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Darker than blue: on light-skin privilege
By Natasha Guantai
23.Sep.14
Have you seen that Beyondblue advertisement where the passenger on the bus doesn't want to sit next to the brown-skinned man? Or the interviewer doesn't want to hire the brown-skinned woman? These are the sorts of experiences that I have in mind when I refer to skin-colour privilege: ones that people who enjoy light-skin privilege don't suffer. They are experiences that affect not only mental health but physical health, education, employment, incarceration rates and life expectancy.
Skin-colour privilege is not a particularly neat or simple phenomenon. The concept is an attempt to contrast the disadvantages experienced by people with brown skin with the freedoms enjoyed by those with pale skin. Pale-skinned people don't have to go about their lives wondering whether the colour of their skin is playing a role in them being given lower marks by a teacher, being randomly frisked by the police, or not being served when waiting at a counter.
People who have light-skin privilege tend to get defensive about the concept, as if naming their light-skin privilege entails that they are privileged per se, or that they have not suffered in their lives. I agree that the concept is less than perfect: fair skin also comes with disadvantages, and people with fair skin may suffer disadvantage unrelated to their skin colour. But it is experiences like those in the Beyondblue advertisement that position me as Black, and skin-colour privilege is the best available concept to capture that. It is important for me to be able to articulate the experiences that constitute me as Black in a white-dominated society, and so those who enjoy the privileges associated with their skin will just have to tolerate being reminded of that privilege.
On past occasions when I've said that there are privileges associated with skin colour, even for Aboriginal people, I have been accused of saying that light-skinned Aboriginal people are not Aboriginal, or that they are not Black. But I am neither saying nor implying this. Being more privileged does not make you less Aboriginal or less Black. Also, light skin is not synonymous with the racial category 'white'. While my skin colour contributes to my racial identity, this is not the case for all Black people. Commenting on skin colour is therefore not necessarily a comment on racial category.
In saying that there is a privilege associated with light skin, I have also been accused of denying that light-skinned Aboriginal people have disadvantage. I am not saying this either (nor am I implying it). Similarly, when I say that light-skinned women enjoy light-skin privilege, I am not denying the disadvantages they suffer for being female. Light-skinned Aboriginal people suffer disadvantages associated with their Aboriginality, such as loss of sovereignty – which include disadvantages that are the direct result of their skin colour. Even fair-skinned non-Indigenous Black people experience race-based disadvantage. There are also individuals who, regardless of their racial identity, have the disadvantages of belonging to a family or community which experiences skin-colour disadvantage. But these disadvantages are not skin-colour disadvantage of the type illustrated in the Beyondblue advertisement. (With one exception: in the advertisement, the scene where a racist joke is told in the pub; although the actor is visibly Black, this is a situation that is likely – possibly more likely – to occur in the presence of light-skinned people.)
Many light brown and pale-skinned Black people have explained the need to have their racial identity recognised and affirmed. I am familiar with their testimony. I acknowledge and empathise with their experience. Because of the colour of my skin, I am accustomed to being interrogated about my identity, and I experience situations in which my racial identity is disputed or denigrated. I know firsthand what it is like to have people fail to recognise my relationship to family members. I have been mocked for not being able to speak 'my' (my father's) language. I have had people (including beloved family) express the wish that my Blackness be bred out in successive generations. These are deeply hurtful experiences. But they are not skin-colour disadvantage of the type illustrated in the Beyondblue advertisement.
Although I am not saying the offensive things that might wrongly be inferred from my discussion of light-skin privilege in Black (including Aboriginal) communities, it could be argued that I should nevertheless recognise the risk of being misunderstood. This outcome-oriented approach works well for addressing offence caused by white people. It removes the cause of the problem at very little cost to the person who gave offence because, after all, they have nothing to lose: it's not their racial category that is under attack. But I am not white – in fact, it is offensive to treat me as such – and I do have something to lose if I do not speak about skin-colour privilege. What I have to lose is the freedom to acknowledge my racial experience and identity. It is not okay for people with light skin to demand that people with darker skin deny their experience, and important aspects of their racial identity, by insisting that they deny, or downplay, skin-colour privilege.
Wanting to be recognised and respected for who you are and suffering the disadvantages of light skin, or suffering disadvantages unrelated to skin colour, are not experiences to be included in or equated with the social and structural reality of having darker skin. I walk through the world every day of my life being seen as the brown-skinned person that I am. The Beyondblue advertisement captures a little of what that means.
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Natasha Guantai is a teacher of English, History and Philosophy at a secondary college in northern Melbourne. She blogs on issues of race, identity and colonialism at guantai5.wordpress.com.
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From unremarked on 23 September 2014 at 12.22 pm
Obviously questions of power are at issue when reducing cultural differences to such biological or hereditary terms as black and white, dark and fair skinned etc. What is Beyondblue's investment in this unequal power relationship, I wonder. Is there some sort of equation being drawn between depression and ethnicity, and why?
From M on 23 September 2014 at 1.33 pm
Nice to see settlers still have the good grace to lecture Aboriginal people on our lives and experiences! thanks Guantai!
From N Guantai on 23 September 2014 at 6.44 pm
Are you saying that Beyondblue is wrong – that skin-colour doesn't affect Aboriginal people?
From Sykso on 23 September 2014 at 8.50 pm
Ermm…
I didn't see any lecturing to Aboriginal people in the above article.
Settlers ? Seriously?
From Maira on 24 September 2014 at 7.55 am
Settlers? Lecture?
This was a very insightful article on a very complex and sensitive issue that is not often discussed in Australia.
From MP on 24 September 2014 at 8.13 am
I'm also struggling to see how Aboriginal people are being lectured to in this piece. It's a powerful piece about how the downplaying/dismissal of skin colour privilege by ANYONE (therefore including Aboriginal ppl) results in a destructive denial of certain Black identities.
From TS on 24 September 2014 at 11.34 am
ur attempting to dismiss the author and her piece by identifying her as a settler? right…cos all non-Aborignal people are an undifferentiated mass that don't experience racialisation by white supremacy in varying ways.
From wildog on 24 September 2014 at 3.36 pm
If it 'offensive' to treat you as white, and offensive to treat you with 'light skin privilege' and illegal to treat you as black – yet you demand the freedom to acknowledge your racial identity – you may be indulgent or perverse and might spend your life consumed by offence. Certainly, multiculturalism is doomed.
From Claire on 24 September 2014 at 7.37 pm
It's not illegal to treat her as Black. It's illegal but happens anyway to discriminate against someone because of how they have been racialised – and re: the author, that involves Blackness.
Also one's expression of their subordinated racial and marginalised cultural identity does not give licence to others to treat that Black person according to racial stereotypes or to dehumanise her/him/them.
From TS on 25 September 2014 at 5.57 am
Was wondering when the forever offended, forever angry Black woman trope would get trotted out with no analysis of the complexity of the author's points! And here it is.
From BS on 25 September 2014 at 12.34 pm
The situation for women in general, and particularly indigenes, is dire enough in this neocon world without the denigration of 'trope' being applied lazily.
The angry Black woman IS a trope.
From BS on 25 September 2014 at 1.37 pm
Ploise explain!
To BS: you can google 'Angry Black Woman' 'trope', there is a lot of information out there. 🙂
Wild google chase? That's a scheme, not a trope!(Emoji)
From Lia on 29 September 2014 at 12.54 pm
No one has said that skin colour doesn't affect Aboriginal people. But I'm not sure why you continue to insist that skin colour affects Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Black people in the -same- way when several Aboriginal writers have told you it's different.
It's completely possible to talk about skin colour privilege and your own experiences without appropriating a Beyondblue ad that was specifically produced to address racism and its role in the high rates of depression and anxiety in Indigenous Australians (and which deliberately features Aboriginal actors of varying skin colour).
For anyone who wasn't aware of the context of this article, Celeste Liddle and Eugenia Flynn have responded to earlier pieces by Natasha Guantai here:
– http://blackfeministranter.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/fair-skin-privilege-im-sorry-but-things.html
– http://eugeniaflynn.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/solidarity-you-are-doing-it-wrong/
From Maira on 29 September 2014 at 7.36 pm
Oh please. How is she appropriating? Looking at the advertisement through a different lens is suddenly considered appropriating?
