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The Fabulous 80s: NYC's 'Bar Point' Club and its 1980 FIDE International
Chess and Music
The Bar Point Club, on 14th street and 6th Avenue, New York City, was an extremely busy chess locus in the early 1980s. It was owned by a backgammon player for some time (readers, I have forgotten his name) and after that, noted chess organizer and politician Bill Goichberg owned it; after that Peter Malick (a card player, and associate of Wayne Kramer from the MC5 60's Detroit rock group) took over. I only know that Peter knew Kramer because I met, to my shock, Wayne Kramer face to face in one of the crazy late Bar Point nights. I could come up with nothing more clever than "I really like the MC5" and Wayne retorted "Small world", turned on his heel, and walked off. The Bar Point went defunct for rent non-payment in the the mid 1980s – no more quads, no more IM and GM tournaments, no more back-room poker where I used to play heads-up with Howie Lederer. Sometimes after (or before) a poker skirmish I would then do battle in chess in the front room with Howard (he was a USCF expert).
A Few Words on a Pure Gambling Game: Backgammon
As a side comment on backgammon – this gambling game with "checkers", dice, and the "doubling cube" could be very profitable to those more skilled than their wealthy but deluded opponents. For exampe, IM Jay Whitehead made thousands in one night playing the owner of a New York City Greenwich Village jazz club owner (one of the major clubs, for example Village Gate, the detail escapes me), and then was generous enough to fund a trip for me and him to play in Lugano, Switzerland 1984 where I played, among other people, ex-WC Boris Spassky. I know the winnings was in the thousands because he woke me up in the middle of the night to help him count the fifites and hundreds that were bulging out of every one of his pants and shirt pockets. Poker is has some similarities with the vast pool of weaker players but the complicated-to-use-properly backgammon doubling cube, rewards more immediately the better analyst. Besides, it's nice to own a nice Moroccan or Syrian artisan backgammon set. You could also play the simpler Turkish backgammon variant shesh-besh (with no doubling cube).
Some Actual Chess
In 1980 I made my 2nd IM norm with a strong finish. Let's see some of the games.
Round 1. Bar Point International I
IM Margeir Petursson (ICE) – M. Ginsburg
Of course my opponent went on to become a famous Icelandic Grandmaster and also a very successful lawyer businessman.
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 d5 4. e5 Ne4 5. Nxe4 Much safer is 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Qc2, but then black has the surprising 6…Ng5!! TN – I used this to draw strong Canadian Kevin Spraggett in Toronto 1983. For example, 7. Nxg5 Qxg5 8. d4 Qh4 9. cxd5 Nxd4 10. Qd1 exd5 11. Nxd5 (11. Be3 Nf5 12. Nxd5 Bb4+ 13. Bd2 Qe4+ 14. Be2 Bxd2+ 15. Qxd2 Qxe5 and it's equal. I don't remember who showed me 6…Ng5!! TN, but it's a really good novelty. Maybe I was the first to play it?
5… dxe4 6. Qg4 f5!? TN Black can also play 6… Bd7 7. Qxe4 Na6 8. Nf3 Bc6 9. Qb1 Nc5 10. d3 Nd7 11. d4 Bb4+ 12. Bd2 Bxd2+ 13. Nxd2 O-O 14. b4 a6 15. a4 Nb6 16. b5 with a total mess. The text move, 6…f5!?, is a novelty with great surprise value. Was I the first to play it? Again, I don't remember who showed me. I was staying with Tisdall and Fedorowicz at the time; so maybe one of them.
Position after 6….f5!? TN. Who showed me this? Is this the first time it was played?
7. exf6 Qxf6 8. Qxe4 Nothing comes of 8. Nh3 Nc6 9. Be2 Qf5.
8… Nc6 9. Nf3 Bc5 10. Bd3? Much stronger is 10. Be2 e5 11. O-O Bf5 12. Qd5 Bb6 13. d4 Nxd4 14. Nxd4 Bxd4 15. Bh5+ g6 with a murky game.
10… Bd7 11. O-O O-O-O 12. Bc2 Nb4 13. Bd1?! Slightly more natural is 13. Bb1 Bc6 14. Qe5 b6 15. Qxf6 gxf6 16. Ne1 Rhg8 17. g3 Bb7 18. d3 Bd4 and black has a nice game.
13… Bc6 14. Qe5 Nd3 15. Qxf6 gxf6
Position after 15…gxf6. White is hog-tied.
The novelty in the opening could not have succeeded more. White is paralyzed and black should have no trouble winning this.
16. a3 a5?! The right move is 16… Rhg8! 17. b4 Bd4 18. Rb1 Be4! (I missed this move) 19. g3 Bxf2+ 20. Kg2 Bd4 and black is easily winning.
17. b4 axb4 Black can also play 17… Nxc1 18. bxc5 (18. Rxc1 axb4 19. d4 Bxf3 20. Bxf3 Rxd4 21. axb4 Bxb4) 18… Nd3 and he stands well.
18. axb4 Bxb4 19. Bc2 19. Ba3 Bxa3 20. Rxa3 Rhg8 21. g3 Nb2 is good for black, but not a decisive edge.
19… b6 20. Ba3 Rhg8 21. Bxd3 Bxf3 22. g3 Bxd2 23. Bc2 f5?! Once again I miss an easy and rather primitive variation: 23… Bc3 24. Rab1 Be2 25. Rfc1 Bd2 trapping the rook and wins.
24. Rfb1 Rg4 25. c5 bxc5 26. Bxc5 Rc4 27. Bb3 Rxc5 28. Bxe6+ Rd7 29. Ra2 Bc3 30. Ra3 Here, white lost on time; fortunate for me because I had been showing shaky technique so far.
Black is on top, but not totally winning. For example, 30…Bd5 31. Bxf5 Bf6 32. g4 Kd8 33. Bxd7 Kxd7 34. Rd1 Bg5 35. h4 Be7 36. Rf3 Kc8 37. Rf5 c6 and the game goes on, with black having an edge but it remains to see if I can convert it.
In Round 4 I encountered New England junior Jim Rizzitano. I include the ratings at that time as a historical curiosity.
Mark Ginsburg – NM James Rizzitano (2352 USCF, 2225 FIDE) Round 4. Leningrad Dutch.
1. c4 f5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 d6 7. Nc3 Nc6?! Of all the Leningrad Dutch lines, (7….c6 8. d5! MG-Sarkar US Ch 2006, 7….Qe8 MG-Bareev Naestved 1988 are popular) this one is the most positionally suspect.
8. d5 Ne5 9. Qb3 Ned7 Perhaps a little better is 9…Nxf3+ 10. Bxf3 Nd7 11. Bg2 Nc5 12. Qc2 and white keeps some edge. GM Anderssson as white managed to beat De la Villa Garcia, Pamplona 1998, in 43 moves in this line.
