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Takata airbags can explode on deployment, firing shrapnel that burns, bruised, or cuts drivers and passengers. Some of the resulting lawsuits have been settled for millions of dollars.
(Updated: May 18, 2018)
Twenty-one deaths and more than 180 injuries have resulted from the Takata airbag defect, a dangerous flaw the company covered up for years. In 2018, Takata finalized a $1 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to compensate automakers ($850 million) and injured drivers ($125 million). It also paid a $25 million fine to federal regulators for concealing the defects for so long.
No matter how the accident occurred, drivers and passengers burned, bruised, or cut by Takata airbag shrapnel may be eligible for a lawsuit.
The Takata airbag recall is the largest in American automotive history. More than 65 million cars have now been recalled; eventually, that number could climb to 90 or even 100 million.
In 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) hammered Takata with a civil penalty of $200 million—the largest such fine in history.
Four months later, in May 2017, four automakers—Toyota, Mazda, Subaru, and BMW—reached a $553 settlement that will resolve charges related to economic losses, but not personal injury, wrongful death, or property damage lawsuits. The breakdown of that settlement is as follows:
Toyota: $278.5 million for 9.2 million vehicles
BMW: $131 million for 2.3 million vehicles
Mazda: $75.8 million for 1.7 million vehicles
Subaru: $68.3 million for 2.6 million vehicles
In August 2017, Nissan agreed to pay $98 million to compensate owners of 4.4 million vehicles with Takata airbags.
The next month, Honda agreed to pay $605 million to compensate owners of 11 million vehicles impacted by the Takata airbag crisis.
Three compensation funds are currently available to individuals who have been injured by Takata airbags.
Takata Airbag Individual Restitution Fund – $125 Million
This fund was established after TK Holdings, Inc.'s criminal guilty plea for fraud. It includes compensation for people who have suffered or will suffer personal injuries or wrongful deaths due to a defective Takata airbag inflator and who have not previously resolved their claims against Takata.
Takata Bankruptcy Trust – $90 to $137 Million
This trust was created as part of TK Holdings, Inc. bankruptcy plan. It will compensate individuals who were previously injured by a Takata airbag, as well as future victims. It is expected that the trust will begin accepting claims in mid-2018.
Participant Original Equipment Manufacturer ("POEM") Fund – Undisclosed
Individuals who have been injured by a Takata airbag within a Honda or Acura vehicle are eligible for compensation from this fund. The fund compensates individuals previously injured by a defective Takata airbag, as well as future victims.
Still, victims may turn to the courts and file lawsuits that seek compensation for airbag-related injuries and deaths. As seen below, Takata has reached swift and undisclosed settlements to keep all of these lawsuits (to date) from going to trial.
Parham v. Takata (2009) – Undisclosed
Ashley Parham (18) of Oklahoma was the first known Takata-related fatality. She bled to death after the airbag in her 2001 Honda Accord fired shrapnel into her neck, slicing open an artery. (She'd been in a minor car accident.) Ms. Parham's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit, which Takata settled immediately, in August 2009.
Williams v. Takata (2011) – Undisclosed
In 2010, Kristy Williams was stopped at a red light in Morrow, Georgia, when her 2001 Honda Civic's airbag exploded for no reason. It shot shrapnel into her neck, severing her carotid artery. Ms. Williams staunched the bleeding, called an ambulance, and survived. But since the accident, she says she has been plagued by strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder.
Ms. Williams filed a lawsuit against Takata, which the company settled for an undisclosed amount in January 2011.
Rathore v. Takata (2012) – $3 Million
In December 2009, a mail truck struck 33-year-old Gurjit Rathore's Honda Accord. Her Takata airbag deployed, firing shrapnel into Ms. Rathore's chest and neck. These injuries proved fatal, and her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Takata Corp.
In 2012, Takata settled this lawsuit for $3 million.
In 2016—after learning that Takata knew about the potentially lethal airbag defect, and manipulated data to cover it up—Ms. Rathore's family sought to reopen the lawsuit.
Various v. Takata & Honda (2014-2015) – Undisclosed
From 2014 to 2015, Takata and Honda settled at least six wrongful death lawsuits filed over the defective airbags. (They reached four of these undisclosed settlements in the latter half of 2015.)
In November 2014, Bloomberg wrote, "The quick, secret deals, a cornerstone of product liability litigation across industries, help explain why years after the first recalls so much remains unknown about defects linked to four U.S. deaths. The few cases filed have generally been resolved before victims' lawyers acquired evidence."
State of Hawaii v. Takata & Honda (2016) – Pending
In May 2016, the State of Hawaii became the first (but probably not last) state to sue Takata and Honda. Hawaii demanded $10,000 for each car owner affected by the airbag crisis.
Hawaii's Director of Consumer Protection, Steve Levins, told The New York Times, "We're not going to sit back and wait for more accidents to happen." Levins added, "We're also seeking that consumers be compensated for any losses associated with this incident, whether that's alternative transportation costs, or a diminished value of their vehicle."
This suit is still pending.
California, Washington & Hawaii Take Fight To Corporations
Johnston v. Takata & Honda (2016) – Undisclosed
In September 2015, Randi Johnston of Centerville, Utah was in an accident while driving her 2003 Honda Civic to work. The Takata airbag fired metal shards into Ms. Johnston's face and neck, slicing her trachea and damaging her vocal cords. An Army medic was on the scene and may have saved Ms. Johnston's life.
Ms. Johnston filed a lawsuit alleging negligence, reckless conduct, and breach of warranty by Takata, Honda, and the car dealership. At the time of the filing, she could not speak as a result of her vocal cord damage.
In June 2016, the defendants reached an undisclosed settlement with Ms. Johnston.
Mincey v. Takata (2016) – Undisclosed
In June 2014, a 75-year-old woman named Patricia Mincey was paralyzed after the Takata airbag in her 2001 Honda Civic inflated with excessive force during a collision. This airbag was recalled less than a week after the accident.
Ms. Mincey lost all feeling below her neck, and later filed a lawsuit alleging that Takata knowingly produced and sold defective airbags. Tragically, she passed away in April 2016 from injuries related to her quadriplegia.
On July 15, 2016, mere minutes before her trial was set to begin, Takata reached an undisclosed settlement with Ms. Mincey's family.
Tanif v. Takata & Honda (2016) – Undisclosed
On November 8, 2016, the family of 17-year-old Texan Huma Hanif reached an undisclosed settlement with Takata, Honda, and Westside Hummer, where Ms. Hanif purchased her 2002 Honda Civic.
Ms. Hanif died on March 31, 2016 when her Civic rear-ended another vehicle near Houston. The airbag fired shrapnel into Ms. Hanif's neck, and she died at the scene.
These Cases Are Ongoing
Our attorneys have extensive experience with automobile mass litigation, including lawsuits related to Continental airbags, GM ignition switches, and Volkswagen emissions fraud. We have won jury awards and settlements against automakers in the past, and our work in this area makes us uniquely qualified to handle large and complex class action cases.
If you or a loved one were injured by a defective Takata airbag, contact us immediately for a free, no-obligation consultation. These lawsuits are time-sensitive, so it is crucial that you reach out to us as soon as possible to determine if you are owed money.
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"Discover your inner geek": Phoenix Comicon to bring fandoms together
From quidditch to cosplay, ASU students are getting involved with Comicon this weekend
An infographic for Phoenix Comicon 2017, featuring movie stars, comic creators, voice actors and more. The event will take place this Thursday through Sunday at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Kristin Rowan
By May Phan | May 25, 2017 | 4:42pm MST
Hundreds of special guests and exhibitors are flocking to the Phoenix Convention Center this Memorial Day weekend in honor of Phoenix Comicon, a celebration of fans, fandoms and all things pop culture.
The convention, which runs from Thursday to Sunday, will feature escape rooms, zombie tag and more than 600,000 square feet of programming and events, according to Kristin Rowan, Director of Marketing for Phoenix Comicon.
Rowan said Comicon's tagline, 'Discover Your Inner Geek,' was inspired by the idea that 'nerd culture' is prevalent everywhere.
"Our tagline... was born of the idea that there is a little bit of geek in all of us," Rowan said. "Whether you love the Star Wars saga, read every Harry Potter book, can't get enough comics, or spend every weekend playing video games, some aspect of the geek culture is prevalent in all of our lives and we spend the weekend celebrating all of it."
Rowan said Comicon brings financial benefits to the Valley as well.
"Rough estimates show Phoenix Comicon brings in roughly $10 million dollars over the course of the week," Rowan said.
ASU professors and students also play a role in bringing the convention to life.
"We have many ASU professors who are participating in and presenting as part of our accredited science track," Rowan explained."We are also very excited to welcome back the ASU Quidditch Team this year. Of course, we'd also love to see the ASU e-sports team come down and show us their skills and maybe help us run a tournament one year."
Makenna Baum, social media and outreach chair for ASU Quidditch, said the team is attending on Friday and has attended for the past three years.
"We hold a demonstration match to show everyone how Quidditch is played," Baum said. "After we do that, we invite kids and whoever else to come and play with us."
Baum, a senior and nutrition major at ASU, said audience turnout and participation was a success last year.
"We've had a lot of kids participating and being excited about it," Baum said. "There's actually a few (incoming) players who learn about Quidditch by going to Comicon... They've seen it there, and that inspires them to play Quidditch too. It has impacted younger kids and some people playing right now."
Baum said both ASU and Comicon allow people to embrace their unique interests.
"Even ASU has a lot of clubs where people are able to express their interests," Baum said. "Both that and Comicon allow for people who are into 'geeky things' to have a place (to come together)."
Jonathan Nguyen, a sophomore majoring in business management, has attended Comicon for years and enjoys meeting the eclectic mix of people that Comicon has to offer.
"I go mostly because my friends are there," said Nguyen, who is planning to cosplay as Snow Day Bard, a character from the multiplayer game League of Legends. "You meet a whole bunch of people who have the same interests, and it's the one time of the year where I can spend a lot of money to have fun."
However, Nguyen has one complaint: the merchandise that the exhibitors sell is expensive.
"That's my only thing about Comicon," Nguyen said. "Everything is overpriced, guaranteed."
Regardless, Nguyen said that plenty of ASU students attend Comicon, and he has overheard the classmates in his business classes discuss the event.
"As a whole, I say its one of the few things that Phoenix has that everyone wants to go to," Nguyen said. "It's like one of the biggest events of the year."
Phoenix Comicon will take place at the Phoenix Convention Center in Downtown Phoenix from Thursday, May 25 to Sunday, May 28. Tickets can be bought here or at the door.
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January 11, 2020 12:01 am EST MrsMaryLou TNB Night Owl (Open thread) 0
The 1970s brought us a spate of splatterpunk slasher movies. The 1980s brought us a spate of slasher spoof movies. As with any satire subgenre, some are fantastic. Some are nightmarishly horrible. Most are somewhere in between. Such is the case with PANDEMONIUM (1982).
PANDEMONIUM was originally titled THURSDAY THE 12TH, which should give a hint to the level they're aiming toward. The movie opens with a young student named Bambi (Candy Azzara) pining over football star Blue Grange (an all too small role for Tab Hunter). He doesn't even notice her because he's so focused on the cheerleaders. Those same cheerleaders pick on Candi and shun her from their activities. Soon after, the entire squad is skewered with a javelin. We are then treated to a newspaper headline montage showing that all cheerleaders in the town of It Had To Be, Indiana from then on were horribly murdered. It only makes sense that, once Bambi grows up, she would open a cheerleading camp there.
The cheerleaders are played by either soon-to-be stars like Judge Reinhold and Carol Kane, or faces that you recognize from somewhere but can't place, such as Teri Landrum and Debralee Scott. There's jokes based on the cheerleader stereotypes, knocks at popular slasher films like CARRIE, or even cornball wordplay ("Are you Pepe?" "Not since they removed my prostate."). Those scenes are intercut with a displaced Canadian Mounty (Tom Smothers) and his assistant (Paul Reubens, who spends a lot of time channeling his Pee Wee Herman character). They are in town because both an prisoner and a mental patient have escaped.
About halfway through the movie the cheerleaders start dropping like flies. Who is the killer? One of the escapees? Bambi? Pepe? One of the surviving cheerleaders? In a way it doesn't even matter because with spoof movies like this, it's about the ride and the gags along the way more than the story itself.
The cast was filled with both veterans and newcomers to comedy, all of which knew what they were doing with the jokes given. The timing was great, the delivery was great. I can't imagine this movie working as well with a different cast.
This was the final feature directed by Alfred Sole. Previously he'd made a porno, a sci-fi exploitation, and a well-received and well-respected horror film, ALICE, SWEET ALICE. It's obvious Sole has a love for the horror genre. It comes through in the spoof. He's not laughing at but laughing with.
PANDEMONIUM may not be the funniest movie to come out of the 1980s, or the most original, but it's not bad and it's a funny way to pass the time.
Question of the night: What's your favorite 80s comedy?
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Jesse (actually Jessel) is my beautiful black, 45 pound, tri-color Aussie girl. She was born in 2004 and I bought her in August, so I guess she birthed in July sometime.
I was never able to have kids, so believe me, both of these (doggie) treasures are near and dear to my heart. I'd probably throw myself in front of a 2-ton truck to protect them if it came to that. I mean, I know that I am a bit neurotic about my love for them. On normal days we all (Jesse, Cap, and I) gather together on my bed and have a "Love Fest." It's happy times. And when Jesse is in heat I pamper her even more with lots of snuggling, sweet talk, and rubbing of the belly. Anyway, we were in the midst of the heat cycle and Jesse was getting her special attention.
One night during this particular cycle, I had a bad dream. I don't remember what it was about but I do get nightmares once in awhile. Sometimes I remember them, sometimes not, but I have woken up crying, or a few times I have woken myself up talking loud. As I alluded to earlier, the last few years have been pretty rough times, never knowing if there will be enough money to keep things going around here. Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for sympathy. I know that many people are having a rough time and what helps me get through is the special gift that poor people over the ages have always known, be grateful for what you do have. I am.
At any rate, this time I guess I was having a wham-doozle of a bad dream and I must have been crying out in my sleep. I woke up abruptly and remember being greatly relieved to be out of it. I could feel that my eyes were wet and at first thought it seemed that I had been crying, except there weren't any tears. I looked over and there sat Jesse looking at me with those beautiful hazel eyes that she often talks with. I suddenly realized that Jesse had been licking my eyes to wake me up from my bad dream. A rush of emotion hit me, the kind that you feel when it hits you that you are cared for in a deep way by another being. I reached over and pulled her close… and then the tears started to fall softly. They were tears of love and gratitude to have this wonderful little being in my life.
As for me, I continue to give thanks for and learn from Monsieur Cap and my dear little Jesse, the Dream Waker.
I had a similar experience just tonight. I was having a bad dream, one I couldn't seem to wake up from. My sweet little poodle was licking my mouth when I woke up. I guess some dogs are more empathetic then others, just like people. I'm glad you wrote about your story. Dogs are the most wonderful companions; mine was a rescue from a shelter.
I have already done that. So glad you are checking for yourself.
Check with your local Humane Society. The Human Society of Ohio does spaying/neutering for $65.00. I have two dogs and had both done. The vet charges $260/ea.
Wow! These little bundles of love are amazing! I had another little dog (SamE) who was my mom and grandma's dog and after my mom passed on I was laying on her bed crying and he came up and started to lick my tears. I wonder if there is already a book about such moments and the love of our animals that pulls us through. So sorry to hear of your hard moments, but thank you for commenting on this story.
I know how you feel. Bryn and I were on our way to agility class this morning and something struck me hard and I started to cry. My mom is dying and we are all emotional here. Bryn comes with me to see Mom and is such a comfort to both of us. But today, she felt that I was crying and she put her head up and looked at me with her gentle eyes telling me that it is OK. She is such a sweetie and understand what I am going through right now. It's great to have a nonjudgmental friend.
That is such a wonderful story. She sounds sweet, loving and so connected to you. That must give you so much peace in hard times. My basenji mix will lay directly lay next to me if I am crying and then try to crawl and lay on me and lick my face. My aussie, Beemer, who is usually is a psycho, comes up and puts her big paws on me. My former rottie, after I tripped on the stairs and shattered my foot and I fell on the floor in a near stupor, ran over to me and started licking the foot that I had just broken, then licked up my tear. Our companions can never be truly thanked enough. It is so sad and horrendous the way that other treat theirs. The abuse, neglect, etc. is so shameful and they really need our protection. You offer a wonderful home and those pups are loved. Thank you for sharing your story. I am sure the love fests will continue for a long time.
Thank you for your kind words, Anonymous. Yes, aren't we lucky to have such beautiful connections with our dogs? I have read about or seen on TV about dogs who actually are trained to let their owner know if they are getting ready to have a heart attack or seizure and other kinds of things. I think it is just so amazing... Too bad they don't speak english, huh? Of course, if we pay attention... they really do talk to us. I just don't know what I would do without them. Again, thank you for reading my story and your words of encouragement. I've started doing a lot of writing lately and have been thinking of writing a book...we'll see. But, it was just so compelling when I found this site and saw that there was a place for special stories about our Aussie boys and girls. I just had to go ahead and write down the special Dream Waker experience. Take care and have a happy Easter.
oh wow that is so beautiful and so true. My Cooper does the same with me, when I'm in pain. he watches me intently, anxiously, until I tell him I'm ok, then he lays down again, but always watching and listening.


