneracy’ and ‘miscegenation’, which lead to things such as forced sterilization laws. One deadly fad (Hitler got the ideas for his later eugenically-inspired horrors from us, remember that) whose influence has maintained long after its popularity vanished.
The above quote of the (ahem) ‘Reverend’ Hobson was the voice of the sentiment behind the earliest of our drug laws. This sentiment of drug users being ‘degenerate’ and thus non-Human, and thus a threat to (White) ‘racial purity’ and therefore civilization, itself, was the ideological foundation of our drug laws. That alone, and not one scrap of scientific evidence.
Like a ‘Doomsday Weapon’, set to blow up years or decades after a war has been lost, the DrugWar is the ‘Doomsday Weapon’ of a racially and ethnically bigoted past that keeps blowing up futures, both personal and national. As a national policy, it’s long past ‘retirement’; demolition is more appropriate.
Julian:
In the US government, control of local enforcement seems to occur serendipitously with the carrot approach of money, funding and federal “help”. It always comes with suggestions for proper use. Promise of future funding smartly entails the recipient pleasing the benefactor. This is “the stick” that goes with the carrot.
This is how government control in the US over studies and addiction treatment are maintained. Always with the treating philosophy and methods necessary to please the benefactor. Bias is built into the system and its attendant corruptive influences are maintained with the flow of money and grants.
Its a hard system to beat. Its the system that runs our treatment industry, justice system, enforcement and regulatory systems. Its the machine that runs the drug war. It may by nature entail dismantling a corrupt system of funding and control. The treatment industries are fighting tooth and nail to continue their current drug war windfall (and justice and enforcement).
Cutting the strings of the Nanny system would sound good to me .
“hijacked by drug reform entrepreneurs” is bad but overshadowed by what current retired government officials have done for years (i.e. DuPont, Bensinger, etc.)
Kind of scary. I guess they didn’t get the Cole memo.
U.S. DEA ‘most interested’ in U.S. investors in Canadian marijuana firms
With marijuana still illegal on a federal level in the United States, American investors in Canadian medical marijuana can be seen as violating the Controlled Substances Act, according to some U.S experts. And the use of the banking system to transfer the proceeds of such investments could be seen as money laundering.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has already been tracking investments made in state-sanctioned marijuana business in the United States.
Marlise & Gov.Johnson, Cannabis Oil,
Why He’s Behind It
Is legalized marijuana a threat to beer?
The legalization of marijuana in two U.S. states, could put pressure on drinks makers, or provide a big opportunity.
Pot Shields Liver From Alcohol Damage
As someone who has spent a lot of time on the frontline of the cannabis revolution, I’ve paid a heavy price. About a year ago, I decided that I could no longer bear to live in the Police States of America. On July 14, 2014 I fled Babylon and became a resident of an Independent Territory called St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands. During my four months of living on island and following the local news, I have compiled the following statistics:
Drug Raids = 0,
DUI checkpoints = 0
Incidents of Road rage = 0
Incidents of police abuse = 0
Encounters with rude or unpleasant police = 0
The DEA did do a one day helicopter overflight, but no arrests or raids resulted. This November residents of the US Virgin Island will vote on whether to allow medical mj and to decriminalize one ounce or less of ganja. Pass the spliff, Mon. One Love!
~ Steve Kubby ecp
I’m Short, Not Stupid Presents: ‘The Gunfighter’
VICE United States vice.com
The wonderful Western-themed short film The Gunfighter by Eric Kissack explores the issues that come with an all-knowing narrator who is voiced by Nick Offerman.
http://tinyurl.com/n4tawj5
GOP lawmaker: Legalize pot to aid state budget
“”The state’s Legislative Council recently estimated Colorado can expect to bring in about $175 million through the fiscal year that ends in 2017.
Orr said he plans to talk with Republican leadership in the coming weeks to try to build support for his proposal. Leadership in the House and Senate did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Orr’s idea.””‘snip’
This is going to be an exciting year because that B-B I have mentioned before has now become a hundred million dollar boulder rolling around in legislators brains (location unknown) and now it is becoming painfully obvious to everyone NOT making money from prohibition continuing to outsource marijuana to criminals is insane.
The two emotions at play in politicians’ minds are greed and fear. As they see that there is less to fear politically from re-legalisation of cannabis, and as the tax revenues become more known, their greed will overcome their fear-based reluctance to accept changes. The fact that anyone in opposition is at the same time being lambasted for that position is additional motivation for them to ‘evolve’. Isn’t it interesting that so many Republicans, who don’t believe in evolution, are ‘evolving’?
N.T. Greene
OT: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12703/full
This was brought up on a prominent YouTube show, though I had to hunt down this study text myself. Please assist me in giving it a thorough wringing out, as it’s pretty dry material and I feel like much of it has been debunked or at least treaded before.
They are reporting correlations only (and speculation). A correlation does not imply causation. For example, just because early use of mj is associated with psychosis, doesn’t mean mj use CAUSED the psychosis. It could very well be the other way around, that people with pre-psychotic tendencies use mj to self-medicate their symptoms. Or there could be no causal relationship whatsoever. CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION. Anyone that suggests it does, either does not understand the scientific method, or is intentionally trying to deceive.
They go on to “conclude” that mj use PROBABLY causes other problems, but have no data to back up their speculations. (So why even mention it?) Since the “science” in this paper is so shoddy, I’m guessing it was NOT a peer-reviewed paper. It’s just a propaganda piece.
OT: This is how to hit the prohibs between their eyes; How a Twitter Campaign Exposed the Madness of Banning Medical Marijuana
“Hunt and his family live in Arkansas, where cannabis is completely illegal. He’s a professional creative director and media producer by trade, so when he came across the infamous youtube video “ Rick Simpson: Run From the Cure,” detailing how Canadian cancer patients were making and consuming highly-concentrated cannabis oil to cure their cancers, he quickly dove head first into the research. He gained a thorough understanding of cannabis and how it works in the body as a medicine. He decided he wanted to take the message mainstream, thus the #illegallyhealed campaign began.
“Illegally healed. Those are two words that just don’t belong together,” says Tony Baker, a co-founder of the campaign. “You should not have to do something illegal in order to become healed.” Emphasis mine – k.)
The ramifications of this are manifold…and just about all of them good for reformers, and horrible for the prohibs. For this forces into the public’s view the fact that a potential cure for cancer was discovered in the 1970’s and was mysteriously shelved.
As they say where I grew up, Pull a string; get a snake.” This is big, bigger than most can yet realize at first. As this gains traction in the social sphere(s), it will emerge in the political sphere…with potentially explosive results. It could potentially shatter the prohib position once it forces its way into the LameStream Media’s attention via alternate media.
Oh, boy; this Winter may not be so cold, after all. Things might be about to heat up…
We’ve been waiting for THAT story to hit mainstream for a looong time! Yeah, let’s hide a cancer cure…
OT: from the WaPo, we have Simple vote on legalizing marijuana in D.C. is not so simple
The usual trolls haven’t shown up yet…which means that Team Reform has taken it by storm. As usual.
There are a couple of naysayers, but they have been neatly eviscerated by the overwhelming majority.
Dueling with one who calls himself ‘hill_guy’ now. Maybe s/he really works on Capitol Hill. If so, then, as a favorite childhood character from a 1960’s Saturday morning cartoon used to say, in a gravelly and menacing voice, “It’s clobberin’ time!”
A sure sign of rhetorically sparring with a bottom-feeder prohib: they always start with the ad hominem attack, first. I almost feel guilty in responding, but it’s a dirty job, and someone has to do it…
http://tinyurl.com/mjn989w
The above is for all advocates and supporters that have helped “educate” the army of anti-drug war warriors,,a front 100 wide and 10 rows deep,,IIRC.
Hill Guy seems to have withdrawn from the battlefield, right after you threw down the gauntlet. I loved the way you phrased it. ‘Pee your pants scared’ indeed.
He claims to be a reformer, but his approach thoroughly pisses me off; he reminds me of what ML King said about ‘white liberals’ wanting to move ever so slowly and softly towards equal rights…while also remembering a poem that was written about and for African-Americans, but could just as easily have applied to all cannabis consumers:
Or fester like a sore–
Or crust and sugar over–
Or does it explode? – Langston Hughes
WE’VE WAITED LONG ENOUGH, DAMMIT! Our dream of TRUE personal sovereignty, (hand raised, fist slowly balled as in strongly grasping) taken back, not governmentally bestowed, has been deferred long enough.
National Re-legalization by 2020! If any pol or bureaucrat wants to get in front of a generational electoral tsunami that wants cannabis legal again, if they are so foolish as to slather the soles of their feet with SuperGlue and stand in front of a political and social steamroller like this issue will prove to be, I’ll happily pay for the glue and the petrol. As should we all.
personal sovereignty, i like that concept. i try to practice it every day.
Dude, you Rock!
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Veni, vedi, fish velocipede
Cowgas
cowpie gathering robot
Curry Cruise
Dairy farm floor dryer
Dam Methane Tent
digester reusing plastic bottles
Fart Collection Underpants
home bio-gas generator
science:energy: bioenergy: methane
a structure to sequester methane from dams
Basically I was horrified when I found out that hydro-electric dams are about as bad for the environment as a petroleum based powerplant due to the the methane that they release. So why not build a tent to sequester the methane. It's lighter than air and will naturally want to settle at the top of the tent. Dams are generally tall which gives you a tall superstructure to build off of. What would probably be needed, and I'm really going out on a limb on this one, is a pool to catch the water that has just been used to turn the turbines so that it can settle and release even more methane.
Phase 2 has a few potentially beneficial schemes for the methane. a) find a way to remove impurities from it use the gas for natural gas for local homes. b) build a long cylinder at the top of the tent which would reduce the presence of other gases and then fix a fuel cell so that the methane can be converted into less polluting CO2 and a bit of energy that could be added to the energy production of the dam. c) burn the methane and distill dam water to make locally available potable water.
— wuss, Aug 30 2007
Yeah I saw that one too from the BBC, but they just want use energy from the dam to extract it so they can just burn it. Seems like a waste to me.
But that begs the question of all the methane released by river beds away from dams. I remember punting on the Cam: on occasion, the pole would release quantities of methane from the muck on the river bed, that would then bubble to the surface. (That's when the pole didin't get stuck in said muck.)
— DrCurry, Aug 31 2007
I, too, have punted on the Cam and seen the methane. Other rivers that I've poled along have more concentrations of muck in their quiet spots, and the methane released isn't being captured in any way.
I'm guessing that dams only concentrate the decaying vegetation in a different place than it would naturally accumulate.
— baconbrain, Aug 31 2007
There are off the shelf technologies for capturing biogas. Many landfills have them. It is not clear to me if something about passing thru the turbine releases dissolved methane, but this seems plausible. A biogas catcher could be installed in the turbine room. I suspect that increased water oxygenation would get rid of a lot of dissolved methane as well, releasing it as CO2.
— bungston, Aug 31 2007
Bungston- I guess what I was trying to say about the methane produced by still water in a dam was that it's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact free methane production is a good thing. People spend a lot of money to heat digesters so that they can produce methane. What is bad though is that this gas is being released into the atmosphere where it isn't doing anyone any good. Secondly, if you read the BBC link, it says something to the effect that dams release a lot of methane, because the water inlets are at the bottom of the dam where methane concentrations are highest. So rather than stick another device in the turbine room, just let the natural inclination for methane to rise in air do all the work. Just think of the dam as a large digester that collects organic material and converts it into methane, and all that's being proposed is a collection method that requires little upkeep and little energy.
— wuss, Sep 01 2007
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Rick Stein journeys from northern California to Mexico, enjoying unique dishes and the enduring legacy of Mexico. It was 1968, and having heard the Mamas and Papas’ California Dreaming, Rick was filled with a desire to embark on his own road trip down the Pacific Coast Highway to the Mexican border and beyond.
Part 1: San Francisco
Nearly 50 years later, he’s back to retrace his steps. In episode one, Rick enjoys sitting on the dock of the bay in San Francisco, tasting legendary dishes like the hangtown fry – oyster pancake; a dish that can trace its origins to the California gold rush, which created the most famous Chinatown in the world.
Part 2: Los Angeles
Rick Stein continues travelling down the Californian coastline immortalised by Steinbeck, past citrus groves, vineyards that inspired one his favourite movies, Sideways, and into the city of dreams, Los Angeles. There, movie icons of old like Charlie Chaplin enjoyed eating lamb’s kidney with bacon alongside the perfect martini on Hollywood Boulevard and where the A-listers of today opt instead for chopped salad off the avenues of Beverly Hills.
Part 3: Ensenada
Rick enjoys a hearty steak and eggs American diner special and bids a fond farewell to his trusty Ford Mustang as he heads across what is reputed to be the busiest border crossing in the world – San Diego to Tijuana – to begin his Mexican adventures. He follows the Pacific coastline down to Ensenada.
Part 4: Guadalajara
Leaving the Baja Peninsula, Rick explores the western mainland. He lands in the town that placed tequila – and probably Mexico – on the world map and the metropolis that gave us mariachis and dishes like chilli con carne; a city so loved by its people that they insist on repeating its name twice – Guadalajara Guadalajara.
Part 5: Mexico City
Rick heads to the capital – a melting pot that encapsulates a country that, despite its narrow stature, crosses three time zones. For that simple reason, locals casually refer to the city as ‘Mexico’, and not much has changed to the food that fed the former seat of the Aztec Empire.
Part 6: Oaxaca
For Mexicans, their most revered dishes come from the south and their Mecca is undeniably Oaxaca, where locals still dress in traditional costume, bringing to life the enduring descriptions of writers like DH Lawrence, who fell in love with the area. This is the land that coined the phrase ‘people of the corn’, the former site of the desert empire of the Zapotecs.
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Residents Say Homeless Encampment in Queens Is Growing,...
Author Topic: Residents Say Homeless Encampment in Queens Is Growing,... (Read 4640 times)
petegart
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/07/25/city-struggles-to-rein-in-homeless-encampments-in-queens
Residents Say Homeless Encampment in Queens Is Growing, and Local Businesses Are Hurting Because of It
By Alyssa Paolicelli Queens
PUBLISHED 7:10 PM ET Jul. 25, 2020 UPDATED 2:35 PM ET Jul. 26, 2020
Since April, Whitney Avenue, alongside a shopping center in Elmhurst, Queens, has become home for a group of people experiencing homelessness.
Local residents and business owners say a homeless encampment has been set up on Whitney Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens, since April
For months, the community has filed 311 complaints and alerted the city, but say no action has been taken
Mayor de Blasio vowed to do "whatever it takes" to break up homeless encampments around the city
The side street where many businesses receive deliveries and customers park has now turned into a makeshift shelter.“Originally, they had around 15 to 20 people, now they expanded to 60, 70 people,” said Andy Chen, the owner of Home & Home Pharmacy, a local business.
Chen, along with many neighbors, tell NY1 they have been reporting this encampment to the city for months and nothing has been done.
He said business is tough enough because of the pandemic, and they don’t need anything else driving customers away.
“I understand it is a difficult time for everybody else, but look at us as residents and business owners. Here, at the end of the day, we are the ones suffering,"said Chen.
Earlier in the week, the mayor promised the city would do “whatever it takes” to break up such encampments, but Elmhurst business owners said they have seen none of that enforcement.
“We cannot do anything. We call and nobody can help us. We want to survive. Right now, not too much business. That is why we need the help," said Yokehong Ooi, the manager at Pulau Pinang, a local restaurant.
One employee said a local nonprofit has been coming three times a day and providing water and food for the unsheltered individuals, and even dropped off tents to provide shade and covering during rain.
“There are toilets in the back. They don’t want to leave. There is more and more coming,” added Phuiman Lo, a waitress at Pulau Pinang.
They say they've been fined because of the unintended consequences of the encampment.
“We have gotten tickets because it is too dirty. But it is not our fault. We have garbagemen come everyday, but it is them who throw the garbage to us in the back and we get tickets for them," said Lo.
The Department of Homeless Services said when a condition on the street needs to be addressed their office acts as quickly as they can.
The department stressed that it engages and works to build trust with the unsheltered individuals and offers them services, but added that results take time and do not happen overnight.
abcdefghijk
Re: Residents Say Homeless Encampment in Queens Is Growing,...
Also around the BQE at the 65th St subway station...
There's a homeless encampment and trash is everywhere.
Actually, talking about trash, our resident bagman has annexed a bench outside Food Dynasty and filled it sky high with garbage...
Apparently, he has an apartment somewhere in the neighborhood...perhaps he could be persuaded to keep his trash treasure there? Tho I pity his neighbors.
This is all definitely a health hazard.
Yankswun98
The BQE underpass on 35th avenue is filled with garbage. You can't even walk through without stepping on garbage. Also mattresses along with other items block the pathway.
Quote from: abcdefghijk on July 27, 2020, 08:34:00 AM
To deal with these issues...is it 311 you should call?
Quote from: abcdefghijk on July 27, 2020, 06:17:38 PM
I called 311 to report the encampment under the BQE and the area around 65th street. When I told the guy the location he said someone called last week and reported this. I have my reference number and will wait for an email update.
Funny how everyone's first thought is "how can I get rid of this?" instead of "how can I help these people?"
dssjh
Quote from: Fedup on July 28, 2020, 10:56:42 AM
thank you. righteous privilege is an ugly thing. but the inevitable denials and deflections are always comedy gold.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned on this board yet, but I saw it posted in another forum and thought it might be helpful to post it here.
There’s a bill before the City Council, Intro 1927, that's intended to reduce the spread of COVID among homeless New Yorkers and frontline social service and security workers. Rather than leave people in dangerous congregate shelters or move people into shared hotel spaces - typically occupied by strangers and which do not allow for protection from transmission - the bill requires the Department of Social Services to offer an individual room and bathroom to those in crowded, congregate shelters. Many people are not in shelters currently because they're afraid of contracting COVID in overcrowded shelters The bill also strengthens support for those living unsheltered on our streets and subways.
