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Returning a 30 year old VHS to Troma!
Posted on May 31, 2019 by thomasedwardseymour
Next Friday I'll head to Troma Entertainment to return a 30 year old VHS that actually says "Return to Troma ASAP" and to speak with the B-movie king himself Lloyd Kaufman. Hopefully he will forgive the tardiness. The film was a screener copy of Killer Condom. This will for the most part, finish off VHS Massacre 2 although I might snag one of two more interviews and I still need a ton of B-role. This film I don't believe is like the first one, more of an exploration of the challenges that B-movie filmmakers go through, be it censorship, or financial woes. Joe Bob Briggs seems to be one of the most important people celebrating these kinds of films. His drive-in academy award nominations are my favorite. Some of these fringe films and filmmakers end up being really important to the main stream. I think I can have the film close to finished by the end of the year.
In other updates, tomorrow my short documentary entitled Artifact featuring author Jonathan Alexandratos will play at Yale University as part of the New Haven documentary Film Festival. I've made three of these short films some very recently, The Toy Shop was included in my first critique in the Hunter Intergraded Media Arts program earlier this month. I'm over the halfway mark and closing in on my M.F.A. it's been challenging but I'll be glad when it's finished. That's all for now.
James Rolfe, Shawn C. Philips, JR Bookwalter join VHS Massacre 2!
Posted on April 22, 2019 by thomasedwardseymour
I was excited to learn that James Rolfe had actually watched the first VHS Massacre and liked it but more about that later. So I'm slowly chipping away at my MFA and I'm about half way done at this point. The Hunter Intergraded Media Arts Program has been challenging but it will ultimately be rewarding. It's been humbling being a 42 year old graduate student and it is exhausting working full time and going to school at night. I've gotten to learn from Academy Award winning cinematographers and NPR Radio producers. In this sense I feel like I'm starting to get the most out of Living in New York City, even if it took a decade or so to find a decent quality of life. As I prepare to be a father I wanted to have a project going to tinker with on the side the same way my father works on computers, inventions, or wood working. So at least for now that seems to be the VHS Massacre films.
The great news is that over the last month I've gotten some really solid interviews. James Rolfe a filmmaker known as the Angry Video Game Nerd has joined the cast of VHS Massacre 2. The views on his web-series are literally in the billions. He made his first feature a few years back and I got to hear about how that process went.
The next person to join the film is independent film juggernaut and film reviewer Shawn C. Phillips. With over a 130 movie credits, he has carved out a solid career but also his physical media collection is really amazing! His insights into the value of exploitation films are really powerful as well!
Lastly but certainly not least Mr. J.R. Bookwalter, that man whose first feature was funded by Sam Raimi (The Dead Next Door). He has worked on so many Full Moon classics that it will make your head spin. For instance Witch House 2,3, Curse of Puppet Master and so on! He's had a great career and his expertise in independent film distribution is a really important in regard to this film. A few more interviews, some B-roll and I should have enough material to finished VHS Massacre 2! Hopefully toward the end of next year. With the success of the first VHS Massacre, it is my hope that I continue to work in the documentary field.
I was thinking about it and the narrative feature films I've done over the years, Everything Moves Alone, London Betty, Mark of the Beast were done to the best of my ability. The budgets, give or take were about 10 grand a piece and I really did try my best and push things are far as possible. They even had stars in them like Ellen Muth, Clint Howard and Daniel Von Bargen. Here's the thing, running around with a camera over my shoulder and moving lights around for 12 hours a day is a young man's game and that's what it takes to make a feature length film so cheaply. With documentary you can do a couple of interview a month in your spare time and it's a lot more manageable. So you could say I'm retiring from narrative feature length films until which time as someone funds $100,000 plus project for me. If I'm going to make another narrative I need to be able to take my time, hire the right people and do it right.
Another reason to want a higher budget is that the average viewer has changed in their expectations. The way film criticism is set up online, where people are pushed and encouraged to rate and review has really created contempt for small films because as some statistics are starting to find, angry people tweet and review more than happy people and so it's never an accurate representation online. When a low-budget film gets trashed there is no recourse, no million dollar PR machine to counteract this through advertising. So it dies on the vine right there and it becomes difficult for that filmmaker to make another film. I grew up in a time where a low-budget feature film was considered a kind of miracle and people wanted to see what you could do for no money. Now many young adults think of content as free, and when people think something is free, they don't always appreciate it as much. So it's a different era.
As far as my career in documentary film it is Troma Entertainment that makes this worth doing. For filmmakers like Eli Roth, Debbie Rochon, James Gunn, Marisa Tomei, Matt Stone, Trey Parker or Sam Jackson, Troma is where you start out your career. For me although I've had some successes, it may be where I end up but I think I'm ok with that. Stay tuned for more news!
VHS Massacre 2 hits rough-cut phase and Cinemassacre give us praise!
Posted on March 25, 2019 by thomasedwardseymour
"We love VHS Massacre!"
-Cinemassacre
I spoke briefly with James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd himself) and he actually saw the first VHS Massacre and loved it! This is really cool. I've been watching his videos for years now. We may even be able to include some video of him in the new doc, fingers crossed!
I made a push this week to get VHS Massacre 2 into rough-cut phase. I need to get a few more interviews and I need more footage of video stores and such. It's a bit of a mess but I needed get it to a point where I could show some folks and get some feedback.
The films examines the importance of certain exploitation films from Night of the Living Dead, to the Toxic Avenger. It seems like every year it gets harder to turn a profit making independent films so it makes sense that the ones that do make it tend to be sensational. Troma films always come to mind, they pull no punches for instance Shakespeare's Shit-storm look to be a gross-out masterpiece. The trailer is pretty graphic so please watch at your own risk. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
VHS Massacre 2 is about how films and filmmakers have been marginalized, kept out of venues, kept from being paid what they were owed and how the system is so corrupt that we've nearly lost an entire generation of independent filmmakers to predatory distribution practices. Even filmmakers who had lawyers, agents and that have signed good contracts have been robbed of money owed to them by the Hollywood system. Everyone knows the film & music industry is a tricky business but we examine what we may have lost in not allowing people to move to the next level. It's a simple argument, the system is too corrupt to be a hierarchy of competence and therefor a large amount a talent is lost because if you can't recoup your money, it's hard to keep making films.
It's not all doom and gloom though, we speak with people who are still making it happen and we examine what we can do to fortify Independent films moving forward. If you have 15 minutes give listen to some of the upcoming VHS Massacre 2 discussion topics above!
VHS Massacre 2!
Posted on January 10, 2019 by thomasedwardseymour
As the new year begins a few things are starting to fall into place. My 10th feature length film and second feature length documentary VHS Massacre 2 is coming along slowly but I'm making steady progress. I just finished a great interview with my friend Jason Carvey. He is a writer/director that cast John Krasinksi (The Office,Jack Ryan) in one of his first feature films. Carvey speaks about how certain distribution companies have really hurt independent filmmakers. Even when a film is profitable sometimes the distribution company refuses to honor their contract and pay filmmakers. I had the same situation happen to me with the film Land of College Prophets back in 2005. The film was successful but York Entertainment refused to pay us once they reached the break even point. If you can't pay back your investors it can become difficult to raise more money again. This in a weird way works as a form of censorship though this is not necessarily the intention of a crooked distributor or the studio system. By financially starving out independent filmmakers "society will eventually lose out" to quote my friend Professor James Richardson.
This is different than banning a film from major streaming sites like in the case of Debbie Rochon's Model Hunger. This is particularly bizarre in that I can watch films like Human Centipede 1-3 or a Lars Von Trier film on most formats but simply because Debbie has an unrated film from a smaller distributor, they lack the power and influence get it though. The third piece of this would be the outraged mobs on social media helped to get Debbie fired from her day job for playing evil nazi villains or doing nudity in films, something that even academy award winners have done like Christoph Waltz, Holly Berry or even Charlie Chaplin. With nearly 300 features under her belt Debbie Rochon might be the most prolific American Independent film star in history…and she has been treated like shit. She is a trailblazer for women in the genre and routinely tops lists of women in horror. To paraphrase her, "the judgement I get from a seemly younger generation is baffling." Looking down on her for the roles she has taken. A bizarre twist to me that they can't see a hero from a villain.
Exploitation films are meant to do what studio films can't, push the envelope. Specifically in the horror genre that idea of a non-offensive nightmare seems rather toothless. After all we see horror film to be scared and shocked in a safe way. Odd that people would try to hold horror films to the same standard as a terrible network sitcom. This documentary has led me down some strange path but I think it is a good thing.
