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Posted by sepoy on May 07, 2004 · 7 mins read
Today brings news of two deeply saddening events in Pakistan to the international media. First is the bomb blast in a Shi'a mosque in Karachi. Just yesterday, I was giving my class some data on sectarian conflicts in Pakistan and the role played by print culture and madrasa system in that conflict. This blast occured, as well, at a madrassa which had both Sunni and Shi'a mosques associated with it. The other news event is the rape of 2 young girls at the behest of a panchaiyat (jury of 5 village elders). This is a shameful example of rapine and killing carried out in the name of "honor" in rural Pakistan. Neither of these events is unique and one must look at their tortured historical past in Pakistan.
Shi'a-Sunni Conflict in Pakistan
Who will lead the Muslim community? That question of political authority and legitimacy split the nascent Muslim world right after the death of the Prophet. For the Shi'a, the Companions of the Prophet conspired to disposses 'Ali (his son-in-law) of his rightful claim as the First Caliph. The Sunni majority - that revered the Companions - feels that political succession of the Prophet went as God intended. The history of Islam bears witness to these two strains developing and solidifying ideologically and politically in various parts of the world.
In Pakistan, by a rough estimate, the Shi'a community is 20% of the population. Sectarian conflict did not become the issue it is today until the Islamization processes of Gen. Zia ul Haq (1977-1988) the Martial Law Administrator of Pakistan.
In 1980, as a response to his Islamization policy (and the fear that the Hanafi fiqh will pre-dominate), the Shi'a community began political mobilization. The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran was a great ideological boon to the community. The organization at the forefront of this mobilization was Tahrik-i Nifaaz Fiqaah Ja'fariyya or Tahrik-i Ja'fariyya (Movement for the Implementation of Ja'faria Law - TJP). Created largely to protect Shi'a community from unfair Islamization laws, the TJP quickly expanded into a full-fledged movement for the Shi'a in Pakistan. Its confrontational style sowed seeds of dismay in the Sunni majority. It's second leader Allama 'Arif Husain al-Husaini was assassinated in 1988. One of their manifesto items was the creation of an army of followers ready to defend the community. In 1991, that army (or youth group) splintered into the Sipah-i Muhammad (Muhammad's Soldiers). Based out of Thokar Niaz Baig, it participated heavily in the Afghanistan conflict raging against the Soviets as well as Kashmir. The recruitment and training of young men happened mostly in madrasas associated with the organization. Since its inception, this organization has been involved in much of the anti-Sunni violence in Karachi and Punjab.
The Sunni counterpart is the Sipah-i Sahaba (Soldiers of the Companions) established in 1985 in Punjab. It was constructed explicitly to combat Shi'a power in Pakistan and to make Sunni Islam the official religion of the state. For example, to counter the Muharram processions, it tried to celebrate the death anniversaries of the first four caliphs. This organization was militarized as well in the Afghanistani and Kashmiri conflicts.
Beginning in the rural centers, these organization spread to the urban populations in the mid-90s and brought with them their militant sectarianism. There were over 1800 events of sectarian violence between 1984-2003 with deaths and injuries of considerable population. There are further splinter groups of these organizations as well (most have been tagged 'terrorist' by Gen. Musharraf).
The flare-ups happen largely around Muharram with one or the other organization attacking mosques or neighborhoods with drive-by shootings. The suicide bomb that caused this latest incident seems to be a new development. A particularly shameful chapter in this bloody history was the assassinations of Shi'a medical professionals in Karachi in 2002. They had a hitlist of doctors with Shi'a sounding names who were stalked and shot. The retaliation by the Shi'a resulted in the assassination of Maulana Azim Tariq (a leader of the Sipah Sahaba) in 2003. Which caused further retaliation.
As long as Pakistan continues to yolk itself to any conception of an Islamic State, it will have no recourse against those willing to hijack the whole bus. Zia's Islamization (Nizam-i Mustafa as he called it) may have been the catalyst for militarization of such groups, but the subsequent "civilian" governments did nothing to stop the madness. In fact, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif continued to promote relationships with these organizations to get access to local legitimacy.
I am afraid that the only way out is to remove the shroud of Islam from the state mantle.
Honor Crimes:
Let's go from the evils of state and religion to the evils of class and culture. Honor crimes are not Pakistani or Islamic in nature (ever read Shakespeare?). They are crimes against women in every patriarchical, feudal society. They arise out of cultures and histories where women are possessions. In Pakistan, according to an editorial by Munnu Bhai in today's Jang Daily, there were 1261 incidents of honor crimes in 2003. The pre-dominant cases involve the landed elite of the village raping and killing the lower classes and imposing their terror upon that society. In this case, as well, the Zamindar (land owner) claimed an individual had illicit relations with his daughter and as compensation demanded the right to rape the two sisters of that individual. He was given the right to do so by a Panchiayat - a group of five elders who traditionally play the role of judge and jury in rural villages. In fact, the Panchiayats are nothing more than rubber stamps of the evil will of the landowners. The "wise elders" in this case are on the lam from the law as is the rapist. Will they be bought to justice? I think so. The best way to get things done right in Pakistan nowadays is to get international media involved.
Still, the root of the problem remains. Feudal landlords who rule over their dominion like mini-Stalins.
I have an even more prepostorous solution for that: Land Reform and a viable movement to better the role of women in Pakistani society ESPECIALLY in the rural areas.
sigh. i want happy news. someone?
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София Магдалена Бенигна фон Золмс-Лаубах-Утфе (; * 15 февруари 1707; † 1744, Браунфелс) е графиня от Золмс-Лаубах-Утфе и чрез женитба княгиня на Золмс-Браунфелс.