10. Qc2 Nc5 11. b4! Although many moves have been seen here, the text is obvious and strong.
11…Nce4 12. Bb2 This position has been seen OTB in other games; it simply favors white.
12…e5 Aagard-Rewitz, Aarhus 1999, saw 12…c5 13. dxc6 bxc6 14. Nxe4 fxe4 15. Nd4 and white has an edge. Aagard won in 40 moves. The double-double "A" is very aesthetic: Aagard played in Aarhus. 🙂 Black also was unsuccessful with 12…Nxc3 13. Bxc3 Bd7 14. Nd4 Qc8 15. Rac1 c6 16. dxc6 bxc6 17. b5 c5 18. Nc6 and white won in 48 moves, Haba-Trapl, Czechoslovakia 1994.
13. dxe6 Nxc3 14. Bxc3 Bxe6 15. Rad1 Qe7 16. Ng5 White did absolutely nothing clever and he has a huge edge. That means black's opening was poor.
16…c6 17. b5 Bd7 18. Qd3 Ne8 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. Qd4+ Kg8 21. h4 h6 22. Nh3 Kh7 23. Rfe1 Rd8 24. e4 Qf7 25. exf5 Bxf5 26. Nf4 The easiest was 26. Qxa7 Nc7 27. Qb6.
26… Rc8 27. Bf3 Ng7 28. Qxd6 Qxc4 29. bxc6 bxc6
Position after 29…bxc6. White to play and win.
30. Re7? A tactically alert player would find the immediately decisive and aesthetic 30. h5! gxh5 (30… g5 31. Ng6 Rfe8 32. Qf6 wins) 31. Re7 Rf7 32. Bd5! (interference theme!) and wins.
30… Qc3 31. Qd4 Once again, 31. h5! g5 (31… gxh5 32. Nxh5 and wins) 32. Ne6 Bxe6 33. Qxe6 Rxf3 34. Rdd7 Rxg3+ 35. Kh2 Rh3+ 36. Qxh3 Qxh3+ 37. Kxh3 Rg8 38. Rxa7 wins.
31… Qxd4 32. Rxd4 Kg8 33. Rxa7 Rf7 34. Rxf7 Kxf7 35. Rd6 c5 The last chance was 35… g5 36. hxg5 hxg5 37. Ne2 and it's not all over yet.
36. Nxg6! c4 37. Bd5+ Ne6 38. Nf4 c3 39. Rxe6 c2 40. Rc6+ Ke7 41. Rxc8 Bxc8 42. Ne2 Bf5 43. Nc1 1-0
Middle Round Disasters
All was not sweetness and light. I suffered a nasty reverse playing the white pieces versus Icelandic future Grandmaster and World Championship candidate Johann Hjartarson. Recall that Hjartarson defeated Korchnoi in a match! And then I threw away a completely won game and lost ignominiously to the eventual tournament winner, now sadly retired from OTB play to pontificate and author various tomes, IM John Watson. It took GM Larry Evans in a newspaper column to rudely show me the winning line. Readers will commiserate when they see the diagrams tell the woeful story of the Watson game.
Round 5.
IM John Watson – M. Ginsburg English Opening
1. c4 John's fearsome specialty. Not a bad move; I used it myself in numerous Mikenas Attack encounters (1. c4 Nf6 2. nc3 e6 3. e4!?, later taken up by Nakamura, e.g. Nakamura-Zarnicki 1-0 HB Global Chess Challenge, Minneapolis 2005).
1…Nf6 2. Nc3 c5 3. g3 e6 4. Nf3 b6 5. e4 Bb7 6. d3 d5? A really bad move. 6…Nc6 is fine for black.
7. cxd5 exd5 8. e5 Nfd7 Black has handled the first phase very poorly.
Position after 8…Nfd7. Black has a very poor game.
9. d4? A miscue in return. The surprising 9. Bh3! is extremely good for white. For example, 9…d4 10. Ne4 Bd5 11. O-O Be7 12. e6! fxe6 13. Nfg5 with strong pressure.
9…cxd4 Now black is OK again.
10. Nxd4 Nxe5?! This pawn grab looks and is too risky. The more sedate 10…Bc5 and much more sensible is quite playable for black.
11. Bb5+ Nbd7 12. Qe2 White had 12. Bf4! Bd6 13. O-O O-O 14. Nf5! with a big plus.
12…Qe7 13. O-O O-O-O 14. Be3 Kb8 15. a4 This idea is not bad,; 15. Rae1 is another valid way to handle the position.
15…g6?! The inaccuracy festival continues. This is rather slow. Correct is the challenging 15…Qf6!, e.g. 16. a5? Bc5! threatening to eat on d4 then fork on f3 with Nf3+. In that position, Black is fine and even has chances to gain the initiative. White should play 16. Bxd7! Rxd7 17. Bf4 Bd6 18. Ncb5 g5 18. Bxg5! Qxg5 20. Nxd6 with some advantage.
16. a5 Bg7
Position after 16…Bg7. Time to act.
17. b3?! Hesitant and weak. Correct is the simple 17. axb6 Nxb6 18. Ba6 and white has a big edge. And on 17….axb6? 18. Bf4! eyeing Nc6+ is completely crushing, e.g. 18…Qd6 19. Ba6 Bc6 20. Ncb5! and white wins. Also strong is the evident 17. a6! Ba8 18. Rfe1 with a bind.
17… bxa5? Another error. 17…Rc8! is correct, e.g. 18. Rfc1 Qb4! to lure the rook to a4: 19. Ra4 Qe7 and black is holding the position. Now 20. axb6 Nxb6 would hit the rook on a4 and let black have room to breathe (and defend).
18. Rfc1?! White had the tempting 18. f4! and black has to walk a narrow path just to not lose right away. He has to play 18…a6! (18…Ng4? 19. Nc6+ Bxc6 20. Bxa7+ wins) 19. Ba4 Rc8! 20. Rac1 Rc7! (Black must acquiesce to the inevitable loss of a piece; he has some pawns for it) 21. fxe5 Nxe5 and black is worse but not lost.
18…Rc8 19. Rxa5?! 19. f4! will transpose to the above note after 19…a6! 20. Ba4 Rc7! 21. fxe5 and white enjoys a sizeable plus.
19… Rxc3! This seems like desperation but in fact it's black's best try.
20. Rxc3 Qb4 21. Ra2? The situation is confusing. 21. Bd2 Qxd4 (21…Qxa5 22. Rc8+ is good for white) 22. Ra4 Qb6 23. Be3 Nf3+ 24. Qxf3 d4 25. Qf4+ Be5 26. Bxd4 Bxf4 27. Bxb6 Nxb6 28. Rxf4 Nd5 29. Rcf3 Nxf4 30. Rxf4 Rd8 31. f3 f5 32. g4 is a crazy sample line that fizzles into a draw. Still, the text is an outright blunder. White must have overlooked something.