Neither Danny Dromm or Francisco Moya has co-sponsored the legislation or indicated that they support it. If you’re concerned about the lack of safe spaces for our unsheltered community members, you can give their offices a call and let them know that you support this legislation and would encourage them to support it, too.
Danny Dromm
dromm@council.nyc.gov
Francisco Moya
fmoya@council.nyc.gov
The bill itself is here: https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4424152&GUID=A763B8C0-DC29-415A-9FC0-A28335F20B20&Options=&Search=
With more info here: https://www.1927saveslives.org/
This problem is way bigger than anything I can even imagine how to solve. Congregating in shelters. Congregating outside. All COVID dangerous.
Maybe the city should give each homeless person $20,000? And some soap and clothes and a job?
I would vote for that.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2020, 11:16:56 AM by abcdefghijk »
Chingwa
"...a group of people experiencing homelessness."
Geez... this nanny language is getting out of hand.
Bleeding hearts are going to bleed us all dry.
Jobs for everyone MIGHT be a good idea, afterall everyone has a job in Communist China and look how awesome it is there. However I don't think "everyone gets a job" (no matter how menial) jives well with a constantly rising government mandated minimum wage.
that's the stuff. Communist China. the new Russia. showing compassion for the homeless. the new original sin. we are doomed if we stray from the path we've blazed since 2017. that is the only true path.
The homeless are obviously part of our landscape now.
But it's the trash they leave everywhere that's dangerous and a health hazard.
Maybe a trash education program for the homeless?
Where the homeless are taught to care for their new community. And not turn that community into garbage.
Jeffsayyes
I just passed by this on Whitney. They had a tent set up. Looked like they were having a great time there!
Quote from: Jeffsayyes on July 30, 2020, 02:51:54 PM
I also saw it.
While restaurants are shut down for allowing too much outside drinking/congregating...the homeless get to party.
What a strange world...
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CSE565 Fall 2010 | Week 04:Software Unit Testing Frameworks
September 7, 2010 javiergs
CSE565: Software Validation, Verification and Testing
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
The present document is a result of a web searching investigation about Unit Testing Frameworks. It provides an overview describing what is a unit-testing framework, how would a developer utilize a framework, what benefits does the framework provide, what costs are associated with using a framework, and an example of a framework and the specific capabilities it provides.
1. What is a Unit Testing Framework?
Lets build the concept explaining each of the related ideas [1]:
Unit is the given name for a piece of code; for example, it could be a method inside of a class.
Unit Testing is a process that proposes that each Unit on the source code get individually tested (independent from other units). The goal of Unit Testing is to isolate each Unit and show that each of them is working correctly. In order to do that each Unit developer must define Unit Test Casesfor that Unit.
Now with the given definitions, lets define what is a Unit Testing Framework.
Unit Testing Frameworks are tools and libraries that help to implement the Unit Testing process. There exists different Unit Testing Frameworks for different programming languages.
2. How to Utilize It?
As a developer using a Unit Testing Framework means:
a) To install the framework (tools and libraries) that is going to be used.
b) Coding Unit Test Cases.
3. Benefits
The benefits of using a Unit Test Framework are:
It provides a contract (the Test Cases) that each Unit should satisfy, which reduces uncertainty about the Unit behavior.
It helps to locate and fix bugs early (during the implementation phase).
It provides a way to document the system. A Unit Test Case is a good way to document critical characteristics of a Unit.
It helps to re-think about the system modularization. Due the fact that each Unit will be independently tested, it is a priority to perfectly identify the responsibilities of the Unit (implementation) and its connections (interfaces) with other Units.
The limitations of using a Unit Testing Framework are:
Unit Testing, by definition, only test the functionality of the Units themselves, it does not identify integration errors or performance problems.
It only shows the presence of errors (those that do not satisfy a Test Case) but do not warranty the absence of errors. This is important to keep on mind.
5. Costs
The costs associated with using a Unit Testing Framework are:
Developers need to write more code (to create the Unit Test Cases).
Writing more code means more resources. At least at the beginning it is going to be clear that more time or more people it is going to be required.
6. A Unit Testing Framework
The best way to give an example of Unit Testing Frameworks is to reference xUnit. xUnit is the name of a set of frameworks based on SUnit, a framework developed by Ken Beck for Smalltalk, and ported to Java for Erik Gamma and Ken Beck with the name of JUnit. Also ported to .NET asNUnit and ported to several other programming languages after that. Lets talk in specific about JUnit.
6.1. JUnit Capabilities
The main capabilities of JUnit are [4]:
It becomes the de facto standard for testing in Java.
It is recognized because it is easy to use (one test for each method).
It requires a minimal setup into the program structure to call the methods being tested and to compare the results of the call with the expected answer.
JUnit is a test framework, which uses annotations to identify the test methods.
JUnit assumes that the set of tests can be performed in an arbitrary order. Therefore tests should not depend on other tests.
6.2. JUnit Getting Started
To create a Test Case in JUnit basically, the developer need to follow three steps: (1) Import the package org.junit.Assert.*; (2) create a method and annotate it with @org.JUnit.Test; (3) call a method provided by JUnit to check the expected result of the code execution, versus the actual result, by example, call assertEquals().
If two or more Test Cases operate on the same sets of objects, JUnit allow us to define Test Fixtures [2] (those are preconditions needed to run a test, by example, instantiate the sets of objects). In order to do that follow the next steps: (1) Add a field for each object that is part of the fixture; (2) Annotate a method with @org.junit.Before and initialize the variables in that method; (3) Annotate a method with @org.junit.After to release any permanent resources you allocated in setup; (4) Follow the steps described before to create the Test Cases [2].
7. Coding Test Cases
I will use JUnit to demonstrate the use of Unit Test Frameworks. In particular I will use Netbeans 6.9 and JUnit 4.5 [4].
7.1. Binary Search Algorithm
This algorithm requires that the collection of data in which we are going to search had been already sorted. Then the algorithm checks the element in the middle of the collection. If the searched element is smaller or greater than the middle element then a sub-array is defined which is then used to search again. If the searched element is smaller than the middle element then the sub-array is from the start of the array until the middle element. If the searched element is larger than the middle element then the sub-array is from the middle element until the end of the array. Once the searched element is found or the collection is empty then the searching is over.
Returns the index of the element if founded or the negative index where the element should be inserted to maintain ascending ordering.
The value to search.
The collection of values to search in. The input list must be sorted in ascending order prior to searching; if not the result of this method is undefined. It must also contain at least one element.
7.2. Java Code
This is a simple implementation of Binary Search in Java for integers. The class Search contains a public class method called contains that receive as parameters a sorted collection of values and the value to be searched.
7.3. Test Cases
It is not required to elaborate exhaustive Test Cases to show how JUnit works. So, just to give an example, consider the following Test Cases defined applying Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Values.
7.4. Test Cases with JUnit
The class SearchTest implements the JUnit Test Cases as described in 6.2.
7.5. Results
Once the Test Cases are executed this is the output shown by Netbeans IDE.
Let us modify the method contains in our Search class to initialize the variable low as low = 1. While running the Test Cases we obtain an error message due the first element of the collection is never compared.
The error correspond to the line 34, where is defined the Test Case 1.
/*T1*/ assertEquals(Search.contains(a, 1), 0);
[1] Unit Testing. Retrieved September 5, 2010, from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292197(VS.71).aspx
[2] JUnit Cookbook by Kent Beck, Erich Gamma. Retrieved September 5, 2010, from JUnit web site: http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/cookbook/cookbook.htm.
[3] JUnit Home Page, Retrieved September 5, 2010, from http://junit.sourceforge.net
[4] Writing JUnit Tests in NetBeans IDE. Retrieved September 6, 2010, from http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/junit-intro.html
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Updated : 2021-01-08 09:19
Asylum seekers and refugees participate in a rally held in Seoul's Jongno District and organized by Amnesty International and NANCEN, a refugee rights group based in Eunpyeong District, calling for better treatment and support in this September 2018 photo. / Korea Times photo by Choi Won-suk
'Korea needs better refugee screening, not stricter application rules'
By Lee Hyo-jin
Darwish Musab, 28, was granted refugee status in Korea in April 2018. But, like many thousands of asylum seekers, he had to go through a long process as his application was initially denied.
The civic activist from Egypt and his wife entered the country in May 2016 seeking political asylum. But the Seoul Immigration Office rejected their application after a 30-minute interview. He launched an appeal regarding the decision but was again rejected.
He then took the case to the administrative court, where it was revealed that a written translation of his testimony had been deliberately mis-interpreted with fabrications. The document described Darwish as a construction worker who came here for money. Only after the trial was he given another interview.
"During the whole process, they didn't even look at my evidence ― hundreds of documents and videos ― of the political persecution I faced in my home country. And the interview documents were full of mistranslation and fabrications," Darwish told The Korea Times.
But Darwish considers himself one of the lucky ones as he was given a second chance though it took the help of lawyers to find a legal remedy.
"About 90 percent of asylum seekers are screened out in the initial stage through hastily conducted interviews. That is why applicants need their cases to be thoroughly reviewed several times," he said.
However, it seems that fewer asylum seekers to Korea will see their cases being overturned through appeals and trials, as the Ministry of Justice plans to apply tougher rules for reapplication, according to planned revisions to the Refugee Act announced in December.
Under the revision, those who reapply for refugee status without major changes in their circumstances will be classified within 14 days as "ineligible," a decision which will also deny them opportunities to appeal or file for an administrative trial.
The ministry stated that those whose reason for application was not clearly included among those stipulated in the Refugee Act, will have their application rejected under the category "clearly ungrounded application." Rejected applicants will be given limited access to appeal, and will not be able to receive a work permit.
The ministry said the rules were brought up in a bid to prevent abuse of the refugee law by "fake asylum seekers," adding it made references from similar policies used widely in other countries such as Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The announcement sparked an immediate backlash from refugee rights groups, who believe that the government is using its lack of ability to distinguish those seeking asylum under false pretenses as an excuse to raise the barrier to all asylum seekers.
"Since the government does not have any data to measure the risk of persecution in the applicants' home countries, the current screening process is only focused on examining whether they are here for economic reasons or not," read a statement issued by a coalition of civic groups.
Pointing out the absence of a humanitarian approach in the screening procedures, they urged the government to refrain from making unilateral assumptions that asylum seekers were abusing the system.
Lee Il, a lawyer at Advocates for Public Interest Law (APIL), said that the "retrogressive" policies may negatively affect the country's reputation in the international community.
"Although Korea has been proudly representing itself since 2013 as the first country in East Asia to enact the Refugee Act, the system has been poorly operated throughout the past seven years. And now the revisions clearly show that the country is retrogressing on its refugee policies," he said.
Lee stated that the justice ministry is pushing forward revisions that failed to win support from the Korean Bar Association and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea.
"The government seems to be using the public's anti-refugee sentiment, triggered by the Jeju refugee crisis in 2018, as grounds to implement harsher laws against all refugees," he said.
In order to address the "fake refugee" issue, instead of a higher bar for applicants, he suggested strengthening screening from the initial stage through proper interviews. "Our refugee system is not ready to adopt all the policies of European countries that are fundamentally more open to refugees. Korea's approval rate stays slightly above 1 percent," Lee said.
He urged the government to retract the revision plan and start from square one through discussions with civic activists and the local community.
The justice ministry did not reply to The Korea Times' inquiry for its comment on the matter.
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With the unfolding political intrigues in Imo State, the position of Gov Hope Uzodinma, as governor of Imo State has in recent times, come under threat, as powerful forces in the state, have aligned to ensure he does not remain in Douglas House till the end of the year.
The first move against Hope Uzodinma, came in the form of an alleged impeachment move, against him and Speaker Chiji Collins. The Speaker had raised alarm recently, accusing Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha, as being behind the impeachment moves against him and Uzodinma.
The move is not yet over, as attempts are still being perfected to remove Chiji. The latest move is on his certificate scandal, which is giving him sleepless nights.
Chiji had tried to gather people he claimed to be his classmates in Italy, but that move may not still save him, as it has not yet cleared him of the scandal.
The Kingdom Okere/RAP move against Hope Uzodinma, is the latest and biggest threat facing Hope Uzodinma now.
Kingdom Okere, who was the RAP Govenroship candidate, in the 2019 General Elections, had approached the court, to interpret the judgement against Ugwumba Uche Nwosu.
The Supreme Court had ruled that Uche Nwosu, was the candidate of APC and AA at the same time, and as such, was disqualified.
Okere is now demanding the Supreme Court to explain, that if Uche Nwosu is the APC candidate, which party did Hope Uzodinma win from?
Okere is not alone, as another lawyer have also approached the Supreme Court, to execute their judgement against Uche Nwosu.
An interpretation and execution of that judgement, would mean the inevitable sack of Gov Hope Uzodinma from Douglas House.
Uzodinma’s problems started, when he went against the agreements reached with those who helped him remove Ihedioha, including former Governor Rochas Okorocha amongst others.
An APC chieftain in Orlu Hon Don P. Nwachukwu, insisted that he warned Gov Hope Uzodinma, not to appeal the judgement reinstating the Okorocha local government officials.
Interestingly, the RAP case came up almost immediately after the Hope Uzodinma government, appealed the High Court ruling reinstating the LGA officials.
Gov Hope Uzodinma didn’t make friends with the powerful Okigwe billionaire and politician, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, who contributed to his Supreme Court victory, when he started making clandestine moves against Araraume to deny him the Okigwe Senate seat.
Araraume however showed capacity, when he was granted waiver to contest in the party primaries yesterday, despite moves by the Govenror to stop him.
Araraume has not spoken against Uzodinma, but pundits believe, that he will not come to Uzodinma’s rescue at this time, as Uzodinma had already tagged him an enemy and fought him, even when he (Araraume) had never lifted a finger against Uzodinma.
The death of Abba Kyari, and the removal of Adams Oshiomhole, have left deep dents in Uzodinma’s influence in Abuja.
He has not even been able to gain audience with Mr President, and that sends negative message, that Abuja may as well have turned their backs to him, and left him to replicate his Supreme Court magic on his own.
The recent shunning of the South East APC meeting he organized, by the likes of Orji Uzor Kalu, Okorocha and other top APC chieftains, and the subsequent meeting of South East APC leaders in Abuja, where he wasn’t invited to, sends signals that Okorocha has a firmer grip in the party over him.
The move to get Emeka Nwajiuba, a close friend to Mr President, to work on his behalf, seems not to be yielding fruit yet.
There are indications that Gov Hope Uzodinma may have to make some concessions, if he ever hopes to get the support of those who helped him get into power, and that might include the total cancelation of probes against Okorocha amongst others.
But having shown his hand, can they trust him for the second time, or would it be better for them to work for the return of Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha?
With his position hanging by a thread, Uzodinma’s future in Govenrment House Owerri is threatened.
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February 10, 2014, Paro: To help tackle illegal wildlife trade, the Department of Forest and Park Services (DoFPS) in partnership with International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) and INTERPOL is holding the second training workshop on ‘Prevention of Wildlife Trade (PWT)’ for officials of various enforcement agencies of the Royal Government of Bhutan.
The four-day workshop was inaugurated today by His Excellency Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji, Honourable Minister for Agriculture and Forests. Forty seven officials from the DoFPS, Department of Revenue and Customs, Royal Bhutan Police and Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority, Judiciary and Office of the Attorney General are attending the workshop.
During the inauguration of the workshop, H.E. Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji said, “Bhutan is recognized globally for its conservation leadership. To conserve these rich spaces lost forever elsewhere in the world, our Constitution decrees at least 60 percent of the country to be covered in forests in perpetuity.”
The Minister thanked the tireless contributions by the Forest Department personnel for preservation of the country’s natural heritage and to shed light on the significance of collaboration between various agencies including the DoFPS, BAFRA, judiciary, police, Army, and Customs.
Commending IFAW and WTI for their contributions to wildlife protection internationally and listing the initiatives supported by IFAW-WTI in Bhutan including the current workshop in collaboration with INTERPOL, the Minister said, “I know that long after we are all gone, your contributions this week will be one of the most enduring foundations in our endeavours to conserve the natural heritage of Bhutan.”
The current workshop will address issues ranging from identification of commonly traded wildlife species of flora and fauna, international regulations for preventing the illegal trade, theory of wildlife crime, the driving forces behind it as well as national laws and regulations of Bhutan and their implementation.
Sonam Wangchuk, the Chief of the Wildlife Conservation Division and CITES Management Authority of Bhutan’s DoFPS, commented on the workshop saying, “Trainings like these ones provided by IFAW-WTI are crucial in helping authorities keep a check on wildlife trade in the country. With wildlife crime rates on a global high, it becomes pertinent to involve other agencies like the police, BAFRA, department of revenue and customs who play a vital role in prevention of wildlife crimes and helps in the apprehension and conviction of perpetrators.”
This is the second phase of the PWT in Bhutan. The resource-persons include wildlife trade control experts from the DoFPS, INTERPOL, IFAW and WTI. The first phase took place in July 2011 where experts from IFAW-WTI covered the entire gamut of wildlife trade control, international regulations and enforcement in a four-day training, which had been preceded by a rescue, rehabilitation and conflict management workshop.
During this workshop, IFAW trainer Dr Elsayed Mohamed will be walking the members through particulars of CITES and will conduct a practical workshop on identification of various animal articles, products and concealment methods adopted by smugglers across the world. Mr. Vivek Menon from IFAW-WTI will conduct sessions on identification of various wildlife found in the region and the overall global scenario of crimes associated with the trafficking of wildlife. INTERPOL’s Andreou Andreas will delve into profiling the smugglers and the common techniques and methodologies employed by them during transportation and trade. Basics of rescue and rehabilitation of confiscated animals will be dealt with by trainer from IFAW-WTI Jose Louies.