From Natasha Guantai on 29 September 2014 at 8.36 pm
Skin colour does not affect Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the same way; I would never claim that it does. Skin colour doesn't affect men and women in the same way either. But it affects both. And on some occasions, in some respects, skin colour affects people with different identities in similar, perhaps identical, ways.
That there are affinities in experience is borne out by many considerations. Here are some: there are Aboriginal readers who have praised this essay; there are the personal stories of non-Aboriginal Australian anti-racism activists such as Roberta Sykes; there is the use in the Aboriginal Black Power movement of ideas and methods first developed in the context of the African American Black Power movement.
Celeste Liddle says that she refers to herself as 'Black' because of "the 'Black Power' and 'Black is Beautiful' movements". Black Power and Black is Beautiful are political movements created by African Americans. Would you say that Celeste is 'appropriating' African diaspora experience in applying these slogans to herself? Or, rather, is she recognising commonalities of experience that flow from skin colour?
When writing the above essay, I looked for media about non-Indigenous Black skin-colour discrimination in Australia and I found none. Please let me know when you find an advertisement, or any media for that matter, that addresses skin-colour discrimination against non-Indigenous Blacks in Australia and I will be happy to use it.
A final note: Celeste Liddle's blog was not a reply to an earlier piece by me. It was a response to an attempt by me, on Twitter, to engage her in a discussion about her use of the word "Black" in a way that appeared to deny the existence and experiences of non-Aboriginal Black Australians. In her blog she compared non-Aboriginal people describing themselves as Black Australians to Andrew Bolt calling himself an "indigenous Australian". I replied to her essay, and in particular to that comparison, here: http://guantai5.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/who-can-be-black/
From Tee on 29 September 2014 at 8.50 pm
What a brave response to a blatant derailing of your important writing. thank you for sharing you writing Natasha!
From Respondent on 29 September 2014 at 10.18 pm
My perceptions. My truth.
From Natasha Guantai's post that has been linked in response to Lia who said
'But I'm not sure why you continue to insist that skin colour affects Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Black people in the -same- way when several Aboriginal writers have told you it's different.'
"There are countless different ways to be Black. Not all of them are visible. Some are. To say that Blackness includes skin colour is not to say that Blackness is limited to skin colour. It is to make the point – what one might have thought is an obvious point – that some people's experiences are the result of their colour.
In my own case, for instance, before I knew anything of my father's history, or of his Meru culture, I knew I was Black because I was treated as such. And I was treated as such because I looked Black.
To say that my colour makes me Black is not to question anybody else's Blackness. Nor is it to say that colour is the marker, even the marker, for others. I do not dispute the description of colour as an 'old fashioned' marker of Indigenous Blackness."
So much black people are all the same in Australia. So much wow.
Flynn's linked post misrepresents the situation and the named people.
"Celeste was then set upon by three women who questioned her on her views and wanted to talk about her "light-skin privilege."
None of the women spoke to Celeste's 'light-skin privilege'.
"Instead of understanding this point, the three set about arguing with Celeste and conflating the issue with broader questions of race – completely taking away the context of what happens here in Australia to Indigenous Australians."
Misunderstandings happen. Go to Guantai's post to see how this is incorrect. Guantai spoke within an Australian context.
The 'broader issue of race', if it could be called that, involved blackness in Australia.
"@angrytamilwoman and @jayani77 who sought to add fuel to the fire in a conversation that, frankly, should not involve them as non-Black people."
Eugenia does not name the brown people who were on 'Celeste's side' as interfering in a conversation between black people. Lia, if you link to this post then what is your role? You are not black. Eugenia also does not refer to non-black men who liked Guantai's tweets and neither angrytamilwoman nor jayani77 added fuel to the fire. They clicked on favourite, RTed and looked supportive of talking about light-skin privilege. From looking at Twitter, they stopped after a little while. This reaction is disproportionate.
"And in a further move that can only be explained as collective comprehension problems, a whole bunch of Black women from migrant backgrounds have been re-tweeting, sharing and favouriting the responses – as well as writing passive aggressive tweets about not being able to call themselves Black."
Instead of seeking to understand why the black women were favouriting, retweeting and if they said that they can't call themselves black, why so? – remember Eugenia types she knew some of these people, she uses psychologically violent language (more later). "collective comprehension problems" oh right, the 'black migrants' are a mass.
"My hunch tells me that this is just bandwagon-jumping and not any real understanding and comprehension of the issues here, as well as some serious inability to check privilege."
This is the first point where Eugenia explicitly types that non-Indigenous black women cannot think for themselves with the 'bandwagon jumping'.
"since I'm sure Celeste and Blackfellas everywhere are tired of this keyboard warrior fight that has somehow become "Africans vs Aboriginals" (and, if you think about that point right there, that should tell you how ridiculous and shameful this whole situation is – you are fighting against Aboriginal people in their own country – seriously WTAF?!):"
It is Eugenia who made it into 'Africans vs Aboriginals'. People from different cultures fight. We can resolve it. It's not going to be solved by shutting down conversations, not asking what the other person means and writing blog posts like this.
No issue with points 1 and 2.
"Pretty much if you are working on racism and race in Australia you need to defer to Indigenous Australian experiences, history and context."
Most racism issues happen to Indigenous Australians first and often in greater proportions. Indigenous Australian experience should be at least considered or centred or communities should work side by side. But what does Eugenia really mean when she types 'to defer'. When she types this vitriol when black african women simply speak, when one woman questions intersecting issues around blackness in this country. There are also a few racism issues in Australia where the racial issue in the first instance doesn't target Indigenous Australians. Communities that are being targeted should be able to organise, write and raise awareness. What is so unreasonable about this?
"have an AUSTRALIAN understanding of race and racism in Australia, not just conveniently applying an American/Canadian/British/whatever analysis."
Eugenia fails to realise, even though she says she is also a first-generation migrant, that for many of us who are black, we organise according to analyses within Australia and overseas. She cannot police this and every non-white person uses analyses from the U.S. especially so why single those women out?
"have not only NOT been working in reciprocal solidarity with me as an Aboriginal woman, but have now shown their cards: they do not understand how a critical analysis of race and racism needs to be applied in Australia, in deference to the history and experience of Indigenous Australians."
Remember this is over a short twitter conversation, RTs and favourites and blog posts by Guantai. Black african women cannot speak about their experience as people in Australia or try to have a conversation about intersectionality as well as acknowledge distinct black experiences in this country. To do so is seen as overpowering Indigenous Australian experience.
"I myself felt set up on, attacked and bullied (I can only begin to imagine how Celeste felt) by the shameful actions of this lynch mob. It has felt like a school-clique of bullies who are attacking me as a blackfella with passive aggressive statements (as Tweets and Facebook statuses), sharing notes about me (as blog posts)"
So Eugenia 'felt set up on, attacked and bullied' over a few tweets, RTs and favourites and posts. No-one spoke to her. Disagreement is not bullying. It is insulting and emotionally manipulative to insinuate so. Did she ask the people about 'sharing notes as blog posts' whether the posts were about her?
What is shameful is that Flynn called mostly black women a lynch mob and got away with it. People with no stake and not black, linking to it and ignoring Guantai's points. People who possibly think that it's okay to call black women a lynch mob. When I feel safe, I'll ask them to make sure.
From MV on 30 September 2014 at 11.12 am
Thank you Respondent and Natasha Guantai for the insightful responses. Upon reading Eugenia Flynn's post, I am shocked that the post not only misstated facts but wrote a post that, among other things, is condescending to non-indigenous black women and belittles them. The lynch mob comment was completely out of line – how could one say that to a group of black women of African background?
From SJN on 30 September 2014 at 1.45 pm
I think Eugenia Flynn is "conveniently applying" an analysis of racism that has no room for the historical origins of lynching in the US and its horrific (and continuing) impact on Black Americans.