Olympic champion Laura Trott claimed Great Britain's fourth gold of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in London with victory in the women's omnium.
Trott rode tactically in the final race of six disciplines to finish 12 points clear of Belgium's Jolien D'Hoore, with Netherland's Kirsten Wild third.
It was the Briton's second gold medal of the meet following her success in the women's team pursuit on Friday.
Britain also took gold in the men's team pursuit and men's madison.
British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton said: "Our winning mentality is coming back. We're starting to get some results.
"We're not just relying on the women's team pursuit winning."
Trott, who won the individual points race at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, held a 14 point lead over D'Hoore going into the 100-lap race and sat on the wheel of her rival for much of the event.
Gold - Men's team pursuit, women's team pursuit, men's madison, women's omnium. Bronze - Women's points race.
With five points available for the winner of each of the 10 sprints, the 22-year-old was happy to see riders who were no threat to the overall standings take the majority of them, before leaping clear to win sprint nine and secure gold with 10 laps still to go.
"I'm so happy," Trott said. "The points race has never been my strongest event. I've been doing a lot of work.
"My tactics were actually quite simple, all I had to do was follow Jolien. When I won the second from last sprint I knew it was over."
Trott made an excellent start to the two-day omnium event, winning the scratch race and individual pursuit to give herself breathing room in the eliminator, time trial and flying lap disciplines.
In the corresponding men's event, Jon Dibben, 22, finished seventh despite a technical problem in the eliminator and a crash in the final points race.
In the final event with British interest, Jessica Varnish finished fifth in the women's keirin final after being handed a surprise start.
The 24-year-old was due to race in the minor final but was promoted to replace Russia's Ekaterina Gnidenko, who was relegated for her involvement in a crash in the semi-finals.


