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'Culture of life' just another don't-be-a-fool argument
By Molly Ivins
San Gabriel Valley Tribune (San Gabriel Valley, CA)
June 6, 2005 Monday, SECTION: OPINION
AS a longtime fan of both George Bushes' eccentric grasp of English, I naturally enjoyed this gem from W.: "See, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.'
[Bush in Greece, N.Y., May 24, once more explaining his Social Security plan to a town hall meeting of perfectly average citizens, except they had all been pre- screened to allow only those who agree with him into the hall.]
"Catapulting the propaganda' would explain his performance at the press opportunity that same day at which he appeared surrounded by babies born from frozen embryos. He used the phrase "culture of life' at least 27 dozen times [I think I exaggerate, but maybe not]. "The use of federal dollars to destroy life is something I simply do not support,' he said to the press the following day.
Meanwhile, back in Baghdad, federal dollars are being used to destroy life at pretty good clip because Bush decided to wage an entirely elective war against a country that presented little or no threat to us. And according to the Downing Street memo, he damn well knew it, too.
The destruction of life in Iraq is more dramatic than taking a blastocyst smaller than a pinpoint out of a petri dish. The 1,600 American dead so far not much culture of life there. The 15,000 wounded, many of them irreparably not so good there, either. Estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths are all over the lot a British medical journal claimed 100,000 last year, the Iraq Body Count website says between 21,000 and 25,000. The U.S./U.N. sanctions are widely believed to have killed hundreds of thousands, most of them babies, even after the Oil for Food Program was instituted.
The New York Times reports that the doctors in Iraq are now being threatened by insurgents and so are fleeing what was a showcase system under Saddam. I think we'd all have to agree, so far there's no progress on bringing a culture of life to Iraq.
What I don't get is the disconnect in Bush's mind. One must assume he figures in Iraq, "You gotta break eggs to make an omelette,' or something akin. He said at the photo-op with the adorable children who had been produced from frozen embryos and adopted by other parents, "The children here today remind us that there is no such thing as a spare embryo.'
Nonsense. Fertility treatments that help couples to have children leave far too many excess embryos for all of them to be adopted. They are simply discarded by the laboratories, thrown out. What in the world is he talking about?
Seems to me the anti-abortion people are getting as nutty as the gun lobby, which lets cop- killer bullets on the street, wants to allow .50 caliber rifles that can bring down an airplane and stops efforts to close loopholes that let dealers sell to terrorists and criminals. Plus a bunch of other nutcase stuff that is not only harmful to society, but opposed by the great majority of the American people. Anti-abortion people are even going after the process of judicial bypass for girls who cannot fulfill the parental consent restriction.
Look, 60 percent of the American people are in favor of funding stem-cell research. Do we have a First Amendment issue here? Is this the case of a few people imposing their religious views on everybody else? I don't know enough about stem- cell research to tell you that it will produce miracle cures for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other diseases, as some scientists claim. But it's not only worth a shot, it would be criminal not to do it. The people who are ill are here, now, human beings in terrible suffering.
Bush is prepared to use his first-ever veto. Didn't stop the bankruptcy bill, didn't stop all those tax cuts for the very rich, didn't stop that gross agriculture bill but this he will veto. He says we will "cross a critical ethical line by creating new incentives for the ongoing destruction of emerging human life.' And he doesn't think starting an unnecessary war was crossing a critical ethical line?
It's the old slippery slope argument. Look, all of law is a process of drawing lines on slippery slopes. The difference between misdemeanor theft and felony theft is one penny. The difference between misdemeanor and felony drug possession is one gram. For that matter, the difference between a pig and a hog is one pound. We're always drawing distinctions, and it is necessary to do so hunting rifles, OK; .50 caliber rifles, don't be a fool.
This is a don't-be-a-fool argument. "Culture of life'? Whose life?
Write to Molly Ivins in care of Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
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POINT PLEASANT — Pleasant Valley Hospital recently commemorated National Organ Donation Month in April which included a ceremony to recognize those who give the ultimate gift.
The kickoff ceremony and flag raising were held in the hospital’s main lobby. Pleasant Valley Hospital employees, friends, donor families and recipients were in attendance.
“Celebrating the tremendous generosity of those who have saved lives by becoming organ, tissue, marrow, and blood donors is something very special. It is very important to us to see through the final wishes of our donors,” said Tom Schauer, CEO.
“One of our very memorable days here at Pleasant Valley Hospital was the day when the family of Mildred Shields agreed to give the gift of life when she passed away. Because of this decision, a 60-year old woman received Shields’ kidney in a Charleston, West Virginia hospital, and a 56-year old man received her liver in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based hospital,” further stated Tom Schauer, CEO.
Obviously, when a family is facing the loss of a loved one, they are dealing with one of the most difficult moments in their lives. Pleasant Valley Hospital’s Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE) liaison, Katy Larck, the PVH Staff, and CORE Representatives work closely with these families with the goal of honoring and respecting their wishes as they contemplate the life-saving gift that their loved one can give to someone else. Through Mildred’s gifts, two individuals in need of a life-saving transplant were given hope and a second chance at life.
The team at Pleasant Valley Hospital is very honored and proud to be part of such an important process of carrying out someone’s final wishes and giving the gift of life. The team made a commitment and accepted a challenge by joining hospitals across the state of West Virginia in the Donate Life Challenge.
During the months of April through August, Pleasant Valley Hospital staff and volunteers will encourage family members and friends to make the pledge to become an organ, tissue and cornea donor. Each person that signs up to become a donor can help up to 50 people through organ, tissue and cornea donation. For more information about becoming an organ donor, please stop by or call 304-675-4340 and ask to speak to the Auxiliary.
During 2012, Pleasant Valley Hospital was also awarded the Governor’s Award for Life for Cornea Donation by the West Virginia Hospital Association and Donate Life West Virginia. Pleasant Valley Hospital is among others who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in organ, tissue and eye donation.
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WASHINGTON — Air Force officials are warning that unless their budget is increased dramatically, and soon, the military's high-flying branch won't dominate the skies as it has for decades.
After more than seven years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Air Force's aging jet fighters, bombers, cargo aircraft and gunships are at the breaking point, they say, and expensive, ultramodern replacements are needed fast.
"What we've done is put the requirement on the table that says, 'If we're going to do the missions you're going to ask us to do, it will require this kind of investment,'" Maj. Gen. Paul Selva, the Air Force's director of strategic planning, said in an interview.
"Failing that, we take what is already a geriatric Air Force," Selva said, "and we drive it for another 20 years into an area of uncertainty."
An extra $20 billion each year over the next five — beginning with an Air Force budget of about $137 billion in 2009 instead of the $117 billion proposed by the Bush administration — would solve that problem, according to Selva and other senior Air Force officers.
Yet the prospects for huge infusions of cash seem dim. Congress is expected to boost the 2009 budget, but not to the level urged by the Air Force. In the years that follow, a possible recession, a rising federal deficit and a distaste for higher taxes all portend a decline in defense spending regardless of which party wins the White House in November.
"The Air Force is going to be confronting a major procurement crisis because it can't buy all the things that it absolutely needs," said Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon comptroller. "It's going to force us to rethink, yet again, what is the strategy we want? What can we give up?"
Bigger price tags for new fighters
The Air Force's distress is partly self-inflicted, says Steve Kosiak of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington. The F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning, the new jet fighters that will supplant the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, have drastically higher price tags than their predecessors and require a bigger chunk of the defense budget.
"One of the reasons their equipment has aged so much is because they continue to move ahead with the development and presumed acquisition of new weapon systems that cost two to three times as much as the systems they are replacing," Kosiak said. "It's like replacing a Toyota with a Mercedes."
It's not as if the Air Force has gone without any new airplanes. The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, the C-17 Globemaster airlifter and the CV-22 tilt-rotor, which flies like a helicopter or an airplane, have all been added since the mid-1990s.
The Air Force also is planning to spend between $30 billion and $40 billion over the next 15 years for new refueling tankers. A contract is expected to be awarded soon. Those new tankers, however, won't be flying until 2013.
Appetite for money
The Air Force isn't alone in wanting more money, but its appetite is far greater than the other military branches. Shortly after President Bush submitted his defense plan for the 2009 budget year, which begins Oct. 1, each service outlined for Congress what it felt was left out. The Air Force's "wish list" totaled $18.8 billion, almost twice as much as the other three services combined.
"There's no justification for it. Period. End of story," said Gordon Adams, a former Clinton administration budget official who specializes in defense issues. "Until someone constrains these budget requests, the hunger for more will charge ahead unchecked."
Current F-15s and F-16s are on average more than 20 years old and have reached a point where spending more money on extensive repairs is a poor investment, Selva said. Originally designed to last 4,000 flying hours, both have been extended beyond 8,000.
An F-15 with a comparatively low 5,000 flying hours disintegrated during a routine training flight over Missouri in early November. For the Air Force, that crash has become a touchstone event that demonstrates the precarious state of a fleet collectively older than any in the service's 60-year history.
Following the Missouri accident, more than 400 F-15s were grounded as Air Force mechanics scoured them for defects that might cause a similar accident. The F-15, a twin-engine jet with a top speed of 1,875 miles per hour, is the anchor of the nation's air defense network.
Parts fatigue a problem in fighters
As aircraft age, corrosion eats away at metal parts. Wiring and sealing begin to deteriorate. The fatigue, which can be hard to detect, is most acute in fighters that make turns while going at incredible speeds.
"An hour is not an hour" to an aircraft constantly under the strain of G-forces, Gen. John D.W. Corley, head of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, Va., said at a news conference last month. "It's like dog years."
The more an aircraft is flown, the more expensive and more extensive maintenance becomes, Corley and Gen. T. Michael Moseley, the Air Force chief of staff, told the House Appropriations defense subcommittee during a Feb. 6 hearing.
The bottom line, the generals said, is older aircraft are in the shop more often and cost more to fly when they are available.
It's not just the fighters that are elderly.
Selva, who graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1980, said he remembers hearing about the first flight of the mammoth C-5 transport when he was in first grade. B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers, which refuel airplanes in flight, have been in the inventory for more than four decades.
And mechanics are finding it difficult to keep rust off the A-10 Thunderbolt, a tank-killing plane now a quarter-century old.
"If you want to accept that today we're doing an adequate job with this sort of patchwork of airplanes, when are we no longer able to do an adequate job?" Selva asked. "What's the next thing that's going to happen?"
$160 million for one F-22
Each F-22 Raptor costs about $160 million. The Air Force says it needs 381 of the radar-evading planes and is fighting to keep the production line from being shut down too soon.
"We have never rolled off of the requirement to field 381 F-22s," Selva said. "The real issue at play with the F-22 is when the line closes, it's closed. Restarting the line will be unreasonably expensive."
The price for a single F-35 Lightning is $77 million, and the Air Force wants close to 1,800 of these fighters. The F-35 won't be in use for several more years.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said only 183 Raptors are needed. The more Raptors the Air Force buys, Gates said during congressional testimony earlier this month, the less money it will have for the F-35 and other aircraft. About 100 F-22s have been fielded. That aircraft has not been used in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gates added.
The Air Force says the Raptors are needed for future threats, with China, Russia and Iran at the top of the list.
"Al-Qaida doesn't exactly have an advanced aerial defense system," said Maj. David Small, an Air Force spokesman.
Public advocacy and rebuke
The public push for more Raptors prompted Gates to rebuke a top Air Force officer, Gen. Bruce Carlson, who said last week that the service remained committed to buying 381 of the aircraft. In a Friday statement, Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the general's remarks did not reflect the Air Force's position. But the statement did not say the service is backing away from its goal of 381 Raptors.
Aircraft on the front lines in the terror war are also facing challenges.
Officials at Air Force Special Operations Command say it will become increasingly hard to keep two key aircraft flying: The MC-130H Combat Talon II, used to drop commandos into hostile territory and then retrieve them, and the AC-130U, a hulking gunship that flies low to deliver firepower, are both in need of substantial overhauls.
"We are literally flying the wings off these two airplanes," said Brig. Gen. Brad Heithold, director of the command's plans, programs, requirements and assessments office at Hurlburt Field, Fla.
There are only 20 Combat Talons and 17 AC-130Us. This small fleet is in heavy demand by special operations forces around the globe. In 2001, the AC-130Us flew just over 5,200 hours. The gunships logged more than 9,000 hours in 2007. It's comparable, Heithold said, to putting 70,000 miles on a car in a single year instead of a more normal 12,000 miles.
At any given time, several of the Combat Talons or AC-130Us could be in the depot being fixed. That means there are fewer available to fly critical missions. Training flights are also curtailed.
Heithold called the situation a "manageable crisis," but said serious problems could emerge if more money isn't provided for extended improvements and new aircraft over the next few years.
"Any time you have a small number of airplanes that the appetite for continually increases, it's hard to meet the demand," Heithold said. "If we don't wrestle with this now, it's a looming problem out there."
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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American Labor & Class
BILL MOYERS: As those conservative protesters were leaving Washington, members of the country's largest body of unions, the AFL-CIO were arriving in Pittsburg for their annual convention. They elected the former coal miner Richard Trumka to be their new President and heard from the man they had worked hard last year to send to the White House.
BARACK OBAMA: Thank you AFL-CIO!
BILL MOYERS: But all is not well with organized labor. Midway through the last century unions represented more than a quarter of America's workforce. That's fallen to about 12 percent today, when earning a living wage couldn't be harder. Just last week the Census Bureau reported that Americans are getting poorer, their median household income suffering the biggest decline since 1991. About 40 million people now live below the poverty line, with the poverty rate at an eleven-year high.
Where is organized labor? Why are unions so impotent when workers are so exploited? That's what I want to know from my next two guests. Bill Fletcher is a long-time labor and community organizer who was once an official of the AFL-CIO He now works for the American Federation of Government Employees, although he is here speaking for himself and not his organization. He is also the co-author of this new book SOLIDARITY DIVIDED: THE CRISIS IN ORGANIZED LABOR AND A NEW PATH TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Michael Zweig has been at this table before. He is active in his own union, the United University Professions. He teaches at the state University of New York at Stony Brook, where he also runs the center for study of working class life. His most recent book is this one, WHAT'S CLASS GOT TO DO WITH IT: AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Welcome to both of you.
Bill Fletcher, we just heard in the earlier part of this broadcast, Sam Tanenhaus talk about the death of conservatism. Is it time to write the obituary of organized labor?
BILL FLETCHER: No. Not by no stretch. But organized labor remains in a crisis. And a low point very much of a low point right now. And the question for organized labor is whether or not it actually can become a class movement. A movement of workers. And not simply unions representing people in different workplaces.
Because I think that that speaks to some of the anger that's out there among workers who feel that they're unrepresented. That the society's crushing them. And they're looking for a vehicle. They're looking for someone to be their champion. Someone to channel their anger and if it's not unions, my fear is that these right wing populists are going to just grab onto this.
BILL MOYERS: Well, much of the anger we saw last week in that march on Washington were was came from ordinary people who are upset with what's happening in their own lives. But they're going toward the conservative movement and the Republican Party, not toward the unions.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Well, who's leading them to the unions? Who's calling them to the labor movement? The problem is that I don't think that the labor movement can successfully organize in particular places without a context of a broad social movement that addresses the power of capital. Not just in the particular workplace, but in the society as a whole. And if there isn't that context of a social workers movement I don't think it's possible to go shop by shop and recover the strength of the labor movement.
BILL MOYERS: So, what's a union for if it can't improve the living standards of ordinary people?
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Well, it's for improving the living standards of ordinary people. It's certainly for that. But in order to do that, it has to have a broader agenda.
BILL FLETCHER: One of the things that struck me when I interviewed people that were active in the 1930's and '40s is that even if you if you were progressive, even if you weren't in the unions, you had a sense that the union movement or at least a good section of it was supporting progressive causes. That it was there. It was not just about organizing workers at a particular workplace. But that the unions were part of this broad effort of progress.
And the problem that's happened, and it's reflected in the these interesting polls. Where workers will say nonunion workers will say on occasion that the unions are good for their members, but they're not necessarily good for other people. And I feel like when I hear when I hear that, it's an incredible indictment on the kind of unionism that we have.
We have leaders now that are paying more attention to getting access to political leaders or holding hands with the head of Walmart. Rather than actually getting and inspiring workers, irrespective of whether they're our members right now. To engage in a struggle for justice.
BILL MOYERS: Those conservative protestors we saw are not afraid of confrontation. They're willing to use sharp elbows and brass knuckles in fighting for what they believe in. Why isn't labor more confrontational in behalf of those very people, the working people of this country?
BILL FLETCHER: Well, part of it is that there's I know people won't appreciate my saying this. But among many of the leaders, there's really a fear of losing respectability. I mean, you have leaders that have now gained these positions and they're really afraid that if they shake the table too much, that they will be excluded.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: What has happened is that the corporations and the corporate elite have structured what this country is, what's valuable, what's important, how we organize our lives. And labor has not come forth with an alternative set of values.
BILL MOYERS: But why haven't they? Now, that's
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Well, there I think because we used to have that. And all the labor movement did have that.
BILL MOYERS: Solidarity forever, right?
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Well, and the labor movement had a very militant, very aggressive stance in the '30s, '40s, '50s that challenged capital. That got tremendous benefits. You know, the labor movement is the people who gave us the weekend. Let's not forget. The labor movement is what…
BILL MOYERS: The eight hour day.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Got us the eight hour day, and the social security, and all the other things that we think are so very important, but are just natural. That came out of a labor movement, but a labor movement that was led by people and was fueled by people who understood that there was antagonism. That there was a battle that they were involved in. This was not just, 'Let's sit down and have lunch and figure out what's the best thing to do for America.' This was, 'Here's a group of people who run the country and run businesses. And they have a certain set of interests. And they do not have our interests at mind at heart. They are not for us.'
BILL MOYERS: For the working people.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: For the working people. We have to be organized and be a contrary force, a counterforce that's a real force. That isn't just a debating society. That doesn't just have resolutions that it passes.
BILL MOYERS: A real force to take on capital
MICHAEL ZWEIG: To take on capital.
BILL MOYERS: And power.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: And power.
BILL MOYERS: And why have they lost that?
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Well, because they got crushed.
BILL MOYERS: No one.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Because the people who tried to do that. And the people who did do that were leftist. They were people who had a class analysis of society. Many of them were socialists and some of them were communists, but not all. But that sentiment, that understanding of the basic structure of society as divided by class interest. That there's a working class that's a majority of the population in this country. And they have interests. And they have a set of values that that convey those interests. That are very different from the corporations. They're very different from capital.
And if the people who held those views and mobilized the labor movement at an earlier point in our history. Those people were pushed out. And they were pushed out by the labor movement, internally, because there was great division and splits. And so then the labor movement got drawn into an era of cooperation. An era of, "Well, let's all sit down. And we'll all be reasonable. We'll all figure out what to do that's best for America." And it turns out America is not one thing. America is divided by these deep class antagonisms that we are now living with.
BILL MOYERS: And yet, working class has disappeared from the language. I mean, there..
BILL FLETCHER: We're all working.
BILL MOYERS: Yeah?
BILL FLETCHER: See, that's the thing. Palin used working class.
BILL MOYERS: Sarah Palin.
BILL FLETCHER: Sarah Palin used the term working class more than Obama did in the 2008 election. But her notion and those the notion of many other conservatives, when they use the term working class. They're not really talking about the same working class that we're talking about. They're not really talking about Latinos, African Americans, Whites, Asians. They have a certain sort of stereotypical idea of the White worker. But so, they will use that term. And that's the irony of our times. But I want to go back to one thing.
BILL MOYERS: Yeah.
BILL FLETCHER: I realized this waking up this morning. This is the 60th anniversary of when the Congress of Industrial Organization began a process of purging, wholesale, unions that were led by people on the left. And it is exactly what Mike was talking about. That these purges are came they followed the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. Led to this incredible Cold War witch hunt against anyone to the left of the Attila the Hun.
So that the people that were the most militant, that had the most advanced views on organizing. Who were anti-racist, ended up being pushed out of organ the official organized labor. And were put pushed to the margins in many cases. And in some cases the unions were actually destroyed. The unions that remained in the CIO and then merged with AFL. adopted the view that Michael was describing. They adopted the sense that we had somehow come to peace in our time with capital. That we did have a place at the table. And that if we rocked the boat, outside of an occasional strike, that we will be excluded. We will be no longer relevant. And this purge, we are living with the legacy of that purge of the left.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: But see, this is a process that takes a long time to do. When this began in the 1940s and 1950s with this anti-communist witch hunt. And with this redirection of what labor should be about. There was the nice cop and the nasty cop in that. The nasty cop was the McCarthyite investigations. And the purging of the Left. But the nice cop was the invitation to come in and sit at the table and be reasonable.
BILL MOYERS: Lyndon Johnson. Come now, let us feast together.
BILL MOYERS: He'd say to the President of the National Association of Manufacturing. He would say that to the head of the AFL-CIO
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Over
BILL MOYERS: Under George Meany
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Over when George Meany was proud that he never walked a picket line. And he said so. And then when Lane Kirkland died, who was the President of the AFL-CIO. then you the Wall Street Journal had an obit for him. And under his little picture it said, "Lane Kirkland, anti-communist." That's what the labor movement was known for. It because they were able to push out a certain segment. But then to come in with another kind of leadership. An affirmative statement that "We are going to be cooperating now with the corporations and with the corporate elite. We are going to be like a junior partner at the table."
BILL MOYERS: But do you see any green spouts of confrontation, militancy, defiance growing on the Left, among unions, that we see on the Right?
BILL FLETCHER: Yes.
BILL MOYERS: Where?
BILL FLETCHER: Well, first of all, I think that the election of Richard Trumka has a great deal of potential. Because
BILL MOYERS: The new president of the AFL-CIO.
BILL FLETCHER: The new president of the
BILL MOYERS: Why?
BILL FLETCHER: Because Trumka comes out of a history of militancy. He you know, in terms of his vision of the United Mine Workers that he led. His emphasis on organizing. His clarity on the nature of the economic crisis that we've been facing. And what he has articulated so far. And all I can say, this is a hope, is the notion that we have to engage in that confrontation that you're describing.
We have to do much more massive organizing. Particularly of the poor, the increasingly poor sections of the working class. So, I think that there's a vision here. And I can't overstate this issue of vision. Because it's not simply the technique of unions putting resources into organizing. People have to feel compelled that there's a vision of success, but a vision of a different kind of country. And indeed, a different kind of world.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: It's also a different understanding of how you do politics and how you exert power. It's one thing to say, "I'm the leader of an organization of eight and a half million workers. I'm the head of the AFL-CIO. We have eight and a half million members in our affiliates." And I'm going to sit down at a table. And I'm going to say, "I have eight and a half million members out there." It's another thing to have eight and a half million members out there, who are in the streets, who are not just sending in letters and not just signing petitions. But who are actively engaged in exercising power, in building power in the streets, in the communities, in the schools.
BILL MOYERS: And we don't see that happening. Why? Why isn't that happening?
MICHAEL ZWEIG: But see, I think that Rich Trumka understands something about the need to do this. And we'll see where this goes now. But, you know, it's hard to change culture.
BILL FLETCHER: Right.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: It's hard to change the way we understand how things should happen.
BILL MOYERS: You began by talking about class. The fact of the matter is there has been a class war for the last 30 years in this country.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: That's right.
BILL MOYERS: And the working class lost.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: That's right.
BILL MOYERS: So, if you've been defeated, where do you how do you come back?
BILL FLETCHER: Well, let me give two answers to that. One is that that in large part because of the Cold War witch hunts, actually even using the term class within organized labor.
BILL MOYERS: That's right.
BILL FLETCHER: For up until the mid-1990s led to people being condemned of being communist. I mean, it was absolutely absurd. So, it's the culture and the psyche that Mike is talking about, still infects many of the leaders, unfortunately. But I want to say that people are struggling. But you have the great--
BILL MOYERS: You mean that-- I know people are struggling just to make meet their daily needs. You mean--
BILL FLETCHER: Struggling and succeeding. Workers are fighting back.
BILL MOYERS: Where?
BILL FLETCHER: For example in the Smithfield Plant in…
MICHAEL ZWEIG: In North Carolina.
BILL FLETCHER: In North Carolina.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Tar Heel, North Carolina.
BILL FLETCHER: Right.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Was the biggest pork processing plant in the country.
BILL MOYERS: Mostly Hispanics. They were--
BILL FLETCHER: Black and Latino. And the United Food and Commercial Workers put resources. They had a brilliant strategist who was directing it. And they succeeded. It doesn't get a great deal of attention. The Communication Workers of America--
MICHAEL ZWEIG: It succeeded after 14 years.
BILL FLETCHER: Right.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: But the workers that were fighting for 14 years at Smithfield. Or the Communication Workers of America members in Texas or Mississippi that have been fighting for-- in the public sector for years. These fights are going on. What's missing though is this sense of coherence. That this is not simply a victory at Smithfield. Or a fight that's going on in Knoxville. But that this is a fight for social justice. And that is what--
BILL MOYERS: Meaning a fight for…
BILL FLETCHER: A fight for health care reform. A fight against a racial differentials and health care and education. A fight for housing. The policy towards the cities!
MICHAEL ZWEIG: But see, I think it's more than just a policy list. It's a fight for a different way of being a country. A fight to care for one another.
BILL MOYERS: Well, it used to be a fight--
MICHAEL ZWEIG: A fight to take care of one another.
BILL MOYERS: It used to be a fight to take on capital, right? Labor was a real force in trying to bring to tame the wildness of capital.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Of capital. That's right.
BILL MOYERS: And we've seen what happened over the last few years when capital went wild.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: That's right.
BILL MOYERS: Without any kind of--
MICHAEL ZWEIG: That's right.
BILL MOYERS: Without labor, can the battle for social justice be fought and won in this country?
MICHAEL ZWEIG: I don't think so. You know, there's this story about the cat that goes and eats the mice at night. You know? And the mice get together and say, "What are we going to do? We have to save ourselves from this evil cat that's eating us up. And one night one mouse says, "I know what we're going to do. We're going to put a bell around the neck of that cat. Right. And when the cat comes, we'll hear the bell, and then we'll all run away and be safe." Great idea. Who will bell the cat? Right? Who's going to put that bell on that cat? Who's going to put the bell on capital in the United States? There's only one force. There's only one set of people who can do that. That's working people. That's the majority of the people in this country.
BILL FLETCHER: And unfortunately, many workers really do believe that they're in this fight alone. That they're being crushed not because of some the larger dynamic of capitalism. They're being crushed because they're not working hard enough. That they have overspent. That they are in too much debt. They're not understanding that the problem is not them. Even if they have problems. The problem is systemic. And this vision needs to be articulated. And it needs to come out of organized labor. To remind people the problem is not them.
We are in a system that is walking over working people. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of working people. And the working people need a voice. And they need a mechanism, as Mike is saying in order to say, "Yes, I'm part of this fight. And I'm prepared to fight for social justice."
BILL MOYERS: So, where are we? Martin Luther King talked about the arc of history bending toward justice. Is the arc of this present moment, bending toward justice?
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Well, you know President Obama in his campaign talked about the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice. And it's long. It takes a long time. The emphasis there, you know, is seven-- what is it? From Seneca Falls in 1848 to the 19th Amendment in 1920 to get women the right to vote. The women's movement was 72 years. So, it takes a long time to get the eight hour day from 1886 in Hay Market to 1938. It's a long time.
So, is it bending towards justice? That's up to us to do. We have to go out there and bend that arc. It doesn't just happen. And the way to bend it is now to understand the importance of class. We have an African American president. That's a great advance for this country. We have an African American on the United States Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas. That's also a great advance for this country. Now the question is: which African American? And that question is a question of class.
Are they going to be an African American that's there to advance the interests of working people? Or are they going to be there to advance the interests of corporations? Which woman is going to be in the White House? Is it going to be Hillary Clinton? Or is it going to be Sarah Palin? Two women, just because they're a woman, that's great that they're there. And a representative of the success of the feminist and the women's movement to get to a position where a country can have that.
But that's not the-now, that's not the full question. Now we have a new question. What woman is going to represent what interest? Is it going to be the interests of working people or the interests of the corporations? And that test is a test of cap-of class?
BILL MOYERS: Do we know where Obama comes down on this?
MICHAEL ZWEIG: It depends where the working class is--
BILL FLETCHER: That's right.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: As an organized force. And Obama himself said, "I can't do this alone." He was campaigning on this progressive agenda and he said, "I cannot do this alone. I need a social movement." You know, that's what we have to push. And if corporate elites are we know they're pushing. And if there isn't any pushback, that's where he's going to go.
BILL FLETCHER: I think that his heart lies with working people. But I think that he believes fundamentally that he has to make sure that capitalism is functioning in a certain way. And that means that he has to pay attention to the corporate elites. And for that reason, what Mike raised is absolutely on the money. That we have to push him and point out to him that an economy should be serving working people.
An economy where you have an announcement that the recession is ending, but we have more than ten percent unemployment, probably between 10 and 20 percent unemployment. And you in addition, you have this structural unemployment in places like Camden or Flint. Where people are never going to work permanent jobs. That's no kind of economy. You know? And we don't need a president that is simply going to pay attention to making sure that the stock market is going up, while the rest of us are going down.
But I want to go back to one thing. I want to say about this arc. I sometimes get attacked, Bill, for being a prophet of doom or something. But which I think is an unfair criticism. But I'm worried. I really am. I think that we really are at one of those critical moments, when that arc could move towards barbarism. Not simply moving in a conservative direction.
When I see people bringing AR-15s to rallies with the President. When I see this insanity behind the Birther Movement. And questions about the President's citizenship. I realize that the strength of the irrationalist right is something that we have to contend with. And that these are people that could bring everything down in ways that could be quite catastrophic. So, I put it more in a different way. My hope is that the arc is moving towards justice. But I think that it will only successfully move there if we push it.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: That's right.
BILL FLETCHER: And that really does come down to what Mike was raising. That we cannot sit back and believe fatalistically in the inevitability of progress. The only thing inevitable is death. What we do will make the fundamental difference. If we push that arc in a certain way, we will have social justice. But we cannot that means among other things with the union movement, breaking with old ways of thinking, old ways of operating. And recognizing that there are people out there that are literally and figuratively dying for leadership, that wish a vehicle to speak for them. That really-- where the message resonates. That's our job.
BILL MOYERS: Bill Fletcher and Michael Zweig, thank you very much for joining me. This has been a very interesting discussion.
BILL FLETCHER: Thank you very much.
MICHAEL ZWEIG: Thank you very much.
BILL FLETCHER: It was a pleasure.
BILL MOYERS: That's it for the Journal this week. Remember to log onto our Web site at pbs.org, click on BILL MOYERS JOURNAL. There you can see a web-exclusive essay prompted by those protests in Washington, and you can hear more from the next generation of conservatives, as well as from some of the movement's stalwarts. You'll also be able to find out about the challenges facing the youngest American workers. That's all at pbs.org. I'm Bill Moyers, until next time.
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The shops are jam packed with HD tellys in the run up to Christmas, but there's surprisingly little HD content available in the UK at the moment. Sky and Telewest customers are sorted - for a somewhat large fee - but other than that there's little else to show off your brand spanking new set for a reasonable price. Until …
HD content is exempt using VGA cables from the ICT issue and therefore al you need to do is purchase the VGA cable for the 360.
This completely bypasses the problem and as most users will have VGA connections on their displays not an issue.
ICT is a function of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encryption used on HD DVD discs, not HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Copy Protection).
AACS encrypts the content, HDCP just protects the digital link between all items in the chain (ie disc -> decoder -> graphics card -> display).
ICT only applies to analogue connections, and as VGA and component are both analogue, if it's turned on then the 360 has to downscale the output.
However, since it's unlikely to be implemented until the Blu-ray/HD DVD war is out of the way, for fear of confusing consumers even more and putting them off one format, it's likely that either an HDMI cable for the 360 will exist by then or a successor to the 360 with HDMI built in.
New PowerDVD Ultra Software for the Xbox HD DVD Player on a PC
Great article on the XBox 360 HD DVD add-on player!
I just wanted you to know that there is official PC software that can use this player to play HD DVD on the PC.
It is PowerDVD ULTRA by Cyberlink and it is available on their website for about US$99.
I wonder if you could put a footnote onto your article to mention it?
Thanks and best regards,
Could you extend this review? Apparently they work with PC's.
Would be good to hear about the ins and outs of that.
Scratch that last comment
Clearly I can't read properly.
Not Impressed At All
I'm afraid I have to tally disagree with the review. I like many others, have found that if you have a good set up then this HD-DVD player doesn't really offer much over normal DVD.
I've compared both King Kong & Serenity on both formats and couldn't see that much difference and I do have 20-20 vision. This was via a an Arcam DV88+ and Panny TH-42 PH9 panel. It would be helpful if the reviewer stated on what equipment he based his review. I only started to notice a real difference once the picture was outputed via my projector on to 90" screen. Also, disappointingly, the reviewer makes no mention of how poorly the Xbox decodes 5.1 digital sound tracks or how at the present time it can't handle True HD audio or Dolby Digital +.
Not sure what you were looking at.
To the previous poster, I'm not entirely sure what you were watching. Can't find any info about your Plasma, but are you sure its a decent resolution? Just because it's labelled HD Ready it doesn't mean it does true 1280x720 or higher.
I've compared King Kong, V for Vendetta, Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Serenity, Swordfish, Van Helsing and Mission Impossible III on DVD/HD-DVD on my Toshiba 32WL66 HD LCD, and on my Panny PT-AX100E projector (at about 70" diagonal). Using XBOX360 connected via component for HD-DVD, and an upscaling DVD player (Panny DMR-EX75) connected via HDMI to play DVDs.
On both displays you can clearly see a huge difference in quality when watching the HD versions. Kongs fur/scars look nowhere near as lifelike on standard DVD as they do on the HD release. The plane rescue scene in Superman is unbelievable and only the HD version does justice to how good the effects in that scene really are. The dragon/egg stealing scene in HP blows the SD version away.
On all the movies the darker scenes are much more clearly defined, and detailed on the HD versions, and all have much more realistic colours and definition that almost jumps out of the screen.
I could go on, but I won't. Suffice to say that the jump to HD is great, and all I wish now is that Fox would jump of the Blu-Ray ship and get the StarWars saga out on HD-DVD asap. :)
The Plasma Issue
Like most plasmas the Panasonic TH-42 PH9 only has a native resolution of 1024x768 (a 4x3 res requiring some odd stretching for Widescreen).
This is much closer to the 960x576 (Widescreen Anamorphic PAL) coming out of a decent de-interlacing DVD player than the 1920x1080 that the HD-DVD disks are encoded in or the 1280x720 (composite) 1366x768 (VGA native) that the XBOX 360 will be outputting to most LCD screens.
Hardly surprising that there is not much difference between DVD and HD-DVD on most Plasma.
As far as I know no plasmas actually have a proper widescreen pixel format other than the very latest (and largest) 1080p native models.
I agree with previous poster
I completely agree with the previous poster. The guy who wasn't impressed has a huge 42" screen with a measly 1024x768 native resolution, so it's no wonder it doesn't look that much better.
The xBox360 with HD DVD is a BUDGET solution.
I think the unimpressed guy is missing the point. I may not have a "good setup" but I have an 32" HD CRT (480p/720p/1080i), an xbox 360 with an xbox HD-DVD, and a 5.1 system. I can watch iDTV, HD-TV, HD-DVD & SD-DVD, as well as being able to play SD/HD games all in 5.1 surround sound.
The point is, all this cost less than £900.
Spinning disc hell
Hasn't there been some concern over discs which spin fast and external drives before? I seem to remember that a few external drive manufacturers began to include a breaking mechanism which activated on tilt into their draw based CD drives.
HD-DVD spins quickly, puts out quite a lot of data throughput and slowing the disc down could be detrimental to this. If the breaking mechanism is excluded, well, frisbee? Or more to the point, evil microsoft odd job style frisbee.
I can hear the lawyers knocking at redmond now.
I have little trust in what microsoft produce, with burning Xboxs and virus ridden operating systems. Something has to be wrong with it, the old addage "if it sounds too good to be true it generally is" is the sub note to the microsoft OS mantra, "Faster, more reliable, more secure, more stable"
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Re: Su T-50 in Flight
- From: Rob Arndt <teuton263@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:58:03 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 20, 7:34 pm, Daryl Hunt <dh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 20, 7:43 pm, LIBERATOR <jgcho...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 19, 7:45 pm, Daryl Hunt <dh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
LIBERATOR wrote:LOL, how dare you pick on VW's. The Sukoi T-50 is a scary mean looking
On Aug 19, 9:18 am, Rob Arndt <teuton...@xxxxxxx> wrote:No, you aren't. Well half right, maybe. Guess the Russians
the characteristics, all look like Junkers and more superior to ours..
Am I wrong?
decided to make the back of the plane look as nice as the
front. it's not really necessary to have a nice looking
rear unless you are modeling for VW.
The rear engines swivel to add to dynamic manuevering?
For crying out loud I know this was German designed. It had to be
Junkers.... uh right?
What is the reason we have no amazing designs like this? The F-35
doesn't meet the greet.
It's still a mig29. 5th gen it will never be. It can only be
made a decent 4th gen.- Hide quoted text -
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MiG-35 is considered Gen 4++ FYI and the best Sukhois are Gen 4.5. The
F-22 is not a true 5th Gen. Please tell me how it could ever cover the
breadth of either China or the USSR? Please also tell me what enemy a/
c the F-15 ever faced that was on equal terms? NONE.
It has never faced any of the Su-27 flanker family nor the Russian
MiG-29 family with upgrades.
I can post all the technical data and sensor suite updates for you,
but as in your previous posts, you just ignore them.
Again, prove that the F-15C or F-22 can tackle any of those a/c.
Theoreticals aside, or course.
You can't as the USAF is playing with UAVs, UAS', and primitive UCAVs
(Predator, Reaper, Avenger) to fight insurgents. Your vaunted F-15C
has no role in the ME and flying over Iran will not be easy for the
F-15I which is the best F-15 made. They have sat at Tel Nof for years
as the EU political games and US foreign policy bumbling continues.
During ODS the vaunted invisible F-117 WAS picked up by several Iraqi
radars (various bands and millimetric) and fired upon. Matt Byrd's
"Habu II" was targeted TWICE and fired upon by SAs. He dodged both.
Same for the F-22. As soon as it crosses the cellular radar network it
is compromised and when it opens it bay doors it can be painted. It
has to fly in daylight vs night for the B-2 and F-117 and the Chinese
and Russians in any war will have HUNDREDS of fighters and
interceptors in the air supported by various anti-stealth networks,
integrated missile batteries, their own BVR weapons, and their EO
weapons and sensors which the US cannot detect as they are non-
You never answered anything of those questions I put you to test on...
only the old victor song of F-15 remains undefeated. Why? Because it
never faced an _equal_ opponent in its entire history!!! The F-22 has
not either and just 20 of them = no real offensive capability against
Russia or China.
Finally, if a F-117 could be downed by Serbs and Iraq downed several
Predators... what makes you think mighty Russia and China will not do
I'd like to see the US fighters actually face the Cobra manoeuver and
other manoeuvers that US fighters cannot even duplicate as they would
be ripped apart mid-air. TSAGI did a great job developing the wings
for those planes and with thrust vectoring and high AoA, IRST and EO
sensors and weapons... the Flankers and Fulcrums are deadly. So are
the Chinese J-models.
And since the US would not sell F-22s to Japan from scratch Mitsubishi
has a nice design with the ADT-X RCS model and no doubt could probably
rival the F-22 with a dedicated air superority Mitsubishi F-3 if they
wanted to and it got funded. The you have the Europeans with BAe,
Dassault, EADS, and Saab that all have various stealth designs and
some covert a/c flying.
At least Germany did not have to copy Ufimtsev's book to design a
faceted stealth fighter- they came up with the MBB Lampyridae
(Firefly) on their own as armed interceptor by 1981 and pissed the
fuck out of the visiting USAF that pressured the W German Govt to drop
the project by 1989. But Germany retained the knowledge gained and now
we know that DASA and EADS had/have many stealth designs and probably
something flying just as the UK and France decided to ignore the US
request NOT to build stealth aircraft. Germany and Spain also have the
Barrakuda UCAV and EADS is developing a range of stealth missiles and
anti-stealth missiles with EO and plume sensors. The F-22 could not
hide from either.
Daryl, I think you are willfully ignorant of modern tech.
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Doeing Family History
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Mandi Walls from AOL is talking about creating actionable logs. Actionable logs are logs that provide data that can be used to fix problems. There are a few rules to start with:
- No nonsense logging
- Concise, easy to understand
- Express symptoms of productions issues
- Any that makes the log needs to be somethings that can be fixed (better signal to noise ratio)
Everytime you write to a log file, you're expending resources. The point of logging in production is diagnosing issues. You need to be able to understand the logs at 4am in the morning.
The primary goal is diagnosis and recovery of problems. Secondary goals include statistics and monitoring, insight into application behavior, and indicating potential problems. Note that these are different than the goals of development and QA logs.
Logs come in different flavors: access logs, server logs (e.g. Catalina), application logs, and special use logs for groups of activities.
- Log locations should be predictable and obvious. You may want logs on different disk partitions (this stops full file systems from crashing the server). Keep old log files in an obvious place as well.
- Rolls logs into files with timestamps in the names.
- Logs should be human readable and easy to parse. Use real dates and times. Unix timestamps don't pass the 4am test. Good timestamps give you the ability to link server activities to external events (like network outages).
- Create a common format for multiple applications where possible.
- Use one line per logs message where ever possible.
- Avoid the use of only numerical error codes in them.
- Put URLs to external info in log messages where appropriate
- Be consistent about severity. Saying something's "fatal" without more data isn't helpful.
- Log at the first point the error is encountered. If a server is processing 100,000 requests per minute, waiting a minute to log something means there's lots of data in between the problem and the log entry.
- Actively manage and prune logs to make new errors obvious.
- Don't include usernames, logins, passwords, etc. These are development logging issues, not production.
- An application log should have 10-25% the number of entries of the access log. Too much data hides problems.
In summary, make production logs about helping operations staff solve problems. Good logs can help solve problems. Poor logs can hinder problem solution.
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For decades, blondes have gotten a bad rap, especially when it comes to late night talk show hosts, dirty old men and tween boys. Take, for example, some age-old jokes about the fair-haired, often heard being spewed out of the mouths of the aforementioned: “Why did the blonde tip-toe past the medicine cabinet? Because she didn’t want to wake the sleeping pills!” “How many blondes does it take to make chocolate chip cookies? 100. One to stir the batter and 99 to peel the M&Ms!”
Today, the dumb blonde joke is deader than David Alan Grier’s Chocolate News, thanks in no small part to a slew of young, smart, talented women who are dominating the entertainment industry, from singer Taylor Swift to actress Dakota Fanning. Theories abound as to why: Some say it’s because we need some light during this dark recession. Others believe it’s because after years of anti-blondes taking the top spots in movies, music, TV and fashion (think Angelina, Jennifer Hudson, Kate Walsh and Gisele) pop culture junkies are ready—once again—for some comfort food, a.k.a. blondes. Whatever the reason, check out our guide to Hollywood’s most exciting bottled beauties—at least until redheads steal the spotlight again.
TAYLOR SWIFT, singer-songwriter
IN A NUTSHELL: Though she hasn’t even been on the planet for two decades, this fair-haired spitfire—who got her start singing at festivals and dominating the karaoke circuit in her hometown of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania—has skyrocketed to the top of the country-music scene. Not content to share the bill with fried Twinkies and local drunks warbling “Sweet Home Alabama,” the singer-songwriter packed up for Nashville at the age of 11 and knocked on every label door on Music Row, armed with the plea, “Hi, my name’s Taylor, and I’m looking for a record deal.” Her latest album, Fearless, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts and was the fourth bestselling album—in any genre—of 2008 (after Lil’ Wayne, AC/DC and Coldplay).
BREAKOUT MOMENT: A crowd-slaying 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards performance of “Should’ve Said No,” during which she seemingly—and endearingly—surprised even herself.
THE GIRL’S GOT BALLS: After being dumped by Joe Jonas over the phone (OMG!), she talked smack about him on Ellen, released a video blog in which she tells a Taylor Swift doll juxtaposed to a Joe Jonas doll, “Stay away from him,” and wrote a scorned-teen breakup song about him called, “Forever and Always.”
WHAT’S NEXT: Touring the country in support of Fearless; a performance at the CMT awards on June 17.
JULIANNE HOUGH, ballroom dancer, singer
IN A NUTSHELL: It’s no secret that Dancing With the Stars is a smash hit because of its scorching female dancers (not because of you, Steve Wozniak). Case in point? This gorgeous hard body, who got her start in TV commercials and music videos, including doing the choreography for Gwen Stefani’s “Wind It Up.” After winning DWTS twice (this season she competed with her boyfriend, country singer Chuck Wicks, before the two were booted in week eight), she announced that she won’t return next season in order to concentrate on her budding country-music career. (Pervs everywhere, who favored watching the show with the volume down, flooded ABC with complaint letters.) Julianne’s self-titled debut album, which came out in May 2008, reached No. 3 on the Billboard charts, and she won the Top New Artist award—and got a standing ovation—at the Country Music Awards in April. The opening line of her speech? “It’s a good thing my dress ripped, because now I have something else to think about.”
BREAKOUT MOMENT: Shaking her hips—Elvis be damned—during a too-hot-for-prime time samba with partner Helio Castroneves in 2007.
JULIANNE IN THE WORDS OF FORMER DWTS PARTNER ADAM COROLLA: "We don't communicate. She's 19 and from Utah and has been dancing since birth. I brought up Vince Lombardi and I think she thought it was some kind of ice cream."
WHAT’S NEXT: Her name is being talked about to star in the Footloose remake, perhaps in the Lori Singer role of Ariel. Her possible co-star: Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford. Break out the teen Depends!
IN A NUTSHELL: Sure, you may always think of her as mini-Meryl, the precocious starlet who held her own alongside Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise in various big budget motion pictures ( Man on Fire and War of the Worlds, respectively), but this mega-talented actress (the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award, no less) is all growed up now, and so far avoiding all the trappings of child actor hell.
BREAKOUT MOMENT: Breaking hearts alongside Sean Penn in 2001’s I Am Sam.
SEE HER (OR RATHER, AMY POEHLER) IN ACTION
MAYBE SHE IS JUST A TEENAGER AFTER ALL: When recent prom photos of Dakota and her posse of tween bffs appeared online, she was chastised for everything from her super-short pink dress to her cheeseball date.
WHAT’S NEXT: Roles in the upcoming films Push and Winged Creatures, plus a highly anticipated appearance as vampire Jane in New Moon, the next in the Twilight series. Now filming in Vancouver, will she get caught smoking pot and carousing with older, bad-ass co-stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson? The tabloids are frothing at the mouth just thinking about it.
IN A NUTSHELL: Born Laura Hollins (she changed her name at the advice of a numerology expert), this supermodel went from getting rejected at agency after agency to appearing on dozens of fashion magazine covers and landing highly profitable endorsement deals from a slew of big names, including Anna Sui, Burberry, Armani, Paul Smith, and Vivienne Westwood.
BREAKOUT MOMENT: Spring 2008, when The New York Times wrote about the impact her “boy-short, peroxide-blonde” hair was having on the fashion industry.
SEE HER IN ACTION
IN HER OWN WORDS: “My current style is Jackie O. crossed with Debbie Harry meets Stevie Nicks.”
WHAT’S NEXT: Expect more rock 'n’ roll from this music (and musician) lover, who dated Albert Hammond Jr. until earlier this year and has been linked to former Phantom Planet singer Alex Greenwald. Agyness groupies are dying to know: Will her band, Gene Jacket, ever release an album?
View Our Gallery of Other Breakout Blondes
Alison Prato graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was awarded the Hugh M. Hefner magazine scholarship. She began her journalism career with an internship at Playboy magazine and eventually rose to senior associate editor. She has been the executive editor of Giant and the Entertainment Director of Maxim.
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|Name:||Delicious, Del.icio.us (older variant)|
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Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to save, tag, manage and share bookmarks from a centralized source. A significant aspect of the site is that, like many Web 2.0 sites, its tags are user-generated, non-hierarchical, and uncontrolled. Users create and apply their own tags in one step, and they can apply as many tags as they like to each bookmark.
Fannish Uses of Delicious
Fans who use Delicious use it to save fandom-related links or meta (in their own delicious accounts) and locate recommendations for fannish reading material or find fanworks that might interest them (often using others' delicious accounts). Some fans maintain multiple accounts; others might throw fannish and non-fannish bookmarks into one account. The following is a list of major fannish uses of the site:
- Bookmarking favorite fanworks on their personal accounts.
- Creating and maintaining their own tags (hours of fun!), using either shared fannish vocabulary or their own system.
- Maintaining an easy-to-update rec list for self, friends, fandom at large, and/or specific communities and projects. Delicious is well suited for themed rec list.
- Sifting through a trusted reccer's delicious tags for fanworks to consume.
- Browsing or subscribing to site tags related to certain fandoms, pairings, genres, or other fannish keywords. The number of users who have bookmarked a given webpage displays prominently and can be an indication of its value; using the "popular" function in particular serves as an automatically generated rec list.
- Searching for your own name so you can see how many people have bookmarked your posts or stories and what they're saying about you.
- Searching for Fanworks on the Internet: Hunting down a particular fanwork you know exists but lost the link to -- because some fans use many descriptive tags and notes in their bookmarks using delicious could be much faster than using a Fic Finding community or google -- or searching for any fanworks that fit a particular theme.
- Finding updated URLs for fanworks that have disappeared from one location on the internet.
- Other searches?
Looking at tag clouds or search results also allows statistics-minded fans to analyse fannish trends, as well as discover new content.
Users can see their own bookmarks, their tags, notes and how many other people have bookmarked the same website. Tags can be collected in bundles; this allows a user to organize tags in groups such as "author" or "pairing".
The notes field is especially useful for fans using Delicious for rec lists or newsletters.
Many fans name their tags to correspond to typical fanwork metadata such as author, fandom, rating, genre, character, pairing, and sometimes even length or status (complete or WIP) will be added to a bookmark. These naming conventions in turn make it easier for other fans to find fanworks by tag on Delicious. For example, a search for "fanfic" will bring up all recently bookmarked pages tagged with that term: http://delicious.com/tag/fanfic
Some users add punctuation or other characters, often just to sort their tags alphabetically. Because Delicious tags were until the September 2011 relaunch space-separated, rather than comma-separated, tags composed of phrases are also likely to contain underscores (_) or periods (.). Atypical tags are more difficult to search on, but can be useful if the user is browsing only the reccer's account.
The Network is a good way to find new content, but Subscriptions allow a broader scope. A user may subscribe to a certain tag, such as "fanfiction", and will then see all recently bookmarked websites tagged with that term.
Examples of Fandom-Related Delicious Accounts
- Rec Room (Fanfic Recs)
- Fandom Directory (Directory for Livejournal users with fannish Delicious accounts)
- List Links (Recs and Thematic Lists)
- Metafandom (Metafandom's Links)
- SGA_newsletter (SGA Newsletter's links)
- Ultimateficarchiver (Massive listing of fanfiction, tagged by fandom, pairing, genre and author)
- Why , :, !, and . have no place in your delicious bookmarks by cimorene, October 27, 2009. Post that talks about the social aspects of tagging.
- July 2006 poll by Sandy Herrold
- Numbers, I love (horribly inexact) numbers! by Sandy Herrold, April 1, 2010.
- wistfuljane's 2008 post on RPF classification
- finding your flock by catechism, May 19, 2009. Includes discussion of how to make friends on Delicious
- Agatha S. Donkar. "I'm In Ur Bookmarks, Stealin' Ur Tags!: Closed Communities and Their Influence On Consistent Vocabularies In User Developed Folksonomies." April 2007. (Master's thesis)
Post-relaunch Reactions, September 2011
- Geekery and Randomness, Links, Delicious - discussion and link roundup by somnolentblue on Dreamwidth
- Delicious v/s Diigo v/s Pinboard - by bookshop on LiveJournal
- AVOS!Delicious: The Good, The Bad & The Future - by kronos999 on LiveJournal
- untitled reblog by Minimoonstar on Tumblr
- del linkspam on deliciouslymad (LJ community)
For many LiveJournal fans, Delicious represented a better solution to some existing link-hoarding practices, such as hand-coding lists of recs in LJ posts or using LJ's cumbersome Memory function. In general, the convenience of Delicious encouraged a shift from posting rec lists on fansites and blogs. However, Delicious may be more popular among journaling fans than other fan communities. (?)
Delicious Closure Scare
A December 16, 2010, news report stating that Yahoo was going to shut down Delicious was widely linked by journaling fans, and mass fannish outcry occurred within hours. Various existing alternatives were discussed, and there was talk of creating a new fan-friendly version of Delicious, a la Dreamwidth. The possibility of switching to AO3's nascent bookmarking feature was also floated.
According to later reports, there was a possibility of Delicious being sold instead of shut down.
Delicious Sale and Renewed Opt-In Policy
On 27 April 2011, the acquisition of delicious by AVOS (an internet company founded by the founders of YouTube) was announced. At that time, the transfer of content was expected to happen around July 2011, but the new site was not launched until September 27, 2011.
Fannish users quickly started discussing the active opt-in policy and ToS, and ideas for archiving old delicious accounts that might become inaccessible once the sale and transfer were completed, as well as continuing to urge making backups of delicious bookmarks elsewhere.
AVOS Launches New Delicious
When the new Delicious was launched on September 27, it was met with an intensely negative response. Immediately, many fans started accounts on other social bookmarking services (notably Diigo and Pinboard), people started posting and linking meta, and one fan set up a google spreadsheet for people to self-report their user names on alternate services.One Tumblr user addressed TPTB at Delicious:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Delicious. I really appreciate the way that you have taken a user friendly, helpful and extremely useful tool and turned it into a convoluted mess that is nearly incomprehensible.
The part where there is no central location for all my tags is great. The fact that they are not listed in order of size, alphabetically or recent is even better.
I thought the way that you completely dissolved all the bundles I have made in favor of the much more confusing ‘stacks’ was inspired. I especially enjoy the part where you can’t create stacks using your own tags, but rather have to bring in the links individually.
I find the “has:____” tag that you added to be particularly helpful, as we internet users would not have noticed this in our own tags without it.
It was very smart of you to get rid of the tagging feature that let us select previous tags after we’d typed the first few letters. It was a silly and gratuitous and it made us lazy. We should have to type out the full tag, it builds character.
In short, thank you for turning our archiving resource into a social networking site. There weren’t nearly enough and I was probably reading too much fanfiction anyway.
Also, thanks for locking so many people out of their accounts. Those guys were getting pretty annoying.You are an inpiration to websites everywhere.
An interview with Delicious' new owner suggested that AVOS' vision of the site does not--and will not--mesh with fandom's needs. As fan runpunkrun said: "Our new digital overlord, Chad Hurley, gave an interview in which he complained about how things just got so hard when people were using Delicious to save links and tags and information. So he put a stop to it." The offending Q&A:
How is this different from the original Delicious? It became hard when people were adding all this information, tags and links. We’re applying a new layer of ways for people to explore the information. Relating to YouTube terms, playlists were an underappreciated feature of the site, and we saw an opportunity to introduce that concept in a broader sense against all media.
The initial version of AVOS Delicious did not include tag bundles. Many kink meme, comment fic sites and newsletter communities relied on the bundles to organize the tags for creating or organizing their content. Some communities immediately switched to other sites, even though they did not offer the tag bundle feature either, often because other features or functionality was missing.
Many newsletters that used Delicious to collate their links were forced to hand-code or partially hand-code their posts, putting pressure on fans who had been relying on automation to make a labour intensive job easy enough to be handled by a few volunteers. The Delicious RSS feeds were non-functional for several days, and even though AVOS announced they were still supporting the old APIs, many scripts did not work after the re-launch. Some newsletter communities switched immediately to Pinboard since its API is very similar to the old Delicious one.
Fannish interest in general focused on Diigo and Pinboard as alternatives. The quick and positive interest by the Pinboard owner, Maciej Ceglowski, in fannish users led to the creation of a collaborative GoogleDoc spec request for features he could implement to make Pinboard more attractive to fans. The result was a document he described in a Tweet: "Watching that epic Google doc grow a table of contents. Soon it will acquire robotic exoskeleton and begin roaming the earth."
The inevitable result of the Twitter conversations, and some comments in the GoogleDoc itself, was some Anthropomorfic.
- The Morning After by ambyr pairs Fandom/Pinboard and leaves Delicious out in the cold with Diigo.
- When Bookmarks Were In Mustache Land by Jedusaur paraphrases the fannish reaction to the Delicious relaunch in play form, and discusses Pinboard's reaction to the fannish migration.
- Note: This list describes fannish use before the September 2011 relaunch. Changes in interface and functionality following the relaunch may hinder or make impossible some of the items listed.
- Ironically, the official Delicious blog celebrated fandom's use of Delicious tag bundles in a 2013 post, two years after fandom had purportedly left Delicious. Bundle functionality had been lost after the relaunch and was recreated some time later. See Community Spotlight: Fandom!, Posted on June 17, 2013 by jessie.
- Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? by Alexia Tsotsis. TechCrunch
- bluemeridian. Bloody HELL [aka @#%**! Delicious News], Dreamwidth post, 2010-12-16. (Accessed 17 December 2010).
- Anatomy of a Crushing Pinboard official blog post which includes site traffic stats for the days after the closure announcement. (Accessed September 30, 2011)
- YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo! "Promise Users the Same Great Service And Even Easier & More Fun Ways To Save, Share, and Discover the Web's "Tastiest" Content." -- press release at AVOS.com website, 27 April 2011. (Accessed 17 May 2011)
- The answers to frequently asked questions about the AVOS transition help page at delicious.com (Accessed 17 May 2011)
- archiving links post by catechism at deliciouslymad LJ community, 28 April 2011. (Accessed 17 May 2011)
- More Del.icio.us talk post by anatsuno urging users to log in to delicious and opt in to the new ToS so their bookmarks remain accessible, 1 May 2011. (Accessed 17 May 2011)
- oh my god (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)
- thread at Fail-Fandomanon (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)
- special edition of /report by rageprufrock and mklutz.
- lian. quick'n'dirty delicious linkspam
- the great delicious migration
- Personally, I love the new Delicious. Really. (Accessed Sept. 27, 2011)
- Batman hates it when Web 2.0 gets in the way of his bookmarking. (Accessed Oct. 11, 2011)
- Delicious Relaunches: Exclusive Q&A With CEO Chad Hurley (Accessed Oct. 11, 2011)
- Pinboard How To (API) (Accessed September 30, 2011)
- Pinboard feature request - wishlist! (Accessed September 30, 2011)
- Tweet from Pinboard official twitter on September 29, 2011. (Accessed September 30, 2011)
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In the wake of the deadly mass shooting at a Colorado theater, there have been several arrests for making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie . In one case, movie-goers in Sierra Vista, Arizona, panicked when a 27 year old man who appeared intoxicated was confronted during a showing of the movie. It caused "mass hysteria" and about 50 people fled the theater.
And…in response to the shock and horror of this rampage and its widespread impact, a pastor of a Church located five minutes away from the rampage scene admitted, he bawled like a baby when he passed the site. Pastor Jeff Noble of Aurora's New Life Community Church said that something as terrible as this tragedy cannot be explained when our world goes crazy. Pastor Noble's Church has opened its doors to anyone seeking counseling and urging those affected to step up and seek comfort from others.
There's also been a touching tribute close to where the massacre took place. Aurora residents have been placing flowers and cards at the feet of 12 crosses. Each cross representing a victim who died in the mass shooting. Christian Bale and President Obama have already paid their respects in Colorado.
High level meetings have been taking place to find solutions to gun crime following a deadly shooting in Toronto 9 days ago, where two people were killed and 24 injured. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, and then briefly with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty yesterday. Ford met with Police Chief Bill Blair at an earlier date. Some of what was discussed in the series of meetings: ongoing enforcement and criminal justice measures ; solutions to stopping guns from being smuggled into Canada from the United States, and community outreach. Social program announcements are expected to be announced within a month.
This week, the International AIDS conference is being held in Washington DC. The theme is "Turning the Tide Together". It's the first time in more than 20 years the conference has been in the U.S.
AIDS experts from all over the world will be attending; about 25-thousand are expected to attend. Over 30 million people worldwide have died from the disease. But the one representative that has come to truly depict the struggle and heartache of living with and dying from AIDS, will not say a word. It's the AIDS Quilt.
As the sessions of the International AIDS Conference take place, prominent faith leaders have also come to D.C. to hold a summit on AIDS awareness. They include Saddleback Church, World Vision, Catholic Relief Services, and Food for the Hungry .
And…the world's only man …said to be cured of H-I-V is…. Timothy Brown. He appeared at the International AIDS conference in Washington yesterday. Brown -- also known as "the Berlin Patient--" was H-I-V positive and fighting leukemia in 2007. Doctors in Germany wiped out his immune system with chemotherapy and radiation. Then, they gave him two rounds of stem-cell transplants.
German researchers say the donor had a rare, inherited gene mutation that makes stem cells naturally resistant to infection with H-I-V. Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke to Brown…..
The U.K. Evangelical Alliance has answered to a government adviser's verbal attack against evangelical Christians. It was over the issue of Christians being able to set up free schools. Alan Judd, adviser to the Secretary of State for Education, wrote in The Telegraph the trouble has always been with extreme views like quote: " evangelical Christians, totalitarian Muslims or segregationist Jews." Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance, wrote back a letter to The Telegraph in response to Judd's assertion, stating that it was "wrong and worrying" that a senior government adviser should brand evangelical Christians as extremist. Judd had written to the Telegraph in response to complaints from the British Humanist Association over the go ahead for Christian free schools.
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Halloween is almost here AND although most people love watching creepy movies year round. The theme from Lucio Fulci's film Zombie has always held a special place in my heart. The opening scene of the abandoned ship floating through the NY harbor is pretty great. Well it's not "totally" abandoned. If you haven't seen it, maybe one day. Halloween is just around the corner!!! I'll be playing in Detroit possibly with the Disco Secret/Macho City posse. Stay de-tuned...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Well the "new" Tron movie is coming out next month here in NY and I plan to go see it. I heard Daft Punk did the soundtrack, and I'm curious how it came out. The original film had such a huge impact on me as a kid. It was the time of Atari, break dancing, and computers! Living in the future seeing things our parents didn't really know about yet. I can't think of a cooler video on the tube than Dj Overdose's mind blowing track "Make the world go away". This takes me back to not having to worry about such trivial bullshit that surrounds us as adults. Take it away Overdose!!!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
I'll be playing at Coco 68 tonight with Dj Niteline. 2 dj gigs in one month...crazy. This place is located right on Greenpoint Ave. in Brooklyn. Stop by if you can. Kevin always plays cool records. Trust me.
Aaron Carl passed away from cancer a few days ago. Many know him best for his track "Down" on Metroplex Records. Funky electro with dark vocals about wanting to go down on someone. He made a bunch of house tracks as well such as this one. He was 37 years old and will be missed from Detroit and beyond. R.I.P. Carl. Thanks for the music you left behind.
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Today, an engineer takes a lifetime to create a
town -- and to gain its trust. The University of
Houston's College of Engineering presents this
series about the machines that make our
civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity
George Chaffey and his
younger brother William took up the family trade of
engineering in Canada. During the 1870s they
followed their father, who'd built bridges and
steamships. Then, when George was hardly past 30,
he went to California as chief engineer of the new
Los Angeles Electric Company.
He made Los Angeles the world's first
all-electrically-lit city. Then he and William went
into the California desert. There they built a
modern irrigation system and created an 8,000-acre
Australian settlers faced the same problem of
watering a dry land. In 1884, officials in the
state of Victoria went to California for ideas.
They found the young Chaffeys.
So George and William went to Australia to scout
possible sites for an irrigation project. They
roused suspicion when they went up the Murray River
from Adelaide all the way to remote Mildura
station. People in Victoria began thinking the
Chaffeys were just two Yankee con men.
Then the neighboring state of South Australia
invited them to their land, further down the Murray
River. At that, Victoria swallowed its distrust.
The Chaffeys finally went to work building two
irrigated farm communities along the River.
They moved 3000 emigrants into the region. First
they used steamboat engines to drive the irrigation
pumps. Then they designed a complex system with a
triple expansion steam engine.
The engine maker so distrusted their fancy design
that he wouldn't put his own name on it. Today,
that fine old engine is on display in Mildura. But
it's labeled as a Chaffey engine.
Chaffey's system was a clear success, and the first
crop was spectacular. Then outside troubles came,
and new distrust arose.
First, the produce transport system broke down.
Fruit rotted. There was depression. Banks failed.
By 1896 Australia had laid full blame for disaster
on the Chaffeys. George went bankrupt and returned
to California. Back home he created a huge
irrigation project in the Imperial Valley. He died
a wealthy man.
But brother William stuck it out in Mildura. For
years he worked to rebuild the town and to rebuild
his life. By 1920, Mildura was a stable city,
supplied by rail. That year her citizens elected
him mayor. This engineer had stayed the course;
he'd built a new world; and he'd made it into his
Today, William Chaffey's statue stands in Mildura.
He is, after all, the city's father, and he's
trusted at last. But I wonder if trust was ever
I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston,
where we're interested in the way inventive minds
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Few men in progressive rock have been as prolific as Roine Solt. Over the course of his career, he has appeared on a staggering number of records, and established himself as one of the leading forces of modern progressive music. It's in that spirit that “Banks Of Eden” is an oddity, the first Flower Kings album in five years. With eleven albums in a career spanning few additional years, the extended absence for the band came as a shock, even as Stolt took part in the reformation of the supergroup Transatlantic. Working on multiple projects had never impacted the Flower Kings before, which raised questions about what the future of the band would be.
After such a long break, expectations for “Banks Of Eden” have had time to percolate, reaching a boil as the album is finally ready to be released. The album wastes no time in setting the record straight, with the twenty-six minute “Numbers” making an immediate statement that all is as it has ever been. Winding through musical passages with seamless grace, Stolt and company fill the space with tasteful playing that never tries to do more than the song requires. Stolt contributes several melodic solos, each a highlight. Few players wrench as much emotion out of their instrument as he can, saying as much with his phrasing as most songwriters can accomplish with an entire composition. Keyboard player Tomas Bodin is as integral a part of the sound, providing flourishes of texture that propel the varying sections of the epic. His quivering, almost horror movie tone in the middle of the song is mesmerizing, the perfect note to bisect the song. That so much time has passed when the song ends is remarkable, the changes so well composed that you never sense the daunting length of the track. Writing epics is a hallmark of the band, and for good reason. Few can make them as listenable as “Numbers”.
Following this, the album offers up more manageable slices of progressive flavor. “For Love Of Gold” is an upbeat number that relies more heavily on Bodin's organ sounds, as Stolt delivers a relaxed but catchy vocal melody that wouldn't have been out of place on 70's AM radio. It is nostalgic music, but done in such a loving way that it's truly authentic. This is who these musicians are at their core, not a sound chosen by them. “Pandemonium” is the odd lot, with stabbing blasts of organ and a different vocal delivery bringing a different feel than the rest of the album.
“For Those About To Drown” is another throwback to olden days, an effortlessly melodic song that is gratifying on many levels. Featuring as much impressive musicianship as the other songs, it brings with it an air of simplicity in the arrangement, sounding like a more intellectual take on what was once radio-acceptable material. “Rising The Imperial” settles things down, ending the album on a subdued note. A melodic ballad containing Stolt's most impassioned solo on the record, it's a fitting and welcome coda to the sonic journey the proceeding four songs established.
A deluxe edition of “Banks Of Eden” comes with four bonus tracks. “Illuminati” is a jazzy instrumental, that while beautiful, is not essential. “Fireghosts”, on the other hand, without doubt is. An uplifting bit of melody, it showcases the best vocal lines and performances on the album, and would have been a fine addition to the main track listing. It's exclusion is apparent as “Going Up” plays out, another song with strong pop and melodic sensibilities. The bonus tracks have a different feeling to them, and their inclusion on the main album may have diluted the effect of that material. Being labeled bonus tracks shouldn't discount their quality; all of them are excellent tracks that are worth hearing.
“Banks Of Eden” was recorded like music was made in the old days, with the band playing together in the same room. The comradery is evident in the result, as the music swings to the beat of humanity, rising and falling as the players find their groove. The impact wouldn't be as strong if everything was locked rigidly to a tempo grid, overdubbed until every note was perfect. This sounds like music as music is played, a living entity that under the right circumstances can become an experience unlike any other. Whether “Banks Of Eden” reaches that high is debatable, but it certainly gives it everything it has, and it without fail it will be one of the best progressive rock albums released this year.
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I think we can consider running a controlled experiment to raise the limit to 2 simultaneously.
To bring some data to the discussion, I created a Data Explorer query to show the number of bounties set over time by month. I dumped the results into Excel, hit the graph button, and this is what I got:
Clearly, the number of bounties being set is generally increasing over time, but that is mostly due to increasing site activity (more people = more people using the bounty system). The January 2009 data is because the bounty system was only introduced to the site at that point; I'm not sure what happened in February/March 2010. It seems there's an upward trend after the new system was released, possibly with an "initial excitement" phase which will then level off a bit.
I don't think the system is escaping with nonlinear growth, so we can definitely consider increasing the maximum number of bounties to 2, even experimentally (say, 2-3 months). It would be interesting to see how many people actually take advantage of the feature.
At the same time, we have to realize that the number of bounties is increasing, which makes setting a bounty less "special" and attention-grabbing for those questions. That's why I think a controlled experiment may be in order. Or, perhaps Stack Overflow, with its "big-city" problems as Jeff calls them, may very well be the exception for increasing the limit -- it would certainly be safe to raise the limit on the other sites. With Stack Overflow, The Management may want to be more careful going forward.
EDIT: Added the total number of registered users over time. Here is the source query.
EDIT: Added the number of bounties set per 100,000 users. Sorry for the weird units, I wanted to get all the curves on the same graph. It's the trend that's important anyway. Also, I corrected the red line -- it should have been before the June 2010 data point since that point is the total over June. What I said above still holds, though, as the June 2010 data is about 2/3 old system, 1/3 new system.
EDIT: Updated with August 2010 data. It appears there is an upward trend in bounties being set, and it's slightly outpacing the rate of new users. We may need more than 1 additional data point to draw any kind of conclusion.
EDIT: Updated with September 2010 data. Rewrote the body of the post to give more current analysis.