*and its horrific (and continuing impact) on Black Americans and the African diaspora more broadly.
From JK on 2 October 2014 at 10.15 am
I very much appreciate Natasha Guantai's piece exploring a salient nuance around race and racialisation. Also reflecting that part of the reactive responses from some other writers, in particular Celeste and Eugenia, is that this issue of skin colour privilege is a sort of "dirty laundry" within Aboriginal communities that it feels somewhat painful to have aired by people who are not themselves Aboriginal.
That said, there is a difference between naming an issue that cuts across community lines, and "lecturing". It seems foolhardy to pretend that these issues DON'T exist in our communities, or that it is only my unique right as an in-group person (e.g. an Aboriginal person) to mention these topics ever, if at all. Part of the reason they are dirty laundry is because they are unresolved.
I like to remain in contact with people who are sincerely committed to being part of the solution, whether they are my "in-group" or not. All the power to Natasha for especially naming this in the context of sharing her own lived experiences with this phenomenon.
Holding one another accountable for our complicities should not involve then re-appropriating the terms of the abuse of power (e.g. "lynch mob") in order to do so. My hope is that this conversation will bring out healing for our communities who have been scarred by racism and colonisation, for too many centuries.
From Nithya on 10 February 2015 at 11.07 am
As a native Indian woman, living in India, with skin colour that is considered "fair", I relate to Natasha'a analyses. Surely, this dialogue and experience then goes beyond a restricted, specific cultural context.
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How often do you fly? It depends. I fly 100,000 miles/year on average. This summer I took some major ground time to work on my book. Normally, I'd say 4 flights/month.
Favorite American city: New York, of course!
Favorite international city: Tokyo, Japan.
Least favorite country: I can't answer this! My least exciting trip was probably to Nicaragua, but I have nothing against the country!
Favorite World Heritage Site: Val d'Orcia, a beautiful Tuscan valley with iconic rolling hills, Cyprus trees and medieval hill towns.
Favorite aircraft type: Boeing 777.
Favorite U.S. airport: EWR. Really! I'm serious! I know the airport backwards and forwards, it's only 22 minutes from New York by train, high ceilings, lots of light and every time I walk through the door I feel like I'm coming home.
Favorite international airport: NRT (Tokyo)—I love the conveyer belt sushi (kaiten zushi) near the observation deck of Terminal 1. I'm also a fan of Heathrow, mostly for the window-shopping.
Favorite hotel: I had a great time going solo at The London West Hollywood. Also I have a lot of love for Banks Mansion in Amsterdam because they offer a free minibar, free breakfast and host a wine and cheese social in the lobby every afternoon.
Do you unpack into the dresser/closet? Or live out of your suitcase? I normally unpack, because I use the "plastic bag" method to fit up to 2 weeks clothes & shoes into a 20" roll-aboard.
Favorite cruise line: I absolutely love Lindblad/National Geographic. I've taken several trips on the National Geographic Explorer and had the opportunity to eat in some off the beaten path places like Zanzibar, Senegal, Cape Verde and the Seychelles.
Favorite beach: Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Favorite fancy restaurant: Arzac in San Sebastian, Spain.
Favorite hole-in-the-wall: Osteria Mamà in Montisi, Italy.
Least favorite food: Cake. Ugh. That goes for cupcakes too. I'm not much of a dessert person in general, but cake is always a disappointment. Give me cheese instead, please!
Drink of choice (in the air and on the ground): Air: Bloody Mary. Ground: coffee or sparkling water.
Favorite travel movie(s): The Terminal.
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Favorite travel book(s): There's a great food/travel compilation called "A Moveable Feast" from Lonely Planet. Andrew Zimmern's book, "The Bizarre Truth" is pretty awesome too. Does "The Phantom Tollbooth" count?
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Both Mairis Briedis (26-1, 19 KOs) and Yuniel 'The KO Doctor' Dorticos (24-1, 22 KOs) prescribed defeat to each other after meeting in Latvia on Wednesday to kick off their hotly-anticipated WBSS Cruiserweight Ali Trophy final at the Arena Riga on March 21.
"It's great to be in Riga," said Kalle Sauerland, Chief Boxing Officer of the World Boxing Super Series. "It's an amazing opportunity to present the final for the biggest and greatest prize in boxing.
"We present the two greatest cruiserweights on the planet. The two best sportsmen of the division. Two guys who have been there and done it all before. Two-time world champions. We, the WBSS, are so proud to be working with these athletes fighting for a trophy in the name of Muhammad Ali, the greatest of the sport.
"The tickets are flying and we expect to sell out within hours if not days. It's going to be an epic event. We are going to see an absolute war on March 21!"
Dorticos, the Miami-based Cuban holding the IBF title, was oozing confidence on the stage.
"I'm excited to be here, I feel like I'm at home here in Latvia," he told. "My prediction is simple; on March 21st you will know why I'm called the 'KO Doctor'. I'm humbled to be part of this tournament and fight for the Muhammad Ali Trophy. That trophy has my name on it and I'm going to take it home."
Briedis responded to Dorticos's prediction by revealing a nickname from earlier in his career.
"My nickname used to be the 'Traumatologist'," the Latvian told. "Two doctors are going to face each other in the ring, so let's see who comes out on top. To win the trophy would be a great celebration for Latvia, but now it's about putting in the hard work to not let anyone down.
"I believe we can expect a great fight because my opponent is a great fighter. I hope he is not just a loudspeaker…
"I'm happy the fight is taking place in Riga. It's additional weight on my shoulders, but we'll be ready!"
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Sarah Pratt, a Hope College junior from Traverse City, has received an Outstanding Student Service Award from the Michigan Campus Compact (MCC).
Pratt received a "Commitment to Service" award from MCC during a recognition ceremony on Saturday, April 8, at the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
MCC is a state-level non-profit organization that promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college students to be civically engaged citizens, through creating and expanding academic, co-curricular and campus-wide opportunities for community service, service-learning and civic engagement.
The "Commitment to Service Awards" are among three types of awards that MCC presents annually to students from colleges and universities across the state. The "Commitment to Service Award" honors students for their community service at individual college and university campuses as part of their education throughout their college career, with a single student from each MCC-member institution selected as a recipient annually. A total of 24 students were honored with "Commitment to Service Awards" this year.
Pratt is the student director of the Office of Volunteer Services at Hope. Her work includes planning and participating in monthly service events with area organizations such as the Holland Rescue Mission, Boys and Girls Club and Resthaven Care Community. She has made cooperating with the City of Holland a priority, and in particular has emphasized partnership with the City of Holland's Parks and Recreation Department, volunteering at events such as the Holland Young Professionals Chili Cookoff and raising money for the Children's Advocacy Center and the Culinary Cabaret that raised funds for the Holland Community Health Center.
Her activities have also included serving as a coach for Girls on the Run through the Center for Women in Transition; helping to lead "Pulling for Hope," the college's response to Hurricane Katrina; and participating in the student-coordinated Dance Marathon held on behalf of DeVos Children's Hospital. Earlier this month, she coordinated Volunteer Services' annual effort to provide Easter baskets for the 120 children served by the Children's After Service Achievement (CASA) program based at Hope.
Pratt is the daughter of Chris and Judy Pratt of Traverse City, and is a 2003 graduate of Traverse City Central High School.
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Back in 2012 I talked about a story idea I had based on a song called Skin Deep, by the Stranglers.
I'm getting back into the writing season, with my Golden Pen club starting up again, so I'm going to start writing small pieces that I can put up here for your viewing pleasure. My rules are that the entire story is written in one sitting and placed up without too much recrimination or reflection. Some of them I will take a good hard look at and change them for publication. Others are simply small pieces of entertainment that I will never take any further.
I am terrified. They're coming to get me. The Skundig. When I was young, my parents used to play this song by the Stranglers over and over. It is my bible. It is my saviour. I wrote down the words. This was before the Internet. As many times as I listened, I couldn't tell what it was I had to look out for. The best I could come up with was Skundig. Better watch out for the Skundig.
