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Vashon Events and the Vashon Park District have announced the lineup for the annual Summer Concerts in the Park. The extremely popular and free outdoor concert series will begin on Thursday, August 1st and run through Thursday, August 29th. All concerts start at 7:00pm and are held in Ober Park on Vashon Island. Enjoy live music performances from today's top talent in Rock, Roots Reggae, Big Band, High Energy Folk and Cajun Slamgrass performing against one of Vashon's most beautiful outdoor backdrops.
On Thursday, August 29th, we are excited to bring you The Paperboys!
The Paperboys 25th Anniversary Bio Celebrating their 25th anniversary year, Vancouver Canadian musician Tom Landa, is looking back on the legacy of his much-loved folk rock band The Paperboys. For a quarter century, The Paperboys have been touring the world and lighting up stages with their freewheeling blend of influences from Celtic and bluegrass, to Mexican son jarocho, brass bands, and Canadian roots. They have been called everything from Cajun slamgrass to worldbeat, they've received a Juno award (Canadian Grammy), plus two Juno nominations, two West Coast Music Awards, released nine albums, and regularly play two-night bills in the Pacific Northwest. But that's not what matters to Landa now. "What means more to me than anything else is to receive letters, emails, or hear stories from people who tell me that our songs helped them through a tough time, or that they used one of our songs for their wedding, or that an album of ours was the soundtrack of their summer. At the end of the day, accolades are nice, but they are nothing compared to connecting with people." Landa's song 'Better Than The Last' has become somewhat of an anthem for people who have gone through hard times.
It's a remarkably grounded perspective from a bandleader who's been through it all (including the passing of a band member). But Landa's an open-book kind of songwriter, a Canadian grassroots poet who loves to infuse his songs with exotic world rhythms, Celtic melodies and pop hooks. What's remarkable about the band, is their ability to seamlessly fuse all the different styles and make it sounds like they come from the same place. Their latest CD, ' Score' is full of these signature sounds: Spanishlanguage songs that reflect Landa's Mexican heritage, explosive brass lines from their extended 8-piece ensemble, Celtic fiddle and pennywhistle blazing through an old reel, English Language rock songs with strong pop influences, and a kind of melting pot sound that reflects not only the diversity of the band's home city, Vancouver, BC, but also a larger vision of what modern Canadian roots music should sound like.
The Paperboys were formed in 1992 when Landa first moved to Vancouver. "As a teen living in Ontario," he explains, "I was really influenced by the music coming out of Vancouver in the late eighties/early nineties. Bands like The Grapes of Wrath, 54-40, Roots Round Up and Spirit of the West, who were by far my biggest influence. I packed my bags and came to Vancouver solely based on the music scene."
Over time, The Paperboys were a key part of multiple waves of popular Canadian folk rock bands that included The Duhks, Ashley MacIsaac, Leahy, and Great Big Sea. "One big difference between Canadian Celtic artists from the east coast and Celtic bands in other parts of the world," says Landa, "is that we don't have the same approach to playing music, and we are not flame-keepers in preserving tradition, so we are free to mess around with it and create something different. We still have deep respect for the tradition but we are a product of where we are from and the multicultural city we call home."
Although the Paperboys have made critically acclaimed records, they are through and through a live act. They shine most on stage. They have spent the last 25 years on the road playing all over North America and Europe, where they have developed a large following without the aid of a record labels or radio play. They have become a festival favourite, and have played at Bumbershoot, Vancouver Folk Fest, Edmonton Folk Festival, Tonder Festival, Folk Im Schloss, Trowbridge, Warwick Folk Festival, The Queen Elizabeth Theatre and The Kennedy Centre to name a few.
Tom and the band have always had a DIY approach to their career and have been very successful at it. They have formed their own label, their own management and booking agency, created their own festivals, and forged their own path. They've ensured that they keep a connection to their fans, and their fans have always loved and supported them through every album, every line-up change and through every adventure. Their success predates 'internet fame' and careers modeled after Hollywood singing contests. With that said, they have hundreds of thousands of video views, a strong social media following and a great web presence. One look at their Facebook page is indicative of the connection they have to their fan base.
Their latest CD, Score brings together all the familiar sounds of The Paperboys. There is the pro-immigration song 'America', which is set to a ska rhythm and mariachi horns, or the Country- Folk anthem 'California' which is a favourite sing-along song at their shows. The Paul Simon-esque 'Rain On Me' is full of infectious horns, including a blazing solo by trumpeter Miguelito Valdes (Afro Cuban All Stars). 'White Noise Lullaby' is a song about tinnitus (that ringing in your ears), which affects two members of the band. 'La Primavera' is sung in Spanish and fuses Mexican Son Huasteco rhythms with Irish jigs. The Folk Pop ballad 'Fall Down With You' is a duet between Tom and Kendel Carson (Alan Doyle, Chip Taylor) which currently has 142,000 views on YouTube. The Americana twang of 'Omak Hotel' and 'Dilapidated Beauty' showcases the band's love for the genre. Bluegrass fans will love 'Country Life' with its banjo driven rhythms and lovely harmonies. The New Orleans tinged 'Toenail Moon' is a turn it up to 10 dance hit with second line horns and drums.
The current lineup of The Paperboys features: Tom Landa on vocals, guitar and jarana (Mexican guitar), original member Geoffrey Kelly on flute/whistles (Geoffrey is also a founding member of Spirit of The West), Kalissa Landa (yes, her and Tom are married) on fiddle/vocals, Brad Gillard on bass/banjo, drummer Sam Esecson, and trombonist Nick La Riviere.
For the 25th anniversary the band has released a brand new CD and will be doing a special anniversary show in Vancouver at The Imperial and other cities in the Northwest. Later this year the band will embark on a European tour before finishing the year in the US and Canada. Once again, The Paperboys are poised to bring their adventurous vision of Canadian roots music to festivals, dance halls and theatres everywhere, spreading good cheer and great music.
If you were there at our Concerts in the Park show last year that we moved indoors to Vashon Center for the Arts because of the weather…well, you know how epic that concert was. Don't miss the final concert of the summer, it's going to be a great one!
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Archives for January 2008 | Publishing in the 21st Century.
One of the best-known and most successful ebook retailing sites, our friend Fictionwise, has just purchased the venerable eReader from its current owner, Motricity. We are very happy and excited that Fictionwise has stepped up to the plate and that they will be taking over operations of what used to be the original Palm ebook store. We wish them and the employees of eReader all the best with the transition!
E-Reads has been working with both Fictionwise and the Palm format since the very startups of our companies, back when Palm format books were sold by The Peanut Press (later acquired by Palm and then Motricity). Fictionwise however has had a unique and meaningful relationship to E-Reads, not only because they sell our books in non-DRM (open) format, but because they have been extremely supportive and helpful to us as a small press, giving us prime real estate on their front page for our new releases, right alongside frontlist titles from major publishers. You may have noticed that they even host our ebook download section of this very website! As the ebook industry has grown, it has been thrilling watching Fictiowise not only keep pace, but expand the market with remarkable support for all the divergent ebook formats.
We see some very interesting things going on with this acquisition.
For one thing, the relatively quite small sub-world of ebook publishing is undergoing the same sort of conglomerization and "growth by acquisition" that mainstream book publishing has been dealing with for decades now. Welcome to the big time, I guess you'd have to say. Some win. Some move too slowly and get eaten. The law of the jungle prevails and the fittest survive by ruthlessly absorbing the laggards and growing stronger.
