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By a soldier
I must have thanked Javed hundred times earlier but again I walked up to him as we reached the base camp on our de-induction from a post on Siachen Glacier, the highest battlefield on this earth. I hugged him and said, "Thank you Javed, tune mere haath bacha diye".
"Saab bar bar thanku bol ke sharminda mat karo", replied Sepoy Javed
"You don't know Javed how bad it is to have ones fingers or limb amputated", I said.
"Saab mere se jaida is baat ko kaun janta hai" replied Javed. I gave him a quizzical look after which he continued, "Saab, my father served here in Siachen in 1998. He fell down in a crevasse, and was rescued, but both his feet had to be amputated. I took care of him while he was in hospital. I helped him in coming out of his trauma of losing limbs and getting back to lead a life with a handicap."
I couldn't speak for a moment. Suddenly I blurted, "Why have you volunteered for this Siachen tenure, your unit was in peace, you could have had a good peace tenure."
My father always says "Fauji must serve in Siachen. We are a family of soldiers, so I had to take up my challenge"
"Your mother didn't stop you", I asked.
"Yes she did, but my father said if you take precautions nothing will happen as now a days lots of new equipment has been introduced and facilities have become better."
Now I could recollect why Javed did every activity by the book. In fact he was the one who as my buddy even chided me to follow the regimen. When I got chilblains, he helped me save my fingers as I could not be evacuated because of bad weather for ten days. When it opened up priority was given to another jawan, who had suffered an attack of HAPO ( High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema). The choice was between losing a life of one soldier or a limb of another. However, because of Javed's care, my chilblain was reversed. Had it deteriorated to frostbite, gangarine would have set in and I would have lost some of my fingers, if not the whole hand.
I again saw my hands and moved my fingers to get the satisfation that I have completed my Siachen tenure and am now hale and hearty .
I moved towards the officers mess of the base camp. There was a hero's welcome for me as I had served in one of the toughest posts at Siachen. The Commanding Officer shook- hands with me and other officers were there to offer me a drink. I did not feel like having anything. All this time I was thinking about how great man Javed's father was, who inspite of his condition motivated his son to do so tough a tenure. I also felt bad for Sep Jasbir Singh who was martyred in an avalanche during my tenure here. He was always so cheerful. His words were still resonating in my ears "Saabji ghar pahunch ke mein Pulsar Motorcycle leni hai te Harminder Sahab matha tekana hai."
I shaved my beard and had a good bath (after 90 days ). It was a mixed reaction to look at the myself in the mirror. The skin looked horrible because of the harsh weather, my hairline had receded at least one inch (at 26 years of age), but this was a small price as compared to losing ones life or limb. With a heavy heart I went off to sleep,but at around 3 O'Clock I was woken up to be informed that Javed has fallen sick . I immediately rushed to hospital. I could see Javed breathing heavily with a respirator and other monitoring equipment attached to his body. I wanted to meet him but doctors wouldn't allow me. Doctors could only tell me that he has suffered from Cerebral Veinous Thrombosis (clotting in brain). Next day he was evacuated to Command Hospital, Chandigarh.
Ten days later when I was on leave I was informed that Javed had passed away in the hospital. I couldn't believe this. I rang up my unit doctor asking him how could Javed die when he did everything as per the book. The doctor told me Siachen is a very hostile place and we cannot control all its effects. That super high altitude, icy winds, lack of oxygen and only preserved food can trigger any ailment in the body while you are there, or even after you leave that place.
I visited Javed's parents. The toughest time a soldier can have is in meeting the parents of his fellow who is martyred and whom you love more than your own sibling. I had put up a brave front and avoided crying in front of them. On my way back I was feeling suffocated with pent up emotions. Time and again I remembered Javed's words "Saab next chutti I am surely going to express my love to a cousin of mine whom I love from the bottom of my heart." Suddenly on a secluded spot I requested the taxi driver to lock me in the car and wait at a distance for half an hour. In those thirty minutes I cried my heart out. After all a soldier is also a human and his heart too bleeds!!
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Graveside services will be held for John B. Fellers, Jr., 88, of Camden, at 11:00 AM, Saturday, October 27, 2012 in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The Rosary will be recited at 6:00 PM, Friday, October 26, 2012 at Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel. The family will receive friends following The Rosary. Father Francis Travis will officiate. Memorials may be made in Mr. Fellers' memory to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 1709 Lyttleton St., Camden, SC 29020 or the charity of one's choice.
John B. Fellers, Jr., widow of Betty Clear Fellers, was born in Newberry, SC, the son of the late John B. Fellers and Ida Welch Fellers. He was a US Army 1st Lt. in WWII and served in the Pacific Theater. John opened Fellers Furniture in Camden in 1948. He was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church.
Mr. Fellers is survived by his 5 daughters, Bobbie Watkins, of Lugoff, Joyce Joyner (Philip) of Camden, Judy Faulkenberry (Randy) of Camden, Betty Roberts, of Lugoff, and Dr. Tullie Holmstrom, of Camden; 1 son, John B. Fellers III (Beverly) of Camden; 9 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren; sister, Carolyn Crooks of Morristown, TN; and brother, Richard Earl Fellers, of Newberry, SC.
Besides his parents and his wife, Mr. Fellers was predeceased by his brother, Levi Fellers; his grandson, Tyler Holmstrom; and sons-in-law, Lin Watkins, John Schnier, and Bill Roberts..
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We all know that motherhood is extremely challenging and exhausting, especially for those experiencing their first pregnancy. Luckily, your new baby probably won't have any teeth for you to worry about yet. But don't forget about your own teeth!
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Although you're busy, it is crucial to keep up your good dental habits. Studies have shown that pregnancy makes the gums more susceptible to gingivitis and can exacerbate existing gum conditions.
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S.H.A.R.E. (Self Help and Resource Exchange) is a food network designed to promote people working together to help one another meet each other's needs. Monthly registration (normally the 2nd Sunday) is held where food packages are purchased at a 50% to 60% discount off retail prices. Packages can be donated or purchased. For two hours of volunteer work and the discounted price, you will receive double in grocery items for your money.
S.H.A.R.E. is not a public assistance program, but a way of purchasing and distributing food in bulk while performing a blessed community service. The menus for each month change along with the monthly specials. The specials are similar to the regular packages, but always has a little something extra. You must purchase the regular package in order to purchase the monthly special. S.H.A.R.E. Packages are distributed monthly at Mount Olive Baptist Church in the lower auditorium.


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Mercury spins closest to the sun,
light side burnt, dark side frozen.
Venus, goddess of love, lies
clouded in a mist of poison gas.
