Menschheit: A prospective from Stanley E Thornburgh II | JUST ME POSTING ABOUT MY LIFE, OPINIONS, COMMENTARY, AND DAY-TO-DAY.
Black Angus Beef Chuck Roast put in crock pot.
Cook for 4 hours or until meat is cooked on outside on both sides.
Large Potatoes quartered (Not too small) on top of carrots.
The meat will fall apart once completed cooked.
This entry was posted in Recipes on March 4, 2019 by stanberlin.
Interesting read and needs to be forwarded on. Point is well taken that white on black killings garner all kinds of media attention and stirs the Black Lives Matter movement but black on black shootings occurs daily and not much media attention is put into it other than the crime itself but there is never much Black Lives Matter movement made on it. Seems very interesting especially if one lives in a city where technically the white population is the minority. Perhaps the Black Lives Matter movement could put more time and effort in promoting the stopping of black on black shootings as that is indeed a cultural and societal concern regardless of race.
Social media rang with righteous indignation over the senseless killing of Jazmine Barnes, who was shot and killed while riding in a car along with her mother and three sisters on a Texas highway on Dec. 30.
The gunman, who was identified as a white man, allegedly drove a red pickup truck and fired upon the Barnes family seemingly randomly and without any provocation. A picture quickly emerged of a racist murderer on the loose, hell-bent on killing innocent black children.
All of the usual alarms were triggered. New York Daily News writer Shaun King, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, who was made famous in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri, protests, rushed to tweet out accusations about the alleged suspect, a man named Robert Cantrell.
Tips began to pour in to King, who forwarded them to police. One of those tips ultimately led to the arrest of two suspects, both of whom turned out to be African-American males.
But in the days immediately preceding the arrests, Black Lives Matter activists quickly mobilized in Houston, holding rallies and vigils and decrying the racist slaying of an innocent girl.
Celebrities like former NBA All-Star player Shaquille O'Neal also got in on the act, promising to donate money to cover Jazmine's funeral expenses.
Houston Texans' star wide receiver, DeAndre Hopkins, promised to take the field in Jazmine's honor, after tweeting, "When I see Jazmine Barnes' face, I see my own daughter." Hopkins, who is himself the father of a 5-year-old daughter, announced he'd be donating his entire game check to assist with funeral costs and support the reward fund for information leading the suspects' capture.
Prominent Dallas civil rights attorney Lee Merritt also joined the case, primarily due to his belief (based on the initial description of the suspect) that the shooting was racially motivated.
Merritt's statement begs the question, of course: Aren't most murders, by definition, crimes of hatred?
When, on Monday, the new suspect was arrested and it appeared the motive was not race-related, the hoopla immediately died down. Gone was the righteous indignation on social media. No more celebrity attorneys announced they were interested in the case.
Sadly, this appeared to be just another case of black-on-black crime. Apparently, this was merely a case of two young black criminals who may have shot at the Barnes' vehicle because they mistakenly identified the occupants—a mistake in judgment apparently fueled by drugs. Nothing to see here.
In a week, Jazmine's case is likely to fade from public discourse. Hopefully, the tens of thousands of dollars pledged to the Barnes family by O'Neal, Hopkins, and others will actually make it to their intended recipients. That remains to be seen.
Although you would not know it from the media coverage, Jazmine is not the first black child to die because of senseless gun violence in the past year. In fact, of the over 1,300 child deaths by gun violence in 2018, more than 4 in 10 deaths were black children. Black children are, in fact, 10 times more likely to die of gun violence than white children. Furthermore, in most gun homicides of black children, the assailant was also black.
Where, one wonders, is the outrage over the nearly 500 black children killed by guns last year? How many of those names have even made it to the national media? Is each of their lives less important because a black person took them?
It seems that in all too many cases, black lives don't matter unless they are taken by a white person. We almost never hear about the thousands of senseless murders of blacks by blacks.
But when the suspected killer is a white person, well, of course, that's news. All of a sudden, there is an outcry of support and care and concern and activism. The murder unfailingly makes the evening news. Prognosticators are ready on the draw with the usual platitudes and complaints and inferences about America's worsening racial climate.
The troubling narrative that emerges from the grossly disproportionate treatment of the relatively isolated instances of violence deemed "racially motivated" versus the virtual sea of other crimes not deemed tainted by race begs the question: Is the only reason we even know about Jazmine Barnes because people believe she was killed by a white man?
And that question begs another question: When black children are being murdered in absolutely horrific proportions, mostly at the hands of other black people, do black lives actually matter to black people? Or do they only matter when someone white kills them?
This entry was posted in Commentary and tagged Commentary, CurrentEvents, FaceBook, Facebook-Public on January 19, 2019 by stanberlin.
It's been quite a year: 2018. Much has happened, many transitions, many friends lost and gained. I've uprooted and sold my home, lawn & garden, and left many years of relationships, comforts, routines, groups, cliques, occupations, community, well-being, and familiar surroundings.
I've relocated to Columbia, South Carolina, okay actually the dirt road country of South Carolina in Leesville, to start a big brand new adventure! So happy to be with my folks. I have a new place, yes in the country, with no neighbors, and so quiet that I might even think I sometimes miss the traffic, gun shots, and ghetto bird flying above. I've learned about well water and yes there is a pump under the house I hear every time I turn on the water. I've learned about septic systems and how they don't work with those nice "flushable" toilet wipes and I've never thought I'd miss a garbage disposal until I realized you can't have one with a septic system! But alas I don't pay for water or sewage and if I want to take a piss anywhere in my yard the only harm is when I unknowingly stand on a fire ant hill while doing so! Yes they hurt and don't take kindly disturbing their nice mounds!
I've struggled to make new friends, fit in, and adjust to the "ways" of people down here. Seems the speak your mind, high-paced, go-getter, get-it-done attitude that I've been for decades up North may not always be a charm down here in the South (Don't get me started on the left-lane drivers who consistently will be on a Sunday leisurely drive during rush hour traffic or a one lane road and I'm in my Mazda and can't Zoom Zoom!) Anyway, I've made mistakes mingling and I'm sure I'll make more but I will make them with the support of my folks and future friends along the way. I've re-invented myself so many times thru out my life that this will only be another reiteration!
My move was focused on being closer to my folks, nature, the beach, and of course the warmer weather but also to realize that gone are the party days of earlier years and one must accept that being cool at my age is more about enjoying the creature comforts with a floppy hat on my head, perhaps a foofy drink, learning to fish, enjoying the abundance of wildlife and nature but most importantly to adapt to a different work force down South and acclimate myself to many more years of working if I'm to fit in and drive a pick up truck towing a boat to my water front property.
Happy New Year everyone! I know for me 2019 will bring many challenges, obstacles, and adjustments but I also know it will be filled with new adventures, new people, new friends, new loves, and especially precious years going forward with my folks. I hope 2019 will bring challenges to you as well for life isn't living without challenges and change. Much Love and Happy New Year!
This entry was posted in Daily on December 31, 2018 by stanberlin.
We have a process for coming into our country which does not mean coming en masse to attack our border! Yes attack, a threat to the constitution and sovereignty of our country. I'm not a big fan of Trump but I agree with whatever force he deems necessary to keep at bay ANY people that attempt to cross our borders illegibly. Again we have a process for seeking asylum into our country and don't need to hear any sob stories of the terrible conditions some of these people may be coming from. We have a process and storming our border en masse is not one of them! And remember former President Obama stated the same, that we have a process to follow and when you attempt to break our rules and laws to get into our country, you are taking away from those that are following the process to enter our country correctly.
This entry was posted in Current Events and tagged Current Events on October 24, 2018 by stanberlin.
Columbus leaders announced the largest public nuisance lawsuit in the city's history today, naming three large multi-building apartment complexes with 802 units owned by one realty group.
Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein says one complex, the Mayfair Village Apartments on East Broad Street near Whitehall, had a multitude of health, sanitation and safety violation. In June, the city began fining the company $1,000 a day.
"Those fines have now racked up over $75,000, so this really is a last resort," Klein says.
Klein says the city started working with the property management group AMG in early 2017, but they failed to fully comply.
"There's a litany of things: extensive water damage, inoperable furnaces, damaged walls and ceilings, a ceiling actually collapsed on an individual, someone fell through a steps, mold, drains, lighting fixtures with exposed wires that are live wires that someone could get electrocuted, roach infestations, rodent infestations," Klein says.
But Klein says there's no immediate danger for tenants.
While the City Attorney's office has gone after, and closed, apartment complexes as recently as last month, Klein says this case is different – it's about quality of life, instead of crime.
The lawsuit also involves AMG's Hartford on the Lake comlpex near Noe-Bixby Park, and the Fitzroy Apartments just off Morse Road.
The lawsuit is filed in Franklin County Environmental Court.
Until the city passes legislation to treat any property being rented whether a company, LLC, or individual as a defined business with a set of rules and regulations with specific definitions, compliance, and enforcement, this problem with continue to fester.
Required registering of all rental properties with a better yearly required valid contact information to include a valid email.
Properties for profit rentals, etc should have to pay an administration fee or rental tax or rental license fee to the city for this. We tax everything else why not these properties that our renting in our communities and taking advantage of our city resources of trash pickup and community maintenance, hence our BIG major bulk trash situation MOSTLY caused by rental properties!
As a home owner we pay to have trash removed based on average occupancy of a single home dwelling and most likely taking into account the turnover of the property. Properties that are rented should have to pay a higher fee because their trash burden to the city is more substantial than my usage.
Out of state property owners, companies, or LLCs should be required to have a local property manager.
Properties for rent should have a certification statement from a governing agency of acceptable living conditions similar to the requirements sent forth in order to have a property certified as Section 8.
Rental properties formed as LLC's should be required to show their Profit-Loss Statements. This information should be readily available on the Auditors site.
Rental contracts that have to be filed with the city with specific language that includes code enforcement requirements of maintaining a property in the city this would include language in the contract that if a tenant for example fails to maintenance a property such as mowing, snow removal, etc or code enforcement the owner is immediately responsible regardless of whether language is specified in the contract of renter responsibility.
The city should provide services to a property owner that rents to compose and have a sheet listing city services, rules, etc. This can even go further and include local block-watches and nearby community organizations.
The city should compose and have available to rental property owners a list of expectations, city services, how to use, etc for all renters. The property owner renting should be required to hand out to every renter and every time they rent to a new renter.
The eviction process needs to be changed to remove the "set out" process of evicted tenants. This just contributes to our trash and blight problem in our communities.
The property owner is responsible for the proper removal of tenant belongings left in a property and not allowed to be set out as bulk for the city to have to take care of.
There should be an "Angie's List" of some kind that is easily assessable for both tenants and landlords to check the "rating" factor of both tenants and landlords.
This entry was posted in Commentary, Community, Ohio and tagged community on September 25, 2018 by stanberlin.
Marshall McPeek, chief meteorologist for Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned Fox 28 and ABC 6 in Columbus, Ohio, made the offending remarks on Saturday evening during the conference's closing reception, which was sponsored by Fox News. McPeek apologized later that same evening for his comments and resigned his NLGJA membership shortly thereafter.
News of the incident spread beyond the Palm Springs conference after reporter Mary Emily O'Hara, who was in the audience, captured the moment in a widely shared tweet.
McPeek's remarks cast a pall over the event and several attendees walked out. Monica Roberts, a transgender writer from Houston who was present during Saturday's closing reception, wrote about the incident Monday on her blog, TransGriot.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2018 by stanberlin.
I don't really get upset when a celebrity or well known person dies because after all that is life, but Aretha Franklin was a powerful and memorable artist who crossed many obstacles and boundaries and influenced many aspects of our lives today. The "Queen of Soul" will be missed!
This entry was posted in Culture, Current Events and tagged Current Events on August 17, 2018 by stanberlin.