“Illegal trade is one of the greatest threats to wildlife across the world. Fighting this effectively requires cooperation and expertise at various levels and institutions, within a nation and between different nations. Workshops like these help effectively mobilise agencies concerned within a government to curb wildlife trade,” said Vivek Menon, Regional Director – South Asia, IFAW and Executive Director, WTI, who has been at the forefront in the fight against wildlife trade.
Bhutan, with ten wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, is resplendent with many species of flora and fauna to boast of including the Bengal tiger, snow leopard, common leopard, clouded leopard, golden langur, takin, red panda, various species of hornbills, Asian elephants, Asiatic black bear to name a few.
“Bhutan is a unique country with rich biodiversity and is already contributing so much through the government mandate of 60% forest cover at all times, and the enthusiasm of the officials and people in protecting the natural heritage. It is not just inspirational but also a learning experience for us, and an honour to be of assistance here to help address threats to wildlife,” remarked Kelvin Alie, Director of Wildlife Trade Programme, IFAW.
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Beyonce Pays Tribute to Prince with “The Beautiful Ones” During Dallas Tour Stop
May 10th, 2016 by K104
Robin HarperNow that some of the dust has settled over the Lemonade controversies, Beyonce performed a new tribute to Prince during her Dallas tour stop of her Formation World Tour.
Beyonce performed a stunning cover of “The Beautiful Ones,” which is a ballad from the late singer’s seminal Purple Rain soundtrack. You can see two-and-a-half minutes of the performance in fan video posted to YouTube.
“‘Do you want her/ Or do you want me?/ ‘Cause I want you,’ Beyonce sang, a lyric that would have fit in her own album Lemonade,” Rolling Stone noted of the performance.
The 20-time Grammy Award winning superstar previously covered the song when she headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2011.
During the inaugural April 27 tour date, Beyonce turned the stage purple and playing his original version of “Purple Rain.” She also reportedly remixed Vanity 6‘s “Nasty Girl” into her own song “Blow” as a tribute to the Prince protégé Vanity, who died in February.
Prince openly embraced Beyoncé when he first encountered her in 2004 rehearsing for their iconic joint Grammy performance. The pair played a medley of Purple Rain songs as well as a “Crazy in Love” musical and dance interlude.
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Posted by richard | May 9, 2016
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The lingerie industry is disproportionately propped up by two annual sales-driven holidays — Christmas and Valentine’s Day — but Mother’s Day is where its heart lies.
It’s no stretch to say that behind every professional in the lingerie business there’s a mother who made it all possible — tireless cheerleaders who helped shape their children’s fashion sense, taught them to sew, encouraged their career aspirations and, in many cases, paid for all the schooling and professional development that kickstarted their futures.
(If you subscribe to any of the e-mail newsletters sent out by lingerie brands, you were probably moved by all the deeply personal tributes that poured into your inbox yesterday.)
Now, one innovative young brand is harnessing the tremendous influence and authority of moms for some valuable business advice and guidance.
Yellowberry, the youth label started by a high school senior in 2014, created an advisory council last year called Yellowberry Moms to help the company manage its explosive growth and stay connected to its core market of pre-teen girls.
The idea grew out of a social media phenomenon that helped put Yellowberry on the fashion map in the first place: when news about the unique tween brand started to spread in 2014, the company was swamped with enthusiastic comments from parents who cheered its age-appropriate, non-sexual underwear designs for young girls. Since then, glowing emotional testimonials from mothers have become a common — and quite unique — feature on Yellowberry‘s website and social media feeds.
To tap into all that goodwill, Yellowberry last year pitched the idea of a mothers’ advisory group in an e-mail to its followers and “got hundreds of applications in the first hour,” founder Megan Grassell told Lingerie Talk.
“We were so overwhelmed by all the people who wanted to be a part of it,” Megan said. “Moms are a huge part of our brand. Because our brand story is so strong, they wanted to support it. And we thought, ‘How can we really tap into that? How can we bounce ideas off them?'”
Yellowberry founder Megan Grassell hosted the brand’s second pop-up shop at
Bloomingdale’s New York flagship store on the weekend.
The Yellowberry Moms, who now number in the thousands, are consulted on upcoming product ideas and are encouraged to share stories of their girls’ lives with others in the Yellowberry network.
Moms join the group via an online application and are consulted with group surveys. Megan explains how the process works:
“Earlier this week we were making some decisions about a few new products, but we were not really sure what our customers would like best. Our opinions varied throughout the office, and we realized that even if we liked product A better than product B, that didn’t really matter because we aren’t the customers.
“So we sent an email to our mom council, addressing these specific products and what their daughters would like best. Then we were able to make a strong and informed decision moving forward, knowing that we were building products our customers wanted.
“It’s the best feedback and advice we can have, in my opinion, and it’s been really helpful so far,” she added. “They just want what is best for their daughters, and share those thoughts with us.”
Yellowberry Moms is part focus group and part marketing initiative, since its members are usually the first to learn of new collections, campaigns, pop-up shops and Megan’s frequent speaking engagements as an advocate for empowering girls.
And all that advice has proved vital for a fast-moving startup whose product catalogue now includes more than a dozen bra styles, several underwear styles, socks, a loungewear line and accessories. Yellowberry is also preparing to launch its first swimwear collection for girls this summer with a Kickstarter campaign.
The influence of Yellowberry‘s army of moms can also be seen in its first video campaign, a 12-part series called #MyFirstBra in which women discuss their often-horrible early experiences shopping for bras. The company posts a new video each week on its website and Youtube channel, and encourages it followers to share their own first-bra tales as well.
“We receive so many first-bra stories from our customers, for me it’s about really starting the conversation,” Megan said. “Every woman has that experience and almost every time it’s not a good one. So I want to show why Yellowberry is not only a great brand with quality products, but prove why we are needed for girls!”
Yellowberry famously got its start when Megan took her younger sister shopping for her first bra in a mall and was appalled by the sexualized styles being sold as training bras to young girls. After launching Yellowberry, she was named one of the world’s 25 most influential teens by Time magazine and earlier this year was named to Forbes magazine’s top 30-under-30 list of young entrepreneurs.
Megan, now 20, recently relocated to New York City after starting Yellowberry in her family home near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Last month, Megan was named Wyoming’s 2016 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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Mother’s Day for Peace
This short film was produced by Brave New Films. In February 2006, we accompanied Omar and his father to the US after making arrangements for Omar’s treatment in Boston. Robert Greenwald had produced a new video about Mother’s Day that featured Gloria Steinem and a number of well-known actresses. Mother’s Day was originally intended as an urgent invitation for the women of the world to stand up against war and militarism. Elizabeth Ward Howe wrote the proclamation. The day has metastasized into a tacky merchandizing bonanza, and most people don’t know its origins. But they exist, and this video informed tens of thousands of viewers about the forgotten roots of Mother’s Day.
NNV was working on a project to bring Salee Alawee to the US for a new pair of legs. Hers had been blown off in the US missile strike that killed her brother and best friend and seriously injured her four-year-old cousin. Brave New Foundation used Mother’s Day for Peace to raise funds that helped us realize that project. Salee visited the states three times over the years for new prosthetic legs. We will always be grateful to Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation for their vital assistance with helping Salee and other war-injured children.
Brave New Films and Brave New Foundation have been tireless in efforts to inform the public about official crimes, especially war crimes. They are currently doing very important work on the infamous use of drones to terrorize entire civilian populations. We urge you to visit their websites here, here and here.
War crimes have fingerprints, and there is no statute of limitations.
News Report from Iraq: Who Will Help Omar?
This report was originally broadcast in Iraq. Omar was horribly burned when US forces opened fire on a passenger vehicle as he traveled with his family to visit relatives during Eid. The obvious corollary: foreign forces opening fire on a family on its way to celebrate Christmas with relatives. Such crimes cause deep anger and expose American civilians to reprisal attacks. Those who pretend to be “protecting Americans” are in fact exposing all Americans to danger by committing international war crimes on a vast scale.
The failure of the corporate media to inform Americans about these crimes makes them complicit, and leaves Americans generally uninformed about the root causes of “terrorism” and susceptible to Pentagon propaganda. We brought Omar to Boston for treatment that was not provided by the US military. Omar got help with his horrific injuries. Americans learned about his story, and the project communicated to the world that millions of Americans are opposed to aggression and deeply sympathetic with its defenseless victims.
Boy Injured by US Forces Arrives in Los Angeles For Medical Care
No More Victims brought Umm Haider and Mostafa, an Iraqi mother and her injured son, to the United States in early April 2003. The bombing was well underway and the corporate media dutifully celebrated US military power. Nationalistic fervor swept the country. Mustafa received medical care and his mother an opportunity to tell her story…
Asraa Amir
Domestic Surveillance
War Comes Home
Reported deaths and injuries Pakistan 2004–2013 CIA Drone Strikes Total strikes: 378
Obama strikes: 326
Total killed: 2,528-3,644
Civilians killed: 416-948
Children killed: 168-200
Injured: 1,125-1,545
Yemen 2002–2013 US Covert Action Confirmed drone strikes: 54-64
Total killed: 268-397
Civilians killed: 21-58
Children killed: 5
Injured: 65-147
Possible extra drone strikes: 82-101
Children killed: 6-9
Other covert operations: 12-77
Children killed: 24-26
Somalia 2007–2013 US Covert Action Drone strikes: 4-10
Total killed: 9-30
Civilians killed: 0-15
Injured: 2-24
Other covert operations: 8-15
Total killed: 48-150
Injured: 13-21
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the sounds of the LRT
when i started to utilize the LRT, an air-conditioned train was a rare sight. and what a treat it was back in the day when you chance upon this new train. it's cool, it's roomy, and it had a radio. unfortunately, the radio dial was stuck to radio stations such as yes fm, love radio and the likes. radio stations that play mostly novelty songs, foreign music (and i do mean foreign, no one understands the words), and music that would make your ears bleed. we used to call these songs "LRT songs" or "FX songs" and just the mention of it would bring to mind the genre it represents.
then there was the LRT bombings. LRT stopped its operations for a couple of months. and when it resumed service the air-con trains were nowhere in sight. there were only regular trains and a train ride during that time was eerie. alert and silent.
a few years after the tragedy and a hundred percent of the trains in operation are now fully air-conditioned. there's no radio though, but the noise is definitely back. irritating laughter, loud ringtones (mostly monotones), loud conversations over the phone, or just mere talks. and as a sole traveler, i just can't help but eavesdrop on people. how many times have you listened to a story you know is a stir? people sometimes just don't know what they're talking about. i could only shake my head. if only i could slap them and tell the right story.
and don't get me started on cellphones. with volume to a maximum, you would hear a monotone version of the latest telenovela theme song. and as if ten people on the train have the same ringtone, the owner would let the song finish. and when he finally answers the call, you'll hear this: "hello? hello?! hello, hello? hello?" then checks his phone if it's still on then: "hello?! hello? hello..."
there's no one on the other line stupid, drop the phone!
Posted by Ron Go at Saturday, March 11, 2006
unwelcomed visitors
a raincloud on a hot summer day
still on a time warp
you steal music, i steal music
i'm officially a 10 year-old
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By Brian Phillips
Juande Ramos has resigned from Sevilla in a move that seems a certain prelude to his replacing Gary Megson at Leicester. Ramos declined to give a press conference at Sevilla, but “has chosen his website www.juanderamos.com as a means of saying goodbye to the club,” according to a statement released by Sevilla. In other news, www.juanderamos.com have announced no plans to consider increasing their server capacity.
UPDATE: With a machete, a pith helmet, and patience, I have successfully reached the English front page of juanderamos.com. There’s nothing about his resignation, but I have learned his greatest belief:
What you put into football you get back, a thousandfold.
No word on whether endlessly hitting reload after countless page timeouts counts as putting something into football.
SECOND UPDATE: Ramos has confirmed on his website that he has received “an offer he couldn’t refuse” and is moving to London with his family. He coyly avoids mentioning Tottenham by name, however, and in an evident conspiracy to keep the third period out of the ellipsis for as long as possible, there’s no announcement from Spurs. It’s surely a done deal at this point, or as close as there is to such a thing in football.
Read More: Coaching Changes, Juande Ramos, Tottenham
by Brian Phillips · October 27, 2007
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Ludwig Leitner
Title: Ludwig Leitner
Subject: February 24, March 21, 1964 in sports, Lauberhorn, Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics, Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics, Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics, Leitner, Hahnenkamm, Kitzbühel, List of Alpine Skiing world champions
Competitor for West Germany
Men’s Alpine skiing
Gold 1964 Innsbruck Combined
Bronze 1962 Chamonix Combined
Bronze 1966 Portillo Combined
Ludwig Leitner (February 24, 1940 – March 21, 2013) was a West German alpine ski racer and world champion, born in Mittelberg, Austria.
Leitner became a world champion in the combined event in Innsbruck in 1964.[1] He earned world championship bronze medals in the combined event 1962 and 1966.
Leitner competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where he finished 4th in slalom. At the 1964 Winter Olympics, he finished 5th in the slalom and 5th in the downhill.
Ski-db.com - Ludwig Leitner
Ludwig Leitner's obituary (German)
World Champions in Men's Combined
1932: Otto Furrer
1933: Anton Seelos
1934: David Zogg
1936: Rudolf Rominger
1937: Émile Allais
1939: Josef Jennewein
1948: Henri Oreiller
1954: Stein Eriksen
1956: Toni Sailer
1960: Guy Périllat
1962: Karl Schranz
1964: Ludwig Leitner
1966: Jean-Claude Killy
1970: Billy Kidd
1972: Gustav Thöni
1974: Franz Klammer
1978: Andreas Wenzel
1980: Phil Mahre
1982: Michel Vion
1985: Pirmin Zurbriggen
1987: Marc Girardelli
1991: Stephan Eberharter
1993: Lasse Kjus
1997: Kjetil André Aamodt
2003: Bode Miller
2005: Benjamin Raich
2007: Daniel Albrecht
2009: Aksel Lund Svindal
2013: Ted Ligety
Name Leitner, Ludwig
Short description German alpine skier
Date of birth February 24, 1940
Date of death March 21, 2013
This biographical article relating to alpine skiing is a stub. You can help World Heritage Encyclopedia by expanding it.
This biographical article related to German sports is a stub. You can help World Heritage Encyclopedia by expanding it.
Skiing, Cross-country skiing, Freestyle skiing, Austria, Snow
Alpine skiing combined
Austria, World War II, Canada, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, Spain
Karl Schranz, Marianne Jahn, Egon Zimmermann, Marielle Goitschel, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, France
France, Austria, Italy, United States, West Germany
2015, 1984, Arizona, 2011, 1989
1964 In Sports
France, Austria, Germany, Tokyo, Netherlands
Lauberhorn
Switzerland, Bernese Alps, Canton of Bern, Wengen, Grindelwald
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ACAS- your view now?
Re: ACAS- your view now?
Post by shock rock » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:55 pm
I echo the sentiments of most of the above,i was gravely disappointed .Its no wonder Ezrin turned down a sequel to ACAS.The only thing i find somewhat endearing is the lyrics "You look good in the trunk of my car...." and "I got a head full of faces....."
Post by While Heaven Wept » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:22 pm
I just tried to listen to the album and had to stop after track 3. It's just awful.
EOAC and Dirty Diamonds on the other hand still sound great to my ears. Certainly not his best albums, but there's some really solid songs on those 2 albums, inspired lyrics and great playing....things that were sorely missed on ACAS.
In Chick
Post by In Chick » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:11 pm
Well, you're all intitled to your opinion on this album, but I must say that I like it. Great conceptual album, like just Alice can do. As for the production, who I am to criticize a music album? Who am I to criticize what a rock icon, a legend has been doing all his life, and doing good?
Slash and Ozzy, did participate in this album.
Not exactly no names and beginners, right?
Anyway, it rocks, it has horror features, à la ''Silence of the Lambs''. To me, listening to good music is like listening to a good movie. ACAS... give a listen one more time. Maybe it will excit you, make you laugh, scare you, make you cry, make you angry or perplex, whatever... but it was a good album.
Headbangers Ball
Post by Headbangers Ball » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:58 pm
ACAS is ok. Vengeance and The One that Got Away are the only two songs that do anything for me. And TOTGA only appeals because of the opening lines 'I think you'd look good in the trunk of my car' - cause we all know someone we would like to lock in the trunk never to see the light of day again!
IMHO, the last decent album Alice brought out, was TEOAC, its one of my favourites that I still play.
As for Dirty Diamonds - absolute dross, total dross, and the most Un-Alice album I have ever heard.
IF YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING, ITS A GOOD DAY!
I don't think the fact that Slash and Ozzy featured adds any weight to the argument in support of the album.
Also, Ozzy's contribution was minimal to say the least.
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Location: Exeter, Devon, UK
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Post by wind_up_toy » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:26 pm
Wake the Dead sums the album up to be honest. It could have been great but then... "shake my head, wake the dead"!?!? Enough said
Probably the best album cover though, top class!
I sincerely hope W2MN delivers otherwise it will be quite a run of mediocrity I'm afraid.
Visit my fan site: http://www.welcometomynightmare.co.uk
That's a polite request not an order
I agree, the artwork, imagery and presentation was fantastic, as was the promo video.
I wasn't too negative though as for me i personally blamed the producer for the poor album. I have high hopes for WTMN2, if its anywhere near as good as EOAC i'll be happy.
I have high hopes for WTMN2, if its anywhere near as good as EOAC i'll be happy.
I hope your right!!! I really think 'Eyes' was the last good thing churned out.
And while I think its a pipe dream to even expect anything close to the original WTMN kind of material - one can always hope??!