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Redcliff beekeeper creating buzz in town
Posted on June 5, 2018 by 40 Mile Commentator
Southern Alberta Newspapers photo by Peggy Revell Toby Newton smiles next to the beehive in his Redcliff backyard. Not only does Newton's hobby of urban beekeeping produce plenty of honey for friends and family, it's also helping support the bee population which is needed for so many of the foods people love and enjoy.
By Jeremy Appel
Commentator/Courier
With bee populations dwindling worldwide, Toby Newton has taken on the task of beekeeping right in Redcliff.
He came to the realization that he could be part of the solution at his agronomy job at South Country Co-op's Agro Centre in Medicine Hat.
"It didn't force my hand to want to do it," he said. "It just persuaded me more to do it."
Since the Co-op was bringing in beehives, Newton was able to get a package of bees, which is how he got started beekeeping.
He says the decline in bee populations is a result of chemicals farmers are spraying.
"When people spray a field for pesticides, or insecticides even, they can't stop the bees from being in there, so it catches everything," said Newton.
"It catches the good bugs and the bad bugs, so all the beneficials, like ladybugs, bees (and) parasitic wasps, they all get caught up in the mix as well."
The decline in bee population will have significant negative effects on our food sources.
"We could lose honey, we could lose bananas, we could lose all kinds of fruits that come form the tropics or Southern America," he said.
"Without bees, we'd lose a massive, massive amount of produce."
Newton deals specifically with bees from New Zealand.
"Their summer is obviously opposite to ours," he said. "When the bees are declining towards the end of (their) summer, bees will keep a certain amount of bees within the hive to look after the Queen over the winter.
"But if there are too many bees in there, they'll die, so what they'll do is take a certain amount of those bees out of those hives and put them into packages, and ship them to North America."
Bees can produce honey all year, provided they're in the right climate, added Newton.
During the winter, he wraps the hive up with silver-lined bubblewrap, leaving a small hole on the bottom in case the bees want to go out.
"When you hear a hive humming in the winter, it's means that they're just flapping their wings to regulate some heat," Newton said.
"When you get nice sunny days in the winter, even though it's cold outside, you'll often see bees come out for a cleansing flight, which means that they'll come out, just have a clean, stretch their wings … find water if they have to and then come back to the hive again before it gets too cold."
He says his garden has benefited immensely from having bees around.
"I've seen more fruit on my apricot tree and it's been consistent (for) years from having bees in my garden, just because it gets pollinating more," Newton said, adding that he's noticed similar impacts for his cherry tree and flowers.
"The flowers look absolutely amazing in the garden."
His neighbours have noticed similar benefits, he said.
"It's not just my garden, it's everybody else's garden in Redcliff," said Newton.
Bees have a five-mile radius and there's another beekeeper on the other side of Redcliff, so the advantages are town-wide.
Newton said some neighbours have inquired about the risks of getting stung, but unlike wasps, bees will only sting when they feel threatened.
"I've showed them the hive, and I've showed them how close I can get to them and how close my dogs get to them," he said.
"Once they see that, they say, 'Oh, okay. That's awesome.'"


