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REVIEWS SUMMARY OF FOUR NEW STAGE PLAYS BY KEVIN FEGAN AS FEATURED IN AN INTERVIEW BY SARA COX ON BBC RADIO 4 "LOOSE ENDS" SEPT 2017
"THE RUCK" – LAWRENCE BATLEY THEATRE AND TOUR OF YORKSHIRE THEATRES
"The Ruck is truly original piece of theatre. It's great to know there are such wonderful plays like this out there celebrating women in sport. Beautifully written with characters who's antics are as colourful off the pitch as on. It's real, honest and funny. These are the kind of women I'd want to spend a night at the theatre with." (MAXINE PEAKE)
"Something of a highly modern fable that will undoubtedly live on in the minds of those who see it… this collaboration between a wonderful theatre, skilled writer and excellent performers is a real treat and joy to watch. I can't wait to see where this piece of relevant, enjoyable theatre ends up in the future." (ONSTAGE)
"THE SHED CREW" – RED LADDER PRODUCTION AT ALBION ELECTRIC WAREHOUSE LEEDS
"*****outstanding" (NORTH WEST END)
" immersive theatre that has you checking that you've still got your wallet… an unforgettable ninety minutes of theatre" (THE CULTURE VULTURES)
"this production transcends pure politics through the strength of the characters" (THE MORNING STAR)
"DOWN THE LINE" – BARROW HILL ROUNDHOUSE RAILWAY CENTRE
"Theatre doesn't get better than this. A world premiere to celebrate Barrow Hill Railway Roundhouse's re-launch and the first opportunity to see the iconic "Flying Scotsman" in a theatrical production. The play is amazingly powerful, deeply moving and incredibly atmospheric, bringing north Derbyshire's community heritage and industrial history to life in the best way possible, a beautifully crafted script" (THE DERBYSHIRE TIMES)
"BESS – THE COMMONER QUEEN" BY KEVIN FEGAN – THE GUILDHALL THEATRE DERBY
"A tour de force, a one-woman show that requires someone capable of holding the audience's attention throughout. In this Todd succeeds admirably… A striking, outstanding production which is a triumph for both actress Michelle Todd and playwright Kevin Fegan." (BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE)
"This production deserves to become an award-winner for the way in which it allows the audience to become enveloped in the real world of Bess…The filming all took place at Hardwick Hall earlier in the month and it oozes the atmosphere of the historic surroundings in a way that could never otherwise have been recreated in the theatre." (ARTSBEAT)
OTHER RECENT PLAYS BY KEVIN FEGAN
"OBAMA THE MAMBA – president of the slums" (CURVE LEICESTER & THE LOWRY CO-PRODUCTION 2012) NOMINATED BEST NEW PLAY MANCHESTER THEATRE AWARDS 2012
"By interweaving their two stories playwright Kevin Fegan has created a clever vehicle through which to explore the contrasts and commonalities of the Brothers Obama and their very different lives in America and Africa…Fegan's script time-shifts skilfully through George's story providing the material for a virtuoso performance by Clifford Samuel… Where Fegan has been cleverest is in the unforced resonances he highlights between the "hope out of adversity" rhetoric of the two men…" (THE INDEPENDENT ****)
"George Obama was in the house to see his life story set on stage…offers a powerful "yes we can" message as any on the U.S. presidential campaign trail… a rallying cry on behalf of the world's dispossessed… undeniably inspiring… a commanding performance…heart-stopping, high adrenalin…" (THE TELEGRAPH ****)
"SLAVE" (FEELGOOD THEATRE AT THE LOWRY & TOUR 2010-11) WINNER BEST PLAY OR FILM HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOUNDATION AWARDS 2011. WINNER BEST NEW PLAY MANCHESTER THEATRE AWARDS 2010
"Slave is quite possibly one of the most rewarding theatrical journeys you'll ever make." (*****MESSENGER)
FIREFLIES: a love story waiting to happen" (THE LOWRY IN ASSOCIATION WITH LION EYES TV) NOMINATED BEST NEW PLAY MANCHESTER THEATRE AWARDS 2010
"Fegan's drama, commissioned by The Lowry, is an inner-city romance between two lost souls longing for a second chance in life… Noreen Kershaw's production skilfully integrates the digital elements, created by Manchester production company Lion Eyes TV, into a seamless montage of live and filmed action. But it's the core components of good writing and fine acting that determine the show's success…It's raw, uncompromising stuff, but ultimately Fireflies leaves you with a warm glow." (****THE GUARDIAN)
EARLIER STAGE PLAYS – SELECTED PRESS QUOTES
"The most unpredictable and innovative voice in British theatre. Fegan has constructed a theatrical framework around the Ecstasy generation." UBU, EUROPEAN THEATRE MAGAZINE
"Fegan is a poet and playwright with a capacity for sympathetic identification and a taste for tough, complex issues." THE GUARDIAN
"Kevin Fegan once again confirms himself as Britain's most innovative Playwright"
("Seven-Tenths" for Walk the Plank Theatre Ship 1995) PLAYS INTERNATIONAL
"Fegan runs ever faster to keep his work at the leading edge of contemporary life"
("Strange Attractors" – Contact Theatre Manchester 1994) THE INDEPENDENT
The ethical consequences of virtual reality, in personal and political fields, will be immense. Fegan, a really promising writer, is the first to bring them into the theatre."
("Strange Attractors") THE OBSERVER
"Memorable play about the drug Ecstasy and the Manchester rave scene"
("Excess XS" – Contact Theatre Manchester 1992) THE OBSERVER
"Miles better than Rock Around the Clock"
("Excess XS") THE INDEPENDENT
"Black comedy of a kind in which Fegan excels"
("Excess XS") THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"The most accurate comment on society today to be seen anywhere in the country"
("Excess XS") PLAYS INTERNATIONAL
"Could not be more timely. Fegan's idea of a privatised prison that turns out to be owned by two if its long-term inmates is ingenious. So is the use of a prison drama group as a metaphor for the role of the arts in society"
("Private Times" for The Library Theatre Manchester 1990) THE SUNDAY TIMES
"A savage Swiftian swipe at the new morality, mischevious Shavian paradox"
("Private Times") THE FINANCIAL TIMES
"It's a lively, funny, serious piece with an emotional poetry of its own"
("Private Times") THE GUARDIAN
"A superbly engineered grand-scale piece of special effects theatre which expands the imagination, informs and entertains and lifts the spirit"
("Lord Dynamite", co-written with John Fox for Welfare State International, L.I.F.T. 1991) THE GUARDIAN
"Highly enjoyable piece, the nearest a British audience is likely to get to a homegrown carnival"
("Lord Dynamite") THE INDEPENDENT
"It is a brilliant conceit to insert a living myth into contemporary Irish history. It is above all a bold ambition to put the play into verse, challenging a number of famous Irish ancestors."
("McAlpine's Fusilier" for Contact Theatre Manchester 1988) THE NEW STATESMAN
"A significant contribution to the emergence of Irish writing in Britain. Kevin Fegan is a name we will hear much more of in the future"
("McAlpine's Fusilier") THE IRISH POST
"An electrifying piece of contemporary theatre. This is the Iron Man for the 90's"
("The Clayman" El Inocente Productions, Woolaton Park Nottingham for NewArtsWork and Upper Campfield Market for Manchester City of Drama 1994) PLAYS INTERNATIONAL
"Devastating theatre that demands superlatives, I can't praise it enough"
("Rule 43" for Cracked Actors' national tours, including British prisons 1989-90) THE STAGE & TELEVISION TODAY
"This gripping play is comic and dramatic, intense and real, the play deserves a full house"
("Rule 43") MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"Those lucky enough to catch Fegan's skilful delivery on the fringe circuit recently can bear witness to its effectiveness on the stage as well as the page"
("Matey Boy", El Inocente Productions for national tour 1991) MANCHESTER CITY LIFE
"An epic poem, written and performed by Kevin Fegan, who "won't apologise for poetry" and on this showing has no need – his verse is as tough, topical and streetwise as any disco rap"
("Matey Boy") THE GUARDIAN
"The definitive theatrical experience for the internet generation. An incomparable web of intense emotion, lyrical beauty and gobsmacking imagery."
("Totally Wired" – a BIG Theatre production at Contact Manchester 2000) PLAYS INTERNATIONAL
"Fegan has never been interested in comfortable theatre – audiences either love him or hate him."
("Totally Wired") MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"Manchester-based playwright Kevin Fegan has become a cult writer since his drugs-and-dance play, Excess XS. Totally Wired deals with the aftermath of the drug and dance phenomenon."