EDIT: Updated with October 2010 data, including the trendline I added (but didn't post) last month. Revised the data analysis.
EDIT: Updated with Nov 2010, Dec 2010 and Jan 2011 data (man, I got lazy!). Astute users will notice the X-axis scale was corrected. The data points are now positioned such that they represent the previous month of data (i.e., the April 1, 2010 data point represents data between March 1-31). I think it makes more sense now.
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The Newberry has recently announced that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $526,000 for the creation of a set of online tools to allow users to teach themselves to read different early French handwritings from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. We’re very excited as this will be an invaluable tool for paleographers, scholars and perhaps a few genealogists as well.
Old styles of handwriting, whether in your native language or that of your ancestors, can present a number of problems. Here are some resources which you may find helpful:
- The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies maintains a listing of online resources for those interested in Paleography.
- The U.K. National Archives offers an online tutorial: Palaeography - reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800.
- The Yale University Library Rare Book Team has compiled another helpful list: List of Paleographic Resources (MS Word)
- The Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University provides tutorials for deciphering English, German, Duth, Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish scripts.
If you’re still stumped, you may want to consider turning to a professional. Cyndi’s List has some resources for locating assistance.
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Chicago’s South Side pizzeria, Sanfratello’s Pizza, retains Phoenix Marketing Associates as agency of record in Arizona.
Facebook finally adopted the publishing model of the old school media: If you want to publicize your business, you have to pay. Small business owners and restaurateurs will have to quickly re-evaluate their marketing plans for 2015.
Although mobile and social media marketing have been hot industry topics for the past few years, you can’t have a strong digital showing without first developing a solid marketing campaign. At the 2014 Fast Casual Executive Summit, this panel dissected a variety of campaigns to see why some work and why some don’t.
The brand examines sales and coupons to find out what works, and also leverages word-of-mouth messaging from loyal customers.
Sastry Penumarthy, with Punchh, talked at NRA about how important it is for restaurants to engage customers via mobile.
The chain benefited from promoting innovation, such as its Big Dinner Box and new P'Zolo sandwiches.
Targeting young people online seems logical but older Americans have embraced technology, too, and want the benefits and ease of new devices and services.
While use of technology and social media among Millennials is legendary (they've never known a time that wasn't digital), new Hartman Group research finds that their relationships with brands is less definitive and, thus, fertile ground for creating brand affinity....
Game on! There are two great teams in the 2011 World Series. I am from Texas, "Go Rangers!" Pizza and sports go hand and hand like pepperoni and cheese.
Restaurant owners and executives are constantly looking for the biggest bang for their buck when it comes to spreading the word about their restaurant. Getting new mouths in the door is an important step in growing the business, let alone the brand.
We know the place, or know of such a place. The quaint restaurant, locally owned by a couple; she's the chef, he runs the front.
Canada-based Boston Pizza unveiled a new brand positioning featuring the tagline ‘We’ll Make You A Fan’ that began Feb. 21 with a 30-second brand essence spot to introduce the campaign.
Deliver Media, a full-service marketing agency that serves numerous Domino’s locations nationwide, has implemented a new method to introduce five new creative designs each month for direct mail pieces.
Pizza Hut will reward select fans with free pizza for a year for sharing a photo on Twitter or Instagram of themselves dressed up while eating Pizza Hut Pizza in honor of the Academy Awards on Feb. 22.
Pizza Patrón launched its 'add jalapeños' campaign, LLORAR Y LLORAR, named after a song by Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez.
Nashville, Tennessee-based Hunt Brothers Pizza introduced its new "Mow Like a Pro" sweepstakes, which provides winners commercial-grade lawn care prizes from Exmark.
Warmth, sweetness and love could best sum up last week's new menu items.
Most of those wings will be consumed in restaurants. The National Chicken Council estimates that of the wings eaten during the Super Bowl, 75 percent will come from food service outlets and 25 percent from retail grocery stores.
Papa John's customers who order any large pizza at regular menu price will receive another large one-topping pizza free now through January 28.
This is Hunt Brothers Pizza's eighth consecutive year as a NASCAR sponsor and fifth partnered with Harvick.
To mark National Cheese Pizza Day last week, operators from a variety of chains and all members of the American Pizza Community donated free pizzas to children’s hospitals across the US.
Pizza Hut and ICFLIX have joined up to bring dinner and a movie to countries across the Middle East starting August 15th.
Chicago's Giordano's Famous Stuffed Pizza announced its expansion to the North Shore of the city in partnership with basketball legend Scottie Pippen.
The geo-location platform LiveDeal Inc. announced that it has launched in the Los Angeles market. The livedeal.com platform has been tested in Los Angeles in recent weeks, and has signed up hundreds of participating locations as of the official launch,...
Papa Murphy's has partnered with CBS EcoMedia Inc. to sponsor two WellnessAd advertising programs with the Starlight Children's Foundation for four Sacramento, Calif.-area hospitals: Shriners Hospitals for Children–Northern California, Sutter Medical Center, St.
San Francisco-based Patxi's Pizza announced that it has beaten its fundraising goal by 44 percent through its 52 Weeks of Giving Community Fundraising Program. Patxi's started the program in 2010 with the goal of providing community support to organizations who...
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ohh wow ohh yessi would love to walk in thoosseee!!
gorgeous! i love the pin-up feel of ankle strap, platform sandals, these are like Bettie Page meets Prince! what collection are they from? congrats, enjoy them :)
Hi Delmy,I love your blog! I've been following for about 4 months now. I know that feeling of having a totally crappy day and then coming home to open something really special. This past week I ordered some stuff from Gilt Groupe and after nearly quitting my job that day, it was great to open the boxes, felt like Christmas morning! Love the shoes, like candy for your feet!!!
those are soooo cute.
I love them! Adorable and great color Delmy! xowww.FashionSnag.com
daymn chica!!! que bonita!! Je l'aime! These shoes are stunning. Love.Amberambersmouthwash
love the style on these & the color!!xxbijousstyle.blogspot.com
damn! im speechless...love themcan't wait to see what you wear them with
When I saw you post this I must admit I squealed with excitment because I absolutely think those shoes are super feroish!!!!! I think the color was a great choice it looks great against your skin tone. Thanks for adding some fashion sunlight on my rainy day!www.isanityisthenewblack.blogspot.com
those are amazing! i can think of so many ways i would wear them... lucky you :)beneaththeglass.blogspot.com
what a gorgeoussssssssss shoe! love the color and different textures...looks so pretty on u!!XO Kimmywww.Strawberry-Stiletto.com
Oh my goodness, my heart is pumping with jealousy right now!Those are freaking amazing!!!Just like on CHICMUSE except in purple! Which I love!Congratulations!
Wow, they look amazing! Very jealous.
OMGEE! So much fun, I love these! I have total shoe envy right now and it hurts. Even looking at the Marc shoe baggie makes me jealous. Ahhh.http://www.firednfabulous.blogspot.com/
The colour on these are insanely beautiful!! I love the wooden heel with them.http://moneyinmycloset.blogspot.comhttp://moneyinmycloset.blogspot.com
Very pin-up girl!
Those are the most beautiful purple heels I've ever seen in my entire life.
well helllo loooooversthat would not only make my day...but my weekend too
Love, Love, LOOOOOOOVE!!!!!!
So so beautiful!
those shoes are divine!!
wow those are extremely pretty :)
They are absolutely gorgeous!! Love them.LiveLoveLA
Oh honey, these are too HOT for words! I can't wait to see how you pull it together with an outfit!
this sandals are so beautiful! i love them, great purchase!
it looks so high! you're so cool, i love your tattoo. I am Denise Katipunera
I usually hate Marc but these have that sexy shape that I can not resist. They remind me of C.Olympia a bit.
I love this shoes!!!
I love the color of the shoes! And your little butterfly. trousersshoesandskirts.blogspot.com
OMFG. THOSE ARE ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!The colour is so luxe like royalty! love it! xoxo www.thestarvingstylist.com
wow!Those shoes are amazing!xxx
I just died. Damn those babies are serious!
Are they comfortable to wear? It doesn's seem so in the last picture.
Lovely, amazing, pictures!!!!!!!!xoxoIrene's ClosetWould you like to have a look to my blog??http://ireneccloset.blogspot.com
I really like your heels!!
Wow! What a pair of shoes! the color is amazing.
those are unbelievable!!!!!
You are so lucky...... I love Marc Jacobs and I am so happy for you.... I am going to be there some day.
OMG! Where did you get those beauties???
Me encantan...Fue lo primero que vi en tu blog y puse una expresion de wowwwwincluso iria hasta donde vives solo para robartelos :Pbesos
I love them...but, can you walk with those shoes??? I admire you¡¡
those shoes are amazing! Those would definitely be a big reward for me after a long day at work.hellolucie.blogspot.com
these shoes are sooo crazy, they remind me of the 70s but in a good way! Cheers,Alinawww.dreamingchic.blogspot.com
Oh yummy! They would definitely make my day. Can't wait to see what you wear them with!www.fashionjjunkie.blogspot.com
Those are FIRE!!!!http://glamourmission.blogspot.com
o my god. unbelieveable!!
they look soooo comfortable....
wonderful shoes !
Ooh, so pretty :)Did you order them online?
hot, hot shoes!!
OMG OMG i'm so in love .... this shoes are so amazing =)
OMGGGG! THOSE R GORGEOUSSSSSS! SO I WAS READING MY OLD POST, AND I SEEN A COMMENT FROM YOU REGARDING NOT HAVING 94 FOLLOWERS YET, AND LOOK AT U, DONE PASSED ME BY LIKE 500..LOL..JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS FUNNY..STAY FLY! XOXO
Fantastic shoes! And I know exactly the feeling you're describing when swooning over a fab pair of heels.
Im so jealous! I want!! :)Nice blog!!www.skiipinginheels.blogspot.com♥
Oh boy... Lovely shoes :D
wow!! awesome!!i like your blog!kisses from portugal***
oh em gee!now these are shoes! they are gorge delmy!
Georgous purple...Georgous Marc Jacobs !!
SO awesome! And they're purple!
cute cute cute shoes!! they look so high
OMG those shoes are amazing!!! They are so beautiful, wear them well.Check out my blog at allthingsvogue.blogspot.com
amazing!! gotta love marc for his bags & shoes!!
Thos eare sooooooooooooo kute!!
Wow!! awesome shoes!! really cute, but really high too. xoxo
Those shoes are amazingly beautiful and they look great on you... I'd definitely love to come home after a stressful day of school and work only to find those waiting for me to slip my feet into.
...and the expression on her face was ENVY!!! That's right, i am green with envy.
Those shoes. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY GOSH. Those shoes are CRAZY COOL. :)MELANIELIKES.BLOGSPOT.COMFollow please? <3
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I am jealous. this pair is definitely fabxoxo, thn
oml.those shoes are simply stunning.I love the metallic purple material and the wooden platforms.simply a beauttttttt.Theory of a fashion victimxoxo
oml.those are amazing.I love the metallic purple material against the wooden platforms.simply beautiful.Theory of a fashion victimxoxo
Agh! Wanted to cop those in red... But I still dont know.They look fab!Laura E.
Oo oo...they make me happy just LOOKING at them!Olivewww.VisforOlive.blogspot.com
In my favorite color. I love the red as well. Where did you snatch them up from?Ps. Who makes the shoes in the 3rd look you posted below?xx
Love the shoes! :D
oh my word!! THOSE ARE TOO HAUTE FOR WORDS!!! Can't wait to see what outfit you'll pair those with!
Oh wow, they make your arch look spectacular!!
oh high there pretty MJS!xoxo
How cooool!I am moving my blog. (janetteria.com), but I have a big problem with DNS of blogger.com and now the blog update is not working. (for example: google reader, bloglist...) I hope so the problem will be resolved soon. I want let me know this. Please don't forget to visit this blog because I can make a new post for everyday, will not break my habit. I love you. ♥
I'm speechless. These shoes are amazing! I couldn't even walk in those heels but they look very stylish! :)
Oh they would make me so happy too! they're beautiful, great colour.http://flowergirlfashion.blogpsot.com
nice blog HONEY! :D I LIKE IT!!!Follow my blog and I follow your blog:O)i`m happy if you follow me toooo with bloglovin ;)KISS ;*)
Love it!!! xoxo Birgittehttp://fashionaccordingtobirgitte.blogspot.com
OMG they are spectacular!!
that color is delish... very wonderland, beautiful blog!
Marvelous is the word ! But it might be quite hard to walk with these beauties ^^
Those are gorgeous! Incredibly jelous right now!!
just wow, they are beautiful!
Hi Delmy!Wow, I missed you sweetie!It's been a long I haven't visited you.So sorry for that. I have a handful of Mr.Freddy.My dear, I love your new shoes!My gawd, my heart is jumping for joy.I love it soo much!
i bet theres nothing like coming home to those!!
Awesome shoes! As a wearer of heels, I have to say they look a bit tiring to walk in, though-- are they comfier than they seem?
oh my god! I love Marc Jacobs and these shoes are gorgeoushttp://factorystyle.blogspot.com/
o gosh.one word: jealous :)lovely heels and looks great on your feet!
It's so beautiful! Perfect for spring to autumn! ;)
Oh My, these are stunning!!fashionableroad.blogspot.com
Those are super cute! Aww I love shoes so much, love love love these! laneewrites.blogspot.com
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i think that the simply way to put the foot in those must be extraordinary!!!www.intuitioncouture.blogspot.com
oooooh!lovely blog and lovely shoes!!!!www.lauracesaribijoux.blogspot.com
Marc is a genius!
omg i must say they are lovely, gorgeous and awesome! and what a cute tattoo you have! love it :)
The shoes are INSANE! Love them!
OMG *.* i want them :D
THOSE ARE SOME BAD ASS SHOES!!!!!!
Coolest shoes ever! I love the semi chunky heel, gorgeous :)
oh WOW. i just died and went to shoe heaven ! They look amazing on you ♡I put your link up on my blog!
i just created a blog i'm 14 and i featured you in it. i would really appreciate it if you could just take a look and comment back if you have time. thankyou.
I loooove Marc Jacobs. I'm so jealous right now. Love your blog!
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dmath Wrote:Great find, Tony. Here's hoping that one day you enter one of these shops and find a pretty, perfumed and knowledgable watchmaker in addition to a cache of vintage parts.
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Rave Wrote:Congratulations on sniffing this one out. Great detective work! I am still looking for a reasonably priced 866 but,as you know, they're not easy to find.
Time is a river without banks. Marc Chagal
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Everything you need for a Happy Life is within yourself...
8541 Wrote:Quote: " This is the marvelous world of the vintage watch collector. It sure beats going to boutiques and talk to salespersons who know nothing about IWC or even watches. They may be prettier, better dressed, and even smell better, but the experience can't be compared. ?"Antonio, absolutely aligned with you on the wonderful world of Vintage collecting. And indeed your observation about the difference in "feel" of a boutique (and of course some AD's) and the old watch stores. Of course, the best (for those of us that also collect / like contemporary pieces) is when you do walk into a boutique and get approached by a knowledgeable Sales assistant - and YES, they are out there, but very scarce indeed. But then again, in defense of IWC Sales Department, lets be frank enough to admit, that the majority of luxury watch consumers today, are walking into that store, with very little understanding of horology and a desire to procure based mostly on cost and sadly also "status" appeal.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-Man, or any other Marvel Comics characters. I also do not own any DC Comics characters.
Chapter 14 - Edge of Midnight
The world seemed to go in slow motion as he leaped over the edge of the Daily Planet building, and plunged without thought down toward the scared, and screaming form about to meet her demise on the streets below. Spider-Man streamlined his body to maximize the speed of his decent and began to catch up to the falling woman, who Peter still envisioned to be his long lost love Gwen Stacy. Spider-Man reached out with one hand, inching closer to her by the second as the panicked shouts of pedestrians filled his ears. Peter blocked them out, and grabbed the woman, and placed his body below her, and wrapped his arms around her protectively. "No more webbing...too far to make it to stick to anything...Gwen...I'll protect you!" Peter closed his eyes, and waited for the impact. Peter felt himself, and the woman in his arms floating and opened his eyes to see that Superman caught them a mere six feet from the cleared away street.
A crowd was beginning to form around the three, and Spider-Man quickly lowered himself, and Lois onto the street. Peter blinked when he could no longer see Gwen standing there, and in her place their stood a dark haired woman staring at him with a thankful smile. "What was that? Why did I see Gwen? Wait! The Goblin!" Peter's head looked up, and started scanning the skies with urgency, but he saw no sign of his old foe. "NO! You won't get away from me, Norman!" Spider-Man was about to start wall-crawling back up the Daily Planet building to begin his search for the Green Goblin, when Superman placed a hand on Peter's shoulder getting him to turn his masked head. "Spider-Man, thank you for saving Lois. I don't know what I would've done if I lost her." Superman said to his teammate, and saw that Spider-Man's body tensed at his words. "There's no time! I have to stop him!" Superman shook his head with an angry frown. "I saw the Goblin disappearing into a portal of some kind above the city. We need the rest of the team here. It's time you told us everything about you, and the enemies that we could be facing, Spider-Man."
Superman stared at Spider-Man intently, and waited for his answer. "The Goblin's appearance here is no coincidence. This is the Beyonder's handiwork, and he could bring just about anyone to this universe if he wanted. If I keep quiet about my identity, and world...it will put innocent lives at risk. I can't do that, and I won't. I'd never forgive myself. There's a quicker way to have the League know everything," Peter has a look of concentration under his mask, and cleared his thoughts like his friend Moondragon taught him. Superman watched Spider-Man's form relax, and he was taking deep breaths. "J'onn...are you there?...J'onn...I need to talk to you."
Peter waited for a few minutes, before he felt the familiar sensation of psychic contact being established. "Spider-Man...we are heading for Metropolis now. There was a tremor on the psychic plane when you felt anguish about your lost love. I understand what you are feeling."
Peter's brow furrowed under his mask. "I appreciate you keeping my life, and the information about my world to yourself..." The Martian Manhunter flinches in his seat on-board the Javelin, and waited for Spider-Man to continue speaking in his mind. "but, now an old enemy of mine appeared in your world, and almost killed someone!...I want you to use your telepathy and send the team everything. All my memories." There was silence over their psychic link for a few moments, and the Martian Manhunter was the first to break the silence. "I understand, Spider-Man. I will let the others know. There is a one problem...Batman still has the psychic shields on his mind, and I cannot reach him telepathically." Peter frowned under his mask, and his jaw tightened. "I'll have to talk to Bats directly then...not something I'm looking forward to."
"I will wait until we arrive in Metropolis before I begin linking our minds for the transfer, Spider-Man."
"Good plan. My past isn't all sunshine, and rainbows. Thanks, J'onn." Peter begins to come out of his psychic trance, and Superman was helping Lois over to one of the Ambulance's that were onsite to help with the injured on the street. Spider-Man looked down and moved part of his costume up, and exposed his abdomen where his belt with his extra web cartridges are located. "I have to create more web fluid...who among all the League members has a lab? I've got a feeling only Bats has access to one. Or maybe I could go to that facility called S.T.A.R. Labs that Superman told me about?" Peter was brought out of his thoughts from the sound of the Javelin touching down on the roof of the Daily Planet. Spider-Man glanced over at his teammate Superman, who was hugging Lois to his chest, and running a hand through her hair. He separated, and kissed her forehead. Peter could hear Superman whispering apologies to her, and decided to give them some privacy and jumped up a high as he could, and began wall-crawling up fast to reach the roof.
Peter could see Hawkgirl flying from the roof, and descended towards his location on the side of the building. Shayera's wings flapped lightly, as she kept pace with Peter crawling upwards. "Need a lift?" Hawkgirl said getting Spider-Man to stop, and look up at her. "Thanks for the offer, Polly... but I've got lots of practice scaling buildings like this." Hawkgirl frowned slightly when she heard a hitch in his voice. "This isn't open for discussion. Your coming with me." Hawkgirl strapped her mace to her belt around her waist, and surprised Peter when she scooped him up under his costumed arms, and began flying skyward. Peter looked down, and didn't struggle in her grip. "It's a long way down...been there, done that." Peter looked up to see Hawkgirl smirking down at him, and then she started diving right towards the roof at high speed. Peter unconsciously clung onto Shayera, and she blushed a little from their close contact.
Shayera's wings expanded, and flapped loudly as she lowered Spider-Man onto the roof with Superman just arriving after they touched down. Everyone, but the Batman was present on the Daily Planet's roof, and Spider-Man cleared his throat to get everyone's attention. "J'onn's probably brought you up to speed on the situation. An old enemy from my world has shown up here, and that means the Beyonder is making his move. You all need the knowledge that I have about myself, and my world to help you if there are more of my rogue's gallery on the way. J'onn's agreed to send you all of my memories telepathically...I don't like it...but the Goblin's arrival has forced my hand." Peter said clenching his gloved fist, and narrowed his eye lenses while staring at his teammates in the League. Flash sent Peter an understanding smile. "It's not fair that your the only one exposing his identity, Webs. Hey, J'onn! Can you send Spidey my memories too? You never know when you could run into one of my baddies like Captain Boomerang, right?" Flash received questioning looks from the other members of the League. "You sure about this, Flash?" Green Lantern asked with his arms folded over his chest, and lantern insignia. "Yep! You guys should too! I mean...if you want to." Flash said looking at the faces of all the other members of the League.
Green Lantern huffed, and sighed. "Fine. I'll do it." Flash ran over, and tapped his friend on the back in a friendly manner. "Good man! Anyone else?" Hawkgirl turned her head, and rubbed her upper left arm with her other hand. "Not just yet. I'm sorry, but there are some things I'm not ready to share with you." Hawkgirl gave everyone an apologetic look, as her gaze lingered on Spider-Man longer than the others. Wonder Woman asked J'onn a question. "Do we have to include everything? Mother forbade me from revealing anything that could expose Themiscrya, and I don't want to endanger my Amazonian sisters." Spider-Man wasn't in the mood to deal with their debating, and turned his head to look at J'onn. "Do I have to be here for the transfer?" J'onn shook his head. "Good enough for me. I've got a Goblin to hunt!" Spider-Man ran over to the other side of the roof, and took a mighty leap 20 feet over to the next highrise building, and kept going until he was out of sight. Hawkgirl stared at Spider-Man's retreating form with a forelorn look, and the rest of the League were looking guilty with their heads down. J'onn stepped forward with a serious look on his face. "Spider-Man's memories will overwhelm you, and are not for the faint of heart. Be prepared." J'onn's eyes glowed red, as he entered a psychic trance like state to transfer Spider-Man's memories to Flash, Green Lantern, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
The memories of Peter Parker started flooding their minds. His early days of being bullied by Flash Thompson, gaining his Spider powers, and trying to cash in on them. The death of his Uncle Ben that changed his life, and helped shape his future. Faces of all of Spider-Man's enemies flashed across their minds-eye. Super powered men with animal themed costumes, Alien symbiotes, mutants, and sights that even John Stewart, and the more experienced members of the League were astounded at. They watched as Spider-Man faced threats that would've caused even Superman to think twice before challenging. They saw Peter with multiple arms facing off against a living Vampire, getting cosmic powers, and facing down a mad despot standing next to death herself with the power to end his life with a single thought. They saw some of Spider-Man's enemies becoming friends, and allies...a woman in a skin tight leather costume with white hair, and a domino mask on, and a man in a lab coat with one arm that transformed into a lizard man. They witnessed him becoming teammates, and friends with a group of super-humans known as the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and others. The League members saw all of this, and they dropped down to their knees holding their heads with blank looks in their eyes. J'onn cut off his telepathy, and his eyes no longer had a red glow.
Superman had haunted eyes, and shook his head to help sort his thoughts. "Great Scott! What he's had to endure...it makes what I went through on Apokolips look pale in comparison." Superman was humbled by Peter's sacrifices and how he faced threats bigger than any he's seen before. Wonder Woman stood up slowly with her slender left hand held over her blue eyes. "Spider-Man is a true hero. If only my mother could see these memories...she would not doubt that man's world can produce true men that have honor, and dignity. I know my mother would welcome him to the shores of Themyscira." Diana walked over to the edge of the building, and stared off in the location Spider-Man left to, and gave an Amazonian salute in that direction.
Green Lantern couldn't believe all of the different alien races that existed in Spider-Man's universe, and he remembered the conversation he had with the Guardians after the League's meeting about Spider-Man. "The Guardians said that they had a falling out with being's called the Elders of the Universe, and entities called the Living Tribunal, and Eternity decided to split the Universe into two separate ones, because the Elders threatened to use their Infinity Gems to kill the Guardians. Seeing Spider-Man's memories confirms things. Buried alive...scorched by cosmic flames from a herald called Firelord...I'm going to need to use my ring to sort through everything to get more info on these Elders since the Guardians wouldn't tell me anything else." John looked over at Flash, who was shaking on his hands and knees with a vacant stare.
"Flash?" John was getting no response from Wally. "Flash!" Wally still was looking down, and Green Lantern could see sweat dripping down Flash's face from under his cowl. John used his ring to create a green energy hand, and gently lifted Flash onto his feet. John rushed over, and lightly shook Wally by his shoulders. "Wally! Can you hear me!" Flash blinked under the lenses of his mask, and groaned painfully. "What happened? Was...all of that...real? He's got all of these guys wanting to destroy him...my rogues aren't even in the same league as his!" Flash started shaking again, and John shook Wally again, and gave him a stern look. "Flash...Spider-Man's life, and yours are two different things. Don't overlap them, and draw any comparisons! Just be happy that you never had a world eating cosmic being trying to make our world a midnight snack." John tried a joke with his dry sense of humor to get Wally to focus, and it worked when he saw him chuckling a little. "Yeah...can you believe it? That one herald called Nova was super hot, though!" Flash grinned widely. "Yeah, Wally's back to normal." Green Lantern smirked, and pushed Wally with his hands on his back walking over to main group. "We need to compare notes with the others, and then track down Spider-Man before Batman chews us out."
On the other side of Metropolis City
Spider-Man approached the head of S.T.A.R. Labs, Doctor Emil Hamilton to use one of his labs to make more web fluid for his web-shooters. Professor Hamilton agreed to allow Peter to use their lab, as long as he was being supervised by one of his staff at all times. Peter agreed to this, and began to gather the chemicals for his web fluid. Peter was suspicious of Hamilton when he saw him making mental notes of what chemicals he was using, so Peter made up an excuse that he was needed back at the Watchtower and he needed a container for the necessary components, and will return later to the lab to make it. Professor Hamilton offered to recreate the fluid, if Spider-Man provided the formula. Peter politely refused, and he noticed Hamilton frown slightly before smiling and accepting Peter's reasoning. Spider-Man left the lab quickly with the chemicals in a specially made container that had a strap that was over Peter's right shoulder.
Spider-Man arrived at a large harbor that separated Metropolis, and a dark city that looked nothing like the bright city that Superman calls home. Peter looks over at a sign indicating the name of the city across the harbor. "Gotham City...that's Batman's city. Goblin likely doesn't know anything about the world that the Beyonder sent him to. Norman would feel right at home over there. Not to mention telling Bat's about my life the old fashioned way." Peter narrowed his eye lenses when he heard sirens, and the sounds of shouting people in panic. "It's like New York if Dracula was the Mayor! Better see what I can do to help out!" Peter leaps over to the harbor ferry, and saw a large man wearing a blue sailor suit and a brown Gatsby hat with one squinting eye. "Who the?! Your that guy Superman was hanging out with!" Peter gave the man a salute. "I need your help to get me over there to Gotham, can you do it?" The large man pulled up a sleeve of his coat, and gave Peter a grin. "Any friend O' Superman's a friend of mine! Name's Bibbo! I'll get you there in no time flat!"
Author's note: Chapter 14 Complete! Thanks for reading, and leave a review to let me know what you thought of the chapter. (^-^)
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Melissa McDonnell, 32, Marfa, Texas
Occupation: Director of external affairs for Ballroom Marfa, a nonprofit, and adjunct professor at the Texas Tech School of Architecture
Annual income: $65,000 (combined)
Home, sweet home: "Marfa's a tiny town — population 2,000 — known for art and design. I went to graduate school for architecture at Rice University, and I spent time on a project here. I loved it enough to move! My boyfriend, Carlos, and I split the $800 rent on a one-story house."
Bills, bills, bills: "Gas, water, and trash service cost $120 a month, electricity is $40, and wireless is $30. I put $500 in my savings account, send $700 to my grad-student loan plan, and pay $102 for iPhone service, plus $520 for my car loan. Gas is $65 a tank; I fill up every week when I head to the university in El Paso where I teach. Ballroom Marfa, the nonprofit where I work, covers my health care."
Meal plan: "Carlos and I make omelets first thing. He works nights at a bistro in town, so we meet up again for lunch at the Food Shark, a local food truck. For dinner, I get a salad or gnocchi and wine at his bistro, about $40."
The weekender: "Saturday, I'll take a yoga class, and then around 5 p.m., I walk to the Marfa Book Company for a reading and catered reception, which doubles as a free dinner. On Sunday, we drive 60 miles to Ojinaga, Mexico, to shop at El Super, a big grocery store. Just $40 gets you a full cart and a bottle of tequila."
Only in Marfa: "We're an arts community, so a lot of renowned artists come through. Feist played recently — tickets were $30. Other small towns don't have that kind of cultural programming. In a big city, it would cost more."
The shoe index: "We have a lot of gravel and dirt roads here, so everyone wears boots. I spent $400 on riding boots from Barneys."
The view from the ground: "At Ballroom Marfa, our funding is based on individual giving and grants from groups like the National Endowment for the Arts, so we're very aware of the economic mood. Right now visitors and giving are high, but we're not sure how the end of the Bush tax cuts could affect us." —Whitney Joiner
THE SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Jen Boulden, 39, Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Entrepreneur, green-living consultant
Annual income: More than $200,000
Home, sweet home: "I live in Silver Lake, the hipster area, in a three-bedroom house that I bought in 2009. When I renovated, I spent an obscene amount — $400,000, four times my budget! I was able to cash in some investments to cover it. Now my home office overlooks my chicken coop in the backyard."
Bills, bills, bills: "I pay $120 a month for my cell phone, $150 for cable, and $400 for a housekeeper. I've owned my Volkswagon Jetta since 2006; it gets 44 miles per gallon, so I go weeks without filling up."
Meal plan: "I have eggs from my chickens for breakfast and a smoothie for lunch. I go to an organic salad bar, about $12, for dinner."
The weekender: "I entertain a lot. On Saturday, I'm throwing a potluck dinner for one of my best friends. The guests will bring the food, I'll get the alcohol: 10 bottles of wine for about $100."
Only in Los Angeles: "Water's expensive here, and I wanted to reduce my consumption for environmental reasons. Xeriscaping, which uses native plants and drought-tolerant landscaping, cut my water bill 70 percent, to $75 a month."
Big splurge: "I own a horse, an Appendix named Lou; she cost $8,500. It's not for the faint of heart, this sport. Whenever little girls come pat Lou, I tell their parents, 'Run!'"
The shoe index: "I bought a pair of $850 Sigerson Morrison wedges for $250 on eBay. I love them, even though they hurt."
The view from the ground: "The recession hurt my business doing startup consulting and advising on green living; people were focused on putting food on the table. Going green for the sake of it doesn't fly; the changes need to be cost-comparable and convenient. My friends come over, see the tankless water system, and say, 'I want one.' It's not because they're green; it's because it saves money." —Lea Goldman
THE OUTDOOR ENTHUSIAST
Kiri Crane, 27, Vail, Colorado
Occupation: Snowboarding instructor
Annual income: $25,000 ($17 an hour plus tips)
Home, sweet home: "Most instructors live in employee housing, dorm-style apartments on the mountain, but I found a deal on a two-bedroom apartment nearby. I have a room to myself and my two roommates share the other one. We pay $500 each, including utilities."
Bills, bills, bills: "I have $2,400 in student loans, so I put $300 a month toward that. I pay almost $60 for our Internet and Hulu Plus. Insurance for my Toyota Forerunner is $60, and gas is about $60. I'm on my parents' iPhone plan — it's cheaper — so I send them $30 a month."
Meal plan: "I never pay for lunch. In a group lesson, the mountain covers my meals, and private clients take me to a restaurant. For dinner, I cook; I'm a vegetarian and love pasta and salad, so I only spend $50 a week on food."
The weekender: "Wednesdays and Thursdays are my days off, when I board or hike to the backcountry for powder. On Tuesday night, I go to a local bar and drink Pabst Blue Ribbon beer or vodka sodas, about $15."
Only in Vail: "All-season ski passes cost $700, but instructors ski free. We get gear discounts, too; boards are $500, but I got mine for $300."
Big splurge: "Weddings! I went to seven last summer. Plane tickets are $500 each. A dress, gift, and hotel can add another $700."
The shoe index: "My most expensive shoes are my lime green Ride snowboarding boots. They retail for about $200 but I got them for $100."
The view from the ground: "A lot of mountain jobs are tip-dependent; at the height of the season, half my income is from tips. They vary and rely on tourism — if nobody wants a lesson, I don't have a job for the day. On the flip side, I can get $20 from a group or up to $100 from a private lesson." —Ashley Ross
THE SOUTHERN HOSTESS
Alexa Wyatt, 23, Charleston, South Carolina
Occupation: Wedding and events coordinator
Annual income: $50,000
Home, sweet home: "I share an apartment with my best friend; we split the $1,300 rent. I do cake tastings at the bakery across the street."
Bills, bills, bills: "My half of the utilities including cable is $250. Every few months, I sign up for barre classes, about $200 a month. I drive an old white BMW 3-Series. My parents cover the insurance and my cell phone bill, about $225."
Meal plan: "I survive on Starbucks lattes for breakfast. At tastings, I try nine hors d'oeuvres, four entrÉes, and four cakes. That's lunch! For dinner, my roommate and I order pizza for $16."
The weekender: "I often work weddings every weekend for months. Otherwise, on Saturdays, I host friends for cocktails and we eat at a restaurant downtown. I spend around $50."
Only in Charleston: "The annual wine and food festival is great. A wine lover's pass is $300."
Big splurge: "My $35 monthly gel manicure."
The shoe index: "I own an amazing pair of $400 blush pink Kate Spade heels. I bought them to go with a dress I wore to a cocktail party."
The view from the ground: "The RSVP rate for Charleston weddings is higher than in other cities. It feels like a true destination! Everyone wants to get married here." —Lauren N. Williams
THE D.C. SOPHISTICATE
Dionna Dorsey, 32, Arlington, Virginia
Occupation: Graphic designer
Annual income: $85,000
Home, sweet home: "I pay $1,750 a month for my one-bedroom, less than it would cost in D.C. With the money I'm saving, I want to buy a condo next year — my budget is $400,000. I run my company, creating branding materials and websites for businesses, from home."
Bills, bills, bills: "Basic cable is included in my rent, but I added HBO so I can watch Boardwalk Empire. That plus Internet cost $70 per month. Gas, heat, and water bills are $125, as is health insurance. I drive a white CLK Mercedes, a hand-me-down from my sister. Gas is $60 a tank; insurance is $2,400 a year."
Meal plan: "Working from home allows me to make my own meals, like Korean beef barbecue, for dinner. I spend $65 a week at Whole Foods."
The weekender: "On Saturdays, I meet friends for dinner in Georgetown. On Sundays, I go to a service at the Alfred Street Baptist Church, where I tithe — give 10 percent of my earnings."
Only in Arlington: "Using a citywide bike-share program, I can rent a bicycle for $7. I love riding by the monuments on the National Mall."
Big splurge: "For $120 a month, I wax my eyebrows, armpits, upper lip, and bikini area."
The shoe index: "I spent $770 on a pair of pink satin Viktor & Rolf 5-inch heels."
The view from the ground: "Business comes through referrals, so I haven't advertised. If I'm doing well, I donate services to community groups; I just reworked the logo for a group that helps intellectually disabled athletes reach the Paralympics." —L.N.W.
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Great news! We won one in New York--finally! In front of Hot and Crusty, workers announced yesterday that the new owners of the coffee and pastry shop will recognize their independent union and rehire everyone – yes everyone! An extraordinary agreement allows the union to control the rehiring of the immigrant workforce. No one is to be victimized!
For anyone who has ever been out of work, especially for immigrant workers, this is fantastic news!
The old owner, Mark Sampson, closed the shop at 63rd st and 2 avenue on Friday, Aug. 31st and locked out its 23 employees. Some had worked at H&C for a dozen years or more. They were demanding a mere $1 an hour raise when the store closed. It was classic union busting.
Said the Sept. 8 Official Statement from the Laundry Workers Center and the Hot and Crusty Workers Association: "After a workplace occupation, a week of targeted direct action, round-the-clock picketing and an outpouring of community support, the Hot and Crusty Workers Association announced Saturday that it has come to a tentative agreement with the new owners of the Hot and Crusty located at 63rd street and 2nd avenue. The Union announced that the company has agreed to recognize the union immediately and commence negotiations towards a collective bargaining agreement. Workers will return to their jobs in approximately two weeks. Additionally, the union has negotiated the institution of a hiring hall through which all employees must be referred by the Hot and Crusty Workers Association. This is a historic victory for low-wage and immigrant workers and would not have been possible without the grassroots organizing of the Laundry Workers Center and a broad coalition of support, including Occupy Wall Street, various labor unions, workers centers and community-based organizations."
--Nastaran Mohit" [email protected]
Why were the workers victorious in getting their jobs back? H&C workers, organized by the Laundry Workers Center, refused to play by the rules created by the boss class--basically the one that says negotiate, negotiate, negotiate.
Immediately after being locked out on Friday, Aug. 31st, the union set up pickets outside the store at 63rd street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan. The next day, the LWC, working with Occupy Wall Street and the participation of the wonderful “Rude Mechanical Orchestra,” organized a rally and an “occupation” of about a dozen supporters. About 6 protestors were arrested and all were released within 24 hours.
Although brief, it showed the boss class that this would be no ordinary struggle. The LWC knew that relying on politicians wasn’t the way to go. Owner Mark Sampson surely thought that it would be easy to smash a small workforce of immigrant workers. But the racist mindset of Sampson and the other H&C owners was dead wrong.
The LWC set up a coffee and pastry table on the sidewalk next to the store on Monday, Sept. 3, Labor Day. H&C workers called it the “Workers Justice Café” and flyered the neighborhood for its Labor Day grand opening. Neighbors discussed issues with their favorite H&C employees.
A portion of official labor had pledged support, but little in concrete aid was delivered; most importantly of all, the official labor movement was absent from the H&C picket lines. Such a confrontation demands a sharp, immediate response from Labor!
However, there are underlying reasons for this victory. In addition to the bravery of H&C workers themselves, the union seems to have a lively, democratic internal life that respects worker input. Moreover, the workers and their leadership shunned narrow trade unionism and took on immigrant rights issues. It sought alliances with community groups, radicals and the OWS Labor Alliance, particularly the Immigrant Worker Justice group and the OWS Labor Outreach Committee. It did not rely on politicians.
Said Mahoma, a H&C worker, “If you play by the rules, you’ll loose!”
As proof (according to one source) the new H&C buyer asked the LWC attorney, “What would it take to get rid of the pickets? I can’t make money like this.”
Basically, replied the LWC, according to the source, restoring all of the workers' jobs and implementing agreed-upon rights. The deal was done.
But the battle isn’t over yet. H&C workers, who make near the minimum wage on average, still need a raise. That may take a fight. Supporters must build solidarity and try harder to get the major unions and the CLC to mobilize. A good start I think is that supporters got the go-ahead from the LWC to form a solidarity committee.
What’s next? It is thought that the new owner will re-open in about two weeks. Will we maintain pickets at H&C until every worker is back? What about picketing the other H&C locations?
There’s more news to come from the LWC. Stay tuned!
PS LABOR PARADE: Two H&C workers marched with an LWC banner in the TWU contingent. I happened to bump into them at the TWU contingent. It was late already when they arrived so walking down to 42nd to join the PSC/LOC contingent risked missing the march. Unfortunately, Argilio had to leave for a personal matter. I got TWU President Samuelson to officially greet the H&C workers and OK their banner in the TWU contingent. Later, one expensively dressed NYCLC official-looking guy challenged the LWC presence but I referred him to Samuelson. He gave up.
For background, see "Struggle Erupts at Hot and Crusty":
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Results tagged ‘ September 18 ’
I did not have my blog back in 2006 but I had a draft email that I think I sent to a friend back then. What a great Dodger day September 18, 2006 was! Here is what I wrote back then:
I was at the game on 9/18/06 and no freaking way I am using my tickets to get Hooter’s hot wings! I already wrote on my tix what happened and put it away. I am saving my blankets that we got to commemorate that day! I stayed for the entire game on Saturday so there was no way I was leaving until the last out on Monday. Many people in our top deck section also stayed but there were those that gave up and left. Two of those guys came back to watch the 10th innings! they were in their car listening and hurried back in. It as so sweeeet. some of us were going down the aisle hugging and hi-fiving!
I always keep score and at the end of the 9th inning when the score was 9 -5, after I recorded the last out of the Padres I put a #$%@%$ in the next square down out of frustration. I wanted to curse but there was this 3 year old cute girl that comes with her parents. She loves to hi-five! Anyway, I moved to the last row where my friend Lorena sits and there were these three Padre fans standing in the back. They were saying that probably they were going to miss their train back to SD, but that now that Hoffman was coming to the game, it was over. I turned around and told them “remember what happened in the All-Star game” They reminded me of what Hoffman has done against the Dodgers. They could not freaking believe what happened afterwards! When I was Hi-fiving everyone I was also doing it to them and they went along. They also said they had not seen anything like that.
When Nomar came to bat, they were saying “here comes the rally killer, is over now.” I was yelling “C’mon Nomah…. I believe in you!! “Hit one out for the Ravines (My baseball fantasy team)! It was unbelievable the atmosphere! I along with other fans were going down the aisles hi-fiving and hugging those that I see day in and day out! We stayed and watch all the highlights! When I walked out of the stadium, everyone was going crazy honking their horns everywhere! having their windows down and yelling! Unbelievable!
Oh, yeah while I was walking to my car, I noticed Linda (SDDodger) had left me a message. I called her back and left her a message and let her listen to all the noise, the honks, the noise people were making as they were heading out of the park. I got home and watched the entire replay and taped it. I dozed off during Russell’s Homerun but that is OK, I watched the highlights this morning on ESPN. Did not get many hours of sleep but I’ll be at the stadium again tonight.
Go Dodgers!!! Oh yeah,,,, for those that might want to chat with Nomah, he will be on-line at 2PM today. Got a meeting at that time, but I’ll read later on what he and others had to say. Now, better get some work done.
Another thing, what was up with Peavy!? Was he yelling at Piazza? something about “that was a fastball” IF that is so, you don’t disrespect your catcher. punk. Don’t know what was up with him and Mariano also but I like the way the boys in blue came out ready to rumble!
Happy birthday to my Padre fan friend Mike Egan! Have a wonderful day! I love that this anniversary of 9/18/2006 happened on your birthday! Thanks for being a great friend and see you in San Diego this weekend!
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- The Newspeak Dictionary, 1st edition
Becca Lovell was fired from her job at the Coffee House (also known as CoHo) because she had been giving free espresso and other drinks to her friends. She was let go November 14, 2007. She is currently trying to become a Senator, which oversees the Coffee House.
According to Senator Sundstrom, "Lovell spoke with her boss today and she is leaving the CoHo to pursue a more career-oriented job." However, many others have confirmed getting free drinks, and one CoHo supervisor referred the matter to Sharon Coulson, director of the Coffee House, shortly before Lovell left the job. It is rumored that Lovell was subsequently referred to Student Judicial Affairs as a result of this controversy, but due to various privacy policies, no one is able to properly confirm or deny such a referral.
2007-11-14 18:52:03 Is this alleged, or is there a link/claim/source that she was fired for that reason? —EdWins
2007-11-14 18:53:21 Back when I was in SOSSS, each candidate took a solemn vow: To embezzle unmore than other senators. We kept our word, but it doesn't look like Becca will be taking that vow. —BrentLaabs
2007-11-14 18:55:50 Again, Davis Wiki is the source. You don't remember the days when dwiki was like the only source for open information on ASUCD. You're just going to have to trust that I wouldn't make anything up. Though some of my case on the other page might have come from overstated information, I trust the wiki to find the truth within a day. —BrentLaabs
2007-11-14 18:59:19 I do remember. I started to love reading the wiki when it was first pushing for publicity :P But we *now* have people from multiple political groups always trying to snip at each other, it gets harder to take things written as is, despite the source (unless of course it was SteveO). But it's more about fairness - I may trust you personally, but it's not too fair for yours to go unquestioned while someone else's is. —EdWins
2007-11-14 19:02:19 I agree with Edwin. The Davis wiki is supposed to be about facts, not about leaning towards the political majority, which seems to be LEAD and their allies at the moment. We really need some more evidence of this controversy even occuring to be WRITTEN here, not just talked about by even the most trustworthy of sources. —PaulAmnuaypayoat
2007-11-14 22:27:11 I disagree with the "if it wasn't written somewhere else it didn't happen" mentality expressed in comments above. This is all well and good for issues out in the real world where its plausible that if it isn't written somewhere else it probably in fact DID not happen, but Daviswiki is still a primary source of information for Davis. There will be saucy allegations and messy counterclaims, but in the end, the truth will come out. As to this bit of information, I have no particular reason to believe Brent Laabs would be making it up (which isn't to say I'm 100% certian its true). —KrisFricke
- That's great to say, but then you have 5 different people reverting all night or for days about "what did happen"....Like virtually everything Steve Ostrowski touched on the wiki - sure, the truth eventually came out. Sometimes in days, but sometimes after many months. I don't think it's too crazy of a thing to ask whether there are any existing sources when someone posts information, if only for the sake of avoiding a potential debate/revert war before it can begins Especially when it involves stupid ASUCD politics, which I am pretty sure is (cumulatively) the #1 source of reverts and edit wars on the wiki. -ES
- I'm by no means saying you can't ask if there are other sources. However, I don't agree with Paul in that it should not even be written about until confirmed somewhere else. Obviously evaluating the truthiness of entries is somewhat of a subjective process that requires the editors to evaluate the credentials of the person adding it. Extremely few people, with the possible exception of Ostrowski would actually post an outright lie on the wiki. Next up in shadiness, we would definitely want to take anything posted by an ASUCD partisan with a grain of salt and expect there to be another side of the story. As to Laabs, I do think he's done shady things in the past, and may lean towards Lead, but I think we can expect that he has not suddenly started posting things that have no basis whatsoever. Ultimately it is the human elemant of the editors which should make the determination between things posted by Ostrowski or rabid partisans, or real people. ~KrisFricke
2007-11-14 22:53:33 I vaguely remember her offering free coffee to whoever helped her chalk in the morning. —GregWebb
"2007-11-14 23:00:00" She was definitely fired today. Thatisall.
2007-11-15 13:09:45 Hahaha. Espressogate. Classic! Back to post something for my fraternity (DX Toys for Tots- Dec 6!) and I see it's my favorite time of fall quarter in Davis. I see the same characters here discussing the same issues still - some things never change I suppose. My two cents: there's gossip and there's fact, and a gray area in between, and it really depends on where the wiki wants to be on that spectrum. Want Daviswiki to be like PerezHilton.com (the Fricke/Laabs contingent)? Or more like the gold-standard Wikipedia (Amnuaypayoat)? I do (not surprisingly) come down on the side of this issue with Paul (which is what IS surprising - a first?). But I guess, like everything Daviswiki, it's up to the users. Good luck on that philosophical adventure... [PS: if any of you end up in Berkeley- shoot me an email. We can catch coffee or something and relive the old days] —ThomasLloyd
2007-11-16 14:20:33 It's inaccurate to say she left the job as she was forced to leave her job. Apparently, the management of the Coffee House is preventing anyone from testifying that she was fired, so I'm not quite sure how a hearing would take place. - RubyThursday
2007-11-16 15:43:16 I would like to remind everybody to please respect Becca's privacy rights. There are only 5 people that know exactly what happened and, looking at the names that have contributed to this page, none of you are a part of that five.
- Unfortunately, when one becomes a public figure, such as a student politician, some right to privacy is given up in pursuit of elected positions. Her alleged actions, if true, do reflect upon her character and ability to be a voting member of the ASUCD Senate. As wiki users, our responsability is to provide accurate information for the good of the community, and so when we see that this page was created, with some possibility of truth, we as wiki users need to contribute whatever information we can to create an accurate accounting of this entry given the limited public information available. If, after due process is completed, and Becca is found to be completely innocent, we will edit this entry to reflect her innocence. Also, if Becca is found completely innocent and she feels that the creator of this page sought to libel her, then Becca might have some recourse also. But, for now we assume that there is some degree of truth to these allegations and will react accordingly. - Paul Amnuaypayoat
- I'm sorry...which of Becca's actions does GO condemn? And what does condemn mean? That she is no longer affiliated? GO is good at composing press releases, so maybe an official press release from the GO leadership would help clarify the situation. - PH
2007-11-18 19:18:40 Paul A: Thank you for your comment. Paul H: Becca is still a member of GO, however, GO does not support her involvement in what has been labeled 'Espressogate'. If you have any further questions, Paul, I would be happy to talk to you in person. —Motamed
- I'm sure I'll be speaking to Becca soon in person. -PaulHarms
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“You’re only as old as you feel.”
Well, to be honest, I’ve been feeling pretty stinkin’ old lately. Consumed by work, I feel too tired to kick back and have some fun. You know what they say about all work and no play. It makes Sharon feel like an old lady.
When my friend Mary Catherine suggested taking our book club out to a restaurant to celebrate my birthday, I retorted that it would have to be close to my house. However, she already had a place in mind. She knew a chef with a pasta restaurant in Gurgaon. If you don’t live in Delhi, then you won’t appreciate the impact of hearing that you have to leave work on a Friday afternoon and drive to Gurgaon, technically a Delhi suburb but far enough out that it considers itself a separate city. I had only been there once before and my strongest memory was of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic for hours. I swore I would never again go to Gurgaon. And yet, that’s where I found myself on my birthday eve.
Mary Catherine had booked a van for most of the group, but some of them were delayed at school by parent-teacher conferences, so my friend Nancy and I headed out a bit early in my car. Despite the gloomy prognostications, my driver Gilbert found the restaurant in about 45 minutes. It was a BYOB joint, so Nancy and I popped across the street to the pompously named Galleria outdoor market to buy some wine. We asked the shopkeeper to chill a few bottles while we killed time poking around the shops.
When we spotted the Disney princess party hats, we knew we had stumbled upon Birthday Mecca. Inside, we found everything a birthday girl could ever want: tiaras, boas, sashes, chunky plastic jewelry, you name it. We settled on sparkly hats with marabou feathers. Mine featured a big taffeta rose and a ruffled button proclaiming “Birthday Girl.” The man, who was much too serious to work in this kind of store, pulled out a selection of white, pale pink and magenta hats, telling us, “Also have red for boys,” which made Nancy and me collapse in giggles because what boy wouldn’t feel much more masculine if his bedazzled party hat were RED instead of PINK? After buying hats for all the book club ladies, we were about to leave when Nancy spotted a fart machine. “Batteries not included,” said the deadpan shopkeeper, inducing another round of hysterics.
Strolling through the Galleria, we decided to spread some birthday joy.
First, we convinced the momowallahs to don party hats for a photo.
Then I wedged in between these two guys for another shot.
We picked up our chilled wine (and posed for a few more photos), and then walked back to the Pasta Bowl Company to meet up with the rest of our gang.
The Birthday Book Club
Mary Catherine with Chef Om and his lovely wife, Aditiy.
Chef Om and Aditiy treated us like royalty, even though we were quite loud and silly. From the various bruschetta appetizers to the perfectly tossed salads to the beautiful main courses, everything was deliciously fresh. While many Italian restaurants feature the same boring fare with the same gluey sauces, Chef Om’s creations clearly reflected his creativity and commitment to quality. Mary Catherine had ordered a chocolate cake with the inscription, “Happy birthday to our beautiful Sharon!” (awwwwww…), which we followed with mouth-watering tiramisu and a little banafee pie.
The evening was filled with so much laughter. We talked about our book for about five minutes (The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner … snore) and then moved on to more interesting topics.
Mary Catherine brought wine and paper cups from school in case the restaurant didn’t have wine glasses (which they did).
Chef Om mixed up some scrumptious salads.
Of course I had to help … and ended up spilling olive oil all over the place.
Cheese and wine – my two favorite food groups.
This was my dinner. A pumpkin-y ravioli with chorizo on top. I nearly licked my plate.
I blew out the candles AND blew cocoa powder all over myself and the surrounding area.
Swag! (Olive oil and a bag of pasta – so nice!)
One of the bench dwellers from our earlier market photo shoot had said good-bye with that classic line: “You’re only as old as you feel!” and his words stuck with me all night. It’s such a cliché and yet so true! A few hours of hilarity snapped me out of my funk and made me feel years younger than this newly acquired and meaningless 47. Happy birthday to me!
Postscript: Guess who loved my party hat even more than I did?by
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Actor Alec Baldwin was led away in handcuffs yesterday after being arrested in New York City for riding the wrong way up Fifth Avenue. Baldwin, perhaps best known for his role in the hit TV show 30 Rock, subsequently launched a tirade on Twitter against the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the city, which he claimed is "anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign."
According the New York Daily News, a police source said that after the 56-year-old was stopped by officers at around 10.15am yesterday morning and asked for identification, "He became belligerent, yelling and screaming at the officers, 'I don't have ID. Just give me the f*cking summonses.'"
Witness Michael Jones told the newspaper: “He was riding his bike in the wrong direction when some cops stopped him. They were walking him up the avenue. He looked like a tool.”
When he arrived at Manhattan’s 13th Precinct, where he was charged with disorderly conduct, Baldwin said: “How old are these officers? They don’t even know who I am.”
The New York Daily News says that the precinct’s commanding officer, Deputy Inspector David Ehrenberg, did however recognise Baldwin, but not from his TV or film appearances – according to an NYPD spokesman, it was due to his “previous run-ins with the law.”
Baldwin took to Twitter to vent his anger, saying: "Officer Moreno, badge number 23388, arrested me and handcuffed me for going the wrong way on Fifth Ave.
“Meanwhile, photographers outside my home ONCE AGAIN terrified my daughter and nearly hit her with a camera. The police did nothing.”
The actor went on: “New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.”
Several hours later, he added: “I asked both police officers today to ticket me. If they contend that I asked for special treatment, they are lying.
“If you don't have ID in NY when they write you a summons, they can take you in. Officer Moreno did not know me. Officer Weinstein did.
“Moreno shouted, "Let's do this the right way!" And handcuffed me.
“I told both officers I was happy to accept the summons and go. One officer seemed inclined toward that. Moreno did not.
“I think handcuffing some1 4 riding a bicycle in the wrong direction is ridiculous. Report of disorderly conduct is a distortion by Moreno.
“So, when a cop lies to protect themself, what do I plead in court on July 14th? Even if you are innocent, w witnesses, what do you do?
“My only point is that claims by Moreno of disorderly conduct are either a distortion or outright lie. Moreno lied in her report.”
He subsequently acknowledged that the officer’s surname is Montero, not Moreno.
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
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Once a month, female students pack the cozy chapel at the Holy Spirit Friary that overlooks the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio.
These gatherings are confidential, with no one discussing who is or who isn’t among the 50 to 60 gathered in the pews. Students come to listen and to pray as they seek discernment about whether to pursue religious vocations — as nuns.
“They keep this private for an interesting reason,” said Father Seraphim Beshoner, a history professor. “If word gets out that someone is trying to discern if she has a vocation, then our guys are afraid to date her. I mean, how can you compete with Christ and his church?”
Meanwhile, the campus offers a similar program for young men considering the priesthood. In its 25 years of existence, this Priestly Formation Program has produced about 400 priests for various orders and dioceses and, at the moment, another 40 or more students are taking part.
Many of America’s 244 Catholic colleges and universities offer similar programs, of course, in part because of rising concerns about the thinning and graying ranks of priests, brothers, sisters and nuns. The number of priests in America has declined from 59,000 in the 1960s to 40,600 last year. There has been an even sharper decline in the number of sisters and nuns, from 180,000 in the ’60s to approximately 59,000 today — with 90 percent of them 60 years old or older.
One factor that shapes Franciscan University life is the presence of three male and four female religious orders that maintain houses near the campus and its 2,040 undergraduates, noted Father Richard Davis, leader of the campus friary and former regional vocations director for the Third Order Regular Franciscans. Many other orders regularly send younger members to visit the campus or study there.
“Our students are very sensitive to this,” said Davis. “New styles of habits and robes keep appearing here all the time. The students see that and it makes them curious. … This campus produces a large number of priests, but I believe even more of our young women become sisters and nuns.”
While the atmosphere is highly charged — Franciscan is known for its standing-room-only Masses, even on weekdays — students face the same tough questions that shape the decisions of young Catholics elsewhere, said the friar. Based on his experiences over four decades, these include:
* How to respond if family members say they will — in one memorable phrase — be “wasting their lives.” In an era of increasingly smaller Catholic families, many parents worry about “losing” a child and future grandchildren. In February, the U.S. Catholic bishops released a survey noting that 51 percent of women who recently took final vows said their parents or other family members actively opposed this choice.
* After decades of sexual scandals and abuse, Davis said some students literally ask: “Will I be safe? … If I visit a monastery or a convent, will someone hit on me?”
* Students often want to know which orders are “faithful to the Magisterium” — meaning the Vatican and core Catholic doctrines — and which are not. The majority of students today, he said, are seeking orders that emphasize a life of prayer and service to the poor, in America and abroad.
* Many students bluntly ask: “Do I have what it takes?” This question may center on celibacy, poverty, a rigorous prayer life or some other personal issue. The key, said Davis, is that “you don’t take religious vows to run away from marriage and family, or from hard questions about your own weaknesses or talents. You have to face these issues.”
* Another question — “Will I be alone?” — is especially poignant in an age of fading religious orders. Some students in this highly social generation fear that choosing the religious life will mean a shortage of friends and companions.
“They don’t want to join a community in which the life they will live looks pretty much like the life they would have lived if they had never joined a religious community in the first place,” said Father Seraphim, dressed in his plain black Franciscan habit.
“However, they also want to join a community that has other young people in it. They don’t want to be the ones left to turn out the lights someday when their order dies.”
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Chapter 2 : Housework Won't Kill You, But Why Take a Chance?
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A lot of noise was coming from the kitchen of 12 Grimmauld Place that sunny July evening. Mrs. Weasley was scolding her twins – Fred and George Weasley – for trying to strap their new brand of fireworks to Kreacher – the grumpy, old house elf. Seemingly it was for `experimental purposes only’. But Molly Weasley new her sons better than that.
“Come on Mum, it’s not like Sirius would miss him or anything,” Fred insisted, as his mother looked at him with great dissapproval, and two worn hands placed on her hips.
“Yeah, he’d be the one lighting the fireworks,” George laughed, while Mrs. Weasley busied herself, wiping down the table with a dishcloth.
“I don’t care!,” she said sternly “I do not want to see any of those,” she said pointing at the fireworks “in this house. They are dangerous! Now Fred dear, make youself useful, and clean out the grate in the fireplace, would you?,” Fred took out his wand “Aah, ah, ah, without magic.”
“But what about him?,” Fred exclaimed, while his brother sniggered at him. Fred thinking that it was completely unfair that he had to do work, and George didn’t.
“Oh, don’t you worry. George is going to do some dusting for me – without magic.” she inserted. Then it was Fred’s turn to snigger, so George stuck his tongue out at his brother. “Come on, we don’t have all day! There’s an Order meeting tonight,” Fred and George both shared annoyed looks “Go!,” Mrs. Weasley said giving both her sons a glare. Fred and George both groaned, and began to busy themselves with their ‘tiresome’ jobs.
Fred made his way over to the firaplace. Even as he walked over, he could see the ashes wafting into the air, as it seemed his movement had caused some disturbance among the smokey mess. It just proved to him how long it’s been since this dank, old house had actually been cleaned.
He bent down, and took the brush that was at the side of the fireplace, and began moving it across the grate, pulling a rather disgusted face as he did so.
Suddenly, green flames erupted in the fireplace, and someone landed on top of Fred, making him fall onto his back, and sending them both cascading across the dusty floor. He lifted his head up off the ground, and could feel a slight bump emerging at the back of his head. Only then did he notice the girl that was lying, unconcious, on top of him.
His mother ran over to the fireplace, where a fiery ember still seemed to be going. She was talking to someone, whoever pushed this person through, he assumed. It sounded like a man, but he couldn’t make out exactly who, because George had ran over, and started talking:
“You alright mate?,” George asked his brother with a concerned , but mostly amused look on his face.
“Oh, yeah, no need to look so worried,” Fred said sarcastically “I just nearly died from that girl jumping out of the fireplace!”
“No, I was just thinking that if I’d cleaned the grate, I would’ve ended up with a lovely lady lying on top of me.” George grinned, though you could see the jealousy in his eyes.
Though when both Fred and George looked at her again, they noticed that she was actually completely covered in blood. Fred bolted upright straight away, and George leaned over to have a closer look at the girl.
“Fred, don’t move!,” his mother commanded him with a sort of urgent whisper. Fred didn’t move. He remained completely still. For he knew that if this girl woke up now, she would be in the most excrutiating pain imaginable. “George dear, would you go and fetch the Dittany from the cupboard, please?,” Mrs. Weasley whispered to her son. While George did that, Mrs. Weasley began to talk to her other son: “You may just have to wait like this a little bit longer Fred. Just until I get most of the wounds cleaned up.” Fred nodded, though he wasn’t entirely sure of what was going on, neither was George, for that matter. All they knew was that this girl had come flying out of the fireplace, covered completely in blood. That was a good name for her, they both thought – Fireplace Girl – the both of them grinned, as they thought that the other was probably thinking that very same thing.
George handed the flask of Essence of Dittany to his mother, and both him and Fred looked as she began placing drops of it on Fireplace Girl’s – genius – wounds. You could tell that she was beginning to wake up, as she began squinting, and wriggling. And soon enough she was writhing, and screeching. Though they suspected that the pain she was receiving was mostly because of the wounds that had been inflicted upon her, and less because of the sting of the Dittany.
It was quite hard to watch. But Mrs. Weasley had done as much as she could for now, and had begun to inspect the girl’s body for further wounds or injuries. They soon found out that she had cracked and broken a few ribs, and that there were some very deep cuts on numerous parts of her body.
During this time, they were joined by the remainder of the house’s occupants – or at least those who weren’t at work or on Order business. They were all shocked at what happened, but none of them seemed to be able to recognise the girl from the fireplace.
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Brett Gardner, CC Sabathia help lead Yankees to 6-4 win over Blue Jays
TORONTO — Derek Jeter can easily recall his first home opener at the old Stadium, when Andy Pettitte pitched through snow flurries and the Yankees beat the Royals – one of the early steps toward a 1996 world championship.
Most of the other openers have meshed in his memory, but one prevailing thought stands out.
“I’ve said it before, but it almost doesn’t feel like the season gets under way until you get your home opener,” Jeter said. “Especially after missing last year, I’m looking forward to this one.”
And he’s not alone.
“It’ll be a special moment in a special year for him,” Brett Gardner said Sunday, after a 6-4 victory against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre sent the Yankees home with a season-opening .500 record following an 0-2 start at Houston.
CC Sabathia (1-1) rebounded from his opening-day loss to last six innings, while Gardner’s two-run shot – the Yankees’ first home run of the year – came in a notable fourth inning.
Jeter followed with his second single of the day, his 3,320th career hit, vaulting Paul Molitor for eighth place on the all-time list.
“I grew up watching him, I played against him briefly – I have a lot of respect for him. It definitely means a lot,” said Jeter, who is retiring at season’s end. He’s now 99 hits behind Carl Yastrzemski for seventh place.
It was just another reminder of the captain’s place in history.
And today, Jeter’s glorious past will be part of the home-opening pageantry – with Pettitte and Mariano Rivera tossing out the ceremonial first pitches to Jeter and Jorge Posada.
“I think it’ll be unbelievable,” said manager Joe Girardi, part of Jeter’s first home opener as the Yankee catcher. “You think about what those guys have accomplished together in their careers — to have them all there [today] — will be really special.
“We’re all looking forward to getting home. It’s been awhile.”
Winners of three of their past four games, the Yankees (3-3) jumped to a 3-0 lead in Sunday’s first inning off Drew Hutchison (1-1), highlighted by Kelly Johnson’s two-out, two-run double.
Gardner’s two-run homer off Hutchison in the fourth followed rookie Yangervis Solarte’s RBI double, giving the Yanks a 6-1 lead and finally taking the zero out of the team’s home run column.
“I don’t think anybody would have bet on that,” Gardner said of being the one to end the club’s longest homer-less drought to start a season since the 1990 Yankees’ seven-game power outage.
After being shut out on Saturday, Jacoby Ellsbury – batting third with Carlos Beltran resting – pushed across the first Yankee run on a groundout, part of an all-around ensemble effort. Adam Warren was sharp again in relief, while Solarte enters his first home opener with a .471 batting average and a four-game hitting streak.
“It’s better than going home 0-6,” said Sabathia, who yielded a leadoff homer to Melky Cabrera – his third of the series, one in each game — but did not give up another run until Toronto’s three-run sixth inning.
The Jays had four straight hits with two out against Sabathia, including an RBI double by Dioner Navarro and a two-run single by Erik Katz.
David Robertson put the tying run at first base before registering his second save of the year. And as Cabrera’s liner to right landed in Ichiro Suzuki’s glove for the last out, Jeter officially could turn his thoughts toward home.
“This year, in particular, I’m happy to be out there playing,” Jeter said, referencing the ankle and leg issues that limited him to 17 games in 2013 and robbed him of last year’s opener. In his final season, “I want to be out there every day.”
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James ‘Jimmy’ Campbell
James “Jimmy” Campbell, 52, of Cortez died Oct. 26. He was born in Butler, Pa. He operated a lawn care business, and did some crabbing. Years past he was a commercial fisher.
A private offshore service is planned for Sunday, Dec. 6, to be followed by a celebration of life for friends and family at 3 p.m. at the home of K. Jones, 7616 22nd Ave. W., Bradenton.
Jimmy is survived by his brother Dave and wife Sandy Campbell; sister Pam Bruggisser; nieces Brandi and Wendy; nephew Michael; and great-nephew Brandon.
Charles E. Center Sr.
Charles E. Center Sr., 84, died Nov. 15. He was born in Chicago and moved to Anna Maria Island in 1979 from Los Angeles.
Mr. Center was a veteran of the U.S. Navy Seabees and served in Guam during World War II. He retired in 1994 from Manatee County utilities as chief of operations.
He was passionate about creating religious wood carvings, sailing and camping. A memorial service was held Nov. 19 at Brown & Sons Funeral Homes & Crematory, 43rd Street Chapel, 604 43rd St. W., Bradenton. Memorial donations may be made to TideWell Hospice & Palliative Care, 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota FL 34238. Online condolences may be made to www.brownandsonsfuneral.com.
He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Rosemary of Bradenton; children Diane Boudro of Seattle, “Chad” Charles Jr., of Dover, Fla., Daniel of Bradenton, Tera Howard of Bradenton, and Rosemary Balandra of Bradenton; sisters Maryann “Midge” Temmel of 29 Palms, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; and 16 great grandchildren.
Dorothy ‘Dot’ Hinely
Dorothy “Dot” Hinely, 74, died Nov.18.
Mrs. Hinely was born in Berea, Ohio. She graduated from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Md., and then went to work for the Millers’ National Federation in Washington, D.C.
She and husband Robert E. “Bob” Hinely retired to Anna Maria Island and later moved to North Carolina.
She began painting in the mid-Seventies and continued to paint until she became ill. She also volunteered for many years at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.
A memorial service was held Nov. 21 at Cavin-Cook Funeral Home, Mooresville, N.C.
The family suggests donations to the Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington DC 20090-6011; or the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 811 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota FL 34236.
She is survived by her children: Celia Hinely of Atlanta, Jennifer Hinely-Porter and husband Thomas of Mooresville, N.C., Andrew Hinely and wife Sophia of Atlanta and Melissa Hinely of Boston; brother William E. “Bud” Wiedman and wife Gloria Wiedman; sisters-in-law George Anna Smith and Enid Winters; grandchildren Vaughn Porter, Quinn Porter and Cooper Hinely; many nieces and nephews; extended family members Robert and Carol Lilly and their grandson Robby Lilly; and her beloved cat Cali.
Joan J. Landon
Joan (Johnson) Landon, 80, of Middlebury, Vt., and formerly a winter resident in Holmes Beach, died Nov. 17. She was surrounded by family and friends.
She graduated from Deephaven High School and attended University of Minnesota for two years. She continued her education at the University of Washington, studying journalism.
She married S. Whitney Landon III of New Jersey in 1952 and they established a home in Chester, Vt., and raised their children there.
Mrs. Landon worked for the Springfield Reporter, co-managed with her husband the Old Tavern at Grafton, and worked at the Country Journal magazine and Addison County Home Health, among other jobs, over the years.
She was actively involved with the Red Cross, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Chester Garden Club, Whiting Library in Chester and Vermont Public Television.
A memorial gathering will take place at The Lodge at Otter Creek, Middlebury, Dec. 19. The family suggested donations to the Vermont Symphony or a good cause. Arrangements were by Sanderson Funeral Home of Middlebury.
Mrs. Landon is survived by her husband of 57 years, S. Whitney Landon III of Middlebury; son S. Whitney Landon IV of Brooksville, Maine; daughter Mary S. Landon of Burlington, Vt.; brother Thomas A. Johnson of Lewisville, Texas; four grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Vernon P. Mora
Vernon P. Mora, 86, lifelong resident of Cortez, died Nov. 13.
Mr. Mora was a U.S. Navy veteran who served in World War II and spent his naval career aboard the U.S.S. Alabama. He was a commercial fisherman.
Services will be announced.
Survivors include two children, Jeri Culbreath and Robert Purden; 10 grandchildren; and 22 great grandchildren.
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One of the things I like best about Arizona is that it is so diverse. People who haven’t really explored it often assume the state is one giant barren desert of scorching sand. If you only flew into Phoenix for a short trip, you might easily be forgiven for that mistake. The state is so huge that you have to allow a lot of time in order to see even a tiny fraction of what it has to offer.
That was a big motivation for making the recent tent camping trip that I’ve been describing over the past few blog posts. We are now officially Arizona residents, complete with drivers licenses, vehicle registrations, and (soon) voter registrations. This is our home base between Airstream trips. I want to know this place that I’m calling home. So I mapped out a 700-mile round-robin (click map for larger view) to see the high-altitude parts of northern Arizona that we never venture near during the winter.