Post by RemarkablyInsincere » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:47 pm
While I got caught up in the euphoria of a new Alice release when it first came out, ACAS hasn't stood the test of time for me. I don't find myself wanting to listen to it which is pretty much the litmus test on how I ultimately feel about an album years later. There are a few good things on it, as with every Alice album, however much of the album feels like it's missing Alice's special something.
I agree that the two bonus tracks were better than much of what made the album, which is a head scratcher. I also think that one of the best pieces of music on the whole CD is "I Am The Spider". I think this would have been better served as a center piece to build the album around rather than feeling like an abbreviated after thought.
DD has some excellent stuff on it, but isn't quite as consistent through and through as TEOAC which is really a terrific Alice Cooper album from start to finish.
ElectedPlus
Post by ElectedPlus » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:44 pm
Best thing about the album was promo material - found the photo's to be some of the most striking / sinister I've seen, the one featured as the cover of ToD DVD being the greatest.
Then the weekly teaser videos were well made and did a good job of building up anticipation (my fav. being the 'psycho' homage).
And of course the virtual pinball machine.
All brilliant promo material but the album itself I found to be rather dull (still do)...the lyrics mostly was a let down apart from a good few lines (opening of TOTGA as has been mentioned ... chloroform and handcuffs just for you being another). But overall had the impression that the idea of the album was more ambitious than the album itself.
The recordings that are out there of Vengence & Feminine Side performed live sound great tho. I wonder if more of the tracks would sound better when onstage.
Shoesalesman
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
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Post by Shoesalesman » Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:53 am
I play it sometimes at work, in the garage while tinkering, it's a good album. I play it on a regular rotation, especially on road trips. Could do without the clapping though.
Good concept, some good guitar hooks, Alice's voice was pretty solid.
If I may put forward a slice of personal colostomy...
WickedYoungMan
Location: Still Outside Your Bedroom Window
Post by WickedYoungMan » Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:51 am
In Chick wrote: Well, you're all intitled to your opinion on this album,
Thanks for the approval...
Ozzy didn't really "participate" in the way you're probably thinking. As I understand it, his role (the harmonica intro) was left over from a demo that Danny Saber had several years ago (or at least the story is similar to that.)
Me = Winning
shock rock wrote: The only thing i find somewhat endearing is the lyrics "You look good in the trunk of my car...."
It's ironic, since that was originally a "Saints of the Underground" song and so that lyric may not have been Alice's to begin with! (I'm really curious what the original version sounded like.)
The son of Don Quijote
Post by The son of Don Quijote » Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:16 am
I also think that the album lacks the surprise element (Only surprising thing was weakness of the material) unlike many other Alice albums. Like for example on School's out album right after Street fight comes Jazz song Blue turk and on Goes to hell the extremely clever musical parody Give the kid a break comes out of nowhere.
But when you get to the middle of ACAS absolutely nothing surprising is waiting you behind the corner. I am hoping that WTMN2 is return to strange musical twists. I want something that attacks me behind the corner musically speaking.
And I agree the concept of the album is more ambitous than the album itself. I hope the WTMN2 lyrics are more along the lines of those extra verses that Alice added to Devil's food on Theater of death tour. They were great.
Post by Gunner » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:44 am
I really think 'Eyes' was the last good thing churned out.
WTMN2 features Mr Ezrin, it HAS to be good, the bloke is excellent!!
recoop
Location: York, England
Post by recoop » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:12 pm
Re Gunners last comment..I agree Bob E can be excellent but even he can preside over some not so great stuff...although it all depends on opinions again..e.g.some people love stuff on Lace and W AND DADA which I struggle with..I am naturally hopeful that W2 will be good
You are an individual, just like everybody else.
Post by While Heaven Wept » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:39 pm
Bob Ezrin is a producer in the truest sense of the word....he doesn't just twiddle knobs and mess around with frequencies, he is a master at crafting songs and bringing out the dynamics.... something that the original WTMN had LOTS of!
ACAS had very little in the way of dynamics and i'm not just talking about the production (did i mention that the production is awful? Think i may have suggested that before).... the songs lack any real direction.
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Post by Darren » Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:31 am
I liked ACAS, even though I was not initially impressed with "Vengence" lyricly (sounds great though) and yes, some of the production may not have been to my liking.I am never a fan of clapping in any song, I just think it cheapens it.
I loved the ballads even, I haven't liked very many of them since the 70s. I love killed by love.
Over all, I dig the album...it's classic rock,...not really any different then TEOAC and DD...So I'm not sure why some people dislike it so much and love the other two. It is the same style of 4/4 beat, with classic rock guitar playing.
A_MichaelUK
Post by A_MichaelUK » Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:28 am
>So I'm not sure why some people dislike it so much and love the other two. It is the same style of 4/4 beat, with classic rock guitar playing.
Because not everyone has the same taste in songs. The "style" has nothing to do with it.
playingwithtrains
Post by playingwithtrains » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:18 pm
while it is not my favorite AC album, I like it a lot more than some folks.
My only disappointment was that the story was not all that scary. Perhaps the bar has been raised so high on what constitutes "horror" in pop culture these days as compared to the '70s... can anyone truly "shock" anyone anymore?
Admittedly I'm not a professional musician, engineer or producer... but I don't think ACAS is all that bad of an album. To each his own, as has been mentioned... I like Dada a lot and plenty of fans don't like that one much, either.
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sri lanka civil war
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Sri Lanka rules out outside probe
Article Date:
Sri Lanka has dismissed calls for an independent inquiry into claims of human rights abuses by the military, saying its own courts will investigate.
Foreign minister Rohita Bogollagama said the claims that heavy weaponry was used in civilian areas during the war with Tamil rebels were "fictional".
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S.Lanka seeks help in dismantling Tigers' network
But Bogollagama said the campaign to crush the rebels was a model for others to follow.
"Sri Lanka will, no doubt, enter the annals of history as a classic textbook example of a nation that successfully prevailed over the scourge of terrorism, whilst tenaciously upholding the cherished values of democracy and human rights that have been deeply engraved in the psyche of our people," he said.
internally displaced people
'I'm only 16. They gave me a rifle. It was heavy. They said we had to go forward. If we came back, they would shoot us'
The accounts of these boys and girls who surrendered to the Sri Lankan army were shocking. They say they were dragged screaming from their families and sent into action with only a few days of basic training. The older members of the LTTE warned them to keep firing and advancing, or they would be shot by their own side from behind.
Those who did try to escape said they were fired on by their own side. Children who were recaptured had their hair shaved off to mark them as deserters and boys were beaten.
Gethin Chamberlain
ltte
The hidden massacre: Sri Lanka’s final offensive against Tamil Tigers
More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final throes of the Sri Lankan civil war, most as a result of government shelling, an investigation by The Times has revealed.
The number of casualties is three times the official figure.
The Sri Lankan authorities have insisted that their forces stopped using heavy weapons on April 27 and observed the no-fire zone where 100,000 Tamil men, women and children were sheltering. They have blamed all civilian casualties on Tamil Tiger rebels concealed among the civilians.
Catherine Philp
The Times of London
casualty figures
Sri Lanka urged at U.N. to ensure aid reaches Tamils
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which has evacuated 14,000 sick and wounded people and their families from the Sri Lankan war zone since February, said it still did not have full access to its military-run camps for displaced people.
ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger cited huge needs for aid and medical care for those sheltering in facilities such Manik Farm, which holds about 210,000 people.
It is "still not clear" whether Sri Lanka will allow aid workers to reach people needy help, Kellenberger said. "We are in discussions with them," he told a news conference in Geneva.
international aid organizations
End of a War: How Sri Lanka's terrorist Tamil Tigers brought about their own destruction
Rarely in the contemporary world has a domestic insurgency been as decisively crushed by military means as the Tamil Tiger rebels of Sri Lanka have been -- and arguably not in recent times has a reversal of fortunes been so dramatic. During a war that raged more than a quarter century, the Tigers, who claimed to represent a minority that makes up about a fifth of Sri Lanka's population, grew to control more than a third of the country and operated their own government, legal system, navy and air force.
prabhakaran
Sri Lanka army 'defeats rebels'
Speaking on a visit to Jordan, Mahinda Rajapakse said he would return home to a nation totally free from the "barbaric acts" of the rebel group.
However, senior officials told the BBC fighting rages on in a tiny area of the north-east where the Tigers' leadership is said to be cornered.
Sri Lanka: Truth, bias and the BBC
Apart from all the above, there are some difficult problems reporting Sri Lanka.
Lots of the worst things that happen go on well away from the eyes of independent journalists.
In these circumstances, when we can't be sure for ourselves who has done what, all we can do is report what people say has happened.
In Sri Lanka that often means this: A group of people are killed, quite possibly civilians. The government and the Tigers accuse each other of the killings.
To complicate matters further, "shadowy paramilitary groups" may have been involved.
Bernard Gabony
Sri Lanka: Displaced Tamils seek missing family
Aid agencies have warned that a lack of sanitation and adequate medicine was allowing disease like hepatitis to spread.
Indeed, many of the inmates interviewed at Manik Farm said their children were suffering from diarrhea and other illnesses that stem from tainted water. One woman held up her baby who she said had diarrhea for three days. When she took him to the camp clinic the doctor said the child was fine and sent her away, she said.
Ravi Nessman
manik farm
S.Lanka offers Tigers rehabilitation or trial
Many of the remaining 2,000 who have "self-confessed" are likely to face trial.
"They have taken guns, fought against the army. So they have to go through rehabilitation so that they can live as normal Sri Lankans," said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara.
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Airport Master Plan takes shape
The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority has started to make the dust fly as it implements the Master Plan for Tampa International Airport. Before the recession, a previous version of the master plan called for a second terminal to be built close to Hillsborough Avenue. The current plan focuses on maximizing the existing main terminal facilities while still providing the high level of service for which this airport is known.
The plan allows a “build as demand dictates” approach to growth, outlining three phases of expansion to accommodate 35 million passengers each year, more than double the current number of annual passengers. The first phase, which launched last year, takes care of immediate needs and includes:
A consolidated rental car center near the long-term parking
An automated people mover connecting the main terminal to the new rental car center
Transfer level expansion and concessions redevelopment
Projects anticipated in the second phase include:
Hotel and service building demolition and replacement
Air Traffic Control Tower relocation
An employee parking structure
The longer-term Phase 3 calls for expansion projects:
North of main terminal
New international terminal
Additions to Airside C
New customs & immigration checkpoints
All three phases together are anticipated to generate an impressive 25,000+ jobs. Visit the Airport Master Plan website for more information.
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Theaters 5409 Snyder Ln, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 MoreLess Info
Located within a 42,000 square-foot facility, the Spreckels Performing Arts Center is a venue that is host to a number of shows and performances throughout the year. Visitors commonly enjoy attending one of the locally produced musicals or plays.
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STATISTICS: 9 months profits of Slovak insurers more than doubled to EUR 132.63 million
STATISTICS: Cyprus insurance market posted Q3 subunit growth rate
ESAs' Joint Board of Appeal dismissed appeal by Scope Ratings GmbH against the European Securities and Markets Authority
The Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) has decided to dismiss the appeal brought by the credit rating agency Scope Ratings GmbH against the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in relation to the interpretation of the applicable legal provisions of the Credit Rating Agencies (CRA) Regulation.
TAJIKISTAN: since 2015, the highest volume of assets and the biggest number of contracts concluded were observed in 2019
In the first nine months of 2020 total assets of the Tajik insurance companies reached TJS 417.3 million (~EUR 34.5 million*), which is about 92% of their assets amount in 2019, according to the data, published by the National Bank of Tajikistan.
DELOITTE assisted VIG in taking over AEGON's units in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey
DELOITTE assisted the Austrian insurer VIG in taking over the units of the Dutch financial group AEGON in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey, informed the Romanian insurance news portal www.1asig.ro here
Hungarian Central Bank fined GROUPAMA HUF 49.5 million
The Central Bank of Hungary - Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) the regulator and supervisor of Hungarian insurance market fined local insurer GROUPAMA Biztosito HUF 49.5 million (about ~ EUR 137,500) for the violations of MTPL's portfolio management, IT security, remuneration policy, risk management system, and other deficiencies of customer information and complaint handling.
Estonia: 41% of traffic accidents happen in parking lots
According to the most recent statistics published by Estonian Motor Insurance Bureau, in the first eleven months in 2020, in the country there were about 25,000 traffic insurance accidents subject to insurance, of which 10,300 were related to parking lots.
Turkish insurance sector to be boosted with the help of MoF
Turkish Finance Minister Lutfi ELVAN mentioned that the Government will take concrete steps to move the insurance and private pension industry forward, according to the Middle East Insurance Review.
KAZAKHSTAN: new benchmarks for market development to make competition more transparent and fairer
In 2021, development of the insurance market in Kazakhstan will follow the benchmarks formed by the pandemic - among them active development of online insurance, infrastructure, and digital marketing. "This will help to make competition between companies more transparent and fairer", said Anna NEKRYUKOVA, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Amanat for Kapital.kz.
AZERBAIJAN: for 11 months of 2020, compulsory non-life insurance generated over 23% of the market GWP
In December 2020 GWP of the compulsory non-life insurance in Azerbaijan exceeded AZN 156.8 million (~EUR 77.13 million*), generated for 11 months of the year. This is equal to 23.4% of the total market GWP, as Trend informed according to the data of the Central Bank of the country.
AZERBAIJAN: AXA MBASK will terminate its activity
The Azerbaijani insurance company AXA MBASK will terminate its activity and will be liquidated, based on the decision of its management, Trends reported with reference to the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan.
AM Best confirms credit ratings of EyeMed Insurance Company
Financial Strength Rating of EyeMed Insurance Company (EIC) (Phoenix, AZ) was confirmed of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of "a". The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.
Generali admitted to the Cooperative Compliance regime
Assicurazioni Generali was admitted to the Cooperative Compliance regime, established by Legislative Decree n. 128/2015, according to a Generali press release. This will enable an innovative way to maintain constant and preemptive dialogue with the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate).
Guy Carpenter: the main hallmarks of the January 1, 2021 reinsurance renewals
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Agritask Platform was selected by Mapfre Colombia to empower its crop-insurance business
Mapfre Colombia, a subsidiary of Mapfre Re, a Spanish (re)insurer with offices in 19 countries has announced that it selected the Agritask analytics and operations platform to enhance its risk monitoring and claim management processes of its agriculture business.
Insurance Europe: Work to improve PRIIPs KID must prioritise insurance consumers
Following press reports that the European Commission has put pressure on the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to propose, by the end of January, technical solutions to make the key information document (KID) for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) suitable for undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS), in view of the end of the exemption for these funds from PRIIPs rules in December 2021, William Vidonja, head of conduct and business at Insurance Europe, said:
Insurers warn EIOPA against prescriptiveness in ORSA climate risk requirements
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STATISTICS: Romania, Q3: Two insurers control almost three quarters of MTPL market
In the first 9 months of 2020, the insurance market in Romania posted GWP of RON 8.52 billion (~EUR 1.74 billion), increasing by approximately 4.77% y-o-y, shows in the report published at the end of December by Romanian ASF - Financial Supervisory Authority, according to the Romanian insurance portal www.1asig.ro here.
STATISTICS: Macedonian insurance sector responses to COVID-19 with 5.2% contraction after Q3
Macedonian insurers posted nine-months 2020 aggregate GWP worth MKD 7.52 billion (~EUR 122 million), 5.22% less y-o-y, according to the market figures published by the Insurance Supervision Agency of Macedonia.
Non-life GWP dominated the market portfolio accounting more than 84% of the total GWP (MKD 6.33 billion, or EUR 102.7 million) - of which MTPL (40.75% of total), property (20.13%), MoD (8.18%) and GTPL (2.11%) - , the remaining share of 16% being represented by the life insurance segment: GWP of MKD 1.18 billion (EUR 19.2 million).
TRIGLAV (15.18% market share), EUROLINK (11.85%) and MAKEDONIJA (11.41%) were the largest non-life insurers, while CROATIA (38.34%), GRAWE (30.95%) and WINNER LIFE (17.87%) were the top 3 life insurers.
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AZERBAIJAN: despite all payments, PASHA Life Insurance received a profit of AZN 2 million more than planned
In 2020, the leader of the insurance market, PASHA Life, which began operations on November 24, 2010, celebrated its 10th anniversary - the number of employees increased from 8 to 250, charter capital exceeded AZN 40 million, and assets amounted to AZN 400 million (~EUR 191.48 million*), said the chairman of the Board of PASHA Life Insurance Niyaz ISMAILOV for Trend.
UKRAINE: in January-November 2020, MTPL increased by more than 21%, while Green Card dropped by 29% y-o-y
MTPL GWP in January-November 2020 in Ukraine increased by 21.13% to UAH 5.58 billion (~EUR 0.16 billion*), while the number of contracts grew by 3.64% y-o-y.
UKRAINE: paid claims of MTPL insurers for the last 10 months increased by 11% y-o-y
MTPL insurers in Ukraine from January to October 2020 paid UAH 2.3 billion (~EUR 69 million*) to victims of road accidents, which is 11% more y-o-y, Forinshurer reports according to MTIBU.
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President Trump’s Daily Job Approval Remains at 51% While Markets Reach New All-Time Highs!
President Trump is on fire as the RNC kicks off. His Job Approval Rating stands at 51% and the stock markets are at all-time highs.
Good news for President Trump as his party’s convention kicks off this week. The President remains at very high ratings in the daily job approval polling. Rasmussen Reports shared today’s results:
Rassmussen reports:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll sponsored by Liberty Nation for Monday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.
While the President’s ratings are at historic highs, the markets are too. Today the markets set all-time highs:
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq reached new record closing highs on Monday as optimism over potential medical advances in the war against the coronavirus pandemic pushed all three major U.S. stock indexes higher.