(Totally Wired") THE GUARDIAN
"A bold, powerful and very moving piece of work that re-examines the Falklands War from the point of view of the ordinary men who took part. Co-written and co-directed by Andy Farrell and Kevin Fegan, 52 Degrees South uses video projection and testimonies by veterans alongside narrative and poetry inside a magnificent exhibition hall."
("52 Degrees South" – a Big Theatre production at the Imperial War Museum North 2002) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"Lyrical and hard-hitting drama, a powerful mix of video and verse,, the video interviews are full-on, a white-knuckle ride."
("52 Degrees South") CITY LIFE
"Kevin Fegan's lyrical dramatisation of the decline of the steel industry is both an education and an elegy. Fegan's rhythmic, colloquial verse neatly melds the elements of water, fire, earth and air into a double narrative about the visceral nature of steel-making and life itself."
("Blast" – Manchester Poetry Festival at Contact Manchester 2002) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"Freely adapted by writer and lyricist Kevin Fegan, it is touching, funny and full of authentic spirit. A genuine achievement, it all works wonderfully well."
("Love on the Dole" – The Lowry 2004) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"Fegan is still probably Britain's most underrated playwright. This is a significant adaptation commissioned especially for The Lowry."
("Love on the Dole") CITY LIFE
"A company that specialises in weaving fictions from the real stuff and stories of people's lives. Everywhere Quarantine delves, it uncovers the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary and banal. 90 minutes of non-stop energy, offering up these young men exactly as they are. The show manages to be both celebratory and quite extraordinarily moving. The entire evening has a matter-of-fact lyricism about it. You come away with a sense of the fabric and rich emotional texture of their lives that defies all traditional stereotypes of the laddish, emotionally disconnected young man."
("White Trash" – devised show with Quarantine Theatre at Contact Manchester 2004) THE GUARDIAN
"Crime Lake sounds like a fictional American Summer camp – the sort featured in slasher films like Friday 13th. In fact, it lies somewhere between Oldham and Ashton, and has provided inspiration for the latest community play by one of the North West's most prolific writers, Kevin Fegan. Over 100 young people have worked with Kevin to help shape the piece into an hilarious, surreal and spooky tale."
("The Ghosts of Crime Lake", Oldham Coliseum Theatre 2005) MANCHESTER CITY LIFE
"Contemporary themes, neat rap and lots of fun, a real achievement, something special."
("The Ghosts of Crime Lake") MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"What gives this impressive production its heart and soul is the fact that the stories it tells – each of them powerfully illustrating the impact war has on people's lives – are all true and drawn from the lives of the participants. Directed by Andy Farrell and written by Kevin Fegan, this is a wonderfully ambitious and life-affirming, whilst instructive and thought-provoking, production."
("Oh Wot A Lovely War" – brand new version devised for The Lowry Salford 2006) MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"Kevin Fegan is the first ever playwright to be commissioned by Mansfield Palace Theatre. The play is based on his home street and characters within his community, a dramatic interpretation of the lives of local residents affected by the derelict Mansfield General Hospital. The script cleverly uses narrative breaks for stories by spirits of the former hospital, mixing horrific and humorous anecdotes to bring the old building to life. The script manages to capture the perfect balance between drama and humour, allowing the audience to relate to the characters and feel their pain, while also providing classic comic relief throughout."
("A Site For Sore Eyes", Mansfield Palace Theatre 2006) MANSFIELD CHAD


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Obama wins historic US election
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Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States.
"It's been a long time coming, but tonight… change has come to America," the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a park in Chicago.
His rival John McCain accepted defeat, saying "I deeply admire and commend" Mr Obama. He called on his supporters to lend the next president their goodwill.
The BBC's Justin Webb said the result would have a profound impact on the US.
"On every level America will be changed by this result… [it] will never be the same," he said.
Mr Obama appeared with his family, and his running mate Joe Biden, before a crowd of tens of thousands in Grant Park, Chicago.
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," he said.
He said he had received an "extraordinarily gracious" call from Mr McCain.
He praised the former Vietnam prisoner of war as a "brave and selfless leader".
"He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine," the victor said.
He had warm words for his family, announcing to his daughters: "Sasha and Malia, I love you both more than you can imagine, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House."
Congratulations… You are about to go on one of the great journeys of life
But he added: "Even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime – two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep… But America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there."
From red to blue
Mr Obama captured the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, before breaking through the winning threshold of 270 electoral college votes at 0400 GMT, when projections showed he had also taken California and a slew of other states.
I find myself strangely emotional about this. I want to go wake up my neighbours and hug them
Amy Scullane, Boston
Then came the news that he had also seized Florida, Virginia and Colorado – all of which voted Republican in 2004 – turning swathes of the map from red to blue.
Several other key swing states are hanging in the balance.
In Indiana and North Carolina, with most of the vote counted, there was less than 0.5% between the two candidates.
However, the popular vote remains close. At 0600 GMT it stood at 51.3% for the Democratic Senator from Illinois, against 47.4% for Arizona Senator McCain.
The main developments include:
Mr Obama is projected to have seized Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Virginia, Florida, Colorado and Nevada – all Republican wins in 2004.
He is also projected to have won: Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Delaware, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Maryland, Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, Rhode Island, California, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon.
Mr McCain is projected to have won: Kentucky, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, North Dakota, Wyoming, Georgia, Louisiana, West Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota.
Turnout was reported to be extremely high – in some places "unprecedented".
The Democrats made gains in the Senate race, seizing seats from the Republicans in Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Colorado. They also increased their majority of the House of Representatives.
Exit polls suggest the economy was the major deciding factor for six out of 10 voters.
Nine out of 10 said the candidates' race was not important to their vote, the Associated Press reported. Almost as many said age did not matter.
LOSSES AND GAINS
Key states
Projected gains for Obama in former Republican states of Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Nevada
Senate seats
Virginia: Democrat Mark Warner replaces retiring Republican John Warner
New Hampshire: Democrat Jeanne Shaheen unseats Republican John Sununu
North Carolina: Democrat Kay Hagan replaces Republican Elizabeth Dole
New Mexico: Democrat Tom Udall replaces retiring Republican Pete Domenici
Several states reported very high turnout. It was predicted 130 million Americans, or more, would vote – more than for any election since 1960.
Many people said they felt they had voted in a historic election – and for many African-Americans the moment was especially poignant.
John Lewis, an activist in the civil rights era who was left beaten on an Alabama bridge 40 years ago, told Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church: "This is a great night. It is an unbelievable night. It is a night of thanksgiving."
Besides winning the presidency, the Democrats tightened their grip on Congress.
The entire US House of Representatives and a third of US Senate seats were up for grabs.
Democrats won several Senate seats from the Republicans, but seemed unlikely to to gain the nine extra they wanted to reach the 60-seat "super-majority", that could prevent Republicans blocking legislation.

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Emily Scarratt: 'The Women's Super Series Will Be Awesome'
RW Staff
The world's best will face off in the 2019 Women's Super Series.
Step Up: Injuries mean Zoe Harrison will come into the fray (Getty Images)
Since I started playing for England, we've had summer tours, but we've not had the best teams in the world gathering together before. To have us, New Zealand, France, Canada and the USA all in one place, San Diego, for the Women's Super Series is awesome. And it's going to be so competitive, especially as it's like the World Cup with short turnarounds.
The World Cup is a tough few weeks so it's good to get the chance to replicate that and give some of the younger players exposure to that. It's a good challenge.
It's cool that people will be able to watch on TV too. That's how you grow the game – you don't want a first-class tournament to take place that only people in the host country can watch.
France will be disappointed about the game they lost to us in the Six Nations, but equally we were a bit disappointed with our second half. I'm sure they will look at that game and perhaps change the way they play against us. They hardly kicked the ball and we kicked a lot.
French Tactician: Bourdon controls the game from the scrum-half position beautifully (Getty Images)
By the very nature of being French, their players always offer a bit of flair. Pauline Bourdon, their scrum-half, seems to put her mark on games – like many French nines, she's as influential as the tens are in the English game.
America and Canada are definitely better sides than the results they had against us last autumn – the USA lost 57-5 and Canada lost 27-19. There were a lot of youngsters in those groups and they'll be much more experienced now.
USA coach Rob Cain is doing good things over there and we have a couple of Canadians at Loughborough Lightning – Daleaka Menin and Emily Tuttosi. They came to play club rugby in England to experience a different environment, strengthen their game and ultimately make the national side stronger.
New Zealand are New Zealand! They are always strong, have been playing rugby since they were three years old and it's in their blood. They've bolstered their squad with a couple of sevens girls alongside younger girls. Kelly Brazier brings enormous experience.
I'm really looking forward to playing against them as we don't get to do it often given the geography of the two nations. It's the first time we will have played them since the World Cup final (2017), but our side has changed since then and so has theirs. It's not about looking back; it's about the next cycle and the next World Cup.