21… Qxc3 22. Bxd7 Qd3! Strong! Black now has some hopes of getting the upper hand. This is the kind of move that white may have overlooked in preliminary calculations; now he gets really rattled.
23. Qe1?? A really bad blunder. Correct is 23. Bb5! Qxe2 24. Bxe2 Re8 25. Kf1 with a level game, or 25. Nb5 Nc6 26. Nxa7 Nb4 again with a draw. White must have hallucinated a mate or something, but this clunker just drops a piece.
23…Nxd7! I don't know why I indicated 23… Qxd4? as good in my scorepad after the game. That move only seems to draw: 24. Bxd4 Nf3+ 25. Kf1 Nxe1 26. Bxg7 Rd8 27. Be5+ Ka8 28. Kxe1 Rxd7 29. Bd4 Bc6 and it's equal. The text grabs a free piece and the game should be all over.
24. Bf4+ A last check before white has to give up.
Position after 24. Bf4+. One last "puzzle" to solve, and I fail ignominiously.
24…Kc8??? What the heck – a mutual hallucination? Maybe I was low on time, but my scorepad doesn't have the times in it. Did Watson give off weird mental vibes after his irrational 23rd that I "caught" and "echoed?" Only a while after the game (I was really eager to forget it) did I read GM Larry Evans column that "informed me" that 24… Ka8 would win. White doesn't have any threats, let alone a potential mate. Could I have overlooked that 25. Qa5 Bxd4 guards a7? It is true that backward diagonal moves are often overlooked … More likely, I thought the desperado 25. Rxa7+ "worked". In reality, 25. Rxa7+ Kxa7 26. Qa5+ Ba6 27. Qc7+ Ka8 28. Qc6+ Bb7 29. Qa4+ Qa6 also wins for black. Pretty simple stuff. Whatever the case, the text is suicide and after white's next, it is clear black loses many pieces all with check. Did I really do this, move my king to a losing square when the other square obviously wins? Yes, I did!
25. Qc1+ I'm losing. A serious blow to my IM norm chances. Boo! I am now losing to John Freakin' Watson.
25…Kd8 26. Qc7+ Ke8 27. Re2+ Ne5 28. Bxe5 Bxe5 29. Qxe5+ Kd7 30. Qe7+ Kc8 31. Rc2+ Kb8 32. Qe5+ 1-0 Ugh! I was really angry. Time to rebound! The winner of this game won the tournament, with a big score of 8.5 out of 11, reaffirming the adage 'winners make their own luck'.
Theory Interlude: Blowing Kudrin's Mind in a Dragon
In the eighth round, I had the opportunity to surprise Kudrin with a TN in the Dragon. This doesn't happen often to the well-prepared Sergey. He employed my TN with white the next year!
M. Ginsburg – Sergey Kudrin, Round 8 Sicilian Dragon, Yugoslav Attack.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 The Yugoslav attack. The only real way to deal with this opening. Anatoly Karpov had some beautiful wins with it, including a famous Informant masterpiece over Viktor Korchnoi (WC Match), in this variation.
7…O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. O-O-O! This move cuts down on the amount of material white has to know. For that reason, it has high practical value.
9…Nxd4 A whole different story is 9… d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Bd4 e5 13. Bc5 Be6 14. Bc4 Re8 15. Ne4 h6 16. g4 f5 17. gxf5 gxf5 18. Rhg1 Kh7 19. Qg2 and white won, 1-0 Fedorov,V (2425)-Eletsky,E/Oviedo 1993. There have been many games in this line, and current thinking is that white has a small edge.
10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Nd5 White can try 11. Kb1 Qc7 12. Bb5 a6 13. Ba4 b5 14. Bb3 b4 15. Na4 Rab8 16. h4 [If 16. Bxe6 fxe6 17. b3 Qc6 18. h4 Rfd8? (Better is 18… Nh5 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. Qe3 h6 21. g4 Nf4 with equality) 19. g4 e5 20. Bb2 h6 21. g5 Nh5 22. gxh6 Bf6 23. c4 Nf4 and white won, 1-0 Nijboer,F (2534)-Janssen,R (2445), Wijk aan Zee 1999.] As Bernard Zuckerman told me, 11. Bb5? right away is really bad: 11…Qa5 12. Ba4 Rfc8! and white cannot complete his defensive idea and is hence lost (BZ). The computer verifies Bernie. For example, 13. Bb3 Bxb3 14. axb3 Qa1+ 15. Nb1 a5! and black has a big plus.
11… Bxd5 12. exd5 Qc7 13. Kb1 Rac8 (13… Rfc8 14. Rc1 a6 15. h4 e5? 16. dxe6 fxe6 17. g4 Qf7 18. h5 e5 19. hxg6 hxg6 20. Be3 d5 21. Bh6 Bh8 22. Qh2 Nh7 23. Bd3 Rc6 and white won, Kuzmin,G (2495)-Alterman,B/Voroshilovgrad 1989.
14. Rc1! TN
Position after my novelty 14. Rc1! TN
I know this is a good move, because Kudrin adopted it as white the next year, 1981! I also have vague memories of discussing this move with someone (perhaps they told me about it) but I am not sure about that. Previously seen was the anemic 14. c4? b5! 15. Rc1 (15. b3 bxc4 16. bxc4 Rb8+ 17. Ka1 Rb6 18. Be2 Rfb8 19. Rb1 Nd7 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. Qd4+ Kg8 22. Rxb6 Rxb6 23. Rb1 Rxb1+ 24. Kxb1 Qa5 and black went on to win, 0-1 Dhar Barua,S (2225)-Shaw,J (2390)/Manchester 1997. 15… Rb8 1/2-1/2 Bertok,M-Vidmar,M/Ljubljana 1955.
14… a6 The passive 14… Nd7 is good for white: 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16. h4 Nf6 (16… h5 17. g4 Rh8 18. Qd4+ f6 19. Qxa7) 17. h5 gxh5? (17… Nxh5 18. g4 Nf6 19. Qh6+ Kg8 20. Bd3 Qc5 21. g5 Qe3 22. f4! Qxf4 23. Rcf1! wins) 18. Bd3 {1-0 Smeets,J (2311)-Didderen,G/Hyerois 2001}
15. c4! Also playable is 15. h4 e5 16. dxe6 fxe6 17. g4 e5? (Correct is 17… Qc6 18. Be2 Nd5 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. h5 Nf4) 18. Be3 Qc6 19. Be2 Nd5 20. h5 Nxe3 21. Qxe3 Qc5 22. Qb3+ d5 23. hxg6 hxg6 24. Rcd1 Rfd8 25. Bd3 and white won, S. Kudrin (!) Mark,D (2256)/Palo Alto 1981. This game proves the worth of the 14th move novelty! The position on the board now is simply good for white.
15… Rfe8 The rash 'breakout' 15…b5? 16. cxb5 Qxc1+ 17. Qxc1 Rxc1+ 18. Kxc1 Rc8+ 19. Kb1 Nxd5 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. bxa6 is obviously very good for white.