If you look at the history of eReader, though, there's plenty of room for optimism that this change will be good news for all ebook publishing. Palm devices have been a platform for ebook reading pretty much from the very beginning and the proprietary software, once owned by the Palm company itself before it bifurcated and mutated into multiple entities, is a highly functional and nicely compact program that has benefited from trafficking a fair amount of total ebook readership and sales over the years.
Unfortunately, when Palm sold it off to Motricity, a company whose website slogan is "reinventing mobile lifestyles" and that has a big footprint in handheld content delivery, it seems like it became an ugly stepchild for a big company whose focus was mainly elsewhere. Sadly, not a lot of care and attention was lavished on its development, just at a time when the recovery from the slump that started early in the new century was beginning to turn around in a big way. All along, despite bitter disappointment at the fact that ebooks did not become instantly huge, ebook sales have shown long-term healthy growth…and there's no end in sight. As the world's accelerating transition to a digital existence becomes ever more widespread and convincing as a major ongoing phenomenon, the opportunities for any technology that lives in the nerve-center of that transition can only expand and multiply.
Imagine how much better things could become for fans and consumers of the .pdb format now that a company that has demonstrated long-term commitment to and an intensive single-minded focus on ebooks as a business growth opportunity is in charge. Since they also have a savvy sense of the marketplace, having them in control of the development destiny of a neat program that has an active potential installed-base of tens of millions of pocket-sized homes is very exciting. In a market that's showing continuing strong growth, the sky may really be the limit.


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Seven key sporting events that rocked last week
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There was a lot of happenings in football and tennis this past week. So many of the events we are highlighting will be about these two sports with the dawn and end of eras.
CHAN ouster raises many questions
Sunday Oliseh shockingly came out to say that he had to spend his own money to keep Super Eagles players in camp after the team was knocked out of the CHAN tournament in the group stage.
Oliseh further revealed that he is afraid that some players may decide to stop honouring national team call-ups because of the prevailing situation of the Nigeria Football Federation. Another can of worms opened on Amaju Pinnick and his board! But the NFF has denied Oliseh's claims, saying it provided entirely for the Eagles' camping.
John Terry leaving Chelsea
Captain, leader and Chelsea legend, John Terry, will bid farewell to the Blues at the end of the season but he will not stop playing. Terry, who has been with the Stamford Bridge side since 1998, revealed that Roman Abramovich has decided not to renew his contract, which ends at the end of the 2015/16 season.
After the 5-1 win over MK Dons on Sunday, Terry revealed that his dream of ending his career at Chelsea has been dashed. "Unfortunately it's not going to be a fairytale ending, I'm not going to retire at Chelsea. It's going to be elsewhere.
The spine of Chelsea that won almost all available trophies – Petr Cech, Terry, Lampard and Didier Drogba, would by the end of the season be totally dismembered.
Djokovic masters Murray in Australia once again
It was a record-tying sixth win for world No.1, Novak Djokovic at the 2016 Australian Open as he beat world No.2, Andy Murray, 6-1 7-5 7-6 to retain the title and bracket the titles won by Rod Laver, who also won six title in the 60s. The Serb was in dominating fashion throughout the championship except for his quarter final clash with Giles Simon. He also drew level with his coach, Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver on 11 Grand Slam titles and he has every chance to surpass the 17 won by Roger Federer.
Hazard scores first goal of the season
Finally, Eden Hazard scored his first goal of the season in his 29th match of the season and it had to be a penalty. Hazard, who was voted the best player in England last season has had a horrible season and many fans hold him and some other players responsible for the sack of fan-favourite, Jose Mourinho. He is also believed to be angling for a summer move to Real Madrid but the fans will hope that this goal finally kick-starts the Belgian's season.
Juventus win 12th consecutive League matches
There is no stopping Juventus in Serie A as they won a 12th consecutive Serie A match – a run that has seen the team score 31 goals and concede just five goals. And it is just Napoli's great form that the defending champions are not top of the league table but they are seriously breathing down the necks of the current table toppers.
Icho beaten for the first time in 13 years
Japanese wrestler Kaori Icho suffered a first defeat on the wrestling mat against 21-year old Orkhon Purevdorj. It was a first loss in 189 matches – a run that spanned 13 years.
The three-time Olympic champion at 63kg in 2004, 2008 and 2012 suffered the loss in a 58kg category at the Golden Grand Prix event against Mongolian student Purevdorj.
But her team manager, Kazuhito Sakae, said he was happy that the loss happened before the Rio Olympics. "There's enough time to put things right," Sakae said. "I'm relieved it wasn't the Olympics. I believe she can win her fourth straight Olympic title," he added.
Football can have a conscience
Football is the most watched sport in the world but sometimes it seems the footballers and administrators are completely divorced from the realities of life.
But there was a show of solidarity in a second division match in Greece between AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos in Larissa. The 22 outfield players as well as the coaches, officials and substitutes – sat down for two minutes in respect of the hundreds of refugees who died trying to escape conflict or persecution in countries like Syria and Iraq.
This week, let us all try to empathise with our neighbours.
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British Dance: Black Routes
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Burt, Ramsay, 1953-
British Dance: Black Routes re-examines the distinctive contributions made to British dance by dancers who are Black. Covering the period 1946 to the present, it presents a radical re-reading of dancers and their companies, placing their achievements within a broader historical, cultural and artistic context. The result of a two year research project, British Dance and the African Diaspora, led by editors Christy Adair and Ramsay Burt, the collection looks at artists working with contemporary dance, African Caribbean dance, jazz dance, and dance improvisation. Chapters illuminate the commonalities and differences between sub-Saharan West African dance forms and hybridised dance forms from the USA and the Caribbean, addressing key themes such as rhythm, community, and spirituality. This outstanding collection re-evaluates dancers' work in the context of cultural and aesthetic issues relevant to the African diaspora, looking afresh at over ve decades of artistic production to provide an unparalleled resource for dance students and scholars.
Citation : Adair, C. and Burt, R. (2016) British Dance: Black Routes. Routledge
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China's next air quality challenge – cleaning up its industrial heartlands
The country achieved a significant milestone when Beijing met national PM2.5 standards for the first time last year, but its neighbouring provinces are still not meeting the mark.
People wearing masks cycle past Tiananmen Gate during the smog after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing, China, in December 2016. Image: REUTERS/Jason Lee.
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It's been eight years since China's "war against pollution" began, with its capital Beijing finally emerging victorious last year.
The city's annual level of PM2.5, fine particles less than 2.5 micrometres in width that penetrate deep into the lungs, fell to 33 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m₃), meeting the country's 35μg/m₃ standard for urban areas.
It's a stark contrast to 2013, when a January winter smog drove air pollution levels up to 993μg/m₃ in parts of Beijing – spurring a clampdown on bad air. The number of days with heavy air pollution, with a minimum PM2.5 reading of 201μg/m₃, dropped from 58 days in 2013 to eight in 2021, according to Chinese authorities.
Improvements are visible across China, as authorities tighten emissions standards, upgrade machinery and help homeowners switch to cleaner fuels for cooking and heating.
In 2015, 80 per cent of over 360 monitored cities countrywide failed to meet the PM2.5 mark. Last year, the figure dropped to 31 per cent, according to monitoring data provided by research group Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
About 31 per cent of 360 monitored cities across China met PM2.5 standards of 35 μg/m₃ in 2021. Image: CREA
While Beijing passed the mark last year, nearby provinces are still seeing some of the heaviest pollution nationwide.
