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Janie Kayrs has known Zane almost her whole life. He was her friend in the dream world. She trusted him. But that was before he kidnapped her, spiriting her away to an isolated cabin to learn what her dreams never told her. Like how dangerous he looks. How he got on the wrong side of the negotiating table. And how much sexier he is in real life…
Zane is a battle-hardened warrior, used to command and solitude. But Janie has drawn him from the minute they met. His need for her could destroy everything he’s worked for, but the risk is too sweet not to take it. They call her the Chosen One. But when it comes down to the questions of peace or war, life or death, safety or passion, it will be Janie who makes the choice…
Love is about to start conquering…
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Janet Isabella Kayrs perched on a rock wall facing the tarmac as men in full combat gear loaded helicopters. A young vampire had accidentally launched a rocket into the Oregon forest, but the blaze had already been contained. Unlike the smell.
Dawn began to peek over the horizon, bringing a flash of sunlight lacking in warmth. A breeze slithered through her black silk shirt, but she’d chosen carefully, and she didn’t want a jacket. Just in case she needed to fight.
Tension battled with oxygen, mingling with power. The vampires, each and every one, had a power more daunting than oxygen molecules. With destiny all but riding her, Janie fought to control her emotions. Indulging in fear would get her killed.
With a screeching protest, a heavily secured door opened to her right. She turned and forced a smile. “There’s my favorite firefighter.”
Garrett Kayrs, her younger brother, wiped soot off his forehead. “I helped put out the fire, but it wasn’t me.” He leaned back against the wall, long legs extended, worry cutting grooves next to his generous mouth. “I haven’t accidentally set off an explosive since the fifth grade.”
“I remember.” This time her smile arrived easily. “You were playing in the armory and blew up several trucks.”
“Dad was mad.” The understatement widened Janie’s smile. “Yeah, but he was amused, too.”
Garrett’s odd gaze sharpened as he watched a missile being loaded. “I don’t think you should go.”
“I know.” She took a deep breath and studied him. At twenty years old, the young vampire stood well over six feet tall. He’d inherited their father’s broad shoulders and rugged features, but the unique metallic gray eyes were all Garrett’s. She slipped her arm through his, impressed by the solid muscle. “I have to go.”
He shut his eyes, the cords in his arm vibrating with a dangerous tension. “Then I should be there.”
Janie leaned against him. With almost five years between them, she’d vowed to protect him at his birth. Even after he’d outgrown her when she’d turned twelve, she’d known how to make him laugh, how to ease the pressure he must surely feel as the sole Kayrs born in the new generation.
Vampires produced only male babies, and not very often. So far Garrett was the single progeny of the Kayrs ruling family.
“You’re needed here to protect headquarters,” she said. “And Mom.”
His massive body shuddered. “I’m torn.” Garrett lifted his chin. “I need to be here for Mom but want to be at the peace talks with you.”
In profile, he looked just as dangerous as their father. “I’m trained, Garrett.”
“You’re human, Janie.” Garrett hunched his shoulders forward. “No matter how well trained you are, you’re still human.”
Janie nodded. The breeze whipped around them, and she pushed hair out of her eyes. When her mother had mated Talen Kayrs, he’d adopted Janie. He was the only father she’d ever known. While she loved her family, she’d never lived a normal life. “Sometimes I forget I’m human.”
“I don’t,” Garrett said softly..
She couldn’t let them down.
Now she stood deep in the mountainous headquarters. She loved being inside the earth and let the sense of surrounding rock center her. Peace filtered through the earth that held them all so tight. Unfortunately, the peace failed to diminish the headache pounding at the base of her skull. She’d barely kept the agony at bay since contracting the virus, and the pain was becoming more insistent.
Zane, Talen, and Dage manned control panels in the adjacent room, recording everything.
The guards exited, and Chalton gave her a terse nod. Dage had decided to send in guards Kalin didn’t know and not family— not anybody Kalin knew. “We’ll be right outside,” Chalton said.
Sweat slicked her palms. She nodded and tugged down her bulletproof vest before striding inside and shutting the door.
Lighter brown rock made up the walls of a square room bisected in the middle by pure iron bars. A cot and toilet made up the cell. Kalin stood, dressed in a plain black jumpsuit, and drew near the bars. “Janet.” Satisfaction rolled his consonants.
“Kalin.” Her heart beat hard enough to rattle her ribs. She chose one of the two chairs on her side of the bars and sat, taking a moment to study him. “Please, sit.” Damn, he was tall. Almost seven feet. His black hair had grown out longer than the last time she’d seen him, the red tips seeming brighter. Green and purple commingled in his eyes. Gone was the boy who’d visited her dreams.
He sat gracefully at the end of the cot, his burned skin already healing. “Might you bring your chair closer?”
“No, I might not.” She had strict orders to keep out of arm’s length, and she was smart enough to heed them. Uncle Conn was the ultimate soldier, and he knew what he was doing.
Kalin laughed and glanced at her combat outfit. “Are you expecting to be shot?”
“How many knives do you have hidden?” Curiosity darkened the purple in his eyes.
“Five.” He nodded. “Good number.”
“Thanks.” Her hands trembled, so she rested them lightly on her legs as she waited. Some of her training had included interrogation and interviewing techniques, and every instinct she had told her to let Kalin lead the discussion.
Kalin lifted his patrician nose and sniffed. “Ah. Peaches and . . .” He launched himself at the bars, wrapping long fingers around them. “You’ve contracted the virus.”
“I will end this with, this series MUST be read. It is brilliant, poignant, fast paced, action packed and dynamic. Loved every minute of it!!” ~ Tea and Book Reviews
“Marked was a fantastic conclusion to an amazing series, and as much as I hate to see it end I wouldn’t change a thing.“ Angels Addiction Book Blog
“Marked is a fast-paced, excitement-filled explosion of action that will not disappoint. Zanetti keeps getting better.”- RT Book Reviews, 4.5 Stars Top Pick
“This book – this entire series – is dynamite, just so well crafted. Kudos to author Rebecca Zanetti on putting the finishing sparkling touches on a story that celebrates love, family, and triumph.”– GraveTells Reviews
“I loved loved loved MARKED.” – Books-n-Kisses
“…the action kept me revved from the moment I opened the cover to the time I turned the last page.” – Fresh Fiction
“Janie was sweet and sassy and determined to protect all those she loved – especially Zane – and their romance was a great backdrop for the culmination of this series. I honestly couldn’t have been happier!” – The Window Seat 13
“I devoured Marked in a day and a half, and all the lingering questions I gathered throughout the series were answered, including the ever present question of What is Zane!” – Diaries of 2 Thick Chicks
“There was humor, pages of intensity, moments of joy, paragraphs of fear…and it was all twisted up in a wonderful reading package. Yes, it was that good.” – First Page to the Last Book Reviews
“The ending is 100% satisfying in every way. Not only is the main arc wonderfully resolved and the romance full of HEA goodness, we get to spend some time with every single couple we have fallen in love with over the course of the series”. – Goodreads
“I loved this series and especially this last book. It wrapped up things nicely but left it open for a new series.” – Goodreads
“If you are a paranormal romance fan you can’t go wrong with the DARK PROTECTORS series and MARKED didn’t disappoint in the least.” – Goodreads
“Mrs .Zanetti finished this series with such force that it will be read again and again. She knew how to keep us captivated with all these characters and never failed to keep it exciting and hot.” – Cocks and Tails Books
“This book was my introduction to Rebecca Zanetti, and I enjoyed it tremendously.”– Avalon Book Reviews
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Mark it down. Recall it to your grandchildren one day. The week ending Friday 8th January 2016 is when “PC” in Australia sent us all around the twist. As a nation we are a mad house. We’re officially Bonkers!
It is entirely possible after considering this post that you, the reader, add Koneko to the list of those who “don’t get it”. The Don’t Get It List is where everyone who doesn’t agree with a yet-to-be officially ratified, Political Correctness School of Philosophy, is banished for speaking out against politically correct philosophical pronouncements (PCPee-Pee).
Note: At the time of writing nobody can confirm whether an offence has been committed by the use of the term “pee-pee”.
What IS extremely certain is that having a “pee-pee” is problematic nowadays! So what did happen this week that sent us off the PC equivalent of the Richter Scale?
The first mistake made was a seemingly innocuous one. We watched cricket on a summers eve (what were we thinking in retrospect? Bad move!) On a day where our forefathers would have packed a Test cricket venue, NOBODY attended a Test Match. EVERBODY, however, tuned in to the Big Bash. The Big Bash is where cricket mad Aussies, instead of hating the Paki’s or the fucking pommie bastards all dressed in white, get to cheer on teams dressed in bright colours. Sri Lankans, South Africans, English, West-Indians, Aussies & others play side-by-side in an atmosphere of camaraderie and high spirits. Personalities we once hated with a passion … such as KP & Freddie Flintoff … now boom into our lounge rooms as comics, entertainers and genuine great blokes (not sure if I can say bloke either?)
Responsibility for the second mistake falls squarely on the shoulders of the Hobart Hurricanes bowlers. Why-oh-Why did they bowl 14 hapless deliveries that allowed Chris Gayle to plunder 41 runs? THAT interview would never have taken place. Without their misguided contribution we might still be teetering on the edge of sanity. But it happened. Squire Gayle entertained us like Zorro wielding willow and then proceeded to plunge mankind (used deliberately) into a new gender-based Ice Age. If you have just been released from a mental institution and don’t know what I am talking about click here.
In summary, the crime was to flirt on television. His punishment = $10k fine. OUR punishment = not getting to see him Down Under ever again? All on top of the pain & suffering we are experiencing as a result of the pandemic known as PC.
Let me state right now, before I exercise my right of free speech, that I support equality, and I deplore discrimination and domestic violence.
Playful flirting and practical joking is NONE of these things. Do not trot out the “but this is her workplace” claptrap. Do you know how many people find their spouse or partner through “the workplace”? And do we really think that this would be the same story if Meg Lanning had propositioned a male reporter during a WBBL mid-match interview? Indeed footage materialised of a female news reporter “chatting up” a bare chested male beach goer. This was deemed fair television. Equality?
If the fight is for equality, where is that elusive beast in all of the hoo-ha we are now being subjected to? And where does “freedom of expression” stand? Is it dead? A patron (he was a MAN) was ejected from the MCG at a subsequent BBL game for holding up a banner that read, “#standbyGayle”. In the very same ground a patron was NOT ejected (she was a WOMAN) for holding up a sign saying, “Marry me Marcus Stoinos”. Fancy harassing poor sweet Marcus in his place of work like that? Shame!
But it doesn’t end there. No it is only the beginning of the week that was.
Enter Peter Dutton MP. Most of us will admit to having “drunk text” at some stage and got it horribly wrong. Mr Dutton needs no such lubrication. The technology “Gaff-father” can do it sober as a judge and cock it up monumentally. Not only did he use the incredibly offensive description “mad fucking witch”, he inadvertently text “mad fucking witch” TO the mad fucking witch, which opened up the damned broom closet on a whole new front.
Let me share the following with you as Exhibit A for PC out of control. The Sydney Morning Herald (referenced below) contained an article entitled, “Witching hour at Peter Dutton’s office as protestors call for sacking over text”. Let me quote …
“The term ‘witch’ is generally thought of as a gendered insult when used by men to describe women. Feminist author and commentator Jane Caro told Faifax Media: By saying mad fucking witch you are actually painting a picture of something that is very different from “mad fucking idiot”, which would have been fine because it is an equal opportunity insult”
An EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INSULT … WTF? Leslie Nielsen (yep Leslie can be a boys name) could respond best. Surely you aren’t serious? I am serious and don’t call me Shirley!
I can’t speak for you but I do not want to participate in a society that even contemplates an “equal opportunity insult”, let alone one that actually has a name for it! The article goes on to recommend Mr Dutton be sacked … and replaced by a woman (one proficient in the use of mobile technology I presume?).
In a parallel Universe, a politician (call him Mr Button) accidentally sent a text (meant for a parliamentary colleague) to a male journalist calling him a “mad fucking warlock”. And, curiously, NOBODY jumped to the journo’s aid by trotting out an “equal opportunity insult” defense. How would it even go? Ahh Mr Button you shouldn’t refer to Barnaby Joyce as a warlock it would be more appropriate and non-gender-offensive to call him a mad fucking idiot?
Meanwhile, back in our universe, the following occurred:
- A father drove himself and his 2 young sons off a wharf in SA in a murder-suicide. Details about WHY have been suppressed by the media to protect the public ???;
- A passenger on a domestic flight in WA groped cabin crew. It was never reported in the media and went unpunished ???;
- A man committed domestic violence against his wife … and the wife’s mother encouraged her to go back to him ???;
- A young man dies in an early morning one-punch attack in a Brisbane nightclub precinct;
- George Pell continues to avoid the Royal Commission into child abuse in the church due to “ill health” but is fit to be in his workplace managing the Catholic Churches finances at the Vatican (talk about a discriminating workplace);
- AFL player Dustin Martin remains “unpunished” after his accuser WAS prepared to do a TV interview (dentist style and for her employers network) but WASN’T prepared to undertake a formal police interview;
- Donald Trump offends or discriminates against a new group every day … and continues to be a presidential candidate. [edit as at 20/1/17 he is now POTUS …]
Violence is violence. Discrimination is discrimination. Abuse is abuse. If you threaten ANYONE with violence THAT is the issue. Not gender. According to the media a woman in a restaurant is a WOMAN but a man is a PATRON or a DINER. What would newspaper articles look like if gender was not allowed to be disclosed? “A patron in a bar alleges that they were threatened by another patron with chopsticks”, reads very differently from “Drunk AFL star threatens woman with a weapon”
Here is the Ko-down … and it is an incredibly important one. Feminists, activists, PC devotees take note.
If you try to push the barrows of equal opportunity and respect for women through the media using controversial sensationalism, then the men who most need educating will shutdown and an opportunity will be lost…
Do not underestimate the potential for those with a pee-pee to throw the baby out with the bath water. If you want to make a real sustainable difference then keep the message simple, pure, fair and easy to understand … and don’t target sports people.
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(From the Ashburton Herald, March 6.) “I am not yet so bald that you can see my brains. ” —Long fellow. A couple of my sporting acquaintances got hit pretty hard over Mata winning the Dunedin Cup ; they laid out their month’s wages on Titania and went broke over the business, and then they laid their heads together with a view of raising the wind] Their ideas in that direction were ingenious, and I think original. Each of them owns a buck jumping horse (neither of the animals is marketable, as they have both been to the slaughter yard in Burnett street without fetching a bid), and the owners calmly deliberated on a cold blooded project by which the lives of two much respected heads of departments in Ashburton wex - e to have their limbs endangered, and their tenderest feelings outraged. The diabolical plot was as follows ;—The two horse owners were to visit the two bank managers separately, and get them into a conversational humor,, and sympathise with their long hours and arduous duties, and then offer them the use of a nice quiet horse for a little exercise, and then get their victims mounted on the buckjumpers, previously trained to go full tear to Seafield, and there the two villians, by previous arrangement, would be in waiting with a trap, in which the managers would be offered a ride home on the condition that they discounted a bill for fifty or so," or take the alternative of either riding the buckjumpers back or walking. Tho conspirators seemed to reckon the discounting would be the least painful business to tho bankers. I only write this as a warning to Messrs. R. and S. as to what they may expect from some of their horsey customers. I don’t like cruelty to animals, even where the victim is a bank manager.
Photography is one of the fine arts, I ain told. It sometimes makes the “human face divine ” look very pretty on cardboard, and it sometimes don’t. A week or so ago the school children had a treat, and part of the treat was being set up in rows like animated cabbages, and being done with a camera. Our local man was considered too foggy a negative to do the business, and another foggist was imported from Christchurch to do the job. I inspected some of the “ cartes” yesterday, and at the first look I thought it was a representation of a ten-pin alley, and I turned it upside down, and it then looked like the Ashburton bridge—until a young Chispa said, “ That’s me ! dada and then it dawned upon me that it was a photograph of one of Mr. Stott’s classes. But to call them pictures ! Why, some of the pupils were bald headed, some had no head at all, and one unfortunate small boyhad got the point of his nose inserted in his own left car. But the children seem delighted with them, and they are selling rapidly at Is. each, so I suppose everybody must feel satisfied. Our Court-house still keeps up its reputation for burlesque. A week or two ago the Bench decided that the profession were not to laugh in court, no matter what the occasion might be, and 1 fully expected next court day to see the walls of the Hall of Justice placarded with notifications in hold print, “ Laughing strictly prohibited.” Compliments are as yet permissible between the “ learned friends,” such, for instance, as one legal gentleman referring to another’s contentions as “ gross impudence and ignorance,” and to the gentleman himself as a “silly idiot.” Next Friday is to be a grand field day, and I hear that numerous applications have already been made for front seats to hear the case against Joe for aspersing the professional reputation of one of the limbs. I am always learning something in that court, whilst rubbing the whitewash off the wall with my shoulders. It seems that if Smith summonses mo, and employ's a lawyer, and then Smith and 1 settle the case out of court, that Smith can’t withdraw the case unless he does so through his solicitor, otherwise Smith is guilty of “ fraud at least that is the way it was put the other day. And another new wrinkle is that when the names of parties to a suit are called, they must now stand up and say, “ Here, Sir.” It used to be sufficient to stand up, but as Mr. Guinness pointedly remarked to a defendant wbo had stood up, “ Standing up is > nothing, Sir! answer to your name, Sir !” and the defendant was of course duly dumfoundered at the rebuke, and felt uncomfortable for the next two hours. If any festive reader of my lucubrations is on the look out for a scene, I should strongly recommend him to peg out a claim between the Somerset Hotel and Montgomery's buildings, that is the convincing ground of this great and "lorioua city." I do a saunter around that corner sometimes, and often meet my friends on the look out for a gossip in that part of the town. It is, however, very discreditable to Montgomery and Co., or Josh Tucker, or some of their tenants to have their glass smashed in such a reckless manner as they have lately. Last Saturday a dog came through one window and the verandah, and a day or two afterwards a distinguished cavalry officer came through another, but a kind friend, (whose) so obliging when you go
to pay for a bag of coal or ask for a subscription for Cliiniquy, happened to catch the lieutenant just as lie was on the point of dropping on the glass verandah. There have been many instances in my knowledge, where the Humane Society’s medal lias been awarded for the salvation of lives far less valuable than our commander of the local horse marines. May bo long live to give the battle cry of that Ilk, “Charge Chester charge. On Stanley on,” and Barney will see you through it(i.e), the window. Since writing the above, a glazier attempting to mend the broken pane, at 3 p.m. this afternoon finished the business by going through,the verandah, and after doing a suspension trick for some time lie was quietly landed on the footpath by a Samaritan passingby, and will probably find an outlet for some of his spare panes. The show of vegetables was a great sight to-day. I don’t know a petunia from a lobelia, but 1 was shown a splendid cauliflower, which I w.is informed by a distinguished horticulturist, was one of the pelargonium breed ; lie gave me a long pedigree of the vegetable, and made use of such a string of dog lathi on the subject that I requested him to produce the stud book to convince me. His look of horror at the idea of such a literary production having been published, was a sufficient notice for me to leave his company, more especially as I saw one of his legs gyrating around in the direction of my body. Anyhow, the flowers were pretty, and I thoughtlessly plucked a specimen and was promptly collared ; I felt it hard too, when inspecting Savage’s poaches that they were only to bo looked at, they seemed so luscious and tempting, that petty larceny on such an occasion ought to be looked upon as a virtue. My next venture was feeling if the grapes were ripe, and then yorrs truly was incontinently run out without further notice. The following is Chispa’s Sum for This Were. A cutting has to be excavated and an embankment formed with a portion of the earth taken out, and the balance goes to spoil. The dimensions are as follows ; Base of cutting, 14 feet ; slopes, to 1; depth at start, ‘6 feet; at finish, 41 "22 feet; length, G 2 -55 chains. Embankment on top, 14 feet; slope, li to 1 ; depth at start, 37 ‘9O feet; at end, - 0; length, 42 - 78 chains. State the number of cube yards in the cutting, the number of cube yards in embankment, and quantitythrown to spoil, if any, and width of cutting and embankment at extreme depths. The prize will be awarded to the bona fide pupil of any school in the County who woi'ks the sum out correctly by the shortest method. Prize awarded on Saturdays, March 13th. Chihpa.
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The gay marriage paradox: as acceptance rises, so do legal barriers
President Obama's embrace of gay marriage mirrors growing support among many Americans, but states continue to ban it. The US Supreme Court could play a key role.
Washington — When President Obama came out in favor of gay marriage on May 9 – the first time an American president had made such a declaration – he electrified a long-roiling debate.
To gay-marriage supporters, the right to marry confers public acknowledgment that a same-sex union is normal and legitimate. It also serves as a protection to gay couples and their children.
To opponents, same-sex marriage is a violation of nature that goes against thousands of years of human history and, to some, signals a decline of civilization. For many opponents, it is an affront to God.
Then there’s the murky middle, people who may be evolving in their views, as Mr. Obama was until recently, but still aren’t sure where to land.
Obama’s public shift also shined a light on an apparent disconnect: growing public support for gay marriage even as legal barriers have grown around it. Support for same-sex marriage has risen substantially since 2003, when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize it. About half of Americans support it, up from about a third just 10 years ago, polls show.
But the advent of gay marriage in Massachusetts had another effect: Alarmed, conservative activists started putting the issue before voters. So far, they have succeeded in curbing it every time. Including North Carolina’s vote May 8, voters in 31 states have approved constitutional amendments against same-sex marriage; another 10 states have statutory bans. In six states – all in the Northeast except for Iowa – and the District of Columbia, gay marriage is legal. Others allow civil unions and other forms of domestic partnership.
The map is still sorting itself out. In November, voters in Maine and Minnesota, and likely Maryland and Washington – all states that voted for Obama in 2008 – will face ballot measures on gay marriage. With some, if not all, supporters of gay marriage have a shot at ending their losing streak.
Rhode Island, which allows civil unions but not gay marriage, now recognizes gay marriages performed in other states. In the next few years, a few more states are expected to approve constitutional bans as others work to undo theirs. Hanging over this emerging patchwork is the US Supreme Court, with multiple cases heading to its doorstep.
The pace of change has been dizzying. When Brian Powell, a sociologist at Indiana University in Bloomington, began interviewing Americans nationwide in 2003 for a book on attitudes toward gay marriage, discomfort with the topic was palpable.
“Many people would lower their voice when they would say the word ‘gay,’ as if they were talking about a disease,” says Mr. Powell, co-author of “Counted Out: Same-sex Relations and Americans’ Definitions of Family.”
By the last round of interviews, in 2010, the hushed tones had diminished. And more interviewees reported having a gay friend or relative. “How do you have an increase in gay relatives?” he says. “People had become more open.”
Powell also believes that, ironically, social conservatives helped remove the taboo around discussion of gay rights: All the advocacy to protect traditional marriage kept the issue in public consciousness, he says, making discussion more routine.
The news media and the film and television industry have also been influential. Same-sex wedding announcements now appear regularly in newspapers. When Vice President Joe Biden revealed May 6 that he was “absolutely comfortable” with gay marriage – forcing Obama’s hand on the matter – he cited the influence of “Will & Grace.” The TV sitcom, which ran from 1998 to 2006, was about a straight woman and her gay best friend, but it did not involve gay marriage.
Still, “Will & Grace” paved the way for today’s “Modern Family,” the most popular show on TV, which includes a family headed by two men. Portrayals of gay relationships on TV are now so routine that the mainstream media almost yawn.
Among social conservative activists, the news media and entertainment world are a big part of the problem – especially when it comes to the most striking result in polls: the generational split among Evangelicals. A survey last year by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 44 percent of white evangelical Millennials – those between ages 18 and 29 – favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry, compared with 19 percent of white Evangelicals overall.
Fighting the tide
Advocates for traditional marriage aren’t surprised.
“Three institutions very strongly promote acceptance of homosexuality: the education establishment – both higher ed and K through 12 – and also the news media and entertainment media,” says Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council in Washington. “So I find when I talk to students, they’ve rarely ever heard the arguments against same-sex marriage. All they’ve ever grown up with is the arguments in favor. It’s difficult for them to overcome that conditioning.”
But Mr. Sprigg doesn’t believe young adults can’t come to a more conservative position on the matter. After all, he says, people get more conservative as they age. In addition, conservatives tend to have larger families, which over time could help shift public opinion. He also doesn’t buy the argument that federal recognition of gay marriage is inevitable.
“Don’t underestimate the strength of the bulwark that social conservatives have put up through the passage of now-31 state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” Sprigg says. “The only way we’re likely to see same-sex marriage nationwide in the near future is if the US Supreme Court were to impose it, by declaring it to be a constitutional right.”
“I can’t rule out that possibility,” he adds, “but I’m cautiously optimistic that they will not do that.”
Still, an analysis of public opinion toward same-sex marriage shows the challenge conservatives face. Majorities in 16 states now support gay marriage, says Gregory B. Lewis, a public policy professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Even Massachusetts didn’t have majority support when the state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2003 for same-sex marriage. In 2011, Massachusetts topped the list with 67 percent support.
Support has risen in every state, Mr. Lewis reports – even Mississippi, which is at the bottom with 19 percent. But that’s up from 14 percent in 2004. In 2011 California, which voted against gay marriage four years ago via a measure known as Proposition 8, registered near the top nationally in its support of same-sex marriage, at 55 percent.
“It seems clear that if California were to redo Prop. 8, it would lose this time,” Lewis says.
For Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis (no relation) – a couple who married in San Francisco during a brief period in 2004 when gay marriages were allowed, then again in 2008 – the one consolation in the ongoing battle over Prop. 8 is that it did not retroactively invalidate their marriage.
Attitudes have changed, says Mr. Lewis, who recalls a nurse asking, “Who are you?” when he accompanied Mr. Gaffney and his mother to a hospital emergency room a decade ago. Today, the explanation would be much easier, he says. He also points to his 15-year-old niece in Chicago as a sign of how times have changed.
“It’s absolutely normal to her to have two uncles who are married,” Lewis says.
Kathy Bush and Mary Ritchie, too, have seen acceptance of same-sex relationships grow. The couple, living together in Framingham, Mass., since 1991 and married since 2004, have two sons, ages 11 and 13.
The women say they’ve experienced largely supportive relations with neighbors, co-workers, and other parents at school. Ms. Bush, a stay-at-home mom whose duties include providing shuttle service to baseball and soccer games, will head the parent-teacher organization at their sons’ middle school this fall. Ms. Ritchie, a state trooper, serves on a school council.
The two have also joined a legal battle to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Under federal law, Ritchie says, their marriage “means nothing,” noting that there are some 1,000 protections to which she and her family are not entitled.
Take federal taxes. Because they are not married in the eyes of Washington, they cannot file a joint return. The distinction has cost them some $35,000 in extra federal taxes since 2004, they say. “That’s a lot to us,” Bush says. That’s money that could go into a college fund for the boys, she says.
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Until this summer, few people outside the R&B music scene knew who Robin Thicke was. Then came his new song “Blurred Lines” and an unrated online video to promote it.
“You the hottest b---- in this place!” Thicke sings, as topless models playfully dance around him.
The video has stirred a debate, with detractors complaining that it’s too racy and degrading to women.
Thicke insists he meant no offense — and the song, meanwhile, has become the No. 1 hit of the summer.
Certainly in pop culture, pushing the limits of what’s considered appropriate is hardly new. Back in the roaring 1920s, young women of the “flapper” generation raised eyebrows. In the 1950s, Elvis gyrated and caused a ruckus.
In the 1970s, comedian George Carlin joked about “The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” quickly listing them in a social commentary about the pitfalls of censorship.
Singling out those few words seems almost quaint in an era when just about any kind of uncensored content is easily accessible from a mobile phone, a tablet, or on less regulated cable and Internet TV or satellite radio. Media experts say broadcast TV and mainstream radio have, in turn, tried to keep up by airing saucier content to try to retain dwindling audiences. Many see this free flow of content as progress — a victory for freedom of expression in an uptight society.
But for many parents, it also can be difficult to try to keep their kids from pop culture offerings they don’t consider age appropriate.
Do they filter it as best they can? Laugh it off? Use it as a teachable moment? Demand more limits?
And if they do the latter, who gets to decide what those limits are, anyway — since what’s appropriate to one person might not be to another?
“It’s a conundrum,” says Kirsten Bischoff, a mom in Springfield, N.J., who’s also co-founder of HatchedIt.com, an online social network for families
Bischoff recalls wincing during a car ride last year as her then 13-year-old daughter and a young friend belted out the song “Whistle” by rapper Flo Rida. The girls had no idea the song was about fellatio.
Mom decided to say nothing so they wouldn’t ask questions. But she later fretted about her decision on her online blog, where other parents told her they’d faced similar dilemmas.
“Lord, I’m turning into Tipper Gore,” Bischoff later joked, fearing people would compare her to the former second lady, who campaigned to get the music industry to put warning labels on content with explicit lyrics.
Gore got some support but became the object of ridicule and a few protest songs, including rapper Ice T’s 1989 song “Freedom of Speech” in which he, too, used the b-word to refer to Gore and other profanities to make his point.
It’s true that those who question any kind of content risk being called a prude, or a censor. That’s partly because history has shown that efforts to curb allegedly “indecent” content can fail, or look misguided in hindsight, says Susan Mackey-Kallis, an associate professor of communication at Villanova University.
In 1930, Hollywood adopted the Motion Picture Production Code, a list of moral standards for the film industry.
Among other things, the code — which was abandoned in the 1960s for the current rating system — forbade showing interracial sexual relationships, scenes of childbirth, “in fact or in silhouette,” or anything about sexual hygiene or sexually transmitted diseases. It also was implied that gay content should not be shown.
“Looking at a list like this today, it is amazing to think how far we have come,” Mackey-Kallis says.
While religious or political figures have often weighed in with moral arguments, today a decision to limit content is as likely to be a business decision.
Credit card companies and the banks that oversee their transactions use web-crawling and other investigative techniques to search for questionable content. They do not, for instance, allow payments for goods or services that are related to any illegal sexual acts — or that might even depict rape or exploitation of a minor. But beyond clearly illegal acts, they also reserve the right to steer clear of any content they feel reflects poorly on their brands.
Ultimately, however, it is the courts that determine what is obscene, a term reserved in the legal system for sexually explicit content that meets certain criteria.
The U.S. Supreme Court has based its definition of obscenity on “community standards” and these three factors:
- Does the work appeal to “prurient,” or excessively sexual, interests?
- Does it “depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law?”
- And does the work lack “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value?”
“It’s clearly very tough to prove. What’s obscene to some may be artful dancing to others,” says Robert Pondillo, a professor of mass media history and American culture at Middle Tennessee State University who wrote the book “America’s First Network TV Censor.”
And, he notes, the courts have not tended to limit language, which generally falls under free speech protection. Media that is broadcast on the airwaves — network television and radio, for instance — is still somewhat limited, though not as much as some parents would like.
Determining what’s acceptable is further complicated by the fact that online life has changed the notion of the “community standard.”
“We’re an increasingly connected society, so we’re no longer divided by our (physical) communities,” says David Gudelunas, a communication professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
Now, those communities are often online, stretching across continents and age brackets to bring together people with common interests.
Take 33-year-old Ben Tao. He was an engineering student in Los Angeles when he discovered a “niche” in the adult film industry. Crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, he learned, didn’t allow the creators of sexually oriented projects to post those projects to seek funding.
So he started Offbeatr, a fundraising site for creators of adult films and content.
His site is aimed at people age 18 and older. Those who propose projects for funding must prove their age, though he concedes it’s impossible to monitor the age of everyone who visits the site.
Of course, parents can use filters to keep their children from the content, he says.
But he concedes, “I think it’s a hard battle to fight if you’re trying to say, ‘I’m going to protect against every single thing.’”
Therein is the dilemma. Should society err on the side of free access, even if it means children might encounter inappropriate content? Or do you set limits on online access to pornography, for instance, unless a household requests that access, as British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to do?
Should radio stations err on the side of a playing “clean” versions of songs? Should cable companies be more careful about airing age appropriate content during daytime hours?
And for that matter, should an artist such as Nicki Minaj worry if an 8-year-old learns the words to a song that talks about selling cocaine and “panties comin’ off”? A couple years ago, the parents of Sophia Grace Brownlee, a young British girl, made a video of her rapping and singing Minaj’s song “Super Bass.”
Deemed “cute” and “adorable” by the video’s many viewers on YouTube, Sophia Grace later performed the song on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show, where she has since become a regular.
Minaj herself seemed a tad uncomfortable when she appeared on the show with Sophia Grace and urged the girl to sing a tamer part of the song.
But Jeffrey McCall, a media studies professor at DePauw University in Indiana, says he’s not surprised that few others questioned whether a kid this age should perform the song, or even have access to it.
“The entertainment industry has a huge role in deciding what is culturally OK, and society will often take (its) lead,” says McCall, author of the book “Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Influence.”
Even Pat Cooper, a comedian who knew George Carlin, sees a difference between the late comic’s “Seven Words” skit and much of the material he hears today.
Carlin “was saying, ‘Let’s express ourselves. Be a human being,’” says Cooper, who’s 85 and lives in New York City. Too often now, Cooper says, vulgarity on stage and elsewhere is used for shock value alone.
“We don’t want to think anymore. So instead of thinking we just curse out what we want to say,” Cooper says.
Jeanne Achille, who heads a New Jersey public relations firm, cites a recent story as another example of this problem: the media’s summer obsession with New York politician Anthony Weiner and his habit of sending lewd photos of himself to women.
“Sadly,” she says, the coverage “validates ... our society’s tolerance for ingesting everything and anything with no sense of what to filter and no ability to put boundaries in place — whether sensationalistic news delivered 24/7, huge quantities of bad food also available 24/7, or horrible television programs featuring stupid, foul-mouthed people.”
But she’s found her way to deal with it and suggests others do the same.
“Not to sound like Nancy Reagan, but, ‘Just say no.,’” Achille says. “I’m at a point in life where I’ve finally learned that I can shut it out and don’t need to participate when it doesn’t suit me.”
For an individual decision, that can work fine. But, again, what about when it comes to raising a teen today?
Bischoff, the mom in New Jersey, feels powerless to filter out all the inappropriate content.
“There’s no way to shelter a kid anymore, unless we home-school her and go live in the woods somewhere,” she says. “The only thing I can think of to do as a mom is to try to stay ahead of it . with talk, talk and more talk.”
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Let’s Talk Witch – The God and Goddess
The Goddess and the God are everything and everywhere. They are the sun, the moon, the sky, the oceans, ants, flowers, nature, everything. You can see their splendor in a sunset, a child, a tree, in the stars; it’s everywhere, you just have to look and see it. They reveal themselves quite often in the most simplest forms. That seems quite a contradiction to what I just said about them being complex, but it’s true. Take a walk in the woods, or look at a butterfly, you’ll see it. The Goddess and The God are inherent in nature, and since they are so entwined in nature, we have to treat nature with just as much respect as we would a divine being.
The Goddess and the God as being part of the same being, just different aspects of that being. “Goddess”, refers to the female, creative aspect of that being. Both The Goddess and The God are equal, neither deserving more respect than the other. When you start focusing on just The Goddess, or just The God, things become unbalanced and unnatural. The ideal is a perfect balance of both energies. They are all of the deities that have ever existed, and the ones that will exist.
All the different gods and goddesses of all the different religions are the same being; almost but not quite the same idea as the 99 names of Allah, each name refers to a different aspect of that God. When you call the Goddess by the name of Bridget or Margawse, you are calling upon those aspects of The Goddess.
The Goddess is the universal mother. She is fertility, endless wisdom and love. She is all aspects of nature, harmful and helpful. Wiccans acknowledge both aspects of Her nature.
The Goddess has three aspects; The Maiden (Anu, Elaine, Blodeuwedd), The Mother (Badb, Arianrhod, Margawse), and The Crone (Morgan LeFey, Cerridwen, Macha). The Maiden is innocence, Springtime, renewal, youth, dawn and the continuation of all life. The Mother is the richness of life, nurturing, Summer, the day and a teacher. The Crone is darkness, night, the rest before the continuation of life, wisdom, counsel and reincarnation. Each of these aspects shows different stages of a women’s life, and each can be placed with the phases of the moon; The Maiden being the waxing moon, The Mother the full moon and The Crone the waning moon.
The Goddess of the Wicca is the Great Goddess. She is the Ground of Being, the Mother of All Living; the Creatrix, and the Destroyer, for She is ever Dual. She is the Earth Mother, the Lady of the Moon, and the Star Goddess. She is Queen of Heaven, Queen of Earth, and Queen of the Underworld. She is the Triple Goddess: the Virgin, the Bride, and the Hag, called the Three Mothers in Celtic regions.
The three aspects of the Triple Goddess are usually described as the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone; it must be remembered that the connotations of age associated with those titles derive from the experience of humans, who are subject to age and death; the Goddess is eternal: ever-changing and ever self-renewing, She will be young or old as She pleases.
As the Virgin, She is the Creatrix, the Lady of Birth and Death, the Star Goddess, the Queen of Heaven, the Giver of Inspiration, the Initiatrix.
She is Diana, Lady of the Moon and the Wild Things, Ever Virgin unto Pan: virgin unto the All, and therefore wed to None.She is also the Virgin Mother; and Her blue and white colors, and title “Queen of Heaven”, were borrowed by the Catholic Church for the Virgin Mary. Hers are the Waxing Moon, Venus as Morning and Evening Star, and all the vast starry realm; Her sacred color is White.
As the Bride, She is the Preserver, the Lady of Growth and Fertility, the Earth Mother, the Goddess of flocks and herds, Lady of Love and Fruitfulness and the fertility of the land; as Goddess of the Land She is also the Goddess of Sovereignty, and it is only by Sacred Marriage to Her that the King holds the right to the Throne. Hers are the Full Moon, the Earth, fruits and flocks and fields; Her sacred color is Red.
As the Hag, She is the Destroyer, the Lady of Decay and Death, the Goddess of Night and the Underworld, and also the cave and the tomb. For that which is born must also age, and decay, and die; and out of that which is dead and decaying arises new fertility, for life feeds ever on life. She is the Sow who eats Her own young, the “Nightmare Fertility and Death in One”, the Great Necessity by which the food chain and the cycle of life continue. Hence She is also the Goddess of regeneration. Hers is the Waning Moon, the dark night, the silence of the shadows, the midnight crossroads, and the wailing of the widow; Her sacred color is Black.
The Goddess is the Queen of all Witcheries: She is the Enchantress, the Shape-Changer; She is Isis, the “Lady of the Words of Power”; She is Cerridwen, the Sorceress at Her Cauldron; She is Hecate, the Mistress of the Magick of the Dark Moon. She is the Great Lady. She is the Goddess.
The God of the Wicca is the Horned God, the ancient God of Fertility: the God of forest, flock, and field and also of the hunt. He is Lord of Life, and the Giver of Life, yet He is also Lord of Death and Resurrection. For, like the Goddess, the nature of Her Horned Consort is also dual. For the Horned God is not only the Hunter, He is also the Hunted; He is the Sun by day, but He is also the Sun at Midnight; He is the Lord of Light, but He is also the Lord of Darkness: the darkness of night, the darkness of the Shadows, the darkness of the depths of the forest, the darkness of the depths of the Underworld.
The Horned God is the group soul of the hunted animal, invoked by the primitive shaman and the tribe: and as such, He is the Sacrificial Victim, the beast who is slain that the tribe might live, a gift from that group soul, who was often revered as the tribal totem or ancestral spirit. The Celts believed they were the descendents of the God of the Underworld, who was also the God of Fertility: the Latinized form of His name was Cernunnos, which means simply, the Horned One.
The Horned God is also the spirit of vegetation, of the green and growing things, whether of the vine or of the forest or of the field. Dionysus, Adonis, and many other vegetation and harvest Gods were all often depicted as horned, wearing the horns of the bull, the goat, the ram, or the stag: of whichever of the horned beasts was held sacred in that place and time. This aspect is the Dying and Resurrecting God who dies with the harvest and is rent asunder, as the grain is gathered in the fields; who is buried, as is the seed; who then springs forth anew, fresh and green and young, in the spring, reborn from the Womb of the Great Mother.
The Horned God is Osiris, who was often depicted with the horns of a bull. Osiris was believed to be incarnate in a succession of sacred bulls, and worshipped in that form as the god Apis. This was yet another form and manifestation of Osiris as the God of Fertility and also of Death and Resurrection. And Osiris bears the marks of a lunar, rather than a solar god, for Set tears the body of Osiris into fourteen pieces, the number of days of the waning moon; and then Isis, the Great Mother, gathers those pieces together and restores Osiris to life again.
The Horned God is the Great God Pan, the Goat-foot God with a human torso and a human but goat-horned head, the God whose ecstatic worship was so hated by the Church that they used His description for their “Devil” and called Him the lord of all evil. Yet, to the ancients who worshipped Him, and to the modern Pagans and Witches that worship Him still, “Pan is greatest, Pan is least. Pan is all, and all is Pan.”
The Horned God is not “the Devil”, except to those who fear and reject Nature, and the Powers of Life and human sexuality, and the ecstasy of the human spirit. The Horned God is the God of the Wicca. | <urn:uuid:6c5ffc5a-c01e-437f-8349-9e97c9ea21f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://witchesofthecraft.com/2017/05/31/lets-talk-witch-the-god-and-goddess/ | 2017-08-24T02:51:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886126027.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824024147-20170824044147-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.962145 | 1,888 |
Greetings gamers and gamers to be! I am Kaber Duhn, your DM, and guide through the world of fantasy role playing. For seventeen years now, I have been both a role player and a dungeon master, and yet, the excitement of it all never ceases to amaze me. Follow me while I take you upon a journey, a journey into the imagination. Remember to grab your backpack, pencils, paper and dice for who knows when we will be able to stop for supplies. Come, come, time is awasting.
ADnD, or Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, is among one of the most popular Table-Top RPG or Role-Playing Games today. Most of you are familiar with the term RPG but for those who are not, RPG is defined as:
Most RPGs today are found in video game titles played on PC, Playstation or other similar game systems. In these games the GM, or Game Master, is played by the computer and the player becomes the main character or characters in a preprogrammed story line.
Table-Top gaming is quite different, as you are interacting with real people, not computer or video game generated ones. Here the GM or DM, Dungeon Master, creates a story line, a plot that other players interact within. The whole thing is done with paper and pencil, a lot of imagination and the rolling of dice to simulate random events. While there are a variety of different types of Role Playing Games we will focus on one aspect, the fantasy RPG, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.
Dungeons and Dragons Creator Gary Gygax was born on July 27, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois. The son of German immigrants, he began playing games at the age five, starting with card games and then chess. First taught to play by his mother, his discovery of fantasy and science fiction through the works of pulp author, such as Jack Vance and Robert E. Howard, would ignite in him twin obsessions that have defined his life from that point onward -- fantasy and gaming. Those loves would eventually combine in the creation of Dungeons & Dragons, the father of role-playing games.
Gygax and Don Kaye, later joined by Blume and Arneson, formed their own company in 1973 which they named Tactical Studies Rules, after a local gaming club called the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association. This company was formed to market the "fantasy war game to be played with paper and pencil" that they renamed Dungeons & Dragons (after a suggestion by Gygax's wife, Mary).
The game first appeared at the 1973 EasterCon, had a limited availability throughout 1973, and the first print run of 1,000 copies was officially released (in a white box) in January of 1974. It sold out within the year. The game consisted of three booklets: Men and Magic, Monsters and Treasure, and Wilderness & Dungeon Adventures. It was also recommended that owners get a copy of Chainmail as well as the Avalon Hill game, Outdoor Survival.
There were three classes: Fighting Man, Magic-User, and Cleric. The terms were intentionally vague and much research was done to prevent putting anything into the game that actually resembled real-world magic systems. The authors eventually decided to base the game's magic system on the fantasy writings of Jack Vance. There were also four different races: human, dwarf, hobbit, and elf. Objections and legal complaints from the Tolkien estate caused the "hobbit" race to be changed to the "halfling" race later.
When the game started getting somewhat popular after the first year or so, they decided to publish some of the details of their own campaigns along with some expansion rules for the game. This product was the original Greyhawk . It introduced the Thief character class and had notes on magic, monsters, and more. Then they published Blackmoor, which introduced the Monk and Assassin classes and included the very first module: Temple of the Frog. Then came Eldritch Wizardry, which introduced the Druid class and psionics. The last book of this series was Gods, Demigods, and Heroes, which listed several pantheons for use with the game.
In 1975, Arneson and Gygax parted ways, and Don Kaye had a fatal heart attack. Kaye's wife decided, along with Gygax and Blume, to break up the company. Gygax and Blume went on to create TSR Hobbies, Inc. later that year.
At this point, the game was comprised of many rules spread throughout numerous books, supplements, and magazines. In addition, Gygax had amassed a pile of campaign notes and new rules that he wished to add to the game. It was decided that a new edition of the game should be released, but instead of calling it a second edition and discontinuing the first, TSR launched Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. This expanded and updated version commenced with the release of the Monster Manual in 1977. It was followed in 1978 by the Player's Handbook and in 1979 by the Dungeon Master's Guide. In 1997, Wizards of the Coast, Inc., publishers of the wildly popular Magic: The Gathering? trading card game, acquired TSR. In 2000, Wizards of the Coast published the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, the wholly reworked successor to 2nd edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Basic Dungeons and Dragons.
As you can see, ADnD has quite a history. You can find a complete Time Line in the history of ADnD at DnD Archives
Now you know a little about ADnD. But what is it really like? How do you play? The answer is right here. While this is not by far, a step by step process it should give you an idea. The game uses a system of Dice of various numbers. A 20 sided dice, or d20, a 12 sided dice, d12, a d10, d8, d6, and a d4. The original DnD only had 6 dice. These dice sets can be picked up at your local game store either individually or together and they vary in prices depending on the type and material of the die. It can be just as much fun collecting the various die as playing the game.
Oh, ok so you have paper, you have a pen or pencil and you went out and got some dice......now what? Well, there are several methods to writing up a character, but they all have the same things in common: a character name, a class and a race. The class represents a characters profession, so to speak. Be they fighters, wizards, thieves, clerics, bards or specialty classes such as Ranger, which is a subclass of the fighter.
While there are several races to choose from the game is biased. Humans are the center of the universe or at least, they have the ability to reach farther than most other races. Still, each race has their oun advantages. Elves are immune to some spells and can see in the dark. Halflings are harder to hit and can be very quiet. Dwarves are tougher and stronger than most races. Half breeds combine some of the abilities of one race with another, though the abilities are diluted. Usually dice are rolled to figure out Ability Scores. These are the numbers that show how strong, or fast, or smart your character is. They often appear in an abbreviated form such as STR for Strength, or DEX for Dexterity. There are six abilities. Strength. Dexterity. Constitution. Intelligence. Wisdom and Charisma. All these things thus far, combined, shape a characters personality and abilities. It is now up to the player, and the DM, to breathe life into the character through role play.
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Being a Dungeon Master or DM can be very rewarding, but it also comes with a certain amount of responsibility. You, the DM, must not only keep track of the story you tell (the places and events that happen, the Non-Player Characters, or NPC?s, and how they effect the story) but you must also keep track of how your players play. You must keep in balance a story that is exciting, humorous and challenging while making sure your players do not get too powerful or are kept too weak. Also, while this is a game, and only a game, some people become so enraptured by the fantasy world that they take it with them when they leave the table. You must be certain that you do not encourage activities that are game related to be taken outside of the the game. And still, to be a good DM you must study the real world to learn how things should interact in the game world.
Magic is a prevalent factor in ADnD, but it in no way reflects how magic works in the real world. And it shouldn?t. As in ADnD, there are people with different world views. Some believe in a god or multiple gods or no god at all, but if you or someone you know worships a deity in the real world, even if it is represented in the ADnD books, you should know that beyond the name, the similarities should end. ADnD IS A FANTASY GAME, NOT REALITY. While it may portray things that happen in the real world, you, as the DM, must be certain that the players understand it is only fantasy. Only a game. With that in mind, it should be noted that there are many different styles of play. 'Hack and Slash' or Role playing are the two main styles. If you find a good combination of both then you will do well, but many still prefer to dungeon crawl and 'hack and slash' then Role Playing or RPing. Practice makes perfect and soon you will know what your players prefer. There are many pre-published adventures available for various levels. As all characters should start at level 1 you will have plenty of time to learn as they grow.
I present to you here, two examples of the games I DM. Simply follow the links to HACK AND SLASH or my CORE GROUP. If you would like more information on ADnD, how to play or where to get supplies, visit Wizards of the Coast Here you can also find information about MAGIC: The Gathering which I also happen to enjoy, but that is for another day and another page. | <urn:uuid:cd7126a7-bfe1-47e5-b82d-923fbcc15f88> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://ladywinterwolf.fcpages.com/dnd.html | 2017-08-17T05:48:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102967.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170817053725-20170817073725-00240.warc.gz | en | 0.971014 | 2,115 |
I normally wait until after church to post my sermon, but I’m doing it early today, given it’s time-sensitive nature. The recording will be up later.
My text is Matthew 18:21-35.
To be perfectly honest, I’ve been dreading this sermon all year, ever since I learned that today’s date would fall on a Sunday and I would have to get up into this pulpit and say something meaningful. I wasn’t sure whether I should just ignore the day and preach the lectionary text from Matthew or cut whatever else we had planned for today and just focus on what I know is on everyone’s mind. After agonizing over it all year, I can’t really think of any other way to begin except by coming right out and saying it:
Today’s date is the 11th of September. And we’ve come together this morning to remember something important that happened. Some of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when the news of this event first struck us speechless while others have simply grown up hearing about it. It was a great injustice. It was a horrifying spectacle that still leaves us in shock and awe. For days afterward, people could do little else than huddle together behind closed doors and drawn curtains. They held each other and sobbed, knowing that, whatever else they had hoped their future might be, it had now changed forever. It was a watershed moment that defined who we are as people. The very worst in the human race came face to face with the very best in the human race. The events of that day brought us together as a community like nothing else ever could. More than any other before or after it, this event taught us to admire and respect and love those individuals who lay down their lives and make the ultimate sacrifice for the benefit of others. Because of that which we remember this morning, none of us will ever be the same ever again.
The event that I am describing here is not the attack on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 that took place ten years ago today. The event that I’m describing here is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Before I go on, I feel like I should pause and tell you that I’m not trying to be flippant or witty about the events of September 11, 2001. Nor am I trying to disrespect the memory of a national tragedy by twisting it into an opportunity for religious proselytism. What I’m trying to do is reflect on who we are as Christians and human beings on this particular day. I want to take the smaller events of our personal stories and understand them in the larger context of God’s big Story.
The cross is one of the most universally recognizable symbols in the world. Ask almost anyone, regardless of their religious affiliation, to name one Christian symbol and most people will probably mention the cross. More than any other event in history, what happened on the cross shows us who we are as followers of the way of Christ.
On the night of his wrongful arrest, Jesus assured Peter that he had the power to call down legions of warrior angels to annihilate the world in his defense. However, we know that Jesus didn’t do that. Instead, Jesus looked down from the cross at his executioners and prayed, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”
Most of us who read that story with the benefit of two thousand years’ distance find this gesture admirable but also pitiful. “It’s a generous sentiment,” we say, “but you can’t live that way. It wouldn’t work! People would walk all over you!” We don’t believe there is any actual power in Jesus’ prayer, so we dismiss this noble gesture as a product of his divinity and proceed to hide behind a comfortable curtain of systematic theology in which we benefit from the effects of that forgiveness without ever actually having to experience it.
But Jesus doesn’t let us off the hook that easily. Teaching about forgiveness in today’s gospel reading from Matthew 18, Jesus assures us that the only way to remain assured of God’s forgiveness is to give forgiveness away. “Blessed are the merciful,” Jesus says, “for they will receive mercy.”
The passage begins with a legitimate question from Peter about the reasonable limits of forgiveness. He says, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus’ response is ridiculous and shocking, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.” He then tells a cautionary tale about two people: one with an impossibly large debt and another with a trivial one. The first debtor owes ten thousand talents to the creditor. How much is that in today’s terms? Well, a “talent” is a term of measurement. The parable doesn’t tell us exactly what was being measured but, for the sake of argument, let’s assume that we’re talking about talents of gold. Let’s use today’s gold price ($1,855.15 per ounce) times 16 ounces in a pound times 71 pounds in a talent times ten thousand talents, and we end up with a debt of $21,074,504,000. That’s how much this first person owed. That’s how much debt the creditor forgave!
The second debtor owed one hundred denarii. A denarius was equivalent to a day’s wages for a laborer. Let’s put that in today’s terms using New York state’s current minimum wage. That’s $7.25 an hour times eight hours in a workday times one hundred days, and we get $5,800. This person’s lending firm received a twenty-one billion dollar bailout yet foreclosed on a debt of less than six thousand dollars. According to Jesus, those are some messed up priorities.
The unmerciful servant in this parable was a person who was adamantly unwilling to look at the smaller issue of the debt he was owed in relation to the massive debt he was forgiven. He would not understand the smaller events of his personal story in the larger context of God’s Story. Forgiven people have an obligation to spread their amnesty over as wide a field as possible. Otherwise, they are only robbing themselves. The paradoxical irony of heaven’s economy is that those who keep forgiveness for themselves will lose it while those who give it away will keep it forever.
But forgiveness is also a dangerous business. It is demonstrably true that one cannot guarantee economic security or national defense on a consistent doctrine of forgiveness. Just look at Jesus himself. When he prayed, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” he did not speak from the comfort of heaven’s glorious throne. No, he forced those words out as he hung from the cross, bleeding and dying. Jesus was a failed revolutionary who was branded as a “terrorist” by those who were fighting to protect their own national security and traditional family values. One can imagine the Centurions and the Pharisees laughing at Jesus when they heard him say this. His position at the time would have served as incontrovertible proof that forgiveness “does not work” as a strategy. A few may have admired him for it, but everyone still walked away shaking their heads after this forgiving Messiah finally fell silent.
But you and I know that’s not the end of the story. That night, they laid his body in a tomb and rested on the Sabbath. Then, on the first day of the week, early in the morning, a few brave women made their way to Jesus’ tomb and when they got there, they couldn’t believe their eyes! The stone had been rolled away from the entrance, the soldiers had passed out from fright, and angel stood in the entrance and asked, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here.”
Why not? “He is risen.” Today is the day that everything changes. Death itself has begun to work backwards. The dead come alive. The blind see. The deaf hear. The mute sing. The lame dance. The weak are strong. The foolish are wise. The first are now last and last are now first. The whole world is turning upside down. Or is it right side up?
We know for a fact that forgiveness does not work. Yet we believe in the truth beyond the facts. We believe it when the Bible says that “mercy triumphs over judgment” and “love covers a multitude of sins.” We believe it because that failed revolutionary who died in disgrace with forgiveness on his lips is now hailed as the most influential person in human history. His ridiculous message of forgiveness outlasted the culture that gave it birth and the Roman Empire that tried to suppress it. That message of forgiveness has now reached the shores of every continent on this planet and continues to spread as people like you and I choose to take our smaller personal stories and understand them in the larger context of God’s big Story. We take the small debts that we must forgive and hold them up next to the huge debt that has been forgiven us.
It is true that September 11, 2001 changed us. It was a horrifying spectacle and a tragic injustice. It brought us together as a community. We saw the very worst and the very best of humanity in action on that day. Our future will never be the same because of it. But September 11 does not dictate who we are. If we take the events of that one story and look at them in the context of God’s big Story, then we will be able to see that it is the cross of Jesus Christ, seen and understood in the light of his Resurrection, that shows us who we really are. As we move from our smaller stories to God’s big Story, which is what we do each week here in church, we will find all the strength we need for healing and yes, even forgiveness. | <urn:uuid:4df9da37-50aa-4065-a0d7-452be86ebfbb> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://hoppinghadrianswall.com/2011/09/11/my-september-11th-sermon/ | 2017-08-17T05:39:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102967.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170817053725-20170817073725-00240.warc.gz | en | 0.973531 | 2,163 |
Two people brought together by the same passion and a shared vision of a better way to train
Sam is an Irish international event rider who has competed up to CIC3* and represented his country at the FEI Young Rider European Championships.
Sam began riding at a local riding school as a young boy, along with his mother, Joyce, and older brother, Ian. As the years went on, Ian gradually lost interest but Sam was hooked and eventually progressed from Saturdays at the riding school to weekends at the home of Anne and Eamonn Kelly, who kept a small yard. Anne and Eamonn were friends of Sam's parents and gave Sam the opportunity to ride their children's former pony, 'Flipper'. Sam and Flipper joined the pony club and took part in every competition they could together, taking many rosettes along the way.
As Sam inevitably grew too tall for Flipper, he and his mother bought a horse to share between them, though during the summer Sam had more than his fair share of ridding as he and 'George' travelled the country from one Pony Club competition to another. They won many competitions together, competing in the Pony Club National Championships for dressage, showjumping and eventing, as well as inter-schools eventing and showjumping.
By this stage Sam was totally absorbed the equestrian world, not only as a rider but also as a horseman. He successfully progressed through the Pony Club exams, eventually achieving the highest standard awarded, The 'A Test'.
Sadly by 2004, in a reoccurring theme, Sam was also out-growing George, and they contested their final competition together at the prestigious SIlver Spurs Final. They were awarded one of three training bursaries, and took second place in the ride off. Marking the end of a very successful partnership.
Following much success at all the Pony Club disciplines, Sam was sure that eventing was his true passion, and began to look to affiliated competition with Eventing Ireland. After many months of searching for the right horse, and a few mistakes along the way, Sam was all but ready to give up on horses when along came Teldon, and they haven't looked back since.
Sam and Teldon instantly bonded and have progressed from Pony Club right through to international 3* level. They tackled their first novice together, travelled to the UK for the Pony Club Eventing Championships, finished 7th in their first ever international event in the CCI* at Necarne Castle, and travelled back to the UK to complete Weston Park CCI*, all in their first year together. From there they have gone on to compete at 2* level, represent Ireland in the FEI Young Rider European Eventing Championships, finishing 21st, and complete their first CIC3* at Barbury Castle in 2014.
Though Sam was achieving good results with Teldon, he was realistic about how difficult it was to get started in the equestrian industry and had no plans on becoming a full time Event Rider. Sam graduated from Wesley College Dublin in 2006 and progressed to third level education at the Dublin Institute of Technology, studying Architectural Technology. After graduating a conversation with Sam's father, Kevin, that sparked the idea of following his dream of becoming a professional Event Rider.
Within 3 days of his graduation ceremony Sam was on his way to the UK to take up a position at Queenholme Equestrian, home of fellow Irish event rider Mark Kyle, and his wife Tanya. Sam worked under Mark and Tanya for a full season, gaining a wealth of experience not just in the saddle, but in all aspects of running a professional yard, from yard management, to care of the horses, and competition scheduling to managing staff.
After leaving Queenholme, Sam took up a position at Woodland Farm, Wiltshire, where he was responsible for managing a private event yard under the guidance of Brazilian event rider Marcelo Tosi, who was also based at the yard.
It was during his time at Woodland Farm that Sam was approached by Julian Podger who was interested in buying some young horses to contest the BYEH classes. It proved to be a vital turning point for Sam, gaining his first client and eventually leading to the transition from being an employee to setting up his own yard. Julian has had horses with Sam ever since, supporting him as he started his own yard at Soley Farm Stud, and his move to a permanent base at Seven Bridges Farm where Sam and Júlia started D&L Performance Horses.
Júlia trained as a showjumper with international riders Serguei (Guega) Fofanoff and Yuri Mansur in Brazil before moving to the UK to focus on eventing.
Júlia has a life long affinity for all animals. At the age of nine she attended a BBQ with her mother and first witnessed somebody have a riding lesson. Júlia was entranced and immediately knew that was all she wanted to do. She promptly dropped her various other sporting activities and produced a list of equipment and riding schools for her parents!
Júlia started lessons at a local equestrian centre, Sociedade Hipica de Ribeirao Preto. Unlike riding schools in the UK and Ireland, Brazilian schools don't teach children on ponies, instead they put them straight on to horses. By age 10, less than a year after first sitting on a horse she was jumping a 17.2hh horse called 'Came'!
After four years at Sociedade Hipica de Ribeirao Preto moved to Escola de Equitacao Guega, home to Olympic event rider Serguei (Guega) Fofanoff and bought her first horse Fair Lady (Rica). Júlia spent every moment she could at Guega's yard, taking part in summer camps and learning about every aspect of horse management. They competed in many showjumping competitions all over the state of Sao Paulo, winning many trophies along the way.
Júlia trained regularly Guega and British based Brazilian rider Guto de Faria. Herself and Rica had a rare connection and the pair progressed quickly through the grades. Their crowning glory was winning the prestigious 'Campeonato Paulista', beating riders from all over the state in the 1.10m class, and being interviewed on TV.
Eventually RIca met her limit jumping and sadly Júlia had to make the tough decision to sell her and buy another horse to progress her riding. Júlia saw 'Palmar' at Guega's yard and was told he was 'not for every rider', immediately she decided to buy him! Palmar was an exceptional horse, with amazing power and scope. Júlia trained him from the age of four and, like Rica, they progressed quickly through the levels. At age seven, Palmar was jumping 1.30 tracks and they seemed unstoppable, however sadly it was not meant to be.
As Júlia left schooling 'real life' took hold, she moved to Sao Paulo city and began studying at university. She graduated with a degree in Administration and Marketing, and took a job in the marketing department of a fashion company, later moving to a publishing company. Júlia was forced to give up her riding during this time and sold Palmar. Palmar went on to great success, competing up to 1.60m and represented Brazil in a World Cup Qualifier.
In 2011, on a visit home to Ribeirao Preto, Júlia spotted 'Nicolae'. He would be the horse that changed everything. After eight years without riding suddenly her love for horses was reignited. Júlia decided to turn her back on what was proving to be a successful career in publishing, and follow her true passion. She left her life in Sao Paulo and returned to her home in Ribeirao Preto. Her former trainer, Guega, introduced her to a fellow Olympic eventer, Marcelo Tosi.
Marcelo was based in the UK and he invited Júlia to travel there where he would train her. To say the least, Ribeirao Preto to Marston, Wiltshire was a culture shock for Júlia, not only because of the 40C temperature drop in February! However, Júlia took it all in her stride and threw herself into this new way of life. It was here, in Woodland Farm, that Júlia first met Sam and they began dating.
While at Woodland Farm Júlia was given the ride on 'Rupert', one of the owners horses. He was a sensitive horse, but he gave Júlia her first taste of eventing in the UK and eventually finishing the season at Novice level.
Sadly Júlia could not stay in the UK without a visa, and was required to return to Brazil. Determined not to slip into her pervious life, nor lose valuable training time, Julia once again returned Sao Paulo, but this time to work for International showjumper Yuri Mansur.
In 2014 Júlia returned to the UK. Sam had since moved from Woodland Farm and started is own business. In 2015 Júlia applied for residency in the UK, allowing her to live and work here, and start D&L Performance Horses with Sam. | <urn:uuid:2b7bc977-1b2b-4e80-9d83-18df799c77d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.dlphorses.com/sam-and-julia/ | 2017-08-18T02:52:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886104560.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818024629-20170818044629-00320.warc.gz | en | 0.986197 | 1,925 |
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A short introduction, I’m Thron, a Resto-Druid and raidleader of Cobra, the raiding community that Spinks mentions here.
I’ve been raiding with Cobra since the community started up in Zul’Gurub and I’ve been a leader since Karazhan. As Spinks mentioned we’ve recently killed the Lich King and I wanted to share some thoughts on leading the Cobra community through eighteen months of raiding in Wrath, from the first boss in Naxx to our final victory atop the Frozen Throne.
Cobra was set up with the express intention of getting members of three guilds (Ashen Rose Conspiracy, Oathforged and The Red Branch) into content they would never see if they didn’t band together. In Wrath we wanted to progress more than we had in TBC, but also try, as hard as possible, to bring as many people with us on our journey. The goal was, of course, to have Arthas lying at our feet, but we knew it was going to be a very long road.
We benefited hugely from the company of some raiders from outside the three guilds who were looking for a more casual group than they’d been with in TBC, or those whose groups disbanded at some point during Wrath. Integration has been hard on occasion, making sure that we held true to our guiding aims, while trying to make sure people didn’t get bored. As all raidleaders will know, this is far from an easy task. It’s also something I’ll come back to later.
The raid pool has always hovered around fifty toons, but the composition and balance has varied greatly. There were times we thought we’d never want for healers and other times we’ve wondered if the hunters had a secret breeding programme going which would eventually overwhelm the group! To be fair, druids have always made up the biggest single class, but that has always seemed right and proper to me.
This has meant we’ve struggled at times and mostly we’ve been saved by folk who were willing to play more than one spec, but we’ve held fast to our rule of only allowing one toon per player, it’s kept things much more straightforward.
So, we started out in Naxx in January 2009, speeding our way through the bosses as most groups did, running up against our first roadblocks with the Four Horsemen and feeling very accomplished when Kel’Thuzad gave up his first Journey’s End, although that’s all we ever seemed to get from him. But clearly Naxx, easy as it was, showed us we could do it, at the appropriate gear level. According to the realm forums we were in or around the seventh Horde-side raid to clear the instance, a position we were to occupy most of the way through the expansion, with a few notable exceptions. This gave the raid group a lot of confidence, knowing that we wouldn’t be at the forefront of progression, but we’d be keeping up, managing to get through the content on an average of six hours raiding a week.
And onwards we went. While we never managed Sartharion + 3, we killed Flame Leviathan the day Ulduar went live and pushed on until Yogg-Saron was defeated. Trial of the Champions had already opened at that point, so we did outgear the god of death in the end, but we were happy to take the kill. TotC was almost the death of Cobra. Like many raid groups the instance bored us very quickly, but the heroic versions were just too difficult for us and wiping repeatedly without any sense of progress gets very boring, very quickly. This lack of progress (and mindless repetition), combined with a number of situations where one mistake could wipe the raid didn’t please anyone.
Cobra has improved in leaps and bounds since we started, but that kind of situation has never suited us and the awful instance design and bad tuning didn’t help.
We were incredibly lucky that Ice Crown opened when it did. The raid is almost as much fun as Ulduar and the increasing buff seemed to be designed for a group like Cobra. It was far from all plain sailing, but up we climbed, sticking with our six hours a week schedule and even getting a Horde-side first kill along the way (Princes). And then finally, with patience and the 30% buff, we managed to kill Arthas. What an amazing night that was. I cracked open the very expensive whiskey and got to sit back and bask.
And reflect, with articles like this, on the journey. We started off in Wrath with four raidleaders and we’ve ended with three. Between us we have encouraged, explained, dragged and occasionally bullied Cobra through the expansion. We have been amazed by just how good the group is and how individual brilliance has saved a wipe, while at the same time wondering if sometimes players just ignore everything we say before a pull.
We’ve dealt with emo, both explicable and inexplicable, and despite Spinks’ request I’m not going to reveal which group generated the most! We’ve managed to compromise between the hardcore raiders who want to push on to hardmodes and the more casual players who sometimes forget just why standing in fire is a bad thing. I’m not entirely sure how we’ve managed this, mind, probably because the people in question trust us, at least that’s the assumption I’ve got to make. We’ve nearly kicked people from raids and we’ve nearly had people quit mid fight. Toons have come and gone, some will be missed, others less so.
Over eighteen months there have been nights when I just didn’t want to log in. I didn’t want to have to guide the twenty-five brave souls on the list for that raid through the content and there have been times when the ten minute break couldn’t come fast enough. But these times have been far outweighed by the moments of brilliance and fun. And this is what sets Cobra aside. This is why I think we’re one of only four Horde-side (25 man) raiding groups on Argent Dawn (EU) to kill Arthas.
We’ve been through things that would kill other groups dead and there have been moments when I’ve thought I was going to get zero sign-ups for the next raid, but the actual sense of community and friendship has carried us through.
Our raiders come from as far north as Finland and as far south as South Africa. We have raiders from Donegal (in the extreme northwest of Ireland) and others from far more easterly climes in Europe, it’s a varied bunch. But it’s a bunch that have grown to know each other, to take humour from the strangest things, to laugh when the only other option is to cry and, ultimately, to support Phoenixaras, Elelereth and I while we, in turn, try to support them. I don’t know of any other raid group who would react to repeated wipes by riding mammoths around Deathbringer Rise and then jumping off, one by one, while voice chat is filled with gales of laughter. Cobra is a true community and it has, when we look back, managed to fulfill the mission and it’s made me proud. It’s probably also shaved about ten years off my life, but thems the breaks.
We’re looking at Cataclysm now, staring down the barrel of a complete change in how raiding works in WoW, and I don’t know what Cobra will look like once everything changes. My hope is that we’ll keep on raiding, but we really won’t know until decisions have to be made.
Either way Wrath raiding will always be a special, wonderful, frustrating, maddening and ultimately rewarding experience and I’d probably do it all again, even knowing what I know now. That said, I do a few things differently, increase the number of raidleaders from day one and refuse a few applicants who turned out to be more hassle than they were worth, but these are the things you learn and nobody ever said learning was painless.
For now we’ll get the rest of the raidgroup Kingslayer, then relax for a little while and see if there’s a bunch of raiders who still want to be given orders by a loud Irishman (me) and a soft spoken Englishman (Elelereth), while a rogue picks their pockets (Phoenixaras). I hope there will be, there are still stories left to create.
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ABOUT THE NOVEL:
Title: SKIN DEEP
Series: The DARKWORLD Series
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publication Date: 30th APRIL 2013
Format: Paperback, E-Book & Hardback
Publisher: Infinite Ink
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Panther Shape-shifter Kailin Odel just wants to be normal. Leaving her clan, and her Alpha responsibilities, to live with her grandmother in Chicago had been the best thing for her. Only then did she discover her ability to track and kill the soul sucking undead creatures called Wraiths. Now she protected the humans, and had something to be proud of.
But, when she discovers the body of a murdered shape shifter, Kailin has to come to terms with the reality that her own kind are just as vulnerable as the humans.
The closer Kailin gets to the killer the more she has to face the intricacies of her people. When the time comes can she accept who and what her real purpose is?
Icy pain sliced through my bones, the muscles of my arms, and the flesh of my back. My spine and thighs rippled, shifted. Changing.
Damn. Too fast.
I spared a rueful glance at my new leather pants. And ran faster.
Had to make it to the Rehab Center a few blocks away. I ran, my speed super-human, my need super-charged, covering ground fast enough to make it to safety before my Panther took over.
I took the corner of the street behind the Center at breakneck speed, and headed for the nearest of the gaping holes pockmarking the rusted fence.
The wind changed before I stepped off the curb. My ears peaked and I skidded to a halt, panting slightly, my backpack thumping against my side. The scream of tires on blacktop echoed on the night air, shattering the silence as it grew ever louder.
Followed in tandem by the whining wail of sirens. A battered sedan scorched down the street, suspended on the turn on only two wheels. The angry whip of charred rubber spiked the air. Horizontal again, the car jumped the curb and skidded sideways, avoiding a collision with the fence by mere inches.
I shrank into the shadows at my back, expelling a long, stale breath. My Panther, still confined within my body, bucked and jerked, craving release.
I let her surface.
For now, super-sight would be welcome. Unlike the ability to run like the wind while still in my Human skin, tapping into my Panther's sight required a partial transformation—a risk I needed to take as my gut screamed danger.
Adrenalin surged, different again from the calm fervor of my wraith hunts. I blinked. Heat nipped at my corneas as I released my Panther sight—enough to give my eyes feline vision.
Sight, which sliced deep into the black nothing hugging the sidewalk, transformed my eyes into a solid Panther emerald. For the moment, plain old Kailin Odel was back to being Kailin of the Clan Panthera.
My cat sight adjusted, focused. The blackness surrounding the darkened vehicle changed depth and color, became lighter, clearer.
Someone shoved the rear door open, and I cringed as it creaked and complained. The occupants remained shrouded in the shadows of the vehicle's interior. Something large, long and heavy hit the ground with a dull thunk. Then the sedan revved as unseen sirens drew closer, louder, and it spun around and skidded off the curb.
The battered car roared off, a police cruiser close on its tail with sirens screaming blue murder. It didn't take a genius to figure out the parcel had to be awfully incriminating, for them to chuck it into the garden in such a flaming hurry.
My nostrils twitched at the stench of exhaust smoke, and my heart thumped as I waited to cross the street. I flicked a furtive glance at the dull red glow of taillights disappearing into the darkness. A breeze skimmed the sidewalk, ruffling my hair, and I hurried across the street as the sounds of sirens faded in the distance. I paused a few meters from the bundle, released my Panther's nose and sniffed. Whatever I'd expected to scent on the air, it wasn't the tang of copper drifting toward me—strong, rich and intoxicating.
Blood. Fresh blood. A luscious odor, laced with tendrils of the familiar.
I moved closer, my mind warring with my emotions. This was no bundle of rags, or some stolen junk those thugs had thrown away, but a living being. The blood surely meant the person now lying on the sidewalk needed medical attention.
I stood over the bundle, the cloying odor of the blood filling my nostrils, and hesitated in a moment of doubt and fear.
Now or never.
I took a deep breath and crouched beside the silent form. My hand quivered as I reached out and touched the scratchy, ragged fabric covering the shoulder of the silent figure. At first it resisted my tug, stiff against my touch, but one more gentle urging turned him toward me.
I gasped, my throat closing on the sound. My heel caught as I pulled away, and I staggered backward as hot horror burned through my veins. The face glistened, bloody and mangled. Raw muscles and ligaments lay exposed, bare. A low moan of horror echoed around me. Chills streaked up my spine when I realized the stricken sound had originated from my own throat. The familiar richness of him clouded my mind, clogging my throat and drugging my senses.
My throat spasmed, silencing a shriek as he stared at me. His breath whispered—shallow, irregular, the sound ragged as he labored in his final moments. He gripped with desperation to the disappearing threads which held him to this mortal earth.
His face held my gaze, and somewhere behind ribs of ice my heart clenched, threatening to implode. My own face stared back at me, reflected from within eyes as blue as oceans. Eyes filled with excruciating pain and desperate fear. He didn't speak, just studied me for a few moments with those glorious eyes.
Recognition. Gratitude. Relief.
Life flickered and sputtered out of his beautiful eyes—eyes unable to close even after his soul departed his mortal body. Eyes stark and ghastly within a face flayed of every inch of its skin.
Mere seconds had passed, although I would have sworn it had been hours. Screeching tires again interrupted my horror, and the sedan skidded beside me before I could do much more than scramble away from the body. The killers had managed to lose the cops, and now they'd returned to retrieve the body.
They hadn't bargained on having a witness.
The cold-cocking of guns set my body on fire.
It also did something worse. With mortal fear gripping me, my imminent Change refused to take second place anymore. My body churned the fear and my Panther grasped at the visceral power of the adrenalin in my veins.
A gunshot echoed around the garden, the sound ping-ponging off the aging brick walls of the surrounding apartment buildings.
I gasped as a blast of searing pain slammed into me, as a bullet buried itself deep within my shoulder.
SKIN DEEP - Expected to release 30 April 2013
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
I have been a writer from the time I was old enough to recognise that reading was a doorway into my imagination. Poetry was my first foray into the art of the written word. Books were my best friends, my escape, my haven. I am essentially a recluse but this part of my personality is impossible to practise given I have two teenage daughters, who are actually my friends, my tea-makers, my confidantes… I am blessed with a husband who has left me for golf. It’s a fair trade as I have left him for writing. We are both passionate supporters of each other's loves – it works wonderfully…
My heart is currently broken in two. One half resides in South Africa where my old roots still remain, and my heart still longs for the endless beaches and the smell of moist soil after a summer downpour. My love for Ma Afrika will never fade. The other half of me has been transplanted to the Land of the Long White Cloud. The land of the Taniwha, beautiful Maraes, and volcanoes. The land of green, pure beauty that truly inspires. And because I am so torn between these two lands – I shall forever remain cross-eyed. | <urn:uuid:8f7da38c-97df-488d-b73f-d76d7c7af787> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://soulchaserbecky.blogspot.com/2013/04/exclusive-preview-of-skin-deep-first.html | 2017-08-19T00:02:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105195.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170818233221-20170819013221-00400.warc.gz | en | 0.9562 | 1,857 |
Four of the biggest names in the “lose weight, fast” game have been charged with fraud by the Federal Trade Commission. On Tuesday, January 8, the FTC determined that Sensa Products, L’Occitane, HCG Diet Direct, and LeanSpa had deceptively marketed weight-loss products and made “unfounded promises” that people could lose weight by simply using their products.
The four companies will collectively pay $34 million to customers as a refund. No company has yet admitted or denied the charges.
The proverbial chocolate pie is hitting Sensa in the face, magic diet sprinkles and all. Octavia Spencer, the actress who won an Oscar for her performance in “The Help,” is suing the weight loss company Sensa for alleged fraud and breach of contract. Sensa markets tiny crystals called “tastants,” designed to be sprinkled on all types of food with the intention of making the eater feel fuller faster, thus eating less. It’s supposed to be automatic portion control, and when Spencer lost five pounds on the stuff last August, a $1.25 million sponsorship deal quickly materialized, tastants fall as they may.
But as with all sponsorships, marketing campaigns hinge on a fickle balance of popularity and exposure, and Sensa decided Spencer wasn’t exactly a trending topic. The company wasn’t pleased with the lackluster social media response generated by Spencer’s dimming star, and began to find a way out of the contract. (more…)
Octavia Spencer, the Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in The Help, is the new spokesperson forSensa. Since assuming her newest starring role, she’s lost 20 pounds in five months; weight loss featured in this newest Sensa television commercial. The actress was noticeably heavier when she played the role of Minny Jackson flawlessly; but in these recent images of Octavia it’s clear that she’s either avoiding the chocolate pies altogether or using Sensa to allow her to still indulge. (more…)
We are hours away from the weekend! This means it is time for your dose of healthy news. DIR’s headliners for this week include a new obesity prediction calculator, the diet gimmicks Dr. Oz tried selling this year, and how much Sensa’s paying for false advertising. In addition to our headliners we have health news from Forbes, CNN Health, and Best Life Diet. Plus, exciting new chicken dinner recipes with one from Pinch of Yum.
Are you scared your child might fall into the statistics of the obesity epidemic? Instead of waiting for time to answer that question you could simply use the Obesity Prediction Calculator, developed by researchers at Imperial College London and it can accurately predict childhood obesity up to 85% of the time. Parents should use the results from the Obesity Prediction Calculator to make it their responsibility to ensure that their child will learn to lead a healthful, balanced life.
We are almost a month away from the New Year. This means “weight loss” season will be in full effect. And, if you watch Dr. Oz, you know he will be advocating a new miracle weight loss program or diet soon after the ball drops. DIR has highlighted six weight-loss diets Dr.Oz has tried selling to the masses in 2012, deeming each as a miracle cure.
