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Home Talk Brian Kilmeade
Bret Baier: For Donald Trump To Say That Fox News Is Against Him Really Boggles The Mind
"For Donald Trump to say that Fox News, as an entity, is against him, it really boggles the mind. He has appeared on Fox News Channel almost 200 times since announcing his run for president and arguably the town hall with Sean Hannity, one would think would balance out any minor criticism from or even substantial criticism from one panelist here and there. Listen, we are going to cover the race fairly, we always have from the beginning. I don't think it does him any good to stir up any anti Fox feelings because I think overall, he has been treated fairly by the network."
---Bret Baier responding to Donald Trump saying Fox News treats him poorly while being interviewed by Howie Kurtz on Media Buzz
Chief Political Anchor for Fox News & Anchor of Special Report, Bret Baier called into Kilmeade & Friends to preview tomorrow's primary and discusses Donald Trump saying Fox News treats him poorly
Bret Baier on Trump saying Fox News treats him poorly
(BAIER) Howie {Kurtz} could have pushed back a little bit more on the fair and balanced side just to be honest. There are people who have a problem with some of the things Donald Trump has said and some of the policies he has not articulated. There is nothing wrong with that, that happens covering campaigns We have covered the race fairly from the beginning. For Donald Trump to say that Fox News, as an entity, is against him, it really boggles the mind. He has appeared on Fox News Channel almost 200 times since announcing his run for president and arguably the town hall with Sean Hannity, one would think would balance out any minor criticism from or even substantial criticism from one panelist here and there. Listen, we are going to cover the race fairly, we always have from the beginning. I don't think it does him any good to stir up any anti Fox feelings because I think overall, he has been treated fairly by the network.
Marco Rubio: I Believe Immigration Is Good For America But It Has To Be Via A System Of Laws That Have To Be Followed And Enforced
Tony Robbins Offers 3 Things That You Can Do in 2021 To Take Control in What Seems Like an Uncontrollable World
Dr. Shelby Steele: Freedom Is The Biggest Problem Black America Now Has
Jason Miller: It's Still Pretty Clear That President Trump Is The Big Voice Of The Republican Party
Senator Rick Scott Has Not Seen Evidence That President Trump Incited The Riots At The Capitol
Congressman Michael Waltz Reacts To Congresswomen Mikie Sherrill & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Comments On Republican's Role In The Capitol Siege