Our trip started up the Devil’s Highway (Rt 191) through Arizona’s White Mountains, and then brought us across the Mogollon Rim, staying almost exclusively above 7,000 feet elevation. This is the gorgeous green part of Arizona, where pines and black bears and tourists all flourish in the summertime.
The Rim, the focus of today’s adventure, bears some explanation, as it is not nearly as well known as the Grand Canyon to the northwest. But it is nearly as grand. It is a 200-mile long escarpment, sharply defining the edge of the high plateau. As you can imagine, standing at almost any point along the edge of the Rim yields fantastic views to the south, perhaps even more stunning in some ways than the Grand Canyon because you can often see five or more forested mountain ranges in succession over distances of up to a hundred miles.
To enjoy the view, you need only drive up Rt 260 from Payson and stop at the visitor center just at the top edge of the rim. But to really see the Mogollon’s many views, you’ll need to drive on some gravelly National Forest roads, namely FR300, and grit your teeth against the dust and constant jarring. This probably explains why the Mogollon Rim does not have the stature of certain other western sights. You have to really want to see it, and there are no signs along the paved highway indicating, “Turn this way for awesome views!”
We drove almost all of FR300, about 38 miles in total. With regular stops for photo and exploring, the trip took over two hours. Most of the travelers along this way are in pickup trucks, so our lowly Honda stuck out, but there’s no need for a high clearance or 4WD vehicle in good weather. The key is to go slowly, but why would you rush? Every turn yields an astonishing view from the Rim.
Bring a good map. The Forest Roads form a maze along the Rim, and Mapquest is not your best tool when planning this trip. It’s easy to stick to FR300 all the way (signage is good) but without a map you’ll be hard-pressed to figure out how to get back to pavement, should you wish to cut the trip short. Otherwise, it’s a long rugged drive from one end to the other.
Camping is available at many spots along the rim. With a few exceptions, you can camp anywhere within 300 feet of a road. Toward the eastern end of the road are several established campgrounds, all of which were mobbed on this Saturday of peak season. Ten to fifteen miles further west, the crowds disappeared and so did the campgrounds, but we spotted dozens of incredible single tent sites right on the edge of the rim. At a few, you could hang your feet out of the tent door and your toes would be dangling in mid-air. Most of the sites were occupied, but we passed a few others we could have snagged. The memory of the previous night’s huge thunderstorms were fresh in our minds, and we didn’t want to choose a campsite atop an exposed 7000-foot elevation escarpment if those storms returned again. This time, we were going for something in the trees.
Kehl Springs camp fit the bill. This old National Forest camp sits in a little valley, well sheltered from storms and apparently less-loved by campers than boondock spots along the maze of Forest Roads. We were only the second occupants of this 8-site campground. I can’t imagine why — it was shady and quiet, with the benefit of pit toilets nearby (but no water), and like our previous camp it was free.
This was perhaps the best night of the trip. We arrived at camp hours before sunset, with absolutely nothing to do. The sun was shining through the trees and the air was scented with pine, fairly dry and beautifully cool. As often happens in western camping, there were no biting insects, either, just lots of friendly butterflies.
So lacking anything structured to do with our time — the essence of vacation — we proceeded to make camp, pitching our tent just inches from the biggest tall pines at the campsite. We read our paperback books at the picnic table and made an Indian dinner over the camp stove with the gas lantern hissing in the background. It may not seem very traditional to be eating Trader Joe’s Indian food at camp, but we liked it just fine.
This was to be our last night above the Rim. Knowing that it would be well over 100 degrees by the time we reached the desert floor, it was hard to contemplate leaving this forested oasis. But at least we were rewarded on our final night with light cool breezes, a peaceful night among the trees, and no thunderstorms.
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U.S. Marshals and Sacramento sheriff's deputies today arrested a 29-year old Mohave County, Az., man on suspicion of second-degree murder, authorities said.
Zane Kiel Mason was taken into custody around 4 p.m. in the 5000 block of Roseville Road after a three-hour surveillance, according to a U.S. Marshals Service press release. Mason was taken into custody without incident and is being held in the downtown jail on a no-bail extradition hold.
Mason was wanted on suspicion of stabbing and killing Gregory Stephen Zeller, 51, in the victim's Fort Mohave, Ariz., home on Aug. 22, according to the "America's Most Wanted" web site. The program featured Mason's case on Oct. 5 and Sept. 7.
Mason is scheduled for an appearance Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court
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The Miracle Continues: New Macy's Holiday Commercial Brings Original Kris Kringle from "Miracle on 34th Street" Back to His Modern-Day Macy's Home
This season Macy's (NYSE: M) is celebrating its storied holiday heritage with a new television campaign that uses modern-day technology to bring the one-and-only Kris Kringle, from Twentieth Century Fox's “Miracle on 34th Street,” back to his home at Macy's Herald Square. Set to inspire a new generation of “Believers” with the spirit of generosity and goodwill for all, Macy's “Another Miracle on 34th Street” is the retailer's star-studded take on Kringle's return to a 21st century Macy's, following Santa Claus as he interacts with Macy's latest cast of star designers and imparts the true meaning of the holiday season. A beloved classic since its debut in 1947, “Miracle on 34th Street” has through the years cemented Macy's unique relationship with Santa Claus in the hearts and minds of generations. “Another Miracle on 34th Street” will debut on Nov. 8.
Justin Bieber chats with Kris Kringle, star of the 1947 Twentieth Century Fox film classic "Miracle on 34th Street" in Macy's star-studded take on Kringle's return to modern day Macy's Herald Square in the Holiday TV spot - Another Miracle on 34th Street. (Photo: Business Wire)
“'Miracle on 34th Street' has been a defining moment in Macy's storied history since the film first delighted audiences in 1947,” said Martine Reardon, Macy's chief marketing officer. “For decades, we have cherished and embraced the legacy of this wonderful film which along with our incredible Thanksgiving Day Parade has truly helped define the holiday season. Thanks to our special partnership with Twentieth Century Fox, we are able to bring the magic of Miracle to new audiences, in a unique, funny and heartwarming spot that will have millions more believing in the spirit of the season.”
“'Miracle on 34th Street' is one of the most treasured assets in the Fox film library and a staple of the holiday season. We are honored to partner with Macy's on this campaign to reintroduce this beloved classic to fans and possibly introduce it to a new generation of ‘Believers' this holiday season,” said Jeffrey Godsick, president of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.
Using cutting-edge editing and green screen technology, Macy's in partnership with JWT New York, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and special effects house Framestore (known for their work on several Harry Potter films), selected elements of Edmund Gwenn's 1947 performance as Kris Kringle to digitally add to the live action scenes. Seamlessly interacting with the star designers, Kringle's return to Macy's is often funny and heartwarming, proving that the miracle is still alive and well, even in the fast hustle and bustle of modern day New York City.
Continuing with Macy's fall sitcom-themed TV concept, “Another Miracle on 34th Street” features new Macy's Herald Square store manager Harold, as well as star designers including Justin Bieber, Tommy Hilfiger, Marcus Samuelsson, Carlos Santana, Martha Stewart, Taylor Swift, and Donald Trump. Taking place on his first day back at Macy's Herald Square, Kringle is greeted by an amused Harold and Martha Stewart. In a hurry to see Mr. Macy, Kringle is seemingly unaware of his modern day surroundings. After his introduction to the incredulous staff, Kringle once again finds himself in familiar territory as the stars seek proof that he is indeed the real Santa Claus, especially the skeptical Donald Trump. Proving his credentials as the real jolly old elf, the tide soon changes as the stars try to secure their place on the nice list with Justin Bieber leading the way.
“Another Miracle on 34th Street” begins to air nationwide in both a 60-second spot and a 30-second cut. Miracle is part of the retailer's fifth anniversary celebration of the Believe campaign, which brings tidings of joy and goodwill to customers nationwide and lends support to Make-A-Wish. Beginning Nov. 2, Macy's once again invites believers of all ages to drop-off their letters to Santa at their local Macy's, and for each letter received, Macy's will donate $1 to Make-A-Wish, up to $1 million.
Since the late 1800s, Santa Claus has been a fixture at Macy's, helping generations of children experience the magic and generosity of the holiday season. With “Another Miracle on 34th Street,” a new generation will warm to the man of the hour, Kris Kringle, as he takes us on another journey that will make us all “Believe.”
Macy's, the largest retail brand of Macy's, Inc., delivers fashion and affordable luxury to customers at more than 800 locations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Macy's stores and macys.com offer distinctive assortments including the most desired family of exclusive and fashion brands for him, her and home. Macy's is known for such epic events as Macy's 4th of July Fireworks® and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®, as well as spectacular fashion shows, culinary events, flower shows and celebrity appearances. Building on a 150-year tradition, Macy's helps strengthen communities by supporting local and national charities that make a difference in the lives of our customers.
For Macy's media materials, images and contacts, please visit our online pressroom at www.macys.com/pressroom.
Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=50467101&lang=en
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Today we’re setting up a creative invitation that takes minutes to put together, and clean up is a snap.
As we shared in this post, the basic premise of Creative Invitations follows four simple steps:
- Clear your table of anything that won’t be used in the invitation
- Artfully arrange the materials to provoke ideas
- Limit the choice of materials to just a few items
- Provide clues about how to use the materials, but keep the project open-ended so that original ideas can flourish.
To get started, you could set up your invitation the night before as I did, or take a few moments to arrange it while your child is playing or napping. Or you could include your child in the set-up.
- Large sheet of paper
- Water container
- Paint brush
- Washable tempera paint
- Container to hold the paint
- Sharpie marker (or other non-toxic permanent marker)
Place all the materials out on the table. With a permanent marker, draw some basic shapes or looping lines on the paper.
Invite your child to paint however he or she likes. You can see that my three-year old and five-year old had completely different approaches and ideas about how to tackle the paper. I love that! The goal isn’t to create anything in particular but to encourage your child to be inventive and use the parameters of the set-up as inspiration. My three-year old’s creation on the left and my five-year old’s creation on the right: one painted inside the lines and the other right over the lines. Cool!
Leave the papers on the table to dry or move them to a drying area. Carry the brushes and water container to the sink. Voila!
More Creative Invitations
We love coming up with ways to make your life simpler and more creative, and creative invitations are one of our favorite ways to do that. If you enjoyed this post you might also want to check out Tape Art, Sticker Composition with Frames, Washi Tape and Found Paper Collage. Tinkerlab plays host to a really fun Instagram hashtag: #creativetable. For more creative invitations, pop over to Instagram and search for more ideas from creative parents and artists. Also, our friends at The Art Pantry are hosting an Invitations to Create Challenge this month (October), and you can find out more about it here.
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August Möbius was the only child of Johann Heinrich Möbius, a dancing teacher, who died when August was three years old. His mother was a descendant of Martin Luther. Möbius was educated at home until he was 13 years old when, already showing an interest in mathematics, he went to the College in Schulpforta in 1803.
In 1809 Möbius graduated from his College and he became a student at the University of Leipzig. His family had wanted him study law and indeed he started to study this topic. However he soon discovered that it was not a subject that gave him satisfaction and in the middle of his first year of study he decided to follow him own preferences rather than those of his family. He therefore took up the study of mathematics, astronomy and physics.
The teacher who influenced Möbius most during his time at Leipzig was his astronomy teacher Karl Mollweide. Although an astronomer, Mollweide is well known for a number of mathematical discoveries in particular the Mollweide trigonometric relations he discovered in 1807-09 and the Mollweide map projection which preserves areas.
In 1813 Möbius travelled to Göttingen where he studied astronomy under Gauss. Gauss was the director of the Observatory in Göttingen but of course the greatest mathematician of his day, so again Möbius studied under an astronomer whose interests were mathematical. From Göttingen Möbius went to Halle where he studied under Johann Pfaff, Gauss's teacher. Under Pfaff he studied mathematics rather than astronomy so by this stage Möbius was very firmly working in both fields.
In 1815 Möbius wrote his doctoral thesis on The occultation of fixed stars and began work on his Habilitation thesis. In fact while he was writing this thesis there was an attempt to draft him into the Prussian army. Möbius wrote
This is the most horrible idea I have heard of, and anyone who shall venture, dare, hazard, make bold and have the audacity to propose it will not be safe from my dagger.
He avoided the army and completed his Habilitation thesis on Trigonometrical equations. Mollweide's interest in mathematics was such that he had moved from astronomy to the chair of mathematics at Leipzig so Möbius had high hopes that he might be appointed to a professorship in astronomy at Leipzig. Indeed he was appointed to the chair of astronomy and higher mechanics at the University of Leipzig in 1816. His initial appointment was as Extraordinary Professor and it was an appointment which came early in his career.
However Möbius did not receive quick promotion to full professor. It would appear that he was not a particularly good lecturer and this made his life difficult since he did not attract fee paying students to his lectures. He was forced to advertise his lecture courses as being free of charge before students thought his courses worth taking.
He was offered a post as an astronomer in Greifswald in 1816 and then a post as a mathematician at Dorpat in 1819. He refused both, partly through his belief in the high quality of Leipzig University, partly through his loyalty to Saxony. In 1825 Mollweide died and Möbius hoped to transfer to his chair of mathematics taking the route Mollweide had taken earlier. However it was not to be and another mathematician was preferred for the post.
By 1844 Möbius's reputation as a researcher led to an invitation from the University of Jena and at this stage the University of Leipzig gave him the Full Professorship in astronomy which he clearly deserved.
From the time of his first appointment at Leipzig Möbius had also held the post of Observer at the Observatory at Leipzig. He was involved the rebuilding of the Observatory and, from 1818 until 1821, he supervised the project. He visited several other observatories in Germany before making his recommendations for the new Observatory. In 1820 he married and he was to have one daughter and two sons. In 1848 he became director of the Observatory.
In 1844 Grassmann visited Möbius. He asked Möbius to review his major work Die lineale Ausdehnungslehre, ein neuer Zweig der Mathematik Ⓣ (1844) which contained many results similar to Möbius's work. However Möbius did not understand the significance of Grassmann's work and did not review it. He did however persuade Grassmann to submit work for a prize and, after Grassmann won the prize, Möbius did write a review of his winning entry in 1847.
Although his most famous work is in mathematics, Möbius did publish important work on astronomy. He wrote De Computandis Occultationibus Fixarum per Planetas Ⓣ (1815) concerning occultations of the planets. He also wrote on the principles of astronomy, Die Hauptsätze der Astronomie (1836) and on celestial mechanics Die Elemente der Mechanik des Himmels (1843).
Möbius's mathematical publications, although not always original, were effective and clear presentations. His contributions to mathematics are described by his biographer Richard Baltzer in as follows:-
The inspirations for his research he found mostly in the rich well of his own original mind. His intuition, the problems he set himself, and the solutions that he found, all exhibit something extraordinarily ingenious, something original in an uncontrived way. He worked without hurrying, quietly on his own. His work remained almost locked away until everything had been put into its proper place. Without rushing, without pomposity and without arrogance, he waited until the fruits of his mind matured. Only after such a wait did he publish his perfected works...
Almost all Möbius's work was published in Crelle's Journal, the first journal devoted exclusively to publishing mathematics. Möbius's 1827 work Der barycentrische Calcul, on analytical geometry, became a classic and includes many of his results on projective and affine geometry. In it he introduced homogeneous coordinates and also discussed geometric transformations, in particular projective transformations. He introduced a configuration now called a Möbius net, which was to play an important role in the development of projective geometry.
Möbius's name is attached to many important mathematical objects such as the Möbius function which he introduced in the 1831 paper Über eine besondere Art von Umkehrung der Reihen Ⓣ and the Möbius inversion formula.
In 1837 he published Lehrbuch der Statik which gives a geometric treatment of statics. It led to the study of systems of lines in space.
Before the question on the four colouring of maps had been asked by Francis Guthrie, Möbius had posed the following, rather easy, problem in 1840.
There was once a king with five sons. In his will he stated that on his death his kingdom should be divided by his sons into five regions in such a way that each region should have a common boundary with the other four. Can the terms of the will be satisfied?
The answer, of course, is negative and easy to show. However it does illustrate Möbius's interest in topological ideas, an area in which he is most remembered as a pioneer. In a memoir, presented to the Académie des Sciences and only discovered after his death, he discussed the properties of one-sided surfaces including the Möbius strip which he had discovered in 1858. This discovery was made as Möbius worked on a question on the geometric theory of polyhedra posed by the Académie.
Although we know this as a Möbius strip today it was not Möbius who first described this object, rather by any criterion, either publication date or date of first discovery, precedence goes to Listing.
A Möbius strip is a two-dimensional surface with only one side. It can be constructed in three dimensions as follows. Take a rectangular strip of paper and join the two ends of the strip together so that it has a 180 degree twist. It is now possible to start at a point A on the surface and trace out a path that passes through the point which is apparently on the other side of the surface from A.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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Introduction and Technical Specifications
Courtesy of ASUS
The ASUS Maximus VII Formula motherboard is one of the newest members of the ROG (Republic of Gamers) product line, integrating several new features to elevate the board to an entirely new level over is predecessor. From outward appearance the Maximus VII Formula looks very similar to its previous revision, the Maximus VI Formula. However, ASUS made some under-the-hood enhancements and minor layout adjustments to the board, utilizing the functionality of the integrated Intel Z97 chipset. The Maximus VII Formula comes with a premium MSRP of $369.00, but is well worth the cost given the premium feature set and performance potential of the board.
Courtesy of ASUS
Courtesy of ASUS
Courtesy of ASUS
ASUS designed the Maximus VII Formula motherboard with a top-rated 8-phase digital power delivery system, combining 60A-rated BlackWing chokes, NexFET MOSFETs with a 90% efficiency rating, and 10k Japanese-source Black Metallic capacitors, for unprecedented system stability under any circumstance. Additionally, ASUS integrate their updated SupremeFX Formula audio system for superior audio fidelity through the integrated audio ports. The Maximus VII Formula contains the following features integrated into its design: six SATA 3 ports; an M.2 (NGFF) 10 Gb/s port integrated into the ASUS mPCIe Combo III card; two SATA Express 10 Gb/s ports; an Intel I218V GigE NIC; an AzureWave (Broadcomm chipset) 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth controller integrated into the ASUS mPCIe Combo III card; three PCI-Express Gen3 x16 slots; three PCI-Express Gen2 x1 slots; 2-digit diagnostic LED display; on-board power, reset, CMOS clear, Keybot, MemOK!, BIOS Flashback, ROG Connect, and Sonic SoundStage buttons; Probelt voltage measurement points; OC Panel support; SupremeFX Formula 2014 audio solution; CrossChill Hybrid air and water cooled VRM copper-based cooling solution; ROG Armor overlay; and USB 2.0 and 3.0 port support.
Subject: Graphics Cards | September 26, 2014 - 02:22 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: asus, ROG, gtx 780 ti, MATRIX Platinum, DirectCU II
With the release of the new Maxwell cards comes an opportunity for those with a smaller budget to still get a decent upgrade for their systems. Early adopters will often sell their previous GPUs once they've upgraded allowing you to get a better card than your budget would usually allow, though with a risk of ending up with a bum card. The ASUS ROG GTX 780 Ti MATRIX Platinum is a good example with a DirectCU II air cooler for general usage but the LN2 switch will also allow more extreme cooling methods for those looking for something a little more impressive. The factory overclock is not bad at 1006/1072MHz core and 7GHz effective memory but the overclock [H]ard|OCP managed at 1155/1220MHz and 7.05GHz pushes the performance above that of the R9 290X of the same family. If you can find this card used at a decent price it could give you more of an upgrade than you thought you could afford.
"In today's evaluation we are breaking down the ASUS ROG GTX 780 Ti MATRIX Platinum video card. We put this head-to-head with the ASUS ROG R9 290X MATRIX Platinum. Which provides a better gaming experience, best overclocking performance, and power and temperature? Which one provides the best value? "
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- MSI GTX 980 OC @ HardwareHeaven
- Taking It To The Limit: Overclocking NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 & 980 @ Techgage
- Gigabyte G1 Gaming Geforce GTX 980 Review @ HiTech Legion
- Palit GTX 970 JetStream 4 GB @ techPowerUp
- ASUS Strix Edition GeForce GTX 970 Graphics Card Review @ Techgage
- ASUS GTX 970 STRIX OC Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Palit GTX970 JetStream OC @ Kitguru
- Testing Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 980 4GB Graphics Cards In SLI @ eTeknix
- Gigabyte G1 Gaming GeForce GTX 980 4GB @ eTeknix
- ASUS STRIX GTX 970 DirectCU II OC 4GB Review @HiTech Legion
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB @ eTeknix
- MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G Review @HiTech Legion
- Nvidia Quadro K5200, K4200 and K2200 Professional Graphics Cards @ X-bit Labs
- Gigabyte R7 250X OC Performance Review @ Neoseeker
- Sapphire R9 285 ITX Compact v MSI GTX760 Gaming Mini ITX @ Kitguru
Subject: General Tech | September 24, 2014 - 12:56 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, nvidia, hp, dell, asus, acer, toshibe, mobile gpu
The growing market of low cost $200 to $400 10" to 15" laptops is expected to cut into the sales of AMD and NVIDIA's mobile GPUs as they are forced to focus more on higher end models. That is a much smaller market and the margins generally favour the laptop vendor as opposed to the company providing the mobile GPU. This will be felt more strongly by NVIDIA as AMD's APU lineup will appear in the smaller and less expensive notebooks but will still have an effect on AMD's bottom line over the coming quarters. DigiTimes also mentioned that AMD's R9 390X is due out in the first half of 2015 and that both companies are currently reducing the price of their GPUs in the hopes of increasing their sales volumes on the desktop.
"Notebook vendors including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell, Lenovo, Asustek Computer, Acer and Toshiba, will launch low-cost models with CPUs with integrated graphics in the fourth quarter of 2014 and therefore AMD and Nvidia are expected to see demand for their discrete mobile GPUs decrease, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- The TR Podcast 162: Apple's biggest and Nvidia's fastest
- Adobe swallows Aviary, hopes to stuff Creative Cloud into mobes @ The Register
- Blackberry Passport arrives, claims to outperform the iPhone 6 and Galaxy S5 @ The Inquirer
- ARM gives Internet of Things a PIECE of its MIND – the Cortex-M7 @ The Register
- Why the Convergent Desktop is So Important to Linux @ Linux.com
- Le whoops! Microsoft France boss blows lid off 'Windows 9' event @ The Register
- Microsoft to cut Windows 7 OEM supply on 31 October @ The Inquirer
Subject: General Tech, Displays | September 22, 2014 - 11:00 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: esports, asus, vg248qe
I am a little torn about the term "eSports". Yes, I've used it. It is the accepted name. According to the definition, it mostly fits its role. Grammar and language are also fluid concepts, too. They can mean different things as time passes. I guess my real problem is that it attempts to snuggle up to "sports" for acceptance, but maintains a single-letter divider (unlike golf and, to some extent, curling). In my opinion, it is either a sport or it is something else entirely (a game, maybe?).
Apparently they support StarCraft, too.
Also, it should be considered legitimate. Spectator sports are for entertainment, and "eSports" are entertaining to watch. Sure, it is not for everyone -- but neither is any other sport.
Two organizations that do consider it legitimate is ASUS and Robert Morris University (RMU). The college has recently announced scholarships for the top League of Legends players. After all, a sports scholarship is just an advertisement expense from the university's view. That applies to any sports scholarship. The point is to lure students to your campus and spectators to sporting events. Consistent winnings and great players gets your name out there on both fronts. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as they uphold a high standard of education, too.
Today's news is that ASUS partnered with RMU to provide "over three dozen" monitors to the university. Specifically, the VG248QE 24-inch, 144Hz display. This is almost $10,000 USD of hardware at current retail price. The press release is unclear whether ASUS donated the panels, or if they were sold at a discount. I reached out to the university over Twitter for clarification.
Honestly, I find this interesting and an innovative extension on old practices.
Subject: Graphics Cards | September 19, 2014 - 04:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: asus, strix, STRIX GTX 970, STRIX GTX 980, maxwell
The ASUS STRIX series comes with a custom DirectCU II cooler that is capable of running at 0dB when not under full load, in fact you can choose the temperature at which the fans activate using the included GPU Tweak application. The factory overclock is modest but thanks to that cooler and the 10-phase power you will be able to push the card even further. The best news is the price, you get all of these extras for almost the same price as the reference cards are selling at!
Fremont, CA (19th September, 2014) - ASUS today announced the STRIX GTX 980 and STRIX GTX 970, all-new gaming graphics cards packed with exclusive ASUS technologies, including DirectCU II and GPU Tweak for cooler, quieter and faster performance. The STRIX GTX 980 and STRIX GTX 970 are factory-overclocked at 1279MHz and 1253MHz respectively and are fitted with 4GB of high-speed GDDR5 video memory operating at speeds up to 7010MHz for the best gameplay experience.
Play League of Legends and StarCraft in silence!
The STRIX GTX 980 and STRIX GTX 970 both come with the ASUS-exclusive DirectCU II cooling technology. With a 10mm a heatpipe to transport heat away from the GPU core, operating temperatures are 30% cooler and 3X quieter than reference designs. Efficient cooling and lower operating temperatures allow STRIX graphics cards to incorporate an intelligent fan-stop mode that can handle games such as League of Legends1 and StarCraft1 passively, making both cards ideal for gamers that prefer high-performance, low-noise PCs.
Improved stability and reliability with Digi+ VRM technology
STRIX GTX 980 and STRIX GTX 970 graphics cards include Digi+ VRM technology. This 10-phase power design in the STRIX GTX 980 and 6-phase design in the STRIX GTX 970 uses a digital voltage regulator to reduce power noise by 30% and enhance energy efficiency by 15% – increasing long term stability and reliability. The STRIX GTX 970 is designed to use a single 8-pin power connecter for clean and easy cable management.
Real-time monitoring and control with GPU Tweak software
The STRIX GTX 980 and STRIX GTX 970 come with GPU Tweak, an exclusive ASUS tool that enables users to squeeze the very best performance from their graphics card. GPU Tweak provides the ability to finely control GPU speeds, voltages and video memory clock speeds in real time, so overclocking is easy and can be carried out with high confidence.
GPU Tweak also includes a streaming tool that lets users share on-screen action over the internet in real time, meaning others can watch live as games are played. It is even possible to add a title to the streaming window along with scrolling text, pictures and webcam images.
AVAILABILITY & PRICING
ASUS STRIX GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards will be available at ASUS authorized resellers and distributors starting on September 19, 2014. Suggested US MSRP pricing is $559 for the STRIX GTX 980 and $339 for the STRIX GTX 970.
Subject: Graphics Cards | September 18, 2014 - 03:56 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: DirectCU II, asus, STRIX GTX 750 Ti OC, factory overclocked
The ASUS STRIX GTX 750 Ti OC sports the custom DirectCU II cooling system which not only improves the temperatures on the card but also reduces the noise produced by the fans. It comes out of the box with an overclocked GPU base clock 1124MHz and a boost clock of 1202MHz, with the 2GB of VRAM set to the stock speed of 5.4GHz; [H]ard|OCP managed to increase that to an impressive 1219/1297MHz and 6.0GHz even for the VRAM without increasing voltages. Unfortunately even with that overclock it lagged behind the Sapphire Radeon R9 270 Dual-X which happens to be about the same price at $170.
"Rounding out our look at ASUS' new STRIX technology we have another STRIX capable video card on our test bench today, this time based on the GTX 750 Ti GPU. We will take the ASUS STRIX GTX 750 Ti OC Edition and test it against an AMD Radeon R9 270 and AMD Radeon R9 265 to see what reigns supreme under $200."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- ASUS GTX750 Ti STRIX OC Edition @ Kitguru
- NZXT Kraken G10 Review @ OCC
- ASUS ROG R9 290X MATRIX Platinum @ [H]ard|OCP
- Radeon R9-285 @ HardwareHeaven
- Sapphire R9 285 2GB ITX Compact OC Edition @ eTeknix
- How Low Should You Go? ASUS Radeon R7 250X Graphics Card Review @ Techgage
- Sapphire ITX Compact R9 285 OC Review @ OCC
- XFX Radeon R9 285 DD @ Benchmark Reviews
Podcast #317 - ASUS X99 Deluxe Review, Core M Performance, 18 Core Xeons and much more news from IDF!
Subject: General Tech | September 11, 2014 - 02:30 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: podcast, video, asus, X99, X99 Deluxe, Intel, core m, xeon e5-2600 v3, idf, idf 2014, fortville, 40GigE, dell, 5k, nvidia, GM204, maxwell
PC Perspective Podcast #317 - 09/11/2014
Join us this week as we discuss our ASUS X99 Deluxe Review, Core M Performance, 18 Core Xeons and much more news from IDF!
The URL for the podcast is: http://pcper.com/podcast - Share with your friends!
- iTunes - Subscribe to the podcast directly through the Store
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- MP3 - Direct download link to the MP3 file
Hosts: Josh Walrath, Allyn Malventano, and Morry Tietelman
Program length: 1:33:48
Week in Review:
News items of interest:
1:15:50 NVIDIA GM204 info is leaking
Hardware/Software Picks of the Week:
Allyn: Read our IDF news!
Subject: Motherboards | September 11, 2014 - 01:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Z10PE-D8 WS, C612, asus
Finally some new dual socketed goodness from Intel that can be used by prosperous enthusiasts. For those who can afford the pair of Xeon E5-2600 V3 CPUs required to run a dual CPU system you can have 4 PCIe 16x slots running at full speed and compatible with both SLI and CrossFire. The motherboard is more optimized for heavy productivity workloads such as graphics rendering but that is no reason not to use it to build the biggest and baddest gaming machine on the planet!
Fremont, CA (10th September, 2014) - ASUS today announced the Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard based on the Intel C612 chipset and with dual processor sockets ready for the latest Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product families.
The new Server System Infrastructure Enterprise Electronics Bay (SSI EEB) motherboards have superb storage support, including the ASUS PIKE II (Proprietary I/O Kit Expansion) card and support for PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x4 M.2 (Next-Generation Form Factor, or NGFF). They benefit also from the ASUS Q-Code Logger for one-touch easy maintenance and a Dr. Power LED lamp to clearly indicate unusual power status.
Ultimate PCI Express 3.0 multi-GPU power
The Z10PE-D8 WS is equipped to provide the ultimate workstation graphics power, with support for up to four dual-slot graphics cards. Both 4-Way NVIDIA GeForce SLI and AMD CrossFireX are supported, so it is an excellent choice for professionals who depend on powerful graphics in areas such as design, modeling and medical research, as well as processing-intensive simulation and rendering applications.
With a total of seven PCIe 3.0 slots, the Z10PE-D8 WS offers ample room for RAID cards, PCI Express-based solid-state drives (SSDs), video-capture cards and other high-speed components.
Premium components for premium power efficiency
Z10PE-D8 WS benefits from premium components hand-chosen and carefully arranged by ASUS engineers to provide optimum power efficiency. These include integrated Driver-MOSFETs (Dr. MOS) to save space and reduce operating temperatures for more efficient operation, and ASUS-exclusive Beat Thermal Chokes II. The new Beat Thermal Chokes II design delivers up to 94% power efficiency and lower temperatures under normal operation.
ASUS is the world’s first server manufacturer to introduce 12K solid capacitors — the Z10PE-D8 WS has these ultra-resilient components on board. These Japanese-made capacitors are able to withstand up to 12,000 hours of temperatures as high as 105°C, far exceeding everyday demands. And at a typical operating temperature of 65°C, our 12K capacitors have an expected lifespan of 1.2m hours — or well over a century.
The Z10PE-D8 WS also employs ProCool power connectors. The ProCool design eliminates hollow areas associated with traditional power connectors, ensuring a close and secure connection with the PSU power connector pins. The flush connection enables lower impedance and better heat dissipation – helping to prevent connector burnouts.
Flexible fan speed control, flexible storage and easy maintenance
The new Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard offers flexible fan-speed controls, which can be managed manually or automatically. In automatic mode, the fan speeds are adjusted according to the processor temperature. In manual mode, the administrator can set a fan curve according to cooling requirements.
The new Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard offers industry-leading storage flexibility, with a built-in M.2 connector supporting PCIe 3.0 x4 2260 (60mm), 2280 (80mm) and 22110 (110mm) devices, and support for the ASUS PIKE II (Proprietary I/O Kit Expansion) card for high-reliability, enterprise-grade 12Gbit/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) devices.
The motherboard also benefits from ASUS Q-Code Logger, an easy-maintenance button that records four-digit port 80 code logs to a flash drive with one touch, so administrators can diagnose problems quickly and easily. Similarly, the conveniently-located Dr. Power LED displays messages to clearly indicate a power fault.
AVAILABILITY & PRICING
The Z10PE-D8 WS is priced at $599 and will be available soon at ASUS authorized resellers and distributors.
Subject: General Tech, Mobile | September 10, 2014 - 04:26 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: asus, smartwatch, zenwatch
The ASUS ZenWatch is their "first wearable device produced in partnership with Google". It is a smart watch from the Android Wear platform. It has a curved glass display of unknown resolution, a leather strap, and a "quick-release clasp". It ships with numerous faces... because it's software and it is basically free after you pay the designer, especially with the price of storage these days. It requires a phone with Android 4.3 or later.
ASUS has customized the user interface with their ZenUI. Its main usability features either interact with your phone or track your fitness activity. It acts as a pedometer, calorie counter, heart rate monitor, and fitness goal tracker. Each of these are integrated around their ZenUI.
ASUS has not publicly announced pricing or availability. According to VR-Zone, ASUS representatives state "under $200". This is significantly less than Apple's "starting at $349".
Subject: General Tech, Systems, Mobile | September 9, 2014 - 01:49 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Intel, asus, core m, broadwell-y, Broadwell, 14nm, ultrabook
This will probably be the first of many notebooks announced that are based on Core M. These processors, which would otherwise be called Broadwell-Y, are the "flagship" CPUs to be created on Intel's 14nm, tri-gate fabrication process. The ASUS ZenBook UX305 is a 13-inch clamshell notebook with one of three displays: 1920x1200 IPS, 1920x1200 multi-touch IPS, or 3200x1800 multi-touch IPS. That is a lot of pixels to pack into such a small display.
While the specific processor(s) are not listed, it will use Intel HD Graphics 5300 for its GPU. This is new with Broadwell, albeit their lowest tier. Then again, last generation's 5000 and 5100 were up in the 700-800 GFLOP range, which is fairly high (around medium quality settings for Battlefield 4 at 720p). Discrete graphics will not be an option. It will come with a choice between 4GB and 8GB of RAM. Customers can also choose between a 128GB SSD, or a 256GB SSD. It has a 45Wh battery.
Numerous connectivity options are available: 802.11 a, g, n, or ac; Bluetooth 4.0; three USB 3.0 ports; Micro HDMI (out); a 3.5mm headphone/mic combo jack; and a microSD card slot. It has a single, front-facing, 720p webcam.
In short, it is an Ultrabook. Pricing and availability are currently unannounced.
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Many thanks to my friend Rachel, a fan of Esther Friesner, who agreed to guest review Esther's latest book, Sphinx's Princess, for Bookworm Readers! Check it out!
Author: Esther Friesner
Published: Random House, September 22 2009
Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fiction
Cover Score: B
Overall Grade: B+
Summary: Nefertiti has two loves in life: dancing and music, but all that changes when she meets her father's old friend and scribe. Cajoling him to give her lessons in reading and writing, Nefertiti started becoming quite the scholar. But when a disastrous dancing accident takes place during a celebration of Isis, Nefertiti is whisked off to Thebes by her powerful aunt Tiye only to become an unhappy pawn in her relative's marriage schemes. Forced to marry her aunt's son Thutmose in three years time, Nefertiti instead befriends his younger brother, Amenophis. While the Pharaoh and Queen Tiye take a leave of absence from Thebes and Thutmose rules in their stead, Nefertiti is accused of killing a scared car and imprisoned,
creating adventure and drama...
My thoughts: I love historical fiction and Ms. Friesner's latest was no exception! The dialogue was very nice, and by the end you really were rethinking your first thoughts about some of the characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good plot and storyline!
Many thanks to Rae (to the right, with Sphinx's Princess) for the awesome review!
I've hosted one other guest reviewer, but I'd love to feature more in the future--I want to know what you have to say about the latest books!
Watch out for Rae...I think she's got a great future in reviewing! (:
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The Iraqi government has moved to sharply restrict the movement and activities of U.S. forces in a new reading of a six-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that has startled American commanders and raised concerns about the safety of their troops.
In a curt missive issued by the Baghdad Operations Command on July 2 — the day after Iraqis celebrated the withdrawal of U.S. troops to bases outside city centers — Iraq’s top commanders told their U.S. counterparts to “stop all joint patrols” in Baghdad. It said U.S. resupply convoys could travel only at night and ordered the Americans to “notify us immediately of any violations of the agreement.”
The strict application of the agreement coincides with what U.S. military officials in Washington say has been an escalation of attacks against their forces by Iranian-backed Shiite extremist groups, to which they have been unable to fully respond.
If extremists realize “some of the limitations that we have, that’s a vulnerability they could use against us,” a senior U.S. military intelligence official said. “The fact is that some of these are very politically sensitive targets” thought to be close to the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The new guidelines are a reflection of rising tensions between the two governments. Iraqi leaders increasingly see the agreement as an opportunity to show their citizens that they are now unequivocally in charge and that their dependence on the U.S. military is minimal and waning.
The June 30 deadline for moving U.S. troops out of Iraqi towns and cities was the first of three milestones under the agreement. The U.S. military is to decrease its troop levels from 130,000 to 50,000 by August of next year.
U.S. commanders have described the pullout from cities as a transition from combat to stability operations. But they have kept several combat battalions assigned to urban areas and hoped those troops would remain deeply engaged in training Iraqi security forces, meeting with paid informants, attending local council meetings and supervising U.S.-funded civic and reconstruction projects.
The Americans have been taken aback by the new restrictions on their activities. The Iraqi order runs “contrary to the spirit and practice of our last several months of operations,” Maj. Gen. Daniel P. Bolger, commander of the Baghdad division, wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Washington Post.
“Maybe something was ‘lost in translation,’ ” Bolger wrote. “We are not going to hide our support role in the city. I’m sorry the Iraqi politicians lied/dissembled/spun, but we are not invisible nor should we be.” He said U.S. troops intend to engage in combat operations in urban areas to avert or respond to threats, with or without help from the Iraqis.
“This is a broad right and it demands that we patrol, raid and secure routes as necessary to keep our forces safe,” he wrote. “We’ll do that, preferably partnered.”
U.S. commanders have not publicly described in detail how they interpret the agreement’s vaguely worded provision that gives them the right to self-defense. The issue has bedeviled them because commanders are concerned that responding quickly and forcefully to threats could embarrass the Iraqi government and prompt allegations of agreement violations.
A spate of high-casualty suicide bombings in Shiite neighborhoods, attributed to al-Qaeda in Iraq and related Sunni insurgent groups, has overshadowed the increase of attacks by Iran-backed Shiite extremists, U.S. official say.
Officials agreed to discuss relations with the Iraqi government and military, and Iranian support for the extremists, only on the condition of anonymity because those issues involve security, diplomacy and intelligence.
The three primary groups — Asaib al-Haq, Khataib Hezbollah and the Promised Day Brigades — emerged from the “special groups” of the Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) militia of radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which terrorized Baghdad and southern Iraq beginning in 2006. All receive training, funding and direction from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force.
“One of the things we still have to find out, as we pull out from the cities, is how much effectiveness we’re going to have against some of these particular target sets,” the military intelligence official said. “That’s one of the very sensitive parts of this whole story.”
As U.S. forces tried to pursue the alleged leaders of the groups and planned missions against them, their efforts were hindered by the complicated warrant process and other Iraqi delays, officials said.
Last month, U.S. commanders acquiesced to an Iraqi government request to release one of their most high-profile detainees, Laith Khazali. He was arrested in March 2007 with his brother, Qais, who is thought to be the senior operational leader of Asaib al-Haq. The United States thinks they were responsible for the deaths of five American soldiers in Karbala that year.
Maliki has occasionally criticized interference by Shiite Iran’s Islamic government in Iraqi affairs. But he has also maintained close ties to Iran and has played down U.S. insistence that Iran is deeply involved, through the Quds Force, in training and controlling the Iraqi Shiite extremists.
U.S. intelligence has seen “no discernible increase in Tehran’s support to Shia extremists in recent months,” and the attack level is still low compared with previous years, U.S. counterterrorism official said. But senior military commanders maintained that Iran still supports the Shiite militias, and that their attacks now focus almost exclusively on U.S. forces.
After a brief lull, the attacks have continued this month, including a rocket strike on a U.S. base in Basra on Thursday night that killed three soldiers.
The acrimony that has marked the transition period has sowed resentment, according to several U.S. soldiers, who said the confidence expressed by Iraqi leaders does not match their competence.
“Our [Iraqi] partners burn our fuel, drive roads cleared by our Engineers, live in bases built with our money, operate vehicles fixed with our parts, eat food paid for by our contracts, watch our [surveillance] video feeds, serve citizens with our [funds], and benefit from our air cover,” Bolger noted in the e-mail.
A spokesman for Bolger would not say whether the U.S. military considers the Iraqi order on July 2 valid. Since it was issued, it has been amended to make a few exemptions. But the guidelines remain far more restrictive than the Americans had hoped, U.S. military officials said.
Brig. Gen. Heidi Brown, the commander overseeing the logistical aspects of the withdrawal, said Iraqi and U.S. commanders have had fruitful discussions in recent days about the issue.
“It’s been an interesting time, and I think we’ve sorted out any misunderstandings that were there initially,” she said in an interview Friday.
One U.S. military official here said both Iraqi and American leaders on the ground remain confused about the guidelines. The official said he worries that the lack of clarity could trigger stalemates and confrontations between Iraqis and Americans.
“We still lack a common understanding and way forward at all levels regarding those types of situations,” he said, referring to self-defense protocols and the type of missions that Americans cannot conduct unilaterally.
In recent days, he said, senior U.S. commanders have lowered their expectations.
“I think our commanders are starting to back off the notion that we will continue to execute combined operations whether the Iraqi army welcomes us with open arms or not,” the U.S. commander said. “However, we are still very interested in and concerned about our ability to quickly and effectively act in response to terrorist threats” against U.S. forces.
The General said “Our [Iraqi] partners burn our fuel, drive roads cleared by our Engineers, live in bases built with our money, operate vehicles fixed with our parts, eat food paid for by our contracts, watch our [surveillance] video feeds, serve citizens with our [funds], and benefit from our air cover.” Very well. Then don’t clear the roads, provide them with air cover, supply them logistics, or give them vehicle parts. It’s time for daddy to take away the car keys and see just how far junior thinks he can get without his old man’s money and stuff.
Seriously though. This is both remarkable and dangerous. A short review shows that The Captain’s Journal was dead set against the Iraqi-U.S. SOFA in any form and under any construction. The SOFA already prohibits any kind of military operations against any of Iraq’s neighbors, even if the neighbors are guilty of supplying weapons and fighters to undermine the Iraqi government. This isn’t surprising, given that Maliki sought Iran’s approval of the SOFA.
Lesson #1: The stupid desire for “legitimacy” on the world stage created the situation in which we were seeking the approval of both Iraq and the U.N. for our continued presence in Iraq. The mistake was in ever agreeing to a SOFA to begin with. Too much national treasure (in blood and wealth) has been invested to allow Iraqi politicians to determine the disposition of U.S. forces in Iraq. History has taught us the lesson that we cannot even fully trust U.S. politicians with the safety, troop strength and mission of U.S. troops. A fortiori, the Iraqi politicians can be trusted even less.
Lesson #2: Legal agreements are always subject to “interpretations.” Neither agreements nor interpretations should take priority over force protection of U.S. troops and the right of self defense. Restricted lines of logistics is by its very definition an infringement on force protection. When such demands are made by the ISF, they must be ignored.
Lesson #3: The support for the ISF must cease. If the ISF wants to take on any remaining insurgency on its own, we should oblige them. The only way to ascertain whether the ISF is ready to defend the nation is to allow them to take the training wheels off. This part of it is a good sign. Let them tackle problems of discipline, logistics, parts and supplies, intelligence and operations management without U.S. assistance. If they fail they will back off of their demands. If they succeed, then it’s time to leave Iraq.
However these lessons play out, we cannot and must not allow any agreement to threaten the safety of U.S. troops. Any commander who does that should be relieved of command. Finally, since Hamid Karzai has made his desired for an Afghanistan-U.S. SOFA known, this should serve as a harbinger to the way we should address Afghanistan. The U.S. should not agree to an Afghanistan SOFA, no matter what international pressure is brought to bear.
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36. In Paradisum
Damon turned up at the memorial because he was expected to show his face, not because he actually cared. It was all appropriately sombre: like the average Lockwood gathering but even less fun. The guests had stopped short of wearing black at Carol Lockwood's request, but it was only when he saw the mayor himself that Damon felt a twinge of genuine sympathy.
She was standing on her own in the entrance hall, wearing a simple grey dress, and compulsively wringing her hands together.
"Carol," Damon greeted her. "My deepest condolences for your loss."
She sniffed, dabbing at her eyes with a handkerchief. "Thank you, Damon."
"If there's anything I can do at all..."
"I appreciate the offer."
She gave him a quick smile and he touched her arm lightly before moving on. He strolled through the grounds with no apparent destination in mind, but he was keeping an eye out for someone. Stefan hadn't bothered to turn up at this particular event, not because he didn't care, but because he couldn't bring himself to. Damon had rarely seen his brother so unhappy; he had gone out animal hunting for the entire day – at least, Damon hoped that he had gone out animal hunting. He'd said something about wanting to retrieve Elena's lost necklace. Damon had no idea why he was so obsessed by the thing, unless he had some bizarre idea that it would help him get Elena back.
He found Alaric by the punch bowl, which seemed appropriate. Not the person he had been looking for, but there was plenty of time. "Hey," said Damon. "Sure that's strong enough?"
Ric laughed. "Yeah, not my usual. Jenna just came over. Apparently Katherine freed her from her compulsion."
Damon frowned. "That seems... altruistic."
In other words, not like Katherine. She didn't do anything if not for her own personal gain. He tried to run through some possibilities of how helping Jenna could benefit Katherine, and came up blank.
"Yeah," said Ric. "She also said that Katherine had compelled her to dump me."
"Ouch. Rough. So, compulsion gone, does that mean you and Jenna are back together?"
Ric folded his arms, his expression wry. "No. In Jenna's words, 'that horse has long since bolted'."
Double burn. Katherine could be harsh.
"Your ex has a funny way with words." He searched around the table. "Forget the punch, Ric, you need something stronger."
Once he had plied Alaric with what he considered the appropriate amount of alcohol, Damon turned his attention to finding the person he really wanted to talk to: Elena. The news about Katherine was still ticking in his head. She was supposed to be long gone. Elena, on the other hand, ought to be here somewhere. She wouldn't miss the memorial.
Sure enough, he found her by the lake. Elena was alone and she jumped when he cornered her, making a face. "Damon."
"Elena," he said. "I heard you dumped my baby bro."
She sighed. "I broke up with him, yes. Don't think that means you can move in on me instead."
He raised his hands. "The thought never crossed my mind. Why'd you do it?"
She narrowed her eyes. "Are you asking on Stefan's behalf?"
"No, just for my own curiosity. You're coming off a little fickle, Elena."
"Right. I thought you'd be happy about it."
"Well, you've sorely misjudged me."
She stared at him. "Is there something you want, Damon? I want to remember the friends who lost their lives because of the sacrifice ritual that I was supposed to die in."
"Oh, you're mad at me," he said. "Is it because I tried to force feed you my blood? Or because I tried to stop you from saving your precious pet Original?"
Or because of a million other things he'd done to her over the last few months. Damon hated apologizing. He had way too much to apologize for, so why bother?
"Try all that and more. You know, I'm really tired at being mad at you, Damon. It's exhausting. Could you maybe try not doing things like that so we can be friends again?"
He raised his eyebrows. "Cranky." But then she gave him her patented annoyed-Elena look – he seemed to have one of those from every person he knew – and Damon hastily backtracked. "I'll try," he said. "Actually, I have a question. A little bird tells me that Katherine freed Jenna from compulsion. Any idea why?"
"You're the one sleeping with her. Why don't you ask her yourself?"
Damon smiled tightly. Of course, Caroline had spilled the beans to everyone she knew. "That was kind of a one night only affair."
"Then I don't know," said Elena. "Maybe Isobel asked her to."
That didn't sound particularly plausible. He shrugged. "Maybe. While I'm here... Can I take a message back to Stefan? He's not doing so well right now."
Guilt flashed across her face. "Tell him... I want us to be friends. I care about him, deeply. I just... need some space. Tell him it's not his fault. Whatever else he feels, he shouldn't blame himself."
"Oh, honey," said Damon. "I've been trying to tell him that for the past century and a half. But thank you. I'll pass it on."
She nodded, and managed a tremulous smile. Damon hesitated for a second. But actually seeing Elena out here alone and vulnerable-looking, he didn't want to press her any further. He nodded back, and took his leave.
"I feel bad for the mayor," said Jeremy. "Stuck here on her own."
"Yeah," Jenna replied. "If I were her, I'd quit. Move back to my family. This house is way too big to live in alone."
She and Jeremy had made the rounds through the house and grounds, and spent a few moments each talking to Carol. Jeremy seemed even more subdued than usual. He had liked Tyler though, she remembered; even though they'd started off hating each other, they'd become sort of friends later on. And of course Matt had been a familiar presence in their lives for years because of Elena.
She shifted, looking at her watch. "Well, I think we've probably shown our faces long enough. Where did Elena go?"
Jeremy looked around. "Dunno."
"I just saw her," Damon said, walking up to them. "How are you doing, Jenna?"
"Great, for a funeral." She raised an eyebrow. "Where did you see her?"
"Answer me a question and I'll tell you."
Next to her, Jeremy muttered something under his breath that sounded like 'douche', and wandered off. Damon watched him go without comment. Jenna adjusted the sleeves on her blouse and folded her arms.
"Katherine. Why did she un-compel you?"
"Hey, you slept with her. Ask her yourself."
Damon paused. "Sometimes I'd swear that you and Elena are actually biologically related."
"I'll take that as a compliment."
"You honestly have no idea why she did it? You didn't think to ask?"
"Look, I understand that Katherine is kind of a double-crossing bitch now, but it's not unheard of for people to do nice things. She saved your lives at the sacrifice," Jenna reminded him.
He made an unconvinced sound, but Jenna refused to give up the details. She'd promised Elena that she wouldn't. The important thing was that Katherine was no longer a problem, and she was in full control of her own will again. At least, she took Elena's word for that. Jenna didn't feel much different. She hadn't experienced any sudden feeling pangs for Alaric, and she still had some sympathy for Katherine. Maybe because Katherine reminded her of Elena, which was probably because of the whole doppelgänger thing, but it was hard to disassociate the two.
Maybe that also explained why she'd experienced a bout of righteous indignation when Elena told her that Damon had slept with Katherine. Ridiculous, she thought, even for me.
"...Are you listening?" Damon asked.
Jenna blinked. "Uh."
"If you're picturing me naked, it's okay to admit it." He grinned. "It's happened before."
She was unimpressed. "I think we've reached the part where you cut the crap and tell me where Elena is. Or, you know what, I'll just call her. Annoying vampire problem solved."
When she started hunting around in her bag, Damon gave up. "Fine." He jerked his head. "She's over by the lake. Moping."
"That's a normal reaction when a friend you've known your entire life dies." Jenna snapped her bag shut. "See you around, Damon."
She was getting good at this whole handling vampires thing, if she did say so herself. Jenna left Damon without a backward glance, and headed out to the lake.
It turned out that Damon's description was entirely correct: Elena was standing at the lake's edge, staring disconsolately into the water. Dragonflies hovered over the reeds, their wings flashing in the lengthening rays of the sun, but her niece was oblivious. She looked far away, lost in thought. Time to snap her out of it.
Jenna called out as she approached. "Elena."
Elena looked up and smiled. "Jenna."
"Are you okay?"
Elena frowned. "Have you ever been in a situation when people would normally support each other, but somehow almost every single person you know is driving you crazy?"
Oh. Well, she hadn't expected that. Then again, Elena had just had a conversation with Damon.
"You're not including me in that, are you?"
"No," said Elena. "You're one of the few that aren't; that's why I'm asking. Right now I feel like you're the only sane person in town."
"You know, I'm glad to hear that. Sometimes I feel like the only non-sane person in town. Insane. Whatever. Sorry, that was a terrible joke. Seriously though, was Damon bugging you?"
"I broke up with Stefan. Everyone seems to have taken it personally."
"Oh. Wow. Well, it was a little harsh given the timing, but I get it, Elena. You're grieving; you need some space. You and Matt..."
She stopped. She had been about to mention that Elena had broken up with Matt for the same reason, but that was probably a bad idea for several reasons, not the least of which was the fact that it was Matt they were mourning here today, and also, way to remind Elena of her dead parents. Jenna couldn't help thinking of Miranda and Grayson too on occasions like this, and it only reminded her of all the pain they had been through as a family.
Of course, Elena got it anyway. "That was different. Everything feels more complicated now."
"Why's that?" Jenna asked softly.
Elena seemed to struggle with herself for a moment. "Do you think I was wrong to pull the dagger out of Elijah?"
"It's kinda too late for second thoughts, but..." She was stalling. She had to think about it. "I think you did what you felt was right. That's all any of us can ever do."
She watched as Elena considered that, and then her niece gave a small smile. It looked like she'd taken Jenna's words to heart. Jenna thought that Elena was often too hard on herself. They'd all been forced to make difficult decisions in difficult situations; no one could expect a bunch of teenagers to do the right thing under pressure like that.
"Okay," said Jenna. "I actually came over to tell you that we're about to leave, but I seem to have lost Jeremy, so do you want to make your way over to the car and we'll meet you there?"
Elena nodded. "Can you give me five more minutes?"
"No problem. It'll probably take that long to grab him anyway. I'll see you there."
Bonnie wandered around outside, lost in her thoughts. She had drifted away from her friends after they'd laid down flowers for Matt and Tyler, but now she was heading back that way again. The crowds had dispersed; it was easier for mourners to come over to the flowers and pay their respects.
She kept thinking of what they could have done differently, even though she knew it was pointless.
There was one other figure already standing at the memorial. His back was turned, but Bonnie recognized him.
He looked over at her. "Hey."
"Caroline said you weren't coming."
"I thought I should."
She nodded. He was looking down at the flowers. There were piles and piles of them, blooming white and yellow and pink, jostling for space with bouquets, cards and candles, and even a football signed by various classmates. Bonnie hesitated, then bit her lip and walked over to join him.
She looked sideways at him. "I'm surprised you're still here at all. I thought with... what happened with Elena, you'd leave town."
He frowned. "You think there's no other reason for me to stay?"
Truthfully, she didn't. Bonnie got on well enough with Stefan most of the time, and he had made friends with Caroline as well as being on good terms with most of the people in their circle. But he had always been focused on Elena. It was her world that Stefan had entered, and without her, he was... Well, the way he looked now. Adrift. Cut off. Alone.
She spoke softly. "Is there?"
"I don't know. I've thought about it. But I don't want to leave her..."
She made a face. "With Damon?"
"Unprotected," Stefan finished. "Whatever Elena feels about me, I'll always be there for her."
A vampire couldn't throw around the word 'always' casually. And Stefan was anything but casual; he meant it, she could tell that.
She folded her arms. "Was that supposed to sound romantic? Because you basically just said you'd be her stalker."
She kept her tone light, but perhaps Stefan recognized an element of truth in her words. He shook his head. "If she doesn't want me in her life, I'll stay out of it." He had slipped a hand inside his jacket pocket as he spoke, drawing out a necklace – Elena's necklace. Bonnie's eyebrows shot up when he held the necklace out to her. "Maybe you should give this to her."
Bonnie wasn't sure if she wanted that responsibility – foisting a gift on her friend from her ex. She pressed her lips together, but took it anyway. For a short time, there was silence, both of them by some mutual agreement turning to gaze back at the memorial display. The last candle sputtered and flickered out.
She looked up at Stefan, and tried to find some words of comfort. "You know, maybe the whole sacrifice thing overwhelmed her. She doesn't know what she wants."
"You think so?"
"Honestly, I don't know." She curled the necklace in her hand. "I haven't understood a lot of Elena's choices recently."
His jaw tightened just a fraction. "You mean regarding Elijah."
"Elijah and Klaus were the reason I didn't have a mom for over ten years. But what's done is done. I can live with it."
She was glad in the end that nothing had happened to destroy her friendship with Elena irreparably. She was glad that she had a chance to reconnect with her mom. And she was glad that they had destroyed Klaus. Everything else... Well. They couldn't undo it. They'd have to move on, as always.
Stefan gave a slight smile. "I guess I should take a page from your book, huh."
She smiled back. "Careful. My book can be a little dangerous. Witch, remember?"
He nodded, expression turning serious again. "We all owe you a big debt. This was your victory, Bonnie. Thank you."
She could feel the necklace nestled in her hand; it had grown warm from its contact with her skin. They had done all this to save Elena's life. She had never once thought of it as a favour. But it was nice to hear a thank you, all the same. "You're welcome."
Elena stared out at the water, biting her lip. She still felt bad about Stefan. Damon hadn't been the first to nag her about him. It had been happening all week.
"I can't believe you broke up with Stefan," Caroline had said. "He's like the perfect guy. Why would you do that?"
Caroline had said a lot. Bonnie talked far less, but the looks she threw at Elena were enough. Once Elena had convinced them that she hadn't in fact moved on to the other Salvatore, they were much more okay with it.
The memorial was overwhelming. She'd had to get away from it all. That was why she had come out to the lakeside, although of course that hadn't stopped Damon or Jenna finding her.
Maybe it wasn't a good idea that she was out here alone with her thoughts again. They were supposed to be leaving. Elena turned away from the lake and started picking her way across the grass, returning her mind to the present, and to Jenna and Jeremy.
She was halfway back when she saw him.
It was only a glimpse, half-hidden in the shadows of the trees, but it was unmistakeable. A figure in a suit... He melted away into the trees the moment she set eyes on him, but she was sure that he was beckoning her.
Elena quickened her pace, hurrying straight towards where she had seen him. The sun was just beginning to set, and the trees cast long finger-shadows over the grass. An ornate white summer house stood surrounded by flowering shrubs, and an old gnarled apple tree spread its branches above it. That was where the path led. She followed it without hesitation, and turning a corner behind the summer house she found an alcove with a white bench half-covered in ivy and honeysuckle, and there Elijah was sitting.
"Elijah," she said.
He stood up when she greeted him, and although he had looked altogether serious and distant a moment ago, his expression softened into a pleased – not quite a smile, but a sort of regard that made her feel breathless and excited all at once.
She shook her head, moving towards him. "I thought you'd gone."
"I know my departure was a little abrupt," he replied. "I had to clear my head. How are you feeling?"
It didn't take long to come up with an answer. "Guilty."
He nodded. "As am I. I spent all those years harbouring murderous intent towards my brother, yet in the final moments of his life, he chose to save me."
Elena could hardly imagine how awful that must feel. "I'm sorry."
"This memorial... The deceased are Klaus's victims?" He phrased it as half-question, half-statement.
Elena nodded. She couldn't find the heart to give him any more details, and Elijah didn't ask.
He bit his lip, and there was something very warm and human about that; Elijah was so poised that any kind of hesitance hinted at a rare vulnerability – no, not vulnerability. Emotion. He was looking at her with compassion, and he didn't need to say anything for her to read the regret in his eyes.
Then he shifted, glancing away, at his feet, anywhere else before looking at her again.
"I have to honour his last request."
Elena's eyes widened. "Klaus's last request?"
He nodded. "Our family. He told me that they are still alive, and that they can be saved."
"You said that Klaus scattered them at sea..."
"So I thought. Now, I'm not so sure."
"You want to look for them," Elena realized.
That was why he had come back. To tell her that he was about to go off on a mission, one that could lead him anywhere, but would certainly take him away from Mystic Falls. She had expected him to leave. Yet it felt like all the breath had been knocked out of her body.
Elena collected herself, stated the obvious. "So you're here to say goodbye."
He nodded. "I don't know how long it will take me to find them. I may be gone for some time, in which case... yes. I wanted to say goodbye."
It could be weeks, months, years, or even lifetimes before he succeeded in finding his family. She might never see him again. Elena let his words sink in, what they meant, what she wanted to do, and Elijah let her; he simply watched her quietly, allowing her the time she needed. She hadn't thought about what she was going to do when – if – she saw him again. But a calm surety settled over her: this, him, she knew how to deal with. She had some semblance of control.
"Okay," said Elena. "Well, then, before you go, I have something to ask you."
He looked amused. "You are ever more demanding, Elena."
There was a glint in his eyes as he prompted her. "Yes?"
"Well, first... I made a deal with Katherine." She told him the story, and Elijah's frown deepened as she explained.
"Why did she go to you?"
"She thinks that I'll be able to persuade you."
"Do you think that?"
There was the faintest hint of a challenge in his voice. This was another of his games, she thought; he liked it too much, the power; the air of indulgence. But Elena had always refused to play by his rules.
She shook her head. "I'm not trying to persuade you. I'm asking you."
It happened that Elena was well-versed in persuading reluctant vampires, out of sheer necessity. Anyone who had spent enough time with Damon had to have that skill. But she didn't try the hand on his arm, or the beguiling eyes, or anything that would seem too obvious. She simply looked at him. Surely he'd see the sense in what she had proposed.
Elijah's mouth twitched. He was fighting not to smile, she could see it, but Elena's gaze remained unwavering. Finally, he broke eye contact, looking down, and shrugged.
"Katerina is very clever," he murmured. He exhaled, looking back up at her again. "Yes. Yes, I will honour your deal. I'll spare her this once."
Elena meant it. She had denied him revenge on Katherine, she knew that. But family was more important than revenge. She knew he understood that too.
"And your second request?" Elijah prompted.
Elena nodded, taking a breath. This one was a little more difficult. But after his response to the Katherine question, she was fairly sure that she could ask him anything. She didn't reply immediately. Instead, she stepped around him, walking over to the white bench where she brushed a few leaves away before sitting down. There was space for both of them, though the seat was a little rickety, and the ivy was thick. It had its own charm, she thought; it felt secluded, private, and safe; a feeling she had not managed to sustain while she was over by the lake.
She looked up at him, and Elijah understood. He moved over to sit down next to her. It was more cramped than she had thought; their knees were touching. Elena found that she didn't mind.
She paused a moment, breathing in the pollen-scented air. "You know, I thought I was going to die."
The words hung in the air. Elijah said nothing.
"I was prepared for it," Elena continued, her voice wobbling. "Maybe because it was actually the easier option, I don't know. Easier than losing people. Than having to carry on with all these... these holes in your life. It's like they eat away at you. You're not a full person any more, you're not completely you, because all the people who make your life what it is are gone."
Beside her, Elijah was very still. He spoke quietly. "You become a little less than human."
"Maybe. If you shut off the emotions, if you stop letting people in. Isn't that what you did?"
He looked at her. "Is that what you wanted to ask me?"
"No. I want to come with you."
He blinked. She had surprised him, even more than the deal she had made with Katherine.
"To wake your family up," Elena clarified. "I'm pretty sure Jenna won't let me disappear without knowing when I'll come back. But I at least want to be with you when you revive them."
Elijah stared at her. Finally, he spoke. "Why?"
"Because I want to."
It might have been the most honest statement she'd made to him; it certainly provoked the clearest expression she'd ever seen in Elijah's eyes. His lips curved into a small smile.
"But if you need a reason," she went on, "you lost your family. You killed your brother. You've been alone for such a long time, I don't know if... I don't know. But I think you need someone to help you wake them up."
It was as if for one awful second she'd laid him absolutely bare; the smile was wiped from his face; he looked stricken, pale with shock. Elena was afraid that she had said too much. She laid her hand over Elijah's without thinking.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean..."
"No," he said. "You're very perceptive."
"Promise me," she said. "Promise me that you'll take me with you."
He didn't look at her at first. He seemed to have just noticed her hand over his, and he took hold of it, running his thumb over her knuckles. The contact was light, yet she felt it in every one of her nerves. She felt hyper-aware of him: the one button that was casually undone on his shirt, the way his hair hung over his eyes when he looked down, the intense concentration on his face.
Slowly, deliberately, she withdrew her hand and instead brought it up to touch his face. Her fingers found the line of his jaw, and her eyes found his when he looked up at her.
He still looked vulnerable, open; she could see right into him. It was a lie that vampires had no soul, a lie that vampires felt no emotion, a lie that their hearts didn't beat. Even his skin felt warm beneath her fingers. He was an Original. Originals were untouchable. But she had passed that barrier long ago, and as her fingers made light imprints on his skin, she heard his breath catch.
He said, "I promise."
She didn't acknowledge him; she had known, they had both known, what his answer would be. It made no difference, but for the way he was looking at her, his eyes drinking her in. She couldn't see anything else, but she could feel his gaze on her, all of his senses trained on her. And Elena couldn't hold back any longer. Her hand moved down; she grabbed the open collar of his shirt and pulled, pulled him towards her, and at the same time she leaned forward to capture his mouth.
Elijah made a soft sound at the back of his throat, quickly swallowed, and then he sank into the kiss; she closed her eyes, concentrating only on the feel of his mouth on hers, firm and soft and lingering. This, she could lose herself in.
"Ah," he said, when she remembered to let go of his collar.
"This isn't goodbye," she said. "I want to see you again."
"This isn't goodbye, Elena." He breathed her name, voice low and sensual, and kissed her again. If she had doubted before that Elijah felt any desire for her, her doubts vanished now: she wrapped her arms around his neck and Elijah responded, deepening the kiss, drawing her closer. She could smell ivy and honeysuckle, and then the pressed dark-blue linen of his shirt, his expensive suit jacket, the faint scent of cologne, his skin–
She'd climbed into his lap, ran her hands through his hair and moulded herself against every button of his shirt while Elijah's mouth did delightful things to her neck, when her phone buzzed. She felt it in her jeans pocket, and since Elijah's hand was currently gripping her thigh, he felt it too. He stopped, arching away to look at her.
Elena caught her breath, swallowing. "That'll be Jenna. I was supposed to be meeting them... five minutes ago."
She dug into her pocket, Elijah helpfully moving his hands up to her waist. Sure enough, it was a text message from her aunt.
"Family calls," he said. Somehow, his voice remained even. She'd barely managed to ruffle his shirt.
Meanwhile, Elena felt as though she was pent up with too many emotions; she was breathing too fast; she was sure that she looked dishevelled. "Family calls," she agreed.
Elijah had his mission. Elena had – her life, everything. Picking up what was left of it, starting over, whatever she wanted to call it. Family called.
And so they parted.
Two months later.
"Happy birthday, Elena!"
Grinning, Caroline presented her with a cake on which eighteen candles had been perfectly arranged. Her friends gathered around. They were in her kitchen; Elena had been determined to ensure that this occasion was a small affair, made up only of the people she was closest to. Caroline had nevertheless ensured that the house was filled with enough party poppers and streamers to last for several birthdays.
"Make a wish!" said Caroline.
Smiling, Elena closed her eyes for a moment. Make a wish.
She blew out the candles. Her friends cheered; Jenna shoved a glass of sparkling wine into her hand; Bonnie pulled her into a hug, and Caroline immediately started figuring out how to divide up the cake. Jeremy was her unlucky target for cake-cutting duty.
They were a small group.
But, she thought, they were her family.
"You're still wearing the necklace," said Bonnie, later on when they were clearing up. Elena wiped away the last cake crumbs off the counter.
"For protection," she said.
Caroline looked up from her phone. "Oh, come on. You miss him. I can tell."
She shook her head. "Don't read anything into this. I miss him, but not like that. Honestly, I'm glad to have a break from all the drama."
It had been a drama-free summer, for the most part. That helped; it gave them time to begin the healing process. She felt that she could say that this summer had been better than the last one. There had been that incident with Damon, the mayor, and accusations of electoral rigging; and that other incident with Damon's car being stolen (he had insisted that the culprit was Katherine) that was never resolved, and Damon had also been pretty mad at her when he found out that she had allowed Katherine to buy herself her freedom without consulting him first. She didn't regret doing it.
But apart from Damon being Damon, it was quiet.
"The drama wasn't Stefan's fault," Caroline pointed out.
"I didn't say it was."
Bonnie wiped her hands on a tea towel, moving over to nudge Caroline's shoulder. "The important thing is that we made it through. Right?"
"Right," said Elena gratefully.
"So," said Caroline, unperturbed, "how does it feel to be eighteen, Elena?"
"Um..." She was spared from having to think up a reply by her phone ringing. Elena looped her hair behind her ears, and picked her phone up from the counter.
"Elena?" Caroline frowned at her. Maybe she could hear that Elena's pulse rate had just sky rocketed.
"I need to take this," Elena mumbled. "Excuse me."
Elena slipped out of the house. She had left a handwritten note for Jenna and Jeremy, explaining where she was going. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail, and she was wearing a light summer dress, since the nights were warm and the days were hot.
A black car was parked outside her house.
Elena turned to lock the front door, fumbling over the keys, and when she turned back to the car, a figure was standing there waiting for her. Her stomach flipped. A full moon shone down over the empty streets, picking out the angles of his face, the cut of his suit. Elena smoothed down her dress, took a deep breath, and hurried over to him.
"Okay," she said, breathlessly; it didn't seem quite right as a greeting, but he was smiling, and then he opened the passenger door for her, and she couldn't quite believe that she was really doing this. She stood there watching him, breathing quick, shallow breaths, taking all of him in.
"You cut your hair," she said, apropos of nothing.
He beckoned her. "Are you ready?"
There he was, in the dark, the Original offering his hand. A man in a suit, a black car, a promise. Elijah.
Take me away.
She nodded firmly. "Yes."
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Being Human - Season 3
Season 3 of Being Human started off exactly where Season 2 left off. There have been a ton of updates. Josh is no longer a werewolf since he killed Ray, his maker. Nora and Josh have moved in together. Aiden is buried in the ground having been buried alive last season and Sally is stuck in limbo.
Josh and Nora go to see a witch doctor who brings Sally back from limbo. The witch doctor warns that Sally can never see anyone from her past. Aiden is dug up by someone who intends on selling his blood and he learns that the vampires are currently being threatened by a deadly virus that humans are immune to.