text:
Horatio Morpurgo Nicolas Liney The Paradoxal Compass
16 October, 2017 • Issue 35 • 35.2 • Environment • The Essay
"Were the heavens, then, a time-piece?"
Nicolas Liney
Horatio Morpurgo
The Paradoxal Compass: Drake's Dilemma
History has been somewhat unkind to John Dee, the eccentric Tudor mathematician and magus, preferring to emphasise his forays into the occult, the hermetic and the magical. From Faustus and Prospero to Aleister Crowley, Dee has served as a cultural reference point for egregious flirtations with the supernatural. This is not necessarily an unfounded representation, and Dee steadfastly operated in the penumbra between the scientific and the supernatural. From his Thameside home in Mortlake, he practiced necromancy and attempted to communicate with angels in a concocted prelapsarian language, aided (and ultimately hoodwinked) by the nefarious Edward Kelley. His dalliances with the angelic have perhaps eclipsed his worldlier scientific inventions, which played a key role in England's navigational revolution. Navigation was a cause that the proto-imperialist Dee was ardently devoted to, describing it as "this British discovery and recovery enterprise", by which, he wrote, "might growe Commoditye, to this land chiefly". Of his achievements, Dee was proudest of the Paradoxal Compass, still boasting of it some twenty years later. The "compass" has not survived, but most likely it was a circumpolar chart that offered a view of the earth with the North Pole in the centre, compensating for discrepancies in magnetic variation. This technology would have accompanied those famous explorers – Borough, Davis and Drake – whose aim it was to forge a route through the Straits of Annian and the legendary North West to get to the Far East, effectively cutting off the Spanish. As Horatio Morpurgo suggests in his latest work, The Paradoxal Compass: Drake's Dilemma, characters such as Dee are important in understanding England's Age of Exploration and its inherent complexities, in which the scientific elided infrequently with the supernatural, particularly in relation to the natural world. We do well to turn equal attention to both elements, instead of dissecting them into tidy compartments, and a richer appreciation might even go some way to illuminating the complexities of our own times.
Ever since Adam Smith located the beginnings of globalisation in the Age of Exploration, parallels and causal links have been drawn between the two, most recently by Oxford Martin School's Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna, in their Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of our new Renaissance (2016). Increasingly, the significant importance of climate change has informed such studies, and scholars and writers, armed with the now well-developed apparatus of ecocriticism, have turned to build a more thorough environmental history of the early modern period. Much of this is aimed at casting light on our current predicament, in an attempt to provide a historical trajectory to our silent environmental degradation. The "slow violence" of climate change lacks a discernible centre or moment of origin and unfolds incrementally and erratically, in ways more often discreet than spectacular (although recent events in the North Atlantic stand as a dramatic counter-example). Our relationship with the natural world is conditioned largely by our ability to provide its voice and history. Under the auspices of a post-truth world, this ability to determine and control the narrative of climate change has become even more crucial, with conventional reportage and scientific evidence not sufficing. As Morpurgo questions, although "science may take the measure of things more accurately than any other form of truth…can it on its own generate the values which promote acceptance of its authority?" Who can claim purchase over such authority and dissemination of these narratives becomes a troubling political question.
For the past decade, Morpurgo, an essayist and ardent conservationist, has occupied the crossroads between literature, history and the environment, drawing impressionistic lines between past and present to advocate for awareness and preservation, particularly of his beloved West Country. In 2008, Morpurgo successfully campaigned for a Marine Protected Area in Lyme Bay, and penned a whimsical work on Thomas Hardy's religious beliefs, Weymouth's Olympic Road and the ensuing destruction of Bincombe Down. Morpurgo's latest book, an intricately crafted essay, follows in a similar vein. The Paradoxal Compass: Drake's Dilemma (which surprisingly manages to absolve itself of almost any discussion of Dee and his compass) imaginatively recounts a particularly tumultuous instance of Francis Drake's famous circumnavigation, wherein, stranded on an Indonesian reef in January 1580, The Golden Hinde played stage to a violent quarrel between its fiery captain and his chaplain, Francis Fletcher. Morpurgo reimagines the agonistic dialogue between the two, presenting an effective microcosm of the complex motives and tensions – economical, religious and scientific – that underscored The Golden Hinde's voyage.
Drake's voyage is famously shrouded in mystery. The ship's logbook, illustrated by Drake himself and presented to the Queen at Whitehall, has disappeared. No official version was released until much later, and it was not until 1670, nearly a century after the ship's return, that The World Encompassed, a closely edited combination of Drake's and Fletcher's manuscripts, was published. Information, it seems, was tightly controlled. For Morpurgo, this glaring lacuna has silenced an irrecoverable array of voices, and has instead coerced the voyage's meaning to convey only the mercurial, commercial and piratical, sacrificing that curious understanding between the natural world and the divine that characters such as John Dee espoused. It is precisely this that Morpurgo attempts to salvage. Fletcher's pious amazement at the sublime of nature is pitted against Drake's determination to harness it through technological prowess, each man harbouring a sharply different appreciation of the divine, acutely represented here through Morpurgo's plaintive style: "Were the heavens, then, a time-piece, a useful appliance, an ingenious device? Was this what the new learning amounted to? Had it made of the stars so many navigational aids?" Historical narrative is a tricky form, and Morpurgo's reconstructed dialogue – a self-confessedly –"fanciful but ultimately idle speculation"– does well to avoid caricature and flippancy, but in its desire to dissect such tensions, risks losing sight of its initial purpose, that is, to discern what Drake's voyage and its attendant complexities might reveal about our own global predicament.
Extrapolating from this affair, Morpurgo places our current "tipping point" against the "great unsettling" of Elizabethan England wrought by the technological advances and geographical expansion of the age. "It matters", Morpurgo emphasises, "because consciously or otherwise the Age of Discovery in general, and the circumnavigation in particular, is still active in the way we see the wider world and our place in it." Not only did technologies such as navigation and cartography conspire to render the world decipherable, but the stories of discovery related from various voyages also imposed human narrative upon the landscape and ocean at an unprecedented level. But far from conducting a conventional comparative study, Morpurgo turns to describe the continual use of the Tudor navigators in articulating England's relationship to its natural environment, particularly in the South West, where many of these explorers spent their childhood. Through the exploits of these figures, the south west peninsula was the first English province to globalise, and to see its landscape as linked within a greater chain. In particular, Francis Drake's folkloric status remains an intrinsic part of the lieux de memoire of Devon's landscape, flourishing as early as his own lifetime, and conflating, in Morpurgo's childhood memories, "in the days of oil shock and looming nuclear catastrophe", with the nuclear submarines, NATO operations and hollowed-out landscapes of a faltering Cold War. Drake's Prayer was still recited at schools The Golden Hinde stood as Devon's county emblem, less a symbol of global expansion than naval defence and isolationism.
Much of this resonates in today's political climate. The majority of the South West voted to leave the EU in last year's referendum, both undoing the 16th century's great 'global moment', and problematising existing wildlife and marine conservation measures, farming subsidies and fisheries policies. Whilst Morpurgo thankfully refrains from entering the Brexit debate, it underscores his discussion, which criticises the longstanding effects of fraught international policies upon the environment, in which various states propound, and critique, their own climate narratives. This is explored in a particularly stimulating discussion of anti-Communist dissension during the Cold War, which suggests that environmental activism was a key component. The Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov had as early as 1960 warned of the effect of coal-burning. From 1986, East Germany had housed an "Environmental Library" (Umweltbibliothek). When it was shut down by the Stasi, country-wide protests ensued, perhaps culminating in the 1989 demonstrations. Opposition to a nuclear power station on the Danube in Hungary had triggered protests against communist rule. The point Morpurgo wishes to make is that political authority and environmental narrative have never been far removed, and we do well to examine the methods by which environmentally significant occasions have been transmitted to us, and how we might reappraise them.
At its heart, however, The Paradoxal Compass is a pastoral paean to the South West of Morpurgo's formative years, and it is as a nature writer that he excels. Memory combines with meticulous attention to detail to describe the nuanced changes and degradations over time to Devon's landscape – of kingfishers, geological formations and white-beaked dolphins – providing a vivid and evocative framework within which Morpurgo's historical narrative and overarching argument can unfurl. However, in his enthusiasm to convince and convert, Morpurgo's style is often mired in a condescending, conspiratorial tone, as if asking a class of despondent freshmen to think outside the box: "the moment you start wondering how, you automatically enrol in a kind of immunisation programme against cultural and political kitsch. It doesn't matter where you start. So long as you do start." Nonetheless, this patronising streak should not subtract from the essay's worth, which deftly manages to combine historical and political matters of serious import and complexity with a light, fanciful and captivating appreciation of English landscape that we know from Roger Deakin and Richard Mabey.
Nicolas Liney is reading for a Dphil in Classics at Christ Church College.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Rodney Carrington in concert
Photo courtesy of Rodney Carrington
Renowned comedian, actor, singer and writer Rodney Carrington comes to Fort Worth in support of his exclusive Netflix special, Here Comes The Truth, and gives fans an opportunity to see one of America's most beloved and commercially-successful comedians live.
Rodney Carrington is a multi-talented comedian, actor, singer and writer playing sold-out shows around the world as one of the top 10 highest-grossing touring comedians for the past two decades.
Majestic Theatre
224 E Houston St, San Antonio, TX 78205, USA
https://www.majesticempire.com/shows/rodney-carrington-2023
$49.50 and up.