Earth's green breathes oxygen and carbon,
each continent bathed by a blue ocean.
Mars, the red planet, lies dead,
arid desert, dry, cold and deserted.
Dust, debris, discarded sputniks,
asteroids, all together trace their orbits.
Jupiter, with a climate that is hardly hot,
nevertheless nurses a giant red spot.
Saturn, light enough to float, wears a ring
of gas and ice and spatial bling.
Uranus is another giant sphere
of chilling, lethal gas, or so we hear.
Neptune rides a misty darkened sea
with mermaids and sea nymphs for company.
Pluto, demoted now to a lump of ice,
guards still the gates that lead us to deep space.
Holst composed his Planets Suite,
so we can have our planet biscuit.
This galaxy is a cake bar
With a dark, molten, creamy core.
A mercurial message from the gods,
made to satisfy the goddess of love,
the colour of earth,
a reminder of Mars and a Milky Way,
eat too many and that belt will loosen,
by Jupiter a jovial stick of joy,
a saturnalian feast,
you're in us, or in our stomachs now.
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so far out, like Pluto.
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Discussion in 'General' started by Workshed, Jul 1, 2016.
On Netflix July 15.
more here
It looks pretty cool. I like these throwback 80's gang of kids movies. I liked Super 8 as well and this looks like something in the same vein (albeit less sci-fi and more suspense/supernatural) , so I'll definitely give it a chance.
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this one.
That is awesome poster art! I'm already making plans to watch this with friends and a bowl of popcorn!
LOVED.IT. Every.single.second. My favorite home video experience of 2016.
Yes I'm a child of the 80s. Yes I'm a sucker for all things 80s. I still know good versus great. This was great. It captured the magic of 80s Speilberg - E.T., Goonies, etc. I felt like a kid again. That magical sense of wonder, awe, and adventure. I was sad it ended. I'll be revisiting it again and soon. Cast was amazing. Even Winona, whom I normally can't stand, knocked it out of the park.
Nods to many of the great horror flicks of the 80s, too. I won't name names and spoil it for anyone. See how many you can find.
No spoilers. Just advice. Watch it ASAP.
I didn't know about this series - dang now I need to note yet another thing I need to watch soon! <:
Loved it as well
Just like with the Conjuring movies, they really nailed the era it was set in, and it really DID feel like an 80:s film.
A bit of Spielberg, a bit of Carpenter, and also a hint of Cronenberg and a few shots that would have fit in a Kubrik movie.
Even though there was a lot of homages and nods, to 80:s movies, they didn't hit you on the head with them, it just felt natural.
It was beautifully shot, and the soundtrack was amazing.
Also, those opening titles, are probably the best I've seen in a long time.
I thought all the actors did a great job. And just like in movies from the era, they looked like real people, and not like typical modern TV photo models.
And damn, did the series hit me on the head, with nostalgia. Dungeons and Dragons, BMX bikes etc. Major flashbacks from my childhood back in the 80:s
I really hope they make a sequel or a spin-off, in a near future. I want more!
I saw a trapper keeper!
Me and my wife are HOOKED. Not often she will watch the same things as me so were staggering the episodes, but im so tempted to watch it all this afternoon!
Great interview here. Sounds like Netflix was/is really on board with the show.
Phenomenal show. If only more Stephen King adaptations of the past were made like this. I hope the remakers of It take notice as to how it's done.
Holy shit, I sat down last night to watch this and before I knew it, it was 11:45pm and I'd watched three episodes. This show is perfect so far. I know it's dangerous to say that, but damn, if it isn't exactly what I want. The opening credits, MY GOD: perfect! The kid actors--where did they find these kids? They're perfect! The setting, the posters on the walls, the creep factor, the Christmas lights effects! The sheriff, the mystery, the...everything...
Season 2 plans? YES PLEASE
On that title sequence:
Love that title sequence.
Reminds me a bit of the one to Terminator and the "V" mini series, and it builds up the mood VERY well
Most tv-series and movies, just don't have that kind of title sequences any more.
Either it's just a 5 second flash of the title, or for movies, the come at the end instead.
Or, it's a very elaborate sequence that, while cool, is not as memorable.
Man, finished episode 5 last night, "The Acrobat and the Flea."
Shades of Firestarter in the backstory of the woman who underwent LSD-testing and then birthed a child with special powers.
Dig it!
When El confronts the bullies on top of the canyon, loved it when the kid yelled, "She's our friend, and SHE'S CRAZY!" But, you could see on El's face that she recognizes no matter who she's with, she is
used as a weapon.
Great performance by that young actor--hell, all of them in the past two episodes. Lucas? Love it when he Rambos up!
A few serious scares in the past two or three eps, too. My girlfriend screamed, and I even jumped, at the
deer scene.
So far, my favorite character is Hopper, the sheriff.
If you aren't watching this, you should be!!!
Definitely a terrific throw-back to 1983! So much so, that I was actually pulled out of the mood every time they played a song from the mid/late 80s.
I'd recommend it to any horror/sci-fi fan! Bring on Season 2!
It took me a while to get into this, but I watched the whole thing last Sunday. Definitely worth it. I really hope there's a season 2 that's just as good.
Finished it tonight. Loved it.


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Burt Gummer's Rec Room
A gathering place for paranoid survivalists and those who worship at the Church of Chang
August 2015: Dryer than a bone, and hotter than the surface of the sun- yup, it's summertime in Perfection and El Blanco is on the prowl.
Disclaimer: This is the part of the Church that is the most no holds barred. None of it is intended with malice, and although it can on occasion seem a little bit fraught, it is banter rather than venom. So, be warned that this is like taking a naked swim in a piranha tank and not recommended for the faint of heart.
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tombando says :
Watched the latest Terminator-with Ahnold, Urmm tall gal from the Martian, Linda Hamilton, etc. It's–OK, trots out all the usual expected cliches-but enough already. They don't need to do anymore of these.
WatchING Fat City with Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges. So far pretty okay. Never seen it before.
ThereWolf says :
Hey, Blitz! You done any more musical stuff recently? What's your weapon of choice, maracas or cowbell, I can't remember?
Tombando says :
Hey there wolf!
ThereWolf says :
Hey Tombandito! Why haven't you got a face?
Xiphos0311 says :
Hey wolf how's things boyo?
ThereWolf says :
Good, Xi, can't moan. How's yerself, still raisin' hell?
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Enola Holmes I actually liked quite a bit. Watched it with my younger daughter, who also liked it, a lot. Didn't even mind Supes as Sherlock, since he was a peripheral character. That Millie Brown was really good in this, we both liked when she "broke the fourth wall!" as my daughter would yell out. Maybe I will get her to check out the books and see if they are worth a read, since she is a huge reader.