The benchmark S&P 500 reclaimed its February closing high last week, confirming a bull market and the fastest recovery from a bear market trough on record.
The blue-chip Dow, while leading Monday’s gains, remains nearly 4.2% below its all-time high, and down 0.8% year-to-date. The Nasdaq and the S&P have gained 26.8% and 6.2%, respectively, since the final closing bell of 2019.
Despite Democrats rioting in the streets and creating another abusive investigation looking to attach crimes to anyone close to the President, the majority of Americans are looking at their 401k’s and they are happy. It’s perfect timing for the RNC to kick off this week.
President Trump’s Daily Job Approval Remains at 51% While Markets Reach New All-Time Highs! Reviewed by Your Destination on August 25, 2020 Rating: 5
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The TV Ratings Guide american agenda ratings greg kelly reports ratings john bachman now ratings newsmax tv ratings spicer & co ratings the chris salcedo show ratings the howie carr show ratings 5 Takeaways from the Latest Ratings for Newsmax TV
5 Takeaways from the Latest Ratings for Newsmax TV
TV Ratings Guide Monday, November 30, 2020 american agenda ratings greg kelly reports ratings john bachman now ratings newsmax tv ratings spicer & co ratings the chris salcedo show ratings the howie carr show ratings
Greg Kelly Reports on Wednesday
Source: Newsmax TV via YouTube
On Wednesday, November 25, Newsmax TV’s ratings were high enough to be publicly available. Below is a table of the shows which placed among the top 150 cable shows that night, as well as their A18-49 rating and total viewers, presented in millions. The table also indicates the time at which the program aired. Please note that American Agenda is a two-hour program.
American Agenda
Greg Kelly Reports
Spicer & Co
The Chris Salcedo Show
The Howie Carr Show
John Bachman Now
1. Viewership Rises Throughout The Day
If you look at the Total Viewers column of the table, you will notice that the later the show airs, the more viewers it has. At 7 pm, Greg Kelly Reports received more than double the viewers as noon’s John Bachman Now. This makes intuitive sense in that more people become free of obligations as the sun sets.
2. A18-49 Stays Steady
With the exception of American Agenda, every program in this table received a 0.04 rating in the A18-49 demographic. This demonstrates that Newsmax TV has a stable A18-49 audience throughout the day. Generally speaking, this is good news for advertisers, who will therefore have flexibility as to when they would like their ad(s) to run.
3. Greg Kelly Reports Is Likely Hurting FOX News’ The Story
The Story with Martha MacCallum, FOX News’ 7 pm program, remains the lowest-rated prime time cable news program across FOX News, CNN, and MSNBC. Greg Kelly Reports, meanwhile, is Newsmax TV’s most-viewed program. While The Story’s 1.376 million viewers is almost double Kelly’s 739,000, keep in mind the variance in the two networks’ reaches, as well as the overall ratings trajectories. Given the rise of Greg Kelly Reports and the fall of The Story are happening at the same time, it is safe to say some viewers are making the switch from FOX News to Newsmax TV. Whether the change is permanent remains to be seen.
4. All things considered, Sean Spicer’s show isn’t doing great.
Sure, Spicer & Co had more viewers than The Chris Salcedo Show—but not by much. Remember, Spicer is one of the former press secretaries to Donald Trump. He was portrayed by Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live on several occasions. He made an appearance at the Emmys in 2017. He came in sixth place on Dancing With The Stars, with audience votes defying the judges’ low scores each and every week. While his Newsmax TV show is not flopping, he’s arguably their biggest name, and shows be doing a bit better.
5. Newsmax TV should not be underestimated.
Yes, Newsmax TV has benefitted from the election. Namely, President Trump’s language surrounding it (more about that here.) This rise in ratings has been weeks in the making, and show no signs of slowing down. This is not a phenomenon that happened for a few days before going away. While it is unknown what Newsmax TV’s ratings will look like under a Biden Presidency, they have found an audience seeking a nonstop approval of Trumpism. Newsmax TV is the product of a one-term President unlike any other.
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Battle of Cartagena (461)
Title: Battle of Cartagena (461)
Subject: Campaign history of the Roman military, Battle of Ravenna (476), Battle of Arelate, Battle of Mainz (406), Battle of the Nervasos Mountains
Battle of Cartagena
Part of the Germanic Wars
Decisive Vandalic victory
Vandals Western Roman Empire
17 ships 40 ships
40 ships
The Battle of Cartagena occurred on May 13, 461, and was part of the Wars of Majorian.
In 457, the Roman general Majorian succeeded to the throne of the Western Roman Empire. He immediately set about restoring the empire to its former boundaries. Majorian then began to assemble a fleet at Cartagena, Spain, with which he intended to invade the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa.
By spring 461, Majorian had 40 ships already built and he would have had another five ready by the autumn. The Vandals decided to strike before the Roman navy became unbeatable. On May 13, a fleet of 17 Vandal ships surprised the Roman fleet. Many of the Roman captains had been bribed to switch sides. The Roman navy was totally destroyed, ending any hope of reconquering North Africa.
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E-bike tour in Orvieto in small group: history, culture with lunch or dinner
Exciting and unique experience, history, culture, art and food and wine in unique and unforgettable places. The tour is unique because with the comfortable e-bikes we cross the centuries during which Orvieto has become the jewel we know: the Rocca di Albornoz, the visit to the Underground, the Piazza del Duomo with a stop at Cantina Foresi, the visit at the Piazza del Popolo with the beautiful Palazzo del Popolo, the alleys with the artisans 'shops that have handed down an ancient art for generations, the Piazza della Repubblica called Sant' Andrea with the church of the same name, the oldest in Orvieto, where the four different civilizations that are superimposed are clearly visible, the pause on the terrace that looks to the southwest on an extraordinary panorama, the medieval quarter and finally the ring of the ring at the base of the Rupe. With e-bikes it is beautiful, ecological and fun, suitable for everyone, a form of "slow tourism" to live an experience to remember and tell.
E-bike Experience in small group from Orvieto to Civita and beyond, with lunch
The e-bike experience in Civita called "Castello nel Cielo" is unique. Just outside Orvieto you pass through the ancient Badia and then go up the plateau which from the ancient Dimora di Collevento through Canale and then Boccetta leads to Bagnoregio, accompanied only by the rustle of a breeze that keeps the air clear here in all seasons , clean and fresh. The images that can be fixed in these places of great beauty, where the panoramas offer views of vineyards, olive trees, pastures and woods are a joy for the eyes. Farmhouses and cellars meet along the path where you can buy the real typical products of the place. Then the arrival at the Civita belvedere is indescribable, a glance that leaves you breathless. The visit to the village, a set of famous films, is a continuous emotion, with its premises, artisan shops, perfumes, essences ... We return by stopping at the Belvedere of the Terrazza Farnese, from where the Orvieto cliff can be admired in all its majesty and elegance
Fabulous EnoBike experience with visit and tasting in 3 cellars of excellence
It will be an unforgettable experience, in which we will meet 3 Orvieto wine excellences, where with similar grapes we will taste wines with different scents, aromas and scents. The skilful art of families who have produced excellent wines for generations, will be made available to us, thus being able to taste superb wines and local products, cheeses, salami and bruschetta, which together with the renowned Orvietano Extra Virgin Olive Oil, make this earth a unique place. We will move with the E-Bikes that will allow you to move in a comfortable, easy and eco-sustainable way between the different wineries, thus also admiring landscapes, views, farmhouses and allowing us to photograph places of extraordinary beauty.
E-bike tour to the Alfina Castle, Sasseto forest, tasting in the cellar
With us you can immerse yourself in the ancient history of this land, from the Etruscan civilization to the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, visiting sites and places where you can breathe a mixture of legend and truth. Here, where people still love and preserve the ancient traditions, in the handicraft, in the cultivation of the products of the earth, it is possible to get excited simply listening to the silence of these villages and gazing at panoramas of rolling hills on which Torri, Castelli and Rocche stand out. In these places warriors and condottieri have written pages of history, cultures met and clashed, each time helping to enrich a civilization born 3,000 years ago. The foods in these places are the testimony of an enogastronomic variety in which the contaminations have brought to the excellences of which today we can enjoy
Orvieto by Evening: Small Group e-Bike tour with Dinner
It is an unic and extraordinary way to see Orvieto in evening time, riding our e-bikes when lights and the evening breeze give the City an unforgotteble atmosphere. Ending our experience seat in front of Cathedral tasting fantastic genuine local products will be an exclusive "souvenir" .
Vasto - Ancient Histonium
Overlooking the so-called Golfo d’Oro on the Costa dei Trabocchi, the charming town of Vasto boasts ancient origins dating back to Roman times. Valuable examples of this first phase are the beautiful floor mosaics of the Roman baths. Among historical anecdotes and popular beliefs, between the twilight of the devotional chapels and the luminous panoramic walk on the Amblingh loggia, the visit itinerary unravels touching the major monuments of the city, in a journey to discover Abruzzo along the centuries until today. At the end of the tour, it will be possible to optionally visit the Civic Museums of Palazzo d’Avalos or spend time in the shops and shops of the historic center.
Historical tour cycle. Travel in secret Abruzzo 6 days / 5 nights SELF-GUIDED
Abruzzo is rich in extraordinary historical / cultural testimonies, immersed in one of the most evocative landscape of the Apennines.The self-guided, ring route embraces part of the Peligna, Aterno and Tirino valleys, known for their archaeological and monumental heritage. We will touch L'Aquila, the Gran Sasso with its historic villages, the Peligna Valley with Sulmona and neighboring towns. Among the most characteristic places of faith are the Hermitages of S. Terenziano in Corfinio, of S.Venanzio in Raiano. But it is in medieval evidence that the itineraries best express their potential with churches, villages, castles, palaces and fountains of particular beauty, such as the Oratory of San Pellegrino which together with the Church of Santa Maria Assunta characterize the small center of Bominaco, while the monumentality of the Romanesque architecture of Abruzzo is testified by the church of S. Pelino in Corfinio. All this in the historical cycle tour, a secret journey in Abruzzo!
Abruzzo Heritage services & Tour of Abruzzo
At the age of 19, I left Abruzzo and like our great grandfathers in the early nineties, in search of better opportunities I emigrated abroad. Today I’m back, with the luggage of knowledge & skills I’ve gained abroad. With this luggage, determination and passion I’m starting this dream of promoting sustainable tourism in smaller provincial realities of the Abruzzo region and aiding the local economy of these beautiful hidden villages. With me, you not only will trace your Italian roots but will also experience the places, food, life & traditions your relatives where having. All by sharing together and being in good company of a local ‘friend’ showing you the beauties of this untouched and green region, Abruzzo. Besides being from a small village near Teramo, in Abruzzo and having wide connections & knowledge of the area, I’m a local and speak very well the Abruzzese dialect. Vital for the potential relatives to open up to someone never seen before Contact me for a custom free quote
Abruzzo Bike & Wellness: Bicycle touring with a smile 5 days / 4 nights SELF-GUIDED
Self-guided bike and wellness holiday, a Wellness-friendly proposal in the Abruzzo Lazio and Molise National Park. A journey for those who want to experience days of sport and wellness, in contact with nature, immersed in history, to regain possession of their spaces, experiencing a journey of discovery through two regions: Abruzzo and Molise, on the highlands and along the Sangro. The rhythm of each day will be cadenced by the slow circular movement of the Wheels, by the sensations of well-being in the Spa, by the learning and knowledge of one's own body with Yoga, Pilates, Postural sessions and with nutritional insights. Each day will end with a cooking experience linked to the territory.
San Salvo d 'Amare
Why take a San Salvo holiday? Because it is possible to enjoy both the beautiful seaside groups on its beaches (San Salvo Marina, Costa dei Trabocchi, Abruzzo, Italy), without forgetting a nice visit to San Salvo city, a destination that has so much to show! We have to tell the truth, it is really a great destination, relaxation, sea, activity and culture! Whether for a few days, or for a longer holiday, it could be the right destination for you!
"Abruzzo Divino" Vineyards, Culture and Wines: SELF-GUIDED cycling weekend
An original self-guided tour on two wheels, dedicated to authentic food and wine tourists. A fascinating journey from Montepulciano to Trebbiano, through vineyards and cellars, ancient streets, villages and cities of art to discover the world of wine and the Abruzzo hinterland. A weekend in which you will get to know Abruzzo in a unique and exclusive context. We will stay in country relais and taste the "territory" through stops in cellars and gourmet addresses among glasses of wine and delicious dishes. This is Abruzzo Divino, a journey through the flavors, senses and colors of genuine Abruzzo.
Abruzzo Bike to Coast - SELF-GUIDED Bike Weekend 3 days / 2 nights
A self-guided weekend to discover the Abruzzo coast on the Bike to Coast route. Cycling between natural reserves and cultural treasures accompanied by the sound of the sea for an authentic and very suggestive show. The Bike to Coast will allow you to enjoy the beauties of our magnificent land in a unique experience to live on two wheels.
Bike To Coast
Try the bike path of the Abruzzo to Bike to Coast project. You will cross the wide and sandy shores of the SD area, full of equipped beaches, you will enter the heart of the natural reserve of Punta Aderci from the characteristic and you will walk along a coast that becomes wild and uncontaminated, with ever narrower beaches, small and breathtaking views of the Coast of the Trabocchi.
Abruzzo: The Cammini della Majella - Self-guided trekking holiday 6 days / 5 nights
Discover the mother mountain through slow walking in the Majella National Park. Hermitages, Nature, History and Art go hand in hand in this itinerary designed for those who want to "disconnect" and indulge in the slow pace of life between mountain and sea in Abruzzo.
Hike & Bike Tour, from the Apennines to the sea in Abruzzo! 7 days SELF-GUIDED holiday
Hike & Bike, or walking and cycling in the same holiday. It is a partially itinerant tour, which combines walks to discover the highest Apennine mountain, the Gran Sasso, Aquilano and Teramano slopes, with the bicycle that we use to join the two sides and to get to the sea, Teramo coast, for the last day of relaxation. A very panoramic tour, at every step you will have the sensation of touching the sky with a finger while our view will reach the sea. All Abruzzo characteristic, that of having the mountain at sea! By bicycle, we will cross the Valle del Vasto along one of the most beautiful cycling roads in Italy. We are waiting for you in Abruzzo to "savor" nature and live it intensely with two of the most popular sports in the region in summer.
Private 2-Day Abruzzo Food and Wine Tour from Francavilla
We're passionate about experiencing the world like a local. Our favorite travel memories have been made when stumbling across gems suggested by locals. We’re here to eliminate the bumbles and fumbles and show you our favorite stumbles, all in pursuit of helping you make more of your best vacation memories. You know the ones - discovering that unforgettable beach, enjoying a once in a lifetime meal while sharing a truly exceptional bottle of local wine with friends. Finding the best, most authentic experiences takes a lot of work. That's what we focus on - ensuring you have the most relaxing and most memorable vacation experience. Choose your favorite region from our selection of carefully curated locations and let us do the rest. We do quality, not trendy. From our expert guides to our unique activities to our favorite local vineyards, we've found the absolute best of each region so that you can experience life like a local. Come wander with us!
Guided E-MTB tour in the Gran Sasso National Park
Unique experience for nature and E-MTB lovers. With the professionalism and assistance of the cycle-guide you will have the opportunity to explore the Gran Sasso paths in total safety on a comfortable latest generation E-MTB and to know the local food and wine specialties and places of historical interest- cultural. Departure at 15.00 from the Montecristo refuge for the paths that lead to the hidden abbeys of Sant'Eusanio and San Crisante. Pedaling along the high altitude paths we will reach a church dedicated to Sant’Eusanio (1399 meters), on a plateau with a view of Pizzo Cefalone and the Corno Grande of the Gran Sasso d'Italia. We will continue along a magical path immersed in the woods, reaching the fascinating Romanesque abbey (XII century), in splendid isolation, of Saints Crisante and Daria (1202 m).
Authentic Biological Winery Experience in Teramo Countryside
Explore Teramo countryside for learning all about biological wine. Visit this wonderful winery, from the green vineyards to the fascinating cellar, and let you be guided by a passionate winemaker. Savour natural wine toasting with your friends.
Private Tour L'Aquila of the Mysteries
Urban trekking in the historic center to visit the major monuments of the city in an itinerary that chronologically reconstructs the history of the foundation and in which the official history is accompanied by that of legends and mysteries, of the knights Templar and constellations, of enigmatic characters such as Frederick II and Celestino V, the "Pope of the great refusal" ?!
astoria cooking 4 culinary holidays in italy
We give a fabulous opportunity to learn abruzzese cooking visiting medieval villages. Abruzzo’s culture had few outside influences to corrupt its uniqueness. Both the agricultural and coastal aspects of this region have contributed to Abruzzo’s authentic cuisine. Renowned for its wines with their fullness of body, its food for its boldness of flavor, and its sweetness, the Abruzzi Region ranks among Italy’s best. Step back in time and discover truly traditional, non-commercialized Italian cooking in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains. Surrounded by hills and valleys as rugged and peaceful as the people, you will learn to cook in the timeless tradition deeply embedded in the hearts of local artisans. While your home this week will be the hilltop, medieval villages.
Trani and Castel del Monte tour with wine tasting
Castel del Monte is a World Heritage Site. Built by Frederick II of Swabia, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, in the 13th century, it is located at 542 meters above sea level in the heart of the Alta Murgia Park . This unique building has been constructed in the shape of a Hexagon with an internal courtyard. We will have an historical and detailed guided tour of the castle and after a relaxing break we will head to our second destination, the charming town of Trani. Trani offers another scenic UNESCO site with its spectacular cathedral. We will have a walk on the marina and will visit the unique synagogues. Last but not least enjoy a wine tour at the exclusive Tormaresca wine, sipping the best wines of this area.