I'm at the train station. I haven't been able to completely remove myself from society. But they could be anyone. A complete stranger, a most trusted friend. I can't take the chance. Nobody is safe. People watch me when I have to move among them. I flinch from their gaze. They might be trying to brainwash me, sending signals straight into my head. Vigilance is my only weapon. Vigilance and solitude.
Better watch out for the Skundig.
I haven't slept properly for two months. I don't shower. It's too dangerous. I just wish I had more information! These clues are so cryptic. They obviously steal body parts and organs. I think they sedate you with their minds and then cut off your hands. Do they eat them? Do they make more of themselves? Oh God, now I see them as constructs built out of stolen pieces of their victims!
Brother watch out for the Skundig!
Not enough information. I can't protect myself. Did that "person" just look at my hands? Measuring me up for her replacements? I can't tell anyone. I can't trust anyone. I can't sleep. How can a person live like this? The answer? A person can't. The Skundig win. Sometimes it's tougher to look than to leap. Quickly now, before they control my mind. Here comes the express.


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Post JYM Active Matrix Review — Is It "Critical to Recovery"?
Shop Post JYM Active Matrix HERE.
One serving size is pretty large — twenty grams — and it's recommended that you mix it with two to four cups of water. That's a big drink, and it'll provide six grams of BCAAs in a 3:1:1 ratio of leucine, isoleucine, and valine.
There are a lot of additions that are intended to boost recovery. There are 3 grams of glutamine, 2 grams of creatine hydrochloride, 2 grams of beta-alanine, 2 grams of l-carnitine l-tartrate, 1.5 grams of betaine, 1 gram of taurine, and 5.3 milligrams of black pepper extract. I'll discuss their effects in the next section.
The "other ingredients" are malic acid and citric acid (for flavoring), the artificial sweeteners sucralose and acesulfame potassium, the anti-caking agent calcium silicate, a blend of soy oil and lecithin to improve mixability, and red food dye number 40.
There's a lot to unpack here. The BCAAs themselves are intended to improve muscle retention, focus, and endurance during exercise, but what about everything else?
There's very strong evidence that creatine can help with power output and muscle size, and creatine hydrochloride appears to absorb better than your standard creatine.
There's also solid evidence that taurine can reduce muscle cramps and promote hypertrophy by drawing more water into your cells.
Beta-alanine may improve hypertrophy too, but it's possible that's just because it helps with endurance, so you can perform more reps.
Bioperine is an extract from the fruit of black pepper, the idea is that it helps the other ingredients absorb. Post JYM has a little over 5 milligrams, and usually people use 10 or 20 milligrams, but it probably has some effect.
L-carnitine l-tartrate, meanwhile, may increase the effects of IGF-1 and IGF-2, which may help with muscle gain and fat loss. Some studies suggest it may reduce muscle damage produced by high-intensity resistance exercise.
The betaine has been linked to improved hypertrophy and power in some studies, but scientific consensus is split, as it is with many of these ingredients. This is especially the case with glutamine, a "muscle builder" that appears to be mostly stored in the gut, and supplementary glutamine doesn't appear to go straight to the muscles as Stoppani suggests on his site.
Thirty servings costs about $35, so $1.20 per serving or 20 cents per gram of BCAAs. That's pretty expensive; most brands fall between 10 and 12 cents per gram of BCAA, though most brands don't contain quite as many extra ingredients as Post JYM.
I always expect Tropical Punch flavor to taste like maraschino cherries and watermelon jolly ranchers, and Post JYM does fit the bill. However, I'd say it's also reminiscent of sherbet — it's got a little more vanilla than your standard super-sweet Fruit Punch flavor, and that was enough to put it among my favorite BCAA flavors of all time.
Here's the thing with Post JYM: despite the website saying that "All eight of the ingredients in Post JYM are critical for recovery," there's not exactly a resounding scientific consensus for all of these ingredients. And let's be honest, people have and will continue to recover from exercise without this supplement.
There's very good evidence for the BCAAs, taurine, creatine, and the pepper extract. There's a good argument to be made that the other ingredients can improve recovery, but I wouldn't say the case is settled. I can't really blame a supplement for saying that it's an awesome supplement that gives you everything you need, but I would have liked slightly less declarative statements from Dr. Stoppani, and I really would have been liked it if he'd included studies to support his claim like MuscleTech's Amino Build Next Gen.
My suggestion is to do some of your own research before investing the extra money that JYM will cost, and if you're convinced — and you don't mind soy and artificial sweeteners — give it a try and see how your recovery improves.


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Reminder: Wells Coming Off Confidential List Over The Weekend, Monday Have Been Posted -- November 30, 2014
Reminder: wells coming off the confidential list over the weekend, Monday have been posted with their IPs.
Updating 3Q13 wells: it really is incredible all the wells that are reaching 100K in the first year. This is an example of a nice Fidelity well, for example:
23913, 1,223, Fidelity, State 30-31H, Stanley; t3/13; cum 191K 10/14;
Slump in oil price continues: futures down $1.60 to under $64.
War of words: The Telegraph (link here).
Saudis risk playing with fire in shale-price showdown as crude crashes A deep slump in prices might heighten geostrategic turmoil across the Middle East
Saudi Arabia and the core Opec states are taking an immense political gamble by letting crude oil prices crash to $66 a barrel, if their aim is to shake out the weakest shale producers in the US. A deep slump in prices might equally heighten geostrategic turmoil across the broader Middle East and boomerang against the Gulf's petro-sheikhdoms before it inflicts a knock-out blow on US rivals.
Caliphate leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has already opened a "second front" in North Africa, targeting Algeria and Libya – two states that live off energy exports – as well as Egypt and the Sahel as far as northern Nigeria. "The resilience of US shale may prove greater than the resilience of Opec," said Alistair Newton, head of political risk at Nomura.
Chris Skrebowski, former editor of Petroleum Review, said the Saudis want to cut the annual growth rate of US shale output from 1m barrels per day (bpd) to 500,000 bpd to bring the market closer to balance. "They want to unnerve the shale oil model and undermine financial confidence, but they won't stop the growth altogether," he said.
There is no question that the US has entirely changed the global energy landscape and poses an existential threat to Opec. America has cut its net oil imports by 8.7m bpd since 2006, equal to the combined oil exports of Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.
The country had a trade deficit of $354bn in oil and gas as recently as 2011. Citigroup said this will return to balance by 2018, one of the most extraordinary turnarounds in modern economic history.
"When it comes to crude and other hydrocarbons, the US is bursting at the seams," said Edward Morse, Citigroup's commodities chief. "This situation is unlikely to stop, even if prevailing prices for oil fall significantly. The US should become a net exporter of crude oil and petroleum products combined by 2019, if not 2018."
Non-Bakken
St Louis: the "universal" posture for Ferguson protestors has been "raising arms/hands, signaling 'don't shoot.'" It looks like the new posture will have to include holding hammers.
Reason #24,560 Why I Love To Blog -- The Real Cost Of Electricity -- November 30, 2014
A few days ago a reader provided a great link and some really good research on the real cost of electricity, as provided by the provincial government of Ontario, Canada. That source is about as un-impeachable a source as one can find. If you can't believe a provincial government, whom can you trust? So, before reading further, go back and look at at that post.
Now, Forbes is getting in on the act. Here's the link.
The concern is that the Obama administration is now trying to re-define how we determine the cost of electricity:
In the most recent Annual Energy Outlook, the EIA began using the "levelized avoided cost of energy" (LACE) as an alternative to the LCOE for assessing the economic competitiveness of different generating technologies. The LACE metric estimates what it would have cost the grid to generate the electricity otherwise displaced by a new generation project. (wow, sort that one out)
The LCOE is like a bad line of code in a software program used to develop other software programs. It has dangerously skewed investors' understanding of the economics of generating electricity from renewable energy resources. It has also had perverse and difficult to undo impacts on local, state and federal energy policies.
This Forbes story would have made less sense to me had another reader not sent me the Ontario, Canada, study. And that's why I love to blog.