Произход
Тя е дъщеря на граф Карл Ото фон Золмс-Лаубах-Утфе и Текленбург (1673 – 1743) и съпругата му графиня Луиза Албертина фон Шьонбург-Хартенщайн (1686 – 1740), дъщеря на граф Ото Лудвиг фон Шьонбург-Хартенщайн (1643 – 1701) и София Магдалена фон Лайнинген-Вестербург (1651 – 1726).

Фамилия
София се омъжва на 9 март 1726 г. в Утфе за княз Фридрих Вилхелм фон Золмс-Браунфелс (1696 – 1761). Тя е втората му съпруга. Те имат децата:
 Карл Лудвиг Вилхелм (1727 – 1812)
 Елизабет Мария (1728 – 1796)
 дете (1729)
 Улрика Луиза (1731 – 1792), ∞ 10 октомври 1746 г. за ландграф Фридрих IV фон Хесен-Хомбург (1724 – 1751)
 Вилхелм Христоф (1732 – 1811)
 Лудвиг Рудолф Вилхелм (1733 – 1809)
 Амалия Елеонора (1734 – 1811), ∞ 16 декември 1765 за княз Карл Лудвиг фон Анхалт-Бернбург-Шаумбург-Хойм (1723 – 1806)
 Фридрих (1739 – 1812)
 Александер Вилхелм (1736 – 1738)
 Антон Вилхелм Фридрих (1739 – 1812)
 Каролина Албертина (1740 – 1742)
 Магдалена София (1742 – 1819), ∞ 22 април 1778 за принц Виктор Амадей фон Анхалт-Бернбург-Шаумбург-Хойм (1744–1790)
 Христина Шарлота Фридерика (1744 – 1823), ∞ 26 март 1780 за граф Симон Август фон Липе-Детмолд (1727 – 1782)

Фридрих Вилхелм фон Золмс-Браунфелс се жени трети път за пфалцграфиня Шарлота Катарина фон Биркенфелд-Гелнхаузен (1699 – 1785).

Литература
 Jürke Grau: Solms. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0, S. 555 – 557.
 Constantin von Wurzbach: Schönburg, die Fürsten, Genealogie. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 31. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1876, S. 144 – 146
 Rudolph zu Solms-Laubach, Geschichte des Grafen-und Fürstenhauses Solms, Digitalisat

Източници

Князе
Золмс (род)
Жени
Родени през 1707 година
Починали през 1744 година

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Studebaker Drivers Club Forum > Your Studebaker Forum > General Studebaker-Specific Discussion > A different kind of Studebaker.
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RDWEAVER
Yesterday my wife and I had just arrived home from an outing with our Silver Hawk. She was driving so I got out to open the door where we keep
the car when a car pulls up in the alley. A man about my age and a young man about 15. He said he spotted us driving through town and followed us
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Is there any other members that have had an encounter with a distant Studebaker relative?
8E45E
Is he aware the Studebaker National Family Foundation as mentioned here: http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/showthread.php?79317-Stephen-Studebaker-wagon-maker-in-Hagerstown-MD-in-1700s
We have a member in our chapter who is indeed a Studebaker....
I have done some research and, unless I am wrong there were two Clement Studebakers, father and son. Senior was the wagon maker and junior was the one who started making automobiles in 1902.
Dwain G.
The late Henry Studebaker of Olympia, WA had a large painting (print, I don't remember) of a 'tree' with all the 'branches' and his line back to one of the original brothers.
Commander Eddie
Here in Oregon, the mayor of the town of Lake Oswego is a Studebaker and traces his routes to the family. He does not own a Studebaker car or truck. . . yet.
GrumpyOne
I remember back in the early 1970's having lunch with Emert Studebaker who I believe founded the Studebaker Family Association and still have a coffee mug from that time that I got as a gift. IIRC, it was just outside of Dayton, Ohio. He had a sizable Studebaker collection and I got a ride in a near pristine 3/4 ton Champ pickup...
Since "Studebaker" is a modified version of the original name, they are all related somehow, I'm sure.
Avantidon
Clement Studebaker Sr and family arrived in this country on 08-31-1736 on the HMS Harle accompanied by his older brother Peter and family and his unmarried younger cousin Henrich. They walked off of the Harle in the Port of Philadelphia on 09-01-1736. They were taken immediately to Market Square swore allegiance to King George II and the Penn family. These records remain and in possession of the PA Museum and Historical Commission. Both brothers were granted 250 acre Penn's Land Grants in Berk's County (now PA0 but never executed them. Peter moved in 1737/38 to western Fredrick County MD and assisted his friends the Hagers (who taught him and Clement English on the Harle) and helped them found Hagerstown MD now in Washing County. Clement remained in PA. reappearing in 1749 in Paradise Township York County (now Adams County) where he was a blacksmith/farmer and more. His third son was Clement Jr. who was a carpenter/joiner and blacksmith. Clement Jr owned 235 acres in Tyrone Twsp Adams County and was the father of John Clement who married Rebbeca Mohler of Ephrata PA. John Clement was the father of Henery, Clement, John Mohler, Jacob and Peter. Of course these five brothers were the famous ones we all know. Want more of the story of the early years of the family in America? Just email me and ask. I'll be more than happy to tell you a lot more.
Bamajak
We have 2 members in North Carolina............
I know many descent dents personally an most are SDC members and many own and drive Studebakers as well
studegary
Are you sure that wasn't Carroll (sp?) Studebaker? The description fits him.
rockne10
From what I have read, when the three and their families arrived in Philadelphia, their surname was misspelled on the immigration log. No immigrants since have been spelled STUDEBAKER. So, logically, if the name is Studebaker, there is a link. It may be to a branch of the family other than John Clement and his five boys but, family nonetheless. Avantidon can correct me if I'm wrong.
I also believe there is some evidence that the family has traced its roots in the area of Sollingen, Germany as far back as the sixth or seventh century. There were extensive family history articles in Turning Wheels several decades ago.
Brad, you are correct their actual name was Stauenbecker a pure German name. Others say it was spelled different than that but the records in the Pa Museum and Historical Commission archives show it as Studebaker on the Penn's allegiance records. The family traces it roots to Sollingen Germany where Peter and Clement were members of the craftsmen guild as they were skilled makers of swords and cutlery of all types. The Guild refused to allow them to leave so they moved and changed their trade to blacksmiths Clement was a prolific father with many children while Peter was not so prolific. Many many members of the family traveled west but only John Clement Great Grandson of Clement Sr. traled to South Bend and settled there. I'd have to get my history file out to tell you where everyone else went including those like Clement Jr who stayed in the Adams County area of PA. By the way Heinrich was single when he came here in 1736. However, in 1756 when he was killed in an Indian raid in today's Franklin County PA. he was married with at least 4 or 5 children. In the raid he and his oldest son were killed. The Indians carried off his daughter , son and wife with a newborn. Because she could not keep up she and the baby were also killed leaving only the one son and daughter with the Indians. Their story is another fantastic Studebaker story equal to many others.
I don't think so... Here's his obit. http://www.studebakerfamily.org/our-founder/
Tipp City rang clear in my mind...
Warren Webb
Funny that he worked for General Motors until 1946! I wonder if in the back of their minds they thought he may have been planted there as a spy for The Studebaker Corporation.
Emmert was the founding father of the Studebaker Family National Association and the one who really got the ball rolling on the Studebaker family's genealogy writing the first volume of what today is a four volume set of books. The other three volumes deal individually with the Peter line, Clement line as well as the Heinrich line. To this day it is still being collected and expanded.