Easily design your own custom lock screen with Locker Master's DIY editor. Upload and share your creations with a global community of users. Browse and download beautiful, inspirational, and clever lock screen themes from around the world!
First I'll say that I made a custom lock screen and enjoy seeing it every time I unlock my phone. This is a great app but my complaint is the "oli" (or whatever it's called) and the ads that show up next to the notifications. I can't find a way to disable them or pay to get rid of them. Is there some setting I'm missing? I'd love to get rid of those two things and continue using this app. Five stars easily if I can find a solution.
It's the best lockscreen i ever had!!!!
Okay, I don't normally review apps, or anything, really(but books), but this app is spectacular. I've used this app on every touchscreen I've used, because it's relatively small, easy to use, and has the ability for some really great results.
I used it on my old phone and love personally putting my touch on it but I used to put my own tune in the lock but now I can't please bring that back loved that part.
I really like it, would rate 5 but there's a small glitch with notifications. For example: if I get 1 kik message, the lock screen shows the number 3. It has the wrong count. Also sometimes the button is somewhat glitch but it seems like it got fixed a bit last update. Also make there be more options for a lock. Almost all the ones right now are kind of pointless when they're easy and simple to figure out.
Best Screenlock ever! I tried every screen lock there is but this is really the best. I love how it isnt easy to customize but it still gives amazing results. Just one problem tho. When i optimized the phone, the app also get canceled. Would it be possible to prevent this? Because when it happens, i need to turn the app back on which is really tiresome.
I used this app for years with no problem. This makes my phone look so nice I get compliments everywhere I go but since the update I can't even customize the way I want because it force closes in the middle of what I'm doing and loses all the progress. I love the app for the custom options but that force close bug needs to be fixed to be a 5 star app again. I shouldn't have to wonder if my lock screen is working or not if it force closes and I have reopen it everytime.
I've been using this app for a few months. I haven't been using many of its extra features. Occasionally there's a little ad with a "recommended wallpaper" that makes the upper left of the screen unusuable until you click it or ignore it for 5 minutes, so good luck if your unlock pattern is under it. Today it updated and now there's a big ad in the middle of the unlock screen. I just want to unlock my phone. Uninstalling.


On August 24th, 2008 Graeme, a 2002 UNH grad and newly wed in the beginnings of a new career, was involved in a car accident that left him a C-7 quadriplegic. Graeme was shortly thereafter admitted to Shepherd Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta to complete the rehab process and to learn how to live with a spinal cord injury. In addition to learning how to adapt to life using a wheelchair for mobility, the Shepherd Center introduced Graeme to adaptive sports through their Therapeutic Recreation Department.


How to pass on feedback (bugs and suggestions) on the Visual Studio 2005 Beta for Device Development – Me, Myself and My Blog.
The MSDN Product Feedback Center is a public suggestion and bug database for Microsoft products, starting with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta. Developers can track suggestions and bug reports online, get email notification of fixes, and interact directly with Microsoft product teams during product development. Leveraging the collective experience of the developer community, the site enables developers to stay productive by avoiding known problems, sharing workarounds, and voting on existing feedback, in addition to filing new reports.
For issue related to device development in VS 2005 Beta, under product and technologies list select "Smart Devices" and under that you can select the most relevant category for your suggestion or bugs.


text:
Reginald Stanley Collins (12 December 1885 – 1957) was an Australian-born English first-class cricketer and civil servant.

Collins was born in Darlinghurst, an inner suburb of Sydney, the son of Thomas, an accountant, and Emma (née Charlton). His younger brother Herbie would play Test cricket for Australia. He later emigrated to England, gaining employment in the Civil Service. He worked for the Inland Revenue in 1915. He later represented and captained the Civil Service cricket team in its only appearance in first-class cricket against the touring New Zealanders at Chiswick in 1927. Batting twice during the match, he scored 11 runs in the Civil Service first-innings before being dismissed by Cyril Allcott, while in their second-innings he was dismissed without scoring by Matt Henderson. He took 2 wickets in the New Zealanders first-innings, dismissing Charlie Oliver and Bill Bernau, taking figures of 2 for 47.

He later took up duties with the Board of Trade in 1934. Shortly after he moved to the newly formed Unemployment Assistance Board. He died at Kettering in 1957.

References

External links

1885 births
1957 deaths
Cricketers from Sydney
Australian emigrants to the United Kingdom
English civil servants
English cricketers
Civil Service cricketers

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Why Exhibit at Smarter Travel LIVE!
Exhibiting at Smarter Travel LIVE! contributes to your companies association with these increasingly important trends and places you in touch with project leaders responsible for allocating budgets, existing clients and peers.
The 2016 event will include a dedicated focus on the specalist exhibiting companies with the entire show centred around the main exhibition hall with all sessions and activities located in and around the exhibiting companies.


text:
Joachim von Rohr (January 23, 1678 – September 9, 1757) was a lieutenant colonel for the Swedish Empire and Commandant of the Dalarö fortress. He participated in the Battle of Poltava and was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Solikamsk in Russia.

Biography
Joachim was born on January 23, 1678 (old style) in Sweden. He was the son of Hans Christoffer von Rohr (1626–1700) who was killed in action during the Battle of Narva; and Anna Catharina Cronman. Anna was the daughter of Hans Detterman Cronman. Joachim married Catharina Charlotta Klingenberg (1680–1758) on February 4, 1699 (old style) in Sweden. Together they had the following children:
Anna Elisabeth von Rohr (1700–1744) who married Anders Örbom (1675–1740) who was a captain in the Swedish Army. Örbom was born in Örebro, Sweden on May 9, 1675. His father was a man named Brask, who was a District Court Judge in Örebro. Anders joined the military in 1691 and he took part in the campaign at Humlebæk on Zealand, a Danish island where Copenhagen is located, in 1700. On July 7, 1701, he left camp and on July 9, 1701, he crossed the Düna River in Riga in Ukraine. There they conquered the Saxony troops and took about 700 prisoners. He fought in the Battle of Klissow on July 7, 1702, and the Battle of Pułtusk on April 21, 1703. He participated in the Battle of Reusch-Lemberg in 1704, and the Battle of Fraustadt on February 3, 1706, and was promoted to lieutenant with Jämtland's rifle regiment. He participated on July 4, 1708, in the Battle of Holowczyn. He was wounded with a bullet to the face. The bullet remained lodged in his skull the remainder of his life. He also participated in the Battle of Lakowitz. He was captured on the Dnieper River, in Ukraine on July 1, 1709, and was taken to Russia as a prisoner of war along with other officers following the Surrender at Perevolochna. All the soldiers were executed, and the officers were imprisoned in Russia. He married Anna Elisabeth Von Rohr (1701-1744) on September 5, 1719, in Solikamsk, Russia.  Together Anders and Elisabeth had their first child in Russia. Captain Anders Örbom died on May 25, 1740, and he was buried in Rödön, Sweden on June 5, 1740.
Lucia Dorotea von Rohr (1702)
Lunetta von Rohr II (1704–1764) who married Baron Gustaf Adolf Clodt (1692–1738). He was the son of Baron Johan Adolph Clodt von Jurgensburg
Helena von Rohr (1706–1780)
Hans Christoffer von Rohr II (1708–1790)
Brita Maria von Rohr (1711–1762) who married Herman Ross (1707–1777)
Magnus Joakim von Rohr (1710–1722)
Catharina Charlotta von Rohr (1714–1784) who married Jacob Daniel Mether (1718–1769)
Christina Dorothea von Rohr (1717–1800)
Gustaf Johan von Rohr (1723–1739)
Maria Margareta von Rohr (1725–1778) who married Gustaf Mannerstedt (1713–1756).

Joachim von Rohr was taken prisoner on June 28, 1709, during the Battle of Poltava just before the Surrender at Perevolochna. Joachim along with his wife and daughter were sent to Siberia. His firstborn daughter, Anna von Rohr married Anders Örbom (1675–1740) while in Solikamsk in Russia. At the war's end, Joachim and his family were allowed to return to Sweden. He became the Commandant of Dalarö on January 23, 1743, and he died on September 9, 1757.

Ancestors

External links
Von Rohr family tree

References

Swedish military personnel of the Great Northern War
1678 births
Swedish people of German descent
Battle of Poltava
1757 deaths
17th-century Swedish military personnel
18th-century Swedish military personnel
Cronman family
Swedish prisoners of war
Prisoners of war held by Russia
Swedish Army colonels


text:
Home Music Video Gallery Bio Press Contact
RT @ThatEricAlper Today in 1953, truck driver Elvis Presley made his 1st-ever recording, paying $3.98 at Memphis recording service as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"I like the fact that country music -- it's about universal truth" -Ken Burns Looking forward to binge watching th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@trin_mw And if the devil is six...
RT @KyleCoroneos 50 years ago today, Johnny Cash brought up-and-coming songwriter Kris Kristofferson out with him on stage at the va… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @TheRealBuzz 50 years ago today, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and I launched into space on a mission of enormous importance. God… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Follow @thefamous
"If country music's original outlaws had made their break with Nashville in the post-punk era, it might have sounded a lot like this." –No Depression
"…the sort of music that makes one release the demons, both good and bad, and rejoice in the redemptive powers of maximum (country) rock and roll. Rating 10/10. Essential." –Nine Bullets
"…practically everyone who's listened to the band's cheese-free, slightly punkified hillbilly jangle thinks it's the greatest." —San Francisco Weekly
"… one of rock's best-kept secrets." -National Review
"The Famous successfully combine the transcendent roar of punk with the brutal honesty and black wit of traditional country on Light, Sweet Crude" —Trouser Press
"The Famous arrange a standoff between the Pixies in a cowboy hat and Hank Williams on speed, six-shooters loaded with punk and rockabilly, and whaddya know – that bastard alt-country genre gets shot square in the forehead, with a stray bullet no less." —West Coast Performer
++ 5 months ago ++
Midway - 9/18/17 at the Kessler Theater, Dallas
© 2019 The Famous – Post-Punk Americana from San Francisco. All Rights Reserved.