Xiphos0311 says :
I watched EH also and while I am most definitely NOT the target audience i thought it was okayish.I however was getting very annoyed with the fourth wall breaking by the end of the movie.I could nail exactly when it was coming and almost exactly what she was going to say because they made it so easy to figure out. Gerault of Rivia was good as a jacked Sherlock. I was quite annoyed at how they portrayed poor Mycroft. I get they need an antagonist, one that had the power, to move EH around and put her in places the script needed her to be but in the books he wasn't such a pratt.
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So Xi, looks like we'll be getting a season 2 on The Vow. Shocker. What a vile, crooked bunch.
Last week's ep was very difficult to get through. I wanted to slap Mark into oblivion (viciously so when he chastized bonnie for joking about sleeping on the dog bed). Nippy looked coked the fuck out on the pier. And I badly want to know if anyone walked out of these sessions or pushed back on any of it. The mind boggles. This week's ep was basically, oh after 8 eps of long shots of Nippy on the laptop, sarah playing with kids, our aunt beru looking pensive or Catherine in a car, P.S….Mexico! (Which, have you seen the texts between Keith and the 15 year old?? Jesus fucking christ, it is beyond.) And Mark sitting on the floor crying about the pleasure Keith took from all this at the end seemed very revealing of him. How focused he was on Keith's "pleasure." (And stop showing slo mo shots of volleyball and award ceremonies like I'm gonna be sad for what you lost Mark. Like, did these people just need shitty office jobs? We have all kinds of stupid assemblies and awards ceremonies, chances for forced fun, softball/volleyball leagues, idiotic training, etc)
HBO is teasing Keith's side of the story and lots of "intimate" DOS stories in season 2. Escalating the sleaze, I suppose. Haven't seen any of the Starz series that just started, but I hear it has more dirt on Mark and co.
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Tracy Piper-Wright, Glyndwr University, WrexhamBiggs, M. and Karlsson, H. (Editors), (2012), Routledge. .......... The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a comprehensive overview of 'the state we're in' with regard to academic research and doctoral education in the creative arts and explores in some depth and breadth the issues and problems of arts based research. This is not an anthology of writings from the last decade collect...
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The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a comprehensive overview of 'the state we're in' with regard to academic research and doctoral education in the creative arts and explores in some depth and breadth the issues and problems of arts based research. This is not an anthology of writings from the last decade collected and re-packaged, but instead a set of specially commissioned essays from a strong showing of international writers and thinkers on the routes and range of contemporary research practice. The contributors were brought together to talk through the issues in person before the texts were finalised, which gives the book a coherent feel of conversation between voices rather than a set of individual proclamations on the subject. This permits a level of freshness to enter the material, which is particularly relevant for those who have already eagerly digested other major arts research texts such as Barrett and Bolt (2007) or Sullivan (2005). While this book does touch upon the practicalities of the research process, it is far from a 'how to' or a set of exemplars, although examples of different research projects and methodologies are present. It is much more about the debates art practitioners and academics should have when we embark upon research and the questions we should be raising for potential PhD students.
The book is divided into three sections – 'Foundations', 'Voices' and 'Contexts'. This structure sets out a linear trajectory in the essay topics beginning with discussions which explore how university cultures have influenced the direction of research in the arts and the philosophical relationship between creative practice and academic organizations. The second section, the longest of the three, provides examples of how arts based research tests and challenges existing methodologies; how it invents new ones and offers alternative readings of the research universe which it 'writes back' to the academy. The essays in the final section discuss how researchers in the arts relate to the wider research community, and how diverse research outputs might be communicated effectively and therefore perceived as valuable.
The overriding flavour of the anthology is interrogative; it is the 'problematic' of the relationships between artworks, artistic practice, research and the academic, educational and social structures in which these activities take place that is, if not the sole focus of many of the essays, certainly the prolegomena to many. Words such as 'disagreement', 'dilemma', 'problem' and 'conflict', come thick and fast at the start of the book and introduce the reader to a landscape which remains challenging for arts research despite its inclusion in the academic arena for the last decade.
A central question in 'Foundations' is how we differentiate between art practice and art practice as research. While there is still discussion of how artworks might come to represent knowledge in this section, the relationship between practice and research as distinct modes of operation appears to be a profoundly more interesting question to wrestle with, based as it is in process and phenomenology, as opposed to the epistemological status of products. In their essay Michael Biggs and Daniela Büchler explore how 'practice' and 'research' form two distinct communities with distinct expectations, and how disjuncture between these creates dissatisfaction with the homogeneity suggested by terms like 'practice based research' and gives rise to the worrying possibility of good research leading to bad art.
Their suggestion is the further promulgation and strengthening of a distinct practitioner-researcher community; a self-monitoring third corridor with its own values and conventions which can judge the worth and credibility of the research and the art produced. This appears to be happening as arts research gains momentum and provides further evidence of why the arts must actively maintain an authentic research culture rather than using approaches that pertain to other disciplines.
If 'Foundations' gives us pause while we consider what we are getting ourselves into, the second section, 'Voices', takes us straight into the heart of this research community. In this section the full excitement of what arts based research could be is explored. Perspectives from visual art, music, dance and creative writing give a real, live sense of the diversity of methods and approaches but also a strong sense of arts research as a definable field of activity, with subject specific detail giving way to modes and terminology which are inherently transdisciplinary in their formation and 'multi-modal' in their creation and output. This set of essays gives the researcher in the arts a sense of a community of shared values and approaches which have resonance across creative disciplines with theoretical consideration of issues such as embodiment, performativity, materiality, handling and temporality coming together across the section to create a sense of both creative enrichment and intellectual rigour. Many of these essays explore the in-between-ness of artist researcher practice, and provide examples of research which explore the rich territory between the linguistic and non-linguistic: territory which most artists, art academics and researchers find themselves immersed in.
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The Routledge Companion is a rich resource for those engaged in research as academic practitioners, and those teaching masters or supervising doctoral students. In these latter contexts it is useful to those engaged in the discussion of research methods in the arts and provides students with an important sense of context in which their research outputs might find their voice. For academic practitioners, the essays provide a way to consider how practice might be articulated as research, and evidence of a shared research environment in which they can approach this with some authenticity. Each essay is packed with references to what is now becoming a rich literature on arts research and a useful resource through which to explore the complexity and diversity of approaches in the field.