Liam (the werewolf twins from last season's father) comes to town and he questions Nora and Josh about what happened. He also learns that they are living with Aiden. Sally enjoys being back alive and she meets Max and falls in love. She tells him the truth about her and initially says he is going to stay with her. Aiden finds Henry who is living with at woman he has glamoured into staying in the house and letting him feed off of her. Aiden lets her go and when Henry feeds on someone else he becomes infected with the virus and dies.
Josh and Nora take in a young teenage werewolf but Liam gets into her brain and convinces her to try to kill Aiden. She puts her blood in his food supply and then tries to kill him. He kicks her away and she ends up dying. Sally starts to notice that she is decomposing and soon learns that when she eats flesh, her body goes back to normal.
Aiden meets Nora's friend Kat and they hit it off immediately. She loves history and Aiden is old enough to know a lot about history. Liam captures Aiden, injects him with infected blood and tortures him until Josh comes in and saves him. During the scuffle, Liam scratches Josh and he is turned back into a werewolf.
Sally decides that her craving for flesh is too strong and she makes the decision to stop. Her body starts rotting again and it's apparent that she is going to die. Nora and Josh decide to get married before she dies. Sally dies and Aiden and Josh go through her door with her to fight Donna, the witch. They fight off Donna and Sally goes back to being a ghost again. The last episode ends with Aiden walking down the street and his wife (from when he was turned into a vampire), Suzanna, gets out of a cab and walks the opposite way.
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"The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Bill, 2007, which was introduced in Lok Sabha in March, aims “to provide for more effective provisions for the maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens guaranteed and recognised under the Constitution and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.” While it is difficult to contest the objective of ensuring a comfortable life for senior citizens, a number of provisions in the Bill may not be easy to implement.
The Bill neatly sidesteps the directive in the Constitution (Article 41), which directs the state to provide public assistance in cases of old age. The Bill does state that, “The state government may establish and maintain such number of old age homes at accessible places, as it may deem necessary, in a phased manner, beginning with at least one in each district to accommodate in such homes a minimum of one hundred fifty senior citizens who are indigent”. Note the use of “may” instead of “shall” — there is no obligation on the state governments to establish these. Even without this clause, there was never any prohibition on them from providing old age homes. Also, one wonders why a Bill should specify details such as the minimum size of an old age home.
Instead, the Bill places the obligation of maintaining a senior citizen on his or her children, grandchildren or any legal heirs. The process and amount differs from the existing provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure (Section 125), under which a first class magistrate may order a person to provide a monthly maintenance to his parents (or wife, including divorced wife or children), limited to Rs 500.
The Bill provides that the children of a senior citizen have the obligation to maintain a senior citizen to the extent that he “may lead a normal life”. In case of a childless senior citizen, the obligation is on a relative who is in possession of the senior citizen’s property or who would inherit his property. The maximum monthly allowance is to be specified by state governments, subject to a limit of Rs 10,000.
Some of the definitions in the Bill are confusing. Senior citizens are defined as “any person being a citizen of India, who has attained the age of sixty years or above and includes parent whether or not a senior citizen”. This implies that every parent, including those below sixty years of age, would be considered a “senior citizen”. Relative “means any legal heir of the childless senior citizen who is not a minor and is in possession of or would inherit his property after his death.” How does one determine who would inherit the property? Does this mean that the senior citizen has to reveal the contents of his will, and does not have the freedom to change it later? If he is allowed to change his will, consider the case of the person who is initially named in the will, forced to provide a maintenance, and who finds on the death of the senior citizen that there is another will that disinherits him.
So what does a senior citizen do if he wants maintenance? He applies to the ‘Maintenance Tribunal’. The application may also be made by any other person or organisation authorised by him. However, the Bill clarifies that such an “organisation” means “any voluntary organisation registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, or any other law for the time being in force”. It seems to ignore the fact that the Societies Registration Act does not define “voluntary organisation”.
One might be tempted to believe that the purpose of permitting such organisations is to assist a senior citizen. However, the Bill makes it clear that “no party to a proceeding before a tribunal or appellate tribunal shall be represented by a legal practitioner”. That is, one may not use the services of a legally qualified person in obtaining one’s legal entitlements under this law.
Regarding the maintenance tribunal, the Bill states that “the state government may... constitute for each sub-division one or more tribunals... The tribunal shall be presided over by an officer not below the rank of sub-divisional officer of a state”. There are two points to note here. First, the use of “may”, leaving the state governments the option of not forming such tribunals. Second, the job is entrusted to the SDO, who has a number of other responsibilities.
To conclude, one is not arguing against the idea of providing a safety net for senior citizens. The point is that any law that provides for such a net should be implementable. Other than the various loopholes discussed, the big issue is whether parents would take their children to the tribunal, given various social pressures. A better approach may be to design a social security system, including financial products such as pension schemes and reverse mortgages that enable the elderly to live a dignified life."
This is a powerful critique of the Bill, which is scheduled to be debated during the current session of Parliament. To my mind, there is only one existing precedent for such a law, which is the Singaporean Maintenance of Parents Act. Significantly, that law is backed by governmental programmes of pension, healthcare and other forms of support for the elderly, which adds weight to Madhavan's core argument. Hopefully, these issues will be aired during the Parliamentary debates on this law.
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[mythtv-users] MPEG2 Editing
Gregory J. McGee
gjmcgee at cableone.net
Sat Apr 10 18:25:12 EDT 2004
> Basically.....I have to render the MPG twice...which takes a good
> chunk of
> time, but I'd rather not archive commercials since DVD-R's aren't
> cheap at the moment...
Avidemux can hack out your commercials, save MPEG2PS, and essentially do
a fast copy of the streams if you aren't changing scale/format.
Trimming commercials out should not require reencoding at ALL if you
want an MPEG2 out, and have a MPEG2 nuv from a 250/350/m179.
I don't know if encoding is involved to generate MPEG2PS from normal,
same size MPEG2, or if it is sort of a "recompile". I suspect the
Avidemux2 will also directly load mythtvs flavor of nuv file , rtjpeg,
mpeg2, or mpeg4 based, and allow you to trim out the commercials and
Mythtranscode or old unsupported versions of mplayer are not required.
Gregory J. McGee <gjmcgee at cableone.net>
More information about the mythtv-users
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Exquisite William B. Kerr Large Sterling Chatelaine Brooch Coiled Serpent ~rare
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Exquisite William B. Kerr Large Sterling Chatelaine Brooch Coiled Serpent ~rare:
I am pleased to offer this magnificent Art Nouveau Chatelaine Brooch circa 1895-1900. It was made by the William B. Kerr Co.. This company was highly regarded for their Art Nouveau jewelry and commands very high prices. It is hallmarked with the Kerr logo as seen in photos.
This piece is large measuring approx. 3" around the domed surface and a bit over 2-1/2" across the surface and approx. 1-1/2" high, across the highest point. It weighs 12 grams.
The design is superb with the characteristic undulating lines and scrolls of the Nouveau period with a pair of stylized coiled serpents on either side. The piece was originally designed with hanging chains to be used as a chatelaine. Three of the hooks are still on the back and one is missing. I am sure the owner used it as a lovely brooch after chatelaines became obsolete. It could be refurbished if so desired by attaching old sterling chains to the loops.
It is a rare, very beautifulpiece and would be a prized addition to a fine antique jewelry collection. As all of my sales, it starts at $9.99 with . Good luck offerding and thanks for looking!
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Super sad supercut Jun 06 2016
A collection of super sad moments from movies like The Iron Giant, E.T., Wrath of Khan, Up, and Old Yeller. This'll have you sobbing in 3 minutes or your money back.
A collection of super sad moments from movies like The Iron Giant, E.T., Wrath of Khan, Up, and Old Yeller. This'll have you sobbing in 3 minutes or your money back.
From The Intercept and director A.J. Schnack, a simple and powerful short film about more than a dozen mass shootings that have occurred in the US since 2011.
A scene of tragedy unfolds, accompanied by fear, chaos and disbelief. As Speaking is Difficult rewinds into the past, retracing our memories, it tells a story about a cumulative history that is both unbearable and inevitable.
Fuck, that was difficult to watch. When Sandy Hook came up, I just lost it. We should be deeply deeply ashamed that that happened and we did nothing about it.
In this story by Rafael Zoehler, a father who dies at 27 wrote his son a series of letters to be opened at several of life's milestones, including WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR FIRST KISS, WHEN YOU BECOME A FATHER, and WHEN YOUR MOTHER IS GONE. This letter was entitled "WHEN I'M GONE":
If you're reading this, I'm dead. I'm sorry. I knew I was going to die.
I didn't want to tell you what was going to happen, I didn't want to see you crying. Well, it looks like I've made it. I think that a man who's about to die has the right to act a little bit selfish.
Well, as you can see, I still have a lot to teach you. After all, you don't know crap about anything. So I wrote these letters for you. You must not open them before the right moment, OK? This is our deal.
I love you. Take care of your mom. You're the man of the house now.
PS: I didn't write letters to your mom. She's got my car.
Oh man, this episode of This American Life on desegregation and the Normandy School District (aka the Missouri district that Michael Brown attended) just totally wrecked me. Tears of sadness and rage.
Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program.
America likes to pride itself on its focus on the importance of education and everyone getting a crack at living the American Dream, but as this story makes clear, neither of those things are actually true. See also part two of the series and Hannah-Jones' series on segregation at ProPublica.
I don't quite know what I'm doing to myself these days. Last night was an episode of The Americans in which a marriage was ending, another family was trying to keep itself intact, and a young boy struggles to move on after his entire family dies. This morning, I watched an episode of Mad Men in which a mother tries to reconcile her differences with her daughter in the face of impending separation. And then, the absolute cake topper, a story by Matthew Teague that absolutely wrecked me. It's about his cancer-stricken wife and the friend who comes and rescues an entire family, which is perhaps the truest and most direct thing I've ever read about cancer and death and love and friendship.
Since we had met, when she was still a teenager, I had loved her with my whole self. Only now can I look back on the fullness of our affection; at the time I could see nothing but one wound at a time, a hole the size of a dime, into which I needed to pack a fistful of material. Love wasn't something I felt anymore. It was just something I did. When I finished, I would lie next to her and use sterile cotton balls to soak up her tears. When she finally slept, I would slip out of bed and go into our closet, the most isolated room in the house. Inside, I would wrap a blanket around my head, stuff it into my mouth, lie down and bury my head in a pile of dirty clothes, and scream.
There are very specific parts of all those stories that I identify with. I struggle with friendship. And with family. I worry about my children, about my relationships with them. I worry about being a good parent, about being a good parenting partner with their mom. How much of me do I really want to impart to them? I want them to be better than me, but I can't tell them or show them how to do that because I'm me. I took my best shot at being better and me is all I came up with. What if I'm just giving them the bad parts, without even realizing it? God, this is way too much for a Monday.
Kellan Roberts died suddenly at 22. He had decided to be an organ donor and his heart went to a high school student from Minnesota, Connor Rabinowitz. After receiving the heart, Connor visited Kellan's family in Seattle and met Kellan's sister Erin. After a few years, Erin and Connor, well, just watch...this is a wonderful story well told.
Cord Jefferson with a beautiful piece about his mother, illness, and the importance and difficulty of being kind.
I'd just returned home from a meeting when she called again. It had been only a few hours since we'd last talked and, as she stammered when I picked up, my heart sank with the anticipation of more bad news. "I didn't tell you everything I wanted to earlier," she said after gathering her tongue. "I wanted to say that I'm scared. I know you can't do anything to change this, but it makes me feel better to let you know that I'm afraid."
Mat Kirkby's short film, The Phone Call, won the Best Narrative Short prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and is rumored to be in the running for an Oscar nomination. It features a young woman who works in helpline call office (Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins) taking a call from a distraught man (Oscar winner Jim Broadbent). (via slate)
Update: The video has been taken down from Vimeo, so I've removed the embed. I think it was something about film festival eligibility?
Update: The Phone Call did end up being nominated for an Oscar; here's Kirkby and friends reacting to the nomination.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Greg Maddux is not really a story about Greg Maddux. Or sports. It's about Jeremy Collins' friend Jason Kenney, demons, self-control, determination, friendship, competitiveness, and loss.
Jason kept a picture of Maddux above his desk in our dorm room at Young Harris College in the north Georgia mountains. A beautiful athlete, the best on campus, Jason played only intramurals and spent serious time at his desk. A physics workhorse and calculus whiz, he kept Maddux's image at eye-level.
Shuffling and pardoning down the aisle to our seats, Jason stopped and squeezed my shoulder. "Look," he said.
Maddux strode toward home, hurling the ball through the night.
It's 2014. I'm thirty-seven. My wife and daughter are both asleep. I'm a thousand miles from the stadium-turned-parking-lot. On YouTube, Kenny Lofton of the American League Champion Cleveland Indians looks at the first pitch for a ball. Inside, low. I don't remember the call. I remember all of us standing, holding our breath. Then I remember light. Thousands of lights. Waves of tiny diamonds. The whole stadium flashing and Jason, who would die five months later on the side of a south Georgia highway, leaning into my ear and whispering, "Maddux."
Great, great story. As Tom Junod remarked on Twitter, "Every once in a while, a writer throws everything he's got into a story. This is one of those stories."
In racing video games, a ghost is a car representing your best score that races with you around the track. This story of a son discovering and racing against his deceased father's ghost car in an Xbox racing game will hit you right in the feels.
Peter Bach, a cancer doctor, writes about losing his wife to cancer.
The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are in New York, one of the many things I learned during my family's six-month stay in Argentina. The front windshield of the rental car, aged and covered in the city's grime, further obscured what little light came through. When we stopped at the first red light after leaving the hospital, I broke two of my most important marital promises. I started acting like my wife's doctor, and I lied to her.
I had just taken the PET scan, the diagnostic X-ray test, out of its manila envelope. Raising the films up even to the low light overhead was enough for me to see what was happening inside her body. But when we drove on, I said, "I can't tell; I can't get my orientation. We have to wait to hear from your oncologist back home." I'm a lung doctor, not an expert in these films, I feigned. But I had seen in an instant that the cancer had spread.
The last sentence here really got to me:
Our life together was gone, and carrying on without her was exactly that, without her. I was reminded of our friend Liz's insight after she lost her husband to melanoma. She told me she had plenty of people to do things with, but nobody to do nothing with.
A reader saw my post about UPS drivers seldom taking left turns and sent in this story from 2006. In it, Michael Gartner shares the secret to long life relayed to him by his father: no left turns. Among other things:
My mother was a devout Catholic, and my father an equally devout agnostic, an arrangement that didn't seem to bother either of them through their 75 years of marriage. (Yes, 75 years, and they were deeply in love the entire time.) He retired when he was 70, and nearly every morning for the next 20 years or so, he would walk with her the mile to St. Augustin's Church. She would walk down and sit in the front pew, and he would wait in the back until he saw which of the parish's two priests was on duty that morning. If it was the pastor, my father then would go out and take a 2-mile walk, meeting my mother at the end of the service and walking her home. If it was the assistant pastor, he'd take just a 1-mile walk and then head back to the church.
He called the priests "Father Fast" and "Father Slow."
When Owen Suskind was three, a switch flipped within him and he went from a typical chatty rambunctious three-year-old to autistic.
I had just started a job as The Wall Street Journal's national affairs reporter. My wife, Cornelia, a former journalist, was home with him -- a new story every day, a new horror. He could barely use a sippy cup, though he'd long ago graduated to a big-boy cup. He wove about like someone walking with his eyes shut. "It doesn't make sense," I'd say at night. "You don't grow backward." Had he been injured somehow when he was out of our sight, banged his head, swallowed something poisonous? It was like searching for clues to a kidnapping.
After visits to several doctors, we first heard the word "autism." Later, it would be fine-tuned to "regressive autism," now affecting roughly a third of children with the disorder. Unlike the kids born with it, this group seems typical until somewhere between 18 and 36 months -- then they vanish. Some never get their speech back. Families stop watching those early videos, their child waving to the camera. Too painful. That child's gone.
But a tenuous connection remained between Owen and his pre-autistic self: Disney movies. And through them, Owen slowly learns how to communicate with the outside world again.
So we join him upstairs, all of us, on a cold and rainy Saturday afternoon in November 1994. Owen is already on the bed, oblivious to our arrival, murmuring gibberish.... "Juicervose, juicervose." It is something we've been hearing for the past few weeks. Cornelia thinks maybe he wants more juice; but no, he refuses the sippy cup. "The Little Mermaid" is playing as we settle in, propping up pillows. We've all seen it at least a dozen times, but it's at one of the best parts: where Ursula the sea witch, an acerbic diva, sings her song of villainy, "Poor Unfortunate Souls," to the selfish mermaid, Ariel, setting up the part in which Ursula will turn Ariel into a human, allowing her to seek out the handsome prince, in exchange for her voice.
When the song is over, Owen lifts the remote. Hits rewind.
"Come on, Owen, just let it play!" Walt moans. But Owen goes back just 20 seconds or so, to the song's next-to-last stanza, with Ursula shouting:
Go ahead -- make your choice!
I'm a very busy woman, and I haven't got all day.
It won't cost much, just your voice!
He does it again. Stop. Rewind. Play. And one more time. On the fourth pass, Cornelia whispers, "It's not 'juice.' " I barely hear her. "What?" "It's not 'juice.' It's 'just' ... 'just your voice'!"
I grab Owen by the shoulders. "Just your voice! Is that what you're saying?!"
He looks right at me, our first real eye contact in a year. "Juicervose! Juicervose! Juicervose!"
Walt starts to shout, "Owen's talking again!" A mermaid lost her voice in a moment of transformation. So did this silent boy. "Juicervose! Juicervose! Juicervose!" Owen keeps saying it, watching us shout and cheer. And then we're up, all of us, bouncing on the bed. Owen, too, singing it over and over -- "Juicervose!" -- as Cornelia, tears beginning to fall, whispers softly, "Thank God, he's in there."
This is the best thing I've read in a month, so so heartbreaking and amazing. Just pre-ordered the book...can't wait to read the full version.
So, there's the famous 1984 Super Bowl commercial for the Macintosh. There was the Think Different campaign. And the Mac vs. PC ads. But I think Apple's newest effort, Misunderstood, is perhaps their best ad ever:
Or maybe I'm the biggest sap in the world...either way, I'm totally crying at work.
ps. But of course, that can't be the best Apple advertisement ever because that title will always and forever be taken by a drunk Jeff Goldblum extolling the virtues of the iMac's internet capabilities:
Great, now I'm crying from laughing at work.
Just warning you, this piece by Ariel Levy will wreck you, put you back together, and wreck you again. Damn powerful beautiful writing.
My doctor told me that it was fine to fly up until the third trimester, so when I was five months pregnant I decided to take one last big trip. It would be at least a year, maybe two, before I'd be able to leave home for weeks on end and feel the elation of a new place revealing itself. (It's like having a new lover-even the parts you aren't crazy about have the crackling fascination of the unfamiliar.) Just before Thanksgiving, I went to Mongolia.
People were alarmed when I told them where I was going, but I was pleased with myself. I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi Desert pregnant, just as, at twenty-two, I'd liked the idea of being the kind of girl who'd go to India by herself. And I liked the idea of telling my kid, "When you were inside me, we went to see the edge of the earth." I wasn't truly scared of anything but the Mongolian winter. The tourist season winds down in October, and by late November, when I got on the plane, the nights drop to twenty degrees below zero. But I was prepared: I'd bought snow pants big enough to fit around my convex gut and long underwear two sizes larger than I usually wear.
File this one under crying at work: a man finds a newborn on a subway platform and he and his partner adopt him and then blub blub blub, I'm sorry I have to go there's something in both my eyes and my nose.
Three months later, Danny appeared in family court to give an account of finding the baby. Suddenly, the judge asked, "Would you be interested in adopting this baby?" The question stunned everyone in the courtroom, everyone except for Danny, who answered, simply, "Yes."
"But I know it's not that easy," he said.
"Well, it can be," assured the judge before barking off orders to commence with making him and, by extension, me, parents-to-be.
This video shows a fourth grader trying a bigger ski jump for the first time. If you're a parent, I defy you to not tear up at least once while viewing. Oh, and the audio is essential.
#cryingatwork (via devour)
This photo was taken recently by Sergey Ponomarev in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan:
The line on the wall is the high water mark from the March 11 tsunami and the time on the clock is when the water crested (Wikipedia puts the max readings right around 15:20 local time). Each element alone is documentation of a thing...together they tell a story.
I have a soft spot for storytelling clocks in photos. Joseph Koudelka's 1968 photo of the empty streets of Prague before the Soviet crackdown of The Prague Spring is one of my favorite photos. And obviously I love the photo taken by my wife of me holding my son Ollie when he was exactly 20 mintues old. It was the first time I'd held him and oh crap I'm crying at work again... (via in focus)
In 1981, Ray Towler was convicted of rape, kidnapping, and felonious assault of two young children and sentenced to life in prison. Twenty-nine years later, in 2010, DNA evidence proves he didn't commit the crime and Towler is released from prison.
So many choices. Which car insurance. Which cereal. Which deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo. Rows and rows of products. Varieties, sizes, colors. Which is cheaper? Which is better? What's the best buy? Which gum to chew? When he went into prison there were, like, two kinds of chewing gum. Now there are a zillion. One of the small gifts he gives himself is trying all the gums. "I can spoil myself a little so long as I stay within my means," he says. Papaya juice! Kiwi and strawberry nectar! Green tea! Arnold Palmer -- he was a golfer when Towler went down. Now he is a drink, sweet and so incredibly thirst quenching.
He loves work. He got out May 5 and started working June 21. Hell, I've been vacationing for thirty years. He wears a smock and pushes a mail cart. He stops at all the cubicles, greets everyone with his friendly smile. Ray even loves commuting to work, especially now, in his new car, a black Ford Focus. He's like a sixteen-year-old who can finally drive himself to school. It costs almost the same to park as it does to take the train.
File this one under "crying at work".
Kamikaze pilot Masanobu Kuno wrote a farewell letter to his young son and daughter the day before he flew to his death in the Battle of Okinawa. From the translation:
Your father will become a god and watch you two closely. Both of you, study hard and help out your mother with work. I can't be your horse to ride, but you two be good friends.
I should have a "crying at work" tag for posts like this.
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Breakfast $10-$14 (child $6.50), lunch and dinner $18.50-$33 (child $8.59)
Service is super-friendly, and the kitchen turns out tasty casual fare. Take a stroll on the boardwalk with a Rum Runner or frozen margarita after your meal.
Setting and Atmosphere
Old Key West was the first Disney Vacation Club. Many DVC members consider Olivia’s their home kitchen, and their photos decorate the walls. The decor is Disneyfied Key West, with pastels, mosaictile floors, potted palms, and tropical trees in the center of the room. There is some outside seating, which looks out over the waterway. Tile, wood siding, and no tablecloths add up to one noisy dining room.
Breakfast: crab-cake eggs Benedict, banana-bread French toast, and poached eggs with sweet potato hash. Lunch and dinner: conch fritters and conch chowder; Olivia’s Classic Burger, with applewoodsmoked bacon; Plantation Key Pork Chop with smoked-Gouda fondue; slow-cooked prime rib; shrimp and grits; barbecue pork ribs.
Catch of the day, banana bread pudding sundae, Key lime tart.
Requires Credit Card to Reserve:
Requires Pre-payment in Full: No
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Our line graph above shows the declining subscriber numbers for publisher Electronic Arts’ massively multiplayer game, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Although the game launched last December, EA didn’t report subscriber numbers until February, which were at 1.7 million at the time. Just a few months later, the number of active players hit the 1.3 million mark in May. EA reported today during its Q1 earnings call that the number has dipped below one million, though it didn’t give an exact figure.
As you can see from the chart, subscribers have been steadily leaving The Old Republic. During the conference call, EA stated that it only needs 500,000 active players to make a profit, but the game still performed under expectations. The publisher is hoping to bring back old and new players with a free-to-play model, launching this fall.
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For more than 20 years at UC Irvine, Dudley Knight devised innovative and sometimes controversial ways of teaching acting students to speak clearly while lending their characters authentic, unforced accents and dialects.
He believed that actors in a multicultural society should keep their own voices and fought the orthodox practice of teaching them to use upper-class white speech patterns as the favored norm.
Knight, who had retired 10 years ago to Pennsylvania, returned to the campus last month to begin rehearsing his role as King Lear in an outdoor summer festival production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
Shortly after greeting friends and fellow cast members during a get-acquainted meeting June 25, he had a heart attack while walking to his condominium near campus.
He never regained consciousness and died June 27 at Hoag Hospital Newport Beach, said Eli Simon, the artistic director of UC Irvine's New Swan Shakespeare Festival, who cast Knight in "King Lear." He was 73.
The methods Knight developed at UC Irvine, where he began teaching in 1981, challenged standard approaches in his field. He criticized — and offered an alternative to — a classic approach for teaching actors proper diction championed by Edith Skinner, a legendary professor who had taught at what is now Carnegie Mellon University and the Juilliard School, and wrote a standard acting text, "Speak With Distinction."
She urged actors to speak in a set way that she called "Good American Speech" when not playing roles requiring a specific accent or dialect.
In 2000, Knight attacked the methods of Skinner, who had died in 1981, in an article in the academic journal Voice and Speech Review. He called her approach outdated and inappropriate for today's multicultural world. Her method, he wrote, was "mired in a self-serving and archaic notion of Euphony, and in a model of class, ethnic and racial hierarchy that is irrelevant to the acting of classical texts and repellent to the sensibilities of most theater artists."
The response from Skinner supporters, he said in a Times interview at the time, made for "as much sturm und drang as you get in the normally sedate world of speech and voice training."
Knight trained his students to deliver any spoken sound the human voice could produce — an arsenal that could be deployed flexibly as roles and artistic approaches demanded. He codified his method in "Speaking With Skill," a 192-page book published in September.
For his UC Irvine students, Knight devised an artificial language he called Omnish — after "omni," Latin for "all," because it included all vocalizations in most known languages. Students who could master Omnish, he reasoned, would be capable of saying anything well.
"He always introduced it with a deadpan sense of humor, saying it was the national language of the country of Omnia," recalled Philip Thompson, who studied under Knight in the 1980s and later joined him as a UC Irvine drama professor. "He took the elitism out of voice training while maintaining the rigor, which is a neat trick, and he merged scientific rigor with playfulness."
Over the last decade, the pair taught the technique they called Knight-Thompson Speechwork to other college-level teachers who train actors.
"It was really important to him that we get out there and communicate this information," said Thompson, who plans to continue the effort.
The son of a physician, Knight was born July 1, 1939, in Minnesota and grew up mainly in Connecticut. He fell in love with Shakespeare at age 9 when he saw Laurence Olivier in the film version of "Henry V," he later said.
After graduating from the Yale School of Drama, Knight helped found the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., in the mid-1960s. It became one of the Northeast's leading nonprofit stage companies.
By the 1970s he was getting small parts on screen and appearing in Southern California theater productions. In the 1980s he had supporting roles in classic plays at the Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe in San Diego. While at UC Irvine, he performed in summer Shakespeare festivals across the country and played the lead in a 1989 campus production of "King Lear."
Knight and his wife, painter Marta Whistler, moved to Easton, Pa., after he retired from UC Irvine because it was an art colony and gave him easy access to the New York City theater scene, Simon said. Knight continued to perform onstage and served as editor-in-chief of Voice and Speech Review.
He is survived by his wife, three stepdaughters and his brother, Charles.
The Aug. 2-30 run of "King Lear" will be staged as a tribute to Knight, with veteran Shakespearean actor Henson Keys. A memorial for Knight is being planned for Aug. 24 at UC Irvine.
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Loren and I set off for Sunset Fields at the leisurely time of 10 am, stopping at the convenience store along the way to purchase the much appreciated ice and arriving around 11 am. With a 27 pound 2 year old at my side or riding on my shoulders, a cooler with sodas and a 10 pound bag of ice, a coffee can filled halfway with water and 2 wash cloths (for runners to soak their heads and rinse off sweat), and a backpack with a change of clothes for the 2 year old, some snack crackers for the runners, a towel, and a water bottle, we set off down the trail to the AT crossing. While it was just a third of a mile to the AT crossing, I felt as though I had trekked much further. Once we got to the crossing, we settled in to wait for the first runner.
Eric was the first to arrive, talking hurriedly about how he had heard that Troy had fallen and torn up his hands pretty badly. While I was planning to head back to Emory after this aid station, Eric thought I might need to stay longer in case Troy needed to be taken to a hospital. I assured Eric I would help in any way necessary and off he went. Just 10 minutes later, I heard Troy talking on the phone (no surprise there) and moving deftly along the path. He didn't seem that bad off, but one look at his hands and knee and I knew he must have been shaken up pretty badly by his fall. He indicated that he sees this kind of thing in urgent care all the time and he was quite certain that he needed stitches, but he was not stopping the stage. By the time he got to an urgent care center, he figured it would be too late to stitch the wound, so he was just planning to super glue it that night.
I'm not sure if the heat was causing Troy to hallucinate, but he told me that 6 nurses came to his aid after his fall. 6 female nurses out for a hike with antiseptic and steri-strips on hand to tend to their ailing comrade (Troy's a nurse). This seemed a little too mystical to me and when I told Eric about it, he said, "Only Troy. Only Troy." The nurses lifted Troy's spirits as we was pretty shaken up by the whole incident. By the time he got to my aid station, he was carrying a wadded up bit of cloth to cover his wound and indicated the steri-strips had fallen off after an hour. He lingered very little at my aid station and pressed on. It wasn't long before Rebekah appeared after having crewed for the runners a couple other times already that morning. She asked me to wait for Anne while she headed on to meet up with Eric and Troy down the trail. When Anne arrived, she seemed in good spirits and seemed to be moving along fairly well. I learned later that Anne had quite a low point between my aid station and the seven miles when she next saw Rebekah. At that point, with 10 miles remaining for the day, I heard that Anne was ready to throw in the towel. She had had enough. Somehow she pressed on and finished the stage at the James River. I was fortunate to get to talk with Rebekah Sunday night to hear how the stage finished out. She shared that Anne had talked with her husband, Mark Lundblad, and daughter, Ellie, that night, and they encouraged her to press on. I think 12 year old Ellie said something like "What would your fans think if you quit now?"
The last time I saw Eric and Troy today was at a point about 10 miles from the finish. When Eric arrived, I told him about seeing Troy and eased his mind about Troy's well being. I also told him Troy was only 10 minutes behind him to which Eric replied, "I don't want to take a man out while he's down." Eric took his time drinking a soda, refilling his pack with ice, and chatting with me and Rebekah. It wasn't long before Troy arrived. He dropped off his trekking poles figuring he could no longer carry them given his wound. He and Eric would finish out the day together, clocking in at 9 hours 7 minutes. Anne's time for Stage 8 was 11 hours 24 minutes.
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(I don't have any pictures of Anne from today. I think I got some video when I saw her at the aid station though.)
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Port Blair, Feb 22 (UNI) The condition of Andaman and Nicoabr Islands MP Manoranjan Bhakta, who is on an indefinite hunger strike since February 19, has turned serious.
According to doctors of G B Pant Hospital here the condition of the 66-year old MP is critical.
Doctors attending him said fat present in Mr Bhakta's body has now started dissolving, which is clear from his urine samples.
However, the blood pressure reports were normal.
The Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee will be holding an urgent meeting this afternoon at Port Blair and it is expected that the party leaders would decide to request Mr Bhakta to end his indefinite fast, considering his health conditions.
''His body temperature may go down any time. This is dangerous for the MP, who is not keeping well since months. We are very much concerned about his health,'' K Ganeshan, the Chief Spokesperson of ANTCC, told UNI today.
Meanwhile in a message last evening, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and other senior political leaders have urged Mr Bhakta to withdraw the fast to avoid any health complications.
Earlier, the Chief Secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Administration also visited the MP last night and met Mr Bhakta at Tiranga Park of Port Blair and requested him to give up his fast, but he did not relent.
Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal is expected to meet Mr Bhakta tomorrow afternoon in this regard.
''The MP is not ready to give up. As far we know him, he will continue till he gets proper reply from the government and local administration,'' Mr Ganeshan added.
UNI SKR BA VD RN1453
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I’m proud to announce that my new novella, “The Man Who Ran from God,” will launch June 22 in the Amazon Kindle store.
As we approach the launch date, I will be sharing more details about the novella. I’ll post the book cover art, selections from the piece itself and selections from earlier drafts. But today, I just want to share the basics. I will answer these in FAQ style.
When will the novella be released?
Where will it launch?
Only on the Amazon Kindle store. I wanted to take advantage of their free giveaways via their KDP program. After 3 months on Kindle, I’ll reassess.
How much will it cost?
99 cents in U.S. dollars, like the rest of my works.
Will there be any giveaways?
Yes. I’m planning a BIG giveaway for the first weekend, June 22 and 23.
What is it about?
It is a retelling, in historical fiction style, of the story of Jonah from the Bible. My teaser for the book sums it up:
In a dream, the voice of God commands Jonah to go to Nineveh. Instead, he books passage to the other end of the world. A storm and a hungry whale are the least of his worries as Jonah has to confront deluded fishermen, befuddled peasants and crooked priests. At the end of it all, Jonah must face the hardest decision of his life: stand and preach to the fervently pagan crowds in Nineveh’s main square or flee back to his home in Judea.
Is this a religious work? The result of some sort of religious experience?
No. My attempt here was not to write a religious work, but an accurate piece of historical fiction. I didn’t want to write something that aligned with any organized religion, but that sought to unravel the historical Jonah from the figure presented in the Bible.
What inspired you to write this?
I had been toying with the idea of writing something about Jonah for a long time. The Old Testament prophets are intriguing to me because they are revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Jewish Joseph, Moses and Abraham somehow remain unifying figures despite the differences between these faiths and all three are mentioned in both the Christian New Testament and the Muslim Koran.
But for me, there was always something special about the “minor” prophet Jonah. The whale segment of the story is famously known and, not surprisingly, surfaces in American literature in Moby Dick where one old whaler doubts the story. I wanted to learn more about the source of the story and one day read the Biblical account. When I did, I realized that the whale is actually a small part of the story. The real driving question is whether Jonah will do God’s will or not.
Jonah is very cantankerous. When God asks him to go to Nineveh, he heads for Tarshish at the opposite end of the Mediterranean. And Jonah’s always getting angry (the word “angry” is used at least twice in the Biblical story). The best instance is in the Biblical account at Jonah 4:9.
But God said to Jonah, ‘Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?’
‘It is,’ he said. ‘And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.’
I loved that.
After I finished the story, I realized that most people had no idea who Jonah was and that the real story was quite different from the one I had been told as a kid. I started playing with the idea of writing something. I read the Book of Kings (where Jonah also appears) for background. And then I saw a video on YouTube and it all came together.
Eminem goes through a rough patch.
That was it. To me, Eminem was a sort of modern day Jonah (wow, did I just write that?). He was talking about the same thing Jonah talked about, but using a vernacular he understood. At some point, Jonah (like Eminem) came to a realization that he needed to change, he reached a point where the right thing to do became clear. He just had to have the guts to do it, to follow his inner voice. And Jonah, just like Eminem, was angry…pissed off at an unjust world.
After I saw that video, I sat down and just started writing. Eventually, it became a novella of 20,000 words.
Can I get an advance copy of the novella for review on my blog?
Yes. If you have a blog where you regularly review books, I will review your site and if I feel we are a fit, I will gladly send along a copy of the manuscript (in Word format) for review. See “Contact” above for my email.
In a continuing sub-series, I’m mentioning each time viewers from a new country visit the blog. This week, the blog had its first visitors from:
– The Bahamas.
Welcome to the blog, Everyone!
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President Barack Obama told the nation Wednesday to follow Colorado's lead with "practical progress" on restricting access to guns, such as comprehensive background checks.
Inside a gymnasium at the Denver Police Academy, he urged Americans to contact their federal representatives.
"If we're really going to tackle this problem seriously, then we've got to get Congress to take the next step," he said. "As soon as next week, every senator will get to vote on whether or not we should require background checks for anyone who wants to purchase a gun."
Obama pressed his views to an audience of Denver police, families of gun violence victims, and local and state politicians.
The president's usual brand of soaring rhetoric sought reconciliation on America's divided views on guns. But even as he spoke, protesters, including some Colorado sheriffs, picketed outside and decried what they said was an assault on Second Amendment rights.
In his speech, the president brought the issue to Colorado, referencing the Aurora theater shooting in July and the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.
"This is a state that has suffered the tragedy of two of the worst mass shootings in our history," he said. "But this is also a state that treasures its Second Amendment rights — the state of proud hunters and sportsmen.
"I'm here because I believe there doesn't have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities," he said.
Obama lauded Colorado legislators for passing three gun laws, signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper last month.
One limits magazines to 15 rounds of ammunition, another requires universal background checks for all gun buyers and the third charges gun customers for the cost of those checks.
The guests were invited, but Leon Kelly, a pastor who runs Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives, veered far from the president's view.
He doubted new laws would solve the very old problem of bad guys with guns.
"We're making laws and restrictions that are going to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights, while we're just enhancing the black market for guns and who knows what other unintended consequences," said Kelly, a National Rifle Association member and pistol instructor.
Before the speech, Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with local leaders, including Hickenlooper, members of Colorado's federal delegation, sportsmen and families of victims.
The president told the group he wanted to "listen and hear from all of you, having gone through the process here in Colorado, how you think we can best frame some of these issues."
He said while communities need to have strong mental health programs and effective policing, "there is also no doubt about the kind of damage that can be done if you don't have strong background checks."
Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was killed at Columbine High, said Obama particularly wanted to hear the perspectives of hunters and victims' families.
Mauser said Colorado showed it was in favor of increased gun control beginning in 2000, when 70 percent of Colorado voters approved Amendment 22, which requires background checks at gun shows. Further polling showed Colorado residents supported expanding background checks to all sales.
"We're very much a purple state and pro-gun state and highly educated state," Mauser said. "People understand that you can bear arms but also have restrictions at the same time. People are smart enough that you can have both."
Jane Dougherty, who was in the audience, wanted to hear about Obama's plan for federal legislation. Dougherty, of Littleton, is the sister of Mary Sherlach, who was the school psychologist killed in the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
"This doesn't have to be a conflict. We can come together and be reasonable and get these laws passed and start saving lives," she said. "Background checks are just going to prevent people who shouldn't get guns from getting them."
University of Colorado political science professor Kenneth Bickers said the president's personal political mission perhaps drove Wednes-day's visit to Colorado, and one scheduled Monday in Connecticut. Twenty students and six staff members were shot to death at Sandy Hook.
"(Obama) really has to try to get something out of this issue; he's staked so much of his second-term capital on it," Bickers said. "He needs to recapture the momentum the issue had right after the shootings, and I think that's why you see him in Colorado and Connecticut."
Bickers said the visits might not help, but they won't hurt.
What could hurt, however, is U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette's comments Tuesday at a public forum organized by The Denver Post editorial board. She appeared to not know the difference between bullets and magazines. Bickers said if the president's speech and DeGette's gaffe were paired in the news of the day, that could muddle the message.
"That really hurts because here you have the congressmember in the district you're speaking in, one of the sponsors of the legislation you're trying to pass, who appears not to have a basic understanding of the gun-control issue," he said.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174, [email protected] or twitter.com/joeybunch
Reporter Ryan Parker contributed to this story.
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It's really hot today, 36° outside and not much less inside. I tried to keep to shadowy paths to walk along this morning, but this afternoon I walked through the fields and it was scorching. My plaster cast is off, which is good, but my poor thumb is still very painful and stiff, and I am hoping it will be back to normal soon.
In between walks I played with some corrugated cardboard, painted some backgrounds in my journal, and just tried to get the feel of paint again!
The card here was painted with white gesso. The top tag has been partly peeled, stamped, and embossed with copper EP and perfect pearls in copper. The image (Lost Coast Designs) has been stamped with archival green. I used some fibres, textile roses, and a TH token (almost hidden by the fibres) for embellishments.
This tag has been put together with parts out of one of my many bit boxes. I used gold Utee into which I stamped and some paper scraps for the background. The little girl was in my stash, and already cut out, but I think I distressed her a tad too much this time!
I added an angel charm, some Prima leaves and scraps of ribbon and string.
I am linking to Paint Party Friday, Moo Mania - anything goes, Manon's Paper Saturdays, and Feline Art Friday.
Today the skies were wonderfully blue:
There are lots of leafy lanes and paths to walk along:
Some of my fave paths are those along the old fortifications:
And I never get tired of watching the Rhine:
Here's wishing you all a great weekend, with time for creating and relaxing. Have fun, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!
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Can Joomla CMS succeed in an enterprise environment?
That was easy enough, but I suspect most of you want to know why I think Joomla might be appropriate for enterprise use.
What are some basic needs?
- Centralized user authentication
- Granular access control
- Logging and Auditing
- Advanced Content taxonomy and versioning
- Pleasing & mobile-friendly front-end design
- Easy administration, maintenance and updates
- The list goes on...
How can Joomla meet these requirements?
First, let us keep in mind that Joomla is built on a highly-extensible platform. Out-of-the box, the basic components of a CMS are there, but with a few well-chosen extensions, Joomla can challenge any commercial CMS.
The core Joomla CMS includes a easily configurable LDAP login authentication plugin. When enabled, it allows Joomla to query and LDAP source (even Active Directory) to create local accounts and dole out permissions. While this basic functionality solves the problem of centralizing logins, it does not extend LDAP security groups into the CMS. For that we have to turn to 3rd party exentions.
Granular Access Control
The best LDAP extension I have found for Joomla is JMapMyLDAP by Shaun Maunder.
Included features (from his website):
- LDAP Group Mapping to Joomla Groups
- LDAP profile plugin to sync extra fields to and from LDAP
- Password plug-in to save passwords to LDAP
- User creation and deletion to and from LDAP
- Administration component for debugging and setting up plugins
- Logging for debugging and audit tracking through SHLog
- Single Sign On (SSO) with HTTP
- Tested with Active Directory, eDirectory and OpenLDAP
- Free, non-commercial, open source and licensed under the GNU GPL
- Current requirement is Joomla! 2.5+ or Platform 12.1+
Admittedly, anyone configuring this collection of plugins should be well versed in LDAP and Active Directory security groups (along with scoped service accounts). Once configured, the functionality one can get out of this combination is fantastic! Imagine being able to map any Active Directory security group to locally defined permissions groups, thereby doling out granular access control to any content, module display, site admin or any other type of 3rd party extension permissions (so long as the follow the standard Joomla 3.x+ ACL).
You could, for example, install Kunena forum, lock down access to categories by Joomla groups and map those groups to Active Direct security groups through JMapMyLDAP. You now have an "enterprise ready" forum, ready to securely service all your employee or clients needs!
Logging and Auditing
This tool provides advanced user access analytics & auditing of management tasks. While this is not a replacement for server-level access & error log monitoring, it does provide an easily accessible interface for admins to check on who logged in when and what system-level changes were made to the website.
Content taxonomy and versioning
Joomla provides advanced categorization and tagging capabilities for content creation. Tags are managed by a dedicated component, allowing you to create and edit them, separate from content, without breaking tagged relationships.
Joomla 3.x introduced us to built-in content versioning. Joomlart has great tutorial on this subject which you can checkout here:
Beyond the core Joomla Content component, uses can also take advantage of excellent 3rd party components, like:
Over the years, Joomla has benefited from an immense 3rd party marketplace of excellent templates sporting the latest advanced in modular, responsive and multi-device-compatible design. Trusted template providers include:
Administration and Maintenance
Joomla provides and excellent administrative interface suitable for both site admins and basic content managers. With Joomla 3.x, the admin interface becomes responsive, able to accommodate allow browser dimensions and use cases, from desktop to tablet to mobile.
From an enterprise perspective, it is the granular ACL which really shines here. With proper tuning, an admin can selectively restrict access to a various components and capabilities, matching-up permissions with local user groups. Combined with tools like JMapMyLDAP, the Joomla administrative backend can inherit permissions via Active Directory security groups, allowing the developer to offload access requests to other support teams.
Due to Joomla's built-in updater and modular architecture (breaking out extensions into components, modules & plugins), maintenance tasks are usually only a few clicks away.
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Good morning all. I hope you are all well. Work for me later and then tomorrow off.
Hubby cut my lawn for me yesterday and did my ironing so hopefully if the weather holds out I
can weed my garden tomorrow.
So here is my quick card for today which I am entering into the following challenges:
1.Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Challenge 91 - Button up
2.Sketchy Colors Challenge - Challenge 168 - Sketch by Wenche
3.Cupcake Craft Challenge - Challenge 247 - Lets get sentimental
Products used are:
WRS wedding bells papers
Distress ink - Old paper
Spellbinders oval die
Adhesive pearl swirls
Inkylicious sentiment stamp
And a sideways view.
Thanks so much for popping by,means a lot :D
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Newspaper Page Text
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1895.
Dobson has Jots of cotton open.
Watch out for mad dogs and shoot
'em on the spot.
Microscopist say the mosquito has
Gov. Sheppard is off on a business
trip to Boston.
. Miss Sadie Duvis is visiting friends
among tile mountains in this State.
Mr. Alvin Hart left on Monday of
this week for New York,
Special job lot beautiful hair-pins,
hat pins, and side combs at Fox's.
"Semphronicus" was in town on
The Augusta Evening Xews has sus
Mr. J. A. Ti turner man of north Bun
combe is the proud father of a lovely
You don't have to pay for the store
when you deal with Ramsey & Bland.
The boll worm is playing havoc in
the cotton Ileitis of the Mississippi
Ramsey & Uland say they are will
ing to part with every chair in the
M. P. Wells. Esq., is, we regret to
learn, quite sick with fever at the res
idenee of Mr. D. R. Durisoe.
Don't wait till it rains before you
think of those top buggy s at Ramsey
Dr. I*. H. Adams of Phoenix has gone
to the mountains of this State for his
Mr. J. M. Gaines has the contract
for building a bridge over Cutfeetown
It is a pleasure for Ramsey & Bland
to show you their goods, because they
know you will get a bargain.
The boll worm is doing considera
ble damage to the cotton in port;ons
of our county.
Aud they've quit settin' out sweet
potatoes at last-the people is done
quit settin' 'em out.
Jule Carwile made the Edgelield
Chronicle of last week whiz and hum
and zoon like a brand new top.
Don't exert yourself if the day is
very bot but simply step into Ramsey
& .Bland's cool store and order a nice
bed room suit.
John Ware has secured two elegant
tonsorial artists in his barber shop who
are as anxious to please as are patrons
to be pleased.
Hold on to a good thing when you
lind it. This is why so many of Ram
sey and Bland's customers are old
Prof. Slaughter has removed from
Parksville to McCormick, and taken
charge of the high school at that point,
the future seat of a new county.
Mr. W. T. Hoffman will leave our.
town in a few days for Savannah Ga,>
where he proposes to enter business*)
"We wish him much success.
For the best Fire Insurance in old,
strong and reliable companies, on
town or conntry property, call on or
write D. R. Dunisot, Agt.
We are in recept of sundry resolu
tions of the eounty board of commis
sioners for Edgelield county, but they
came too late for publication this
You know the parable of the foolish
virgins-well then don't delay but,
give your order to Ramsey and Bland
lor beautiful buggys.
Mr. R.E. Fox has returned from an
extended trip north in the interest of
his profession and comes back to
Edgelield more skilled in his art than
Mr. Bettis Cantelou brought in from
his plantation, a mile from town, cu
Monday morning ofdthis week, a num
ber of grown and nearly grown cotton
bolls completely riddled perforated
and "defunetuated" by boll worms.
\ summery proceeding-going away
for vacation with a nice outiit of bug
gy and harness from Ramsey and
Bland s store.
Mr. and Mrs. King, daughter and
son-in-law of Dr. E. R..Gwaltney, left
for Rome Ga., on Monday of this week.
Miss Mamie Gwaltney accompanied
Rev. Mr. Boyd, an evangelist
preaches every day at 3 p. m., and at
8?30 at night in bur public square,
ilr. Boyd is accompanied by his wife
J. H. Reel has 17 pigs for sale, Berk
shire and Essex. His post office is
Cleora in the old Duntonsville sec
For the best Fire Insurance in old,
strong and reliable Companies, on
town or country property, call on or
write D. R. DCBISOE, Agt.
Mrs. Shaffer, by her untiring ellorts
has already raised the money to pur
chase a beautiful cornet for the Bap
tist choir. Mr. George Mims mani
pulates the keys with skill, adding
much to the church music.
Every merchant in Edgelield is
looking forward to a good trade this
fall and with good reason, for the pro
vision crops being good, the cotton
will be nearer a surplus crop t han ever
Cotton is trembling in the balance
at seven and seven-eights. Will it go
up to ten cents or down to live? Op
timists say it will go to ten, men of
tine judgment limit it to eight, while
the pessimist is sure it will soon tum
ble to five. \
Since writing the above, good mid.
diing cotton has reached the Sc mark
in Augusta. The total advance last
week was 40 points, nearly Inlf acent
We must not bank on 9cts cotton this
fall, but we may hope and yearn for
? have been instructed by Mr. R. L.
Fox to say to our patrons, that in or
der to make room for fall stock which
will bf complete in every detail, we
will sell anything in our line, except
Waterbury Watches, at a discount of
25 per cent.
r GEO. F. MIMS.
For the best Fire Insurance
in uld, strong and reliable Companies,
ou Town or country property, call on
or write D. R. DuBlsox, Agt.
Already Edgefield'* financial arid oor..
uiercial veins are beginning to fill up
wit li new blood and to pulsate willi
quicker beat because of the bricb-mak
ilig anti t ile saw i i; g lumber and I he so
fort hs and the mi-forllis for tbe big
Farmers in Fairfield county report
that cotton ?ti various sections is be
ing ruined with the mst caused by
poke berry bushes growing in the
fields, hence its name, it is bery apt to
poke itself in places where it's not
D. A. Tompkins vice president ol'
The Edgefield Manufacturing Com
pany is in Europe, at this writing, for
the purpose of buying machinery for
the Edgefield Cotton Factory.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
propose giving an entertainment in
the Opera House on Tuesdi y evening,
September the Hrd,to aid them in buy
ing a Heater for their church. The en
tertainment will consist of a magic
lantern exhibition, managed by Prof?
A. C. Moore, of Birmingham, Ala.
Admission 25cts. Children locts. Re
Memory is a little reacherous now
and then, and causes one to forget
some things worth remembering, un
less one has an experience like that
which rame to Mr. D.E. East, Mo?a t's
Creek, Va., who says "1 had been suf
fering for years with a torpid liver and
found no relief uni ill I took Simmons
Liver Regulator when 1 was entirely
relieved ol' my troubles. 1 never in
tend being without Simmons Liver
Ex-Constable Henry Johnston of
our county Hus found distilling
much more lucrative than that of
huntiug the blind tiger in his lair or
of capturing contraband. After leav
ing the constabulary force be estab
lished a distillery ac Hamburgand is
now selling his corn liquor to the
State. The Dispensary bought 70U
gallons from him.
The barbecue and picuic at Lan
ham* on last Thursday was a dismal
failure on acco'unt of the steady down
pour of rain nearly all day. The Hus
sars had made abundant preparation
for a rare feast and fete and the heavy
expense incident thereto has left them
in the soup to the amount of eighty
five dollars. The many friends of this
gallant troup will remember this and
come lo their aid when occasion of
Wanted, to exchange a clock for a
small beef-can out run a skeered dog
that is the clock can. Xo boot allowed
or to be thought ol'on either side. Ap
ply at the ADVERTISER Office, Bud
Russell will show you the clock and
you can show him the sleer, but don't
tote him up stairs in your anus, it
might skecr the clock, but take bim
over to the ''spense" and tell Johnnie
Davis to bold him till some of us ar
The presentment of the Edgefield
grand jury seems to have created
quite a sensation in the county. It
appeas to have rattled some members
of the county board. Gentlemen, pre
serve your equanimity. You havent
done anything presentable, so far as
we know-so far as the public knows -
but if you get rattled you may do
something foolish. ;During the war
we have known of a regiment stam
peded by hearing a loose horse gallop
ins: down the road. Don't let that
loose horse stampede you.
Mr. J. H. Reel living near old Dun
tonsville, this county,made this year
on half an acre of land 90 bushels of
Irish potatoes which he soldat .$1.00 a
bushel. We know this to be so for we
have seen the potatoes. Tin's yield
was made on land of the old Harry
Reel place, that literally and truly
would'nt sprout cow peas a few years
ago. lt was claimed at one time, be
fore the war, that it would sprout la
dy peas, but it never was proven. Mix
brains with your joanne* if you wish
Sam Taylor says he has engaged
Mr. Jim Paul to make the survey ol'
his new county, the Ben Thompson,
and that he is "whetting of his in
struments now for the work." Sam
says he "has made the projected line a
very crooked one so as to leave out all
the" Vnti's," but Jim wants to crook it
so as to leave out all the ramrackers,
and that he specs him ai.d Jim will
mix on that very pint before the sur
veying is done, the pint ol' where to
leave out "antis" and where to take
McDonald Furnian has found among
the records that when South Carolina
was a Colony, an annuity of about
$500 was granted a negro named Sam
son for discovering a cure for the bite
of a rattlesnake. Snake root is suppos
ed to have been the antidote and this
is the derivation of the name Samson
Shakespeare In It Too.
MR. EDITOR: When they found
that monster in "The Tempest"
with all the questioning they could
not determine what it was. What
is this anyway that is fighting
me? What offense did I give it?
Show mo the least cause in any
thing I have written. It is a po
litical nondescript existing with
out a cause. When a student of
Newberry College he was a bitter
anti domineering over his fellow
students, and when he came to
Edgefield be became a bitter Till
man ite and acts as il he would
ride over the correspondents of the
ADVERTISER, but he will find he
has "a long, stumpy road to
If I had known how to slip on
and off political coats like my
young friend it is more than like
ly that I could have been school
commissioner. In politics you will
always find me on my platform
defending its princip.es. Was it
a crime that I was defeated? lam
sure I was competent for the of
fice, and the school interests of
tho county suffered as much by
my defeat as I did. There is not
one who voted forme, nor any oth
er voter fu thc county, but knows I
t The One C
of farming gradually exhausts the la
high percentage of Potash is used
larger bank account can only then h
Write for our ' ' Farmers' Guide
is brim full of useful information for
will make and save you money. Ai
'-, ?? ?-. GERMAN
that w? would now have had a
flourishing school system if I had
been elected. "S." knows this him
self if be will be candid, and it is
more than likely that-he would
vote for me if he were of age. I
assure him I never cried when I
Again, if I am euch a pigmy
I why are you wasting so much am
munition upon me? Your acts be
lie your words. You attacked me
from the beginning and forced a
personal controversy which I tri
ed to avoid. Not one argument
have you advanced against my
position, only dogmatic asser
Iustead of fearing the Bible I
reverence it, and am not willing it
should be made a foot ball to en
graft sectarianism on our public
schools. I still believe that cler
gymen should not engage in sec
ular pursuits, but that all their
[time should be devoted to their
masters work, and a christian
people will support them and their
There was not the most distant
allusion io the ADVERTISER, but to
bitter, quarrelling correspondents.
Any one could tell that ''S."
was a young, inexperienced boy
or he would not assert that denom
inational colleges were not, secta
rian. I have never advocated any
bad principle in the papers tb^t
I have written, and in the pur
suit in which I have been engaged
I hope I have doue some good,
and I hOjie "S." will never engage
in anything less honorable. I
have i?i the last twenty years
opeued the budding minds of
many, and the most of these ad
mit they were taught correctly.
The story of "Cock Robin" was
applied to Saluda, and I feel com
plimented that I was her cham
pion. Jack Norris can tell you
all about it-how all of our repre
sentatives except George Turner
yielded to the perfume of cologne
and musk, Even our handsome
doctor fell beneath the seductive
smiles of beautiful woman.
Diogenes was a patriot and
corrected the evils of his day.
Who had not rather be he than
Alexander? I would rather be the
author of his reply, "Stand out of
my suushine!" than possess all of
Alexander's earthly diadems.
I must now bid "S." goodbye.
If at any time he has a subject to
discuss I will enter the lists pro
vided he will argue, not abuse.
I will leave )OU aud that "nigger"
Johnstone to fight it out. ? I am
really sorry the nigger is get'.ing
the best of the white man. Be a
good boy and mend your ways.
A GEORGIA TEACHER
GIVES SOME SUGGESTIONS
TO THOSE WHO ARE TO
MAKE THE NEW
MR. EDITOR: Your able delega
tion to the Constitutional Conven
tion should certainly be a guaran
tee that the general welfare of
Edgefield County and of your
State will be fostered in that con
vention. Yet I do not feel at all
presumptious in offering a few
suggestions for that convention
about some minute details of im
portance to our farming people
that might be overlooked by the
delegation, for I am interested in
your State and am aware that the
most of the delegation move in
railroad, mercantile, and newspa
pers circles, in which predomi
nates the sentiment that the use
of money is to loan and bank on
for the highest rates of interest;
associate with men who would con
tinually ask for outside capital
regardless of the drain created by
the interest to those outsiders,
aud ignore the fact that a boom
on extravagant credit is a curse to
South Carolina has au interest
rule that encourages compound in
terest, which is contrary to reason,
for certainly the Jaws of any State
should exhort her people to be
satisfied with only simple inter
est. I could demonstrate that the
present law has compounded in
many instances where the lender
would have been co?tent with
I simple interest had the law not
have computed for compouud.
Your oflicials in order to avoid
compounding sometimes use the
Vermont rule which does not give
simple interest aB desired. I have
a rule which guarantees simple
linierest every time in all pay
ments, and which no doubt can be
adopted by that convention and
thus enable South Carolina to en
courage simple interest among ber
A bonded state debt is a curse,
to its people, undoubtedly contra
ry to the spirit of a republican
form of government, against the
judgment of wise men of the past,
based upon a false theory und sel
fishness of a shortsighted state
craft after the manner of the ex
treme of corruption, the Radical
All State debts should be wiped
out of existence in twenty or at
most twenty-five years. How to
do this iii your State should be
ono purpose of the convention.
Hero again my new rule for com
puting interest with the principle
.nd, unless a Fertilizer containing a
L Better crops, a better soil, and a
," a 142-page illustrated book. It
farmers. It will be sent free, and
KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York.
involved in tho rule will* he a
helper. Your 44 per cent bonds
can be paid principal and inter
est in 26 years by making a six
per cent payment each year:
Your 5 per cent bonds, in 19-3-7
years by a 1\ per payment each
year. That is," on $1,000,000 bonds
bearing 4$ per cent interest (by
my new rule guaranteeing all the
simple interest and principal) by
making a payment of $60,000,
yearly for 26-2-5 years the whole
debt will be canceled.
Yes, $1,584,000 pays the debt,
whereas calculated and paid by
your present rule it will require
$2,188,000 to settle at the end of
26-2-5 years. Mnke a payment of
$75,000 on one million of 5 per
cent bonds yearly and iu 19-3-7
years the whole debt will be paid
with $1,457,143, instead of $1,971,
430, the present lawful rule re
It is observed in the foregoing
figures thai with 5 per cent bonds
und.-r presen; rule the one million
of debt in twenty years has taxed
the people one million by way of
interest and still the original debt
If we stop and think for a mo
ment we must conclude that no
such authority perpetuating a debt.
thur? upon tax-payers rms ever in
tended in any constitution. No
moral right, no legal right to curse
them thus and hence a fraudulent
assumption, and therefore your
convention of the people has the
reserved right to rid them of the'
curse. I will not at present dis
cuss the rash assertions made re
lative to debt and the authority
for making same by a State, for I
*ay false theor\r, selfishness, etc.,
with a knowledge of their import,
and with some acquaintance with
plausible pleas made for such
tiebts (fee. But let the convention
consider my interest rule.
Give space to this and I would
iike to give Pedagogue and Sem
phronicus, etc., some dots ou the
public school system tor the con
sideration of that same conven
L. P. ELAM.
Leverett, (ia., Aug. 16.
Old Co. "B," 14th S. C. V., Holds
a Reunion.-A Pleasant De
scription of a Very Pleas
MR. EDITOR: The old soldiers of
Compauy B, 14th regiment of
South Carolina, had chosen last
Saturday as the date of their re
union, and Richland Springs as
the appointed place. Having a de
sire to see those faithful old he
roes meet, and not having a very
great expanse of space to overcome,
we went down to be a spectator.
Where is the youth whose bosom
would uot bc overcharged with en
thusiasm, and whose very soul
would not he animated when be
holding the bravest men that ever
shouldered arms greeting one n
other after thirty years of separa
tion? As I saw them shake the
hands that never refused to raise
arms in defense of what they
thought to be their dearest rights.
I felt as though I stood upon con
secrated soil-yes, consecrated by
the blood of those who sleep
peacefully beneath the green of
that land for which they died.
Again, I thought of those old sol
diers' experience-the changes
the vicissitudes of life had wrought
iu the personality of each within
the last thirty years: how often
they must have thought of one an
other; and how their children
must have heard the oft-told sto
ry of their comrades in arms.
Ob, memory! faculty of the
human soul, thou alone can in the
twiukliug of an eye, link the past
with the prespnt and send, thun
dering down the ages, that mes
sage of heroism from ancestry to
posterity-that message, I say,
which is wont to kindle in the
bosom of every youth a burning
love for his race and country.
The company met m the school
house and arranged th? programme
of the day. Hon. W. J. Talbert
was elected orator of the occasion.
Then the company formed in Hue
and marched to the stand, pre
ceeded b}' delightful ' straius of
music produced by the Palmetto
State Brass Band from Summit,
S. C. On reaching Ihe stand
Capt. Wess, who had been elected
chairman, introduced Mr. Tal
bert who came forward and deliv
ered a good speech.
In his speech be commented on
the bravery of our Southern sol
diers, and he said further that
they were never wbipt, but just
concluded to quit killing thc Yan
kees, and came home. Ho also
spoke in warm terms of the en
durance and bravery of our wo
men, and said that if he wished to
find one person more loyal to home
and country than another, he
would look for that one among
the women who stood as living
monuments amid tho heat of four
years of the most severe warfare
that ever devastated a country.
On this point Mr. Talbert sure
ly met the approbation of every
man who hus any conception of
tho virtues of our women. You
might become a wanderer o'er
earth; yea travel o'er mountain
and valiey, hill and dale; mingle
in' the highest society on this
mundane sphere ; plunge into the
revelries of Paris or gaze upon the
picturesque cataracts of the Rhine
ui the search for a nobler Woman
hood ; and when, at la^t, overtak
en by gray hairs, in despair you
could only return like a prodigal
son and he laid in your grave iii
the land of the most 'amiable,
beautiful, and courageous women
on earth ; women, without whom
no meeting is graceful, and no
enterprise successful; women
who sit at the fireside and shape
the destinies of the country; and
women whom we hope never to
see pushing their way into poli
tics, and thereby forfeiting the
grec.t influence for good they now
After Mr. Talbert's speech, eve
rybody went down to the table and
enjoyed a good dinner-cakes and
all kinds of nice things served up
with some of that same good hash
which is characteristic of the ge
nius of Capt. E. B. Forrest. Then
back to the stand, and we hear
from Capt. Waters and Hon. R. B.
Watson; the one on the subject of
warfare, the other on -the great
necessity of general education
both good speeches. Next the old
roll of company B was called,
and about twenty-five were pres
The way in which tbs people
turned out showed their apprecia
t ion of the old heroes in tbe
evening of their lives. I*, is toe
opinion of many that a thousand
people were present.
Before we close, honorable men
tion is due our fellow countryman,
Mr.- Thomas Whittle, in whose
mind the plan of reuuion first
originated,and by whose uutiriug
efforts ii;wa8 brought to a success
And now old heroes, we bid you
adieu. We hope to meet you a
gain and enjoy another happy day
with you, but, if it should be
our fortune never to see you more,
we trust" your last dava will be
your happiest, ?and that the rising
generation will so conduct them
selves as to make you feel proud
of the country for winch you
J. D. DUNOVANT.
Send 4cl8 in stamps to fhe Hay
ner Distilling Co., Springfield,
Ohio. They will send you an ele
gant, leather bound memoranda
BEN THOMPSON COUNTY.
To AU Whom Tt May Conen;/
OTICE is herewith given that, an
application wilt lr: made at the next
sitting of the General Assembly of the
State of booth Carolina for the cst&b
tishment of a new uou.it; to be cut ott*
from Edgetield County, to be known
as - Ben Thompson County, with
the county seat at the town of Thomp
sonville-and having the following
metes&nd bounds :
Beginning at a pine-sapling in the
road between Abe Broadwater's and
Bud DeLoach's the line will run north
east to Harmony church, thence to
Frank Warren's, thence to the Poor
IIouse,leavingthis institution in Edge
field County, thence to Capt. H. B.
Gallman's, thence to Simmon's Ridge
Good Samaritan Baptist church,
thence to Beaver liam, thence down
this creek?to the ford near John Walk
ers, thence back to the Poor House,
crossing tiie old Cambridge road one
hundred chains north of the old well
in the road, near the old Andrew Ram
Chairman for Committee.
. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that,
an application will be made at the
next sitting of the Legislature for es
tablishing a new County, to be known
as Ninety-Six County, with the Coun
ty Seat located in the town of Ninety
Six, out of portions of Abbeville, Edge
field, Newberry, and Laurens Coun
ties as follows : ;
Corners at or near Boyd's Mill on
Saluda river; at or near Whitehall,
Abbeville County; at or near Kirk
seys; at or near Good Hope, Edgetield
County! at or near Vaughville, New
berry County;thence back to or near
Bo^ds Mill, Laurens County.
H. J. KIN ARD, Sec'y.
To AH, Wit om It May ('on cern :
E the undersigned citizens of
Edgetield hereby give notice as re
quired by law, that an effort will be
made before the next session of the
Legislature to obtain Saluda County
with the following metes and bounds
Commencing at double bridge over
Mountain Creek and the Long Cane
road, following the northern line of
Pinegrove townsnip to the bridge over
Half Way Swamp creek on the old
Cambridge and Charleston road,
thence down said stream to where it
emptie? into Saluda river, thence
down Saluda river to corner of Edge
field and Lexington co inties, thence
along the Edgetield and Lexins, on
line to corner of Edgefield and Aiken,
thence along the Edgetield and Aiken
line to the point where the public road
crosses Aiken and Edgelield line near
Lybrands old mill, thence a straight,
line to where the Long Cane .road in
tersects the public road from John
ston to Wards at Jack Lotts, thence
up said Long Cane road to the point
of commencement above mentioned.
S T Edwards, P B Stevens, B L
Caughman, J B Suddath, Zed Crouch,
Noah Crouch, Jos II Edwards, A P
Coleman, Jas P Bean, J 31 Forrest J J
Kirksey, Rev.C P Boozer, W L Cole
man, Geo B Lester, Joe M Long. W L
Crouch, B W Crouch, W F Huiet.
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Ten Regular Courses with Di
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Total necessary expanses for tin1
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Clothing, and Books), from $113
to $153. Women admitted to all
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To KNOW THAT FOR THE SESSION OF
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J. B. Edwards, Secretary Board of
The Edgefield Oil
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reduction in their price of Ginning.
The more Cotton we have to gin, the
less price we can afford to work for;
so bring us your Cotton and have the
work done in good order and at a low
Our charge for Ginning will be 20
cents per ?00 lbs. on all Bales that
weigh 400 lbs. or more; on all Bales
that weigh less than 400 pounds Hie
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TlIE Trustees of the Modoc High
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ma'e or female, for nine months, be
ginning 1st September 1895.
Applicants will please give prices
and terms. Apply to
J. W. BROOKS, Chair.
Modoc, S. C.,
The Fall Session of this School
will open on Monday, the 2nd of
KATES OF TUITION
From $1.00 lo $4.00 per month,
but no charge whatever during the
months of the Public School Term.
L. R. GWALTNEY,
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BRITISH-Asian crime gangs are behind an explosion in an extreme form of organised dog-fighting.
And according to the RSPCA the West Midlands is a national hotspot for the cruel sport where dogs are often fought to the death.
The underground fights take place in inner-city flats and houses with tens of thousands of pounds being gambled on the outcome of a single match.
Losing dogs are often killed and dumped in the canal or abandoned on the roadside.
The authorities say it a growing problem and that they are finding it difficult to penetrate the gangs who are often involved in other violent criminality.
It was in the Alum Rock suburb of Birmingham three years ago that the police and RSPCA first realised the sheer scale of the problem.
Twenty-six men, all of Pakistani origin and aged 18 to 42, were arrested after being found crammed into the back of a kitchen showroom store.
The men had been baying and cheering as two pit bull terriers, Elvis and Bullet, ripped into each other for more than two hours before police arrived.
Both dogs later died from their injuries and one dog was found stuffed into a cupboard along with more than £2,000 in cash.
The fight turned out to be the largest ever uncovered in the UK for more than 130 years and the ringleader Barakat Hussain and six others were receieved custodial sentences for up to six months in October 2007.
The gang included Intikab Hussain, Ummar Ahmad, Zahir Ahmed, Sohail Hussain, Zahoor Hussain and Waqquas Mughal.
Several members appealed, but lost in September 2008.
Last month Hussain was jailed again after police discovered he was still keeping illegal pit bull terriers above a barber’s shop in Winson Green.
The RSPCA had long regarded dog-fighting as the preserve of white working class men attending fights in the countryside.
But since the Alum Rock case subsequent raids across the Midlands have revealed that dog-fighting has become a problem in some sections of the Asian community.
The raids across Alum Rock, Smethwick, Sparkhill, Aston and Edgbaston, led to the seizure of 51 illegal pit bull dogs along with treadmills, veterinary kits and other dog-fighting paraphernalia.
Ian Briggs, chief inspector of the RSPCA’s Special Operations Unit, said dog-fighting is up 400 per cent in the past three years in the UK.
“Out of all the work my unit now does about 98 per cent is related to Asian gangs,” he said.
Mr Briggs said he believes there is a dog fight nearly every week from a small fight in the park to the bigger organised events such as that uncovered at Alum Rock.
“Information about one fight we uncover leads to another but certainly we are scratching the surface.”
What has also surprised RSPCA officials is the attention to detail that accompanies the fights.
Officers have uncovered detailed training logs which would not be out of place in a professional athlete’s routine.
One log recovered from Hussain after his arrest listed a nine-week plan including putting the dog on a treadmill for 30 minutes, three times a day and listing what drugs should be administered and the diet regime.
A youth worker from Handsworth said the goal is to create a perfect specimen.
“They’re looking for a more exotic dog, more jaw pressure, one which has got more stamina, the drive just to kill, that’s what they are looking for, them characteristics people will pay money for. That’s where the money’s at,” he said.