Experts say it is a problem that may be harder to solve, due to issues such as industrial make-up and the political will to reduce sources of pollution.
China's 2021 PM2.5 concentration across provinces, based on data collected by CREA. Readings from days with sandstorms coming from Western China deserts have been omitted.
Industrial hotspots
Based on averaged city-level readings last year, the most polluted province in China last year was Henan, at over 45μg/m₃.
Government office Hong Kong Trade Development Council describes the province as rich in mineral and fossil resources contributing close to 30 per cent of its 2019 revenue. Agriculture, which also causes PM2.5 pollution through manure and fertiliser emissions, formed another 7.5 per cent of its output.
Fossil fuels and mineral products represented just 8 per cent of Beijing's industrial output last year.
Beijing is partly encircled by Hebei province, where chemicals, metals and fossil fuels make up more than half of its revenue. The province averaged 39.5μg/m₃ of PM2.5 last year.
In 2015, China said it would move industrial activity from Beijing to Hebei, as part of a regional economic plan. But Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at CREA, said that this move had started even before 2008, the year Beijing hosted the Olympic games.
"Those industries ballooned in scale in the subsequent years," he said, explaining the higher air pollution.
"The next steps will involve switching from fossil fuels to clean energy, as the benefits from better filters and scrubbers have largely been realised," he added, referring to devices factories use to reduce pollutants from smokestack emissions.
National attention on tackling poor air quality in the heavily polluted areas has also increased. In 2018, the central government designated the Fenwei Plain, comprising Henan and two neighbouring industrial provinces Shanxi and Shaanxi, a new focus area for combating poor air quality.
"From 2013 to 2017, 12 cities within this area performed very poorly," explained Liu Qian, Greenpeace East Asia's air pollution project lead. "About half of the 20 cities with the worst air pollution came from the Fenwei Plain."
These areas have switched from coal to natural gas, a less pollutive fossil fuel, for winter heating. Steel and coke industries, which are hugely fossil fuel intensive, have been asked to consolidate to weed out smaller, inefficient players, and curtail production when air pollution gets bad.
As a result, PM2.5 levels in the region dropped between 6 to 14 per cent on-year, according to local news reports and data from Greenpeace East Asia. Shanxi and Shaanxi had average PM2.5 readings of 41.60μg/m₃ and 42μg/m₃.
"If the changes in the next five years can keep up with this pace of change, they definitely can hit the target," said Liu.
China's state planner said in October that energy-intensive sectors like steel, aluminium, cement and oil refining should ensure that more than 30 per cent of their production capacity meets tighter energy efficiency standards by 2025.
But efforts could be sabotaged by increased coal activity in these regions. Shanxi was told to increase coal output late last year amid an energy crunch driven by coal supply shortages and strong demand from manufacturers. Meanwhile, new coal power plants have been approved in Shaanxi and several southern and western provinces. China is aiming to peak coal use in 2025.
"It is going to be a very slow process of spreading that success in Shanghai and Beijing to other provinces for as long as they keep building coal fired power plants," said Dr Philip Andrews-Speed, a senior principal fellow at the National University of Singapore's Energy Studies Institute.
Shanghai has also been a key focus area for air pollution reduction efforts since 2013. The financial hub had a PM2.5 reading of 28μg/m₃ last year.
Another PM2.5 hotspot is Xinjiang, an energy and metals hub in China's far-west, even when sandstorms that affected some cities for over 60 days have been excluded. Its average PM2.5 reading last year was 35.9μg/m₃.
"The province has seen very rapid increases in coal consumption and coal power in the past decade which certainly doesn't help," said Myllyvirta.
CREA data shows that Xinjiang also has the slowest rate of PM2.5 decrease since 2015, at under 30 per cent, or around half the pace of places like Beijing.
While China's overall PM2.5 levels have fallen over the years, the gains are unevenly felt across provinces. Image: CREA.
These heavily polluting regions are unlikely to succeed by copying Beijing's tactics. While most of the PM2.5 across China comes from burning coal, Beijing's biggest culprit has been vehicle emissions, explained Liu.
Therefore, the capital's steps of switching to cleaner petrol standards four years ahead of the country, and its world-leading pace in adopting electric vehicles, may not work well in more industrial provinces.
While Beijing is expected to make strides by switching from coal to electric heating in winter, the results of such a switch may not be as significant in other provinces dominated by steel and coal industries, which emit much higher levels of PM2.5.
"Nonetheless, Beijing can be used as a role model in implementing case-by-case measures targeting the pollutants," Liu added. "The industrial and energy transition – both need to happen."
Myllyvirta added that Beijing needs further air quality improvements, as it is still above the World Health Organisation's PM2.5 threshold of 5μg/m₃. In research published by air purifier firm Smart Air, only 16 out of 540 major cities worldwide hit that mark in 2021. None of them were in Asia.
Enforcement strength
"Beijing's air quality improvements have been huge. Undeniably, part of the reason is strong enforcement measures," Liu said.
Dr Andrews-Speed thinks strong enforcement comes from the close proximity to national authorities.
"You've got the Beijing city government right next door, as it were, to the central government," he said, adding that political momentum to improve the capital's air quality was in part generated when the United States embassy in 2008 started broadcasting PM2.5 readings of Beijing and a few key Chinese cities.
After Beijing won the bid to host next month's winter Olympics in 2015, China president Xi Jinping promised to run a "green" Games. Heavy vehicles have been ordered off the road, mirroring stringent traffic rules ahead of the 2008 Beijing summer Games.
While air quality deteriorated in Beijing in the years after the 2008 Games, Associate Professor Steve Yim, principal investigator at the Earth Observatory of Singapore in Nanyang Technological University, expects the city's air quality to remain at current levels in the coming years.
"In 2008, the ambient pollution concentration level was far higher," he said, explaining why the stop-gap measures worked. "The situation now is different as the ambient pollutant concentration level has already reduced substantially."
There have been gaps in enforcement in other regions. Research by CREA found that while neighbouring Hebei province had been told by the national environment ministry to cut steel production, output has been rising between 2015 and 2020 to beyond the reported capacity of the plants. The report suggested there was "creative accounting" of steel capacity.
Last year, authorities uncovered millions of tonnes worth of illegal oil and coke processing facilities in Shandong. Liu added that some low-grade steel manufacturing facilities were also illegally operating there.
Ground-level ozone
Liu said another pollutant of concern in China is ground-level ozone, which isn't falling as quickly as other monitored substances.
Apart from ozone and PM2.5, China also monitors ambient levels of PM10, a bigger particulate matter, as well as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide.
While ozone helps to deflect harmful rays from the sun high in Earth's atmosphere, ground ozone is a pollutant that can cause heart and lung illnesses.
Changes in concentration for six key air pollutants monitored in China, 2016-2021. Ground ozone increased from 2016 to 2019, and dropped by the lowest percentage points in 2020 and 2021. Image: Greenpeace.
Liu explained that ground ozone was a harder pollutant to control, given its key ingredients, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, come from a variety of sources.
Research has also found that reducing other pollutants in the air could also have led to higher ground ozone levels.
"Previous efforts in China was mainly on controlling PM2.5, while ozone was overlooked," said Yim. "Our research shows that ozone pollution may become critical in the coming few years."