Out For Revenge: Scarratt will be looking to avenge Englands's 2017 Rugby World Cup Final loss to New Zealand (Getty Images)
For us, it's very much a continuation of what we've been doing after a successful Six Nations campaign. We're trying to judge ourselves against ourselves as much as we can and are looking at our decision-making in games. It's about being ruthless and taking opportunities; something we might get away with in one game we won't get away with against New Zealand or France as you don't get a second chance.
We've lost two incredibly experienced players in Katy Daley-Mclean – our talismanic playmaker – and Rachael Burford, as well as Jess Breach, for
the tour as they're injured, but it's an opportunity for people like Zoe Harrison, Tatyana Heard and Amber Reed to step up and increase our strength in depth in those areas. We'll definitely miss their leadership, but it's a chance for other people to fill the quiet moments in meetings, to make sure the right messages are being shared.
I definitely think we can beat New Zealand – and I'm sure if you asked them they would say the same. It's the nature of the two sides. We'll go with a huge amount of belief that we can get the results we want and beat everybody.
The 2019 Women's Super Series begins this Friday with the England Women first facing off against the USA. They follow that with Canada on July 6th and France are their opponents four days later. Their final match will be against New Zealand on the 14th of July. To see all the fixtures click on the Fixtures link below.
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You are here: Home News The Pirate Saga: And So It Ends
The Pirate Saga: And So It Ends
Written by Vitalik Buterin
Authors: Vitalik Buterin
Laying rest to one and a half weeks of suspense, yesterday pirateat40, the pseudonymous operator of the Bitcoin Savings and Trust investment scheme, has officially announced that he is in default1. BST was a high-yield investment scheme that opened in November 20112 and offered its customers interest rates of up to 7% per week, claiming to be able to offer such returns by "selling BTC to a group of local peopleâ€� – ie. arbitrage. Since then, the scheme has grown rapidly, and Pirate claims3 (and independent estimates agree) that over 500,000 BTC, or $7 million USD at the time, were deposited in BST at its peak.
For months, the main question that has been asked about the scheme is: is it a legitimate investment? Proponents argue that it is, and justify Pirate's pseudonymity and secrecy as being necessary to both protect him and prevent others from replicating and diluting the effctiveness of his business model, while detractors believe that Pirate's unwillingness to further elaborate on the sources of his income is a sign that these underlying sources do not exist at all; in short, that BST is a Ponzi scheme. A third possibility is that BST is itself a pass-through for another Ponzi scheme, such as Sergey Mavrodi's MMM-2011, although that possibility has become a remote one since MMM defaulted in June and BST continued operating for two months afterwards.
The first shock to BST came on August 14, when Pirate lowered the maximum interest rate on his accounts from 7% to 5%4. Whether the scheme was legitimate or not, it was clear to everyone that an effective interest rate of 3313% was unsustainable and Pirate would have to reduce interest rates at some point. And, at some point this summer, the time finally came. At first, Pirate tried to continue his prior rate of growth and keep attracting new investors by attempting to increase investors' confidence in himself; he announced on July 25 that he, under a newly disclosed supposed real name of "Trendon Shaversâ€�, would be attending Defcon in person on July 27-29, and invited investors and curious Bitcoin users in general to meet him in public – "look at a pirate, eye to eye if you dareâ€�, the forum thread read. There have been no confirmed reports that anyone actually saw Pirate at Defcon, but the announcement alone restored confidence at least for a short time. However, even then, BST was simply growing too large and too quickly to last, and on August 14, Pirate was forced to contain his growing debts by shifting down his gears. However, Pirate's measure utterly failed in its intent; as Pirate himself describes6, "In a perfect world this would allow me to hold more coins in reserve outside the system, but instead it only exponentially increased the amount of withdrawals overnight causing mass panic from many of my lenders.â€� And thus, on August 17, Pirate was forced to finally shut down.
Since then, following the tradition started by the July 11 Bitcoinica thief donating 100 BTC to a claims fund7, Pirate has paid back 106.92 BTC8 to one of his depositors, and has only been claiming to make progress toward repaying any others. At first, Pirate promised that all BST depositors would be paid back including interest up to the last hour – a promise which many pointed out would be very difficult to fulfill even for a legitimate business, as he would be accruing over $50,000 USD of new debt every day, but many believed that he would be able to manage the feat. On August 28, however, Pirate announced that he would not be able to pay back his depositors after all, and that he was officially in default1. He has nevertheless made vague promises that depositors would be partially paid back, requiring operators of so-called "Pirate pass-throughâ€� bonds on the Global Bitcoin Stock Exchange to report a list of their customers9 to Pirate by Friday if they want to be refunded.
The consequences of this are far-reaching. Almost immediately after Pirate announced BST's closure, the Bitcoin price ended its three-month long rally after briefly spiking up to a one-year high of $15.4 and began a precipitous decline, losing slightly over half its value over three days9 before recovering to what appears to be a stable level at $10-$11. It is unclear if a Pirate default is good or bad for the Bitcoin price; on the one hand, it reduces confidence in Bitcoin as a whole, while on the other hand, it means that many wealthy depositors suddenly have far fewer bitcoins than they thought they would have, and would thus need to buy more (or sell less) to compensate. Many bets have also been made 10,11 over whether Pirate would pay back; these bets have not yet closed, as the deadline for Pirate to pay in full is still over one week away. In the long term, it remains to be seen how this incident changes both the public attitude on the outside to both Bitcoin itself and the financial freedom that it offers and how the Bitcoin community will perceive any new lucrative Bitcoin investment, legitimate or not, that presents itself in the future. For now, many are relieved that this chapter in the Bitcoin community's life is finally drawing to a close.
A more detailed version of this article will appear in an upcoming issue of Bitcoin Magazine in print.
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Campus Reform | TAMU students demand mandatory 'anti-racism' course
TAMU students demand mandatory 'anti-racism' course
Anthony Gockowski | Contributing Editor/Investigative Reporter
A group of student activists at Texas A&M University is demanding that the school incorporate a mandatory anti-racism class into the core curriculum.
What's more, the group of students, known as "TAMU Anti-Racism" is also demanding that the university implement penalties for any sort of racist behavior.
"We have three main pillars we want to see accomplished," student member Emilio Bernal told The Battalion. "We want this mandatory class, more minority students and faculty on campus, and for there to be penalties for racist behavior on campus."
The group has staged several protests on campus in an effort to raise awareness of the issue, and has even met with the university's president on multiple occasions to discuss its demands.
[RELATED: Illinois college defends 'blacks only' course offerings]
During one protest, student activists had their peers fill out sheets of paper detailing any racist encounters they have experienced on campus, which were then stuffed into a piñata resembling republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
"The purpose of this event is to remind students of the work that we've been doing on campus for the anti-racism movement, so that includes things like denouncing politicians who have kind of used racist rhetoric," one protester, Laura Reid, explained at the time.
[RELATED: TAMU students protest 'historical racism' with Trump pinata]
The group's primary objective, though, has been to lobby for a three-credit course on racism awareness that all students would be required to complete before graduating.
The group has indicated on its Facebook page that it is working with several university faculty members to nail down the logistics of the course, arguing that the university ought to "treat this mandatory anti-racism course just as courses are treated in the fields of engineering, business, agriculture, and in the various sciences" because "a course in anti-racism is of equal importance as are any of these courses and needs to be treated as such."
Bernal reiterated the importance of an anti-racism course when speaking with The Battalion, saying "racial justice is just as important as mathematics, English, and science."
The course would ultimately need to be approved by the school's Core Curriculum Council, which is currently consulting with other universities that have similar courses in search of direction.
If approved, the course could be introduced as early as next semester, but the group has yet to solidify a "permanent financial commitment" from the publicly-funded institution, according to Bernal.
President Michael Young, however, seems to be on board with move, reportedly noting in a private meeting with the group that its demands will be incorporated into the core curriculum in some way, but without mentioning any specifics.
Notably, Young released a public letter Tuesday, just a short time after TAMU Anti-Racism held a protest on campus, outlining in fairly explicit terms the school's commitment to freedom of expression.
[RELATED: Mizzou race relations committee debates inclusivity vs free speech]
"Engaging and embracing diversity enables us to better meet the challenges and find the opportunities that our society and world present," he wrote, without directly mentioning the protest group or its demands. "At Texas A&M, we are neither fearful of this, nor do we apologize for it. Instead, we infuse our marketplace of ideas with a culture of welcome and respect for all."
To help students understand the principles underlying the First Amendment, Young cites two documents outlining the school's position on free speech—a White Paper on Freedom of Speech and TAMU's Expressive Activities policy—as well as a University Diversity Plan addressing efforts to promote a "welcoming campus climate" within that context.
