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Administrative Decisions (Effect of International Instruments) Bill 1997
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a Bill for an Act relating to the effect of international instruments on the making of administrative decisions
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3 Application to external Territories
5 International instruments do not give rise to legitimate expectations at law
6 Exclusion where State or Territory coverage
7 Other operation etc. of international instruments not affected
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This Preamble sets out considerations taken into account by the Parliament of Australia in enacting the law that follows.
In Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh (1995) 183 CLR 273 a majority of the High Court held that the act of entering into an international instrument gives rise to a legitimate expectation at law that could form the basis for challenging an administrative decision. It also held that such a legitimate expectation could be set aside by an executive or legislative indication to the contrary.
There is a need for certainty in making administrative decisions. Uncertainty is created by allowing decisions to be challenged on the ground that decision makers did not properly give effect to such legitimate expectations.
Australia is fully committed to observing its obligations under international instruments.
However, international instruments by which Australia is bound or to which Australia is a party do not form a part of Australian law unless those instruments have been validly incorporated into Australian law by legislation. It is the role of Commonwealth, State and Territory legislatures to pass legislation in order to give effect to international instruments by which Australia is bound or to which Australia is a party.
On 10 May 1995, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs and the then Attorney-General issued a joint statement concerning legitimate expectations and international instruments. On 25 February 1997, the present Minister for Foreign Affairs and present Attorney-General issued a further joint statement. Both statements said, on behalf of the Commonwealth, that the act of entering into an international instrument should not give rise to such legitimate expectations, and that legislation would be introduced to set aside any such legitimate expectations.
The Parliament of Australia therefore enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Administrative Decisions (Effect of International Instruments) Act 1997 .
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
This Act extends to all the external Territories.
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
administrative decision means:
(a) a decision by or on behalf of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
(b) a decision by or on behalf of an authority of, or office holder of, the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
that is a decision of an administrative character (whether or not the decision is made under an enactment), and includes such a decision reviewing, or determining an appeal in respect of, a decision made before the commencement of this Act.
enactment means:
(a) an Act passed by the Parliament, by the Parliament of a State or by a Legislative Assembly of a Territory; or
(b) an instrument of a legislative character made under such an Act.
international instrument means:
(a) any treaty, convention, protocol, agreement or other instrument that is binding in international law; and
(b) a part of such a treaty, convention, protocol, agreement or other instrument.
The fact that:
(a) Australia is bound by, or a party to, a particular international instrument; or
(b) an enactment reproduces or refers to a particular international instrument;
does not give rise to a legitimate expectation of a kind that might provide a basis at law for invalidating or in any way changing the effect of an administrative decision.
Section 5 does not apply to an administrative decision by or on behalf of:
(a) a State or Territory; or
(b) an authority of, or office holder of, a State or Territory;
if provision having the same effect as, or similar effect to that which, section 5 would otherwise have in relation to the decision is made by an Act passed by the Parliament of the State or Legislative Assembly of the Territory.
To avoid doubt, section 5 does not affect any other operation or effect, or use that may be made, of an international instrument in Australian law.


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Ekiti APC shuns national body, insists Ojudu, 10 others remain suspended
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has insisted that the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu and 10 others remain suspended.
It said the indefinite suspension slammed on the bigwigs still subsists despite the pronouncement of the party's national secretariat nullifying the action.
Ekiti APC had last week suspended Ojudu and 10 others for alleged disobedience, which rested on their failure to withdraw the case they instituted against the party as directed by the National Executive Council.
Others suspended alongside Ojudu were Ayo Ajibade, Oyetunde Ojo, Femi Adeleye, Bunmi Ogunleye, Akin Akomolafe, Bamigboye Adegoroye, Wole Oluyede, Olusoga Owoeye, Dele Afolabi and Toyin Oluwasola.
The sanction came following the report of the Patrick Ajigbolamu-led eight-man disciplinary committee set up to probe allegations of anti-party activities levelled against them.
But in a reprisal, Ojudu and his loyalists suspended Governor Kayode Fayemi and the State Working Committee, accusing him of destabilising the party.
The suspension and counter-suspension were, however, declared null and void by the caretaker committee of the party, leading to the setting up of a reconciliation committee chaired by Governor Nasir El-Rufai.
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Addressing reporters in Ado-Ekiti, the APC state Publicity Secretary, Ade Ajayi, said the suspension against Ojudu and others subsists.
He added that the El-Rufai reconciliation committee and the disciplinary committee set up at the state level, which recommended the suspension of Ojudu and others, were saddled with distinct responsibilities with no overlapping effect.
"Let me clarify here, it was only the suspension by the illegal body imposed on Governor Kayode Fayemi that was nullified and not the one that was carried out by the state disciplinary committee.
"The national body said it had not received the report of the disciplinary committee set up by the authentic APC in Ekiti as at when the pronouncement was made.
"But as I speak with you, the national body has received the report. It was as a result of the disobedience to the directive of the National Executive Committee and President Muhammadu Buhari that all cases be withdrawn from courts that we set up the disciplinary committee."
Ajayi hoped that the Governor El-Rufail-led reconciliation committee would act on the report submitted by the Jide Awe-led committee set up by the State Working Committee to mediate in the crisis.
"There are two different issues, they are distinct and I don't think there is conflict between what the committees by the national and state are to do.
"The Jide Awe-led committee submitted its report on September 29. We are confident that the committee set up by the national body will act on its recommendations.
"Don't forget that the aggrieved people were provided the opportunities, but they refused to appear before the disciplinary and reconciliation committees set up by the party. It has always been our wish that we remain one family."
Ajayi appealed to Ojudu and his group to cooperate with the reconciliation committee set up by the national body for unity to be restored.
"Let them come home and ventilate their anger. Let them use the party's reconciliation mechanisms to settle this, so that we can remain united as we have ever been," he said.
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Letters to the editor — Sept. 4, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 1:30am
Welcome to Sequim
The Sequim that needs to be saved is the community that existed when those of us who were searching for utopia discovered the loving community here. That was what we all experienced when we first visited Sequim.
From the Chamber of Commerce website history of Sequim: "The area was home to the S'Klallam tribe long before the arrival of Europeans. The descendants of these Native Americans still make their home on Sequim Bay (Blyn). First homesteaded in 1854, the arid valley had a good natural port and abundant seafood. No doubt early pioneers thought they'd found paradise when they discovered this low rainfall valley. They soon discovered that the same sunshine and lack of water made the area difficult to farm. In 1896, a visionary pioneer proposed to irrigate the valley using water from the Dungeness River. The residents were organized and dug irrigation ditches by hand. These soon spread across the valley bringing life-giving water and prosperity."
That combination of two communities that shared the common ground of living close to the land grew into a unified body of human beings with a tradition of caring for each other.
There is now an attempt to change that tradition by those of you who thought you had escaped the human conditions in your former communities. Instead of adopting the social customs of Sequim and showing gratitude and appreciation for the concerted two-year efforts of the tribe, the City of Sequim, the Olympic Medical Center, Jefferson County Healthcare, Peninsula Mental Health, concerned community members and state legislators to find a solution to the opioid addiction problem on the Olympic Peninsula, your fears have driven you to fund manufactured propaganda and disrupt informational community meetings with bully tactics.
The Sequim community spirit will survive your attack and will continue to care for everyone's needs.