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Daphna Golan-Agnon has gained international recognition as one of the most courageous and eloquent voices for a more just Israeli society. In this moving memoir, she writes of her early years in a right-wing Israeli household as the daughter of a former member of the Stern Gang, her marriage into the family of the country's most eminent novelist, and her efforts to raise children in a society caught up in violence and instability while working simultaneously for political change.
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The Sea to Sky Gondola will re-open ahead of schedule next month. Here it is in operation in 2015.
Photo Credit: GoToVan on Flickr, license
The Sea to Sky Gondola in Canada is re-opening ahead of schedule. The gondola will open February 14, over a month earlier than projected. The new 4.4 km haul rope and 30 cabins are in the air and ready for final inspections. The investigation of the incident, covered by The Gondola Project previously, is still ongoing.
The Skyride Gondola at Lake Placid Olympic Jumping Complex in New York State is open. The $2.9 million system was built and installed by Doppelmayr, with installation taking less than a year. The enclosed gondolas can each carry up to eight people.
The Bhaleydhunga passenger ropeway in India is expected to be open by October 2020. The project started in November 2014 and was originally anticipated to be completed in 36 months. The three-year delay was due to forest clearance, harsh weather conditions, and a limited power source. The ropeway will have three stations and will take 12 to 16 minutes to travel the 2,000 meters in elevation between the lower and upper stations.
The Likoni Cable Express project in Kenya has been canceled by local senators. The construction of the project was approved in August 2018 with construction set to begin in 2019. However, land disputes between transportation agencies delayed construction and during that time government officials reconsidered the project and pulled back from the public-private partnership.
DIGI telecommunications launch's first real-time virtual cable car experience! DIGI partnered with Malaysia Airports and Panorama Langkawi to implement this tourism experience in the Malaysia Airport. The objective of the virtual ride is to promote ridership of cable cars to visitors and boost tourism. The virtual experience is the world's steepest cable car ride, the Langkawi SkyCab.
The Alaska Junction in West Seattle, Washington State, USA, is one of the sites that The Urbanist recommends the city of Seattle consider for an urban gondola.
Photo Credit: Joe Mabel [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]
Urban gondolas could be the complement Seattle needs for its new light rail, according to The Urbanist. The article cites that the minimal footprint and cost of a ropeway system compared to alternative modes of rapid transit, such as a subway or elevated line, make for a better last mile alternative.
Ajloun cable car in Jordan is expected to open in June of 2021. The 2.85 km system, designed to increase tourism, will be a monocable gondola with 8-person cabins. The line will have three stations and carry visitors to the Ajloun Castle. Construction and development near the stations will bring cafes, restaurants, a five-star hotel and other attractions.
Simon Frazer University's new president is pushing for the Burnaby Mountain gondola. The system will connect the SFU campus to the SkyTrain station. Currently, three different alignments are being analyzed by TransLink. The gondola is estimated to cost $197 million and have a lower operating cost than the current bus service.
A new cable car project in Penang, Malaysia is expected to get underway by the end of 2020, carrying people from the Penang Botanic Garden to Penang Hill. Currently, visitors make the trip via a funicular or roadway. The funicular, which carries 100 people per trip, has proven unreliable and has considerable wait times due to limited space at the top of Penang Hill. A gondola spreads out the number of people arriving at the top at one time, as well as reduces wait times for getting up and down the hill.
Nothing like being stuck on the Disney Skyliner and being told to open emergency pack. pic.twitter.com/4BmT2eJuqf
— Michael Kelly (@Spoons7474) December 30, 2019
The Walt Disney World Skyliner, in Orlando, Florida, experienced some malfunctions this week, causing some passengers to have prolonged stays inside the cabins.
The D'shala-McLeodhanj ropeway in India is expected to be up and running by June of 2020, helping to improve traffic congestion during the peak tourism season. The 1.75 km line will have the capacity to move 1,000 people per hour using a mono-cable detachable gondola system with 18-24 cabins. Construction of the system's infrastructure is almost complete, and the installation of the ropeway system is expected to begin soon.
Residents in the remote Abuluaha Village in southwest China now have cable car service to increase their access to goods and services. The 4.2 km ropeway system replaces residents need to cover the same distance by climbing three hours up and down the mountain. The cabins, with a capacity of one ton, are able to carry up to eight people, as well as produce and motorbikes. The total travel time is 20 minutes.
According to guests, the Walt Disney World Skyliner continues to have malfunctions. On December 29, visitors were stuck on the Skyliner for long enough that they were instructed to open the emergency kits in the cabin. The gondola doors are also causing issues, appearing to open, close, or stay closed at unintended times. Despite the struggles, the Skyliner remains open, even extending hours to serve visitor demand.
Phuket, Thailand continues Sky Way cable car planning. With the success of the Phuket Quoc Cable Car, the integration of Sky Way system on the island is expected to further boost tourism. The currently proposed alignment will be 3 km with three stations and a great view of the city.
Eagle's Rest has opened in Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming. The lift replaces the original one which was removed in 2016. The new 281-vertical-foot lift provides access for beginners to expanded and less hectic terrain.
A promotional rendering of the Austrian Schlading-Dachstein ski resort new gondola system from 2018, that has now become reality.
Bhawan-Bhairon passenger ropeway is celebrating a successful first year! The system was commissioned on December 24, 2018 and has carried 2 million visitors since that time. The aerial tramway can carry as many as 800 people an hour to an altitude of 6,600 feet to the Holy Cave Shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi.
Schladming-Dachstein ski resort in Austria has updated their six-seater lift with Doppelmayr's D-Line 10-seater gondola. The system's capacity will increase by more than 70%, with the ability to transport 3,800 pph. The new lift takes 12 minutes to travel 3.6km to the top station. The cabins also are of a unique design. They are made primarily with glass, giving riders expansive views, and have individual wood and leather seats.
Mt Ruapehu is now New Zealand's hottest summer destination with the opening of Sky Waka. The $25 million gondola was constructed in just 8 months. The tourist attraction travels 1.8km to Mt Ruapehu peak, where there are attractions such as cafes, restaurants, and retail stores.
The Trebevic cable car has become one of the must-see destinations for all tourists coming to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the article, the reconstruction of the 2.2 km long cable car is one of the most important post-war developments related to economic development. The system has had over one million visitors since the grand opening in April of 2018.
Weekly Roundup: Checking Lists
A view of the Phuket Quoc Cable Car in Vietnam, a system that made Thaiger's top 10 things to do in Vietnam.
The Sea to Sky Gondola reached another milestone this month with the arrival of 30 new cabins. Located in British Columbia, Canada, in August of 2019 the system's haul rope wires were deliberately cut by a vandal, causing the cabins to crash to the ground. Since then, crews have been working to re-establish the popular tourist attraction; the new haul rope has already been installed. The gondola is estimated to reopen in the Spring of 2020 and include security system enhancements.
In India, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority is working to reduce travel times between villages by replacing ferry rides with a new ropeway system. The aerial ropeway would directly connect to the Metro 2A line, providing important last mile connectivity. It was also noted the Mumbai Port Trust is planning construction of what would be India's longest ropeway, intended to boost tourism. It would travel 8km in 14 minutes connecting Sewree to the Elephanta Island.
This article calls out the longest cable car in the world, Phuket Quoc Cable Car, as one of the Top 10 things to do in Phu Quoc, Vietnam. The cable car flies over the sea, coral reefs, and three islands before reaching Pineapple Island.
The Zagreb Gondola expects to open May 31, 2020. The government of the city of Zagreb, Croatia finalized the financing for construction of this project on December 18th. The gondola will travel 5.02 km to the highest peak of the Medvednica mountain in north Zagreb. The system, with 84 10-person cabins, is designed to carry 1,500 people per hour per direction (pphpd).
Weekly Roundup: Looking into the Future
The gondola system at Niseko Village on the island of Hokkaido, Japan, may be in line for an upgrade should Sapporo City submit the winning bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics.
Photo Credit: MIKI Yoshihito via Flickr, License
Niseko Village may be getting a significant expansion if Sapporo City's bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics is successful. Located on the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the Village has been identified as a potential venue for four alpine events, following an assessment of the slope, difficulty, and snow quality of the resort's runs. If Sapporo City is selected as the host, Niseko Village would add new gondolas, lifts and terrain.
The Adivaram-Lakkidi cable car project in India is continuing its forward momentum. This major tourism project is planned to begin with around 50 cable cars, replacing the need to travel 23km of road with a 3.7km cable car ride. The total travel time is estimated to be 12 minutes.
After being down for a little more than a week, Steamboat Resort's new $15 Million gondola reopened December 5. The fastest gondola in North America, the new system first opened November 23 but was shut down the next day due to a gearbox malfunction that occurred after-hours. The gondola has eight-person cabins and a quicker speed, increasing hourly passenger capacity by 38 percent.
The Dursey Island cable car celebrated 50 years this week! Significant growth in tourism has prompted interest in updating the system. Read more in a previous Weekly Roundup post, about the push for a new €7 million cable car.
Kishtwar's Public Works Department, PWD, in India installed a ropeway system within 5 days. The aerial ropeway system is a cradle box that has to be manually pulled across the river. This is not a typical system but demonstrates how even a simple design can have a significant benefit to a community. This ropeway cuts the travel distance for goods by 18km.
Weekly Roundup: System Updates Required
The Cloudsplitter gondola in Lake Placid, New York as of January 2012. The 20-year-old system is getting a $2.4 million update.
Photo credit: Marco Metzler via Flickr, license
The Couldsplitter gondola in Lake Placid, New York is getting a $2.4 million update. The Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has contracted with Doppelmayr USA to replace all the gondola cabins and related infrastructure, among other things. Doppelmayr manufactured and installed the original gondola 20 years ago.
In France, ski resorts are spending millions of dollars reinforcing cable car supports and other structures due to thawing permafrost which previously served as a natural cement. It is believed climate change is the cause of the thawing permafrost, as well as the shrinking of glaciers and reduction in snow cover.
TransLink's outreach to over 30,000 people revealed that extending service into the Fraser Valley in Vancouver, Canada was the most popular idea for transit expansion. An aerial urban gondola to Simon Fraser University on Burnaby Mountain was the top suggestion, and is also integral to the University's new campus master plan.
After an investment of $8 million euros, the newly constructed Javor-Partizan gondola has officially opened in the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Balkan Peninsula. The system is 1,100 meters long, with 36 cabins, and has a capacity of 2,700 skiers per hour. The gondola is located on Jahorina Mountain which is also the home of the Jahorina Olympic Center.
Opportunities have expanded for access to mountain views and alpine recreation with the addition of eight gondola cabins to the Cornet Express chairlift in Queenstown, New Zealand. The cabins are wheelchair-accessible and will provide comfort and access for people of all ages and those with limited physical capabilities. The area is popular among hikers, mountain bikers, and naturalists.

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Welcome to Sonja Smith Funeral Group.
The Sonja Smith Funeral Group was founded by Sonja Smith herself.
Having been in the funeral industry since 1998, she identified a need for a specialist niche service that offers bereaved families a unique, and personalized one stop service. Whether the requirement is for cremations or burials, the personalized funeral service offered by the Team ensures the families have assistance from a service provider that will go the extra mile.
The primary aim of Sonja Smith Funeral Group is to ensure that families receive the style and quality of service within the context of a meaningful and memorable funeral experience.
Sonja Smith Funeral Group is registered as a full member of the National Funeral Directors' Association of Southern Africa (NFDA). Our staff and premises meet the standards of skills, facilities, procedures, ethics and government compliance.
Sonja is a regular speaker on radio talk shows and television programmes such as RSG, Talk Radio 702, Jacaranda 94.2, Radio Pulpit and Radio Pretoria, where relevant topics are discussed that involve the Death Care Industry. Listen to some of the podcasts on Pregnancy Loss & Infant Death: "Swangerskap verlies & Wetgewing" and "Miskrame & Stilgeboortes".
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Le Club d'aviron Santander est un club sportif cantabre qui a disputé des régates dans toutes les catégories et disciplines de banc fixe, en batels, trainerillas et trainières depuis sa fondation en 1971.