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Jane Irish: 'There is a critical strain about the anti-war movement that I want to commemorate, so I really think of my work as history painting'
For the first time in its 200-year history, a mansion in Philadelphia is transformed into a major public art project by American artist Jane Irish. She talks about a career spent exploring anti-war activism
by ALLIE BISWAS
Situated in the grounds of Philadelphia's sprawling East Fairmount Park, the storied Lemon Hill is currently the architectural site of an installation by Jane Irish entitled Antipodes. The artist (b1955), who lives and works in the historic city, has covered the walls and ceilings of the property with intricate images that emerge from draped muslin and linen bases. "I took the chance of working with distemper, which is a theatre paint I hadn't worked with before," Irish says. "The idea is to come in to an environment that's not like wallpaper, because that's what you expect. I wanted it to be more like tapestry."
The artist's narrative-based paintings reflect on the legacies of colonialism. In particular, Irish's images respond to the Vietnam war. She first became aware of the conflict as a teenager, through her sisters, who participated in the protest movement, and it has since become an implicit part of her work.
Installation view, Jane Irish: Antipodes, courtesy of the artist, Lemon Hill and Philadelphia Contemporary.
Irish's project is organised around Lemon Hill's layout, specifically the unique oval rooms that feature on the ground and first floors. These two spaces have been conceived by the artist as antipodes: the paintings in the first room are an amalgamation of events connected to the Indian Ocean, while the upstairs interior focuses on tales relating to Philadelphia itself.
Presented by Philadelphia Contemporary, in collaboration with three local partners, Antipodes underlines the relevance of retelling historical accounts as well as the accessibility that comes from showing art in untraditional spaces. "It is demonstrative of following an artist's dream in collaboration with existing cultural entities to make interventions into daily life," says Nato Thompson, artistic director of Philadelphia Contemporary. "This kind of gesture will continue as we grow as a cultural institution."
To coincide with Antipodes, an exhibition of new, large-scale paintings by Irish, Architectures of Resistance, is on view at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia.
Allie Biswas: How did the idea of antipodes become the theme for this project?
Jane Irish: I had just been working on a series of paintings that were based on Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka and he mentions that word in the poem, I think in terms of nihilist philosophy. Eureka is about the Big Bang – his theories on the cosmos – but the form of the essay is about the universe continuing to expand and contract. This guiding simplicity is behind the project; this idea of antipodes being two opposites on a globe. So, the project has this minimalist structure. But my nature is to have lots of narratives, so it's a very strong structure for relaying what my thoughts are. I think this is quite unusual for public art, in a way.
AB: What about the location of Lemon Hill? Had you intended to carry out a project within this site?
JI: Harry Philbrick, from Philadelphia Contemporary, had come to my studios a few times. I had put up a big stage set to paint from, kind of like Thomas Demand or something. I hadn't really had another person visiting while I was doing that; to have more than one person in the painting, as it were, within this interior stage setting, was really exciting for me. We talked about this, and then later we ended up visiting some of the historical houses in Philadelphia, which are open during the holiday period in December and January. It just so happened that they had recently deaccessioned the furniture at Lemon Hill so it seemed more open as a space. Plus, the beautiful geometry struck me.
AB: Was it easy to gain access to the site, on the grounds that you would want to install your paintings in such an intimate way?
JI: Sunanda Ghosh, who is head of external relations at Philadelphia Contemporary, had worked with the Fairmount Park Commission before, so she knew quite a few people there. It was really this community of people that made this project come into being – even as far as the consultant I worked with, who is a historic preservation architect. He had lived in the house for 10 years, so he knew how we could temporarily hang things without hurting the original structures of the house. Small details like that allowed this project to happen.
AB: Antipodes continues your interest in anti-war protests and the violence of American conflicts overseas. What initially drew you to these subjects?
JI: I graduated from high school in 1973, so I'm a little young [for the time], but I knew enough as a young person to know what the images of the war meant – because I was alive then. I also had two sisters who were part of the anti-war movement, and I looked up to them. My work has really always been political; it was actually environmental at first. As a starting point, I was painting pictures of people I admired: Mario Savio, Joan Baez, the Black Panthers. Through those works, I was invited to do a small museum show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2000. At that point, WD Ehrhart – a poet and historian in Philadelphia who also served in the Vietnam war – came to my studio to look at the imagery I was making, and he told me things that I wasn't aware of. From that moment, he was very inspiring, telling me things about the anti-war movement in Philadelphia that I didn't know. I had been looking for a local history that meant something global. So, I learned about this time through my artwork. I feel that the more I got into it, the more I realised that, for me, this was about being an artist in the sense of being a heroic resister. I thought that this was a history that should be told, as well as a metaphor for being an artist. Now, it has become cosmic; I'm older, so mythology seems relevant now.
AB: Other than your contact with WD Ehrhart, had you been communicating with other veterans?
JI: Yes, they actually started coming to my shows, so I was able to hear more oral histories. Then my subject matter broadened into this French Indo-Chino period. I started to understand this whole period up to the war and after it. I just stuck with it. I guess it has been 20 years now that I have been painting about Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
AB: The images depicted in the first room make reference to Vietnamese culture as well as water scenes, which you connect to the Indian Ocean, and its role within this colonial period. What are your own experiences of Vietnam?