16. Bd3 e6 17. dxe6 fxe6 and I had a huge edge with the bishop pair and black's hanging pawns. Unfortunately, I only drew eventually and I can't find the scoresheet. The fact that Sergey used this as white in the very next year is heart-warming (a fact I didn't know until I looked it up recently).
The Exciting Conclusion of the Tournament
So in the last two rounds I needed a perfect 2-0 score to get the norm. In the next to last round I was black against future IM Walter Shipman and in the last round I was white against future FM Dan Shapiro. Well, I got the job done very smoothly and easily against the normally stodgy and solid Shipman. But the Shapiro game was another story. I posted them in a separate installment – the last game in particular, a nervy norm game, was not for the faint of heart.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix original film): Saddle up for six tales about the American frontier from the unique minds of Joel and Ethan Coen, who wrote and directed this anthology.
The Break-Up
The Kominsky Method (Netflix original): Michael Douglas stars as a briefly successful actor turned revered Hollywood acting coach. A Chuck Lorre comedy series also featuring Alan Arkin.
The Princess Switch (Netflix original film): When a down-to-earth Chicago baker and a soon-to-be princess discover they look like twins, they hatch a Christmastime plan to trade places.
The Pixar Story
The Last Kingdom: Season 3 (Netflix original): As Alfred's health weakens — and with it his dream of a united England — Uhtred must take command and confront a new threat, Danish warlord Sigrid.
Kulipari: Dream Walker (Netflix original): Now the Blue Sky King, Darel must lead a rescue mission to save a Dream Walker — leaving the village under the protection of the Kulipari youth.
Motown Magic (Netflix original): Imaginative boy Ben transforms his city by bringing colorful street art to life, armed with a magic paintbrush — and the classic sounds of Motown.
Sabrina (Netflix original film): A toymaker and his wife are terrorized by a demonized doll after their adopted child tries to summon her late mother's spirit using a spooky ritual.
The Final Table (Netflix original): The Final Table is a global culinary competition show featuring the world's most talented chefs fighting for a spot at the elite, Final Table made up of the greatest chefs from around the globe. The series features 12 teams of two chefs from around the world cooking the national dishes of Mexico, Spain, England, Brazil, France, Japan, the U.S., India and Italy. Each episode focuses on a different country and its cuisine, with celebrity ambassadors, food critics and the country's greatest chef eliminating teams until the finale. In that last episode, only one of our competing chefs will win a place at the Final Table, joining the nine legendary culinary icons — Enrique Olvera (Mexico), Andoni Aduriz (Spain), Clare Smyth (UK), Helena Rizzo (Brazil), Vineet Bhatia (India), Grant Achatz (US), Carlo Cracco (Italy), Yoshihiro Narisawa (Japan) and Anne-Sophie Pic (France). The series will be presented by Andrew Knowlton, James Beard Award-winning Writer and Editor at Large, Bon Appétit. Created and exec produced by Robin Ashbrook & Yasmin Shackleton. The production company is theoldschool.
Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia (Netflix original): Trevor Noah gets out from behind the "Daily Show" desk and takes the stage for a stand-up special that touches on racism, immigration, camping and more.
The Tribe (Netflix original film): An executive-turned-viral sensation loses his reputation and his memory, but finds a new life with his biological mother and her empowered dance group.
MST 3K
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet (Netflix original): This season, Kinga subjects Jonah and the bots to a devious new experiment: a back-to-back marathon of six hilariously cheesy — and riffworthy — films.
The Christmas Chronicles (Netflix original film): Two siblings team up with Santa Claus for a high-flying holiday adventure. A new Christmas classic from the makers of "Harry Potter" and "Home Alone.
Frontier: Season 3 (Netflix original): While Harp pursues Lord Benton to rescue Grace, Michael takes command of the Black Wolf Company and Sokanon embarks on a righteous crusade.
Fugitiva (Netflix original): A woman organizes a escape plan camouflaged as a kidnapping to protect her children from her husband's enemies.
Sick Note (Netflix original): This black comedy series follows a slacker misdiagnosed with cancer whose lies lead him into an absurd web of secrets, blackmail and suspicion.
Sick Note: Season 2 (Netflix original): Rupert Grint, Nick Frost and Lindsay Lohan star in the second dose of the brilliantly dark comedy. And the lies just keep on coming…
To Build or Not to Build: Season 2
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Best Gift Ever
Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attell (Netflix original): Veteran comedians Jeff Ross and Dave Attell roast each other, the audience and special guests.
Pocoyo: Season 4
1983 (Netflix original): In a totalitarian Poland, law student Kajetan Skowron and detective Anatol Janów unravel a terrible conspiracy stretching to the country's foundations.
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (Netflix original film): A year after helping Richard secure the crown, Amber's getting ready to walk down the aisle with him. But she's not so sure she's cut out to be queen.
Baby (Netflix original): By day, Chiara is a promising student at one of Rome's most elite private high schools. But by night, she leads a scandalous secret life.
Death by Magic (Netflix original): British magician Drummond Money-Coutts, or DMC for short, is on a mission to uncover the stories of magicians who died performing the most dangerous stunts ever attempted. He travels the world to track down where the fatal performances took place and to work out exactly what went wrong, sharing his magic with the people he meets along the way. It's a journey that spans four continents and eight cities around the world. His aim is to pay homage to the craft by creating his own updated versions of the stunts that cost these magicians their lives, from being buried alive under tons of wet concrete, to playing a game of Russian roulette, to escaping from a collision with a speeding steam train. The series will follow DMC as he recreates the stunts where others have failed, in the most extreme magic show ever attempted. To succeed he must avoid the fate that met those who came before him and paid the ultimate price: Death by Magic.
F is for Family: Season 3 (Netflix original): When Frank befriends a handsome young fighter pilot — voiced by Vince Vaughn — the family embarks on a whole new set of adventures.
Happy as Lazzaro (Netflix original film): Ordinary teen Lazzaro is content with life as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but a visit from the aristocrat landowner's son changes everything.
Rajma Chawal (Netflix original film): An internet-rookie father attempts to use social media to enhance his faltering relationship with his millennial son.
Spy Kids: Mission Critical: Season 2 (Netflix original): Finally feeling like a real team, the Mission Critical kids face their toughest test as they set out to destroy Golden Brain's lair once and for all.
The World Is Yours (Netflix original film): To escape his life of crime, a small-time mobster in Paris accepts one last job involving Spain, drugs, the Illuminati and his overbearing mother.
Tiempo compartido (Netflix original film): Two men join forces to rescue their families from a tropical paradise, convinced a U.S. timeshare conglomerate has a sinister plan to take them away.