Then there was Blockbuster Video. Jason speaks how in order to get certain films into Blockbuster, films at times were heavily censored. In addition that fact that Blockbuster killed the independently owned video stores is a from of censorship because they only carried family friendly content. Exploitation films and low-budget content was to a significant degree excluded.
What I see from these three forms of censorship is problematic. What tiggers people now might not be what triggers people ten years from now. So in destroying a filmmakers career on social media, we may lose out on how we may reinterpret a film in the future or we may lose out on how that artist evolves. James speaks about how black exploitation films of the 70's planted the seeds for Marvel Superheroes in present day. Even though the representations are imperfect and in some cases offensive we can look back and see that they are very important. If we look back at the past and cringe a bit, it is a good thing because it means that we've made progress. If we demonize the past by the standards of today the whole world looks evil though that lens. The problem is what we're doing in 2019 will be demonized in five years as well but we don't yet know how. How do you know you are the right side of history until the future bear its results. So I don't think censorship good for a society in the long run. Take what is relevant and meaningful from the past, leave what is irrelevant where it originated, in the past. As of right now that that feels true to me. As the film unfolds I hope to learn more.
VHS Massacre becomes Bestseller and the new Ex Massacre Doc!
Posted on November 21, 2018 by thomasedwardseymour
So I'm working on the follow up to the VHS Massacre documentary with Kenneth Powell. That film was shot from early 2012 until 2014 and released in 2016. A lot has changed since then and lately I've been trying to put my finger on it. Recently we got some great footage from the Last Blockbuster in the U.S. located in Bend, Oregon courtesy of producer Tom Poirier. It made me think of how Blockbuster starved out independent video stores and in turn, they starved out a number of exploitation filmmakers. You couldn't see certain films that pushed the envelope in most Blockbuster Videos. For the most part Troma films, rare films, certain exploitation films and adult films were simply not available. Blockbuster was a family store and so they just didn't carry certain titles. They certainly wanted to monopolize the industry and I think a side result was a deep censoring of certain films to the public and that is never good. So just as people got the freedom for the first time to rent the films at a reasonable price, certain films was quickly excluded. In a new interview I spoke with my friend Professor James Richardson about his favorite exploitation films and why they were important.
So now that Blockbuster Video is in the past (sort of) what has changed? I'd say independent films are being starved out in a different way. Be it through predatory distribution contracts that never pay out, being banned or blocked from premier streaming sites, or simply being paid pennies on the dollar from YouTube. (I once calculated that you have the same odds of playing in the NBA versus making six figures a year on YouTube) to make things worse YouTube recently kicked thousands of channels off of the partnership program cutting them out of the money making process altogether. In a recent interview with Debbie Rochon she speaks of her horror film Model Hunger being banned from major streaming sites because of graphic violence. Ironically I can watch all of the Human Centipede films on various formats. Why is this? Money and influence of course. Even though Debbie Rochon's film model hunger starred horror icon Lynn Lowry (Crazies,Shivers), it was low budget and so it was harder to push back.
Lloyd Kaufman himself will tell you that Netflix was built on the backs of low-budget filmmakers like Debbie or Troma Studios and their nearly 1,000 available titles. I even had a few titles on Netflix like Land of College Prophets in there in early 2000's. Now of course we have all been kicked out. We were good enough for them as they were building their company but now they don't need us. This a theme that seems to repeat over and over for indie filmmakers. So right now Prime Video and iTunes still have their door open to independent content so that is a light at the end of the tunnel. Though Prime to me is more promising. They have a massive subscriber base and there may be more of a chance that people hear about your film on the web and watch it on Prime without paying a separate rental fee.
So the new doc is going to be about modern censorship of Independent and exploitation films. We may dabble with origin of film censorship in the U.S. for instance the banning films of prize fighting films in the late 19th century, pre-code and post-code and so on. The main focus however will talk about the risks of making exploitation film today. Ex Massacre I'm calling the film. I have about 40 minutes roughed out but I need some more interviews for sure. I'm starting to book them now.
All this to say I'm excited to be working on a new project and still grateful for the response to my last feature length documentary VHS Massacre. To be honest that's why I'm doing the new one! There are still people who post pictures, videos, tweet or even drop us a line to tell us they liked the film. This has been happening for about three years now. To have ANY lasting impact in 2018 to me feels like a miracle.
I went to New York Comic Con this year. I stop by the Troma Entertainment booth every time I attend. Mostly because I'm a fan. I like to pick out a few new blu-rays I've never heard of. Some times they are pretty out there and offensive but sometimes I honestly like to be shocked. You are watching a spectacle and that can be exciting! I wouldn't want to censor that. It's easy enough to avoid material like that and that's a powerful form of protest to simply not buy or watch more of those films. So it upsets me when people try to go after filmmakers on social media. It crosses the line of trying to destroy the person rather than boycott the art. Some films should be fucked up, if that freedom becomes censored through the government or even worse, the public, then ours is a republic in crisis… and we may be there already.
That being said thanks to everyone for making VHS Massacre possibly one of the best received films of my career! The last time I spoke with Lloyd Kaufman he said that VHS Massacre was a best seller for Troma Entertainment. The last time that happened to me was about 15 years ago for a film called Land of College Prophets. Thanks ya'll! Happy Thanks Giving! More to come soon!
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My heart resides in the aisles of the local video store.
Posted on September 9, 2018 by thomasedwardseymour
So I recently listened to an hour long podcast from B-mania, an incredibly well produced show. It was about a film I directed with Mike Aransky and Phil Guerette in 2003 called Land of College Prophets. This is a film about low-level superheroes who work at community college. They awaken a haunted wishing well that ends up possessing some of the people in their town. Initially I was kind of mortified at the idea that someone would a review a film that I made in my early 20's from a 2018 perspective but they actually had a lot of fun with it and were very polite about our low-budget romp.
I remember spending a year in pre-production, building that well with my father and working with my brother Bruce to secure funding. We shot the film for 12 grand but $3,500 of it was spent on a Panasonic DVX100, one of the first digital 24p cameras.
So the B-Movie Mania guys unearthed the Land of College Prophets DVD at a Dollar Tree store presumably somewhere in New York. To be honest this is the kind of thing that I always hoped would happen. When Ken Powell and I were going on VHS hunts for the Troma VHS Massacre documentary we loved whenever we found a weird film. Films like AIP's Night of the Kick-fighters comes to mind. The idea that the film is not totally lost to time is a great feeling.
I made this film after the New York Times trashed my first 16mm feature, Everything Moves Alone. I just decided to dive-in into the B-movie genre pretty hard. Author Mike Watt once referred to my film as a kitchen sink movie, blending multiple genres together. Although EMA had a small theatrical run at the Pioneer Theater in the East Village, I always blamed the New York Times for killing the home video release. They referred to it as "Unfortunate Backwash" and that drowned out all the actual positive press from Film Threat or the Daily News. So after spending years on a feature and then being denied a home video release, it was pretty demotivating. So my answer to that was to AGAIN spend years to make another film to counteract it.
When we finished Prophets, Edward Haven and Lloyd Kaufman at Troma actually loved the film but Lloyd was very honest about the fact that we may not be able to recover the budget if we put it out through them. At the time after spending 12K on the film we decided to go with York Entertainment in the hopes we could make enough money to make another movie. The film won 7 awards, was distributed in 8 different countries and was a top seller with the company but York Entertainment never paid us a dime. They have been out of business for some years now. So in hindsight we should have gone with Troma for the "street cred". Prophets did however get released through Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery and Netflix which was great. I can't really describe what a victory this felt like to me in 2005. Keep in mind Prophets came out years before other "backyard" super hero movies like James Gunn's Super, Special with Michael Rapaport or Defendor with Woody Harrelson.
For some people this would be a starting point for their career or perhaps some folks would be disappointed with a video release. Where I grew up in central Connecticut people didn't really make films. We used Robert Rodriguez's Rebel Without a Crew as our bible. I would get ridiculed by other people that I worked with who told me I needed to move to L.A. to make a film but after all my hard work and determination, their local video stores would carry my film on the shelves right next to the larger releases. We tried really hard and it paid off. I've made six other feature films since LOCP and have worked every where from CBS, NBC, IGN to CUNY but I will always remember the Land of College Prophets and the people who helped me make it. I didn't even have to move to LA to do it and so now my heart lives in NYC with my amazing wife and the (very few) video stores that still remain.
VHS Massacre #1: A look back at out Joe Bob Briggs Interview!
Posted on July 3, 2018 by thomasedwardseymour
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Congrats to Joe Bob Briggs on his new Shudder marathon! Let's take a look back at our New York Cinema Radio interview with Joe Bob Briggs! This interview was essential to the VHS Massacre documentary!