Another diet company has to pay for their false advertising claims. Sensa, also as known as “the sprinkle diet,” has to pay $800,000 in penalties for their false weight loss claims. Sensa seemed too good to be true – sprinkle little crystals on your food and that will guarantee weight loss -because it was. We’re not buying it and neither are consumers in California. (more…)
Nine counties in California weren’t buying the “too good to be true” claims of Sensa, also known as “the sprinkle diet.” The counties took the product to court arguing that the company made false claims regarding their product’s weight loss efficacy. The attorneys won and now Sensa has to pay.
The counties of Santa Cruz, Alameda, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Orange, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma took the company, Intelligent Beauty, Inc., the makers of Sensa, to court this week after the product had freely advertised that users couldlose weight by sprinkling flavored crystals on their food. As part of the settlement, Sensa, can no longer make any claims of weight loss without having scientific evidence to back the claims. The company was required to pay $800,000 in penalties and will go toward the enforcement of consumer protection laws. (more…)
Oh infomercials, my longtime friend when insomnia strikes, I’m sick and laid out on the couch, or I’m bored out of my mind and have nothing better to do. In three minutes, a pitch man can make me believe I must have that product and my life without it is unimaginable, or that all of the bad things in our culture like laziness, instant gratification, and unrealistic expectations just collided into one awful mess of television advertising.
Fitness and diet infomercials are in their own category of skepticism and hilarity, and part of me actually wants to try the product. Whether it’s car wax or food storage, there seems to be a solution for everything. Diet and fitness isn’t immune and we found some of the newest and crazy As Seen on TV fitness gadgets.
Sauna Pants/ Slimming Sauna Shorts/ The Belly Sauna: While these products have some key differences, their goal and method is largely the same. With theSauna Pants, just slip on the orange shorts, turn on the heat dial, and your extra water weight is promised to be gone in no time with 50 minutes a day of use. The Slimming Sauna Shorts don’t heat up, but they’re made of thick, non-breathable Neoprene (like what Scuba divers wear), so you’ll definitely compress and sweat in these. And they come with an adjustable Velcro strap! My favorite, however, is The Belly Sauna. It’s just what it sounds like – a sauna for your belly. Bizarre. (more…)
As we kick off another year in the world of New Year’s Resolutions that include dieting and losing weight, several products are in the spotlight. One product called Sensa is getting a lot of buzz as the answer to every dieter’s prayers. Sensa includes Tastants that you sprinkle on your food before you eat. That’s it. You don’t have to work out, diet or do anything but sprinkle this stuff on everything you eat and you’ll lose weight.
Typically, products making claims like that are those you should run from, and fast. Sensa Tastants use your sense of smell to help you feel full while eating less food. Sensa has done a clinical study to prove that the product works. In a study of over 1,400 men and women over 6 months, there was an average weight loss of just over 30 pounds. The people participating in the study were told to continue eating the same foods they always have, but to use Sensa on everything. There was no change in their everyday habits other than using Sensa. There is a red flag with this study though. There is no proof that anyone outside of the Sensa organization oversaw or reviewed the study. This means that there is no credible unbiased third party that can vouch for this study or its results.
Of the five senses, the one that you’d think directly affects how much you weigh is taste, with smell in a close second. But according to the makers of Sensa, smell is even more important than you think. Sensa is a seasoning weight-loss product that not only makes your food tastier, but gives it a scent that is appealing and makes you less hungry.
Sensa’s makers say that their product stimulates the olfactory bulb, which is the organ that transmits smell from the nose to the brain to signal that you are full.
“Eighty percent of what you perceive as taste is actually smell,” said Christopher Adams, a molecular biologist and the founder of Compellis Pharmaceuticals. (more…)
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We are truly living in an era of mind-boggling technological innovations. When it comes to food, science is creating some pretty wild stuff that is making genetically-modified tomatoes look like cell phones from the early nineties.
One of the latest class of products that are designed to help us lose weight are tasteless food additives that are sprinkled on food. Once ingested, they have the power to induce feelings of fullness by acting on certain areas of the brain. It’s kind of like what may happen if hoodia were to meet your salt shaker. But unlike many dietary supplements, these food additives don’t contain hoodia, drugs or any other stimulants.
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They don’t talk. Henley just listens to the static of the television, not really paying attention to whatever is on screen, and he tries his best not to look at Greer too much.
But it’s hard not to, especially now when all he can think about is the way he felt wrapped up in her last night—how midnight had felt frosted and blue as they fell back together onto the balcony, heat spreading through their jackets as she fought him, harsh, defensive words melting away into kisses. He remembers the way that Greer’s face had looked so bright against the pitch blackness of the sky, even as tears fell from her eyes, blue eyes so deep that they could’ve been the ocean. He remembers the way that she had looked at him and said, shit, I can’t just be friends with you, but I can’t love you.
And Henley can’t even take it, all of the love he has for this girl.
And she’s sitting across from him now, ever present dark circles still ringing the ocean pooling in her eyes, hair falling around her face, and feet tucked up under her seat, body pressed so far into the other side of the couch she might as well just melt into it.
He should leave, he knows, just like he knows that last night night was a glitch in the matrix, an event that was never supposed to happen. But wine soaked lips had a way of saying all the things no one ever means to say.
So he should go, pretend that he’s not desperate to ask why can’t you just let me in? why can’t you just love me back?
Henley frowns, looking away, and then he is chancing another glance at her, his breath hitching as he meets Greer's stare from across the room. Blue eyes watchful, Greer looks at Henley with her mouth quirked up just a little, enough for Henley to see the beginnings of a smile there.
Henley makes a face, trying to act normal, but his stomach is in his throat, heart fluttering like a moth’s wing in his chest. He’s never gotten used to it, being the focus of Greer’s attention.
He doesn’t think there will ever be a day when he does.
Ever since the first day, anytime he catches her eye he finds himself stumbling over himself, too caught up in the radiance of her to remember how to carry on.
Greer’s smile grows a bit wider, pale light washing over the one side of her face as she looks at Henley, and Henley grins back slowly, shaking his head like he finds Greer ridiculous.
And she is kind of ridiculous, he thinks, with the way her emotions change so quickly, so warm one moment and ice cold the next.
A shiver runs up his spine, and he tears his eyes away from Greer to focus his attention on the open window, letting pale light flicker through and falling snow land softly on the window pane. Cold air is flooding through, and Henley feels his teeth start to chatter.
Rubbing his palms together, he glances back to the girl opposite him.
Greer’s smile faded away, but her eyes are warm as she nods towards the empty space next to her on the sofa. Come here, she mouths.
Henley blinked, quirking an eyebrow, but complies all the same, rolling his body until he was sat next to her- close, but not touching.
Greer’s eyes flit down at the space between them, and she worries her lip between her teeth for a moment, before swinging her legs over Henley’s.
She cuddles up into his side, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, and any restriction or restraint Henley had left over from the events of the night before vanished, and he lets his arms reach around her slim waist, pulling them closer, closer, until the only thing he could focus on is Greer.
It’s intoxicating, being with her, and Henley loses himself in the way she laughs, the touch of her skin, the warmth radiating off of her.
And the warmth never ceases to stop pouring out of her, waves of heat rolling from her skin and onto his, until the open window is completely forgotten and his palms are sweaty against her pale skin.
Outside, the winter storms on, snow falling, glistening in the morning air.
Inside, Henley’s body is all summer heat and all he wants is to kiss her again.
So he does, tipping his head back to brush their lips together, soft. So soft, before he feels Greer’s hands tangle into his hair. She tastes like honey and cigarettes, and Henley never wants to forget it.
Greer’s rising up then, kissing into Henley’s mouth in a way that makes him sigh. Her lips are soft and warm, burning against his with every movement, and Henley’s heart expands with everything that he’s feeling. He kisses back, seeing stars and planets exploding behind his closed eyelids, and as the minutes pass, their kisses become soft again.
Pulling back, Henley presses his lips against her forehead before pressing his cheek there instead, heavy breaths filling the space where her mouth used to be. He shifts a moment later, moving down to rest his head against Greer’s shoulder, and then she’s wrapping her arm around Henley’s body, pulling him in.
“Hi,” Henley whispers, smiling down at her, eyes shining.
She watches him for a moment, blue eyes heavy, “Hey.”
Her voice is slow and raspy, and Henley melts into it, letting his eyes wander back towards the open window. Henley thinks that loving Greer is like standing in the middle of a meteor shower.
Chaos then calm. Something burning and beautiful. Something you can’t forget.
He thinks back to the night before, the way Greer had looked out at the sky after finishing off another glass, white stars scattered across it like spilled paint and the full moon washing light over her face and across the snow-covered ground below them, luminous, before she turned to him with empty eyes.
Do you think we become stars when we die?
Henley hadn’t said anything, hadn’t known what to say, too caught up in the heat pooling in his stomach from the wine and too caught up in the way the moon lit up Greer’s face, so he just looked away and back into the inky night, taking another drag of the cigarette.
Tangled up in her now though, he lets his eyes drift shut and his ragged breathing steadily even out, drifting off, thinking, Fuck stars, we’ll be the whole damn solar system.
*Sooooo. I won NaNoWriMo. (!!!!!!!!!!)
It wasn't really expected, I mean, I was hoping, but at the end of the third week I only had 33% of my goal done. 10,000 words was a lot and I was proud of it, but I was really hoping I'd be able to finish.
So, I binge wrote a couple of nights that week (I'm a partial insomniac anyways, staying up until 3 or 4 was not something that was new to me, I was just writing now instead of drawing), and I hit 30,000 words at 5 a.m. on November 29. I had written 9,000 words that night, and had been going at it for 6 hours at that point. That was actually crazy and I think as soon as I checked the word count I threw my computer on the floor and fell right asleep (a big celebration, I know).
I really thought that by the end of this I would be so over this book and so annoyed with writing it, but I'm really not, which, shocking. I really think I'm going to continue this and expand and maybe one day, finish it. I've never written this much on one work, let alone in such a small time-span, and I'm so proud of it.
This Box of Matches is my baby at this point. I love Greer and Henley and all of my ridiculous side-characters.
I've never really been one to share my work with people, only posting a few poems here and there on Tumblr, but this class has really helped me get out of that box. A few of my friends have demanded they read it, even as unfinished and unedited as it is, and even a few of my teachers have said they'd like to read it.
My art teacher, Mr. Long, actually talked to me this morning about letting him read some of it, and then proposed that next semester in his class I work on writing and illustrating some type of children novel. Which, crazy (and slightly awesome).
I feel like this has been an insanely long blog post and I'm sorry for rambling, I'm just very excited.
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Gordon Setter Breed Standard
The current breed standard for Gordon Setters, as approved by the American Kennel Club Board of Directors, has been in effect since November 27, 2002. This standard is visually illustrated by Ch. Blakeen Saegryte, whose photo appears below. Saegryte, a bitch whelped some 60 years ago, is as accurate a representation of what a Gordon should look like as she was in her own lifetime.
Champion Blakeen Saegryte, a bitch bred by Mrs. S. Hoyt, was whelped on March 13, 1940. Out of Blakeen Belle, she was sired by Ch. Great Scot of Blakeen, an import from the British Isles.
Owned by G.W. Thompson, she was dam of Dual Ch. Loch Ridge Saegryte’s Tibby, Ch. Loch Ridge Tally’s Rip, Ch. Loch Ridge Winsome Lass, Ch. Loch Ridge Saegryte’s Judy, Ch. Loch Ridge Major Talisman, Ch. Loch Ridge Talisman’s Chip, Ch. Loch Ridge Rogue’s Don, Ch. Clonmellerslie Treat, and other Gordons well known at the time.
Standard and Description of the Gordon Setter
Effective November 27, 2002
The Gordon Setter is a good-sized, sturdily built, black and tan dog, well muscled, with plenty of bone and substance, but active, upstanding and stylish, appearing capable of doing a full day’s work in the field. He has a strong, rather short back, with well sprung ribs and a short tail. The head is fairly heavy and finely chiseled. His bearing is intelligent, noble, and dignified, showing no signs of shyness or viciousness. Clear colors and straight or slightly waved coat are correct. He suggests strength and stamina rather than extreme speed. Symmetry and quality are most essential. A dog well balanced in all points is preferable to one with outstanding good qualities and defects. A smooth, free movement, with high head carriage is typical.
Size, Proportion, Substance
Size: Shoulder height for males, 24 to 27 inches; females, 23 to 26 inches. Weight for males, 55 to 80 pounds; females, 45 to 70 pounds. Animals that appear to be over or under the prescribed weight limits are to be judged on the basis of conformation and condition. Extremely thin or fat dogs are discouraged on the basis that under or overweight hampers the true working ability of the Gordon Setter. The weight-to-height ratio makes him heavier than other Setters.
Proportion: The distance from the forechest to the back of the thigh is approximately equal the height from the ground to the withers. The Gordon Setter has plenty of bone and substance.
Head deep, rather than broad, with plenty of brain room.
Eyes: of fair size, neither too deep-set nor too bulging, dark brown, bright and wise. The shape is oval rather than round. The lids are tight.
Ears: set low on the head approximately on line with the eyes, fairly large and thin, well folded and carried close to the head.
Skull: nicely rounded, good-sized, broadest between the ears. Below and above the eyes is lean and the cheeks as narrow as the leanness of the head allows. The head should have a clearly indicated stop.
Muzzle: fairly long and not pointed, either as seen from above or from the side. The flews are not pendulous. The muzzle is the same length as the skull from occiput to stop and the top of the muzzle is parallel to the line of the skull extended.
Nose: broad, with open nostrils and black in color. The lip line from the nose to the flews shows a sharp, well-defined, square contour.
Teeth: strong and white, meeting in front in a scissors bite, with the upper incisors slightly forward of the lower incisors. A level bite is not a fault. Pitted teeth from distemper or allied infections are not penalized.
Neck, Topline, Body
Neck: long, lean, arched to the head, and without throatiness.
Topline: moderately sloping.
Body: short from shoulder to hips.
Chest: deep and not too broad in front; the ribs well sprung, leaving plenty of lung room. The chest reaches to the elbows. A pronounced forechest is in evidence.
Loins: short and broad and not arched.
Croup: nearly flat, with only a slight slope to the tailhead.
Tail: short and not reaching below the hocks, carried horizontal or nearly so, not docked, thick at the root and finishing in a fine point. The placement of the tail is important for correct carriage. When the angle of the tail bends too sharply at the first coccygeal bone, the tail will be carried too gaily or will droop. The tail placement is judged in relationship to the structure of the croup.
Shoulders: fine at the points, and laying well back. The tops of the shoulder blades are close together. When viewed from behind, the neck appears to fit into the shoulders in smooth, flat lines that gradually widen from neck to shoulder. The angle formed by the shoulder blade and upper arm bone is approximately 90 degrees when the dog is standing so the foreleg is perpendicular to the ground.
Forelegs: big-boned, straight and not bowed, with elbows free and not turned in or out. Pasterns are strong, short and nearly vertical with a slight spring. Dewclaws may be removed.
Feet: cat-like in shape, formed by close-knit, well arched toes with plenty of hair between; with full toe pads and deep heel cushions. Feet are not turned in or out.
The hind legs from hip to hock are long, flat and muscular; from hock to heel, short and strong. The stifle and hock joints are well bent and not turned either in or out. When the dog is standing with the rear pastern perpendicular to the ground, the thighbone hangs downward parallel to an imaginary line drawn upward from the hock. Feet as in front.
Soft and shining, straight or slightly waved, but not curly, with long hair on ears, under stomach and on chest, on back of the fore and hind legs, and on the tail. The feather which starts near the root of the tail is slightly waved or straight, having a triangular appearance, growing shorter uniformly toward the end.
Color and Markings
Black with tan markings, either of rich chestnut or mahogany color. Black pencilling is allowed on the toes. The borderline between black and tan colors is clearly defined. There are not any tan hairs mixed in the black. The tan markings are located as follows: (1) Two clear spots over the eyes and not over three-quarters of an inch in diameter; (2) On the sides of the muzzle. The tan does not reach to the top of the muzzle, but resembles a stripe around the end of the muzzle from one side to the other; (3) On the throat; (4) Two large clear spots on the chest; (5) On the inside of the hind legs showing down the front of the stifle and broadening out to the outside of the hind legs from the hock to the toes. It must not completely eliminate the black on the back of the hind legs; (6) On the forelegs from the carpus, or a little above, downward to the toes; (7) Around the vent; (8) A white spot on the chest is allowed, but the smaller the better. Predominantly tan, red or buff dogs are ineligible for showing and undesirable for breeding.
A bold, strong, driving free-swinging gait. The head is carried up and the tail ‘flags’ constantly while the dog is in motion. When viewed from the front, the forefeet move up and down in straight lines so that the shoulder, elbow and pastern joints are approximately in line. When viewed from the rear, the hock, stifle and hip joints are approximately in line. Thus the dog moves in a straight pattern forward without throwing the feet in or out. When viewed from the side, the forefeet are seen to lift up and reach forward to compensate for the driving hindquarters. The hindquarters reach well forward and stretch far back, enabling the stride to be long and the drive powerful. The overall appearance of the moving dog is one of smooth-flowing, well balanced rhythm, in which the action is pleasing to the eye, effortless, economical and harmonious.
The Gordon Setter is alert, gay, interested, and confident. He is fearless and willing, intelligent and capable. He is loyal and affectionate, and strong-minded enough to stand the rigors of training.
Predominantly tan, red or buff dogs.
Scale of Points
To be used as a guide when judging the Gordon Setter:
Head and neck (including ears and eyes) 10
Shoulders, forelegs, forefeet 10
Hind legs and feet 10
Color and markings 5
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DIESEL – A1101180
Safe - 1-20-2017 Manhattan Rescue: Second Chance Rescue Please honor your pledges: http://www.nycsecondchancerescue.org/donate/
My name is DIESEL. My Animal ID # is A1101180.
I am a male gray and white am pit bull ter mix. The shelter thinks I am about 6 YEARS old.
I came in the shelter as a OWNER SUR on 01/08/2017 from NY 10455, owner surrender reason stated was CHILDCONFL. I came in with Group/Litter #K17-085796.
MOST RECENT MEDICAL INFORMATION AND WEIGHT
01/18/2017 Exam Type CAGE EXAM – Medical Rating is 3 C – MAJOR CONDITIONS , Behavior Rating is EXPNOCHILD, Weight 60.0 LBS.
s/o: mucoid nasal d/c. few sneezes BAR overall looks good a: cirdc p: doxy 300mg sid x 10d
01/08/2017 PET PROFILE MEMO
01/08/17 09:20 Basic information Diesal is a 6 year old blue nose american pitbull terrior. He is an unaltered male. Owner got him as a gift from a friend and has had him as a puppy. Owner is surrendering due to child conflicts and personal problems with the dogs. Diesal came in with his housemate Laila( A1101183). There are no injuries or health concerns owner is aware about and the last time he been to the vet was when he was 2 years old. Socialization Around strangers, he is reactive by barking and lunging if they got close to owner. He has lived with 2 1 year olds and have growled at them. They have been seperated at all times so play behavior is unkown. He plays very rough with adults. He lived with a 5 year old american pitbull terrier and was respectful with eachother. They played very rough with eachother. He has not lived with any cats but does not do well with the stray cats. There is no bite history of a person but there is a bite history with a cat and has punctured 2 years ago. behavior Owner stated that he is reactive with strangers and reactive towards cats he see. He isnt bothered with storms or fireworkds.Owner stated he isnt bothered with taking a bowl of food away, taking a bone or toy out his mouth.Diesal has jumped on owner in the past when being restraint. He isnt bothered with bath time, brushing of coat. Owner has never tried trimming nails on own. He growls and barks with unfamiliar approaches to owner and house. for the new family to know Owne described him as playful and excitable. His activity level is very high. When owner is home he tends to follow you around. He likes balls and squeaky toys while playing fetch. He was kept both indoors and outdoors. He ate IAMS dry food only. He was very house trained and rarely had accidents. When left alone in house and yard he is well behaved. He has never been crate trained so behavior is unknown. He knows sit and to give paw. He pulls lightly on leash and owner has never had him off leash. Behavior upon intake Due to past history with diesal being reactive with strangers counselor did not interact with him and vaccinations were given in medical
01/19/2017 WEB MEMO
A volunteer writes: Joining us with his housemate Layla (A1101183), Diesel is a gorgeous, calm and quiet boy. Like Layla, he’s up front in his kennel when he sees a person with a leash, ready to go out for a walk. Rocking a coat against the cold winter day, his leash manners are lovely, he doesn’t mind being tethered for photos, and makes wonderful soft eye contact as I take pictures. He enjoys treats, taking them gently after a ‘sit’, and we’re told that he also knows ‘shake paw’. As we walked back to the building, Diesel got some ice between his toes and had no problem with me handling his feet to clean them. Such a good boy! Off leash in a pen, his head is in my lap for some petting, and he enjoys a good massage as he leans into me. We’re told he’s not good with kids, played hard with his housemate Layla and was respectful of her, isn’t good with cats, is “very housetrained” and is well behaved when left alone in the house. When our time together was over, Diesel hopped right back into his kennel with a wave of his tail. His gorgeous amber eyes met mine in a soft ‘see you again, new friend’. Diesel is, of course, looking for a forever friend, I’m just temporary, so, ask to meet him today. Another volunteer writes: Diesel means LOVE so if you want to feel like the most important gal (or guy) in the world then just follow my lead, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3! Step 1: Sit down on the ground…Step 2: Encourage Diesel onto your lap…Step 3: Bask in the endless snuggles and adoration of your new BFF! Diesel blew me away with his amazingly polite ‘sit’ and ‘give paw’, he’s a total pro and solemnly follows the commands on cue, with or without a treat on offer. His smooth looks are as genteel as his manners but the best part of a date with Diesel is definitely the snuggles. Nothing will warm your heart more than stroking Diesel’s sweet face as he rests his chin on your chest and those soulful eyes gaze straight into your soul. To meet him once is to love him forever so run, don’t walk, to our Manhattan Care Center and enjoy your very own ‘Diesel moment’ today.
01/10/2017 BEHAVIOR EVALUATION – EXPNOCHILD
Exam Type BEHAVIOR
KNOWN HISTORY: Unaltered, owner surrender Previously lived with: Adults and two children both aged at 1 years old Behavior toward children: Owner has stated that diesel will growl at children Behavior toward dogs: Diesel lived with a 5 year old dog and was respectful of her Behavior toward cats: Not good with cats FG/RG: None reported Bite history: None reported for humans but was reported that a cat was bitten and punctured 2 years ago Housetrained: Diesel is housetrained Energy level/descriptors: Diesel is described as playful and excitable. His activity level is very high. Other notes: Around strangers, he is reactive by barking and lunging. SAFER ASSESSMENT: Look: 2. Dog pulls out of Assessor’s hands each time without settling during three repetitions. Sensitivity: 1. Dog stands still and accepts the touch, his eyes are averted, and his tail is in neutral position with relaxed body posture. Dog’s mouth is closed. Tag: 2. Dog is not fearful, but is unresponsive to the Assessor, and approaches the Assessor at the end of the game. He is focused on stimuli other than the Assessor. Squeeze 1: 3. Dog closes mouth, becomes stiff. Flank squeeze 1: 1. Dog does not respond at all. Flank squeeze 1: 1. Dog does not respond at all. Toy: 1. No interest. Summary: Diesel was very distracted throughout the assessment, focusing on things besides the assessor. He became a bit stiff when his paw was handled for squeeze; we cannot be certain if any other behavior is suppressed as a result of the shelter environment. DOG-DOG INTERACTION ASSESSMENT: Selective: These dogs can succeed with certain other dogs, but may be more selective or picky. They may dislike certain ‘types’ of dogs or styles of dog play so they may require extra supervision when interacting with other dogs. PLAYGROUP: Diesel has displayed minimal interest in engaging with other dogs at the care center. The behavior department recommends allowing Diesel an appopriate decompression period, and recommends that future introductions be conducted with polite dogs on a one-on-one basis. MEDICAL BEHAVIOR: 01/09/17 During initial medical exam Diesel appeared to be tense and nervous
RECOMMENDATIONS: Experience (Suitable for an adopter with a previous amount of dog experience) _X_No children (under 13)(See known history; Diesel is reported to growl at children though no further details provided.) _X_No cats Potential challenges: _X_Basic manners/Poor impulse control _X_On-leash reactivity/barrier frustration (See known history; Diesel is reported to be reactive towards strangers, attempting to lunge. We recommend tools (i.e. head harness) and high-value treats to redirect Diesel on leash and to reward calm behavior. We recommend only force-free, reward based training.)
01/10/2017 GROUP BEHAVIOR EVALUATION – EXPNOCHILD
Exam Type GROUP BEHAVIOR
Diesel has displayed minimal interest in engaging with other dogs at the care center. The behavior department recommends allowing Diesel an appopriate decompression period, and recommends that future introductions be conducted with polite dogs on a one-on-one basis. 1/10: When introduced off leash to another dog in the care center, Diesel approaches and offers one sniff. He does not re-approach during the remainder of his interaction. 1/11: Diesel ignores approach and roams the yard. 1/12 – 17: Diesel keeps to himself.
01/09/2017 INITIAL PHYSICAL EXAM
Medical rating was 1 – NORMAL , behavior rating was NONE
Microchip: Negative Sex: Intact male Age~ Approx- 6 yrs BARH AMBX4 Eyes: Clear / wnl Ears: Clean/ wnl Nose: Clear / wnl Teeth: mild to moderate dental tartar BCS: 3 Behavior:Tense and nervous during exam NOSF
01/18/2017 CAGE EXAM (LAST MAJOR EXAM)
Medical rating 3 C – MAJOR CONDITIONS , behavior rating EXPNOCHILD
s/o: mucoid nasal d/c. few sneezes BAR overall looks good a: cirdc p: doxy 300mg sid x 10d
Generated on Jan 19 2017 6:00PM
Came in With
- LAYLA - A1101183
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I am a ceremonialist, spiritual counselor, and practical, intuitive, choice-oriented astrologer and palmist with 30+ years’ experience. I practice in St Paul & Minneapolis, MN, NYC, NM and write “Starcodes” column for the WeMoon Calendar, www.roanrobbins.com, and other websites.
I’ve been on a lifelong interfaith spiritual search and have had an intuitive counseling practice since 1978. In nearby pages I share my approach to the interfaith spiritual path and the use and function of astrology and palmistry. This is my story, how I got to this work and to this place.
Early years: My mother was an artistic psychiatric nurse, my father was an abstract mathematician; our family joke was that you put them in a blender and get an astrologer. I grew up wandering the halls of anthropology and art museums in Philadelphia, fascinated by the Sumerian and Egyptian sections; those images filled my childhood dreams.
The first numeral my father taught me was the one for infinity- tough of my childhood brain but auspicious for my path. I was rather haunted as a child as I noticed presences and feelings that my scientific surroundings did not recognize. During early health crisis I had a few clear out of body experiences which viscerally let me know we are more than our body. I collected myths and folktales and produced my first zodiacal calendar at 11 years old.
In my first year of high school, the school’s telephone operator was the niece of the famous astrologer Caroll Righter; with her astrological books open she was a better counselor than the school therapist, and I wanted to know how she did it. I hung around to pump her for information and one day heard her mumbling concern over some impending tough aspects. She stopped two teachers whose transits were particularly challenging (she had everyone’s chart on file) and asked them to be a bit careful this weekend. The elder drama teacher died of a heart attack on stage and the younger one fell downstairs and broke a limb. I asked her to tell me everything she knew.
A few years later I had an art history teacher, Sushil Mukherjee, who was a palmist, natural mystic, and great counselor. I asked him to teach me about palmistry, he gave me few details but got me oriented, told me to peer into each hand as if it was a window into the soul. I started collecting handprints and palmistry books along with astrological information.
I took my ephemeris (a book of planetary positions) everywhere from 14 years on, looked up everyone I met, scanned their hands, and researched my way through an adventurous life. I studied with every astrologer and intuitive whose path I crossed. I carried this work through my work in human resources and human potential fields in southern New England. Palmistry, astrology and other intuitive arts were a natural way to broaden my toolbox and help me be of service. They were invaluable tools as I raised two children, one with special needs, and negotiated through their adolescence. As a staff astrologer with a family therapy group in RI, I did some fascinating supervised work exploring the patterns of family dynamic back through generations.
New Mexico: In the late 1980s a friend of mine took sick in Santa Fe, New Mexico; I came to visit, and found she had four months to live. I stayed to help her through her transition and fell in love with the wild terrain and the warm hearts of New Mexico. Hospice is a great way to get past tourist traps and get real with the people.
An astrologer has a respected profession in Santa Fe, and I was considered a grounded and pragmatic one (which is not an oxymoron there). The Santa Fe Professional Astrology forum was a great collection of astrologers to work with, learn from, and befriend (Marcia Stark, Edith Hathaway, Merrylin LeBlanc, Alan Oken, Ariel Gutmann, Kenneth Johnson, Martin Goldsmith, Azlan White, to name a few). Alan Oken, Ariel Gutmann and I worked as a trio presenting monthly talks and symposium. In 1993 Edith Hathaway and I started writing Starcodes, one of the country’s first columns for the general public not on Sun sign astrology but on the astrological weather of the day. Edith soon left to pursue Vedic astrology, and I’ve been writing it every week since. Writing Starcodes has been fabulous research, it pushed me to know where the planets are at any given moment, predict how they will express in the week ahead, and then watch what actually unfolds– week after week– for decades.
Santa Fe abounds in holistic, mind-body work; what is cutting edge and New Age elsewhere was normal there, if not always so grounded. I studied hypnotherapy, applied kinesiology and met with a shamanic journey-work study group. New Mexico has a vibrant native community; tribes that were never moved off their home territory and so have an intact tradition and pulsing traditional and contemporary native art scene. I attended dances and ceremony on the Pueblos and listened with my mind, heart, and spirit. With Kate Greenway and others I co-directed WomanWise women’s spiritual community, leading women in a year-long transformative journey and doing solstice and equinox rituals for the public. The NM landscape remains my heart’s home.
New York City: Around 2000 I began to have repeated dreams of a voice saying “I’m sending you back to the front lines” I remarried in 2001 and the next week my mate was offered a job near NYC. We landed there two weeks before 9-11-01 which was one hell of a wake-up call. NY was a humbling, expanding, and toughening journey that reaffirmed my faith in the human spirit. I volunteered to counsel an EMT working those first few months down at Ground Zero: she needed to download daily and it was a relief to find some way to help.
Post 9-11 NYC carried so much ambient pain and searching angst that I wanted more tools to offer my clients. I wanted to walk with them through their crossroads in rough waters and celebrate their turning points, not just map them, and so I went back into an interfaith seminary to expand my spiritual counseling tools and ceremonial skills. The New Seminary was founded in 1975 by Kabbalist Rabbi Gelberman, Course of Miracle specialist Rev. John Mundy, wise priest father Giles Spoonour, and Swami Satchidananda. I felt so at home I stayed on to work as teacher and registrar while I grew my practice.
NYC also has a vibrant astrological community; I joined the NY NCGR chapter, spoke at a few conferences and studied. NY Astrologers Mark Wolz, Anne Ortlee and I formed Access Astrology, a group dedicated to making quality astrological information available to the public; we did a weekly astro-talk at the East-West Center, and still do a blog-talk radio podcast together every Wednesday night. They now run a group at the Open Center in NYC, I work with them when I go back to NYC, and see my clients out of the Oriens Healing Sanctuary.
North Dakota: After six years in NYC we long for the wide open spaces of the West again. Dreams took us to Turtle Mountain ND, a stone’s throw from the Canadian border, where my mate helped start a science-teacher training program for tribally-owned Turtle Mountain College. I tutored writing skills for future teachers. We walked with an herbalist, worked behind the scenes at a powwow, attended sweats, sat at the spirit fire for friends who died. We had so much to learn.
Warmth had a whole new meaning out there on the prairies at -20°. Our house was sealed tight. Solid workmanship is admired in the small Dakota towns as much as an honest handshake and a person who does what they say they’ll do, and with no fuss. Neighborliness; in a blizzard, at -26, our neighbors plowed our drive without saying a word, which brought tears to this former New Yorker’s eyes.
The ecosystem there was shuffling back from overuse, over hunt, and overly tidy farms; now the Aspen thicken and beaver and Fox drift back to Turtle Mountain even though western North Dakota is being ravaged by oil drillers. I had a chance to sidle up near a bald eagle chewing on marmot not far from the tribal heard of bison.
One sunny day by Fish Lake we watched whooping cranes swoop and swirl in a spiral of light, looking like a Japanese print and singing a resonant haunting song. All of nature stopped and listened, and I got a hint as to why Crane was the totem of the Aanishinaabe leadership clan.
St Paul, MN: We move to the Twin Cities so my mate, Dr. Wren Walker Robbins, a two spirit of Mohawk dissent, could continue her work training science teachers in a multicultural approach to science education. We work together in our search for the intersection between cultures and spiritual paths, science, intuition, and art, all tributaries on the great River of life.
The Twin Cities feel like an amalgam of all the places we’ve lived. I stay connected to all these homes, these places that fed my soul; they inform all the work I do. What can I do for you?
- 2011-2015: President, MN Chapter of NCGR (National Center for Geocosmic Research)
- 2013-present: Reader: Eye of Horus, Minneapolis
- 2012-2015: Presenter- Paganicon, and Woman and Spirituality Conference
- 2008-present: Access Astrology Blogtalk Radio with Anne Ortlee and Mark Wolz
- 2005-present: Interfaith minister (counselor/celebrant)
- 1978-present: Reader and teacher of astrology, palmistry, and the intuitive arts
- 1993-present: Writer/Starcodes column in The New Mexican’s Pasatiempo and websites
- 2007-2009: Writing tutor, TMCC, Turtle Mountain Reservation, ND
- 2005-2008: Teacher, The New Seminary for Interfaith Studies, NYC
- 1999-2004: Teacher, Alan Oken’s Wisdom School, SF, NM
- 1998-2001: Director: Ursa Major School of Intuitive Arts SF, NM
- 1998-2001: Planet Waves weekly radio show on KSFR, SF, NM
- 1993-99: Co-Director, WomanWise Woman’s Mysteries School
- 1993-98: Human Resource Director, Ten Thousand Waves, SF, NM
- 1996-98: Astrology teacher, The Light Institute, Galisteo, NM
- 1994-98: Board; Santa Fe Astrology Forum (member- 1990-2001)
- 1990-1998: Consulting Astrologer, Human Dimensions, Prov, RI.
- 2012-2015: Member, OPA (Organization for Professional Astrology)
- 2001-present: Member, NCGR (National Counsil for Geocosmic Research)
- 2010: Reiki 1 and 2, Rugby, ND. Bodytalk Access
- 2006: Spiritual Insight Training 1 & 2, Fellowships of the Spirit, Lilydale, NY
- 2005: Ordained, The New Seminary, NYC
- 1998-1999: Voted “Best Astrologer in Santa Fe”
- 1994-2000: Shamanic journeywork study group – Creative Alternatives, Santa Fe, NM
- 1991: Ericksonian hypnotherapy, first module, Weisz Hypnotherapy clinic, SF, NM
- 1989-90: Hospice training
- 1979-1988: Ceres Center for Metaphysics, member and boardmember
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This one’s a bit different from the others in that it describes something that actually happened. Considering the amount of hyperbole, exaggeration and outright lies in this, I’m not gonna say it’s Based On a True Story, like it’s ‘Gandhi’ or something. At best, it’s Inspired By Actual Events.
December 9, 1996
I could hardly contain my excitement. It was the fourth of July and there was a box of semi-legal fireworks in my Grandparent's den. We go to my Grandparents' house on all major holidays and watch them drink themselves to death.
Ha! OK, wait, that’s mean.
I ran into the pseudo-European house from the patio, happy as a clam. I excitedly asked my grandmother when we were going to light off the fireworks. She saw that my face was covered with deviled egg, so she spit on a napkin and wiped it off.
My grandmother never spit on a napkin and wiped my face. Nobody’s grandma did that. Only grandmas in PG movies and hack stand-up comedy do that.
I re-entered my grandparent's world of the drunk elderly on the patio. There was an outside bar set up with a real bartender, who had no problem serving me and my brother liquor, in spite of the fact that we were six and eight at the time.
This is the first thing in the story that actually happened. The bartender was this cool Jamaican dude, and not only tolerated me and my brother ordering drinks but actively encouraged it, like, ‘try this rum, you’ll love it’. We were probably closer to 10 and 12 though.
My brother's blood stream must have been at least ninety proof by the time we left. My parent's were the only one's not drunk, as usual. My mom and dad's idea of a party is listening to Yanni, singing "Michael Row your Boat Ashore", and going to bed early.
I didn’t even know what Yanni was at that age. I probably thought it was a board game. I had just heard Yanni used as shorthand for ‘lame’ on Conan O’Brien and appropriated it.
They were sitting away from all my Grandparents' elderly friends, mostly due to the fact that they are all PSYCHOS. These are not the nice elderly, the ones that give little kids money just for the hell of it; these are the semi-satanic elderly, the kind that like to wait until a biker is right in front of them while they're driving and then gun it.
Before they drank, they would occasionally wander up to me and tell me how much I'd grown, or how handsome I looked. After the drinking started, however, they got a little disturbed: one of them asked my mother for a lap dance, an eighty five year-old was having delusions of Whitney Houston and was screeching "And I will Always Love You" at the top of her lungs, and some poor jerk in a wheelchair would respond to any question by yelling "Shit Happens, Laddie!" and cackling.
What a robust imagination I had! Like a little JRR Tolkien!
I joined up with my brother, who was wobbling around and trying not to puke on the tulips. He had both hands down his pants, and was scratching as if he had the chicken pox down there. I was a little disjointed myself, mostly from the vodka and tonic the bartender had given me when I'd asked for a Mountain Dew. We passed the time by singing, farting, and laughing in an innocent stupor.
The last sentence is at least in the same hemisphere as the truth. Me and my brother did actually get a buzz on at this party, and killed time til dark making each other laugh. It’s still the only time we’ve ever been drunk together.
When the time finally came for fireworks, I was rapidly coming down, but my brother had been fueling up the entire evening, and was still quite tipsy. In fact, just about everyone was pretty damn tipsy by that point, and the alzeimers-ridden whackos saw the fireworks with the glee of a five year-old.
I loved all of them (the fireworks, not the old people), and so did my brother. I was highly disappointed when we lit off the last bottle rocket out of the box that had seemed so huge before it had gotten dark.
Just as I was getting up, my grandfather got a massive firework out of the cupboard.
"Grand Finale," he said in a voice not unlike Jack Nicholson in "The Shining", and set it up on the charred ground.
Stephen King reference! I was a proud little bookworm.
It was a huge thing, standing at least two feet tall. "Over 100 fireballs!" The box read. I could not wait to see all those projectiles lighting up the sky. I was also hoping a couple would peg the neighbors' dog, who had urinated on my Christmas present a couple of years back.
By what mechanism would someone else’s dog pee on my Christmas present? Am I trying to convince the reader that our Christmas tree was an actual, living tree, in the ground, in the backyard?
My father insisted on lighting the immense firework himself, I was too young, and my grandfather and brother were way too wasted. He lit the fuse and ran behind a tree as if our esteemed grand finale was going to rape him.
Harsh, dude. Gay, closeted teenagers should generally refrain from mocking their male role models for being effeminate.
The fuse traced up to the firework and. . . nothing. It fizzled. My dad, always the outstanding citizen, just said, "Well, that was disappointing. Time for bed." He started off in the direction of the house, but my grandfather saw my dismayed look, and took pity on me. His bright idea was to light a piece of newspaper and throw it on the firework. He did it with flair and laughed like a madman when nothing happened. My father was still itching to go to bed, but Grandpa had one last great idea.
"Gasoline!" He yelled with childish delight, and ran to the woodshed. He tripped over Aunt Elga's IV drip,
but he was not to be stopped. He rummaged around the shed, laughing the night away. He finally emerged with a can properly marked, "Gasoline". My father, of course, was protesting adamantly, but Gramps just told him to shut up and pushed him down.
I would have helped the disturbed man up, but I was rooting for my Grandfather by this point. I wanted to see that dog fry. By the time my dad got up, Grandpa was already soaking the grand finale in gasoline. He searched in his pockets for a moment, and then yelled "Jackpot!" and his hand came out with a pack of matches in it. My dad tried to stop my grandfather from lighting the match, but some loving old lady had pinned him down with her walker. I now noticed why he wanted it to stop. The firework had fallen over and the six barrels of fire-lovin' fun were now aimed at the crowd.
"Grandpa, No!" I yelled, but to no avail. He lit the match and dropped it. As soon as it got within a foot of the gasoline-soaked firework, the entire setup erupted into a huge ball of flame. I was burned by the intense heat from ten feet away. It was a light almost brighter than the sun, and out of it flew a single fireball.
The crowd erupted. Don’t ever let old people play frail with you. As soon as the first fireballs started flying at the patio, the elderlies darted like dolphins for cover. They were fighting for space behind the fireplace or a rhododendron. It was a crazy scene, My brother was laughing as he watched the elderly catch fire, my father was crying, my mother had hit the deck and was being trampled by the scampering old people, I was behind the tree, yelling, "Die you bastards, Die!" and my grandfather was watching it all like a god punishing his people.
Behind my grandfather, I saw the one thing I never wanted to see again. Behind the still-spitting firework, out of harm's way, sat the neighbor's dog. He seemed to be laughing at me. I have never forgotten that sick mutt's face, and my expectation for this Christmas is to go after it with the weedwhacker.
Oddly enough, the truth-to-bullshit ratio in that section is pretty favorable. There was no dog, obviously, and no proper screaming and crying, but my grandpa really did douse a firework in gasoline that year, and it did fall over and shoot fireballs at his friends.
Furthermore, the part about old people diving dextrously out of their lawn chairs is bible truth. I still remember that, these frail veterans popping vertical and twisting like Neo to avoid fireballs.
I don’t know if it was this incident, or the me-and-my-brother-drinking thing, but that was the last time we went to my grandparent’s for Independence Day. They continued to have that party for years, and to my knowledge no one lost an eye or anything. One day, their neighbor might even have bought a dog. | <urn:uuid:d4bdb791-441f-451e-8cb7-661db8083785> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://cringestalgia.blogspot.com/2009/12/ | 2017-08-23T09:56:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886118195.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170823094122-20170823114122-00080.warc.gz | en | 0.986278 | 2,017 |
Travel is such a personal thing: one man’s art museum is another man’s prison. Personally, I can feel highly entertained just browsing in a bookstore (though if you want to kill me with boredom, plop me in the middle of a golf course.)
This is precisely why I shy away from instructing readers what to see and do in a place, especially one as rich and invigorating as Cape Town. We all enjoy very different things, so just come to Cape Town and have fun. It’s that easy.
But what did I do that I really liked? More than anywhere else? Well, everything, but these are a few of my favorite things . . . in Cape Town.
Part of the strange magic of Cape Town is that it’s a world-class city surrounded by out-of-this-world nature. The most obvious destination is Table Mountain, which I referred to as “a sundial for Cape Town.” Hike it or take the cable car, but definitely make it up to the top. If you are fortunate enough to be there for sunset, make sure you have someone with you (to kiss.) It’s unforgettably romantic.
Table Mountain National Park represents a whole network of separate and amazing parks, of which my favorite is Cape Point Nature Reserve at the Cape of Good Hope. Renting the cottage at beautiful Olifantsbos beach was the best getaway I’ve had all year (do it!). You cannot beat the peace, seclusion, and sound of the surf—and all of it less than an hour from the city center. At night, the stars shone brilliantly, and in the morning, I watched baby baboons follow their mother through the bushes. If you’re lucky (and I was very lucky), you’ll see one of the exceedingly rare Cape Mountain Zebra chewing in the fragrant fynbos.
Likewise, I loved Kirstenbosch Gardens and its living library of African plants—especially the protea. I could spend days flitting from one flower bush to the next. And last but not least, horseback riding along Noordhoek Beach was a total dream. Pro or first-timer, riding on this oversized stretch of clear sand was simply dreamy.
The streets are alive in Cape Town . . . and pumping. Long Street gets a lot of attention and with good reason. Despite the presence of other travelers, the area has kept its native soul with a number of unexpected shops, hotels, bars and cafés. I did a number of laps up and down Long and every time it feels like a new street.
Cape Town’s street art scene is vibrant and happening now. If you like your graffiti big and beautiful, check out the murals just off Victoria Road in Woodstock, and take time to wander around the edges of District Six and The Fringe. Both areas are emerging from their own little dark age and it’s fun and encouraging to see the streets take life again. Start at the design-y and hipster Field Office.
Don’t you dare come to Cape Town without venturing into the townships, especially Langa, one of the largest and richest neighborhoods in South Africa. I found especially touching the mosaic memorial to Xolile Mose, a student killed during an anti-apartheid protest in 1976. I also had a wonderful time perusing African art and learning to play the marimba at Guga Sthebe, one of Langa’s cultural centers. Griling meat at Mzoli’s comes highly-recommended, and if you can manage it, go have a drink at a shabeen, (bars operated from people’s homes).
Last but not least, do not miss the Bo-Kaap and wear sunglasses—it’s bright!
By far the best dinner I had in Cape Town was at Planet (the newish renaissance of the classic favorite Mount Nelson Hotel). If you like your food dressed up and divine, then eat here. My favorite café is Lola’s (on Long Street)—most of the clientele look like models (some of them are) and yet the food is big and filling and the mood very friendly and ambient. (I especially liked their fresh juice bar.) Bread, Milk and Honey is right next to the parliament and therefore, filled with politicos from morning ‘til night, so come have a sandwich with the big men and women government (the milk tarts get two thumbs up). For another quick and easy meal, dance into Eastern Bazaar where you’ll find out that in spite of its size, Cape Town is really just a town (Come here twice and you’ll run into someone you know).
Cape Malay cuisine is Cape Town’s history on a plate, and even if you tend to shy away from spicy food, I think you’ll find Cape Malay relatively mild. You’ll find several small cafés in the Bo-Kaap but I most enjoyed sitting down at the Noon Gun and dining on different curries while watching the city below. On the street, be sure wrap your mouth around koeksisters, a salome, and a boerwors roll (all fantastic), and if you’re traveling with friends, share a Gatsby—a gigantic sandwich that’s as mixed up and layered as Cape Town itself.
The best seafood I ate was at Two Oceans, down at Cape Point and the best steak I had in the city (no contest) was at Cape Royale hotel. If you think fine dining means sizzling meat, then go there. Mama Africa was made for tourists but I still found it a fun tradition—the kudu is truly yummy. Likewise, fish and chips at Kalky’s (in Kalk Bay) is kind of a Cape Town institution and locals love it with good reason. Get the snoek and plop on the red sauce—because it’s so very Cape Town!
Wine gets a special focus all around Cape Town, but if you’re a connoisseur, then you’ll want to visit Signal Hill Winery right in the oldest part of the city. Jean-Vincent Ridon makes his own vivid vintages using grapes grown right in the city. (Step into the courtyard and touch the oldest fruit-bearing grapevine in Africa.)
I found Cape Town’s wild range of hotel options a big plus—you can sleep at a safe and clean hostel in the city center for next to nothing, or splurge big on something elegant and dramatic.
Right on the waterfront, the Cape Grace is iconic, classy and truly personal. Nothing is an afterthought in these big and beautiful rooms, so spoil yourself for a day or two and bask in grandeur while soaking in the fun vibe at the old port.
For even more pampering, check into Ellerman House, over in Bantry Bay. A quiet refuge overlooking the sea, the Ellerman feels like you’re at home in your own mansion which happens to be loaded with South African art. I loved the comfort of Ellerman, the “elegant-yet-casual” feel, and the killer fudge they stash out in the open for guests. (Their spa ain’t bad either.) In fact, I was surprised by all the wonderful spas in Cape Town. Not to miss? The Twelve Apostles Spa right underneath the row of rocks by the same name. Space-age and soothing, the African treatments (with organic, all-African products) were so very relaxing and the mood very pure and laid-back.
For business travelers, the Westin down in the CBD is sleek, comfy and comes with reliable wi-fi and a superb top-floor pool that lets you swim laps with a panoramic view. I stayed the longest at Protea Fire & Ice because it makes sense on so many levels: the location is ideal, the design is way cool, the staff were very switched on, and the restaurant serves about 40 different kinds of milkshakes. (What’s not to love?)
Finally, do yourself a favor and get up on the roof at Granddaddy. This is the world’s only rooftop Airstream trailer park/hotel in the world. I wrote about the place almost two years ago and loved the weirdness of the rural refuge perched in the canopy of the city.
I loved, loved, loved the Two Oceans Aquarium and think that it’s one of the best in the world for kids. Horseback riding on Noordhoek beach was a real highlight for me–if you want a cinematic afternoon, then do it. The waterfront in Green Point is ideal for evening walks and morning runs and believe it or not, I had a blast riding the Wheel of Excellence down by the waterfront. If you’re a photographer, ride the wheel at sunset. If you don’t have a friend in South African parliament (like I do ) then consider taking the standard parliament tour. The buildings are historic, the stories important and I found it all exceptionally educational.
Otherwise, the mother city is your oyster. Just go and explore, like the settlers of old. Despite nearly spending three full weeks in Cape Town, I feel like I’ve only just scratched the surface of this jewel of a place. Honestly, as I sit here and reminisce about all my favorite things, it only makes me long to return sooner than later. So . . .
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TEL AVIV 15 MAY 2009
Mr President,Mr Prime Minister,Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
As I prepare to return to Rome, may I share with you some of the powerful impressions that my pilgrimage to the Holy Land has left with me. I had fruitful discussions with the civil authorities both in Israel and in the Palestinian Territories, and I witnessed the great efforts that both governments are making to secure people’s well-being. I have met the leaders of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, and I rejoice to see the way that they work together in caring for the Lord’s flock. I have also had the opportunity to meet the leaders of the various Christian Churches and ecclesial communities as well as the leaders of other religions in the Holy Land. This land is indeed a fertile ground for ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue, and I pray that the rich variety of religious witness in the region will bear fruit in a growing mutual understanding and respect.
Mr President, you and I planted an olive tree at your residence on the day that I arrived in Israel. The olive tree, as you know, is an image used by Saint Paul to describe the very close relations between Christians and Jews. Paul describes in his Letter to the Romans how the Church of the Gentiles is like a wild olive shoot, grafted onto the cultivated olive tree which is the People of the Covenant (cf. 11:17-24). We are nourished from the same spiritual roots. We meet as brothers, brothers who at times in our history have had a tense relationship, but now are firmly committed to building bridges of lasting friendship.
The ceremony at the Presidential Palace was followed by one of the most solemn moments of my stay in Israel – my visit to the Holocaust Memorial at Yad Vashem, where I met some of the survivors who suffered the evils of the Shoah. Those deeply moving encounters brought back memories of my visit three years ago to the death camp at Auschwitz, where so many Jews - mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, friends - were brutally exterminated under a godless regime that propagated an ideology of anti-Semitism and hatred. That appalling chapter of history must never be forgotten or denied. On the contrary, those dark memories should strengthen our determination to draw closer to one another as branches of the same olive tree, nourished from the same roots and united in brotherly love.
Mr President, I thank you for the warmth of your hospitality, which is greatly appreciated, and I wish to put on record that I came to visit this country as a friend of the Israelis, just as I am a friend of the Palestinian people. Friends enjoy spending time in one another’s company, and they find it deeply distressing to see one another suffer. No friend of the Israelis and the Palestinians can fail to be saddened by the continuing tension between your two peoples. No friend can fail to weep at the suffering and loss of life that both peoples have endured over the last six decades.
Allow me to make this appeal to all the people of these lands: No more bloodshed! No more fighting! No more terrorism! No more war! Instead let us break the vicious circle of violence. Let there be lasting peace based on justice, let there be genuine reconciliation and healing. Let it be universally recognized that the State of Israel has the right to exist, and to enjoy peace and security within internationally agreed borders. Let it be likewise acknowledged that the Palestinian people have a right to a sovereign independent homeland, to live with dignity and to travel freely. Let the two-state solution become a reality, not remain a dream. And let peace spread outwards from these lands, let them serve as a “light to the nations” (Is 42:6), bringing hope to the many other regions that are affected by conflict.
One of the saddest sights for me during my visit to these lands was the wall. As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation, but rather respecting and trusting one another, and renouncing all forms of violence and aggression. Mr President, I know how hard it will be to achieve that goal. I know how difficult is your task, and that of the Palestinian Authority. But I assure you that my prayers and the prayers of Catholics across the world are with you as you continue your efforts to build a just and lasting peace in this region.
It remains only for me to express my heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed in so many ways to my visit. To the Government, the organizers, the volunteers, the media, to all who have provided hospitality to me and those accompanying me, I am deeply grateful. Please be assured that you are remembered with affection in my prayers. To all of you, I say: thank you, and may God be with you. Shalom!
In the entire time that Pope Benedict was in the Middle East, he had one over arching message: "No more bloodshed, no more fighting, no more terrorism, no more war. Instead, let us break the vicious cycle of violence."
In this trip Pope Benedict stayed on point, in spite of the attempts from hard line Muslims and Jews to divert his message. By the time the Pope left for Rome these nay sayers were drowned out by the vast majority of people who heard Benedict speak the words they hold in the deepest places in their hearts. No more war, no more violence, no more terrorism, no more deaths of their sons and daughters.
I was very interested in what the outcome would be of the meeting between Benedict and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to the London Times Netanyahu wanted a very vocal condemnation of Iran. He didn't precisely get that. What he got was a general condemnation of antisemitism, and a lot more of what he didn't want and didn't address--more support for the two state solution. This is a solution which Netanyahu does not support publicly, but somewhat tepidly privately. He's on record as stating the best solution is to rebuild Palestine from the ground up and 'defer' the statehood question.
In the meantime his position is hand in glove with his Christian Zionist Evangelical supporters such as John Hagee, Michael D. Evans, and Joel Rosenberg. All three of these guys have written End Time books in which they for see Iran as a nuclear power initiating the Rapture. They want the Rapture. They want Netanyahu in power. They have been his best American buddies for a long time.
In the meantime, the Prime Minister was getting a very pointed message from the Obama administration concerning a pre emptive Israeli strike on Iran. This is the same message that Israel also received from the Bush administration at the end of last year. Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Obama next Monday. Apparently the administration felt it was important to get their message to the Netanyahu government before his visit. I wonder too, whether it wasn't important to get that message to Israel exactly while Benedict was there.
Benedict hammered on the two state solution and refused to single out Iran. Those are messages Prime Minister Netanyahu may need to hear as his ear has been too focused on American Evangelicals. The Evangelicals may be the loudest players in the American Christian world, but they do not speak for the totality of the Christendom. As much as Evangelicals may secretly hate Roman Catholicism, the church is still by far, the world's biggest voice for Christianity. When the Pope speaks the world listens---as the Pope has sometimes found out to his dismay. Not this time though. This time he spoke to the hopes of people of the Middle East and those of us who share this planet with them. They are not the hopes of American Evangelical Christian Zionists and the New Apostolic Reformation.
I sometimes wonder if our outspoken 'abortion only' bishops have any idea of the real agenda of their fellow Evangelical culture warriors. Catholicism does not now and really never has supported notions of the Rapture or Dispensationalism. In Catholic teaching the millennium of the reign of Christ is now. It started with the Resurrection. It continues until Jesus comes again. What the Evangelicals are up to is setting up their own time frame for their Rapture and they are using Iran and Israel to accomplish this.
In the case of the Middle East, it's critical that President Obama and Pope Benedict are on the same page. Iran is facing presidential elections on June 12 and even President Amadenijhad, should he be re elected, can't continue to set Iran against the entire world. This is especially true if the world's religious leaders are unified in their condemnation of religious extremism, a message that was sent from Jordan and stated forcefully by the Pope.
It's too bad that certain voices kept American Catholics focused on Notre Dame because Pope Benedict's trip to the Middle East was, in my opinion, the finest moment of his papacy. I just hope American Catholics understand that the Notre Dame controversy was contrived and kept going to undercut President Obama and silence Pope Benedict's message in the Middle East. The only people who really benefit from that are the Rapturists, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Amadenijhad. | <urn:uuid:766483e9-5394-4b08-8f78-ac5d14a76ac7> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://enlightenedcatholicism-colkoch.blogspot.com/2009/05/pope-benedict-sums-up-his-trip-to.html | 2017-08-24T06:55:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886133042.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824062820-20170824082820-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.97203 | 1,902 |
Because I am too busy these days, most of the posts I wish to write never see the light of day. However, this particular one was called to life by Highlander's post Donkeys Vs People: The Media Circus. After reading it, I immediately decided to leave aside all other matters that can be postponed and write down my thoughts.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is a Libyan intelligence officer who had become the sole convict for the 1988 bombing of PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. He had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 but was "freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish Government on 20 August 2009 following reports that he had terminal prostate cancer and had less than three months to live". In order to be freed, Megrahi had to drop his appeal.
The release made unhappy just about everybody. Most victims' families, US government and many ordinary Westerners are outraged that the convict was allowed to return home as a free man and received a hero's welcome, while most Libyans seem indignant because he is still considered guilty and his appeal will never be processed.
The Lockerbie bombing set a sad record in the number of civilians killed in a single terror act - 270. As far as I know, the previous record was in the distant 1925 - the St. Nedelya Church bombing in Bulgaria, by communist terrorists. So Lockerbie opened a new era in the history of terror and is undoubtedly very important. However, I must admit that I have never made efforts to be very informed about it. The details of the case are too far from my field of competence, and the information available in public space has been from the beginning too tainted with unsubstantiated guessing and apparent deliberate disinformation to be useful.
If you ask me what I think of Mr. Megrahi's guilt (or lack of it), I'll frankly say that I don't know. As I recently wrote on Anglo's blog, "I generally trust British justice, and I surely don't believe the fancy conspiracy theories circulated around. However, a miscarriage of justice can always happen, especially when a horrible crime is committed and the public insists to have somebody - anybody - punished". I would add that Britain has had sad precedents in convicting innocents after large-scale terror acts - the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six. Indeed, their cases were examples of inquisitional-type justice relying heavily on confessions, while Megrahi never confessed anything. However, the little I have read about his case has left in me the impression that linking forensic evidence to him depended too much on the testimony of a single person, some shopkeeper from Malta. While this does not prove Megrahi's innocence in any way, it makes me doubt that his guilt has been proved beyond any reasonable doubt. But again, I don't know the details of the case even to the degree that has been released to the public, and so I may be wrong.
At some time after Megrahi's conviction in 2001, new arguments for his innocence began to be circulated in public space. They can be found on the Web very easily, so forgive me for not linking to them. I just don't wish to, because they do not sound to me believable at all, but rather look like a smokescreen. Briefly, it is claimed that Megrahi has been framed by CIA in order to shield the real perpetrators Iran and Syria, because Libya allegedly was a more convenient target than them. Let me quote what I wrote two years ago on Highlander's blog: "I won't bet my hand that Al-M. is innocent. If he is, I'll think this is despite the "new evidence" disputed now in all media, not because of it. This "evidence" has all the elements of the most persistent Western myths of recent time: the big bad USA deliberately (rather than by honest mistake) going after those innocents who are most suitable targets for the moment, retired CIA officers becoming whistleblowers (this agency's retirement rules definitely need scrutiny) and a conspiracy which managed to remain secret for many years despite involving dozens of people of all sorts. Not that it is impossible. No laws of physics forbid it. But it is highly unlikely. Besides, if it happened this way, why didn't CIA plant evidence also against Al-M.'s co-defendant and buy more reliable witnesses?We must keep in mind that European culture is tolerant to evil. This helps explain many things about Europe. E.g. the abolition of death penalty. I was all for it. It was said to me and others that death penalty isn't needed to protect the society from a murderer, because if the murder is a really grisly one (or more than one), he will be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. And now, after we have abolished death penalty, we are said that no European country has life imprisonment without parole. Letting a murderer walk free after several years in prison is at the basis of today's European psyche. People are conditioned to perceive this as normal. So give people the benefit of the doubt, but beware evil. Don't count on anybody else to stop it. There is nobody."
I still have mixed thoughts about death penalty. I am concerned about the innocents that will inevitably be wrongly convicted from time to time, I worry about the reflections of the death sentence on those who pronounce and execute it, and I am just disgusted by the idea of cold-bloodedly taking the life of a person unable to defend himself. However, I must admit that my opponents were right in one thing - that abolition of death penalty will allow release of any convict as soon as it becomes politically advantageous and the public is looking aside. In Megrahi's case, I fear how easy it turned to make witnesses withdraw their testimony or bring 3rd people to testify that they have bribed the witnesses; and because, unlike Bulgaria, it is (yet) not possible to make forensic evidence in Britain disappear, then you can find a big-mouthed former CIA employee admitting that he has planted it. Don't you share my fear that these tools have the power to make anybody immune to justice?
If you ask why I think somebody in the West would be interested in rescuing Megrahi from the grip of justice, I would answer that the urge to deal with Libya can quite create such interests. First, after Bulgaria joined EU in early 2007, this created solidarity links between it and older EU members. Soon, rumours started that the Bulgarian medics could be traded to Megrahi. If Highlander, the target reader of this post, has endured to this point, I would ask her to look at this 2007 Standart News report titled Saif al-Islam: There Is a Link Between Megrahi and the Nurses. Let me quote a little from it: "There is a connection between the cases of Lockerby bomber's - the Libyan Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi - and the Bulgarian nurses, said in his latest interview the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi Saif al-Islam for the French Le Mond. "We made a link between the cases. We also agreed to discuss the issue on a bilateral level - between Libya and Great Britain. Formerly, it was insisted that this discussion should be held on a broadly European level," he added."
I would not risk to guess whether such "agreement" really existed or not. However, the common rule in deals of this sort is that they are automatically invalidated if one of the sides makes them public. So, the fact is that our medics were allowed to return while Megrahi remained in prison. However, these days we heard again from Mr. al-Islam. Let me quote the Telegraph from Aug. 21: "Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif, claimed the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, was linked to trade deals between Britain and Libya." Understandably, these statements are of little help in convincing Westerners that Megrahi and Libya had no role in the Lockerbie bombing. Personally, during the years of the HIV trial I have heard Mr. al-Islam make and then retract so many conflicting statements without a shadow of embarassment that I have stopped taking him seriously a long time ago. The only rational explanation of his behaviour that I can figure out is that he intends to perplex the stupid Western infidels and show them that their brains are absolutely useless in understanding the world.
At the end of her post, Highlander writes, "My biggest disappointment is that now that the documents have been sealed forever we will never know what really happened on the ill fated Pan Am flight..." I envy her optimism that if the appeal hadn't been dropped, we would know what really happened. However, I still hope that some day the truth may come out. There is a broad agreement that the Lockerbie bombing was state-sponsored (be it Libya or another state). So there is still chance that truth will emerge one day from the archives of the state perpetrator. This happened in the case of assassinated Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov (no relation to me). After 1989, although the archives of our Communist security services were rigourously cleared, they still revealed evidence that Markov's murder was Bulgaria's deed.
My general impression from Highlander's post is that she has fallen in the trap of equating her homeland and people with the regime, a trap too often encountered by those living under rulers similar to Qadafi. E.g. she refers to Libyan authorities that had convicted the Bulgarian medics as "those 'evil' Arabs" (from Western point of view). I guess many other Libyans are in a similar mood. Therefore, I wish to end my post with a quote from the above mentioned Anglo's post. I am finding the quoted text so important that I'll mark it in bold:
"At the end of the day, whether he did this crime or not, Al-Megrahi was working for the Libyan intelligence and I do know from people that worked for Libyan Airlines in the 1980s that he was feared and was involved in many nasty acts against Libyans, this does not make him into a hero..." | <urn:uuid:9cfb9424-f76d-4485-990b-4d2a0a24dfd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://mayas-corner.blogspot.bg/2009/09/ | 2017-08-24T06:40:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886133042.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824062820-20170824082820-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.97955 | 2,112 |
Last night, I headed down to the scintillating Symphony Space to attend the second-ever Secret Science Club North lecture, featuring the American Museum of Natural History's parasitologist and curator of invertebrates Dr Mark Siddall. Dr Siddall's topic was the consumption of various invertebrates for the good of the consumer and the good of the planet. Dr Siddall had delivered a previous Secret Science Club lecture about leeches back in December 2012. Before the lecture, Secret Science Goddesses Margaret Mittelbach and Dorian Devins were giving out samples of gummy worms and, more importantly, delicious mealworms and crickets:
The cocktail of the evening was the deliciously "swampy" Spineless Wonder, a blend of Bailey's, vodka, and Coca-Cola- the acidity of the cola partially curdled the Bailey's, making for a slightly chunky drink.
Dr Siddall's lecture last night was largely a travelogue/epicurean exploration. Think of a night spent listening to a very funny, very intelligent friend talking about their travels to interesting locations in the developing world and you'll get an idea about last night's lecture. Dr Siddall began by asking the audience if any members were vegans or vegetarians, moving to to asking attendees where they drew the line regarding consuming animals... would any of us eat gorilla? How about dolphins? They're relatively closely related to cows, which many of us eat. He displayed a mammalian cladogram and asked us to pick out which animals we'd eat- would any of us eat an opossum but not a wallaby? He then showed a cladogram of all known animal taxa and asked us which of these animals we would eat. He reminisced about taking university students on a tour of tidal zones and exhorting them to add taste to the other sense they used to explore the environment, serving them mussels and (at the tides ebb) sea urchin gonads. He noted that barnacles were tasty, being basically stationary shrimp encased in a stony shell, but eating the typical Atlantic barnacles was too difficult to be practical- likening barnacles to the "celery of the sea", one would burn more calories rendering them edible than one would obtain by eating. He then told of his "barnacle epiphany", trying the giant picoroco barnacle in Chile and finding it delicious. This was the first of many times in the course of the lecture in which he averred that, if in doubt about the palatability of any foodstuff, you should eat it served in a spicy broth. In an aside, he quipped that you should eat with a parasitologist if you want to know what bugs you.
To determine how squeamish the audience members were, Dr Siddall showed us a slide of huitlacoche, then he passed around a bag of tortilla chips and a container of delicious corn smut for the audience to sample. Que sabor rico!
The bulk of the lecture was occupied by a slide show of Dr Siddall in various markets in various nations, eating various invertebrates. Interspersed with pictures of Dr Siddall munching on grubs and grasshoppers, there were pictures of vultures scavenging the leavings at an outdoor market, of a jolly African matron laughing because the Americans wanted to eat mopane "worms" (in a spicy broth, of course), giant Hercules beetle grubs roasted on a stick (tastes like buttered popcorn! he quipped). He told us a funny story about the run-up to a trip to Oaxaca, when he enthusiastically told his young daughter that they would be eating chapulines, so that she was eager to be eating them in a taco with a spicy sauce and guacamole. In a picture of a bucket in a market in Korea, he remarked, "There are five phyla in that bucket!"
He advised us, if you want to know what's safe to eat, you ask the locals and you eat what the locals eat. In Madagascar, he joked about how the staple was rice- rice for dinner every day, occasionally a meal of beans, and if you were lucky, rice and beans. He then quizzed us about water safety, showing pictures of two glasses of water and asking whether one should drink the cloudy water or the clear water- answer: the cloudy water was boiled in the pot in which the rice was cooked to loosen the rice from the pot, and was safe to drink. He then showed a picture of Secret Science Club lecturer and all-around great person Evon Hekkala laid up with a bad illness she got from the water in Madagascar. He also talked about cultural savvy in the field- you should eat whatever is placed in front of you because it represents an act of hospitality from someone who can little afford it. If you are a vegan and your host or guide offers you their last chicken, eat the chicken. It's less of a sacrifice than the one made by your host.
Being the leech guy, Dr Siddall digressed on the topic of edible leeches, pronouncing the blood-suckers kinda flaccid and tasteless. The leeches to eat are the muscular carnivorous ones, like the giant earthworm eating red leeches. He showed us a portrait of himself eating a leech while a grad student working in the field- the booze bottles photoshopped out because he had shown the lecture to a bunch of grammar school students.
Another aside dealt with the "medicinal" uses of certain foods- snake is sold in the markets of Taiwan to improve virility, scorpions are sold in the winter because they are considered "hot". He then mentioned English naturalist Thomas Muffet, whose writings on the medicinal virtues of eating spiders may have inspired the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.
Dr Liddall then went into a lengthy digression about the blister beetle Lytta vesicatoria, the infamous Spanish fly, the source of the blistering agent Cantharone- he related an anecdote about a pediatrician wishing to topically apply Cantharone to his daughter's arm, but he wouldn't allow the treatment until he swabbed himself with it. After much resistance, he liberally applied it to his arm, resulting in three-inch blisters- the pediatrician told him that the merest touch would be applied to his daughter's arm. He then related a tale about the Marquis De Sade giving Spanish fly laced sweets to women because the irritating agent is concentrated in the urogenital system and the "stimulation" was thought to be an aphrodesiac. He also told of a unit of the French Foreign Legion that had been laid up with painful priapism from eating the legs of frogs that had consumed Lytta vesicatoria. Frogs have a knack for accumulating insect toxins- the wickedly poisonous golden poison frog accumulates beetle toxins in its flesh. This led to a bit of advice about avoiding bright bugs- they are aposematic, they advertise their toxic status by standing out.
Another funny topic was drunken elephants- Dr Siddall noted that it would take three trailer loads of fermented marula fruits to get an elephant drunk, and that the intoxicated elephants of legend are probably tripping on poisonous insects consumed with tree bark. Another slide showed a slug happily munching on an Amanita muscaria.
Regarding locust "plagues", Dr Siddall advised us to eat the locusts, noting that it was sad that Laura Ingalls Wilder's dad didn't know that. He showed a newsreel of an African locust plague and noted that the gentleman walking through the cloud of grasshoppers ate one.
The home stretch of the lecture dealt with the nutritive value of insects. Dr Siddall noted that the worst features of malnutrition resulted from an underconsumption of protein and a lack of protein and fat diversity. Starches are easier to come by. After an strong exhortation not to eat bats, which carry ebola, Dr Siddall started to show us "nutritional labels" for various insects. To produce a pound of beef, it requires 12 pounds of feed, 5,000 gallons of water, and 31 kilowatt-hours. For a pound of chicken, it requires 2 pounds of feed, 815 gallons of water, and 4 kilowatt hours. By comparison, a pound of crickets requires 2 pounds of feed, one gallon of water, and 2 kilowatt hours.
2.5 acres can produce enough beef to feed one person, while the same land can produce a plethora of crickets. Dr Siddall exhorted us to eat more insects. Currently, three pounds of cricket "flour" typically costs around sixty dollars. Demand for edible insect products will drive costs down.
The whole lecture involved a lot of audience participation. In one exchange, a lucky bastard was able to say he ate a bug because he took advantage of the periodic influx of brown marmorated stink bugs at his workplace... and to think that earlier that day he'd only eaten cicadas among the real "bugs". Besides huitlacoche, Dr Siddall passed around figs so we could eat the tiny wasps that inhabit the inflorescenses. It was a very fun lecture with a serious takeaway- eat insects, preferably in a spicy broth.
In the Q&A, some bastard asked Dr Siddall a question in his capacity as the leech guy. Given the number of (relatively) unrelated taxa that consume blood, were the anticoagulants used by, or example, leeches and mosquitos, similar? Dr Siddall indicated that there are many factors in the coagulation cascade that can be targeted. Hirudin, the anticoagulant in the saliva of the medicinal leech, is an anti-thrombin. Different sanquivorous taxa target different parts of the coagulation cascade, some anti-coagulants attack thromin, some attack pre-thrombin, some attack platelets. There are also anticoagulants that are A-pyrases, they destroy free ATP (after the lecture, I asked Dr Siddall if any of these pyrases were proposed as anti-cancer drugs, but they are large proteins that cannot penetrate the cell walls, making them unlikely to be used against tumors).
Another audience member, who suffers from ulcerative colitis, asked Dr Siddall about nematode therapy. After briefly discussing the hygiene hypothesis, Dr Siddall emphatically stated, "People in wormy areas would rather have your allergies than their parasitic worms." He then noted that pig whipworms, which cannot reproduce in a human host, can be used with some success. He then commented on the near eradication of the hideous Guinea worm, a meter-long worm that burrows beneath the skin- last year, there were only 83 recorded cases of Guinea worm, all in South Sudan.
A funny question by an audience member regarded squeamishness- what does it take to make the bug-eating Leech Guy puke? His answer was that vomit makes him want to vomit, and that this has a really good evolutionary basis. We are descended from individuals who ate together, so if one of them ate something that made them sick, the others would be safer if they threw up as well. Those individuals who were non-pukers died off, leaving no descendents.
Asked about parasites, Dr Siddall noted that, while we are co-evolved with them, we don't need them. He then brought up toxoplasmosis, which is caused by a protozoan related to the malaria pathogen. The definitive hosts of toxoplasmosis are cats, though all mammals can act as vectors. Mice infected with toxoplasmosis tend to engage in risky behaviors- they don't fear cat urine and they are more active in the daytime... perfect behaviors to make it more likely that they will be eaten by cats. All mammals can act as hosts for toxoplasmosis- the organism tends to go through different stages in different hosts. In the bloodstream, the parasites reproduce quickly- they are "tachyzoids". In pregnant females, the tachyzoids can cross the fetal barrier in the placenta and cause birth defects (the process is known as teratogenesis). Never change kitty litter when you're pregnant- make someone else do it. Dr Siddall then joked that mosquitoes are the primary hosts of malaria, and that humans are vectoring the parasite for those poor mosquitoes.
After the lecture, Dr Siddall hung out with the crowd, fielding any and all questions. I asked him if he'd ever eaten trepang, which led to a digression on contact between Indonesia and Australia before Europeans "discovered" the continent. A young woman was asking about the feasibility of raising crickets in a community garden, and Dr Siddall noted that the insect market was unregulated but that insect producers, leery of onerous USDA crackdowns, tend to autoclave their product to forestall any scares. Some bastard joked that we should all pool our resources and start an "artisanal" cricket market and sell crickets to hipsters. That led to digressions about Brooklyn crickets (brickets- rub them with the same spices you rub on briskets) and pickled crickets- pricklets. Yeah, there was beer involved.
All told, it was a very fun night with a very engaging lecturer and some unusual snacks. Kudos to Dr Siddall, Dorian, Margaret, and the staff of the Symphony Space. | <urn:uuid:82dfac28-6f85-49b7-8032-1b6f13b78c4d> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://bigbadbaldbastard.blogspot.com/2014/10/secret-science-club-north-entomophagy.html | 2017-08-24T06:58:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886133042.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824062820-20170824082820-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.967196 | 2,833 |
The first time I really heard Don Trip was also the first time I saw him. Bearded, with no shirt on, he was rapping "Letter to my Son," his now semi-viral song about not being able to see his kid. It's a harsh, openly emotional song. It's not subtle as much as it just feels and sounds real. Don Trip is a good writer and a good rapper, but he also has a great voice. It's the kind of craggy, uncomfortable thing that stands out whenever it pops up. Since the release of "Letter to my Son," Trip has released a whole lot of mixtapes, including one of my personal favorite releases this year, Step Brothers, an album with Starlito that is loosely based on samples from the Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly movie of the same name. Even at its darkest moments, (surprisingly there are plenty), it sounds like the rappers are having fun making songs together. It's not just another DJ Khaled-style cut-and-paste, but an actual in-studio collaboration done by dudes who aren't afraid to admit that they actually like rapping. Don Trip has a lot more music coming, so I decided to check in with him about how life's been since "Letter to my Son."
You’re extremely prolific. You released two mixtapes in the same day. Are you constantly in the studio? Yeah, I mean I’ve been this way for the last…well, probably like the last ten years, and now that I got that light—that people are starting to see that I’m like this—I actually got three tapes ready right now that I don’t even plan on releasing for a second.
Is it easier to keep working now that you know you’ve got an audience? I try to look at it like I got more work to do. I go places out of town where everybody don’t know me, and that makes me feel like I gotta keep going. The way I want to approach it, I want everybody to realize who I am and realize they been sleeping on it. I want them to go back and then say, Oh he got 17 tapes that we been slacking on.
How’s touring been? I’m on the BET Black College Tour right now. It’s been a learning experience. The kids have probably never seen me before besides probably like five people in the crowd. I get to see how they react to music they’ve never heard before.
You’re from Memphis, but you don’t sound similar to any other Memphis rapper I’ve heard. Musically I’d say I was like a sponge, you know? I listened to everything. I really didn’t listen to Memphis music as much. I was a really big Tupac fan and a big Jay-Z fan. When I started recording I didn’t want to sound like none of what was coming out from Memphis. I wanted to stand alone. I didn’t want anyone to say, Oh he sounds like he’s from Memphis. Either you like it or you don’t. If you do or don’t like it, it’s not just because I’m from Memphis, it’s because of me.
But you still work within the Memphis scene, right? Yeah, I like to work with everybody. I keep business and personal separate. When I meet people…if you grind like I grind then I feel like we can work it out. I’m never too difficult to work with.
How did the collaborations with Starlito come about? We met on the road with Gotti. We was both familiar with each other’s music and we sat down and said, You know, it’d be a good look if we did a tape together and from that instant we went to work. We both found time and in a matter of like three sessions we knocked out [Step Brothers].
How did you decide on Step Brothers as the concept? Was it just a convenient title or are you both huge fans?> It was a little bit of both. I like the movie, but I think that’s one of Star’s favorite movies. He knew it line for line. I’m like, Man, I don’t know what’s wrong with this guy. It was interesting because we could make certain things…Step Brothers is a comedy. It’s not serious at all. It was interesting for us to be able to take excerpts out and make them tie into actual life. On “A Time to Kill,” the sample sounds eerie, it sounds serious, when you hear it on the tape it sounds serious. Like, if you didn’t know what that movie was, you would think something tragic happened.
Is there going to be a sequel? Yeah, we’re going to do a Step Brothers II. We didn’t want to come out with a Step Brothers II a matter of months after Step Brothers, we’re going to let it soak in a little bit, we got a couple more videos to release.
The thing that struck me about the mixtape was that it really seemed like you guys were having fun rapping together. The number one thing we didn’t want to do was email each other songs back and forth. We do that with everybody else. We felt that the only way it was going to be significant is if we took time out of schedules to actually do it. It’s three hours from Memphis to Nashville, so I drive to Nashville for the first session and he drove down here to Memphis for the last two sessions. Actually, the third session was just mixing, so we worked it out to where we actually sat with each other. Every song on that tape—there’s no song I did and then waited for him to come hear the song. We did each song with each other present.
You can tell. Sometimes you guys are even going word for word. There’s a couple records we didn’t even write. “Hot Potato,” we was actually standing in the booth together and we went on the fly. He would sing a bar or half a bar and I would return with a bar.