Abadi Motor Losari simple blog aims to establish friendship between readers and writers, to share information in order to add insight.
We provide the best information possible with all your mind and strength of our capabilities are very limited. Please give advice and guidance and criticism through the comments or Contact us to correct any shortcomings and our faults.
We took a couple of articles from other blogs in order to provide insight information to the reader, and if there are some owners who object to the article I took the article, we'll let contact us or leave a message in the comments related article that justifies us immediately.
we say a big thank you for all that you have any participation provided to us, including your willingness to visit this simple blog.
We consider you as a brother who is now being met. We said good-bye and good luck accompany you.


Slow month? You are being very polite indeed! I would call it a "sh*t" month so far. lol.
Okay so it's not just me... Hubby thinks it has something to do with Kalahari opening their second hand trade section... I don't know... Have tried to use Kalahari and didn't like it at all... Nowhere near as user friendly as BoB... And no R1 auctions I think... My "day" job's company has been slow this year up until now but with hunting season starting that is picking up, however second hand trade is still bizarrely slow!
Slow month is an understatement I have been asleep between sales.
I don't think Kalahari has anything to do with it , as you say , the site is not very user friendly and there are no R1 auctions.
My sales have been very quiet too and there is no art for sale on Kalahari. I think many people spent there money over the holidays on get aways and entertaining !
Fully agree with you Wild Olive Art I am sure it shall pick once again.
Well hip hip hooray, I have sold my massage chair and the huge carrier thing for the car my sister's ex-husband has bought, so finally things have shifted. As for my R1 auctions, if they don't sell I'll take them to charity... I was just really worried about the big items cos they were worth too much to dump but I didn't want to move them!
I really do hope sales pick up for everyone else after pay day... Hopefully with winter here people will be browsing online and buying lots and lots of goodies!
Its a very bad month, sales are low and worse SNC are up. So basically even if you sell, chances of buyer paying are also slim. I also blame the holidays.
Stop all the negativity put your energy into listings and or enhancing you listings. do something, doen iets!!!
We all go through these patches and we must not give in.
Sounds like everyone is buying and bagging:bigsmile: Wayne's listings.
At least someone is selling.
Don't get me wrong Pammie I too have my off days when I get depressed with certain situations but I have a goal to achieve and both Jenny and myself are working hard to achieve that.
I also think May will be better and June should be the best.
I was thinking of beating the quiet and auctioning my vote in the elections, either individuals or parties could buy my vote.
But how to overcome the ID problem ...? I don't have a beard!
Its easy I go and cast the vote for you.
I have my contacts I can organise.
I'll get your bed ready, then! What would you like for supper on 18th May?


text:
Q: Faster way to find duplicate SQL query I have a query to get duplicate data with some extra condition but I feel that it is not fast enough. Any solution to make this query faster?
v_listing contains big information
SELECT DISTINCT  code, name, comm, address, area
FROM v_listing t1
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT NULL
                FROM v_listing t2
                WHERE t1.comm = t2.comm
                AND t1.address = t2.address
                AND t1.area = t2.area
                AND (t1.code > t2.code OR t1.code < t2.code))
ORDER BY comm, address, area

A: An exists clause does a semi-join, which isn't the most optimal way to compare two very large tables. In this case, it's one table, but the point stands. What you want to do is an inner join:
SELECT DISTINCT
    t1.code,
    t1.name,
    t1.comm,
    t1.address,
    t1.area
FROM
    v_listing t1
    inner join v_listing t2 on
        t1.comm = t2.comm
        AND t1.address = t2.address
        AND t1.area = t2.area
        AND t1.code <> t2.code
ORDER BY t1.comm, t1.address, t1.area

Also ensure that you have indexes on all of the join columns. That will speed things up tremendously, as well.

A: Well this one change alone should help a lot:
SELECT DISTINCT code, name, comm, address, area
FROM v_listing t1
WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT NULL
        FROM v_listing t2
            WHERE t1.comm = t2.comm
            AND t1.address = t2.address
            AND t1.area = t2.area
            AND t1.code <> t2.code)
ORDER BY comm, address, area

Alternatively, you could do it like this:
SELECT comm, address, area, MIN(code), MAX(code), MIN(name), COUNT(*)
FROM v_listing t1
GROUP BY comm, address, area
HAVING COUNT(*) > 2
ORDER BY comm, address, area

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


QPR boss Ian Holloway has apologised in a video posted on social media after criticising the club's fans for leaving last night's home draw against Brentford early.
Thousands of Rangers supporters missed Holloway's side hit back from 2-0 down in stoppage time against their local rivals with last-gasp goals from Matt Smith and Luke Freeman snatching them a point.
Loftus Road was half empty when Freeman bundled home his equaliser, prompting Holloway to take a swipe at those who chose to leave early in his post-match interview.
But Holloway's tone was more concillatory in a video Rangers later posted on their official Twitter site.
"I'm ready to fight and I need you to fight with me, that's all," he said. "So I'm sorry. You are a real QPR fan, of course you are.
"But I'm a passionate man, I always have been and I've got to get my team passionate. They're not giving up.
"I don't want you to. You missed a wonderful moment. It was wonderful. I'll take that all day long. I can't wait for the next game against them.
"What can I say? There's a big debate on Five Live and for me as an overall football person, I understand the travelling you've got to do and the expense you've got. I fully respect that and I want to give you value for money."
Holloway had the last laugh on Brentford fans, who chanted 'you're getting sacked in the morning' and wished his own club's supporters had stayed to see the turnaround.
"All I'm trying to say is I wish you'd seen the change - how the gloating turned to pain and we inflicted that and I wanted you to see that," he added.
"So I apologise if that's how you feel. It wasn't meant that way. If you can't forgive me what can I do?
"I'm saying you're a supporter and I need your support and my team needs your support. Thanks for coming, you missed one hell of a moment."


This is a placeholder page for Kenja Britt, which means this person is not currently on this site. We do suggest using the tools below to find Kenja Britt.
You are visiting the placeholder page for Kenja Britt. This page is here because someone used our placeholder utility to look for Kenja Britt. We created this page automatically in hopes Kenja Britt would find it. If you are not Kenja Britt, but are an alumni of Kirby High School Memphis, TN, register on this site for free now.