Yet it would be wrong to think this is a completely covert world.
Young men openly parade their illegal pit bull terriers saying how police cannot tell the difference – while the police with stretched resources can only play a limited role in tackling the problem.
Meanwhile there is evidence that young British Asians are having an impact on dog fighting back in Pakistan.
Basharat Najib, a youth worker in Birmingham, said that a sizeable number of spectators make the trip from the UK with some even owning the fighting dogs and paying money to locals to look after them.
He said: “I think British Asians are big players because of the financial attachments that they can bring from here.”
Mr Najib told how video footage of the fights in Pakistan, which attract thousands of spectators, are immediately sent back to the UK for sale.
The Sunday Mercury found video tapes of dog-fights in Pakistan for sale at a shop in Bordesley Green, Birmingham.
An undercover reporter bought a three hour DVD on sale for £7 which showed a fight that took place in the village of Chakwal in Punjab, Pakistan, earlier this year.
The shop assistant said it was a popular match because it had been attended by hundreds of Brits, many who had made the journey especially to watch the fight.
Mr Najib said: “Dog-fighting is an old tradition in parts of Pakistan and the kids here see it going on when they go to visit there.
“They know their fathers, uncles, cousins were brought up around this kind of activity and so are probably influenced into thinking it is OK to do it here.”
A spokesman for Birmingham Trading Standards said the tapes had been seized and the owner cautioned for not having sought classification for the films.
He said: “Because the dog fights take place in a foreign country there is not much we can do about the content.
“But the films have not been classified and given a rating so we seized them from the owner and cautioned him.”
Mike Butcher, of the RSPCA’s Special Operations Unit, said: “The West Midlands region is an area where we are getting a lot of intelligence about organised dog-fights in the Asian community.
“It may be influenced by what happens in Pakistan but even the fights there appear to have some rules and the dogs are relatively unhurt.
“The picture is different here in the UK though. Some of the most serious injuries I have seen have been from fights run by young British Pakistanis.
“You get whole faces ripped off, bottom jaws missing and limbs literally hanging off.
“The organisers don’t appear to enforce the rules as strictly as the old school western fighters we are used to dealing with.
“It’s more of a bit of a free for all with dogs being mismatched and little or no medical care available.”
The RSPCA says it is keen on tackling this problem in the British Pakistani community but is finding it hard to get intelligence the gangs.
And while the majority of the community find the fights abhorrent, there is among others, as one Asian youth worker explained, certain apathy.
“People say ‘the dog wants to fight’ and I don’t believe that at all because it’s the human being that’s taking the dog to fight. They haven’t got a choice about being in that ring,” he said.
“It’s the same as drugs – it’s always going to happen. It’s the same as prostitution, it will always happen. It’s one of those things where it’s being abused to bad limits behind closed doors and people need to know about it because it does happen.”
* RSPCA HOTLINE 0300 1234 999
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EARLY HERNANDO COUNTY HISTORY
Negroes Tried To “Take” Brooksville 70 Years AgoThis article appeared in the Tampa Tribune on July 3, 1955. It was contributed by Judge E. C. May of Inverness. May refers to John W. Davis of Lecanto as a source. The event actually occurred in 1882.
By JUDGE E. C. MAY
About 1885 an uprising of Negroes tried to take Brooksville. Of course they should have known better, for Brooksville was a hard place to take in those days. I heard the story many times when I first came to Citrus County, but in a talk with John Davis recently I was brought up to date on the details. Mr. Davis tells it substantially as follows:
Three young Negroes named Turner were born, slaves, belonging to a man named Edrington. They were babies when slavery was abolished, and so far as was known there was no resentment against their former master. They were just naturally bad.
Came a time when Jim Turner was summoned to work the road. At that time the only roads were trails through the woods, and every man was required to give three days work annually to keep them in good shape. The road overseer could permit you to hire a substitute if he wished, but if he required it, one must work the roads personally, and there was no appeal from his decision.
Jim Turner refused to work the road, which was a misdemeanor, and he was brought before the court and fined. He announced that he would not work the road nor pay the fine, and he would kill any man who tried to collect.
Many meetings of Negroes took place in the hammock near-by, at which Jim Turner held forth, and the Negroes were thoroughly aroused. It was decided that on a certain day they would attack Brooksville and take it. So far as was known, they had no plans after that, but on the appointed day they tried.
An old Negro preacher learned of the plot and that one of his sons was to be in the “army.” He talked to the boy and ordered him to stay away from Brooksville, especially on that day, and when he would not promise the preacher went to the Law family, who were his former masters, and in whom he had implicit confidence. He told of the plot and of his son's refusal to obey him.
On the appointed day a large number of Negro men and boys gathered at the trysting place in the hammock, and in the middle of the morning they advanced on the town. The officers and a large number of citizens were prepared. One of the Turners had a loaded shotgun, which he was told he could not carry in the street, and he left it in a saloon.
Jim Turner and one of his brothers went into the court house and when ordered to pay his fine Jim fired his pistol at the crowd. A rifle spoke from one corner of the hall and Jim Turner fell dead.
His brother walked to him and seeing that he was dead tried to escape by the door, but finding it blocked he ran to a window, but a rifle bullet knocked him through to the ground, dead.
The last brother started walking toward the saloon where he had left his gun. Rifle and pistol bullets knocked the dust from his clothes but he kept going. As he mounted the step of the saloon someone shot his face off with his own gun.
When the “army” of Negroes saw what had happened and that all their leaders were dead, they stampeded down the road like a bunch of cattle. Officers and citizens began firing into the crowd and many were wounded, but there were no more deaths. So ended the plan to “take Brooksville.”
The preacher's boy got a bullet in his arm, which stuck there. When he got home he asked his father for a doctor, but was told that he would get no doctor. His mother would dress the wound until it got well, but he must keep the bullet as a souvenir and as a reminder that “when the old man tells you to stay away from a place for your own good, you will remember to stay away.”
The old preacher went to his reward not many years afterward, but the boy grew into middle life, still carrying the bullet souvenir. Tom Allen, a deputy sheriff, killed him in Crystal River about 1915.
Gaiety and AnguishBy D. B. McKAY
Of another woman's tragedy during the war, a blue English china platter is the only relic surviving to this day.
Henry Van Patten, descendant of an old Hernando County family, and well known himself in Hillsborough County, as deputy sheriff and jailer, related this tragic story:
In the early days of the last century his great-grandmother, Mrs. Frances Pyles [see note below], set out on a trip from Brooksville to Hancock Lake, to visit a branch of the family. She traveled in a small buggy, in the back of which was loaded a small trunk, full of gifts for the relatives, as well as her extra clothing and some jewelry. Among the gifts was a set of blue English china, the solve surviving platter of which is now a treasured heirloom in the home of Henry and his wife Martha.
Riding in the buggy with Mrs. Pyles was a young grandson [see note below]. They were escorted by several men on horseback and a few dogs. All went well, and the party was inclined to scoff at the idea of danger, since no signs of Indians had been seen in that vicinity for some time. So, when the dogs picked up a scent and gave chase, the men followed them into the woods, gaily assuring Mrs. Pyles they would soon add a fine venison to her other gifts.
Scarcely were they out of earshot, when the dread war-whoop sounded and the buggy was surrounded by Indians. Mrs. Pyles was badly wounded by a shot through the shoulder. The Indians saw the trunk, and breaking it open, scrambled for its contents. In the ensuing confusion, the young grandson escaped and went after the men of the escort. Their return caused the Indians to vanish, and the men found Mrs. Pyles tied to a tree where the Indians were evidently intending to burn her. She had been stripped to the waist and the upper part of her body was stuck full of fat-pine splinters. Tenderly releasing her, and salvaging what the Indians had discarded, among other items, the blue platter, they returned to Brooksville. Mrs. Pyles soon expired from the wounds in her shoulder.
Some time later, several Indians came into Brooksville. Some of the people recognized pieces of jewelry they were wearing, as having belonged to Mrs. Pyles. This being taken as prima facie evidence that they had taken part in the attack on Mrs. Pyles, the Indians were quickly apprehended and summarily hanged.
It was said that Mr. Pyles had long traded with the Indians and that they had considered him their friend. When the tribe learned that it was his wife who had been murdered this caused much internal strife among the Indians.
Note: The writer of the above article is D. B. McKay, a Tampa newspaperman who wrote of his ancestor Capt. McKay and other early figures. The subject of this story is in fact the great-grandmother of the person McKay interviewed, although she is actually Charlotte Wynn Piles Crum, the mother of Frances Sophia Pyles, wife of David Hope. Riding with her was not her grandson but her granddaughter, Mary Catherine Harn. These errors caused Charity Hope to believe that her mother was the one killed on Sept. 12, 1842. Information from Charles Blankenship.
The Varnada Hotel Becomes Popular Venue With LocalsThe following article appeared in Hernando Today on Oct. 6, 1999.
BROOKSVILLE—The Varnada Hotel in Brooksville was built about 1900 by L. B. Varn and considered a very fine hotel during its time.
It was a popular meeting place for social and business occasions.
It was located on East Jefferson Street in the same block that the SunTrust Bank is now located.
Varn owned and operated the hotel that had three floors and 30 rooms. The hotel had running water but did not have a bath for each room. Instead, there were two or three bathrooms on each floor. The hotel maintained a dining room and many local people ate Sunday dinner there.
In 1907, the Tampa Northern Railway came into Brooksville and at a later date, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The railroads brought many people into town who stayed at the hotel when they were in the area. In addition, traveling salesmen, or “drummers” as they were known then, stayed at the hotel.
The Varnada was also host to many winter tourists, ordinary travelers, and prospective settlers.
The late Jean Truett, a member of a wealthy family, lived at the Varnada part of the time. At times, she played the piano.
The hotel burned on Sunday April 28, 1918.
L. B. Varn also had a home in Bayport and built a telephone line from Bayport to Tooke Lake. Varn also established one of the first dairies in the county, introducing an improved milk stock. He owned 25 acres of orange grove and built at least 40 houses in Brooksville, owned a garage, the ice plant and a cannery. He came to Hernando County as a man of “modest circumstances” and through hard work built a considerable life for himself and his family.
Slaves Were Used To Pay Debts When Master DiedThe following article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on Jan. 29, 2007.
By ROGER LANDERS
Down in de cornfield
Hear dat mournful sound:
All de darkeys am a-weeping,
Massa's in de cold, cold ground
Some will recognize the chorus from the Stephen Foster 1852 tune Massa's in de Cold Ground. The song, written for minstrel shows, romanticizes the "peculiar institution" of slavery in the South.
Many of my generation and older will remember Foster's songs and their depiction of slavery: a paternalistic slave master, beloved by his "children" and grief-stricken when he died.
The slaves were grief-stricken, but not for the reason that many of us were led to believe.
The reality was that when a slave owner died, his slaves were "valued" and often sold to pay his "just debts." This frequently meant that families were separated, children taken from parents and older slaves from caregivers.
For example, when Sterling McCarthy of Hernando County died in 1861, his will specified that his 17 slaves were to be "valued" for the benefit of his seven children.
February is Black History Month, and it is a good time to explore and share these stories of early African-Americans in Hernando County.
Antebellum Hernando represented the southern tip of the plantation belt of Florida. The rich, fertile lands of the area gave way to the open spaces of South Florida. As settlers came into the county, they found American Indian fields and pastures ripe for rapid planting. The first settlers in 1842 brought 59 slaves.
In 1850, there were many slaves working the farms and plantations in the county. The area boasted "fine plantations" with the taxable land valued at $540,000 and slaves valued at $480,000.
By 1860, there were 42 slave owners in the county. Most were small farmers who held fewer than 10 slaves. However, there were 16 farmers, known as planters, with as many as 20 to 45 slaves.
Two large planters, John May of Brooksville and David L. Yulee of Homosassa, held more than 50 slaves each. Collectively, these farmers and planters constituted a planter aristocracy in Hernando.
Few realize that free black people lived in Florida. But they were small in number - fewer than 1,000 - and most lived in larger towns such as Jacksonville, Key West, St. Augustine and Pensacola. Free black people had, in reality, fewer "rights" than their enslaved brethren.
The white population, fearing a slave insurrection led by "free men of color," passed stringent laws limiting the freedoms of such men.
With the exception of free black property owners during Spanish and British rule, a free black man could not own property or travel within the state without a pass. All free men were required to have a "sponsor," or guardian.
Hernando County had one such man, Mills Holloman. Holloman, a mulatto, was born in Virginia about 1796 and lived in Florida before 1838. He applied for a land grant in Hernando County on Dec. 14, 1842.
His application was denied Jan. 23, 1843, because of his color, according to records.
He and his wife, Anna, lived and farmed near the Cedar Tree post office in the southern part of the county. Nathanial H. Moody, who served as Hernando sheriff from 1851 to 1853, was his longtime friend, neighbor and guardian.
The records of the time, scant as they are, do mention many other individuals by name. For example, the minutes of Union Baptist Church - First Baptist of Brooksville - list several slaves who joined the church or engaged in some activity that required special mention on record.
Several of these former Union Baptist slave members became ministers in their own right.
Deeds, journals and news articles provide other names.
The earliest is that of free mulatto Juan Bautista Collins of St. Augustine. In 1808, Collins traveled through Central Florida and at Chocachatti purchased 18 head of cattle from a black Seminole woman named Molly.
The storm of June 1856 almost ruined the agricultural pursuits of the county. "Cultivated lands of Hernando County (were) covered with 12 to 15 inches of sand," the Florida Peninsular newspaper reported.
By 1860, the region had regained its agricultural prominence; there were 1,200 white inhabitants and 855 slaves in the county.
Most of the slaves were born in Florida, South Carolina or Alabama.
There was one stark exception. A former slave named March (no last name), born in 1795, reported his place of birth as Africa in the 1870 census. He lived next to the Delane, Going, Wilder and Duncan families.
During the Civil War, several Hillsborough families sought refuge in Hernando. One such refugee was William Hooker. Relocating his family and 55 slaves to old Spring Hill, he became the fifth-largest planter in the county.
The Union raid on Hernando in summer 1864 ravaged the plantations of Hooker, Leroy Lesley, David Hope, John T. Lesley, William C. Ellis and Aaron T. Frierson.
Some of the slaves took advantage of the chaos and slipped away to the safety of Union territory or to that of friendly Seminoles.
Perhaps one of those "runaways" was Hampton St. Clair, a slave of the May family, known to have lived for some time with the Seminoles. Both Hampton and his brother, Arthur, later became prominent leaders in the African-American community of postwar Hernando.
In 1866, the Rev. James M. Breaker accepted the call of black members of Union Baptist Church to form a separate congregation. Shortly thereafter, Bethlehem Baptist Church was organized.
After the war, from 1865 to 1880, many of the former slaves and their families left the area.
Several moved to Marion County, like Tony May and his wife and son.
Often these men and their descendants rose to prominence in their new communities.
Holloman and some of Sarah Howell's former slaves organized the community of Bealsville in eastern Hillsborough in 1865.
Holloman lived from time to time in Hillsborough and Hernando. He homesteaded in the Seffner area, became a citrus grower and served two terms as a county commissioner in Hillsborough.
His son, Adam, replaced him on the commission in 1872. His son-in-law, Levin Armwood, became Tampa's first black police officer.
While early African-American records are limited because of the destruction of the old Hernando courthouse in September 1877, some records do exist.
Black History Month reminds us of the need to not let this important heritage slip away.
From Early Days, Lawyers Have LedThe following article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on April 30, 2007.
By ROGER LANDERS
Several years ago, members of the Old Hernando History Roundtable had the pleasure of hearing Joseph E. Johnston Jr. speak of old times in the Hernando legal profession. Joe was the first full-time lawyer in town.
Sure, there have been many lawyers before him, but he was the first to earn a living solely from the practice of law.
The story of those early lawyers starts when the first attorney in the county, Byrd M. Pearson, began his practice. Born in Union District, S.C., in 1803, he arrived locally by 1845 and purchased a large tract of land at the top of a hill now known as Chinsegut Hill. He sold the plantation to Francis Edrington in May 1851 and moved to Jacksonville. Later Pearson became a justice on the Florida Supreme Court.
Another early attorney was Perry Green Wall. Arriving in the early 1845, he farmed and practiced law. Wall served as county judge from 1848 to 1864. His son, Joseph Wall, followed into the legal profession, as have three succeeding generations.
Theodore S. Coogler is one of the better-known early lawyers. Coogler, of South Carolina, taught school in the late 1850s for the Lykes family. After two terms of school, he returned to South Carolina. He came back to Hernando after the Civil War and began the practice of law. He also was a merchant, citrus grower and the first superintendent of public schools.
The early attorneys had a significant impact on the county. Often referred to as "colonel, " they commanded respect and served in roles of leadership.
In 1873, the young attorney Charles E. Harrison arrived in Brooksville. At that time, only one other attorney, W.J. Barnett, practiced locally.
In his first case, Harrison defended a local farmer on allegations of breach of contract. To the trial went Harrison, armed with his text, Parsons on Contracts. Before Justice of the Peace Rubin Wilson, he successfully defended his client. The losing party immediately attacked Harrison's client. Justice Wilson came from behind the bench and declared: "Harrison, you hold back that side. They had a fair trial and by God they can have a fair fight."
By 1889, Elliott's Florida Encyclopedia reports that Brooksville boasted 11 attorneys; Barnett, O.C. Butterwick, Coogler, W.S. Jennings, T.P Floyd, G.C. Martin, T. Palman, J.C. Phillips, J.C. Preston, G.V. Ramsey and T.M. Shackelford, who later served as a justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1902 to 1917.
One of the more colorful attorneys of this period was George C. Martin. In 1906, Harry A. Peeples, a Tampa municipal judge, penned a memoir of his early experiences in Hernando, and he chronicled several stories about Martin.
In one he writes: "On my way to Tampa, I stopped in Brooksville and spent the night. The next morning there was some excitement near the courthouse ... Colonel George C. Martin, the famous Hernando lawyer, was to argue a 'pint of law' and old man Tuck told me that George Martin was the best expectorator before a judge in the whole State of Florida." So Peeples decided to stay for the trial.
At trial, the issue was fraud, and the defendant, known to be a rough character, usually carried a weapon. Martin, knowing the defendant's reputation, placed a pistol in his hip pocket before entering the courthouse.
As Martin rose from his chair, the pistol caught on the back of the chair and flipped onto the floor near the judge's bench. It was a spectacle watching Martin as he tried to pick up the pistol without the judge seeing him. At one point, Martin almost knelt down with a finger raised in the air as he was making his "pint of law" and retrieved his errant property.
In 1895, Francis B. Coogler became the second member of the Coogler family to enter the legal profession. Three later generations of this family also became attorneys.
In 1899, there were three members of the Florida Bar Association in Hernando County: George C. Martin, William Sherman Jennings and Francis B. Coogler.
Just after the turn of the 20th century, Fred Lykes Stringer returned to Brooksville to practice law. In 1927, he became a circuit judge.
The 1920s and '30s saw some new blood come to town. Herbert Smithson became the attorney for the city of Brooksville. He was murdered in 1930. W. Clyde Lockhart opened a practice in Brooksville, as did the Whitehurst brothers - James, John, Leon and Onan.
In 1931, Edward S. McKenzie of Leesburg moved with his wife, Romie Daniel, to her home county.
Marion L. Dawson, after three terms in the Florida Legislature, relocated to Brooksville and began his practice in 1934.
Following World War II, Joseph E. Johnston graduated from law school and returned to Brooksville. Until that time, Brooksville lawyers supplemented their livelihood with income from such endeavors as real estate, ranching, citrus and farming. Determined to make the practice of law his full-time vocation, the young Johnston opened his law office in 1947.
In 1952, Johnston placed a bid to become School Board attorney. His uncle, Alvin Coogler Sr. the board's attorney at the time, remarked to the School Board: "Give the boy the job before his family starves to death."
So began a new era in the full-time practice of law in Hernando County.
In the early 1950s, Richard McGee returned home to practice. Shortly after McGee's return, Frank McClung joined the local ranks of attorneys. By 1962, Joseph Young moved to Brooksville from Clearwater and established his practice, and Hernando boasted about a half dozen attorneys.
As each successive generation of lawyers returned home and with the rapid growth of the county in the mid 1970s, the attractiveness of Hernando became apparent. New partnerships and alliances formed and dissolved. Some of the lawyers elected a career in public service.
Some never returned, yet have left their marks in professional circles, including Florida Attorney General William McCollum and Lynn Thompson, a public defender assigned to the Ted Bundy defense team.
Some have blazed trails, including Brooksville's Hazel M. Land, the first African-American female to graduate from the University of Florida Law School. Linda J. Treiman graduated from law school in 1976 and soon became Brooksville's first female lawyer.
The career of Joseph E. Johnston served as a benchmark in the development of the Hernando Bar. When no assistant state attorney was assigned to Hernando, Johnston stepped in to serve. He insisted on the maintenance of an up-to-date law library and adequate court facilities for the county.
As sons joined their fathers, brothers joined brothers, and daughters followed fathers into the profession, new attorneys began practice and others retired. This year, the Florida Bar reports 156 attorneys now reside in Hernando County.
1877 Burning of Courthouse Symbolizes Period of LawlessnessThis article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on June 25, 2007.
By ROGER LANDERS
The lack of detail concerning the 1877 courthouse fire in my column last month about Hernando courthouse history caused a little heat, you might say. So, here is the rest of the story. It's quite a tale.
Built of old-growth heart pine, dried for 20 years, with fresh sawdust on the floors to absorb tobacco juice and such, the courthouse built in 1858 was a tinderbox.
When townspeople discovered the fire at 1 a.m. Sept. 29, 1877, the building was fully involved.
All county records and recorded documents burned. Only the account book of the School Board survived. John J. Hale, the board's treasurer, had the book at home in preparation for the School Board meeting planned the morning of the 29th.
This black spot in our county's history was part of a series of events that spanned a tumultuous 15 years.
The story begins in 1859. Arthur St. Clair, a slave of Mrs. Marina Sanderson May, joined Union Baptist Church, a white church.
After the Civil War, St. Clair became a prominent figure in the Reconstruction politics of Hernando County. He served as a voter registrar, deputy sheriff, county commissioner, captain in the state militia, delegate to the 1876 Republican state convention and three-time Republican nominee for the state House.
Though unsuccessful in elected politics, St. Clair, a Baptist minister, was a leader in the community during the often confusing and changing rules, roles and social relationships of Reconstruction.
During this period, Hernando, at the southern tip of the Florida plantation region, became a place of notoriety. Capt. Walter Terry Saxon, a 30-year-old Confederate veteran and post-war legislator, organized the local Ku Klux Klan.
The klan was responsible for many violent acts, including the July 1868 murder of Marcus Brent, a federal tax agent, and the attempted murder on June 6, 1870, of Hernando County Judge Henry Roundtree.
In 1876, Florida rejoined the Union, and military occupation ended. Republican control of state politics ended with the election of Democrat George Drew as governor.
Florida and other Southern states entered a period of redemption. The systemic retaking of control from the radical Republican leadership was evident everywhere.
In Hernando, old-line Democrats regained local offices.
On Sunday, May 6, St. Clair performed the marriage of a mixed-race couple in Brooksville -- David James, who was black, and Lizzy Day, who was white. The marriage led to a public outcry.
The following evening, the couple was visited by several prominent residents: Frank Saxon, James Rhodes, County Judge William Center and R.M. McIntosh. Their purpose was to advise the newlyweds of the possibility of danger. A firearm was discharged, resulting in a gunfight that left a number of men wounded, including James.
The judge, Center, visited the couple again the next day, and assured them that the visit of the previous evening had been strictly out of concern for their safety. Center also told them that they would be safe until James' wounds healed and they could leave town. They moved to Tampa.
In June 1877, St. Clair began a fourth attempt to run for the Legislature. Having failed previously, St. Clair had been a pawn in the Republican effort to unseat Samuel Hope, who was alleged to have committed fraud in the previous election.
On the night of June 26, St. Clair and Mary Turner, both of Brooksville, were returning from a political meeting at Fort Dade (Dade City), when a group of 20 men intercepted them near Robertson Pond, about 12 miles from Brooksville. Mary Turner escaped in the confusion when St. Clair was shot.
Several men living in the area rushed to offer St. Clair assistance. Henry Lloyd was shot, and John O'Neil escaped by jumping into a pond.
After the incident, a coroner's inquest determined that "parties unknown" killed St. Clair and Lloyd. Although Turner and others testified, no evidence was offered to hold anyone responsible.
On July 7, the slayings of St. Clair and Lloyd were condemned during a community meeting.
Newspapers across the state reported the violence and urged the County Commission to offer a substantial reward for information concerning the killings.
On July 25, the Ocala Banner reported that a black man had passed through Ocala on his way to Tallahassee. He carried with him sworn statements and other evidence for the governor regarding the murder of St. Clair, the paper said.
Throughout July, August and September, newspapers in Jacksonville, Savannah, Tallahassee, Ocala and Tampa rehashed the events of May and June in Hernando.
On Monday evening, Aug. 13, Mary Turner confided to the Key West Dispatch that she could identify the killer of St. Clair and his associate. She had not done so at the inquest because most of the perpetrators were members of the coroner's jury, she said.
Area newspapers implored residents of Hernando to step up and have the grand jury demand justice.
Weeks later, the fire broke out at the courthouse, and all records were lost. The heroic efforts of some residents saved J.J. Hale's nearby store from the blaze.
The Sunland Tribune in Tampa reported that a white man was responsible for the fire. "The object of the incendiary was to prevent the Fall Term of the Grand Jury," the paper said. Among other things, the fire destroyed the voter registration list used to select a jury.
The area papers were full of commentary and editorials. Dr. J.H. Wallace of Fort Dade called for the people of southern Hernando County to distance themselves from those in Brooksville.
Thomas S. Winn of Crystal River deplored the violence but stopped short of calling for a division of the county, saying: "United we stand, divided we fall."
The County Commission offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the individual responsible for the fire.
Over the next two years, a series of events prevented the grand jury of Hernando from meeting. The illness of a judge and the murder of Sheriff David L. Hedick raised serious questions about the state of affairs in Hernando.
In the early morning hours of May 6, 1879, Christopher Keathley and William S. Hancock foiled a second effort to destroy the records of the county. They discovered a fire set atop the sheriff's desk in the rented building used while the new courthouse was constructed.
The commission offered a second reward for conviction of the perpetrators responsible for that offense.
Finally, in June 1879, the grand jury met and went on the record deploring the state of affairs in Hernando. Jurors lamented the "list of morality and the war against dignity" and the "two score (40 murders) in the last 14 years -- 11 ... in the last two years." Many went unsolved, including the slayings of James M. Rhodes, a former school superintendent, and Center, the county judge.
In the case of Center, he had planned to collect the reward for information about the 1877 courthouse burning. Having received a tip of what was to come, the Savannah Morning News reported his murder the day the shooting occurred.
The record of violence in Hernando over a protracted period was unprecedented in Florida.
The fire on the morning of Sept., 29, 1877, at Brooksville was a link in the chain that's had a lasting impact on the community, felt well into the 20th century.
No Matter Name, County Guard Has Proud HistoryThe following article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on Sept. 10, 2007.
By ROGER LANDERS
As a community, we are proud of our National Guard unit at the airport. Few realize that the predecessors to the guard in Hernando date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Florida Constitution of 1868 established the state militia. After Florida's return to the Union after the Civil War, the 1868 militia bill authorized the guard, known then as the state militia and later as the Florida State Troops. The national Militia Act of 1792 required male citizens of military age 18 to 45 to serve in state militias.
The primary function of the militias was to provide for public safety and to guard against domestic violence.
During Reconstruction, the state militia was composed of men from all races. However, many white men refused to serve in a racially mixed militia. Consequently, the state Legislature provided for voluntary segregated units and Florida had two state militias -- the enrolled and the volunteers.
Men of military age in Hernando County totaled 443 (314 white and 129 black). By size, Hernando County ranked 15th of the 39 Florida counties.
Funds, when allocated by the Legislature, usually went to the voluntary militias. The equipment provided for the state troops between 1870 and 1876 was minimal at best. Statewide, only 1,500 firearms were available. All but 200 weapons were outdated Civil War-era rifles
In 1870, John Varnum, Florida adjutant general, placed an ad in state newspapers calling for volunteer companies. He all but ignored the enrolled militia available to him.
Men from Hernando County were part of the enrolled Third Brigade, along with men from Hamilton, Suwanee, Columbia, Baker, Levy, Hillsborough, Polk and Marion counties. The brigade was under the command of Joshua T. Walls. The governor appointed Arthur St. Clair as captain and Joe Mills as 1st lieutenant, both of whom were black.
When Reconstruction ended in 1876, the new adjutant general of Florida, John J. Dickenson, a former Confederate colonel, called for the reorganization and equipping of volunteers
By 1878, there were 19 volunteer companies in the state, and the following year there were 45.
In 1883, Hernando County received permission to organize a volunteer guard company, known as Dickenson Cavalry. Over the next 20 years, the Hernando guards reorganized several times - in 1887 as the Hill City Guards and in 1902 as Company M of the 2nd Regiment of State Troops.
In 1883, Fred L. Robertson of Brooksville, a newspaper editor, received an appointment as aide-de-camp to Gov. William D. Bloxham. Robertson held the rank of colonel in the militia. At that time statewide, there were 47 volunteer companies.
In 1887, state troops reorganized into an all-volunteer militia with 10 companies of infantry and two companies of artillery.
Maps of Brooksville from 1890 show the local armory was on Jefferson Street, across from the courthouse. Later, in 1917, it was on Howell Avenue, across from the current library.
In early 1906, Hernando men became a platoon of Company B, with headquarters in Marion County. The platoon was under the command of 1st Lt. Forrest A. Burns.
In June 1906, Gov. Napoleon B. Broward ordered the Hernando platoon to active duty.
In Inverness, Jim Davis, a black man, had killed Robert Russell, a white man, after a dispute. Fearing the lynching of Davis, the Hernando guardsmen were called to assist the Citrus sheriff and maintain order.
Burns received a telegram at 6:50 p.m. June 6. He was ordered by Adjutant Gen. E.G. Foster to assemble the platoon, draw two days of rations and 20 rounds of ammunition for each man, and proceed immediately to Citrus by train.
A telegram sent to Citrus County Sheriff George R. Carter said to "expect troops to arrive at 11:50 (p.m.)" at the county jail.
At that time, there was no direct train from Brooksville.
A special train scheduled for the troops was delayed at the Croom switching station, in eastern Hernando. Then, at 12:25 a.m., an express train passed the junction.
Upon arrival in Citrus later that morning, the Hernando men were informed that Davis had been taken from the jail by a mob at 9 p.m. the previous evening and hanged. The dejected detachment returned to Hernando.
Burns reported his disappointment by telegram to the governor. In his formal report, he stated that the delay of the train seemed planned.
Broward suspended Carter because he had not properly protected his prisoner. Two years later, after a lengthy hearing, the Legislature reinstated Carter.
The Hernando platoon disbanded in February 1908, only to reorganize in 1913. The new company took up residence in the basement of the new courthouse.
Disbanded again in 1916 and later restructured as a machine gun company in 1920 with World War I veteran Jay H. Henning as captain, the company converted to a military police company in early 1924.
The end of the local guard came in June 1924, when the unit was not federally recognized and disbanded.
Roger Landers is retired from the Hernando County School District, where for nearly 33 years he was a teacher, principal and district administrator. He is the historian for the county's Heritage Museum, historical adviser to the new Hernando County Historical Advisory Commission and a member of the Florida Historical Society. He can be reached at [email protected].
Hernando History: War Led to Area’s Settling in 1842This article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on March 23, 2008.
By ROGER LANDERS
Our settlers arrived 166 years ago in the territory that would become Hernando County. Not a long time by some standards, but so begins our recent history.
The Second Seminole War raged from 1835, and many in government, tired of a never-ending conflict, believed that the only way to end hostilities was armed occupation.
The conflict began because of the Seminoles' refusal to relocate from west-central Florida to "lands west of the Mississippi," as agreed in the Agreement of Payne's Landing (1832). The treaty ending the First Seminole War had been signed by only seven chiefs, but the Seminoles had agreed to reside in the 4-million acres of Central Florida south of the Withlacoochee River and north of Peace River.
After five years of war, the issue of Indian removal remained unsettled. Many in Congress considered the war a "Negro war" — a war intended to reclaim the former slaves of the South who had escaped and integrated into the Seminole culture. Add to this a national depression in 1837, and the cost of this war made it almost impossible to continue.
In January 1839, Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of South Carolina proposed a bill for the armed occupation and settlement of the part of the Florida Territory inhabited by the Seminoles. The bill passed the Senate but failed in the House of Representatives. Benton gave notice that he intended to reintroduce the bill in the next session of Congress, only to see it fail again. The bill finally passed both houses in August 1842. President John Tyler signed into law the Armed Occupation Act.
Meanwhile, Col. William Jenkins Worth, commander of military affairs in Florida, began to push for the resettlement of those "unfortunate settlers" who lost their plantations to the Seminoles during the early years of the war. Worth, through liberal interpretation of his authority to resettle lands lost, offered military protection, free land and subsistence for one year to new settlements.
Settlements near Fanning Springs, Fort White and Natural Bridge, in the vicinity of Suwannee River, were re-established. Soon, new groups of settlers offered to move onto the land previously controlled by the Seminoles south of the Withlacoochee.
The St. Augustine News reported the Feb. 21, 1842, settlement, saying, "They come with a plow in one hand and a rifle in the other" and were the first settlers south of the Withlacoochee River since the outbreak of hostilities with the Seminoles in 1835.
The party of 159 settlers, led by John Curey, consisted of 101 men, women and children and 58 slaves. There were 31 families, including two headed by women, Delia B. Gibbons and Elisabeth Stanley.
Curey, in his first report to the Office of the U.S. Adjutant General, stated that the party selected the old fields of Seminole leader Tiger Tail at Chocochattee Town, on the southeast side of what is now Brooksville. The fields were selected for the ease of "cultivation this season." The U.S. troops who accompanied the settlers built a blockhouse nearby for protection.
Most of the women and children did not come with the men to Chocochattee immediately, but remained near the river while houses could be "thrown up." Food and supplies came from Fort Cross, 6 miles to the west, but would later come from Fort Brooke at Tampa.
Seven years earlier, in 1835, Seminole Chief Sinaha, leader of the band at Chocochattee, had agreed to relocate and move to Fort Brooke. That ended the Seminole occupation of the hammock and savannah lands at Chocochattee.
According to Horatio S. Dexter, who visited the area in 1823, Chocochattee was the seat of the Seminole Nation for more than 70 years. At the time of his report, Chocochattee Town consisted of about 20 homes. The chief owned three slaves, 160 head of cattle, 90 horses and a "gang of hogs."
Dexter described the Chocochattee area as a 180-acre savannah with a surrounding hammock of about 380 acres containing two cleared fields. The width of the hammock varied from a half-mile to 5 miles. The rich soil that year had produced a surplus of corn, "unusual for Indians."
He further noted that 3 miles west of Chocochattee was the beginning of the "big hammock" — Annuttaliga — which was about 30 miles in circumference and 7 miles deep. This hammock was of such rich soil that it could support a population of 50,000 settlers.
After Sinaha's band departed, the old fields of Chocochattee became the farm plots of Tiger Tail. Tiger Tail's band used the area until the military made it of little use to the Seminoles. The bands of Tiger Tail, Wild Cat and other Seminoles who chose to remain in the hammock lands did not accept the move to "west of the Mississippi."
The only Seminole associated with Chocochattee when the settlers arrived was Tiger Tail, hence the name "Tiger Tail's old fields." Four such fields were identified on surveys from 1843 to 1847.
The white settlers found these fields of great help as they established their settlement. Within a year, the number of families increased to 69. John Curey reported that the settlers established their principal settlement near Chocochattee and another settlement at Annuttaliga.
The settlement named DeSoto was located on high ground northeast of what is now the intersection of U.S. 41 and Croom Road. Later, the grassy savannah surrounding the area was known as the DeSoto Prairie.
In a March 1, 1842, letter to the military district commander at Tampa Bay, Lt. Col. Garland stated that he was comfortable with the two block houses and about 40 men able to carry arms, and did not favor placing two companies of U.S. troops at Fort Cross, 6 miles west of the Chocochattee settlement.
Although, arms, ammunition and some supplies were provided to the settlers, life was not easy in the new settlements. Indian attacks continued.
In December 1842, the settlers in Chocochattee, Annuttaliga and Homosassa, not knowing of the passage of the Armed Occupation Act, sent a petition to the president and Congress asking for the assistance promised by Worth. The matter was soon resolved, and formal permits to settle the lands were issued.
The act required the settler to occupy a portion of land, build a house and cultivate 5 acres for five years in exchange for the title of one-quarter section of land — 160 acres.
The settlers found the Chocochattee lands to their liking with the high ground; great stands of oak, hickory and magnolia trees; and good water sources. Some of the settlers, including Robert Bradley and J.S. Taylor, claimed land a few miles southwest of Chocochattee.
In 1843, one year and three days after the first settlers arrived at Tiger Tail's old fields, the Territorial Legislature created the new county of Hernando.
Roger Landers is retired from the Hernando County School District, where for nearly 33 years he was a teacher, principal and district administrator. He is the historian for the county's Heritage Museum, historical adviser to the new Hernando County Historical Advisory Commission and a member of the Florida Historical Society. He can be reached at [email protected].
Former Slave Is Sixth Great Brooksvillian
City honors the slain founder of a church and a school.This article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on Oct. 4, 2007.
By LOGAN NEILL
BROOKSVILLE - Tears streamed down Mabel Sims' face when she heard that the Brooksville City Council had chosen her great-great-uncle, Arthur St. Clair, to be the city's newest Great Brooksvillian.
Her only wish was that he could have been there to receive the honor.
"I think he would have been so proud," said Sims, who attended Monday night's City Council meeting surrounded by members of her family. "It's certainly a fitting honor."
The first African-American to receive the title, St. Clair died 130 years ago after being shot and killed by a still-unknown assailant on a lonely road outside of Brooksville, cutting short the life of a man whom many feel would almost certainly have gone on to become one of Florida's greatest early black leaders.
"He achieved greater status than most African-Americans of his time," said Roger Landers, a Hernando historian. "That status no doubt led to his assassination."
A former slave, St. Clair worked the plantation owned by John and Marina Sanderson May, whose vast land holdings surrounded what would eventually become the town of Brooksville. After winning his freedom, St. Clair, who was mostly self-educated, began to put his knowledge and popularity in the black community to work in an attempt to shatter the racial barriers that continued to grip the region after the Civil War.
St. Clair was chosen to be the county's first post-Civil War voter registrar. Later, the governor appointed him to lead the state's Third Brigade, a militia that included men from Hernando, Sumter and Citrus counties.
A Baptist minister, St. Clair founded Bethlehem Progressive Baptist Church and later, with his brother Hampton, established Hernando County's first all-black school. And though he ran unsuccessfully three times for the state Legislature, St. Clair easily won the Republican Party's blessing to return for a fourth try at the seat.
However, it would not come to be. Just two months before the election, in 1877, St. Clair presided over the marriage of a mixed-race couple in Brooksville. A few days later, while traveling from what is now Dade City, St. Clair and several companions were jumped by a group of about 20 white people.
Despite a climate of racial hostility in Hernando County at the time, both blacks and whites openly voiced their disgust over St. Clair's murder. A coroner's inquest turned up no concrete evidence to indict anyone. Later, a fire inside the county courthouse destroyed records that many believed held the key to finding St. Clair's killer.
Brooksville Vice Mayor Frankie Burnett, an African-American, said that honoring St. Clair as this year's Great Brooksvillian sheds light on an individual whose courage helped to change the plight of so many others.
"The hope is that people will want to know more about him and the things he did," Burnett said.
St. Clair, the sixth person chosen to be Great Brooksvillian, joins a list of local dignitaries that includes longtime civic leaders Alfred McKethan and Joe Johnston Jr., local historian Virginia Jackson, Brooksville City Hall Art Gallery maven Mary Alice Queiros and Rogers' Christmas House Village founder Margaret Ghiotto.
A dedication ceremony will be take place in City Council chambers at 5 p.m. Oct. 17.
Logan Neill can be contacted at [email protected] or 352 848-1435.
Arthur St. Clair joins five others to receive the honor:
Sarah Davis Named 2010 Great Brooksvillian
This article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on Aug. 16, 2010.
By LOGAN NEILL
BROOKSVILLE — Sarah Davis, who spent 30 years teaching children in Hernando County, was named the 2010 Great Brooksvillian on Monday night by the City Council.
Davis, 80, was found murdered May 15 inside her south Brooksville home. A suspect, Byron K. Burch, was later arrested. Authorities said Davis had reached out to Burch, who had a long history of drug problems.
Several supporters of Davis spoke on her behalf, including Pastor Cecill Hubbard of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Brooksville, who spoke of Davis's compassion as a teacher.
"She was a working mother, and she loved children," Hubbard said. "She was a great example for all our members."
After retiring from the school system, Davis worked with the Hernando Sheriff's Office, where she continued to teach others for 16 years. In January, Sheriff Richard Nugent presented her with a community service award.
Others in consideration for the honor included Circuit Judge Daniel Merritt Sr., Helga Curtis, Joe Mason, Dorothy Mason, Attorney General Bill McCollum, Dan Patrick and Wayne Johnson.
Tribute of RespectAt a meeting of De Soto Lodge, A. F. A. M. held in Brooksville on Saturday 19th of January, the following preamble and resolution were unanimously adopted.
Whereas God in his infinite Wisdom has seen fit to remove from our midst our late brother James R. Nicks and whereas in his death the lodge and masonry in general, has sustained an irreparable loss, and the family a devoted husband & father; it therefore becomes us as Masons in token of our esteem, to pay a just tribute to his memory. Be it therefore resolved in bowing to the will of the Divine Master, we do it cheerfully, trusting that he will discharge his duties faithfully in the grand lodge above.
Resolved that as a mark of our respect we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days; and that a blank page in our minutes be ascribed to his memory.
Resolve, that, we deeply sympathize with the family---their bereavement, and a copy of these resolutions be sent to them, and that they be published in the Peninsular.
De Soto Lodge, Hernando Co., Florida January 25, 1862
The foregoing transcript of ***** and Resolution is a true copy of the Minutes of De Soto lodge No. 32 unanimously adopted on Saturday 25 January 1862 Witness my hand and Seal of lodge this 25th day of January AD 1862
Wm. M. Garrison Secretary
[Transcribed by Charles Blankenship from a digital camera copy of the original. Original in possession of Henry R. Nicks, Dallas, Texas. Both are descendants of James Rinaldo Nicks (1808-1861)]
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Michael Gray isn’t too sure about one Newcastle United player that has been linked with his former club.
Sunderland are desperate for quality players all around their team/squad but nowhere more so than up front.
With only 29 league goals last season it tells you just how bad things were – but then when Jermain Defoe walked out on the Mackems they then lost somebody who had got 15 of that pitiful total.
With the likes of Borini deserting the sinking ship as well, I make it that the remaining players who are still at the Stadium of Light were only responsible for six of those 29 PL goals – Paddy McNair on two, being the most prolific goalscorer remaining at the club.
The Newcastle player in question is Daryl Murphy and Michael Gray thinks he might be too old, although he has added a couple of years onto the striker’s age, as he is only 34 (not 36) and doesn’t turn 35 until next March.
The one-time Ipswich star showed last season that he was still more than up to doing a job in the second tier, showing great all round play for Newcastle and scoring five league goals in only 687 minutes of football.
Daryl Murphy started only seven Championship matches for NUFC and came off the bench in another eight.
Personally, I hope they don’t go for Daryl Murphy as he did a great job for Newcastle last season and I think he would be a great signing for our red and white friends.
Michael Gray speaking to Talksport:
“What is Daryl Murphy…35 or 36 years old now?
“I haven’t spoken to Simon (Grayson) and I’m not sure if he is going to go down that avenue.
“Certainly we do need a striker but I’m not sure if he (Murphy) is the right fit for us right now.”
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Shocking eh ? Bawb activating two GM hills in five days..
It’s another five time activation hill and possibly a hill that most folk try to avoid after a visit.
I tend to visit when conditions are cold with frost on the ground, the colder the better as you then can walk over the normally boggy bits of which there are many plus this visit was inside the SOTA Winter Bonus point dates.
I had hoped to catch the hill a few weeks ago but overtime was offered and taken instead but I had hoped the same conditions would soon appear again. I had mentioned to my oldest daughter, Lora if she could drive and drop me off and return for me later on Thursday. All agreed it was down to planning.
The day arrived but a detour via the doctor plus a hospital visit as a precaution, about 10.30 I decided just to go ahead and posted an alert as we headed through Greenock then I got home and grabbed my packed rukkie and we headed the short drive to Muirsheil Ranger Centre near Lochwinnoch. It takes only 40 mins from the house but care had to be taken as patches of ice dotted the single track road which takes you out from the B786.
We arrived and as I expected not many cars in the car park, I got out and set the phone GPS, threw the rukkie on my back and waved Lora goodbye.
I set through the main gate and headed at a good steady pace more to heat me up as it was bitterly cold, the ENE wind came blowing briskly across the open moor but on a good track, I made good time and soon I arrived at the ‘Muirsheil Inn’, a metal container with table and chairs and a welcome stop for some water and an orange. I spoke to two walkers who were also heading to the Stake so I headed up the east side of the mine fenced area and as I reached the top I headed west to find the burn in which I headed up along on what is possibly sheep trails and surprisingly I found an old quad track which then headed east and west in places but it wasn’t long until I reached the high point at NS after ploughing through the usual heathery bits where I saw the destination for the first time.
This open area after you leave the mines is barren and featureless and would entail compass work if caught in mist or low cloud, I have experience of early morning mist in this watershed area and was more than glad when the mist cleared. It’s amazing what a cup of tea can do. I could have done with some later.
I headed for the fence slightly to the west of the summit and crunched my way over the boggy bits and soon I was heading up the fence line. I reached the summit and it fully hit me, a cold piercing wind. A quick visit to the trig point then it was to build the 5 ele Yagi before my fingers froze. The fence here proves a boon as I bungeed the mast to a fencepost, I sat down and connected everything and straight on to 2m FM.
I had left my 4m FM gear at home as I felt after two activations this year and a struggle for a single contact on each it was time to give 4m a rest. I had alerted for 70cm FM so I would try it later.
First call back was Christine YMM followed by Ken AXY in Edinburgh who are earlier activators of the hill. A quick chat as I wasn’t for hanging around today. I was on air for just over an hour.
A welcome call again from Jim GLM from his home town of Dunfermline then EBT from Clydebank called in wondering where I was. In the middle of nowhere I replied. Next was Tommy OJE in Darvel whom I spoke with on my previous activation. I never held any contact for long as the wind was cutting through me even though I had put on warmer clothing than normal, I even broke out the lined winter trousers, a fleece lined tartan hoodie but I’d chosen the toasty boots again and no problems there.
Fellow blogger and activator Roddy 2MØIOB called in from his home QTH with a strong signal, this hill has excellent VHF and UHF take off and very few signals were weak today. A mobile station about 10 ml to the NE Craig HGV called in next and was no problem and my nemesis Neil 2MØNCM called me from the shore front at Girvan, not having an ice-cream but he did regale me with his description of the hot filled rolls he was taking home to share not with me but with oor Cat CNC. I hope you enjoyed the indigestion I wished on you !
Neil was gone to eat his rolls whilst I got colder and colder but I was kept busy with contacts. Next in the log was John OIN from just to the south of me in Ayr, a quick chat with John about 23cm and how quiet the VHF band is especially midweek. I called out and could hear another fellow blogger Graeme 2MØGIL calling me from the Whiteinch area of Glasgow, once again a quick chat before I headed to work Graham GON from Helensburgh.
Next in the log was Steve UAU whom I knew was about as he had ‘spotted’ me on the SOTA spots page and we agreed a later sked on 70cm. I got called next by another Graham IVG who was mobile in the Kilsyth area. Final contact before I headed up to 433mhz was Mark who called in from Cairniehill in Fife just N of the Forth Road Bridge, it was a busy day so far and to be honest busier than I expected.
First call on 70cm FM brought Neill SXV from Muirhead whom I had worked from Duncolm last year, next was Stevie SUB from Garelochead and finally on 70cm was Steve UAU from Greenock. Three contacts on 70cm I was more than pleased with that.
By this time I was glad the 817’s mike had the ‘up’ and ‘down’ control and a last call on 2m FM brought Russell RSP who lives just around the corner from Burns birthplace in Alloway near Ayr. Time to pack up and go…
I had a quick look round and took a couple of photos and packed my phone away whilst grabbing the rukkie and making sure I never left anything. On my first SOTA trip to this hill I had left my two bungee cords on a clump of reeds and luckily when Roddy 2MØIOB was there 13 months later, he retrieved them and returned them to me.
I climbed over the fence and headed down the west side of the hill to the point where I now headed over the frozen bog to the high spot and I had a look for signs of the quad track I had seen faintly in places but only an odd bit could be seen, the track looked as if it hadn’t been used in a long time. It would be handy as the track comes down the hillside and heads east when NE would be handy.
A hill with an excellent 4km track out to the old mines area but then a featureless, pathless yomp to its summit but rewarding with good VHF radio take off, I have worked into Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Lake District on both 4m and 2m on earlier activations. A hill worth the visit if only the once. I reckon between SOTA and other trips I am now in double figures.
I soon reached the mines area and stopped at the ‘Muirsheil Inn’ for more water and had a quick sip or two and suffered from ‘brain freeze’ as the water was sooooo cold. Did I say it was a cold day ? I noticed an addition just to the N of the mines area and took a wee detour to ‘nosey’ and the images will let you know what it is. Interesting.
I rejoined the track and I made good time into a steady breeze and found both my daughters waiting on their dad so a good bit of fun on the way home.
A cold but worthwhile day out! a hot bath to take the chill out and celebrated later with a chilled cider. It had to be.
My thanks go to Neil 2MØNCM for his unknowingly supplying with the post title and for those who took the effort to work me.
My earlier blog posts on the hill
a related ‘spooky’ post HERE
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Teach Your Kids How To Make Their Own Packed LunchIn our busy world today, it is hard to fit all the little things in that need to be done on a daily basis. Even the simple things can be time consuming when you have 10 other little things that need to be done at the same time. An easy way to eliminate one daily task is to teach your children to make their own healthy lunches. Along with their other daily chores this is one that will directly benefit them in many ways. First of all, they will have more say in what goes into their lunch bags. If they are helping you pick out the food for their lunches than they are more likely to eat the lunch rather than just throwing away anything they don't like, which means they end up throwing away your hard earned money.
As with anything else that you are teaching your children, the younger the better. If you get your child in the habit at an early age, it will be like second nature to them as they grow older. Of course, you can not hand over the butter knife to a 4 year old to pack their lunch bag for preschool. You can however, start out by letting the child help you pick out the foods they would like to eat for lunch when you go shopping. Having your child help you pick out the lunch foods will help them learn to make healthy choices and also keep them busy while you are in the store doing your grocery shopping.
Little One's Will Want to Know "Why?"
Teach your child about healthy foods and nutrients and why their body needs them. Explain to them that nutrients are what we get from eating healthy foods and that is what helps us create healthy bodies. If you show by example, you will be more successful and healthier yourself.
Now, to teach your child how to pack their own lunch. You first need to start out by making a list of lunch food items that you have available, then let them choose what sounds good to them for that day. The list can be made according to the food pyramid so that your child can choose the proper amounts needed for a balanced meal. This way only the foods that you approve of will be on the list, but yet, your child still has options.
Preparation is the key
When you get home from grocery shopping you can have your child help you unpack and put away the groceries and at the same time, you can have them separate out some of the lunch options for the week. For instance, if you bought baby carrots, grapes, trail mix, celery, gold fish crackers, etc.., the child can go ahead and split them up into reusable containers or baggies (baggies can be brought back home and reused to reduce the effect on our environment). One they are split up, they will be quicker to grab when throwing together their lunch bags and lunch boxes in the morning. You can also use this same technique with sandwich foods, get an airtight container and stack what you would generally put on the sandwiches, like bologna and cheese, or ham and cheese, turkey and cheese. This way when the sandwich is being made all your child has to do is open the container and pull out the meat and cheese at once and put it on the bread.
Steps for your child to make their own lunch:
1. get out the lunch bags
2. look at the food pyramid with the available choices for the week, make their selection
3. get out a couple slices of bread, if a sandwich is the choice for the day
4. grab the container out of the fridge with the different meat and cheese options, take the selection of the day and put it on the sandwich. Baggie the sandwich and put in the lunch bag.
5. While putting the sandwich meat container back in the fridge, grab the pre bagged fruit and vegetable choice of the day and toss that into the lunch bags. Also grab a baggie of the crackers or trail mix and toss those in the bag as well.
6. If you allow a sweet snack, like a granola bar, toss that in the bag and you are ready to go. Sweet snacks can be limited to certain days of the week.
Another hint that could help is if your child uses reusable lunch bags and you like to send fruit juice boxes with them for lunch, you can freeze the juice boxes and by lunch time the juice will have defrosted and now your child has a cold drink and the fruit and vegetables can remain cool until lunch.
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I hope your thanksgiving was filling and that you spent the day with loved ones. Its the perfect time to reflect on all the good things that has happened this year; even if its something we take for granted like waking up each morning. Since we are in that grateful season, I wanted to share how thankful I am for opportunities to travel and spend time with friends that I have not seen in a few years.
In the pass few months I have been in busy with transitioning to a new place, a new job and the endeavor that coincides with such a task. So when an old college friend contacted me about participating in a quick get away with a few more friends I was ecstatic to participate and take a much needed break from the everyday norm. My friend already had her sight set on Naples, Florida. a beautiful, opulent, town near the Gulf of Mexico.
The 3 & 1/2 hr drive to Naples was long and draining but once we arrived the mood quickly changed to more of an easy going and relaxed feel. You can feel the breeze of the Gulf in every movement; a perfect escape with palm trees on every block and smiling faces at every turn. Our first stop was The Riverwalk Restaurant in Tin City, a ocean front dinning place with fresh mahi, grouper, shrimp, and additional choices of seafood. I recommend outside seating, as the view of the yachts and boats on the river is spectacular. I ordered the Grouper sandwich topped with creole remoulade with a side of fries, it was pretty good however lacked much seasoning. Right next door was the ever popular boardwalk, with luxury boats of all sizes and themes, open to the public as well as free to roam.. I must also mention there were two French restaurants, an art store front and a pizza place in the same area, all with eye catching themes and within walking distance from each other.
A recommended must to do in Naples is thrifting, even if its not your usual pastime, while
To conclude our amazing trip we took a stunning sunset cruise with Pure Naples Boat company, thanks to Groupon. I would recommend this everyone as it was the peak of our trip. We sailed off at 4p.m. towards the Golf of Mexico to watch the sunset. Inclusive of the trip was tours of the luxurious quarters of Marco Island, Port Royal, the lovely mansions in those zones, as well as dolphin sightings in their natural habitat. To say it was memorable is an understatement, I would do it again in a heartbeat. The combination of extraordinarily large homes, exquisite backyards, water front properties the gulf breeze, laughter plus dolphins made the sunset experience even sweeter.
All in all Naples Florida, is a relaxing weekend getaway destination. I hope my trip inspires you to travel plan and engage in a weekend getaway of your own.
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I was talking to someone over Facebook a while ago when they sent me a video. It was called “Epic Rap Battles of History.” Expecting to see some sort of weird, cell phone-filmed video, I reluctantly clicked on it. Suddenly, a guy dressed up as Beethoven was being filmed by a high quality camera, rapping against some other guy dressed up as Justin Beiber. Oh god.
This story technically doesn’t directly have to do with anything I’m about to talk about, but it illustrates an important idea—even in a world where the only classical music stars recognized by the general public seem to be violinists with excessive make up or child prodigies seen on the Today Show, “the composer” is a valid pop culture figure. Whether they show up in 1 million-hit YouTube videos or on shirts with a picture of Beethoven DJ-ing that say “Old School Beats,” composers from this era have become images reproduced by millions. “Where is this now?” we might ask ourselves. However, this era where “the composer” is as eminent as the classics are now might be recycling itself. Maybe in a few years, tee-shirts will be screen printed with pictures of Muhly or Luther Adams, saying something like “I <3’d ‘Inuksuit’ Before It Was Cool”.
This observation is the central thought to the SONiC Festival, a festival of 21st century music happening from October 14-22 in various locations around New York. Co-curated by composer Derek Bermel and pianist Stephen Gosling, the festival is focusing on over 100 composers under 40 years old (like the Q2/NPR list). This festival is possibly the most chock filled with ensembles, composers, and artists that dictate the current classical music industry than any other event in recent years. It’s like Coachella for modern music—minus the central location, hundred degree weather, and tent camping. But it’s only like that in appearance—while Coachella is a showcase, a sort of “here’s what we’ve done,” SONiC is a display that is meant to be a lifting-off point. It’s more of a “here’s what we’re becoming.” It’s uncontrollably exciting.
“Emerging composers today have much greater access to different traditions and influences, and we are celebrating that by not restricting the music we present to any one style, movement, or agenda. We want to bring more public awareness to the many directions contemporary music is moving in, and to show everyone that ‘the composer’ is alive and thriving,” Bermel said on SONiC’s website. Other popular festivals, such as MATA and Spring for Music, focus on the specific aspects of contemporary music (commissioning young composers and orchestra programming, respectively), but SONiC is aiming to be a “big umbrella” of a festival—a variety of events that celebrate a wide range of composers and ensembles. Composers and pieces that will be played range from the iconic pieces of the past few years (Judd Greenstein, “Change,” performed by the NOW Ensemble, Aaron Cassidy, “Second String Quartet,” performed by the JACK Quartet) to works from Brazil being premiered in the US. The second half of the festival includes afterhours concerts, showcasing some of the best contemporary music in the world in quirky settings at dark, buzzing hours.
Along with contemporary music being played at SONiC, the festival is encouraging contemporary methods of listening and audience-member-being. The festival is integrating three different “projects” into the mix of music that involve audience members in much more interesting ways than, say, a Q&A. The project called “Re:Sound” allows audience members to vote on pieces they would like to hear again through phones or online, and Q2 will broadcast them. “UrbanRemix” is a project that almost commissions the audience itself—SONiC-goers are encouraged to record sounds they hear to, from, and around the festival, go online, and create a mix. These mixes will be showcased on the second to last night of the festival. “Thicket:Sonic” isn’t really a project, but an App. While sort of ambiguous, the website’s description (“a mobile audiovisual world of texture, movement, line and tone that is part art piece, part toy, part wind chime, and part spierweb.”) is ridiculously intriguing.
|JACK Quartet/photo by Stephen Poff|
A general theme that runs through the programming of the entire festival is the destruction of the term “genre” and the restrictions that come with that term. Contemporary music, especially in the last year or so, has been evolving into something that is difficult to classify (I feel almost awkward typing “classical” when talking about it). Chamber-pop, electronic, minimalist, “new synthesist…” these terms have been used as labels, but it’s becoming almost impossible to label everything accurately. Violins and soundboards are frequently on stage together. SONiC is demonstrating this idea in multiple concerts. The first concert on Oct. 14 features the American Composers Orchestra. In the concert is a piece by Alex Temple, who describes his music as “somewhere between Surrealism and Pop Art,” for soprano, orchestra, and electronics. There’s a piece called “Flowing Water Study II for Orchestra & Video” by Wang Lu. These defy genres in themselves. During the concert featuring the JACK Quartet (Oct. 15), the quartet will play just before an electric guitar quartet. I have a feeling it will seem completely normal.
It’s not often that history seems as if it is being written right in front of you. When it does happen, it’s exhilarating. The SONiC festival itself might not become a chapter in a music history book, but it symbolizes the shifting of a time period, the flip of a page from the music of years past. “The composer” is usually thought of as a pop culture symbol with billowing white hair and a quill pen, but recent times suggest otherwise. And as I sit here, writing this, watching the video on SONiC’s webpage, and I see my hands start to shake with excitement, I know this means something (and I don’t even live in New York). SONiC will surely be a whirlwind of in-the-moment sounds as well as a telescope into the future. And by god, if they’re selling tee shirts, someone please get me one.
Watch this video if you want to buzz with excitement:
Watch this video if you want to buzz with excitement:
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Welcome UM Psychology Alum and Friends!
Welcome to the Alumni and Friends section of the University of Michigan Department of Psychology. Learn about what is currently happening in the department and discover what our talented alumni have gone on and accomplished.
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Whether your goal is to reconnect with old friends, locate resources, or find out about upcoming events we will have some places to begin that search.
See what notable Alumni have accomplished after finishing our programs!
If you are seeking previous classmates, faculty, or GSIs, we have some ways to assist you in this process. If you are seeking to reconnect with the department or new connections with current undergraduates, we extend a whole-hearted invite back!
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If this is your first visit , please refer to the 'K-Grammar basics' first . Also, If you are interested in Korean tutoring by Skype, please contact my facebook for more information about my hour rate and available time
26. V -지 말라고 하다 " to tell somebody not to V
This is a negative form of indirectly imperative quotation. Add verb stem to 지 말라고 했어요.
선생님: teacher 늦게 : late 오다 : to come
선생님이 늦게 오지 말라고 했어요. (formal)
-> The teacher told me not to come late.
26-1) Its positive form is V - (으) 라고 하다 " to tell somebody to V"
When the verb stem ends in a consonant, add 으라고 했어요 . When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add 라고 했어요.
친구: friend 빨리: quickly 오다: to come
엄마: mom 이거 : this thing 먹다 : to eat
친구가 빨리 오라고 했어. (casual)
-> (My) friend told me to come quickly.
엄마가 이거 먹으라고 했어 (casual)
-> (My) mom told me to eat this.
27. V/A-(으)면 좋겠어요 / N-(이)면 좋겠어요 " I hope ~ "
When the V/A stem ends in a consonant, add 으면 좋겠어요.When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add 면 좋겠어요. Its infinitive form is -(으) 면 좋겠다.
내일: tomorrow 비 오다 : to rain ( 비- rain, 오다: to come) (N) 안~: not ~
내일 비 안오면 좋겠어요. (formal)
-> I hope it is not raining tomorrow.
For nouns, when the noun ends in a consonant, add 이면 좋겠어요. When ending in a vowel, add 면 좋겠어요.
거짓말: a lie N (이)다: to be N
거짓말이면 좋겠어. (casual)
-> I hope that was a lie.
27-1) Past tense V/A 으면 해요 / N 이었으면 (였으면) 해요 “ I hope ~ “
내일 비 안 왔으면 해요.
-> I hope it is not raining tomorrow
For nouns, when the noun ends in a consonant, add 이었으면 해요. When ending in a vowel, add 였으면 해요.
거짓말이었으면 해요.-> I hope that was a lie
28. V- 아/어/해 주세요 " please ~ for me"
Conjugate the verb stem and add 주세요 ( formal), 줘요(polite) or 줘(casual). Its infinitive form is V- 아/어/해 주다. Plesse refer to 'K - grammar basics' for conjugation rules.
태우다 : to give a ride 돕다 : to help 전화: phone 번호: number 알려주다 : to inform
태워 줘 (casual) -> Give me a ride.
태워 줘요.( polite) -> Give me a ride, please.
도와 주세요 ( formal) -> Help me, please
전화번호 알려 줘 ( casual) -> Let me know (your) phone number.
29.V/A - 아서/어서/해서 / N - (이)라서 " and " / “ so, because” ,
Conjugate the verb/ adjective stem and add 서. For nouns , when it ends in a consonant, add 이라서 . When ending in a vowel , add 라서. This is a connective ending and has two meanings depending on the context.
1) Sequence ("and") : The first event is placed in the first clause and the second one in the second clause. Two events are closely related.
저기: (over) there 앉다 : to sit 얘기하다 : to talk ~ 자 : let's (casual) 다음 주에: next week 만나다: to meet 놀다 : to play, to hang (out) with
저기 앉아서 얘기하자. (casual) ->Let's sit and talk over there.
다음주에 만나서 놀자.(casual) -> Let's meet and play next week.
2) reason & result : the reason is placed in the first clause and the result in the second clause.
늦다: to be late 죄송합니다: I'm sorry, I apologize (formal) 좋아하다: to like 한국: Korea ~ 에 관심이 있다 : to be interested in~ 많이: a lot
늦어서 죄송합니다.( formal) -> I'm sorry for being late
Kpop을 좋아해서 한국에 관심이 많이 있어. (casual) -> (I) like Kpop, so (I'm) much interested in Korea. = Because (I) like Kpop, (I’m) much interested in Korea.
한국 사람 : Korean person , 한국말 : Korean language , 잘 : well
미나는 한국 사람이라서 한국말을 잘 해요. -> Mina is a Korean person, so she is good at Korean language.
30. V/A -지만 " but, however"
Add stem to 지만. This is a connective ending.
한국어: Korean language 어렵다: to be difficult 배우다: to learn ~ 고 싶다 : to want to
한국어는 어렵지만 배우고 싶어.(casual)
-> Korean is difficult but I want to learn.
31. V/A- 건 V/A -건 , N-(이)건 N-(이)건 " whether - or - "
Add V/A stem to 건. In case you add nouns, you need to add ( 이) 건. When the noun ends in a consonant, add 이건, when ending in a vowel , add 건
지원자: applicant 나이: age 많다 : to be a lot 적다 : to be little 상관없다: not to matter 서울 N타워 : Seoul N tower 명동: Myoungdong (a popular shopping area) 아무데나: anywhere 괜찮다: to be fine
지원자가 나이가 많건 적건 상관없어요. (formal) -> Whether the applicants are old or young, it doesn't matter
서울 N타워건 명동이건 아무데나 괜찮아요.(formal) -> Whether it is Seoul N tower or Myoungdong, anywhere is fine ( to go).
32. V -(는) ㄴ 다고 하다 / A -다고 하다 / N(이) 라고 하다 " Indirectly declarative quotation for present tense "
1) When the verb stem ends in a consonant, add 는다고 했어요. When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add ㄴ 다고 했어요. The contracted form is - 는대요 / -ㄴ대요. Without ‘요’ at the end, it becomes casual talk.
오다 : to come 지금: now
Mike 가 지금 온다고 했어요. (formal) = Mike 가 지금 온대요 ( contracted formal)
-> Mike said he is coming now.
2) For adjectives, add stem to 다고 했어요. The contracted form is -대요. Without ‘요’ at the end, it becomes casual talk.
불고기: Bulgogi ( Korean grilled marinated beef) 맛있다 : to be tasty 음식: food
Mike가 불고기가 맛있다고 했어. (casual) = Mike가 불고기가 맛있대. (contracted casual)
-> Mike said Bulgogi is tasty.
3) For nouns, when ending in a consonant , add 이라고 했어요. When ending in a vowel, add 라고 했어요. The contracted form is -이래요 / -래요. Without ‘요’ at the end, it becomes casual talk.
Mike 가 불고기가 맛있는 음식이라고 했어. (casual) = Mike 가 불고기가 맛있는 음식이래. (contracted casual) ->Mike said Bulgogi is a tasty food.
33. V-자고 하다 " Indirectly suggestive quotation"
Add verb stem to 자고 했어요.
사귀다 : to become a couple 주말: weekend -에 : on ( time marker) 만나다: to meet
Andy 가 사귀자고 했어.(casual) -> Andy said we should become a couple.
Andy 가 주말에 만나자고 했어요. (formal)-> Andy said we should meet on the weekend.
33-1. V-자 “ Let’s V” (casually suggestive ending)
Add verb stem to 자 to suggest to do something together with the speaker. It’s a casual talk.
내일: tomorrow 놀다: to play 가다: go
내일 놀자. ( casual) -> Let’s play tomorrow
가자 (casual) -> Let’s go
가자 (casual) -> Let’s go
34. V-던 N " N that used to V "
Add verb stem or past conjugated form to 던. It is always used in front of nouns.
이거 : this thing 어리다 : to be young 읽다 : to read 책: book 자주: often 듣다: to listen 노래: song
이거 어릴때 읽던 책( or 읽었던 책) 이에요. (formal) -> This is a book that I used to read when I was young.
이거 자주 듣던 노래 ( or 들었던 노래) 야. (casual) -> This is a song I used to listen often.
34-1. This is also used to recollect an action started in the past but still not ended.
제가: I (formal) 보다: to see ( 봤어요: saw)
제가 읽던 책 봤어요? Did you see the book I was reading?
35. V/A-냐고 하다 , N(이)냐고 하다 " Indirectly interrogative quotation"
Add V/A stem to 냐고 했어요. When the noun ends in a consonant, 이냐고 했어요, when ending in a vowel, add 냐고 했어요.
엄마: mom 몇시에: what time 집: home ~에: to ~ 오다: to come 사람들: people 미국사람: American person 물어보다: to ask
엄마가 몇시에 집에 오냐고 했어. (casual) -> Mom asked me what time I would come home.
사람들이 미국사람이냐고 물어봤어요.(formal) -> People asked me If I was an American person.
36. N(이)라도 " at least N” or “ N or something”
This is used to indicate that N is not the best option but that will suffice. When the noun ends in a consonant, add 이라도 .When ending in a vowel, add 라도.
커피: coffee 없다 : not to have - (으) 면 : If - (check G22) 물: water 주세요 : please give
커피 없으면 물이라도 주세요. (formal)-> If you don't have coffee, please give me water at least. (/ water or something)
37.V-(을)ㄹ까 해요. " thinking of (about)- , planning to - " ( Vague intention or plan)
When the verb stem ends in a consonant, add 을까해요. When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add ㄹ까해요. Its infinitive form is -(을)ㄹ까 하다
다음 달에 : next month 한국: Korea ~에 여행가다: to go on a trip to ~
다음달에 한국에 여행갈까 해요. (formal) -> I am thinking of going on a trip to Korea next month
38. V-는데/ A-(은)ㄴ데 / N-(인) ㄴ데 " but , and"
This is a connective ending . For verbs, add the stem to 는데. For adjectives, add the stem to 은데 when ending in a consonant, add the stem to ㄴ데 when ending in a vowel. For nouns, add the stem to 인데 when ending in a consonant, add the stem to ㄴ데 when ending a vowel.
저는 : (I & topic marker) 노래하다: to sing 못: can't 춤 추다 : to dance 잘: well 배우: actor(actress) 박신혜 (Park Sinhye)
저는 노래 못 하는데 춤 잘 춰요.(formal) -> I can't sing but I dance well.