Joy Beaver
Clinic is 'health issue, not a boycotting one'
This is why "Save our Sequim" does not speak for me:
1. We "run" on hearing many voices — especially on community concerns.
2. The local government system works. I've been on Salish BHO Advisory Committee (Behavioral Health) for more than two years. If you are knowledgeable in something and are willing to volunteer your time/effort in making government work, join a county advisory committee. Attend public meetings. Ask questions! This is the heart of government.
3. I've seen county commissioner Mark Ozias at work in these meetings. He is deeply attentive and well-versed on materials being discussed. He asks insightful questions and consistently appears to make logical/pragmatic decisions.
4. SOS does not speak for those in treatment or those who've found recovery. In fact, SOS has vilified people seeking help at their most vulnerable point in life. This is the opposite of what healthy communities do.
5. Despite all the pre-planning prior to the Jamestown forum, SOS was truly outfoxed by people in recovery and by those who know people can get better. Our voices were honest, open and proud.
6. SOS started out with the answer ("no MAT center") rather than the questions ("what is best treatment/s for substance use disorder? How can communities help?"). Research questions lead to answers, not the other way around.
7. I did research. Do your own responsible research rather than assuming any one group holds the answer.
8. This is a public health issue, not a boycotting one. I could never support a group whose members think boycotting local businesses is the way to lead with integrity.
9. Community organizations build unity, not division.
10. When people engage in real dialogue (not argument) SOS will become marginalized.
Sandy Goodwick
Goodwick is chairman of the Disability Rights Washington's Mental Health Advisory Council.
MAT effect on budgets
Opponents of the planned Regional medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic are concerned that it will import problems into the City of Sequim such as illegal drug dealing, homelessness, begging and loitering.
Proponents argue that there is no evidence that a MAT clinic warrants such concerns.
This complex controversy needs to be addressed based on facts.
I suggest that the City of Sequim, its police department, fire department, school district and hospital provide the public with an estimate of the projected effects of the regional MAT clinic on their operations and budgets.
If it requires increased net-expenditures by our public institutions, the clinic's operator needs to bear these costs to avoid increases in our taxes.
Eckart Mildenstein
Too many projects
So many people I have talked to are concerned about the direction this city is heading. The new roads from Port Williams and Brown Road to … who knows where, the MAT clinic, Seventh Avenue to be a through road, and on and on.
Do you think this is too many projects at once? I do. The only people that seem to be smiling about all this are the developers and investors. What is going on with our planning committee and city council? Save our Sequim.
Brenda Case
Who knows better?
Pity those silly Sequim citizens railing against the placement of a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) facility in their midst because, sadly, they obviously have no idea what's good for their own community.
Believe it or not, these poor benighted souls have the idiotic idea that a facility whose clientele consists of drug addicts and which proposes to dispense daily "fixes" of addictive drugs to said clientele will somehow create a sub-population of drug-seeking addicts that will cluster around the facility in search of – would you believe – drugs.
Moreover, these well-meaning but woefully uninformed individuals contend that these addicts will become a blight on the community because they are, in large part, an unemployed homeless drug-seeking mob and, once ensconced close to their daily "fix" will stay forever. How crazy is that …
Thank goodness for elected representatives Van De Wege, Chapman and Tharinger who know what is best for the unenlightened – even if they don't – and are therefore "helping" them find the "proper direction" by taking positions in favor of the MAT.
This "help" became evermore apparent when a budget allocation including the MAT funding was easily passed because, in the words of Representative Chapman, "It "helps" to have the chair of the capital budget committee (Steve Tharinger!) representing our district."
And it is likely these three "public servants" will continue "helping" Sequim residents find the "proper direction" so long as they remain in office.
Unless, of course, Sequim tires of this so-called "help" and votes them out.
One can but hope …
Dick Pilling
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Episode 1073: Steer the Stars
September 10, 2017 August 1970, Sam Hallastrology, crystal ball, fashion, lookalike, looming, mansplaining, teenagersDanny Horn
"It's different here. I don't have to imagine things."
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is perturbed, and for good reason. Her houseguests vanished into a dimensional fissure they discovered in a closed-off wing of the house, and when they returned, months later, limping and gasping and covered in space dust, they issued dire portents of calamities to come.
The house of Collins will fall, they say, collapsing into each other's arms and weeping deliriously, and when you ask them for details, they fall to pieces. We don't know, they say, keening. Nobody would tell us anything. The future is super cliquey.
"It's not like Barnabas to be so concerned, unless he really believes it," Liz says to the governess during their daily stand-up. Although it is like him, really; Barnabas and Julia are utterly hysterical about everything. It's just that most of the time they don't bother the squares with it.
But this time, their nonstop acid-trip monster battles took them to the space-age world of 1995, where Collinwood was destroyed and everyone was dead, following an impending war with old-timey ghosts. So Barnabas and Julia are road-testing the novel idea of telling people what's going on in their own lives, probably setting up an ironic self-fulfilling prophecy that will consume us all.
"It's so inconceivable to me," Liz puzzles. "Time has simply been the day I'm living. Now, to find out that there are different times — that a past and a future do exist somewhere…"
"We have to accept that now, don't we?" Maggie replies. This is a typical example of a Collinwood staff meeting.
"There's no telling what's going to happen, is there?" Liz asks.
"No," says Maggie. "Not even the computers can figure that out yet." Which is super exciting, I didn't even know we had computers. Where are they keeping the computers?
But Liz is still rolling. "All these centuries," she moans. "All that man has accomplished… and yet we know nothing about what's going to happen tomorrow."
But tomorrow is not the problem. The problem is what's going to happen later this afternoon.
Because we meet another new character today, and he's terrible. They're starting a story, and these days Dark Shadows has a policy of clearcutting all the middle-tier characters every four months, so if they're kicking off a new storyline then they have to look at all the loose actors and say, okay, do we need somebody who's Humbert Allen Astredo-y?
This one's name is Sebastian Shaw, he's an astrologer, and what you see above is the on-purpose costume that he's wearing. I'm taking a break from talking about how awful Hallie is today, so I can talk about how awful Sebastian is.
Now, Chris Pennock characters are always a little bit hard to take. He's an enormous slab of a monster man, and at this stage of his career, he hasn't learned how to engage with all the puny humans who race around him at waist-level. His characters are always show-offs of one kind or another — Jeb was a rebellious world-crushing teen emperor thing who expected everyone to grovel before him, Cyrus was a snooty scientist who always knew more about whatever anybody was talking about, and John was a loudmouth rape machine.
And now there's Sebastian the astrologer, one of the all-time mansplaining champions of the world.
Here, I'll show you what I mean. Liz arrives at Sebastian's office, which is constructed out of random set remnants, and she's startled by his resemblance to her dead son-in-law, Jeb.
Sebastian looks off into the middle distance, and frowns. "You know," he offers, "I read somewhere that there are only twelve different types of faces in the world. Yet we're constantly amazed at people who look alike."
So that's pretty much Sebastian Shaw in a nutshell. That is the variety of bullshit that he talks. I'm pretty sure there are more than twelve different faces in the world; I don't have exact figures in front of me, but it's got to be at least in the mid-twenties, possibly higher. But Sebastian read something somewhere, and all of a sudden he needs to share that knowledge with the world.
He brushes past her. "I was about to have tea, Mrs. Stoddard," he murmurs. "Would you care to join me? It's an unusual Indian blend." because of course it is. She says no thanks, so he asks her to sit down and forgets about the tea, which doesn't exist anyway. I don't know if you've ever been offered a cup of rhetorical tea, but it's an aggravating experience.