text:
Coverage Pointers - Volume I, No. 17
For those interested in following HOT CASES from other jurisdictions covering a broad range of legal issues, visit the HOT CASES section of the Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel website: www.thefederation.org.
02/17/00: QUEENS OFFICE TOWER ASSOCIATES v. GENERAL MILLS RESTAURANT, INC.
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department
Policy Affords Coverage to Property Owner where "Insured Contract" Includes Lease
A pedestrian slipped and fell on a sidewalk adjacent to the insured's restaurant, and commenced an action for personal injuries. Pursuant to a lease with the property owner, the insured was to maintain general liability coverage, for the benefit of the property owner, covering risk "in, on or about the demised premises." In this action by the property owner for coverage under the insured's policy, the court concluded the accident occurred "in, on or about the demised premises" because the sidewalk was immediately adjacent to the insured's dumpster, an area specifically contemplated in the lease. Furthermore, under the insured's policy, the insurer agreed to defend any claim or suit brought against an "indemnity" under an insured contract, "to the same extent and on the same terms that we would defend if the 'indemnity' were the insured under the policy." An insured contract specifically included a lease of premises under the policy. Under these circumstances, the property owner was an "indemnity" under the policy and entitled to defense and indemnification in the underlying action.
02/14/00: FLAHERTY v. CINAR
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department
Discrepancy in Certificate and Policy concerning Policy's Effective Date Raises Issue of Fact Whether Vehicle Insured on Date of Accident
In a third-party action for defense and indemnification of a personal injury action arising out of an auto accident, the insurer sought summary dismissal on the ground that its policy was not effective until one day following the accident. The court found issues of fact precluded summary dismissal. While the certificate of insurance issued in conjunction with the policy stated an effective date beginning one day after the accident, the policy itself recited an effective date commencing on the date of the accident. Thus, there was an issue of fact whether the vehicle was insured on the date of the accident.
2/14/00: BONETTI v. INTEGON NATIONAL INS. CO.
No-Fault Carrier Asserting Lack of Coverage must Offer Evidence to Support that Defense
Plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident and received no-fault benefits from her carrier. The carrier denied coverage for two surgeries, asserting that the surgeries were not for injuries arising from the accident. Plaintiff moved for summary judgment arguing the insurer failed to timely disclaim coverage and is now precluded from denying her claim. Under the no-fault regulations, a no-fault claim, for which no verification is timely sought, must be paid or denied within 30 days. The insurer argued a "lack of coverage" defense, premised on its belief that the injury did not arise out of an insured incident. If properly supported, this is an exception to the preclusion rule. In this case, however, the insurer failed to offer any evidence to support its argument that the surgeries were not related to the accident and plaintiff was granted summary judgment.
02/10/00: RED APPLE COMPANIES, INC. v. SCOTTSDALE INS. CO.
Coverage Lost where Insureds Fail to Provide Prompt Notice of Personal Injury Action
Court held insurer properly disclaimed coverage and had no obligation to defend or indemnify its insureds in an underlying personal injury action where insureds failed to provide prompt notice of the actions.
02/07/00: TOWN OF OYSTER BAY v. EMPLOYERS INSURANCE OF WAUSAU
Pursuant to a contract to provide snow removal services, the insured agreed to assume the defense of and to indemnify the Town from negligence claims based on the insured's work under the contract. The insured also agreed to procure insurance naming the Town as an additional insured for bodily injuries arising from the insured's operations under the contract, and to obtain insurance covering the contractual liability it assumed under the contract. The insured obtained the policies and, thereafter, an action for personal injuries was commenced against the insured and the Town alleging that plaintiff slipped and fell on ice and snow in the Town's parking lot. The insurer refused to defend and indemnify the Town on the ground that plaintiff's injuries did not arise out of the insured's work – the insured was not responsible for snow removal in the parking lot before the accident. The court held that allegations in the underlying action fell within the scope of the policies, and, as such, the insurer was obligated for defense costs previously incurred by the Town in defending the action. However, the insurer was not required to assume the Town's defense or to indemnify it once it was established in the underlying action that its insured was not responsible for snow removal before the accident. Moreover, the insurer was not precluded from asserting a lack of coverage by its untimely disclaimer because the injuries did not arise from a covered accident.
From time to time we highlight significant cases of interest from other jurisdictions. This week we offer decisions from Oregon, Ohio and Florida:
02/17/00: OAK CREST CONSTRUCTION CO. v. AUSTIN MUTUAL INS. CO.
CGL Policy Does Not Cover Contractor for Breach of Contract Claims
Oregon Supreme Court
This is an action for breach of a standard commercial liability insurance contract. Plaintiff, a general contractor, filed the action when its insurer refused to reimburse it for the cost of removing and replacing a subcontractor's painting work that had been applied during the construction of a custom home and had failed to cure properly. The trial court granted the insurer's motion for summary judgment. The Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that plaintiff's claim did not fall within the coverage terms of the policy, because the damage at issue had not been "caused by an occurrence," as the insurance contract required. The Supreme Court affirms -- there was no occurrence here -- all of the damages arise as a result of breach of contract and not an occurrence as defined under the policy.
02/16/00: MOORE v. STATE AUTOMOBILE MUTUAL INS. CO.
Ohio Supreme Court
Policy Limiting Uninsured Motorist Coverage to Those Suffering Bodily Injury, Sickness Ruled Invalid
Policy limited those who can recover under UM policy to those who actually suffered injury, thus precluding survivors of wrongful death from seek uninsured motorist benefits for death. Ohio's highest court holds that R.C. 3937.18(A)(1), as amended by Am.Sub.S.B. No. 20 does not permit an insurer to limit uninsured motorist coverage in such a way that an insured must suffer bodily injury, sickness, or disease in order to recover damages from the insurer. Therefore, it finds that the limitation in the insurer's policy requiring that the insured suffer bodily injury in order to recover uninsured motorist benefits is an attempt to provide lesser coverage than that which is mandated by law and, as such, the limitation is invalid and unenforceable.
02/10/00: YOUNG v. PROGRESSIVE SOUTHEASTERN INS. CO.
Policy Provision Excluding Vehicle Owned or Operated by a Self-Insurer from Definition of "Uninsured Motor Vehicle" for Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Coverage Deemed Impermissible under Florida Law
Because a self-insurer is not a liability insurer under Florida law, a motorists who possesses a certificate of self-insurance cannot be considered as being underinsured -- since he or she is not insured at all. That motorist is considered uninsured, not underinsured. Uninsured Motorist policy provision which excluded self-insured vehicles from the definition of uninsured motor vehicles is declared void as contrary to the statutory intent to make that coverage available when tortfeasor is uninsured.
AND IN DEFENSE . . .
We periodically include selected cases bearing on the defense of actions. This week we offer a decision from Washington:
02/17/00: ROBERTS v. DUDLEY
Washington Supreme Court
In Employee-at-Will State, Wrongful Discharge Claim can be Maintained, on Public Policy Grounds, for Employee Terminated as a Result of Gender Discrimination
The State of Washington is an employee-at-will state. The high court considered the question of whether an employee who lacks a statutory remedy for wrongful discrimination may nevertheless assert the common law tort of wrongful discharge when terminated because of gender bias. The answer is the employee may, if public policy renders such termination 'wrongful' and gender discrimination is, in fact, wrongful.
Editor's Note: This Court's recognition of a common law cause of action for wrongful discharge premised upon public policy violations represents a departure from the employment-at-will doctrine (that employment contracts are terminable at will). Exceptions to the doctrine may have significant consequences in the employer practices liability context, since other jurisdictions, including New York, still adhere to it.
Kevin T. Merriman, Esq.
Sheldon Hurwitz
Carolyn M. Henry
Kevin T. Merriman
Fire, First Party & Subrogation Team
James D. Gauthier, Team Leader
Donna L. Burden
Andrea Schillaci
Sheri L. Keeling
David F. Powell
© COPYRIGHT 2000 Hurwitz & Fine, P.C., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
QUEENS OFFICE TOWER ASSOCIATES v. GENERAL MILLS RESTAURANT, INC.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louise Gruner Gans, J.), entered May 18, 1999, granting plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment , inter alia, declaring that defendant Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is obligated to defend and indemnify plaintiffs in the underlying personal injury action, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
In the underlying action, a pedestrian slipped and fell on the sidewalk immediately adjacent to a restaurant owned by defendant General Mills Restaurant, d/b/a Red Lobster, which leased the premises from plaintiff Queens Office Tower Associates. It is uncontradicted that the pedestrian slipped and fell on a slippery substance that leaked from a dumpster used exclusively by Red Lobster. The lease between Red Lobster and Queens Office provided that Red Lobster was to keep its refuse and rubbish in the demised premises and to that end, the lease designated a specific location in the loading dock area for the placement of the dumpster to be used by Red Lobster. The area where the dumpster was kept was accordingly part of the demised premises. The subject lease further provided that Red Lobster would maintain, for the benefit of Queens Office and Red Lobster, general liability insurance covering risk "in, on or about the demised premises." Since the accident giving rise to the underlying personal injury action occurred on the sidewalk immediately adjacent to the dumpster, a location plainly "in, on or about the demised premises", it follows that the site of the accident falls within the area contemplated by the parties to be covered by insurance (see, J.P. Realty Trust v Pub. Serv. Mut. Ins. Co., 102 AD2d 68, 71, affd 64 NY2d 945).
Under the general liability insurance policy procured by Red Lobster, Liberty Mutual agreed to defend any claim or suit brought against the "indemnity" under an insured contract, "to the same extent and on the same terms that we would defend if the 'indemnity' were the insured under the policy". The policy specifically included a lease of premises as an insured contract. Queens Office was thus an "indemnity" under the policy and, as such, entitled to be defended and indemnified by Liberty Mutual to the same extent and on the same terms as would have obtained had Queens Office had been the named insured.
Liberty Mutual's contentions that the lease agreement provided for indemnification only if Queens Office was not otherwise covered, and that there are issues of fact as to whether there is co-insurance since both Queens Office and Red Lobster performed maintenance to the sidewalk area, are improperly raised for the first time on appeal and, accordingly, are not preserved for our review ( Murray v City of New York, 195 AD2d 379, 381). In any event, the contentions are without merit .
RED APPLE COMPANIES, INC. v. SCOTTSDALE INS. CO.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered August 24, 1999, which, in a declaratory judgment action, granted defendant Scottsdale Insurance Company 's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint upon the grounds that plaintiff insureds failed to give it prompt notice of the underlying personal injury actions pending against them, and granted plaintiffs-respondents' motion for partial summary judgment on their cross claim for indemnification from the remaining plaintiffs, unanimously modified, on the law, to declare in defendant Scottsdale's favor that it has no obligation to defend or indemnify plaintiffs in the underlying actions, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
The motion court properly found that the personal injury cases in the underlying actions against plaintiffs were such that, under the policy, plaintiffs were required to provide defendant with prompt notice, which they failed to do. Accordingly, we find that defendant properly disclaimed and had no obligation to defend and indemnify plaintiffs in the underlying actions . We modify only to the extent of issuing a declaration to that effect (see, Lanza v Wagner, 11 NY2d 317, 334).
Additionally, the court properly determined that plaintiffs-respondents were entitled to indemnification from plaintiffs-appellants, pursuant to the indemnification clause set forth in the lease involved in one of the underlying cases.
BONETTI v. INTEGON NATIONAL INS. CO.
In an action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that the defendant is required to provide no-fault benefits to the plaintiff in connection with an automobile accident, the defendant appeals from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Beisner, J.), dated December 23, 1998, which granted the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, and (2) a judgment of the same court, entered February 11, 1999, which made the declaration.
ORDERED that the appeal from the order is dismissed; and it is further,
ORDERED that the plaintiff is awarded one bill of costs.
The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see , Matter of Aho, 39 NY2d 241, 248). The issues raised on appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (see, CPLR 5501[a][1]).
The plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident. Initially , she claimed and received certain no-fault insurance benefits from the defendant, her insurance carrier . However, the defendant denied coverage on claims for two surgeries, asserting that those surgeries did not concern injuries arising from the subject accident. The plaintiff then commenced this action . After issue was joined, the plaintiff moved for summary judgment, arguing that the defendant's failure to timely disclaim coverage precluded it from denying her claims. In the order appealed from, the Supreme Court granted such relief. We now affirm the judgment which was entered upon that order.
A no-fault claim for which no additional verification is timely sought must be paid or denied within 30 days or it is "overdue", commencing the accrual of interest and attorney's fees (see, Insurance Law § 5106[a]; 11 NYCRR 65; Central Gen. Hosp. v Chubb Group of Ins. Cos., 90 NY2d 195; Zappone v Home Ins. Co., 55 NY2d 131). Further, with limited exception, an insurance carrier is precluded from denying the claim (see, Central Gen. Hosp. v Chubb Group of Ins. Cos., supra; Presbyterian Hosp. in City of NY v Maryland Cas. Co., 90 NY2d 274; Zappone v Home Ins. Co., 55 NY2d 131). Here, the defendant expressly concedes on appeal that its denial of coverage "was not timely ". Nonetheless, the defendant argues, it is not precluded from denying the plaintiff's claims because of a "lack of coverage defense premised on the fact or founded belief that the alleged injury does not arise out of an insured incident", an exception to the rule of preclusion (see, Central Gen. Hosp. v Chubb Group of Ins. Cos., supra). However, in support of such an argument, the defendant failed to proffer evidence in admissible form (see, Mt Sinai Hospital v Triboro Coach, AD2d [2d Dept., Nov. 29, 1999]). In any event, contrary to the defendant's contention, scrutiny of the record reveals that, in reality, its claim is that the surgeries were medically excessive, a defense subject to preclusion (see, Central Gen. Hosp. v Chubb Group of Ins. Cos., supra). Accordingly, the plaintiff was properly granted summary judgment.
SULLIVAN, J.P., LUCIANO, H. MILLER, and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.
FLAHERTY v. CINAR
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the third-party defendant Connecticut Indemnity Co. appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Colabella , J.), entered December 7, 1998, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint insofar as asserted against it.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The plaintiffs commenced this action to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained in a vehicular collision which took place on June 30, 1995. The third-party defendant Connecticut Indemnity Co. (hereinafter Connecticut Indemnity) contends, inter alia, that it is not obligated to indemnify or defend the defendants because the policy which it issued to them was not effective until July 1, 1995, i.e., the day following the accident.
The copy of the policy which Connecticut Indemnity submitted in support of its motion for summary judgment , however, recites a policy period commencing June 30, 1995, even though the certificate of insurance issued in conjunction with the policy states an effective date of July 1, 1995. Accordingly, Connecticut Indemnity failed to demonstrate its prima facie entitlement to summary judgment, since there is a question of fact as to whether it insured the defendants' vehicle on the date of the accident (see generally, Freedom Cashier v Federal Ins. Co., AD2d [2d Dept., June 7, 1999]; B.T.R. E. Greenbush v General Acc. Co., 206 AD2d 791; Dryden Cent. School Dist. v Dryden Aquatic Racing Team, 195 AD2d 790; see also, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557).
Connecticut Indemnity's remaining contention is without merit.
SANTUCCI, J.P., S. MILLER, LUCIANO, and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.
TOWN OF OYSTER BAY v. EMPLOYERS INSURANCE OF WAUSAU
In an action for a judgment declaring, inter alia, that the defendants Employers Insurance of Wausau and Wausau Underwriters Insurance Company are required to defend and indemnify the plaintiff, Town of Oyster Bay, in an action entitled Ambriano v Town of Oyster Bay, pending in the Supreme Court, Nassau County under Index No. 30342/93, the defendants Employers Insurance of Wausau, Wausau Underwriters Insurance Company, and Mill Rental Corp. appeal from (1) a decision of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McCarty, J.), dated October 5, 1998, and (2) an order and judgment (one paper) of the same court, entered December 31, 1998, which, inter alia, granted the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, denied the appellants' cross motion for summary judgment, declared that the defendants Employers Insurance of Wausau and Wausau Underwriters Insurance Company are obligated to defend and indemnify the plaintiff in the underlying action, and directed them to reimburse the plaintiff for all of its past, current, and future defense costs in the underlying action.
ORDERED that the appeal from the decision is dismissed, as no appeal lies from a decision (see, Schicchi v Green Constr. Corp., 100 AD2d 509); and it is further,
ORDERED that the order and judgment is modified by (1) deleting the first decretal paragraph thereof and substituting therefor a provision granting that branch of the plaintiff's motion which sought reimbursement from the defendants Employers Insurance of Wausau and Wausau Underwriters Insurance Company for the defense costs incurred in Ambriano v Town of Oyster Bay, and otherwise denying the motion, (2) deleting the second and third decretal paragraphs thereof and substituting therefor a provision granting that branch of the defendants' cross motion which was for a declaration that Employers Insurance of Wausau and Wausau Underwriters Insurance Company are not obligated to assume the defense of and indemnify the Town of Oyster Bay in Ambriano v Town of Oyster Bay, pending in the Supreme Court, Nassau County, under Index No. 30342/93, (3) deleting the words "current and future" in the fourth decretal paragraph, and (4) deleting the fifth and sixth decretal paragraphs; as so modified, the order and judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements .
Pursuant to an agreement to provide snow removal services for the Town of Oyster Bay (hereinafter the Town), the defendant Mill Rental Corp. (hereinafter Mill Rental) agreed to assume the defense of the Town and to indemnify it from negligence claims based on its work under the contract . It also agreed to procure liability insurance naming the Town as an additional insured for bodily injury claims arising from its operations under the contract, and to obtain insurance covering the contractual liability it assumed under the contract. Mill Rental obtained the requisite policies from the defendants Employers Insurance of Wausau and Wausau Underwriters Insurance Company (hereinafter the insurers). Thereafter, Nicholas Ambriano was allegedly injured when he slipped and fell on ice and snow in a parking lot owned by the Town. He and his wife subsequently commenced a negligence action against, among others , the Town and Mill Rental. In that action, Ambriano v Town of Oyster Bay, pending in the Supreme Court , Nassau County, under Index No. 30342/93 (hereinafter the underlying action), the insurers refused to defend and indemnify the Town on the ground that Ambriano's injuries did not arise out of Mill Rental 's work.
A duty to defend is broader than the duty to indemnify and arises when the allegations of the complaint against the insured fall within the scope of the risks undertaken by the insurer (see, Frontier Insulation Contrs. v Merchants Mut. Ins. Co., 91 NY2d 169; Seaboard Sur. Co. v Gillette Co., 64 NY2d 304; Lehrer McGovern Bovis v Halsey Constr. Corp., 254 AD2d 335). The complaint in the underlying action contains allegations that fall within the scope of the subject policies. Consequently, the duty to defend was triggered, and the insurers breached that duty when they failed to provide a defense to the Town. They are, therefore, liable for the defense costs previously incurred by the Town in defending the action .
It has now been established in the underlying action, however, that Mill Rental was not responsible for snow removal in the parking lot before Ambriano's accident (see, Ambriano v Town of Oyster Bay, AD2d [2d Dept., Nov. 22, 1999]). Consequently, Ambriano's injuries did not arise out of the operations of Mill Rental. Therefore, the policies issued by the insurers do not provide coverage for Ambriano's accident.
Because it has now been determined that the accident is not covered by the policies, under the circumstances of this case, the insurers are not required to assume the defense in the underlying action. Further, since there is no coverage, the insurers are not obligated to indemnify the Town (see, Servidone Constr. Corp. v Security Ins. Co. of Hartford, 64 NY2d 419; Lehrer McGovern Bovis v Halsey Constr. Corp., supra). Contrary to the Supreme Court's conclusion, the insurers are not precluded by their untimely disclaimer from asserting a lack of coverage where, as here, the injuries did not arise from a covered accident (see, Central Gen. Hosp. v Chubb Group of Ins. Cos., 90 NY2d 195).
The parties' remaining contentions are without merit or unpreserved for appellate review.
MANGANO, P.J., ALTMAN, SCHMIDT, and SMITH, JJ., concur .