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Interview with Lloyd Kaufman and discussions on Godzilla, Dark Phoenix and John Wick 3! June 12, 2019
Tom tells us about his latest trip to Troma and shooting the end of the VHS Massacre 2 documentary. Next we have an interview with Lloyd Kaufman about the state of low-budget independent filmmaking (The latest clip of Lloyd we posted on social media received over 30,000 impressions!) That's good news for us!. Lastly, James gives us the skinny on the lat […]


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Amid Second CRC Diagnosis, Lauraine Bacon Will Walk to End Colon Cancer
Lauraine Bacon won't let a stage IV colorectal cancer diagnosis define her — not even if it's her second bout with the disease.
Whether splitting firewood under the towering cedar trees in her backyard, snowshoeing in the country, or finishing that quilt she began decades ago, she's completing projects that provide meaning and solace. It's a therapy for her mind as she undergoes chemotherapy for her disease, she said.
"Sometimes, life throws curve balls at us — cancer is definitely a curve ball — and I decided not to let it hit me in the face," Bacon, 59, said. "I'm not just sitting at home watching TV and thinking about poor, old me."
Bacon won't be sitting this weekend, either. Instead, she will be leading her team of walkers, the Dashing Derrieres, in the mostly virtual Sacramento Walk to End Colon Cancer on February 20. The Walk is organized by national nonprofit Colorectal Cancer Alliance to help build the community, awareness and funds needed to end the nation's second deadliest cancer.
Participants can walk safely in their own neighborhoods and share their experiences on social media with the hashtag #ColonCancerWalk. Walkers can then safely gather for a drive-through victory lap to celebrate efforts to end this disease. Registration fees have been waived for all participants in 2021.
The Sacramento Walk comes just before National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which runs through March. This year, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance is aiming to get colorectal cancer screenings back on track, as COVID-19 has led thousands of people to delay or forgo the potentially life-saving procedure. Screening is the No. 1 way to prevent colorectal cancer or detect it early, when it's most treatable. People at average risk should begin screening at age 45.
"The pandemic has taken all the oxygen out of the room," Bacon said. "It doesn't mean colorectal cancer is stopping. It's not taking a back seat. That's why the Walk is important. It helps create and build awareness. Maybe I send an email or put something on Facebook about supporting me in this Walk, and maybe that triggers something in somebody so they get screened."
Bacon's first diagnosis of colorectal cancer came in 2015 from a malignant polyp, discovered during a routine colonoscopy. Her second came in 2019, after rectal pains prompted her to receive a follow-up procedure.
This year, an estimated 149,500 people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer, according to the American Cancer Society, including 15,880 in California.
What: Sacramento Walk to End Colon Cancer
When: Saturday, February 20, 2021
Where: Virtually, with a drive-through Victory Lap at Western Health Advantage in Sacramento from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Sponsors: Taiho Oncology, Salix Pharmaceuticals, Western Health Advantage

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Getting Artsy in Eugene
BY Shelley Levitt
Photo credit: Andrew Nelson
The Gordon describes itself as an "art-centric" hotel and the description is more than apt. Over 160 pieces of local art from 84 different artists adorn the hotel's wall, along with 75 additional pieces created by employees of Obie Hospitality. (The Gordon is the third hotel in Obie Hospitality's portfolio of unique accommodations, joining Inn at the 5thin Eugene and Inn at 500 Capitol in Boise.)
What's more, in partnership with Eugene-based Harmonic Laboratory, an award-winning art collective, the lobby also includes a large-format digital art installation called "the Great Wall." The changing content spans two floors and 21 television screens, and often serves as a showcase for art students from the nearby University of Oregon. Live music, artists in action/residence, and other imaginative pop-up events are part of the hotel's ongoing programming.
Guests are invited to express themselves artistically, too. The lobby Art Bar is stocked with supplies like pencils and watercolors, along with an industrial sink for cleaning up after acts of inspiration.
All this makes The Gordon Hotel, which is part of the 5th Street Public Market Expansion, an appealing setting for meetings that have creative brainstorming on the agenda. The property features 3,700 square feet of flexible meeting space, including a spacious ballroom, break-out rooms, and an integrated outdoor terrace on the second floor that is committed to meetings and events. A dedicated on-site meeting concierge will service events when the hotel's primary restaurant opens later this summer.
The Gordon Tavern, on the ground floor, will serve classic American comfort food with a Pacific Northwest flair, while Carlita's Rooftop will offer of Mexican small plates infused with locally sourced ingredients, and an incredible view. Scheduled for opening later in 2021: a speakeasy-style den that's accessed via a hidden entrance.
A New Amphitheater in Salem, Oregon, is an Event Venue and an Architectural Stunner
Construction has been completed on the striking new Gerry Frank/Salem Rotary Amphitheater.
Located in Riverfront Park, Salem's premier downtown venue for outdoor events, the $4-milion amphitheater is a joint project of the City of Salem and the Rotary Club of Salem. CBTWO Architects based the structure's sweeping wood "basket-weave" concept on the open-weave baskets of the Kalapuya Native American Tribe, whose history is an integral part of Riverfront Park's land and culture.
A Robust Hotel Boom in Portland
Blame it on the eight seasons of "Portlandia" or simply on the way people rave about the city when they return from visiting. Portland is experiencing a hotel boom. Collectively, the recent wave in hotel development has resulted in an increase in room inventory of nearly 50 percent since 2016.
This Seattle Hotel is Beloved by Both Rock Stars and Meeting Planners
The Edgewater in Seattle, a Noble House Hotel, lives up to its name. Originally built for the 1962 World's Fair, the 223-room luxury hotel sits over the water on Pier 67, a location that has attracted some of the biggest names in the music business, including the Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin and, most famously, the Beatles, who fished from the window of their suite in a photo that became iconic.
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DMs Guild Review – Tales from the Stonehill Inn
A collection of ten straightforward side quests built for Phandalin, but suitable for any small starter town.
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As you may have forgotten, as I have, Stonehill Inn is the name of the inn from Phandalin, made famous from the D&D starter adventures Lost Mine of Phandalin and Dragon of Icespire Peak. Tales from Stonehill Inn is a collection of low level, straightforward side quests that all begin at the Inn, aimed at newer DMs and players.
All ten quests are designed for levels 1-5, and feature a variety of styles and objectives, including running into a burning building to save a family, recovering stolen treasure from bandits, investigating missing persons, and following a treasure map to a dungeon crawl.
The quests are designed to be straightforward and easy-to-run, making it difficult to criticize their simplicity. But I will criticize their ambiguity. Too often the designer narratively throws up their hands and leaves it up to the DM to figure out, which is the opposite of what new DMs are looking for in published content.
For example, "Inferno" presents the classic burning building scenario. A wife's husband has run back inside their burning home to save their children and hasn't yet emerged, prompting our heroes to (hopefully) charge in after them. What should have followed was either a room-to-room dungeon crawl with hazards, or a series of traps or skill challenges to convey the dangerous gauntlet they run through.
Instead we're given a bunch of notes and suggestions, like "make sure the fire spreads," and "perhaps the stairs burn away, trapping everyone upstairs, and forcing them to go out the windows." That's a great idea – design it! Don't just leave it up to the poor newbie DM to figure how to design and rule these scenarios.
Likewise "The Round Up" starts out with another excellent hook, as a traveling entertainer shows up at the inn asking to help round up escaped animals from his traveling road show. But because this is D&D, the animals are an allosaurus, a red dragon wyrmling, and half a dozen cockatrices.
Each creature is found in a different situation, such as the allosaurus threatening a farmer, or finding the wyrmling captured by a nearby village, but we're not given any rules or notes on how to handle these situations or how to recapture these creatures, leaving a lot for DMs to figure out (or hope that their players are incredibly proactive).
The worst offender is "The Wizard," a quest that isn't a quest at all but an adventure hook, as the party is told an old man needs to return home before the next dawn, for reasons. We're not told why, we're not told where he lives, or what kinds of things happen along the way. That's the definition of an adventure hook, not a quest.
Not all of the quests are that frustrating, thankfully. "The Halfling Bandit" is an awesome, well-designed little dungeon crawl in an old fort with a Rug of Smothering, Helmed Horror, and Spectator, and ending in a satisfying betrayal from the quest-giver himself.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the maturity of "The Runaway," which begins as a missing persons quest and ends with a dark twist involving some teenage runaways and an abusive father (which definitely needed a content warning label).
Although the artwork supplementing the quests are all public domain art pieces, Tales from the Stonehill Inn includes 19 full color grid battle maps. That's one map for nearly every single quest and combat encounter, which is incredibly impressive, though it's odd that we're not given a map of the Inn itself. The maps are a welcome addition, but doesn't absolve the anthology of its lack of details and more scripted events.