Campus Reform reached out to the school for a more explicit statement on the matter and is currently awaiting a response.
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Must rogues fall? On the mathematics of monuments. Part 3: addition
Ewan	Uncategorized	 17 January 2020
Having considered the capacity of monuments to create division, and the strategy of subtraction (or removal), in this post I turn to addition.
+ + + + Addition + + + +
Moving a memorial to a museum can be one way of reinterpreting and recontextualising it, but something similar can also be done while the memorial remains in place. This is the strategy I'll call 'addition': adding to the existing text and imagery to incorporate changed perspectives or new historical scholarship.
Graffiti and other types of vandalism (such as painting a statue, placing objects on its head, or lopping off body parts) can be unofficial forms of addition. Although it's a kind of iconoclasm aimed at subverting a monument rhetorically, and therefore somewhat akin to efforts to remove the monument physically, graffiti is also a commentary on the messages the monument conveys.
Portion of the Abel Tasman memorial, Golden Bay, with amendment, 2010
In a speech in 2018, following the painting of anti-racist slogans on a statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, public historian Lisa Murray asked the provocative question: should the graffiti have been removed, or should they be considered to form part of the changing meaning of the statue?[1] Leaving graffiti in place, however, could simply encourage tit-for-tat vandalism. It's worth remembering that white supremacists also deface monuments, and that there have been attacks on Māori carvings in New Zealand and on indigenous memorials in Australia.
A more official form of addition is the placing of a new plaque or inscription on an existing memorial. In 1994, for example, a new plaque was added to the so-called 'Explorers' Monument' in Fremantle, Western Australia, acknowledging that the original plaque portrayed frontier violence from a white settler viewpoint.[2]
'Explorers' monument', Fremantle, Western Australia
An alternative to a new plaque on the memorial itself is to place information boards nearby, providing additional information and perspectives on the history of the memorial and of the person or event it commemorates. Digital technologies also allow us to add new layers of interpretation without destroying the old ones: websites and apps make it easy to ensure information about memorials and the events they commemorate is accessible and up to date.[3]
An issue with the additive approach to contentious monuments is that any new interpretation will itself be only one point of view. Like the original memorial, it will be a product of its time, and can be subject to debate and revision. New Zealand journalist Tim Watkin, though supportive of historical re-evalution, asks, 'where does it stop? Does each generation add a plaque as our views of history twist and turn?'[4] Even if a new plaque itself becomes outdated in time, however, it may be enough to signal that there's more than one perspective on history. And information boards or digital interpretation can be replaced and updated more easily than plaques on the memorial itself.
A more significant challenge can be reaching consensus about the wording of any new plaque or sign. Debates about proposed new wording can sometimes drag on for years, and may simply provide a new focus for disagreements about history and public memory.[5]
Another concern is that new information and interpretation may be insufficient to overcome the impact of the original memorial. This is particularly true if the monument is a dominating presence in the landscape and if its design and symbolism convey a powerful message (perhaps in conjunction with other, similar memorials). In such cases, a new plaque or sign that requires viewers to come close to the memorial and take the time to read the additional information may be inadequate.
[1] Andrew Taylor, 'Historian Questions Whether Graffiti Should Have Been Left on Captain Cook Statue', Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2018, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/historian-captain-cook-statue-graffiti-indigenous-20180418-p4zade.html. A video of Lisa Murray's Jim Kerr Address, 'Monuments and Memories: Reassessing Colonial Imperialism', 18 April 2018, can be seen at https://australia.icomos.org/events/jim-kerr-address/.
[2] Bruce Scates, 'Monumental Errors: How Australia Can Fix its Racist Colonial Statues', The Conversation, 28 August 2017, https://theconversation.com/monumental-errors-how-australia-can-fix-its-racist-colonial-statues-82980; Vanessa Mills and Ben Collins, 'The Controversial Statue that was Added to, not Town Down or Vandalised', ABC News, 29 August 2017, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-29/explorers-monument-added-to-not-torn-down-or-vandalised/8853224; Stephen Gilchrist, 'Surfacing Histories: Memorials and Public Art in Perth', Artlink, issue 38:2, June 2018, pp. 42-47.
[3] See, for example, Hannah Natanson, 'There's a New Way to Deal with Confederate Monuments: Signs that Explain their Racist History', Washington Post, 22 September 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/22/theres-new-way-deal-with-confederate-monuments-signs-that-explain-their-racist-history/.
[4] Tim Watkin, 'Slater Slams History. At Least the Discussion of it', Pundit blog, 3 April 2016, https://www.pundit.co.nz/slater-slams-history-at-least-the-discussion-of-it.
[5] For example, attempts to create new plaques for the memorial to slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England, and to controversial eighteenth-century politician Henry Dundas in Edinburgh, Scotland, have become bogged down in disputes about wording and interpretations of history: Tristan Cork, 'Plaque Rewrite as Row Goes On Over Wording for Colston Statue', Bristol Post, 26 March 2019, https://www.pressreader.com/uk/bristol-post/20190326/281629601617510; Bill Caven, 'Historians Clash in War of Words Over Memorial to Dundas and Slavery Past', Scottish Daily Mail, 28 October 2019, https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20191028/281668256766086.
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D'Angelo: It's time for the College Football Hall of Fame to open its doors to Howard Schnellenberger
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The first few lines of Jerry Claiborne's College Football Hall of Fame profile read:
"Jerry Claiborne was famous for three things. He was a winner. He took over washed-up programs and gave them new life. And he taught his players to be good students."
Claiborne won 59.1 percent of his games without winning a national championship during a 28-year career, falling short of the requirement set by the National Football Foundation that coaches win 60 percent of their games to be eligible for enshrinement, but qualifying for the "unique cases" clause.
Claiborne, who coached at Virginia Tech, Maryland and Kentucky, is one of 31 coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame who won fewer than 60 percent of their games. But this column is not to diminish what Claiborne, or any others who fell below that threshold, accomplished. Rather to point out that another coach who "took over washed-up programs and gave them new life," perhaps better than any, has yet to be recognized by the hall.
Howard Schnellenberger's career, as much as any man who roamed the collegiate sidelines, transcends wins and losses. One of the greatest architects when it comes to football programs, Schnellenberger, 86, resurrected two programs in Miami and Louisville and started another from scratch in FAU. On June 16, the College Football Hall of Fame will announce more than 200 names – including seven FBS coaches – that will be on the 2021 ballot for induction, a ballot on which Schnellenberger's name never has appeared.
"I don't think there can be a College Football Hall of Fame without having Howard Schnellenberger in it," current Miami Hurricanes head coach Manny Diaz said Monday.
Schnellenberger was 158-151-3 for a .511 winning percentage in 27 years as a college head coach. And no, he would not be the coach with the lowest winning percentage if he were inducted. That distinction belongs to Tuss McLaughry, who won 49 percent of his games at Westminster (PA), Amherst, Brown and Dartmouth from 1915 to 1954.
But ole Tuss was on the NCAA football rules committee and the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association. And he was the recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award for his service to football and has an award named after him for "service to mankind."
Certainly deserving as a "unique case."
But so, too, is Schnellenberger, who not only resurrected Miami but brought it back from the brink of extinction in the late '70s to a national championship in 1984, his fifth and final season at UM, building the foundation for a program that would win four titles in nine years.
Claiborne is not the only coach who "took over washed-up programs and gave them new life." And he should not be the only one with that reputation in the hall of fame.
"What he did at Miami especially given the state of Miami's program when he arrived, it would be hard to find a similar accomplishment in recent times in college football," Diaz said.
"He blazed the trail. And he changed the way everybody looks at the University of Miami football program, in a lot of ways, sometimes the entire university as a whole."
Schnellenberger was 41-16 at Miami even after getting off to a 5-6 start after replacing Lou Saban. That's a .719 winning percentage. He once again had to suffer through lean years after taking over Louisville in 1985, going 8-24-1 in his first three years before winning 24 games his next three years, and again after starting up FAU, which meant adding Ls to the resume before getting the Owls to where they became the youngest program in NCAA history to earn a bowl bid.
Oh, he was 6-0 in bowl games in career.
In a sense, Howard is being punished by the Hall Gods for leaving UM for the lure of broken promises from the USFL.
But if it were up to one of his biggest rivals from the early 1980s, Howard and the Hall would have been synonymous years ago.
"If they had to play against him, they would vote for him, I guarantee you," former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2016, said Monday. "I played against him and I'd vote for him.
"To me, he was just an outstanding coach, outstanding successful coach.
You can make exceptions. This is one exception they should make."
Howard's contribution to college football goes beyond his achievements as a head coach. He was an All-America end at Kentucky in 1955, he recruited Joe Namath to Alabama and was the Crimson Tide's offensive coordinator for three national championships (1961, 1964, 1965).