A Note To The Granddaughters
One of the most fascinating books I have ever read is Brenda James' The Truth Will Out: Unmasking The Real Shakespeare, c. 2005.
It is nice to have google at my side to help me cross-reference some of the data points Brenda James provides. Her book is absolutely fascinating.
In my freshman year at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, my courses were pretty much all required courses, to get them out of the way. One of the courses was western literature; the professor was perhaps one of the most interesting, most striking professors I ever had in college. I hardly recognize him in this picture taken way too late in his life. He was tall, and had the most striking red hair of anyone I can recall: perhaps a descendent of Eric the Red.
I assume we studied Shakespeare for about two months during that freshman year but I recall nothing else about his class. The only think I recall was studying Shakespeare. Dr Huseboe was incredibly animated and obviously very, very passionate about the dramatist and poet. I remember, very well, the paper I wrote for that subject; it was definitely out of the ordinary, which Dr Huseboe recognized, and, I suppose, appreciated, after reading scores of papers with the same theme. It was a mediocre paper at best, but the thesis at least was different.
My Shakespeare library is extensive, but if I had to narrow it down -- to share with the granddaughters -- it would be several of his plays; one or two books on Shakespeare by Harold Bloom; W H Auden's lectures on Shakespeare; and, Brenda James' book.
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Oasis Picking Targets South Of Williston? POTUS Picking Targets South Of Kabul? -- November 30, 2014
Later, 10:12 a.m. CT: see first comment. My original post identified the wrong "waste water plant." I was unaware of a waste water plant south of the depot. The post has been updated.
A small story coming out of the Bakken to start the day. The Dickinson Press is reporting that Oasis will buy water from Williston's wastewater plant to use for fracking an Oasis well-pad site just west of the wastewater plant.
The Oasis site is just west of the wastewater facility. More than 440,000 barrels of water is expected to be sold to Oasis and bring in approximately $110,000 of revenue to the city.
"This will help with our volume issues," said Public Works Director David Tuan. "We have far too much wastewater coming into the plant that we can deal with."
According to a reader, the "wastewater plant is south of the Amtrak depot."
At risk of being wrong again, this looks like the four-well Oasis pad, currently with a rig on site:
29264, SI/NC, Oasis, Harrier 5401 44-23 T2, Todd, 2nd bench, Three Forks; background gas was "very low";
29265, drl, Oasis, Harrier 5401 44-23 3B, Todd,
29266, loc, Oasis, Harrier 5401 44-23 4T, Todd,
Non-Bakken Stuff
Tongue-in-cheek: I posted this back on October 15, 2014, as a bit of tongue-in-cheek stuff:
The younger generation won't remember how the Vietnam War ended for US: a) the president was picking bombing targets; and, b) US loyalists were air evacuated out of Saigon on helicopters.
I don't know if I should be surprised or dismayed to see that we were repeating the past. The AP is reporting that apparently POTUS was picking the bombing targets in Afghanistan, but this time, even the Pentagon did not know:
On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official.
"I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said earlier this month as he recounted his discovery. "I told the commanders, `If you get a call from the White House, you tell them to go to hell and call me.'"
On another note, this headline ("new momentum to stop global warming") made no sense to me last night, so I left it to come back to it this morning. It still makes no sense. The AP is reporting:
Abbott tried and failed to keep the issue off the agenda of the annual G-20 summit of wealthy and emerging countries that was hosted by the Australian city of Brisbane in mid-November. An agreement between Washington and Beijing to curb emissions, announced days before the summit, suggests he had misjudged the international mood on the issue.
Next week, attention turns to the next round of international climate change negotiations in Lima, Peru. For a nation of just 23 million, Australia has played a significant role in past talks, but this time it's unclear what kind of role its delegation, led by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, will play.
Abbott's conservative coalition won a landslide election victory last year over the Labor Party, which had grown unpopular in part because it had approved one of the world's highest taxes on major carbon gas polluters. Abbott not only ended that tax but years earlier helped scuttle an effort by his own Liberal Party to reach a bipartisan deal on a carbon-trading scheme, intended to encourage industries to produce less emissions.
Let's see:
Canada rejected the Kyoto Protocol
China gets to keep doing for the next 20 years what is has been doing for the past 20 years (on an Obama handshake)
Germany is going brown (burning lignite coal)
"Global Warming" is the last thing on their list of things Americans worry about
I don't see the momentum. I see AP spin.
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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has prematurely ended the trial of a new tackle height law after an increase in the number of concussions.
Matches in the Championship Cup were subject to new rules with players not allowed to tackle above the armpit.
But instances of concussion rose among players tackling opponents who were bent at the waist carrying the ball.
The line of the shoulders will again be the permitted tackle height when the knockout stages begin next month.
"We need to analyse the data in more detail, but our preliminary analysis has shown all of these incidents occurred when a bent-at-the-waist tackler was attempting to tackle a bent-at-the-waist ball carrier following a short pass from the scrum half," said RFU interim chief executive Nigel Melville.
"This is an area that the trial was not specifically looking to influence, as the primary focus was to reduce the risk of concussion where ball carrier and tackler were both upright."
The trial, which was due to run for the duration of the competition for second tier sides in England, did succeed in lowering tackle heights.
Tackles above the armpit line went down by 25%, while there was a 41% drop in the number of contacts with the head or neck of a ball carrier.
"This was always a trial and we weren't sure what the outcomes would be," added Melville.


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The 50th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 13, 1998. It was broadcast on NBC.
When Frasier was announced as the winner of Outstanding Comedy Series, Emmy history was made. The NBC sitcom became the first show to win one of the two main series prizes five consecutive years. This record has since been passed by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, whose winning streak was ten years, but for the main two genres, it was not matched until 2014, when the ABC sitcom Modern Family won its fifth consecutive award for Outstanding Comedy Series.
The Practice won Outstanding Drama Series and tied for the most major wins overall with three. For the second straight year, medical drama ER came into the night as the most nominated program, but once again walked away empty handed, going 0/9 in major categories.
Ally McBeal became the first hour-long series to be nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series since Love, American Style in 1971.
This year saw the Emmys move to a new venue, the Shrine Auditorium, marking the return of the award ceremony to Los Angeles for the first time since the 1976 Emmy Awards, following a 20-year residency at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium outside L.A. in Pasadena.
As of the 2018 Emmy ceremony, this is the last year where all the nominees for Best Drama Series were from the broadcast networks.