Are you going to do the next one the same way? Of course. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I feel like the main reason people can rock with the tape is the fact that you can hear our chemistry, and the only way we got that is because we chose to actually sit in the studio with each other.
Are you freestyling or writing most of the time? Oh, no. I never freestyle. The way I work, I don’t write until I’m in the studio. I don’t like to write before it's time because when it's time to spit it, I don’t remember how I approached it. I don’t rap it like…if I can’t feel it, then I’m not doing it. I feel like that’s one of the few things I can offer that ain't being offered all around the board. I can show you that I feel this. I love music, so I’m expressing it instead of just rapping.
I think that’s why “Letter to my Son” made a lot of people take notice. It’s a very emotional song. Do you feel like there’s pressure on you to be the guy that is always making the serious, intense song? There are pros and cons to it. The good thing about it is that it opens they eyes and they see that I do pour my heart out when I record. But the con to that is that, that’s what people want. They want “Letter to my Son Part II” and Part III and Part IV…That’s like asking for me to be the most miserable artist ever.
Now that you’re signed to a major label, is there pressure to deliver a single? I don’t know how to go in and make one particular kind of song. I let my music do what it do. If I go in and the beats speak to me and I hear it…I heard “Letter to my Son” and that’s what came out. I don’t go in and say, Hey we gotta make the next radio single. I don’t even know how to do that.
We were talking earlier about how you don’t sound like anyone from Memphis. Is there anyone that was really influential to you that people might not expect? Jadakiss. I learned how to count bars from Jadakiss. He didn’t teach me a lesson and show me, but I used to study Jadakiss verses.
That’s interesting. He can be a great punchline rapper, too. I feel like when you want to, you’re good at that as well. I try not to do it as much. When punchlines are popular then it starts being all people will do. Like you could listen to a song and no two bars had anything to do with each other. They was just punchline after punchline after punchline. I could do that when I was younger, but now that I’m older I feel like every song is supposed to be a picture. If I’m showing you a picture, I’m not being a comedian. I would like to look at my music as a documentary, not as a comedy. Of course you want comedic relief in it, but I don’t want my humor to overpower the point I’m trying to make.
A lot of dudes seem content to not make any sense. If they said it instead of rapped it, you would look at them confused like, What are you talking about? You would think they was bouncing off the walls. | <urn:uuid:fdda2d7e-1b2c-485a-a4f6-35ad4033eaf7> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.thefader.com/2011/09/21/interview-don-trip/ | 2017-08-17T08:00:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102993.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20170817073135-20170817093135-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.976529 | 2,117 |
|From American Airlines 707 Jet Stewardess Argie Hoskins|
Above is my Daddy who taught me to keep things in order to accomplish a task. Tasks were done with strict discipline. Obedience to the task was demanded and expected. As a public school teacher, I found that students who had not learned to internalize discipline could not focus and accomplish a goal.
I am quoting a cowboy friend who worked for Daddy from time to time, "Al would tell me what he wanted to get done. He would than tell me what he was going to do, told me what I was going to do and said, "Now be careful!" As a windmiller for a large ranch, Al took his job very seriously. It could be a dangerous venture, getting up the windmill tower to repair whatever was needed. Thank you Daddy for being an example of hard and dedicated work ethics. Mother used to say, "You are just like your Daddy," for me that was a compliment. American Airlines set that expectation for the Stewardess Corp.
|From American Airlines 707 Jet Stewardess Argie Hoskins|
Above is my Mother for whom I am grateful for her intuitive soul, hard work and good judgment. She taught me to think outside the box. "Sister, if you can not do it one way, you can do it another." "Think before you act." "Think of others before yourself." "Do your best!" Thank you dear Mother for being you and helping me be me. Neither of us was perfect, but we hung in there and kept trying until something worked. Life is hard work! It is worth it!
Honestly, I had the foundation for learning and applying the skills needed for Emergency Training.
I am amazed at the metamorphic process from caterpillar to butterfly. What does this have to do with me and Emergency Training? The caterpillar was evolving step by step. As I ponder my training as a stewardess and the "me" who emerged from that training during the years of my flying experience, it was all good. For successfully handling of any emergency, it was important to know what to do on an automatic level so I could depend on my knowledge and skill. Wow! I needed to learn sooo much. And good ole American Airlines picked me, Argie Hoskins, because they knew that I could do it! Now to get rid of the self doubts and have confident inside of me. The task ahead was to learn what I needed to know on an automatic level, no guess work! Along the way something really great happened, I found in me, a new me, not only did I know the procedures, but I had good judgment. You can't learn everything you need to know by the book. There is no substitute for good judgment. Always have in my mind plan "A" and plan "B" for this is survival. Later as a school teacher, we had workshops on "thinking outside the box." I realized that I had been thinking outside the box for year and years.
My first Emergency Training was focused on DC-6, DC-6B, DC-6 Coach, DC-7, DC-7 Coach, DC-7 Dual Service, and the Convair. The Emergency Equipment: EXITS and how to open the window exits from inside and in some cases the outside of the aircraft. ROPES were located in exit windows and doors of certain aircraft. EVACUATION SLIDES were stored on the cabin doors. The Lounge exit had a slide. It was fun to practice our skills while overcoming fear. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS were located in various locations on the several aircraft. OXYGEN cylinder, outlets, walk-around bottles were strategically placed. FLASHLIGHTS were on some aircraft. EMERGENCY LIGHTS replaced flashlights on all aircraft. Another item that we always checked when we boarded was the SERVICE KIT which contained First Aid Equipment. We were trained to remember to take the SERVICE KIT with us if we evacuated. We didn't have the theme bandaides that children plaster all over them these days. That would have been an interesting demand. We had a FIRE AXE located on the forward side of cockpit door on all aircraft. FIRE DETECTORS AND EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENT and FLOTATION SEAT CUSHIONS were on some aircraft.
This is a statement from my American Airlines Manual: "The successful handling of any emergency aboard an aircraft depends to a large degree on you and your knowledge. There is never an emergency in which there isn't something you can do to help. Safe procedures require a cool head. The ability to think straight and operate calmly requires knowledge of what to do. There is no substitute for good judgment. The outline that follows assigns specific Stewardess responsibilities on the DC-6/DC-7 and the Convair. If, on the DC-6/DC-7 an emergency occurs and the specific location of the First Stewardess at the time makes it difficult or time consuming to accomplish her duties as outlined, then good judgment should dictate that she carry out the Second Stewardess' duties and vice -versa. The Second Stewardess under such conditions should take her cue from the First Stewardess.
Now the task for me was to know what responsibilities were First Stewardess and Second Stewardess because I felt that I could do both at the same time. That has been my challenge all my life; I think that I can do it all. I can't! I must be in charge of my stewardship and others must be committed to their stewardship. In case of an emergency, I must know what I can do and do it! Don't expect someone else or the government to solve the problems that I must handle.
And oh yes, Have a Happy Heart!
And this is the more later! This morning I thought of a couple more things that came to mind. I know that when I have time to write from my journal; I will have more to say. For now as I remember, the kind of emergency situations that I was trained for back in the 1950's were varied. BELLY LANDING when the gear would not come down was not very different than a normal landing. However there was the possibility of the shock of the hard landing of the tail and even more hard the landing of the nose. What was comforting was that we would be near the ground for easy departure. I remember the advice was to inform the passengers to relieve their bladders so that on impact the bladder would not burst. I never found that in the manual, but thought it was a good idea. Along with that idea was the use of the pillows and position of the body on impact. NOSE WHEEL UP MAIN GEAR DOWN will position the aircraft in a nose down, tail up! This position business of landing was hard for me because of the sequencing challenge in my brain. Up, down, down up! Concepts had to be over learned!
* KNOW YOUR PROCEDURES
* USE GOOD JUDGMENT
* KEEP COOL
One evening the crew was dead heading a plane back to LA. An engine caught on fire! We made an emergency landing. I was not one bit concerned. The flying crew knew what to do!
The following was not an emergency, however it could have been. After having had an extended layover in New York because of a wicked snow storm, the cold, continuing gray skies, and weather conditions, we loaded our passengers in the hangar as we continued to de-ice. Little did we know that inspite of the working snow plows the runway conditions were still icy. The noises on take off didn't seem that much different from other icy, snowy takeoffs. When we deplaned in LA, the crew was talking and taking notes as they studied the rolled up metal on the belly of the plane. I suppose this rolled up metal on the fuselage was caused by ice on the runway. I have always wanted to see that report.
One evening flying between El Paso and Douglas, the pilot lower the plane very quickly. He reported that he had picked up an unidentified object in our path. He was not asleep at the wheel. Speaking of such! I flew with a flight engineer that shared that he believed in UFOs because of the things that he had observered while flying. Interesting!
A near miss! On take off from New York and again during the winter, we almost did not make it over a fence at the end of the runway and into the water we could have gone. BUT the crew did some very quick and skilled flying to leap us over the fence. I loved flying with those old World War II pilots. They were so great! From the props to the jets, they were the greatest!!!!! I was afraid to fly before I became a stewardess. Just knowing the skill of the men at the wheel was a comfort. I am now married to an old pilot from World War II. When we are fly we hear every sound and movement of the aircraft. We have traveled on many airlines. And you know my choice of carriers.
In my opinion, American Airline is the best for their concern and training for Emergency Training. I would do it all over again for American.
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Catching Smallmouth Bass In Streams And Creeks: Everything Smallmouth Fan Tips
“I’m seeing all kinds of advice about catching smallmouth in lakes and rivers. But, I float creeks of Kentucky in a kayak. Any advice from Everything Smallmouth Folks? I’m catching plenty of largemouth. But, I know there are smallmouth in my creeks. Others catch them. Please share some secrets.”
We recently posted this question on our Everything Smallmouth Facebook page and had so many great responses that I wanted to preserve that information in a blog post here for others to learn from and enjoy.
These are pearls of wisdom from the guys and gals out in the creeks and streams catching amazing bronzebacks.
Catching smallmouth bass in streams and creeks
Bryn Yunkers: itty bitty footballhead jig. rapid movements
Chris Murphy: Faster moving water, pools between riffles, even the riffles themselves in the rivers will hold more Smallies than largemouths, who are more adapted to slower moving water. Look for bubbles and foam
Austin Wright: Try football head jigs, works for me!
Joe Randolph: Fly fishing from a canoe is the way to go
Steve Hyatt: Use small jigs and fly’s, you can’t use the same thing you fish for LargeMouth! LOL
Mike Jones: i’ve spent extensive time wading the creeks of western kentucky for smallmouth bass with my uncle. rebel crawdad and a small walk the dog lure or popper and hold on. make sure you target the areas that have flow and structure. submerged wood, rootwads, rock piles, shelves, etc will all hold smallies as long as there is some water flow over the area. the more the better. (at normal water levels) smallies like oxygenated water, that’s where you’ll find them. and if you get a topwater strike or they are striking short, don’t slow down, speed up.
Raymond Malone: Try Jig fishing Mate… take a Tube (Gitzit is what they’re called) my favorite kinds are the Tan with Black spots put the Hook through weedless way
then drop it to the bottom of Structured areas,points,and drop-offs,raise the jig a few inches off the bottom and twitch gently and move slowly or twitch it as you drag it slowly I have found that this get’s my slammed by Smallmouth here
Jeff Neels: Tip your jig trailers in Chartreuse Dye
Cj Wilhelm: speed your action up a bit and get some green pumpkin zoom swamp crawlers and use a carolina rig and jig it, also if you can find them, chartreuse mister twister’s are deadly on river smallies.
Mickey Beaver: Rebel’s wee crawdad
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Morgan Lea: Before I moved to Florida I fished a lot of rivers and creeks in middle Tennessee and found that 1/8 oz bitsy jigs work great and pink flukes on scroungers are deadly. Good luck.
Kyle Snyder: Panther marten or jig head & white mr. Twisters
Michæl Theoneandonly Chapman: Where rapids move to calm float a small jig down and play with it at the end light color.
Rick J Mchale Sr.: I like using tubes on SM and we catch a lot of them here in Maine !
Kevin Hernandez: I’d say throw a crawfish trap to try and figure out what color crawfish species are in your waters then match the hatch with either tubes or jigs
Eric Heiman: Live bait Crawfish work great, tube jigs,pearl white zoom flukes and other colors depending on water color, jerkbaits also depending on where and what color of water is !!!!
Gary Lubbes: i agree 100% with Mike Jones above. try zoom ultravibe speed craw or other craw imitation, texas rigged on 1/0 hook with a 1/8 or less weight (the faster the water, the heavier the weight), 4 or 6 lb test on an ultra lite spiining reel, hit all the areas Mike Jones suggested. highly oxygenated water is key, the warmer it gets the faster they like it. and they will slam buzzbaits over structure in or near fast water.
Dominick Massa: 1/8 mepps chart on chart. Smallmouth eat it! Gravel bars around holes.
Wesley Daniel Widrig: light line and and quicker retrieves. rebel crawdad always works great in a creek. also baby bass senkos. and if you want to catch everything in the creek use live night crawlers. hope this helps.
James FattJimmy Alba: Helgermites!!!
Bruce Wagers: Tubes and creek chubs work great.
Nick Tardy: I fish a smaller river which has some fast water, and I’ve caught smallies on size 9 black and gold original floating rapalas.
Brad Davis: Great advice from everyone and I agree 100%. I fish for smallies with gitzit tubes, small senkos, small crawfish looking crankbaits, buzzbaits early and late, soft and hard jerkbaits like zoom flukes or floating rapalas, then an assortment of crawfish imitating plastics..
Matthew Erny: Get a tfo mini mag 6,7,8 and fish hoppers and size 8 and 10 craws. You will find the ability to present a fly with a short stif rod on a creek is an amazing way to get a bite. Go with a 300 to 400 grain line. Lighter if it is a wide area heavier if it is tight with trees.
Bryan Claxton: Bitsy jigs with a tube pumpkin color works great in e.tennessee
Glen E Smith: Smallmouth are the males of the spieces, Huh???
Jason Pedrick: soft plastics near a dam. cast into the river and let the current wash the jig toward you while bouncing it along the bottom. Cha-ching
Seth Kirchhoff: 3″ sinkos rigged snagless and with bullet sinkers. Increase the weight/number of the sinkers for higher currents. Bounce ’em on the bottom in deep holes – less is more when it comes to movement/action. Drift them through/around/against cover and structure (root wads, etc). Focus on current and the edges of current. Smallies hunt the current.
James Landis: I like , in streams,, using a like 3 inch pumpkin colored crawl, bullet sinker, an hook it weedless,,
Rick Rupert: Rapalas, 3 inch floaters
Mike Armstrong: Downsize
Eric Jorgensen: Great lure suggestions. I would suggest seeking better smallmouth habitat out. LM suggest to me you my be fishing sunny warmer water laydowns (submerged wood). What you are looking for is oxygen rich clearer colder water. Look for rock and deeper water on a shaded wind blown bank. They will chase bait up into that other area if it is close to their desired habitat. Things like muddy water full of leafs indicate lack of oxygen. Move closer to the break line where the swifter clear water meets the slack water. That’s where they will be waiting to ambush a meal. Hope this helps. Tight lines and screaming drags
Joe Witte: Berkley gulp 3 inch smelt on an black 1/8 oz jig head(depending on the speed of water). They lose their shit.
Denny Bullock: I don`t know about Western KY but, in Central KY creeks AC Shiners are deadly…
Christopher Michael Hanley: I throw a white zoom tube bait on a Carolina rig in the deeper pockets. I usually target the bigger smallies
Tim Holt: It’s not the lures, even though smallies like smaller baits that largemouth, it’s the water you’re fishing…. Smallmouth and largemouth might live in the same body of water, but inhabit different areas…. smallmouth prefer current, while largemouth prefer slack areas. When people tell you to downsize, that may be correct, but when fishing jigs in current compared to slack water, you need heavier weight…. smaller profile baits with heavier heads….
Kim Ditzler: Bump the stump or knock the rocks once you hit tight to cover…………..let it sit for a few seconds then give it a twitch or two and let it fall………….Hang on!!!!!
Timm Vanderhill: Rebel Crawdad cranks…great on rivers…use on spinning tackle, makes even the small ones feel HUGE!!!
Chris Reed: Pearl white grub or swimbait on a jighead slow rolled.
Donnie Brown: Treat each hole like your sneaking up on a big buck, you need a rod you can cast a long distance, most anything will catch smallies, mepps over rostertails the hooks are stronger, rebel cranks are great, raps, ac.s. are good , myself I carry all theseand atorpedio and spook, I always start with a jig berkly 3in min. jig head 1/32 to an 1/8.fish them slow ,then fast, one thing that catches me a lot of fish and big ones is when you you deside to move to the next hole make a cast to the top of the hole you just come throu let your line out so it comes down throu the hole in the best way it can be letting your line out as you go down stream thenstop and fish it back.
Kim Ditzler: Also learn as much as you can and practice the Walk the Dog technique. You wont be sorry. Smallies love smashin’ a topwater. Again cast tightly and as accurately to cover as you can. Believe me when I say big smallies live under rocks and blowdowns. If it looks like it should hold a good fish, it probably does. The angle at which the lure is presented is the key to getting them to attack.
Kevin Watkins: We fish a flyrod with weighted streamers and crawfish imitations at the top or at the tailouts of riffle runs. During warmer weather, the Smallies will slam top water poppers too.
Rich Bitner: 3″ green pumpkin senkos. Wacky rig no wieght. you’ll hammer em.
Willie Miller:try a leach on a slip bobber I fish some awesome small mouth rivers in Michigan this is a very productive technique smallies are opprtunitist float the leach past rocks a other cover that supports an eddy free from the current .also try a crawler rigged texas style only a small spilt shot for weigth cast it at the bottom of current and let it wash down this is a feel technique and you will need a sensitive rod good luck!
Steve Willocks: In slack water try a wacky rig. They will eat it all year.
Mark Williams: Smallies love rock and current.
Fisherman’s Friend: Buy you some Gitzit Tubes in green crawfish salt and pepper’ Hang On! Source
As you can see, there are a tremendous number of smallie anglers over on our Facebook page who know their stuff. Be sure to check out the amazing pictures there.
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Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Resurrection Sunday together make up the next holiday, the cycle of Easter. The word “Easter” is Anglo Saxon for spring equinox. Easter was calculated using the equinox, and the term for the equinox (Oestra), according to the church historian Bede, gave its name to the Feast of the Resurrection. (Incidentally, the nation of Austria is also named after the spring equinox.)
We used to worship a goddess that was said to be the power behind the equinox, but she has been forgotten. And the heavens, which shout the praises of God, have come to be recognized and understood for what they have actually been saying all along. The word ‘Easter’ has been cleansed as the gospel has triumphed. Easter is now the festival day in which we celebrate the fact that winter is not just overcome every year; the winter of the world was overcome when the true spring began. When the Son of God burst forth from the grave as he was raised from the dead by the power of the Spirit of God, the winter of the world was wrecked.
Adam and Eve cast the world into winter with our sin, but God soon began giving hints that the winter would be broken. T.S. Elliot, in his poem ‘Little Gidding,’ calls these hints, “midwinter spring”, where a day with winter on each side is bright with the hint of a coming spring.
When the short day is brightest with frost and fire . . . stirs the dumb spirit, not with wind, but with pentecostal fire.
All throughout the Old Testament there are midwinter spring days, where spring itself does not come, but God makes it clear that the spring is coming. Resurrection is coming. History itself will have a spring equinox, when history turns from winter to spring.
This is why we call feast of the resurrection Easter. This is why we named it after Spring. The true meaning of Spring, the actual reason that God set up the cycle of the equinoxes and seasons, is that God is a God who brings life from death. So everything in spring is a legitimate symbol to be used in our celebration of the resurrection. Be it eggs, rabbits, flowers, dressing the children in new outfits, or seeing the ladies in beautiful spring clothes, it is all a wonderful and legitimate way of celebrating the resurrection. Because when Jesus came back from the dead the world's winter was broken and the spring came.
Jesus' resurrection is the turning point in history that then leads to the revolution of the ascension. Forty days after the resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven (Acts 1:9). Ascension Thursday is the day that the church has traditionally set aside to celebrate that installation of Jesus. At the ascension, Jesus was anointed as King of kings and Lord of lords. Then he took the throne at the right hand of God the Father.
It was a revolution because every authority in the pre-Ascension world was unseated by the work of Jesus. "And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it" (Col 2:15). After the resurrection all authority on heaven and on earth was given to Jesus (Matt. 28:18). When Jesus "was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God" (Mark 16:19), the revolution was accomplished, complete, and finished as Jesus was installed as the ruler of all.
Daniel recieves a vision of the day when the Son of Adam would come to heaven. He gives us a view at the other end of the journey of Jesus' ascension. The Apostles saw him leave for heaven. Daniel is given a vision of Jesus arriving in heaven. "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed" (Dan 7:13-14). In the ascension, the authority of mankind, the authority that was forfeited when Adam sinned, was restored to Mankind in the second Adam.
But that restoration does not just remain with Jesus. Ten days later, on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit of God was poured out on the church and the final restoration of humanity in and through the church began. The Church is the body of Christ, and when the Spirit was poured on Jesus, as he was anointed the King of kings and the Perfect High Priest of the heavenly tabernacle, the Spirit flowed down his head, down his beard, and onto his body (Ps. 133). When Jesus is anointed King he gives gifts to his people (Eph. 4:8). But the first gift that he gave was himself in the gift of his Spirit. Hence the name ‘Spiritual’ Gifts (1 Cor. 12:1). And through these gifts, the restoration and perfecting of his people (that will continue into eternity) both begins and is guaranteed by the giving of the Spirit.
Next we come to Halloween and All Saints Day. Halloween was not, and has never been, a pagan holiday. The Christian calendar, because of the Hebrew influence, has always begun its celebration on what the Romans considered to be the day before. The first days went from evening to morning (see Gen. 1), but the Romans reckoned their days from midnight to midnight. Out of Hebrew habit, the feast day celebrations began the evening before the day of celebration. Because much of the calendrical reckoning was done with Roman calendars, it felt as if the celebrations were beginning a day early.
What this says about the different views of history is a fun question, but for now, what is important is that is how the party on the eve of a celebration came to find itself on the calendar as its own event with its own traditions and activities. The word 'Halloween' is the contraction of All Hallows' Eve. All Hallows' (or All Saint's) is the celebration of the work of God through the church. It is the day when we make the devil-crushing feet of the Body of Christ dance at the honor and the joy of serpent crushing (Rom. 16:20).
All Saints' is the final hurrah of the church calendar after which we return again to Advent. Longing remembered becomes longing fulfilled. And so we continue the celebration.
This longing also becomes a reminder that all of our longing and all of our love for God will find it's fulfillment in the return of Christ, the second advent. When Jesus comes again bringing the final resurrection of the body, followed by the judgment of Christ and an eternity of life with God for the just and eternal death for those outside of Christ, we find the ultimate fulfillment of all of history.
This is why there are no old world pagan holidays left on the calendar handed down to us from Christendom. There have been a handful of romantic poets and secularists that have wanted to keep the holidays while jettisoning Jesus, but they have had to make things up and grasp at straws. The pagan calendars have all been forgotten along with their gods. The closest that we get is May Day, but no one even remembers who Maia was, let alone how her day was celebrated in the past.
There are still a handful of names that have remained on the calendar from ancient pagan times. Each of the seven names of the days of the week are derived from the Roman and Norse names of the gods of the seven visible planets, (Sun's Day, Moon's Day, Tiu's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Freya's Day, Saturn's Day), but the way back to worship those gods, or to the worship of the hosts of heaven at all, has been forever blocked and dammed by the resurrection of Jesus.
Now the planets are in the right hand of Jesus (Rev. 1:16). The seven spirits represented by the seven candlesticks of the temple turned out to be but a shadow of the seven spirits of the seven planets as they danced in light and glory before the Holy of Holies built without hands (Rev. 1:4, 12-13; Heb. 9:1-3, 23-24). The principalities of the planets were created to lead us into the presence of God. Though in the new covenant that job has been taken over by the church (Eph. 3:10), there is no reason to object to the use of the names of these forgotten gods, if only to remember that they have been forgotten. Having been overshadowed by the brightness of the glory of a crucified and risen Christ, each day is a reminder that all time is in the hands of Jesus.
So as we seek to recover and reinvigorate the church calendar, we should remember that the calendar is not merely a reminder to engage in some extra religious activities. We are remembering what Christ has done and is doing in history. And the remembering causes us to celebrate. The church calendar is to remind us of the great works of God on our behalf, and to mark out the time of our lives according to what God has done in Christ. The primary purpose of the church calendar is to give a rhythm and vocabulary to our joy, freedom, and hope. | <urn:uuid:b90d77a9-dc16-44f5-807a-c0d9bd65e078> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://wcfunk.squarespace.com/ | 2017-08-20T20:47:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886106990.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820204359-20170820224359-00120.warc.gz | en | 0.968619 | 1,989 |
Mitigating a DDOS attack against your infrastructure involves both people skills and tech skills. Whining won't cut it at all. The underlying problem remains the sad fact that the botnet herders are able to find fresh hosts for their malware. Should we start publishing more information about those pesky DDOS participants?
I have a confession to make. For a while and up until recently, one of my name servers was in fact an open resolver. The way I discovered and fixed the problem was by way of a rather crude DNS based DDOS.
Regular readers (Hi, Bert!) will be aware that I haven't actually published anything noteworthy for a while. So I was a bit surprised to find in early December 2012 that bsdly.net and associated domains was under a DNS based distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.
The attack itself appeared to be nothing special -- just a bunch of machines sending loads and loads of rubbish DNS requests directed at the IP addresses listed as authoritative masters for a few selected domains.
The targets were on relatively modest connections (think SOHO grade), so their pipes were flooded by the traffic and the people who were relying on that connectivity were not getting much network-related done. The sites weren't totally offline, but just about anything would time out without completing and life would be miserable. I've made a graph of the traffic available here, in a weekly view of that approximate period that nicely illustrates normal vs abnormal levels for those networks, generated by nfsen from pflow(4) data.
The networks under attack were in this instance either part of my personal lab or equipment used and relied upon by old friends, so I set out to make things liveable again as soon as I was able. Read on for field notes on practical incident response.
Under Attack? Just Block Them Then!
My early impulse was of course to adjust the PF rules that take care of rapid-fire brute force attacks (see eg the tutorial or the book for info) to swallow up the the rapid-fire DNS as well. That was unfortunately only partially successful. We only achieved small dips in the noise level.
Looking at the traffic via tcpdump(8) and OpenBSD's excellent systat states view revealed that the floods were incoming at a fairly quick pace and was consistently filling up the state table on each of the firewalls, so all timeouts were effectively zero for longish periods. A pfctl -k directed at known attackers would typically show a few thousand states killed, only to see the numbers rise quickly again to the max number of states limit. Even selectively blocking by hand or rate-limiting via pf tricks was only partially effective.
The traffic graphs showed some improvement, but the tcpdump output didn't slow at all. At this point it was getting fairly obvious that the requests were junk -- no sane application will request the same information several thousand times in the space of a few seconds.
It Takes People Skills. Plus whois. And A Back Channel.
So on to the boring part. In most cases what does help, eventually, is contacting the people responsible for the security of the networks where the noise traffic originates. On Unixish systems, you have at your fingertips the whois(1) command, which is designed for that specific purpose. Use it. Feeding a routeable IP adress to whois will in most circumstances turn up useful contact data. In most cases, the address you're looking for is abuse@ or the security officer role for the network or domain.
If you're doing this research while you're the target of a DDOS, you will be thanking yourself for installing a back channel to somewhere that will give you enough connectivity to run whois and send email to the abuse@ addresses. If your job description includes dealing with problems of this type and you don't have that in place already, drop what you're doing and start making arrangements to get a back channel, right now.
Next up, take some time to draft a readable message text you can reuse quickly to convey all relevant information to the persons handling abuse@ mail at the other end.
Be polite (I've found that starting with a "Dear Colleague" helps), to the point, offer relevant information up front and provide links to more (such as in my case tcpdump output) for followup. Stress the urgency of the matter, but do not make threats of any kind, and save the expletives for some other time.
The issue here is to provide enough information to make the other party start working on the problem at their end and preferably inspire them to make that task a high priority one. Do offer an easy point of contact, make sure you can actually read and respond to email at the address you're sending from, and if necessary include the phone number where you are most easily reachable.
When you have a useful template message, get ready to send however many carefully amended copies of that message to however many colleagues (aka abuse@) it takes. Take care to cut and paste correctly, if there's a mismatch between your subject and your message body on anything essential or inconsistencies within your message, more likely than not your message will be discarded as a probable prank. Put any address you think relevant in your Cc: field, but do not hold out any high hopes off useful response from law enforcement. Only directly affected parties will display any interest whatsoever.
Fill in any blanks or template fields with the output from your monitoring tools. But remember, your main assets at this point are your people skills. If the volume is too high or you find the people part difficult, now is the time to enlist somebody to handle communications while you deal with the technical and analysis parts.
You will of course find that there are abuse contact addresses that are in fact black holes (despite the RFC stating basic requirements), and unless you are a name they've heard about you should expect law enforcement to be totally useless. But some useful information may turn up.
Good Tools Help, Beware Of Snake Oil
I've already mentioned monitoring tools, for collecting and analyzing your traffic. There is no question you need to have useful tools in place. What I have ended up doing is to collect NetFlow traffic metadata via OpenBSD's pflow(4) and similar means and monitoring the via NFSen. Other tools exist, and if you're interested in network traffic monitoring in general and NetFlow tools in particular, you could do worse than pick up a copy of Michael W. Lucas' recent book Network Flow Analysis.
Michael chose to work with the flow-tools family of utilities, but he does an outstanding job of explaining the subject in both theory and in the context of practical applications. What you read in Michael's book can easily be transferred to other toolsets once you get at grip on the matter.
Unfortunately, (as you will see from the replies you get to your messages) if you do take an interest in your network traffic and start measuring, you will be one of a very select minority. One rather perverse side effect of 'anti-terror' or 'anti-anythingyouhate' legislation such as the European Union Data Retention Directive and similar log data retention legislation in the works elsewhere is that logging anything not directly associated with the health of your own equipment is likely to become legally burdensome and potentially expensive, so operators will only start logging with a granularity that would be useful in our context once there are clear indications that an incident is underway.
Combine this with the general naive optimism people tend to exhibit (aka 'it won't happen here'), and result is that very few system operators actually have a clue about their network traffic.
Those who do measure their traffic and respond to your queries may turn up useful information - one correspondent was adamant that the outgoing traffic graph for the IP adress I had quoted to them was flat and claimed that what I was likely seeing was my servers being utilized in a DNS amplification attach (very well described by Cloudflare in this blog post). The main takeway here is that since UDP is basically 'fire and forget', unless your application takes special care, it is possible to spoof the source address and target the return traffic at someone else.
My minor quarrel with the theory was that the vast majority of requests were not recursive queries (a rough count based on grep -c on tcpdump output preserved here says that "ANY" queries for domains we did legitimately answer for at the start of the incident outnumbered recursive queries by a ratio better than 10,000 to 1). So DNS amplification may have been a part of the problem, but a rather small one (but do read the Cloudflare article anyway, it contains quite a bit of useful information).
And to make a long story slightly shorter, the most effective means of fighting the attack proved also to be almost alarmingly simple. First off, I moved the authority for the noise generating domains off elsewhere (the domains were essentially dormant anyway, reserved on behalf of a friend of mine some years ago for plans that somehow failed to move forward). That did not have the expected effect: the queries for those domains kept coming beyond the zone files' stated timeouts, aimed at the very same IP adresses as before. The only difference was that those queries were now met with a 'denied' response, as were (after I had found the config error on one host and fixed it) any recursive queries originating from the outside.
The fact that the noisemakers kept coming anyway lead me to a rather obvious conclusion: Any IP address that generates a 'denied' response from our name server is up to no good, and can legitimately be blackhole routed at the Internet-facing interface. Implementing the solution was (no surprise) a matter of cooking up some scriptery, including one that tails the relevant logs closely, greps out the relevant information and one that issues a simple route add -host $offendingip 127.0.0.1 -blackhole for each offending IP address.
My users reported vastly improved network conditions almost immediately, while the number of blackhole routed IP addresses at each site quickly shot up to a 24-hour average somewhere in the low thousands before dropping rather sharply to at first a few hundreds, through a few dozen to, at last count, a total of 5.
There are a number of similar war stories out there, and good number of them end up with a recommendation to buy 'DDOS protection' from some vendor or other (more often than not some proprietary solution where you get no clue about the innards), or to 'provision your stuff to infrastructure that's too big to be DDOSed'. Of these options I would prefer the latter, but this story I think shows that correct use of the tools OpenBSD and other sane operating systems provide for free will go a long way. More kit helps if you're lucky, but smarts win the day.
Should we publish, or 'name and shame'?
I strongly suspect that most of the handful of boxes that are currently blackhole routed by my setup here belong to a specific class of 'security consultant' who for reasons of their own want a piece of the sniffing for recursive resolvers action. But I really can't be certain: I have now way except whois and guesswork to determine who mans the scanning boxes and for what purpose (will they alert owners of any flaws found or save it all for their next attack -- there just is no way to tell). Scans like those (typically involving a query for './A/IN' or the texbook 'isc.org/ANY/IN') are are of course annoying, but whoever operates those boxes are very welcome to contact me in any way they can with data on their legitimate purposes.
During the attack I briefly published a list of the IP addresses that had been active during the last 24 hours to the bsdly.net web site, and for a short while I even included them as a separate section in the bsdly.net blacklist for good measure (an ethically questionable move, since that list is generated for a different and quite specific purpose). I am toying with the idea of publishing the current list of blackholed hosts in some way, possibly dumping to somewhere web-accessible every hour or so, if feedback on this column indicates it would be a useful measure. Please let me know what you think in comments or via email.
For the rest of you out there, please make an effort to keep your systems in trim, well configured with no services running other than for the specific purposes you picked. Keeping your boxes under your own control does take an effort, but it's worth your trouble. Of course there are entire operating environments worth avoiding, and if you're curious about whether any system in your network was somehow involved in the incident, I will answer reasonable requests for specific digging around my data (netflow and other). As a side note, the story I had originally planned to use as an illustration of how useful netflow data is in monitoring and capacity planning involves a case of astoundingly inane use of a Microsoft product in a high dollar density environment, but I'll let that one lie for now.
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The pic above is the first time I'd ever seen Tameka Foster surface. From that point on, I had to get more information on her because I thought she was a man! I searched the net high and low to find the scoop on Tameka Foster-Raymond and all I turned up was negative information which I intend to share, but first, lets focus on some positive talk about Tameka.
Tameka Foster Raymond was born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia. Her age is supposedly 38. She is a stylist and the owner of Swanky Image Group, an egg crate company? Its said to gross 43K/yr in sales!! She also owns Hides & Dungarees denim and leather collection in Atlanta but google that and see what you come up with.... She used to be a celebrity stylist and had celebrity clientele that included Usher, Ciara, Patti LaBelle, Jay-Z, Diddy, Keri Hilson and Lauryn Hill. She may want to explore that option again now that her cash cow has other plans.
Prior to becoming romantically involved with Usher in November 2005, she split from her then husband Ryan Glover,(thats him in the white shirt and glasses). Hes the co-founder of Noontime Music and the father of a few of her children. She and Usher had been friends and for nearly seven years and she was his personal stylist for five years. It appears to me that Tameka loves business owners, Usher is also an entrepreneur and business man who owns US Records, and is a part owner of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers.
She married Usher in August 2007 in a private office of the singer’s lawyer in Atlanta. Wow, sounds romantic! Previously, the couple’s July 28, 2007 lavish, star studded wedding at the Southampton, NY estate of music mogul L.A. Reid had been canceled, fueling rumors and speculation. Foster said a “pregnancy scare” and a brief hospitalization is what led to the postponement of the wedding. On September 1, 2007 the couple had a formal wedding before 200 guests at the Chateau Elan Winery & Resort and they released some staged wedding pics.
Tameka Foster Raymond gave birth to the couple’s first child, Usher Raymond V, in November 2007 and, the second child, Naveid Ely Raymond, was born in December 2008. She also has joint custody of the three children from her previous marriage which brings the grand total of children to a whopping 5!!
Tameka has had run-ins with the law. Back in 1991, she'd been arrested twice for theft/fraud related offenses. Tameka served twenty days in the Los Angeles County Jail for petty theft back in 1991. She was sentenced to an additional term of two years probation. Her first lover was gunned down in a drug-related execution-style shooting, the celebrity stylist’s half-sister Valencia tells The National Enquirer.“Poor Usher has no idea who he’s marrying.” “He’s a wonderful guy- but Tameka is giving him a big-time snow job.”
According to The Enquirer:
The scene for deception was set at a “getting to know the in-laws” dinner in Tameka’s hometown of Oakland, Calif., on July 7 as the couple finalized plans for a July 28 wedding.
Valencia, 49, explained that Usher led a prayer before dinner, then turned to her and said: “’You know all the family secrets- tell me about them.’ Before I could say a word, Tameka kicked me so hard under the table she almost put a hole in my leg,” Valencia said. “Then she pulled me aside and whispered: ‘Don’t tell him anything.’”
There were also rumors and whispers when Usher did the video for "LOVE IN THIS CLUB" as Keri Hilson played his love interest in the video. Tameka Foster happened to be the celebrity stylist for Keri Hilson in that particular video shoot. Heres how they explained the video set:
Our on-set source said Foster was upset when she found out stunning singer/songwriter Keri Hilson was personally picked by Usher to play his love interest in the video.
"It was supposed to be a sexy video shoot," our spy said. "And Tameka was there the entire time guarding like a watchdog. It was ridiculous - she knows Keri and knows she’s no video ho or Karrine Steffans." Steffans, nicknamed "Superhead," wrote the book, "Video Vixen," about her alleged flings with Usher and several other artists.
"Tameka is very insecure," our source said. "Even in rehearsals she was weird and clearly not happy that Keri is so gorgeous. Tameka threw a lot of attitude. The day of the shoot, Tameka dressed Keri very badly - she looked like an extra. Tameka wouldn’t let Keri have her hairdresser there - she had to use the hairdresser who was doing the extras."
Foster also took a dislike to Usher’s longtime choreographer, Jamaica, and banned her from the set. When Usher and Foster were spotted at the Beverly Hills Hotel last week, "They barely said one word to each other," we’re told.
The two have had a choppy past. After they got engaged, Usher fired his mom, Jonetta Patton, as his manager and also axed his publicists. "Tameka was the one and only one to call the shots," spies said.
Thats not all, Keri chose not to comment when asked what happened during the video shoot. Theres an age old saying, if you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing at all. Maybe Keri chose that route in regards to the tension at the video shoot?
Tameka Gave birth in December 2008 to their second child, and 2 months later she decided to get plastic surgery. According to Ellen Dasptry, a rep for Sao Paulo plastic surgeon Dr. Silvio Sterman, who was to have performed the surgery, Tameka Foster Raymond arrived on Friday, February 6, 2009 for the liposuction. Shortly after going under general anesthesia, she suffered cardiac arrest, i.e., a heart attack.
“When an attack like this happens, the doctors put the patient to sleep… and make sure that everything is okay and that there has not been any damage,” explains Dasptry. “This is the protocol every time and this is what was done.”
After spending a day in the ICU, Foster Raymond was transferred to Sao Paulo’s Hospital Sírio-Libanês, a larger facility which Dasptry says is considered to be one of the finest in Brazil. Nearly a week after the cardiac arrest, Daspry says that she “is doing very well.”
Usher was set to perform at the Clive Davis pre-Grammy party on February 7, 2009, but it was that very day that his wife went into cardiac arrest. He flew to Brazil. They said Usher knew nothing of the surgery and found out the same time the press found out about the surgery.
Because Tameka Foster Raymond had given birth to the couple’s second son two months ago, this incident has stirred some debate in the medical community as to whether or not two months after the birth of a child is too soon to undergo liposuction.
People Magazine interviewed a doctor, cosmetic surgeon and dermatologist Neil Sadick of New York City, who asserted that a woman should wait at least three months before undergoing such a procedure, and that “no abdominal surgery should be performed within eight weeks because of the distension and inflammation of the abdomen/uterus due to pregnancy.” However, the Brazilian doctor’s spokesperson, Dasptry, said that Foster Raymond was determined to be “in good health.” She went on to say, that there was not a rule saying a woman couldn’t have surgery two months after childbirth. They speculate the reason she went to Brazil is because no american doctor would operate on her so soon after giving childbirth.
After days of talk and speculation, it is finally confirmed that Usher has filed for divorce from his wife Tameka Foster, with whom he's been married for nearly two years. The Grammy-winning artist filed the petition in Superior Court in Fulton County, Ga. on Friday, June 12.
According to the divorce document obtained by E! News, the first hearing of the case is scheduled to be held on July 15. The document, nevertheless, doesn't specify on the reason that prompts the pair's separation.
Usher and Tameka Foster, who used to be his assistant, tied the knot on August 3, 2007. They are parents to two sons; Usher Raymond V and Naviyd Ely Raymond.
Prior to Usher's official divorce petition, the pair was reported breaking up last year. However, both of them denied their marriage was on the rock, insisting everything was okay between them. Rumors of them divorcing resurfaced in February this year, but the twosome called reports of a split "100 percent not true."
Usher himself added fuel to the long persistent rumors after he was photographed recently hanging out with a woman while Tameka was nowhere to be seen. It's not clear though if the woman is his new girlfriend.
The night his divorce papers were filed, Usher spent a low-key night at the Los Angeles club MyHouse. He arrived late and came in through the back then was seated at a table where he spent time with a few friends chatting and drinking. The singer, who was smiling and talkative, seemed to be in a good, but mellow mood. source
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The Transfiguration of Jesus.* 2After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.b And he was transfigured before them, 3and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. 4Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. 5* Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 6He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified. 7Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them;* then from the cloud came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” 8Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them.
The Coming of Elijah.* 9As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.c 10So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant. 11d Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” 12He told them, “Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt? 13But I tell you that Elijah has come and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”e
The Healing of a Boy with a Demon.* 14When they came to the disciples,f they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them. 15Immediately on seeing him, the whole crowd was utterly amazed. They ran up to him and greeted him. 16He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 17Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit. 18Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.” 19He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.” 20They brought the boy to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions. As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around and foam at the mouth. 21Then he questioned his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” He replied, “Since childhood. 22It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23Jesus said to him, “‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.” 24Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!” 25Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering, rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!” 26Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out. He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!” 27But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up. 28When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why could we not drive it out?” 29* He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.”
The Second Prediction of the Passion. 30g They left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it.h 31He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death he will rise.” 32But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.
The Greatest in the Kingdom.* 33They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”i 34But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. 35Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”j 36Taking a child he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it he said to them, 37“Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”k
Another Exorcist.* 38John said to him,l “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” 39Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. 40For whoever is not against us is for us.m 41Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.n
Temptations to Sin. 42o “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe [in me] to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna,* into the unquenchable fire. * 45And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. 47And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, 48where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’p
The Simile of Salt. 49* “Everyone will be salted with fire. 50Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another.”q
* [9:1] There are some standing…come in power: understood by some to refer to the establishment by God’s power of his kingdom on earth in and through the church; more likely, as understood by others, a reference to the imminent parousia.
* [9:2–8] Mark and Mt 17:1 place the transfiguration of Jesus six days after the first prediction of his passion and death and his instruction to the disciples on the doctrine of the cross; Lk 9:28 has “about eight days.” Thus the transfiguration counterbalances the prediction of the passion by affording certain of the disciples insight into the divine glory that Jesus possessed. His glory will overcome his death and that of his disciples; cf. 2 Cor 3:18; 2 Pt 1:16–19. The heavenly voice (Mk 9:7) prepares the disciples to understand that in the divine plan Jesus must die ignominiously before his messianic glory is made manifest; cf. Lk 24:25–27. See further the note on Mt 17:1–8.
* [9:5] Moses and Elijah represent, respectively, law and prophecy in the Old Testament and are linked to Mount Sinai; cf. Ex 19:16–20:17; 1 Kgs 19:2, 8–14. They now appear with Jesus as witnesses to the fulfillment of the law and the prophets taking place in the person of Jesus as he appears in glory.
* [9:7] A cloud came, casting a shadow over them: even the disciples enter into the mystery of his glorification. In the Old Testament the cloud covered the meeting tent, indicating the Lord’s presence in the midst of his people (Ex 40:34–35) and came to rest upon the temple in Jerusalem at the time of its dedication (1 Kgs 8:10).
* [9:9–13] At the transfiguration of Jesus his disciples had seen Elijah. They were perplexed because, according to the rabbinical interpretation of Mal 3:23–24, Elijah was to come first. Jesus’ response shows that Elijah has come, in the person of John the Baptist, to prepare for the day of the Lord. Jesus must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt (Mk 9:12) like the Baptist (Mk 9:13); cf. Mk 6:17–29.
* [9:14–29] The disciples’ failure to effect a cure seems to reflect unfavorably on Jesus (Mk 9:14–18, 22). In response Jesus exposes their lack of trust in God (Mk 9:19) and scores their lack of prayer (Mk 9:29), i.e., of conscious reliance on God’s power when acting in Jesus’ name. For Matthew, see note on Mt 17:14–20. Lk 9:37–43 centers attention on Jesus’ sovereign power.
* [9:29] This kind can only come out through prayer: a variant reading adds “and through fasting.”
* [9:33–37] Mark probably intends this incident and the sayings that follow as commentary on the disciples’ lack of understanding (Mk 9:32). Their role in Jesus’ work is one of service, especially to the poor and lowly. Children were the symbol Jesus used for the anawim, the poor in spirit, the lowly in the Christian community.
* [9:38–41] Jesus warns against jealousy and intolerance toward others, such as exorcists who do not follow us. The saying in Mk 9:40 is a broad principle of the divine tolerance. Even the smallest courtesies shown to those who teach in Jesus’ name do not go unrewarded.
* [9:49] Everyone will be salted with fire: so the better manuscripts. Some add “every sacrifice will be salted with salt.” The purifying and preservative use of salt in food (Lv 2:13) and the refinement effected through fire refer here to comparable effects in the spiritual life of the disciples of Jesus.
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An unidentified man sits at a desk and writes on a leaf of paper. "Scenario 37: Agent to agent transfer," he begins.
In an imagined scenario, Abe enters a British officers' retreat. An agent disguised as a British officer furtively hands a hard-boiled egg to Abe.
Outside, Abe slips the egg into a full basket of eggs. A Redcoat abruptly stops him, demands to buy an egg, and grabs the basket. Some of the eggs drop to the ground and crack, including Abe's egg. Spotting a secret message written on the hard-boiled egg, the soldier seizes Abe, and Abe is killed in the struggle.
The unidentified man crumples the paper. "Try, try again," he mutters.
In a field, British and American soldiers peacefully exchange POWs. The group of Redcoat POWs includes Simcoe, who limps toward a waiting carriage.
At his Morristown headquarters, General Washington dictates a letter to General Howe indicting the barbaric treatment of Continental prisoners aboard the prison ships in New York Harbor.
As Ben and General Scott await Washington, Scott looks forward to hearing how Washington will punish Ben for insubordination. Washington arrives and together they watch a soldier get hanged for robbery, making clear that Washington does not suffer rule-breakers.
Washington arrives and introduces Ben and Scott to the unidentified man who was writing the spy scenarios: Nathaniel Sackett, of the Committee to Detect and Defeat Conspiracies Against America. Sackett praises the accuracy of Abe's intelligence. Washington asks if such intelligence can be gathered again.
Driving a horse-drawn cart, Abe pulls up to a Long Island checkpoint and tells a British officer that he's delivering hogs to Colonel Cooke at the commissary. The officer waves him through, but warns him that because of the recent rebel victories, other checkpoint officers may be wary of lone travelers.
Back at Washington's headquarters, Scott insists that intelligence should only be gathered by trained soldiers. Sackett disagrees, believing civilians make more discreet spies. Washington orders Scott, Sackett and Ben to explore the viability of Ben's "spy chain" idea and come back to him with a recommendation.
As he travels through a woodland stretch between checkpoints, Abe passes a single Redcoat walking down the road. Hearing what sounds like gunfire, Abe leaps from his seat and takes cover behind the cart. "Don't worry -- I got ya," the Redcoat says, as he points his gun at Abe. The soldier pistol whips Abe, tosses him in the back of the cart, and hijacks it. As they trot away, they pass the source of the gunfire sounds: exploded casks of gunpowder in a small campfire.
As Abigail sets the table at John André's residence, André wraps his arms around her to demonstrate European table-setting and eating customs. The former POWs arrive as André's houseguests, and Abigail holds her breath as she recognizes Simcoe among them. André asks Abigail to show the men to their rooms.
In New York, Jordan and other Black Pioneers rake up debris from a large fire at the "Holy Ground" brothels. Titus and Barney, both Queen's Rangers and free blacks, stroll up. "Liberty never smelled so sweet," Titus says as he kicks Jordan's pile of debris over. When Jordan confronts him, Titus punches him in the face. Jordan snaps his rake into two fighting sticks, and the three square off.
Jordan briefly holds his own with some exotic fight moves, but as Titus and Barney gain the upper hand, a sharp whistle from Robert Rogers interrupts the brawl. Rogers questions Jordan about his fighting technique, and Jordan says he trained as a Maasai warrior. Rogers offers to set up a one-on-one fight between Titus and Jordan that the men can bet on.
Ben describes his spying methods to Sackett, who is shocked to learn that Ben hasn't been using dead drops or encryption. Sackett explains that Continental agents should be paid from a secret budget unknown to Congress. Scott refuses to sign off on the spy chain method.
Abe is interrogated by his captor, Cyrus, who turns out to be a lone wolf Continental soldier. When Cyrus grills Abe for details about his business in New York, Abe insists that he's actually a Continental spy. Cyrus doesn't believe him.
Outside headquarters, Sackett tells Ben that Abe needs an alias to correspond with other agents. Ben says Abe will quit if forced to work with strangers. Sackett hands Ben an egg that he's hard-boiled then written on with alum and vinegar. Ben cracks it open and finds the message, now invisible on the eggshell, is legible on the surface of the egg.
André interviews one of the former POWs, Lt. Terrence, about his time in captivity. Terrence is in fact an agent from one of Sackett's scenarios: He is one of Washington's spies.
André next interviews Simcoe, who calls Setauket a pit and badmouths Major Hewlett. André offers to transfer Simcoe, but Simcoe says he'd like to return to a woman he met in Setauket. Abigail eavesdrops as she delivers drinks.
In the woods, Cyrus demands Abe tell him why, if he's such a Patriot, he didn't join the militia. "Because you can't win," Abe replies. Cyrus begins to have an emotional breakdown and insists Abe fight him for the ribbon and papers that will allow Abe to get to New York. "Prove you're worth more," Cyrus snarls.
As they struggle, they're interrupted when a small group of Redcoats discovers Abe's wagon. Cyrus attempts to flee but is quickly surrounded. Cyrus rushes the Redcoats, and they shoot him dead.
André entertains the POWs at dinner. As André proposes a toast, Terrence incorrectly recites his regiment's motto. Abruptly, Simcoe draws a knife, stabs Terrence dead through the neck, and declares Terrence a liar and likely spy. "I know that!" André screams. Seething with anger, André says he planned to try to turn Terrence into a double agent. Abigail, standing just outside the dining room, listens in.
Washington reconvenes with Ben, Sackett and Scott. Scott insists on continuing to use traditional reconnaissance methods. Ben disagrees and tells Washington that his spy chain will work, but only with mutual trust, which they currently lack. He again asks how Washington obtained Abe's name. Washington asks to speak with Ben alone.
Jordan and Titus fight on a stage. The crowd cheers as Jordan uses his Maasai moves to win the fight. Afterwards, Rogers welcomes Jordan into the Queen's Rangers.
As Jordan walks away, Awasos pushes throughout the crowd. Speaking in Abenaki, he tells Rogers that a man who knows Ben Tallmadge has come forward and reported that Ben's brother, Samuel, is being held on board the prison ship Jersey.
Washington finally tells Ben that he obtained Abe's name from one of his spies: Nathan Hale, who was Ben's friend at Yale and recently hanged by the British. He then gives Abe an alias: Mr. Culpeper.
Abe tells one of the Redcoats that Cyrus was wearing Abe's clothes because he was planning on assuming Abe's identity and escaping into the city. The Redcoat tells Abe that lone travelers are no longer being allowed into New York and that Abe cannot continue on alone.
As Abigail cleans up Terrence's blood, she mentions her son's birthday to André. Showing kindness in the wake of the murder, André offers to send a gift via special courier if Abigail picks it out.
After assigning Scott to the war front, Washington promotes Ben to Major and puts him in charge of the intelligence branch. Washington asks Ben to pick a first name for Mr. Culpeper. Ben chooses Samuel.
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The overarching project of science is building reliable knowledge about the world, but the way this knowledge-building happens in our world is in the context of competition. For example, scientists compete with each other to be the first to make a new discovery, and they compete with each other for finite pools of grant money with which to conduct more research and make further discoveries.
I’ve heard the competitive pressures on scientists described as a useful way to motivate scientists to be clever and efficient (and not to knock off early lest some more dedicated lab get to your discovery first). But there are situations where it’s less obvious that fierce competition for scarce resources leads to choices that really align with the goal of building reliable knowledge about the world.
This week, on NPR’s Morning Edition, Richard Harris reported a pair of stories on how researchers who work with cells in culture grapple with the problem of their intended cell line being contaminated and overtaken by a different cell line. Harris tells us:
One of the worst cases involves a breast cancer cell line called MDA-435 (or MDA-MB-435). After the cell line was identified in 1976, breast cancer scientists eagerly adopted it.
When injected in animals, the cells spread the way breast cancer metastasizes in women, “and that’s not a very common feature of most breast cancer cell lines,” says Stephen Ethier, a cancer geneticist at the Medical University of South Carolina. “So as a result of that, people began asking for those cells, and so there are many laboratories all over the world, who have published hundreds of papers using the MDA-435 cell line as a model for breast cancer metastasis.”
In fact, scientists published more than a thousand papers with this cell line over the years. About 15 years ago, scientists using newly developed DNA tests took a close look at these cells. And they were shocked to discover that they weren’t from a breast cancer cell at all. The breast cancer cell line had been crowded out by skin cancer cells.
“We now know with certainty that the MDA-435 cell line is identical to a melanoma cell line,” Ethier says.
And it turns out that contamination traces back for decades. Several scientists published papers about this to alert the field, “but nevertheless, there are people out there who haven’t gotten the memo, apparently,” he says.
Decades worth of work and more than a thousand published research papers were supposed to add up to a lot of knowledge about a particular kind of breast cancer cell, except it wasn’t knowledge about breast cancer cells at all because the cells in the cell line had been misidentified. Probably scientists know something from that work, but it isn’t the knowledge they thought they had before the contamination was detected.
On the basis of the discovery that this much knowledge-building had been compromised by being based on misidentified cells, you might imagine researchers would prioritize precise identification of the cells they use. But, as Harris found, this obvious bit of quality control meets resistance. For one thing, researchers seem unwilling to pay the extra financial costs it would take:
This may all come down to money. Scientists can avoid most of these problems by purchasing cells from a company that routinely tests them. But most scientists would rather walk down the hall and borrow cells from another lab.
“Academics share their cell lines like candy because they don’t want to go back and spend another $300,” said Richard Neve from Genentech. “It is economics. And they don’t want to spend another $100 to [verify] that’s still the same cell line.”
Note here that scientists could still economize by sharing cell lines with their colleagues instead of purchasing them but paying for the tests to nail down the identity of the shared cells. However, many do not.
(Consider, though, how awkward it might be to test cells you’ve gotten from a colleague only to discover that they are not the kind of cells your colleague thought they were. How do you break the news to your colleague that their work — including published papers in scientific journals — is likely to be mistaken and misleading? How likely would this make other colleagues to share their cell lines with you, knowing that you might bring them similarly bad news as a result of their generosity?)
Journals like Nature have tried to encourage scientists to test their cell lines by adding it to an authors’ checklist for researchers submitting papers. Most authors do not check the box indicating they have tested their cells.
One result here is that the knowledge that comes from these studies and gets reported in scientific journals may not be as solid as it seems:
When scientists at [Genentech] find an intriguing result from an academic lab, the first thing they do is try to replicate the result.
Neve said often they can’t, and misidentified cells are a common reason.
This is a problem that is not just of concern to scientists. The rest of us depend on scientists to build reliable knowledge about the world in part because it might matter for what kinds of treatments are developed for diseases that affect us. Moreover, much of this research is paid for with public money — which means the public has an interest in whether the funding is doing what it is supposed to be doing.
However, Harris notes that funding agencies seem unwilling to act decisively to address the issue of research based on misidentified cell lines:
“We are fully convinced that this is a significant enough problem that we have to take steps to address it,” Jon Lorsch, director of the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences, said during the panel discussion.
One obvious step would be to require scientists who get federal funding to test their cells. Howard Soule, chief science officer at the Prostate Cancer Foundation, said that’s what his charity requires of the scientists it funds.
There’s a commercial lab that will run this test for about $140, so “this is not going to break the bank,” Soule said.
But Lorsch at the NIH argued that it’s not so simple on the scale at which his institute hands out funding. “We really can’t go and police 10,000 grants,” Lorsch said.
“Sure you can,” Soule shot back. “How can you not?”
Lorsch said if they do police this issue, “there are dozens and dozens of other issues” that the NIH should logically police as well. “It becomes a Hydra,” Lorsch said. “You know, you chop off one head and others grow.”
Biomedical research gets more expensive all the time, and the NIH is reluctant to pile on a whole bunch of new rules. It’s a balancing act.
“If we become too draconian we’re going to end up squashing creativity and slowing down research, which is not good for the taxpayers because they aren’t going to get as much for their money,” Lorsch said.
To my eye, Lorsch’s argument against requiring researchers to test their cells focuses on the competitive aspect of scientific research to the exclusion of the knowledge-building aspect.
What does it matter if the taxpayers get more research generated and published if a significant amount of that research output is irreproducible because of misidentified cells? In the absence of tests to properly identify the cells being used, there’s no clear way to tell just by looking at the journal articles which ones are reliable and which ones are not. Post-publication quality control requires researchers to repeat experiments and compare their results to those published, something that will cost significantly more than if the initial researchers tested their cells in the first place.
However, research funding is generally awarded to build new knowledge, not to test existing knowledge claims. Scientists get credit for making new discoveries, not for determining that other scientists’ discoveries can be reproduced.
NIH could make it a condition of funding that researchers working with cell lines get those cell lines tested, and arguably this would be the most cost-efficient way to ensure results that are reliable rather than based on misidentification. I find Lorsch’s claim that there are dozens of other kinds of quality control of this sort NIH could demand, so they cannot demand this, unpersuasive. Even if there are many things to fix, it doesn’t mean you must fix them all at once. Incremental improvements in quality control are surely better than none at all.
His further suggestion that engaging in NIH-mandated quality control will quash scientific creativity strikes me as silly. Scientists are at their most creative when they are working within constraints to solve problems. Indeed, were NIH to require that researchers test their cells, there is no reason to think this additional constraint could not be easily incorporated into researchers’ current competition for NIH funding.
The big question, really, is whether NIH is prioritizing funding a higher volume of research, or higher quality research. Presumably, the public is better served by a smaller number of published studies that make reliable claims about the actual cells researchers are working with than by a large number of published studies making hard-to-verify claims about misidentified cells.
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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Individuals who suffer from ankle instability may experience restricted movement and a weakening of the muscles that support the ankle. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of functional instability of the ankle joint on static and dynamic balance performances. METHODS: Twenty-five participants (8 male, 17 female) were recruited for this study. The subjects were divided into two groups: an ankle instability and a normal ankle stability group. The static and dynamic limits of stability performance were assessed in single leg standing using the BioRescue device. In addition, the Functional Reach…Test (FRT) and the Modified Functional Reach Test (MFRT) were also recorded. RESULTS: Significant differences between the two groups were found in the moving distance and the mean velocity of the center of pressure during the single leg standing test, the pendular limits of stability test, and the MFRT. However, the FRT showed no significant difference between the two groups. The results showed that the static and dynamic balance performances were reduced in the ankle instability group compared with the control group. CONCLUSION: Both the MFRT and BioRescue were sensitive and appropriate to identify clinically important differences between the two groups. The MFRT is a quick and inexpensive clinical measure of postural instability relevant to individuals with ankle instability. Further studies should use the MFRT to determine the effectiveness of clinical interventions for ankle instability that target improvements in balance.
Keywords: Ankle instability, balance, Modified Functional Reach Test
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Establishing the incidence of injury is the first step in initiating injury prevention strategies. There is a lack of research on injury in Irish adolescents and this study paves the way for further injury prevention research, by implementing a prospective cohort study. PURPOSE: To establish the epidemiology of injury in male adolescents in Irish secondary schools in one academic year. METHODS: 452 male 4th and 5th year adolescents (aged 15.62±0.70 years) took part in a prospective epidemiology study for one academic year. Any injury sustained during training or competition resulting in restricted performance or time…lost from play was assessed weekly by an athletic rehabilitation therapist. An injury report form was completed to ensure standardisation of the injury description. RESULTS: 5.16 injuries per 1,000 hours were noted, with 35.6% at risk of injury and 27.9% of injured participants at risk of sustaining another injury that school year. Competition injuries (16.91 injuries per 1,000 hours) were more common than training injuries (2.63 injuries per 1,000 hours). Lower limb injuries predominated (73.1%) with knee (17.9%), ankle (13.5%) and hamstring (11.7%) injuries most common. Strains (29.4%), sprains (20.8%), fatigue-induced muscle disorder (14.5%) and contusions (13.1%) were frequent. Injuries were primarily minor (0–7 days) (41.6%), followed by severe (>22 days) (39.7%) and moderate (8–21 days) (18.7%). CONCLUSION: Injuries are common in adolescents in Irish secondary schools and the development and implementation of injury prevention strategies are required.
Keywords: Sport injury, musculoskeletal, injury rate, teenager
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Prolonged physical impairments are often reported post total hip replacement (THR). It is unclear which exercises should be performed to maximise rehabilitation following surgery. PURPOSE: The aim of this pilot study was to describe a method of imaging the relaxed posterior gluteus medius muscle in patients following surgery, and to measure the secondary outcome of relaxed muscle thickness of the posterior gluteus medius on the side of their THR following a rehabilitation intervention in this patient group. METHOD: This was a randomised controlled pilot study investigating the effect of functional exercise on the relaxed muscle…thickness of the posterior gluteus medius as measured by real-time ultrasound. 57 patients were randomised to either a functional exercise class or usual care group. Real time ultrasound scanning of the posterior gluteus medius muscle were undertaken in both groups at baseline (week 12) and post intervention (week 18). RESULTS: There was no significant difference found in the size of the posterior gluteus medius between the intervention and control groups over the six week period of intervention. There was a statistically significant increase in the size of the posterior gluteus medius muscle at three points with a mean difference of 0.78 (95% CI 0.53–1.03), 1.05 (95% CI 0.67–1.43), 1.01 (95% CI 0.56–1.5) on the operated side in both groups over the six week period (p < 0.000). CONCLUSION: The thickness of the posterior gluteus medius on the operated side increased over a six week period from week 12 to week 18 post THR. There was no difference found in the thickness of the posterior gluteus medius in those attending a functional exercise class twice weekly and those receiving usual care.
Keywords: Real-time ultrasound, total hip replacement, randomised controlled trial, physiotherapy
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder affecting 1.2 million people in Europe. Exercise is a cornerstone treatment in the non-pharmacological management of PD. There is a dearth of exercise research looking at the advanced stages of PD. PURPOSE: The study aim was to examine the feasibility of a lower limb strength-based progressive exercise programme for people with advanced PD in a hospice setting. METHODS: A group exercise feasibility study was designed and evaluated. The intervention was a 40–60 minute progressive, lower limb strength training programme delivered weekly over six weeks, at an Irish…hospice out-patient clinic. A twice weekly home exercise programme supplemented the supervised exercise sessions. Primary outcome measure was the Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT). Secondary outcome measures included the Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS), Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire 39 (PDQ-39) and predicted one repetition maximum (p1-RM). RESULTS: Fourteen participants took part in the PEP-PD exercise programme with stage 3-4 PD as per Hoehn and Yahr staging of PD, average time since diagnosis was 14.1 years. Thirteen participants attended the exercise intervention and pre and post assessments. Nine participants completed the six month follow up. No significant improvement was demonstrated in the SMWT over time [F(2,16) = 1.442, p = 0.266] or the MDS-UPDRS or PDQ-39. A significant improvement was noted in all p1-RM assessments (p < 0.05) of the lower limb. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest the PEP-PD exercise programme is feasible for this population and improves lower limb strength. However these improvements did not translate into functional gains.
Keywords: Exercise, Parkinson Disease, resistance training, palliative care
Abstract: BACKGROUND: A number of research papers and theoretical clinical models summarising how temperature of the skin over the knee may be altered according to different pathological processes have been published. Thermal imaging (TI) is generally regarded as the ‘Gold’ or ‘reference’ standard for measuring skin temperature, however this technology is not widely accessible to most musculoskeletal physiotherapists working in clinical environments. This is largely due to the time required for analysis of the thermal images and the high cost of the equipment. A digital thermometer (DT) is portable with a convenient display of results which could offer an inexpensive substitute.…PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the interchangeability between thermal imaging and a digital thermometer, using Bland-Altman limits of agreement, to determine skin temperature differences between right and left knees. METHODS: Seventy-one healthy participants in the age group of 8 to 40 participated in the study. Data were collected in two phases. The first phase was as part of a public engagement event at the Lancashire Science Festival where school children were invited to learn about science. The second phase of data collection took place as part of a PhD study where staff and students at the university were recruited via electronic advert and posters displayed around the campus. All subjects were free from lower back or lower limb problems and had not had any previous lower limb surgery. RESULTS: Matched paired t tests showed no significant difference between temperature difference between right and left using DT and TI (t = 1.41, df = 69, P = 0.08). The DT and TI were interchangeable to measure knee skin temperature difference with a limit of agreement of –0.64 and 0.75; this limit of agreement is acceptable based on previous literature where skin temperature differences between affected and non-affected knees are equal to or greater than 1°C. CONCLUSION: This study concludes that an inexpensive handheld digital thermometer shows acceptable agreement with a thermal imaging camera. Clinically a handheld digital thermometer has the potential to play an important role in the localized assessment of skin temperature in physiotherapy and can offer an inexpensive substitute to thermal imaging; due to the massive difference in cost it is worth considering the adoption of digital thermometry in routine musculoskeletal physiotherapy practice.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The Orpington Prognostic Score (OPS) is a prognostic indicator, used to assess and target rehabilitation and therapy resources for people who have had a stroke. PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of the OPS, and selected clinical variables, to predict functional outcome post-stroke, as determined by the Modified Barthel Index (MBI), in a stroke rehabilitation unit. METHODS: This was a prospective observational cohort study in a stroke rehabilitation unit. All participants were assessed with the OPS on admission to the unit. All participants were assessed with the MBI on admission…and again on discharge from the unit. Participants’ level of mobility prior to discharge was measured using the ambulation subsection of the MBI. Participants’ discharge destination was also recorded. RESULTS: A total of 32 people who had complete data on the variables of interest were included in the final analysis. Based on the OPS, 19 participants (59.4% ) were classified as having had a mild stroke, 11 (34.4% ) were classified as having had a moderate stroke, with only two participants (6.2% ) classified as having had a severe stroke. OPS scores were found to be statistically significant in independently predicting discharge MBI (p < 0.05). Those participants who achieved a higher level of mobility prior to discharge from the stroke rehabilitation unit had a lower OPS score on admission to the unit, indicating a milder stroke. OPS scores were not predictive of discharge location. CONCLUSION: Results of this study indicate that assessing people, who have had a stroke, with the OPS on admission for rehabilitation may assist in predicting functional outcome. The OPS should not be used in isolation to determine who is accepted for rehabilitation, but should be included as a component in patient assessment.
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In His Steps/Chapter 16
No one in all Raymond, including the Rectangle, felt Loreen's death more keenly than Virginia. It came like a distinct personal loss to her. That short week while the girl had been in her home had opened Virginia's heart to a new life. She was talking it over with Rachel the day after the funeral. Thee were sitting in the hall of the Page mansion.
"I am going to do something with my money to help those women to a better life." Virginia looked over to the end of the hall where, the day before, Loreen's body had lain. "I have decided on a good plan, as it seems to me. I have talked it over with Rollin. He will devote a large part of his money also to the same plan."
"How much money have you, Virginia, to give in this way?" asked Rachel. Once, she would never have asked such a personal question. Now, it seemed as natural to talk frankly about money as about anything else that belonged to God.
"I have available for use at least four hundred and fifty-thousand dollars. Rollin has as much more. It is one of his bitter regrets now that his extravagant habits of life before his conversion practically threw away half that father left him. We are both eager to make all the reparation in our power. 'What would Jesus do with this money?' We want to answer that question honestly and wisely. The money I shall put into the NEWS is, I am confident, in a line with His probable action. It is as necessary that we have a Christian daily paper in Raymond, especially now that we have the saloon influence to meet, as it is to have a church or a college. So I am satisfied that the five hundred thousand dollars that Mr. Norman will know how to use so well will be a powerful factor in Raymond to do as Jesus would.
"About my other plan, Rachel, I want you to work with me. Rollin and I are going to buy up a large part of the property in the Rectangle. The field where the tent now is, has been in litigation for years. We mean to secure the entire tract as soon as the courts have settled the title. For some time I have been making a special study of the various forms of college settlements and residence methods of Christian work and Institutional church work in the heart of great city slums. I do not know that I have yet been able to tell just what is the wisest and most effective kind of work that can be done in Raymond. But I do know this much. My money--I mean God's, which he wants me to use--can build wholesome lodging-houses, refuges for poor women, asylums for shop girls, safety for many and many a lost girl like Loreen. And I do not want to be simply a dispenser of this money. God help me! I do want to put myself into the problem. But you know, Rachel, I have a feeling all the time that all that limitless money and limitless personal sacrifice can possibly do, will not really lessen very much the awful condition at the Rectangle as long as the saloon is legally established there. I think that is true of any Christian work now being carried on in any great city. The saloon furnishes material to be saved faster than the settlement or residence or rescue mission work can save it."
Virginia suddenly rose and paced the hall. Rachel answered sadly, and yet with a note of hope in her voice:
"It is true. But, Virginia, what a wonderful amount of good can be done with this money! And the saloon cannot always remain here. The time must come when the Christian forces in the city will triumph."
Virginia paused near Rachel, and her pale, earnest face lighted up.
"I believe that too. The number of those who have promised to do as Jesus would is increasing. If we once have, say, five hundred such disciples in Raymond, the saloon is doomed. But now, dear, I want you to look at your part in this plan for capturing and saving the Rectangle. Your voice is a power. I have had many ideas lately. Here is one of them. You could organize among the girls a Musical Institute; give them the benefit of your training. There are some splendid voices in the rough there. Did any one ever hear such singing as that yesterday by those women? Rachel, what a beautiful opportunity! You shall have the best of material in the way of organs and orchestras that money can provide, and what cannot be done with music to win souls there into higher and purer and better living?"
Before Virginia had ceased speaking Rachel's face was perfectly transformed with the thought of her life work. It flowed into her heart and mind like a flood, and the torrent of her feeling overflowed in tears that could not be restrained. It was what she had dreamed of doing herself. It represented to her something that she felt was in keeping with a right use of her talent.
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"Add to it consecrated personal enthusiasm like yours, and it certainly can accomplish great things," said Virginia smiling. And before Rachel could reply, Rollin came in.
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"By the way, what has become of Jasper Chase?" Virginia asked the question innocently, but Rachel flushed and Virginia added with a smile, "I suppose he is writing another book. Is he going to put you into this one, Rachel? You know I always suspected Jasper Chase of doing that very thing in his first story."
"Virginia," Rachel spoke with the frankness that had always existed between the two friends, "Jasper Chase told me the other night that he--in fact--he proposed to me--or he would, if--"
Rachel stopped and sat with her hands clasped on her lap, and there were tears in her eyes.
"Virginia, I thought a little while ago I loved him, as he said he loved me. But when he spoke, my heart felt repelled, and I said what I ought to say. I told him no. I have not seen him since. That was the night of the first conversions at the Rectangle."
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"Why?" asked Rachel a little startled.
"Because, I have never really liked Jasper Chase. He is too cold and--I do not like to judge him, but I have always distrusted his sincerity in taking the pledge at the church with the rest."
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"I have never given my heart to him I am sure. He touched my emotions, and I admired his skill as a writer. I have thought at times that I cared a good deal for him. I think perhaps if he had spoken to me at any other time than the one he chose, I could easily have persuaded myself that I loved him. But not now."
Again Rachel paused suddenly, and when she looked up at Virginia again there were tears on her face. Virginia came to her and put her arm about her tenderly.
When Rachel had left the house, Virginia sat in the hall thinking over the confidence her friend had just shown her. There was something still to be told, Virginia felt sure from Rachel's manner, but she did not feel hurt that Rachel had kept back something. She was simply conscious of more on Rachel's mind than she had revealed.
Very soon Rollin came back, and he and Virginia, arm in arm as they had lately been in the habit of doing, walked up and down the long hall. It was easy for their talk to settle finally upon Rachel because of the place she was to occupy in the plans which were being made for the purchase of property at the Rectangle.
"Did you ever know of a girl of such really gifted powers in vocal music who was willing to give her life to the people as Rachel is going to do? She is going to give music lessons in the city, have private pupils to make her living, and then give the people in the Rectangle the benefit of her culture and her voice."
"It is certainly a very good example of self-sacrifice," replied Rollin a little stiffly.
Virginia looked at him a little sharply. "But don't you think it is a very unusual example? Can you imagine--" here Virginia named half a dozen famous opera singers--"doing anything of this sort?"
"No, I cannot," Rollin answered briefly. "Neither can I imagine Miss--" he spoke the name of the girl with the red parasol who had begged Virginia to take the girls to the Rectangle--" doing what you are doing, Virginia."
"Any more than I can imagine Mr.--" Virginia spoke the name of a young society leader "going about to the clubs doing your work, Rollin." The two walked on in silence for the length of the hall.
"Coming back to Rachel," began Virginia, "Rollin, why do you treat her with such a distinct, precise manner? I think, Rollin--pardon me if I hurt you--that she is annoyed by it. You need to be on easy terms. I don't think Rachel likes this change."
Rollin suddenly stopped. He seemed deeply agitated. He took his arm from Virginia's and walked alone to the end of the hall. Then he returned, with his hands behind him, and stopped near his sister and said, "Virginia, have you not learned my secret?"
Virginia looked bewildered, then over her face the unusual color crept, showing that she understood.
"I have never loved any one but Rachel Winslow." Rollin spoke calmly enough now. "That day she was here when you talked about her refusal to join the concert company, I asked her to be my wife; out there on the avenue. She refused me, as I knew she would. And she gave as her reason the fact that I had no purpose in life, which was true enough. Now that I have a purpose, now that I am a new man, don't you see, Virginia, how impossible it is for me to say anything? I owe my very conversion to Rachel's singing. And yet that night while she sang I can honestly say that, for the time being, I never thought of her voice except as God's message. I believe that all my personal love for her was for the time merged into a personal love to my God and my Saviour." Rollin was silent, then he went on with more emotion. "I still love her, Virginia. But I do not think she ever could love me." He stopped and looked his sister in the face with a sad smile.
"I don't know about that," said Virginia to herself. She was noting Rollin's handsome face, his marks of dissipation nearly all gone now, the firm lips showing manhood and courage, the clear eyes looking into hers frankly, the form strong and graceful. Rollin was a man now. Why should not Rachel come to love him in time? Surely the two were well fitted for each other, especially now that their purpose in life was moved by the same Christian force. | <urn:uuid:6f40fcd7-ca6d-41a0-b2cf-49433c20d227> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_His_Steps/Chapter_16 | 2018-08-16T03:06:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210408.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816015316-20180816035316-00640.warc.gz | en | 0.989511 | 2,535 |
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball
Many problems plagued climatology since climate science took over in the 1980s. Each specialist in a different area suddenly became an expert in climate and climate change. They brought their different perspectives, sometimes helpful, but usually unhelpful and even distorting. Most came for funding opportunities, but many for the political objectives. They all lack awareness that climatology is a generalist discipline. It involves putting together, in a systems approach manner, all the studies from specialists who, because they get involved in climate studies, call themselves climate scientists. This piecemeal approach reflects the problems of creating computer climate models. Modellers assemble as many facts as they think apply, or will achieve their result and then, with improper or inadequate connecting mechanisms, put together what they think represents global climate. It is as Henri Poincare said,
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
How we view and interpret those facts depends on our personal views regardless of the supposed objectivity claims of most scientists. One thing I learned from working with Chinese climatologists is that they see and therefore assess the world from a completely different perspective. They are aware, because of long historical records of climate and crop production, of the cyclical and widely fluctuating nature of climate.
The Greeks studied and talked about climate, in fact, the word comes from the Ancient Greek ‘klima’ meaning inclination. In other words, they knew the angle of the sun determined the climate and identified three average zones, warm, temperate, and cold. The concept of climate effectively disappears until the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, weather became important, mostly through the need for accurate forecasting, but that meant it was restricted to the knowledge of the physics of the atmosphere, the definition of meteorology.
In the 20th century, people knew about meteorology and associated it with weather forecasting. This was because official forecasting began during WW I with the introduction of flying in warfare. The relationship between forecasting and meteorology continues today as all media outlets have meteorologists, not climatologists on staff. There are very few climatologists at most national weather departments. Until very recently few took any training in climate and climate change. This explains why most media and government weather people know little about climate and fall in line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) deception.
It wasn’t until Hubert Lamb opened the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in 1971 and Reid Bryson established the UW-Madison Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in 1970 that climate became a focus of academic interest. Interestingly, both worked as forecasters in WW II, and both knew the limitations of forecasting. Both understood the need for long-term weather records if you were to understand the patterns and mechanisms to improve forecasting. Despite this, climate was mostly ignored and only practiced obliquely by keeping weather records that were used to determine averages. The public talked about the climate of a region or a place, but few knew, as is still true today, what the difference is between climate and weather, or meteorology and climatology.
There were a few pioneers identifying climate change, but that was on a long-term scale, such as Louis Agassiz’s identification of Ice Ages in1840, and James Croll’s seminal 1864 work on Sun/Earth relationships and climate change. Then there is a significant gap of approximately 100 years in the study of climate until Milankovitch published in the 1930s but set aside by WW II. During that time meteorology became firmly entrenched, and climate only reappeared academically post-war with Lamb and Bryson.