박신혜는 배운데 춤 잘 춰.(casual) -> Park Sinhye is an actress but dances well.
2) " background situation or reason -> and"
괜찮다: to be ok 가보다 : to try to go
Trick art museum 괜찮은데 가봐.(casual) -> Trick art museum is ok, try it.
3) “ Used as an interrogative ending to slightly oppose or complain to the listener”
내가: I (casual) 뭘: what 잘못 하다: to do something wrong
내가 뭘 잘못했는데? (casual) -> what did I do wrong?
39. V/A -(으) 니까 (same as V/A- (으)니) "since, because , so"
When the stem ends in a consonant, add 으니까 or 으니 . When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add니까 or 니
미안해요: I am sorry (formal) 이번 주: this week 바쁘다: to be busy 다음 주: next week
미안해. 이번주는 바쁘니까 다음주에 만나자. (casual) -> Sorry. This week I am busy , so next week let's meet .
-> Sorry. Since (Because) this week I am busy, next week let's meet .
오늘: today 피곤하다: to be tired 내일 : tomorrow 하다: to do
오늘 피곤하니 내일 하자. (casual) -> Today, I am tired, so let’s do it tomorrow
39-1. N -(이) 니까 (same as V/A- (이)니) "since, because , so"
When the noun ends in a consonant, add 이니까 or 이니 . When ending in a vowel, add니까 or 니
너: you (casual) 내: my (casual) 친구: friend 비밀: secret 알려주다: to inform , to tell
너는 내 친구니까 비밀을 알려줄게 (casual) -> Since you are my friend, I will tell you a secret
40. N (으)로 " by means of , with , to , toward"
When the noun ends in consonant, add 으로. When ending in vowel orㄹ, add 로.
지하철: subway 가다: to go V -자: let's V 오른쪽: right side 볼펜: ball pen 쓰다: to write V-(으)세요: formal command ending
지하철로 가자: Let's go by subway.
오른쪽으로 가자 : Let's go to the right side.
볼펜으로 쓰세요: Write with a ball pen.
40-1 . N (으)로 "as N "
저는 : I ( formal) , 좋은 친구 : a good friend , 대하다 : to treat ,
저는 마이크를 좋은 친구로 대했어요. : I treated Mike as a good friend.
41. N (이)야 " am/ are/ is N " (casual)
It is used only casually right after nouns. When the noun ends in a consonant, add 이야. When ending in a vowel, add 야. Its infinitive form is (이)다 "to be N"
저N : that N 아이: child 누구: who 내: my 남동생: younger brother 너: your, your
A: 저 아이는 누구야? : Who is that child? B: 내 남동생이야 : He is my younger brother
41-1) The opposite form is N(이/가) 아니야 “ am/ are/ is not N “ (casual)
When the noun end in a consonant, add N이 아니야. When ending in a vowel, add N가 아니야. Its infinitive form is N(이) 아니다 "to not be N"
A: 저 아이는 너 남동생이야? : Is that child your younger brother?
B: 내 남동생이 아니야 : He is not my younger brother
42. A/V -(은) ㄴ/ 는/ (을) ㄹ것 같아요. " I think , It looks ( sounds) like , It appears that "
Without 요 at the end, it becomes a casual talk and its infinitive form is ~것 같다.
1) For adjectives and past tense verbs
When the stem ends in a consonant, add 은 것 같아요. When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add ㄴ것 같아요.
니: you, your 생각 : idea, thought 좋다 : to be good 시험 보다 : to take a test ( 시험: test, 보다: to see) 잘 : well
니 생각 좋은 것 같아.(casual) -> I think your idea is good
시험 잘 본 것 같아요. (formal) -> I think took the test well.
2) For present tense verbs
Add stem to 는 것 같아요.
좋아하다 : to like
Jeremy가 Sarah를 좋아하는 것 같아요. (formal) -> It looks like Jeremy likes Sarah
3) For future tense verbs
When the stem ends in a consonant, add 을것 같아요. When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add ㄹ것 같아요.
너무: so 배고프다 : to be hungry 죽다 : to die 그 N: that N 사람: person ~ 없이: without~ 못: can't 살다: to live 재미있다: to be fun, interesting 그거: that thing (that)
너무 배고파서 죽을 것 같아. (casual) -> I am so hungry that I think I'm going to die.
그 사람 없이 못 살 것 같아. (casual) -> I think I won't be able to live without that person.
그거 재미있을 것 같아요. (formal) -> That sounds like fun.
42-1. N 같아요. " I think , S look like
그: that , 남자 : guy , 화장을 하다 : to put on make-up , 여자 : woman
그 남자가 화장을 하니까 여자 같아요. -> Since they guy put on make-up ,he looks like a woman.
43. V- (을) ㄹ N (Future tense of modification)
When the verb stem ends in a consonant, add 을 in front of the noun. When ending in a vowel orㄹ, add ㄹ in front of the noun.
오늘: today 하다: to do 일: things, work 많이 : much / many( adverb) 있다: to have , to exist 이거: this thing (this) 내일: tomorrow 먹다: to eat 거: thing, stuff 나를: me 도와주다: to help 사람: person N뿐: only N
오늘 할 일 많이 있어요.(formal) -> (I) have many things to do.
이거 내일 먹을 거야. (casual) -> This is the the thing to eat tomorrow. ( This is what I am going to eat tomorrow)
나를 도와줄 사람은 Kevin뿐이야.(casual)-> The person to help me is only Kevin.
44. N 에게(한테) " to N "
The nouns should be people or other living creatures . Otherwise, 에 is added to the nouns.
선생님: teacher 내게( a shortened form of 나에게) 나: I , me 한국어: Korean language 가르쳐주다: to teach 선물: gift 드리다: to give(honorific) 아침에 : in the morning 꽃: flower 물: water 주다: to give
Anna 선생님이 내게 한국어를 가르쳐줬어. (casual) -> Anna teacher taught Korean to me.
선생님에게 선물 드릴 거예요. (formal) -> (I) will give a gift to (my) teacher.
아침에 꽃에 물을 줬어. (casual) -> (I) gave water to the flower->(I) watered the flower in the morning.
45. V/A-지요(?) “ Confirming or looking for the listener’s agreement “
Add the stem to 지요. If the speaker intends to ask the listener, raise up the tone at the end. Also, 지요 is usually shortened into 죠. Without 요 at the end, it becomes a casual talk.
당연히: of course 그거: that thing (that) 모르다: not to know (몰랐어요: didn't know) 맛있다: to be tasty 수업: class 재미있다: to be fun, interesting
당연히 그거 몰랐지.( casual) : Of course, I didn't know that.
그거 맛있지요? (formal) : That is tasty, right? / Isn't that tasty?
그 수업 재미있죠? (formal) That class is fun, right? / Isn't that class fun?
46. V-다(가) ~ " As ~ "
This is used to indicate an interruption of an action. Add verb stem to 다가. 다가 can be shortened to -다
걷다: to walk 넘어지다: to fall TV 보다: to watch TV 잠들다: to fall asleep
걷다가 넘어졌어요.(formal) -> As (I) walked, (I) fell.
TV 보다 잠들었어.(casual) -> As (I) watched TV, (I) fell asleep.
47. V/A- (을)ㄹ 까요?
This is used to express the speaker’s supposition of an action or state that has yet to happen and corresponds to “ Will (S) V ?” When the V/A stem ends in a consonant, add 을까요?. When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add ㄹ 까요? Without 요 at the end, it becomes casual talk.
파티: party N 에 : to N 오다: to come 이번: this (time) 학기: semester 성적: grades 괜찮다: to be OK 어제: yesterday 믿다 : to believe 꿈을 꾸다 : to dream (꿈: dream, noun) 것: thing
Mina 가 파티에 올까? ( casual) -> Will Mina come to the party?
이번 학기 성적 괜찮을까요? (formal) -> Will this semester’s grades be OK?
47-1) Another usage for this is to ask the listener for an opinion.
우리: we 언제: when 만나다: to meet up 왜: why 오다: to come
우리 언제 만날까? ( casual) -> When should we meet up?
왜 Mina 는 안 왔을까요? (formal) -> Why didn’t Mina come?
48. V- 길 바라다 (원하다) “to hope (to want ) to V / to hope ( to want) S V”
Add verb stem to 길 바래요 / 원해요. Actually 길 is a shortened form of 기를, which is a combination of 기 & 를 (object marker). Please refer to K-Grammar # 5 to understand ‘-기’ . By adding 기 to V/A, V/A turns into a noun. Without 요 at the end, it becomes casual talk.
나는: I & topic marker 니가: you & subject marker 진실: the truth 말해주다: to tell
나는 니가 진실을 말해주길 바래.(casual) -> I hope you tell me the truth.
하루 종일: all day long 너와: with you 같이: together 있다: to be 원하다: to want
하루 종일 같이 너와 있길 원해. (casual) -> I want to be with you together all day long.
49. V-고 말다 “ to end up in V-ing “
This is used for an unplanned event or action that finishes in a usually undesirable way. Add verb stem to 고 말았어요 to indicate “ ended up in V-ing “ and to 고 말거예요 to indicate “ will end up in V-ing”. Without 요 at the end, it become causal talk ( 말았어요 -> 말았어,말거예요-> 말거야)
너무: very 아프다: to be sick l 입원하다: to be hospitalized in 지금: now 수술 받다: to have surgery ( 수술: surgery 받다: to receive) 죽다: to die
Angella 는 너무 아파서 입원하고 말았어요.(formal) -> Because Angella was sick she ended up in being hospitalized. ( ~ 서 meaning ‘because’ , refer to G 29)
Angella 가 지금 수술 받지 않으면 죽고 말거야. (casual) -> If Angella doesn’t get a surgery now, she will end up in dying. (~면 meaning ‘If’, refer to G22 )
50. V-는 게/ 걸/ 거/ 것 “ V-ing” (Gerund)
For an action or event related to the present tense, add verb stem to 는 게/ 걸/ 거/ 것 in order to change the verb into a noun. You can use - 게 only in the subject position and 걸 only in the object position. But you can use -거( 것) in the both object and subject positions. For our pronunciation convenience, we usually say 거 instead of clearly ‘것’ . Actually 게/걸/거/것 means a “thing” in English. For example 이게, 이걸, 이거, 이것 mean this thing ( this: 이)
지금 : now 숨 쉬다: to breath 힘들다: to be hard 저는 : I & topic marker (formal) 춤 추다: to dance 좋아하다: to like
지금 숨 쉬는 게 힘들어요. = 지금 숨 쉬는 거 힘들어요= 지금 숨 쉬는 것 힘들어요. (formal)-> Now, breathing is hard (Now, It is hard to breathe.)
저는 춤 추는 걸 좋아해요. = 저는 춤 추는 거 좋아해요.= 저는 춤 추는 것 좋아해요.( formal) -> I like dancing ( I like to dance)
* The examples above are formal talk because of ‘요’ at the end.
50-1) A / V(past tense) - (은) ㄴ게/ 걸/ 거 / 것
For an adjective or action that happened in the past , add 은 게/ 걸/ 거 / 것 when the stem ends in a consonant. When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add the stem to ㄴ 게/ 걸/ 거/ 것
너를 : you & object marker ~ 보내다: to let go of ~ 후회되다: to be regrettable 저녁: dinner 많이: a lot 먹다: to eat 후회하다: to regret
너를 보낸 게 후회돼= 너를 보낸 거 후회돼. = 너를 보낸 것 후회돼.( casual) -> Letting you go is regrettable.
저녁 많이 먹은 걸 후회해.= 저녁 많이 먹은 거 후회해.= 저녁 많이 먹은 것 후회해.( casual) -> I regret eating a lot of dinner.
50-2) N 인 게/ 걸/ 거 /것 : being N
For nouns, add 은 게/ 걸/ 거 / 것 to the stem
그: that , 사람: person, 한국 사람: Korean person , 모르다: to not know그 사람이 의사인 걸 몰랐어요. = 그 사람이 의사인 거 몰랐어요. = 그 사람이 의사인 것 몰랐어요. -> I didn’t know that he was a doctor.
50-3) A / V stem - (을)ㄹ 게/ 걸/ 거 /것 : ( Future tense)
For an adjective or action that will happen in the future, add 을 게/ 걸/ 거 / 것 when the stem ends in a consonant. When ending in a vowel or ㄹ, add the stem to ㄹ 게/ 걸/ 거/ 것.
N 처럼 : like N , 머리 : head, 깨지다 : to break , 아프다 : to be sick , hurt
머리가 깨질 것 처럼 아파요. : My head hurts like it is going to explode
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Østerbro is a mainly residential district of Copenhagen, just north of the inner city. With its quiet cobblestone and tree lined streets, and its excellent shopping and cafe life, it makes for a good excursion from the downtown area.
Along with Frederiksberg in the west, Østerbro has long been considered the posh or upper class district of Copenhagen. These days this is mainly due to the demographic of young, liberal leaning, well paid academics, which has earned Østerbro nicknames like the Latté district. But it has been a neighborhood of the upper middle class since modern Østerbro's inception, when Copenhagen expanded beyond the old fortifications in the 1850s.
The district takes it name from being near the old eastern gate of the city, and translates roughly into the Eastern borough, and before the city's defences were dismantled, the area were largely dominated by grazing cows and grassy meadows, traces of which is still visible in the huge park; Fælledparken, dominating the area. When Copenhagen was finally allowed to grow out over the ramparts following a cholera epidemic, Østerbro wasn't build up as quickly and disorganized as its neighbours Nørrebro and Vestebro, and it was mainly the bourgeoisie who moved here in pompous villas in green surroundings, a heritage which has stuck to the district, many of the mansions still stand today, and a lot of them is occupied by foreign embassies. When development finally took hold at the turn of the century, it was better planned, and more upscale than its counterparts, and with its big apartments and nicely crafted ornamented buildings, even the construction of a new and dirty harbour by the waterfront and new factories couldn't quite take the bourgeoisie aura away from the district, something it has retained to this day, and while Østerbro is still trailing behind Frederiksberg and its posh northern neighbour; Hellerup in terms of wealthy residents, visitors should still expect it to be fashionable, rather than "hip" or "cool", but watch out for the swarms of expensive prams parading the neighbourhood!
Østerbro is almost entirely located within Zone 1 of the common ticketing system that covers both the Metro, Buses, and Trains in the Copenhagen area.
Østerbro is served both by the S-train suburban services that are grouped together through the central part of Copenhagen, as well as several regional lines that terminate on Østerbro's main station; Østerport. All S-Train lines except line F stop at the three S-stations on Østerbro: Østerport, Nordhavn, and Svanemøllen, while lines A and F also have stops on Ryparken station in the northern part of Østerbro. Svanemøllen and Ryparken stations are in Zone 2, so a northbound ticket might be cheaper from those.
Map of bus lines on Østerbro
The backbone of bus transport in central Copenhagen are the A buses operated by Movia , which run every few minutes throughout the day. The S Buses are express buses that operate on longer lines, with fewer stops. Trianglen square connects five major streets on Østerbro and hosts bus stops for several lines. Trianglen can be recognized by its unusual building called the soup terrine by the locals.
- 1A Starts at Avedøre station in the western Copenhagen, and runs through all major areas of downtown before entering Østerbro at Esplanaden close to the Kastellet citadel. From here the next stops are at Østerport station and Trianglen before running along Østerbro's main street — Østerbrogade, to Svanemøllen station. The line terminates at Hellerup station.
- 3A This line does a half loop around downtown. Starting on Nordhavn station, and stopping at Trianglen, Rigshospitalet (the National hospital) and Panum university campus, before entering the Nørrebro district.
- 4A Begins at Svanemøllen station, and services the northern part of the district, before it crosses Lersøpark Allé to enter the Nørrebro district. It loops all around the city center, to terminate on Amager.
- 6A Starts in the suburb of Rødøvre west of Copenhagen, and passes the central station in downtown, before it enters Østerbro by the lakes with stops at the Rigshospitalet, the medical faculty of Copenhagen University, and the Jagtvej/Tagensvej intersection, before it enters the North-West district and continues north.
- 150S Starts at Nørreport station in downtown, and runs through Østerbro with stops at the Rigshospitalet, Frederik Bajers Plads, The Østerbro university campus, and Ryparken station before continuing north along the highway to Kokkedal in northern Zealand.
The "soup terrine" building at Trianglen
- Canal tours Green line is waterbus that starts in the famous Nyhavn canal downtown, and stops at some of Østerbro's main attractions: the Little Mermaid, Langelinie, and Trekroner fortresses (summer only). Tickets are 60 Kr for a single journey, and 75 Kr for a one day ticket. Runs between 10AM-5:30PM
- The Arriva-operated 901 & 902 waterbuses are part of the public transporation system, and start at Nordre Toldbod, near the southern entrance of Kastellet, from where they cruise the inner habour towards downtown. Prices and tickets are the same as on other buses and trains.
As the attractions here are mostly grouped together, walking will most likely be sufficient transportation. But as almost everywhere in Copenhagen, Biking is really the best mode of transport. Visitors however, should be aware that the free city bike system, only covers the area closest to downtown, bordered by The Lakes, and Classensgade.
- Østerport Cykler, Oslo Plads 9 (Inside Østerport station), ☎ 33 33 85 13 ([email protected]), . M-F:8AM-6PM,Sa:9AM-1PM. Rents out out bikes, on a whole day basis for 75 Kr.
While most visitors head straight to the top attraction, the little mermaid statue, they are mostly left baffled on how to react by the rather unremarkable tiny statue, but all is not lost. One tip is to actually read Hans Christians Andersen's fairy tale, the statue is meant to evoke the feeling of Ariel's longing and melancholy, not impress tourists. If you haven't read the fairytale you can safely queue up with the tourists, get the ritual photo over and done with, and head for the other nearby attractions.
- Brumleby, (The triangle between Øster Allé and Østerbrogade), ☎ +45 35 43 14 08, . Brumleby is a small quarter nestled in a tringle between Trianglen square and the National Stadium. It was build in the 1850's by the Danish Medical Association, as answer to a recent cholera epidemic, as a showcase on how to make healthy but affordable housing for the working class. It has been awarded Europa Nostra award for conservation, and it is a nice place for a brief stroll if you are in the area. There is a small museum in the old cooperative shop and a exhibitions space for local artists, but both have random opening hours.
- Den Engelske Kirke (St. Alban's - The English Church), Churchill Parken 6, . King Christian IX's daughter Alexandra, who was became the Queen of England was the driving force behind the erecting of this church, which is home to the English congregation in Denmark. The church was completed in 1887, and was built with some impressive flint stone walls.
- Den Frie Udstilling (The Free Exhibition), Oslo Plads 3 (Opposite Østerport station), ☎ +45 33 12 28 03 ([email protected]), . F-W 10AM-5PM, Th 10AM-9PM. This art exhibition was established in 1891, as a protest against a censored exhibition sponsored by the royal art board — hence the name. Mainly shows contemporary art. The exhibition is housed in a remarkable, recently restored building that resembles an ancient Greek temple. 20-45 Kr.
- Frihedsmuseet (The Danish Resistance Museum), Churchill Parken 1, ☎ +45 33 47 39 21, . Tu-Su 10AM-3PM (5PM during summer). This museum opened in 1957 and is just outside Kastellet (which was occupied by German forces from 1940 to 1945). The exhibition proceeds chronologically as an illustration of how the resistance movement developed. Free.
- Den Hirschsprungske Samling (The Hirschprung Collection), Stockholmsgade 20, ☎ +45 35 42 03 36 ([email protected]), . W-M 11AM-4PM. This collection was founded by the Copenhagen-born tobacco manufacturer Heinrich Hirschsprung (1836-1908), and moved into the current museum after his death in 1911. The museum hosts an impressive collection of Danish 19th-century art in a beautiful building displaying furniture from the artists homes. 60 Kr.
- Kastellet (Frederikshavn Citadel), Kastellet (a stone's throw away from Østerport station), ☎ 33 47 95 00. 24hrs daily. A superbly preserved and restored star-shaped citadel. First built in 1626 as St. Anne's Bulwark and completed in 1664, it was the stronghold at the northern end of the East Rampart, which arched through the city and remains in the form of the many parks extending down to Tivoli. The Citadel now houses the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, and is a popular spot for picnics. Free.
- Den lille Havfrue (The Little Mermaid Statue), Langelinie. This little lady is one of the most photographed in the world. Designed by Edvard Eriksen, Her statue was erected in 1913 to commemorate a play of the Little mermaid. The poor lady has lost her head several times, and is often subject to vandalism connected with political statements. Many visitors are often surprised by her modest size (1.25 m (3.3 ft) high). The Little Mermaid is a semi official symbol of Copenhagen.
- Nyboder Mindestuer (& Nyboder district), (Close to Østerport station), . Always open. This mini-district was built in the 17th century, and consists of long rows of beautiful 2 story yellow brick buildings. It was built to house sailors from the Navy, as it was useful to have sailors in the fleet living in a confined space, so they could quickly be called to duty. Even to this day the houses are inhabited only by people connected to the navy. On Sankt Pauls Gade 24, Nyboder mindestuer showcases everyday life in the neighborhood from its inception in 1631, every Sunday between 11AM-2PM.
- Told og Skat Museum (The Customs Museum), Langelinie Allé 21, ☎ +45 72 37 91 97, . M,W & Su 11AM-4PM. A small museum run by the Danish tax and customs authority, detailing its history in various exhibitions. The most interesting part is displays of various ingenious ideas and contraptions used in smuggling attempts through the ages. Mainly geared towards Danes, so it is probably not worth a trip, unless you are around Langelinie already. Free. (55.698964,12.599778)
- Trekroner (Trekroner fortress), ☎ +45 38 25 44 44 ([email protected]), . Summer: 10AM-3PM daily, closed the rest of the year. This 18th century fort was built to guard the sea approach to Copenhagen's harbor in 1786. It has a special atmosphere, and some gorgeous views over Øresund. There are several well preserved military buildings and fortifications. A restaurant and a café have been opened in a newly renovated building. The only access is via Canal Tour's green hop on hop off route (summer only) Admission is free, boat costs 35 Kr.
- Zoologisk Museum (The Zoological museum), Universitetsparken 15, ☎ +45 35 32 22 22, . Tu-Su 10AM-5PM. This museum is run by the University of Copenhagen. In the exhibitions, you can experience how the fauna changes as you travel from the North Pole to the South Pole, the Danish fauna since the Ice Age, including a 3 meters tall mammoth and the animals of the great oceans. The latest progress in science is brought to life in some very good temporary exhibitions. 60 Kr.
- Fiskerihavnen. Located on the eastern tip of Nordhavn (North harbour). Because of the traffic on Øresund, commercial fishing is not allowed. But the sparetime fishermen at Fiskerihavnen can fish from their small fishing boats. The fishermen have tiny sheds, all different, a bit messy, but colorful. To get there you have to zig-zag past Frihavnen ("free harbour," closed to the public), mountains of containers, scrap metal, interesting industries. Bus 26 goes there. There is a store that sell fishing equipment, but also ice cream and cold beers. "Krølle" sells smoked herring and salmon from his 1914 boat, "Kællingen".
- Fælledparken is the big park behind the football stadium, the largest in Copenhagen. There is a lake, big trees and a pavilion with a cafe which hosts concerts during the summer, the outfit Salsa Brava also gives Salsa lessons in the park during the summer. Most of it is covered with grass, much of it marked as football fields. Go there for a game of football or another game, a picnic, or just lie in the grass. At May 1st, during the International Workers day, most of Copenhagens population comes here in a peculiar mix of a political rally, and a seriously huge party.
- Kaleidoskop K2 (Krudttønden), Serridslevvej 2, ☎ +45 35 42 83 62, . Hours vary. Krudttønden is a cultural venue in Østerbro, with a mix of both concerts and theatrical performances, by both national and internationals acts. Also has a small café, that sometimes hosts various events. from 25 Kr.
- Niels Bohr Institutet, Blegdamsvej 17, ☎ +45 35 32 52 09 ([email protected]), . You should make an appointment in advance.. If you are a physicist or just interested in physics, come to the Institute and see the room of Niels Bohr with photos of the staff of the institute when he was the head of it, a model of the famous thought experiment weighing the clock, the archive, the photos of all the famous people who were developing the quantum theory during the so-called "golden age of physics, when even small people could do big things" and also the modern part of the institute. The people at the archive are willing to show the institute to other people, if they are not too busy. Free.
- Park bio, Østerbrogade 79, ☎ +45 35 38 33 62 ([email protected]), . Usually noon-11PM. The only cinema on Østerbro, has a atmospheric lobby with tall plants, caged birds, and a café. Plays many Danish and European movies. 65 Kr.
- Parken Stadium, Øster Allé 50 (near Trianglen), ☎ +45 35 43 31 31 ([email protected]), . The national 35,000 seat stadium, has a retractable roof, and is the home of Denmark's national football team during international matches, and the home ground of the FC Copenhagen football club. Usually hosts major concerts held in Denmark, and has a gym, bowling alley and a pool. Prices vary.
- Østerbro Svømmehal, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads 3, ☎ +45 35 25 70 60, . M-F 7AM-8PM, Sa-Su 9AM-3PM. Pool, spa, aroma-bath, steam bath, and baby pool are all hosted in a beautifully restored 1929 building, somewhat resembling a Roman bath, topped with a large glass roof. It was the first public pool in build in the country. 30 Kr for just the pool, 60 Kr for all facilities.
- Østre Gasværk (Teatere), Nyborggade 17, ☎ +45 39 27 71 77, . This theatre is located in a remarkable old gas storage container. Mainly hosts musicals but also has plays and comedy on the program.
- Svanemølle Strand, Strandpromenaden (Just north of Svanemølle harbor. You can walk there from Svanemølle station), . 24/7 but there are lifeguards 10am-6pm in the summer. new beach with a 130meter pier free.
Due to the young and rather wealthy demographic, there are many small stores catering the local crowd with designer clothes and home décor. There are also several small galleries and antique stores. These are mainly located on the main drags: Østerbrogade, Ndr. Frihavnsgade and their side streets. On Saturdays there is an organic farmers market on Jakobs Plads (Østebrogade). Groceries can be bought in Superbest (former ISO) on Østerfælled Square which hosts a good delicatessen and a bakery. On Nordre Frihavnsgade at the east end (farther away from Trianglen) there is a branch of Netto, the cheapest supermarket chain, and one of Super Brugsen, more expensive but offering other products.
- Flea Market, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads. mid May to mid September, Sundays 9am-4pm. free entrance.
- Casablanca, Østerbrogade 92, ☎ +45 35 26 35 69. M-W 9AM-5:30PM, Th 10AM-6PM, F 10AM-7PM, Sa 9:30AM-2PM. This record store was one of Copenhagen's few specialty stores for Jazz lovers, with over 2000 Jazz records on catalog. But also has a wide range of other CDs with non mainstream bands of every genre. It is now sadly closed.
- Langelinie outlet, Langeliniekaj, . M-Su 11AM-6PM. is a long shopping arcade, located on a promenade along the harbor, where the gigantic cruise ships dock. Several cafes, outlet stores, and souvenir shops (mainly catering to foreigners and cruise guests) have been beautifully fitted into the old stone bulwark. The ice cream stores at the end of the promenade are immensely popular with the locals during the summer.
- Moshi Moshi, Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 40, ☎ +45 35 38 70 78, . M-F 11AM-6PM, Sa 11AM-15PM. This is actually 3 stores located next to each other, and there is nothing here but the most unerringly stylish, minimal, eco-conscious women's clothing and shoes.
- Normann Copenhagen, Østerbrogade 70, ☎ +45 35 55 44 59, . M-F 10AM-6PM, Sa 10AM-4PM. As hip as they come housewares, clothing, and accessories by up-and-coming designers which the owners takes pride in, and are renowned for spotting both locally and all around the world. The store is housed in an old theatre and is easily one of the best places for shopping design items in the city.
- Paustian, Kalkbrænderiløbskaj 2, ☎ 39 16 65 65 ([email protected]), . M-Th 9:30AM-5:30PM, F 9:30AM-6PM, Sa 10AM-3PM. This store offers one of Denmark's largest selection of high quality furniture, carpets, lighting, and accessories designed exclusively for Paustian by Danish designers and Architects. The store is housed in a building designed by world famous architect Jørn Utzon, of Sydney Opera house fame.
- Rambow, Østerbrogade 55A, ☎ +45 35 26 30 07, . M-F 1PM-5.30PM. A small design boutique fitted into an old communal bathing institution, sells both new and old furniture, kitchenwares, electronics from a host of national and (mostly) international designers and design bureaus.
- Café Charlottehaven, Hjørringgade 12C, ☎ +45 35 27 15 16, . M-F 7AM-10PM,Sa-Su 10AM-5PM. Cafe/restaurant in one of the rare big rooms on Østerbro, The daily specials (M-F) at 125 Kr are a good deal for both your pocket, taste buds and your health, while you can safely give the somehow enormously popular, but completely overpriced Brunch a miss. (55.705692,12.588267)
- Crazy Chicken, Rosenvængets Allé 1, ☎ +45 35 26 41 42. 10AM-10PM daily. This small place mainly serves as a take away place, but also has two tables available for a quick bite. Dishes out some excellent sandwiches and has menus with different sorts of chicken - as the name might imply - served with the option of several different Mediterranean inspired salads from a buffet (you get to choose 2) and/or potatoes. From 30 Kr. (55.698782,12.578686)
There are some reasonable priced restaurants at the sailing clubs in Svanemøllen Harbour. For example:
- Cafe Sundet, Svaneknoppen (at the end of the north pier at Svanemølle harbour), ☎ +45 39 29 30 35, . May-Sept: Mo-Fr 11.30am-9pm (Kitchen 5.30-9PM), Oct-Apr: M,W 4PM-10PM. Located on the pier with a great view this place caters to sailors and passersby who just come to breathe in the harbor scene and ocean air. Kitchen is mainly Danish cousine. Mains from 128 Kr.
- Restauranten, Sejlklubben Frem, Strandvænget 65 (at the red gate), ☎ +45 39 29 33 85, . Tu-F 4-10PM, Sa-Su 11AM-5PM. Inexpensive restaurant with a more private atmosphere. Barbecue in the summer. Today's special: 59 Kr.
Den Franske Café and Guldanden by søerne at nightime
- Borella, Århusgade 48, ☎ +45 35 26 62 05, . M-W 11:30AM-11:PM, Th-Sa 11:30AM-12PM, Su 11AM-10PM,. A Brasserie style eatery run by a French couple, who dishes out reasonably priced food in a relaxed atmosphere, there is an option for tables outside during spring and summer and they also have a brunch menu. Mains: 200 Kr.
- Den Franske Cafe (The French Cafe), Sortedams Dossering 101, ☎ +45 35 42 48 45, . M-F 9AM-10PM, Sa-Su from 10AM. This café has outdoor tables by the lake under trees and coloured lanterns. The menu is mostly café classics like filled croissants, nachos, chilli con carne, pasta, burgers, but during the summer there is barbecue available until the late hours. From 98 Kr.
- Fru Heiberg, Rosenvængets Alle 3 (just off Trianglen), ☎ +45 35389100, . M-W 5PM-10PM, Th noon-10PM, F-Sa noon-11PM. A charming place serving non-pretentious and delicious Scandinavian-French food and fantastic wines. Attentive and polite service, a favorite dining haunt for the locals. Mains 120 Kr. (55.69882,12.57880)
- Gourmanderiet, Rosenvængets Allé 7A, ☎ +45 39 27 10 00, . Tu-F 11AM-7PM, Sat 9AM-3PM. Originally and in essence this is a high-end organic butchery, but an ever growing popularity with locals have prompted the owners to branch out, and offer a Brunch, Lunch and a evening "Dish of the Day", centred around their high quality meat from organic farms. Thursdays-Saturdays (5.50PM-midnight) they transform the place into a restaurant labeled Gourmanderiet by Night, and dish out fantastic steaks of every variety. Mains from 120 Kr, Sandwitches and soups from 60 Kr.
- Hos Fischer, Victor Borges Plads 12, ☎ +45 35 42 39 64, . Daily 11AM-midnight. Is a good, low key, Italian trattoria style restaurant. The menu varies greatly but if you can get hold of the Risotto, it is a treat. Otherwise go for one of the excellent pasta dishes. The Wine is very reasonably priced (for Copenhagen), and the staff is informal, but still attentive. Mains starts around 100 Kr. (55.701727,12.580858)
- Rex Republic, Blegdamsvej 106, ☎ +45 33 55 66 14, . Tu-Sa 6AM-10PM, in the weekend the bar is open until 2AM. Located across from the Freemasons Lodge, you can often find the mystic darkly dressed gentlemen crossing the street to have a late steak here. The late opening hours, a raw masculine interior and the overwhelming prominence and thick steaks on the menu coupled with good microbrewery beer on the tabs, should hint that this is a place for the boys. Unfortunately the flame-grilled steaks here is hit or miss, and the wine menu is a bit overpriced.
- Romarin, Ryesgade 90, ☎ +45 35 43 29 28, . M-Th 5PM-11PM, F-Sa 5PM-11:30PM. Good, though not outstanding, food at reasonable prices from the Italian and French kitchens, is made even more tolerable by the fact that you can freely bring your own wine and beer to enjoy with your food. Staff is relaxed in both the best and worst way, readily engaging in a hearty chat, but not terribly efficient. Main: 170 Kr, 3 courses 240 Kr..
- Wokshop, Melchiors Plads 3, ☎ +45 35 55 61 21, . Daily noon-4PM/5PM-10PM. Stylish Thai cantina located on a nice square with both outdoor and indoor seating and proper Singha beers to wash down your Thai curry. Most of the classics are on the menu and there is an option for Take away. Mains from 109 Kr. (55.703473,12.585226&)
- Øbro Spisehus, Øster Farimagsgade 16A, ☎ +45 35 43 23 30, . Tu-Sa 6PM-midnight. This small, laid back restaurant serving French food with a North African twist, does not make much racket of itself, and can be tricky to find (Look next to the Sticks N' Sushi take away joint), and the owners prefer it that way. The good atmosphere provided by raw brick walls, solid wooden tables, high ceilings lighted up by intimate candlelight and the view of the chefs working, make the wait for the deliberate slow food much more pleasant. Starters: 99 Kr, Mains 199 Kr, Desert 79 Kr.
- No 1, Århusgade 1 (at the corner of Århusgade and Østerbrogade), ☎ +45 35 26 42 01, . M-F noon-3PM & 6PM-midnight, Sa 6PM-midnight. Good restaurant serving a modern interpretation of the French kitchen, the chef has worked on several Michelin stared restaurants before starting his own place on Østerbro, in a old thoroughly renovated, but still visible Bodega, (a traditional Danish working class watering hole). Also makes excellent picnic baskets in the summer. Mains from 195 Kr. (55.70597,12.577618)
- Auberge, Østerbrogade 64, ☎ +45 35 35 39 00, . M-Sa 6PM-midnight. Stylish modern looking restaurant fitted into a cellar with bare stone walls and chic interiors. The food on the other hand is classic French/Danish, and rather affordable considering the quality which is usually easily competes with much more expensive restaurants. Also runs a fantastic take away joint with a set affordable dinner dish changing every day on street level. 2 course menu 200 Kr, 6 courses 500 Kr. (55.698471,12.578584)
- Geranium, P.H. Lings Alle 4 (Nope, your GPS is not drunk, it's inside the stadium), ☎ 69 96 00 20, . Booking is essential. Reopened in new surroundings by chef Rasmus Kofoed who won the 2011 Bocuse d'Or, and is one of the best chefs in the world. The Michelin star hasn't followed him, but many food critics believe this is a mistake. The restaurant is along with Noma at the forefront of the revolution in nordic cousine that is current waging on. Danish newspapers and guides all agree; if you want to sample local gourmet, this is a very good place to be seated. Set menu for 1048 Kr, Wines double the price..
- Le Saint Jacques, Sankt Jakobs Plads 1, ☎ +45 35 42 77 07 ([email protected]), . Su-W 11AM-midnight, Th-Sa 11AM-2AM. Very French kitchen — brasserie style with white walls, candlelights, Russian icons and more religious symbols than your average church. With the quirky décor, good wines, and the style of the buildings on the square, it doesn't take much effort to imagine yourself in Paris when dining here. Mains from 180 Kr. (55.703152,12.577764)
Østerbro is not the place for raving nightlife, apart from the nightclub Park Café, newly opened the Office and partly Café Bopa, most places on Østerbro are low key, cozy places where you go to have a hyggelig conversation with friends, over a few snacks and beers or wine with quiet music playing in the background. Most locals head downtown for a big night out. As is the case with almost every bar in Copenhagen, expect draft beers to set you back 30-40 Kr.
- Cafe Bopa, Bopa Plads 1, ☎ +45 35 43 05 66, . Su-W 10AM-midnight, Th 10AM-2AM, F-Sa 10AM-5AM. A café during daylight, this place morphs into a crowded bar with DJs spinning records during the weekends. Relaxed atmosphere and great for socializing
- Pixie, Løgstørgade 2, ☎ +45 39 30 03 05, . Su-Th 9.30AM-1AM,F-Sa 9.30AM-3AM. This microscopic place are located right next to Café Bopa, and hands some reasonably priced cocktails (a flat 65 Kr) over the counter, Outdoor seating on the small square, and Brunch, Lunch, Tapas and an evening menu if you want to fill up your stomach before indulging. Pixie is the name for a series of well know children's books, and the owners have kept true to the name with pretty neat colourful childish interiors. (55.704993,12.581196)
- Dag H, Dag Hammarskjölds Alle 36, ☎ +45 35 27 63 00, . M-W 8AM-11PM, Th-Sa 8AM-midnight, Su 10AM-midnight. Located on a small square, colloquially known as the little Triangle, this cafe is popular for its huge outdoor serving area, at the end the the lakes, it is a bit overpriced, but the coffee is top-notch and they have a descent collection of Danish and foreign beers. Brunch:125 Kr, Mains:169 Kr.
- Docken, Færgehavnsvej 35, ☎ +45 39 29 92 00, . Su-Th 11AM-11PM,F-Sa 11AM-midnight. While much more than just a watering hole, it is definitively one of this - summer only - place, best treats. With a huge outdoor area and an artificial beach, it is perfect for chilling on warm days. But they also house a restaurant, and the two large raw industrial storage buildings, houses exhibitions and concerts all summer long. Season varies but count on early June to late August as safe bets.
- Figaro Bistrot Vinbar, Willemoesgade 31, ☎ +45 35 38 78 00 ([email protected]), . M-Th 4AM-midnight, F 4PM-2AM, Sa noon-02AM, Su noon-10PM. Cozy and authentic French bistro and wine bar, with more than 200 wines of the menu. Housed in basement level on a quiet side street, there are always candle lights and a relaxed atmosphere. In the summer there are outside tables on the sidewalk. Foreign beers available. Maincourses from 120 Kr.
- Kruts Karport (Øster Farimagsgade 12), ☎ +45 35 26 86 38 ([email protected]), . M-Th noon-midnight, F-Sa noon-2AM, Su noon-7PM. Cafe with extensive whiskey menu, Kruts absinth, good beers, and sandwiches.
- Panzón, Rosenvænget Allé 6, ☎ +45 35 38 98 00 ([email protected]), . M-Th 4PM-midnight, F-Sa 4PM-2AM. A small place with a hearty atmosphere. Very good selection of beer, bottles from the San Fransisco microbrewery Lagunitas is highly recommended. An extensive wine menu (also by the glass). And quality food — mostly tapas, sausages and cheese. Beer from 40 Kr, Wine from 200 Kr/bottle and food from 60 Kr.
- Park café, Østerbrogade 79, ☎ +45 70 33 32 22 ([email protected]), . Su-Th noon-midnight, F-Sa noon-late. A big bar, cafe, restaurant and nightclub; the only real option for a grand night out in Østerbro. In the summer you can sit on the open roof terrace facing the stadium.
- The Office, Sortedams Dossering 83, . W-Th 7PM-2AM,F 5PM-2AM,Sa 7PM-2AM. Is an British expat's good shot at starting up some nightlife in the district, which is otherwise lagging. This pretty large place mainly works as a cocktail bar (flat fee of 75 Kr), but they also serve beer and sushi as bar snacks! international cosmopolitan vibes are rare in Copenhagen, but this place definitely has it, and the added bonus of outdoor seating by the lakes is another rare feat. (55.696423,12.575332)
- Vinyl Bar, Sortedam Dossering 81, ☎ +45 35 43 00 10, . M-W 10AM-10PM,Th-Sa 10AM-midnight,Su 10AM-9PM. More of a café than a bar despite the name, since it also has an extensive menu with the usual café dishes. This place is located next to The Office, and has attractive outdoor seating overlooking the Lakes, attentive waiters, good coffee and of course a selection of beers and liquors - when it closes early you can go next door and have nice cocktails. (55.696112,12.574817)
- Kitjn, Århusgade 14 (off Østerbrogade), . We 6pm-midnight, Th 6pm-2am, Fr 4pm-3am, Sa 6pm-3am. A real cocktailbar with a cozy atmosphere and knowledgeable bartenders. The specialty is rum-based cocktails DKK 100.
The options for staying at Østerbro are rather limited, as most hotels in Copenhagen are located in the downtown area — most of the surrounding neighborhoods, including Østerbro, are mainly residential. An alternative, often offering better value for money, are the numerous bed & breakfasts in private apartments.
- Hotel Rye, Ryesgade 115, ☎ +45 35 26 52 10 ([email protected]), . checkin: Until 9PM, but later check-in is possible for a fee; checkout: 11AM. This is a small, unusual hotel with a cozy atmosphere and homemade buns with the breakfast, feels like a real apartment, complete with showers and toilets down the hallway. From 600 Kr / single.
- Østerport Hotel, Oslo Plads 5, ☎ +45 70 12 46 46 ([email protected]), . checkin: 2AM; checkout: noon. Is located at Østerport station right at the tracks (it is soundproofed), apart from being really central with most trains in and out of Copenhagen just a minute away, it is close to most of Østerbro's main attractions, and right at the outskirts of downtown. Singles from 675 Kr if booked online.
Private apartment rentals and semi-bed & breakfasts are by large the main type of accommodations on Østerbro. Visit Copenhagen ; the city's official tourist agency, provides several options in the district. These are often spacious and classic apartments from the 19th century, with high, decorated ceilings, and huge windows facing the street—as is the norm on Østerbro.
- Rent my Home, Sankt Jakobs Gade 4, ☎ +45 27 12 55 60 ([email protected]), . A 56m2, fully furnished apartment available for rent, minimum stay two nights. 750 Kr.
The postal code for Østerbro is 2100 (København Ø)
- Østerbro Post office (Østerbro Posthus), Øster Allé 1, ☎ +45 80 20 70 30. M-F 10AM-6PM, Sa 10AM-14PM. Offers the normal range of postal services, as well as Western Union transfers, currency exchange, and selling tickets for concerts plays etc. nationwide. (55.699622,12.575076)
- Østerbro library (Østerbro bibliotek), Dag Hammarskjölds Alle 19, ☎ +45 35 38 16 48 ([email protected]), . M-Th 10AM-7PM, F noon-6PM. Sa 10AM-3PM. Has 11 computers available for internet surfing, it is possible to book a PC online at library's website. Free.
- XPC Netcenter, Østerbrogade 124, ☎ +45 35 26 88 43, . Su-Th 11:30AM-2AM, F-Sa 11:30AM-8:00PM. Is a well managed internet cafe. 15 Kr/hour.
- The Laundromat Café, Århusgade 38, ☎ +45 35 55 60 20, . M-Th 8AM-11PM, F-Sa 10AM-midnight. Along with its sister cafe on Nørrebro, this bar and café is a perfect match for a traveler. Combining a coin laundromat with a café where you can sit and enjoy a coffee, beer, lunch or brunch, while reading one of the 3000 paperback titles or abusing the free wireless internet, and waiting for your laundry to finish. 32 Kr for laundry including detergent.
- Rigshospitalet (The National hospital), Blegdamsvej 9, ☎ +45 35 45 35 45 ([email protected]), . Although the largest and most important Hospital in the country, this hospital's ER only takes in patients arriving by ambulance, or referred by a doctor. This is due to large number of patients preferring to be hospitalized here, rather than one of the other Copenhagen Hospitals. Should you require hospitalization, patients on Østerbro are referred to Bispebjerg hospital in the North-West district.
- Trianglen Apoteket (Pharmacy), Nordre Frihavnsgade 3, ☎ +45 35 38 32 00 ([email protected]), . M-F 9AM-5.30PM except W 9AM-6PM,Sa 9AM-2PM. Large and well stocked chemist.
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If kindergarten is the new first grade … is your child ready?
With the first day of kindergarten arriving for many young children, the looming question for many parents is: Is she ready? And how ready is she compared to the other children who will be in her class?
Most often, the question of kindergarten readiness arises when a child turns 5 within a few months of the cut-off dates. Parents of children born as far ahead as May, particularly parents of boys, become concerned with whether their child is ready to begin classroom work. The decision is not one to be taken lightly. A year is a long time to take out of a child’s life. And the decision rests solely with the parents.
Kindergarten has changed from what was just a few years ago. Now, many schools make kindergarten an integral part of the elementary school’s curriculum, and the focus has shifted from social to academic.
Is She Ready?
Readiness for kindergarten involves both the child and the school setting, so when considering whether or not your child will meet kindergarten success based upon her abilities, you must take into account both the program and the teacher’s expectations of the students.
Kindergarten teacher Jane Stiltner likes to see her students enter the classroom already knowing some basics, like how to spell their first and last names. “I always like it if they know the alphabet coming in – not just singing the song, but being able to recognize the letters in random order,” she says.
Kindergarten teachers expect that children will be able to function within a cooperative learning environment where they work both independently and as a member of small and large groups. “Kids should be able to play with other kids, take turns, share, those kinds of socialization things,” says Stiltner, who adds that while most of her students understand things like raising their hands to be called on, for some children, kindergarten is a first experience in a school setting. “Kindergarten is what the old first grade used to be.”
Children should be able to attend to and finish a task, listen to a story in a group, follow two or three oral directions, take turns, and share and care for their belongings. They are also expected to follow the rules, respect the property of others and work within the time and space constraints of the school program.
Teachers expect children to develop certain physical skills before they enter kindergarten, too. In order to write letters and to make attempts at written and drawn expression, children are expected to enter kindergarten having already mastered fine motor skills requiring eye-hand coordination, such as using pencils, crayons or scissors. It is a definite plus for children to be able to master belts, buttons, zippers and shoelaces.
Children are also expected to possess both visual and auditory awareness of sounds and objects. These skills will be needed to learn the sounds of letters and the names and quantities of numerals. Children should grasp the concepts of “same and different” so they can sort objects into groups whose members are alike in some way. Usually, the kindergarten teacher expects students to recognize and name colors, shapes, sizes and their own names (although these concepts are often part of the curriculum early in the school year).
Most 5-year-olds can express themselves fluently with a variety of words and can understand an even larger variety of words used in conversations and stories. Children who have been read to from an early age are usually interested in the printed word and how it is used to express ideas; a concept of story and story structure; and an understanding of the relationship between oral and written language.
Some sense of numbers is also ideal, like counting and being able to recognize numbers from 0 to 10. A further issue is what the teachers and school system expect the child to accomplish by the end of kindergarten.
“They should be reading some words,” says Stiltner. “They should be able to sound out simple, three-letter words with short vowels, maybe reading short sentences like, ‘I like you’ … Of course, it is true that we have all levels of kids entering kindergarten. If Mom and Dad have read a lot to their child at home, that’s where your early readers come from.”
As expectations become more academic and assessments more formal, pressure increases to retain children who do not meet expectations. The assumption is that children who have not achieved a minimum level of cognitive and academic skills prior to first grade will benefit from another year of kindergarten. While that may be true for some, it is not true for others. Developmentally appropriate programs assume that children vary upon entrance; that all children progress during the program at their own rates and in their own manner; and that children will continue to vary at the end of the program.
How to Get Involved
Parents can help children learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet – the beginning of the process that leads to reading – and to also help them learn the sounds the letters make. If a child knows her alphabet and the sounds the letters make upon entering kindergarten, she is on the path to reading.
Here are additional skills parents can help their children acquire leading up to and during kindergarten:
- Count from one to 10 or higher
- Identify colors and shapes
- Name parts of the body
- Distinguish between left and right
- Demonstrate an ability for small motor skills like holding a pencil or a pair of scissors correctly
- Demonstrate an ability for following directions, including multiple-step directions
- Show an understanding of stories
- Demonstrate clarity of speech
- Demonstrate an increasing vocabulary
- Demonstrate the ability to tell a story in sequence
Ready, Set, Go!
Readiness for kindergarten depends on a child’s development of social, perceptual, motor and language skills expected by the teacher. It also depends on the curriculum’s degree of structure, the behavior required by the instructional program and expectations of what is to be achieved by the end of the program.
To aid parents in preparing children for kindergarten and in assessing whether their child is ready to attend, most schools provide booklets on readiness. And while checklists are always useful, you know your child best – if you feel she’s ready, then it looks like it’s time for school!
Patricia Cook is a freelance writer.
Experts agree that a child’s development needs to be evaluated in several areas. The following is a guideline that includes a range of social, academic and developmental factors to consider when deciding if your child is ready to enter school:
- Enthusiasm toward learning. Is she eager to explore and discover? Is she comfortable asking questions? Does she persist even when a task is difficult?
- Does she communicate her needs? Express her feelings appropriately?
- Ability to listen. Can she follow simple instructions? Is she able to listen to an entire story without interrupting?
- Desire to be independent. Does she separate from parents for the school day? Is she starting to take responsibility for her personal belongings? Can she follow simple two-step tasks? Can she use the bathroom by herself?
- Ability to interact with children and adults. Is she able to share, compromise, take turns and problem-solve?
- Strong fine-motor skills. Is she able to hold and use a pencil? Cut with scissors? Is she learning to write her name?
- Basic letter and number awareness. Can she sing and recite the alphabet and recognize some letters? Can she count to 10 and identify numbers one to five?
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
365/23 - walled in
cc licensed flickr photo shared by dragonsinger
This wall is very significant to me. I've been waiting all holidays for it to go up - it's the closing in of my classroom.
But it is also significant to me because the amount of display space on this one wall is more than all the wall display area I had in my old classroom.
Eventually the wall will be covered in some kind of fuzzy stuff (don't know what it's called) which is ideal for sticking other "stuff" onto.
It will be a few months until it's finished so in the meantime I'm thinking of "painting" it with kids handprints - multicoloured ones . (After it's been plastered and sanded of course!
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Fat or Fatty Tumors
Index of Bird Diseases ... Symptoms and Potential Causes ... Bird Species and Diseases They are Most Susceptible to
The information has kindly been provided by Dr. Rob Marshall - http://www.birdhealth.com.au)
Fatty tumours that lie beneath the skin (subcutaneous lipomas or xanthomas) are the most common neoplasms of birds. These encapsulated benign tumors are composed of mature fat cells. They generally occur in overweight birds and are most commonly seen in budgerigars, galahs and sulphur crested cockatoos.
Development of lipomas is associated with obesity, hypothyroidism and genetic factors. In addition to being unsightly, lipomas may become large enough to restrict movement and may become centrally necrotic or ulcerated. Pain and discomfort is associated with necrotic and ulcerated lipomas and xanthomas. Birds will pick at themselves (self mutilate) with this form of tumor. The resulting bleeding and infection becomes a life threatening situation.
If the tumor is not ulcerated or necrotic, initial treatment involves dietary modification and additional exercise. Iodine supplementation in the form of Ioford in the drinking water is also recommended at this stage. Lipomas that do not respond to this treatment often become ulcerated or begin to interfere with locomotion.
Management of Lipomas (non-ulcerated and non-necrotic)
- Introduce a low fat diet (low sunflower seed content).
- Balance nutrition (Avianweb Note: Low Fat, Low Seed, Focus on Fruits and Veggies, Greens and SPROUTED Seeds)
- Use an Iodine supplement to stimulate the thyroid gland and metabolism of fatty tissues.
- Stimulate exercise twice daily to help with weight and fat reduction.
- Return in 2 weeks for re-assessment of the tumor.
Fat tumors are associated with normal fat deposits throughout the body. The presence of these fat depots may lead to multi-focal development of lipomas. The aim of the above regime is to remove or minimize these surrounding fat depots to allow complete removal of the lipoma. If the tumor is completely removed, removal is usually curative.
Management of Xanthomas (ulcerated and necrotic)
Once the tumour becomes ulcerated or necrotic the tumor changes in nature to a serious life-threatening form called a Xanthoma. Xanthomas tend to overly fat deposits, hernias and chronic abscesses, and are non-discrete thickened areas of yellow, friable skin that bleeds easily. In these cases surgical removal is required. If the tumour is left untreated, the bird becomes susceptible to sudden bleeding episodes and may bleed to death.
- Please refer to this article about Marcie whose owner was able to reduce these tumors drastically by massaging them with Gentamicin cream and removing the cholesterol layers as they flake off.
- Note: A vet in San Diego (Dr. Speers) recommended apple cider vinegar (use to be discussed with a vet.).
Surgical Removal of Xanthomas
Once the fat tumor becomes ulcerated or necrotic, immediate surgical removal becomes necessary. The ulcerated and necrotic skin associated with xanthomas often complicates surgical removal of these tumours. Our aim for surgery is to completely remove the xanthoma and any surrounding necrotic or ulcerated skin. If this is achieved, recurrence is less likely.
Laser therapy has also been successfully used to treat these tumors. This procedure involves passing a laser beam across the bird's skin above the area where the pet experiences discomfort, injury or inflammation. This is a painless procedure – the pet only feels the warmth penetrating the affected area. The non-thermal photons of light are then absorbed by the injured cells, which are then stimulated and respond with a higher rate of blood circulation, an anti-inflammatory reaction, relief from pain and an accelerated healing process.
Post Operative Complications
There is very little chance of post surgical complication following the routine removal of non ulcerated/necrotic fat tumors. The removal of xanthomas and ulcerated lipomas is a more complex procedure because of an increased likelihood of bleeding and stroke like syndrome (see surgery pamphlet overleaf). As well, the likelihood of self mutilation is increased following surgery because the bird has developed a habit of picking itself. Self mutilation lessens the chance of recovery as the wound is not allowed adequate time to heal.
The Miracle that is Marcie by Jeannine Miesle - The story of a rescued cockatiel with multiple serious health problems, including xanthomas, lesions, malnutrition, Clostridium, Giardia and an atrophied uropygial gland
- Treating Pigeons:
- THUJA OCCIDENTALIS: This is a homeopathic herb used particularly for ill effects of vaccinations, blemishes, wart, polips, flued retention, tumors of Skin, gland, etc in people. It has proved to be a wonderful remedy for Pox in pigeons. Dosage: 3 small tablets for a good size pigeon, 2 for cockatiel size bird.1. For the first two days: use above dose twice a day, preferably once in the morning and once at night.2. Thereafter: use same dose once per day.In two weeks this product will get the pox out of the organs, internally and kick the immune system in gear.
You can use Thuja oil on EXTERNAL LESIONS only, not internal. You must use the Thuja pills for internal use.
You can use Tea Tree Oil, diluted with water for external lesions of Pox and/or Canker. Use a Q tip and soak it up and dab on lesion gently. You cannot use the tee tree oil on any open wounds. Make sure the bird cannot pick at it and ingest it. You can also use Colloidal silver on internal and external lesions, as well as Neem oil.
- “Heidi” Dow was a 14 year old spayed female with a growth on her right eye that looked red and angry (local vet said “cancerous”.) It was attached to the third eyelid, covered ½ the eye. It bled easily when rubbed or even touched gently. It was very sensitive to touch, causing this nice dog to growl. There were 2 firm growths on Rt. paw and in the middle of the chest. The owner gave Thuja 200c in July when it was first noticed and there was no change. She repeated Thuja 200c in August to no avail. She then gave Thuja 1M (date? In Aug) and the next day the tumor was more swollen and was dripping blood. She has been deaf since 1998. I prescribed Nitric acid 200c on September 8. From 9/14 to 9/18 had normal hearing. By 9/24 there was no blood and the tumor was smaller, though varied in size and shape, and she was back to normal energy and appetite. An LM potency of Nitric acid was given for the next 3 months, then a 10M Nitric acid. By April, she has been behaving like a young dog (Almost knocked the husband over which she has not done in years), woofing and pesky and pushy and sits and bounces up and down. Now doing 4 mile walks with running, leading and being adventuresome. The tumor is completely gone, there is no eye discharge, the ears are clear, there is no snoring and her appetite is fine.
- Folk Medicine - According to Hartwell (1967–1971), the plant, usually as a tincture, is used in folk remedies for benign skin tumors, cancers, condylomata (of penis and vulva), excrescences, fungous flesh, neoplasms, papillomas, plantar warts, polyps, tumors, and warts. Reported to be anaphrodisiac, diaphoretic, diuretic, lactagogue, and laxative, arbor vitae is a folk remedy for burns, colds, consumption, cough, debility, distemper, dysentery, dysmenorrhea, fever, gout, headache, inflammation, malaria, paralysis, rheumatism, swollen extremities, toothache, and worms (Duke and Wain, 1981). The charcoal, mixed with bear gall, was introduced under the skin, after application, with needles in early Indian acupuncture, which resulted in black tatoos. Chippewa pricked the charcoal powder into the temples as an analgesic and used the leaves in cough compounds. Hurons used the boughs for their bed as a snake repellant. Menominee used in herbal steam and smudges for skin ailments and unconsciousness; they decocted the inner bark for amenorrhea, and poulticed powdered leaves onto swellings. Montagnai decocted the bruised twigs as a diaphoretic. Ojibwa used the leaf decoction as an analgetic, antitussive, depurative, and smoked objects and steamed themselves with the smoke or steam as a ceremonial cleansing. Penobscot poulticed the leaves onto hands and feet, and used for cancerous warts. Potawatomi treated the plant almost like a panacea, and burned the leaves over the coals as medicine, ceremonial purification, and to repel evil spirits (Duke, 1983c). Sources cited in Hager's Handbook report that homeopathic doses are effective against animal and plant viruses and that the plant affords protection against schistosomiasis. Hager's Handbook also lists many homeopathic applications, e.g. amnesia, angina, blepharitis, cholecystosis, condylomata, conjunctivitis, gonorrhea, gout, melancholy, myalgia, neuralgia, otitis, pertussis, pharyngitis, pruritus, rheumatism, rhinitis, trachitis, etc. (List and Horhammer, 1969–1979).
- A benign fatty tumor, called a lipoma, is a soft, movable lump under the skin which does not turn into cancer. It can be surgically removed if it is causing discomfort or congestion. This is usually a simple procedure.
The herb chickweed may help. Take one teaspoon of the tincture, three times daily or steep 2 teaspoons of the dried herb in a covered cup of boiling water for 15 minutes to make a tea, three times daily. Apply a chickweed ointment externally. If you don't notice a difference within a week, then this herb will not work for you.
Thomas Bartram, in "Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine" (available at Richters) recommends Thuja occidentalis (cedar) for lipomas. Take 5 drops of the liquid extract in a little water three times daily and wipe the lipoma with thuja extract 2 to 3 times daily.
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My School Daze
My school daze were exactly that, dazed as opposed to days.
I was bashed in school. I was prompted to write this article by the title for the August monthly contest on InfoBarrel, which I found to be amusing because it included the word bash. And bashed we were, by the so called Christian Brothers (Roman Catholic Order). Not so strange as it sounds because in the late 1960's the Christian Brothers were still held in high esteem by the politicians and people of Ireland (and perhaps other parts of the world). I have always considered the Christian Brothers to be the best example of an oxymoron because Christian they were not. I am not bitter about my school experience but I have very little respect for these original Men in Black. As it has since transpired, their counterparts, the holy Catholic priests of Ireland were ten times worse.
The bad old school days in the care of Christian Brothers
They hit you a lot and they could walk soundlessly through the classroom so the first indication you had that the brute was near to you was a thick ear. The first time I went home and complained to my mother about my sore ear she promptly whacked the other ear and told me that "You now have one to match the other". Ah! The joys of school life in poverty ridden Ireland at that time. The assumption of many parents, at that time, was that you most likely deserved the thick ear. Strange times, indeed, and school days are the best time of your life? I didn't think so at the time.
Hurling through the good old school days
I played for the school team in hurling which is the national sport of Ireland. It’s a bit like ice hockey, but played without the protective clothing. Hurling is extremely fast and the ball (sliothar) is struck by the hurley (hurl) which is made from ash. Each player on the team has a hurley stick to strike the ball, which is smaller than a cricket ball. The All-Ireland-Hurling-Final is played every year on the first Sunday in September. Studying literature and math came a long way behind hurling as far the CB were concerned.
Back to school again
As I mentioned, I was a member of the school team and one of the privileges was that the Christian Brothers didn’t hit you as much or as hard as the other boys. The reason for this was because you needed all your fingers and thumbs to be in working order to hurl properly. When they hit you with their leather strap they hit the palm of your hand rather than the much more painful finger slap, or the worse thumb slap. They may have known what love was but they never practiced it.
Our school team reached the final of the Dublin hurling championship and the whole school was promised a day off if we won. This was so very odd because we never got days off and if we did, the directive seemed to come from the Pope himself (we are still awaiting a female Pope). The team members were promised, by the Brother in charge of the team, that they would not have any homework for a week. Other enticements from the tuck shop were also offered as an incentive. The entire school was marched to Croke Park for the final so we had hundreds of supporters cheering us on (and relishing the prospect of a day away from the Brothers). Losing was too awful to contemplate. Suffice to say, we won. Years afterwards, I wondered how the 15 players on the other team fared, as they also attended a Christian Brother’s school.
Song of the raggy boy
The Christian Brother way of teaching
First Christian Brother
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hi guys we finally have a kid club. thank you toby.
my name is cameron maramenides. i am 10 years old and i am putting this post so all the kids can share the stories they have about kite boarding. this post for all the kids that like to kiteboard and want to share how to do tricks, places you like to kite, equipment you like the most,videos and photos.
so parents if you read this post have you kids share it with all the kids. that way we can practice righting and reading while talking about our favorite hoby kitebording.
forgot to put some pictures also. i just did it now.
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Looking great Cameron!! Here are my lil' rippers'...from Ontario, Canada. Summer practice at the beach, Lake Erie. Hopefully I will enjoy riding with them one day also...your Dad must be very proud of you! Keep it up!!
Great viddy Cameron, love that skateboard to kiteboard trick.
I'm getting my 10 year old son on the water this year. I wanted to ask you about your harness. Did you also try a seat harness? I assume you're using an Epic harness in your video. Is that the 28-30 x small size? Last time I went to my local shop they didn't have any xsmall sizes for him to try on so I'm trying to figure out what will be best for him.
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Title: Your Irresistible Love
Release Date: January 15th 2016
Sebastian Bennett is a determined man. It’s the secret behind the business empire he built from scratch. Under his rule, Bennett Enterprises dominates the jewelry industry. Despite being ruthless in his work, family comes first for him, and he’d do anything for his parents and eight siblings—even if they drive him crazy sometimes. . . like when they keep nagging him to get married already.
Sebastian doesn’t believe in love, until he brings in external marketing consultant Ava to oversee the next collection launch. She’s beautiful, funny, and just as stubborn as he is. Not only is he obsessed with her delicious curves, but he also finds himself willing to do anything to make her smile.
He’s determined to have Ava, even if she’s completely off limits.
Ava Lindt has one job to do at Bennett Enterprises: make the next collection launch unforgettable. Daydreaming about the hot CEO is definitely not on her to-do list. Neither is doing said CEO. The consultancy she works for has a strict policy—no fraternizing with clients. She won’t risk her job. Besides, Ava knows better than to trust men with her heart.
But their sizzling chemistry spirals into a deep connection that takes both of them by surprise.
Sebastian blows through her defenses one sweet kiss and sinful touch at a time. When Ava’s time as a consultant in his company comes to an end, will
Sebastian fight for the woman he loves or will he end up losing her?
Your Irresistible Love:
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Title: Your Captivating Love
Release Date: April 2016
Description: (Synopsis may change)
Logan Bennett knows his priorities. He is loyal to his family and his company. He has no time for love, and no desire for it. Not after a disastrous engagement that left him broken-hearted. When Nadine enters his life, she turns everything upside down. She’s sexy, funny, and utterly captivating. She’s also more stubborn than anyone he’s met. . .including himself.
Nadine Hawthorne is finally pursuing her dream: opening her own shop. After working so hard to get here, she needs to concentrate on her new business, and can’t afford distractions. Not even if they come in the form of Logan Bennett. He’s handsome, charming, and doesn’t take no for an answer.
It doesn’t help that Logan’s family is scheming to bring them together at every turn
Their attraction is sizzling, and their connection—undeniable. Slowly, Logan wins her over. But what starts out as a fling soon spirals into so much more. Will they learn to trust their feelings? Will they have the strength not to let go of each other?
Your Captivating Love
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“Save your breath and get going.”
I shut my mouth, breathing through my nose as I command my legs not to give up. Jogging is hard. After about a mile, a cramp takes hold of my right thigh. I come to a halt with a shriek and grip my thigh, hoping to relieve the ache. All I manage to do is make the cramp extend to my ankle too.
“Fuck,” I groan, collapsing on the sand. In a heartbeat, Sebastian kneels next to me, putting his hands to work on my thigh and ankle. He kneads my flesh expertly. Before long, the cramp subsides, but he doesn’t stop touching me.
“You really are in terrible shape.”
“I told you to go gentle,” I groan. “Jesus, it hurts everywhere.”
“Ava, I don’t do gentle.”
His words send a jolt of heat right to my core, his double entendre turning me on instantly. I push myself up on my elbows.
“How often do you run?” I ask. “Be honest.”
“I go to the gym every morning. Running an hour is part of my routine.”
I snort. “I knew it. Why didn’t you mention that when I told you I haven’t been running in over a month?”
Sebastian smirks, shrugging.
“Well, at least I get the satisfaction that you’re also sweaty.”
“Oh, I can think of a much more satisfying way to get sweaty,” he says. Then he does that thing with his eyes again that turns me to mush. His gaze smolders, as if nothing exists except the two of us.
“Does it involve any clothes?” I mumble.
“No, it doesn’t.”
His gaze descends to my chest then lower on my disheveled body. Since he’s not bothering to be discreet, I allow myself to inspect every delicious detail about him. Sweat dots his upper lip, and I imagine what kissing him would taste like. A little like salt, a lot like a man. Oh, God. How am I supposed to resist him when he’s so irresistible?
“Have you thought about asking her to stay?” Logan asks. He and Pippa exchange a glance that tells me they’ve talked about this.
“I can’t ask her to give up her job. When the project is over, she’ll move to the next one.” My voice is hollow. Why the fuck is this thought so depressing?
“Dude, you already sound like a love-sick puppy. No way am I going to listen to your drunk ramblings about your lost love after she’s gone.” Logan hefts the glass in my direction as if he’s toasting me.
I stare him down. “When did I ever get drunk and talk about women?”
“Oh, that’s right,” he admits. “Never.”
He takes a sip from his non-alcoholic cocktail, looking at Pippa with wide eyes.
“Oh, Logan, stop the puppy dog eyes. Though you’ll always be known as the family puppy,” Pippa informs us with a lovely grin. “Sebastian’s the family’s lion, nursing his wounds alone and all that shit.”
Logan leaps to his feet. “How does Sebastian get to be the lion and I the puppy? Why can’t I be a tiger, or at least some scary dog breed?”
Ah, a good old Bennett brawl.
Pippa puts a hand on her hip, squinting at Logan as if she’s considering something. “Yeah, you’re right. Not a puppy. I’ll look up the appropriate breed later. Must be one that barks a lot but doesn’t bite.”
“Don’t forget it must have an oversized ego,” I supply.
Pippa nods. “I’ll keep that in mind.”
“I’m very glad the two of you are having fun at my expense.” Logan’s tone clearly indicates he’s not glad at all. Pippa and I grin. “But we were talking about Sebastian, and how the family lion will be stupid enough to let the woman he loves walk away.”
My smile drops.
“Sebastian, don’t be an idiot,” Pippa begins, now turning to me, placing both hands on her hips. “If you love her—”
“I didn’t say that.”
“You don’t have to,” she insists, tilting her head.
“Oh, you can just see it?” I ask sarcastically.
“I can,” Pippa says triumphantly. She glances at Logan, who backs her up with a strong nod. Oh, here they go again.
“Yes, yes, Pippa, we all know you’ve been blessed with Mom’s exceptional people-reading skills.” I give them a dismissive hand gesture, but they won’t let me off so easily today.
“Except when it comes to the people I date or marry, apparently,” she adds. I pull a face, fully aware of what she’s doing, bringing up her broken marriage so I don’t brush her off. I’d get mad at her for being so manipulative if I didn’t love her so much. Which she knows very well.
“How is it that every time we do something together out of the office, you two corner
me about my personal life?” I inquire, tapping my fingers on the glass.
“You want us to do it at the office too?” Pippa asks with mock surprise. “Why didn’t you say so? Logan, are you up for it? Hey, we could even call in Alice for a Bennett sibling meeting now and again in the CEO’s office. Or in the meeting room.”
Groaning, I drag my palm down my face. “Please don’t.”
“Let’s get through this step by step,” Pippa says. She sits down on the floor, crossing her legs as if she’s about to do some yoga or shit. Damn it. I know that expression on her face. Lifted eyebrows, lips curled into a half smile. It reminds me of our days as kids, planning our way into or out of a mess. “The point is you can’t let her go.”
“You jumped a few steps in the process,” Logan tells her.
“What will you do after she leaves?” Pippa continues, and now a shred of seriousness tinges her playful tone. “Get back to your old life? Find a Terence, like I did? You’ve had enough sharks have a go at you over the years, wearing silicone and Botox to mask their teeth. You’re the billionaire CEO of one of the biggest companies in San Francisco, and we’re in a sexy industry. Everyone knows you, and you’re one of the most eligible bachelors around.”
Logan and I groan in unison. He gets up. “Okay, it’s time for some adult drinks. Whiskey for everyone?”
I nod. After a few seconds, so does Pippa.
“Make mine a double,” I instruct.
“Go, tiger,” Pippa tells him. We all laugh, but without much humor. The discussion has taken a turn for the serious. Logan shoves the drinks in our hands, and we spend a few minutes in silence, nursing the whiskey.
I fell in love with books when I was nine years old, and my love affair with stories continues even now, many years later. I write romantic stories and can’t wait to share them with the world. And I drink coffee. Lots of it
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Bell’s palsy is a weakness of facial muscle from inflammation of the facial nerve. Sometimes this is caused by an infection, but many times the cause is unknown. The paralysis is usually temporary. Treating this illness with steroids has been debated for many years because there has been no good evidence. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine offers new hope for quick recovery from Bell’s palsy with the steroid medication called prednisolone.