In a recently published paper, Yim and a team of scientists found that ground level ozone in China will rise in the coming years in every future emissions scenario they tested.
China's latest 14th Five-Year Plan, its top-level development directive from 2021 to 2025, called for a 10 per cent reduction in emissions of volatile organic compounds, in a bid to manage ozone levels.
Liu said it took till 2021 to tackle such pollution because of the level of expertise needed.
"The target is just a hard figure now. We need to find ways to really achieve it," she said.
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In a letter to state and federal officials sent this week, Rep. Josh Gottheimer requested more oversight on school bus drivers.
The person behind the wheel of a school bus needs to be watched closer, Rep. Josh Gottheimer wrote to state and federal officials this week.
In the same week a school bus overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike in Elizabeth, and a month after a Paramus bus crash left two people dead, Gottheimer called for stricter safety and testing requirements for drivers.
"Right now they get licensed, it's not an ongoing process," he said. "It seems there's no requirement for reporting back. So why don't we do everything possible to make sure our kids are safe?"
In late May, Gottheimer announced a bill would make lap belts mandatory in all yellow school buses across the country. It would also push the U.S. Transportation Department to make three-point belts the national standard.
He took the message further Tuesday in a letter addressed to officials from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and New Jersey Department of Education. In the letter Gottheimer said he had "deep concern" about the requirements for drivers.
What are the requirements for drivers?
According to Gottheimer, New Jersey law requires drivers to pass a knowledge test and road test to receive a commercial driver's license but no ongoing or periodic training.
"This appears to be a flaw in New Jersey's system," he wrote in the letter to officials, noting that other states like Pennsylvania and Connecticut have ongoing tests.
Having background checks only when applying for a license for a driver also leaves gaps afterward where drivers are not scrutinized as much, Gottheimer wrote.
He encouraged the transportation and education officials to study best practices for reporting issues with drivers to schools and ongoing tests for drivers.
"Recent incidents in New Jersey and elsewhere also raise significant doubts about the rigor and effectiveness of background checks for school bus drivers," Gottheimer wrote in his letter.
The most notable recent crash in New Jersey involved a Paramus school bus on Route 80. Jennifer Williamson-Kennedy, 51, a fifth-grade teacher, and Miranda Vargas, a 10-year-old fifth-grade student, were killed, and 43 others were injured. The bus driver, Hudy Muldrow Sr., 77, was arrested and charged with two counts of vehicular homicide.
On Thursday a school bus overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike in Elizabeth. Two children and two adults were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
The cause of Thursday's accident remained under investigation, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Lawrence Peele said.


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Howard A. Schmidt, Former White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Joins Qualys Board of Directors
Distinguished Global Authority on Internet Security and Critical Infrastructure to Bring Public Sector Expertise and Help Expand Industry Collaboration
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 26, 2012 – Qualys®, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of cloud security and compliance solutions, today announced that Howard A. Schmidt will join the Qualys Board of Directors. Schmidt, with a distinguished career record spanning 40 years of experience in government, business and law enforcement, was appointed in December 2009 as President Obama's White House Cyber-security Coordinator, from which he announced his retirement in May 2012. Now he joins the Qualys Board of Directors to lend his expertise and guidance to help the company expand its presence in the federal government and further build industry collaboration efforts through the CSO Interchange, which he co-founded with Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys, in May 2004.
"By delivering security and compliance services through the cloud, Qualys has been a leader in helping organisations and government agencies monitor and protect against the constantly changing threat landscape," said Schmidt. "I look forward to working with the Qualys team on the new security challenges that businesses and government agencies are facing today so we can arm them with the best solutions to enhance their security and compliance posture."
"Howard is internationally known and respected for his vision and contributions to improving corporate and government security," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO for Qualys. "We are honoured to welcome him to our board of directors and gain his valuable insight and guidance to expand our cloud security and compliance offerings to better serve the public and private sectors."
The Qualys Board of Directors is led by Qualys chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot and includes: General Peter Pace, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for the U.S. Armed Forces; Sandra England Bergeron, chairman of the board for TraceSecurity and former executive at McAfee; Donald R. Dixon, managing director for Trident Capital; Jeffrey P. Hank, vice president and corporate controller for Intuit; and Yves Sisteron, managing partner and co-founder for GRP Partners.
About Howard A. Schmidt
Howard A. Schmidt has had a long distinguished career in defense, law enforcement and corporate security spanning more than 40 years, bringing with him experience in business, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, privacy, academia and international relations. Formerly the Special Assistant to the President and the Cyber-security Coordinator for the federal government, Schmidt was responsible for coordinating interagency cyber-security policy development and implementation and coordinated engagement with federal, state, local, international and private sector cyber-security partners.
Previously, Schmidt was the president and CEO of the Information Security Forum (ISF). Before ISF, he served as vice president and chief information security Officer and chief security strategist for eBay Inc. He also served in the position of chief security strategist for the US CERT Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security.
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Health Law Alert: OIG Issues Historic Advisory Opinion 10-15 Granting Approval of Multi-specialty Physician-Health System Joint Venture
Gray Plant Mooty Attorneys Play Key Role in Securing OIG Approval in Groundbreaking Advisory Opinion Addressing Anti-Kickback Statute
In a first-of-its-kind advisory opinion, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has granted Anti-kickback Statute approval of a multi-specialty joint venture between a physician group and health system. While the OIG has been issuing Anti-kickback Statute advisory opinions since 1997, Advisory Opinion 10-15 marks the first time a multi-specialty joint venture has been permitted where both the health system and physician group owners are referral sources for, and will be making referrals to, the joint venture. Advisory Opinion 10-15 will be published on the OIG Web site within the next week. Gray Plant Mooty attorneys Jennifer Reedstrom Bishop and Jesse Berg were central to securing Advisory Opinion 10-15 on behalf of their clients.
Background on Joint Venture at Issue in Advisory Opinion 10-15
Advisory Opinion 10-15 involves a new ambulatory care center (the ACC) to be owned in equal shares by two nonprofit, tax exempt corporations: a health system that owns the teaching hospital for a major state university medical school and the physician group that is the medical school's sole faculty practice plan. The ACC is part of a university campus-planning process to more efficiently and effectively deliver innovative care in a congested urban area, while affording increased opportunities for education and research.
Under the joint venture, the health system and physician group will contribute clinics and intangible assets to be co-located in the ACC, including clinics in the following areas: imaging, orthopedics, ophthalmology, physical therapy, surgery, and oncology, among a number of others. In addition to housing these and other clinics, the ACC would include space for research, administrative, and teaching activities. The clinics to be contributed are currently scattered throughout locations on the hospital's campus and are located in facilities originally built to treat a much smaller number of patients than they currently serve. The physician group, health system, and medical school are parties to a wide variety of agreements with each other, including professional services agreements, management agreements, and various agreements related to research and education. The health system employs over 600 physicians and the physician group employs more than 800 physicians. While neither party has physician owners, the physicians currently refer patients, including Medicare beneficiaries, to each other for various services.
Traditional OIG Analysis of Joint Ventures Under Anti-kickback Statute
The OIG has always expressed serious concerns that joint ventures between referral sources pose high risks of inducing referrals in violation of the Anti-kickback Statute. The Anti-kickback Statute makes it a crime to knowingly and willfully offer, pay, solicit, or receive any remuneration to induce or reward referrals for services reimbursable under federal health programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Although the OIG has occasionally approved physician-hospital joint ventures in past advisory opinions, these other ventures have been far more limited in scope than the joint venture in Advisory Opinion 10-15 and have typically involved ventures where the potential for referrals is not especially pronounced, such as ambulatory surgery centers or arrangements involving radiologists.