Guided Tour in E-MTB to Gran Sasso National Park
Unique experience for nature and E-MTB lovers. With the professionalism and assistance of the bike-guide you will have the opportunity to explore the Gran Sasso trails in total safety on a comfortable E-MTB all mountain of the latest generation, to get to know places of historical and cultural interest and taste food and wine specialties. The excursion will stop in one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, Santo Stefano di Sessanio and the Castle of Rocca Calascio, one of the 15 most beautiful castles in the world for National Geographic, where short stops are planned. On the way back it will be possible to rest while tasting roasts and other typical local products at the Montecristo refuge. Necessary equipment: helmet, mountain shoes, gloves, sunglasses, shorts with back, long socks, backpack, at least 1 liter of water, bars, sunscreen, raincoat and long-sleeved shirt. A good athletic preparation is required and halves the use of bicycles.
Rocca Calascio and Santo Stefano di Sessanio: trekking and cinema
This experience is an opportunity to get to know some of the most authentic villages of the Gran Sasso National Park in Italy, a unique Trekking experience that will lead you to the discovery of the Castle of Rocca Calascio, which National Geographic has inserted and classified among the 15 most beautiful castles in the world, and where some scenes of the film "Ladyhawke" were shot.
Wine tour and Tasting in Nocciano
Like most of Italy, Abruzzo is famous for its wine, so no visit would be complete without sampling some of the local vino. Visit one the oldest wineries in the region for a wine-tasting session paired with a sampling of local olive oils, cheeses, salumi, and sausages. Follow the entire wine-making process, from weighing to pressing, and visit cellars where hundreds of thousands of bottles are stored for aging.
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The goal of LABS is to provide a platform for a collective conversation on how to advance the adapted sport movement to gain momentum through industry, organizations and individuals.
Benchmark Study: Economic Impact of Adapted Sport Events Likely Exceeds $80 Million Annually
All In Sport Consulting, Stitch Marketing Research and Huddle Up Group Release Results of First-Of-Its-Kind Industry Economic Impact
All In Sport Consulting, in partnership with Stitch Marketing Research and Huddle Up Group, recently announced the results of a first-of-its-kind economic impact study of the adapted sport industry in the United States. The organizations collected expenditure and budget data from a sampling of U.S.-based adapted sport entities as a first step to better understand and project economic trends for the overall market. Based on the data, the report estimates that the total economic impact of adapted and para sport-related tourism events nationwide likely ranges from approximately $80.5 to $134.2 million annually.
“We know the growth of the adapted sport industry has been dramatic over the last decade or so, but there’s never been a formal study conducted to measure its true economic footprint,” said Dawna Callahan, founder and chief executive officer of All In Sport Consulting. “We wanted to change that and put a stake in the ground this year to help us move from anecdotal to concrete evidence about both the current economic picture and future outlook. We’re excited to release our initial findings and build on this knowledge in the years ahead.”
To conduct the study, the organizations emailed surveys to 262 organizations between July 28 and Sept. 22, 2020. Data from 55 organizations are included in the report.
“This research was the first national look at the impact of the adapted and para sport industry, specifically the value of travel sports in this space,” said Jon Schmieder, founder and chief executive officer of Huddle Up Group. “This baseline information will help shape future research in this arena. We were proud to be part of the team that set out to tackle this very important question – what is the value of para sports in our nation?”
Study Highlights:
The economic impact of the 30 adapted sport organizations completing the sport events section of the survey can be extrapolated at approximately $26,850,862 annually. (Basis: 2019 economic impact data via the Sports & Events Tourism Association)
The organizations represented in the survey account for one-fifth to one-third of the total number of adapted sport organizations in the U.S. market; therefore, the total economic impact of adapted sport events can be extrapolated to a range of $80,550,000 to $134,250,000 annually.
“We’ve seen benchmark studies like this one in para sports serve as a tremendous launching pad for a variety of sectors,” said Nate Heckman, president of Stitch Marketing Research. “Without these insights – which lead to tangible goal setting and validation for investment – all involved end up guessing. We’re hoping to see these insights serve to increase cooperation and real outcomes for adapted and para sports in the U.S.”
The “Adapted Sport: Economic Impact Survey” findings were originally released at the Adapted Sport Leadership & Business Symposium (LABS) presented by All In Sport Consulting on October 15. The full report is available for download at: https://adaptedsportlabs.com/labs-2020-session-recordings/ (see “Economic Impact of the Adapted Sport Industry” presentation).
About All In Sport Consulting
All In Sport Consulting is a Denver-based consulting firm that works with organizations to create life-changing opportunities for people with disabilities through adaptive sport. Through services including strategic planning, adaptive sport program management and implementation, and training and education, All In Sport helps organizations ensure they are in the best position to create opportunities for all who want to experience the power of sport.
About Huddle Up Group
Formed in 2012, the Huddle Up Group is a sports tourism, marketing, venue, and event consulting company made up of experienced award-winning executives. The Huddle Up team has a successful track record of leading non-profit sports organizations through strategic growth and increased community collaboration. We have extensive experience in building cohesive organizations and external relationships while working with volunteer boards, donors, elected officials, hospitality community leaders, and various corporate partners. The Huddle Up Group was selected as the winner of the 2017 NASC Superior Service Award, the highest honor a consulting firm can earn from the National Association of Sports Commissions.
About Stitch Marketing Research
Founded in 2007, Southern California-based Stitch Marketing Research is marketing intelligence consultancy, delivering insights on your marketplace and what moves it. Stitch MR‘s unique proposition: a discovery process that evolves from the creation of new intelligence through new research. Stitch MR brings the human equation to the front and center of the marketing and strategy disciplines. We’re not just about cold numbers. Stitch Marketing Research delivers strategic insight to a wide range of organizations, from Fortune 100 to start-up, from automotive and healthcare to higher education and sports and fitness.
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In spite of the fact that the logo of the Russian-Chinese brand Scarlett has remained mostly consistent, there’ve been a couple of subtle modifications, which are especially visible if you compare different versions side by side.
Although Scarlett has Russian and Chinese roots, the company itself was registered in Great Britain in 1996. It belongs to Arima Holding Corporation. The range of products sold under this brand includes a variety of small household appliances.
Old symbol
The old Scarlett logo sported the text “Scarlet” in light blue capital letters. The word was italicized. The distinctive “A” and “E” featured an elongated middle bar stretching to the left.
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In the updated Scarlett logo, the letters were de-italicized acquiring a more solid and stable look. The glyphs grew wider, which only reinforced the effect. The “A” lost its unique elongated bar. Perhaps, the designers who worked on the emblem thought that the unusual “E” would be enough to make the logo instantly recognizable.
Taking into consideration the name of the brand, a scarlet-dominated logo would have been perfectly natural. However, the company opted for a calmer, cooler option making light blue (close to aqua) its primary color.
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The fear of flying, and the return of Dead Centre of Town
Posted on October 18, 2018 by Liz Nicholls
Dead Centre Of Town, Catch The Keys Productions. Photo by Marc J Chalifoux Photography.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will be boarding tonight by zone. The dead centre zone.
For 11 years now, Catch the Keys Productions has been leading us on nocturnal Halloween expeditions into the macabre, digging in the boneyard where the gruesome secrets of our civic history lie mouldering and our ghosts refuse to stay buried. This year’s edition of Dead Centre of Town, opening tonight at Fort Edmonton Park, takes us into the vast and eerie Blatchford Field Air Hangar, a replica of the 1929 original originally built by Wop May, the World War I flying ace and star aviator.
Start fearful, and prepare to be horrified. Playwright Megan Dart, whose researches into Edmonton history are the basis of her original scripts for Catch the Keys’ immersive chillers, has discovered macabre stories of landings gone wrong, mid-air collisions, doomed aerial manhunts, flights into destruction. “Acts of God, man vs. nature, the elements, failed mechanics,” says Dart. “Fear that is out of our control.…” Fun fact (Not): “I learned you shouldn’t fly in February. A vast proportion of accidents happen then.”
Suffice it to say that the assumption we can, at will, fly through the air with the greatest of ease, has a lot to answer for in Edmonton aviation history.
Dead Centre Of Town is a name lifted from the grisly local lingo of yore for the intersection of Jasper Avenue and 109th St. One of Edmonton’s first mortuaries had stood there,surrounded by coffin shops and embalming emporia. It was where bodies of soldiers arrived by train and got dropped off during the last century’s wars. Eleven years ago it was a night club, and Catch the Keys’ Dart sisters, playwright Megan and director Beth, specialists in immersive theatre events in found spaces, lived nearby.
That’s where the debut Dead Centre Of Town happened, a one-night stand. And the rest is history — bigger and bigger shows and longer runs on location of Edmonton sites like the former tinsmith shop that turned theatre before it turned into the late lamented ARTery performance venue. Or the ex-cinema that became the Avenue Theatre. Or the first train station on the south side of town.
For the last five years Dead Centre Of Town has taken us down by the river to Fort Edmonton, where fog hangs in the air of an autumn night. We followed ghosts along 1885 Street, into historic saloons or school rooms. Last year, it was the spooky 1920 Johnny K. Jones Midway.
And now, the air hangar. “We’re so thrilled,” says Megan Dart. “It’s been on our wish list since we moved down to the Fort!” The space comes with its own “wildly different challenges,” to be sure, “a big old open warehouse that we fill imaginatively, our biggest build we’ve ever undertaken.” But there’s this: it’s indoors. And after a year of unpredictable interference from the elements, including wind storms gusting to 200 K and snow on Halloween, “we had to cancel two shows for the first time ever,” indoors is a felicitous concept.
The team, 13 strong and the same size as the cast, has scrounged from the Aviation Museum. “We have the fuselage of an old plane. We have wings and propellors…. We’re the Franksteins of aviation,” Dart laughs.
“We’re playing with space in a major way,” says Dart of the production concept: “a labyrinthine airport terminal,” with lighting (or lack thereof) designed by Beth Dart and Chris Dela Cruz. “There are engineers on the team,” she says. “And a mathematician to help us figure out how to move the audience.”
All us travellers into darkness will get a boarding pass, and with four flights to choose from. “The audience can choose what order to see them in.”
Dead Centre of Town, Catch The Keys Productions. Photo by Marc J. Chalifoux.
As for the stories, “we explore the period 1929 to 1985,” the latter bookend unusually recent by Dead Centre Of Town‘s historical standards. That, incidentally, was the year that “two Hercules transports collided mid-air, and all 10 crew members were killed, a bizarre fluke of an accident in a fly-over celebration. A very dark day in Edmonton’s aviation history.”
Dart discovered other morbid mysteries. Here’s one: “A military plane carrying unreported cargo vanished in 1943, mid-flight….” The crash site was found five years later. “But the military never confirmed or denied. There was no crash report, no manifesto,” only talk of a million dollars.
“Edmonton (owns) a lot of aviation firsts,” says Dart. “The first air harbour. A major hub during wartime, as the gateway to the North. During one day in World War II, a record number of planes, more than any other air field in Canada, landed and took off from here.”
And here’s the thing that frays the nerves: flying is always a matter of life and death.
Dead Centre Of Town XI
Theatre: Catch The Keys Productions
Written by: Megan Dart
Directed by: Beth Dart
Starring: Colin Matty, Adam Keefe, Christine Lesiak, Morgan Smith, Elisa Benzer, Louise Casemore, Bobbi Goddard, William Mitchell, Rebecca Sadowski, Mat Simpson, Jake Tkaczyk, Barry Balinski, Morgan Yamada
Where: Blatchford Field Air Hangar, Fort Edmonton Park
Running: tonight through Oct. 31
Tickets: eventbrite.ca
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Post-Workshop Report, May 2018
Professor Libby Porter (Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University)
Dr Tod Jones and Dr Shaphan Cox (Department of Planning and Geography, Curtin University)
Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker (Translational Research Centre for Aboriginal Knowledges and Wellbeing, Curtin University)
Summary of achievements
Decolonising Settler Cities was a series of events held throughout 2017 bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, scholars, communities and practitioners to share their questions and critiques, experience and knowledge of cities as settler-colonial modes of power, and the possibilities and obstacles they present for Indigenous land justice.
Every Australian city is built on the unceded country[1] of distinct, sovereign Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who continue to practice their laws, cultures, rights and interests under persistent regimes of settler-colonial power. Yet this fact has still not penetrated urban scholarship and practice in Australia. There has been remarkably little effort made to interrogate how this fact unsettles the categories, theories and knowledges used by urban geography and built environment disciplines to understand and practice the Australian city. Despite some key interventions in the field from a handful of scholars, there remains a profound silence in mainstream Australian urban geographical scholarship and practice on Indigenous rights and justice. The urban context is also a stubbornly difficult place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to realise land justice. While nearly 80% of Indigenous people in Australia live in cities, less than 1% of the land base returned after decades of their struggle is in urban areas. The question of the urban context, then, for Indigenous land and cultural justice is both urgent and vital.
Our purpose in this series of events was to bring these issues more sharply onto the agenda for radical urban geography in Australia and beyond. Building on recent efforts to bring critical analyses of urbanisation and settler colonial contexts together, the events contributed to efforts toward reconfiguring Australian urban scholarship and practice to properly attend to Indigenous land and cultural justice.
We held a special panel session within the annual conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) in July 2017 in Brisbane, Queensland. This lively discussion panel, “Practising paradox: Decolonising urban geographies from the settler-colonial University”, attracted around 20 participants and was led by Libby Porter and Tod Jones with special guest Yvonne Underhill-Sem.
In September 2017, we held a two-day symposium in Perth, Western Australia. This attracted more than 60 delegates from around Australia and beyond, with around 50% Indigenous and 50% non-Indigenous participation and a mix of disciplinary backgrounds. The program included special guests Linda Kennedy and Oren Yiftachel. The event was co-designed between Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisers as a way to unsettle and challenge the conventions of knowing and sharing knowledge that tend to prevail in western scholarly contexts.
Program and book of abstracts
The symposium began with a yarning circle, facilitated by Carol Dowling, a Nyoongar scholar and cultural knowledge holder of yarning circle methods. For three hours on the first morning, Carol held open a specially designed space for the open sharing of ourselves as participants in terms of who we are in relation to Indigenous sovereignties and laws, and our individual experiences of settler-colonial power relations.
Carol Dowling facilitating the yarning circle
The program included papers on Aboriginal land rights, treaty negotiations, place-making and property, justice, urban design practices, education and pedagogy among other important themes. Many of the papers were joint presentations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborators.
One session involved around ten young people (aged 11-19) from the Kaat Koort n Hoops Peer Ambassador program in a panel session, facilitated by Cheryl Kickett-Tucker where they discussed what self-determination means to them in an urban context and some of the ways they are leading the future.
Kaat Koort n Hoops honours the importance of education and the future aspirations upon wellbeing, academic outcomes and transitions. KKnH is an innovative community-led and sustainable program comprised of weekly wellbeing activities combined with weekly organized sport activities developed and delivered by Aboriginal young people (KKnH Peer Ambassadors). The purpose of this innovation is to provide real life, practical, leadership opportunities to Peer Ambassadors who will learn and teach young peers (KKnH participants) about holistic wellbeing (using organized sport as the vehicle). KKnH aims to provide Peer Ambassadors with a culturally empowering space to learn new skills, knowledge and confidence in a fun and relevant work environment so that they take a proactive approach to their life choices for the future and for today.
Kaat Koort n Hoops Peer Ambassadors
As part of our outcomes, Peer Ambassadors partake in external, value add activities such as the Decolonising Settler Cities international symposium. Over three weeks leading up to the symposium, ten young Ambassadors (both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal aged 12-23 years) worked independently and collectively to workshop their ideas of decolonization from their perspectives. At the symposium they led a young persons’ panel to present their ideas and take questions from the audience. They worked alongside KKnH Project Director, symposium co-convenor and working party member Cheryl Kickett-Tucker.
We were led by Nyoongar Elder Noel Nannup on a walking tour to meet and know the country on which we were meeting through Nyoongar law and culture. We were able to film most of the symposium and have been able to create an archive shared among all the participants at this stage, as we work together on other negotiated outcomes that might be enabled by this archive.
Noel Nannup leading us toward knowing Nyoongar country
Organising these events has helped toward creating a movement within Australian urban geography and cognate built environment disciplines towards a decolonizing ethics and politics in the service of self-determining Indigenous justice. There is evidence that such a movement has emerged and is gaining some momentum. At the 2017 RGS-IBG conference, two of the organisers of these Antipode Foundation-funded events convened a special paper session based on the IAG panel discussion, focused on decolonising knowledges within universities. The session included papers from Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars on the paradoxes and challenges of decolonial practice within Universities. The Urban Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers commissioned Linda Kennedy to write a “Leading Insight” essay on decolonising urban practice. This achieves a widening of the voices heard in Australian urban geographical studies, in formats that refuse the forms of white knowledge-creation that we have sought to challenge. A number of postgraduate students are taking up these issues and organising their own events and discussions. We have also worked with Clare Land, author of Decolonising Solidarity, to develop a reading and action group based on her book to further develop decolonial practices of solidarity and scholarship.
Challenges encountered
We encountered thankfully few major challenges or problems, but some of our intentions and program had to change to accommodate shifting conditions. A first challenge was that we were unable to host the one-day online forum originally planned. A number of conditions conspired to undermine this plan, perhaps the most significant being that as an organising team we were a little removed from the main organising committee of that event. It is likely to happen in 2018, and we can support the event and create the synergies originally planned.
A second unfortunate change of plans occurred when Tony Birch was unable to join the Perth symposium at the last minute due to a serious illness in his family. While we missed Tony’s voice and had already paid some amounts for his travel which were not refundable, his withdrawal did not have a major effect on the outcomes we were able to achieve.