And the heart, not the lip, must their oracle be!
When in those three words he believes no more.
Though the tyrant may deem him but born for his tool.
For the man made a freeman grows safe in his gain.
Yet the practice is plain to the childlike mind.
Till in those three words he believes no more.


text:
Q: spring-data compile errors in generated-sources I checked out spring-data-commons, ran test in command line and it's ok.
My issue is when I imported into IntelliJ IDEA and run it in the IDE I'm getting compile errors in my :

spring-data-commons\target\generated-sources\test-annotations

Any idea?

A: mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Is ok
In my opinion it's just an intellij missing config


text:
Q: Session in api-functional tests isLoggedIn always returns false I have a function in an API call that checks $this->session->isLoggedIn().
The session-object is injected via the consturtor.
Now I have to write an api-functional test. But I just can't login the customer and isLoggedIn() will always return false in my service. My test-code currently looks like this:
    $historyId = 1;
    $download = 0;

    $serviceInfo = [
        'rest' => [
            'resourcePath' => '/V1/preorder-history/view/' . $historyId . '/' . $download,
            'httpMethod' => \Magento\Framework\Webapi\Rest\Request::HTTP_METHOD_GET,
        ]
    ];

    $loginInfo = [
        'rest' => [
            'resourcePath' => '/V1/customers/me',
            'httpMethod' => \Magento\Framework\Webapi\Rest\Request::HTTP_METHOD_GET,
            'token' => $this->token,
        ],
    ];

    $requestData = [
        'historyId' => $historyId,
        'download' => $download,
        'token' => $this->token
    ];

    $customer = $this->_webApiCall($loginInfo, $requestData);

    /** @var $session \Magento\Customer\Model\Session */
    $session = Bootstrap::getObjectManager()->get(\Magento\Customer\Model\Session::class);
    $session->loginById($customer['id']);
    $session->setCustomerId($customer['id']);

    $item = $this->_webApiCall($serviceInfo, $requestData);

EDIT:
within my test, the session object obviously returns that the customer is logged in. So I assume this is not the same object that is injected in my service which I want to test.
EDIT2:
spl_object_hash confirms this theory.