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Infrastructure Shares Jump on Obama's Building Promises
Investors see light at the end of the tunnel as infrastructure-related shares surged Monday, leading a broad market advance that lifted key indexes to their best levels in a month after President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to spend heavily on the nation's infrastructure, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Dow Jones
Investors see light at the end of the tunnel as infrastructure-related shares surged Monday, leading a broad market advance that lifted key indexes to their best levels in a month after President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to spend heavily on the nation's infrastructure, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 298.76 points and the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 33.63 points. The Associated Press reported that world markets were also slightly higher today. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was 44.78 points, while Germany's DAX was up 22.03 points and The CAC-40 in France rose 35.99 points. U.S. stocks were poised to open higher again today, too, as the day approaches for the Big Three automakers bailout to occur. Talks about the appointment of a federal car czar to oversee a government-run restructuring of U.S. auto companies in return for a $15 billion bailout of the beleaguered industry is in the works, according to the Associated Press. Negotiators reportedly worked through the night Monday narrowing differences on a bill to rush short-term loans to the struggling carmakers through a plan that requires that the industry reinvent itself to survive — and pay back the government if it doesn't. The package could come to a vote as early as Wednesday. Meanwhile, airline industry losses in 2009 may shrink to half this year's level as a decline in fuel costs more than makes up for a reduction in the number of people flying, Bloomberg reported. Carriers may still lose a total of $2.5 billion next year, compared with $5 billion in the current 12 months, but that is good news compared to predictions of a $4.1 billion loss for airlines in 2009 made as recently as Sept. 3, based on an average oil price of $110 a barrel, according to the report. The New York Times reported that Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony announced on Tuesday that it would eliminate 8,000 jobs and rein in planned investment as it reacts to the global economic slowdown. About 10 percent of the company's 57 plants will be shut, including two overseas sites, and plans to expand a site in Slovakia where LCD televisions for the European market are assembled have been delayed, according to the Times.


Phoenixiana. 2 Vols. by George Horatio Derby : Dumont Books & Maps : An antiquarian bookshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico specializing in rare, ephemera, out of print, and Americana titles.
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1897.
2 volumes. Frontis, xxxiii, 123; frontis, viii, 119pp, 12 pages of illustrations some in color. Cloth, TEG, no dj's. Spines sunned, small bookplate on front pastedowns, else clean and very good. 12mo. One of 165 copies published by the Caxton Club, printed by the Lakeside Press. Derby (1823-1861) was an officer in the Corps of Topographical Engineers who conducted several important western surveys. For fun he played practical jokes and wrote humorous essays that he published in San Francisco newspapers and in two books. His was the first appearance of rough hewn "western humor" that can be traced through Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and probably Garrison Keillor. (Even if Keillor doesn't know it; when we met him he claimed no knowledge of Derby's writing.) I can find no edition of Derby more recent than 1937, which is too bad - some of his stuff is still laugh-out-loud funny.