She sits down. He doesn't. Or possibly he's so tall that you don't even notice when he sits down.
"Where's your crystal ball?" says the rube. "I expected to see a crystal ball."
He glares at her, and spits, "I don't think I can help you, Mrs. Stoddard, if you're going to think of me as some kind of gypsy fortune-teller!"
She apologizes. Apparently there's some kind of crucial distinction between the different varieties of soothsaying grifters.
Then he does a bit of cold reading, asking why Liz is so afraid of what's going to happen. She says, happen when? and he says, this year. Then this happens.
Liz: What's going to happen this year?
Sebastian: Tell me why you're afraid, Mrs. Stoddard.
Liz: No, you tell me.
Sebastian: I'm not a psychic, Mrs. Stoddard.
Liz: You seem to be.
Sebastian: Well, I sensed a fear. You see, animals can sense when another is afraid. Why not human beings?
And ugggh, I already hate Sebastian so much. He probably read about the animals in the same place that he read about the twelve faces. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that somebody in this room has a subscription to Reader's Digest.
She asks how he knows she's afraid of this year, and he says, "Well, I'm an astrologer, Mrs. Stoddard. I know many things," which I'm pretty sure means that he's a psychic. I mean, he's not, because he's a con artist, but whatever.
He positions himself moodily by the candles, and peers up into the night sky that lives in his imagination. "Astrology began when man wondered how the planets and stars affected his everyday existence," he explains. This is true, and astrology ended when men discovered that the answer was not at all.
But astrology is very in right now, thanks to all the hippies who spend a lot of time thinking about the stars, while they're waiting for things to wear off.
The big pop culture moment for hippie astrology was the 1968 Broadway musical Hair, which opens with "Aquarius", a rousing love song to the heavens.
When the moon is in the seventh house
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!
Age of Aquarius!
Aquariuuuuuuuus!
Aquariuuuuuuuuus!
It's a great song, about how people born in the late 1940s are going to lead us into a golden future of harmony and truth and mystic crystal revelations. It turned out that wasn't really the case, but they didn't know that; they're not a psychic, Mrs. Stoddard.
The concept of the Age of Aquarius was based on the work of Edgar Cayce, a mystic, healer and bullshit artist from the 1930s. Cayce set up a hospital in Virgina Beach where he did psychic readings, and used magnetism and color therapy to cure people of probably not very much. Cayce believed in a lot of interesting things, including Atlantis, an advanced civilization of great understanding powered by a giant solar crystal, which disappeared for some reason even though they were way more advanced than everybody else and also they had a death ray. Seriously, Cayce predicted that in 1958, the United States would discover the secret of the Atlantean death ray. I don't remember if we did or not.
But the important thing is that people were way more advanced in the past than they are now, for some reason, which is the same kind of thinking that animated H.P. Lovecraft's Elder Gods fiction — that old things are smarter and more powerful than new things, and the fact that the old civilizations died out without leaving any noticeable traces is just proof of how complex and important they were. So the ancient period of spiritual wisdom was somehow followed by a period of spiritual decline called the Age of Pisces, which is responsible for all the war and famine and bad vibes that we're currently experiencing.
But the Age of Pisces will give way to the Age of Aquarius, a golden age of love and understanding that will spread around the world, assisted by all of the communication and transportation and medical technology that we invented during the dumb old Age of Pisces.
Now, as we've discussed, the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969 demonstrated that the hippie ideal of peace, love and music is pretty dependent on other people taking care of the grown-up stuff, like parking and security and where does the food come from, so that's a helpful historical marker for the point when the hippie fad burned out, and turned into something else. Like many fads, it didn't go away completely, it just settled down into a more modest niche that could sustain itself, like bicycles and crossword puzzles. The cosmic spiritual awakening of Woodstock didn't inspire the entire world to embrace peace, but it turned into a more durable long-term trend called New Age, which explains Austin and Northampton and Gwyneth Paltrow.
So 1970 is right on the cusp of that transition from the political, social and pharmacological revolution of the hippie movement turning into the New Age hucksterism to come, and here's Sebastian Shaw and his Atlantean death ray to explain how it all works.
"You see, Mrs. Stoddard," he preens, "if you know the stars, you know the person."
Liz says that he makes it sound simple, and he smirks and says that it is very simple, which in this context means that it requires you to be in touch with the cosmic spirits, and that's why I can understand it and you can't.
Liz says that she must know what the rest of the year brings, and Sebastian says, "I can do several things. I can draw up a general horoscope, which will give you an idea of times that will be disadvantageous to you, or a more complete day by day chart." That's two things.
And then he starts talking about how money doesn't really mean anything to him, which is the prelude to the rich lady opening her wallet.
Now, the interesting thing is that Dark Shadows is taking an up-to-the-minute trend that's popular among the show's core audience, and making it look predatory and villainous. He's clearly excited about getting a foothold at Collinwood — when we first see him, he's grinning about getting a visit from "the great lady herself," and during their conversation, he says it would be an honor to do her chart. He's clearly attracted to the money and/or the status he might attain through this connection.
When Liz asks him how much he charges, he makes a big deal about his principles, and that he'll accept whatever she wishes to give. This happens again in tomorrow's episode, too; Liz asks him for a price, and he snaps, "Mrs. Stoddard, please don't make a shopkeeper out of me." So that makes three things that he isn't — a gypsy fortune-teller, a psychic and a shopkeeper — and there may be more to come.
Anyway, he goes on about his values, but it's pretty clear that if she handed him a check for forty bucks, he would suddenly remember some new values, like overhead and processing fees.
And there's a lot of looming going on, too. Some amount of looming is unavoidable when you've got Chris Pennock and Joan Bennett in the same scene, but he's adding extra looming on top of that.
So introducing an astrologer who dresses like the Maharishi and acts like he's running a yoga studio isn't quite as pandering to the 1970 teens as it could have been. His first horoscope for Liz is going to show that absolutely nothing happens to her for the rest of the year, which is unlikely considering the extremely haunted house that she lives in. If Sebastian turns out to be the con artist villain that he appears to be, then this may be cranky social satire on a popular trend. I'm not sure where this is going to land; I wonder if we could consult the computers.
Tomorrow: Future So Bright.
When Hallie saw the dress on her bed at the end of yesterday's episode, it was lying across the end of the bed. In the reprise today, it's lying lengthwise across the bed.
After Hallie says to Maggie, "Hey, it's late," the camera lurches a bit.
Liz tells Maggie, "So inconceivable to me, despite all of Elliott Stokes' theories. Time has simply been the time — the day I'm living."
Sebastian bumps the large candelabra when he approaches it, and it wobbles slightly.
When Liz tells Sebastian that she wants him to draw up her horoscope, the light fixture is blocking his light, casting three big round shadows on him, including one directly on his face.
Liz walks past the screen in Sebastian's place, and you can see a couple studio lights reflected in the panes of glass.
When Liz is standing at Sebastian's door asking if her chart will have information about the children, you can see shadows of people passing by behind her.
In act 4, the camera has a hard time framing the clock in the foyer. Then there's a quick flash of the picture of nighttime Collinwood, which fades immediately to the gazebo.
We hear the clock in the foyer chiming the hour, which fades into a clock tower chiming. Between the two, the clock strikes nineteen.
Behind the Scenes:
In the Dark Shadows Almanac: Millennium Edition, Pennock writes: "Sebastian Shaw, hippie astrologer, was totally forgettable. I really do not remember a single day playing him. I must have been wishing I were someone else. In what seemed like a few days later, I was someone else!"