Ten* simple side quests that take place in and around Phandalin.
Excellent variety of quests, including investigating missing persons, capturing escaped animals, and a good old fashioned dungeon crawl.
Full color grid maps for nearly every single quest and encounter.
Too many suggestions and ideas in place of actual content.
*One of the quests is literally just an adventure hook.
The Verdict: Designed to easily slot into the D&D 5e starter adventures, Tales from the Stonehill Inn offers a welcome variety of simple side quests along with a frustrating amount of ambiguity.
Author roguewatsonPosted on August 18, 2021 August 17, 2021 Categories D&D, DMs Guild Review, TabletopTags 5e, dms guild, dnd, dungeons & dragons
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Munroe Bergdorf and Caitlyn Jenner Confirmed As Panelists For Genderquake: The Debate
by Ellen Hoggard on 8 May 2018 Read in
The Channel 4 studio discussion, which airs tonight at 10pm, will feature a range of guests with a variety of views, who are looking at what gender means in 2018
The debate will discuss topics including: what defines our gender identity, how that affects our rights, should it be easier to change gender and does gender matter anyway?
Hosted by Channel 4 News' Cathy Newman, the debate will also feature a number of panelists with a variety of views, including social activist and transgender model Munroe Bergdorf, leading feminist and academic Germaine Greer and Olympic gold medal winner and television personality, Caitlyn Jenner.
Channel 4 Commissioning Editor Shaminder Nahal said: "This debate will stimulate important and insightful discussion with a wide variety of views from the panel and audience. Issues around gender now have a prominent position in the national conversation, with strong feeling n all sides.
"Channel 4 is well known for exploring challenging and emotive issues in a fair and balanced way, and with this programme we want to help audiences understand and engage in these multifaceted issues."
Caitlyn Jenner has also been named keynote speaker at the annual lecture hosted by Channel 4 in the House of Commons, which takes place tomorrow (9 May). The lecture was set up three years ago by Channel 4 as an opportunity for high-profile figures to speak out publicly on the importance of diversity in the entertainment industry. Previous speakers include Riz Ahmed and Idris Elba.
Genderquake season
Genderquake: The Debate is part of a whole season of programmes on Channel 4 exploring the current gender debate. Kicking off with Genderquake, a two-part reality show in which 11 people, all with differing views and attitudes on sex and gender, will become housemates.
While this has been compared to Big Brother, the purpose is totally different: Genderquake aims to shine a light on and encourage discussion about gender fluidity and sexuality.
#Genderquake absolutely brilliant! Very eye opening, about time they made something like this.
— Alice Mary Lyn🦋 (@alicex_marylynx) May 7, 2018
Also showing as part of the season is What Makes a Woman? a documentary in which Munroe Bergdorf examines the changing world of gender and identity in today's society.
The documentary will follow Bergdorf as she undergoes facial feminisation surgery as part of tackling her gender dysphoria, interrogates the wider science and social norms of gender, as well as having her own views challenged by those with opposing thoughts and opinions.
Bergdorf said: "I'm beyond excited to share this documentary with everybody. The question 'What Makes a Woman?' has followed me throughout my life, so filming has been an emotional and turbulent journey of finding answers, and discovering if any finite answers even exists. I'm looking forward to being challenged and hope this documentary sparks debate and challenges perceptions."
What Makes a Woman?
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— Munroe Bergdorf 🌹🌹 (@MunroeBergdorf) May 2, 2018
Other programmes include Riot Girls, a hidden camera prank show in which comedians - Grace Campbell, Sophie Duker, Jen Wakefield and Cam Spence - will tackle a variety of topical issues like the Gender Pay Gap and the #SaveDon'tShave movement, and Random Acts: The Lady That Dances, a collaboration with ballet dancers Sophie Rebecca and spoken word artist Ash Palmisciano exploring the theme of transition.
Discussing the season, Channel 4's Deputy Director of Programmes Kelly Webb-Lamb said: "The issues around gender and gender identity are some of the most charged and hotly debated of our time. Through a collection of entertaining, thoughtful and provocative programmes, this season will feature a broad range of inspiring people who add their varied and informative voices to the wider debate."
You can catch-up with the first part of Genderquake on 4od, with part two airing tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm, followed by Genderquake: The Debate at 10pm.
For more information on gender transition, you can read our articles by counsellors Anna Jezuita and Noel Bell; A Family Guide to Transition and How to Support a Loved One as they Come Out as Trans.
For further support and to find a professional near you, visit Counselling Directory.
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Things That Only Kids of Lebanese Immigrants Understand
By Anna Lekas Miller
One of my Colombian friends and I have been known to have long arguments over whether Shakira is Lebanese or Colombian. Of course, she is both — but although she was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia and has full albums in Spanish, her signature belly dancing moves are distinctly Lebanese and inspired by the Arabic drum. After all, it's in her blood — her father was born to Lebanese immigrants in New York City.
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Among other notable Lebanese people are actresses Salma Hayek and Marlo Thomas. Rima Fakih was the winner of Miss USA in 2010, and the first Arab-American to win the title. Renowned journalists Octavia Nasser, formerly of CNN, and the late Anthony Shadid, author and correspondent for the New York Times are also of Lebanese descent, with Nasser even getting her start in Lebanon. And of course, two of my favorite political and media figures, Helen Thomas and Ralph Nader, are both of Lebanese descent.
Helen Thomas (Photo Credit: AP Images)
But any Lebanese worth their salt will tell you that there are far more.
A recent Freakonomics episode claimed that the Lebanese are some of the most successful immigrants. Although the episode was mainly referencing financial success, it also indicated that there were several Lebanese-descended celebrities of note.
Lebanese-American journalist and former New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid. (Photo Credit: AP Images)
The first theory on Lebanese immigrant success stories is that they stick together.
I know this well from my own experience as a descendant of Lebanese immigrants. My family took the complicated route from Beirut to Turkey to Mexico to Texas — a seemingly unlikely, and slightly frightening-seeming ending location for Lebanese immigrants. Still, despite settling deep in the heart of redneck country in Eastern Texas, my family managed to find an Arabic grocery store down the street, an Assyrian Orthodox Church, and a large Lebanese community with whom to share gigantic meals.
In my own life, simply dropping that I'm Lebanese has resulted in new friends, sudden discounts, and general life advice in unexpected places.
It makes sense that Lebanese stick together—after all, there are almost four times as many of us outside of the country as inside!
Lebanese-American former presidential candidate and political activist Ralph Nader. (Photo Credit: AP Images)
Next, Lebanese are accustomed to turmoil and instability — and are used to navigating through chaos or starting from scratch. The first major wave of immigration came at the turn of the 20th century when, in addition to many Christians being persecuted by the Ottoman Empire, the silk industry collapsed, forcing many Lebanese into poverty.
The next major wave came during the Lebanese Civil War, when 40% of the country left and settled in many different parts of the world including Europe, Australia, South America, and the United States and Canada.
A Lebanese economist interviewed on the show hypothesized that the chaos to which Lebanese immigrants are accustomed — whether it is economic collapse or war and violence — translates into easy adaptability and a zeal for starting anew. When it comes to finding clients for a new business or finding work, Lebanese immigrants often looked to their community members around them and resulted in success.
Lastly, the show critiqued the social concept of an "immigrant." While many times we imagine immigrants as the most desperate refugees of the world's traumas, in reality immigrants are a self-selecting population. They uproot themselves by choice in search of opportunities beyond the limits of their current horizons and are prepared for and in many ways choose adventure and adversity. I am sure everyone can find strains of this in their own immigrant families, but in mine in particular there is a love and respect for entrepreneurialism and creativity that takes risks, finds stability relative, and most of all is successful enough that no matter what the endeavor, someone will eventually say, "You know who started it? Well they're Lebanese."


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Council busybodies should work less to help residents
by Joe Kent | Apr 30, 2019 | Featured, Government Pay, Research & Commentary, Website
Maui County Council members say they spend more than 40 hours per week on the job, and some of them want higher salaries to account for that hard work.
But, like Hawaii's late small-business guru George Mason, founding publisher of Pacific Business News, used to say, it's not how hard or how many hours you work, it's how much work you get done.
The Maui County Council members might be spending 50, 60, even more hours a week "working," but what are they really getting done?
Mostly they are busy creating new regulations, raising taxes and figuring out other ways to interfere in the daily affairs of the county's residents, when probably the best way to improve the lives of their constituents would be to simply hold off on creating any new regulations for a while and, even better, maybe repeal a few. This would take up less "work" time and mitigate any idea that higher salaries are in order.