PUREhappiness: on making the effort.
this past weekend it was thanksgiving here in canada. our thanksgiving comes earlier because the bounty of our harvest tends to peak earlier than that in america (as the frosts may come earlier - although here in toronto we're actually more southern some of our southern neighbours!), and i'm happy to think about thanksgiving as an opportunity to give thanks for the amazing bounty we are seeing at the farmer's markets right now (especially thanks to our amazing warm autumn). i was trying to remember last thanksgiving, and honestly i can't recall whether i made a turkey or a vegetarian feast. i am slowly coming to terms with the fact that i am an incredibly forgetful person.
however, this year i was definitely on board with doing a full-out vegan dinner, and we had friends in from out of town (one of whom recently finished a month-long vegan experiment and who i love to talk with about our food & ethics musings) so the appeal of cooking not just for the two of us made it even more fun.
because there is so much prep involved with making a vegan loaf, i started preparing the day before and pre-made as much as i could. i then spent sunday cooking the last minute items and cleaning & organizing the house. i set our table beautifully (one of my favourite parts of having a dinner party!) and by the time our guests arrived, i felt like i'd been preparing for two full days. but i loved every minute of it. i haven't felt much like cooking for the past few months, and it's hard to pinpoint exactly why. but preparing a big holiday dinner reminded me how much i love being in the kitchen. even though it's a lot of work (before and after), it's so much fun to choose recipes, change them up to make them your own, experiment, and pour your love into making something delicious for the people in your life. so i've decided that even if i'm lacking in motivation, i'm going to make an effort, and make the time, to plan and prepare a real dinner at least once or twice a week. the feeling of satisfaction (as well as the extra day or two of leftovers and the thanks i get from my body for giving it a real meal instead of something hastily thrown together) is well worth the effort.
there are a number of other things in my life that i feel i need to dedicate more effort & time to. one of them is writing here... i've been examining my life lately and there are so many things i'd love to write about, and yet PUREhappiness has stayed so sleepy for such a long time - why is it that the more things are going the way i want them to, the less i have motivation to write them down to remember them? if anything, it should be more important to me at this time to share what's going on in my life, for the family & friends who read here, and to spend the time remembering and savouring the good memories.
perhaps i've become a little complacent - a little too willing to stand still because i like where i'm currently standing. and without the forward velocity in my days, there's no sense of urgency to "get things done" ...and so the extras (like writing) don't get done. sometimes all we need is a gentle reminder of those good habits we enjoy that we've let slide, to re-ignite the flame and get us moving again. remembering why we love to cook, to write, to get outside, and to get sweaty. for me, that reminder was a special thanksgiving weekend that inspired me to do all of those things.
is there something in your life that you've put down that you need to make the effort to pick up again? what do you think could motivate you to make it happen?


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(Yid., Zabludove), town on the Meletina River (in the Western Bug basin) in the Białystok district and province of Poland. Zabłudów is first mentioned in archival sources in 1525. From 1569, the town was in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; from 1795 it was belonged to East Prussia; from 1807 to 1918 it was in the Russian Empire.
In 1596, two dwellings (out of 101) belonged to Jews; in 1622, Jews owned 16 out of 296, and in 1685, the Jewish population consisted of 296 individuals living in 85 dwellings around the market square.
Zabłudów's location on the border between Lithuanian and Polish territories led to a long-term dispute between the Council of Four Lands and the Lithuanian Council. Both claimed jurisdiction over the area's Jews, and debates centered on whether Zabłudów was a responsibility of Tykocin in Poland or Grodno in Lithuania. Attempts at resolving the dispute divided jurisdiction between the two cities. Still, after a period in which Tykocin predominated, from the mid-seventeenth century the Zabłudów community was a member of the Lithuanian Council, whose sessions it hosted in 1664 and 1676.
In 1638 and 1645, the Jews of Zabłudów received privileges confirming their right to own a synagogue, a hospital, a cemetery, and an abattoir. Fragments of the community register (pinkas) from 1646 to 1816 have been preserved. The wooden synagogue built in the 1630s became one of the most remarkable specimens of that type of synagogue architecture. In 1646, a woman's section was added to the structure, and the wall paintings were renovated in 1712. The building was renovated both in 1765 and in the early nineteenth century.
In 1660, Russian troops caused heavy damage to Zabłudów's Jews. However, the community quickly recovered, thanks to the production and sale of beer and vodka, and to intensive trade at urban markets and fairs. Fierce competition with merchants in the town led to ritual murder accusations in the 1690s.
In 1752, the Jewish tailors' and furriers' craft guild split. In addition to these groups, there were at least six other religious and charitable societies in Zabłudów. The minute book of the burial society for the years 1701–1819 has been preserved. In 1764, some 831 Jews lived in Zabłudów; in 1807, there were 1,831 (representing 50% of the town's population); in 1847, there were 2,165; and in 1897 the numbers had risen to 2,621 (68.6%). Notable Jews included the prominent maskil Ḥayim Zelig Słonimski, who lived in Zabłudów from 1827 for nearly 10 years. He was a member of the Talmud Study Society and taught in a local bet midrash.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Jews established weaving and spinning mills and leather processing enterprises in Zabłudów. Jewish workers began to organize at the turn of the century, forming a cell of the Zionist Socialist Workers Party in 1906. Emigration to the United States, Argentina, and Chile began in the 1880s, and swelled after 1905 and 1914.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Zabłudów boasted a synagogue, four study houses, a private boys' school, and a Talmud Torah. During World War I, the town's public institutions declined, eventually to be restored with aid from the U.S.-based Committee of Former Zabłudów Residents.
After the town became part of independent Poland in 1918, Jews began to participate in the Zabłudów city council. In 1921, some 1,817 Jews lived in Zabłudów; in 1925, they numbered 2,200; in 1931, there were 1,952; and in 1939, there were approximately 1,900 (representing more than 50% of the population). Centers of Zionist activity included the Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa'ir organization, the local library, and the Bet 'Am Club, where lectures and educational and amateur talent activities took place; the club also organized regular events to gather money for the Jewish community in Palestine. In 1925, Zabłudów's last rabbi, Yoḥanan Mirsky, organized a Talmud Torah in which the Hebrew language and secular subjects were taught.
With western Belorussia's annexation to the USSR and the arrival of the Red Army in September 1939, private enterprises were closed and prominent politicians and business leaders were arrested. Nonetheless, Jews continued to play an important role in city government, the education system, and cultural activities. The number of Jews in the town increased as many war refugees arrived from Poland.
When the Nazis overtook the town on 25 June 1941, they burned down its central part, including the old synagogue. Many Jews then fled to Białystok. At the end of July of that year, the Nazis established a ghetto on the premises of the local tannery. Jews were forced to work at processing leather and constructing roads. On 2 November 1942, the Nazis liquidated the Zabłudów ghetto and deported about 1,400 Jews to Treblinka. In January 1943, the Jews who had been deported to the Pruzhany' ghetto (including Rabbi Mirsky) were sent to Auschwitz. The last Jews of the town were murdered in the Białystok ghetto in February and August 1943. No Jews returned to Zabłudów after World War II.
Sh. Asaf, "Mi-Pinkas Zabludove," Kiryat sefer: Riv'on bibliyografi shel Bet ha-sefarim ha-le'umi veha-universita'i bi-Yerushalayim 4 (Jerusalem, 1925): 307–317; Yisra'el Halperin, "Ḥavarot ba'ale mela'khah be-Polin ve-Lita," in Tsiyon 1 (1937): 88–89; Yankev Kreplyak, ed., Zabludover pinkes (New York, [1925]); Maria and Kazimerz Piechotka, "Zabłudów," in Heaven's Gates: Wooden Synagogues in the Territories of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, pp. 372–379 (Warsaw, 2004); Neḥamah Shemu'eli-Shamush and Ya'akov Tur'el-Gotlib, eds., Zabludov: Dapim mitokh Yizker-bukh (Argentina 1961) (Tel Aviv, 1987), translation of selections from the Yiddish yizker-bukh with new material; Shmuel Tsesler, Yoysef Reznik, and Yitskhok Tsesler, eds., Zabludove: Yizker-bukh (Buenos Aires, 1961).
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Translated from Russian by I. Michael Aronson