The book that Sebastian loans to Elizabeth is Astrology, written by Louis MacNeice, an Irish poet and playwright who wrote the book on commission and considered it "hackwork". MacNeice died in 1963; the book was published in 1964.
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65 thoughts on "Episode 1073: Steer the Stars"
Slocum says:
Good god…a missed opportunity for Joan to wax Pennock's unibrow…
They keep the computers hidden away in the control room — otherwise Barnabas and Julia might have been able to e-mail Collinwood from other dimensions, which would have cut down on story time.
Remember the Password episode of The Odd Couple? They're practicing at home and the woman from Oscar's team says, "It's from that song, this is the dawning of the age of aquarium!"
Digging that super groovy tie dyed tunic! Yep, we're back in 1970 all right.
Sebastian's far out pad looks to be culled from Buffie's apartment.
Does it seem odd to anyone else that Liz has suddenly developed an interest in astrology? And that she is just going to go to the first place she sees?
The window in Sebastian's house looks to be the one used in Buffie's apartment. But the general outline of the walls and the coloring, the corners, etc., looks like it comes from Dr. Lang's lab, which was also used for Evan Hanley's house in 1897. The decor and furnishings seem to be fashioned after the parlor in Hanley's house as well, similar in terms of occult symbolism.
So that's kind of a clever connection. The window from Buffie's apartment, where Pennock's previous character, Longworth/Yaeger, had visited, like the window to parallel time, and the occult abilities/interests of Sebastian Shaw with more the darker con-man traits of Evan Hanley, and the connection to Dr. Lang's lab, because in Sebastian's house there's more going on there than meets the eye.
You know, reading into Dark Shadows set design is a bit like playing Beatles and Pink Floyd records backwards — you never know what secret, hidden messages you might find. 🙂
David Edelstein says:
The writers have clearly muddled Elizabeth and Judith (and Edith), who had relationships with Magda… They could have solved this problem easily with a scene in which she freaks out in Collinwood and wonders aloud if there might be something to this horror-scope stuff the kids were into.
glmanny says:
Just to supply them an excuse maybe she remained interested in the occult and passed it down, but only after the timeline changed????
I have suspended a lot of disbelief for this show. Like, a LOT. I have bought vampires, witches, werewolves, wizards with magical hands on the run from vengeful gypsies, time travel in various packaging, ghosts of every description, and the idea that Carolyn ever willingly spoke to, let alone loved, Jeb.
But I draw the line at Elizabeth Collins Stoddard ever willingly saying one word to, let alone going to see, Sebastian Shaw. If Carolyn had met him and dragged him home, I can see Liz being icily polite to him, and even building a scene where his "predictions" are accurate enough that she starts listening to him. But there is absolutely no indication that this woman, who runs this entire town with an iron fist, is suddenly goofy for astrology in general and this smirking huckster in particular.
I can see what they were going for: in The Haunting of Hill House, one of the characters is a rich suburban woman who practices "fashionable" spiritualism–automatic writing, planchette, and so on. It's not like there was no precedent for "con man uses Invisible World babble to fleece the squares." But this? No.
Perhaps odd, but then if she's had to spend the last couple of years getting used to ghosts and inter dimensional portals in the east wing, it's understandable that she'd be looking into such things.
But I must say it's good to have Elizabeth taking a more active role in a storyline rather than just being a Greek chorus, like she's mostly been since Jason Maguire.
Andrew Leal says:
From his actions, Sebastian should switch to wearing a seersucker. (Or maybe that's for Liz.)
In a thirties-forties B movie, he'd be wearing a turban, possibly played by Bela Lugosi or Cesar Romero, and either a blackmailer, someone out for personal vengeance using the charade to prove something, or the killer. And probably have a goatee. (Basically, much more Humbert Allen Astrod-y than hippie).
In a thirties-forties B movie, he'd be wearing a turban, possibly played by Bela Lugosi or Cesar Romero
Good choices, but I'm picturing Turhan Bey or Nils Asther in the role.
Or Turhan Bey, a la The Amazing Mister X.
Have you ever noticed all of Chris Pennock's characters walk pelvis first? (except for Gabriel obviously).
Some actors will lead with their chest or shoulders, but of all of Pennock's characters, Sebastian Shaw is the king of leading with his pelvis as he walks.
"astrology is very in right now, thanks to all the hippies who spend a lot of time thinking about the stars, while they're waiting for things to wear off…" I'm getting a good belly-laugh off the summation of astrology/horoscopes/etc. But DS really was riding a wave of interest; not very well, i guess, but still riding it.
Yes, we all had well worn paperback copies of Linda Goodman's Sun Signs around 1970.
Mike T. says:
I love the scene in "Klute" where Jane Fonda as Bree is reading it in bed with a smirk on her face.
I inherited a dog-eared copy from my mother. Alas, it did not survive the ages since.
Count Catofi says:
Jabez was too imperious, Cyrus was too mousy, and Yeager with faccia brutta makeup made me want to avert my eyes from the screen! Of Christopher Pennock's four roles — Jeb Hawkes, Cyrus Longworth, John Yeager, and Sebastian Shaw — Sebastian the hippie astrologer Shaw was by far the most fun to watch. (That is until Gabriel Collins appears later).
Sebastian is sort of a 1970s time capsule (or a writer's campy cartoon sketch) of how a member of the younger generation was supposed to distrust a member of the older generation (like Mrs. Stoddard) because she and her whole generation 'just don't know where it's at,' to borrow a common phrase young people used to say at that time.
So, Sebastian is a stereotype of what a well-dressed, somewhat over-the-top hippie guy should be. And he comes complete with very trendy clothing from Orhbach's … no … that would be O-H-R-B-A-C-H-S!
Besides the superficial things like wardrobe, Sebastian has some facets of his character that make him more interesting than the 3 earlier roles: He's clairvoyant, but also venal. He might genuinely wish to use his gifts to help the Collinses, but his hands are tied because he is subject to more powerful forces (which we shall find out more about later). Despite his personal failings, he does care about the children, and will also later show true empathy and kindness to a woman he will become fond of.
As with quite a few other DS characters, Sebastian Shaw had great potential, but the story went off in other directions.
JoeyT says:
And Sebastian doesn't meet the fate other Chris Pennock characters do at the end of the storyline.
Think about how this show looked and felt when it first started. And check out Sebastian Shaw now. An interesting mirror on how fast looks/trends changed from the mid-1960s to 1970.
Despite some of the weaknesses, I like how DS tapped into the astrology craze that was so big back then.
Yeah, just think how square Joe would be now!
He'd be such a straight-edge, but an adorable one.
Wasn't he hauled off to Windcliff? Poor Joe, he still has the nightmares…
(Say, whatever happened to that place?
Is Julia still keeping an office there?
Her desk must be a mess!)
She stops off once a month to restock on sedatives and hypno-whammy the inmates into submission.
Tony Edwards says:
You do a great job recreating the time in which this all took place. Astrology really was a big deal then. There was also the mass pop culture commercialization of the hippie culture in fashion, advertising, interior design, etc. A guy like Sebastian Shaw with his "groovy threads" was indeed a grifter. It would have made more sense if he had opened a health food store with a cafe and did astrological readings as a side business.