Howard has been enshrined in five sports halls of fame (including Palm Beach County in 2009), has one field (FAU) and one football complex (Louisville) named in his honor and has a statue sitting at the gateway to that field at FAU.
But the one hall that would neatly tie up his entire career has eluded him.
The day Willie Taggart was introduced as FAU's next coach, he honored Schnellenberger, who was sitting just to Taggart's left as he spoke from the podium.
"I'm looking over here, looking at the greatest coach," he said. "I've got goose bumps. I'm trying not to look at him because I'm getting a little choked up, but coach, thank you for being here.
"I can't wait until you go in the Hall of Fame. You should have been in there already."
Howard Schnellenberger does belong there. It's not too late to make that (long overdue) tribute happen.
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Cloudflare Ditches 8chan. What Happens Now?
In an interview with WIRED, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince explains his decision to stop protecting 8chan—and where the notorious forum goes from here.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced Sunday that his company would stop providing protection for internet for 8chan, after a series of mass shooting manifestos were posted on the forum.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said it would cut service on Sunday evening to 8chan, the infamous online forum that has housed numerous posts and manifestos linked to horrific mass shootings in the United States and around the world. The move comes nearly two days after a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart left 20 dead and dozens wounded. The alleged gunman appears to have posted his manifesto on 8chan 20 minutes before the shooting. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince spoke with WIRED Sunday night about his decision.
Cloudflare provides infrastructural support, like content delivery services and DDoS protection, to 19 million online properties. Revoking that support can effectively shut a site down, at least until it finds a new provider. But the company has long maintained that it should not serve as an arbiter of speech online, with one notable exception: Cloudflare severed ties with white supremacist site the Daily Stormer two years ago.
Lily Hay Newman covers information security, digital privacy, and hacking for WIRED.
As pressure mounted in the wake of the El Paso shooting, Cloudflare at first maintained that it would not drop 8chan. But by Sunday evening, the company had reversed course.
"8chan has been on our radar for a long time as a problematic user," says Prince. "But we have a responsibility, which is much beyond 'We terminate sites we don't like.' I'm nervous about whether we've made the right decision, and I'm nervous about how this will set precedent in the future."
Prince argues that, rather than Cloudflare, platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter should decide what belongs on their own sites. Cloudflare shouldn't make those calls any more than asphalt should set speed limits. The major platforms can, and do, moderate their own content and manage violent, destructive trends themselves—even if it's been an imperfect system in practice. But Prince says that he didn't account for platforms like 8chan that are intentionally created as a forum for unregulated expression.
"When you have platforms that are effectively lawless like this, then maybe that shifts the responsibility further down the stack," Prince says. Looking at Daily Stormer and now 8chan, Prince says that Cloudflare is attempting to find the line where "a site has shown repeatedly that it is causing active, real harm."
Cloudflare gets requests from individuals, institutions, and governments worldwide to take down sites every day, though, because of their alleged real-world harm. It doesn't act on those requests precisely because that allegation is so subjective. As a result, the actual parameters for what merits a takedown remain extremely murky.
And even when Cloudflare takes the step to unilaterally cut service, nothing stops those shunned sites from buying the services they need elsewhere. The Daily Stormer, for example, was back online within a couple of days, albeit harder to find. And though Google stopped indexing the 8chan homepage back in 2015, taking some wind out of its sails, the site has still managed to become a go-to for hate speech of all sorts and, of late, mass shooters spreading their extremist propaganda.
"Some of you might've read the @Cloudflare news already," a Twitter account associated with the site posted on Sunday evening. "There might be some downtime in the next 24-48 hours while we find a solution."
"It solves the problem for us, but it doesn't solve the problem for the internet."
Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO
Even if 8chan itself somehow never reemerges, which seems unlikely, discussions like those hosted on the forum can easily move to another platform. 8chan itself grew out of the forum 4chan in 2013. Meanwhile, the anything-goes social network Gab went down temporarily last fall, because its providers—including the domain registrar GoDaddy and web host Joyent—dropped it after the alleged shooter in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting made threats on the social network. But Gab came back as soon as other companies stepped in to provide services. Cloudflare stuck with Gab throughout.
Infrastructure providers have the power to let a site go down, and maybe even do it irreparable damage in the process. But the internet was built to be decentralized precisely to protect speech, so regardless of what you think of the precedent Cloudflare is setting, 8chan will likely be back soon, something Prince readily acknowledges.
"The real thing that kills me is that, at the end of the day, [dropping 8chan] doesn't actually fix the problem," Prince says. "It solves the problem for us, but it doesn't solve the problem for the internet. It doesn't address the core causes of why hate festers online."
UPDATE 8/5/209 10:15 am EST: This story has been updated to reflect that Google removed the 8chan homepage from search results in 2015, but still indexes certain other 8chan pages.
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Hi again. I'm Adam. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. Today I have a very important lesson, I think,
for all of you that will help you very much with your reading, but especially your writing
skills. Okay?
Today we're going to look at the sentence. What is a sentence? Now, I know that all of
you are saying: "Well, we know what a sentence is. We've learned this a thousand times before."
Right? I know what you've learned and I know what you haven't learned, many of you; some
of you have, of course. The sentence has a very basic structure, there's a very basic
component that must be involved or included in a sentence, and a lot of grammar teachers,
a lot of English teachers don't teach this. Okay? All of you, I'm sure have by now heard
of "SVO", but have you heard of "SVsC"? Have you heard of "SVC"? Maybe yes, maybe no. But
I'm sure a lot of you are going: "What? I've never heard of these things before." Well,
we're going to talk about this in one second.
Before we talk about a sentence, we have to talk about a clause. Now, what is a clause?
I'm sure you've heard this word before as well, but just in case, a clause is any subject,
verb combination. It's a group of words that must include a subject and a verb. Now, also
very important to remember: it must be a tense verb, meaning that it must take a time; past,
present, future. Okay? No base verb, no infinitive verb. So that is a clause. Now, there are
two types of clauses. Okay? We have independent clauses and we have dependent clauses. The...
These are sometimes called subordinate clauses. Now, every sentence in English to be a grammatically
correct sentence must have an independent clause. It doesn't need a dependent clause,
but it could have one. The independent clause could include a dependent clause as the subject
or object. We'll talk about that after.
So an independent clause has a subject and a verb, and it can stand by itself. It can
contain a complete idea by itself. Okay? So, technically, the shortest sentence you can
have in English will be a... Will be an independent clause with a subject and verb. What is the
absolute shortest sentence that you can think of? Think of a sentence, the shortest you
can possibly make it. Okay? Here's an example: "Go!" Is this a complete English sentence?
Yes. Why? Because it contains an independent clause. Where? We have the implied subject:
"you" and the tense verb: "go", the imperative tense "go". So this your basic English sentence.
Now, we have three other types, three basic types and we can of course play with these
after. Subject, verb, object. Some independent clauses must have an object, we'll talk about
that in a second. Excuse me. Subject, verb, subject complement. Some sentences must have
a subject complement. Subject, verb, complement. Okay? We're going to talk about each of these
in a moment. I have the "A" here because quite often, this complement is actually an adverb
phrase or an adverbial. We'll talk about that in a second.
So your basic sentence can be any one of these three. Now, the reason we're looking at this...
All these structures is because once you understand what must be contained in a sentence, then
you can read any English sentence out there that is grammatically correct and be able
to understand the main idea of that sentence. Okay? So let's start with "SVO".
Okay, let's look at our "SVO" type of independent clause: subject, verb, object. Now, first,
what is an object? Well, we have two types of objects to talk about. We have the direct
object, we have the indirect object. Now, the thing to understand is that the object
always answers a question about the verb, it completes the meaning of the verb by asking
the questions: "What?" or: "Who?" Now, keep in mind that technically, it's: "Whom?" But
if you say: "Who?" I'll let it go this time. Okay? Formal academic writing, "Whom?", "Whom?",
"Whom?" IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, all that - "Whom?" not: "Who?" In the object position. But the
direct object answers: "What?" or: "Who?" about the verb. Okay? We'll get back to that.
An indirect object answers the question: "To what?" or: "For what?" or: "Whom?", "To what?",
"For what?", "To whom?", "For whom?" Usually about the object, about the direct object.
You will never see an indirect object without a direct object in the sentence as well. Now,
again, before I get back to the objects, let me explain this word: "transitive verb". I
don't care if you remember this word or not; it's not important, that's just a grammar
word. Understand the meaning of this situation. A transitive verb must take an object, a direct
object. Okay?