About the Study
Researchers compared prednisolone to a placebo in 496 patients over 16 years old (patients with herpes zoster were excluded). There were four different groups in the study. Two of the groups were given acyclovir, a medication used to treat some viral infections. There was no benefit shown with this medication. The patients who were treated with prednisolone, were given 25 mg twice daily for 10 days starting within 72 hours of symptoms.
Patients taking prednisolone (with or without acyclovir) had better recovery than those taking the placebo. At three months, 83% of the prednisolone group were symptom-free compared to only 63% of the placebo group. At nine months, 94% of the prednisolone group had no symptoms compared to 81% of the placebo group. While at the end of nine months many in the placebo group did experience full recovery, the treatment group recovered sooner. There were very few bad reactions to the medication. Common side effects to any steroid include dizziness, insomnia , and night sweats.
How Does This Affect You?
Bell’s palsy occurs annually at a rate of 25 per 100,000. As seen by this study, most patients will recover completely without any treatment. A long recovery can be uncomfortable and unpleasant. If you have any symptoms of facial muscle weakness, call your physician immediately so you can receive prompt treatment.
- Reviewer: Larissa Lucas, MD
- Review Date: 12/2007 -
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I was scheduled for my ehem graduation photo shoot ehem last thursday, hours before my actual class and I was too giddy to have my picture taken. Too giddy in fact that for the nth time, I was late for the shoot! Harhar. I've already convinced myself to prepare all the necessary clothes that I'll be needing ahead of time but the last-minute aficionado that I am, I got distracted with another thing. That is, writing an email full of words that describe how amazed, gobsmacked, flabbergasted, and simply blown away (these adjectives were exactly what I used) I am after reading three novels in a row, all authored by Jodi Picoult. Trust me to be the girl who'll find a way to express her sign of approval to someone who has made an incredibly well-executed job. I'm so geeky in that way. I wanted others to know that their works are well received by silly old me. After typing down a lengthy fanmail, I closed my email and started to panic. I only had an hour to take a bath, stuff things down in my bag, dress up for school, and try to remember as many rules as possible the photoshoot is reqiring. Cutting the chase, I was late. And yes, I was able to charm my way into the make up artists and everyone who was there. And double yes, they still attended to my whims. This, my friends, is the Gellie-trade mark. Setting aside my "student deficiency", let me show you what I wore for the casual wear:
Dress: Warehouse| Jacket: Forever 21| Belt: Topshop| Watch: Mango
This is another first! I held my chin up, smoothed my dress, and walked along the halls of my school wearing make up as heavy as this. I've never worn make up in school, save of course for those instances which required me, so I consider this a very bold move.
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red light, green light
Starting back in January, when I made a commitment to pump life back into this blog and post once a week, I had a grace period for a couple of months where the topic for the next post would arrive well in advance, floating up to the top of my consciousness with a feeling of certainty and a few sentences ready to leap. It was a nice ride, all those ideas sidling up to me politely like little butlers, offering their services a cosmic minute before I needed them.
Yes. Well. We've moved to a different part of the program. And, of course, I knew that golden age would pass. There are a lot of weeks under the every week
umbrella. They just keep coming. One of my writing mentors, Bob Ray, talks about how much endurance is a part of the deal, and that's a big set of muscles getting worked right now, though not the only set.
Sometimes I get hit with resistance so hard that I can barely keep my eyes open. I took two long, powerful, inadvertent naps in front of the blank page just today, trying to figure out what the fuck I was going to talk to you about here, and that was after a good night's sleep. I didn't want to go under, I fought it, but it was as though I'd wandered into a field of enchanted poppies, or been slipped a roofie by some internal saboteur, which I actually think is about right. My money's on the notion that this move to develop endurance as a writer is starting to challenge some old identity, and whatever identity that is is not having it.
Soon after college, I remember hanging with my friend Tanya, complaining to her about how out of shape I was. Tanya offered, sensibly, that I could go the gym. And I was annoyed, like, THAT is not the POINT. I am not looking for SOLUTIONS here. If you drag solutions into a thing, you don't get to keep your beautiful, tragic destiny, and I guess my beautiful, tragic destiny was to be an under-appreciated weakling or something? If I went to the gym, I would become a whole different person, and nobody just becomes a whole different person. Doi. I didn't examine this resistance, either. You get an idea wedged in there and it's going to look solid at a glance, so you just leave it.
Lately, I'm having this thing where I burst into tears of longing whenever I hear of somebody getting a book published. They don't have to be real people, either. I saw
for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and when Joaquin Phoenix's character was surprised with the news that a publisher was turning his letters into a book, I had a heart pang and a little sob popped out of me, so dramatic it was almost comical. But news of book publication, faux or no, hits me like I'm one of the people left behind after the Rapture. First it's like,
wow! Yay! Rapture! How 'bout them apples?!
And then I'm like,
oh, no. I'm down here among the damned. Everybody's up there eating potato salad in heaven or whatever and I'm stuck down here wandering around some horrible housing development underneath a gloomy, apocalyptic sky.
You don't even have to say it. You don't. You want to, I can feel it, YOU SENSIBLE TANYAS. You're about to say,
how 'bout just writing a book, doofus?
I got that part. I'm working on it. I'm just stalled, so I'm popping open the hood to see what's gumming up the machinery.
Like, for example, I have some ideas about what real writers are. I know I'm a writer, but I'm talking about Writers. Besides being published, they're like something. You got two kinds. There are your tough, whiskey-swilling, unstoppable, Indiana Jones motherfuckers who outrun boulders and hang off the bottoms of moving trucks and punch Nazis and just get the shit done, no matter how beaten up they get in the process. They have no time for little armchair dreamers. Talk to them after you've retrieved a couple of arks. And then you have your academic, straight-A, Ravenclaw types in sweater sets, typing away primly, amassing endless stacks of pages. They have no time for Type B fuckups, people who turn in their homework late or not at all. They peer down over their glasses long enough to sniff that you all got the assignment at the same time, so you really have no excuse.
So that's the gamut. Real writers, right there. Never mind that I know a good bunch of real writers, by my definition, and they're generally delightful human beings whose company I enjoy. I'm still toting these ideas around, which is a problem because a) I'm not like either of The Two Kinds of Writers and b) I don't want to hang around with them or be rejected/mocked by them. Why go for success as a writer if it means I'm applying to swim in and then drown amidst a pond full of dismissive assholes? That sounds bad, right? Totally bad. Give up.
What's a bit more radioactive, and trickier, is bumping up against an outdated identity that doesn't want to let go. I can feel it in there. I felt it in there today as I struggled to stay awake. The work I've been doing—writing work and spiritual/emotional/whatever-you-want-to-call-it work—has dug up what feels like an ancient statue, a porcelain-hard Tina-likeness, something that's calcified over hundreds of years of reinforcement. (Let's agree that I could be a few hundred years old for these purposes, okay? It's just a metaphor. It's all a dweam.)
This Tina-statue is an unassuming, supplicant, pitiful little creature. A wimp-angel. When I look at her face, I can tell that she needs permission for the least move. She looks flinchy, like she's been beaten, and she's just trying to sneak along under the radar so she won't get hurt. I don't know exactly where she came from, but being a writer probably feels to her like a terrifying move. If you're going to say things out loud to people over and over, you're probably going to say the wrong thing—over and over, even—which is inviting the worst kind of trouble. And I think when I say the worst, I mean the worst. A survival thing.
So there she is. You have to walk a fine line when you pull up something like this, I think. Deciding this is a made-up problem and plowing forward disregarding it feels like a mistake, like kicking the problem down the road. But there's a heavy victim element in this statue-image that I don't want to romanticize/further attach myself to, either.
A friend of mine, a Real Writer, likens the writing process to doing dishes. You just get in there and do them. Sometimes it goes quickly, and sometimes you hit a patch that takes a bunch of scrubbing, and you just have to hang in and scrub, and you just do it. I like this. I like the simplicity of it, the lack of drama. I feel like something similar goes for undoing old conditioning, only the scrubber in this case is just pure attention. There's something cleansing in plain old attention, something that can dissolve anything with enough patience, no matter how hard and baked-in the mess is. It's enough just to look.
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The relationship between the individual and the group is expressed by the sexual metaphor "where two are one". In the Bible this metaphor expands to include the images of the Bride and the Bridegroom where the Bride represents all men and women and the Bridegroom is the King of Israel or Christ. Contains material from Lecture 5 (Part 1)
Copyright © 1982, 2013, Victoria University
LECTURE TRANSCRIPT: PROGRAM 5
This text is a transcript of the full lecture of Prof. Frye on Oct. 7, 1980. Only the bold parts are used in this version.
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Please note: This lecture was split in two programs; the second part can be found under program 6 ‘The Great Whore and the Forgiven Harlot’
SEXUAL IMAGERY: THE BRIDE AND THE BRIDEGROOM
We've been looking at various categories of Biblical imagery: the paradisal and then, below that, the organization of the animal world. The first gives us the garden of Eden, and the second the pastoral world, more particularly the sheepfold. Of course, pastoral and garden imagery have overlapped, both in Biblical and secular literature, all through the history of human imagination. It's easy to see in such things as the 23rd Psalm, 'The Lord is my shepherd', how the pastoral ideal and the paradisal ideal really blend together and form the same thing.I'll be filling out various stages of this table as we come to them. There is, however, the intervening category of the human world, which is a much more complicated one. Now if we ask what is the ideal human form for existence, we find that there is no simple or single answer, because our answers keep shuttling between a social ideal and an individual one. That is, the human ideal is a paradoxical mixture of a belonging and an escape.According to Jean Paul Sartre, 'hell is other people', but I'm not sure that Sartre wanted to spend the whole of eternity by himself. Similarly, Andrew Marvell can write a poem, 'The Garden', in which he suggests that the fall of man really began when a stupid and blundering God created Eve in order to be a companion for Adam. And as he says, 'Two Paradises 'twere in one/To live in Paradise alone'. But you cannot think of a human ideal consistently either in social terms or in individual ones. So we seem to be in a deadlock, and the only solution is that human life, like Greek nouns, seems to have a dual as well as a singular and a plural.Thus we have the individual life, the sexual, erotic relation between two people, and the social. The sexual relation is given an emphasis in the Bible which, like so many things in the Bible, is unintelligible in anything but metaphorical terms. We are told that in the sexual relation, two people are actually the same person while remaining two people, which is not possible, but is therefore the cornerstone of Biblical imagery. Thus, the ideal of human life becomes an ideal in which the sexual relationship has become the pattern for the identification of the individual and the social.The imagery of a wedding, of the union of the bridegroom and the bride, is one of Jesus' favorite images for the apocalyptic or ideal world. It is essential to realize that in this case, the bride is actually the entire body of Christian followers. In the Book of Revelation, this bride is identified with Jerusalem, or Israel, meaning the people of God.That suggests, first of all, that sexual imagery has relatively little to do with the actual relations of men and women. Thus, in this relationship where Christ is the bridegroom and the bride is the people of Christ, it follows that Christ is symbolically the only male. He is also symbolically the only individual, the only person with a right to say 'I am'. That means that the souls of the people of God, whether they are souls of men or of women, are all symbolically female and make up a single bride figure.Now again, metaphorical thinking is not logical thinking, and we have to proceed to make a series of identifications that we would find it hard to follow in other contexts. The Song of Songs is a series of wedding songs in which both the bridegroom and the bride are presented: they both have their songs. The opening verse says: 'The song of songs, which is Solomon's'. Now there is no more reason for ascribing the authorship of the Song of Songs to Solomon than there is for ascribing it to the Witch of Endor. But the poem is symbolically associated with Solomon because the symbolism expands from songs about a rural wedding where the bride is called 'sister', which is the conventional Oriental term for the loved one, into a symbolic wedding of the king with the land over which he rules.That is why the bride describes herself as 'black but comely': that is, she represents the black fertile soil of the land. We are told that her body is to be compared to various aspects of the country: her nose, for example, is 'as the tower of Lebanon that looketh towards Damascus', which might seem to be a rather doubtful compliment to a bride whose charms were less symbolic. But the wedding of the king and the fertile land is an image for what the word 'testament' itself indicates. The word that we translate as 'testament', which is berith in Hebrew and diatheke in Greek, means a covenant or a contract, specifically the contract between God and his people Israel. So that Solomon and his bride, the Shulamite woman of the Song of Songs, expand by a further range of symbolism into the relationship of God and his people, which is why in Christian typology the Song of Songs was interpreted as a song of the love of Christ for his bride, his people. Of course, Christianity was a big city religion which expanded from one city to another, and consequently the image of the black fertile land is not as immediate in Christianity as it is in Judaism. But the same symbolic shape is nevertheless there.If you look at Isaiah 62:4, you see the same prophecy being applied to the restored Israel: 'Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married'. 'Married' is the meaning of the word 'Beulah'. And the image of the land married to its king expands into the image of the people of God married to its God.In the demonic world, the demonic counterpart of the bride would be the figure described in the Book of Revelation as the Great Whore, and the male figure of whom she is the mistress would be the figure who in the New Testament is described as Antichrist, the figure opposed to Christ. Just as the bride is identified with Jerusalem, so the Whore would be identified with the heathen city of Babylon.In Revelation 17:2, she is the figure, 'With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication'. And then in verse 5: 'And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots'. And later on, in verse 9, she is associated with seven mountains which are clearly the seven hills of Caesarean Rome, so that Babylon and the Rome of the persecuting Caesars are symbolically the same demonic city, where the power opposed to that of Christianity is established.It's important perhaps to realize that the word 'whore' in the Bible almost always refers to a theological and not a sexual irregularity. One person who is associated with whores in the Old Testament is Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, and that is not because she is supposed to have cuckolded King Ahab—the narrator of Kings could hardly have cared whether she did or not—but because she introduced the worship of Baal into Israel.The reason for the epithet, apart from the symbolic contrast to bride, is not just that it's abusive, but that it has a more specific reference to the custom in Canaanite religion of maintaining prostitutes in the temple, which is a practice that the Israelites in Deuteronomy are forbidden to have anything to do with, but which was obviously extremely familiar to them. Tamar, for example, in Genesis, disguises herself as a cult prostitute in order to get back her inheritance as a forsaken wife. The story would be unintelligible if the practice were not familiar to Israel as well as to the surrounding nations.Antichrist in his turn is the secular ruler. And as a society grows from a tribal community into a nation and from a nation into an empire, the ruler of the empire tends to think of himself as the ruler of the world. The Bible does not regard the world ruler as necessarily an evil person, but he rules over the kind of world in which, sooner or later, one of his descendents is going to become so. Jesus' axiom about spiritual and temporal authority, 'Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's', runs into a difficulty as soon as Caesar begins to claim what is due only to God, that is, divine worship. It's only when he does that that he becomes the Antichrist figure referred to both in one of Paul's letters and in the Book of Revelation itself.In the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist is characterized by a cipher, the number 666. Ciphers of that kind usually turn on the fact that the letters of the alphabet were also used as numbers: and there has never been a cipher in history solved as often as that one has been. It has been solved in Hebrew; it has been solved in Greek; and it's been solved by Robert Graves in Latin. And it always spells out the name of Nero, who is the type of the persecuting emperor. He was the first emperor to institute a persecution of Jews and Christians, according to Tacitus, in order to have somebody to blame for the burning of Rome. And although the author of Revelation probably lived under a later emperor, Nero is still the type. As the type, he is spiritually, that is, metaphorically, identical with other persecuting figures in the bible, such as Antiochus—who is the villain in the Book of Daniel—the Pharaoh of the Exodus, and Nebuchadnezzar.There is a more comprehensive picture of female figures in the Bible that we might look at at this point. I have been dividing images into the apocalyptic, or ideal, and the demonic. Those are a contrast. There are also intermediate figures, who represent human nature in the sense that they are neither wholly evil nor wholly ideal, but are imperfect figures undergoing the process of redemption. You can divide the female figures of the Bible into two groups, the maternal and the marital, that is, the mother figures and the bride figures.The ideal maternal figures include the Virgin Mary and a mysterious woman who appears at the beginning of Revelation 12, and who is said to be a woman 'clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars'. She is a queen of Heaven, like so many maternal goddesses, but she is also described as the mother of the Messiah, like the Virgin Mary. So there are really three accounts of the birth of the Messiah in the New Testament: the one in Matthew, which has the wise men and Jesus born in a house; the one in Luke, the pastoral one, which has the shepherds and Jesus born in a manger; and this account in chapter 12, which is so obviously mythical and metaphorical that it has never succeeded in getting on our Christmas cards.In the intermediate, or analogical, category you have the specifically human mother, who of course is Eve, 'our general mother', as Milton calls her, the representative of humanity going through sin and redemption; and also Rachel, who, though only one of the wives of Jacob or Israel, is symbolically the mother of Israel and is so referred to in Matthew in connection with the Slaughter of the Innocents. Ideal bride figures would then include the bride of the Song of Songs and the Jerusalem bride, who appears at the end of the Book of Revelation, chapter 21, where it is said that she is 'the holy city, the New Jerusalem, descending to earth as a bride adorned for her husband'.Now there doesn't appear to be a demonic maternal figure, but this blackboard demands one. We often find that if the Bible does not supply what is needed diagrammatically, it will invariably be supplied by later legend. So later legend obliged by constructing the figure of Lilith. Lilith is mentioned in Isaiah 34:14—the King James version calls her a 'screech owl', which is one of the bad things that the Authorized Version is continually doing, that is, making rationalized translations. But in later legend, Lilith became the first wife of Adam. There are two accounts of creation in the Book of Genesis, and the effort to reconcile those two accounts wound up by giving Adam two wives, the first one being Lilith and the second Eve. Lilith, we are told, was the mother of all the demons and the fallen angels. Being that, she had a very flourishing career in Romantic literature: she appears in Goethe's Faust, and as the heroine of a romance of George MacDonald, and in many other places.The demonic marital figure is of course the Great Whore of Revelation, identified with Babylon as the other bride is with Jerusalem, and with such Old Testament prototypes as Jezebel introducing the cult of Baal. It follows therefore that there needs to be an intermediate marital figure, and that that intermediate figure would represent the human race going through the process of sin and redemption.We have said that the word we translate 'testament' has the primary meaning of a covenant or contract between God and his people. The contract is represented as something drawn up with Israel by God's initiative. It is also represented as a contract which God could break but won't—because of his nature—but as a contract which man, strictly speaking, cannot break but is forever trying to break. So symbolically, the female figure of this category would be the Forgiven Harlot, the bride figure who is unfaithful to her Lord but who in spite of that is to be forgiven and brought back again. That harlot figure appears in various parts of the Old Testament, in Ezekiel for example, chapter 16, verse 3: 'Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite . . .' and so on: the whole chapter goes on to describe the unfaithfulness and forgiveness of Jerusalem. The Canadian poet James Reaney has a poem called 'Rachel' which is in effect a very beautiful and very eloquent paraphrase of this chapter in Ezekiel. The same image turns up later in Hosea, where Hosea is ordered by God to marry two harlots, one after the other. These represent the apostasy of both north and south Israel.The same figure turns up in the New Testament as the woman usually identified as Mary Magdalen. There is an anonymous woman in the 7th chapter of Luke described as a sinner whose sins are forgiven because 'she loved much'. Mary Magdalen appears in the next chapter of Luke, and is generally identified with her. A similar female, who has the same symbolic role whether she is the same person or not, has firmly established squatter's rights on the opening of the 8th chapter of John. She is actually a bit of floating folklore associated with Jesus, and in the early manuscripts she appears in various places. The modern translators of the Bible, who are much more distinguished for scholarship than for common sense, try to get her out of John 8 and put her in an appendix, but nevertheless she's still there. She represents perhaps one of the most eloquent and moving episodes of the gospel, the woman who, because she was a harlot, is condemned to be stoned to death. Jesus interferes and suggests that those who have never committed any sins at all might take the lead in throwing the stones. Hence, in paintings of the Crucifixion, you usually see the cross of Christ flanked by two female figures, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen, one in blue and the other in red.In a polytheistic mythology, you can have the maternal figure and the bridal figure identified. That is, you can have a female goddess figure who is both the mother of a god and, later on, his mistress. You find that in the cults associated with dying gods in Mediterranean countries. And you have such counterparts as the relations, say, of the Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus with the relations of Venus and Cupid in Classical mythology, where Venus is the mother of the God of Love and can also be a bride figure. In Christianity, however, the two figures of the mother and the bride obviously have to be separated, although they are still very close together symbolically. The bride of the Song of Songs for example is described as 'a garden inclosed' and 'a fountain sealed'. Or, as the Vulgate says, 'hortus conclusus, fons signatus'. And the 'garden inclosed' and the 'fountain sealed' have always been traditionally identified with the Virgin Mary, who from one symbolic point of view is the bride of the Holy Spirit as well as the mother of the Logos. We are also told that Christ is the Son of a Father who is a spiritual Father, and that his death reconciles man with the Father.Now if you constructed a demonic parody of all that, you would get something very close to the story of Oedipus, who kills his father and makes a wife out of his mother. The status of the Oedipus story as a kind of demonic parody of the Christian story was striking enough for the poet Yeats to construct an elaborate theory of history according to which civilizations of Oedipus and civilizations of a Christ figure alternate all through time, one being tragic and heroic, the other comic and altruistic. But it's perhaps easier to see the Oedipus story as either a demonic parody of the Christian story, as it is in some aspects, or as an intermediate analogy of it, as it is in certain other aspects. In the story of the creation of Adam for example, the older story which begins in the 2nd chapter of Genesis, the Yahwist account as it's called, Adam is made from a female, adamah, or mother earth. And when, after the Fall, he goes back to the ground from which he was taken, he returns to that earth-mother after making the break with his Father. So the Oedipus legend is not quite removed from the story of Adam itself.This account of the human symbolism in the Bible is of course closely linked to the account of city symbolism, because the city is the emblem of the people or the group. So if you go to the urban image, you have Jerusalem on the one side and Babylon on the other. That brings us up again against the question of the ambiguity between the social image and the individual image.Now there's another dimension of this relation of the social to the individual which we've already run into. We saw that the paradisal imagery of the Bible is in the first place a garden and in the second place a single tree, a tree of life. That leads to a general principle of imagery in the Bible, to a special kind of metaphor where the individual is identified with the class or group of things to which it belongs. That is the type of metaphor that I sometimes call a royal metaphor, because it underlies one of the most pervasive of human institutions, the institution of kingship. We've already seen how the king, Solomon, inevitably interposes himself in the symbolic expansion of the Song of Songs. Similarly, Elizabeth II can draw crowds wherever she appears, not because there is anything remarkable about her appearance, but because she dramatizes the metaphor of society as a single body. That has been the function of the king in all ages, to represent in an individual form the unity of his society.The corporate or class image, like the city, would also be, on the principles of this royal metaphor, identified with a single building. That building would most naturally be the house consecrated to the city's god, in other words, the temple. Thus the city is the bride and the Temple is the bridegroom.We are told several times in the Gospels that the Temple is to be identified with the body of Christ. In the Gospels, Jesus is represented as saying 'Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up'. The narrator adds that he was speaking of the temple of his body. The author of Revelation, in describing the New Jerusalem, is very emphatic that there was no Temple therein, because, as he explains, the place of the Temple has been taken by the body of God. There is, consequently, in this metaphorical symbolism, the unity of the bridegroom and the bride in which all the buildings of the city are one building, the house of many mansions. And the corresponding demonic image is of course the Tower of Babel.
Northrop Frye and Michael Dolzani
Copyright © 1982, 2013, Victoria University
TEACHERS GUIDE: PROGRAM 5
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SEXUAL IMAGERY: THE BRIDE AND THE BRIDEGROOM
(Note: AV=Authorized Version, OT=Old Testament, NT=New Testament)
Apocalyptic or ideal imagery on the human level has three forms—individual, social and sexual. Sexual imagery, in which two become one, resolves the conflict of individual and social ideals of human life. The symbolism of Bridegroom and Bride expands to become the marriage of a king to his land or his people and the relationship of Christ with his Church. The demonic bride figure is the Great Whore, whose spouse is Antichrist.Program Lecture Outline: Key Facts
- Apocalyptic (or ideal) imagery on the human level: individual and social ideals of human life inevitably conflict.
- This problem is resolved by the sexual imagery of Bridegroom and Bride, in which two become one while remaining two people.
- This expands to become the relation of Christ (the symbolic male) to the body of Christians (symbolically female, though including both men and women), the Bride being identified with Jerusalem.
- The Song of Songs: symbolism of a rural wedding expands to become the marriage of a king to his land. This wedding expands in Judaism to become the covenant of God and Israel, in Christianity to become the love of Christ for his Bride the Church.
- The demonic marital figure: the Great Whore of Revelation. Biblical whoredom is theological (idolatry), not sexual, but does derive in part from the Canaanite practice of temple prostitution.
- Antichrist, spouse of the Great Whore. Not necessarily a world ruler, but the world ruler who demands divine worship. Nero, Antiochus, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar: types of Antichrist.
Biblical Passages CitedRevelation 21:2.—Jerusalem 'prepared as a bride adorned for her husband'.Song of Songs 1:5.—'I am black, but comely'.Song of Songs 4:12.—'A garden inclosed is my sister'.Isaiah 62:4.—Beulah, the married land.I Kings 21.—Jezebel.Matthew 22:21.—'Render unto Caesar'.II Thessalonians 2.—The Antichrist.Revelation 13.—The Antichrist.Revelation 13:18—The number of the beast, 666.Revelation 14:8.—'Babylon is fallen'.The Teacher's Perspective DEMONIC APOCALYPTICAntichrist (Nero, Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus) individualsexual social Bridegroom (Christ) Whore (Babylon) Bride(Jerusalem: people)The above chart for this program appears in slightly simpler form in The Great Code, p. 154, and as the 'human' category in the charts on pp. 166-67. The students may be referred to these first, both to place this program in its larger context as an expanded discussion of one category in the total Biblical structure of imagery, and to make clear something that is likely to confuse students about the figure of Antichrist. There are two contexts for the discussion of the Antichrist. As the chart on p. 167 indicates, the figure of Antichrist proper is the form of the parody demonic on the divine level, a demonic parody of divinity itself: as such, it will be discussed again in Program 10. But the image gets imported into our present discussion of the demonic form of human life when the purely human tyrant makes his inevitable bid to become worshipped as a god. When he does so, he puts on the mask of Antichrist, so to speak, and in fact becomes his agent and visible form.The class may go on to examine how the symbol of Antichrist has appeared historically. There are two forms of this, the applied and the assumed. The applied version is what Prof. Frye is referring to when he speaks of its being defined as whatever the interpreter is most afraid of in his time: the students may look at The Divine Comedy's application of the symbol to Philip of France.The assumed version is a rather more interesting category, one which perhaps fully came into its own only in the 19th century. Its traditional root, however, lies in a slightly broader explanation of what the human tyrant is: he is the man who has sold himself to the demonic for the sake of power. Therefore, he is very close to one of the great symbols of Western literature, the figure of Faust. Faust is by no means necessarily an Antichrist figure, but he may in his more unredeemed forms be closely associated with it: in Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus, for example, he is directly paralleled with the rise of Nazi Germany.Hitler himself, as Prof. Frye notes, played his Antichrist role with great conviction: the swastika is one of the most ancient human symbol, but in this context it becomes a sinister parody of the cross. Christians may wince to note how Nazism also picked up the demonic corruptions within historical Christianity itself, especially anti-Semitism. There is a further link here: the career of Mann's Faustus is modeled on that of Nietzsche, who wrote a book called The Antichrist, from which the teacher may choose excerpts for the class to discuss: Nietzsche called himself an Antichristian because he regarded Christianity as a decadent corruption of the will to live. He would have hated Hitler, and yet it was a perversion of his 'will to power' which was adopted by the Nazis as their 'philosophy'. Hitler failed: but the teacher may well be teaching this class around the year 1984, and Orwell's Big Brother may serve as an example of what Antichrist looks like as the triumph of human tyranny.The images of Bride and Whore in the Bible are sometimes not just allusions, but are the nucleus of extended pieces of writing which the class may look at in more detail, like the Song of Songs or the story of Tamar. But the meaning of the Bride figure can also be illuminated by examples outside the Bible itself. Not only Marvell's 'The Garden', mentioned by Prof. Frye, but Shakespeare's `The Phoenix and the Turtle, and Donne's 'The Extakel elaborate the mystery of the 'two in one' through the use of sexual imagery. The teacher may point out that mysticism has almost always been drawn to the use of sexual imagery to describe the experience of union with God. This is not exclusively a Christian phenomenon: it appears in Muslim mysticism too, for example. But the teacher may show a picture of Bernini's famous sculpture of St. Teresa in ecstasy, along with examining Crashaw's poems, contemporary with the sculpture, on St. Theresa and Mary Magdalen, 'The weeper' and 'Hymne to St. Theresa'.If the seminar questions in the video program are any indication, one thing the students will be very anxious to get clear is the distinction between women as people and women used as symbols. There is no doubt that the distinction exists in the Bible itself: it is not simply antifeminist. On the other hand, there is also no doubt that the beginnings of an historical corruption of the original symbolism also begins already to appear in the text of the Bible: the rationalization of patriarchy is clearly there too, even if it is not all that is there. Consequently, the teacher must tread carefully. One way to distinguish the two is to compare two writers, both of whom drew their symbolism from the Bible, but whose treatments differ greatly. Blake's symbolism of the Female Will (see Prof. Frye's Fearful Symmetry) is clearly the Mystery that enshrouds human tyranny: by contrast D.H. Lawrence in The Plumed Serpent is so remarkably eccentric as to accuse women of having orgasms merely as a manifestation of their wilfulness. One may look also at the figure of the prostitute who gives Thomas Mann's version of Faustus the syphilis which is at once the source of his ability to create and the source of his eventual madness.Supplementary Reading 1. Biblical Passages
Revelation 17. —The Great Whore.Genesis 38.—The story of Tamar.Deuteronomy 23:17-18.—Practice of temple prostitution forbidden.I Kings 14:24.—Male temple prostitution among heathen peoples.Psalm 45.—Bride from another land; royal marriage.Book of Ruth.—The story of Ruth.Jeremiah 51:6-9.—'Babylon is fallen': associated with Rev. 14:8. The cup of the Whore.
2. Corresponding Passages in The Great Code
Chapter Six. Metaphor II.p. 141. The Great Whore.pp. 154-56. Human imagery: Bridegroom and Bride.
Chapter Four. Typology I.pp. 95-96. The Antichrist.p. 99. The Antichrist.
II Clement 14:2.—In the 'Apocryphal New Testament (see program 1) 'The male is Christ, the female is the Church'.
Essay or Discussion questions
- Examine the story of Samson's betrayal by his Philistine wife in Judges 14 and by Delilah in Judges 16. Compare these to Milton's Delilah in Samson Agonistes. Is the figure of the Whore lurking in the background of this symbolism?
- Examine Robert Lowell's poem 'As a Plane Tree By the Water' in light of this program. The title is from Ecclesiasticus (the Wisdom of Jesus) in the Apocrypha, 24:14, and was traditionally associated with the Virgin Mary.
- Examine the ending of Dickens' David Copperfield (a book full of the imagery of brides, mothers, and harlots), where David's bride Agnes is portrayed as an angelic guide, rather like Dante's Beatrice. What does this rather unconvincing passage suggest about the confusion of human women with symbolic roles? Compare this to the portrait of Estella as a forgiven harlot type (see program 6) in Great Expectations.
- Read the section of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity in which he states that wives should be obedient to their husbands. Lewis claims to be expounding ideas held by all Christians, regardless of doctrinal differences. Is this true, or can he have confused symbolic roles with human relations? (This is not a question with a simple yes or no answer).
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We are just coming down from a crazy week and a half here! My husband was away on a business trip from Sunday to laaaate Friday night, and in our infinite wisdom, we figured we would host a family BBQ on Saturday. (both of our families live out of state, so events like these aren’t what you might call quick and easy).
Why, you ask, did we do this to ourselves? Maybe we are just gluttons for punishment, but more accurately, we are practically booked solid for the entire summer, and this was really the only date we had available! I’m not even sure how it happened… we are SO not this popular, but between four scheduled Ink Meets Paper events, a milestone surprise birthday party, birthday parties, BBQ’s, the 4th of July – which is a HUGE deal in our town, as we have the oldest 4th of July parade in the country, friends moving back from out of state, a high school reunion and my FIRST real vacation since 7th grade (our first as a family) scheduled for a week in August (which is kicked off by a family reunion) our summer is just gone. We are starting to wiggle people in on Sundays and Friday nights even.
So, I have been slightly neglectful in my blogging, and much of anything else lately. It is h.a.r.d to plan, shop for and prep a party with a combined 10 people, two dogs and two very disgruntled cats, when you have a one year old who hates running errands, and a 5 year old who is (shall we say) a handful at times? Especially when you are doing the single parent thing for the week leading up to it.
So, as far as my paper contribution this past week, it has basically been paper napkins and paper plates. I usually use cloth napkins (we use them every day) and re-usable plastic utensils and plates when outside, but I just didn’t have it in me to load and unload my dishwasher an additional four times this weekend. Especially when we ended up getting volunteered to host a semi-impromptu neighborhood BBQ TODAY. Seriously? How does this happen to us? The only perk of that was that I got to put out our leftover sides from the day before, otherwise we were going to be eating pasta salad and sweet potato salad for the next week.
But, the one truly shining point of all the complete and utter chaos, was when I opened my e mail on Friday night, and saw what I couldn’t believe I saw. I had applied to be a vendor at a juried event, and had absolutely no expectation of being accepted. To the point where I was recently giving our availability to someone in order to schedule a party, and I said there was one “up in the air” date, but it would probably be a mute point because I didn’t think I stood a chance of getting in.
BUT… I did! I am super excited to announce that I will be a vendor at The Providence Flea on August 24th. It should be some really good exposure, and such a fun time! The vendors they have, are so incredibly talented and unique. The Flea is described as an upscale urban flea market of vintage finds, furniture, art, fashion, local crafts, curiosities, nonprofits, food trucks & more.
They describe the concept that they were “Inspired by the insanely popular, fun and funky flea markets in Brooklyn, New York, we had the idea to recreate this urban hotspot of cool right here in our own capital city.” How could I not be perfect for it? I went to school in Brooklyn, and lived there for 11 years!
So, thankfully I am as turnkey as possible when it comes to events, so I am all set for them, and I think (maybe?) that our weeks will be pretty free, so I am hoping to get back to my tutorials and some more frequent blogging – I can’t wait to report on how my events are going!
PS: I would like to just state for the record, that we will NOT be hosting another BBQ for a while, I’m not sure we will be able to handle it again until we have some recovery time. I will be a happy guest for the next few weeks!
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Review of Kiss Me (BK 2) & Giveaway of Stalk Me (BK 1) by Jillian Dodd
REVIEW BY CASSIE HOFFMAN
‘Kiss Me’ Book 2 by Jillian Dodd
This is the 2nd book in a series. The first book is up for giveaway at the bottom (USA ONLY). Be aware, this review might contain spoilers if you have not read ‘Stalk Me’.
Being stalked, almost kidnapped, leaving everything and everyone you know behind, and never knowing if you will be able to go back to that life you left, making out with some serious hotties, and clothes any girl would kill to have. Yup, this is the life of Keatyn
In ‘Kiss Me’ you pick right up where you left off in ‘Stalk Me’. Keatyn is trying to figure out where she belongs in the new boarding school she is at. Coming from her old school where she was a part of the in-crowd, she doesn’t know if that is the road she wants to take. Maybe at this school she can join some clubs, join the dance team, and who knows… maybe run for Class President.
Learning her way around, meeting new friends and some potential make out partners, she meets the “God of all Hotties” Aiden, who has the reputation of being a total player, but with that being known, Aiden still does something to her and she can’t help but feel the pull.
Making both Varsity soccer and the dance team, things are looking up and she has met a few more friends, but has gained an enemy in Whitney, the ex-girlfriend of Dawson, a total sex God. Wanting to get his ex back and take her to homecoming, Dawson asks Keatyn to help make Whitney jealous. Not needing anymore problems, she will just flirt with Dawson….If only that was the case, Keatyn and Dawson start hooking up and having a bit of fun together.
All these boys and so little time what is a girl to do???
With making her new life and self at her new school, Keatyn still has to worry about Vincent, her stalker. They can’t catch him, and he has been showing up at places he shouldn’t be. Will she ever get her old life back and will they ever be able to catch him? She starts to wonder if leaving her old life was a mistake since he is still after her.
Life at Keatyn’s new school is going great, she has a great group of friends: both guy’s and girls, and her and Dawson are getting to know each other in more way’s then one. Having fun with Dawson, still Keatyn can’t help but feel the pull towards Aiden.
Being the “God of all Hottie’s” French tutor so she can get into the school’s Social committee isn’t as easy as she thought. With his sexy mega-watt smile, the body of a God, it starts becoming a chore to tutor him. With things getting a bit serious with Dawson and Aiden constant anger towards, her sometimes she wants to call off boys all together……who is she kidding, that will never happen 🙂
Being the new girl, boy troubles, a stalker on the loose, and a black credit card what is a girl to do??
First off, this book should be named ‘Read Me’! Holy cow did I get sucked right own in and loved every second of it. Kiss Me is a book that will suck you in and will have you fanning yourself off. It’s a fun, upbeat, funny read. Keatyn grows a bit in the story and is learning how to live on her own without her parents around, finding out who she really is, and learning to be independent as well as trying to have a bit of fun too. I loved all the new characters; they keep the book going and make it even funnier. I enjoyed her interaction with her guy friends and she has a lot of them. I could feel myself slipping into the book and being Keatyn, that is just how Jillian Dodd’s writes and I LOVE that. Throw in the fashion, a LOT of hot guys, a stalker, and steamy make-out scenes and you have a killer book that you won’t be able to put down! The book ended and I wasn’t prepared for it to be done; now I’m going to be biting my nails waiting for ‘Date Me’! And for all the girls let me just say three words…AIDEN AND DAWSON! I still have no clue what team I’m on…It’s hard to choose. I’ll stay on the dividing line and say Team Hotties 🙂 I GIVE ‘KISS ME’ 5 STARS!
I think my favorite quote out of this book/series is “Life is a divine chaos.”
“Yep. That’s what I’m gonna call you. A combination of cutie and Keatyn. You’re my little Keatie.”-Dawson
“You make me feel like a superhero, Keatie. In bed. I feel like I could fly, kick the Hulk’s ass, bust Superman’s chops, all before lunch.”-Dawson
“Too bad I’m not a vampire. I’d bite you. Make you mine.”-Aiden
STALK ME: BOOK ONE (GIVEAWAY)
KISS ME: BOOK TWO (REVIEW)
THE KEATYN CHRONICLES
AMAZON BUY LINKS:
Jillian is offering up one paperback (USA ONLY) of ‘Stalk Me’ the first book in The Keatyn Chronicles. To win this book, leave a comment below saying why you want to read it and give Jillian’s facebook page a like. If you have already liked it, let me know that as well. Contest ends 2/8 at 5 PM with winner announced shortly after.
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At the Paradise Jam, as well as lots of face painting, body decoration and henna, there will be a competition for Glitterart! This art form is growing so quickly! It is perfect for those children who don’t like to be painted – yes they do exist! Excellent for summer parties in the swimming pool or at the beach, or just when children like to copy their parents and big brothers and sisters and have their own tattoo. The beauty of these is they go away! Yes – like wallpaper or the coloured bathroom suite it goes in and out of fashion – same goes for the real tattoos.
I don’t know what you all think about permanent tattoos, I just feel slightly sorry for those who have them done on a whim or during a slightly drunken weekend – then they are stuck with them. Lifestyles change throughout our lives, we move into different jobs, take up new hobbies, chances come our way, but if tattoos limit you or take away that chance then it is sad. Once a sleeve is inked, that is it, the majority of the population put you in a box… Wrongly I know, but it happens. However, I do accept that in a few years the majority of the 18–40 year olds of the UK will be inked and therefore it will be the norm rather than unusual, therefore at 70, 80 or 90 years old in the nursing homes, it will be seen as common!
If you fancy getting your own kit to create a temporary glitter tattoo, then go to Facade Bodyart and buy all the glue, glitter and stencils that you want. I have tried so many different makes and always come back to the quality and beautiful designs that Ybody produce. The Pink Glue, developed in Hollywood for the professional make up artists there, is the strongest for temporary tattoos. It will generally last for 5 days anything up to 2 weeks if well cared for. But it is still washable, so you can swim, shower and bath!
When doing freehand body decoration with glue and glitter, then it is slightly different, you need a glue which will remove more easily, preferably the same night! Then I recommend something like Mouldlife, which is water based.
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We sit quietly in a 125-year-old, former Methodist church sanctuary (now a space used for art events). A cello, violin, and guitar lead us with instrument and voice. We sing one line of one psalm 108 times. We sing the line 108 times because the musician who leads us is also a yogi, and that number is significant in his practice. The sung line circles above us and around us and through us. Singers weave in and out. It’s meditation.
When it was proposed to me, I wondered if it would be boring. If I would feel bored. As a church, we do nearly everything with all ages in the room and I worried about our kids. Would they be bored? But it isn’t and they aren’t. When offered silence and beauty, they lap it up right along with everyone else.
A handful of our youngest contentedly draw in their pew. One rests against his mother’s shoulder—a boy who is dogged by anxiety. Some folks cry. Others rest in the bath of sound. A few take a break from singing and light candles. It takes about thirty minutes to sing a line 108 times. We close with communion and then head downstairs into the old school fellowship hall for cups of tea.
A friend and colleague visiting from out of town attended this meditation with me. Afterwards, she told me she loved how we had taken worship down to its absolute minimum—one line of scripture, wine, and bread. I laughed because it’s one of the gifts we bring to the church world: stripping it down to the bare essentials.
I am a called to a small church that I started a decade ago. Since 2008, we have been gathering for worship and events. We began without a plan, a budget, or a staff. We definitely did not own any physical property much less a building. Everything we have is borrowed, cobbled together, rented, gifted.
We started meeting for worship in a coffee shop, moved to a vacant storefront, squatted in a park, moved to an artist’s workspace, then to a Jewish nursing home. Now, we gather in a former church building turned event space. When you live your church life this way, the obvious option is to go with the essentials—stripped down worship, potluck meals to form community, a once a month public event in a local bar. Everything we own fits into a set of four plastic totes, which we haul in and out of spaces as we set up camp for worship.
Starting from scratch means we have the gift of deciding how and what we are going to be together. I would argue every church has this gift—some just haven’t lived into it yet. Do we want worship every week? Yes. Do we want to follow the traditional worship pattern in our denomination? Yes. (Sort of…) Do we want programs? No. Do we want committees? No.
It turns out that “Small is the New Big.” Thank God, because we are not big in the traditional sense. We started with a handful of people and have been growing at a slow burn ever since. Growth has been steady—a few people at a time. When people ask (and they always do because we have a hard time measuring “success” otherwise), “How many do you have in worship?” I can confidently reply, “All of them.” In Advent, you can measure our size in crockpots of soup shared after worship. Five years ago, we needed two crockpots. Last year, we needed four. This year, seven crockpots marched into our space and all were satisfied.
Getting to this point, humble though it remains, has required a fairly acute sensitivity to the context we find ourselves in, to the times we find ourselves in. We live in a hyper-aware time where people want to know the name of the chicken who laid their morning egg. My husband owns an artisan bread bakery here in St. Paul, and they know the man who grinds their wheat into flour. Their dairy is local, too. Cows are milked on Monday, and that milk is delivered on Thursday. Do you know that you can buy a hand-forged cast iron frying pan? You can be on a first-name basis with the person who used a piece of scrap iron to make you a legacy frying pan—in a fire powered by wind energy. Yep. Or you can go to your favorite box store and buy one. One is about $200, the other $19.99. Both will fry an egg, but one comes with a connection and a story and the creator’s name. The people who wander into our community come wanting a connection and a story and to know the creator’s name.
I often tell people that there is no one asleep at Humble Walk. If you are in the gathering, you are engaged. While that is too much for some, the people who do show up come ready with sleeves rolled up. My parishioners want to be known and seen. They have gifts they want to use for the good of the world. If everyone leading at a church is a paid professional, then what role do the gathered get? So often the way we do church leaves people as the consumers, who can only evaluate their experience as though it were a product or service they might review on Yelp rather than a practice they helped to create.
We do have paid staff-a part time pastor, an admin person, and a worship leader who both work a few hours a week. All three roles together equal one ¾-time position. But because we keep our life as a community stripped to the bare essentials, and because everyone who shows up contributes in some way, it mostly works.
Small church minimalism means you will not be able to go a Mom and Me Yoga class on Tuesday morning, hand bell choir on Wednesday night, and bible study for those experiencing life in their mid-forties on Thursday at noon. We don’t offer a menu of activities or programs. We do run events. But most of these are one-time commitments that anyone is welcome to attend. Why? Because there are no strings attached. Because it’s invitational to someone feeling shy. Because no one has the energy or time to sustain a once-a-week program. Perhaps you would like to show up for the all-ages pop-up choir next month and stand between a fourteen-year-old and a six-year-old? I guarantee you will be taught by them to sing with your heart. It will be both beautiful and transcendent. And then there will be something else to engage you in new ways in our community.
The tricky part of being a glorious small church is of course funding. Generosity is at the heart of our church. Uniquely, we have more regular givers than bodies in worship—some of whom have never physically gathered with us for worship but feel connected through our online life or our events in our local bar. But my people are primarily paycheck to paycheck artists and do-gooder people. And it’s hard to fund a small $200 frying pan church without outside support. In fact, it’s impossible. Which is actually good news in some ways because it reminds us all that we need one another. Every week.
In my city, we have giant ship-sized churches sailing on this water next to us—elegant and seaworthy as ocean liners. And when they encounter a storm, most of the folks on that cruise liner might not even feel the wind. They can go full steam ahead, unbothered.
But my church is a tiny fishing boat. And when a storm comes up, we know our very lives are at stake. We freak out and have to wake Jesus up to help. As individuals and as a church, we know intimately that our lives are out of our control—that this dinghy doesn’t belong to us, that we could swamp at any minute. We live so close to the bone that every week feels like a freaking miracle when the offering money is counted. It’s loaves and fishes, baby. There is rarely extra but there always seems to be enough. That feels big.
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
Sidewalks and Skeletons + Glacci + Sgrow + Alek Fin.
In the end, oh I know,
never, in my haggard passion,
have I ever been such a cadaver as now
as I take again in hand my tables of the present—
if reality’s real, but after it’s been
destroyed in the eternal and the moment by
the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.
Growing up my Dad had a love for machines, cars and planes especially. When he was 10 years old he spotted an Austin Healey 100S racing up the street of Willunga, South Australia. He says it was like nothing he had ever seen or heard before and for many years he dreamt of one day owning the car. 43 years later he purchased the exact same car that he had seen as a young boy. He still has the car today.
The Austin Healey 100S is extremely rare, only 50 were originally built and only 37 remain in the world today. The film is a small reminder to never give up on your dreams no matter how impossible they might seem.
Dad has his own website on the history of the car here: austinhealey100s.com.au1 heart
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Russian soldiers: their presence is renowned but rarely witnessed. You hear a lot about their role in the news and from friends who witnessed the tragedies they have caused in the country. Yet regardless of where you stand politically, the mixed feelings they evoke in you as a civilian in Syria are still ambiguous, reported openDemocracy (US).
For opposition forces, the term “Russian intervention” has come to encapsulate the painful end of their fight against the regime and its allies. It was hardly news that the Russians stood by the regime, as they had vetoed several UN Security Council resolutions, but it was Russia’s airstrikes that caused the opposition to lose most of its control on the ground.
There from the beginning
Since early 2011, Russian military experts have been overseeing information and communication and providing either equipment or technical support, according to a regime army officer. The military cooperation soon evolved into naval deployment near the ports of Tartus and Latakia on the Mediterranean, before the inauguration of the Hmeimim Air Base which made Russian military all the more direct and definite. Finally, Russian troops were officially deployed in Syria in late 2015.
Contact with civilians explicitly grew following the truce between Damascus and its countryside on February 27, 2016, which despite numerous breaches remained in effect until its collapse in mid-November 2017. Nightlife in Damascus began to flourish, and Russian military personnel, along with Syrian military escort, began to frequent the nightly attractions across the Old City.
Soldiers and tourists
As such, Russian soldiers in the city became more visible, whether in military uniform and or in casual clothes typical of tourists — light and practical. Nonetheless, their unusual presence still causes winks and backbitings, and their visibility is still relative, as most Syrians have not seen any Russians until now.
People often hear about them from Syrian troops. “We’re not allowed to approach them or to talk to them. We can’t even ask for a drink of water,” said Naji[i], a volunteer in a paramilitary force, summarizing his relationship — or lack thereof — with Russian troops in the vicinity of Raqqa prior to its “liberation” by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in October 2017. “They offer them exquisite meals from fancy restaurants and ignore us, even though they stay in the rearguard and never take part in raids,” he told his mother, who works as a maid and wanders the houses of her employers all over the city every day.
She has not seen a single Russian soldier, despite her extensive mobility in Damascus. Even if they came to help fend off terrorism, she opined, they should not be treated differently from Syrians. She is supportive of the regime but more reluctant about its allies.
Most Russian soldiers can be seen in the commercial city center, in the areas of Muhafazah or Marjeh, or in old markets like Hamidiyyah, Medhat Pasha and Buzuriyyah. They are frequent customers of money changers, where they exchange foreign currencies — often US dollars — for Syrian Pounds, so that they can buy food, gifts and antiques, just like any tourist.
“Oh, they’re Ru’us and Nukha‘at,” remarked Abu Rahaf, a money changer, punning on their demonym [Rus means “Russians” in Arabic] and a popular Syrian dish (lamb’s head and bone mallows) to whose fat he likens their economic vitality. They are the sole buyers of touristic goods, given the near absence of trade with tourists willing to pay more than what Syrians — or religious tourists coming from Iran or Lebanon — can afford.
George, a silversmith at the As-Sulaymaniyyah market, spoke of their peculiar interest in daggers, noting that they are learning how to haggle over prices like Syrians, and are managing to find cheaper shops. They seem to be adapting to the city.
It is safe to assume that, while politics is the reason for Russian military presence in Syria, the relationship between them and Syrian civilians is not fundamentally about politics. Some loyalists are delighted to see them, and they regard them as the allies who guaranteed Asad’s triumph. However, given the increased public resentment over the outcome of the war and its high human cost, in addition to extremely poor living conditions, whatever is reminiscent of the conflict cause discomfort before anything else.
“They’re all after their shares,” a taxi driver in military uniform shrugged, pointing to the payoffs all the parties to the war are looking for, and swearing at his ill luck since his enlistment for reserve forces two years ago.
Most regime supporters interviewed by SyriaUntold are quite unsure of Russian intentions. Foreign relations are always tinged with skepticism and fears of conspiracy. A long history of fear-mongering and overstatement of Syria’s enemies and strategic location, according to Baathist school curricula, do not go away easily.
Others prefer to ignorantly boast the might of the “Soviet” ally, as many insist on calling Russia, clinging to a bygone socialist era they believe to be still alive. This is hardly surprising, considering that others on the opposition side still praise Saddam Hussein and his alleged devotion to Pan-Arabism.
Dissidents are understandably taken aback by the sight of Russian soldiers. Those who spoke to SyriaUntold, however, all shared their greater hatred towards Shiite tourists. “Don’t call me sectarian, but I’d rather see Russians than those Shiite tourists swarming the Old City,” said Jaber, a lawyer opposed to the regime. This comparison indicates that, inside the city, Russians are mere tourists in the eyes of the population, despite wearing military uniform and carrying weapons from time to time. Apparently, the sense of superiority and unabashed love for Bashar Al-Asad, which an Arabic-speaking Lebanese tourist may casually brag about, worries people more than a shy presence of strangers completely detached from the local dynamics of the war.
This overlaps with a historically strained relationship between the Lebanese and the Syrians, as well as an old legacy pertaining to Syrian-Russian relations. Young Syrians, for instance, still consider studying in Russia a good way out of the country. This is the case for loyalists and dissidents alike. Abu Samer, a communist dissident, considers that any opportunity for “the boy” to flee the war and the haunting military service is good, even if in Russia, “our enemy.” His son is starting an MA program there, and he drove him all the way from Salamiyah to Damascus airport. “I mean, if he got a visa to the States nobody would object,” he said further justifying what he did.
Academic missions to Russia have always been an available option for Syrians, and the encounters between Syrian and Russian people have taken different forms, whether in marriages, in nightclubs, or in the streets — where those “selling garments” on the sidewalks are known as “the Russians” even if they were from eastern Europe. All these factors render the interrelationship more tangible and complex than an external observer would think.
Terms like “Russian expert”, which became a Syrian joke evoked whenever someone appears to have extensive knowledge about something, implies acknowledgement of their development and our backwardness. The relative “whiteness” of Russians is hard to deny, as they rank higher in the power hierarchy and are easier to be fond of — even as enemies. They are “the foreigners,” the white and blond. Their superiority can be perceived in the bewildered curious eyes following their movements, and in a common willingness to communicate with them and to help them out, even in such simple matters as showing them the way.
Perhaps this is not always the case, however. The few dissidents willing to express their views, in addition to some IDPs coming from formerly opposition-controlled areas, show great aversion and bitterness.
This does not negate the fact that, politically speaking, some opposition parties view Russia as closer to them than the regime, and are willing to engage with it. “They’re the only ones who didn’t lie to our faces,” one High Negotiations Committee (HNC) member stated recently in a closed session held in Europe. In a strangely triumphant tone, he suggested that the hopes of the opposition and “the Syrian people” should be reposed in Moscow. Many parties within the Syrian opposition welcomes the international recognition that the solution is Russian. Their optimism stems from the lack of options.
The main Russian troops in charge of monitoring the “de-escalation” are stationed in Al-Wafidin Refugee Camp, which is inhabited by IDPs from the Occupied Golan Heights and adjacent to the frontlines with Duma in the Eastern Ghouta. However, the area has recently witnessed a bloody escalation.
The troops are visible to those heading towards the city and passing by military posts. Awatif (35), a grocer resident in the camp, spoke of a Russian soldier’s admiration for her. She knew he is a Muslim because he muttered words when he heard the adhan [call for prayer] while riding the bus to the camp. “He sung me a song that I didn’t understand, but I think he was trying to say that he likes me.” Awatif does not cover up her delight to have a Russian like her. She simply sees him “more handsome” than the other “dark-skinned” guys in the camp, as she unmindfully put it.
If today’s economics are the mirror of tomorrow’s politics, then we can expect a long-standing presence. The advertisements of companies importing Russian goods are spreading on public roads, irrespective of the quality of these goods. Other signs advertise exhibitions that involve Russian industrialists. What Bashar Al-Asad previously described in a speech as “heading eastward” is becoming a reality for the capital’s merchants, as it creates encouraging prospects under an economic embargo unlikely to be lifted soon.
According to a Syrian lawyer working on the cases of political prisoners, Russians have a tendency to help in these issues. They have done that several times with many activists living in Syria. He confirmed that the Russians called off several arrest warrants and provided some dissidents with information about detained relatives. This is at least the case of those who engage in dialogue with them, as opposed to those who categorically refuse any dialogue with Russians. The lawyer maintained that they are trying to be popular and appreciated amongst Syrians.
Regardless of Russia’s lack of concern about its own political prisoners, it appears to be set for a long-term presence in Syria, which is warranted by well-known geopolitical interests. There seems to be no considerable rejection by Syrians, loyalists and dissidents alike, to this presence and these interests.
show source https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/rafia-salamah/russian-soldiers-in-damascus
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Alter Aeon Player Lookup
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Proper name: Protoss
Ground string: Protoss is here.
Created: Wed Dec 6 20:42:05 2017
Protoss is of average height and of light build, with blue eyes.
His red hair is long, but unkempt and messy. His skin is dark,
and you guess him to be fairly young, perhaps around 18 years
Level Mage: 31 Cler: 26 Thie: 6 Warr: 21 Necr: 11 Drui: 16
Total levels in all classes: 111
Clan: enlightened Rank: third rank member
Level Feats Performed ---------------------------------
33 Rescued a kidnapped child from the clutches of an insidious oni-baba.
30 Thwarted Falnar the Shadowmancer's plans.
30 Prevented Ralnoth from being devoured by an invasion of giant termites.
24 Defeated the helpless coma patient in mortal combat.
31 Retrieved Jesric's spellbook from the outer planar ice world
34 Rescued a pair of maidens from the clutches of some crazed worshippers.
28 Is the reigning chess grandmaster by defeating Viktor
35 Got a pair of kenderskin gloves
30 Defeated Vesden the Conquerer restoring peace to the city of Linholt.
31 Received the esteem of the people of Ralnoth for reporting bots and leeches!
29 Resurrected the ancient blade of the god of mischief, Coolbeans.
33 Rescued a slave from Castle Radobaj
28 Fed the kitten.
28 Defeated the bear marauding through the forest southwest of Ralnoth
21 Slew Locos, the terror under the well
27 Assisted an angry dwarf in finding out what happened to his missing companions.
33 Tracked down some missing mail intended for Ironbay
27 Tangled with an ancient tangletree and survived!
27 Liberated a special mushroom from the Trogdolytes for an alchemist in Dragon Tooth.
28 Slayer of the innocent dragon known as Graystorm.
27 Captured an escaped tiger and returned it safely to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped Bigfoot and returned it safely to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped pygmy dragon and returned it safely to its cage.
28 Captured an escaped ruby red wyvren and returned it safely to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped zebracorn and returned it safely to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped black bear and returned it safely to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped albino elephant and safely returned it to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped emerald green griffin and returned it safely back to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped monkey and returned it safely to its cage.
27 Captured an escaped alligator and returned it safely to its cage.
28 Proved to be most honorable by even giving a troll a chance.
26 Performed a few random tasks, including washing a noble's nasty panties, how gross!
26 Restored the legendary dwarven bracelet.
27 Looted some ancient drow treasure.
27 Found and returned the svirfneblin king's lost club.
28 Discovered what happen to a missing delivery from the village of Woodhaven.
27 Expunged Kaladun the lich from the world once and for all!
25 Exterminated the queen spider ensuring that their species will surely die.
24 Thrashed Pantrell and gave his tome of secrets to Deeamos.
17 Figured out the mystery of the old mansion and found its hidden treasure.
23 Accepted Odin's quest.
25 Tracked down and returned the stolen crate of repair parts to Dordak.
31 Captured the escaped faerie and sent her back to her cell.
31 Forced entry into the treasury, and took the leprechauns' finest possessions
29 Emerged as the champion of the grand Melee.
28 Regained the armor of a lost and forgotten warrior.
25 Annihilated the shadowy demon and sent him to his final resting place.
24 Used a disguise to join the Ghost-face Orc Clan
20 Freed some slaves from the cruel pain and torture of an orc slavemaster.
24 Searched the swamp for the old historian and then helped him recover his stolen book.
23 Found and retrieved the Staff of Understanding.
23 Found and retrieved the Mace of Knowledge.
22 Found and retrieved the Dagger of Stealth.
23 Found and retrieved the Sword of Strength.
22 Purged the world of Nafien's taint.
24 Recovered a book titled 'Effects of Exposure to Toxic Gases' for Aerlon the librarian.
21 Escorted a metal hunter out of a stinky situation.
24 Recovered an egg from a fantoo for Pyba the alchemist.
20 Found that alligator you flushed, and boy was it big!
23 Accepted quest to free the musicians.
19 Completely destroyed a giant fiery red drake.
19 Completely destroyed a black scaled drake.
19 Completely destroyed a large yellow drake.
20 Completely destroyed a dark brown drake.
19 Completely destroyed a large azure blue drake.
19 Completely destroyed a silvery gray drake.
19 Completely destroyed an emerald green drake.
19 Disposed of Anekam the drake keeper.
20 Piloted a hang glider over the great Archais archipelago.
19 Captured and returned the Wizard brightflame's escaped familiar.
20 Helped the citadel to restock its supply of healing mud.
19 Cured the old mage of the hiccups!
17 Climbed the beanstalk, and retrieved a golden egg.
17 Exterminated the master tonberry saving the moogle village.
14 Freed Ann the banshee from the curse of the vampire.
17 Skillfully obtained a lost book on poisons and sold it to the Thieves Guild.
16 Recovered the legendary Gem of Knowledge.
16 Released a genie from a bottle just to have her vanish and not even get a single wish!
16 Retrieved and returned Russell's golden compass
16 Slaughtered and tore the hide from a stone drake deep in the underwilds.
15 Infiltrated the underground city of Runn-Khal and ransacked their treasure chamber.
9 Squashed a spider and made me some armor!
15 Braved the Haunted Hills to kill a Winter Wolf.
12 Destroyed the bloody curse stone in the haunted hills
12 Destroyed the spirit curse stone in the haunted hills
12 Destroyed the poison curse stone in the haunted hills
6 Returned a lost child to his mother
9 Obtained the title: Mouseslayer, mmk
11 Harvested some honeycomb for the local bakery.
9 Became a hero by making a child smile!
7 Located and returned the key to the lockbox
7 Did not eat the kitten.
7 Defeated a lesser pit fiend
6 Taught some punk kid a lesson he'll never forget.
5 Freed the old wizard from his glass prison!
5 Found Indiana Jones' Legacy
7 Defeated the ferocious mugwump on behalf of a retired hunter.
5 Put down the deadly white wolf.
9 Brought a ray of sunshine to brighten an imp's day!
4 Returned a lost memento to an old man.
8 Collected a bounty for cleaning up some of the nuisances in the Greenwood forest.
5 Found the needle in the haystack!
4 Returned the sacred chalice to the Shrine of the Vemarken Faithful.
4 Translate the strange paper from Uffspigot
Level Deeds Accomplished ---------------------------------
32 Crushed the hopes of Durant, the Master Enchanter of creating an army of glass.
31 Eliminated the leader of the mercenaries in Dragnok.
32 Freed the rune spider from the spell that binded her.
36 Retrieved an ancient seeing stone for the Ralnoth Mage's Guild.
26 Discovered the hospitals namesake and put an end to his diabolical plan.
32 Expedited a pistol replica for the Ralnoth Museum of World Wonders
32 Delivered a letter to Bandera Azul
31 Avenged the villagers murdered by their own.
32 Tricked into making the crappiest leggings in the world!
31 Ended all the sacrifices to the dark gods in Dragnok.
31 Put an end to the evil intentions of a drug crazed worshipper.
30 Answered a call for aid from Dragnok.
31 Defeated the void saving the magic of the world.
32 Returned the king's worldly possessions to Queen Calene.
31 Provided a thirsty child with much needed water
30 Helped prevent the Black Rot from swallowing Ralnoth.
30 Wiped out a human supremacist cult for the Ralnoth Clerics' Guild.
32 Recovered a dependent clause for a bookworm
31 Destroyed the Chaos Beholder, disrupting the forces of Chaos in Old Thalos.
31 Won the rat race by eliminating the competition thus winning the coveted green cheese
31 Aided the blue gang in its quest to conquer the North Ralnoth Slums.
30 Rescued the Princess of Radobaj
27 Defeated the mad smith's mechanical monstrosity
28 Helped the villagers of Woodhaven out of a bind.
27 Escorted a shipwrecked sailor back to his captain.
28 Breached the Fetid Caves of Pestilence to rescue a dwarven child.
29 Ruined the plans of Malkon the Plague Vampire and saved Archais from his evil machinations.
29 Hunted down and eliminated Malkon the Plague Vampire in the fetid Caves of Pestilence.
28 Searched the fetid Caves of Pestilence and destroyed the weather machine.
31 Eliminated the source of the hideous mutations in Cranston Hills
31 Helped purify the water supply in Cranston Hills
32 Rescued all the survivors in Cranston Hills
28 Freed Iron Bay of the kobold menace
27 Recaptured a dwarven smith's mightiest weapon
29 Recovered various ingredients to help an alchemist to create a special brew.
29 Defeated the legendary rougarou, while investigating the reports of a missing cleric.
29 Exorcised the evil spirit that possessed the Hedgemaid of the Shadowclaw Swamp.
25 Helped to repair Captain Uro's merchant ship.
28 Freed Reb, Ana and Callie from the nightmares that haunted them.
28 Captured all the escaped animals in turn freeing Ana from her nightmare.
28 Used the legendary Pundora's box to rid the world of a few annoying puns.
26 Constructed a special portal to help free Zeyda the collector of dreams.
26 Helped to make the dream nectar and awaken the sleepers.
26 Risked life and limb to recover a stolen egg and return it to Graystorm the dragon.
27 Sent the undead drow priestess to meet her goddess, allowing the svirfneblin to live in peace.
28 Purged the Amber Forest of all the evil that was corrupting it.
27 Expelled the curse placed on a little girl by Kaladun the lich.
27 Helped a Shaman to further her studies in poisons.
26 Freed a druid from a truly dire predicament.
27 Crafted an item to make the life of a retired ranger a bit easier.
27 Fulfilled the life long dream of a wood carver by helping them to craft a shield of blackwood.
28 Collected a DNA sample from one of the Tyranid warriors for Sh'kar the evil biomancer.
32 Delivered some provisions to the soldiers camped outside the village of Cranston Hills
26 Put an end to Sh'kar the evil biomancer's foul experiments.
27 Harvested some webbing from the spider caves for the cleric Helina in Dragon Tooth.
26 Braved the dark forest to deliver some supplies to a mad hermit.
26 Delivered a bundle of herbs and spices to the monks in the Monastery of Dreams.
27 Cleared the poison from the ancient drow city.
28 Plundered the decimated drow city and uncovered its history.
24 Bested the Norse gods and took their most prized possessions.
24 Bested the flying Valkyrie and took her most prize possession.
24 Bested Thor and took his prize possession.
23 Bested Odin and took his prize possession.
27 Discovered what was causing the patrol soldiers of Fort Magnesia to become ill.
26 Helped the centaurs rid their land of wyvren
26 Collected wyvren scales on behalf of Tarkon the blacksmith
26 Brought Nammen some hides for tanning.
33 Discovered what happened to Azeroth Keep and uncovered drow invasion plans.
27 Aided Fil the Secondboy by assassinating his older brother, thus promoting his status.
26 Tried to negotiate a deal with Azeroth Keep for their fruit, but failed.
26 Travelled all over Archais gathering books for the library in Gad's Landing.
26 Acquired a book titled "The legendary dwarven bracelet" from Glankas in Dragon Tooth.
25 Halted the attempt of the necromancer Darsakius from opening a rift to the demon world.
24 Delivered a broken gadget to the Master Tinker for the cook in the Inn of the Lonely Wanderer.
31 Has been thoroughly manipulated by the fae of Archais.
31 Assassinated Lady Kindri, ending her bid to take over the fae kingdom.
31 Discovered the smuggling ring's purpose and uncovered catastrophic plans.
30 Found, broke up, and looted the elusive smuggling ring's headquarters.
30 Tracked down a leprechaun smuggler.
30 Helped a leprechaun to obtain their missing supplies and make a pair of boots.
30 Quenched the fires of the lava worm.
30 Fought bravely and was victorious over the mist dragon
30 Proved The loch ness monster was real and then killed it.
29 Partied it up in the Magnolia Festival.
29 Invoked the fabled Magnolia Festival.
29 Met the Fairy Queens.
29 Did some hunting on behalf of a werewolf pack.
29 Met the leader of the werewolves and learned about their history.
28 Investigated a diplomatic crisis between the cliff gnomes and the dryads.
28 Disposed of some nuissances bothering the cliff gnomes.
28 Became a friend of the forest by curing a sick unicorn.
28 Did a little dirty work for a "good" cause.
28 Returned Custos' missing key.
26 Extricated Burgundy's pet cloud from a hostile storm elemental
27 Tracked down the research team stranded on the fire world of Khinzhai.
24 Gave that bully a taste of his own medicine!
25 Protected the secrets of Thaumaturgy from undeserving djinni
28 Captured some sunlight for Custos.
24 Destroyed and dismantled the whirling machine of destruction known as the Juggernaut.
24 Broke the ice with the tinker gnomes by helping to thaw out a frozen gnome.
24 Tested a gnomish rocket pack and had a blast!
23 Help the tinker gnomes to solve a crash landing problem with their elevator system.
24 Is the new hobgoblin champion.
26 Valiantly avenged the deaths of several dwarves for one of their kin.
26 Killed the trider.
26 Eliminated the black arachnid.
26 Found the missing dwarf in the Blackwater Hollows.
25 Aided the smith in finishing his greatest creation.
27 Gained access to the land of the fairies
27 Momentarily saw through a powerful illusion, confirming a cartographer's theory.
25 Achieved the rank of journeyman in the Thieves Guild.
25 Achieved the rank of apprentice in the Thieves Guild.
25 Achieved the rank of bandit in the Thieves Guild.
25 Achieved the rank of thug in the Thieves Guild.
24 Received a bounty for taking out a pair of murderous thieves.
24 Made a secret delivery to the Thieves Den.
24 Ambushed some bandits and took back a stolen money sack.
25 Prevented the ghostface orcs from gaining access to Gad's via the sewers.
24 Rescued a group of musicians from the ghostface orcs.
25 Avenged the death of a woman's only child.
24 Freed Curlie the musician from the Skull caverns.
24 Freed Moe the musician from the Skull caverns.
24 Freed Larry the musician from the Skull caverns.
24 Cleansed the Archais swamp of the Great Unclean One.
24 Put an end to the unnatural experiments of the druid Guillermo Dunkelbaum
23 Challenged the six masters of the Lotus Monastery and was victorious.
23 Hired on as a mercenary for a time to prove they were a skilled fighter.
23 Eliminated a threat to the Lotus Monastery and brought them peace at last.
22 Has proven to be worthy of being called a rogue.
23 Became an honorary member of the Planar Research Guild
23 Collected data from the Heavyside Layer
22 Apprenticed to a blacksmith in the Lotus Monastery for a time.
23 Had to do some fishing to trade for a lost book.
23 Got rid of some pesky birds and helped the Lotus Monastery get back to business.
23 Collected data from the elemental plane of earth
23 Collected data from the nomagic biolab
23 Collected data from Valhalla
21 Defeated the guardian serpent to gain access to Asgaard.
23 Collected data from the outer planar ice world
23 Collected data from the fire world of Khinzhai
24 Delivered a small bag of chickory coffee to Hal in the Lotus Monastery.
24 Slayed a chromatic dragon to prevent it from attacking Gad's Landing.
24 Dived into the sewers below Gad's Landing to discover what was causing a blockage.
24 Retrieved some shavings for the Grandmaster Odi from the outer planar ice world.
24 Acquired the tome of Demonic Lore from Cyrilla the Black in the Inn of the Lonely Wanderer.
23 Acquired a book titled "The Lotus Monastery" from the scholar Bruticus.
23 Expunged the taint from a forest and the rogue druid that created it.
23 Ended the evil plans of a rogue druid.
22 Treated the soil in the forest north of Smuggler's in hopes of removing the taint.
22 Gathered various samples throughout the tainted forest for a group of druids.
22 Escorted a druidess through the tainted forest on behalf of Smuggler's Cove.
22 Assassinated some young upstart who was trying to replace the boss in Smuggler's Cove.
22 Disposed of evidence that might have convicted a prisoner in Gad's Landing.
22 Snooped out and eliminated the spy hidden amongst the smugglers.
22 Smuggled a few items to prove they could be trusted.
21 Collected a few debts owed to the villagers of Seaside.
20 Collected a debt owed to Kyna in Kyna's General Store.
20 Collected a debt owed to Nailo in The Golden Phoenix Restaurant.
22 Delivered a message to Smuggler's Cove from the Archipelago.
21 Eradicated the adaro in the atoll so the researchers could complete their work.
21 Lifted the curse cast upon Dentin's temple by Kenai.
21 Became the fabled Black Bandit of Seaside.
21 Sunk Thor's Hammer blocking the Viking raiders from getting their supplies.
21 Plundered the Copper Dragon for the Magistrate's book.
21 Delivered some much needed provisions to the lighthouse.
21 Heisted the fabled blue diamond off the Lady Luck.
21 Swiped a basilisk's egg off the Grumpy Dwarf.
21 Pilfered the chains of true binding off the ship known as the Leviathan.
21 Reclaimed a lost family heirloom.
22 Solved the mystery of the strange noises coming from below Vera's house in Northshore.
21 Acquired a guide to fishing from Gil Dunne in the Archais Archipelago.
21 Helped the mayor of Northshore to clean up his crab problem.
20 Made an old fisherman's day by giving him his favorite food.
20 Made a child happy by returning his ball
21 Made a few deliveries to Northshore from the village of Seaside.
20 Collected a debt owed to Slade the bartender in the Nightshade Tavern.
20 Collected a debt owed to Fargan the butcher.
21 Dealt with the foul stench of Castle Kraftrager.
20 Collected a debt owed to Torba Hammerclaw.
21 Cleared out the castle.
19 Broke the curse afflicting the hero of Seaside.
21 Went fishing without a pole and got me a dragonfish.
20 Acquired a book titled "Quickness of Action" from the Wizard Brightflame in Seaside.
19 Hunted down and exterminated the bugs in the cellar of the Golden Phoenix Inn.
21 Delivered a puppet to a woman in the carnival.
20 Delivered a message from the captain in Naphtali to the Ranger Patch in Gad's.
19 Visited a faerie circle and brought a mushroom back to the ranger.
19 Exterminated the fungus that was animating the dead on the Ancestral Island.
19 Took a dive into Clearwater cove to recover a lost chest.
19 Pounded an ogre into a bloody pulp to recover a lost heirloom.
19 Returned a stolen pendant to its rightful owner.
19 Assisted the villagers of Idlewood to solve their problems and in fulfilling their needs.
19 Gathered some clams, caught a few fish and trapped a lobster for the Deep Sea Delights in Idlewood.
19 Collected the special ingredients needed to save the life of Kolok the mystic.
19 Disbanded the evil sect and released the lifestones of the seven legendary sisters.
19 Prevailed over Durath the Sorcerer, collected and then released the lifestone of Taygete.
19 Tracked down and recovered a missing antique ring.
19 Prevailed over the avatar Uball, collected and then released the lifestone of Sterope.
19 Prevailed over Tegla the temptress, collected and then released the lifestone of Celaeno.
19 Prevailed over Erov the druid, collected and then released the lifestone of Merope.
19 Prevailed over Bledri the necromancer, collected and then released the lifestone of Alcyone.
19 Prevailed over Rataga the assassin, collected and then released the lifestone of Electra.
19 Prevailed over Lilin the warrioress, collected and then released the lifestone of Maia.
19 Showed a devil ray who the true devil was.
19 Beheaded some hornets to collect a bounty on their heads.
18 Delivered a map and accepted the quest to retrieve the seven lifestones.
18 Spoke to the Naphtali commander on behalf of the ranger Taros.
18 Completed a few tasks given by the ranger in Naphtali.
17 Reported to the captain of the Naphtali guard of the defeat of Qoorik.
16 Discovered the fate of a young lady's missing uncle.
17 Found and brought down the demon city of Qoorik.
15 Broke the curse on the Haunted Highway
14 Found new questions to the mystery of what happened to New Thalos.
14 Slew Roch'tar, master of the catacombs
16 Verified the rumors threatening Naphtali
13 Freed the spirit of King Rathborne
16 Hewed the head from the orc chieftain as a warning to the rest of his kind.
16 Brought a farmer's daughter home to rest.
17 Proved to be a real treasure hunter by discovering all the secrets of the minotaurs maze.
16 Informed the proper authorities of the demise of a missing man.
16 Skillfully navigated the maze of the black minotaur and laid claim to his prize possessions.
15 Spent some time as a page to the Earl Montebac.
16 Returned Ardin's remains to his wife, Edna.
15 Soothed a mother's soul by helping cure her sick son.
15 Sought out the barkeep for more information.
15 Freed a druid from imprisonment in the underground city of Runn-Khal.
14 Scouted out the abandoned mines in the Kordwood for a bronzesmith.
14 Secured the master vampire's rule by slaying a would-be vampire lord
14 Investigated the mysterious attack on the gnomes.
15 Made an unexpected profit on some winter wolf hair.
12 Solved the curse of the haunted hills and reported to the Hierophant.
12 Broke the curse on the Haunted Hills
9 Recovered and restored the champion's helm.
16 Collected some black ore for a bronzesmith in Naphtali.
12 Delivered a letter to the bronzesmith.
12 Braved the Forgotten Muskeg to collect a special ingredient for an alchemist.
12 Uncovered the mystery of the Forgotten Muskeg.
9 Snuffed out the mole king and rescued the Mayor's wife.
9 Extricated the Gnomian slaves from the caves of the moles.
9 Delivered a package to the Lady Angelia.
8 Helped to cure a sick child.
11 Routed the necromantic cult from the interior of Ancalador.
9 Reported to Mayor Widgetbottom in Gnomian.
8 Culled the spider infestation in the old Indira forest.
8 Vanquished the rat king and put an end to its machinations.
7 Parlayed a deal between the demons and the gnomes to get the mines operating again.
7 Vanquished the foul Nekker of the Blue Marshes.
7 Delivered an important package from the mayor of Hildabrad to Vemarken.
7 Became an honorary member of the village of Hildabrad.
7 Helped Joann to find her name tag.
7 Helped the town shaman to get rid of a bully.
7 Put a big fat rat on a diet, permanently!
7 Found the key to the donation box.
6 Brought Dinger a bag of goodies.
5 Exposed the cult of Kenai near Vemarken
5 Gathered a few items for an apothecary in Vemarken.
5 Solved the riddle of the foaming fountain.
5 Helped the local merchants of Sloe deliver crucial shipments.
6 "Took care" of Ol' Blue.