Mixed-use development in senior living is on the rise, and the creative thinkers are winning.
Whether including senior living or not, a common template for residential mixed-use is a single building with public retail, dining or both on the building's ground floor, and apartments and condos above. This model is popular in senior living, too.
But a new report from Senior Housing News shows the creative ways senior living providers are delivering the value inherent in mixed-use, while thinking outside the box to create new avenues for care delivery and business success.
Here is a look at four recent examples of creative mixed-use senior living.
Reason for mixed-use: When Houston-based senior housing owner and operator Belmont Village Senior Living prepared to open a $55 million mixed-use assisted living and memory care tower in Mexico City, Belmont Village CEO Patricia Will saw a very small piece of acreage with room to build up, not out.
The mixed-use approach made sense due to the city's population and land density.
"It made sense if you can conquer that [density] problem to put more than one use on the land," Will says.
The Mexico City investors found the land. Belmont Village took over after that. Will and her team created Belmont Village Santa Fe (BVSF), which is mixed-use in two ways. First, in its own building it offers retail and restaurants on the ground floor, 11 stories of senior housing, an eight-story Hyatt Hotel above the senior housing and underground parking. All of this sits on just an acre and a half of land.
Second, across the street from BVSF is ABC Medical Center — the top hospital in Mexico City — along with a medical school. While the hospital system does not own nor control the land, they were consulted about what they felt the development most needed.
The connection between the hospital's needs and that of the development are physical too: the Hyatt and the hospital are connected via skybridge. The hospital serves the senior housing and vice-versa, while the Hyatt gives family members of the senior housing a place to stay while visiting.
Reason for mixed-use: When the business model for the Henry Ford Health System's Cottage Hospital became untenable, American House was there to help. The hospital, located about 10 miles northeast of Detroit, was shifting from an inpatient care model to more outpatient care.
This left the hospital with significant operational losses — they had too many beds. They reached out to nearby American House to find a solution. The two entities partnered up: American House purchased two floors in the hospital in a condominium arrangement and converted one floor to assisted living and the other to memory care.
The condominium structure is American House's preferred arrangement for mixed-use.
Watchowski is not just CEO of American House, but also CEO, COO and president of commercial real estate developer REDICO. While some senior housing providers get tripped up by the other uses in mixed-use, Watchowski does not.
Reason for mixed-use: As chairman and CEO of Bellevue, Washington-based senior living provider Aegis Living, Dwyane Clark created Aegis Gardens of Newcastle to serve a Chinese community that totals nearly 600,000 people in Seattle and the nearby cities of Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
The community, which opened in February of 2018, is a five-story mixed-use building covering 128,521 square feet. Clark developed the project with a goal of creating an intergenerational community of health care, culture and education. To that end, along with its more traditional dining, tea room and spa offerings, Aegis Gardens includes a cultural center and lecture area, with a preschool slated to open in September.
While the on-site dining, including one of a chain of nonprofit cafes called Queen Bee, gives Aegis a traditional mixed-use feel, its primary mixed-use mission is cultural. The lecture area focuses on topics such as Chinese medicine, longevity, Tai Chi and financial planning.
Unlike many other vertical mixed-use communities, Aegis Gardens of Newcastle is not in an urban center, and wasn't built with intense land constraints. It was designed exclusively based on Clark's desires and instincts for what care should be. He adds elements when he sees that they are "programmatically accretive" to the lives of residents.
Reason for mixed-use: In October of 2015, the Independence branch of the Chicago Public Library was destroyed in a four-alarm fire. This was a devastating loss for its community — despite floating from location to location, the library had been part of the Chicago Public Library system since 1914.
When community activists began a movement for a new, permanent library, the mayor's office, library system and Chicago Housing Authority teamed up to combine a new public library with affordable senior housing.
Chicago is opening three such projects, with the libraries open for business at the end of 2018 and the housing available in early 2019. The project at Independence is a single structure with 44 units of affordable, independent living, 30 of which include a rent subsidy.
The library and housing are financed together, with the senior living making the project more attractive to the city. Evergreen will be the building owner and property manager for the independent living, with the library as a tenant.
Click here to access the complete report, which takes a deep dive into the three templates for mixed-use senior living, and reveals how senior housing leaders are combining new models for care with new boosts to the bottom line.