The essays demonstrate how research in the arts is enabling new ways of thinking which challenge dichotomies and perceives fuzzy boundaries not as sites of difficulty but as sites of opportunity. Embracing this type of pluralistic approach doesn't side-step the problems that arts research faces or gives rise to, but reminds us that it is the search for new and better questions, rather than the satisfaction of easy answers, that drives both creativity and research.
Dr Tracy Piper-Wright is Lecturer in Fine Art at Glyndwr University, Wrexham.
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checking in, december edition
My final lecture of the semester is today, and then there are papers and an exam to grade in the next two weeks. I'm looking forward to a few days off in between various other December deadlines. I'm lucky I only have to teach two courses next semester. I hope there will be job interviews, but I'm preparing for the worst.
I've been continuing to focus on relatively boring wardrobe-building for the past month. I bought a pair of Cole Haan Monroe penny loafers in October after many months of hesitation. Of course they're half a size too big after stretching out, for some reason I didn't anticipate this inevitability. I'm destined to live in Birkenstocks, I have terrible luck with real shoes! I also stumbled upon an Isabel Marant for H&M blouse, which has worked equally well for teaching and going out.
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I hope everyone had a restful Thanksgiving. Maybe it's because I haven't been online much these days, but I've been enjoying a slower pace of life. We buy groceries, draw pictures, clean, and fold laundry. I'm trying hard to be content with the current situation. If I stop to think about what may happen in the next few months, I fall apart. There's a character in A.S. Byatt's The Children Book who chooses to live lightly on the surface because the alternative is too troubling. In times like these, that's the best advice I can offer myself and those in a similar situation. For all of you on the market, here's hoping for interviews and campus visits...and contracts.
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- Sarge in Charge said...
I love that skirt... think it could be a great outfit with the Isabel Marant for H&M blouse and the loafers. Give us a pic and a review once it arrives, k?
Hope the rest of the semester goes smoothly.
- joyce said...
Best of luck with everything, Erica. Hang in there!
- lori said...
Good luck this season. Last season I landed a job after three years on the market, so I know full well some of this emotions you must be experiencing. Not six months into my TT new job, I lament for the calmer days of being a postdoc and forget the crippling uncertainty of the position.
- erica said...
Thanks everyone, I'm trying to go into the next few months with the attitude that I have options, even if they aren't great ones.
Postdoc life was pretty great, so I can sympathize with you, Lori, but adjunct work is rough. Going from 2 courses a year to 5 course along with administrative duties and a loss of income is brutal. I don't know how people adjunct for more than a few years!
- aprovecharse said...
I hear you on all fronts, Erica. I'm trying to be pragmatic rather than existential about the job market this time around, but it's tough. Hang in there! It will work out one way or another...
- Catherine said...
As always your writing is thoughtful, considered and eloquent. I like the idea of that book, it's a good bridging mindset.
- jennifer said...
hang in there, erica! i do hope you get a few days to relax during the holidays! any holiday travel plans?
i tried on that j.crew skirt on monday. it's cute! i really love jcrew's wool mini skirts and found that this one is just a touch longer than the skirts from past seasons (makes it more teaching appropriate). for what it's worth, the wool minis i have bought in the past have lasted for many years and are still going strong! they are a wardrobe staple for me.
- erica said...
Nope, no travel plans, but we're taking a couple of days off for the holidays. We originally had plans for NYC, but the thought of driving there and back was daunting.
I just tried on the skirt the other day, and I'll have to return mine because it's too small. It did seem sturdy and well-made, though, so that gives me hope.


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Ever since Vietnam allowed foreigners to own apartments in July 2015, its luxury housing sector has been on a tear. Three years ago, when local developer Dai Quang Minh launched the first residential complex in the Thu Thiem area – a 657 hectare grassy plot across the Saigon River from the central business district – the going rate was $2,000 to $2,800 per square meter. The Metropole, a nearby project slated for June, will likely cost more than twice as much, between $4,500 to $6,500 per square meter.
Last year, luxury home prices soared 17 percent, while the rest of the residential market stayed largely flat, says Dung Duong, a research analyst at CBRE Group Inc., a real estate services firm.
It's no surprise, then, that most Vietnamese are priced out. In 2018, only 23 percent of luxury homes were sold to locals, outpaced by mainland Chinese, CBRE estimates. South Koreans and Hong Kong residents followed closely behind.
To the Chinese, Ho Chi Minh City is irresistible. As early as 2016, marketing brochures touted the city as Vietnam's Shanghai, and Thu Thiem as a newer Pudong, the glitzy central business district that rose from abandoned farm land. As they see it, Vietnam now is China a decade ago – a politically stable Communist country that can reap riches through exports and a friendly relationship with the U.S.
And for Chinese investors used to sky-high prices at home, Vietnam's luxury apartments seem like a good deal. Earlier this year, China Vanke Co., the third largest developer on the mainland, launched a riverside project in Shanghai's Pudong with units priced at more than $15,000 per square meter, more than double the Metropole project.
There's a major pitfall to that logic, however. Vietnam today looks nothing like China did 10 years ago.
There's little point to a luxury condo without nearby infrastructure to support it. Keppel Land Ltd.'s Estella Heights is a case in point. Advertized for its family friendly location – across a busy highway is a residential area full of international schools and small cafes – the apartment complex has beautiful rooftop swimming pools and a children's play area. Yet, right now, there's no overhead bridge to walk to the school district. Plans to start one are hazy at best.
As for that metro every real estate agent is talking about: It's being delayed – again. The city broke ground on its first subway line in 2012, but financial problems, such as ballooning costs and unpaid bills to Japanese contractors, keep coming. The finish date was pushed to 2020 from 2017, and even this deadline may not be met. Shanghai, in contrast, finished its first metro line on schedule in 1995. It's built a dozen more since.
From a fiscal viewpoint, the comparison is equally stark. At 61 percent of GDP, public debt is edging close to its legal cap of 65 percent, giving Hanoi limited means to spend on infrastructure. Ten years ago, China had much more flexibility. To insulate its economy from the fallout of the financial crisis, Beijing launched a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) fiscal stimulus, building roads, metros and railways that transformed Chinese cities into efficient transportation hubs.
Even if Vietnam decided to lift its public debt ceiling, there's very little wiggle room. A dwindling global trade pie puts the nation's current account surplus at only 2.7 percent of GDP. China, on the other hand, had a surplus of more than 10 percent a decade ago. At that point, Shanghai looked like a big construction site; Ho Chi Minh City feels alarmingly quiet right now.