JI: I first went to Vietnam in 2008. It was an extension of trying to getting to know writers there, and I also ended up being around many artists. I have visited the country on three occasions, for a month each time. I always come home with 20 paintings. So, in Antipodes there are motifs from those experiences, such as the temple in Hanoi or Vietnamese ceramics, which I study. The ceramic works often show shipwrecks. At that time, Vietnam was making ceramics for Egypt and Africa. That was its trade – it wasn't controlled by European trade. The people depicted are actors in the theatre in Vietnam – they look like royalty, but they are actually actors. There is the conquistador character, someone who would have been sailing through the Indian Ocean, and some images from Amistad. I came across some beautiful drawings of the defendants at the trial, which I worked from. It was a way for me to create a projected trajectory towards freedom.
AB: You also make reference to the Paris foreign mission.
JI: That's the other strain in here, the Catholic church sending missionaries to Indo-China. The reason I got to those figures is because a man who was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania is the grand-nephew of Théophane Vénard, one of the missionaries who was beheaded. He actually goes back to a small village outside Hanoi every other year and they celebrate his lineage. So, you can see this image of Vénard that I have included, as well as other similar figures from this period. The idea is that the Indian Ocean is like the colonisation of religion.
AB: The room upstairs, that you present in opposition to the downstairs space, focuses on Philadelphia. What was your starting point for the history that you have depicted there?
JI: I have been painting about this particular anti-war period – of the mid-1960s to 1975 – for a long time. The American soldiers who came back from Vietnam banded together [in 1967] to form Vietnam Veterans Against the War. I think they became the strongest as a group after the Kent State incident [when four students were shot dead by national guard troops in May 1970 when protesting against the bombing of Cambodia by US forces]. They realised that the war was happening in their own country now, and that they could do something about it. When I first met WD Erhart, he told me that one of the images I had painted was from a Vietnam Veterans Against the War march that took place from New York City to Philadelphia in 1970, on Labour Day weekend. I painted on this subject for quite some time. In Antipodes, you can see some of the leaders of that march, who included John Kerry and Scott Moore.
AB: What about your exposure to original photographs from the time? You mention your friendship with Tony Velez, the renowned photographer who served in Vietnam and taught photography at Kean University.
JI: I knew Tony for a long time. He passed away [in July 2016] and I went to see his family last summer. They let me look through a lot of the negatives and slides. Some of the imagery in my work, I had been working with for a long time, but some of it came into being after seeing Tony's photographs. There's another photographer called Sheldon Ramsdell, who was important in California, and was also originally with Vietnam Vets Against the War. I have tons of his photos. I think that you do need images to work from.
AB: Were there any other sources that you turned to when carrying out Antipodes?
JI: We had these great architectural drawings of Lemon Hill to work from – which I did, when I painted all these paintings in my studio over the course of seven months; the paintings were not made on site. If we think of the house, of its decoration, as a sign of where our culture is at, then it's an expression of truth. But what if that kind of thinking was about not about looking backwards? When you go into these kinds of houses, there is a lot of heroising that is done – of making the colonial period heroic. I thought, what if we stopped that?
• Jane Irish: Antipodes is at Lemon Hill Mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, until 3 June 2018. The installation is organised by Philadelphia Contemporary in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, Fairmount Park Conservancy, and the Friends of Lemon Hill; Architectures of Resistance, is at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, until 25 May 2018.
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Council leader wants guarantee European funds will still be provided post-Brexit
Council leader Peter Box wants a guarantee that EU funding expected for the district between now and 2020 will not be withdrawn.
Friday, 1st July 2016, 1:02 pm
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Council leader Peter Box.
European money is diverted to local authorities to pay for regeneration schemes and job creation programmes.
Coun Box said: "Since 2000, Wakefield has received significant EU funding and there are bids in for programmes running to 2020. At this point, it is unclear if there are any implications to these programmes.
"However I will be calling on the government to guarantee that the EU Funding currently on the table is secured."
Local authorities are already facing multi-million pound budget cuts. Wakefield must save £27m this financial year.
The terms of Britain's exit from the EU are not yet clear and negotiations could take at least two years.
Coun Box said: "Any action taken by the chancellor must be done in consultation with local government, as yet more cuts to public funding will significantly damage our ability to manage the changes that may come in the future.
"I am meeting business leaders from across the district and the wider City Region, both now and in the coming weeks, so that we can work together to ensure stability and continue to support the local economy.
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…In other news from the MCU, some set photos from Ant-Man and the Wasp have arrived online this week featuring Evangeline Lilly's Hope Van Dyne in full Wasp costume [see here]; a behind-the-scenes image from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 surfaced this week showing Stan Lee with a pre-CGI Watcher [see here], and James Gunn confirmed that Glenn Close filmed a cameo in the sequel as Nova Prime, but it was left on the cutting room floor [read more here]; Frank Grillo has claimed that Marvel Studios has plans to bring back his character Crossbones despite his demise in Captain America: Civil War [read more here], and rumours have surfaced suggesting that Marvel Studios is currently developing a Power Pack movie as part of its Phase Four slate [read our report here]…
…Netflix stepped up promotion for its next Marvel series The Punisher this week, unveiling the first trailer and new images from the show [see here], as well as another viral teaser [watch it here]. As yet, we still don't have word on a release date, although a listing in the latest issue of Total Film suggested that the series will hit the streaming service on Friday October 13th. Meanwhile, it's been confirmed that Rob Morgan will be reprising his Daredevil and Luke Cage role as small time crook Turk Barrett, showrunner Steve Lightfoot spoke about the challenges of making Frank Castle relatable to audiences, and leading man Jon Bernthal promised that the series will take us to "a dark and brutal corner" of the Marvel Universe…