Winners and nominees
Frasier, (NBC)
3rd Rock from the Sun, (NBC)
Ally McBeal, (Fox)
The Larry Sanders Show, (HBO)
Seinfeld, (NBC)
The Practice, (ABC)
ER, (NBC)
Law & Order, (NBC)
NYPD Blue, (ABC)
The X-Files, (Fox)
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
Late Show with David Letterman, (CBS)
Dennis Miller Live, (HBO)
Politically Incorrect, (Comedy Central)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, (NBC)
Tracey Takes On..., (HBO)
The 51st Annual Tony Awards, (CBS)
The 70th Annual Academy Awards, (ABC)
Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope, (ABC)
Cinderella, (ABC)
Garth Live from Central Park, (HBO)
Outstanding Made for Television Movie
Outstanding Miniseries
Don King: Only in America, (HBO)
12 Angry Men, (Showtime)
A Bright Shining Lie, (HBO)
Gia, (HBO)
What the Deaf Man Heard, (CBS)
From the Earth to the Moon, (HBO)
George Wallace, (TNT)
Merlin, (NBC)
Moby Dick, (USA)
More Tales of the City, (Showtime)
Lead performances
Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane on Frasier (Episode: "Frasier's Imaginary Friend"), (NBC)
Michael J. Fox as Mike Flaherty on Spin City (Episode: "The Goodbye Girl"), (ABC)
John Lithgow as Dr. Dick Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun (Episode: "Stuck with Dick"), (NBC)
Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman on Mad About You (Episode: "The Conversation"), (NBC)
Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders on The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "Flip"), (HBO)
Helen Hunt as Jamie Buchman on Mad About You (Episode: "Moody Blues"), (NBC)
Kirstie Alley as Veronica Chase on Veronica's Closet (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC)
Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan on Ellen (Episode: "Neighbors"), (ABC)
Jenna Elfman as Dharma Montgomery on Dharma & Greg (Episode: "Haus Arrest"), (ABC)
Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal on Ally McBeal (Episode: "One Hundred Tears Away"), (Fox)
Patricia Richardson as Jill Taylor on Home Improvement (Episode: "Bright Christmas"), (ABC)
Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street (Episode: "Fallen Heroes", Part 2), (NBC)
David Duchovny as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files (Episode: "Redux II"), (Fox)
Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene on ER (Episode: "Family Practice"), (NBC)
Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue (Episode: "The One That Got Away"), (ABC)
Jimmy Smits as Bobby Simone on NYPD Blue (Episode: "Lost Israel"), (ABC)
Christine Lahti as Dr. Kate Austin on Chicago Hope (Episode: "Cabin Fever"), (CBS)
Gillian Anderson as Dr. Dana Scully on The X-Files (Episode: "All Souls"), (Fox)
Roma Downey as Monica on Touched by an Angel (Episode: "The Spirit of Liberty Moon"), (CBS)
Julianna Margulies as Carol Hathaway on ER (Episode: "Carter's Choice"), (NBC)
Jane Seymour as Dr. Michaela Quinn on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Episode: "Point Blank"), (CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Gary Sinise as George Wallace on George Wallace, (TNT)
Jack Lemmon as Juror #8 on 12 Angry Men, (Showtime)
Sam Neill as Merlin on Merlin, (NBC)
Ving Rhames as Don King on Don King: Only in America, (HBO)
Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab on Moby Dick, (USA)
Ellen Barkin as Glory Marie Jackson on Before Women Had Wings, (ABC)
Jamie Lee Curtis as Maggie Green on Nicholas' Gift, (CBS)
Judy Davis as Gladwyn Ritchie on The Echo of Thunder, (CBS)
Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Anna Madrigal on More Tales of the City, (Showtime)
Angelina Jolie as Gia Carangi on Gia, (HBO)
Sigourney Weaver as Lady Claudia Hoffman on Snow White: A Tale of Terror, (Showtime)
Supporting performances
David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane on Frasier (Episodes: "The Maris Counselor" + "First Date"), (NBC)
Jason Alexander as George Costanza on Seinfeld (Episode: "The Strike"), (NBC)
Phil Hartman (posthumously) as Bill McNeal on NewsRadio, (NBC)
Jeffrey Tambor as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, (HBO)
Rip Torn as Arthur on The Larry Sanders Show, (HBO)
Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay on Friends (Episode: "The One with Ross's Wedding"), (NBC)
Christine Baranski as Maryann Thorpe on Cybill (Episode: "The Golden Years") (CBS)
Kristen Johnston as Sally Solomon on 3rd Rock from the Sun, (NBC)
Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon on Frasier (Episodes: "Where Every Bloke Knows Your Name" + "First Date"), (NBC)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, (NBC)
Gordon Clapp as Greg Medavoy on NYPD Blue, (ABC)
Héctor Elizondo as Dr. Phillip Watters on Chicago Hope (Episodes: "Psychodrama" + "Bridge Over Troubled Watters"), (CBS)
Steven Hill as Adam Schiff on Law & Order, (NBC)
Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton on ER, (NBC)
Noah Wyle as Dr. John Carter on ER, (NBC)
Camryn Manheim as Ellenor Frutt on The Practice (Episodes: "Checkmate" + "Axe Murderer"), (ABC)
Kim Delaney as Diane Russell on NYPD Blue, (ABC)
Laura Innes as Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER, (NBC)
Della Reese as Tess on Touched by an Angel, (CBS)
Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet on ER, (NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
George C. Scott as Juror #3 on 12 Angry Men, (Showtime)
Hume Cronyn as Juror #9 on 12 Angry Men, (Showtime)
Gregory Peck as Father Mapple on Moby Dick, (USA)
Martin Short as Frik on Merlin, (NBC)
J. T. Walsh as Ray Percy on Hope, (TNT)
Mare Winningham as Lurleen Wallace on George Wallace, (TNT)
Helena Bonham Carter as Morgan Le Fey on Merlin, (NBC)
Julie Harris as Leonora Nelson on Ellen Foster, (CBS)
Judith Ivey as Lucille on What the Deaf Man Heard, (CBS)
Angelina Jolie as Cornelia Wallace on George Wallace, (TNT)
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Mel Brooks as Uncle Phil on Mad About You (Episode: "Uncle Phil And The Coupons"), (NBC)
Hank Azaria as Nat on Mad About You (Episode: "Nat and Arly"), (NBC)
Lloyd Bridges as Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld (Episode: "The Blood"), (NBC)
John Cleese as Dr. Neesam on 3rd Rock from the Sun (Episode: "Dick and the Other Guy"), (NBC)
Nathan Lane as Professor Twilley on Mad About You (Episode: "Good Old Reliable Nathan"), (NBC)
Emma Thompson as Herself on Ellen (Episode: "Emma"), (ABC)
Carol Burnett as Teresa on Mad About You (Episode: "Coming Home"), (NBC)
Jan Hooks as Vicki Dubcek on 3rd Rock from the Sun (Episode: "Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary"), (NBC)
Patti LuPone as Zora on Frasier (Episode: "Beware of Greeks"), (NBC)
Bette Midler as Caprice Feldman on Murphy Brown (Episode: "Never Can Say Goodbye"), (CBS)
John Larroquette as Joey Heric on The Practice (Episode: "Betrayal"), (ABC)
Bruce Davison as Jake on Touched by an Angel (Episode: "Elijah"), (CBS)
Vincent D'Onofrio as John Lange on Homicide: Life on the Street (Episode: "The Subway"), (NBC)
Charles Durning as Thomas Finnegan on Homicide: Life on the Street (Episode: "Finnegan's Wake"), (NBC)
Charles Nelson Reilly as Jose Chung on Millennium (Episode: "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"), (Fox)
Cloris Leachman as Aunt Mooster on Promised Land (Episode: "Mooster's Revenge"), (CBS)
Veronica Cartwright as Cassandra Spender on The X-Files (Episode: "Patient X"), (Fox)
Swoosie Kurtz as Tina-Marie Chambliss on ER (Episode: "Suffer the Little Children"), (NBC)
Lili Taylor as Marty Glenn on The X-Files (Episode: "Mind's Eye"), (Fox)
Alfre Woodard as Dr. Roxanne Turner on Homicide: Life on the Street (Episode: "Mercy"), (NBC)
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
Todd Holland, for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "Flip"), (HBO)
Allan Arkush for Ally McBeal (Episode: "Cro-Magnon"), (Fox)
James Burrows for Dharma & Greg (Episode: "Pilot"), (ABC)
James Frawley for Ally McBeal (Episode: "Pilot"), (Fox)
Terry Hughes, for 3rd Rock from the Sun (Episode: "Dick and the Other Guy"), (NBC)
Paris Barclay for NYPD Blue (Episode: "Lost Israel", Part 2), (ABC)
Mark Tinker for Brooklyn South (Episode: "Pilot"), (CBS)
Chris Carter for The X-Files (Episode: "The Post-Modern Prometheus"), (Fox)
Bill D'Elia for Chicago Hope (Episode: "Brain Salad Surgery"), (CBS)
Thomas Schlamme for ER (Episode: "Ambush"), (NBC)
Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Movie
Louis J. Horvitz for The 70th Annual Academy Awards, (ABC)
Marty Callner for Garth Live from Central Park, (HBO)
Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas for Stomp Out Loud, (HBO)
Bruce Gowers for Fleetwood Mac: The Dance, (MTV)
Robert Iscove for Cinderella (ABC)
Don Scardino for Tracey Takes On... (Episode: "Smoking"), (HBO)
John Frankenheimer for George Wallace, (TNT)
Steve Barron for Merlin, (NBC)
William Friedkin for 12 Angry Men, (Showtime)
Tom Hanks for From the Earth to the Moon (Episode: "Part I"), (HBO)
John Herzfeld for Don King: Only in America, (HBO)
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Peter Tolan and Garry Shandling for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "Flip"), (HBO)
Lawrence Broch for Ellen (Episode: "Emma"), (ABC)
Richard Day, Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck for The Larry Sanders Show (Episode: "Putting the 'Gay' Back in Litigation"), (HBO)
David E. Kelley for Ally McBeal (Episode: "Time of Life"), (Fox)
Joe Keenan for Frasier (Episode: "The Ski Lodge"), (NBC)
David Milch, Nicholas Wootton and Bill Clark NYPD Blue (Episode: "Lost Israel", Part 2), (ABC)
David Milch, Ted Mann, Bill Clark and Meredith Stiehm for NYPD Blue (Episode: "Lost Israel", Part 1), (ABC)
David E. Kelley for The Practice (Episode: "Betrayal"), (ABC)
James Yoshimura for Homicide: Life on the Street (Episode: "The Subway"), (NBC)
Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or Movie
Dennis Miller Live (HBO)
The Chris Rock Show, (HBO)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien, (NBC)
Mr. Show with Bob and David, (HBO)
Kario Salem for Don King: Only in America, (HBO)
Jay McInerney and Michael Cristofer for Gia, (HBO)
David Stevens, Peter Barnes, Edward Khmara for Merlin, (NBC)
Nicholas Wright for More Tales of the City, (Showtime)
Graham Yost for From the Earth to the Moon (Episode: "Part II"), (HBO)
Most major nominations
By network [note 1]
NBC - 49
HBO - 29
ABC - 25
CBS - 19
Fox - 13
ER (NBC) - 9
NYPD Blue (ABC) - 8
The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) / The X-Files (Fox) - 7
3rd Rock from the Sun (NBC) / Frasier (NBC) / Mad About You (NBC) / Merlin (NBC) - 6
Most major awards
ABC - 9
NBC - 7
HBO - 7
CBS - 5
TNT - 2
Frasier (NBC) / George Wallace (TNT) / NYPD Blue (ABC) / The Practice (ABC) - 3
Don King: Only in America (HBO) / The Larry Sanders Show (HBO) / Mad About You (NBC) - 2
^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
Patrick Stewart presented a clip tribute to the TV actors who had died: Red Skelton, Shari Lewis, Lloyd Bridges, Roy Rogers, singer John Denver, Robert Young, dancer Jerome Robbins, sports narrator Harry Caray, Frank Sinatra, singer Buffalo Bob, E. G. Marshall, J. T. Walsh, Sonny Bono, Phil Hartman, and Chris Farley. As an interesting note, Gary Sinise won the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his portrayal of George Wallace on the day that the latter died.
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What I also learnt to see is that some processes capture the imagination and energy of the person, and others do not. What we do need to learn is that it's OK to eliminate a pathway and try again if necessary. Perhaps a different technique may invite better outcomes. Reinforce our optimism that all is not lost, we are all still on our 'L' plates.
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Yes, we might feel rightly worried and uncertain at the prospect of change. But we also possess the foundations, when directed clearly, that can so genuinely assist another to take control. It is these foundations we can refine and develop in order to produce the guiding light through change.
Let people own their world, be the architects of their life, let them work to change it and so become that person they wish to be. In the end, their life truly belongs to them alone.
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Het Houten Stadion (, ) war ein Fußballstadion im damaligen Stadtteil Watergraafsmeer, Bezirk Amsterdam-Oost, der niederländischen Hauptstadt Amsterdam. Es war das erste Stadion des Fußballvereins Ajax Amsterdam (kurz: AFC Ajax). Der Name des Stadions entwickelte sich aus dem Volksmund.

Geschichte
Von der Gründung im Jahr 1900 an trug Ajax seine Spiele auf einem Feld in Amsterdam-Noord aus. Im Sommer 1907 brauchte der Club eine neue Spielstätte, da die Stadt auf dem bisherigen Gelände Häuser bauen wollte. Es wurden zwei Flächen auf einem Polder in Watergraafsmeer gefunden. Sie lagen näher an der Stadt als das alte Gelände. Am 29. September 1907 trug Ajax sein erstes offizielles Spiel in der neuen Anlage gegen die zweite Mannschaft von Sparta Rotterdam aus. In den ersten Jahren bestand die Spielstätte aus wenig mehr als dem Spielfeld. Es gab keine Tribünen, keine Umkleidekabinen und auch keine Wasserversorgung. Als Umkleidekabine wurde das Café Brokelmann auf der gegenüberliegenden Straßenseite genutzt. Zum Aufstieg 1911 in die Eerste Klasse West () wurden ein überdachter Rang auf einer Längsseite sowie eine Stehplatztribüne hinter einem Tor errichtet. Das Houten stadion wurde zu einem prominenten Platz. Vor der Haupttribüne verlief eine breite Promenade, an der Paraden und andere Festlichkeiten stattfanden. Der Vereinsvorsitzende des AFC Ajax, der Geschäftsmann Wim Eggerman, ließ zwei weitere Tribünen bauen. Trotz der Erweiterung war das Stadion auf lange Sicht zu klein. 1928 begann der Bau des De Meer Stadions als Nachfolger des Houten stadion. Anfang der 1930er Jahre wurde der AFC Ajax drei Mal niederländischer Meister in den Jahren 1931, 1932 und 1934 und die Zuschauerzahlen steigerten sich stetig. Am 11. November 1934 fand das letzte Ligaspiel des AFC im Stadion statt. Der Gegner, vor 15.000 dicht bis an das Spielfeld gedrängten Zuschauern im Klassieker, war Feyenoord Rotterdam (4:0). Am 9. Dezember wurde das De Meer Stadion mit einer Partie von Ajax gegen die französische Mannschaft von Stade Français aus Paris eröffnet.

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 hart.amsterdam: Het Houten Stadion – Ajax en Watergraafsmeer (niederländisch)
 youtube.com: Sporen van Ajax #3: Het Houten Stadion (niederländisch)

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#4 TOP STORY OF 2021: Friendlyjordies v John 'Call me Pork' Barilaro
By Michelle Pini | 2 January 2022, 2:00pm | comments |
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Comically, John Barilaro eventually abandoned his defamation suit against Jordan Shanks, just like he did his job as deputy PM. This July article was read by almost 40,000 people, Michelle Pini's second entry into IA's top ten.
The repercussions of New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro's defamation lawsuit against Friendlyjordies are no laughing matter, writes managing editor Michelle Pini.
NEW SOUTH WALES Deputy Premier John Barilaro's defamation case against YouTube comedian and political commentator Jordan Shanks-Markovina, better known as Friendlyjordies, is no longer only about an overpaid and overly sensitive politician suing someone for daring to criticise him — though it is also about that.
It is not only about the intrinsic democratic right of members of the media to freely criticise governments and politicians, though it is also about that.
While Barilaro's defamation case against Friendlyjordies is also about these things, it may well determine whether Australians are happy for their elected officials to use public funds in any way they choose for the simple self-serving purpose of getting re-elected.
In an exclusive interview, Jordan Shanks-Markovina told IA:
"I love this case. It's a materialised meta joke. It is, a multi-million-dollar argument, literally over semantics.
Nothing about any of the facts we've published, not even about what [Barilaro] claims he's outraged by in the press, which is that I'm a very racist meanie-pants."
PUTTING THEIR BALLS IN THE BARREL
While government pork barrelling may have been around since the Sumerians, and may not be particular to any one political party, due to its recent regularity, it has become a practice that is barely noteworthy. Which is rather the point. Because the people purloining your funds want you to dismiss it is as just part and parcel of politics and beneath your notice.
Indeed, the misappropriation of public funds to achieve political ends is already so out-in-the-open and commonplace under Coalition administrations, state and federal, that it is fast becoming normalised — even passé.
During the "sports rorts" fiasco early last year, one lucky "stakeholder", Perth's Applecross Tennis Club president Paul Miller said:
"It's only a rort if you're not in it."