Leaving November 1, 2018
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions 2
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
'Oculus'
Run to Me
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
Steel Magnolias
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
The Lazarus Effect
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Leaving November 12, 2018
Undercover Boss: Seasons 1-5
Will 'Stranger Things 4' Take Place in 1986? And Mor...
2019 Is the Year of Brett Gelman
'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Fully Deserves Its 2019...
"The American" in 'Stranger Things' Season 4 May Be ...
Diego Luna Is Done Recording 'Wizards' — Unless Guil...

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Pour batter into a generously greased and floured 8-inch square pan.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until cake springs back when lightly touched with finger.
Serve gingerbread with whipped cream or lemon sauce.
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The Aussie Version of Crazy 'Frog'.
K100-forum.com » Off Topic » Humor » The Aussie Version of Crazy 'Frog'.
The South American cane toad (Bufo Marinus) was introduced into Australia in about the '30s in an ill-conceived exercise to eradicate the dreaded cane beetle. The perpetrators failed to realise that the beetle spent most of its time 2 metres off the ground in the top of the sugar cane stalks. They didn't go anywhere near the beetle, they were just interested in getting stuck into each other. Now there's millions of the bastards.
The cane toad is a prolific breeder; females lay single-clump spawns with thousands of eggs. Its reproductive success is partly because of opportunistic feeding: it has a diet, unusual among toads (Anurans, or true toads), of both dead and living matter. Adults average 10–15 cm (3.9–5.9 in) in length; the largest recorded specimen weighed 2.65 kilograms (5.8 lb) with a length of 38 cm (15 in) from snout to vent.
Now most of northern OZ has these soft, poisonous, mostly-nocturnal blobs in plague proportions, and they're rapidly spreading. Here's one way we deal with things like this....nothing scientific, listen closely, just some Aussie humour.
Did he end up in Footrot Flats?
Was attempting to 'splain a few things 'bout OZ to some mates at work as I'm returning home soon and they were querying me a bit 'bout the beautiful flora but mostly about the, to foreigners and those not in the know, often ghastly fauna. So I had to dig this one out and re-visit it. Nearly p*ssed meself with laughter watching it again. Note the clever subtle and not-so-subtle OZ references. Enjoy.


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Beginning in November, Amazon will begin offering free downloads of Kindle for PC, an e-reading application that will allow consumers to download Kindle edition e-books to any PC running Windows 7, Windows XP or Windows Vista and read them on the PC. While the new application will allow Kindle owners to read their previously purchased Kindle titles on their PCs, it will also allow anyone with a PC to buy and download Kindle e-books directly to their PCs.
The Kindle for PC application follows Barnes & Noble's launch of its digital reading device, called the Nook, a wireless-enabled reading device that will allow its owners to read their e-books on different devices and even to share them with other consumers. In fact, as the e-book market moves toward open platforms and away from proprietary formats, Amazon has stepped up its efforts to allow Kindle owners more flexibility to read their e-books (Kindle is a proprietary format) on other devices. First, Amazon developed the popular Kindle on iPhone/iPod Touch, and now this PC application. No word yet on a Kindle for Mac app.
The Kindle for PC software will also synchronize bookmarks and the last page read between the Kindle and the PC. PCs with Windows 7 will allow the user to use a finger-pinch to scale the text up or down and to turn pages with a finger swipe. The online retailer says it offers more than 360,000 Kindle format e-books for sale through the Kindle and the Kindle Web site on Amazon.


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In the sugar daddy dating domain, sugardaddytoday.com is the most affordable website. As a bonus, it gives its members a one-week free membership with access to the unlimited features of the website. So you will get to know the reality of the site and determine whether it's right for you. If you want to upgrade to premium membership, the fees are surely set to attract plenty of sugar daters. A premium membership will cost you only $5 per month.
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Propaganda: Nazi Germany and Joseph Goebbels Essay
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Goebbels was given the task of building up Nazi support in Berlin. He did this between the years 1926 and 1930. In 1928, he was put onto the Reichstag. In 1929, he had been given overall charge of the party's propaganda machine. It was here that Goebbels shined. In 1933, after Hitler was appointed chancellor, Goebbels was appointed Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda. He held this post until 1945.
His sharp tongue made him enemies within the Nazi Party where some people called him the "Poison Dwarf". However, he had Hitler's support. Goebbels was a womaniser and his wife wanted to divorce him after one too many other. Hitler refused to give his permission to divorce as he had spent much time teaching the importance of family values to the German public.
As Minister of Enlightenment, Joseph Goebbels had two main tasks:
To ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to the Nazi Party.
To ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible.
At no time up until 1933, did the Nazi Party win a majority of votes at elections. Therefore, those who had supported the Nazis needed to be informed on how correct their choice was with an emphasis on the strength of the party and the leadership. Those who opposed the Nazi Party had to become convinced that the Nazi party would serve them better than any other. Propaganda persuaded people to join the Nazi party and told other…
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Yet new research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology shows that many Americans aren't protecting their skin as much as they should. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asked people how often they use sunscreen when out in the sun for over an hour and only 14% of men said they regularly slathered on sunscreen. Women, at 30%, were twice as diligent about putting on sunscreen—while men were more likely than women to report never using sunscreen.
The problem isn't only compliance. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released its 2015 sunscreen guide on Tuesday, which reviewed more than 1,700 SPF products like sunscreens, lip balms and moisturizers. The researchers discovered that 80% of the products offer "inferior sun protection or contain worrisome ingredients like oxybenzone and vitamin A," they say. Oxybenzone is a chemical that can disrupt the hormone system, and some evidence suggests—though not definitively—that adding vitamin A to the skin could heighten sun sensitivity.
The report points to Neutrogena as the brand most at fault for promising sun protection without delivering. The EWG says that Neutrogena claims its baby sunscreens provide "special protection from the sun and irritating chemicals" and is labeled "hypoallergenic," but it contains a preservative called methylisothiazolinone that has been deemed unsafe for use in leave-on products by the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety. The company also boasts of high SPF levels like SPF 70 or SPF 100+, even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says there's only notable protection up to SPF 50, the report adds. Neutrogena did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
In the new report, EWG also provides a Hall of Shame of products that don't deliver on their sun protection promises, as well as a database for users to search how protective their particular sun products are—and find one that works.
To stay protected this summer, the researchers suggest, use sunscreens with broad spectrum SPF of 15 or higher, limit time in the sun, wear clothing to cover exposed skin and re-slather your sunscreen every couple hours.


Thierry Deomonceau talking to his team.
This month we are talking to Thierry Demonceau , the Business Unit Manager for Bayer HealthCare Animal Health Companion Animal Products team in France.
Hi Thierry – you have a long job title. What do you actually do at Bayer?
I'm responsible to make sure that people can get our products for their pets in France.
My team includes managers for marketing and sales, the colleagues that sell our products to the vets in the country, and the assistants. Because I am also part of the Animal Health management team in France, I am able to see what is going on in all parts of our business.
How did you get to Animal Health – what did you study and do before?