A: The API functional tests are black box tests, you cannot change the application state within the tests. Use the API login method instead.
This is a method that you can use in your test:
private function apiLogin($username, $password)
{
    $serviceInfo = [
        'rest' => [
            'resourcePath' => "/V1/integration/customer/token",
            'httpMethod' => \Magento\Framework\Webapi\Rest\Request::HTTP_METHOD_POST,
        ],
    ];
    $requestData = ['username' => $username, 'password' => $password];
    $this->token = $this->_webApiCall($serviceInfo, $requestData);
}

Then use 'token' => $this->token, in your subsequent API calls, as you already do.


text:
Shall We Talk: Coming Home and Office movie reviews
Eason and a cast of thousands, Office, 2015
In an interesting coincidence, two famous Chinese-language film directors have films opening in the U.S. this weekend, but their respective movies might puzzle the casual viewer expecting a certain type of cinematic output from each director. But on closer inspection both movies are in some ways throwbacks to early periods of each director's filmmaking careers.
Starting with Hero (2002) and continuing through House of Flying Daggers (2002), Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), and The Flowers Of War (2011), Zhang Yimou for the most part in the 21st century made a series of glossy commercial films that have been successful marketed in the West, and he capped off this run of box-office hits by overseeing the much-lauded opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. So viewers who only started following Zhang's career in the 21st century might think that his oeuvre is all about wire-fu, movie stars, a hypersaturated color palette, and an affinity for spectacle. But Zhang started out in the 1980s as one of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese directors who were noted for their realistic styles and politically astute commentary. Often depicting the ordinary lives of peasants in China's rural countryside and usually starring Gong Li, Zhang's first several features were poetic ruminations on the effects on everyday people of various types of systematic repression. These movies, including Ju Dou, Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern, and The Story of Qiu Ju, made Zhang the darling of the arthouse film festival set, so it was a bit of a surprise when he busted out with a string of martial-arts fantasies at the turn of the 21st century. But those later films were pretty big at the box office and thus many folks only know Zhang as a director of big-budget spectacles, so it might seem like a surprise that Zhang's latest film, Coming Home, includes neither martial arts nor brightly colored costumes and sets. Astute observers, however, will realize that the movie actually harkens back to Zhang's earlier Fifth Generation output from the 1980s and 90s.
Chen and Gong try to remember, Coming Home, 2015
Coming Home is a family drama set during and just after the Cultural Revolution in China and is based on the novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi by popular Chinese author Yan Geling (whose novella 13 Flowers of Nanjing was the basis of Zhang's recent film The Flowers of War). The movie opens as former professor Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) surreptitiously arrives back at his town after escaping from a re-education camp. His devoted wife Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) attempts to meet him but is thwarted by the Chinese secret police and Lu is sent back to prison. Lu and Feng's teenage daughter Dandan (Zhang Huiwen), an aspiring ballerina, resents her dad's outlaw status since it's messing with her career plans to play the lead soldier/dancer in the school play, which Zhang drolly depicts as leftist musical featuring dancers en pointe who are wielding rifles in the service of the revolution. Cut to several years later, after the end of the Cultural Revolution in the mid-70s. Lu again returns home but Feng has become addled from either a blow to the head, PTSD, early-onset Alzheimer's, or a combination of all three, and thus doesn't recognize him. The film then follows Lu's attempts to reconcile with the amnesiac Feng.
Coming Home's muted mis en scene at first seems a million miles away from the brightly colored, glossy sheen of Zhang's martial arts movies but the film's meticulous art direction, featuring scuffed walls, dull brick and wooden buildings, and threadbare wool coats and trousers, reflects Zhang's careful attention to period detail and authenticity. The usually glamorous Gong Li tones down her customary high-wattage gorgeousness to play the dowdy teacher Feng, but in her performance she seems to have acting awards in mind, as she weeps piteously over Lu's absence, then affects a glassy-eyed dolor to simulate mental confusion. (In fact, Gong was nominated for the first time for Best Actress for Taiwan's 2014 Golden Horse award but lost out to Chen Shiang-chyi. In glorious diva fashion Gong subsequently pitched a fit, calling the Golden Horse unprofessional and vowing never to attend again.)
Chen Daoming shabby chic, Coming Home, 2015
Although Gong is a bit off, Chen Daoming right on the money as the long-suffering Lu. His world-weary eyes and sorrowful demeanor speak volumes about Lu's personal traumas and his experience becomes a metaphor for the human cost of China's various social and political upheavals. Through Chen's sensitive and understated performance the film becomes an allegory about the erasure of memory and the amnesia of the Cultural Revolution. In this way the movie hearkens back to director Zhang's earlier films that focused on political and cultural critique, which preceded his more recent, more commercial output. Zhang also recently released another film set during the Cultural Revolution, Under The Hawthorne Tree, but his next project is the blockbuster Andy Lau-Matt Damon China/US-coproduction action fantasy The Great Wall. So he's nothing if not versatile—
Chow and Chang, Office, 2015
Also releasing in North America this weekend is the latest from Johnnie To, Office. Like Zhang's movie, Office at first may seem like an anomaly in its director's catalog but in fact the film, which is a musical comedy, has a lot in common with To's past work. Though To is best known in the West for hardboiled crime movies like The Mission, Election, Exiled, and his last film, Drug War, he's got a much more varied back-catalog than that. To got his start directing at Hong Kong's television studio TVB and there he directed everything from romances to comedies to martial arts historicals, including the famous period drama The Yang Family Saga. His prolific filmmaking output includes the fantasy action films The Heroic Trio and The Executioners, the comedy farces The Eighth Happiness and The Fun, The Luck, The Tycoon, and Stephen Chow vehicles Justice, My Foot and The Mad Monk. Although his crime films have won him much love among Asian film fanpeople, To's most commercially successful movies have been romcoms such as Needing You and Don't Go Breakin' My Heart 1 & 2.
So it's not as far-fetched as it might initially seem to be that Office is a musical, with all of its leads (except Chow Yun-Fat) singing at least one song in the film. The movie is a typical workplace drama infused with cogent commentary about the crisis of capitalism, The storyline follows two young acolytes at their first days on the job at Jones & Sun, a seemingly innocuous Hong Kong cosmetics company that's actually in the throes of backstabbing and backroom deals. President Ho (Chow Yun-Fat) has a wife in a coma and Chinese investors knocking at his company's door, while CEO Cheung Wai (Sylvia Chang) struggles to keep the company's profits up and its products relevant. Salesman Wong Dawai (Eason Chan) is climbing the corporate ladder and is not averse to using personal relationships, including ones with CEO Cheung as well as fellow office drone Sophie (Tang Wei), in order to advance. Youngsters Kat (Tien Hsin) and Lee Xiang (Wang Ziyi) round out the ensemble.
Eason and Wei meet cute, Office, 2015
But despite a stellar cast who admirably perform both acting and singing duties (with Cantopop superstar Eason Chan being the best and Tang Wei the worst among the vocalists), the real star of the show is the astounding art direction and set design by acclaimed veteran William Chang Suk Ping, who has won renown as the production and/or costume designer for innumerable classic Hong Kong films including In The Mood For Love, The Grandmaster, and Dragon Inn. Office was shot completely on a soundstage, with some outdoor scenes simulated via green screen, and Chang's beautiful, stylized set dictates the mood of the film. Comprised mostly of brightly colored bars and rails, the set resembles a massive, skeletal architectural cage that encloses the action and the characters and lends a hermetically sealed, slightly claustrophobic feel to the film. The artificial staginess of the movie, with its simulated spaces and multiple levels of activity, recalls a Broadway musical more than a movie musical, with the set dominated by a huge, slowly revolving clockface. No pretense of realism is made in the film's use of space, color, and structural elements, which adds to the knowing fakery of the movie's design.
Production design a go go, Office, 2015
Despite To being the titular director, the film displays the strong influence of Sylvia Chang, who wrote and produced the film as well as playing the lead as CEO Cheung Wai, and who has an impressive resume as the director of films such as Tempting Heart (1999), 20 30 40 (2004), and Murmurs of the Heart (2014). Chang's hand is clearly evident in the narrative's complex personal relationships and its focus on the collateral damage of corporate machinations. To's romcom background also comes the fore as the movie's love hexangle recalls the similarly structured romantic entanglement in his 2014 movie Don't Go Breakin' My Heart 2.
The weakest element of the movie's musical conceit is its curious lack of interesting choreography. Despite taking place on a boldly designed stage set that cries out for equally bold movement through and across it, the movement during the musical numbers is surprisingly limited. The action during the songs in Office consists of mostly of synchronized head nods and a few characters walking in rhythm together. Office could stand to take a few lessons from Bollywood musicals, whose song and dance numbers fill every inch of the frame with dynamic, kinetic movement.
But all in all, the movie is a fascinating beast that promises to be brilliant up on the big screen. After first seeing in via online screener with tiny white subtitles I'm looking forward to watching it again in a movie theater where it belongs, and so should everyone, in my humble opinion.
dir. Zhang Yimou
opens Fri. Sept. 18
dir. Johnnie To
opens Fri. Sept, 18, 2015
September 19, 2015 at 6:26 am 1 comment
Can I Kick It? An Interview with Legions of Boom author Oliver Wang
Oliver Wang's new book Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area, dropped recently, looking at the history of an influential yet largely forgotten music and party scene from the 1970s-90s. As someone who was a high school student in the Bay during that time I really enjoyed the book—my older sister regularly attended Chinese American parties in the 70s and 80s that ran on a track parallel to the Filipino American scene and as an underage kid I snuck into the legendary Studio West disco after hours, not unlike some of the folks discussed in the book. So just on nostalgia alone the book appealed to me.
But nostalgia aside, Legions of Boom is notable for several other reasons. Wang does a great job analyzing the mobile DJ scene in relation to Filipino American immigration and demographics, as well as exploring the importance of sociological elements, such as the ubiquity of the Filipino American garage party, on the development of the scene. Wang also explains the critical importance of the introduction of beat-matching in the DJ scene, which led to DJs being able to more effectively control the mood and tempo of the dance floor. Wang also looks at the influence of gender roles in the Filipino American community on the mobile scene. For instance, he points out that many Filipino families from the East Bay suburbs didn't allow their teenage daughters to go to parties across the Bay Bridge, a simple yet significant proscription that might have contributed to the lack of female participation in most mobile DJ crews. All in all, the book is a detailed and thoughtful look at the roots and outcomes of the mobile scene.
Boom, author Oliver Wang © Copyright – Eilon Paz – http://www.dustandgrooves.com
I had a chance to talk with Oliver Wang about the book in advance of its upcoming book release party in Oakland on Sept. 19.
BA: So as you know I really enjoyed this book for several reasons, not the least being that I'm a native of the Bay of a certain age. Can you talk about the genesis of the book from your perspective?
OW: I lived in the Bay Area from 1990 until 2006 and by the mid-90s, I was a DJ, a music journalist and just starting graduate school. This was in the immediate wake of Bay Area Filipino DJs like Q-Bert, Apollo, Mixmaster Mike, Shortkut, etc. being hailed as the best in the world and there was a natural curiosity for me – especially as an Asian American – to understand "why Filipino DJs? Why the Bay?"