Back in 2006, apartments at riverfront locations in Shanghai's Pudong district went for roughly $1,800 per square meter. In Ho Chi Minh city, you're paying more for 20-year-old infrastructure. This market is getting too heated – and yet 80 percent of all buyers last year said they purchased for investment purposes. What gives?
Meanwhile, all of this is bad news for the Vietnamese. At this pace of foreign buying, Ho Chi Minh City is looking like it's being colonized all over again.


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William Arthur (Pop) Warner, pioneer Panhandle physician, the son of Peter and Adelade Victoria (Scriven) Warner, was born on August 8, 1864, at Brimfield, Illinois. His father, a Methodist minister, reportedly purchased land in the Texas Panhandle "sight unseen" during the late 1870s for thirty-three cents an acre. However, the family remained in Illinois, and William began his college education at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. He then attended medical school at Northwestern University, where he received his M.D. degree. On May 31, 1897, Warner arrived at Claude, Texas, to set up his medical practice. After establishing himself and buying a house, he sent for his fiancé, Phebe Kerrick, whom he had met at Illinois Wesleyan. They were married at Claude on February 17, 1898, and became the parents of two sons and two daughters; their second child, William, Jr., died at the age of fourteen. Warner's parents moved to Claude in December 1898, after his father retired from the ministry, and resided there until 1916, when they moved to Rockport for their health. For several years Warner was the only doctor in Armstrong County, and he often traveled as far as thirty-five miles from Claude in all types of weather to call on patients. His buggy, drawn by his horse, Old Scarleg, was often a welcome sight to the residents of isolated farms and cow camps; later, beginning in 1908, he made his house calls in a one-cylinder Cadillac. Warner was said to have delivered over 2,000 babies during his thirty-five years as a physician. In 1909 he erected the two-story Warner Building, which housed his office and drugstore, a barbershop, and the facilities for the Claude News. The second floor was used intermittently as a public reading room and lodge hall. The structure remained a familiar landmark in Claude until March 4, 1915, when it was burned. Warner is most famous as the organizer of Lone Star Troop No. 17, the first Boy Scout troop west of the Mississippi, in 1912, only three years after the movement came to America from England. In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, Warner joined an army medical unit and was stationed at Fort Bliss. There he attained the rank of first lieutenant and organized Company 39, an ambulance unit, which was ordered overseas in 1918. Warner saw active service in St. Nazaire and Marseille, France, where he cared for sick and wounded soldiers. He also supervised the burial of troops killed in the Meuse-Argonne campaign. Discharged after the war's end, Warner returned to Claude and resumed his medical practice. He continued working with the Boy Scouts as a scoutmaster for twenty years and was a recipient of the BSA's Silver Beaver, the highest award given by the organization. He was a member of the Claude Methodist Church and a favorite of the town's youth. In spite of a lingering illness during the last three years of his life, he remained active in community affairs until his death at an Amarillo hospital on July 31, 1934. He was buried in the Claude Cemetery.


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End and middle panels housings, which dovetail into each other, enable a side stacked cluster of KR rocker switch cases, to be assembled and positioned into a long panel slot
For mounting end panel housing order RS507-611 and for middle panel housing, order 507-615
A black panel blanking plug 507-318, useful for future switch extensions, is also available
Actuators can be removed with 507-312 tools (supplied in pairs), by placing the 2 claws under the support and pushing as indicated on the arrow on the tool
If panel mounting housings are used, assembled switches can be removed by inserting 2 tools between the switch and panel units, from the rear, to compress the snap in device
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Filmmaker Makes Cheeky Commercial for a Used Nissan–And Nissan Buys It
Floridian Filmmaker Luke Aker, a.k.a. Ikonik Productions, may have found the best way ever to sell a used car.
Aker made a witty parody of the standard car commercial to accompany a Craigslist ad for his old, battered 1996 Nissan Maxima. In the tongue-in-cheek listing, he talks up the car, writing, "It not only brings more admiring stares than any other car I have driven it also has seat belts! Amazing!" The commercial drives home the joke with a dramatic announcer touting the aging Maxima's enviable qualities, such as "wheels" and "tires," over beautiful footage of the car's torn seats and weathered paint job.
The commercial itself is amusing, but what's amazing is that Nissan saw it, liked it and decided to take him up on his offer.
Hey @IkonikFilms: SOLD! Had us at "land-yacht" & this hilarious '96 Maxima ad: http://t.co/0XpfoBtGQE - We want to make you an offer. DM us!
— Nissan (@NissanUSA) December 16, 2013
He responded within minutes, and by the next day they had a deal for the car, plus a bonus donation to the Wounded Warrior Project. Aker also threw in another car ad parody, this time taking on magazines.
Just got off the phone. @NissanUSA Will be Purchasing the car AND Donating $1000.00 to Wounded Warrior #SoAmaze #wow pic.twitter.com/YUh8PlkfYJ
— Ikonik Films (@IkonikFilms) December 17, 2013
The Craigslist ad had been listed since September, so it seems that Aker's video was just the kick he needed to make the sale.
Image: YouTube, Ikonik Films


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Study skills assessment tools are a useful way to learn more about your own learning strengths, areas in need of improvement, and learning style.
AA&CC Services & Resources
Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI)
The Learning and Study Strategy Inventory (LASSI) is an inventory that looks at your learning and study practices and attitudes in 10 areas. Attend the workshop to improve your study strategies.
How to complete the LASSI:
Sign-up for the LASSI workshop on the Career Learning Network
- Go to https://clnx.utoronto.ca and sign-in
- Click on the 'Events & Workshops" menu items on the left
- Click on "Scarborough Calendar"
- Click on the LASSI workshop that you would like to attend and sign-up
- To complete the LASSI assessment online, you must email the LASSI workshop facilitator (indicated on the CLNx workshop description) for the instructions and the password
- Complete the LASSI assessment (online) by the deadline indicated on the CLNx workshop description
- Bring your LASSI printout to the workshop
- Alternately, if there are no LASSI workshops available on the calendar at that time, please call us at 416-287-7561 or drop by the AA&CC front desk for more immediate options.
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The Learning Styles Inventory gives you an introduction to your learning style, which we use to help you to build on those strengths to enhance your learning.
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Willie Fijolek
Willie entered the California real estate market in 2007, when he and his wife, Leslie, purchased their home in the Del Mar Highlands. However, his experience with California real estate extends for over 20 years of looking for homes during yearly vacations, so his wife could return to the San Diego.