Histoire
Fondé durant l'année 1971, il a surpris à cette époque dont le favori était la trainière d'Astillero. Cette année-là, il a participé à la première édition du Drapeau Marina de Cudeyo où il se classe troisième après Astillero et Pedreña.

1972 sera une grande saison durant laquelle il gagne le Championnat de Cantabrie de trainières qui lui donne l'occasion de prendre part au Drapeau de La Concha. Il est en outre proclamé vice-champion de la Coupe S.E. le Généralissime cette même année, le patron Alonso recevant une coupe et 30000 pesetas. Il se classera aussi cinquième dans le Championnat d'Espagne. Il participe également au Drapeau de Santander, se classe second dans le Drapeau Marina de Cudeyo et quatrième dans la régate du Nervion.

La saison suivante (1973), il se classe troisième dans une régate qui se déroule à Santoña classificatrice pour les Jeux cantabriques, de nouveau derrière Astillero. Il se classe second dans le Drapeau de Santander et le Trophée Prince d'Espagne (derrière Lasarte). Dans le Championnat d'Espagne, il sera le sixième qualifié. Il participe au Drapeau Marina de Cudeyo, dans lequel il se classe comme lors de la première édition du Drapeau Ciudad de Castro Urdiales, troisième après Hondarribia et Pedreña, après Orio et Getaria. Il se classe encore troisième lors de la régate Noces d'or de Kaiku après Orio et Lasarte, et second dans le Trophée Finanzauto, après Astillero, à seulement 4 secondes. Il dispute à nouveau les régates du Nervion et se classera cinquième.

En 1974, il se qualifie une autre fois pour le Championnat d'Espagne, mais n'a pas pu entrer dans la manche d'honneur. L'année suivante, il participe au Drapeau Marina de Cudeyo, et se classe de nouveau troisième après Kaiku et Castro Urdiales. Dans la première régate de la seconde édition du Drapeau Ciudad de Castro Urdiales, la trainière a heurté celle de Castro-Urdiales dans la seconde ciaboga, et sera de ce fait la dernière classée. Dans la seconde journée, le bateau ne s'est pas présenté au départ. Dans le Drapeau de Santander s'est classé après Lasarte, Castro-Urdiales et Astillero, avec un temps global des deux journées de 40 min 36 s. Dans les épreuves de classification pour le Drapeau de La Concha, le club n'a pu être que dixième avec un temps de 22 min 45 s, à plus d'une minute du vainqueur, Orio. En 1975, il est second dans le Trophée Portus Amanus dans les eaux de Castro-Urdiales derrière la trainière locale. Son président a été F. Bolado et une des personnes des plus importantes pour le club, Pilín Portales.

Pendant les années 90, le Club d'Aviron Ciudad de Santander a commencé à utiliser une autre fois cette dénomination pour pouvoir aller aux compétitions officielles avec deux bateaux, un avec le nom de C.R. Ciudad de Santander vêtus en blanc et bleu et les autres avec le nom de C.R. Santander et vêtus de blanc et rouge. Ils ont ainsi participé à la fin des 90 et débuts 2000 aux championnats régionaux de Cantabrie.

En 2011, l'équipe est retournée à l'activité en concourant dans la ligue de batels et le Championnat de Cantabrie de cette spécialité.

Palmarès
 1 Championnat de Cantabrie de trainières: 1972.
 1 vice-champion de la Coupe de S.E. le Généralissime : 1972.

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Sources et bibliographie

 Linares Argüelles, Mariano; Pindado Uslé, Jesús; Aedo Pérez, Carlos. Gran enciclopedia de Cantabria. Edition Cantabria. 1985.  (Œuvre complète)  (Tome VIII).
  El mundo del remo y de las regatas de traineras, 1997, Édition Lizardi Multimedia, consulté le : 6 aout 2010.