As I had the opportunity to interview them for stories and what not, the common "origin" story they all told was that before they got involved in scratch DJing, they were all members of different mobile crews. That's how I first learned that the mobile scene ever existed and while there was a lot being written about scratch DJs, there was almost nothing being written about the mobile DJs. As a journalist and scholar, the fact that this seemed underreported gave me the idea to dig deeper.
BA: When you talked to Qbert et al were they surprised when you said you'd never heard of the mobile DJ scene or had it faded from a lot of people's minds by then?
OW: The scene never had a formal "end"…it just faded away over the course of the early 1990s as many crews simply ceased to exist and more nightclubs were hiring DJs vs. crews throwing parties.
BA: I think you talk about that demise pretty extensively in the book, as well as the rise of the scratch scene, which you discuss in an interesting way. I like that you break it down as the mobile crews being more collective while the turntablists tended to be more individualistic, if I can put a very reductionist spin on it. Can you talk a bit more about what you think this says about celebrity culture in the US?
OW: Hmm…I wouldn't frame it in that way (but that shouldn't stop anyone from making that argument if they're so inclined). Scratch crews were more collective partially because the reason a crew formed was largely informed by the need for labor in helping to move and setup equipment. Obviously, the fulfilled other needs, especially social, but at the core, the DJ group/crew existed in the mobile years because they provided a necessary service to DJs.
Once nightclubs and radio stations began poaching individual DJs, the need for labor disappeared since those venues already have equipment. Now, all a DJ needed to tote was a few crates of records – if that – and they didn't have to split the DJ fee five different ways or whatever else. So I do think the crews were victims of their own success insofar as the more prominent they were as crews meant that their DJs were also more likely to get poached away, thereby reducing the need for the crew itself to still exist. I suppose there's some aspect of celebrity culture there – most crews didn't have room for more than 2 or 3 DJs to be in rotation which meant that everyone else was in a support role and therefore not the center of attention. Scratch DJing, I think, was partially appealing because in a scratch crew, everyone can be a DJ and shine on their own. But to be clear, there's many reasons why the scene faded; we're just mentioning a couple here.
BA: Which is why folks need to read your book! Anyways, on a slightly different subject, you mentioned that you were also a journalist as well as a scholar. The book is really a good read not only for the info it contains but for the ease of understanding complex subjects and old fashioned "good" writing. How did your extensive journalistic work inform the creation of the book?
OW: I think I tend to approach researching a story vs. academic research the same insofar as if I'm trying to interview people, I apply the same basic skill-sets regardless of what the final purpose is for. So I don't think I interview anyone "as a journalist" vs. " as a researcher." In my mind, I'm just interviewing someone. Where the influence comes in is around the writing. I want to create some kind of narrative. I definitely want my writing to be legible to scholars but also to a broader public and that was certainly something that, as a journalist, was very important to me.
BA: Going a bit further into that, recently there's been some great writing in online forums about pretty deep and timely topics by folks who might in the past been considered scholars or academics. What do you think the effect of people like Ta Nehisi Coates and so forth having their work out there on HuffPost has been–as far as impacting popular as well as scholarly discourse? Sorry to veer off topic–
OW: I think what's interesting is that we're in the midst of a time where the idea of who/what being a "public intellectual" is being constantly negotiated and transformed. Partially, I think that's because the language and ideas of critical theory, especially around race, gender, sexuality, etc., have crossed out of the academy and are now part of the lexicon for people who may not be academics in profession but are conversant in the language regardless. And meanwhile, you have a generation of young scholars who want a greater presence in the public sphere so they write op-eds or they appear on talk shows while publications like the Chronicle of Higher Education or personal blogs and the like facilitate the blurring of those borders.
On the one hand, it feels comforting – as someone who has always straddled both worlds – to see others who move comfortably between them. But it's also accompanied by a general increase in volume, by which I mean both the amount of discourse we're exposed to as well as the figurative loudness of it all. It's important and necessary to have more voices out there but that also leads to much of it blending into static and the ability to filter through all that noise becomes a daily challenge, especially when you spend enough time on social media. Scholars and journalists alike seem constantly seduced by "hot take" culture. I'm probably guilty of that myself though.
BA: So the question being begged is, do you consider yourself a public intellectual? Or would you want to be considered as such?
OW: I always thought that "public intellectual" was a label that others described you as but not something you either aspire to or self-describe as…unless you want to be seen as pretentious and gassed up on yourself. I had a colleague once describe me as "a writer who teaches" and that felt about right; I'm 100% ok with that particular label.
BA: So when you were writing for music pubs back in the day did you envision yourself a prof or the author of an academic book about DJing? Or has that evolved over the years? I'm asking since I know a lot of younger folks think that their destinies are carved in stone when they are 21 and sometimes don't realize the changes that occur on a regular basis throughout a career or a life.
OW: No. When I applied to graduate school, I'm almost certain I didn't put anything in my application about studying popular culture – let alone music. I think I wrote something vague about "identity formation" or the like but back then, I tended to compartmentalize my various interests – writing, DJing, scholarship – rather than seeing them as related parts of a greater whole.
Part of it was that Asian American Studies then (and now, to a lesser extent) didn't seem to strongly embrace the study of popular culture. My work always felt marginal from the "center" of the discipline, especially when I started to go to the annual conferences and I could literally count the number of papers on Asian American music on a single hand. It's gotten (somewhat) better but I'm still amazed (and not in a good way) at how relatively little pop culture scholarship exists within Asian American Studies in comparison to African American or Latino Studies. It's insane to me that in 2015, no one's written a book about Asian American car culture! My father-in-law is a sansei from L.A. and he and his buddies were modifying and racing cars back in the 1950s and '60s and I grew up during the Asian import scene of the 1990s that helped give birth to some of what you see in the Fast and Furious franchise. At some point, I hope someone writes a book about Asian American dance crews. Or garage bands. Or Youtube videomakers. Or…you get the idea. A friend once joked there's more books about Asian American literature than there are Asian Americans writing literature. I get how that works – certain cultural forms are embraced and given legitimacy in the academy vs. others and as someone else pointed out to me, if you're Asian American and really interested in popular culture, you're more likely to pursue that interest by making culture vs. studying it. But still, there's so much work to be done around how Asian Americans engage with popular culture. Maybe my daughter's generation will be the one who finally brings balance to The Force.
BA: (insert snark here about model minorities and tiger moms)
That's funny b/c I was going to ask you if and how your training in Ethnic Studies and AA Studies informed your work.
OW: My grounding in ES and AAS certainly informed how I thought about race, identity, community, etc. but when it came to thinking about applying those theories and ideas to popular culture, it was largely scholars outside of AAS who I turned to, whether George Lipsitz or Robin Kelley or bell hooks, etc. I owe big thanks to Deborah Wong because the fact that she was studying Asian American popular music had a huge impact in knowing that such a thing was possible and "legitimate." And Michael Omi, who was my advisor in grad school, was always supportive of my interests even if his own background wasn't in pop culture studies. I also think if I didn't have an outlet for those ideas – as a cultural journalist/critic – I might have felt more alienated in graduate school as a result but one of the benefits in being invested in both activities was that each served, in a way, as a release valve from the pressures of the other.
BA: Multitasking as holistic healing
OW: Ha, something like that. One of the best pieces of advice I ever got about being an academic came from Elaine Kim who told me, early in my graduate school days, that when she was in grad school, she a young single mom and that it kept her grounded in a healthy reality outside of the academy. I always took that to heart: be committed to your work but don't make it your sole world and nearly 20 years later, I still try to follow that adivce.
It helps to have other responsibilities in life to distract you from your primary obsessions.
BA: Getting back to the book, your subject matter is from the late 20th century–what's it's relevance now to the Fil Am and As Am community? Does the mobile DJ scene still live on?
OW: There are still mobile DJs out there, no question (including a handful of crews that have survived since the 1980s) but the scene doesn't exist any more; it hasn't for about 20 years.
The "relevance" question is hard to answer for me because I never set out to study it with the idea that I had to prove its relevance to the current day. To me, the fact that it was this important phenomenon that few people outside of the scene knew about…that was reason enough to write a book about it. I'll leave it to others to discuss how they see that history fitting into the current day but for me, the main takeaway is that young people can and will create remarkable things if given the right incentives and support.
BA: Since the book dropped a few months ago what has the reception been like, among scholars, people from the mobile DJ scene, the general public, etc?
OW: It's been good! My favorite part is that at all the readings/events I've done, there's been respondents who've come through and I've invited them to talk about their experiences directly to the audience. To me, that just makes sense: my primary sources are literally in the room.
The one thing that amuses me though is how so many people think my book is about Filipinos and hip-hop when I even say, in the book, explicitly, "this is not a book about Filipinos and hip-hop." But as I also write in there, the reason people make that conflation is largely because Filipino Americans became such a vital part of hip-hop culture, they just assume the two things go hand-in-hand. That's partially a legacy of the mobile scene.
BA: How has that been for you to see the response to your years of research and writing?
OW: I wish I could have gotten it out sooner but that's a common academic's lament. What's been great to see is that I've heard of at least 3-4 different parties interested in creating a documentary around parts of this history. My hope has always been that if the book has any impact, it's to encourage more people to explore all the aspects of this scene I wasn't able to cover. Legions of Boom was never intended to be a comprehensive history. It's an introduction at best but there's so much more to that community and its scene to explore and document.
BA: Who's organizing the book party and will some of the folks from the book be spinning? And will you take a turn?
OW: Francisco Pardorla, who helped lead the Images crew out of Union City/Fremont and was one of the main people behind the successful AA Productions (arguably the second biggest promoter in the scene behind Imagine), is throwing the "official" Bay Area book release party. He's bringing out all manners of O.G. DJs from the scene. I don't know if I'll take a turn or not – I wasn't spinning in the '80s! It's just an honor to be in the company of the greats.
BA: And what kind of crowd do you think will show up?
It's going to be a lot of the OGs from the scene plus their family. Should be a fun reunion night in that regard.
Legions of Boom Official Book Party
Saturday Sept. 19, 2015
Brix 581
September 12, 2015 at 9:48 pm Leave a comment
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? Edison Chen Sex Scandal