I saw a vet taking care of him and was so impressed that I told my parents I wanted to be a veterinarian. So I did. I studied veterinary medicine and became an equine vet at 22 years old. My first career was in equine medicine, and I started a clinic with a colleague in the South-East of Paris. After a few years I wasn't so happy with this choice and decided to work in the industry. But I still wanted to work with animals, so I joined a company specialized in animal nutrition. During this time I started learning about other animals, including pigs, poultry, and cattle, and also became interested in software development related to animal breeding. I helped create software for pig and poultry famers with traceability systems to help identify animals with RFID. We created and sold our products, but like many start-ups this did not last forever, and at the end I joined another company in animal health. In 2000, I did an MBA in Paris (ESCP Europe) to help me transition from technical expertise to management, and got more involved in the business side to keep animals healthy. I've now have had eight different jobs in my career. I joined Bayer in 2010, and this is the sixth company that I've worked for, so I've had a lot of experience in this area.
our other colleagues in France at Bayer Consumer Care and Bayer Garden (a division of Bayer Crop Science).
I would first say – well, what does better life mean? This is different for each person. There are so many lives to consider. For me the first level is to improve the life of my team. After that, I work to improve the lives of the veterinarians in France. I share many values with them. I am a vet. I know what their life is like and what their work involves and how to improve their lives day after day. And of course, we also want to help pet owners, so better life means improving the situation for the pet owners and the pets to keep them healthy. It's hard to satisfy this - but we work at this very hard every day.
Do you have a pet – tell us about it!
I have a 15 year old cat named Pépite and a horse, Quarki, and he is 32 years old. When my horse and I were much younger, we did endurance racing. But now he has been retired for almost 20 years and is living the good life on a farm in the west of France. For a horse, he is very old, one of the oldest on the farm, but he's still doing well.


26-28 Naxou St, Kipseli, Athens.
Below you will find information about our latest news and events.
On the first Saturday of each month, you can come and join us at our special buffet, where you can enjoy a wonderful selection of tasty Ethiopian cuisine, and enjoy some traditional music and dance.
Our last fashion show was a great success, and was attended by many visitors. Below you can see a selection of images from the event.


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IACHR Joins UN Rapporteur in Recognizing Canadian Human Rights-Based Approach to Housing
IACHR Press and Communication Office
Washington D.C. - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Special Rapporteurship on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (SRESCER) congratulate the Government of Canada on its recent announcement of a national housing strategy "to progressively implement the right of every Canadian to access adequate housing."
Alongside the Inter-American Commission, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, Leilani Farha, reiterated her view that, the recognition of the right to housing is long overdue in Canada, which has lagged behind many other members of the Organization of American States in this regard. "Recognizing, for the first time, the human rights of those who are homeless and inadequately housed is a significant moment in Canada's evolution as a participatory democracy based on recognition of the dignity and equal rights of all."
The Canadian housing strategy foresees creating safe and affordable housing during the next 10 years, in particular, for the Canadian population most in need, such as women and children fleeing family violence, seniors, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, those dealing with mental health and addiction issues, veterans and young adults. According to the plan, the principles of inclusion, accountability, participation and non-discrimination must guide the actions carried out by the competent authorities of the different levels of the government. It also envisages partnerships with social and private sectors to accomplish its goals.
The President of the IACHR, Commissioner Francisco Eguiguren, said: "The statement by the Prime Minister that housing rights are human rights is an important message not only for Canada but throughout the Americas due to the strengthening of the interdependence and indivisibility of all human rights. The Commission highly values Canada's endeavors in this regard."
Widespread homelessness and inadequate housing in as affluent a country as Canada, with so harsh a climate, has shocked both United Nations human rights bodies and the IACHR in recent years. As a member of the Organization of American States, Canada is bound by the American Declaration of Human Rights, according to which everyone is entitled to the right to life and security as well as to the preservation of health through social measures related to housing. Canada is also bound by several UN instruments that ensure and protect the right to housing.
The IACHR Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights, Soledad García Muñoz, noted: "Canada's failure to give effect to these obligations has had tragic results including widespread homelessness, with serious health consequences and loss of life." She highlighted the importance to guarantee the gender perspective in the strategy, recalling the IACHR's report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, which established the severe impact of homelessness on indigenous women and recommended measures to guarantee adequate housing. The IACHR Rapporteur for Canada of the IACHR, Commissioner James Cavallaro, observed: "The lack of affordable housing constitutes a serious human rights challenge that affects marginalized and vulnerable groups across Canada, and which requires a comprehensive human rights-based strategy."
An effective rights-based housing strategy requires clear reference to the right to housing, which places on governments both immediate obligations and obligations to meet specific goals and timelines to fulfil the right for everyone within a reasonable period of time. It also requires independent monitoring and reporting to ensure that these progressive obligations are being met, a complaints procedure for systemic violations of the right to housing and full participation by those whose rights are at stake.
The announced strategy includes two new mechanisms which, if properly mandated, will help to ensure that the strategy is rights-based - a Federal Housing Advocate to consider and make recommendations on systemic barriers to accessing housing and a National Housing Council with diverse representation from those with lived experience of housing need in order to provide inputs on research, policies and programming. These mechanisms should interpret the right to housing widely, including access to public services such as drinking water, sanitation, energy supply and health and education facilities among others. In addition, the mechanisms should provide to those homeless and inadequately housed a place to be effectively heard during all the stages of the National Housing Strategy. In particular, they should seek, in the framework of their competences, to prevent violations to the right to housing and facilitate effective and comprehensive remedies to the victims.
James Cavallaro, Leilani Farha and Soledad García Muñoz jointly expressed concern regarding the homelessness targets outlined in the announcement. "We do not agree that the best an affluent country such as Canada can do is to reduce chronic homelessness only by 50% by 2028. All countries should be setting timelines to eliminate homelessness at least by 2030 in accordance with their commitments under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We also encourage Canada to ensure that its budgetary allocations comply with human rights standards when formalized in legislation."
In this regard, the SRESCER considers that while some of the components of the Strategy may not meet all expectations, once a rights-based approach is adopted in legislation, there will presumably be means to ensure that programs and budgetary allocations are adequate. The fact that Canada will have national legislation affirming the right to housing and available mechanisms through which the authorities can be held accountable is an historic step forward for Canada. However, more still needs to be done to make this strategy truly effective and consistent with human rights, including ensuring that provinces, territories and local governments are on board and developing a clear understanding by all levels of government of the meaning and application of the right to housing in the context of the strategy. The State has also to keep in mind its duty to protect people from human rights violations that might arise in the framework of partnerships with private actors when implementing the National Housing Strategy.
The IACHR and the two Special Rapporteurs expressed the hope that Canada's announced commitment to the right to housing will provide the basis for a constructive dialogue between Canada and the different international human rights mechanisms in the coming years. "We are committed to working with Canada to ensure that the strategy is a success and that a longstanding human rights crisis that has provoked international concern will be remedied." They added.