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Colorworld
self-released; 2016
By Andrew Westberry
A trio of musicians with different stylistic backgrounds, Colorworld first came together in 2013 and over the next two years perfected their sound and created an EP entitled This Is Where It Ends. Without releasing their first EP, the band continued their songwriting spree and finished their new songs, recording them in a studio and releasing them as Colorworld EP. The band does not box in their style by naming it, instead letting their talent speak for itself without a label or genre.
"Phantom Pilot", the album's first track, exhibits the band's vast array of influences and structural motifs throughout the six minute opener. Belted lyrics, lightning paced percussion, and extended instrumental segments allow this track to isolate the listener's attention from beginning to end, whether during jazzy chords, relaxed alternative strumming, or hard-hitting rock choruses.
A beach-surf rock guitar with vocals begin "Scratch The Sulfur" before crashing cymbals, thumping drums, and quick guitars take the spotlight as the piece evolves into an upbeat rock & roll tune. This song is one of the few on the album that fits nicely into a specific genre, although Colorworld successfully manages to incorporate their own approach and mannerisms into the midst of the torrent of sounds and notes.
"Compasshead" continues to propagate the sanguine energy of the record with its loud dynamics and throbbing pulse that echoes the emotive aura of the lyrics permeating through the gravelly, yet melodic singing. The song seems to follow a structured song form, at least until the end, where a new tempo and fresh tone explode onto the soundscape, ending the song with a bang.
The next song, "R.O.B.O.", brings out a slightly less blunt side of the band's music. This slower, more harmonious ballad contrasts well with the rest of the album, and additionally shows that the band can strongly generate music of many types. The album ends with "Down The Drain", that contains different bass and drum grooves for each verse, followed by an "out of nowhere" bridge that leads to a brand new ending. This song is essentially the posterchild of the band's style, and as a whole, this album will certainly show listeners that Colorworld is more than worth following.
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'Largest single-day commutation in nation's history' expected to take place in Oklahoma next month
By Dylan Goforth| October 23, 2019
The accelerated commutation process is thanks to House Bill 1269, a bi-partisan bill which was passed this summer and made retroactive a number of criminal justice reforms that reclassified some drug and property crimes. Courtesy Allison Herrera/KOSU
More than 400 Oklahoma prison inmates are expected to pass through an "expedited" commutation process on Nov. 1, a number believed to be the largest one-day total in United States history, Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Executive Director Steve Bickley said.
The accelerated process is thanks to House Bill 1269, a bi-partisan bill which was passed this summer and made retroactive a number of criminal justice reforms that reclassified some drug and property crimes.
The new law goes into effect Nov. 1 and the Pardon and Parole Board is holding a special meeting that day where it will review nearly 900 inmates the law makes eligible for the expedited docket.
"All the research I've done, this will be the largest single-day commutation in the nation's history," Bickley said.
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He said he had found two commutations President Barack Obama conducted for federal inmates in 2014 and 2016 that numbered in the hundreds each, but neither was as large as what he expects next month.
The Nov. 1 hearing differs from the normal commutation process in a number of ways, Bickley said. Rather than the typical two-step process that often takes several months, the hearing is expected to take less than an hour.
"It's definitely going to be a much faster up-and-down process," he said. Inmates who pass through the expedited process are expected to be released from prison in November.
Gov. Kevin Stitt, in a statement, offered praise for the entities preparing for the large number of commutations.
"I applaud the hard work of the Pardon and Parole board and the staff as they prepare for this historic day. The board is wisely implementing a thorough process to ensure their actions on Nov. 1 reflect the intentions of Oklahomans who voted for State Question 780, while also prioritizing the safety of our communities. The Department of Corrections has also been a committed partner in putting people first in this process by hosting transition fairs inside state prisons to connect non-violent offenders with the resources they need to succeed when they re-enter society."
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When State Question 780 was made into law in 2016, it made possession of "personal use" amounts of most drugs a misdemeanor and upped the felony threshold for property crimes from $500 to $1,000.
But it wasn't until the passage of HB 1269 earlier this year that those changes were made potentially retroactive for those still in prison for those crimes.
The new law mandates that, rather than strict retroactivity, the Pardon and Parole Board must decide which inmates affected by HB 1269 get an accelerated commutation and which inmates must go through the standard commutation process, Bickley said.
There are two dockets on Nov. 1, one for 793 inmates on the "drug possession" docket and one for 99 inmates on the "property crime" docket.
Everyone on those two dockets is technically eligible for accelerated commutation, though the list will be whittled down extensively, Bickley said.
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First, there are a number of inmates on the two lists who will not be recommended for accelerated commutation due to misconduct while in prison. Bickley said some inmates on the lists were involved in the events that led to the recent lockdowns at a number of state prisons, and those inmates would not receive recommendations. Additionally, district attorneys across the state can file challenges to specific commutations that may affect whether an inmate gets a recommendation, Bickley said, and as of Wednesday the Pardon and Parole Board had heard from only three of the more than 20 district attorneys across Oklahoma.
"And of course you could have some who receive recommendations and are signed off on by the governor, but they have additional sentences to serve or a detainer by another agency who will not be able to leave prison due to those factors," Bickley said.
Still, he expects "more than 400 and less than 500" inmates to be granted commutations by the end of the hearing, he said.
The expedited commutation hearing will be at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 1 at the Kate Barnard Community Correctional Center. The normal commutation docket will take place at 9 a.m. on Nov. 4 at the same location.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suffragette and Feminist Inaction
By Anna March
Suffragette tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in Britain during the early 1900s. In its telling of the story of how women fought for the right to vote, the movie highlights problems with the modern day feminist movement. Some of these current problems mirror those faced by the suffragettes at the dawn of the 20th century, while others show that feminists have taken steps backward since the days of the suffrage movement. The film Suffragette highlights the need for today's feminists to correct the historic failures of feminism and identify as intersectional feminists, to defend the hard fought victories of our ancestors by actually exercising the power of the vote in order to advance the cause of feminism today, and to take direct action to support feminist causes.
A significant issue in the suffragette movement was its racist treatment of women of color. This continues to be a problem within mainstream feminism today. By ignoring women of color, Suffragette highlights the problem feminism had and still has with intersectionality. The movie's absence of roles for women of color was addressed directly by the film's director, Sarah Gavron. At a luncheon to honor the film, she leaned on historical accuracy to defend the lack of women of color in the film:
"We interrogated the written and photographic evidence, and the truth is, it's very, very different picture from the US. The US had a lot of women of color involved in the movement, some who were excluded, and some who weren't excluded. But in the UK, it wasn't like that, because we had pockets of immigration…it was later, around the war, around the fifties, that really the UK shifted and changed in a really wonderful way to produce what we have today,"
As Hanna Flint points out in "Suffragette is Good for White Feminism, Bad for Intersectionality," not only were there many Indian suffragettes involved in the British movement, but many of the neighborhoods in the film were populated with African and Chinese immigrants, yet even the background characters in Suffragette are portrayed as white. As Ijeoma Oluo states in her piece "Why I Won't Write a Review of Suffragette":
"[T]here are no people of color in this movie. Not in the streets, not in the factories, not in the crowds. Nowhere. They don't exist. The creators of this film took creative license to generate a whole new main character for the film, but they couldn't come up with a single brown face in a crowd?"
It is distressing that the filmmakers continued the long history of erasing and ignoring women of color in the suffrage movement in the rendering of this film.
Suffrage pioneer Susan B. Anthony once made this horrifically racist statement:
"The old anti-slavery school says women must stand back and wait until the Negroes shall be recognized. But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the Negro last."
Unfortunately, the practice of racist exclusion of women of color is not just part of feminist history; it continues to this day. In a photo intended to promote the film, several of its stars posed wearing a t-shirt that read "I'd Rather be a Rebel than a Slave." The quote is from one of the leaders of the British suffragette movement, Emmeline Pankhurst, who is played by Streep in the film. The fact that four white women, including Meryl Streep, didn't consider the racial insensitivity inherent in wearing such a shirt is white privilege run amok.
But Meryl Streep's intersectionality issue is not the only problem of today's feminism. Feminism is in the spotlight in a big way these days. Entertainers like Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari, and Beyoncé all have brought new attention to feminism. Roxane Gay, Caitlin Moran, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have reinvigorated the discussion of what it means to be feminist. Yet despite its renewed cultural relevance, there are still many who simply refuse to identify as a feminist. Count Meryl Streep amongst those ranks. When asked by Time Out if she was a feminist, Streep replied, "I am a humanist, I am for nice easy balance." Why the reluctance to identify as a feminist? She has starred in many movies with strong feminist themes and given voice to feminist issues particularly within the entertainment community. Teo Bugbee points out in The Daily Beast, "Women like Meryl Streep are supposed to be our base, not our swing votes." Too many people today support feminism's ideals but continue to refuse to identify as such. We need everyone who is an intersectional feminist to identify as such to give strength and power to the cause, to show the power of intersectional feminists as a consumer and voting block, and to have power of influence both peer-to-peer and in consideration by the media. Identifying as an intersectional feminist is one of the most powerful things that each individual can do to support the twin causes of racial and gender justice. Neither one should be left behind.
While the suffragettes fought to the death for the right to vote, once voting rights were secured for white women, most 20th century suffragettes did not continue their work to ensure meaningful access to the franchise for African-American women, who were routinely denied the right to vote until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 began to pave the way in a struggle that remains to this day. All too often, white women secure rights for themselves and leave women of color behind. For instance, abortion and birth control are available to women who can afford to travel, comparison shop for health insurance, or pay out of pocket. However, the Hyde Amendment, religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act, and new abortion legislation in the states all mean that access to abortion and birth control can be scarce and difficult for women without adequate resources. This disproportionally affects women of color. All too often the rights of women of color and the economically disadvantaged are ignored, if not outright sacrificed, in the name of progress for privileged white women.
While identifying as an intersectional feminist is a crucial step, it is not enough to stop there. It is important to take that intersectionality to the voting booth. I wonder what the suffragettes would think about how many women turn out to vote today? Policy that regulates women's lives—such as reproductive health policy, paid childcare, equal pay—is at play in every virtually every federal, state, and local election yet women routinely fail to vote. In the 2008 general election, 34.3% of eligible female voters failed to cast a vote. In the 2014 midterms, 57% failed to do so. These numbers are consistent with voting trends from election to election. Is it acceptable that anywhere from 1/3 to 3/5 of eligible women voters are not exercising their right to do so in federal elections, and even more so fail to do so in many state and local elections? Women were jailed, tortured, and died fighting for our right to vote and yet a third of eligible women still do not bother to go to the polls on election day, even in presidential general elections. Clearly we can do better. Perhaps we should remember the suffragettes and what they sacrificed the next time we think about skipping the polling booth.
The suffragettes risked incarceration, forced feedings, and sometimes death in order to fight for a woman's right to vote. These types of radical acts were necessary to jolt the establishment into changing policy and doing what was right. Radical action as a path to change is not unique to the fight for a women's suffrage. The civil rights movement for African-American people, the women's rights movement, and the AIDS funding crisis all made significant progress due to the radical action taken by people fighting for change. Where is our radical action today? There were protests at the London premiere of Suffragette where protesters barricaded the red carpet to call attention to cuts in domestic violence services. This juxtaposition of activism against the backdrop of Suffragette might serve as a reminder to each of us to get involved and take the kind of direct action that suffragettes engaged in.
Look at what the suffragettes risked to obtain the right to vote and compare it to what we risk today. I'm not suggesting that we need to engage in the modern day equivalent of suffragette tactics of blowing up mailboxes or stepping in front of charging horses, but don't the modern day issues feminists are fighting for deserve their own radical action? Is equal pay less worthy of radical action than the right to vote? Is a woman's right to control her own body less worthy? We all need to get involved. Each of us should plan our action, radical or otherwise. Feminism is a revolution, not a reform.
One important action that many of us can take is direct support of feminist organizations doing meaningful work. As Gloria Steinem said,"A feminist is what the dictionary says which is a person, male or female, who believes in the full social, economic, political equality of women and men—and I would say also acts on it." Wouldn't it be tremendous if each of us who was able chose to act on our feminism but getting involved with three organizations, making sure that at least one of those group's work is focused on women of color and at least one is focused on the global community of women and girls, with perhaps a third geared toward some particular passion of ours—sports programs for disabled girls, scholarship opportunities for young women, reproductive health care for underserved women of color, companion services for older lesbians, or whatever particular group speaks to our hearts. What if each of us donated time or money to Third Wave Fund or National Network of Abortion Funds or The Southern Coalition for Social Justice or Kiva or one of the thousands of other feminist organizations out there? There is little point in identifying as an intersectional feminist and supporting policy change if we take no action to make any of that change happen. Give what you can to effect the change you want to see in the world. Don't we have an obligation to those that fought before us to continue the fight for those that will come after us? As Maya Angelou said, "Nothing will work unless you do."
Perhaps some will argue that Suffragette should be enjoyed and celebrated as a snapshot of a victory for women's rights. I don't think that is the case. Gaining the right to vote was an enormous victory for women and while we should all be grateful for women's suffrage, I don't think we should be glorify a movement stained by racism. Let us instead use the failures of the movement to guide us to intersectional feminism and the victories to inspire us both to utilize the right to vote won by the suffragists and to take direct action to create change for tomorrow. Let us examine "Suffragette" to find inspiration, motivation, and to ensure past mistakes are corrected, not repeated.
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Anna March's writing appears regularly in Salon and here at the Rumpus and her work has been widely published including in The New York Times' Modern Love Column, New York Magazine, VQR, Hip Mama and Tin House. Her essay collection, Feminist Killjoy, and novel, The Diary of Suzanne Frank, are both forthcoming and she is at work on two new books. She teaches writing workshops, mentors writers, is active in promoting literary community and is the co-founder of LITFOLKS in LA and DC. She lives in Rehoboth Beach and Los Angeles. Sometimes she has pink hair. Follow her on Twitter @ANNAMARCH or learn more about her at ANNAMARCH.COM. More from this author →
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Betting on horse racing doesn't imply that you must show up right there around the racetrack. Today, you can place your bet online – as well as use software like BetAngel for Betfair.com – and in the comfort of http://newhorseracing.com your home.This is actually the power of technology. Nowadays, everything can be located online. All people really need is a computer along with an online connection and they'll be able to view the race action live on their small screen.
Even if it's not necessarily as effective as the live one or as big as the ones you will observe on tv, it is quite convenient if you're on the go and do not possess the right facilities for it. Imagine. You will never again miss the action. You will have a minute-by-minute account about the race that is taking place. On top of that, you'll know first-hand if the horse you happen to be betting on will win or not.
There are a few sites that merely require you to register into them and put in your deposit. As soon as the result is out, your losses or winnings will be debited or credited into your account.
Don't assume all websites are similar to this though. Some are certainly not honest, to search for the honest ones visit the good bookmakers list at GertGambell.net. There are those who require its would-be members to pay a preliminary fee. Some even require monthly charges based on the frequency of your visit and stay.
Even when the betting horse racing is done online, the rules and regulations are still the same. The types of bets and race conditions are also the same as those you will notice and find live.
Since the process is conducted through computers, you may expect a short delay for the tally of your bets based on the overall betting system. For those who cannot wait for the update, they can be given a choice of the statistics to be sent instantly to their cell phones.
However with the huge benefits that people get from betting horse racing online comes its disadvantages. They could be minor but it is still worth the glance.
Some individuals find that there's nothing quite like the feeling that they can get when they're on the racetrack and is part of the action. You cannot really get that same feeling when you are just there watching it on-screen.
Most of those who bet on this sport are looking for the excitement of seeing the race from beginning to end. They still desire to shout and cheer along with the rest of the crowd gathered there within the stadium.
Being confined in the small screen of your computer, you will not get a look at what is happening in the whole event. You'll just depend upon where and what the camera is being focused on. This is a total turn off for many who are interested in every corner and each and every move around the racetrack.
Those people who are set on having a better view of the horse race decide to get their own satellite television in their home to get a bigger and much better view of the live happening inside the racetrack.
Slow computers and outdated hardware placed in your computers are some of the factors that will hinder your betting horse racing online experience. Unless you have the most sophisticated features, don't expect your viewing to be as great as it should be.
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This I Believe: "Color Clarity"
Modeled after public radio's "This I Believe" series, Sewickley Academy seniors share what they believe in as the final project of their Senior Seminar course.
Although Rosie has lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, her entire life, she loves to travel to different states and countries to expand her worldview. Rosie enjoys creating every kind of art, especially poetry, ceramics, and moss artwork. She loves to spend time in nature, whether just exploring a new environment or actively ameliorating an industrialized area by cultivating plants and connecting with the community. Rosie was co-editor-in-chief of Ephemera, the Academy's award-winning arts magazine. Winner of the annual graduation award, the Cavalier Cup, for her excellence in scholarship, sportsmanship, and citizenship, she will attend Kalamazoo College to major in international and area studies with a concentration in eastern Asia.
This I Believe: "Oh, Extroverted World"
Born and raised in Wexford, Pennsylvania, Ryan is a senior at Sewickley Academy. His favorite subjects include psychology and economics. He is an active member of his community, having volunteered many hours at the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Ryan's hobbies include skiing, hiking, listening to music, and spending time with his friends. Though undecided on a major, he will attend the University of Vermont this fall.
This I Believe: "A Strong Cup of the Extraordinary"
Elizabeth has attended Sewickley Academy since pre-k. She's an avid reader with an affinity for drinking tea and watching ice hockey. She enjoys traveling and learning about different cultures by meeting new people, especially through homestays. She will attend Case Western Reserve University in the fall and major in chemical engineering. The most important thing in her life is her family; they have taught her all the things that aren't taught in a classroom but are essential to life: the power of a genuine smile, the strength of a sincere apology, and the capabilities of unwavering faith.
This I Believe: "My Special Place"
Olivia, a senior at Sewickley Academy, has lived in Pittsburgh her entire life but will be leaving next fall to attend Emory University in Georgia. She plans to study international relations in college and continue her love of traveling, with the hopes of going to Spain and living with a host family. Olivia likes swimming, gymnastics, and lacrosse. She is excited about going to her cabin this summer to continue making memories with her family.