Over the period from 1930 to 1970 a new applied mathematical technique called statistics developed and was applied to all the social sciences. This was when the conflict developed between, the ‘hard’ sciences and the application of the scientific method and techniques to other disciplines. It was and is still very clear that most mathematicians and physicists believe that no other discipline could understand climate or climate change. The fact is that climatology, as an integrative discipline, was taught as part of physical geography.
The application of statistics across the social sciences is part of logical positivism. Wikipedia defines it as,
“…a school of philosophy that combines empiricism, the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge of the world, with a version of rationalism incorporating mathematical and logico-linguistic constructs and deductions in epistemology.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein conceived the idea at the turn of the 20th century. Wikipedia notes,
“Wittgenstein’s influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences, yet there are widely diverging interpretations of his thought.
Some of the responses to this concept indicate the problem people had with its absolutism. Evan Esar said,
“Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.”
Or mathematician and philosopher A. N. Whitehead’s observation that
“There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.”
All this had a great influence on the study of climate change because climate is the average of weather in a place or its change over time. After WW II climate was only about averages. Then, starting in the 1960s, and in consort with other social sciences especially economics, trends became important as predictive tools. The climate at the time was in a cooling trend that began in 1940 so, using simple linear trends, they assumed this would continue. Consider this quote from Lowell Ponte’s book The Cooling.
“It is cold fact: the global cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political, and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our species.”
Notice it applies today by changing “cooling” to ‘warming.’ The cover of the 1977 book The Weather Conspiracy said,
“What does it mean? Many of the worlds leading climatologist’s concur. We are slipping towards a new Ice Age.”
This cooler period is the one the people at the CRU and RealClimate ignored, then said there was no consensus and finally, falsely claimed, it was caused by human addition of sulfates to the atmosphere. These are the same people who later said the warming trend that began in 1980 would continue forever unless politicians took dramatic remedial action. Now, along with social sciences in general, they are ignoring the third part of statistics, variation. Every change in statistics indicates change, but you need a good understanding based on adequate data, long records, and the relationship between mechanisms and change. The IPCC does not have any of these, as their failed projections attest.
A few years ago, when hijacking airplanes was the scare of the day, I pointed out the value of geography to my students. If you take over a plane, fly in the proper direction. Go one way, and you are designated a hijacker, go the other, and you are a political refugee. Of course, the political views of the commentator distort the assessment.
Now, we have a classic example of political bias about direction in the global warming debate brought about by increased variation. Recently NASA GISS reported
“From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C—also during the global warming era.”
Both temperature drops need perspective to understand their significance in the global warming debate. Note that the alarmist claim of unprecedented warming in the blade of the hockey stick was that temperature rose 0.6°C in approximately 120 years. Compare that with the 0.56°C drop in two years. Add to that the fact that the range of error for the 0.6°C figure was ± 0.2°C or ± 33.3%. Here is how the IPCC report and illustrate the claim.
The global average surface temperature (the average of near surface air temperature over land, and sea surface temperature) has increased since 1861. Over the 20th century the increase has been 0.6 ± 0.2°C (Figure 1a).
Figure 1 (Source IPCC Figure 1a)
This warming became the blade of the hockey stick, a device created to prove there was a dramatic temperature increase in the 20th century. It also claimed to prove that the latter part of the 20th century was the warmest and a that a previously claimed warming known as the Medieval Warm Period didn’t exist. The IPCC claimed that human CO2 explained the overall increase in global temperatures since 1950. If that is true, then how do they explain the 0.56°C drop in just two years, while they claim CO2 levels continued to rise? You can be sure that if the temperature increased by that much, all AGW alarmists would be shouting it to the world. But we won’t hear a word because it is going in the wrong direction. We might hear a concocted response if we ask the question loud enough.
Phil Jones, Director of the CRU at the time 1000 of their emails were leaked, produced the 0.6°C figure. Jones is a hydrologist. Here is what his bio at CRU says,
· BA in Environmental Sciences, University of Lancaster (1973)
· MSc in Engineering Hydrology, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (1974)
· PhD in Hydrology, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (1977)
Despite this, he claims to be a climatologist in the same bio. Maybe that is the problem, because except under rare circumstances water goes in one direction, whereas temperature is always changing direction. This is the same Jones who rejected requests for his data by Warwick Hughes saying he wanted to find fault. Hughes’ objective was, as with people’s requests for Michael Mann’s material, the desire to carry out the standard scientific test of producing reproducible results. This is the same Jones who claimed extreme distress over the leaked emails. Here is what The Guardian reported.
“Jones, who told the Sunday Times he had considered suicide over the controversy caused by the release of the emails, said he could not comment on allegations that the university mishandled requests for his data under Freedom of Information Laws.”
Why did he consider suicide when he claimed he had done nothing wrong? This is the Jones who, when finally cornered, announced he had lost the data.
This is the same Jones who in the leaked emails wrote,
“PPS Our web server has found this piece of garbage – so wrong it is unbelievable that Tim Ball wrote a decent paper in Climate Since AD 1500. I sometimes wish I’d never said this about the land stations in an email.”
My chapter in “Climate Since AD 1500” was good because I am a climatologist. My “piece of garbage” was also good for the same reason, but now it didn’t fit the direction he was taking. He changed direction, not me; just as the temperature data is changing because of natural climate change. The increased variability is associated with natural changes that presage global cooling. Meridional flow increases, and variation increases as all variables change. Jones analysis was wrong because he is a specialist in hydrology, not climatology and the politics destroyed his objectivity. | <urn:uuid:807189f8-176d-43ed-86df-42a927b099dc> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/distortions-misdirections-and-lack-of-accountability-continue-to-plague-climate-science/ | 2018-08-17T23:03:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221213158.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817221817-20180818001817-00080.warc.gz | en | 0.968228 | 2,474 |
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Given my perennial (and extreme) fondness for that theme, I was wondering if you had any other such comments on moralizations from the 17th or 18th century.
before Marco's translation of Tesauro today, I had only 6 full or partial moralizations at all, from the Steele Sermon to Minucci (1688).
You know the two 16th century discourses now, so maybe Minucci is the only one you hadn't seen (he only moralizes the last 5 cards of Minchiate).
I don't know any 18th century ones, until Court de Gébelin's.
I inserted Marco's remarks as number 6 - I'll correct and augment it later. Note that this is as it was written about 3 years ago - so the summary remarks about Anonymous (and the date) should be ignored.
Allegorizations Of The Trump Series, Full And Partial, Before 1781
This section deals with literary interpretations of the standard trump series (excluding complete revisionings of the series such as the game invented by Boiardo, or the Sola Busca, Rouen, and Mitelli packs).
Quasi-allegorical (15th century to present).
1. The Steele Sermon calls the series “21 steps on a ladder to Hell”; additionally, it offers glosses on the titles of some of the figures, such as “little world” for the Chariot, and “God the Father” for the World. These can be understood as allegorical interpretations. However, the author does not offer a complete synthetic view of the sequence, explaining how each “step” follows the other, and we must really wonder how he could consider a series whose final cards are of increasing celestial brightness and end with “God the Father” as “steps on a ladder to hell.” We should probably regard him as not commenting on the meaning of the series itself, but on the fact that the images are being used as a game at all.
2. Like the Sermon, literary Appropriati take the trumps as symbols worthy of allegorical explanation, but no extant examples attempt to moralize the hierarchical order as such; images are explained either in isolation, or in groups arbitrarily arranged.
Full Moralizations (16th century only).
3. Piscina, 1565. Discorso sopra l’ordine delle figure dei Tarocchi. This seems to be the first attempt to tell a story with the trumps in hierarchical order.
4. Anonymous Discourse, c. 1570. Journey of the Soul.
Partial Moralizations (17th century).
5. Garasse, 1622. Not a sincere attempt, but a parody moralizing the series vaguely as representing a Republic.
The other question I ask of Master Pasquier, is to know how the game of Chess pertains to the RECHERCHES DE FRANCE, seeing that it is certain that the French are not its Inventors, as he could learn in the verse of the Italian Gerolamo Vida: but in the Recherches de France why rather put the games of the Paume and Chess, than the games of Tarot, Bowling, the short ball, and others that are more in use among the French than the game of Chess, which requires rather a Spanish patience, not a French impatience?
Moreover, Master Pasquier, in treating of the game of Chess, asks and looks for the reasons why the Rook goes straight, the Bishop (fou) diagonal, the Knight jumping, the Queen (Dame) in all directions, and the Pawns and the King have only one step; and by his cleverness associates all these particulars to the affairs of the State. The Pawns, he says, are the common people, the Knights are the Nobility, the Queen the Courtesans, the Rooks the Counsel, and the Bishops are those who are personally nearest to the Kings, as it happens that in the game of Chess the Bishops are normally beside the King.
To all this I respond in order. Firstly, if I want to write Books, and expose myself to the derision of everyone, I could allegorize all games, and I could say for example that the nine pins are the nine Muses; the bowling ball, Phoebus or the Sun, who is round like a ball, the lanes, ruled and well defined, resemble their sheet of Music. I could also say that the Courts are the image of this life and this world: that the balls are men, as the Actor would say, that the Gods treat us like balls: the racquets and sets (battoüers) by which one plays, are the desires which motivate us, and all of our different affairs which beat us and break our heads, that the cord placed in the middle of the court is the maturity of age, some going over, others going under, some pass it, some do not reach it, but at last after everything, the ball being well rallied, one must at last put it back in the containers, which are the grave; or in the nets, the image of those who are condemned and exposed in view of the whole world, on a wheel, a gibbet, a scaffold, etc.
I could say that the game of Tarot represents a Republic better than Chess represents the Court of a King: In Tarot there is every estate like in a Republic, there are coins (deniers) to recompense the good, there are swords for the defense of the country, there are Knights, Sergeants, Acrobats (Basteleurs), Triumphs, Emperors, Popes, and fools. Whoever would like to moralize this, would make a Book bigger than the Recherches of Master Pasquier.
(R.P. François Garasse, Les recherches des recherches et autres oeuvres de Me Estienne Pasquier
, Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1622 ; pp. 217, 220-222)
6. Emmanuele Tesauro, 1654. Emanuele Tesauro was born in Turin in 1592 and died in the same city in 1675. He entered the Jesuit Order in 1611. In 1654 he composed the Cannocchiale Aristotelico (Aristotelian Spyglass), the most important baroque rhetoric essay.
The passage about Tarot and Chess belongs to the discussion of “Inventions in which the fictional character makes use of gestures and actions, without words”.
Finally whatever of pleasant and ingenious we find in Mute Games proceeds from the same source; [these games] represent some heroic subjects. Such is the game of Tarot; a deign creation of a barbarous mind, in which you see a mixed tangle of all the people in the world, with their devices. The Rich with Money, the Drunkards with the Cup, the Warriors with the Sword, the Shepherds with Maces. Emperors, Prelates, Angels, Demons: almost as if the Player holding a deck of cards had to keep the whole World in his hand, and the game were nothing but a metaphor of messing up the universe: who brings more ruin is the winner. But the most heroic and cunning game, a school of war, is that of Chess. In a small battle field you see two ordered armies, one of White Assyrians and the other of Black Africans. And here there are Kings, Queens, Warriors, Knights, Towering Elephants, and Infantry facing, assaulting, ambushing, surprising, running, helping, fighting, covering, taking prisoners and taking them out of the world at the command of the two Players, as if they where the masters of the battle. Until when the squads of the enemy are defeated and the King (the only one whose life is spared) is arrested: a tiring but sweet victory ends a conflict without bloodshed but not without anger for the loser. The game was conceived by the warlike mind of Palamedes among the Greek tends, in order to fight against idleness. You must not be surprised if an armed Pallas was born out of the brain of Jove and armies where born out of the brain of a Soldier. What is this game but a heroic symbol, a continuing metaphor? Where those little simulacra, animated by the living hand, allegorically represent an intellectual conflict, and have movement as their Motto. So the Player is transfigured in in the characters represented by those wooden warriors, and the mind of the Player lives in our images. (p.57-58)
(Andrea Vitali; translation and commentary by Marco Ponzi)
7. Paolo Minucci, 1688. Commentary on a the poem Il Malmantile racquistato of Lorenzo Lippi (1676). Last five cards of Minchiate pack (Arie) represent Triumph of Fame (he does not interpret the rest, except to say that all the cards are “hieroglyphs and celestial signs”).
MINCHIATE. A well-known game, called also
Tarocchi, Ganellini, or Germini. But since it is little used outside of our Tuscany, or at least played differently from us, in order to understand the present Octameter I think it is necessary to know how the game of minchiate is played. This game is composed of ninety-seven cards, of which 56 are called
Cartacce, and 40 are called
Tarocchi, and one, which is called
The Matto. The 56 cards are divided into four types, which are called Semi, among which are depicted fourteen Denari, (which Galeotto Marzio says used to be bread anciently), in 14 Coppe, in 14 Spade, and in 14 Bastoni: and each type of these suits (semi) begins from one, which is called Asso, and ends at ten, and in the eleventh is depicted a Valet, in the 12 a Knight, in the 13 a Queen, and in the 14 a King: and all of these suit cards, outside of the Kings, are called cartacce. The 40 are called Germini o Tarocchi: and this word Tarocchi, says Monosino, comes from the Greek hetaros: with which word, he says with Alciato, it Denotes those companions, who come together to play for nourishment. But I do not know this word, what it would be; I know well that hetairos and hetaroi means Sodales: and from this word, coming down into Latin, could be made the diminutive Hetaroculi, that is to say Little Companions. Germini comes from Gemini, a celestial sign, which has the highest number among the Tarocchi. In these Tarocchi cards are depicted different hieroglyphs and celestial signs, and each has his number, from one to 35; and the last five ending at 40 have no number, but are distinguished by the figures impressing their order of precedence, which is in this order Star, Moon, Sun, World, and Trumpet, which is the highest, and would have the number 40. The allegory is, that just as the Stars are outshone by the Moon, and the Moon by the Sun, so the World is bigger than the Sun, and Fame, shown with the Trumpet, is worth more than the World: inasmuch as that when a man is gone, he continues to live through fame, when he has performed glorious acts. Likewise Petrarch made Trionfi like a game, since Love is superseded by Chastity, Chastity by Death, Death by Fame, and Fame by Divinity, which reigns eternally. Also, the last card is not numbered 41, but is figured with the image of a Fool
[note: after this there is no more allegory; Minucci proceeds to a description of the use of the Fool, and the rest of the rules of Minchiate].
(Lorenzo Lippi, Il Malmantile racquistato. Poema di Perlone Zipoli, con le note di Puccio Lamoni
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Diabetonic Pets: Supports healthy insulin & blood sugar levels in pets
- Contains 3 tissue salts for dogs and cats with Type I and Type II diabetes
- Maintains healthy blood sugar levels and improves insulin availability and production
- Supports healthy circulation & promotes wound healing
- Increases energy levels and reduces fatigue
- Safe for dogs and cats of all ages, including during pregnancy and nursing
- Safe to use as a stand alone remedy or as part of a veterinary treatment plan
Symptoms of diabetes in dogs & cats
Diabetes is a disease of the pancreas that affects the body's ability to control its blood sugar levels. The pancreas is responsible for producing a hormone called insulin which keeps blood sugar levels balanced. Glucose is produced from the breaking down of starches and carbohydrates. The glucose is then absorbed through the wall of the digestive tract and passes into the bloodstream. Insulin allows glucose to leave the bloodstream and enter the body's tissue where it is then used as energy for the cells. With diabetes, the body either produces insufficient quantities of insulin or does not utilize insulin effectively. Glucose then builds up in the bloodstream and causes an elevated blood sugar level. High levels of glucose can lead to a number of complications such as cataracts, liver and kidney disease, increased infections, heart disease, gastrointestinal disorders and even coma and death.
Certain symptoms are common in cats and dogs with diabetes. However these signs may also indicate other diseases or conditions. The best way to determine if your pet has diabetes is to have his blood and urinary sugar levels checked by means of a laboratory test.
Common symptoms of diabetes in pets include:
- Excessive thirst
- Frequent urination
- Change in appetite
- Weight loss (despite an excellent appetite)
- General weakness
- Recurrent urinary tract infections
- Cataracts (in dogs)
Diabetes can occur in puppies (juvenile-onset diabetes) or in adult dogs (adult onset diabetes). But in cats, diabetes usually only occurs in middle-aged or older adults.
In dogs, females are affected twice as often as males, and incidence appears to be increased in certain small breeds such as Miniature Poodles, Dachshunds, Schnauzers, Cairn Terriers, and Beagles, but any breed can be affected. In one study, male cats were more commonly affected than females; but no particular breed seems predisposed amongst cats.
The natural way
There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that the use of carefully chosen natural remedies and dietary supplements can help to support healthy insulin production as well as balanced blood sugar levels.
Along with the correct lifestyle changes, natural supplements can reduce or eliminate the need for prescription medication and added insulin and can also aid in preventing some of the tissue and organ damage associated with uncontrolled blood sugar levels.
Natural medicines have been used for centuries to treat a variety of ailments. As more and more clinical trials are showing the effectiveness of natural herbal and homeopathic remedies in promoting health, more pet owners are resorting to natural, side effect free remedies to treat their pets – giving them a more holistic, balanced and all-round treatment.
How can Diabetonic Pets help?
Diabetonic Pets has been especially formulated as a natural treatment for dogs and cats with diabetes and contains a specially selected combination of biochemic tissue salts known for their ability to improve the production and bio-availability of insulin and to support healthy blood sugar levels.
Diabetonic Pets is an excellent supplement for the diabetic pet and will also help to reduce symptoms of diabetes related conditions such as eye, bladder and circulation problems. Diabetonic Pets is very effective used alone, or as part of a total veterinarian treatment program
What are the ingredients?
Diabetonic Pets contains the following 100% natural ingredients:
- Kali sulph (D6), also called Kalium sulphate - a biochemic tissue salt that assists with metabolism and cellular oxygenation, thereby supporting the health of all cells. Another function of Kali sulph is as a system cleanser. Kali sulph also benefits the skin and mucous membranes.
- Nat sulph (D6), also called Natrium sulphate - a biochemic tissue salt involved in maintaining efficient distribution of oxygen to the cells and tissues of the body – supporting optimum performance to assist with the functioning of the immune system. As it supports the transportation of oxygen to the skin and glands, it also promotes circulation. Kali sulph is especially present in the cells forming the mucus lining of all bodily organs, including the pancreas and stomach.
- Calc phos (D6), also called Calcium phosphate - a biochemic tissue salt and a major mineral component of every structure in the body, except connective tissue. It is a vital component of the body’s nutrition process from digestion, through to assimilation, cell growth and energy expenditure. Calcium phosphate is present in the process of building new blood cells, therefore helping the body to put into practice the necessary functions to keep blood circulation flowing, keeping the body warm. This tissue salt is also present in all body fluids.
Lactose (inactive ingredient)
How has Diabetonic Pets helped others?
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How do I use Diabetonic Pets?
Diabetonic Pets can be used as part of a veterinary treatment program for diabetes in dogs and cats. It may be used on its own or along with insulin, depending on the advice of your vet. .
Instructions for use
Tablets may be taken whole (they are very small and easily swallowed) or crushed and sprinkled on food.
Cats and small dogs: As a regular supplement, take one tablet twice daily
Medium to large dogs:: Two tablets 2 - 3 times daily
NOTE: Use Diabetonic Pets along with Immunity & Liver Support to further strengthen health & immune system functioning.
Helpful health tips for pets with diabetes
- Feed your dog or cat at regular times with small healthy snacks in between meals
- Do not feed unhealthy or human treats to your pets, no matter how soulful their eyes!
- Speak to your vet about a diabetes friendly diet. If you are in Cape Town, visit the Feelgood Health Shop in Westlake for Doggobone Raw Active Food
- Any concurrent infection in your pet will affect the glucose levels in your pet’s body thereby hampering your efforts to regulate blood sugar levels. Diabetic pets are predisposed to bladder infections as a certain type of bacteria thrives in your pet’s sugar -rich urine. Add UTI-Free and LiverAid to your pet’s diabetic management program to optimise blood sugar control.
- Exercise is an important part of keeping your pet’s diabetes controlled. Remember though to keep the activity level the same from day to day. The time of day when the exercise is done, how vigorous the activity is and how long the activity lasts all affect your pet’s blood glucose levels. If you suddenly double the amount of exercise – be warned that your pet’s blood glucose levels might drop too low as the body needs more glucose during exercise.
- Don’t panic if your pet’s blood glucose drops too low (hypoglyacaemia). Hypoglycaemic episodes are frightening but you need to remain calm so that you can treat your pet appropriately. If you suspect that your pet is hypoglycaemic then rub some honey on their gums and monitor closely. If they do not start showing signs of recovery seek immediate veterinary attention.
- Never leave the house with your diabetic pet, without taking a bottle of honey or a few packets of sugar with you in case of emergency.
- Make changes one at a time so that you can monitor effects - whether this is a change in diet, exercise routine or in insulin dosages.
- Develop a daily routine and stick to it, feed your pet at the same time everyday, give insulin injections, if prescribed, regularly and see your vet for routine check ups.
- Have a disc made for your dog or cat's collar that says they’re diabetic.
- Be flexible. Diabetes is a long-term disease - adopt a sensible approach to managing your pet’s diabetes so that you don’t stress yourself and your pet.
- Keep a daily journal recording the amount of insulin injected, exercise schedule, drinking habits, urination habits, behavioural observations and unusual happenings such as vomiting and diarrhoea. This record will be very useful to your pet’s vet if difficulties are encountered with stabilising blood sugar levels.
- Let your pet do things that are fun and healthy for them, let them have an adventure once in a while. A small lick of ice cream or an occasional healthy treat is not the end of the world. Your pet needs a normal life too! However, let this be an occasional treat and not a regular occurrence!
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So which scene do you represent? If you find yourself often yelling at your kids, I would suspect the first scene is your mode of operation. Putting down kids, going down to their emotional level does not benefit anyone, and only will cause you more frustration. If you have told a counselor that you have tried to play with your kids but they don't want to play with you or you don't like playing with them, then ask yourself why. Are you too critical and have forgotten how to teach? If you make fun of what the kid fails at doing (throwing the ball or hitting it), why would he want to play withyou?!
Cheerleading, encouraging, and teaching go a long way in increasing confidence and happiness. Guess what? A happy, confident kid is less demanding and more compliant to the rules! Yell less, play more, it is easier on everyone. Set boundaries consistantly. Time outs should be about 1 minute per year of age.
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Have you tested your Spiritual temperature lately?
1. When did you last pray or meditate on your faith's verses?
2. Are you actively fellowshiping with like-minded?
3. Are you actively memorizing verses to defeat spiritual attacks?
4. Are you worshiping?
5. Are you daily reading/studying words for spiritual growth?
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Exercise to conquer Depression and Anxiety
Our new design for living works best when it is body, mind, and soul. Our bodies, as well as our thoughts, behaviors and emotions need hope and healing. In fact, neuroscience tells us that that the body is, in fact, where we experience and process our emotions. For this and other obvious reasons of health and overall well being, getting our bodies back on our side so that they can be a friend rather than a foe, is an important part of recovery. Depression and anxiety can become overwhelming as medications are removed and we look for new ways to feel better and manage moods that are natural rather than synthetic. We know that regular exercise is an important part of our physical fitness, but research reveals that it can contribute to our emotional and psychological fitness as well.
In a Duke University study, published in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine, October 25, 1999, exercise was found to be almost as effective as medication in reducing symptoms of depression. 156 patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder were divided into three groups in order to study the impact that exercise might have on depression:
Group 1 Did exercise only with no medication
Group 2 Used medication only with no exercise
Group 3 Used a combination of medication and exercise.
Much to the surprise of the researchers, all three groups, after 16 weeks, showed similar and significant improvements in their depression.
Here are the statistical findings of the study:
- 65.5% of the group who used medication alone, were no longer depressed after 16 weeks.
- 60.4% of the group who did exercise alone, were no longer depressed after 16 weeks.
- 68.8% of the group who did both exercise and medication were no longer depressed after 16 weeks.
The researchers did note that patients who took the antidepressants (in this case Zoloft) saw their symptoms relieved sooner, but by 16 weeks the group differences had virtually disappeared. Medication can be a life saver for some in recovery and no one wants to suggest otherwise, but adding exercise to a regime that includes medication or incorporating it into a recovery program as part of overall mood management offers more choices to the recovery menu. “One of the conclusions we can draw from this,” according to psychologist and study leader Dr. James Blumenthal, “Is that exercise may be just as effective as medication and may be a better alternative for certain patients. “ While we don’t know why exercise confers such a benefit, this study shows that exercise should be considered as a credible form of treatment for these patients. Almost one-third of depressed patients in general do not respond to medications, and for others, the medications can cause unwanted side effects. Exercise should be considered a viable option.”
Depression also has a social side and people who are depressed, socially anxious, or emotionally traumatized may tend to isolate. Part of recovery, is to learn to make new connections and practice new relationship behaviors as we do in twelve step rooms. Dr. Blumenthal reflected that the structured and supportive atmosphere of the exercise program could have contributed to improving the symptoms of the exercise group.
Blumenthal feels that exercise may be beneficial because patients are actually taking a proactive role in their own physical and psychological health. “…Taking a pill is… passive,” says Blumenthal. He went on to say, “Patients who exercised may have felt a greater sense of mastery over their condition and gained a greater sense of accomplishment. They may have felt more self-confident and had better self-esteem because they were able to do it themselves, and they may have attributed their improvement to their ability to exercise. These findings could change the way some depressed patients are treated, especially those who are not interested in taking antidepressants. Although these medications have been proven to be effective, many people want to avoid the side effects or are looking for a more ‘natural’ way of feeling better.”
Kristin Vickers-Douglas, a psychologist at Mayo Clinic, adds that exercise is “not a magic bullet, but increasing physical activity is a positive and active strategy to help manage depression and anxiety.”
What Exercise Does to the Body
When we exercise, our bodies release certain mood-enhancing endorphins. Endorphins trigger a positive feeling in the body, similar to that of morphine. These feelings of euphoria, sometimes associated with a “runner’s high,” may contribute to our good feelings about ourselves and ourlives.
Endorphins also act as sedatives, actually diminishing our perception of pain. They are manufactured in our brain, spinal cord, and many other parts of our bodies. Not coincidently, the neuron receptors that endorphins bind to are the same ones that bind some pain medicines. However, unlike morphine, the activation of these receptors by the body’s own endorphins is less likely to lead to addiction, dependence or negative lifestyle patterns.
Exercise boosts the brain’s feel-good endorphins, releases muscle tension, improves sleep, and reduces levels of the stress hormone, cortisol. It also increases our body temperature, which may have a calming effect. All of these changes in our mind and body can improve such symptoms as sadness, anxiety, irritability, stress, fatigue, anger, self-doubt, helplessness and hopelessness that are associated with depression.
“Small bouts of exercise may be a great way to get started if it’s initially too hard to do more,” Dr. Vickers-Douglas says. Though the research suggests that it may take at least 30 minutes of exercise a day, three to five times a week to significantly improve depression symptoms, any amount of activity, as little as 10 to 15 minutes at a time, can still improve mood in the short term.
Regular exercise has been proven to help us:
- Reduce stress
- Ward off anxiety and feelings of depression
- Boost self-esteem
- Improve sleep
- Strengthens the heart.
- Lowers blood pressure.
- Improves muscle tone and strength.
- Strengthens and builds bones.
- Reduces body fat.
- Increases energy levels.
- Helps with over all fitness.
Research also shows that we’re more likely to maintain good exercise habits if we get exercise to fit into our lives, say by walking or biking to work, or walking, jogging or playing a sport with friends. Some forms of exercise that are user friendly are:
- Jogging at a moderate pace
- Low-impact aerobics
- Golf (walking the course)
- Playing tennis
- Yard work
Don’t wait for will power to begin exercising, says Dr. Vickers-Douglas. “Some people think they need to wait until they somehow generate enough willpower to exercise. But waiting for willpower or motivation to exercise is a passive approach, and when someone has depression and is unmotivated, waiting passively for change is unlikely to help at all. Focusing on a lack of motivation and willpower can make you feel like a failure. Instead, identify your strengths and skills and apply those to taking some first steps toward exercise.”
People who feel anxious feel a perceived lack of control over their lives. They feel, in other words, out of control. Both anxiety and depression can make us feel helpless, which can lead to more anxiety and depression. It’s a Catch 22. Exercise is proactive. Along with the obvious physiological benefits, it is helpful psychologically to feel that we can do something each day to help ourselves. Getting ourselves to a meeting, or out for a walk are both activities that require personal motivation. These could be called “victorious circles”. Unlike the vicious circles that sink us further into disease where helplessness and hopelessness lead to more helplessness and hopelessness, combining exercise with recovery activities like regular meetings, becomes part of Good Orderly Direction and breeds more of the same. So bike, walk or jog to a meeting. Join a yoga class, a team sport or a hiking group. The personal and social benefits will enhance recovery and improve life.
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If you are struggling with low engagement in your Instagram posts then these Instagram Hashtags Best Practices can help you improve the engagement.
One of the lifelines of Instagram is Hashtags. That is the pivot around which content marketing on Instagram works.
Hashtags for Instagram is what Keywords are for SEO. Just as keywords get your content found on search engines, Hashtags get your content found on Instagram.
The fact that, not a lot of marketers are using hashtags on Instagram proves that the awareness of the importance of hashtags amongst marketers who are wanting their piece of the Instagram pie, is very low.
On surveying some of these marketers and asking them as to why they are not using hashtags, their response was something common – that they were not aware of researching and finding the best hashtags for their content and that they did not feel that the commonly used hashtags were doing any good.
You should be able to understand the importance of hashtag from a simple example; the use of a hashtag “#followforfollow” or, its variants can get you a lot of followers on Instagram. It means that people are using hashtags to search for content on Instagram.
Researching and finding the best keywords for your content requires a planned approach and it is the same for Hashtags as well.
And in this episode of the dkspeaks podcast, we will be discussing about Instagram hashtags best practices.
Instagram Hashtags Best Practices
First things first.
If you want to make the most of using Hashtags, it is important that you maintain a list of hashtags for your content, that you will be using in each of your posts on Instagram.
So it is important to be prepared. And preparation primarily means researching hashtags, identifying the best ones that can help your content be found and keeping this handy in a notepad so that you can just copy and paste it into your Instagram posts.
Researching and finding Hashtags is not as difficult as it is for Keywords. A simple 4 step method can help you do it and these 4 are more or, less the only ways of finding hashtags as of now.
How to find the Best Instagram Hashtags
Let us look at these 4 steps to finding hashtags for Instagram.
Firstly decide on a branding hashtag that you would like to use. Branding hashtags help create a brand around your business and also helps your business stand out from the crowd. Let us check out some example of how big brands are using branding hashtags.
Nike uses their branding hashtags #justdoit in almost all their posts. You can see this while browsing their posts on Instagram.
Kitkat is another brand that uses a branding hashtag very nicely. They use a branding hashtag #HaveaBreak in all their posts.
Branding hashtags are very powerful in establishing yourself as a brand and in starting a campaign around your brand. For marketers who are starting out, a branding hashtag might not be of a lot of relevance right away. But in due course when you build a following on Instagram, you will realize the importance of a branding hashtag.
A branding hashtag necessarily need not be a single hashtag. It can be multiple hashtags as well. Spend time to brainstorm and decide on what your branding hashtag will be.
A Friendly Google Search
The next method is as simple as heading over to google and doing a quick search to find relevant hashtags.
Here are some of the results when I searched for “best hashtags in blogging”. You will see hundreds of resources including blog posts which will hand over a list of the best hashtags in the blogging niche.
You could use this search term in any niche and get a list of readymade hashtags. You might have to spend some time picking the best ones out of it, after doing some careful research of which ones are doing well on Instagram.
Hashtag Research Tools
There are numerous tools that are available online, which can help you research hashtags. Some of them are paid while many other are free. You can use a tool like “hashtagify” which can help you find trending hashtags.
Here are the results on searching for hashtags related to “bloggingtips” on hashtagify.
You can do similar searches deep into your specific niche and find hundreds of hashtags that you can then use in your Instagram posts.
Your Own Hashtag Ideas
You can also create your own hashtags using your own creativity and ideas.
Assuming you have been into content marketing for some time, you would already know what are the search keywords that people generally use in your niche. These keywords can be a good starting point for your hashtags.
Make a list of all those keywords and research to find if these hashtags are being used on Instagram and what their demand is.
I use an online resource called top-hastags and use their convert feature to convert keywords into hashtags and do a preliminary analysis to see if there is enough demand for that hashtag.
Here are the results on doing this exercise with a list of keywords in the blogging niche.
You can see that, of the 7 keywords that I used only 4 had some volume on Instagram. But this doesn’t mean that these hashtags are not good.
It only means that these 4 hashtags were the only ones that were used in most of the media that was posted on Instagram. The other 3 hashtags that did not have a considerable amount of posts on Instagram could also be good ones that people are searching for and you can use them in your posts.
I search for the hashtag #howtomakemoneyblogging on Instagram and here is what I found.
There were about 58 posts that used this hashtag and if go into some of these posts, you will find that the engagement on these were pretty decent.
That basically means that this hashtag is also a good one to go after because it is not being used a lot and still there is some demand.
The Next Steps
Build a list of about 100 hashtags in your niche. You can do a preliminary research on top-hashtags to see which of these are good ones to use in your posts.
The next thing to do is to head over to Instagram and do a quick search for the shortlisted hashtags, just as I did in the example above.
Instagram will show you the number of posts for that specific hashtag.
Here is what you should do with the results that you see –
- If the number of posts are very high, it means that the usage for that hashtag is very high and it is very unlikely that your post would be found for that specific hashtag. So mark those as your secondary hashtags in your notepad.
- If the count is very low, it basically means that there is not too many people using that hashtag. Go into some of the posts that are using those hashtags and see if there is enough engagement on those. If you find that there is enough engagement, it means that there are people searching for those hashtags and it makes sense to use it in your posts. But if there is not enough engagement, discard those hashtags.
- If the count of media is moderate, that means that the hashtag is in demand and at the same time will be easy for you to rank your posts. Go ahead and use these
You are a better judge for your niche and in deciding on the importance of a specific hashtag, which otherwise might not be too common on Instagram.
It takes careful evaluation and analysis to decide on what hashtags you would want to use. Hence use some of the data available and some of your insights about your niche to shortlist your hashtags.
Adding Hashtags on Instagram Posts
Now that you have researched the hashtags, it is time to add it to your post. The normal tendency will be to add it in the caption of the post which is what a lot of people would do. But that doesn’t look too great.
It clutters the caption of the post and gives a very untidy looks to it.
In order to avoid this you have 2 alternate choices.
- Leave some space immediately after the last word in the caption. You can enter a few “fullstops” in paragraphs and then add the hashtags. That way the hashtags will go below the fold and will not be visible thus leaving your caption area clutter free.
- Or, you can add it in the first comment. This is one of the best practices for hashtags. Most Instagram management tools including Grum and Planoly has the option of adding hashtags as the first comment. Go ahead and make use of it.
Which ever way you use it, keep in mind that using hashtags on Instagram could just be the difference in your posts seeing a good amount of engagement and your posts not being seen.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode
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Blade Runner 2049 is a powerful tribute, a fitting sequel to the 1982 blockbuster Blade Runner. The stakes were already high when there were talks of a sequel to a masterpiece, but when Denis Villeneuve‘s name was tacked to the project the world resounded with a sigh of relief. The good news is that he delivers. What a rad stunner!
To witness an eye-boggling dystopian world which has clearly uplifted Ridley Scott‘s version with everything technology could afford is beyond compare. Visuals are literally and figuratively out of the world as Denis uses his fastidious eye to aggrandize every frame.
The movie is paced really slow like a good and genuine thriller, a fact some might not have liked. I swear I heard a lot of people snoring in the theatres which makes me think, maybe the movie could have been edited or paced up a little bit. On a personal level, I think I liked its gait. The way it moves, letting us get in sync with its story, helping us chug wheels of imagination alongside the protagonist are some of the good virtues make it delectable.
Direction of Blade Runner 2049
Denis Villeneuve’s a true magician. The way he weaves his frames is a lesson for budding directors. Creating scenes that are inimitable from angles that aggrandize a situation. Everything is so tasteful that you realize that his frames are quite simple to helm which many fail terribly at. His brain’s simply peerless. There’s so much beauty lurking there; it’s an honour living in his era.
Blade Runner 2049 is a product of his brain that goes through his gorgeous filters. There’s an arresting aura about all of the characters chosen to star in the flick, and Denis plays with them like a pro he is.
Prolonged shots of the protagonist hovering over the dystopian world, an action sequence played out by silhouettes, or resurrecting the same old hide and seek tension that we had seen in the prequel, using a distorted fragmented piece of music to play in the backdrop or a shot showing a cold-blooded murder by placing the camera outside a window pane for effect are some of the shots that fill you with awe.
The music he chooses to blare is simply powerful. It becomes deafening at times, however never fails to complement his imposing frames. In a way talking about the impending impact just like he used it gorgeously in Arrival.
Writing and Orgasmic Visuals
Hampton Fancher (the guy who wrote the first one) and Michael Green do a fabulous job of creating a winning story. Keeping the memorable character of Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as the nub of the story, they weave a tale that’s unlike others we have seen. With a revelation that will blow your mind away, not once but twice, the movie persuasively and successfully houses a seriously good thriller in its womb.
Pain reminds you the joy you felt was real.
The screenplay takes you back in time with Fancher bringing most of his lost mojo back on paper. The wisdom that escapes Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) trickles down like honey, and you realize, the guy makes so much sense.
All the courage in the world cannot alter fact.
The Visuals team do a fabulous job of creating something really unworldly. With countless prepossessing panoramic shots to bedazzle us, the movie literally picks us up and puts us in a dystopian future. Deserted lands look unlike anything we have seen so far.
The Theme and Plot of Blade Runner 2049 Movie
The theme of the movie is centered around these very lines spoken by Lt. Joshi (Robin Wright):
The world is built in a wall that separates kind. Tell either side there’s no wall, you have bought a war or a slaughter.
Can a replicant become pregnant? If so there would be no demarking lines to separate humans from replicants. When K (Ryan Gosling) bumps into a case like that he is asked to keep something so colossal under wraps, and to take care of it before it goes out in the open.
The case ends up unwinding into something we don’t expect, and it is a convoluted tale that keeps getting better with every reveal.
Ryan Gosling as K (Spoilers)
The story is run from K’s perspective. Ryan Gosling, who by the way is a “tin job” blade runner, is a guy who accidentally comes across a secret that gnaws at his soul. It is hidden deep down his memory lane.
I have memories, but I can’t tell if they’re real.
He gets on top of the case, the good Nexus-9 officer he is, and visits Wallace Corp. to identify the DNA he had discovered to be that of Rachael. Yes, the replicant from the first part. She was the girl pregnant with the child of Rick Deckard.
Who keeps a dead tree?
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The Memory Maker
While trying to solve the puzzle of his life, the memory K keeps on witnessing is that of a child trying to hide a sculpted horse in a warehouse as bullies beat him up for the toy. The horse has the same date he saw on Rachael’s grave.
Tagging it as his own memory, and to reconfirm the fact K how much of it is real, K decides to visit a memory maker named Dr. Ana Stelline.
Ana is the best in the memory business who makes really convincing memories. From her he gathers that the memory he had been witnessing is none other than his own.
Someone lived this, yeah. It happened.
With that, he identifies the child that he was looking for to be none other than him. Whilst it’s a disclosure that feels like something you see coming, it gets answered soon with a final revelation that’s even bigger than the one you were being smug about.
With Blade Runner 2049 hitting the theatres, it was crystal clear upfront that Rick was the hero we all wished to see resurrected. Though not the protagonist of this story, the movie manages to preserve the integrity of the cherishable protagonist from the prequel. Harrison Ford reprises his role as Rick Deckard. And it does so really smartly something that doesn’t involve killing his character, unlike what we had to see in Star Wars Force Awakens.
The force is strong in him as we see him throw the first punch followed by a couple others eyeing K as a threat. Despite the weird dissecting noise there, the scene amplifies automatically owing to the naturalistic vibes that it tags along.
K establishes Rick as his father, as Rick tells him that he had to leave the child for his own good.
Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger.
He was hanging around when a replicant sent by Wallace named as Luv (Sylvia Hoeks) rams in unannounced taking away Rick with him and leaving K kaput.
You really are the best angel. Aren’t you, Luv?
The Replicant Freedom Movement
When K wakes up Freysa (Hiam Abbass), the leader of the Replicant Freedom Movement asks K to kill Deckard so as to stop Wallace from knowing their whereabouts and saving Deckard’s “daughter”. Mind = Blown!
It’s a huge revelation for K who had been considering himself to be Deckard’s child all this time. But he figures out that it was Selline who was, in fact, Deckard and Rachael’s child that it was her memories that were implanted in him. Ana Selline was really good at her job and hence her memories in his head seemed very real to him.
Dying for the right cause. It’s the most human thing we can do.
With hopes to save Rick from the hands of Wallace who had plans to extract information so that he could progress with his colonization plans, K intercepts his transfer to the off-world. He bumps into Luv again as a fight ensues. Finally, he manages to drown her saving Rick in the process. Staging him as dead, K goes on to do the right thing. He takes Rick Deckard to Stelline for a father-daughter reunion.
It’s very clever to keep yourself empty of information, and all it cost to you was everything.
We see K badly wounded, resting on the stairs slowly succumbing to a probable death. He is feeling the snowflakes on his hand wondering, how for a second he had thought he was real, and what joy it had brought him.
Joi – the Holographic AI
K is in love with his AI holographic girlfriend Joi (Ana De Armas) who is realistic enough to show him a good time. She’s a pleasant companion to have. The technology we see in the movie is simply alluring.
It goes on to capture a transition, an upgrade too, with Joi moving from being trapped in a single room to experiencing the very first thing she wishes to experience – rain. It is then followed by her second most desirable thing – K.
A child. Of woman born. Pushed into the world. Wanted. Loved.
Some of the scenes where we see her network being affected in a crash site with all the lags and glitches are just amazingly done.
Laced in one of the high points of the movie is Joi’s fate. We see her lights being shut down as K burns in disgruntled air helplessly. She had named him Joe when K was busy figuring out his true identity to be akin to humans.
All the best memories are hers.
At a later point, we see K coming to terms with what Joi was all about. At the end of the day, she was nothing but a Wallace advertised product made insanely real.
Her advertisement calls him Joe venting a series of thoughts inside K’s head. His trance shatters as he accepts her true love to be a sham, another lie Wallace had created to mess with his head.
Luv: I see you are one of our clients. I hope you are satisfied with our product.
K: It’s very….realistic.
We see Jared Leto in another convincing performance as Niander Wallace in Blade Runner 2049. The bloke’s blind as a bat but he could see everything using the technology that he has built for himself, and such genius he is.
Every leap of civilization was built on the back of a disposable workforce, but I can only make so many.
He poses as an immensely intellectual villain (I guess we are going to remember him for the rest of our lives). The way he talks and the way he presents the character is simply astounding.
I can see it. As clear as dreaming. He loves her.
There are many other amazing things about the movie as well. About AI we see something very similar to what we had seen in the outstanding 2013 drama Her. One of the most memorable bits in that area is the syncing bit. There’s an apparent lag that we see while AI syncs with human which is a scene that’s beautifully fabricated. It makes you marvel at technology.
Then there was that astonishing scene of the one that literally resurrects Rachael back from the dead. Such beautiful VFX!
Her eyes were green.
The Final Verdict
Blade Runner 2049 movie’s true thrill lies in its proper nerve-racking narration. Even though its pace might not be something today’s fast-moving world is up for, it is a fantastic gem that shouldn’t be missed for the world.
It is a movie that tells you what geniuses are made of. You realize that artistry lies in every aspect of cinema right from the visuals team to the direction, to the cinematography and the writing. It is a combined extraordinary effort of the whole team who make this movie a worthy hoot.
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(The two continue bumping down the road in the ramshackle truck. We switch between views straight on through the windshield and from the side through driver windows.)
PETE: Are you kidding me?!
PHINEAS: Would I kid about something like this?
PETE: I don’t know! I just met you!
PHINEAS: Do people joke about mass death in your time period?
(PHINEAS sets his jaw and makes a hard turn)
(They go over a nasty bump. PETE hits his head on the roof and pulls a face.)
PETE: (Angrily) Ow!
PHINEAS: Oh, don’t be such a baby. I was once clubbed on the head by an Aztec priest, and I can assure you I didn’t say “aaaow!”
PETE: (rubbing his head) What did you say then?
(a pause as PHINEAS gets very tense)
PHINEAS: Well, I ruddy well couldn’t say anything! I was out cold!
PETE: Cool story, Mr. Wizard.
PHINEAS: I don’t suppose you could tell me if you’ve been feeling ill in the past few weeks?
PETE: Uh… I was coughing a little last week, but I thought I was over it…
PHINEAS: Coughing a little? Oh, damn!
PETE: You now, you keep saying that. Aren’t you from, like, the future?
PETE: And don’t you, like, travel in time and stuff?
PHINEAS: (in a mocking tone) Like, yes… and stuff.
PETE: Then why don’t you ever say anything cool when you swear? You sound like my Mom when you just say ‘damn!’ all the time.
PHINEAS: Would you prefer I say something suitably alien to your 21st century sensibilities? Perhaps I should be cursing you out in a Martian dialect, or say something charmingly anachronistic like, oh, I don’t now… Bat’s Breath?
PETE: Bat’s Breath? What’s that mean in the past?
PHINEAS: Nothing… but have you ever smelled a bat’s breath?
(PETE goes silent and looks a little confused)
PHINEAS: We’re here!
(The jalopy lurches to a stop outside a period pharmacy, bathed in the last glimmers of the evening sun. A wispy, balding man in an immaculate white coat is about to close up before PHINEAS barges through the door.)
PHINEAS: (As he bowls the pharmacist over) My apologies, sir, but we are in dire need of your establishment!
(PETE stops to help the man to his feet)
PHARMACIST: Wh-wh… what? Who?
PETE: I don’t get him half the time, either, don’t worry.
(PHINEAS is hard at work scavenging the shelves like he’s preparing for a hurricane. He takes intermittent glances at the Omni as he busies himself clearing out the inventory. PETE goes to invesigate.)
PETE: Do you mind if I ask what the he–
(PHINEAS rounds on him and throws a cocktail of pills into his mouth. PETE recoils as PHINEAS sets upon him, tilting his head back and greasing the way for the pills with a strange black liquid he pulled from a vial inside his vest. PETE is understandably troubled, coughing and hacking after he manages to swallow the lot.)
PETE: What the hell is wrong with you?!
PHINEAS: There. You’re inoculated and should prove no more biological damage to the timeline.
(He glances at the pills left in his hand, and then to the Omni.)
PHINEAS: And this should be sufficient for Mr. Wright. Off we go!
PETE: Ugh. I feel like I just tried to eat my grandma’s parakeet.
(He makes to leave, but the pharmacist, who has been watching all of this with morbid wonder, stops him.)
PHARMACIST: Hey, you! Look at my store! You’d better pay for all of that!
(PHINEAS stops and pivots on his heel, pulling a massive handful of gold coins from his pocket and dropping them into the pharmacist’s hands…and clattering them to the wooden floor.)
PHARMACIST: Are these… gold?
PHINEAS: Dubloons, actually. Don’t spend them all in one place.
(He immediately turns to leave, ignoring the PHARMACIST’S yelps of joy)
PHARMACIST: I… I could retire with all this!
PHINEAS: (responding while exiting, not turning back and waving dismissively over his shoulder.) Then happy retirement!
(They return to the truck and try to return to Wilbur & Orville’s shop. However, the pharmacist jumps in front of the truck as they try to speed away.)
(they hammer on the brakes, and PETE’s head thuds comically against the dashboard.)
PETE: (rubbing his forehead) I never thought I’d say this, but… I can’t wait for someone to invent seatbelts.
(the PHARMACIST comes around to the driver’s side door, where PHINEAS is not in the mood to chat)
PHARMACIST: Sir, I’d suggest you not go just yet…
PHINEAS: If you’re trying to create some sort of elaborate apology, don’t. Just let us go on your way and enjoy your gold.
PHARMACIST: But, it’s dangerous out there!
PHINEAS: In my experience, it’s dangerous everywhere.
PHARMACIST: But, you don’t understand, sir! You, and your assistant… especially your assistant!
PHINEAS: Yes, that’s fascinating, thank you!
(the truck speeds off, leaving the Pharmacists in the road, shouting)
PHARMACIST: It’s a sundowner town! Sundowner town!
PETE: (looking back at the pharmacist) What do you think he was yelling about?
PHINEAS: (very focused) Probably something about bear grease and nerve tonic, no doubt.
PETE: He kept saying “sunflower,” or something. You know what that means?
PHINEAS: Perhaps he enjoys the work of Mr. Van Gogh.
PETE: You’re really not thinking about it at all, are you? Why?
PHINEAS: When you’ve been doing this for as long as I have, you learn when people’s worries are simply archaic, and when they matter.
PETE: ‘as long as you have?’ What are you, like thirty?
PHINEAS: It’s different in the future.
PETE: Ah. So you don’t think that there’s any…
PHINEAS: (finally taking his eyes off the road and turning to PETE) No, I don’t think that there is any reason why I should worry on a cold December night in nineteen hundred and three in North Carolina.
PETE: Well… what about me? Didn’t he say he was worried about me more than you?
PHINEAS: I can’t imagine why.
PETE: So if you’re not in trouble… and I’m not in trouble… then why is there a roadblock up there, and why do those men have torches?
(PHINEAS whips his head back round to the road, where a small mob is waiting to intercept them. He turns again to PETE, his eyes wide.)
PHINEAS: What are you?
PETE: Excuse me?
PHINEAS: You’re not Caucasian, are you?
PHINEAS: You’re not WHITE, are you?
PETE: Well, my Dad was white…
PHINEAS: Oh, damn.
(He hits the brakes and attempts to turn the truck around. The mob begins to slowly advance, faces ghoulish in the torchlight.)
PETE: What? What’s wrong?
PHINEAS: He wasn’t saying “sunflower,” Mr. Rodney… he was saying “Sundowner.” This is a Sundowner Town, which means anyone who looks like you and who isn’t out of the city after the sun goes down…
PETE: (his eyes growing wide) What do you mean? They’re gonna… kill me?
PHINEAS: If we’re lucky.
PETE: How did you not now this was gonna happen? Didn’t you know I was black?!
PHINEAS: To be honest, I never noticed!
PETE: HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW?!
(They manage to get halfway turned around before the mob finally starts to close in, and they can’t go any further. Lots of closeups and zooms on worried faces and creepy faces in torchlight as the Sundowners close in on the truck. This might be a good place for a “TO BE CONTINUED” if you’re into that sort of thing.) | <urn:uuid:e451355b-4b00-4ca3-b6c8-a374cc8f90b8> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://generationextant.com/?p=3392 | 2018-08-19T19:59:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180819184710-20180819204710-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.94343 | 2,089 |
1. Euroscepticism and European Parliament elections
Commitment to European integration
The key topics in the electoral campaign were the fight against unemployment, the economic crisis, the preservation of social rights, climate protection, data safety and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Basically, all politically relevant forces from Luxembourg represented in the European Parliament are pro-EU. The defence of what is commonly called the European model of welfare state was in fact part of the electoral campaign, due to the fact that Europe is mostly considered to be part of the answer to a globalized world putting pressure on the achievements of the social state. This does not mean that the Commission’s economic policy is overwhelmingly welcomed, but there is no relevant party saying that the achievements of the Luxembourgish welfare state can be better defended outside the Union.
The choice of Jean-Claude Juncker for the presidency of the European Commission was of major importance and contributed probably to a large extent to the good performance of the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV). The perspective that a Luxembourger might become the president of the Commission – the third one with a Luxembourg passport –fills some of his fellow citizens with pride. Nonetheless, Martin Schulz, the socialist candidate, was backed with strong support by the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP). However, the election results have revealed that Schulz campaign was not really much help for his Luxembourgish supporters. The LSAP was one of the big losers of the elections. As for the other candidates, their political impact in Luxembourg was very small.
(Soft-)euroscepticism only at second glance
During the electoral campaign the main Luxembourgish newspaper, the Luxemburger Wort, headlined: “(almost) all political parties united for Europe – parties position themselves for the intensive phase of the campaign. They are still seeking for substantially distinctive positions” (Bumb).This analysis is indeed appropriate for the ‘big four’, already represented in the European Parliament in the 2009-2014 term: the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV), the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP), the Democratic Party (DP) and the Greens (Déi Greng). Due to the fact that Luxembourg is one of the smallest Member States, only six seats are allocated to its candidates for the Strasbourg hemicycle. On the background of the moderate political landscape it was arithmetically rather doubtful that any other than the aforementioned parties would be represented in the European Parliament. However, eurosceptical parties were not totally absent in the run-up to the elections.
The Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) campaigned with the slogan “More Luxembourg, less Europe”, aspiring for a Europe of nation-states. Curiously enough, the ADR, considering itself as the only eurosceptical party, wants to keep the Eurozone and is far from advocating an exit from the Union.
The Left (Déi Lénk) appealed for voters by campaigning for the “Reconstruction of the European Union” from a socialist and anti-capitalist angle. The Communist Party (KPL) called for the nullification of the Lisbon Treaty. Although none of the rather (soft-)sceptical parties collected individually sufficient votes to be represented in the European Parliament, the results of the 2014 elections give evidence of some discomfort with the state of the Union. Together, they represent approximately 15 percent of the voters.
Elections to the European Parliament in the light of national snap elections
The high turnout rate of about 90 percent is due to electoral duty – in Luxembourg, voting is compulsory. Traditionally, European elections were held the same day as national elections. But snap elections in October 2013 have led to the first really European electoral campaign in Luxembourg. The outcome of the elections must be analyzed in the light of Jean-Claude Juncker’s candidacy for the presidency of the European Commission and the national elections just seven month ago. Although Juncker’s Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) gained the most seats in the Luxembourgish parliament, it was evicted from government by a coalition of Liberals, Socialists and Greens. On the background of the national elections, the three parties in the current Luxembourg government had to bear considerable losses in the elections to the European Parliament. However, the attribution of seats doesn’t change in comparison with the previous term 2009-2014. They are distributed as follows: CSV 3 seats, LSAP 1 seat, DP 1 seat, The Greens 1 seat.
- Christoph Bumb: (Fast) alle vereint für Europa, Luxemburger Wort, 6 May 2014.
- Christoph Bumb, Nationaler Populismus light, Luxemburger Wort, 23 May 2014.
- Le portail de l’actualité gouvernementale, Résultats des élections européennes 2014 au Luxembourg, 26 May 2014.
- Christoph Bumb, Die Stunde der Euro-Pragmatiker, Luxemburger Wort, 22 February 2014.
- Roy Grotz, Analyse vun de Resultater vun den Europawahlen, 26 May 2014.
2. The EU’s Neighbourhood
Trust in Russia weakened for years
Beware of the fact that Luxembourg is but a small figure on the chessboard of international diplomacy, it is an intrinsic feature of its foreign policy to stick to the framework of international law and to the positions found within the EU Foreign Affairs Council and NATO. In an interview given on 1 April 2014, on occasion of the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, the Luxembourg Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean Asselborn, blamed Russia for violating international law and treaties. He claimed that trust in the country has been weakened significantly for the next years. Nonetheless, he said that the relationship with Russia as a whole should not be put into question, taking into account Europe’s dependency on Russian gas and knowing that Luxembourg’s financial sector would be affected by economic sanctions given the fact that Luxembourg is the third biggest investor in Russia and serves as a hub for Russian activities and investments in the EU.
Europe’s mistake not to be reiterated
This report is part of the EU-28 Watch No. 10. For citation please use the full report available at: http://www.eu-28watch.org/.
From the Luxembourgish stance, the Ukraine crisis confirms the necessity of the Eastern Partnership. However, the political class probably shares the view of the Grand Duchy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean Asselborn, that it was a big mistake to urge Ukraine to choose between the West and Russia – a mistake that should not be repeated in the wider context of the Eastern Partnership. In other words, the partnership with eastern countries should not provoke further antagonism towards Russia.
Negotiations with Turkey should continue
In the context of the elections of May 2014, one single party, the eurosceptical Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) campaigned openly against future membership of Turkey in the EU. All parties heavily criticise the current Turkish government under Prime Minister Erdogan for the way it deals with protests and for its restriction of press freedom. Nonetheless, the Luxembourgish Ministry of Foreign Affairs still considers EU negotiations with Turkey as part of the process of a transition to democracy.
- Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes, Rapport d’activité 2013, 12 March 2014.
- Geneviève Montaigu, La Turquie, un ami de choix, 20 November 2013.
- Romain Hilgert, Aus dem Schatten der Kammerwahlen, 14 March 2014.
- Jean-Lou Siweck, Erschütterungen, 26 May 2014.
- Jean Asselborn, “Das Vertrauen in Russland ist stark angeknackst”, 2 April 2014.
- Frédéric Ruaz, 50 milliards de dollars dans la balance, L’essentiel, 10 March 2014.
3. Power relations in the EU
Germany as part of the directoire
Traditionally, the wellbeing of Luxembourg is considered to depend, among other things, on a balanced relationship between France and Germany and on its own good relations with both countries. Germany’s relative strength compared to France’s is not perceived as a major problem. What is really criticised is the attitude of the big member states in the European Council. The policy of a directoire-group of big States is seen as being detrimental to the supranational approach favoured by smaller member states.
At the same time, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was repeatedly criticised for her rigour in the financial crisis. From the Luxembourgish point of view, the problem of especially high youth unemployment in southern Europe has not found sufficient attention in German politics. Finally, the support by Merkel for the former Luxembourgish Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, as future president of the Commission has produced a very positive echo. In view of growing scepticism concerning European integration and the election of Eurocritical parties in most European member states, the pro-European stance of the German government is rather reassuring from the Luxembourgish point of view.
The austerity policy supported by the Commission is openly criticized by virtually all political parties because it is not sufficiently flanked by measures to combat unemployment. Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, members of the Luxembourg government argued repeatedly in favour of Eurobonds in order to support the member states under the pressure of financial markets. On the other hand, the Luxembourg government sticks to the control mechanisms of the Eurozone and to an anti-inflationist monetary policy.
Any reform agenda in favour of more intergovernmentalism is rejected by virtually all political parties. Just one party which represents about 7.5 percent of the Luxembourgish electorate wants “More Luxembourg and less Europe.”
Most recently, a prominent Luxembourgish Member of the European Parliament from the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), Charles Goerens, sent a letter to the president of the European Parliament calling for an open vote in order to choose the next president of the European Commission.
A possible British exit
From a Luxembourgish point of view, a possible UK exit as a consequence of a referendum to be held in 2017 is no longer a terrifying idea. In fact, the British veto of an EU-wide treaty change in December 2011, which finally led to an inter-governmental agreement without the UK called fiscal treaty, is but one British decision undermining European integration. Luxembourgish Members of the European Parliament speak openly in favour of the UK leaving the European Union. Lately, Cameron’s opposition to the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission has been harshly criticized.
- tageblatt.lu, Asselborn wehrt sich gegen deutsches Diktat, 26 March 2013.
- Michèle Gantenbein, Wohin driftet Europa?, 26 March 2014.
- Charles Goerens, Open letter to the President of the EP, 5 June 2014.
- Frank Engel (MEP), Europa hat anderes zu tun, website of the Chrëschtlech-Sozial Vollekspartei, 24 January 2014.
- Luxemburger Wort (édition française), Juncker ne se mettra pas à genoux devant Londres, 6 June 2014.
This survey was conducted on the basis of a questionnaire that has been elaborated in March 2014. Most of the reports were delivered in June 2014. This issue and all previous issues are available on the EU-28 Watch website: www.eu-28watch.org.
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Dear WLA Members,
We hope summer is treating you well, and we look forward to welcoming you to St. Louis in October! To that end, we want this conference to be open to as many as possible, so we are extending the proposal deadline to July 1, 2018.
Understanding Our Place: Conference Proposals, Conference Theme, Conference Site
St. Louis’s Old Courthouse, where the Dred Scott case was initiated. Along with the Gateway Arch and the Museum of Westward Expansion, the Old Courthouse comprises the Gateway Arch National Park (which, until 2018, was called the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial). The linkage of these sites is a reminder of the intricate relations between U.S. imperialism and histories of enslavement.
Please submit proposals for individual papers and complete sessions to ConfTool. Remember that ConfTool accounts don’t carry over from year to year, so if you haven’t created a 2018 account, you must do so before you submit your proposal. Remember that we welcome critical and creative writing proposals on any aspect of literature and culture of the North American West—but we’re also happy to receive submissions that tie to this year’s conference theme: “Indigenous Hubs, Gateway Cities, Border States.”
The Saint Louis Art Museum is housed in the only World’s Fair building—the “Palace of Fine Arts”—designed to be permanent.
The 2018 conference will be held at the historic Chase Park Plaza hotel, constructed in 1922, located in the city’s Central West End neighborhood. The Central West End was home to some of St. Louis’s most well-known writers: T.S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Kate Chopin, and William S. Burroughs, for example, all lived in the neighborhood. Today, it is a walkable area teeming with restaurants and shops, including the independent bookstore Left Bank Books. It is also adjacent to St. Louis’s 1,300-acre Forest Park, the site of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (which popularized the ice cream cone and Dr. Pepper as it celebrated U.S. imperialism), and today the St. Louis Art Museum and the Missouri History Museum.
Chase Hotel (early 1920s), by W.C. Persons. Missouri Historical Society Collections.
As a site for jazz-age partygoing among well-heeled St. Louisans, our conference site was featured on the front page of the New York Times on January 2, 1923, when an article described a riot that ensued when federal agents sent to enforce prohibition law raided the “fashionable Hotel Chase” on New Year’s Eve. A “barrage of chairs, glassware, plates, knives and forks were hurled promiscuously,” the Times noted. “Women became hysterical” while the “rumpus was in swing” until the “officers retreated.” “One woman,” a police sergeant reported, “had me by the collar as we were leaving.”
We can’t promise that level of excitement, but we can promise an exceptional conference line-up that examines the literature and culture of the North American West from creative and challenging angles, asking critical questions about what constitutes region and role it has played in shaping culture, identity, and power.
Looking Forward to the Program: Special Events and Guests
Everett’s 2015 short story collection, Half an Inch of Water, based in Wyoming, “paints a vibrant picture of the West that layers itself subtly but assertively over the prevailing mythos of the lonely white cowboy,” according to a review in the Los Angeles Times.
Percival Everett counts among his many accolades two Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction. He is the author of around 30 books, many set in the American West. These include the parodic genre western God’s Country, as well as Suder, Walk Me to the Distance, Watershed, Wounded, Assumption, and the recent short story collection, Half an Inch of Water. No contemporary African American author has represented the black western experience in such extensive, nuanced, and complex ways. Everett is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
José E. Limón’s American Encounters requires we consider—perhaps now more urgently than ever—the following vision: “I wish to imagine the possibilities of a transformation of [the relationship between Greater Mexico and the United States], so that all children who live today along the Texas border can once again enjoy the waters of the Rio Grande—so that all of the children of Greater Mexico and the United States may play along the border and beyond, carrying their Mexico and their United States within them, . . . crossing this frontier at their pleasure, in equality, and in a peaceful and plentitudinous light of day” (José E. Limón, American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture [Boston: Beacon Press, 1999], 6).
José E. Limón is the Notre Dame Foundation Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the Mody C. Boatright Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. His interdisciplinary work brings together literature, anthropology, and folklore in studies of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Greater Mexico, and American regions and nations broadly conceived. Among his books are Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas, Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican American Social Poetry, American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture, and Américo Paredes: Culture and Critique. He is currently working on a book titled Neither Friends, Nor Strangers: Mexicans and Anglos in the Literary Making of Texas.
The plenaries by these Distinguished Achievement Award winners, while certainly the centerpiece of our conference, are not the only events of note.
Mural at Ponderosa Steakhouse, W. Florissant Ave., Ferguson, MO. 2014. 6’x8′. Image courtesy of COCA—Center of Creative Arts. Photo © Michael Kilfoy.
On our opening night, we will be screening and discussing the film Whose Streets?, which documents the activism that grew from the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown, Jr., in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri. This will be followed by a discussion moderated by Jonathan Smith, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at Saint Louis University and a scholar of African American literature.
During the conference, we will hear from Teresa McKenna, a foundational scholar in Chicana feminist studies and Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Southern California, who will read from her memoir.
We will learn about the possibilities of public humanities collaborations from Sara L. Schwebel, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, who has collaborated with Channel Islands National Park on a digital humanities project for K-12 teaching organized around the children’s book Island of the Blue Dolphins and the indigenous woman, whose isolation due Spanish colonial policies of reducción and trade, inspired it. Professor Schwebel’s talk will lead nicely into presentations by the WLA/Charles Redd Center K-12 Teaching Award winners on Saturday.
East St. Louis poet, scholar, and activist Eugene B. Redmon will read from and speak about his work at the 2018 WLA Past-President’s lunch.
We will also engage local borders when we hear from poet, scholar, and activist Eugene B. Redmond during the Past-President’s lunch on Thursday. Dr. Redmond, along with fellow East St. Louisan Katherine Dunham and St. Louisan Maya Angelou, was an architect of the Black Arts Movement in the region. From his earliest poetry, Redmond has been a place-based poet. A poem titled “Carryover,” for example, which he read at East St. Louisan Miles Davis’s funeral, proclaims, “I have been tattooed for life: / A thought called EAST SAINT LOUIS / Is etched on each Island of my Brain.” “EAST SAINT LOUIS will rise!” It “Will rise from the muddy gutty Mississippi. / Will rise disguised as AFRICA” (in Gerald Early, “Ain’t But a Place”: An Anthology of African American Writings about St. Louis [St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1998], 481).
The ancestral Mississippian city of Cahokia is directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Monks Mound, pictured here, is the largest structure on the site and is the largest earthen mound north of Mexico. St. Louis was once nicknamed “Mound City,” but today only one mound within the city limits has escaped destruction: Sugarloaf Mound, which was purchased by the Osage Nation in 2009. The tribe hopes to preserve the mound and develop an interpretive center to teach St. Louisans about their city’s history from an indigenous perspective.
We’re terribly excited for the Friday plenary, “A Reading for the Mound Builders” organized by Chadwick Allen, and featuring writers LeAnne Howe, Phillip Carroll Morgan, and Allison Hedge Coke. This will dovetail with a planned Saturday excursion to Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, the center of the largest pre-Columbian civilization north of Mexico.
Candice Ivory, the “Queen of Avant Soul,” will perform at the 2018 WLA banquet.
And we’re delighted to be honoring the WLA’s 2018 award winners at the banquet on Friday night, where the “Queen of Avant Soul,” the fabulous Candice Ivory, will be joining us to perform. Today a St. Louisan, but with roots in Memphis, Tennessee, Ivory is immersed in the gospel, blues, jazz, and soul traditions of both places. We let her know that the WLA likes to dance!
In Closing, In Friendship, In Appreciation
If it wasn’t clear from the above, we are delighted to share this conference with you, our dear colleagues and friends, who have done so much to push our field in new and exciting directions. This is a preview of what’s in store—but there’s even more to come!
Most importantly, of course, is the tremendous compendium of critical and creative work on the North American West by you—the membership. So please do submit any remaining proposals by July 1, 2018. Thank you for all your contributions—we cannot do this conference, and we cannot do our work in western literature, in all its diversity, without you.
Michael and Emily
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Video, photos & story -- In 10th year, Kay's Kamp hosts 60 children in Middletown for a week of fun with a circus theme
Kay’s Kamp for children with cancer celebrated its 10th year “under the big top,” with a circus theme July 22-28.
What started with 11 campers at the former St. Joseph’s Industrial School in Clayton has grown to 60 campers at St. Andrew’s School in Middletown.
“These kids are amazing. You should see the stilt walkers,” said Lisa Romano, the volunteer media coordinator for Kay’s Kamp. “[The circus staff] has done wonders with these kids. When they first saw the performers Sunday, the kids said, ‘I can’t do that. There’s no way I can do that,’ but now they’re all performing like pros.”
The idea for the circus actually started with last year’s campers.
“Kids submit their ideas for next year’s theme and vote,” said Romano.
After the circus theme was selected, the camp staff started looking for ways to make it happen.
Kay’s Kamp Director Dave Wessell said he met Greg Milstein, executive director of the National Circus Project, while networking at a conference of the American Camping Association.
“He seemed thrilled with our mission,” said Wessell. “It was an easy sell. He was impressed. This is the first time an outside program has led the way all week at our camp.”
Milstein and his staff treated the children to a circus performance and then let them choose what acts they wanted to perform: juggling, spinning plates, balancing feathers, working with the diabolo yo-yo, stilt walking, wire walking, trick roping or providing comic relief as a clown.
During the week, the campers practiced their acts to prepare for a show for their parents and family members on the final day of camp.
“For us it’s a privilege to be at Kay’s Kamp and do what we can to help these kids,” said Milstein. “When we work with kids, it empowers them to have success and achieve something they thought they weren’t able to do. To receive validation in front of an audience really builds self-esteem. How many times in your life do you get to perform in a circus? This is a memory that lasts a lifetime.”
A graduate of the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Clown College, Milstein has worked in circuses for more than 30 years in 25 countries including the Zippo Circus in England. He’s performed as a clown, a juggler, a unicyclist, ringmaster and tour manager.
Now as the leader of the National Circus Project, he sends teams of performers to about 500 schools and camps each year.
“We almost always have an equal mix of reactions from kids,” Milstein said. “Some say ‘Oh, I can do that. That’s easy’ and then they’re surprised because they didn’t know how hard it is. Then there are other kids who say, ‘There’s no way I can do that. Me? You want me to do that?’”
He said the circus program appeals to kids no matter their skill level.
“I think it exceeds their expectations because we always have the next challenge. Once they master a skill we are able to show them something they can move on to, so they can keep achieving,” he said.
As for working with children who’ve had cancer or are being treated for cancer, Milstein said the circus is a place where any child can excel.
“One question we’re asked so often is ‘How did you get my child or my student to do that?’ The parent or the teacher has it in their head what the child can and can’t do. My answer is, ‘Because I didn’t know that.’ We give them goals. We have expectations and they live up to our expectations,” he said.
Campers become showstoppers
Romano said the kids at Kay’s Kamp have often been told about limitations while they’re undergoing treatment – all the things they can’t do or have to be careful doing.
“A lot of time their balance may be off because of their treatments and they can’t play sports,” Romano said. “Here, they are seeing all the things they can do. They are seeing all the things they can try.”
For example, camper Grace Miller, 15, of Wilmington, plays the violin and she brought her violin to camp. When she saw the circus performers spinning plates, she decided to try spinning a plate on her bow while she played the violin.
“It was my idea. I wanted to surprise my parents,” Miller said. “When I came to camp, I didn’t know we were going to be doing a performance. I’m excited.”
Miller had neuroblastoma, a tumor in the adrenal gland or in tissue in the nervous system that is related to the adrenal gland, when she was 2 years old.
“Now I am perfectly healthy. I have been cured,” she said.
Alena Kurtz, 12, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, has been in remission for seven years. She was first diagnosed with leukemia when she was 3.
She teamed up with Caitlin Klein, 15, of Avondale, Pennsylvania, on a wire walking act for the Kay’s Kamp circus. Klein had kidney cancer, but has been in remission for nine years.
Kurtz and Klein actually knew each other before attending camp. They had competed on the same gymnastics team at a gym in Pennsylvania.
“I was really excited when I saw the tight rope. I wanted to do that,” said Kurtz. “I like to learn new skills and keep up my gymnastics skills since I’ve had a long break. I haven’t been at the gym in a while.”
When Klein found out Kay’s Kamp featured a circus theme she said she was ready to go.
“I was excited because I thought I’d be able to do cool things,” Klein said.
As for wire walking, she said, “I like balancing on the wire and doing moves. It’s kind of like gymnastics.”
Wessell said the circus has boosted the kids’ confidence by giving them an opportunity to experiment with something they’ve never done before.
“It looks amazing. I’m flabbergasted how well they’ve done,” he said. “They’re parents have been so impressed. They’ve been sharing videos of them performing already. The kids can see how much they learned in just a week.”
Connection to the first Kay’s Kamp
Justin Weber, one of the circus performers, actually has a history with Kay’s Kamp.
Before he joined the National Circus Project, he performed at the very first Kay’s Kamp 10 years ago. At the time, he was dating Karen DeMaio who went to high school with Kaylyn Warren, for whom the camp is named, so Karen asked him to help at the camp in Kaylyn’s memory. Now he and Karen are married.
Originally from Newark, Weber performs with the National Circus Project in the greater New York City area, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The project brings its show to camps or to schools as part of a physical education program or performing arts program.
One of the managers at the circus project told him the group was going to be performing in Delaware.
“When I saw it was for Kay’s Kamp, I asked if I could have the assignment,” Weber said. “I was excited to perform here. It’s a special thing.”
Weber said his instruction with the campers went well.
“They’re into it. They’re enthusiastic,” he said.
As for working with students who have health problems, Weber said the approach is the same as at any camp or school.
“You focus on each individual. It’s different for each student, but we try to help every student make progress,” he said. “Sometimes we let those who are advancing more quickly go on their own to practice a new skill while we work with students who need more help. They don’t get bored because we can always show them new tricks to master. I think a lot of times kids are bored in school or disinterested because they lack a challenge.”
Weber said the week at Kay’s Kamp was rewarding.
“The kids are really excited about it. This is something they don’t usually get a chance to do. I always like it when I hear them say, ‘Where do I get one of these’ – the props we use. That’s good to know that they want to keep doing it.”
Hundreds of volunteers
While the theme at Kay’s Kamp was a circus, it took an army of volunteers to keep it all organized.
Including counselors, medical staff, cooks and meal servers, the camp has a staff of about 300 volunteers, said Romano, who’s normally a pediatric nurse at Christiana Hospital. Some volunteers stay the whole week day and night, some stay during the day, and some come in for a few days.
“A lot of people use part of their vacation time for this,” said Romano. “It’s a true commitment, but it’s a fun week.”
Wessell, the camp director, said three doctors and three nurses are on duty all week, plus during the day there is a nurse in each cabin.
“Our medical facility is one of the best of any oncology camp in the country,” Wessell said. “A lot of campers are in remission or have been cleared health-wise, but we have multiple campers who are on chemotherapy. One had to leave for part of a day for chemotherapy. Others are on oral chemotherapy they can take here.”
Along with the circus activities, Kay’s Kamp provides all the usual camp activities like swimming, arts and crafts, fishing and canoeing.
“What we try to provide is a normal camp for kids who might not know normal,” said Wessell. “It’s their week to come have a fun time being a kid. Some kids have a lot in common and some are very different, but they all share a common bond. Now that the circus has come to town, they can also bond over plate spinning or yo-yos. They can bond over things they need to do together to get ready for the performance.”
About Kay’s Kamp
The mission of Kay’s Kamp is to provide children ages 5 to 17 who are battling cancer and those now in remission the opportunity to participate in a unique camping experience promoting fun and normalcy – all free of charge.
Kay’s Kamp is the dream and last wish of Kaylyn Elaine Warren who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in October 2005 at the age of 17. Kay had always dreamed of opening a bed & breakfast. She was accepted at the University of Delaware's Hotel Restaurant and Hotel Management Program, but when cancer invaded her life that dream quickly changed to opening a camp for kids suffering from cancer. Kay knew firsthand how cancer had stolen the normalcy from her life. She wanted a safe place where kids battling this debilitating disease would have a place where they could take off their wigs, have fun and not be different.
In March 2007, Kay came home with hospice care and asked her family and a few friends to promise to start a camp for kids with cancer. Kay passed to eternal life on March 13, 2007 surrounded by her family.
In June of that year, Kaylyn’s parents, Laurie and Bill Warren, established The Kaylyn Elaine Warren Foundation, an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with one goal – Kay's Kamp.
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Managing crop revenue risk is of critical importance for financial success by agricultural producers and a central theme of many government commodity and insurance programs. Debate surrounding the farm bill for example, includes various programs intended to limit revenue variability that arises from low crop prices, production declines as might happen under a drought, and so forth. Crop insurance is critical for most commercial scale producers to protect against the consequences of poor relative crop performance or price declines, but is remains debated whether price risk or yield risk is more likely to influence insurance payments. In general, farm-level crop revenue risk results from price variability, yield variability, relationships between prices and yields, and relationships among the crops produced. It is important to first understand the underlying causes of crop revenue risk to better assess the effectiveness of various strategies and programs that might be used to mitigate crop revenue risk. Improving the understanding of the relative influences of price and yield risk is the intent of this farmdoc daily post.
To begin, it is clear that in the heart of the Corn Belt, prices and yields tend to move in opposite directions. This negative correlation is particularly evident this year as evolving prospects for lower yields due to widespread drought have led to commensurate market price increases resulting from efforts to balance supply and demand factors. Likewise, each crop production report release, acreage or yield estimate revision, or update to estimates of world production and use is met with price responses of the opposite direction compared to the understood impact on production. Aggregate level effects are relatively most pronounced, and while intense production areas have generally similar effects, the strength of the relationship tends to decline down to the individual producer level, but overall maintains the negative relationship between price and yield. This effect is sometimes referred to as the “natural hedge” and the size of its impact could be useful to better understand. There are various technical methods for decomposing variability into source components, but applications to farm revenue series are complicated by the evolving yield levels (trending upward) and by price regimes that seem to have epochal differences in general levels through time due to new markets such as ethanol, and year-to-year effects from carryover supplies and acreage shifts through time. Measuring the correlation at a point in time is thus an inexact idea, but there are useful approximations that can be used.
To begin to address this issues, yield data for each of the counties in Illinois were collected and detrended, or put onto a current basis using methods similar to those used by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to detrend yields under the Trend-Adjusted APH Endorsement. Failure to control for the trends through time can result in substantially overstated measures of risk. In essence, the impact of yield increases through time is added back to historic yields so that deviations around a current yield that would be expected from the historic deviations from trend can be used to proxy yield risk at a point in time. Prices present a bit more of a challenge. For the analysis presented below, the perspective of the modern crop insurance program provides a useful guide. Each year, the Projected Price is established at roughly the time of planting decisions using the futures markets to determine. The Harvest Price is then determined during the month of October (historically November as well), as a proxy for actual available price to a farmer. A constant basis is assumed through time, and while that may not be a good assumption for many local markets, it does not materially affect the conclusions related to sources of risk. To construct the associated “current” price distribution, each year’s percentage price change from Projected to Harvest price was computed and the distribution of price changes applied to a base price from this year’s experience. All results are presented for corn. Soybeans have similar but somewhat more muted features and slightly higher shares of price risk and slightly lower correlation effects. Figures 1 below helps illustrate the resulting measures and show the movements in prices and yields within a year are generally opposite in sign and of roughly similar magnitudes in most cases.