…Some bad news for The Defenders, as it has been revealed this week that the miniseries has suffered the lowest viewership of any of Netflix's Marvel series in its first month. According to marketing analytics agency Jumpshot, The Defenders enjoyed just 17% of the viewership of Daredevil season 2 – Netflix's best-performing Marvel season – in its first 30 days. For comparison, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones managed 28%, 27% and 26% respectively. The stats also show that The Defenders had the largest week-over-week drop in viewership of the Marvel shows, declining 67%, 48% and 41% respectively. And on the subject of the Netflix/Marvel shows, be sure to read Liam Hoofe's article 'Five TV Shows That Could Help the Marvel Netflix Universe'…
…Turning to the X-Verse now and director Josh Boone and cast members Maisie Williams (Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane), Blu Hunt (Danielle Moonstar/Mirage), and Henry Zaga (Roberto da Costa/Sunspot) took to social media to celebrate the end of production on X-Men: The New Mutants, while Fox CEO Stacey Snider spoke about the tone of the spinoff and how it will stand out against other superhero movies: "If we're going to make a superhero movie, we have to ask ourselves: 'What's our version? What's a Fox Marvel film?' When you look at films like Deadpool or Logan or the upcoming New Mutants, you'll see they have their own personality. Great effort has been put into making sure they're differentiated. New Mutants is about these teenagers who are just coming into their powers. It's like watching mutants go through adolescence and they have no impulse control, so they're dangerous. The only solution is to put them in a Breakfast Club detention/Cuckoo's Nest institutional setting. It protects the people on the outside, but it's strange and combustible inside. The genre is like a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers. We haven't seen it as a superhero movie whose genre is more like The Shining than 'we're teenagers let's save the world…'"
…X-Men: First Class director Simon Kinberg dropped a few nuggets on Fox's Marvel projects this week during promotional interviews for his new film Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Firstly, he expressed his interest in directing a Fantastic Four reboot (to apologise for Fox's last reboot) [read his comments here], and secondly he also revealed that he decided to exit b as he felt it should have been the third movie in a trilogy, and wanted to make a Young Wolverine movie as a follow-up to First Class [read his comments here]…
…In other Fox news, CEO Stacey Snider has teased the recasting of Wolverine when asked about the possibility of the studio rebooting the character after Hugh Jackman's final outing in Logan [see here], Josh Brolin shared an intense behind-the-scenes photo of Cable from Deadpool 2 [see here], and Daniel Cudmore has revealed that he'll be returning to the X-Men franchise with a role in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, although it isn't clear whether he'll be back as Colossus, or is portraying a different character [see here]…
…With The Gifted set to premiere a week on Monday, Fox has released a batch of images from the first episode of the X-Men show, titled 'eXposed' [see here], along with promo images from the following week's second episode 'rX' [see here]…
…M. Night Shyamalan's Glass has added two more Unbreakable stars to its cast, with Spencer Treat Clark and Charlayne Woodard set to reprise their roles as Joseph Dunn, the son of Bruce Willis' David Dunn, and Mrs. Price, the mother of Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah Price. In addition to Willis and Jackson, the Unbreakable and Split sequel will also see James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy back as their Split characters Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Beast and Casey Cooke respectively, and Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) is set for an as-yet-unrevealed role…
…And finally, a poster, trailer and synopsis has arrived online for the indie superhero adventure Armstrong, which is set to hit VOD in the States on October 3rd. Check them out here.
Gary Collinson is a writer and lecturer from the North East of England. He is the editor-in-chief of FlickeringMyth.com and the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.
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One person who "supposedly" saw Justice League said it was fine?…lol There were other sites saying that a person who saw the Justice League called it Epic and that person did not like BvS or Suicide Squad. Keep trying to degrade the DCEU, they will keep "Winning."
Gary@FlickeringMyth says
Did the person who called it epic "supposedly" see it too, or do you have no problem believing it when the reaction is positive?
It's very easy for any site to make up a vague one word reaction to a screening that has everyone under tight NDAs. They're probably both fictional reactions.
And I'm not trying to degrade the DCEU. I hope they do keep "winning". Maybe then the DC fanboys won't be so paranoid that everyone is out to degrade the universe.
Rocco Scagnetti says
So you admit you're reporting on some fictional bs, denigrate DC fans and immediately respond to the first reply in the comments.
Sounds butt hurt, click baity and seriously amateur.
Sounds about right?
1. Most of the rumours churned out by fan websites are BS. So yes, we have reported on many rumours in the past that turned out to be fictional.
2. I've never unfairly criticised a DC fan. I'm one myself. Look at my thumbnail. I'm standing next to a Batmobile, wearing a Joker T-shirt.
3. You've managed the coveted fanboy hattrick of calling me "butt hurt", "click baity" and "amateur" all in one go. Usually it's only one or two. Congratulations.
So stop being an ameteur, butt hurt spewer of click bait.
By the way, did this site put out an ad for comment trolls when it was staffing, cause it seems like that's the calibre of its content providers. Content providers – because no one would ever mistake you for a writer or reporter.
Amazon mistook me for a writer…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gary-Collinson/e/B007D893MS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_10?qid=1505994381&sr=8-10
So does the tax man.
But honestly, thanks for the tired old fanboy vitriol (twice!). It's been a while since someone with nothing better to do in their life but insult people on the internet told me how shit I am.
get in colly lad!!! you've just scagnetti'd that rocco creep
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Q: MonoDevelop not working on Leopard 10.5.5 I downloaded the Mono Develop package (http://download.xamarin.com/studio/Mac/XamarinStudio-4.0.12-3.dmg) for Mac.But after unpacking the package and clicking on the Xamarin(Mono Develop Icon),Mac says this version is not compatible.Can you tell me where to find a compatible version or which version supports the OS(Leopard 10.5.5) when it comes to Mac,im a complete Noob