In addition to a variety of cozy dorms (male/ female/ mix-dorms) and rooms, we have nice furnishings, strong showers, a small but fully equipped kitchen and a relaxed café also a communal area, and a broad field attic laundry area. The most unique thing of Wow Tainan is the Yoga studio, we offered guests free use the studio (off the curriculum time) to do exercise, practice yoga, also with the guest only special discount, and we provide the professional yoga lesson. We are enjoying the healthy & slow living life, and love to explore new things and exchange travel experiences with guests from all over the world!
Come and experience a new way of backpacking with us in Wow Tainan.
Very helpful staff! Location is good, although quiet.
Super helpful and friendly staff. Really good map of local area with recommendations. Relaxed vibe. Great location and easy to find. Excellent yoga studio attached with great classes at good prices for guests.
A very good hostel with nice staff and convenient equipment such as lockers.
Absolutely made our holiday! The coolest, chillest and friendlies hostel we visited. The location is great and situated near the airport and shuttle bus to the high speed rail. The staff and other patrons were very warm and friendly and the facilities and rooms were very cosy and cool. Probably one of the cutest hostels i've ever been in, really nicely decorated with a lot of thought. A great nights sleep and a good days hang out for a great price!
Really nice hostel, only had a short stay but I don't have anything to fault. Staff are super helpful and their suggestions made for a great couple of days. Would recommend.
Nice place, though bad first impression. I arrived an hour early, 2p instead of 3. Knocked on the door, rang the bell, called their number, no response. Returned later and checked in easily. Was talking with some of the staff, meanwhile phone would ring and doorbell would go off, but nobody cared enough to answer either. Other than above, this is a really nice place. Met some nice guests. Showers had good heat and pressure. Interesting lockers that take a few minutes to figure out.
Everything was good except that the beds had a weird plastic on them and the curtains didn't go all the way around.
A little far from train station but still walkable. Has medium sized lockers in room. Nice neighborhood. Overall good stay.
Wow Hostel is a great hostel for travellers, it has a nice common area to hang out in and is pretty affordable. The bed was comfy and the rooms are pitch black so you sleep like a baby which is great after a day of travelling. The only issue I had was a matter of cleanliness like hair in the showers and the room was smelly from somebody else's shoes. There's not much the Hostel can do about that though. Maybe just ask people to put shoes outside in shoe rack?
First and foremost I have to say the staff there was superb and helpful. I only have two complains. The first one is they keep a plastic cover to protect the mattress, it gives you a lot of heat, and also is very noisy when you move. I always wanted to try yoga for the first time, and they provide classes at a reasonable price. However, bear in mind the trainer does not speak any English, she will not correct you any position and besides. Overall she was quite rude.