This process was repeated for each county in Illinois and the degree of relatedness summarized in terms of the correlation.1 The figure below summarizes the results. As shown, the most intense production regions generally have the strongest (most negative) relationship between yields and prices. Overall, the state average price-yield correlation is -.51 with a low of -.72 and a high of -.31. The correlation can generally be interpreted as the average proportionate change from one to the other, so a value of -.51 would imply that prices and yield respond in opposite directions with about half as large a relative magnitude – or that 51% of an increase in one variable is offset by a decrease in the other.
Next, a current revenue distribution was constructed for each county using the detrended yields and associated normalized price series. The expected or average revenue cannot be constructed by simply multiplying the average price times the average yield due to the correlation effect. In technical terms, the expected product of price and yield is equal to the product of the averages plus the covariance. In this case, the covariance is negative as described above, so the actual average revenue is less than the simple product of the average price and average yield, but the revenue risk is also proportionately lower the more negative the correlation as well. These relationships lead to a natural question – which is more important to revenue variability, price or yield; and what role does the negative correlation play in mitigating the risk.
To decompose the revenue variability, a simple technique was used that allows an analog of the risk from price to be isolated as well as the risk from yield. First, from a series of related yields and prices through time, the price is held constant at its mean and the revenue variance calculated allowing the actual yield changes observed. Then, the yield is held constant and the revenue variability calculated allowing the actual price changes observed. If there were zero correlation, the sum of these would equal the total observed risk.2 The actual total risk, however, is less than the sum by the amount that must be attributed to the effect of the negative covariance. The process of first holding prices constant and using actual yields, and then holding yields constant but reflecting actual price changes, and then comparing the total component variance to the actual was done for each county in Illinois for corn from 1975 to 2011. The fractions of the total variance and impact of correlation were then calculated. Table 1 below contains results for selected representative counties around the state, and the average across all counties.
Consider Adams County where the actual average revenue per acre for corn is $832.77 and the standard deviation of revenue is 127 using the procedures outlined above. The share of the variability attributable to price risk is 58% and the share attributable to yield risk is 42%. The Covariance effect reduced the actual variance from the component variance by 60%. In other words, if the price and yield were completed independent and varied with no relationship to each other, the actual variance of revenue would have been 60% higher. Likewise, had the price and yield series been independent, the actual average revenue would have been $845.59 implying that the covariance also reduced the average revenue by about $12.82/acre.
Alexander County has the highest share of yield risk of any county in Illinois at 50% while the relatively lower yield risk counties such as Christian, DeKalb, and Sangamon represent low yield risk cases where price is the primary driver of revenue variability. Across the state, price risk represents about 66% of the cause of revenue variability and the natural hedge or negative correlation reduces the total risk by 47% compared to a case of independence.
Overall, the price risk is found to be generally more influential on revenue variability than yield risk, and the correlation effects result in nearly a halving of the total variability compared to complete independence. These results do help support anecdotes that crop insurance has become a price risk program as much as a yield risk program, but that interpretation also adds to its usefulness in managing crop revenue risk. Areas of the state with relatively risker production have larger shares of overall crop revenue risk from yields, but the price and correlation effects are still at least as important.
1 The correlation is a standardized measure of the relative movement between two series ranging from negative one to positive one. A value of negative one indicates that the series move exactly oppositely in identical proportions. A value of positive one means that the series move in lockstep fashion. A value of zero indicates no relationship at all between the movements in the series. The covariance between two random variables likewise relates the paired movements in the same scale as the variables themselves. Correlation is calculated as the covariance divided by the product of the standard deviations.
2 The actual calculations are slightly more extensive involving squared means and variances as well as the covariance between squared values of each series. Details of the numeric procedures are available upon request.
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THE term “hacker” typically conjures up images of computer-savvy villains devilishly clicking and typing their way into unsuspecting victims’ computer systems. Within the software development community, however, hacking has a more positive purpose. “To hack” is to innovate, test, and experiment with computer code to create new, purposeful software for various applications.
Livermore has taken a page from the software industry’s playbook, conducting special events during which computer scientists throughout the Laboratory have 24 hours in which to brainstorm, develop, and improve software products. This friendly competition, known as ShipIt days, provides an outlet for developers to explore different software languages and to collaborate with others in their field. “During ShipIt, employees have autonomy to work on software-related products that they find interesting without the added pressure of having to make the project succeed,” says Kyle Dickerson, a Livermore software engineer and ShipIt participant. “The opportunity to be creative with few restrictions helps boost employee morale, motivation, and ingenuity.” By providing a break from regular work activities, the events help employees reinvigorate their software-developing psyche.
ShipIt projects focus on either advancing a Laboratory mission or developing a relevant skill, and employees are free to evaluate a wide range of products that may or may not have immediate applicability to their work activities. “ShipIt events provide a venue for rapid code development,” says Katherine Lewis, a Livermore computer scientist and one of the event organizers. “They are a time for employees to indulge in inklings or interests that could potentially lead to programmatic applications.”
The ShipIt day name and format are derived from a similar program created by Atlassian, an Australian-based software development company. Two weeks before an event, organizers and participants meet to discuss the day’s schedule, suggest project ideas, form teams, and outline project goals. The actual event occurs over a 24-hour period, but teams are not required to participate the entire time. Toward the end of the day, teams present their results to fellow participants. Xinh Huynh, a former Livermore computer scientist and past event organizer, says, “It’s a little like being on ‘American Idol.’ After the final presentations, the audience votes for the best project. The judges are people we consider Computation ‘celebrities’—division leaders and other high-level managers.”
Nearly 80 Computation employees took part in the first three ShipIt days, working in their offices, conference rooms, or the High-Performance Computing Innovation Center (see S&TR, September 2012, Venturing into the Heart of High-Performance Computing Simulations), which is part of the Livermore Valley Open Campus. Events for Global Security and for Livermore Computing (LC) in the Computation Directorate were held August 24–25, 2012, with the competition beginning at noon one day and ending at noon the next. Computation’s Applications, Simulations, and Quality Division held the third event on February 28 and March 1, 2013.
Future ShipIt days will be interdepartmental, encouraging an even broader range of ideas. Outstanding projects from the first competitions include a mobile Android application for counterproliferation efforts; a portlet for viewing computer simulation results via a Web browser; and a widget for LabBook, the Laboratory’s internal social network.
Software engineers in Global Security are devising applications to navigate and analyze the massive amounts of data acquired in support of counterproliferation efforts. One such application is Element Centric (EleCent), a component in the Laboratory’s Counterproliferation Analysis and Planning System. (See S&TR, December 2011, Data for Defense: New Software Finds It Fast.) EleCent allows users to store, update, retrieve, and analyze critical data, including the location and type of hazardous materials housed at facilities worldwide. It combines an enormous database with Web-based tools for viewing results in various formats, from tabular lists to geospatial maps. A Google Earth plug-in summarizes data in a geospatial display.
Dickerson and two colleagues used ShipIt time to develop an app that displays EleCent data on an Android device, such as a tablet or phone. “The GPS component of mobile systems makes an EleCent app appealing,” says Dickerson. “It would allow users to get information specific to their exact location, such as what facilities and materials are nearby that they need to be aware of.” He adds that this type of tool has potential for defense applications and for humanitarian efforts. “Someone working in an active emergency response zone, for example, would be able to identify the locations of facilities in the area and the types of hazards they present.”
For ShipIt, team members configured their desktop computers to run Google’s software development kit for Android apps and divided project tasks among members. “Prior to the event, we were not allowed to write any code,” says Dickerson. Over the next several hours, they overcame coding, database, and interface issues to deliver a simple working prototype for their final presentation. “We created a working model that retrieves actual data and displays the results on a mobile device.”
More extensive work would be needed before the tool could be deployed for defense applications, but the EleCent mobile app prototype shows what is possible. “We’ve demonstrated that the technology fits nicely into our programmatic work,” says Dickerson. “It offers real potential for our customers.”
Project teams are much freer to experiment when they are less concerned about an idea failing. A project by Global Security software engineers Tim Bender and Josh Oakgrove demonstrates how a ShipIt team can change direction and still yield fruitful results. “We started working on a neural network framework for Java that could be used for space situational awareness,” says Bender. (See S&TR, July/August 2009, Preventing Close Encounters of the Orbiting Kind.) “The framework would help users determine the difference between the estimated and actual elliptical drift of an object around Earth.”
After finding open-source software for the application, the engineers hacked on that code for several hours until they realized they did not have enough time to produce results with their data set. At midnight, they abandoned their initial idea and started a completely different project: developing a Klout score component to LabBook. With only 12 hours remaining for ShipIt, they decided the Klout score project had a better chance of success in such a short time.
Klout scores measure user engagement and activity on social networking sites based on several factors, including number of subscribers. “We had to remap the LabBook data model to obtain metrics for our ShipIt application,” says Bender, who had worked on the social networking site when he first started at the Laboratory. The LabBook developers used multiple programming languages, such as SQL and PHP with HTML, to integrate the existing LabBook with the new model. “By the end of ShipIt, we had a full beta version of the application.” One month later, the application was added to LabBook as part of a routine upgrade, allowing users to view scores that rank their influence on the site.
Bender sees the benefits of ShipIt from both an employee standpoint and that of the institution. “These types of events engage employees and motivate them to do something they wouldn’t normally have considered, and that could potentially help Laboratory missions,” he says. The team is already looking to improve the current version of the application, for example, by providing percentile rankings among users.
Lawrence Livermore is renowned for its high-performance computing environment and is home to some of the world’s fastest supercomputers and sophisticated software that optimizes these machines. For another ShipIt event, Cyrus Harrison, Brad Whitlock, and Ming Jiang collaborated with Harinarayan Krishnan from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to improve how LC customers access the results of simulations run on the Laboratory’s systems.
LC users have access to a personalized Web portal called MyLC that provides a wealth of information on their accounts, such as bank and disk usage, quotas, and active jobs on LC systems. Another application developed at Livermore is VisIt, a visualization tool for viewing and analyzing meshes produced by large-scale simulations. “VisIt is an existing software framework and is quite complex. For ShipIt, our team wanted to expand the accessibility of VisIt by attempting to expose the application in the context of a Web browser,” says Harrison.
The team developed a prototype of a MyLC portlet that helps users execute VisIt scripts and receive rendered or interactive views of data sets via a Web browser. For their final presentation, the software developers showed how simulation data rendered with VisIt could be viewed from a mobile phone. “Our proof of concept demonstrates that a VisIt Web browser tool is viable and could be made available to all LC customers,” says Harrison. A production-ready version of the tool, including quality assurance testing and debugging, would require additional time and resources outside the scope of ShipIt. However, the researchers agree that ShipIt allowed them to gain experience with a technology they had yet to work with.
Harrison adds that another benefit to ShipIt is the project management aspect. “By having to assemble teams and develop a project schedule, participants get experience in project planning and organization,” he says. The event also provides an avenue for participants to present their ideas to peers, helping employees enhance their presentation skills. Says Harrison, “From my perspective, the ShipIt experience overall is very positive. It provides a venue for employee development and allows participants to innovate to produce software products that have real applicability.”
The first three ShipIt events have been a success for both the Laboratory and its employees. “The feedback has been very positive,” says Lewis, adding that Livermore plans to host events two to four times a year. “Support and interest for the ‘hack-a-thons’ continues to grow.” By giving software developers time to engage in projects that tap their inner creativity, Lawrence Livermore is continuing its tradition of fostering innovation.
Key Words: Element Centric (EleCent), hacker, high-performance computing, Klout score, LabBook, Livermore Computing (LC), mobile app, MyLC, ShipIt day, social media, software application, VisIt.
For further information contact Katherine Lewis (925) 423-8593 ([email protected]).
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10 Reviews | Bismarck, ND
Glasser Images is a professional photography company based in Bismarck, North Dakota. They are a team of photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative professionals specializing in contemporary photojournalism, portraits, and traditional wedding photography. The team at Glasser Images delivers dynamic and ingenious photographs that couples will cherish for years to come. Though based in North Dakota, they are available to travel for destination wedding photo shoots with no additional travel charge anywhere in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Montana. Services Offered Glasser Images provides photographs in the form of albums, digital files, matted prints, prints, save-the-dates, canvas, flush mount, negatives, proofs, and thank-you cards. Its service includes: One event per day Additional hours Liability insurance Boudoir shoot Custom graphics Willingness to travel Engagement shoot High-resolution images Multiple locations Second photographer Slideshow Trash-the-dress shoot Video Wedding portraits
Most Popular Price: $2,950
George Street Photo & Video
2154 Reviews | US
George Street offers unparalleled photojournalistic photographic talent and creativity, personalized customer service, and prices for any wedding budget. Our couples receive a complete set of all digital negatives taken on their wedding day! Our experienced staff of photographers serve to capture each exceptional moment and detail of the most important day of your life. All photographers are specially trained in photojournalistic style and have a panache for artistic vision. George Street Photo & Video is dedicated to fulfilling customer satisfaction at the highest level, having worked with hundreds of happy couples over the years. Please come in for a presentation and discover what our many satisfied clients have experienced time and time again!
Most Popular Price: $1,595
COMPLETE weddings + events
21 Reviews | Fargo, ND
COMPLETE weddings + events is a wedding DJ and event production company based in Fargo, North Dakota. Since 1992, they have provided entertainment services in the areas that surround North Dakota, including Grand Forks, Detroit Lakes, and Fergus Falls. This company offers a great selection of timeless music and expertly coordinated soundtracks, for the couples and their guests to enjoy. Services Offered COMPLETE weddings + events is a multi-service company that allows couples to customize and design their own soundtrack based on their personality and style. They play and mix songs from multiple genres, ranging from country music to international, hip hop to jazz, and rock to top 40. COMPLETE weddings + events provides the following services: Consultation Liability insurance Do-not-play list MC available Other Services In addition to COMPLETE weddings + events' DJ services, they are leading provider of photography, videography, lighting, and photo booth rentals for all types of events in the local area. They shoot more than 13,000 weddings yearly, and produce vivid, high-definition video coverage of every wedding.
Most Popular Price: $1,695
14 Reviews | Dickinson, ND
Frenz Fotography is a professional photography company that covers weddings and other events all over the US and beyond. I've done work in NY, ND, TX, Costa Rica, Cancun and more since starting in 2008. Tim Frenz, the owner and photographer, uses the Canon line of digital cameras and equipment to shoot weddings, sports, portraits, business, and promotional photography. Experience Tim Frenz started doing photography during high school in Buffalo, New York, capturing moments for the school’s yearbook. He has worked with many newspapers in the Western New York region, and has done contract work for Advance Auto Parts, Olive Garden, and Google as a freelance photographer. Services Offered Frenz Fotography offers wedding photographs in different formats including albums, digital files, prints, canvas, flush mount, thank-you cards, and save-the-dates. Its photography services include: Additional hours Willingness to travel Engagement shoot High-resolution images Multiple locations Second photographer Trash-the-dress shoot Wedding portraits
Most Popular Price: $1,800
Fernweh + Liebe Photography
15 Reviews | Niagara, ND
The Artists Behind the Name First, we want to say congratulations and we are so excited that you have found us here! Second, we wanted to introduce ourselves a bit so you can get to know us better. We are Fernweh + Liebe; a husband and wife wildly passionate about one another, who travel the world and embrace every experience life gives us. We are storytellers and are privileged to call ourselves fine art wedding photographers. The opportunity to immortalize each couple’s unique language of love fuels our passion. We are inspired by the elegance in the everyday: simple, honest, and pure. The Midwest is home to myself, Carissa ; the idyllic farm community I grew up in strongly impacts my work while serving as an inspiration and a daily reminder to breathe deeply and appreciate the simplicity and artistry of what surrounds us. A small village nestled in the rolling hills of Germany is home to my husband, Gabriel; growing up in a quaint European community has given him a unique perspective in his work and a passion for the celebration of love and preservation of history. We would LOVE to learn more about you and your story. Please reach out to us here, through our website (www.fernwehandliebe.com) or directly through [email protected]. We can't wait to hear from you!
Most Popular Price: $3,200
1 Review | Grand Forks, ND
Husband and Wife Wedding Photographer Duo located in Grand Forks, ND. Primarily photograph weddings in the Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismarck, Minneapolis area. Also, Available for Destination Weddings! Check out our work here: www.manstromphotography.com www.manstromphotographyblog.com www.manstromphotography.com/facebook Feel free to contact us through our website, We can't wait to hear from you!
0 Reviews | Bismarck, ND
Life is full of adventure, whether climbing a mountain or marrying your best friend. We believe these moments should be shared with the people you love. Mabelle Photography specializes in capturing your special moments, making memories you will treasure forever.
Most Popular Price: $2,200
Destinee Jensen Photography
0 Reviews | Zap, ND
Hi! I'm Destinee. I am from the midwest and proud of everything the western North Dakota has to offer. I shoot weddings and families and would love to see what you envision for your big day. Traveling is available and enjoyed wherever it may take me. Let me know if we can chat about your day!
Most Popular Price: $2,500
Alishia Jelinek Photography
0 Reviews | Dickinson, ND
I am passionate about love I am passionate about my art I am passionate about you When you look at the work I create, I want your heart to ache with longing for those moments. I want to bring it back to life for you; that fire, that intense devotion, that moment when the world faded and it was just you and your love. Whether you are newly engaged, planning your wedding, or celebrating an anniversary I want to capture your passion and preserve it for you.
Most Popular Price: $2,400
0 Reviews | Fargo, ND
We provide professional wedding photography in the Fargo-Moorhead and surrounding communities. We are also available for travel in the tri-state area of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. Our style is fashion inspired with a unique blend of vintage and modern. Custom Albums & DVD of Images included in most wedding collections!
Most Popular Price: $3,695
Eyenoticed - Abby Paul photo
3 Reviews | Fargo, ND
Wedding, portrait, event, award winning traveling photographers! We love adventure, being creative, the outdoors, wedding elegance, beauty, fun, and laughter. We are passionate about telling your story, getting unique artistic shots as well as getting you the shots you most want of everyone together on your wedding day. We will keep in touch with you starting now until your wedding. Conversing about ideas, schedule, anything and everything. Getting to know you and what is important to you! We would love to meet you and/or skype or converse in any ways that you would like. We will arrive early, the day before the wedding or earlier. The day before we will photograph your dresses, shoes, locations, rings, flowers, invite/program, any decorations that are already up. We also like to do a sunset photo shoot (with the bride and groom or with the location/special items relating to your wedding) on the day before and day of your wedding. The day of your wedding we will wake up early, photograph your location, the bride and bridesmaids getting ready, and everything on the schedule we have made with you for photographing bridesmaids, groomsmen, first looks, putting dress on, family, friends, etc! We will take candid photographs before, after, and during your wedding of the important people and of your guests, decorations, and locations. After your wedding we will photograph you (the bride and groom) together again, follow you and photograph your reception and dance. We hope we can take you out at sunset for a quick romantic photo shoot before popping back into your reception. We will stay for your dance to photograph your important dances and more of the action. Then after we've gotten a collection of great photographs of your dance, we would love to sneak you out one last time for a late night (dark) photo shoot of the bride and groom with pretty lights or fireworks or a unique late-night last bit of photographs together. Here is a questionnaire you can fill out to help us customize a package to you: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15ZNTshEDxL9YdL4C4WdNoYZjlYU7PBcJz5v3g5T9vVQ/viewform?usp=send_form
Kylene Fitzsimmons Creative Studio
1 Review | Mandan, ND
Hey, I'm Kylene Fitzsimmons. I live in North Dakota and I just really love weddings. Although I'm a destination wedding photographer, I also take on a limited amount of local weddings each year! I am a non-traditional, passionate photographer. When I say non-traditional, I mean I'm not looking for stiff poses. I want to capture all the little moments throughout your big day. My goal is to tell your story with passionate, genuine, and just plain rad photos that reflect your relationship. I would love to hear about your wedding day vision! Feel free to reach out to me through the contact form or through my website. Pricing starts at $3,000; custom packages available for elopements, small weddings, and destination weddings. Please include WEDDING DATE, CITY/STATE, and VENUE. Also check out my Instagram:: @kylenefitzsimmons Your love inspires me, I can't wait to document your story!
Kris Kandel: Photographer
10 Reviews | Fargo, ND
Kris Kandel Photographer | Fargo Moorhead area Wedding Photography. I've specialized in wedding photography since 2001 and still love it. Check out my website for much more info on me, my work, package pricing and how I can best serve you on your big day! I'd love to hear from you!! Fresh | Modern | Bright
Most Popular Price: $3,500
Two Birds Photography - Brittany Walsh
27 Reviews | Fargo, ND
You have to spend all day with your wedding photographer- why not make sure it's with someone awesome who never misses a "that's what she said" joke? What your mom wants to know: I graduated in 2010 with a degree in Professional Photography from Ridgewater College and I've shot over 100 weddings. I'm like your favorite third grade teacher: cheerful and fun, but not afraid to raise my voice to get everyone's attention (because nothing ruins your day faster than a timeline that's run amok... except maybe a drunk uncle running amok) What YOU want to know: I am your BFF from the moment you inquire until the end of time (in the least stalker-like way possible) I have your back on your wedding day and will use my experience, bossiness, quick thinking, and sweet knock-knock jokes to keep you stress-free and enjoying your day. www.twobirds-photography.com [email protected] 218-443-0070
Most Popular Price: $3,400
Samantha Meyer Photography
1 Review | Moorhead, MN
Samantha Meyer Photography is a Boutique Wedding Photography Studio based out of Moorhead, MN. Samantha is available for Commissions both locally and worldwide. SMP Brides are modern and looking for fun, contemporary and casual wedding photographs.
0 Reviews | Grand Forks, ND
Doyea Photography is a professional photography studio located in Grand Forks North Dakota. Doyea Photography is a portrait studio that works with maternity, newborn, baby, children, pets, wedding, and high school seniors. Located in Grand Forks, ND Doyea Photographer is able to serve both northern North Dakota and Minnesota communities.
Most Popular Price: $3,500
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
Who we are...
We live on the southwest side of Houston, Texas in the Pecan Grove Plantation community.
In December 1998, Kay retired form the Alief Independent School District where she was a middle school counselor. She stays active with her Wednesday morning Stitchery group, yoga, and a volunteer at Second Mile Mission Center. Kay is a Licensed Professional Counselor. In 2011, she started a counseling business, Cook Counseling, and worked in this business until March, 2016, when she retired.
In October 1998, Lawson retired from Texas Instruments' Stafford site, where he was an electrical engineering section manager. He is active as webmaster and VIGOR newsletter editor for the TI Houston Alumni Association. He is licensed as Amateur Radio operator N5ATT.
We are members of Second Baptist Church in Houston and attend the West campus in Katy. Kay teaches Bible Study for youth, and is a member of the choir. Lawson volunteers as a video engineer for the television ministry at the main Woodway campus.
We listen to Christian Radio in Houston at 105.7 FM in Houston. You can hear KHCB on the Web at khcb.org.
Would you like to know more about becoming a Christian? Click on the following links to read more.
- How to become a Christian.
- What does It Mean to Believe on the Lord?
Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Remember the Lord in everything you do, and he will show you the right way. Proverbs 3:5-6 (TEV)
What we like to do...
Our Recreational Vehicle (RV) Storybook
We enjoy getting out and experiencing God's beautiful natural creation as much as possible using our 5th wheel trailer. Our equipment: A 2015 Ford F250 SRW 4x2 Crew Cab Lariat 6.2L EFI V-8, 6-speed transmission, 3.73 axle ratio and PullRite Superglide #4100 16K hitch (replacing our 1999 F250) & a 2002 Glendale Titanium 24E29 5th wheel. The trailer is a 2005 replacement for our 1999 Wilderness 821-5B 5th wheel.
Using the window of opportunity we have been given at this time, more of these vacation trips are being made without the RV. This is due to the great distances of these destinations from Houston and the limited amount of time we currently can devote to a particular trip. We still love to travel in the RV.
Click on the highlighted links below to view pictures and a short story about some of our travel adventures.
Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area - May 28-31, 2018
Grand Prarie, Dallas & Waxahachie Area - February 25 - March 2, 2018
New York City Carnegie Hall Concert with Annie Moses Band - January 20-23, 2018
Chile & Panama - December 18 - January 4, 2018
Central Texas Reunion - October 16-22, 2017
Budapest, Prague & Brataslava - May 1-19, 2017
New Orleans & MS Gulf Coast - December 26 - January 4, 2017
Garner State Park Texas - November 13-18, 2016
The Russian Federation - August 24 - September 8, 2016
Sundown, Marfa & Alpine - July 28 - August 8, 2016
London, England - April 19 - May 2, 2016
High Island Spring Migratory Birding - April 4-8, 2016
Southern California - December 22 - January 1, 2016
Banff & Jasper National Parks Canada - August 11-21, 2015
Switzerland and Italy - April 28 - May 14, 2015
Northern & Central Florida - December 23, 2014 - January 7, 2015
Wichita Mts. of Oklahoma - October, 2014
Washington State - August, 2014
Quintana, TX - July 8-12, 2014
Boston - May 2-11, 2014
High Island - April 4-9, 2014
Singapore - December 24, 2013 - January 3, 2014
North Carolina - October 11-30, 2013
Brazos Bend State Park - May 12-16, 2013
Southern Utah - April 3-10, 2013
Texas Hill Country - December 27, 2012 - January 7, 2013
Southeastern Oklahoma - October 19-30 2012
Galveston Island - August 31 - September 4, 2012
Mississippi Family Reunions - May 31 - June10, 2012
New Braunfels - May 4-9, 2012
Baton Rouge - December 28, 2011 - January 7, 2012
Southwest Arkansas State Parks - October 3-13, 2011
San Leon, TX - August 29 - September 3, 2011.
San Antonio - May 12-21, 2011.
Big Bend National Park - December 29, 2010 - January 10, 2011.
Texas Hill Country - October 25 - November 5, 2010.
Galveston Island - August 23-28, 2010.
Louisiana Acadiana - May 10-20, 2010.
Historic Goliad - February 22-27, 2010.
Arkansas - October 19-31, 2009.
Palacios, The City by the Sea - August 10-14, 2009.
West Texas Family Reunion - June 8-19, 2009.
Caddo Lake & the Texas Piney Woods - April 29 - May 9, 2009.
Wharton and Matagorda County - March 16-20, 2009.
Texas Hill Country - November 11-22, 2008
Texas Panhandle - August 13-28, 2008.
Brazos Bend State Park - March 3-15, 2008.
Dallas - October 2-13, 2007.
Texas Piney Woods - May 14-26, 2007.
Texas Rio Grande River Valley - February 26 - March 10, 2007.
Ouachita & Ozark Mountains Autumn Colors - October 16-28, 2006.
Teague-Miller Reunion & West-Texas - July 2-15, 2006.
Cook Reunion & Mississippi Campgrounds - May 28 - June 8, 2006.
Davis Mountains - March 13-25, 2006.
Oklahoma & Arkansas - September 11-28, 2005.
Fort Worth - September 12-25, 2004.
High Island & Chambers County Birding - May 11-15, 2004.
Texas Hill Country - March 7-20, 2004.
Waco- January 25-31, 2004.
Beaumont/Port Arthur - December 14-17, 2003.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park & West Texas - October 3-13, 2003.
Mississippi - May, 2003.
Mississippi - September 9-21, 2002.
Fredericksburg - August 5-10, 2002.
East-Central Texas - May 5-11, 2002.
Arkansas Ozark Mountains - September 21 - October 6, 2001.
Our 9/11/2001 story.
Colorado Tour - May 3 - June 7, 2001
Great Lakes Tour through Michigan & Ontario - August 30 - October 9, 2000.
Galveston - May 29 - June 2, 2000.
Gonzales, TX - February 8-11, 2000.
Western Texas and Northern & Eastern New Mexico - May 25 - June 16, 1999.
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Kay & Lawson Cook
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working
in you that which is wellpleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:20-21 KJV)
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- Recipient of multiple awards and accommodations including the prestigious Williams Champion Award for demonstrating leadership and creative problem solving.
- Achieved significant cost savings by championing Office 365 as Williams’ first infrastructure cloud project. Examined multiple financial and architectural permutations to recommend best implementation approach to Senior Leadership. Demonstrated leadership and guided project to convert entire company to Lync (now Skype for Business) and Exchange Online while satisfying complex (very complex) Legal and Security requirements.
- Created movement and led effort to adopt an online meeting culture by generating excitement, illustrating cost savings, and performing product demonstrations at various staff meetings and roadshows across the company.
- Conceptualized and recommend a walk-up IT service desk at Williams’ Tulsa headquarters. This service desk put a face to IT, reduced resolution time, and significantly increased user satisfaction. Concept was so welcome and successful that it has been replicated at Williams’ other large offices.
- Championed, planned and led XP-to-Windows 7 migration project for Williams while minimizing cost to company and impact to users. Project involved testing over 600 corporate apps across a dozen locations and executing a three-year deployment plan.
- Excel at presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences. This was demonstrated as sole Sales Engineer, supported six geographically dispersed account executives, made CxO level presentations, and transitioned customers from design to implementation phase. Appointed as team leader and nominated for performance excellence award.
- As Sales Engineer, championed and piloted internal telecom whitepaper program to articulate position against competitors, reduce ambiguity of complex product portfolio, and ease onboarding of new employees.
- Crafted long-range information technology plan for global industrial services and publishing company. Plan execution reduced time and cost required to produce monthly publications (digital and paper), hardened security posture, and drastically improved network reliability. Promoted to Director of Information Technology.
- Simultaneously managed two off-shore outsourced technical teams, each with time zone, cultural, and skill-set diversities.
- Reduced liquid-pipeline manual publication costs by $50,000 per year by championing & converting paper-based library to secure online version.
- Reduced turn-around time by 90% by converting paper-based gasoline merchant reports to browser-based system.
- Honed communication and presentation skills by teaching classes at a local university.
- Asked by Williams CIO to provide unique photography for multimillion-dollar floor remodel projects. Photo work included Williams architecture and IT-inspired works.
Lead Architect – Collaboration Center of Excellence (CoE)
New position created by CIO specifically for me to continuously look for value-add and improvement projects related to collaboration tools, practices, and adoption. Hyper-focused on simplifying the end-user collaboration experience by standardizing on Skype for Business, leveraging Williams’ investment in existing technologies where feasible, reducing overlapping collaboration tools, and reducing costs. Position requires frequent negotiation between various internal groups who have conflicting priorities and objectives. Position also requires delivering recommendations to Senior Leadership through persuasive presentations, product demonstrations, and financial justification.
Stay tuned. Big things coming here….
Client Architect & Messaging Lead
Williams Energy, Tulsa, OK, 2007-2016
- Managed off-shore Exchange and Office365 technical team.
- Achieved significant cost savings by becoming key champion for Office365 as the Williams unified communication platform. Examined every financial and architectural permutation to recommend best implementation approach to Senior Leadership.
- 365 Phase 1: Implemented Lync Online (now Skype for Business) as the first Office365 project at Williams. Project was an overwhelming success which involved coordination between implementation partner, outsource provider, Security and Access Control, Legal, and Learning groups. Faced with cost-savings pressure, made recommendation to implement in-cloud 100% with no on-prem hardware. Started evangelization tour across company to educate and drive adoption.
- 365 Phase 2: Leveraging groundwork from Phase 1, implemented ExchangeOnline. Satisfied complex Security & Legal requirements. Designed massive many-to-many migration network to preserve delegate and shared resource relationship during 10,000 mailbox migration. Partnered with Legal to replace Enterprise Vault and implement a forward-looking PST replacement tool. Partnered with Security to start a sweeping AD cleanup.
- Crafted three year plan to phase-out Windows XP and received buy-in from Leadership on three-year attrition project to replace Windows XP with Windows 7 on more than 6,000 distributed clients. Plan execution involved coordinating testing of over 600 corporate applications, having a database built to track application compatibility, creating support model to fit within IBM’s back-office and desktop support arrangement, and sourcing a vendor to maintain image.
- Set enterprise desktop standard for desktop, laptop, and workstation computers. Continuously evaluate new models and devices to help employees perform their daily jobs. A perfect example of this continuous improvement is the need for serial ports for field users. Mainstream computer makers are quickly moving away from this legacy interface, but Williams has millions of dollars of serially connected field equipment. I initiated a project to find a suitable replacement laptop and worked with field support to test the unit in a live field situation.
Enterprise Operations Analyst (Rehire)
Williams Energy, Tulsa, OK November, 2006 – 2007
Function as key team member managing operational relationship between Williams and outsourcing partner, IBM.
- Identified nearly $200,000 of yearly cost savings opportunities of Microsoft Exchange messaging environment. Conducted in-depth study of current environment and built comprehensive cost model to determine benefits of in-house vs various outsourcing scenarios. Study detailed all aspects of messaging including servers, business continuity, archiving, and hygiene.
- Participated on high-profile team to build Disaster Recovery data center. Functioned as EMC RecoverPoint reference.
- Serve as Williams Critical Situation Manager for high-profile problems and outages.
- Reduced managed data volume and increased speed of nightly TSM backup process by initiating and coordinating various projects, including implementing LTO4 tape drives and ensuring all servers are in proper retention classes.
- Crafted server decommissioning process which bridged the functional and political gaps between Williams internal IT and outsourcing provider.
Presales Engineer / Product Manager (Web Hosting, Branded Email, Collocation, Hosted Exchange, Dial Internet)
McLeodUSA Telecommunications, Tulsa, OK November, 2004 – November, 2006
Owned end-to-end life cycle of Internet & Data product suites. Due to uniqueness of product set within company, I served in a hybrid role that included product management, presales engineer, technical account manager, evangelist and training responsibilities. Served as single point of contact and made daily time-sensitive decisions for all activity involving managed products portfolio. Led and participated on various initiatives during difficult financial times, including:
- Managed inventory and sales process of over 100 collocation data centers.
- Increased monthly sales of Hosted Exchange product 300% by benchmarking competitors, redefining standard packages, targeting key markets, and training McLeod’s vast sales force.
- Earned “Star Quality” certification for product & process knowledge and customer service.
- Functioned as contact point for select strategic customers.
- Served as search-engine optimization SME on web site redesign project.
- Performed extensive financial analysis and recommended the shut-down of several underperforming products.
- Led complex project to sell McLeod’s 12,000 dial internet subscribers to bulk dial-up provider.
Director of Information Technology
Noria Corporation, Tulsa, OK March, 2003 – November, 2004
Responsible for day-to-day operations and long-range planning of all IT functions. Notable successes include:
- Avoided costly infrastructure upgrades by negotiating offsite collocation agreement to host all internet facing servers and applications.
- Drastically reduced potential data loss by implementing Noria’s first comprehensive data backup strategy with off-site media.
- Reduced server downtime 99% by through server modernization effort and implementing Active Directory, Microsoft DNS, and Exchange 2003.
- Standardized desktop hardware configuration and software image. Implemented monthly update practice.
- Secured budget and overhauled LAN/WAN, implemented remote VPN.
- Reduced inbound virus threat by implementing comprehensive virus and spam abatement program.
- Implemented technology and workflow process to publish two magazines to digital editions.
- Planned and managed project to expand voice and data infrastructure to two-building campus.
Williams Communications, Tulsa, OK (Two roles from 2000 – 2002)
1. Sales Engineer Team Lead; Vyvx Managed Web and Application Hosting
Generated web and application hosting revenue through technical pre-sales activities. My technical skills combined with business acumen and presentation abilities allowed me to excel in this position and receive performance awards. Activities included:
- Meeting with customers and presenting product & service technical portfolio
- Articulating product value proposition
- Facilitating requirements gathering sessions with customer stakeholders
- Driving overall architecture and design process with internal parties
- Presenting final solution to customer decision makers
- Conceptualized and implemented new services to meet customer demands, including: data security solutions; usage analysis tools; and variable bandwidth pricing. Teamed with engineering to craft “one-off” remote data backup proposal for a national radio corporation. Nominated for performance excellence award.
2. Telecommunications Sales Engineer – IP Business Unit Liaison; Williams Network
Participated in all technical presales activity for the IP Network. Engaged with potential customers, translated requirements into a viable Williams Network solution, and presented the final design to decision makers. Served as an interface between sales, product development, and the remaining sales engineers to ensure a single, coherent message was presented to customers. Worked with IP marketing group to ensure future products aligned with customer requirements. Reduced product ambiguity and shortened learning time for new sales engineers by initiating technical document concept.
Various Roles (Intern >> Systems Engineer >> Team Leader)
Williams Energy/MAPCO Inc, Tulsa, OK (Progressing roles from 1995 to 2000)
1. Electronic Commerce Infrastructure Team Leader & Project Manager
Sought, coordinated, led, and participated on various Internet/Extranet projects:
- Reduced publication costs by $50,000 per year by championing and converting paper-based pipeline manuals to secure extranet solution. Designed online work-flow process to publish updates via Lotus Notes.
- Improved transaction report accuracy and reduced turn-around time 90% by championing and developing browser-based credit card reporting system for fleet management business unit. Utilized Lotus Enterprise Integrator (LEI) to siphon nightly data from Oracle databases.
- In the pre-Wordpress era, engineered a method to reduce time and complexity to update corporate web content. Utilizing secure distributed authoring and workflow, for the first time, non-technical CorpComm employees published press releases and posted job openings directly to the Internet without routing requests through a “webmaster.”
- Increased server reliability 75% by implementing common-sense maintenance windows, application deployment policies and crafting service level agreements.
2. Systems Engineer (Summer Intern which transitioned to full-time position)
- Evaluated modern corporate mail offerings (Microsoft Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus cc:Mail, and Lotus Notes) and migrated company from DaVinci email system to Lotus Notes.
- Cut operating costs and increased server up-time by upgrading and consolidating 24 Novell NetWare servers to 10 and centralizing administration to a single contact Help Desk. Created procedures for data center and help desk.
- Planned and implemented company’s first Microsoft Windows NT environment, enterprise backup solution and installed system monitoring tools.
Master of Science in Telecommunications Management 2000
Oklahoma State University at Tulsa — Tulsa, Oklahoma
Masters Practicum in Knowledge Management and Corporate Collaboration
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 1994
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I read Sad Cypress, one of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels, several times while I was in junior high. It was probably my favorite book featuring the dapper, egotistical, foreign (to the English) sleuth.
In Agatha Christie’s 1940 murder mystery, young and beautiful Elinor Carlisle stands accused of murdering young and beautiful Mary Gerrard. The story is told partly in Elinor’s extended flashbacks, in discussions between Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Dr. Peter Lord, and in courtroom scenes.
In the beginning, bright, young thing Elinor receives an anonymous note informing her that her ailing aunt, the wealthy Laura Welman, is being manipulated by an “artful” girl. Elinor and Laura’s nephew by marriage, Roddy Welman, decide to visit their aunt to make sure she’s well—and to ensure that their inheritance isn’t hijacked.
Elinor and Roddy are engaged. From the first, Roddy is described as sensitive and fastidious—disliking emotional display. What he says he loves most about Elinor is her polish and reserve—he likes the fact that she’s a cold fish.
She’s really, really not.
In fact, Elinor loves Roddy with a passion bordering on desperate, but she has twigged on to the fact that Roddy prefers that she act distant.
At the estate, Elinor deals with her aunt’s nurses and makes the acquaintance of her new doctor, Peter Lord, who is immediately smitten with her. Meanwhile, Roddy runs into Mary Gerrard, the lodge keeper’s daughter and Aunt Laura’s favorite, and in turn falls head over heels. Elinor is distressed by this development and her behavior becomes somewhat erratic; She laughs hysterically at her own jokes and gives dark looks to her rival.
Not long afterward, Aunt Laura dies intestate, resulting in her entire fortune going to Elinor. She breaks off her engagement with Roddy and Mary Gerrard dies after eating a sandwich prepared by Elinor.
Elinor is seemingly the only one with motive to kill Mary Gerrard, and she has plenty of opportunity.
Lovelorn Peter Lord asks Poirot to find enough evidence to acquit Elinor and he proceeds to unravel the case in a way that I still find wholly satisfying.
Christie, who lived from 1890 to 1976, is one of the most read and widely translated writers in the world. She penned 66 full-length detective novels, 33 of which were Hercule Poirot books, and the character also starred in 54 of her short stories. Her other mysteries featured sleuths such as Miss Jane Marple and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, and she wrote a handful of “romances” (the stories are bittersweet) under the name Mary Westmacott.
My junior high school library had a full shelf of Christie, but I went and bought my own paperback copy of Sad Cypress.
I liked the structure of murder mystery. I liked the scattering of clues, the red herrings, that final gathering of evidence where minor statements suddenly acquired major significance.
In many ways, reading Agatha Christie’s Poirot books trained young me to be a close reader. Instead of looking at bluster and swashbuckling, I started paying attention the small movements of characters, to slips, and to tiny, betraying details: shared names, a scratch on a wrist, a figure of speech.
But the books educated me in other ways. Christie’s work was full of tossed-off literary references (she could always be depended on for out of context Shakespeare quotes). One Poirot mystery I remembered, Appointment With Death, has one of the characters spontaneously reciting a song from Cymbeline. The title, Sad Cypress, is from Twelfth Night and one point, in the book, Peter Lord describes watching Elinor cutting bread and butter and Poirot interjects, “Charlotte and the poet Werther.”
References to The Sorrows of Young Werther by German Romantic poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe went over my young head—and frankly, I didn’t know that much more about the Bard. Within 10 years of reading Sad Cypress, though, I went on to graduate school to study Elizabethan and Jacobean literature—including lots of Shakespeare.
Of course, it now seems marvelously ironic to me that I received my first education on the importance of high literary culture by reading supposedly low culture detective novels.
But there were other mysteries in Sad Cypress. For instance, the book had jokes which I found completely inscrutable. At one point, Dr. Lord hears Elinor in a fit of hysterical laughter. He asks why she is laughing. She says she doesn’t know. Peter Lord persists:
“I’ll write you out a tonic.”
Elinor said incisively: “How useful!”
He grinned disarmingly. “Quite useless, I agree. But it’s the only thing one can do when people won’t tell one what is the matter with them!”
I puzzled over this exchange. The rhythm of it—and Peter Lord’s grin—made me understand that it Elinor had made a joke. I looked up the definition of “incisive.” But I didn’t quite get it.
Now, I see that maybe Elinor had what all the het, white men of online dating claim they have: a sarcastic sense of humor.
In another passage, the prosecutor, Sir Samuel, questions Roddy Welman about Elinor’s feelings for him.
“If a lady were deeply in love with you and you were not in love with her, would you feel it incumbent upon you to conceal the fact?”
“Where did you go to school Mr. Welman?”
Sir Samuel said with a quiet smile: “That is all.”
My reaction then as now is about the same: Hahaha. What the fuck?
There was a whole world that the characters in these books knew—that the author knew—that I didn’t. I wanted to understand what that was. That was the real mystery to me.
There are literary conventions, and there are social conventions—the uncodified rules and norms of living in a specific culture. Sad Cypress is bound up in both of these things.
Murder mysteries catch people in primal acts, doing things out of the bounds of civilized society. (Yes, my young, ridiculous mind conflated English society with civilized society.) They feature dignified dowagers strangling their enemies with their bare hands and nervous minor gentry poisoning their blackmailers. The very structure—the conventions—of these books emphasize that there are written and unwritten laws: murder is bad and it will be discovered and punished. But laughing hysterically out of turn is also not done and it can get you accused of terrible things.
“Miss Elinor’s a lady,” one character notes. “She’s the kind—well, you couldn’t imagine her doing anything like that—anything violent…”
Elinor is a lady and that means something. Roderick Welman is a gentleman who went to Eton and that somehow means something. The allusions, the titles, the wit—they all meant something. Hercule Poirot—a white man—is foreign, lives in England, and understands English convention; he grasps the meaning while not being held to it.
I would probably have been considered a savage.
I was a young girl in Canada. My parents were very much not English. They’d grown up in a non-western culture which had its own specific and mystifying codes of behavior and my parents often grew impatient because I didn’t know or understand things that to them seemed innate. But how could I have absorbed this knowledge absent that society? And how could I grasp the mores of the place I did live—in a midsized Canadian city, in a mostly-white junior high school—with only the guidance of my equally confused peers?
Learning about the impenetrable grown up world is, of course, frustrating for young people. But I had too many sets of unspoken rules to pick apart, and too many environments in which to apply them.
So much about my thinking then seems ass-backwards now.
I tried to absorb by osmosis the rules of late 1930s English society and apply them to Canada in the late 80s. I learned about Shakespeare to understand allusions in a detective novel. I read about murder to give myself polish. I consumed story after story about England and English people–or was I really reading because of the non-English detective whose powers of understanding came from being apart?
I came about it in a confused way, and yet, years later here I am alive, reasonably couth, and able find some jokes funny. One might say that I’m civilized enough.
But this would not have satisfied younger me. I would have preferred to be like Elinor: beautiful, charming, reserved yet passionate, just a little tragic. I would have liked to drink cocktails—whatever those were—and make witticisms that I couldn’t understand.
Now, I’d rather be Poirot.
About Mindy Hung
Mindy Hung‘s essays and articles have appeared in The Toast, Salon, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her short (often very short) fiction has appeared in Joyland, PANK, and The New Quarterly. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship in 2010. Her literary novel, Trip, was published in 2012 by Outpost19. | <urn:uuid:d5f47836-58ec-4ff9-9c21-55fece51c01d> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://www.brainmillpress.com/mindyhung/voices/how-to-be-a-girl-by-mindy-hung/detective-stories/ | 2018-08-14T16:06:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209165.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180814150733-20180814170733-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.969584 | 2,100 |
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A leaf blower is like a powered rake that help you move the leaves to a pile faster. After all that work – you still need to get rid of the leaves.
A leaf blower/vacuum blows the leaves into a pile and then vacuum or sucks the leaves into the device. Some leaf vacs mulch the leaves as well.
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Battery vs Gas vs Corded Electric
A gas handheld leaf blower/vacuum is available in 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines. With the 2-stroke engine, the fuel and oil are mixed in a specific blend. Read the manufacturer’s instructions to make sure you mix the correct ratio.
The 4-stroke engines cause less pollution than the 2-stroke engines. With the 4-stroke engine fuel-oil blends aren’t required and therefore the exhaust fumes are less. The 4-stroke leaf blower/vacuum is heavier than the 2-stroke and needs a regular oil change.
The gas handheld leaf vacuum has more power and is, therefore, more efficient, especially in larger areas. The corded electric leaf blower/vacuum is limited to the length of the power cord.
The electric leaf vacuum is environment friendlier than the gas handheld leaf blower/vacuum and is not as noisy. The electric leaf blower/vacuum is lighter than the gas and the battery leaf vacs.
Battery leaf vacs are only limited for how long the battery lasts. If you have a backup battery, then you don’t have to wait for the battery to recharge. The maneuverability of the battery leaf vac makes it an ideal blower for larger gardens in the city.
Handheld vs Backpack
The weight of the leaf blower/vacuum is carried on the shoulders and back with a backpack leaf vac. The straps are padded at the shoulders to protect the shoulders.
The handheld leaf blower/vacuums are used in residential properties. Whereas the backpack leaf blower/vacuum is best used for commercial areas. The backpack leaf blower/vacuum weighs double what a gas handheld leaf vacuum weighs.
Backpack leaf vacuums were originally designed for landscapers. Due to the high level of efficiency and less time, it takes to blow and vacuum leaves, residential home owners began to use the backpack leaf vacuum as well.
The noise leaf blowers make are so loud, cities and towns have regulations to restrict the usage. Before you buy a leaf blower, check what your city or town’s regulations are regarding:
- Decibels: The maximum decibel allowed at certain times.
- Seasonal: The time of day and which days in the week you can use the leaf blower are often season bound.
- Brand: Some city/town regulations have a list of specific brands that are allowed and brands they ban.
- Power: The gas-powered leaf blower/vacuum is the noisiest and in some places are banned.
- Distance: Regulations may specify the distance from property lines you can use the leaf vacuum.
- Number: The number of leaf blowers used at the same time in a yard can be restricted. For most residential owners, this wouldn’t be an issue, but it can affect landscapers and commercial areas.
- Zones: Residential areas may be limited to what time of day leaf blower/vacuums may be used.
In general, electric battery or corded blowers are quieter than gas powered models. Electric motors aren’t as loud as combustion engines at a given power point.
Safety Features You Need vs Want
Stones and twigs can damage the leaf vacuum.. Use the blower to blow the leaves onto the lawn before you use the leaf vac.
Wear hearing protection when working with the leaf vac, especially a gas-powered garden leaf blower/vacuum.
Vibration reduction features reduce the effect the leaf blower/vacuum has on your arms, hands, and shoulders. Improved comfort becomes important when large areas need to be blown or vacuumed.
A simplified choke will help you start the gas leaf blower/vacuum easier.
Warranty duration varies from brand to brand. The warranty may be for 5 years, but it is a limited warranty. Then there are 2-year full coverage warranties.
Make sure you know what length the warranty is and what it covers.
Speed and Volume Efficiency
Two factors determine how efficient the garden leaf blower/vacuum will work: speed and volume. The airflow speed is measured in miles per hour (MPH). The speed determines how fast and efficient the leaf vac can blow and vacuum larger branches and debris.
Most leaf vac speed varies between 110 and 180 MPH. There are the exceptions that run at 250 MPH.
Some leaf vacs have speed settings to control the speed at which the leaves are blown.
The volume determines how easy you will be able to clean your yard from leaves and debris. The cubic feet per minute (CFM) shows you the amount of air that moves through the vacuum tube in a minute. This is what determines the actual power of the leaf blower/vacuum.
The volume varies from 150 to 600 CFM. A 400 CFM leaf blower/vacuum is the recommended volume for most yards. Leaf vacs with too large volume may suck up branches that can clock the leaf vacuum.
Reduction (Mulching) and Bagging
The collection bags on the vacuum-enabled models fill up quickly. This means many trips to the bin to empty the bag. The internal blades on leaf blower/vacuum mulcher enabled models slice the leaves into smaller pieces. With a mulcher, the reduction rate improves dramatically.
Although the label may indicate a reduction rate of 10:1 or 16:1, it is often less in practice. Wet leaves and other debris interfere with getting results that happen in perfect conditions. The reduction rate is the number of leaf bags mulched into one bag.
Even at an actual rate of 6:1 or 4:1 the mulching increases the amount of debris and mulched leaves the bags can carry before it is filled.
Use the mulch for fertilizer or throw it away. At least it lessens the trips to empty the bag. In some areas it is permissible to burn your leaves. You might want to check to see how your neighbors feel about this – some people have breathing conditions that are worsened by leaf smoke.
For convenience, buy a leaf vac with a reusable empty leaf bag lined with disposable bags. Without the disposable bags, you need to clean the bag regularly from smelly leaves and debris that could stay behind after emptying the bag.
What’s The Best Leaf Blower For My Situation?
While recommendations are helpful, there will be different tools needed depending on your own personal yard work situation.
Best Leaf Blower For Small Yards vs Over An Acre
- Look for one that has enough power to keep a small yard neat and tidy from excess leaves.
- Corded electric or battery leaf vacuums are suitable for small yards.
- Backpack leaf blowers are easier to use in over an acre yards.
- A 30-cc engine should be powerful enough for a small yard of a half an acre or less.
- 150-200 MPH speed is strong enough for small yards.
Right Leaf Vac For In The City vs Country
- Despite the downsides of noise and air pollution that come with gas leaf blowers, it’s the best choice for large country yards.
- Cordless battery-operated leaf blowers are the option for large yards in the city.
- For flowery gardens in the city, a leaf blower/vacuum that has variable speeds works better. You can control the power better around flower beds.
- Noise level is a problem if you have neighbors closeby. Consider buying an electric leaf vacuum instead of a gas leaf blower/vacuum for the city.
Right Leaf Vac Features For Extremely Leafy Yards
- A 3-in-1 leaf vac helps reduce the large pile of leaves to a few bags with the mulcher.
- Mulchers reduces the volume of waste dramatically. If you are bagging your leaves, it’s a real time saver.
- The slower speed works better for large piles of leaf because it clogs less. Buy a leaf vacuum mulcher that has multiple setting options.
Right Leaf Blower Features For Woman And Teenagers
- Backpack models require more strength to carry the extra unit weight. on your back Handheld gas leaf vacs are lighter.
- Comfort improves with vibration reduction features. Your hands will get less “tinglely” if you have a unit with vibration control.
- Consider a simplified choke operation to start the tool if you buy a gas leaf vac.
- Electric leaf blowers start easy with just a push of a button compared to a gas one where a pull cord is used. If you do go for gas, look for a power-start assist model if you hate pulling the start cord.
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After an exhausting month of shopping and planning winter break activities, is there anything more rewarding than the look of wonderment and pure joy on your child's face on Christmas morning? Bright eyes and wide smiles will make all the holiday hustle and bustle worthwhile! In the meantime, here are a few more things to tack onto your to-do list to make Christmas morning a little more magical for you and your family.
Summer's almost over and it won't be long before it's time to head back to school. But why make your kids spend the last days of vacation in stores when you can do all of your shopping online at Target? Whether you're using Target School List Assist or picking out your own classroom essentials, we've rounded up our favorite Target school supplies that you can shop below.
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When school's out for summer and your kids are home during those long, hot days, sometimes a cool treat is just what you both need. But why not make an activity out of that afternoon snack and get your kiddos involved in the kitchen? From popsicles to hand pies, here's our top kitchen gadget picks for making summer treats with your kids.
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The bathroom is where we start and end our day. If it's a fun and welcoming space, morning routines run smoother and bath time is a breeze. Parents don't have to dedicate their single-bathroom home to a youthful theme, but making it appeal to children will engrain the importance of self-care and hygiene at an early age. Here are 10 kid-friendly ideas for decorating a bathroom that everyone will love.
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No one wants to have to put together a nursery after the baby is born. Make your newborn feel right at home by preparing baby's first nursery ahead of time. As a mommy-to-be, you have many things on your mind. Have no fear; we're here to help ensure you don't overlook certain products that should be on the nursery checklist. These 10 nursery essentials from Houzz are about to make your life with a little one a whole lot easier just by adding them to your baby's room.
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The need for all out efforts to reach all children
A July 2015 policy paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, shows that the number of out-of-school children and young adolescents is on the rise, reaching 124 million in 2013. The global number of out-of-school children of primary school age rose by 2.4 million between 2010 and 2013, reaching a total of more than 59 million, 1.7 million of them in India. This serves as a grim reminder that the world has yet to fulfill its original promise to provide every child with a primary education by 2015. These figures may grossly understate the reality, given that most-marginalized children , those belonging to migrant families may not be counted at all. Around 15 million children are estimated to be internal migrants according to a 2013 UNESCO report.
While countries strive to achieve universal primary and secondary education through the new Sustainable Development Goals, A small group of citizens in the city of Pune, India led by eminent social worker Prof. Rajani Paranjpe , founder and President of Door Step School, have been silently doing their bit for making "Education for all" a reality.
Every Child Counts, Pune - Citizens' Campaign - a small beginning
Triggered by a call for action on the slow global progress on the UN Millennium development Goal of "Universal elementary education for all by 2015" , Door Step School launched a Campaign - EVERY CHILD COUNTS - A Citizens' Campaign (ECCC) in Nov 2011. The objective of the campaign was ensure that every child is in school at the right age of 6-7 years , thereby increasing the chance of his/ her continuing and completing 4 years of primary education by 2015. Despite the legislative measures like the "Right to Free and compulsory Education Act-2009" access to schooling and therefore education and its benefits are denied to many children, particularly children of families employed at Construction sites, Brick-kilns and children of Nomadic communities engaged in their traditional occupations such as street performers, artisans etc.
In the first two years (2012-14), the Campaign focused on the city of Pune, a city with thriving industries and an therefore an influx of migrants in search of livelihood, trying to reach children of school going age in every nook and corner of the city through a systematic survey. The survey was carried out by citizen volunteers from Colleges, Companies and social groups as well as social workers of Door Step School. The program was supported by Tata Institute of Social Sciences(TISS) as an action research project with the objective of building a scalable and replicable model for access to education for all.
The impact of the Campaign
With 3000 children being enrolled in these 2 years, several companies came forward with funding support in extending this Campaign to the Pune Metropolitan region covering Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and emerging suburbs of Pune(Outer Pune), convinced of the presence of large number of migrant children and the problem of their Educational deprivation.
In 2014-15, a total of 2205 locations(construction sites, shelters along the roadside, semi-permanent slums) were surveyed and 2972 were enrolled into mainstream schools through the Every Child Counts-Citizens' Campaign and a special program that focused on involving parents in the process called "Parents participation in Children's education". These children would have otherwise remained out of school and continued to be educationally excluded, despite the Right to Education(RTE) Act.
Continuing into its 4th year now , the Campaign has so far surveyed 1832 sites and located 3344 children who are of school going age( 5-8 years) . 1286 children have been enrolled in neighborhood schools across Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and Outer Pune areas in one month this year, taking the total number enrolled to 7329.
A systematic and planned approach
A systematic methodology for identification of children of "school going age(6-7 yr old) and their enrollment was developed and documented in 2012. Volunteer tool-kits were prepared and distributed.
The methodology is a 3 stage approach, with Citizen involvement in grass root level activities at all stages.
a) Stage 1- Survey:. Systematic survey of each and every street in the city to cover Housing and road Construction sites "in progress", temporary settlements, semi-permanent settlements to determine the presence of labour camps and children who are in the 6-7 year group. The next step is to map each site to the nearest school based on the list of schools/ map location of the school obtained from school authorities . Once children are located, parents are approached and counseled on the importance of education , informed of the nearest school and the process of getting the children enrolled into schools. The volunteers/ field staff encounter questions ranging from " Who will pay the fees?", "We are not going to live here long.. why should we enroll our child", "We do not understand the local language" to "We don't think education will benefit our children".
|Mapping of sites and schools in Pimpri Chinchwad-2015|
Wherever children and parents have no exposure to the concept of schooling, the team starts "Preparatory camps" for the children. A temporary classroom is setup in a tent or a more pucca room provided by builders or hired and children are introduced to the idea of schooling and learning. Volunteers often become role models for the children, helping in setting up the camps and conducting play based activities. The children are taught basic hygiene and get used to sitting for a longer period, say their names , a few important phrases in the local language, making it easier for them to adjust in a large school with many children.
Assessment of transport needs is an important step too. The distance from schools and the presence of large highways on the road to school often poses a barrier for children to make it to school. Though education is Free under the Right to Education act, school transport is not. Funds are raised by our volunteers and partners through events like Marathons to support school transport. "Vidya Valley" a private school has been allowing us use of their school buses in a few areas to support the transport of nearly 100 children for the last 2 years.
b) Stage 2 - Enrollment and support
Sites with children identified during the survey phase are revisited before the start of the enrollment period in June and parents encouraged to visit the schools by themselves to enroll their children. A simple identity card called "My Card", carrying details of the children and the name of the school is given to the parents to help them provide the required details to the school. Sometimes builders need to be convinced to give the parents time off from work to complete their child's admission, While many parents are able to reach schools themselves and complete the admission process, many more need hand-holding and need to be escorted to the schools by our volunteers and field staff.
Wherever school transport is absolutely essential, such transport is arranged. Sometimes escorts are arranged to help the children walk to school safely.
c) Stage 3 - Follow -up
During this stage the campaign team with the help of volunteers monitor the progress of children by visiting sites and schools. Parents are educated on their role in getting involved in parent meetings and schooling. Other barriers to children attending school regularly such as lack of parental awareness, particularly among migrant parents, lack of safe transportation to school and school attitudes towards migrant children are addressed. Many times the children have to move suddenly when their parents move and do not inform the school authorities. Given the large number of children who migrate , tracking their movement and ascertaining their continuity in destination schools is quite challenging.
Citizen volunteers are an important part of this program, with many groups taking ownership of localities and raising funds for school transport. In 2014-15 22 Organizations contributed through volunteer mobilization and participation in surveys, enrollment, parent awareness programs Over 500 volunteers participated in all. Door Step School would like to thank all these Organizations and Volunteers.
Scaling to other cities beyond Pune
While the grass-root level enrollment activities were in progress in and around Pune, in the background , the larger goal of scaling this program to cover as many cities in India as possible was also on our agenda. We conducted our first outreach program at Nasik Maharashtra inviting interested groups and shared details of the Campaign and how it can be replicated. The first step has been taken by NGO "Education on Wheels" showing interest in replicating the program in Nasik. A reported 500 children were located and enrolled in Nasik under this Campaign in June 2015. Companies have shown interest in taking this program to other cities through their CSR programs.
Creating a platform for wider reach and participation
To create a platform for all stakeholders, NGOs working in other cities/ states, Corporates supporting education through their CSR activities and individuals interested in the cause, the team is setting up an Online Platform that will help organizations and individuals join this Campaign in their own location and ensure that reach each and every child in the country and ensure enrollment. The platform will be child centric.
These efforts are seeds that we envision will grow into a larger movement involving citizens, government agencies and the beneficiary communities themselves.
Raji Satyamurthy, Program Director, ECC
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A woman as gorgeous and funny as Sofia Vergara surely planned to be a model and actress from the get-go, right? Wrong! Sofia’s first career choice actually was to be… a dentist! That’s right, the sexy star of TV’s Modern Family actually was only two semesters shy of finishing a dental degree in her native Columbia when she traded dental school for the small screen. Still, dental health remains a top priority for the actress and her son, Manolo.
“I’m obsessed,” she recently told People magazine. “My son thinks I’m crazy because I make him do a cleaning every three months. I try to bribe the dentist to make him to do it sooner!”
That’s what we call a healthy obsession (teeth-cleaning, not bribery). And while coming in for a professional cleaning every three months may not be necessary for everyone, some people — especially those who are particularly susceptible to gum disease — may benefit from professional cleanings on a three-month schedule. In fact, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to having professional teeth cleanings — but everyone needs this beneficial procedure on a regular basis.
Even if you are meticulous about your daily oral hygiene routine at home, there are plenty of reasons for regular checkups. They include:
- Dental exam. Oral health problems such as tooth decay and gum disease are much easier — and less expensive — to treat in the earliest stages. You may not have symptoms of either disease early on, but we can spot the warning signs and take appropriate preventive or restorative measures.
- Oral cancer screening. Oral cancer is not just a concern of the middle aged and elderly — young adults can be affected as well (even those who do not smoke). The survival rate for this deadly disease goes up tremendously if it is detected quickly, and an oral cancer screening is part of every routine dental visit.
- Professional teeth cleaning. Calcified (hardened) dental plaque (tartar or calculus) can build up near the gum line over time — even if you brush and floss every day. These deposits can irritate your gums and create favorable conditions for tooth decay. You can’t remove tartar by flossing or brushing, but we can clear it away — and leave you with a bright, fresh-feeling smile!
So take a tip from Sofia Vergara, and don’t skimp on professional cleanings and checkups. If you want to know how often you should come in for routine dental checkups, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can learn more in the Dear Doctor articles “Dental Hygiene Visit” and “Dental Cleanings Using Ultrasonic Scalers.”
It takes a lot of skill, experience, talent and artistry to create tooth restorations that look so natural that no one can tell them apart from the originals. To do so requires understanding of the normal anatomy of a tooth as well as of the interactions of light and color.
How the anatomy of a tooth determines color
The color that we perceive when looking at a tooth results from the combined appearance of the tooth’s center core (dentin layer) and its covering enamel. Going from the outside in, the enamel is made of tightly packed crystals of calcium, which cause it to be one of the hardest substances naturally produced by animals. The crystals are also responsible for a tooth’s brilliance and translucence. The dentin is more like bone, a porous living tissue composed of microscopic tubes, interspersed with more calcium crystals. In the very center of the tooth is a central chamber containing the pulp and nerves.
Each of these layers has its own physical and optical properties. Since the enamel is translucent and the dentin is more opaque, most of the tooth’s color comes from the dentin and is transmitted through the enamel layer. Factors that affect this transmission include the thickness and age of the enamel as well as external tooth whitening.
If the enamel is more translucent, more of the color of the dentin shows through. If it is more opaque, the enamel absorbs and reflects light so that less color is visible and the enamel looks brighter.
The language of color composition and reflected light
Color means the whole spectrum in the rainbow. The spectrum is made up of the three primary colors — red, blue, and green. When all are combined, they create white light.
Hue refers to the brightest forms of the colors. The color we perceive depends on the dominant wavelength of light that is reflected by an object.
Value refers to a color’s lightness or darkness. A brighter color has a higher value.
Chroma is the amount of identifiable hue in a color. An achromatic color (without hue) appears gray.
Saturation is a measure of a color’s intensity.
This terminology of color is used not only by dentists and dental technicians, but also by a wide range of artists. It implies expertise and understanding of how colors work, how they vary and change and affect one another.
Contact us today to schedule an appointment or to discuss your questions about bonding to repair chipped teeth. You can also learn more by reading the Dear Doctor article, “Artistic Repair of Front Teeth with Composite Resin.”
Can you have healthy teeth and still have gum disease? Absolutely! And if you don’t believe us, just ask actor David Ramsey. The cast member of TV hits such as Dexter and Arrow said in a recent interview that up to the present day, he has never had a single cavity. Yet at a routine dental visit during his college years, Ramsey’s dentist pointed out how easily his gums bled during the exam. This was an early sign of periodontal (gum) disease, the dentist told him.
“I learned that just because you don’t have cavities, doesn’t mean you don’t have periodontal disease,” Ramsey said.
Apparently, Ramsey had always been very conscientious about brushing his teeth but he never flossed them.
“This isn’t just some strange phenomenon that exists just in my house — a lot of people who brush don’t really floss,” he noted.
Unfortunately, that’s true — and we’d certainly like to change it. So why is flossing so important?
Oral diseases such as tooth decay and periodontal disease often start when dental plaque, a bacteria-laden film that collects on teeth, is allowed to build up. These sticky deposits can harden into a substance called tartar or calculus, which is irritating to the gums and must be removed during a professional teeth cleaning.
Brushing teeth is one way to remove soft plaque, but it is not effective at reaching bacteria or food debris between teeth. That’s where flossing comes in. Floss can fit into spaces that your toothbrush never reaches. In fact, if you don’t floss, you’re leaving about a third to half of your tooth surfaces unclean — and, as David Ramsey found out, that’s a path to periodontal disease.
Since then, however, Ramsey has become a meticulous flosser, and he proudly notes that the long-ago dental appointment “was the last we heard of any type of gum disease.”
Let that be the same for you! Just remember to brush and floss, eat a good diet low in sugar, and come in to the dental office for regular professional cleanings.
If you would like more information on flossing or periodontal disease, please contact us today to schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article “Understanding Gum (Periodontal) Disease.”
There are instances when a general dentist will remove (extract) a problem tooth. At other times, though, the same dentist may refer a patient needing an extraction to an oral surgeon. Why the difference?
The procedure performed by a general dentist is referred to as a “simple tooth extraction.” “Simple” doesn’t mean easy and requiring no skill or expertise — it certainly does. In this case, the term refers to the anatomy of the tooth being extracted, particularly its roots.
Teeth that respond well in a simple extraction have an uncomplicated root system. The path of removal, usually with a single root involved, is fairly straight and without extreme angles. In the hands of a skilled and experienced dentist, it can be removed with little to no discomfort.
Dentists actually must use finesse to remove a tooth from its socket. The tooth is held in place with tiny collagen fibers that extend from a tough, elastic gum tissue known as the periodontal ligament, which lies between the teeth and the bone. With some manipulation, a dentist can loosen these fibers, which then makes removing the tooth much easier. All of this can usually be performed with local anesthesia.
Of course, to determine if a tooth can be removed this way, we must conduct a thorough dental examination first, including x-ray imaging to determine the exact nature and location of the roots. If the exam reveals the root system is more complex, or that there are defects to the bone or the tooth that could make a simple extraction difficult (resulting, for example, in not removing the crown and root in one piece), then the tooth may need to be removed surgically.
Such situations require the skill and resources of an oral surgeon. These specialists perform a number of surgical procedures related to the mouth and face; as procedures go, extraction is among the most routine. Using local anesthesia and post-operative pain management, undergoing a surgical extraction involves only minimal discomfort and a very short recovery time.
After examining your tooth we’ll recommend the best course for extraction, whether simple or surgical. In either case, we’ll see that your problem tooth is extracted as efficiently and painlessly as possible.
If you would like more information on tooth extractions, please contact us today to schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article “Simple Tooth Extraction?”
Did you see the move Cast Away starring Tom Hanks? If so, you probably remember the scene where Hanks, stranded on a remote island, knocks out his own abscessed tooth — with an ice skate, no less — to stop the pain. Recently, Dear Doctor TV interviewed Gary Archer, the dental technician who created that special effect and many others.
“They wanted to have an abscess above the tooth with all sorts of gunk and pus and stuff coming out of it,” Archer explained. “I met with Tom and I took impressions [of his mouth] and we came up with this wonderful little piece. It just slipped over his own natural teeth.” The actor could flick it out with his lower tooth when the time was right during the scene. It ended up looking so real that, as Archer said, “it was not for the easily squeamish!”
That’s for sure. But neither is a real abscess, which is an infection that becomes sealed off beneath the gum line. An abscess may result from a trapped piece of food, uncontrolled periodontal (gum) disease, or even an infection deep inside a tooth that has spread to adjacent periodontal tissues. In any case, the condition can cause intense pain due to the pressure that builds up in the pus-filled sac. Prompt treatment is required to relieve the pain, keep the infection from spreading to other areas of the face (or even elsewhere in the body), and prevent tooth loss.
Treatment involves draining the abscess, which usually stops the pain immediately, and then controlling the infection and removing its cause. This may require antibiotics and any of several in-office dental procedures, including gum surgery, a root canal, or a tooth extraction. But if you do have a tooth that can’t be saved, we promise we won’t remove it with an ice skate!
The best way to prevent an abscess from forming in the first place is to practice conscientious oral hygiene. By brushing your teeth twice each day for two minutes, and flossing at least once a day, you will go a long way towards keeping harmful oral bacteria from thriving in your mouth.
If you have any questions about gum disease or abscesses, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can learn more by reading the Dear Doctor magazine articles “Periodontal (Gum) Abscesses” and “Confusing Tooth Pain.”
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By John Semmens — Semi-News — A Satirical Look at Recent News
This week the “repeal and replace” health insurance bill crafted by the Republican leadership failed to garner enough support to be put to a vote. Rep. Tom Garret (R-VA), along with other Freedom Caucus members, said he will file a discharge petition that would put a clean repeal of Obamacare up for a House vote.
“This is the same bill both the House and Senate passed that was vetoed by President Obama in 2015,” Garret said. “It would undo the conceit that the government is competent to dictate the health insurance choices every American must make. It will allow everyone the freedom to buy the insurance they want rather than being forced to buy what the government bureaucrats say they should.”
Garret’s bill is expected to face tough sledding due to anticipated opposition from three key GOP senators: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), both of whom voted for the 2015 bill, and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
Murkowski acknowledged that her vote for the bill in 2015 “was solely for the purpose of winning my race for reelection in 2016. Voters didn’t like Obamacare. It was that simple.” She called Garret’s action “a betrayal. I was promised that I could vote for repeal because President Obama would veto whatever we passed. Since Trump won’t veto what we pass the deal is off.”
Capito insisted that her 2015 vote “was a ‘show vote’ in compliance with the wishes of the Majority Leader. I was a brand new senator taking my cues from an old hand. In truth, I think the idea that people should be free to buy any old insurance they want is daft. They will use individualistic and selfish motives in making their choices. The genius of Obamacare is that it takes the decision out of the hands of the selfish and puts it into the hands of government experts. I understand that the guy paying $10,000 a year in premiums for coverage that comes with a $5,000 annual deductible will feel he isn’t getting good value for his money. However, the more important question is whether society as a whole isn’t better served by forcing him to subsidize the needs of others.”
Collins concurred with her West Virginia colleague asserting that “the kinds of policies many people would freely choose cover only major catastrophic expenses in the thousands of dollars range. They’d leave themselves vulnerable to having to pay for office visits and prescriptions that might amount to only a few hundred dollars. Granted, they’d still be out-of-pocket for the first $5,000 of these smaller expenses under Obamacare, but amounts in excess of the deductible could be partially reimbursed.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken) called the health insurance standoff “a real dilemma. The compulsory nature of Obamacare has brought a surge of revenue to insurers and health care professionals. Obviously, if people are free to buy or not buy insurance some will not buy. That mean less money for insurers. People without coverage or with ‘bare-bones’ policies are less likely to seek professional medical care as often. Granted, even doctors admit that 90% of people get better without professional intervention, but doctors, nurses, hospitals need the income that the more robustly insured bring their way. What we need is a program that is nominally not Obamacare, yet still retains the muscle to direct a larger share of the nation’s income to the health sector.”
Congresswoman Negotiating Whether to Cooperate with Investigation
Former Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Fla) is in the midst of deciding whether or not to cooperate with DC police investigating possible violations of national security laws by her former top information technology (IT) aide, Imran Awan. Awan and several of his relatives are accused of abusing access granted by their Democratic Party employers to obtain and sell classified information.
Thus far, Wasserman-Schultz has been refusing to turnover computers used by Awan so police can examine them. She has claimed exemption from law enforcement saying that “according to the Constitution, members of congress are privileged from arrest. I am not some ordinary bumpkin who can be compelled to undergo police investigation. I’m part of the government. I have superior rights.”
The clause she cited may not be as broad an exemption as she imagines, though. The privilege from arrest applies only to attendance at a congressional session and the trip to and from that session. Further, there is no privilege in cases of “treason, felony, and breach of the peace.” Inasmuch as hiring ITs who purloin classified information and sell it might reasonably constitute both treason and felony offenses, Wasserman-Schultz’s obstruction of the investigation into these crimes would not seem to be privileged.
“Regardless of the nuances of the law, the computers are in my possession,” the Congresswoman boasted. “Secretary Clinton was allowed to delete part of her emails and smash all her phones rather than be subjected to the kind of invasion of privacy they’re trying to impose on me. As I see it, if they want to see these devices I need a non-revocable grant of full immunity. Then maybe I’ll turn them over.”
In related news, a new report released by the Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration found that the IRS destroyed laptops containing critical records—even when those records were requested for use in pending litigation or criminal investigations. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen brushed off the findings as “old news. The expectation that the IRS could or should keep meticulous records is unwarranted. The volume of information is huge. The motivation to do quality work is nonexistent. The temptation to shirk and slack off is irresistible. The tax code is insanely complex. If Congress had any sense they’d repeal the whole damned mess.”
Hillary Says Poll Unfair
This week a Bloomberg poll found that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is viewed favorably by 39 percent of poll respondents. This is less than President Donald Trump’s 41%. She is viewed unfavorably by 58 perent. Trump is viewed unfavorably by 55 percent.
The former Secretary of State contended that the poll was an unfair comparison. “Every time I turn on the news it’s all about Trump,” she complained. “That’s a lot of free publicity. Even if most of it is negative, when you consider the sources—CNN, MSNBC, New York Times—it can’t help but boost his ratings. Being repeatedly attacked by media the general public doesn’t trust is driving people over to his side.”
Clinton urged the media to take a more balanced approach to its coverage. “I had a health care plan that failed long before Trump’s did,” she reminded. “I had dealings with the Russians. A lot of people don’t know it, but I helped sell 25% of America’s uranium to them. And that whole ‘reset’ thing was a big fiasco. And I helped craft policies that did more to disrupt world peace than anything Trump has yet conceived. If CNN and the others could start bashing me like they bash Trump I think I could narrow the gap.”
Judge Levies Fine for Exposing Planned Parenthood Crimes
Judge William Orrick levied a fine of $137,000 against David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) for violating his “gag” order in the case against them related to their undercover investigative report on Planned Parenthood (PP). Dalieden and the CMP produced a number of covertly recorded videos of PP officials engaging in illegal sales of aborted baby parts.
“Mr. Daleiden may imagine himself a journalist going undercover to snare criminals,” Orrick said. “However, he is not a recognized member of any established journalistic outlet—neither TV, radio, print nor electronic. He is, to all intents, just a private citizen invading territory that belongs to outlets like CNN and the Washington Post. There is no constitutional protection for the eavesdropping he and his confederates did.”
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is currently prosecuting Daleiden and others on 15 counts of “felony eavesdropping,” called CMP’s video evidence of crimes committed by PP officials “irrelevant. Even if we were to concede that selling baby parts is illegal, CMP’s videos were obtained through illegal means and are, thus, inadmissible. CMP personnel portrayed themselves as fellow criminals in their interactions with PP personnel to negotiate the sales of baby parts. As such, PP had a reasonable expectation of confidentiality. CMP’s publication of the videos breached the implied criminal compact and unfairly exposed PP to negative publicity. The damages could easily run into the billions. That cannot be allowed to go unpunished.”
The money from Judge Orrick’s $137,000 fine was turned over to the National Abortion Federation as compensation for attorney’s costs incurred in defense of PP, including “an exhaustive search of the Internet for all traces of CMP’s scurrilous videos.”
Mayor Apologizes for Police Shooting
This week Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond to death. Damond was unarmed and in her pajamas at the time of the slaying. The incident occurred after, Damond made a 911 call reporting a possible rape in progress outside her home. She was killed as she spoke to Noor’s police partner through the open window of the patrol car.
Whether Noor should have been employed as a cop seems more of a triumph of “diversity” than good sense. Those who know him have used words like “extremely nervous,” “jumpy,” and “the least little thing can set him off.” He has gained a reputation for angry outbursts at kids playing in his neighborhood. Police Chief Janee Harteau characterized the shooting as “not in compliance with either the training or the performance expectations we have for our officers.” Harteau was later fired by Mayor Betsy Hodges for these “insensitive remarks denigrating a fellow officer.”
Hodges asked that “we show some compassion for Officer Noor in his time of trouble. Coming from a very violent Somalia where the least hesitation could be fatal, it should not be surprising that he would shoot first and ask questions later. A lot has been made of the fact that a 40-year-old woman clad in pajamas and carrying a cell phone would not normally be considered dangerous. Well, Officer Noor says it was too dark for him to make out any of these details before he fired his weapon. Even if he had seen more, let’s not forget that women do commit some crimes and that cell phones are often the trigger for improvised explosive devices.”
“Neither should it matter that the other officer on the scene didn’t perceive a need to draw his weapon,” Hodges added. “Officer Harrity was raised in this country and has a better grasp of what is going on. For all he knew, though, Officer Noor could have been saving both their lives. That neither officer incurred any injuries is something we may have to thank Officer Noor’s quick reaction for or not. Maybe there never was a real threat.”
In a bid to calm tensions, Hodges issued an immediate apology to the City’s Muslim community to reassure them that “this incomprehensible tragedy will not divert us from our goal of putting more armed Muslims on the streets as members of our police force. Sad as Ms. Damond’s fate may have been, it is essential that we not allow this tragedy to wreak even greater havoc on our quest for an inclusive and diverse city workforce.”