Look at this sentence here: "I want." Is this a complete sentence? I have a subject and
verb. Right? Should be okay. "Want" is a transitive verb. There's no such thing as wanting without
wanting something. Okay? So this is not a complete sentence. This sentence or this clause
must take an object. "I want candy." Now it's complete because it answers the question:
"What?" about want. Not all verbs are transitive. Some are intransitive, means they don't take
an object. Some are called ambitransitive, means in some situations, they take an object;
in some situations, they don't take an object. But that's for a different lesson altogether.
So we have "SVO" must have an object to the verb.
Now, here: "She gave Mary a letter." We have our subject "she", we have our verb, "gave",
past tense. "Mary", okay? She gave who? No. She gave what? A letter. We have our direct
object to Mary, indirect object. She gave a letter to Mary. She gave Mary a letter.
Okay? So we have: she gave what? Again, this is a transitive verb, it must take an object,
a direct object. She gave a letter to Mary, our indirect object. This is a complete independent
clause, a complete idea full of meaning, ready to be added on to.
Now, what do you put before or what you put after, that's all complements basically. It's
not important. You can have a lot more phrases, you can have other clauses, you can have subordinate
clauses added to this. This is your main idea of the sentence, that's your independent clause.
Let's look at the other type: the subject, verb, subject complement.
Okay, so now we're going to look at the other type of sentence, the other type of independent
clause you can have. Subject, verb, subject complement. Before we look at it, I want you
to notice very carefully this "e" here. Okay? We don't have "compliment". "Compliment",
"complement". This one means to complete something. This one means to say nice things about someone.
"Oh, I look your shirt, it's very nice. It suits you." That's a compliment. "Complement",
to complete. So a subject complement completes the meaning of something. Now, we had the
object before. The object answered the question about the verb. Right? It completed the meaning
of the verb. The subject complement completes the meaning or says something about the subject,
not the verb. Okay? It also answers the question: "What?" about the subject. One way to think
about this is think of the verb, the "be" verb-and it's always going to be a "be" verb-think
of it as an equal sign. Subject = the subject complement.
So, for example... And many students still ask me this, I'll say it again. "I am Canadian."
So "I" equals "Canadian", Canadian completes the meaning of "I", same thing. Right? This
is the completion of me.
This sentence looks a little bit more complicated, but it's the exact same thing. "The weatherman
must be wrong about today's forecast." I still have the "be" verb, this modal, "must" only
tells me something about the degree of the "be" verb; it doesn't tell me anything about
the subject or the complement. So the weatherman, wrong. The weatherman is wrong "about today's
forecast." This is just an extra piece of information. It is a complement to "wrong".
Wrong about what? That's... We're going to talk about different types of complements
like this one. "Wrong" is a complement to "weatherman". "About today's forecast" is
a complement to "wrong". A sentence can have many complements. Okay? An independent clause
can only have one object, one subject, one verb. However, you can have many clauses in
a sentence, you can only have one independent clause unless, of course, you have two independent
clause joined by a conjunction; "and", "but", "or", etcetera. We'll talk about that in a
little bit as well. So weatherman must be wrong about today's forecast. So this is your
subject, verb... Subject, verb, subject complement. Now we're going to look at the last one: subject,
verb, complement.
Okay, let's look at our last one. We have "SVA". I put "A" because quite often when
you have to have it, it's an adverbial, but technically, anything that's not an object
or a subject complement is just a complement. It is necessary to... For the completion of
the sentence. Now, an adverbial. Why do we call it an "adverbial"? Because it answers
the questions: "Where?", "When?", "How?", "Why?" We saw that the object answers: "What?"
or: "Who?" Adverbial answers the other questions. About what? About the subject? No. It's about
the verb again. Okay?
So, for example, if I say: "I went." Is this a complete sentence? No, because "go" means
you have to go somewhere. Technically, in certain contexts, it could be an answer to
another question. But as... By itself, it's not a complete sentence. I need to add something
to it. "I went to the store." I went where? To the store. "To the store" is a complement,
but it's acting as an adverb because it answers one of these questions. Remember: a complement,
and I just want to explain it here, completes the meaning of something. It could... In this case, it
completes the meaning of the verb, but complements can also complete the meanings of something
else. We had "SVsC" completes the meaning of the subject. We can also have complements
that complete the meaning of an object, or a preposition, or many other things. I'll
give you a few examples soon.
"Bill lives in Hawaii." Bill lives where? In Hawaii.
Now, I want you to also look at this sentence: "Carl reads." Now, could this sent-... Could
this clause-I should say, subject, verb-could this be a complete sentence? Sure. What does
Carl do..? What does Carl do in his spare time? He reads. Now, what he reads, maybe
not important; I want the action more than the thing he reads. However, I see Carl, he's
reading all the time, and I think: "What? Is he in school?" No. "Carl reads for pleasure."
I need this piece of information to complete the idea, to complete the meaning of this
sentence. "Carl reads books." and: "Carl reads for pleasure." are two completely different
sentences; they have completely different meanings. If I want to specify a particular
meaning, I want to tell you why he reads, then I have to add this complement, I have
to add this adverbial to complete the meaning of this verb. "He reads newspapers.", "He
reads comic books.", "He reads obituaries." Do you know what an "obituary" is? In the
newspaper, sometimes they put little notices of people who died. Some people like to read
these things, I don't know why, but some people do. But Carl, he reads for pleasure; he enjoys
it, it's fun for him. But this completes the meaning of that.
So there you have the three types. Now, the thing to remember is that you can mix all
of these. You can have "SVAO". Well, no, you can't have "SVA". You can "SVOA", you can
have "SVOC", you can have "SVAAC", etcetera. You can mix them. I'm going to give you a
couple of examples here to see what I'm talking about.
Okay, let's look at some examples here. I want... Keep in mind this is very basic stuff.
You're going to see very, very complicated sentences in your readings, especially once
you get into academic readings. But: "I went to the store to buy bread for breakfast this
morning." Now, this might seem like a bit of a complicated sentence, but it's actually
a simple sentence and it only has "SV", lots of "C's". Okay? "I went", subject, verb. Where?
"To the store". This is an adverbial. Where? "To buy bread". Why? Why did I go to the store?
"For breakfast". "Bread", for what? At the store, I bought bread. I bought bread for
breakfast. When? "This morning". This goes back to "went". Okay? All of these are complements
to the... to each other and to the verb: "went". You can have many complements. You don't want
to have too, too many because then your sentence becomes long, and a little bit boring, and
a little bit in danger of being run-on. Okay? But you can add as many as you want. Now,
the complements could be anything; could be infinitive phrase, or participle phrase, or
a clause, or a gerund, or noun phrase. Anything. Okay? As long as it's grammatically correct.
Here's another sentence. Now, this one also looks a little complicated, it's not either.
"What Sharon forgot to mention was that her husband was the CEO of Microsoft and makes
a lot of money, which is why she can afford all of her holidays." Sorry, I forgot the
comma there. Okay. Now you're thinking: "Oh, wow. I have no idea." First thing, remember
what I said: you have to find your independent clause first. Now, keep in mind a subject
can be a subordinate clause as well. What is the subject of this entire sentence? Is
it Sharon? No. Is it CEO, is it her husband, is it Microsoft? No. What we have here is
a noun clause subject. This is your subject, a subject which is an independent clau-...
A dependent clause-sorry-this is called a noun clause. It has its own subject and verb.
Remember a dependent clause also has a subject and verb. Forgot what? "To mention", it has
an object to "forgot". Now, here's your verb: "was". Okay? "Her husband", "that her husband
was the CEO of Microsoft and makes a lot of money". Sharon forg-... This is the subject,
this is the subject complement because we have a "be" verb. This is also a noun clause
with its own subject and verb. "That her husband was the CEO" and that he "makes a lot of money."
Okay? "Which is why she can afford all of her holidays." We were wondering: "Sharon
goes away on holiday all the time, but she doesn't work. How does she do that? She's
never told us that she inherited money. Oh, what she forgot to mention last time she explained
was that", blah, blah, blah. Okay? So this is a complement.
Now, of course, this doesn't look too easy. Remember: a subject could be anything, an
object could be anything. Not anything, but there's all kinds of subjects and objects.
We'll discuss that another time. Find your subject, your main subject, find your main
verb, find your object, complement, etcetera.
Now, remember I said: every sentence must have at least one independent clause. It could
have two, it could have three, as long as you have a coordinating conjunction, "and",
"but", "or". "John loves Kate", John loves who? Kate. "and Kate loves John." Subject,
verb, object. Subject, verb, object. Two independent clauses, one sentence, conjunction. Okay?
This might seem a little bit difficult, but there's a quiz on www.engvid.com, go to it,
check it out. And remember: this is all very good for your writing skills and your reading
skills. But if you need a little bit more help, check out my website: www.writetotop.com,
a lot more information there to help you out. And come again soon.