One customer writes: "We spent a fantastic 5 nights at this Riad. The place was gorgeous and the bedrooms were really spacious. We spent a lot of time relaxing on the roof terrace in the sun after having delicious breakfasts by the pool. The only negative would be the distance from the Djemaa el Fna (the main square) - it was about a 20 minute walk. We would definitely recommend having a meal at the Riad and also have a hammam - both were brilliant! Overall we found this great value for money after finding several far pricier in our internet searches." Riad Description Not Yet Available.
We spent a fantastic 5 nights at this Riad. The place was gorgeous and the bedrooms were really spacious. We spent a lot of time relaxing on the roof terrace in the sun after having delicious breakfasts by the pool. The only negative would be the distance from the Djemaa el Fna (the main square) - it was about a 20 minute walk. We would definitely recommend having a meal at the Riad and also have a hammam - both were brilliant! Overall we found this great value for money after finding several far pricier in our internet searches.


THE SCOTTISH TERRIER IS A PRESIDENTIAL DOG!
The Scottish Terrier, also known simple as a "Scottie", are fabulous dogs to be around. American president, George W. Bush owned one of these dogs! The Scottish Terrier is a small terrier and is highly adaptable to many types of home environments. They are typical terriers that will not back down from a challenge. The Scottish Terrier also can be very stubborn at times and usually prefer one person in the household over the other. They are dedicated, clean, small dogs. The breed needs to be brushed or combed out on a regular basis. Like the Miniature Schnauzer, the beard needs special attention because of the accumulation of food and saliva that causes the hairs of the beard to stick together. This leads to matting. The muzzle may also take on a rust colored appearance due to the presence of proteins in the saliva. Because of their stubborn nature, this breed is not the easiest dog to train. They have a mind of their own but they are lovable dogs!
The Scottish Terrier is a healthy dog except for one neurological condition called the Scottie Cramp. It is a neurological condition dealing with serotonin breakdown leading to excessive flexion and extension of the hind limb musculature. Most episodes start when the dog gets excited but subside in about 10 minutes. The condition worsens as the dog ages. Treatment is medical or via acupuncture. It is a congenital condition; one that the dog is born with. Any Scottish Terrier exhibiting signs of the disease should not be bred! For those people who want a clean, small dog with an independent twist to it, you can not go wrong with the Scottish Terrier! Bravo! Learn more about the Scottish Terrier at Animal Planet's® Dog Breed Selector.