During college, Willie worked at two radio stations, WILL and WPGU, in Champaign. After working full-time for a year at WILL, he left his job as a production engineer at WILL to attend DePaul University Law School in Chicago. After graduating and passing the Illinois bar, Willie was offered an opportunity to join H.C. Polonitza Trading Co., of La Jolla, CA., as a floor trader/member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
Willie spent many successful years on the CBOE, trading as a market maker, and as a partner in two trading firms; Tradenet LLC and Pyramid Capital LLC. When the electronic revolution made trading easier off floor, he decided it was time to leave the fast and frenzied pits and begin a new chapter as an off floor trader.
Willie continues to trade, using the formulas he has found to be successful, but it is no longer a full time occupation for him. Since he loves getting out, meeting new people and seeing everything San Diego, and the surrounding vicinity has to offer, real estate was a natural transition.
Willie has property in three states; California, Colorado and Illinois and has been renting property since 2007. He has fallen in love with San Diego and the beautiful weather. It is the perfect weather for almost every sport or activity. It is absolutely perfect for road cyclists like him. He has been riding since the mid-80's, logging thousands of miles, riding with Saybrook Cyclists in Naperville, Illinois and now with Sub 5 in Carmel Valley.


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World of Warcraft Classic has been in closed beta for just under a week. In that time hundreds of players clashed in the Arathi Highlands, the Classic WoW subreddit crested 100,000 subscribers, and the beta has garnered over 150,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch. I've personally invested 20 hours into the beta at this point and am shocked to find myself enjoying parts of the 15-year-old MMO that I remember as mundane. Going in, I knew I'd love the single-shard servers, non-homogeneous classes, lack of flying mounts, and many reasons to interact with other players, but I didn't expect to enjoy the surprising difficulty of simply questing on my own. It's easy to take what I'm playing for granted but the fact of the matter is that WoW Classic wouldn't exist without years of deliberation on the part of a passionate fanbase, followed by years of development on the part of an equally passionate developer.
I had the privilege of traveling to Irvine, California to play before the beta started and talk to the folks at Blizzard behind the project. They told a story of learning, enthusiasm, and cautious optimism in regards to WoW Classic, perhaps best articulated by J. Allen Brack, the recently appointed President of Blizzard Entertainment. He's a thirteen-year Blizzard veteran who, until recently, had been with the WoW team since vanilla.
Blizzard's stance on old-school servers wasn't always so eager but evolved due to fan demand and the arguments presented in their favor. Somewhat infamously, Brack himself said "you think you do, but you don't" in regards to the desire to play older versions of WoW back in 2013, and the internet hardly let him live it down until he personally announced World of Warcraft Classic at 2017's Blizzcon. So does the sentiment that you can't go home again still hold water in regards to WoW Classic?
One of the things that made us say "hey we want to do this and we believe in it" was this game feeling like it deserves to exist.
"I think the answer to that is that it doesn't matter what I think." he told me, "We have decided to make WoW Classic... You know, one of the things that made us say 'hey we want to do this and we believe in it' was this game feeling like it deserves to exist."
"WoW has been a huge game," Brack continued. "It's had a huge community impact, it's created a lot of bonds and friendships. Not being able to experience that game felt like a bit of a tragedy. So that was part of the lens as well was like 'hey this game should exist, we should find a way for this game to exist!' And now we've done the work and it will exist, and you saw the release date at the end of August, we're really excited to bring a multi-year journey to that kind of conclusion."
As I wrote in my preview, World of Warcraft Classic has much more to offer than just nostalgia. The world is filled to the brim with abstruse and challenging elements that coerce you to make and maintain relationships with other players if you want to succeed. As a result, I believe that WoW Classic's MMO ecosystem offers an experience that can't be found anywhere else in 2019. And, it would appear I'm not the only one who sees something special in the more-than-decade-old game. Just last week more than 100,000 viewers congregated in the chat of popular streamer "Asmongold" to watch him successfully fell Edwin Van Cleef in the classic Deadmines. A vindicating spectacle that would have been impossible to witness without Blizzard overcoming certain technical hurdles.
WoW's had a huge community impact, it's created a lot of bonds and friendships. Not being able to experience that game felt like a bit of a tragedy.
"We talked about it [making Classic] for a number of years and we couldn't figure out what the right way to do it would be," Brack explained. "The problem was, the codebase that shipped with WoW and encompassed the WoW Classic timeline was a codebase that we had really moved on from in subsequent years. Software is a very iterative process, and its development was more than 10 years in the past at this point. So thinking about the hardware that didn't exist anymore that we would need to run on it, running two MMOs simultaneously with two different toolsets, two different toolchains, it was not something we could really get our head around."
"By the way, one of these codebases [Vanilla WoW] is extremely buggy, and we had already solved a lot of those [bugs]. But we can't solve them [this time around] because... 'reasons' if we're thinking about the Classic timeline. And so we really struggled with it for a very long time, and one of the things that we talked about when we were discussing different ways to do it was to do what's called a 'fork.' So we did a fork of our existing modern server stack and then reimplemented the systems that we needed to support Classic WoW. And made sure that the tuning was right and imported the old data, we had the old code and a way to compare. Having the backend tools, and the backend server, and the modern hardware was a requirement to realize this project." Essentially, what the team did, was teach modern WoW to speak old Classic data.
Fifteen years of iterative design means that the World of Warcraft that existed in 2006 is dissimilar to World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth as it exists in 2019, even if you're playing the same content. The cumulative effect of thousands of tweaks means that pinpointing exactly what made Classic so special is a nebulous undertaking. Flying mounts, for instance, were a welcome addition when they were introduced in The Burning Crusade. It eventually became clear to players, however, that the convenience and fantasy they offered came along with a number of significant drawbacks like reduced interaction with topography, enemy NPCs, and other players. In spite of this, flying limitations are met generally with negative feedback on the part of BFA's community. Such conveniences are difficult to unlearn.
What are the systems that people gravitate to that modern WoW has moved on past, but really have a strong hook?
"What will be most interesting, and you alluded to this correctly, which is: what are the systems that people gravitate to that modern WoW has moved on past, but really have a strong hook? Whether it be the travel, whether it be the no flying," mused Brack. "I mean I'm sure you're familiar with the saga of different kind of flying motifs that we've done over the years. I think we finally ended up at a good compromise, but certainly flying will not be a part of Classic."
My own experience with the WoW Classic beta in the past few days has reaffirmed my longstanding suspicion that the MMO genre ran out of gas entirely too soon. The motifs of progression, classes, and challenging raid content have successfully disseminated into other genres at this point but these concepts are much more interesting when applied to a dynamic, communal space. I hope that both fans and developers will discover that World of Warcraft Classic has lessons left to teach when it releases on August 27th.For more on WoW Classic check out my preview, and stay tuned to IGN for coverage of Overwatch's anniversary event!