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Making his first trip to England from the Fort, our British ex-pat finds his former homeland is now a heritage theme park.
Words and photos by G. P. Kennedy
St. George's Hall from the Lime Street train station is many people's first view of Liverpool. The hall was built in 1841 and is part of Liverpool's UNESCO World Heritage site.
I happily departed England in July 2014, bound for Fort Worth. My wife and I moved with 30 boxes of books, three overweight suitcases, and a ton of hope two years ahead of our five-year plan to make a better life in Texas. S-J had secured a great job at TCU, and I was planning to carry on my long-standing freelance writing gigs, develop a new network professionally and personally, and scope out the full extent of my options before taking my career to exciting new heights.
Fast-forward to April 2018, and I have not been back to England in the intervening 45 months. Honestly, I felt no desire to return to my notional homeland. Yes, I missed people and had a hankering for fish and chips on the rare cold and damp evening in the Fort. You see there is a sweet spot for enjoying fish and chips. They have to be eaten indoors, having scurried in from the cold, or outside on a sunny day when the temperature is between 65 and 72. My new home was treating me well despite a number of unforeseen missteps along the career path, most of which were the result of federal bureaucracy and my new hometown's alarming aversion to H-1B visa sponsorship. A rudimentary search of data relating to immigrant employment visas shows that Dallas sponsors 20 times the number of highly qualified foreign nationals to work in schools, colleges, and offices than Fort Worth. We are missing a trick that could be crucial to our growth as a city from regional player to national powerhouse.
Since we moved, Mom suffered a series of health challenges back in England, the most serious of which was breast cancer. She had kicked cancer in its ass and as of March 2018 had been 100 percent disease-free for 18 months. Ostensibly, Mom was a healthy seventysomething. When she was admitted to hospital in March, it appeared she was being treated for a chest infection, with doctors using an abundance of caution and keeping her for a couple of weeks. A multitude of long text conversations and phone calls did little to disabuse me of the notion that while Mom was ill, it was nothing to be sufficiently concerned about, at least enough to merit a check of flights to England. To say that both my dad and younger brother unwittingly misrepresented Mom's degree of illness and attendant suffering came to be seen as an understatement of epic proportions. Once Mom was discharged from hospital, my junior sibling informed me that, lump very much in his throat, "She could have died." Who the? What now? Quite simply, I would have flown to England immediately had I known the extent of mom's illness, so to Google Flights I took and started to plot out the best value route and dates to England this past spring. For a few days, I duly tracked prices on a couple options for direct flights to London Heathrow or bouncing through a northern city stateside en route to Manchester, which is a mere 45-minute drive to my folks' house just outside Liverpool.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018. There are certain dates you remember in the span of a life. This will surely be one for me. It was a pleasantly warm spring morning on a day that would reach 86 degrees. I was in my remote office, a.k.a. Central Market's patio, sitting alone at a table for four with my laptop, sunglasses, and a Breakfast Blend coffee. A call came over Facebook Messenger. It was my dad. This hardly happens, if ever. Typical dad, right? I had spoken with both parents the previous day for our weekly catch-up. In an uncharacteristically low and hesitant voice, Dad proceeded to detail a series of tests that Mom had undergone that day whose results were as unequivocal as they were terminal: triple-negative metastatic breast cancer. This is cancer that, having laid dormant for two years, thought it a terribly good idea to spread to one of Mom's lungs, metastasizing in the process such that it was incurable: terminal cancer. My dad signed off the call by apologizing for needing to share "the bad news" and wishing that he had "better news" to be calling with.
April 11, 2018, and I am heading to DFW airport to make the trip to England. I had hastily booked the flight and arranged places to stay with friends and family. My 15-day trip would see me land in London; travel immediately to Oxford for a couple of days; then go by car to my former home in the Liverpool area. Courtesy of my brother's inexplicable love of English roads, he would drive three hours from his home, a mile from where we grew up, to collect me only to turn right back around and drive three hours back with me garbling incessantly in his right ear. The following week's plan was to spend as much time as possible with my folks before catching up with friends over a few drinks in Liverpool and then Manchester. For scale, the whole trip takes place in a space similar to that of the triangle between Austin, Fort Worth, and Dallas as I travel between London, Liverpool, and Manchester. I guess in this space, Oxford is represented geographically by Marble Falls. If only the picturesque Central Texas riverside town had a world-class university founded in 1096. Yes, a university 922 years old.
At DFW airport, I felt content, safe in the knowledge that I would be returning soon to my Texas home. The day of my departure was a perfect spring day in that it started out cloudy and cool but wasted no time in becoming a welcome 80 degrees with that quintessential blue sky, the one that is as faultless as the clearest diamond and as blue as the finest topaz. On a more prosaic side note, the check-in experience at the airport was, well, dehumanizing. From the desk clerk who cares less about you but greatly that you remove a pair of jeans from your suitcase so that it makes weight, leaving me feeling a little like a boxer who needs to remove his pants to get within the limit, to the TSA agents … look, I know those people perform an essential function but come on, man. If you can put me through a scanner that takes photos of my cock through my jeans, surely you can tell that the item that I accidentally left in my pocket is a passport. Enough with the third degree.
A common public restroom scene speaks to the author as a metaphor for the England that he encountered on his return trip.
Once through the barbed-wire minefield, one decamps to the high end mall-like environs of Terminal D, for international departures, to sit down, charge devices, pay slightly too much for bottled water, and relax. After all, this tall, creaking, middle-aged guy has nine-and-a-half hours in an economy window seat to look forward to. I am not grumpy about this, I am not grumpy about this, I am not grumpy about this. I did score a free upgrade at the gate, which was pretty awesome.
The initial concept for this article was that it would be a travelogue with some first-hand knowledge of England and the occasional memory recounted for color. The piece self-evidently had to change with Mom's terminal diagnosis. The trip, and the story, became about memory and loss, something that England has in abundance both for me personally and as a nation. The country of my birth has willingly become a large-scale theme park, brought to you by the omnipresent Wetherspoons. Imagine if Waffle House did pubs. As far back as 1987, Robert Hewison penned his spot-on critique of a country in decay, The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline. For 30 years, Britain has been perfecting the art of social amnesia, made the more permanent by the destruction of the socioeconomic fabric of the country along with the attendant bulldozing of the workplaces and dwellings that formed the engine of the country. To paraphrase Hewison, when a country loses sight of the past, its people are made to lose sight of their social identity. One could argue that opportunity to reinvent a better self lays herein. Stateside, this is not only a truly held belief but may form a pillar of American exceptionalism. On the other side of the Pond, acquiescence and a DNA-level unfounded belief in the superiority of Brits over others conspire to create a self-defeating fecklessness. These dual weapons of self-harm were likely forged in the days of empire but might be more pithily and contemporarily summed up as white privilege.