Meanwhile, let's not forget that Maui council members already are the highest paid county council members in the state, receiving $76,475 a year, not counting benefits. That's between roughly $12,000 and $24,000 more a year than their counterparts on Oahu, $64,008; Kauai, $56,781; and Hawaii island, $52,008.
Nationally, council members in municipalities with populations similar in size to Maui make on average only $36,227 year, or $42,892 when adjusted for Hawaii's cost of living, according to a survey by the International City and County Management Association.
Yet even that is considered pretty high by some standards. Sandy Springs, Ga., which has a population of over 100,000 people, pays its council members just $18,000 a year (or $22,995 adjusted for Hawaii's cost of living), yet the city is ranked as one of the top 100 best places to live in America, and the second best city in the United States for millennials.
Sandy Springs council members meet only four times a month, and keep their workload to a minimum.
Council members on Maui certainly spend a lot of time on the job, so paying them for the time worked might seem to make sense. But the amount of time spent on the job is self-imposed by the council members themselves, who spend countless hours on efforts to create more regulations. As the county's deputy corporation counsel, Gary Murai, clarified at the meeting earlier this month of the Maui Salary Commission, the council members technically are a unique class of public servant, neither full time nor part time, whose hours are of their own making, but who qualify for state benefits. That was the same meeting at which the commission rejected granting a 3 percent pay raise to the council members.
As for what the council members actually get done, more regulations and laws do not necessarily make Maui a better place to live. Economist Jose Torra, who spoke at a public event on Maui in February 2018, noted that Hawaii already has more regulations than most states, which puts the islands near the bottom of the Economic Freedom of North America index, at 45th. Torra, who helps compile the annual index, said fewer regulations would be the way to improve life in Hawaii, which by implication would include Maui County.
If council members could simply reorient their efforts to focus on checking or reducing the scope of government, they could spend less time flying back and forth between islands, attending interminable council committee meetings, and reading innumerable mind-numbing proposed new laws — and more time in the community, at the beach, hiking, with their families, or even at productive part-time jobs.
We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but perhaps that could even justify a pay decrease! Maui taxpayers could pay less for better service, while enjoying greater individual autonomy and expanded opportunities to prosper.
If Maui County Council members do not reorient their working objectives, to achieve goals that would help their fellow residents as well as themselves, there is no doubt they will be back before the Maui Salary Commission next year, and every year afterward, to complain about how little they are being paid for all the "work" that they supposedly do.
This commentary was originally published in The Maui News on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.
Joe Kent
is executive vice president of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.


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Reasons to join our Tribe
Nolefan
Garnet & Great
Van Eyk, FSU take Game 1 from FAU
Written by Bob Ferrante	in Baseball
CJ Van Eyk had eight strikeouts but allowed five walks on Friday. (photo courtesy FSU)
The Osceola
Florida State again made the most of the few hits generated against an opponent's ace. Then the Seminoles pulled away against the bullpen.
As it turned out, the Seminoles didn't need all that much offensive production.
Tyler Martin generated a bases-loaded walk in the sixth and then Matheu Nelson followed with a two-run, bloop single as FSU pushed across three runs en route to a 5-1 win on Friday at Dick Howser Stadium.
Nelson went 2 for 3, producing half of the Seminoles' four hits.
Three FSU pitchers combined on the one-hitter. Junior right-hander CJ Van Eyk (1-0) pitched six innings, allowing just one hit and an earned run with eight strikeouts. He did walk five batters, contributing to a high pitch count of 97 (57 strikes).
Van Eyk jammed his right thumb making a tag on a runner down the first-base line early in the game, causing some control issues.
"The whole thing is building up … Now he's on track," FSU coach Mike Martin Jr. said of Van Eyk ramping up his pitch count in what was his third start of 2020.
Chase Haney tossed a scoreless seventh (with two strikeouts), while Antonio Velez pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the eighth and ninth. FSU struck out 12 FAU batters, reaching double-digits for the eighth time in eight games this season.
Francisco Urbaez had FAU's lone hit, a single, in the fifth inning. The Owls (7-2) also lost to Texas Tech 7-1 earlier on Friday.
FSU (7-1) pushed across a run without a hit in the third inning. The Seminoles were held without a hit through 3.1 innings before breaking through in the fourth on Dylan Simmons' single.
Martin continues to be a spark, drawing two walks from the leadoff spot on Friday. While he went 0 for 1 from the plate he scored a run and his batting average is .389.
Elijah Cabell was hit by a pitch twice on the night, increasing his total to 10 in eight games.
FSU will play FAU on Saturday at 2 p.m. (live stream on ACC Network Extra). Freshman left-hander Bryce Hubbart will be on the mound for the Seminoles. FSU will also play Texas Tech at 6 p.m., with junior right-hander Conor Grady on the mound.
"It's neat, it's a good environment for the fans," Martin Jr. said. "I'm glad that we agreed to doing it. We got to get better. The only way you're going to do that is playing. The more you play the better you play."
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Basaksehir (@2.4) vs Mgladbach (@2.7)
Basaksehir will win
Basaksehir vs Mgladbach
Basaksehir – Mgladbach Match Prediction | 03-10-2019 12:55
The hosts are in a huge series of 19 matches without a defeat in all competitions. However, they recorded six draws in the last 10 matches, so their form is slightly deteriorating. On the other hand, even a draw is well enough for them to qualify for the last qualifying round. In four out of their last six matches in all competitions, we saw under 2.5 goals.
So, Ill suggest you to back the Greeks to win the upcoming game. We saw under 2.5 goals in the last three matches they played. They are struggling to find their form since they failed to win in the last five games. Moreover, they suffered three defeats during that time as well. The visiting team is in a completely different place now. Best betting sites in Ghana are having great odds for backing the home team to win the upcoming game.
They arent hugely effective on the road, failing to win any of their last four Champions League trips. In the last round they picked up a 0-0 draw with Plzen before winning the home meeting 4-0. Basaksehir have won only three of their 18 European ties, drawing the last three at home. We expect them to share another draw, which would be their eighth in 19 European ties and their third in just five Champions League outings. We expect them to adopt a similar approach, especially with the benefit of playing at home in the second leg. Olympiakos won only once on the road in the Europa League group stage last term a victory over Luxembourg outfit and group minnows Dudelange.
They were able to edge out Club Brugge 5-3 on aggregate before their 4-3 exit at the hands of Sevilla. Baskasehir are aiming to turn around some mixed Champions League form, with their one and only campaign in this competition lasting just four matches back in 2017. The club failed to make the grade to return to the competition last summer, but they are back in 2019 with renewed hope of secure a berth in the last 32 this autumn.
Borussia M'gladbach vs Istanbul Basaksehir : Predictions & Betting Tips
There will be fireworks when Istanbul Basaksehir and Olympiakos Piraeus take on each other at Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadyumu in the Champions League third qualifying round, first leg. The Turkish side were producing fine performances in the 2018/2019 season, but they eventually failed to clinch the domestic trophy. Anyhow, given the number of top-class players in Okan Buruks team, we believe that the hosts are going to grab something from Wednesdays football game.
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There will be fireworks when Istanbul Basaksehir and Olympiakos Piraeus take on each other at Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadyumu in the Champions League third qualifying round, first leg. Anyhow, given the number of top-class players in Okan Buruks team, we believe that the hosts are going to grab something from Wednesdays football game. The Turkish side were producing fine performances in the 2018/2019 season, but they eventually failed to clinch the domestic trophy.
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A man to keep an eye on in the home side will be former Real Madrid superstar Robinho, who scored 12 goals in the Turkish Super Lig last term. Olympiakos, on the other hand, aim to build on a thrilling 4-0 win over Plzen and given their rock-solid defence, we predict that the Greek club will play out a goalless draw with Istanbul Basaksehir in the first leg.
Preview, Prediction, Betting Tips
The Greek side pulled off a solid season in Europe, while they secured second in the Super League to return to this competition. Given that seven of their last eight campaigns have seen them make the knockout round of either the Champions League or Europa League, the visitors should be confident about their chances of going all the way. However, their recent experiences in Europe suggest they will need to do most of the heavy lifting at home if they are to go on another European run.
The second leg will be played at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus. In the first leg, the result was 1:0 in favor of the Greek team, so they are in a huge advantage prior to this match. High stakes betting sites agree with me, as they are backing the hosts to win another match. Olympiacos vs Basaksehir prediction is in front of you prior to the Champions League qualifying semifinal clash. However, the Turkish team is strong and shouldnt be underestimated. Therefore, stick around and read my match preview to find out the best betting tips and correct score predictions for this Tuesday game.
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The thing I still don't get...