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Help Santa fill his sleigh with lots of presents!
Be Santa's helpers and get those presents ready!
It's a race to the top of the pile! Who will get their sleigh filled first!
This game teaches counting, following directions, healthy competition, with a little fine motor in there too.
Getting ready is simple. Print out the download pack. If you choose to laminate (recommended) do that first. Then cut out the presents.
The sleighs are left blank so each child can decorate their own sleigh. You can cut the page in half for each child.
Cut out and form the dice.
Place one Velcro Brand dot on the back of each present and it's mate above the sleigh in a line. Each sleigh should have the same amount of dots.
Each child takes turns rolling the dice and placing or removing the amount of presents it says from their sleigh.
First to the top wins.
Each child takes turn rolling the dice only once each turn.
If the dice says remove 1 present than one present is returned to the workshop for repairs.


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Q: Error adding Google Identity Toolkit with Gradle I am trying to add the Google Identity Toolkit to my Google App Engine backend in Android Studio using Gradle. But I'm new to Android Studio and Gradle.
I have added the following to my backend build.gradle:
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-identitytoolkit:v3-rev191-1.20.0'
}

After a sync and gradle build I try to added an import:
import com.google.identitytoolkit.GitkitClient;

But I am getting the following errors:

cannot resolve symbol 'identitytoolkit'

and

error: package com.google.identitytoolkit does not exists

A: Well I feel a little bit stupid... I've realised my mistake:
I should have been using the Gradle config:
compile 'com.google.identitytoolkit:gitkitclient:1.2.3'

instead of
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-identitytoolkit:v3-rev191-1.20.0'
}

using
http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Ccom.google.identitytoolkit%7Cgitkitclient%7C1.2.3%7Cjar
instead of
https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/java/apis/identitytoolkit/v3

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The men's discus throw event at the 1955 International University Sports Week was held in San Sebastián on 13 August 1955.