A: Leopard is six years old - released in October 2007.  I wouldn't expect many companies to still actively support it.
From the Xamarin docs:

To create Mac applications using Xamarin.Mac, you need to have an
  Apple Macintosh computer running at least Lion (OS X 10.7). If you
  want to distribute your applications, either in the Apple App Store or
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Before you install Xamarin.Mac, you need to download and install the
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Q: Finding erroneous Json object from json array I have following type of JSON array (actually I received it as string so I'm trying to convert it to JSON array),
[{"Message":{"AccountId":"0","CreationDate":"02-DEC-16","Sbu":null,"ProfileId":"28261723","messageSeqId":69},"Offset":6},
{"Message":{"AccountId":"0","CreationDate":"02-DEC-16","Sbu":null,"ProfileId":"28261271","messageSeqId":76},"Offset":7},
{"Message":{"AccountId":"0","CreationDate":"06-DEC-16","Sbu":null,"ProfileId":"28261871","messageSeqId":99},"Offset":8},
{"Message":{"AccountId":"0","CreationDate":"06-DEC-16","Sbu":null,"ProfileId":"28261921","messageSeqId":101},"Offset":9},
{"Message":{"AccountId":"0","CreationDate":"07-DEC-16","Sbu":null,"ProfileId":"28260905","messageSeqId":105},"Offset":10}]