By Toe,
November 1, 2021 in Husker Football
3 hours ago, ndobney said:
I think if they can get a couple close wins they will get confidence and I can see it snowballing into something really. I think a lot of people see and is why people are willing to give Frost a little more time dispite his record
Unfortunately this has been the refrain for the past 4 years. Yes, the games are close, but that's because the other teams know that eventually Frost's teams will do something to screw it up and lose. That's the DNA of Frost's teams. You've been saying that's because of Adrian, and he's been a big part of it. I say it's an overall
problem with Frost's teams. It started with the Colorado game in 2018 and it has continued through Purdue in 2021. Frost has been the consistent factor in the losing. That's why I want him gone.
Born N Bled Red 19 posts
ColoradoHusk 16 posts
Guy Chamberlin 14 posts
admo 10 posts
What's the new stat making the rounds? Scott Frost teams have gotten the ball with 4 minutes or less and the chance to tie or take the lead 15 times, and 14 times they came away with zero points.
I think this part is more our identity than anything: Greg Austin should be long gone at this point.
When you decide what terrible football is, look at teams getting a beat down every week. Games over by half time. That is not us, and we are not a terrible football team.
2 hours ago, Born N Bled Red said:
I've always wondered, was Bob Stoops that great or was John Blaked team just ready to turn the corner? Was Pelini that much better than Callahan or was the talent going to explode for 9 wins either way?
Was Meyer really that much better than Fickell or did the wackiness of tatoogate really screw with the team. Or just Bauserman?
Especially with quick turnarounds, there's no way to tell how the exited coach would have fared with the same talent.
Good coaches are able to produce the quick turnarounds. They are able to take the existing talent and improve the team and make them winners. The good coaches get it done within 2-3 years, with the 4th year as a max. Some coaches inherit more talent than others, and that's when we see OU or Ohio State win natty's soon after a coaching change. If you are hoping that Frost is able to turn it around in year 5 or longer, you would be counting on an anomaly that hasn't happened historically. That's the foolish hope. That's why Frost should be fired.
TGHusker
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Good exactly why we need to give Frost more time. Once we turn the corner and learn how to win which we will this team can be scary good. Frost still has the best chance out of any viable coaching option I've seen to turn the program around.
Costal Carolina and Cinci are 3&4 on the list. Two coaches we should go after. Chadwell and Finkell
3 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:
This is a stretch.
If any of the teams we've played could have blown us away, they would have. They aren't purposely keeping it close till we screw up.
But that isn't coaching. That is player execution plain and simple. Froet schemed up the perfect play to end the first half against Purdue. Frost couldn't through the pass, Lubick couldn't make the catch. That is all on the players. The coaches had them in the position to succeed.
Looking at the entire body of work, after nearly 4 seasons, the issues are systemic and very much on the coaching.
Hedley Lamarr
Location: West Des Moines, Iowa
3 minutes ago, Jason Sitoke said:
consistently putting players in situations of which they cannot execute.
1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:
It's not a stretch to say teams will play more conservative against Nebraska knowing they eventually NU will do something to screw it up. I've seen Purdue play a lot more aggressively in recent years, compared to what they did last Saturday. Brohm was content on grinding out the game, gaining 3 yards per carry, not taking significant risks offensively, until NU crapped the bed offensively in the 3rd quarter on Saturday.
Honestly I think that is due to our talent level. We are getting out coached consistently but I think that this roster has equal or better talent than most teams we play thus are keeping themselves in games yet come up short. Here's a statistic for you. If you count the canceled Wisconsin game, Frost is 0-8 after a bye week. Not one single win when you have two weeks to prepare for another team. That just floors me.
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I honestly believe that it's due to players not having the mindset and lack football IQ.
Week in, week out, year after year we see the same penalties and turnovers happening at the most crucial times during games.
This season comes down to offensive offensive line play in crucial moments. Opposing teams know exactly who to rush at during those times. He chokes more than the QB. Martinez just gets caught holding the ball.
It's been diagramed many times. Adrian Martinez makes poor decisions and overthrows even when the line holds, and fails to take advantage of wide open field when the pocket collapses. It happens to all quarterbacks, of course, but more often to Adrian. The same offensive line that provides a renewed running game for Rahmir Johnson and Jaquez Yant in the first half sees a different game plan in the second half. That's on coaching, not execution. This team shows what it CAN do against elite teams, but folds under pressure, and whether it's game-closing discipline or savvy adjustments and play-calling, you can't blame half the roster in order to let the coach off the hook.
10 hours ago, ndobney said:
This is exactly what I was thinking when Frost's team closed out the 2018 season 4-2, with solid wins and respectable losses.
2 hours ago, Apathy said:
It's pretty wild how overblown these things are in the minds of a lot of you. Meanwhile, back in reality, there's only been two games this season where we've had more penalty yards than our opponent, and heading into last week we were in the positive on turnover margin for the year...
5 minutes ago, Toe said:
Overall, the penalties and turnover margin have improved, but it's the timing of the penalties and turnovers which are still leading to losses.
3 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:
This…which was the point I was making
ndobney
Adrian has also been a consistent factor as well. I mentioned this before cause I saw a couple other people use the term and I agree. I think Adrian has the yips. It's not uncommon in sports and it is fixable, not sure Adrian can but it is fixable. The thing about the yips it is contagious, other player then begin pressing to account for it and more mistakes like jumping offside happens and it snowballs. I am very convinced this is what's happening on the offensive side of things and it is very fixable, we may need to move on from Martinez, but I have seen enough improvement from the team as a whole that's I still have confidence in Frost.


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Beyond the Paris Accord
In an interview with CounterSpin, Basav Sen says the U.S. should fund international climate mitigation and climate adaptation policies.
The U.S. Is a Climate Rogue State. The World Should Treat It Like One.
It's time for the world to consider sanctioning the U.S. and companies who benefit from its efforts to undermine climate action.
Donald Trump and the Triumph of Anti-Politics
In this fairy tale from 2050, the invisible monster of climate change continues to ravage the land.
Trump's War on the Climate Will Send U.S. Scientists Fleeing Abroad
But by pursuing aggressive climate change action, states can create opportunities for scientists and engineers to remain in the United States. Let's just hope they don't jump ship for France first.


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Mirrors Of Moscow
by Louise Bryant
Lenin and his subordinates:
Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin and The Peasants
THERE have been two presidents of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic; only recently we have become vaguely aware of one of them. Ever since the Bolshevik coup d' etat America has spoken of the Soviet Government as "the government of Lenin and Trotsky." America was right in so far as these men enjoy immense power, and wrong in so far as she imagined it would have been· possible at any time, and less so now, for either of these men or both of them to have abruptly changed the government's policy from right to left or left to right without first receiving indisputable orders from the masses.
Relatively, Lenin has more power than Lloyd George and Trotsky considerably less; while President Kalinin, who began his office as little more than a figure-head, has been saved from the emptiness of such a position because he is so symbolic of the growing power of the peasants. Already more power has been bestowed upon him through the course of events than perhaps he himself realizes. Surely when he set out in his painted train on his first journey through the provinces three years ago, he could hardly have foreseen his place in history as one of the greatest influences in molding the new state.
Kalinin's growing influence is a true barometer of public opinion or, to be more exact, of the reassertion of public opinion. And it is interesting to note that while many of the stars in the Communist sky are considerably dimmed by the ascendancy of Kalinin, Premier Lenin's position is only made stronger. This is because the new pressure from below is for compromise, and public men go down under retreat much faster than when their banners are flying triumphantly in advance. Lenin is practical enough to understand the advantages of a well-ordered retreat above those of a rout: he will save all he can of the Socialist state instead of abandoning it on the fields of battle.
It was the question of private property which became the vital issue in 1920 inside and outside of Russia. The abolition of private property was made possible by a determined, conscious minority. It was re-established by the pressure of a slow-moving, solid, unconscious majority; that majority was the peasants. I do not mean that the peasants are now actually in control of the state. I merely wish to point out that they already hold the balance of power and that they move towards control with the crushing surety of a glacier. They hold, strategically, the same position that the Bolsheviks did under Kerensky, but they will never pursue the same tactics; they will assume power gradually just because they are the majority; it is only a minority which must act with dramatic haste, counting on brains, daring and psychological moments.
It was logical that the first President should have been a man who represented the city workers and the second President, a peasant; for in such wise did the revolution settle itself.
Most of the Communists did not approve of Kalinin's election. Lenin alone sensed the proper time to place a peasant as nominal head of the Soviets; a peasant who should begin as Master of Ceremonies and who, in his peasant's garb and with his peasant's tongue, should bring Lenin's ideas to the people; a peasant who would never cease being a peasant and who would come back to Lenin and say, "This and this they will have, here they cannot follow and there they will lead." Lenin gazed at Russia through Kalinin's eyes as one gazes in a crystal.