In related news, Sweden’s National Police Commissioner, Dan Eliasson, went on national TV to plead for help as the hordes of Muslim refugees allowed to live in the country have “made it impossible for police alone to uphold the law.” While it is not clear what type of help a mostly disarmed Swedish population might render, official policy recommends that “everyone stay indoors, not engage in any unnecessary travel, and make sure your life and fire insurance is up-to-date.”
A Satirical Look at Recent News
John Semmens is a retired economist who has written a weekly political satire for The Arizona Conservative since 2005. He says working on his satires is one of the ways he tries to honor the liberties our Founding Fathers tried to protect.
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“Who are you?” I asked myself this question as I perused my bookshelves for this January’s Scary Reading List. It’s a loaded question, one that is asked again and again during this time of the year. Once the New Year arrives, many people (myself included) are overwhelmed by this question. Out with the Old You, in with the New You, right?
Gym advertisements ask, “Who are you? Are you going to be the person who sits on their butt all year or are you going to do something?” Diet ads are even worse, posing the question as, “I love the new me! I don’t even recognize that girl from 50 pounds ago! Don’t you want this too?” There are the countless magazine and internet articles about “Bad Habits to Break”, “Good Habits to Form”, “Effortlessly Trick Yourself Into Saving More Money!” and “8 Easy Steps To A Better, Happier You!”
It’s weird, right? A person can try to change their life whenever they want, but it’s only in the first few weeks of the year that the scrutiny becomes so invasive. Ads are run, articles are published, money is spent, intentions are proclaimed, and resolutions are written. All so we can transform into Different People. Better People. It seems doable at first. How could you not implement these “easy changes”? Why not build yourself a new life for the New Year?
But then for many people, all those plans for change and self-improvement fall by the wayside. It’s almost never a spectacular failure, just a series of small setbacks that gradually push you off the wagon altogether. Suddenly, you find yourself right back where you started.
Who are you? Not that person you thought were going to become.
That’s the fear inherent in the New Year. It’s a quiet fear, but very real—fear that you will fail your resolutions and you won’t make any progree. A fear that you will always be the person you have been. Maybe you don’t like that person very much. That person has become stagnate.
Or worse still, maybe failing to become a “better” person means you’re actually becoming a worse person.
What does that person look like?
As I sorted through stacks of books (I have a problem where I buy way too many books), I wondered what kind of person I’d be if I was ever faced with a monstrous threat. Forget shallow New Year’s resolutions, I thought, what happens when things go wrong? Really wrong? What kind of person would I be if I ever had to face something truly horrible? Would I like that person?
With these questions in mind, I selected the following three books, all of which explore what happens to people caught in unimaginably terrible situations, teasing out these struggles with themes of identity, self-awareness, and deep mistrust. These books ask about who we are—not just the people we aspire to be or even the people we are in normal circumstances, but the people we are when the rules no longer apply and the world disintegrates.
After all, the scariest monsters in the world are the ones lurking inside the dark recesses of our psyches. We like to think we can control them, that we’re rational, measured, and civilized. It’s easy to assume it’s the truth when our lives are going as planned, when our biggest worries involve our New Year’s Resolutions. It’s a lot harder to maintain a logical mindset when your ship is trapped in the ice, your town is plagued by witches, or when your daughter is possessed by a demon.
So here’s my January 2016 Scary Reading List! If you are similarly interested in examining how the human psychology contorts in the face of terrible adversity, feel free to pick up any one of these books and let me know your thoughts in the comments. Think of it as a mental exercise, perhaps even a method of achieving a new degree of self-awareness.
Or just a way to entertain yourself on the cheap this month. Either way works!
- The Terror – Dan Simmons
“The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition’s leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape. A haunting, gripping story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.”
I’ve wanting to read this book for years now, and I finally decided I was going to make time for it! It seems to hit all the marks—gripping premise; merciless Arctic setting; group-infighting and threats of mutiny; oh, and a ghastly monster.
Told from multiple characters’ points of view, this fictionalization of a legendary but lost expedition to the Arctic imagines what happened to the doomed ships and their crews. A group of tough sailors, led by the ambitious but flawed Sir John Franklin, endeavors to find the waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, a feat which would have provided an important trade route. The expedition was confident that they would succeed in exploring the last remaining bit of the route. It should have been smooth sailing (forgive the pun).
But from what I’ve read about it, everything that could go wrong goes extremely wrong. And on top of the bitter cold and lack of food, these men find themselves stuck in the ice, hunted by an terrifying predator. Eventually they turn on each other, committing unspeakable deeds in the name of what they claim to be “survival,” like mutiny, murder, and cannibalism.
Are these the same decorated, accomplished men who were so confident in their purpose when the left the comfort of civilization behind? I find it intriguing to examine how civilized men descend into savagery in the face of overwhelming cold, hunger, and fear.
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 – Stacy Schiff
“It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.
The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.
As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff’s account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.”
The Salem Witch Trials have always fascinated me. It’s an unfortunate, true example of how fear can twist a community into something horrendous and how people manipulate the truth to serve their own purposes.
I see a parallel between the Puritans and the crew of The Terror. As this The New Yorker article points out, when the Salem Witch Trials took place, the Puritans had only recently colonized New England, and life was incredibly difficult. Devestating winters, Indian raids, and animal attacks were just a few of the very real dangers they faced. However, the Puritan settlers thought of themselves as God’s chosen people and were confident in their mission to build a more godly civilization. They were going to create something wonderful, which would make them better Christians and make the world better, all to the glory of God.
But how could this vulnerable, small community hope to avoid psychological distress while trying to scratch an existence from a foreign and hostile wilderness, fend off Indian attacks, and survive the brutal New England winters?
It’s not a stretch to believe that, with their religion as the only source of affirmation and comfort in their lives, that their faith would distort their beliefs and confirm their fears, however illogical and destructive. Is it really so hard to understand how a community banded together to accuse, try, and execute family members, friends, and neighbors of heinous crimes with no real proof?
Instead of creating a Christian utopia, they fell victim to mass hysteria, accusing victims as young as five years old.
Part of my aim in reading this book is to find out if the people of Salem ever realized the gravity of the trials. I wouldn’t be surprised if they lived in denial for the rest of their lives and refused to acknowledge what they’d done. It might be impossible to accept such a truth.
- A Head Full of Ghosts – Paul Tremblay
“The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.
To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.
Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.”
Unlike the previous entries on the list, this novel seems to work entirely within the confines of a family, which goes to show that even small-scale traumas can demolish everyone’s sense of identity and self-control (or lack thereof). One person’s behavior can transform everyone around her, especially when she’s possibly possessed by a demon and a camera crew hows up to film everything.
As if possession isn’t enough to freak me out, I can’t imagine what it would be like to go through the ordeal laid out in A Head Full of Ghosts, on national television no less. I’m very excited for the reality show aspect, because reality shows could be said to embody the worst in voyeuristic human behavior.
It’s intriguing idea to explore. People act differently when they think they’re being watched, just as they act very differently when they know they aren’t being watched. How would the members of a family act when their child becomes possessed, the money runs out, no one can help, and a camera crew films every last bit? What happens to the people who watch this morbid display unfold in relative anonymity? I can’t wait to find out!
In case you need more convincing, check out this quote from NPR’s review: “Tremblay ambitiously structures the story as a pingponging narrative that coalesces into an unsettling conversation about the truth, or what the various characters suspect is the truth. It’s an intricate dance, and one that Tremblay pulls off with agility, ease and immaculate pacing. Merry’s poignant numbness, Karen’s secret reason for being obsessed with The Possession and Marjorie’s increasingly shocking transgressions mesh like clockwork with themes of greed, deception and faith.”
The New York Times also loved it. What more do you need?
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At Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP, we are dedicated to protecting the rights of restaurant workers nationwide. Due to the nature of their work restaurant workers are often taken advantage of by their employers. Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP has represented thousands of restaurant employees nationwide and have protected their rights to the appropriate minimum wage pay, overtime pay, tips and many other claims specific to restaurant workers. We have filed numerous suits for restaurant employees whose rights have been violated, and we are committed to continuing to protect these workers’ rights. It is important to understand all of the laws and statutes governing restaurant worker rights, as they are more complex and extensive than many other industries wage laws.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protects both tipped and non-tipped restaurant workers’ rights. The FLSA, which is a federal statute, contains strict guidelines and requirements when it comes to restaurant workers’ rights. Despite these strict guidelines, employers continue to violate restaurant workers’ rights which results in employees being denied their lawfully earned wages. Because of the unique nature of the hospitality industry, the compensation given to restaurant workers is more complex as many employees receive tips in addition to the wages paid by their employer. It is important for all restaurant workers to remember that they are still entitled to be paid wages by their employer, regardless of the amount of tips they may be receiving. Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP encourages all restaurant workers to become familiar with their rights, whether you are a tipped or non-tipped food service workers.
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Most notably for restaurant workers, under the FLSA, employers are permitted to pay a reduced minimum wage rate of $2.13 per hour to all tipped employees (such as: servers, bartenders, bussers, runners, and barbacks), as long as certain requirements are met. The FLSA explains that employers may take a “tip credit” from tipped employees’ wages, which is the difference between the full minimum wage rate and the reduced tipped minimum wage rate ($7.25 – 2.13 = $5.12), essentially accounting for the tips that the restaurant worker is going to earn in addition to the employer’s compensation. However, there are very strict notice provisions, or “tip credit notice requirements,” under the FLSA that an employer must follow in order to pay employees the reduced tipped minimum wage.
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SoCalHoops HS Preview
LA City Section:
League Preview--(Nov. 22, 2002)
This is the second in our series of LA City Section League previews, and for the task of evaluating the teams in this year's City Section race, we've enlisted the help of Jack Pollon, who is one of those guys who knows the players and teams in the Section, especially the San Fernando Valley, as well as the surrounding regions, about as well as anyone does. We may not always agree with his assessments of how good a team is or who the best players are on a team, but Jack's views are usually interesting and spark some interesting discussion because he sometimes knows things about players that not a lot of other people do considering that he's coached, written about players, and also now runs tournaments and events.
This year, at SoCalHoops we're going to continue to focus our efforts on the CIF-SS as well as the LA City Section, but we've also got a surprise in store when it comes to San Diego: Starting next Monday or Tuesday morning, we'll also have a very comprehensive view of the entire San Diego CIF Section, it's leagues, teams, top players, and just about everything you ever wanted to know about San Diego CIF basketball (including a very interesting "where are they now" feature). But given the additional breadth of coverage this year, we needed some assistance getting back to our own roots covering LA City Section hoops, as well as writing the previews and profiles, so Jack Pollon agreed to help out.
If you want to get an idea of how large the LA City Section is, take a look at this link, and you'll clearly see how many teams there are. Sure, in comparison to the CIF-SS, it's miniscule, but 60+ teams (not everyone in the Magnet Conference actually fields a team, and none of the Magnet teams are eligible for the City Championship) is still quite a chunk to break off, so you'll understand why we enlisted Pollon's support. We can't promise to feature every team and every league within the City Section, but that's the goal, and the goal is, of course, to have this finished before the season gets too far along. We'll try to get it done, but no promises.
Here's Jack's first crack at a preview (with a slight bit of editing), this one of the LA City Section West Valley League.
LA City Section Mission Valley League
Sylmar Still Top Dog?
The Valley Mission League over the years has been dominated by Sylmar, and the league typically only places the league champion in the top bracket of the City Section playoffs, the City Championship [Ed: the City Invitational, which is the "lower" of the two City Section playoff brackets, is reserved for teams 17-32; the winner of the Invitational bracket does not compete in the State Tournament, whereas the winner and runner up of the City Championship do]. Valley Mission gets an automatic bid to the City Championship and Sylmar has been that team for the past 5 or 6 years. In other words, the league has not been particularly tough, top to bottom, in the past half-decade, at least not in comparison to other City Section leagues like the West Valley, or Western, or Coliseum. Indeed, the power has rested with Sylmar for so long that most observers overlook some of the other teams in this league each year. Sylmar nearly upset Crenshaw, at Crenshaw in the second round of the City Championship bracket, losing at the buzzer in a packed and over-heated gym, and it was a defining moment for a Sylmar team that deserved a lot of respect. Last year, they had one of the most talented teams in the San Fernando Valley, featuring Louis Darby (now at Long Beach State) and Frank Robinson (now prepping at MCI). But this year, it seems as though the league power has shifted slightly, and there are a few other contenders, with Monroe being one of the pre-season darkhorses with a shot to undo Sylmar's stranglehold on the league title.
Sylmar is very deep this year but lacks varsity experience. The team is mostly made up of juniors. Three seniors figure to make themselves known however. They are transfer Rico Marshall from Taft, Eric Joseph, and big man Luis Solis (6'-6" 275lb.). The talented juniors include forward Rodney Barnes, forward Tommy McNutt, guard Joseph Dickson, guard Julio Marshall, forward Justin Lampley, guard Michael Smith, guard Andrew Berry, and Corey White. One intriguing prospect is junior Dominique Lewis. We don't know where he came from but looked impressive at the Valley Sports Foundation Fall L:eague. All of these players have similar talent which will make for heated practices to determine playing time. The bottom line is that Sylmar will once again have a very nice complement of guards and post players, and while they're not yet battle-tested, they have the talent to repeat again if one of their league rivals should falter. And as always head coach Bort Escoto is not backing down from anyone this season, and he has scheduled Taft and Long Beach Millikan with their talented wing players, both in non league games. He has also scheduled Sylmar to be at the always very competitive Mission Prep Holiday class, the Winter Slam Jam Tournament, and the Modesto Holiday Hoop Classic. Sylmar will no doubt finish at or near the top of the league, and will look for another top 16 seed, possibly even top 8, when the City Section's seeding committee sits down to do their business on Saturday, February 15, 2003.
Monroe of North Hills is ready to challenge seriously for the first time in years. Coach Don Loperena has been gradually building a very good program at Monroe and might see the fruits of his hard work payoff this season, that is if super sophomore brandon james is healthy and top soph guard Dawin Whiten is eligible to play. Jmes, one of the top freshmen a year ago and brother of Moorpark College player Josiah James, suffered an achilles injury and has been wearing a boot for the past few weeks, and whether he will be ready to return is sheer speculation, since most tears usually will require surgery and put a player out for 3-6 months. He could come back sooner though if it's just a minor sprain. Brandon told us doctors have advised him to "really take it easy," and that may mean that he will not suit up this season. But we also wouldn't be surprised to see him play if he is at all able to do so. If Brandon is at full strength, and Whiten is eligible (right now there's a snag with his paperwork, and administrators are looking at the circumstances of his transfer last year) Monroe could have a real shot to win the league title. If either or both of these guys is out for a significant period of time, then probably not. Whiten is a strong guard who came in from Cerritos in the spring and is just itching to get into a real game at the high school level, having been a key player this summer for the Los Angeles Rockfish, and a standout among the young players at the Rockfish Spring League at LA City College. In short, he's a player whose best basketball is ahead of him and he's got great potential at the next level. Monroe also has Justin Ritter, and brothers Chris and Rashaad Richards. Coach Loperena will have the Vikings ready when they open up at the Simi Valley Tip Off Tournament on December 3, and Monroe will also play in the Chaminade Christmas Classic from December 26-30. Monroe may not be as deep as Sylmar and there are still some unanswered personnel questions, but they have the best shot in this league to end Sylmar's run of titles.
Reseda HS was hit hard by the graduation of Sergei Lepiashinski, the top scorer in the league who walked-on at Cal State Northridge. Reseda also lost Eric Johnson and Keena Estrada to graduation, and thus lost 3/5ths of its starting lineup. The regents look like they might struggle this year, but it's hard to say just how much. Chris Mark, a 6'-6" junior is coming around and Coach Mike Wagner is developing some young guards to fill the backcourt holes left with the loss of Lepiashinski. Reseda tuned up right by participating in a few summer tournaments as well as the Summer Slam Jam Tournaments, and in the Valley Sports Foundation's Fall League, so they've not just been sitting around hoping things will get better. But we just don't think at this point they'll have the horses ready to compete with Sylmar or Monroe, at least not as challengers for the top spot, and they look to be headed for a duel with San Fernando and Kennedy for the third place spot in the league.
Kennedy has a brand new gym that Coach Kevin Kanemura is excited about, but he's still looking for ways to fill the holes in the lineup left by the loss of three of Kennedy's top senior starters from last year who all graduated. Kennedy will be without Gervell Byrd, Markeith Wheeler and Brandon Robinson, but they do return talented junior Marcel Sample, along with senior guard Eric Navarrete. Kennedy also may bring up Sample's brother, a freshman, who is rumored to be good enough to start this year. The Glden Cougars will battle tough but probably won't have quite have enough to challenge Sylmar, and might struggle with Monroe if they are healthy and everyone is eligible . Kennedy also has another prospect in sophomore Brandon Burnside, and Coach Kanemura told us that he thinks he will develop into a very nice player with time and hard work. Kennedy opens Nov. 26 at home against Los Angeles, and is hoping to break in the new gym with a win. Time will tell....
San Fernando HS could be the team that throws a monkey wrench into the final league standings this year. They are not the contenders they once were when they had names like Devin Montgomery and the school was a pipeline for the San Fernando CAVS club team (which one year wound up picking up their entire group of starters, and left San Fernando for the CIF-SS Mission League at Alemany, taking the Indians from last to first in one season). No, this team is a lifetime away from that era at the school. We are not exactly sure who the Tigers have but do know that Dante Kenkins and Terrence Calloway will be on the team and they bring energy and talent. San Fernando always has good players who come over once football is done, so there are a number of players who wind up suiting up for the Tigers who don't get seen in the fall on the court. But after Thanksgiving Coach Oscar Mesta unveils the unknowns and San Fernando always manages a few surprising wins. Matt Nevarez, quarterback on the football team is expected to join the team, and his 6'-4" 200 lb frame will be a welcome addition. The Tigers open at home Tuesday Nov. 26 against USC-Math & Science Magnet, and then will play at the Winter Slam Jam Tourney at Cleveland HS from December 4-9.Van Nuys, like Birmingham in the West Valley League, has been hit hard by players transferring out, which in the case of Van Nuys is sort of a good-news-bad-news scenario. The good news is that not many players return; of course that's also the bad news too, because once again Van Nuys will be building from scratch. Last we heard, 3 or 4 players all went to Canoga Park including an assistant coach. Head Coach Noel Williams, who took over for Kevin Kanemura who left a few years ago to take over at league rival Kennedy after struggling through several losing seasons at Van Nuys after winning a City Invitational title, has been keeping the program together with band aids, thread and a little glue. The Wolves are not going to burn any barns down this season, but they just hope to be competitive. How competitive is the big question for a team that has been used to struggling for so long. It might be another long winter Van Nuys in the win column. Remember, this is a team that a few years ago only managed two wins overall. We hope they don't repeat that dubious distinction.
Pollon's Predicted Order of Finish
3. San Fernando
6. Van Nuys
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Cassini Significant Events 02/09/06 - 02/15/06
February 17, 2006
(Source: Cassini Project)
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, February 15,
from the Madrid tracking stations. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent
state of health and is operating normally. Information on the present
position and speed of the Cassini spacecraft may be found on the "Present
Position" web page located at
Thursday, February 9 (DOY 040):
The Mission Support and Services Office led a discussion on the issues and
processes related to regenerated spacecraft clock/spacecraft event time
(SCLK/SCET) files at the Cassini Design Team meeting. Topics included the
history and current implementation of the SCEGEN software and identified the
current limitations of the system. Further discussion with personnel from
the Spacecraft Operations Office, Navigation, and Radar teams to identify an
updated SCLK/SCET strategy is planned.
Two schools on opposite sides of Canada held complementary Saturn viewing
and Night Sky Watching events on February 9. Students and families at
Airdrie McCall School in Alberta and their partner school in Almonte,
Ontario, participated. There were 20 viewers in the West and 30 viewers in
the East. These events serve to start conversations between the students
about what can be seen at either end of the country. A Saturn Observation
Campaign (SOC) member in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada, coordinated the event.
A member of Cassini Outreach was in Perris CA this afternoon and evening for
a Saturn telescope night at Columbia Elementary School - named after the
space shuttle and the astronauts who lost their lives. Four telescopes were
provided for the event and the kids and one teacher operated them. One
hundred fifty children and their parents attended and observed the moon,
Saturn and the Beehive cluster.
Friday, February 10 (DOY 041):
As in each of the previous weeks of this sequence, part of the time was
devoted to instrument calibration. This week the Magnetometer Subsystem
(MAG) calibrated its boom alignment to check for changes with respect to the
spacecraft axes. Accurate knowledge of sensor orientation is necessary for
magnetic field measurement accuracy.
This was a productive week for imaging of satellites with 76 observations of
16 bodies. Orbit determination images were taken of Atlas, Pallene, Calypso,
Epimetheus, Janus, Helene, Prometheus, Pandora, Telesto, Pan, Methone, and
Polydeuces. A transit of Mimas across Tethys was captured, and Dione and
Enceladus were the subjects of optical navigation images.
Two of the observations this week were quite lengthy. The Imaging Science
Subsystem (ISS) and the Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS)
spent twenty-eight hours searching for a direct observation of lightning in
Saturn's atmosphere. Investigating the sources and nature of lightning on
Saturn can tell scientists more about the atmosphere and wind velocities on
The S20 Science Operations Plan (SOP) Update process completed today. The
product was handed off to the sequence leads for the kickoff of the final
Files were radiated to the spacecraft today to modify an instrument expanded
block file for the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA), and to patch the flight
software for the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). Both files have
been registered and are active on-board the spacecraft. The CDA file will
begin execution on Monday, February 13, and the CIRS file will execute on
Wednesday, February 15.
The Titan 11,12, 13, and 14 preview meeting hosted by the Titan Orbiter
Science Team (TOST) was held today. The main emphasis of the meeting
focused on first time events by the Radio Science Subsystem as well as goals
regarding the atmosphere of Titan.
A Cassini Pyro Valve 40/41 review was held today. This was in preparation
for the Monopropellant Tank Assembly (MTA) recharge activity planned for
April 10, 2006.
Saturday, February 11 (DOY 042):
The annual ACS Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) calibration was performed on
February 11 and 12. This was an ACS-centric calibration, where the
spacecraft turned through large angles. Other calibrations are done
throughout the year, but are piggybacked onto smaller turns. The
calibration executed nominally. The per-axis biases and misalignment errors
are better than the requirements. The next piggyback calibration will be on
July 28, 2006.
Today the Astronomical Observatory in San Juan Talpa, El Salvador, opened
its doors for people to enjoy observations of Saturn. The activity began at
6:30 pm with a Saturn lecture, detailing the latest discoveries of Cassini.
Later people utilized the telescope of the observatory to observe Saturn and
some of its moons. Additional telescopes from some members of ASTRO were
installed on the north terrace of the observatory.
Sunday, February 12 (DOY 043):
On Sunday the Ulysses Project contacted Cassini to ask to use part of our
DSS-14 support to accomplish their commanding. The S-band transmitter at
their own station, DSS-24 had been declared red. After obtaining
concurrence from the sequence leads, Spacecraft Operations Office, and the
Navigation team, Cassini negotiated to use the DSS-24 X-band transmitter to
ensure coherent Doppler coverage for a scheduled reaction wheel assembly
bias activity, and gave up 60 minutes of DSS-14 during 165kbps telemetry
playback. As it turned out, the actual time was from 2006/044-05:29:56 (ERT)
to 2006/044-06:31:23 (ERT). The total outage for Cassini was ~30 minutes.
Spacecraft Periodic Engineering Maintenance (PEM) B was successfully
performed today. This activity "exercised" mechanical parts of the Engine
Gimbal Actuators, and scrubbed the memory in the Backdoor Assisted Load
Format Injection Loader.
The Saturn Observation Campaign (SOC) is alive and well in the Netherlands.
A charter member of the SOC submitted this report of their activities:
"Every Sunday at 5 o'olock we have our Saturn Mission Film, still based on
the Ring World, in our planetarium dome of the Europlanetarium in Genk,
Belgium. After that we go up into the cupola to look with our telescope for
Saturn where I will tell 26th of Feb. about the Cassini-Huygens mission."
Monday, February 13 (DOY 044):
The CDS Command Loss Timer (CLT) Memory Corruption flight software patch was
approved at a change control board meeting today in preparation for uplink
May 8-11. This patch corrects a code error found last September in the
execution of the "set Command Loss Timer" command. The error was discovered
when the CLT was set back for Orbit Trim Maneuver 31. This resulted in data
lost for the Titan 7 encounter. A patch to restore normal operations was
issued on September 15 to correct the then current situation. The delivery
of the patch today fixes the code.
Tuesday, February 14 (DOY 045):
Reference Trajectory update status and plans were discussed today in a
follow-up meeting to the Mission Planning Forum last week. Scientists and
the flight team are narrowing down the options and will make a decision on
which trajectory to select next week.
The radio and plasma wave science (RPWS) instrument on board Cassini has
captured radio emissions believed to come from a large lightning storm that
occurred on January 23 and 24 at Saturn. The sounds are similar to the
crackles and pops one hears on an AM radio during a thunderstorm on Earth.
Those radio emissions were converted into an audio file, and are now
available as a Podcast. To access the files go to:
Wednesday, February 15 (DOY 046):
A file was uplinked to the spacecraft for Radio Science today to power cycle
the Ka-band Translator On/Off and S-Band ON/OFF for testing purposes. The
file has been registered and will begin execution on DOY 050T22:46:59.
A VIMS movie showing a rotating Titan in infrared light is Astronomy Picture
of the Day today.
Check out the Cassini web site at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov for the latest
press releases and images.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a
division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the
Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington,
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27 Women Behind The Scenes Who Made The Biggest Movies Of All Time Possible
Looking at the list of the top 100 highest grossing films ever released, it would be easy to conclude what many studio heads like to tell themselves: women at the helm just don't make money. But, in reality, there is a long list of women who made the biggest movies of all time possible, even if they weren't sitting in the director's chair. Women, despite being historically kept out of the boys club that is Hollywood, have contributed to some of the most important films in history. From box office smashes to history making narratives, women have done it all. They've just rarely been rewarded for it.
Women have always been seen in front of the camera. Thanks to the star system of early Hollywood and the celebrity tradition that carries on today, popular actors ranging from Katherine Hepburn to Scarlett Johansson are sometimes credited with getting movies made, but what about all the women we don't see, ie. the women working behind the scenes as producers, editors, cinematographers, and more? These ladies deserve to be recognized just as much, because, as you'll see below, they've had a serious impact in the movies you've come to know and love over the course of Hollywood history.
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1Kathleen Kennedy — Lucasfilm President, Producer
Kathleen Kennedy has been working as a producer for decades, kicking off her career with E.T. in 1982. She has continued to work with Steven Spielberg over the years, a partnership that has helped her earn eight Oscar nominations for Best Picture. She is currently making waves in Hollywood as the head of Lucasfilm, where she is breaking box office records expanding and diversifying the Star Wars franchise.
2Amy Pascal — Producer
Amy Pascal suffered a major setback in 2015 when she was forced to resign from her position as Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman after leaked e-mails embarrassed the company. However, she is still a major force in Hollywood. In 2017, she helped produce two major motion pictures starring women — The Post and Molly's Game — and she also produced one of the year's box office hits, Spider-Man: Homecoming.
3Patty Jenkins — Director
Patty Jenkins changed the world of superhero movies with Wonder Woman, the first major superhero movie directed by a woman and about a female superhero. The movie topped the box office in 2017, and offered a major course-correction for the DC Extended Universe. Jenkins is currently set to direct the Wonder Woman sequel, and fans have no reason to believe it won't be another major hit.
4Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria — DreamWorks Animation Co-Presidents
Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria have been instrumental in establishing DreamWorks Animation as a major competitor in the animation world. Prior to being named DreamWorks Animation Co-Presidents in 2015, Soria and Arnold worked together to produce hits Madagascar and How To Train Your Dragon. Together, they have made billions for the company.
5Jennifer Lee — Writer, Director
Jennifer Lee is still relatively new to Hollywood, but in five short years, she has already established herself as a hit maker for Disney. Lee wrote Wreck-It Ralph in 2012, a hit she followed up with this little film called Frozen, which she also co-directed. Up next: she's got Frozen 2 in the works and wrote the screenplay for Ava DuVernay's highly anticipated adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time.
6Thelma Schoonmaker — Editor
Thelma Schoonmaker is a three time Oscar winner for a reason. A longtime editor for Martin Scorsese, Schoonmaker has helped craft many modern Hollywood classics, including Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, and even Michael Jackson's "Bad" video.
7Oprah Winfrey - Producer
Oprah Winfrey's credits might seem more elaborate on television than on film, but don't let that fool you. For decades before YouTube unleashed an entire generation of "Influencers," Winfrey was single-handedly shaping pop culture with her recommendations for everything form books, candles, to movies. Recently, her work as a producer with Ava DuVernay has helped shape the conversation about diversity in film and made Selma a hit.
8Kay Cannon — Writer
Kay Cannon is the mind behind the rare original female-driven franchise, Pitch Perfect. After writing on 30 Rock, Cannon wrote her first feature, Pitch Perfect, and solidified a place in Hollywood history. The aca-awesome comedy launched a massively successful franchise that put women on top of the box office and helped producer Elizabeth Banks make the jump to feature director with Pitch Perfect 2.
9Ngila Dickson — Costume Designer
If there's one thing that tied the Lord of the Rings trilogy together, it's the costumes. Ngila Dickson designed all the elaborate costumes of Middle Earth, and even won an Oscar for her work in The Return of the King.
10Tina Fey — Writer, Actor
Tina Fey helped re-define teen movies for a generation when she wrote Mean Girls. 13 years after its release, teens are still quoting lines from the film as if it just hit theaters, and the movie is so popular it even has a recognized Mean Girls Day ("It's October 3.")
11Dede Gardner — Plan B Entertainment Co-President
Producer Dede Gardner has become an awards show regular these past few years, producing hits such as Selma, The Big Short, and last year's Best Picture winner Moonlight.
12Sue Kroll — President Of Marketing At Warner Brothers
Sue Kroll's work promoting Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice saved the blockbuster films from being destroyed by harsh critics. Whether you like those movies or not, you have to admit that Kroll's ability to sell them to an audience despite a heap of negative press is pretty impressive.
13J.K. Rowling — Author, Screenwriter
As the woman who wrote Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling has touched countless industries, including Hollywood. Now making her move as a screenwriter, Rowling is leading the way for another massive Hollywood franchise, Fantastic Beasts.
14Lana & Lilly Wachowski
Lana and Lilly Wachowski (Lilly is pictured above) ushered in a new generation of science fiction lovers and franchises with The Matrix. The Matrix trilogy changed how movies used special effects and CGI, and set the tone for the action movies of the 21st Century.
15Amy Heckerling — Writer, Director
Amy Heckerling might not be responsible for the most lucrative Hollywood movies, but the writer-director behind Clueless deserves all the credit in the world for giving us a definitive film on female friendship and high school romances.
16Jane Jenkins — Casting Director
Casting director Jane Jenkins has helped bring together some of the most iconic casts ever assembled in cinema, including The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Without her, we might not have Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson.
17Janet Hirshenson — Casting Director
Janet Hirshenson has actually spent her career working with Jane Jenkins in casting. Over the years, Hirshenson and Jenkins have worked on clasics like Mrs. Doubtfire, When Harry Met Sally, and Stand By Me. If there was a budding star in their midsts, they'd find it.
18Nora Ephron — Writer, Director
Nora Ephron, the patron saint of romantic comedies, wrote all your favorite movies from When Harry Met Sally to Heartburn. She also wrote and directed You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and Julie & Julia, making her responsible for giving fans one of the greatest rom-com couples of all time in Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
19Diablo Cody — Writer
Diablo Cody absolutely changed the game with her screenwriting debut Juno. Aside from being a box office hit, the movie earned four Oscar nominations — a rarity for movies about teenagers — and won her an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
20Verna Fields — Editor
Steven Spielberg's Jaws is commonly referred to as the world's first summer blockbuster, and editor Verna Fields played a key role in keeping the suspense alive in this shark attack thriller. Her credits include a collaboration with another major Hollywood director, George Lucas, American Graffiti, and Paper Moon.
21Deborah Lynn Scott — Costume Designer
Over the years, Deborah Lynn Scott has contributed her talent in costume design to two of the world's highest grossing films — Titanic and Avatar. She also worked on Back to the Future, so we have her to thank for crafting Marty McFly's signature puffy-vest look.
22Kathryn Bigelow — Director, Producer
Kathryn Bigelow has yet to direct a huge box office smash, but box office numbers pale in comparison to her historic Best Director Oscar win, which made her the first woman ever to receive the award.
23Megan Ellison — Producer
Megan Ellison wasted no time in establishing herself as a major Hollywood producer. Her fourth credit on IMDB is as executive producer on True Grit. Since then she's been an Oscar regular, producing movies like Zero Dark Thirty, Her, American Hustle, and this year's Oscar hopeful Phantom Thread.
24Barbra Streisand — Actor, Singer, Director, Producer, Writer
Barbra Streisand made musicals hot properties again in the late '60s and '70s with Hello, Dolly! and A Star Is Born, but her star power also helped make The Way We Were a romantic classic. Eventually, she wrote, directed, and starred in her very own musical, Yentl, which was nominated for five Oscars. Her snub for Best Director was a huge scandal — somewhat rectified when she was able to give the Best Director Oscar to Bigelow.
25Ava DuVernay — Director, Producer, Writer
Ava DuVernay became a superstar director when her film Selma hit theaters in 2014. Since then, she's become a fixture of Hollywood as a producer, writer, director, and an inspirational figure encouraging young women and minorities to get behind a camera. Her next film, A Wrinkle in Time, earned a $100 million budget from Disney, making her the first woman of color to direct a live-action film on that scale. No doubt this big budget will set the stage for more women and minority directors to break into bigger budget films.
26Nina Jacobson — Producer
Nina Jacobson produced one of the most iconic franchises of our times: The Hunger Games. Jacobson championed a female-led action series, helped launch Jennifer Lawrence into superstardom, and is working to diversify big budget movies with future projects like the upcoming adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians.
27Carrie Fisher — Actor, Writer, Script Doctor
It's hard to imagine Star Wars without Carrie Fisher. As a cast member, she helped make the original trilogy into a massive hit. As a script doctor, she did even more. Perhaps best known for her work in front of the camera and as a writer of books, memoirs, and one-woman shows, it was Fisher's career as a script doctor that shaped countless huge Hollywood movies. Though rarely credited, Fisher is rumored to have worked on many Hollywood hits, including many of the Star Wars films (like the prequel trilogy and the most recent The Last Jedi). Fisher reportedly contributed to movies of all genres, including Hook, The Wedding Singer, Sister Act, and even Coyote Ugly.
There are many other women that have contributed to Hollywood's biggest hits and most beloved movies over the years. Sadly, as evidenced by this list, Hollywood hasn't always done a great job of acknowledging the women that make films possible. Even worse, looking at the work listed here, the huge lack of opportunity for women of color is undeniable. As we celebrate women who made their mark in cinema, let's not forget all the women that have yet to come. | <urn:uuid:1d9a5a89-48ea-4f80-a57b-cf70f6f2a1a8> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.bustle.com/p/27-women-behind-the-scenes-who-made-the-biggest-movies-of-all-time-possible-7701603 | 2018-08-20T22:23:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221217354.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820215248-20180820235248-00440.warc.gz | en | 0.956595 | 2,529 |
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Journalism has been called ‘the first draft of history’, and as a first draft it may be written over, forgotten, ignored. In this podcast, journalist Martin Bright (@martinbright) considers one tiny strand of the story of the Iraq war. It illustrates truth and fake news, things that are very much on our minds at the moment. It is taken from a lecture Martin gave for IF, the free university in London, in its series ‘Thinking Without Borders’ in 2017.
Martin Bright: Let’s begin with the rules of journalism – never befriend a politician, never befriend a PR, never betray a source and never use PowerPoint (though that one I am ignoring….)
I’m going to look at one story that plays its part in the history of the lead up to the Iraq war which you may or may not have heard about. It is a story in which I as a journalist felt I was writing the first draft of history. It’s a story I wrote while working on The Observer [a UK Sunday newspaper] in early 2003. It is a story left out of the reports on the Iraq war (it was not in either the Chilcot or the Hutton reports). It is just a footnote in history, maybe less than a footnote.
It is the story of Katharine Gun, who,in 2003, was working at GCHQ. GCHQ is the third arm of British Intelligence – there is MI6 (foreign intelligence), MI5 (domestic intelligence) and GCHQ (surveillance).
Katharine was born in Taiwan, is a fluent Mandarin speaker, and she spent her days at GCHQ listening to China and deciding what was interesting – Chinese broadcasts, bugged conversations etc. She enjoyed her job, she considered herself a patriot, she didn’t see anything wrong with spying, she felt she was working in the British national interest, for the good of the country.
But she became increasingly concerned about the build up to war in Iraq, she was sceptical, she didn’t think the British intelligence service should be used to further the war aim of the Government.
One day she was working, translating, when she received a memo from the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US. Subsequently, the NSA and GCHQ have become much more high profile institutions since the Edward Snowden leaks (we know a lot more about what they can tap into) but there has always been a close relationship between the two agencies.
In January 2003, we were being told that war was not a forgone conclusion, there were still negotiations going on in the UN and Tony Blair and George Bush were saing that should Saddam Hussein give up his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) there would be no need to go to war. But it was a period of high tension.
There were inspectors in Iraq looking for WMD and having difficulty finding them.
Such was the tension within GCHQ itself that on 24 January 2003, a memo was sent to all GCHQ staff reassuring them that they would not be asked to do anything unlawful (which is interesting in itself since you might expect that to be the case anyway!).
At the same time what is happening in the US is a continuing hardening up of the documents being fed to the US government as to what is going on in Iraq and the weapons Saddam is supposed to have. Then, rather inconveniently, on 27 January 2003, Hans Blix (one of the main weapons inspectors) and his team state that Iraq has no nuclear capacity and has been cooperative. The French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, states that France won’t go to war while inspections continue. So it is getting tricky for those who want to go to war. We also know that there will be a presentation to the UN by Colin Powell to argue that Iraq is in breach of its international commitments.
And while all this is happening, this memo from Frank Koza arrives in Katharine Gun’s inbox, just after midnight on January 31st:
To: [Recipients withheld]
From: FRANK KOZA, Def Chief of Staff (Regional Targets)
Sent on Jan 31 2003 0:16
Subject: Reflections of Iraq Debate/Votes at UN-RT Actions + Potential for Related Contributions
As you’ve likely heard by now, the Agency is mounting a surge particularly directed at the UN Security Council [UNSC] members (minus US and GBR of course) for insights as to how to membership is reacting to the on-going debate RE: Iraq, plans to vote on any related resolutions, what related policies/ negotiating positions they may be considering, alliances/ dependencies, etc – the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favorable to US goals or to head off surprises.
In RT [Regional Targets], that means a QRC surge effort to revive/ create efforts against UNSC members Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea, as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters.
We’ve also asked ALL RT topi’s [Targets of Particular Interest]to emphasize and make sure they pay attention to existing non-UNSC member UN-related and domestic comms for anything useful related to the UNSC deliberations/ debates/ votes. We have a lot of special UN-related diplomatic coverage (various UN delegations) from countries not sitting on the UNSC right now that could contribute related perspectives/ insights/ whatever. We recognize that we can’t afford to ignore this possible source.
We’d appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts who might have similar, more in-direct access to valuable information from accesses in your product lines. I suspect that you’ll be hearing more along these lines in formal channels – especially as this effort will probably peak (at least for this specific focus) in the middle of next week, following the SecState Colin Powell’s presentation to the UNSC.
Thanks for your help
It is worth trying to imagine what effect this must have had on Katharine as she read it.
Some of it is quite technical, and there is lots of jargon (eg ‘product lines’ – that’s intelligence). But the meaning is clear – the Agency is mounting a surge particularly directed at the UN Security Council …… the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favorable to US goals.
You could argue (as some on the right in the US did) that this is perfectly normal. But my job as a journalist is to ask, if people think something always happens – is it right? who benefits?
What offended Katharine Gun is that our intelligence services were being asked to do this on behalf of America. Particularly to gain an edge for the attainment of US goals – there was no talk of British goals. And what were those goals – Peace? Or the rush to war?
A lot of people within GCHQ received this memo and Katharine assumed they would be outraged, especially since they had earlier been assured they would not have to do anything illegal (and it is illegal to spy on the UN). She told me that when she received the memo, she felt sick and had to immediately leave her desk. She felt she was being asked to help fix the vote in the Security Council.
At the time all the talk was about Tony Blair and George Bush attempting to get a second resolution in the UN Security Council in order to authorise war in Iraq and only then would they go to war. So to Katharine it looked like fixing the vote, undermining the democratic processes in the UN. So she assumed there would be a rush of outrage in GCHQ. In fact no one said anything, there was a normalisation of it, a feeling that ‘this is what we do – we work hand in hand with the Americans, they are our allies, so we do what the NSA tells us to do”.
Katharine was so appalled that she took the memo, printed it off, put it in her pocked and took it home.
At this point, this is the story of the undermining of two institutions – the UN and GCHQ. Indeed, as this story goes on it is increasingly the story of institutional collapse.
At the time we were being told the aim was not to invade Iraq but to disarm Saddam Hussein. What our intelligence services were supposed to be doing was safeguarding British interests. What the government might have argued at the time was that being hand in glove with the Americans was in the British interest. However, we were being told that whatever it cost, however difficult to do, we were trying to verify if Saddam Hussein was really a danger to Britain (not the US).
The problem with Katharine’s argument is that there are signed international agreements that lock GCHQ and NSA into a partnership on these matters, so it may be the case that we are locked into doing this, but the difficulty is that we, the British public, have no way of accessing that – they are secret agreements.
More to follow.
Picture: Iraq Pre-War Protest 2003 by Senor Codo
Music: Suspense#2 by Peritune(Royalty free music)
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|Quotes and Thoughts|
A programming language is low level when its programs
require attention to the irrelevant. - Alan J. Perlis
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Please submit neat ideas or thoughts about tools, techniques and resources you love or hate.
There's been a ton of feedback about ways to preserve random bits of information. Carl Peterson wrote:
Olav Haugan sent this:
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David Fernandez Pinas's approach is:
Jeanne Petrangelo wrote:
Mike Skrtic channels Windows 3.11:
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After my review of the Analog Discovery USB scope, Brent Knecht sent in this warning:
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An astonishing number of SCADA systems are vulnerable.
Are there only four companies capable of making the most advanced chips?
Free book on analog design.
|Best C Book?|
Greg Feneis wrote wondering what is the best C reference? He likes Teach Yourself C, Second Edition by Herbert Schildt (1994) and wonders about C11 books.
My go-to references are the C99 standard itself, and K&R's The C Programming Language, Second Edition. What are your favorites?
The embedded compiler vendors I've spoken to say that they don't plan to support the new C standard for at least a couple of years.
|The Seven Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Developers|
Here are a few ways of maximizing your job security through proper dysfunctional design and management of your next embedded project.
Make promises you know you can't keep. This cardinal rule is most effective when applied to scheduling. It's notoriously difficult to create a schedule that is accurate, so don't worry, be happy, wing it.
One perfect indicator of an impossible schedule is that sick feeling one gets in the gut when moving Pert chart triangles around in an effort to meet marketing's arbitrary deadline.
When you find yourself fudging data to meet expectations you know you're on track to mastering the art of overpromising. When you whisper lots of "maybes", "I hopes", and "ohmygods"; when miracles are expected and required, then your overpromising skills are truly in the upper percentiles of the dysfunctional.
The most dysfunctional development groups have perfected this to a fine art, at times even bursting into loud guffaws when management requests a schedule or a progress update.
Never limit your overpromising practice to schedules! Embedded systems are singularly subject to the merits of overpromising on system performance. Always promise that a 1 MHz 8051 will suffice. Always promise data transfer rates that press the state of the art.
Defer Hardware Issues
Sometimes the most frustrating part of getting your code to work is making it interface to the system's hardware. There's no sense in getting upset at the beginning of a project when you know that the end will be a disaster anyway, so always defer dealing with hardware requirements until you've written many thousands of lines of hardware-dependent code.
Though modern C compilers are quite efficient even at handling low level tasks like talking to the hardware, proper convoluted design requires writing all drivers in assembly language. Minimize documentation and maximize obfuscation to enhance your job security.
The hardware engineers will surely be happy to respin the board design as often as required, especially if the changes are requested within a week of final delivery.
When it's time to assign blame, remember that modern FPGA design means the hardware is now just like the software - it's never done.
Ignore Real Time
Never address real time issues until the night before delivery. Deferring performance problems, in particular, will assist in following the previous rule (Defer Hardware Issues), particularly if your code is so slow you'll have to replace the 8051 main CPU with a quad core Pentium-class machine.
Some of the most successful dysfunctional developers have managed to create systems without an RTOS, and then convince their bosses to shoehorn the RTOS in only at the last minute.
Be sure to convince your boss that no commercial RTOS is quite right for your application. Writing your own will fill many a lonely evening. Customers will delight in finding the subtle bugs sure to be left behind in the final executable.
Since an application that is properly segmented into multiple tasks differs so much from the standard stream of consciousness approach, shoehorning an RTOS into your system late in the game will potentially add years to the project and to your job security.
Use lots of global variables. Every module should be dependent on variables from every other module.
Make use of today's powerful tools which impose no penalty for the use of huge include files. Define every variable within the include file, so you won't have to worry about remembering which one is used where.
It doesn't hurt to use cryptic naming conventions as well, to obfuscate the origin and influence of each global. Since the monster include will define variables with the most limited scope, yea even unto loop counters, remember that standard practice calls for expanding the old FORTRAN practice of naming temps. Use the names "i", "ii", and (my personal favorite) "iii", just appending "i"s as needed to create unique labels.
Ignore the precepts of modern object oriented software design, which requires that variables be encapsulated within the functions that use them. Anyone who has done a complete OOP embedded project realizes just how much thought and planning is required to do so correctly.
Take the easy approach now, since you know you'll be debugging forever anyway. Remember that "maintenance" is nothing more than an abstract concept touted by overpaid programming gurus, since most software never makes it to the field anyway.
A frequently overlooked benefit of globals is their profound influence on your personal job security. Creating alarming numbers of dependencies in your code surely leads to the company being forever dependent on your skills.
Software is complex. Few of us will ever understand a chunk of code over 50k lines. Bear in mind that software consultants tell us we should keep functions under a page as that's all the average programmer can comprehend.
Since the history of the industry shows us that most software folks just start writing the code before bothering with a detailed design, it's clear that functions will always exceed a page. Sometimes the length of a single function may rival War and Peace. Given this fact, it seems unlikely that we'll ever understand the code anyway, so just go ahead and crank out C. As fast as possible.
Besides, since the firmware will surely take longer than expected to complete, it's best to get started immediately.
Most embedded systems run into trouble during debugging. One common problem includes synchronizing with external hardware. The wise practitioner will include a delay routine, whose input parameter is a delay time in arbitrary units. Sprinkle calls to the delay liberally into all hardware-centric activities. Tune the delay parameter until the unit works (working is the only measure of success).
UNIX programmers are intimately familiar with the concept of a "magic number". We should extend it to all aspects of embedded code. A particularly appropriate place for magic numbers is in the programming of complex peripheral chips. Be sure, though, to add comments as required. For example:
outp(0x3ab2, 0x33); /* program port */
Modern debugging tools promote our lack of understanding of deep problems. Once, when an edit-compile-debug cycle took hours, programmers were careful to be sure they had considered all possibilities before fixing a bug. This is no longer required. As soon as a problem surfaces, change something - anything - and recompile. It'll take but a few seconds, and with luck the change just might have the desired effect.
Tuning the code with magic numbers and poorly thought out bug fixes enhances your career prospects. Quit and become a consultant to your old company, and enjoy many years of bountiful income from additional tuning and hacking.
A quick glance through the literature shows hundreds of ideas for improving software productivity. Code inspections, methodologies, design reviews, and the like are the darlings of the gurus.
But all are boring. All take time away from the thrill of coding, the excitement of debugging, and the roller-coaster-like terror of watching deadlines flash by.
The Software Engineering Institute defines the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), which gives five levels of software maturity, as follows:
5. Optimizing - Characterized by Continuous Improvement. The organization has quantitative feedback systems in place to identify process weaknesses and strengthen them pro-actively. Project teams analyze defects to determine their causes; software processes are evaluated and updated to prevent known types of defects from recurring.
4. Managed - Predictable. Detailed software process and product quality metrics establish the quantitative evaluation foundation. Meaningful variations in process performance can be distinguished from random noise, and trends in process and product qualities can be predicted.
3. Defined - Standard and Consistent. Processes for management and engineering are documented, standardized, and integrated into a standard software process for the organization. All projects use an approved, tailored version of the organization's standard software process for developing software.
2. Repeatable- Intuitive. Basic project management processes are established to track cost, schedule, and functionality. Planning and managing new products is based on experience with similar projects.
1. Initial - Ad hoc and Chaotic. Few processes are defined, and success depends more on individual heroic efforts than on following a process and using a synergistic team effort.
Clearly, though, level 1 is far too high of a standard for the most defective development projects. Fortunately Captain Tom Schorsch of the U.S. Air Force realized that the CMM is just a subset of the true universe of development models. He discovered the CIMM - Capability Immaturity Model - which adds four levels from 0 to -3:
0. Negligent - Indifference. Failure to allow successful development process to succeed. All problems are perceived to be technical problems. Managerial and quality assurance activities are deemed to be overhead and superfluous to the task of software development process.
-1. Obstructive - Counter Productive. Counterproductive processes are imposed. Processes are rigidly defined and adherence to the form is stressed. Ritualistic ceremonies abound. Collective management precludes assigning responsibility.
-2. Contemptuous - Arrogance. Disregard for good software engineering institutionalized. Complete schism between software development activities and software process improvement activities. Complete lack of a training program.
-3. Undermining - Sabotage. Total neglect of own charter, conscious discrediting of peer organizations software process improvement efforts. Rewarding failure and poor performance.
Strive for level -3 compliance to maximize project duration and thus your own job security.
Abandon all discipline when the end of the project draws near.
If, perhaps though mistaken non-observance of the preceding rules, you happen to have employed software standards, or code reviews, or a scientific design methodology, be sure that as soon as the boss cranks up the pressure you drop all pretense of careful engineering. Just crank that code!
After all, we know that pilots, when late in pushing back from the gate, always decide to skip the take-off check list.
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A wife asks her engineer husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk? And if they have eggs, get six."
A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk and no eggs. The wife asks him, "Why did you buy six cartons of milk?!"
He replied, "They had eggs."
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from the upcoming and untitled book about Northwest Missouri
Lightning Strike, Skunked, and Following the Thresher
By John W. Hutchcraft of Union Star, Missouri
I was born in DeKalb County, Missouri and lived my first 9 years about two miles northeast of Union Star, Missouri on the Davis sister’s farm. I am the oldest of seven children, five sisters, and one brother.
We had no electricity until I was 8 or 9 years old. Our radio ran by large dry cell battery. On Saturday night, my parents always listened to the Grand Ole Opry from Nashville. My father also liked Gang Busters, Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Mollie, Duffy’s Tavern, and Sam Spade. I learned to tell time, because the Lone Ranger came on radio Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at 6:30 and the Cisco Kid was on Tuesday and Thursday evening at 6:30.
The telephone hung on the wall and had two large dry cell batteries in it, which were changed once a year. We had a party line phone and 10 or more people on the line, with each home having a particular ring. If you wanted to talk to the telephone operator in Union Star, you turned the crank on the side of the phone for one long ring and she would answer.
One evening my parents were out choring and I being about 5 years old, decided to visit with the operator, so I called her. She was not interested in visiting with me, as she had other calls to handle. Sometime later that evening she called my parents and told on me. After my parents finished with me, I knew not to do that again.
I used to get on the stairs, just out of my mother’s reach, and mock her while she was on the phone. She would get mad at me.
The phone bill in those days was paid once a year. They called it “central dues,” and it amounted to $12.00 a year. The manager of the telephone exchange, Link Graham (a short, jovial man with a cigar he never lit), would bring out new telephone poles each summer. The farmers would get together and replace any broken or rotten poles and cut the brush out of the telephone lines. When it rained, the two steel lines would ground out if they touched wet trees or brush. In bad weather, the switch had to be thrown on the side of the phone or the lightning could come in and blow the phone out. My mom was throwing the switch when lightning struck and it came in and knocked her down when it hit her.
As we had no electricity, my mother had a wringer washing machine with a gas engine to run it. My mother’s long hair got caught in the wringer while she was using it to get water out of the clothes. She could not quite reach the release on the wringer to disengage it, so she pulled on her hair to try to stop the engine, but it would not stop running. She finally reached the release and was able to stop it and pull her hair out. She hurt so bad she cried like a baby. Due to my young age, it scared me and I was no help at all.
My father had a faded blue 1930 Model A Ford car. It was a coupe with rumble seat, which I was allowed to sit in, if the weather was warm. I did love to sit back there.
We had no running water or bathtub. We used an oblong, galvanized tub, which was hung on the back of the house when not in use. Saturday night was bath night and hot water was heated on the wood stove, later a kerosene stove, in teakettles for our bath water. Oh, was that metal tub cold!
In the 1940s and ‘50s, Wednesday and Saturday nights were “Town Nights,” especially Saturday night. In Union Star, there were four grocery stores, 3 produce houses, and two implement dealers who stayed open until 11:00 or 12:00 PM midnight. There were also three gas stations that sold “regular” for 19.9 cent and “ethyl,” or (high test) for 21.9 cent per gallon. If there was a “gas war” going on the prices got cheaper. Main street would be parked full of cars. People would be to the show first, and get their feed and groceries later. In summer, there would be many people on the town sidewalks visiting.
Before Union Star built a theatre, we would go to King City on Saturday night to either the Lucille or the Royal Theatre. Union Star built a new movie theatre around 1949 about two doors west of John & Etta Pickard’s grocery store. Pete and Toots Gallagher operated the movie theatre for several years. It had first-class projection equipment, and fine movies. The movie would be run twice for those who arrived late.
Some of the special people in my life, besides my parents, were our neighbors that my father traded farm work with at harvest time. They included Alvin and Pearl Lindley, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ashler, Floyd and Esther Terry, Ern and Lula Gillip, Charley and Katherine Davis, Orrin and Nellie Aborn, and Charles and Florence Saddler.
Threshing time in July was something a kid looked forward to. There was one threshing machine in the community that belonged to Oscar Angles. He would go from farm to farm to thresh wheat and oats. All the neighbors would congregate at the designated farm on threshing day. It took many hands, and hard work to get the job done, and when you finished at one farm, everyone moved on to the next farm until everyone’s wheat or oats were threshed. It took many days to do this. I always knew that we would eat well on threshing day. All the neighbor women would get together and cook while the men were out in the field. Fried chicken, potatoes and gravy, green beans, corn, lots of pies and also iced tea and lemonade in big crocks were the usual fare offered at these gatherings. I was too small to help thresh, but I got to ride on the bundle wagon, which picked up the shocks of grain and hauled them to the thresher. This would have been in the mid-1940s by the time, I was old enough to help, but we had an Allis-Chalmers combine.
My father and one of his brothers, Preston, followed the corn harvest one year in the 1930s up into Iowa. Dad said they were paying 3 cent per bushel to shuck corn in Missouri and when they got into Iowa, they were paying 6 cent per bushel to shuck. Dad said, “We thought we had died and gone to heaven.” A man could shuck 90 to 100 bushels of corn a day on average. When they followed the harvest in the evening, they would ask a farmer if they could sleep in his barn. If they were not near a barn, they sometimes slept in a haystack provided the weather was good.
Before we got electricity, we had a homemade icebox. Twice a week, my father had to get a 50-pound block of ice to keep it cold. The catch pan under the icebox had to be emptied every day, as the ice melted.
We always had cats and dogs as pets. One spring when my father was plowing, he hit a nest of skunks. The mother was killed, but the four or five baby skunks were not. The babies did not have their eyes open yet. My father brought them home and put them with a mother cat that recently had lost her kittens. The mother cat adopted the babies and raised them as her kittens. My sister and I played with these skunks until they were grown. As they were not de-scented, we were careful not to hurt them. When they were half-grown, one of them got its paw caught in a rattrap in the chicken house. I, being 5 years old, knew better than to try to get the skunk out of the trap myself, so I talked my mother into getting the skunk out of the trap. Mom got the skunk out of the trap, but she got liberally sprayed in the process. She washed her long, dark hair in milk, tomato juice, and vinegar, but she could not get the smell out of her hair. She finally had to get her haircut.
There were three teachers who were very special to me in school. My 1st and 2nd grade teacher, Miss Ada Stratton, who taught at Union Star for 16 years, was a very kind, sweet person. Mrs. Persis Kennedy Courter taught 3 years at Union Star and was my 6th, 7th, and 8th grade teacher. She cared about her students and made sure they learned. I did not care much for school until I got in her class. Mr. Keith Christie was the high school coach at Union Star from 1958-1960. He was a good Christian man that I will never forget. My senior year, Mr. Christie encouraged me to go out for track, and he made a miler out of me. I was able to qualify for the sectionals and go to Maryville, Missouri to compete. I did not win first place, but it was a good experience. | <urn:uuid:a1fe3b45-1d2e-4490-ad5c-c638d182063c> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://hometownmemoriesonline.com/excerpts-from-selected-books/94-lightning-strike-skunked-and-following-the-thresher | 2018-08-16T16:37:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221211126.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816152341-20180816172341-00600.warc.gz | en | 0.991195 | 1,977 |
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (Jan. 24, 2015) – The U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team clinched a spot at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup with a 2-0 victory against El Salvador in its playoff match at the 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.
Ben Spencer scored a first-half goal and Paul Arriola added a tally in the second half to help the USA advance to its 14th appearance at the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which takes place May 30-June 20 in New Zealand. The tournament draw will be held Feb. 10. With the win, the USA earns third place for the qualifying tournament.
The U.S. U-20 MNT capped off the tournament with four straight shutout victories to clinch its World Cup berth. Goalkeeper Zack Steffen came up with a clutch penalty kick save early in the second half against El Salvador to maintain the USA’s one-goal lead at the time.
Earlier Saturday, Honduras defeated Guatemala 2-1 in the other playoff match to clinch a World Cup berth. Later Saturday, Group A winner Panama and Group B winner Mexico competed in the title match of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship. Mexico earned its 13th CONCACAF title at this age group, defeating Panama 4-2 in a shootout after playing to a 1-1 score line in regulation. Heading into the match, both teams clinched a berth to the U-20 World Cup by winning their respective groups.
Romain Gall scored five goals in the tournament and shared the golden boot honors with Mexico's Hirving Lozano. Gall and Shaquell Moore were also named to the CONCACAF U-20 Championship All-Tournament Team. The USA as a group won the tournament's Fair Play award.
Sixteen of the 24 spots are now set for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup:
- CONCACAF (4): Mexico, Panama, Honduras, USA
- AFC (4): Korea DPR, Myanmar, Qatar, Uzbekistan
- CAF (4): Teams qualify from the 2015 African U-20 Championship
- CONMEBOL (4): Teams will qualify from the 2015 South American Youth Championship
- OFC (2): Fiji, New Zealand (host)
- UEFA (6): Austria, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine
Goal Scoring Rundown:
USA – Ben Spencer, 37th minute: After a slow first half that featured just one USA shot up to that point, the USA capitalized on a set piece. Emerson Hyndman took his free kick from the right side and found Spencer in the middle of the box, Spencer’s header struck off of the crossbar. The U.S. striker followed his own rebound, heading the ball back in from eight yards out into the upper left corner of the frame for his second goal of the tournament. USA 1, SLV 0
USA – Paul Arriola, 68th minute: Second-half sub Junior Flores had an immediate impact with the attack down the right side of the box, dribbling near the end line and crossing in for Bradford Jamieson IV who one-timed his shot. Carlos Cañas reacted to make the save, and the ball bounced to Arriola above the box. Arriola followed with a left-footed shot that trickled past two El Salvador defenders and Cañas and into the net for his first goal of the tournament. USA 2, SLV 0 (FINAL)
Key Saves and Defensive Stops:
SLV – Carlos Cañas, 13th minute: El Salvador’s defense had to back track on a USA counter attack, led by Emerson Hyndman’s through ball to Romain Gall. Gall’s touch was a tad too heavy and Cañas read the sequence well, rushing up from his line and disrupting the U.S. offense near the top of the box to clear before Gall could get a shot off.
USA – Zack Steffen, 52nd minute: El Salvador did not have a single shot through the first half, but the team earned a penalty kick chance when the USA committed a hand ball in the box. Jose Villavicencio went to the spot, and Steffen dove to his right for his biggest save of the tournament. El Salvador did have a corner kick chance afterward, but the U.S. eventually cleared.
SLV – Carlos Cañas, 62nd minute: Off of Emerson Hyndman’s free kick from the right, he drove the ball over to a lunging Matt Miazga who headed the ball from 10 yards out. Cañas deflected the shot just enough as the ball clanked off of the crossbar.
- The USA moved to 4-3-1 all-time against El Salvador in this tournament. Saturday’s win also marked the third time in the past seven CONCACAF U-20 Championships that the U.S. directly clinched a FIFA U-20 World Cup spot by virtue of a victory against El Salvador. The previous meetings clinched berths to the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup .
- For a third straight game, U-20 MNT head coach Tab Ramos went with the identical lineup as the USA’s Group A wins against Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.
- Zack Steffen earned his fourth cap of the event with the start in goal.
- The defense featured John Requejo at left back, Shaquell Moore at right back and the center back combination of Cameron Carter-Vickers and Matt Miazga.
- The midfield of the USA’s 4-4-2 formation included Tommy Thompson on the right, Romain Gall on the left, Russell Canouse at defensive midfield and Emerson Hyndman in the attacking role. Canouse wore the captain’s armband for the fourth time in the tournament.
- Ben Spencer and Bradford Jamieson IV were paired up front together for a fourth-straight match.
- During a 42nd-minute attacking sequence, Spencer collided with El Salvador goalkeeper Carlos Cañas, forcing medical staff to take a look at his leg. Spencer was able to trudge through the remainder of the half, but Ramos utilized his team’s first substitution to open the second half, bringing in Paul Arriola.
- Junior Flores entered the match in the 62nd minute for Gall, the USA’s leading goal scorer with five tallies in the tournament.
- The USA’s final substitution was Lynden Gooch for Hyndman, who was receiving attention from the medical staff shortly after the U-20 MNT’s second goal.
- El Salvador played the final 12 minutes and stoppage time down a man when Andres Flores was called for an intentional foul from behind against the USA’s Junior Flores in the 79th minute.
- The USA outscored its opponents 14-2 during the qualifying stage.
- Hyndman led the team with three assists.
- Carter-Vickers and Requejo played in all 540 minutes of six games at the tournament.
- Heading into Saturday night’s final of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship, Gall is tied with Mexico’s Hirving Lozano for the tournament goal-scoring lead with his five goals.
- Gall has nine-career goals with the U-20s in 14 international matches.
- U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team Match Report -
U.S. U-20 Men’s National Team vs. El Salvador
Date: Jan. 24, 2015
Competition: 2015 CONCACAF U-20 Championship; Playoff
Venue: Montego Bay Sports Complex; Montego Bay, Jamaica
Kickoff: 5 p.m. ET
Weather: 81 degrees, light rain
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA 1 1 2
SLV 0 0 0
USA – Ben Spencer 37th minute
USA – Paul Arriola 68
USA: 1-Zack Steffen, 2-Shaquell Moore, 3-John Requejo Jr., 4-Cameron Carter-Vickers, 5-Matt Miazga; 16-Russell Canouse (capt.), 8-Emerson Hyndman (18-Lynden Gooch, 70), 9-Romain Gall (10-Junior Flores, 62), 11-Tommy Thompson, 19-Bradford Jamieson IV, 20-Ben Spencer (7-Paul Arriola, 46)
Subs Not Used: 12-Ethan Horvath, 13-Tyler Turner, 14-Conor Donovan, 15-Fernando Arce, 17-Amando Moreno
Head coach: Tab Ramos
1-Carlos Cañas; 2-Nelson Moreno, 4-Bryan Tamacas, 12-Cesar Flores (20-Romilio Hernandez, 46), 17-Juan Barahona; 6-Narciso Orellana (capt.), 8-Alvaro
Guardado (16-Eduardo Merino, 65), 9-Byan Perez, 11-Jose Villavicencio (19-Julio Amaya, 85), 14-Andres Flores; 15-William Canales
Subs Not Used: 5-Edwin Cuellar, 10-Josue Martinez, 13-Jonathan Miranda, 18-Nicolas Pacheco
Head coach: Mauricio Alfaro
Stats Summary: USA / SLV
Shots: 9 / 5
Shots on Goal: 3 / 2
Saves: 2 / 1
Corner Kicks: 6 / 2
Fouls: 25 / 17
Offside: 2 / 0
USA – Ben Spencer (caution) 38th minute
SLV – Narciso Orellana (caution) 38
SLV – Eduardo Merino (caution) 71
USA – Tommy Thompson (caution) 73
USA – Cameron Carter-Vickers (caution) 76
SLV – Andres Flores (sent off) 79
Referee: Fernando Guerrero (MEX)
Assistant Referee 1: Juan Rangel (MEX)
Assistant Referee 2: Garnet Page (JAM)
Fourth Official: John Pitti (PAN)
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Nearly a decade ago, California policymakers, facing a frightening future of shriveling snow packs and rising seas, created the nation’s most aggressive program to combat global warming.
The 2006 law mandated broad reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Now, as the deadline approaches, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts. They are crafting emissions-reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 that will be far more difficult to meet. One bill seeks to slash petroleum use in vehicles to levels not seen since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.
Yet as the debate continues, a number of questions remain unanswered. Among them: Will other states or nations follow California in pursuing deep emissions cuts? Will California be able to meet the new targets, and if so, how? What are the total costs and benefits of the programs? How much will the price of gasoline and electricity increase?
Here’s some of what we do know:
- The state has emerged as a global leader in fighting climate change, despite producing only about one percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. It has created a dizzying array of programs to cut pollution, from reducing the carbon content of motor fuels to capping emissions at large factories.
- The 2006 law, Assembly Bill 32, established a goal of cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emission to 1990 levels by 2020. To meet that goal, emissions need to fall by six percent between 2013 (the latest year for which figures are available) and 2020. Brown and other political leaders expect that to happen. However, emissions have fallen only slightly since 2009, when the recession ended.
- An executive order issued by Brown this spring would reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. That will be much harder to achieve. Over the 10 years leading up to Brown’s deadline, emissions must fall up to seven times as fast as during the preceding decade. And emissions would have to fall another 40 percentage points by 2050 if a bill currently before the Assembly passes.
- Cutting emissions brings costs. To date, consumers in the state have seen an estimated three to five percent rise in electricity rates, and are paying about an extra dime per gallon of gasoline, due to specific climate-related programs. Going forward, a study by a San Francisco consulting group found that deep emissions cuts by 2030 could carry costs of up to $23 billion yearly. That figure could go higher by 2050, according to the group, which did not tally the health benefits of cleaner air or the climate benefits of lower emissions.
- Despite the pioneering policies, emissions have fallen more slowly in the state than in the rest of the nation. Greenhouse gas emissions in California dropped by 7 percent from their peak in 2004 to 2013, compared to 9 percent nationwide over the same period. Reducing emissions is harder here because the state’s economy is already relatively energy-frugal.
When AB 32 passed, establishing the nation’s first broad plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists hoped the action would touch off a revolution. The target established by the law was ambitious, especially considering the continuing population and economic growth. It built on an earlier groundbreaking bill to reduce the greenhouse gases in car exhaust.
“We realized under AB 32 and the car bill, we’re not just talking about polar bears and arctic ice caps but this was real impacts to California,” said Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, an author of both bills. Melting mountain snows, rising seas, and poor health resulting from warmer temperatures — all resonated with Californians, she said.
At a signing ceremony for AB 32 on San Francisco’s Treasure Island, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that major nations like Mexico, Brazil, China and India would join the fight against climate change. So would the federal government.
“Trust me,” Schwarzenegger said to applause, as international flags fluttered behind him in the breeze. “I am convinced of that, that this will happen, because nothing is more important than protecting our planet.”
Change did not come as swiftly as Pavley and Schwarzenegger had hoped. Democrats and some Republicans in Congress tried to pass a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions nationally, but it failed. Pavley’s effort to clean up cars’ tailpipes did eventually become the basis of a national policy. But federal rules on climate change still lack the breadth of California’s. Nations like China and Brazil have also moved slowly, at least until recently.
But the state has forged ahead, still hoping to sow inspiration beyond its borders. To stop climate change, the whole world — not just California — must participate. As Brown travels to the Vatican this week and to a major United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December, he will surely argue that if one of the world’s largest economies can slash emissions, others can too.
A kaleidoscope of programs has arisen to accelerate California’s shift to a clean economy. The broadest and perhaps most controversial of these is a cap-and-trade policy, which subjects the state’s most-polluting companies to a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions and allows them to trade credits to pollute. The California Chamber of Commerce has challenged the legality of a key feature of the program. The state has prevailed so far, but the lawsuit is working its way through an appeal.
Other policies for cutting greenhouse gas emissions include a requirement for most electricity providers to get 33 percent of their energy from renewable source, such as wind farms and solar arrays by 2020, and a low-carbon fuel standard that requires producers of fuels like gasoline and diesel to make their products 10 percent less carbon-intensive by 2020.
Many other programs also exist, including goals making buildings more energy efficient, increasing the number of electric vehicles and maximizing the use of public transportation.
These rules, arcane and complex, remain largely invisible to Californians. But they result in slightly increased prices, notably at the gas pump, where economists say the cap-and-trade program has added roughly a dime to each gallon since the beginning of this year. Electric bills are also rising. The state’s Public Utilities Commission estimates that electric power rates have increased by three to five percent due to the renewable energy requirements.
“I wish we could mark on a nice spreadsheet the incremental cost for every regulation,” said Tupper Hull, vice-president of the Western States Petroleum Association.
It is difficult to find companies that have left the state specifically because of climate policies, as opposed to California’s broad basket of regulations. But industry groups and their advocates predict this will happen in the future, as policies grow stricter.
“Energy cost in the state will necessarily rise, and that will create challenges for retaining employment,” said Robert Wyman, Jr., a Los Angeles-based partner at the firm Latham & Watkins, who represents many business clients. He argues that California’s system of interlocking policies has made compliance more expensive than it would be under a single, market-oriented system, like cap-and-trade.
California officials do not know how much their climate rules have cost or saved. The Air Resources Board, the state regulatory body that oversees the greenhouse gas reductions, stated in a key document last year that the law’s impact on economic growth remains unknown. Some years earlier, a knot of studies estimated that California’s gross state product could see anywhere from a 1 percent gain to a 2.2 percent decline as a result of AB 32. The models differed in their assumptions, such as how they forecast the pace of technological change.
Proponents of AB 32 say that in addition to cleaning the air, the law has contributed to a vibrant clean-energy industry that is innovating with startling speed. A survey released in December by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute, an environmental organization co-founded by the billionaire and clean-energy activist Tom Steyer, found that employment in the state’s clean-energy sectors like solar and wind, along with nuclear and natural gas electricity generation, rose by five percent over the prior year. Another recent study, funded by the environmental innovation nonprofit Next 10, argues that using less gasoline (as electric and hybrid cars make possible) should free up spending and create jobs.
Mary Nichols, chair of the Air Resources Board, noted in an interview that jobs and investment are increasing in California. “We look at that happening at the same time that the cap and trade program has been in effect and we say, “‘What’s the problem?’” she said.
The long-term future of California’s greenhouse gas programs lies in two bills that have passed the state Senate and are being evaluated this summer by the Assembly.
Senate Bill 350 aims at three pieces of the energy puzzle — petroleum, electricity and buildings. It seeks to cut petroleum use in motor vehicles by 50 percent (a very difficult target, analysts agree), boost electric utilities’ reliance on renewable energy to 50 percent, and double the energy efficiency in buildings – all by the year 2030.
Senate Bill 32 would require the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by mid-century. It would codify into law an executive order issued by Schwarzenegger, a step that helps ensure that the goal is binding. The long-term targets are drawn from international climate science: If large nations cut their emissions that sharply, scientists believe it can limit the world’s warming.
What programs California will use to meet these tougher targets remains uncertain, though Democratic political leaders stress that they will bring more green jobs to the state and reduce unhealthy air pollution.
“Unless we do something, our economy will be severely damaged,” said state Senate leader Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, who co-authored SB 350. “The public health of our children will be severely impaired.”
An illuminating view came from a study this spring by Energy and Environmental Economics (E3), a San Francisco-based consulting group hired by the state to evaluate future greenhouse gas reductions. To reduce emissions by 26 to 38 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — a level not quite as ambitious as the 40 percent reduction recently ordered by Brown — the group forecast a range of results, from savings of $8 billion to costs of $23 billion per year. (E3’s projections are in 2012 dollars.) A cut of 33 percent by 2030 could cost about $50 per Californian per year, the study found.
To meet those future goals, the model incorporated some technologies only minimally in use today, such as increased reliance on renewable diesel, according to Amber Mahone, director of climate policy analysis at E3. It also assumed that new or expanded regulations would be needed. For example, the analysis factored in more capture of the potent greenhouse gas methane from manure at California’s dairy farms, a sector that, for now, largely falls outside mandatory regulations.
The impact of reaching the tougher targets of slashing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels, the E3 study found, could range from a savings of around $15 billion to costs of almost $100 billion yearly, under a scenario in which emissions fall at a steady rate. This projection is highly uncertain, Mahone emphasized.
On the human level, modeling by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, an analysis firm, found that the cap-and-trade program could raise gasoline prices by 22 cents a gallon by 2025, though there is an outside chance of prices increasing by as much as 50 cents a gallon, according to Colleen Regan, a senior analyst with the firm for North American power and environmental markets. However, Californians should need less gas as cars become more fuel-efficient or electric.
Many of these numbers are hazy predictions. What is clear is that meeting long-term targets will be difficult.
In the words of a state plan on climate change released last year, “Progressing toward California’s long-term climate goals will require that greenhouse gas reduction rates be significantly accelerated.”
Not only must the emissions reductions come faster in the future, but the reductions may also be harder. That is evident already. California has not been able to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as the nation in recent years, as a comparison between state and federal inventories shows. Indeed, the data hint at difficulties ahead. Gasoline sales are ticking up. Emissions have been largely flat since falling steeply in 2008-9 as the recession hit, though state officials and outside analysts expect that future reductions, brought about by programs just starting to have an impact, will be sufficient to meet or exceed the 2020 goals.
“On greenhouse gas emissions, California has always been an A student,” said Ashley Lawson, a senior carbon analyst at Thomson Reuters. “So to perform any better, you have to work really, really hard to go from an A to an A plus.” The rest of the country, which is replacing coal-fired power plants with less-polluting natural gas plants, “was able to go from a C to a B, with almost no effort at all,” she said.
Critics like the Chamber of Commerce say that the drastic emissions measures planned for the future could harm the economy and take away jobs. Supporters counter that past sky-is-falling projections have not come to pass, and that technological innovation is speeding up.
When Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, above the howls of industry groups, electric cars had barely begun to hit the roadways, and a rooftop’s worth of solar panels cost more than a year at a private college. Prices have fallen rapidly since then, and California is getting cleaner.
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In the sunshine there’s nothing I love more than packing a picnic and sitting outside – whether at the beach or in the park. It’s pure bliss. Sadly during the most recent warm weather I’ve been incredibly busy so haven’t had time to get my picnic hat on BUT that doesn’t mean I’ve not thought about it! For my ultimate afternoon of picnicking I would require the following:
Homemade coronation chicken and a crusty French stick. AKA the food of the gods. Somehow this simple dish is like food heaven for me.
Leftover sausages. Preferably Bombay Bangers from the butchers in my parents village. Exceptionally tasty, even Lau (recent sausage convert) would agree.
Quiche or some form of eggy pastry. Goats cheese and egg puff pastry parcels are equally as scrumptious as a Quiche Lorraine.
Mint jelly sandwiches. Accompanied by some form of meat obviously, chicken, lamb or beef I’m not fussy. The mint is the key item in here.
Pesto and mozzarella rice. Literally those three ingredients, although Mary Berry’s pesto dressing is preferable to a jar of pesto. Scrumptious.
Cake. No preference on which. Just some form of cakes loveliness please.
We’ve been in our rhubarb and custard kitchen for over three years now and it’s not really changed at all since we moved in. The fundamental bits and bobs are all the same, the only real difference is that we’ve got a new toaster – a shiny red one, not one of those cheap white plastic ones – and a few more homey items. Like our (my) Russian doll measuring cups and our super colourful Knickerbocker Glory glasses. Even though we don’t NEED anymore bits and bobbins in our kitchen – we have everything you could possibly need plus a few things you don’t (chalk and a lemon squeezer to name two things) – I still find myself browsing for things online. There are so many lovely bits and pieces around that I just know would make our kitchen an even lovelier place but I just can’t be flexing the credit card at the moment. So instead I’m adding them here, that way when I have a smidge more money I have a handy shopping list all in one place – genius you say!
I’m going to start this post by explaining that my nickname when I was younger was ‘the strawberry queen’ because I could never get enough of strawberries – I still can’t in fact. I used to spend summer’s sitting in our garden’s strawberry patch devouring the fruits and I’m quite certain that no one else ever got a look in! So when I had to come up with a dish for our Guilty Pleasures evening I knew straight away that strawberries would have to be involved, but one problem: strawberries don’t make me feel guilty. Cream on the otherhand is another matter and suddenly I had the two main ingredients for my dish. And let’s be honest once you have cream and strawberries then Eton Mess is the only logical option.
This recipe couldn’t be easier as I used shop bought meringues – I did think about making my own but timing was a factor and I was feeling lazy. So instead it was shop bought all the way. as for the method, here’s what I did with my three ingredients; meringues, whipping cream and strawberries.
halve the strawberries and crush the meringues – I used 2 punnets of strawberries (800g) and 4 meringues.
next use an electric whisk to whip the cream into peaks, be careful not to over whisk and split the cream. Once whisked fold the strawberries and meringue into the cream.
Voila you have yourself one super summery pudding.
P.S. – Meringue is definitely something that I’m going to try making sometime soon, my dream is to be able to make those giant meringues with the swirls of chocolate and strawberry syrup running through it.
P. P.S – on a side note my nicknames now range from Lozzle, Lauraloo and Lozzleberry. I think I prefer the strawberry queen!