Sometimes this JSON array parsing fails because one JSON objects has fails to parse (I'm using JSON.simple to the JSON parsing). Is there a way to identify the erroneous JSON object?
Here is the code part(ResponseJson is above string that want to convert to JSON array),
JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
    try{
        JSONArray jsonArray = (JSONArray) jsonParser.parse(ResponseJson);
        int jsonArrayLength = jsonArray.size();
        System.out.println("jsonArray length: " + jsonArrayLength);
        if (jsonArrayLength > 0) {
            subscribeMessageEvent(topic,qStart,jsonArrayLength,jsonArray);
        }
    }catch (Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

A: No, you can't identify which JSON Object is not properly formed with your current implementation.
Anyways, if you're receiving your input as a String, you could split it into the different messages and then parse them separately. That way you're in control and you can decide what to do with them individually.


Tomorrow morning will March under the Louis Vuitton Paris Fashion Week runway carrying the new collection created for the fall-winter 2011-2012. To allow all fans of the brand to fully enjoy the highly anticipated fashion show even from home la maison decided to broadcast streaming in high definition on the whole show and to view it simply connect to the official Louis Vuitton available on Facebook.
Tomorrow morning at 10.00 Louis Vuitton will present its new collection of women's fashion fall-winter 2011-2012 intended for. Under the Paris fashion week Parisian catwalk parade note maison offering to fans of the brand to follow the fashion show in live HD.
To watch the parade, simply connect to the Facebook fan page of Louis Vuittonor visit the website www.fashionshow.louisvuitton.com, also accessible via iPhone and iPad.
Also, in the days following the fashion show presentation of the collection f/w 2011-2012 of Louis Vuitton you can see a series of special content made through new technologies that will allow you to feel all the effects involved in this exclusive event.
Among the special extras will be available videos and interviews on backstage, behind the scenes and exclusive movies that provide you with a panoramic view and unbroken fashion show sites giving you the ability to look in all directions and explore the room as you were actually present at the parade.