James Duggan is IGN's resident WoW nerd. He will gank you but won't camp your corpse because that would be rude. Follow him on Twitter @ThuggnDuggn.


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44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World
44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World – ed. Robert Pledge and Jacques Menasche – National Geographic [$50]
44 Days and the Remaking of IranPublisher: National Geographic
Length: 224 pages
Author: David Burnett
Price: $50.00
Format: Hardcover
US Publication Date: 2009-09
When you think about it, the legacy of the Iranian elections last year isn't going to be anything that actually happened in Iran. The thing we're all going to remember about that election is how profoundly it demonstrated the power of Twitter. One of the biggest selling points of Twitter at the time was that it was "the only way" to get information out of the country. Reading 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World you learn that during the Iranian revolution, photographer David Burnett had to smuggle his film out of the country by going to the airport and searching for "pigeons" who might be willing to carry it to Paris where they handed it off to a correspondent. The photographs still made it out, but their journey required physical, not digital ingenuity.
44 Days is an annotated compilation of the photographs he took during that time. The book chronicles the last days of the Shah's rule, the protests and bloodshed that followed and the return of Ayatollah Khomenini. The photographs are accompanied by Burnett's journal-like descriptions of each experience. Essentially, it's a compilation of his Twitter stream, except, there was no Twitter. He writes objectively about the political situation, the emotions of the crowd and his own investigative journey. Burnett also writes about the relationship of the press to the government, and to the protesters.


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A Little About Us
"Randy Marcotte" position="CEO, President & Co-Founder" imgurl="9358″]
Randy was born and raised in Massachusetts and comes from a very large family. This environment gave him the passion for exploring and creating from a very early age. He graduated from Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., with a B.A. in History and Politics. After running an Oakland, California based housing and HIV Education program, he entered the technology field as an Account Executive with AT&T.
He received a Masters of Public Administration and Organizational Change from Cal State East Bay in 1999 and soon after took his data and IP experiences at AT&T and became the VP of Sales and Marketing at a leading Bay Area reseller of IP Networks, ShoreTel and LifeSize products, Xtelesis. During this time Randy also became a trained facilitator for the Stanford Business School. This led to a successful consultant practice created and managed by him at Change Experts.
Randy has recently turned his passion for creating, organizing and selling into strategic partnerships that leverage his intensity while creating Global-Call SIP-based managed VoIP and conferencing solutions and Perfect Video Conferencing, IP Video Conferencing solutions offered as a managed service.
When not working or adoring his friends, family and partner, Randy can be found training for a marathon or triathlon, or enjoying the restaurants of the San Francisco Bay Area or Vancouver, B.C.
John Killcommons
CIO & Co-Founder
John graduated from SUNY Maritime with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a U.S. Coast Guard Third Assistants Engineers License for any steam or motor vessel in any ocean. After graduation, John took a job with Exxon Shipping Company until end of 1996 leaving as a First Assistant Engineer and traveling the globe. John secured a position with MCI Local Service as Technical consultant/Engineer where he helped to build out 90 local phone markets following the Telecom Act of 1996. John held a number of positions with MCI, WCOM, VzB and led the teams of engineers to build out the largest VoIP network of its time with about 3 million subscribers at its peak. John was a director of professional services for a small Oakland, California company Night Fire which developed a service provider interface with all CLEC/ILECs to complete the ordering process for loop/number ports.
During his extensive professional career John also took time to help develop a few private businesses including Nexsys Electronics, Inc, Medweb, PixelRiver Technology, LLC, and Radiology Records, LLC. These diverse but very successful businesses provided a number of software and IT solutions to both private companies and governments around the world.
John has recently turned his passion and experience with building technology businesses to areas of personal interest – Perfect VC providing HD Video Conferencing Services, Globalcall.com providing high-end VoIP solutions and conferencing, and Sports Foundation Development Group to support the consulting requirements of the sports foundation.com. John's idea for the Sports Foundation was born from observations of his own three kids and their love for sports. Through his technology experience, John realized a need for a system to keep track of their future events as well as a way to make technology work for the many volunteers involved in youth sports (and protect information at the same time).
Chris Hentschel
Chris brings over 20 years in healthcare management, advanced facilitation skills, project management and strategic planning expertise to the growing and diverse Perfect Video Conferencing team.
Chris's mission is to help Perfect Video Conferencing continuously work to further define its company culture and passion for Customer satisfaction, partnership, growth, and responsibility. He is also here to make sure we're always asking, "How can we do this better?", always pushing to aim at the right target with the best arrows.


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Abigail Williams (band)
Abigail Williams
|Background information
|Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
|Black metal, symphonic black metal, metalcore (early)
|Years active
|2004–present (short hiatus in 2007)
|Ken Soceron
Abigail Williams is an American black metal band, originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but now based in Olympia, Washington. Since their formation in 2004, the group has suffered near-constant changes to their line-up. The band even disbanded in 2007 for a short time before reforming and writing their debut full-length album. Shortly after an eight-week tour in support of their debut full-length album In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns (2008), vocalist Ken Sorceron would become the only original member remaining.
The group initially performed a symphonic black metal style, but with the release of the band's second full-length album In the Absence of Light (2010), Abigail Williams would switch to a traditional black metal sound that was also carried out into their third full-length album titled Becoming (2012).