On its face, the joint venture implicates the Anti-kickback Statute because both the health system and physician group are in a position to refer, and will be referring to, the ACC. While one Anti-kickback Statute "safe harbor" was potentially relevant to the arrangement, the ACC could not qualify. Under this safe harbor, no more than 40 percent of the ownership in an entity can be held by parties in a position to refer to the entity and no more than 40 percent of the entity's health care revenue can come from business the owners generate. Because both the health system and physician group will refer to—and generate revenue for—the ACC, 100 percent of the owners of the ACC will be in a position to refer and the safe harbor could not be used.
Application of Anti-kickback Statute in Advisory Opinion 10-15
Nevertheless, the OIG concluded that the ACC did not violate the Anti-kickback Statute. In so doing, the OIG noted that "[o]rdinarily, joint ventures with 100 percent interested owners pose a significant risk of fraud and abuse," but that "based on the totality of facts and circumstances," the arrangement would not violate the Anti-kickback Statute. The OIG discussed the following factors as central to its decision:
The physician group and health system are components of an academic medical center with longstanding relationships integrating their clinical, research, and teaching missions. The ACC will enhance the ability to further these missions by streamlining resources, better accommodating patients, and permitting greater access to educational opportunities for students and residents.
The parties are making equal contributions to the ACC. Neither party is loaning funds to, nor guaranteeing any loans for, the other party. Any profits or losses will be shared proportionally in accordance with their ownership interests.
A qualified appraiser was engaged to conduct a fair market value analysis of the assets to be contributed to the ACC.
All physicians receive compensation for the services they provide in accordance with applicable exceptions to the Stark Law and in a manner that complies with the Anti-kickback Statute. No physicians receive ownership distributions or profit shares from the ACC, health system, or physician group.
There is no requirement for physicians to refer to the ACC and the ACC does not track referrals. The ACC will have a policy in place under which patients are referred elsewhere if medically necessary, required by insurance, or if the patient prefers a different location.
While the requestors have a variety of other business arrangements in place, all of those arrangements were represented as complying with the Anti-kickback Statute and Stark Law.
Securing advisory opinions is a notoriously complex and mysterious process, especially where joint ventures between referral sources are involved. In granting approval in Advisory Opinion 10-15, the OIG cautioned, "[w]e emphasize that a similar arrangement with different facts and circumstances might lead to a different conclusion." It is, of course, notable that this joint venture involves academic medicine and that all of the parties are nonprofit, tax-exempt entities. However, the OIG indicated informally that those factors would not have been enough to receive a positive result. It appears that key to the success in obtaining the opinion was the scope of the project, the demonstrated need for the new facility, and longstanding academic affiliation between the parties.
With the new emphasis on integration between physicians and health systems as a result of the financial incentives created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the roadmap to complying with the Anti-kickback Statute outlined in Advisory Opinion 10-15 may prove valuable to parties considering joint ventures in the future.
Jennifer Reedstrom Bishop is the chair of the Health Law practice group at Gray Plant Mooty and Jesse Berg is a principal in the Gray Plant Mooty Health Law practice group. If you have questions about Advisory Opinion 10-15 or the advisory opinion process, please do not hesitate to contact Jennifer at 612.632.3060 (jennifer.bishop@lathropgpm.com) or Jesse at 612.632.3374 (jesse.berg@lathropgpm.com).


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[Startup Bharat] With just Rs 20 lakh capital, this Nashik-based e-marketplace has sold products worth Rs 31 Cr | YourStory
Posted on December 6, 2019 by Editor's Desk
The Purchase House is a bootstrapped B2B e-marketplace bringing together sellers and buyers of excess and unused industrial product inventory.
Six years ago, Rushikesh Bhandari and Kanchan Bhandari were providing industries customised procurement solutions, saving organisations the hassle of coordinating with multiple vendors, figuring out logistics, and negotiating costs.
But what irked the husband-wife duo during the process was seeing all the pile-up of excess and unused inventory. This consistent observation led them to start up with The Purchase House in 2017.
"Owing to unpredictability in the industrial sector and general slowdown in the market, we were left with a stock of untouched, high-quality inventory that blocked our huge capital and disturbed the cash flow," says Rushikesh, 33.
The Purchase House is an industrial e-marketplace for excess and unused inventory, connecting buyers and sellers of excess inventory in an efficient and automated environment.
"Identifying with a problem that many industries with surplus stock have to be facing, the brightest idea came at a rather bleak time, when we decided to risk taking this idea to an online platform, revolutionising it with changing times, and making buying and reselling more accessible and convenient for all industries," Rushikesh adds.
Based in Nashik, the startup is bootstrapped with the founders' personal savings of Rs 20 lakh.
Building the portal
The startup achieved a milestone of listing 100 crore industrial products in the past two years. The onboarding process is simple: sellers of excess inventory need to register on the platform, select the listing type, get an easy-to-use dashboard, choose the plan that suits them best, make the payment, and start listing the products. The Purchase House platform will facilitate their contact with buyer leads. Sellers can accept the best offer and close the transaction.
The buyers, on the other hand, can register themselves, browse through all the options available on the portal, contact sellers directly and close the deal on mutually-decided-upon terms. There are no middlemen in the whole process.
The Purchase House also provides value-added services like coordinating logistics and placement during the transaction process with the consent of buyer and seller.
"Our portal is completely free for buyers to use. We charge a 0.2 percent commission on the product value according to the listing. If the seller wants us to coordinate everything on their behalf, then we come into the picture and charge 1.8 percent after sale," says Rushikesh.
The Purchase House has managed to get on board clients like Bosch, Mahindra CIE, ACG Global, Reliable Autotech, Technoshell Pvt Ltd, SMP Electricals, and Sterling Industries as sellers. However, the initial days were not without challenges.
Rushikesh explains that SMEs and MNCs were used to working in the conventional manner of disposing of excess inventory and it was a big challenge to convince them to take the process online.
"Our direct customers are decision-makers of a company so reaching out to them and getting approvals from them was a big task but with determination, we managed to succeed building our credibility and bringing them online," he notes.
Rushikesh is the COO of The Purchase House, while Kanchan, 30, is the CEO. The others in the team include Vivek Jain, who has worked in Infosys before, and is now CTO of The Purchase House; Naman Maheshwari, who has been with Ernst & Young earlier; and Darshak Shah, who is the Chief Data Scientist at The Purchase House.
The market and revenue
There are B2B ecommerce portals like Indiamart and TradeIndia that list the profile of the sellers on their portal and provide them active leads for material purchase requirements. The Purchase House believes their direct competitors are machine and scrap dealers who are mostly into stock and sale.
"We started with the listing of 25 SKUs in the first month; now we have 4,000 industrial products worth Rs 130 crore listed, have sold products worth Rs 31 crore, and have served over 3,000 SMEs. The team pegs the customer acquisition cost (CAC) at Rs 1,685, and margins are at 70 percent with a lifetime value (LTV) of Rs 4,580."
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"The startup is constantly looking out for the best opportunities for sellers who register on the portal, so when there is a requirement for equipment in the market that the seller may be unaware of, they're given a gentle nudge to bring it to their notice with the help of efficient algorithms," says Rushikesh.