Ferryboats have been a way of life on Puget Sound since settlers first arrived there. From the wooden Mosquito Fleet to the sleek art deco Kalakala, the ferries of Puget Sound serve as a cultural icon to visitors and locals alike. Running from Point Defiance to Sidney, British Columbia, the Washington State ferry system is the single largest tourist attraction in the state, with 28 routes and 23 million riders annually. Names like Vashon, Kalakala, and Chetzemoka still resonate with fondness and nostalgia long after they have gone, while ships built the year Lindberg flew solo across the Atlantic will soon be pensioned off and pass into the "Ghost Fleet." In this volume, travelers are invited to look back to the past and bid Puget Sound's "ancient mariners" a fond farewell.


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RECALL NOTICE: J & B Sausage Company, Inc. Recalls Fully Cooked Shredded Beef Products Due To Possible Foreign Matter Contamination
J & B Sausage Company, Inc. Recalls Fully Cooked Shredded Beef Products Due To Possible Foreign Matter Contamination
Class II Recall 109-2017
Health Risk: Low Oct 12, 2017
Congressional and Public Affairs
Jeremy J. Emmert
Press@fsis.usda.gov
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2017– J & B Sausage Company, Inc., doing business as J Bar B Foods, a Waelder, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 12,816 pounds of fully cooked shredded beef products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The Fully Cooked Smoked Seasoned Shredded Beef with BBQ Sauce items, were produced under the H-E-B label on Sept. 16, 2017. The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels (PDF Only)]
28-oz. trays of H-E-B Fully Cooked Smoked Seasoned Shredded Beef with BBQ sauce with a use by date of Dec. 15 2017.
16-oz trays of H-E-B Fully Cooked Smoked Seasoned Shredded Beef with BBQ sauce with a use by date of Dec. 15 2017.
The products subject to recall bear establishment number "EST. 7066" inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to retail locations in Texas.
The problem was discovered on October 11, 2017, when J Bar B Foods received notification from their consignee that a consumer complaint had been received regarding foreign material, specifically plastic, in the product.
There have been no confirmed reports of injury or adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an injury should contact a healthcare provider.
Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers.
Consumers with questions about the recall may contact Bonnie Hyman, consumer representative, at (830) 788-7511. Media with questions about the recall can contact Jim Williams, company president, at (830) 788-7511.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. The online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/reportproblem.
USDA Recall Classifications
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Canada: New "Employer Health Tax" Now in Effect in British Columbia
Pursuant to the new Employer Health Tax Act, certain employers in British Columbia are now required to pay to the government for each calendar year a tax equal to 1.95% of the BC remuneration paid by the employer during the calendar year.
The Act defines "employer" very broadly, as a person who pays remuneration to an employee, or a trustee in bankruptcy, assignee, liquidator, receiver, administrator or other person administering, managing, winding up, controlling or otherwise dealing with property or business of a person who pays remuneration to an employee. The Act will apply somewhat differently to non-profit, part-year and associated employers. In order to pay the health tax, employers are required to register with the BC government.
The Act came into force on January 1, 2019. While the BC government has made general information about the tax available on its website, employers operating in British Columbia are well advised to seek legal and tax advice in respect of their obligations under the new Act.
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Your Gray matter knows it makes sense
Written by Bob Short on 17 January 2021 .
Long term denizens of this scurvy establishment will need no introduction to the names Captain Sensible (nee Ray Burns) and Paul Gray. If there was such a thing as punk rock royalty (and I'm against it on general principle), these guys would at least be Grand Dukes or Princes or some such.
For those of you who are slumming it, Captain Sensible is the more fluorescent face of The Damned. His beret and toilet mat jumper has besmirched the covers of a good many picture covers of hit singles, including a surprise run as a solo star.
Paul Gray came to the world's attention with fellow graduates of the class of '76 Eddie and the HotRods. Paul has also had three runs as bass player in the Damned and the kind of resume that would have you blushing with jealousy. He played on Johnny Thunders' "So Alone" so don't you go comparing resumes. He's Paul Gray and you're not.
In 2013, Sensible and Gray got together to form the Sensible Gray Cells and released an LP called "A Postcard from Britain". During lockdown, they regrouped with drummer Martin Parrot for a new album entitled "Get Back into the World".
In an interview for "Around the Sound", the Captain said: "Paul Gray and myself being garage psych aficionados feel there should be more of this kind of music and this is our contribution to the cause."
Of course, musical terminology varies around the world. Here in Australia, despite having a garage psych all our own, tend to equate the phrase with more Nuggets based materials. If you enter expecting the derangement of the Seeds and the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, you might be disappointed.
This is music that tilts more towards a very English tradition. Think Barrett era Pink Floyd singles ling "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play". Think late Sixties Kinks and the Who. Think Status Quo around the time of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "Ice in the Sun". You might also want to include Blur's "Parklife" somewhere in there.
And none of that is a bad thing. But it's also far from an unexpected career swerve. Barflies will point out that the Damned actively sought Syd Barrett as producer of their sophomore album only to be gifted with fellow Floyd Nick Mason. And let us not forget the Damned's album "Strawberries" effectively sounds like the Sensible Gray Cells with added Dave Vanian or vice versa.
This, however, should not be viewed at criticism. I am trying to evoke a sense of pedigree. This is an excellent album released in unfortunate times. Not only does it have to face the fatigue of an older fan base who gave up listening to new records when years still started with the number 1, it faces a world where promotion has become nearly impossible.
Publicist David Laing arranges a Zoom interview between us. The back and forward between continents, negotiating a plausible time for an interview that in some way acknowledges the post rock and roll lifestyle takes some doing. When I explain that I'm already in their tomorrow, minds are appropriately blown perhaps because I've just had the sleep they seem to be so looking forward to.
The planned half hour interview crumbles into technological disarray at the 15-minute mark but let me share with you what we got.
"It's nuts, isn't it?" the Captain begins on the subject of promotion. "All we can do is what we do really. What we're allowed to do. I want to get out on the road with the other lot (The Damned) and this lot. What can we do?
"It also seems to me like there is a concerted effort on behalf of our esteemed governments to attack rock music (and) live music. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it comes back again. I think we have to demand live music."
I had been edging around some questions. I had described their music as quintessentially English. Not British. English. The Captain's response was: "We're English."
In earlier, simpler times, such a response would be harmless. Charming. But we do not live in simple times. In this post Brexit era, many of our more popular musical heroes have taken a hard turn towards the extreme right. John Lydon spouts the virtues of Donald Trump and demands the persecution of the homeless in his neighbourhood. Morrissey has gone from animal advocate to the popular face of For Britain.
In many ways, we demand more of our artists and musicians than ever before. So, obviously, the recreation of the sound of pre-Common Market Britain is going to make you wonder on which side the toast is buttered. Fortunately, the Captain does not have to be asked on which side his allegiances lie.
He did, after all once record for Crass Records and formed the Blah! Party, an organisation with tangential links to the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
"Boris Johnson. Michael Gove (or whatever his name is). They've never been to a sodding gig in their lives. What do they care?"
"All the highfalutin, high-brow stuff," Paul throws in. "They did a showcase for that in London but they can't do anything for rock music."
I asked Paul about how Brexit was likely to affect European promotion.
"I spent 15 years working for the Musician's Union before I came back to the Damned. I've got a bit of an insight for any musician from any genre travelling abroad. It's not looking great because its going to have quite a profound effect for visas for touring in Europe, for taking equipment, merchandise. Paying tax up front. All of these things that really add up. And its really hard to make any kind of money from touring these days anyway."
Times are tough. What can you do?
"Buy the album," Paul sensibly suggests.
So, let's return to the album. One of the things that really gives it that English feel is that sense of composition. In our collective minds, I think we all imagine Ray Davies and Pete Townsend sitting there with sheet music and pen and delivering songs whole to their respective bands.
The Captain in the studio.
Paul Gray lays down his lines.
You kind of imagine Keith throwing up some lazy arsed blues riff and Mick digging something out of his notepad. British Psych seems more studied. Apparently not so in this case.
"They weren't at all," Paul tells me. "Caps and I swapped some ideas about beforehand but we only had a couple of days in the studio before the bloody plague came. Much of it was really finished up at Captain's place and mine.
"We just put overdubs on, swapped files and roped some people in to mix it. I think it may sound like it's organised and arranged just because we know where each other are coming from. We work really well together."
"I think our generation is blighted by growing up when the Beatles were on the scene," said the Captain. "Because they were just so darn big and so incredibly good at what they did, I find it very hard to get those song structures out of my head when I'm actually sitting there with a guitar to knock a song together. It's very hard to break out of the verse, chorus, verse, chorus, middle eight, blah, fade template.
"I think it still sounds really fresh in a way that rock music generally doesn't. I think that loud, heavy, stodgy thing has been done. As much as I like early Black Sabbath and everything, heavy rock turned into something really turgid. You know, Iron Maiden and that dross."
The Captain begs off before he starts to rant. (His words not mine. My job is to encourage a good rant with juicy malice with little forethought.) He lets me know it's a garage psyche album.
"I tell you what's pleasing," Paul says. "We got sent a list of reviews the other day. Normally you get people who don't like it. Every review has been really good."
He sounds genuinely surprised.
"People really seem to like it. It's an extremely varied album and the beauty is we've got nobody telling us what to do. We've got no management saying you've got to make it sound like this. It's purely done as an outlet for the songs we write. To hell if people liked it or not but it's been really pleasing that people have liked this one."
It's time for me to get a little cheeky. The other major player on this album is Martin Parrot and I've played and recorded with him so, you have to stick up for mates.
"Why didn't you call yourselves the Sensible Gray Parrots?"
"I didn't actually think of that," the Captain responds. "That actually works."
"He's a drummer with Johnny Moped," Paul tells me. Both he and the Captain have had considerable involvement with that institution over the years.
"He (Parrot) was a really affable bloke and a really good drummer. We got on with him really well. Drummers can be a bit of a funny breed but he seemed relatively normal. When we came to think about doing the new album, that's the first guy Captain mentioned."
"I really enjoyed those sessions," says the Captain. "A lot of punk drummers just motor through the songs regardless of the highs and the lows. These songs were written but they were never toured. It's really nice to play with a drummer who plays the song rather than the drum kit."
"Get Back into the World" is a great album that deserves your attention. Get off your arse and check it out.
Tags: bob short, damaged goods, the damned, paul gray, capain sensible, sensible gray cells, martin parrot, get back into the world
Guest - Richie Lambert
Refreshing interview ,met Martin a while back when he came to one of my gigs . Gonna seek out some Sensible music now .Cheers .
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