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Slam Dunk's Lasting Impact on Anime
2 January 2021 9:43 am
by Jordan Mulder
Sports anime and manga live in that strange realm of pop culture where typically, most people are incredibly invested or not at all. It feels oddly divisive, where other anime might not. For anime fans who love sports, it's a dream come true.
But then it gets tricky. For fans of sports, they might be interested, unless they don't watch anime. If someone is interested in anime but not sports, then why would they even be remotely interested?
As with most anime, it's never as simple as it seems. Sure, the shows are about sports but to only classify them as such would be a disservice to the story. Not all sports anime are created equal. In fact, many are solely about the show, and that's where their fan base comes in. If someone is die hard for baseball or rugby, then they might be more inclined to watch a show devoted to that sport.
But others frame things like characterization, growth, subtle plot twists through the device of the sport. While the sport is occurring, so are other things. Relationships are evolving, people are growing, and life is changing. The sport might just be a catalyst for such major events.
And sports anime have quite a task in front of them. They have to appeal to both sides of the fan base. They have to spark the interest of anime into sports fans and the interest of sports into anime fans. A few shows do that incredibly well.
One such show was Slam Dunk. An anime based on a manga of the same name, it was one of Weekly Shōnen Jump 's highest selling series. The show is considered one of the pioneers of the genre and for good reason.
We follow Hanamichi Sakuragi, a boy with a fiery temper and the red hair to match. He's a rowdy fella, becoming the leader of a gang and subsequently, incredibly unpopular with the ladies.
Trying to break his record of fifty romantic rejections, Hanamichi desperately wants a girlfriend. After the last rejection, who denied him in favor of a basketball player, he determines it's a worthless sport for losers. Definitely not for him.
When he's approached by a fellow student at Shōhoku High School, a girl named Haruko Akagi, he falls head over heels. She's everything he's dreamed of, and as a plus, she isn't repulsed by him like the other women he had previously encountered.
She recognizes talent in him and asks if he likes basketball. Like all smitten teenagers trying to impress someone new, he says yes without giving it much thought. She challenges him to slam dunk but instead watches as he tries but only manages to slam his head into the backboard of the net.
Still, she recognizes the athleticism in him and pushes him to join the team. He does because he's madly in love. However, he soon realizes that he genuinely enjoys playing and is pretty damn good at it. The show follows him as he's joined by rivals and other misfits and pushes the team to be one of the best in Japan.
A Basketball Manga Changed the Game
While it absolutely is about basketball, as the writer and illustrator Takehiko Inoue based it off his own real-life experience and love for the sport, even he mentions that it could have worked with a different sport. But people loved it all the same, for both sport and the characters playing it. The series even managed to push the popularity of basketball to new levels within Japan.
The series was even so popular that creator Inoue helped start a scholarship called the 'Slam Dunk Scholarship,' where recipients of the award are given the opportunity to attend a college preparatory school in America, where tuition and costs are paid in full.
Beyond the popularity of the show when it first was published and the subsequent release of the anime, the series remains a massive hit today. In 2005, TV's Asahi released their Top 100 Anime that was voted by Japanese viewers. The poll reached through multiple age groups and categories.
Slam Dunk managed to snag a top 10 spot, beating out other heavy hitters such as Sailor Moon and even Pokemon. The show has managed to stay relevant and in the public eye for years now, often landing spots in top lists and ranking high for the viewers' choice in anime being made into a live-action film.
In fact, because the novel coronavirus has shut down hundreds of events throughout the world, the NBA suspended the season. That left Taiwan with the heavy task of entertaining thousands of basketball fans. Sure, they could maybe air old matches or commentary.
Instead, a sports network decided to air Slam Dunk instead, introducing a whole new audience to the anime. And people loved it. Taiwanese social media was ablaze with praise for the show from both those who had already seen it and those who were new to the show.
The series will strive even further this year, with Inoue revealing on his official Twitter that 2020 is the year of the Slam Dunk resurgence. This year will feature over a hundred new illustrations that Inoue has been working on, titled 'PLUS/SLAM DUNK ILLUSTRATIONS 2.'
The series pushes hard the idea of redemption, perseverance, and passion. Often these are huge thematic points for sports anime because so often it happens with sports in real life. Those who are deeply intertwined with their passions, sports or not, find that their point of obsession, whether it be basketball or something else, pushes them to be better in their everyday life as well.
We see with Hanamichi that it no longer is just about him or his romantic pursuits. It becomes part of something greater. He has to worry not only about his performance but his team as well. With sports anime, that's often where the difference resides.
Sports have the task of not only capturing the attention of viewers and spectators but competition as well. Most sports focus on winning, whether that be as a team or as an individual. It would be easy to leave it at that, but it's never that easy.
Slam Dunk managed to show the best of everything, even when that meant showing the worst of the sport. It told viewers about the struggles of not only the sport but feeling like you don't belong. That's where a good sports anime story steps in.
Even if Hanamichi hadn't been amazing and naturally talented at basketball, he still managed to find a passion for something. And it was that passion that helped him to be a better person. Being on the team helped him to see not only how training, working hard and having determination not only helped the team but himself as well.
Over everything, past becoming one of the best basketball teams in the nation and a stellar player, Hanamichi learned how to be the best person he could be, both in and out of the sport. And that's what a good sports anime does.
So it's no wonder that Slam Dunk laid down the foundation for what the genre could be. That's the resiliency in the series, and how it has managed to stay relevant even now. No matter how athletic someone is or their passion (or disdain) for sports, there can be something found in the series for everybody.
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In the early 1990s during the break-up of former Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serb forces laid siege to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, for more than four years.
Over a quarter of a million people were confined to the city which was bombarded from all sides on a regular basis and only sustained by humanitarian aid supplied by the United Nations and supplies brought in via smuggling routes.
More than 10,000 people were killed during the siege which officially ended in early 1996 weeks after the signing of the Dayton peace agreement which halted the Bosnian war in December 1995.
Vedrana Seksan, aged 15 when the war broke out in 1992, lived in the city throughout the siege. She told Witness about the experience.
Witness is a World Service programme of the stories of our times told by the people who were there.
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Catfishes, eels and lampreys
(-) Long fishes with long snouts
1-2 feet
3 inches or less
5-10 feet
Big rivers (Missouri and Mississippi)
Clear, rocky rivers, streams and springs
Lowland rivers (southeast Missouri)
Lowland swamps, ditches and sloughs
Prairie rivers and streams
Reservoirs and lakes
Species Types
Grass Pickerel
Esox americanus vermiculatus
The grass pickerel is the most common and widely distributed pike in Missouri. It is also the smallest, seldom exceeding 10 or 12 inches in length.
Chain Pickerel
Esox niger
The chain pickerel has an elongated body, a snout shaped like a duck's bill, and a large mouth with many sharp teeth. The back and sides are olive or yellowish brown with a chainlike pattern of dark lines.
Snakeheads
Channa argus and other Channa and Parachanna spp.
Snakeheads are native to Asia and invasive in America. They resemble bowfins and can live in similar habitats. Note the extended anal fin and the pelvic fins located close to the pectoral fins and gills.
Spotted Gar
Lepisosteus oculatus
The spotted gar has many well-defined roundish black spots on top of the head and on the paired fins. Like other gars, it's a long, cylindrical fish with a long snout and numerous prominent teeth. The body is covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales.
Bowfin
Amia calva
The bowfin is a stout-bodied, nearly cylindrical fish. It is most abundant in the Mississippi Lowlands, though it occurs along the entire length of the Mississippi River.
Shovelnose Sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
The shovelnose sturgeon's snout is flattened and shovel-shaped; the barbels are fringed, and the bases of the barbels are positioned to form a straight line.
Longnose Gar
Lepisosteus osseus
The longnose gar has a longer, narrower snout than our other three gars and is the most widely distributed gar in Missouri.
Alligator Gar
Atractosteus spatula (formerly Lepisosteus spatula)
The alligator gar is Missouri's largest gar and has a distinctively short, broad snout. Populations are declining. This fish once occurred in the Mississippi River at least as far upstream as the mouth of the Illinois River and in major tributaries.
Acipenser fulvescens
The lake sturgeon is Missouri's largest sturgeon and is rare and endangered in our state. Note its conical (not shovel-nosed) snout. Despite its name, in Missouri this fish is almost always found in big rivers, not lakes.
Shortnose Gar
Lepisosteus platostomus
The shortnose gar is named for its relatively short, broad snout. Like other gars, it's a long, cylindrical fish with a long snout and numerous prominent teeth. The body is covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales.
Three-Toed Amphiuma
Amphiuma tridactylum
The three-toed amphiuma is an eel-like, completely aquatic salamander. It has very small fore- and hind limbs, each with three very small toes. In Missouri it's found only in the Bootheel region.