In 1917 when the Bolsheviks seized control of the state, a delicate little man called Jacob Michaelovitch Sverdlov, a chemist by profession and a revolutionist by conviction, was Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers and Soldiers Deputies; this meant that he controlled the Red Guards, the conscious workers and the revolting soldiers; it meant he held a position of such tremendous authority that he could not be ignored by anybody. So when the first Council of the People's Commissars was formed, which is really no other than the cabinet of the Russian Government, Sverdlov was the first person taken into consideration by them. And in order to find a place for him they created the office of President. When he accepted that office he gave up his direct control and became but one voice in a group. Nevertheless, all through the barricade days he continued to act as the spokesman in the cabinet for the Petrograd workers who were, for at least the first year, a power above the cabinet. In the winter of 1918 Sverdlov died of typhus and was buried on the Red Square in Moscow.
During the time Sverdlov was president the government was in continual difficulty with the peasants. They resisted the government's requisitioning expeditions, retreated within themselves and almost ignored the central power until the provinces were in a continual state of guerilla warfare. They managed their local Soviets with little or no thought of the Moscow Government. Civil war continued .and, with the aid of France and England, grew apace; hard dark days settled over Russia. Sverdlov looked about for an entering wedge which would somehow pierce the way to an eventual understanding and co-operation with the local and central Soviets. In this search Sverdlov discovered Kalinin. Kalinin was already immensely popular with the peasants; he had been on every Land Committee of importance since the beginning of the first revolution, · under both Miliukov and Kerensky.
During his term of office Sverdlov used Kalinin as a mediator in many difficult situations and Lenin watched his work with interest. A n old Communist explained Kalinin's election in these words: "He was a 'find' of Sverdlov's, but it was Lenin alone who realized that ays might come when he would be invaluable in holding Russia together." Those days have come; they came with the tightening of the blockade and continued with the famine.
Kalinin is a Communist, a brand of Communist differing as much from Zinoviev or Litvinov as Borah differs from Hughes or Hughes differs from Root; yet Hughes and Borah and Root are Republicans steeped to the bone in party discipline, rampaging now and then, but never dreaming of breaking away from the party. Kalinin believes in a kind of Communism, modified enough to suit the peasants, and Zinoviev believes in a kind of Communism that is suited, at any time, only for the advanced and conscious city proletariat.
Kalinin was born in the little village of Volost and still calls it his home, still has his little strip of land there. He was brought up religiously, and understands what the Church means to a devout Russian and never throws aspersions on it. Though not religious himself, he tolerates religion with the grave tolerance which never offends.
His old mother is outspokenly anti-Bolshevik, yet very much likes to have her say in the Volost Soviet. She is angry with the Bolsheviks because they are not religious. She scolds her son and pretends that she is not at all flattered because he is President of Russia and obviously believes that no honor is too great for him. She is always glad to talk to visitors about him and goes on monotonously repeating the same ideas in the manner of the aged: "No, I am not surprised," she will say, "that Michael Ivanovitch has gone so far. He was always studious, sitting up reading by candle-light after everyone else was in bed. And he was always saying to me, 'Don't bother me, mother, I've got lots of work to do.' That's the way he talks to me now when I lecture him about religion. But he's a good son and kind to everybody ... only he certainly ought to think more about God."
I don't believe that Kalinin is ambitious; I think he would like nothing so much as to go back to his farm and live there the simple life of the village. When Lenin convinced him that it was his duty to be the voice of the peasants, he accepted the post in the quiet way of a man who has no thought of personal glory. There is nothing in his record that would prove him to be anything but entirely unselfish, and I have seen him when he was like one inspired. During the Kronstadt revolt he walked into that hostile city might walk into the mouth of a cannon. Yet no one dared or desired to harm him!
Kalinin is an old revolutionist. In his early youth he found himself unable to tolerate, without protest, the tyranny of the Tsar's government which manifested itself in such brutal cruelty towards the peasants. He has always been desperately poor, a real proletarian peasant, hoping to be rid one day of his endless debts and support himself and his family honorably and· decently. He was forced through poverty to go to the city, where he worked in factories in winter; only the summers he spent with his family. These winters in the city, where he was thrown in contact with city workers, gave him an understanding of the psychology and desires of the city workers as well as of the peasants.
He was exiled to Siberia but not to hard labor, and.he spent this enforced and only leisure of his life rounding out his education; mixing the classics with his dreams of freedom for Russia.
Kalinin's wife is an educated, energetic peasant, who has by her own ability become a figure of importance in her village; capable and strong and intelligent, she has managed her tiny farm just a little better than her neighbors and has been elected President of the Volost Soviet. It is a position of which she is immensely proud.
Madame Kalinin is an individualist; a modern feminist of the type of professional woman who, in America, insists on keeping her name and continuing her work after marriage. During the last three years she has been so busy that she has had no time to visit Moscow. Kalinin, on his rare vacations, has had to go to her. If she ever doe& visit Moscow she will surely wear her kerchief and her sheepskin coat. No doubt supercilious Russians are already saying that "Main Street has arrived in Moscow," just as we have been saying since March, 1 9 2 1 , that "just folks" are in the White House.
And there is a curious similarity between President Harding and President Kalinin; both were elected to represent the average citizen. In Russia average citizens are peasants-a ninety per cent average. Both presidents go about their home towns slapping fellow citizens on the back. Both were elected·as figureheads for a party and both have already proven themselves a little more forceful and importa,nt than the party reckoned.
If Russia continues in the path where it is now, in fifty years the Kalinins will have become Hardings, at home in silk hats and frock coats, as well as in sheepskins and high boots. But it is hard to predict where Russia is going or where the world is going.
When Kalinin rides through the provinces on his propaganda train carrying stocks of literature, a motion picture apparatus and his official seal, with the outside "done" by some futurist artist in garish colors and depicting a millennium in which Kalinin would not be at home, he is "Comrade" Kalinin to the whole train; he takes his meals with the train crew, the porters and the secretaries; all share alike. But the remarkable thing is that when he gets back to Moscow he makes no effort to shake the dust of the provinces from his boots, he rather makes a point of remain- ing distinctly a villager. He receives you in his Moscow office wearing the same old mended spectacles, the same threadbare coat and, I am sure, the same heart and mind. He brings the country along with him, invades the city with it, permeates it, overcomes it. . . .
This attitude is characteristic not only of Kalinin, it is characteristic of any peasant. I have often noted the delegates at the Congresses. They are neither shy nor bewildered, they sit solemnly in their places in the great hall, pondering all that Lenin says of trade or reconstruction, approving or disapproving; getting closer every day to the idea that Russia is theirs.
It is generally believed that the line between the city workers and the peasants is wide and irreconcilable, whereas there is actually no line at all. · The city workers are only peasants who have gone to the city just as Kalinin did, when they could not make a living in the villages. Russian peasants never get over being farmers. Last winter I came upon an excellent example: Some three hundred skilled Russian mechanics from Detroit arrived in Moscow; they were sorely needed in the Russian factories. Without a single exception they refused to remain in the city! And when they learned that they might be conscripted and forced tostaytheyfledhurriedlyineverydirection. With one voice they exclaimed, "We came home to the land!"
Naturally, the government was in despair; officials were at a loss as to what measures could be taken to bring pressure and a sense of duty upon the returning Russians. Orators were sent to argue with the next group, but without success. The only solution the government found workable was to organize them before they arrived; to see that they brought tools from America and came with the definite idea of remaining in the cities for a fixed period; for only the country is real to the peasant, the city is forever an artificial, unhealthy invention.
Kalinin's office in Moscow is not in the Kremlin. To get into the Kremlin requires too much red tape. Therefore, while the President eats in the Kremlin dining-room which is just an ordinary Soviet mess-room, and sits in the Councils of the People's Commissars, he receives his army of callers in an ordinary office building in the heart of the city. One needs no pass or credentials to get in; one needs simply to walk up a flight of stairs, open a door and emerge into a large bare reception· room full of noisy peasants; here he inevitably turns up.
I have often thought that Kalinin's office is the most curious place in which I have ever been in · my life; it has the atmosphere of a Russian railway train deep in the heart of the provinces where every passenger talks to every other passenger and where formality is not just overlooked or forgotten but has simply never existed.
All day long he receives the never-ending string of peasants in the manner of a village priest, giving consolation and advice-and something more solid and satisfying than a prayer, for he is obligated to make an immediate decision in each case on hand or a promise that it shall be taken up through his office. Under no circumstances can he appear indifferent or helpless.