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He missed 22 games due to an elbow injury and finished with three goals, 15 points and a plus-eight rating as a rookie.
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Based on a comic book by Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen features a motley team of famous characters from literature, including Tom Sawyer (Shane West) and Dracula's Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), who band together to defend the British Empire from a mysterious evil known only as The Phantom. Sean Connery stars as the team's unofficial leader, Allan Quartermain, a fading adventurer with a penchant for danger.
Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng and Tony Curran
Director(s): Stephen Norrington
Producer(s): 20th Century Fox
Screenwriter(s): James Robinson
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Animal Coordinator: Gentle Jungle, Steve Dent
Release Date: Saturday, June 25, 2005
In a dramatic man vs. beast moment, Quartermain faces down a tiger in the snow. Other animal action is mild, and includes background animals such as horse-drawn carriages and goats.
A tiger walks in the snow towards Quartermain, who holds up his gun at the animal, ready to shoot. The tiger suddenly turns and walks away, leaving Quartermain to solemnly put down his gun. The tiger was filmed separately and his action was seamlessly integrated into the scene with the actor in post production. The white tiger, Montana, was pre-conditioned to the fake snow-covered set, which was cleared of all but 5 crew members while the animal was working. Trainers placed a white-painted chain around Montana's neck and held onto the animal at all times. Another off-camera trainer verbally cued the animal to walk and sit, rewarding him with food upon achieving the action.
Three dogs run out of a London building at night. The dogs run into the cobblestone street and around the corner. Trainers placed the dogs on their marks and called them to "come" from off camera.
In Kenya, several horse-drawn carriages line the roads while animals such as goats and cows wander in the background. Soon, an explosion rocks the village and the carriages scatter. Trainers accompanied the animals to the set and supervised the mild action. The explosion was a computer-generated effect and the animals were not exposed to any simulated explosives.
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Public health officials advise eight additional deaths in people with COVID-19 have been reported today including:
· a female in her 80s from the Interlake-Eastern health region;
· a male in his 50s from the Northern health region;
· a female in her 70s from Prairie Mountain Health and linked to the outbreak at the McCreary/Alonsa Health Centre;
· a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at Southeast Personal Care Home;
· a male in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
· a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at The Convalescent Home of Winnipeg; and
· a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region and linked to the outbreak at the Bethania Mennonite Personal Care Home.
The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 10.1 per cent provincially and 8.4 per cent in Winnipeg. As of 9:30 a.m. today, 92 new cases of the virus have been identified. However, two cases were removed due to data correction and brings to net new cases to 90 and the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 26,540.
Today's COVID-19 data shows:
• nine cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
• nine case in the Northern health region;
• 22 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region;
• eight cases in the Southern Health-Santé Sud health region; and
• 44 cases in the Winnipeg health region.
The data also shows:
• 3,100 active cases and 22,692 individuals who have recovered from COVID-19;
• there are 138 people in hospital with active COVID-19 as well as 164 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 302 hospitalizations;
• there are 21 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as 14 people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care for a total of 35 ICU patients; and
• the total number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 748. Due to a data error, one death that had been reported earlier has been removed.
Laboratory testing numbers show 1,368 tests were completed yesterday bringing the total number of lab tests completed since early February 2020 to 441,905. Case investigations continue and if a public health risk is identified, the public will be notified.
An outbreak has been declared at St. Paul's Personal Care Home in Dauphin. The site has been moved to Restricted (red) on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System.
Outbreaks are declared over at the Manitoba Developmental Centre in Portage la Prairie, Maplewood Manor in Steinbach, Maples Long Term Care Home, Parkview Place Long Term Care Home, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, the Patient Care Unit E6 at the St. Boniface Hospital, Concordia Hospital unit N3E, Riverview and Health Science Centre unit GH4, all in Winnipeg.
Possible exposure locations are listed online by region at the province's #RestartMB Pandemic Response System webpage. For up-to-date information on possible public exposures to COVID-19 in regions, visit www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/updates/flights.html#event and click on your region.
Additional data related to COVID-19, including data on outbreaks as well as some downloadable and historic data, can be found at https://manitoba.ca/openmb/datamb/.
The chief provincial public health officer reminds Manitobans to self-isolate immediately at the onset of possible COVID-19 symptoms, no matter how mild. This means staying home from work, school or other daily activities. Testing should be done as soon as possible once symptoms appear. For information on COVID-19 symptoms and guidance on when you should get tested, visit https://manitoba.ca/covid19/fundamentals/symptoms.html.
Manitobans should only leave their homes for essential purposes. When leaving the house to obtain essentials, be sure to physically distance, wear a mask in indoor public places and avoid crowded spaces. Do not leave the home if you are sick, or when any member of your family is sick. Further, do not socialize with anyone from outside your household.
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The online COVID-19 self-assessment tool can be found at https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/screening-tool/ and COVID-19 symptoms can be found at https://manitoba.ca/covid19/fundamentals/symptoms.html.
For up-to-date information on COVID-19 in Manitoba, visit www.manitoba.ca/COVID19. For up-to-date information on the #RestartMB Pandemic Response System, visit: https://manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/index.html.


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Aug 21, 2017 | Art Experience Log, Personal Journal Entries | 0 comments
12 days 'til I turn 37!
The Candle in the Wind by T.H. White — If the previous installment was the fanfiction leadup to the inevitable, this one is the leisurely, meaty examination of that inevitable. It's ridiculously sad, and a brilliant dramatic tragedy.
For some reason, the breakup of a close-knit group or team hits me harder, on the tragedy scale, than many another story event more legitimately tragic. The dispersal of the cast, even to various happy situations, depresses the shit out of me. Therefore I found the dissolution of the Arthur/Lance/Gwen friendship much the saddest part of this book. The scene where Arthur breathlessly waits for Lance, knowing he'll show up to rescue the condemned Guinevere, counting on him, loving him, cheering him on in an action that must lead to war between them… That was just heartbreaking.
White did very well with how much, and when, he chose to focus on Arthur. This Arthur is such a plain, simple character… An excellent passage says, He did not see a hero of romance, but a plain man who had done his best—not a leader of chivalry, but the pupil who had tried to be faithful to his curious master, the magician, by thinking all the time—not Arthur of England, but a lonely old gentleman who had worn his crown for half a lifetime in the teeth of fate. Only when his plainness and simplicity create some external conflict — when he struggles to decide about the question of might, or hides the truth about Lance and Gwen even from himself rather than dealing with it — does he become interesting to read about, and for the most part White focused on other characters except in those specific instances.
In those specific instances, though, Arthur is both admirable and pitiable. He puzzles through matters of appropriate human interaction just as any of us might; he's never implied to be some visionary leader with any right of superior political intellect to rule over others — he's just, as it so often says in the text, an honest, hard-working, normal man. And who can blame him for not wanting to give up his beloved wife and best friend? He undoubtedly made poor choices, but they were based in very understandable and not egregious human desires. And I love this very real, very understandable King Arthur; he's much more identifiable, more accessible, than the grand and aloof figure I picture when I hear him mentioned in other contexts — and therefore a much fitter lens through which the examine the societal problems these books so carefully discuss.