Before I launch into the recipe for these biscuits I just need to tell you of my total obsession for oatmeal and raisin cookies. It all started back in 2007 when I was on my five month once-in-a-lifetime travelling trip around the world. When we were on our America leg there were Starbucks’ on every corner (and in every airport), as we had very little money left by that point we frequented them a lot (it’s super cheap and you can spend hours there). Once of my discoveries at Starbucks was their version of oatmeal and raisin cookies – they are literally amazing! In the space of six weeks I must have eaten about 50 of them. Ever since that time I’ve been trying to recreate them, as sadly the same version aren’t available in the UK – sad times indeed. I’ve not had much luck, although these cookies are scrumptious and yummy, they aren’t quite on a Starbucks level. But hey I still wolfed down four in one sitting, so they can’t be all that bad!!
Oatmeal and Raisin Biscuits
The other great thing about these cookies is they are one of those amazing recipes that can be created in advance, then frozen and sliced up when you want them. So in theory you can make a roll and then just slice off two cookies at a time (yeah because that’s going to happen in reality isn’t it!?!?). Anyway the biscuits are from a Good Food recipe which you can find here, or you can just look below. To make these yummy morsels, you will need:
I’m a big fan of lemon cake and it’s one of my main choices when I’m having cake out (FYI the lemon polenta cake at Carluccio’s is absolutely delicious and beautifully zesty), but considering my love for this type of cake I really don’t make it enough! This needs to be rectified asap and so we’re starting with this scrumptious recipe, which is from Lorraine Pascale’s Fast, Fresh and Easy Food cookbook. I made this cake a few weeks ago when we had a night with our lovely friends. The premise of the night was ‘Guilty Pleasures’ so we watched classic films like Jerry Maguire and Step Up and ate cheese, bread, pastry items, Eton Mess, Dutch Apple Cake, etc. My contribution to this amazing spread was Lorraine Pascal’s Lemon and Lime Poppy Seed Cake, which everyone needs to make in their life. It really is scrumptious, soft, zesty and refreshing. You can’t not love it I promise.
When I sat down to do a monthly update on what we’re we’ve eaten and what new things we’ve baked over the last month, I was a little shocked to see that we haven’t posted anything new this month. Oops. This reads like all we’ve done this week is eat jacket potatoes and cheese or takeaways, which is only half-true I promise! In fact this month has been fairly busy and has seen us out and about a lot so our eating out list is fairly epic. We’ve also been trying some new bits and bobs, which we’ll be posting about iminently, I promise. So the month of June looks a bit like the below in terms of foody fun!
London delights: Zizzi’s for lunch, Pizza Express for dinner (both have good GF menus don’t you know!), The Serpentine Bar and Kitchen for scrumptious steak sandwiches (read about a past visit here), Leon for their fabulous sharing dishes, a family farewell dinner at Carluccio’s – I could literally just live off their gnocchi, it’s that good. Lau also headed to the Udderbelly Beer Garden and Belugo’s at Waterloo and I made another pit stop to both Pizza Express for a ‘healthy’ pizza and also Giraffe. I think the stand out delight in our eating month had to be Del’Aziz in Clapham Old Town, the food, decor and atmosphere were all absolutely perfect!
Other UK hotspots: A picnic in the shadows of Bath Abbey, Dinner at the Hop Pole, a delightful country pub in Limpley Stoke, Sandwiches in Marlborough and pre-theatre sandwiches on The South Bank
New foodie discoveries: Having ignored them for years we’ve both fallen hard for iced coffees this month. I know this isn’t massively exciting BUT for two non-coffee drinkers up until December this is an amazing discovery. Since first tasting them on Saturday, we’ve consumed five between us….
Things that have outraged us this month: the discovery that our Aussie cousin thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to eat ice cream and hot custard together. Yes really. I mean what the hell is that about. I’m actually concerned that we are related.
A couple of weeks ago I was having a bit of an obsession with soup. I think it was because the weather was miserable, but all I fancied eating was something warm, filling and different. That’s the best thing about soup there are so many different flavour options. Anyway with my soup I wanted bread, bread to smother in butter and dunk into my leek and potato or country veg. I therefore decided to make some rolls that could go in the freezer, that way I could take a couple out in the morning and enjoy them warmed up in the evening with my soup. Now we all know that I like to make loaves of bread, but i’ve actually never made rolls. How is that possible you ask? Well put simply, I like what I know, so I do what I know. End of story. Anyways I scouted around for a roll recipe and found a Morning Rolls recipe in one of my favourite DK books.
I decided to keep the rolls quite small so that I could have a couple at a time, rather than one big one. The size was similar to a snooker ball and made 18 if that helps you work out what you want to do sizewise.
500g white bread flour
2tsp light soft brown sugar
7g fast-action dried yeast
Place all the ingredients in a bowl. Add 275ml of tepid water to form a soft dough.
Knead for 10 minutes, then place in a lightly oiled bowl and leave in a warm place to double in size – about 1 hour.
Turnout onto a floured surface and knead briefly. Divide and shape into equal shaped balls. Place these onto oiled baking trays and leave to rise for 30 minutes.
Place in a preheated oven (200C) for 20 minutes. They should be brown on top and sound hollow when tapped.
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Viet Nam News
by Mai Hương and Hoàng Sơn
Five big State-owned corporations will conduct initial public offerings (IPOs) in the first quarter – Bình Sơn Refining and Petrochemical (BSR) on January 17, PV Oil on January 25, PV Power on January 31, Việt Nam Rubber Group on February 2 and EVN Power Generation Corporation 3 (EVN Genco 3) on February 9.
Market insiders give their forecast on the IPO prospects, market-absorption capacity and impact on the Government’s equitisation process this year.
In focus: Economist Nguyễn Trí Hiếu says the Government should focus on essential sectors.
Nguyễn Trí Hiếu – economist
I have an optimistic outlook for these five IPOs. The sentiment on the securities market is now strong with the VN-Index reaching more than 1,000 points. In addition, three energy companies – BSR, PV Oil and PV Power – play an important role in Việt Nam’s energy sector.
In fact, five companies floating a mammoth volume of shares in the short term could affect sales success and create lower selling prices, but this may not be an obstacle thanks to the attractiveness of these five corporations to foreign investors keen on investment in Việt Nam, especially those from South Korea interested in oil and gas.
Before making a decision, foreign investors often conduct due diligence activities to study the target company’s financial state, performance and development prospects. This is an important process. The second most important factor is the price. In any market, price will determine the attractiveness of the goods. Việt Nam’s overall P/E market is about 20x while P/E of BSR’s shares stand at about 10x, which values its shares at VNĐ23,000-25,000 (more than US$1) each. BSR is offering shares at the initial price of VNĐ14,6400 per share, lower than the price the market may accept.
I think five companies will offer prices lower than the market, which is favourable for the IPOs. Among five corporations, Việt Nam Rubber Group will likely be less eye-catching due to poor profits. However, this can be offset by the potential growth of the rubber sector. Rubber is an essential material for the car industry and Việt Nam has the advantage of growing and processing rubber.
The success of these five IPOs would create a big impetus for the Government’s equitisation process this year. This process should be accelerated as soon as possible. In principle, the Government should withdraw investments and focus on sectors that are very essential to national security and social welfare. What the private sector does is its own business.
Prospects are good: Andy Ho – VinaCapital Chief Investment Officer, says Viet Nam is now on foreign business radars.
Andy Ho – VinaCapital chief investment officer
We believe that the prospects for these five IPOs will be good. Some will be oversubscribed (there is already some indication that BSR is oversubscribed by 3x) while others might be slightly undersubscribed. With oil prices rebounding, the two companies in the oil and gas sector (BSR and PV Oil) should attract a fair amount of interest. Obviously, if the Government can sell its shares at prices significantly higher than the minimum price, then the IPOs will be even more successful.
We don’t think there will be a problem with absorption as Việt Nam is now on the radar of many foreign investors, who bought $1 billion in stocks last year. Institutional demand, whether strategic or financial, is solid as seen with Sabeco and Vinamilk. There are also indications that institutional financial investors continue to be bullish on Việt Nam, with high subscriptions for a couple of the IPOs scheduled for January. Retail investors are also optimistic about the market as recent IPOs have done well and they think the new IPOs could do the same. Moreover, these IPOs are each in the hundreds of millions dollar, not billions, and in the context of the stock market, these are not too large, given that liquidity is now more than $200 million a day. Good companies will always get absorbed.
These will set the tone for the rest of the year. If they are successful, then other upcoming IPOs will be more likely to be successful, and vice versa. Also from the Government’s perspective, if these IPOs go well, it may give them the impetus and motivation to push harder on equitisation plans (that is, doing more IPOs) because the momentum and pricing are good.
Nguyễn Minh Ngọc – director, Corporate Finance Division, Bảo Việt Securities
Nguyễn Minh Ngọc
Considering the number of State-owned enterprises that have been equitised, the period 2003-06 could be seen as a boom period when more than 2,600 SOEs were equitised. However, in terms of quality, we saw only medium and small-sized enterprises, even micro-sized ones, equitised. After a nearly 30-year period of equitisation, the remaining SOEs that need equitising have changed in quality. There may not be many of them, but they are mainly the core businesses of the economy with large scales of capital and total assets.
Therefore, I think that the upcoming five IPOs will draw the attention from domestic and foreign investors and improve the local market sentiment. Both foreign and domestic investors will see these IPOs as golden opportunities to own big core businesses, so they definitely will not miss these chances. In addition, the foreign money flowing into Việt Nam in 2017 that helped the country’s foreign exchange reserves last year reach a record level of $50 billion, mean a large amount of Vietnamese currency has been pumped into the financial market by the State Bank of Việt Nam absorbing that amount of foreign currencies, creating large spillover effects for the Vietnamese economy.
These are the IPOs of industry-led companies that have good fundamentals and positive business prospects. With total market capitalisation amounting to about $7.8 billion based on their initial IPO prices and the post-IPO share listing in accordance with Circular 115/2017/TT-BTC, these five companies will be among the top largest companies by market capitalisation. Their listing will help increase the amount of high-quality goods for the market and draw more foreign capital into the Vietnamese securities market.
So far, the volume of pre-order share purchases for BSR and PV Oil has exceeded by two to three times the number of shares offered for sale, proving that both domestic and foreign investors are highly interested in the upcoming IPOs. In addition, after the Government’s recent successful divestments of Vinamilk and Sabeco and positive investor sentiment in the securities market, we believe that these IPOs will be successful.
In recent years, IPO, listing and divestment of SOEs have been sped up. Such movement has attracted capital from both domestic and foreign investors, increased high-quality goods for the securities market and contributed to the growth of the Vietnamese securities market. Based on our market observation, after large-cap companies undertake their IPOs and list shares on the stock market, they will move positively and create good impacts to drive the market up.
Although the upcoming IPOs are large in scale compared to the history of SOE equitisation, they are still small compared to other deals in the world and are absolutely affordable to foreign investors. This is not a big concern for them as they are highly attracted to large-scale core businesses that have great roles and impacts on the economy. I am optimistic that foreign investors are very interested in these opportunities.
Investors, however, should be cautious with large-cap stocks pumped into the market in 2018 that would require a large amount of capital to absorb. As a result, a large number of stocks would become less favourable by investors and no longer on the priority lists of large funds. They would be sold out and their prices would fall.
But I think there would be more positive than negative impacts on the securities market from those deals because stocks whose share prices could fall do not account for a large part of the market capitalisation. And more importantly, the economy and the market are still in the growth stage, thus, the investment funds will still be able to mobilise more financial resources to go after those deals.
As we know, Việt Nam’s foreign exchange reserves have reached a record high of more than US$54 billion, including a significant increase of foreign capital flowing into the securities market. By the end of November 2017, foreign indirect investment flowing into the country had reached $5.29 billion, an increase of 58 per cent over the same period in 2016, not to mention the $5 billion earned from the Sabeco share sale.
The success of the upcoming five IPOs will bolster the equitisation of the remaining SOEs in 2018. Big investors, both foreign and domestic, will see this as a golden opportunity to dominate the Vietnamese economy. In addition, strategic investors will have favourable policies if they make investment in SOEs whose equitisation plans for 2018 have been approved, than taking part in these five IPOs and previous deals.
According to Decree 126/2017 on SOE equitisation, strategic investors will be able to sell purchased shares three years after the deal is completed instead of five years as before. The quality of strategic investors will also improve as a strategic investor is required to have operated for more than two years as an organisation and have no accumulated losses. These requirements will create strategic investors with higher financial capability, improve the performance of the equitised SOEs and reduce risks for minor investors.
However, the signal of improvement is not likely to come from equitised SOEs and from those that the Government wants to continue divesting. It is the internal and external factors that make business attractive to investors. — VNS | <urn:uuid:ed0fd388-8e09-4905-8e6d-b202ecff0704> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/421314/strong-start-for-2018-equitisation.html | 2018-08-20T07:34:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215858.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820062343-20180820082343-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.961966 | 2,141 |
It’s nearly four o’clock in the morning and I am not quite ready to sleep. I have an article that I want to write. That I should write. That… I might not write until… well, at least after this. This is my treat to myself. I’d like to think that maybe I’ve deserved it.
Last year was really difficult. Or rather, the year before were really. It’s been that way for quite some time.
Life has hit me hard. The top photo was actually taken during a relaxed moment last year… before it all happened.
After it all happened.
Same difference right? Heh.
The inside kitchen wall of my then loft just outside downtown but not quite in an artist colony might make me look like a bit of a hard ass criminal. Rest assured, that is not true. You can even check my record if you’re curious. The funny thing, however, is that I seem to get the criminal label quite frequently. Confused? Read on and hopefully you will understand a bit more.
There is a quote by Butch Patrick (aka Eddie Munster) which just sort of stuck with me since that first time it came into passing:
“I may be little but I’m odd.”
At four foot, ten inches in stature this rang true for me on all sorts of levels. It’s been the blessing and curse that has followed along beside me each step of the way.
I could potentially have to go into labor tomorrow. This pregnancy has been an abundance of surprises and complexities. A test tomorrow at 1 will determine our fate. So why the hell am I even awake at this hour?
My exes would lead you to believe I’m crazy. The entourage of potential clients in the background might believe that I might be…
And I think about how much different my life is today than it even was yesterday. Reeling back to a month ago. To six months ago. To a year ago. To two years ago.
And so on.
And so on.
“You wanted this.”
I found scrawled on a piece of paper.
I didn’t know it.
I didn’t plan it.
But it was likely there… waiting.
Like that first day I saw my son on that screen.
In the following months that would come into fruition after that night I finally got the guts to leave I would be amazed at the wonders of the heart. Of the wonders of all of those around me. Complete with their flaws as well as their peaks.
Nearly a full
day week has passed since I started to write this draft. My doctor’s appointment has come and gone. Thankfully I am not typing this from a hospital bed. I’m still at home on my computer… thinking about how to tell those potentials that I might not be available for a week or two to talk, plowing through Amazon looking at strollers and car seats (that won’t be here until after I have my son thanks to crappy customer service and shipping deception), thinking about the next few days hours… and enjoying a bit of the quiet and introspection.
He’s going to be here soon.
I was glowing as I left the appointment. I am excited. My doctor let me decide when I’m going to be induced. Due to the complications with this pregnancy (of which I feel has been about the entirety and theme of it), I have one
week day maximum before he must make his exit.
It all started a couple of weeks or so ago when something just seemed a bit odd. I didn’t know what it was and I barely mentioned it to my doctor. Why the heck was I itching so much? Was I just nervous? Surely it wasn’t all those nonexistent hikes I’ve been going on.
I was told that I have some uncommon liver issue that makes my son’s exit necessary or I could potentially lose him. They call it cholestasis. Feel free to click the link and read about it further if you dare. I won’t be boring you with all the nitty gritty medical details.
My due date wasn’t for several weeks. I remember joking about it during my pregnancy how funny it would be if he came before/on Halloween. And now? Well, hopefully he will. I go into the doctor later tonight in hopes of potentially having that Halloween baby.
The debatable crazier part? I might be alone.
Even crazier? It’d be my choice.
Papa bear will not be present. I didn’t give him specifics nor will I. After he’d told me several times about how he wished this baby not to exist, I fought with my heart to tell him anything more beyond my diagnosis and planned induction. Hours left to go and… I still wonder if not telling him more than that is the right decision. But I can’t be stressed to think about it more than that. It’s admittedly somewhat selfish but after all that has happened, this is a special moment going to be shared with the one person who always (didn’t know) wanted him to exist.
Yesterday I was talking to a friend about my upcoming birth. He asked me how I was going to get to my appointment tonight.
“I’ll take a bus. No big deal.”
He seemed baffled by this.
“No one is taking you? Who is bringing you home?”
“I had offers but it’s not that big of a deal. I can get a bus there. My friend is going to pick me up since she has a car seat already and mine hasn’t come in the mail yet.”
He wouldn’t let me do that. He offered to take me. So did others. I wasn’t going to take any of their offers. I was ready to do it alone. I feel like I have been alone for a majority of this pregnancy anyway. I’d made peace with it.
But I caved.
“Well maybe we could get dinner or something before I go in?”
“Ha. What do you want for your last meal?”
“Poutine. And maybe some [famous named] ice cream.”
“We should post a FB invite for people wanting to have dinner before you pop!”
I couldn’t really go that far.
And while poutine is magical, there’s still a part of me that wonders if I should just take the bus. I have some wonderful people around me and… I just think I want to be alone.
Going back to how things were once upon a different time ago…
Last year I turned 30. My then best friend moved up North to Seattle and… I nearly almost moved there myself. I was doing fantastically. The year before that had been.. an absolute nightmare.
(I haven’t talked to her much since I got pregnant. She has mysteriously disappeared from contact…)
Most people enter their thirties and freak out. I did the opposite. So much so that I remember that last airport train back when someone asked me about my boyfriend back home and I was glowing when I answered.
“I don’t need one.”
That was, of course, before I met bear.
Fast forward to a few months later. To coffee shop visits in the early morning and later to that day I let this guy I knew help out with some work around the office. (With results so disastrous I had to fire him only an hour later.)
“That’s your boyfriend isn’t it?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
To the yearly Halloween party at The Studio Bar.
(I wish I had those pictures.)
Greg and Janet (pictured below) host the most amazing holiday parties every year. Little did I know it at the time but the man I brought to that party (dressed as Hi from Raising Arizona) would be the father of my future child. And while I wasn’t dressed as a cop to that party, perhaps the baby part was the one thing missing from that costume. Lord knows that I could imagine that’d be the look on his face when our son (not named Nathan Jr) would have garnered from him if he… actually was going to be present.
But that’s the way life goes. It’s unscripted. And as much as these past couple of years have had their down points, there has also been a tremendous amount of glory in it all.
And maybe that’s why I fight so much.
I get a lot of flack on a nearly daily basis for why I stay here in Los Angeles despite all of the hardships and struggles. During my pregnancy I was told by several people (including and especially family) that I should just “move away and be a better mother” and that staying was “selfish” of me. I get talked down to like my choices are that of some sort of criminal constantly. I have learned who my real support system is. Who my real friends are. Who… I was wrong about. Who… my REAL family is.
So why is being an individual with out of the box ideas something to criminalize? Why does society constantly feel a need to punish those who are educated in ways of… perhaps the full effect.
(I swear I showered and am not a hippy.)
It’s a constant struggle with the world to tell them to… just open their damn eyes.
When my children were here this summer we analyzed the word “monster.” Our Disney experience was filled with laughter as I asked them why they were not scared of people like Sully from Monsters Inc.
“Because monsters aren’t real mommy.” they told me.
“Oh but they are.”
They didn’t understand. I talked a bit more about it with them.
“Monsters are real people. They can be anyone. They can even be me or you.”
“Everyone has a monster living inside of them. It’s not always a bad thing. But anyone is capable of being a scary horrible monster. It’s a choice. “
Later in their visit, my father would start talking down to me condescendingly in front of them. I said the word again.
The kids understood.
The same could be said about this criminal complexity. Anyone can get the title just like anyone could be a criminal. (Or so at least the Joker tried to prove ala The Killing Joke)
Being an actual criminal though is a choice.
There is so much magic in this world. There is also so much disaster. Our society has not “grown up” much as we’d like to think.
We are embedded to think that different is bad. That it must be squashed, medicated, criminalized, and otherwise reprimanded.
But then there are some lucky, wonderful, amazing people who see through the bullshit and know better. And these are my friends. They are the music makers. They are the dreamers of the dreams. They are part of my inspiration to keep going towards these dreams and why I am closer and closer everyday to actualizing them all into reality.
One by one.
Day by day.
It’s all happening.
All because I’m making it happen.
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Prior to any data collection endeavor, it is advisable to test the response of the airspeed sensor through the entire span of the measured quantity. Such procedures are followed on equipment installed on commercial airliners and private airplanes. In this article, a general method is presented, which can be used in a DIY context.
Moreover, a test rig is presented and a simple design for a pressure source is proposed. Finally, an example data file for the calculations is provided.
During a basic Pitot probe calibration, the total and static pressure ports are pneumatically connected to a test instrument. The instrument applies a sequence of pressures and records the corresponding airspeed readings. More elaborate test equipment also simulate the variation of static pressure with altitude and temperature.
Moreover, after a period of time has passed since the initial calibration, it is necessary to verify that the equipment under test performs the same over the full operational region.
To minimize test equipment cost and complexity, in a DIY fashion, only the really basic tests will be carried out. The test procedure will verify the correct functionality of the software/hardware solution for airspeed measurement.
Setting up the requirements
For demonstrational purposes, we will apply the test procedure to an imaginary Pitot probe linked to a differential pressure sensor, whose measurement range is 12,5 mBar or 1250 Pa.
This is a reminder of the IAS definition:
Using equation 1, it is possible to calculate the following table.
This table represents the ideal relationship between measured differential pressure and indicated airspeed.
To personalize your table, you can use the provided experimental.xls spreadsheet.
We record samples of input differential pressure and the corresponding Pitot IAS. The mean of the pressure measurements and IAS measurements will be recorded on a table and used during the acceptance test.
After a complete test run, we get a table similar to the Table 2.
An important part of testing is to source a stable platform, or test rig, that allows us to work in a comfortable way.
Furthermore, a reasonable criterion to define the test equipment requirements is to do so based on the required Pitot probe performance.
In this case, we require:
- Static pressure range: 130 000 Pa to 90 000 Pa;
- Differential pressure range: 5000 Pa;
- Pneumatic connections should avoid condensation to reach reference manometer/s;
- The rig should allow the operator to 1) Connect the static with the total port; 2) Insulate pressure ports; 3) Drain condensation;
These requirements are incorporated with the DIY requirement
- Reduction of part count and overall cost
The proposed test rig layout is shown in the Figure 2.
Test rig operations
Until now we’ve talked about testing the airspeed sensor, neglecting all practical aspects. A brief description of the actual operation is presented. The connections to reference instrumentation and to airspeed sensor are based on a widely used layout: the five valve manifold or instrumentation manifold.
At the beginning of test procedure all valves are closed.
The first operation to be accomplished is the connection of the reference differential pressure manometer and the pressure ports of the Pitot tube. The total pressure port should be connected to the (+) line as well as the instrument high pressure port.
Commonly used sensors have a very little internal volume. The connection of a pressure line, which essentially is the insertion of a plastic tube to an instrument nipple, will cause a sudden rise in the internal pressure. To avoid the sudden pressure rise, the “bypass” valve should be left open during the whole operation.
– If already present condensation should be removed, open valves “(+)” and” (-)”.
– Then open “(+)” and “reservoir” valves and unscrew the piston knob to the full back position.
– Close “(+)” valve.
– Connect instruments and close the valves ”(+)””(-)” and “bypass” , open the “air” valve.
Now it is time to zero your reference instrument. This is a function available on almost all digital instruments, refer to manometer manual for details. After zeroing, the differential pressure reading should be exactly zero.
Turn the piston knob clockwise to reach the desired test differential pressure.
Once the test pressure has been reached, close the “reservoir” valve. This operation is essential to avoid problems with piston leaks.
If your reference manometer is capable of taking “average” measurements, then only wait until the desired number of samples has been collected and note the average value. If your reference manometer logs only the current value, then carefully note the desired number of samples and compute the average.
Do the same to get IAS measurements.
Repeat the procedure for the next test pressure point: open the “reservoir” valve and turn clockwise the piston knob to increase the pressure. As you see, the procedure is quite simple, but some precautions should be taken during the design and use of the test rig.
Pressure lines should not be made of flexible material. This will avoid the risk to have a pressure reading modified by the variation of line volume. A short flexible pressure line segment can be acceptable, but it is recommended to use a high thickness tube. Good construction materials are metal and rigid plastics; do not use silicon tubing.
- The drain lines outlet must be below any other point of the pneumatic circuit. Drain lines routing should not obstruct the flow of condensation. A minimum slope of 5° is recommended.
- Pressure lines connections of each instrument should lie on the same plane.
- All components of the test equipment and the equipment under test should be placed in the test room a few hours before the test.
- Turn on the pitot electronics and the reference manometer at least one hour before the test procedure.
- The electronics used to power and operate the Pitot probe should be the same as those that will be used during normal operation.
- Work in a room with a mild temperature, around 20 °C is a good value.
Test rig design
The precedent pneumatic circuit can be implemented using every kind of standard valves, tubing and fittings available on the market. The material of these components is not important, as long as it does not deform. The test rig on the next picture has been made of stainless steel. In the past the author used plastic drip irrigation components.
Every component, except from the pressure source, is available in regular hardware stores. Initial design guidelines do not allow for the use of an electronic pressure controller. These devices can be directly driven by a micro-controller to provide a closed loop regulated pressure (page 2) and are the best choice for a fully automated operation.
Since requirements for the calibration rig included low cost and manual calibration then this device have been replaced by a simple hand-operated piston.
Since the test rig should be suitable for Pitot probe and altimeter calibration, we should select the desired maximum altitude and airspeed. Let’s assume that we want to calibrate an altimeter up to 3000 meters Using the barometric altitude formula <BAD link> we can estimate that our cylinder should be capable of generating 70 kPa, starting from an air pressure at 101,325 kPa.
Alternatively stated, this is a variation of pressure of -31,325 kPa. If we set the maximum calibrated airspeed to 50 m/s, using the basic pitot formula we require a variation of pressure of .
At this point, you should take the higher differential pressure value, which usually is the altitude differential value, and use that as your requirement.
Now that we have the differential pressure requirement, let’s increase this value by a 1,5 safety margin factor. In our example case this corresponds to 46988 Pa.
Afterwards, we need to estimate the volume of the pneumatic circuit. You only need to take in to account the volume of the tubing between the piston and the pressure tap. We don’t need any precise calculation of the internal volume of valves or any other minor volume; A rough estimation is enough. Let’s assume that we are using a tube with an internal radius of 3e-3 m and with a length lt of 0,4 m. We can calculate the approximate pressure line volume
Note that the piston assembly in figure 4 is provided with a knob that can accurately move the plunger back and forth. It is possible to increase or decrease the pressure in a very smooth manner. To relieve the O-ring from friction is a good idea to lubricate the piston internal surface. If you use a nitrile O-ring a good choice for lubricant is silicone grease.
Let’s assume an internal piston diameter D of 21 mm.
So what is the piston stroke L needed to reach the required pressure?
When the plunger is moved, the volume of the air in the pressure line is changed, consequently the pressure changes. Let’s assume that this process is adiabatic: no heat is exchanged with the environment.
We define as the initial air volume and as the final air volume. The air has a molar mass of 28,96 and heat capacity ratio of 1,4. is the pressure of air with volume and is the pressure of air with volume . To determine the piston stroke length, we calculate the maximum differential pressure that under the adiabatic compression assumption and using the gas law we get:
Launching “adiabatic.sce” Scilab file, and setting an initial value of 25 mm for full stroke lenght value, we get
P1 Initial pressure 101325 Pa
P2 terminal pressure 224582 Pa
Maximum differential pressure 123257 Pa
Differential pressure after one knob turn 4371 Pa
Table 2 “adiabatic.sce” output
We previously mentioned that our differential pressure requirement was , so the selected stroke is suitable for our requirements.
Such a simple model does not account for piston leaking; this problem will not affect calibration as long as the “reservoir” valve is shut off during the pressure measurements.
For a comfortable use of the test rig oversize L to compensate for leaks. This way, there will be no need to refill the piston with atmospheric air during a basic calibration cycle.
Another parameter to set is the plunger screw pitch. This corresponds to the desired pressure variation per knob turn; too high a value can lead to a piston which is really uncomfortable to operate. A good initial value seems to be 2000 Pa per knob turn, . That leads to choosing a piston with an internal diameter around 15mm.
By no means is a pressure difference of 5,5Pa per degree of knob rotation is a hard requirement.
A piston with 21 mm of internal diameter has been used with no loss of operator comfort. For easier operation, use a big knob diameter, the bigger the better.
Reduction of the internal diameter leads to increase of the piston stroke, in order to achieve the desired pressure range. A graphical representation of sizing parameters relationship is found in figure 7.
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Full review of the Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD lens.
The Sony A580 and Sony A900 were used for this review. For a better understanding of terms and methods used in this review, go here.
The usual center, mid-section and corner crops are located at the very bottom of the page.
For a comparison of the Tamron and Sony 70-300mm lenses, go here.
Tamron introduces a “high-end” 70-300mm telephoto zoom lens with features such as their new “USD,” or “ultrasonic silent drive” focusing, and “VC” or “vibration compensation” for Canon and Nikon, but not available in the Sony mount since Sony cameras have sensor-shift image stabilization. This lens is very similar to the Sony 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6 SSM G in both outward appearance and optical quality, and is almost half the price of the Sony. However, Tamron skips the focus limiter switch and focus hold button that Sony includes. You can use the Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD on full frame or APS-C cameras. Is the Tamron as good as the Sony “G” version? Keep reading!
The Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD has a good build quality, even though it uses mostly plastic on the outside, except the mount, which is metal. Fit and finish are above average, with the finish in typical Tamron speckled black, and matches Sony DSLR camera bodies perfectly. This lens sports a focus distance window, (no DOF scale), a rubber ribbed manual focusing ring at the back, (closest to camera), a rubber ribbed zoom ring at the front with focal length marks at 70mm, 100mm, 135mm, 200mm, and 300mm. Also included is an AF/MF switch on the left side to turn off the USD. Tamron claims the use of two “LD” (low dispersion) elements in the design of the lens; one plain “LD” and one “XLD” or extra-low dispersion element. The lens says “made in China” at the back of the zoom ring.
Zooming is smooth, with proper dampening, and won’t extend out if carried hanging down off your neck. There is no zoom lock. Zooming adds 2.0″ or 51mm to the length of the lens.
EXIF focal length data reads correctly at all zoom marks.
In the box is the lens, front and rear caps, plastic petal type hood, and owner’s manual.
Focusing. This lens has a quiet motor inside to provide focusing, (similar to Sony’s SSM) and doesn’t use the slot-screw type system that’s typical for older lenses from Minolta and Sony. The USD focusing system features instant AF over-ride, meaning if the camera doesn’t focus on what you want, you can re-adjust by turning the focus ring, you don’t have to turn off the AF system. All focusing is done internally, so your polarizer and graduated neutral density filters will stay in the position you originally set them in. The focus ring turns about 160°, which allows precise manual focusing, although that’s tough at longer focal lengths unless using Sony’s live-view focus check. Focusing accuracy is a little disappointing on the Sony A580, but better on the A900, your results may vary depending on your camera and lens calibration settings. Focusing speed is a little slow on the Tamron as compared to Sony’s SSM on the70-300mm G lens.
Requisite product shots.
General information and specifications.
Optical qualities summary.
Lens flare/ghosting. Good control, and about the same as the Sony 70-300mm SSM G. I see some small multi-colored blobs when the sun is in the image at an angle, mostly at the short end.
Light fall-off. Very light on APS-C cameras, moderate amounts on full frame wide open. See samples below.
Color fringing (CA). Lateral color fringing control is above average, and not noticeable unless you look for it. See example farther down the page.
Bokeh. Good at shorter focusing distances, shows rings at longer focusing distances, see examples below.
Color. Seems about the same as Sony lenses.
Close up filter. N/A
Regular filters cause almost no additional light fall-off.
Filter size. 62mm. Other Sony lenses with this size are: CZ 16-80mm, 16-105mm, 18-200mm, 18-250mm, 24-105mm, and the 70-300mm SSM G.
Distortion. Minor to moderate barrel and pincushion, depending on focal length, see samples below.
Distortion is not a problem when using APS-C cameras. There is a little barrel distortion at 70mm, but zooming to 80mm flattens it out for the most part, then minor pincushion up to about 135mm, where is seems to stay steady all the way to 300mm.
Bokeh looks somewhat smooth at shorter focusing distances, and shorter focal lengths. At longer focusing distances you see a ring around the blurred highlights, especially at the long end. Bokeh is the character of out of focus highlight blur, and not simply how far out of focus the background is.
Light fall-off samples.
Light fall-off using APS-C cameras is negligible.
Aperture/focal length guide below.
Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD
Sony 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6 G SSM
The Tamron 70-300mm is a third of a stop faster on the short end. Sony drops the aperture faster than the Tamron as you zoom out.
Let’s check out the macro capabilities of this lens.
The sample shot was taken with the Sony A 580 16.2MP camera, so don’t compare it with some others that were taken with the 12.2mp A700. The subject is a standard US stamp, 0.87″x 1.0″ or 22mm x 25mm. Also, note the macro shot was taken as close to the subject as focusing allowed; in this case a very long 49″ (1.24m), measured from the front of the lens barrel to the subject.
I see a very lack-luster close focus shot, exhibiting poor contrast and a general lack of resolution. Fortunately, this performance doesn’t carry over to longer distances! Click for cropped image, 365k. The best shot was at F/8, F/5.6 was noticeably worse. As a side note; the “1996” on the bottom left of the stamp measures a mere 1mm wide.
Full frame results using the Sony A900.
Check out the differences when using a full frame camera below. I’m only pointing out the noticeable issues as compared to the APS-C bodies, so if I don’t show it here, the results are not significantly different enough to warrant posting an additional set of images in this section.
Light fall-off is stronger with full frame coverage. I see a rather abrupt transition of dark corners around 70mm with a wide open aperture. At the long end, the corners are dark at F/5.6, but the transition is smooth from the corners to the middle. Regular filters cause almost no additional light fall-off.
Full image from A900 below illustrating light fall-off.
This boring full image shows light fall-off from 300mm, F/5.6. It’s slightly noticeable, but has a pretty smooth transition.
Lateral color fringing is noticeable along the very edges of the image on a full frame camera, but I went out of my way to make it show up this much. This is the strongest color fringing example I could find out of the thousands of shots I took with this lens. Lateral color fringing will not go away by stopping down the aperture. The crop was made using the last 700 pixels from the middle right of the image.
There is minor to moderate barrel distortion at 70mm, although I see a slight “wave” (high in middle, flat on ends) to the signature, and won’t flatten out completely with simple distortion correction tools. Around 80mm distortion becomes flat, but never is completely flat. As you zoom out, pincushion is noticeable at 90-100mm, and by 135mm is about as strong as it gets.
The Tamron SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD is a welcome addition to the 70/75-300mm category currently offered in the Sony mount. When the Tamron was first announced, along with the price, I thought, oh great, another cheap zoom with a fancy focusing motor; so what’s really different? Well, the difference is, the price of the Tamron is half of the Sony 70-300mm SSM G, with basically the same build and optical qualities. Does paying half the price make it a bargain?
Sony users will want to look carefully at the Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD lens, it has great optics with a good build quality, and is similar to the Sony G mentioned above. However, there are a couple of issues that may turn off some potential buyers. My copy did not focus accurately at longer distances with the A580, (but was spot-on at closer distances, and better with the A900), so if this unit passed Tamron quality control, you’ll need to check your shots to make sure they’re focused properly. If you have a camera body featuring AF micro adjustments, you may be able to correct this problem, although Sony doesn’t recommend AF micro adjustments with non-Sony lenses because it may conflict with the Sony lens data entered. My Sony A580 camera and Tamron lens calibration may be on the “outer ends” of a passing grade, so your results may vary. Also, Tamron omitted a focus hold button and focus limiter switch, both can come in handy for speeding up focusing in difficult situations; Sony includes both of those features. One other minor negative is the lack of close focus sharpness, check out the stamp shot, it’s not that great, but you probably wouldn’t notice it in real life.
On the bright side, I found overall image quality very good; again, about the same as the Sony version, but Tamron has noticeably better control of lateral color fringing (along the sides of the image). The Tamron is also a third stop faster at the short end, but that’s not a big deal.
I guess the bottom line is; if you have the money, I’d get the Sony 70-300mm SSM G, if you’re on a budget and simply want the best image quality for the price, then consider the Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 USD.
Sample crops from the centers, mid-sections and corners.
Before viewing the crops please read: I used a slightly different part of the stamp scene for each focal length to make it clear each focal length should stand on it’s own, because there was no attempt to capture the exact same coverage at different distances, so do not compare crops across different focal lengths.
An indoor, controlled environment was selected (along with the stamp subject) to avoid heat shimmer and other image destroying conditions you typically get with telephoto lenses outside in the Summer, especially here in southern Arizona. Shooting indoors eliminates those problems, but forces me to use shorter focusing distances. Fortunately, the distances used (and listed below) are in the bird or small animal range, so it makes the cropped images more useful as opposed to very close focus test chart type shots.
The Sony A900 was used for this comparison. The full frame mid-section crops below were taken from the same position as where the APS-C corners would be.
The 70mm centers look sharp at all focal lengths. The mid-sections sharpen up nicely at F/5.6, the corners at F/8. Distance from camera to subject is about 12′ (3.6m).
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One is a shiny new arena whose luster does not keep its anchor tenant (the Sacramento Kings) from losing. The other is a shiny new restaurant and bar whose handsome burnish does not prevent its food and service from faltering.
The comparison seems stronger when factoring in former King Kenny Thomas’ stake in El Rey (“the king” in Spanish) as part of an ownership team headed by nightlife impresario Trevor Shults (BarWest).
The analogy eventually falls apart, however, because the Kings win more often than El Rey does.
El Rey bills itself as “Sacramento’s freshest Mexican street food experience,” a description in conflict with a Caesar salad containing lettuce with brown edges and a frozen dessert that arrived with a thin layer of ice crystals – suggestive of an extended slumber in the freezer – atop it.
Elsewhere at El Rey, the food is fresh enough but flat-footed. Chef Bryce Palmer, also executive chef for Irish pub Malt & Mash – El Rey’s sister restaurant housed in the same historic Ochsner building – came over from Crawdad’s, another Shults venture. Palmer previously worked at Biba, Grange and the Golden Bear, restaurants any chef would want on his or her résumé. But Palmer’s talents are more obvious in the creative, well-seasoned bar grub at Malt & Mash than at El Rey, where the food is still in search of flavor dimension.
The fish in El Rey’s blackened-rockfish taco tasted mostly of salt, and the “spicy” element was undetectable in its spicy peanut shrimp taco.
Mole sauce can be one of the most compelling elements on a Mexican food menu, with its notes of chocolate and different spices. El Rey’s rojo mole beef taco, featuring meat slow-braised in a chipotle cinnamon sauce, shows the complexity of an Instagram supermodel.
Though El Rey’s house-made chorizo is not greasy, it tastes too fresh – more like ground pork on its own, without the spiciness or smokiness associated with chorizo. This chorizo did little to spruce up its potato companion in an El Rey specialty taco and served as dull topper to an already bland queso fundido starter.
Palmer and crew show some finesse with the Meatless Marvel taco, a lively yet soothing blend of black beans, roasted peppers and sweet potato stewed in habanero sauce. A crisp yucca-root chip atop the taco adds earthy taste and textural variance.
The pork in the smoked carnitas nachos is tender but offers little flavor beyond the smoke. Yet that smoke overabundance did little to curtail our enjoyment of the nachos, the thing to order at El Rey. They hold a wonderfully tangy cheese sauce made from browned butter, serrano peppers, cream, Oaxaca, cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses and brightness-adding juice from Palmer’s house-pickled onions.
It’s hard to believe these nachos, which come in an order big enough for three, carry the same $12 price tag as the Caesar, which, brown lettuce aside, offered few hints of anchovy or other distinctive flavors in its dressing.
El Rey’s pricing is curiously inconsistent. Some prices, like $12 for that Caesar salad and $7 for overly thick, borderline-burnt chips and three so-so salsas (they are not gratis here), seem outrageous. Others, like $4-$4.95 for each street taco, merely seem too high. Yet the cocktails we tried were a reasonable $7-$8.
Those drinks outshone the food, with El Rey offering several margarita options that balance sweetness and tang (especially the “skinny margarita”). Two of our favorite El Rey cocktails are made with whiskey but evoke margarita tartness: The Black Cadillac, with Jack Daniels, blackberry jam and lemon juice, and the Border Town, with Old Forester bourbon, Campari, agave and citrus juices, taste like something Orson Welles might have sipped while making “Touch of Evil.”
There also was treasure to be found, during the dessert course, beneath the aforementioned light dusting of ice crystals, on El Rey’s choco taco. Similar conditions had never stopped me from eating ice cream out of my mom’s freezer, so I dug in. My arctic explorer’s heart soared when I tasted Palmer’s masterful use of sweetness-offsetting salt in the batter of the waffle-cone foundation and the dark chocolate sauce covering scoops of Gunther’s ice cream.
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Such displays of skill suggest the food will improve at El Rey as the restaurant matures. It will need to, once the 700 block of K Street fills with other nightlife options. Right now, El Rey and Malt & Mash are the only new restaurants on the block.
On a game night, the 4,800-square-feet El Rey, which holds about 200 people at a time, can serve 4,000 tacos. And not just to bros wolfing them down alongside tequila shots.
On the nights we visited, before a CSU Sacramento vs. UC Davis/Cal vs. San Diego State doubleheader, and a Kings game, those bros, clad in NBA and college team sweatshirts, composed 15 percent of diners. But their whoops, which bounced off El Rey’s wood floors and stone and brick walls, accounted for 25-30 percent of the noise in a restaurant where everyone eventually must raise their voices to be heard by their dinner companions.
The rest of the crowd consisted primarily of middle-aged guys in pairs or with their senior fathers, and lots of couples in their 30s or early 40s, some with kids. You know: People who can afford tickets to Golden 1 Center events.
On the Kings game night, I watched people enter the restaurant from my cozy perch in one of El Rey’s raised banquettes. The colorful vinyl seating vies with the restaurant’s many TVs to be the interior’s most vibrant element.
Though the crowd was diverse, their facial expressions, as they entered the restaurant from the street and took in all the stimuli while scanning the place for a rare empty seat, showed a similar arc. Most started with a flash of anxiety (this is what we’re doing?) and ended with tight-smiled resignation.
To turn these obvious game-night first-timers into repeat visitors, El Rey might want to smooth out its service. Our server on one visit started out great but disappeared for at least 20 minutes as the place filled up. Though her absence likely is more reflective of staffing issues than her job performance, a lag is a lag.
Two people have a good shot at a pleasant dining experience at El Rey on a game night, for less than $40, if they arrive early enough to grab a good seat and order the nachos and two cocktails or beers.
But there’s also the option of eating at El Rey’s immediate neighbor, the Golden 1 Center. Though it is more expensive to eat and drink there, the food is generally better than El Rey’s. And given El Rey’s noise levels, crowds and hard, backless bar stools, the comfort level might be similar. Even in the arena seats without cupholders.
723 K St., Sacramento. 916-400-4170, www.elreyonk.com
Hours: 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. daily. Hours can vary depending on events at nearby Golden 1 Center.
Beverage options: Full bar, with 35 tequilas and an array of margarita options. Eight beers on draft, including Track 7. Short list of sparkling, red and white wines.
Vegetarian friendly: Yes
Gluten-free options: Yes
Noise levels: Exceptionally high
Ambiance: Before the crowd rushes in on a game night at nearby Golden 1 Center, the place looks lovely, with its many rustic wood touches and vibrantly colored banquettes. But the bar stools are uncomfortable, as are noise levels once the place fills up.
The 3-month-old restaurant’s food and service are not there yet.
The food is better at the nearby arena, and at El Rey’s sister restaurant, the Irish pub Malt & Mash, with which it shares an executive chef. El Rey’s food generally lacks flavor dimension, though there are highlights, like the nachos and Meatless Marvel taco.
The service staff showed ingenuity and knowledge, but our server was missing for a long stretch after the place became busy just before a game at Golden 1.
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This is the Most Important Market Autonomous Cars Will Impact (and no, it’s not transportation)
The autonomous car is on everyone’s lips. Not only because of the fascination that people feel when they see a car driven by a robot, not only because of the future legal issues that it forces us grapple with, but also because society loves to feel a future that they can suddenly feel and touch. The autonomous car is an undoubted and disruptive milestone in the accelerated race for technological prowess. The autonomous car will transform our societies and socio economics, taking them to a point where we will no longer recognize them and ourselves.
But beyond all of the above, the autonomous car revolves around a universe parallel to the commonly known and publicized one in which we live. Let’s analyze other hidden markets that will open as a result of the rise of autonomous cars.
The autonomous car: from fever to real prototypes on our roads
It was at the CES show a few years ago where I remember that they dedicated a complete block of time to the automotive sector, within which the autonomous car could only play a prominent role, as indeed happened.
Let’s briefly go into the background of the autonomous car (aka Google’s car).The truth is that Google is the first company to have brought not only the concept of autonomous vehicles to the table, but also to have produced real working vehicles.
There are many questions that these vehicles make us ask ourselves, questions about the technology of the future, questions about whether we will recognize our socioeconomics in a few years, legal questions etc… For you to get an idea of the importance of some of these issues, you can think about what behavior an autonomous car will adopt when it comes to, for example, anticipating an inevitable collision in which on one side there is a vehicle approaching from the front, while a cyclist is approaching from the side.
It is known that the reflexes that direct the last maneuvers of the drivers that are seen in this situation unconsciously end up choosing to collide with the cyclist (this unconscious does it for self-protection, because it minimizes the severity of the collision and possibly the victims, including him or herself). But, is it objectionable to program an autonomous vehicle to act in this way? Is it reckless (and even violent) to write the code so that an autonomous vehicle always opts to overwhelm the rider in these situations.
The obvious question then is, and how do we program then the logic that directs the behavior of these vehicles in these cases? Because what is clear is that something has to be programmed to the CPU of the vehicle: as long as Artificial Intelligence no longer evolves and robots can not program themselves on a large scale, nothing can help us to avoid this responsibility.
The main markets and tangible socio-economic changes that the autonomous car has opened
We will begin this section in a merely introductory way with the most widespread and obvious changes, since some have been overlooked. The first change is related to efficient driving and a decrease in energy consumption (electric or fossil fuels depending on the energy mix of each country). Another change is that the number of drivers will increase. A third important change is the one that, obviously, will bring the logistics and transportation sector to the future.
In fact, these changes transcend road transport, and are already advancing in self-propelled cargo ships, or improving the existing air navigation systems with artificial intelligence. Another change is the insurance sector; The issues raised in this field affect who is responsible for a subsidiary accident when an autonomous vehicle is involved, the occupant? The insurance company? The manufacturer of the vehicle? Or the company that has programmed the navigation system?
Without a necessarily direct relationship, the market for car rental minutes in major cities, which has been taking off for a few months, has an exponential projection when autonomous cars are also on the scene. Do not ask me exactly why, but it seems a fact that the players of the sector assume that an autonomous car will be seen by consumers as a commodity without great differentiation, and therefore I understand that for this reason they will tend much more to opt for the rentals over outright ownership; In other words, the sharing economy will only get bigger.
But another of the changes, especially relevant from the socio-economic points of view that I usually bring, is that the autonomous cars circulating massively on our roads will literally be an immense fleet of very advanced and intelligent devices, with much more computing capacity. In fact, we will be contributing to the immense data being generated when traveling in our car: we will populate the maps with routes, photos, rain or wind data sensors, traffic jams, accidents, road conditions, gas stations…and so on.
Right now, when you travel, your smartphone already captures and transmits a lot of information, but it will be much larger, more reliable, and omnipresent when your car does it by itself and permanently. The autonomous car will be autonomous not only by the driving, but also all the infinity of “other” new functions that it will assume.
Finally, we cannot end this section without including among those socioeconomic changes that will bring the autonomous car to the manufacturers of the new vehicle and the automotive industry. A combination of challenges that will transform one of the key industries of our socioeconomies, for its industrial capacity, and for the product that it puts in the hands of the citizens with everything that allows us.
And the main market that the Google Car will open that is hidden behind the headlines is…
Have you ever wondered why Google has been able to decide to embark on a project as far away from your traditional business as Google Car? It’s true that Google’s innovative reputation is far beyond the limits of online search and targeted advertising, but you will agree that it’s one thing to develop an app like the fantastic Google Sky Map, and quite another to get into a sector as complex as the automotive market.
I can not deny that it is obvious that Google has one of the pillars of its future in Google Maps and all the possibilities open to geo-localized advertising and online searches. It is certain that those in Mountain View have, for years, had a very clear understanding ofa future fleet of intelligent vehicles that, with multiple and powerful sensors, will help them populate and enrich their already huge databases and digitized world models.
But do you think this was the only motivation for such a complex project in such a competitive sector? It may be another motivation, I’m not going to deny it, but it really is an extremely potential benefit to the resources that the project is requiring. What if I tell you that there is another motivation that is very much tied to Google’s core business, and that it is going to contribute a few benefits from day one? What if I told you that the Google Car project may even result in a sonic failure, but nevertheless those benefits will continue to nurture the accounts in Mountain View?
Well, to be direct, what will bring benefits from day one is: You. Yes, you read that right: the goal (once again) is you, or, rather, your time. Google Car for Google is not only opening a new market, but the key is that it is a product that also reinforces and complements the rest of its main product lines and adds to its main and traditional business model. Literally, Google Car is a gold mine for Google, or, given that data is the new raw material of the 21st century.
We must keep in mind that drivers’ time is a precious treasure for Google. Google’s users have the maximum time to navigate and use our devices. If you multiply the number of vehicles in the world, by the daily use of those vehicles, and translate it into hours of navigation (which is what most are going to translate), the resulting figures are overwhelming.
Therefore, for Google, the autonomous car is equivalent to having found one of those immeasurable oil reserves. Google has found a gold mine, an unexplained reservoir of time from its users and data for its databases. Why do you think that Google could have so much interest in Google Car? Their interest goes beyond selling it by millions of units, or using them to digitize our world: Google is one of the world’s best companies at monetizing our time online.
And the best thing is that by exploiting this time, Google does not harm anyone, indeed, it also benefits the competition, because you will also browse through iTunes or Amazon. And it also benefits you, saving millions of drivers for spending hours in a traffic jam with hands on the steering wheel. It is literally a new discovery of time for users.
It will also be a time with a high percentage it being spent online, because it is a time when you will be alone, without children, with a need to inform, work, search, buy…a win-win for all. Beyond merely opening a market with a product of its own, and becoming an automobile, Google was interested in being the spark plug that would start the combustion of this new market to be exploited.
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By Margalit Fox, New York Times, May 8, 2012
Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.
"If, as a parent, you could really listen to his stories, you would learn more about your children than a hundred 'parenting' books could teach you."
The cause was complications of a recent stroke, said Michael di Capua, his longtime editor. Mr. Sendak, who died at Danbury Hospital, lived nearby in Ridgefield, Conn.
Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated himself, most famously “Where the Wild Things Are,” which was simultaneously genre-breaking and career-making when it was published by Harper & Row in 1963.
Among the other titles he wrote and illustrated, all from Harper & Row, are “In the Night Kitchen” (1970) and “Outside Over There” (1981), which together with “Where the Wild Things Are” form a trilogy; “The Sign on Rosie’s Door” (1960); “Higglety Pigglety Pop!” (1967); and “The Nutshell Library” (1962), a boxed set of four tiny volumes comprising “Alligators All Around,” “Chicken Soup With Rice,” “One Was Johnny” and “Pierre.”
In September, a new picture book by Mr. Sendak, “Bumble-Ardy” — the first in 30 years for which he produced both text and illustrations — was issued by HarperCollins Publishers. The book, which spent five weeks on the New York Times children’s best-seller list, tells the not-altogether-lighthearted story of an orphaned pig (his parents are eaten) who gives himself a riotous birthday party.
A posthumous picture book, “My Brother’s Book” — a poem written and illustrated by Mr. Sendak and inspired by his love for his late brother, Jack — is scheduled to be published next February.
Mr. Sendak’s work was the subject of critical studies and major exhibitions; in the second half of his career, he was also renowned as a designer of theatrical sets. His art graced the writing of other eminent authors for children and adults, including Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, William Blake and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
In book after book, Mr. Sendak upended the staid, centuries-old tradition of American children’s literature, in which young heroes and heroines were typically well scrubbed and even better behaved; nothing really bad ever happened for very long; and everything was tied up at the end in a neat, moralistic bow.
Headstrong and Bossy
Mr. Sendak’s characters, by contrast, are headstrong, bossy, even obnoxious. (In “Pierre,” “I don’t care!” is the response of the small eponymous hero to absolutely everything.) His pictures are often unsettling. His plots are fraught with rupture: children are kidnapped, parents disappear, a dog lights out from her comfortable home.
A largely self-taught illustrator, Mr. Sendak was at his finest a shtetl Blake, portraying a luminous world, at once lovely and dreadful, suspended between wakefulness and dreaming. In so doing, he was able to convey both the propulsive abandon and the pervasive melancholy of children’s interior lives.
His visual style could range from intricately crosshatched scenes that recalled 19th-century prints to airy watercolors reminiscent of Chagall to bold, bulbous figures inspired by the comic books he loved all his life, with outsize feet that the page could scarcely contain. He never did learn to draw feet, he often said.
In 1964, the American Library Association awarded Mr. Sendak the Caldecott Medal, considered the Pulitzer Prize of children’s book illustration, for “Where the Wild Things Are.” In simple, incantatory language, the book told the story of Max, a naughty boy who rages at his mother and is sent to his room without supper. A pocket Odysseus, Max promptly sets sail:
And he sailed off through night and day
and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
to where the wild things are.
There, Max leads the creatures in a frenzied rumpus before sailing home, anger spent, to find his supper waiting.
As portrayed by Mr. Sendak, the wild things are deliciously grotesque: huge, snaggletoothed, exquisitely hirsute and glowering maniacally. He always maintained he was drawing his relatives — who, in his memory at least, had hovered like a pack of middle-aged gargoyles above the childhood sickbed to which he was often confined.
Maurice Bernard Sendak was born in Brooklyn on June 10, 1928; his father, Philip, worked in the garment district of Manhattan. Family photographs show the infant Maurice, or Murray as he was then known, as a plump, round-faced, slanting-eyed, droopy-lidded, arching-browed creature — looking, in other words, exactly like a baby in a Maurice Sendak illustration. Mr. Sendak adored drawing babies, in all their fleshy petulance.
A frail child beset by a seemingly endless parade of illnesses, Mr. Sendak was reared, he said afterward, in a world of looming terrors: the Depression; World War II; the Holocaust, in which many of his European relatives perished; the seemingly infinite vulnerability of children to danger. He experienced the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 as a personal torment: if that fair-haired, blue-eyed princeling could not be kept safe, what certain peril lay in store for him, little Murray Sendak, in his humble apartment in Bensonhurst?
An image from the Lindbergh crime scene — a ladder leaning against the side of a house — would find its way into “Outside Over There,” in which a baby is carried off by goblins.
As Mr. Sendak grew up — lower class, Jewish, gay — he felt permanently shunted to the margins of things. “All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy,” he told The New York Times in a 2008 interview. “They never, never, never knew.”
His lifelong melancholia showed in his work, in picture books like “We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy” (1993), a parable about homeless children in the age of AIDS. It showed in his habits. He could be dyspeptic and solitary, working in his white clapboard home deep in the Connecticut countryside with only Mozart, Melville, Mickey Mouse and his dogs for company.
It showed in his everyday interactions with people, especially those blind to the seriousness of his enterprise. “A woman came up to me the other day and said, ‘You’re the kiddie-book man!’ ” Mr. Sendak told Vanity Fair last year.“I wanted to kill her.”
But Mr. Sendak could also be warm and forthright, if not quite gregarious. He was a man of many enthusiasms — for music, art, literature, argument and the essential rightness of children’s perceptions of the world around them. He was also a mentor to a generation of younger writers and illustrators for children, several of whom, including Arthur Yorinks, Richard Egielski and Paul O. Zelinsky, went on to prominent careers of their own.
Long Hours in Bed
As far back as he could remember, Mr. Sendak had loved to draw. That and looking out the window had helped him pass the long hours in bed. While he was still in high school — at Lafayette in Brooklyn — he worked part time for All-American Comics, filling in backgrounds for book versions of the “Mutt and Jeff” comic strip. His first professional illustrations were for a physics textbook, “Atomics for the Millions,” published in 1947.
In 1948, at 20, he took a job building window displays for F. A. O. Schwarz. Through the store’s children’s book buyer, he was introduced to Ursula Nordstrom, the distinguished editor of children’s books at Harper & Row. The meeting, the start of a long, fruitful collaboration, led to Mr. Sendak’s first children’s book commission: illustrating “The Wonderful Farm,” by Marcel Aymé, published in 1951.
Under Ms. Nordstrom’s guidance, Mr. Sendak went on to illustrate books by other well-known children’s authors, including several by Ruth Krauss, notably “A Hole Is to Dig” (1952), and Else Holmelund Minarik’s “Little Bear” series. The first title he wrote and illustrated himself, “Kenny’s Window,” published in 1956, was a moody, dreamlike story about a lonely boy’s inner life.
Mr. Sendak’s books were often a window on his own experience. “Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must Be More to Life” was a valentine to Jennie, his beloved Sealyham terrier, who died shortly before the book was published.
At the start of the story, Jennie, who has everything a dog could want — including “a round pillow upstairs and a square pillow downstairs” — packs her bags and sets off on her own, pining for adventure. She finds it on the stage of the World Mother Goose Theatre, where she becomes a leading lady. Every day, and twice on Saturdays, Jennie, who looks rather like a mop herself, eats a mop made out of salami. This makes her very happy.
“Hello,” Jennie writes in a satisfyingly articulate letter to her master. “As you probably noticed, I went away forever. I am very experienced now and very famous. I am even a star. ... I get plenty to drink too, so don’t worry.”
By contrast, the huge, flat, brightly colored illustrations of “In the Night Kitchen,” the story of a boy’s journey through a fantastic nocturnal cityscape, are a tribute to the New York of Mr. Sendak’s childhood, recalling the 1930s films and comic books he adored all his life. (The three bakers who toil in the night kitchen are the spit and image of Oliver Hardy.)
Mr. Sendak’s later books could be much darker. “Brundibar” (2003), with text by the playwright Tony Kushner, is a picture book based on an opera performed by the children of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The opera, also called “Brundibar,” had been composed in 1938 by Hans Krasa, a Czech Jew who later died in Auschwitz.
Reviewing the book in The New York Times Book Review, the novelist and children’s book author Gregory Maguire called it “a capering picture book crammed with melodramatic menace and comedy both low and grand.” He added: “In a career that spans 50 years and counting, as Sendak’s does, there are bound to be lesser works. ‘Brundibar’ is not lesser than anything.”
With Mr. Kushner, Mr. Sendak collaborated on a stage version of the opera, performed in 2006 at the New Victory Theater in New York.
From one outsider to another, we are very sorry to learn of your passing.
And we only wish we had been introduced to your books when we were young...before your time to write.
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Finks dramatizes the 1950s anti-communist blacklist
26 April 2013
At the Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City, March 28-May 5, 2013, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, choreography by Greg Graham
The American entertainment industry blacklist of actors, writers and others accused of left-wing sympathies, beginning in the late 1940s and lasting for more than a decade, has been widely chronicled in memoirs, biographies and histories of the period. It has less often been depicted in the theater and on film. Martin Ritt’s 1976 film The Front is one of few such efforts.
Finks, Joe Gilford’s play based on the lives of his parents, as filtered partly through his own memories, is a welcome and effective contribution to this history. Finks is being presented at Manhattan’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, and will be there until May 5. Although its main characters are fictional, they are clearly patterned on Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford, the well-known theater couple, also known for work on television and film, who were blacklisted in the 1950s, but later resumed their careers.
Jack died in 1990 and Madeline in 2008. As the play’s program explains, “Jack and Madeline Gilford were just two of hundreds of actors, writers and directors who were effectively banned from work in TV and radio for almost a decade.”
Joe Gilford’s play is centered on the lives of his parents and some of their closest friends and colleagues in the years between 1948 and 1953, a turning point for all of these characters. The younger Gilford was born in 1951, in the middle of the anti-communist hysteria.
The campaign to purge left-wing actors and those who refused to actively join in the witch-hunting began in Hollywood in the late 1940s and spread to radio and television. Though the Red Scare is associated most prominently with Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, it was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that subpoenaed the Gilfords, in 1953.
The staging of Finks, around a simple but serviceable set, is unusual and has a good deal to do with the play’s effectiveness. Scenes of testimony before HUAC, chaired by the notorious Pennsylvania Democrat Francis Walter, are intercut ingeniously with depictions of the rest of the actors’ lives. Walter’s hostile insistence that witnesses “answer the question” are quickly followed by dialogue amongst the performers, as they discuss their careers and later attempts to deal with the blacklist.
Another effective touch is the use of fictional names for the main protagonists in the play, while in the witch-hunting scenes and the portrayal of those who “named names” to save their own careers, the “finks” are given their real names.
“Natalie Meltzer” is clearly the stand-in for Madeline Lee, soon to become the wife of Jack Gilford, portrayed as “Mickey Dobbs.” Their close friends include “Bobby Gerard,” a dancer who is patterned after famous choreographer Jerome Robbins. Bobby is gay and he and Natalie share a close relationship, with a few humorous asides directed at Natalie’s function as a “beard,” occasionally dating Bobby to mask his homosexuality.
Rounding out the four main characters is “Fred Lang,” a somewhat older actor largely based on Philip Loeb, best known for his radio and television role on The Goldbergs. Natalie is the most politically committed of this group. She holds house parties to raise funds and promote various causes, while also pursuing Mickey, who is less committed at first, both personally and politically. While it is not spelled out, it appears that Madeline may have been a Communist Party member at this time, at least at the time the play begins.
Soon enough, Natalie wins Mickey’s love and they are married, but problems multiply as far as their careers are concerned. Rapid-fire political asides, interspersed with Natalie’s work on a radio commercial and her later performances in The Guiding Light, the long-running soap opera, make for some lively theater. Soon, however, Natalie’s soap opera character is “killed off” as a means of complying with the blacklist.
Around the same time Mickey is offered a weekly show that would be a big break in his career. The witch hunters, however, are closing in. We “see” the testimony of director Elia Kazan, writer Budd Schulberg and actor Lee J. Cobb, with a few actors taking on a number of roles. Kazan, Schulberg and Cobb all testified as “friendly witnesses,” although Cobb was the last and most reluctant.
A turning point comes when Bobby, after warning Natalie that Mickey may cave in, is himself the one who decides to save his career by turning “fink” and naming his friends, including the Gilfords.
Around this time, as Natalie and Mickey are preparing for their own testimony before HUAC, Lang kills himself with an overdose of sleeping pills in a Philadelphia hotel. Although the date has been shifted for purposes of the dramatic version, this is based on the actual fate of Philip Loeb, who was blacklisted after being listed in the notorious June 1950 Red Channels publication. After struggling with unemployment, family crises and his own growing depression, he committed suicide in 1955.
Mickey is thrown into crisis, beginning to wonder what continued defiance will accomplish. He and Natalie have meanwhile begun their family with a baby son (who would grow up to write this play). Mickey has been given the chance to “clear” himself by naming others. Natalie sums up her advice: “Think about what you’re going to tell your son.” The line is obvious, but still effective.
Toward the end Natalie (Madeline)’s testimony is presented—an obvious exception to the previous practice of providing the real names for the HUAC witnesses. Natalie’s insistence on answering every one of Walter’s questions with questions of her own is another telling and humorous episode. In refusing to answer his questions, she takes the 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th Amendments to the Bill of Rights. The use of the 5th as protection against self-incrimination wards off a contempt citation, while the 1st, 4th and 8th enable her to denounce, in turn, the Committee’s attacks on free speech, its unreasonable search of her thoughts and views, and its cruel and unusual punishment.
The production, directed by Giovanna Sardelli and choreographed by Greg Graham, deserves high praise, and the acting performances must also be noted, especially Aaron Serotsky and Miriam Silverman as Mickey and Natalie (Jack and Madeline Gilford), Leo Ash Evens as Bobby (Jerome Robbins) and Ned Eisenberg as Fred Lang (Philip Loeb).
One criticism of the play would be of the level of some of the humor bandied about by Mickey and his colleagues in the early part of the performance. There is something flat and false about these scenes. If this is an accurate depiction, Gilford must have gotten better writers.
An additional question concerns the use of some pretty lame political putdowns among the friends. At one point, if memory serves me right, Natalie calls her husband a “Trotskyite, revisionist, running dog imperialist.” This language may have been used, but without any further explanation it simply strikes a false note, as if the issues raised by the history of the American Communist Party and the Soviet Union are a laughing matter. The playwright may have feared turning the work into too much of a history lesson, but he does not appear to have dealt with this issue successfully.
The role of Kazan, Schulberg, Robbins and others epitomized the decay of American liberalism, and the rightward political shift and moral degeneration of the American intelligentsia during the Cold War. The informers were individuals who had never complained about Stalin’s crimes when Washington and Moscow were allies. Now they tried to point to the crimes of the Stalinist bureaucracy to excuse their own capitulation to the right-wing crusade of US capitalism and to save their careers at the expense of principle and honesty.
These were not merely personal failings, but reflected the political crisis of that period. While Finks does not explore all of these issues, it does a service in raising them.
In the end, the Gilfords were more fortunate than some of their friends and acquaintances. Their defiance was ultimately successful, although not without big sacrifices. Both Jack and Madeline Gilford were able to find work, some of it rewarding, and make a living as actors for about three decades beginning in the 1960s.
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If you consider an artist’s works in chronological sequence (bibliography as well as discography) certain landmarks blot out their neighbors. In the case of Coleman Hawkins, there’s BODY AND SOUL, then the Hampton Victor date, then his big band — leading up to the small-group sessions of 1943-44 for Signature, Keynote, Savoy, and more.
The Varsity Seven sides — full of delights — recorded in December 1939 and January 1940 — haven’t received the admiration they deserve. Hawkins’ admiring biographer, the diligent John Chilton, calls them “a pastiche of Dixieland.” I disagree.
The Varsity label (please note the transparent pseudonyms for Hawkins and Carter) was run by Eli Oberstein, and it never seems to have been entirely out in the open. I don’t know that Oberstein was the equal of Herman Lubinsky of Savoy, but Eli seems to have been ingenious in his dealings. I believe the masters of these and other sessions were bought by Savoy, and thus the trail to licit reissues is complex. Were they Victor sessions, they would have been available straightforwardly for decades now, including “official” CD issue.
Another side-note is that the session — one or both? — was co-produced by Leonard Feather and Warren Scholl, which may account for a Feather composition being there. I knew two sides from this date because my Long Island friend Tom Piazza played them for me, forty-plus years ago: SHAKE IT AND BREAK IT and A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY. I don’t know where each of the musicians was working in 1939-40, whether Fifty-Second Street or Cafe Society or uptown, but they come together to create great jazz. Cheerful Jeanne Burns (known for work with Adrian Rollini and Wingy Manone) is a liability, but we’ve all heard less polished singers. Here’s the information for the first session.
Benny Carter, trumpet, alto saxophone; Danny Polo, clarinet; Coleman Hawkins, tenor saxophone; Joe Sullivan, piano; Ulysses Livingston, guitar, vocal; Artie Bernstein, string bass; George Wettling, drums; Jeanne Burns, vocal. New York, December 14, 1939.
IT’S TIGHT LIKE THAT (Burns, vocal). The first two choruses — bless Sullivan and Wettling, who are bringing Jimmy Ryan’s to a record date or doing the Commodore? — are flawless. Ms. Burns has pitch trouble, but I concentrate on Sullivan behind her. Polo and Livingston (the latter sounding much like a sweet Teddy Bunn) aren’t derailed by the young lady, and then Hawkins charges in, “I’m back from Europe, and let me remind you who is still King!” My idea of perfection is of course subjective, but the instrumental portions of this recording stand up with any other of this period:
EASY RIDER (Burns, Livingston, vocal). Hawkins starts off rhapsodically, and is then relieved by Polo, whose sound in itself is an aural landscape, no matter how simple his phrases. (In this, he reminds me of poets Joe Marsala, Raymond Burke, and Edmond Hall.) Ms. Burns Is much more at ease at this tempo and in this range, and her unusual mixture of Mae West and Mildred Bailey is her most successful vocal. Livingston’s vaudeville couplets are harmlessly archaic counterpoint, leading in to an ensemble where Carter and Polo take up most of the space, leaving Hawkins little to do. One must admire the lovely drumming of Wettling — and how beautifully Artie Shapiro’s bass comes through — before the consciously “old-timey” ending:
SCRATCH MY BACK is the one Leonard Feather composition, and a charming one, revisited by Dan Barrett a few years ago. I can’t figure out the changes beneath the melody — an experienced friend / musician says the first strain is similar to YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME. I love the opening ensemble, and Shapiro’s deep notes behind Polo, then Sullivan’s rollicking solo chorus, where Wettling is having a wonderful time — and the passage where Sullivan abstracts the melody for great dramatic effect. Then — what’s this? — a glorious alto solo by “Billy Carton” (heir to the cardboard box fortune) punctuated by a Livingston blues-pastoral. Everyone steps aside for Hawkins, and a recap of the theme with Livingston adding sweet arpeggiated chords. No complaints here:
SAVE IT PRETTY MAMA (Burns, vocal). Aside from the ending, I don’t think of this as “Dixieland”: rather a series of splendid improvisations from Carter, Sullivan, and two choruses from Hawkins — over a gently propulsive and balanced rhythm section. I find Burns’ version of Mildred Bailey’s upper-register-vibrato jarring, but I was listening to Polo, murmuring sweet limpid asides, and the rhythm section while she sang:
Fast forward to January 15, 1940: the same personnel except Big Joe Turner replaces Burns, an improvement.
And in his honor, they began with HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES. In the opening ensemble, Hawkins is nearly submerged (could this have been what irritated Chilton?) which leads into a lovely chorus by Polo — with plain-spoken rhythm section work. Then, Big Joe, in glowing voice, supported by a very powerful Sullivan, with lovely ensemble encouragements. It almost seems as if Hawkins has been waiting his chance, and he takes it eloquently, before Big Joe and the band return. At 2:23, apparently Turner has momentarily forgotten the lyric couplet or has gotten distracted. A fine improvised ensemble closes off the record, with a Wettling accent. This side seems slightly under-rehearsed, but the looseness adds to its charm:
SHAKE IT AND BREAK IT has always been a favorite, and this vocal version is a prize. If there’s a sound more engaging than this rhythm section following Sullivan, I have yet to hear it. Big Joe sounds positively exuberant (in touch with the lyrics); Polo and Livingston keep the forward motion going , and everyone is even more gleeful for Joe’s second chorus (“rub it all over the wall”) before particularly hot choruses by Carter and Hawkins follow, leading to jamming (with Wettling happily prominent) to end the record. If this is “Dixieland,” I want many more sides:
A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY was not a song much utilized for jam session recordings, but to have it here is a pleasure. I wonder if Oberstein said, “No more blues, fellows! Let’s have a hot one!” as Big Joe left the studio. Or it just seemed like a melodic yet under-played Berlin song, taken a little quicker than I imagine it was done in the Ziegfeld Follies. A very simple — even cliched — vamp led by Livingston starts things off before Polo takes the lead — which surprisingly turns into an ensemble passage, then a wonderfully quirky Sullivan solo AND Hawkins leaping into his chorus with the zeal of a great athlete (powerful playing from Shapiro, Livingston, and Wettling) — then a magnificent Carter solo and a romping ensemble close. This is one of the most successful sides of the eight:
And, finally, POM POM, a Carter original which might be a phrase from one of his solos scored for small band, with a particularly light scoring: I would have thought the opening 16 was scored for alto, clarinet, and tenor, but for the speed with which Carter plays trumpet on the bridge. Polo’s chorus is so tenderly levitating that if you, hearing his work on this session, don’t want to hear more, then I have failed. Hawkins is energized in his two-chorus solo, reminding me of the trio records he made in 1937, especially in his powerful second chorus — but Carter is as elegant a mountain-climber as I can imagine (with a distinct similarity to Joe Thomas or Bill Coleman of this period); another piece of swing lace-weaving from Livingston, and the record gracefully winds down — simultaneously hot and gentle. Is that a recording engineer’s “fade” or simply everyone getting softer? I don’t know, but it’s very sweet:
These aren’t flawless records. Some of them might have benefited from a second take. But they are uplifting examples of the stars willing to come in and play two dates for what I imagine was scale. All in a day’s work — and how glorious the results are.
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Summer Camp Guide 2018
Looking for summer camp ideas for your child, teen or adult? The Down Syndrome Association of Delaware has complied a list of camps offered in our area.
Looking for a summer camp? Here is a list of organizations that have offered summer camps in previous years and resources to find summer programs in your area.
A non-profit community based performing arts organization composed of people with and without disabilities. Mission is to entertain and inform the public of the abilities and talents possessed by those with disabilities.
Address: PO Box 831, Bear, DE 19701
Website: Able Arts
American Dance Wheels
Teaching wheelchair dancing to people with disabilities of all ages and ability levels.
Contact: (215) 588-6671
Website: American Dance Wheels
Art Therapy Express
Dedicated to building a bridge between each student’s capabilities and his/her imagination, and to provide a place where even the non-verbal individual can speak through art.
Address: P.O.Box 1661, Hockessin, DE 19707, (302) 584-4068
Website: Art Therapy Express
Brain Injury Association of Delaware (BIADE) Art Club
BIADE mission is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, education, advocacy and support.
Address: P.O. Box 1897, Dover DE 19903, (800) 411-0505
Camp Fairlee Manor and Education Center
A residential/recreational and respite camp offering campers ages 6 and up the opportunity to experience the joys and challenges of camp in a fully-accessible setting. Programs available for campers with Autism Spectrum disorders, Respite Weekends, Travel Trips for people with disabilities, and summer Daily Adventures.
Website: Camp Fairlee Manor Recreation and Respite Services
Camp Lee Mar
A private seven week residential summer program fro campers with special needs ages 7-21. Camp is located in Lackawaxen, PA.
Website: Camp Lee Mar
An overnight camp for boys ages 8-17 diagnosed with ADHD who need help developing their social skills. Camp is located in Pennsburg PA.
Website: Camp Sequoia
A camp for children with diverse special needs including chronic health issues, physical or mental health disabilities, or the aftermath of catastrophic illness, including Keystone Diabetic Kids Camp (KDKC) for children with Type 1 diabetes ages 8-15.
Website: Camp Victory
The Center for Therapeutic and Educational Riding
Affordable therapeutic equine and animal activities for people with special needs or barriers, and at risk youth.
Address: 3491 Harris Road, Townsend, DE 19734, (302)376-9594
Website: The Center for Therapeutic and Educational Riding
Center for the Creative Arts
A community art center devoted to art enrichment through education for people of all ages and abilities.
Address: 410 Upper Snuff Mill Road & Rte.82 North, Yorklyn DE, (302) 239-2434
Website: Center for the Creative Arts
Center for Disabilities Studies
Enhancing the lives of individuals and families through education, prevention, service and research related to disabilities.
Address: 461 Wyoming Road, Newark, DE 19716, (302) 831-4688
Website: Center for Disabilities Studies
Community Connectors – A program of the Center for Disabilities Studies
Contact: (302) 831-6839
Challenger Division Little League for Youth with Disabilities
A Little League baseball program for children and young adults with mental and physical challenges, ages 5-21.
Website: Challenger Division – Little League
Children’s Beach House
Delaware Adaptive Sports
An organization dedicated to identifying, developing and promoting both recreational and competitive sports for the physically challenged in and near Delaware.
Address: P.O.Box 6002, Wilmington, DE 19804, (302)683-0997
Website: Delaware Adaptive Sports
Delaware Association for Blind Athletes (DABA)
Offering fitness, recreation and self-esteem building programs for visually challenged youth and adults.
Local Chapter: 3 Granbury Drive, New Castle, DE, (302) 999-8074 or (302) 836-5784
Website: Blind Sports Organization
Dragonfly Forest Summer Camp
Offering year round camp experience for children with Autism and other medical needs. Dragonfly Forest summer camps are in Phoenixville PA, and most programs are free for campers.
Website: Dragonfly Forest
Farm of Dreams Therapeutic Horseback Riding
Providing therapeutic horseback riding for people with disabilities.
Address: 2325 South DuPont Highway, Smyrna, DE 19977
Federation for Children With Special Needs
A list of summer camps compiled by specific needs. Find links to over 200 summer camps for 2014, as well as useful information and resources to help find the summer camp experience you want for your child.
Website: Federation For Children Summer Fun Camp Directory
Link: Summer Planning for Children with Special Needs
Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding Program
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for the disabled and challenged by bringing horses and people with disabilities together.
Address: 55 Rolling Hills Ranch Lane, Port Deposit, MD 21904, (410) 378-3817
Website: Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding Program
Junior Partners in Policymaking
A program of The Center for Disabilities Studies for young adults ages 15-22 to work together to improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Address: 461 Wyoming Road, Newark, DE 19716, (302) 722-7066
Website: Junior Partners In Policymaking
The Mary Campbell Center
Providing home and heart for children and young adults with disabilities, including after school programs, preschool, swim lessons, and teen programs.
Address: 4641 Weldin Road, Wilmington, DE 19803, (302) 762-6025
Website: Mary Campbell Center
Link: Children & Youth Programs
Prompt And Play
Providing a camp for children ages 2 to 24 to help them develop social and daily living skills though exploration and direction. Various therapeutic modalities are used to increase environmental awareness, positive social interactions, and promote overall happiness.
Address: 5157 W. Woodmill Rd, Suite 16, Wilmington DE, (302) 691-5658
Website: Prompt and Play
Sharing recreation resources for the entire disability community in Delaware.
Contact: (302) 224-6020
Southern Delaware Therapeutic and Recreational Horseback Riding
Sharing it’s farm, pets and horses with children and adults with special needs. Providing equine-assisted therapy.
Address: Rd. 1, Box 233 A, Lewes, DE 19958
Contact: (302) 645-2780
Special Olympics Delaware
Through sports training and competition, helping athletes with intellectual disabilities realize no disability is too great to overcome.