Finally, practising decolonising ethics and philosophies within the organising of these efforts is a challenging undertaking. One of the most instructive dimensions of the work was where our intentions and practices came into conflict with the norms and expectations particularly of Western universities and also expectations and conventions within the scholarly community. We continue to reflect on these challenges and they will form part of our published outputs in the coming months.
The 2018 NZGS-IAG conference will feature a special “Leading Insight” session sponsored by the Urban Geography Study Group on furthering the theme of decolonising urban knowledges, including published output forthcoming in Australian Geographer.
We’re also planning a series of published outputs, including a co-authored article from the Perth symposium and a co-authored article from the RGS-IBG special session.
[1] A word used widely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia to denote their special relationship with their lands and waters. Country is a living, sentient being in itself, an interconnected web of people, environment and non-human species.
Symposium, 26-27 September, Perth, Australia
Decolonising Settler Cities is supported by an Antipode Foundation International Workshop Award. The award supports our pursuit in this symposium of knowing the city differently through conversation with Indigenous custodians, activists, scholars, elders and practitioners, and to use this as the basis for rethinking settler-colonial urbanism. Keynote speakers include Tony Birch, Linda Kennedy and Oren Yiftachel.
There is still time to make a submission of interest to Decolonising Settler Cities. The call for participants closes on 1 June; please make a submission of 300 words to Tod Jones at Curtin University (T.Jones@curtin.edu.au) or Libby Porter at RMIT University (libby.porter@rmit.edu.au). More information is available on our website here.
Please join us in seeking an agenda for establishing decolonising practices in Australian cities.
We acknowledge and thank the Wadjuk Noongar people on whose territory Decolonising Settler Cities will be held. This symposium is hosted by Curtin University’s Translational Research Centre for Aboriginal Knowledges, the Centre for Aboriginal Studies, and the School of Built Environment in collaboration with the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. We acknowledge support and funds from the Institute of Australian Geographers.
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A New Prime Minister, Same Old Brexit? The View From London
Burhan Al-Gailani
On 23 July, the UK will have a new Prime Minister. Both the front-runner Boris Johnson and his challenger, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, have promised to renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement – something European leaders have dismissed out of hand – or leave with no-deal on 31 October.
APCO’s experts in London and Brussels consider how the two candidates would approach Brexit as Prime Minister, and how EU leaders are likely to respond.
The view from London
One pitches himself as the mercurial populist; the other, a competent technocrat. But for all their differences, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt would approach Brexit in remarkably similar ways as Prime Minister.
Both believe Britain should leave the EU by 31 October, preferably with a deal. Both say they are prepared to walk away without one if the negotiations prove fruitless. And both think an early general election this side of Brexit would be catastrophic for their party.
They agree the key sticking point is the fear that the Northern Ireland Backstop might trap the UK indefinitely in the EU’s regulatory orbit, preventing post-Brexit Britain from developing its own trade deals. The implication is that only substantive changes to the Withdrawal Agreement, such as a time-limit to the Backstop or the use of technology to avoid a hard border between the UK and Ireland, would be acceptable. Neither would likely be satisfied by (non-binding) assurances in the Political Declaration on the future UK-EU relationship. The argument that the EU itself is not terribly interested in ‘trapping’ the UK in this way is barely heard.
Although both candidates have not explicitly said what would represent a good deal, we can see clear differences in how each would approach the negotiations and how committed each would be to no-deal.
Mr. Hunt has said he would like a compromise acceptable to the EU and Parliament, and that his career in business and more statesmanlike approach would help him achieve this. Because his Government would still lack a majority, the inference is Mr. Hunt’s deal would involve a milder form of Brexit and less disruption to current trading and regulatory arrangements – something which would be welcomed by many businesses – although Hunt has been careful not to spell this out himself. And if Britain had to leave with no-deal, Prime Minister Hunt would look for other ways to keep the UK competitive such as cutting corporation tax to 12.5%.
For Mr. Hunt, key question is whether he, as someone who voted Remain in 2016, could really secure a deal that the 20-30 ‘Spartans’ – Conservative MPs who want the purest possible Brexit and are relaxed about no-deal – could support?
Mr. Johnson would be more prepared to negotiate aggressively with Brussels, and go for no-deal if required, saying Britain “can…must and will” leave by 31 October “do or die” – tough rhetoric Mr Hunt has matched during the campaign. Mr. Johnson has suggested that he wants a more substantive renegotiation of the Withdrawal Agreement, and ultimately, as comprehensive a free trade deal with Brussels as possible. To get around the EU’s opposition to unpicking the former and discussing the latter before the terms of departure are agreed, he has threatened to withhold Britain’s £39bn ‘divorce’ payment – a move some believe would be illegal – and suggested that free trade could continue under WTO rules while a future deal was being negotiated – which has already been flatly rejected as a fantasy solution.
The questions that would accompany Prime Minister Johnson’s approach would therefore be more numerous, and fundamental. Would he really risk withholding the divorce payment or going for no-deal, given the potential negative impacts on Britain’s international standing, the economy, and his own future electoral prospects? Would the EU even regard these as threats Mr. Johnson can credibly make, given the Parliamentary arithmetic and willingness of the Speaker to give MPs a say? The one certainty appears to be that a Johnson premiership would bring significantly more uncertainty and volatility.
Ultimately, as with his opponent, political matters beyond Johnson’s direct control may well prove decisive. In addition to the ‘Spartans’, the groups to look out for are the ten Democratic Unionist Party MPs who want Brexit to happen on 31 October and would not support any move which undermined Northern Ireland’s position within the UK; the up to 30 Tory MPs who are so opposed to no-deal that they would be prepared to bring down the Government; and the 26 Labour MPs representing Leave seats who are preparing finally to vote for Brexit, preferably with a new deal, but under no-deal if necessary.
Click here to read the view from Brussels on how European leaders are likely to react.
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Burhan Al-Gailani, a public affairs specialist with over a decade of experience in the industry, is a director in APCO Worldwide’s London office, where he leads the firm’s UK public affairs practice.
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10 Brilliant Costume Ideas For Halloween This Year
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http://www.ibtimes.co.in/halloween-hoax-busted-man-walks-into-haunted-house-chainsaw-murders-7-people-fake-video-611163 Source: Ibtimes.co.in
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Halloween is fast approaching, and with it comes a number of traditions. From carving a jack-o-lantern to donning costumes, bobbing for apples and handing out candy to neighborhood kids. But there is one Halloween tradition that does not get enough attention, and that is the annual All Hallow’s Eve prank. Yes, each October 31st pranksters young and old set out not only to score tons of free candy, but also to inflict some mischief on their community. From toilet papering houses and lighting bags of dog poop on fire, to scaring the hell out of people and pulling the school fire alarm—Halloween pranks are common and the best ones are legendary. But what happens when the prank doesn’t go as planned? What happens when the prank goes horribly wrong? Here are 10 examples of epic Halloween prank fails that left everyone involved with egg on their face—some literally.
10. Dangling From Roof Trick Results in Fire Department Visit
A few years ago, a family in North Carolina decided to hang a dummy from their second storey roof to make it look like a person had slipped while cleaning their gutters and was now holding on for dear life. The dummy was apparently dressed in real jeans, a sweater and tennis shoes. However, mirth quickly turned to mayhem when a neighbor, who was out walking their dog, spotted the dummy hanging from the roof, freaked out and immediately called the local fire department. By the time the family that perpetrated the prank realized what had happened, the fire department was set up in front of their house and had a ladder extended all the way to their roof while shouting “Hang on. Help has arrived.”
http://fox2now.com/2012/12/20/viral-people-stop-for-dummy-hanging-from-roof/ Source: Fox2now.com
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9. Police Assume Man Was Really Run Over by His Lawn Mower
In the vein of domestic accident pranks gone wrong, how about this one. Another family decided to use a dummy to stage a horrifying accident involving their ride-on lawn mower. The merry pranksters placed the dummy underneath the lawn mower on their front lawn so that only the arms and legs were visible from underneath the machine. They then covered the arms and legs with red paint to simulate blood so that it appeared to everyone who passed by that the homeowner had been cut up and mangled by his own lawn mower. So good was the staged accident that neighbours who saw it in broad daylight had no idea it was a hoax and promptly dialed 9-1-1. The police arrived and, terrified, launched into action—not realizing that the person in distress under the lawn mower was a dummy until one of the cops attempted CPR.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044871/Funny-tasteless-Halloween-prank-prompts-driver-911-thinking-man-trapped-beneath-lawnmower.html Source: Dailymail.co.uk
8. Man Keeps “Armed Robber” Costume on While Going to Starbucks
Not all Halloween costumes are ghosts and skeletons. Take, for example, the man from Lansing, Michigan, who went to a neighbor’s party dressed as an armed robber, complete with a skull mask, bullet proof vest and fake M-16 assault rifle. The party went great, but after a few drinks, the man, while walking home, decided to stop in at the local Starbucks for a non-fat latte to help him sober up. Unfortunately, the semi-drunk man was still wearing his armed robber costume. Customers screamed, the barista hit the floor and the cashier raised her hands above her head—but not before triggering the store alarm. The startled man was left explaining himself to police who arrived on the scene. After seeing that the man had money in his wallet to pay for his coffee, and that the M-16 was fake, police let the Halloween reveler head home—but only after they confiscated his very believable costume.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/10/man_in_bank_robber_costume_car.html Source: Oregonlive.com
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7. Dad Decides to Scare Kids by Pretending to Kill Their Mom
Domestic violence should never be taken lightly. Which is what one father found out the hard way after he decided to give his young children, ages six and eight, a good Halloween fright by pretending to kill their mother. Dad of the year apparently donned a Michael Myers mask from the Halloween movie franchise (classic) and then proceeded to strangle his wife in front of their two kids. The whole thing was fake, of course, and mom was in on the prank. However, the kids freaked out in spectacular fashion, ran to a neighbor’s house and had them frantically call the police. The Sherriff’s office was dispatched and dad was left with some pretty detailed explaining to do. And, while no charges were filed, the children are said to still have trust issues to this day.
http://www.filmedge.net/Halloween/photos.htm Source: Filmedge.net
6. Teacher Bursts Into Classroom While Revving a Real Chainsaw
A teacher at Taunton High School in Massachusetts thought he figured out a great way to get students into the Halloween spirit. He brought a real chainsaw to the school, pulled the rip cord and then burst into a classroom of 15-year-old students wearing a ski mask and revving the chainsaw to max throttle. The stampede of students that ensued was so bad that one person broke his leg while clambering over a desk. Once apprised of this stunt, several parents of the traumatized students launched a lawsuit against the school board, high school and teacher who perpetrated the prank. Apparently the family of the kid with the broken leg settled out of court for $100,000. Trick or treat!
http://2nd2nada.net/guy-storms-into-pub-yielding-a-chainsaw/ Source: 2nd2nada.net
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5. Teen Eggs Local Electricity Station and Cuts Power to 8,000 Residents
Eggs are one of the oldest and most popular Halloween pranks. Who among us hasn’t egged a house at least once in our life? But this tried and true prank took an ominous turn for a 15-year-old Pennsylvania youth in 2006. For some inexplicable reason, the teen in question thought it would be funny to egg the local electric company substation in his town at Halloween. However, the combination of egg splatter and rain that was pouring down at the time caused a massive explosion that practically destroyed the electric substation and knocked out power to 8,000 people in the local community. Fortunately, the boy escaped relatively unscathed. He had to be treated at the local hospital for ringing in his ears. Maybe it was the sound of his brain being fried?
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/19936/20141111/justin-bieber-pays-ex-neighbor-80k-for-egging-case-teen-idol-also-faces-hard-labor-anger-management.htm Source: Techtimes.com
4. Woman Successfully Sues Neighbor for Defamation Over Halloween Yard Display
A woman in Florida ended up successfully suing her neighbour for defamation, harassment and emotional distress after the man next door set up a Halloween display that made her the butt of jokes. The offending neighbor put a sign on his lawn for an insane asylum that pointed to the woman’s yard and erected a plastic tombstone with an epitaph that made fun of the fact that the woman was still single in her late 40s. The tombstone read: ‘At 48 she had no mate, no date. It’s no debate, she looks 88.’ However, the woman had the last laugh after she sued the pants off of her rude neighbor and got him to promise in court that he would not erect anymore Halloween displays while living next door to her. Some people!
http://www.inhabitots.com/how-to-make-upcycled-halloween-tombstones-for-your-yard/ Source: Inhabitots.com
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3. Man Wearing Sheep Costume Accidentally Set on Fire
A man in England made the unfortunate decision to head to a Halloween party dressed as a sheep. His sheep costume had him covered in cotton balls. While riding the subway in full costume en route to the party, a fellow traveler thought it would be funny to flick his lighter near the cotton ball covered costume. The costume burst into flames and the Halloween partygoer was badly burned. Worse, the man’s costume-clad friends on the train tried to put out the fire using the alcoholic beverages they were bringing with them to the party, which only made the fire worse. Fortunately, the person who set the fire was the heir to a large estate and used his inheritance to cover the sheep costumed man’s hefty medical bills.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horrifying-moment-bouncer-sets-fire-3843067 Source: Mirror.co.uk
2. Prankster Spikes Halloween Punch With Visine Eye Drops With Tragic Results
In 2009, a woman in Granville, New York, was charged with a misdemeanor after her Halloween prank ended up killing her friend. Inspired by a prank she had seen on television, a 49-year-old woman decided to spike the punch at a Halloween party she was attending with Visine eye drops. Apparently, the prankster through the Visine would make her friend woozy and ill. However, Visine causes serious medical issues for people who drink it, including respiratory failure. The woman who was pranked had no idea what happened to her, but she quickly collapsed after drinking the Visine and later died. Several other people at the party became seriously ill. The woman who spiked the punch with Visine was later charged with misdemeanor assault causing bodily harm. Sad, but true.
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1. Teenager Hangs Himself to Death in Front Yard While Trying to Prank His Sister
It doesn’t get more tragic than this one. In 2013, a teenager in Kentucky accidentally hung himself to death while trying to stage a Halloween prank. Jordan Morlan, aged 16, of Louisville was apparently trying to prank his sister on Halloween by pretending to hang himself in a tree on the family’s front yard. However, the prank turned to tragedy when Jordan slipped and hung himself to death for real. Sadly, the family didn’t believe Jordan was in trouble when they initially saw him hanging in the tree as they assumed he was pulling another in a series of Halloween pranks. By the time they realized the prank had gone wrong it was too late. Paramedics were unable to revive Jordan, and after spending several days in a coma, he died. An honor student, Jordan had planned to join the Marines after high school.
http://www.photozo.com/forum/black-white/25857-noose.html Source: Photozo.com
Jack Sackman has been writing about movies and TV for Goliath since 2013.
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Coming off of a strong performance last week, hope blossomed once more in the hearts of WWE fans everywhere. Could Raw keep putting on strong shows, even without John Cena and several other big stars making regular appearances? Has Roman Reigns’ time finally come, and will the fans go along with it this time? And just what the heck is Bray Wyatt up to? Well, we got answers to all those questions, plus a bunch of other things also happened, this week on Monday Night Raw!
10. Roman Reigns Talks…Just Enough
Admit it, a part of you cringed when Roman Reigns came out to start Raw, and his first act upon entering the ring was to grab a microphone. We’ve grown to tolerate and even accept Reigns despite his shortcomings over the last few months, and frankly, it doesn’t matter how we feel, because he’s probably going to be WWE World Heavyweight Champion in two weeks. But there’s good news, because while Roman did talk for a bit, he didn’t go into a long speech in a clumsy attempt at summarizing the long history of The Shield break-up. He kept his thoughts short, there were no attempts at being witty, he simply stated facts and closed with a promise to kick Seth Rollins’ ass. Then he turned the heavy lifting over to Rollins, who is clearly more comfortable in the promo department (ironically, the chief complaint against Rollins when he entered WWE was that he was bad on the mic, which should give Reigns fans something to hope for). While he can’t stay silent forever, especially as champion, it’s good to see WWE slowly learning that not everyone can cut a twenty-minute opening promo and adjusting accordingly.
http://pl.wwe.com/photos/2015/11/03/becky-lynch-vs.-sasha-banks-vs.-brie-bella-vs.-paige-%E2%80%93-fatal-4-way-match-photos;jsessionid=6335EEEC6B4477E357441B21C0324800?r30_r1_r1:page=24 Source: pl.wwe.com
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9. When Sneak Attacks Fail
Well, Dolph Ziggler continues to be unreasonably distracted by the appearance of Tyler Breeze during his matches. Actually, it’s not completely unreasonable, Tyler is clearly gorgeous, but it is starting to cost him matches. And honestly, for a guy who seems to have more than his share of ring smarts, Dolph certainly isn’t using his head when going after Breeze. First of all, you should never turn your back on Kevin Owens while the match is still going on, which Dolph did twice last night. Kevin Owens becomes stronger when his opponent isn’t looking. And second of all, when you’re trying to attack Tyler Breeze from behind, perhaps it would be a good idea not to do it when Tyler is using his phone to take a selfie, which means he can see you sneaking up on him!. When you’re getting outsmarted by a guy whose gimmick is an homage to Zoolander, that’s definitely a sign that you’re doing something wrong.
http://wrestlingnews.co/tyler-breezes-call-up-is-long-overdue/ Source: wrestlingnews.co
8. All Is Right With The Universe
The best part of a Cesaro match, aside from the part where he wrestles and is pretty awesome at it, is seeing his opponent and having a reasonable expectation that Cesaro might actually win the match. Such was the case last night, when Cesaro faced The Miz. As much as everyone hates The Miz, you can’t argue that he has so much charisma that he could pretty much lose every match he’s ever in and it wouldn’t damage his character even a tiny bit. Mostly because his character is a guy who talks big and fails to back it up when challenged, but also because he really is a great heel who can get the crowd to hate him just by opening his mouth. The fact that he’s also not a bad wrestler makes him a perfect opponent for someone like Cesaro, who needs wins over credible opponents that can at least keep up with him in the ring. In addition, even though we can all see Cesaro’s next feud sitting in the crowd in the form of Stardust and The Ascension (who are apparently stealing even more blatantly from the Road Warrior’s closet), it didn’t factor into any sort of screwy finish. Cesaro won and looked great, which will give him positive momentum whenever Stardust finally attacks him to start their feud. Meanwhile, Miz lost and looked fine, because next show he’ll do a Miz TV segment and continue being an arrogant jerk that everyone hates.
http://www.wwe.fr/videos/2015/11/03/roman-reigns-is-ready-to-fight-raw-november-2-2015 Source: WWE.fr
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7. Bray’s Been Thunderstruck
We talked after Hell in a Cell about how this angle between Bray Wyatt and the Brothers of Destruction could allow WWE to basically hide everyone’s weaknesses behind impressive pyrotechnics and a good dose of smoke and mirrors. Well, we got an excellent taste of that last night, as Bray Wyatt showed off his new magical powers by activating a fireworks display and creating lightning indoors, signifying that he had somehow absorbed the powers of The Undertaker and Kane, and re-establishing himself as a powerful mystical force in WWE. It was the kind of over-the-top segment that is both ridiculous and also perfect for the characters involved. It’s the sort of thing that only works in pro wrestling (and, possibly, in SyFy original movies), because wrestling fans know that the product they are watching is, at a certain level, supposed to be cheesy and feature the kinds of special effects also seen in bad “B” movies. As long as it’s in service of making things interesting, we’ll pretty much go along with anything that professional wrestling wants to throw at us. So, of course Bray Wyatt now has the power to summon lightning and shoot fire out of turnbuckles, just like The Undertaker is an undead zombie motorcycle enthusiast and Kane is a guy who might have split personalities. It’s pro wrestling. If it’s fun to watch, it doesn’t have to be logical.