6 Helped to make some important deliveries between Vemarken and Indira.
5 Chatted up the Mayor of Vemarken on behalf of the general storekeeper.
4 Made it to Pellam and broke the blockade
3 Freed the graveyard from the Vampiress
2 Brought the sunlight staff back to the encampment.
2 Found some peppergrass leaves.
2 Brought food for the hibernating bear.
0 Defeated the Carver Shaman in mortal combat!
0 Discovered an ambush party!
Level Legacy Quests ---------------------------------
35 Reconciled Linlin and Noony's love with their respective villages
33 Smashed the bandit ring terrorizing the Alter Aeon anniversary of 2018.
32 Demonstrated the law of the Wayfarers to a bunch of Combine deserters.
31 Turned the tables on the bandits and raided them for a change.
30 Was awarded a symbol of the Wayfarers' esteem.
30 Failed to ambush the bandits at Red Dell, but triumphed anyway!
30 Almost, but didn't quite, capture the bandit leader!
29 Found correspondence giving clues to who is behind the bandit raids.
29 Became a full member of the Guild of Wayfarers
32 Helped to thwart the bandit raids during the Alter Aeon Anniversary of 2018
36 Successfully faced all the challenges of both Baron brothers.
35 Victoriously faced and defeated all the challenges of the Snow Baron.
35 Slapped around the mighty Harry Flames till he gave up his crown.
34 Helped the elves to collect more items as a favor for the Snow Baron.
34 Boldly faced Kurthag-Zill, the brimstone dwarf chieftain and was victorious.
34 Gathered different items needed to make the winterberry punch.
33 Spanked the Inferno Queen in one on one combat.
32 Helped the elves to collect various items as a favor for the Snow Baron.
31 Bested Mikitarvis the fire king in one on one combat.
28 Chose the way of the Snow Baron.
35 Victoriously faced and defeated all the challenges of the Flame Baron.
34 Slapped around old Jack Frost till he gave up his crown.
34 Helped the elves to collect more items as a favor for the Flame Baron.
31 Helped the elves to restock the EPDS supply of presents.
34 Boldly faced Vazgore, chief of the glacier dwarves and was victorious.
34 Gathered various items needed to make the winterberry punch.
34 Spanked the Snow Queen in one on one combat.
33 Helped the elves to collect various items as a favor for the Flame Baron.
33 Met Kilzann the ice king in one on one combat and was victorious.
30 Helped Frosty with a little cosmetic reconstruction
29 Chose the way of the Flame Baron.
21 Hunted the world for the proper present.
18 I was blessed by an elf during the winter solstice of 2017.
30 While exploring during the winter solstice of 2017, I found a present, and kept it!
Time of last save: Mon Aug 6 22:40:00 2018
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'Our region should not be a safe haven for organised crime,’ warned Angola’s Minister of Interior, Ângelo de Barros da Veiga Tavares, at the annual general meeting (AGM) of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (SARPCCO), held in Luanda at the end of May.
Tavares called for increased regional cooperation among police institutions and encouraged them to invest more in technology. This, he said, would boost police capacity to stem the scourge of organised crime in the region.
The debate that has become a hallmark of SARPCCO AGMs was minimal this year as the police chiefs reached consensus on the issues discussed. The spirit of cooperation was unprecedented. Some observers attributed this to the fact that for the first time in the history of the organisation, the majority of the police chiefs present were newly appointed and attending in that capacity for the first time. The recently appointed police chiefs represented Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Other observers believe that the agenda, which was fairly uncontroversial, was the main reason why the AGM had gone so smoothly.
Whatever the reason, there seems to be a new sense of agreement among Southern African police institutions that old habits should be dispensed with so that a united front could be presented against regional threats. This spirit of unity seems to be carried forward by a new breed of police chiefs and technocrats who are determined to break the hold of criminal networks throughout the region.
Organised crime has become virulent across Southern Africa. The regional perception of organised crime was discussed in a threat assessment and crime analysis report for Southern Africa, which was prepared and presented by ENACT implementing partner, INTERPOL. The report highlighted some of the key drivers, trends and impact of organised crime, as well as the proceeds of these crimes.
The assessment – a version of which will be published in a forthcoming ENACT report – was hailed as insightful analysis that captures the crime situation in Southern Africa objectively. It found that policing in the region had been mostly reactive, and called for a proactive approach that is informed by robust and systematic analysis of the criminal economy. This would improve understanding of how and why particular crime types occur, and also lead to greater clarity regarding the identity, location and modus operandi of perpetrators.
The discussion at the AGM pointed to a growing number of unconventional forms of transnational organised crime in the region. These including dynamite (explosives) fishing in Tanzania, ritual killings, and a new rise in kidnapping children for ransom in South Africa.
'This crime analysis underscored the dire need for increased information-sharing, including crime data, among states and [also] between states and the [INTERPOL] Regional Bureau,’ noted Mubita Nawa, Head of the INTERPOL Regional Bureau for Southern Africa, and the Secretariat of SARPCCO.
At the end of the four-day meeting, the chairmanship of SARPCCO was transferred from Angola to Zambia. The new chairman, Zambian Inspector General of Police Kakoma Kanganja, pledged to follow through on the decisions of the AGM. ‘Gone are the days of organised crime, which has caused so much mayhem in our society,’ said Kanganja, calling on to his peers to show greater solidarity and unity of purpose against a common enemy in the region.
Whether Kanganja and his colleagues will initiate a new dawn in crime fighting in Southern Africa will remain to be seen. SARPCCO Secretariat, Mubita Nawa, believes that the AGM seemed to have ‘rekindled enthusiasm in SARPCCO with the coming of new police chiefs.’ He further expressed the hope that the new police leaders ‘will maintain the momentum by living up to their words in the fight against transnational organised crime.’
Martin Ewi, ENACT technical coordinator and regional organised crime observatory coordinator for Southern Africa, ISS
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Whistle blows up ahead
Train coming around the bend
Tracks vibrate, makes ground move
I stand on platform waiting
I see the long snake like cars come into view
Weaving around the track
Train decends in smoke and stream
To stop at train station
Waits as we get on
A toot to the whistle train ready
To continue on its daily journey
Sweet melody of faint music
Down distant street I hear.
Notes flowing up my way
In a jazzy kind of beat.
Hear the rhythm of blues
Makes me bounce along the street.
Closer I get to music crooning
More I would like to hear.
Around a corner I finally reach
Music, I hear what a beat.
A music player, playing a saxophone,
Jazzing along to his own rhythmic song.
I stopped to listen to his melody;
Took out my sticks to join the beat.
Our sound carried on the winds
People heard and stopped right through.
Swimming waves go across
Slightly diagonal; spinning
So heavily pulling down like
Tons of bricks. Teetering like
A top it all comes crashing down
As one stumbles unsteady on their feet
Carpet comes up; it seems to fast
Balance is off par in one’s head
Vertigo has come to claim someone.
Here are more haikus from what a dog would write.
Owner not feeling
Well, I feel mopey, no walk
Stay near for comfort
Outside breaks are done
By someone else, big long sigh
No long walk today
Check on my owner
Before I head out; short walk
Look OK for now
If owner won’t eat
Will be very sad, no play;
I won’t eat food too
Two days unhappy;
Owner was in bed too sick;
I feel very blue
Good news, my book “30 Poems In 30 Days: April Challenge Vol II” has been published. You can find the paperback version either on Amazon or CreateSpace. It is also on some other channels too like Amazon Europe and other offline and online retailers. The kindle version is going to be coming out soon. The kindle version for Amazon is also done and ready to buy.
Amazon link for book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1543076629/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1490228561&sr=8-4&keywords=30+poems+30+days
Can pre-order book now.
Amazon link for e-book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XRW9YHL/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1490228561&sr=8-2&keywords=30+poems+30+days
CreateSpace link: https://www.createspace.com/6092111
I have promo codes for this site for “preferred customers”: 10% with code YVYM2S6S
Also Next weekend starts April Poetry month, hence the reason getting this book out. If you want to be a part of the challenge. signup here
Green ground high with its waving grass
Blowing lightly, delicately left and right
Unti grass gets short haircut
Waving stops until blades grow again
Then harsh winds; cold temps fill the days
Ground becomes brown as green grass withers and dies
Leaving dreary, desolate, barren lanscape
As seasons changes for the worst
Leaves ground unhappy and depressed
Waiting for sun to show its smiling face again
Oh, what I’d give to visit you
Quaint old towns; with thatch roofs
Wild countryside with grasses blowing
Rich history one can still travel dirt roads down
Maybe I will me a four leaf clover
Known to give good luck
Or catch a wee leprechaun hiding somewhere among the meadows
Hoping he will lead me the pot o gold at end of a rainbow
I’ll walk down historic streets
Drive from Dublin to Galloway Bay
In search of a few ancestors that traveled before me
One day I’ll visit you and marvel at your quaint and beauty
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(Art by Luke Spooner)
“Now that short fiction has become as standardized as the SATs and Common Core—all in order to ‘judge’ and ‘rank’ writers—I’m excited to see what Richard Thomas brings to the game. Gamut will be the new magazine not written for the little old lady in Dubuque.”
—Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club
“Gamut will be cool, and it will be out there, right on the edges of fiction. I can’t wait.”
—Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
“As publishing venues grow ever more polarized—niche market over here,
stadium rock over there—the need for passionate, thoughtful, unafraid publishing
space is crucial. Enter Gamut.”
—Marcus Sakey, author of Brilliance
“I beg to differ with Mr. Palahniuk: There’s a fabulous indie bookstore in Dubuque, and little old ladies have been known to write some astonishing speculative fiction. Some of it might even end up in this magazine, which promises to bring together the fresh and the dark and the extraordinary. Look for great, weird things from [Gamut].”
—Rebecca Makkai, author of The Hundred-Year House
“A killer lineup of creators.”
—Rose O’Keefe, Publisher, Eraserhead Press
“The heavyweight talent behind Gamut is a promise of great things to come.”
—K. Allen Wood, Publisher, Shock Totem Publications
“It doesn’t matter if a writer has a big name, a pen name, or no name, if they’re writing excellent and edgy fiction, Richard Thomas has probably read their work. But Richard’s a busy guy—seriously, read his bio—and doesn’t have time to meet for coffee or martinis or bowling anytime someone wants to talk about what they should be reading next. Thankfully, now there is Gamut, which is sure to become an index of some of the best fiction writers working today.”
—Diane Goettel, Executive Editor, Black Lawrence Press
GAMUT (Updated 1/29/2016)
So what’s all of this talk about Gamut? For a long time I’ve wanted to start a magazine. I crunched the numbers for years, but in the end couldn’t make it work. Why? PRINT COSTS. So, over the past year I’ve been looking at it again, and decided the way to go would be to Kickstart it, and have it exist online. I hope to do the Kickstarter in February of 2016, and launch the website on 1/1/2017, if we are successful. For the past several months I’ve been getting things lined up—authors, website, costs, content, the Kickstarter page, etc. We will offer subscriptions via the special Kickstarter for $25-30, with the regular annual price being $50-60. That’s only $5 a month, at the most expensive price point. (Gamut just means a wide range, and it’s usually applied to emotions, but here, it refers to fiction, and more specifically, dark fiction.)
It will include mostly fiction (some original, some reprints) but also columns, non-fiction, art, and maybe even a serial memoir or novella. I have a word count per month in mind, based on my budget, and I’m looking to release new content several times a week. I will start off by publishing work via solicitations and will then open it up to submissions. We will pay 10 cents per word for original fiction, and 3 cents per word for reprints.
Well, if you’ve read any of the anthologies I’ve edited (The New Black, Burnt Tongues, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, or Exigencies) then you know what my aesthetic is, for sure. Also, you can see the work (and authors) I’ve published at Dark House Press. And of course, my own writing (and YES, I will be publishing some of my own work at Gamut as well, new and reprint). So I’m open to fantasy, science fiction, horror, neo-noir, crime, magical realism, transgressive, Southern gothic, and literary—anything done with innovation, heart and emotion. Everything I enjoy reading and writing typically leans toward the dark side, but I have been known to embrace lighter work, and humor, now and then. It just has to MOVE me. And I like to be surprised.
To date, here are the people that have given me a verbal commitment to publish original and/or reprint fiction at Gamut: Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Brian Evenson, Usman T. Malik, Matt Bell, Damien Angelica Walters, Letitia Trent, Mercedes M. Yardley, Alyssa Wong, Benjamin Percy, Lindsay Hunter, Axel Taiari, Amanda Gowin, Laura Benedict, Nathan Ballingrud, Dino Parenti, Ted E. Grau, Rebecca Jones-Howe, Sarah Read, Paula Bomer, Kelly Luce, Livia Llewellyn, Josh Malerman, Carmen Machado, Peter Tieryas, Kevin Catalano, Paul Tremblay, John Langan, Nina McConigley, Nik Korpon, Craig Wallwork, Steve Himmer, Antonia Crane, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kristi DeMeester, Tara Ison, David James Keaton, Cassandra Khaw, Nikki Guerlain, Lucy A. Snyder, JS Breukelaar, Helen Marshall, Amelia Gray, H. L. Nelson, Craig Davidson, Jacklyn Dre Marceau, and Lincoln Michel. Poets will include Jeffrey Skinner, Nickole Brown, Cate Marvin, Paul Guest, Blas Falconer, Carrie Jerrell, Gary Jackson, Erica Dawson, Laura Van Prooyen, Simone Muench, Charles Jensen, Ace Boggess, and Jeannine Hall Gailey.
I’ve asked the following artists to be a part of Gamut: Luke Spooner, George C. Cotronis, Daniele Serra, and Bob Crum, as well as photographer Jennifer Moore.
As of right now, I’m excited to have non-fiction, reviews and commentary from Keith Rawson, Max Booth, and RK Arceneaux.
Even though poetry is not my strength, I want there to be a place for it at Gamut, so I’m putting Heather Foster (one of my favorite poets) in charge. She’ll be assisted by Whittney Jones.
Speaking of which, Dino Parenti, Mercedes M. Yardley, and Casey Frechette are going to be my fiction editors, and first readers. They all understand my aesthetic and are excellent writers as well. They’re really going to help shape the voice and look of Gamut.
I’m sure this doesn’t answer all of your questions, some things are still being ironed out, but I’m very excited to see if we can make this work. I love Tor, as well as Nightmare, Shimmer, Apex, Clarkesworld, Black Static, Shock Totem, Cemetery Dance and so many other publications. I hope that Gamut can become a part of the landscape and continue to provide opportunities for authors to share their work, get paid a decent rate, and maybe even get discovered. There is no shortage of talent out there, I can tell you that much. Thanks for reading, and wish us luck! I hope you’ll be a part of this.
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JANE EYRE returns to the National Theatre
Sally Cookson’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece Jane Eyre returns to the NT’s Lyttelton Theatre from 26 September – 21 October 2017 following a critically acclaimed season at the National Theatre and a major UK tour.
2017 marks the 170th anniversary of the first publication of Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane is as inspiring as ever.
This bold and dynamic production tells the story of one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfillment. From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre’s spirited heroine faces life’s obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of bitter betrayal before taking the ultimate decision to follow her heart.
Nadia Clifford plays Jane Eyre with Tim Delap as Rochester. They are joined by Hannah Bristow (Helen Burns/Adele/Diana/Grace Poole/Abbot), Matthew Churcher (Musician), Alex Heane (Musician), Melanie Marshall (Bertha Mason), Paul Mundell (Mr Brocklehurst/Pilot/Mason), David Ridley (Musician), Evelyn Miller (Bessie/Blanche Ingram/St John) and Lynda Rooke (Mrs Reed/Mrs Fairfax). The cast is completed by Ben Cutler, Jenny Johns, Dami Olukoya, Francesca Tomlinson and Phoebe Vigor.
The production was devised by the original company, with set design by Michael Vale, costumes by Katie Sykes, lighting by Aideen Malone, music by Benji Bower, sound by Dominic Bilkey, movement by Dan Canham and dramaturgy by Mike Akers. Jane Eyre is a co-production between the National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.
Director Sally Cookson, said about her production: ‘Adapting a novel for the stage is a challenging prospect – especially when that novel is cited as many people’s favourite of all time. It is always daunting when you’re working on a story which everyone knows so well, because you want to surprise and maybe challenge people’s expectations, without losing any of the things which make them like the story in the first place.’
‘I chose this particular title because it’s a story that I love and have enjoyed a close relationship with ever since I was intrigued, as a child, by Orson Welles’ black and white melodrama with fabulous music by Bernard Herrmann.’
‘I didn’t actually read the novel until I was in my early twenties and I remember thinking while I read it: ‘this is a clarion cry for equal opportunities for women, not a story about a passive female who will do anything for her hunky boss’. I was struck by how modern Jane seemed – her spirit and strong will, her peculiar and brilliant mind striving for personal freedom to be who she is, lashing out against any constraint that prevents her from being herself. She was exactly the sort of person I wanted to be.’
Sally Cookson is an Associate Artist of Bristol Old Vic, where her productions include Treasure Island and Peter Pan; and elsewhere, Boing! (Sadler’s Wells), Cinderella (St James Theatre), an adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather (West End and UK tour), and Romeo and Juliet (Rose Theatre, Kingston). Sally’s production of Peter Pan, devised by the original Company, based on the works of JM Barrie, a co-production with the Bristol Old Vic ran in the NT’s Olivier Theatre in 2016. Her production of The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe will be performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse this autumn.
Nadia Clifford previously appeared at the National Theatre in Alistair McDowell’s sell-out production of Pomona.
This new stage version of Jane Eyre was originally presented in two parts at Bristol Old Vic, and then transferred to the National Theatre, re-imagined as a single performance, playing to sold out houses at the NT’s Lyttelton Theatre in 2015.
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Camp Fahrenheit- Robert Dowd
Insurance has recently been secured for the fourth annual camp Fahrenheit 516. The camp will be taking place from Monday, July 23rdto Saturday, July 28th. During the camp that is hosted at the Nassau County Fire Service Academy, trained instructors will be going over the history of the fire service, proper utilization of PPE, confined space training, victim removal, bailout training, ground ladders and aerial ladders, live fire extinguisher training, live fire car fire burns, and live fire warehouse burns and much more. Additionally, the final day of camp will be a different activity, we hope to make the 6thday a different evolution or training each year. Please keep your eyes open for any emails with further information about the camp in the near future.
Training - Mason Kletter
As the weather becomes enjoyable, we look forward to having drills in the coming months. We will have our Hazmat drill again this upcoming June, at either the Hicksville or Wantagh Fire Stations. Of course, we hope to be having our 6 days long Camp Fahrenheit 516 this July. Additionally, towards the end of this year, we are going to have the annual training at the FSA in Old Bethpage. I look forward to seeing all of you at these upcoming events.
Monument - Arjun Mehta
A couple of plans have been set to maintain the appearance of our Nassau Community Juniors Fire Association Monument which is in Eisenhower Park. It was organized that, on the 21st of April there would be a Monument Cleanup to keep the monument looking aesthetically pleasing to viewers. Some of these activities include raking, leaf blowing, removing garbage from the area, and cleaning our prized monument. We have also already installed a new flag as well as a prisoner of war flag to replace the worn out flags. We hope that after our efforts of making our monument looking visually appealing, members of the juniors and explorers of Nassau County will take advantage of visiting the monument themselves.
Fundraising - Rohan Mehrotra
Hello everyone as you all know our annual fundraiser is starting up again. We will be selling raffle tickets at our next June meeting for the chance for someone to win some amazing prizes. This year's raffle will include prizes such as a brand new TV and ….. (TBD).... We hope all of u participate in it and help us with the fundraiser by buying lots of tickets. We cannot stress how important these tickets are for contributing to our activities. We wish you good luck and thank you.
Membership - Mary- Grace Syrett
We are currently working with the Floral Park Centre Fire Department juniors in joining the Nassau County Junior Fire Association. We are also, always reaching out to more Nassau junior fire departments to join our association. Additionally, we are also in contact with some Suffolk County Junior fire departments and we are interested in sharing and working together with them.
Also, please remember to check that your dues have been paid and are up to date.
Community Service - Dylan McQuoid
Good Morning, everyone, there are numerous events and a few projects coming up that I would like to share with you. For starters, in September, we are hosting our annual event for the Long Island Day at the Fireman’s Retirement Home up in Hudson. We eagerly would like over one hundred junior firefighters to attend, which would help break our previous record and make the retirees overjoyed we are there.
Secondly, there will be a Freeport M.C.I. Drill on April 29th, 2018, this will include many of our juniors to volunteer as mock victims of a train incident which will help our first responders and the juniors experience what happens when there is a catastrophic event and how to respond to it.
Lastly, we are in the process of putting together a fundraiser for an organization called FACES, “Finding A Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures”, our goal is to raise money for the cause. The mission of FACES is to improve the quality of life for all those affected by epilepsy and seizures. FACES are affiliated with NYU Langone Health and its Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. FACES, funds research, to improve epilepsy care, advances new therapies, and nurture a supportive community for children, families, and caregivers who live with the challenges of seizures.
By participating in these events it will gain us the recognition that the Nassau County Juniors are making a difference in the lives of our communities.
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Project 2 at Lehman College painting class…Landscape. My favorite theme. Using a photo I took of the lake at Van Cortland Park in the Bronx I wanted to create a stylized painting on a panel. I used a sponge brush only. More muted colors than I usually use. Acrylic on panel board 18″x24″.
Then I painted a companion piece focusing in on a detail of the photo. Acrylic on stretched canvas 11″x14″.
I found that I achieved a more painterly effect with canvas than on board. Such fun painting at Lehman College. What’s next??
In another galaxy away from my blog for many months, I have been reclaiming my true self mentally. I had to withdraw from the world in order to get off a very powerful and destructive antidepressant I had been on for 16 years.
DISCLAIMER: This is my story and I am not endorsing that antidepressants are bad and everyone has to stop talking them. Please follow your doctor’s advice. Never stop cold turkey. It’s extremely dangerous.
Okay so I have been on psychiatric medication since the 1960s off and on. The reason was I had childhood trauma. They have been helpful for many of those years. However, I’m 65 now and many things physically are different. The last 16 years on the last medication was actually too long and I was becoming less productive in the last year. I started to experience more fear and anxiety. Less creativity. Withdrawal from people. More drugs were added and I got worse. I was under the drug spell. Believing that the drug was better than no drug. Until I went to pick up the latest drug and the pharmacist said the co-pay was $283!!!! For one month!!!! Faced with maintaining the suppression of depression or paying rent and eating I pushed the drugs back to the pharmacist and said “I don’t need these thank you “. Called my psychiatrist and said I’m over all these chemicals that are making me feel numb. I m over being dependent on meds that have me spellbound. So she didn’t try to change my mind and she agreed to wean me off.
It took 5 months of being dizzy, having brain zapping, leg pain, insomnia, anxiety, days when I couldn’t leave my house because I was not able to feel grounded. But today it’s 46 days clean!!!
46 days and I am seeing that I am not a depressed person. I stopped being depressed after I went back to doing my art. I do experience down times which is life but I embrace them. I am using exercise, diet, mindful practice, and walking in nature as my antidepressant. Another thing I became aware of was the depression I experienced had a lot to do with the anxiety of my untreated ADHD. So now I’m just treating my ADHD with less medication since I have stopped the antidepressant. I’m a different person today.
I did accomplish some wonderful things last month. A successful art show and sale. Preparing a iPad art workshop for the National Association of Women Artists for June. And this summer I am mentoring a 10 year old girl in art. And I negotiated a workshop for young men leaving prison to learn to create art on their iPads. The organization is called Getting Out and Staying Out.
I am the Jedi Artist who has returned!
THE ART SHOW
THE WITHDRAWAL PAINTINGS
In the past few weeks my painting has morphed into an abstract landscape that is a new style from my impressionist one.
The truth is that in the last 4 months I’ve been withdrawing from a very powerful antidepressant after being on it for 16 years. Last year I realized how it was making me worse and I am not depressed anymore. So powerful is this drug that my brain has zapping which feels like electrical shocks are piercing the cells. I’m dizzy, have brain fog and my legs cramped so badly I couldn’t walk for 3 weeks. But now the real me is emerging. I can finally feel myself coming out.
So I actually did this painting in withdrawal. And I also did the previous painting in withdrawal. And the experience was a struggle to focus my vision (blurred vision was a part of withdrawal). But here it is. I believe the real me is finally emerging.
THIS IS THE FINISHED PAINTING!!!
HOW TO GET OFF THE HINDENBURG!
My mind is still spinning. How did so many people drink the Kool Aid???? We’ve lost our minds.
The challenge is existing in a country run by a narcissistic sexual predator for 4 years. I’ve been afraid to post my feelings of this election but this is MY blog so I can do whatever I want. However, I’m not going to give attention to the future “Not My President “.
As an artist I am guided to help the pain in the world by creating beauty again. I don’t want to do anything political in art. I want to paint serenity in a time of darkness. My art has never been motivated by politics. My paintings are to escape insanity and to remind people that there is beauty.
I’m a mature artist so I will leave politics for the younger generation. The generation that tells me my art is “over the couch art “. Great I’ll take that market. I’m not proud. A lot of people like pretty paintings.
Anyway, my point is the lack of creativity and culture in our country created this mess. A creative mind would never have been led down this path. The mind that thinks creatively would see and hear the bullshit. The way out was limited but the choice made was a misinformed one.
A creative mind sees a bigger picture. A creative mind experiences life with multiple options. It is not led by others. That’s why people think artists are strange. Different.
My mission is to get people to start creating. I want them to start to think like an artist. No talent needed. Just an open mind. Unlock imagination. Let go of fear and worry. Look at beauty again. Love people. Stop comparing. Stop complaining. The call to action is start thinking about what’s really important to you and your community. Don’t go down the rabbit hole with toxic people. No one has the power to take away your thinking. Your decisions. Your life. Your country. We gave over our power and listened to lies. We only heard what we wanted.
As an artist I have to get people to get their own minds back teaching them creativity. I have to create paintings of beauty.
THE WORLD CAN BE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN IF WE WORK TOGETHER.
A few of my “over the couch” paintings.
August 12th I had carpel tunnel surgery on my right hand. It’s my dominant hand. So I took the time to relax and heal. However, it eventually took me down the mental rabbit hole. I ended up depressed, lonely and blocked creatively. It was like my mind was empty. A dust bin.
I couldn’t think and forget posting on my blog.
Weeks were passing and now I have feelings of failure. I want to write a blog post but I feel stupid. It’s been forever. I’m a terrible blogger with an artist block!!!!
And then I realized that my blog is about coming back from an artist block. Isn’t life always about the comebacks.
The artist comeback can be a Phoenix rising. A new path, a different story. And actually I have a new theme I started in my paintings. I have added figures to my landscapes. The figures are faceless children ( they are me or you) and they are escaping into landscapes. This is the first of a group that I will be working on.
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We won’t give up.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. Ephesians 5:25-27
As husbands and fathers it’s sometimes challenging to lead our families in a godly way where we would demonstrate the love of God which is in us through Jesus-Christ.
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
But against evil forces in spiritual sphere
You are a spirit, in the Kingdom of God
Stand firm against those behind the atmosphere
Continue reading “Stand Firm”
They are available
Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills— 4 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, 5 to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of crafts. Exodus 31:1-5
Praise the Lord!
I am always amazed to see how the Lord is make us able to do things. Here in this scriptures, the children of Israel had just come out of Egypt after 500 years of slavery and God, the Almighty made them able to create the Tabernacle.
Continue reading “Knowledge and skills”
Read the Word with willingness
To get to know well the Author
And From the One who always bless
You will receive living water
Continue reading “Read, Meditate”
Speak in tongues
Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. 1 Corinthians 14:4
I know this subject has created a lot of misunderstanding in the body of Christ but the word of God remains the Truth even if men struggle to understand and apply it correctly.
The gift of tongues is given to everyone, just as the gift of salvation.
Continue reading “Build yourself up!”
We are more
Sing, O barren woman, you who never bore a child, burst into song, you who were never in labour, because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband. Isaiah 54:1
Praise the Lord who gives revelation through his word!
I join with Isaiah saying “Rejoice my brother! Sing my sister” for we are indeed the children of the desolate woman.
Continue reading “More than them”
In time of trouble, all around falls apart
His voice stands still, bringing peace to my heart
My flesh always tries to tear my soul apart
But I heard His mumble, my day can start
Continue reading “His voice”
Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of his glory. Ephesians 1:13-14
Did you read this verse above ?
Wowww!!! So powerful if you believe it!
Nothing can separate us from our Heavenly Father!
Continue reading “With a seal”
Bring your selfish desires to the cross
So you can enjoy the peace in your heart
Obedience not a duty but a choice
Submit to Him and you will be smart.
Continue reading “Obedience”
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied with action is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith by what I do. James 1:17-18
You cannot separate action from faith ! They go together like spirit and body. What you call faith, if it’s really faith, it will ultimately lead you into action.
Continue reading “Faith without action ?”
But he said so them, “It is I; don’t be afraid”. John 6:20
Praise the Lord!
The disciples were in a boat struggling because of a strong wind and rough waters. Jesus was not in the boat, it was dark and they were terrified when they saw someone walking toward them on the water.
Continue reading “It is I”
Not because of my strength
Not because of my wisdom
Not because I give a tenth
Not because I love freedom
Continue reading “I’m Righteous”
My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body. Proverbs 4:20-22
Have you read this verse above ?
Wowwww!! Praise the Lord for His words for they are life. The words that come out of the mouth of God are life! So amazing!!!!
The purpose of His words is to give life to those who will receive those words.
Continue reading “Words of life”
I can see it shining in your eyes
Like a star it can only amaze
You are among those who recognize
Continue reading “Eternal Life”
After Jesus said this he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son that your Son may glorify you.” John 17:1
Jesus came on earth the show the way to God and He himself is the way. His life in the flesh was the perfect example of how a life should be lived on earth.
Continue reading “Look toward heaven”
Jesus was moved
Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way. Matthew 15:32
I am so blessed to see how compassion can move God!
This morning, I was praying in the Spirit but also with my understanding. I was asking the Lord to help me to hear from Him clearer.
Continue reading “Moved by compassion”
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14
The promises of our Heavenly Father will never be fulfilled in our lives in we do not receive them with a child like faith.
The Lord made it really simple for us to receive, to find and to see opened doors but we often complicate things.
Continue reading “Child like faith”
You have been made new
In the eyes of the Father
Even when only few
Acknowledge this matter
Continue reading “Made New”
I urge you sister or brother,
In view of God’s loving mercy,
By faith to offer your body,
Holy, pleasing to the Father.
Continue reading “Spiritual Worship”
Sacrifice for Him
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2
The purpose of sacrifices in the old testament was to purify. Make the unclean become clean. Jesus’ sacrifice took our sins away from us so we can come to God, receive forgiveness and be purified.
Continue reading “At the altar”
Seems so far but yet very near
We wait for it when it’s already here
Seems so complex but yet very simple
Listen to His heart and adjust a little.
Continue reading “Jesus’ Kingdom”
We are his bride
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:31-32
Praise the Lord!
2000 years ago, Christ left his Father in heaven to come to the earth for his bride (mankind). But his bride was a slave. The only way he could redeem her was with his own blood. And he did it because he loved his bride so much. Continue reading “He is waiting”
We have access
At that moment, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. Matthew 27:52
Praise the Lord for his goodness!
What a glorious moment for all mankind, that moment when the curtain was torn in two. That curtain had been designed by the Most High himself and first came to the natural through Bezalel and Oholiab’s works. (Exodus 36:1).
This curtain was called the shielding curtain (Exodus 39:34) because it was separating the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place (Hebrews 9:2-4).
Only the high priest could enter the Most Holy place and only once a year. He would enter the Most Holy place with blood to offer for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. (Hebrews 9:7). Continue reading “Behind the curtain”
Out of your love, you came down to the earth To claim and redeem your fallen creation Close to your heart, we are yours by birth Born in your house, slaves in the nation You did not watch at the price it would cost You closed your eyes on the shame and the pain So determined to get back what was lost As losing your … Continue reading Glorious Inheritance
Being washed Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word […] Ephesians 5:25-26 Praise the Lord for his word! We know that words can destroy us or they can build us, They can make us angry or make us smile, They can make … Continue reading Washing with water
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Bestflix: September 2015’s Best New Netflix Instant Titles
Bestflix — ScreenCrush’s monthly video series dedicated to finding the best new stuff to watch on Netflix — is back with more recommendations for September 2015. (If you missed June, July, or August’s episodes, it’s not too late to add more great films and TV shows to your MyList.)
This month on the show: Netflix gets a brand-new documentary about a very old rock star, Wes Anderson travels to Moonrise Kingdom, and George Clooney comes to take your job in Up in the Air. Plus is a beautiful day in this neighborhood. In fact, it’s a beautiful day for a neighbor! Would you be mine? (Note: This is a rhetorical question.)
We’ll be back in October with five new recommendations. Until then, don’t forget to browse the full list of what’s new and expiring on Netflix here at ScreenCrush. (If you want to beat your chest along with Leo and McConaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street, you better hurry.) And make sure you subscribe to ScreenCrush’s YouTube Channel, so you never miss any of the latest episodes of Bestflix, Top Five, or You Think You Know Movies.
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Matthew Farrow, the world’s first ever umbilical cord blood recipient, has personally delivered a life-saving cord blood sample to a 2-year-old leukaemia patient from Orlando, Florida.
Matthew’s receives the world’s first cord blood transplant
Matthew was five years old when his parents made the brave decision to allow an international team of medics to use a cord blood stem cell transplant to treat their son’s Fanconi Anaemia, a life limiting inherited bone marrow failure syndrome (IBMFS).
Children with Fanconi Anaemia suffer from a range of symptoms including bleeding and increased susceptibility to infections. Their skin, weight, growth, hearing and heart may all be affected and the average survival age is just 14-25 years.
By 1988 haematologists knew that cord blood was a rich source of stem cells and were waiting for an opportunity to use what they predicted would be a game-changing procedure in the treatment of blood disorders. That same year, Matthew’s baby sister was born. After she had been safely delivered her cord blood was collected and flown with Matthew and his medical team to Paris where he was treated by pioneering haematologist, Eliane Gluckman.
Matthew made a full recovery and has spent the last 29 years raising awareness about umbilical cord blood.
Now a father himself, Matthew works for a Cord:Use, a hybrid public/private cord blood bank in Orlando. “It is an honour to be able to work with a company that is directed by the pioneers in this field,” Matthew says, “These doctors played a huge part in my life. I work as a patient advocate and assist with the days to day operations for the cord blood bank.”
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“We were lucky, because we were able to use umbilical cord blood, so it was actually not invasive for Wyatt.” (John Gibben’s, the boys’ father)
When Matthew read Grant’s story he realised that he was the one who had delivered the cord blood used for his treatment. “That’s really special”, Matthew said, “to hear that cord blood has been able to save another life.”
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The aim of this case report is to present a rare case which has been reported with the history of small nodule like growth on mandibular buccal and lingual area. Thirty year old pregnant women reported a nodule on left mandibular buccal and lingual region. The lesion was surgically excised and sent for biopsy to differentiate from kimura's disease, pyogenic granuloma, epithelioid angiosarcoma (EH). Histologically lesion shows proliferation of endothelial cells along blood vessels suggesting epithelioid hemangioma. The purpose of this report is to discuss and differentiate EH and other vascular rare entities occurring in the oral cavity.
Keywords: Epithelioid hemangioma, hemangioma, Kimura′s disease, pyogenic granuloma
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Kumar M, Goyal N, Dahiya P, Gupta R. Recurrent gingival swelling in pregnant women. J Cutan Aesthet Surg 2013;6:48-50
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The hemangioma is vasoformative tumour, characterized by an excess of blood vessels especially veins and capillaries in a focal area of submucosal connective tissue. Oral hemangioma represents 14% of all human hemangioma. There are various subtypes of hemangioma like capillary hemangioma, lobular hemangioma, cellular hemangioma and epithelioid hemangioma (EH).
EH is an uncommon benign vascular lesion which is composed of well-formed immature vessels. It was first described by Wells and Whimster in 1969. The term EH was proposed by Enzinger and Weiss in 1983. The etiology and pathogenesis of this vascular entity is still uncertain.
EH typically arises on the head and neck, but most frequently affected intraoral sites are lips, buccal mucosa and tongue. The extra-cutaneous sites are bone, salivary gland and muscular area or extremities. This entity typically presents as a small angioma like nodule, red to brown in color and may be located intradermally or subcutaneously in young adults. EH can mimic lymphoproliferative disorders, especially when the lesion arises in atypical location such as the extremities. The purpose of this case report is to describe a rare association between EH and oral mucosa.
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A thirty year old pregnant (third trimester) female reported to the department, with painless mobile nodular swelling in lower left buccal and lingual area [Figure 1]. There was slight bleeding on brushing and difficulty in speaking. After clinical examination a solitary exophytic growth measuring 1 cm × 2 cm × 1.5 cm was present on mandibular buccal and lingual gingiva in relation to 33 since last one month. Growth was soft in consistency and non tender on palpation. There was no associated regional lymphadenopathy. Radiographic findings showed no overt alveolar bone destruction in the area of soft tissue enlargement. Blood investigation revealed increase in the level of ESR. Blood count did not show eosinophilia. The growth was surgically excised and send for histological and immunofluorescence examination. After three months patient reported back with recurrent gingival swelling in left mandibular canine. The gingiva was soft and tender. This time swelling was decreased in size, and surgically removed.
|Figure 1: Clinical picture showing exophytic growth on lingual surface of mandibular lower left canine|
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The exophytic overgrowth was excisionally removed and send for histiological examination. The biopsy sections revealed focally ulcerated squamous epithelium. Underlying proliferation of variably sized blood vessel was seen which were lined by plump endothelial cells. Some markedly dilated spaces contained thrombi. The endothelial cells showed round nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm. A dense cellular inflammatory infiltrate, mainly lymphocytes, plasma cells and eosinophils and mast cells were found, surroundings the vessels. There were no signs of mitosis and atypical cells [Figure 2].
|Figure 2: A photo micrograph showing variably sized blood vessel which were lined by plump endothelial cells|
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It was done using the CD31 marker and revealed the positivity of the cells for CD31 proving that the epithelioid cells seen are vascular in origin.
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EH is a superficial, often multifocal lesion has a strong predilection for the head and neck region (specially face, ear and scalp) but rare in oral mucosa. EH in the oral mucosa is a rare disease and often confused with other vascular disease. In the past various terms have been used to describe this lesion, including angioblastic hyperplasia with eosinophilia, nodular angioblastic lymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia, lymphofolliculosis, pseudopyogenic granuloma, atypical pyogenic granuloma. In 1982, a broad term EH was given to describe angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) and some other vascular diseases. But, the diagnosis of epithlioid hemangioma is based upon its histopathological and clinical findings.
Oral EH seems to have a predilection for men, mostly at young age (male: female = 23:13). The lips are the most frequent site (16 out of 36), followed by the tongue (10 out of 36), buccal mucosa (6 out of 36), and palate (3 out of 36). Only 21 cases of EH have been reported in the oral cavity and the gingiva is the most common site. One case has been reported by Misselevich et al. which affect alveolar mucosa and gingiva by the direct extension from lesion in mucobuccal fold.
Oral EH clinically present as a solitary asymptomatic nodule, plaques, ulcers or even tumours. Histologically, the vessels were lined by epithelioid or histiocytoid endothelial cells which extend considerably into the lumen, imparting a "tombstone" effect. The lesional cells had rounded nuclei and abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm with occasional vacuoles. Electron microscopy revealed excess mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum and cytofilaments in the cytoplasm. A mixed chronic inflammatory cell infiltrate, including eosinophils and occasional germinal centers, was seen. CD31 marker were used to check vascular origin of epithelioid cells by immunofluorescence.
The etiology and pathogenesis of EH is unknown. There is a dilemma between various authors whether EH is a reactive lesion or a true neoplastic growth. According to martin - granizor, microtrauma can be a cause of EH. Upto to 10% of cutaneous EH had a history of microtrauma. It is possible that reactive condition caused by trauma may trigger cellular proliferation and growth. Pregnant women have a predilection for EH as reported by Shafer's. Pregnancy along with trauma may exaggerated the cause of exophitic growth as reported in our case. Other hypothesis regarding etiology is infection, allergy, trauma, overgrowth of atypical endothelial cells and inflammatory skin manifestations. Some authors suggested that EH is a true benign neoplasm which has oestrogen receptors on the lesion and respond to oestrogen therapy very well.
EH is differentially diagnosed from other vascular diseases histologically and macroscopically. Macroscopically, EH is differentiated from Kimura's disease, salivary gland tumour, squamous cell carcinoma, lymphoma and pyogenic granuloma whereas histological findings are different in bacillary angiomatosis, epithelioid angiosarcoma and epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. In Kimura's diseases, prominent cellular areas of lymphocyte forming follicles are seen, which are surrounded by inflammatory infiltrate and fibrosis. , Bacillary angiomatosis is an infectious disease caused by Rochalimeae henselae, presented as a lesion with abundant neutrophils with nuclear dust and clumps of bacteria. Epithelioid angiosarcoma presents as an infiltrative destructive growth with markedly pleomorphic cells. Cells show atypical mitosis and necrosis. Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is composed of short cord of spindle shaped endothelial cells. In this lesion well defined vascular channels are not seen.
The line of treatment of oral EH is complete surgical excision and follow-up. Other treatment modalities for cutaneous EH are laser cauterization, diathermy, cryotherapy, retinoids, pentoxifyline and intralesional corticosteroids. Local recurrence is common in one third of patients with cutaneous EH but rarely seen in oral mucosa and treated with re-excision.
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EH in oral mucosa is rare entity and has very less prevalence rate. The disease requires proper clinical and histopathological examination. As epithelioid hemanigioma is solitary in nature surgical excision is the treatment modality but in case of multifocal involvement, re-excision is required.
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CAN WEED MAKE YOU SICK?
While moldy pot and chemicals account for most of the toxic effects of marijuana, there is substantial scientific that cannabis abuse, or cannabinoid hypermesis syndrome is a thing.
This famous author smoked strong weed 12 hours per day for many years, the result? several best sellers and a case of paranoia that upset his wife, so he quit and kept the money in the bank.
IS YOUR WEED MAKING YOU SICK?
There is much evidence that contaminants commonly found in weed cause most of the issues associated with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, but there is also compelling evidence that cannabis itself could really be toxic in some cases.
"Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome is generally thought to be caused by heavy, habitual use of cannabis. High THC strains are most often implicated in this disorder. Foreign organic and chemical toxins in marijuana can also be confused with the THC and / or cannabinoid intolerance."
It would seem to be a slam dunk that taking too much THC day in and day can result in mental and physical issues, issues like paranoia, social isolation, vomiting, nausea, working basically in opposition the original intent of use. With that said, some people that have been around marijuana for years have never heard of this condition. Nonetheless, this disorder exists.
"I've never seen this cannabis syndrome before, never heard of it either. and I'm from the Netherlands :') "
An idea to put forward is that, no matter what the substance, too much of one thing, too long is bad for one's health. Bodybuilders have found that cycling steroids - which dials up testosterone - and muscle growth - is far more effective in the long run by cycling.
"When you do anything - too much - too long, the body becomes imbalanced."
An interesting case cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
This is a very happy case in point of cannabis abuse. A Mr. Graham Hancock, a somewhat famous flamboyant journalist-archaeologist recently admitted to his cannabis abuse. Hancock said he started smoking pot at the age of 37.
From a medical perspective, this means his receptors - found on the cellular membranes, which modulate many cerebral and physical functions - were virgin in the sense that they were not adapted to THC from an early age. He went on to say, he first started smoking in the evening after work and for many years, this was nothing but pleasurable. Life was good, marriage was good.
Then Graham decided to experiment - to see if he could write while smoking, why not get a beautiful high while working? He found that this worked like a charm, and he entered a most creative period of writing, with financial success as one meter.
So what was the problem then?
Graham goes on to explain that he started to smoke at 9 am and continued till bedtime, all the while, he kept up his long work hours and career wise, everything was on track. Then, he and his wife went to South America, where is was inevitable that a character of this nature would partake in Ihuaska, in the Amazon with a shaman.
Ayahuasca, a type of DMT - while non-addictive and non-toxic is known to give people the ride of a lifetime, psychologically speaking, like no other trip, all testify. Upon returning to earth from planet Ayahuasca, Graham said he saw the light. His use of cannabis was a problem, his existence had devolved into self absorption with paranoia about non-existent issues. His mistress was the herb cannabis and not his lovely wife. He decided that the paranoia had to go, and his mistress Cannabis, as lovely was, she was had to go.
Is that not the greatest "drug abuse" story ever told? We should all be so lucky. Substitute in pain killers, booze, cigarettes, or virtually and drug and you would have near 100% dead Elvis, Jackson, Prince, Joplin and so on, with the only exception being Keith Richards.
Plenty of insiders say that every 100m finalist was on Perfromance Enhancing Drugs.
CYCLING MARIJUANA TO AVOID TOXICITY
Cycling means to use something for a time and then give it a rest. In the case of steroids, if they are used too long, natural testosterone shuts down, and the body produces estrogen, in an effort to balance the system. Extreme abuse results in an extremely unbalanced psychological profile. Organs can grow or shrink, which results in physical collapse sooner or later.
However, athletes that cycle, do blood work to see that their bodies vital signs and organ function is not out of whack fare far better, to the point, where it can be argued that moderate steroid use in cycles might actually be beneficial.
The body builds up a tolerance to any herbal, alcohol, drugs, a food. Small amounts are not an issue. We're not talking about two glasses of wine in the evening, we're talking about one bottle or more. Similarly, smoking pot for an hour in the evening is not the issue, smoking many hours every day, is an amount that could cause pot to become toxic.
This is true of vitamins and herbs, where concentrated forms benefit for a while, until the body has too much and resistance and tolerance takes place. At this point, your herbals are working against you.
While its is trumpeted that marijuana can't hurt you, this idea flies in the face of common sense.
What is apparent is that marijuana is very safe, and it is very uncommon for moderate marijuana smokers to experience significant negative effects. Nonetheless, if you accept the cycling principle, everyone would benefit more from the medicinal effects of cannabis if they took a holiday from time to time.
The average cycle time, perhaps in many things, exercise, performance enhancing drugs, is something like 1:3 or 2:7, which translates into three days on one day off, or 5 days on and two days off. In athletics, ten weeks is normal to buildup overall energy resources. Then, most coaches found that it is time to move to more intense work, and again this phase lasts for two months or something like that.
Or you might be smoking moldy pot, weed with chemical sprays in it.
What are the signs and symptoms?
How does pot become toxic?
Is it your pot making you sick, or are there chemicals in it?
What to do if your pot makes you sick?
Should I take a break from pot ?
"Paraquat and other chemical sprays are endorsed, pushed throughout the world by the UN, WHO, DEA, EPA, in a process of classic Orwellian doublespeak, saying they are helping protect people and the environment, while sabotaging human, plant and animal life at all levels."
The Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome is characterized by recurrent nausea, vomiting and crampy abdominal pain. These symptoms have been reported to be improved temporarily by taking a hot shower or bath or more fully by stopping the use of cannabis.
The syndrome was described by several doctors about a decade ago. A study of nearly one hundred cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome "confirmed earlier findings. By confirmed, we mean to say that this is but one study, where extraneous variables may not have been thoroughly investigated; such as testing for pesticides, herbicides, aflatoxins, and profiling the cannabis, the amounts of THC, CBD and the terpenes. In other words, much of earlier and present research is incredibly naive ....
Let's spray this marijuana with Paraquat and see what happens
BIG WORDS - PILE IT HIGHER AND DEEPER?
For example: this peer reviewed paper makes no mention of any of the confounding factors listed above. Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome: Clinical diagnosis of an underrecognized manifestation of chronic cannabis abuse. This lack of basic cannabis acumen - or lack of ability to communicate - renders this paper nearly useless. Such is the plight of the peer review process today.
The long-term and short-term effects of cannabis use are associated with behavioural effects leading to a wide variety of effects on the body systems and physiologic states.
A Dr. Sontineni and colleagues in 2009 discussed the cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to offer guidelines for the clinical diagnosis, such as complications that can lead to acute kidney injury.
His group reports severe cyclic nausea and vomiting is resolved by stopping the use of cannabis. Symptoms of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome was relieved with hot showers or baths. Others reported abdominal pain and weight loss.
Various mechanisms are proposed to explain the symptoms of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome with the most popular being:
dose dependent buildup of cannabinoids and related effects of cannabinoid toxicity
the functionality of cannabinoid receptors in the brain and particularly in the hypothalamus (which regulates body temperature and the digestive system)
At the end of the day, anyone exhibiting symptoms of the cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome should discontinue weed and see if symptoms persist. At the very minimum, change the strain you smoke.
Fake Studies &The Red Flag - No elementary test data about the weed is provided such as mold, pesticides, heavy metals, CBD and THC and terpenes.
Cannabis toxicity could well be caused by chemical additives and mold - the symptoms are identical to classical poisoning - if one is experiencing these symptoms, one should discontinue the use of weed. If a person wishes to resume marijuana use, they should consider using a strain that's been tested - showing that it is pesticide and mold free. Also strains that are balanced in CBD & THC or contain mostly CBD alone might not cause toxic reactions.
Treatment is straightforward.
Many traditional medications for nausea and vomiting exist, but if you want pharmaceuticals, . treatment with lorazepam or haloperidol has provides relief for some people. You want to address dehydration due to vomiting by taking electrolyte solutions (Gatorade is the worst).
There are reports of renal failure due to electrolyte deficiency, which can be easily shored up simply by drinking a solution with mostly salt (sodium chloride) plus smaller amounts of potassium, calcium and magnesium, in ratios that are present in normal plasma (blood).
Acute episodes of cannabinoid hyperemesis are reported to last for 24–48 hours and normally resolves with stopping the use of cannabis use, however, improvement can take something like three months.
SELECTED TESTIMONIALS AND CHAT FROM REDDIT - SOME IDIOTS WEEDED OUT
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. I never saw this until about 4 years ago. Now I see it a handful of times per year. Do the other health care professionals of Meddit see it much?
Yep, saw two cases so far in the last six months, including one ICU admission that had such completely out of whack electrolytes that it took three days for us to stabilize things enough for them to have a coherent conversation to get a history. Turns out it was caused by using one of the synthetic cannabinoids and the patient had been vomiting for over a week with only temporary relief with hot baths.
I also saw something similar to this on internal med. Also caused by a synthetic cannabinoid.
Would it look like a gall bladder flare up with no verifiable cause? I went in for that and the docs said there were 6 other similar cases at the time...
Constant vomiting only relieved by hot bath/shower has been the presentation I've seen.
Also associated with Erythema Ab Igne probably due to constantly using heat to self-treat the nausea.
The problem is that since marijuana is widely known to be an antiemetic for most people these folks will continue to smoke because for a few minutes it does help. For some reason the guy I saw really didn't want to believe that getting nauseated like 5 minutes later and continuing to be nauseated was... because of the ganja. Hard to give it up when you smoke it enough that it makes you sick.
I've seen many problems that have come from the synthetic marijuana stuff, but never any from actual pot.
The worst things I've seen that came from marijuana consumption have been auto accident related and a young woman who had smoked what she described as "moldy looking" pot that led to a pretty severe fungal infection in her upper respiratory.
Funny, all of mine have been smoking the weed.
My ex-partner has this from the copious daily usage of regular old marijuana. Nothing synthetic.
Seen it three times in the last year. Hilarious. Hallmark is hot showers make it better. Guys just say hey man if I can smoke a bowl, it feels okay for a minute. Takes forever to convince them that the weed is the problem.
Yeah, they really don't want it to be the weed! Can't blame em. I've seen 2 in just 1 month on a GI service.
"Hallmark is hot showers to make it better." God's cruel joke on the hippies
I've heard several times that some patients with this outright reject the diagnosis because of their denial that it could be the weed.
It's is often the biggest hurdle to treatment, as the treatment is--gasp--to stop smoking weed.
I have seen several cases in the ED. Presents just like gastroparesis except no diabetes. Otherwise healthy, but when pressed, report MJ use. One patient, even had a cholecystectomy even though it had a normal RUQ US, but had an abnormal cholescintigraphy. Symptoms returned after the chole, surprise, finally admits to MJ use.
Yep. Seen it 3 times in the last 6 months and highly suspected it in another case. Could be because I'm in Washington state. Two of the patients had extensive past workups with cholecystectomy and 'abdominal migraine' diagnosis.
Many times. It does indeed present like any number of GI ailments, but the frequent hot showers and chronic usage of chronic set it apart. We see it a few times a month is CA. First documented in 2004 and chronic marijuana usage actually induces gastroparesis IIRC.
I have included this into my differential for cyclic vomiting. Anyone who does not suffer from diabetic gastroparesis who presents to my ED with recurrent symptoms get a urine drug screen. I'm surprised to find that a majority of these patients in my practice uses THC routinely. The diagnosis is further suspected when patients admit to relief with hot showers. I tell patients my suspected diagnosis without any judgment, but most are resistant to it. Their usual response is that they use the cannabis to treat the hyperemesis.
Their usual response is that they use the cannabis to treat the hyperemesis.Talk about a perfect storm...
Pediatrics resident here. Saw it my second week of residency and at least one more time since then but that one is more suspected.
I've never seen this before, never heard of it either. and I'm from the Netherlands :')
That would be incredible since I'm a PhD student now :P Oh and usually cannabis users don't end up in the hospital here.
THC has such a tremendous affect on appetite, I could see how chronic use could lead to something like this.
Yep. Had the hardest damn time rounding on the kid (male, early 20's) because he was always in the shower.
I am friends with many pot smokers and have never seen/heard of this. I have, however, seen people who have "green faced" after smoking too much (acute nausea/vomiting/malaise that resolves in ~30min--happens with new tobacco users too).
I think the vast majority of pot smokers are not affected, and the ones that are usually are daily smokers of a large quantity. The thing about taking showers to help then nausea is quite common with it.
They often use up all their hot water, trying to get relief.
Any idea on the etiology? Particularly as to why a core temperature change would help (I assume that's what's occurring with long hot baths/showers)?
It's not the temperature that helps, it's the sensation of being in water that almost immediately quells the nausea to a tolerable level. At least in my ex-partner's case.
Ugh, I can't mix booze and weed because I get this. Starts with vertical nystagmus and ends with puke everywhere.
Only once did I get sick from weed alone.
Not a medical pro, but my best friend has it. Had to stop.
This is super late, but hopefully you'll get to see this. I wanted to thank you for sharing this. I saw a patient in the ED yesterday with 2 years of N/V who came in acutely for N/V with some abdominal discomfort yesterday. He had had 10 CTs, EGD/colonoscopies, and even an exploratory laparoscopy in the past 2 years.
No cause of his symptoms could be found. I remembered reading about this on reddit and asked the patient about marijuana use and the hot showers. He admitted to heavy daily marijuana use and he was astounded that I knew that helped him. Well, I ran it by my attending and he had never heard of it, but he surprisingly was interested in reading about it so I gave him a paper. He saw the patient and agreed. I called the guy's PCP because I'm sure he has had a tough time dealing with this the past two years. Anyway, this was really helpful. Thank you.
Ha! just read it as a result of another post about it. Glad to have helped you make a diagnosis. Keep up the good work.
My ex-partner has this. He is horribly addicted, it destroyed our relationship.
I've seen two case reports of this and each time the use of marijuana was played up while the coincident use of other substances is downplayed in relation to the syndrome. The case report that comes most acutely to mind was in one of the osteopathic publications and they played up the fact that the subject of the case was a chronic recreational user of marijuana, but practically ignored that he has gone on a bender right before the symptoms started. I'm really not sure that it's an actual syndrome, but rather more of a demonization of marijuana.
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Your government at work? It's not your government. It's a techno-monster.
Like gluten intolerance, it was found that the chemical sprays are bound up in the protein - gluten, and that is what was making people sick. Similarly, sprays like paraquat, in small amounts, will make you a bit sick, in larger amounts, very ill indeed.
"Are they trying to eradicate weed or the human being. And who are they really?"
WASHINGTON, July 13— The director of the Drug Enforcement Administration said today that the Government would use the herbicide paraquat and two others in a stepped-up campaign to eradicate domestically grown marijuana.....
Paraquat and other chemical sprays are endorsed, pushed throughout the world by the UN, WHO, DEA, EPA, in a process of classic Orwellian doublespeak, saying they are helping protect people and the environment, while sabotaging human, plant and animal life at all levels.
What is cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS)?
CHS is a nebulous condition where cannabis becomes toxic. If you smoke a lot of pot and you have classic symptoms; recurrent nausea, vomiting and crampy abdominal pain you might have CHS . Symptoms may improve temporarily by taking a hot shower or bath. or more fully by stopping the use of cannabis.
What causes the cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome?
The Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome is generally thought to be caused by heavy, habitual use of cannabis. High THC strains are most often implicated in this disorder. Foreign organic and chemical toxins in marijuana can also be confused with the THC and / or cannabinoid intolerance.
"In this condition, the acute (illness) phase of CHS typically lasts for only 24 to 48 hours, but the risk of relapse is high if the patient returns to cannabis use." - Jonathan A. Galli, MD et.al.
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The story of the Burgess Ghost begins with the arrival of so many Irish to the areas around Westport, the Scotch Line, Black Lake, and Stanleyville, that it became known as the ‘Irish Invasion’.
This is the the home where the story took place, in the cold, bitter winter of 1935, at the home of Mr. John Quinn. John lived in the house with his wife, and two sons Michael age 13, and Stanley, 11.
Don Rennie, reporter for The Perth Courier, wrote a story on the Burgess Ghost in 1967:
“Strange occurrences were happening in 1935 at a farm in North Burgess just off the Narrows Locks road. Mr. John Quinn, his wife and two children, Michael, and Stanley, ages 13 and 11, reported innumerable phenomena taking place in their home. Stove lids, according to the Quinns, “danced” in the air, the teapot “jumped” off the stove into the wood box, three flat irons “walked” down a staircase and dishes “pranced” on the dining-room table. Word of this mysterious goings on spread quickly throughout the district. Although, perhaps skeptical, hundreds of persons from miles around flocked to the Quinn home.
On the Sunday after the reporting of the “ghosts” more than 100 cars arrived at the Quinn farm. Along with the cars a flotilla of cutters and sleighs dotted the white-capped farm. The snow fell incessantly and the thermometer dipped way below the zero mark.
Newsmen from across the country arrived and the CBC news from Toronto reported the strange events. Although the strange occurrences could not be readily explained many held doubts in their minds as the credulity of the phenomena. Believing that there had to be a reasonable explanation behind the occurrences, the Perth detachment of the OPP decided to hold an investigation.
On a Saturday afternoon, members of the force motored to the Quinn home, and inspected the building. Nothing strange occurred while they were there. That same evening Inspector Storey returned to the house. He remained there until Sunday morning along with about a dozen district men, sat in the house, speaking in hushed tones, but again nothing happened.
photo: members of the Quinn family, and the local police force
Mr. Quinn was unable to explain the strange occurrences that had been going on for the past couple of weeks. Pieces of beef he had placed in a barrel had been found littered throughout the house, he said, and the Wednesday before a window pane crashed for no apparent reason. He had not thought that too odd until it happened the very next evening.
Andrea Burke, a neighbouring farmer, declared that a bone thrown out of the home time and time again had always returned to the house for no explicable reason. Another neighbour, William Cordick, swore that he had seen three flat irons descend the Quinn’s staircase one after another.”
Who were these Irish Settlers?
Most, but not all of the Irish in North Burgess Township, came from County Down and County Armagh, and many came in the 1840s, to escape a horrible famine, that swept through Ireland like an unstoppable plague. A disease called Potato Blight ravaged their crops for nearly a decade, and during that time over a million died of starvation, and an equal number fled Ireland on ships sailing to Canada and the United States.
Most were tenant farmers, leasing their land; unable to pay their rent when their crops failed, and were evicted by ruthless landlords. They bundled up what little they had, and boarded ships headed for the new world.
Seven weeks was the average length of time spent at sea, and the conditions endured by these Irish immigrants were so terrible that the ships were nick-named ‘coffin ships’. The lice, ticks and fleas common in these over-crowded vessels were the ideal breeding grounds for the transmission of disease, and by 1847 an average of 50 passengers died each day of typhus on their voyage from Ireland.
The areas where this ‘wave’ of Irish settled in Lanark County:
These new settlers brought their traditions, customs, and stories with them to the new country. Stories and legends were passed down from father to son, and from mother to daughter. Tales from the old country were told in the evenings by the fire, and the one story that seemed to run up and down the concessions in North Burgess was the legend of the Irish Banshee.
The Banshee, or ‘Bean Sidhe’ is an Irish spirit, and her high-pitched wail foretells of a death in the family. It was said that each family had its own Banshee, and that they travelled with them from the old country. Some said that the family’s Banshee would stay in Ireland at the family’s estate, and mourn the dead. The settlers to the new land brought their vivid descriptions of the Banshees – some claiming that she was an old hag with red eyes, but others said she was a fair, pale Irish beauty with long red hair dressed in a flowing gown.
It’s been said that whoever hears her high and piercing shriek could be sure that there would be a death within 24 hours. Irish lore tells that the Banshee always wailed when a family member dies, even if the person had died far away, and news of their death had not yet come. The wailing of the banshee was the first warning to the household of the death.
When several banshees appeared at once, it was said to foretell of the death of someone prominent, or of an accidental or unintended death – often of a murder victim, a suicide, or a mother who died in childbirth.
The early settlers in North Burgess passed down their stories of banshees, fairies, ghosts and the little people. Although they were fiercely loyal to God and to the church, they never abandoned their beliefs in the spirits and creatures of their ancient folklore.
The Story of the Burgess Ghost became a local legend….
The story of the ghost in the Quinn house was passed down through the years, told and retold at family gatherings, around campfires, and particularly in the weeks each year leading up to Hallowe’en.
In a strange final twist to the mystery of the Burgess Ghost, the Quinn family home burned to the ground. The cause of the fire was never determined, and remains a mystery to this day…..
In 1972, the Quinn home was burned to the ground.
Some of the families who were among the earliest settlers to North Burgess Township:
In 2002 the townships formerly known as North Burgess, South Sherbrooke and Bathurst were part of an amalgamation, and adopted the name of Tay Valley Township, as they are known today.
For genealogical records of the founding families of North Burgess Township:
National Archives of Canada – Immigration Databases Online Searh – Immigration to Canada
St. Bridget’s Cemetery Staneyville Ontario
Scotch Line Cemetery – Burials from 1822-2000 North Burgess Township
Irish Immigration to Canada
Lanark County Genealogical Society
Search the census records for North Burgess Township, Lanark County
Irish Genealogy Records online
For more information on Irish Folklore in the early days of Lanark County:
‘Banshees of Burgess’, is part of a collection of short stories in ‘Lanark County Classics – A Treasury of Tales from Another Time’. The reader will discover more about the early families from Ireland who settled in Lanark County, and their customs and beliefs in the supernatural, brought from the old country. The story explores some of the tales passed down by these Irish settlers, and documents their personal experiences with Banshees, ghosts, and fairies while living in Lanark County.
Available at The Book Nook, The Bookworm, Mill St. Books and online.
(map of Northern Ireland – By Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa) – map by NNW, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7918534)
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