I've always been curious about the name of this character. I wondered who gave the character the name of an English actor and writer would would later play the unmasked Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi. Did Dan Curtis or a writer see the name in a playbill? Burke Devlin was taken from the Rock Hudson character in The Tarnished Angels. based on the Faulkner novel Pylon. But Faulkner never named the character so the credit goes to the screen writer. Back to Sebastian Shaw, Chris Claremont gave this name to one of the members of the Hellfire Club in the X-men. Did he name him after the DS character or the actor?
I posited this theory before but I want o bring it up again. There seems to be no familial connection between Tim Shaw and Sebastian Shaw but I think he's the descendant of Pansy Faye/Charity Trask & Tim Shaw ..hence his psychic abilities. But I also think Tony Peterson is descended from Tim & Pansy….the Trask connection
I'm on board with the Tim Shaw / Charity Trask descendants theory.
Park Cooper says:
Okay, that does it. I haven't commented for a long long time, but someone making the link to Sebastian Shaw and Chris Claremont will do it. Yes, the guy from the X-Men's Hellfire Club is totally swiped from Dark Shadows, because Chris Claremont never met an episode of a classic 1960s television show that he didn't wanna swipe from. The whole reason there IS a Hellfire Club and the Dark Phoenix wearing a black bustier is because of one Diana Rigg Steed-and-Peel episode of The Avengers. Chris Claremont has consistently swiped ideas and names from every television show he ever saw, and late '60s is his favorite televisual location to swipe from.
Speaking of Marvel Comics, Danny, are you aware of the Dark Shadows 2-part storyline in DAREDEVIL around this time? Daredevil's gal Karen Page runs away from New York to try to get work as an actress in Hollywood, and she ends up as a new girl character in a Gothic Horror Soap Opera… you know, because there are so many of THOSE.
It's called STRANGE SECRETS, and the main character is some sort of spooky guy named Brother Brimstone… But when murders start happening on the set in real life, Daredevil has to figure out who's responsible…
FEAST YOUR EYES, NERDS:
http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/daredevil_65-66.shtml
As long as I'm talking: two thoughts on The Computers:
Besides science-fiction, talking about the amazing things computers can do was probably a thing people were talking about because of the moon landing.
But really, that line, like Sebastian Shaw himself, feels to me like the result of someone (Sam, I think) having been Given A Note. "Make the show a little more hip, more modern and current."
Hip, modern and current? There's a reason you never walk in on Amy and David watching Gilligan: we don't even have television sets in this town. This is a gothic horror time travel show: we're lucky we ever have electric lamps.
Here, let me show you how dumb it would be if I tried to make the show more hip and current all of a sudden: I'll put in a line about computers, and a hipple astrologer.
Michael E says:
I always assumed that anyone watching a television–especially daytime television–on Dark Shadows would have been the fundamental dealbreaker for this fiction, the deconstructive exploding of its rhetorical conditions of being, a matter/antimatter combustion that would suck all into a vortex and spit out occasional caricatures and parodies–an attempted musical Dark Shadows, a doomed revival series, a lost pilot, a filmed parody, fanfic . . . I still think somebody bought David a television and he turned it on and everything became wholly impossible.
We SO NEED a Dark Shadows musical!
My theory is that all the psychic phenomena in and around Collinwood messes up the TV reception.
tony1956 says:
There's an irony here that Chris Claremont swiped from Dark Shadows. the purveyor of swiped material
If you swipe from DS, you're swiping twice.
I believe Claremont & Byrne based Shaw on the actor Robert Shaw rather than Dark Shadows. All the other Hellfire Club characters were based on actors.
Jason Wyngarde was based on Peter Wyngarde and his character Jason King
Donald Pearce was based on Donald Sutherland and his character Hawkeye Pearce.
Harry Leland was based on Orson Welles with the names coming from Harry Lime and Jedediah Leland.
Looking into it further, it was more an invention of John Byrne in his character designs rather than Claremont.
William wrote in response to Tony Edwards, "I'm on board with the Tim Shaw / Charity Trask descendants theory."
So am I. Tony Edwards, would you possibly be interested in doing some time travel to 1969/1970, so you could weave these most insightful improvements into the original stories? You could try passing a note to Sam Hall outside the studio asking him to bring the matter up with the other writers? I just hope Grayson likes the ideas. Could be a good plan to run it by her first. The show belongs to her now, and I suspect she has the influence necessary to incorporate your suggested changes into the script, if anybody can. The power of pillow talk, etc. 😉
If such a thing was possible ..oh yes. I'd also use the opportunity to get the writers to use my Julia Hoffman theory of being a direct descendant of Magda & Sandor
to lift the werewolf curse ad just let Chris Jennings and Sabrina and Amy leave Collinsport and enjoy a happy ending.
Enjoy these groovy threads of Sebastian while you can because soon Dark Shadows will sever its ties with Ohrbach's altogether (except for a quick scene at the end of 1840).
Hey! Maybe I've stumbled on to something: Maybe Ohrbach's was so tired of their store's name being misspelled on the Dark Shadows end credits that THEY severed ties with the show. That resulted in the show having no other choice but to do another time travel/period piece; they had no source of wardrobe for any more contemporary storylines.
Had I been Ohrbach's contact with DS, I certainly would have overlooked the occasional misspelling in the early years of DS. But the person(s) Dan Curtis put in charge of proofing the closing credits was still misspelling the firm's name 4 or 5 years later during the 1840s time travel!
By that late date I'd imagine Ohrbach's might be quite irritated to see DS still can't get it right. Here is Ohrbach's generously sponsoring DS by discounting wardrobe, or possibly even providing the clothing for free, and the recipient shows its ingratitude by failing to spell the company's name right?!? And after 5 years!?!
Perhaps this is another signal that Dan Curtis has already lost interest in the show.
Oarbacks has been getting that since grade school, and probably grateful that at least someone put an "r" and "h" in his name, even if they didn't put it in the right place, just so at least people went to his department store — and just so long as the cash register went "Ding!" at the beginning, middle, and end of the day. Ohrbach's was a cheap mid-level department store who needed the plug, and that's why Dark Shadows found them, because Dan Curtis Productions did things on the cheap, and Ohrbach's in 1966 was on West 34th Street (the first DS studio was on West 67th), not far from the television studio.
Whether Orhbach's was spelled right or wrong in the DS credits (see, I just noticed I spelled it wrong in this sentence, but it's late and I'm not gonna fix it and am just gonna just keep typing ahead, because I've been drinking…), it didn't matter, because founder Nathan Ohrbach retired in 1965, before DS went on the air, and the company was taken over by some company from The Netherlands, who wouldn't have known Ohrbach's from Orhbach's, let alone Frid from Fjord, so nobody complained and nobody cared. As long as they got their money, and I'm sure they did, or at least the plug…
Just so their name wasn't misspelled on the cheks.
That's Czechs.
Ohrbach's also provided the fashions for several soaps, including One Life to Live, All My Children, The Doctors, and others. Those shows managed to spell the name of the store correctly.
The misspelling of Ohrbach's is the longest running blooper and undoubtedly one of the most easily fixable.
It's left over from the first week of the series, at the end of the fifth episode when they did that extended running "scroll" of credits for the first time, on Friday, July 1, 1966.
No one ever fixed it, and it seems to repeat every time they do that extended scroll of credits with the crew members, etc., whereas it seems to be fine when they just do those few credits that blink on and then off.
Dan Curtis must have thought, "If we fix that, then we have to create a whole new scroll. It would cost too much. Who cares, no one reads the credits anyway. Nobody's gonna watch these shows again."