What Comes After 2012? 2011!
With this weekend's release of 2012, we remembered 1984's 2010: The Year They Make Contact and wondered, "How did we get from Roy Scheider and aliens to the end of the world?" Then we realized: The answer is Nic Cage.
If 2012 is as successful as those Hollywood Insiders expect it to be - and with a $23.7 million Friday opening, that looks to be a sure thing right now - then the obvious follow-up isn't the 2013 television series that director Roland Emmerich has been talking about, but a prequel: 2011... explaining not only what happened in the year before the end of the world, but just how how the Monolith-led transformation of Jupiter in 2010 led into the whole thing. That's right: We're talking crossover territory, and who better to take us there than Nicolas Cage?
This is what we're suggesting: While Danny Glover's President and Oliver Platt's chief of staff are hurredly making plans to survive the oncoming apocalypse that they've secretly discovered (as per 2012), a maverick government scientists played by Cage is studying the data captured the spaceship Alexei Leonov (in 2010) and comes up with a plan to contact the aliens behind the Monoliths to try and convince them to cool the Earth from the core temperature-induced collapse we've been promised. Part of this involves going public with that whole "end of the world" thing, which means that before too long, Cage and his family (including surly son Shia LeBeouf) are on the run, being chased by US government agents ordered to keep him quiet at all costs.
While on the run, Cage meets up with 2010's Roy Scheider - or a CGI-animated version thereof, using motion capture technology of John Turturro, just because - who was there when Jupiter got turned into a second sun by the Monoliths at the end of the very-confusing-when-I-was-a-kid second Clarke movie, who is suitably shocked that the government is keeping this whole end of the world thing under wraps, and helps him contact the aliens through some ridiculous-yet-exciting sequence that doesn't really matter in the long run, before dying to add pathos to (a) Cage's mission, and (b) seeing Roy Scheider live again, even if it's only as a CGI character probably animated by Robert Zemeckis, let's face it. Then! Dave Bowman - again, computer generated to look like Keir Dullea, but this time, it's a motion captured performance by Ewan McGregor - appears to Cage and gives him temporary superpowers to fight off the government agents, leading to a series of Matrix-esque action sequences that don't seem dated at all, before listening to Cage try to emote while pleading for the survival of the planet.
Moved by Cage's nervous, jerky-headed plea, Bowman explains that the mysterious aliens can, in fact, save the Earth, but in order to do so, they'll have to abandon Jupiter and come and hide inside the Earth in order to do so. Acting as the ambassador for all of humanity, Cage says that that sounds like a great idea and thanks a lot, and so we're treated to an overblown moment where thousands of Monoliths emerge from the star that was Jupiter, fly towards Earth - Cut to scenes of men in front of radar screens freaking out about all the UFOs flying towards the planet, but just before they call the President, the space radar goes quiet because all the Monoliths have gone into stealth mode - and then float gently to the ground, and then through the ground, before we get a cameo of 2012's Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) looking at a computer saying "The core temperature has dropped! Now there's a chance we just might survive this damn thing!" to someone on the phone, with the additional "And that's how the end of the world didn't actually end the world, and how there aren't two suns in 2012!" being optional depending on how much the audience needs spoonfeeding.
As Dave Bowman disappears, US agents catch up with Cage and his family, killing Cage and causing Shia to not only realize that he loves his dad after all, but also swear to carry on his father's work of talking to aliens and saving the world through diplomacy, car chases and being a maverick. The movie ends with a title card of "ONE YEAR LATER" and shows Shia - with a beard, to show that it is "later" - wandering around the ruins of whatever major city is deemed appropriate, tears in his eyes and looking at the sky, telling his father that he loves him.
I'm telling you, Hollywood: This is the movie that everyone wants to see. Sure, some may dismiss it as shameless fanboy continuity pandering between two movies that are actually unconnected in all but their titles, but to them, I say: Nic Cage, Shia LeBeouf and the CGI reanimation of Roy Scheider. I'll take my 10% in gold bars whenever you're ready, thanks very much.


Meet 'Doctor' Leana Wen, a former fetus who will now spend her time as an adult overseeing the slaughter of millions of her fellow human beings. Leana, like those who preceded her, will work tirelessly to kill America's 'unwanted' and 'unloved' prenatal children.
By stepping into her role as Planned Parenthood's new president, she will preside over the destruction of over 40% of America's black and Latino community. She will relentlessly fight to end the lives of over 300,000 innocent people living in the womb every year. And she will do all of this as a doctor, further ripping at the fabric of medicine and humanity itself.
What Leana and the frontline abortionists who poison and dismember the babies carried into Planned Parenthood every day fail to realize is that abortion is not healthcare. Healthcare preserves human life, abortion destroys it. Just like Leana will destroy the medical profession as she advocates for taking life instead of saving it.
The new helm of America's leading chain of human slaughterhouses once remarked that "Reproductive health is a critical part of every woman's health care. Standard medical care should be based on science, not ideology." Ironically, science is crystal clear on when Leana's life began and it wasn't at birth. For someone who holds a doctorate degree in medicine, Leana isn't very well versed on the science of life, choosing instead to base her actions on the delusion of her ideology.
Leana says she likes a fight and that's exactly what she's going to get from those of us who believe in true human equality and the value of every human life.
Join us in taking a bold stand to end the atrocity of abortion.