The Morrison Government: When rorting became sporting
The more we learn about the sports rorts controversy the more it becomes apparent how deeply embroiled in it the Prime Minister is.
It doesn't get any more blatant than that and, at the time, many were shocked with such open and unashamed justification of what is, unambiguously, an example of the preferential subversion of public funds for the purposes of partisan political partronage. Or in other words, corruption.
Certainly, few of us would have expected such allegedly corrupt behaviour would soon become so normalised that it is now adopted as standard government policy.
Just over a year after public outrage over the pork barrelling of sports grants saw then-Sports Minister Bridget McKenzie stripped of her senior post, the Morrison Government has happily reinstated this happy rorter back into the Cabinet. Nothing to see there. Sorry (not sorry).
And not only is it all yesterday's news but when a similar instance of this misappropriation of funds (and subsequent shredding of relevant documents) was discovered in Prime Minister Scott Morrison's "gold standard" state of New South Wales, Liberal Premier Gladys Berejiklian just shrugged and defended the practice thus:
"It's not illegal… You make election commitments, you make commitments to particular areas. I mean, it would have been dishonest for me to say otherwise….
You ban all commitments... and then you'd argue why you need the government to make decisions. You could have the public service base everything on their decisions."
In that particular instance, the Premier was defending a grant scheme in which over 95 per cent of available funds went into Coalition-held seats.
And here Friendlyjordies and Independent Australia, and possibly many of you may have been thinking that in a democracy, the public service is there to provide legitimate advice to governments on public expenditure policy for the benefit of all the people, not only those people that are likely to re-elect the government of the day.
THEY DON'T CALL ME "PORK" FOR NOTHIN'
But since the Deputy Premier from that same state trough of pork barrels has sought to sue a comedian for daring to suggest otherwise, well, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are clearly ill-informed.
To assume our elected officials would at least pretend they are trying to govern legitimately, or feign shame when discovered to be doing the opposite, now seems an over-reaction, even a touch naïve.
Justifying the shameless funnelling of public moneys into those electorates that serve his personal political ends, Barilaro said in May last year:
"Well my name is John Barilaro – call me Pork-Barilaro – and I have no apology because at the end of the day I will stand up and fight for our communities."
The problem is not that he is engaged in this practice, apparently, but that anyone might consider it dishonest. Indeed, Pork-Barilaro is so proud of his own rorting, he is even happy to be called a swine — at least we assume this was the connotation which he intended and not the other obvious one.
PINK IS THE NEW BLACK
This deepest pink of pork barrelling is not just acceptable, then, it is now the new black of government practice. At least if those governments happen to be of the Liberal Party persuasion.
At the pre-trial hearing for Barilaro's defamation lawsuit against Friendlyjordies, Barilaro's lawyers attempted to paint a picture of the Deputy Premier – the person happy to be known as "Pork" Barilaro – as someone who, although what he did may have been "the wrong thing to do", he owned and was even proud of his wrongdoing. But just because it was "the wrong right thing to do" and he was unrepentant, even pleased with his behaviour, it doesn't mean Barilaro's delicate sensibilities weren't so aggrieved that he felt compelled to seek "justice" against being ridiculed.
Claims made by Friendlyjordies – including '$78,000 ... given to the Monaro Panthers Football Club where Barilaro was the president for eight years and whose coach was a former business partner' or the $39-million road upgrade, which allegedly benefitted one of his own properties – were "rubbish", according to the Deputy Premier's lawyers.
Defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC said the claims were not:
"... capable of justifying the string of corrupt conman."
PLAYING BALL
In speaking to Independent Australia, Jordan Shanks-Markovina seemed confident about his prospects in taking on "Pork" Barilaro.
Shanks-Markovina told IA that the defamation case:
"... is shaping up to be about a handful of words I can't even remember uttering, and if I couldn't remember saying them, do you think the average punter watching would remember that we called [Barilaro] a 'conman' amidst the 100s of minutes of video we've produced pointing out his alleged cons?"
Shanks-Markovina says this expensive and protracted legal dispute is all about diverting attention away from the Deputy Premier's alleged wrongdoings:
"Let's be real. The only words [Barilaro] doesn't care about me saying are the ones he's bringing to court. He's bringing those words to court to try and silence all the other words around those words."
Fixing fixations by arresting Friendlyjordies' Kristo
On June 4, Friendlyjordies producer and writer Kristo Langker was arrested by the NSW Police Fixated Persons Investigation Unit.
On top of these proceedings, Friendlyjordies producer and writer Kristo Langker was also arrested in June by the NSW Police Fixated Persons Investigation Unit, following a complaint from Barilaro and '...charged with two counts of stalk/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (personal).'
The ramifications for journalists and satirists if these criminal and defamation proceedings against Friendlyjordies succeed may, however, be no laughing matter.
But if John Barilaro wants to pursue this case, Shanks-Markovina is happy to play ball:
"It's pure intimidation.
Unfortunately for [Barilaro], I'm not intimidated. I spent too much time in the naughty corner as a kid. I'm very happy to stare at a wall for the rest of my life with nothing but one of those bouncy balls you get for two bucks out the front of Woolies."
You can follow managing editor Michelle Pini on Twitter @vmp9. Follow Independent Australia on Twitter @independentaus and on Facebook HERE.
This editorial was originally published as part of the Independent Australia weekly newsletter. These editorials are usually only available to subscribers and may be read online in the IA members-only area.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License
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After huge anticipation bolstered by strong reviews and tons of teases by its creative team, Westworld's second season was met with tons of buzz from fans. After the HBO show spent a season exploring the Western amusement park and pointing out the others that could possibly exist, the premiere of the follow-up season never slowed down.
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Stephen Moyer was itching to do UK TV; now he is with Safe House on ITV
Lynnpd August 23, 2017 4:39 pm August 23, 2017 Off
Stephen Moyer made a name for himself in the USA as charismatic vampire Bill Compton in HBO's True Blood for seven seasons, but he's wanted to star in a UK drama.
Thankfully, his wish has come true, as he will soon take the lead in ITV's upcoming second series of crime drama Safe House, which returns September 7 with an entirely new cast.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Stephen said that he was jealous of other British stars like Idris Elba getting to film projects in the UK.
"Idris is an old friend of mine," he said. "About four or five years ago, I ran into him in LA, and we were talking about what we were doing next. I was still doing True Blood, obviously, at the time, and I was doing a couple of gigs in between that were in America, and he had been doing some American stuff.
'I've just been offered this London thing. So I'm going back to do something for the BBC. I don't know what it's going to be like.'
"And it was Luther. And he was really unsure about it at the time. I'd said to him, 'Oh my God, I'd love to do that.'
"True Blood didn't finish that long ago, so there's not really been the chance to do that. And actually, I did get the chance to come back last year and do this thing called The Bastard Executioner, which was Kurt Sutter's follow-up to Sons of Anarchy, and I shot for eight months in London. And it was fantastic. So, I did envisage, at some point, coming back and doing something."
The first season of Safe House first aired in Spring 2015, and starred Christopher Eccleston as a former police officer who reluctantly lent his remote home as a safe house for a family that were forced to go on the run. While Ecclestone was expecting to return for a second series, he later pulled out, and so the show was turned into an anthology drama with an entirely new cast.
Stephen plays ex-police officer Tom Brook, who runs a safe house on the coastline of Anglesey with his partner Sam (Zoe Tapper). Their world is transformed when a shocking crime occurs that resembles a killer Tom was investigating years previously.
Speaking about the first series, Stephen added:
"Yes, I had heard of it. It's also directed by Marc [Evans], and I wanted to get a sense of his tone and how he made things look. He's a really wonderful director.
"I sort of stopped because I didn't want to then be comparing myself to Chris, who very sweetly sent me a very nice message to say, 'Good luck with it.' So once I got a sort of sense of what it looked like and how it was, I sort of put it down, but I was very aware of what it was."
Safe House Series 2will air on ITV September 7.
source: digitalspy.com