I remember arriving early one morning to find about twenty peasants ahead of me. When Kalinin came in everyone got up and there was a sudden general stampede in his direction and a sort of clamor which arises in any Russian household over any sort of argument. Kalinin's voice could be distinctly heard above the others shouting, "Comrades, comrades, I must take you in turn." Then, as he crossed the floor towards his private office, a frail, middle-aged woman sitting near the door burst into tears. I can see him now with his narrow Slav eyes, his broad nose and rumpled hair, his wo-rk-knotted hands and faded blouse, stopping to look through his spectacles at the woman before him, kindly, sympathetic, puzzled. . . .
I think that he knew even before he began to question her that hers was one of those unavoidable, personal tragedies that are part of change and war and revolution. She had owned a big country house, but the peasants had taken it when they divided the land and they had allotted her but two rooms to live in. She was humiliated, discouraged and resentful. She cried out, forgetting that Kalinin was also a peasant, "I can't bear to see those creatures using my pretty things, walking with great muddy boots in my house. My soul is in that house!"
Kalinin shook his head. He seemed willing and even anxious to help her but he seemed more like a doctor in that moment than an executive. Very gently he asked her to remember that two rooms were more than most people had now in Russia, that these were difficult times; even so they would go over the case together if she would wait her turn. But no sooner had he closed the door than every peasant in the room began addressing the bewildered woman. They said that she should be ashamed of such petty complaints and accused her of asking for "special privileges." The widest range of arguments were put forward, from the man who had lost a cow and considered the government responsible to the woman whose two sons had been killed at the front.
I was not so much interested in the arguments as in the remarkably true reflection which the scene presented of what had happened all over Russia. I had never realized before how completely submerged the upper classes had become; how ruthless and inevitable was the vast upward surge of the peasantry. Here was this woman, one time barishna (lady), crushed and defeated in her own village, finding the same thought in Moscow as in Nizhni-Novgorod or Kazan or Baku.
When Kalinin called her she went forward but one could see that she had already given up hope and would not fight any further; perhaps for the first time the real significance of the revolution had become clear to her.
It is hard for Americans, where a peasant population has never existed, to realize the position of the peasants in a revolution. They are the rock in the whirlpool. They are the great levellers, the great destroyers as well as the great destroyers as well as the great builders. In Russia they pulled down everything about them and they were not always gentle in their wrath. Often they ruined wilfully and needlessly. In the cities, practically no buildings were destroyed and no treasures looted, but in the provinces men often remembered the knout with red flames of fire and even with death.
Because the peasants' desires are simple, the world is apt to give them credit for a deep, political wisdom which they do not possess and while there is no doubt about their taking the business of government seriously, their inexperience often leads them into grave blunders. It was the peasants, and not the Communists, who most stubbornly opposed recognition of the foreign debts. It was the peasants who demanded from every government since the Tsar's, schools, hospitals and protection from invasion, but who always resented the most ordinary and reasonable tax put upon them by the central authorities. Until Kalinin had educated them they were wont to ask like children, "Aren't we free now? Can't we be left alone?"
The great irony about the rising of the peasants is that they were the first to abandon the very equality they fought for. The equalization of property in the provinces was brought about through the workings of peasant proletariat organizations known as Committees of the Poor, which not only divided the estates of the rich landlords but broke the power of the kulaks (rich peasants). When the whole country was reduced to the same status, the peasants were faced with the necessity of a great decision. There were no longer rich peasants or proletarian peasants but only what is known in Russia as the "middle" farmers. The question of how to maintain such an equality now arose. The Communists urged them to abandon the idea of private property and work the land in communes, pointing out that any other course must inevitably lead to the re-establishment of all the old values and a new bourgeoisie. But the peasants were afraid of this new and untried road of Socialism. Their demands for trade, silver money, the opening of markets and stores, are ample evidence that they have turned back on to the old familiar road of capitalism. If Russia had been an industrial instead of an agricultural country, the decision of the masses might have been quite otherwise.
Even our own presidents know the value of a lecture tour in a national crisis. In our immediate political past, 'we have the memory of presidents who took "issues" to the people, but it is hard to conceive of a Chief Executive lecturing almost steadily for over two years. Yet that is even a short estimate of the time actually spent by Kalinin in going from one end of Russia to the other, shuttling in and out of Moscow.
His meetings were more like tribunals, people's courts, than ordinary political assemblies. The peasants gathered at the railway stations, in the village squares or even in the fields. They heard what he had to say and then he heard them. They argued, complained, demanded, compromised. Always some sort of understanding was arrived at. This was partly due to Kalinin's wonderful tact, his almost divine reasonableness which never allowed an argument to develop into a quarrel. And partly because he knows the peasant mind which is easily touched by stories of suffering, by flattery or tears, but impossible to move by threats. ·But fundamentally, the secret of Kalinin's success is due to the fact that he himself is a peasant and no walls of caste can exist between him and the people. I can illustrate this feeling of complete contact best by the story of an actual occurrence in a remote province. It happened in what are now known as the worst of the "requisitioning days" when the Soviets were holding hundreds of miles of battle front and the peasants were taxed almost beyond endurance.
One day a Lettish officer, who was also a Commissar in some Red Army division, arrived in a remote village and rang the church bell to summon the people. He read a list of the goods to be requisitioned. This village had been taxed only a short time before and there were murmurs of dissatisfaction in the crowd, murmurs which grew into roars. Then happened one of those savage, elemental tragedies which even we in America have never been able to eliminate from our national life. Threats against the Commissar were followed by sudden violence; he was literally trampled to death.
The Lettish officer had been accompanied by a young peasant soldier, who had been a sort of orderly to him for nearly a year. In the struggle the boy escaped. All night he lay weeping and thinking of his dead comrade. The officer had taken an interest in him, had taught him to read and write and imbued him with the ideals of the Red Army. The peasant boy had been an orphan, lonely and unhappy and a victim of brutality. He thought now of the dead man as he thought ofa saint, and by the time morning came he had resolved on a curiously brave act. Creeping into the church he rang the bell; the crowd gathered, and he mounted the platform and began to tell them of the dead man and the Red Army. It was not hard for him to explain that unless the Red Army was supported, the White forces would very soon take away by main force the very food they now refused to their brothers. It did not take very long to convince the crowd of peasants, and not only to convince them but to reduce them to tears. They gave all that the peasant boy asked, and more than that, they went solemnly in a procession to the fresh grave of the man they had murdered, laid wreaths upon it, and paid homage, saying: "Brother, forgive us, we could not see your heart."
This feeling accounts for the lack of resentment towards Kalinin when he goes into the famine area. He walks among the starving peasants, saying, "Who lies down, dies. I know, I have hungered, I am one of you."
In prosperous districts he uses the same tactics in overcoming opposition to collections for the famine. Whenever he finds local Soviet officials unwilling to part with their last surplus grain, he mournfully exclaims, "Ah, well, I am sorry to hear this! Last week I saw with my own eyes thousands dying of hunger. They were peasants like ourselves and they were calling to us to help. Will you send me back now with empty hands?" The peasants can never resist his appeal; it comes too close to them, it is like refusing one's father.
While the peasants were not able to bring themselves to renounce their title to the land, they have otherwise quite whole-heartedly accepted many broad formulas of the Socialists. They unanimously approved of revolutionary Russia's offer to the world in 1917 to build a peace on the basis of "no annexations, no indemnities and the right of self-determination." It is a curious and sad reality that the richer nations become and the more cultured, the less they find it possible to comprehend such a simple recipe for justice and brotherly love. The world was too educated or too selfish or too frightened to accept Russia's magnanimous offer. And how much agony and bloodshed it might have saved!
The Russian peasants, who for so many centuries have struggled and sacrificed to possess the land, are strangely lacking in national pride, as we know it. They are not envious of other countries. They could not conceive of an aggressive policy. If you say to them that America is far richer and more progressive than Russia, they will tell you they are very glad to hear it and are glad you are happy. They ask of the foreigner only to be let alone and not to send any more White generals against them; they ask to be allowed to develop their own p.olitical institutions. Obviously our only duty is to help them through their terrible struggle against the great famine which has come upon them like a curse through no sins of their own.
It is no miracle that President Kalinin can go freely about Russia, for no one is thinking of assassinating him. What would it profit enemies of Soviet Russia to kill a peasant like Kalinin? Are there not a million Kalinins? To sweep the Kalinins out of Russian political life would be like sweeping back the sea. To destroy the Soviets would be to destroy Russia. Even Sir Paul Dukes, of the British Secret Service, agrees that Soviets are the natural offspring of the revolution, conC€ived years ago under the Tsardom. Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin reflects the new Russia more faithfully than any other Government official.
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