The band was formed in 2004 by guitarist Ken Bergeron, [1] who later became the vocalist. Prior to forming Abigail Williams and taking on the name Sorceron, Bergeron was the guitarist of Victims In Ecstacy, [2] followed by participation in various hardcore and metal acts in Arizona. [3]
Abigail Williams' first songs were six demo tracks that were streamed online with a sound described by the band as having "the groove and melody of Gothenburg style death metal, the face smashing breakdowns of the hardcore scene, topped with the bombastic and epic approach favored by the frostbitten black metal hordes". [4] These demo songs were later packaged by a fan into a bootleg named Gallow Hill. Three of these demo tracks would be re-recorded for the Legend EP, including "Melquiades (The Great Work)", which was re-titled "The Conqueror Wyrm" and "Swollen Disgust", which was released as "Like Carrion Birds". [5]
After touring extensively, including a United Kingdom tour in 2006, the band had their debut release through Candlelight Records, which was the Legend EP in 2006, which mixed metalcore influences with symphonic black metal, and was described by Allmusic as "a perfect example of an American recording with a very Nordic-influenced sound". [6] [7] [8] According to vocalist/guitarist Ken Sorceron, the EP was only released so that the band would have something to promote, explaining "a lot of the songs are, like, older songs, and they felt a bit old. At the time we were trying to make an album and we just couldn't finish it on time for some tours". [8] After touring with Dark Funeral and Enslaved, the band split up in early 2007, although Sorceron later claimed that rather than a permanent split it was a pre-meditated hiatus. [8] Sorceron and Wilson continued playing together in another band, and eventually asked the original Abigail Williams bassist Thomas G. Plaguehammer to join them on drums. They decided to resume Abigail Williams as a band, with Plaguehammer returning to bass, Zach Gibson and Bjorn Dannov rejoining, and also Kristen Randall ( Winds of Plague) joining the band. [6] After a tour in late 2007, their drummer and keyboard player left, with Ashley Ellylon rejoining on keyboards and Samus becoming the new permanent drummer. [6]
The band went into the studio with producer James Murphy (former guitarist of Obituary, Testament, and Cancer) to record their debut album, In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns, released in October 2008, on which the metalcore influences that the band had on their previous songs was completely abandoned. The sound of the debut album has even drawn comparisons to Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth. [6] [9] Much of its inspiration came from the melodic metal scene found in the Nordic countries. [10] Because bands from these countries were immersed in the mythology of their respective countries, Abigail Williams looked into American history. Arthur Miller's The Crucible brought Abigail Williams, one of the original and foremost accusers in the Salem witch trials of 1692, to their attention.
"The accuser is always relevant in society. In America there were the witch trials, the Red Scare, and now terrorism. Everyone is always quick to point a finger; we do it out of fear, prejudice, and because of things we don't understand. So, the accuser will always be present in society. Abigail Williams really stuck out to us, not only due to the above mentioned, but also because it possessed that iconic quality, while still sounding very American. We want people to know where we are from, and that even though it may not be cool/trendy, we are proud of our American culture."— Thomas G. Plaguehammer, About.com [6]
The influence of European metal, particularly Scandinavian, is again evident. [11] The album took more than six months to record, and black metal drummer Trym Torson of Emperor and Enslaved played drums on all tracks on the album except "Floods", "Acolytes", and "Empyrean". [6] [12] [13] Most of the songs were written by Sorceron while the band was on hiatus in 2007. [13] The band toured Europe and the UK in summer 2008. In 2009, keyboardist Ashley Ellylon became the new keyboardist for Cradle of Filth, replacing Rosie Smith. In October 2009, Sam "Samus" Paulicelli also left to focus on other projects.
Abigail Williams released the deluxe edition of In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns on January 12, 2010, which included a second disc featuring four new songs, one unreleased demo of "Floods," and the music video for "Into the Ashes". [14]
Abigail Williams released their second full-length album, called In the Absence of Light, via Candlelight Records on September 28, 2010. The album shows a considerable difference from the rest of the band's discography, noting its pure black metal sound instead of symphonic black metal. [15]
The band began work on a new album in the summer of 2011, titled Becoming, which was released on January 24, 2012 through Candlelight Records. It was the band's third full-length album through the label as well as their final album in all. Frontman, Sorceron handled all production aspects of the album. [16] Before its release, the song "Ascension Sickness" leaked early on November 10, 2011 onto YouTube. [17]
On July 2, 2012 Abigail Williams announced that this year's US tour would be the last ever and that they are disbanding. [18] Since this, however, they have stated that they plan on recording another studio album along with further tour dates.
On August 25, 2015 Abigail Williams announced their forthcoming album titled The Accuser via their Facebook page. The Accuser features eight tracks and was released on Oct 30, 2015. [19]
On March 19, 2018, Sorceron announced his departure from the technical death metal band The Faceless on his Facebook page, and would be putting his focus on finishing the next Abigail Williams album. The same day, The Faceless drummer Bryce Butler also announced his departure, and his new role as live drummer for Abigail Williams. [20]
On November 14, 2019, Abigail Williams released their fifth studio album titled Walk Beyond the Dark featuring seven songs.
Band members
Current members
Current live musicians
Previous live musicians
Former members
Studio albums
- "Into the Ashes" (2008)
- "Nuummite" (2015)
- ^ "Abigail Williams' Ken Sorceron Reveals the Origins of His Black Metal Nom de Plume". noisecreep.com.
- ^ "Driven to Ecstacy". Phoenix New Times.
- ^ "Kyds vs Columbus". asice.net. Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ "abigail Williams". 25 April 2006. Archived from the original on 25 April 2006. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ Sharpe-Young, Garry (2005). New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Zonda Books Limited. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-9582684-0-0. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f Bowar, Chad (19 November 2008). "Abigail Williams Interview: A Conversation with Thomas G. Plaguehammer and Ken Sorceron". About.com: Heavy Metal. About.com. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ^ Henderson, Alex " Legend Review", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
- ^ a b c Mikkelson, Jill (2008) "Choice Cuts: Abigail Williams", Terrorizer, Issue 177, December 2008, p. 177
- ^ Bowar, Chad 92008 " Abigail Williams – In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns" (review), About.com
- ^ "Abigail Williams Interview". Candlelight Records.[ permanent dead link]
- ^ Laura Wiebe Taylor (2008) " Metal & Hardcore Reviews: Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns", Exclaim!, December 2008
- ^ Ramirez, Carlos (2008) " Abigail Williams Interview: Bassist Thomas G. Plaguehammer talks about the band's music. Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine", IGN Music
- ^ a b Harris, Chris (2008) " Abigail Williams Talk Demi Lovato, Jay-Z And Fans Eating Roadkill; Plus Mastodon, Deftones, & More News That Rules, In Metal File", VH1
- ^ "In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns (Limited Edition)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
- ^ D-FLOx. "'Upcoming Abigail Williams album reviewed'". The Gauntlet. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
- ^ "ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Complete New Album". The Gauntlet. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
- ^ "Abigail Williams – Ascension Sickness". Metal CallOut. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ "Abigail Williams Breaking Up: Final US Tour Announced". Ryan's Rock Show. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ^ "Abigail Williams Detail New Album "The Accuser"".
- ^ "Update: The Entire Band Just Quit The Faceless - MetalSucks". www.metalsucks.net. 19 March 2018.
- ^ PASBANI, ROBERT. "Jered Threatin's Actual Identity Uncovered". Metal Injection. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
External links
- American black metal musical groups
- Musical groups established in 2004
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- Musical groups reestablished in 2007
- Heavy metal musical groups from Arizona
- Heavy metal musical groups from Washington (state)
- Musical groups from Olympia, Washington
- Symphonic black metal musical groups
- American metalcore musical groups
- American musical trios
- Musical groups from Phoenix, Arizona
- Candlelight Records artists