Western Lesser Siren
Siren intermedia nettingi
The western lesser siren is an eel-like, aquatic salamander with external gills, small eyes, small forelimbs with four toes, and no hind limbs. In Missouri, it's found mostly in the Bootheel and northward in counties near the Mississippi River.
About Fishes in Missouri
Missouri has more than 200 kinds of fish, more than are found in most neighboring states. Fishes live in water, breathe with gills, and have fins instead of legs. Most are covered with scales. Most fish in Missouri "look" like fish and could never be confused with anything else. True, lampreys and eels have snakelike bodies — but they also have fins and smooth, slimy skin, which snakes do not.


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by Simon Wu | Jun 26, 2019
Jes Fan. Systems III, 2018. Silicone, Glass, Epoxy, Melanin, Glass, Estradiol, Wood; 48″x25″x19″. © Jes Fan. Courtesy of the artist.
Jes Fan's recent work explores the material bases of identity by working with isolated natural chemicals such as melanin, estrogen, and testosterone. Fan suspends these liquids in blown glass, and the contrast between their innocuous, whimsical appearance and the ideologies of racial and gendered power that they buttress is absurd, almost incomprehensible. Systems III (2018) is emblematic of this series: a fleshy lattice reminiscent of circuitry, scaffolding, or plumbing that evokes the body, with its sags and folds. Fan's work is often couched in discourses of identity and their co-optation within biopolitical capitalism. Here, instead, I offer a personal take on one work, Systems III, by comparing it to three creative forms—a poem, essay, and song—which have stimulated my thinking and helped me to understand Fan's work, toward reshaping the boundaries between what we know and what we fear about ourselves.
A poem: "Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)" by Monica Youn
This poem by Monica Youn considers two mythical figures: Pasiphaë, a princess of Crete who was cursed by Poseidon to climb into a wooden cow in order to have sex with a bull, eventually birthing the Minotaur; and Sado, a Korean prince who is sentenced to death in a rice container. For Youn, the physical containers holding these protagonists pale in comparison to the linguistic containers of identity (female, Asian) that lead them to their fates.
"Both works ask us to reconsider what containers hold us into ourselves."
Youn, like Fan, considers the arbitrariness of these containers—nationalism, race, gender—as they have come to restrain and fix certain life trajectories: "Revealing a racial marker in a poem is like revealing a gun in a story or like revealing a nipple in a dance."¹ Both understand that the body is not a container for the ingredients of one's identity; identity exists within the body and extends beyond it. In Fan's Systems III, glass globules contain droplets of testosterone, melanin, and estrogen. However, as these chemicals appear as suspended, whimsical speckles in glass, their significance is not manifested on the surface of their container, as they are when they are contained within a human being. Rather, they persist in a frozen state of interiority, as if replicating the restricting logic of racial and gendered containers: to be no more than the sum of the chemicals that are suspended within. Fan's work visualizes the intractability of this identity model, as Youn's poem does in its relentless logic of entrapment. Both works ask us to reconsider what containers hold us into ourselves.
Jes Fan. Systems III, 2018. Closeup. Silicone, Glass, Epoxy, Melanin, Glass, Estradiol, Wood; 48″x25″x19″. © Jes Fan. Courtesy of the artist.
An essay: "The Sucker, the Sucker!" about the octopus, by Amia Srinivasan
With its fleshy scaffolds and the drooping, translucent weight of the glass, Systems III resembles an octopus. The mottled, pale pinks of its surfaces make me think of glossy, wet skin; the blue pipes are like arms extending inside and outside of itself, in alien repose.
Like humans, they [octopi] have centralised nervous systems, but in their case there is no clear distinction between brain and body. An octopus's neurons are dispersed throughout its body, and two-thirds of them are in its arms: each arm can act intelligently on its own, grasping, manipulating and hunting.²
"What might it be like to think through your body, to communicate to your arms—to all parts of yourself—the way an octopus does?"
The octopus has more neural matter in its arms than in its head. These networks are separate, but they correspond with one another. In a way, an octopus can have conversations with itself. Systems III is a schematic for this sort of self-Othering and mind-body melding. The tubing resembles arms and is like the system of neural pathways encased in dermis. The surfaces ripple as if electric with thoughts and emotions. Systems III encounters a viewer as a proposition: Can you think like this, with your body?
This melding of the mental and the physical is a soothing rejoinder to the insistent division of mind and body in Cartesian logic, so beloved by the cerebral space of the gallery. What might it be like to think through your body, to communicate to your arms—to all parts of yourself—the way an octopus does? If the nature of an octopus reveals that, in some ways, we are always an Other to ourselves, it also implies that this othering is not necessarily a cause for despair, but a site of potential, even celebration.
Jes Fan, injecting a silicone filled glass globule with a substance. Production still from the New York Close Up episode, "Jes Fan In Flux." © Art21, Inc. 2019.
A song: "Chorus" by Holly Herndon
Holly Herndon makes music by teaching an artificial neural network (lovingly named Spawn) how to sing. She inputs pop and dance music as well as vocal samples from YouTube, Skype, and other audio sources from the digital landscape, like beeps and dings for email and other notifications. The result of this collaboration between Herndon and her AI network is a slippery, ethereal soundscape.
"It's a remix of the body"
Herndon and Fan share an outlook toward technology that is measured, a desire to see it as neither the best nor the worst thing ever. Herndon's manipulated voice throbs and whirrs in a way that is both pleasurable and unsettling. Familiar sounds like email alerts and keyboard clatter are loosed from their normal usage, made harmonic. Similarly, Fan collaborates with laboratories to explore the lives of natural chemicals outside of their pharmaceutical administration; Systems III is a body or several bodies, with two flesh-like panels facing away from each other. Flesh, bone, and hormones appear separated, in pink panels, blue tubes, and glass globules. It's a remix of the body, and of the self, with its psychic and physical barriers rearranged.
As our bodies and creativities are peppered with adjustments by emerging technologies, Fan, as well as Herndon and Youn (and octopi) are not that interested in shoring up the borders of any single body. Rather, they hope to open those borders toward an increased porousness: the understanding that technology—in the form of nervous systems, animals, consciousness, AI, or natural chemicals—has always been with us and within us, both foreign and familiar.
¹Monica Youn, "Study of Two Figures (Pasiphaë/Sado)," Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/148962/study-of-two-figures-pasipha-sado.
²Amia Srinivasan, "The Sucker, the Sucker!" London Review of Books 39, no. 17 (September 7, 2017): 23–25. Accessed at:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker.
Simon Wu
Simon Wu is a New York-based curator and graphic designer involved in collaborative art production and research. He was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program '18-'19 and serves as the Program Coordinator for the Racial Imaginary Institute, a collective of poets, writers and artists dedicated to producing spaces for nuanced conversations around race and identity. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 2017.
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Home » Uncategorized » Russia is modernizing ten nuclear submarines with new weapons and electronics and building new Arctic and Black sea patrol ships
Russia is modernizing ten nuclear submarines with new weapons and electronics and building new Arctic and Black sea patrol ships
Russia's Navy will carry out a profound modernization of about ten nuclear-powered submarines of projects 971 and 949.
"Everything will be new there. All the units, mechanisms, radio electronics," Viktor Chirkov said, adding the after the modernization Russia's Navy would have practically new nuclear submarines in terms of onboard equipment and weapons.
The submarines are being overhauled at the shipyards Zvyozdochka in Severodvinsk and Zvezda in the Far East's Primorsky Territory.
"Surface ships and submarines will be built under a technology to make it easier to equip them with new weapons when necessary. Ships of these projects have enormous potential for modernization and we will make use of that," Chirkov said.
Project-971 Shchuka-B (NATO reporting name Akula)
Fifth generation Russian nuclear submrines are being designed.
Russia will build a new series of six patrol vessels for the Black Sea Fleet and two patrol ships for the Arctic by 2020, Russian Navy commander Viktor Chirkov told journalists on Sunday, APA reports quoting TASS.
The said the first of these ships would be handed over to the Black Sea Fleet within the next three years. The ships are being built at the Zelenodolsk and Vyborg shipyards. "Along with this new series of six ships for the Black Sea Fleet, two more patrol ships of the ice-breaker type will be built for the use in the Arctic zone," he said, adding that these two ships would be built in 2019 and 2020. These ships, according to Chirkov, will combine the characteristics of a patrol ship, an ice-breaker and a tugboat. Apart from that, all the new patrol boats will be used to escort civil ships to protect them against pirate attacks, to ensure the Navy's combat stability in the coastal zone and to be part of naval groups in off-shore maritime zones.
"The ships will be able of long-term staying at any area of the World Ocean with possible rotation of the crew and shipyard checks at any port, including some foreign ports," he said.
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