6. Unexpected Continuity
It would have been so easy for WWE to forget about Jack Swagger and his partnership with Zeb Colter. Honestly, few people probably would have cared if Jack Swagger never showed up again. But wrestling is like one of those hoarders from that TV program, and they never throw something out if they think they might use it again at some point in the future. And given the ongoing confusion as to what the heck the partnership between Colter and Alberto Del Rio, and their concept of Mexamerica, is all about, it was kind of nice to see our concerns given physical form, even if it happened to be in the shape of Jack Swagger. Hey, maybe Swagger’s dogged search for the true purpose behind Mexamerica will lead to a new and interesting character change for him. Maybe this whole plot is a cover-up so that Colter and Del Rio can find and recover the Ark of the Covenant. Quick, somebody get Swagger a fedora and a whip!
Okay, you laughed at the absurdity of the idea, but admit it, you’d watch that, even if it did involve Jack Swagger.
http://www.wwe.fr/videos/2015/11/03/the-lucha-dragons-vs.-sheamus–king-barrett-raw-november-2-2015 Source: WWE.fr
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One of the best parts of Raw last night was the number of segments they dedicated to character development in wrestlers who haven’t been in the spotlight recently. Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks got some deserved interview time, where Becky was allowed to show that she wasn’t just a sidekick and had her own unique skills that had gotten her to the main roster, and Sasha had an opportunity to be awesome without her teammates around to draw focus from The Boss. Meanwhile, WWE also ran a short vignette before the Lucha Dragons wrestled, showing why we should be paying attention to this tag team who are clearly being set up for at least a minor push in the near future. The segments took mere minutes, and gave all the performers involved just a little more depth and a reason for fans to care about them, which is how you build stars. It doesn’t always take twenty minute promos or five-star matches (although they help), sometimes it’s just being given small amounts of time to present your unique qualities to the audience. WWE needs to do more of this on a regular basis.
http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2015/11/3/9662550/wwe-raw-results-recap-reactions-nov-2-2015-roman-reigns-seth-rollins-survivor-series Source: cagesideseats.com
4. The Divas (Second Hour) Main Event
Maybe we’re trying to hard to find something that isn’t there, but it’s hard not so feel like giving the Divas the second hour main event spot (in the three-hour Raw era, the matches that occur at 9, 10, and 11 are all technically considered “main events” for the evening) is making a statement that WWE is actually trying to take them seriously. It won’t be remembered as any sort of classic Divas match and it probably won’t make highlight reels at the end of the year, but it was a very good match (even with Brie Bella involved) and it was given more than enough time. In fact, the final hour of Raw was given over to just two matches: the elimination match between Team Reigns and Team Rollins, and the Fatal Four-Way between Becky, Sasha, Paige, and Brie. When was the last time that WWE used a third of Raw for just two matches, much less one of them being a Divas match? By moving away from the “team” concept WWE had been leaning on since the Divas Revolution started, giving them a competitive, lengthy match that had an actual purpose, and letting everyone involved show off their individuality, WWE did more for the division last night than they have in the all the weeks since Charlotte, Becky, and Sasha made their Raw debuts combined.
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3. Kevin Owens, Professional Bad Guy
By all accounts, Kevin Owens is actually a nice guy, a dedicated family man, and one hell of a professional wrestler. But it’s just so easy to hate him, and that’s because in an era where fans still cheer entertaining heels, he does the little things to ensure that he’ll be disliked, no matter how good of an in-ring competitor he happens to be. When it comes down to it, Kevin Owens always chooses the action that will get him booed rather than cheered. He doesn’t do flashy moves, he berates his opponent loudly during the match, and even worse, he wins because he’s actually the better wrestler. He even makes everything five times more difficult than it has to be for his supposed allies, as he did last night when he only agreed to team with Seth Rollins in exchange for the WWE Champion owing him a favor in the future. Then, if he doesn’t like how things are going, he walks away rather than accept defeat. Plus, he annoys everyone, so the fans are basically looking forward to him feuding with everybody he faces. After last night, we can now anticipate a feud with Dean Ambrose and, eventually, one with Roman Reigns. If nothing else, Owens is guaranteeing his position for a long time to come, simply because he’s willing to be the most hated man in WWE.
Seth Rollins Just Set An Incredible and Obscure WWE Record On Raw
2. The Abbreviated History of Survivor Series
Imagine that you’re in charge of WWE, and you want to celebrate the history of Survivor Series, which is one of your longest-running Pay Per View concepts, even if it fell away from its original intent a long time ago. So you go with the tried-and-true formula, a series of laudatory vignettes of big Survivor Series moments in history. Now, here’s the problem: you can’t use the main events of most of the early years because you can’t promote Hulk Hogan right now, and he was all over those shows. You also can’t or probably won’t use anything involving Jimmy Snuka, Chris Benoit, Owen Hart, Kurt Angle, CM Punk, Jeff Hardy, Batista, or Rey Mysterio, for a variety of reasons ranging from the obvious PR complications to sheer pettiness. Promoting The Undertaker’s 25th anniversary of his debut, when you’re simultaneously running a story line where he’s been absorbed by Bray Wyatt, would either cause fans to assume he’ll be at Survivor Series when you might not have had plans that way, or basically give away his shocking return ahead of time. Also, you don’t like mentioning Brock when he’s not around. So, what are you left with? In this case, we got a mostly meaningless mid-card match from the first Survivor Series, a random Raw vs Smackdown match from the mid-2000’s, and last year’s main event, which WWE promoted in the video as changing things in a new direction, but which it didn’t actually do, because the results of that match were erased several weeks later. Not exactly a glorious montage, there.
WATCH: Roman Reigns Blasts Brock Lesnar in Amazing "Shoot" Promo
1. Absence Makes The Heart Wish You’d Stay Away Longer
Look, John Cena is the straw that stirs the drink and he’s not leaving WWE for a good long time barring injury, and we’ve pretty much accepted that. With that said, did anyone really miss his presence on Raw last night? Or Randy Orton? Nikki Bella? How about Kane, Big Show, or The Dudleys, none of whom appeared on the show? It seemed like the show moved along quite well with new faces getting a chance to put on a show with some many of the established cornerstones away for various reasons. We’re not saying pack them in a box and never bring them back, but it’s been nice to have shows where half of the airtime isn’t given away to already established stars who don’t need the exposure, but who have to be on TV every week. Plus, you’ve freed up the mid card to find new feuds, without having to feed them to the Cena machine (or to a lesser extent, the Orton machine) on a weekly basis, and Seth Rollins, WWE Champion, is finally getting to be the most important person on the show again! We know WWE is already planning to have Cena return earlier than expected at the TLC PPV, but maybe they should consider letting him stay on vacation until the end of the year, just to see what happens. The ratings in December are never going to be good no matter who is on Raw, so maybe give the people working now a little more freedom to find their way without Cena around wouldn’t be the worst idea in the world.
Nice Halloween costume, though.
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Stephen Randle is an avid wrestling and film fan. He's been writing about WWE, movies, and video games for Goliath since 2015.
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Criteria This award recognises the important role that both patient-focused and professional campaigns play in promoting consumer education and patient safety. It is open to associations, companies and individuals. In selecting finalists, the Aesthetics looked for evidence of activity designed to benefit the industry as a whole, along with tangible outcomes. The winner will be selected from the finalists using a combination of Aesthetics reader votes and judges’ scores. Voting will constitute a 30% share of the final score.
Academic Aesthetic Mastermind Group
Since being finalists last year for the professional initiative of the year award, the Academic Aesthetic Mastermind Group has continued to grow as a force for good within our industry.
This not-for-profit organisation has seen its members work together and successfully publish research papers in high impact factor journals this year, such as PRS Global and JCAD. We will continue to work together and publish more research within our medical speciality to help raise the standard and improve patient outcomes long term.
We have built a growing community who meet monthly to discuss interesting cases, anatomy, complications and critically appraise papers. This is only the beginning!
Allergan Aesthetics Beauty Decoded Podcast
Allergan Aesthetics
The Beauty Decoded Podcast Series was the first of its kind within the industry, the objective of the series was to create a narrative and place where listeners could come to gain knowledge about the aesthetics industry. The series features a host of famous presenters, including; beauty journalists and influencers, HCP’s, and celebrities. During the series TV presenters Rylan Clark-Neal, Saira Khan and Singer Sinitta talked openly and shared their personal experiences and stories, providing listeners with valuable, in-depth, long form content.
AlumierMD Professional Portal
The determination to raise national standards for patient safety and education, and protect the aesthetics industry and its professionals, resulted in the AlumierMD Portal. The Portal was designed to protect professionals and their patients from the vulnerability of readily available skincare online and compliment changing consumer demands. With extensive relations within the industry, we understood the compromise to patient safety that can exist without a professionals guidance.
The AlumierMD Portal is a web-based platform allowing aesthetic businesses to create their own AlumierMD e-commerce business to reignite the relationships between patients and professionals online. Our industry experts developed our pioneering tracking technology as a commitment to prevent the resale of AlumierMD products through unauthorised, online channels. The pandemic has only reinforced a mandatory need for clinics to have a digital presence, to be able to connect and support patients remotely. With buyers’ preferences shifting online, we believe in a world in which professionals are rewarded for their expertise and patients receive the cleanest, corrective skincare available- under professional care.
BCAM Educational Framework
British College of Aesthetic Medicine
The British College of Aesthetic Medicine (BCAM) reinforces its place leading Aesthetic Medicine through the new MBCAM examination, the gold standard for clinicians working in our specialism.
Consulting Room Relaunch Centre
ConsultingRoom
The Consulting Room built and hosted a free open access Covid-19 Relaunch Resource centre to help aesthetic businesses reduce the time taken to research and prepare for safe trading after lockdown. We invited clinic owners, suppliers and industry groups in the aesthetic community to contribute in helping to build a centralised set of resources that would guide clinics in providing the safest possible working environment for their staff and patients/clients over the coming year. As there were still many unanswered questions, and as most aesthetic clinics and suppliers were working at reduced capacity, we hoped that providing a centralised resource that we could all share and contribute too would help to reduce the time taken to provide practical solutions, and be more efficient than sharing ideas across a multitude of different social media platforms. The resource was launched on 10th May and has grown to have over 150 key documents/webinars/checklists and surveys pertinent to COVID-19 and aesthetics with over 1450 registered users.
The Plastic Fantastic Podcast
The UK's first Industry focused podcast
Hosted by award winning Plastic Surgeon and Aesthetic Nurse Specialist
Weekly interviews with the leading figures in our industry
Designed to entertain, inform and educate
Honest non-biased education
Learn and be entertained while multi-tasking at the gym or driving
Keep up to date with the latest treatments, innovations and advances in your Industry!
Black Aesthetics Advisory Board
Dija Ayodele Aesthetics Ltd
The Black Aesthetics Advisory Board (BAAB) was founded to look closer at the experiences of black professionals and black patients within the aesthetic industry. Findings revealed that black practitioners experienced higher levels of discrimination and fewer progression opportunities within the specialty, whilst black consumers also reported difficulties in accessing practitioners confident in treating their aesthetic concerns. The BAAB aims to work with all stakeholders to make meaningful change in diversity and inclusion within aesthetics.
#IAmMe
I created and launched the world’s first LGBTQ+ campaign in medical aesthetics (#IAmMe) with the aim to promote safety and inclusivity in wellbeing and medical aesthetic beauty.
The campaign reflects my wholly inclusive approach to cosmetic consultations, expectations and treatments. #IAmMe’s ethos is to create a safe space for the community to discuss daily issues faced whilst empowering and enabling them to find strength, power and inner belief through aesthetics and embracing diversity. Whilst I appreciate that medical aesthetics isn’t for everyone, for some it helps with channelling confidence, courage and strength to be their truest and best self.
As part of this campaign I am a co-author of the first in-depth article specifically targeting transgender community ‘Considerations of the Use of Noninvasive Aesthetic Procedures for Facial Remodelling in Transgender Individuals’ which we hope to have published in Aesthetic Surgery Journal. This piece of work is supported by Allergan and five other global leaders.
For more details about the campaign including videos from celebrity #IAmMe supporters head over to Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drvincentwong/
'In The Consulting Room' by Miss Sherina Balaratnam
S-Thetics
The National Medical Weight Loss Programme
Over two thirds of the adult UK population are classed as overweight or obese. Many patients who attend aesthetic clinics for treatments often require help with weight loss.
The National Medical Weight Loss Programme (NMWLP) was founded by Nurse Consultant, Sandy Green, who, having battled with her own weight, wanted to increase public accessibility to medically supervised weight loss programmes, where National Health Services are no longer available, and to offer support to medical professionals in setting up a private weight management service.
Becoming a Certified Partner of NMWLP is available exclusively to registered healthcare professionals (RHCPs) including doctors, dentists, prescribing pharmacists, nurse prescribers and nurses (who must work with a prescriber who attends the training) and means that the network of Certified Partners can deliver a standardised model of care using evidence-based practice, to people living with overweight and obesity who want to achieve a healthy weight.
Training was co-written and is co-delivered by Dr Matt Capehorn, an expert adviser to NICE on obesity. The CPD-certified training course is also accredited by the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) and the World Obesity Federation, through the Strategic Centre for Obesity Professional Education (SCOPE).
The aim of the NMWLP is to create national leaders in obesity care and weight management
The Safe Aesthetic Practitioner (SafeAP)
The medical aesthetic industry in the UK is worth £2.75billion. These include wrinkle treatments and facial fillers injectables.
The problem is this industry is poorly regulated. Anyone regardless of qualifications and skills can provide these treatments. Complications can arise and these include infection, permanent facial deformities and even blindness.
We created the marketplace SafeAP to improve the safety in this industry. Practitioners go through a stringent on-boarding process where they are vetted for qualifications, insurance, life support training, and DBS clearance.
For clients, they are presented with a list of qualified practitioners, where they can filter based on ratings and reviews, search for treatments, book and pay. They can contact the practitioner via the in-app messaging service pre and post treatment for continuity of care.
SafeAP is founded by 2 medical doctors with a passion to improve safety. Our focus is on improving public awareness so clients can make better informed choices, spreading body positivity and in reducing the stigma associated with these treatments. We champion and empower aesthetic practitioners by providing them with all the necessary tools to grow their business.
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Minor reshuffle at Army 7th ID implemented
Steve A. Gosuico
FORT Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija -- A minor reshuffle of camp commanders took place in this Philippine Army camp with the holding of a joint change of command rites at the Kaugnay Officers’ Clubhouse here on Monday.
Maj. Gen. Filemon T. Santos Jr., 7th Infantry Division (ID) commander, presided over the change-of-command ceremony, installing Lt. Cols. Michael B. Bautista and Eugenio Julio C. Osias IV as the acting commandant of the Division Training School (DTS) and the acting commanding officer of the Civil-Military Operations Battalion (CMOBn), respectively.
Bautista replaced Lt. Col. Jose Ambrocio F. Rustia while Osias IV took over from Lt. Col. Eugene M. Villaluz.
In his message, Bautista thanked Santos and the other 7ID senior officers for the trust and opportunity given to him to lead the DTS.
For his part, Osias proposed that the CMO should work closely with the other units of the Kaugnay Division, to become more relevant in their contribution to the 7ID mission.
With reliable and time-tested Army officers taking over the important units of 7ID, Maj. Gen. Santos said that he is confident that all gains of the units will be sustained and will be further improved upon. He also thanked the outgoing officers for giving their best for their respective units during their previous stints.
Osias said the 7th Division Training School is where all new soldier-recruits of the 7ID are trained and educated to think and act as a soldier, while the 7th Civil Military Operations Battalion handles all the military-civilian activities and relevant community support programs (CSP), bringing the Army closer to the people.
Villaluz said CMO is the 7th ID’s command that greatly contributes to the ultimate defeat of the enemy without firing a gun.
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