The once-thriving vacation resort town of New Brighton has a clear view across the mouth of the River Mersey to Liverpool Docks. Both areas have enjoyed a revival in the past five years.
Liverpool has, for many years, run on 50 percent employment in local government jobs, with the remainder coming from tourism and allied businesses fueled by The Beatles and Liverpool Football Club. Liverpool was typical of postmodern England, with its long-standing socioeconomic structure, reliant as it was on the munificence of others, tourists to come stay, eat, drink, and view while the central government handed down grants to overpaid local government mandarins whose sole responsibility was to decide who got what check and when. That all changed in 2010, when the Conservative Party rode the fear train all the way to a parliamentary majority and the keys to No. 10 Downing Street. As the Obama administration was spending its way out of the Great Recession, the British right-wing government pledged austerity, cutting all public spending to the bone while urging redoubtable Brits to "do more with less." This is similar to asking a Michelin-starred chef to continue to make high-class fare with a few old carrots, a moldy potato, and a neck end. As government-funded employment shrunk across the country, towns and cities swiftly and deftly reinvented themselves as re-enactments of their long-former selves, on the orders of the "betters."
It was evident from 2011 that theme-park England went into overdrive as the heritage industry rubbed its expensively moisturized hands. There had been nothing in my social media space and voice and video call interactions with people in England these past years that marred the clarity of this view as I prepared to touch down on the tarmac of Heathrow airport. I was feeling ready for a difficult trip, ready to "be there" emotionally and physically for the first time in a long time. The arrivals hall at Heathrow is a fully automated process, making it as speedy as it is utterly devoid of human interaction. On exiting the airport, I was met by a sharp, damp cold that was instantly recognizable though long forgotten. The chaotic bus station and its miniscule coffee shop with a "trainee barista" on duty for the morning rush felt small, dirty, and cold. At every turn, a different sign forbade one to sit, cross, or set down luggage. The warm welcome was extended by the coach driver, who, without a greeting or eye contact, boarded the dozen or so of us bound for Oxford or stops between. Our driver spent the first five minutes of the journey negotiating at speed a dizzying series of left-handed roundabouts all the while listing in detail the hit list of forbidden activities on board. While he was clearly to have no truck with feet on seats or incorrect use of the toilet, he was most highly aggrieved by the prospect of people playing "music on personal devices so as to interrupt the comfort of fellow passengers." Welcome to England.
Oxford is the apotheosis of Heritage Britain, frozen in time as it is. The only changes that have been wrought to the center of this ancient work of art in the decades that I have lived in and visited it are different shop fronts along the four narrow streets that fan out from Carfax Tower at the town's center. The archaic tapestry of Oxford is woven on the centuries-old walls of its university buildings, rightly protected to their very boards by a dyslexia-inducing array of legislation. So I found Oxford as I left it – beautiful and inaccessible to most beyond gawping and picture taking. The gawpers and the picture takers were as numerous as ever, even on a misty April afternoon, clogging up the narrow cobbled passageways and flag-stoned courtyards. Two days of twee was enough, and, besides, I had caught up with one of my oldest friends. He has changed not at all, but I knew that from keeping up with him regularly on Skype. I had the perennial face-to-face conversation with him about whether he is going to pack up his bar job and put to use his college degree, boundless energy, and ability to get along with everyone, and his passion for sports to turn it all in to a 40-hours-a-week thing that he will truly love. He effected his expert deflection. On my reacquainting with his elderly parents, they were sitting on the same sofas in the same style – immaculately put-together outfits – and were enviably mentally and physically adroit. They are good and generous people who just so happen to be obsessed with the number and depth of potholes on the rural roads between their house and the center of Oxford.
A long-defunct historic water fountain in Liverpool overflows with the detritus of modern life.
Very early into the three-hour trip north along the M6 motorway I was reminded of the depth and vehemence of my brother's vernacular. It is a well-known linguistic trait of those born and raised in and around Liverpool that they say what they are thinking, without fail, and do so with an accent and lexicon strewn with violence. Compliments and positivity, should they be unavoidably necessary, are expressed in the negative. For example, the end of an enjoyable meal is most likely to be greeted with, "Ah! Da was 'orrible, da," which should be read, "Ah! That was horrible, that" but that should be understood to mean, "Thank you. I greatly enjoyed that meal. I appreciate all your hard work in preparing it for us."
I will spare you the minutiae of the following 10 days' worth of family dynamics, denial, avoidance, drinking, unhealthy eating – the meat pasties! oh, the pasties! and the alfresco fish and chips wrapped in sea air and serenaded by seagulls – more drinking, and general lack of any reflection on the fact that I had been away so long. This is what is great about old friends and family: You can pick up conversations where you left off years earlier. However, I was frequently frustrated on this trip by the failure or refusal by those around me to acknowledge loss, hobbling the ability to live in the now – the today and tomorrow. That loss can be physical, financial, or of opportunities, but overarching all of this is the loss of time. I found that England and its people are living all their yesterdays to the extent that today is too scary to face and tomorrow is all but ignored. The reality that people who live like this are indolent as their once-thriving towns and cities become "reimagined" and then ossified for the amusement of paying guests should have come as less as surprise than it did. Worth pointing out is that despite England's becoming a heritage theme park, customer service is appalling across the board. The grumpy, hectoring coach driver of Heathrow was the rule rather than exception. He set the stage perfectly, foreshadowing for the paying guests nearly every human interaction between customer and server.
On Leasowe Common, across the River Mersey from Liverpool, pensioners enjoy fantastic fish and chips at the seaside.
I have never seen a human corpse, well, save for the time I was in the backseat of a Mercedes speeding and bumping its way through eastern Nigeria when we drove by a headless man at roadside. To be more specific, I have never viewed the body of a dead loved one. Of the multiple family members who have died over the years, I have chosen every time to eschew the invitation to gawp at their shells. When our beloved family dog died last year, I found him expired in his bed, and he was instantly not Finley, the faithful, loving transatlantic companion of 14 years. Finley was not fur and flesh. He was patience, energy, hot breath, long walks, and ill-advised plunges in pools of water. While the body of a dog remained, the essence of Finley was lost. So it is with England. Its integument remains, and on viewing it, remembrances are triggered and relationships renewed. As with Gaston Bachelard's "house of memories" in The Poetics of Space, home and memory are psychologically intertwined, creating lifelong behavior and a codependency between the physical and the memorial. Strip away the places and repurpose the spaces, and psychological turmoil will surely ensue. My old home is tormented with this disorder, and the diagnosis appears terminal. My new home is young enough, gloriously ingenuous enough to not be crippled by a mania of change that creates loss. Fort Worth knows about yesterday, but it glories in today and relishes tomorrow. I crossed the Atlantic twice and in so doing realized home is not where you grew up – that vessel for memories. Home is where your head's at. For me, home is Fort Worth.
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