PrisonerOfTheNight imagines Dan Curtis saying, 'Nobody's gonna watch these shows again.'
Yes, exactly what most everyone assumed, including so many of us fans!
Thankfully we were wrong! The mistaken assumption is now absurdly amusing: With the benefit of VHS, DVDs, streaming, etc., not only we will see these episodes again and again as often as we like, but now we can pause and rewind to check for details so small as to be unimaginable to Dan Curtis and the crew!
In 2017, it's almost like we're examining each show now under a microphone … uh … sorry … that would be under a microscope!
P.S. I wonder who should we thank/credit for not destroying the episodes that they all survived – all but one – to this day …
LOL! We're examining it under the microscope AND microphone!
It had to be Dan Curtis' order that the videotapes/kinescopes be saved, and apparently he either had the clout or money to make sure a demand and have it fulfilled. In contrast, when Agnes Nixon first created One Life to Live for ABC, she wanted all the episodes to be saved, but she said in an interview that a network executive wouldn't agree to that because the videotapes needed to be reused. I guess she didn't fight hard enough for it. When the network wanted her to expand All My Children to an hour, one of her bargaining points was to have the videotapes saved. She won that one. (For what it's worth – I don't know how anyone can view them unless ABC donates them to the Paley Center.)
There were two television shows from my childhood that I always wanted to see repeated: Dark Shadows and The Outer Limits. Somehow I kept the faith that I'd be able to see them someday, and that day came! I am grateful.
But someone did fix it! It's misspelled in about half the episodes up to and including #196, and is then spelled correctly every single time until #956, after which it goes back to being misspelled about half the time until the end of the series.
HarmonySquall says:
I've been drinking, you see…I'm drunk, but not drunk enough yet.
Thanks to Dark Shadows I went to Ohrbach's and bought one of the sweaters that David Collins wears in this "Road To Disaster 1970" plotline.
I'd love to borrow the Stairway to Time and buy some of the dresses Carolyn and Maggie wore.
I heard somewhere that there were only 12 kinds of good characters which you may play on a soap opera.
Of course, subject to availability.
And (evidently) only twelve plotlines, also subject to availability…
Terry Sandford says:
Has anyone noticed the huge scratch on one of the double doors in the foyer? I'm pretty sure it wasn't there in the beginning years, but has been there for a long time now.
I heard that 12 is the secret magic number of the universe.
There are 12 astrological houses in the zodiac.
Julia has 12 trankies in her medical bag.
I honestly thought from the screen shots that he was playing a woman this time a la Milton Berle and Harvey Corman. I thought was an interesting idea to explore, but of course they didn't. 😦
Look at the 5th blog photo (above). With him standing there, with the black pocketbook in front of him, he just needs a pair of high heels, and suddenly he looks more like Jack Lemmon's "Daphne" in "Some Like It Hot" (1959) than the much more delicate Daphne Harridge! He's got Jack Lemmon's forward chin — and an 'Adam's apple'! Maybe Sebastian is right after all when he says there really are "only 12 different types of faces in the world" …
Numerology: The number 12 features prominently in this episode with its mentions of "only 12 different types of faces in the world" 😉 and, of course, the well known 12 signs of the zodiac.
Prime numbers: Numerologists and occultic persons however much prefer the prime numbers which are always odd (except for the prime number 2 which is even), for example: 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, etc. Note that 1 is not a prime number.
Favorite numbers: Prime numbers are preferred over other odd or even numbers due to their perceived mystery and magical significance, with the prime numbers 7, 11, 13 and 17 being among the favorite numbers for occult symbolism, with 11 and 17 having special significance with regard to destruction and immortality, respectively.
Yard sale tip: Therefore, if that candelabrum you have your eye on at the yard sale has 3, 5 or 7 arms, then you may go ahead and buy it! But if it has 4 or 6 arms, then why waste another second of your time on it … KEEP LOOKING! 🙂
Do not forget the secret number of the Universe.
Which turns out to be 42.
Just one more general observation on this episode. It's comical to see Joan Bennett in a scene with such a hippie fashioned type of character and a bit ironic considering how she went on record in an interview 3 years earlier remarking on how much she disliked the trendy culture of that time:
"I can't bear the hippies and the beats. I think they're ghastly — they're not clean. Why are the boys looking like girls and the girls like boys?" ("No Tears for Miss Bennett", TV Guide, Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 1967)
Link to the full interview below:
http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2017/06/no-tears-for-miss-bennett-1967.html
"I can't bear the hippies and the beats. I think they're ghastly — they're not clean. Why are the boys looking like girls and the girls like boys? All this LSD business and the trips — it's awful." — Joan Bennett, in TV Guide, Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 1967
If she said so, then I guess she really meant it that she didn't like 'the boys looking like girls and the girls [looking] like boys.' Sounds like she also found the drug use of the era, specifically LSD, a terrifying trend.
But the first part of her comment about boys & girls has me scratching my head wondering: then why the devil did she marry writer/publisher David Wilde (1917 – 2001)? Either she did not know when she married him what he liked to do. Or possibly he kept it a secret from her. Or else she knew but decided to marry him despite any misgivings she might have had? Link below:
http://nypost.com/2014/04/20/fierstein-play-explores-hidden-secrets-of-cross-dressing/
An excerpt from the article sheds a little light on their marriage: " 'Resort guest David Wilde, a k a Gail, went on to wed Dark Shadows star Joan Bennett — who sadly didn't care for his feminine side. Dave loved her deeply and dearly so he gave up cross-dressing during his marriage,' Cummings recalls. … 'He was back in a dress the day after she died.' " Or at least so says this link …
Apparently Joan Bennett did know about David Wilde's cross-dressing:
"…In time, he was an integral part of a vast network of male cross-dressers; like David, they were mostly white-collar, upper-middle-class men who found complete freedom only in their female identities.
"When David confessed his complicated past to Joan, she was dismayed. He assured her that he was not currently in a cross-dressing phase, and that he had no intention of returning to it as long as their relationship continued. After the initial shock that greeted David's confession, Joan seemed to accept his fetish quite calmly. Too calmly, thought David, and he summoned a friend, Dr. Harry Benjamin, to offer his professional insights on the cross-dressing phenomenon. Again, she seemed unperturbed." (The Bennetts, An Acting Family, p. 429)
My unprofessional insights tell me that this phenomenon had to do with the uniquely upper-middle-class element of "boy's school" — that is, that up to the 1960s certain private education environments were not exactly co-ed, which seems to follow the "English" tradition. At a crucial time of adolescent and even post-adolescent development, a certain financial class of males may not have had the necessary opportunity to make the sexual associations they might otherwise have naturally made, which could have led to a great deal of "closeted" behavior among them.
For reference, see the 1968 film If for examples (like the caning scene with the whip). Interesting how they must go down to the smelly gym to be caned, isn't it?
It was just a fetish that preceded and was outside the counterculture of the 1960s, a period in which Joan Bennett, being in her fifties, naturally and reasonably no longer felt at home.
To be fair about the LSD, she and the rest of the cast had watched Don Briscoe self destruct, at least partially because he was self medicating his emerging bipolar disorder. And there were awful, permanent drug casualties all over during those years.
piecesofgrace358 says:
Oh my heavens!!!!! When I first saw this, I thought Christopher Pernod was dressed up like Vicki Lawrence from the Carol Burnet show!
Ah, the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius! How did that work out?