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Final Fantasy XIV- Get Ready for Shadowbringers!
So many people from here are on Mateus, all the people I know from WrA on WoW are on Mateus....maybe I should switch to Mateus (I'm on Coeurl) Or maybe we should make a KHI linkshell.
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Naminé: "KH3 floaty enough for you now?!" Imo along with Re Mind they gotta patch the game so that Strelitzia and Nami's dialogue is unmissable. This might be a rework of that scene considering Terra is mentioned, but it seems more like it would be within Sora's post-KH3 attempt to save Kairi.
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I'm listening to JP Xigbar and MoM and trailer hoodie and it sounds exactly in the middle of them, leaning towards Xigbar. Sounds like Xigbar at the beginning and MoM at the end, bleh, irritating.
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I think the perfect place to end it would be Of course it would rather anti-climactic if the motor-ball was the final boss of Ep 1, so they could move the motor ball somewhere else and have Rufus be the final fight. Rufus could fight at the end of that highway then escape via helicopter there...
22 years ago, 8-year old me thinking that big fortress would be the final area in the game. I had never played an RPG before, so I thought the game would amount to just blowing up the 8 mako reactors then going into the center building to beat president Shinra and that would be it.
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From Arthur Conan Doyle to Benedict Cumberbatch, What's the Essence of Sherlock Holmes?
By Jason Rhode | January 6, 2017 | 11:20am
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January 1 saw the return of the world's most popular drama, Sherlock, to screens everywhere. The happy return is appropriate, for 2017 is the 130th anniversary of the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet." Why are we still watching and reading about this world? More to the point, why do I care about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson—two gentlemen who are as real to me as Congress, but less involved in crime? Why do I love them enough to write a feature about them? Not just the show, but the characters themselves?
And here the trouble begins. I re-read that opening sentence, and it sounds as if it could be in any generic feature about Doyle's fictional detective.
The problem with writing about Holmes is the same with writing about the sea, or the moon, or the appeal of a lover: You have so much to say, and there are so many ways of saying it, that it's hard to concentrate on one thread of argument. Every sentence, every turn of phrase, brings up some part of the Sherlockian canon. The writer is forced to fight a constant battle against his or her own predilection to give into the quoting fever and go on a drunk citation binge.
Holmes has been scribbled about so often, by so many different people, in so many different ways, that the problem isn't finding something to say—it's finding a new jewel in a diamond mine ten acres deep. How does one avoid the constant threat of hackneyed puns about hackney cabs, or reusing the word "Elementary" in the title and the body of the article? "Crime is common, logic is rare," Holmes once said, but Holmes is omnipresent. One of the most popular podcasts about Sherlock and his infinite variety is plainly called "I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere." That phrase, in turn, is lifted from "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter," and is spoken by Brother Mycroft to Dr. Watson: "I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler."
There have been countless adaptations of the Great Detective. When I use the word "countless," I'm not just using the word glibly (unlike all of the other times). I mean, literally, nobody has counted them. The published, cataloged pastiches range in the thousands. The unpublished and forgotten may be many times that.
Even within Sherlock Holmes fandom, there are levels of maniacal obsession; I am pleased to be among the first rank of the congenitally rabid. Like any immortal story, the outline is bare enough that a politician could sing it to his mistress while fumbling for a key. A simple seed: damaged goods from the Afghan War seeks acceptable lodging with eccentric student. Here are two people. This one writes, this one thinks. Both fight.
But also, like all great legends, from a bare outline there comes a great harvest: Watson and Holmes, co-drawn into one another's orbit, giant moons in a tidal pull of mutual gravity.
Much of what makes the original Holmes stories work lies in Doyle's prose, which is consistently underrated: The man's writing has a strong, singular elemental effect behind it, a union of sure-footed heroism joined to a kind of wonderful intellectual engagement, and this result is doubled when it plays out in the half-urban, half-Gothic, all-wonderful demimonde of the original stories.
Doyle's art was of a diligent man writing a character he was not reverent of, and he placed him where he liked, whereas even our best writers today take Holmes and his world seriously. The Great Detective is a consulting ratiocinator—not an office of the law, no matter how much the Metropolitan Police may treat him as an appendix, or vice versa. Behind the intellectual fireworks are deep-engraved statements of life, the street, and logic which are so pitch-perfect I hesitate to use the word "pulp." Holmes is not the cozy mysteries of Marple, or the locked room or ghostly house of the early 20th century. Doyle's shadowy London inspired the hardboiled arias of Chandler, Spillane, and Hammett. Doyle was no slouch when it came to portraying the odds and ends of what he called the "cesspool of the Empire." Sir Arthur's depictions of fin-de-siècle London are more striking and more outré than many other recorders of that time, who wrote with more frankness but less wisdom.
And of course, clue after clue, well-balanced by the secret heart of the Holmes world, the same interest that returns us time and again to 221B Baker Street: the relationship, the brotherhood between Holmes and Watson, and the compelling, memorable world circling around them: Mrs. Hudson, Lestrade, the Irregulars, and the specter of Imperial London itself, rising misty and marvelous from every street corner.
But why? There have been so many adaptations. To put it another way: How far out does Sherlockiana go? Will anyone in a deerstalker do?
In other words, I want to know what is essential to Holmes. To reverse-engineer a complicated machine, you take away parts until you find the bare minimum. To understand how a car works, the engineer would remove all extraneous goods until she came to the engine and wheels. You take away the parts until the device stops working, and then you learn what the essence is.
To put it another way: There have been lots of my beloved Holmes. What makes him him across the mediums and years? What ties Jeremy Brett (The Adventures of Sherlock Homes), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), and Meredith Henderson (The Adventures of Shirley Holmes), and Barrie Ingham (The Great Mouse Detective)?
What matters is not the incidentals but the essentials. As a Sherlockian, it doesn't matter if the Detective is white, black, male, female, British, American, polite, rude, straight, gay. The Detective is best thought of as an equation. Constants and variables.
Holmes is a person of no determinate age, not old but not too young. Hawk nose and forehead preferred, not required. Comes from money, but not too much: a fortune large enough to explain his habits, but small enough to where his name alone wouldn't matter in the land. Artistic, dramatic, bored easily. Otherworldly about him. Not alien, but different. Addictive, maybe. Usually single but never alone. Stronger than he looks. Bohemian in his habits. There's always a best friend. A brother. A professor he opposes and defeats.
But these are still surface matters, and may be dispatched with. What cannot be removed from the character?
Here is what is absolutely essential: Intelligence and eccentricity turned all the way up. Some geniuses aren't eccentric (Solomon the Wise) and eccentrics aren't necessarily smart (Kramer). Holmes is both, but with a difference. Intelligent eccentrics are often oblivious (Emmett Brown) or unworldly (Sheldon Cooper). He doesn't have to be Bohemian, but he must be very different. Holmes is unusual because he is not just able to survive, but also to hunt criminals in their element; his worldliness is also turned up all the way.
Sheldon doesn't get people and Brown can't be bothered, but Holmes has to be; he is an expert in moving within the world. He is physically capable in a way other fictional smart guys aren't. What separates him from Batman, then, besides the obvious? Holmes is open, or honest, call it pro-social if you want. He is almost compulsively discursive about himself and his methods.
Intelligent, eccentric, worldly and open, all turned to 11. These are the sine qua non of Holmes.
But there's one thing missing, an element that does not belong to Holmes himself, and yet must be part of any Holmesian universe: The best friend with military connections that he has a superhuman bond with. Without Watson, it's not Holmes. The two Doyle stories written from Holmes' perspective? Dull as a murderless street.
No Watson, no Holmes. The tale of Holmes, the studies in scarlet and final bows, are the story of this remarkable friendship between two equals. The difference between a shallow and a deep reading of the Sherlockian canon is the understanding that the world of Holmes is a two-man show.
So: Smart, weird, canny, open, Watson. With these five, you have Holmes. Without, you have the problem of an empty House. I can believe Hugh Laurie as American Sherlock for one season, or two. But it stretches credulity that even a maximally insufferable ersatz Holmes would be so dishonest and so oblivious to his own weakness. Holmes can be self-destructive, but not continually perverse. He can lie to Watson briefly, but is constitutionally unable to do so at any length.
Crime is common and logic rare. In middle of that scale stands the Detective—for my money, the only True Detective; endlessly complex, yet, at the bottom of his very human heart, surprisingly elementary after all.
Jason Rhode lives and keep bees upon the South Downs. If you ever find him giving less pains to a feature than it deserves, kindly whisper "Norbury" in his ear, and he shall be infinitely obliged to you. You can also follow him on Twitter.
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What happened to Pictures for Sad Children
By Guttersnipe on November 24, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )
At Input, Justin Ling writes about Simone Veil, Pictures for Sad Children, making art and the internet.
"For years, fans have searched for clues about what happened to the comics and their author. Sometimes, they would be hot on the trail — finding Pictures for Sad Children living somewhere on the internet, under an assumed name. But that, too, would go offline. The network of fans worldwide would form something between a detective agency and a book club.
Now, seven years after she first vanished from the internet, the author is opening up about the experience and sharing some new art. And, given the particularly dark and absurd era, she's just in time."
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