Northern DE Address: 619 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19716, (302) 831-4653
Southern DE Address: 546 South Bedford Street, Room 2125, Georgetown, DE 19974, (302) 855-0546
The Speech Clinic Summer Camp
A camp for pre-school children ages 3-5, especially those with diagnosed or suspected speech-language or social/pragmatic language needs.
Camp Address: 7250 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin United Methodist Church, Hockessin, DE 19707
Contact: (302) 999-0702
Website: The Speech Clinic
Link: Speech Clinic Summer Camp
TOPSoccer – DE Youth Soccer Association
Bringing the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl with a mental or physical disability.
Website: TOPSoccer – DE Youth Soccer Association
United Cerebral Palsy of Delaware (UCP-DE)
Camp Manito (New Castle County) and Camp Lenape (Kent, Sussex Counties) – Fully accessible camps for children and young adults ages 3-21 with orthopedic disabilities. Camps open to all children, with or without disabilities.
Northern DE Address: 700A River Road, Wilmington, DE, (302) 764-2400
Southern DE Address: 3249 Midstate Road, Felton, DE, (302) 335-5626
University of Delaware – Edge Program
Accepting a limited number of youth between 16-21 with social/cognitive learning deficits to their premiere 5 week residential college prep camp. DE students with IEP goals and 504 plans can attend at NO additional costs.
Contact: (302) 831-6560
Link: University of Delaware Edge Program
VSA Delaware – The State Organization on Arts and Disability
Providing children and adults with disabilities, opportunities to participate and achieve in the areas of performing and visual arts.
Address: Delaware State University Art Center Gallery, 1200 N. DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19903
Contact: (302) 857-6699
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Enrollment RequirementsThe Center for Young Children follows the criteria for kindergarten eligibility established by the Maryland State Department of Education; specifically, that a child must be 5 years-old by September 1st to qualify for enrollment. This rule also applies to newly enrolling 3 year-olds. Children must be three years of age and potty-trained by September 1st to be enrolled at the CYC. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the CYC will accept and accommodate children with disabilities for whom toilet training is still in progress. Because we provide an individualized, developmentally appropriate, play-based curriculum for 5-year old children in our Kindergarten class, we do not administer a readiness test, nor do we accept outside test results as an exception for early admission if a child's birth date falls after September 1st.
The Center for Young Children enrolls students ages 3 through 5 (Kindergarten) each school year, which runs from late August to early June. All students are enrolled for this 10-month period, not per semester. The CYC accepts applications from families year-round once a child has been born. Applications will only be accepted if the child has a recorded birth date. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, interested families are encouraged to submit an application early, well before the year their child will be age-eligible to attend. Once we receive an application and verify that the application fee has been paid, the child’s name is then placed on the corresponding enrollment list for the year in which he/she is age-eligible. On the application, families must indicate whether they wish to be placed on the full-time or part-time enrollment list. We do accept applications from families who do not have a University of Maryland affiliation; however, they will only be considered if a space cannot be filled by a University affiliate.
On your application, you will indicate whether you would prefer the full-time or the part-time preschool classroom. You must choose one. When we begin the early stages of our enrollment process in January, you may transfer your child’s application from the part-time to full-time program (or vice versa). IMPORTANT: THIS MUST BE REQUESTED BY JANUARY 3Ist OF THE ENROLLMENT YEAR.
Children with Special Needs
It is the goal of the Center for Young Children to work with the University, families, teachers, and children to create an accepting, inclusive environment that welcomes and provides an appropriate educational experience for all children.
If requested at initial parent inquiry, members of the administration will discuss all aspects of the Center’s program including class size, daily schedule, staff/student ratio, curriculum, inclusive environment, educational background of the teaching staff, and other aspects of the CYC’s program. Should a child have identified special needs, the special educator may meet with the family prior to the family deciding whether or not to accept enrollment at the Center.
Should a family choose the CYC for their child with special needs, a meeting will be held prior to the start of the school year to share reports, evaluations, and IEP goals, if available. The special educator will be available to support the child in the classroom as needed once school begins. Although the Center is not legally responsible for implementing the IEP, every effort will be made to address the documented goals and objectives on the IEP (Individualized Education Plan).
If the child receives other related services (speech/language, occupational, physical therapies) while attending the Center, the special educator and teachers will make every effort to work collaboratively with any outside providers, with the permission of the family. The family is responsible for arranging all private services and services provided through the school system. The special educator can also provide families with the names of outside resources/contact information if it is recommended that related services/evaluations need to be acquired.
The enrollment process for a new school year begins in January. Every family whose name appears on the enrollment list for the upcoming fall will be contacted via email and informed of our annual Visiting Day (Open House) that is scheduled for mid-February. In that first email, we will be asking families if their contact information is still accurate, if there have been any changes in their University affiliation status, and whether or not they are still interested in CYC enrollment for their child. It is important that all families share with us any updates in their home address, phone numbers and email addresses so that you receive our messages in a timely manner.
Once we have collected all updated information, we will mail a formal letter of invitation to the Visiting Day that confirms the time of your family’s visit. The invitation to the Visiting Day does not guarantee enrollment in the fall. This visit is when you can bring your child along with you and it offers families an opportunity to see the Center, hear from the Director, meet the teachers and let their children play in the classrooms. If a family has not already scheduled a private tour of the program prior to the Visiting Day, this also provides a nice chance for a school visit. We advise that families should definitely consider all aspects of a child care program before making any enrollment commitment to make sure that the needs (hours, calendar, tuition, policies, curriculum, etc.) of the family will be met.
How admission decisions are made
Following Visiting Day, there are about two weeks left for any interested families to submit documentation for a [partial, needs-based] scholarship application before the deadline of March 1st (see “Scholarships” below for details). Families are free to complete this application anytime starting in January. In mid-March, formal letters are mailed to families offering a space for the fall. Any space offerings are based upon the projected number of available openings in each classroom. Enrollment priority is given to University System of Maryland affiliates (active faculty, staff, students). Any applicants who are siblings of current (or past) CYC students are also given priority for admission as long as one of the parents is still an active affiliate of the University.
When admission decisions are made
Families will be informed of their child’s admissions status by mid-April of the enrolling year. Unfortunately, we are not able to call all families on the waiting list for whom we do not yet have available spaces. If an applicant family has not been contacted by our front office by mid-April, they are free to contact the CYC to check their status.
Maryland Child Care Scholarship Program
We encourage families to look into the Maryland Child Care Scholarship Program, which "provides financial assistance with child care cost to eligible working families in Maryland." This website provides much information on the program, including income eligibility requirements.
CYC will work with families who have been awarded support from Child Care Subsidy Central through this program. Any funds received from the program will count as an offset to the full tuition due.
The CYC has a limited number of needs-based, partial scholarships available. Any enrolling families wishing to explore partial scholarship opportunities to help supplement their tuition costs can visit the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) website at: www.sss.nais.org (https://www.solutionsbysss.com/)
Once in their website, you will need to enter our NAIS school code in order to access and complete their online scholarship application. Our school code is: 4692. Have your financial (tax) information ready in order to accurately complete all sections of the application process. Please be as complete and thorough on your application as possible. NAIS will send us their report with which the Scholarship Committee will use to evaluate your financial limitations and then determine appropriate awards.
Scholarship applications for consideration for fall, 2019 must be submitted by March 1st, 2019.
Center for Young Children Tuition Statement - School Year 2019-2020
All costs are for a five-day per week, academic year contract
- Core-day Full-time (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) Preschool and Kindergarten program $12,220
- Core-day Part-time (8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.) Preschool Classroom $7,980
- Morning Gathering (7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.) $810
- Afternoon Gathering (4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.) $810
- Morning and Afternoon Gathering together $1,415
- A sibling discount of 5% is offered on the tuition of the second child when two children are enrolled in the CYC at the same time.
The “Gathering” programs are not stand-alone programs. They must be added onto a core day full-time or core day part-time program. Full-time children can add on Morning and/or Afternoon Gathering. Part-time children can add on Morning Gathering only.
Request or download an application
Return this form to the CYC by mail or by email to Jennifer Haislip .
The application fee must be paid online - please use payment link below. The application will be processed once both form and fee are received.
The CYC Enrollment Contacts
Leslie Oppenheimer 301-405-0107
Program Administrative Specialist:
Jennifer Haislip 301-405-3168
Completed applications are placed on a waiting list for future consideration.
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Every year, Cleveland’s Smart Business Magazine recognizes and awards manufacturers in North East Ohio with the Evolution of Manufacturing award. This award is given to manufacturers whom show exemplary and strategic efforts in their manufacturing processes. Businesses need to show how they have adapted and overcome challenges in their manufacturing processes in order to meet growth and expansion goals. Ventrac was honored to be one of the 2015 honorees for the Evolution of Manufacturing and the award was received by Arlin Steiner, Ventrac’s Director of Manufacturing, during a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio.
Congratulations to Ventrac and Arlin!
Ventrac has been named the winner of the 2014 U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Exporter of the Year for the Cleveland District.Gilbert Goldberg, the District Director of the SBA Cleveland District office presented the award on Friday, May 9th, 2014. The entire Ventrac employee body was gathered at the Venture Drive facility as four representatives from various departments accepted the award on behalf of everyone at Ventrac. Ventrac exports tractors and attachments into many countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea and Sweden.
For more information about Ventrac, visit www.ventrac.com.
On Wednesday, August 7th, 2013, Ventrac by Venture Products, Inc. received Efficiency Smart’s Ambassador of Efficiency Award at its new facility located on 500 Venture Drive Orrville, Ohio. The award was presented to Ventrac in recognition of its commitment and innovation in reducing energy use, which was demonstrated by its successful implementation of energy-efficient measures at its new facility in Orrville.
“Congratulations to Venture Products for receiving the Ambassador of Energy Efficiency Award,” said Dave Handwerk, Mayor of the City of Orrville. “An extremely forward thinking Venture Products team has stepped up and made a new facility even more energy efficient than originally planned. A great team effort by the Venture staff, Orrville Utilities and our Efficiency Smart Program.”
“Ventrac by Venture Products, Inc. is a deserving recipient of the Ambassador of Energy Efficiency award,” said Jeff Brediger, Director of Utilities for the City of Orrville. “They are a great example of a company that has successfully implemented efficiency measures that will have a significant impact on our community’s energy efficiency goals. Venture Products along with several other businesses will be enjoying the savings from their investment for many years. I congratulate Venture Products on its desire to integrate this technology into its new world headquarters.”
As a result of the project, Venture Products is expected to save 193 mega-watt hours (MWh) of energy annually, $15,600 annually, and $208,500 over the lifetime of the installed measures. Additionally, the net project cost was reduced by $7,000 with incentives from Efficiency Smart.
Venture Products worked with an Efficiency Smart energy consultant and account manager for technical project assistance and to verify savings potential. These resources were made possible through a partnership between Efficiency Smart and Orrville Utilities, designed to save its electric customers money through energy efficiency.
“Working with Efficiency Smart gave us the resources needed to implement energy saving features in our new facility,” said Mark Steiner, Vice President of Ventrac by Venture Products, Inc. “The rebate was a great bonus on top of the expertise they provided us.”
“We are delighted to recognize Ventrac by Venture Products in Orrville for making energy-efficient upgrades,” said Kristyn Wilder, executive director of Efficiency Smart. “The project showcases its strong vision and commitment to reducing energy use and saving money today and into the future.”
The Ambassador of Energy Efficiency Award recognizes entities that have completed substantial energy efficiency projects. To be considered for the award, companies must be an electric customer of a utility that partners with Efficiency Smart and complete a project that results in significant energy savings for the community.
Ventrac is excited and honored to be selected as a presenter at the 2013 Sno-Motion training event as the premier sidewalk snow removal expert. Phil Harwood, the event founder and facilitator, selected industry experts to present carefully selected topics based on an assessment of industry needs. This annual two-day event features exclusive snow industry training that will feature the eight aspects of managing a snow business and the best tools available to help manage those areas of business.
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Ventrac’s export growth was recognized during a ceremony on May 20, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Ventrac was honored to receive the 2013 Presidential “E” Award for Exports documenting the company’s achievement in making significant contribution to the increase of U.S. exports. Accepting the award was the President of Ventrac, Dallas Steiner.
On May 2nd Ventrac held an open house to celebrate the completion of phase one of their new Venture Drive manufacturing facility in Orrville, Ohio. The event gave Ventrac employees and their families a first look at the facility and gave Ventrac the chance to thank the various individuals and organizations who assisted in the construction of the facility. Guests were invited to walk through a self-guided tour covering everything from fabrication and welding to engineering and warehousing. A unique highlight of the tour included a historical display featuring over 75 years of products designed by the Steiner family. Mark Steiner, Vice President and Facilities Manager for Ventrac said, “It is humbling to look back and see all the innovation that our family has been blessed to be part of over the years.” He adds, “It’s exciting to see how our products have evolved from year to year to become an industry leader in the compact tractor world today.”
Ventrac was honored to have Ron Amstutz, from the Ohio House of Representatives, stop by to congratulate them on this accomplishment. Ohio Senator Frank LaRose stopped in to present an official Ohio Senate document honoring Venture Products on this great achievement. LaRose stated, “This open house is a justifiable source of pride and an outstanding reflection not only on the business itself, but also on the astute management of the Steiner family, on its hard-working employees and on the Orrville community.”
Dallas Steiner, President of Ventrac, with his brother, Mark and Randy Kitzmiller, Director of Operations, personally greeted guests as they arrived. Dallas said, “I feel blessed to have such wonderful support for Ventrac from our employees, community, dealers and the City of Orrville.” He adds, “We wouldn’t be where we are today without all of them.”
For more information about Ventrac visit www.ventrac.com.
We were honored to have our President, Dallas Steiner, be the featured guest on John Allin’s radio show “Managing Snow and Ice with John Allin.” Managing Snow and Ice is a one hour weekly radio program dedicated to covering issues and topics that affect snow professionals. The host of the show, John Allin, is the original founder of the Snow & Ice management Association (SIMA) and has been a leader in the formation of the Accredited Snow Contractor’s Association (ASCA). With over 30 years in the snow management industry, combined with his vast experience, Allin is recognized as the foremost snow and ice industry consultant in the country today.
John’s interview with Dallas covers a variety of topics ranging from Dallas’ role with Ventrac, International sales and how Ventrac is an ideal piece of sidewalk snow removal equipment for snow contractors. You can hear the interview with Dallas now by clicking on the live recording link below.
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Ventrac is proud to recommend Pro-Motion Consulting and their upcoming advanced training academy events. Two events will be held in November, one for Green Industry Professionals, called Gro-Motion and the other event is geared for White Industry Professionals, called Sno-Motion. Both events will focus on the topic of “Developing the ULTIMATE Account Manager for Your Business.”
You can learn more about each event by visiting the website links below. The training will take place at the MGM Grand in Detroit, Michigan.
Gro-Motion, our Advanced Training Academy for Green Industry Professionals,will be focusing on the topic of ” It has been built to take your Account Management to the next level. Join us in Detroit at the MGM Grand and seize your your opportunity to finish the year strong and prepare for 2013. You will be joined by a select group of fellow industry professionals to be challenged by new ideas, sharpen your skills, and expand your network!
Held Monday – Tuesday, November 12-13, 2012. Register today for the Gro-Motion training by going to the registration page.
Sno-Motion, our Advanced Training Academy for White Industry Professionals,will be focusing on the topic of “Developing the ULTIMATE Account Manager for Your White Business.” It has been built to take your Account Management to the next level. Join us in Detroit at the MGM Grand and seize your your opportunity to finish the year strong and prepare for 2013. You will be joined by a select group of fellow industry professionals to be challenged by new ideas, sharpen your skills, and expand your network!
Held Thursday – Friday, November 15-16, 2012. Register today for the Sno-Motion training by going to the registration page.
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Since 2000, Ella D. Curry and EDC Creations has partnered with community leaders, business owners, book clubs, publishers, reviewers, bloggers, podcasters, librarians, book stores and authors to bring readers the best representation of quality literature and products.
We are the masters at using Internet tools to reach millions! Let us tell the world about your book, event or business!
Promote up to 3 books, events or products! We will submit your text and up to 3 images to our 165,000 readers as an email announcement. We will promote books from most genres including: business books, non-fiction, self-help, cookbooks, children/YA books, historical fiction, chick lit, poetry, art books, Urban lit, Romance, some Erotica and Sci-Fi/Paranormal.
The eblast will be posted at least 50 times, in 30 days, on our (3) Facebook pages, Instagram and on our (2) Twitter accounts.
Authors, your written interview, book cover and excerpt will be displayed on the front of Black Pearls Magazine blog for 3 months.
At this time of year, our email open rate is approximately 65%. Meaning that more than 107,000 of the 165,000 readers are opening the emails from EDC Creations. During different times of the year or different seasons, these numbers fluctuate. Our click through rate is 57%. This means that out of all the people that opened the email, 57% of them clicked on featured links while reading the opened email.
WHAT HAPPENINGS AFTER PAYMENT?
Once your make your payment, you will receive instructions from Ella D. Curry’s team on the material that we will need. It normally takes 3-5 days to send out the eblasts. The list of materials is posted at the end of this post.
The EDC Creations team will email instructions within 24-48 hours after payment. No refunds after the promotion has started. E-checks take 5-7 days to clear; we begin work AFTER the check clears the banks.
No revisions after the original eblast has been created or sent.
We do not share soft porn, sex scenes or violent material in our eblasts. Select excerpts from your book that can be read by a general audience that might be at work, school or in any professional setting.
SAMPLES OF PREVIOUS NEWSLETTERS & EBLASTS
Material Needed for ALL EDC Creations Packages
Here is a list of the materials needed to launch your new campaign. Email the material to this email account: [email protected] ONLY.
Submit all material in the body of ONE email. All information must be in copy & paste format. Please make sure your information is correct before sending. Please take your time, edit well and spell check the final submission. If we have to edit the material after campaign starts, there will be an additional fee.
Obtain legal permission from your publisher to use all images, book reviews, book excerpts and audio snippets. The author is responsible for acquiring the permissions BEFORE submitting to us. We are NOT responsible for any copyright infringement claims!
We will need the following information:
— Date the book releases to the public
— Cell phone number for BAN radio interview
— Biography written in 3rd person in 200 words or less
— Title of book, genre and author’s name
— Book synopsis and any book reviews
— Include a brief summary of all the books in a series
— Chapter excerpt from the book in 600-900 words or less
— Excerpt must be in copy & paste form, no pdf documents
— Link to website, one bookseller or the Amazon page
— High resolution head-shot at least 800 wide x 800 length
— High resolution book cover image size: 700 wide x 1,000 length
The Power of Email Marketing
Sending out informative emails remain one of the most efficient and effective ways to reach consumers today. Do email blasts work? The answer is yes and eblasts are one of our most popular tools used to reach our EDC Creations and Crown Holder readers. We have represented more than 400 authors with our email newsletters and eblasts.
Sending out eblasts is an effective direct marketing strategy for launching a new book, business or product. We use email marketing as a way to send a message that is tailored directly to our consumer database.
Successful email marketing helps to raise awareness about you, helps to share your brand’s story & message and it introduces your products/services to potential customers and life-long supporters.
What is an eBlast or Email Newsletter?
An email newsletter is a branded message that is created to bring the latest news to a database of subscribers on a consistent basis. An effective email newsletter will offer value to the readers lives.
We send our email newsletter to a subscriber list of our existing literary ambassadors that have signed up to receive weekly newsletters that contains valuable content such as event updates, self-help guides, author interviews, products reviews, motivational tips & advice, community outreach announcements and other resources.
Our EDC Creations eblasts and newsletter are an essential part of the email marketing strategy for authors and business owners, as they allow us to share information that will ultimately drive traffic to our client’s websites or sales pages.
An eblast is a one time message about a new product launch or event update. This message is then syndicated across social media to make sure readers are aware that there’s a new product on the shelves. More importantly, it shares the WHY! It tells the audience how and why this product is worth their money.
How is our eblasts different or what makes them better?
We have spent over 10 years nurturing our contacts and by establishing ourselves as key players in the publishing industry. Our primary list of readers originally came from Karibu Books, the nation’s largest black-owned chain of bookstores. We obtained their database after the stores closed in 2008. So, these are die-hard readers who are seeking recommended reading material.
Ella D. Curry hosts a literary trunk show where she travels across the East Coast showcasing her clients. She expands her database from people paying to attend her live events, contest participants and from readers signing up for the newsletters from 130 different websites.
What Makes a Fabulous Email Blast
Your email eblast should read as though it was written for the individual reader. Speak directly to the reader in your interviews and in the marketing text. Make sure you share excerpts and product descriptions that will resonate with buyers.
Tell the buyer what this product will do for them and how it adds value to their lives, even if it is a novel or say a poetry book. Share three primary things that makes your product, service or event unique. Go beyond the synopsis or product description!
Quality is more important than the quantity to most readers. So, your first book can be just as impressive as a book from a veteran writer. Help the reader feel your passion with a well written interview and by sharing amazing product reviews.
Here are a few suggested components to include:
Clear marketing message – Make sure that the reader knows why the message is being sent and the intention of the newsletter. An effective call to action will entice people to take action toward your business. Create a direct call to action and provide all the details so that the reader can take action immediately. Give them the who, what, when, how and why.
There must be a purpose behind your submission. Whether you are promoting a service, business opening or letting people know about an upcoming event, make sure you include a way for readers to contact you too. Share all of your social media links, website URL, email addresses and possibly a cell number.
Engaging Graphics and Text – Submit high resolution images of the author and/or company president and quality images of the product. If you have banners or email flyers, they make great images for eblasts. Try not to use out dated, pixelated photos and definitely skip the selfies taken in the car. Adding visual elements to the blasts will help the reader to connect with the message and can be a great way to drive the message home.
Professional Content – To have success with your email blast, it requires much more than putting some content together and sending it to a bunch of people. It requires that you really put in the effort to entertain or educate the reader. Edit your material, don’t use offensive language and create material that speaks to the brand’s story. Let the reader slip behind the scenes to see who you hoped to impress and why you felt now was the time to create this masterpiece.
Inform and Educate Don’t Advertise – People will read and share the news if they feel like there’s a purpose stemming from the content. Make them FEEL the need to share your news! Skip the spammy verbiage and lean more toward sharing the excitement creating this product or event has brought you as the creator. Inform the reader by engaging them with a topic that relates to them and their network.
Why EDC Creations
EDC Creations has evolved from a one-person event planning operation to one of the nation’s leading African American woman owned, Internet publicity and book promotion firms. Ella D. Curry, the owner, has spent years studying, researching and creating relationships with publishing industry professionals as well as forging a unique bond with the foundation of the publishing world— the avid readers, librarians and book club owners.
While our expansion from boutique event planning and brand consultant agency to a multi-faceted public relations firm has greatly expanded the directory of our services and recognition, the fundamental driving force behind everything we do is a dedication to improve literacy, establishing our clients as leaders and to expand the online territory of our clients.
Adding a 360 degree view of the industry is easy, Ella was previously a bookstore buyer for the legendary Karibu Books chain, literary director for A Good Books independent bookstore, award winning Internet radio host, digital magazine publisher, motivational speaker, social media correspondent, corporate event planner and avid reader for 35 years.
Why Do We Care
Fantastic and memorable branding is the product of a clear vision, filled with purpose, and nobody knows more about vision than authors and small business owners. But, with limited resources, creating a brand identity and delivering it to the world can be tricky. Fortunately, building brand awareness on the Internet doesn’t need to take a lot of money or resources, but it requires a strong foundation, a good plan and a investment of your time.
EDC Creations has several marketing options to help you chart your course into branding YOU and your company. If you are a new business owner, small publishing house, or a published author—you will benefit greatly from becoming part of the EDC Creations network!
Let us take you to where the savvy 21 century consumer now lives– online. We can take your company to the top. We want our voices to be heard from the highest peaks. Literature, poetry, art, and music all define us as a people and leave a remarkable legacy. We feel as if it’s our job to help you become a part of history!
Newsletters created by Ella D. Curry, President of EDC Creations
Social Media Expert – Internet Publicist – Brand Strategist
About Me: http://about.me/elladcurry
Black Pearls Magazine Online-Founder
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The Living Well program helps you manage three important parts of your total well-being: health, money and life. We partner with GuidanceResources®, a leading provider of employee assistance, work/life and wellness programs, to provide you with confidential services. We also offer wellness credits — up to $1,000 in Health Savings Account contributions or $100 cash (depending on your PNC medical coverage elections) — to reward you for taking an active role in your total well-being. Refer to the Wellness Incentive Program Checklist for wellness incentive activities and eligibility, plus other important details.
With the Wellness Incentive Program, you can earn wellness credits as contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or as cash in your pay, as described below. Refer to the Wellness Incentive Program Checklist for an overview of the program or read the Wellness Incentive Program Guide on Pathfinder for additional details. Spouses/domestic partners can find the guide on GuidanceResources.com (web ID: PNC). Here’s a quick look at what you can earn and what you need to do.
The following eligibility criteria must be met at the time you complete the wellness incentive activity and at the time the wellness credits are paid out.
All full-time, part-time and RSP employees who are active or away from work for less than 91 consecutive calendar days, or who are on maternity or parental leave, are eligible to earn wellness credits. New employees are eligible after they complete their PNC medical benefit elections and their elections have been automatically shared with GuidanceResources (typically about 30-40 days from the first day of employment). Spouses/domestic partners are eligible to earn wellness credits if they’re covered under a PNC medical option.
Temporary employees, contract employees and employees away from work 91 consecutive calendar days or more are not eligible (except as noted above).
In the event of the death of an eligible employee or spouse/domestic partner, wellness incentive activities completed before the date of death may be eligible for wellness credits, based on when the activities are reported. Please contact GuidanceResources at 888-999-6768 anytime for assistance.
Learn more about the Health Savings Account.
Step 1: Complete the online, confidential Health Assessment to start earning wellness credits.
Step 2: Earn additional wellness credits by completing other qualifying wellness incentive activities. Check out the 2019 Wellness Incentive Program Checklist for details.
Step 3: Record your completed wellness incentive activities in the Incentive Tracker on GuidanceResources Online. Some activities are automatically recorded.
It typically takes four to six weeks from the time you submit or complete your activity for the wellness credit to show up in your paycheck or HSA.
All activities must be completed and entered in the Incentive Tracker by 11:59 p.m. CT Dec. 15 to qualify for 2019 wellness credits.
The Health Assessment is a free, confidential questionnaire that, once complete, provides a snapshot of your current health status and wellness behaviors. The questionnaire takes about 15 minutes to complete, after which you’ll receive a Wellness Score that highlights your level of risk for possible health issues or concerns.
To take the online Health Assessment any time and begin earning wellness credits:
PNC provides confidential resources and support to help you stay healthy or get healthier. PNC gives you free, time-saving ways to take better care of yourself, physically and emotionally.
Well-being coaching is available over the phone or online through GuidanceResources, PNC’s third-party partner. With telephonic coaching, you’re connected with a health coach who will help you set a personalized plan to develop new healthy habits depending on your goals. You’ll talk with your coach on a weekly basis for a few weeks, at whatever time fits your schedule. Online coaching allows you to explore a variety of well-being topics and use self-study to develop healthy habits. Tip: Both activities can earn you wellness credits, once you complete the Health Assessment.
Living Well offers free Biometric Screenings and free flu shots at most major PNC locations, with other options available to smaller locations. Through GuidanceResources, you and your family members also have access to an online library of information, tools and trackers to help you manage your well-being. Options range from online relaxation webcasts to weight loss trackers and healthy recipes.
GuidanceResources is our EAP provider, offering comprehensive services for everyday challenges such as parenting, emotional health or financial well-being; help with mental health or relationship issues; and general legal information about landlord/tenant issues, divorce, etc.
Unlimited telephonic counseling, and up to five face-to-face counseling sessions with a master’s-certified clinician are included per year, per topic, to help you or your family members address emotional and behavioral well-being concerns. This service is available to all employees; you don’t have to be enrolled in a PNC medical option to use it.
Call GuidanceResources at 888-999-6768 or access more information on the Living Well page of Pathfinder.
PNC’s advocacy service is there when you need help with complex health and benefits issues, locating doctors and medical facilities, coordinating PNC’s benefits with Medicare and managing claims issues. Call the HR Service Center at 877-YOUR-PNC (968-7762), option 1, then say “advocacy” when prompted.
GuidanceResources offers confidential support to help you kick the tobacco habit for good. As an added benefit, when you agree to complete a tobacco cessation program during annual enrollment, you’ll avoid paying the tobacco user contribution.
Call GuidanceResources at 888-999-6768 to sign up for and to complete one of the following approved tobacco cessation programs:
Note: If a tobacco user thinks that they are unable to meet the tobacco cessation program requirements described above, they might qualify for an opportunity to avoid the contribution by different means. To explore this option, contact GuidanceResources at 888-999-6768; counselors will work with you (and your doctor, if you wish) to find a program that is appropriate for your health status.
Even if you did not originally elect to complete an approved tobacco cessation program, or you did not complete an approved program by the deadline, it’s not too late. Contact GuidanceResources at any time during the year to start an approved tobacco cessation program. Your per-pay tobacco user contribution will be stopped when the program is complete (as soon as administratively possible), but amounts already paid cannot be refunded.
For additional information, read the FAQs on tobacco user contribution.
Being healthy is about more than just physical wellness. Research shows that being able to manage money and make good financial decisions can increase our sense of well-being and lower stress levels.
The Living Well program provides tools and resources to help you improve your financial well-being and work toward achieving your financial goals. These resources include:
Save more of the money you earn by taking advantage of special employee discounts. PNC has partnered with GuidanceResources to offer discounts at hundreds of major retailers and service organizations, as well as colleges and universities. Browse all deals in one place on the Living Well Employee Discount website.
Check out tips and information through GuidanceResources to help you manage your money now and plan your financial future, or set up a phone appointment with one of their financial specialists to evaluate your financial position. You may even be able to earn wellness credits for meeting with a financial advisor/planner (after you complete the Health Assessment). Go to: Pathfinder > Living Well > GuidanceResources Online or call 888-999-6768 to connect with resources.
As a PNC employee, you’ll receive discounts on our banking and financial services offerings including:
For details, go to MoneyWise on Pathfinder.
PNC offers benefits that fit every stage of your life, and all the highs and lows that come along with changes and challenges.
GuidanceResources provides services to help you with the challenges of caring for a child, adult or elderly relative. These services include:
You can access GuidanceResources on their website or speak with a counselor at 888-999-6768. All contact with GuidanceResources is strictly confidential.
PNC recognizes employees as individuals who need to balance their work and home responsibilities. That’s why we’ve established six formal flexible work arrangements that may be considered, based on your role and business needs:
To learn more see Flexible Work Arrangements on Pathfinder.
GuidanceResources EAP is among PNC’s most valuable employee benefits, offering a range of services at no cost to you, including:
Call GuidanceResources at 888-999-6768 or access more information on the Living Well page in Pathfinder.
PNC offers private lactation rooms for new mothers after they return to work. In many cases, the rooms are outfitted with pumps, comfortable chairs and small refrigerators. For more information, visit the New Mother’s Rooms policy on Pathfinder or call the HR Service Center at 877-968-7762, option 4. Representatives are available weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET.
Say you’re working on a critical deadline or you have an important meeting you can’t miss. What would you do if your regular day care or adult/elder care provider is unavailable? Use PNC’s Just In Case Care program to access a national network of back-up child and adult/elder care services. The program is provided through Bright Horizons.
All full-time, part-time and Reduced Schedule Professional (RSP) employees are eligible for 15 days of care per child/adult per calendar year, with a low-cost to you:
Advance registration is required. To learn more, register or request reservations: Call 877-242-2737, or visit the PNC Just In Case Care policy on Pathfinder.
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Round 8 Pennant Wrap
Grade 1 – What a sensational match it was at Queanbeyan when they drew with Canberra North, 51 all. Scott Dagwell’s rink (Q) must have been hitting the Red Bull – it held the opposition scoreless until the 10th end, going on to win 22-11. On the adjacent rink, Norths’ Rob Kelly was up against Rob Chesher but this time it was the visitors who dominated. Kelly’s team all played strongly to win their rink 25-12. With both these rinks in the clubhouse (ok, I know it’s not really golf but you get the analogy…) the final rink was 15 all coming into the last end, Queanbeyan was 2 behind on the masterboard. This end was played 4 times! Apparently a rink is a bit like a metaphorical cat….can be killed multiple times! By this time, there was quite a crowd, gleefully hoping Sean Robertson could pick up a three. Alas – 2 it was, for the draw. Final Score Qbn 51, CN 51 (2-1). Canberra raised some eyebrows (and kept their finals hopes alive) when they defeated QRSLM on 2 ½ rinks. QRSLM were missing Hemi Palmer and Mark Ebsworth, (but had handy fill-ins Glenn Morton and youngster Charlie Grebert) and really there wasn’t much in it. Charles Smith’s rink got up by 1, Jamie Freeman’s by 3 and the Cliff Gilbert/Wade Turner rink had a draw. Final Score Can 55, QRSL 51 (2.5 -0.5) Weston Creek was at home to Yass and put their minor premiership beyond doubt by winning all three rinks. Again, all rinks had substantial wins but Ian Whybrow was the pick of the strong bunch skipping his rink to a 19+ win. Andrew Ashlin’s win puts him alone on the skips table as the only skip with a perfect 12 points from 6 games. Final Score WC 74, Yass 36 (3-0). Tuggeranong leapt into second place on the ladder when they defeated Belconnen on all rinks. Shane Ordelman’s rink was best on the day but worthy mention to Craig Southwell because I haven’t mentioned him before! Final Score Bel 53, Tug 78 (0-3). With a guaranteed home semi final, WC is on top of the table, but for the first time in many years, every team other than Yass still has a chance to make an appearance in the four. Consequently, next week’s matches are ‘do or die’ for six other teams. Current ladder: WC 66, Tug, 42, QRSLM 36, CN 35, Qbn 31, Bel 29, Can 28, Yass 21.
Grade 2 – There was a terrific finish to the match between WC and Belco. With two rinks finished, and the remaining rink on the 19th end, WC was 11 down on the masterboard. Jeff Bradley draws to give them shot. The next two ends were won with 6, and then 5, to give the match to WC by 1 shot! Final Score WC 61, Bel 60 (1-2) No wonder David Pruss wanted the rinks aligned properly! His rink managed to post a 20 shot win to help his team to take the overall points. For QRSLM, Graham Read’s rink performed well with an 11 shot win. Final Score QRSL 45, Tug 58 (1-2). In a reverse of the grade 1 matchup, Canberra North managed to take the main points from Queanbeyan, with Neil Clarke’s rink doing most of the damage. Adrian Halloran’s rink kept the deficit reasonable. This loss puts Queanbeyan under pressure to stay in the top four – Tuggeranong snapping at their heals! Final Score Qbn 51, CN 54 (1-2). The minor premiership is well and truly up for grabs, with the top 3 teams separated by only one point! Current Ladder QRSLM 57, Belc 57, WC 56, Qbn 46, Tug 44, CN 28.
Grade3 – Canberra dealt Goulburn its first (and they hope only!) loss of the season when the artificial surface proved tricky for the visitors. All rinks were close, David Kimber’s best on the day. Final Score Can 55, Gbn 49 (3-0) It was another close match when Tuggeranong met Yowani. One rink drew and the others were one apiece. Final Score Tug 50, Yow 48 (1.5 – 1.5) Again, the score was close in the WC vs Yass match but there were big rink score differences on all rinks. Bruce Murray and Barry Bush had big rink wins for Yass, whereas Tug Wilson’s rink contributed to WC’s only points. Final Score WC 59, Yass 63 (1-2) Goulburn remains on top of the table but this position is under threat from Yass, now only 3 points behind, and with (arguably) an easier match coming up, the last match of the season (Yass vs Goulburn in 2 weeks) promises to be a beauty! The battle for the other two places in the four is also looking to be a hot one with all teams well within range. Current ladder: Gbn 74, Yass 71, Tug 38, WC 36, Canberra 35, Yowani 34.
Grade 4 – Belconnen took the major points from Canberra North largely due to the huge rink win by Stephen Young’s rink (15+). Peter Totterdell and Mick Fogerty both won their rinks for Norths but not by enough to counter Young’s score. Final Score Bel 67, CN 63 (1-2) Peter Walkers 22 shot rink win for QRSL was the one that did the damage when QRSL hosted Tuggeranong. Alan Thatcher’s rink had a good win but with the other rink a draw, QRSLM took the masterboard points. Final Score QRSL 62, Tug 48 (1.5-1.5) Queanbeyan ran away with their match against Weston Creek. Darryl Peters (+15) and David Van Reesch (+21) had great wins whereas the other rink went the way of the Creekers. Final Score Qbn 74, WC 39 (2-1) The make up of the final four is still anyone’s game. QRSLM have a slender hold on the potential minor premiership but the next 4 teams could theoretically take that away. Current Ladder QRSLM 61, Tug 53, Qbn 46, CN 46, Belc 45, WC 37.
Grade 5 – Belconnen continued Bungendore’s woes when they defeated them overall and on 2 rinks. Gary Green (+9) and John Hammond (+13) were the winning Belconnen skips whereas Jack Marquet’s rink (+7) was the winning one for Bungendore. Final Score Bel 64, Bung 49 (2-1) Yowani was too strong for Yass, defeating them with two good rink wins. Phil Beggs (+11) and Ron Rooks (+13) did the damage. The remaining rink was won by Yass’s Matthew Waters (+10). Final Score Yow 63, Yass 49 (2-1) Tuggeranong and Canberra North shared the rink points but Tuggeranong had the better of the total scores taking the 6 masterbaord points. Best rink result on the day was from Tuggeranong’s Robert Montgomery (+12) Final Score CN 55, Tug 63 (1.5-1.5) The final match of the round was the local Queanbeyan derby with QRSLM earning bragging rights this time. Best rink score of the match was Adam Macnamara’s (+10) Final Score Qbn 57, QRSL 68 (1-2) With only one more round to play, the match of the round will surely be the Goulburn vs Yass match. Goulburn currently sit on top of the table, but Yass will be trying to score a clean sweep to break into the four. They are currently in fifth place behind Belconnen, but Belconnen has the bye so have no more point scoring options. Second and third placed teams both play lower ranked teams and positive results could threaten Goulburn’s position. Current Ladder: Gbn 62, Yowni 56, QRSLM 55, Belc 51, Yass 40, Qbn 37, Bung 31, CAN 29, Tugg 23.
Only one women’s grade match was played on the weekend with the others either washed out or forfeited. QRSL put in a stellar performance when they defeated the big guns from Canberra. Catherine Hunt, in Ruth Moore’s absence, stepped up to skip and bought home the bacon for the side. (She followed this up on Sunday by winning her club singles, defeating Ruth Moore 25-20. Congratulations Catherine!) Loretta Gillespie also won her rink. Final Score QRSL 44, Can 29 (2-0) | <urn:uuid:8ca19dab-4832-485d-aa55-7425334682f5> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.bowlsact.org.au/2019/04/03/round-8-pennant-wrap/ | 2019-08-17T10:56:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027312128.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20190817102624-20190817124624-00440.warc.gz | en | 0.954256 | 1,960 |
As we speak, one of the most pervasive and successful human rights based viral campaigns in recent memory is underway. Invisible Children’s ‘Kony 2012‘ campaign has taken Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and every other mainstream social media refuge by storm. In many ways, it is quite impressive. But there’s one glaring problem: the campaign reflects neither the realities of northern Ugandan nor the attitudes of its people. In this context, this post examines the explicit and implicit claims made by the ‘Kony 2012’ campaign and tests them against the empirical record on the ground.
Before jumping into the fray, however, I should preface the post by noting that, in many ways, Invisible Children have done a fantastic job in advocating for the rights of northern Ugandans, highlighting the conflict and providing tangible benefits to victims and survivors of LRA brutality. Indeed, this post is not intended to take aim at Invisible Children as an organization but rather to debunk some of the myths its ‘Kony 2012’ campaign is propagating.
The Problem is Popularity?
Kony 2012 is about making Joseph Kony, the leader of the notorious LRA, famous because, the line of reasoning goes, if everyone knew him, no one would be able to stand idly by as he waged his brutal campaign of terror against the people of East Africa.
I am actually stupefied that any analysis of the ‘LRA question’ results in the identification of the problem being that “Kony isn’t popular enough”. The reality is that few don’t know who Joseph Kony is in East Africa and the Great Lakes Region, making it all-too-apparent that this isn’t about them, their views or their experiences. But even more puzzling is that Joseph Kony is one of the best known alleged war criminals in the world – including in the United States. This is the case in large part because of the advocacy of Western NGOs, including Invisible Children and the Enough Project as well as the ICC arrest warrants issued against Kony and his senior command.
I would understand if this were the 1990s or even the early 2000s when the misery plaguing northern Uganda flew completely under the radar. I would understand if this campaign was about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But a campaign in 2012, premised on Joseph Kony not being famous enough is just folly.
Umm…what about northern Ugandans?
It is hard to respect any documentary on northern Uganda where a five year-old white boy features more prominently than any northern Ugandan victim or survivor. Incredibly, with the exception of the adolescent northern Ugandan victim, Jacob, the voices of northern Ugandans go almost completely unheard.
It isn’t hard to imagine why the views of northern Ugandans wouldn’t be considered: they don’t fit with the narrative produced and reproduced in the insulated echo chamber that produced the ‘Kony 2012’ film.
‘Kony 2012’, quite dubiously, avoids stepping into the ‘peace-justice’ question in northern Uganda precisely because it is a world of contesting and plural views, eloquently expressed by the northern Ugandans themselves. Some reports suggest that the majority of Acholi people continue to support the amnesty process whereby LRA combatants – including senior officials – return to the country in exchange for amnesty and entering a process of ‘traditional justice’. Many continue to support the Ugandan Amnesty law because of the reality that it is their own children who constitute the LRA. Once again, this issue is barely touched upon in the film. Yet the LRA poses a stark dilemma to the people of northern Uganda: it is now composed primarily of child soldiers, most of whom were abducted and forced to join the rebel ranks and commit atrocities. Labeling them “victims” or “perpetrators” becomes particularly problematic as they are often both.
Furthermore, the crisis in northern Uganda is not seen by its citizens as one that is the result of the LRA. Yes, you read that right. The conflict in the region is viewed as one wherein both the Government of Uganda and the LRA, as well as their regional supporters (primarily South Sudan and Khartoum, respectively) have perpetrated and benefited from nearly twenty-five years of systemic and structural violence and displacement. This pattern is what Chris Dolan has eloquently and persuasively termed ‘social torture‘ wherein both the Ugandan Government and the LRA’s treatment of the population has resulted in symptoms of collective torture and the blurring of the perpetrator-victim binary.
Given Invisible Children’s problematic identification of the issue, it becomes impossible for them to come up with an appropriate vision of resolving the crisis.
Invisible Children is, perhaps rightly, proud that it put the ‘LRA question’ on the Obama administration’s agenda. In this context, last year’s announcement that the administration would send 100 military ‘advisors’ to Uganda was widely celebrated. But this triumphalism occludes key realities.
The sending of 100 troops was not, in any sense, an altruistic move by the administration. First, it went unreported that many of the troops were already in Uganda. Second, the announcement was, at least in part, a tit-for-tat response for the Government of Uganda’s military engagement in Somalia – where the US refuses to deploy troops. As Matt Brown of the Enough Project conceded:
“The U.S. doesn’t have to fight al-Qaida-linked Shabab in Somalia, so we help Uganda take care of their domestic security problems, freeing them up to fight a more dangerous – or a more pressing, perhaps – issue in Somalia.
It is clear that the ‘Kony 2012’ campaign sees the 100 US troop allotment as inadequate. Here they are right – 100 US troops is not the solution. But their own answer is highly problematic.
We know what the makers of “Kony 2012” believe should happen but they won’t say it explicitly, except to say that Kony must be “stopped”.
Obama’s orders for his 100 troops – presumably supported by those behind ‘Kony 2012’ – is to “kill or capture” Joseph Kony. I don’t think it is a stretch to suggest that many of the same individuals who will form the legion of participants in ‘Kony 2012’ were on the streets celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden. It thus likely holds that they bought into the belief, proffered by Obama himself, that bin Laden’s killing amounted to justice and if you didn’t agree, you should get your head checked.
The solution then, is something similar: an American-led intervention into at least four countries where the LRA is or has been active (Uganda, the DRC, the Central African Republic and South Sudan) to hunt down Kony. Capturing him, after all, is secondary to “stopping” him.
The idea of “stopping Kony”, of course plays into the narrative created by the ‘Kony 2012’ campaign where what actually happens to Kony and the LRA is irrelevant. The unspecific aim of “stopping” him is sufficient. Who, after all, doesn’t want Kony “stopped”? But then what? If Kony is killed or captured, then what? What happens to the other members of the LRA? ‘Kony 2012’ offers no answers here.
In this context, it is worthwhile remembering that massive regional military solutions (Operations Iron Fist and Lightning Thunder most recently), with support from the US, have thus far failed to dismantle or “stop” the LRA. These failures have created serious and legitimate doubts that the ‘LRA question’ is one that can be resolved by military means.
Incredibly, there is no mention in the film or the campaign that northern Ugandans are currently enjoying the longest period of peace since the conflict began in 1986. Virtually every single northern Ugandan I spoke to during my own field research believes that there is peace in the region. While sporadic violence continues, particularly as a result of bitter land disputes, there have been no LRA attacks in years. In the mid 2000s, the ‘LRA problem’ was exported out of Uganda. The LRA is currently residing in the DRC, CAR, and perhaps parts of South Sudan and even Darfur. Today, land issues and the recent Walk to Work crisis are higher on the agenda than the LRA in northern Uganda.
Lastly, killing Kony cannot resolve the actual sources of the crisis which are far more structural than superficial (to put it lightly) analyses like ‘Kony 2012’ would like to admit. As respected scholars of northern Uganda, Mareike Schomerus, Tim Allen, and Koen Vlassenroot, recently argued,
“Until the underlying problem — the region’s poor governance — is adequately dealt with, there will be no sustainable peace.”
The Need for a Sober Second Thought
In the end, ‘Kony 2012’ falls prey to the obfuscating, simplified and wildly erroneous narrative of a legitimate, terror-fighting, innocent partner of the West (the Government of Uganda) seeking to eliminate a band of lunatic, child-thieving, machine-gun wielding mystics (the LRA). The main beneficiary of this narrative is, once again, the Ugandan Government of Yoweri Museveni, whose legitimacy is bolstered and – if the ‘Kony 2012’ campaign is ‘successful’ – will receive more military funding and support from the US.
Of course, as a viral campaign launched through social media, ‘Kony 2012’ is impressive, if not unprecedented. It will, undoubtedly, mobilize and morph a horde of sincere American youths into proxy war criminal hunters. It will further succeed in increasing the ‘popularity’ of Joseph Kony and the LRA in the United States. But it will do so for many of – if not all – the wrong reasons.
I remember when I was in grade school and a teacher told the students that it was actually difficult to fail. “You have to try to fail,” he said. If ‘Kony 2012’ is to be judged by its reflection of the realities on the ground in northern Uganda and how it measures up against the empirical record, the makers of Kony 2012 tried – and succeeded.
UPDATE: I’ve now published a response to the main criticisms that this post has inspired. See here: Taking ‘Kony2012′ Down a Notch – Responding to Criticism.
Check out this excellent account by Daniel Solomon over at his blog, Securing Rights.
Also, big thanks to my friend and colleague, Paul Kirby, for his insightful comments on a draft of this post. | <urn:uuid:a693d308-51ec-4cd0-a583-09192d9eee6c> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://justiceinconflict.org/2012/03/07/taking-kony-2012-down-a-notch/?replytocom=1845 | 2019-08-18T22:45:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027314130.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20190818205919-20190818231919-00040.warc.gz | en | 0.961631 | 2,326 |
Address at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Construction of the 95.25 KM National Road No. 41, Starting from the National Road No. 4 at Thnol Torteng, Kampong Speu Province to Chum Kiri District, Kampot Province
May 18, 2011
Your Excellency Pan Guang Xue, China's Ambassador to Kingdom of Cambodia,
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen distinguished national and international Guest,
Dear the compatriots,
Today, I am pleased to be with H.E. Pan Guang Xue again to open the “Construction Site of the National Road No. 41” from Thnol Torteng to Chum Kiri District, following the opening of the construction site of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port at Banteay Dek Commune, Kean Svay District, Kandal Province on March 9, 2011. Along with this, I convey my warmest welcome to Excellencies, Oknhas, ladies and gentlemen distinguished national and international guests, students and all the compatriots who attend this joyous event.
First of all, on behalf of the people and Royal Government of Cambodia, I would like to convey my deepest gratitude to the people and Government of the People’s Republic of China that has provided all kinds of support to develop Cambodia’s physical infrastructure and human resources, especially the development of roads and bridges. Taking this opportunity, I again and again would like to politely request H.E. Pan Guang Xue to forward the deepest gratitude from the people and Royal Government of Cambodia to the people and Government of the People’s Republic of China which is Cambodia’s historic friend and presently one of the most important development partners. China has indeed provided grants and concessional loans without lengthy conditions while Cambodia is in need of rebuilding all sectors, especially transport and human resources. In short, since 2004, China has provided total concessional loans of USD 814 million to Cambodia to rebuild the transport sector which can be translated to 1,472 Kilometeres of roads and 3 long bridges including Sekong Bridge, Prek Kdam Bridge and Prek Tamak Bridge. Moreover, in the near future, the Government of China will provide funding for the construction of Takmao Bridge and New Chroy Changvar Bridge that will become physical infrastructure assets in promoting growth and household income. This support is crucial to the Royal Government’s effort in promoting economic growth and social development, especially when Cambodia is in need of rebuilding the nation following decades of civil war. The development of physical infrastructure aims at providing public services to the people and maximizing public interest and can be regarded as “ locomotive of growth” as well as a matter of life and death for Cambodia. Therefore, Cambodia will always remember and record China’s great deeds in its history.
Along with this, I would also like to commend the management and all levels of officials of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, related ministries and institutions, local authorities and Chinese companies that have worked hard to finish the feasibility study phase and open the construction site at this moment. This new achievement not only improves the people’s standard of living and internal integration but also revitalizes Khmer ancestors’s effort of linking ancient Udong City to coastal zone. According to our history, this was a strategically important road. It not only connected Udong City to coastal zone in Kampot Province for trade exchange with the outside world but also acted as a connection channel with French and other European merchant vessels when the then Khmer required assistance from France to salvage the country from Siameses.
Along with this moment, I would like to congratulate all the compatriots who live and will travel in this area on the achievement of a new road which is a response to your urgent needs and will be operative in the short future.
As H.E Tram Iv Tek, Minister of Public Works and Transport has raised in his report that the national road no. 41 is a new road network that will reduce time to travel or to exchange goods between Phnom Penh and Kampot, or from national road no. 5 to Kampot without passing through Phnom Penh, because this national road links cross-section of national road no. 4 at Tnol Torteng to national road no. 3 at Chumkiri district, Kampot Province. This national road 41 will be constructed according to the road standard level 3 of construction design plan of People Republic of China, the road will be paved with two layers, that is double bituminous surface treatment, with planned budget amounts 46.250.000 US dollars (fourty six millions, two hundred fifty thousand US dollars) and government counterpart budget. The construction will takes 40s months and will be completed in 2014. Indeed, technical study had been done rigorously, comprehensively and deeply including social and environmental impact assessment aiming at ensuring that the road is beneficial and fulfilling longterm traffic condition in line with social evolution. In this sense, I strongly hope that construction of this road will enhance efficiency of vein that feeds and supports Cambodian economy and society to another level, being able to accommodate regional huge transport and freight volume that can bring new national interest, create of a lot of new employment and opportunities for the people as well as to improve and promote education and social welfare.
In short, we can see direct benefits from this new road as such contribution to reduction in poverty and transportation cost, cutting travelling time, and easing people travel nation-wide and regional transportation from national road no. 5 where transportation from Cambodia-Thailand border concentrates. On the other hand, because Kampot is costal area, linking to Kep province, linking to Bokor that is Cambodia’s magnificent ecological tourist site, the national road 41 will facilitate tourism flow as well. Moreover, Kampot is a region potential of agriculture and industrial development, especially famous cement and salt, as well fertile land for planting pepper, rambutan and durian and other sea products that answers demand of Cambodian people, and development of these sectors will rely on this road like we asserted that having road is having everything, road will bring prosperity, like Chinese proverb puts “if you want do successful business, build road first” and Cambodian slogan says “having road is having hope”. Obviously, this national road 41 will accelerate implementation of key strategies for development of costal sea corridor area that international development partners had studied and taken as base in conformity to national development plan of the Royal Government of Cambodia, with main goals to integrate and link every domestic areas, particularly linking remote area to the populated ones, and facilitate integration with neighboring countries in the region for the cause of economies, trade and cooperation with objectives to maintain peace, security and regional and domestic development. Separately, this road reminds us of history of maintaining sovereignty, land integrity, national prestige, and fulfilling dream and hope of people living along this road namely Kampongspeu, Kandal, Takeo and Kampot. At the same time, this road revitalizes wish of Khmer King during Ang Duong era for which His Majesty have paved this way and name it Preah Ang Duong Road. Later then, this road was severely destroyed during war time. So far, journey passing this road was very difficult, particularly during rainy season, because links are under severe damage and unpassable. Having seen that people still use this road, I ordered military civil engineers to pave laterite and replace wooden bridge with metal ones. Fortunately, later we have very close development partners i.e. People Republic of China who has provided credit timely to reconstruct and improve efficiency of this national road 41 with high standard by DBST and widening width of the road for better access, to make it conducive to business and help promote trade and economic activities along costal corridor which is beneficial to our people.
In highly prideful spirit for achievements that we has been building by active efforts by the leadership and technical officials of ministries-institutions and local authorities as well as cooperation from development partners, especially great friend China, reconstruction, construction and development and maintenance of road bridges nation-wide remain constantly active to succeed in reducing hardship and poverty of the people. A line with development of all sectors and optimism about bright future of Cambodia, I would like to appeal to all leadership and technical officials of ministries-institutions, all levels of local authorities, and separately leadership and technical officials of ministry of public works and transport must continue cooperating to work further in order to promote development and maintenance of transportation network to ensure traffic continuity at everywhere, near and far nation-wide, connecting to neighboring countries and the region.
At the same time, the contribution and support from all compatriots are the neccessary factors that cannot be absent in promoting the process of constructing, improving and maintaining roads, in which you have to be tolerant with the settlement that has impact on land and accomodation and you have to respect the use of road pavement and the traffic law, which is the major challenge, aiming to reduce mortality caused by traffic accidents as planned in order to secure the safety of property and human lives.
In this spirit, I would like to remind our compatriots once again to be more careful with driving by following the speed limit, wearing helmet and seatbelt, and by not drinking alcohol if driving, and especially prevent the overweight transportation, which is the root cause of destroying bridges-roads.
At the same time, on behalf of the Royal Government and people of Cambodia, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Government and people of development partners and various international agencies, who have always provided credits for the restoration and development of Cambodia in all sectors. I would like to express appreciation and encourage the management and officials of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, local authotity and all related institutions, who have been trying their utmost to cooperate in actively implementing the construction of bridges-roads through out the country.
In particular, I would like to congratulate and encourage the China Road and Bridge Corporation that has been successful in bidding for construction project implementation, and the Guangzhou Wanan Construction Supervision that has to be in charge of construction technicality. Please be informed that Cambodian people have put strong hope on the two companies in implemening their respective duties on the the construction of national road No.41 to be completed as planned or before the schedule with high quality standard.
At the end, together with the inauguration of the “Construction of Road No.41 from the corner of National Road No.4 at Thnorl Totoeng to Chum Kiri” now, I would like to wish the venerable monks, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished national and international guests, civil servants, teachers and students and all compatriots the four gems of Buddhist blessing: Longevity, Nobility, Health and Strength. | <urn:uuid:e3d83ee2-746b-4a3a-abdf-8a24a2c8f369> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://primeministerhunsen.blogspot.com/2011/05/address-at-groundbreaking-ceremony-for.html?showComment=1531468069669 | 2019-08-20T03:01:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315222.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820024110-20190820050110-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.951355 | 2,216 |
After coming across this great article which blows up some of the insidious lies that cripple our debate about our country's social safety-net, I remembered a piece I wrote back in June for my previous blog, and I thought it would be worth republishing here.
Poverty Beats His Children
The other day, a friend of mine voiced the opinion on Facebook that America is the ultimate land of opportunity, and that people who are in poverty are at fault for blaming others for their plight. It was, he argued, a question of perspective. If people are poor, he argued, they should take more responsibility for their circumstances.
My friend isn’t a greedy or hurtful person. Though we haven’t seen each other in almost two decades, based on the pictures of his beautiful, happy family, he strikes me as somebody who has his priorities in order. But this statement got under my skin and has been itching. I’ve been scratching at this for a little over a week now, and I’m not quite sure how to express why this irritates me so much.
Should I begin on purely factual grounds? He states, without evidence, that the United States is one of the foremost countries which provides its people with the ability to raise themselves out of poverty. “Unlike nearly any other country, you can start in poverty and move into the middle or upper income bracket within a few short years...definitely into a generation.” What he’s describing is something economists call "social mobility." It’s measurable. And he’s simply wrong. At best, we rank 4th. When other factors are included, like unemployment, inflation, and respondents’ satisfaction to standard-of-living and employment opportunities, the U.S. comes in 18th. Of the 195 countries our government recognizes, that means we’re not even in the top 5%. That hardly sounds like “unlike nearly any other country” to me.
Or should I challenge his notion that income inequality is irrelevant? He claims that we don’t have “haves” and “have nots”, but “has” and “has more.” This sounds like merely bit of optimistic semantics. It’s all in one’s perspective, he claims. But that’s wrong, too. The distance between the “have nots” and the “has mores” produces real world consequences. According to economists, it impedes growth in a number of ways. It doesn’t take a lot of economics training to imagine why this would be. People who are far down the economic ladder can’t demand higher salaries. Beggars don’t haggle. When they have lower salaries, they can’t buy as many goods. The ultra-wealthy still live very well, thank you, but they store their money in accounts rather than investing in businesses which sell goods to people on the bottom of the income spectrum because that’s a better investment. If you reduce the buying power of the poor, you reduce the selling opportunities for the rich. This leads to less sales, less employment, less of what economists call “churning”: money growing because it’s changing hands in exchange for real goods and services. Widening income inequality makes some people much richer, and creates the illusion of economic growth when the total GDP is divided to become the Per Capita GDP, but in truth the standard of living of the vast majority of people decreases.
But this kind of sunny optimism is worse than just bad economics. In my friend’s defense of his position, he cites Christian scripture, pointing out that people have an obligation to use the talents they’ve been given to achieve success. He cites the parable in Matthew about the bags of gold entrusted to servants, Matthew 25:14-30. This is what an English teacher would call “bad reading.” The passage is clearly not about money, it’s about faith. The master says, quite clearly, “You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!” If the parable were about money, one would have to imagine that the “things” Jesus is teaching his disciples to take care of are quantities of money. This from a man who told people that they should take all they have and give it to the poor? This from a man who told people to give Caesar his coins back? This from a man who told people that wealth would make it more difficult to get into heaven? This from a man who told people not to store up their treasures on earth? This from a man who, at least according to scripture, was aware that his death was imminent and yet spent more time talking about concern for the poor than any other single topic during the limited time of his ministry? It’s certainly a convenient interpretation to use when one is trying to justify an investment strategy, but it cannot be justified by the text as a whole.
That’s not what bothers me, either, though. I’m not a Christian. If Christians want to pick apart their scripture to justify widening income inequality and callous disregard for the plight of the poor, that’s their business. They can write a new translation which actually includes the phrase “pull yourselves up by your bootstraps,” stick it into the Sermon on the Mount, and shove those words into Jesus’ mouth, and if that’s what they all decide they believe, who am I to argue? I could point out that it’s a very different interpretation of scripture than other Christians have had before, tantamount to a different religion, something earlier Christians would have called a heresy, but they could quite correctly retort that Christianity has changed a lot over the years. Some have learned to read around the misogyny. Most have learned to stop using scripture as a justification for racism and slavery. A growing number are even learning to get around the bigotry towards homosexuals that’s clearly in the text. So if they want to decide that all the commands to care for the poor, to suffer with those who suffer, and to recognize worldy wealth as a threat to their salvation are just cultural relics of a time gone by and scold the poor for having bad attitudes, it is absolutely within their 1st amendment rights to do so, and they can take that up with their god when they get to the end of the road. That’s no longer my business.
Except I have to live with these people. And not just this particularly venal and callous kind of Christian, but with a greedy and self-defeating kind of American. This kind of attitude has real-world policy implications which harm my country, my community, my family.
No, that’s not it, either. I can abide people I disagree with, even when their beliefs harm me and mine. I can live with people who deny evolution even though their beliefs hurt our country’s international reputation and our scientific competitiveness. I can live with people who have regressive beliefs about immigration even though their selective notions of law enforcement will split up families, hurt our own economy, and ultimately fail to do anything but align them with racists. I can live with people who deny the reality of global climate change even though their intransigence will have dramatic and disastrous effects on the economic, political, and even physical health of their fellow citizens. I can live with people I find to be wrong. Why? Because I am sure I’m wrong about some things, too, and I’m sure the ways I’m wrong will injure others. Of course, I don’t know how I’m wrong. As Wittgenstien pointed out, “If there were a verb meaning ‘to believe falsely,’ it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.” If I’m wrong about something, I can’t know it at the time. But I can assume I am wrong because I know I’ve been wrong before, and because I know that being wrong about some things has always appeared to be an essential characteristic of every other human being with whom I’ve come into contact, including those people who are far smarter and far wiser than I am. I try to surround myself with the kind of people who can tell me how I am wrong, and I’ll bet this post may motivate a few of them. I may not know what god to believe in, but I do believe in people, complete with all their absurdity and outright folly. Sartre said “Hell is other people,” but I think other people are the point of existence. Without them, including all their multifaceted wrong-ness, life would be meaningless. An un-observed tree falling in a forest may or may not make a sound, but a man in a crowd who doesn’t care about any of the people around him makes no difference.
I think my friend doesn’t understand poverty (and again, he is in the company of my middle class friends who climbed out of it themselves). Poverty is an abusive father who beats his children. He stands in the foyer of his house, punching them and kicking them, and they cower in the corner, curled up into tight little balls, trying to protect themselves. Every day his blows rain down on them, but while he beats them, he tells them to get out of his house. Behind him, the door is open. For some, it’s open wide. They are gifted with intelligence, athletic ability, good looks, resilience, perhaps an indomitable will. For others, the door is open just a tiny crack, smaller even than their little bodies. Maybe they are not exceptionally smart or brave or beautiful. Maybe they are afraid to leave the house that at least protects them from the weather. For whatever reason, some of these children remain cowering in the corner, while others make a break for it, scrambling for the door. Some of these escaping children run and don’t look back. “I made it out. Why can’t they? It’s their fault.” Others stay inside all their lives. But here’s the greatest atrocity: We are standing out on the sidewalk, and we can always see into the door, at least a little. We can see Poverty beating down the poor. And, to my amazement, many of us say, “It is their fault. Why don’t they take responsibility for their circumstances? Look at the way their choices keep them inside the house of Poverty?” But we stay out on the sidewalk. I want to ask my friend and anyone else talking about taking personal responsibility for poverty: "Who is supposed to take responsibility for where you stand while the poor suffer? Isn’t that up to you?" | <urn:uuid:e9c9e756-0a22-421a-96f1-f24f7873b3c6> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.teachergorman.com/blog/tag/Class | 2019-08-20T04:29:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315222.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820024110-20190820050110-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.973843 | 2,302 |
The Pyongyang Marathon, also known as Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon, is an annual marathon race. In 2020 the Marathon will be contested on April 12 in Pyongyang. The International Association of Athletics Federation designates the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon as a bronze-label event and it registers the records of professional marathon runners who attend the marathon.
The registration for the Pyongyang International Marathon 2020 is OPEN
Local and foreign, amateur and professional runners take part in the marathon. All amateur runners will be awarded with official certificates, t-shirts and souvenir medals!
There will be local football matches taking place in Kim Il Sung stadium after the start of the race, and so anyone who wants to watch the marathon instead of taking part in it - is more than welcome to do so.
The 2020 Pyongyang International Marathon is now OPEN for registration
To participate in the Marathon you can choose between joining one of our existing group tours OR book an individiual tour.
All amateur runners will be awarded with official certificates, t-shirts and souvenir medals!
See you at the stadium!
Registration for the Marathon
We are proud to help international runners to sign-up for the Marathon. Please note that It’s not possible to register for the race on your own or to enter the Pyongyang Marathon without being part of a group tour. You should book a tour with Korea Konsult - either join one of our group Marathon tours or an individual tour.
To sign up for the Pyongyang Marathon you should choose which distance you want to run (see the table above for the details) and let us know your choice while booking one of our tours. Please feel free to ask us any question: [email protected]
42km: you should either FINISH or STOP within 4.5 hours (stadium closes after 4 hours)
21km: you should either FINISH or STOP within 2.5 hours
10km: you should either FINISH or STOP within 2 hours
5km: you should either FINISH or STOP within 2 hours
WATCH THE MARATHON
Watch sporting events in the Kim Il Sung Stadium:
local soccer/football match and runners returning to the stadium in their last lap
* Note that all fees should be paid in cash in Pyongyang
Who Can Run the Marathon
There are no restrictions on participants, anyone can run in the amateur marathon together with professional runners. To qualify for the professional marathon, men must provide an official record time from the past 3 years of less than 2h 27m and women a record of less than 2h 38m.
There are no official qualifying times for the amateur marathon. However, you should either finish or stop within 4.5 hours. If you do not finish within the allocated time, a bus will pick you up and escort you back to the stadium. The streets will be re-open to traffic at about 2pm.
The marathon was held for the first time in 1981 for men, and the women's event was initiated in 1984. The 27th annual Mangyongdae Prize Marathon in 2014 was opened to foreign amateur runners for the first time, allowing some relatively ordinary athletes a unique view of one of the world's most mysterious countries. Foreign professionals won two Pyongyang marathons).
In 2014 Pyongyang hosted 225 amateurs from 27 countries with participants coming from Sweden, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, China, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Namibia, South Africa, Rwanda, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, U.K., Australia, Canada and others. In 2016 there were almost 1,000 participants.
More than 42,000 spectators in Kim Il-sung Stadium cheered them on, in addition to thousands more on the streets of Pyongyang to applaud, cheer and high-five the runners.
The 2015 marathon was initially closed to foreigners because of concerns about Ebola, but this decision has since been reversed after the reopening of the North Korean border in March 2015.
Full Marathon Winners
Pak Chol (DPRK)
Kim Ji Hyang (DPRK)
David Dover (Australia)
Jekaterina Stepanova (Estonia)
Pak Chol (DPRK)
Jo Un Ok (DPRK)
Ales Debeljak (Slovakia)
ShuEn Wang (China)
Ri Kang Bom (DPRK)
Kim Hye Song (DPRK)
Samuel Tibbs (UK)
Stine Andersen (Denmark)
Ri Kang Bom (DPRK)
Ri Kwang Ok (DPRK)
Egor Vinogradov (Russia)
Moa Ellenor Kjellstrand (Sweden)
The race takes place in Pyongyang - the capital of North Korea, it starts and finishes at the Kim Il Sung Stadium (in 2016 the marathon took place in May Day Stadium because Kim Il Sung Stadium was under reconstruction). Professionals and amateurs will start at the same location and time. The route is basically a 10km-long loop around Pyongyang:
those who run the 10km do this loop once and finish by Pyongyang’s Arch of Triumph
those who run the Half Marathon do the loop twice
those who run the Full Marathon do the loop four times. The Full will finish inside Kim Il Sung Stadium.
Pyongyang in Korean means "flat area", what is important for the runners - the marathon is a street course with no significant elevation. There will be distance markers throughout the course, so it will be possible to know how long to go before the finish line. There will also be cars with digital timers to let runners know how much time left.
Turning Point – return course to Kim Il Sung Stadium
Food & Drink Along the Route
There will be also 2 water stations per every 10km and restroom stops along the way. However, there will be no any energy drinks (such as Gatorade) provided. If you want to bring an energy drink, we recommend carrying it with you during the race. You’re welcome to bring your own snacks for after the race. Lunch will be after the awards ceremony.
Taking Pictures Along the Route / GPS/ GoPro / Phone
Officially, you are not allowed to bring any of these devices to the race. However, based on our experience you can freely take pictures along the route and bring devices with GPS.
All runners will be required to report to the stadium at approximately 7.40 am. Runners will be brought into the stadium according to their marathon length where most of the spectators will already be seated so expect a very warm welcome!
There will be a pre-race ceremony starting at 8am. The race lasts from 9.00 am to 13.30. The finish line for the amateur runners who run back to the stadium within 4 hours is inside the stadium, but in case of the amateur runners who run over 4 hours, it is outside the stadium. All runners must complete the race not later than at 13.30. Runners who still have some distance to go at the cut-off time will be escorted back to the stadium by bus.
All runners are invited to participate in the race’s opening ceremony, which involves a lap of Kim Il Sung Stadium in front of a clapping crowd. After the race has finished, there will be a post-race award ceremony, where the top three in each category take their place on the stadium’s podium for the award ceremony and receiving medals and prizes.
All runners can choose between wearing an official marathon t-shirt provided by Marathon organizers or their own t-shirt free from big logos or national symbols. Runners will be expected to wear athletic clothes on the field. Once inside the stadium, runners will have approximately 15-20 minutes to change clothes and prepare for the race. In the evening before the marathon you’ll be given a number to pin (pins also will be given) to your shirt during the race. All runners must have a number affixed to their shirts.
Foreign runners are prohibited from carrying national flags or wearing clothing with writing deemed inappropriate or politically motivated. The safest option is to wear solid colors, no pictures or slogans.
In most cases your regular running sneakers and shorts will qualify you for the run. Runners are permitted to carry phones and music devices during the race.
The race starts and finishes at the
Kim Il Sung Stadium filled with about 50,000 local spectators. Many runners said that the atmosphere before the race was incredible –- the highlight of the trip and something that will stay with you forever. The reception the runners got when they entered the stadium was staggering –- everyone waving, clapping, cheering, etc. It was like being an Olympic athlete. The energy was crazy. "When you’re part of a throng of more than 1,000 international athletes emerging from a tunnel into the stadium to an echoing fanfare and tens of thousands of cheering Koreans, you remember where you are – and, wonderfully, where we came from doesn’t matter ". North Koreans also lined the entire race route along major sites in the city from the Arch of Triumph to the Rungra Bridge. Running through the streets of Pyongyang with hundreds of local runners is an amazing experience.
"When your hand and shoulder ache from high-fiving rows of children, grannies and people in uniform lining the marathon route through Pyongyang, or when you can get thousands of North Korean spectators to cheer all the louder just by raising your arms, it’s a connection, they’re people just like us". Gaggles of children will hold their arms out, shout hello, and jostle towards you if you stop for banter, but for a photo they might scatter just as they might strike a pose.
One participant recalls "my overriding memory of the run itself is the people on the streets. On the first lap the local people, especially the kids, were quite shy – they would wave and then hide behind their parents giggling," he said. "By the fourth lap there were kids screaming 'hello!' from every angle, four generations of families shouting 'good luck' and 'well done' in Korean and infinite friendly, welcoming smiles and waves. I’ve never high-fived so many people in my life. I’ve never high-fived so many people in my life."
"I'm over the moon," said another runner, "and the support from the Korean public has been overwhelming. Nowhere else in the world could I possibly get up on a winning podium." | <urn:uuid:447f08e5-4724-4e1d-b4d5-ada4c782e5c1> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://koreakonsult.com/Attraction_marathon_eng.html?lang=fra | 2019-08-21T10:29:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315865.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821085942-20190821111942-00360.warc.gz | en | 0.929343 | 2,184 |
It's June 23. The San Francisco Giants are 75 games into a dreadful season where they've won just 27 games. Mark Melancon, the closer who the Giants inked for 62 million dollars in the offseason, has appeared in just 31.7 percent of games in which he was on the active roster.
This number is currently the lowest percentage among all bullpen arms, whether they are still on the team or not.
- Steven Okert: 54.3%
- Hunter Strickland: 44.8%
- Josh Osich: 43.8%
- Derek Law: 43.1%
- George Kontos: 42.7%
- Sam Dyson: 41.7%
- Bryan Morris: 40.0%
- Cory Gearrin: 37.3%
- Neil Ramirez: 36.0%
- Mark Melancon: 31.7%
You might say, "Well, the Giants just haven't had enough save opportunities!"
Because he is the closer, right? He comes into the game to get saves. That's his job.
But he's still the best reliever on the staff. Forget about his 2017 numbers. He owned a 1.64 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, and reasonable 24.1 K% in 2016 split between Pittsburgh and Washington. His highest ERA in any season since 2013 was 2.23 in 2015. And during all four seasons between 2013 and 2016, his WHIP sat below 0.96.
Thrown in with the names above, he's without question the best of the bunch. So, doesn't that mean he should pitch in the most games? Or at the absolute very least be in the top three in percentage of games used?
He's dead last. 62 million over four years pitching in 4.3% fewer games than the guy in second to last and in 8.3% fewer games than a guy signed to a minor-league contract to replace a guy previously signed to a minor-league contract.
Again, you'll say," The Giants are so bad that there haven't been any games to save!"
So it begs the question: Is this normal? Is this what is supposed to happen? Do team's best relievers who are also the closer get used less frequently if their team is bad and/or has fewer save opportunities?
Let's look at the 1997 San Diego Padres. They finished the season 76-86. Their closer and best reliever was Trevor Hoffman. And their manager? Bruce Bochy. How often was Hoffman used? Did the Padres have more save opportunities?
Fifty-five games revealed save situations in 1997 for the Padres, meaning 33.9% of the entire season resulted in a save chance for someone late in the game. Only 20 games have required saving in the Giants' 75 games, which is 26.7% of the season.
Does this justify using your closer less?
First we'll note Melancon's use on average days rest since 2013.
- 2013: 1.5
- 2014: 1.5
- 2015: 1.3
- 2016: 1.5
- 2017: 2.5
Keep that in mind as we progress.
Hoffman in 1997 appeared in 70 games. He was never not on the active roster, so that gives him a 43.2% mark in 162 games. The Padres were 5.5 games or more behind the division leader from April 26 until the end of the year. And it only moved below 7.0 games back five times. So, like the 2017 Giants, they were really never in contention from very early on.
Hoffman recorded 37 saves in 44 opportunities that year. So that leaves 26 more appearances that were not save situations, or 37.1% of his overall use. What are those appearances comprised of? Mop-up work to keep him fresh?
I'm going to sort all 26 non-save uses into separate categories.
- Home, 8th inning or later, tie game: 9
- Road, 8th inning or later, tied or behind by 1: 4
- 3+ days rest, behind 2+ runs: 4
- 0-2 days rest, ahead 4+ runs: 3
- 0-2 days rest, behind 2+ runs: 2
- Home, 9th inning or later, behind by 1: 2
- 3+ days rest, ahead 4+ runs: 2
Hoffman's average days rest in 1997 was 1.6. His average days rest a year later in 1998 when the Padres went 98-64 and lost in the World Series was 1.8. He, like 1997, did not hit the disabled list and was active for 162 games. He appeared in 66 games, which is a 40.7% mark.
Melancon has recorded 11 saves in 15 opportunities. So that leaves five more appearances that were not save situations, or 25.0% of his overall use. Now, employing those same categories, when has Melancon been used by Bochy in 2017 during non-save situations?
- Home, 8th inning or later, tie game: 3
- 3+ days rest, behind 2+ runs: 1
- 3+ days rest, ahead 4+ runs: 1
This leaves a 12.1% difference between the use of Hoffman in 1997 and the use of Melancon in 2017 — both in similarly losing seasons. To get Melancon up to 37.1%, on par with Hoffman in 1997, Bochy would have had to have used Melcanon four more times up until this point.
Remember Hoffman's days rest average of 1.6 versus Melancon's 2.5. Hoffman was used on four or more days of rest in only 13.0% of his outings. On the other hand, Melancon has been used on four or more days rest in 33.3% of his outings, including once on nine days rest.
Where might Bochy have been able to use Melancon this year that would be in line with his use of Hoffman in 1997?
- April 7 at San Diego: Down 7-6 in the eighth inning, Derek Law was used. Melancon had not pitched since April 2. Law pitched fine, but Melancon would now go into the next game on five days rest.
- April 15 vs. Colorado: Down 5-0 in the ninth inning, Ty Blach was used. Melancon had not pitched since April 10. Blach pitched fine, but Melancon would go into the next game on five days rest.
- April 23 at Colorado: Down 8-0 in the eighth inning, Hunter Strickland was used. Melancon had not pitched since April 16. Strickland pitched fine, but Melancon would go into the next game on five days rest.
- June 15 at Colorado: Hunter Strickland, having pitched the previous two nights, faced the Rockies' 4, 5, and 6 hitters in the bottom of the ninth inning in a tie game. Strickland gave up a single, got an out, and walked a guy. With runners on first and second and one out, Melancon, having not pitched since June 8, sat in the bullpen. The Giants lost two pitches later.
- June 17 at Colorado: Down 5-1 in the eighth inning on the road, Cory Gearrin was used. Melancon had still not pitched since June 8. Gearrin had pitched three previous times between Melancon's last use and June 17.
April 7 and June 15 fall into the "Road, 8th inning or later, tied or behind by 1" category, which Bochy utilized four times in 1997. He has yet to do it in 2017.
April 15, April 23, and June 17 fall into the "3+ days rest, behind 2+ runs" category, which happened four times in 1997, and has happened once in 2017.
June 17 is the most glaring lack of use. It was the perfect opportunity to get Melancon fresh for any potential future save situations, considering he would have been pitching on nine days rest if he pitched the next day.
He did pitch the next day — and he blew his fourth save of the year.
It appears, when just comparing 1997 to 2017, Bochy made a concerted effort with Hoffman to keep him fresh, using him in "mop-up" type situations. Six times Hoffman was used in either the "3+ days rest, behind 2+ runs" or "3+ days rest, ahead 4+ runs" category.
And during all four uses in the "Road, 8th inning or later, tied or behind by 1" category, Hoffman was pitching on three or more days rest, including once on six days rest.
These are perfect uses. Whether at home or on the road, pitching in the eighth inning or later when either tied or down one is a high leverage situation. When the closer hasn't pitched in three or more days, this is an ideal chance to keep him fresh while not having to throw him out there in mop-up work. You can essentially keep him fresh specifically for high-leverage work without it actually being a save opportunity.
Bochy has yet to use Melancon in this situation in 2017.
This isn't even addressing the subject of closer use before the eighth inning. All proposed uses of Melancon in 2017 are simply in an effort to keep him more fresh, and are in line with previous Bochy practices.
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