Thanks. Danny. You keep me laughing out loud. Next to 1841PT, this is my least favorite time period but your writing always makes it better.
My 8-year old daughter happened to be watching this episode with me and laughed hysterically when Sebastian Shaw walked out in his tie-dye get up.
I love how in the drawing room at Collinwood Liz mentions how everything was going so well, and then in the next breath refers to the disappearance of Barnabas and Julia. So apparently after Barnabas and Julia disappeared, things started to go well at Collinwood… hmmm….


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How to Say "You" in Japanese
Updated on September 30, 2016
Akbok
Only you can learn the Japanese "you"s
And you thought Japanese couldn't get any harder
Unfortunately, Japanese has enough variations on how to say "you" that it merits its very own Hub. Depending on your relationship with the person, your differences in social status (she's your division head, you're the coffee fetching head), your region, and just how you're feeling that day, the appropriate "you" for the conversation changes. However, there are some safety nets if you ever find yourself in a position where you really can't seem to make the right choice, and, of course, I'm here to help you as well. On to the list and their various uses and explanations as to why:
A quick reference for which "you" to use
Used if you're above the person you're addressing.
Used if you're trying to show respect to the person you're addressing.
Used if you're very close to the person you're addressing and on the same level or above
Used if you're above the person you're addressing, and if you're not against sounding rude. A common female to male calling word
Name + Title
The most commonly used "you" replacement. By far the most recommended "you" to use.
The various "you"s
No this isn't the start of an article on how paradoxical you are, although someone should cover that eventually. One quick thing before we start: Japanese has a plethora of dialects, accents, and variations on words, and whereas you, the foreign language learner and visitor of Japan, may believe that your region's dialectical "you" should make the list, for the purpose of simplicity I'm only including the most common forms that will be understood no matter where you are in Japan.
1. Kimi - This means "you", but like all the entries here, it has a catch. Normally this is only used by a senpai (superior/older person at work) to call a kouhai (feeble underling). That being said, you shouldn't use this to call someone who's the same level as you or above. Back in the good old days, "kimi" was used by men to call a woman in place of her name, which says something about the gender equality back then.
2. Anata - Surprise, this one means "you" as well, and the trick is that this is used for those people on whom you can't use "kimi". Anyone who is above you in the office or social world merits an "anata" out of respect, and wives have also been known to call their husbands "anata". Be wary though of over using this because it's the standardized translation of "you", and look below at option #5 for a better choice.
3. Omae - This is a way to say "you" that can be unforgivably rude if used on a superior. In addition, it's primarily used by men to call other men of the same level (as a joke kinda), people below them but with whom they're friends, and children and wives. If you pass through a KFC and walk by a table of highschool boys, you'll notice omae being exchanged like "bro" at a frat party. For a more slangy variation, use "omee" (Oh-May but without the Y pronounced).
4. Anta - Originally a variation of "anata", but with completely different implications. Back in the day, "anta" was used to address people who were above you, but presently it has a disrespectful connotation to it. Just like "omae", you can only use "anta" if the person you're talking to is below you, and even then it has a rude nature about it. If you're chastising someone about their careless behavior, "anta" is appropriate. If you're asking if the next train is an express or local train and you use "anta", you'll likely be pushed onto the tracks. Last word on this, women do indeed call men anta, but it's not as nice sounding or personal as anata.
5. The Safety Net: Name + Title - If you have not the faintest glimmer of insight into how you rank versus the person you're talking to, just use their name + their title. Example: Narita san wa ikun desu ka? (Is Narita going?). In English, this would usually be interpreted as, "Is Narita going?" (because he's not here for me to ask him). In Japanese, it can go both ways, as in you're asking Narita directly, or you're asking someone else about Narita. Using someone's name is a very common way to address someone beyond getting their attention. For an example of this, "Did you eat that octopus?" becomes "Narita san wa ano tako wo tabemashita ka?". Like I said, this is the safety net, and if all else fails just fall back to this.
Sum Up
Even native Japanese speakers become confused as to which "you" they should use, which is why you will most often hear the #4 "use the name instead of you" approach. In the case that you don't know someone's name but still wish to address them, use "anata", as it denotes respect. As for the other three (kimi,omae and anta), you should only use them if you're pretty confident that you're social status is higher than theirs. That being said, most people prefer being called by their names, as that's what it's there for. Hope this helps you on your treacherous journey towards Japanese mastery! Sore de wa!
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Kimi is still used by men to address females.
5 years ago from Tokyo, Japan
Nice article. Thought I'd read it to test my Japanese knowledge. Hadn't heard of 'anta' before!
8 years ago from Aomori prefecture, Japan
Ruth: You're absolutely correct about the anta being used in a cutesy way. Both anata and anta when used from a woman to a man can kind of be seen as a step towards familiarity. A girl once apologized to me for using "anata" to me in conversation, as it kind of implied a relationship above friendship.
Wendy: Thanks a bunch! I'm glad I can entertain and inform with my somewhat narrow field of Hubs.
Wendy S. Wilmoth
8 years ago from Kansas
Nice article- well written, informative, and entertaining.
Ruthcurley
8 years ago from Bozrah, CT
What a sticky wicket it is to transverse Japanese social status! This was a great (and really important) post. I've slipped and used the wrong form on occasion.
I've hear 'anta' used by women to men they were flirting heavily with. or in movies by the woman of questionable repute towards a man. in a cutsy way.
I'm guessing that women usually have to use Anata as they are natually below anyone but another woman in many cases. True? (need some women's lib)


Round of 16 Play Begins This Thursday . . .
After winning its regional over the weekend, the No. 9-seeded UCLA women's tennis team (18-7) heads to Athens, Ga. this week for the 16-team NCAA Championships hosted by the University of Georgia. A familiar opponent awaits the Bruins in the round of 16, as eighth-seeded USC (18-6) will be UCLA's next hurdle. That match will be played this Thursday, May 20 at 12:00 p.m. (EST). The winner will meet either Miami or Tulane in the quarterfinals on Friday. Live stats for all matches and information about the tournament is available at Georgia's athletic website GeorgiaDogs.com.
NCAA Individual Championships Begin May 24 . . .
At the conclusion of the NCAA Team Championships, the top singles and doubles players in the nation will do battle for NCAA individual honors. UCLA's Daniela Bercek and Jackie Carleton were both awarded at-large selections to compete in the singles draw. Bercek also received an at-large selection with partner Lauren Fisher in the NCAA Doubles Championships. Carleton and Feriel Esseghir are the first alternates and will also likely get into the doubles draw.
Bruins Advance Through Regional Play . . .
UCLA hosted the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament, May 14-15 at the Los Angeles Tennis Center. Pepperdine upset 18th-ranked BYU, 4-2 in the first match of the regional on Saturday. UCLA followed that up with a 4-0 win against Long Beach State later in the day. In Sunday's regional final, the Bruins came from behind after losing the doubles point to defeat Pepperdine, 4-2 and advance to Athens, Ga.
The UCLA vs. USC Series . . .
USC is one of the few teams the Bruins have not been able to beat this season. The Bruins and Women of Troy first squared off back on Jan. 30 at USC, with UCLA falling 4-3. The Women of Troy also posted a 5-2 decision over the Bruins at the Los Angeles Tennis center back on Mar. 3. USC leads the all-time series, 38-32.
Bercek, Carleton Named All-Pac-10 . . .