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Western Bulldogs sign first USAFL player for AFLW 2020
Wednesday, July 10 2019 @ 04:40 pm ACST
The first AFLW signing of an American player has finally been made. Today the Western Bulldogs officially signed American Dani Marshall. Marshall who has played in the 2018 and 2019 seasons with the Arizona Lady Hawks made her way to Melbourne earlier this year to play with the Aberfeldie club in the Essendon Districts Football League.
After showing good form there and quickly making her way from a trial at the Western Bulldogs to playing their VFLW team Marshall quickly convinced the club she had what they needed at AFLW level.
Marshall also trialled and spoke with a number of other clubs in Melbourne but the Bulldogs have secured her services for the 2020 ALFW season.
While a number of other Americans have trialled and up until now failed to be signed to an AFLW contract, the hurdle has now been cleared and hopefully we will see other clubs willing to take on other talented players from the USAFL.
The club also announced today they have signed Katy Herron from Donegal, another Irish Gaelic footballer to join compatriot Aisling McCarthty. This comes despite the departure of head coach Paul Groves who was a strong proponent of the CrossCoders program that originally brought McCarthy to the club from Ireland.
The full statement from the Western Bulldogs below:
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AFL in the USA: Giants season opener could be played in America
Wednesday, July 10 2019 @ 10:48 am ACST
Contributed by: Wesley Hull
The following story from Rob Forsaith at AAP appeared on the www.7news.com.au website this week looking at the very real prospects of an AFL match being held in the USA for premiership points – most likely in California. Should this match occur in coming seasons, it would be a massive boost to the game in the States and a huge promotional opportunity for all USAFL clubs.
The United States might host a star-studded, stand-alone start to the AFL season if GWS's bid to play a game for premiership points in America gets off the ground.
The Giants and the AFL are in the early stages of discussions on the prospect of taking a regular-season match to the US.
Finding a suitable ground in a country full of rectangular stadiums is among the most challenging of several hurdles.
Officials are following with interest Philadelphia-based businessman Jignesh Pandya's $2.4-billion vision to spread cricket across his homeland, by constructing new oval stadiums in eight cities.
The Americans are…..here!
Wednesday, May 15 2019 @ 11:10 pm ACST
Since the early days of the USAFL, American players have travelled to Australia to bathe in the full experience of being at an Aussie rules football club in Australia. Most come to play the game at the highest level they can, some are happy just to play a game anywhere, while others will consult a USAFL team mate from Australia to hook them up with their old club.
Probably the most successful of those players (on a long term playing basis at state level) who came to Australia on their own initiative is Alex Aurrichio. Originally Aurrichio attended an AFL combine in LA before playing footy with the New York Magpies. He then came to Australia, worked around a number of clubs before ending up at Carlton's VFL affiliate the Northern Blues where he played multiple seasons before moving to the SANFL and NEAFL leagues.
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My footy journey
Sunday, May 12 2019 @ 08:57 pm ACST
Contributed by: Frederick Shaibani
I first picked up a Sherrin in October 2015.
I had watched some AFL highlights on YouTube at that point and was instantly intrigued by Aussie rules: the pace of the game, the unique skills, and the all-around athleticism required to play it were all extremely appealing to me. I didn't know much at the time, but I knew I wanted to get involved.
Reverse Psychology Worth A Punt
Monday, April 08 2019 @ 01:11 pm ACST
Nik Constantinou has a dream. He wants to be a punter in American football, and is well on the road to that dream.
We see a great deal written about the journey other "cross coders" have made in leaving their homes overseas to try their hand at Australian Rules football after having played a range of sports including Gaelic Football, soccer, basketball and many more. We have also read about the drive to do so and the reasons behind the attraction.
But we rarely, by comparison, read about the motivation of Australians who do the reverse: leave behind a life in Australian Rules football to go to the United States of America to give punting a go in American Football (Gridiron – maybe NFL).
Nik has shared some of his insights into a journey he has commenced to chase a relatively new dream – but a dream just the same.
Cox to contest rough conduct charge
Monday, April 01 2019 @ 12:21 pm ACDT
The AFL Tribunal will sit tomorrow night, Tuesday April 2 5pm (Melbourne local time), to hear the charge laid against Collingwood's Mason Cox.
Mason Cox, was charged with engaging in Rough Conduct against Dylan Grimes, Richmond during the fourth quarter of the Round Two match between Richmond and Collingwood, played at the MCG on Thursday night March 28, 2019.
Marvellous.
Sunday, March 24 2019 @ 11:56 am ACDT
It is slow and gradual, but it is relentless. More and more Hollywood and entertainment heavyweights are taking our great game to a world stage, perhaps nowhere more so that the United States.
In the past twelve months, a slew of Hollywood (or entertainment general) figures have visited Australia and ensured they spent time learning more about our game.
Last night, as part of the first AFL premiership match at the newly renamed Marvel Stadium, Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Matt Damon (remember his small role as Loki in Thor: Ragnorak) cheered on the Thor-themed Western Bulldogs.
Caught In The Spider's Web – April Lewis (Essendon VFLW)
"I played both club and school soccer through U17's. During my youth games, I ran in the mids/forwards and was a natural goal scorer. After exceeding a score limit set by my coach, I was put into goalkeeper, so everyone had an equal opportunity to play.
"During one game, I was so bored in goal, I was cartwheeling, dancing and leg-swinging to the point I got my cleat stuck behind my body in the net of the goal. In attempt to free myself, I also managed to pin both my arms in the net."
"My mom loves to describe the next part of the story with enthusiasm, because as one might guess, the other team had a sudden chipped ball over the last defender and is then on a breakaway toward me. With a lot of struggle and some miracle, I yanked my body from the net in time to make a diving save. I remember the eruption of parents on the sideline, and the deep scolding I got after the fact.
"The moral of the story, continuing to affect my sporting career, is to stay involved in the play and the closer I am to impacting the ball, the better."
Sydney Swans Turn To Star Recruit - Conan O'Brien
Tuesday, February 19 2019 @ 09:59 pm ACDT
Last year both Meghan Markle and Natalie Portman surprised the Australian Rules football world with surprise visits to clubs or related events whilst in Australia. Now, American comedian Conan O'Brien is the latest celebrity to spend time learning our game - with the Sydney Swans.
The following YouTube clip shows O'Brien learning the game as part of a new show in production.
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Hawai'i Eagles Join USAFL
Wednesday, February 13 2019 @ 04:13 pm ACDT
Just last week the Hawai'i Eagles held a small inner club match. The grey team defeated the blue team on a cold, wet and windy – almost Melbourne like day – in what the club thinks may be the first ever Australian Rules game played in Hawai'i.
However, the bigger picture is the club's inclusion within the USAFL – to date the biggest vindication of their efforts and acknowledgement of their presence on the North American footy scene. To mark that event, Brian Barrish from the USAFL wrote the following article for the www.usafl.com website.
Dallas McCulloch arrived in Honolulu with a bit of an itch to scratch.
He had played Aussie Rules for the Austin Crows before heading to Australia, where he spent four months playing for the North Brunswick Bulls of the VAFA. Well, sort of.
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On March 21, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) announced that – effective March 23 at 23:00 to April 23 23:00 – Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja will be closed to all international flights, except emergency flights. All international airports in Nigeria are closed.
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Skepta snatches Mercury Prize from favourite David Bowie - but it's hard to argue with the result
Music Critic
15 September 2016 • 10:58pm
Rest in peace David Bowie," said Grime artist Skepta, launching into an exultant performance upon winning the 2016 Mercury Prize. The bravura rapper may have snatched the prize away from one of Britain's most beloved pop icons but it is hard to argue with the result.
Britpop star and former winner Jarvis Cocker, in his role as a Mercury judge, even tried to present it as the result that "David Bowie would have wanted". And he may have a point. Skepta has helped push Britain's inventive homegrown form of Hip Hop into the cultural mainstream with edgy street music that genuinely evokes the paranoia, self doubt, depression, exaltation and confrontational aggression of this moment in time.
Whether or not his twisted beats are your particular listening taste, Skepta very effectively represents the cutting edge of modern British commercial and artistic music. And his victory will mean a great deal to black British artists who have long felt marginalised by critical arbiters of mainstream media. It may not be a safe choice and I am sure it won't be a popular choice in all quarters, but I find myself agreeing with Cocker. If Bowie was looking down on the Hammersmith Apollo stage ("and who knows, he might be") he would probably be smiling.
"If David Bowie was looking down on the Hammersmith Apollo tonight, he would want the #MercuryPrize to go to...." pic.twitter.com/ifqqxKCR8I
— BBC Music (@bbcmusic) September 15, 2016
As we know from the huge betting on his behalf, David Bowie was the popular favorite. It does feel like a missed opportunity to pay homage to an artist who defined the mix of pop appeal and artistic depth that the Mercury Prize was invented to celebrate. He bowed out with a masterpiece that will be remembered long after most of this year's nominees have been consigned to bargain bins. And though he may not have won, the fingerprints of the late great music icon were all over the performances at this year's event.
Skepta wins the 2016 Mercury Prize Credit: PA
You could detect the Bowie imprint in the startling gender bending of Anohni, the bravura theatricality of Bat For Lashes, the fierce androgyny of Savages and bold musical cross pollination of Laura Mvula. Art rock idols The 1975 verged on Bowie pastiche with Love Me, a song apparently constructed from bits of Bowie's Fashion and Fame. With singer Matthew Healy dancing on tables, they were another public favourite, voted onto the final short list by BBC 6 Music listeners. They would have been deserving winners too, but are far too populist and entertaining for this most elitist of critical prizes.
What a moment for @Skepta, what a moment for grime! #MercuryPrize pic.twitter.com/NeUX3HpSnS
At first sight, only grime artists Skepta and Kano might have seemed untouched by Bowie's influence in their fantastically energised performances. Yet in the very act of boldly displaying their id and ego through cutting edge modern music they could be said to be Bowie's true heirs. Skepta's Shut Down has been one of the songs of the year, an exhilarating confrontational response to the feeling many young people have, black and white, of being excluded from social acceptability. Skepta and his peers, who he gracefully acknowledged in his acceptance speech, genuinely deserve to be heard by a wider public.
For so long the Mercury has seemed like an academic argument detached from the real conversations going on in pop music but this year's Prize was a surprising step in the right direction.
At a glance | Mercury prize 2016 winner and nominees
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