Like a lot of great literature, they do raise important questions, and examine them from various angles, but never really answer them. How should mankind's baser instincts be dealt with, if they cannot be eradicated? How can wars be prevented, and what is to be done about them once they do start? And how likely, how worthy is an individual that has done wrong, or is continually doing wrong, to achieve personal goals and noble ends? The fact that these questions remain unanswered not only adds to the realism of the story — since they're questions that often go unanswered in life as well — it also adds to the pathos of watching a sympathetic character struggle with them, knowing he's not likely to have any better luck than we do in reality.
The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King — This book is the very essence of fun and intriguing fill-in-the-gaps fanfiction. I followed Mrs. Hudson's life story with great interest, and developed a great admiration for her, and the expansion of The Adventure of the Gloria Scott was brilliant. And I loved to meet young Holmes and see some early inklings of what led him to start detecting as a career and way of life.
I was surprised, though, and perhaps a little dismayed, that Holmes's coldness toward Mrs. Hudson never diminished the way I assumed it would. It's true he made the comment, "You know how much Dr Watson helped me understand my fellow man. Mrs Hudson has done the same. Although perhaps for different reasons." — but I never really got the sense of his warming to her the way their later relationship seems to indicate he must have done.
And in fact the feel of this book overall didn't seem to fit with that of the rest of the series. This wasn't a deal-breaker for me by any means, since I really loved this installment, and it's possible the impression may diminish the next time I read through the series and this book is sandwiched between two rather than forming the tail-end. But something definitely felt disconnected about this story. Ah, well.
The Light Princess by George MacDonald — In my last commentary on a George MacDonald book, I discussed how his treatment of female characters is interesting and sometimes not what I expect from an author of his time. Well, this book kinda turns around and kicks that assessment in the balls XD
Despite the fact that the witch is the only named character in the book, and that the two princesses presented form an interesting juxtaposition, neither one of them (nor the queen) comes out of it looking particularly good or as if she was written by someone with a clear idea of women as fully realized people. I was especially distressed by the prince's assessment of the princess when he found she was more 'maidenly' in the water than out of it. Like seriously WTF. Nevertheless, this is an adorable story — really charming faery tale stuff, and very funny.
All right, I've reached that way-behind state in AEL's where I'm never going to catch up and get back on track if I don't condense. So just a few thoughts about the rest of this extensive list.
Frances books by Russell Hoban performed by Glynis Johns — We used to listen to these when I was a kid, and when I found four of them on CD I obviously had to buy them. They're every bit as hilarious and adorable as I remember. The author's understanding of a little girl was amazing, and the reader's comedic timing is impeccable.
Jem and the Holograms only I forget which issues — I thought I had all the issues up until the end of the series, but when I read all that I had left I found the story still continued. Anyway. I still don't like the art much. Passage of time and status of anything is still a problem with this writing.
I appreciate seeing Pizzazz demonstrate artistic motives rather than merely selfish ones. Riot comes across as more of an airhead than the suave, arrogant character from the TV series. I cried seeing Raya interact with the Holograms, because she BELONGS IN THAT FAMILY, even if the TV series kinda gave that storyline and her development alongside them the short end of the stick.
Beauty and the Beast (2017) again — This movie is still not very good, and the special effects kinda suck. Not as much as the vocal performances, though. Seriously, why does this exist?
The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White — My mom and I have spent the last thirty years wondering why some editions of The Sword in the Stone contain the ants and some don't, and now the mystery is solved!!! Finding out the answer to that question was my favorite thing about this book, however, since it's kinda boring. And I don't know that any coherent point (or at least any feasible suggestion) is ever made on the subject of war and government.
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters — I'd really like to have more opportunity to discuss this book and the next few in this series, but as I mentioned above, it's obvious I have to condense. At least there are a million more books in this series to comment on later XD
Anyway, Amelia Peabody is one of my favorite series of books in the whole world, and this is about my millionth time through. About this first one I'll mention that it's a good thing the Early Installment Weirdness (or subsequent retconning, if you will) wasn't enough to turn me and many other readers off this series, because there's definitely some of that.
I also want to mention that, for all Amelia claims from almost the very first instant of her narration to be highly confident and largely indifferent to other people's opinions, she's not nearly so much of these things as she later becomes. In fact there are moments in this book where she's positively unsure of herself, and it's actually kinda sad to watch. I don't think this is EIW, though, just natural character progression. She had to shake England off her feet, after all.
Wizard People, Dear Reader by Brad Neely — It's so difficult to describe what this thing even is, let alone offer any commentary on it. I'll just say that this unique piece of art is one of the funniest things I've ever experienced in my life, and it never becomes any less so no matter how many times I listen to it. (Yeah, I just listen rather than watching; you know how I am.)
Also, this is not the first Harry Potter parody (though I don't know that "parody" is entirely the right word) that portrays Hermione (in this case The Wretched Harmony) as unlikable and unattractive, and I continually wonder where this idea comes from. I never thought the books or even the crappy movies meant to imply that Hermione was anything but a totally normal person with normal flaws, but I keep seeing implications elsewhere that she's ugly and gross. Why? I don't know.
Justice League (2001) — I started watching this show (haven't gotten to the second season yet) after I finished Batman: The Animated Series, because I wanted more Batman, and my immediate and pervasive thought was, Needs moar Batman (and why are his ears so pointy??).
I like that it imitated BTAS's style in having stand-alone stories rather than a seasonal story-arc but expanded upon that by making those stories two or three episodes long. Some of them were extremely engaging, too. Surprisingly, I even liked Aquaman!
I interpret the Flash as he's meant to be rather than as he's actually written. His isn't the worst would-be-funny, would-be-fast-talking kids' show dialogue I've ever heard, but it's not very good, so I do the writers the credit of seeing him (as much as I can) as the character they wanted him to be rather than the character they actually came up with.
I adore Hawkgirl. She reminds me so much of Sano. Also, I'm kinda-sorta OK with Batman/Wonder Woman, though I'm very much overlaying Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman over this one that doesn't actually get much characterization.
Beyond that, random thoughts: Property damage means nothing to these people. Flying should work differently in space. Please stop making Hawkgirl hover without at least flapping her wings. Make up your minds about how fast the Flash actually is, and also about how friction works. Please establish relative strength levels for these characters and stick to them.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian —
MsJadey wanted me to read these books over a decade ago, but that was back before I'd discovered audiobooks, when I still wandered off from most things I tried to read whose author's name didn't have a J and more than one R in. I did, however, remember the phrase "a brutally ugly clock" with loving clarity, and looked forward far more vaguely to the day when I would give this series another try.
So now I've done so, and Jadey was right all those years ago: this is fucking amazing stuff. Excellently well drawn characters in a thoroughly gripping story, and historic accuracy (apparently) so precise I almost literally cannot believe these books were written in the 70's.
Gotta say, though, while I get the gist of these very technical naval scenes, the specifics tend to go right over my head. After reading one of these books I find I have these various terms I don't actually understand floating around in my head, and am likely to shout out, "Quaterdeck!" or "Mizzenmast!" at any given moment for no particular reason, and that's the extent of my minute understanding XD I thought the scene where someone (I forget who, and don't feel like looking it up) explained to Stephen what all the parts of the ship were called and what many of them were for was meant not so much as an explanation for the reader as a thumbed nose at her. Which is all in good fun, really, and doesn't detract at all from my enjoyment of the books.
It's always interesting to read stories about characters that are likable but not necessarily approvable. Obviously everyone has different morals, at least slightly, and one is flexible to a certain degree in experiencing those of different characters… but seriously when Jack came down with a venereal disease at the end, I was kinda like, Dude, you had that coming. More on this in the second installment.