Daniela Bercek and Jackie Carleton both earned second-team All-Pac-10 honors last week following a vote of Conference coaches. Bercek was also named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year after posting a 21-5 overall singles record. Carleton, a sophomore, was also named second-team All-Pac-10 as a freshman in 2003.
Bruins Finish Third in Pac-10 Standings . . .
With a 6-2 record, UCLA finished in third place behind Stanford and USC in the final Pac-10 standings. The Bruins' only losses were to both those teams, as UCLA posted victories over Cal, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon and Washington State.
UCLA checked in at No. 8 in the final national rankings of the regular season released on May 3. Individually, sophomore Jackie Carleton leads the list of Bruin players ranked in singles, checking in at No. 18. She is followed by No. 31 Daniela Bercek. The Bruins have three teams ranked in doubles, including No. 22 Carleton/Lauren Fisher, No. 23 Bercek/Fisher and No. 43 Carleton/Feriel Esseghir.
UCLA Against the NCAA Championships Field . . .
UCLA owned a 12-7 overall record against the 63 other teams which made the NCAA Championship field. The Bruins are 5-6 against teams in the round of 16. UCLA's wins are against Miami, Washington, Arizona State (2) and Fresno State. The Bruins' losses have been to Stanford (3), USC (2) and Vanderbilt.
Stella Sampras Webster is in her eighth season as the head coach of the UCLA women's tennis program with a career record of 130-76 (.631). In her first seven seasons at UCLA, Sampras Webster guided the Bruins to six top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including four top-5 showings (1997, 2000 2002 and 2003). In addition, UCLA has reached the NCAA Quarterfinals three out of the last four years (2000, 2002 and 2003). Under her tutelage, the Bruins have finished in the top-10 nationally, six out of seven years. A 1991 graduate of UCLA with a degree in Psychology, Sampras Webster enjoyed a successful four-year career as a Bruin player from 1987-91 and competed on the pro circuit for one year. An NCAA Doubles Champion as a freshman in 1988 with Allyson Cooper, Sampras Webster was also the NCAA doubles runner-up as a senior in 1991 with Kimberly Po. She is one of only five four-time All-Americans in UCLA women's tennis history.


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Bitwa pod Białym Kamieniem miała miejsce 25 września 1604 podczas wojny polsko-szwedzkiej 1600–1611.

Przybyła latem do Estonii armia szwedzka (7000 żołnierzy) dowodzona przez Arvida Stålarma i hiszpańskiego najemnika Alonzo Cacho de Canuta obległa 15 września 1604 Biały Kamień. Pierwszy szturm Szwedów został przez załogę twierdzy odparty. Do drugiego nie doszło, gdyż 25 września nadciągnął z odsieczą Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (2000 żołnierzy). Pole bitwy znajdowało się między drogą z Dorpatu do Rewla, którą przybyła armia polsko-litewska a bagnistymi strumieniami znajdującymi się na wschodzie, zachodzie i południu. Pobliski Biały Kamień leżał w bagnistej dolinie na zachód od pola bitwy.

Widząc zbliżającą się armię polsko-litewską Alonzo de Canuta zaproponował ustawienie luźnego szyku w stylu hiszpańskim, jednak Stålarm, pamiętając, że w poprzednich bitwach Polacy i Litwini najpierw przeganiali jazdę szwedzką, a potem wycinali piechotę, tym razem postanowił zmieszać piechotę i jazdę. Lewe, silniejsze skrzydło szwedzkie, złożone z zaciężnych Niemców dowodzonych przez de Canuta, oparte było o groblę i wąską drogę prowadzącą do Rewala. Prawe skrzydło, złożone z Finów, było słabsze, za to osłonięte bagnistymi strumieniami. Centrum, na którego czele stanął sam Stålarm, składało się wyłącznie z wojsk szwedzkich. Chodkiewicz, po rozpoznaniu szyku nieprzyjaciela, postanowił przede wszystkim zaatakować jego lewe skrzydło, gdyż uważał, że wódz szwedzki nie spodziewa się takiego posunięcia. Dlatego na prawym skrzydle armii Rzeczypospolitej stanęła husaria, na lewym – lekka jazda, a w centrum piechota, rajtaria i artyleria.

Nim Szwedzi zdołali rozeznać się w zamiarach Chodkiewicza, ruszyła na nich husaria, która wpadła na Niemców, rozbijając niemiecką rajtarię. Zacięty opór stawiła jednak dowodzona przez Canuta piechota. Jednak gdy Canut poległ, także i ona poszła w rozsypkę. Po zniszczeniu lewego skrzydła armii szwedzkiej Chodkiewicz rzucił do natarcia lewe skrzydło i centrum. Gdy dołączyli do nich zwycięzcy husarze, szwedzka armia została zepchnięta na bagno. Walka skończyła się całkowitą klęską armii prowadzonej przez Stålarma. Szwedzi stracili w bitwie 3000 żołnierzy, 6 dział, cały sprzęt i 21 chorągwi, natomiast Polacy i Litwini – 50 zabitych i 100 rannych.

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Japanese automaker Toyota has suspended sales of some of its most popular models in the U.S. to fix a flaw in the gas pedals that could make the cars accelerate without warning. The suspension comes after a recall last week involving 2.3 million vehicles. Toyota officials say the problem affects only U.S.-made vehicles, but could spread to Europe, where similar accelerator parts are used.
In an extraordinary move that sent Toyota stock prices plummeting, the world's largest automaker has suspended sales of eight of its most popular models and shut down five North American plants. Michelle Krebs at online auto advisor Edmunds.com called the sales freeze "unprecedented."
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Affected models include Toyota's top selling Camry and Corolla sedans, the Rav4, Avalon, Matrix, Tundra and sport utility vehicles such as the Highlander and Sequoia.
One Toyota owner says the company should have acted sooner.
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Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the Pakatan Harapan-led government spent a good part of its first year to plug the "almost bottomless pit" created by 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), the state investment fund.
The Prime Minister said the PH coalition was formed to save Malaysia from a kleptocratic government that siphoned and squandered tens of billions of ringgit from the people and, against all odds, it won the mandate from the people at the general election on May 9 last year.
"It was a very important election as it was an opportunity to bring an end to a corrupt government. Now we are no longer known as a nation of kleptocracy.
"I cannot imagine the disaster the nation would have been in if the majority of Malaysians did not rise to the occasion. We averted the financial disaster waiting to happen if the Ponzi scheme to cover the 1MDB hole was not discovered and reversed," he said in his keynote address before launching Invest Malaysia 2019 today.
Dr Mahathir, who is also PH chairman, said that in the 10 months of its administration, the government was fully aware of the feelings of the people on the ground.
"The government now knows the extent of the damage the kleptocratic government has done to our country. It is not an exaggeration to say that we are unearthing new damage almost on a daily basis," he said.
Dr Mahathir said that though the task has yet to be concluded, and may take several years to solve, the government has to move on to start developing the nation.
"We have a lot of unfinished business. We have a nation to rebuild and, to achieve that, we have to re-set Malaysia. Our goal is clear, to be a developed nation in every sense of the word.
"It is a development that must benefit everyone, where prosperity is shared and growth is sustainable. We are committed to economic growth with social justice," he said.
He noted that the government has taken many steps to stop the rot and to bring the country back on a strong footing.
Dr Mahathir said the first order of the new government was to ensure that institutions which have been compromised are fixed and strengthened, and he stressed that never again shall this nation go through the dark episode of the kleptocratic regime.
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