Because I am damn well making my way further into this series. I honestly cannot imagine how the author could keep this interesting for twenty more books, but I'm very much game to find out. I shall press forward until they become boring… and if they never do, so much the better! I need to add another 20-book series to my reading list, right?
The Curse of the Pharoahs by Elizabeth Peters — It's funny how much of Amelia is direct Sherlock Holmes parody or reference. My first couple of times through the series, back in the day, I hadn't read enough Holmes to recognize this. Then when I did go all through the Doyle properly, I was amused and amazed at all the familiar names.
Lady Baskerville is an excellent character and villain. Madam Berengeria is hilarious, but also, in only the second book, the beginning of a long-running tradition of fat-shaming (though you could argue that Lady Harold started that even earlier; just she's a far less significant character).
I feel like Peters set Kevin up to be more important in the long run than he turned out to be. Or at least he was a character that outlived his usefulness as part even of the secondary cast. He has two romantic letdowns — one more and it would have become a running joke — so I always find myself disappointed when the culmination of his life's romantic endeavors is dismissed ten books later in a throwaway line about a wife we never meet. Still, "like a small dapper whale stranded on a sandy beach" remains one of the best descriptions ever written.
Favorite moment in this installment: "Champagne Charlie is my name."
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit — There's a certain perhaps 75-year period of British children's literature wherein ALL CHILDREN ACT THE SAME. I kindof assume this is a painful sort of realism, given how prevalent it is… I'm just glad I wasn't a kid (a girl, even, yikes) in England at that time.
Gotta admit, though, Gerald is one of the more unique and interesting child characters from that era that I've encountered.
I don't like the surrealism at the end of this book. Maybe the author thought she was presenting a climactic scene for a really good ending by ramping up the magic into sheer nonsense, but I really feel like it is nonsense, and a stupid way to wrap things up.
Time for an important story. When I first read this book, I was about twelve years old, and it was at that point, largely because of this book, that I started to have a strong antipathy for what in later years I dubbed Personification Without Empathy: the tendency of writers, specifically writers of children's art, to assign human-like intelligence to a non-human creature or object without ever (apparently) considering the effects of the situations they then put that character into on an intelligent and sensitive being.
Consider, for example, the Les Poissons scene in Disney's The Little Mermaid, a movie that came out at around the same time I first read The Enchanted Castle and that undoubtedly helped form my opinion on this subject as well: here we have Sebastian, an intelligent and artistic adult, trapped in a room full of the butchered body parts of slaughtered countrymen, fleeing the murderous Louie as he sings (sings!!) about the atrocities he perpetuates on the aforementioned body parts — and this is played for humor.
I mean, seriously — doesn't the above description sound like something out of a survival horror game? Did nobody on that staff consider how unsettling and even distressing this might be? I find this type of disregard for the feelings of a character in more than a few pieces of children's media.
Which brings me back to The Enchanted Castle and the Ugly-Wuglies, specifically Mr. U.W. Ugli. My twelve-or-so-year-old self was upset enough that most of the Ugly-Wuglies, after enjoying the play and politely inquiring where they might find a good hotel, then reverted to coats and gloves and umbrellas… but for Mr. Ugli, who had been granted a greater level of longevity and reality and even, apparently, a personal history and position in society, to disappear suddenly from existence and leave behind tangible evidence of having been there and memories in the minds of those that had worked with him… that destroyed me. I cried for hours after I read that. Admittedly I was a melodramatic child given to working myself into a passion, but the point is that it really bothered me.
And… it still bothers me. I feel like Personification Without Empathy is a form of Othering not entirely unanalogous with racism, sexism, homophobia, and so on. Not only does it create scenes or even entire stories that can be deeply disturbing, it encourages an attitude — all the worse because it's subconscious — of dismissiveness toward the feelings of others that we do not need in our art, especially when that art is intended for children.
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue — This book was more promise than execution. To start out with, the concept of "all these faery tales are connected" is such a basic one that, unless they're connected in some meaningful way — something more than just, "and it turns out this character was involved in this other story previously" — there's no more significance or emotional engagement to that connection than there was to the story I wrote when I was eleven wherein each set of faery tale lovers had a kid that went on to be the hero of the next faery tale: no detail of characterization or symbolism specifically fitted any character to be the offshoot of any particular previous character(s) or story; it was pure coincidence, and therefore felt contrived and unnecessary.
Additionally, the book is set up like an elaborate set of framework stories, but again disappoints by failing to resolve any of them. One incomplete tale leads pointlessly into the next without a proper ending until the entire book abruptly concludes. I would infinitely have preferred this to be a collection of discrete stories instead of this mess attempting to be a connected novel.
That said, and said perhaps more critically than I really meant it, there were aspects of this book I enjoyed. Using faery tales to demonstrate (more pointedly than they naturally do) the systemic oppression of women was an excellent idea, and often seeing those women shrug off that oppression along with the men in their lives was very satisfying. And many of the woman experienced a sort of malaise at one point or another that not only gave their stories a surreal feeling but also symbolized extremely well the suppression of thought and personality under which certain men are forcing them to live. Oh, incidentally, I also liked how it was made clear that most of the men were doing this all unknowingly.
Some of the concepts for the faery tale retellings (especially considering the complete removal of magic) were clever and fascinating, too: the little mermaid that subconsciously suppressed her own voice, the goose girl that realized she preferred not to marry the prince or have her maidservant exposed… and there were several truly brilliant fanfiction moments wherein the dialogue referred to elements of the endings of the traditional stories.
My favorite part was absolutely the Snow White story. I loved every aspect of that one except for its lack of ending. And I enjoyed the book as a whole enough, despite its flaws, that I'll give it another try when I get back around to it.
Transparent episode 1 — When I finished the first season of Justice League, not wanting to pay for the second season just yet (since I'm saving money for a lovely meet-my-girlfriend vacation), I looked around Amazon to see what was free to watch, and I lighted on this. And I'm not going to lie; my first thought was, Needs moar Batman.
I'd heard the objections to this series elsewhere online, so I was aware of the casting problem with the trans lady whose name I forget. And I'd also heard that this show betrays its trans character and its audience by being more about the cis people around the trans character than the trans character herself. Which might be OK if it were called, like, The Fucked-Up Family Problems… but you don't invoke the rather clever "trans parent" pun for the series title and then focus mostly on people other than that parent. I definitely observed these problems in the first episode, and didn't find what I saw worth continuing in the face of them.
Also there was a shocking lack of Batman.
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters — Of course this is our first real look at Ramses, one of the greatest literary characters ever devised. I'm consistently impressed with his dialogue, because I've seen far too many attempts at excessive verbosity crash and burn because the author was either incapable or lazy. Ramses' dialogue is always spot-on, and rarely fails to make me laugh.
One thing I wonder in this installment is whether this was Sethos' first meeting with Emerson. I don't know what, this early in the series, Peters was planning for Sethos, but when Amelia and Emerson are introduced to "Father Girgis" and he says, "I know you. I know your name." — especially when Amelia remarks that this is "an ominous formula" — it seems deliciously significant and portentous to anyone that knows who he actually is.
Favorite moment in this installment: "Mash 'em flat to the dust, O Lord!"
OK, now I'm down to only eleven items left. I'm catching up! Once I get there, I should really devise a better system for writing these entries so I can keep on top of them in future…